TAWSE, Supg. surg. A. fr. N. W. div. of Guzerat, to N. div. of the Deccan, Feb. 24. WICHE, Asst. surg. to make over med. ch. of detach. 19th N.I. and Golundauze batt. fr. Larkins, Feb. 13. WRIGHT, Supg. surg. R. ret. to duty, Feb. 14. WRIGHT, Supg. surg. R. to N. W. div. of Guzerat, Feb. 24. PASSED EXAMINATION IN NATIVE LANGUAGES. WRIGHT, Asst. surg. A. LEAVE OF ABSENCE. MCKENZIE, Asst. surg. J. 3 years furl. to Europe, on m. c. MILLER, Asst. surg. J. R. fr. Feb. 18 to March 10, to Bombay. MARINE DEPARTMENT. BERNARD, Mr. Mids. J. W. passed exam. and placed on list of mates. CHILD, Mr. Mids. S. leave of abs. in ext. to rem. at Mahabuteshwa hills to Feb. 28. CONOLLY, T. C. sen. ship's clerk, to be capt.'s clerk, v. Hora, prom. Jan. 23. CRANE, B. H. mate of the Indian navy, suspended the service pend. the pleasure of Hon. Court of Directors, Feb. 16. HORA, F. H. sen. capt.'s clerk, to be purser, v. Ward, dec. MUNSIE, J. 1st class eng. ret. to duty per Atalanta, Jan. 14. DOMESTIC. BIRTHS. BAXTER, Mrs. J. d. at Upper Colabah, Feb. 26. MORRIS, the lady of Capt. W. J. 9th N.I. com. Bheel corps, s. at Bombay, Feb. 12. NEWTON, the wife of Henry, c.s. s. at Kaira, Feb. 18. OLIVER, the wife of S. s. at Kurrachee, Feb. 18. OUTHWAITE, the lady of the late Lieut. W. C. s. at Byculla, STUART, Mrs. John, s. at Bombay, Feb. 25. WHITTELL, the wife of Thomas, ord. dep. d. at Kurrachee, Feb. 6. MARRIAGES. BACON, Ens. Edmund A. H. 25th N.I. to Maria, d. of the late DAVIDSON, A. F. to Honoria Florence, d. of the late Lieut. col. W. DEATHS. CROSCADDEN. John W. at Bombay, Feb. 18. SHIPPING. ARRIVALS. - FEB. 14. Recovery, Johnson, Aden.-20. Fanny, -, Singapore, Rajasthan, Stewart, London: Scaleby Castle, Lemon, China.21. Steamer Medusa, Kingcombe, Kurrachee; steamer Moozuffer, Ethersey, Plymouth.-23. Crown, Johns, Liverpool; Faize Allum, Row, Calcutta.-24. Quentin Leitch, Potter, Greenock. 25. Steamer Sir J. R. Carnac, Beyts, Surat.-26. Steamer Berenice, Barron, Kurrachee; Bengallee, Fisher, Liverpool.-27. Bertrand, Meacom, Boston; Strabane, Grierson, Glasgow.MARCH 1. Steamer Leaforth, Higgs, Colombo; steamer Victoria, Banks, Colombo. PASSENGERS ARRIVED. Per Rajasthan-Mrs. Stewart, 2 children, and servant, Assist. surg. B. Barry, H.M.'s 22nd foot, O. Brown, Mrs. Baxter, Mrs. Fitzgibbon, Mr. John Baxter, Mr. John Grant, Messrs. Joseph Massam, Wm. Limerick, Mark Deable, Rob. B. Kirby and sons. Per Scaleby Castle.-Mrs. Lemon, Mrs. Durham, A. Campbell, E. Rhemus, W. Walker, and A. Carter. Per steamer Medusa. Mesdames MacDougall, Wilson, and Houghton; detachment of the 14th N.I. en route to Rutnagherry, consisting of Captain A. R. Wilson, Lieut. and Adjutant P. S. Fearon, Lieut. W. R. Houghton, Ensign H. P. B. Maxwell, Ensign J. T. Hill, 247 native commissioned, non-commissioned, and rank and file, six public and seventeen private followers; Capt. N. P. MacDougall, 13th N.I. Per steamer Moozuffer.-Mrs. Kempthorne and servant, Com. G. B. Kempthorne, I.N. Per steamer Berenice.-Mrs. Col. Stack, Capt. MacMurdo, Gen. Staff, and child, Lieut. J. H. Maxwell, Ben. Eug. Lieut. Aitken, art. Lieut. Anderson, 11th N.I. Lieut. Robson, 7th N.I. Mr. Vaughan, Mr. H. Watt. Per Bertrand.-Mesdames Burgess and Hazen; Messrs. E. Burgess, A. Hazen, J. Hayward, and E. Otes. Per steamer Seaforth.-D. Davidson and J. Williams. Per steamer Victoria.-Mrs. Col. Haveloch, and two Misses Haveloch; Major R. D. White, 69th B.N.I.; Capt. E. Peuse, R.N.; C. J. Stuart; W. Dillon; J. Oughterson; Capt. Nott, Per Earl of Clare.-Mrs. Ager. Per steamer Acbar.-Mrs. Barr; Mrs. Babington and 2 children, and servant; Mrs. W. Strange and servant; Mrs. B. Sandwith and servant; Mrs. Davies and 3 children, and servant; Mrs. W. F. Hunter; Mrs. Haleman and 2 children; Mrs. Edwards, Mrs. Spiers and 4 children; Mrs. Graham and a child of Capt. McMurdo's, with servants; Mrs. Hennell and 2 children, with servant; Miss Hamilton and servant; Maj. Gen. De Barr, Bo. army; W. F. Hunter, Esq. and servant; H. H. Glass, Esq. Bo. C. S.; Brig. B. Sandwith, Bo. army; Col. Haleman, Mad. army; James Bruce, Esq. surg. Beng. army; Lieut. Col. Cameron, 7th M.N.I.; Brev. Maj. J. W. Hart, 22nd Bɔ. N.I.; Spencer Compton, Esq.; Lieut. Lambert Scott, Bo. army; Maj. W. Barnes, H.M.'s 17th foot; Surg. E. W. Edwards, 23rd Bo. N.L.I.; Lieut. J. A. Oldham, H.M.'s 86th foot; C. G. Guthrie, Esq. R.N.; Lieut. J. H. Maxwell, Beng. eng. Capt. Fraser, Beag. army, and servant; Capt. Pieck; Robert McKim, Esq.; Lieut. A. McKinstry, and Capt. E. B. Owen, H.M. 17th foot; John Morton, Esq. and Lieut. John Percival, H.M.'s 17th foot; C. Clifford; Mr. Curling; Mahomed Ally, Goolam Shah, and Hujeez Mahomed. Cotton Piece Goods.