The Sun. — London, England, 1846-03-02 00:00:00

broth Th014 1, r 5 nan and le of th e he Sorth of Cow Drapers t-gard e busies, The pi t _, observe' ! MaaJ A. Coxer °aid ,atieet t he amely' t ha :shot o f .1 asse t 0 0$ woutu A led had ez",, e , lent w e d a oPP L `; - 04. ,at fact into e3c,1013` d yet rA e , Rev- v Chairo)..se I the ef: 00 r a the 1 T hem e shed tor;', ;$R i° a die eleva te her O n tt , s• B oo. gre a tin T r r ff.co sward o u ld d be Vi The re ne th e t ra9 " l‘ P e bgi Lost 's% eced ia pr inAir ° l a c bad • net wit bas .yuck i 'otic h h ter.) Laug - t ,to , en Pu th i i - v4 som e h•ct and be 0, tde; , nt aPPI, e tropo o retur° W bpC 1 ,1011► the c°°- in pr I 50 ling re" r a e tc, eddev ~io, th e— - ioj t the t o, h b at c t e st bei i t 'a Colonel °Wet t SOY I a gist t to a s %; 5 i t I°l' o /1 1 Itittltioo 0 0- d' at A ice bau roPr ie „ t :b! 'el f e ' t hen' ent t of u , 6 oa r o rt i t'l j e tro.r. Lbsoial" and :,7-(Cheers.) He wou ld b e glad to see the press now ai ro i ren take it s f eet nff the scorching Bare li the plea sant walks of philanthropy. But perhapslt Much of i ts space as it co uld consistently do. The Ili' Moveme n t would not be limited in its effects to the eat or on e sex, for it would ultimately reach that t !tex e Woilkil!fteY departed at a late hour from that meeting,.. h y th'"old in shops, amid the glare of gas, toiling away, e t , e next morning with pallid cheeks and tottering limbs (Il ear e VY hour proceeding to the scene of renewed toil.— Wer e _ ,; `, l ear.) The victims Of tltis system, male and female „°'''° ninth the objects of commiseration, because they tit er i o 't beheld clothed in rags and in the other . roofbich wretchedness, but with the forced smile 'er e , deep and intense mental mis , ery. These Ilteeke`t,necessary evils of their system, but were blots and Nli n2 •tes on the face of socie y. He would conclude by 41 'viiibl' h t horn to persevere in their efforts, which must T he ~Y be crowned with success. 41AIRmax then put the resolution, which was carried Ituon a i r jbe R Y vJt k e v• Mr. DIBDIN then proposed, and the Rev. Dr.. k eill i n r ;: l c e n d: a vote of thanks to the Noble Chairman, in g which theY passed a high eulogium on the object of laid .N. oble CITAMMAN, in acknowledging the compliment, 444 tru sted their efforts would not cease till they had ,N 141 1 3, 2 6 , f emales of the metropolis, who were suffering tlie other sex, from the system they were tlie2ring,to abolish. mieeting then separated at twelve o'clock. THE ARMY. INC REASE OF THE ARMY. CIRCULAR MEMORANDUM. fell ow ' n HORSE G UARDS, FEB. 20. ic e 'i and -e's augmeetation t • certain corps of ca ll tr, 0 Infantry having been sanctioned by her Ma at an°,verotnent officers in command of the regi dePots Copnerned are requeged to use their tei~eliexertion s In raising men to complete their corps iet Yto the proposed etrength. The . men so its Rll tee , e" De borne as supernumeraries until the . Ist which date the increased__ establish euteorised by the War Office. t:esZir e ' n en per troop to be added to the following 41: 4 ra. e , 0 s ° f cavalry, viz. : -Ist, 2d. 3d, 4th, sth, and itch, ~riGuards ; Ist, 2d, and 6th Dragoons ; and 'th, Bth, 10th, 11th, 13th, and 17th Light • A ss• lie lits- ati ti t s 4ll .. g e r 9°otation of 400 rank and file to eight `set ur infantry at home, to be hereafter specially a. 1 4.4 i, vgisa er -- , rt. ase of 200 rank and file to the following li th l lair t 8 01 Infa n t ry, the serv i ce compan i es of wh i ch 41 , k IStbrvirlg abroad-viz., Ist battalion Royals, 7th, I t 19 th, 33 I, 34th, 35th, 38th. 46th, 48th Le t ,'„2l' 4 ' g , ( 2 d t,attal, on ). 66th, 72d, 73d, 77th, 79th, l t ; 4 "e e e l '' , 89th, 93d, and 95th R eg i m e n t, an d Ist kr, °Ne e Brig a d e . • tto ti r provid e f or t h e i mme di ate recru i t i ng o f yat „Zits and d e pots of infantry, an additional kteqsb, c orporal mar forthwith be appointed to kei ; 41 liF er Y at home, without the necessity of any qatir e secs to the officser commanding the regt t•00:1; but the appointment of the remaining 114 ,, t ,, e esv is e l i,"ued officers of each class to be allowed 4 SPaei a elishment must be reserved for the ser ioite, e s; where they will be appointed on the re thOpUer, and from whence they will be sent 04,, 6 earliest opportunity, together with any 14 414 y be at the same time supernumerary to tkh re i,,Vt,blishrnent of these companies. b tilk;k l , 4 ; BB Wi t h thil a be 26 non-commissioned officers of CeZsg, c,the depot, and only 24 with the service t:`Taie: -c 'esive of staff serjeants, but has not only 4s i! of the whole corps, but the staff of the 1 1 4 th has b e e i , P r ovided for, the distribution now pre :, th e ° deemed expedient . "te tt s rad e ments thus augmented to 1000 rank and Att e 'lee; 4 ers will be equally divided between the iilst,,e-roes and depot. N! to the regimints aboutlo be eugmented N t6 ror e ' and file, they ' will for the present yena . m, ii,)tthattehonsolidated in 10 companies , but . it is t i w n o - Stlpl'of six shall hereafter be divided into 4t fle e sciy c emPanieg each, in the same manner as eat .ergenieed on that footing. '44ltate seParetion and curing the period both bat e:‘,lll2li,l? h ' ome, tire non-commissioned offi lekd t t h e Pr 0 .1 ,7,!1Y divid e d between them,.. but when retetzl2abroad, the Ist : will . bat e t d at o io ffi n cr embark s leaving e ll4 e t t ll Z h h, ° kis at. the t il he i rri ni m m en is t g a i i h d l opot ; there ' to be Victj thve e hittalions g to which .they respectively ef those who from time to time may be ketif i tl C to t ,'„ lllt eediate discharge. „r'''vide for musicians. &c., the Ist batta e Q ij i n , r Ps, as well as the service companies of Vli" e nceforth be permitted to embark 560 t,, l tliOt ibe ' out they will carry with them only 540 tot I ta 4 sets of accoutrement ; and reserve 1 4. L: 4 40 "ing allowed bands will, as heretofore, el4iele,,jank and file. s n o an establishment of 1.200 rank and I l c't be 10d 6 5e,,, rummers with lit I,e,,, il l'iii eet e• and at the depot. e ;al„ °f an ensign at the depot of these rogi ,,,et`tletll~utshein,!Pr be ' required; each of the battalions ittenant for that duty, and the captain e 6 istr e ,,", hY the battalions alternately. k t iXte a l pe tl eolls be understood to apply as well "Itpd ''Y formed as to those now prop used tc, t ,let , rdi n i: l 4 •l they will be expected to conform •41 ,e e land Y* itite,u,tldlefr Fi l elt i M ef arshal the Duke of Wel lt • ' , JOHN MACDONALD, A.G. •; ; 4 IMATES. t, I lid,, aliztatesM for t EST he year ending 31st of March. r 1 08,608 officers, n on. c• •mni ssi on ed ta i`Er tllC and file and 6.250 horses for the t 44 and colonies. The number of her 11: • rifA r e - t's to be employed in the East Indies )11, 1 :ter:, non - commissioned officers, and rank ‘ , /,‘t i t r k ' 9 9e - ' IP „' - ' O6 horses. Of these troops 6.011 are 4 itai ,° ,2 - ooninais . sioned officers, and 123,100 Vie ;I, ke s ,„„ne cost for the land forces employed in t •t ,7os 6 ,,,` 46 ul and colonies will be 3,776.000/. • 't e e e 'ttioned in the East Indies 976,5171. staff officers will be 169.4351. ; N37,nts, 94 ,439/. • Royal Military College, Military Asylum and Hibernian I fer te : c ionteee corps 8,2751. and unprovided el i'' ( t i Years) 36,3011, making a total to be 11,1ese'lloting the cost of troops employed in L;tot,'``t,li9'l.:llPropriations in aid to the amount of ltl tia ll ihtin' .°ll . The charge for the noneefiective :1ee1,„ A .4) g r , of 75 ,316 / (after deducting approprut e.4\46ttiese'sel3,2o/. Total charge for the eff ctive `h outer " rvi ces, 6,082.901/ The non-effective Nilitarofeeerrewards for military service, army pay ,tLs re all ) pay of retired officers, half-pay riej llaatie,,waioces, foreign half-pay. widows' pen '4titprjiltrg -"pate allowances, &c. ; in pensioners and 11114 tlet fi ' l e ,nelsea and Kilmainham Hospitals, „ L t) , ()Iti:;• ailovvances. Y r .e, iu'latle,,,,l\TANCE ESTIMATES. clei;vt tip,. - . 's for the year 1846 7. are-For fo - ", I.2e l ' es • 2 594 352/ • and for the non-effeci ktz:P th, e'1•582/,' hein an .' addition to the esti ?ear 1 845-6 g of 401,447/ The charges tptillik.tltipelloetiinrduance corps are as follows :- Royal kil l, : . 4 44 4 4'4, 6? 1 : tbr x . , noYal Sappers and Miners, 45,390/.; • R,o,y al Horse Arti I lery, 36,043/ 6Par t , ' OlBl ; master . gunners, 4,074/.; 410 ent, 1,812/ 4 medical department, \1 : teee alb' 1 ,8121.; hospital expenses, Divine _ttels,slentof troops, and recruiting, „'erip,PaY, allowances, and contingencies of the Rein s e k ' 5 .670/. Commissariat and barrack V" , ) ti ti ',; ordnance 95,6031. ; establish );c6ttkrti4t r l 'ed Kingdom and colonies, 304.002/. ; 1 44 d a s and labourers, 125.392/. ; ordnance . 1 5 4!1P41,. 4 . -- ` sea service, 410,8714 ; works, build et -• 66 0 . i vuti rn ; scientific . branch, 61,327/. 4 \ v. service for the ensuing year are esti `' h"l7 eV' T otal effective and non-eff. ctive e l /: 4 '7/. 1j dr h head works, bnildings, ef, for fo rtifications e at home and abroad, 1401.0."In aric: ati ci n vil buildings, 261,195/. ; ' 02/. k PiT t . `Alt % Vie 4-1 ACCIDENT at GREEN -4(1 4 :EIREE LIVES LOST. - ',:ro ki `he t ,',' e lt , e 7 . eeld 4nt of a ver y distressing clearr ‘Nle 4P, r Persons were prematurely hurried • sitie fir in the ex t ens i ve chemical w orks A l ario p ro • Rills, situate near the Pilot, East the e :"" few peeticulers that could be 0b ,,,,V144ee, nnfusion the prevailed, we ascertained ViNi! Praneis Reeves, Thomas Birken, Nt e k etn, were employed in the factory le el Merge Ile • • pre- „ e e !sel in which some chemical i '•Lue o, m ei hardly got to . e ormer a „tele . ' s sgl when the fumee of the spirit . t 4t:46. ve reatue them, and '4ces the," both fell 4 1.6 .. 1ae r ,i 1 ,, a 5 a i.. te fellow not perceiving whet had ended'elle of assisting his fellow-we r . Y abased the 1 , same vessel, and almost 4 4 11,, Itt eity }se ,,,d, a n 1"e same fate. An alarm was . im• 1 : 1. 0 ti tee 4 11d ' . s evoral persons quickly repaired '4 N g a '' , a lama Desistance. Upon gaining the to lamentable sight presented itself. Il th i cae t ,7 hat tft w A e re observed lying in a heap at 14,", the' but to ere for the best the parties present N0 1 14,% 0e foreman of the factory, more 4 tij.hOlie r rB ' luctantly leaped into the place, • t eai e ; .rig the men. In this praisewor• Va tt % th e , ks,reiled, for no sooner had he got lik been fo e t ne fumes also overcame him, and A e t .ate t kl it te, ,l le a % o hoe ext raordinary exertions of others l iN, is „ery ex Ingrished ; it was he was got out k.. et 4 w4sPossib6lausted state. h i S Pr bre the three others were got out, and "asi st _ Ptly attendance, but not in time k 4 101),„' 4 e.a. life ineach being extinct. The :Y bently removed e t N th emoved to a neighbo . uring 'ti t re tir, t •e e h o coroner's inquest. It is re t, wi th t e eti,_ad received strict inunctions that °i l 4 4 , kl . f 4 li ghree r t h e Utensil until they had tried t t •e, tete ) , - candle toascertain whether or ts i sEtle. co t f Fa fat]. is order, it seems, was no t. ts N il: state:, .c.onseqeences that fellowed was 4 e epro `l v t i %tt . two of the deceased have U for. 41 th e ! ‘ :lttie tb, r 'pts e . n _alat g ero 2fro IlLic HT.-We are sorry . VOtti e4 ll4 / 11 , 7 th e e n of Potatoes are effected with th e 1 144 ' gard ene luP of last year. Mr. M'Ewen, ‘, l. t tub e thr ow r, has taken up from the frames h t ) • OP shoots 18 inches above the ahokNieette f eit ig nearly '41,; ()k id large enough for tee , tae, s em affected to a vele • 41, 4 41, tllritv. as to preclude all chance of ekti'lli e , The haulm has for some little '4 (1 , 1 , een , _,and the disease, being coi , ered with isl4: 4 4 t waplan,`,4,a)rts dying away. Mr. M'Ewen th e o ut of oors, and fou. , d, on exa n . 