The Sun.
London, England, 1848-10-27 00:00:00

No. 17,500.] LONDON, FRIDAY E ". N G •?:,.!, OCTOBER 27, 1848.
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PUBLICATIONS.

Now ready, in Four Volumes Svo., price Four Guineas, Oa,
(Dedicated, by permission, to her Majesty the Queen,)
THE SECOND EDITIoN OF
R. SERJEANT STEPHEN'S NEW
311 COMMENTARIES en tho LAWS of IeNOLAND, partly
founded on BLA.CICSTONE.
A Prospectus of the Contents, tcc.. of this Work has been
prize ed, and may be had, gratis, of the Publisher.
Preparing for immediate publication, in One Volume Bvo.,
QUESTIONS for LAW STUDENTS, on the Second Edition of Mr.
Serjeant STEPHEN'S NEW COMMENTARIES.
By JAM
ry ES STEPHEN, Esq., uf the Inner Temple, Barriter-at-Law.
Hen Butter worth, Law BeeksoUer and Publisher, 7,sFleet-street

ALISON'S EUROPE.
Ti Twenty Volumes Crown Svo., price 61., with a copious Index,
-r II E HISTORY of EUROPE from
lL the Commencement of the FRENCH REVOLUTION in
311/CCLXXXIX., to the RESTORATION of the BOURBONS in
MDCCCXV.
By ARCIIIBALD ALISON, Esq., F.R.S.E.
William Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh and London.

This day is published, in fcap. /Ivo.. price 65.,
The Fifth Edition of
ELEMENTS of AGRICULTURAL CHE-
MISTRY and GEOLOGY. By JAMES F. W. JOHNSTON,
M.A., F.It.SS. L. and E., Honorary Member of the Royal Agricul-
tural Society of England, and Author of " Lectures ou Agricultural
Chemistry and Geology," Lc.
William Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh and London.

TO THE SPORTING WORLD.-
INFORMATION NECESSARY TO BE PUBLISHED.—
" TOUCHSTONE," in the ERA NEWSPAI'ER, of October 8,
placed the Cea to win the CiESAREWITCII S FAKES, and on the
lad of October distinctly Foretold that DaclA. would win the CAM-
BRIDGESHIRE STAKES. He has proved to be correct in both
events; as well as placing 78 other successful Horses in various
Races during the Season of 1848.
The NEWMARKET HOUGHTON MEETING of this' week
will be fully reported in the ERA, by " TOUCHdTONE," and
Several Eminent Sporting Writers, engaged exclusively to
chronicle with eclat, title, the last Sporting Meeting of the year.
The ERA is acknowledged the Frst Theatrical Journal of the day,
as well as containing a carlful digest of all News at 'Horde
ar.d Abroad. The circalation of this rapidly-rising Family aid
Sporting Newspaper has doubled its circalation the last year, and
now publiShes 10,000 weekly. It is published before 12 on Saturday
morning, in time for the mid-day trains, and an Edition for Town
Is ready at 5 every Sunday morning, with Theatrical. Foreign,
Law, Police, Accidents, &c., to the latest hour.
• Oraer of all Newsmen in Town or Country ; or send 6 post.
age Stamps to THE ERA OFFICE, 3, Catherine-street, Strand
Any Subscriber remitting £1 6s. per Post-office Order to Mr.
-FREDERIC LEDGER, Era Office, will receive the Journal for 32
consecutive weeks, and participate gratuitously is the profits of
the paper. In the years 1847 and 1848 £550 was Distributed, the
Fortunate partakers of which have repeatedly beets advertised,
and names and residences can at any time be inspected at the above
office. •

THE GUINEA TRADE and CRAFT of DOC-
TORS in DANGER.—Those doctors, alias the licensed poi-
Sellers, who write in the " Weekly Dispatch" about Morison's Pills,
will be answered in the columns of THE HYGEIST, which appears
on the Ist of every month, and is published at the office, 368, Strand,
price Id., or 2d. per post. Let such doctors beware of wilful perjury.
They are watched. The " Weekly Dispatch" Is henceforth the doc-
tors' paper.

