The Sun.
London, England, 1846-06-04 00:00:00

THE SUN,

LONDON, TIIIIIISDAY_ IVIORNIVG, JUNE 4, 1846.

9ni
llity certainly prevails on this side Lahore, and if it
ue. not deceptive, shows how wonderfully the native
kind can adapt itself to circumstances. The road from
Lahore to Feroxepore is reported so safe, that goods
move up and down without escorts. The only grumbling
!re have from Lahore, and which seems too well founded,
11.Ithat regarding post. office arrangements, which con-
tinue very inefficient indeed. That which prohibits the
rePayment of letters at, and compels prepayment to, La-
ore, is very unjust, and a positive breach of contract, be-
twen the Government and the public. It is not the fault
of the public that proper arrangements are not made, and
"
hY should they suffer because a certain department is
inefficient? We hope the Postmaster General will
speedily put matters to rights, as we understand he is on
Or beyond the Sutlej. We regret to learn that a Court..
martial was definitively ordered to assemble at Lahore
On the 13th instant (Monday last) for the trial of
Captain
.s Cecil, of the 12th Regiment NJ., Brigadier
-cekford to be President. Ten lacs of rupees, the money
vee presume expected from Mooltan, had arrived at
Lahore on the 7th of April, under escort of a Mahom-
Irnedan regiment.
A. letter from Lahore give an interesting account of a
tip from Loodianah to that place via Jullindur and
unlritsir. A gentleman started palkee dak, and tra-
versed that part of the country where bearers are un-
known; but, he says, people of all callings were ready
to carry him, and seemed to regard it as great amuse-
tent. He was attended only by a mounted guard of
~.ikhs, who had fought against us in the recent battles.
The people of the country were civil and attentive, and
did all in their power to facilitate the traveller's pro.
gress. A letter from Loodianah says the artillery had
arrived there, "rejoicing in prospect of not having to
spend the hot weather without a roof over their heads."
,410fussi/ile, April 17.
iaIIORE, APRIL 10.—The Ranee is very ill ; the
'loops are exceedingly healthy—her Majesty's 80th have
only 41 men in hospital, and of these only one case of
-lever and one of dysentery. When the filth has been
elnared away we shall not know the place.—Agra
Chronicle, April 18.

SINDE.
Scanty and unimportant as are our tidings from Sinde,
they are more voluminous than those from any other
quarter of India. The results of the conquest now touch
113, very nearly : a pressure in the money market, of
almost unprecedented severity, being ascribed to the
'rain of specie, to the extent of nearly a million sterling
44nually, required to pay the army necessary for the
maintenance of Young Egypt. This is the first, the
most,. prominent and permanent, of the blessings of open •
hg the navigation of the unnavigable Indus for the
Ships of all nations, and courting the commerce of
;01intries which had none to confer. Our former dates
:°lll Snkkur extended to the 28th, at which time the
rrlooch battalion and Captain Bailey's battery—the
st of the long line of corps returning from Baha-
w_ Llpore—had arrived. The other corps came in in
4,llecession, all well, and resumed their former quarters.
'll the downward mare' of her Majesty's 17th it was
'eared that Lieutenant Gardiner had been murdered. At
liagoodrah he had one day at noon gOnUeut shooting,
thilnd was missing' till next day. Ile had loit him Self in
I. jungle, when darkness overtook him. He was ex-
hausted, and slept all night on the ground. He descried
village near him in the morning, and thither he re-
hired and made known his wants. The people gave
111 k and such bread as the country supplied, treated him
with kindness. showed every attention to his wants, and
then
guided him to camp in safety. Uniform testimony
to borne to the honesty and kindness of the people in the
t.4hawulpore dominions. Captain Brett's battery is sta-
19ned in the fortress of Bukkur; all the spare ammu-
-I.htion is returned to store. General Hunter once more
t,4k,es command at Sukkur, Captain Bignell, 69th Ben-
, actin.. as Major of Brigade. The circumstance
*Bengal officer having command of a station now
rtirely occupied—as it is in future intended to be-
-48
_Bombay troops, has occasioned considerable dis-
gap; and but for the personal popularity of the
s,_Ant veteran himself might have caused more.
„Lone embankments to protect the cantonments from the
ninclations of the river were being constructed ; and it
"eased to be considered that the large expenditure re-
ollired for this would have been much more advantage-
a"l3" Made in removing the cantonments themselves
°lll the margin of the stream. Sir C. Napier. with his
we
14 reached Roree on the 4th of April. He imme-
Ztely crossed over to the island of Bukkur to inspect
kienie alterations then being made on the fortifications.
th 4t warning he left for Hyderabad, where he arrived on
late° 7th by steam. On the sth, the European portion of the
ate "Indus field force" proceeded down the river in
2,, uers.consisting of the Ist company Ist and Ist company
battalions of artillery and hers Mr.jesty's 86th Foot--
4%M's being sent down in boats. Rowland's troop
"1-, the horses of the two batteries, and the 12th
4"
18th N. I. marched the same morning for Hy-
der
tar-bad. The head -quarters of the 3d cavalry had
n the place of the mounted portiun of the Bun-
wrhund Legion, and were to be stationed at Khangur,
,ipt. outposts at Shahpoor, Meerpoor, &c. The
frreanee and Janeedra freebooters last season trans-
_eerred
o.r by „1 C. Napier from the hilla to the plains,
Zuant under the considerate management of Lieu-
mi ht Hamilton, turning out much better citizens than
Atirr hav outeen expected. Sir C. Napier reached
ee he 15th, and seemed to have recovered
frore
Is fatigue& The officers and men wounded during
„,utjewlate battles on the Sutlej having got easily and well
lt the river, arrived at Bombay on the 26th and 27th.
Twelve have died on the way, Colonel Ryan, of her Ma-
:"Y's 50th, among the number; above two hundred
reached this presidency. Many of them are sick; the
hurts„, of most of them very severe. Every kindness and
attention has been shown them, and all the kindly and
generous sympathy accorded them of which they are so
eminently dea:erving. It is hoped that a considerable
Portion of them may be sent home in the fine ship Here-
fordshire now in harbour. The last steamer for the sea-
Son leaves next week for Kurrachee, from which time till
tlll° end of the monsoon our communication with Sinde will
_
closed. Some negotiations in which the Governor of
likely had been engaged with Ali Moorad, were, it is said,
to open the eyes of his Excellency to the pecu-
liarities of his Highness's character—if, indeed, the sup-
Posed belief of the former in the virtues of the latter has
all along been anything more than a convenient pretence
and
rAuis own advantage. Sir C. Napier is a clear-headed
lilil4 an acute man enough ; and the infirmities of the
b Ameer too pre-eminent to be easily over-
Led. Had this discovery been admitted, his claims
tue Turban would never have been backed by us, and
the
would have been no Meeanee or Dubba—no
44°i000/.
arY for
°f Prize money, or 10,0001. a year of Governor's
Sinde; and, it may be added, there would,
racadi.fiblY, have been no mutinies in the Bengal army—no
sacrifice' ef 2,000 lives by sickness—no deficit of three
moll ha the Company's revenues since 1842—and no
f 3: crisis in India, where Company's paper was re-
11be9. for security, and discounts could scarcely be effected
eleven per cent. We shall not pretend to strike the
balance as to which of the alternatives would have been
must advantag eons.

