The Sun.
London, England, 1824-06-24 00:00:00

INDIA.

FEMALE EDUCATION.
(From the Calcutta Monthly Journal.)
" We very much regret that the interesting account of the
examination of the Native Females, educated under the au-
spices of the Church Missionary Society, did not reach us in
time for our last number.

" It is indeed a most gratifying circumstance to be able to
record the success of this most charitable and humane measure,
and particularly that it receives the countenance and support of
the highest female characters tr. the country. here it is that
the lustre of ltritish female Virtue shines to the greatest advan-
tage : in the whole range of active benevolence, of which the
various objects that -claim the attention of the philanthropist
are prominently exhibited by humane individuals for the con-
sideration of those who, although equally disposed to deeds of
charity, are prevented by various causes from personal exer-
tions, there is not. one which has the strong claim to public
support, which in every point of view attaches to the education
of the female population of India.
" With every claim which can be adduced in favour of any
other similar measure, this has some peculiar to itself,—of a
nature the most strong, and it carries with its success conse-
Wquences the most grateful to every good feeling of our nature.
With all this there is not one single objection. The only pos-
sible objection (though the word is too strong) which could be
at all urged against it, was not dependent upon its principles or
its utility, but on what should always be taken into the con-
sideration of every object having any moral change in view,
viz. its practicability. In almost all similar cases, prejudices
of some kind were to be overcome. Those who remember
the first general establishment of the Sunday Schools in
England well know the prejudices and opposition they had
to overcome before they even obtained a secure footing.—
The objection to them was on the principle, yet have its
soundness and rectitude being. securely established on the
very best test—that of experience. These schools were
the parents of all those Institutions which have since risen in
every
_part of the British Dominions, and which, having been
transplanted into other countries, have introduced a new era in
education, the good effects of which are felt in almost every
quarter of the Globe, notwithstanding the dissemination of doc-
trines, in every shape and form, subversive of all moral principle.
But to return to the immediate subject in hand. It is one of the
characteristics of almost every charitable and benevolent insti-
tution emanating from the Church of England to become known
more by its fruits than by a vain display of its beneficent ob-
jects ;—to plant the tree and administer support to it as it ap-
proaches to maturity. Nor has it ever happened that any
institution, having charity and the cultivation of moral prin-
ciple for its objects, thus formed has been left unsupported.—
If then public support and encouragement has never been yet
'withheld from the demands of other institutions with minor
claims to consideration, we trust that the one whose cause we
are new unsolicited advocating from the bottom of our heart,
will not be left to sink under the pressure of want. We would
especially address ourselves to the female portion of the com-
munity, ,and if we knew any expression or could flatter our-
selves that.any language we could use would have the effect
of strengthening those kind and benevolent feelings which they
imbibe in their earliest childhood, we would not fail to adopt
them. But we are satisfied there can be no occasion ; it is im-
possible hut that every one of them must at one time or other
of their residence in India have seen and admired the beautiful
and interesting female children of this country. With these
feelings we are sure also that pity, at the degraded state in
which they leave hitherto been kept, must have been mingled,
and nothing more can lie necessary than to make them ac-
, quainted with the institution of means to elevate them a step
in the moral scale, to induce them to aid those means: The
object of such, an appeal as this, is sometimes lost from an
idea of its being common place and a matter of course—
neither of these ought to —have any effect here. The ob-
ject is one of the very first importance, and its success is
obviously so productive of incalculable advantages to the
whole population of India, male as well as female, that so far
from being common place, it is paramount. Neither is this
appeal a matter of course Far we have been alone induced to
make it from the sense we entertain of those advantages.
" As we stated before, such institutions as these are in general
silent in their own praise ; and we rather imagine that it will
he new to some of our readers to learn that a Lady has been in
Indiasome time, who left England under the auspices of the
British and Foreign School Society for the express purpose of
undertaking this task. We cannot lengthen this article with a
detail of the difficulties which presented themselves; it is suffi-
cient that by a perseverance and steadiness beyond all praise,
aided by the benevolence and experience of the Church Mis-
sionary Society and others, she has triumphed over them all,
and nothing now is
wanted complete the success of the under-
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THE 818 MANS.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE BENGAL HIIRICARI7.
Sin—The promptitude with which Government has checked
the intrusions, or political experiment, made by the Arracan
department of the Birman Government, by taking possession
of the Island of Shuparee, will have powerful influence in con-
vincing that arrogant nation, that the British Government has
now the p?wer and resolution to punish those that dare invade
its territories or insult its Flag. It however is not sufficient, that
the King or -Court of Ave are sensible of our national strengt:i.

