The Sun.
London, England, 1846-12-28 00:00:00

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LONDON, MONDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1846.

A str;king contrast is visible in the Indian and
Chinese intelligence received by the overland Calcutta
nail. The numerous disturbances which had latterly
ilreater:Ed much bloodshed in the territories sur-
r,unding the British possessions have all been al-
:,tyed, while the tranquillity which had recently been
remarkable upon the frontiers of the Celestial Empire
has been signally interrupted. These circumstances,
however, merely furnish us with an additional proof
Hof the uncertainty of Oriental affairs, of the impossi-
bility of calculating either upon the obedience or dis-
obedience, the friendship or enmity, the pacific en-
peration or the bellicose antagonism of our Eastern
neighbours.

It is satisfactory to perceive that the portents of a
sanguinary campaign in the Cashmerian valley are
altogether dissipated. ,By the determination evinced
on the part of the Governor-General to cause the
various stipulations of the treaty of Umritsir to be
''ulfilled, and by the alacrity with which the English
forces abetted the Maharaja GuooLAB SINGH in his
operations against the rebellious Sheikh EMAUM-00D.
DEEN, the latter has been reduced to a compromise,
and the domination of the former has been ensured.
Matters indeed have assumed so propitious an aspect
in this quarter, that there is every reasonable pro-
bability of the entire withdrawal of our troops from
Lahore before the commencement of the approach-
ing-January. Until then the victories achieved under the
immediate command of Lord GOUGH, the judicious
mlicy of his Excellency Lord HARDINGE, the slaughter
of Ferozeshah, the fortunate prowess of Aliwal, and
the murderous charges of Sobraon, Will have been
comparatively ineffectual. Their triumph will not
have been consummated until our soldiers have
evacuated the subdued dominions. That period pro-
mises to be simultaneous with the commencement of
1847. Besides the pacification of Cashmere, there is
another cause for gratulation to the inhabitants of
India in the settlement of the differences which had
hitherto estranged the Dewan of Mooltan from the
Durbar of Lahore. MOOLRAJ has not merely con-
sented to liquidate all those debts owing to the
Durbar, from the postponement of the pay-
ment of his tribute to that Government, but
he has likewise submitted to many additional
exactions. He has quietly yielded up one-third of
the country heretofore under his solitary influence,
to the command of a newly-appointed ruler. Be-
yond this, the Dewan is henceforth required to pay,
a tribute of 25 per cent. above that previously de-
manded. The thirst for warfare, the readiness for
insubordination, and the loathing of anything like
political servitude on the part of the lesser chief-
tains, appear to have considerably diminished. Those
who formerly contrived to be turbulent are now,
like the weaver in Midsummer Night's Dream," roar-
ing like any sucking-dove." Their spurious valour
has evaporated —their independence has been ex-
changed for the most complete subserviency—their
obstinate d'efiance of authority has been followed by
their utinost submission to their more formidable
antagonists. From insolent rebels they have dwindled
into obsequious parasites. Nevertheless, what is thus
degradation to such men as the Dewan MooLRAJ and
the Shiekh EmAux-oon-DEEN, is comparative happi-
ness, because positive tranquillity, to many thousand:, of the Oriental race.
While these fortunate ehanges have been taking
place in Lahore and the
-adjacent principalities, a sin-
gular and somewhat unfortunate disturbance has
occurred upon the bioundaries'of the Celestial Empire.
Thisdisturbance, Nr:hich has been long brewing between
the Portuguese resident at Macao and the indigenous
Chinese, has at length broken out, and has excited no little attent:ion and originated no little inquiry. Those
children of the Brother of the Sun who live within
the ab(lve-mentioned settlement have perpetually
opposr..d. the authority of his Excellency the repre-
sentati-fe Of MARIA DA GLORIA. With an amusing
icalvasy they have refused to obey any one, raving
V•itir - own Mandarins. On the other hand, the
Portuguese Governor, Senhor JOAO MARIA FER-
REIRA DO AMARAL has regarded himself as
one invested with a serious and imperative
responsibility. He has looked upon himself
as the conservator of local prosperity, the guardian
of local rights, and the source of local juris-
diction. The sanatory condition of the inhabitants
of Macao, their mercantile necessities, their mu-
nicipal privileges, their social organisation, have pos-
sessed for his Excellency a peculiar interest, and have
all, more or less, led to some exhibition of his provi-
dence. In proportion, however, to the interference of
the Governor, so have the passions of the
Chinese residents increased in intensity; whenever the
former has issued a decree, the latter have striven,
with the greatest earnestness, to render it ineffectual;

We find the following in the Augsburg Gazette, of
the 20th, under the head of Silesia
66 We learn from a source worthy of credit that the
application made to Austria by Prussia, on the sufice,
of the trade of Prussia with Cracow, has met with in-
surmountable difficulties. M. de Kamptz had several
conferences with the President of the Aulic Chamber,
but it appears that he employed so disagreeable a form
of discussion, that the affair took a decisive turn. Thc
demands of Prussia had for object to exclude Cracow
and its territory from the operation of the Austrian cus-
toms, and to leave them their ancient privileges; but
that was impossible. Everything that is possible, how-
ever, will be done in favour of Prussia. The tariff of
transit will be maintained, and an entrepot at Cracow
for Prussian commerce will be tolerated."
A letter from Posen of the 16th, in the Post Ampt
Gazette of Frankfort, has the following :
" The Austrian police has just suffered a strange mys-
ti4cation. It was announced that the Polish emissary,