-The demand chiefly for Grey Goods of coarse and heavy make, still continues, and the business done during the past has exceeded in extent that of the week previous. Cotton Yarn.-Sales to the extent of 110 bales are reported to have had effect at current prices, and good quality is in request. Metals.Iron is steady, and we have heard of a transaction to the extent of 140 tons English Bars, placed at Rs. 33 per candy. In Copper, there have been no transactions during the week. Cotton.-The market looks dull, and only a few unimportant purchases of old stock have taken place. Of the new crop, we hear of a purchase having been made of 500 bales Broach and Jumbooser to arrive, at Rs. 98. Opium is quoted at Rs. 1,110. CEYLON. CEYLON RAILWAY. -We have just heard that a memorial praying Her Majesty's Government for a guarantee of 4 per cent. on the capital of the proposed Ceylon Railway, to be paid out of the island revenues," will speedily be ready for signature both here and in Kandy. We need hardly say that the signatures will be neither few in number, nor unimportant as to the status of the subscribers.-Ceylon Times, Feb. 9. Lieut. col. Phillpotts, of the Royal Engs., will be rel on the 15th prox. by Maj. Baddely, of the same corps, in the com. of the Royal Engs. On being relieved, Lieut. col. Phillpotts is directed to give over the com. of the troops in the Kandian Provinces to the next sen. officer in Kandy, Lieut. col. Simmonds, of the Ceylon Rifle Regt. This arrangement has become necessary in consequence of Lieut. col. Phillpotts being under orders to proc. to Hong-Kong, to arsume the com. of the Royal Engs. at that station. Dr. Grant has obtained two months' leave of abs. (from the 8th Feb. to 8th April 1847), to proc. to the interior.-Ibid. Jan. 26. THE "TRESPASS" CASE AT HYDRABAD. [The following article was set up for insertion in our last number, but omitted by accident.-ED. ALLEN'S INDIAN MAIL.] We proceed now, in accordance with our promise, to give the details of the extraordinary outrage at Hydrabad, to which we briefly adverted in our paper of yesterday. The particulars have been furnished to us by a correspondent in Scinde, upon whose statements we believe thorough reliance may be placed, and whose name is in our possession as a guarantee for the substantial accuracy of his information. Should it prove to be in ought erroneous, we shall of course be most happy to supply the needful correction. For our own parts, the circumstantiality and minuteness by which the narrative is marked, appear to us to afford, of themselves, strong testimony to its truth. We are informed, then, that the 18th regiment of Native Infantry, occupying the fort of Hydrabad, received orders on the 5th of January to hold itself in readiness to embark for Sukkur, so soon as steamers could be made available,-leaving camp equipage, and carriage for the sick, &c., behind. The regiment, for a long time before going to Bhawulpore in December, 1845, had been quartered in the fort; and it was then that, in the hut of an old woman belonging to it, Captain Macgregor's butler discovered a considerable quantity of gold, in bars and coin, and much discussion took place as to who was entitled to share in the prize. Whether or not in consequence (of the discovery of this treasure, it is difficult to say, but the regiment is generally reported to have acquired a good deal of wealth-and that some one dug well and deep for it, the excavations in the walls and floors of the buildings supply abundant proof. Be this as it may, on its becoming known that the 18th was about to leave Hydrabad, a moonshee of Mr. Curling's, and the Kotwals of the town, named respectively Oomerduraze and Sullimoola, concerted together, and on the 15th January gave information to Captain Rathborne, to the effect that they had strong reasons for believing that several bankers in the city had purchased a large amount of gold from the sepoys of the 18th and other regiments. We are left wholly in the dark as to the mode in which this information was given; but we shall take the view of the case most favourable to the Scinde authorities, and assume that it was laid before Captain Rathborne in his magisterial capacity, and with all the formality and solemnity befitting the occasion. On receiving it, the gallant officer is represented to have sent people to seize the books and papers of some of the principal bankers-named Tara Chund, Thawoomull, Moolla, and another-and to place peons in charge of their premises, with orders to prevent anything from going in or coming out. This was speedily done; and the books, &c. were then conveyed to Captain Rathborne's office. The following day, it is said, that all the principal Banians closed their shops, and proceeded en masse to the author of this act of oppression, complaining bitterly, and remonstrating