The Sun.
London, England, 1849-03-15 00:00:00

[THIRD NOTICE.]

The history of the rise and extension of the
British power in India is given at considerable length,
and Mr. Macgregor concludes his chapter on the
history of British India with the following list of the
territories comprised within the sovereignty of the
East India Company, with the dates of their acqui-
sition :

" 1688. Bombay.
1757. The twenty-four Pergunnahs.
1759. Masulpatain, &c.
1760. Burdwan, Midnapore, and Chittagong.
1765. Bengal, Behar, and Orissa.
1765. Jaghire, near Madras.
1766. Northern Circars.
1775. Zamindary of Benares.
1776. Island of Salsette.
1778. Nagore.
1786. Pulo-Penang.
1788. Guntor Circar.
1792. Malabar, Dindigul, Salem, &c.
1799. Coimbatore, Canara, Wynaad, and Tanjore.
1800. Nizam's acquisitions from Tippoo Sultan.
1801. Carnatic,Goruckpore, Lower Dooab,Bareilly,&c.
1802. Districts in Bundolcund.
1803. Kuttack, Balasore, Upper Dooab, Delhi, &c.
1805. Districts in Guzerat.
1815. Knmaon, and part of Nepanl.
1817. Saugur, Huttah, Darwar, &c.
1818. Candeish, Ajmere, districts on the Nerbudda,
Sumbhulpore, Patna, Poonah, Konkun, South-
ern Mabratta Country.
1820. Lands in Southern Konkun.
1822. Districts in Bejapore, and Ahmednuggur.
1824. Island of Singapore.
1825. Malacca.
1826. Assam, Arracan, Tavoy, Ye, Tennasserim, &c.
1832. Cachar.
1834. Coorg, Loodhiana, and adjoining district.
1835. Jynteeah.
1839. Aden.
1840. Kurnoul.
1841. Jalown.
1843. Sinde.
Add to these the territories acquired by the victories in
the Punjaub, with the dependent and occupied states, and
the British empire in India may be said almost to include
the vast regions from the Himalaya Mountains south to
Cape Comorin."

The total area of British India is 512,923 square
miles, and the total population is estimated at
89,470,152. The quantity and value of the products
of such a territory are enormous, but
" Both quantity and value are lamentably deficient,
when compared with the number of the population and
the extent of cultivated and cultivable soil. If, for ex-
ample, we take merely a cursory view of the produce of
agricultural labour in the United States of America, with
18,000,000 inhabitants, of whom so very great a number
follow countless other occupations than that of ealti-
vating the soil ; and then turn to the more than
100,000,000 inhabitants of India, who are chiefly
engaged in agriculture, the quantity and value of the
products yielded by the cultivated soils of the latter will
then appear deplorably beneath those produced by the
skill, energy, and industry of the cultivators of the
North American soils. To what causes are we to at-
tribute this disproportionate difference with regard to,
chiefly the exportable products of India, where the
wages of labour are, almost infinitely, lower than even
slave labour in the United States? We may presume
to attribute the reality of the deficient exportable pro-
ducts of India, not to the soil or climate, nor to the
want of abundant and cheap labour, but to various
other causes.

" First—To, in a great degree, the natural dispositions,
hereditary customs, training, castes, laws, and local cir-
cumstances of the ludian races.

" Secondly—To the stationary condition of the in.
habitants for many centuries in the arts and sciences,
and of the mechanical appliances in aid of labour,
whether in agriculture or in manufactures.

" Thirdly—To the generally frugal and temperate
habits of the Hindoos, whose actual necessities are
limited to the simplest and cheapest food.
" Fourthly—ln a considerable degree, but not by any
means to the great extent generally believed, to the
ancient and prevailing system of taxation in India.
" There are many other local and minor causes; but
the foregoing are quite sufficient to account for the rude.
ness of all agricultural implements—the general want of
roads, the deficient products of the soil, and the imper-
fect preparations of those products for the markets of the
world, and particularly for the markets of Europe, espe-
cially of those products, such as cotton wool, with which
the crops of America compete so triumphantly as raw
materials for manufacture. A full examination of the
principal causes which impede the development of the
almost inexhaustible resources of India, is far beyond
the scope of this work,—and we need only remark, that
the British Parliament will, most assuredly, when the
East India Company's charter must, in a short period,
be fully reconsidered, insist, before that charter is re-
newed, upon the following points in the future policy of
India being thoroughly carried into effect._

