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London, England, 1846-02-06 00:00:00

army, it appears, had taken:up a strong position on the Bri-
tish territory, at a very short ;distance from Ferozepore, and
threatened to intercept communications with the interior. Sir
H. HARDINGE, therefore, had no choice, even independent of the
wanton invasion, and he gave orders for a general attack on
the enemy's position. This was on the :21st of December
The Governor-General commanded the centre, Sir HUGH
GOUGH the right, and Sir Joux LITTLER the left. The enemy's
position appears to have been well ehosen,for the contest lasted
three days, and the slaughter on both sides was great. Vic-
tory at last, however, declared in favour of the British, fir
the Seikhs lost nearly all their guns, sixty-five out of seventy
having been captured ; and on the 24th the Seikh camp
was occupied by the British army. According to one account,
however, only one position had been stormed, and prepara-
tions were making to attack the other when the dispatch
left. But there can be little doubt as to the result, for with
so few guns the enemy could not long hold their position,
and it is not at all improbable that the whole of this lawless
body, -which have tyrannised over their own country, and
robbed all parties, will be annihilated or captured before they
can reach the Sutlej. It is said that the Ranee, or Queen-Mother,
who at present is the real SOVIREIGN, was opposed to this
invasion, but she was powerless, and the restless Seikhs per-
severed in their purpose. It is thus satisfactory to find that
the Anglo troopswere not the aggressors, that they were
absolutely forced to defend themselves, and that the responsi-
bility of this dreadful encounter must fall upon the rulers and
the army of the Punjaub. We cannot attach much credit to the
rumour that the Ranee was not privy to the scheme. It
was for her interest to say so, but it is needless to comment
on that point, for in a very brief space the mystery will be
cleared up, and it is probable that an extraordinary mail
will be dispatched by the Bombay Government with the
full details of these hard-fought battles. It is oviden',
however, that a collision must have taken place, even inde-
pendent of the rash conduct of the Seikhs. We could not
be put to the expense of keeping a large army on the fron-
tiers without the prospect of a speedy settlement; and be-
sides the complete control over the Pnnjaub is necessary
for the security of the rest of India. This now will be com-
pletely obtained. The Indian Government will be enabled
to command now not only the Indus but its five great tri-
butary branches; and thereby establish an impenetrable
barrier against the irruptions of the western states. It will
be seen from the details given in another part of the paper,
that Sinde was quiet and contented, so much so, that Sir
Cnanues NarrEn, who had " spied the battle afar oft;" was
hastening with a large body of his troops to the scene of
action.

iwhich he says he is favourable, and these sentiments differ
in every respect from his professions. Both France and Eng-
land, therefore, are warned, that if it should ever be the mis-
fortune of the civilised world to see him again Prime Minister,
peace will to a certainty be disturbed, We have only to
quote A few of his phrases to show in what way he would assert
the dignity of France, and confine England to her proper sphere.
"If there is anything," said he to M. GCIZOT, " which
proves your dependence, it is the very facts you adduce. What
cannot be contested is, that with respect to England, the
policy of France has ceased to be independent, and that in
Europe England marches in an isolated manner, in order
not to be useful to France when it is in her power to be so.
Now you declare that you resort to a policy of neutrality in the
Oregon question ; but I must observe to you, that the very first
condition of neutrality is impartiality, and as you do not pea-
seas that, it is utterly impossible for you to guard your neutral-
ity with respect to America." The Journaldes Debats thus sums
up: the results of these numerous amendments :" After four
years of declamations, after so many efforts to excite the
passions of the people against the English alliance, and to
cast venom into the relations between the two Governments
and the two countries, the Opposition is at last compelled to
confess that it had taken the wrong path, and is reduced to
admit that not only the habitual majority, but also the most
wise, the most sensible, the most honest branch of the Oppo-
sition, has rejected an amendment becau .6 it made an attack
upon the cordial malerstanding between France and Eng-
land. Alas! how have passed away those fine days during
which reigned the yight of search and the far famed
PEITCHARD I All these things are laid aside and abandoned
since it is found that the country will no longer be deceived,
having seen through these false passions and declamations
got up at command."

