The Sun. — London, England, 1846-02-05 00:00:00

....... army is did ;even of 1113 f .the their eroz munl- n balla t Bus with mom th 70 sach a ze poro ;ached d, and Flo- tin s )0 5 of 11110" bou gh )t rital li lt in livge , par ing rrist er ' Aro'Or ,1 15 tiO3s t. Ibe pre than , L6l l P °' : in 3l9e Ot °C I des u. , 't ' 5 t. the fio s itlva e o Let: rtly 'he " ro uts 'i . OY 116 P.., oil o" eh fro by th e at the co-fl elr,eacted • 0 5 elirVolt c c :oyAge" re oc e r to tb ,, the Lts ii. 98t the Itici Ll ter ort- _ —7.- k 113 morning's Mc brougt Ils letter:from Lahore, with intelligence of the 14th, 15th, b and 16th. Also a letterfr n o o m_ our native c orrespondent at Loodiana of the 21st, which gatires a report prevalent at Umballa, on the 22d, that the ) Face had been 'acked by the Seilelis; which is said there t aar e 0 -,,,* attacked „ . Ninated with one of tha party of officers who were on taeir way t.• the armY and which, it is added, induced them e ba k ti t , 4 . li the Umball_a - ' instead of the Loodiana route. 'r eOrIiCSS that the latter station seems to have been . some *irll4taet neglected by the authorities in their anxiety to concen t_, _ne troops upon Ferozepore. Nothing has come in from 1,,10a11a regarding the army which can b . e . tr r o el . ied a upon. li„', °His report having the appearance of 20th inst. by tjuiee had baen razed to the ground on the truth i that '°nol Wheeler. Si Witaitt.—The following party of o . fficers IDI si a ck tor le a ty g e a o t f ti til e ia.,11. l ucre to start from that senator:llin on th kr el 2.', in order to join their respective , regim e ents, or the k..! • in the field :—Captains Stephen, 415.. B al InfmtrY ; R44,tionzie, Ilth ditto ; Whitelock, I3th ditto en ; . g an a dAl g a , y_ow d , 4erop eans. ~ Lieutenants Lawrence and Main l Y . ! ey i 76 h would hiej,alintantry, and Drummond, 70th ditto. on the same 14.. a.n,sowlee on the 20th, and Kalka Niaccording perhaps for Um bliiand Shape their course direct for Loodiana th the intelligence they t,t,,the state of the roads. - might receive re :nson reached Vt.\ AuL—The detachment of the s.ah and 68th Rogi. a l . 8, commanded by Lieutenant-Colonel Di F a t's th e , . 'ruing of the 9 ' , (1 instant. I sae;Ers and • to march tn 'tB W ere to arrive yesterday morning, Thee asalso l the 30th te,,PI Infantry from Delhi. John Grey 114;4' Porozepore yesterday morning, the head ilaartaetrB 16ili Lancers, her Majesty's 10th Foot, in corn ‘ r!l 'aB and of her N et r 8 and 341 troo 2d brigade of horse Arallery , ( l L i i . eu a t o e-_ 84, e'eionel BiddulPh jandl"" 3d Light Cava r. t ci el o me ( 1 1 1 1 - ea l d. s tl - i seer t ef one c m P an7 ni of n Sappers and Miner, i lilar''''d one of the 68t The Sappers and Mi In 'zeir, rs d' 30 th, 55th and 68th Regiments, f!.)' l of -- ti, end ' Lieutenant - R. Colonel R . Wilson, th e aoth er command ofn-e7ow this , Wor t IP . Pehoa on `ll ' 2l st ' ' -ainPbell's detachment, which, was at Lancers, the Ist compen inst, consists of her Maje:Ay's 91.11 , c,j 4th battalion of Artillery (under Captain Waller), 2dand Bth b, e gUlar C, t • also a detacn- I rt 'll'anv Sappers and Miners, a party of the . - ,isnt o f th av altY, the 433 and 49th Infan ry, 4 "t ba tte u. by us- Campbell "'Ph '"e 30th und • Captain Ewart, and the formidable Colonel toitoonsleeotitY lately described . and all rch ia rear of the latt_ th ree 'lol Wil ec 3 : ..... 6 ' marches ahead a of Sir John Grey, Pore iiili'll larg; " b , di etacehmon:ntms k B"'Leett days, by the following ' route : Miles. algwi;l severally reach Ye r rOze- Miles 8 khe g u ah '• ••• .............. • 10 P e t, I ..... 12 q 0( oa .. •.. ......... I4L Phurawalee 1 2 Katie° Mulhair 4 la 'it . .."- -• •• ...... 14 Bussean 15 vBrtiaiie.• ................. 16 Waudnee . 12 p na ,_"ala„, • ....... 19 Bhaga .... oora ae„,"'Pore ............ '- it oakee chi--)°rPors . .............. 9 Sooltan in Khan Walls , 511 0 4 , 4 ..... .. ... ........... 10 l2lO Ferozepore were to have been joined 'ottay'll'odiltit3's:oi:ii.e.. ..... a B nd 68th regiments of infantry )ri th ''' lleal.',",',' . i r e on the 20th, and 'march in rear of Gerer f il 4. ) Je.._ ?Nei % t'il"iacters of the Sappers and Miners at Badow]ee,__ r ad In Urey . ..,,f , _ op one day s , by a party of 150 men, `who to 1 1 4 wer e to t,lue 6 8th had not a man. in hospital of their 4 Drteedm 'joined at Kurnaul who' tier to the collector of Panecput. In4(ic e -4 "'cm with treasure for Umballa ; the cs.s on their way to (:"e de.e.:-"Gneral Sir J. Thackwell anti . Captain Roche, its P' passed through this state) C. li and two deligh t.' day, b S. Rohm t Dick and Captain ! n ates are expected i ;, 11, 3 put Make no halt. Lady IP-askl accompanied Lad '"ienel G uzh a . I Mrs. Galloway, Li. ?rBlnith, °C-',, 'Ain' me days ago. ouchLerut4t A ., i act.cl i ...ieeru i t li s a o . t _N 4 . l ,_`_ i l.t i nson, of her k j er Ghat, with a detac 1 , ,, Qr eo n ,. 7 111 g fur Ghurmue tes . estY's - 39th Foot, was h to_ I,o;hae,ad toibalescents to the lower provinces. - ' ard of Lieut. W A , - -agr zi -PanY, Ist battalion, of Artillery, marched in ) t ic'n. I.3).esterday morning under the command of trea kirtelitheal freol_aelltnents of the Local I!tc t e ly lt o ' a s i t a i cs alion came B 4 ` ) ill th a r st u a i t i n o lundshuhur, escorting o arrived in tith;ll-gistient•-Conlo.nel Lane's troop _of . Horse Artillery, Chi th 'gilt Cav• 1 - under Colonel Stedman, _ 4114 A la Inornin ar3 I N.. ar c h on a A. They leve their heavy baggage here, ter e BB Eit AnA 43 11 ,ght as posslble. h Il ialid , ,b-- hie 11th Regiment Light Cavalry, notice Is - th e ~,°' uolonel Satter,marched at the shortest I t he l ert i , t . h i nst. in .. under to urnaul vie/ Hansee, and tie f ell,Z i g cf the 1171° 1Regiment , Bengal Infantry left on IftliSeb;itatinegttenilnr'ning head-quarters of th 4 „st i rrs ° Nude. We should not ' be surprised to hear for Joonjnoo, the 1 4 , e v 0,.. War horse ng been ordered from Neemuch, 1., uiab er ~,, ra Seems an ie n "rn°t-Gene l anxious to have an unusually ,i - iaa,, ktr. „nu( cavalry. lie h e , h 'iree Ihe detachment of the 53d Bengal Infantry, -''''',ret to Agra with treasure under command of C t iv-aa4o,,t'rned on the 20th. ' il ti f ris i ) eati l E '' . ." - Thot 9th Light Cavalry, one co h mp ß an en y ga o l f lit ar t it r3,' aNi lili elY, some Golundauze, lieri?)43 loltaan'titilt rahhiohead-quarters o t f he the lo l t 7th, are all 0ti 5 . 1 0: /77 4 cral Sir jo n sepl: ). Thackwel K.C.Bp left Ctawannd or-Ge„e Morning of the 20th, for , Umba . ha duce , p th e .leral Sir R. Dick, K.C.8., followed in . the evening iptai n ire dtreetion, accompanied by his aide-de-m r , illBllntei.in't_tes% both travelling by d‘ik vic2 M e e ; r f u or t. Meerut, j , 14; i tiie e s u te l an et t 4 1 a i ni I" teoC 7 m o r f ni t s :e a' E a n t' in a e ls e o ts, st q a u r itted Cawnpore bellPl e4 4lT e . -ace on the 19th. Colonel Speck, of the 17th, e - the station, and it is expected that Brigadier i Th e i . a!, Lucknow, wil divisional command. , tac t sttinelT Whichmarched from Cawnpore on the 15th Ni r e Ilhder th 11 4 esti tied to e command of Lieutenant -Colonel Wood, th advantages o 405Aiee. l A ,,_mall the siege train preparing in the Delhi tee e "Ntne nt of u a at Would not havebeen oa _ ~,y. as hi e _ resrailway through the kt Vie g t 2 ent? ear to have been halted . e(lana-k;(tegtl.lar Cavalry, whoa pp t e4 to oerat till the 20th instant, D bon such an emu -4 th e 2841alch on to Ferozepore, which they hoped to reach received on that day ktter Ala'., l i nstant :Id zliasty's 53d root passed Matra on the 21st instant trtarch tiollt t 741.8 er, be exPecto tDelhi on Saturday, the 2 7 th. It . ap ,eit. - cella heheftriloantrtither.ey are to remain here, or continue It • LAILORE, DEC. 11. kl,, i ' i 3, rePOrted to the Ranee that the whole of the Aeen (re-_ thlr) troops reached the banks of the Sutlej yesterday, and k, t h , the Whole _of the irregular cavalry will reach the ferry ,!litrreeke this day. An urzee has been received from Oa Goolab Singh, informing theitanee that be had collected . c k at thirty thousand country people, and that he was only ► alit for intelligence of the crossing of the river by tle 1/4also troops as a signal to himself to march upon Lahore ; )4N,Trther represented that he had made arrangements fo km ~,n g Metall Juwahir Singh in charge of a bill country ;hid Peshawar. It is given out as a report that the re it,44troops have marched out of the Fort of Feaozep e o a , I tei lril e , 4 up a position two or three miles from 4 ide'nee which has impressed the Khalsa troo 64 41 , 4 a that the fort had been undermined and was 1 2 pesn to with Soiv,„,,uP,if they should enter it. They have accordingly . ?Ik e ",, 0 3 7 the advice of the Punts, on not entering the ,.... liti-zr, "hen the 7 should have defeated the British, although 411 4 ' t be t ehl them that the fort was filled with gol4ol, hi e l; trul jewels. The battalions of General Mewah Singh, ( od had been ordered to march to Dhera Ismael Shan, to 4/., were encamped at Shadra, have recrossed h D and, eturned to Lahore tah en e : 12...... /t ad , was as ert ined that the Mewali Singh bat- Ql.!eigien-sc...e.,e,ii recalled from the other side the river, in 1 ,413 ch e ,. '", the report of letters . from the Nawab of ,rite t i ; L a at Ohera Ismael Khan, in which . it was repre ''esei he and others held Futteh IC.!ian, so straitened Tawanah, kt th4e'Cedf and that he was also alreadysspeedy* capture. ii `' 111 :1 en eh ` v ,as every probability of promised to put him to Zth, tied s.. oe the case, the Nawab h t ' L ehia g i s licl his head to the Sirkaras 1,,,, attaii„!u, turbulent spitit. A report t p h r e e N s . a u i r l e a s a t l w s o a t y h a o t f Illii;i:4l:iree:inel w th e a r e not recalled on the strength of his . letter, l‘_as Punt, who wrote to them ll t t o he sai or t c li cs at o i n t the ki, " 1 1 fr H.lPortant to concentrate a t htr k t a, amonthtinetr, than to be sending troops to D . hera Ismael Ath. woul d q Nllen the war with the En ~ircivers:he time enough for looking after gl m ts i h no w r as afi n a v i e r r s ' . ' 4 , t ) , ton is that they have returned of h their own ae- Nils' N the Sirkar had refused to pay t em the four ttft rtl:{lvance they had demanded. which four l'..tlßeillnor Prevails that eight ofbattalicnos'ssed the Ghat at ki,N,,t),.... qeneral Meurah Singh, bl,!vre'd. Another Tu t47lir h4;Zbut it is not y_ 1 1 4 kr oa3 ° come in pat en st x. ti l i i e ha ß i ritis S h uw ,a a ,e r r s e , h po ay st i e n d g , uitreal,,,,...,the river to see h NI . T- -ea to find a gun in ow positio o n i w t t h ii e e m h w r a a s , fi u r p ed to up t o h n e it ~ am i were touched, but one te . : t h dlal ti k s e t . as, it w as going to . be fired a secondft whichi me, Ivh o h iir et, 1t . , ; Into the mouth, in consequence of immedia . . Za r4 -ai 4 ided the British soldiers, and wounded the . man ajollai„)ee this bold act. in recommending er,,,40r 4 ':,, , ° ,ff, and a letter has com Purbeea Sepoys have H is comp e anions _ e tlioe aer,:.‘,,ble reward. Some more 11; tli t '7 4011 1 the other side, and state it un a d s erm a in fl ed t . 44 a, 3 ' We l ., °l lt .of Perozepore is complete y . • of N. Notably rewarded for the information. The t et .' tt t'ain,.ll,4bu has written to the people large t e he n u P in u b n ( liatPeopl e the ta that he had collected a tll,4.thaat'e atid that he was prepared k t Tir. tit4a, SO Oll 118 the Khalsa troops should taC) h rg at c •e re c a r t o e sse a d i t , 0 r 0.4 r ''a 1 ' sent a messen h, e 3 e t o ti , 41,) lihalsa camp to inquire why t ey e 41 % 1' 11 01 e oltiver Sutiej, on which the Pun n t r plied I kitpetl of • the country from Ferozepore to de that n e th , rar r thNlit to the m,and that the British ought to pi th.7,4,11,1i.b42P8 from thence, and if they would not, of !''ect ..