This is the whip with which NUSSEER Till hurled from his throne was that wicked Ameer, If more of his merits you'd wish to hear, "The Conquest of Scinde" (though the style be queer) That India was saved by SIR CHARLES NAPIER. It may be objected to this inscription, that more is said of the captor of the whip than of the whip itself; but this we are convinced will be no objection in the eyes of either the hero or his historian, and we care not for the criticism of meaner men. HEBER, whose powers of wit and humour equalled his learning and goodness (we cannot say more for them), exercised his youthful fancy by writing a poem, called "The Whippiad," the subject being the irreverend conduct of an undergraduate, who had drawn upon himself a shower of academic indignation, on account of his having disturbed the repose of the quadrangle of Brazen Nose, by cracking a whip within it. Who does not wish that some one of equal genius would write a second “Whippiad” to immortalize the petted pride of the NAPIERS, which well deserves to be sung even in Homeric strain. Our poets have within a few years been rapidly removed from us, but WORDSWORTH yet remains. Let him not disdain the task of gracing with the charms of verse a tale which has already been detailed in that peculiar style of prose which possesses some of the characteristics of poetry, though not those of the highest order. "A whip for the horse, a bridle for the ass, and a rod for the fool's back," says the wise man. We have nothing further to say on the whip, which in this case is reported to have been differently employed; but we may venture to ask, with reference to the whole affair, for whom, according to SOLOMON, the bridle would afford a fitting headpiece, and to and to whose back the rod might be deservedly applied? DINNER TO SIR WILLOUGHBY COTTON. On Saturday the 20th, the Directors of the East-India Company gave a grand valedictory entertainment at the London Tavern, Bishopsgate-street, to Lieutenant-General Sir Willoughby Cotton, on the eve of his departure to assume the duties of Commander-in-Chief at Bombay. Sir J. W. Hogg, the chairman of the Company, presided; on his right sat Sir Willoughby Cotton, the Earl of Clare, the Earl of Auckland, Lord Seaham, General Lygon, Sir John Hobhouse, and Sir A. Grant; and on the left, the Duke of Buckingham, the Deputy-Chairman of the East-India Company, the Earl of Charleville, Lord A. Vane, the Hon. John Coventry, the Chief Baron, and Sir J. Macdonald. Among the company, which numbered about 130, were most of the directors, Sir F. Smith, Lieutenant-General Sir D. Leighton, Sir J. Campbell, Sir E. Campbell, Mr. Hume, M. P., Mr. Wyse, M.P., &c. &c. After the removal of the cloth, The CHAIRMAN proposed the health of "Her Majesty the Queen, for whose prolonged life and happiness the prayers of her myriad subjects ascend from every quarter of the globe;" "The Queen Dowager, the splendour of whose station is eclipsed by the milder radiance of her private virtues;" "His Royal Highness the Prince Albert, Albert Prince of Wales, and the rest of the royal family;" which were severally toasted with the accustomed honours. The CHAIRMAN, in giving the toast of the evening, said the name of the distinguished officer whose health he was about to propose had been rendered illustrious by the honourable deeds of those who had borne it; but they need not travel in search of collateral honours when that gallant officer had himself sur rounded the name with a brilliant halo of renown. During a service of nearly half a century Sir Willoughby Cotton had upheld the honour of this country in almost every quarter of the globe-in the north of Europe and in the south, on the shores of the Baltic and in the regions of the Pyrenees-in both cases the companion in arms of the great captain of the age, and upon many occasions the participator in his brilliant achievements. We traced him thence to Asia, where his high military talents were displayed in the command of a division of the army during the Burmese war. (Cheers.) Great were the difficulties of that war, and nobly were they surmounted (cheers); severe were the privations of the officers and men; nobly and patiently were they endured. (Cheers.) Looking to a more recent period, we found him again serving his country in Asia, and largely participating in the honours of those who dispelled the long cherished delusion that the fortress of Ghuznee was impregnable. The recital of a soldier's services constituted the soldier's best panegyric. (Cheers.) He had adverted to a few, and only to a few, of the services of his gallant friend in various parts of the world, and under circumstances widely different. He had the honour and satisfaction of being a long and intimate friend of their distinguished guest; and he would only add the expresssion of his confident belief that as Commander-in-Chief at Bombay he would sustain the character he had already established. (Cheers.) Less he was sure he would not do, more he would find it difficult to accomplish. He begged to propose "the Health of Lieutenant-General Sir Willoughby Cotton." (Loud cheers.) The toast having been drunk with all the honours, Sir W. COTTON in acknowledging the compliment, said, that copious as was the English language, he felt it at that moment perfectly inadequate sufficiently to express the gratitude he owed to the hon. chairman for the high and distinguished appointment he had thought proper to advise the Government to confer on him. He recurred with honest pride to the former periods of his life, when he had the honour of serving with the Hon. Company's troops. The kind feeling of the chairman had very much overrated his humble services; but he had certainly been connected with the army of Madras and Bengal, and also formerly with that of Bombay. During the Burmese war be commanded the Madras troops, 12,000 strong; and it was but just to say that the war was really severe, the service really arduous, and the privations endured the greatest he ever saw an army