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The East India Company has given a sumptuous banquet in honour of General Jung Rahadoor's visit to this country, as Ambassador from their neighbour and ally the Rajah of Nepaul. Distinguished persons representing all political parties and social ranks were invited to meet the General Mr. Shepherd, the Chairman of the Company, presidia' ; and was sup- ported by Sir James Weir Hogg and Viscount Gough, with other mem- bers of the directory or distinguished officers of the service. The Cabinet was represented by Sir John Hobkonse and Mr. Fox Maul° ; the Opposi tion by Load Stanley ; the other parties, of divers complexions, by Lord Ashley, Mr. Frederick Peel, Viscount Jocelyn, Lord }Latham, and Lord Wharneliffe—with Lord Brougham in his individual capacity. Other

notabilities were, the Marquis of Breadalbane, Chief Justice Wilde, Chief Baron Pollock, the Lord Mayor, and the Belgian, American, and Danish Ambassadors. The General entered the banquet-room, in the London Tavern, about seven, accompanied by his brothers, Colonel Jug& Bahadoor and Colonel Dhere Balladeer; and the Coldstream band yeti a grand Indian march as he took his seat on the right hand of the . His first entry, however, was but an initiatory politeness : "not permitted by the laws of caste to join the company in eating the rich viands which loaded the tables, his Excellency and party retired to the drawingroom as the banquet commenced, and partook of lychus,' (a sweet Chinese fruit, in appearance like a walnut,) and of peaches and nectarines." They returned to their places at the table by the time dinner was over ; Captain Cavenagh taking a place next to General Bahadoor, as the "political officer attached to the Embassy," for the pur- pose of interpretation. The usual loyal toasts having been dismissed, the Chairman proposed the toast of the evening, with some remarks giving a cue to the other speakers. " R%ether we regard the novelty of his Excellency's visit as exhibiting on his part that courage and energy for which he is so famed, or whether we view it as indicating on the part of his Highness the Rajah of Nepaul a desire to acquire useful information and knowledge with the intention of benefiting and ameliorating the condition of his people, in either view it is a subject of interest to us, and to all who feel any concern in the affairs of India and the happiness of the people. Although I have no doubt that his Excellency during his sojourn in England will witness a variety of good and evil, let us hope that it will be impossible for him to return to his native country without bearing with him some impressions favourable to our own, honourable to our Government, and creditable to Englishmen." His Excellency appeared much impressed by the hearty cheers with which the toast of his health was received. The courtesy being inter- preted, ho rose immediately and replied to it in his native tongue, with great fluency and grace of manner. Captain Cavenagh reproduced the points of his speech. " His Excellency states that he has seen that the destiny of Great Britain is great; and more especially he has witnessed the conquests which have been achieved in India during the reign of her present most gracious Majesty ; that the wisdom of her senators and the gallantry of her soldiers have dazzled the eyes of the world, as the sun dazzles the eyes of mankind. (Cheers.) He states, that seeing this wisdom and knowing this gallantry, he deemed it his duty to visit this land, to pay his respects to the Sovereign who ruled over so gallant and wise a nation. That he had suffered—and it is suffering to one in his position—in crossing the ocean; but that the kindness and cour- tesy which he has found during his short sojourn here repay him threefold for the misery he endured. (Cheers.) He states that his army, his munitions of war, and his life, shall be devoted hereafter to the service of the British na- tion. (Loud applause.) He trusts that the relations of amity and concord which at present exist between the Governments shall never be disturbed. (Great cheering.) In conclusion, he begs to offer to you his most sincere and cordial thanks for the honour you have conferred upon him in drinking his health in connexion with his Sovereign." (Loud and continued cheering.) The toast of her Majesty's Ministers was acknowledged by Sir John Hobhouse ; who, with professional statecraft, masked a political hint to the Rajah of Nepaul under a laudation of the Company for their continued endeavours to civilize and add to the happiness not only of their own do- minions but of contiguous countries.

