The Sun. — London, England, 1842-05-05 00:00:00

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Tilermometer .... 55 Highest 67 1 Lowest 45 Barometer 2 9 .98.—Wind NAV. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE THIS DAY. Morning, 0 minutes after 10 I Evening 32 minutes after 10. fitt LONDON r THURSDAY MORNING, MAY 5, 1842. All circumstances considered, the news from India and China is decidedly favourable. Sir HENRY POTTINGER is prosecuting the war in China in a right proper, commercial spirit. He wars against the Government, but spares the people. He does not confound the civilians with the army, or fall into the error, that by ruining poor traders in rice and rhu barb, along the coast of the Celestial Empire, he will be able to bring the haughty Tartar, who sits behind the yellow curtain in the imperial palace of Pekin, to speedier terms. His account of the capture and tem porary occupation of three cities, in the vicinity of Ningpo, will be found in another part of The Sun. We observe, with pleasure, that he dwells chiefly upo' n'the moral influence which their occupation will ,give him. He found in one of the cities an immense store of rice, but, instead of wantonly destroying it, he caused it to be distributed among the poor Chinese. He has thereby convinced these poor people that the English are not their enemies, and have no quarrel whatever with them. Other accounts say that he put a stop to the seizure of the salt and rice junks along the coast, in consequence of which the trade in 2ium was more flourishing than ever. An expedition against Pekin was to be undertaken, -whenever the season would permit. The Plenipotentiary had re 'turned to Hong Kong on the Ist of February, to prepare the force intended to visit the EMPEROR in his capital. He could not have adopted a wiser or better course. With a few hundred blue-jackets to act as referees, Sir HENRY and the EMPEROR will not be long settling the point of etiquette included in the ceremony of the Kou Tou. , We are very sure that the EMPEROR will prefer waiving the long-disputed point to witnessing the British fashion of hard knocking. Things appear to be no worse in Affghanistan, and this, considering the previous state of our affairs, is consolatory. True there was a report of the destruc tion of 1,000 British troops in the Bolan Pass, and the refusal of two of the Bengal Native Regiments to attempt the Kyber Pass under the command of General PoLLoca, but we cannot trace them to any trustworthy authority. Some money had been re mitted to General SALE at Jellalabad, which enabled him to purchase forage, of which his gallant soldiers were in great need. We subjoin a few extracts from the India papers relative to Affghanistan : The Calcutta Englishman says—" Our troops continue to assemble at Peshawar, preparatory to the movement tow arils Affghanistan that may be directed, as soon as the season admits of operation ; and letters sometimes resoli India, giving intimation of the existence (in du rauce) of some of the officers and men who escaped the general massacre at Jugdullock ; but beyond these al leged facts, we hear nothing on which the smallest de pendence can be placed.' We have had more excitement than usual in the heart of India, during the last four weeks. There has been a mutiny in some of the Madras regiments, which, however, was promptly put down. And the new Governor-General, Lord Ellenborough, has arrived and taken upon himself the duties of his office, giving promise, by his activity and close personal inquiry, of a vigorous administration. It is believed that he will carry out the measures deemed necessary by his predecessor, in relation to Affghanistan. At all events, no orders countermanding any of the preparations made by Lord Auckland, have as yet appeared." The Bengal Hurharu observes :—" In the meantime, whilst General Nott, after having made a successful attack on the enemy, remains unmolested at Candahar ; whilst General Sale, with his gallant little band, occu pies Jellalabad in safety, and Colonel Palmer holds his own at Ghuznee ; a fresh force, under the command of General Pollock, of the artillery, has congregated at Peshawar. At present it is inactive. The troops have su ffered severely from sickness, and have been much straightened for ammunition ; but these impediments to an-advance have, ere now, been removed, and we ex. pet soon to hear of the force having marched to the re lief of Jellalabad. This accomplished, it is difficult to say what the next movement will be ; for, during the pre,ient uncertain state of our political information, Go veinnient must be sorely puzzled to decide against whom tai; proceed. A new raler has, since we last wrote, been placed at the head of affairs. Lord Ellenborough has arrived, and. Lord Auckland has departed. This may make a material difference in our future policy towards Affghan istan. The present Governor-General, who has seeu, and from the very first, as clearly as any man, the -wretched folly of the expedition beyond the Indus, will be loth to adopt a modes operandi, which will have the .etf , ct of inducing so mighty an evil as the permanent occupation of Affghanistan. Whatever measures he inav resort to, we have good reason to hope that they wifl be final, the present movement being rendered only the precursor of a withdrawal of bur troops to the other side of the Indus. Let us only have an opportunity of withdrawing with good grace, and the sooner we withdraw the better." The Bombay Courier says :—" Of Affghanistan we have,but little to say more than that we do not labour under the disagreeable necessity of recording any fresh disasters of an important nature. Major-General Pe lock was, by our last accounts from Peshawar, en ca nped with a large force at a place between that city and the entrance of the Khyber pass, Called Kawulsur. It is generally believed that no attempt will be made to penetrate the defiles until the arrival of fresh reinforce mwnts of European cavalry and infantry, which, together vs ith some native corps, are now moving through the Pc njaub. 'rhev will not arrive at Peshawar until the of the present month. %Al appears to be S going on pretty satisfactorily at Jel otne of tine bastions were much injured by the sho, k of an earthquak e . The enemy took advantage of the iceident, and endeavoured to force their way into the place. The British a agents have managed to , trans mit, small sum of moue •Major-General Sale, by ' rc ervig of which he succeeded to in ti lktaining a considerable supply of forage ; an article, the scarcity of which had previousiy been sever e ly f e l t. opened with the view of inducing t e it e, a otiations have been the passes open for a pecu n i ary consideration. It to keep eration. It would appear, how 'ever, that ther e i s little ehalte termination to the treaty. Sh ou ld i t fail, force a s u c c essful will be re sorted•to as soon as Col. White's brigade joins naoven: Zn. Pol lock. In the. mean time the latte r o ff i cer is said to have made, every preparation f o r a f orwar d shortest notice, with the tr oo p s a l rea d y at his at the ci in the evenit of General S a l e fi n di ng it necessary isposa t i n , make an urg eat requisition for prompt ass i stanc. The British hold their own at Ghuzni and Khelat Ghilzie, • At the former place they are con fi ned to the-.- citadel, the enemy being in possession of the to wn . The. Affghans are collected in force near Candahar and by tube last accounts from that place General Nott Was pre i wing to move out against them, with from ten to twelve thousand men. There is no doubt that this force will speedily defeat the insurgents in its vicinity, after which it will move on to the relief of Ghuznee, and ultimately to Caubul." In the debate on Mr. T DUNCOMBE'S motion on Tuesday, Sir ROBERT PEEL said he had never seen anything of those passages of certain journals which said that England would be as great without as with the manufacturing districts. He is, therefore, in tensely ignorant of the heated and hostile feelings which pervade society, of which those passages are the exponents, and, therefore, he has prekcribed, with the most solemn confidence, the milk-and-water of his Corn-law and his Tariff, as a cure for the low and and malignant fever which rages in every vein of the community. The persons who wished to be called to the bar were competent to enlighten him on this important matter ; but with that insensibility to his own deficiencies, which is the characteristic of besot ted ignorance, he was forward in refusing to hear them. . . Forsooth, it would stop the public business. Forsooth, it would excite hopes that the Legislature did at last mean to do something to relieve the people, and Sir R. PEEL would, by no means, encourage such a wild and unfounded delusion Is any public business, too, let us ask, of equal im-. portance to that of satisfying the masses—of relieving their distresses, and of restoring their confidence in the Legislature ? Their welfare is the end and aim of legislation, and if that could be attained by hearing, them, public business would be more promoted than by passing the Income-tax and the Tariff. There was in Sir ROBERT PEEL'S speech one re markable phrase, calculated to rouse and alarm even his insensible ignorance. Mr. ROEBUCK had stated that the law was omnipotent in England, while force or violence governed on the Continent. Sir ROBERT PEEL explained, that the reason of this was a convic tion that " the law was just." Did they think, he asked, "that the