4,1 , I . l ley 1 1 ,1 ots were advanced two or three aelie 4 it e 'Ade v est net •40 Ni t PPeared above the sround, el tik a ; r an d k oroad, the shoots being in many tiestr e " sa ys he has not a doubt that Yeci 'Brighto* Gazette. -, fT THE MAGAZINES. BLACKWo9D. Of all the will, extravagant, and unfounded arguments in favour of the corn-laws we find the most r( markable in the article entitled " The Roman Campagna." It is to be regretted that so fine a subject for description, and one too so well treated, with this exception, by the writer, has been disfigured by political bias, and attempts to prop up a baseless theory by facts which have as little to do with the importation of foreign grain as the cap ture of Rome by the Gauls. Speaking of this wilder ness at ound the walls of the Eternal City, the writer justly says, "Its appearance produces an extraordinary impression on the mind of the beholder. All is silent, — the earth seems struck with sterility—desolation reigns in every direction. A space extending from Otrictili to Terracina, above sixty miles in length and on an aver 4ge twenty in breadth, between the Appenines and the sea, containing nearly four thousand Equare miles in the finest parts of Italy, does not maintain a single peasant." And a little further on—" The tew living beings to be met at the post houses have the squalid melancholy look which attests permanent wretchedness, and the ravages of an unhealthy atmosphere." This is all correct, excep as regards the universal desolation to the extent men Between the Pontine Marshes and Rome there are several towns, among others Velletri, Frascati, and Albano, with not a little agricultural cultivation; but it is the conclusion drawn from the present deplorable condi ton of a small portion of Italy to which we object.. Home had no corn-laws; Rome imported grain from Lybia and Egypt, the plain of Rome was converted into pasture land, the peasantry were driven away, the army could not be recruited with freemen, and the barbarians conquered the mistress of the world. The Cobdens of that period ruined the empire by throwing the " bold peasantry, a country's pride," out of employment. This Camplei a di Roma is a mere speck as compared with' the rest of Italy—a small strip running along the sea shore, and its depopulation could have no perceptible effect in diminishing recruits for the army. The depopulation was not produced by the importation of foreign grain, and the decay of agriculture, but by the malaria, which commenced before the establishment of the empire, and has been increasing ever since. During the mo-t fl air skiing times, mention is made of it : during cer tain seasons it was considered dangerous to reside in certain oistricts around the city, and in the time of Augustus, the Pontine marshes appeared to have pos sessed nearly the same character as at present. The journey of Horace to 13rundusium leaves no doubt of the fact. When ho passed the night at Forum Arpii, evidently much against his will, he declared war against his belly (ventri indico helium), because the water. as now, was must unwholserne (tet-rrima), and his slumbers were constantly interrupted by the croaking of the fen frogs, which still infest the lozality. The writer, there fore, must find out some other cause for this desolation than the absen aof corn-laws ; but so bent is he on his theory, that ne forgets other people can reason as well as himself, and asserts that the policy vf the different Roman Pontiffs may still be regarded as the cause why nu improvement has taken place., " It is so," he says, " because the weakness of the Papal Government, yield ing, like the imperial, in ancient days,, to the cry for cheap bread among the Roman populace, has fed the people from time immemorial with' foreign grain, instead of that of its own territory." Cheap bread, .heretore, has done all the mischief ; but if cheap bread really is the cause, will the writer explain how it hap pens that in the plains of Lombardy, and in the Legations, more especially in the district of Bologna, bread is - very cheap, and the country is in the very highest state o, agriceltural cultivation ? We fine nothing in the other articles that require much notice. " L's all for the bet" is concluded, and the " Student of Salamanca . ' has reached the fifth part. We hope the sixth will be the ,ast. A contributor with the signature "N. N. 'P." has furnishtd a translation of the 24th book of the Iliad, in English hexameters, and says he would not be reluctant to attempt the completion of an Iliad in the same verse We sincerel) hope he will not give himself the trouble, for it would never sell. Homer has been translated in various ways, but none, except the version by Pope, is r,adable. The rest have all sunk into oblivion, and we ere sure this would be the fate of a translation in English nexasieter. As many readers may be d -sirous of' know ing the opinions of North on Peel's plans, we give the °flowing extract from " Ministerial Measures," ' simply, remarking that the little word if, appears to be a great Fart rite : " Of the probable fate of this measure we shall venture no opinion.. The enormous amount of private business which of late years has been brought before the Houses of Parliament —the importance and the number of the internal improve inents which depend upon their sanction, and in which almost every man of moderate means has a stake, are strong proba bilities against any immediate dissolution of Parliament, or an appeal to the judgment of the country. But there is no policy equal to truth, no line of conduct at all comparable to consistency. We have not hesitated to express our extreme regret that this measure should have been so conceived and ushered in ; both because we think these changes of opinion ou the part of public men, when unaccompanied by sufficient outward motives, and in the teeth of their own recorded words and actions, are unseemly in themselves, and calculated to unsettle the faith of the country in the political morality of our statesmen—and because we fear that a grievous, if not an irreparable division has been thereby caused amongst the ranks of the Conservative party. Neither have we hesitated —after giving all due weight to the arguments adduced in its favour—to condemn that measure, as, in our humble judg ment, uncalled for and attended with the greatest risk of dis astrous consequences to the nation. If this departure from the protective principle should produce the effect of lessening the tillage of our land, converting corn-fields into pasture, depriving the labourer of his employment, anr; permanently throwing us upon the mercy of foreign nations for our daily supply of corn, it is impossible to over-estimate the evil. If, on the contrary, nothing of this uhould take place—if it should be demonstrated by experience that the one party has been grasping at a chimera, and the other battling for the retention of an imaginary bulwark, then—though we may rejoice that the delusion has been dispelled—we may well be pardoned some regret that the experiment was not left to other hands. Our proposition is simply this, that if we can not gain cheap bread without resorting to other countries for it, we ought to continue as we are. Further, we say, that were we to be supplied with cheap bread on that condition, not only our agricultural but our manufacturing interest would be deeply and permanently injured; and that so com mercial benefit whatever could recompense us for the sacri fice of our own independence, and the loss of our native re sources." • THE NEW MONTHLY. Popular names, with their " lengthened sweetness long drawn out," constitnte the chief attraction, as usual, of Colburn ; for we are treated in this number with additional " Echoes from the Backwoods," by Cap tain Levinge, good chattering echoes of their class—a continuation of the " Privateer's-Man," by Captain Marryat, forming a reminder of a bye-past style of novel writing—more about " The Travels and Opinions of Mr. Jolly Green," hodge-podge vagaries, half- French half-Cockneyism, like a grisette in a Denstable bonnet—another chapter of " Beauchamp," by the in exhaustable G. P. R. Tames, describing a struggle near a river, and ending with true melodramatic effect, " both plunged in together into a deep pool, and disap peared for an instant in the water "! ! !—tresli " Lights and Shades," by W. H. Maxwell, cleverly written and sparkling.—new pen-and-ink sketches of Lords Stowell and Eldon—but whew ! let us take breath after such a long-winded catalogue. Of poetry' there is no defi ciency, videlicet a nondescript bit of comicality, by Charles Booton, entitled " The Raven," in which moral aphorisms are deduced from a bird's bill, instead of a doctor's. If imitators may be taken as a criterion of the originality or genius of the prototype, then was .lEsop one of the most genuine originals, and one of the loftiest intellects that eve! inhaled oxygen, or strutted forth upon the, earth a—rational biped. Nor can we regard this estimation of his character as too eulogistic. We would back that helot, with his hump-back and his ragged garments, against the wisdom of any ten lexicographers that can be picked out of any university, in any generation ; we would wear his effigy, graven upon a precious stone, upon our finger, as about the noblest symbol of human intelligence. His words were rugged and misshapen as himself, hut they contained thoughts of singular eleva tion ; they were jewels buried deeply in the mire, but they wi-re worth digging for any day out of the three hundred and sixty- five. To return, however, to our magazine lyrics, Edward Senealy sings us "An Irish Romance," and his hands stray among the stringsi w ith no little felicity ; while J. E. Carpenter — ( n reality he sweetest ballad-writer of his day)—attempts something very pretty indeed about a calm at sea, but fails most signally in the effort. How such balderdash, in the shape of metre, can ever' be claimed by a writer of remaunts like Carpenter, we cannot conjecture. We suspect Master Apollo is hoarse with carolling overmuch, in which case he should remain silent for the mince. Of Mrs. Butler's three poems we shall say no thingsince field flowers occasionally have their deficiency thus are the corn poppies brilliant but - scentless. A "Gallop to Gretna" is a reminiscence of a power , now like Saturn's, extinct ; it gives a spirited description cf one of those boarding-schoel flights which, by a stern parliamen tary enactment are at the present moment little better ti: en " fights of imagination." One other contribu kw and our notice of the New Monthly will terminate. Pe tee' Priggins gives us a new adaption of the fable res pecting " Town and Country ;" somewhat inferior to his ordinary gossip, though still animated with his affection fol . fun and his loathing for the unprincipled. Th e foregoing' enumeration of articles will give some indication of the variety and merit of the March number. BENTLEYS MISCELLANY. Mr. Maxwell, as author, and A: r. Leech, as artist, open the present number with a contWuation of " Brian 0' Linn." Mr. N. A. Wells follows, with an'amusing account of a month's residence at Madrid; and then we have a paper of sterling historical 'Ale from the pen of D. W. C. Taylor, entitled "Chesterfield and his Times." The following passage, with which the i.Naper concludes, is a just estimate of the character of Chesterfield: — "His own character was factitious; and he therefore re garded the characters of others as artificial, and he set about their examination as if habits of mind were subject to the same laws as costume and decoration. The world was to him a huge masquerade ; he played the part of the most accom plished diplomatist of the - . French and fashionable school. There was calculation in his frivolity, and intense selfishne-a in alibis actions. He was an actor in a drama; and his whole ambition was concentrated, not in the success of the piece, hnt of that special portion which it was his choice to maintain. Systematic frivolity, the sacrifice of principles to appearances, a contempt for humanity, an opinion that men were instrumenit to be employed and women creatures to be deceived, a heartless indifference to all the obligations which can arise from sympathy and affection; such were the ele ments of the philosophy which Chesterfield professed, and on which he stedfastly acted. "A great philosophical experiment was tried by the states man whose career we have been contemplating ; the sfish theory of morals as preached by Hobbes, and practically expounded by Ruchefpucauld, was tested in actual life, with , every advantage it could derive from elegance grac e, and re finement, contrasted with a grossness of prevailing manners bordering on brutality. How did it succeed ? There is no more. lamentable failure in our history. Chesterfield never gained a triumph. Baffled as a statesman, disappointed as a • 1 / 4 - politician, sager-attenuated as a leader of fashion, rejected 2 TILE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY' as a literary guide of public opinion, deprived of all social and domestic enjoyments, his exquisite talents served only to etlsure the shipwreck of his happiness and his fame. One b.