The Sun.
London, England, 1849-11-20 00:00:00

THE StJN LONDON,

OVERLAND MAIL

(From the Chronicle.)

We have received, by Extraordinary Express, our
advises in anticipation of the Overland Mail, from
Bombay to the 17th October, and Calcutta to the 6th
October. The present arrival brings advices from
China to the 29th September, but no news of parti-
cular interest.

BOMBAY, OCT. 17.
(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
I have frequently noticed to you the great error
which was committed at the close of the Punjaub
campaign, in allowing Chuttur Singh, Shere Singh,
and other rebel chiefs to remain at large in their
villages, under a mere verbal promise that they
would behave themselves as loyal subjects, and lend
their aid to no plots or rebellions. We have just had
full proof how great was the mistake into which the
authorities then fell. The chiefs have been intriguing
and caballing against the new order of things, and it has
been necessary to send out parties of military to sur-
prise and seize them, and bring them in as prisoners to
Lahore. " Three surprisals," says the Delhi Gazette,
" were planned to come off on the let of October; one
at A ttaree, the head-quarters of the rebellion, which
is about ten koss from the capital of the Punjaub;
One at the village of Sirdars Lal Singh, Morareea,
and Soorut Singh, Majeeteea, situate at no great
distance from thnritsir ; and the third at the dwelling
of the Deewan Hakeem Rae, at Seealkot." Of the
first of these expeditions—which was executed wa the
Ist instant—the paper justed quoted from gave the
following account :
" Mr. J. Lawrence, Mr. R. Montgomery, the Com-
missioner of that Doab, Msjor Ed wardes, Deputy-
Commissioner, and Lieutenant Hodson, of the Guide
Corps, with Captain Skinner and his regiment of Ir-
re,rhular Cavalry (14th), and a small body of Pathan horse,
marched from Lahore about an hour after midnight.
Tnev reached Attaree just at daybreak, first sur-
rounded the village and fort, then effected an entrance
without any trouble, and completely took by surprise
Sirdar Chuttur Singh and his four sons, It9ja,
Shore Singh, Sirdars Ghoolab Aotar Singi
and Tej Singh, besides other inferior rebels
The whole were mounted on horseback withou

the least delay, and hurried to the high road, where
a carriage and four received them, and whisked
them into Lahore, where Dr. Login added them to his
rare coll&ction of celebrated characters.' Lieutenant

Hodson remained at Attaree to search for papers,
and retained with him the whole of Captain Skinner's
Irregular Cavalry, and two companies of Native In-
fantry, with a detachment of Pioneers, under Captain
Cafe of the 56th Native Infantry, who was
charged to blow up tha fort after the search of
Lieutchant Hodson should have been completed. The
measures adopted for effecting this seizure appear to
have been most complete. ilacrany resistance been at-

tempted, and as a provision against any contretemps,
a wing of a corps of native infantry, and two guns,
under Captain Sissmore, were directed to follow the
cavalry detachment at two, A.M., and were much disap7
pointed at learning tba; the last argument would not be
required."
Of the seizure of the Seealkot chiefs no account
has as yet been receivei. Tidings, however, have
cone in this morning, assuring us of the com•
plete success of the movement against Sirdar Lal
Singh, his brother Mahtah Singh Mnrareea, and
Sirdar SJornt Singh Majeeteca, all of whom were
:ares!ed without resistance by Mr. C. B. Saunders,
deputy commissioner, at Umritsir, on the Ist of Oct.
No doubt the remaining expedition has likewise
proved successful ; and the authorities may thus
congratulate themselves upon having crushed in the
bud a sytem of intrigue which might in a few short
months have led to another Punjaub rebellion.
A Kafila of unusual extent and value has arrived
at Peshawur from Caubul, and the news has also
reached that place of the death of the King of Bok-
hara, an event which it is suggested might be turned
to good account by the authorities, by instituting
inquiries as to the Europeans still said to be living
in confinement in "his Majesty's" dominions. From
Moult= there is no intelligence, save that which
relates to the heat of the climate, the sickness of our
troops, and other disagreeables.
From Sinde we hear of the death of Brigadier
Douglas, of the 78th Highlanders, who had been long
ill. He has left his entire fortune, it is said, to a
young artillery officer, named Kinloch, who at-
tended him on his passage to Sinde, and was ex-
tremely kind to him during his illness at Shikarpore.