--..Th, szacie to do so. 4 : 4PLI' ' t 4 o r t ire h a 1 Si„: 1 " having reason has u se p nt t peremptory y ehe b m 'utu to e oh n , l . I, Aloowallah, lijti cross oolltt,,d me forthwith to lAhore, with such troops L ot ' - ' 4 the lc • It is intended, when he comes,. to v 1:1 1 ,..,ve t ki h , Rive r ii.„ . _ dee,' pee %larniBl`,Avee and encamp at Shadra, his a m . k ak eel e , toe4a4wit4/%.harlionieil Khan, also t ß o e b e e ke s r e m nt a to s y m m h ritte e r .: g..., the „ttialotrimi audViti'teeting i'writtent to collect all the people of •-qatu:"" t hat a h -11 , to th un o 'tance of the Khalsa. d It is s and eU temL et tler 1,4 be al e ad a y ss g is ot 6,000 I Nfes;•" e d, by 3 . "e o be;e e d with alacrity, though- erity of his , mencoll l k hieh 4413 , a s h spate who knew him, of thei2i`olnarcd edocoftuem,hoinaec, Alike - ha • eis s ry ', Will a trIOWn to have a large T'ay 6" 1° ill w`.'euhtless prefer keeplu. I„ h a 4 7 t he tro 1 Ittnrnunition are being everyt to the camp. -. b a4 roh 0 1)8 from Lahore, and taken oti Cannons da carr a i n e d d etOst.a4/'e It 1.. People having heit , rd that the Seikh . 3 are c a r b i o a u te t aacm'at: on their hands are preparing .irl . ,,R abo„',4 their count!. ' A Ilurkaru came inthis the th ree gr a ''' a aaSer, f 3r. with reports for again to wags L and t imu , roin the camp attaii,ts the intelligence that o . n the day heft ) " ielnillutted tb I t le Khas troops, with six gu . ns, had ac -01%. -4 of r e e anlP, and crossed the river in the neigh .* - and lerozepore. The whole of the troops were to le -Ch had Pass over ne hes4bout beer' killed. When the p 4° . ,„ MOO a l .- , ~t he e I NN a - c h n ol l e v w h tr e o r o e ps ß , amounting baee Bheer !..t!,- to ,al it th. „ ..,.., naNc crossed, they illßat.ataLckar Singh t 6 t kt th e i ... 7 uefeat of the troops there, ult,,,,:brit4 Places commence the other iiiYe of the river. ' in eon ill'illce o ft yet left Lahore, and it is now said that t all, e t f i n h e ~.,s repeated delays, he will not lea . ve betir dija'ulgives out that he will proceed to join in a three to, . I 's 14. ' kflbx'utl hir,;tet::Ternader, in charge of mine boats belonging lt I P 11 1 to "It the service ot; the British, and who 1 .) , ) 4 `"jee f obtain a valuable consideration from the Sirkar , 11 4 ts t , ) .. Or his treachery delivered over the whole of the f- 'l 'iaelt tile lihalsas. Ta men were highly delighted, and i4t4site'l) their a„, the to reward him handsomely. Some s !)f til'er° It ere actually used by the Khalsas to , c rt ro on 1 , e A,,_ is certain that, although the greater io i 'Qgttr"'",), troop s b RN oar cavalry have gone over near Ferozepore, the 11 10 ti t ' t et It under Raja Lall Singh, have not vet \Th e r-riti a h , 13 said this day that news came in_ that P l at e 14 ts b' a vo . given. orders for the . dismil4sal . of _t.4 0:,,, the ~dili vakeels from their territorie, and t 4 s, .uselieels of such Sirdars on the other side . .Iscont. 'essions on this side have also been desired to 4`114.1•1y 11,4Zetdheir service. Rae Kissenchund has accord 1, .. fl 6. e.to liii own JerrliPor, and the other valieels n 'aJEt q L -,e4 his exaniple. A ' rumour prevaib this day that fir r „ - 'ttreet' g proposes - ' til l -°°l2° Sin 11 marching with all his troops -`44t* I CM of Subatboa and Sunlab. It requres non -4°lv ab ° tb n • 5 Ittle depe dence is to be placed in the rumours lltitt:Zr° * ad * ..- I ~.• 4 ' -- it' ay that Runjeet Singh had -.% 4.40.„ was told '4 IV . .74. he, 4 wvi,l op itclar TO - ` 111 Z1 , 3 yet 4 ,_ "ud tiltiv Singh, is, still in the capital. They say they will leave for certain on Tuesday Ole 16th), but no dependence is to be placed on these promises. More outrages have been perpo • trated last night in the house of some dancing women, one of whom was hung by the villains to a post as they were going away. Fortunately it was near daylight, and the cries of a woman brought the neighbours to the spot, and she was re leased from her position before life had departed. 15.—1 t is beyond a doubt that a large proportion of the suwars of Raja Lall Singh have crossed the river, and that some 10,000 of them prop Sed marching direct upon Patteeallah, and in case they were joined by the Raja's troop, to commence plundering the country in every direc tion, at least such part as belonged to the British, and cut ting off their supplies and dak communication. The cavalry have been divided into • three joks or divisions, one of them to march upon Ferozepore, the second upon Loodiana, and the third upon Patteeidlah. An European habited in his own dress, and attended by some servants, was this day walking in the city of Lahore, when he was asked how he • ventured to do this pt the present critical time. If he had come on his own business he most divest himself of the English clothes, and dress as a Punjabee. The Feringhee replied, that he had nothing to do with the British or balsa Sirkar : that he was a merchant and not at all afraid to de clare his business or his intentions. He then went on and was met by two. Selchs, who began abusing him, threat ening to make him a prisoner, but did not proceed to actual violence. It is also stated that a lady and gentleman, who were driving out in a buggy a'ong the open country, were seen by some Seikh Sepoys, and shot dead. The buggy and property were seized and carried into the camp. A re port prevails that the troops (British) at Ferozepore have • thrown no some defences,,while others report that they have quittel the cantonments, and retreated five or six koss, with the determination not to fight. A consultation was this day held by the Sirkar with Dewan Deena Nath, regarding the dismissal of the Sikh vakeels by.the British. The De wan said it was very cruel to treat vakeels in this way ; and that, for his part, he would not - agree to the British vakeels being treated in the came way by the Seikh Go verament. DEC. 26.—1 t is given out this day that a fight has taken place in Ferozepore, and that a good many men have been killed and wounded on both sides. It is not said who was victorious. A person has arrived from Jamoo, and stated that Raja Goolab Singh now talked of going to Peshawur. ?deean J uwaheer Singh, and Meean Pueneea Singh are also in Jamoo, while the other is to proceed with troops to Lahore. 200 Suwars have certainiy already come from Jamoo, and are encamped at the Badarnee Bagh near the fort. A con siderable-number of Poorbeeas are reported to have deserted from the British and to have joined the Khalsas. They were received wilh open arms by the Khalsas, and obtained each a golden. necklace. They were immediately incorporated with the several battalions. Intelligence has been received from Peshawur that some troops had quitted Caubul and Jelallabad with the intention of coming down to Peshawur. Immediate orders were issued for the march of Sultan Mahomed Khan from Shadra towards Ferozepore. He is making arrangements accordingly. It is confi dently asserted. that the Raja of Patteealah has written to the Sirkah to say that he had collected all that was required except carriage, and that, if tha Khalsa troops would but send him carriage, he would forward ammunition; grain, and everything else they might require. The Nazim of Umrits cecr~ha3 consequently received orders to hasten the collection of camels, bullocks, mules and hackeries to be sent to Pat teeallah. A rumour prevails that the whole of the country between the Sutlej and Delhi having heard that the Seikhs were going to cross, are greatly alarmed. A servant of Sirdar Tej Singh says his master has received a letter from the troops at Ferozepore, in which it is stated that the British had attacked the Khalsa troops, who immediately turned out arid began firing with matchlocks. The Seikhs then threw away their matchlocks, drew their swords, and fell upon the British. A severe skirmish ensued, in which 200 Khalsas were killed, and 250 . wounded. The loss •of the British is stated to have been 400. The Seikhs then entered Ferozepore l the town), and the remainder of the British force quitted their cantonments and encamped outside. Sir dar Runjoor Singh no sooner heard this than he started off to join his troops. Sirdar Tej Singh then sent for some officers of the Mussulman troops, and told them that as he placed great reliance on them he should leave them in charge of the capital. They stated their readiness to under take the charge, and the Sirdar forthwith quitted the capital for Ferozepore. LOODIANA. DEC. 21. As the whole of the British troops have marched towqrds Ferozepore from Loodiana, Umballst.ll, and Meerut, thus leaving this part of the country unprotected, the people of this place are going away in great numbers. Two companies of sepoys are in the fort, but not one man is left in the city. The fort is, however, well prepared, guns are mounted, and the sick European and native soldiers ought to be able to hold it. .All the ladies are gone in there. Yesterday they directed the whole of their servants to collect supplies for eight days. The order caused great alarm in the town, and it is greatly , regretted that the British should have left the place so tho roughly unprotected. It is said that Sirdar Runjoor Singh is marching direct upon Phulour, with a large body of troops, and will cross the Sutlej. The number of the inhabitants is reduced to one-half, and all who could do so have carried off their property. (From the Agra Uhbar, Dec. 24.) Reports, from native sources, are current in our Bazaar, that General Sir J. H. Littler, after an action with the Seikh troops, has obtained a victory, inflicting on them a great slaughter, and himself suffering a loss of some eight officers, 400 or 500 men killed or wounded. It is also said that a de tachment of the 2d Grenadiers, of probably 200 strength, escorting treasure with or to the Governor-General's camp, have been attacked and suffered considerably. MILITARY INTELLIGENCE. (From the Della Gazette.) The following is a tabUlar statement of the troops in motion for the frontier, or at present stationed there Immo ARTILLERY. Ist troop Ist Brigade, at Loodiana. 2d troop lst. Brigade, from Umballah. 3d troop Ist Brigade, from Umballah. sth troop Ist Brigade, at Ferozepere. Ist troop 2d Brigade, from Meerut. 2d troop 2d Brigade, from Meerut. 3d troop 2d Brigade, from Meerut. Ist troop 3d Brigade, from Umballah. 2d troop 3d Brigade (two guns), with Governor-General. 3d troop 3d Brigade, at Ferozepore. 4th troop 3d Brigade, at Loodiana. FOOT ARTILLERY. Ist company 4th Battalion, from Meerut. 2d company 4th Battalion, from Umballah. 3d company 4th Battalion, from Umballah (with No. 7 Light Field Battery). 4th company 4th Battalion, from Umballah. 2d company 6th Battalion, from Umballah (with No. 9 Light Field Battery). 4th company 6th Battalion, at Ferozepore (with No. 19 Light Field Battery). 2d company 7th Battalion, from Delhi (with No. 6 Horse Field Battery. 4 companies from Cawnpoor. SAPPERS AND MINERS. The whole corps. CAVALRY. Her Majesty's 3d Dragoons, from Umballah. Her Majesty's 9th Lancers, from Meerut. Her Majesty's lfth Lancers, from Meerut. Ist Regiment Light Cavalry, from Muttra. 3d Light Cavalry, from Meerut. 4th Lancers, from Umballah. Bth Light Cavalry, at Ferozepore. Governor-General's Body Guard, from Umballah. EUROPEAN INFANTRY. ller Majesty's 9th Foot, from Umballah. Her Majesty's 10th, from Meerut. Her Majesty's 29th, from Kussowlee. Her Majesty's 31st, from Umballah. Her Majesty's 50th, at Loodiana. Her Majesty's 53d, from Agra. Her Majesty's 62d, at Ferozepore. Her Majesty's 80th, from Umballah. Ist European Light Infantry. BENGAL NATIVE INFANTRY. 2d Bengal Infantry (Grenadier), with the Goveror-General 6th Bengal Infantry, from Shabjeeanpoor and Futtygliur. 11th Bengal Infantry, at Loodiana. 12th Bengal Infantry, at Ferozepore. 14th Bengal Infantry, at Ferozepore. 16th Bengal Infantry (Grenadiers) from Umballah. 24th Bengal Infantry, from Umballah. 26th Bengal Light Infantry, at Loodiana. 27th Bengal Infantry, at Perozepore. 30th Bengal Infanty, from Delhi. 