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THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY MORNING, JANUARY 25, 1847.

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THE WEATHER.—►SIIN OFFICE, JANUARY 23.
THERMOMETER, Lowest, 32; Highest, 37 ; Noon, 38,
BAROMETER, 29.66.—W1ND S.E., hazy.
JANUARY 24.

T. TERMOMETER, Lowest, 38; Highest. 43 ; Noon, 44
BAROMETER, 29.34. —Wind S.W., rainy and squally.

HIGH WATER AT I.ONDON-131:11)GE THIS DAY.
Morning .. 13 minutes after 3 :Evening .. 50 millet, s after 8.

towards the dimunition of the sufferings arising
from the dearth in Ireland and Scotland. In fulfil-
ment of the intimation contained in the Speech from
the Throne, the Government has proposed the removal
of all difficulties as to the employment of sugar and
molasses in brewing and distillation. The Chancellor
of the Exchequer has explained his ideas up=
this question to the House of Commons, and the latter
in Committee has expressed no definite opposition to the

Ministerial scheme. It is true that Lord GEORGE
BENTINCI has intimated his intention to propose an
amendment to the effect that the measure shall not
be permanent ; but that interposition, we take it, is
merely pro forma; the Noble Lord cannot assuredly
be solicitous to render himself the opprobrium of
the million by a hopeless interruption of the business
of the Legislature. The reduction proposed by the
Chancellor of the Exchequer is of a singular
and unusual character ; it is a reduction
which, •while it will tend to the alleviation of very
considerable distress, must inevitably, as far as human
calculations can foresee, conduce to the enhancement,
instead of the reduction, of the revenue. It is a re-
duction, moreover, based upon experience. From the
recent diminution of the duty upon rum, sugar, and
molasses, it was anticipated that therg would be
a deficiency of between 300,0001. and 400,0001. ;
whereas the balance-sheet -has shown an in
crease beyond even the most sanguine anti-
cipations of Sir ROBERT PEEL. It is not ex-
pected, however, that the reduction of duties
upon these articles will materially affect the use of
malt and barley in distillation : it will only afford
brewers and distillers a resource in the shape of
sugar and molasses, when grain has risen to an
exorbitant price. For example—the duty on a quarter
of malt being 21s. Bd., and the duty on a correspond-
ing amount of sugar being 225. 6d., the preference
would naturally be given in times of plenty to the

former as a vast deal more economical. When, how

ever, as occurred only the other day,-barley has risen
to such an extortionate price that the brewers are
compelled either to discontine their malt operations
or to charge an additional penny per pot, the admis-
sion of sugar into those establishments would be a most

appreciable advantage. The benefit therefore accruing
from the measures proposed by Sir CHARLES Woos,
cannot so much be the reservation of grain for house-
hold purposes as the ensuring of a sufficient supply
of cheap beer to the population at a reasonable
price. In like manner, upon the equalisation
of the duties upon rum in England, Ire-
land, and Scotland, there must be a certain
balance of supply and consumption—a balance of a
most salutary nature—one poised in such a manner
as to ensure the advantage of the consumers and dis-
tillers, as well as the sensible advancement of the
revenue. With this proposition the good labour of
the Administration for the diminution of the suffer-
ings experienced in Ireland and elsewhere progresses.
We are glad to perceive an energy in the Legislature
commensurate with the difficulties of the emergency.

