The Sun.
London, England, 1849-03-30 00:00:00

THE BATTLE OF THE JHELUM.

" 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 ono-
half the regiment went down in ten minutes; the re
mainder, 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 had 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, and, sword in hand, bestrode his father's body
for a moment, and then fell across it a corpse!"—Corre-
spondent of a Morning Paper, March 15, 1849.

Toll the bell for the brave!
For the sire and for the son,
Whose warrior race is run—
Grimly now they sleep in one
Bloody grave.

'Twas evening of the day,
By the banks of the Jhelum;
When thro' the coming gloom
Rode the messenger of doom
On his way.

"Let the twenty-fourth advance;"
Was the headlong summons brought:
The veteran warrior caught
The order quick as thought:
"Men, advance!"

Weary and travel-worn,
Faint but devoid of fear,
They form'd—the foe was near:
They rush'd on with a cheer
This hope forlorn.

As they charged—the Leader's eye
Sought out his hero boy;
And a glance of troubled joy,
Pride and pain in mia'd alloy,
Flitted by.

Thoughts come that none can quell;
And peradventure he
That moment lived in memory
With hearts beyond the sea—
Who can tell?

With hearts that loved him well!—
Let them weep—let them weep!—
A hundred cannons sweep.
Down that dreary tangled steep:
So he fell!

There were two that were not slain,
That strove to bear away
The tenement of clay
They had follow'd many a day
In battle-plain.

All in vain!—So on the sand,
They laid their lifeless load:—
But the beardless boy abode,
And his father's corpse bestrode
Sword in hand.

Tull the bell for the brave!
For the sire and for the son,
Whose warrior race is run—
Gloriously they sleep in one
Bloody grave.
HENRY LITTLEDEAN.

London, March 16, 1849.
—Morning Post.

FOREIGN FUNDS.
BELGIAN FUNDS.—BaUUELe, Manca 28.
Actual Debt, 2% per Cent . . .
Rothschild's Loan, Five per Cent ........
Loan of Thirty Millions, Four per Cent •. • •
Ditto Threeper Cent.... ..............
Ditto Thirty-seven Millions, ditto
Ditto,ditto,lB4B. ••• • • ••• • • • •• • 87%
Ditt0,ditt0,1842............ •••• • • • • 87%
Ditto, 1844..... •• •• •••• •• ••• 79%
Ditto, 1836................... - -
Ditto, 1838 .............
Ditto of the City, 1832 .
Ditto, 1843 .............. •• • • • • 86%
Bank ofßelgium.. ••••• • • • • • 6934
Issue of 1841 ...... •• • • ... 100%
Exchange on London, 25.42%.
, PRUSSIAN FUNDS.—BxxLIN, Msitcsi 23.
Bills. Money.
St. Schuld Sch., 3% per Cent .• • • 80 79%
Prussian S per Cent •• • • •••. ••••.. • • • • 101% 100%
Foreign Exchanges—
On London, three month. • • .... ••• • • . 6 25% 6 28%
On Hambargh, two months .... •• • ...150% 1503(
On Paris, two months.— ••.. • ..... 81 1-3 80 1-6
HAMBURGH FUNDS, Mmtcri 22.
Bills. Money.

....... .. 53

Hanoverian New Loan, 5 per Cent.....
Ditto, 3% per Cent. ..............
Bank Shares.... • • • • • • • ... • .........
Prussian 5 per Cent. ......... ...... ICO% 100
Russian Certificate ...• ...........• 96
Anglo-Russian Loan - ....... •• • • .... 101%
Ditto, Certificate .............. •• .• 90%
Russian 4 per Cent...................
New 5 per Cent., Hope and Co. ...•
Ditto Stieglitz .. ........ ••••• • • • • 81
Belgian Loan. 2% per Cent .... ........
Anglo-Danish Loan, 3 per Cent ...• • • 66% 66
Ditto, in 1001. shares ..............
Anglo-Swodish Loan ................ 96
Ditto, Transport Loan ••
Norwegian Loan, 1848 ......... .... 97
Spanish New 5 per Cent....
Ditto 3 per Cent .......... •• • • .... 20% 20%
Ditto, 1846.... .......... _ .... .
Anglo-Portuguese Loan, 2% per Cent..
Dutch Actual Debt, 2% per Cent.. •• • •
Ditto 3 per Cent. ....•••••••••••
National Bank Shares ••• • ••
American, 6 per Cent. ...... .• —•• • • 105
RAILWAYS.