GRAVESEND `lli BLACKWALL RAIL-
W included In one Payment.
Fares, to or from London.
Fore Cabin and Second Class Railway, ONE SHILLING ;
Saloon and First Class ditto, ONE SHELLING and SIXPENCE.
Ti or from Blackwall or intermediate Piers,
Fore Cabin •• • • 9d. Saloon •• • ••; s.
No other rackets call at the Grays or Greenhithe Piers.
FROM TERRACE PIER, GRAVESEND.
Week Days, at 7, 854,* 9%, 11%, 1. 3, and a.
Sundays. at 7, 8%.* 11%, 1,3, and 5.
FROM BRUNSWICK WHARF, BLACKW ALL.
Week Days, at 9%, 11, 4, and 5.*
Sundays, at 9,4, 11, 1%, 3,4, and 5.*
The TRAINS starting one quarter of an hour before each of these
times.
Passages marked * are run direct, the Packets not being per-
mitted to stop at Piers or for Boats.
Omnibuses Iron: Fenchurch-street Station to all parts of London
every quarter of an hour.
BOAT TICKETS.—Twelve Months, 41. 45.: Six Months, 21. 15s. ;
Three Months, 11. 15s. ; to be had of the Collectors on board the
packets ; Mr. Monk, Terrace Pier, Gravesend ; or of Mr. Saunders,
Brunswick Wharf, Blackwall.
Passengers' Luggage conveyed to and from the Packets and Rail-
way, at tke Brunswick-wharf, without any charge. The charge for
Porterage at Fenshurch-street is Id. for small parcels, and 24. for
large parcels.
October 25. 1841.

RE AT WESTERN RAILWAY.
r OPENING of LINE to BASINGSTOKE. ALTERATION for
WINTER TRAINS, and DISCONTINUANCE of RETURN
TICKETS.—Nov. 1, 1848.
The 'leas and Hants Railway, between Reading and Basingstoke,
will be OPENED for the conveyance of Passengers, Goods, Parcels,
Carriages, Horses, and Cattle, on and front WEDNESDAT next, the
Ist of November.
On the same day several alterations will be made in the times of
Great Western Trains, and some Trains will be discontinued during
the Winter. For particulars of all these changes, and for the times
of Trains to and from Basingstoke, reference must be had to new
Train mills, which will be ready for delivery on and after Monday
the 30th inst.
The Directors regret to notify, also, that they are compelled, in
conseritience of the existing severe pressure on railway property, and
the increased assessments for parochial rates, to relinquish the sys-
tem of return, or day tickets, which will be entirely discontinued
from and after the Ist of November, 1848
By order of the Directors,
CHARLER A. SAUNDIRS, Secretary.
Paddington Station, October 26, 18411.

i 1 AwAraxleEd.
Sw'iSck NCtoAtiiNds,D7dl4.•ECLsiitde, :ilildll,6iodd.., ,a):,
iii.
jAb.d;.
4 ,
Wax Candles, Is. ; German Wax, Is. 2d. ; Fine Wax, is. sd. ,
Transparent Wax, Is. 9d.; Best Wax, 21. Id. • Sperm Candles,
18.6 d. and Is. 7d. Metallic, 7%d. and 9d. ; Mottled Seep, 60s. and
G4s. per 1121b5.; Yellow, 485., 545., and 60s. ; Windsor Soap, Is.
per packet ; Brown Windsor, Is. 9d. ; Rose, 2s.
gallon; ; Almond, 2s. 6d. ,
Sealing Wax, 4s. 6d. per lb. ; Sperm Oil, 7s. Gd. per Solar
3s. 3d., Seal, 4s. ; Argand, or Vegetable, 4s. 6d.
For Cash—t DAVIES'S Old listabllshed Warehouse. 63. St.
Martin's-lane. A
Export or Grocers' and 011-shop Goods at lower
prices.
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CARSON'S ORIGINAL ANTI-CORROSION
PAINT, specially patronised by the British and other Govern-
ments, the Hon. East India Company, the principal Dock Com-
panies, most public bodies, and by the nobility, clergy, and gentry,
for out-door work at their country seats. The ANTI-CORROSION
is particularly recommended as the most durable out-door paint ever
invented for the preservation of every description of iron, wood,
stone, brick, comp*, cement, kc.. work, as has been proved by the
practical test if upwards of 60 years, and by the numerous testi-
monials (between 300 and 400) in its favour, and which, from the
rak and station in society f those who have given them, have
perhaps never yet been equalled by anything of the kind hitherto
brought before the public notice.
A Copy of the testimonials, together with a list of prices, colours,
and other particulars. will be forwarded en application to Walter
Carson, 15, Tokeuhouse-yard, back of the Bank of England. Ne
agent.*