-ief gleam of sunshine appears in his dark career—his vice-, ro raity in Ireland; but this owed its brightne-s to his tem p.;l %try abandonment of his system. In Ireland he was cora pall ed to grave affairs ; for the vices of Dublin were too gross, and its dissipation too brutal to be enjoyed by a man of refittement ; he was far from the gaming-tables of St. James's, from the saloons of royal mistresses, from the levees of heirs apparent, from the circle of Lady Yarmouth, and from the intrigues of the royal closet. Thus circumstanced, he laid aside frivolity to adopt utility, and thus eight months of contradiction to his own principles form the redeeming epoch of his life." It is not often that we meet with a paper of such sterling character. in the pages of Bentley. The " Out pourings" of D. Canter are continued, but the wine is getting low and vapid. The present libation is an out pouring of twaddle. The nest paper, " The Last Days of Riego," by Mrs. Romer, is a spirited contribution to the romance of history, and affords another illuqra tion of the truth of, the aphorism—that truth is stranger than fiction. In addition to the illus tration of " Brian O'Linn," we have a beau tiful engraving by Cook, from Sir Joshua Reynold's portrait of the Countess of Cork, accompanied by an amusing sketch of the life of that indefatigable Lion hunter. We have the Tipperary Hall (a by . no means unsuccessful imitation of •the Noctes Ambrostanse) and the " Zoology of the Gent.," by Albert Smith, an excel lent paper, full of genuine satire (as contradistinguished from lampoon) sparkling with wit, and not wanting in wisdom. We hope Mr. Albert Smith will continue his popular zoology. AINSWORTH. Culled from the original of Alexander Dumas, the chapters of the " Count of Monte Christo" are continued with unabated, if not increased, spirit ; Mr. Ainsworth's romance of " Old Saint Paul's" (the in. judicious revival of which we commented upon last month) is continued also; the "Life and Writings of Nimrod," in like manner, reach another installment ; while Dudley Costello obliges us with some additional " Passages in the Private History of my Poodle." Al though we are desirous of not pursuing a wearisome re monatrance with the gentleman to whose editorship this magazine is consigned, we would again entreat him, with the utmost earnestness, to avoid any future re.usitation. Harrison Ainsworth's imagination is too copious to com pel him to sustain his literary reputation by reprints. Where, we may surely inquire, are the "Lancashire Witches?" where is the conclusion of the "Revelations of London?" If Mr. Forrest cannot manufacture any effusion superior. to " The Goblin Steed," we would re commend him to appraise his escrutoire, and sell it at a sacrifice. Never was there a more hacknied legend than that respecting goblin steeds; we have been treated over and over again to goblin steeds, to all appearance shod in phosphoric smithies; goblin steeds perspiring little rivulets of fire; goblin steeds with saddles, of course of asbestos. These same goblin steeds have been de scribed again and again with the same break-neck rhythm, the same invariable moonlight, the same con ventional " Away and away went the coal-black steed!" May this unhappy repetition be the last ! We take leave to assure Mr. Forrest, and the whole tribe of poetasters. that goblin steeds are sadly at a discount—after Lord Byron's " Mszeppa," nothing of the description is re quired. Charles 11,oton's " Immaterialities : or, Can such Things be ?"- we conceive to .be s capital joke ; the serieusness with which he pretends to wail the decay of credence in ghosts is ethnical beyond measure. He hath a sneaking kindmess for spectral illusions, and utters the following lamentation upon the practical character of this generation—the passage is rife with wholesome truths : " Our household gods are metal and paper, to whom we sacrifice six days. . . Our very poetry is mixed up with machinery—our inspiration springs from the breadbasket, and our sympathies are sown upon poverty like a patch with needle and thread.' The pity of the bard goes hand in hand with a quartern loaf; and the shirts upon our back: loudly reproach us with the pining misery of the weary sempstress who fitted their parts together. The phan tom ship, the fat,: morgana, the giant of the Brecken, the warriors and horsemen of the clouds, are all put to flight by the science of optics; the kraken is destroyed—not by har poon or gunshot, but by the log books of voyagers who never saw him; astrology is a lie, dreams are idle nonsense, and spectres result only from a disturbance of the brain and visual organs." For this the writer is (or assumes to be) mournful : for this we are right joyous. 'Those have but a maudlin estimation for the invisible kingdom, who pine for the flarksorne ages of credulity, who weep for the gnome, and the pixy, and the hbbgoblins of our forefathers, and who are filled with a sullen disgust of those divine sciences by which these nothings have been scared away from the general mind. With hydraulics, and mechanics, and chemistry, and steam-power, and all those glorious causes and effects of intellect, we are not, as some erro neeusly imagine, degraded either in our rationality or our poetry. Nobly has Keats announced that "the poetry of earth is never dead." Superstition and ignorance are no increasers of our happiness, God knows ! and under the category of superstition or of ignorance the absurdities already mentioned can alone be classed. Our bards, it is true, hold " a dear quartern loaf " in one band and their lyre in the other— but are not their themes thus san-tified with a purer and a holier greatness in pleading for the woes and sufferings of their fellow-men? The bay-leaves would sweeten custards for those that want not.; the haff of bread would allay the pangs of famine felt by thos4 that want ; which of these two aspirations is the greater? The earth itself is fraught with such subtle and exhaustless beauty, that we need no stimu lants from any bugbears of a diseased fancy. Viewing things in this light, the world without is Lkut an index, is bat a channel, is . but a golden passport, to the world within. " How a Charade is solved by a Codicil "is another of those pleasant, rattling, off-hand papers, in penning which ohirley Brooks has so much facility. "Lady Alice Kyteler " is also fully entitled to a perusal. As a caterer for public taste, Mr. Ainsworth has again shown himself this m-nth a proficient ; the minority of the articles are frivolous, the majority are clever. TAIT'S. Mr Baron Hume, nephew of the historian, it is well known in the literary world, possessed for many years all the papers, documents, letters, &c., left by his uncle, and strong wishes were often expressed that the most important of them would be given to the world during his life-time. They were, however, kept from the know ledge of the world up to his death, and about that period were intrusted to the Royal Society of Edinburgh, to be disposed of as that learned body might think proper. Mr Hume has now been dead for many years, and little or nothing was heard of them, till the announcement of a work, entitled " Life and Correspondence of David Hume, from the papers bequeathed by his nephew to the Royal Society of Edinburgh, and other Original Sources." This work has been drawn up by Mr John Hill Burton, Advocate, and published by Tait, and as far as we can juige of it, from the brief notice in the present number, possesses deep interest, and will be eagerly perused by literary men. Hume was one of the most conspicuous men of his age, his philosophical works, notwithstanding their sceptical character, have been much read and admired ; his history, though liable to strong objections. is still the history of England ; he associated with the 'brightest geniuses of a period remarkable for characters, celebrated in every department of literature and science; and, as a proof how little his philosophical disquisitions were considered injurious to Christianity, he was the intimate friend of some of the most orthodox clergymen of the Scottish church. Several of their letters are found among his papers. and they satisfac torily refute a story circulated by the Quarterly Review, that dn.. Scottish clergy at that period were a set of hy pocritical sceptics and scoffers. Mr Burton, and some of the gentlemen forming the Council of the Royal So diety, had examined all the correspondence, and " found nothing whatever to give colour to such an accusation." We find in this collection a brief account of Hume's appearance, given by Lord - Charlemont, who happened to meet him at Turin, while a young man, on his travels. Hume was at that time secretary to Lord St. Clair, then on a military embassy to the Courts of Turin and Vienna. The following is the picture drawn by the yOung Irish Peer Nature, I than believe, David utim never formede The any powers ma n or more py u s nS n e o m) his t, real character t were baffled by his countenance ; ne ith er could the skilful in that science pretend to discover th e sma ll est trace moa of the faculties of his mind in the unmeaning features of his visage. His face was broad and fat, his mouth wide, and without any other expression than that of imbecility. His eyes vacant and spiritless, and the corpulence of his whole person, was far better fitted to communicate the idea of a turtle-eating alderman, than of a refined philosopher. His speech in English was rendered ridiculous by the broadest Scotch accent, and his French was, if possible, still more lau ;hable; so that wisdom most certainly never disguised herself before in so uncouth a garb. Though now near fifty years old, he was healthy and strong; but his health and strength, far from being advantageous to his figure, instead of manly comliness, had only the appearance of rusticity. His weaong an uniform added greatly to his natural awk wardness, for he wore it like a grocer of the trained-bands." The Reviewer calls this a " true portraiture." Now, we have no hesitation in saying that it is not only much surcharged, but in several respects devoid of truth. In none of the portraits of Hume that we have seen is he represented with his " mouth wide." He had thick lips, like most of his family, but they bad nothing of that appearance of stupidity which this portraiture of him implies ; probably he was awkward in his military uni form, did not button his coat ao well, or tie his sash so much in style, as the dashing young Irishman, but we have no doubt Hume thought that Lord Charlemont's Irish accent was infinitely worse than his own ; and as to his French being " still more laughable," the fact that Hume in his youth resided three years in France, had mixed with the learned both at Rheims and La Fleche, and disputed with them many intricate points of philosophy in their own language, and, while at Paris, was the especial favourite of the wits of both sexes, would lead almost to conviction that these remarks of Lord Charlemont were destitute of truth. Besides this we have several articles in the number above mediocrity, independent of a humorous one by De Quincy, on " The Memoirs and Correspondence of the Marquis Wel lesley." Tait is highly pleased with the measures of Peel. The following is the -Postscript to " Politics of the Month :" " At the time when we go to press, it is impossible to say ffhat will be the immediate fate of the Ministerial mea sure c its authors ; and the rapid march of events may b a ffl e conjecture, and fal s ify o ur conc l us i ons b e f ore t h ey can e publisisa4 This much is certain ; the Ministerial mea sure, in all its integrity at the least, will be carried. It was coolly and suspiciously received at first, but with every suc cessive day it has grown more acceptable. The public snuffed a t it as a dog does at a piece of meat thrown down to him by a stranger