The Sun.
London, England, 1846-03-02 00:00:00

4 „
MO RgING, MARC 2, 1848.

man of the day. The faith in Peel which animates the
'Change of London, has an influence, greater or less, in all
our manufacturing and commercial centres of activity. A
few Cobdens may rise superior to this indiscriminating idola-
try, but Peel is the man of the great money-making inte-
rest.or the corn-
aanndd,
rhaelicias
ntfhethme aonldof theminory
among t
borough-mon-
gering party, who see the necessity of confoimin to the new
state of society. Owing to these circurnstanaasi he Is a Wm'
m himself, The Liberals of 0 shades, see more r .er
clearly, that he is engaged in a duel with the oP ar less
0'
landownersetheother
h
0_ giant of
With half-a-dozen
On the
batauts are not very unequal. The talk of •
st:inding out for
acrecl:boroughmongernig, and that the farces
higher principles, and falling back upon P'l in the event of
it may be earnest: but the „ 'Lams have made up their minds
to eon with his oft r, lite Protectionists feel this, and feel
a defeat, is mere grimace and affectatir:.
that the game is up with them. Te sharpest sti y i
have yet felt, was on the first night oft he talk on MrMies's
amenament in the House of Commons, when they were al-
lowed to rise one after another to vent their spleen, no one
thinking it worth while to reply to them. Even under this
provocation, their tone was querulously despondent and con-
sciously feeble, not robustiously indignant. They uttered
their complaints with the bated breath and whispering
humbleness of bondsmen. They deprecated personalities--
speaking all the time from purely personal motives—from an
awkward conviction that they are very assailable. The
landed interest will be found as completely paralyzed in its
own exclusive house as in that where it has of late years
been bearded by a strong and growing minority, now a ma-
jority, The Pate of Wellington is doing his work admirably
He invites his malcontents one by one to personal interviews;
puts them under a disadvantage by asking them to explain
why they oppose a measure which he professes to 'think ad-
mirable; allows them to flounder on from depth to depth in
the chaotic inanity of their own minds; and dismisses them
labouring under the amazing reflection that they have not
been able to advance onevalid argument against Peel's reform, ,
and ready, after a few days' uneasy self-worry, to acquiesce
in it from utter helplessness.
"The measure, we have little doubt, will pass both Houses
without any dissolution. And then a general election can-
not be very far distant. If there are men in the country who
entertain clear practical notions of administrative politics,
who are moved by ambition to take part in public business,
and sufficiently affluent to be able to devote themselves to
the pursuit without compromising their independence, at
that general election they will have a rare chance of success.
If there are constituencies really independent of party, and
anxious only for good government, they will be on the watch ,
for such candidates. In choosing men for the next Parlia-
ment, it is not the pedantic formulm of political creeds, but
practical views of administrative reform, and an earnest de-
termination to spare no .exertions to realise them, that
ought to be looked to. The first and second Reform Bill
Parliaments have pretty well broken up old parties, the
third may show us the formation of a new one, adapting its
practice and professions to the new balance of political
power."

DOUGLAS JERROLD'S.
Although Juniper Hedgehog is silent during March,
and although the editor's excellent story of " St. Giles
and St. James" is again postponed, this number is equal
in other respects to any of its predecessors. First and
foremost, " The History for Young England" is once
more introduced, and brings us to the reign of John
" 'Ackland," with its usual epigrammatic style of narra-
tive. " A Plea for our Climate" is good--thoroughly
good ; it is sagacious, well-toned, and novel in every
particular. We would transcribe it entire, did space
permit--here, however, is its conclusion

