The Sun.
London, England, 1846-01-08 00:00:00

THE BROAD AND THE NARROW GAUGE.

Yeserdeaayrr nliaogrensi,ngladanenewxpitehriml2e4nttaolntsralinl,cconsisting
of tweiv‘ ..
was et,;ratched from the Paddington terminus
quarter,
of the Great Western Railway, the object being to as-
certain if a passenger el pine would propel such a weight.
Precisely at 8 45 A.M., the train? propelled by the Lion
engine, left the terminus, and arrived at the one-mile
post at 6 50. On the engine were Mr. Brunel, Mr. Gooch,
the superintendent of the locomotive department ; Mr.
Andrews, the inspector of the locomotives ; and J. Apple,
the engine driver.
At five minutes before nine o'clock the signal was
given for the train to start, and it passed the undermen-
tioned stations at the times affixed :
MMES.
Padddington ••
Eallig
Hanwell
Southall
West Drayton
Slough
Maidenhead
Twyford
Reading ......
4351
Pangbourne ... .....
Goring
4
Wallingford-road... 47i ...
Didcot ... .....
Thus accomplishing the distance at an average speed
of 48 miles an hour.
On the return trip, the following are the hours, as
nearly as can be ascertained, at which the train passed
through the several station yards:—

H. M.
8 55

11. M.
Didcot ll 10
Wailingford.road
Goring
Pangbourne
Reading

Twyford
Maidenhead.
Slough ll 54
_

West Drayton
Sothall
Hanwell
Ealing
Paddington l2 14
An experimental train is to be dispatched from Pad-
dington, carrying a weight of 400 tons, exclusive of
trucks and carriage, and it is anticipated that an average
speed of 21 miles an hour will be sustained.

PLANS DEPOSITED WITH THE PRIVATE
BILL OFFICE.

The following is an enumeration of various undertak-
ings proposed to be carried out in connexion with the
railway communication of the country, the necessary
plans for which have been deposited with the Private
Bill-office :-
1. Birkenhead Commissioners Docks
2. Bognor Dock and Piers
3. Campletown Harbour
4. Clyde Docks
5. Glasgow Harbour and Monkland Junction Canal
6. Harwich Docks
7. Herculaneum (Liverpool) Docks
8. Holyhead Docks
9. Lambeth and Westminster Suspension Bridge
10. Liverpool Docks
11. London Sewage Company
12. Metropolitan Sewage Manure Company
13. Morecombe Bay Embankment
14. Plymouth Great Western Docks
15. Poole Harbour
16. Porthdynllaen Harbour and Docks •
17. Portsea Pier
18. Ranelagh Suspension Bridge
19. Severn Navigation
20. Sunderland Dock
21. Swansea Docks
22. Thames Embankment
23. Tynemouth Docks
24. Western super-Mare Pier
25. Wexford Harbour Improvement

BIRMINGHAM AND WORCESTER.—On Tuesday a
meeting of the proprietors of the Worcester Canal,
who lately proposed to carry a line which was to pro-
ceed, with deviations, along the bank of the canal to Stoke
Priors, from which place it was to proceed along the Ox-
ford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton Railway, to Wor-
cester, and there join the Worcester, Hereford, Ross, and
Gloucester Railway, and the other lines entering that
city, met at Birmingham, Mr. W. Beale, in the chair,
when a report was read, stating that, although the shares
had been allotted, the surveys completed, the plans pre-
pared, and the Parliamentary standing orders fully com-
plied with, the Directors found it necessary, in conse-
quence of the panic in the share market, to suspend all
proceedings, and postpone their application to Parlia-
ment until the session of 1847. In the interim the com-
mittee recommended that the whole of the deposits be
forthwith returned to the shareholders free of any deduc-
tion, and that the entire expense attending the past pro-
ceedings be paid out of the funds of the Canal Company.
Notwithstanding the continued low rate of tonnage, the
receipts had increased 800/. in the half year, with every
prospect of a continued improvement. A dividend of
11. los. per share was then declared, leaving a sufficient
amount to defray all the probable expenses to protect the
interest of the Company against any projects now before
Parliament.

RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS.
SHEFFIELD, JAN. 7.
STOCK EXCHANGB.—The sales are—Grimsby and Shef-
field, 121/s—Ditto, Extension, 31. 17s.—Huddersfield and
Sheffield, 24%—Derby and ewe, 61/s—Direct Northern,
2%—Grand Union (Nottingham to Lynn), 21/9—Manchester,
Sheffield, and Midland Junction, 43/4—Manchester, Midland,
and Great Grimsby, 21. 16s. 3d.—North Western, 3%—Shef-
field, Rotherham, Wakefield, and Goole, 3/. 14s. 6d.—West
Riding Union, 7%.

BRISTOL, JAN. 7.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are—Bristol and South
Wales Junction, 3—Caledonian, New, 4%—Welsh Midland, 4.

EXETER, JAN. 7.

STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are—Bristol, New, 8—
Exeter, Yeovil, and Dorchester, % dis.—Eastern Counties
Extension Stock, No. 2, % p.—Dublin and Galway, 44.
MANCHESTER, JAN. 7. .

STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are—Birmingham and Lei-
cester Direct, 345. 6d.—Boston, Newark, and Sheffield, 3%—
Cambridge and Linccln, New, 3%—Chelmsford and Bury,
I%—Chester and Birkenhead, 52—Chester and Holyhead,
174—Dudley, Iron Bridge, and Sheffield, 2%—Eastern Coun-
ties, 2314—Exeter and Exmouth, 12s. 6d.—Fleetwood, Pres-
ton, and West Riding, 37s.—Goole, DoncasterZ Sheffield,
&c., 995. 6d.—Great Grimsby and Sheffield, 1214—Hudders-
field and Manchester Railway and Canal, 101%,—Hudders-
field and Sheffield Junction, 25—London, Salisbury, and
Yeovil, 21/2—Manchester, Buxton, and Matlock, 41. 125.
Manchester and Birmingham, 77—Manchester and Birming-
ham Continuation and Welsh Junction, I%—Manchester
and Bury Atmospheric, 28s. 6d.—Manchester and Leeds,
Extension, 61. 19s. 6d.—Manchester and Southampton, 314
—Northumberland and Lancashire, 37s.—North Eastern, 24
—North Staffordshire, 61.2s.—Nottingham, Erewash, Amber-
gate, and Manchester, 3%—Oldham, Birkenhead, &c., 375.
—Sheffield and Lincolnshire Junction, 478—Sheffield and
Manchester, Quarter Shares, No. 1, 16%—Ditto, No. 3,7%
—Shrewsbury and Herefordshire, 17s. 6d.— Shropshire Union
Railway and Canal, 21. 14s.—South-Eastern and Dover,
Halves, 3% —Trent Valley, Midland, and Grand Junction,
595. 6d.—West Riding Union, 71. 145. 6d.—Great Luxem-
bourg, 8.