Without at all entering into the questions in dis-
pute on the subject of Sinde between General NAPIER
and his adversaries, it must be manifest that it is impos-
sible to come to the conclusion that Sinde is an useless
and expensive acquisition until we are informed accu-
rately, not only of the amount expended by the. Gover-
nment in Sinde since it has been a British possession,but
likewise of the manner in which that amount has been
expended. If, for instance, any portion of that
amount has been expended in opening up new routes
of communication between different parts of the
country, so as to give an impetus to the commercial
prosperity of the province, if any portion of that amount
has been expended in the construction or repair of roads,
or in the construction or repair of canals or bridges,
or in the rendering navigable parts of the Indus, or of
any of its branches, such, portion of that amount
so expended can no more be put down to the account
of loss, than can the expense of construction of a
railway be put down to the account of loss. In
each case it is capital invested with a view to a
return, and it matters nothing to the argument
whether this investment be a national investment
of national capital—as is the case with many of the
Belgian railroads, and with any public works which
may have been constructed by Sir CHARLES NAPIER
in Sinde—OT a private investment of private capital,
as is the case with the railways of England.
The question then arises—has any portion of the
amount expended in Sinde been expended on public
works of this nature ? the answer to which is,
undoubtedly a very considerable part of such amount
has been so expended. For instance, Sir CHARLES
NAPIER has built at Kurrachee a pier two miles long,
extending into deep water; and we happen to know
that on the 20th of November last a commercial
steamer was actually loading at this pier with goods;
that she was to take these goods to Sukkur, and to
reach the Indus by a natural inland salt
canal, rendered available for navigation by
engineers employed by Sir CHARLES NAPIER. Kur-
rachee, therefore, is now a port, and the first start is
given to commerce by the Indus for Central Asia.
Surely it is absurd to put down the cost of the forma-
tion of this pier, of the rendering navigable this canal,
to the account of loss by Sinde. It should be put down
to the capital account, and there is every reason to be-
lieve that it will turn out to be one of the most judi-
cious national investments of national capital ever
made. But even supposing that such should not be the
case—admitting for the sake of argument that which
is not the fact—that the revenue of Sinde is insuffi-
cient to maintain Sinde, is that a valid reason for
giving it up ? Is it to be henceforth laid down as a
rule that every British possession, the revenue
derived from which is not sufficient to pay the cost
of its maintenance, as such, is to be at once aban-
doned ? Does Gibraltar support itself ? Does
Malta ? Does Heligoland ? Does Aden ? Will
the revenues of Oregon ever pay the ex•
penses of its colonization ? And yet no one dreams
of proposing to relinquish these possessions. Not
twelve months since we were prepared to go to war
for Oregon. It is impossible to apply to possessions
retained as great military and naval stations the same
rule that we apply to colonies, retained for purely
commercial purposes ; and that Sinde is a most im
portant military station—that its possession, form.
ing as it does one of the natural frontiers of India

is absolutely essential to the well-being of our Indian
empire, is a fact which cannot be denied. Of the im-
portance, in a military point of view, of the possession
of Sinde, and of the command of the navigation of
the Indus, which its possession affords, we had a re-
markable instance twelve months since, on the break-
ing out of the Seikh war. Had not Sir CHARLES
NAPIER been in Sinde, at the head of a British
force, a much greater number of Seikh troops
would have been at Moodkee, Ferozeshah,
Alliwal, and Sobraon; but as the British had posses-
sion of Sinde, the Seikhs were unable to concentrate
all their forces on the Sutlej. We, however, utterly
deny the assertion that the revenue of Sinde is insuf-
ficient to defray the expenses of its maintenance
as a British possession ; and when the items
of expenditure shall be made known, and the
account dissected, it will be found that not only
has there been no actual deficiency in the re-
venue of Sinde, but that in reality it has yielded a sur-
plus every year since it has been a British possession.
Of its importance as opening up to British enterprise
the commerce of Central Asia by means of the Indus
and its numerous tributary streams, there can be no
doubt whatever; and whether we consider the sub-
ject in a military, a financial, or a commercial point

of view, we are equally satisfied of the immense
value of the splendid possession which has been con-

ferred on his country by the hero of Meanee and
Hyderabad.

We have already noticed that the Duke of Men-
:MOND took advantage of his trip to Brighton to un-
kennel the Protectionist fox. The same feat was per-
form( el on Friday in the House of Commons by Lard
GEORGE BENTINCK, who declared he had merely
" consented that there should be a truce to all poli-
tical hostilities until the Noble Premier bad settled
the affairs of Ireland." So soon, then, as legislation
shall have done its best, for the time,
with respect to that afflicted portion of the
United Empire, Lord GEORGE will be equally
ready, with his ducal colleague, " to pull off his
gloves," and get up, in right earnest, a political
boxing match. Hence we are perfectly borne out in
the views we expressed, that the calmness which the
Protectionists evinced on the first night of the session
was purely specious ; that the unanimity professed
;ad observed was completely hollow, and that their

