The Sun.
London, England, 1839-09-23 00:00:00

murmur of hostility. As he owes his peaceable succes-
sion to the kingdom of the Seiks entirely to British
influence, and as he is said to possess a considerable
share of his father's abilities for Government, we may
rest confident that we shall find in him a faithful,
no less than a powerful and useful ally. To prompt
this, nothing more is necessary than attention to
his own interests, as he must be sufficiently sensible
of the facility with which Great Britain could raise
up claimants for every foot of his territory and in-
volve him in endless wars with all his neighbours
without the shadow of danger to herself.
RUNJ EET SINGH, before his death, was attacked
with palsy in both his feet, and though his pulse
ranged from 90 to 110, he eat as heartily and drank
is freely of strong Scotch whiskey as he was ac-
customed to do through the whole of his eventful
life. Numbers of pious devotees were summoned
to pray for his recovery, and he kept several
European physicians in attendance whom
he daily consulted ; but while he listened
with great apparent interest to their advice he cun-
ningly abstained from swallowing any of their pre-
scriptions. Our Anglo-Indian contemporaries
shrewdly suspect that had he been in the habit of
acting differently the claims of his successor to the
throne would hare been decided full ten years ago,
and we confess our own impression not to be very
different. Dr. STEEL who went from Ferozepore
to visit him, prevailed upon him to remove from a
malarious situation to a healthy one, and this was
the only medical prescription which the MAHA-
RAJAH was known to follow during his life.
Previous to the death of RUNJEET SINGH, the
British Agent, Mr. CLERK was successful in pro-
curing several important mitigations of the regula-
tions of 1833, relative to the navigation of the
Sutlege. By the recent arrangements a new chan-
nel is opened to British commerce in the centre of
Asia. The Delhi Gazette of the sth of June,
states, that if the merchants of Umritsir, Loodiana,
and Umballa, had only boats enough, " the river
would be alive with trade ;' and on Mr. CLERK'S
visit to Umritsir, during the negociations, the mer-
chants visited him in a body, tendered him their
thanks for extending their trade, and requested him
to employ his good offices to obtain for them one
hundred boats to be sent them without delay from
Ferozepore.
The expedition for the restoration of the Suit H
SOOJAH-001,1VIOOLK to the throne of Candahar
has been entirely successful. The army suffered
greatly during the march for want of food, and from
the attacks of Belochees and other lawless tribes ;
and had the Sirdars not fled at the first appearance
of our troops, it may be questioned whether the
victory would not have cost us more than it is really
worth. An idea of the toil and misery endured by
the troops may be formed from the fact that out of
6,000 native troops comprising the division of the
SHAH, only 1,500 reached Candahar, all the rest
having perished on the way. The loss of Bri-
tish troops was, however, comparatively trifling,
though their sufferings were very severe. Since
the Coronation of the SHAH he has experienced
no opposition from the Sirdars ; and on the 16th
of June, the date of the latest arrivals in Bengal,
the British army was preparing to return. A
report prevailed that 40,000 Iranees were before
Herat, and that Persia, instigated by Russia, was
preparing a second expedition against that city.
This report, if true, was expected to lead to new
and highly important events in the East, as it was
judged impossible that Great Britain would quietly
suffer the Cabinet of St. Petersburg thus to open
a direct road to India. Russia was never more
active in raising up enemies to our power in India,
and influence in Persia, than she appears to be a*
present.