people could have the respect which they ever paid to the law, if they did not feel that it guaranteed the safety of property, and secured liberty—that it was a law for the poor as well as for the rich." But he asked that question with a petition lying before him, bearing more than 3,000,000 signatures, complaining of the law, and de nouncing it in the very strongest terms. There must have been present to Sir R. PEEL'S mind the alarm ing fact that the bulk of the people are dissatisfied with the law ; he stated that on their satisfaction with it depended its power, and yet he refused to hear those who could explain why the people no longer entertain the conviction that the law is just, and no longer rely on it as guaranteeing property and securing liberty. If he betrayed by the first observa tion we have quoted, for the community, most alarming ignorance, his refusal to hear the statements of the people against the law, so that they might be parried and counteracted, while he is sensible that the authority of the law depends on their conviction of its justice, se ems to us sheer infatuation. There was another Right Hon. Gentleman who took part in that debate, whose observations do not meet our approbation. We pass by Mr. MacAuLAY's strained inferences that the petitioners would apply a sponge to the national debt, and would put an end to landed property, to property in railroads, and to ma chinery, as totally unwarranted either by the conduct of the patient and long-suffering people or their lan guage. The petitioners did not complain, be it observed, of being injured in their persons. They did not say that they had been shut up in dungeons, or had their ears cut off, or been maimed and maltreated by any tyrant ; but they said that they were over-taxed and under-paid. They complained, from beginning to end, of their property not being secured, but conti nually violated by the Legislature. In the teeth of that just complaint, Mr. MACAULAY mocked them with a homily about the advantages of security of property, all of which he refused to them. So far as the people are concerned, his remarks were unfounded in fact; they were neither philosophy nor common sense, and no better than heartless pedantry. The Nottingham Election Committee, before which a serious contest was expected, has at once reported that Sir JOHN 11013 HOUSE and Sir G. DE LAaPENT were duly elected. We are quite sure that this de cision is the result of a compromise between the con tending parties, by which bribery and corruption are concealed, and the rights of the electors trifled with. The same observation applies to several other recent and quickly formed decisions of Election Committees. For example, Mr. RUSSELL, it has been said, as the consequence of such a compromise, is to give up his seat for Reading. We know that other Members are also to resign their seats after a short period. We would have the constituencies, therefore, wherever a return has been disputed, to be on their guard; and we would recommend them in no case to allow their rights to be bartered away by any agents. The compromises before Election Com mittees are not binding on the electors, and we hope that they will not allow a single seat which may be vacated in consequence of mutual agreements, to be filled up at the pleasure of the compromising parties. The country has not yet done with ex-Plenipotentiary ELLIOT. That notorious personage, who provided for the Press of India and Great Britain years of labour in recording his incapacity in China, is destined, it appears, to re-fill the world with his fame as Consul-General to the Republic of Texas. The fact of his appointment was admitted by Sir R. PEEL in the House of Commons last night, and it must be allowed that the Right Hon Baronet is good authority upon such a subject. M r : HUME, who asked the question, intimated that he should on an early day take the sense of the House respecting this appointment. The intimation is worthy of the Honourable Member for Montrose, and entitles him to the thanks of the country. In the ticklish state of our relations with the United States, and in the unsettled condition of Mexico and Texas, it would be worse than folly—it would be highly criminal—to send out in any diplomatic capacity an individual so notoriously incom petent, so blunderingly mischievous, as Captain ELLIOT. This is the opinion of every man in this country, who knows anything at all about the condition of Texas, and how important it is that we should prevent, by every means in our power, the annexation of that young Re public to the United States. Not only the Liberal papers, but the whole of the Tory journals, have de nounced the appointment of Captain ELLIOT, as Texan Consul-General, as most disgraceful to any Government. In an article in the Morning Post of this day, evidently written before Mr. HUME put his question to the Premier last night, we find the following just and forcible re marks upon the rumour of such an appointment being contemplated:— It is generally understood that the lucrative and important post of Consul-General to the Texan Republic still remains un filled; and we wish we could feel assured that the appointment is not kept open, and as it were in abeyance, until the casual good fortune of success in China shall have induced our kind-hearted people of England to look compassionately on the hapless author of that foolish and discreditable war. Now, a post requiring greater delicacy and tact, combined with dignity and shrewdness, cannot well be imagined than that of an officer, whose duty it is rightly to represent the British Crown in so democratic and disturbed an atmosphere as that of Texas; and, on the ground solely of such a rare mixture of per sonal requirements, we will not call the salary excessive. If Captain Elliot possessed but one qualification for the office, we might, perhaps, hesitate to object to him altogether; and, on the plea of Ministerial etiquette, we could fancy that the promise made by one placeman should be accounted, more or less, inviolate by another; but, as things are, we exclaim strongly against the possibility that Texas should receive the disowned one of Canton. It would be to insult a State whose goodwill it may prove better to insure. It is not yet too late for the Ministry to back out of this business. Whatever objection Lord ABERDEEN might have to get rid of the worst legacy left him by Lord PALMERSTON, we cannot suppose that Sir P. PEEL would peril the independenee of Texas out of compliment to the partizan of a political riial. In the words of the Post, let Captain ELLIOT be left "over a perpetual teapot to amuse the gossips with his opium reminiscences." It is certainly not only the fittest, but the only ,fitting place for him. There are plenty of competent, able men, well acquainted with Texas and the United States, who would accept the appointment of Consul-General to Texas with pleasure. Such babbling and scribbling compounds of rashness and weakness as Captain ELLIOT, are not the men to represent, with advantage, the Majesty of England among the fiery republicans of one of the newest and most unsettled States in the world. We have had enough of Captain ELLIOT in the East. In mercy to us and the Texans, we implore Sir ROBERT PEEL to spare them and us the infliction of his diplomatic agency in the West. We hare given at length the judgment of Dr. Luau- INGTON, in the Braintree case, delivered yesterday in the Consistory Court. It is one of considerable importance to rate-payers in general, and especially to those who object to Church-rates altogether. About four years ago a vestry was held at .Braintree, for the purpose of making a rate for the repair of the church, when a majo rity decided against the rate, but, notwithstanding this decision, the minority proceeded to levy a rate which was refused, and an appeal made to the Superior Courts. The question was argued in the Court of Queen's Bench, which decided that the rate was invalid. It was then heard before all the Judges, when the find ing of that Court was confirmed ; but Chief Justice TIND.U., in delivering his opinion, observed that, as in the case of a Corporation, when the majority refused to act, the minority of the vestry, with the Churchwarden, might be justified in levying a rate for the necessary repairs of the church. The minority, on the authority of the Learned Judge, commenced anew, and sued a parishioner for non-payment. The case was argued at length in the Consistory Court, and after mature deliberation, Dr. LIISHINGTON gave judgment yesterday deciding that the rate was still invalid. The rejection of Mr. DUNCOMBE'S motion, for allow ing the working people of this country to explain their grievances at the bar of the House of Commons, cannot fail to make a very deep and very painful impression upon the country. The House was not asked, as the Right Hon. Member for Edinburgh most unfairly re presented, to concede the Charter. All that was sought was a hearing of the miseries of the people, which might or might not be made to include the suggestion, on their part, of what they concluded to be the best remedies. It was justly stated by Mr. llumE, that the surest way of preventing revolutions was to listen to the com plaints of the people ; and we are apprehensive, that if the House persist .in the course recommended by Mr. MACAL'LAY, we may live to see a revolu tion in England. The cries of the poor for relief show that they are sick at heart. Parliament is bound to listen to their complaints, however it may differ with them as to the adoption of remedies. The question of the adoption of the Charter is alto gether a different one from that implied as well as stated in the motion of the Hon. Member for Finsbury. We can conceive no act of the House of Commons more dangerous to the institutions, which it professes a determination to uphold, than its vote of last night. It was at once a blunder and a crime. The aris tocracy will, one day or other, deeply repeat it. MADRID BOURSE, APRIL 25.