Accounts from Algiers to the 27th of January, state that
Marshal BI:GRAUD had assembled a considerable force at
l3oghar, and set out again in pursuit of ADD-EL-KAM:R. A
letter of the 25th says
" You have no doubt heard that the Marshal has not re-
turned with the troops of his column, but that on the con-
trary he has gone towards Tiaret. All the troops capable of
bearing the campaign were united under his orders, and those
of Colonel Eynard, to form an accessory column. In default
of brilliant success, the merit of persevering activity cannot
be denied the Marshal, and it will not be without result, if
it ends in shutting out •the ex-Emir from all access to the
province of Algiers. The cayalry has returned to us in a
deplorable state, it is true, but the evil has been exagge-
ratxl, in pretending that out of 500 horses only GO Lave
eome back; it is, however, certain that the great majority •
were left behind. We have still intact the cavalry of the
' province of Constantine, which can be called en to
supply the place of the two other divisions. It is not
' the less true that Algeria is now worn out with respect to
horses, though not many years back possessing such immense
resources in that wi:y. Fifteen years of war—fifteen years
exceptional consumption, and of continual hindrance to
nerease—should necessarily lead to such a result, and we
shall soon suffer much want in this respect, unless grand
establishments be formed to promote the breed of horses."
Os the Paris Bourse the Three per Cents. closed on Tuesday at
A3f. 500. ; the Fire per Cents., 123 f.; the Orleans Railroad Shares,
1,277 f. 50c.; Rouen, 1,007 f. 50e.; Barre, 710 f.; Av;gnon, 987 f. 50c.;
Vierzou, 700 f.; Bordeaux, 645 f.; Boulogne, 5421. 50c. ; Troyes and
gontercau, 450 f.; Basle, 25e.; Great Northern, 760 f.; Fain-
Penx, 495 f.; Spanish Three per Cents., 39 ; ditto Passives, GS.
The following are the quotations for other lines :
Ports and Lyons, definitive, 616 f. SOc. ; Paris n:ld Strasburg., de-
lnitive, 545 f. ; Tours and Nantes, definitive, 872 r. 50c.; Lyons and
.i.yipon, definitive, 565 f. ; Bordeaux and Cetto (Mackenzie), 803 f. ;
Otto (Espeleta), 5121 ; Charleroi (Kysaens), 497 f. 50c.

Much as the enemies of abolition have laboured to in-
fluence the electors throughout the kingdom—much, espe-
cially, as they have endeavoured to concentrate their ener-
gies upon the West Riding of Yorkshire—and strenuously,
and (to use the most appropriate expression) furiously as
Mr. BUSFEILD FERRAND has attempted to thrust the spirit of
agricultural monopoly down the throats of that constituency
—the West Riding election has been terminated, and illuetrated
by the triumph of free-trade principles. Nor was this victory—
consummated on Wednesday at the hustings in Leeds—in one
single iota questionable or inconclusive. There was a solitary
nomination, an harangue from a solitary candidate, and a
solitary appeal to the opinions of the multitude present.
When, in fine, the election was declared to be terminated,
and when Lord Moerunt stepped forward to acknow-
ledge his acceptance as their representative, not one
dissentient voice was raised from an assembly of
thirty thousand individuals. No more definite exposition
of the alteration in our present commercial code, which is
now inevitable, could possibly have transpired. This single
occurrence—regarded even in an erroneous light, namely, as
an isolated fact—must penetrate the obtuse faculties of the
protectionists with a clear knowledge of their doom : the
conviction of the utter desolation and impotence of their
struggles must at length stand before them with a terrible
and indubitable clearness. Lord Moenent's election for
the West Riding of Yerkehire is no ordinary or
generalised casualty ; it is not the common-
place nomination of a common-p'ace man under
common-place circumstances, or in furtherance of any
common-place policy. It is the noble, the universal, and the
spontaneous outburst of an extensive and import:int division
of our enfranchised countrymen ; it is the enthusiasm of an
enlightened multitude in a prodigious and glorious cause; it
is the unusual and benign reality of ono among the
haughtiest of our oligarchy buckling on the armour
of justice, and standing forward as the protector
and the champion of the people. A more fitting
personage in every particularity could not .by any possibility
have been selected by the men of Yorkshire as the advocate of
those vast and popular measures—" free corn, free food, and
free trade." In uttering this opinion we are not attempting
to manufacture any sounding sentences of eulogium—adjec-
tives of praise without significance would form but a wooden
diadem, and mere turns of language, however glitter-
ing, would still be but tinsel. Indeed, the Noble
Viscount (whose imaginative and poetical capa-
cities are by no means despicable) disclaimed
any sympathy with aspirants for the more hack-
flied species of renown. "Give me," he exclaimed, " the
commerce, not the conquest of the world—a large loaf, and
not an empty laurel." In these stirring and momentous
epochs we should each of us be little better than insane were
we to continue sticklers for picturesqueness or sentimen-
talism—the poetry of words in couplets is but a pigmy to the
colossal poetry of act, in the shape of open ports fur the re-
ception of untaxed corn, and lard, and vegetables, and
butcher's meat. As an expounder and upholder of these
notions, Lord Monrz-rez will advance greater claims to popu-
lar memory, and popular affection, than any mere babblers
in the cloister and the woodland. Cordially may the League
congratulate themselves upon having one more well-wisher,
one more vote, one more eloquent and argumentative
tongue in the Parliament House.' This consideration
is not of secondary importance--it is another staunch
and vigorous, and earnest hand for the impulsion
of that great leverage which has already moved the world of
exclusive interest and dive aggrandisement. His Lordship's
oration upon the hustings en Wednesday, may, in truth,
be regarded as an evidence of this acquisition to the aboli-
tionists—so much sound, and healthy, and naked argument
is there lavished upon the vital question now at issue. In that
address the Noble Lord forsakes anything like pretension!
to rhetorical ability : his wards are simple and bold
to a degree : he accommodates himself, as a speaker upon the
hustings ever should, to the capacities of his audience: lie
rendera, in a few expressions, some abstract proposition com-
prehensible to the most ordinary intellect. In this manner
the question of territorial demand with reference to Oregon
is simplified in a singular manner by three or four
odd syllables :—the Noble Viscount explaining that
the dissaffection towards us, at present so prevalent
in the eastern portion of the United States, might be totally
and immediately removed, it; by consenting to as untram-
melled importation of provisions from that quarter, we gave its
inhabitants something which they would be desirous of keep-
ing- in their possession, and which would consequently render
them desirous of a continuance of peace. After rapidly sur-
veying the progression of these liberal principles among the
mass "without," as well as among the intellects which regulate
the Government of this country, Lord Mortmese controverted
the many specious and plausible insinuations of the Opposi-
tion party, showing at the same time the utter inadequacy of
any restricted trade in food in nourishing the bulk
of a nation as they were originally destined to be by
the DEITY himself. Nothing, in fact, can be more
fallacious—nothing, in fact, can be more criminal,
than the endeavour to deny the plentiful supply of suste-
nance to the poorer and more industrious classes for the
mere purpose of bolstering up a decayed and (in both
senses) ruinous cause. It is an endeavour from which, in the
abstract, every sensible mind would absolutely recoil ; and the
inference that, from such an arrangement, misery and des-
titution and failure would, as it were, inundate
the country, is fully and inexpressibly preposterous. Credit
will redound to the constituents of Yorkshire for the decided
manner in which they have acted at this moment of mighty
"passing," not only to themselves and to their countrymen,
but to the whole civilised race; they have regarded
the matter through its grandest medium, and have,
in the person and in the words of their noble

