The Sun.
London, England, 1846-04-17 00:00:00

THE WAR IN INDIA.

We are informed that Lieutenant and Adjutant Wale, son
of the late General Sir C. Wale, K.C.8., who in the recent
dispatches from India was misnamed Wall, is out of danger
from the awful wound he received at the late battle of
Aliwal.
During the hottest part of the fire he was struck from his
horse by a cannon ball, which broke all his left ribs, caus-
ing a severe laceration of the lungs, and wounding his left
arm, under which it passed.
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charge of by the wife of a wounded brother officer, in whose
house, and under whose unremitted care, after remaining
some days in a hopeless condition, he began and still con-
tinues to improve.
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teeth of the batteries of Ferozeshah, on the evening of the
21st ; he had a second charger killed under him while as-
sisting in the successful struggle to drive the Seikhs from
out of their entrenched camp at Ferozeshah, on the morning
of the 22d.

We have only to hope that this brave young officer may,
like his late veteran father, live to count well nigh seventy
years since he first fought and bled in the service of his
country.

LONDON AND BIRMINGHAM RAILWAY.—IMPORTANT
REDUCTION IN THE CARRIAGE OF GOODS. —We •have to
congratulate our fellow-townsmen on another important re-
duction which has just been made by the directors of the
London and Birmingham Railway Company, in their rate for
goods from Birmingham to London. We understand that
the charge for the conveyance of hardware and manufac-
tured goods for any distance over fifty miles is now reduced
to 2d. per ton per mile, including locomotive power, and all
charges except for collecting and delivery. We are also in-
formed that the company intend, by a Bill which they have
now before Parliament, to propose this as the maximum rate
which they shall have the power of charging. The follow-
ing statement will afford some idea of the effect of a reduc-
tion in charges on the carriage of goods by railway. It ap-
pears that in the quarter ending December, 1844, the quan-
tity of goods carried on the London and Birmingham line
was 85,520 tons, the receipts for which were 44,824 E In the
corresponding quarter ending December, 1845 (a large
lredtuce-
tion having taken place in the charges in theninrest-eaa)se the
quantity carried was 129,560 tons,
ton-
nage during the latter quarter the receipts
sufficient to answer the 44,040 tons on the quarter, but in respbeecitnwl)efrateheenelyntsi7,4B4
or an increase of 6,660 L, scarcely
irAr amount of business
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Counties
Parliamentary paper
lating to the National
etiesalleerald of yesterday.
was printed, ks It appears that savin
NAT.IoNdALcoDn
gs'-banks
Debt and Savings'.
enced on the 6th of August, 1817,
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period ember last the gross
andcreditedwith
sums received
afarldni"fr‘nvi tehnoicdhly •ociet'-ibanks WAS 49,276,576/. 16s. Id., and on
count of savings
account of friendly societies 2,709,3011. 6.3. 4d. ; making a
total of 51,985,8781. 23.5 d. An account is given of the stock
purchased and the money paid. On the 20th of November
last the amount of stock standing in the names of the Com-
missioners on account of savings'-banks and friendly societies
was 32,388,6431.195. 4d., besides Exchequer. bills. Military
savings'-banks were established in September last, and on the
sth of January last the Commissioners had purchased stock
for them to 14,944/. 3s. 4d., having received 14,894/. ls. 11d.
as deposits from soldiers in a very short period.
CONVERSIONS TO THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH
IN Set:alarm—Robert Monteith, yr., of Carstairs, was re-
ceived into the church on the festival of St. Joseph (19th of
March), at Oscott College ; and on the festival of the An-
nunciation of our Lady (25th of March) his lady was received
Margaret, Edinburgh,
into the church at the convent of St. Mar
on which occasion the inmates of that estab tshment made t
customary anututl reuelal of their VAT§.---Tabiet.