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.
REPORT ON THE STATE OF THE BOMBAY
MARKETS,
FROM THE 3RD TO THE 16TH OCTOBER INCLUSIVE.
Bombay, Tuesday Evening, October 16.
The markets have been dull during the last two
weeks, owing solely to the preparations which have
been general forcelebrating the Dewallee holidays, which
commenced on the 14th instant, and terminate at the
close of the week. We expect a very largo amount of
hu,iness will be done as soon as the holidays have passed.
Money Market—We have nothing new to report
under this head, the market continuing well supplied
with money. Government Securities continue firm, but
the prices of the New Five per Cent. Loan have ruled
rather lower, there having been a good deal in the
market.

Shares Those of the Bank of Bombay have
gone down to 23i to 24 per cent. premium, owing
is the number of sellers. Orientals have been
done at 144 to 15 per cent. discount. This
institution has just declared a dividend for the
last half.year at the rate of 7 per cent. per
annum. Commercials have been in request, orders to
purchase having recently been received, we hear, from
Calcutta. We quote them at 13 per cent. discount.
Agra's are at 2to 3 per cent. discount. In other shares
little or nothing has been done.

Freights—there has been a good demand for ton-
nage during the past fortnight, but, the supply being
abundant, rates have not improved, and we quote them
as follows :—To London, 2/. 17s. 6d. to 3/. ; Liverpool
31. to 31. 53. China Rupees 11.
Exchange—The business done in bills fur this mail
has been to a limited ex tent, and prices are about the
same as they were on the departure of last steamer—say
for six months' sight, first-class paper Is. 10d. to
is. 10id. The Oriental Bank has been drawing at
Is. 10fd. 30 days' sight.
Cotton Piece Goods—The market for these goods, for
the reason stated above, has been dull, and but little
inquiry has been manifested for any description of
fabrics, save Grey Madapollams and Grey Shirting&
Of the former about 30,000 pieces havo been sold
at Rs. 2 2 annas to Rs. 214 annas. Of the latter
about 15,000 pieces have been disposed of Rs. 4 8 to Rs
6 per piece. A small business has been done in Sheet
ings 32 to 40 inch; 60 to 70 yards at Rs. 8 to Re. 12 per
piece. For these goods, awe expect to hear of an active
demand two weeks hence. Grey and White Jaconets—of
these, the stock is very light. Fresh importations would
sell readily, at remuneraive rates. White Longeloths
of fine quality are inquired for, but inferior descriptions
are not sought after,

Cotton Yarn—There have been but few sales either
in Mule or Water Twist. No. 20 Mule is a little higher
than our last quotation. NO Y. 30 and 40 not inquired
for. Tho higher Nos. 60. 70, and 80, aro wanted.
Water Twist is more in request, but prices are not im-
pr,ving._

- Woollens—The market for these is dull, and neither
in price nor demand have we any change to intimate.
Metals—The sales of Metals have been few;
but the market is in a healthy state. In Copper,
Brazier's and Sheathing may bo quoted 8 annas per
cwt. higher than at the date of our last report.
Tile remains unchanged. As stocks are light bi=tter prices
will probably ere long be obtainable. In British Bar
Iron we have no change to note. It is readily saleable
at Rs. 29 to Rs. 30 per candy. In Swedish Iron a sale
has,we hear, been made at Rs. 2 to Re. 3 per candy in ad-
vance of our last quotation. Weare informed that a sale to
arrive has been effected at Rs. 59 —the seller declining to
hold for a month or two, in expectation of present rate►
continuing. Lead, both pig and sheet, are not in much
request. In the former we hear that a sale of 1,100 cwt.
has taken place at Rs. 10 4 annas. Steel, in tubs and
faggots seems to have rather a downward tendency. In
spelter we have hoard of no transactions.
Saffron—ln this article we have heard of no sales.
Cochineal—This may be quoted Rs. 2 9 to Rs. 2 10
annas per lb., at which rates about 10,0001bs. are said
to have been sole.

