The Sun. — London, England, 1844-12-26 00:00:00

GLASGOW, DUMFRIES, and CARLEtLie RAILWAY. lEPORT OF THE PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE TO THE I HAREHOLDRRS OF THE GLASGOW, DUMFRIES% AND CARLISLE RAILWAY. Your Committee have delayed making any Report of their prvs enlliedetaiineg;...u.ntil they could lay before you sufficient informat ion to not only to form a correct opinion of the merits of your ewes line, bat to understand the various scheme' more or less eon. 1; 1 " 114 1 with it, for which Parliamentary notices have been given. * number of these schemes, and their complex bearing on the b lit erests of your undertaking, render it necessary to preface this 'ePort by some general observations. The four existing railways of greatest importance in Scotland, in r4 lro et of lento, capital, and traffic, are—the Edinburgh and " 1 "tow Railway, connecting the two largest cities in Scotland, as tell as the two seas; the North British Railway, forming part of t treat trunk line from Edinburgh to London, by way of Berwick, "Wcastle, and York ; the Glasgow and Greenock Railway, an ins_ t , "int link In the communication between the manufacturing and I SPing towns of the west of Scotland; and the Glasgow, Paisley, •41 marnock, and Ayr Railway, connecting the western metropolis t er Scotland with one of the most thriving mineral and manufac. Pint districts in this country, including the seaports of Ayr, Troop, Irvine, and Ardroman, from the latter of which there is a re miss steamboat coramunication with the North of Ireland — a rail way destined, by means of your projected line from its southern ‘ftininus at Kilmarnock to Dumfries and Carlisle, to become the treat high-road between the north and west of England, and the 41146, t equally important district known under the general name of t h* West of Scotland " Theenly link &wanting to complete the entire ti Edinburgh, of railwiys leading down the east coast of England and Scotland Edinburgh, across to Glasgow, and up the west coast of Scotland klid ye %1 3 ...and, back to L is from the of the Edin. i g. and W Glasgow Railway in ondon, Glasgow to the terminus joint terminus of the tr "nock and Ayrshire Railways in the same city. Parliamentary : °ti ceo have keen given for this short line, which is net above half 411 11 in length, and which will pass, partly in tunnelling, and linty on arches, through a portion of the city. IT these existing and projected railways, which intersect the ISt; "I, and, as might be expected, the richest and most popu l ous ',strict!' both of England and Scotland, almost the whole of the tes ts of manufacturing, mining, mercantile, and shipping in. of Great Britain will be cennected, and a direct, rapid, and :m essiest means of transit secured. The accompanying map will - "Winer, distinctly the course of these great leading lines. There I°lll thu s rema i n, se far as Scotland is concerned, only sue line of Ir a l ~c nnaccommodatei, viz., between Edinburgh and the north. ▪: t 0 1 Scotland and Lancashire. It is true, the existing amount ; intercourse between these districts is as yet limited, but still, in : , i ht out the lines of communication between the two countries, 's essential to keep it in view ; and it fortunately happens, that 1, 441 "1 the snany schemes promoted for local objects, and for which I .,' ll iarnestary notices have been given, there is one, •i z., a line ; 44 Edinburgh to Hawick, which, if extended to Carlisle, will : if ", even on this cross traffic, the full benefit of railway cons. U nication, at the expense of a very small additional outlay of Ts , explain this, r Committee again request your attention to : le accompanying usap . From it you will observe that a straight c ' e, if drawn nearly due north front Birmingham, Lancaster, or 4 110 e, would pass through or close to Hawick, Edinburgh, and odee from which last point, by a slight deviation eastward, it "%rid reach Aberdeen. Now, it so happens that this straight line 1 :;: t aistY -rbetween i t s north throug h south ` termini, but opens practicable countryup by for amuch rail. tile Most fertile and thriving of those districts In the south and Ottof Scotland, to which the great trunk lines would not them. "'ell extend. ) * T he northern portion of the line of communication thus described it: been already taken up las parties of influence and capital. Par. fo r th notices have been given for railways extending the p h " way from Burntisland, on the north side of the Frith of Isl t h oeposite Edinburgh to Perth, Dundee, and Aberdeen. The "e, or, as It Dolled, the Edinburgh and Northern Railway, forms _ i t : lest section of this line to the north of Edinburgh. It avails h i e lf of the improved steam ferry across the Forth, established by It Grace the Duke of Buccleuch and Mr. Gladstone, of Fasque, te rick mineral and agricltural coun of At " mparedintersects ker b between any line by way of Stirli u ng, it shorten ty s the rife. between Edinburgh and the most important towns in the -" of Scstland, front thirty to fifty miles. The section to the 41 ' of Edinburgh is that projected by the North British Railway e oPaay to Hawick, already mentioned. 1 / 7 t he general ardent of international railway communication Nl"described, it 'Will be seen that three principal line s are pr o. The first of these gives the most direct line from London E dinburghl .4 ; the second the best line from London through n cethire to the West of Scotland ; and the third the shortest fle e across the Island, from Carlisle to Edinburgh and the north. cant of Scotland. 4, o llat aY collateral advantages might be pointed out a s resulting )I, IW , the ahoy. arrangement, bat these will be mor e p r ope rl y ex 4'N wheridiscuseing the merits of your line in detail. the üblic point of view, your Committee canregrd it as one of th M ` l impet ant characteristics of the •sche w explained, at although - in itself more complete than any other, it can be 1 7 t ed hy a comparatively mall expenditure of capital beyond 4 ' t 15 required for those new lines of railway, which are about 4. 00 4 constructed solely for the accommodation of existing local - ` e . This statement requires a little explanation. It has been mentioned that it is intended to form a railway front Zllhburgh to Hawick. The line has been planned, and is under. e t 4 t _ tt by the North British Railway Company. The object is te (*ii 7od the Dalkeith Railway, now belonging to that Company t t „,_ lc h is at any Wet. be improved and adapted for locomotives), 1 1 " to thrivarrnanufactlring towns of Galashiels, Selkirk, and h "ic h, situated in the midst of the best wool-growing and ot,„ l a n anufacturing district in Scotland. On the other side of the 14: 4 , the Ayrshire Railway Company have intimated their inten. es (without meaning to interfere with your undertaking) to e ic ett ne their long-projected scheme of a Branch Railway to Cum. 4 0 ' , for the purpose of bringing into their line the pass e nger traffic 11: 4 that district, and of opening up the large mineral fields of the is of Bate, Sir James Boswell, and Lord George Bentinck, ee ett h leh the celebrated blackbani ironstone has been distinctly eh h „ t aieed to exist ; and where extensive additional iron - works are "t, it is believed, to be erected under leases recently entered Into. to b e being the case, the whole length of new railwalll require tai, Nada for the purpose of completing the two trunk lines from • A ltt rith to Carlisle, via Hawick, and from Glasgow to Carlisle, o rntriee, will be— CZek to the Duraf r ies line, near Carlis_es ay. 35 miles. • 'leek to Carlisle Ale Slaking in al' 12 ,04 1 Pital rejoiced for which may be roughly estimated at per mile, or 1,216,0001. 