" Were it not from the previous conduct of the Soverei,,n whom your honourable guest obeys and whom we esteem, I have no doubt that from this visit, should it conic to be a question between that Celestial Empire which is on the North-east of his country and the dominions administered by the East India Company, we need fear no rivalry ; that our excellent guest -would at once perceive, not only that it was for his interest, but that it was for the advancement of that which I am sure he esteems, namely, the hap- piness of his country, that he should not hesitate between that empire and yours." Lord Brougham gave frank and happy expression to a good sentiment— The mission would take back information of our institutions " but I venture to hope and trust for their sake, and for the sake of their country, and for the sake of this country—permit me respectfully to add, for the sake of the Honourable Company themselves—that they may .be enabled to carry back an ample assurance that there exists no disposition in any quarter of this country, whether in the Company or in the India Board' as it is called in the East, the Board of Control' as we call it in the West, no disposition whatever on the part either of the Crown, or the Parliament, or the people, or the Company, to encroach in the very least degree upon any peaceable neighbour~ Loud cheers)—or to spare in the very least degree any hostile neighbour—(Reneteed cheers)—for that is the true rule of peace, never to break it, but never to suffer it with impunity to be broken ; and that, above all, they will carry back to their master the most positive assurance from all quarters, that no intention whatever exists to diminish by one acre the dis- tance which separates our Eastern frontier from the Western frontier of (bins." (Loud and continued cheering.)

The friendly international tone thus thrown into the oratory was em- phatically carried out by Lord Stanley-

" We owe to India a large debt. Our more successful rivalry has in great measure extinguished the manufacturing industry of India. We owe in re- turn, to do all for that great empire which we can do to develop her natural resources, to promote her industry, to increase her wealth, increasing at the same time our own, while we spread at once the blessings of religion, of ci- vilization, of industry, and of consequent contentment over untold millions of future happyBritish subjects. This is an object worthy of the ambition of statesmen. This is an object far more important than those of days hap- pily gone by, when some paltry question of territorial advancement, some little jealousy of national preference or national pride, would set the world by the ears and embroil a continent in war. The days are gone by when war is to be considered as the pride and the boast—ay, even the moat success- ful wars, and no country can boast of more successful wars than ours—the days are gone by when the triumphs of war are to be recorded as the highest triumphs of nations. (Cheers.) The highest triumphs now are the triumphs of the advancement of civilization, of knowledge, of industry, of mutual friendship and I know no higher triumph, I know no greater boast, than that to which we may point now—not that we have here, in friendly concert and friendly communication, those whom long habit has brought into constant intercourse in the usual and ordinary transactions of the affairs of nations, but that we are gradually widening what I may call our domestic circle. We are gradually widening the circle of our friends; and, among others, we see the Eastern chiefs and princes brought into close and personal communication with the civilization and the power of England.',

The Waterloo banquet at Apaley House, on Tuesday—the ever fa- mous 18th of June—drew together seventy-three of the Duke of Wel- lington's Waterloo companions of the English Army. Prince Castelcicala was the only foreign officer present ; Count Kielmansegge, the Hanove- rian Minister, being ill. Prince Albert, with some members of his suite, and the Reverend S. Wellesley, were present as visiters. Prince Albert gave the health of " the immortal Duke " ; and the Duke of Wellington,. already Jovelike, " bowed " acknowledgment. The Duke's ' longest speech" was made in proposing " The Prussian Allied Army at Water- loo, and General Viscount Hardinge." When the party broke up,. close on midnight, the Duke, " much to the surprise of his guests younger in. years, ordered his carriage and left for a ball."

A public dinner was given to Mr. George Carr Glyn and Mr. Charles Lawrence, by the principal officials of the North-western Railway, at Blackwell on Tuesday. Captain Huish presided ; the Earl of Lonsdale, the Earl of Powis, Lord Kinnaird, Sir James Graham, the Lord Mayor of London, the Lord Mayor of Dublin, and many Members of Parlia- ment, were among the guests. The speeches described the wonders of railway progress, and especially the pattern organization of the North- western Railway, with its staff of 10,500 men : most of the perfection of that organization, in finance and in traffic-service, was due to Mr. Glyn and Mr. Lawrence ; whose personal traits were the theme of hearty com- pliment.

