The Sun.
London, England, 1846-03-28 00:00:00

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One brass 6-pounder, 5 feet 5i inches long, unserviceable,
being heavy metal.
One brass 6-pounder, 4 feet 11 inches long, serviceable, being

heavy metal.
One 6-pounder, 4 feet 1014 incheslong, inscription in English
characters, owner, King Runjeet Sing, Commander Meg
sing, Kawkur, maker Rai Sing Lahore, 1833, No. 1, ser-
viceable.
One 6-pounder, 4 feet 8 inches long, serviceable.
Ohe 6-pounder, 4 feet 111 A inches long, highly ornamented
carriage, serviceable.
One 6-pounder, 4 feet 11 inches long, inscription in Dnglish
characters, owner King Runjeet ring, Commander Meg
Sing, Kawkur, maker Rai Sing, Lahore, 1833, No. 1, ser-
viceable.
One G-pounder, 4 feet 8 inches, Persian inscription, ser-
viceable.
One 6-pounder, 5 feet long, no inscription, serviceable.
One copper 6-pounder, 5 feet long, no inscription, serviceable.
One brass 6-pounder, 4 feet 101 inches long, us inscription,
serviceable. .
One 6-pounder, 4 feet 101 inches long, no inscription, ser-
! vice able.
One copper 6-pounder, 4 feet 11 inches long, being highly
ornamented, carriage in-laid with brass and steel, service-
able.
One 6-pounder, 4 feet 11 inches long, being highly orna-
mented, carriage in-laid with brass and steel, serviceable.
One brass 6-pounder, 4 feet 11 inches long, no inscription,
serviceable.
One brass 6- pounder, 4 feet 91 inches long, no inscription,
serviceable.
One copper 6-pounder, 4 feet 103/t inches long, no inscrip
tion, serviceable.
One gun-metal 6-pounder, 4 feet 10 inches long, no inscrip-
tion, apparently a capital gun.
One brass 53/4-pounder, 5 feet 7 inches long, Persian inscrip-
tion, serviceable.
One brass si-pounder, 5 feet Winches long, no inscription,
being heavy metal.
One brass 4-pounder, 4 feet 7 inches long, no inscription,
being heavy metal, serviceable.
One copper 3-pounder, 3 feet long, Persian inscription, ser-
viceable.
One 31-inch brass pounder, 4 feet 7 inches long, no inscrip-
tion, serviceable, being heavy metal.
One unknown, sunk in Sutlej.
One unknown, sunk in Sutlej.
One unknown, sunk in Sutlej.
One unknown, sunk in Sutlej.
One unknown, spiked on the opposite bank.
One unknown, spiked on the opposite bank.
One brass 6-pounder, taken possession of in the fort of Gun-
gran a.
One 9 -pounder, no inscription, taken possession of in the fort
of Gungrana.
One 6-pounder, 4 feet 11 inches long, no inscription, ser-
viceable. •
Seven, unknown, sunk in the Sutlej.
Two guns, since brought in, unknown.
Abstract of Captured Ordnance.
Serviceable-12 howitzers, 4 mortars; 33 guns; total, 49.
Unserviceable-1 howitzer, 2 guns ; total, 3.
Sunk in the Sutlej, and spiked on the opposite shore-13
guns.
Since brought in-2 guns.
Grand Total, 67.
Forty swivel camel guns also captured, which have been
destroyed.
G. LAWRENSON, Major, 2d Brigade,
Horse Artillery, Commanding Artillery
Ist Division Army of the Sutlej.