go through. He never had one instance of censure to bring forward against any officer of the Hon. Company's service during the various times he had commanded their troops. (Loud cheers.) He had only had that praise to bestow which they deserved, and soldiers and officers should never have praise from him unless they deserved it. (Cheers.) He knew full well the character of the sepoy army-he knew their patient endurance under the greatest privations-he knew their gallantry in the field-he respected their religious prejudices (cheers), and he pledged himself no one should ever infringe on the caste of the native troops during his command. He was aware of the great importance that, in a distant presidency, the orders emanating from the Home Government should not only be promptly obeyed, but cordially entered into by every member of Council; he therefore beg leave to state that his most cordial co-operation should be given to the Hon. the Governor he should find there, and his other colleagues in the Government. Should a kind Providence permit him to revisit his native land, he only hoped he might receive, for the third time, what was the proudest re. ward to which the ambition of a soldier could look-the approval of the Government under which he had the honour of serving. (Loud cheers.) The CHAIRMAN, in proposing " The British Navy," observed, that it was most gratifying to be able to unite with one of the most popular toasts the name of one of the most popular noble. men-of one whose sound and excellent judgment had secured the universal esteem of his countrymen, while his suavity and kind bearing had won for him a warmer sentiment from all who had the happiness of official or private intercourse with him. The same habits of business, patient attention, discriminating judgment, love of justice, and zeal for the public good which distinguished Lord Auckland's administration in India (loud cheers), marked his administration of the admiralty at home; and the conviction which every officer and man in the navy must feel that he was serving under one by whom no fair claim would be overlooked, and no vain pretension countenanced, could not fail to maintain the high tone of duty by which the British navy had ever been characterized, and of which no particle could be lost under the administration of Lord Auckland, whose name he begged to associate with "the British Navy.” (Loud cheers.) The Earl of AUCKLAND returned thanks. He felt deeply the kindness with which they had received his health, proposed, as it had been, in almost unmeasured terms, by his hon. friend. He wished he could feel that he deserved the praise with which the chairman had been pleased to mention his name. (Cheers.) He could only say that, as in India he gave the best of his abilities to the service of the Company (cheers), so, when he returned to this country, he was anxious to give those abilities to promote its interests in whatever station he might be placed. He was proud that his name had been associated with a branch of the public service to which the regard and honour of the country were so intimately attached. He was quite certain that every officer of the navy must be gratified in knowing that on such an occasion, as on every other, the honourable profession to which they belonged was first remembered in honour and distinction. (Cheers.) While thanking them on the part of the British navy, he bespoke their good feelings in favour of a branch of the public service, though less considerable in number, not inferior in gallantry and devotion-he meant the Indian navy. (Cheers.) He had had occasion to remark the services and gallant actions performed by the officers of the Indian navy in the Chinese war, and he had since admired services similar in gallantry performed by them against the piratical states of the Indian Archipelago. (Cheers.) With reference to the occasion on which they were now met, although he could add nothing to the deserved eulogium pronounced by the chairman on the character and services of Sir Willoughby Cotton, he could not help observing, that he had the honour and satisfaction of welcoming his gallant friend on the quay of Calcutta when he landed in 1838; he knew the services he had rendered to the Government, and the charm he threw around the society in which he moved. He congratulated his gallant friend on his new appointment, and he cordially joined in wishing him health, prosperity, and success as Commander-in-Chief at Bombay. {Cheers.) The CHAIRMAN next proposed "The British Army." Never was there a period when that toast ought to appeal more strongly to the feelings and to the breast of every Englishman. The recent campaign against the Sikhs was almost without parallel for the opportunity it afforded of illustrating the most indispensable qualities of a military character. The coolness which is undisturbed while death is raging around,-the indomitable perseverance which refuses to be repulsed, and repeats its blow until success crowns its efforts, the deep-seated impression that whatever is ordered must be accomplished,-that dangers aud difficulties are to be looked at as things to be overcome, not as obstacles to justify hesitation, still less to induce despair,— these were qualities that were eminently displayed during the late campaign; and he felt confident that they would ever continue to characterize the British army, and to insure victory and success wherever and whenever its services should be required. (Cheers.) Sir J. MACDONALD spoke to the toast. Adverting to his long connexion with the army, and his knowledge of the character of the various officers who had been appointed to command in India, he congratulated the Company on the selection which had been made of his gallant friend the distinguished guest of the evening, who was so universally popular in India. The CHAIRMAN next proposed," The Health of Her Majesty's Ministers." To be selected by their Sovereign, and to be supported by Parliament in the administration of the affairs of