33d Bengal Infantry, at Ferozepore. 38th Bengal Light Infantry, from Moradabad. 41st Bengal Infantry, from Umballah. 42d Bengal Light Infantry, at Loodiana. 43d Bengal Light Infantry, from DlLerut. 45th Bengal Infantry, from Umballah. 47th Bengal Infantry, from Umballab. 48th Bengal Infantry, at Loodiana. 54th Bengal Infantry, at Ferozepore. 55th Bengal Infantry, from Meerut. 59th Bengal Infantry, from Meerut. 63d Bengal Infantry, at Ferozepore. • 68th Bengal Infantry, from Meerut. 73d Bengal Infantry, at Loodiana. IRREGULAR. CAVALRY. 2d Regiment (a wing), from •Saugor. 3d Regiment, from Umballah. 4th Regiment, from Bareilly. Bth Regiment, from Ilansee. 9th Regiment, from Loodiana. ABSTRACT. Horse Artillery,-Ten complete troops, and part of ono more. Foot Artillery—Eleven companies with four light field batteries. Siege Artillery-1 12-pounder elephant battery of 12 guns (the remaining part of this arm not yet accurately known.) Cavalry—Three European and five Native Light Cavalry corps, including the body guard. I rregular Cavalry—Four •zomple,te corps and awing of a fifth. Infantry—Nine European and 24 Native regiments. Sappers and Aliners—The entire corps. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. • THE BOMBAY MARKET. (From the Chamber of Commerce Overland Price Current.) BOMBAY, JAN. 1, 1846.—We have on the present occasion to report a very general depression in the market for imports, and a decline, in some instances considerable, in the value of most articles of British trade. There can be little doubt that the commencement of hostilities with the ninjaub, combined with the prospects of a partial failure of the crops in the interior, has contributed to exert a prejudicial effect upon trade ; but the present unfavourable state of affairs is more immediately owing to the prevalent scarcity of money, to which we made allusion in our last. This dearth of the circulating medium became, shortly after the departure of the mail, of so very serious a character, that the banks were obliged, to refuse the usual accommodation to the mercantile public, even where loans were asked on the security of Government paper, at high rates of interest. Within the last few days the money market has been somewhat easier, but a severe pressure still exists, and trade has as yet exhibited no indication of recovery from the effects of the scarcity. In the course of a short time, however, this temporary embarrassment will doubtless correct itself, and things be restored to their former footing. Metals—The prices of every description of copper, except nails, of which article we have to report a sale of 12 ewt. at 56r. per cwt., have nominally declined, and, in the total absence of active demand, transactions have been in the last degree limited. Eln British bar iron there has also been a nominal decline in price, the present rate being 29r. to Mr. per candy. Swedish, sn the contrary, has slightly Ira proved in value, a sale of 100 tons having taken place at 51r. per candy. In nail rod, round is without change, but square is scarce, and in some request, and the price has improved 3r. per candy. In hoop, sheet, and nails, there is little alteration to notice. The first named sort, however, is wanted, and a sale of 800 bundles is said to have taken place a few days since at 6}ir., the price now quoted. In iron nails there have been transactions at 11 ihr. and 12%r. por cwt. respectively. Steel in tubs is cheaper than before—in fag gots, without change. There has been a sale of speller, large-sized plates, at 15r. 2a. per cwt., and neither in this article nor in lead, quicksilver, or tin plates, is there any material change to notice, in value or demand. Cotton Manufactures—The scarcity of money has, as might be supposed, affected the - trade in cotton fabrics more than any other description of British imports. With the exception of 45-inch gray shirtings and stout gray domestics, of which latter the stock is light, and for which a demand exists for shipment to Arabia, every kind of cotton piece goods has been more or less depressed in value. The better qualities of gray madapollsms, and gray and bleached shirtings, have been in request, and some transactions in them have taken place, but holders have nevertheless been obliged to submit to a reduction on former rates. For bleached madapollams, and gray and bleached jacconete, there la no demand, and even the liner qualities of the latter, which before commanded fair prices, can now only be sold in small quantities at unremunerating rates. The gene rality of dyed, printed, and fancy goods, 'are without inquiry, and few transaction§ have taken place in them. Yarns —The lower numbers of mule twist have latterly declined somewhat in price, and the demand has become languid. From No. GO to 100, however, there has been no change. Water remains sta tionary, with the exception of No. 30, v hich, owing to the lightness of the stock, has arisen from o%a. to 10a. and l 0 4d. per lb. In dyed yarns we have heard of no transactions. Turkey red, we believe, is in slight request, and has declined somewhat in value. Orange wholly unsaica.ble. Woollens—For these there is but little demand, and it is difficult to obtain remunerating prices. The only sale .of which we have heard is in blankets, of which 240 pairs have been disposed of at 7r. per pair. Marine Stores—Little or nothing appears to have been done in the articles under this head. Paints are somewhat lower, and the prices of the other items must be regarded as nominal. Beer—The market is still quite inactive, and we quote prices, which continue nominal, a little lower th an before. Spirits —ln these there is no change. Cochineal —Prices have an upward tendency, and we hear of a re cent sale of 1,3601 b. silver grain, at 3r. 9a. per lb. Red and White Lead —Red lead continues without alteration, but in white a nominal reduction of price, to the extent of 2r. per cwt., has taken place since our last. EASTERN PRODUCE. Cotton—The prices of produce have felt the effect of the pressure on the money-market, the same as those c f British imports, and cotton, amongst other things, has declined in value from 4r. to Gr. per candy. Even this reduction, however, has not occasioned any great activity, or led to extensive purchases for shipment to England. Several native holders have shipped produce, receiving Government advances at Is. lid. per rupee—the established rate fixed a short time since by the authorities, and which has not been altered. Sub joined are the rates now current for this staple : Broach and Surat, Blr. to 82r. per candy ; Dhollcr, 80r. ; Oomra wuttee, 78r. to 80r. ; Barsce, 75r. ; Comptah, 70r. Coffee—Both Mocha and Malabar have.declined slightly in value, and are now quoted respectively at 81.1 r. to. 9r. and OA r.,per maund. Gams—Animi is sr. ; and Arabic lr. per cwt. cheaper. 01.banum unaltered. _ ... Hemp—The Concan and Cabot varieties have advanced in value to the extent of Cr. per candy. In Gliatee there is no change. Opium is 25r. per chest lower than last month. WoolA decline in price to the extent of sr. to 10r. per candy has taken place in this article. We now quote the several varieties as lbllows Khorassan, 135 r. per candy ; Mekran, 126 r. ; Marwar, 120 r. ; Catch, 125 r. to 130 r. In other articles of produce we hear of no change. FREIGHTS. There have been numerous arrivals since our last, but, owing to the engagement of several vessels to load on the Malabar coast and at Madras, no decline has taken place in the rates of 6 eight. On the contrary, an advance of les. per ton upon the rates current a, fortnight ago is now generally asked to Great Britain. This, how ever, has not yet been paid, shippers being indisposed to give more than-31. 55., which may now be considered the nominal rate both to London and Liverpool. There is no ship on the berth for the Clyde. Freight to China is 15r. per candy. MONEY MARKET. Government paper has declined in value. The following are the current rates :- 5 per cent. Loan of 1825-26 4 ditto ditto 1832-33 4 citto ditto 1835-36 5 ditto ditto 1841.42 4 ditto ditto 1842-43 - ns. 107 to 110 - 99 to 101 - 94 to 95 - 104 to 105 - 94 to 95 Exchange—Transactions have taken place since our last at 2s. 03 d. per rupee for six months' bills on England, but the rate on Tuesday was 2s. 0%d., and yesterday 2s. to 2s. 04 4 d. for. drafts at six months. On Calcutta and Madras the rate is 96r. at 60 days. Banks —The shares of both banks have given way; those of the Bombay Bank to 48 per cent. premium, and those of the Oriental Bank to 190 r. to 210 r. premium on shares of I,ooor. 500 r. paid up. PRICES OF BULLION. Sovereigns, each - Bank-notes, per £ - - 11 (From the CaTcutta Overland Price Current of Dec. 20.) We were, on the morning of the 7th, put in possession of accounts from home to the 24th of October, via Bombay, but the letters of that date, per Hindostan, were not delivered until late on the following evening, so that but few could have been replied to by the Bentinck, although the closing of the mail was deferred from three to s!x r.sr , for that purpose. The result of the October indigo sale, which was anxiously looked for when we last wrote, appeared to disappoint the expectations of most parties here, and caused a cessation of operations for a few days; but the market has since been more settled, as will be seen by reference to our remarks on the dye. The accounts of both raw silk and silk piece goods have caused purchasers to act with great caution, but with these exceptions, all descriptions of produce have been in brisk demand, and a very large business has been: done, which would doubtless have been even further increased, but for a slight advance in the rate of our exchange on England, and above all, the extreme scarcity of tonnage, or, as we should rather say, the inade quacy of the supply to the shipments in progress, as the river is at present anything but bare of shipping. Our import market continues In a most unsatisfactory state, for, notwithstanding that the accounts received from home of several articles have caused some holders to manifest a determination to resist the comparatively low currency established here, it has not as yet produced any other effect than that of curtailing business, as dealers do not show the least anxiety to operate, except to a mode rate extent for local consumption. Exchange has been gradually advancing, and good 10 months date bills may now be quoted at ls. 11%d. to is. I I%d. per rupee, but thls has already had the effect of causing several parties to send their goods through the export warehouse, and it seems probable (should GoVernment continue their advances at the present rate, which the probability of a war in the Punjaub makes somewhat doubtful) that a considerable portion of this season's indigo will be drawn against from that source ; so that the only apparent reason for the late advance is the abundance of China bills at six months' sight, which are said to have been offering in Bombay at 2s. to 2s. o%el. per rupee, or the limited demand for bills caused by the very moderate business doing in imperts. Freights have advanced considerably since our last, and as nearly the whole of the dead weight in the river, as well as a portion of that to arrive, has already been engaged, we cannot see any reason to look for au immediate decline, but with the present inquiry for ves sels for the Mauritius, think a further advance almost equally pro bable, except in the event of less favourable accounts being received from home of our more bulky articles of export. Indigo—Six public sales have been held since our last, in the coarse of which eyery description has been offered. At first the finer quali ties attracted most attention, but these selling, generally speaking, much above the limits, there has, of late, been mere anxiety man!