The Sun.
London, England, 1846-03-07 00:00:00

RAILWAY SHARES BY PUBLIC SALE.

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HIGH WATER AT LONDON-BRIDGE THIS DAY.
Morning .. 19 minutes after 9. I Eveninz 55 minutes after 9

Hundreds, and if he did he defied the Hon. Baronet or the
Secretary for Ireland to turn him out of Lincoln.
Sir R. PEET' in answer to an observation from Mr.
DISRAELI said that Mr. Cr AD:STONE had attended every
Cabinet &mil since he had been Secretary of State for the
Colonies, although le was not a Member of Parliament.
The resolutions with respect to Indian corn, buck wheat,
and rice, were then proposed. _ _

Mr. MILES opposed the resolution.
Sir R. PEEL believed, if corn was admitted duty free,
many benevolent individuals would spend large sums in
the purchase of it to assist in allaying the wants of the
people of Ireland. He believed it would answer all purposes
if members would allow the resolution to pass through the
Committee that night, and discus the questicn on the re-
port on Monday, as he did not purpose 0 include this reso-
lution in the Corn Bill.

The proposition of the Right Hon. Baronet was, after a
short discussion, agreed to, the resolution adopted, and the
report upon it ordered to be taken into consideration on
Monday.
The other orders of the day having been disposed of, the
house adjourned to Monday.

The intelligence brought by tae Overland Mail, which left
Bombay on the 31 ult., is altogether satisfactory, and fur-
nishes many interesting details of the splendid victories of
the 18th, 21st, and 22d of December, the movements of the
Seikh armies, the state of Lahore, the present position and
strength of the respective forces on each bank of the Suth-j,
and the preparations made by Sir HENRY HARDINGE to
take vengeance on a lawless army and a worthless Govern-
ment, who, without the slightest provocation, had compelled
him unexpectedly to engage in a fierce and determined war•
It is evident from every new circumstance brought to light,
that the Indian Government had no intention of in-
vading the Punjaub. A very small army up to the
month of November was stationed at a moderate
distance from the frontier; there were no heavy guns,
no battery, and the amount of ammunition was so small that
it was exhausted befire the Anglo-Indian army w►s pertain
of the victory. This is to be attributed partly to the, peace-
ful disposition of the Indian authorities and partly to a con-
'viction on the part of the Governer-General, that for this

spring and summer at least, attempts by negotiations alone
would be made to place the Punjaub in some order, or at
all events secure the British territory against invasion. Both
the Government and the Governor-General have been de-
ceived on these points, and nothing now is left for them but
to muster all the British forces within a reasonable space,
and carry on the war with energy, and a full determination
to put down a body of troops alike dangerous to their
own country and all their neighbours. We can have
no security in that quarter by any other means;
the Indian Government cannot afford to keep a large army
on the frontier, to the danger of the rest of Hindostan where
any dissatisfaction prevails, and at an enormous expense,
merely because the Government at Lahore is too weak and
disorganised to furnish any` pledge of peace, or make due
compensation fur the severe losses and outlay already caused
by their imbecility and want of faith. With these views the
Governor-General is, according to the present accounts,
making every preparation for a decisive contest, he is con-
centrating forces from all quarters, collecting ammunition
and large guns in great quantities, making arrangements for
passing the river, meeting the enemy in another pitched
battle, and marching to the capture of Lahore. This
great undertaking has come upon him by sur-
prise, and his troops have suffered severely
from this very circumstance—placing too much
confidence in the word of barbarians, and obeying to the
letter the instructions received from the India Board;
but he now sees that there is no middle course, and that the
time is come for either occupying the whole of the Punjaub,
or establishing such a Government and such an army as
will be pledges of order for the future. The force under his
command at the present moment cannot amount to fewer
than fifty thousand men, well provided with artillery, some
of the guns of large calibre, and fully equal to those of the
Seikhs, independent of an army under the gallant Sir
C. NAPIER, amounting, according to different accounts.
from 10,000 to 15,000 men—still flushed with the victories
of Meanee and Hyderabad, and longing to meet
those Seikh troops whose fame for bravery anti
military skill is well knov-n in Sinde. When the armies
again meet the British will be placed in a very different
situation from that in which they lately fought, under so
many disadvantages. Then every circumstance but the
skill and bravery of the officers and men was against them.
They did not muster one quarter of the troops opposed to
them, they had no guns of any use against heavy artillery
they had not even' atnunition ; the musket and bayonet were
their only weapons, and with these they triumphed. If they
took ninety guns by such means, what can oppose them
when properly girt for the battle? If one feature in the fate
'settles is more striking than another, it is the total inability
of the Seikhs to fight in ere open plain, and without guns in
position: Their infantry and cavalry absolutely did nothing;
they rarely or never came in contact with the British, anti
if theiy did they fled like sheep. They have no confidence h.
manoeuvres, or generalship, or a fair open fight. Like th.
Spaniards, they fight desperately behind walls, but make a
sad exhibition when they meet cavalry or infantry hand to
hand. These facts our troops know, and they will take advan-
tage of them. Besides, the chiefs of Lahore are divided among:
themselves, and it is not at all improbable that Sir HENRY
lIARDINGE will find allies on the other banks of the Sutlej.
But, whether or not, the fate of the campaign is certain, ant
in a few days after his passage of the river he will be below
the walls of Lahore. The next accounts, therefore,
will be looked to with great interest. For other
points, to which we have not adverted, we refer thr
reader to the minute and lengthened details given in the
papers and letters just received from India, and also to On