" By our ability to remain out of doors, without risk or in-
convenience, more hours per day and more days per year in
England than in almost any other country—bv our exemp-
tion from whirlwinds, tornadoes, earthquakes, siroccoes,
simoans—by our escape from seasons of ceaseless rain, cease-
less heat, ceaseless cold—by our longer and more healthy
lives—by the heroes and heroines whom our skies have bent
over—b.) the harmless glories of our majestic woods, the rich
greenery of our fields— by the fruits we eat, the flowers we
smell, the birds we hear, the beasts we have and the beasts we
have not, and the inoffensive reptiles we possess, and the offen-
sive reptiles we do not--by all these considerations on all these
grounds, I call upon the reader, even though an easterly
draught be chilling him, or a London fog be blinding him,
or a sudden rattling shower be destroying his hopes of a
pleasant walk before dinner, to bear those little inflictions in
good humour, to look upon them in the light of slight
drawbacks to the general excellence, the general healthful-
ness of the climate of Great Britain."

" The Masquerade of of Society," " A Plea for the
World belew Stairs," " Old Misery the Miser," the
" Uses of Fools," end other contributions, are brim-
ming over with a shrewd knowledge of mankind, and an
ardent loneing for the regeneration of all classes— a
spi.it which is so admirably and unaffectedly incorpo-
rated with this periodical. A paper entitled " The Press
and the People," is too meagre for a theme so immense
and important. We cannot convey our sentiments upon
this subject better than by quoting some opinions of our
own, recently published elsewhere, upon
" THE NEWSPAPER PRESS OF ENGLAND.
" The magazines, the reviews, the serial romances,
and the prodigions bulk of newspapers, form at once the
chronicle and the phenomenon of our own immediate
times. Through their medium, the doctrines of our
thinkers are promulgated throughout the world, and
obtain the widest circulation. Through them, very
frequently, a mind is awakened to its destined impulse,
as with a flash of electricity, at the beck of the wand of
that ipvisible, but potent and terrible magician—the
press—that mighty engine, whose silent but indomitable
voice penetrates the uttermost limits of the globe, vivi-
fying with its inexorable eloquence the germs of inte-
grity and independence; at one moment branding some
petty charlatan with its playful but irksome scorn
at another, warning a despot in some distant land
of the epoch of his doom. Much, indeed, woukl our
predecessors marvel at the vigour, the copiousness, the
diffusion, and the inexhaustible energies of this new
creation. Summoned into being by man's instinctive
thirst for regeneration, the press is simultaneously sus-
tained by, and sustaining, the liberty of intellect and
action—it is at once the tyrant and the embodiment of
republicanism, the tyrantover individual domination, the
fosterer of universal freedom. With its emissaries ever
on ihe alert, and scattered throughout the various terri-
tories of the earth, stimulated to novel exertions by an
ever-present spirit of competition, roused into new de-
velopment by the ceaseless alterations of society, the
press, as a monitor of the populace, is ever increasing
in its influence, and strengthening in its strength. But
that such should be the case cannot create astonishment,
when it is remembered that its vitals are the amass-
ment of many thousand minds—that it stands forth
the representative of human intelligence—that it
is the creature of the logi-ian, the analyst,
the politician, and the philosopher. Occasionally,
without question,
,this being rebels against its own
creator, as in the instance of America, where, nourished
in its malice by the moral turpitude of the social system,
and given up to the most licentious abandonment, it
pollutes the commonwealth by its baleful presence, and
rules it only as a very demon would. There, a great
nation is at length becoming conscious that, like another
Frankenstein, it has warmed into existence a creature of
hideous aspect and of horrible capacity—a monster which
now constitutes its greatest misery—one that, unless
annihilated, may ultimately prove its downfall. The
characteristic, however, which is most conspicuously
visible in the newspapers is that of their rapidity of giving
information ; nothing is more significant of the present
age than this quality in our daily literature.
A volume, yet damp from the pressure of the
type, is elaborately dissected on the very even-
ing after publication; before a bandage is yet
adjusted over a broken limb at the hospital, the accident
is detailed in every journal ; while the actress is still
engaged in removing the rouge from her countenance,
a criticism on her performance is being set up' by the
compositor ; the orator at a public assembly, on resuming
his seat, has the first portion of his address thrust into
his hands already printed, with the intimation left
speaking,' at its conclusion. These circumstances would
have savoured of black-magic to our progenitors ; but
society has become habituated to their recurrence, and
no longer regards them as miraculous. For our own
part, however, we never perceive the broad-sheets of our
newspapers, yet reeking from their passage through the
labyrinth of the printing-machine, without an internal
exiareation of, Honour to the Press Honour to the
manes of Guttenberg 1"
The foregoing is some slight exposition of the marvel
so mincingly treated upon in the present number of
Jcrrold's Magazine. A " Winter Scene," by J. Scholes,
is an exquisite piece of blank verse, which lack of space
alone prevents us from reprinting. Most of the other
articles are of value, and the whole collection is worthy
of its editor's supervision.