S3h2asr.es,6dN. op:
_3, 7
LEEDS, JAN. 7,
STOCK EXCHANGE.-The sales are-Eastern Counties, 23
-Manchester and Leeds, Fifth Shares, 124 p.- Sheffield
19 cash-Ditto, New Shares, 4
-Great Grimsby
Yeovil,R ugl Rugby), )
a,
n2d3 s.
Leeds and Bradford.
andsanwd
s.hLefeedisd Manchester,
and
Extensions,Quarter
Dewsbury,
p.-Leeds and Thirsk, 12-North British, New, 71A-Ditto,
New Carlisle Branch, 31. 65.-Wakefield, Pontefract, and
Goole, 32-Goole and Doncaster, 21 15s. p.-London and
Portsmouth, 4%-Sheffield and Lincoln, 4%-Liverpool,
Ormekirk, and Preston, 5-West Riding Union, 7/. 145.-
p.-Chelmsford and
Dorchester, 2s. 6d. p.
B-üßryu,c 145.-
-Buckinghamshire g6hda. mps. h_i rEe
x(eltaetre,
-Great Eastern:and Western, 1!. 95.-Lancashire and North
Yorkshire, 19s, p.-Leeds and York, par-Leicester and Bed-
ford, 245. p.-Manchester, Buxton, Matlock, and Mid-
land, 2/. 14s. p.-Northumberland and Lancashire Junc-
tion, 7s. 6d. dis.-North Western 31A-Nottingham and
Boston, 17s. 6d. p.-Nottingham, Erewash, and Ambergate,
17s. 6d. p.-Nottingham and Grantham, 20s. p.-Oxford,
Whitney, and Cheltenham, 2s. 6d. dis.-Shropshire Union,
105. p.-South Midlands, 31. 12s. p.-Wakefield and Brad.
ford, 4s. dis.-Welsh Midlands, ss. p.
HULL, JAN. 7.
STOCK EXCHANGE. -The sales are-Hull and Selby (10
per cent. guaranteed), 103-Blackburn, Darwen, and Bolton,
OA c. n.-Great Grimsby and Sheffield, Quarter Shares, 4%
-North British, Carlisle, 31. Bs. 9d.-Armagh, Coleraine,
and Portrush, 1N-Buckinghamshire, 1-Goole, Doncaster,
Sheffield &c., 3-Grand Union, 11. 195.-Great North and
South`ales and Worcester, Ils.-Hull and Barnsley Junc-
tion, 455.-Leicester and Bedford, 2/. 25.-Leicester and
Birmingham, 275.-Leicester and Tamworth, 3/-Notting-
ham, Erewash, &c., 21,4-Nottingham and Boston, 2-North
Staffordshire, 61. 4s. 6d.-Shropshire Union, 75. 6d.-Tean
and Dove Valley, 1 yg-Wakefield and Bradford, 2%-Wor-
cest er, Tenbury, and Ludlow,;2lZ
Al-Great Northern of France,
143/4.
YORK, JAN. 7.
STOCK EXCHANGE.-The sales are-York and. North Mid-
land Extension, 413/4-Ipswich and Bury, 5Wi-Newcastle
and Berwick, 21/1-North British, New Carlisle Branch,
31. 18s. 6d.-London and York, 4/. 18s.-Axholme, 3%-
Clitheroe Junction, 33/4-Grand Union, 2-Lancashire and
North Yorkshire, 314-Leicester and Bedford, 2/. Bs. 6d.-
Leicester, Tamworth, Coventry, Birmingham, and Trent
'Valley Junction, 3-Igancliestor, Buxton, Matlock,and Mid-

land, 44 16s. 6d.—North Staffordshire, 6—North Western,
VA—Welsh Midland, 2./. 14s.

Gh A §66iV. JAW. 6.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are—Airdrie and Bath-
gate, 51s.—Ayr and Dumfries Junction, 475. 6d.—Ayr and
Galloway, 405.—British and Irish Union, 725.—Caledonian
Extension, 68s. 6d.—Caledonian and Dumbartonshire Junc-
tion, 555. —East Lothian Central, 445. —East Indian Railway,
28s. 6d.--Edinburgh, Glasgow, and Dumbarton, 20s.—
Edinburgh and Perth, s—Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and Ayr,
New, 29—Glasgow, Dumfries, and Carlisle, 55s.—Glasgc'
and Garnkirk, 42—Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and Artossan,
725. 6‘1,-.lnverness and. Agin, 80s.—Kilmarnock-, and A7r
66a. 6(1.- 1 B he d and Hada, 6%—Perth and
.. sus ey, arr a ,
hark and Lothians, 555;---Eesmahago
Inverness,3)irct' 40s.—Renfrew and Ayr, 325. 6d.—Scott:Lah Cen-
tral, 17—Stirling and pvinfermline, 525.

