The Sun.
London, England, 1846-05-22 00:00:00

vernor-General of India," which was drunk with enthusiasm
by all present, as was also " The health of his Excellency
Sir Hugh Gough, the Csmmander-in• Chief of the Forces in
India."

Dr. Wood then proposed "The health of Lieut.-Colonel
_ _

The Gallant Colonel, after returning thanks in his usual
impressive and energetic manner, proposed " The Bengal
Army," or rather "The British Army," for they were as
one body—intimately associated in the battle-field, and in
the familiar intercourse of private life.
Major Watt next rose, and called on the gentlemen present
to fill a bumper. He (the Gallant Major) was about to pro-
p so a toast, which he was assured every one present would
drink with " a pleasure gushing from the heart and beaming
with sincerity." The poet who had sung the glories of
Alexander, the greatest of commanders, had been forced to
place by his side " the lovely Thais," and, in so doing, he had
also been forced to pay that compliment to "blooming Eastern
brides," which he (Major Watt) would now have the com-
pany assembled to pay to the whole sex. If none but the
brave deserve the fair, certainly none but the fair deserved
the brave; and he (Major Watt) for his own part would
never be happy unless they went hand in hand together.
The laurel on the soldier's brow, and the riband on his
breast, were pleasing to the bright and brilliant eyes of
beauty, by whom they were first designed emblems of
victory, and for that reason alone, independent of others,
these emblems would ever be coveted, and regarded as true
and lasting honours—
" puellis nuper idoneus,
Et militavi non sine gluria."
This was sufficient to show that war and women=beauty
and victory—were so closely combined as to preclude the
possibility of doing honour to the one without the other.
The Gallant Major then proposed the "Heath of the Ladies."
The toast was received with enthusiastic cheering.
Lieutenant Foster (her Majesty's 16;1 Lancers) rose, and
proposed the " Health of Major Watt and the Commissariat."
Lieutenant F. paid a handsome compliment to the kindness
and urbanity of the Gallant Major, and truly said that no
man would leave Meerut more generally beloved and more
sincerely regretted.
Major Watt in an eloquent speech returned thanks, and
concluded by proposing the " Health of Mr. Ravenshaw (Mr.
Begbie had lefi) and the Members of the Civil Service."
Mr. Ravenshaw, in a short but clever speech, in which he
did honour to his service, returned thanks.
"Major Mayne and the Irregular Cavalry," proposed by
Lieutenant Pattison (her Majesty's 16th Lancers) was loudly
resonded to.
We should mention that
,k.er Majesty's 16th were so gene-
rally respected that there' was scarcely a civil or military
officer in Meerut that did not come forward and join in
the honour of entertaining for the last time the officers of
this distinguished corps. The party broke up at a late hour.
--Ibid.

We learn that the Dacca Bank would very soon be in
operation, probably, if not sooner, by the Ist of May. It
was said that a branch thereof would also be established at
Mymensing. In both of the above districts the prospects of
indigo were very good, and it was anticipated that they
would be able to cut in May, early enough, we hope, to save
them from any inundation, a misfortune to which the culti•-
Vation in those lands is so frequently exposed.—Agra Chro-
nicle, April 6.

SIN DE.
The 3d Bombay Light Cavalry having been ordered from
m Dee, to join theforce invading
the Punjaub, learnt on its
Way that, the war wit; at an end. On arriving at Jeysul-
mere, they received orders from Sir C. Napier to march for
Sukkur, where they arrived on the 27th March. They were
to relieve the cavalry of the Bundelkund Legion on the
Western frontier outposts. They had expected to have re-
turned to their old quarters when there services were found
no longer to be required on the Sutlej. Sir C. Napier and
Staff, escorted by the Sinde Camel Corps, were at Chukkoke
on the 21st, and marched for Bahawulpore on the 22d March.
The General is saEd to have looked worn and sickly ; he takes
liberties with himself in the way of exposure and fatigue, not
justified by his years. The Bundelkund Legion, all save the
cavalry, quitted Sukkur on the 17th, on their way to Hin-
dostan. They were at Subzulcote on the 25th, and expected
to be at Bahawulpore on the sth April. Here they will re-
main till after the rains. The Bombay troom were march-
ing down from Bahawulpore for Sinde in nearly the same
order in which they moved upwards—by brigades and de-
tachments, two or three days from each other. The Belcoch
battalion and Captain Bailey's battery were expected at
Roree on the 29th March, forming the first of the long line.
The depot of the 2d Bengal European Regiment left Sukkur
by water, under Captain Grant, on the 28th. Sir C. Napier
was expected there about the 3d of April, and would pro-
bably be at Kurrachei_ by the 12th of May. His Excellency's
secretary awaited his arrival. General Simpson was still at
Sukkur. Shade continues healthy, and the weather favour-
able. Various members of the general staff had reached the
sea-coast.