EYEBROWS, MOUSTACHIOS, and IV HIS-
'CERA produced In a few weeks, and Baldness removed and
prevented by the use of oßtmsToNE's
aromaticßATlC BEGENE,
RATOR, an essential spirit, drawn from herbs aid flowers-
a few drops M which cure headaehe in a few minutes ; It is also a
:nest delightful, fragrant toilet perfume. Sold only in triangular
bottles, protected by the Government stamp, at 45. ; double the size,
'5. ; and double this size, l is. each ; enclosed in a Pamphlet, con-
•alning testimonials of undoubted authority, entitled " Three Minutes'
dvice on tke Grewth and Preservation *I the Human Hair, &c."
fly post, 4s. 6d., 7s. lid„ and 125., for money orders only.
Sold wholesale only at Grirastone's Barbary, Highgate, near
Louden; and by Messrs. Barclay and Son, Farringdon-street ; Sanger,
Oxford-street; Messrs. Butler and Co.,Cheapside Fisher and Toiler,
Conduit-street ; Mr. Johnston, medicine warehouse, 68, Cornhill •
s.id by all Chemists, real/111CM and others For Edinburgh, J. and
ft. Raimes, Leitk-walk ; for Manchester, eresehe and ken, iciver
iser- o rice.

SALES BY AUCTION.

SOUTPI WALES in the very beautiful vicinity of Abergavenny,
Capital and important FREEHOLD ESTATE for Investment.
ESSRS. DANIEL SMITH and SON will
SELL by AUCTION, at the Mart, Bartholomew-lane, City,
on TULIDAY, November 7, at Twelve o'clock (unless previously dia.
posed of by Private Treaty),

The very valuable and remarkably beautiful ESTATE of POOL
HALL, in the parishes of Llanvetherine and Llangattock-Lingoed,
:.bout four miles from the town of Abergavenny, amidst the most
magnificent mountain and richly-wooded scenery, embracing, with
other grand and picturesqne objects the Skyrid or Holy-Mountain,
the Greg llill, and the Black Mountains. The estate comprises
about 1,100 acres, divided into four excellent farms, in a ring fence,
with very substantial stone and slated agricultural buildings; and
the Old Hall or Manor House, and three other farmhouses, in the
hands of industrious tenants, at old low rents. The estate stretches
from the Old Ross Turnpike-road, close to Llanvetherine Church and
Pont Gilbert to Llangattock Church ; is ornamentally tinibered, and
intersected by little woods and covers for game, and several winding
brooks, affording good trout.
Particulars, with plans, may be had at the chief Inns at Mon-
mouth, Ross, &c. ; of Mr. Beaumont, Land Agent, Newport ; of
Messrs. Blunt and Davis, solicitors, Usk ; of Messrs. Save° and
Price, surveyors, Abergavenny; and of Messrs. Daniel Smith and
Son, land agent?, in Waterloo-place, Pall-mall, London.

SUNNINGHILL, BERES, near WINDSOR-PARK and ASCOT.
FREEHOLD VILLA and valuable MEADOW LANDS.
ESSRS. DANIEL SMITH and SON will
SELL by AUCTION, at the Mart, on TUISDAY, November
7, at Twelve, in lots, by order of the Proprietor, (unless an accept-
able offer be previously made,)
The FREEHOLD VILLA RESIDENCE, kaown as Brook Ledge,
in the beautiful and healthy parish of Sunninghill, adjoining Sillwood-
park, and near the entrance to Windsor Great Park, Virginia-water.
Ascot, and the Royal Kennel, with pleasure grounds, walled garden,
capital st Aline, and other out-buildings; also a neat Cottage Lodge
and a rich Meadow of about Five Acres, with an ornamental little
Wood in a ring fence ; also, in separate lots, soma very valuable
Parcels of Meadow Land, nearly opposite, with an extensive
irontage, adjoining the Park of Buckhurst and the One Tan Inn.
Particulars and plans may be kad at their offices, in Waterloo-
place, Pall-mall, and of Mr. Simpson, solicitor, 45, Bedford-row.

Delightfully sitnated FREEHOLD VILLA on the bank of the
Thames, within a walk of Windsor, near Runnemede ; also the
old-established river-side Public-house, long known as the BELLS

of OUSELEY.
MESSRS. DANIEL SMITHand SON re-
spectfully apprise the public that (if no acceptable offer shall
be previously made by Private Treaty) in the ensuing Spring they
shall SUBMIT to PUBLIC AUCTION, by direction of the Exe-
cutors under the will of the late Lord Viscount Ashbrook,
The handsome modern and substantial VILLA RESIDENCE
known as OUSELEY LODGE, delightfully situated near the bank of
the river Thames, between Windsor and Egharn, with capital stab-
ling, pleasure-grounds, walled garden, and rich paddock adjoin'sg,
all in the most substantial repair and order ; and in a separate Lot,
tke well-known old favourite public-house, the BELLS of OUSE-
LEY, ou the bank of the river, with superior stabling, and various
out-bulldings, yard, and walled garden.
Particulars may be known by application to Messrs. WWII"
Broughton, anti White, solicitors, Great Marlborough. street ; or of
Messrs. Daniel Smith and Son, Waterloo-place. - •