this mighty empire, were the highest honour to which men could aspire. Looking at the vast extent and complication of the interests involved, the responsibility of Ministers was at any time almost overwhelming; but at the present moment that responsibility had been most seriously and awfully increased by the visitation of a calamity which no human foresight could have averted, and to the alleviation of which Her Majesty's Ministers had devoted themselves with the utmost earnestness and anxiety. (Cheers.) Happily for India, politics were excluded from the body over which he had honour to preside (cheers); politics should, he thought, be also excluded from the enjoyments of the social board; but, without violating either political neutrality or the laws of social enjoyment, he might venture to give expression to a sentiment which he believed to be universal, that Her Majesty's Ministers, in the discharge of their arduous duties, were solely actuated by an honest, a disinterested, and an earnest desire to uphold the honour of the Crown, and advance the interests and prosperity of this great country. (Loud cheers.) by The toast was drunk with great cordiality, and acknowledged The Earl of AUCKLAND, who was sorry it had so soon again devolved upon him to occupy their attention. With regard to the toast which they had just drunk, he felt it had been given as a matter of courtesy and compliment. He could not expect unanimous feeling, in so large a company, in fa vour either of public measures or of public characters. England would not be England if there were not differences of opinion upon these matters; but, at the same time, England would not be England if there were not, among men of all parties, an earnestness of feeling in favour of the general welfare; and if those who were called upon to administer the affairs of state were not earnestly bent on promoting the welfare and prosperity of the country. More particularly would this sympathy be exhibited on an occasion when all the energies of the Government were required to mitigate that dreadful calamity which had visited a portion of the united kingdom. Having an earnest wish to promote the best interests of the country, he could assure them his colleagnes felt there was nothing more essential, with regard to one branch of their administration, than that there should be a cordial union and good understanding between the Directors of the East India Company and her Majesty's Government. (Cheers.) That cordial union subsisted, and he had but to add his earnest wish that it might long continue. (Cheers.) The CHAIRMAN then rose and said, it was their good fortune to have as Governor-General in India a nobleman who combined in a remarkable manner civil and military qualities of the highest order. (Cheers.) That being a military dinner, he would first advert to the latter. The proudest boast of a military leader of the present day was to have studied successfully in the school of the great captain of the age. This was pre-eminently the glory of Lord Hardinge. Resembling his great instructor in many points, his career presented one striking contrast. The illustrious Duke commenced his glorious course in India; completed it in Europe. Lord Hardinge commenced his career in Europe, and, having there won for himself an enduring name in the annals of his country, he had in India surrounded it with fresh and surpassing glories. Rare lot to earn such honours in fields so wide apart! (Cheers.) During the campaign of the Sutlej, he combined with the forethought and experience of the age the same dauntless valour, the same daring spirit, which characterized the youthful soldier on the battle-fields of Albuera and Vittoria. (Cheers.) Brilliant, however, as were the glories which had attended Lord Hardinge as a warrior, he had established at least an equal reputation as a statesman by his sound judgment and by the moderation of his policy. (Cheers.) He proceeded to India determined to maintain peace so long as the honour of his country permitted him to do so. Circumstances soon rendered that impossible. The Lahore state, convulsed by the intestine division of ambitious and contending chiefs, lay at the mercy of a licentious and turbulent soldiery. In a spirit of insane recklessness, the British frontier was passed, and the British power despised. Under Lord Hardinge the sanctity of our frontier had been vindicated, and the honour of our arms maintained. A moderation after victory was displayed that equally evinced his wisdom and his humanity. More recent events proclaimed a moderation still more striking, and presented a scene almost on the borders of romance. Lord Hardinge having reason to suspect that the Minister intrusted with the government of Lahore during the minority of the infant Prince, had treacherously violated the treaty ordered the assembling of a tribunal to investigate the charge. That tribunal consisted of five English gentlemen, who, in the presence of the assembled chiefs, the very chiefs who had been the most prominent actors in the past conflicts, calmly and peacefully pursued their inquiries. A verdict of "guilty" was pronounced, and that verdict was acquiesced in by the assembled chiefs, in number exceeding sixty, and comprising the heads of all the principal families in the territory of Lahore! Strange scene! Glorious tribute to the resistless majesty of justice! (Loud cheers.) Lord Hardinge required that the traitor should be banished from the country; but the consequences of his misconduct were not visited upon the state. On the contrary, the inheritance of the infant Prince had been firmly secured. Peace and its attendant blessings had taken the place of confusion, rapine, and massacre; and all this had been effected without the firing of a single shot, without the effusion of one drop of human blood-not amid the din of arms, but while the inhabitants were peacefully pursuing their usual occupations and amid the busy hum of uninterrupted industry; not a husbandman retired from his field, not