The Sun.
London, England, 1841-01-06 00:00:00

VIE BRITISH ARMY IN INDIA

The following is an extract from a Five,: letter written
by an officer in India, under orders to preceed to the dis-
turbed part of the Company's territories, and dated Oct.
17, IS4O:
We have just received orders to take the field imme-
diately, and we march the day after to-morrow towards
Kurnaul. Wo are not told where we are ultimately
to go ; but we all know that is against the Punjaub.
Her ALsjesty's 31 ( Buffs), 9th, 44th regiments, and 31
Dragoons, three regiments of native cavalry, some horse
artillery, and six or seven regiments of native infantry,
are the first named to move forward ; but several others
expect to receive orders to proceed in the same
direction in the course of the week. AfrOtanistan is
still in a very unsettled state; this, together with our
having a large force in China, has made the Nepaulcac
very saucy ; however, the assemblage of a large force on
their frontier soon brought them to their bearings; but
the Government have intercepted a correspondence carried
on with the Court of Lahore and the Ncpauleae, promising
them money and military stores if they wou d still continue
to annoy us, while they would do all in their power to
prevent out sending any assistance to our troops in Aff-
ghanistan. The Government have always had an eye on
the Punjaub, which is the rich-st and most fertile country
in the world, and they now seize upon this as a favourable
opportunity of possessing themselves of it, pat ticularly as
it is between their possessions and the Indus. Govern-
ment have certainly managed to make all the arrange-
ments with admirable secrecy. A few hours after the or-
ders arrived, upwards of 1,000 camels made their appear-
ance at the static ns as if by magic. Should I not be able
to write from Kurnaul, I shall probably write from La-
how or Unuitzbur, where all the Sheikh's treasure is kept,
said to be upwards of 30 crores of rupees. What glorious
prize money ! I am building castles in the air, as per-
haps, we arc doomed to disappointment the same as we
were at Feruzpore.

DUBLIN.

Two squadrons of the 6th Dragoon Guards (Catb:-
neers) march from Dublin on Monday for Dundalk, where
they will arrive cn the 6th inst., and occupy barracks.
Major Johnstone, of the 27th, arrived at Templemon, on
the 26th ult., from the service companies of his regiment
at the Cape of Good Hope, and assumed the command of
the depot companies.
Ensign Paget Bayly, of the 30th, joined the depot of his
regiment at Enniskillen, on the 31st tilt., from the service
companies at Bermuda.
Major Marshall, of the Royal Engineers, has joined to do
duty in this country, and has been appointed to the charge
of the engineer department in the Munster district (head_
quarters at Cork), in succession to Lieutenant-Colonel
Slade, who is about to embark for foreign service.

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" We have before us," says the Patriot,
riou3 pamphlet just published, by a Clergyman of the
Church of England, in which ' the creation of a Wesleyan
Bishop' is proposed, who shall ordain the
Wesleyan
ministers presenting themselves at the Annual Con_
fcrence ;
tire nomination of thk Bishop to be vested
in the Conference, but the veto to rest , •
sith the
Archbishop of Canterbury I This plan is proposed
as 'the only concession' requisite on
the
part of
the Church, in order to secure a more die '
cuve co-ope-
ration between Wesleyan Methodism
and the
Esta-
blishment. This proposition is evidently
feeler ; and the writer seems at no loss to put forth as a
bylix upon the man
whom the Conference would elect
whom the Archbishop of Canterbury acclamation, and
would delight to ho-
nour." Dr. Bunting is the Wesleyan minister klluded to ;
whose answer to any proposal of
wpcct, be much like that thn kind would, however,
we s
on behalf of the Wesleyan ;Missionaries
returned to Bishop Heber
signified his willingness -sionaries in Ceylon, when he
Lord, we are ordained to admit them to orders—' My
alteady 1"