But the Birzan people, particularly those under Government, '
whose insolent behaviour to strangers is only equalled by their
ignorance of their national insignificance when compared with
the British nation, must bemade conscious of our strength like.
wise. The King's judgment is notunfrequently most unjudiciou s-
ly Overruled: The circumstance of the Governorof Rangoon re-
maining in power contrary to this desire. is a case, in point of
notoriety, to confirm the fact. With a knowledge of this and
other facts and anecdotes of similar import, together with the
non-arrival of the ship Aram, which ship (according to the ac-
count brought by the last ship from Rangoon) is about due,
I should not be surprised if an embargo was laid on
the English 'vessels at. Rangoon, as a retaliative mea-
sure for our taking re-possession of the island of Shuparee,
which Island the Government of Arrakan, to justify its
own measures, has no doubt used every argument and
artifice with the view to convince the Court of Ava that
Shuparee is bone
_fides part of the Birman Empire. For these
reasons it is to be regretted that one or snore armed vessels
were not sent to Rangoon about the time the troops were
dispatched to Shuparee ; as these combined measures would
have demonstrated most forcibly the facility with which our
forces could co-operate simultaneously, if an attack on their
country became necessary, particularly if they were overawed
by a strong force on our S. E. frontier at the same time.
I conceive nothing more easy, with regard to warfare, than
for our government to compel the Court of Ava to defray all the
expellees occasioned by their acts of aggression. Or to crumble
that empire into pieces.
A detachment of about 3,000 troops, with artillery and roc-
kets, &c. to take up their position on the height of Rangoon,
about the great Pagoda, or about the Syrian Pagoda, to act in
concert with three armed vessels (having patent boarding pikes
affixed around the ship) and a dozen gun-boats, would prove
invulnerable to all the forces which that empire could direct
against them. Our power and contempt for their forces being
thus manifest to the nation, all the Pegue artificers that
arc slaves to the great Pagoda, about 1,000 men and their
families, and all the discontented Birmans and foreigners,
who arc numerous, would immediately seek our standard' and
protection.
In addition to this Siam, Pegue Assam, Arracan, and
other countries, would readily avail them selveS of our assist-
ance to recover their lost territories and independence. Taking
this view of the relative power of our countries, itniust appear
evident to every person of common sense, that none but mad-
men or the vilest traitors to the King of Ava could advise him
to commence an offensive war against the British Government.
Yet the massacre of the English at Negrais was advised and
executed with impunity—experience, therefore, spews the
imprudence of adopting measures to avert the like from hap-
pening again.
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All whips being a kind of floating colony, to insult them is
to insult the country to which the ships belong. The Birmans
consider themselves invulnerable ; it therefore cannot be fear
that induces them to disarm and search our ships. But it is a
systematic :,tempt to indulge their national arrogance at the
cxpence of our Flag and national pride. When a vessel arrives
at Rangoon, all the guns,
.munition, fowling pieces, &c. are
obliged to be landed—a petition presented for leave not to land
the sails and rudder. Every part of the ship and every parcel
is twice searched, our persons on landing are searched, 300
rupees is paid as anchorage money for the ship, and 50 rupees
must be paid for permission to take away a feinal.:: that has ar-.
rived at Rangoon in the ship. In no other country is our flag
subject to these insults. The Birman vessels, when in our
ports, are not thus treated. Then why, in the name of justice,
does Great Britain suffer this nation thus to insult her mer-
chant ships.
There is a prevailing opinion among the Birmans, that we
are dependent on their country for timber, and considering their
general ignorance, it is not sarprizing that they should not
know that the coast of Malabar, Golconda, the Island of Cey-
boa, Holland, &c. can supply us with timber in abundance,
independent of their country. In point of fact, to receive the
produce from a country where the people so ill requite our
friendship, in preference to receiving the timber from our own
colonies, is really doing injustice to ourselves in a double ratio.
The magnanimity with which Great Britain restored many
valuable conquests made during the war, at a considerable sacri-
fice of men and money, to the French, Duteh,and other nations,
cannot be unknown to the King of Ava, from the many foreign.
ers that surround his court capable of informing him on
this subject; and this circumstance ought to satisfy him
that conquest is not our object. At the same time it
would be well for him to bear in mind, that when our
territories are invaded or our flag insulted, we never fail to
adopt the most safe and certain guarantee for our future seed-
rity, namely, by conquering or dismembering such country as
bath the temerity to insult us. Considering the inability of the
Birman Government to collect a sufficient revenue to pay sala-
ries even to the executive officers of Government, renders the
idea of our attempting to conquer a country thus poor perfectly
ridiculous. Instead of the members of government having a
salary to enable them to perform their duty to the king and his
people with equity and honour, every one of them has to give a
bonus to the court for their situation, and to perform their duty
without salary. Here, then, is the grand cause of the people's
poverty anti discontent, and the nation's weakness. From this
cause the pec:ile are frightened, goaded, and fleeced of their
property, to reimburse the Judge the bonus paid for his situa-
tion—to pay him his salary, or rather to support him and a host
of parasites and panders attached to him,—and, lastly, to
enable him to accumulate a larger sum, in order to purchase a
higher situation on his return to court, which takes place be-
tween one and three years. From this line of policy, the Bir-
man empire, which possesses all the requisite elements to be-
come rich and powerful, having a good robust population with
dispositions naturally good, a fertile country, abounding with
natural resources, is poor, weak, and powerless. No King can
be powerful whose people are poor and discontented, as the
power of state consists in the wealth and patriotism of the
people.
If the King of Ava, instead of suffering the British flag to
be insulted in his country, were to endeavour to cement the
friendship, or obtain a commercial alliance with Great Britain,
to establish through his empire an equitable financial system
for collecting hivrevenue, he would soon obtain the confidence
of wealthy merchants and of the underwriters, consequently the
trade with his country would greatly increase—his people would
become industrious, wealthy, and contented—his revenue
greatly increase—and his empire become powerful. He must
be fully sensible of the benefit which accrues to his country,
and of the increase to his revenue and that of the Queen's, (a
great proportion of a ship's port-charges being part of the
Queen's revenue), by even the present limited British trade to
his country, and therefore his Majesty is perfectly competent
to estimate the loss which himself and country would sustain
were the British Government to interdict their merchant-ships
from trading to his country, and also to disqualify ships built
under the Birman flag from the privilege of sailing under that
of the British, and this, I trust, will be the case if any further
I insult be offered to the British flag.
Your obedient servant,
HORATIO.

