The Sun.
London, England, 1841-01-07 00:00:00

THE BRITISH ARMY IN INDIA.

The following is an extract from a private letter written
by an officer in India, under orders to proceed to the dis-
turbed part of the Company's territories, and dated Oct.
17, I_B4o :

We have just received orders to take the field imme-
diately, and we march the day after to 'morrow towards
Kurnaul. We are not told where we are ultimately
to go ; but we all know that is against the Punjaub.
Iler Majesty's 31 (Buffs), 9th, 44th regiments, and 3d
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. Affghanistan is
still in a very unsettled state; this, together with our
having a large force in China, has made the Nepaulese
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 Nepaulese, promising
them money and military stores if they wou'd still continua
to annoy us, while they would do all in their power to
prevent our sending any assistance to our troops in Aff-
ghanistan. The Government have always had an eye on
the Punjaub, which is the richest and most fertile country
in the world, and they now seize upon this as a favourable
opportunity of possessing themselves of it, particularly 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-
hore or Unuitzhur, 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 are doomed to disappointment the same as we
were at Feruzpore.

DUBLIN.
0 squadrons of the 6th Dragoon Guards (Cathi-
neers) march from Dublin on Monday fur Dundalk, where
they will arrive on the 6th inst., and occupy barracks.
Major Johnstone, of the 27th, arrived at Templemore on
the 26th ult., from the service companies of his regimant
at the Cape of Good Hope, and assumed the command of
the depot companies.
Ensign Paget Bay, ly, of the 30th, joined the depot of his
regiment at Enniskillen, on the 3lst ult., 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-Colonoi
Slade, who is about to embark for foreign service,

wTikit7RDER-.—On Satutdav last an
inquisition
-I,Las taken at the George the Fourth,'East road,
befoCroQtl Mr.CORN-LAW
v
A Cooper, coroner of this borough, on view of the
rrttheoseni
,ds
joannugdoifhn
stir,Fgoieye;usl.taruinao t 1:1;1
taGbtoaous I
ate twenty-
cars,
worksneet
body of NVilliam Jolly, aged two years. The deceased
which-lane.
only 9e.
he has to pay Is . 6d. a week for rent. fie
out of Work lately, and his wife and child were a
s since for several days literally in want of bread.
but two blankets ; one was pawned in the sum-
mfboi:e.autehvvxdt child
sum-
mer, oywbhefaeeereahneser was
skesd,
the other the poor woman was obliged to pawn
on Tuesday, the 22d ult., at a time when the deceased
child was suffering from illness. That night it became
worse, and died in the course of a few hours ; no medical
man was called in, the poor woman being unable to pay
for any assistance of that kind. The family, it appears,
sleep on a mattress placed on a brick floor, without sheets
or blankets, and with no other covering than an old sack,
the man's great coat, and the woman's cloak. A post
mortem examination was made, from which, and from the
other evidence, the Jury came to the conclusion that dis-
ease, which had terminated fatally, had been brought on by
the inclemency of the weather and the want of sufficient
bed-clothing, and returned a verdict accordingly._ Cam-
bridge Advertiser.
REGISTRATION OF LETTERS.--Yesterday the
new Post-office regulations relative to the registration of
letters came into operation, by which a system of regis-
tration will be adopted applicable to all descriptions of let-
ters without distinction, whether they contain coin or other
articles of value or not. The registration fee is ls., which,
with the postage, must be paid in advance. Foreign, co-
onial, or ship letters' registration will not, however, es-
lend belend the port of despatch.

MORNING EDI rioN
INTEMPERANCE AT ABERDEEN.

(From the Aberdeen Herald.)
The growing vice of intemperance is matter of deep
and anxious regret to every rightiy-constituted mind ;
and there is no man who wishes to see his country ex-
hibiting all the amiable and attractive characteristics iof
moral and Christian virtue, bet must deplore the ex s-
tence of the evil, and sympathize with the benevolent
motives of those who are evincing a strong desire to
keep it in chock. That much good has been done by
the social bodies who proceed on the extreme principle
of total-abstinence, we are free to admit, and so long
us they confine their exertions to a faithful exposition
of the vices they deprecate, and trutli!'ul statements
of the evils they re;ret, they do well ; but the
moment they overstep the sacred limits of truth,
and substitute unmeaning declamation for honest ar-
gument, they forfeit the confidence of the wise and
the good, and expose a benevolent principle to the
leightice influence of suspicious distrust. That such
nssocietiens as those to which we refer have, in some
cases, been reckless in their statements, uncharitable in
their writings, and imprudent in their actions, cannot
be denied ; and as this is to be regretted, it is even
more so to find these who ought to know better sup-
plying them with materills which, in the hands of some
may he turned against the interests of moralUY, while
ostensibly used fot the contrary end. We allude to
the list of police cases for the past year, handed in te
the Board of Police, on Monday last, by the. Superin-
dent, end pubiished in another column. We do not
.
by any means assume that the s!atement posi
tively incorrect, but we complain with the Provost
that it ought to have been submitted without qua-
Hie aicre calculated as it is to produce an impression on
tho public mind, very unfavourable to:the mora-
lity of Aberdeen. The idea of three thousand
access hundred females being taken off the streets of
the city, e drtink aad disorderly," is enough to make
any one's blood run cold, and at firsteight presents a
picture of immorality and vice that could not find a
parallel in the history of any civilized nation. We re-
gret that we have nut the means of analyzing the list ;
but, judging from a statement of the cases for the year
ending December 168 S, drawn up by a party whose sta-
tistics ere allowed to be exceedingly correct, it must
he reduced by two-thiidis at least, and after all it is
bad enough. In writing thus, let us not be misunder-
Aood. We have no wish to underrate the amount of
vice amongst these poor unfortunate creatures, but we
contend for truth, and however painful it miy be to
dwell on such details, we cannot permit exaggerated
statements tit go abroad without explanation, nor allow
a libel on the morality of our citizens to pass current
without contradiction.