The Sun.
London, England, 1847-01-04 00:00:00

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CORN-EXCHANGE—MONDAY.
During last week, the arrivals of English Wheat for our
market, coastwise as well as by land carriage and samples,
were on a moderate scale, while those of Malt were season-
ably extensive. The fresh samples of all other articles of
home produce were on a very limited scale. From Ireland
and Scotland, the receipts of grain were unusually small ;
they having been confined to about 4,500 quarters of Oats,
from the former, and 2,900 quarters of Barle from the latter.
The imports from abroad were, tak y
ere, en as a whole, even includ-
ing about 8,000 barrels of American Flour, and a few thousand
Peas, and Oats, trifling. This morning, a
quarters a Beans,
moderate quantity nt•
heme-grovrn Wheat came
to hand from Essex and Xent ; but from other
parts the arrivals were small.
filled with samples$amples of' English Wheat,
The stands were
again scantily
owin to which, the increased attendance of buyers, and the
short stocks held by the dealers, a good business was doing,
Monday last, of from
at an advance in the quotations paid on
3s to 48 per quarter. Still, however, we can---aa
parties were unwilling to give the above amounot nt of i many
ment— mprove-
call the trade brisk ; and we may state that the
market closed heavily, considering the actual inaprovement
paid. With free Foreign Wheat—as many of the holders
have withdrawn their samples from the market for the pre-
sent—we were scantily supplied. That article commanded a
steady, though not very active inquiry, at a rise in the
quotations of fully 3s per quarter. For inland, there was
some demand for bonded Wheats and Indian Corn cargoes
afloat. The former sold readily at an improvement of 38,
the latter 4s per quarter. The sales of Wheat amounted
to
about 8,000 quarters. We had a short supply of Barley on
offer, while the demand for that article was very active at 2s
to 4s per. qr. more money. There was a very active business
doing in Malt, at an enhancement in the quotations of from
4s to Ss per r., and at which a go( d clearance was effected.
The show of Oats being small, the Oat trade was firm, at a
rise of Is, per quarter. Both Beans and Peas sold readily at
Is. to 2s. per quarter more money. The Flour trade was ac-
tive. Sack parcels were 35., and barrelled ditto 23. dearer.
Wheat— CURRENCY PER IMPERIAL MEASURE
Essex & Kent, 3talt—Chevalier.... 738 to 768
Red, New.. • • 655 to 745 Oats—Yorkshire and Ditto,W
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hite, New 70s 818 Lineolnsh., Feed. 26s
-- Norfolk and Lin-
cola, Red... • Potatoe
Ditto
—a —s . 65s 708 Youghal and Cork,
White— . • Black .
Irish, Red.. • • —a —8 Cork, White . 308 338
_ Ditto,NlThite .. • —s —8 Scotch, Feed. •••• 308 335
BtYa—Old ......... • .. —8 a Beans—Tick
New.. • • .... .• 42s 44s Pigeons • • • • 468 508
Barley—Grinding . .. • • 398 424 Pease—Grey. ........ sgs 498
Malting . ..• • • . • 478 50s Maple... .• • • • • 48s 568
Chevalier .... • • • • big 548 White, ....• • • • 495 50s
Si alt—Suffolk and Nor- Boilers ....• • • 51s 558
8r0wnf01k...... • • • • • • 668 71s Flour—Town-made ••• 58s 621
..... . • • • • • 63s 668 Suffolk .....• • • 485 528
kangstonand Ware 730 75s Btockta & Norfolk 483 bla

without the license of the Crown. There was a charge
against a person of cutting and wounding, with the in-
tention of resisting his lawful detention ny a constable,
which was equivalent to cutting and wounding
with the intention of doing some grievous
bodily harm. The party was charged with
theft, and the officer in his efforts to detain him, was
cut by some sharp instrument, which it was reasonable
to suppose was in the hand of the accused, although no
instrument of the kind was found in his possession.
There was, also, a charge of shooting at a person with I
the intention of doing similar injury. It appeared that
the pistol was only loaded with wadding and powder, as
there was nothing to show that it was charged with ball.
It was discharged near the person of the prosecutor, but
in what direction, under what circumstances, whether
for the purpose of doing him some serious bodily harm,
or only for the purpose of alarming him, were matters
which called for their most serious consideration. If
the more serious part of the charge was not proved to
their satisfaction, then it would resolve itself into an
assault. He recommended them to put these cases into a
further train of inquiry, in order that the parties accused
might have an opportunity of bringing forward testi-
mony to show their intentions. There was a charge of
assaulting and wounding a constable; his wounds were
not very apparent, but a person might be seriously
beaten and injured with a shoe, as in this case, without
exhibiting any serious external injuries. There was
also a charge of robbing a person with violence, in
which it was suggested that three parties were engaged.
The circumstances were involved in considerable ob-
scurity. The prosecutor was severely wounded. A
short time after, an instrument, with which the injuries
might have been inflicted, was found on one of the ac-
cused, whilst some of the stolen property was found also
a short time after on the person of another. The last
case to which he would refer was a very sad one, and he
would but briefly refer to it—namely, the charge against
a person of the carnal knowledge of a girl under ten
years of age. From the surgeon's evidence, it was
painful to find that the offence had been committed by
some one on this unhappy child. So late as the 9th of
George IV. the crime was punishable by death, but the
extreme penalty was removed by the 3d and 4th of
Victoria, the utmost punishment now being trans-
portation for life, or a lesser punishment, according to
the discretion of the court. After a few general re-
marks respecting the course they should pursue in their
investigations, and the assistance which would be ren-
dered to them by an officer from the Crown-office, he
remitted them to their duties.

smxTnrniam.
The following imports of live stock have taken place into
London in the past week:—
From whence. Oxen. Cows.
Rotterdam 2 , 60
Harlingen ... , 5 ... 33
Boulogne
Flushing

