The Sun.
London, England, 1840-07-06 00:00:00

ASIATIC JOURNAL.

Since the march of the British army to Cabul and
the rupture with the Chinese, this Journal has become
more interesting than at any former period. In this
Number full details are given of the military proceed-
ings and the state of affairs at the three Presidencies,
together with all the decrees, letters, &c., of Coffirnis-
sioner Lin, according to extracts from Chinese gazettes.
The population in the interior are much discontented ;
the cry for money is as loud as ever, and the provinces
stubbornly refuse to pay up their arrears. This is one
certain consequence of the interdict against the English
trade, and the evil must as certainly increase with time.
" Missionary proceedings at Bombay " will be found
edifying to that class who would risk a rebellion in
India, and also the utter defeat of their own object, by
making the vain attempt to convert by wholesale Hin-
dus, Parsis, and Mahommedans, to the Christian faith.
The proceedings of some of the missionaries, particu-
larly those sent from Scotland, have excited great alarm
among even the higher classes of Hindus, and are
justly described as " dangerous to the peace and security
of British India." The way hi which some of these
missionaries go to work is an exact counterpart to that
of the M`Ghees and O'Sullivans in this country.
An Anti-Conversion petition, addressed to the Bom-
bay Government, and signed by 2,113 natives of rank
and property, states " That a direct and most unwar-
rantable attack has been made upon their religion by
the Missionaries, countenanced by high authority in that
presidency ;' that the petitioners had responded to the
cry of Educate the people,' with heart and hand,
grateful for the interest manifested in their welfare, and
expecting to be elevated by education to a level, in re-
spect to political privileges and rewards, with their
European brethren ; that the institutions, which they
had been induced to support, had been insidiously em-
ployed as a means of converting, under the cloak of
educating, the people ; that the Missionary institutions
had received support and encouragement from the Go-
vernment (some of its highest officers taking part in
the work of conversion), a policy equally destructive of
the peace of society, and of the loyalty of the na-
tives towards their rulers ; and that Missionaries arc
suffered to station themselves in places held in particu-
lar veneration, where they revile in the most unmeasured
teams all which the natives hold dear and sacred in
their religion and its observances." They further com-
plain that the Missionaries are breaking up whole fa-
milies, setting father against son, and son against
father, and exciting a suspicion that England contem-
plates the forcible conversion of her empire in the East.

THE NEW SPORTING MAGAZINE.
We have only room to notice two articles in this
Number. Oae on the Black Partridge of Hindostan,
and the other on Fly-fishing. They are both good, and
the latter at this season of the year will be found very
useful to the journeyman angler. Two plates, giving
correct likenesses of Little Wonder and Crucifix,
painted by A. Cooper, R.A , are beautifully executed.

THE BANKER-LORD, 3 Vols.
Colburn, London, 1840.
Those who are partial to tales which abound in sud-
den, and not very natural, surprises, will find much to
amuse them in the Banker-Lord, which portrays the
career of a rich London banker, by name L'Estrange,
who, just as his long season of prosperity is brought to
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of her father. She is about to be married to a young
scampish Baronet, Sir Charles Wilton, of graceful per-
son and unimpeachable address ; when, beho!d, at the
very moment when her " sweet-heart" is escorting her to
the altar, and the parson is about to commence opera-
tions, an Irishman rushes into the church, out of breath,
and in an awful state of perspiration, and at once breaks
off the match by the intelligence that Sir Charles
N't ilton is already married! The Baronet, of course,
quits St. George's Church in a perfect paroxysm of
passion ; and Lady Rosa, being exquisitely beautiful,
soon meets with another lover, whom she vastly prefers
to her former one, and to whom she is married in due
season. The character of this young lady, though meant
to be attractive, inspires but little interest, for she is
exceedingly lackadaisical, and something of a fool to
boot. Au nld jolly, good-hearted Irishwoman, by name
Kelley, is much better drawn—in fact, she is the gem of
the tale.

HINTS TO TEACHERS.
Whittaker, London, 1840.

The author, or compiler, of this little elementary
work on mathematics is Dr. Olinthus Gregory, a gentle-
man well known for his scientific attainments. His oh:
ject is to facilitate the labours of teachers and of self-
taught students ; with which view he puts forth several
pertinent theoretical, practical, and elucidatory hints,
with especial reference—as he observes in his prefatory
notice—" to Hutton's Course and Simpson's Euclid, as
text-books." The name of the author is a sufficient
warranty for the utility of his volume.