•NA PIER.
(From the Guernsey ,c;
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fR-
Thu:G Ers
dNa
sway
R A 1.4
dvertiser of Dec 17.)
last has fulminated forth a
Thein StarAj
lengthy leader three columns on the subject of 11r.
Guerin, in reference to his deprivation of
as captain in the Guernsey militi ' o his
commission
in-Chief, MajersGeneral Nar''er This
sthe commander-
article is one of
great ;Ina gross attackto the • h
cbond uct and character of
the Lieutenant- f 3 evernor, and y office the representa-
tive of ',rt. Majesty in the island ; and however it may
dissemble its feelings in
false and flimsy wording, it
evinces uo much malignity and hatred towards that
august personage, that we are led to doubt the oft-
boasted assumption of loyalty and devotion it is so con-
tinually prating of. Had we been inclined to favour
Mr. Guerin's cause, the article we allude to would have
utterly overthrown our convictions in his behalf ; but,
as we never doubted that the Lieutenant-Governor's
dismissal of that officer was strictly in accordance with
precedent and practice, the show of rancour and enmity
thus displayed, only tends to confirm us in our former
opinion.
But it is not with a view of casting back upon the Star
—which is ever ready to renew its prolonged insult
against his Excellency—the abuse which we would mark
with the contempt it deserves ;—but it is because all the
other local journals have thought proper to join in these
malignant attacks, that we alone stand forth as the
champions and defenders of the representative of royalty,
whose high office and dignity seem to exercise so little of
the respect and consideration they are bound to call
forth. It is because his Excellency seems to have ito ad-
vocate amongst the local press, that we are determined
to take up the gauntlet our contemporaries have cast
down, and defend the cause inch by inch, and step by
step, with our best energies and abilities ; and we should
not take upon ourselves such an office, which we might
feel some difficulty in discharging, were we not
aware as well from internal conviction and ex-
perience, as by acknowledged facts, that the English
residents nearly to a man, regard with the
utmost indignation and disapproval the course
of insult and aggravation which has been put in practice
against the Lieutenant-Governor and his cause during a
period of more than two years. Their better feelings
and the spirit that in every British heart rises against
such a system of petty aggression revolts when it sees
and hears an English gentleman and officer, the hero of
many a hard-fought field, and now the Vicegerent of her
Majesty in this island, maligned and aspersed with such
audticious impunity!

Now, the last action of the Lieutenant-Governor in
his capacity of Commander-in-Chief—that of depriving
Mr. Guerin of his commission in the militia—has, it ap-
pears, roused in a tenfold degree the vituperative pens
of the local papers. Why so? They admit that
his Excellency has a perfect right to dismiss or
degrade those whom he may think fit, But they
want a reason : expediency forsooth is to them no
reason at all ; expediency—the bulwark of political
action, the shield by which so many dangers and disadvan-
tages are averted. Have they, as editors of newspapers,
studied political economy so little as not to admit the
reason of expediency? But let alone this reason, we
ask, who, that is in the least acquainted with military
usage, ever heard of a General giving a reason for what
he did, or where should we read of those glorious vic-
tories England has won, if the soldiers spent their time
in considering what their General meant by his orders
instead of obeying those orders? But the Star gives
its own reasons for Mr. Guerin's removal. It was be-
cause that ci-devant officer brought a charge of perjury
against a private of the 27th, which was proved to be
totally without foundation. But an officer of the 27th
brought a similar charge against a Guernsey woman.
Now the officer of the 27th offered instant reparation to
the woman he bad accused. The insinuation that the
Lieutenant-Governor degraded Mr. Guerin because
he was a nephew of Sir William Collings, is
so utterly contemptible, and so well becomes
the paltry spirit in which the article was
written, that we pass over it with indignant silence.
But the Star, in its article of Monday, advises
the militia to do nothing hastily in this matter ;—in that
of Thursday, it suggests to the officers of Mr. Guerin's
regiment the propriety of addressing that gentleman on
the subject. We warn them to pause and consider well,
before they commit an act of which they may have rea-
son to repent. Any overt act on their part in combina-
tion is, in military law, rank mutiny, and must be put
down by the strong hand of Government.
Whatever reasons may be assigned for the cancelling
of Mr. Guerin's commission, for ourselves we little care
to fathom the secrets of our superiors in command. As for
the Star we need only say its shafts fall blunted and harm-
less on the armour of integrity in which his Excellency is
incased. Honest and impartial Guernseymen—and a
vast proportion, we repeat, of the English resident
gentry—look upon the paltry conduct pursued towards
his Excellency, who blends in his character the warrior,
the able politician, and the high office and dignity of
representative of her most Gracious Majesty in this
island, with disdainful indignation.

