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forward by the hon. gentleman opposite. If the hon. member for Winchester, instead of reading pamphlets which had been prepared for the purpose, had read through the blue book, it was impossible that he could entertain a doubt as to the guilt of the rajah. The hon. gentleman appeared astonished that the right hon. gentleman (Sir J. Hobhouse) should have quoted the opinion of the residents, but he seemed to forget that one of the number-General Robertson-had declared that he knew, ten years ago, that the rajah was in correspondence with Goa, and that he warned him at the time he would lose his rajahship if he did not take care. (Hear.) The character of the rajah drawn by General Briggs had already been quoted. He now came to the man so much relied upon (General Lodwick); and what was the fact? Why, that General Lodwick himself wrote to the Government a report of the offences of which the rajah was accused. yet that was the man on whose opinion hon. gentlemen rested in proof of the innocence of the rajah. It was said that General Lodwick changed his opinion. (Hear, hear.) He admitted the fact, and he believed that both the opinions of the gallant gentleman were sincerely and conscientiously entertained; but he would ask the House to measure the opinions of General Lodwick as they would those of any other individual, and to judge of them according to the cir cumstances under which they were formed. When General Lodwick's report was received, Sir Robert Grant and the Government of Bombay ordered a commission to inquire into the facts. That commission was composed of General Lodwick himself, of Mr. Willoughby, the chief secretary of the Government, one of the most trustworthy men that ever existed; and Sir Robert Grant, with his accustomed caution, selected not a political man for the third, but wrote to the commander-in-chief to send him the most trustworthy in the army, and one who was intimately acquainted with the natives. Accordingly Lord Keane recommended Colonel Ovans, the quarter-master-general, and these three gentlemen it was who constituted the commission. The hon. gentleman the member for Winchester thought that no investigation was right that did not resemble an Old Bailey trial, and was for having a judge and jury, and two or three counsel on each side. But he (Sir J. W. Hogg) thought that in investigations between one state and another, a commission such as had been appointed was infinitely preferable. The commission was a secret one, and very properly so, because if the charges should turn out to be untrue, it was better that they should not be promulgated. After a prima facie case had been made out against him, the rajah was called before them, and told that any document or evidence he wished to produce would be received, and that the witnesses would be confronted with him. He appeared thrice, but refused to have the witnesses confronted with him, as he thought that would be inconsistent with his dignity. He gave in the names of witnesses, who were examined, and a written document, which was recorded; and the commission, after sitting for twenty-five or twenty-six days, found the rajah guilty. Their decision was signed by General Lodwick; and he would ask the House whether it did not take away from the subsequent opinion of that officer, that he should have signed the judgment of guilty, after five-and-twenty days' investigation of the subject. (Hear, hear.) He would ask the hon. member for Montrose, did he deny that the rajah had been guilty of the crime imputed to him with regard to the sepoys? Then it was said there could be no inquiry without a public trial. He thought it, however, a most extraordinary demand on the part of the hon. member for Montrose to demand a commission at Bombay in 1847, when the charges against the rajah had been examined before a commission in 1837. The hon. member for Winchester said the right hon. baronet had only read the opinions of the commissioners who made the original inquiry. If they granted this inquiry, every dismissed criminal in India would demand a re-investigation of his case. Then it was said, "Why do you grant the rajah 20,000 a year?" He replied, there never had been an instance in which deposed rajahs had not received an annual grant. The head of the Mahratta confederacy, by whom all India was raised against the British power, received 80,000l. a year. The hon. gentleman treated the alleged confederacy with the governor of Goa as too absurd to merit contradiction; but admitting, as he (Sir J. Hogg) did, the extreme absurdity of the scheme, no person could read through the evidence without being satisfied of the rajah's guilt. The governor of Goa had been written to, but did the hon. gentleman get from him the declaration that he had had no communication with the Rajah of Sattara? No; he said he had had no communication with the rajah on political subjects." (Hear, hear.) But by the treaty the rajah was expressly precluded from corresponding with any foreign power upon any subject whatever, except through the resident; and

this treaty was framed by Mr. Mountstuart Elphinstone, who well knew the Rajah of Sattara and the princes of India. (Hear.) So that the very fact of his having communicated with the governor of Goa was a violation of the treaty under which he enjoyed the throne, and if we chose to enforce the rigid penalty, would have subjected him to the loss of his rajahship. From the other acts of the rajah, it did not seem so unlikely that he supposed the authorities at Goa would send him a Portuguese force aided by the French and Austrians. The rajah had ordered a ship to be built, at a cost of 8,0001, by Messrs. Milne, of Bombay, and seriously averred that his object in so doing was "to keep up the communication with Europe." That ship happened to go to China during the disturbances, and the rajah assured the British authorities that he had not sent this ship with any hostile intentions against the British Government. The man who could perpetrate such absurdities as these was capable of doing things quite as absurd as communicating with the governor of Goa in the way in which he was charged. The hon. member for Bolton had strangely miscalculated the votes of the Directors, or perhaps had counted upon the rajah's side all who in successive years had expressed themselves in his favour, whether they came into the Court on recent vacancies, or were members of it when the question of his guilt came before it for decision. On that occasion mentioned there were nineteen Directors present, and they voted by ballot, fourteen that he was guilty, and five in the opposite way, four out of the five recording dissents. Several were absent:-Loch (agreeing with the majority), Marjoribanks (then exceedingly ill, and who never gave an opinion), and Sir W. Young; he (Sir J. W. Hogg) was not sure which way the opinion of the latter was. As to the charges against Colonel Ovans, the Court of Directors treated them with contempt, and would still do so. They owed the prosperity of India, and the success which had attended the British rule there, to the honour and integrity of the public servants. The Government had never failed severely to punish any of them, when guilty of improper conduct; to inquire, whenever there existed reasonable grounds of suspicion; and, at the same time, the Government of India did not shrink from maintaining and supporting them, when they were unjustly attacked. (Hear, hear.) After a few words from Lord JOHN MANNERS, the House divided, when the numbers were,