ARRIVAL OF THE WOUNDED FROM THE
On s SUTLEJ.
luulty and Monday the steamers Vicforia,
Berenice, and Medusa, arrived from Kurrachee, bringing
been
them._ officers five and upwards of 200 men who had
'n more or less severely wounded during our late
operations on the Sutlej. Many seemed to suffer from
Zekness as well as from the hurts they had received ;
erne were sadly maimed indeed, and all were objects of
the
most heartfelt and generous sympathy. It was sad
`0 see fine young men, in the prime of life, disabled of
leg or an t.rm, or cut up in the face and person, as so
,many were. Save in the cases supplied by Sinde, we
'nye long been out of the way of such things, and cus-
tam luckily comes not to aid in reconciling us to them.
very care and attention was bestowed on them, and
they are, we believe, likely to be fortunate in having a
first-rate vessel for their conveyance home. A good
many had died on the journey—and it was remarkable
that the most of those who did so were men who had
beenhurt in the lower extremities—those who had only
boat an arm or so did well.—Bombay Times, April 29,

FAILURES IN BOMBAY.
combined
failure of one European and one native house,
insta-
bility with the prevalence of rumours as to the insta-
ve,..,"Y of other establishments, has tended to create a
tlao-iluneagiy feeling amongst the mercantile public during
tru kat week or so. We hope. however, that the.dis-
andstthwhie h has been apparent will not be long exhibited,
credit at, above all, parties will be cautious ho w they attach
unf it to idle reports, which are the natural offspring of
Th:unded alarm, and cannot be too strongly deprecated.
tight itself
of money is a temporary evil, and will soon
to- `"el f ; but were anything in the shape of a " panic"
occureffects,
it might be productive of most disastrous
.....,'ts, wViich would not be easily or quickly remedied.
'B4 oln bay Times, April 16.
The paragraphs which recently appeared in this paper
Ittul the Et.
bay, d Val, Times, respecting the failures in Born
alarm ain the
scarcity of money, have occasioned some
have been receivcou:(ll7; numerous letters on the subject
that have to ed , inquiring the names of the firms
opp pa
Messrs. IN. and Only one European house,
firm, Pest,onjee Cursetjeend
nable and Co., and one native
gret to say, have been bloody, have. These, we re-
and althoug the scarcity of ma meet their engagements,
verely felt, and the banks havneeY continues to be se-
ofrpt reduced their rates
discouttt and interest, we hoanvetieard from those who
beet, that every
are fully competent to speak
fulfil all their
firm in Bombay is now in a condition sneto
engagements in these trying times.—B
7nan's Gazette, April 24. bay Gentle-

