The Sun.
London, England, 1853-05-30 00:00:00

IV.
THE PASSIONS.

4. What passions hurt the body—what improve,
Truth; as refined as Athens ever heard."
SUBJECT :—Life's pilgrimage, from infancy to old age. The ad-
vent of the passions. Chastity and its infringement. The casualties
tive,
ofl
and remediativicentiousnesa and
e. disAdsipationvocac, with illustrations, graphic, narra-
y o f early marriages .
V.

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TliE MARRIAGE STATE.
To be or not to be, that is the question."
pßoGiAmmE:—Laws and obligations of nature, society, and reli-
gion regarding marriage, to be observed by either sex. Time and
choice, on both siileg. as to age temperament, complexion, and
flgare. te secure healthy offspring, with the art of rearing them.
Physical defectiveness and its removal. Sterility and its conversion.
Cases, &c.
By It. J. CETLVEI:.WELL, M.D. (1841), M.R.C.S. (1827), L.S.A.
24), Twenty-tive, years Medical and Forensic Referee in there
matters.

Price! ls. each; by post, is. 61.
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Fleet-streetor of M. R. Culverwell, M.D.,
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The news from Burmah extends to the 9th of
April, and is extremely unsatisfactory. Two days
after the departure of the regular mail steamer from
Rangoon the Medusa arrived-therefrom Moulmein
with an urgent requisition for more troops. The
steam frigate Mozuffer was immediately dispatched
to Calcutta, where she took on board a wing of the
2d European Fusiliers, and immediately returned.
The other wing is to follow. Arrangements have,
it is said, been put in train for following up these
reinforcements by a still more numerous embarka-
tion of soldiers as soon as they can possibly be
dispatched.
The Mozuffer brought down a Rangoon Chronicle
Extra, in which it was stated, " that Being had
been attacked and retaken by a large body of the
King's troops, who had cut up one small garrison
there." One of the secretaries to Government has
written to the Calcutta papers to state " that there
are no grounds for this report." The bazaars of
Calcutta are, however, inundated by reports of
disasters in Burmah.

The fact is that the Burmese Court is playing
its old game, and, while endeavouring to delay our
advance by negotiation, is organizing a partizan
warfare in our rear, which threatens severe incon-
venience and danger to our small detachments
scattered over the country. The garrisons of both
Moulmein and Rangoon (our very base of opera-
tions) are again threatened by numerous bodies of
the King's troops.
No particulars have yet transpired regarding
General Cheape's affair with Myah Thoon. This
unwonted silence has, of course, led (says the Delhi
Gazette) to all sorts of unpleasant rumours. The
Englishman has heard that some of the native
troops—those whose bravery was most relied on—
did not behave well. The Ifurkaru hears that the
casualties have been greater than was reported.
Myah Thoon escaped from Captain Fytche's
force, which retired to Bassein, and he is now at
large collecting troops.
The present position of affairs is as follows :—On
the right bank of the Irrawaddy, beginning at its
north, the garrison of Rangoon, only 800 strong,
is said to be threatened by a Burmese force con-
sisting of two bodies of 1,500 each, commanded by
Wongee ; higher up, at Donabew, there is a force
observing Myah Thoon. The head-quarters at
Prome have been much weakened by the detach-
ment of a considerable force to the south to look
after Myth Thoon, and another to the north to
form the advance at Meadey. There are small
parties at intermediate points along the right bank
of the river, but the latter affords ample facilities
for communicating with them, or relieving them if
necessary. On the left bank, however, there are
grounds for considerable anxiety. General Steele
marched up a column from Moulmein to Tongho
through the interior, leaving small garrisons at
Beling, Shoygyn, Sitang, and other towns he went
through. He is now halting at Tongho, within 21
marches of Ava, with about 800 men.

Moulmein, IViartaban, and Boling are all threat-
ened by superior forces of Burmese, and there is
every reason to fear that the small garrisons of
Sitang and Shoygyn (so distant from any aid must
be also surrounded by bodies of the enemy. The
troops are in very bad health, provisions are very
scarce, and the various steamers are getting used
up by hard work. The Burmese Commissioners
have met Captain Phare, and returned to Ava for
further powers. There are two accounts of their
objection to sign the treaty. According to one they
spurn all idea of cession of territory, and by the
other they are stated to object to the particular line
of frontier selected. It is quite clear that a per-
manent settlement can only be made with our
troops at Ava, but they are at present so scat-
tered in detachments over the country, and pro-
visions are so scarce, that time will be required
for the collection and equipment of a force suffici-
ently large to satisfy General Godwin's views.
The first 24 miles of the Bombay Railway—the
first railway in India and in Asia—was opened on
the 16th of April, and. has now been carrying
upwards of 1,000 natives daily, for a fortnight.
The Great India Peninsular Railway Company may
inscribe Primus in Indus on their seal, on the 39th
Regiment do on their colours. The railway was
not inaugurated as the first constructed in Asia
should have been. The Governor and Government
naturally manifested no interest whatever in an
event which, but for the obstruction of their hon-
ourable masters the Court of Directors, would
have taken place several years earlier. The follow-
is from the Bombay Times :
" The first railway in Asia was opened at Bombay
amidst a vast concourse of people and unprecedented re-
joicings on the 16th of April. The most notable event
that ever occurred in the East seemed to possess no
claims on the regards of the authorities ; the Governor,
the Commander-in-Chief, and the Bishop, with two of
the Secretaries and Presidency Staff, had gone to their
summer quarters ; the members of Council present were
silent, and it was remarked that the prayer or addresses,
never omitted in consecrating the colours of a regiment
or laying the foundation of a townhouse, were forgotten
at the commencement of the operations of the most
wonderful structure the East ever beheld."

Another important source of Indian revenue,
the salt duties, is also beginning to fail. The Friend
of India attributes this falling off to the fact that
the people of the Company's territories are becoming
so poor as to be compelled to retrench in one of the
most indispensible necessaries of life. It is possible
that the falling off of the salt revenue may admit
of other solution, but the gradual impoverishment
of the inhabitants of the Company's territories, as
compared with those of native States, is a fact as
notorious as it is humiliating, and it is one which
of all others should form the subject of special and
searching inquiry before the Charter be renewed.