or suspected person ; and, like the dog, ap pears inclined to finish by bolting it greedily. In the City, 1 meaning thereby in 'the money market of London, Peel is strong. The very faults of his character strengthen him with the rich burghers upon 'Change. He is looked upon as - a prosaic' safe Minister: we baye heard his measure rapturously applauded by some of these capitalists before .they could possibly have mastered its details, who would have exclaimed against the tithe of its innovations as revo lutionary and destructive, if proposed by any other states- rm 7,-\[7* 4 „ MO RgING, MARC 2, 1848. man of the day. The faith in Peel which a n i ma t es th e 'Change of London, has an influence, greater or less, in all our manufacturing and commercial centres of activity. A few Cobdens may rise superior to this indiscriminating idola try, but Peel is the man of the great money-making inte rest.or the corn aanndd, r h a e lic i a s n t f he th m e a o n ld of theminory among t borough-mon gering party, who see the necessity of confoimin to the new state of society. Owing to these circurnstanaasi he Is a Wm' m hi m self, The Liberals of 0 shades, see more r .er clearly, that he is engaged in a duel with the oP ar less 0 ' landowners etheother h 0_ giant of With half-a-dozen On the batauts are not very unequal. The talk of • st:inding out for acrecl:boroughmongernig, and that the farces higher principles, and falling back upon P 'l in the event of it may be earnest: but the „ 'Lams have made up their minds to eon with his oft r, lite Protectionists feel this, and feel a defeat, is mere grimace and affectatir:. that the game is up with them. Te sharpest sti y i have yet felt, was on the first night oft he talk on MrMies's amenament in the House of Commons, when they were al lowed to rise one after another to vent their spleen, no one thinking it worth while to reply to them. Even under this provocation, their tone was querulously despondent and con sciously feeble, not robustiously indignant. They uttered their complaints with the bated breath and whispering humbleness of bondsmen. They deprecated personalities-- speaking all the time from purely personal motives—from an awkward conviction that they are very assailable. The landed interest will be found as completely paralyzed in its own exclusive house as in that where it has of late years been bearded by a strong and growing minority, now a ma jority, The Pate of Wellington is doing his work admirably He invites his malcontents one by one to personal interviews; puts them under a disad vantage by asking them to explain why they oppose a measure which he professes to 'think ad mirable; allows them to flounder on from depth to depth in the chaotic inanity of their own minds; and dismisses them labouring under the amazing reflection that they have not been able to advance onevalid argument against Peel's reform, , and ready, after a few days' uneasy self-worry, to acquiesce in it from utter helplessness. "The measure, we have little doubt, will pass both Houses without any dissolution. And then a general election can not be very far distant. If there are men in the country who entertain clear practical notions of administrative politics, who are moved by ambition to take part in public business, and sufficiently affluent to be able to devote themselves to the pursuit without compromising their independence, at that general election they will have a rare chance of success. If there are constituencies really independent of party, and anxious only for good government, they will be on the watch , for such candidates. In choosing men for the next Parlia ment, it is not the pedantic formulm of political creeds, but practical views of administrative reform, and an earnest de termination to spare no .exertions to realise them, that ought to be looked to. The first and second Reform Bill Parliaments have pretty well broken up old parties, the third may show us the formation of a new one, adapting its practice and professions to the new balance of political power." DOUGLAS JERROLD'S. Although Juniper Hedgehog is silent during March, and although the editor's excellent story of " St. Giles and St. James" is again postponed, this number is equal in other respects to any of its predecessors. First and foremost, " The History for Young England" is once more introduced, and brings us to the reign of John " 'Ackland," with its usual epigrammatic style of narra tive. " A Plea for our Climate" is good--thoroughly good ; it is sagacious, well-toned, and novel in every particular. We would transcribe it entire, did space permit--here, however, is its conclusion " By our ability to remain out of doors, without risk or in convenience, more hours per day and more days per year in England than in almost any other country—bv our exemp tion from whirlwinds, tornadoes, earthquakes, siroccoes, simoans—by our escape from seasons of ceaseless rain, cease less heat, ceaseless cold—by our longer and more healthy lives—by the heroes and heroines whom our skies have bent over—b . ) the harmless glories of our majestic woods, the rich greenery of our fields— by the fruits we eat, the flowers we smell, the birds we hear, the beasts we have and the beasts we have not, and the inoffensive reptiles we possess, and the offen sive reptiles we do not--by all these considerations on all these grounds, I call upon the reader, even though an easterly draught be chilling him, or a London fog be bli n di ng hi m, or a sudden rattling sh ower be destroying his hopes of a pleasant walk before dinner, to bear those little inflictions in good humour, to look upon them in the light of slight drawbacks to the general excellence, the general healthful ness of the climate of Great Britain." " The Masquerade of of Society," " A Plea for the World belew Stairs," " Old Misery the Miser," the " Uses of Fools," end other contributions, are brim ming over with a shrewd knowledge of mankind, and an ardent loneing for the regeneration of all classes— a spi.it which is so admirably and unaffectedly incorpo rated with this periodical. A paper entitled " The Press and the People," is too meagre for a theme so immense and important. We cannot convey our sentiments upon this subject better than by quoting some opinions of our own, recently published elsewhere, upon " THE NEWSPAPER PRESS OF ENGLAND. " The magazines, the reviews, the serial romances, and the prodigions bulk of newspapers, form at once the chronicle and the phenomenon of our own immediate times. Through their medium, the doctrines of our thinkers are promulgated throughout the world, and obtain the widest circulation. Through them, very frequently, a mind is awakened to its destined impulse, as with a flash of electricity, at the beck of the wand of that ipvisible, but potent and terrible magician —the press—that mighty engine, whose silent but indomitable voice penetrates the uttermost limits of the globe, vivi fying with its inexorable eloquence the germs of inte grity and independence; at one moment branding some petty charlatan with its playful but irksome scorn at another, warning a despot in some distant land of the epoch of his doom. Much, indeed, woukl our predecessors marvel at the vigour, the copiousness, the diffusion, and the inexhaustible energies of this new creation. Summoned into being by man's instinctive thirst for regeneration, the press is simultaneously sus tained by, and sustaining, the liberty of intellect and action—it is at once the tyrant and the embodiment of republicanism, the tyrantover individual domination, the fosterer of universal freedom. With its emissaries ever on ihe alert, and scattered throughout the various terri tories of the earth, stimulated to novel exertions by an ever-present spirit of competition, roused into new de velopment by the ceaseless alterations of society, the press, as a monitor of the populace, is ever increasing in its influence, and strengthening in its strength. But that such should be the case cannot create astonishment, when it is remembered that its vitals are the amass ment of many thousand minds —that it stands forth the representative of human intelligence —that it is the creature of the logi-ian, the analyst, the politician, and the philosopher. Occasionally, without question, ,this being rebels against its own creator, as in the instance of America, where, nourished in its malice by the moral turpitude of the social system, and given up to the most licentious abandonment, it pollutes the commonwealth by its baleful presence, and rules it only as a very demon would. There, a great nation is at length becoming conscious that, like another Frankenstein, it has warmed into existence a creature of hideous aspect and of horrible capacity—a monster which now constitutes its greatest misery—one that, unless annihilated, may ultimately prove its downfall. The characteristic, however, which is most conspicuously visible in the newspapers is that of their rapidity of giving information ; nothing is more significant of the present age than this quality in our daily literature. A vo l um e, yet damp from the pressure of the type, is elaborately dissected on the very even ing after publication; before a bandage is yet adjusted over a broken limb at the hospital, the accident is detailed in every journal ; while the actress is still engaged in removing the rouge from her countenance, a criticism on her performance is being set up' by the compositor ; the orator at a public assembly, on resuming his seat, has the first portion of his address thrust into his hands already printed, with the intimation left speaking,' at its conclusion. These circumstances would have savoured of black-magic to our progenitors ; but society has become habituated to their recurrence, and no longer regards them as miraculous. For our own part, however, we never perceive the broad-sheets of our newspapers, yet reeking from their passage through the labyrinth of the printing-machine, without an internal exiareation of, Honour to the Press Honour to the manes of Guttenberg 1" The foregoing is some slight exposition of the marvel so mincingly treated upon in the present number of Jcrrold's Magazine. A " Winter Scene," by J. Scholes, is an exquisite piece of blank verse, which lack of space alone prevents us from reprinting. Most of the other articles are of value, and the whole collection is worthy of its editor's supervision. The decision upon the charge brought at the Man— sion-house, by Mr. White, a surveyor, against a gentleman.. whose name was attached to the prospectus of a company, as one of the provisional committee, has been postponed t.. Monday week. Mr. Augustus Paget has been appointed Precis Write r in the Foreign Department, in the room of Lord Henry' Lennox, who resigned that office on being returned to Par liament for t'hichester, under the direction% of his father, the Duke of Richmond.—Obser►er.. • [ADYERTISEMENT.]—The Earl of Aldborotigh and Holloway's Pills.—Aa astounding ,Cure .by this miraculous Medicine after every other means bad failed. See extract el his Lordship's letter dated Villa Messina, Leghorn, Feb. 21, 1845. "To Professor Holloway. Sir,—J beg to acquaint . you that your pills have effected a cure of a disorder in vny liver and 'tonne!) which all the most e minent of the faculty at home and all over the Continent ha d not been abl e to effect. Nay, not even the waters of Carlsba d or Marienbad. ( Signed.) Aldborough."—These wonderful P ills will cure an y disease of the liver and stomach.—Sold (450 _Holloway's O in t ment ) at Professor Holloway's establishment, 244, Strand and by rill medicine vendors throughout the civilised world in 1788, and entered the army Hussars, in room of DEATH OF LIEUT.-GENERILL SIR JAMES KEARNEY', u n COLONEL OF THE 7TH HUSSAXII.