JULY 8.-Indian Furlough.- In answer to a question from Mr. EWART, Sir JOHN HOBHOUSE said that he had the satisfaction of stating that yesterday a despatch was sent to India from the Court of Directors, with the concurrence of the Board, containing a plan of a new system of furlough for the civil service,not the military service, as yet. The Governor-General would take the plan into his serious consideration as soon as he received it, and when the home authorities received intelligence that he approved it, it would be carried into effect. (Hear, hear.) A plan had also been prepared for the military service, which would also be submitted to the Governor-General, and if approved, acted on. (Hear, hear.)

JULY 9.-Mr. Spooner and Mr. Hume.-Mr. SPOONER drew the attention of the House to what he conceived to be a breach of privilege, on the part of Mr. Hume, in having charged him (Mr. Spooner) with voting on the Raja of Sattara question, from biassed motives. On the day following the debate in question, Mr. Hume approached Mr. Spooner, and threatened to expose Mr. Spooner and Mr. Hutt, the former of whom had a son, and the latter, a near relative in India, whose duty compelled them to take part in the Sattar business, and which excited in no small degree, the wrath of the hon. representative of Montrose. Mr. HUME explained that it was a private conversation, and that as such, it ought not to be brought before the House.

Messrs. HUTT, G. BANKES, OSBORNE, Sir R. INGLIS, Lord JOHN RUSSELL, who designated Mr. Hume "a chartered libertine," with respect to the usages of the House, and Mr. AGLIONBY spoke on the subject, amid shouts of laughter. Mr. OSBORNE requested that the parties should give their assurance not to carry the matter further, a requisition that convulsed the House, and well nigh terminated the existence of several members, the idea of the hon. members for Birmingham, and Montrose, resorting to "other means," being so irresistibly comic, that the House was absolutely frantic with merriment.

Lord PALMERSTON said there was no regulation with regard to pensions for such appointments as Mr. Thom held.

Mr. HUME Commented in severe terms on the fact of Mr. M'Culloch having a pension, while holding a high and lucrative situation under Government, and making large sums annually by the sale of his books, and yet the family of a clever public servant who had died in the cause of his country was left penniless.

Mr. LABOUCHERE defended several grants that had been made, but urged nothing in extenuation of Mr. M'Culloch's.

JULY 13.-Case of Mr. Langslow. -Mr. B. Escort drew attention to this case, and moved an address her Majesty, to take it into her consideration. The main facts of the case, having been stated in an article which appeared in of our last paper, it is unnecessary to repeat them here.

Mr. HAWES and Mr. HOPE defended the conduct of the Government, and after some remarks from Mr. Baring and Lord Bentinck, the motion was, by leave, withdrawn.

JULY 16.-The late Sir Eardley Wilmot.-Sir C. DOUGLAS wished to know whether the Government would do any thing for the son of the late Governor of Van Diemen's Land.

Lord JOHN RUSSELL said, he had no doubt that the gentleman alluded to was a very deserving person, but he did not see any public ground requiring the further interference of the House. The ex-Rajah of Sattara.-Mr. HUME moved an address to the Queen, praying that she would cause to be laid before the House certain papers relating to the ex- Rajah of Sattara; and, in support of his motion, addressed the House at very considerable length, but failed to invest the case with any additional interest.

Sir JOHN HOBHOUSE opposed the motion. He considered the decision already come to ought to satisfy the hon. member. With respect to the proposal alleged to have been made to the rajah on behalf of the Government, he had a few observations to make. The House would remember that these assertions were made by the celebrated Mr. George Thompson in the Court of Proprietors, founded, as he alleged, on documents he had received from India; and as the imputations were of a serious nature, it was thought necessary to send the paper read by Mr. Thompson to India, to ascertain whether its contents were true. The hon. member for Montrose (Mr. Hume) had read the despatch forwarding the paper to the Governor-General, but had not read the answer, which he (Sir John Hobhouse) would now do. The following was the reply:

"Simla, June 7, 1846. "Hon. Sirs,-In accordance with the instructions contained in your committee's despatch of the 24th March last, I transmitted a copy of the inclosure to Major Carpenter, with a request that he would submit any explanation he might desire to offer relative to the propositions which he was alleged to have made to the ex-Rajah of Sattara.

"Major Carpenter's answer, in which he distinctly denies having made the alleged proposition to the ex-rajah, together with a letter I have caused to be addressed to him in reply, expressing my sentiments on the conduct he appears to have pursued towards that chief, and the communications he has been in the habit of holding with him, are herewith forwarded for your information. "I have, &c. "HARDINGE."

