stating, that they respectfully begged to adhere to it.
On this Sir Charles Napier returned the sentence with
the following note subjoined:—

                                          "Head Quarters, 1st July, 1850.
              "I am sorry that the court feIt itself called upon to
adhere to a sentence which I have no power to commute, and
cannot, in the extraordinary circumstances of the case, execute!
I have, therefore, no alternative but to pardon the prisoner, not
excused by his drunkenness, but in facts stated in my remarks
to the court on its proceedings being revised. I assure the court
that great severity, without a due consideration being given to
circimstances, is not justice, nor conducive to discipline.
The prisoner is to return to his troop.
    "(Signed)                            C.L.NAPIER,
                        "General, Commander-in-Chlef, East Indies."

These remarks seem to have caused the cup of Colonel
King's bitterness to overflow; for their promulgation
was immediately followed by his act of suicide.

The Affreedees have again closed the pass to Kohat,
and set-m inclined to be as troublesome as ever. A man
of the Horse Artillery has been shot by one of them
close to his quarter guard.

The Sikh Prisoners at Allahabad keep the authorities
there in a state of disquiet. They have been detected
in a communication with the ex-Ranee (now in Nepaul).
On the 26th of June a Cawnpore Brahmin, named
Seetaram, was found inside the quarters inhabited by
the prisoners, ten in number, notwithstanding all the
precautions and vigilance used to prevent every species
of intercourse. Nothing was found on the man, though
he acknowledged being in Sikh pay. The next day a
court of inquiry was assembled, and sufficient was elicited
to prove that a deep-laid plot had been organised.
Several letters were found addressed to the friends of
the prisoners, and one document containing the names
of the different officers in command of corps and the
stations where their regiments were located. Information
was likewise obtained of two Sikhs, who were concealed
in a Ghossain's house in the city, having in
their possession a sum of 20,000 rupees, dedicated to purposes
of bribery. Upon the person of one of the prisoners
a file was found. The Jemedar and sentries in
charge of the guard have been placed in arrest, on a
suspicion of collusion.

A tragical event has occurred on board the Hon.
Company's cargo boat Kaleegunga, in tow of the steamer
Burhampooter, at Patna. She left Allahabad with
thirty-nine Sikh convicts with a very weak guard. The
arms of the guard were piled between them and the
convicts; when at Patna, the latter having seized the
fire arms, which were loaded, rose upon the guard, and
a desperate conflict ensued. Two of the guards and two
of the convicts were killed, and the convicts succeeded
in running the boat ashore and escaping. It appeared
that the affair took place in the day time, which renders
it still more extraordinary.

Another Explosion of an Ordnance Flotilla occurred
on the Ganges, near Chuprah, on the 10th of July. The
fleet consisted of about thirty boats, of which upwards
of half were loaded with gunpowder. Twelve boats are
lost—seven, with 1800 barrels of powder on board,
exploded, and five sunk. The crews discovered the
fire in time, and escaped. Suspicion attaches to the
native boatmen, from the circumstances of their having
received their pay in advance at Dinapore, and having
all escaped injury. A committee of inquiry has been
instituted to investigate the matter.

The Bengal papers are filled with disgraceful exposés
of the extent to which gambling is carried on amongst
the young officers of the Queen's and Company's services
on leave at Simla and other hill stations. Some of these
have been openly charged with cheating at play. This
shows the propriety of Sir C. Napier's unpopular general
order restricting the leave of officers to the hills during
the hot season.

The discussion on Mr. Bright's motion has excited much
interest in India, and the local press generally advocate
the appointment of a cotton commission.

The accounts from Hong-Kong are to the 24th of July.
Sickness among the European troops has been on the
increase; as many as 160 men have been in the hospital
at one time, and about thirty-five have died of fever.
This happens when there is no unusual sickness either
among the community or the government police force.
This mortality is ascribed to the unhealthy position of
the barracks, occasioned chiefly by the nature of the
ground in the rear, and to the crowded state of the
rooms occupied by the men.

The Governor of Macao, Commodore Da Cunha, who
had recently arrived, died on the 6th of July. He had
been for some time in bad health. His death is said to
be most unfortunate for the settlement of Macao, matters
with the Chinese government not being yet arranged.

Papers from Ceylon have been received to the 15th of
August. They announce Lord Torrington's resignation
of his office of Governor, and his intention of taking his
departure for Bombay.

The intelligence from the West Indies is not important.
Several articles on the culture of cotton appear
in the journals of Kingston, and on the 27th ult. a large
meeting was held in the directors' room of the Bank of
Jamaica to establish a small company, with a limited
number of shares, to test the practicability of rendering
the cotton plant a staple production of the island.
Resolutions in accordance with this view were passed,
and every symptom of vigour manifested.

The Montreal papers contain an account of a most
destructive Fire in that town on the night of the 23rd of
August, which destroyed property to the amount of
half-a-million of dollars. Above a hundred houses were
utterly destroyed, besides great damage done to many
others. The rapid extension of the fire is attributed in
a great measure to the use of shingles in roofing houses,
which seems to be a practice very generally adopted in
the town to save expense.

Advices from Melbourne have been received to the
16th of May. The Reverend Dr. Lang, who some years
ago attracted attention by a letter to Earl Grey impugning
the administration of the Australian Colonies, had
created much excitement by originating a movement for
the independence of these Colonies. He had delivered
a lecture on the subject at Melbourne, in a tone of
respect for the queen and good will to England, but
openly advocating complete separation and independence,
which, he believed, Great Britain would concede
on a proper representation of the case. He recommended
the formation of an "Australian League" or
federal republic, embracing all the Colonies, constructed
on the model of the United States of America, and
denominated "the United Provinces of Australia."
Dr. Lang entered minutely into the details of his
scheme, and was loudly applauded. After the delivery
of his lecture he was thrown into prison for some matter
of debt, to the great displeasure, it is stated, of the
Melbourne public, who were raising a subscription for
his release.

NARRATIVE OF FOREIGN EVENTS.

SOLEMN ceremonials have been celebrated over France for him who now sleeps in the quiet vault at
Weybridge, Changarnier ordering and Louis Napoleon not resisting. It is called hypocrisy, but not with
much reason. Hypocrisy is the homage which vice pays to virtue; and if Louis Philippe must stand for
virtue in the case, Changarnier and Louis Napoleon are free from vice. They have for some time faithfully
governed on the principles of the citizen king, simply using their greater power to better his instruction.
Nevertheless the Orleans adherents, who are strong in the departments through which the president lately