—Two bargains in the Threes, for 700,000 reals, at 22/, for 60 days. One for 400,000 reals in the Fours, 19 7-16, for 60 days. Twelve in the Fives, for 6,800,000 reals, at 273, ;at various dates, 274, -I, 5-16, 28, 27-i. The French Journals are filled with loyal birth-day addresses to the KING, and right Royal answers. They They are so fulsomely panegyrical on all skies, that we shall be readily excused for taking no notice of them. The Toulonnais has the following letter from Algiers, dated April 20 It seems certain that General Bugeaud is raised to the dignity of Marshal of France, and M. de Lamoriciere to that of Lieutenant-GeneraL Yesterday evening, after the ar rival of the Extraordinary, convoys were ordered to embark troops for Oran, to which place the Governor-General is also going. It is true that report adds that General Bugeaud is recalled, and that the Marshal's baton is bestowed to make up for the recal. It is again affirmed that General Bugeaud re fused to return to France, and that to prolong his stay in Africa he is going to Oran to prosecute the war."—Le Constitution nsl, May 2. The Crocodile steamer, which arrived at Toulon on the 28th of April, has brought news from Algiers to the 25th. The Governor-General had gone on the 20th, accompanied by se veral other Generals, towards the Maison Carree. On the 25th he was making preparations to go to Oran. The Came leon, Fulton, and 'renal.° steamers, were taking troops on board, which they were to convey to that part of the coast. An immense convoy left Algiers on the 25th, for Blidah. An order of the day, dated Algiers, the 20th of August, announces that General de Bar, who, during the absence of the Governor-General, will have the chief command at Algiers, will likewise have the superior direction of the administration. Commerce. A return of the real property of the State has been distri buted to the Members of the two Chambers by order of the Minister of Finance. The approximative value in capital is 1,283,441,698 francs. That part of it depending on the War Department is estimated at upwards of 206 millions, and the portion relating to the Marine to 125 millions. The forests are valued at 729,563,283 francs.—Journal des Debats. , 0,•,..,;" THE. SUN. LONDON, TRURSDAY MORNING, MAY 5, 1842. BOURSE-PA.IIIB, MONDAY, MAY 2. lust Highest Lowest Last Price Price. Pric. Price. reach 5 per Centt........... 119 $0 ... 121 ... 1,9 70 ... 120 4 1 % per Cents ..... lO7 50 ... 107 50 ... 107 50 ... 197 50 4 per Cents. lO2 25 ... 102 25 ... 102 25 ... 102 25 S per Cents Bl 8J - 81 90 ... 81 80 ... SI 90 isms of e ranee .... ...... Lattitte Rank 5.0001 Shares 5050 ....5050 ...5048 75 ...5048 75 eleliglan sank 1841 lO5O ...1051 ...1050 ...1050 lielgian 5 per Cents. 5 per Cents., 1840 105% ... 105% ... 105 1 % .. 105% ipantsh Act we l6 ... 16 ... 25% ... 25l Passive 5 ... 5 ... 41, ... 4% Portuguese 5 per Cents...." 12% ... 32% ... 32% ... 32% Neapolitan lO7 90 ... ii 7 95 ... 107 91 ... 107 95 Roman .... 106 ... 106 ... 106 ... 106 AND Pabitr Optittou. " Who runs may read." POREIGN. The French Journals are filled with the usual anni versary speeches addressed to the King by all the public bodies in the State on the occasion of celebrating his Majesty's birthdays The custom is exceedingly silly and troublesome to all the parties concerned, and ought to be got rid of as quickly as possible. Tho Infant Prince Count d'Eu was baptized on Friday morning at Neuilly by the Archbishop of Paris. The names given to the young Prince are Louise-Philippe- Marie Ferdinand Gaston. Their Majesties were the Sponsors. The Cure de Neuilly and the Chaplains of the Palace were present at the ceremony. liVe are happy to learn that hut. Royal Highness the Duchess de Nemours is proceeding favourably. A return of the real property of the State has been distributed to the members of the two Chambers, by order of the Minister of Finance. The approximative value in capital is 1,283,441,698 f. That part of it de pending on the War Department is estimated at upwards of 206 millions, and the portion relating to the Marine to 125 millions. The forests are valued at 729,563,283 f., and the domains at 8 millions. ....... The amount received by the Paris Savings' Bank in April, from 24,492 depositors, of whom 3,137 were new depositors, was 3,575,145 f. The amount of reimburse ments was 2,693,000 f. The late Postmaster-General, the Earl of Lich field, is gone to Naples with his family, and his establishments in England are entirely broken up. The magnificent contents of Shugborough-hall and St. James's-square, are both announced in our columns, and, next to the far-famed sale at Straw berry-hill, its splendour and variety will produce an excitement unexampled for many a long year. Of course Mr. George Robins will preside on each occa sion. The gallery of pictures and statues, it is con fi lently urged, will eclipse any sale that has taken place for the last twenty years. Our columns this morning will show that we have resumed our acquaintance with our old friend George Robins. It presents a tolerable repast for all those who have money at command. WEST INDIA STEAM-PACKETS. As much misrepresentation exists as to the late disarrangement and non-arrival of the West India packets, the following explanation may not be un acceptable. The primary cause of the disarrange ment seems to have been owing to the Tweed leaving Jamaica without a sufficiency :of coals to take her back, and she was consequently detained at Chagres and Porto Bello, and was absent from Jamdica, by the last accounts, no less than six weeks. This deranged the order of the packets to windward, and the Actaeon, one of the windward packets, was compelled to go down to Jamaica with the windward mail, which deranged the service there At the same the authorities at the Havannah put the Tay in quarantine, because she had not a clean bill of health from Honduras ; and this led to a misunder standing between the English Consul and Spanish authorities, in reference to the delivery of the mails, which proceeded to such lengths as to provoke military interference. Meanwhile, one of the mail agents, on board the 'ActEeon, prevented the mails being car ried from Turk's :Island to Nassau, which, had it been done, the mails would have been in England up wards of three weeks since, by the Madeira. Sub sequently, the interference of Mr. TuRNsuLL, the English Consul, and Lieutenant APLIN, the mail agent (since cashiered for his conduct), on board the Tay, tended to increase the confusion ; for they commanded two of the Company's steamers to leave their stations, and, contrary to the instructions of the Company to their officers, and in direct oppo sition to the advice of the Post-office Commissioner, Mr. KAINS, ordered both these vessels, the Forth and the Tay, to proceed direct to England, and both, ac cording to these instructions, left Nassau together, and arrived in England together. By the interference of another mail agent, the Dee, at Turk's island, in place of being allowed to pursue her proper course, was ordered away to Jamaica, and thence to Havannah; and thus three most important and connecting stations were altogether deprived of steamers to carry on the service, the consequences of which can scarcely be calculated ; but may be imagined, when we say that the 'communication between the West Indian islands, Northern America, and the Gulf of 'Mexico, NN ill be for atime virtually interrupted, and thrown into great confusion. We forbear adding any ftirther remarks, as the question is now before the Admiralty ; but we think some of our Contemporaries have been too hasty in expressing opinions grounded on a want of know ledge of facts. Proofs that no blame in these matters can be attached to the Company, is the fact, as it has been stated to us, of Lieut. APLIN'S dismissal fur un warrantable interference, and another mail-agent, whose name we forbear mentioning, baying been superseded and sent to England by Sir C. ADAM, under arrest for improper conduct. We have been informed from good authority that such instructions have been sent out by the steamer Forth, Captain FAYRER, which was to leave Fal mouth on the 4th inst. (yesterday), both from the Company and the Admiralty, as will, shortly after her arrival out, restore things to their regular order. North and South American Coffee House, Wednesday evening, Quarter to Eleven o'Clock, per Express : " Liverpool, Wednesday morning, Half•past Ten.—The Virginia, New York packet ship, of the lath, is off the port ; her papers will no doubt be received in the morn ing. She brings three days later than last arrival." PURIFICATION OF ELECTORS.—The recent disclo sures of bribery and corruption in the late elections, must con vince even the most sceptical that, for the honour of England, and the purity of her institutions, some great change in the electoral system is necessary. In.a little volume, from the p.m of Mr. Buckingham, late Member for Sheffield, is contained a plan by which an entirely new system of election is devised and recommended to the attention of the cOmmunity.. It is pub lished by Simpkin and Marshall, at 58. bound in cloth, and may be ordered through any bookseller ; and at this particular moment it cannot fail to interest a large class of readers. LECTUXES ON SCOTTISH MUSIC AND SONG.