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      asocauwayincline up the Koonoor valley , leaving * be Madras line either at the Soonianoor or at the j ^ oimbatore station , and taring its terminus either ; aat » Seeroomogang or at Metapolliem . . Sheave , for the Neilgherries has been given to j BasvJkl . j \ Farquhar , Madras Civil Service , and to ^ Captain W . J . Gooke , 8 th Madras Njatiye Infantry . -Sir Charles Trevelyan has appointed a native ^ officer aide-de-cainp—a measure which has caused great satisfaction . i Several revelations have lately taken place of -ike Government—or rather no Government- —of

      Sadia , which is going on , for want of an adequate amnibei- of English magistrates , justices of peace ; . and police . The Engineers' Journal states that a " JE&ahomedan zemindar lately threatened a Goverriameaxk . engineer , who was engaged on a new road , 4 piat if he made it gp through his property he ¦ would be attacked by lattials , or clubmen . On the ^ eng ineer applying for protection to the Gpvernranent magistrate of Beerbherm he was told that ¦ 4 3 ie law could do nothing for his protection , and afcatlf he protected himself , and took the law into laspwn hands he might be indicted for murder in r i 3 aeSupreme Court : A native chuprassee , having

      "iieen appointed gatekeeper on a level crossing of the iEast Indian Railway , a few miles from Allahabad , sjation , and under the noses of the governors of the -aaerth-west provinces , this respectable individual , -mth the native propensity for extortion , bethought "l ^ nself of establishing a toll-bar on his own account . -Carters travelling on the Grand Trunk Road of India 3 iad to pay for permission to pass the crossing , and were , of course , informed that the toll was levied 3 iy order of Government . It may be thought by . Jjupme readers that the natives would have got j * edress from purnative officers , but they were snuch more likely to share the spoil and harass afche complainant . The discovery was at length ~ 3 DQ&de by an English gentleman of Allahabad , who iiiappened to drive out on the Cawnpore road , and

      ifonnd he : could not get along , as there was a num-^ bier- of carts detained , pending an altercation Jbfetween the self-constituted toll collector and the garters . He qaught the man in the act , seized : Jothemoney in his hand ; which he had just stolen , ¦ and reported him to the railway authorities , who scent him before the magistrate . In another case -acme of these native officials , having , been employed 3 a the disarming of Allahabad , is said to have rflogged persons who really had no arms , with a - * iew to obtain bribes . The dealers and peaceable aclasses are harassed , and numbers of shops shut , wftule their ownei's are compelled to attend the police stations on the plea of possessing arms , while sthe disaffected and really turbulent escape . In the extension . of clubs at Calcutta , the . Armenians are about to provide , themselves with a aclub , and the projectors have already paid the ^ entrance fee of 251 . each .

      A new weekly paper is advertised at Madras , to Hbe called the Indian Statesman , and to be conducted ihy the former editor of the Athenaeum . '

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      LATEST INDIAN INTELLIGENCE . ' 3 Jy the arrival of the . Calcutta mail we have received -papers from Calcutta to the 8 th of April . The political intelligence by this arrival is entirely devoid of interest . The Calcutta papers say that dtoance had been the leading consideration in . JEndia . , The trial of the Nawab of Furrackabad , pne of the Vajnurderpus crew who , during their bad pre-eminence , ^ revelled in the tortures they inflicted on our helpless , jcountrymen and women , has ended in his condemna--tion to death , but the execution of this sentence had l > een deferred for reference to the Central Goy eminent . ' Some anxiety is felt aa to the confirmation of 3 the sentence .

      loans by which we are to tide over tne years difficulty , there will remain the reduction of expenditure to income . The orders for this , endmust come from England , for the mass of private ., interests and inveterate prejudices render large reductions here impossible . " Prom Madras we learn that Sir Charles Trevel yan has partially suspended some appointments made by his predecessor , liprd Harris ,. on the ground of the unfitness of those selected to fill them ; it is his intention to adhere to the competitive examination system for entrance into the public service ; and he has taken steps to reduce the voluminous correspondence with which the Government is deluged .

      at Esangurgh ; and on both occasions they xror * over native troops , who instead of opposing him ranged themselves under his banners . Setting aside his skirmishes , he encountered in successivf engagements more than a dozen of our best Britislv general officers and brigadiers . His first vanquisher was Greathead , and he was succeeded bv Rn «> Napier , Michel , Roberts , Smith , Parke , De SaU 7 Showers , Benson , Somerset , Homer , and Rich whcT worsted the pindaree leader wherever they en countered him . His success lay in the celerity of his marches , his knowledge of the country , and the freebooting manner he adopted to obtain supplies He carried along with him neither baggage nor commissariat , compelling the countries through which he passed to provide him with everything that his army required . . . ¦ ' »•