tactics " sprang not from choice, but necessity."
Had the actual features of national distress been less
severe than what we unhappily know them to be,
the Protectionists would have been equally coerced
into adopting the same course. Like every other
political sect, they cannot altogether afford to
fly in the face of public opinion, without some por-
tion of which, however, erroneous the direction it may
they must soon cease to edit. Aity serious at-
tempt, therefore, on their part to thwart the progress
of the Ministerial measures for alleviating the famine-
stricken population of Ireland and Scotland, whilst
their miseries are so appalling, would have drawn
down upon them the execration of every philanthro-
pist in the empire. And yet every one of these
measures is an useful engine for demolishing the dila-
pilated barriers that remained of their favourite
stronghold of monopoly. No doubt the hop 3 had
been entertained, from the termination of the last
session, that during the long vacation circumstances
would have intervened to justify their offering a fierce
opposition to any proposition that might emanate from
the Government, calculated still further to weaken the
foundations on which the Protectionists delusively
conceived the real interests of agriculture had been
wisely raised. This hope signally failed them. "The
revenue has prospered, and corn has realised high
prices, added to which, the stern dictates of nature
have completely baffled all their cabalistic arts. The
people are no longer spell-bound by their self-vaunted
, once the se-
prejudice, the
wisdom. In Bouf ckianggrhiacmulsthuirarel
farmelik regard with content the important change
last Mi. wrought in the laws affecting cereal pro-
duce. They care little for the wild apprehensions
for the future engenkred in the bewildered brains of
the greatefeudal pro etary. What is true of Buck-
inghamshire is equally true, for the most part, of the
rest of the country. The power of the Protectionists
is gone, and, considering how mischievously it was
wielded whilst they held it, a greater blessing could
not have been conferred upon the country. The only
power left them last year was that of upsetting a
government. With the completion of this act their
political strength became exhausted. Theirlast signifi-
cant manoeuvre was one of destruction. The pro-
vince of erecting a government Fill never rest with
the protectionists. So desperate is their condition,
and unsettled their principle of action, that they re-
semble nothing more closely than rats in a sinking
ship. They are in extremis, and most amusing it is
to observe how they strut and fret their hour on the
stage. They tell us how valiantly they will fight
before long. In the meanwhile, none are better
.aware than themselves that all they consider worth
fighting for is fast slipping from under them.
They mourn over their losses. Under protest, they
part with the several props to their tottering edifice,
gravely assuring us that they mean to have them all
speedily back again. The truth is, they make a
virtue of necessity—they assume a virtue if they
have it not. At the close of the Parliamentary
labours of the past, as well at the commencement of
those of the present year, Sir R. PEEL distinctly in-
timated that he meant to adhere to the same liberal
commercial policy by which he had achieved the de-
feat of the corn-laws. The identical combination
of parties which effected this grand object in 1846,
exists, and is animated with the same spirit to de-
velop the principles of unrestricted commerce. The
Protectionists, therefore, stand alone, and are utterly
helpless. They are living monuments of their own
folly. For a series of years they have clandestinely
carried on, by means of class legislation, a thriving
trade as the receivers of stolen goods. The trick is
now fully understood. They have been tried and
convicted of larceny against the State. Their present
isolated position is the legitimate penalty of their
nefarious practices.

Madrid papers to the 15th have arrived. They con-
tain no news. The discussion on the Address in the
Senate had not concluded.

MADRID BOLSA, JAN. 15.—The Three per Cents.
•dosed at 31i buyers; Five per Cents. 20i ; Passives, 61-;
and Coupons, 184.

We have received the Paris papers of Thursday.
The Speech of the Queen of ENGLAND on open'n
Parliament on Tuesday, and the speech of M. GunoT,
in the Chamber of Peers, on the Spanish marriages,
which was delivered on Wednesday, are subjects of
comment in all of them.
In speaking of the QUEEN'S Speech, the Debuts says—

" Like the King of the French, the Queen of Great Britain
expresses a firm confidence that the peace of Europe will be
maintained. On the subject of the Duke de ➢lont.penser's
marriage, the Queen expresses herself with a reserve on
which we have only to congratulate the two Governments
and the two countries. She confines herself to saying that
this marriage has given rise to a correspondence. It is stated
that at first the intention was to make official mention of
the difference which had arisen between the two Govern-
ments. We are happy to see that this first idea was not
carried out, and that the language from the royal lips is of
a nature rather to lessen than to aggravate so regretable a
difference."