4 t , t otir Committee are so satisfied of the capabilities of the line ,ha y as a part of the general plan to ue suumitted to L ae a branch and feed er t o your line, that, with the unanimous rrenee of a meeting of your extraordinary Committee of alanagement, they have undertaken to the Board of Trade, to apply Parliament in a subsequent session for power to make it, in the °!ent of the general scheme o f i n t erna ti ona l co mmunication 440e.rnention being adopted. Another most important characteristic of the scheme now de. etis is, that it interferes in no way with the interests of any „„_ tin tines line of railw a y, but furnishes new feeders both to the four eeteh k. of railway referred to at the outset, and to all the it t ith railways with w hi c h the projeeted lines are tebe connected. o ur Committee, however, would not be discharging their duty poreth t hey naLla the next place, shortly to call your attention to 4 ° l'igin and history of another plan, which is about to be brought ,_ Parliament under the name of the Caledonian Railway, sad to ;;;Itrast the public and private advantages it holds out with those It Will probably he known to all of you that the Royal Commis ."'o, Sir _Frederick Smith and Professor Barlow—who were 1;,; 4 • 4 oled in 1840 to report on the projected railways between Eng. h a nd Scotland—proceeding upon the assumption that only one uw ho made, expressed a preference for a line passing over the h,"' ground which occupies the centre of Scotland. In doing so, er Wet ec, the Commissioners carefully reserved the question which th e varlets. routes ought to be preferred, in the event of its n t o I found practioable to snake two or more lines. The following , ot their words :—" Were this otherwise (viz., were more than h te A t s ar Chew, we should subdivide th• question into two and oonsider, in the first instaace, which of the several , would be the most suitable for a communication by Lancaster le st I row, as well as to the West of Scotland and to the N o r th of 4 ", sad which would be the best route by Newcastle to 1 :01 e„ 4. he line thus preferred by the Commissioners, " under the 4:Position that at present one line of railway only can be formed ti k ,L 4 South to Edinburgh and Glasgow," recommended itse lf t o i to 're chiefly in consequence of its having two forks or branches at ,thoerthern extremity, the one terminating in Edinburgh, and the Glasgow; but the barren character of the country through ,;leh it would run, and probably some eonsideration of the extra 14 1'°°10 of working it, arising from the steep gradients rendered , t‘Ua TY by its au/wait of 1,000 feet, induced the Commissioners s t tord their opinion that " I t was hardly to be expected that such i ; t e* tl e ° would command much support as an investment from the r at speculator ;" and to add, that," unless t he p rinci p al landed r. t k - Prieters along the line should feel disposed to give the under :o.4'S their _herty te the i r support, rorather with a view to the increased t i i ;`!‘ It wo u ld give r pperty, than to • large remunerating to 'lend, there sterns considerable doubt whether it will ever be oatru s t ed. .. al a sr ,, b° Publieatioo of that Report, and the facts it disclosed, in of lending to the early execution of the Beattock or Central ,r , had the effect of deterring the public from embarking in it, t , te, °f directing their attention to the more profitable investment *° i t otell by the East Coast Lino from Newcastle to Edinburgh. North British Railway, being the Scoter's portion of that line, Act a ccordingly brought forward in 1842—was sanctioned by an t,iitof Parliament obtained last session—and is now in course of h°t °B Made. t` n a. ° effect of this decision of Parliament in favour of an E ast r„ 0 ... 7t Line, which removes the only ground on which the Royal hr glr oissioners had preferred the Central Line, is net even yet go. sw i shy knoWn. Accordingly, the scheme of a Beattock Railway th h 'h Was revived last spring, with some modifications that led to a4 d oPtion of the new name of the Caledonian Railway, has been le: t ally received by the public under the erroneous impression et it has still the sanction of the Commissioners' authority. I, 140 line, as thus revived and modified, is meant to extend 14 tit Carlisle, to a point at or Rear Lanark, and to diverge there ( 14 ° . two branched, one running to Edinburgh and the other towards eid c w. A subordinate branch Is proposed, from a point about tia lh ,,` miles distant from Glasgow, to join a projected railway, a s o ': %tattles Central Railway, at Castlecarry ; whereby a '` e lion with Stirling and the North would be afffirded. The -n th towards Glasgow is not intended to be carried so far as to s4int City, but at some distance from it, will run -1, into c e rt ain tel rat railways belonging to separate Companies , an d constructe d th: lntt ila for the purpose of conveying coals to the high levels on esa l L °t th side of Glasgow ; and 2, into another projected line, rei`" the Clydesdale Junction, is intended to convey 4i a -er als and passengers to the low levels en the south side of 4 4 . 1° ° , . This complicated plan will be beat understood by ' nee to the accompanying Map. le co ntrasting this scheme with that of which the G aglow, C e L niri es, and Carlisle Itailway is intended to form a part, your on:slur ittee feel bound to consider, preferably, their bearing on the r al Interests of the country. C so ltt t•---The length of the Caledonian Railway, excluding the at at ,, ecat cY Branch, which Is said to be about eight 'miles long, is " in the Prospectus, as being 112 miles, and the cost is there "t oatea 14 0 , 0 -at 1,800,100/. In a subsequent report, published by the los, t ,, °ter s, it is stated, that, " In consequence of savings en other °f the line, the Castlecarry extension of the Caledonian Line IPh be constructed w ithout exceeding the capital upon which the 4f I)c‘ct us proceeded " But, even after allowing this correction the s • hoe nor ginal estimate, of the accuracy of which your Committee saven°e Means of judging, and without attempting to calculate the aea or a proposed branch of about I i miles long to Dumfries, 11," ° . wideningthe guage, and otherwise altering the mineral lA oe h efora4Senti one d, or the expense of the Clydesdale Junction th at t ,hich practically forms a part of the scheme, it would appear th, single line of international communication proposed by trn mtt ale ctoeian Company, would, without accommodating toy er an Inca l tra ffi c, actually caose an expenditure of upwards 00 coe‘Ne., t he o than the whole sum that would be required for but t .. ` r i ng two trunk lines of communication which your Corn. -" Bare- already pointed out. Se coo ,„ Taw `"Y —Your Committee bog to refer you to the Comparative of will Distances on the accompanying Map, from which you vi th t°hoserve-1. That tho North British Railway, in connexion to B et :. Projected lines from London to York, and from Newcastle ,Tk, affords the shortest communication from London, not 00 ,Newcastle, to Edinburgh and Stirling ; and that, way, which the Fife Line, but even by the Scottish Central Rail. tolit4wilnwsaY",cikt fowrmousld be reached by the Eeinburgh and Glasgow the shortest route from London and the important 1. Th a s a . l !