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THE SUN, LONDON, T H &DA Y! 'YE NI NG, JANUARY 8, 1846.'

exquisite, the flow of the drapery easy and graceful.
There are no unnecessary adjuncts introduced into
the picture—every figure is necessary to the produc-
tion of the effect as a whole. The children are beau-
tiful, and the daughter,of the lady is one of the most
exquisite female figures that the pencil of artist ever
delineated ; there is something of almost angelic be-
nignity and beauty in the expression of her coun-
tenance. The artist, too, has throughout preserved the
national characteristics. Every face there is Saxon,
pure Saxon, unmistakeably Saxon. As an illustration
of ancient domestic national manners, this is a work of
very high merit.
No. 7. " The Discovery of the body of William
Rufus by the Country-people, in the New Forest,
Hampshire, A.D. 1,100," is the production of an
artist who possesses immense power. The grouping
of the rude country-people around the dead body of
the king—the expressive countenances and actions of
the stalwart peasants, who, having caught sight
of the dead body while descending a hill,
are advancing towards their companions who are
grouped around it, and the wild and savage land-
scape which forms the back ground of the picture,
prove that the artist, whoever he may be, has stu-
died, and that to great profit, the works of Salvator
Rosa. There is much about this cartoon of the true
Salvator spirit.
No. 9. " Henry 111. Renewing the Charters" is an
admirable picture, illustrative of the following passage
of our history :—" The Peers being assembled in pre-
sence of the king, each holding a lighted taper, the
Archbishop of Canterbury denounced a terrible
curse against those who should violate the
laws, or alter the constitution of the king-
dom. Then the charters were read aloud, and
confirmed by the King, who all this time kept his
hand upon his breast ; after which, every one
threw his taper on the ground to raise a
great smoke, and wished that those who vio-
lated the charters might smoke in hell." The figure
of the king is very fine. The figures are all
grouped most artistically. There is one figure, a
baron to the left of the king, the expression of whose
Greek-like countenance is remarkably fine. This is
an excellent historical picture.
No.lo. " Queen Phillippa interceding for the Lives
of the Burgesses of Calais " is a picture of the very
highest order of art. The artist, whoever he may be,
is an honour to his age and nation. Genius of the
very highest order, matured by years of patient study,
could alone have enabled him to produce
such a magnificent composition. The figure
of the king is sublime, the brow firmly fixed,
the flashing eye, the agonising of those stern features,
all express the terrific conflict that is going on in his
mind as he listens to the pathetic appeal of his
queen. The calm, yet decided dignity of the
bishop, who stands immediately behind him, and
in a spirit of dignified command urges him to grant
the lives of the prisoners, is very majestic. Majestic
too, but yet a different character of majesty, is the
expression of the noble Eustace de St. Pierre, who
calmly awaits his fate contentedly, as it contrasts
with the agonised expression of one of the
prisoners by his side, who is evidently suffer-
ing the most intense torture from the suspense
in which he is kept as to his fate. The figure of the
jester, who is introduced into the back ground, marks
the genius of the artist. He is smiling as is his
wont, but smiling mechanically, for the general ex -
pression of his countenance is that of intense
woe. Want of time prevents us from dilating
futher, but this picture is assuredly one of the
greatest that British art has yet produced.
23. "The 'Welcome of the Boy-King, Henry VI.
into London, after his Coronation at Paris." A gor-
geous picture, but too crowded.