- fested tooperate in low and middling sorts, which had before been comparatively neglected. Very little has been done by private contract, buyers being in most instances indisposed to purchase large parcels, in expectation that the accounts by the mall now due will have the effect of lowering the currency here, and the only transactions we have heard of are the annexed. A much larger business would, however, have been done had holders been disposed to accept the offers made, which were, in several instances, very fair, considering the prices now ruling, notwithstanding that the upward tendency of exchange has rendered many less desirous to operate. At the public salts the biddings were good, and the rates obtained may be quoted at five to fifteen rupees above those of last year. It will be remarked that exports are not going forward so quickly as customary, but we still think planters will, in most instances, be disposed to sell at present rates, rather than run the risk of shipping on their own account. Sugar—We have but little alteration to notice in the price of this staple, but, if anything, it has been in favour of purchasers : supplies of second and third Benares have come forward more freely than is customary at this season, but continue to find a ready sale, especially the finer descriptions. Of really fine white none is procurable, but a few hundred bags of what might almost be called fair first quality have been taken in at 13r. Ba. to 13r. 12a. per maund, being an advance of nearly 2r. on the price the same sugar would have brought six months since. Several shipments of European manufacture have of late gone forward, but we hear of but few sales in this market : Dalloa and Date sugars have only been obtainable to a most insignificant extent, and these, as well as Khaurs, continue entirely neglected for shipment. Exports to Great Btitain, from the lot inst. up to date, amount to 100,816 reminds. Saltpetre—This article has continued in brisk demand for the home market, and Gudna has sold freely at from 6r. 4a. to 7r. per maund, xotwithstanding that it has for some time past been anything but easy to procure freight even at our quotations, most vessels (espe cially those for Liverpool) preferring a cargo of rice ; good Chuprahs and other descriptions have also fully maintained their price, although inferior sorts of heavy refraction must be quoted lower. To Ame rica shipments have not of late been very heavy, but a fair amount cf business continues to be done. T new they arrive crop freely since our last, but the demand tice allow vof stocks accumulating, and immediate sale at, for good table, parcels l as continues eri e too h tiansd beenan brisk to arriving 2r. 12a. to 3r. per md., with inferior descriptions in proportion ; and as the almost unprecedentedly high ruling cf freights (61. to 61. 6s. per ton) has not has yet had the slightest effect in curtailing opera tions, we see no reason to look fur any decline until less favourable advices arc received from home. Since the receipt of accounts from the Mauritius, stating that owing to the alarmingly short supply on the island the Governor had been induced to offer a bonus of 12 annas per bag, for all imported after the Ist of February, considerable purchases of Moonghy and Balani have been made, and prices have advanced to our quotations, notwith standing that they cannot be sent forward within 8 to 8 to 12 per bag of the rates current at the date of our last. Raw Silk—This article continues almost entirely neglected, trans actions having been confined to a few small lots which holders were forced to realise at whatever price they could obtain; the large holders, seeing that it would be useless to attempt sales in the present state of the market, arc holding back, and a considerable portion of the last band is still in the interior: prices must be looked upon as quite nominal, for although we do not hear of any lot having been offering much under our last quotations, we think, were purchasers to show any disposition to operate, they would be readily met by the native holders, who seetiT sensible that no mates ial improvement can be looked for for some time to come. Exports to Great Britain from the Ist inst. up to data are only 618 mds. Silk Piece Goods—Superior cloths continue in moderate inquiry, but of these few are obtainable, and all others are completely ne glected except at a very material decline on the rate lately current ; and this holders, generady speaking, show no disposition at present to submit to ; the large stocks of silk in the Mofussil will most pro bably induce an increase in the manufacture of these goods.. Oilseeds—The difficulty experienced in effecting shipments, ex cept in broken stowage, keeps exports to great Britain on a mode rate scale, but in prices we have nothing to notice, linseed espe cially, from the continued demand for America, being seldom al lowed to accumulate in the bazaar to any extent. Jute—But ltttle change has taken place in the value of this ar ticle, as, owing to the comparatively small shipments of light freight going forward at present, some vessels are still willing to take it at the rates current on the Pith (about 4/. ss. per ton), and there appearing but little probability of its being sent forward under this for some time to come, several parties have been induced to operate. Shell Lac and Lac.Dye,-In our last we had to report an excited market for the former article, bat accounts since received of the state of the home market being less satisfactory than were antici- • pated, the demand has again fallen off, and but little, if anything, has been done. Lac Dye continues in demand for both England and North America, but very little saitable to the former market is at present obtainable, and transactions have been confined to ,a few purchases of low and middling qualities at somewhat advanced rates. Cotton -But little has been done in this staple since our last, but the new crop may now shortly be looked for, should prices at Mir zapore rule sufficiently low to induce pants's to purchase. Hides, Horns, and Tips—A good business continues to be done in COw hides, principally for the English market, at about our quota tions. Buffalo hides arc seldom procurable, and parcels, as they arrive, find a ready sale for America. In horns and tips we have no change to notice. likely anything will be done until thtielr nest a tG s o o v n er th nm e 6th,en Government it is not sale. s OTphieu stock r r s c i e 0 w a r r e e d n u o c m e d i n t a o ll 2 y 2 221 chests of Patna, and 20 of Benares, TEIE, SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, FEBR'ITARY 5, 1846. IMPORTS FROM EUROPE. British Cotton Piece Goods—We have again scarcely any change to notice in our markets for these fabrics. Shirtings have been placed to a fair extent, but still at losing prices ; grays may be quoted as on the 6th, but bleached are rather lower. In gray jaconets large sales are reported, but at miserable rates, and in fact jaconets and Ma dapollams are only saleable at an enormous sacrifice, which may also be said for almost all other goods under this head. Coloured and Printed Goods—This market continues quiet at pre vious rates, the Caubul dealers not having as yet commenced their• purchases. Woollens —All descriptions are in very moderate demand and without improvement in prices. White Mule Twist—. Number 30's are firm, but almost all other counts are dillicult of sale to any extent at previons rates. Coloured Yarn—But little has been dono in yarn since our last, and prices may be quoted as then. Copper—Notwithstanding, the accounts received from home, we find many parties selling freely at last month's rates, and a fair ex tent of business has been gone through. Iron—Transactions have not been heavy, but rather better prices have been obtained, British bar being now worth 3rs. 4a. to 3rs. Ba., and hoop 4rs. 4a. to 4rs. 10a. Spelter is still but little inquired for, and the only sales we have heard of have been at about lOrs. 14a. (Company's) per maund. Beer—The season is now nearly over, and what remains of All sop's and Bass's is saleable at 38rs. to 40rs. per hogshead, but fresh arrivals would probably bring a higher figure. EXCIIANGE. The rate for ten months' date paper has been gradually advancing since our last, and may now be quoted at I. 111Qd. to Is. 11%d. per rupee, with but few buyers at the former figure. MONEY MARKET. We have nothing to report under this head, Government securities and Bank Stock having been steely at about our last quotations. The rates for dead weight have advanced considerably since our last, and, although we still quote saltpetre as low as 5/. per ton, in consequence of shippers being unwilling to pay more, we do not think shipping orders could be attained at that figure, except occa sionally on some of the large passenger ships anxious to get away, whilst for Liverpool it is refused on almost any terms, consignees, owing to the scarcity of light freight for that port, preferring to fill up their ships with rice, which they are doing at about 6/. to Gl. 6s. per ton. Within the past few days there has been an extensive inquiry for tonnage to the Mauritius, and, there being scarcely any vessels available, some parties are holding out for as much as 2r. Ba., per hag ; this however has not, we believe, been paid ; but, as many surplus vessels will doubtless be laid on for that port, wo see but little probability of a decline in the rates for Great Britain, excepting always in:the event of less favourable accounts being received of any of oar more bulky articles of export. BOLTON.—COLLIERS' TURN-OUT.—The dispute be twevn the colliers and their employers, in this district, still continues without any appearance of au arrangement, and the supply of engine coal in particular has become so scarce that some mills have been obliged to run short time for want o f fuel. We hear, however, that the Darcy Lever Coal Company have agreed to give the advance asked for, viz., ls. 2d. per pit load of 20 tubs, and that the celliers would resume work this morning. —Manchester Guardian. RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS. MANCHESTER, FEB. 4. SrocE ExonANGE.—The sales are—Blackburn, Darwen, and Bol ton, New, 1-16 p.—Chester and Manchester Direct, 15-16 dis.—Cll - Junction, par—Exeter and Exmouth, Bs. dis.—Grand Union, u j p.—Great Grimsby and Sheffield, 4% p.— Huddersfield and Man chester Railway and Canal, 6% p. c.—Liverpool and Bury, New, p. - Liverpool, Ormskirk, and Preston, 2% p.—Liverpool, Pres ton, Manchester, and Southport, % p.—London and Manchester (Rem.), dis.—London and York, 1% p. c.—Manchester and Bir mingham, Quarters, 7% p.—Ma n chester and Leeds Extension, 3 % p. —North Western, 1% p. c.— South Midlanti, 2% p. c. - South East • ern and Borer, 39—Ditto. Consolidated, No. 3,2 1 A p. —Ditto, Halves, 1 p.—Whitehaven and Furness, 10s. p. LEEDS, FEB. 4. Srocx EXCHANGE.—The sales are—Manchester and Leeds Ex tensions, 4/. Is. 3d. p.—Mancheste r an d Birmingham, New Quarters 7% (B),p. - Midland, New, 28% —Great Grimsby and Sheffield, 10%—Ditto, Extensions; 17s. Gd. p.--Iluddersfichl and Manchester, 6% p.—lluddersfield and Sheffield, 21%—Leeds and Dewsbury, 17% cacti—North British, New Carlisle Branch, 81. Is. 6d.—Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton, 15 cash—London and Tork, —Direct Northern, 2—West Riding Union, 6 %—elitheroe Junc tion, par—Grand Union, ss. p —Leeds and Liverpool Direct, 17s. dis. —Leeds, Wakefield, and Midland, 2s. 6d. p.—Manchester, Bux ton, Matlock, and Midland, 325. Gd. p. —North Staffordshire, 3s. 6d. p.—North Western, 21. 9s. HULL, FEB. 4, STOCK ExcneNos:—The salesare—North British, Carlisle, 21. 19s. —Ambergate, Nottingham, and Boston, 2% —.Axholme, 2% —East Lincolnshire, 2%—Grand Union, 313. 6d.—Hull and Barnsley Junc tion, 4s. 6,1. dis —Hull and Lincoln, 43. 6d. dis.—Lancashire and North Yorkshire, 21. 2s.—Leicester and Bedford, I%—Lincoln and Wainfleet, 265. - North Staffordshire, 5/. 2s.—South Midland, 41. Bs. 3d.— Shrewsbury and Birmingham, 31. 6s. ad.—West Riding Union, 6%—Yorkshire and Glasgow Union, 1% . NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE, EBB. 4. STOCK EXCUANGE.