All the journals speak in terms of the highest com-
mendation of the mariner in which the annexation of
Cracow is alluded to in the QUEEN'S Speech. The
Opposition journals contrast it with the language used on
the same subject in the speeo of the RING of the FRENCH,
and draw comparisons between M. GUIZOT and Lord
PALMERSTON by no means favourable to the former. This
contrast is rendered still more favourable to Lord PAL.
MERSTON by the speech of M. Guizor on the subject of
the Spanish marriages in the Chamber of Peers on
Wednesday. Looked upon as an oratorical display, the
speech is worthy the high reputation of M. GUIZOT :
looked upon as an argument in defence of the conduct
of the. French Government, it is a confession of conscious
weakness. Throughout the whole speech M. GUIzOT
rests his case on the garbled dispatches which were first
presented to the Chamber. He —e never once alludes to
the unmutilatcd dispatches which he was subsequently
forced to produce, and from the beginning to the end of
his speech he neither mentions nor alludes to that which
is the pivot upon which everything in this controversy
turns—LordATIERDEEN'S letter to the D uke of SOTODIAYOR3
All the papers comment on this fact except the Epoque,
the Debats, and the Presse. Another remarkable part
in the speech of M. GUIZOT is that in which he asserts
that neither the French Government nor Count
BRESSON were at all anxious that the Montpensier
marriage should take place contemporaneously with
that of the QUEEN, and that it was only on the sth of
September that Count BRESSON, reluctantly yielding to
the importunities of the Spanish Government, sanctioned
this arrangement. What must M. GUIZOT think of the
intellectual qualifications of those to whom he could
venture to make such a statement ? With regard to
England, he admits that she is dissatisfied, but he thinks
that if, on the one band, the French Government main-
tains its general policy, and, on the other, shows itself
determined to maintain the propriety of what it has
done, and to abstain from all concessions and all ad-
vances, that the dissatisfaction of Eagland will die
away. This is a sounding sentence, meaning
nothing. What is the nature of the general
policy which the French Government is to maintain ?
On the whole, it is manifest that M. GtrizoT has signally
failed to make out his case, that he has shirked the
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METTERNICH died on the 15th at Vienna. It was not,
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however, generally credited.
The Three per Cents. closed on the Paris Bourse on Thurs.
543 f. 75c. ; Boulogne, 430 f. ;
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burg, 475 f. ; Tours and Nantes, 4751. ; Paris and Lyons, 497 f.
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LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, JANUARY 22.
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Luxembourg, —Namur 'and Liege, 314—Northern of Prance,
11 f —Orleans and Bordeaux, 6%—Paris and Lyons, 7—Rouen and
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by
HEALTH OF LONDON ASSOCIATION.—SANATORY
twhaegehvelendinagt,stbdeiscLuounidoonnaTgraeveedr,n.
ImvuovE3tExTs.—On Friday a numerously-attended meeting
of the medical and other members of the above association
Lord Lincoln was extremely defective, and not sufficiently
comprehensive to .remedy the existing evils, and it was of
the utmost importance that there should be a conference
with the Government, in order that their (the association's)
labours and suggestions for an enlarged and improved sys-
tem of sanatory measures, founded upon indisputable evi-
dence, might be introduced and adopted. A resolution was
thatAj tlhethßeills
then unanimously carried—' That a deputation should wait
on the Secretary for the Home Department with the sugges-
tions and evidence referred to."
TILE CALEDONIAN CHURCH, HOLLOWAY. -- On
Thursday last the Presbytery of the Church of Scotland in
London opened for Divine service this neat place of worship.
The Rev. A. Black, the moderator, began the service, and the
Rev. Dr. Cumming preached. A truly interesting sight was
the presence of the children of the Caledonian Asylum, in
their picturesque Highland dress, who filled the end gallery
of the church on this occasion. The Duke of Buccieuch, Sir
Charles Forbes, and others, have subscribed munificent sums
towards the purchase of the property, which is freehold, on
condition that none but a clergyman of the Established
Church of Scotland shall be its minister, and that sufficient
accommodation be reterv„: 1 for thf,, ot t n
Asylum. The Rev. J. Tod Brown, formerly one ut tue in-
cumbents of the Abbey Church, Dumfemline, is likely to be
appointed minister of the church.

OVERLAND MAIL

(From the Times.)