His Grae the Duke of BEDFORD has at length
let, on building leases, the whole of the valuable land surround-
ing Tavistock-square, so that the north and west sides of this
picturesque spot will now be finished uniformly with the others.
The mansion recently occupied by JAMES PERRY, Esq.,
with its beautiful pleasure grounds and garden, is going to be
converted into three handsome houses ; and, at the end of the
garden, a mews upon a novel and extensive plan will be erect-
ed, for the convenience of the inhabitants of Tavistock
and Russell-squares, to whose residencies coach-houses and
stables are not already appended. This quarter of the town
will be exceedingly improved, and the Duke of Bedford's pro-
perty much increased in value, when these buildings shall be
completed.
FATA r, A cci D ENT.—Stirling, June 17.—The
following particulars regarding
.the overturning of the Glasgow
and Perth mail have been received from an authentic source :
I —On Wednesday, the 9th instant, at nine o'clock, the coach
was on its return from Perth, and had one inside, and four
outside passengers. As the coach entered the east end of
Crieff, the horses became unmanageable, and made off.—
The guard attempted to throw on the drag, but without
success. They accordingly drove through the town at full
gallop, the coachman quite unable to restrain them : the
consequence was, that when near Mr. Robertson's inn, the
coach was overturned on the middle of the street, and the pas-
sengers, guard, and coachman, were dashed to the ground. An
uiside passenger, Mrs. Fenton, from Leith, but originally of
Crieff, and who had again returned to reside there, had her
arm broken above and below the elbow. She is, however, in a
fair way of recovery. John 111‘Gregor, gamekeeper to Wil-
liam Stewart, Esq., of Ardvorlich, and officer to the Saint
Fillan's Highland Society, had his skull fractured, and from
the quantity of blood which issued from his mouth, it is sup-
posed he had received some severe contusion from his dirk,
pistols, or powder-horn, when he fell, as he was in full High-
land costume when the accident happened. Unfortunately for
his wife and family, he died at eleven o'clock the same night,
much regretted by all who knew him. A gentleman from
Dunfermline, who was sitting beside the coachman, and who
actively assisted to stop the horses, had his leg much hurt, and
his body injured ; but was, in course, of the afternoon, able to
resume his journey in a postehaise. Peter M Laren, from
Dalremch, near Comrie, overseer of Mr. Angus's woods, had
his shoulders dislocated, and his face and knee much cut, but is
now in a fair way of recovery. A young girl from Perth, going
to Gen. Drumnaond's, of Culdees, received some contusions,
but she is also in a fair way of recovery. The guard and coach-
man received some contusions, but not of a nature so serious as
to prevent them from resuming their occupations. One of the
. horses is since dead.

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