THE WELSH CHURCH.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
Sra,—Writing of the Cymry in the twelfth cen-
tury, Giraldus de Barri said—" Happy and fortunate
indeed would this nation be, nay, completely blessed,
if it had good prelates and pastors, and but one
prince, and that prince a good one."—Hoare's Giral-
dus' Description of Wales, chap. xviii.
These remarkable words attest the political sagacity
of their author. Earnestly desiring his country's
welfare, and fully assured that true happiness pro-
ceeds from religion, he thus enunciated the principle,
that a paternal goverment could bless the land by the
appointment of pious, wise, and able bishops; who
would select, with anxious care, fit and devoted
pastors to teach the people, both in public and in
private, those sacred and powerful truths which are
divinely adapted to convince the reason, to affect the
heart, to regulate the life, and to make man's earthly
course a happy prelude to heaven.
After the lapse of nearly 700 years, Cambria, in
our own day, can thankfully acknowledge that one of
thefi ile
4 since patriotic wishes i
Principality
ti rya lodwu
owns
sis b
upte roineec tfull y
Sovereign ful-
Ruler, and that one a good one I
But while the proverbial loyalty of the Welsh
complacently rests upon their Queen, they cannot but
feel that the responsible Ministers of the Crown owe
much more attention to the peculiar circumstances of
Wales than they have ever yet bestowed.
" Happy and fortunate" Wales certainly is not in
her pastors ; many of them being absentees, and
many more incompetent alike to instruct the peop!e
in their native tongue, to enter into their feelings, or
to influence their opinions and conduct.
" Happy and fortunate" Wales certainly is not in
her prelates ; for while more than 700,000 of her
population still speak the language of their fore-
fathers, those prelates have so wrought and are eo

working upon the parochial clergy of these four for•
lora dioceses, that their respective local congrega-
tions now comprise, on an average, little mere than a
tithe of the proper attendants on public worship !
Guided by the aphorism of Giraldus, it is easy to
trace these evils to their source. The people are
neglected and repelled by venal and uncongenial
pastors; and such pastors are sanctio:.ed by prelates,
void of sympathy with the national character and in-
competent to fulfil the onerous duties of Welsh
bishops.

When facts like these are brought forward, they
are commonly met by the statement, that Wales,
having become an integral part of England, shares
all its privileges and is honoured by the oblivion of
all distinctions. If a perfect fusion of the Celtic and
Teutonic races had really taken place, such an answer
as the above would be apposite ; but under existing
circumstances it is a futile fallacy, which none can
receive without forgetting that more than 700,000
people speaking Welsh require, of course, to be in-
structed by means of that language ; and that their-in-
structors stand constantly in need of the inspection,
control, and guidance of spiritual rulers, whose expe-
rimental knowledge, wisdom, and piety, should make
them perennial sources and centres of piety and
happiness.
It is observable, that Giraldus directed his wishes
merely to the provision of competent rulers and
teachers. The earnestness of purpose, which he
recognised as a permanent characteristic of the
Cambrian nation, bad satisfactorily convinced him
that they possessed every intrinsic requisite of a
great and prosperous people.
Commending these things to public attention,
I am, Sir, Sec., GORBONIAN.