_ "°-o lention to Perth, Dundee, and Aberdeen. s h th e Edinburg h hi;riaip :iawisk, and Carlisle Railway a ff ords the ‘tl S i d r in er b t u h r , Ate , the front Liverpool, Manchester, Birmingham, Bristol, ' t oes, t o ,„ , and, in connexion with the Fife and Northern and Aberdeen, S. That the Glasgow, :, .. ____. --- /./.../. . _ , ) _..7•- ... . . . . ... 411 , ..,.,,. fall to pieces by the vice of its conalfeutton? 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' -... ; .1 , -........... r --. . . . ‘-' X.:'TX ,, z , '.. - .... .. • .... treaties, those treaties by which alone we have any rigs to remain in this country and must therefore rigidly up-A hold? I conceive such a state of political relations can not last, the more powerful Government will at no dis-, - - , - - tant period swallow up the weaker. Would it not be better to come to the results at once? I think it would be better if it can be done with honesty. Let me then S consider how we might go to work on a matter so criti cal, and whether the facts to which I have called_ your attention will bear me out in what I propose. " Several Ameers have broken treaty in the various instances stated in the accompanying "Return of Corn plaints." I have maintained that:we want only a fair pre text to coerce the Ameers, and I think these various acts recorded give abundant reason to take Kurrachee, Sukkur, Bukkur, Shirkarpoor, and Subzulcoto, for our own, and obliging the Ameers to leave a track way along both banks of the Indus, stipulating for a supply of wood; but at the same time remitting all tribute, and arrears of tribute, in favour of those Ameers whose con duct has been correct; and finally, enter into`a fresh treaty with one of those princes alone as chief. I (min not think such a procedure would be dishonourable or harsh. lam sure it would be humane. The refractory Ameers break the treaty to gratify their avarice, and we punish that breach. I perceive no injustice. " If it be determined to keep Sukkur and Bukkur, I think it would not be politic to give up Shikarpoor. The town of Sukkur stands on an elbow of the Induc e which surrounds the town on two sides ; on the other two, at about four miles distance, it is closed in by a large jungle, through which passes the road to Shikarpoor where the jungle finishes. If we evacuate Shikarpoor, the robber tribes will descend from the hills and esta blish themselves in the jungle, Sukkur will be blockaded, and no one be able to move beyond the chain of sentries without being murdered. To clear this jungle with in fantry will be impossible ; the robbers will retreat, and when the troops retire again occupy the jungle. But if Shikarpoor is occupied, a body of cavalry stationed there could spread along the outskirts of the jungle, while in fantry would by concert push from Sukkur through the wood. The robbers thus cut off from the hills, would receive such a terrible punishment as to deter other tribes from trying the same experiment. " In a commercial point, Shikarpoor is of consider able importance. It offers a depot for goods from the north and west, with the countries of which it his long, possessed channels of communication. Adverse circum stances may fkir a while interrupt these, but under a firm protecting government they would soon be re-opened : Shikarpoor goods would be sent to Sukkur, there to be shipped on the Indus ; and they would also be passed by land to Larkaana, and thence to Kurrachee. These seem to have been formerly the lines of trade ; they are geographically and naturally so, and will, therefori.,,, quickly revive. But if Shikarpoor be left to the mercy of the surrounding freebooters commerce cannot thrive ; nor, without Shikarpoor he strongly guarded, can it pas: through the jungle to Sukkur. These two towns natu rally support each other in commerce. 3.LJ In ti political view Shirkapoor has the advantage of being chiefly inhabited by a Hindoo population, tolerated for ages by the Mussulmans, and, consequently, forming a pacific link of intercourse between us and the nations north and west; through Shirkarpoor these Hindoos will gradually filter the stream of commeree, and be the means of social intercourse between the Mahomedans and ourselves, in time uniting those who will not abruptly amalgamate. Shirkarpoor contains many rich banking-houses, which is a sure evidence of its being a central point of communication between surrounding countries. and, consequently, one where the British Go vernment would learn what was going on in Asia, The money market is generally the best political bato meter. "' The robber tribes in the neighbourhood have kept down this town in despite of its natural and acquired advantages; in fact, the robber is everywhere the master; therefore all around is barbarous, and barbarous must continue to be, till civilization gradually encroaches on these lawless people, and I think Shirkarpoor is precisely one of those grand positions which ought to be seized in that view. I have, therefore, directed Major-General England not to evacuate that town till further instruc tions are received from the Governor-General. " I have drawn up this memorandum entirely on my own consideration of the subject ; but since Major Outram's arrival, which took place when I had finished the last paragraph, he has given me every possible as sistance. He concurs in all I have said, but, at the same time, he has added much to my local knowledge, and in justice to the Ameers, I must, with this increase of in formation, enlarge upon what I have stated. " ' The Ameers say, they did not understand article 11 of the treaty to prohibit the levying of tolls on their own subjects. They urge, in proof of this misconcep tion, that they resisted the treaty because of other arti cles less important, yet never objected to article 11, because they relied on article 5. This may be ; and I would willingly, if possible,_ suppose that they really did conceive the treaty gave them tolls on their own sub jects ; but they have attempted to levy tolls on the boata of the Khan of Bhawulpore, which the treaty assuredly does not give them a right to do , and they have fired into the boats of merchants from Bhawulpore. The treaty could not have been misconstrued en these points, and therefore Ido not believe they misconstrued article 11, but broke it purposely. The treaty has also been broken by treasonable correspondence, and other vexa tious acts, as set forth in the return of complaints. " Now, what punishment do I propose for their mis:' conduct ? Injury to their family ? No ! Injury to their subjects ? No ! What then ? The reduction of their territory 1y four places; two of which, Sukkur and Bukkur, are barren spots yielding no revenue; the other two, Kurrachee and Shikarpoor, towns nearly ruined by their tyranny, and fur me of which, Shirkiii•••••-• poor, we have negotiations pending. To obtain these places in seignorage it is proposed to remit all tribute in arrear, and for the future withdraw our resident from, Hyderabad, ensure the amelioration of the impoverished ' state in which their subjects languish, and, in time, add to the power and wealth of the Ameers themselves by ;. opening the commerce of the river. 