The Sun.
London, England, 1849-06-25 00:00:00

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LONDON, MONDAY, JUNE 25, 1549.

Several casualties of a very remantic, if of a some-
what unimportant character, are mentioned in the in-
telligence received on Saturday forenoon, by the
anticipation of the overland mail from Bombay, Hong-
Kong, and Calcutta. Among these we have more
particularly to allude to the recapture.of a fugitive
Princess—to the accidental death of a distinguished
officer, at the very moment of his victory over the
nohillas—to the presentation of a trophy of battle
from the Conqueror of the Punjaub to the Governor-
General of Hindostan—to the approaching trial of a
renowned native chieftain on the double charge of
perfidy and murder—to the probability of the ulti-
mate revival of insurrection—and to the rupture of a
peice of two years' duration between ourselves and
the Celestial EMPEROR.

Of all the picturesque narratives recounted by the
Oriental annalists as among the misfortunes and
vicissitudes of their Sovereigns, not the least
attractive will be the story of the recent escape of the
Queen-Mother of Lahore from the very midst of tho
walls, the guards, and the sentries of a British
fortress. It will be recounted to after times how
the most beautiful woman in the seraglio of Rol JEET
evaded the vigilance of her guardians, and after a
severe captivity in Chun* fled in the diguise of a
member of the Asiatic priesthood. It will be sung
to the breathless curiosity of the Seikh children, how
the suspicions of the English were lulled for a time
by the impersonation of the fugitive by one of her
female attendants concealing the difference of
her appearance under the curtains of the
purdah, and accounting for the change
of her voice by complaining of a momentary
hoarseness. Fortunately for the tranquillization of
the Punjaub the Princess, who possessed the most
formidable authority over the population, and whose
influence was only exceeded by her profligacy, has
been recaptured through the faithlessness of a pro-
vince supposed to be the most earnestly devoted to
her interests. A thousand anxieties have conse-
quently been dissipated by a circumstance which
has again placed in our possession the most powerful
ar.tagcnist of our supremacy in the country of the
five rivers.

Simultaneously with the account of the re-
capture of the Queen-Mother, we receive in-
telligence of the discomfiture of A
caPPA. SAHIB,
the pretender to the throne of Nagpore.
It will be observed with grief, however, that in the
suppression of this disturber of the Deccan, the gal-
lant Commander of the Elicbpore division fell a
victim to one of those accidents which are as una-
voidable as they are appal]it.g. At the very moment
when the leader of the Rohill.is was retreating in dis-
order from the hill tops of Kullum, the horse which

