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

bore Brigadier ONsLow 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 GOUGE to the GOVERNOR-
GENERAL. On the exposure of these two
pieces of ordnance, under the Sumi anah for-
merly belonging to Sirdar RAM 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 Punjaub 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 MooLasJ. 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 be scarcely fair, not to say
scarcely discreet, to require the severest expiation of
the crimes of the MOOLRAJ 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 CHUTTUR SINGH and SHERE
SINGH are allowed to go at large in the Maujah
country ; while AGEET SINGH, t's] ex-Rajah of
Lawda, is not yet retaken ; and while the temporary
escape of the Ranee CHUNDA 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 Ilad-
dington ; that Lord GIFFORD was about to leave
Simlah to visit GHOOLAB SINGE 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 the neighbourhood 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 la 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
N ational 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 JOHN 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 Alps, 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
withgradual irrigation of capital.
a Many will doubtless avail themselves of the oppor.
tunites presented for a fortnight's trip by the notified
arrangements of the North-Western Railway, in con-
junction with the Chester and Holyhead, and Irish
Great Southern and Western lines. They will thus
be afforded time to take a hasty inspection of the Irish
metropolis, of the delightful scenery of Wicklow, in-
cluding 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
Clonniel." The environs of this Quaker-