a plough ceased its peaceful course, not a shop was closed, while changes were effected that had never before been accomplished except amidst the horrors of massacre and assassination. (Cheers.) To what was all this to be ascribed? To the moderate but firm and high-minded policy of that distinguished man who now, happily for this country, wielded our destinies in India, and whose health he now ventured to propose with three times three. The toast was drunk with all the honours. The CHAIRMAN then rose to give the health of "The President of the India Board." He need not say, that the duties of that office were not new to his right hon. friend Sir John Hobhouse. He could assure him his former occupation of the office had not been forgotten, nor had the impression been effaced which his conduct had made upon all who were brought into official intercourse with him. (Cheers.) Now, as formerly, his right hon. friend seemed to be actuated by one feeling only,-an anxious desire to co-operate with the Court of Directors in promoting the happiness and the interests of India, and in rendering the connexion between that country and our own a blessing to both. (Cheers.) It was well that occasions like the present should occur, to enable them to express the sentiments they entertained towards the Minister charged specially with the care of India. (Cheers.) It was well that they should have the oppor tunity thus publicly of proclaiming the entire cordiality which existed between that Minister and the East India Company (cheers), and of adding the high regard which was felt for the President of the Board by those whose duty it was to carry on the government of India in concurrence with him. (Cheers.) Individually he must avail himself of that opportunity of expressing the high satisfaction he had derived in his official intercourse with his right hon. friend, from the frankness, the candour, the kindness, which had uniformly characterised his communications and marked his conduct. (Cheers.) Sir J. C. HOBHOUSE briefly returned thanks. He felt it was superfluous, if it would not be impertinent in him, to dwell on the special aptitude of the gallant officer they had met to honour for the high situation to which they had appointed him. He was appointed to command an important portion of their mighty armies,-at no time more important than the present, and to co-operate with that most distinguished officer whom, with a just knowledge of his merits, they had lately sent to be the head of the government at Bombay, the post which Mr. by the universal consent of all who knew him, was preeminently qualified to fill. (Cheers.) He had no doubt Sir Willoughby Cotton would cordially co-operate with Mr. Clerk, and not only with him but with all the servants of the Company, with whom his present situation would bring him into contact; never forgetting that, while he was the servant and the soldier of the Crown, he was the soldier and the servant of the Company. He could not hope, he could not wish that his gallant friend should return from India crowned with fresh laurels; his hope was, if he were to partake in any other victories, they should be victories of peace. (Cheers.) The warriors of India might well now afford to sheathe their swords and furl the banners they had carried in triumph from the Ganges to the Indus. (Cheers.) The people of that vast region, subdued by their valour, expected still further benefits benefits from their hands. Still further glories awaited themthe blessings of civilization, which he had no doubt would be bestowed on them. (Cheers.) With respect to the GovernorGeneral, he could not forbear saying that, honoured as Lord Hardinge had been by the approbation of her Majesty and the thanks of both Houses of Parliament, he had the entire confidence of her Majesty's Ministers. (Cheers.) The right hon. gentleman concluded by proposing the health of his hon. friend the chairman, than whom no one had performed the duties of his office with greater distinction and honour to himself, or more satisfaction to her Majesty's Government. (Loud cheers.) The CHAIRMAN, in acknowledging the toast, said, he should have felt himself oppressed by embarrassment if he could imagine that the kind terms his right hon. friend had used in proposing, or the enthusiastic manner in which they had received his health, related to himself individually. He could acknowledge it gratefully and without embarrassment, because he felt that the compliment was paid to the Court of Directors, whose representative and organ he had now the honor to be. Upon their behalf and his own, he begged to express his feelings of gratitude, and to add that, next to the approval of his own conscience, and the knowledge that he was discharging his duty, the approbation of such an assembly constituted the proudest reward of exertions past and the surest incentive to exertions to come. (Cheers.) The next toast he had to propose was that of "The Army of India "—a theme on which one acquainted with its merits might well be excused for dwelling at much length. Happily, however, those merits were so well known in any assembly of well-informed English gentlemen, that to enlarge upon them, more especially in an assembly con. stituted like the present, would be superfluous. Would that the banners of the Indian army were hung round those walls, and they would see inscribed on the colours of almost every regiment in the service the names of localities calling forth recollections of heroic deeds. (Cheers.) His gallant and distinguished friend on the right could bear testimony to the qualities of the native army-their dauntless valour, their patient endurance, and, above all, their matchless fidelity. (Cheers.) He joined in the hopes and prayers of his right hon friend, that the day might be far distant when the services of that army might be again demanded; but, if that day ever should arrive, he was sure they would find them evincing the same qualities and adding to the trophies they had already earned in