The Sun.
London, England, 1849-09-01 00:00:00

TO CORRESPONDENTS.

There is really no consideration for unfortunate editors.
Parties who will not take the trouble to look them-
selves to ascertain whether they are right or wrong in
their opinions, unhesitatingly write to " The Editor,
declaring his statement to be all wrong, and requiring
explanations to account for the supposed error, when
the slightest investigation would show that no error
had been committed. A correspondent now writes to
us to say " that there is not a single word about mar-
riage in the Act 9 Geo. IV., c. 31, as stated by us in a
recent article, and wishing to know what Act we refer
to." We beg to repeat that we were perfectly correct
in our reference. The 22d section of the Act which
we cited contains the enactments respecting bigamy,
in the very words which we quoted. We really must
request that our correspondents will be certain that an
error has been committed before they volunteer to
correct it, and intrude upon time already fully occupied.

Tilk WEATHER.—Strx OFFicx, SEPT. 1.
THERMOMETER, Lowest, 57; Highest, 69; Noon, 65,

BAROMETER, 29.86.

Wind S.E.—Morning heavy rain ; Afternoon cloudy.

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LONDON, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 1849.

Altogether the intelligence received from India by
the last Overland Mail may be regarded as highly
satisfactory. After the annihilation of the Seikh power
by the splendid campaign, beginning with the ex-
ploits of EDWARDES and terminating with the victory
of Goojerat, tranquillity appears to have followed as
the inevitable consequence. Enhanced in the magni-
tude of its dominions by the acquisition of the spacious
and fruitful country of the five rivers, the British
Indian Government at Calcutta has found that acces-
sion of responsibilities insufficient to embarrass its
policy or to interfere in any perceptible degree
the vigour and promptitude of its ad-
ministration. The Punjaub is rapidly under-
going a complete re-organization ; and meanwhile
the guilt of the heinous crime which inaugurated the
last rebellion seems to be in a fair way of obtaining
due expiation. Indeed the prolonged trial of
MOOLRAJ, the ex-Nizam of Moultan, must be regarded
as the most attractive, if not the most important, sub-
ject recorded in our dispatches from Hindostan.
Upon all the charges on which that Asiatic Prince
had been arraigned be has been formally pronounced
guilty, after his share in the offences com-
mitted had been laboriously and elaborately
scrutinized. For having aided and abetted
the murderers of AariEw and ANDERSON—for
having been an accessory before the fact, by instigat-
ing his troops to their attack and assassination—for
having been an accessory after the fact by rewarding
the murderers--MOOLBAJ has been condemned to
death. Coupled, however, with the sentence is an
assurance that a recommendation to mercy shall be
forwarded to the Governor-General, on the ground
that the criminal was the victim of circumstances.
There is consequently every likelihood that the late
Nizau will find himself subjected to the perpetual
loss of liberty, whether by transportation or impri-
sonment, as a commutation from the loss of his ex-
istence. All things considered, we cannot but
feel gratified that the magnificent successes
obtained by the valour of the veteran Gonna will not,
in this instance, have been rendered only the antece-
dents to a bloody vengeance upon an opponent who,
while heroic in bravery, was induced to participate in
the atrocities of Ameer CHUND, simply as the " victim
of circumstances." As an additional evidence that
the massacre of AGNEW and ANDERSON was the
result of extravagant excitement rather than of an
execrable premeditation, it was demonstrated in the
course of the trial of MooLxA3 that the chieftain who
struck the first blow at the political agent was a man
habitually under the influence of drugs, and occa-
sionally liable to fits of insanity.
Together with the information received as to the
result of the arraignment of the ex-Nizard of Moul-
tan, we have obtained also some brief but suggestive
hints as to the prospect of a thorough and rigorous
re-organization of the British Indian army by Sir
CHARLES NAPIER, the new Commander-in-Chief.
That distinguished disciplinarian has already set in
opeasOion his scheme for the improvement of the
military service in Ilindostan, some of which im-
provements, it will be vividly remembered, were
suggested by him to the Administration prior to his ap-
pointment as the successor of the Lord Viscount GOUGH.
In his masterly letter to Sir Jouri Cam HODHOUSE,
in his official capacity as President of the Board of
Control, Sir CHARLES inveighed in emphatic terms
upon the insufficiency of the arrangements generally
made in regard to the Baggage Corps in an Indian
campaign. As will be observed, this is no isolated
evil in the estimation of the conqueror of Sinde—
another of equal importance having strongly arrested
his attention. We mean that upon the existence of
which the Commander-in. Chief has repeatedly
before this expressed his opinion—that opinion
being that the British Indian army is miserably
under-officered. In proof of the accuracy of this
assertion, it is only necessary to point to the circum-
stances that in the regiments at Lahore in October, '
1848, out of the 176 officers, exclusive of staff, who
were then receiving pay, no less than 65 were absent
from duty ; and that at Moultan at the same period,
out of the 154 officers, exclusive of staff, receivingpay, 62 were in like manner absent—being a propor-
tion of 30 per cent. of absentees out of merely fifteen
Before Sir CHARLES adventures upon
regiments,
say innovation, he certainly demonstrates its
necessity beyond all denial ; nor can the most
fanatical aspirant for the wholesale reduction
of our armies gainsay the reasonableness of requiring
the due number of efficient officers on service, propor-
tioned to the number of regiments still maintained. A
continuance of the present system is, if you like, a
shameful squandering away of the public moneys.
.Here, in truth, is field for improvement, and such a
field as will not long remain unoccupied while the ex-
Governor of Sinde has the supreme direction of the j
army in Hindostan.
Among the remarkable rumours current at Cal-

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