THE FOREIGN AlAms.—The following notice was
issued yesterday, at the General Post-office, St. Martin's-1e-
Grand, and the branch offices :—" The next mails for
Gibraltar, Malta, Greece, the lonian Islands, Egypt, Ceylon,
India, and China, will be made up on the morning of the 20th
instant, to be forwarded via Southampton. To the British
West India Islands, New Grenada, Venezuela, Bermuda, San
Juan de Nicaragua, and Madeira, on the 17th instant, by the
Medway steamer via Southampton. Next mails due from
the West Indies, on the 22d instant; Mexico, &c., on the 7th
of February. The next mails for Corunna, Vigo, Oporto,
Lisbon, Madeira, Cadiz, and Gibraltar, will be made up on
the morning of the 17th instant. Next mail due at
Southampton, the Queen steamer, on the 15th instant. The
next mail due from British North America, Bermuda, and
the United States, on the 15th instant, at Liverpool ; from
the Brazils and Buenos Ayres, her Majesty's brig Crane, on
the 231, at Falmouth."
DIRECT MAN CHESTER RAILWAY.—In consequence
of the official notices received by the parochial authorities of
the parish of St. Bride, intimating that several of the houses
belonging to the parish will be required for the proposed Di-
rect London and Manchester Railway, a public vestry has
been called by the churchwardens, Messrs. Isherwood and
Marriott, to consider the subject, on Friday evening next, in
order to direct what answer shall be given. Parties in the
district of St. Bride's and Farringdon Without are extremely
divided upon the subject.
SHOCKING ACCIDENT.—FALL FROM A WINDOW.—
Yesterday morning, between ten and eleven o'clock, alittic
girl, four years of age, name Anne Groves, whose parents
reside in Compton-street, Soho, having been left in the back
second floor alone, with the window open, she got on a chair
for the purpose of looking out of the window, and, over-
balancing herself, she fell into the back area. She was re-
moved to the hospital almost in a lifeless state.
ROYAL SANTIAGO MINING COMPANY.--Yesterday
the half-yearly general meeting of the above Company took
place in the board-room at the office, 7, Broad-street-build-
ings, for the purpose of receiving the Directors' report, and to
consider of declaring a dividend. A. Robertson Esq., pre-
sided, and amongst those present were Sir I. L. Goldsmid,
Sir Claude Scott, &c. &c. The report was read by the se-
cretary and adopted, from which it appeared that the quan-
tity of ore raised in the half-year ending August 31st was
2,175 tons, of which 1,021 tons had been sold and produced
nett 9,947/. 2s. Bd., part of the remainder would be sold at
the next ticket of sale, which was credited in the account at
11,410/. 16s. 2d., the whole making an aggregate amount of
21,515/. 1 Is. 2d. The expenditure, including the Income-
tax, 5191. ls. Ild., was 22,729/. ls. 7d., making the excess
of expenditure over the income of 1,2131. 10s. sd. The
quantity of ore raised in the three months ending November
30th was 1,283 tons, of which 324 tons was lately landed at
Swansea. Though the assets were about 40,000/. and the
condition of the Company much improving, yet until their
law proceedings were settled, the Directors would not recom-
mend a dividend at present. After the usual courtesies to
the Chairman and Directors, the meeting broke up.
SUDDEN DEATHS.—Yesterday Mr. Bedford held
two inquests on persons who had died in a sudden manner.
The first inquest was held at the Golden Lion, Dean-street,
Soho, on the body of Caroline Saunderson, aged 23 years. It
appeared by the evidence that, on Wednesday evening last,
the deceased had been at a Christmas party; she then ap-
peared in her usual health and cheerfulness; the next day
she complained of pain in the chest. She was attended by
Mr. Marshall, a surgeon, but she died on Friday morning.
From a post enortem examination it was found that there had
been an ulcer in the stomach, which bursting, had caused
death. It might have been accelerated by dancing or other
extertion. Verdict—" Died from natural causes." The second
inquest was held at the Plough, Carey-street, on Jonathan
Stockam Ingram, aged 51, a licensed waterman at the
Spotted Dog, Strand, who was found on Saturday morning
lying in bed quite dead; a medical gentleman said from an
attack of apoplexy. Verdict accordingly.
SACRlLEGE.—lnformation was yesterday forwarded
to the police-stations through the medium of the Hue and
Cry, that the parish church of Utterby, near Louth, in the
county of Lincoln, was broken into between the 28th ult.
and the 4th inst., and the following articles stolen therefrom,
.
a silver cup and small silver paten which fitted as a lid
to
o'clock a Court ofw the GliovernSvol
_e cup, a large flagon, and two plates.
-ERE SCoTTIsLI
—orpasoratonrTsAaLn.d— friendsY e ITAL.—Yesterday
or
fd atyh e at
Scottisho n e
Hospital, which numerously attended, was held at the
Hall of the Crane-court,a Fleet-street, to affix
the corporation seal to an
Duke of Sutherland on resigning the
latecltoefv
otter .
presented to the
president, to
business. IVI'Le
3sdr,
elect a chaplain in the room of the
Rector of St. Anne, Soho, and on o
Webster in the chair. Major Adair, the secretary, presented
the report of the relief committee and of the Kinloch Fund,
which is in trust to the Scottish Hospital. From the
first it appeared that 377 persons were relieved on
the 10th ult., with the sum of 2391. 12s. 6d. Thelatter showed that the stock, which in January last was
55,5501., had been reduced in the course of the year by the
sale if 4001. Three per Cents., and that the sum paid in pen-
sions amounted to 11,848/. It was then resolved that the
corporation seal be affixed to the address, which was very
beautifully written in illuminated letters, to be presented to
the Duke of Sutherland on his resignation of the presidency
of the hospital. Mr. Hamilton next brought forward a
motion, in conformity with a recommendation of his Grace,
that hi consequence of the prosperous condition of the funds
of the hospital the 10/. pensioners should be increased to
100, and that there should be an addition of the number
in the receipt of smaller pensions. A resolution
was agreed to that there should be 30 pensioners, each above
65 years of age, who should be allowed 81. a year, and 100
who should receive 101. a year; and it was stated that
2,691/. Bs. 4d. was distributed last year. The Rev. Dr. Cum-
ming then proposed that the Rev. Archdeacon Sinclair, vicar
of Kensington, should be the chaplain, in the room of the
Rev. R. M‘Leod. Dr. Dixon seconded the resolution, which
was unanimously adopted ; and, after a long discussion, it
was resolved that the salary of the secretary be increased
from 175/. to 2001. per annum. Thanks were voted to the
Chairman, and the court broke up.
THE LATE WINDSOR ELECTION.—Tickets were

