The Sun.
London, England, 1852-04-06 00:00:00

HUNGARY.

The Marquis of BREADALBANE presented a peti-
tion from the Free Church, Presbytery of Glasgow,
complaining of the recent expulsion of the Free Church
ministers from Hungary.
ADJOURNMENT OF THE HOUSE.

The Earl of DERBY gave notice that he should to-
morrow move the adjournment of the House until Mon-
day, the 19th inst.
COLONIAL BISHOPS.

The Archbishop of CANTERBURY introduced a
,Bill for enabling colonial and other bishops to perform
certain functions under the commission of Bishops of
England and Ireland.
WAR WITH AVA.

The Earl of ELLENBOII6UG H7spi;ke to the following
effect:. —My Lords, I trust that I may now speak without
any iecorreetness of expression of the war with Ava. As
yet there has been no declaration of war on our part, and
;it is not customary for princes in the East to issue any succhti
declaration, and therefore it cannot be expected that su
in
a monarch as the King of Ava will make any cb"%be
such a matter. We are however, at war with r.'
ATclu'ng to
Government of India appears, however, to bave
and yet it
the last to a hope that war- would not take place. foreseen
has made requisitions on Ave which it mtitlis:77g
i under-'
without a war would
would ultimate terminate in war,
taken- any of those preparations which sand
also in this, h-
ot' necessity-regain. In that eountrv•hat
gayeodf b two.part:ie!',
appears that we may cling to the hope that we may have as
That, however, is
much or as little of war as we please.
not the case. War is a
and we cannot deal with the
dumm '
Ava in this
y in the play,
war as if he were altogether a .
game Just as we please.
or of
great in order to- conduct the 0 _
provinces
game
If he' should decide on assailingittaurgnn of Tennas- •
swim, or of Arracan, or oft in Indiagioo of Assam,• h 6
will :subject our Governrn:n
will have the
em-
barrassment indeed; '"1.1 line of advantage of act-
ing -on what is ealleclan
interiortyou, as operations. Allow
me, my Lords, to t
*ta °with our last war • shortly as I can, the cir-
cumstances connected in Ave, for it is ne-
cessarynitude of the crisis •
to see the magnitude
my • as it now stands.
There were PY.
einsgi°tnan 40.000 Lords,
me in the last war with Ave,
a force of not
.I%li
lately sent to All—a force as large as that
which the Free
jr, with him for the giers, and as that which
Bonaparte t°' conquest of Egypt ; 30,000
:.,„ troops and nearly 7,000 E
nati''' --- he European uropeon bayonets formed that
force., °f' the
-left troops, two regiments. the 13th
and the aet , Calcutta in April, 1824, 1 800
and in January, 1826, th had • strong,
eynot 500 men
left fit for - service , in the field •
that the mortality in the other E , and - I believe
not inferior. I doubt muchwhether uropean • regiments-WU
war 10,000 men out of the at the end of that
411,3 field. The whole a whole 40,000 were fit for duty in
away,
and
was
unable army in Arracaa was utterly wasted
forces. On the 11th give any co-operation to the other
not able to move n May it landed at Rangoon, and was
following. , jt,,w from that place till the Ilth of the February
aa detained h t ete for 11 months, having
'been surrounded by a large Burmese army, and not being
able to move forward. d. Dtro6 lived uring that time the European
troops entirely mink provisions.' No fresh provisions
wereto.be bad in the•coutit rY•And when. bullocks ware sent
them,. every bullock
.sent from: India - cost in freight -10/.
...otwitlistanding the great 'amount of the force sent to Ava,
I believe that the General, in advancing on the capital of
that country, had never more than 5,500 men under arms,
and I'kno* that On 'the'24th of February, 1826, he had
with him only 4,000 Men. To that small force had our
grandarmy dwindled -away. We have undoubtedly now
some advantages which we did not then. possess, but the
climate of • the country continues the same, as also the
same impracticability of moving in.it for nine months
of the . year. We, :have. also undoubtedly now great ad-
vantages in the rapidity of steam navigation; but we must
not overestimate them. We can convey troops and
munitions of war to that country more rapidly than we
could then; but I doubt whether we can convey them at
less expense. Time is most valuable in military operations,
but I' doubt Whether,' in point of cheapness, the moving of
troops- i's less expansive than before. Moreover, our large
steam-vessels draw too much water to move Much further
down the river than Rangoon. Smaller steam-vessels, how-
ever, .by :towing gunboats, will much facilitate the opera-
tions of the army. But, at the same time, it mast be
remembered that at the moment the army leaves the banks
_
of the river—and nobody knows this better than 'pot
Noble, Duke ( Wellington) at the table --
4 suchit can
aer
move . without animals, and aniiiials lin • for,arnlY,
oumstances must be 'a great expense to
an 'the,' cannot
though these smaller steamers may convey 5ant?,__,..,,... which
convey animals. There is also anethero_,aw/. The
we shall have'now, but which we hadontthrer .mops under
climate of Arracan, -then so fatal
.t
__wwinence of the
General,Morriston, is now improved, rr e"
~,: is always a great dif-
land having.beencleared. ' But the --e,...e.ered, al they now
lento iii the health 'of trove we '