against the harshness of his measures in reference to their brethren. They explained the ill effects that would result from such proceedings, and the injury likely to be inflicted on the place from suspension of business. Unfortunately, however, instead of recalling his injudicious orders, Captain Rathborne directed the two leading speakers, men of note, named Khosial and Deeal, to be served in the same manner as those whose cause they had embraced. Their books and papers were accordingly seized, and themselves placed, like the other four Soucars, under strict surveillance. This, of course, rather aggravated than allayed the irritation of the Banians, and the outcry against Captain Rathborne's proceedings was strong and general. On the 17th January the books of Tara Chund were subjected to a careful examination by the Collector's Dewan, and, as expected by the Banians, no such entries as purchases of gold bullion were discovered in them. They were consequently returned to the owner, and the myrmidons of justice were removed from their guard over his dwelling. Next day the books, papers, and accounts of Thawoomull and Moolla underwent similar scrutiny, and with the like result, not a particle of evidence of the receipt of gold from the sepoys being found in them! The examination of the books of the remaining three Soucars was then proceeded with, but the result was not known at the date of our letters, although, of course, it was believed that it would be the same as in the other cases. The feeling of indignation aroused by these measures now reached such a pitch that the Banians in the money market' refused to open their shops, and great inconvenience was consequently occasioned to the trading community. The Collector, with the view of remedying this evil, is said to have deputed, on the 18th, his confidential moonshee, Bhagoo Mull, to assemble the principal Soucars of the town, and give them to understand that if they did not forthwith open their shops and transact business as usual, the shops of the recusants would be knocked down! This threat, however, had no effect-the different places of business, by the last accounts, still remaining closed. Whether the process of demolition will now be resorted to, remains to be seen. It is asserted that, in consequence of the alarm created by Captain Rathborne's measures, a 'run' took place upon two agency houses, the bulk of whose capital was in the hands of the Soucars, and that the parties, being unable promptly to meet their engagements, their failure ensued. This, it is said, is only the beginning of the ill effects likely to arise from the injudicious course pursued by the Hydrabad authorities. In all likelihood any attempt at justification of Captain Rathborne's proceedings that may chance to be made, will be based on the fact that, some time since, an order was issued by him, directing the Hydrabad Soucars to abstain from purchasing gold and silver in large quantities from any one but their own country people, and, in particular, to buy nothing of the sort from persons in Government employ, without previously obtaining the sanction of the collector. No reason was assigned for this 'Edict,' and it was pretty generally regarded as an arbitrary and tyrannical interference with the dealings of commercial men. Now, how ever, it will doubtless be pointed to as a special regulation, the alleged breach of which by the Soucars led the 'trespass' complained of. We have above given the simple facts of the case, as detailed to us by an intelligent and trustworthy correspondent. We have abstained from comments of our own, and withheld those of our informant. The public must be left to judge how far such doings are compatible either with the credit of the British Government or the preservation of that friendly feeling which Sir Charles Napier, in his recent general order, assures the world has been created in the breasts of the people by the justice and moderation of our measures in Scinde.-Bombay Telegraph, Feb. 5. MISCELLANEOUS. SCINDE. In our last we intimated that Sir Charles Napier and his family had quitted Kurrachee on the 4th ultimo, with a view to visiting Hydrabad. He reached his destination in safety on the 11th: one of his servants had fallen overboard and been drowned in the river. On the 14th Meer Ali Moorad of Khyrpore arrived at Hydrabad, with the intention of paying his respects to his patron the Governor. He was received in state next morning by his Excellency, the visit being returned the day following. The greetings of the two appeared hearty and cordial. The Ameer was attended by Captain Malet, resident at his Court, and Captain Brown. The Governor with his family had visited the battle-fields of Meeanee and Dubba.. He had been