" First-=Adopting, with the most practically effective
means and without delay, measures for opening commu-
nications, especially by railways, over the interior of
India, in order to carry the products of the soil cheaply
to markets, and the manufactured articles imported to
the places of use, or consumption, within the different
presidencies, including the dependent states.
" Second—A general revision of the whole system of
taxation, including the abolition of monopolies and all
differential customs' duties, and of duties between one
presidency or state and another presidency or state in
India.

" Third—Adopting means for introducing and using
the best agricultural implements over all parts of India;
and

"Fourth—Abolishing as speedily as can be effected
without bloodshed and violence, and with reasonably
equitable compensation, the impotent, but still oppres-
sive remnants of native governments, in order to estab-
lish one general mild and just, yet firm and efficient
government over all India.

" Having very great confidence in the practical views
of the East India directors, we believe that they will
apply their energetic attention to those great objects
which are required by the whole condition of the Indian
empire; and that they will all be fully in progress before
the expiration of a charter, the non•renewal of which
we should deplore. The first three are at the present
time considered part of the Indian system embraced in
the administration of the directors ; and, events will
render the fourth an imperative course of policy."
It is not until these remedial measures shall have
been adopted, and until the cotton districts more
especially shall be so intersected by railroads as to
afford to every cotton cultivator a cheap, a rapid, and
a safe means of transit, that we can hope to derive
anything like a supply of the finer sorts of raw cotton
from India. If the present methods of transit, by
which the cotton is damaged materially en route to
the port of embarkation, were superseded by railroads,
there then would be a stimulus given to the cultivator
to be more careful in his harvesting and preparing
the cotton for the market ; but until such shall be the
case we fear that we shall not derive any very large
portion of our supply of the most valuable sorts of
cotton from India.

From the low prices of wheat in India it has been
imagined that we might expect a large annual supply
of corn from that country, and when we consider that
in Bengal in 1846 the price of wheat was 16s. Bd. per
quarter, in the Deccan 14s. ltd., at Sanger from
58. Gd. to 7s. GP., at Nagpore, 103. 10d., and in the
Goojrat, in a year of scarcity, 17s. 11d., the idea of
our deriving a large supply of wheat becomes very
feasible ; but it appears from the statistics collected by
Mr. Macgregor that it is only in years of scarcity
in England that it will answer the purposes of the
speculator to import wheats from India :
" the lowest price stated of Odessa wheat be taken,
Vis. per quarter, and the lowest rate of freight, 6s. 6d.
per quarter, then a ton of wheat would be introduced
into England at a cost of 116 s. Bd. for the cost price of
the wheat, and 30s. 3d. for freight, making a total cost
per ton of 1465. 11d. Freights from India vary ex-
cessively ; but assuming a very high freight of 61. or
100 s. per ton, and taking the average of all the averages
of the price of wheat—namely, 13s. ld. per quarter or
61s. per ton, then the cost of a ton of Indian wheat
landed in England would be 1615., and in ordinary
seasons it would not be worth a speculator's while to im-
port it from India. But with respect to other grains,
some of which are three or four times cheaper than
wheat, the same objection would not exist, and they
might be imported to a great profit, even in ordinary
seasons, could a taste for them be induced. But in
seasons of scarcity like that of the past year, when the
price of wheat has varied in the London market from
578. per quarter (2665. per ton, in November, 1846), to
102 s. per quarter (4765. per ton, on January Ist, 1847),
then India may be looked to with confidence for a supply,
rendering large profits to the importer ; India having
the advantage also of ripening its grain crops in January
and February, five months before those of Europe are
available. It may be objected that a larger demand
upon India would greatly raise prices, and probably per-
manently so; but my reply to this objection is, that
about two-fifths of the whole fertile soil of India are at
present untitled, and would necessarily be brought into
cultivation to meet an increased demand for cereal
supplies."

