The Sun.
London, England, 1847-12-04 00:00:00

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LONDON, SATURDAY. DECEMBER 4, 1847.

His Excellency the Earl of DALHOUSIE will find
sm extraordinary and almost unparalleled tranquillity
established throughout the British possessions in
ifindostan on his arrival at Calcutta. To a Governor-
General, -who is most distinguished as a civilian, the
inductions which can alone be drawn from the peace
now prevalent in our Asiatic dominions must inspire
him with cimfidence by explaining to him the means
which have beea employed so effectually for the
conquest of foregoing difficulties. The immediate
predecessor of Lord DALHOUSIE is among the most
memorable of those oaptains who have at dif-
ferent periods since the age of the immortal
CLivz wielded the vice-regal sceptre of Leaden-
hall-street over the Oriental idolaters. That fact is
pregnant with meaning. It demonstrates the cause
of the present quiescence of those who speak the
dialects of llindostanee. It demonstrates that the
pacification of so many millions of the turbulent
Asiatics has been effected solely by the terrors of
military' puissance, accompanied by equity and de-
termination. It demonstrates, that but for those
butcheries which were forced upon us by the aggres-
sion of the Seikhs along.the banks of the Sutlej—that
but for the valour displayed by the conquerers of
Sobraon, of Aliwal, and of Ferozeshah—that
but for the terrible vengeance wreaked by
the Anglo-Indian army upon its assailants
during the winter of 1845-6—the tribes situated
on the frontiers of our dependencies in Hin-
dostan would still furnish the Central Government
of Calcutta with unnumbered anxieties and perpetual
obstructions. Upon the principles which are inevit-
ably deducible from these considerations, the Admi-
nistration of the successor of Lord HARDINGE must
be modelled, or otherwise the advantages already
ensured by the policy of that gallant soldier will
prove most miserably evanescent. Justice and gene-
rosity as the paramount projects of the supreme coun-
cils ; activity and enterprize as the more prominent
characteristics of the officials appointed throughout
the Indian empire ; vigilance and efficiency as the
most conspicuous peculiarities of our military depen-
dents—these are the principles which have rendered
the policy of the Hardinge Administration so effica-
cious, and these are the principles which must be the
inspiration of the newly-inaugurated government of
the Earl of DAIISOUSIE. It will be fortunate for the
Population of ilindostan if the recent alterations are
f°und to have been merely a change of names, and
not or policies.
Bo2mrboamy,thineiigence which has just arrived from
anticipation of the Overland Mail, it would
appear that disturbances have harassed our armaments
in only two directio
ly among the Goomsoors,
and among the 13°°glitceoaeuisnn.terhat inquietude should
still prevail in the
astonishment
the Goomsoors can
scarcely be matter of
rarent ; nor, when the
ptaekveailed between the
animosities which have so long prevailed
account,
Jakranees and Booghtees
can the recent invasion of the n into
their residences among the mountainous'tter from
dis-
tricts situated west of the Shikarpore
any—even the smallest—reason for surprise. give
is curious, however, and not altogether unworthy
of commemoration in the annals of Sinde, that upon
the very day which witnessed the departure of Sir
'CHARLES NAULER,•It formidable body of the bucca-
Tieering Booghteei;.to the number of 700, descended
firoen their fastnesses, and commenced a systematic
Iltinder of the more pacific races who live in the
13, 'ains, under the proectiou of the British autho-
ri ies. After encountering a rather disastrous
r. c.,:eption at several of the fortified towns
scattered through that quarter of Sinde, the marauders
Nv( ire assailed by a detachment of 183 troopers of the
Sit ide cavalry, under Lieut. MBREWETHER, and were
either destroyed by the discharge of their musketoons
or t 'Akan jorisoners and reserved for a different
punia, 4 nent. This brilliant encounter—brilliant
cc insider- "ng the remarkable disproportion of numbers
occur ed, as we have already intimated, on the Ist
Of ctol;;K ,r—a day rendered memorable to Sinde by the