Sheep. Lambs.
G 26

625 ...
685 ... 180
200 ... -

Pig

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Total
Considering the severity of the weather, the above is a very
large arrival. At the out ports about 800 Sheep have been
landed, chiefly from Holland, in good condition. As most of
the above, in fact, were disposed of privately, the number of
foreign Beasts and Sheep on offer to-day was very small, viz.
80 of the former, and 300 of the latter, the demand for
which was. heavy, and prices had a downward tendensy.
With home-fed Boasts we were well supplied. beth as respects
number and quality, owing to which, and the changeable
state of the weather, the Beef trade was in a very depressed
state, at a decline in the currencies obtained on this day se'n-
night of quite 2d. per 81bs., the extreme figure for the best
Scots not exceeding 4s. 4d. per 81bs., while at the conclu-
sion of business a clearance was not effected. From Lincoln-
shire, Leicestershire, and Northamptonshire, we received
about 1,400 short-horns; from Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex, and
Cambridgeshire, 300 Herefords, Scots, and short-horns; from
the eastern and midland districts, 700 Herefords, runts, De-
vons, &c. ; and from other parts of England, 800 of various
breeds. The number of Sheep were considerably on the in-
crease, and of excellent quality. The supply of that descrip-
tion of stock exceeding the wants of the butchers, the Mut-
ton trade was unusually dull, at an abatement in value of
from 2d. to, in some instances, 4d. per Blbs. With Calves
we were seantily supplied, yet the Veal trade was in a slug-
gish state at our quotations. Prime F mall Porkers moved off
steadily, other kinds of Pigs slowly, at late rates.

Per Sibs. to sink the offal.

s. d. I. d
Inferior Beasts -• • • 3 4 3 6
S,..cond quality ditto. 3 8 3 10
Prime large,Oxen 3 10 4 0
Prime Scofs
Large coarse Calves 4 0 4 6
Prime small ditto • . 4 8 5 0
Suckling Calves IB 0 30 0
Inferior Sheep ..

s. d to s. d.
Second quality ditto 4 0 4 2
Coarse-woolled ditto 4 4 4 8
Southdown Wethe 4 10 5 0
Ditto out of the wool
Large Hogs
Small Porkers ••• • 4 8 410
Quarter old Pigs •• 16 0 19 0
Lambs •••••• • • • • 0 0 0 0

MARLBRO'-STREET.-(THIS DAY)
Inspector Whall informed the Magistrate that ene of
the persons charged on the police-sheet with drunken-
ness had died in the cell. He said the man had been
brought into the Vine-street station, about seven o'clock
on Saturday evening, exceedingly drunk. He was then
very dirty, his clothes miserably ragged, and he seemed
very cold, and so drunk that he could not give his name.
He (the inspector) had him properly washed, and put
into a warm cell, in which there were three other
persons. These persons said that the man walked
about, and was in conversation, and gave his name to them
as Tom Distin, when he immediately dropped down dead
on the bottom of the cell. They knew nothing about
him.

The inspector handed over to the reporter the follow-
ing description of the deceased:—Name given, Tom
Distin ; about 5 feet 6 inches high; 56 years old ; hair
rather grey, a little bald in front ; dressed in a fustian
jacket and trousers, and very dirty in appearance.

SOUTHWARK.—(THIS DAY.)
John Witty, a tall, powerful-looking young man, was
charged with stealing a quantity of cigars from a to-
bacconist's shop in Gravel-lane, Southwark. In effect-
ing the prisoner's apprehension, one of the policemen
was seriously wounded on the head with a quart pot.
Mrs. Maria Baker, who keeps a tobacconist's shop in
Gravel-lane, said that on the preceding night, between
seven and eight o'clock, while sitting in the parlour, she
saw the prisoner in the act of quitting the shop
with a quantity of cigars. A policeman took
her to a public house in the same lane,
called the " Red House," when she pointed out the pri-
soner, who was drinking and smoking in company of
several other persons. The moment the policeman at-
tempted to lay hands upon him he snatched up a pewter

iot and made a blow RE his head, which, however, did
not take effect, but his companions succeeded in rescuing
him. In about three hours afterwards the prisoner
was again found in the same house, surrounded
by his associates, and before he was secured
one of the policemen was attacked with a pewter pot,
and severely wounded on the forehead.
The prisoner, who denied the charge, was committed
for trial. He has only been out of gaol a week.

CLERKENWELL.—(THIS DAY.)
A lad named Thomas Williams was charged before
Mr. Greenwood with stealing a pair of boots, the
property of Mr. Edward Hades, bootmaker, of Denton-
buildings, Somers town, to whom he was apprenticed,
and also with obtaining by fraud one sovereign and two
sovereigns severally from Mrs. Hodgson and Mrs.
Gibson, the aunt and cousin of Mr. Hailes.
It appeared that the prisoner had been convicted at
the Old Bailey sessions, about nine months ago, of
robbing his master, but in consequence of that gentle-
man recommending him to mercy he received only a
nominal imprisonment, and was again taken home by
him, in hopes of affording him on opportunity of retriev-
ing his character. On Wednesday last the prisoner ab-
sconded with a pair of boots, and on Saturday the pro-
secutor ascertained that he had called upon his cousin
(Mrs. Hodgson), saying he (Mr. Hailes) had sent him
with a present of a pair of boots for one of her children,
and at the same time desired him to ask her for the loan
of a sovereign, which she gave him. He then went to
the prosecutor's aunt, and told her that Mr. Hailes was
confined to his bed with a dangerous attack of illness,
and a quantity of work had been sent to him on the day
before, and he was in the greatest distress, not having the
means of paying for it. Upon these representations
Mrs. Gibson gave him two sovereigns, with which he
went down to Greenwich with a number of other boys
and spent the greater part of the money.
He was fully committed for trial at the Old Bailey
sessions on the charge of robbery and obtaining money
by fraudulent representations.

