The Sun.
London, England, 1848-03-23 00:00:00

THE RAJA OF BATTARA.

Mr. G. THOMPSON withdrew his motion of which he
had given notice, respecting the suppression of certain
papers in the case of the Raja of Sattara.

THE AMEERS OF SINDE.

Colonel DICKENSON then brought forward the follow-
ing motio❑
" That as it appears from the printed papers laid
before the Court of Proprietors, and from other authentic
sources, that there is no act of the British Government
by which its reputation for good faith and clemency has
been more deeply sullied than by the unprovoked inva-
sion of the Principality of Sinde, followed by the de-
thronement and expatriation of its hereditary rulers, it
is the opinion of this Court that every constitutional
means should be persevered in with the view of obtaining
for those deeply injured and still exiled Princes that in-
demnity to which their unmerited sufferings, and the
valuable aid which they so long rendered to the British
Government in the season of distress so justly entitle
them."

The Hon. Proprietor began to read a written speech of
apparently formidable dimensions, until informed by the
Chairman that this was irregular. Ho then (using his
written speech by way of note) entered into a statement,
occupying more than two hours, of matters connected
with the deposition of the Ameers of Sinde, embracing
transactions with the Schah of Persia and with Runjeet
Singh ; replying to the charges preferred against the
Ameers, and reading a variety of testimonies in favour
of the character of those Princes, who, be argued, had
been treated with harshness and injustice. Attempts
were made in vain to abridge the speech of the Hon.
Proprietor, and by the time he concluded there were not
more than three or four Proprietors remaining in the
Court. When the question was put, not one of them
would second the motion, which consequently fell to the
ground, and the Court adjourned.

UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE.
CLMBRIDGE, MAncu 22.—At a congregation this day
the following degree was conferred :
Master of Arts—John Henry Coward, Pembroke
College.
At the same Congregation, the following graces were
offer€d to the Senate:—

1. To confirm the report of the Syndicate appointed
May 5, 1847, to consider whether any satisfactory plan
can be devised for increasing the pecuniary resources of
the University.
The Library Syndicate having represented to the
Vice-Chancellor the great inconvenience arising from
the continued occupation of the east room of the public
library by the Fttzwilliam collection, and Mr. Cockerell
having reported that by the 25th inst. the Fitzvvilliam
Museum will be prepared for its reception, according to
the grace of the Senate passed on the 14th Dec. last:
To appoint the Vice-Chancellor, the Master of Down-
ing College, the Regius Professor of Physic, Professor
Willis, Mr. Power of Clare Hall, Mr. Merivale, of St.
John's College, Mr. Thompson of Trinity College, and
Mr. A. Long of King's College, a Syndicate to super-
intend the removal of the collection, and to place it in
the Museum, availing themselves of such professional
assistance as may be required.
3. To allow Mr. Edleston to take from the University
Library the MSS. marked Dd. IX. 46, Dd. IX. 67, and
Dd IX. 68, under the usual bond.
4. To raise the salary of Mr. Breen, the senior
assistant at the Observatory, from 701. to SOL per an-
num, in conformity with the recommendation of the
Obserwatory Syndicate.
5. To authorise the Vice-Chancellor to submit to the
Master in Chancery the name of Dr. Phelps instead of
that of Dr. Graham for insertion in a new deed of trust
for Mr Hobson's estates.
The first grace was non-placeted in the Black-hood
House, and ultimately thrown out; the numbers were—
Placet 29
Non-plaeet 45
The adoption of the report (printed at the date of its
publication), was consequently negatived. The other
graces passed.
OXFORD, MARCH 22.—The Curators of the Taylor
Institutio❑ intend to proceed to the nomination of a
Professor of Modern European Languages on that foun-
dation in the ensuing Michaelmas Term. Candidates
may tend their names with testimonials until the Ist of
October to the Registrar of the University, Oxford.
B. P. SYMONS, Vice• Chancellor.
Wadham College, March 21.
The Professor of Poetry will deliver his terminal lec-
ture at the Clarendon on Thursday, March 30, at two
o'clock.