"The Secret Committee of the

East-India Company."

Major Carpenter, in his letter, said:

"The tone, and spirit, and meaning of the alleged conversation thus minutely recorded, are so utterly at variance with the numerous consultations I have held with the rajah regarding the general state of his affairs, that I must at once pronounce the greater part of the conversation stated to have passed between him and myself, in September last, purely imaginary, and to declare that the propositions therein detailed were never, then or at any other time, directly or indirectly, made by me to the Rajah of Sattara, either on my own responsibility, or on the authority of the Governor-General."

There was an additional paragraph in the letter, which shewed that the rajah's agent in this country could have undeceived his hon. friend. Major Carpenter said :

"At the same time, I desire not to impeach the veracity either of the rajah or of his friends in England, for I am assured by his highness that the whole affair has arisen from a mistaken interpretation of the object of his communication, and that the moment he became aware of the erroneous impression his letter had produced, which it appears he did in March last, he wrote to his vakeel on the 4th of that month to correct it."

Now had this been communicated by the rajah's agent to the hon. member, he (Mr. Hume) might have spared the House the speech he made the other evening. (Hear, hear, hear.) The consequence was, that the erroneous impression of the rajah's letter had gone the round of the press, and was made one of the

staple commodities for concocting those charges against the Company. (Hear, hear.)

General MORRISON addressed a few observations in a low tone of voice, stating his belief in the rajah's guilt.

Mr. WAKLEY read a letter of Capt. Cogan, detailing a private conversation between the writer and Sir John Hobhouse. The following is a copy:

"He begged leave to observe that, in order to stand well with the right hon. baronet, he waited on him officially; but, instead of being received with that courtesy which was usually observed on such occasions, the conduct of the right hon. gentleman was not only uncourteous, but bordering on insult. He was told that he had joined with Sir C. Forbes and his party to embarrass the Government and to bring this case before the House; and the right hon. baronet swore that he would never allow the rajah to sit on the throne again; that he would support the Government of India, right or wrong, and would put a stop to those turbaned gentlemen filling London with their appeals; and he asked him (Capt. Cogan) how he dared to give the opinion he did to bis colleague, Lord Palmerston, of the rajah's innocence? He had, he said, written to the GovernorGeneral to dismiss any person from the service who presumed to give an opinion opposed to the Government."

This statement, Mr. Wakley affirmed, the writer was prepared to verify on oath.

Lord JOHN RUSSELL considered the case ought not to be reopened, a strict and impartial inquiry having been made into its merits. (Hear, hear.) It was not to be inferred that, because the hon. member for Montrose brought forward a case, that a new trial was at once to be granted. (Hear, hear.) Mr. Cogan had been employed in a negotiation with the Imaum of Museat, and afterwards was concerned in some transactions with the Rajah of Sattara in a manner inconsistent with his duty as a servant of the Government. As to the assertion that his right hon. friend (Sir John Hobhouse) had said he would support the Indian Government, right or wrong, he had never said any thing of the kind. It was a tissue to which no credit was due. (Cheers.)

Sir JOHN HOBHOUSE thought it his duty to say a few words with respect to the statement of the hon. member for Finsbury. Capt. Cogan was an officer in the Indian navy; he had been em. ployed on certain business by the Government, having been recommended to Lord Palmerston, who sent him on a mission to the Imaum of Muscat. Whilst at Bombay, on his return, Capt. Cogan entered into correspondence with certain agents of the Rajah of Sattara, having at the very time the treaty of the Imaum in his pocket. When Capt. Cogan called on him officially at the Board, he had an interview with that gentleman. He believed it had never been said it was his practice to insult those who waited on him (hear, hear), and he certainly had no intention of insulting Capt. Cogan. (Hear, hear, hear.) In the course of their conversation, Capt. Cogan acknowledged having interested himself in the rajah's affairs. He then told him (Capt. Cogan) that he had no business to do any thing of the sort; the mission on which he was engaged was of quite a different character. He conceived that, as head of the Government department intrusted with the affairs of India, he had a right to tell an Indian servant that he had done wrong. Capt. Cogan said he had a right to take part with an injured man. But it was no part of his duty to do so at that time. (Hear, hear.) He had no right, under the circumstances, the make himself the agent of the Rajah of Sattara, and to arrange a bargain of £1,500 a year in that capacity. Immediately after this, Capt. Cogan went to the Court of Proprietors and detailed a private conversation with him (Sir John Hobhouse). The circumstances, as he had related, were strictly true, notwithstanding Capt. Cogan's willingness to swear to the truth of his letter. (Hear, hear.) Having said this, he should not enter into any further discussion respecting the case of the Rajah of Sattara. (Loud cheers.)

Mr. OSBORNE Would support Mr. Hume, but he reprobated the custom of retailing private conversations. (Hear, hear, hear.) If every private conversation of ministers and members of Parlia ment were to be made the subject of discussion, there would be an end of all public and private confidence. (Loud cheers.)

Mr. WAKLEY explained, and the conversation then dropped, Mr. Hume taking no further notice of his motion.