EXPECTED ROYAL `'ISIT TO BADMINTON.—It
is stated that her Majesty will, in all probability, honour
his Grace the Duke of Beaufort with a visit at Badminton
House, at an early period after Christmas. We have
heard that the " note of preparation" has been already
sounded amongst the Gloucestershire Yeomanry Cavalry,
of which his Grace is colonel, with a view to their being
ready mounted, mustached and all, as a kind of royal
guard for the Queen.—Cheltenham Chronicle.

THE MINISTRY.—We understand the whole of the
Cabinet Ministers will be in town by Thursday next.
Lord John Russell will give a Parliamentary en-
tertainment on the 18th instant to the several members
of the Cabinet, at his Lordship's residence in Chesham.
place.
Lady Sale has administered to the property in this
country of her late husband, Colonel Sir Robert H. Sale,
G.C.8., who died intestate. The personalty in England
was estimated for duty at 6,0001.
Mr. Boustead, for some years second clerk at Bow-
street Police court, has been removed to the Greenwich
Police-court, as first clerk, in the place of Mr.
Finch, lately deceased. Mr. O'Brien, formerly
third clerk at Bow street, but lately second at Marl-
borough. street, will take Mr. Boustead's place as second
clerk

The Earl of Elgin, Governor-General of the
Canadas, leaves this day for Liverpool, from whence he
will take his departure to-morrow for the place of his
destination. The Noble Earl will be accompanied by
his aides-de-camp, Lieutenant A. Egerton, sort of the
Earl of Ellesmere, and Lieutenant the Hon. Egremont
Lascelles, son of the Earl of Harewood. His Lordship
was closetted some time yesterday afternoon with Lord
John Russell and Earl Grey.
The Conde de Montemolin has signified his inten-
tion of honouring the Lyceum theatre with his presence
on Monday next, and for this occasion the Conde has
chosen the popular piece of To Parents and Guardians,
which will be performed, together with the new pieces
of the season.

DESTRUCTIVE FlRE.—Shortly before twelve on
Saturday evening a destructive fire broke out at No. 1,
Whitmore-street, Hoxton Old Town, in the occupation of
Mr. W. Dodd, a town carman. The flames commenced in
the stables, and rapidly extended to the workshops
belonging to Mr. Potter, a cabinet-maker, in the
space of a few minutes the entire building was
wrapped in flames, which shot through the roof, and
rose to such an alarming height as to lighten up the
district. Engines from the parish, London brigade, West
of England, and County offices, promptly attended, but
the firemen were unable to get the fire extinguished until
the stables and workshop were destroyed, and the ad-
joining dwelling house damaged by fire, and the furni-
ture by removal. The cause of the fire could not be
ascertained. Unfortunately Mr. Dodd was uninsured.
THE LATE FIRE AT IRONGATEWHARF.—ADDI.
DITIONAL PARTICULARS.—SUNDAY NIGHT.—At six
o'clock last evening (Sunday), a considerable body of
fire remained in the ruins, and the firemen were still
engaged throwing water upon the same, and it was not
expected that the fire could be entirely extinguished
for at least another day. The immediate vicinity of the
ruins was visited yesterday by many thausands of per-
sods, and it required a strong party of police to
keep the crowd from pressing to close to the tottering
walls. The property destroyed it is now believed will
be considerably under what was at first stated, owing
to the great quantity of goods that are under the walls,
and which are only partially injured. During the after-
noon of Saturday, about 150 barrels of provisions were
rescued from the ruins, the major part of which were
perfectly sound. During this day (Monday) the firemen
it is believed will be able to save as many more barrels
of pork and beef, and should the ruins be sufficiently
cooled, they will be able to get out an immense quantity
of canvas and linen in bales, which can be seen under the
brickwork.
AN ELECTRIFIED OWL.—The transmission of
messages by the New York and Philadelphia electric
telegraph was recently suspended for several hcurs by
the following curious incident. A large owl was found
suspended from the wires, with his talons entangled
among them, the copper wire having been twisted round
the iron cords. The owl was dead when discovered,
and it is supposed that he had lighted upon the iron
wire, and while in that position the other was blown
against him, and a connexion being thus formed, he
received a shook of the electric fluid, which deprived
him of life.
RARITIES OF THE SEASON.—On Saturday, in Co-
vent-garden market, there was a profusion of new pota-
toes of the description called ash-leaved kidney, the
price being ls. per lb.; asparagus was plentiful at 10s.
the bundle, rhubarb 55., and cucumbers from 7s. to 152.
each, all being of English growth.

THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, JANUARY 4, 1847

FAMINE IN THE HIGHLANDS AND
ISLANDS OF SCOTLAND.
A meeting was held yesterday, in the Maryfelone
Presbyterian Church, Upper George-street, Edgeware-
road, partly for the purposes of Divine service, and partly
to make a collection on behalf of the unfortunate people
who are suffering the horrors of famine, in the High-
lands and blends of Scotland, by reason of the failure of
the great staple of their subsistence—their potato crops.
The Church was numerously and respectably attended.
The Rev. William Chalmers, minister of the Church,
preached a suitable sermon prior to the collection. H.
took his text from the 13th chapter and 34th verse of John,
"The new Commandment Igive unto you, thatyelove one
another." The sermon, which dwelt much upon the love
due to Christ, was of an impressive character. The
Rev. Gentleman, at the conclusion of the service, drew
the attention of the meeting to the famine at present
raging in the Highlands and Islands of Scotland, and made
a forcible appeal to the benevolent feelings of his hearers
in behalf of the unfortunate people on whom the cala-
mity of the famine had been visited in those districts.
He referred to a statistical statement of the population
in those parts of Scotland, and of the numbers whom
the calamity has already afflicted, so far as particulars
had reached him. The Highlands and Islands, as com-
monly spoken of, embrace four distinct and separate
portions of the territory of Scotland, viz, Ist, the
districts of the mainland, where the Gaelic language
is spoken ; 2d, the Western Islands, or Hebrides ; 3d,
the Orkney Islands ; and 4th, the Islands of Zetland.
The total population of the Highlands and Islands is
estimated at about 392,332 ; and, considering their sta-
tistics to be yet but imperfect, it is calculated that there
is nearly one-sixth part of the whole population of Scot-
land, nearly four hundred thousand of their fel/ow-
countrymen, more or less in a state of suffering, from
the recent calamity which, in the all-wise providence of
God, had befallen their land. This information was
such that to remain one day longer inactive, whilst it
was in their power to administer any aid, would be to
incur a responsibility from which every mind would
shrink, and if human life was to be preserved, delay was
felt to be in every sense equally dangerous, and
culpable. The Rev. Gentleman then stated the failure
of the potato crop to be most severe and universal in
extensive districts of Sutherlandshire, the west coasts of
Ross-shire, Inverness-shire, and Argyleahire, and ob-
served, in the language of a report, that "if the potato
formed but half the food of the inhabitants of the desti-
tute districts, its destruction would be a severe calamity
to a people having no other resources, and demanding
the active sympathy of their neighbours." But the
'potato diet in many of the preceding districts formed,
it might be said, the whole of their food thoughout the
year—certainly three-fourths of it. The Rev. Gentle-
man read several extracts from letters, which described
the sufferers as in a state of melancholy destitution in
several of the districts ; as obliged to kill even their
one cow that gave them the milk; as reduced to wander
over the black patches of land for roots (which now
failed them); and as feeling the gnawing of hunger.
The collection was then made, and amounted to
217 L 78. There was another collection at the evening
service.

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of engaging in a hostile establishment whilst still in his
service. In this reeling we are happy to find ourselves
associated with so many artists in other departments of
the institution of the highest character and fame.
Whilst anxious to avoid all imputation of having par-
ticipated in this extraordinary proceeding, we wish no-
wise to reflect on our former colleagues. One may
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A. J. TOLBECQUE, Leader of the Opera.
London, Saturday evening.

OVERLAND MAIL

INDIA.

We received on Saturday morning (via Mar
sellles) our correspondence and files of newspapers
from India, in anticipation of the Overland Mail from
Bombay.
BOMBAY, DEC. 2, 1846.—We have for some days
past been kept in great anxiety by the continued ab-
sence of the mail which must have left London on the
24th October, and ought to have been here on the 26th
November. Some accident must assuredly have be-
fallen the steamer.
The most important item of the news of the
month refers to money matters. Advances on the
Five per Cent. Loan are coming in so slowly that
the opening of a six per cent. one is talked about.
The expenses of Sinde, betwixt -November, 1845,
and November, 1846, when there was under Sir C.
Napier an army varying from 21,000 to 27,000 men,
must have exceeded its income by considerably more
than a million and a half sterling. After the with-
drawal of the troops now under orders for India, there
will remain behind some 15,000 men, or nearly the`
number on the muster-roll when the Parliamentary
returns, by which it appeared that the expenditure
exceeded the income by nine hundred and odd thou.
sands a year, were made up. This is fearful work.
It is understood here that Sir R. Peel was favour-
able to the restoration of the Ameers ; and it is known
that the majority of the Court of Directors are most
anxious for the abandonment of this possession.
Rumours are rife as to the course likely to be adopted
by Lord Hardinge in reference to the matters sub-
mitted to him for his opinion by the Court of Dire&
tors. His Lordship's own policy is so pacific that it
is imagined he may be hostile to the continued occu-
pation of Sinde.

The Cashmere insurrection has now been fairly
put down. It seems in reality to have been a very
petty affair, and to have been got up by a single ac-
tive, enterprising, discontented, ambitious individual
not to have been at all the result of general discon-
tent, arising from oppression or misgovernment.
Ghoolab Singh, in reality though a false, perfidious,
and vindictive man, seems little more so than his
brother chiefs, notwithstanding all that has been
said to his disparagement. He has more energy
and cunning, and therefore more power for good or
evil, than most of them. Pity it should be so often
misused!

MYSTERIOUS AFFAIR IN. ST,
PANCRAS.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
SIR,—In conseqnence of the report in the Morning
Chronicle of the sth of November last, of an inquest hav-
ing been held before Mr. Mills, at the British Queen,
Sussex-street, Tottenham-court-road, on the preceding
day, on the body of Rosetta Brown, my servant, when
the jury returned a verdict, " That deceased destroyed
herself, but in what state of mind there was not sufficient
evidence to prove." I feel myself imperatively called
upon, in consequence of subsequent paragraphs in the
same paper of the 30th and 31st of December last,
alleging and insinuating that a lodger of mine had been
guilty not only of seducing, but of the foul crime of
murdering the young woman, to assert that although
two respectable men of business and partners in
trade were the only parties lodging at my house,
that the party alluded to in such report and para-
graphs had not been in the house from an early hour
in the morning until after the discovery of the fatal
event, which took place at a quarter to five o'clock
in the evening, which cur. be proved by the testimony
of several respectable persons, in whose company he was
during the whole day at his manufactory ; and as the
report and subsequent paragraphs have been inserted in,
the Weekly Dispatch and L'oyd's weekly London news-
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I remain your most obedient servant,
ROBERT JENKINS.
22, Huntly-street, Tottenham-court-road,

General Littler's forces were, on the 4th, under
orders to counter-march ; on the 12th they reached
the old quarters in Lahore, Wheeler's brigade re-
tracing their steps through the Jullundur Doab.
The •Seikh troops had been directed to stand fast
within or near the Passes till Colonel Lawrence
should be enabled to visit Cashmere, and determine
with his own eyes the state of the people. There is
no more high-minded, humane, liberal, or upright
man in the distinguished service to which he belongs
than the agent for the Governor-General; and, as-
suredly, if grievances there be amongst the Cash-
merians, he will not suffer them to remain if he can
help them. He is luckily well known, and his cha-
racter prized as it ought. His confidence in them,
as shown by his throwing himself amongst them,
will help to confirm the good opinion already formed.