distributed yesterday to the whole of the working classes of
Windsor, electors of the borough, to the number of eighty,
who had promised their votes to Mr. Walter at the late elec-
tion, for the supply of meat, bread, and ale. Each was sup-
plied with meat to the value of five shillings, two loaves of
bread, and two quarts of ale. The distribution took place
under the superintendence of Mr. John Bedborough. A si-
milar distribution on the part of Colonel Reid, to those who
had promised him their support, took place a few days since.
SUICIDE.—Mr. Wakley, M.P., coroner, held an
inquest at the sign of the Red Lion, near Hammersmith Sus-
Pension- bridge, on the body of Anne Pearman, aged sixteen
years, who was found in the river, having, as it was sup-
posed, committed suicide, owing to the threats of her late
mistress to have her brought before a magistrate for some
theft with which she was charged. The deceased, however,
protested that she was innocent, but exhibited the utmost
dread of the proceedings with which she was threatened.
Mr. Wakley remarked on the harshness of the measures
adopted towards so young a person. Verdict, " Found
drowned."
THE FREEDOM OF ELECTION.—Alderman Gibbs
has been elected—that is to say, has elected himself again—
churchwarden of 'Walbrook. He proposed himself, seconded
himself, voted for himself, and declared himself elected. He
then returned thanks in a neat speech to himself in the glass,
and concluded by giving three cheers for himself. In the
evening the Hon. Gentleman dined with his constituents.
Covers were laid for one.—Punch.
There are now living no less than fourteen persons
who have held the office of Clerk of the Ordnance, namely :
—Lord Shaftesbury, Mr. Ward, Sir George Clerk, Mr. Per-
cival, Sir Henry Hardinge, Right Hon. C. T. D'Eyncourt,
Right Hon. T. F. Kennedy, Colonel Moberly, Col. Sir A. L.
Hay, Admiral Sir Edward Owen, Admiral Dundas, Hon.
Colonel Anson, Captain Bolder°, and Lord Arthur Lennox.

RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE.

CHELTENHAM COMPETING LINES.

CHELTENHAM, WEDNESDAY NIGHT.—An important
meeting was held here to-day to receive the resignation
of the town committee appointed for the purpose of re-
porting on the various projects now in agitation in Chel-
tenham. Previous to the commencement of the proceed-
ings the Hon. Craven Berkeley, M.P., apologised for
some animadversions made on a previous day as to the
conduct of the Rev. T. Close in connexion with railway
matters. The Hon. Gentleman's observations appeared
to give satisfaction to the meeting and his constituents.
Mr. GWINNETT proposed a resolution to the effect
that the original committee should be re-appointed with
some little alteration.