PESHAWUR AND AFFGHANISTAN.
(From the Delhi Gazette of the 4th April.)
" From Peshawur our advices extend from 30th January
to 13th February. We mentioned in our last that the
Kheibur tribes were fighting among themselves, and now
learn that in one battle which took place towards the end
of January, 40 men were killed. The Governor appears
to have used considerable diligence in enlisting new men.
Several communications of importance seem to have passed
between him and the Ameer of Caubul, but the greatest pains
seem to have been taken to conceal the nature of them.
The accidental absence of the Kazee, Mahomed Hussun,
from the durbar of the Governor, afforded the latter an ex-
cellent opportunity for the application of the patent screw,
the use of which is so well known to native functionaries of
all'clegrees, and the implication of the Mooftce and several
other Mussulman judicial officers in the supposed disrespect,
afforded the Siekh ruler a decent return, in the shape of fines,
under threats of imprisonment. These acts of oppression
were counterbalanced on the following day by the distribu-
tion of alms to the amount of some ten per cent. on the
plundcr exacted from the Kazee, the Mooftee, and others.
Sirdar Wullee Mahomed Khan having failed in the payment
of the sum he had agreed to pi oduce in satisfaction of the
claim against him, the Governor sent out two battalions to
Bust Nuggur, with the strictest injunctions to enforce the
immediate payment of the money, or at once to confiscate
the whole of the Sirdar's jaghire. Shere Singh took the
opportunity of directing that the detachment should collect
all the boats iu the Caubul river in ore spot, expressing him-
self apprehensive of the intentions of the tribes on the other
side. An unfortunate contractor of customs, named Teta
Rem, who had undergone twelve months' imprisonment,
was released from his confinement, the Governor finding
the case a hopeless one. A very serious affray occurred on
the Bth of February between some of the Itamgole troops
and some servants of Sirdar Peer Mahomed, in which a
nephew of the latter, named Saloo Khan, was very severely
Wounded. The Sirdar was greatly annoyed at this, and has-
tened to represent the matter to his brother at Lahore, and
threatened to leave Peshawar, but was persuaded by the
Governor at least to defer his departure. The destruction of
a part of the cantonment of Loodianah, by the Seikhs,
seems to have been greatly exaggerated in Peshawur, where
it was represented as a brilliant victory, on which account a
royal salute was fired, and the place ordered to be illumi-
nated for three successive nights. A Prajah merchant, who
had come to Peshawar to purchase some presents on the oc-
casion of the marriage of the daughter of Saadut Khan Mo-
mund to the son of Post Mabomed Khan, was on his return
plundered of everything he had in his charge; the Urbabs of
the Kheibur were told that if they did not make the pro-
perty- good the strictest measures should be taken to compel
them.

We are in receipt of our half monthly advices from Cau-
bnl, bringing intelligence down to the 13th of February,
from which we learn that on the 30th of January the
Kuzzulbash chiefs, Khan Shereen Khan and Mahomed
Meerza Khan, were summoned to a private interview with
the Arneer Dost Mahomed Khan, at which Meer Hajee
Saheb was present. The consultation lasted till near mid-
night, but the nature of the matters discussed did not
transpire. On the following day the meerzas received in-
structions to draw on the collector of customs for money to
pay same of the cavalry ; on the same day 1,000 Bundookchees
arrived from the Kohistan and were quartered in the gar-
dens near the palace till further orders. The darogao
the elephants having on the same: day applied for leave of
absence, was told it could not be granted, as all the ele-
phants were required to proceed to Jellalabad, with the
mother of Mahomed Shere Khan. On the 2d of February
about 180 camels, belonging to various merchants in the
town, were seized by order of the Ameer. On the same day
instructions were forwarded to Mahomed Ukbar Khan
directing him to remain for the present at Jellalabad when
he should have reached that station, and on no account to
proceed to Bajour, as at first determined, and those for the
departure of the mother of Shere Khan were counter-
manded in consequence of reports that heavy snow had
fallen and rendered the Koord Kabul and Tezeen roads
almost impassable. On the 3d of February instructions
were afforded to the Wuzeer to the effect that his brother,
Shere Khan, might be permitted to proceed to Lall-
poorah to celebrate his marriage, but that he must be
strongly escorted, and must not expect his mother, who was
prevented from joining him by the state of the roads. On
the Bth of February the Ameer made a merit of releasing
the camels which had been seized, but seems to have been
nervously alive to the possible results of the war between
the British and the Seikhs, as the prohibition of all con-
versation on the subject was renewed, with additional
threats of punishment in case of infraction. The attention
paid by the Kabulees to every rumour which reached the
capital seems to have induced this reiterated order. On
the 12th of February two sons of the Ameer, 117ahomed
Ufzul Khan and Mahomed Azeem Khan, received instruc-
tions to proceed with as little delay as possible towards
Jellalabad, at the head of all their followers, and they left
the capital on the 13th, but nothing had been done which
indicated the Ameer's intention of proceeding towards
Jellalabad in person. Of the movements of the Wuzeer
Mahomed Ukbar Khan we learn that he reported on the
2d of February his having marched for Jellalabad ; he
added, that having been invited to halt two days at Tutting
by Abd 00l Gheeas Khan. son cf Nuwab Jabber Khan,
he had agreed to do so. He added that he had been joined
by his brother Shere Khan with some troops, and that he
had directed Saadut Khan to return from Jellalabad
towards the Kheibur. Considerable exertions seem in the
orifieenttrioum_e_ to have been made
regarding the collection
contentsPs at Jellalabad, and we learn from the
of poblerottaer communicated to the Ameer in the be-
ginning of
bad been assembir'3lhat between 11.000 and 12,000 men
arrival of the Wuzeer. with fifteen guns, previous to the
hod to have been the exertions
made to collect a large
nor of Bameean bad been iny of troops, that even the Gover-
succeededstrgted to enlist men, and had
in obtaining 500.
wrote to say that he would
have sent more, but that the state of the weather was so bad
that the people could not travel ef
one valley to another.
complained to the Ameer
.—.Ameer Khan, Chief of Naokeerxe
, and tLtNva's greatly op_that Meer Saiud Baha-ood-deen-
something must
pressing the people in his district
promised as-
be done to bring him into order. The A
Wuzeer were not
sistance, stating that if the services of thenWur
required elsewhere, he should himself proceed to Naokee,
Bajour, and Koner, to restore order.— Noth* rag pobitivelv
the previous accounts of the death of Y '
confirming ar faho-
med of Herat is given in the letter, but an attempt to con_
tradict these accounts on the part of some one not named
treated with ridicule by our news• writer.