The Sun.
London, England, 1846-09-18 00:00:00

GLASGOW, SEPTEMBER 16.

STOCK Excns.Noa. —The sales are—Caledonian, New, 32s.—Cale-
donian and Dumbartonshire Extension, 235. 9d.—Cornwall and
Devon Central, 275. 6d.—East Indian Railway, 14s. 9d.—Glasgow
General Terminus, W.—Glasgow and Belfast Union, 495. 6d.—Glas-
gow, Kilmarnock, and Ayr, Halves, 51. 17s. p. —Glasgow, Kilmar-
nock, and Ardrossan, 28s. 9d.—Glasgow, Airdrie, and Monkland
Junction, 40s.—Glasgow Harbour Grand Junction, 17s. 6d.—Great
North of India, ss. 3d.—Lanark and Lothians, 45s.—London and
York, 43s.—Manchester and Southampton, 23s.—Scottish Grand
Junction, 12s. 6d.—South Midland, 545.—Stirling and Dunfermline,
20s.—Strathern Junction, 425. 6d.

'lns AFGHAN TRIBES.—The state of ' society in
Afghanistan is now, and seems from time immemorial
to have been, entirly different from that which prevails
in other countries of Asia. In name, the government
is monarchical ; but the authority or the monarch, ex •
cept in the great towns and throughout the districts im-
mediately dependent upon them, extends no farther
over his subjects than the authority of the first Jamese,
extended in Scotland over the clans which occupied the
most inaccessible of the Highland districts. Indeed,
the Afghans bear, in this respect, ,a striking resemblance
to the Celtic portions of the population both of Scotland
and of Ireland, that they are divided into tribes, clans,
and septs, which pay little or no obedience, in the inter-
nal management of their affairs, to any power except
that of custom and of their chiefs. To be sure, there is
a point in the spirit of clanship in Afghanistan which
acts differently, and on principle too, from its manner of
operation either in Scotland or in Ireland. In the latter
countries, the head of the tribe used to demand and ob-
tain the fealty of his clansmen to his person ; in the
former this fealty is paid more to the community than
to the chief ; and hence it comes to pass that there is
much more of individual independence of character
among the Afghans than seems to have prevailed among
the ancestors of the M'Neils or the O'Connors ; for
though there are instances in the history of the Celtic
clans of the setting aside by his people of one chief, and
the appointment, on the same authoilty, of another, the
proceeding was not only rare in itself; bat seems never
to have been resorted to except in the last emergency ;
whereas in Afghanistan the practice is of constant oc-
currence, as often us by the representatives of the prin-
cipal families the chief is held to be incompetent, or is
found guilty of having transgressed those unwritten
laws which are understood by all, and by all reverenced
and obeyed from one generation to another.—Sale's
Brigade in Afghanistan.

KILM
An N K—TH kl HA nv EST.—The weather for
some weeks has been uncommonly fine and favourable
for the completion of the harvest. The fields are ge-
nerally clearned, and the produce of them bulky ; the
yield, so far as it has been tried, is not in proportion
Some of the new crop has been brought to market, and is
selling at Is. 3d. per peck of 7 lbe.—Ayr Observer.
OSTEND, SEPT. 13.--Prince Louis Napoleon landed on
Saturday, on his way from London, and put up at the
Hotel des Baines, where he is to wait till he receives the
necessary permission to go to Florence, to receive the
fortune left by his fathers