The resolution was seconded by Mr. ROWE.
Mr. LINGWOOD supported the Cheltenham and Oxford
,ne.

Mr. HARPER proposed an amendment to the effect
that the original members of the committee should be re-
appointed with several other additional names, with
power to oppose any railway passing through or crossing
the approaches of the town.

Th-esproposition was seconded by Mr. HEANE.
Several members addressed the meeting, either dis-
senting to or opposing the resolution.
When the CHAIRMAN desired the meeting to express
their feelings as to the first resolution and amendment, a
scene of indescribable confusion ensued.
In the first instance Mr. Close decided that Mr. Har-
per's resolution had been carried ; feeling, however,
some uncertainty as to the question, he requested the
meeting again to divide, and then for some time was
unable to obtain a hearing. Ultimately, however, the
CHAIRMAN decided that Mr. Harper's resolution was
carried.

THE BROAD AND THE NARROW GAUGE.
Yesterday morning an experimental train, consisting
of twelve carriages, laden with 124 tons 11 cwt. and a
quarter, was dispatched from the Paddington terminus
of the Great Western Railway, the object being to as-
certain if a passenger engine would propel such a weight.
Precisely at 8 45 A.m., the train, propelled by the Lion
engine, left the terminus, and arrived at the one-mile
post at ti 50. On the engine wero Mr. Brunel, Mr. Gooch,
the superintendent of the locomotive department ; Mr.
Andrews, the inspector of the locomotives ; and J. Apple,
the engine driver.
At five minutes before nine o'clock the signal was
given for the train to start, and it passed the undermen-
tioned stations at the times affixed :
MILES.
Padddington
Ealing
Han w ell
Southall
West Drayton
Slough
Maidenhead
Twyford
Reading 354
Pangboume ..... 41i ..... 9 51
Goring
Wallingford-road...
Didcot .....

R. M.

... 8 55

Thus accomplishing the distance at an average speed
of 48 miles an hour.

land, 41. 16s. 6d.—l Orth Staffordshire, 6—North Western,
33/4—Welsh Midlanr2/. 14s.

GLASGOW, JAN. 6.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are—Airdrie and Bath-
gate, 51s.—Ayr and•i)umfries Junction, 475. 6d.—Ayr and
Galloway, 40s.—British and Irish Union, 72s.—Caledonian
Extension, 68s. 6d.—Caledonian and Dumbartonshire Junc-
tion, 555. —East Lothian Central, 445. —East Indian Railway,
28s. 6d.—Edinburgh, Glasgow, and Dumbarton, 20s.—
Edinburgh and Perth, s—Glasgow, Kilmarnock, arid Ayr,
New, 29—Glasgow, Dumfries, and Carlisle, 555.--Glasgow
and Garnkirk, 42—Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and Ardrossan,
725. 6d.—lnverness and Elgin, 30s.—Kilmarnock and Ayr
Direct, 455.—Lanark and Lothians, 55s.—Lesmahagow,
665. 6d.—Paisley, Barrhead, and Harlet, 64—Perth and
Inverness, 40s.—Renfrew and Ayr, 325. 6d.—Scottish Cen-
tral, 17—Stirling and Dunfermline, 525.

MAJOR-GENERAL NAPIER.
(From the aiernsey Advertiser of Dec 17.)
The Star of Thursday last has fulminated forth a
lengthy leader of three columns on the subject of Mr.
Guerin, in reference to his deprivation of his commission
as captain in the Guernsey militia by the Commander-
in-Chief, Major-General Napier. This article is one of
great and gross attack on the conduct and character of
the Lieutenant- Governor, and by office the representa-
tive of her Majesty Hi the island ; and however it may
dissemble its feelings in false and flimsy wording, it
evinces so much malignity and hatred towards that
august personage, that we are led to doubt the oft-
boasted assumption ot loyalty and devotion it is so con-
tinually prating of.. .Had we been inclined to favour
Mr. Guerin's cause,. the article we allude to would have
utterly overthrown our convictions in his behalr; but,
as we never doubted that the Lieutenant-Governor's
dismissal of that officer was strictly in accordance with
precedent and practice, the show of rancour and enmity
thus displayed, only-fiends to confirm us in our former
opinion. _