RETIREMENT of MR. GLADSTONE
FROM NEWARK.
TO THE ELECTORS OF NEWARK.
GENTLEMEN,—By accepting the office of Secretary of
State for the Colonies, I have ceased to be your repre-
sentative in Parliament.
On several accounts, I should have been peculiarly
desirous at the present time of giving you an opportu-
nity to pronounce your constitutional judgment on my
public conduct, by soliciting at your hands a renewal of
the trust, which I have already received from you on five
successive occasions, and held during a period of thirteen
years.
But as I have good reason to believe, that a candi-
date recommended to your favour through local connec-
tion may ask your suffrages, it becomes my very painful
duty to announce to you, on that ground alone, my re-
tirement from a position which has afforded me so much
of honour and of satisfaction.
I shall ever retain, Gentlemen, happy recollections of
your confidence and of your indulgence; and though I
may no longer stand in any formal relation to you, I
shall continue to feel a lively desire that every blessing
may attend the borough and its inhabitants.
Independently, however, of any such prospective rela-
tion, it is my duty to render to you some account of that
step by which my seat has been vacated.
I regret that, at the present moment, I must even here
make an appeal to your confidence. The obligations
into which I have entered, as a Minister of the Crown,
forbid me to do more at this time than to state in gene-
ral outline the considerations which have governed me,
and which I should have been prepared more fully to
sustain upon again appearing before you as a candidate
for re-election after the meeting of Parliament.
The events which I had immediately to regard, when
I was invited to re-enter the service of the Crown, were
these :—The Administration of Sir Robert Peel had re-
tired from office. The party opposed to that Adminis-
tration, and led by Lord John Russell, had endeavoured
to form a Government, and the endeavour had not suc-
ceeded. On the other hand, as I am given to under-
stand, persons favourable to unrelaxed protection were
not prepared themselves to undertake the conduct of
public affairs in conformity with the views which they
entertained.
It was in the critical juncture thus brought about, that
Sir Robert Peel had unhesitatingly resumed the exercise
of political power.
When invited to fill the vacancy caused by the la-
mented retirement of Lord Stanley, I had to ask myself
the question, whether it was to be desired, on account
of the exigencies of the general welfare as they stood,
that the Queen's Government should receive support.
Gentlemen, I judged that such was the case, and there-
fore felt it was for those, who believed the Government
was acting according to the demands of public duty, to
testify that belief, however limited their sphere might
be, by their co-operation. Nor is there anything I could
so much have coveted, except for the cause to which I
have adverted, as the opportunity of vindicating before
you the judgment at which I have arrived, and of in-
viting you to record your approval of it by your
votes. That vindication would have rested, and when-
ever and wherever it may be offered, it will rest, upon no
merely apologetic plea, but upon the assertion that I
have acted in obedience to the clear and imperious calls
of public obligation, and with the same purpose which I
have ever sought to follow, of promoting the permanent
interests of the community and of all the classes of which
it is composed.
Gentlemen, with strong sentiments alike of gratitude
and of regret, I remain, your obliged and obedient ser-
vant, W. E. GLADSTONE.
13, Carlton House-terrace, London, Jan. 5, 1846.

FUNERAL OF THE LATE REV. R. ASPLAND.....
On Tuesday the remains of this eminent divine were interred
in a vault erected on a spot selected by himself, in the burial-
ground of the new Gravel-pit Chapel, Hackney, of which
he had been pastor upwards of 35 years. A number of
carriages, and about
200 members of the congregation, fol-
lowed the mourning coaches containing Mr. Aspland's nu-
merous family and some distinguished Dissenting divines.
The children connected with the school appeared in mourn-
ing Thomas Rees, who delivered an address, in which he drew
a strong
armletpso.
rtrai Theture funeralof theservice
scanted with peculiar effect upon his exertions in the cause
of civil and religious liberty. Dr. Rees stated that the
reverend deceased's high character had brought him into
intimate connexion with many of the eminent statesmen of
his time, and that the Test and Corporation Act repeal, the
passing of the Dissenting Marriages Act, and other liberal
measures, were owing in no small degree to his exertions.
At the close of the address the body, preceded by Dr. Rees,
deceased's
wasconductedant
e r y Dr.
and hd
and the Rev. T. Madge and Dr. Hutton, was consigned to
the earth. Upon no occasion since the death of the Vener-
able Archdeacon Watson, have the inhabitants of Hackney
evinced so much respect to a deceased parishoner, many of
the shops being closed, and a large concourse of persons, of
all religious and political views, joining in the mournful
procession.
GLASGOW PIG IRON TRADE, JAN. 2.—Firmness
among holders has been very general within this few days
past, and we do not hear of any iron offering under 80s., al-
though we are not aware of any transactions at these figure.
—Glasgow Argus.
TRADE OF MANCHESTER.—Since Tuesday last the
market has continued to improve, and, within the last few
days a large business has been done in yarn, both far present
and future delivery, at slightly improved rates. For goods,
too, there has been more demand ; and, in same cases, a
trifling advance has been paid.—M, Guardian.