7b their selfish feel ings, their avarice and love of hunting, ought such great general interests to be sacrificed? I think not. The real interests of the Ameers themselves demand that their puerile pursuits and blind avaricious proceedings should be subject to a wholesome control, which their breaches of treaties, and our power gives us at this mo ment a law ful right to exercise, and the means of peace ably enforcing. If any civilised man 'were asked this question.—" Were you the ruler of Sinde, what would you do?" His answer would be. " I would abolish the tolls on the rivers, make Kurrachee a free port, protect Shirkarpoor from robbers, make Sukkur a mart fur trade on the Indus. I would make a track-way along its banks; I would get steam-boats." Yet all this is what the Ameers dread. " They have broken treaties, they have given a pre text, and I have a full conviction, perhaps erroneously, that what I propose is just and humane. I will go farther, rand say, as Nusseer Khan, of Hyderabad, has_ openly broken the treaty, it' the Governor-General chooses to punish him, he may justly seize the district of Subzulcote, and give it to the Khan of Bhawulpore, as I have understood there was some intention of doing. " The second point to which Major Outram has drawn my attention is a very strong one. Ho tells me, the tribes on the river, above that part possessed by the Ameers of Sinde, do levy tolls, end that there is no treaty or public document forthcoming in virtue of which we can call upon the Ameers even of Upper Sinde not to levy tolls upon their own subjects. It la therefore evident that to call upon the Anaeers of Ily- • derabad to desist from levying tolls, and to allow the tribes above them on the river to do so, would be unjust; that is to say, it would be unjust to allow the others to levy tolls, but not unjust to prevent the Ameers from doing so. The answer to the argument :—" That tolls are levied on the Northern Indus" is just this. Say to those Northern tribes, " We have, with great trouble, secured to your boats a free passage on the river through Sinde ; we are resolved to open the commerce of that great highway of nations ; and you, who receive benefit , thereby, must join in this measure leading to the good , of all, and to the loss of none." Wherefore to excuse the Ameers upon the ground that others are not equally coerced, is answered by coercing the others. " Having thus given the best view I can take of this intricate subject, I shall accompany this report by va• rious documents, among which there is one giving a kind • of return, if I may so call it, of the accusations against the Ameers, upon which accusations (relative to which ' I have read every paper), I have founded my opinion of their conduct ; and by referring to this return, it will [ be seen whether I have justly estimated the complaints made against them by the political agents. I have also _ . added the documents verifying each transaction. I have caused Major Outram to give me a memorandum of the state in which the treaty with the Ameers for the pur chase of Shikarpoor remains, us it has been iu abeyance since last year. From this memorandum it would appear, that in addition to the great advantages for Sukkur, which would attend the occupation of Shikarpoor, this district would be a very valuable acquisition, in point of revenue, in time ; and would, with the aid of Kurrachee, cover the expense of guarding our newly-required towns on the banks of the Indus. Should It hereafter be deemed proper to make the proposed arrangements with the Ameers, so as to punish those who have broken the treaty, the details of such arrangements can be easily made. The transfer of tribute due, would adequately repay whatever portions of the districts in question belong to the Ameers whose conduct has been loyal.'" A SLAVER AT GLOUCESTER.—Many of our readers may have observed a pretty little rakish craft which has been for seine time lying in the Gloucester and Berkeley Canal. She is the Emmeline, and is the property of Mr. E. N. Harvey, of Over Ross, and arrived in the port with a cargo of guano from Ichaboc. Her former pursuits were, however, of a less peaceful and unobjectionable nature. She was, in fact, a slaver, employed in carrying captured negroes from the coast of Africa to the Brazils, for which pur pose she was well adapted, as far as regards sailing capabilities ; but her stowage is so confined, that to look at her and contemplate the hundreds of unhappy human beings who were packed together in such a small space makes one shudder at the villany of the atrocious traffic in flesh and blood which was carried on in her. She was captured in 1813 off St. Helena, by the Spy, and condemned. She had on board at the time she was taken no less than 538 miserable blacks, chained together in gangs, and packed and stowed away between decks, like so many bales of inanimate goods. Some idea may be formed of the inadequate space ap portioned to these poor wretches, when we state that the vessel was capable of carrying only about 120 tons, and, in addition to her human freight and her crew, she was of course provided with water and other bulky stores. She will lie at our port during the winter, where \her present owner is fitting her out as a pleasure yacht. and she is intended to join the Royal Yacht Squadron in the season.— Gloucester Journal. Sir Edward Walter, Bart., was married on Fri day last to Miss R. Guinness, daughter of Mr. Arthur Guinness = of Beaumont, Nutty Dublin. • No. 16,337. LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING SUN, DECEMBER 26, 1844. PRICE sd. THE SUN is Published EVERY MORNING sl FIVE O'CLOCK, in Tine "or the EARLY TRAINS and TOWN DELIVERY; a SECOND EDITION (Evening Sun) is Published in Time for the ;AFTERNOON TRAINS and a THIRD EDITION at SEVEN O'CLOCK, for POST, containing PARLIAMENTARY and all other NEWS in LONDON up to that flour. ADVERTISEMENTS INSERTED in ALL THE THREE PAPERS, Morning Noon, and Night, thereby insuring a TOWN and COUNTRY CIRCULATION, at ONE CHAR(E. Dumfries, and Carlisle Railway is the shortest route from London and the whole of England to Dumfries, Kirkcudbright, Port. Patrick, for the north of Ireland, Kilmarnock, and Ayr; and that, allowing fur the superiority of its gradients over those of the Caledonian Line, on the principles of comparison established by the Royal Commissioners in their Report of I F 441, it afthrds the shortest communication, in point of speed and economy, with Paisley and Greenock. The only disadvantage, in point of distance, is in the case of Glasgow; in regard to which, however, on the principles laid down in the Commissioners' Report, the difference between the two lines is reduced to 13 miles, or less than half an hour in point of time. Thirdly.