—The sales are—Manchester, Buxton, and Mat lock, 1% p.—Northumberland and Lancashire, 1 dis. SHEFFIELD, FEZ. 4. STOCK EXCHANGE.—The pales are—Grimsby and Sheffield, Ex tension, 21. 19c—North British, Carlisle Extension, 31. Os. 6d. — Cambridge and Lincoln, 2%—Leeds, Wakefield, and Midland, 42s. — Manchester, Midland, and Great Grimsby, 355. 6d.—Manchester and Lincoln Union and Canal, 36x.—Sheffield and Lincolnshhe, 41 . Sheffield and Lincolnshire Extension, 2% —South Yorkshire Opal Railway, 2% YORK, Fan. 4 STOCK EXCHAIIGE.—Tho sales are—Grand Unioi, 1/. 12s.—Ips wich and Bury, 4%—Leicester and Bedford, 1/. 115.—Manchester, Buxton. Matlock, and Midland, 3/. 13s. 6d.—Newcastle and Ber wick, 21% —Newcastle and Darlington, 45 % —Ditto, Extensions, 1014 —North British (Carlisle Extension), 2/. If s.—Welsh Midland, 11. 16s.—York and North Midland Extension, (East and West Bid ing), 10 BRISTOL, FEB. 4. STOCK EXCIUNGS.—The sales arc—Bristol and Exeter, 85—Ditto, New, 12'i— Bristol and South Wales Junction, 2/. Bs. 9d.—Great Western, Quarter Shares, 20 —Newcastle and Bervrick, 22. EDINBURGH, FEB. 2. STOCK EXCHANGE. -The sales are-Aberdeen, 101. 158.--Aberdeen, Banff, and Elgin, 11. 125.-Airdrie and Bathgate, 2/. 155.-Arbroath 161.-Ayr and Dumfries, 21.25. 6 d - Banffshire, 11. 108.-British and andA -Ayr o ß r n fa d r, , Galloway,2ol. -D i t 01, 11. 12s. Shares, Irish Union, 3/. M.-Caledonian, 14/. 103.-Caledonian Extension, 21. 12s. 6d.-Caledonian and Dumbarton, 31.--Caledonian and North ern Direct, 21. 10s.-Clydesdale Junction, 201.-Direct Northern, 2/. 45.--Dundee and Arbroath,4ol.-Ditto, New, 211. 10s.-Dundee and Perth, 141.-East of Fife, I/. 195.-East Lothian Central, 21. lisp 6d.-Edinburgh and Bathgate, 2/. 18s.-Fdinburgh and Glasgow, 771. 15s-Ditto, Half Shares, 16/. ss.- Ditto, Quarters, 181.105.-Ditto, ditto, New, 13!. 10s.-Edinburgh, Glasgow, and Dumbarton. 16s. -Edinburgh and I eith Atmospheric, 1!. 25.- Edinburgh, Leith, and Granton, 201.-Ditto, Preference, 20!..- Edinburgh and Northern, 6/. 3s. 6a.-Dltte, Newport, 1/. Is.- Ditto, Lochgelly, 11. Bs.- Edinbtirgh and Peebles, 11. 17a.-Edin burgh and Perth, 4/. 16s -Forth and Clyde Junction, 21.-Glasgow and Ayrshire, 73/. 10s.-Ditto, New Stock, 261.-Ditto, Quarter Shares, 181. 10s. -Glasgow, Dumfries, and Carlisle, 2/. 65.-Glasgow and Dundee Junction, 2/. 25.-Glasgow and Garnkirk, 421.-Glas gow and Greenock, 191.-Ditto, New Stock, 101.- Ditto, Preference, 1/. 17s. 6d.-Great North of Scotland, 31. 35.-Granton Junction, Inverness and Elgin, I!. 10s.-London and York, 41. 10s.-North British, 251.-Ditto, Halves, 71. 10s. -Perth and Inverness, it. 135.- Scottish Central, 151.-Scottish Midland, 61.-Scottish North Western, 21.35. 6d.-Stirling and Dunfermline, 21. 10s. 6d. GLASGOW, FEB 3. STOCK EXCHANGE.-The sales are-Airdrie and Bathgate, 475.- Ayr and Dumfries Jnnctien, 40s. 6d.-.Ayr and Galloway, 375. 6d.- Bridge of Weir74os.-British and Irish Union, 655.-Caledonian, 751. 6d.-Caledonian Extension, 555.-Caledonian and Ayrshire Junc tion, 35s -Caledonian Direct Northern 40s. -East Indian Railway, 26e -Edinburgh and Glasgow, New, 15M-Edinburgh and Perth, 715.-Glasgow and Belfast Union, 455. 6d.-Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and Ayr, 761.-Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and Ardrossan, 535. -Great Indian Peninsular, 10s.-Lesnfahagow, 505.-Newcastle, Edinburgh, and Glasgow Junction, 435.-Perth and Inverness, 355.-Scottish Central, New, 8-Scottish Southern, 385.-South Midland, 858.-- Stirling and Dunfermline, 455. PARLIAMENTARY BUSINESS. From the Votes and Proceedings of the House of Commons.) WEDNESDAY, FEB. 4. The following Petitions for Railway Bills were referred to the Select Committee on Petitions for Private Bills : Axholme, Gainsborough, Goole, and York and North Midland Junc tion Railway. Mount=Hick Junction Railway. Great Southern and Western Railway (Ireland—Cork Extension). York and Carlisle Railway. Londonderry and Enniskillen Extension Railway. Cornwall Railway. • Shrewsbury and Hereford Railway. Lincoln, Walnfleet, Haven, and Boston Railway. Shropshire Union Railways and Canal, Shrewsbury and Stafford Railway. Newmarket and Chcsterford Railway. London and Croydon Railway (Thames Junction Branch). Mitcham and Soeth-Western Railway. Hull and Selby Railway Pur chase. Caledonian and Dumbartonshire Junction Railway. Sheffield, Ashton-under-Lyne, and Manchester Railway (Peat Forest and Macclesfield Canal Purchases) , Shropshire Union Railways and Canal (Newtown to Crewe with Branches). Shropshire Union Railways and Canal (Chester and Wolverhampton Lancashire and North Yorkshire Railway. London, Warwick, Leamington, and Kidderminster Railway. Monkland and Kirkintillock Railway (Chapel-Hall Branch). Killarney Junction Railway. Ballockney Railway (Shott's Branch). Manchester and Lincoln Union Railway and Chesterfield and Gains- borough Canal. South Staffordshire Junction Railway with Branches (No. 1), Direct Northern Railway. Chelmsford and Bury Railway. South Devon Railway (Tavistock and other Branches—No. 1.) Welsh Midland Railway. Bridgewater and 31inehead Railway and Pier. Caruwath and West Linton Railway. Harwich and Eastern Counties Junction Railway and rier. South Staffordshire Junction Railway (No. 2—Bilston and Priest- field Branch). South Staffordshire Junction Railway (No. 3—Showhill and Porto hello Branch). South Staffordshire Junction Railway (No. 4—Willenhall and Blox wich Branch). Limerick, Enris, and 11111 aloe Railway. Gloucester and Dean Forest Railway. NOTICES GIVEN AT THE PRIVATE BILL-OFFICE. WEDNESDAY, FEB. 4. Great Western and Wycombe Railway—Committee on Petition, Thursday, Feb. 12. Yorkshire and Glasgow Union Railway—Committee on Petition, Thursday, Feb. 12. Rugby and Huntingdon Railway—Committee on Petition, Thurs day, Feb. 12. Eastern Union and Iladleigh Junction Railway—Committee on Petition, Thursday, Feb. 12. Somersctshire Midland Railway—Committcee on Petition, Thurs day, Feb. 12. Midland Railways (Syston to Peterborough Railway Deviation and Branches)—Committee on Petition, Thursday, Fab. 12. Grand Union Railway—Committee on Petition, Thursday, Feb. 12. Tenby, gaundersfoot, and South Wales Railway—Committee on Petition, Thursday, Feb. 12. Boston, Newark, and ShelUeld Railway—Committee on Petition, Thursday, Feb. 12. Nottingham, Mansfield, and Midland unction Railway—Commit tee on Vetition, Thursday, Feb. 12. Great North of England Railway Purchase—Committee on Peti tion, Thursday, Feb. 12. York and North Midland East Riding Branches Railway (No. 2) — Committee on Petition, Thursday, Feb. 12. Leeds and Bradford (Guiseley Branch) Railway—Committee on Petition, Thursday, Feb. 12. Great North of England and liedale Branch Railway—Committee on Petition, Thursday, Feb. 12. Leeds and Bradford (Junction Line at Bradford) Railway—Com mittee on Petition, Thursday, Feb. 12. Great North of England and Boroughbridge Branch Railway— Committee on Petition, Thursday, Feb. 12. Great County Down Railway.—Committee on Petition, Tuesday, Feb. 17. Eastern Union and Harwich Railway And Pier—Committee on Petition, postponed from Friday 6 till Monday, Feb. 9. Glasgow, Paisley, Kilmarnock 4 and Ayr Railway Brandies (No. 6) —Committee on Petition, postponed from Friday 6 till Monday, Feb. 9. Belfast and Holywood Atmospheric Railway—Committee on Peti tion, Tuesday, Fob. 17. Clonmel and Thuries Railway—Committee on Petition, Tuesday, Feb. 17. PARLIAMENTARY DIVISIONS. (From the Votes and Proceedings of the House of Commons.) WEDNESDAY, FEB. 4. IRISH GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY. Motion made, and Question proposed, " That it be an instruction to the Committee on the Petition for the Irish Great Western Rail way Bill, to entertain the petitions of the Midland Great Western Railway Company of Ireland and James Malley; Daniel Desmond and James Malley; John Gaynor; and James Malley, notwith standing the same were not presented three clear days before the day appointed for the first meeting of the Committee :"—Amendment proposed, at the end of the Question to add the words, " provided it appear to the said Committee that the said petitions were in the pos session of some Parliamentary agent on Friday morning, and that he was prepared to place them in the hands of a Member on the same day for presentation to . the House, if the House had not been ad journed over that day :"—Question put, " That those words bo there added." The House divided : MINORITY—AYES, 6. Escott, Bickham Pechell, Captain Ficlden, William Somerset, Lord G. Patten, J. W. Strickland, Sir G. TELLERS. Christie, W. D. Baldwin, C. 11. MAJORITY—NOES, 39. Acland, T. D. Etwall, Ralph O'Conor, Don Beithe, William Ferguson, Sir R. Pendarves, E. W. Barron, Sir 11. W. Forster, Matthew Philpotts, John Brotherton, Joseph Gisborne, Thomas Rawdon, Colonel Buller, Edward Graham, Sir James Ross, David R. Clerk Sir George Greene, Thomas Wpo mer, Wehard Collett, W. It. Hudson, George Sutton, H. M. Crawford, W. S. Hutt, William Wood, Colonel Denison, E. B. Jermyn, Earl Wyndham, Colonel Duncan, George Lemon, Sir Charles Yorke, Henry B. Duncannon, Lord Maitland, Thomas Young, John Duncembe, 0. O'Brien, A. S. TEr,LEltti. Easthopc, Sir John O'Brien, J. French, F. Esmonde, Sir T. O'Connell, Daniel Hodgson, Richard THE PREMIER'S MEASURE. —A meeting of the No tingham Town Council was held yesterday, at which a peti tion to Parliament in favour of Sir Robert Peel's free-trade schemes was agreed upon, the Mayor being at the same time requested to give the document the importance of the corpo ration seal. The petition was to be intrusted to Sir John Hobhouse and Mr. Gisborne for presentation. The New lock Evening Express thus speaks of the untimely death of Miss Julia Hamilton Knight, only daughter of Mrs. Edward Knight, formerly Miss Povey, many years a favourite at Drury:lane Theatre, who married the son of the celebrated comic actor of that name : " DEATH LOVES A SHINING MARK !"—We are reminded most forcibly of this line of the poet, upon looking at our obituary list, and seeing th ere the announcement of the death of Miss Julia Hamilton Knight, aged 18 ; a young lady whose promise as a musical genius was such as is rarely held out by one so young; a promise, too, which the lapse of every day was rapidly realising. Most thoroughly grounded in the elements of that divinest of the arts, imbued, as with a prin ciple, with love of it from a child, she knew its philosophy as well as its practice, its theory as well as its mechanism. Taught by the best masters, she borrowed nothing from them which her own surpassing genius did not enhance in the execution of it, and her performances upon the piano were the wonder, as well as the delight, o f a ll who listened to them. And what made them all the more charm ing was the utter freedom from everything like overweening conceit, or personal vanity, or undue pride in her great at tainments. To the development of so much genius the rare spectacle was in her exhibited of gentle modesty, and an en tire absence of everything like pretension. This lovely young person was the only child of her mother, the talented Mrs. mnight, for so long a time a favourite with the lovers o music and the drama nth is city as well as in. London Julia was brought up here, and here were developed her ex traordinary powers. She has left a circle of strongly attached friends and admirers, and a doting mother and uncle, to mourn her early loss; while art has lost, in her premature death, one of her loveliest and most promising daughters. BAD DIGESTION.--WONDERFUL CURE BY HOLLCP. WAY'S PILLS AND O IN TMENT. —T. Gardiner, Esq., of 9, Grosvenor-square, declares that he had been under the most eminent physicians, besides five of the greatest surgeons in London. He suffered from a distended stomach, bad digestion, settled pains in the chest, was very nervous, and greatly debi litated, and scarcely able to walk a hundred yards. Not de riving the least relief from the faculty, he set about rubbing large quantities of Holloway's Ointment into his chest, and took Holloway's Pills night and morni n g, w hi ch effectually restored him to perfect health and vigour in the short space of three wcoks.