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The resources of India are very great, and they
have never yet been properly developed. On this
point Mr. Macgregor says—
" The projected railways which in time must be
executed—the canals which have been to some extent
executed—and the late successful attempts to navigate
the rivers of India, are the great means by the aid of
which the great sources of India are to be developed.
And we trust that during the period which remains un-
expired of the East India Company's charter, the di-
rectors and the Board of Control, will decide upon
measures, which will fully justify the Parliament in re-
newing that charter,"

We trust that the admonitions of Mr. Macgregor
will not be thrown away, and that the East India

THURSDA

Company will at once proceed to perfect the means of
' transit in India, as the only method by which the
resources of that mighty country can be properly and
efficiently developed.
This volume contains not only the commercial
statistics of British India properly so called, bu+
also those of Ceylon, Singapore, Penang, Malacca,
and our possessions in the Indian seas. The story
of the marvellous progress of Singapore is now
familiar to all; we shall therefore not dwell upon it.
But the history of Malacca is not so well known, and
its story should' operate as: a warning to those who
would fain give up a possession because temporarily
it may be unprofitable to maintain it.
The city of tilalaeca was ono a the oldest of the
European settlements in India. It belonged sue-
cesively to the Portuguese, the Dutch, and the Eng-
lish East India Company, but
" The establishment of Pulo Penang, having super-
seded the necessity of maintaining it, the Company
came to the resolution, in 1805, of withdrawing the
garrison and stores from Malacca and its dependencies;
and, previous to the abandonment of the place, the for and public works of all descriptions were com-
pletely demolished, so as to render it of the least pos-
t sible value to the enemy, in case it should ever again
come into his possession. Many of the inhabitants, with
their families and effects, repaired to Prince of Wales'
Island, and established themselves under the Company's
protection."
The place thus abandoned by the English was on
the point of falling into the possession of another
country, but fortunately the discoverers of the tin
mines, with which Malacca abounds, were Chinese
and Malays instead of Americans, and we were con--
sequently enabled to re-occupy Malacca and to secure
the mineral riches of the country for ourselves. Mr.
Macgregor is fully aware of the immense importance
of securing the trade with the Eastern Archipelago.
It will open to us the largest market for the sale of
British manufactures in the world.
" Malacca is undoubtedly, in its natural resources, a
very rich country, abounding in useful woods, minerals,
and fertile soils, with w--- many good harbours ; and, this
Italian-like in form peninsula, with the numerous and
almost uncultivated islands, in the straits and of the
coasts of Malacca—and with Sumatra, as a gigantic
Scilly of the Indian Sea, and Java, as it were an Oriental
Crete, with Borneo and the other great and small and
enterprise,bee n
extended
fertile islands of the Eastern Archipelago, have already
opened the most ample fields for trade and navigation,
which must rapidly be developed by the genius, skill,
and intellige
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Javanese, who cultivates the fertile soil of that island;
from the petty trader, who collects the scattered produce
of the interior, to the Chinese capitalist, who receives it
from him, and disperses it again to more distant regions,
situated between the continent of China on the one
hand, and of India on the other; and furnishing to
Europe the means of an extensive commerce."
' By means of the variety of its tribes, their inter-