entertained by the officers of the corps at Hydrabad on the anniversary of the battle of the 17th February, and was expected to leave for the sea-coast about the beginning of the present month. The remains of H.H. Meer Nusseer Khan, who died some months since near Calcutta, had reached Hydrabad and been deposited in the family sepulchre. The body was attended to the grave by a guard of honour and a vast concourse of people. The mournful ceremony over, the former followers of the departed prince distributed money in charity, and gave a sumptuous entertainment to the true believers. A few days afterwards the tomb was visited by his widows and female relatives and friends. They have collected, it is said, no less a sum than 10,000l. with which to build a monument over the deceased. By a singular coincidence two days afterwards the conqueror of Scinde took up his abode in the residence of the Talpoor chief who had just passed to his final restingplace. The country throughout was perfectly quiet, and tolerably healthy. We have heard of no more incursions from the Doomkies since Jacob's horse took the field. Dr. Ellis, of the 2nd Scinde irregulars, had been killed by a fall from his horse while out hog hunting. Captain CURLING,-late a soldier in H.M.'s 4th Dragoons, and from whom holding his commission is not known-had been appointed deputy collector at Hydrabad. He is a near connexion of the Governor's, and his advance in life has, since 1843, been a rapid one. Three of the same family have been in Scinde since shortly after the conquest: two had purchased their discharge from the dragoons. These were appointed to the command of the cavalry and infantry in the service of Meer Ali Moorad, on salaries of 600l. each; the third received a civil appointment of similar value. Captain Curling's salary as deputy collector will be about Rs. 700 a month, that is, 8404. a year. The 18th N.I. had arrived at Sukkur on the 3d February. General Hunter had left the station on his return to England: he had been much beloved and respected, and his retirement was matter of general regret. A furious storm, full details of which have reached us since our last, bad ravaged the coast of Cutch on the 25th January. Twenty vessels belonging to the port of Kurrachee are said to have been lost: the whole of those conveying the men of the 16th N. I. were wrecked on the shore near Mandavie. Though a large amount of property was destroyed, we have not heard of any lives having been lost. Since the beginning of the year, the 17th and 86th foot, the 10th, 12th, 13th, and 14th N. Í., and four companies of artillery, have left Scinde, and the 3rd cavalry have reached Kurrachee on their way to Bombay. The rumours of the retirement of Sir Charles Napier, for some time past becoming weekly fainter, have at length become silent, and a deep mystery hangs over the fate and prospects of Scinde. ALLEN'S INDIAN MAIL, LONDON, FRIDAY, April 2, 1847. NAPOLEON and the concoctors of his bulletins are now fairly rivalled--we had almost said outdone. Sir CHARLES NAPIER has put forth a proclamation under the title of a General Order, which surpasses all his former productions in this line. Those were invariably abrupt, undignified, and insolent-one and all overflowing with arrogance, and some of them disgraced by the vilest buffoonery. Sir CHARLES is of opinion that he is at once a great general, a great statesman, and a great wit. These unhappy self-delusions have constantly led him to expose himself as an object of sport; and the many warnings that he has received of his having mistaken his vocation have but served to increase the mental disease engendered by the most intolerable conceit, and confirmed by the obstinacy of dotage. He has now come forth with a state paper differing in some respects from any which he has previously issued. It is very serious, very stately in its march, and very magniloquent in its style. It is Punch trying his hand in the serious line-the clown of the ring forgetting his tumbles and his gibes, and spouting grave sentences with the air of a practised diplomatist. So pompous is this new specimen of Napierism, that we could almost suspect it to have been coined in Guernsey by the literary brother, and sent off ready prepared for use. It has a fine racy smack of that veritable historian, and if it be not from his mint, the brothers, must pro tempore have exchanged souls. As to accuracy of fact, the new effusion of Sir CHARLES or his brother is quite equal to any former one-and having thus said, we need not add another word: our readers will understand the state of the case at once. Nothing in a literary way gives such an impression of absolute power as short sentences and short paragraphs. Thus when NAPOLEON, in the days