—Sold at Professor Holloway's Establishments 244, Strand, and by all respectable raeCliCil " Yencl°"' TO THE FRIEN DS OF NATIVE INDUSTRY IN Gllgi AT BRITAIN AND IRELAND. (From the 'I orning Post.) a t tFriendshepres present td isnwhenve..ee ri mnyintg„, trymen--Onpnee n a d iS t e h v e en h o a a r3e k ,p s i crisis f ' u r s a s n c e n 2 r d 9 t n . h e e t misery, the prosperity or th, adversity, of our country ; and I therefore think it ra; y nuty to address you on the protection of native indu sty 7, which is most interesting and important to all class( s of the community, and which cannot be secured without your energetic and united ex ertions I feel the more t stated to address you as I be long to no political party, . i I wish for nothing that any Minister could bestow, as.l : :have no motives of personal ambition, and as I am an in sated by an ardent zeal for the public Welfare. Full and effectual probers .ion to our native: industry may most justly be claim , / d by all those who are en gaged in any of its various: branches, and especially in agriculture, on account of the exclusive burdens which it bears, and of the portentous t importance of proviiing food for the population wifl out being dependent upon foreign supplies. Under 11 3 protection which was given to agriculture, the p ro duce of the soil has been very much increased by , ecsending and improving its cultivation, and the mannfas eturers have flourished ; for the home market is still to teem the most valuable, as well as the most secure. TY pre are still in these islands several millions of acres of waste land, which, if agri culture were sufficiently pr, nested, might be cultivated with advantage, and give mu( b additional employment to labourers, but which must otl terwise remain unproductive and unprofitable. If protection should be wi .thwrawn from agriculture, this country would depend : !or the chief necessaries of life on the supplies which foi ign nations might be able or willing to furnish ; the cuTi ivation of the land would be discouraged ; the marked would be scantily pro vided with its produce ; and, in the event of unfavour able seasons, we might be ext osed to all the horrors of actual famine. There is at pert event no reason whatever to apprehend even a scarcity,, for, although there is in some districts a deficiency in, the crop of potatoes, it is well known, and it has been proved by exact inquiries, that there exists an abundance of food in these islands, perhaps a greater abundance an is now to be found in some foreign countries. If, Ito ;never, this country ex perienced a scarcity of corn, the prices would rise, and the duties on its importation would fall till they were reduced to I s. per quarter. The arguments (if such, in, feed, they can be called) which are used in favour of a I. et e trade in corn, would apply also to every other article of general consumption, to. the produce of pastures as we U as of arable land, and to manufactured goods, whet her they are made by machinery or by manual labour, ars' the industry of our own countrymen, in whatever me Kle it is employed, would be much depressed, and, in many , :as es, utterly destroyed, while that of foreign nations wallet be encouraged. Great indignation would very justly be excited, if foreign labourers or artisans wetze to be brought to this country, because they might -work for lower wages, and it is obvious that they would deprive of employment an equal number of our own countrymen. The sane in jury would be inflicted on our own labourers and artisans by the adoption of free trade, and the foreigners by whom we should be supplied contribute nothing to the taxes which we pay upon so many articles of consumption. The effects of free trade, as far as it has hitherto been extended, have already been found to be most melan choly, by the impoverishment of so n zany of our artisans, whose skill and industry have beco me unprofitable to them, as they are now undersold b:, foreigners in our own markets, and have thus been deprived of employ ment and of the means of subsistence. The adoption of free trade in its full extent would bring ruin on all the industrious classes, many of whom might be driven from Their native soil, while others might ' s ee confined in union workhouses. Property of every del ;cription would be insecure, destitution would produce d espair, disaffection might become universal, and the inevitable result would be anarchy and revolution. It is your duty to consider whether you will allow this country to be exposed to such awful calamities and con vulsions, or whether you :sill avert them by protecting the rights and promoting the inter( sts of all those who are engaged in native industry—w: tether you will tole rate the new-fangled and mischievous doctrines of free trade, or whether you will insist upon restoring the po licy of our ancestors, which gave rtu ch prosperity and power to the British empire. If Visit; country is to be governed upon the principles of free: trade, they must be applied in their fullest extent, for any exceptions from them would be an intolerable injusti se, and they cannot be thus applied without reducing our taxation and our prices to the level of even the poore st nations. The ne cessary effect of a free competition vith foreigners in the home market would be to impoverish all classes of the community, and to lower the wages of labour as well as the profits of trade. If, on the contrary, you are determined to discharge your duty by demanding full and' effectual protection to all the industrious classes—if you will show any por tion of that patriotism and public spirit which were dis played in former periods of our history, you will, upon this occasion, act without any referenee to past politics, for you are aware that in both politic al parties there are to be found friends of native industry.. You should not, however, :be 'satisfied with vague 't end general 'profes sions, and you should not bestow your confidence on any individual who will not give thos a distinct and posi tive ply dges which you have an undo übted right to ask, and which no honest man ought to ht 'sitate in granting. You should confide only in those petrsons on whose in tegrity you can entirely rely, ann. you should, without regard to rank, or wealth, or local inituence, employ in your service those persons whose talents enable them to defend your rights, from whatever quarter they may be assailed. Act, as it is y our bounden duty to do, 'with energy and union, with the courage and constancy which are worthy of the cause, and your triumph is secure, for . you will be supported by immense and overwhelming majorities in all the industrial classes, all of whore have a common interest in opposing the progress of free trade. lam firmly convinced that on this question the greatest possible unanimity prevails amongst all the labouring classes, who are not only the most numerous, but also the most valuable to the state, and they ought to be fully represented in the House of Commons. That von may have the happiness and honour of avert ing from our country the ruin and revolution which would be the results of free trade, and that your zealous exer tions in the cause of native industry may be crowned with complete success, is the fervent prayer of your very faithful friend, STANHOPE. THE MANUFACTURES OF THE STAFFORDSHIRE POTTERIES. (From the Sta f fordshire Mercury.) An important and highly influential meeting of the manufacturers of this district, engaged in the American trade, took place at Trentham Inn, on Monday last. Most of the principal manufacturers were present, or re presented at the meeting, which was called for the pur pose of taking into consideration the propriety of re vising prices, and reducing the extravagant discounts ; such proceeding was rendered necessary by the scarcity of coal and its consequent advance in price ; also the advance in price of clays, flint, and other materials ; the expected advance of 3s. to 4s. per ton for freight, other causes also operating to render our staple manufactures far from adequately remunerative. In the production of the darker patterns of printed ware, indeed, it is calcu lated that the additional cost to the manufacturer will be sid. per dozen. John Ridgway, Esq., was called to the chair. After the fullest discussion of the various points, a series of resolutions were agreed to by all present, and the concurrence of others who were absent has been subsequently very generally obtained, the greatest una nimity indeed prevailing on the subject. The principal points of the resolutions are— " That the earthenware trade, in common with others, ought to a dvance its prices, or lower its discounts, with the increase of demand and expenses, and should not form an exception to the general rule. " That the increased costly qual;.ty of all fine goods the large proportion of a common. description, the extra vagantly large sizes,. and expensive shapes, together with the greatly increased thickness or weight of articles now made for the American market, render it absolutely ne cessary that prices should fully cover the cost of produe don, and fairly remunerate the manufacturer. " That the time has nPlir hech is the in creased and increasing p n :ce of coal arrived w s and n such slack, flint, lead, freights, and the various advances of workmen's wages, that there must either be an immediate advance on the selling prices or goods be made at a positive loss. "That the list of 1814, as enlarged Dec. 1, 1843, and as revised Jan. 26, 1846 (this day), Shall be the govern ing prices of the American trade. " That all orders taken in England on and after the 4th of Februay, 1846, and in America subsequent to the arrival of the steamer leaving Liverpool that day, be on the revised list of prices, and new rates of discount. " On all common goods £35 per cent. On all figured ware On all light blue printed pink, brown, green, and purple On all dark blue printed On all flowing blue 25 f, On all pearl white ware 45 ~ " That a circular be prepared, embracing the requisite part of these resolutions, and that the same be forwarded per steamer on the 4th of February, from Liverpool, to all principals, agents, and country dealers, advising them that no orders will be taken after the arrival thereof, except on the revised list of prices and new rates of discount. " That it be specially recommended to all manufac turers going ont to the United States, and to agents re siding there, immediately to meet on the receipt of these notices, in order, first, to carry out the advance, with the revised new 1814 list, forthwith; and, secondly, to establish such a mode of communication together as shall secure their honourable observance." A circular has been addressed to the manufacturers generally, recommending the limitation of work to three dap .a week, in order that the supply should not exceed the d o mand. We do not hear, however, that this re commendation is likely to be adopted. THE LATE. EXPLOSION AF LAMBETH.—On Wednes day morning death terminated the sufferings of another of 1 the unfortunate sufferers at the late explosion at a fire-work manufactory in King-street, Lambeth-wall. The deceased is the poor child, Alfred Ainger, aged two years, who was nephew to Mr. K,myon, the proprietor of the house, and at the time of the explosion was on a visit to the family. The female who is lying at Lambeth workhouse, under the care of Mr. Oliver Duke, the parochial surgeon, is still in a very pre carious state, and but faint hopes are entertained of her recovery., onTTICATioNS OF LTvEnPoOL.