MR. COBDEN and the AUSTRIANS.
Mr. Cobden has addressed the following letter to
Dr. Alexander Bach, the Austrian Minister of Home
Affairs:—
" Sir,---I address you, not as a member of the
Austrian Government, but as a man whose en-
lightened and liberal sentiments made a lasting im-
pression upon me when I had the pleasure of your
acquaintance at Vienna. You will find an excuse
for this step in the fact of my taking it in the interest
of those principb s of humanity and civilization which
in those days were cherished by you as wel as by me.
Mindful of the views which in 1847 recommended
me to your kind notice, I cannot induce myself to
believe that these views will find in you a less ener-
getic advocate at present than you were in the days
to which I allude.
" Sir, the public opinion of my country is shocked
by the cold-blooded cruelties which are being practised
against the fallen chiefs of the flungarians. This
feeling is not confined to one class or to one party; no !
there is not a single man in England who by word or
letter would defend the conduct of the Austrian Go-
vernment in Hungary. Ihe sense of the civilized
nations of the continent of Europe on this question
must already have reached you, nor will the judgment
of America fail to make itself known at Vienna.
You are too enlightened to be ignorant of the fact
that the unanimous verdict of our contemporaries is
likewise that of posterity. But did it ever strike
you that history will not accuse the brutal soldier,
the tool of cruelty, but the ministers who are respon-
sible for that soldier's crimes ? I scorn to appeal to
lower motives than those of an honourable ambition;
but I must .ask you, did it ever strike you what
dangers surround your present career ? You, who
are so well read in English history, ought to remem-
ber that four years after Jeffre3 s" bloody assizes,'
both he and his royal master were compelled most
wretchedly to fly from the avenging hand of justice.
Or do:you think our time allows the public conscience
to be scorned with impunity ? Is it not, on the
contrary, the peculiar feature of our time that reaction
follows at the heels of any violence, no matter whether
it proceeds from the nations or from the goverments ?
" But I fear I take too great a liberty by offering
to speak in the interest of your reputation or safety.
I appeal to you in the name of humanity, entreating
you to put a stop to this new reign of terror, which,
not satisfied with the butchery of its victims, puts
all better and nobler feelings of mankind on the rack;
for truly the world is too ter advanced in civilization
to suffer your Albas and Ilaynaus. I adjure you to
make a public protest against the butchery of
prisoners, the still more disgraceful whipping of
women, and the abduction and incarceration of
children ; and thus to rid yourself of all responsibility
for actions which imprint upon their author the stigma
of everlasting infamy.
"I am, sir, your most obedient servant,
" RICHAILD COBDEN."

CAUTION —lt is necessary again to warn the mer-
cantile public against some dexterous persons, who
by means of forged letters and other documents are
endeavouring to obtain advances from foreign bankers
and their connexions in London. A case has just
occurred in which a forged letter, dated New York,
purporting to be from Baron Roenne, the represen-
tative of the German Central Power in the United
States, was addressed to a firm in London, and by
means of which it was sought to obtain credit for