mixture and connexion with each other, and the accessible
nature of the coasts, washed by the smoothest seas in
tho world; while large and navigable rivers open com•
munication with the interior, the stimulus of this com-
merce is propagated in saccessives waves through the
whole, may be, to an extent that could not otherwise
have been obtained. Thus the savage and intractable
Batta collects and furnishes the camphor and benjamin,
the spontaneous produce of his woods ; the equally bar-
barous Dyak and wild Harrafurn ransack the bowels of
the earth for its gold and its diamonds; the inhabitant
of the Soolo, seeks for the pearl beneath the waters that
surround him, and others traverse the shores for the
tripang or sea slug, or descend into its rocky caverns for
the Chinese luxury of birds' nests. Ascending from
these, we find the more civilized Sumatran, whose agri •
culture is yet rude, employed in the raising of pepper;
the native of Moluccas in the culture of the nutmeg and
the clove; the still higher Javan and Siamese, besides
their abundant harvests of rice, supplying Europe with
their coffeee and sugar ; and all impelled and. set in
motion by the spirit of commerce. Not less varied are
the people who collect this produce from all these different
quarters, till it is finally shipped for Europe, Ina, and
China ; from the petty bartering trader, who brings it
from the interior to the ports and mouths of the river;
the Malay, who conveys it from port to port; the more
adventurous Bugguese, who sweeps the remote shores to
concentrate their produce at the emporia, to the. Chinese
merchant, who sends his junks laden with this accumu-
lated produce, to be dispersed through the empire of
China, and furnishes Europeans with the cargoes of their
ships. Through the same diverging channels are again
circulated the manufactures of India and Europe; and
thus a constant intercourse and circulation is maintained
through the whole. How much this intercourse is faci
litated by the nature of the countries, broken into in-
numerable islands, may be readily conceived, and the
vastness of the field may be inferred, from the extent
to which its commerce has actually been carried under
every disadvantage of monopolizing policy, and of in-
security of person and property, by which the condition
of the people has been depressed, and their increase
prevented. When we consider that they are placed at
the very threshold of China, a country overflowing with
an enterprising and industrious population, anxious and
eager to settle wherever security and protection are
afforded, that it is this people who have chiefly con-
tributed to maintain and support the energies of the
native population, and have diffused the stimulus of
their own activity wherever they have settled; and that
protection against despots and pirates only is wanted to
accumulate them in any numbers, to create, it may be
said, a second China, the resources and means of this
extraordinary archipelago, will appear without limits.
" Borneo and the Eastern Islands may become to
China what America is already to the nations of Europe.
The superabundant and overflowing population of China
affords an almost inexhaustible source, of colonization;
while the new and fertile soil of these islands offers the
means of immediate and plentiful subsistence to any
numbers who may settle in them. How rapidly, under
such circumstances, these colonies may increase in po-
pulation, where the climate is at least as congenial to
the Chinese as that of America to Europeans, may be
readily conceived from the experience which the latter
has afforded. The wealth of their mines, and the extent
of their own native population, added to the greater
proximity of China, are advantages which were not en-
joyed by America, and must contribute to accelerate
the progress of colonization.'—From a number of the
Calcutta Journal.