COMMERCIAL IN TELLIGENop
'
(From the Bombay Times, May L
CALCUTTA MONEY MARKET.
seeking
to
art
Since our last issue our market has relaxed a good---a deal of
the tightness then existing. This is attributablesei
money from Benares and other places naturally
most profitable locality, and in part, also, to a readier rate of
of
and payment for imports. The opium speculators have rea
son to expect also remittances from China; and the general
result has been a more satisfactory state in the money
circles.
circles.
Government securities have profited by this change,
mar be quoted at I per cent. more favourable to the seller.
'Exchange is about our last quotations, 2s. ld. to 2s. lid.,
at ten months' date. We believe a farthing more has been
obtained in some quarters, but to no great extent.
Bank Stock is more inquired after, at better rates.
GOVERNMENT SECURITIES.
Transfer Stock Paper Five per Cent., prem. 44 0 to 15 0
Bombay Five per Cent. ... ... prem. 2 8 to 3 0
Old Sicca Five ditto, according to
... .., „, ... prem. 1 0 to 3 0
numbers
New Company's Five per Cent. ... p rem. 4 0 to
to 7 4 4
Third, 4 ditto ... ~. discount 6 8 8
New Company's 4 ditto ... discount 4 8 to 5 0
BANS SHARES.
Company's Rupees.
Bengal .
Bank ... ... 4,0)0 prem. 2,600 to 2,650
union Bank
.. ... 1,000500 If 280 -- 290 190 to 195 200
Agra Bank .
•••
North-Western Bank ... 500 1 old 190 200
new 100 130
Odegtal 4
5616-1- ••• • • 1,000 (500 paid) 180 290

PRICE OF BULLION, &C.
Company's Rupees.
Sycee silver ... 104 12 oto 105 0 0 per 100 sa.wt.
China gold bars ... 15 8 oto 16 3 0 per sa. wt.
Gold dust ... 15 8 oto 16 8 0 ditto.
Spanish dollars ... 221 10 0 to 221 12 0 per 100.
Mexican dollars ... 221 0 0 to 221 4 0 ditto.
Sovereigns .. 11 3 6to 11 4 6 ditto.
Madras gold mohurs 16 4 oto 16 8 0 ditto.
—Bengal Huzharu, evening edition, April 18.

THE BOMBAY MARKET.
(From the Chamber of Commerce Overland Price Caroent.)
BOMBAY, MAY 1.
A moderate extent of business has been transacted during
the past fortnight, but owing to the continued and increas-
ing scarcity of money, and the anxiety of holders in conse-
quence of recent heavy arrivals, to realise their stocks, it has
been attended in many instances with a considerable decline
in prices. The operations of dealers from Persia, Arabia,
&c. may now be looked upon as closed for the season, and
until the end of the monsoon no further demand seems likely
to arise, save for the supply of local necessities.
Metals—The prices of copper, with the exception of nails,
which have risen in value, have sustained a general slight
reduction, and but few transactions appear to have taken
place during the fortnight. The only sale we have to report
is one ofBoo cwt. of Brazier's, at 54 rs. per cwt.
In iron, Swedish bar is scarce, and in request, and would
sell readily at cur quotations, but British continues without
demand, and has given way in price Ir. to fir. per candy.
We retain our former quotations for nail rod, but there is
little or none at market, though some inquiry exists for
square. Sheet and hoop exhibit no material change in
value, but both are dull of sale, notwithstanding the light-
ness of present stock. An improvement took place some
days since in the price of steel in tubs, but the article has
again declined in value owing to a large addition to the stock
at market, and last month's rate may be repeated for it.
There is no demand for lead, and we quote pig nominally at
a rupee per cwt. lower than before. In spelter and tin
plates there is no alteration to notice, though we are in-
formed of a sale of 250 boxes of the latter at 14 rs. per box.
Quicksilver has risen in value 2 rs. per maund.
Cotton manufactures—Transactions have taken place in
gray and bleached shirtings, and madapollams, but with the
exception of those in the finer qualities, the sales have been
chiefly forced ones, and on a reduced scale as to price. Gray
domestics of stout fabric have been in request for the Persian
and Arabian markets, but the demand from these sources
having latterly subsided, sales are now more difficult to be
made. Jaconets, both gray and bleached, have been inquired
for, but the prices offered have been so miserably low as to
preclude operations to any extent. There have been some
low sales of mulls and lappets, and all descriptions of mus-
line, cambrics, and fancy goods continue more or less de-
pressed. Prints and Turkey red goods are alike without
inquiry, and only saleable at unremunerating rates.
Cotton Yarns—A general reduction has taken place in the
prices of both mule and water, and the transactions of the
part fortnight have been to a very limited extent. The
demand continues to be confined to yarns of superior quality,
and of the particular numbers which happen to be in request
in the interior.

In dyed yarns we hear of no transactions.
Woollens—These still continue altogether neglected, and
no demand for them seems likely to arise until after the
monsoon.

Marine Stores—Swedish and coal tar have both risen in
value; the former 7 rupees, and the latter 2 rupees per
barrel. Paints are neglected,.and have given way in price;
canvass and cordage are dull of sale. We hear of a sale of
300 barrels of coal pitch, at 3 rupees per barrel, the rate
quoted in our last.
Beer—There has as yet been no arrival of the new brew,
with the exception of a parcel of Tennant's, which is said to
have been sold at 30 rupees per hogshead ; and consequently
we have no transactions to report or change to notice in price
or demand.