But it is not with a view of casting back upon the Star
—which is ever ready to renew its prolonged insult
against his Excellency—the abuse which we would mark
with the contempt it deserves ;—but it is because all the
other local journals have thought proper to join in these
malignant attacks, that we alone stand forth as the
champions and defenders of the representative of royalty,
whose high office and' ignity seem to exercise so little of
the respect and consideration they are bound to call
forth. It is because his Excellency seems to have ao ad •
vocate amongst the local press, that we are determined
to take up the gauntlet our contemporaries have cast
down, and defend the cause inch by inch, and step by
step, with our best energies and abilities ; and we should
not take upon ourselves such an office, which we might
feel some difficulty in discharging, were we not
aware as well from internal conviction and ex-
perience, as by acknowledged facts, that the English
residents nearly to a man, regard with the
utmost indignation and disapproval the course
of insult and aggravation which has been put in practice
against the Lieutenant-Governor and his cause during a
period of more than two years. Their better feelings
and the spirit that in every British heart rises against
such a system of petty aggression revolts when it sees
and hears an English gentleman and officer, the hero of
many a hard-fought field, and now the Vicegerent of her
Majesty in this island; maligned and aspersed with such
audacious impunity! ,
Now, the last action' of the Lieutenant-Governor in
his capacity of Commander-in-Chief—that of depriving
Mr. Guerin of his commission in the militia—has, it ap-
pears, roused in a tenfold degree the vituperative pens
of the local papers. Why so? They admit that
his Excellency has a perfect right to dismiss or
degrade those whom' he may think fit. But they
want a reason : expediency forsooth is to them no
reason at all ; expediency—the bulwark of political
action, the shield by which so many dangers and disadvan-
tages are averted. Ha've they, as editors of newspapers,
studied political ecotibmy so little as not to admit the
reason of expediency? But let alone this reason, we
ask, who, that is in the least acquainted with military
usage, ever heard of a General giving a reason for what
he did, or where should we read of those glorious vic-
tories England has won, if the soldiers spent their time
in considering what their General meant by his orders
instead of obeying those orders? But the Star gives
its own reasons for Mr. Guerin's removal. It was be-
cause that ci-derant officer brought a charge of perjury
against a private of the 27th, which was proved to be
totally without foundation. But an officer of the 27th
brought a similar charge against a Guernsey woman.
Now the officer of the 27th offered instant reparation to
the woman he had accused. The insinuation that the
Lieutenant- Governor degraded Mr. Guerin because
he was a nephew of Sir William Collings, is
so utterly contemptible, and so well becomes
the paltry spirit in which the article was
written, that we pass over it with indignant silence.
But the Star, in Its article of Monday, advises
the militia to do nothing hastily in this matter ;—in that
of Thursday, it suggests to the officers of Mr. Guerin's
regiment the propriety of addressing that gentleman on
the subject. We want them to pause and consider well,
before they commit an.act of which they may have rea-
son to repent. Any overt act on their part in combina-
tion is, in military law, Tank mutiny, and must be put
down by the strong hand of Government.
Whatever reasons niay be assigned for the cancelling
of Mr. Guerin's comtnlssion, for ourselves we little care
to fathom the secrets (Tour superiors in command. As for
the Star we need onlysay its shafts fall blunted and harm-
less on the armour of integrity in which his Excellency is
incased. Honest and impartial Guernseymen—and a
vast proportion, we repeat, of the English resident
gentry—look upon the paltry conduct pursued towards
his Excellency, who blends in his character the warrior,
the able politician, and' the high office and dignity of
representative of her most Gracious Majesty in this
island, with disdainful indignation.