—Mr. Wilson entertained a numerous and fashionable assemblage yesterday at the Hanover-square Rooms. The subject was " Prince Charles Stuart's Adventures," accompanied by a select number of songs, which were sung in his usual happy and ef fective style. - We are glad to find that he is quite recovered from the effects of the cold uncle. which he laboured for a few days. The assembly seemed highly delighted. A Committee has been formed, with the Duke de Coigny as President, for the erection of a monument to Cherubini The Duke and Duchess of Roxburgh, with the infant Mar t!, r cmis of Beaumont, arrived at Berwick, on Friday, from Fleurs S. MARY r .Ir.W6 Castle, Kelso. On fuesday the Lord Bishop of London held a Confirmation at St. James's Church, Westminster. MISCELLANEOUS. A fire broke out in the south ward of the Millbank Peniten tiary on Tuesday night, when the carpenters' and smiths' work shops in that quarter of the prisoner were destroyed. The Hon. Mrs. Douglas Tennant, wife of a brother of the present Earl of Morton, died at Pisa on the 25th. The Dowager Lady Lyttelton, daughter of the late Earl Spencer, and mother to the present Baron Lyttelton, has been prospectively appointed, it is said, as Governess to the Princess Royal. MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS CITY, WEDNESDAY EVENING. The English funds close at an improvement on the rates of yesterday. Some extensive sales for money were glade in the early part of the morning, w hich has caused a decline in the price of Exchequer bills, with which ex ception the market leaves off firm. The intelligence from India is supposed to be the cause for this reaction, and the details which have been published lead to the conclusion that the way will not be much longer pro tracted. The accounts from China also appear to give satisfaction, and it is confidently expected that the July mail will bring information of a cessation of hostilities in that quarter also. Parties who have been resident there have always held the opinion that, to make any lasting or effectual demonstration in that kingdom, it should be made at Pekin, in consequence of the great duplicity of the Chinese character generally ; and it is doubted by many, if the Emperor, even at the present time, be cor rectly informed of the late events. It is conjectured by several, and these conjectures are borne out by such despatches as have been intercepted, that the Govern ment has been completely deceived, and that the re verses which they have experienced have been turned into victories. If such should have been the case, the appearance of our forces at Pekin must have an immense moral effect. Consols left off at 921 921 for Money, and 924 for the Account ; Bank Stock, 167 168 ; India Stock, 247 248; Exchequer Bills, 36 3S prem. The prices of the Foreign Securities were—Belgian, 102 103 ex dividend ; Dutch Two-and-a Half per Cents., 52 53 ; the Five per Cents., 101 1011 ; Danish, 801 811. Railway Shares, although in good request, were not materially altered in price. London and Birmingham were 90 92 ; Great Western, 281 291 ; the Half shares, 14 7 1 15* prem. Birmingham and Gloucester, 53 55 ; South Western, 631 64 ; Gosport, 631 64 ; North Mid land, 65 67 ; New Shares, 32 33 ; South Eastern and Dover, 32 322 ; Eastern Counties, 9* 10 ; Blackwall, 12* 121 ; the New Shares, 10* 101 ; and Brighton, 361 37 per Share. The bonds of the insolvent States were thus quoted— . - Colombian, 261 a; Portuguese Five per Cents., 374 4 ; the Three per Cents., 22* 4 , Spanish Five per Cents., 231 24, and the Three per Cents., 23* 1. Mexican was quoted, 348 (From The Sun of Last Night.) The Stock Market has been rather heavy in consequence of a sale of ' Consols by the Chancery broker. Consols for Money are 92 1 ,4 to 92a; Ditto for the Account, 92% to 92% ; Reduced Three per Cents., 91% to 91i ; Reduced Three-and-a-Half per Cents., 99/ to 69/ ; New Three-and-a • Half per Cents., 100/ to 1001 ; Long Annuities, 121 to 12 13.16 th ; Exchequer Bills, 37 to 39 premium ; Ind:a Bonds, 20 to 22 prem. ; Bank Stock, 167 to 1671; India Stock, 247 to 2471. In the Foreign Market an improvement his taken place in Mexican, owing to a few purchases by influential dealers. The quotations are—Spanish Actives, 231 to 24 J Ditto, New Three per Cents., 2311 to 231; Ditto, Deferred, 12* to 121; Passive, 41 to 5 ; Mexican, 34a to 341 ; ditto, Deferred, 104 to 10/ ; Portuguese 3711 to 38; do. Three per Cents., 22/ to 2 . 4 ; do. Converted, 311 to 32*; Dutch Two-and-a , Half per Cents., 521 to 53; do. Five per Cents., 101 to 1011; Colombian, 261 to 261. Cautions against speculations in the bonds of various of the insolvent foreign States, and in Spanish particularly, have from time to time appeared, and certain charges which have been made at Madrid against the Government, and still remaining uncontradicted, prove that these cautions have net been without foundation. The finance Ministers there published, in the official gazette, the account for the Three per Cent. Stock newly created, which, by a comparison with the estimated arrears of interest. shows an excess of above seven millions sterling. The whole of this sum has doubtless been sold here and in some of the conti nental markets, as well as at Madrid; the late fall there in this particular stook is now accounted for, as is also the con duct of the Parisian Syndicate, in refusing it a place in their official lists. It is not the first time that such proceedings have been carried on, and these conversions afford an oppor tunity of perpetrating the fraud, too tempting to be resisted. But a few years since, a depression occurred in the price of Spanish Stock, which gradually declined from 60 to 16, and it was ultimately discovered, that parties at Madrid, at that time connected with the Government, had forwarded to various cities large parcels of bonds, which had been delivered in and supposed to have been cancelled, to be sold for what they would fetch, to the destruction of the property of the holders of the original documents, and to the ruin of unfor tunate speculators. It is much to be feared that something similar has now been attempted, and it appears suspicious that the Government, when challenged with figures, has not dared to refute the charge. The intelligence from China has completely paralised the Tea Market, and apparently not without cause. If it be correct that Sir H. Pottinger be about to proceed to, Pekin for the purpose of putting an end to the present state of affairs there, it may be expected that trade will shortly be placed upon a satisfactory basis. Meanwhile, if the forces be withdrawn from Canton, the opportunity of ship ping teas and other produce will be eagerly embraced ; thus, these movements will either way cause increased imports. A gentleman lately arrived from Hong Kong gives an interesting account of the progress of that settlement. Building and culti vation are rapidly going on, and the Chinese appear to be anxious to assist the English in every possible manner. A complete revolution in their notions of us has taken place, and it is stated that they infinitely prefer living under our protection to that of their own Government. It is said, and apparently with correctness, that no settle ment has been made for years, likely to prove so valuable to our commerce as this, whether it be considered with regard to its relations to China, or its proximity to the whole of the Indian Archipelago, the Phillipine, and other numerous groups of islands in that quarter. Orders have been given to detain the mail, which was to have been despatched to India to-day, until the 6th, in order to afford an opportunity of answering the letters hourly ex pected via Marseilles. LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, MAY 3, was dull, and the transactions altogether amounted to 2,000 bales, of which 200 were for exportation. Livers:root. SHARE' MARKET, MAY 3.—South Eastern and Dover were again in very good request ; other Shares re mained as previously noticed. ,The sales included Eastern Counties New, 51. 15s. sd. ; Grand Junction 191 ; Londou and Birmingham,•lBl ; Brighton New, 81; Manchester and Leeds Halves, 39*; Quarters, 64; North Midland, 651; South Eastern, 321 ; New, 41 premium ; York and North Midland Halves, 33*. MA NCHESTEE, STOCK EXCHANGE, MAY 3.—We have had a good market to-day, and prices continue firm. Manchester, Bolton and Bury, 62; Manchester and Leeds, 88; Ditto Quarter Shares, 61 61 ; South Eastern and Dover, 311 32 ; Ditto New, 41; District Bank, 101. 91. ; Rochdale Canals, 65. CLOSING PRICES. BRITISH FUNDS Bank Stock 167 India Stock ..............247 3 per Cent Red. 9ll Ditto Bonds 2l per 3 per Cent Cons 92i Ditto Old Annuities ... 89/ 31 per Cent Red 991 Ditto New Annuities... —' New 31 per Cent New 5 per Cent. Long Annuities Zo expire Ditto Small 36 pm Jan. 1860 .. 12 11-16 Bank Stock for Aect Oct. 1£459.' India Stock for Acct.... Jan. 1860. 12 13-16, Consols for Acct 92j FOREIGN FUNDS. Austrian, 5 cent.— Portuguese, 5 per cent. Belgian, 5 pei rent lo2* Ditto, New Ditto Brazilian 80nd5.... ...... Prussian, 5 per cent.. „„. Buenos Ayres 6 per cext Russian, 5 per cent. ... . Chilian, h per cent.— Ditto, :Metallic: ... . . Colombian, 6 per cent.. 26* Spanish,.s per cent., 23/ Ditto, 1824.. ....... ..... Ditto, Deferred.... . Danish, 3 per cent Fiench, 5 per cent.ll9l. 50e. Greek, 1825, 5 per cent -- Exchange f .c, Mexican, 5 per cent:... 