—This Officer expired 0 11 ; M L O i n e da t y e last, t, , Dec. 20, 1842. at,his seat in Ireland. He was born a lB an ll o2 t i ; in 1794, being at the time net mere than sixteen r, y ll7 : ll9 : o4 rs ar o L f 2i T te . with the ; ded the 2d_ c3ormaymi9s,sioin7suar;ecthaputsainst,atmed:y—C, 301rn,tit7,9;;ebia.02843, Colonel, Geiiera,, Aug. Nov. 25 , 23, 48 4 19 1 : ataidorelonneelraofl, thJaley7t2h2H, eTthxhepee,DGlliaatriiolqansnuitatooofffisAtc.enprgsloeemsrveiynegdo(aiarpinptcrewtedrehtteoraetnhnde; Blues ) , e u s e.:: oirnn teas. Dragoon Guards with the army of o ccupation in France. He married. in 1802, the eldest daughter of Clayton Bayly, Esq, The Courrier Francais announc es that, after the ae. conchement of Queen Victoria, the Duke a nd Du chess de Nemours are to repair to London, and return to France with her Britannic Majesty. We believe that we may announce that the season at her Majesty's Theatre will commence on Tuesday next. The exten sive all, rations which have taken place in the decorations prevented its opening on Saturday, y soc a ia m te aj d or S it u y rg o Surgeons were also as was originally contemplated. ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGE , NS. Thursday night, Feb. 26 —There was a tolerably full a ttendance of the C7otoun4c.ll Thethi „ this cl cying, the President Hi the chair. A warm discussion arose on the subjects of the oration, and the offensive conduct o f . Mr, Law rence. A vote of censure on the politico - m edical part of the oration was propose d , seconded, ofthede p a u n ta d ti c o a n rr o ie f d As b ' considered, but nothing final was settled with respect to them, and the subject is adjourned to the next meeting of the Council. An Opinion generally prevails that Mr. Lawrence must retire from pro fessional life.—Loncet. CONVICTS FOR VAN DIEMEN'S LAND.—The, Nymph Woolwich steam-packet, took down to Woolwich 100 convicts from Milbank Penitentiary on Wednesday, and the Ariel and Fairy steam packets 100 convicts each yesterday, for the purpose of being put on board Ihe Palmyra hired barque, moored off the Royal Arsenal, to convey"them to Van Diemen's Land. A convict guard of the 6 th Foot has arrived from Chatham, and will take charge of the convicts to their destination, and afterwards join the head-quarters of the regiment in New South Wales, MONEY and (From T' The sales of Co the trade. S' to purely , " The* to ). JMMERCIAL NE WS. ne Sun of Saturday Evening.) dton at Liverpool yesterday were 4,000 bales, all to dares were dull and the opportunity seemed favourable ..e good railway stock at low prices. .e is not much information in the American papers which came .and this morning, in addition to that given in another part of Ahe Sun. The news is satisfactory. We have a firmer market for Stocks to-day, but the principal basi ness is in the Three•and-a-Quarter per Cents., which have touched 98% %. Bank Stock is steady, at 208%. Consols have advanced to 96% % for transfer next week, and to 96% n for time. The "glorious" majority of 97 has done it all. Exchequer-bills are quiet, at 355. to 375. premium. In the Foreign Market Spanish Bonds are flat, at 26% % for the Five per Cents.; Three per Cents., however, being relatively firmer. Portuguese Four per Cent. Stock is at 58 ; Mexican have advanced to 31% ; Grenada are 22%; Dutch Two and a Half per Cents. have bola 59% %. Shares look rather better this morning, but with only a small business doing. Brighton have been 65% ; and Staines and Rich- mond.have been run down to 1% %. French shares are in request. BRITISH FUNDS. ONE CLOSING O'CLOCK. PRICES. Bank Stock 208% 208% Three per Cent. Reduced Annuities .. 96%% 96% Three per Cent. Consols Annuities 96% 14 9654 New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cent. Anna. 98% f 4 %► 98% Long Annuities, Expire •Jan. 5, 1860 Ditto, 30 years, Oct. 10, 1849 India Stock .. India Bonds, 1,0001. .. .. .. 262 .. .. 42 10 1 ,4 262 Bank Stock foi Account .. Cousols for Account • • • • . 96% % 7 xchequer I%d. .I%d. 1,0001. 37 35 -- pm. 35 5001... 35 37 pm. 37 Ditto. 37 pm. 37 Ditto, Advertised •• 34 —— pm. "34 ONE CLOSING FORMAN FUNDS. O'CLOCK. PRICES. Danish, 3 per Cent -. • • .. 89% 89% Grenada, 1 per Cent . 22% 23 Mexican Bonds, 1837 , 2 . per Cent .. 31% Ditto, for the Account 31% 31% Ditto, Deferred .. 17% 17 Portuguese Four per Cents .. 58 59 Ditto, for the Account • • • • .. 58% Spanish Bonds, 5 per Cent .. Ditto, for the Account Ditto, Three per Cent .. .. Ditto, for the Account .. Venezuela Bonds, 2 per Cent .. .. 45 Ditto, Deferred .. .. Dividends on the above payable In Landon. Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cent .. U%% 59% Ditto, 4 per Cent. Certificates .. 95% 95% BUSINESS CLOSING PAID. DONE AT ONE O'CLOCK. I!RICES. 2% • . 126% 32 2 26% 4 PRICES OF - RAILWAY SHARES. Amber., Notting., Boston and Eastern Junction .. 2% 2% .. Birmingham and Gloneester..loo • • Ditto New (issed at 7% dis.) 17% ... Birmingham and Oxford Junction 2 .... 2% . ... IBristol and Exeter .. .. 70 86 ........ Caledonian . 10 .... la% % •.. Ditto, Half Shares 2%.... 3% Ditto, Extension .. 2%.... Chelmsford and Bury .. 1% .. % .• • • Churnet and Blythe .. 2 .. 1% ........ Cornwall and Central Devon .. 2% .... % Direct Manchester (Remington's) 2% .... 1% Direct Manchester (Rastrick's) .. 5% .. 3% ..... •• • Direct Northern • • • • 2 % •• • • 2 %••• • • • Dublin and Belfast Junction .. 5 ........ Dublin and Galway .. .. 4 .... 4 3 Faustern Counties 141. 16e. .... 22 ,%% P.... Do, Perpet., b per Cent. No. 1.61. 13s. 4d. Ditto, York Extension .. 10s. _ Goole, Doneast., and iheffield, &a. 425. 114 p Grand Union (Nottingh. & Lynn) 1% .... 1%1( Bull and Selby .. 50 _ _ Isle of Axholme . 2% 1%.... Lancaster and Carlisle .... .. 35 .... •• • Liverpool and Leeds Direct .. 2% .... 1% •• . ..... London an I Birmingham ... .100 ....224 • • • London and Birmingham Extens. 1%•• • • London and Blaekwall .. 16/. 13s. 4d. 8% x d London and Brighton .. 50 654 Consol. Eighths .. 40 54%......... Ditto ditto Fifths .. .. 20 .—. 30 .. London and South-Weeern.. 41/. 6s. 10d. •• • • •• • Ditto. IstewConsol. Eighths 28 .... ••••• • • • • London, Warwick, & Kiddermins. 234.... 134 ......... Lunfaa,i, Salisbury, and Yeovil .. .... Lynn and Dereham .. 5 .... blancthester and Leeds'.. .. 82 .... ..... Ditto, Fifths .. 1 .... 12 Ditto, Sixteenths .. 6M. . . . 10 Ditto Extension 425..... 331 p...... • Itianehester, Buxton, & Matlock 425..... 2....... Men,hester and Southampton .. 2 .... 234 ......... Midland .. ..100 —14734 148% ... Witte, New .. 18 .... 33V, 33 Ditto, Birmingham and Derby 100 ....118 . .Newcastle and Darlington Junct. 25 Ditto, Now .. 1 .... 10% Ditto, New, Brandling .. .. 29 .• .. 38 Wortit British .. .. 20 .... 27 .. • • .... • Ditto, Half Shares .. 6 .. .... 9% Dit to, Carlisle Extension .. 1 .. 2 X . NorWiKent and Direct Dover .. 2%.... 2%% a North Staffordshire 425. •• .. 3X p Siorthmpton,Banbury,& Chelthm. 2 .... -- Oxfd ,Worcester, & Wolverhmptn. 12% .... 14 4 . Preston and Wyre • . .• 25 .... 34% Shrewsbury and Birmingham .. 2%.... 3% ......... 3hreyrsbury and Hereford .. 2%.... % die....... South Devon .. .. 35 .... 33 ••• • • • ... Sou tit Midland 425..... _l% 2 p.. • • • Soath Eastern and Door 3234 . 381,4 . 'Do., New (do. 331.65. Bd.) No. 2. 10 .... • • ..... . .31a., New (do. 151.) No. 4. 234.... 3% ....... Staines and Richmond .. 1 '.... 1% 1 . Soath Wales .. ; . 5 Treat Valley .. . Tale of Neath . 2 ._ ~ 2_ . ...• Fifi- WA terfd., Wexfd., Wick., & Dub. 1M .. 1 . Wish Midland .. 2M 1 .• 210% 96% York and Carlisle . ?.li ▪ P P . - .. 105 x d .. 1% • U-3 .. 1% .. 224 le B%xd .. 65)4 .. 5434 . 4334xd 1% 31 C 2 . p 2! 148 9.,, 2% 2% 33 ,4 p 1% 141( 34% Ulis 2p 38% 12% 3% 114 5% 26% 2% 1 1% 2% . 2 ... ...... „ We A Last 81. , c ; ene NAME Or RAILWAY. week. g• ba e _ - A Peb. 21 Arbroath and Forfar •••••••• • • • • • • • 163 175 - Bristol and Birmingham • 20 Chester and Birkenhead. • 506 399 19 Dublin and Drogheda. • • 629 559 24 Dublin and Kingstown ••••••• • • • • • • • 892 611 22 Dundee and Arbroath .•.• . • • • •• • 283 234 21 Durham and Sunderland 572 646 21 Edinburgh and Glasgow . 2,746 2,046 28 Eastern Counties and North Eastern • • 6,376 3,454 21 Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and Ayr 1,841 1,461 21 Glanow and Greenock.. 764 654 Grand Junction • ....• -• • • •• • ..... . 21 Gravesend and Rochester.. A. 127 - - Great North of England ............ 22 Great Western • ...........• •••• • • • • 14,977 12,725 23 Hartlepool - • 21 London and Birmingham, &c. - • 32,265 25,897 22 London and Blackwall.... . . 21 London and Brighton • • 3,283 2,993 24 London and Croydon • • • 1,058 812 - London and Greenwich .•• 21 London and South Western .••• • • • • 4,896 4,405 22 Manchester, Bolton, and Bury 988 866 21 Manchester and Birmingham •••• • . • • 3,815 3,245 21 Manchester, Leeds, and Hull Assoc•• 5,347 i,204 21 Midland Counties ..... ...... ...... • . 4,859 10,889 21 Newcastle and Darlington •.• • • • 2,565 1,028 - Newcastle and Carlisle - 22 Newcastle and North Shields.. • . •... 419 373 22 N0rf01k........ 1.170 181 - North Union and Bolton and Preston - 1,287 23 Paris, Corbeil, and Orleans •• • • 5,373 3,694 'l3 Paris and Rouen . • •• 21 Preston and Wyre.• •••••••• • • • • • • • • 575 378 21 Sheffield and Manchester • • ...... •• • • 1,496 653 21 South Eastern ••• •• 21 Taff Vale ••••••••••••• • • • • • • • • • • • • • 1,100 249 - Yarmouth and Norwich 2_ 46 778 •- 21 York and North Midland • •• • • 4,626 - TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SIR,— Having observed a paragraph in The Sun news paper, of yesterday evening, in which it is stated : It is rumoured that Lord Lincoln is to be brought into the House of Commons f o r th e b oro u g h of Carrickfergus, the present Conservative Member, Mr. Peter Kirk, retiring for the purpose." I beg leave to acquaint you that the aforesaid statement is not only untrue, but wholly destitute of the ornallestshadow of foundation so far as lam concerned.—l am, &c. _London, Feb. 28. P. KIRK. INDIAN DISPATCHES. PAPERS RESPECTING THE LATE HOSTILITIES ON THE NORTH-WESTERN FRONTIER OF INDIA. No. I. The Governor-General of India in Council to the Secret Committee ofthe East India Company.—Fort William, July 2, 1845.—(N0. 54.) (Extract.) We take the earliest opportunity of forwarding to you the copy of a minute by the Governor-General, dated the 16th ultimo, relative to the proposed visit of his Excellency to the Upper Provinces during the ensuing cold season. In the arguments contained in the minute, relative to the high expediency, if not necessity, for the presence of the Governor-General in the neighbourhood of our north-west fron tier after the close of the rains, we unanimously and entirely concur. Enclosure in No. 1. Minute by the Governor-General of India.—June 16, 1845. (Extract.) . . As the time has now arrived when preparations will require to be made for the journey of the Governor-General to the Upper Pro vinces, I consider it mast advisable to consult my colleagues before any steps are taken to carry that intention into effect. Under ordinary circumstances I should have desired, on public grounds, to remain the next winter and summer at Calcutta, in order to have the advantage of the experience and advice of the Council, by which course the usual business of the Government can be trans acted with moreunity, regularity, and general satisfaction than when the Governor-General is separated from his colleagues. On the other hand, it is clearly my duty to place myself in that position, as regards the exercise of my functions, but which I can most advantageously apply my exertions for the service of the state. In this, as in every other case, the real question for decision is, whether it is more for the public interests that I should this autumn proceed to the Upper Provinces, or remain at the usual seat of Go vernment. Between my colleagues and myself there has always existed a most anxious desire, and perfect unison of opinion, that no efforts or precautions should be spared to maintain a Seikh Governinent in the Punjaub as long as it may be possible. To carry the pacific policy of the Government of India into effect, we have been content to suffer great inconvenience, !considerable ex pense, and some risk, necessarily caused by the presence of a large disorganised Seikh force on the frontier, requiring, on our part, an army to be assembled for the protection of our frontier, and in close contact with that of the Selkhs ; I need not enter into the considera tion of the various questions ef sone tude which are involved in the proximity of a Seikh army, in a successful state of mutiny, so close upon our frontier. • we have never relinquished the hope that some amelioration may eventually take place, a ff o rding the prospect of the re-est a bli s h ment of a Seikh Government, able to carry on its ordinary functions We