The Sun.
London, England, 1846-03-24 00:00:00

MARCH 24, 1846.

36th Bengal Native Infantry—Ensign F. J. Bagshawe.
48th Bengal Native Infantry—Captain Henry Palmer,
Captain 11. L. Bird, Lieutenant and Adjutant Wall
(badly), and Ensign W. E. Marshall.
The forces further to the westward along to Feroze- •
pore have, for nearly six weeks, rested on their arms.
A division of Seikhs, about 40,000 strong, with a large
park of well- appointed artillery, still continue at Hur-
reekee, in front of the division under the Commander-in-
Chief. A heavy battery of guns arranged in semi-cir-
cular form, the convex side to us on our side of the
river, protects the pontoon bridge•by which the army on
the other bank communicates with this. The boats sent
up the Indus for the construction of a bridge, which
were sunk to protect them from the shot of the enemy in
the middle of December, have been raised, and are now
being put in order for the purpose for which they were
originally intended.
At Khoada Ghat, where the bridge is to be placed,' a
strong force is posted, and shots occasionally exchanged
betwixt the opposing armies. A demonstration had been
ordered by Sir John Grey, who commands at Attaree,
on the 29th ; the Seikhs having carried off a boat of
ours, and further aggression being anticipated. Nothing
of any note, however, occurred. Sir John Grey's bri-
gade consists of a nine-pounder battery, the Bth Light
Cavalry, and the 11th, 12th, and 55th N. L The Sinde
army was expected to be about this time on the
move from Sukkur. The division on the left bank of
the river to be commanded by General 'Simpson ; that
on the right by Sir C. Napier; the steam flotilla, and a
countless host of boats, moving up against the stream
between. They were expected to take up a position near
Mithencote, 140 miles above Sukkur, and 310 bel\w Fe-
rozepore, and remain there till called on to co-operate
after the hot season was over—about September or Oc-
tober. Meanwhile Ghoolab Singh has come down from
his mountain holds, and arrived at the capital with some
12,000 men and a vast amount of supplies—no fewer
than 300,000 bullocks are said to attend his camp. As
yet, on the part of the Lahore Government, there is little
appearance either of want of strength or of resources.
The Mooltan Chief appears to be negotiating with both
parties. He is said to have offered to co-operate with
Sir C. Napier, provided we will, on becoming masters of
the country, permit him to hold his estates on the same
tenure as that under which he now possesses them. He
is willing to pay the same tribute to us as to his present
superior. He is understood at the same time to have
written to Lahore, stating his willingness to resist the
British, and maintain the war single-handed, if tribute
enough be remitted to meet the exigencies of the oc-
casion.

EXPRESS FROM PARIS

IMPORTANT NEWS FROM SPAIN,
(From the Chronicle.)

We have received by extraordinary express from
Paris a letter from our correspondent, dated half-past
three o'clock yesterday, in which we find the following:
"Dispatches were received from Madrid this morn-
ing of a most important, and, you will perceive, of a
very menacing character, fully confirmatory of the an-
ticipation I communicated to you some eight or ten days
since, that General Narvaez meditated a coup d'etat.
"Those dispatches bring an address to the Queen,
signed by the entire of the new Cabinet, calling upon
her Majesty to suspend the Cortes, and—for it comes to
that—the liberty of the press.
" Two royal decrees followed in full compliance with
this recommendation. The first suspends the Cortes.
The second directs that for certain offences, namely, the
publication of that which may be deemed seditious
matter, the offending journal be suspended, and for a
repetition of the aggravated offence such journal be de-
finitively suspended—in other words, suppressed.
1 "I may be allowed to add, that all to whom this in-
telligence has become known feel intense alarm at it.
Some think that it will not injuriously affect the funds
(why always " the fends ?"), becuuse it will be held a
proof of firmness. Others, more sensibly-you will think,
regard the matter as serious and threatening to the last
degree.

"You will observe that the coup d'etat of Prince
Polignac here in Paris, on the 25th of July, 1830,
seems to have suggested to General Narvaez this
proceeding. The only difference between the two
acts is this, the ordonnances of Charles X. declared
the Chamber of Deputies dissolved, and, it terms "the
liberty of the press suspended." The ordonnances of
Isabella IL only " suspend" the Cortes, and direct that
certain, all offending journals are suspended.".
Oar Correspondent adds—
" Great fears exist that the royal steamer Virago, on
board of which was the Indian mail, had foundered, as
she left Alexandria on the 9th, and had not reached
Malta on the 18th."

The Three per Cents. closed on the Paris Bourse
on Monday, at 84f. 35c., and the Five per Cents. at
120 f. 60c., for time ; and for cash, the Three per Cents.
at 84f. 25c., and the Five per Cents. at 120 f. 20c. The
Northern Railroad Shares ended at 787 f. 50c., and those
of Bordeaux at 686 f. The Spanish Domestic Debt sold
for 301.