The decision upon the charge brought at the Man—
sion-house, by Mr. White, a surveyor, against a gentleman..
whose name was attached to the prospectus of a company,
as one of the provisional committee, has been postponed t..
Monday week.

Mr. Augustus Paget has been appointed Precis Write r
in the Foreign Department, in the room of Lord Henry'
Lennox, who resigned that office on being returned to Par-
liament for t'hichester, under the direction% of his father,
the Duke of Richmond.—Obser►er..

•
[ADYERTISEMENT.]—The Earl of Aldborotigh and
Holloway's Pills.—Aa astounding
,Cure .by this miraculous
Medicine after every other means bad failed. See extract el
his Lordship's letter dated Villa Messina, Leghorn, Feb. 21,
1845. "To Professor Holloway. Sir,—J beg to acquaint
.
you that your pills have effected a cure of a disorder in vny-
liver and 'tonne!) which all the most eminent of the faculty at
home and all over the Continent had not been able to effect.
Nay, not even the waters of Carlsbad or Marienbad. ( Signed.)
Aldborough."—These wonderful Pills will cure any disease of
the liver and stomach.—Sold (450 _Holloway's Ointment) at
Professor Holloway's establishment, 244, Strand and by rill
medicine vendors throughout the civilised world
in 1788, and entered the army
Hussars, in room of
DEATH OF LIEUT.-GENERILL SIR JAMES KEARNEY',
u n
COLONEL OF THE 7TH HUSSAXII.—This Officer expired 011;MLOinedatye last,
t,
, Dec. 20, 1842.
at,his seat in Ireland. He was born
alBanllo2ti;
in 1794, being at the time net mere than sixteenr,yll7:ll9:o4rsaroLf2iTte.
with the
;ded the 2d_
c3ormaymi9s,sioin7suar;ecthaputsainst,atmed:y—C,
301rn,tit7,9;;ebia.02843,
Colonel,Geiiera,, Aug.
Nov. 25,
23, 484191 :
ataidorelonneelraofl,
thJaley7t2h2H,
eTthxhepee,DGlliaatriiolqansnuitatooofffisAtc.enprgsloeemsrveiynegdo(aiarpinptcrewtedrehtteoraetnhnde; Blues),
euse.::oirnn
teas.
Dragoon Guards with the army of occupation in France. He married.
in 1802, the eldest daughter of Clayton Bayly, Esq,
The Courrier Francais announces that, after the ae.
conchement of Queen Victoria, the Duke and Duchess de Nemours
are to repair to London, and return to France with her Britannic
Majesty.
We believe that we may announce that the season at
her Majesty's Theatre will commence on Tuesday next. The exten-
sive all, rations which have taken place in the decorations prevented
its opening on Saturday,
ysocaia mteajdorSituyrg o
Surgeons were also
as was originally contemplated.
ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGE,NS. Thursday night,
Feb. 26 —There was a tolerably full attendance of the C7otoun4c.ll
Thethi
„ this
cl cying, the President Hi the chair. A warm discussion arose on
the subjects of the oration, and the offensive conduct of. Mr, Law-
rence. A vote of censure on the politico-medical part of the oration
was proposed,
seconded,ofthede pauntadticoanrroiefdAsb
' considered, but nothing final was settled with respect to them, and
the subject is adjourned to the next meeting of the Council. An
Opinion generally prevails that Mr. Lawrence must retire from pro-
fessional life.—Loncet.
CONVICTS FOR VAN DIEMEN'S LAND.—The, Nymph
Woolwich steam-packet, took down to Woolwich 100 convicts from
Milbank Penitentiary on Wednesday, and the Ariel and Fairy steam-
packets 100 convicts each yesterday, for the purpose of being put on
board Ihe Palmyra hired barque, moored off the Royal Arsenal, to
convey"them to Van Diemen's Land. A convict guard of the 6 th
Foot has arrived from Chatham, and will take charge of the convicts
to their destination, and afterwards join the head-quarters of the
regiment in New South Wales,