" The above extract, written some years ago at Cal-
cultta, applies with equal force to the present condition
of the straits settlements, and islands, and
.of the
Eastern Archipelago. The future of those regions
must be great."

We would commend this passage to the attentive
consideration of those who object to our having
colonized Labuan, and who would fain leave to the
Dutch the monopoly of the trade with the Eastern
Archipelago.

The present volume completes this very valuable
work, and we congratulate Mr. Macgregor on having
presented to the world the most complete, the most
valuable, and the most accurate work on commercial
statistics that has ever appeared in any language.

HISTORY of the THIRTY YEARS' PEACE.

.art V.-Ist and 2d Half.
Having arrived, with the termination of these two
numbers, at the memorable year of 1830, the
he re
conti-
nuation of the Pictorial History of isEngland
embellished with two admirable maps of Paris, giv-
ing the eastern and western division of that capital.
We well remember the maps in question as originally
published by the Society for the Diffusion of Useful
Knowledge. The narrative itself is sufficiently. mas-
culine to screen the authorship from the detection of
the uninitiated.

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DRURY-LANE.—CIRQUE NATIONAL DE PARIS.—
performances at this theatre,
On Tuesday evening an accident occurred during the
which might have been
attended with serious consequences. Madile. Amagliu,
while going through her surprising exercises " on a
bare-backed steed," apparently by some sudden slip of
the horse, fell from him with much force. Her head
came in collision with the wall of the cirque, and she was
carried out, seemingly much hurt. She, however, soon
came forward, and, amidst the congratulating cheers of
the spectators, curtsied her acknowledgments to the au-
dience, and proved to them at the same time that the
accident was not of a serious character. The rest of the
programme was very admirable, and went off with great
éclat, as well as to the decided amusement of all present.
The riding was excellent and interesting; the entertain..
ments were very varied, and altogether diverting; the
" eccentricities" of Messrs. Auriol, Leclair, Young
Auriol, and Mohamet Ben Said, were peculiarly accept-
able, as relief from the more sedate proceedings; while
the jugglery of M. Siegriest; the Bottle-equilibrist
achievements of M. Auriol; the Dance of the Four Globes,
by MM. Henri and Leroy; the Leap of Streamers' by
Madile. Duces, &eg were particularly effective. The
theatre was very well attended.
DEPTFoRD DOCKYARD, MARCH 14.—The names
of about 120 mechanics and labourers of this dockyard,
and 20 coopers and 30 labourers of the Victualling-yard,
have been returned to the Admiralty preparatory to
that number of men being superannuated or discharged
from those places at the expiration of the present month,
understand
in order to commence the next financial year on an eco-
nomical system in the working and labouring branches
of the dockyard establishments.
, will be appointed
that James :Feat RnmieFsrCs
appointednr aiPfuorsrdh ,e Fir ; sffEql L.o,Tfuotashnee locßfoEut hn—et
county
advocate-deputes,
Perth,e ate-d e p u t e s ,
vacant
in place of Mr.
by the death of Robert Wigham, Esq. The Dumfries
to
oCourierherstates
Majesty's that Gee.
advocates Young,.
dEespqu.
Crawfurd.
THE EARL OF AIRLIE.—We regret to hear that,
from time to time, very unfavourable accounts are re-
ceived from London regarding the health of the Earl of
Airlie. His Lordship left for the metropolis about
three weeks since, for the purpose of consulting two or
three eminent members of the faculty, and we learn
that these gentlemen do not hold out hopes of a
speedy recovery. The nature of his Lordship's illness
prevents the possibility of swallowing anything but
liquids, and these in very small quantities.--Denthe
Warder. ,
LOYAL UNITED FRIENDS.—It is the intention of
President Woodman, and his officers of the No. 3 Lodge
to pay a visit to President Clayton, at the No. 5 Lodge,
at Treasurer Fox's, the Prince Albert, Hoxton-square,
on Wednesday evening, the 28th instant, which is ex-
petted to be very numerously attended.

EVENING-, MARCH l5,

THE INDIAN VICTORY(►),
a, a,. Tai' ijB77 StalivTi.—Sornocr_rs.
Droop thy head, my country, now,
Though the world thy sorrows 4e-e;
With the cypress bind thy brow,
'Tis a time of woe for thee.

Mourn the thousands of thy sons
Iu their flush of manhood slain,
Where the tide of Jhelum runs,
Critnsoned through the battle plsin.
O'er thy glory's sun on high
Clouds foreshowiug ill have passed;
Darkly now their shadows lie
Like a shroud around thee cast.
Oh the shame to hear it told,
British soldiers fly and yield
On the far-famed spot of old,
Alexander's battle-field.
Spirits of the mighty dead,
Did ye hover 'mid the fight
When the iron death-bolts sped,
When the red fires scared the night?
Did ye mark, then, turn and flee
Men who ne'er had flinched before,
And amid the tumult see
Coward fears their hearts creep o'er?
'Twas the flesh that sunk to earth,
Crushed amid the battle's din—
Worn and weak, 'twas litle worth,
Though proud spirits throbbed within.
Men of England, ask of those
In whose hands your power is given,
Why your brothers 'gainst their foes
Were like beasts to slaughter driven?
Say, shall deeds like this be done?—
Shall they still unheeded fall?
Every father, brother, son,
Earnestly on you I call.
Southwark.

J. B.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

COVENTRY STEEPLECHASES.-TUESDAY (coN

CLUDED).
The Hack Steeplechase was won by Mr. Claridge's
Accidental (Jellings), distancing Countess and Fairy.