341 French, 3 percent soc. Ditto, 6 per cent. 1837 Dutch, 21 per cent. , Peruvian, 18`25, 5 per ct. 18/ Ditto, 5 per cent. 101/ SHARES. Birmingham and Gloucester Railway (100 p) 55 Edinburgh and Glasgow (50 paid) ...... 54* Great North of England Railway (100 pd) 87 Great Western Railway (65 paid) 94 Ditto New Shares (50 paid) ... 65 London and Brighton (50 paid) London and Birmingham.(9o) ...... 181 Ditto Quarter Shares (15 paid) 37i Ditto New Shares ( 2 paid) London and Greenwich Railway I . — pd) 5 1 London and South Western Manchester and Birmingham (40 paid) ..... 28/ Northern and Eastern (45 paid) —Qt... 43i North Midland Railway (100) South Eastern and Dover (50 paid) ...... . 32* Ditto Scrip. ( 5 paid) York and North Midland (50 paid) ... ...... 94 COFFEE AND EATING-HOUSE KEEPERS' ASSOCIATION. This Institution celebrated its fifth anniversary at the London Tavern, yesterday, Sir John Easthope in the chair. About one hundred and fifty persons sat down to an excellent dinner. The wines were excellent, and the entertainment, altogether, was creditable to the So ciety. After the usual loyal toasts the Chairman pro posed the health of the Duke of Sussex, the Patron of the Association, and spoke in high terms of the generous disposition and liberal principles of that illustrious mem ber of the Royal Family. He then gave " Health and pro sperity to the Institution," which was responded to with loud cheers. The Treasurer then read the list of subscriptions, from which it appeared that the amount this year exceeded that of the preceding year by 501., and that the Society was in a prosperous condition. The following are the principal subscriptions an nounced in the course of the evening : The Chairman, 20 guineas ; the Proprietors of the Morning Chronicle, 10 guineas ; the Proprietors of the Morning Advertiser, 10 guineas ; Sir John Pirie, 10 guineas ; the Proprietors of the London Tavern, 10 guineas ; Mr. Masterman, M.P., 10 guineas ; and a great number of other subscribers, averaging from three guineas to one guinea. Several professional singers were present, who de lighted the company with some excellent songs ; and the entertainment went off altogether with the best effect. THE NEW NovEls.---We are requested to state that Mr. Colburn, of Great Marlbororgh-street, has just pub lished the following new works of Fiction, which can now be had at all the libraries :-1. Passion and Principle, edited by Capt Frederick Cilamier, 3 vols. 2. Lady Anne Granard, or Keeping up Appearances, by L.E.L., 3 vols. 3. Fascination and other Tales, edited by Mrs. Gore, comprising Fascination, First Love, the Modern Scipio, the Silver Ring, Retribution, Theresa, &c., 3 vols. 4. Adventures of Sir licienry Morgan, the Buccaneer, by the author of " Rattlin the Reefer," &c., 3 vols. Joseph Rushbrooke,- by the author of "Peter Simple," " Jacob Faithful," &c.; cheaper editions, 3 vols. 6. The School for Wives, by the authoress of " Tempation," 3 vols. 7. The Man of Fortune, by Mrs. Gore, 3 vols., and in a few days will be published, The Lottery of Life, by the Countess of Blessington, 3 vols. OVERLAND MAIL! INDIA AND CHINA, We have received by an Extraordinary Express our letters and papers in anticipation of the Indian Mail. We give the following extracts from the letter of our Correspondent-:--- BOMBAY, APRIL 1, 1842.—,The news which this day's mail takes to Europe is interesting. It does not contain any startling facts such as those of the three preceding months. In order to place it before you in regular order, I shall divide it into the appropriate heads PAR , LLELWINT.A.ILY. The Lords did not meet yesterday. -- - In the Commons, the Nottingham Election Committee re ported that the sitting Members ' were duly elected, while the Thetford Committee unseated Lord Euston, and seated Sir James Flower. The Petty Sessions Bill was opposed by Sir J. Graham, on the part of the Government, and withdrawn by Mr. Banks. On the order of the day being called for the second reading of the Church Patronage (Scotland) Bill, Sir James Graham asked Mr. Campbell to postpone it, on the ground that the Government had at present hopes of settling the disputes in the Scotch Church, on the thiee principles of preserving the civil rights of the patrons, the right of the people to object to presentation, and the right of the Spiritual Courts to decide on those objections. Mr. Campbell consented to postpone the Bill for six weeks. Mr. Fox Maule objected to this course, and urged with some vehemence the propriety of the House of Commons corning to a decision before the General Assembly met. He said the pro positions of the Government were merely the revival of Lord Aberdeen's Bill, and would not satisfy the people. He alluded to some negotiations which had improperly influenced the Mem ber for Argyleshire to postpone his Bill at the eleventh hour, and, he moved that it be read then a second time. After a short debate the House divided on the motion, and the second reading of the Bill was postponed by 131 to 48. The adjourned debate on appointing Mr. Ferrand's Com vaittee was again resumed and again adjourned. After transacting some routine business, the House adjourned at Eight o'Clock. PUBLIC OPINION. The Herald expresses its doubts as to the genuineness of the three million signatures to the Chartist petition, and adds :—" We must repeat the expression of our fears that among the 3,315,752 signatures, a whole legion, at least, are factitious or fictitious. We are informed, for example, on the authority of a personal friend who was residing in the north when this petition lay there for signature in his ' ancient city,' that one individual alone—(more alive to the pleasure, what ever it be, of doing ridiculous things, than to the possible con sequences of doing them—or to the serious interpretation pos sibly to he put upon his unreasoning follies) —was known to have signed this Chartist petition about a dozen times over, under the most absurd designations ; for example, the ieitial verse of a slang song. Is this so, or is it not? If we are re minded that it can be worth no man's while to look for such nonsense amidst the swarming population of three millions and a half of the names of the children of men, we must reply that that very consideration suggests the most insurmountable reason for withdrawing our faith from the genuineness of the identity or appellatives of such an unaccountable petitioning nation 1" We take the following from the Chronicle :—" A Govern ment may be defectively constituted according to a given theory, and yet acceptable to the people under it, from it general con viction that it is honestly and justly administered, while another Government, more perfectly constituted according to the theory in question, may possess little of that confidence of the people, from a general conviction that the interests of classes are consulted at the expense of the community. The Reform Bill, with all its defects, allows greater influence to the people than they before had, but it has become unpopular be cause class interests are still found to be more powerful under it than the interests of the community. The Legislature has openly and unblushingly acted in opposition to the principles which the wisest and most enlightened men have sanctioned by their authority, as the best calculated to promote the welfare of the community. The existing Constitution, under the Reform Bill, has placed power in the bands of men who have abused it for the furtherance of their own class interests." In an article, suggested by the Chartist petition, the Times makes the following comments :—" The existence of the Chartists is not indeed a formidable, but it is a serious, fact. It is serious to find a confederation in an address intended for a large, and necessarily inflammable, body of their fellow-coun trymen, telling them, as quoted by Mr. Duncombe, that they ' have been driven into poverty and starvation by political causes which they have no power to destroy, and scarcely any liberty to describe in Parliamentary petition ;' that they (the Convention) are sensible that it is almost a mockery of jus tice to ask the starving to be submissive and to bow their famished bodies to the footstool of oppression ;' that they have expressed their hostility to the system which has strip e ddyou, misled you, repressed your murmurs by force, situ d your complaints by a demonstration of steel and threatened butchery ;' and finally, begging them to wait, like themselves, ' with patience and subduedfeeling,' the answer of Government, on which they are now preparing to advise on the future course to be pursued,' All this is not formidable, but it may soon become so." The Post says We do not argue that the Income-tax is without grave objections and great faults. We cannot argue for that, because we do not believe it. We account the In come-tax to be a very great hardship upon the greater number of those who will have to pay it. In some respects it is a very objectionable tax. But its redeeming quality is that it spares the poor. It does not, to the same degree, or nearly to the same degree, as any other tax would, abridge the poor man of his comforts, or render him unable to obtain a fair supply of the necessaries of life for his family. But the Whig-Radicals exclaim that the poor, though not directly charged with the Income-tax, are not independent of its operation—that it is to them a real