RETIREMENT of MR. GLADSTONE
FROM NEWARK.
TO THE ELECTORS OF NEWARK.
GENTLEMEN,—By accepting the office of Secretary of
State for the Colonies i have ceased to be your repre-
sentative in Parliament.
On several accounts;- I should have been peculiarly
desirous at the present.time of giving you an opportu-
nity to pronounce your constitutional judgment on my
public conduct, by soliciting at your hands a renewal of
the trust, which I have already received from you on five
successive occasions, and held during a period of thirteen
years.
But as I have good reason to believe, that a candi-
date recommended to your favour through local connec-
tion may ask your suffrages, it becomes my very painful
duty to announce to 'rou, on that ground alone, my re-
tirement from a positilSn which has afforded me so much
of honour and of satisfiction.
I shall ever retain, Gentlemen, happy recollections of
a
your confidence and your indulgence; and though I
may no longer stand in any formal relation to you, I
shall continue to feel .a.lively desire that every blessing
may attend the borough and its inhabitants.
Independently, however, of any such prospective rela-
tion, it is my duty to tender to you some account of that
step by which my seat has been vacated.
I regret that, at the present moment, I must even here
make an appeal to 'bur confidence. The obligations
into which I have entered, as a Minister of the Crown,
forbid me to do more At this time than to state in gene-
ral outline the considerations which have governed me,
and which I should have been prepared more fully to
sustain upon again appearing before you as a candidate
for re-election after the meeting of Parliament.
The events which I had immediately to regard, when
I was invited to re-enter the service of the Crown, were
these :—The Administration of Sir Robert Peel had re-
tired from office. The party opposed to that Adminis-
tration, and led by Lord John Russell, had endeavoured
to form a Governmentr and the endeavour had not suc •
ceeded. On the other_ nand, as I am given to under-
stand, persons favourable to unrelaxed protection were
not prepared themselves to undertake the conduct of
public affairs in conformity with the views which they
entertained.
It was in the critical-juncture thus brought about, thet
Sir Robert Peel had unhesitatingly resumed the exercise
of political power. •• •
When invited to •fill-the vacancy caused by the la-
mented retirement of Lord Stanley, I had to ask myself
the question, whether'it was to be desired, on account
of the exigencies of the general welfare as they stood,
that the Queen's Government should receive support.
Gentlemen, I judged that such was the case, and there-
fore felt it was for thole, who believed the Government
was acting according-to the demands of public duty, to
testify that belief, however limited their sphere might
be, by their co-operattpn. Nor is there anything I could
so much have coveted, except for the cause to which I
have adverted, as the-opportunity of vindicating before
you the judgment at ;which I have arrived, and of in-
viting you to record, your approval of it by your
votes. That vindication would have rested, and when-
ever and wherever it may be offered, it will rest, upon no
merely apologetic plea, but upon the assertion that I
have acted in obedience to the clear and imperious calls
of public obligation, and with the same purpose which I
have ever sought to follow, of promoting the permanent
interests of the community and of all the classes of which
it is composed.
Gentlemen, with strong sentiments alike of gratitude
and of regret, I remain, your obliged and obedient ser-
vant, W. E. GLADSTONE.
13, Carlton House4errace, London, Jan. 5, 1846.

FUNERAL OF THEW LATE Ray. R. ASPLAND.
in
On Tuesday the remains of, this eminent divine were interredin a vault erected on a spot selected by himself, h
o
burial-
ground of the new Gravel-pit Chapel, Hackney, of
he had been pastor upwards of 35 years. Anum whichbe of
'
the mourning coaches cont
carriages, and about 200 members of the congregation, fol-
lowedmning Mr. Aspland's nu-
merous family and some distinguished Dissenting divines.
The children connected with the school appeared in mourn-
ing armlets. The funeral service was conducted by Dr.
Thomas Rees, who delivered an address, in which he drew
a strong portraiture ofAhe deceased's character, and de-
scanted with peculiar effect upon his exertions in the cause
of civil and religious liberty. Dr. Rees stated that the
reverend deceased's high character had brought him into
intimate connexion with many of the eminent statesmen of
his time, and that the Test and Corporation Act repeal, the
passing of the Dissenting Marriages Act., and other liberal
measures, were owing in no Small degree to his exertions.
At the close of the address the body, preceded by Dr. Rees,
and the Rev. T. Madge and Dr. Hutton, was consigned to
the earth. Upon no' occasion since the death of the Vener-
able Archdeacon Watson; have the inhabitants of Hackney
evinced so much respect to a deceased parishoner, many of
the shops being closeds'and a large concourse of persons, of
all religious and political views, joining in the mournful
procession.
GLASGOW PIG liipx TRADE, JAN. 2.—Firmness
among holders has been very general within this few days
past, and we do not he 4 of any iron offering under 80s., al-
though we are not awFe of any transactions at these figure.
—Glasgow Argus.
TRADE OF MANCII4STER.—Since Tuesday last the
market has continued.o improve, and, within the last few
days a large business 110 .been done in yarn, both for present
and future delivery, at'slightly improved rates. For goods,
too, there has been more demand ; and, in same cases, a
trifling advano has 1),v:41-paid...Manchester Guardian.

