The Sun.
London, England, 1853-05-16 00:00:00

18iliRoyal Irish 9 ... 32
51st King's Own Light Infantry 1 ... 12

80th Regiment
67th B N.I
4th Sikhs

1 ... 13
. 1 ... 6
. 4 ... 16

Ramgurh Irregular Cavalry...

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" I cannot speak too highly of the conduct of the
troops in the performance of this service, in which there
were many hardships to endure and difficulties to over-
come, it being necessary to cut a road through a forest
of the most dense description, intersected by lakes and
deep water-courses. The two field guns, rocket tubes,
and rockets, which unfortunately fell into the enemy's
possession on the 4th of last month, have been recap-
tured, the guns having been used against us in the action
of yesterday."
It is to these guns mainly that the hem y loss
on our side is attributed by private letters. We
are sorry to say that Lieutenant Cockburn, 18th
Royal Irish, is described as being mortally wound-
ed ; one letter even places him among the killed.
The sergeant-major of the 4th Sikhs is also reported
killed, and Conductor Lisbey, of the Rocket Troop,
severely wounded. The operations commenced at
9 a.m., and ended at 1 p.m. The sick and wounded
have been sent to Rangoon in the steamers Phle-
gethon and Mahanuddy. Great mortality from
cholera and dysentery had prevailed among both
troops and camp followers during the expedition.
The camp followers had also suffered much from
smallpox.
Much uncertainty prevails regarding the actual
state of affairs at Ava. The late King's brother-
in-law is now believed to be fully established in
power, but it is said that he will not hear of any
cession of territory; that, true to the traditional
policy of the Burmese, he is endeavouring to gain
time at any expense of truth and promises ; and
that, flushed with his recent success over his own
Sovereign, he manifests no anxiety regarding our
threatened advance on his capital. The confi-
dence of his advisers, moreover,' says the Friend of
India, -
" Appears to have been greatly increased by the
recent affair at Donabew, and by the desperate resist-
ance of the Dacoit leader, who repulsed our troops on
that occasion. This chief, Myah Thoon, was an outlaw
during the reign of the old King, but his recent success,
and the desperate stand which he is still making in the
jungle, have wiped away the recollection of his crimes.
The Court have not only sent him, as a recompense for
hit fidelity, a string of titles, the highest in their power
to bestow, but have invested him with legal authority
over the entire district to which his operations have been
confined, and this, we believe, since the publication of
the Governor-General's proclamation."
The recent defeat of Myah Thoon by Sir J.
Cheape will probably induce the King to alter his
tone ; if not, as the rains will set in very shortly,
and Ava will be in six weeks as accessible as Prome,
our troops will advance on his capital, and the fact
of additional troops having been ordered up to
Prome appears to indicate that such a measure is
already in contemplation.
The Bombay Government lately removed two
of the Sudder judges, because their private moral
character was considered liable to newspaper attack,
on the assigned grounds that the character of Go-
vernment was implicated in that of its high officials.
A few days after this decision M. Luard, a civil
servant of high standing, wrote to the papers to
say that, if he was allowed the opportunity of a
public inquiry, he would prove that two other still
higher officials had been guilty of infamous con-
duct in the exercise of their judicial functions.
Government thereon suspended Mr. Luard, but
they have declined all inquiry, and taken no steps
to clear the character of the high officials thus pub-
licly attacked. This inconsistency has exposed the
Government to severe animadversion, and the
local press is again unanimously arrayed against
Lord Falkland. Mr. Luard's allegations are
such as will not be allowed to pass in England
without the fullest parliamentary inquiry, the
result of which will be a blue book, certainly
not less voluminous or less damaging to the
Bombay Government than the Outram contro-
versy. The intelligence received. by the last
mail, that it was supposed the Government in-
tended prolonging the East Indian Company's
charter, without material alterations, for 10 years,
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