FORGERY OF BANE OF ENGLAND NOTBS.—The
public must be on their guard against a very well
executed forgery of a 51. Bank of England note, which
is now in circulation. The watermark is perfect,
though, perhaps, rather more strongly developed than
in the genuine note. They are numbered L 50,395;
dated 16th February, 1846 ; apparently issued from the
branch Bank of England at Manchester, and are signed
"H. Hogden." So well has the forgery been executed,
that one of these notes was paid into a bank in Liver-
pool; by the bankers it was paid to a firm, who again
paid it to a foreign mercantile house; and it was only
upon the note being presented to the Bank of England
in London that the forgery was discovered. The only
fault that we could find with the forgery was the in-
completeness of the figure of Britannia in the left hand
upper corner. Other notes, one of which is in the pos-
session of the police, of the same date, and evidently
from the same plate, are in circulation. It will be well
to examine the letters, number, and date of every Si.
note taken, and to refuse any agreeing to the above
description.—Liverpool Mercury.
RUMOURED RESIDENCE OF LOUIS PHILIPPE IN
LANCASHIRE.—For the last fortnight rumours have
reached us of the probability that Louis Philippe would
eventually take up his residence in this county, at Dux-
bury Park, near Chorley. We now find the matter
publicly alluded to. The Preston Pilot says—" It is not
improbable but that the ex King may come into this
neighbourhood. He is, wo believe, in treaty for Dux-
bury Park, near Chorley. It will be recollected that
cue late Mr. Frank Hall Standish, at his death, left many
of his best pictures to Louis Philippe, who, in return,
made some exceedingly splendid presents to the present
Mr. Standish (the owner of Duxbury). This gentleman,
we understand, is to visit Claremont to-day (Saturday
last), when it is not unlikely but that arrangements may
be made for his ex-Majesty occupying Duxbury Park."
—Manchester Courier.

ARRIVAL SPECIE.—The OF SPECH—The vessel Robert Small,
arrived in the docks from Calcutta, Madras, and the
Cape of Good Hope respectively, has brought from the
second mentioned place ten boxes of specie, consigned to
an eminent firm in the metropolis.
TALE CARE OF TOUR POCKETS.--A Congress of
all the German Sovereigns is, it is said, about to be held
at Dresden.—Punch.
ROYAL ARTILLERY. —The recruiting party at In-
verness, under the command of Major Greenwood, C. 8.,
is ordered to join at head quarters at Woolwich this
week, that the company may be filled up to the usual
strength. Major Greenwood's company served for a
long period in China, and when the remainder of it re-
turned home, about three weeks ago, under the com-
mand of Lieutenant Mattison, it did not muster above 20
strong, several gunners having been invalided every
year without sending others to fill up their places. The
men:of the Royal Sappers and Miners continued to enjoy
a very fair share of health in China.
MUNIFICENT LEGACY.—The late Miss Catherine
Wood has bequeathed a munificent legacy of 1,0001,
to the Incorporated Society for promoting the Enlarge.
meat, Building, and Repairing of Churches and Chapels.

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habitants of Lower Austria.

Of the illustrious Ministers, who have lived in tha
long and secure administration of one of the greatest
empires of the earth, none ever retained that high and
responsible position amidst events of such infinite mag-
nitude and variety, cr with so unlimited a control, as
Clement, Prince of Metternich. Indeed, whilst the
changes and perils of the most extraordinary half
century in the history of mankind have rolled to and
fro upon the tides of time, the spectacle of that old
man, whose reign commenced when our fathers were
still young men, seated in immutable decrepitude at his
wonted seat, seemed the sole remaining thing of an age
that is past, and was itself the empire in the eyes of a
young, r race. That, too, is gone—the oldest Minister of
the oldest Court has been driven from office—even the
Cabinet of Austria must be renewed.