Spirits—These are unsaleable, save at very low prices, and
no business whatever is doing in them. The stocks of all
descriptions are very heavy.
Red Lead remains without change. White has improved
considerably in price, and .we now quote it at 12 rupees to
14 rupees per cwt.
Cochineal—We repeat our former quotation for this article,
but the market is at present bare of it, and no sales appear
to have taken place.
Saffron—We are informed of sales, 40 lb. at 14 rupees,
and the same quantity at 1614 rupees per lb. The latter may
be considered the maximum rate now obtainable for saffron
of good quality.
Bottles—Quarts may be quoted somewhat higher, and
pints a shade lower than before.

EASTERN PRODUCE.
Cotton—The market for this staple has exhibited no ani-
mation, and the business done has been exceedingly limited;
stocks are in consequence rapidly accumulating, but the only
reduction in price which has taken place has been in Dolls-
rah, and that has been more owing to inferiority of quality
than to any other cause.
Opium has declined in price, and may now be quoted at
1,225 rupees to 1,230 rupees per chest for fair qualities.
Silk—There has been a slight rise in Persian and Bengal,
and Nos. 2,3, and 4 Canton ; other varieties are unaltered
in value.

In other articles the only material changes we have to
notice are an advance of 4 rupees per candy in the price of
Concanee hemp, and 20 rupees per candy in that of ginger;
and a reduction of 5 rupees per maund on the last quoted
rate for long Cardamoms.
Freights —Freights to Great Britain has declined since our
last, and now may be quoted at 3/. 7s. 6d. to Z.,/. 10s. to Lon-
don, and 31 7s. 6d. to Liverpool. To China the rate has re-
ceded to 16 rupees per candy.
MONEY-MARKET.

The continued tightness in the money- market has still
further affected the value of Government securities, as may
be observed from the decline in the prices of paper of the
three latest loans :

5 per cent. loan of 1825-26 Rs. 107 to 100
4 t, 1832 33 „ 99 to 100
4 t, 1835-36 „ 94
5 f t 1841-42 „ 1041 h
4 ff 1842-43 ” 9E;
EXCHANGE.

The supply of bills continues in excess of demand, and the
rate of exchange on England has consequently still further
advanced. It may now be quoted at 2s. 01,4 d. to 2s. 03%d.
per rupee, at six months, and 2s. at 30 days. On Calcutta,
at 39 days, the rate is 97% re. to 98 rs.

BANKS.
Subjoined are the current rates of bank shares
Bank of Bombay ... ... 400 rs. premium.
Oriental Bank ... ... 130 rs. to 150 rs.
PRICE OF BULLION.
Sovereigns, each ..
Bank Notes, per IL

... 11 rs.
... .. ... 11 I's.

ALEXANDRIA.

MAY 22.—Ibrahim Pasha is expected to return shortly
to Egypt, and some believe that the Viceroy announced
his intention of going to Constantinople, not with any
idea of doing so, but in order to hasten the return of his
sun from Europe.
The barrage of the Nile is proceeding with great
vigour, and the men are made to work both night and
day in order to take every possible advantage of the
present low state of the water. The Pasha's frigates
are employed in bringing cargoes of timber from the
coast of Daramania; these are
,immediately squared and
sent up to the site of the barrage with all possible speed.
15,000 men, comprising soldiers and country people, are
at present employed at the barrage, and, owing to the
great fatigue and privations of these poor people, the
deaths are very numerous.
The family of the late Bishop of Jerusalem, Dr.
Alexander, consisting of eight children, under the
charge of a governess, arrived here from Beyrout by the
Emmetge, and proceed to England by the Iberia to-
morrow morning.
The Hon. East India Company's steamer Atalanta,
with the Bombay mail of May, arrived at Suez on the
19th, and has brought fifty-four passengers, comprising
Price Waldemar of Prussia and the Hon. J. H. Craw-
furd, of Bombay.

PRINCE LOUIS NAPOLEON.,
Prince Louis Napoleon, on arriving in London, ad-
dressed the following letter to the editor of the Journal
de la Somme :

" My dear M. Degeorge,—My desire to see my father
once more in this world made me attempt the boldest enter-
prise I ever engaged in. It required more resolution and
courage on my part than at Strasburg and Boulogne, for I
v, as determined not to submit to the ridicule that attaches to
those who are arrested escaping under a disguise, and a fai-
lure I could not have endured. The following are the par-
ticulars of my escape :
" You know that the fort was guarded by 400 men, who
furnished daily 60 soldiers, placed as sentries outside the
walls. Moreover, the principal gate of the prison was
guarded by three gaolers, two of whom were constantly on
duty. It was necessary that I should first elude their vigi-
lance, afterwards traverse the inside court, before the win-
dows of the commandant's residence ; and, arriving there,
I should be obliged to pass by a gate which was guarded by
soldiers.