SINDE.
We have numerous letters from Kurrachee down to
the 26th of November, and from other parts of Sinde
of corresponding dates. There seems scarcely anything
at present stirring on the banks of the Indus. There is
a feeling universally prevalent amongst our troops, that
minute inquiries are impending, which will anything
but redound to the credit or advantage of the ruler of
the country ; and changes close at hand which are only
the first of a series likely to terminate in the abandon-
meet of a possession whose maintenance has been as
mischievous to us as its conquest is discreditable. The
rumour formerly alluded to of an immediate reduction of
the force on the Indus, proves well grounded—the 3d
Light Cavalry, four companies of European, and one of
Native Artillery, with six regiments of Infantry—i. e.,
her Majesty's 17th, 60th, and 86th, the 12th, 13th, and
17th Native Infantry ; in all about 7,000, are to be with-
drawn from the country. It is a mistake, however, to
imagine that the expenses of its maintenance will be re-
duced by this below the million sterling by which, ac-
cording to the Parliamentary returns, these exceeded
the income in 1844-45. Since then, it is true,
8,000 of the Bengal troops have been returned to
their own provinces ; but, to make up for this, above
9,000 have been introduced from Bombay the
Sinde Horse and Belooch battalion have been
nearly doubled—the camel and baggage corps
and the police force, if we mistake not, so
strengthened, that the army, at this moment, under Sir
C. Napier, amounts to neary 24,000 men, and will after its
reduction still be as numerous as at the time to which
the Parliamentary returns wero made up, nearly 17,000
men. During the past year the charges of the country
must have exceeded its income by more than a million
and a half—they will now fall back to the moderate sum
of a million sterling. One result has been the opening
of a five per cent. loan,: which is being subscribed to
so slowly that one of six per cent. is talked of as about
to be opened by Government. It is said, indeed, that
the retirement of Sir Charles Napier is definitely fixed
for an early day—some say in December, some January,
others March. It is known that a majority of the Court
of Directors are anxious for the restoration of the
Ameers, and it is believed that views similar to these
held in Leadenhall-street were entertained by the Cabinet
of Sir Robert Peel. The authority of the Duke of Wel-
lington with both the present and past Administration is
understood to be such, that while he insists on supporting
the Ellenborough policy in every particular, nothing but
an appeal to Parliament will be of uny avail. This, it is
understood, is only waited for until Lord Hardinge shall
have decided on the matter submitted to him by the
Court ; should he concur with them in opinion, every-
thing will be plain ; should he avoid giving a decision
—that he will give an unfavourable one is scarcely
conceivable—then the directors will most probably take
the responsibility on themselves. Meanwhile the ac-
curacy of the rumours current at the dispatch of our
last in reference to some most extraordinary proceedings
on the part of the Governor of Sinde have been con-
firmed. It is now beyond dispute that the messengers
of the mother of the Meer Shandad, to whom Sir C.
Napier had given a safe conduct to Surat, whither they
were about to proceed with letters to the captive ex-
Ameer, were directed to be intercepted, and were de-
tained and searched by order of Government—this, as
is supposed, with some view of prying into the papers of
which they were the bearers, or getting up fresh charges
against the ex-Ameers ! The indignation excited by
the revelation of this has probably surpassed that occa-
sioned by the disclosures of Colonel Outram. Circulars
have just been sent round to the various collectors, full of
the most humane and philanthrophic instructions for
their guidance, just as their occupation is all but gone.
These, it is supposed, are intended to be pro-
duced when the kingdom shall have departed
from the hands of the modern Pharaoh, as evidences
of the wisdom and excellence of his rule. All that
is required to make them tahc at home is, to omit the
date, and leave it:to be supposed that such were the
mandates issued at the commencement, instead of the
conclusion, of a career which will shortly stand sorely in
need of defence. The sadly erroneous statements of the
letter addressed by Lord Ellenborough to Captain Na-
pier—published in the Times of Sept. 27th—have,
wherever the late Governor-General's eccentricities
were best known, occasioned mach surprise. His Lord•
ship states that Sir C. Napier moved 15,000 men with
100 guns on Mooltan, where he must have known that
the force moved on Bahawulpore, a friendly state,
amounted to under 14,000 with 30 guns. He adds that
this was an evidence of the great tranquillity of Sinde,
omitting to notice the circumstance that 9,000 men
were dispatched from Bombay to supply the place of
those who had left, so as to leave a garrison of above
15,000 in the country I An expedition of 6,000 men,
destined to last sixteen days, and which occupied part
of three months to coerce a few bill men afterwards
brought over by negotiations, he pronounces more
meritorious, in a military point of view, than the
battles of Dubba and Meeanee !—Sir C. Napier himself
virtually admitting it to be a failure when he directed
a cordon of 3,000 men to be established to protect
the frontier against the very men that were assumed to
have been disabled I The actual news from Sinde
amounts to next to nothing. A promising young officer,
Lieutenant Stanley, had died at Kurrachee on the 24th
from the effects of fever caught on a shooting excursion.
Courts-martial had been of very frequent occurrence,
one on a lieutenant of infantry had just closed, when three
more were expected to begin. The climate on the sea-
coast was cool and agreeable. Hydrabad continued
healthy, but at Sukkur a good deal of sickness pre-
vailed. Sir C. Napier and family were about to visit
the field of Meeanee and Dubba, and were, it was un-
derstood, making preparations to retire from Sinde in
March.