rirlHE ROYAL POLYTECHNIC
INSTITUTION. REGENT-STREET.
A Lecture on Sanitary Measures connected with the Progress of
Cholera and ether Epidemics, by Dr. Ryan, daily, at Half-past
Three, and on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday Evenings, at Nine
o'clock.—Also on the Manufacture of Outta Fercha, by Dr. Bach-
hornier, Mornings and alternate Evenings.—An entirely new Phan-
tasmagoria, by Childe, every Evening at Eight o'clock, with ap-
propriate Music—The Dissolving Views, with historical descriptions.
—The Chromatrepe, with New Effects.—The Microscope at One
o'clock daily.—Diver and Diving-bell.—Working Models explained.
Open daily frona Eleven to Five , and in the Evenings (including
Saturday) from Seven till Half-past Tea.
Adtalssioa, Malf-price.—The New Catalogue, Is.

QUAVER PLATED DISH COVERS.—The
Catalogue of Prices, with Drawings, of SILVER PLATED
DISH COVERS, and other requisites for the dinner table, is pub-
lished, and may be had, gratis, or will be sent, postage free, to any
part of Great Britain, Ireland, or the Colonies.
A. 13. SAVORY and SONS, 14, Cornhlll, London, opposite the
Bank. . .

ON NERVOUS DEBILITY AND GENERATIVE DISEASES.
Just published, the Thirty-sixth Thousand, an improved edition, re-
vised and corrected, 120 pages, price 25. in a sealed envelope, or
forwar led by the Authors, post paid, to any address, secure from
observation, for 25. id., in postage stamps, illustrated with nu-
merous Anatomical Coloured Engravings.
ANHOOD: the CAUSES of its PREMA-
MTUBE DECLINE, with Plain Directiols for its PERFECT
RESTORATION.
A Medical Essay on these Diseases of the Generative Organs,
ernanat.ng from Solitary and Sedentary Habits, indiscriminate Ex-
cesses, the Effects of Climate and Infection, &c., addressed to the
sufferer in Youth, Manhood, and Old Age; with Premarks
en Marriage, the Treatment and Cum of Nervous and Mental De-
bility, Impotency, Syphilis, and other Urine-Genital Diseases, by
which even the most shattered constitution may be restored, and
reach the tall period of hits allotted to Man. The whole illustrated
with numerous Anatomical Engravings on Steel, in colour, explain-
ing the various functions, secretions, and structures of the repro-
ductive Organs in health and disease; with instructions for private
correspondence, cases, &c.
ISy J. L. CURTIS and CO., Consulting Surgeons,
7 , Frith-street, Soho-square, London.
" ' Manhood.' A Medical Work.—To the gay and thoughtless we
trust this little work will serve as a beacon to warn them of
ons, the
danger attendant upon the too rash indulgence of their pit isi
whilst to some it may serve as a monitor in the hour et tempta-
tion, antl to the afflicted as a sure guide to health."—Chronicle
" ' Manhood.' By J. L. Curtis, and Co.—Their long experience
and reptation ia he treatment of these painl diseases is the
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culation."—Era.
'" Curtis on Manhood' should be in the hands of youth and old
age. It Is a medical publication, ably written, and developes tsnhe
treatment of a class of painful maladies which has too long be
the prey of the illiterate and the designing."— United tier
Gazette.
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L 0 V E is the leading feeling of the human
breast. More exalted than mere passion, it sears high above
every other impulse of nature, and Is not only stronger than avarice,
but more engrossing even than ambition. No man Is exempt from
its inkuence, or can avoid its sway; and business, pleasure, philo-
sophy, and divinity itself become neglected under the enthralling
power of LOVE, which, unlike most things, increases in intensity
with time, until it receives the sacred consummation of marriage.
When union does not take place, however, this passion, this
fervour, this golden tide of the manliest feelings becomes a deadly
poison in the heart, which now darkens, as it before bright-
ened, all things upon earth. How is it that men, of most un-
changeable habits, will change at the very altar, and after a .11te-
time spent In the fulfilment of every engagement, snap the very con-
tract asunder which should be most binding to an honourable mind!
It Is the effect of conscience. The Lover, by enervation'of early
habits, er the results of secret disease, knows himself to be
disqualified, and dares not enter a state which has been
instituted by Divine Law for the fulfilment of important
ends. The wretched condition of such a being must subsequently be
beyond measure deplorable I Loving and beloved, he entails the
most misera►le disappointments on the object of his choice, and aeon
himself a desolation the most horrible, when the simple possession of
natural attributes would change the scene, and yield to both 'a life of
analieyed happiness. The subject is interesting, and deserves the
attention of all. These desirous of investigating it will find the
fullest and most satisfactory information in the little work entitled