TO THE PIT:i3LIC.
(From the Karr
1 For some time past tLe ,
',cliff Advertiser.)
been devoted to tnur,;„ ,unthb of the Bombay Times have
Ameers of Sinde etting forth the praises of the late
futile to attertie tut as their defenders know it would be
that Sir thsr-ry- to uphold their conduct as rulers, after all
Pottinger and Colonel Ontram have recorded
in thia re,-
lard, it is endeavoured to show that they were
Patere
.is of virtue, and most exemplars in their private lives.
er Shadad, in particular, is held up as a man in morals an-
'exceptionable, and the writer who thus speaks of him, Alpha,
has the hardihood to boast of his intimacy with that Prince.
This is the first time one has seen an Englishman boasting
of intimacy with one of the most infamous miscreants that
ever disgraced manhood, and proclaiming a man to be of un-
exceptionable morals who has rivalled the worst enormities of
Nero and Heliogabalus. The world has with one consent con-
signed the names of these monsters to execration! Yet their
equal in wickedness, Shaded, is now held up as a model of
purity—England, however, is not so corrupt as to consider all
that is most abominable virtue, though Alpha and the Bombay
Tunes affirm it ! and the only conclusion people of right
thinking will come to is that the upholders of Shadad's and
the rest of the Meer's morality must be as degraded and
corrupt as the Meers themselves.
To describe the infamies through which, without any at-
tempt at concealment, Shadad has passed is difficult, the
names even of such crimes as he has been all his life familiar
with being pollution, but however unpleasant the task it is
one which the best interests of society calls for. If the
reader will refer then, to the annals of 'Paeans, book fifteen.
and section thirty-seven, and to Gibbon's Decline and Fall,
volume one, aud chapttr six, he will find accounts of the
disgusting debaucheries'of Nero and Heliogabalus which, word
for word, pourtray the similar vices of Shadad. It is only
necessary to substitute for their names his, to complete the
picture, and for the :companions of their vices Pythagoras,
liierocles, and Quoticus,--to insert the equally detestable
partners in Shadad's guilt, Moored Khan, Alla Buksh, and
Manuck Sing '--men who were raised from the lowest con-
dition to the highest favour on account of their success in
gratifying his lewd desire,—and who are as infamously no-
torious to the people of Sinde, as those other monsters were
to the Roman world.
Having thus disposed of the moral character of Shadad,
that of the other Meers may be summed up in a few words.
Noor Mohamed, the father of Shadad, made the nearest
approach to him in crime; but though, like Shadad, he
prostituted himself to the embraces of his menials, Mo-
hamed Saleh. nude, Monsa, and others, he was at least
less open in his vices than his son. Sobdar was prevented
by epilepsey from following a course of sensuality—the only
excess I have heard attributed to him was in Ithang. Meer
Mohamed was cold by constitution. Nusser Khan was, it is
true, exempt from the most utterly revolting form of vice a
man can be guilty of; but the ravished wife of Mohamed
Khan Juttooee. The smock-faced sons of Aloo Memmon—the
pampered eunuchs Ramjan and Gooljan, with all their de-
testable crew of catamites, who were at once the panders and
the victims to the passions of their master—the horde of
pimps who filled the Durbar, these all attest that if not the
worst of men, ho held a position but little more elevated in
the scale; while the shameful, Shadad-like debaucheries of
his eldest son, gave promise of the atrocities that would have
continued to stain the country, had not the conquest of Sinde
providentially cut off his succession.
Such are the set whom, for purposes best known to them-
selves, Englishmen are found to uphold as models of morality
and virtue; the best of them notorious for vices held in abo-
mination even by Asiatics of any pretension to character or
religion, the worst sunk in sensuality so monstrous as must
in every country in the world make the persons guilty of it
an object of universal horror and disgust. For where till now
has there appeared in any realm, however wicked, an apolo-
gist for the infamy of a prince's self-prostitution; or where,
till Alpha stepped forth, was there seen a man so base as to
boast of intimacy with one who passed his life, till his de-
thronement, the catamite by turns of all the lowest wretches
in Hydrabad.
They who clamour against the conqueror of Sinde for rid-
ding a throne of such miscreants impugn the justice of the
Almighty who destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah.
With reference to the article in the Bombay Times of the
13th inst., on my letter regarding Shadad, at the printing of
which by that honest paper the Gentleman's Gazette, the
prudery of the Times is so much excited, I beg to make the
following observations :-
-.

