The Bombay government lately removed two of the
Sudder judges, because their private moral character
was considered liable to newspaper attack, on the
assigned grounds that the character of government was
implicated in that of its high officials. A few days after
this decision Mr. Luard, a civil servant of high standing,
wrote to the papers to say that, if he was allowed the
opportunity of a public inquiry, he would prove that
two other still higher officials had been guilty of
infamous conduct in the exercise of their judicial functions.
Government thereon suspended Mr. Luard, but they
have declined all inquiry, and taken no steps to clear
the character of the high officials thus publicly attacked.
This inconsistency has exposed the government to severe
animadversion, and the local press is again unanimously
arrayed against Lord Falkland.

The accounts from Hong Kong are to the 28th of
March. The previous intelligence regarding the rebellion
in the north of China was fully confirmed on the
receipt, at Hong Kong, of advices from Shanghai on the
12th of April; and her Majesty's plenipotentiary, Sir
George Bonham, left Hong Kong for Shanghai on the
13th. It appears that application had been made by the
viceroy of Soochau to the English consul at Shanghai to
co–operate against the rebel force for the protection
of Nanking. The rapid advance of the rebels had spread
consternation and alarm through that capital and other
wealthy cities, and the imperial officials seemed entirely
paralysed and powerless. The latest advices from
Shanghai report the rebel force investing Nanking,
which it was expected would fall; and it is further
stated that delegates had been sent from Soochau to the
rebel leaders, offering a large sum to secure that wealthy
city from molestation and plunder. There are also
reports that a portion of the rebel force had proceeded
north. The native bankers and wealthy people were
removing their families and treasure into the country, and
goods had been sent from Soochau to Shanghai for
safety. At Shanghai there was a general panic; bankers
and merchants' houses were shut up, and an entire
stoppage to trade. Money was so scarce that the duties
of exports had to be arranged by giving security in bills
and other property to the consul. It was considered,
however, at Hong Kong that the naval force off Shanghai
was calculated to restore confidence in that vicinity,
and that if the rebels proceeded north, and did not delay
round Nanking and the neighbouring country, internal
trade might be resumed sooner than the present state of
affairs would give reason to expect.

The intelligence from the Cape of Good Hope is highly
important, as it announces the termination of the Caffre
war, brought to a close by the submission of the powerful
Gaika chief Sandilli. In the course of the negotiations
with Kreili, two special messengers from Sandilli
himself waited on Colonel Maclean, Commissioner to
British Caffraria, charged with a petition from the rebel
chief praying for peace, and desiring to know from the
English commander to what district he and his tribe
should retire. The petition contained an acknowledgment
that "he had no more strength to fight the English,"
that he had been driven from his country, and that he
had obeyed the Governor's "word" by crossing the Kei,
—in short, that he had abandoned the struggle. In
consequence of this intimation General Cathcart sent
Mr. Brownlee to meet Sandilli and the secondary chiefs
of the Gaika tribe at a place within the territory of
Umhala, a chief who has remained at peace with us
during the whole of the hostilities. On Mr. Brownlee's
arrival Sandilli was sent for, and appeared before the
Governor's envoy on the morning of Sunday, the 27th
of February. The draught of the conditions General
Cathcart was ready to grant was then read to Sandilli
and the rest of the chiefs. This document is to the
following purport:—It extends the royal mercy and
pardon to the rebel chief and his people; and declares that the
Gaika tribes cannot be permitted to retain the Amatola's
and their other former lands, which are forfeited to the
crown, but that they shall be allowed to live in peace in
another portion of British Caffraria further removed
from the frontier, under the following conditions:—
"1. That the chief Sandilli, in token of submission,
shall deliver up one hundred guns, in addition to the arms
stolen by the Caffre police, and become responsible for
the good conduct of the Ga'ka tribe. 2. That the chief
Sandilli and all the people under him shall in all things
remain true and faithful in their allegiance to the Queen ,
and obedient to her Majesty's commands, conveyed
through the Governor and the Chief Commissioner,
Colonel Maclean, or his deputies, as heretofore. 3. That
each minor chief lately in rebellion, before he be
permitted to reside in British Caffraria, shall deliver up, in
token of bis submission, his own arms, and bind himself
to obey her Majesty's commands, conveyed as aforesaid,
under the responsibility and control of the said chief
Sandilli, failing which, he will continue to be held to be an
outlaw, and dealt with accordingly. 4. That the said chief
Sandilli shall make an allotment of land to each of the
said minor chiefs, his dependants, who may have
returned to their allegiance, within the country hereby
allotted to him, wherein they shall dwell under his
responsibility for their true and loyal conduct in future,
5. That the said chief Sandilli shall also be held
responsible for the security of the great high road and the
property of travellers frequenting it, in the same manner
as Pato and Siwani are bound to protect the high roads
which pass through their country."

It was further provided that this general pardon
shall not extend beyond British Caffraria, and that no
Hottentot shall be allowed to settle within the country
allotted to the Gaika tribes without the sanction of the
Governor. The chiefs listened attentively while the
above terms were read and carefully explained to them;
they then retired and held a consultation among
themselves, which lasted four hours. Their opinions of the
conditions may be gathered from the speech of Sandilli
on their return to the Envoy. He thanked the
Governor for his message. He said, however, that the
territory assigned was not large enough to support
them; and was, besides, partly the property of Umhala,
partly that of Kreili, both chiefs at peace with the
English. Thrown upon this territory, the Gaikas
would be intruders, and this would lead to war. As to
delivering up the guns, this, he said, would be just
with regard to the arms of the native police who had
departed from the English; they were dishonourably
obtained; but the men were now scattered among all
the different tribes, and it would require much time to
collect all the guns together. He would give up a
hundred muskets as a token of submission, but their
own arms they would keep, "to fight for the Queen of
the English." Sandilli repeated that the ground
assigned them by the Governor was not large enough;
and, as he supposed his Excellency could not alter the
conditions by which the Gaikas were expelled from
their own country, he hoped the General would send a
supplication on their behalf to the Queen of England,
that their lands might be restored to them, or they
would have ''to go to war with each other for grass!"
The conference then broke up. A subsequent meeting
took place between the Governor and the Caffre Chiefs
on the 9th of March at a place near Graham's Town,
which passed off with apparent cordiality, though the
chiefs repeated their complaint that the country
assigned to them was too small for them to live in.

The intelligence from Melbourne comes down to the
beginning of February. Gold digging was going on
with unabated activity and success. At Geelong a
nugget had been found weighing 134 pounds, and almost
pure gold. The finders, a party of four, were about
to return to England, their fortunes made. Melbourne
is described as being in a most filthy condition. There
is no artificial drainage or sewerage in the town, and
the impurities thrown off and created by the wants of
so many people had accumulated to such a degree that
it became dangerous to remove them, lest the
disturbance should only tend to precipitate the epidemic
which it was feared might ensue. The population had
been tripled in less than a twelvemonth. In 1851 the
census returns made it only 23,000; at the end of 1852
it was estimated that there were 100,000 people collected
in the town and its environs. No wonder that the
lodgings were crammed, and weather–board structures,