TO THE PUBLI(
• (From the Kurrachee Advertiser.)
For some time past the cohniins of the Bombay Times have
been devoted to trumpetting forth the praises of the late
Ameers of Sinde, but as their defenders know it would be
futile to attempt to upheld their conduct as rulers, after all
that Sir Henry Pottinger and Colonel Outram have recorded
in this regard, it is endeavoured to show that they were
patterns of virtue, and most exemplary in their private lives.
Meer Shaded, in particular, is held up as a man in morals un-
exceptionable, and the writer who thus speaks of him, Alpha,
has the hardihood to boast of his intimacy with that Prince.
This is the first time one has seen an Englishman boasting
of intimacy with one of the most infamous miscreants that
ever disgraced manhood, and proclaiming a man to be of un-
exeeptionable morals who has rivalled the worst enormities of
Nero and Heliogabalus. The world has with one consent con-
signed the names of these monsters to execration ! Yet their
equal in wickedness, Shaded, is now held up as a model of
purity—England, however, is not so corrupt as to consider all
that is most abominable virtue, though Alpha and the Bombay
Times affirm it ! and the only conclusion people of right
thinking will come to is that the upholders of Shadad's and
the rest of the Meer's morality must be as degraded and
corrupt as the Meers themselves.

To describe the infamies through which, without any at-
tempt at concealment, Shadad has passed is difficult, the
names even of such crimes as he has been all his life familiar
with being pollution, but however unpleasant the task it is
one which the best interests of society calls for. If the
reader will refer then, to the annals of Tacitus, book fifteen,
and section thirty-seven, and to Gibbon's Decline and Fall,
volume one, and chapter six, he will find accounts of the
disgusting debauch eriesof Nero and Hell ogabalus which, word
for word, pourtray the similar vices of Shadad. It is only
necessary to substitute for their names his, to complete the
picture, and for the :companions of their vices Pythagoras,
Hierocles, and Quoticus,—to insert the equally detestable
partners in Shadad's guilt, Moored Khan, Alla Buksh, and
Manuck Sing ;—men who were raised from the lowest con-
dition to the highest favour on account of their success in
gratifying his lewd desire,—and who are as infamously no-
torious to the people of Sinde, as those other monsters were
to the Roman world.
Having thus disposed of the moral character of Shadad,
that of the other Meers may be summed up in a few words.
Noor Mohamed, the father of Shadad, made the nearest
approach to him in crime ; but though, like Shadad, he
prostituted himself to the embraces of his menials, Mo-
hamed Saleh. Ninda, Mouse, and others, he was at least
less open in his vices than his son. Sobdar was prevented
by epilepsey from following a course of sensuality—the only
excess I have heard attributed to him was in Bhang. Meer
Mohamed was cold by constitution. Nusser Khan was, it is
true, exempt from the most utterly revolting form of vice a
man can be guilty of; but the ravished wife of Mohamed
Khan Juttooee. The smock-faced sons of Aloo Memmon—the
pampered eunuchs Ramjan and Gooljan, with all their de-
testable crew of catamites, who were at once the panders and
the victims to the passions of their master—the horde of
pimps who filled the Durbar, these all attest that if not the
worst of men, he held a position but little more elevated in
the scale; while the shameful, Shadad-like debaucheries of
his eldest son, gave promise of the atrocities that would have
continued to stain the country, had not the conquest of Sinde
providentially cut off his suceession.

