The Sun.
London, England, 1847-10-04 00:00:00

Charltl .1\ apic.r for the Furl -ACAW,
and family direct from Kurrachee to -4.uf::L
.!,Iliaalak.pastaa
vere indisposition of Lady Napier wiis Staff;d2l;le
primary and most prominent ground o salai aayrittriaa:
merit : her ladyship recovered so far ara:taeorra slTy:
till December was spoken of; a relapse has rf011it4e11.41.4. ST
the most rapid arrangements i
desirable. nearly
the whole members of the Sinrle :star propoeca t-ta
said, to retire with their chief. i
.The Aloo-
zuffer is understood to be the vessel n question;
e
she will quit this plac some days hence,. and, it
is probable the party she conveys will" endeavour so
to arrange matters as to join the Peninsular and
Oriental Steam Navigation Company's
.veasel either at
Aden or Alexandria, in which case they may be looked
for in England about the end
.of October, That the
system of politico-military government he endea-
voured to work out has completely failed, is admitted
by all parties—by none more emphltically than
some of his most ardent admirers. The fault has
been that of the system, not of the man. Sir C.
Napier has himself laboured with the utmost energy
and zeal to work out the plans he had laid down. It
is now understood to have been the decision of Lord
Ellenborough and himself to try Illy experiment of
dispensing with the services of civilians, and to en-
trust to officers of the army, without previou• expe-
rience or instruction, the duties of collecting the
revenue and administering the law, in preference to
those whose profession it was to attend to such
things, and who had from the beginning been trained..
in view to these employments. When the adninds
tration of the law is spoken of, the phrase must be
taken with great allowances where every tribunal was
a law unto itself—half a dozen of conficting codes
being referred to, or more frequently set aside, to
attain the ends .otaconcise and summary government.
The whole scheme of the judicial earl executive,
which could only endure in the hand of its designer
while he was allowed to work hi; pleasure—and even
then for a few years only—must be broken up and
re, constructed on his retirement. We have now been
nearly two months without hearing auy.hing more
of steam communication betwixt Kurrachee aid
Fert:zepore; end from the ailence maintained on the
subject compared with the alacrity usually mani-
fested in the publication of agreeable iirtelligence, we
may assume the experiment to have been less satis-
factory than could have been desired. Besides the
question of the possibility of maintaining steam com-
munication on the river such as will, even in the
hands of the Government, compete with camels or
common boats, the rext question that arises is, will it
pay the steamers ? Whatever Government may con-
sider expedient in the matter of starting the scheme,
or showing what may be done, assuredly they will
never be so unwise as permanently to constitute them-
selves, at a loss, carriers of goods. For a steamer of
80 horse power, and 200 tons burden—the most con-
venient size for the river—the expense of each voyage
of 800 miles is estimated at 2501.
KUREACHER, AUG. 13.-1 see it occasionally stated
in the Bombay papers that the weather at Kurrachee
is delightful, and the Europeans healthy. The wea-
ther certainly has been much cooler and more agree- .
able than last year, amid generally cloudy ; but as to
health, if we except that awful visitation of cholera,
I much fear that our hospital books will give a diffe-
rent result. Although there have been fewer cases
in hospital of all classes, yet the cases of disease at-
tributable to the climate have been more numerous
and more fatal than last year. During the last fort-
night, I believe I may say hardly a day has passed
without one or more funerals among the European
troops; and this is producing its effect on minds and
bodies already depressed and enervated by the deadly
effects of this most insidious climate. The last hope
to which they clung—viz., a change to the Presi-
dency, it seems now pretty generally understood here
will be withdrawn from them by the final announce-
meet that one certainly, and most probably both, the
European corps, arid probably the artillery (Row-
land's troop) will lie detained here areal er year. Let
the medical officers of these troops be asked if they can
trace the effects of climate more distinctly during
the present (healthy) than, during the last (unhealthy)
season ? Let them be asked, further, are these symp-
toms beyond a doubt yet on the increase? And,
again, let them be asked whether the observations
which they have made on the various cases that have
come under their notice, induce teem to believe that
these symptoms will be both multiplied and aggra-
vated by a further detention in Sin& ? And
whether, on the contrary, they are not unanimously
of opinion that a removal to India will check the
spread of these diseases, and render these same men,
after a time,- again fit for service in Sinde ? Why,
then, keep them to die here, rather than afford them
a chance of recovery in India But to another
point. he Bilks are strong in numbers, the
Fusiliers weak. If a dread of Sinde does not pre-
vent them, the former will probably be increased by
volunteers from her Majesty's 28th, and they have a
very large re-infoicement expected from England.
Should any regiment be sent from the Presidency it
is believed that it will be her Majesty's 22d (also a
strong corps) ; should either of the two European
corps in ainde be relieved, it must be the Fusiliers,
who first came to the country. Thus, then, we
shall have a considerable increase of Europeans
if any relief takes place The present force
can hardly be accommodated even by occu-
pying barracks pronounced by the executive engi-
neer to be unsafe. How, then, is it proposed to ac-
commodate yet larger numbers ? The answer is
clear. A large military hospital has been built at
Hyderabad; and people have long asked cur -how?
A reply will be given by sending there all the
Europeans who cannot be accommodated here.
Verily, Government acted with unusual foresight in
building the hospital first ; for that all who go to
Hyderabad will be its tenants during nine months
out of the twelve, is of course perfectly understood.
Another question is asked here—viz., why, if a relief
be intended, should her Majesty's 22d be selected in
preference to her Majesty's Bth, who have not as yet
had an opportunity of detailing to their friends in
England alli the delights of Snide ? But, leaving
that to be settled below, why should any, and still
more, why should two European corps be required in
a country which its present governor (no bad judge)
officially, or, at any rate, publicly declares would be
sufficiently garrisoned by its present police force ? I
fear I have already trespassed on your patience, but if
you are polite enough to think otherwise, you will
probably hear again from—MEMPHIS."