JULY 20.-State of Scinde.-In reply to some questions of Mr. Hume, respecting Scinde, and the intentions of Government on the subject,

Sir J. HOBHOUSE said, the house, however, would not expect him (Sir J. Hobhouse) to give any opinion whatever as to the possession of Scinde, or as to the mode in which that province had been annexed to the British empire. He found it in that position referred to by his hon. friend; it had not been included, as the hon. gentleman would seem to wish, in the government of Bombay, but had been placed under the Governor-General and Council, to whom General Napier, commanding in Scinde, made all his reports. The Govern

ment, certainly, was essentially military; and there was, it was true, scarcely a civil officer employed in the province; military men only were employed, and General Napier himself was the life and soul of the whole administration. He would not offer any opinion with respect to General Napier; he did not think himself called on to say more than that since he (Sir J. Hobhouse) had been connected with Indian affairs, he had found that officer sedulously attentive to his duties. General Napier, in repeated communications, had expressed his conviction that this mode of administering the affairs of the newly conquered province had been most successful. The hon. gentleman (Mr. Hume) had somewhat exaggerated the aggregate expenditure in Scinde; it was not quite so much as he stated, though, at the same time, there could be no doubt that a considerable addition to the charges of our Indian dominions had resulted from the conquest and possession of that particular province. The last letter received from General Napier conveyed the information that the present number of regular troops in Scinde was 7,500. We had, further, 2,400 police, preserving order, and this was an effective force that might be called on at any moment. General Napier even said that an active officer would be able to retain the province with 5,000 men, supposing them to be as well organized as the present army. On the whole, during the last five years, it had been peacefully governed. But it was not the intention that this state of matters should last, and he would read a despatch of Lord Hardinge, on this subject. Lord Hardinge said:

"With regard to the arrangement which will be best adapted for the future management of Scinde, I am of opinion, that the whole of that province ought to be annexed to the Presidency of Bombay; that the troops and all the establishments, both civil and military, should be furnished by, and committed to the charge of the Governor in Council of that presidency; that, so long as Major-General Sir Charles Napier continues to exercise the civil and military duties of the government and the command of the forces in Scinde, it will not be advisable to make any change in a country so recently subdued. Great advantage has attended the union of the two appointments of governor and commander of the forces in Scinde. A warlike military people are more likely to be disposed to obey the chief who conquered them, than any other public officer who could be selected by the Government. This opinion is limited to a state of affairs such as that which has existed in Scinde since I arrived in India. state of the Punjaub, during the years 1844 and 1845, could not with advantage have admitted of the annexation of Scinde to the presidency of Bombay. The Government of India could not have selected during the last three years a more efficient officer than Major-General Sir Charles Napier for the duties he so ably performs in Scinde. On public grounds, therefore, there has been no occasion on which I could, with benefit to your hon. company's service, have recommended any better plan for the administration of Seinde than the present.

The

With respect the opinion given by his hon. friend (Mr. Hume) as to the expediency of restoring the ameers, the old governors of Scinde, he must say, from all the investigations he had made into the subject, that he was obliged to come to a contrary conclusion. Some persons entertained the idea that it was better to be contented with our former boundary than to retain this extended territory. This might be very well if we had not such a place as Beloochistan on our left, and other wild tribes running up to the territory of Affghanistan. But his hon. friend should recol. lect that we had now, in point of fact, possession of the Punjaub, and he doubted whether, having that great plain in our possession, we should allow any body to hold Scinde but ourselves, or at least parties on whom we could depend. At the same time, this was a subject fairly open to discussion, though he must still express his own belief that till the annexation of Scinde to the presidency of Bombay took place, any change of government was wholly unnecessary. On the return home of Sir C. Napier, the province of Scinde would be annexed to the government of Bombay. (Hear.)

Sir R. H. INGLIS thought we ought not to forget those princes who had been placed by our arms under our power.

Mr. HUME said that if the present system was bad, the sooner it was changed the better.

Sir J. HOBHOUSE had not said the present government was objectionable. He only said it was a right thing that the country should be annexed to the presidency of Bombay.

Sir D. L. EVANS hoped the right hon. gentleman would not alter the present state of things in Scinde, unless the whole of our policy was altered in the Punjaub.

his just promotion in the Indian army, and of the loss of the pay attached to his rightful rank, and the answers thereto, as well as of any order or orders issued by the Commander-in-Chief or the Governor-General of India, in the month of May, 1824, for the division of the said 14th regiment, and the regulation of the promotion to take place in such division."

Sir J. HOBHOUSE said, he had not the slightest objection to the papers being produced, and if, upon considering them, the House of Commons or the Court of Directors should think that the former decisions might be reversed, and the claim of this lady should be considered valid, of course he should be happy to entertain her claim. At the same time, the injury of Colonel Munn had been inflicted by an accident, owing to a particular arrangement affecting certain regiments, and a vacancy having occurred at that particular moment, of which that gentleman could not avail himself. The motion was then agreed to.

Captain Cogan and the ex-Rajah of Sattara.-Mr HUME moved for "copies of all correspondence during 1838 and 1839, between the Government of Bombay and Captain Cogan, relative to the affairs of the Rajah of Sattara, together with copies of any communications, minutes, or opinions of the Government of Bombay relating thereto;" and made some observation on the circumstances connected with that part of the Sattara busi

ness.