bore Brigadier °snow stumbled and threw its rider
with so much violence down the declivity as to cause
his almost instantaneous destruction. In this encounter
the Rohillas were driven back in confusion, and the
Ellichpore division was described as having behaved
with distinguished gallantry.
While these warlike movements were making in
the Deccan, an interesting meeting between the
veteran Commander-in-Chief, Viscount GOUGH, and
his Excellency the Earl of DALHOUSIE, was taking
place in a gorgeous pavilion at Simlah. It will be
seen that the occasion of this interview was the pre-
sentation of two Seikh guns, captured from the
enemy during the late successful campaign—the pre-
sentation of these trophies of the recent victory at
Chillianwallah, from Lord GOUGH to the GOVERNOR.'
GENERAL. On the exposure of these two
pieces of ordnance, under the Sumianah for-
merly belonging to Sirdar Rem SINGH,
Lord DALHOUSIE, in reply to the address of pre-
sentation, acknowledged the pleasure which that
opportunity afforded him of speaking in terms of
eulogium, friendship, and admiration of the illustrious
soldier who had nobly crowned a long and glorious
career by the conquest of the runjaub on the field of
Goojerat. Of this we are satisfied, that there is not
a voice throughout the United Kingdom but will
echo the wish so feelingly expressed by the Governor-
General of India, that the noble old warrior may
long enjoy the rewards of his reputation.
Considerable interest is beginning to be felt as to
the result of the great trial now in preparation—the
trial at Lahore by Commission of the greatest of the
rebel chieftains, the MOOLRAJ. We cannot but think
that there is much reason in the argument, that now
that CHUTTUR SINGH, the originator of the insurrec-
tion, and that SHERE SINGH, one of the most perfi-
dious of our antagonists, have been permitted to re-
turn (on parole) to their villages, altogether un-
punished—it would he scarcely fair, not to say
scarcely discreet, to require the severest expiation of
the crimes of the Mooraw in the event of his con-
demnation. More particularly would such a pro-
ceeding bear the appearance of a grievous injustice,
seeing that the latter surrendered Mooltan for
the purpose of preventing a further effusion of blood,
whereas the former would not consent to yield until
after having provoked a deplorable bloodshed succes-
sively at Chillianwallah and at Goojerat.
No little anxiety still prevails in Hindostan as to
the possibility of so far treading out the fire of
rebellion as to preclude the possibility of its revival.
As a token of how great, nay almost extravagant,
these atrocities are in some instances, we may parti-
cularly allude to one rumour which, among a
thousand others, has somehow risen into existence, to
the effect that no less than 300 cannon are still con-
cealed and buried in the Punjaub, ready for the first
outbreak and renewal of hostilities against our go-
vernment: Scarcely less trepidation is felt at the
circumstance that while CHUTTUIL SINGH and SHERE
SINGH are allowed to go at large in the Maujah
country; while AGEET SINGH, Vl] ex-Rajah of
Lawda, is not yet retaken ; and while the temporary
escape of the Ranee CIIUNDA from Benares has in-
creased the hopes of the rest of our prisoners—our
regular and irregular forces are not sufficiently
powerful to maintain order in the newly-con-
quered and recently annexed territories. While
we acknowledge that the complainants are
in a great measure correct in maintaining
that little need be expected from the policemen of
Burkundazes, we cannot by any means coincide with
them in pronouncing the arrangement by which the
newly-raised corps are variously composed of Seikhs,
Ponbeas, and Mahomedans. The policy of this arrange-
ment appears to us to be conspicuous; for unless it be our
determination to annihilate the Seikhs, as MAHOMET
ALI annihilated the Mamelukes, namely, by a whole-
sale massacre, it does certainly seem to be but politic
to open the way in some measure to their reconcilia-
tion with ourselves. Otherwise we should be gather-
ing up for ourselves further dangers and further
bloodshed, by driving this warlike race to desperation.
In addition to the fragmentary intelligence that Sir
CHARLES NAPIER had reached Madras in the Had-
dington ; that Lord GIFFORD was about to leave
Simlah to visit GHOOLAH SINGH in Cashmere; that
an expedition had been set on foot for the recovery of
the celebrated diamond, the Koli-i-noor, or Mountain
of Light ; that the country in ti ntastalannek...c.l-of
Umritsir continued to be in a very disturbed con-
dition ; and that all intention was said to have been
abandoned by the Governor-General of effecting the
annexation of the territories of Sattara—the most
important news contained in our dispatches is un-
questionably the rupture of the convention entered
into on the 6th of April, 1847, between Sir JOHN
DAVIS and KEYlNG—providing that on and after the
6th of April, 1849, the British were to have access to
the city of Canton. The Emperor of CHINA having
refused compliance with this stipulation, it remains to
be seen what will be the consequence.

There is scarcely any topic of common conversation
more prevalent among all classes of society than Ire-
land ; yet it is astonishing to think how very little real
knowledge exists amongst us respecting that inte-

resting portion of the empire. People are content to
take their ideas from the meagre and contradictory
accounts supplied by the English newspapers, and
such scraps of stray information as may be gleaned
from the natives of the sister isle with whom they
come in contact. The English know just as little
about Ireland as the French do about England. We
would almost say, less ; for the recent visits of the
National .Guards of France to our shores have dif-
fused in that country a tolerable degree of know-
ledge and appreciation of the character and con-
dition of the family of "Tom; BULL. Few
among our pleasure-seeking wanderers, who
annually emigrate to various climes, swarming
throughout Christendom in Odyssean myriads over
mountain, vale, and flood, wend their way to the
much talked•of but neglected land, verdant and lonely
in the western waters. And yet, for alternations of
lovely and sublime scenery, for frankness and cor-
diality of manners, for courtesy and security to
strangers (alas ! that Englishmen should allow
themselves to be accounted such), for all that can
afford interest and enjoyment to the tourist, the
Emerald Isle may fearlessly compete with the well-
trodden regions of continental Europe. Necessity is
however, the mother of invention, and as the present
aspect of foreign affairs is not peculiarly enticing to
the estival panters after

"The Alpo, the Apennines!,
The Pyrenean, and the river Po,"

the tide of travel is already setting in towards the
homestead of CINDERELLA. A spreading curiosity,
generated though it be by the existing circumscrip-
tion of travel, and the facility and cheapness of
transit, bids fair to result in the mutual advantage of
the visitor and the visited, dispelling the ignorance
and prejudices of the one, and enlivening the other
with a gradual irrigation of capital.

