The Sun.
London, England, 1847-02-26 00:00:00

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LONDON, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1847.

The House of Lords met yesterday, and sat fur a

short time.

Lord STANLEY complained of the slow progress made
in the publ'c business, and gave notice that he should
put a question on the subject to the Government to-
morrow (this day),
The Labouring Poor (Ireland) Bill was read a first
time, and ordered to be read a second time on Monday;
after which their Lordships adjourned.

The Commons met at Four o'clock.
Mr. liumE postponed his motion on the affairs of
Sinde for a fortnight.
Dr. BOWIIING postponed his motion on the subject of
the collection of the revenue for a fortnight.
Mr. PLUMPTRE gave notice of a motion for an address
for a National Fast.

Mr. S. CRAWYOPD moved for leave to bring in a Bi
to secure tenant rights in Ireland.
Mr. M. J. O'CoNNELL seconded the motion.

Mr. LAB ,lICPIERE would not oppose the introduction
of the Bal. The Government had it in c.intetnplatio.t to
introduce some measure of this sort, and perhaps it would
he better to delay the further consideration of the Bill
until both measures should be before the House.

Leave was then given to introduce the Bill, which was
read a first time.

On motion of Mr. S. CRAWTORD, the Collection of
Rate; (Ireland) Bill was reed a a. e,int time, no the un-
derstaotlit,g tat it shanid not b" further proe4eded with
anti; the iii.ea.sures of the G.vernment on this subjie.
should have been before the House. The Fairs and
Ch uses (Ireland) Bill passed through Committee
as did the Commissioners Clauses Bill, the Gas Work*
Claqs.,s Biil, and the Waterworks Clauses Bill.
On the motion of Mr. HUME certain returns relating
to the military barracks of the LinitAl Kingth,m, were
agreed to, and the House adjourned.

A deficiency of intelligence in the dispatches from
our Oriental possessions is always to us matter of
earnest gratulation. Like many other ancient
apophthegms., that which asserts "no news" to be
synonymous with " good news," is peculiarly correct
in reference to India. Instead of containing deplor-
able narratives of slaughter and duplici:l, the papers
received in anticipation of the Overland Mail are cha-
racterised by an agreeable and consolatory dearth of
information. Little more than the ceremonious rati-
fication of our treaty with the Seikhs has diversified
the monotony of Asiatic affairs, that ratification
having been formally completed by the Itlovernor-
General and DHULEEP SINGH, on the festival
of Christmas. Although we can scarcely count
upon the permanency of any quietude among the
fickle habitants of those territories, there is some pro-
bability that the arrangement just completed between
the British Government and the Durbar of Lahore,
H ill be of much longer continuance than any which
has been hitherto Effected in that quarter. The so-
jourri of our regiments in the subjugated districts
must for a considerable time be a sufficient guarantee

of the stability of the recent pacification; and the
presence of our representative in the capital will in
sure the prevention of any hostile conspiracy among

the political leaders of the Seikhs. Beyond what ha

already been accomplished for the preservation of
tranquillity since the banishment of the QUEEN'S
paramour, it is ascertained that four Seikh corps have
been enrolled, under the direction of Captain

LAWRENCE, as a frontier brigade at Peshawur.
Every measure, indeed, is being adopted by the
Executive for the carrying out of the principle of the
stipulations, and we would fain anticipate the most
beneficent consequences from this activity, but that
the inflammatory materials with which these efforts
are necessarily being effected irresistibly impress the
mind with a sense of uncertainty.
Among the miscellaneous intelligence obtained
from India we regret to perceive a repetition of those
wanton paroxysms of cruelty which have already
attached so much odium to the name of AXBAR
Lill AN. It would seem that that redoubtable
;:l.:eltain has been wreaking his vengeance upon the
unoffending inhabitantA of a village situated near
Cilarekar, simply for the gratification of a pique
ii,pired by the disinclination of his father,

the venerable DOST MAHC.MED, to reject the
advances made by the Vakeel who had
been deputed to Caubul by the British Government.
The recurrence of such infamous depravities, the
depravities of a licentious and ignorant despot, must
only tend to facilitate the progress of European
civilization onwards and onwards from the southern-
most extremities of Hindostan to the wilds of Tartary
and the frontiers of China. Acting upon the fervid
imaginations of the Oriental races, the benignity and
suavity of the principles allied to the regenerating
influences of Christendom must inevitably in
the end excite an admiration and an affec

tion which will merge into a co- operative
obedience. Nor can the interference of our
emissaries with the bloody immolations of living men,
by which the Khonds of Goomsoor attest the ardour
of their idolatrous devotion, abate the love to us of
their more gentle and more enlightened brethren.
While it is ineumbPnt upon us, as the vindicators of
moral and physical freedom, to respect the religious
prejudices and superstitions of all tribes and people in-
discriminately, it is likewise a duty devolved upon us,
by our professed liberality, to prevent those accursed
and abhorrent acts of barbarity which are
too frequently the accompaniments of Ori-
eon:ally
in sacrifice. Wherever Budhaism is developed
13uckaism should be tolerated Something approximating
or for the actual
atedpproximating to morality,
inculcation or
Such toleration wouldbythe followers of the
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only be in accord-
ance with the holiest d
the prevention, however, the
_atxoeities arising