THURSDAY.
The Hunt Steeplechase Stakes of 10 sovs. each, h ft, and
25 added. Three miles.
Mr. Bedford's The General, 12st (Lord Strathmore)
Lieut.• Colonel Richardson's Chance, lOst
Captain W. Peel nd My Uncle, 12st
Won in a canter.
The Handicap Steeple Chase, of 5 sovs. each, and 30
added. Four miles. (13 Subs.)
Mr. W. Taylor's Queen of Hearts, lost 71b (Owner) 1
Mr. Cartwright's Justice to England, lOst 51b ... 2
Mr. Welfit's Oily Gammon, lOst ... 3
Lord Lurgan's Sobriety, list... 4
The following also ran:—Slashing Painter, lOst 91b;
Camphine, lOst Slb; Merryman, lOst; Lucy Neal, lOst;
and Cynthia, 9st 121 b. Won easy by a length.
The Free Handicap Hurdle Stakes of 10 soya. each,

and 100 added. Two miles. (18 Subs )

... 2

... o

... (Archer) 1

Mr. Denham nd Yardarm, lOst 41b
Lord Lurgan's Fugitive, lOst 101 b
Mr. Eskrett's Exhort, list 31b
Tallyho, list 61b; Urania, 11 st 31b; Mosque, lOst
121 b; Widrad, lOst 121 b; Wild Hero, lOst 101 b; Solace,
lOst 101; Miss Collingwood, lOst 61b; and Ballybar,
lOst 31b, also started.
Yardham made all the running, and won a fine race
with Fugitive, cleverly.
ROYAL LEAMINGTON GRAND ANNUAL
STEEPLECHASE.

Handicap for the Grand Annual Steeplechase Stakes of
25 sovs. each, 85 ft, and 5 only if declared on or before
the 21st inst., with 100 added. Four miles.
st lbi
Peter Simple
Chandler
Proceed
Tho Doctor
Victim ll 2
Master Bobbin
Wolverhampton lO 13
British Yeoman lO 12
Knight of G wynne lO 11
Pullaway lO 9
Itachael
Firefly lO 9
Prince George
Dicky Misfortune
Alfred lO 5
Hope
Father Mathew lO 4
Thurgartoa . 10 1
Flycatcher
The Page
Abd-el•Kader.
Chatham 9 13

Mosque
NORTIIUMBERLANI
st lbJ

st lb
Verax 9 12
Lansquenet
Chaldean 9 11
Little Fanny
Alice Gray 9 11
Venom
Israelite
Camphine
Solace
Vengeance
Fugitive
Link Boy
The Young 'U❑ 9 6
Duncan Gray 9 5
Sir Henry
The Witch 9 5
Grenade
Merriman
Ballybar 9 3
Cynthia
Vindictive
Sparta 8 10

PLATE WEIGHTS.
st lb
Lord Saltouu, aged 6 4
Whiz-gig, 4 yri
Miss Harrison, 4 yrs
Maid of my Soul, 4

Footstool, 8 yrs -
Cossack, 5 yrs
Ellerdalo, 5 yrs 8 7
Inheritress, aged
Flatcatcher, 4 yrs 8 4
Canezou, 4 yrs 8 4
Limestone, 5 yrs
Executor, 5 yrs
The Tartar, 5 yrs
Dough, 4 yrs 7 I I
Shylock, 4 yrs
Swiss Boy, 4 yrs
Plaudit, aged... .....
Ballinafad, 5 yrs
Fireaway, aged 7 3 l
Joc o'Sot, 5 yrs 7 3 I
Vesta, 5 yrs
Ellerslie, 4 yrs 7 2
Finvaragh, 6 yrs
Bingham, 5 yrs 7 0
John Cossur, 4 yrs
Sylvan, 4 yrs
Athelstane, 4 yrs 7 0
Distaffina, 4 yrs
Keleshea, 5 yrs
Camphine, 4 yrs
Eagle's Plume, 4 yrs 6 13
Railway King, 5 yrs 6 11
Great Western, 4 yrs, 6 11
Headsman, 6 yrs: 6 10
Escape, 4 yrs
Big Jerry, 4 yrs
Tom-tit, 5 yrs
Ellen Loraine, 4 yrs 6 8
Sheraton, 6 yrs 6 61
Impertinence, C. 4 yrs 6 5i
Malton, 4 yrs