THE CITY LICENSING MEETING

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
Sist,—Tour important report of the " City Licensing Meet-
ing," which, though held only yesterday, appeared in the
Second Edition of The Sun, &ords an additional proof of
your alacrity in producing the earliest information for all
classes of her Majesty's subjects; but what must have been
the disappointment of the Licensed Victuallers at finding
the report in their own paper of this morning limited to a
space considerably within an inch ! Surely, if the corpora-
tion cannot afford to send special reporters on an occasion
so interesting to their whole body, the editor might, at least,
avail himself of the published labours of others.
For my own part, 1 have taken in The Sun regularly more
than sixteen years, and I shall gladly embrace every oppor-
tunity of recommending it to all who require an evening
paper, because I consider that, as a medium for disseminat-
ing early and original intelligence, no paper has equal claims
to public encouragement and support.-1 have the honour to
remain, respectfully, Sir, your most obedient servant,

HENRY BRETT.
Holborn Bars, Tuesday Morning, March 24, 1846.

THE LATE FIRE AND LOSS OF

LIFE IN CRAWFORD-STREET.
ADDITIONAL PARTICULARS.
The engines of the brigade, parish, and county stations, were all
upon the spot very soon, and knowing that several persons were in
the building, the firemen laboured in a most praiseworthy manner in
trying to get the flames out before they should reach the ill-fated
parties. In that endeavour they were foiled ; for before the fire was
extinguished, Mr. Butters and his three children were suffocated.
Their names were as follows :—Robert Butters, the father, aged 37 ;
his son Robert, aged six years and a half, and William, aged one
year and a half, and his daughter Jane, aged four years and a half.
The whole four deceased parties were got out by the firemen, and
were taken to Mr. 13atemen's surgery opposite. They having been
examined, Mr. Bateman pronounced them quite dead, and they
were removed to Marylebone Workhouse. Mrs. Butters, who has
lost her husband and three children, has communicated the follow-
ing :—She says that she retired to bed on Sunday night, between
ten and eleven o'clock. Her husband, at the time, was from
home. Shortly before twelve o'clock she was awakened by the
return of her husband, who innuediately undressed himself
and retired to bed. They had not been in bed many
minutes, when they were aroused by a loud. knocking at the street-
door. Her husband got out of bed, and on opening the window heard
a crp of "Fire !" raised. So positive was he at that time that the
fire had not occurred in his premises, that he called old to the men In
the street that all was right. He then went down stairs and opened
one of the shop doors that leads into the passage, when flames burst
ferth with sushi violence as to nearly knock him down. He then re-
turned to try to save her and the children. He got a small ladder,
which he placed under the trap-door on the roof, but he was unable
to get the bolts drawn back. He then went to the back room, and
finding there was no escape there, they all returned to the front
room, in the hope of being rescued by the escape, which they knew
was kept at Baker-street. Whilst standing at the window the mob
called to them to do something, but what she could not tell, on ac-
count of her children screaming so dreadfully. The smoke entering
the room at last in such dense bodies, she jumped out of the window,
and she expected thather husband would have dropped the children
out, and then have come himself. She could net form any idea as to
how the fire originated.

POST-OFFICE NOTICE, MARCH 23 . —The next mails
for Gibraltar, Malta, Greece, the lonian Islands, Egypt, India, China,
&c., rid Southampton, will be dispatched from hence on the morning
of the 3d of April. The nest mall for India, via Marseilles, will be
dispatched from hence on the eveniug of the 24th instant (this day).
The Queen, for the Peninsular mails of the 27th instant. West In.

dies, ir.c.—Teviot, for the mails of the morning of the 2d of Apri
America—Caledonia, for the malls of the evening of the 3d of Apri
Sydney, New South Wales—Wraverley, for the mails of the event!'

of the 31st instant.
DEATH OF MR. JOHN LISTON, THE COMEDIAN. --The
admirers of histrionic excellence will learn with regret that this
matchless disciple of Mornus has " shuttled off thismthoer
mortal
parish St.at
the age of 69, having been born in the year 17G6, in
Ann's, Soho. III! death took place on Sunday last, at' his house,
George-terrace, Knightsbridge. llis name is associated with the
brightest recollections of the British drama, when Kemble, Young,
Cook, rmery, Johnstone, C. Kemble, Fawcett, Mrs. Siddons, Miss
O'Neil, Mrs. Dickins, Miss Stephens, Mrs. Gibbs, and a host of others,
shed lustre on the boards of Covent-garden Theatre.
MASQUERADE.—Last night 4). Bal Slatqu‘ was given
at Covent-garden Theatre, under the direction of Mr. Weippert.
The arrangements were in every way commensurate with the occa-
sion, and the music excellent, combining the exertions of a baud of
a hundred and ten performers. A numerous assemblage of the plea-
sure-seeking portion of the public responded to the invitation of the
projectors, and the body of the house, as well as the boxes and gal-
-1 lery, presented an animated appearance. The lighting and decora-
tions produced a brilliant and cheerful effect, and the costumes and
characters were sufficiently diversified and amusing. Dancing was
kept up with spirit till a late hour; everybody appearing to be well
satisfied with his own exertions and those of his neighbours.
On Thursday evening, between nine and ten o'clock,
a cabriolet, in which were two persons, stopped in front of the Ma-
gazin de Nouveautes of M. Talaman, in the Rue Croix des Petits
Champs, Paris, and immediately afterwards one of the persons In the
cabriolet fired off a pistol, the ball of which lodged in a piece of the
goods in the shop, just missing one of the persons near it. Before
the confusion and alarm created by this extraordinary and atrocious
act load sufficiently subsided for any step to be taken, the cabriolet
was driven off at a great speed, and nothing has yet been discovered
to clear up the mystery of the affair.
Thomas Dickinson, f,q,, has presented to the Fistula
Infirmary the generous donation of 20 guineas.