MONEY and
(From T'
The sales of Co
the trade. S'
to purely,"
The*
to ).

JMMERCIAL NE WS.
ne Sun of Saturday Evening.)
dton at Liverpool yesterday were 4,000 bales, all to
dares were dull and the opportunity seemed favourable
..e good railway stock at low prices.
.e is not much information in the American papers which came
.and this morning, in addition to that given in another part of
Ahe Sun. The news is satisfactory.
We have a firmer market for Stocks to-day, but the principal basi-
ness is in the Three•and-a-Quarter per Cents., which have touched
98% %. Bank Stock is steady, at 208%. Consols have advanced to
96% % for transfer next week, and to 96% n for time. The
"glorious" majority of 97 has done it all. Exchequer-bills are quiet,
at 355. to 375. premium.
In the Foreign Market Spanish Bonds are flat, at 26% % for the
Five per Cents.; Three per Cents., however, being relatively firmer.
Portuguese Four per Cent. Stock is at 58 ; Mexican have advanced to
31% ; Grenada are 22%; Dutch Two and a Half per Cents. have
bola 59% %.
Shares look rather better this morning, but with only a small
business doing. Brighton have been 65% ; and Staines and Rich-
mond.have been run down to 1% %. French shares are in request.
BRITISH FUNDS. ONE CLOSING
O'CLOCK. PRICES.
Bank Stock 208% 208%
Three per Cent. Reduced Annuities .. 96%% 96%
Three per Cent. Consols Annuities 96% 14 9654
New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cent. Anna. 98% f 4 %► 98%
Long Annuities, Expire •Jan. 5, 1860

Ditto, 30 years, Oct. 10, 1849
India Stock ..
India Bonds, 1,0001. ..

.. .. 262
.. .. 42

101,4
262

Bank Stock foi Account ..
Cousols for Account • • • • . 96% %
7xchequer I%d. .I%d.
1,0001. 37 35 -- pm. 35
5001... 35 37 pm. 37
Ditto. 37 pm. 37
Ditto, Advertised •• 34 —— pm. "34
ONE CLOSING
FORMAN FUNDS. O'CLOCK. PRICES.
Danish, 3 per Cent -. • • .. 89% 89%
Grenada, 1 per Cent . 22% 23
Mexican Bonds, 1837, 2. per Cent .. 31%
Ditto, for the Account 31% 31%
Ditto, Deferred .. 17% 17
Portuguese Four per Cents .. 58 59
Ditto, for the Account • • • • .. 58%
Spanish Bonds, 5 per Cent ..
Ditto, for the Account
Ditto, Three per Cent .. ..
Ditto, for the Account ..
Venezuela Bonds, 2 per Cent .. .. 45
Ditto, Deferred .. ..
Dividends on the above payable In Landon.
Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cent .. U%% 59%
Ditto, 4 per Cent. Certificates .. 95% 95%
BUSINESS
CLOSING
PAID. DONE AT
ONE O'CLOCK. I!RICES.
2% • .
126%
32
2

26% 4

PRICES OF -
RAILWAY SHARES.