injury. This we de not deny, but we complain that nothing but the bad side is held up by the Whigs to public observation. The following is from the Advertiser :—" In rejecting the motion of Mr. T. Duncombe last night, the House et Commons most flagrantly violated the Constitution, and committed a breach of trust which in the ordinary relations of civilised life would subject the perpetrators to the penalties of the criminal law. Mr. Duncombe moved that the National Petition, signed by upwards of three millions of people, presented on the previous day, be taken into consideration, and that the petitioners be heard at the bar of the House, by themselves, their counsel, or their agents, in support of the allegations of that petition.' Leaving out of the question, for the moment, the policy or impolicy, justice or injustice of the claims put forth in the petition, we contend that the House of Commons cannot adduce the shadow of justification in refusing to hear expressed at its bar the opinions of three millions of the people —from whose supposed representation it derives its power." ItIONSY—TICILDE—COMMERCz. The Southwark-bridge Company held their annual meeting on Tuesday, when the Report stated the total amount of the bridge-traffic to have been nearly 4,0001. for the year, and the net profit of the pier to have exceeded 3001. The- annual meeting of the Church Missionary Society was held on Tuesday at'Exeter Hall. Missionary labours in India, Africa, New Zealand, and other British Colonies were reported to have been successful. The total amount of the year's re ceipts was 90,8211., and of the expenditure 110,8081., leaving a deficiency of 19,957/. The 10th anniversary of the Literary Association of the Friends of Poland was held on Tuesday, in the Sussex Chamber, St. James's, when the Report stated there were now 40 Poles dependent on the Institution, being two more than last year. The fete at Stafford House, assisted by Mademoiselle Rachel, produced 8761. The Guildhall entertainment, aided by Miss A. Kemble and Miss Rainforth, 7361. Subscriptions of 6601. were announced, and a separate donation of 1601. for educa tional purposes. Above 400 sail of vessels have been detained in the Channel by the late east winds • the arrivals, in consequence , h a v e been so few in the Pool, above Greenwich, that it appears almost deserted. Wharf and dock business, and the trade of the ma ritime districts being impeded by this cause, thousands of coal-whippers and shoremen have been out of employment for weeks put. In the course of to-day upwards of two hundred sail may be expected in the river, several of them from the East Indies, with very valuable cargoes of silks, in digo, teas, tic. LAW AND POLICE. Mr. I. N. Wigney and Mr. Clement Wigney were on Tuesday re-examined by the Commissioners, and the examination of , the former concluded ; the investigation into tne transactions of the latter gentleman were proceeded with in private yesterday. A Anal examination is fixed for the ensuing 16th of June, and the audit for the 10th of October. James .Curson, or Hurtyman, charged with the murder of Dunean Crawford, on the Isle of Dogs, five years ago, under went another examination at the Thames Police Court on Tues plainad that a material witness in his of the way by the police inspectors, and in order to afford time f,, r his appearance the Magistrate remanded the prisoner until F r iday. day. behalf had de been prisoner k e p kept o o u t The Old Bailey Se,sions commence on Monday next, and it is supposed that Good's trial will take place on the ensuing Thursday or Friday. Lord Denman takes the trial. In the Bankruptcy Court on Tuesday, Thomas Robinson, late of I,adenhall-street, passed his final e xamination. Ilis debts amounted to 50,0001., and the assets to 5,000/. ; this large deficiency being attributed to tallow s peculations in 1340. At Marylebone Police Court a young foreigner, named Theodore de Folley, a flut e player at the Opera - house , was held to bail in 10u1. , and t wo sureties to the same amount, on a charge of attempting to stab and shoot Mr. Bartlett, for many years a hairdresser and perfumer in Regent-street. It appeared from the statement of the plaintiff, that his wife had been seduced from him ; and as he met him on the previous evening he demanded his card, when the flute player first drew out a dagger of bright steel, with an ivory handle, silver mounted, then a pistol, and ran off as fast as his legs could carry him, but was stopped by plaintiff and given into custody. PINE .11- 1 z..r 5 " A piece of gold, weighing five ounces and a half, the heaviest piece of unwrought gold yet found in Ireland, was picked up in the Wicklow mines recently. JLXTEIZIIizy AND seXENTIFIC. The copyright of Rossini's new Stabat Mater," has been purchased by Signor Gabussi, the Italian compo.er, for 10,000 francs. After the excitement it has created at Paris, Bologna. Milan, and Berlin, it is singular that in this country it has not beenperformed. THEATarca.L. Mr. Caleraft's Dublin Theatre Royal closed on Saturday, and at its conclusion he announced the engagement of Miss Adelaide Kemble, Miss Rainforth, and a first-rate corps dra =wipe, to open the summer season on Monday, th 9th inst. Mademoiselle Plessy appeared for the last time at the St. James's Theatre last evening, in Le Misanthrope Talerie, and La Jeune Femme Colere. COMI.T--rasIZION.A.BLE. The ceremony of laying the first stone of the Victoria tower, which is the intended Royal entrance to the new House of Peers, will, it is said, take place in August; ar.d if her Majesty should not perform the ceremony, it is expected that Prince Albert will officiate. The Earl of Kilnoul had a grand dinner party on Monday lad. The Countess of Wicklow gave a brilliant ball on Tuesday night, in Cavendish-square. The first meeting for the season of the Horticultural Society was held on Tuesday, in Regent-street. Sir Oswald Moseley, Vice-President, in the Chair. , esSAIPIR CHINA. The latest intelligence is to the 14tii. of February from Macao. The Chinese Government having garrisoned the cities and forts of Yuyao, Tsikee, and Funghwa, which are situate 40,20. and 30 miles from Ningpo, with a view of awing all those who had submitted to the British, a force consisting of three'steamers with about 700 men was despatched against them. They were soon occupied ; the only opposition being an attempt at one place on the part of the Tartars to defend the town from without the walls ; but although they opened fire, the Tartars fled as soon as attacked ; they were pursued, and lost about 150 men. The snow which covered the country silted the others, as their pursuers did not know the safe paths. The ammunition, arms, clothing, and other war stores, were destroyed, and the public granaries sur rendered to the populace. The expedition returned to Ningpo on the 12th of January. Hang-chow-foo is the chief city of the populous province of Che-Keang, and was, it is said, about to be occupied during February. It had a garrison of 10,000 raw recruits. The division of the English troops into detachments at Hong Kong, Amoy, Chusan, Chinhae, and Ningpo, was likely to prevent an immediate attack, but on the anival of the ex pected reinforcements from India and England, the campaign would, it is said, begin by the cap ture of that important position at the south point of the Great Canal. The utility of this proceeding is much canvassed, for many contend, that instead of wasting itrees at isolated points, the British expedition ought to proceed at once to the attack of the Imperial province of Pekin, which beitig by the constitu tion of the Chinese empire, placed under the im mediate Government of his Celestial Majesty, any attack on it would oblige the Emperor in per son to examine the causes of the war, and to come to a speedy decision. The great blunder of the late Plenipo tentiaries was their not persisting in 1840 to demand a settlement of all disputes, when Ke ehen hoaxed them back to Canton. Sir Henry Pottinger must go to Pekin in order to bring the war to a termination ; for the manda rins at Hang-chow-tiro seem resolved rather to carry on their operations in their own fashion, although they appeared to make an offer of negocia tions. The sacred province of Pekin must be assailed, and even the British troops may have to march towards the capital, before the obstinacy of the Emperor will yield. The possession of the imperial province is, be sides, to be considered as an occupation of the Govern ment, and then the Emperor will have either to abdicate or submit to proper terms. Having issued a circular to her Britannic Majesty's subjects announcing the capture of those three cities, Sir Henry Pottinger sailed for Hong Kong where he arrived on the Ist of February. He immediately put a stop to the wretched system of seizing the Chinese commercial junks. Trade was carried on successfully with the southern ports, and opium was selling freely along the coast, for the powers of the Government to control the use of that narcotic appear now to be in a great mea sure paralyzed. The sale of this article is such, and the prices so remunerating, that it has been proposed to station vessels in different places to serve as depots for the cargoes. The profits are such as will enable the Hon. Company to defray at least one-half of the expenses of the expedition to China. • In the meantime the Mandarins at Canton and their Dutch engineers are busy in erecting fortifi,:a tions along the banks of their river ; they have al ready erected twelve stone or earth batteries along the Macao passage and the Salt Junk river, in which they have placed nearly 400 guns of large calibre. As the export trade from Canton continued, Sir Henry . Pottinger had decided, while trade is allowed, and the river below Whainpoa is left unobstructed, upon not attacking that place again, for, as he declared to some mandarins, who came commissioned, as they said, by their Celestial Mo narch to treat with the British Plenipot.