—The sections of the Caledonianond Glasgow, Dumfries, and Carlisle Linos, not having been deposited, it is impossible as yet to speak accurately on the subject of gradients. It is quite certain, however, that the gradients of the farmer will be inferior to these of the latter. The folowing are quotations from a report made on the comparative merits of the two lines by Mr. Locke, the engineer of the Caledonian Railway, in 1030. In speaking of what is new called the Caledonian Line, he says, " I at first directed sty attention to this route, which, as far as Beattock. bridge, near Moffat, I found tolerably favourable ; in proceeding farther, however, the valley for several miles rises very rapidly, until reaching the summit near Elvanfoot, where it attains the height of nearly 1,000 feet above the level of the sea—Beattock-bridge, which is only 10 miles distant, being only about 306 feet above the level of the sea. In 10 miles, then, the rise is nearly 700 test, which, supposing it to be uniform the whole way, would give an inclination of 1 in 75.* Net wishing to recommend a line having such a plane," &c. Eut in speaking of the line by Dumfries, Mr. Locke says—" Of the levels of this route, I may say, that from Carlisle to Dumfries, about thirty miles, the only inclinations will be these which it may be desirable to encounter for the purpose of saving money, those two towns being nearly on the same level. With the exception of the bridges RCM's the Rivers Eden, Esk, Sark, and Annan, which will neither be high nor very long, ne very considerable outlay will be required. The ground in some parts is undulating, but not so as to render the formation of the road either difficult or expensive." And again, with reference to the portion of the line between Dumfries and Thornhill, he says — 4 ' The levels in this part extending over a space of almost forty miles,t will be nearly uniform, and gradually ascending for the a hole distance ; and with the exception of a short length of about 1 1 miles, about I in 130, I do not believe there will be a greater inclination than what is generally admitted in forming railways in England." And, in regard to the rest of the line, he says, that " although undulating, the read will not, I should think, be unfa vourable for locomotive engines." Fourthly.—Th• population of the parishes intersected by the Caledonian Railway, from the 1) int where It leaves the route of the Glasgow, Dumfries, and Carlisle Railway at Gretna, to the point where the branches diverge at Lanark, a distance of about sixty. eve miles, is, Caledonian Line While the population en your line, between the sane point and 11:ilrnarnock, i• . Difference 52,491 The population of the parishes on the two branches leading to Edinburgh and Glasgow respectively, including those on the Clydes dale Junction Line, as contrasted with the population of the parishes which lie up the West of Scotland Railways, at present terminating at Kilmarnock, and their proposed branches (excluding, however, in both cases, the cities of Edinburgh and Glasgow, which would be alike accommodated by the two schemes), would be, Caledonian Branches 125,268 Wost of Scotland Railways 202,544 Difference The total population on the Caledonian Line, and on t►e Glaa. gow, Dumfries, and Carlisle, and Edinburgh, Hawick, and Carlisle Lines (excluding, as before, tke cities of Edinburgh and Glasgow, and that part of the line south of Gretna common to both), is, _ . On Caledonian Railway . On Glasgow, Dumfries, and Carlisle Rai1way,:2113,230 t On Hawick Line Difference... The particulars of each of these calculations are annexed t• :his Report, so that there nay be no possibility •f doubt on the subject. Fifthly.—With regard to traffic, your Committee are Now enabled :e speak with more confidence, in consequeace of having, sines the date of their Prospectus, taken measures to ascertain its amount accurately, both on your own anal on the Caledonian Line. The result is, that upon the line of the Glasgow, Dumfries, and Car lisle Railway, the thorough and local traffic, taken together, is suf ficient to ensure an adequate return; but this thorough traffic be tween Glasgow and England, including, of course, what passes along the road by Beattock, as well as what passes by the other great road from Kilmarnock to Carlisle, is quite insufficient to do so. It amounts to not more than 40 per cent, of the whole trans which will pass along your line. Were the whole of this trans. ferred, without competition, to the Caledonian Line, on which the local traffic is trifling, it would not yield interest on its cost. Your Committee do not feel any hesitation in speaking of the small amount of local traffic on the Caledonian Line, because their statement is confirmed by the recorded opinion of the Royal Com.. nsissioners, already quoted ; and no one who has travelled along the Beattock-road between Carlisle and Glasgow, by daylight, will fail to remember that there aro from twenty to thirty MUGS where the sight of a cottage or a human being is a rarity. Your Committee are aware that much reliance Is placed by the Caledonian Company in their prospect of traffic from the north of Scotland to England, by means of their connexion with the projected Central Railway from Stirling to Perth. The 'Fable of Comparative Distances, to which your attention has already been directed, will enable you to Judie how far this tr,va.„ ;,. —. 5 . be, is likely to pass along the Caledonian Line, which is more cir cuitous than either the North British or Hawick Lines. But, In point of fact, the number of persons who travel south from Stirling. shire or Perthshire, without having occasion to visit FAinburgh and Glasgow on their way, is extremely small. Indeed, most of yon are probably already aware, that although there is a direct turnpike,. read, laid out by the late Mr. Telford, between Carlisle and Stir. ling, there is not a single stagecoach or puldia conveyance upon it, and it is deeply in debt. Os the other hand, with reference to the general prospect of traffic on your own line, the following passage in the Report of Mr. Locke, in 1836, may be interesting to you :—" Of the advan tage to all the towns in Scotland, through or near to which this line will pass, no adequate idea can be formed. They exist in the most favourable part of Scotland, requiring only a cheap means of trans port to develope the many resources they possess. Several of these towns have already grown into some importance; au♦ it should be an object with the proprietors of the soil, and with the manufac turers of the district, to encourage the formation of a road like the one proposed, se as to extend to them the benefits which it is capable of affording." Sixthly.