- From Canton the news is to the 29th of
May. On the 24th Captain ELLIOTT, ac-
companied by the persons detained as hostages
for the delivery of the opium, were allowed to
leave the city, and on the 27th he arrived at
Macao. The Celestial Government had given or-
ders for the expulsion from the Chinese Empire of
Messrs. INNES, DENT, and four gentlemen be-
longing to the firm of JARDINE, MATHESON,
and Co., together with all those directly con-
cerned in the opium traffic. In India the seizure
of the opium created an extraordinary ferment; but
the Press is unanimous in regarding it as useless
for the sufferers to look for any compensation out
of the revenues of this country. They very justly
maintain that no Government can be expected to
tax its subjects to make good the losses of smug-
gleri ..., but on the other hand they blame the
rash conduct of Superintendent ELLIOTT in
first acknowledging the illegality of the traffic
by his proclamation, which he was not called upon
to do, and next in yielding to the threats of the
Governor, before every hope of escaping with life
was completely extinguished. We must confess
that he appears to have acted with less firmness
than we were prepared to expect from a British
officer placed in such circumstances ; and, further,
that we regard an indication of pusillanimity as one
of the gravest errors of which Europeans can be
guilty in their intercourse with the Chinese. We
certainly think that the present opportunity of set-
tling a number of old scores with China, as well as
of placing our relations with that country entirely
on a new footing, ought not to be overlooked.

People who live in glass houses should never, they
say, throw stones. Had Sir CHARLES KNIGHTLY
borne in mind this useful adage, he would never
have talked the nonsense which he did on Friday
last, at the annual dinner of the Northamptonshire
Conservative Association. " What," said he, in
a fine frenzy of morality, " what is the state of the
Palace at the present time ? Far be it from me to
censure our youthful and endeared SOVEREIGN ;
but I reprobate the conduct of her Ministers. In-
stead of being the radius of purity, and furnishing
the ton of virtue and excellence, the Palace
is disgraced by profligacy and intrigue." Conceive
a Tory—one who must well remember the days of
GEORGE the FOURTH—talking in a strain like this!
Was ever such whining, hypocritical cant ! Why,
the Court is the very perfection of purity compared
with what it was in the high Tory times of the fourth
and fattest of theGEoRGES. We have no Sovereigns,
now-a-days, living for years together—and this long
after the infirmities of age have crept on them—in a
state of the most notorious adultery, thus throwing a
sort of protecting shield over vice. Where was
Sir C. KNIGHTLY'S fine sense of public morality
when all this was going forward ? Why did he not
launch the thunders of his virtuous vituperation
against the head of the chief and most noto-
rious offender? The reason is obvious. The
Court at that period was high Tory ; and the
Northamptonshire Baronet being high Tory also,
thought it most expedient to allow his moral sensi-
bilities an accommodating slumber. Now, however,
the state of things is altered. The Court is
Whip:, now, and therefore he feels that he may
say with propriety just what he pleases of it ; and,
with reference to a late tragical affair, which in no
way affects the purity of the Palace, strain at a
gnat, though for years and years together he found
not the slightest difficulty in bolting a camel.
Th

ere is no news of any political interest in the
French Journals of Friday and Saturday. A tele-
graphic despatch of the 18th instant, from
Bayonne announces to the French Government
that three Navarese battalions and two squadrons,
commanded by ZARIATEGUY, entered France at
St. Jean Pied de Port, when they were disarmed
and marched to Pau.

The Constitutionnel states the following to be
the conditions upon which Don CARLOS, in his
letter to the King of the French, agrees to re-
nounce his pretensions to the Throne of Spain,
the will of Ferdinand, and the Acts of the Cortes
abolishing the Salique law :-
1. The re-toration of alt his rights as Infante of Spain,
and the right of succession in case the children of Ferdi-
nand die without issue.

'3. The restoration of his property sequestrated by the
Cortes.

3. An annuity suitable to his rank, with permission to
reside in Austria,

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commanding the Forces, and other authorities, were in
waiting to receive his Royal Highness, and strong detach-
ments of troops were on duty at the post house, the bridge,
and other points. The train consisted of three carriages.
Don Carlos was in a travelling cap and blue cloak, and
appeared very much cast down ; his appearance is described
by these papers as not prepossessing. The Princess de
Beira wore a riding dress, and the Basque berret ; her ,
Royal Highness is represented as a very fine spirited-look-
ing woman, who bowed graciously, and smiled to all around 1