Jan. 3, 1847.

FUTURE POTATO CROP.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
Sir—The year which has past has been momentous
to Europe for the scarcity of food occasioned by the
preternatural abundance of the aphis vastator. Let us
now forget the sarcasms of the journals of the unsuc-
cessful investigators, and take advantage of the know-
ledge acquired during the past year to regulate the mea-
sures for the ensuing season.
I examined the subject as a scientific recreation for
the summer evenings, and having discovered the cause
of the disease, it now becomes my duty to point out in
the public journals how the crops are in future to be
treated, as my work on the potatoc plant is not likely to
be perused by,the poorer agriculturists, and it is mani-
fest that those who were unfortunate enough not to see
the insects cannot render information on the matter.
The vastator attacks many plants, and kills whatever
it attacks. It destroys the potato, spinach, turnip, car-
rot, beet, and clover, &c. It will even live upon the
wheat, and I am now writing with a wheat plant before
me, on which the creature is fee din.
frost, the vastator
N g
otwithstanding rain, snow, ond
is still alive and active, and it is uncertain to what ex-
tent it may appear next season: on the one hand, it may
destroy all our crops, on the other, it may be swept from
the face of the earth and produce no further mischief.
The potato plant, like all organic bodies when dis-
eased, retains its tendency to disease in future growths,
which is not singular when we remember that the scro-
fulous father is liable to produce a diseased offspring.
The vastator has heretofore not appeared in profusion
till July or August; hence we may in some degree, pre-
vent its ravages by getting our potatoes ripe before the
vastator comes in great abundance
All succulent and cellular growths are prejudicial, as
liable to favour the disease, but on the contrary, the
early deposition of fibre is calculated to enable the plant
to resist the injurious action of the vastator.
From the above statements we may deduce the following
line of treatment, applicable for practise during the next
two or three months:—
1. Cultivate all crops to the usual extent.
2. With regard to potatoes, use sets from former
healthy plants.
3. Select early varieties.
4. Plant early.
5. Use but little or no manure.

6. Choose a sandy or peaty soil.
7. Destroy the plants the vastator is now living on.
I call the attention of the benevolent to the above
rules, and recommend them to circulate these short di-
rections throughout Ireland, the poor parts of Scotland,
and England; I also beg to recommend them, as true
charity, to send round sets of early kinds to those dis-
tricts. I myself am against the over culture of the po-
tato, for reasons which I have elsewhere stated; never-
theless, as a secondary crop, too little culture will always
poor.
be attended with great of
to the
Year, it is desirable to At the early period of the
stroy such plants as the creature likes. It lives freely
upou the shepherd's vane, mallow, and turnip; on this
account the husbandman should destroy these plants as
far as possible before spring advances to furnish it with
abundance of food. The vastater causes the first damage
to vegetables it attacks, and is thus the cause of the dis-
ease from which all subsequent changes take place as a
consequence. Every farmer should know the form and
habits of the creature, and every one should assist him
to kill this destroyer of human food.—l am, Sir, your
obedient servant,
ALFRED SMEE.
7, Finsbury Circus, Dec. 31, 1846.

The following is an extract from one of our latest
Letters : _ _

REMARKABLE SUICIDE.--On Saturday informa-
tion was forwarded to Mr. Bedford, the coroner, of the
suicide of a man named James Berrall, under the follow-
ing extraordinary circumstances :---The deceased, who
was a married man, with a family of five children, was
by trade an upholsterer, being what is termed a jobbing-
master, and resided at No. 17, Brown-street, Grosvenor-
square. Although in humble circumstances he was not
in actual want, but he had frequently of late been in the
habit of saying that he bad an unaccountable dread of
the approach of the year 1847, and that as sure as it
came he should on the first day of it commit suicide by
hanging himself. His threats were taken no notice of,
but on his landlady going into the washhouse, about fire
o'clock on the evening of Friday last, the Ist instant, she
found him suspended by a cord tied tightly round his
neck, and fastened to a hook in the wall. An inquest
II ill be held to. morrow (Tuesday).

" KuanAcnEE, Nov. 25.—Lieutenant , Stanley of the

artillery, died last evening from the effects of feyer,con-
tracted while on a shooting excursion to the Hubb River.
The steamer Comet left the Bunder on the 15th for
Sukkur, with a regular chow-chow cargo. It consisted
of piece goods, silk, dates, sugar, copra, battans, mats,
brandy, cheroots, and soda-water. Another steamer is
mentioned to start on the Ist. There is considerable
competition among the Sindees for tonnage."