SUPPLEMENT TO MR. M.CULLO CH'S
COMMERCIAL DICTIONARY.
Longman and Co.
There are several articles iu this Supplement, which
at the present moment possess great interest. Among
these aro " Banks," " Opium," " Post-office," and
" Railways." Mr. M'Culloch's 11;gli character for
practical as well as theoretical knowledge with every-
thing connected with statistics and political economy,
cannot fail to give great weight to his authority, and
we therefore quote from this last article a few observa-
tions on a subject which it has always appeared to us
the Legislature has not duly considered. Railway tra-
velling, it is well known, has diminished travelling by
post-horses and stage-coaches to an enormous extent,
yet, with strange inconsistency, a heavy impost is still
continued on the depressed trade, while the other is
lightly taxed.
It would be difficult to gainsay the following argu-
ments :
" We do not presume to say whether it is expedient
that passengers ar.d goods conveyed by railway should
be subject to any tax ; but if one of the most desirable
modes of conveyance be exempted from taxation, on
what pretence do we justify the imposition of taxes on
other modes? It' passengers by mail or post-coaches
drawn by horses be obliged to pay a certain duty, why
are passengers by mail or post-coaches impelled by
steam not subjected to the same duty ? If it be meant
by laying a corrparatively heavy duty on the former, to
discourage the use of horses, and to make the various
railway monopolies as complete as possible, the existing
system is judiciously contrived, and will most likely be
effectual to its object ;
.but it is needless to say that in
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such matters competition cannot. be
.carried to excess,
and that it is the only security against irregularities,
wtuhe recommend to the attention of Lord
imposition, and insolence... And yet, by a singular con-
tradiction, our legislation seems as if it proceeded on
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plement:so accompanied
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the very good maps of British
completedby and proposed railways,
canals, &c., of Great Britain and Ireland.
Anieea

PRICE OF A WIFE !—On Sunday week, James
Hatton, residing in what is called the bottom building, New
Radford, disposed of his wife to his neighbour, Benjamin Hick-
ton, for Is. and a gallon of ale ! the amiable fair one appearing
quite delighted with the transfer. We presume she was war-
ranted, one of the conditions of sale being, that if the purchaser
did not approve of his bargain, she should be returned.—. No-
ttingham Review.
SIGNS OF THE TIMES.--Last week, the im-
plements for manufacturing linen and cotton belonging to "..Ir.
Thomas Wilkinson, of knareaborough, were sold by auction,
when good linen looms which cost 5/. sold for 10s., and good
cotton looms, which cost 3/. 10s., sold for 100. Poor old
England.

Her Majesty's steamer Pluto arrived here on Monday
last, bringing Bermuda papers to the 23d of May inclu-
sive. They state that the Satellite, Captain Roberta,
arrived on the 4th of April from Jamaica in twenty days,
and sailed again on the 6th for Halifax. The Racehorse,
Captain Harris, sailed on the 20th for Barbadoes, to brief;
over the 76th regiment, and arrived on the lath of May in
company with the Vestal, with 410 men under command
of Lieutenant Colonel Clarke. Vice-Admiral Sir Thomas
Harvey, K. C. 8., entertained on the 18th of May a party
of two hundred persons at a ball and supper, atthc Admi-
ralty House, Clarence-hill, Bermuda. Nothing could
exceed the personal attention of the gallant Admiral and
all his family to their guests, impressing all who had the
happiness of being entertained by them, with the admirable
mixture of the English gentleman and the naval chief,
and showing, by his urbanity and kind attention to ail,
bow perfectly social and courtly qualifications may be
blended with requisites for the highest command.
The Princess Charlotte, Benbow, Implacable, Carys-
fort, Tyne, Phoenix, and Rhadamanthus, wire in Naples
Bay on the Ist instant. The Confiance, Lieutenant Stop-
ford, had arrived at Malta from Naples. The Rhada-
manthus steamer arrived at Naples on the Ist instant,
without any lettera from Malta, to the great disappoint-
ment of the Neapolitan merchants, who complain that no
previous intimation is given through the Consul of the in-
tended departure of ships of war and steamers from Malta,
of which they might avail to send letters; and at a
time when the regular intercourse is interrupted (the
French steamers, although ealling at Naples, not being
permitted to land or receive letters on board), and the
commercial relations between the to o countries in a critical
state, it becomes still more necessary to afford such raci-
lities whenever it may not interfere with the public service.
Upon the settlement of the differences with Naples, the
Carysfort will proceed direct to Barcelona, and the Ty ne
is to relieve the Talbot on the Corfu station, whither,
also, it is said, the Daphne, now at Malta, wilt proceed.
The Hydra steam-frigate having completed her refit,
sailed from Malta on the 9th ult. for a short cribs° .o try
her machinery, and returned to port the same evening.
She raced with and beat in great style the French Govern-
ment steam-packet Lycurgue, which went a short time
before her for the westward. In conformity with instruc-
tions received by the Confiance, the Gorgon steam-frigate
having spade good her defects, had proceeded to 'Smyrna
in company with the Castor, the former conveying the
mails and -letters for the ships in the Levant, which had
arrived from England by the Prometheus steamer from
Gibraltar, which vessel has made her passage from Malta
to Gibraltar and back again in ten days.
Extract of a letter received from on board her Majesty's
ship Childers, dated Bombay, April 25, 1840:—" We
expected to sail to day for Trincomalee, then for Madras
and Calcutta, and afterwards to Singapore, to meet the
new squadron coming out, and to accompany them to
China. The Captain, E. P. Halsted, Esq., has been
very ill with the small-pox, and has given directions fur
every man on board to be vaccinated. The Hyacinth and
Volage were at China. We fell in with the Wellesley off
Ceylon, bound to Trincomalee, on the 19th of January.
The Conway was at Calcutta on the 20th March last. The
Rattlesnake troop ship arrived at Colombo on the 24th
March, with a detachment of Royal Artillery from England.
The Algerine had gone to Calcutta. Our boatswain died
on the 23d, of cholera ; he was taken ill about ten o'clock
whilst we were exercising, by twelve the same evening he
was a coapse, and in five hours afterwards he was in his
grave. The whole of the officers and ship's company
attended his funeral, and:they have subscribed for a head•
stone to be erected."