" Not wishing to communicate my design to any one, it
was necessary to disguise myself. As several rooms in the
part of the building I occupied were undergoing repairs, it
was not difficult to assume the dress of a workman. My
good and faithful valet, Charles Thelin, procured a smock-
frock and a pair of sabots (wooden shoes), and after shaving
off ray moustaches, I took a plank on my shoulders.
" On Monday morning I saw the workmen enter, at half-
past eight o'clock. Charles took them some drink, in order
that I should not meet any of them on my passage. He was
also to call one of the gardiens (turnkeys) whilst Dr. Con-
*eau conversed with the others. Nevertheless, I had scarcely
got out of my room, before I was accosted by a workman,
who took me for one of his comrades, and at the bottom of
the stairs I found myself in front of the keeper. Fortu-
nately, I placed the plank I was carrying before my face,
and succeeded in reaching the yard. Whenever I passed a
sentinel or any other person, I always kept the plank before
my face.
"Passing before the first sentinel, I let my plank fall, and
stopped to pick up the bits. There I met the officer on duty,
but, as he was reading a letter, he did not pay attention to
me. The soldiers at the guard-house appeared surprised at
my dress, and a drummer turned round
wsehvoerlannl
kteidmevserto
look at me. I next met some wo , y
placed
.the plank before my face, but
at.
theyattentively t iavpepl ye a
raetd mt ee .
d them cry,' Oh I it is
ble so
.curiouks that I thout I should
never escape them, until I ear
Bernard I'
Q u"e On
tni
nee. o uctns iadrel,e
s,I
Nwv
halok etdh
eq udiacyk I
bye
ftoor: ahradds tehneg
argoeadd a o f
eaSrt.
.
riage, shortly overtook me, and we arrived at St. Quentin.
"I passed through the town on foot, after having thrown
underhrown
off my smock-frock. Charles procured a post-chaise,
with any obstacles, atValenciennes,Vearrive(i
pretext of going to Cambrai.
where I took the rail-
way. I had
remained in
mypr
iessocna escape, Dr. Dd r.Conneau,
caused t
he mto
b
procured a Belgian passport, but nowhere was I
asked to show it. without meeting
" During
alwayselsioad-
sary to be convinced that to reach the frontier. It was neces-
eevlowteads to me,
order to give me time
me at liberty, before I cotultdhe Government would never set
be persuaded to quit France, if
I would not consent to
matter of duty that I should exert dishonour
myself. It was also a
to console my father in his old age.
all
my powers to be able
" AaLen, my dear M.
my-
selfDegeorr-
to be most unhappy. itecetiNe..; although free, I feel
sin-
cere friendship, and, if von the assurance of my are able,
to my kind Conneau. ' "LOUlSendeavour NAPOL
1 EON.).

We understand that Mr. Cubitt has sold the noble
mansion built by him in Cheiham-place, to the Hon. Richard
Cavendish.

I E ITII BY DROWNING.—WiIIiam Howe, aged 20, in
the employment of Messrs. Henry Meux and Co., brewer,,
Tottenham-court-road, was drowned on Monday, while
bathing in the Thames, near Datchet. Ho had been to
Windsor, with porter, and on his return be and a fellow-
workman decided on a dip in the river, and hence the acci-
dent, the deceased having sank into a hole from which bal-
last had been taken. Verdict of the Coroner's jury, " Acci-
-01441 Death."

LIEUT.-COL, MARCUS BARR, C.B.
We deeply regret to have to insert, in our obituary of
this day, the death of the above lamented officer. His
name is now added to the list of eminent men who have
nobly fallen in the service of their country.
In our columns we have frequently recorded the gal-
lant achievements of this distinguished soldier, not only
at the splendid victory of Maharajpoor, under the walls
of Gwalior, on the 29th of December, 1843, but also at
the recent glorious victories of Moodkte, Ferozeshah,
and Sobraon, on the banks of the Sutlej, during which
campaign Colonel Barr held the high office of Acting
Adjutant-General of her Majesty's forces. Thus he
saw the commencement, progress, and final success of
a series of triumphs which will be ever memorable in the
history of India.
Some extracts from a letter by Major-General Sir
Harry Smith, Bart., G.C.8., with which we have been
favoured, conveying to the family of Colonel Barr the
intelligence that this brave and accomplished officer was
no more, will be read with much interest.

If aught could assuage the poignant grief of his rela-
tives, it is the tribute of the hero of Aliwal to the me-
mory of his friend.

Sir Harry says in his dispatch, dated Camp, Latteala,
on the road to Simla:—

" Would I had a far less painful duty to perform than
that of telling you I have lost one of my dearest and
most valued friends! you a brother—an honour to his
family, and to his profession, and to his country!
"You will be aware he was severely wounded in the
battle of Sobraon; the large bone of his left arm was
much shattered by a musket ball. It was not ampu-
tated, and although, while at Ferozepore, we were in
constant alarm for his welfare, he reached Kussowlee, a
hill station near Simla, in charge of the very able surgeon
of his own regiment; where, it appears, the wound had
sloughed, and the artery must have become diseased; for,
on the 26th of March last, a violent hemorrhage ensued,
and our noble Marcus sank under it!