—There are 'various other points in regard to which the superior advantages offered by the Edinburgh, Ilawick, and Car lisle Railway, and the Glasgow, Dumfries, and Carlisle Railway, require only to be briefly indicated. (1.) The former will open op a connexion between the counties of Berwick, Selkirk, Peebles, and Roxburgh, and the aorth-west of England, and south.weet of Scotland. These Scotch counties already combine the highest state of agricultural improvement, with a growing woollen manu facture. (9.) In the neighbourhood of Langholm there are very rich seams of coal which are at present landlocked, but the produce of which the Hawick Line trill be the means, not only of bringing to the coast, but also of carrying farther into the interior, which is at present suffering ftorn the want of it. (3.) The Dumfries Line, by giving a communieation Loth from the south and north, with the seapint of Annan, affords to the whole of that district of country the means of communication with the best harbour on the upper put of the Solway Frith. (4.) The Caledonian Line would, even if a branch were made to Dumfries, afford very inferior ac commodation to that town, and to the counties of Kircudbright and Wigton, from which a large number of cattle are at present sent, sea and partly by land, to England. (S.) The Caledonian pLairntely by sea in like manner, a ff ord a very inferior communication _ _ . _ _ between the north of England and the north of Ireland, either _ . . by way of Pert Patrick or the seaports on the coasts of Ayrshire. (Lastly.) The Caledonian Railway would place in a less advan tageous position the whole population of the counties of Ayr and Renfrew, which, together, contain 319,498 inhabitants, being more than twice as many as the whole of Lanarkshire, exclud ing Glasgow. After the details which have new been given you, you will not be surprised to bear that the Caledonian Railway, while it received a certain degree of support from the promoters of the Scottish Cen. tral Railway, is opposed by ahno.t all the ether railway interests in Scotland, including the Edinburgh and Glasgow, the North itrik s fed, the Glasgow, Paisley, Kilmarnock, and Ayr, the Glasgow, Dumfries, and Carlisle, and the lines extending through Fifeehire to the north of ficntland.: Indeed, the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway Company have the strongest interest, and, at the sante time, the strongest Parlia mentary grounds for opposing the Caledonian scheme, in come quenoe of the two forks of the latter undertaking being so laid out as to form a competing line for the traffic between Edinburgh and Glasgow, not more than eight or nine mile. longer than the direct route, and thus falling tinder the clam of schemes which the Select Coraraittee of the House of Commons on Railways last session de 1-winced as intjustinable, being a railway (to use their own words) " which, if it is to remunerate the proprietors at all, can only remunerate them by means of the abstraction of traffic, which is already, for all substantial purposes, equally well accommodated by some existing railway." Your Committee regret much the length to which their ob servations on the merits of your line, and those with which it has been placed in competition, have extended. They will endeavour to condense, into as short a space as possible, the remaining points which it is essential they should bring before you. You will recollect that the original rough estimate of the cost of the Glasgow, Dumfries, and Carlisle Railway, was at the rate of 13,000/. per mile. Mr. Miller, your engineer, has not completed the detailed plans of the works, so as to enable hire to say whether any reduction can be made upon the estimate, but he assures your Committee that there is no chance of its being exceeded. The amount, therefore, which will be required to finish your line, will be under 1,900,000/. Of this sum above four-fifths have been sub scribed and paid on, being more than is required by the Standing Orders in Parliament to entitle your Bill to pass, even if you apply for your whole line from Kilmarnock to Carlisle; whilst, if your Committee shall, on mature consideration, consent to the Glasgow, Paisley, Kilmarnock, and Ayr Railway Company proceeding with their Bill, to the effect of taking power to execute the portion of the Line between Kilmarnock and Cumnock, under an obligation to convey it or lease it in perpetuity to you, if you desire it, the amount which has been subscribed will be considerably more than is required. In these circumstances, your Committee have resolved not to issue at present any additional shares. Your Committee have had very satisfactory communications from most of the proprietors of land along the railway. They have also received assurances of stipport from many of the Corporations in the west of Scotland, and particularly from the towns of Dum fries and Annals, in which both the magistrates aid inhabitants have resisted various attempts to draw them off, and have unani. mousy declared in your favour. The counties of Ayr, Renfrew. andKircudbright, have also passed resolutions approving of your line. Your Committee have thus laid fully before you the details of the entire scheme of railway communication from England to Scotland, of which your line forms a part. They feel perfect con fidenze in its superiority over each other, as being beet calculated to promote the interests of Scotland ; and they will proceed quietly but zealously, with their preparations for the approaching examina. lion of its merits before the Board of Trade and Parliament. By order of the Provisional Committee, Glasgow, Nov. 15, 1844. WM. LOGIE, Interim-See. * In 1840 Mr. Locke prepared an amended plan, whereby his gradient of 1 in 75 was to some extent improved, but to aocomplish this he was obliged to have recourse to severe cutting and banking, which would, of course, add proportionally to the expense of the line. _ . + The snramit is only 600 feet. The total population on the line between Glasgow and Car. isle, by Dumfries, including the termini, is 590,496 BATHS and WASH-HOUSES for the LABOURING CLASSES. PRZSIDENT. Ile BISHOP of LONDON. TRUSTS'S. Sir WILLIAM MAGNAY, Bart. SAMUEL JONES LOYD, Esq. ABEL SMITH Big., M.P. ANTHONY DE ROTHSCHILD, Eaq. COMMITTEE 700 0117B0AL rearosas. WILLIAM COTTON, Feel , Chairman. (The Trustees eg of ROBERT BOWIE, lilsq. Rev. W. W. CHAX?NEYS Lord HENRY CHOLMONDELBY ROBERT DICKSON, Req., M.D. SAMUEL GURNEY, jos., Esq. WILLIAM H AWES, Esq. RICHARD JOHNSON, Esq. HENRY KINGSCOTB, Bag. Sir GEORGE LARPENT, Bart. JOSEPH 8. LZSCHER, Esq. WILLIAM LOEB, Iraq., M.D. ROBERT OLDERSHAW, Esq. JOHN D. 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His Grace the Archbishop of York held a g eneral or. dination Bishopsthorpe, on Sunday last, when the fol lowing gentlemen were admitted into holy orders : Deacons—(Of Oxford). —Anthony Los eband, 8.A., Worcester College. Deacons— (Of Cambridge).—Simeon Miley, B.A„ Ca therine Hall ; Joseph Atkinson, 8.A., St. John's Col lege ; James Ball, 8.A., Catherine Hall ; Thomas Brown, 8.A., Christ's College, by letters dimissory from the Lord Bishop of Ripon ; John Green, 8.A., Emanuel College, by letters dimissory, from the Lord Bishop of Ripon. Priests (of Oxford).—The Rev. J. Aldred, 8.A., Lincoln College ; Rev. Algernon Brackenbury, 8.A., Queen's College, Priests (of Cambridge).—The Rev. Philip Bsgge, M.A., Trinity College ; Rev. William Calvert, 8.A., Pembroke College ; Rev. John Blackburn, 8.A., Pem broke College ; Rev. John Knott, 8.A., Christ's College ; Rev. Robert M`Neil, M.A., Trinity College. Priest (of Durham).—The Rev. Samuel Smith,;B.A., University College. Priest (of Dublin)—The Rev., William Marshall, 8.A., Trinity College. On Sunday last the Lord Bishop of Chichester held a general ordination in the Cathedral Church of his dio cese, when the following gentlemen were admitted to holy orders. Deacons (of Oxford).