yrs 6 2
I The Convict, 4 yrs 6 0
) Vanguard, 3 yrs
Vermicelli, 4 yrs 5 10
Primrose, 4 yrs 5 10
Fleur do Seine, 4 yrs. 5 10
Belus, 3 yrs
Westow, 3 yrs 5 8
Nunnykirk, 3 yrs 5 7
Thringarth, 3 yrs 5 5
Kennington, 3 yrs .. 5 5
Cast Steel c, 3 yrs
The Knout, 3 yrs 5 5
Reversion, 3 yrs
Abbot of Meaux,3 yrs 5 5
Raby, 3 yrs . 5 3
Lugar, 3 yrs 5 3
Pyrland, 3 yrs 5 3
Andalusian, 3 yrs 5 2
Quiver, 3 yrs 5 0
Puffy, 3 yrs
Rodney, 3 yrs
Brother to John Arm-
strong, 3 yrs 4 12
Rowland, 3 yrs 4 12
Alp, 3 yrs 4 12
Wensleydale, 3 yrs
Legerdemain, 3 yrs 4 8
The Durbar, 3 yrs
Penny Post, 3 yrs
Miss Ann, 3 yrs
Cocktail (h b), 3 yrs
Burghley, 3 yrs

COURT CIRCULAR.
OSBORNE, WEDNESDAY.
Her Majesty and the Prince walked this morning in
the grounds at Osborne, and the Prince of Wales and
Princess Royal took their usual ride.
The younger branches of the Royal Family walked in
the Park.
There was no addition to the royal dinner party yes-
terday.

Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent arrived
in town at half-past twelve o'clock yesterday, attended
by Sir George Couper, from her residence, Frogmore
House, Windsor. Her Royal Highness visited her Royal
Highness the Duchess of Gloucester at Gloucester House.
In the afternoon her Royal Highness the Duchess of
Kent, accompanied by his Serene Highness Prince
Ernest of Leiuingen, left town on her return to Frog..
more House.

The Prince of Hohenlohe Waldenbourg has left Marl-
boroughHouso, the residence of her Majesty the Queen
Dowager, for the Continent.

The Archbishop of Canterbury had an interview with
Loid John Russell yesterday, at his official residence in
Downing-street.
The Earl of Carlisle gave a dinner to the Cabinet
Ministers yesterday evening, at his residence in Gros-
venor place.
Dispatches from the Governor of the Capo of Good
Hope were received yesterday at the Colonial-office.
Dispatches wero also received yesterday from the Gover-
nors of the West India Colonies.

Lady John Russell gave a sozree yesterday evening, at
the official residence of Lord Johu Russell, in Downing-
street.

ASTLEY'S AMPHITHEATRE.

The feats of the young Hernandez, the Apollo of the
Circus, the most daring, and at the same time, the most
graceful equestrian who has ever appeared, continue to
draw crowded houses to Astley's every evening. Last
night the house was crammed to suffocation, and
bouquets innumerable were showered on the young
Hernandez.

EXTENSIVE ROBBERY AT THE BRIGHTON SAVINGS
BANK.—Yesterday information was received by the
Metropolitan Police, that Mr. Robert Buckell, actuary
of the Brighton Savings Bank, had gone off with 8501.,
the property of the depositors.
WHOLESALE SHEEP STEALlNG.—Yesterday morn-
ing, between one and two o'clock, the constable on duty
in Bishopsgate-street Within, observed two men, of
suspicious appearance, driving a large flock of sheep and
lambs through that thoroughfare. On interrogating
them as to where they were going, they ran away and
made their escape. The animals are all marked with
red ochre across the loins, and are supposed to have
been stolen out of Essex.
CABINET DINNEE.—The Earl of Carlisle had a
Cabinet dinner last evening at his residence in Grosve-
nor-place, when the following members of the Cabinet
dined with his Lordship :—Lord John Russell, the Mar.
quis of Lansdowne, the Marquis of Clanricarde, the
Earl of Minto, Earl Grey, Viscount Palmerston, Lord
Campbell, the Right lion. Sir George Grey, the Right
Hon. Sir F. Thornhill Baring, Sir John Cam Hobhouse,
the Right lion. Henry Labouchere, and the Chancellor
of the Exchequer.
LEGAL APPOINTMENTS.—J. Crawfurd, Esq., one of
the Deputy-Advocates, has been appointed Sheriff of the
county of Perth, vacant by the death of Robert Whig-
ham, Esq., George Young, Esq., advocate, has been ap-
pointed one of the four Depute-Advocator, who are now
(in the order of their appointment), George Dens, J. M.
Bell, E. F. Maitland, and G. Young, Esqs.—Scotsfnan.
The Captaincy of St. Mauve's Castle, vacant by the
death of Sir George Nugent, will not be filled up.
FtitE IN ST. LUKE'S.—Last night, about nine
o'clock, the house of Mr. Thomas Scott, a 7, Banner-
square, was seriously damaged by fire, and the lives of
the inhabitants placed in great jeopardy. The occupier
was insured to the amount of 3001.1 n the Royal Ex-
change-office.