We have received by extraordinary express our usual
Indian papers and letters i❑ anticipation of the Overland
Mail. The following is a summary of the Indian news
since the last arrival.

The Punjaub remains tranquil, and the British army

it is said, will march in the course of the present week
from Lahore. It is rumoured that it will make a halt
some march or two from the capital to watch the imme-
diate results of its retirement, before falling back on
Ferozepore. It is probable that for some time to come a
strong force will be inaintalned at our principal frontier
stations.

Just as it was supposed, the most satisfactory conclu-
sion had been attained, it is stated that unquestionable
evidence has transpired of there having been an under-
standing betwixt the Baja Lall Singh, Vuzeer at La-
hore, and Sheikh Ernaum-ood-deen, the Cashmerian
insurgent leader, with the purpose of keeping Ghoolab
Singh from taking possession of his new dominion.
Should this prove well grounded it will materially affect
the concluding portion of our arrangement!.
The proposed fair in the Jullundar Doab appears to
have turned out a failure. Lord Hardingo is still
within our lately acquired dominions, in progress to the
westward.

Lord Gough has by this time left Simla for Umballa,
he not intending at present to visit the Jullundar Doab.
The. Lieutenant• Governor of the north-vest provinces was
last heard of at Nusserabad, in progress to Ajmere. Sir
George Pollock has returned from the Cape to Calcutta,
and the Legislative Council of India, dormant during
his absence, is once more in a state of 'activity. Some
most extraordinary instances of gambling in opium have
occurred in the course of the month. The Bombay bar-
gains are usually made contingently on Calcutta quota-
tions of the Government sales. To raise these, rival
speculators bid, till 13,0001 was offered for chests usually
disposed of for 1501., the bidding being so arranged that
no sale could be effected that day. Government have
made it a subject of special notification, and large for
tunes depend on the results.
A hurricane of unusual violence, by which much loss
has been occasioned to the shipping interests, occurred
at Madras on the 25th of November. Similar visitations
at this season of the year are frequent on the eastern
side of India, from Calcutta to the line ; they are almost
unknown in the Arabian sea on the western shore of the
1 Peninsula.

Our intelligence from Sinde is scanty. None of the
military movements formerly announced have as yet
occurred, though the withdrawal of seven regiments is
known to have been determined on : a breach of con-
fidence in the subordinate military department having
enabled the relief recommended to be published before it
had obtained the sanction of Government.

The celebrated slave girl Mungla, of Lahore, and
Raja Heerah Singh, brother of the Ranee, are now in
our territories, on a pilgrimage to Benares, to bathe
themselves in the waters of the Holy Ganges, as is also,
we believe, the Maharaja of Nepaul.
No authentic intelligence has as yet been received as
to who is likely to be Governor of Bombay—Lord Dal-
housie and Lord Elgin are both spoken of; the former
with considerable confidence. The Hon. Mr. Reid,
acting Governor, has returned with his family from
Kandallah, and been at Parell since the 29th ult. Con-
siderable sickness prevails in different parts of the
country, though not of a very fatal kind. The weather
was becoming cool and pleasant.
The late arrival cf the two past mails from England
has created considerable confusion in Indian arrange-
ments. The dispatch of the steamer of the Ist of De•
cember was deferred to the 2d, in hopes that the dis-
patches from England of October 24, which, ought to
have been received in 35 days at the longest, would be

in time for a reply. They did not reach till the 7th, a
succession of accidents having kept them ten days
behind their time. The mail of the 7th of November
had not been signalled on the 15th of December.
Casualties by death in the armies of India reported
since the departure of the mail of 2d December.
Madras.—Lieutenant A. Clerk, Bth Regiment at Ka-
lapore, on the 2d December. Lieutenant R. Taylor,
49th Regiment, at Madras, on the 221 November. Lieu-
tenant W. R. Studdy, 15th Regiment, accidentally
killed, at Cannanore, on the 18th November. Ensign
Clint, 9th Regiment, accidentally drowned at Kamptee.
Bengal—Captain R. Walker, Invalids, at Agra, on
the 17th of November. Captain C. H. It. Christie, 6th
Cavalry, at Moaafferpore, on the 29th of October.
Lieut.-Colonel W. H. Earle, 39th Regiment, at Berhatn-
pore, on the 18th of November.

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