Amber., Notting., Boston and
Eastern Junction .. 2% 2% ..
Birmingham and Gloneester..loo • •

Ditto New (issed at 7% dis.) 17% ...
Birmingham and Oxford Junction 2 .... 2% . ...
IBristol and Exeter .. .. 70 86 ........
Caledonian . 10 .... la% % •..
Ditto, Half Shares 2%.... 3%
Ditto, Extension .. 2%....
Chelmsford and Bury .. 1% .. % .• • •
Churnet and Blythe .. 2 .. 1% ........
Cornwall and Central Devon .. 2% .... %
Direct Manchester (Remington's) 2% .... 1%
Direct Manchester (Rastrick's) .. 5% .. 3% ..... •• •
Direct Northern • • • • 2% •• • • 2 %••• • • •
Dublin and Belfast Junction .. 5 ........
Dublin and Galway .. .. 4 .... 4 3
Faustern Counties 141. 16e. .... 22

,%% P....

Do, Perpet., b per Cent. No. 1.61. 13s. 4d.
Ditto, York Extension .. 10s. _
Goole, Doneast., and iheffield, &a. 425. 114 p
Grand Union (Nottingh. & Lynn) 1% .... 1%1(
Bull and Selby .. 50
_ _

Isle of Axholme . 2% 1%....
Lancaster and Carlisle .... .. 35 .... •• •
Liverpool and Leeds Direct .. 2% .... 1% •• . .....
London an I Birmingham ... .100 ....224 • • •
London and Birmingham Extens. 1%•• • •
London and Blaekwall .. 16/. 13s. 4d. 8% x d
London and Brighton .. 50 654
Consol. Eighths .. 40 54%.........
Ditto ditto Fifths .. .. 20 .—. 30 ..
London and South-Weeern.. 41/. 6s. 10d. •• • • •• •
Ditto. IstewConsol. Eighths 28 .... ••••• • • • •
London, Warwick, & Kiddermins. 234.... 134 .........
Lunfaa,i, Salisbury, and Yeovil .. ....
Lynn and Dereham .. 5 ....
blancthester and Leeds'.. .. 82 .... .....
Ditto, Fifths .. 1 .... 12
Ditto, Sixteenths .. 6M. . . . 10
Ditto Extension 425..... 331 p...... •
Itianehester, Buxton, & Matlock 425..... 2.......
Men,hester and Southampton .. 2 .... 234 .........
Midland .. ..100 —14734 148% ...

Witte, New .. 18 .... 33V, 33
Ditto, Birmingham and Derby 100 ....118
..Newcastle and Darlington Junct. 25
Ditto, Now .. 1 .... 10%
Ditto, New, Brandling .. .. 29 .• .. 38
Wortit British .. .. 20 .... 27 .. • • .... •
Ditto, Half Shares .. 6.. .... 9%

Dit to, Carlisle Extension .. 1 .. 2 X .
NorWiKent and Direct Dover .. 2%.... 2%%a
North Staffordshire 425. •• .. 3X p

Siorthmpton,Banbury,& Chelthm. 2 .... --
Oxfd ,Worcester, & Wolverhmptn. 12% .... 14 4 .
Preston and Wyre • . .• 25 .... 34%
Shrewsbury and Birmingham .. 2%.... 3% .........
3hreyrsbury and Hereford .. 2%.... % die.......
South Devon .. .. 35 .... 33 ••• • • • ...
Sou tit Midland 425.....
_l% 2 p.. • • •

Soath Eastern and Door 3234 . 381,4 .
'Do., New (do. 331.65. Bd.) No. 2. 10 .... • • ..... .
.31a., New (do. 151.) No. 4. 234.... 3% .......
Staines and Richmond .. 1 '.... 1% 1 .
Soath Wales .. ; . 5

Treat Valley .. .
Tale of Neath .