He

Sir J. HOBHOUSE, in reply, said that what he stated on the occasion to which his hon. friend had alluded was, that this gentleman being employed on a mission by his noble friend (Lord Palmerston) to obtain the signature of the Imaum of Muscat to a treaty of commerce, he (Capt. Cogan) on his return from Muscat to Bombay entered into a communication with the partisans and agents of the Rajah of Sattara. believed when these papers were produced his assertion would be most completely borne out. Indeed, he always understood that Capt. Cogan did not deny the fact. He thought his hon. friend was mistaken in supposing that Captain Cogan was not at the time referred employed on a mission. Most certainly, according to his (Sir J. Hobhouse's) understanding, it was the fact that he was so employed. He was willing to give his hon. friend the papers, with the addition of a copy of all communications made to and with the Government of Bombay relative to the conduct of Capt. Cogan, because it was in those communications his hon. friend would see the grounds on which he (Sir J. Hobhouse) made his statement. It should be recollected that he had some provocation for making the statement complained of, finding as he did that charges were made against him, founded upon a private conversation which he had held with Capt. Cogan. In self-defence he stated what he then and now thought to be true in respect to that gentleman.

Mr. WAKLEY read a long letter from Capt. Cogan, for which, however, we have not room; in which the writer denied the charges of receiving money from the rajah, and affirmed that he had expended vast sums of his own money in the service of that prince.

Lord PALMERSTON would briefly state how the matter really was. The instructions given to Captain Cogan by her Majesty's government were dated September 28th, 1838, and stated that her Majesty's government had decided upon entering into a convention to promote a commercial intercourse between this country and the Imaum of Muscat, and that the government had intrusted to him (Captain Cogan) the negotiation of an arrangement with the Imaum for that purpose; Captain Cogan was accordingly vested with full powers to act as her Majesty's Plenipotentiary (" hear, hear," from Sir J. Hobhouse); and he was authorized to entreat and desire the acceptance of the treaty by the Imaum. Captain Cogan was informed that the president of the Board of Control had instructed the authorities at Bombay to afford him every facility for the execution of his mission. An order for 3001. was issued on account of his expenses, and he was desired to render an account of his expenses to the government. This was the usual course with regard to all persons employed on special missions by the government. No salaries were ever given, but all their expenses were paid.

On the motion of Mr. HUME, copies or extracts were also ordered of the following letters:-of a letter from Captain Cogan to Sir John Hobhouse, dated January, 1840, with copies of the papers accompanying the said letter; also a copy of the reply to the said letter;-of a letter from Captain Cogan to Mr. William Cabell, secretary to the Board of Commissioners for the Affairs of India, dated the 4th day of February, 1840, together with the reply thereto;-of a letter from Lord Palmerston to Captain Cogan, dated the 28th day of September, 1838 ;of a letter from Captain Cogan to Lord Palmerston, dated together with an accompanying copy of a communication from the Imaum of Muscat, empowering Captain Cogan to act as the

political agent of his Highness in England;-of Lord Palmerston's reply thereto;-of a letter from Captain Cogan to Mr. John Backhouse, Under-Secretary of State in the Foreign Department, dated the 15th day of January, 1840;-and of a letter from Lord Palmerston to Captain Cogan, dated the 28th day of March, 1840.

Trignometrical Survey.-Mr. HUME moved for certain returns connected with the grand trigonometrical survey of India, and of the grand triangulation thereof; also "reports of the surveys of India, and statements to illustrate the nature of the different great divisions and the smaller districts or departments into which India, within the line of the Indus, is divided, for political, civil, revenue, judicial, and military purposes, exhibiting the areas, population, and nature of productions thereof; and showing the relation and the authority under which they stand to the East-India Company, whether immediately subordinate to and under the direct rule of, or are tributary, protected, subsidiary, or independent." Ordered

- The Bible at Madras. - In answer to some questions from Sir R. INGLIS, Sir JOHN HOBHOUSE stated that a regulation authorizing the introduction of the Bible as a class book in native schools had been issued by the Governor at Madras, but that the Court of Directors had considered it to be a new step, the effect of which might be to alarm the natives.

LEGAL PROCEEDINGS.

INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT.

JULY 2.-In re Thomas Woodham Stevens.-Mr. Commissioner Phillips gave judgment, and said:-" This is a case which occupied a considerable time, and I am not at all clear that I have come to a right conclusion, but at the same time I have the satisfaction of thinking that if I err, having taken all possible trouble to inform my mind, such error is on the side of humanity. The insolvent was opposed by Mr. Cooke, for several Chinese merchants, and it is unquestionably of the utmost importance that with them, as with all other portions of the globe, but particularly with them in the present state of affairs, the good faith of our merchants should be kept up. The insolvent had been opposed upon the ground of contracting a large debt without, as Mr. Cooke had stated, any intention of ever discharging it. That of course nieans the debt had been contracted fraudulently, as the other words are not mentioned in the Act of Parliament. Now I do not think, taking all the circumstances together, that I can come so unerringly as I could wish to that conclusion; I do not think that the transaction evinces such a clear indication of fraud, although there is great deal of suspicion that the debt was contracted without any intention of payment, that is, fraudulently. In the course of the discussion another matter turned up, which I think even more than suspicious. The insolvent received from the sale of the teas £2,000 or £3,000, or perhaps a larger sum. That money was unquestionably the property of the creditors, whose property had been sold for the purpose of raising it. It was ingeniously argued by the insolvent's counsel, although he himself did not suggest it, that he (the insolvent) imagined that twelve months was to be allowed for the completion of the contract, and that therefore he had a right to retain the money until that time had expired. That might be so. It is just possible. Feeling I cannot conscientiously exclude this possibility, it hardly amounts to a probability,-I shall give the insolvent the benefit of the doubt. There is, however, no doubt of this,-that the money ought ultimately to have been handed to the creditors. That the insolvent has not done, and in answer to questions as to what had become of it, he said, unblushingly enough, that it had been expended in the support of himself and family. I have, indeed, noticed that the expenditure for himself and his family was very considerable. Under these circumstances, considering the justice due to creditors, it is impossible for me to pronounce an immediate discharge. I fear I am acting too leniently in applying the 76th section; but no one can doubt, who has heard this case, that, marked with suspicion and dishonesty as it is, it is my bounden duty to pronounce a remand for the full term of that section; and therefore I declare that the insolvent shall be enti tled to his discharge at the expiration of six months from the date of his vesting order, according to the 76th section of the Act of Parliament."