EAST INDIA HOUSE, °croon 25, 1843.
THE COURT of DIRECTORS of the EAST
That a Quarterly General Court of the said ComporY
That
COMPANY do hereby give notice,
will be k
at their Mouse, in Leadenhall-street, on Wxyrissnay, the 20th De-
umber next, at Eleven o'clock in the Forenoon.
JAMES C. MELVIII, Secretary.
eld

E tST INDIA-MOUSE, •Ocronea 25, 1318.
THE COURT of DIRECTORS of the EAST
INDIA COMPANY de hereby give•notlF.e.
That the Transfer Books of the said Company'll"c"n"l*
SIIIJT on TuzeiDAY, the ith December next, at Three o'clock, and
OPENED again on TUESDAY, the lith January, 11149•
That the Warrants for the Dividends of the said Stock, payable on
SATURDAY, the 6th January, 1349, under the:llth Sec• of the Act
3 and 4 William IV., Cap. IS, will Ise ready to be delivered on that
day.
JAMES C.
MEDI/ILL, c4c, retary.

Sir Henry Pottinger, Governor of Madras, seems
to be gaining daily in the good-will of those over
whom he rulvs. His condescension and urbanity,
and the impartiality of his administration of the
patronage which lies in his hands, are alike new
and soothing to the good people at Madras, the late
Governor having been remarkable for anything but
suavity or disinterestedness in the bestowal of his
patronage. The court-martial on Surgeon Mouat,
of her Majesty's 15th Hussars, has concluded its
investigation. The prosecution occupied fifteen days,
when the prisoner read his defence, which is said to
be a most triumphant one. The finding of the
court has not yet been published, but a verdict of
honourable acquittal of all the charges preferred
against Dr. Mount is confidently looked for. Bri-
gadier D. Macleod, of the 2d Madras Cavalry, at
present commanding at Jaulnah, has been appointed
to the command of the Nagpore subsidiary farce, vice
Brigadier Perry, whose tour on the staff expires on
the 20th inst.; and Colonel J. Tennant, of the Ben-
gal Artillery, has been nominated a first class briga-
dier to command the Meywar field force, vice
Stacy deceased. Three companies of the 51st Madras
Native Infantry have been dispatched to Labuan as
a garrison for that settlement. The investigations
into the recent disgraceful affair of destroying or
injuring the Catholic chapel at Secunderabad by a
few soldiers of that persuasion of her Majesty's 84th
Foot, at the instigation, it was said, of an European
priest named M•Sweeny, have been brought to a
close, but their report has not yet been made public.
There cannot be the smallest doubt of the c-mnplicity
of the reverend gentleman and bis son in the outrage
complained of. The extent to which they were so
has no doubt been represented to Government,
►vho will deal with them according to their
deserts. Great blame has at the same
time been attached to the brigadier commanding at
Secunderabad for the want. of courtesy exhibited by
him towards the Catholic clergy before and after the
occurrence of the recent disgraceful proceedings. A
number of the soldiers have been punished for the
share they took in the outrage—the non-commis-
sioned officers being reduced to the ranks. Dr. Dau-
beny, somehow or other implicated in the death of 1
Mrs. Frere on the Neilgherry hills, has been escorted 1
to Madras to undergo an examination before the civil
power. It is expected the unfortunate lady's native 1
female servant will turn Queen's evidence ; if so, the
truth of the matter will be arrived at, as there can be

no doubt that she is fully acquainted with the whole
circumstances of the case. Dr. G. H. Harding has been
elected in the room of Mr. J. Ouchterlony as a
director of the Bank of Madras.

Lord Falkland returns to Bombay about the 15th
of October. Sir W. Cotton is just about to leave
Poona on a tour of inspection into Goozerat, and will
not probably return to the presidency before Deakn-
ber, Goozerat and the districts -adjoinirig have not,
we believe, been visited by the head of the Bombay
army for above twenty years. Some disturbances
have of late made their appearance in some of the
regiments in this quarter, which his Excellency
thinks it well to inquire into in person. The Lord
Bishop was last heard from in the southern Mahratta
country, whither he had proceeded on a tour of visi-
tation. His Lordship returns to Bombay about the
beginning of November by way of Sholapore and
Sattara. Surgeon-General John APLennan leaves
for Europe by to-day's steamer on three