—The new batteries which are about to be erected at the northern extremity of the docks will be so situated as to cross their file with that of the fort on the Rock Perch, and to command both the narrow channels by which alone Liverpool is accessible to a hostile face. -.Liverpool Times. MR. WILSON PATTEN AND HIS CONSTITUENTS. TO THE ELECTORS OF THE NORTHERN DIVISION OF LANCASHIRE. Gentlemen,—The important measures recently pro posed in Parliame n t by h er M a j e sty's Government, in volving the repeal or material diminution of all protec tive duties on the importation of the productions of foreign countries, render it incumbent upon me to ad dress you publicly at the present time. Under ordinary circumstances, or even under eir3um stances of more than ordinary importance, I should hesi tate to take this step, but sho u ld a c t u nd e r the convic tion that, in electing me as one of your representatives, you had entrusted me with full powers to exercise my own jndgment, according to the emergency of each case which might come under consideration, and that you considered me responsible to you for the exercise of that judgment only on that occasion when you might be con stitutionally called upon to select your representatives. If I depart, then, from my usual practice upon the pre sent occasion, I need scarcely assure you, that I do so under an overpowering conviction that the peculiar cir cumstances of the present time absolutely - require it of me. The change which it is proposed to effect is of such magnitude, it involves such grave and weighty conside rations, it is moreover so great an alteration of the system which existed at the period when you last did me the honour to elect me as one of your representatives, that I consider it a duty which I owe to you, as well as to myself, to make to you an open and explicit avowal of my views and opiniot,s, in order that if you disapprove of them, I may enable you, in a constitutional manner, to exercise your own judgment in the matter. It is with this object, and under these impressions, that after waiting a few days, in order to afford time to you and to myself to give that attention and consideration to the matter which it r, quires, I now lay before you the result of that consideration on my part. The present position in this country of the great ques- - Lion of protective duties, renders it, in my opinion, pecu liarly incumbent on a representative, that, in considering its intrisic merits with a view to an adjustment, be should at the same time weigh well the general bearing and future effect which his vote may have upon all the great interests committed to his charge. It.would be dishonourable inine to state (because such is not my opinion), that I believe that that adjustment of this question is practicable which, abstractedly con sidered, would be most satisfactory. I do, however, con scientiously believe, that an adjustment of it is so essen tial to all the best interests of the community, that, as your representative, I enter upon the consideration of the government measure with a determination, if possi ble (even at the sacrifice of former opinion, and in the spirit of that measure), to attain this, in my opinion, desirable object. I frankly own that the reason which mainly induces me to take this course is tha prospect - which I think I see befure me, if an adjustment should not now be made —a prospect which, contemplated in the most favourable light, exhibitsyears of contest and uncertainty, of jarring interests, of continued apprehension'of evil on all sides, and the consequencl of this, a continued want of confi dence, which mast be equally prejudicial to all interests --rendering, on the part of the , agriculturist, all bene ficial arrangements between landlord and tenant most difficult, if not impossible. It also appears to me, looking to the great political movements of the last few months, connected with the formation of a Government, that there is no reason whatever to expect, at any future ,ime, a more satisfac tory settlement than can noW be effected ; indeed, I must own, that the consideration which I have given to those movements, has led me to a directly contrary con clusion. I also consider that, as regards agriculture, the pre sent state of the corn market is more than usually favourable to an adjustment. These being my opinions,' hasten to lay them before you, and I bec , at the same ti me to assure t h ose o f my friends who have' hitherto, in a more especial manner, given me their kind and active support, that I shall give a wide interpretation-to any intimation which I may receive, that it is their wish, under these circum stances, to confide the trust now reposed in me to other hands. Allow me, in conclusion;: to submit to you (the only claim which I have to make upon you), that you will place the same fair construction on my motives which you have hitherto done, during the now long period in which I have had the honbur of being one of your re presentatives.—l have the honour to be, gentlemen,' you: obedient servant, -J. WILSON PATTEN. London, Jan. 31, 1846. MR. TOWNSHEND MAINWARING. The Member for the Denbighshire boroughs has ad dressed the following letter to his constituents: — "Gentlemen,—The great importance of the Bill which her Majesty's Ministers intend to bring into Parliament respecting the relaxation of diities upon articles of food and clothing, induces me to address you, in order that I may ascertain your ientiments upon this great sub ject. I feel myself bound to adopt this course, as I distinctly sought- your support upon the principle of protecting native industry. I cannot, however, with honour, withhold the avowal that Sir Robert Peel's an nouncement of the Government measure has had the effect upon my mind of changing the opinion I have hitherto held. Under these circumstances, I respectfully ask you to allow me to approach the consideration of the vast subject unfettered by the restraint which my own address to you at the last general election imposes on me, otherwise I must take immediate steps to vacate my seat in Parliament. I can most honestly assure you that no party feelings have influenced me in forming the views I now entertain. Few, perhaps, have more re proached the Government than I have, for, as I eon ce; ved, unnessarily stirring up this question at a moment when their own previous measures were working so well; few either have more deprecated their conduct in giving way, as it appeared, to agitation. Better motives lam now inclined to believe have actuated them. With them, I believe the measure they have proposed may diffuse comfort and morality amongst the labouring classes, may invigorate trade, may permanently extend commerce, and that agriculture itself may derive a healthy stimulus from the encouragement which their measure proposes to give. " Relying upon the kindness I have ever received from all political parties since my connexion with the Denbighshire boroughs, I cannot doubt that you will put the best construction upon the course which I feel it my duty to adopt—assuring you, that as I have much valued that connexion, I shall much regret whatever occasion may sever it. " I remain your obedient servant, " TOWNSHENI) M &INWARING. " London, January 28, 1846." RESULTS OF A DISSOLUTION. (From the Liverpool Times.) If it was not for the interruption to business pro. duced by a general election, the free traders would be quite as willing to have an appeal made to the people as the Duke of Richmond or Mr. George Banks can pos sibly be. So far from fearing the result, they feel con fident that it would end in the utter rout of the mono polists. At the last election the latter put forth their strength in the counties, and' won so many of them that they have nothing now to gain in that quarter. whilst in the cities and boroughs they would have no chance even of holding their present position. Suppos ing the free traders of the Liberal and Conservative party to act together, there are several large and popu lous districts, such, for instance, as Lancashire, the West Riding of Yorkshire, and Middlesex, from which scarcely a single monopolist member would be returned to Parliament, whilst it is impossible to point out a single district in which that party could gain any con siderable accession of strength. With regard to Lancashire, we feel pretty confident that the result of an appeal to the people would be a declaration in favour of free trade in every constituency in the county. At the present time, professed fre e traders are returned by Manchest er ( 2), Oldham (2), Stockport (2), Preston (2), Bolton (2), Ashton (1), Rochdale (1), and Wigan (1). Of the Lancashire Con servative members, Lord Francis Egerton, and Mr. Cardwell, Member for Clitheroe, are known to be favourable to free trade, and Lord Sandon and Mr. Greene, of Lancaster (the Chairman of Co mmittees), are understood to be so. Amongst those who are still doubtful are one county member for South Lancashire, wo for North Lancashire, one for Liverpool, one for Warrington, one for Lancaster, one for Wigan, and two for Blackburn. Several of these gentlemen will most probably vote with Sir Robert Peel, and of those who do not it is very doubtful whether a single one of them will be re-elected. South Lancashire is well known to be sure for two free traders; North Lan cashire is less so, but the probability is that Mr. Wilson Patten will vote with Sir Robert Peel, in which case the free traders and the moderate Conservatives will easily secure his re-election. How his juvenile colleague, Mr. Talbot Clifton, will act, no one pretends to know, but his wisest course will be to go with the Government, for his hold on the division is very slight, an d would notr outlive a serious contest. W e consider the return o f two free traders certain a t Liverpool. At Warring ton, the old Conservative party,_ once so strong, is much divided, a l arge sectionbeing furious against Mr. Ireland Blackburr,e, for his Maynooth vote. From this cause he will b e b eaten, i f he should stand on the monopolist interest, though he would have fair chance as a free trader, and be sure of his election, if no one else was brought out on that interest. Mr, Marton's position at Lancaster is much the same as Mr. Ireland Blackburn® at Warrington. He has very little chance of being elected on the interest which last returned him, but might come in handsomely as a convert. Both the Conservative members at Blackburn are connected with trade, and will most likely vote with Sir Robert Peel, in which case their seats are secure. So that there only remains that strange, incomprehensible place, Wigan, of which we feel any doubt. At present the free traders return one member, and the Earl of Balcarres the other. It is barely possible that the monopolists may continue to return one member, if the Lindsays, who, however, have a great respect for the powers that he should think it prudent to go into dead opposition to what their countryman, Sir Pertinax, would have called " the great mon." The above resume does not hold out a very brilliant prospect to the monopolists. Still it is quite true, and and if they are wise they will take stock in other counties besides Lancashire before they go into a fight with Ministers and the free traders. A THEFT FROM HER MAJESTY.—At Greenwich Police-court yesterday a workman employe d in Deptford Dockyard was charged with stealing an old iron staple, the property of her Majesty, the values hich was estimated at live-sixteent of a farthing. theman h a d been dis missed from his hs employment in consequence, the magistrate considered that sufficient punishment for the offence without inflicting any penalty. COLONIAL MONO • LY. TO THE EDITOR OF T StIN. 7 7 SIR—On behalf of the agricult ; 4q1 . 