The Sun.
London, England, 1825-06-15 00:00:00

MERCANTILE SHIPPING.

DEAL, Jvwt 14.—Wind N.E. blowing fresh.—Arrived
and remain, the Fortune, Sharp, from Gibraltar; Lady Mack.
worth, , from Honduras ; Retrieve, Steel, from
Cadiz; Charles, Butcher, from the South Seas; Eagle, Ton-
kin, from St. Domingo. A ship from Jamaica, with the signal
T. B. 0., and several other vessels, but. blowing so fresh, wa
have had no communication. Passed through from the River.
the Mercy, Beuzley, for Barbadoes; and Hope, Sweet, for St.
Uhea.

PORTSMOUTH, Ju E.N.E.--Arrived the
Orient, White, from the Downs, repaired her rudder, and pro-
ceeded for China.

COWES, JUNE 14.--Arrived the Brothers, Motley, tient
London, to take on board 380 sheep for New South Wales.
PLYMOUTH, JUNE 13.—Wind variable.—Sailed the 14. rd
Nelson, Wilson, for Fayal; and Susan, Corbyn, for Halifax.
FALMOUTII JUNE la-Wind variable.--Arrived the
Auriga, Walford, from London, for Valparaiso.
LIVERPOOL, JUNE 13.—Wind N.—Arrived the &thane,
Thomas, and Aurora, Tubman, from New York, sailed the
22d ult.; Amo, , from the Mediterranean; America,
Pray, from New Orleans. Off the Port, the Duke of Welling-
ton, Watson, from St. John's, N. B.

Off Portsmouth, the Lord Cranstounei from janlaiea. In
the Downs the John Charles, from Trinidad de Cub:..

CORN EXCHANGE, JUNE 1.5'.
'The arrival of all sorts of Corn this week is tolerably good,
and of Flour it is abundant. Prime Wheat obtains Monday's
terms; other sorts are very dull. Barley for malting is unsale-
able ; other kinds are rather dearer. Beans and Peas are ism-
altered. Oats are plentiful, and the trade hardly so good as
Monday.
A RRlVALB.—English Wheat, 2,6oo—Barley, ltk—eats,
B,6oo—Flour, 8,000 sacks--Irish Oats, 3,000.

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el thel.aanti
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,;t tir.eirri
Beckett, in the presence of an immense multitude. The Ladies
were both seated in the car, and Mr. Graham stood up in the
eeNvn.e—n Town,il°
middle. The balloon took a westerly direction, and in about an
hour descended at Feltham, three or four miles beyond noun_
slow. The aerial travellers returned to town at half-past twelve
o'clock.

MUNGO PARK.—We had lately to annolnce
the return of Lieutenant CLAPPERTON, after successfully ex-
ploring those wilds, which have been the grave of so mor,y of
our heroic countrymen. We now understand, that besides di-•
covering walled towns, in places heretofore supposed to be soli-
tary deserts, peopled with inhabitants who were in the con-
stant habit of using articles furnished by the manufacturing
industry of this country, he had the good fortune to Cisco-
ver the Journal, or part of the Journal, kept by Mungo Park
when he last attempted to discover the source of the Niger.
How this treasure was obtained we have not heard ; but, is we
are correctly informed, the MS. has been preserved with care.
probably by those who were ignorant of its true value, and
who, it is to be feared, prevented the author from brinving.it
to that conclusion which he contemplated, and which science
desired.

Yesterday eveniug,a young woman in Harrow-.
road, Paddington, who had the care of two children, nhe, of
whom was in her arms, seeing the other, a little girl three
years of age, in some danger, ran, in order to protect the
child, but was too late ; a loose horse passing by 'at the
moment, threw out and struck the infant with such foam
as to move it several feet distance, and then set off at full speed
into a field adjoining the canal. On taking up the child it
was discovered that one of the eyes was driven out of the
head; in this shocking state the little sufferer was taken to Mr.
Campbell's, surgeon, Edgewere-road, who gale but little
hopes of its recovery.

TIIE LONDON JOURNALS.

DAILY

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F-rtructs,from the Morning eapers,...rune 15, 1825.

[TzIE Ttsfra.]