hsve never abandoned the expectation that, after anarchy and mill Lary violence have long prevailed, these disorders, having reached their maturity, might subside, worn lout and exhausted by their own virulenee ; or that some man of superiority and master mind might appear amongst them, able to control this mutinous army, and to re cowtruct a strong Seikh Government. I must confess that these hepea have not been strengthened by recent events ; and now that we can, at this season, when all mili tary operations are nearly suspended, deliberately review the poli tical and military condition of the Punjaub, I can arrive at no other conclusion then that the state of our relations with that country has become more critical than it has been at any time since Raja lieera Singh's death. When the finances of the state shall be found insufficient to pay the troops, a state of things may arise at any moment requiring the in stant decision of the highest authority on the spot. The instructions which we may send from Calcutta may be very proper, and applicable to the state of things which may have hap pened on the frontier ten days before, when the report was made ; and may, when the instructions are received, twenty days after the event, be totally inapplicable. In ordinary transactions this is an inconvenience, but in the state of the Punjaub it is pos tively dangerous I have a firm conviction that the chances of preserving peate will be diminished by the powerless state in which the Government would be placed, by not being able to act with decision and prompti , ude, and that opportunities would be Iva of effecting some good, and of preventing mush mischief, if in the state of the Punjaub the re sponsible authority of the Government remains more than 1,000 miles off, at the other extremity of Bengal ; it appears to me, there fore, to be expedient, as a means et averting risk, and of carrying our policy more securely - into effect, that the 'Governor-General should, in the month of October next, proceed to the Upper Pro vinces, and that the authority skould be entrusted to him with which the law enables the Council to invest him, when separated from his colleagues. _ . . Ha•C;lngigiven my decided opinion that, under existing circumstances, it will be the duty of the Governer-General to proceed to the Upper Provinces in the autumn, I have to request the attention of my colleagues to this subject. H. HARDINGE. I concur, T. H. MADDOCK. I concur, F. MILLETT. I concur, GEO. POLLOCK. As the separation of the Governor-General from the Council re quires the sanction of a law, I presume it is proper that I should re cord my opinion upon the proposition. I concur, C. H. CAMERON, No. 2. The Governor-General in Council to the Secret Committee.—Fort William, August 7, 1845.—(N0. 63.) (Extract.) In the midst of anarchy, conspiracies for the destruction of conflict ing parties, treachery, and debauchery, there is an attempt making at improvement, in the suppression of open rebellion, and in main taining the peace of the capital, which has not been altogether with out success, and the collection of the revenue has been somewhat improved, under the management, able, though corrupt, of Dewan Deena Nath. Military preparation Is also being made with more than usual vi gour; but, notwithstanding this, we can petceive nothing to lead to the expectation of a permanent and strong Government being formed. No. 3. The Governor-General in Council - to the Secret Committee.—Fort William, Sept. 6, .1545.—(N0. 70.) (Extract.) We would request attention to extracts from letters addressed on different dates, during the last month, by Major Broadfoot, to our Secretary. These extracts, illustrating the deplorably profligate condition of the Lahore Durbar, cannot fail to impress upon you the almost hopeless expectation of any immediate, or permanent, improvement in the condition of a state, whose rulers abandon themselves to such open and disgusting debauchery, unredeemed by any of those states manlike qualities which distinguished the Government of the Maha raja Runjeet Singh. We deem it to - be essential for a just understanding of the actual condition of the Lahore Government that these details should be re ported ; they tend to show the unsatisfactory nature of that Govern ment, and that our relations with a Court thus constituted, and an army solely governed by Punchayets, must be in a very precarious state. We are determined to maintain the pacific course of policy which we hare hitherto pursued to the utmost extent of conciliation and fbrbearance. Enclosure in No. 3 . Extracts from Letters from the Agent to the Governor-General on the North-west Frontier to the Secretary to the Government, Illustrative of the Riot and Debauchery now prevalent at the La hore Durban Letter, dated June 8, 1845. On the sth the Punchayets agreed to go in a body to the Palace, and remonstrate against Jowahir Singh being continued in the Go vernment, and to require that in his stead Deewan Deena Nath, or Bukhshee Bhugut Ram, or Raja Lal Singh, or the three conjointly, should be appointed to the Viziership -they did so, and great con fusion followed. They had interviews with Jowahir Singh, whom they reproached with breach of faith to them, with drunkenness and incapacity—they went to the Ranee, and insisted on her seeing them herself, which she did; they demanded the dismissal of Jowahir Singh, and the substitution of Raja Lel Singh, or the others named above. The Ranee referred them to the chiefs, and it was finally settled that, next day, the 6th, Raja Lal Singh, Deewan Deena Nath, and Bukhshee Bhugut Ram, should go to the canton ments and consult with the Punchayets. The troops demand gratuities, and the Ranee, if she did not help to get up the disturbance, is favourable to its ostensible objects, and the replacement of her brother by Raja Lal Sing. The latter's sickness revived her tenderness for him, and he has used this skil fully, pretending he is afraid to visit her, as formerly, for fear of Jowahir Singh. This has made her the more eager to renew un restricted intercourse, and of this eagerness the lover has availed him elf before she changes or grows cool. Letter, dated June 13. A formal reconciliation has been effected, by the Ranee, between Jowahir Singh and Raja Lal Singh. She marked her satisfaction by sending each of them a handsome slave girl just rec eived from the ➢fundee Chief, our neighbour here. Such is Selkh morality in this' matter, and taste also, for Lal Singh is one of the Ranee's own lovers. York tutd North Midland 50 Ditto, Scarborough Branch .. 25 .... 48 .... • • ... FOREIGN RAILWAYS. Datels Rhenish Ott: North. of France Conatltated 5 .... 16 ......... Great Western Bengal .. 55. ......... Orle anq and Yterzen .. 10 .... 19 % Orleans and Bordeaux .-. .. 6 ...... . . Paris and Rouen .. .. 20 .... 42 4134 its aen and Havre . JOINT-STOCK BANKS. National Provincial of England 35 .... 36% ..... •ovincial of Ireland .. .! 25 ......... MINES. Zeal del Ideate, Unregistered ••• • • • • • RAILWAY RETURNS. RI.ULWAT Tsorvic.—The following are the Total Receipts of Rail way; e for the past week—that is•to say, up to the date to which the mope active returns are made, together with the receipts of the same wool c in the previous year : r r) ~~_ L':=< Letter, dated June 14 The above news reached Lahore on the 11th, but Jowahir Singh and his favourites had been carousing with the new slave girl and other women all the previous night, so that he was too drunk to hold the Durbar, and the Chiefs and Mootsudjees dispersed. Letter, dated June 18. Jawahir Singh and Lal Singh were seeking onthel4th to assassinate each other—the former was the aggressor—the cause, the Ranee's increased passion for Lai Singh since he had cholera. Lette - r, dated June 20. At the capital, Ghoolab Singh, Jowahlr Singh, and Lal Singh, are well engaged In plans to assassinate each other, any two joining for a day against the third. A paramour of the Ranee has run away with about a lac of rupees worth of jewels, to the public amusement or scandal, as the public is grave or merry. Letter, dated July 8. At Lahore they are quiet, drinking, and intriguing politically and amorously. Letter, dated August 1. _ fowahir Singh has finally yielded to the troops, and the Ranee made him do so, but he was drunk at the time, and may change. On the twening of the 28th there was to he a private consultation of Jowahir Singh, Ghoolab Singh, Raja Lal Singh, and Deewan Deena Nath. Letter, dated August 5. Jowahir Singh is always drunk, and has gone the length lately of gross and indecent abuse in Durbar to Bhaee Ram Singh, whose religious character had hitherto prevented such an occurrence in the worst times ; he quarrels also with the troops, and, indeed, with all but some low favourites, and Deewan Deena Nath, whose advice, however, as to answering my letter he spurned with reproaches of treachery. I believe he has for some months, and especially for the last two months, formed a drunken design or vision of war with us, after the Dusserah, as a resource to avert from himself the wrath of the army, as a means of finding money to pay them ; and, not unskilfully, he tries to make the Sodees, who are very sacred characters, the ground of quarrel—therein he has, however, failed. It is quite im possible, however, to say what may be the issue of dealing with such a drunkard, acting on such troops. Letter, dated August 6. Were it not that the consequence of what is new doing at Lahore may be momentous, I should feel inclined half to laugh and half to be ashamed of having anything to do with it. .It is essential that the Government should know the exact truth, and in setting before it the kind of people with whom it is now dealing, as with the chiefs of a state, it will be difficult to avoid details unfit for .the decency of a dispatch. The state eparties is seriously changed; but the cause is, the ltanee's mind having become seriously affected by her excesses. She has become stupid instead of clever and lively ; is sometimes for days in a state bordering on fatuity; and though at times she revives, chiefly when stimulated by drinking, she takes but little concern in the public business, compared with what she used to do, and then is guided chiefly by her low paramours and servants. Now, the remnant of wise men left, hitherto prevented convulsion by their influence with the Ranee, especially the Fakeers and Bhaee Ram Singh ; but this influence Is all but gone in the Ranee's present state, so much so, that Bhaee Ram Singh lately sent me a caution against closing a business with the existing Government, as it was certain the troops, on their return after the Dusserah, would put to death Jowahir Singh and the Ranee, with her son; he added, that they would set up Peshora Singh and Rajah Ghoolab Singh, as King and Vizier. I never even acknowledge the receipt of such communications ; but in the latest remonstrances, I have, in conse quence of this, pointed out that my warnings spring from the Go vernor-General's friendship, and ftom [consideration of the Maha raja's tender years. But to proceed :on the Ist, there was no afternoon Barber, there being a consultation of the principal per sonages on the the English affairs ; it lasted all day, but every man of note was excluded, even Deewar Deena Nath. This council con sisted of Jowahir Singh, the Ranee, and three personal attendants, domestics of Jowahir Singh, men of low origin, raisedby him,bne an old horse-jockey, another lately a Fakeer, and a third still a palace Peon, also Jowahir Siagh's private Moonshee. After much debate, it was agreed to consult next day the chiefs who were used to such matters ; but it was decided that the Governor-General's letter should be answered." Letter, dated August 6 The evening Dawb, of the 2d is in ; Jowahir Singh, the Ranee, and Maharaja, all drunk, with Raja Lal Singh ; held no Durbar on the 2d ; the consultation all forgotten; they went out to the Shaliman Garden. My letter arriving, my vakeel carried it to the S haliman, and sent word it was emergent; they refused to see him or it, and told him to come when they were at leisure. Letter, dated August 7. Though the effects of the forenoon debauch were not gone off, the contents of the letter produced a dead silence, and after a time an answer that the letter would be deliberated on, and answered with out delay. This effect was produced by the warnings given sot to be misled by foolish rumours. On the 3d there was no - very marked carousing, and much de• bating ; so I suppose a day or two will bring some answer or other. Letter, dated August 8. Sirdar Jowahir Singh and his party, after abstaining tearly a day from drinking to deliberate on my letter, made an excuse of heavy rain on the 3d; to set out with his favourites and some generals on elephants, each supplied with a bottle of brandy; they returned drunk, held no Durbar, and listened to no business ; but sending tbr dancing girls, Jowahir Singh dressed himself as a dancinggirl, and danced with the rest. Letter, dated August 10. On the 7th the deliberations were renewed, if deliberations they can be called. The Ranee is passive, Jowahir Singh drunk and mad referring to his drunken companions, who recommended the con. quest of India, &c. &c. ; and oa the other hand, the whole of the men of consideration urge on him the necessity of making matters smooth with the English. No. 4. The Governor-General to the Secret Committee.