of his success, was wont to intimate in three or four words that such or such a state had "ceased to exist," we felt at once that this was no common sentence, and that it was uttered by no common man. Those who read trembled while they read, and recognized in the author the acknowledged and uncontrolled arbiter of all matters into which he chose to thrust himself. Sir CHARLES (or his brother) has happily hit off this imperial style. The proclamation, or general order, or whatever it may be, is chopped up into little bits, as Mr. MACREADY treats his speeches. It occupies less than a column and three-quarters of our Journal, and it is broken into twenty-nine paragraphs. It is as curt and decisive as a Papal decree, and the burden is of the same character; "whoever shall dare to impugn the policy, soldiership, or administrative ability of Sir CHARLES NAPIER, Dictator of Scinde, let him be accursed!" We are almost afraid to deal with such a document, lest the vengeance of its author should reach us even in the capital of the British dominions. Sir CHARLES NAPIER'S toadies have told us, that among the Orientals their hero is known as "the devil's elder brother"-a somewhat equivocal piece of adulation, seeing it brings the General into the closest relationship with him who is "the father of lies." Whether the title were bestowed with reference to the General's military or to his literary achievementswhether it were his battles or his manifestoes which suggested it, we know not, and we are not curious to inquire. We are of an acquiescent disposition, and content to take things as we find them. We therefore leave the discussion of the question to those who delight in it, if such persons exist, and while we retain our own opinion, we are satisfied that others should enjoy the like privilege without disturbance. We desire only that it may be observed, that we have not conferred the awkward title-it comes to us from India, with many other things which excite the wonder of the Occidental world. It was bestowed, no doubt, as a compliment, and we beg to be understood as so regarding it. Let the Governor of Scinde possess all his honours without molestation-we would not disturb him in the enjoyment of one of them. Our pen is almost stopped by the awe with which the vice-regal-we might almost have omitted the qualifying prefix, and have said the truly regal General Order imprsses us. We should be disposed to analyze a few of the statements, but as GEORGE ROBINS used to say, while suspending his hammer in mid air, when the highest bidding was not so liberal as he desired-our "hand refuses its office." We know not how to deal with statements coming from those whose simple assertions ought to command as perfect assent as is yielded to other men's proofs. Happily our brother of the Bombay Times is a bold man, and he has saved us a large portion of the perilous labour which otherwise we should have been almost compelled to undertake. In our present publication will be found two articles extracted from the paper above mentioned, which cut up Sir CHARLES NAPIER's statements as completely as he has cut up the Queen's English. We earnestly commend them to the attentive perusal of our readers, especially of those who are desirous of rendering due "homage to Charlie." Both and cowardice are contagious, and we feel courage emboldened by the brave example of our contemporary to have one word with the Scinde dictator. We shall not trespass upon the ground taken by our ally, for he has made it his own. On the commercial part of the manifesto the Bombay editor has but slightly touched, and in regard to this we may venture a passing remark (and it will be no more) without wrong. "Commerce," we are told, "is already" — aye, already is the word "Commerce is already actively commencing between Kurrachee and Sukkur, ready to branch forth into the Punjab, when the results following the victories on the Sutlej shall open the five rivers to the enterprising spirit of British merchants. Sukkur, ordered by Lord ELLENBOROUGH to be called Victoria on the Indus, has become the depôt for goods passing into Central Asia." We have rolled two of Sir CHARLES NAPIER's paragraphs into one, and have thereby impaired the dignity of the quotation. We must therefore entreat the reader, by an act of the imagination, to suppose them separated, and then allow us to comment on them. "Commerce is already actively commencing between Kurrachee and Sukkur." How is it, after several years' possession of Scinde by the British-after several years of the admirable administration of that country by its never-to-beequalled governor, that commerce is only commencing? and that even this tardy commencement appears to be regarded with some surprise, its