—Charles William Willock , 8.A., Baliol College ; John Turner, M.A., Baliol College. Deacons (of Cambridge).—Edward Venables, 8.A., Pembroke College; Richard Nathaniel Blaker, 8.A., St. John's College. Deacon (Literate). —Henry Shum Shean. Priests (of Oxford).—The Rev. Edward Bradley, 8.A., Magdalen Hall ; Rev. James henry Sheppard, 8.A., Queen's College ; Rev. John Lloyd, 8.A., Worcester College ; Rev. Henry John Rush, 8.A., Worcester Col lege; Rev. Philip Thomas Drayton, 8.A., St. Mary Hall. Priests (Literate).—The Rev. Henry Hamilton Ha milton. At an ordination holden on the same day by the Lord Bishop of Hereford, the following gentlemen were or dained : Deacons (of Oxford).—John Buckle, 8.A., St. Mary Hall ; William Tassie Vernon, 8.A., Magdalen Hall ; Edward Jones, 8.A., Jesus College, by letters dimissory, from the Lord Bishop of St. Asaph. Deacon (of Cambridge).—•Roger Taylor Burton, 8.A., St. John's College. Priests (of Oxford). —The Rev. Allan Cowburn, M.A., Exeter College ; Rev. Henry Bolton Power, 8.A., Oriel College ; Rev. Thomas Clotworthy Foster Skeflington, 8.A., Worcester College. Priests (of Cambridge).—The Rev. James Caddy James, 8.A., St. John's College ; Rev, John Meredith Lewes, 8.A., Trinity College. TilE lIEROINE or MATAGORDA.—We have much pleasure in stating, that the subscription for this deserv ing old woman now amounts to a sum sufficient to secure her 30/. a year for life, with a few pounds over to set up house with. The money will be invested in Glasgow, on her behalf, next week.—Glasgow Saturday Post. The lake of the gardens of the Royal Botanic Society is covered with ice of an excellent quality, and many of the fellows of the Society avail themselves o the opportunity of skating thereon. THE CONQUEST OF SINDE. The following are additional extracts from the in teresting work of General William Napier on this subject. After noticing the changes made by Lord Ellenborough by the removal of a vast number of useless political agents, the General furnishes the rea sons which would have justified his Lordship in re sorting to arms much earlier than he actually did : REASONS FOR THE WAR. - " Lord Ellenborough was more than justified in his sweeping reform. And it was a conviction that the loose mode of intercourse hitherto carried on with the Ameers had led to mischief, and was derogatory to such a power ful government as the Anglo-Indian, which induced Sir Charles Napier at once to assume a frank though stern tone with these Sindian rulers. For well he knew, that however much modes and customs may differ with na tions, man is intrinsically the same all over the world, and to be governed by his passions. Ile held it shame ful and wicked to tempt the Ameers by any appearance of infirmity of purpose, to display their arrogance when the Governor-General had assured him the sword of vengeance would be inexorably bared for the first fault. They had, however, already been tempted, by an un steady diplomacy acting on proud minds, into a course full of danger for them, and he was to make a true and faithful report of their misdeeds. This he effected twelve days after his arrival at Sukkur, showing a list of offences more or less grave, but the whole proving a ' settled design for war, when opportunity offered. Sup ported by evidence, as good as could be obtained where the secret machinations of Princes, who had the power and the will to destroy those who informed against them, were to be laid-open, this list of offences certainly war ranted a resort to arms, or the imposition of a fresh treaty under pain of war. " Against the Ameer Roostum of Kyrpoo they proved secret intercourse with foreign States, contrary to treaty and with designs hostile to the British ; maltreatment of British servants ; obstructions to the commerce and na vigation of the Indus ; illegal imprisonment of British subjects, and, through the agency of his Minister, Fut teh Mohamed Ghoree, aiding the escape of Mohamed Shurreef, a public enemy, which happened about this period. " Against the Ameer Nusseer of Hyderabad, was the assembling of troops to attack Shere Mohamed of Meer poor, upon a boundary dispute which had been referred to the British arbitration ; perfidiously inveigling the assistant political agent to meddle privately in a dispute between the Ameer and his subjects, and then charging this his own act against the British Government as a breach of treaty ; repeated wilful violations of the eleventh article of the treaty, with an avowed determi nation to set it aside ; delaying the transfer of Shikar poor, when he knew of the disasters in Affghanistan ; secretly coining base money to defraud the British Go vernment in the payment of tribute ; exacting illegal tolls, refusing to refund, and obstructing the navigation and commerce of the Indus ; opposing the free supply of the bazaar at Kurrachee, and preventing his subjects from settling and trading in the British cantonment ; employing troops to menace the possession of another Ameer, when the dispute had been referred to the Bri tish authorities, thus violating the third article of the treaty, which guaranteed to each Ameer his separate dominions ; neglect of tribute, and finally, exciting by letter Beebruck, the chief of the Booghtee tribe, to take up arms against the British troops, who were, he said, retreating worsted from Khorassan, the name by which the Sindians generally designated Affghanistan. " These offences, which were all violations of treaty, had been continued from early in 1841, up to September, 1842, showing a settled enmity; and at the very moment of Sir C. Napier's arrival at Sukkur, Nusseer and Roos turn, the chief Ameers of Unper and Lower Sinde, con tracted a secret alliance ana confederacy, offensive and defensive, against the British power. They sought to draw Ali Moored into their views ; they prepared to send away their wives and children; they collected their troops, enlisted many of the Affghans who had followed General England's column from Quettah ; issued in structions to all their feudatory chiefs to be in readiness to take - the field, and held councils with the chiefs of the Murrees and other Brahooe tribes. The English troops, they said, were as their spies informed them, so weak, miserable, and sickly, they could not resist, and if they were healthy,' had theynot been driven from Affghanistan ! Let the priests proclaim a religious war against the Feringhee caffirs! When they went against Khorassan and Caubul, they made us promise three lacs of rupees yearly for tribute. Now they have been driven from thence, and we have an answer ready when the money is demanded!' " Here were ample grounds for a resort to force. Did I Lord Elleuborough eagerly seize the opportunity? Did his General advise him to do so? The answer to these questions wilt pi.oe their conduct in a true light, each on its own pedestal, for their distinct position must always be kept in view. Lord Ellenborough knew all the odious process by which the treaties, giving him the right now to resent these hostile measures of the Ameers, were obtained. The General knew nothing of them, the official correspondence explaining them was not then published; he could not suspect its nature; he could not ask for it, nor would it have been given to him if he had. He could only look