years' furlough, carrying with him the respect
and hearty good wishes of the society of the Pre-
sidency, amorist whom he has been a resident for
upwards of ten years. his temporary retirement has
brought Dr. James Burnes, M.D., K.H.—also a
favourite with the residents at the Presidency--into
the medical board, as Inspector• General of Hospitals.
Colonel J. Outram, resident at Baroda, has just
arrived amongst us on sick leave ; he has been for
tome time indisposed, and has been recommended to
avoid the heats in the interior about this period of
the year. The share list of the Bombay Railway
has been filled up to the point required by the
committee before the guarantee of the court could
be made available. The 30,000 shares have been
subscribed for, and the list will this day be trans-
mitted to the Home Committee. Commodore Haw-
kin's commission, as temporary Commander in-
Chief of the Indian Navy, has been published by
Government ' • together with a warrant from her
Majesty's Lords of the Admiralty, authorising
the officer at the head of the Indian navy
to hoist the broad pennant of a Commo-
dore—red, with a yellow cross and a lion in the
lupper corner next the staff. ller Majesty's ship
Hercules is to carry home a further batch of sculp-
tures received from the Euphrates by the sloop Clive.
'The French frigate La Reine Blanche, Commodore
Page, is now in harbour. Mr. I'. R. Richmond, of
the late firm of Richmond and Co., has been ap-
pointed manager of the Steam Navigation Company.
The weather at Bombay has again nndergone a con-
siderable change. Up to Tuesday ever.ing it had
been fair and hot; about ten o'clock the wind became
violent, the rain descended in grand style, and has
continued off and on up to the present time. Up-
wards of 73 inches have fallen during the season, and
at least six or seven more may be expected, which
will bring the monsoon up to the average of the lust
twenty years. The tanks and wells are all full, awl
no apprehensions need be entertained of a scarcity of
water during the ensuing hot season. Very little
sickness prevails either at the Presidency or in the
interior, and the state of the crops all over the country
promises well for an abundant harvest.
(From the Delhi Gazette Extraordinary, Sept. 7.)
We regret much to announce that Sirdar Chuttur
Singh having, on the night of the 26th of August,
attacked Captain Abbott, with about 1,500 country
people under him, that officer, having no guns to op-
pose to those of the Sirdar, was compelled to fall back
on Ilussun Abdall, and it is the opinion of the British
officers that they will have to throw themselves into
the fort of Attuk. We are assured that Captain Ab-
bott has proofs of Maharaja Ghoolab Singh's com-
plicity. A requisition left Lahore for Sirnlab, on the
Ist, for a large force to proceed towards the disturbed
country, and on the 2,1 inst. her Majesty's 61st, the
63d, and 3d Regiments of Native Infantry, and the 2d
Irregular Cavalry, with a proportion of artillery, were
ordered to hold themselves in readiness at Jullundhur
to march at a moment's warning. On the 30th of
August General Wilish ordered Shere Singh to move
off to a distance of 36 miles from Moultan. His rea-
sons may easily be guessed.
We have also this morning received the following
communication from our Bahawulpoor correspondent,
dated the ad of September :--
" On Friday, the Ist of September, about seven
o'clock in the morning, the troops of the Dewan
came out of the fort to oppose the British troops,
who had advanced from their camp at Mareeseethul
towards the town, and taken up a position at match-
lock distance from the walls. An engagement oc-
curred, which lasted for some time, when the Moul-
tanese being beaten back with great loss, took refuge
in a ravine known as Sheedee Lal ka
close to the walls of the town. Nothing occurred
during the night. You shall receive further infor-
mation the moment I hear."

MOULTAN.
(From the Overland Bombay Titus.)
In our last summary we traced the advance of the
two columns moving on Moultan close to the place
of their destination, their progress up till then having
been uniformly auspicious. We now resume the
narrative at the point where it was a fortnight since
broken off. The head-quarter column, under General
Whish, had proceeded from Lahore direct, and de-
scended the Itavee and Chenaub. It consisted of her
Majesty's 10th, and a troop of artillery—the former
of these having been conveyed in boats—the 7th Irre-
gular Horse, and the Bth and 52d Native Infantry,
marching by the left bank of the river. By the 12th
of August they had got within six marches of
Moultan. The camp was attacked on the 16th
while sixteen miles from Moultan. About ten at night
heavy tiring was heard in the direction of the fortress.
About midnight the Quartermaster-General rode
into the camp of her Majesty's 10th, and told the
commanding officer to be prepared for an
attack. The tents were struck in a moment, and at
two in the morning the enemy opened their fire.
Finding themselves in front of the cavalry and artil.
lery, they boldly advanced on the flank companies of
the infantry thrown out to receive them. They were
saluted by a heavy fire of musketry, when they re-
tired. The skirmish lasted about an hour and a half.
The insurgent force was understood to amount to be-
twixt 1,000 and 2,000 ; they carried off their
wounded, but left 18 dead and some prisoners be-
hind them. They appear to have expected to catch
us off our guard or with our hands full preparing fur
the march. It was a bold adventure of the Moolrsj
to send a detachment of this size to his rear, with
20,000 of his opponents on his front and on his flank.
The light companies of her Majesty's 10t.h and the
Bth Native Infantry were the only troops on our
side engaged ; we had seven or eight wounded, but
no one killed. The column now moved on, and
in two days more reached their encamping ground
near to Moultan, where on the 19th they were
joined by the leading detachment of the FerozeP ore
brigade. Turning for a little from this to the march
of the other troops. The Ferozepore column, con-
sisting of the battering train of 30 heavy guns, her
Majesty's 32d Foot--both of which proceeded by
water—a troop of Horse Artillery, the 11th Xegular