1249.

THE WAR IN THE PUNJAUB.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE TIMES.
Sir,—When au angry sense of disaster in war gets
possession of the public mind the army engaged is
judged in mass, art} condemned as a defeated body, par-
ticular instances of virtue being disregarded in the gene-
ral feeling of mortification. This is not good. Heroism
comes out clearer when fortune bears hardly than when
she is favourable; it is then of a sublimer nature, more
chastened and purified for immortality. Permit me,
then, through your journal to give the world a state•
meat of the touching circumstances attending the
deaths of those intrepid soldiers, Brigadier Pennycuick
and his self-devoted heroic son, in the recent battle on
the Jhelum, introducing it by a rapid sketch of the
General's previous services.
He entered the army in 1807. His first campaign
was in Java in 1811; and he was wounded severely,
having fought so well as to draw forth the public ap-
probation of Sir Samuel Auchmuty and the celebrated
Colonel Gillespie.
In 1811 he was at the storming of Djokjo Kerbs.
In 1813, having command of a small detachment, he
displayed such skill and courage, defeating an immense
body of insurgents, that he obtained the thanks of the
Commander-in-Chief and the Government of Java, and
the public approbation of the Governor-General of India,
Lord Hastings—no mean judge of military merit.
Ile fought again, with distinction, in 1814, at the
assault of Boni, in the Celebes ; and during 1825 and
1826 he served against the Burmese.
In 1839 he fought under Sir J. Keane and Brigadier
Wiltshire, at the storming of Ghuznee and of Khelat,
and was the foremost man to enter the last-named
fortress.
In 1841 he marched out of Aden at the head of 600
men, and gave a signal overthrow to the Arabs.
In 1846 he served under Sir Charles Napier in Sinde,
and gained the esteem of that General.
In 1848, he commanded a brigade in the Punjaub,
under Lord Gough, and on the 13th of January, 1849,
he died in battle, thus closing a career full of honour,
with a soldier's death; and upon his yet warm body fell
his young son, a boy worthy of such a father.
Let the moving, the painful, but glorious story be
simply told.
The 24th Regiment marched on the 13th of January.
against the Seikh army; it was unsupported, exposed to
the full sweep of Seikh batteries, and to the deadly play
of their destructive musketry. More than one-half the
regiment went down in ten minutes ; the remainder,
still stricken by the artillery, assailed by thousands of
infantry, and menaced by swarms of cavalry, could no
longer keep their ground. The elder Pennycuick had
fallen, and two soldiers attempted to carry him off while
still breathing, but the Seikhs pressed them so closely
that, unable to contend, they dropped their honourable
burden and drew back. The gallant boy, the son of the
noble dead, only seventeen years old, now first aware
of his misfortune, sprang forward, sword in hand, be-
strode his father's body for a moment, and then fell
across it, a corpse !
Such, Sir, is the simple tale of the deaths of that brave
old man and his boy ; and if it is not sufficient to ob-
tain for them the honest fame for which they fought so
well and died so well—if it does not swell the hearts and
moisten the eyes of their countrymen, I know not
why generous impulses are component parts of human
nature.

And the grief-stricken widow—the bereaved mother !
Is she single in her sorrows ? Alas ! no. The widow
of the brave Cureton, she also has lost her son as well as
her husband on those fatal fields of the Punjaub. Con-
solation to them must come from God; but the glory of
a nation's gratitude and praise should illumine the graves
of their husbands and children.
March, 18-19.

W. N.