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representative, "commended it to the reason, to the feeling,
to the consciences of mankind." Singularly enough, Lord
Monrrrn on Wednesday observed, on the announcement of his
unanimous election—" As Sir R. PEEL said, in tailing of our
late victories in India coming after preceding reverses—he said
(and I now say) we have effaced the memory of our shame
upon the field of our previous disasters' "—referring,
be it remembered, to the Noble Lord's defeat,
some sessions back, at those identical hosting.
The coincidence of the above allusion to our eastern terri-
tories but a few hours previous to the arrival of the Overland
Mail this morning, with the intelligence of our successes over
the Seikhs, and our apparent approximation to afoul' triumph
in the Punjaub, is something more than remarkable. Now,
however, with this important achievement in the West Riding
of Yorkshire, and the striking superiority of our arras at
Ferozepore, we can seize these words with a double avidity,
and repeat them with a double application—" We have
effaced the memory of our shame upon the field of our pre-
vious disaster." Let us regard this aptitude of phrase as an
augury of our final triumph upon both points.

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27th, when it was resolved that the explanation given by
General lialwaEz in the Chamber was not satisfactory, and
that the Members r ill continue their opposition to the mar-
riage. Arragon, according to the intelligence from Barce-
lona, is again in a distal-bed state, and the papers state that
the inhabitants of Rens had refused in a body to pay the
new contributions, and that troops bad been marched to that
town from Tarragona. General BRETON had also returned
in haste from Gerona to Barcelona, on account of rome fresh
disturbances there. The leader of the insurrection in Am-
purdan was shot at Gerona on the 26th, and the other pri-
soners had their sentences commuted to imprisonment.
The Funds on the Madrid Bourse had again declined on
the 28th. The Three per Cents. were quoted at 33 for cash,
and 3314 at sixty days. The Fives closed at 23% for the
same period.

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The discussions in the French Chamber of Deputies have
lost their interest. The Opposition evidently has exhausted
its strength in vain, for in all the divisions they have been
defeated, and generally by large majorities. One useful pur-
pose, however, has been served. M. TRIERS has been cons •
pellod to declsro his sentiments on the English alliance, 0

E SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY MORNJNG, FEBRUARY 6, 1846.