—On the River Ganges, off Monghyr, September 30, 1i45.—(N0. 2.) (Extract.) _ _ The forbearance of the Government of India has been carried to an extent beyond that which has been customary. Every military precaution has, however, been taken ; advice and warnings have been repeatedly conveyed to the Lahore Government in the plainest language; even the risk of giving offence by such language has been incur red, rather than fail in the essential point of clearly defining the nature of our policy, and of having that policy well un derstood. lam convinced that our desire to see the Maharaja's Goverinnent re-established on a basis of independence and strength, is well known to the most influential and leading aliens. Theft. per sonal interests, endangered by the democratic revolution, so su e British Government to interfere ; e fu x l e b r - t aalcicothmePlirisehffedortsbytothcoersSepeahlthaermy. may induce those chi s for b e arance, but to their personal fears for attributable, not to our but these attempts, and any danger resulting from them, will be life and property. You may be assured that, whilst I shall omit no precautions, and be prepared for any event, I shall persevere in the direct course I have hitherto punned, of endeavouring by moderation, good f a ith, and friendly advice, to avert the necessity of British interference by three of arias in the affairs of the Puniaub. No. 5. The Governor-General to the Secret Committee—On the Ganges, proceeding to Barr, October 1, 1845.—(N0. 4.) (Extract.) There seems to be very little doubt that General Chutter Singh 'Attaricuala did, after much hesitation, enter into the views of the • Wuzzeer Jowahir Singh, and cause the Koonwur Peshora Singh to be put to death on his way from Attock to Lahore. a The leading men at Lahore expect that this e vent will so greatly excite the indignation of the regular tro o p s around Lahore as to in duce them to rise against the Minister, Jowahir i to march towards the The s Mi nister, to ward off the blow , is rep resented as being determine d to bring about a collision with our troops on the frontier, and h ad given orders for three brigades of infantry to ist be er, Prepared the Sutlej. On the 12th September, it would further appear that the leading chiefb met Blume Ram Singh, in concert with then, and, in tg ; h_ open el o e u a r rly Po o l n Political Agent,tthhee British; s Durbar, made a solemn and bold remonstrance against the course of pslicy side of pursued by Jowahir S in g h in his recent relations w i t h the Br iti s h Government. In his address he openly and f u ll y admitted discussions was with r tl es ia i t st ii t r h 2e D e n x rhar istin, Durban's p reten s ions that the Minister was, by his orders, violating all the r ules by which their intercourse with the British customary sh authorities had hitherto been regulated ; and that these attempts autho rity at defiance had been met, on our part, t to set our its moderation and forbearance. n a spirit remarkable for It is understood that the Minister agreed that letters apologising for the past would be to the Political Agent. Immediately addressed During the night of the 12th September, the Minister having been engaged, according to custom, in hard ' Pes hora Singh' 11 8 disappearance drinking, first heard et ce and probable death; he instantly resolved to persevere in his course of precipitating the collision with the British troops on the frontier. This determination was received by renewed remonstrances, and it would appear that Bhaee Ram had caused the news of the death of Peshora Singh to be reported to the troops, and that the party ad verse to Jowahir Singh were acting with boldness and energy to de feat the resolution of the Minister; the latter continuing to declare that he would gratify the Seikh army by leading them against the English, rather than die the death of a dog at Lahore, The impression made on my mind is, tilt there will be no attack or violation of our frontier by the Scikh forces. Their anger against the Minister for causing the assassination of Pechora Singh, contrary to their injunctions signified to the 3finigter and to the General, by sending their Punchayets to Chutter Singh's camp for the Prince's protection, will probably induce them, on that pretence, to bring about a revolution at Lahore, putting Jowahir Singh to death, and, if tbe proscription extends to the Regent and her son, the Mahi: t raja Dhuleep Singh, in that ease the child Shah Deo, the son of the late Maharaja Shere Singh, will be declared the sovereign of the Punjaub. The regular force at Lahore, on the 12th September, does not amount to 15,000 men. The larger proportion of the army would not have returned from furlough until the beginning of October. Assuming that the Seikh troops are desirous of being led against the English, an assumption more than doubtitd, their present state of inefficiency is too palpable to encourage them to undertake such a risk at the bidding and under the command of a minister who at this moment is an object of their hatred and contempt, and whose anti-English policy has been publicly denounced 'in Durbs.r as fatal to the state, by the most influential chiefs. • ' _ t he For these reasons, I do not expect any immediate ntpture; the Maharaja's same time, after such decisive proofs of the hostile infoitions of he Maharaja's minister, it will be prudent not to relax in those precau tionary measures which, in concurrence with moyf last spring, Iwchoenn sidered it expedient to adopt in the course the f e r h o a t il iti v e u r Th st u a e ti m on y s jwouezery to Allatiabad, and thence to Agra, ac einforced by European and native troops. I eording to my original intention on leaving Calcutta, not deeming it expedient or necessary to accelerate it, and you•may be assured that no efforts shall be wanting to repress all manifestations of hostility against the Seikhs, should any such be displayed, by patiently ail firmly carrying out, to the utmost extent of forbearance, the pacific policy of the Government. . (No. 6.) The GovemorTGeneral to the Secret Committee. , -Agra, 234 October 1845.—(N0. 5.) (Extract.) The result anticipated by me in my letter of the Ist instant has taken place. The Seikh soldiery having formally celled the late Mi nister Jowahir Singh to account for the destruction of Koonwur Pe shora Singh, and for his other misdeeds, put him to death on the 21st September. The circumstances under which the destruction of Jowahir Singh was accomplished, are related in Major Broadfoot's dispatch of th• 26th ult., a paper which cannot be perused without much interest. As I expected, the violent removal ofJowahir Singh has not led te any circumstances likely to bring about a collision with us, or to compromise the nominal Government at Lahore in its relations with the British power. On the contrary, the disposition of the remaining chiefs appears evidently to be to maintain, as far as possible, the former relations with us, and to make atonement for the unfriendly acts of the late Jowahir Singh ; while the soldiery, the openly-avowed administrators of the Government, though they talk largely of their intentions with regard to our army, show plainly, by their acts, they are fully aware that any attempt to force hostile measures upon us must be an act which would at once seal their own destruction. The Dusserah festival has passed without carrying with it further convulsions or bloodshed. The state of affairs, however, cannot fail to exhibit the hopless ness of our seeing a permanent government established in the Pun jaub out of the elements that now exist there, capable of conducting the administration of the country, and reducing the army to a state of subordination and control. The Ranee has been declared Regent, and at present carries on the government, if such it can be called, at the dictation of the Pen chayets of the army. No Minister has yet been nominated, and it seems doubtful whether the Ranee's favourite, Raja Lal Sing, or Raja Ghoolab Singh, may be the next person called to that ill-omened distinction ; probably the former will be the first nominated, as the very deeply-laid schemes of Ghoolab Singh appear hardly yet ripe for his accession, though there canbe little doubt that eventually. he looks to acquiring full power the Punjaub, and entertains the hope, that he may be able, with bettet success than his nephew, Hears Singh, to reduce the army within the limits of its legitimate duties. Enclosure in No. 6. The Agent to the Governor-General on the North-West Frontier to the Secretary to the Government of India. . . . (Extract.) Camp, Simla, 26th September, 1845. The troops continued on the 18th and subsequent days to maintain the same attitude as before, perfect order among themselves and strict discipline towards the city and its neighbourhood. They pitched their camp at the plain of Mujan Meer, on the Ferozepore side of Lahore, where the Punchayets held their nightly meetings, and in the morning issued the orders determined on, under the designa tion belonging to the Scikh sect, before Runjeet Singh became a monarch, viz., the Khalsa Punth (Khaisajee da Punth). They for mally assumed the Government, and sent letters bearing their seal,, inscribed merely with the name of God, to all local officers, military leaders, and members of the Durbar, requiring their presence and obedience. They sent similar letters to the Ranee, requiring her to o in their camp with her son, and to deliver up her brother and the murderers of Peshora Singh, if lie were really dead. The Ranee jus-. tilled his death, which her brother had denied. Th e troops answered that her admission proved it, and required her to choose betweLa jgiving up or sharing his fate with her sons. —ln such negotiations were passed the intermediate days. Sirdar Jowahir Si ugh trusted to holding the fort with his new levies and the artillery, of which the superior officers were ranch in his favour ; but he feund that, including the Englishman, or, as he himself says, tha American Colonel Gardener, the troops and their officers were ready to obey the summons of the troops, and to join their camp ; ba now began to think of escape, and laboured in every way to gain time and conciliate the levies, that they might at least connive at his flight. On the 19th he and the Ranee sent Deewan Deena Nath, Fakeer Noor-ood-deen, and Sirdar Ultar Singh Kaleewala, to urge the troops to return to their obedience on account of the danger of English inva sion, &c. The troops immediately made them prisoners, releasing Noor-ood-deen, whom they sent to warn the Ranee that the 20th was the latest day to which the option of surrendering her brother would be left to her ; that this delay was only given to spare the city the miseries of a siege of the fort ; and that she and her son would pay with their lives the penalty of such siege, If their obstinacy made it necessary. At the same time, under the seat of the Punth, they required the troops in the fort to take care that ap one escaped, and they posted guards at each gate of the tity for the like purpose. Fakeer Noor-ood-deen, having fidfilitd his mission, was honourably dismissed : the other prisoners were insulted, threatened and derided by