Prince Metternich was born at Cublentz on the 15th
of May, 1773, of an ancient house, which had in former
ages given more than one Elector to the Archbishoprics
of Mayence and of Treves, and of a father who served
a ith some distinction in the diplomacy of Austria. He
entered early into the service of the empire. and filled
some office of ceremony at the coronation of Leopold H.
His diplomatic career commenced at the Congress of
Rastadr, and he rose in it with such rapidity, that iu
1806, after the conclusion of the peace of Freeburg,
he was selected for the important post of Aus-
trian Ambassador in Paris. Upon the declara-
tion of war in 1809 his departure was impeded until
a short time before the battle of Wagram, but he
hastened to join the Imperial Court, which had
taken refuge at the fortress of Comoru in Hungary.
Three da3s after that memorable defeat Count Stadion
retired from the office of Minister of Foreign Affairs.
Metternich was selected to succeed him in that high
office, and he conducted the negotiation with Chain-
pagny Which purchased a respite for the empire at the
price of an Archduchess. Metternich completed the
work he had begun, and conducted the second Em-
press of the French to Paris. If anything can aggra-
vate the humiliation of that transaction, it is the con-
viction which the Court of Austria must even then have
had, that this sacrifice was made in vain. The young
Minister seems indeed to have had no sympathy with
those wiser and
.more patriotic statesmen of Northern
Germany, who were at that time preparing the
regeneration of their country by a thorough
reform of its social condition. The task of
Stein and Hardenberg was one not to be attempted by a
:Metternich. But he knew Napoleon ; he hated the
representative of the French revolution ; he distrusted
his insatiable ambition ; he alternately endeavoured to
check and to resist it ; his most cherished friend and
adviser was Gentz, the mortal enemy of France ; and
the decisive impulse given by Metternich to the policy of
Austria in the parley of Dresden and the conferences of
Prague, was the inevitable signal of the Emperor
Napoleon's downfal. The 10th of August, 1813, had
been assigned as the period within which France might
accede to the liberal offers of the Three Powers. That
fatal ;hour passed by, and Count Metternich spent the
selfsame night in framing the Austrian declaration of
war. A month later the grand alliance was signed at
Toplitz, and before October had closed the Emperor
Francis raised him to the dignity of a Prince of the
Empire upon the field of Leipzic.
Vie great and rapid events of the last few months
hate completed the dissolution of that system in which
and for which Prince Metternich lived. The accession
of Pius IX. to the Papal throne shook to its centre the
ascendancy of Austria in Italy, and the feeble attempt
at an act of ♦igour in Ferrara roused the indignation,
not only of Italy, but of Europe. The cause of Italian
reform prospered. One by one the Courts which had
existed for twenty-fire years upon Prince Metternich'e
favour, and those most nearly connected with the Impe-
rial family, crept into the sunshine of popularity, and
at length Naples itself sealed by a bloodless revolution
the principle of constitutional Government. From that
moment the whole Italian policy of the Austrian Cabinet
was confined to the defence of Lombardy. Meanwhile
in its own provinces formidable traces occurred of that
spirit which the atrocious massacres of Galicia had not
quelled; and the empire seemed drifting before the
storm. At that moment—it was but yesterday—the
earth opened and engulphed the monarchy of France.
The whole of Europe was rent by the convulsion. A
life of new perils begins, and Prince Metternich is
warned by an unwonted disturbance in the very streets
and suburbs of Vienna to relinquish a power which
neither his age nor his principles enable him to sustain.
In the course of his long l►fe, of all statesmen who
occupy a prominent rank in political history none has
ever enjoyed a power more undisturbed by outward
perils. Prince Metternich has had to fear neither the
caprices of a master, nor the intrigues of rivals, nor, till
now, the reaction of popular discontent ; and the
proverbial instability of Ministerial office was converted
for him into a seat hardly less secure than
the throne of the Caesars. After forty years
of this unlimited sway he leaves an empire by so much
in arrear of the rest of Europe—impoverished
in its finances—divided in its {provinces--and not
obscurely threatened in its most important possessions ;
for whilst he has been opposing an incessant and im-
moderate resistance to those influences which he regarded
as present evils, he has allowed all the future calamities
which can threaten a state to accumulate iu the horizon.
Posterity, more enlightened hereafter by the ultimate
consequences of his policy, will judge him with greater
severity than his contemporaries; for there was about his
person, whilst he lived, a singular dignity of manner
which might be mistaken for greatness. The servile defer-
ence which had so long been paid him in the society of
Vienna, and his conventional position amongst the Cabi-
nets of Europe, had inflated his personal pretensions far
beyond his actual rank or his real eminence, and men
at last paid to his age the respect they would willingly
have refused to his character. Yet it would be unjust
to deny to Prince Metternich the distinction of a high-
bred statesman—he is the last of his clans or order,
sprung from a family which preserved at the time of his
birth the strict traditions of the German aristocracy,
trained in the ideas most hostile to those of the age in
which he was destined to act, and exercised by forty
years of absolute power. That is a combination of cir-
cumstances which the world will not probably behold
again.—Tunes.