140,000 dolls. The lette—r stated that a Mr. V
Greisheim had been left sole executor to a brother in
Ohio, who had died with large landed possessions,
besides 176,000 dolls., which were now lying at
Mr. V. Greisheim's disposal at New York, and that
this Mr. V. Greisheim, who was at present in
Europe, would call upon the firm in question to
make arrangements so as to draw for the amount.
Of course upon presenting himself Mr. V.
Greisheim wished his draught on New York to be
cashed, but upon this being refused he was willing to
wait while it was sent over for collection. The reply
from Baron Roenne was that he knew nothing of the
parties, and the bill was accordingly sent back pro-
tested. Meanwhile, however, the pretended Mr. V
Greisheim had started from London to Paris, whence
he had written to the London firm requesting them
to hold the proceeds of the bill, as soon as they should
be received, at the disposal of his brother- in•law, a
Colonel V. Obenreiter, and having obtained their
reply stating that his request should be attended to, he
appears to have gone to Munich, where by making
use of his original story, coupled with the
letter of the London firm, together with
another and subsequent letter (to which their
signature has been forged), announcing that they
have placed the 140,000 dollars at his credit, he has
endeavoured to negotiate his draught at one of the
leading banking-houses for 3,0001., adroitly profess.
ing not to desire cash, but simply Frankfort paper
to that extent. Here, however, he has also been
foiled, the bankers having taken the precaution of
writing to London ; but the letters seem to have been
so ingeniously fabricated, and the entire story so well
got up, that without the publicity we have now given
to the matter it would be probable some houses
might ultimately be taken off their guard. We have
the means:of knowing that the present parties are
not acting singly, but that combined arrangements
have been for some months past attempted on the
Continent to repeat the system of fraud which was
broken up a few years back,—Times.
EXTENSION OF THE ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.--.The
lines of communication by theLelectric telegraph have now
been so extended as to embrace all the principal towns
of the United Kingdom, which to the commercial in-
terest will prove highly important. There are two,
central stations—Lothbury, and the General Post-office,
St. Martin's-le-Grand—with branches in Euston-square,
Eastern Counties Terminus, Shorediteh ; South- Western
ditto, Wmerlao-station; Great Western ditto, Padding.
ton; and the office, Strand. The wires of the telegraph
on the various lines are carried under the streets, and
concentrated in Lothbury. The establishing of a central
station at the General Post-office has proved most useful
to the Postmaster-General in receiving information 01
the instant arrival of any of the foreign mails at South.
ampton, Liverpool, and Falmouth, and their departure,
as well as for the transmission of orders, connected with
that important public department. The following
are the places to which messages can be trans-
mitted at the rate of id. per mile (for twenty
words) for the first 50 miles; id. for the second
ditto; and id. per mile for any distance beyond the
100 miles :—Acklington, Alne, Alnwick, Ambereate,
Apperby, Ardleigh, Ashchurch, Attleborough, Andley-
end, Aycliffe, Ayton, Barking-road, Barnsley, Beeston,
Belford, Belmont, Belper, Bentley, Berwick-on-Tweed,
Beverley, Birmingham, Bishopstoke, Blackwell, Brad-
ford, Braintree, Brandon, Brentwood, Bridlington,
Brick-lane, Brockley, Whins, Brockenhurst, Brows-
grove, Brough, Broxbourne, Burton- on-Trent, Calverley,
Cambridge, Castloford, Chelmsford, Cheltenham, Ches-
terfield, Chesterford, Chittisham, Church-fenton, Clay-
cross, Cockburnepath, Colchester, Colwick, Countes.
thorpe, Ceseton, Crewe, Croft, Darlington, Derby,
Dereham, Dorchester, Duffield, Droitwich, Dunbar,
Durham, Estrin, Eckington, Edinburgh, Edmonton,
Elsenham, Ely, Ferry-hill, laxton, Gateshead, Glas-
gow, Gloucester, Gosport, Granton, Grantahouse,
Haddington, Halifax, Harecastle, Harling-road,
Harlow, B.elpstone, Hertford, Howden, Hull, !Hord,
Ingatestone, Ipswich, Kegworth, Keighley, Kild-
wick, Kelvedon, Kirkstall, Leeds, Leicester, Leith,
Lesbury, Lincoln, Linlithgow, Linton, Liverpool,
Lengport Long Stanton, Longton, Loughborough,
Lowestoffe, Maldon, Melton, Manchester, Maaea, Man-
ningtree, Match, Masbro, Melton, Mildenhall, Milford,
Morpeth Newark, Newcastle, Newby, Newmarket,
Newport, Normanton, Northallerton, Norton-Bridge,
Norwich, Nottingham, Oakenshaw Peterborough, Pon-
der's End, Poole, Portsmouth, Millington, Richmond,
Ringwood, Rochdale, Romford, Rotherham, Roydon,
Royston, Rugby, Scarborough, Selby, Sheffield, Ship..
ley, Skipton, Slough, Southampton, South Shields,
Stamford, Staveley, St. Ives, St. Margaret's, Stoke-
up,n-Trent, Stone, Stortford, Stratford, Sunderland,
Swinton, Tainworth, Thetford, Thirsk, Todmorden,
Tottenham, Trethain, Tring, Tweedmouth, Ullesthorpe,
Uttoxeter, Wakefield, Waltham, Ware, Washington,
Watford, Willington, Wisbeach, Wolverhampton
Wol-
verton, Woolwich, Worcester, Wymondham, Yarmouth,
York, &o. By the South-Eastern and Brighton Rail.
way the telegraph is laid down to Dover, Folkestone,
Margate, Ramsgate, Deal, Gravesend, Brighton, Ports-
mouth, &c,, so that the electric telegraph now extends
nearly from ono end of the country to the other.
To eyes that can see, and hearts that can feel,
romance glides ever along with the actual life, stream by
stream to the dark ocean,
...Eliza Cook+ Jarnal.