      The Bombay mail of April 26 th has arrived , and brings particulars of the execution of Tantia Topee , whose capture only preceded his trial and . death by a few days . On the 15 th . ult ., he was brought to court-martial . The charges upon which he was arraigned were confined to rebellion and opposing the British Government by force of arms . The court did not long deliberate .. ; and it soon became known that be was to perish on the scaffold . On the evening of the 18 ult . he was conveyed to the place of execution , guarded by a company of the 3 rd Bengal Infantry ( Europeans ) . After a delay of about twenty minutes , the charges , finding , and sentence were read in English ; a native translation

      having been previously read to the prisoner . When requested to mount the p latform , he did so without assistance , evincing ' neither hesitation nor apprehension . He died without a struggle , and had it not been for , his cruelties and his crimes * his stoicism mig ht have been admired . Tantia is described as a stout , well-made man of about fifty , five feet six in height , with a large head , eyes sunken beneath projecting cheekbones , and high arched brows . Oude continues tranquil . The total number of arms up to April 2 exceeds a million . There have already been surrendered 473 cannons , 128 , 844 other fire-arms , 402 , 839 swords , and 567 , 724 arms of other kinds .

      The accounts from Nepaul describe the condition of the rebels under Bala Rao and the Nanaas being most deplorable . Their followers , as Avell as those of the Begum ( who is not with them ) are starving , and all supplies are cut off from them . Bengal continues to enjoy tliejnpst perfect tranquility . The celebrated mandarin , Yeh , died in Calcutta , on the evening of the 9 th instant . He had been ailing , and became subject to a sudden collapse , from which he rallied for a time , but subsequently succumbed . TANTIA TOPEE ' S CAREER .

      We take the following from the letter of the Daily IVews correspondent :. Tantia Topee was a Brahmin of the Dekkan , having been born in the zillab of Ahinednuggur . He attached himself at an early age to the court of the late Peishwa , Bajee Rao , and was from his boyhood the constant companion of Dhuardoo Punt , of Bidhoor , commonly called the Nana Sahib . He was well skilled in military tactics , and had made the old predatory system . of Mahratta warfare his study . From the hour of his capture , to that of his death he betrayed no symptoms of either trepidation or despondency * Revolting as were his crimes , he attempted neither palliation nor extenuation . He gave no mercy , and he sued for none ;

      he yielded up his life without a murmur or a struggle , betraying as little symptoms of nature or humanity on the scaffold at Sepree , as he had done by the' well at Cawnpore . He denied having taken any parb in the massacre ; but it is well known that he commanded on the occasion one of the divisions of the Nana Sahib's army ., His exploits were more numerous and dashing than those of any of the other rebel leaders . He led the Gwalior Contingent in person when Wyndham ' s camp was burnt in November , 1857 . Sustaining , however , a severe repulse at the hands of Sir Colin Campbell , and losing sixteen of his guns , he crossed the Jumna , and fell back upon Calpee . But here he did not remain long . Intelligence of the victoripus entry of Sir . Hugh Rose into Central India , the relief pf Saugor , the fall of Garrakotn , and the perilous

      position of the Ranee of Jhaneie , induced him to evacuate Calpee , and inarch southward . On the 1 st April , 1868 , be first crossed swords with Sir H , Rose on the banks of the Betwa , and his troops wore driven in disorder , by only a handful of the Central India Field Force , from under the very battlements of the beleaguered oity . He also commanded at Agra , and sustained a severe repulse at the hands of Brigadier-Goneral Greathead . In the course of twelve months he fought twenty pitched battles , viz . : —The Betwa , Koonch , engagements before Calpeo , Gwalior , Kotoko-Serai ' , Sangnneor , Budwarra , Kotarrci , Inoor Gowlie , Sindwa , Kurrai , Raj poor , Qodoypoor , Portamburgh , Dhoosa , Burraohe , Zeerapoor , Koorhana , and Serongo . In every one of those engagements he was defeated , with the loss of guns Innumerable and hundreds of his followers . During the whole period he had . only two successes— -one at Gwalior and pne

