The Sun.
London, England, 1839-12-10 00:00:00

We have letters from Ktirnoul of the 14tb inst.

Ko further discoveries of any importance, save some
more gunpowder and materials for its manufacture, had
been made in the Zenana, or fort. The total quantity
of powder found amounted to from eighty to one hun-
dred thousand pounds, the greater part loose in large
baskets. In addition to the shot and shells of pewter,
a considerable number of malleable iron six and nine
pound balls had been found, hammered into exceedingly
true spherical forms, and a great many of the old-
fashioned mantons, double and single barrelled flint
fowling-pieces and rifles, in perfect order, and each
having a bag of bullets tied to the trigger guards. A
vast quantity of musket barrels and locks, with the
Tower and Company's marks on them, had also been
discovered in various places fitted up as gunsmiths'
workshops, in which artisans had evidently been until
very recently employed.
A committee had been formed to take charge of and
report upon all the guns and stores found, consisting of
Major Bond, Commandant of Artillery ; Lieut. Balfour,
Brigade Major, ditto ; and Captains White and Ri-
chardson, of the 15th Regiment, commanding the two
companies of the escort, with Colonel James as presi
dent ; and working parties from the Sappers and Miners
were daily employed under their direction in the labour
of removal and collection.
MURDER OF COLONEL HERRING.

We take the opportunity of publishing an extract
from the Delhi Gazette of the 25th, which communi-
cates a melancholy event near Cabul :-
1 '• We have letters from the camp at Cabul to the 6th
inst., and are sorry to have to announce the murder of
Col. Herring, of the 37th Regiment Native Infantry.
It appears that his detachment, consisting of his corps
and a troop of Native Horse Artillery, left Candahar
some time ago in charge of five lace of treasure
for the army at Cabul, and they met with
no opposition whatever as far as Ghusnee.
At Hyder Keel, three marches from that
city and forty miles from Cabul, the detachment
halted, and Colonel Herring, with Captain Rhind, of
his corps, went out for a walk, accompanied by one
orderly havildar and two orderly sepoys. They had
not advanced much more than a mile from the camp,
which was still in sight, when some nineteen or twenty
natives suddenly fell upon them. The Colonel was
seen defending himself with a stick by two sepoys,
who immediately ran out of the lines and gallantly
shot two of the fellows as they were escaping. NiThen
they came up they found the Colonel and the or-
derly havildar dead, the former with nineteen cuts
o❑ his head, and Captain Rhind senseless. The two
orderly sepoys had. the good fortune to escape.
" Colonel Herring's body was brought into Cabul and
buried on the sth instant, his truly melancholy fate,
rendered more so by his having been selected by our
Envoy and Ministe::r to command Shah Soojah's con-
tingent in the room of General Simpson, who resigned,
has called forth great expressions of horror and sincere
sympathy, for he was universally esteemed. The many
similar murders already committed, which still rankle in
the memories of our officers, would, it might have been
supposed, have afforded a warning to the gallant de-
ceased of how very- little reliance was to be placed in
conquered tribes, to whom the name of Christian must
for a long time be one of detestation and horror, and
this murder adds another proof of the frail tenure with
which we, for some time to come, will have to hold
the country i❑ which we have reinstated Shah Soojah."
(From Greenway's Agra Journal, Oct. 5.)
THE FALL or JOUDHPORE.—The Fort of Joudhpore
was taken possessian of at ten o'clock on the morning of
the 29th ult„ and i. 3 now garrisoned by the 22d Native
Infantry, supported by the 52d Native Infantry, and a
de tail of sappers and miners, under the command of
Brigadier Rich. We have been favoured with the fol-
lowing particulars :
The troops were to have advanced at day light, but
during the night a message was sent by Maun Singh
to Colonel Sutherland, intimating that a party of Rha-
tores had made a wow to fight and die at their posts, and
suggesting that ottr troops should wait until the Maha-
rajah had endeavoured to restore those fanatics to rea-
son. The Resident went to the Maharajah in the
morning, and told him the troops were advancing, and
that if the Maharajah could not subdue or seize the
Rhatores, the troops would advance, blow open the
gates, and take them. This decisive measure was more
than Mann Singh was prepared for. It was, however,
determined that he, accompanied by the Resident,
should go up to the fort. Colonel Sutherland was
attended by- Major Smith, chief engineer, and Captains
Ludlow and Bruere. On going into the fort, they
found not more than 200 or 300 men ; the whole of the
Maharajah's troops, and the Sirdars with their followers,
having been withdrawn. The Rhatures looked unutter-
able things, bolt were not apparently intoxicated ; on
being spoken to.. they were persuaded to accompany the
Maharajah, Colonel Sutherland, and Captain Bruere to
the foot of the hill ; on reaching which our troops were
to advance.