announcement being ushered in by the word "already?" But perhaps commerce has been waiting for the settlement of affairs in the Punjab, into which river-boasting territory she (we believe commerce is feminine) is now "ready to branch forth." But why stand still for this? Did not Lord ELLENBOROUGH order Sukkur to be called "Victoria on the Indus," and has it not become the depôt for goods pouring into Central Asia? So says the infallible Governor of Scinde; then why did commerce idly wait on tip-toe, ready to dash into the Punjab upon the first opportunity? Could not she be doing a little in the mean while in Affghanistan and the countries lying in that direction? Perhaps not-and for the best possible reason, that there was nothing to be done. Then why did Lord ELLENBOROUGH order Sukkur to be called "Victoria on the Indus." We cannot but wish that he had forborne to offer this awkward compliment to his Sovereign. We do not think there is any thing very dignified in the sound of "Victoria on the Indus "-it puts us too much in mind of "Kingston on Railway," and instead of an Oriental Liverpool or Bristol, makes us think of a little, damp, dull, dismal, dirty, plastered, whitewashed, miserable, mushroom, cockney village, and of a trip thereto in a secondclass carriage from the Nine Elms station. "Victoria on the Indus" may be a depôt for Central Asia, and as Lord ELLENBOROUGH directed that it should be so, and Sir CHARLES NAPIER says it is so, why it shall be as they order. We are as submissive as Katherine to Petruchio, and are willing to believe the great luminary of the heavens to be sun or moon just as we are bidden. But unhappily "Victoria on the Indus" is in the situation of the single servant of the Red Cow hotel in COLMAN's comedy of John Bull. He was head waiter and hostler, but there were neither customers nor horses to require his attention. So Sukkur, or Victoria on the Indus, if the grandiloquent will have it so to be, is the depôt for Central Asia; but unfortunately, it is a depôt without goods, and would be without custom if there were Owen Glendower could "call spirits from any goods. the vasty deep;" but Hotspur shrewdly hinted that they might not come when called. Lord ELLENBOROUGH and Sir CHARLES NAPIER can create commercial depôts where none existed before-what indeed can such men not do? One thing, alas! When the depôts are formed, they cannot bring trade to them. Merchants who plough the deep are as obstinate as the spirits who inhabit it-consumers who walk the earth are equally unpersuadable, and neither one class nor the other will have any thing to do with "Victoria on the Indus." PETER THE GREAT willed that a magnificent city should arise where city never was before; and at his bidding Petersburgh sprung up as if by magic spell. Lord ELLENBOROUGH and Sir CHARLES NAPIER have not been equally successful; which is wonderful, considering how largely they share in the great qualities which enabled PETER to triumph. We do not recollect any two men whose names are better entitled to be associated with that of the great founder of the Russian empire. We propose to notice only one paragraph more of Sir CHARLES's twenty-nine. "For myself," says the modest dictator, "I remain at my proper post, as Governor of Scinde, and Commander of that division of the Bombay Army stationed on the said line of frontier." And does Sir CHARLES really think that this is his proper post? Ought he not-we ask him in all sincerity, and we would that he would answer us in the same feeling-ought he not to be Governor-General of India and Captain-General of the Forces? Does he not think so? And thinking so, does he talk of the government of Scinde being his proper post? We cannot agree with him. We are convinced that Scinde is not his proper post; and, with all our regard for him, we should rejoice in his removal from that country. Where he should be provided for, is a state question too high for us to discuss. We would only suggest that it should be somewhere where his admirable temper, consummate modesty, and unrivalled discretion, might find ample room for exercise. And now, in conclusion, let us ask how long is Sir CHARLES NAPIER to remain at his " 'proper post," as he terms it? What are his notions of a competent fortune, and how many years' salary does he propose to draw before they are realized? We cannot reward him according to his deserts; but moderation is a bright ornament in any constellation of virtues. "The world was made for CESAR," and Scinde was made for NAPIER; but neither CESAR nor NAPIER should bestride his domain "like a Colossus,” and leave other men no occupation but to " 'peep about and find themselves dishonourable graves." Every thing has an end, and the duration of Sir CHARLES