Hamb. Bergd. —..• • • ... ..
Ditto, Priority shares ... —••• • • • 100
Berlin and Hamburg ....
Ditto, Priority Shares .. ....• •• •• 90% 90
Cologne and Minden .. • ..... •••• • •• 74% 74
Ditto, Priority Shares .. ••••• • •• 92
Mecklenburg...... ...... •••••. • • • . • • 34 4 34
Altona and Kiel .....
Gluckstadt .. ••..••..——• • • • • • • • • •
93
Hanseatic Steam Company .• • ... •• • •

DISTRICT LUNATIC ASYLUMS IN IRELAND.—We
ntend giving in our succeeding numbers a series of
articles, based on the Government regulations, and on
Parliamentary documents, illustrative of the present
condition of the District Lunatic Asylums in
Ireland, considered as curative hospitals. These
are without any resident medical control or
authority whatsoever to minister to the urgent
wants of their unhappy inmates, varying from 140 to
nearly 400 in each. We frankly and unreservedly state,
that it is not against individuals, but against a system,
we enter the field; a system which we may ven-
ture to say only lingers now in an unhappy
country united to the most powerful, most civilized,
and most exalted nation in the world, but which stands
out, in her social condition as the most painful fact of
the nineteenth century. Let us not be misunderstood.
For all existing officers we will advocate the full
and entire amount of their present salaries ; and in
the event of compensation being deemed desirable
to superannuated parties, we will advocate jus-
tice to its fullest extent ; but we loudly proclaim
as scientific journalists, that the great institutions of
Ireland should at once form an object of humane interest
to the legislators and philosophers of Great Britain, who,
by their own acts, are deeply responsible for the system
which at present particularly marks their medical con-
tra—Medical Times.
AUDACIOUS THEFT.— A dishonest transaction
which afforded considerable mirth to the spectators, took
place during the peformance on Tuesday evening, in
" The Victoria Temple of Arts." Three lads who had
been in the nightly habit of pay ing their mite for a
pennyworth of the drama, conceived an ingenious idea,
by which they were likely not only to gain back the
capital they had expended, bat procure a very liberal
interest. On Tuesday night, when the " Temple" was
crowded—for there was a benefit—eLnd when the money
was supposed to be plenty, the thieves put their plan
into execution. One of the lads, fresh from the
tuition of the carpet factory, secreted himself unseen
beneath the counter of the money-taker's box, for the
purpose of appropriating the basket; of T)ppers, which
every minute became heavier, with the influx into the
booth of ragged boys and " stage stvuck" mill-girls. On
a given signal, and on the most fav (nimble opportunity,
another lad, stationed in the ne'ighbourhood of the
gas-meter, turned off the supply o f gas, and left the
audience in total darkness, just as a dark Irishman, who
it is said, " leads the business," rus bed upon the stage,
in the character of Macbeth, to tell his lady that
he had " done the deed." N ) sooner was the
light extinguished than the am 7 bushed thief seized
the money basket, and attempted to scamper off
with its contents ; but the yot tug rogue did not
effect his escape, for the best of all reasons, that it
would be a rather difficult matter to steal money from
a showman. A hot pursuit followed . the thief—the little
fellow gained the pit, but could of tt keep the money.
With the determination that it should not be re-
st wed, he handed the basket to an accomplice in the
gallery, who, upon being discoverer I, plyed its contents
upon the crowd of people below. i Lt this time all was
consternation, although no accide at followed. The
play- goers were in the dark, yet e' 7 ontinued to reap
the benefit of the Californian th
alio; re cr. Some of the
money was returned, but the loss b ) the proprietor is
about seventeen shillings. One of tl to lads is in the cus-
tody of the Calton officers. —North B, ,itish Daily Mail.
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