time in July (the fact was, we believe, noticed in our let-
ters of the time) some disturbances arose in the Hazareh
country west of Ghuznee. They originated, it appears,
with a chief of the name of Shah Navvaz, of the tribe of
Bukhtecarees, who, having raised the standard of the
Prophet, rallied some fanatics around the same. They
proceeded to plunder the travellers along the roads in
their country, and threatened to become formidable.
About the time the Wuzeer's marriage was to
take place, the hero of a hundred measures
managed to obtain the confidence, to use an ap-
propriate phrase of the Thug fraternity, of the chief, and
invited him to the feast. He came, was treated with
much distinction, and told, the day after the ceremonies
had been concluded, that the Wuzeer wished to have
some private conversation with him, to which end he
was desired to enter the Bala Hissar by the garden gate.
Shah Nawaz was punctual to the appointment, but had
no sooner entered the garden than Mahomed Akbar
Khan, who was in waiting, directed his attendants to
seize the rebellious scoundrel,' and forthwith to carry
out the preparations which had been previously made
for hanging him on the spot. The secret seems to
have been kept even from the Ameer, for some days,
and when it became public the matter was seriously
taken into consideration; but nothing beyond a remon-
strance was attempted by his Highness. On the 26th
of August news came in that many of the Ghilzie
chiefs, who had hitherto held aloof, had joined the re-
bellion; but on hearing a report that Jabber Khan was
coming to investigate their grievances, they withdrew
to their respective forts. Kurreem Khan, who had been
appointed to the chiefship in supercession of Azeez
Khan, availed himself of this movement, and attacked the
village of Sultanpoor, where he killed three men in a
mosque, and took four Hindoo women prisoners. On
the 27th of the month a purwannah was prepared, or-
dering Hajee Alice Khan, an officer in the Ameer's
army, to move from his post below the passes to Teezen,
with his battalion, and make arrangements for the secu-
rity of the road. The Kassid Bashee, when told to for-
ward the purwannah, said it was useless to attempt to
do so, as the Kassid would not be allowed to pass. On
the following day news came in that the Ghilzies had
attacked a village named Bhagbanee, above Balabagh,
killing fourteen men, taking seven prisoners, and carrying
off all the moveable property on which they could lay
their hands. The state of the country is described at
this time as such that not a man could attempt to pro-
ceed from Khoord Kabul to Jellalabad with any chance
4,f reaching that place, and was becoming daily a source
of greater anxiety to the Ameer, who came on the 29th
to the resolution of sending his younger son, Shere Jan
Khan, to employ his best endeavours in reducing the
refractory tribes. But it was of short duration, as on
the 31st it was determined that he should defer his
movement until after the conclusion of the feast of the
Ramazan, as the soldiers said it was not convenient to
them to march at such a season. The vacillation of the
Ameer affords our correspondent an opportunity of in •
dulging in sundry remarks that do not bespeak much
loyalty to the ruling tribe. He assures us that out of
the town of Caubul the name of a Barukhzaie no longer
commands the least respect ; that the Ameer has lost
all control over the neighbouring country ; and that the
finger of God is so evidently on his family, chiefly on
account of the atrocities of his son, that some change in
the ruling dynasty must soon take place, which will
either call another tribe or the English to the govern-
ment of Affghanistan. This does not betoken much
desire on the part of the Affghans to join in that
vast Mahommedan conspiracy which, according
to the Illofussilite, was soon to crush us,
unless nipped in the bud. On the Ist September
news came in from Candahar that the merchants in those
parts had beoome so alarmed at the reports which
reached them of the intention of the Western Ghilzies
to join those in the east in the insurrection, that they
would en no account send off their Ka6las towards
Caubul. On the 2d of September the Wuzeer, for the
first time since his marriage, having recovered his tem-
per and his eye-sight, presented himself at the Durbar,
and having consulted with his father on the subject of
the insurrection,' it , was determined at once
to send off as many soldiers as could be spared. On
the following day it was reported that the Ameer had
fever, and could not hold the usual Durbar, in conse-
quence of some serious differences with the mother of
Mahomed Akbar Khan on the previous day. He was,
however, well enough to resume his Durbar on the
4th of September. On that day a letter announced
a rising amongst the Khiberees, consequent on
some disputes amongst themselves, which seems
to have been looked upon by the inhabitants of
Caubul as a branch of the Ghilzie insurrection,
and to have alarmed them so much, that they began
removing and burying their goods and treasure. On
,the sth news came in that the Ghilzies had attacked
Balabagh, in which Hajee Allee Khan had taken post,
and that they had obtained such a decided advantage
over him that he was obliged to retreat on Jellalabad,
letiving the insurgents to plunder Balabagh at their lei-
sure. Meer Hajee and Hafizjee were immediately sum-
moned to a private council, at which the present state of
affairs was taken into serious consideration. The Meer
Hajee observed to the Ameer, according to the report of
one present, that all the evils of the state were to be at-
tributed to the faithless conduct of the Wuzeer, that
now no man would trust the word of a Barukhzaie,
but that as something immediate must be done to restore
peace, he would summon the Kohistanees. The Shirk-
arpoor merchants at the same time held a meeting, at
which they determined that if peace were not speedily
restored they would abandon Caubul in a body, and pro-
ceed to, Bukhara, where they said they were sure of
safety and protection. On the 7th of September the
Ameer begged of the priests to carry out their suggestions
regarding the Kohistanees, on which Meer Hajee
signed letters directed to the Kulan' of Estaleef, and
other places, requesting them immediately to dispatch a
large body of men. The chiefs of Nuogreehar, of Lal- 1
poora, &c., were also called upon to prepare themselves,
with as little delay as possible, to co-operate, from their
side, with the troops that would be pushed into the
passes from the west. On the Bth of September the
Lieutenant-Governor of Bameen wrote to say that the
murder of the Bukhteearee chief had created a great
sensation among his tribe—as great as that of Yesdan
Bukhsh of former days, and that there was every reason
to believe they would rise in rebellion."

NEPAAJL.
More bloodshed at Katmandoo! The 31st of October
again witnessed the destruction of human life—the
sufferers, on this occasion, being the Maharanee's adhe-
rents. The murder of a dozen or so men of note in or
near the Durbar or Hall of State, would appear to be
considered a matter of small consequence amongst the
Seikhs and Nepaulese. Several of the most influential
of the chiefs have been imprisoned, though probably un •
connected with the bloody transaction. A son of a
general is said to be amongst the latter, and a recently
appointed governor amongst the slain. All was quiet
at the residency. Major Thoresby had not yet joined.