In the House-of Lords, on Tuesday, the second reading of Ashby's Divorce Bill was moved by Lord Brougham. Sir William Cockburn and the Dean of Ely gave evidence that the Reverend Mr. Ashby had used perseveringly af- fectionate endeavours to recover his wife from the influence of her infatua- tion with Mr. Scudamore Stanhope. Lord Brougham thought that Mr. Ashby was almost too lenient, from great affection and unwillingness to drive his wife by harshness into the hands of her paramour. The bill was read a second time.

In the Court of Queen's Bench, on Wednesday, Lord Dunboyne was tried under the 6th and 7th William IV., cap. 86, which enacts, "that any person-

who should wilfully make, or cause to be made, for the purpose of being in- serted in any register of birth, death, or marriage, any false statement touch- ing any of the particulars by the act required to be known and registered, should be subject to the same pains and penalties as if he were guilty of per- jury." In August 1842, Lord Dunboyne was privately married, at Padding- ton Church, to Mrs. Vincent Vaughan, a well-endowed young widow, with prospects of increased fortune, living at Bell Hatch in the county of Oxford. The marriage was private because it was opposed to the wishes of Mrs. Vaughan's mother, to whose wealth she would succeed if she did not alienate her regards. The opposition made to Lady Dunboyne's marriage by her mo- ther wore off, and the parties were married again at St. George's Hanover Square, in December 1843 ; and on this occasion, just as on the former one,. the parties were described as widower and widow, though then man and wife." This false description was the offence.. The prosecution seems to have been_ prompted by the ill-will of some partoes in the background. Mr. Sergeant

Wilkins, Mr. Clarkson, and Mr. Ogle, were the counsel arrayed for the pro- secution ; Sir Fitzroy Kelly, Mr. Cockburn, and Mr. Edwin James, formed the powerful phalanx of defence. Lord Campbell instructed the Jury, that they must be "satisfied that the representation had been made falsely y frau- dulently, and corruptly "; a conclusion which there would be some difficul in coming to, as the defendant had no motive to injure anybody by his Such marriages are highly irregular, but very common, especially among Ro- man Catholics : it is difficult to see how on a second marriage a man can de- scribe himself except by his description before the marriage. The Jury found a verdict of "Not guilty."

At the Central Criminal Court, last week, Mary Reynolds was tried for attempting • to drown her child in the water at Victoria Park. The woman and her husband, with two friends, had been drinking ; the Reynoldses quarrelled, and the man struck his wife ; she had two fits ; when she had somewhat recovered, the party went to the park. Suddenly, Mary Reynolds was missed : she and her child were sinking in the water. Two brothers named Watson gallantly rescued mother and infant. There was no direct proof that the woman wilfully jumped into the water. The Jury charitably thought she had fallen in by accident, and acquitted her ; and also on a se- cond charge of attempted suicide.

Elizabeth Ann Chambers, a ladylike person of forty, was tried for forging an acceptance to a 3001. bill, with intent to defraud. This was the case in which the accused attached the name of her cousin, the Reverend Charles Randolph, to a bill which she got discounted. The evidence was conclusive. The prisoner had no counsel. She said that Mr. Randolph, though he had denied it, had given her permission to use his name. Verdict, "Guilty.' A second indictment for forging a 2001. bill was not proceeded with ; the convict would seem to have repeatedly offended. Mr. Baron Rolfe, in pass- ing sentence of transportation for life, remarked, that the prisoner was no doubt well aware that a few years ago her life might have been forfeited for the act she had committed; but as the Legislature had made the experiment of remitting the capital punishment in the expectation that the crime might be repressed without resorting to it he considered that the law ought not to be trifled with, lest unhappily it might be found necessary to reestablish the former punishment affixed to the crime.