      ¦*' Rebellion , " says the Times correspondent , "is ' npt aapw the difficulty Government has to face , but reorganisation . Honey sufficient to pay the interest von the loans , though not to equalise present expenditure and income , will speedily be obtained . U ? he tariff , if the House of Commons does not upset it , ¦ will yield an extra million . A succession duty is j nearly ready , to be extended to all personal property , •<* jul all neal property not protected by the perpetual settlement . A tax on tobacco is also to be imposed , amd the two together should produce a second million ZWfte succession duty , unless exorbitant , will npt be * wa > o » ular . A third impost , in the shape of a , , . imarxiago licence fee , will , I believe , be impesed . •^ TWb itaas , levied by the Mussulmans , is in accord with , the native ideas , and weuld * be inappreciable in * ttw joftldat of all the expense on feasts , torches , montohes , tinsel , and gilt clothe , usually equal to two ^ lyewwf income . The money being provided for the

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      The Queen ' s State Ball , which was to Lave taken place on Tuesday , the 7 th June , has been postponed until the 8 th . General Sir W . F . Williams , KC . B ., who is about to retire from the command of Woolwich garrison , was present on Friday at a grand entertain - ment in the Roj-al Artillery mess-room , which was concluded by a ball . . The Duke of Chartres is at Casale in i&eueraL Cialdini's division . On the evening of the 9 th the young prince made a reconnaissance , and sent in his report . The Due d'Aumale has seat his iieph 0 w two English horses . .

      The Duke de Padotie is startling the worlchvitli zeal . He has expressed his displeasure towards the editor of a very small Paris paper , for . having said in one of its tiny columns that the Empress was about to put a girdle of crinoline round Paris by carry ing it out to the fortifications . A correspondent of the Independance . Beige states that extraordinary precautions have been taken in the French camp to prevent indiscreet publicity . All letters from the army are to be deposited " unsealed in the military post-office .

      Sir Andrew Smitb , late Director of the Army Medical Department , not forgetful of the days passed by liiin when a student in the University of Edinburgh , has just presented to its Natural History Museum his magnificent collection of reptilia . It embraces nearly 2 , 000 specimens . " . ' ¦ The Gaite has made a hit with a new piece entitled " Menages Parisiens , " one of those dramas composed of a vicious husband , a suffering 'wife , and a dashing courtesan . In this new example of the schop ] , the two ladies are brought into each other ' s presence in every one of the seven acts of which the play consists . fundin

      The secretary of the Neapolitan exile , Liverpool , laid before the committee on Saturday , the total amount of subscriptions , 35 Ql . Is . 6 d . At Stalybridge , on Monday , Thomas Clavk , journeyman to Robert Iline , chimney sweeper , was fined 51 ., or six weeks' imprisonment , for allowing a boy to ascend a chimney to sweep it . The General Conference of the States of the German Zollverein is appointed to take place on the 1 st of June . The chief object of the meeting is to fix the tariffs for three years , from 18 G 0 to Winclusive . It is expected that the conference will be held at Harzburg . _ :.... „«___ has lcftfive

      The celebrated Count Crcsar Balbo sons , all of whom are enrolled beneath theiPiedmonteee banners . One of them , s ays the 4 nude la Religion , the Count Casinier Balbo , was unyj severely wounded in the first skirmish with tuo Austrians . , . Sir Jamsetjeo Jejcebhoy Oied on the 14 th ot April , at the age of 76 . He was created » tol 0 JgJ by the British Government a few yoars boo c . JJ donations to public objects during his succojsiul mercantilp career amounted to abdut 300 ^ 000 * , and he . has bequoathod a largo fortune to l 119 family . * „ t ... According to private advices from Agyi ' H « j atttS Z been iade to assassinate the 1 ud ^ aud his Hfehness had been living on board his 3 ft ° » w

      Faid Gehaad , in conseauenco . The eoamen and shipwrights of ^ under and aie demanding an advance of wages . T ^ M their demands , the call for both classes ft »¦ . tjg Royal Navy and dockyards having taken away a » surplus labour . .. ni The Count do Oavpur is opllooting oy djnoo oi the aoprodatlens pf the Austrians in fJ » J «» o ; ' ' ^ J purposes , it is saia , to make them tho objoo « ¦ » oiroulrtr which shall protest in the aco of f » M against aots which transgress the ordinary umiw ^ the rights of war .

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      PACTS AND SCRAPS . ¦ . : ? . . '

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    • Leader (1850-1860), May 21, 1859, page 642, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2295/page/10/