many a wellfought battle-field. (Cheers.) He begged to give as a toast "The Indian army." (Cheers.) General CARPENTER returned thanks. The CHAIRMAN afterwards rose and said, the main element of the stability and power of our Government in India was the confidence reposed in it by the natives. That confidence had been gained and established by the wisdom and the integrity of those by whom our affairs had been administered. To the statesmen and administrators the civil service had given to India they owed much of their power and influence in that country. The splendour of their talents and the weight of their character had secured all that powerful force of opinion which nothing else could have gained. It was a source of pride and gratification to him to state that that service never stood in a higher or prouder position than it did at present. (Cheers.) His gallant friend would have the opportunity of being associated with one of the most distinguished members of the civil service-one whose friendship he had enjoyed from his earliest days, whose career he had marked with pride and pleasure, and whom it was a source of honest gratification to him that he was able, while advancing the public interests, to promote. (Cheers.) When he ventured to name one of his earliest and most valued friends, Mr. George Clerk, for the Government of Bombay, Sir John Hobhouse, who only regarded the patronage of India as a means of advancing the public interests, at once acquiesced in his views, and gave the nomination his cordial concurrence. (Cheers.) He could not abstain from adverting to another most distinguished member of the civil service, he meant Sir F. Currie, whose merits Lord Hardinge had acknowledged in the highest and strongest terms; and who, in discharging his civil duties, had endured all the hardships and encountered all the perils of a military campaign. Lord Hardinge expressed his desire that the services of that public servant should be rewarded; that wish was scarcely expressed when his right hon. friend Sir John Hobhouse, ever anxious to reward the servants of India, submitted his name to the Queen, and her Majesty was graciously pleased to express her approbation, and to confer on him the hereditary honour he now wore. (Cheers.) Mr. PRINSEP returned thanks on behalf of the civil service. The last toast given by the chairman was "The Visitors," which was responded to by the Duke of Buckingham, and the company separated. An excellent military band was in attendance, and played at intervals during the evening. COLONEL MOSELEY. The length of time (upwards of two years) that has elapsed since Lieutenant-colonel Moseley, C. B., late of the Bengal Army, was cashiered by the sentence of a General Court-martial, authorises the conclusion that the circumstances which led to that catastrophe are sufficiently familiar to the greater portion of our military readers to render a very minute recapitulation at this date entirely superfluous. Still, as it is essential to a clear understanding of the grounds on which we now claim for that officer, not only the sympathy of all true soldiers, but the humane consideration of the authorities, that his case should be set be fore the public, we may be pardoned for again submitting an out. line of its leading features: In December, 1842, the 64th regiment of Bengal native infantry, then commanded by Lieutenant-colonel Mosely, returned from the Affghanistan campaign, where they had been for many months on active and arduous service. The oppressive duties of the service, losses in open conflict, and exposure to a destructive climate, carried away above 400 men from the regiment. Their places had to be supplied by raw recruits in Loodianah. In September, 1843, orders arrived for the 64th regiment to march to Scinde. At this time there were many other available regiments at hand which had not seen any severe service, and might therefore have been ordered to Scinde with greater fairness than the 64th regiment, so soon after its hard services in Affghanistan. Bad feeling consequently arose, and some evildisposed men in the regiment forwarded to head-quarters, anonymously, petitions of a mutinous character, in which they stated that their commanding officer, Colonel M., was the cause of their being ordered to Scinde, alleging that he had made interest with the Commander-in-Chief to have the corps ordered to Scinde, in order to secure a brigadiership. In consequence of the mutinous spirit thus manifested, the Commander-in-Chief ordered the regiment to Benares. As the regiment was en route thither, deep regret was manifested by the men for their previous misconduct, and they expressed a desire to make amends by at once proceeding unhesitatingly towards Scinde. This altered state of feeling induced his Excellency to allow the regiment to go to Scinde. Accordingly the 64th regiment proceeded towards Mundrote, on the banks of the Sutlej, for the purpose of embarking on board boats provided for their passage down the Indus to Sukkur. At this time there were several regiments at Ferozepore, which refused to proceed further on their route to Scinde; and it was well known that the Sikh Government was using underhand measures to increase the mutinous spirit amongst the Sepoys, and to seduce them from their allegiance to the British Government. Aware of these circumstances, the 64th regiment felt and evinced great satisfaction at the prospect of passing through Ferozepore (which lay on the high road to Sukkur), and showing a good example to the mutinous regiments there. By thus acting the regiment hoped to retrieve more effectually their recently tarnished reputation. Unfortunately, just before the regiment reached Ferozepore, express orders were received by Colonel Moseley from the Commander-in-Chief directing a deviation to be made in the route in order to avoid Ferozepore, and that the regiment should be taken through a jungle on one side of Ferozepore instead of through that place. The regiment was at that time encamped at Moodkee (a place that has since become celebrated in military history), a few miles from Ferozepore, and was ordered to commence the line of deviation through the jungle. An outbreak consequently occurred, the result solely of dissatisfaction at not being allowed to pass through this station; it was confined to a small part of the regiment (between 50 and 200 of the men, the regiment numbering above 1,000): it was quelled by Colonel M. in less than two hours after it broke out, and the regiment proceeded on their march through the jungle cheerfully and without hesitation. On the march a letter was received from the Commander-inChief, extolling the general conduct of the men in going to Scinde, and promising them even greater advantages, in the way of allawances, than their full batta, together with pensions to their heirs should any of them die in Scinde; and an early relief from service in that country. But when the men reached Shikarpore, in Scinde, the extra advantages they anticipated were withheld, and the regiment consequently broke out into mutiny. This led to a disclosure of the fact of an émeute having previously taken place at Moodkee, and to the trial of Lieutenant-colonel Moseley for having kept the Commander-inChief in ignorance of that event. The Court-martial which tried the Lieutenant-colonel was composed almost exclusively of officers junior to himself; the Court was held at a locality remote from a station where the Lieutenant-colonel could have had access to materials for his defence; the benefit of legal assistance was denied the Lieutenantcolonel, and the very unusual and informal course was adopted of allowing the witnesses-many of them prejudiced men-to give their evidence without the sanction of an oath. Yet was the decision of a Court so constituted, and under such circumstances, sufficient to deprive a gallant and zealous old officer of his commission, and to cast him from a high and honourable and lucrative position into one of comparative penury. * 66 ** on It is the privilege of the manufacturers of "charges Courts-martial that they shall indulge in a nice derangement of epitaphs," proportioning the force of their arraignments to the intensity of their dislike to the individual indicted, or their own crude conceptions of the requirements of military discipline. Amongst these professors of the charge-craft the epithets "scandalous and infamous" are in high favour, for they are pervaded by a fine moral aroma, and especially belong to the superlative military mood. Moreover, they are pleasantly susceptible of an arbitrary and capricious interpretation, and may mean much or nothing, according to the temper of the Court appointed to consider their applicability. Hence the frequency with which officers are convicted of infamy, when their conduct, stripped of its high sounding expletives, has not a shadow of moral turpitude about it. Colonel Moseley, we do not hesitate to say, was a victim to this system-a system which the head of the British army has done much of late years to correct and repress; and on that ground alone should have been restored to his rank in that service of which he was so worthy and efficient a member. But there were State reasons for sacrificing the Colonel. True, the Court-martial recommended his case to favourable consideration. True, the Commander-in-Chief (Lord Gough) informed the Governor-General in Council that he was "persuaded that in the course he pursued, the Lieutenant-colonel (in suppressing the fact of the first émeute) was actuated by a disinterested discharge of his duty to the State, even at the sacrifice of his own character, and to save the regiment under his command." True, the East India Company granted the Lieutenant-colonel the pension attaching to his period of service, just as if he had voluntarily resigned his commission-thus, the one by its recommendation, the second by his opinion, and the third by its act, negativing the applications of the hard phrases with which the superfluous charges had been garnished. But a sacrifice on the altar of military discipline was wanted at that particular juncture, and the poor Lieutenant-colonel was deemed a fitting victim. We say advisedly, and in all good faith, that had it not been necessary in 1845 "to prove to all ranks the impartiality of British justice, which can reach the highest as well as the lowest offender," we believe that the restoration of Colonel Moseley would have been urged upon the directors by Lord Hardinge and his colleagues. Their sense of right induced Lord Gough to recommend, and Lord Hardinge not to offer any obstacle to, the grant of the pension, but their notions of the necessity for a victim-a scare-crow of mutiny-caused the one to publicly say he could not attend to the recommendation of the Court-martial, and the other to beg the court to defer "for the present" the publication of their decision; adding "but without detriment to the pecuniary interests of the individual!" Aware of the finality of the decision of the Commander-inChief in India-as far as the local authorities were concernedColonel Moseley came to England to seek for redress at the highest tribunal open to an injured Indian officer; the rather that he had received an encouraging letter from the late Lieutenantcolonel Somerset, the secretary to Lord Hardinge. Taking counsel's opinion upon the proceedings under which he had been arrested, he was advised that the proceedings were not conducted strictly in a legal manner, as regards the oath; for the witnesses were not sworn in such a manner as to render the oath binding upon their consciences; that the finding of the Court was entirely unsupported by evidence, and unwarranted by the letter and circumstances; but that as the sentence of the Court-Martial had been confirmed, the legality of the proceedings or the finding against evidence could not be questioned; and therefore "the only course for Colonel Moseley was to petition the East India Company to restore him under their power conferred by stat. 51 