NAPIER'S government caunot be exempted from the common fate. But when is the end of it to come? Is it to be deferred till the termination of the General's life? Has he a freehold in his office? Is he perpetual governor of the country of which he deprived the lawful possessors? If so, let it be so stated, and let us know the worst at once. We will submit with true Eastern resignation. We have put up with the financial disadvantages entailed upon us by the conquest of Scinde; if necessary we must submit with equal patience to the protracted government of Sir CHARLES NAPIER there, should he have a life-interest in it. But if not, we would represent, with all humility, to those who have the disposing of such matters, that prudence teaches to make the best of a bad bargain. Scinde is a bad bargain, but it need not be so bad as it has been, and is; and why should we make it worse than it need to be? If unavoidably saddled with this unhappy conquest, why should we be saddled for an indefinable term of years with the conqueror as its governor? If his appetite for gain is not yet gorged with salary and prize-money, give him a little more, and buy him out. Scinde has, indeed, been a source of so much expense, that it is sickening to think of more in connection with it; but to spend money to keep a NAPIER there is quite a different thing from spending money to get rid of him. The one is profligate extravagance; the other would be true economy. PARLIAMENTARY PROCEEDINGS. HOUSE OF COMMONS. MARCH 23.-CULTIVATION OF COTTON IN INDIA.-Mr. BRIGHT presented a petition from a meeting of master spinners and manufacturers in the cotton trade in Manchester, praying for an inquiry intothe circumstances connected with the cultivation and growth of cotton in India; also petitions for a similar object from the town of Frampton, and from the chamber of commerce of Manchester. The hon. gentleman then stated that it was not his intention to bring forward his motion on the cultivation of cotton in India that night, but that he would postpone it till after Easter, having been induced to do so from a communication just made to him by the right hon. gentleman the president of the board of control. Sir J. HOBHOUSE stated, that some hon. gentleman had moved for papers bearing on the subject, which could not yet be produced, and he thought it would be better in the circumstances that the motion should be deferred till the information contained in those papers was before the house. FURLOUGH REGULATIONS FOR THE INDIAN ARMY. Mr. EWART wished to put a question to the right hon. baronet the president of the board of control, respecting the furlough regula. tions for the Indian army; whether the board had received from the court of directors any suggestions for the improvement of the furlough regulations: whether the board had approved of those suggestions, and meant to act upon them? Sir J. C. HOBHOUSE said, in answer to the question he could state, that a system of furlough regulations, both with respect to the army and the civil service in India, was now under consideration, and his hon. friend must be sensible that it would be wrong to come to any conclusion upon so important a subject without giving it the most serious consideration. Mr. EWART.-I only wished to know whether it was under consideration. Sir J. C. HOBHOUSE.-It is under very anxious consideration. COMMERCIAL RELATIONS WITH CHINA.-Lord SANDON presented a petition from the merchants, bankers, and traders of Liverpool, calling upon the house to take into consideration the propriety of reducing or repealing the duty on tea. The noble lord then submitted the motion of which he had given notice, for the appointment of a select committee to inquire into the present state of the commercial relations between this country and China, and observed, that he felt himself excused from the necessity of intruding at any length on the attention of the house, from finding that the noble lord at the head of Her Majesty's Government had no objection to the appointment of the committee for which he (Lord Sandon) was about to move. Mr. HASTIE objected to the very indefinite terms of the motion, and expressed his extreme regret that the Government should have so readily consented to the appointment of the committee. The motion was then agreed to. MARCH 26.-FLOGGING AT HONG-KONG.