It will be seen that Major Smith and Captain Lud-
low remained behimi,awaiting the arrival of the 22d Na-
tive Infantry ; this ~t,as in consequence of some arrange-
ment with the Kideb dar's people. They had not been
long alone before an infuriated Rhatore dashed out of
an adjoinining house, a nd fired his matchlock in Major
Smith's face. Luckily it missed fire. He then drew
his sword and rushed on them. Major S. parried his
cuts, and Captain L. watched a sword from a person
standing by, and broke it on the man's head. Capt. L. was
then unfortunately woundod, though not severely. He
succeeded in getting out .his own sword, and the man
was killed on the spot. Happily our officers escaped
with their lives, and with no very serious wounds.
Had the attack at all beerr supported in the fort
their lives must have been sacrificed.

In consequence of this commotion the inner gate
was found closed on our troops advancing, and a
shout of defiance was raised from within. The sappers
and miners advanced with the powder bags ; but before
they came up the gates were opened, and our troops
marched in and took possession without molestation.

It will be seen by the Court Circular that at
the Council, held yesterday, Parliament is sum-
moned for the despatch of business on Thursday,
the 16th of January.

The Liverpool Albion states, that the Liverpoo:

clergy have quarrelled amongst themselves as to ad-
mitting Dissenters into the Committee for the
management of their new school. The ultra-Pro-
testant party it seems " would let in ' the Wes-

leyans and Presbyterians,' who are Tories, to
strengthen their political position against all others
who entertain different opinions from them." The
party which passes for the least boiling of the two
objects to this, and thereupon a split—a wide rent,
between the parts of this holy, zeal-warped body.
So it will be again and again.
At Liverpool, as elsewhere, the Clergy carry
matters with a high hand, and we find one of them,
a Rev. Mr. CECIL WRAP, maintains that the
clergy have a right to be consulted upon all ques-
tions concerning public education ; and he treats
with some scorn a, statement that waiting for the
opinion of the clergy had been kindly assented to
by the laity, not as a matter of right, but courtesy.
This he says is strange language for Christians,
and men, too, who are such strenuous advocates of
an Establishment ; he insists that the clergy are a
distinct order of men, holding a commission from
Christ to teach the people, and therefore that Chris-
tian Churchmen ought not to be ashamed to
concede to the clergy, as a matter of right, a con-
trol over education. We rejoice to see these quar-
rels amongst the holier-than-thou men ; and we
shall admit that we know very little indeed of the
purse-proud merchants and manufacturers of our
country, and of the puffed-up priesthood, if these
classes can continue to act cordially together.
Those who chiefly subscribe the funds are as ready,
it appears, to dispute the validity of the Commis-
sion claimed by the ministers of the Apostolic
Church, as those who are not members of the
Church. The quarrel is the renewal, at Liver-
-4 pool, on a small scale, of the contest be-
tween an ambitious secular and an ambitious
spiritual power, such as is now going on be-
tween of PRUSSIA. and the Catholic
Archbishop, and nothing but the dread of their
the
King
m keeps
denouncing the ambitious and
these contentious sons of
the Church enemyfrom
grasping designs of each other with as much vehe-
mence as they attack the Dissenters and the conion
Ca-
tholics, We rejoice at the prospect of their wor-
rying each other.