This case excited considerable interest, from the fact that it was the first occasion in which opposition was offered on behalf of Chinese Hong-merchants. The insolvent was an American.

MISCELLANEOUS.

THE LATE CHIEF JUSTICE OF BOMBAY.-The Times, in a notice of this gentleman, stated a few days since (July 22), that he was born in 1780, and educated in the University of Edinburgh.

In the year 1802, he was called to the bar. For many years he went the Home Circuit, and had considerable parliamentary business. He was also a Queen's counsel. The deceased gentleman was brother of General Sir George, the Chief Baron (Sir Frederick), and Mr. J. H. Pollock.

THE ELECTIONS.-J. Masterman, Esq., has been returned for the city of London; Sir James Weir Hogg, Bart., without opposition, for Honiton; R. D. Mangles, Esq., for Guilford; W. H. C. Plowden, Esq., at the head of the poll for Newport (I. W.); and M. T. Smith, Esq., unopposed, for Wycombe; Col. Sykes has started, with every prospect of success, for Aberdeen; General Caulfeild has been beaten at Abingdon by a majority of two, but intends to petition against the return of his opponent, Sir Frederick Thesiger. The three first named gentlemen sat in the last parliament.

EXPECTED APPOINTMENTS.-It is expected that the Earl of DALHOUSIE will be appointed to the office of Governor-General of India, in place of Lord HARDINGE, who is desirous of retiring; and that Sir HENRY POTTINGER will succeed the Marquis of TWEETALE as Governor of Madras. Sir HARRY SMITH IS spoken of as the probable successor of Sir HENRY POTTINGER at the Cape.

SIR GEORGE POLLOCK.-This gallant officer has been recently elected a member of the Merchant Tailors' Company. He has also been chosen an honorary member of the Oriental and Senior United Service Clubs.

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INDIA IN THE OLDEN TIME.-Many acts of oppression and cruelty were no doubt perpetrated that were not formally recorded. By the examples that could not well be hushed up, we may judge of others that were. They have no martial law at Fort St. George (says Hamilton) so they cannot inflict the pains of death any other ways than by whipping or starving, only for piracy they can hang, and some of them have been so fond of that privilege that Mr. Yale hanged his groom (Cross) for riding two or three day's journey off to take the air," for desertion we presume. "One of a later date, the orthodox Mr. Collet, hanged a youth, who was an apprentice of an officer on board a ship, and his master gone a pirating"-the upshot was that though the poor youth gave information and helped in taking the piratesthat he was hanged. "Gone a pirating," Capt. Hamilton uses the term off band, as if it were a common vocation, just as we might now a days say, that a man had gone a tiger shooting, or a hog hunting. Many went a pirating-and any one might get another into trouble, especially if he were a sea-faring man, by threatening to accuse him of piracy. In 1696-the crews of two Company's ships mutinied (not perhaps without cogent cause at first) then murdered their officers, and having thus as it were taken out their degree, at once set up as professed pirates. One Baily, a recruit of Fort St. George, in some discontent deserted the Company's service, entered into the Nawab's, but falling into an ambush, was taken by our men and brought back to Fort St. George, where, says Capt. Hamiltonwho was evidently a worthy and humane man, though failing from association into such a callousness of expression-" he was deservedly whipped out of the world, and there I leave him." Our author also records-" if any private trader is injured by the tricks of a governor, and can find no redress, if the injured person is so bold as to talk of lex talionis, he is infallibly declared a pirate.” Calcutta Review.

