The Sun.
London, England, 1825-03-26 00:00:00

E LONDON JOURNALS.

DAILY
Illeructv ft coo the Morning- Papers, March 26,1625.

LNFW TIMEs.I
It is rather extraordinary, that, notwithstanding
we last Tuesday adverted particularly to the un-
fortunate fate of Mr. Thackeray, who perished
in the western part of India, with a view to shew,-
that that lamentable occurrence could have no
possible connection with the mutiny at Barrack-
pore, in the east of India, no intelligible ac-
count of the former occurrence has yet been laid
before the public. The result of our inquiries
into this lamentable affair is as follows :—Mr.
Thackeray was the principal Civil Officer at, or
near Darwar, and within the sphere of his autho-
rity, were the possessions of a native Prince,
called the Rajah of Eittor. This personage
dying, a question arose who was his lawful suc-
cessor, and a claimant was set up by one party
of the natives, and opposed by another. Mr.
Thackeray, in the proper discharge of his official
ditties, decided against the Pretender; but the W [BRITISH ettEss.]
e have not much room to bestow on the
1 adherents of the latter refused submission to his
article in the Times of yesterday respecting the
award, which it therefore became necessary to Spanish Loan ; nor, in truth, does it. call for
enforce by military power. The error of Mr. much comment. How much lower can this
Thackeray seems to have been the considering
shuffling and equivocating Paper sink ? On hSu-
pposition in too trivial a point of view.—
himself, w ith two other meM7 turday last, it asserted roundly that " Ferdi-
Being at Kittoor
nand would never acknowledge tile bonds of the hers of the Civil Department, named Stevenson
and Elliott, he thought it only necessary to order
Cortes even for the value of the.paper on which
they are printed." On Tuesday it declared
up a few native soldiersa consisting of a troop .r
itntry, and two pieces of
that "art express had arrived from MaArid, con-
cavalry, a company of i a firming almost to the letter" what it haestated on
artillery. These guns, with their men, were ad. Saturday. Yesterday, with perfect sang froid,
mined into the fortress of Kittoor ; but the next
the
day it was found that and without any the slightest explanation
malcontents had shut of the former statements to which a contem-
the gates of the fort, ancommunication bet d meant to cut off all
porary understood the Times had " pledged
between the artillerymen within its character," this Journal, as an entirely
and the troops without. In consequence two
other guns were brought up, and the fresh matter of intelligence, opens an
gate article, " in the most distinguished part of the
of the fortress was blown open ; but it was
paper, " with noticing that " it is now said that
found impossible to force an entrance ; for
the hostile party finding themselves com- attempts are making to re-unite the two ends of
the thread of negociat ion between Ferdinand and
mined, became desperate, and being very nu-
the great capitalists, 8;.c." Does the editor of
memos, overpowered the assailants.—When Mr. the Times think to slip his head out of the
Thackeray, who was encamped a short distance halter so easily as this ? Who will ever place
g the slightest reliance on his statements again ?
from the fort, found that things were proceeding
to such an extremity, he proceeded himself to- The public might forgive him for his state-
wards the fort ; but the rebels had gone too far ment on Saturday last. He perhaps knew no
to recognize his authority, and they fired upon better then. But the story invented for Tues.
and killed him. Captain Black, who command- day's paper, in answer to our contradiction of his
ed the artillery, was also killed ; Lieutenants
article, demands, we think, a severer notice. For
Dighton and Sewell were severely wounded, and the present we shall abstain; but unless heacknow-
all the European officers being then put hors de ledge his offence, and supplicate some mitigation
combot, the troops retreated, leaving. the rebels of punishment, our generosity must give place to
in possession of the place,
from which, however, our justice. In addition to the facts we have
there is no doubt they would soon be dislodged, as already stated, we have only to -ay, that M. Ar-
a considerable force was moving against them from
Darwar. Some of the Sepoys that could not escape, town, for the purpose of bringing the negociation
douin, a banker of Paris, is now certainly in
remained prisoners in the fort, as did Messrs. St-
evenson and Elliott, whom the rebels to a close, we suspect by dividing the loan be-
probably to serve as hostages for their own par-
detained, t ween the two parties with whom Ferdinand has
been negotiating.
don ; for it is quite clear that as this was a mere
insulated transaction, arising, out of a local dis-
pute, a moment's reflection must have convinced
those who were most forward in the rebellion,
that they kid no prospect but of ultimate sur-
render. Partial oppositions to European audio.
rity have been at all times common in the newly
subjected territories, Every considerable fortress
(and they are numerous in all parts of India)
gives its inmates the means of temporary resist-
ance, but Kittoor is not a place of peculiar
strength, arid if it were, it would not long hold
out against British skill and valour.

[MORNING II FR 4 LG.]
Two new Schemes were introduced on the
gambling market yesterday—the one named a
" Permian Trading and Alining Company," and
the other an " Imperial Distillery Company."—
The Peruvian opened nominally at a premium of
four, but immediately declined ; and after great
exertions, ineffectually exercised on the part of
the projectors, they closed at a nominal premium
of three quarters, but no real purchasers were to
be found. In the Imperial Distillery there was
no great deal done, and the Shares were through-
out the day par to 1 premium, without any ex-
ertion either to support or depress them. The
Pearl and Coral Fishery Shares have again ad-
vanced, but in the other schemes very little was
done.

[THE TIMES.]
We were informed yesterday, in a respecta-
able quarter, that the true,state ref Our present
diplomatic relations with St. Petersburg() is
this--that Mr. tratford Canning is about to re-
turn home, having wholly succeeded in his mk-
sion, which was a special one, relating solely to
the adjustment of the differences between Russia
and the United States on the subject of the navi-
(ration of the Pacific Ocean. Lord Strangford
,
will become the resident Ambassador to that
Coouwr-tl,fd it
ge of the affairs of being considered that his Lordship's
kn
Turkey will
render his interference useful at this junc-
ture in cementing the good understanding
which has recently been established between
the two Powers. It is added, however,
that Mr. Stratford Canning, who of course had
received instructions to that effpct, attempted,
after the arrangement of the specific object of
hismi
; tint
the Russianssici:tointro;lnct.t iheqtestli of Greek
politics Minister,n notfind_
lug the discussion of this subject " nominatud

[MORNING PosT.]
Numerous Petitions were presented to the
ywlowfiannutdheity,
House of Lords last night to be heard by Coun-
sel against the Equitable Loan Mil. The Earl
otofolk.atuht,lietrodpa were presented,
perilous speculations which now engross
exces-
sive and e., to the
the attention and the capital of the commercial
world, and stated that 200
pleOrtubiyiit
millions were at the
command of the directors of the varionsJoint Stock
Companies now in existence, 1-4th of which was
a larger sum than it had been Possible for Go-
vernment to raise at once at any period of the
late contest. The Earl of Liverpool, whilst he
admitted that speculations within cerittin limits
might iii time of peace and with great superabund-
ance of capital, be advantageous to the country,
wished that those who engaged in them should
know exactly the situation in which they stood.]