-ntiary, " I will not now enter into treaty : I will negotiate with the Emperor personally at Pekin." Reinforcements are new preparing in different places. The 2d and 41st Madras Native Infantry embarked on the 13th of March from Madras, and the 14th, which was at Moulmein, and the 39th Madras Native Infantry, which was at Penang, have, as it is asserted, received or ders to get ready - for prdceeding to join the China expe dition. It is reported that Chusan, Amoy, and Hong Kong, are to be free ports ; buildings of various kinds are springing up fast in the last named. AP PG KAN 'STAN . It is scarcely possible to'rerriove the Mist which prejud dices and party madness have already thrown around the accounts from Caubul and its neighbourhood, since the disastrous retreat in the beginning of January. The Bombay Times and the Bengal Hurharu, notwithstand ing protests from all parts of India, continue to exagge. rate every statement which is unfavourable to the British, and to palliateall the atrocities of the Affghans ; although, as yet, nothing positive is known of the fate of many of the officers, these are marked down as killed, and every means - is used to Magnify the loss during that unfortunate retreat. The Bombay Times iri its overland despatch of this day paints everything in most gloomy colours, although there is not sufficient reason for such clamour and horrifying statements. The truth of the affair is now breaking out, and I am very sorry to state, that the disasters of Caubul and of the mountain passes appear now attributable to disunited councils in the - British camp, and to the total inefficiency of th e military leaders. A private letter from Sir W. H. Macnaghteu to his friend the Hon. Mr. Erskine, dated Caubul, the 9th of December, 1841, has been published by the "Friend of India." It is as follows, and speaks fearful tales : W e have now been besieged 38 days by a con temptible enemy, whom the cowardice of our troops and certain other circumstances, which I will not mention, have emboldened to assume an attitude of superiority. Our provisions will be out in two or three days more and the military authorities have strongly urged me to capitulate. This I will not do till the last moment. We have rumours that a force is coming to our assistance from Candahar, and I sincerely trust it may, for we have no energy or spirit among those here." A letter, dated the 30th of January last, has arrived from Major Pottinger, from which it appears that " General Elphinstone, at the time after the murder of Sir W. 11. M‘Naghten, when the evacuation of Caubul and its neighbourhood was under discussion in the British Cantonments, was so ill from gout and a wound, that all active measures had devolved on Bri outlier- Shelton ; that Major Pottinger proposed marching from the cantonment to . the Bala Hissar, or evacuating Caubul, with the sacrifice of their baggage, and fighting their way to the nearest British station. Brigadier Shelton declared the first proposition impracticable, and the council of war would nut agree to the second ; consequently, General Elphin stone acquiesced in the vote of the council of war, which was for the disastrous course adopted." Thus, instead of regarding the disasters of Caubul as a proof of Affghan prowess, they must be looked upon as demonstrations of the incapacity ~f the British Generals. This view is corroborated by the fact of Shah Sooja being enabled still to maintain himself in the Bala His sax • and by the gallant defence of J e ll a l a b a d b y S i r Robert Sale, where he, notwithstanding every difficulty, has maintained his position since last. October. General N ott is still master at Candahar and its environs, from whence the Affghans ha ve no t b e i ng a bl e to expel him. The fact seems, therefore, clear that if the British troops had been well commanded at Caubul, neither the evacua tion of that place, nor the wretched retreat would have been necessary, and then th e f a t a liti es o f that miserable proceeding would have been spared. The newspapers publish the names of various officers who are not found to be prisoners, and not killed as pub lished in the first exaggerated statements of the Phil- Affghan journal*. The Agra Akhbar of the 24th ult. states, that the. Affghans have adopted •••• the horrible practice of mutilating the sepoys, and sending them back to Hindostan to scare .their countrymen from further trips to Caubul." 6'ir Robert Sale was safe in Jellalabad up to the 4th of last month ; he had secured provisions for himself and his troops, and was determined to resist to the last. An earthquake on the 19th of February had done great damage to the fortifications and buildings of the town, but the resolution of the General and his troops, had not only repaired the damage, but routed a party of Affghans under Akhbar Khan, who endeavoured to profit of the occasion, and to attack the British position. The troops sent to the relief of Jellalabad have met with various discouragements. The want of cannon caused the failure of Colonel Wilde's movement into the Khyber Pass. Great sickness, but luckily no heavy mortality, attacked those that arrived near Peshawar be fore General Pollock. The attempt made to buy over the Khybers did not succeed, although a quarrel had taken place between two of their tribes about the spoil they had previously acquired. On the 25th of February General Pollock issued an order to prepare for a march into the Khyber pass, in order to relieve Jellalabad. This order is described as giving dissatisfaction to several of the officers, inasmuch as it limited the quantity of baggage they were allowed to carry. • It has, as it appears, been since found, that as Jelalabad was not in immediate danger, it would be best to await the 'arrival of the 3d Dragoons before the at tempt should be made on the Khyber pass. The Ifincloo soldiers, independent of their dislike to cross the Indus, entertain a strong aversion to the barbarity and treachery of the Affghans. The brigade from Ferozepore, under the command of Brigadier White, was on the banks of the Chenaub on the 9th of March, and expected to cross the Jeetum on the 12th• or 13th, and would therefore reach Peshawar in the beginning of this month. The force under Ge neral Pollock would then be respectable, and fully ca pable of effecting the passage. The Sikhs continue to afford the British troops every facility in passing through their territories, and it is even said that a strong body is ready to co-operate with Gcneral Pollock in attacking the .Khyberees and Affghans. There have, however, been some desertions from the Sepoy regiments. The letters.from the prisoners in the hands of the Alfghan chiefs are very short, and generally requesting money to relieve various of their pressing wants. Another proof of the weakness of the Affghan leaders is, that Colonel Palmer ha been able, with his ma :lie detachment, to iliaint,,a ttiinsela in Ghuznes during four months, from the b , girining of November. The last intelligence from Candahar is to the 10th of March. All was safe there. There was a large body of Affghans within 20 miles of that city ; but their leader, Sutler Jung, a son of Shah Soo;a, appeared to dread a rencontre with the British troops. There were upwar4s of 7,000 troops in Candahar, and a reinforcement Of 1,500, with money and ammunition, has been sent to General Nott from Sukkur. Khelat y Ghilzie was, with its garrison of 1,000 men , a l so sa f e , a lth oug h it : is situate 80 miles from Candahar. The decision of Lord Ellenborough being now taken to uphold the reputation of the British troops in Affghanistan, one may hope that in a short time the re lief of Jellalabad will open the campaign with a brilliant exploit. In Khelat and Scinde apparent tranquility prevails, the inhabitants have already begun to know the benefit of the British rule, in the security of their persons and propPrties. The rumour of the seizure of an iron steamer in the Indus has not been confirmed. INDIA. The departure of Lord Auckland has taken place. Various addresses, proving how much his Lordship was appreciated at Calcutta were presented to him. Lord Ellenborough, who reached Calcutta on the 28th of Feb ruary, has infused new spirit into the preparations for the reinforcements to China by his going on board to examine the transports. The disturbances caused by the mutiny of the Madras Sepoys have terminated, and all is tranquil in those dis, tric ts. There are symptoms of confusion being likely to break out at Oude, where the old King is acting the oppressOr, at the instigation of a crafty Minister. In the small state of Judpore there has been some alarm created, but it is not likely to produce any im• portant results. _ BIRMAH. Tharawaddie having left Rangoon, all is quiet there. He proceeded to Tharawa, where the Court stopped some time, and he ordered 60 of those who had accompanied him to Rangoon, but whom he convicted of robbery, to be beheaded. MAURITIUS. Sir Lionel Smith died there on the 3d of January. He was succeeded in the government by Colonel W. -_- I tavely. Lady Smith survived her husband only three days. BOMBAY. The Bombay Government has appointed thefollowing days for the departures of the steamers from this period to the close of the next monsoon—viz., May 2, May 23, June 18, July 19, and August 27. The Wellesley arrived on the 23d of February, at Singapore, on her passage to England. It was said. that Earl Auckland would meet her there, in order to take' his passage on board her Majesty's ship ; but he did not leave the river of Calcutta until the 16th - of March. The great t a lk this evening relates to an impudent lying map which the Bombay Times has published, !n order to du as much mischief as it can in Europe. CIRCULAR. TO HER BRITANNIC MAJESTY'S SUBJECTS IN CHINA. Her Majesty's Plenipotentiary in China has the plea sure to announce to her Majesty's subjects in China, that the district cities of Yuyao, Tsikee, and Fungwa, dist s ust respectively 40,. 