" You know the friendship which existed between me
and Marcus. I know by your letters to him how brothers
mad sisters can love! Judge, therefore, of my incompe-
tency to write all I feel; nor can I attempt to offer any
consolation—too mortal can! Our appeal, trust, and hope,
is in heaven! to where I am sure he is gone—for he was
a good man'—and where we ;must strive to meet him.

soldier ever lamented the loss of his friend and
comrade more than I do. For his ' future' I hope in the
belief of a Christian—for the past' I know nothing in
his career to regret. He was a' man' in every sense of
the word—a truly honest and upright Englishman !
time had not diminished his amiable nationality. He
was universally beloved and respected throughout India.
As a soldier he was pre eminent, and the tears of sorrow
rolled down the veteran cheeks of that bravest of men,
our Commander-in-Chief, Sir Hugh Gough, when we
talked of our most valiant comrade this day ; for yes-
terday we had good accounts of him.
" When the heart is full, it is eased by pouring forth
its contents before a friend ; such is my case when I thus
write and dwell upon my painful loss to the brothers
and sisters who have been so bereaved !"

Sir Harry Smith, we understand, writes still more
touchingly, and, with surpassing kindness, as regards his
late friend and the feeliug3 of the family. But enough,
we trust, has been said fur the satisfaction of those who
have expressed so much kind solicitude.
The military career of this valiant and much esteemed
officer is now closed 1 His grave has been honoured by
the deep regrets of his brave and excellent friends
Lord Gough, Sir Harry Smith, and his other gallant
comrades.

No doubt these feelings will be responded to by a
grateful country, to which he was fondly attached, and
for whose honour and interest, in the disharge of a sacred
duty, he 3 ielded up his breath !
" How sleep the brave who sink to rest,
By all their country's wishes blest !"
Worcester Chronicle.

RAILWAY MEETING.
(FROM A CORRESPONDENT.)
A meeting of the shareholders of a Manchester Rail-
way, under Sir Robert Peel's recent orders, requiring a
furthcr testimony of the feelings of the shareholders in
favour of the prosecution of the undertaking, was held
in Manchester on Saturday last, and although a motion
for the continuance of the company was made, and se-
conded, and supported—by the directors, an amend-
ment for the immediate winding up of the concern, was
carried by the shareholders.
Considerable surprise was excited at the meeting by
the discovery that the acting directors of the company
had taken up only twenty-five shares a-piece ; and that.
consequently, none of them had rendered themselves
responsible by signing the deed for more than 500/.
It appeared that, on the onset of the project, the di-
rectors had looked after their own interests, and at a
very early meeting passed a resolution that each of the
body should be entitled to have 250 shares, with a fur-
ther control over all the shares that might by any
chance remain unappropriated. Having thus protected
themselves for any emergency—either for the making
of a little fortune, by the sale of 250 shares or upwards,
in case the railway mania continued long enough to
hatch and bring out the scheme—or, on the other hand,
to have the pi ivilege of taking only a homoeopathic al-
lotment of shares, in case the tide of affairs should have
taken a turn ; the directors had nothing to do but luxu-
riously to occupy their seats at the board with perfect
composure. The announcement of this act of self-pre-
servation and protection on the part of the board of
directors electrified the meeting ; and it may be consi-
dered a pity, that this instinctive quality of a director—
this provision of human nature—was not previously
known, as it would, doubtless, have operated upon the
minds of the shareholders who have been called together
to act upon advice and counsel, emanating from similar
sources. The fever having passed its height (before the
scrip could be fairly out), the horncropathic dose was
taken by one and all of the directors, the quantity vary-
ing
from 15 to 25—the highest number of shares taken
by any director being 25. This was the extent of
the confidence of the directors in the undertaking—this

as the amount of their responsibility—and it was
quite enough to govern the decision of the meeting, and
to induce the shareholders to give the like measure of
confidence to the directors. Assertions that the whole
number of shares had been, unfortunately, exhausted
before the directors had time to think of themselves,
might be attempted to be made—arguments of all kinds
might be adduced—the engineering report might make
the difficulties to vanish as dew before the sun—a tunnel
of three miles through the hardest stone in the moun-
tainous county of Derby offered no obstacle worthy of
consideration—the engineer's wand was to be passed
over it, and magic seemed to be supplying the place of
navigators. The captain of the traffic tables, big with
numbers and prospective profits, might bring all in
array in the most favourable light. The lawyer might
try to seduce the shareholders with a notion that it
would not cost more than sixpence per share, in addi-
tion to the expenses already incurred, to pass the Bill
through both Houses of Parliament, and get the sanction
of the Legislature—a lopping off of part of the original
line, and a consequent reduction in the amount of
capital, might he suggested. Indignation might be put
on by an aspiring director, who had enjoyed the brief
authority of his office, with its concomitant sweets, and
a more experienced director might try the effect of
his persuasive powers ; but all to no effect—the spirit
of the autumnal dream of 1845 was changed—the
castles were found to be built only in the air—the en-
gineer's wand had lost its magical effect—a conviction
had been wrought in the minds of the shareholders
that the only parties benefited by making the line
would be the officers of the Company and the inha-
bitants of Leek, who wanted an outlet for their obscure
town to be made at the risk and expense of other par-
ties ;in short, the shareholders had come to their
senses, and the Sheffield, Buxton, Leek, and Crewe
Railway was consigned to the general vortex for all such
schemes of absurdity.
A proposition was afterwards carried that a Com-
mittee of three gentlemen, selected from the share-
holders, should be appointed to investigate the ac-
counts, and an immediate return of a portion of the
deposits was ordered, and the meeting was then dis-
solved.