the soldiery. On the sight of the 20th, SirdarJowahlr Singh made great presents and greater promises to his troops, giving one general half a lack of rupees to facilitate his escape. They allowed him to reach the gate of the fort, where the guard peremptorily forbade him to go further, saying, that such were the orders of the Khalsa Punth. The Sirdar returned to his house in despair. In the afternoon of the 2lit, it was announced that four 'battalions had left the camp to destroy all in the fort, of which the garrison, with all the artillery and generals, had marched to the camp of Manjan Meer. Immediate departure for the camp was announced to be the only chance of safety.. The Sirdar, his sister, and her son, with all the members ofDurban'who had not alreadygene to the camp, now mounted on the state elephants, and proceeded to Jain the troops, their tents havibg been already sent on. The ,bur battalions which they met turned back In silence and escorted them to the camp. When they arrived there it had become dark. The Ranee, the Maharaja and their immediate attendants, except the slave Mungla, were con ducted-to their tents by the troops, which ran tumultuously to them from every part. Sirdar Jowahir Singh wasput to death in his how dah by innumerable 'wounds of sworels and muskets, and his body thrown out on the ground. Two of his leading associates, Bhyar Chutter, a door-keeper, and Bawa Ruttun Singh Bedee, a chabrook sower, a horse jockey, were also put to death, as well as some orderly horsemen, much consulted on state affairs by the Sirdar. Of the rest of his _attendants, most escaped in the dark. Raja Lal Singh was made a prisoner, as also Birder Jewun Singh, a man of low station, a native of Majecto, but for some years a libido° Fakeer, In Rohikund. Mangle, the slave, was also imprisoned, as well as a few others of less note. Birder Lal Singh Mara raja, who was designated to command the expedition against the English, fled, and is believed to have crossed the Sutlej. He was, on Heera Singh's death only a risaldar of orderly horse, and raised by Jowahir Singh first to be a general and then a Sirdar, with a view sometimes of going as a special ambassador to the English. and sometimes of commanding an army to invade them. General Mehtal Singh Majeeteea, and others of that family, lately leaders at the Durbar, are in concealment, and orders were sent to bring Lal Singh Adawlavee a prisoner from the autlej bank opposite to Fe rozepore. Thus Le whole of the members of the late Government were either slain, imprisoned, or fugitives. On the morning of the 22d, the Ranee, who has still great in fluence with the troops, reproacted them with the death of her brother, and threatened to destroy herself and her son. The run chayet released Deewith Deena bath and Ultur Singh Kaleewala. with orders to s3oth the Ranee. After some time, she and her son and their attendants; came out to where the body of Jowahir Singh was lying almost cut to pieces. The Ranee and her yeomen broke out into violent lamentations, . which moved 'the soldiers so much that they permitted her and her son to return to the fort, carrying with her the Sirdar's body. They also allowed Deewan Deena Nath and Sirdar Ultur Singh Kaleewala to accompany her. The body was carried, first to the fort, and then to the burning place, where, amidst a great concourse of people, tour of the Sirdar's wives were burned with it. The crowd was so great on the way from the fort, that they broke the order of the procession, and two companies of sepoys on duty with it, daring the confusion, plundered the Sirdar's wives of all the jewels and ornaments with which they were decked for the occasion, and which were intended for distribu tion to Brahmins and others at the pile. Suttees are sacred, and receive worship ; their last words are considered prophetic, their blessing eagerly sought for, and their curses dreaded. Deewan Deena Nath, the Ranee, the Maharaja and others prostrated themselves before them, and obtained their blessing. This was repeated at the pile by Deewan Deena .Nath, and by the Ranee, and her sowree by proxy. The suttees blessed them, but cursed the Seikh Punth. At the pile they were asked the fate of the Punjaub, and declared that during the present year its independence would cease, that the Seikh sect would be conquered, the wives of the Seikh soldiery be widows, and the country desolate ; but that the Ranee and her son would live long and happily, and the Maharaja continue to reign. These pro phecies made a great impression.on the superstitious multitude, and I mention them on that account, and because they doubtless express the opinions of persons about the Durban.. At noon of the 22d my latest letters left Lahore ; a company of infantry had arrived at the fort to demand Deewan Deena Nails and Sirdar Ultur Singh Kaleewala, but with what intent was not known. The troops had that morning put Raja Lal Singh in irons, as having dishonoured the Ranee, " the mother of all the Scikhs." They had, also made Deewan Deena Nath announce, in their name, to all gc.. vernors and officers the death of Jowahir Singh, and had consente►'j to do the same to the Vakeels with me ; but they had forbidden. tr o y communication directly to me, saying that in future no letter to the English was to be written till the army had deliberated on tb l eo n. tents. They declared, however, that they desired peace, bra that if troops marched from our stations to Loodianah and erezepore, they would march too ; if not, that each power should keep its owa territory in peace. They give out that Raja Ghoolab Singh is tq, - navC the Wuzearship only on condition of increasing their pay, an moaing a considerabl e donation ; but till the party of chiefs whiCh is :roving them throug h the Puncha3 eta shall decide on its nest stop, little reliance is to be placed on what they may say. For the present, however, there is no recognised head of the Governraent oat:opt the Punchayets of the army, which have net for some A. ---ya used the name of the Maharaja at all ; and the voice of the troops was, on the 22d, for remaining in this state till the Dusserals, molten they propose to nominate a Govern ment to carry on ordinary baSipess under the Punchayets. They have named one of the minor Sirdars, Mujan Pirthee Singh, a relation of the Jummoo family, who has, without appearing, been deep in the intrigues of the last few months. No. 7. The Governer-General to the Secret Committee.—Camp, Muttra, Nev. 6, 1645.—(N0. 8.) (Extract.) The Ranee continues to carry on the government in her own name as regent for her son ; she consults alternately Deewan Deena Nath and Bhahee Ram Singh, with Raja Lal Singh, and endeavours to play off one against the other, while she, with the concurrence ig the army, governs in person as the army chooses. on S e he occas is ha ve i s ol d la t t o ely; and shown o t o w n h spir it as a id n e d e to ne a rgy grea on t_ m extr o tton re t t ti pt an debaucheries with her veil ; she now appears openly to it life. desiring in public generally ; and has b een leading a snore regular ale, much a ve laid beginning to show themselves amongst the troops ; Court's brigade having divided itself into twq desiring that it may be thought she devotes herself to state affairs. In the meantime dissensions are parties, with separate interes ts. The small amount of money remaining in the treasuries is beer d i n ., ing notorious ; any excesses have been committed by the troops on their retu r n andin than leave. Two generals have been neaten, and turned out of the P. own se lection and demands made on the R anee for gaaerals of the troops ' and nomination. S Irdar Tej Singh has returned from Peshawur, and is in triguing on his own account, while Raja Ghoolab Singh continues to strengthen himself, and to watch events. Re has lately entert a i ned a large number of Affglian troops. Confidential agents, with overtures front Viouragement to any one. different parties, have been endeavouring to C -11*-11 communications with the agent, who, as before instructed, hears What every person has to say to him, but gives no N so o r . t B e . f en The Governor-General to the Secl`et Committee.—Camp, Delhi. November 18, litepi_a ge. 9.) (sEts4lxt" ;, -4 o e f t i?arties or affairs at L a h ore h as tak N o o n m pl a a t c e e r . ial change in the The Ranee, taking with tie; the young Maharaja, went in person to Umritsir, to endeavour to induce the Rilledar at Govindghur to ofth t etr m oo u p c s h fo cursetultopnaany make over to her a part; tf the treasure th ere, t o meet the demands ' After and intrigue 20 tats of rupees were promised whereof 10 lass were placed at the Ranee' s di sposal. , Before the retaining 10 lacs could be obtained, news arrived from Lahore that thet troops there had given out that the Ranee and young ppointi Maharaja had ab sconded, and that preparations were in forwardness for proclaiming the infant so n o f th e late Shere Sing Maharaja, and; fora ng Raja Ghoolan Singh Minister. This caused the Ranee and her party to return forthwith to Lahore 'where they are said to have arrived just in time to arrest the prtrgress of these proceedings ; and her presence and energetic behaviour appear to have restored her influence for a time, The ten lace brought from Govindghur have been made over to Ike pay department; and the arrangements by assignments, &c., which the Ranee was making, would, it was thought, enable her to meet the present demands of the troops. I send the copy of an Maid ammunication (secret which I have made to the Commander-in-Chief, relating to commissariat arrange ments for a portion of the army stationed on the frontier during the present season. My reason for making these arrangements are con, : tained in the letter to his Excellency. . • in No. 8. The Governor-Gener a l to Enclosure the Commander-ht-Chlef.—Agra, coe. tober 24, 1845. (xtract.) I have the honour to inform your Excellency that, on or before the 12th of November, arrangements will be made by 'which the commissariat department will be prepared to equip 'nearly two thirds of the force at and in , advaice of Meerut, with the necessary means of marching at thashortest notice. The extent to which it may be expedient to be prepared with this description of equipment must always be dependent on contingent,. events, which fluctuate, in an unsettled Governm en t like that o Lahore, in a manner which defies all ordinary calculations of Pp: , bable results. ..... In the present state efbeeooxf,:tatreshtodehoiltahtfeloorans with the Lahore Government. your Excellency is aware that I do not anticipate the probability of any emergencies arising which san require the army, under your Ex cellency's orders, to take the field this autumn. Nevertheless, having to deal with a mutinous Seikh army, which has usurped the functions a the Government, and whose caprice ° wl ur th th e re r m o e n a th ns e o f r ntilul a h y a - ~ ,a e at any eem time, triTad force move- Iment to the following extent :-7 troops of Horse Artillery, 6 COE. goons, 3 regiments of Light Cavalry, 5 regiments European Infantry. re a to ru bc Pture prep wl ar th ed panies Foot Artillery, 4 Light Field Batteries, 2 regiments of Dra. 13 regiments Native Infantry, 6 ccanpr.nies Sappers and Miners, I Lahore Durbar should continue to case since Sirdar Jowahir Sin h's t. Irregular Cavalry ; and as it is most desirable that the ar rangement should be mad a e c o co u ro th ing e m th ost ev e e c i o ltas n s o , m ignr ic fao a dr l ie sc aij a sy le st , tor t i h ed e tilmy w i i ngo m fis l it e a e t e h i : o b n agg of a t , t ,, h e e animalsGoYerimi oefiitthoer db w ee 14 more If,l death. he ,i. hired esi Itra. i,,,4 a eb ei t c t t: l a i n e t. h.: h ohaltingtoneua, the scale of the present preparation, which, defensive character. your Excellency on thin subjec camels. probably exceed 1,211Q1 India Eur European e lastprovisionati y ° e t I l a ce r h s i a i s i and will postpone his usual tour of * Lieutenant-Colonel Parsons, the Deputy C be instructed to communicate with vo Mmissal7-General' WM inspection for one month, ti No 9 The Governor-General to the . Secret Committee. December 2, 1 —Camp Umballa 845.—(N0. 15 .) ' I left Delhi on the 19th ultim o , (Extract.) making the usual marches tow, ,rde x ~: ~~ _. ,~ . _ .~•~-~ d e ~~: -