JEYPOOR.
The Delhi Gazette affords the following communica-
tion on Shekawattee affairs ; it is the best explanation
which has yet been offered of the causes of the late dis-
turbances in that district :
___

" We have been favoured by one in every way capable
of affording sound information, with the following re-
marks on the late outbreak at Shekawattee, which we
prefer giving as received to using them according to the
'permission accorded, in any other manner. It affords
us much satisfaction to find that the outbreak has been
put down, because any disturbance of the public peace in
that part of Rajpootana, where so large an amount of
transit traffic exists, must be very injurious to that
traffic. The only point on which our correspondent en-
tertains opinions which we trust are not shared by the
authorities, is that regarding the alleged ill effect
of the presence of the Shekawattee brigade, in which we
totally differ from him, with all respect to the excellent
opportunities which he evidently enjoys of forming a
sound judgment. We have every reason to believe that
the force under Major Forster contributed, for many rea-
sons, to the maintenance ofgood order, although it is un-
deniable that the resolution to relieve the Rajpoot states
of the charge of that force, adopted by Lord Ellenbo-
rough, was undoubtedly a wise measure:—' There are
some peculiarities in the laws of inheritance among the
Sheikhawuts, which must always render that province of
more difficult management than any other portion of
Rajpootana of equal extent. The founder of the Sheikh-
hawut houses ordained that there should be an equal divi-
sion of land to each of the sons of a family, and this law
has obtained and still obtains in each of the houses,except
those of Rhetree and Seekur, which have preserved their
possessions unbroken, any further than in making the
usual Rajpoot provision for younger sons, and both are
respectable chiefships, yielding three or four lacs per an-
num each. In the other houses a division of landed pro-
perty has taken place, until some of the sons are left
with only a single village, and some of them with only a
a single field ; a rule has since been introduced, disal-
lowing adoption, as it exists in other Rajpoot commu-
nities ; so that when a person dies without male issue,
his lan reverts to the stock ; altogether, however, the
law of inheritance, thus amended by themselves some
generations back, has produced great disorder, leaving
whole communities of armed men, who have no other
profession than that of arms, without chiefs or rulers,
who are consequently ready to enter on any enterprise
holding out a promise of either pay or plunder. It was
this condition of things which led to the expedition into
Shekawatee in 1835-36, under General Stephenson, and.
the result of that expedition was the fixing of a fouj
khaneh on Rajpootana to the extent of three lacs a year
rs., 51,000 of which fell on the Sheikhawuts themselves,
and the [stationing of a brigade in their country, mea-
sures which were calculated to aggravate, rather than
heal the evil, since they did not strike at thelroot of it,
which can only be done after the present Maharajah of
Jaipoor shall have attained his majority. The fouj
khaneh was remitted in 1813, and the cost of the
brigade was taken upon themselves. This with the re-
moval of the brigade, has had a very healing and sooth-
ing effect, and in the late insurrections the illegitimate
brothers of the Rao Raja of Seekur, and the Minister of
the late Rao Raja, although they had abundant com-
mand of funds, were only able to collect 300 men. The
late Rao Raja bad, as bis Minister, a person named Rare
Bukhsh, a foundling, who had risen to that office. On
death Ram Bukhsh plundered the treasury and the
jewels of the chiefship, and assisted three of his illegi-
timate sons, wbo are only entitled, among Rajpoots, to
a life provision, in usurping territory yielding 60,000 or
70,000 rupees a year, in which are four places of some
strength. Colonel Sutherland travelled the Seekur ter-
ritory in 1841.2, with the present Rao Raja Ram Pur-
tab Singh, visiting Seekur, Luchmungurh, Futteh-
poor, and Ramgur, his principal towns and commercial
marts, and witnessed the state affairs, although, I am
told, not then prepared to correct what was wrong.
On his return in March last from the Cape of Good
Hope, the Rao Raja met him at Ulwur, he being
a brother-in-law of the Maha Rao 'Wm Benee Singh;
thence they proceeded to Jaipoor, to which princi-
pality Seekur is a tributary and feudal chiefship. It
was there resolved by the council of regency to resume
the lands which the natural .brothers had usurped; and

to make them a life provision, and the little Rao Raj a,
sending troops and ordnance against them, accompanied
Colonel Sutherland to Ajmeer. It was found that the
places were too strong for his troops unaided to hi siege
with effect, and eventually the Rao Raja from Ajmeer,
and Major Ludlow from Jaipoor, proceeded to the scene
of operations; also troops and ordnance in considerable
numbers from Jeypoor. The insurgents made a feeble
resistance at one or two places, abandoning the others,
and fled into other countries. So ended this absurd
attempt at rebellion, for the great body of the Sheik-
hawuts were not likely to take a part in so illegitimate
a cause, were they not too much our friends, and too
much alive to their own interests, to take a part in any
cause which the authorities in Rajpootana demanded.' "

GWALIOR.
The state troops had during the first week of
November been almost frightened from their pro-
priety by the rumour that a night attack was
about to be made on the " Lushkur," when or
by whom was not mentioned. It would seem to
have been a ruse practised by some persons who wished
to serve some ends they had i❑ view by " intimidating
the minister." A force had been dispatched into the
Toohur Ghaur districts for the purpose of quelling some
disturbances expected to take place there. The distur-
bers of the peace were said to be headed by one who
declared himself neglected by and misrepresented to his
masters. Dr. Hope, superintendent surgeon, Scindia's
force, being about to leave the country, had been pre-
sented by the Maharajah with a " buelut," or dress of
honour, in presence of the whole Durbar, in token of
esteem and gratitude ; and the Prime Minister, Ram
Rao Phalkeo, had also presented him with a similar gift.
Dr. Hope was private physician to the minister, and had
more than once been instrumental in saving his life when
seriously indi,posed. The doctor is highly spoken of
for his benevolence and humanity to all the poocof the
city ; he had succeeded in having a charitable Ospital
erected for them, to which he had given his attendance
gratis since its foundation. It is acts like these which
make a man's name be remembe red for generations in
India.