TRICKS OF TRADE AND TURMOIL. Occasionally some crookedness, or tyranny, in regard to trading operations oozes out, which it is not pleasant to suppose, was perhaps too much the rule at a convenient season. The Pit diamond, according to Hamilton, was not quite fairly got possession of, and means were had recourse to, to make trade run gradually slow, so as to cheapen articles-"the traders meeting with disappointments, and sometimes with oppressions, and sometimes the liberty of buying and selling is denied them -and Hamilton further complains that, when the Governor's servants bid for goods at a public sale, some who had a mind to bid more, durst not. As a relief to this picture, instances of chivalrous bravery, legitimately exerted in self-defence, might be referred to, as the defence of the castle of Surat by Sir G. Oxinden and the party under him, and of the bold stand, made by Mr. Horden in defence of his factory at Madras, when the Nawab, all of a sudden, and without any intimation whatever, came down with a hundred horse and some foot. He had got into the factory with twenty or thirty of his attendants, when"a resolute bold young gentleman, a factor in the Company's service, called Mr. Richard Horden, came running down stairs, with his fusee in his hand, and bayonet screwed on its muzzle, and presenting it to the Nawab's breast, told him in the Gentow language (which he was master of) that the Nawab was welcome, but if any of his attendants offered the least incivility his life should answer for it. The Nawab was surprisingly

astonished at the resolution and bravery of the young gentleman, and sat down to consider a little, Mr. Horden keeping the muzzle of his piece still at his breast, and one of the Nawab's servants all the time standing behind Mr. Horden, with a dagger's point close to his back, so they had a conference half an hour long, in these above-mentioned postures, and then the Nawab thought fit to be gone again, full of wonder and admiration at so daring a courage."-Ibid.

LIFE IN CALCUTTA IN 1723.-Referring to Calcutta, about 1723, Hamilton praises the Governor's house in the fort, as the best and most regular piece of architecture he ever saw in India. There were many convenient lodgings for factors and writers within the fort, and some storehouses for the Company's goods, and magazines for ammunition. He describes most of the inhabitants that made any figure, as having the same advantages; and all sorts of provisions, both wild and tame, being plentiful, good, and cheap -making the country very agreeable. "Most gentlemen and ladies (there were ladies by this time!) in Bengal live both splendidly and pleasantly, the forenoon being dedicated to business, and after dinner to rest, and in the evening to recreate themselves in chairs or palankins in the fields, or to gardens, or by water in their budgerows, and on the river sometimes; there is the diversion of fishing or fowling, or both, and before night they make friendly visits to one another, where pride or contention do not spoil society, which too often they do, among the ladies, as discord and faction do among the men." Then comes a little bitch, very characteristic of the times though-" and although the conscript fathers of the colony disagree in many points among themselves, yet they all agree in oppressing strangers who are consigned to them, not suffering them to buy or sell their goods at the most advantageous markets, but of the Governor and his Council, who fix their own prices, high or low, as seemeth best to their wisdom and discretion; and it is a crime hardly pardonable for a private merchant to go to Hughly to inform himself of the current prices of goods, although the liberty of buying and selling is entirely taken from him before." In Calcutta, he states "all religions are freely tolerated but the Presbyterian, and that they browbeat." Here we remark the great improvement that a long peace and the lapse of some thirty years had brought about. Calcutta rose daily more and more into consideration. Three years afterwards a mayor's court was established. In 1738, luxury, or what was then deemed luxury, became very prominent at the settlement. Its greatest climax was the president riding in a coach and six, and sitting down to dinner with a fiddle or two, and a French horn and clarionet or so, which was magnified into a band, and the Court of Directors were very irate at such prodigious doings, shrewdly suspecting that the expense of all this music and coaching came out of their own pockets. It is probable that the idea was borrowed from the pump-room at Bath, where Beau Nash at the time was so absolute a monarch, and that with a fond reference to auld lang syne, the magnates of Calcutta were trying to do a little in the Bath line also, the coach and six being one of king Nash's eccentricities.—Ibid. THE 2ND (QUEEN'S ROYAL). The following historical sketch of this regiment may not be uninteresting to some of our readers, from the active part it took in the Indian war under Lord Keane. The regiment was raised in 1661, for the purpose of providing a garrison for Tangier. The command was then conferred on Henry, second Earl of Peterborough, whose commission as colonel bears date the 30th of September, 1661. Charles II. having soon after his restoration disbanded the army of the Commonwealth, the ranks of Lord Peterborough's regiment were speedily completed with disciplined soldiers. It is reported to have assembled on Putneyheath, on the 14th of October, 1661, and to have numbered 1,000 men. The regiment remained out until 1684, under the following successive colonels: Lieutenant-general Andrew Rutherford, Earl of Teviot, 1663; Colonel (afterwards General) Henry Norwood, 1664; John, Earl of Middleton, 1668; During this colonelcy the Queen's had the honour of numbering amongst its volunteers John Churchill, Duke of Marlborough, William O'Brien, Earl of Inchiquin, 1675; Colonel Sir Palmes Fairborne, 1680; Lieutenant-colonel Sackville, 1681; and Colonel Piercy Kirke, 1682. In 1685 the regiment was again called into active service by the rebellion headed by the Duke of Monmouth. On this occesion, the Queen's regiment formed part of the royal force at the battle of Sedgmoor. In 1689 the regiment went to Ireland, and served with distincnion in the army of King William, at the battle of the Boyne, on the 1st of July, 1690. It was also employed in the siege of Limerick, in the relief of Birr, and in December drove a division of the enemy out of Lanesborough. It was afterwards employed at the siege of Athlone, which was carried by storm on the 30th of June, 1691, on which occasion this regi