711-„ . _those \ nutnerous parties who are to los• ritigLls have derived from protective d i IeSZ: 10,3roasore,alr'eenf Robert Peel will endeavour shortly!'telVtip' c lthte,„ it is important to inquire of whatiiiiinoNerA*Vt4e9o7l parties have been guilty—what 6,*e t ecrieay:bleve ctiteia* mitted that they are to be so tritich ,is Robert Peel's project would inflict poses that they should sell the pe tiee:l`aiMilt labour and industry, at whatever price it IiTIT command, in markets open to competition with the world, and at the same time be compelled to purchase some of their necessary supplies at the mo nopoly price. This is indeed hard upon them ; it may be favourinc , the colonial interests to continue their monopoly, but it is actual cruelty to the consumers of this country, especially those who will be obliged to sell at an unprotected price, to oblige them to buy their sugar, coffee, and a long et cetera of articles, at a price vamped up by monopoly,—that is, raised fictitiously beyond their actual value. This would be a queer kind of justice, and would show that Sir Robert Peel's conversion to free trade principles must have been of a peculiar character. Certainly he has taken a one-sided view of the great question. If he should be induced to expose the many branches conwcted with the landed interest, to the abominable hardships s of selling the results of their labour at au unprotected price, and at the same moment decree them •to buy all the colonial produce they may need at a monopoly price, of what earthly utility will taking 3e. 6d. per cwt., little more than a farthing per pound, off the duty now imposed on 'Certificated free labour foreign sugar be to the farmer? He will never enjoy the advantages of the reduction; the benefit will never reach him ; the three shillings and sixpence will be swallowed up by the importers and the wholesale dealers long be fore the sugar reaches the small shop at which the farmer deals. No man ever addressed stranger arguments to con firm this view of the question than Sir It. Peel himself did when last year he reduced the duty on British sugars from 245. per cwt. and 5 per cm". to 14s. per cwt., and 5. per cent. He then clearly showed that unless the reduction of duty was equivalen' to a penny per pound, the consumers of sugar would derive no benefit whatever from the diminution. No remarks could be more to the purpose than those he then used. Why should he be oblivious of them juQt now ? He knows full well the re duction of the said 3s. 6d. per cwt. can never be of use to the farmer ; in fact, on the announcement of his scheme the sugar market improved nearly a shilling /ye. cwt. Will it be commonly honest and fair to the landed interest, and to all others who have had the shield of protection removed from their labours, to compel them to enter the field of competition, to commence a struggle with the world as it were, under the crippling facts that have been described? As well might it be expected that a man with his hands tied behind him is in a proper state to fight another who has his hands entirely free. It is a lamentable circumstance, and very unfortunate for the multitude of straitforvvard and well-thinking men amongst the agriculturists, that their leaders should not be more conversant with the ordinary rules of life, the business of the day ; and instead of uniting their abili ties to stem the tide of public opinion flowing surely and steadily in on them, they do not at once give up the futile attempt, an d change their position; and declare, as protection is to be cast to the winds, let all classes stand on the same ground, as protection is to be removed from us, let it be also removed from all others. We are to lime no favour, give us a clear stage Concomitant, however, with such an arrangement, it would be equitable only to the colonists to sweep away the absurd regulations imposed upon them by the mother country. The colo nists undoubtedly should be free to sell in the dearest markets, and buy in the cheapest. Let them obtain food, lumber, and freight where they like—also labour, pro vided they do not, in the ,last particular, infringe the laws of humanity—then might all differential duties on colonial produce be cleared away, with out injustice. A revision of the sugar duties ought likewise to be made, and a more equitable mode be adopted; for it is evident, from the letter of your correspondent B. S. R., who appears to be intimate with the regulations of the sugar market, that some of our sugar-producing clonies possess consider able advantages over others, through the laws governing the duties on sugars imported into this country. His plan for obviating these difficulties is undeniably good, and merits the attention of the Legislature. To place a like duty on an article worth 20s. per cwt. and on one worth 40s. per cwt., because the two happen to be Muscovado sugar, an undefinable term, is clearly unjust—and reminds one of the hodge-podge patchwork measure Sir Robert Peel is about to introduce—a measure clearing away all duty here, by halves there, and by thirds elsewhere. Why, in the name of common sense, instead of this confused, does he not produce a comprehensive and comprehensible plan? If protection is to be thrown to the winds, as he says, why not act on his opinion at once? It would appear by Sir Robert Peel's proposition, that the colonists are to experience a different kind of treat ment to that meted out to us. If he and they think protection will serve their turn, let them enjoy it amongst themselves ; but, in the name of fair play, let us, who are to be deprived of all protection, have the colonial monopoly utterly removed. They may take our produce or leave it; confer the same•privilege, as regards theirs, on us.—Your obedient humble servant, AN AGRICULTURIST. AUSTRALIAN EXPLORING EX PEDITION. To those of our readers who are not already aware of the safety of Captain Stunt it will afford much gratification to learn that the gallant leader (in the ex ploratory expedition to the northward, which left Ade laide more than a year ago) was, at the date of his dispatches (18th cf July), at a temporary depot, formed at the distance of about 500 miles from Adelaide, in longitude 141 deg. 30 min. east, and 29 deg. 40 min. 12 sec., being about 90 miles east by south from " Mount Hopeless," and near the turning point of Mr. Eyre's expedition in 1840. With the exception of the late much lamented Mr. Poole, second in command, whose sudden decease is officially announced in the Government Gazette notices, the gallant party has suffered no fatal casaulty during the long and arduous journey into the mysterious interior from which " the veil" is yet to be lifted. Mr. Piesse, the store keeper of the party, accompanied by four men and a single bullock team, has been the bearer, as far as Moorunde, of the captain's dispatches, which are so voluminous as to have determined the Government to defer the publication of their intended digest until the next issue of the Government Gazette; we can, there fore, only lay before our readers such particulars as we have been able to glean from sources which, though unofficial, may, we believe, be relied on. Mr. Piesse, who was commissioned to procure for the party fresh supplies of provisions, with the view of further explora tions in another direction, is said to have left the depot with his small escort on the 18th of July last, three days previous to which date the remains of Mr. Poole had been interred. When within four days' journey of the Government station (Moorunde) on the Murray, Mr. Piesse found means to anticipate his necessarily slow progress through some friendly natives, by whom his brief note, stating the general safety of the party, found its way to the station, and thence into Adelaide, many days earlier than the news could otherwise have reached us. The extreme northern point to which the party had attained was about 28 de grees of latitude (only one degree further than Captain Frome reached), and to reach this they had to en counter a country of such extreme desolation, aridity, • and high temperature that the thermometer frequently stood for hours at 140 in the sun, 130 in the s had and 90 underground. In short, during ne a a r r t ly w fo e u re r months of the period of their absence the p of a party were to remain in the vicinity extremehole, frtoomh have made it ei would ther have forward w b o e rd n o p r e perilous 1 or retrograde o i g n r a t d h e e movement. They had all suffer ed from scurv y , but were recovered, and in excellent health and spirits. When the party arrived in the surmised vicinity of Lake Torrens, they found little to represent the large body of w ater h e retofore so circumstantially described. With an expedition which could per no diem, t easyless thanto imagine one th ou sand gallons of wateri s the difficulties of a progress through such a country as . we have endeavourede o t o u r d a e g s e c , r i b e e o d n d 6; u et, but i a t n i d e not t h a ti o si e a s s s m y d to appreciate e which have not only been equal to the task of extrica tion, but are even now protracting Captain Stuart's re turn, in the hope of reaping for his adopted country some valuable fruits from his self-imposed, but hitherto unsuccessful, toils. It may be some months before we witness the return of the hardy expeditionists • in the meantime we hope that enterprise so daring, and explo ratoratory ardour so enthusiastic, will not be without their reward. It is most satisfactory to know that the natives met with have in every instance been inoffensive and friendly.—Adckiide Observer. MEDICAL PROPERTIES OF TAR.—At a recent meeting of the Westminster Medical Society, Mr. Weatherfield read a paper en the external and internal use of tar in senile and other chronic eruptive diseases, and from the success which has attended Mr. Weatherfields practice it would appear that in many obstinate chronic cutaneous diseases, tar may be considered as a specific. He administers it externally in the form of tar ointment, and internally in the form of capsules. ASHTON. COAL-PIT ACCIDENT. —On Monday, a report was very prevalent in this town, that a most serious accident had taken place at the Broad Oak colliery, attended with the loss of many lives. We are happy, however, to say, that the accident, though serious, was much exaggerated. It appears that, for some days past, the coal behind the boiler and engine -house wall, at the bottom of one of the pits belonging to Lees, Jones, Booth, and Co. has been on fire ; the miners have been engaged, ever since this was known to be the case, in endeavouring to put it out, but the task has been found extremely difficult, in consequence of t 4, !, great heat arising from the burning mass, which is about 5P yards in extent. The men have for some days been tine t?l as e to . g!,t. near, so as to throw water upon it, and a driftwaVarecture to be ' cut in order that they might continue 0 il into the roof, water by means of a fire-engine which has been the pit for the purpose. The steam g ot bavin , ng i n g " shifts " on Monday morning, just as the men were k "aneu dirt above fell with nearly one hundred tons of the roe taken down a tremendous crash; fortunatelyad have been no less than menced work, otherwise 0 ginittreedjoin him, nereerlivehed to death. The persons twenty poor fellows 1 e ite_ Y oi _the men had not com .r.er ffaoshpnpFe7letcher, the engineer, who was and broke his 11 bo i near the boilers, when a por seexraionusthliin• co ar- ne, put lion of the roof stru ck Shoulder, nearly cut off his left thumb, and out his right injured him head 1 on the and other parts of hi s b o d y. A John Garside, was buried • miner, named in the mass, near the boilers; a piece of rock struck him on the head, ,making a most dreadful gash. This poor fellow was forced against the nearly red-hot bricks in the fire-hole, and. when extri cated his back was found to be almost boy, named Henry Marland , e • ea burned to a ci n d er . A leg. No others we re hurt. , T received a slight injury on the miner named Marl d f he men give great p rai se t o a an , father of the boy who was hurt, for the exertions he used in extricating those who were partially buried in the ruins. to exp __ . The &e The suferers are doing as well as can vciect, The Ire lii net Qate.-Xanchester Guardian.