Such are tie set whom, for purposes best known to them-
selves, Englishmen are found to uphold as models of morality
and virtue ; the best of them notorious for vices held in abo-
mination even by Asiatics of any pretension to character or
religion, the worst sunk in sensuality so monstrous as must
in every country in the world make the persons guilty of it
an object of universal horror and disgust. For where till now
has there appeared in any realm, however wicked, an apolo-
gist for the infamy of a prince's self-prostitution; or where,
till Alpha stepped forth, was there seen a man so base as to
boast of intimacy with one who passed his life, till his de-
thronement, the catamite by turns of all the lowest wretches
in Hydrabad.
They who clamour against the conqueror of Sinde for rid-
ding a throne of such miscreants impugn the justice of the
Almighty who destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah.
With reference to the article in the Bombay Times of the
13th inst., on my letter regarding Shadad, at the printing of
which by that honest paper the Gentleman's Gazette, the
prudery of the Times is so much excited, I beg to make the
following observations :-
1. The letter signed Omega was not published• under the
Governor's sanction or with his knowledge.
2. Shadad may caricature all the officers of the force, the
Governor included till dooms-day for all that I care, but he
shall not, if I can help it, nor shall the Bombay Times make
such consummate fools of the public as this monster seems
to have made by Alpha's account of the unsuspecting little
society of Englishmen at Surat. The Times may continue
to spread his own protecting wing over the animal, but the
character of his protégé shall be known over India, and will be
known over Europe too, please God, on the arrival in London
of the next mail.

3. Does the Bombay Times suppose that he is to be allowed
to cry up miscreants as angels for ever, and that his false-
hoods are to remain uncontradicted, simply because the de-
pravity of the brutes he bepraises is so great as to defy
description.
4. In describing Shadad's vices, I have avoided as much
as possible detail, and referred the reader to books in which,
as I have said, they are faithfully pourtrayed. The books I
have referred to, are, first—the annals of Tacitus, a book in
the hands of every schoolboy at schools where gentlemen
are educated, and the translation of which by Murphy (the
passage alluded to included) as dedicated by permission to
the celebrated Edmund Burke, than whom a purer character
never breathed. Second—Gibbon's Decline and Fall, a work
equally unobjectionable, and third—in my last paragraph I
alluded, I trust with proper reverence to the Holy Bible.
People who have not read these books will not be affected
by my letter, for they will but faintly understand it, those
on the other hand who have read them may read all I have
written with pure minds, and fear nothing, for they hale
read a great deal more about other monsters than I have
written about Shadad. lam not surprised, however, at the
objections of the Times, the virulence of that paper has con-
vinced all right feeling men that its editor can have very
little to say to his Bible, and we are quite sure that the
reading a column of his writings will be quite enough to
convince the most incredulous that he has been reared in
happy ignorance of all that pertains either to a classical, or a
gentlemanly education.
5. It is a mattor of no earthly consequence to me what
the Times says about disbelieving what I have written, for
I know he does believe it, and hence his soreness, I can
produce hundreds, nay thousands of testimonials to its ve-
racity, among whom are the officers now serving in Sinde,
—I will dispose of the matter, however, in a more summary
way by calling forward a witness whom the Times will cer-
tainly not object to—step forth then honest James Outram in
this just cause—tell the truth and shame the devil.
Sinde, Aug. 22, 1845. OMEGA.
P.S.—I see the Editor of the Bombay Times talks of my
letter as the fruit of a prurient imagination, a libidinous
libel, and a bonne bouche,—and his correspondent, a Griffin
speaks of it as unnatural stimulants to excite feelings an call
forth sympathies, as brought forward to enhance the value of
that which certainly might otherwise be tame and unpalatable,
and a high seasoned dish to excite an appetite. I really do not
know what all this means, or what appetites the fellow talks
about my letter being calculased to excite, I intended it as
it started from my pen an out-burst of reprobation of crime
almost unparallelled, and a warning to Englishmen to shun

the company of a monster.
If the Editor of the Bombay Times and his brother
Griffin found its libidinous, and calculated to excite an appe-
tite., all I can say is they must be in heart if not in deed a
brace of miscreants as great as their pet Shadad himself.