(From the Hampshire Telegraph.)

PORTSMOUTH JULY 4. —The Baretto Junicr, transport,
arrived yesterday from Corfu, viith the following officers
and 232 men, women, and GO children, of the Ist Batt a-

lion of the 60th Rifles :--Captains Wilford and Fitzge-
rald, Lieutenants Ellis, Palmer, and Courtney, and Pay-
master Coxen (with Mrs. Coxen and sod". This trans-
port has also brought home Assistant-Surgeon Hall, (and
Mrs. Hall), of the sth Regiment; Mrs. Lamond and
four children (widow of Surgeon Lamond, 2d Battalion
of 60th), and Mr. F. H. Williams, son of Capt. Williams,
R. A. The Boadicea, transport,:Lieutenant Ward,'Agent,
sailed from Gibraltar on the 15th, with invalids of
different regiments, and Government stores for this port.
The Cambridge, 78, Capt. Barnard, arrived yesterday
from Plymonth, to receive on board Mr. Abercrombie, ap-
pointed Minister at Turin. The Cambridge has provi-
sions and stores on board for the squadron at Lisbon,
where she will touch, on her way to the Mrsliterranean.
She is about fifty men short of her complement, but the
crew she has on board arc generally fine men ; and on her
being inspected by Admiral S.r Graham Moore, at Ply-
mouth, he expressed his satisfaction in warm terms, both
as it regarded the equipment of the ship, and the appear-
ance of her people. A subscription of 11/. 15s. had
been made by the seamen and marines, for Henry Morris,
the captain of the mizen4op, who had fallen from the
cross-trees upon the poop, and who is slowly recovering
from the severe shock in Plymouth Hospital.
The Sapphire, troop ship, Mr. Nembhand, Commander,
arrived on Wednesday from Quebec, which she left on the
2d ult. with military invalids.
The Sardinian ttigate, Eurydice, Captain S. Sotgin,
arrived this morning from Genoa, bound to Stockholm.
The customary salutes were exchanged.
The Wellesley, 72, and Cruiser, 16,t were at Singapore
on the 15th April. The Druid, 44, Captain Lord H. J.
Churchill, had arrived at Canton.

The Cleopatra, East India Company's steamer, which
left Spithead in November la-st, arrived at Bombay on the
9dl of Msy.
The Inconstant, 36, Captain Pring, sailed from Ply-
mouth on Monday for Cork, to enter volunteer seamen.
The Athol, troop. ship, yesterday embarked ten officers
and 300 men (besi2es women and children) of the 58th
regiment, and proceeded with them to Glasgow. An. then
division of the same corps will follow, onboard the Sap-
phire, on Monday, and the remainder on Wednesday.
The Vesuvius steamer, Lieutenant Blount, saiWd on
Thursday for Woolwich, with the invalids brought hero
from Canada in the Sapphire troop-ship.
The British Queen arrived on Tuesday from the river,
and proceeded, on Wednesday, with a full cargo and 100
passengers, to New YOI k.

The packet-ship Wellington, Captain Chadwick, ar-
rived on Wednesday from New Yurk, 21 days' passa&e.

NAVAL PROMOTIONS AND APPOINTMENTS.
Promotions—Lieutenatits George R. Wilson, of the
Excellent, and Charles Richards, Flag-Lieutenant to the
lion. Admiral Bouverie, to the rank of Commanders.

Appointments—Commanders Felix Edwin, and Corps-
don Spettigue, to be inspecting Commanders, Coast Guard.
Lieutenants—John Huglies Lloyd, and Francis Seott,
to the Rodney ; Edward Kenney, Wm. Campbell, and
John Palmer Wells, to the SAII Josef; Edward Roberta,
to be Agent on board Contract Steam Vessel Conveying
Mails between Liverpool, Halifax, 'lac. ; Duncan Brooks
Gordon Grant, to be Chief Officer of the Coast Guard.

Masters—W. Miller to the Victory; G. H. Cole to the
Sapphire.
Surgeon—James Lawrence, to the Poictiers.
Mates—William Thomas Newcnham, and Herbert L.
Griffiths, to he Chief Officers of Coast Guard.