NEPAUL.

In our last we gave particulars of the
bloodless :deposition of the Maharaja of Nepaul,
who, after the massacre of last year, had proceeded
on a pilgrimage to the holy city of Benares, to
expiate his offences. He had at that date
written to his Ministers to send certain of their
number to him under an escort, that they might be
dealt with according to their demerits. The Council
of Administration, who had acted in his absence,
looked on his conduct as that of one who must needs
be insane ; they proceeded accordingly to depose him
in form from the throne, and invest a sovereign to,
rule in his stead. An account of u hat had occurred
was thereupon written hi,o ; he was reproached with
having abandoned his kingdom, and desired the blood
of innocent men; but assured at the same time that
he was at liberty to return to his country as a subject
or to remain in India, in either case receiving an al-
lowance and consideration becoming the rank of
prince of the blood now no longer ruler. The latter
course he preferre-d, and remain, d encamped near
Sergowlie, with a large crowd of refugees and mal-
contents in his train. It being obvious that the ar-
rangement just made at the capital was one that met
with general approval and promised to be conducive
to the welfare of the people, the elected
Monarch was recognised by 0,2.7- Government,
our resident remaining in the ,-;apital. The offers
and the latitude allowed him were so ample that it
was belived the ex-Sovereign would take advantage
of them, and abandon all thoughts of attemplimg to
regain authority. lie was meanwhile encamped close
to our frontier, where, suddenly, arms and atnmuni-
tion were secretly collected, and a large reinforce-
ment of men added
,uiptt.ao,
partly
yst
eoAshirt .egahld-laeno
at
btlength
l3a,toteoro bmarchedmen,eing.
for the borders of his own dominions, and entered
as more expert marksmen, and
prove serviceable in the more
hp
ae u2le3sde
pronounced
them
artlikelyy ot o
Nn
destruction of the
usurper. Ile had been led to tilat discontent
was already general throughout'ie"
the army would to a man be fowl'
tdt eli,h country
favour; t that
soon as he appeared in their presence, and that the
troops on their march to oppose him were most likely
to cross over and join his service. These last con-
sisted of five regiments of regular soldiers, nominally
under the command of the second son of the ex.
King ; in reality led by General Bum Bahadoor,
eldest brother of the new monarch, who, having just
before acted as chief justice in the Court of Right,
had quitted the bench for the saddle, and laid aside
the statute book to assume the sword. An address
was read to the troops on the parade-ground just be-
fore they marched. They were desired to spare
the :exiled Sovereign if pssible, and to fire blank
cartridge the first round ; if this did not intimidate
his followers, they were then to attack them its
earnest. The armies met on +-lie 28th of July. The
hopes held out of aid, and the rumoured attachment
of the troops, proved to have been contrivances of his
adversaries to lure him on to his fate. No one joined
him—none bid him welcome. The army, under big
son, took the invaders by surprise, and attacked them
fiercely. After a deadly volley had been discharged,
fell
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on.
'.tred-
the spot (the correspondent of the Bengal litirkfini
says three hundred), the rest scattered in all d
tions : the Chief of Gopal was among,,st the slain.
The ex-liing was taken prisoner, and remains in the
hands of the General, awaiting orders from Kat-
mandeo. Frca the indifference with which Lis
situation seemed to We been viewed, and the col