-In reply to a question from Dr. BOWRING, Mr. HAWES stated, that though he was not prepared to say that flogging had been discontinued in the colony of Hong-Kong, yet he was able to inform the hon. member that an alteration in the criminal law as administered there would take place, and was calculated to give general satisfaction. DEBATE AT THE EAST-INDIA HOUSE. A Quarterly General Court of Proprietors of East-India Stock was held on Thursday, the 25th ult. It was also made special for the reason assigned in the following notice, and at the request of the proprietors who signed it. "To call the attention of the Court of Proprietors to the fact of the existence of a recent correspondence between the home authorities and the Governor-general of India relative to the case of the deposed Rajah of Sattara, and to the circumstance of the exclusion of this correspondence from the Return dated India House, 1st February, 1847, made pursuant to an order of the House of Commons, dated 28th August, 1846, in order that the proprietors may take the proper steps to have the correspondence in question laid before them. (Signed) A. J. Lewis, J. Hume, R. J. Bagshawe, M. Clarke, J. Briggs, J. Poynder, C. Forbes, C. Grant, and G. Forbes." The minutes of the last General Court having been read, the CHAIRMAN (Sir J. W. Hogg, Bart., M. P.) laid before the Court certain papers presented to Parliament, and accounts of superannuations, &c. granted, since the last Quarterly Court. The CHAIRMAN asked precedence for Mr. Poynder to make a motion. He was given to understand that it would not lead to a discussion, and the state of the hon. proprietor's health was such as to prevent him being present for any length of time. Permission being given, Mr. POYNDER moved, "That the papers on which the Court of Directors consented to the recommendation of the Bengal Government as to the continued annual payment to the temple of Juggurnat, under a certain modification, be laid before the proprietors." Agreed to. one moment. Mr. SALOMANS requested permission to address the Court for He wished to withdraw his motion respecting the consideration of the services of Lieut. Waghorn, and leave the question entirely in the hands of the Court of Directors, who, he did not doubt, would properly appreciate the valuable aid of that gentleman. (Motion, by leave, withdrawn.) The CHAIRMAN having acquainted the Court that it had been made special for the reason stated above, Mr. LEWIS rose to address the Court. It was, he said, an act of injustice to the Rajah of Sattara to withhold the thing referred to in the notice, from the Court of Proprietors Hs it had been customary to present all documents respecting this case, whether they had passed through the Secret Committee or not, and it was at variance with the common principles of justice to refuse them in the present instance. It would be remembered that, in March, 1846, an hon. proprietor, in the course of his address in that Court, had read a very extraordinary document, received from India, and purporting to be the substance of a conversation between the Governor-general's agent at Benares and the ex-Rajah of Sattara, in which certain terms were offered for the rajah's acceptance. Those terms were, that he should sign a paper, relinquishing all claim to his throne, should pray to the Government for a suitable place for retirement, that his monthly allowance should be increased, and that the reversion of the kingdom of Sattara should be secured to his son- a little boy. The production of that paper had caused the utmost surprise and astonishment. If it was a fact that the Governor-general's agent had offered those terms, then it might be supposed that it was on the authority of Government; and the inference to be drawn from this transaction was, that the Government knew that the rajah was innocent of the crimes ascribed to him. Of the document in question, the Court of Directors professed themselves to be ignorant, and accordingly a few days afterwards a letter was despatched to India calling for information with reference to that statement. In course of time a reply was received. Now he would ask, what was the obvious duty of the Court of Directors on this occasion? Was it not to have come forward and stated that such a letter had been received, and to have laid it before the proprietors? (Hear.) If it were received through the Secret Committee, the Directors should have gone to the President of the Board of Control, and requested his permission to lay the despatch before them. He could not believe that that gentlemen would have refused his sanction. He (Mr. Lewis) regretted that such a course had not been pursued, and could not but condemn the miserable artifice by which it was attempted to suppress those papers. It was the duty of the proprietors now to sever themselves from the Court of Directors, and to come forward, and boldly, but respectfully, to ask for those papers. It was known that a certain important statement had been made in that room, that a despatch bad been sent to India, founded on that statement, and that an answer had been received. It was their duty to demand the production of that |