Geo. III. c. 75, s. 4, which is to restore, not to quash or set aside the proceedings of the court-martial; and which petition is to the mercy of the Company, and not to them as a Court of Appeal.' He acted upon this carefully formed judgment-but mercy was counterpoised by expediency, and nothing came of the entreaty to be restored. Colonel MOSELEY then asked-modestly, but in the tone of an upright man, conscious at once of his deep wrongs and his just claims-that his pension should be increased to a sum equivalent to that of which he had been deprived-or that a bonus should be given to him-or that the sacrifice of the old soldier should be atoned by the gift of a cadetship to his child, a fine youth of nineteen, calculated in every way to do honor to the military service of the East India Company. No! no! no! If chill penury-the oppressor's wrong-the proud man's contumely could crush a noble heart, here has been enough to pulverise a man of the finest morale. But the soldier who could earn the Companionship of the Bath by bringing his regiment through the Khyber Pass in the face of the most terrific opposition from the savage tribes who crowded the heights-the soldier who could face the risk of "destroying his own character to save the men under his command "-is made of stuff too stern to succumb while yet a hope remains of extracting justice from those in whose hands its ultimate dispensation lies. * * ** His hopes are well sustained. Every journalist who has examined bis case has "pronounced "in his behalf-eminent men in England who have mastered the details are shocked at the hard measures dealt out to him; but, better than all, the gallant Officers of the glorious Bengal Army-the heroes of Alival and Moodkee, of Ferozeshah and Sobraon, of Punniah and Maharajpore, have declared by an almost unanimous vote that he is still worthy to be classed with his old companions in arms, and to enjoy the advantages of the magnificent institution their prudence and foresight have established.-United Service Gazette. PARLIAMENTARY PROCEEDINGS. HOUSE OF LORDS. FEB 19.-RAILWAYS IN INDIA.-Lord ELLENBOROUGH asked whether the noble Marquis opposite was prepared to lay on the table copies of any communication between the Indian authorities in this country and the speculators in railways in India. * Governor General's despatches to the Court of Directors, 20th Jan., 1845' He wished to know whether the Government was acting on the same principle with respect to Indian railways as they had on the recent case of the Irish ones. He greatly deprecated the idea of a Government guaranteeing a fixed rate of interest to railway shareholders. His Lordship entered into a lengthy statement on the impolicy of such a measure. The Marquis of LANSDOWNE agreed to produce the desired information. No answers had been received by the Indian authorities to certain propositions made to the railway companies. This was clear proof that the terms offered were not considered particularly advantageous. When the answers were received, the correspondence would be laid on the table in a complete state. At no time had it been in contemplation to make a loan for the purpose of assisting those companies. HOUSE OF COMMONS. FEB. 9.-SALT IN INDIA.-In answer to a question, Sir J. C. HOBHOUSE Said that the Court and the Board had taken into consideration the subject, and had framed a despatch, the purport of which was to rescind the regulation passed in 1841, and to restore all the advantages possessed by the importers previously to 1836. RAILWAYS IN INDIA.-In answer to Lord Mahon, Sir J. C. HOBHOUSE stated that, since the publication of the report on this subject, the only document of importance received was a minute by the Governor-General, which should be laid on the table, and if any additional information required to be furnished, it should be done. Mr. HUME wished to know whether there would be any objection to producing any resolutions or despatches on the subject by the Court of Directors. Sir J. C. HOBHOUSE said that certain conditions had been agreed on by the authorities, and which were under the consideration of the several railway companies; and until he knew whether the terms would be adopted, it would be impossible to lay the despatches on the table. FEB. 11.-SCINDE.-At the suggestion of Sir J. C. HOBHOUSE, an alteration was made in Mr. Hume's notice of motion for further papers relating to Scinde, which was then agreed to. DECCAN PRIZE MONEY.-In answer to a question from the hon. member for Montrose, Sir J. C. HоBHOUSE said he was aware that a final adjustment had taken place between the Company and the trustees of the Deccan booty, who, he believed, would lose no time in making the distribution; but whether those who claimed for actual capture would be paid in preference to those who claimed for constructive capture, he could not say. MISCELLANEOUS. LORD HARDINGE ON RAILWAYS IN INDIA.-The limitation of the Company's liberality may be safely calculated by the positive and palpable advantages which a railway from Calcutta to Delhi would confer, and it need only be guaranteed to be forthcoming when a efficient and daily communication by railway shall have been actually completed between the two extremities, and measures have been taken to insure that it shall be permanently kept up. The calculation of the contribution to be given would be based on the political, military, and commercial advantages which would be derived from the completion and full operation of such a line. In a political point of view, the daily delivery of the mails from Delhi to Calcutta in sixty hours, instead of eight days-the electric telegraph communicating important orders in a few minutes from one extremity to the other-would give the Government great additional powers, approaching almost to ubiquity, as compared with the system of dák runners and dák travelling. Such a facility would decide the question of the Governor-General and the members of Government moving up to the frontier; or, if it were necessary