it is difficult to describe the anxiety and alarm
under which- the more intelligent portion of our
countrymen in India were. labouring at the date
of the last letters. The bad .success—we might
say the utter disgrace—which has attended our
operations against the Burman empire, would in
other times have produced an immediate Parlia-
mentary inquiry, and a strong expression of pub-
lic (.•?etrsure wherever the blame of such disasters,
accompanied by such manifest dangers, might he
with justice visited. When we reflect that more
than a year has now elapsed since the actual com-
mencement of the war—more nearly, perhaps,
two years since the Government at Calcutta had
contemplated the speedy breaking out of hosti-
lities—the first question. that occurs to every man
is; What progress has been made towards that
specific -point at which, in common prudence
and consistency, it would be for the credit
of the Government to re-establish peace ? The
obvious answer unfortunately is,—that we have
not advanced a single step towards indemnity, if
there were any wrongs to he repaired ; or to-
ward(that security of which, it appears to us,
the _war itself has been the only serious disturber.
Ten or 'twelve thousand men were sent to Ran-
gon, and might as well have been sent to Japan
for any real object of mischief or coercion to the
Burmansa of that force-we are-informed that Sir
Archibald Campbell could muster for his last en-
gagement with the enemy not more than 1,300
men ! Such was the wisdom which selected the
field of operations. The Bengal army, which
had confined its efforts to the infliction of a
-violent death on some 400 or 500 of our own
unhappy Sepoys, was only, towards the end
of January, preparing to act against the Ar-
racan, or north-nest frofitier of the Kin°. of
Ava. The-country through which this force
had to move was wholly unknown to the
Company's Government, 'except es one which it
would be madness to. invade without the most ac-
curate and detailed information- respecting. even
in-
tricacies, and most hazardous to enter, ven if
so provided. It was known, indeed to be a.coun--
try almost as insalubrious as that in the neigh-
bourhood of Rangoon ; the period still in store.
for operations was conjectured to be not half suf-
ficient for a march " interstiersed," as an Irish
soldier once expressed it, " with' fighting"—lthat
is, if there should be any idea of pushing on to
the Burmese capital. The troops. would, there-
fore, be compelled to retrace, their footsteps to
the British frontier, and begin again the whole
business of the war, or to take up their ground in the
heart of an enemy's country, there to rot .of.disa
ease, or perish of absolute hunger. if, on the other
band, no decisive and immediate impression should
be made upon the force or spirits of the ene-
my by this attack from Bengal, we can vouch
for its beinv, the 'opinion of most able and experi-
enced authorities in India that our whole Asiatic.
empire.would run an imminent-risk of Oveititiow
from insurrections within. There-is not a spot
of the whole Peninsula where the old jealousies
of British power can be fairly said to be extinct.
'!'here is not .villagein the states which have.
been. conquered within the last seven years,
where the course of the Burmese war is not'
eagerly. ,watched—where the consequences of
failure, or even of prolonged hostilities and ex-
Lausted strength, are not throughly calculated and
comprehended ; and where, -if the signal were
once given, 'a revolt : would "'hot instantly burst
forth, self-organized,a_aud-assisied by the mass
of the population.:--in the. capital - of the" Dec-
can,a placard was recently stuck up, inviting the
natives to rise..as the King of Ava was paving, the
way for their deliverance from English bondage.
Nor are the discontents prevailing through. the
interior of theYeninsula the-worst, by many 'de-
grees, among our causesof apprehension. What
has happened towards the -westward'? Ranjeet
Sidg, a Prince of eminent ability, of warlike.
habits, and insatiable ambition, has crossed the
Indus from his own Seik territory, and planted
himself in great force on both sides of that im-
portant -river. The army of Runjeet 'Sing
consist of fifty thousand infanty, armed and
distributed on European principles, disciplined
by a formidable number of French and Russian
officers with a numerous artillery, horse
..and
foot, organized also on the most approved,
European system. These are supported tfv- a
powerful body of native cavalry .who are inured
to war, and flushed with. conquest. Further to
the west, we have 'the Russian army of Georgia,
the Affe,liam territory, and would not spare bribe
or other incentives to Runjeet Sing, or lose a day
in marching to reinforce him. These are all 'con-
siderations familiar to the .minds. of reflecting
men who Understand the affairs-of India.; but,
what may not be .so generally, apprehended is,
the incompetency of our- local-establishments, rni-;
Mary and civil, to cope with a crisis of more than
common danger. The number of Europeans in
both depa;rtments, and in all,the presidencies, is
inadequate to the wants of the service; and of civil
funrtionaries there are much too.few to .contraul
the. natural -increase of a spirit among the na-
tives adverse to the-British interests,, or at-least
convertible against them. What is more vexa-
tious still, there exists an obvious want of the
necessary. intellectual resources in those who do
exercise the civil powers of the Company ; and
thiA is Most conspicuous in- the very highest of:
fives... There is a lamentable difference. between
the,extinetion of such a powerful MoharchY as
that of 'Tipp° in four short months, after he had
been whole years preparing, with all the other
arreatStates of India,for a simultaneous attack upon
the'Brit:ish teFriiory, and the feeble and wretched
atternoto!zigaiitst the Burmeserexhibiting; for a:
whole twelvettionth, nothing but distraction in
Counril,ancl inefficacy-in the field. There is,we say,
a woful cOntrast between the Mysore and 114ah-
ratta wars, both defensive against a prepared and
mighty etterby,. And this Burmese. war, uppro-
yoked, aggressive, unjust, ill-combined, and un-
successful. -With. regard to our arrny,, the Eu-
ropeatt force has d sVind led in a serious proportion,

and a speedy augmentation must be made to it.
The native army of the Company is notoriously
deficient in European officers, who used to be
the soul of its military character and spirit;
and it is folly to suppose that we can retain
India, if either of these be lost. Of the incom-
pleteness of our establishments, it may be taken
as a sample, that the head-quarters of the artil-
lery ought to consist of 600 men, whereas we are
assured •on high authority, that at the date of the
last advices, -only -15 were to be found there ?
Let the Company, therefore, leave off peddling,
and conduct great affairs on broad and effective
principles. If they want an army, let them raise
one equal to the exigency, or surrender India to
the nation, who will know how to govern it ho-
nestly, and to render it- a source of honour, as
well as of benefit, to the empire. But besides an
army, something more is requisite. Let the
Honourable Company of Merchants pay the sol-
dier his prize-money, and make him feel that•he
has no enemies but those who are in arms be-
fore him.