and 11th Irregular Cavalry, the 49th, 51st, sad 72d
• I Native Infantry, got nearly as far down as Bahawul-
, pore, by about the 12th of August, and took the
route direct for Moultan. On this latter date they
were encamped at a place called Kurrumpore. Cap-
tain Master, commanding the Irregular Horse, here
; received orders to move with three troops and a wing
of the 49th Native Infantry to a landing-place near
by, to stop the fleet cf boats with her Majesty's 32(1;
the remainder of the brigade was desired to move di-
rect on to Moultan, then five marches distant. The
other wing of the 49th sad the residue of the horse
were ordered to the landing-place lower down, oppo-
site Bahawulpore, to escort the train, ordnance stores,
and heavy baggage. Hitherto all had gone on welt,
but shortly after the heat became tremendous—the
thermometer in an hospital tent attempted to be
c,,oled by wet blankets stood at 127 deg. ; in bill
tents it could not be reduced lower than 118 dtg.
As already stated the body of the force reached Mout-
eirnrtol
tanon the 19th, and joined the Lahore column ; her
Majesty's 32d, with the wing of the 49th and llth
Irregular Horse escorting them,
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t.mhetr(he heat 15 men, and sent 200 into hospital,
where
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sick. The battering-train had reached its landing-
place on the 19th; 10 days were occupied in prepara-
tions for the march, and they moved on the 28th.
The guns would reach their destination in six
days, and active operations be commenced im-
mediately. The country round Moultan owes its
fertility entirely to artificial irrigation, the water
being conducted by canals from the Chenaub,
and distributed in little rills over the fields—wells
are abundant everywhere. On the occasion of the
engagement of the Ist of July these had formed,
the chief strongholds of the enemy ; and as the river
was now near the period of flood, it was feared the
country might be inundated. To prevent this, a
party of 100 workmen were detached from the main
column on the 14th, and placed on board the steamer
Conqueror, with an abundant supply of entrenching
tools. An escort of 1,000 Sikh .soldiers, with two
guns, commanded by Mallee Singh, accompanied
them, and were directed to establish themselves near
the mouths of the canals. Opposite one of these the
steamer achored in five feet water, and directed her ,
heavy guns on the banks. The party of the Sikh
ctsmmander threw up a strong entrenchment of about
400 yards long from one canal to another, and placed
their heavy 26-pounders in battery so as to prevent I
the consequences of surprise. An embankment across
the canal was commenced by sinking a boat loaded
with faggots and earth, but the banks being of sand, ,
the force of the:water quickly carried the whole away.
Another was now begun at the mouth of the large
canal. - The current here was very violent, carrying
' off the earth almost as rapidly as it, was thrown in, so
that it was necessary to labour night and day. It
was hoped that in a short time the cutting off the
water by all the canals would be successfully com-
pleted. It was against the embanking party that the
detachment which attempted the surprise on the 16th
was understood to be directed, but finding them in a
position where there was no hope of attacking them
with success, they directed their efforts against the
main column. With preparations so overwhelming
on every side of him, it is wonderful with what
determination the Moolraj holds out—with how much
constancy his men adhere to him. He is said to have
10,000 in all under his command ; of these 8,000 are
outside, and 2,000 chosen heroes within the walls,
who are determined to sell their lives as dearly as
possible, and to fight to the last.

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS,

FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DA).

