not call them soldiers) were running to the front. He
feels assured that no such scene could have occurred in
any other regiments in the army: if ever such again
happen, he will expose the commanding-officer of any
regiment that so disgraces itself, in public orders, to the
whole Indian Army. In the course of his service he
never before witnessed such a scene. No commander
could go into action with a regiment capable of such
conduct without feeling certain that it would behave ill.
The Commander-in-chief will, therefore, hold
commanding-officers responsible (for they alone are to blame)
that any soldier who shouts, or charges, or fires, without
orders, be instantly seized, tried at once by a drum-
head court-martial, and the sentence executed on the
spot."

He adds:—"The Sepoy is both a brave and an obedient
soldier; and whenever he behaves ill, it is in a great
measure the fault of his commanding officer.

"The drill and discipline of all armies rest mainly
with the commanders of regiments and of companies.
They are in immediate contact with the officers, non-
commissioned officers, and private soldiers; and to them
general officers must look for that perfect obedience
without which any army is an armed mob, dangerous
to its friends and contemptible to its enemies.

"The Commander-in-chief does not apply this order
to all commanders—he well knows that there are
abundant first-rate soldiers, and first-rate regiments in the
Indian army; but he applies it to those whose regiments
are in bad order."

The news from Canada comes down to the 2d inst.
The Quebec election had resulted in the return of the
government candidate, M. Chabot: the votes were—
2007 for Chabot, and 1203 for M. Legare, the
Annexationist. It is stated that one-third of the voters held
back rather than vote for the ministry or annexation.
The contest lay between the French Canadians, the
followers of Lafontaine, on the one hand, and those of
Papineau, or the "Young Canada" party, on the other;
and the result gave little cause for triumph either to the
royalists or the annexationists.—A despatch had been
received from Earl Grey approving of the dismissal of
the magistrates who had signed the annexation
manifesto, and directing other measures of discouragement
and repression.

NARRATIVE OF FOREIGN EVENTS.

THE old hackneyed phrase about foreign affairs is absent from the speech on the opening of Parliament.
Her Majesty fails for once to inform us that she has received the most friendly assurances from all
foreign powers. Lord Stanley regrets the omission very much, but it is doubtful whether the people generally
will regret it. Vast numbers may be apt to think that friendly assurances from Russia, Austria, and such
like, would be anything but complimentary just now. England aloof from these gentry, neither making nor
meddling, leaving them to their own tyrannies and intrigues, and resolute to co-operate with none of them,
whether for the strengthening of old despotisms or the creation of new despots, is in the position best suited
to her own respectability and character. A more satisfactory contrast than that which was lately exhibited
to the oppressed peoples of the continent could hardly have been desired by Englishmen. Very nearly about
the time when General Lamoricière, the French ambassador at St. Petersburgh, was attending the Russian
Te Deum for the defection of Görgey and the fall of Hungary, Sir William Parker, the British admiral in the
Mediterranean, was sailing up the Dardanelles with a powerful fleet to support Turkey in her humane refusal
to deliver up to the scaffold the fallen Hungarians.

The matter of most importance in the foreign politics of the past month has been the affair with Greece.
Lord Palmerston, after trying years of negotiation for redress of certain confessed wrongs on the part of the
Greek Government to British subjects, has at last proceeded to enforce those claims by the sharp argument
of a blockade; the effect of which has been that all who were before the loudest in their indignation at the
neglect of those wrongs, became suddenly the foremost denouncers of the means taken to redress them. It
is natural perhaps, but inconvenient, that this instinct of sympathy with the weaker party should enter as
much into the affairs of States as of men. Whether it be a culprit nation or an individual offender, the feeling
which attends the wrong too rarely survives to the chastisement. With the largest class of over sensitive
minds, the wrong doer under punishment is quite as worthy an object of sympathy as the sufferer under
oppression; and the wretch pinioned beneath the halter, is in no respect the same as the wretch armed
against his victim. However, arbitration in the present case is to settle the dispute; and King Otho, after
much screaming and blubbering, is already wiping his eyes. His quarrel with us, or, to speak more properly,
his spite against us, originates in nothing more offensive than the benefits we have conferred upon him, and
our occasional advice to him from time to time to govern constitutionally.

Of incidents from abroad there are none worth remark. The daily occurrences in Paris, whether it be
crusades of the police against the poor faded trees of liberty, or the great police engagement against the
flowers flung around the funeral column of the victims of the 24th February on the recent anniversary of
that notable day, or the bepuffed revelations of Chenu the shoemaker against the revolutionaiy heroes, are
simply contemptible. Nor in truth is much more to be said for the solemn farce at Berlin in which Frederick
William lately took the oaths to the new constitution of Prussia, protesting that he should govern for the
future in accordance with the new laws and responsibilities placed around the Prussian throne, but at the
same time declaring that he was to be obeyed as governor, not because it pleased himself or any body else,
but because God had so ordained. Such a preposterous jumble of constitutional doctrine and divine right
was probably never listened to.

The accounts from Paris state that the recent
proceeding, on the part of the authorities, of cutting down
the trees of liberty in all parts of the city, has given rise
to serious popular disturbances. On the 4th inst.,
the artisans of the quarter St. Martin assembled in a
large and tumultuous mob, and attacked the police
while employed in cutting down some of those trees.
The police repulsed the crowd, but were attacked with
fury by increasing numbers; and several of them were
wounded with hammers and sharp weapons. The military
were promptly called out by General Changarnier
and the rioters were put to flight, with loss of some two
hundred or more of prisoners. In the course of the
riot. General Lamoricière, passing in a coach, was
hauled from his seat, and roughly handled, before he
could retreat to the shelter of a house: he escaped at
last, covered with mud. On the following day some
slight collisions again occurred on the removal of more
trees. The government issued a notice in the morning,
stating that no more would be removed if they were not