PROTECTION" PETITI..
(From the Carlisle Journal of this day.)
We have this week the opportunity of presenting to our
readers a very " remarkable" petitioe.
In the House of Commons last week, a petition for " Pro-
tection to British Industry" was presented by Lord George
Bentinck, purporting to be from " 3,060 persons engaged in
the cultivation of land •in tke eastern division of Cumber-
land ;" and amongst those who had signed it Lord George
asserted that " with the exception of those engaged on one
farm, Cubby Hill)" jt had received the signatures of " every
one of the tenants of his Right Hon. Friend, the Laird of
Netherby Hall (Sir James Graham), praying the House to
reject the measures of the Government." The accounts add
that " the presentation of the petition created a considerable
sensation."
Well, when we consider that the Eastern Division of Cum-
berland contains upwards of 5,000 electors—that the petition
had been hawked from farm-stead to farm-stead to catch the
important signature of each stable-boy—that every village
school had contributed its quota of names—the wonder is,
not that there were 3,000, but that there were not 10,000
signatures. The result which the fact furnishes—supposing
the 3,000 were bond fide signatures is, that not one-tenth of
the electors had signed the petition. But, when we show,
as we shall do presently, that in innumerable instances the
signatures were not bond fide—that they were either for-
geries, downright frauds upon the Legislature, or had no
existence at all—the utter worthlessness of the peti-
tion as a representation of public opinion or public
feeling must be manifest. Of course Lord George
Bentinck merely followed his brief—stating only what
he had been told by those who instructed bi.n ;
but his instructor must have known the falsehood he was
trying to play off upon the House and the country; and if
Lord George be an honest man, he will denounce his betrayer
to the world. Some time previous to the Protection petition
being sent off, we heard of the fraudulent way in which
signatures had been attached to it ; but we could not believe
that any one who had the least value for his character, as a
man of honesty and trnth, would venture to instruct a
Member of the House of Cooimons to proclaim a falsehood;
and we, therefore, declined noticing what we had heard until
the proof was undoubted. That proof we have now before
us, in the form of a petition to Parliament, signed by one
hundred and fourteen of Sir James Graham's tenants, pray- •
ing for a total and immediate repeal of the- corn-laws, and
denouncing the statement of Lord George Bentinck as an
untruth!
The tenantry on the Netherby estate is probably one of
the most intelligent bodies of agriculturists in the kingdom,
and the indignation with which they read Lord George Ben-
tinck's misrepresentation of their feelings and opinions may
easily be conceived. To be held up to the world as selfish
monopolists, caring only for their own interests, and as so
ignorant as not to know that in freedom of trade is their only
true protection,must have been galling beyond measure. A
meeting was immediately held amongst a few of the most
influential of them, and a petition drawn up which received
the signatures of not less than 114 of the tenants in less than
two days. There was not time to seo the farmers in what
are called the " out manors" of Sir James Graham's estate,
or the number would have been swelled considerably. A
few of the parties who have signed have attached to their
names the amount which they pay in rent. These amounts
will speak for themselves as to the interest which the peti-
tioners possess in the land, and show how little intelligent
men fear competition with foreigners. The total amount of
rent paid by the petitioners is, we believe, somewhere about
15,0001. per annum—nearly three-fourths of the whole rental
of Sir James's estate.
Here then is ample proof of the grossness of the frauds
praotised upon the House by what are called "Protection"
petitions ; and we shall be much surprised if this exposure of
the utter worthlessness of the East Cumberland petition in
favour of " Protection to native industry" do not create a
" sensation" much more " considerable" than that created by
Lord George Bentinck's most untruthtel statement.
We subjoin a copy of this remarkable petition, with a few
of the names attached to it; and it is proper we should add
that neither Sir James Graham nor his steward had the
slightest knowledge that such a petition was in agitation.
The first intimation Sir James will have of its existence
will be its presentation to the House by Mr. Cobden,
who was selected for this honour, not less as a com-
pliment to him for his great services to the country as
a real "farmer's friend," than to show that it was by no in-
fluence or dictation of their landlord that the farmers on
" the Laird of Netherby Hall's" estate have thus come for-
ward to vindicate their claim to be considered men of com-
mon tense and intelligence.
The petition was sent to Mr. Cobden on Thursday, and
would probably be presented to the House last night. The
following is a copy :
" To the Honourable the Commons in Parliament
assembled.
"The petition of the undersigned the tenants of the Right
Honourable Sir J. IL G. Graham, Baronet, M.P., on the
estate of Netherby, in the county of Cumberland,
" Sheweth,—That your petitioners are a class of men not
accustomed to dabble in politics, but at the same time on this
most important crisis cannot refrain from expressing their
undivided opinion on the great measure now before your
Honourable House ; that they view the measure of the Go-
vernment with the greatest satisfaction, but cannot refrain
from saying that total and immediate repeal would still
more heartily have met their approbation.
"We beg also to state to your Honourable House, that
the assertion made by Lord George Bentinck on the presenta-
tion of a petition from East Cumberland in favour of protec-
tion to agriculture, that the whole of the farmers on the
Netherby estate, with one exception, had signed that peti-
tion, is erroneous and unfounded in fact.
" That some few of such farmers did sign the petition is
true ; but they now regret having done so, and admit that
they were induced to sign it in an unguarded moment,
whilst the names of others were attached to it without their
knowledge or consent.
" That your petitioners look upon the great measure pro-
posed by Government as wise, generous, and healing; and
therefore pray your Honourable House to pass it into a law
as speedily as possible.
"And your petitioners, as in duty bound, will ever pray.
Rent.
"William Reed, Moat Farm £6OO 0
William Graham, Cubbyhill,—farms 393 acres of
land
John Corrie, Fauld Mill
240 0
Irvine Reay, Brisco-hill
Frances Stockbridge, Bush- on-Lyne
John Wilkin, Randalinton ••• 330 0
Archibald Thomson, Parcels-town
Richard Carruthers Hornick-hil1..
Joseph Johnston, Stone House ••• • 2OO 0
Mary Baxter, Fauld
Jane Little, Guards' Mill
John Birrell, Guards' Farm 558 0
John Fawkes, Smalms• town 6OO 0
Robert Gibbons, Mossband
Herbert Wilkin, Bush Farm 730 0
William Armstrong, Batinbush
John Ferguson, Glinger , 75 0
John Jonston, Millets Braehe 160 0
Robt. Fergusson, Glinger Bank
J. rienderleath, Rea Cleugh
W. Johnston, Shadwell Crook
Inn Ridley, Shadwell Crook
W. Graham, Crow's-yeat
Wm. Nichol, Daffiestownrigg
Barbara Little, Glinger Burn
John Atkin, Beck
George Johnston, Bogburn
Thomas Graham, Franks-town
Wm. Beattie. Bogburn
Charles Graham, Bogburn
Wm. M`Vitie, Bogburn
John Beattie, Beat,ie's-town
George Graham, Ilills-town
John Beattie, Moss-side
George Bell, Calwellpsth
Simon Johnston, Nether Beck

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John Blaylock, Beckside
Robert Wilson, Beckside
John Beattie, Croft
John Farish, Becklees
Thos. Graham, Beck Common
James Brown, Brown-rigg
Lucy Wilson, Loaning
James Irving, Close-gap
Richard Peel, Braehead
Frances Graham, Braehead
John Livingstone, Braehead
Richard Byers, Braehead
George Graham,Pattenstown
John Robson, Pattenstown
Andrew Ward, Longtown
Francis Lamb, Longtown
Wm. Graham, Longtown'
Wm. Hayton, Plump."

An artist at Stuttgart, named Wenn., is said to have
discovered a process by which copiei of drawings may be multiplied
to an unlimited extent, 'without the aid of pressure. The copies thus
obtained present the appearance of aquatint prints, lithographs, and
crayon drawings. They can be executed by none but artists. The
Atigsburgh Gee.tte states that it has received copies, which seem to
prove the success of the invention.