communications furnished from Lahore. The public will be
glad to find that Sir HENRY NAIWINGE has anticipated tbe
favourable opinions expressed in both Houses of Parliamen-
respecting the conduct of the 62d Regiment, and that b;
has borne incontesti'ale evidence to thenoble manner in whicl.
they endured as long as human strength could endure, the
awful fire showered upon them in such torrents from the
enemy's entrenchments. The report of a repulse sustained
by some Sepoys, near Loodianab, does not appear entitled to
the slightest credit.

We have received Madrid journals of the 26th ult. Two
Bills of considerable importance were, brought before the
Chamber of Deputies on that day. The first was a Bill tc
indemnify the lay proprietors of tithes, which underwent
some discussion, and the other a Bill presented by the Fi-
nance Minister for the endowment of public worship and the
clergy. By the last the Minister proposes to set apart ful
the Church the revenues of the patrimonial property now ad-
ministered by the clergy, the amount of the obligations con-
tracted by the purchasers of national domains, and provide
for the arrears due to the clergy by means of an issue of
Three per Cent. Stock.
The Three per Cents. closed at 30% for cash, and 3i% at
60 days, and the Five per Cents. at 22 at GO days.

The Paris papers are much occupied with the affairs of
Poland, which excite great uneasiness for the fate of th,
unfortunate Poles, who may, with almost certain prospects of
destruction, rush into a contest with the three great Power,
-Austria, Russia, and Prussia. Against such fearful odd,
there is nut the slightest chance of success, for the end will
only be military executions, banishments, and confiscations.
If
a we are
to
successfulcr
editsoiinne
some
fntilere German journals the Poles
had been instances,
and the regular
troops, as at Cracow, had been obliged to retreat. It is
stated in a letter from Vienna, dated the 25th of February',
that General DE Coure had been compelled to evacuate the
town of Cracow, as the number of troops under his com-
mand was too small to resist the rebels, and as he was afraid
that they would gain the passage of the Vistula, near
Podgorize, and thus extend the revolution to the interior.
He was able to reach and a cure this post without an attack
from the rebels. A Fraulefort journal states, from Vienna,
that several officers have been arrested in Gallicia, on suspicion
of their beingconcerned wi.ll the re voltttionary movement. The
Journal d.: Debuts gives rather a long summary of events
supposed to have taken place, and from that we should infer
that the proposed insurrection has branches in the three uif-
ferent divisions of Poland belonging to the partitioning
powers. But even the accounts in this official journal are
either contradictory or little to be depended upon. That
journal says :-"It appears that the conspiracy had very
wide ramifications, proving its gravity, and that it has been
kept up notwithstanding the arrests made at Posen fou.
months previously, and in face of the prosecutions com-
menced by the Government. The greater part of the Polls'
nobles, not only the younger branches, but fathers of fami-
lies, are involved in these elots. Did we not know that we
are bound to receive with the greatest reserve the report,
disseminated by the German press, we should have aufli,ien.
motives for doing so on seeing it announce, as from goon