PORTUGUESE VEGETABLES.—A further importation
of potatoes has taken place at the port of Liverpool. A
vessel, called the Fernandez, which has arrived at that port
from Lisbon, had on board, in addition to a cargo of oranges.
oil of olives„ and wine, 100 boxes of potatoes, and the large
number of 350 boxes of onicns, the produce of the place.
The importations of potatoes and other vegetables from Por-
tugal appc.ar to assume a degree of importance, both with
respect to the extent and quality of the articles, which until
lately was not the case.
RAPID PASSAGE. The last trip of the Princess
Royal steam-ship, from Slasgow to this port, at which she
arrived on Friday, was accomplished in fifteen and a half
hours, or at the speed of upwards of fourteen miles an hour.
If further improvements in naval architecture and engine-
building continue to be developed, the wide ocean itself
will become one general " railway," or certainly a water
level, and on which no inconvenient curves will have to be
made to avoid hills or favourite country seats, and the gra-
dients to be encountered only strong head gales.—Liverpool
Standard.

-- - .
A WHITE CROW.—Last week one of the gamekeepers
at Eglinton shot a white crow. The bird has red eyes.
About t -enty years ago a nest of young crows, from the
same rookery, was sent to our office, of which one of the
birds was white, one piebald, one grey, and one with white
talons, and a white bill.—lrvine News Letter.

DEATH OF MISS WAGSTAFF, W THE V VOC,LIST.—We
regret to announce the decease, from consumption, of Miss
Eliza Wagstaff, a vocalist well known at our concerts a few
years since, who was a pupil of the Royal Academy of Music,
and professor of singing lately at Leamington. Bliss Wag-
was
rtshe
ae
Church, daughter ofa r.nd feNrV a
mangstff. ,
ywhoear
years
s hastl e obregeann i sat
estfaffj3
Battersea
violinist in the Opera, Ancient, and Philharmonic orchestras;
an excellent musician, and highly esteemed by his brother
professors.
A printed letter has been circulated by Mr. Peter
Dixon, lately one of the directors of the Newcastle and Car-
lisle Railway, in which he sets forth his reasons for retiring
from the board of management of that undertaking. His ob-
jections to the course of business pursued by his colleagues in
office are various, but they seem to be particularly levelled
at the high rates for coal transit, and, what is more impor-
tant than all, to the system of declaring larger dividends
than the revenue (leaved from traffic has actually produced.
This is a charge so serious in itself, that not the least delay
on the part of the Company should be suffered to take place
in refuting or explaining the circumstance alluded to, as an
allegation of the kind is likely to do serious damage to the
interests of the concern, without a prompt answer is afforded.
Mr. Dixon also accuses his colleagues of making important
arrangements without proper deliberation, and expresses a
strong opinion against the success of the extensions and
liarutches, which it appears will involve a further outlay of
600,000/. The original shares of the Company can
scarcely be deemed a good investment, when, according to
his calculations, the revenue is not equal to more than three
per cent. upon
The T e amount of capital subscribed.—Times.
oxophilite s •
Royal Highness; ociety, miler the patronage of his
meeting to shoot for
Prince Albert, are to have their annual
their president, the Le gold and silver medals presented by
of June. They have' afil of Aylesford, on Friday, the 19th
for ball at the Ledge, fixed upon Friday, the 26th of June,

MAGAZINES-(CONTINUED.)

UNION MAGAZINE.