20, and 30 miles from Ningpo, have beea visited and temporarily occupied by detachments of be' Majesty's combinetl forces. . The Chinese Government having thrown garrisoni IMO the cities in question, and given out that the object in st! . doing was to encour age ( or p er h a p s , m ore c orre ctly s p ea k.i ing, to intimidate) the inhabitants of Ningpo and tht 1 surrounding districts to withhold obedience to the British authorities, and likewise to deter them, as far as possible, from furnishing provishmsand supplies, it was resolved by', their Excellencies, the Naval and Military Commanders- • in -Chief, to take an early opportunity of dislodging those garrisons ; and on the weather (which hadbeen extremely' wet in the early:part of December) becoming frosty and. favourable for operations, the necessary arrangementsi were completed f.,r carrying that resolution into effect. " The Sesostris, Nemesi s , an d Phl ege thon, ste a mers; :' carrying about seven hundred men of all arms,*and tow-- ing a number of boats, weighed from their positions at; :Ningpo on the morning of the 27th Dec., and proceeded oPt 1 the river. The former ship, owing to her greater draft o water was obliged to bring up about two thirds of the to Yuyao, off which place the two smaller vessels anchored late in the afternoon, when the troops landed immediately' under the personal directions of his Excelleney:Lieuted nasit-General Sir Hugh Gough, K.C.8., and, liaving;, taken possession of a small battery mounting four gen% (which the Chinese had thrown up to enfilade ,the air, proaching reach of the river, but which they did n 4 venture to defend), were lodged fur the night in a lay get, temple or Joss-house situated on a hill, which overlook ea the town at the distance of less than half , s ,s mile. At daylight on the morning of the 28th, Excellency the Naval Commander-in-Chief, die earl barked with the seamen and marines. and prepare"-- tions were made for escalading, when some of the people came out and declared that the garrison (stated to have consisted of 1,200 regulars, arid e.P, equal number of militia) had quitted the town draring the night, and that the gates were open. Our troop , - iii one ' division, and the seamen and marines in, another, accordingly marched in, and separated at, tisds Southern Gate, to go round the town along the: igl u ''' . parts. When the naval division had advanced. p a rt of the way, a, fire of jingalls and matchlocks was opened . , on it by -a considerable body of Chinese .soldiers,: which had taken post outside the walls, at a spot near': the N. W. angle, where they were covered by a deaf , . canal. It'unavoidably occupied some little time foe her Majesty's forces to gain egress from the town 1 03 r. the Northern Gate, leading over the canal, and in OOP' interim the enemy had decamped across the coutitirl . ' They were hotly pursued for seven or eight miles, dor - . ing which numbers •of them threw away thetr arms, and heavy clothes. A military position on wlsieh 04 retreated, about five miles from Yuyao, ws a burned , . and a very extensive barrack (Temsle) cl..ose 'to ths . te . " town, containing a magazine of gunpowde - t, and great . quandties of arms, clothing, and other mun'.tions of war!. was subsequently set fire to and utterly destroyed , Twenty-eight prisoners were taken, amongst whom were': several subordinate officers, and it is believed that frog'l 75 to 100 of the enemy were killed and wounded during" the affair. Had they only stood to allow her Majesty's . • forces to close with them, not a man could have escaped ; but their local knowledge of the roads, combined with . the fact of the whole country being knee-deep with frozen snow (which covered up and concealed th e paths), gave them a decided advantage over their PUS suers in their flight. On the 29th, the city was examined, and an lin' mense granary of rice discovered, and given to the inhabitants to carry away. On the 30th, the small - steamers descended the river, and rejoined the Sesos - tris ; the three vessels anchored that afternoon oll • the nearest point of Tsikee, which lies between-, four and five miles from the left bank, and which was found on the following morning (the 31str to be deserted by the Chinese troops and all the civil' authorities. The public buildings were heresiestroleds:; as far as that could be done without endan g ering Oie': town; the population were permitted to take the gritid i from the Government granary, whi c h w as very large en‘`'` quite full of rice; and the combined forces having re-ern , barked, the steamers returned to Ningpo .on the evening of the 31st of December. , - I It affords her Majesty's Plenipotentiary . extreme gra: .; tification to add, that not a single cascality occurred , during these movements. Mr. Midship man L o ck, ..__ her Majesty's ship Blenheim, was struck on th e f o ot nY .3 a spent jingal ball, but fortunately escaped withailig4C ' s contusion. The cold was intense during.thewhole ; 8, " ' Hod, the thermometer ranging at night 10 to 12 cleg,,,, . d 1 4 0 1 below the freezing point ; but, notwithstanding this, tin . 1 5 the unavoidable exposure, the troops, seamen, and rdal .... Hoes all came back in the highest health and spirits. .• ' l s t, An unfavourable break in the weather prevented the' 5, intended, movement on Fungwa being put into executicta until the 10th inst. O n th at morn i ng t h e Phi eget h o n an' s ..l. Nemesis started from Ningpo, and were brought up by " 0 3 bridge across the river about noon. The Land Forcesi with the Lieutenant-General commanding, landed hem" whilst the seamen and m ar i nes , un d er hi s E xce llenc.,, the Admiral, went some miles further up the river 5i boats. The two bodies arrived simultaneously at,.l .. City of Funghwa, about dusk, and found it dese„ s by the Chinese authorities and tr o ops. The samel t l e s. as. were adopted at Tsikee, with re gar d t o t h e piLA buildings and granaries, were next morning adory — , 7 here, and the combined . forces returned to the ste ers '..., on the afternoon of. the 11th, and to Ningpo earl,' °ll the 12th instant. Although these operations are of no moment, O n ' sidered in a military point of view, yet their moral• .; and political effect is highly important, and on that an" count her Majesty's Plenipotentiary deems it expedieut to make ti.e result of them public. They evinne; our irresistible power, as well as extraordinary for' bearance, so far as the people are concerned; and it has been ascertained that such was the consteregr' eon, on the news of the descent on Yuyao reach ing the provincial capital of Hong-chow -fix, (distant' above 100 miles), that Imperial Commissioners and other, high Chinese officers fled from the city to Soochow, 90 miles further north. The Phlegethon steamer, and Bentinck brig of war. 04 60 have just proceeded to examine and reconnoitre the of Hong-chow-foo and the Port of Chapoo. :o°o God Save the Queen. Dated onat sea, boa on rd her N 2 l 4 ajes (Signed) HE.. POTTINGER, Iler Majesty's Plenipotentiary- BOMBAY MARKETS. • SINGArouE, FEB. 22, 104. Since our reports under dite the 15th inst., we have had much doing here owing to the Chinese holidays. Tll 9O l l Cowasjee took away about 120 chests of Bengal drug which orought here at 403 Spanish dollat's for Patna, and 390 SpaniP dol.ars for Benares: these rates may still be quoted. Our te_rd market can scarcely be said to have opened yet, th oug h soi le e st few chests have beets purchased for your place at . Spanish, dPfr lars 7,1.11(1 Spanish doll. r2O catty-boxes, it is now offer 'ih at Spanish dollars 61, while buyers are holding back for Spant A 9 dollars 6, at which price the bulk of the s e a son ' s su pply vr! ' O 4 probably change hands. We have now 50,000 b oxes i n the plac e t and as many more expected. China Camphor, CPO peculss t f 04 very good quality, sold yesterday at 31i Spanish dollars; is higher than we expected it would go, and still think the D '' - i 3 chase was premature, as it might, by wa iti ng a f ew days, P'-'l7- , been got cheaper. Exchange on London, 43. Sri. Tonnage plentiful.. freight scarce at any price; we are shipliing Gambier , at 3/. 1 u7„.,1 per 20 cwt. : The export of tea up to the 10th was 21;500,000; no frmsitj Congous left. Tsatlee silk h e l d as h i gh as Spanish &ni-011 600, and no more tha n 7 00 b ales expecte d for the /leastdil crop. Exchange Ss Freight from Whampua 51. Patoke'pr been sold at 460 Sp an i s h d o ll ars, an d our friends que t oo llf+ Bewares at 445 Spa n i s h d o ll ars. Th e J o h n B r i g htrat.e • not arrived. P. S. It appears there is some truth in the reports tit