authority, that Prince CZARTuEYsKI and Count ZAmoI6EI
had arrived with the intent of taking part in the insurrec
tion, while all the world knows that neither of those two
noble Pules had left Paris. Profit all these particulars, which
are still but very imperfect, it would be difficult to draw an)
conclusion as to the precise plans and objects of the con-
spirators." It also remarks, with too much truth, that the
.flews from Poland is calculated to produce none but painful
emotions, and that it can only view with grief a naovement,
the issue of which is but too certain. Some additional
intelligence from Algiers had been received at Paris, bur
it adds nothing to the previous communications.
The Moniteur contains a royal ordonnance, reducing the
duty on salt, tixdd at 30 centimes the kilogramme, by the Act
of December, 1514, to five centitnes, when the article has been
mixed with other matters, SO as to be incapable of being
turned to accouet except at food for cattle. This is no relief
to the poor people, who are Kill to pay an enormous tax_ on
this n _cessary of life.
The Three per Cents. closed at 841. 75c. ; the Five per Cents.;
1231. 75c. ; the Orleans Railroad stares, 1,345 f. ; Rouen, 1,0721
50c.; Havre, 756 f. 23e. ; Great Northern, -rh6f. 25c. ; Avignon, 1,017 f.
50c.; Yierzon, 760.; Nordeaux, 6701.; Boulogne, 5301.; Basle. 2511.
25c. ; Dieppe, 4,10 f.; Paris and Strasburg, 553 f. 75c.; Tears and
Names, 5621. 80e. ; Paris and Lyons, 633 f. ; Spanish Three per
Cents., WA ; Spanish Passives, 6.
The following are the quotations for other lines :-
Lyons and Avigarsa (Talabot), 512 f. 50c. ; ditto (Locointe), 505 f.
50e. ; ditto (Cornitagnie Mei idion:110), 5021.75 c. ; ditto, Definitives,
575 f.; Bordeaax and Cette (Mackenzie), 502 f. rte* ; ditto (Espeleta),
512 f. ; Caen (Delamarre), 503 f. ; Charleroi, 497 f.
BeaNESS L0N.16 I.N /011EION JCAILYCALTS AT THE,
LONDON STOCK E XCILINGE, Menem 5.
m Boulceo and Amiens, 1034-Dutch Itheni&h, 6.sf -East Indian, 1
-Great Northern of France COL E titateci, leg -Italian and Austrian,
1%-Jamaica South Midland Junction, 2% -Luxesabourg‘ 2%-
Orleans and lelerson, 1934-Trlnidad, 1%.

FATAL ACCIDENT ON THE MANCHESTER AND LEEDS
accidentttl
liAiLWAo.ccuWrrAea on the
noon, in the Summit Tunnel. It appears that the train which leaves
Manchester at twelve at noon reached Littleborough station imme-
diatelyDlLl raj: Manchester rA and' Leeds Railwayllcmsl.l7lsAal& r -
after the departure of a luggage train. The passenger train
lett Littleborough at the usual time, although a passenger who got
in there called the attention of the station-master to the danger of
starting a train so soon after a luggage train. The passenger train
proceeded, and whilst' passing through a long tunnel called Summit
Tunnel, a tremendous crash was felt by the passengers, and as soon
as the screams and shouting consequent on the accident had sub-
sided, it was ascertained that the break and two carriages (in one of
which was the guard of the train) had by some means got detached
from the luggage train, and had been left behind in the tunnel. The
luggage train had gone on, and the guard, apprehending danger, had
left the carriage in which he had been riding, and was standing on
the up of rails whenepot the mail
Fortunately
u
train to
f theonyoanche psterureogoris ~r
eupaend
killed on the e
materially InJhred,

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