Many will doubtless avail themselves of the oppor-
tunite* la-resented for a fortnight's trip by the notified
arrangements of the North-NVeasta!b
Railway, in con-
I junction with the Chester an
Ili:, and Irish
Great Southern and Western lines. They willele Irish
be afforded time to take a hasty inspection of
metropolis, of the delightful scenery of wi,kinwi
eluding Glendalough, the Devil's Glen, the Vale of
Avoca, and the Dargle, and of the exquisite and
varied beauties of the Killarney lakes. But there are,
we trust, many also, who, not straitened for leisure
or for means, will devote a few weeks to a survey of
their neighbour-land, and make themselves generally
acquainted with at least its more striking features.
To such, without desiring to trench on the province
of the guide book, we venture to suggest the out-
lines of a tour which will leave unvisited but few of
the mark .worthy districts of the island.
Supposing, then, the traveller to have passed a
preliminary week or two in Dublin, and perigrinated
the county Wicklow on foot and outside car, let him
speed southward through smiling Carlow to castel-
lated Kilkenny, thence skirting the base of Slievena-
mon, proceed to Glenbower, a wildly-situated spot,
noted for the gallant repulse of the insurgents by the
police in the summer of last year. Turning now to
the left from the mail coach road, and facing the hill
country of Waterford, he will reach Carrick-on Suir,
a town of rather tattered appearance, notwithstanding
the devotion of its denizens to native productions for
many years. This divergence from the main route
will be repaid by a drive through the neighbouring
princely demesne of Curraghmore, and thence along
either bank of the Suir to Spenser's "sweet
Clonmel." The environs of this Quaker..

studded and thriving county town, where the
doom of treason was pronounced upon SMITH O'BRIEN
and his rash associates, are fertile in the picturesque.
Crossing by the village of Newcastle, the mountain
range which separates the counties of Waterford and
Tipperary, he will attain the noble valley of the
Blackwater, not omitting the Trappist monastery of
Mount Mellery on the way, and hail the time-
honoured shades of Lismore. He will descend the
river between richly wooded heights to Youghal,
where RALEIGH planted first " the accursed root,"
and pursue his way to the chief city of the south, in
whose vicinity he will admire the spacious and unsur-
passed harbour, and kiss the Blarney stone. Let
him not be induced to take a short cut across the
country home to Killarney, and thereby lose the
glories of Glengariff and the Kenmare river. From
a ;few fdays' revelling in the enchantments of the
lakes, be will, probably, with reluctance, take the
road to " the city of the violated treaty," and
gaze on the flood of the majestic Shannon.
At this point he must determine whether to return
to the capital, or to prosecute his pilgrimage through-
out the two other provinces. Should he adopt the
latter resolution, his enterprize will be rewarded by
a successive acquaintance with the superb bay of
antique Galway—the wild magnificence of Conne-
mara and Mayo—the harbours and lakes of Celtic
Connaught—invincible Londonderry—the Giant's
Causeway and the coast-road of Antrim—flourishing
Belfast—Lough Neagh (where an acute vision may
be exercised in descrying " the towers of other days"
beneath the tranquil waters)—archiepiscopal Armagh
—Newry, the frontier town of " the black North,"
with delicious Rostrevor sleeping on the bosom of
the Carlingford Bay beneath the heathery heights of
Morne—historic Boyne—and many a scene of note,
till he return to his old quarters at Gresham's or the
Imperial.

VIAToa may depend upon it that he may go farther
and fare worse than by pursuing the course of frame'
of which we have given this hasty and imperfect
sketch. Let him see with his own eyes, and hear
with his own ears, far better than pinning his faith on
fallacious gossip, or on the laboured narrative of tourist
or commissioner. Let the land of GRATTAN and
O'CONNELL be but made the resort of intelligent
persons, desirous of combining novelty with informa-
tion, and she will speedily win the affection of those
who have it in their power to be her benefactors.
'When her characteristics become familiar to the
British people, we anticipate without the least mis-
giving the vital amelioration of her social state—the
termination of that long and wasting condition of
disease, so ruinous to herself, so detrimental and
scandalous to England.

THE UNITED STATES
AND CANADA.

(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)
ARRIVAL OF THE NIAGARA.
LIVERPOOL, MONDAY MORNING

After one of the shortest passages on record the
Niagara has just arrived. She left New York on
the 13th June, and Halifax on the 16th, and has
made from land to land in little more than eight days.
The Niagara brings advices from the following
towns to the dates annexed :—New York, June 13 ;
Baltimore, Charleston, and Boston, 12 ; Philadelphia,
13 ; Mobile, 11; Montreal, 11 ; New Orleans, 10 ;
St. Louis and Cincinnati, 9; Halifax, 16.

The steam-ship Europa, which sailed from Liver-
pool for Boston on the 26th ult., arrived there on the
6th inst., after a passage of 111 days.
The steam-ship Herrman arrived at New York
from Southampton on the 6th ult., after a passage of
seventeen days.
The Cambria, which left Liverpool for New York
on the 2d, had reached Halifax.

The political news to hand is neither interesting
nor important.

From Canada we have no intelligence varying from
that received by last steamer. Quietness prevailed in
both provinces.