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ment distinguished itself by its unparalleled bravery. war in Ireland being ended King William withdrew this regiment to reinforce his army in Flanders, and on the death of General Kirke, the colonelcy was conferred upon Colonel William Selwyn, of the Coldstreams, 1691. In the spring of 1692, the preparations making by Louis XIV. of France, and the late King James II. for the invasion of England, caused King William to send back some of the regiments which had been sent from Ireland to join the army in the Low Countries; amongst others, the Queen's returned, and were encamped at Portsmouth, but returned after the victory of La Hogue to make a descent on the coast of France under the Duke of Leinster, but which was ultimately postponed and abandoned, and the troops proceeded to Flanders, where this regiment distinguished itself at the battle of Landen (1693), and the siege of Namur (1695). In 1696 it again returned to England to resist the threatened invasion by the French army assembled near Calais. In 1697 it proceeded to the Netherlands, and joined the army encamped before Brussels on the 14th of July; on the 16th was reviewed by his Majesty; and returned to England in the same year. In 1702, on the declaration of war with France and Spain, the Queen's formed part of the forces under the Duke of Ormond, which landed at Vigo. In November of the same year the regiment again returned to England, and was stationed at Portsmouth, and Sir Henry Bellasis having been dismissed the service by court-martial from some alleged disgraceful acts connected with the plunder of Port. St. Mary and Vigo, the command of the 2nd was conferred upon Lieut. Gen. David Colyear, Earl of Portmore, whose commission was dated 27th of February, 1703, in the summer of which year the regiment again went to the Netherlands. It subsequently distinguished itself in action at the defence of Tongres, siege of Valentia de Alcantara, Albuquerque, Badajos, Alcantara, Cuidad Rodrigo, battle of Almanza, expedition to Canada, in the fleet as marines under Earl Howe, on theglorious 1st of June," 1794, at the Helder, at the battle of Egmont-op-Zee, at Alkmaar, battle of Alexandria, battle of Vimiera, battle of Corunna, expedition to Walcheren, battle of Salamanca, Vittoria, in the 'yrenees, at the battle on the Nivelle. Toulouse, and lastly in India under Lord Keane and Sir Charles Napier, where they participated in the achievements of the army of the Indus, and took an active and prominent part in the capture of Ghuznee and Cabul, which words are emblazoned on their colours. In the latter glorious events the regiment was commanded by its present commanding Colonel (Carruthers), then major. The regiment has recently had a new set of colours presented to it.

THE SHIF APOLLINE" has been engaged for the freight of stores to Madras.

SHIPPING. ARRIVALS.

JULY 22. Walmer Castle, Thorne, New South Wales.-24. Punjaub, Palmer, Bengal; Argaum, Tait, Bengal.-26. H.M.S. Iris, Mundy, Penang and Cape.-28. William Jardine, Small, Hong Kong; Eweretta, Darley, and Henrietta, Sargeant, New South Wales; John Wood, Rose, Mauritius; Gurli, Lothman, Samarang. -29. Louisa Baillie, Roxby, Mauritius; Macedon, Edwards, Madras and Jamaica.-30. Johanna, Falconer, Algoa Bay.-31. Independence, Schacht, Akyab; Britannia, Hardie, Ceylon.- AUG. 2. Lady Sale, Brewer, Singapore; Paragon, Ledger, Ceylon; Lady Amherst, Ablett, Hong Kong; Chance, Cood, Bombay; Apprentice, Johnson, Cape; Isle of Wight, Whitbred, Mauritius Inchinnan, Blair, Shanghae; Palmyra, Campbell, Bombay.

Passengers expected at Southampton, per steamer, from Alexandria:-Capt. G. de Sausmarez, Lieut. R. Moorcroft, Mr. W. Plowden, Mr. R. L. Green, Capt. Wilmot, Mr. Jarvie, Capt. G. G. Malet, 3 children, and Eur. female servant; Mr. T. Smart, Mr. J. Smart, Mr. T. Grote, Mr. J. Jarvie, Mr. A. A. Pollock, Mr. A. Anderson, Lieut. J. Shelley, Lieut. A. Stephens, Lieut. W. J. De Wilton, Ens. T. D. Gray, Rev. J. Lacken.

DEPARTURES.

From the Downs.-JULY 21. Thomas Hughes, Huddart, Port Philip. 22. Wellington, Crosby, Hobart Town.-23. William Wilson, Shaw, and Johnstone, Harrison, New South Wales; Elizabeth Buckham, Bewley, Launceston; Kestrel, Brenmer, Madras; Tallentire, White, Ceylon; Ralph Bernal, McLaren, New Zealand; Isabella Blyth, Baylis, Calcutta.-24. Cotfield, Cargey (from Shields), Calcutta ; Mary Ellen, Inglis (from Amsterdam), Mauritius; Achilles, Pritchard (from Hartlepool), Cape; Maitland, Gray, and Vixen, Lowe, Port Philip; Bengal Merchant, Lowen, Bombay.26. Nestor, Wright, Calcutta; Emerald Isle, Palmer, Cape and Maoras.-27. Bengal, Guthrie (from Shields), Calcutta; Janet, Maitland, Batavia.-28. Despatch, Elsdon, Swan River; Candahar, Goss, Madras.-17. Victoria, Williamson, New Zealand; Orutor. -29.-Robert Lindsay, Adams (from Hartlepool), Suez.-30. Grace Darling, Owen, Singapore and Hong Kong.-31. Arachne, Harris, Hobart Town.