1. The letter signed Omega was not published under the
Governor's sanction or with his knowledge.
2. Shadad may caricature all the officers of the force, the
Governor included till dooms-day for all that I care, but he
shall not, if I can help it, nor shall the Bombay Times make
such consummate fools of the public as this monster seems
to have made by Alpha's account of the unsuspecting little
society of Englishmen at Surat. The Times may continue
to spread his own protecting wing over the animal, but the
character of his protégé shall be known over India, and will be
known over Europe too, please God, on the arrival in London
of the next mail.

3. Does the Bombay Times suppose that he is to be allowed
to cry up miscreants as angels for ever, and that his false-
hoods are to remain uncontradicted, simply because the de-
pravity of the brutes he bepraises is so great as to defy
description.
4. In describing Shadad's vices, I have avoided as much
as possible detail, and referred the reader to books in which,
as I have said, they are faithfully pourtrayed. The books I
have referred to, are, first—the annals of Tacitus, a book in
the hands of every schoolboy at schools where gentlemen
are educated, and the translation of which by Murphy (the
passage alluded to included) as dedicated by permission to
the celebrated Edmund Burke, than whom a purer character
never breathed. Second—Gibbon's Decline and Fall, a work
equally unobjectionable, and third—in my last paragraph I
alluded, I trust with proper reverence to the Holy Bible.
People who have not read these books will not be affected
by my letter, for they will but faintly understand it, those
on the other hand who have read them may read all I have
written with pure minds, and fear nothing, for they have
read a great deal more about other monsters than I have
written about Shadad. lam not surprised, however, at the
objections of the Times, the virulence of that paper has con-
vinced all right feeling men that its editor can have very
little to say to his Bible, and we are quite sure that the
reading a column of his writings will be quite enough to
convince the most incredulous that he has been reared in
happy ignorance of all that pertains either to a classical, or a
gentlemanly education.
5. It is a mattor of no earthly consequence to me what
the Times says about disbelieving what I have written, for
I know lie does believe it, and hence his soreness, I can
produce hundreds, nay thousands of testimonials to its ve-
racity, among whom are the officers now serving in Sinde,
—I will dispose of the matter, however, in a more summary
way by calling forward a witness whom the Times will cer-
tainly not object to—step forth then honest James Outram in
this just cause—tell the truth and shame the devil.
Sinde, Aug. 22, 1845. OMEGA.
P.S.—I see the Editor of the Bombay Times talks of my
letter as the fruit of a prurient imagination, a libidinous
libel, and a bonne bouche,—and his correspondent, a Griffin:

speaks of it as unnatural stimulants to excite feelings and call
forth sympathies, as brought forward to enhance the value of
that which certainly might otherwise be tame and unpalatable,
and a high seasoned dish to excite an appetite. I really do not
know what all this means, or what appetites the fellow talks
I about my letter being calculased•to excite, I intended it as
it started from my pen an out-burst of reprobation of crime
almost unparallelled, and a warning to Englishmen to shun
the company of a monster.
If the Editor of the Bombay Times and his brother

Griffin found its libidinous, and calculated to excite an appe-
tite., all I can say is they must be in heart if not in deed a
brace of miscreants as great as their pet Shadad himself.

COURT CIRCULAR.

The Queen and Prince Albert, accompanied by
the Prince of Wales, Prince Alfred, the Princess
Royal, and the Princess Alice, and attended by the
Vicountess Jocelyn, the Dowager Lady Lyttelton,
Colonel Bowles, Major-General Wemyss, and Colonel
Bouverie, arrived at Claremont, from Windsor Castle,
at twenty minutes before five o'clock on Tuesday
afternoon. The royal party occupied four carriages
and four, and was escorted by a party of the 4th Light
Dragoons.
Yesterday morning her Majesty and her Royal Con-
sort took their accustomed early walk in Claremont
Park. Prince Albert afterwards went out shooting,- at-
tended by Mr. George Edward Anson and Colonel
Bouverie.

Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales and the
Princess Royal were taken out on ponies in Claremont
Park yesterday forenoon.

The Duke of Buceleuch arrived in town yesterday:

Sir James Graham and other Cabinet Ministers visited
Sir Robert Peel yesterday.
The Earl of Dalhousie had an interview with Sir
James Graham yesterday, at the Home-office.
Dispatches were received yesterday at the Colonial-
office from the Governors of the West India Colonies.

Dispatches were sent off last evening from the Colo-
nial-office for the Lord High Commissioner of the
lonian Islands, and also for the Governors of Malta and
Gibraltar.

THE TORT.—This vessel, which has been the
of w
theatre of so many alleged atrocities,
such fearful and revolting scenes of bloTdd nb°mard acreshich
are
said to have been enacted, having discharged her rich cargo
of silks, teas, &c., estimated at 80,0001. value, cleared out
last week from the West India Import Dock, and is now
lying in the Limehouse Basin, where she is an object of great
curiosity. The chief attraction is the after cabin, where
Captain Johnston sat when he was said to have cut at
Mars, Cone, and the others. It appears to be about ten
feet by twelve, slanting upwards about twelve inches, so as
to give the person sitting on the bench beyond the table
entire command over any person entering. A beam run-
ning across, and which compels One to stoop, is marked with
several cuts, which appear to have been planed away, and
then fresh painted in patches. There are also several marks.
as of prodding on the door of a locker near the entrance.
Owing to the tragic events which have taken place on board,
and the superstitious dread which sailors entertain as re-
gards vessels so fearfully signalised, it has been resolved to
change the name of Tory on her arrival at Liverpool, pre-
paratory to a voyage to Singapore. Notwithstanding the
disorganised state of the crew, the cargo has been turned out
to great advantage, and, taking the same circumstance into
account, the good condition of the ship is equally surprising,
as she will not require to be put into dry dock. Captain
Johnstone, her late commander, whose trial was expected to
have come on yesterday, is in a very precarious state, and is
said to have undergone two operations. There is not the
least likelihood that he will be able to take his trial at the
present session of the Central Criminal Court ; and the ru-
mours from Tothill-fields prison would lead to the conclu-
sion that he cannot survive until the next.

ROBBERY OF CASH, &C., FROM A TAVERN.—On
Sunday morning, Mr. John Ratcliff, of the King's Arms
Tavern, Harefield, Middlesex, discovered that a box, which
had been kept in his bed-room, containing bank-notes and
other property; amounting to 1,6801., had been stolen there-
from during the previous night, viz., ten 201. Uxbridge Old
bank notes, and six 51. ditto, a cheque for 1001. on the Mines
Royal Company of Harefield, an Exchequer-bill for 7501., and
a bond for 6001., besides a number of title-deeds relative to
some property at Denham, and other deeds. The numbers
of the 201. notes--F. 2,171, 2,242, 2,052, 2,096, 2,212, 2,241,
2,248, 2,042, 2,138, and 2,049. The number of the 51. notes
—A. 8,161, 5,561, 5,556, 6,115, 6,296, and 5,849. No clue has
yet been obtained likely to lead to the discovery of the thief or
thieves.

SHOCKING OCCURRENCE,--A little after midnight
on Saturday, a tire was discovered in the house of Robert
Hardman, dyer, Brighton-street, Red Bank; and, on the
house being entered by the neighbours, the wife of Hardman,
a woman of weak intellect, was found burned to death. Her
husband left her alone in the house, and had not returned
home when her fate was discovered. She was 36 years of
age.—Manchester Guardian.
WINDSOR, WEDNESDAY EVENING.—The Duchess
of Kent left Frogmore House yesterday morning, in a close
travelling carriage and four, for Clarence House, St. James's.
Her Royal Highness was attended by Lady Fanny Howard.
The Duchess returned to Frogmore to dinner. Her Royal
Highness took a carriage airing this afternoon in the Great
Park.