to move rapidly up, the return would be equally speedy. The vigour, the confidence, and the economy with which the Government would be carried on would be greatly increased. In a military point of view, I should estimate the value of moving troops and stores with great rapidity would be equal to the services of four regiments of infantry. This reduction of military establishments would be a saving of 50,0007, a year, on the lowest scale. When the Lancashire yeomanry were moved to Birmingham, they completed 120 miles in three hours, rode their horses quite fresh to the scene of the disturbance, having accomplished a distance of 130 miles in five hours, and were again at their houses on the following day. In this country, where no man can tell one week what the next may produce, the facility of a rapid concentration of infantry and artillery and stores may be the cheap prevention of an insurrection, the speedy termination of a war, or the safety of the empire. I need not enter into the commercial and agricultural advantages, which would repay the exchequer for a large portion of the outlay contributed by the state. All these points are so well known, and so generally admitted, that I will merely conclude by stating my opinion, that on military considerations alone, the grant of 1,000,000l. sterling, or an annual contribution of five lacs of rupees, may be contributed to the great line, when completed, from Calcutta to Delhi, and a pecuniary saving be effected by a diminution of military establishment, arising out of the facility with which the troops would be moved from one point to another."-Parliamentary paper. On Saturday, the 20th inst., Lieutenant-General Sir Willoughby Cotton, G. C. B., was sworn in Commander-in-Chief of the Company's forces, and second member of council on the Bombay establishment. RAILWAYS AND COTTON.-Some documents which have been recently published give evidence not only of the political value of railways in India, but also that the probability of obtaining an ample supply of free-labour cotton depends mainly on their formation. Every discussion, therefore, on the now prominent subject of India cotton must primarily embrace the advantages to be obtained from railways, and we fear, if recent calculations may be relied on, that while we have been exhausting our means on railroads in France and Germany and other countries as well as on non-essential lines at home, we have neglected the very quarter where this kind of enterprize was most imperatively demanded, and where it would have led to most magnificent results.-Times. INDIAN AND IRISH RAILWAYS. An attempt made in the House of Lords to place Irish and Indian railways in the same category, and to show that if aid from the State be denied to the former, it is inconsistent to advocate it for the latter, calls for some remark. Nothing can be more different than the circumstances of the respective schemes. It is true that the great advantage in both countries to be derived from railroads would consist in the additional value they would impart to the land, but it is from this very point that the distinction springs which would render Government assistance justifiable in the one case and objectionable in the other. In Ireland the land belongs to private individuals, and it has been asserted that an outlay of sixteen millions on railways would immediately add not less than twenty-three millions to the value of this property. The landlords, therefore, who would reap the benefit, should find the means for its attainment; and if this be admitted, we are led at once to the conclusion that in India, where the land belongs to the Government, the Government should in like manner assume the responsibilities of promoters. Apart from this it is to be borne in mind that railroads in India would in many cases derive their chief importance from their political uses, and hence, in the absence of all sufficient temptation for individuals to undertake the risk, it might nevertheless for this reason alone be a vital object to the Government to accomplish their construction. No one, for instance, acquainted with the difficulty of moving troops in India, the losses by sickness, the expenses of transport, and the long delays which render large bodies of men at one point unavailable in case of sudden emergency at another, and thus necessitate the maintenance of large armies, can hesitate to recognize the enormous saving that would be effected by obviating these evils; and to assert that no aid should be given towards such a purpose simply because aid has been denied to railways in Ireland would be as reasonable as to allege that Government after refusing to pay for the fences round a private dwelling could not consistently contribute towards a harbour of refuge, or the fortifications at Portsmouth. The India Company, therefore, when they are solicited to guarantee a certain amount of dividend to the respective companies (for there has been no request for an advance of capital) are merely asked to name a fair rental for works to be executed for their benefit, with the especial advantage on their side, that in the event of the lines proving otherwise remunerative, as in at least two instances out of three there is reason to believe would be the case, they will gain all the good without contributing a shilling. Times. LAHORE. The following sketch of the capital of the Punjab is from the pen of a recent traveller." When seen at a distance, no idea can be formed of the spectacle within. It is nothing but a mass of ruins; everywhere its noble mansions seem ready to fall to the ground. To adventure on foot through the inextricable maze of tortuous, infectious, dark streets, obstructed as they are by ruins, and filled with elephants, horses, and men, is almost impossible. They may in many places be touched on both sides, so narrow are they. The houses constructed of brick are so high, so overladen with balconies and occupiers, and in such a state of dilapidation, that a blow would seem sufficient to |