The present number of the Union, which completes
the first volume, commences with an article, entitled
" Revelations of Many Years' Sojourn in Rome," which,
although written in a light and mirthful vein, yet fur-
nishes frequently matter worthy of serious reflection.
Take, for instance, the Opening paragraph:—
" Patriotism is generally considered to be an instinctive
attachment to the soil on which we are born. I must cone
test myself a stranger to such a feeling, and can only ima-
gine it to exist in the breasts of those who are not only born
on the soil, but possess a portion thereof. In this case the
attachment is a mutual one ; and, in return for the benefits
derived from a long rent-roll, the possessor has every in-
ducement to stand up in defence of, and protect, the charac-
ter of the friend to whom he is so much indebted."
Here we have developed to us the true cause of the in-
tense nationality of the French people, and of the cosmo-
politan
carelessness of the bulk of the English. In France,
thanks to the aboltion of the laws of primogeniture and
entail, every individual almost is possessed of some
portion of the land, while no single individual possesses
an overwhelming influence. Our territorial constitution, on
the contrary, backed up as it is by the laws of primcgeni-
ture and entail, conduces to the formation of great estates.
into which all lesser estates become absorbed. The
yeoman is destroyed, and is forced either to seek in other
countries that property in the sei}cwhich is denied him
in his own, or to sink into a mere day labourer. In the
first case he becomes a patriot of the land which has re-
ceived and fostered him, in opposition to that land which
cast him forth—in the second place, sullen and discon-
tented, he cannot be supposed to have any very great
feeling of attachment to institutions which have worked
his ruin; and in the day of peril to those institutions,
whether that peril arise from invasion from abroad, or
from insurrection at home, it cannot be imagined that
he would exert himself very energetically in their defence.
The feelings of this writer on the subject of patriotism are
more generally diffused throughout the country than our
rulers probably imagine, and it would Iv: v ell that before
the hour of danger arrives they should seriously con-
sider this subject, and by a modification of the laws of
inheritance and entail, encourage the large landed pro-
prietors to sell portions of their estates, sit as to enable
men of moderate means to invest their savings in
land, and thus largely to increase the number of those
who have every inducement to stand up in defence of
their country, for they may rely upon it that the greater
portion of mankind will agree with this writer, who in the
next sentence says "For my own part I prefer that country
which is productive of the greatest enjoyment to me."
The following observations should be written by every
traveller in the first page of his note-book before he
sets off on his journey, and conned over every time he
sits down to journalise his day's adventures. They
apply equally to the denizens of every nation:—
" It is very unfair to jue',e the present Romans by our
own standard,—we are a commercial, enterprising nation,
with a popular Government. ;—they, a dispirited, enervated,
race. Every effort they make to shake off the stagnant do-
minion of the priesthood is crushed by the Austrian Govern-
ment ;—any attempt at improvement in the internal re-
sources of the country, for facilitating intercourse with other
nations, discouraged, 'or immediately suppressed. The
priests, drawn from, and so judiciously mixed with, all
classes of the community, so as to render the greater part
dependent on their good graces for subsistence, hold the reins
of government in all departments of the state, every chan-
nel of which is diseased with bribery and corruption. They
are the victims of might over right, and deserve commise-
ration rather than scorn. I have mingled in all ranks of
society, and found the spirit of freedom universal ; but they
cannot alone shake off the yoke. Let those who contrast
them with their mighty ancestors and hold them up to deri-
sion, rather lend them a helping hand to file the chain
that galls' still many a noble Roman,' and ' the very stones
of Rome would rise and mutiny.'
The author's account of his sojourn in Rome is written
in a lively and animated strain. According to him,
Rome, for a lounger of moderate means, must be the
pleasantest residence in the world—save and except in
the time of the cholera for then it appears the
priests and Jesuits, having promised the people that a
pilgrimage to the Madonna of Santa Maria Mag-
giore, which had been transferred to the church of
the Jesuits, would defend them against the plague, and
finding that the Virgin refused her miraculous inter-
position, had recourse, in order to stop the progress of
the spirit of unbelief, so dangerous to their dominion, to
the wicked expedient of persuading the people that the
foreigners resident in Rome were, in order to gratify
their religious animosity, administering poison in va-
rious shapes to the inhabitants, and that its effects were
in every respect similar to those of cholera. The con-
sequence was that a poor Englishman, named Houseal,
was torn to pieces in the street by an infuriated mob,
and that his funeral procession was obliged to be ac-
companied by an eseort of dragoons, to prevent the mob
from attacking those who attended his mutilated
remains to the grave. To this paper succeeds the second
of the " Quarantine Tales," a stirring story of American
India adventure, entitled " Ontario Leathershins." In
the paper on the rise and progress of Liberty in England
and France, the writer discovers an evident leaning
towards Charles 1., whose faults are all either kept in
the back ground or turned intol virtues, while those of
his adversaries are exaggerated. 'lhe other papers of
this number are all of more than average merit.

ness, cause a suffusion of blood in the head as surely al at-
tempting to breathe in the rare atmosphere of the Alpine
summits, or in the exhausted receiver of an air-pump.
" High Art, dressed out according to the last lierman
fashion, is little better than an abstraction, and next cousin
to nothing. It is passionless, colourless, formless. It is in-
tolerant of all those mere human passions which Elysium
knows net, Erebus disdains:' according to its latest ex-
pounder, the Oxford Graduate, the object of art is to express
infinite space by the medium of absolute repose. Colour, we
are told, distracts the attention, and weakens the sentiment.
Painters are forbidden to use any but the pale, meagre
colours of fresco painting. There is licentiousness in the
efforts of later artists to imitate the minute details of the
human form : the conventional straight lines of Gothic or
Etruscan sculpture are the only true medium for the expres-
sion of the sublime. A figure, stiff and rectangular, as one
sees on old heraldic scutcheous ; colours which have been
subjected to the detergent influence of chlorine gas; the only
approach to expression compressed lips or a faint sickly
smile ;—this is the ideal abstracted by German lubberliness
from study of the works of cloistered artists who flourished
before men had learned to draw. The kind of drawing which
most closely corresponds to the definition of High Art
theorists, is that of a Rothschild, where a few stiff lines
may express a golden million. This High Art would be ex-
clusively characterised by negatives, but for the lath and
plaster, which is the most indispensable part of it. Fresco
is the sine qud non of the school : the painter must study
under the plasterer, to learn the art of compounding lime
and sand, or plaster of Paris; and under the chemist, to
know how wet greens turn into dry blues: accomplished in
these recondite branches of learning, he needs no more
schooling, but may set up at once for an artist."
beent
well laid on.
are glad
inh
atnhda! C
andtu i kadshmainaki s
thearse takend
to
it tah
lea
s'h'
ihnigghwhaireth"
luwWlames
richly deserved, and has
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