CHRONICLE.—Mr. Hudson's reply to the address
of the Liverpool shareholders, in the Midland Railway
Company, has probably ere this, been read and com-
mented on in every tavern and counting-house, in
every place where men congregate, and newspapers
are read, between the Channel and the Tweed. At a
moment like this, of extraordinary panic and confu-
sion, Mr. Hudson stands appropriately forward, as
the champion of those potent bodies. When the
Railway King speaks of the affairs of his own realm
it is worth everybody's while to listen. And, amidst
the agitation and terror which now prevails through.
out every province of his kingdom, it is hardly need-
ful for us to call the attention of his distracted subjects
with any prolixity of comment to the speech from
the throne. , Mr. Hudson writes with the air of a

a man whose character for integrity has been as-
sailed by imputations which his conscience tells him
ure unfounded. 11 e cannot say that he is in the
wrong. It is true that, in the administration of the
atTairs of those great companies, cases may not un-
frequently occur where a defect of judgment may
lead a perfectly upright roan into mistakes, which
those who suffer from the consequences of the
error may not be slow to stigmatize as
crimes. The lines (which separate legitimate
speculation from gambling, become here, and
there, too fine and faint for the eye of conscience
to pursue; and imprudence, viewed in some lights,
looks more like improbity than it really is. But,
until we are furnished with some satisfactory reasons.
for believing that the directors of the Midland Rail.
way have been guilty of either the one or the other,
we cannot censure Mr. Hudson for assuming a tone
which the facts of the case may justify to the fullest
extent. Of some among the points urged by the
Liverpool shareholders, Mr. Hudson disposes unan
swerably. To others, which involve, in his opinion,
an undue meddling with the directional functions, he
responds by a wave of his sceptre, " Stand off, gentle-
men ; you are trespassing on the province over which
our discretionary powers extend. Within these
limits we admit of no interference." On this head
we shall merely say, that the latitude of authority to
which he lays claim is not, in our judgment, un-
reasonably large. He demands, and he has a right
to demand, the particularization of specific instances
of dishonest management. Ile has a right to demand
it, we say, because the memorialists have chosen to
put themselves in the wrong by hazarding imputations
which, if supported, must damage their directors'
characters it' unsupported, their own. But the
general body of shareholders, on their side, have a
right to be put in possession of the data by which
alone these charges, if true, can possibly be substan-
tiated. Into the general remarks on the depreciation
of railway property with which he concludes his
reply, we shall not now enter. Here he quits his
vantage-ground, repudiates all responsibility, and
disclaims all authority, save that which attaches to
his individual sagacity and experience. The duty of
a body of directors, he says, is "to obtain all the
traffic they can, and pay the shareholders good divi-
dends." The value of the definition depends on the
sense in which it is practically understood. If it be
extended so as to include a long-sighted regard to
future contingencies, and a due precaution against
the temptation to sacrifice future to present income,
it is true enough. The director has nothing to do
with the speculative value of the stock of his
railway ; his business is to make the property
itself, the railway and its appurtenances counting
amongst them the opportunities of possible profit
which it opens up, so far as those opportunities
have an appreciable value—as valuable a property as
possible. his business is not with the share-list,
but among the books of his company. For ourselves,
we have but one word to say on a subject on which a
vast deal too much has been said already. We, who
are not blinded by the panic ourselves, and have no
inducement to throw dust in the eyes of others, can
see abundant reasons, and good ones, to account for
the depreciation which railway property has under
gone, without assuming that the whole system is a
mass of rottenness, and the governing bodies so many
juntas of unscrupulous speculators, who have gambled
away their shareholders' money for their own ad-
vantage. Railway stock, like all other stock, is a com-
modity the value of which must fluctuate with the
rise and fall of public confidence, and the ebb and
flow of the money market. Like other stock, too, it
represents in itself merely the chances of profits to
arise from a substratum which may possess more or
less of a permanent money-value. The sub-
stratum of a railway share may turn out
to be so many thousand acres of stone and
g ravel, and so many thousand tons of old iron,
or it may be a frequented highway returning a hand-
some profit to carriers and toll- proprietors. The
traffic returns of the current year are the only test we
have to guide our judgment; and they are encourag-
ing. Still there is the element of uncertainty, and,
in a time of panic, that is enough. There is, too, a
general belief that the money which remains to be
1161 out, and which is now in the shareholders'
pockets, will not augment the aggregate traffic of the
country in the same ratio, or produce, in proportion
to its amount, as remunerative a return as that which
has been already called up. The value of this proba-
bility can only be estimated by a comprehensive re-
view of the different projects which remain to be pro-
ceeded with. Lastly, railway stock has been gambled
with to an extent of which we have had no precedent
in England since the days of the South Sea Scheme.
The consequence is, that a vast quantity of it has got
into the hands of persons unprepared to meet the
liabilities which it entails on the holders of it. An
enormous proportion of the shares which have lately
been thrown into the market has been sold, as every
banker knows, either to enable the holders to pay calls
on their remaining shares, or by mortgagees driven
to realise their securities by the fall in price which