The cholera was extending northwards rapidly, but
the mortality was not great. In New York the
deaths did not exceed twenty per day.
Nothing new had reached from California.
The follourirto is a summary of our oommorolal
intelligence :

In business matters there was very little doing.
The money market in New York was, however, easy.
Pennsylvania Fives have Leen reported at 00; Trea-
sury Notes are 115.
The market for Breadstuffs was active, and prices
very firm at the following quotations :—Western
Canal Flour 4 dolls. 50c. to 4 dolls. 62;c.; Genessee
prime Wheat, 1 doll. 26c. to 1 doll. 28c.; Southern
Wheat, 1 doll. 04c. to 1 doll. 06c.; Indian Corn,
round yellow, 62c. to 64c. ; flat yellow, 62c.;
Southern White, very firm, 58c. to 60c.; Indian
Meal, 2 dolls. 87ic. to 3 dolls.
In Cotton, business at New York was very dull,
and sales were to a moderate extent. Prices were,
however, steady. New Orleans, and Mobile, mid.
fair to fair, 8-ic. to Bic. Uplands, mid. fair to fair,
Tic. to Bc.

PROVISIONS.—SaIes were few. Pork is quoted at
10 to 12k.
Exchange on London stood at 109 to 109 i, good
demand ; on Paris, 5 25 ; Hamburgh, 35i to 35i ;
Bremen, 781- to 78k.
Freights were very low, and little was doing. To
Liverpool: Cotton, square bales, Id. to 5-16 d.; Flour
and Meal l.s. 6d. to Is. 9d. per bushel; Corn, in bags
and bulk, 50. to 61 per bushel.

Tit E FREN CH REPUBLIC.

We have received the Paris papers of Saturday and
yesterday.
The Moniteur of Saturday publishes the following
circular from M. ODILON BARROT to the law officers
of the Republic :
" Monsieur le Procureur-General,—The anarchical
party has for a long time hurled insolent defiance against
the Government, our institutions, and society entire.
Led away by some unhoped-for results in the last general
election, it thought to tind accomplices where in reality
it only found opponent 3. Its audacity increased in
consequence of these illusions, and it gave the signal for
armed insurrection. It is the third time since the

oundation of the Republic that a factious minority has
made an appeal to brute force against the powers result-
ing from universal suffrage. It is also the third time
that the law has triumphed—thanks to the loyal and
energetic co-operation of the National Guards and of the
army. But you will be the first to observe that society
cannot long exist in that state of continual anxiety, and
in the midst of those almost periodical sanguinary con-
flicts; it will end in its being exhausted with misery, or
it wiil re act violently against a Government which has
not the power to give it security, that first and paramount
want of nations who live by their labour. It is therefore
necessary to put an end to such a state of things. That
cannot be done but by giving to the law and to the
Government of the Republic such a degree of force that
all idea of violence may be henceforth stifled in the minds
of the anarchists, even the most ardent and the most
resolute, from a conviction of their utter weakness. It
is to the magistrates in general, and to you in particular,
to concur in obtaining this result.
" The opportunity is good and decisive. Experience
is made for all. No one can now feel any allusion as to
the disasters which would have been inflicted on society
by the victory of the anarchists. The authorities are,
therefore, secure of the assistance of all good citizens,
who would not wish to see our great and fine country
9ra soial degraded, awna.
dr perhapson th
e destroyed,oth other
banudn, duet rnto periodh e convulsions
o f
our
history has there ever been more complete accord be-
tweet,
feeling the Legislative and the Executive powers, in the
of danger, and in the energetic resolution to
hpre-
serve the Country,true
ut magistrate has certainly
never flinched from duty, but never has he been
more assured of the Support of
state and of that of public opinione great powers of the
.
" Let there, then, be no hesitation in the execution of
the duties of your office ; let the severities of the law
surely and promptly reach all those men who, not satin-
fled with universal suffrage and the right of discussion,
and of criticism the most unlimited, still wish to have
recourse to violence. What scruples can stop you ?
Would they not be even more guilty towards liberty,
which they so seriously compromise, as against order,
which will eventually triumph ?
"I have been several times consulted as to whether the
cry of " Viva la Republique Sociale," and the exhibi-
tion of the red flag, constitute misdemeanors. Before
these late events, my answer was that they must depend
on attendant circumstances. At present my reply would
be much more absolute. A cry and colours which have
now become the signal and the symbol of civil war can-
not henceforth remain unpunished.'
" The law on the clubs and un dangerous meetings
will give you the means of putting an end to those hot-
beds of passions. It must not be permitted that those
violent passions, driven from the clubs, should find
more dangerous organs in daily publications and in
pamphlets, which are hawked about in the towns and in
the country.
" I cannot too strongly call your attention to those
hawkers and to the emissaries of the secret societies,
who, after having sown hatred, and prepared for war,
disappear and leave behind them only ruin and despair.