2._ ~ 2_....• Fifi-

WA terfd., Wexfd., Wick., & Dub. 1M .. 1 .
Wish Midland .. 2M 1 .•

210%
96%

York and Carlisle

. ?.li

▪ P
P
. -
.. 105 x d
.. 1%
• U-3
.. 1%
.. 224
le
B%xd
.. 65)4
.. 5434

. 4334xd
1%

31 C
2. p

2!
148

9.,,
2%
2%
33,4 p
1%
141(
34%

Ulis

2p
38%
12%
3%
114

5%
26%
2%
1
1%
2%

. 2 ... ......

„
We A Last 81. ,c;
ene NAME Or RAILWAY. week. g•
ba-
e
_ -
A
Peb. 21 Arbroath and Forfar •••••••• • • • • • • • 163 175
- Bristol and Birmingham •
20 Chester and Birkenhead. • 506 399
19 Dublin and Drogheda. • • 629 559
24 Dublin and Kingstown ••••••• • • • • • • • 892 611
22 Dundee and Arbroath .•.• . • • ••• •283 234
21 Durham and Sunderland 572 646
21 Edinburgh and Glasgow . 2,746 2,046
28 Eastern Counties and North Eastern • • 6,376 3,454
21 Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and Ayr 1,841 1,461
21 Glanow and Greenock.. 764 654
Grand Junction • ....• -• • • •• • ..... .
21 Gravesend and Rochester.. A. 127 -
- Great North of England ............
22 Great Western • ...........• •••• • • • • 14,977 12,725
23 Hartlepool -
• 21 London and Birmingham, &c. - • 32,265 25,897
22 London and Blackwall.... . .
21 London and Brighton • • 3,283 2,993
24 London and Croydon • • • 1,058 812
- London and Greenwich .••
21 London and South Western .••• • • • • 4,896 4,405
22 Manchester, Bolton, and Bury 988 866
21 Manchester and Birmingham •••• • . • • 3,815 3,245
21 Manchester, Leeds, and Hull Assoc•• 5,347 i,204
21 Midland Counties ..... ...... ...... • . 4,859 10,889
21 Newcastle and Darlington •.• • • • 2,565 1,028
- Newcastle and Carlisle -
22 Newcastle and North Shields.. • . •... 419 373
22 N0rf01k........ 1.170 181
- North Union and Bolton and Preston - 1,287
23 Paris, Corbeil, and Orleans •• • • 5,373 3,694
'l3 Paris and Rouen . • ••
21 Preston and Wyre.• •••••••• • • • • • • • • 575 378
21 Sheffield and Manchester • • ...... •• • • 1,496 653
21 South Eastern ••• ••
21 Taff Vale ••••••••••••• • • • • • • • • • • • • • 1,100 249
- Yarmouth and Norwich 2_46 778
•-
21 York and North Midland • •• • • 4,626 -

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
SIR,— Having observed a paragraph in The Sun news-
paper, of yesterday evening, in which it is stated :
It is rumoured that Lord Lincoln is to be brought into
the House of Commons for the borough of Carrickfergus,
the present Conservative Member, Mr. Peter Kirk, retiring
for the purpose."
I beg leave to acquaint you that the aforesaid statement
is not only untrue, but wholly destitute of the ornallestshadow
of foundation so far as lam concerned.—l am, &c.
_London, Feb. 28. P. KIRK.

INDIAN DISPATCHES.

PAPERS RESPECTING THE LATE HOSTILITIES ON THE

NORTH-WESTERN FRONTIER OF INDIA.
No. I.

The Governor-General of India in Council to the Secret Committee
ofthe East India Company.—Fort William, July 2, 1845.—(N0. 54.)
(Extract.)
We take the earliest opportunity of forwarding to you the copy of
a minute by the Governor-General, dated the 16th ultimo, relative to
the proposed visit of his Excellency to the Upper Provinces during
the ensuing cold season. In the arguments contained in the minute,
relative to the high expediency, if not necessity, for the presence of
the Governor-General in the neighbourhood of our north-west fron-
tier after the close of the rains, we unanimously and entirely concur.

