INDIA.

Lyttelton Times, Volume IX, Issue 588, 23 June 1858, Page 5

INDIA.

( Prom the " Delhi Gazette of Dec. 31.)

One of our contempories in a late issue denounced Mr. J. C. Wilson's conduct as cruel inasmuch as he concealed from the public prints the names of the Rohilcund refugees whom he had rescued from the painful position they have occupied since the 31st of May, when the Bareilly troops mutinied. We agree with our contempory in thinking that the greatest publicity in the matter is adviseable, both as regards the relatives and connection with those missing, as well as the individual to whom the rescue of those now safe is owing.

It is not generally known that Captain Gowan while in captivity (we use the word advisedly, for this period of concealment well merits the name) wrote several touching appeals at various times to funtionaries entreating them to effect his delivery. One of these reached the Chief Commissioner of the North-Western Provinces, but all that the Chief Commissioner could do was to write back that a reward of 10,000 rupees should be given to any one who wouldconvey all the RohilcundChristianrefugees in safety to Alighur. In ordinary times doubtless the promise of the above reward would have effected the object desired; but so useles was it, in these troublesome times that when the few refugees to whom the letter containing the promise was delivered saw that Government could only give a promise of pecuniary reward their hearts sank within them, and they gave themselves up for lost. But there was " balm in Gilead; " one of the touching appeals above alluded to fell by chance, as he was passing through Alighur on the mail-cart, into the hands of Mr. J. Bracroft Wilson, Judge of Moradabad. This gentlemen had been permitted by the military authorities at Meerut, because he had made himself so useful through their agency in collecting revenue, punishing evil doers, and preserving the peace, to retain under his command a few men of the Bth Irregular Cavalry, who had accompanied him from Moradabad, and who remained faithful. Mr. Wilson immediately made up his mind that he would attempt with his little band, the rescue of Captain Gowan and his companions; and when the little epistle, half of which was written in the Greek character, was read in the cowshed at Khairah Buzhaira, the refugees simultaneously felt that deliverance was at hand, and they fell on their knees and returned thanks to " Him who tempers the wind to the shorn lamb." and who has said " Vengeance is mine." Capt. Gowan's narrative has made known to the public the happy result; but when we reflect that at a time when all the Rohilcund ghats were watched by the troops of Khan Bahador Khan, Mr. J. C. Wilson, with a few Sowars, made his way on the 31st of October last to Roderunge, and contrived, by frightening away all the Futteghur and Rohilcund troops, to effect the rescue of Captain Gowan and the Belcham family we are lost in admiration at the skill which single-handed, executed so noble a design. In the palmy days of Greece and of Rome what would have been the reward of such a deed.

We have much pleasure in announcing that the Rev. G. E. L. Cotton, head-master in Marlborough School, has been appointed to the bishopric of Calcutta, vacant by the death of the late Dr. D. Wilson. Mr. Cotton was educated at Westminister School, and elected from the foundation to Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1832. His career as assistant-master at Rugby under Dr. Arnold, and subsequlntly as head of Marlborough School, have well prepared him for a wilder field of usefulness.— Ibid.

M. Ottajano, the Neapolitan Envoy, who was the hearer of an autograph letter from the King of Naples to the Emperor, congratnlating him on his escape from assasination, returns to Naples with a letter from the Emperor to the King. If the king made use of this occasion towards effecting a renewal of diplomatic relations with this Government, I believe he will be dissapointed. It appears that the subject was mooted in a cautious and delicate manner, but I believe the Nepolitan Envoy was very frankly informed that the French Government would do nothing except in conjunction with England. The " Neapolitan question " consequently remains as it was before the Mission of M. Ottajano.— Times, Feb. 22.

The Right Hon. W. G. Hayter haß accepted the offer of a baronetcy, which Lord Palmerston expressed his desire to recommded her Majesty to bestow on him. A similar offer had been before made to the right hon. gentleman, and declined. It is but a slight token from the late Ministerial party of their appreciation of the invaluable services rendered to them by Mr. Hayter. It is not given as a reward, but as the only kind mark of gratitude that can be at present bestowed which does not deprive the Liberal party of the assistance of the retiring Secretary of the Treasury. The Duke of Devonshire, the Duke of Wellington, and the Earl of Harrowby will have the vacant Garters. A Wealthy Chinaman. —John Jun Sing, who acted as interpreter on Monday last at Quarter Sessions, was some years ago in the service of Mr. C. H. Walsh, of this town. He has been baptised, and is united in the bonds of holy matrimony with an Irish girL Through his intelligence and frugality he has managed to amass a good deal of money, and carries on business in Sydney as a wholesale dealer in charcoal. He employs upwards of 100 of his fellow-countrymen in the pursuit of his trade, and rides in his carriage and pair.— Goulburn Herald, April 14. Hon. Alexander Anderson, of New Albany, Indiana, has presented ten thousand acres of land in Georgia to the American Colonisation Society.