at the treaties as contracts, volun tarily made, and which he was in Sinde to uphold, both as a political agent and as a military officer. As con tracts he saw friendship, alliance, protection, offered and accepted by the weaker power; the promotion of trade, commerce, and navigation; and in their effects the im provement of the people's condition. He saw those peo ple, of all classes, crowding into the British cantonments to avoid the grinding exactions and barbarous tyranny of their rulers. Ile saw those rulers debauched and ignorant, trampling:for their pleasures, with the hoofs of wild beasts, one-fourth of the fertile land which should have fed the starving multitudes; and this with so little remorse, that one had recently depopulated two villages to make a Shikargah for his child of eight years old! " It was with these things before his eyes, this suffer ing and wickedness on one side, this promise of remedy on the other, that Sir Charles Napier made that report to Lord Ellenborough which was to determine the latter's course of action. " And Lord Ellenborough's right to act, that also must be considered., or there can be no just judgment !" " It was the right of necessity, the right of self-pre servation, a necessity he had not produced; he found it, hut he was bound by it. In that consists its justice. Take away this ground and it was a continuation of Lord Auckland's aggressive policy ; yet always with this palliation, that Lord Ellenborough sought no ag grandisement, put forth no mocking pretensions of friend ship to cover injustice. Standing on the right of treaties concluded, he pursued - the general interes's of humanity, disregarding only the conventional rights of besotted tyrants, men who themselves trampled upon all rights, and were ever ready sword in hand to take from the possessions of their neighbours. This is the worst view that can be given of Lord Ellenborough's policy. But he had also the plea of self-preservation ; and be it re membered, Sobdar of Hyderabad, and Ali Moored of Kyrpoor, had with a good will accepted the treaties from the first, and Shere Mohamed of Meerpoor, voluntarily sought a treaty on the same footing as Sobdar, demur ring only to the payment of tribute. " The origin of the Sindian war being thus placed on a sound basis for fair discussion, the following view taken by Sir Charles Napier will be more readily appre , ciated : SIR CHARLES NAPIER'S REPORT TO LORD DIRECTORS. KENNETT KINGSFORD, Esq., Chairman. BENJAMIN IFILL, Esq.. Deputy Chairmai. 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IDIMICTOBS. JAMES MORRIS, Esq., Chairman. JOHN LABOUCHERE, Esq., Deputy-Chairman. Henry Hulse Berens, Esq. Lewis Loyd, jun., Esq. John W. Buckle, Esq. George Lyall, Esq., M.P. John Dixon, Esq. Stewart. Marjoribanks, Esq., M.P. Francis Bart Dyke, Esq. John Martin, Esq.. 3LP. Sir Walter R. Farquhar, Bart. Rowland Mitchell, Esq. Thomson llankey, jun., Esq. Robert - Mitford, Esq. John Harvey, Esq. Henry R. Reynolds, jun., Esq. George Johnstone, Esq. John Thornton, Esq. John Loch, Esq. James Tulloch, Esq. AuDITORS. A. W. Roharts, Esq henry Sykes Thornton, Esq. Samuel Jones Loyd, F. I sq. George Stone, Esq. ACTUARY-Griffith Davies, Esq., F.B.S. In the LIFE DEPART3IENT, a Bonus was declared in June 1825, exceeding one per cent, per annum on the sums insured, on an average of the different Ages; and two subsequent divisions of nearly equal amounts were made up to Christmas 1835 and Christmas 1842. 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PERRY'S PURIFYING SPECIFIC PI LLS are the most eflbctua cure for syphilis and secondary symptoms in both sexe', price 2s. 9d. 4s. 6d., and I 1 s, per box. Consultation fee, if by letter, 11. A minute detail of cases is ne cessary. Messrs. Perry are in daily attenclan ce, for Consultation, at their residence, 19, Rerners-street, Oxford- street, London, from Eleven till Two, and Five till Eight, and on Sundays from Tee till Twelve. One persona visit only is necessary to e Peet a permanen t cure ELLENBOROUGH. " It is not for me to consider how we came to oc copy Sinde, but to consider the subject as it now stands. We are here by right of treaties entered into by the Ameers, and therefore stand on the same footing as themselves ; for rights held under treaty are as sacred as the right which sanctions that treaty. There does not appear any public protest registered against the trea ties by the Ameers, they are therefore to be considered as free expressions of the will of the contracting parties. " The English occupy Shirkapoor, Bukkur, and Kurrachee, by treaties which, if rigidly adhered to by the Ameers, would render those princes more rich and powerful, and their subjectmore happy, than they now are. If sticklers fur abstract right maintain—as no doubt. they will—that to prevent a man from doing mis chief is to enslave him, then it may be called hard to en force a r gid observance of these treaties. But the evi dent object of the treaties is to favour our Indian in terests, by abolishing barbarism, and ameliorating the condition of society, by obliging the Ameers to do, in compliance with those treaties, that which honourable and civilised rulers would do of their own accord. It is necessary to keep this in view, because though the de sire to do good would not sanction a breach of treaty, it does sanction the exacting a rigid adherence to the trea ties by the Ameers ; and the more so that their infrac tions of them evinces the barbarism of those princes, their tetal want of feeling for their subjects, and their own un fitness to govern a country. These things must be kept in mind, or what I am about to say will appear unjust, which is not the case. " By treaty, the time for which we may occupy our present camps is unlimited ; but, there is such hostility to us on the part of the Ameers—such a hatred of the treaties—such a resolution to break them in every way ; there is amongst their people such a growing attachment to British rule, that the question arises, whether we shall abandon the interests of humanity and those of the British Government, which in this case are one, and at once evacuate Sinde ; or take advantage of existing trea ties and maintain our camps permanently ? " If we evacuate the country, future events will ine vitably bring us back to the banks of the Indus. If wo remain, our camps will soon be filled with the Ameers' subjects flying from oppression. These camps will quickly grow into towns, and the people within them will carry on a transit trade along the Indus, to the exclusion of the subjects of the Ameers without. Among the latter misery and poverty will sojourn, for the exactions of the Ameers will in a great measure destroy both com merce and agriculture among their people. " ' This produces another question ; can such a state of things long continue ? A Government hated by its subjects, despotic, hostile alike to the interests of the English and of its own people ; a Government of low intrigue, and so constituted that it must in a few year 8 1,3 Ong 55 ht not d due non , ive of o r' ; with Its °'; - , cns t° Pur „l )), TIM (1. r obe' 'ty for a the amer, lid b e rol c` ( tiono, b ee ald, r ° t al V n2Y civi l 00 weso i d a ce riv epor t t the liana tbe es eo.t itust jot', t b4 t 0 S , 0 Uer+' left ___.