On Tuesday, Sparkes, Stanley, Wright junior, and Campbell, part of the gang of rogues who have been defrauding young men of money as part for their good behaviour in certain posts at "agency-offices,' were indicted for conspiracy and fraud. A number of witnesses gave testimony similar to that adduced at Bow Street Police Office, and fully made out the cases. Mr. Parry advised his client Wright to withdraw his plea of "Not guilty," as the chars were so clearly supported. The Jury convicted the others. Edward Wright senior, the father of the other prisoner of that name, and James, were then tried for defrauding William Davis of 101. Wright pleaded "Guilty," and James was convicted. Wright senior, James, Campbell, and Stanley, were severally sentenced to eighteen months' hard labour ; Sparkes, who had not actually received money, and the younger Wright, as he had acted under the guidance of a bad father, were sent to prison for a twelve- month only.

At the Middlesex Sessions, on Wednesday, Massie Lloyd Poad, a medical student, was convicted of stealing a pistol from the United Service Museum. The culprit, the son of a naval officer, is very respectably connected ; but his dissipation drove him to pilfer as a means of raising money for his wants. He was sentenced to be imprisoned and kept to hard labour for three months.

John Peters was convicted of stealing a duck from Kensington Gardens. For a long time past he had been suspected of stealing ducks there ; in the present instance, a keeper saw him feeding the birds ; he presently seized one, put it into his pocket, and walked away, subsequently killing it in the grounds. Sentence, three months' imprisonment.

At the Mansionhouse, on Saturday, a point of Post-office law was enforced. Mr. Dimes, a solicitar, received a letter by post ; there was a penny-stamp upon it, but it weighed more than half an ounce, and twopence extra was charged ; Mr. Dimes opened the letter, found it was a printed circular, and then wanted to return it to the postman, refusing to pay the twopence. He was summoned for the amount. In his employer's absence from illness, Mr. Dimes's clerk urged that the public ought not to be compelled to pay postage on mere circulars which they had no desire to receive. Mr. Peacock, the Solicitor to the Post-office, said, the very existence of the establishment de- pended on the principle now to be vindicated. "There are about 300,000 letters daily delivered in London ; and if the public had a right to read these letters before they decided as to paying the postage, the letter-carriers must wait their decision, and thus the business of a single day would occupy a whole week at least. If any one to whom a letter is directed opens it, he must pay the postage; that is the principle. The opening of a letter is the act of ownership; and if it were left to the option of the public to pay or to refuse there would be no possibility of carrying on the establishment at all." Alderman Gibbs entirely concurred; and he ordered the twopence, with 4s. costs, to be paid. The verdict of the Coroner's Jury who sat on the body of the girl killed in Southwark by falling from a house upon the pavement was "Accidental death." The deceased's employer,. Mr. Vaughan, has written to the Tinges to remove unpleasant misapprehenLons as to the cause of the accident. He does not allow females to clean the windows. The deceased was sitting on a parapet-wall at the top of the house; her cap blew off; in attempting to catch hold of it, she lost her equipoise, and fell into the street. A fatal accident occurred at the London Bridge terminus on Monday even- . A number of men engaged upon the extension works there, were raising as large piece of iron, part of a turn-table, when a rope broke ; the ponder- ous mass fell on three men, killing one and maiming the others. A man has lost his life at Whitbread's brewery, in a beer-vat. There were about two barrels of grounds in the vat, and it had been closed for some time; but, contrary to general injunctions, the man neither ventilated the vessel nor tested its state. When he got to the bottom, he fell senseless; another man nearly shared his fate in trying to save him; but the latter was got out alive. A fatal fire occurred early on Monday morning, in Phoenix Street, Soho. The house where it broke out was full of lodgers, and a frightful scene oc- curred. Several of those who managed to escape were burnt by passing through the flames on the staircase. A girl fourteen years of age was so terrified that she ran from her father to the top of the house, where she was burnt to death: the father and two other daughters gained the street, but one of the girls was dreadfully burnt. A Mrs. Harding, who lodged in the upper part of the house, on findiNr her descent cut off by smoke and flames, leaped from a window into the yard in the rear, falling upon her back ; there she lay disabled till the firemen came, when one of them got her over a wall, and she was taken to the workhouse ; but she died immediately after admission. This woman's son was so much burnt that he had to be carried to the hospital. Mr. -Connor-ton, the chief officer of the West of England en- gine, had a narrow escape : a heavy ladder fell from a wall, tearing away the shoulder of his coat, and very nearly striking his head.