Enclosure in No. 1.
Minute by the Governor-General of India.—June 16, 1845.
(Extract.) . .

As the time has now arrived when preparations will require to be
made for the journey of the Governor-General to the Upper Pro-
vinces, I consider it mast advisable to consult my colleagues before
any steps are taken to carry that intention into effect.
Under ordinary circumstances I should have desired, on public
grounds, to remain the next winter and summer at Calcutta, in order
to have the advantage of the experience and advice of the Council,
by which course the usual business of the Government can be trans-
acted with moreunity, regularity, and general satisfaction than when
the Governor-General is separated from his colleagues.
On the other hand, it is clearly my duty to place myself in that
position, as regards the exercise of my functions, but which I can
most advantageously apply my exertions for the service of the state.
In this, as in every other case, the real question for decision is,
whether it is more for the public interests that I should this autumn
proceed to the Upper Provinces, or remain at the usual seat of Go-
vernment.
Between my colleagues and myself there has always existed a
most anxious desire, and perfect unison of opinion, that no efforts or
precautions should be spared to maintain a Seikh Governinent in the
Punjaub as long as it may be possible.
To carry the pacific policy of the Government of India into effect,
we have been content to suffer great inconvenience, !considerable ex-
pense, and some risk, necessarily caused by the presence of a large
disorganised Seikh force on the frontier, requiring, on our part, an
army to be assembled for the protection of our frontier, and in close
contact with that of the Selkhs ; I need not enter into the considera-
tion of the various questions ef sone tude which are involved in the
proximity of a Seikh army, in a successful state of mutiny, so close
upon our frontier. •
we have never relinquished the hope that some amelioration may
eventually take place, affording the prospect of the re-establishment
of a Seikh Government, able to carry on its ordinary functions We
hsve never abandoned the expectation that, after anarchy and mill
Lary violence have long prevailed, these disorders, having reached
their maturity, might subside, worn lout and exhausted by their own
virulenee ; or that some man of superiority and master mind might
appear amongst them, able to control this mutinous army, and to re-
cowtruct a strong Seikh Government.
I must confess that these hepea have not been strengthened by
recent events ; and now that we can, at this season, when all mili-
tary operations are nearly suspended, deliberately review the poli-
tical and military condition of the Punjaub, I can arrive at no other
conclusion then that the state of our relations with that country has
become more critical than it has been at any time since Raja lieera
Singh's death.
When the finances of the state shall be found insufficient to pay the
troops, a state of things may arise at any moment requiring the in-
stant decision of the highest authority on the spot.
The instructions which we may send from Calcutta may be very
proper, and applicable to the state of things which may have hap-
pened on the frontier ten days before, when the report was made ;
and may, when the instructions are received, twenty days after the
event, be totally inapplicable.
In ordinary transactions this is an inconvenience, but in the state
of the Punjaub it is pos tively dangerous
I have a firm conviction that the chances of preserving peate
will be diminished by the powerless state in which the Government
would be placed, by not being able to act with decision and prompti-
, ude, and that opportunities would be Iva of effecting some good, and

of preventing mush mischief, if in the state of the Punjaub the re-
sponsible authority of the Government remains more than 1,000
miles off, at the other extremity of Bengal ; it appears to me, there-
fore, to be expedient, as a means et averting risk, and of carrying
our policy more securely- into effect, that the 'Governor-General
should, in the month of October next, proceed to the Upper Pro-
vinces, and that the authority skould be entrusted to him with which
the law enables the Council to invest him, when separated from his
colleagues.
_ . .

Ha•C;lngigiven my decided opinion that, under existing circumstances,
it will be the duty of the Governer-General to proceed to the Upper
Provinces in the autumn, I have to request the attention of my
colleagues to this subject. H. HARDINGE.
I concur, T. H. MADDOCK.
I concur, F. MILLETT.
I concur, GEO. POLLOCK.
As the separation of the Governor-General from the Council re-
quires the sanction of a law, I presume it is proper that I should re-
cord my opinion upon the proposition.

I concur, C. H. CAMERON,
No. 2.

The Governor-General in Council to the Secret Committee.—Fort
William, August 7, 1845.—(N0. 63.)
(Extract.)
In the midst of anarchy, conspiracies for the destruction of conflict-
ing parties, treachery, and debauchery, there is an attempt making
at improvement, in the suppression of open rebellion, and in main-
taining the peace of the capital, which has not been altogether with-
out success, and the collection of the revenue has been somewhat
improved, under the management, able, though corrupt, of Dewan
Deena Nath.

Military preparation Is also being made with more than usual vi-
gour; but, notwithstanding this, we can petceive nothing to lead to
the expectation of a permanent and strong Government being
formed.

No. 3.

The Governor-General in Council-to the Secret Committee.—Fort
William, Sept. 6, .1545.—(N0. 70.)
(Extract.)
We would request attention to extracts from letters addressed on
different dates, during the last month, by Major Broadfoot, to our
Secretary.

These extracts, illustrating the deplorably profligate condition of
the Lahore Durbar, cannot fail to impress upon you the almost
hopeless expectation of any immediate, or permanent, improvement
in the condition of a state, whose rulers abandon themselves to such
open and disgusting debauchery, unredeemed by any of those states-
manlike qualities which distinguished the Government of the Maha-
raja Runjeet Singh.

We deem it to-be essential for a just understanding of the actual
condition of the Lahore Government that these details should be re-
ported ; they tend to show the unsatisfactory nature of that Govern-
ment, and that our relations with a Court thus constituted, and an
army solely governed by Punchayets, must be in a very precarious
state.

We are determined to maintain the pacific course of policy which
we hare hitherto pursued to the utmost extent of conciliation and
fbrbearance.

Enclosure in No. 3.

Extracts from Letters from the Agent to the Governor-General on
the North-west Frontier to the Secretary to the Government,
Illustrative of the Riot and Debauchery now prevalent at the La-
hore Durban

Letter, dated June 8, 1845.
On the sth the Punchayets agreed to go in a body to the Palace,
and remonstrate against Jowahir Singh being continued in the Go-
vernment, and to require that in his stead Deewan Deena Nath, or
Bukhshee Bhugut Ram, or Raja Lal Singh, or the three conjointly,
should be appointed to the Viziership -they did so, and great con-
fusion followed. They had interviews with Jowahir Singh, whom
they reproached with breach of faith to them, with drunkenness and
incapacity—they went to the Ranee, and insisted on her seeing them
herself, which she did; they demanded the dismissal of Jowahir
Singh, and the substitution of Raja Lel Singh, or the others named
above. The Ranee referred them to the chiefs, and it was finally
settled that, next day, the 6th, Raja Lal Singh, Deewan Deena
Nath, and Bukhshee Bhugut Ram, should go to the canton-
ments and consult with the Punchayets. The troops demand
gratuities, and the Ranee, if she did not help to get up
the disturbance, is favourable to its ostensible objects,
and the replacement of her brother by Raja Lal Sing. The latter's
sickness revived her tenderness for him, and he has used this skil-
fully, pretending he is afraid to visit her, as formerly, for fear of
Jowahir Singh. This has made her the more eager to renew un-
restricted intercourse, and of this eagerness the lover has availed
him elf before she changes or grows cool.
Letter, dated June 13.

A formal reconciliation has been effected, by the Ranee, between
Jowahir Singh and Raja Lal Singh. She marked her satisfaction by
sending each of them a handsome slave girl just rec eived from the
➢fundee Chief, our neighbour here. Such is Selkh morality in this'
matter, and taste also, for Lal Singh is one of the Ranee's own
lovers.