The Sun.
London, England, 1835-12-16 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONTION, IVEDNESbAY, litCpilViligit 16, Is 3

Guerque and Borges. Torres says that the Carlist troops
are completely demoralised, that they are in want of arms,
ammunition, money, and provisions, and have no sufficient
information of the position of the enemy. In fine, Torres
throws up his command."—Messager, Dec. 14.

New York Papers to the 24th,- Montreal papers to
the 17th, and South American States Papers to va-
rious dates in November, have been received by way
of Liverpool. In the South American Republics; a
spirit of disaffection and insubordination prevails to
a most extraordinary extent. SANTA ANNA was
preparing to take the fieM in person, and from
the preparations which were being made on all sides,
the struggle was expected to be long, bloody, aqci
disastrous.

The United States
are occupicd; 'and British Colonial Joilifthilo
tlie first with the .snhjett of a war with
Fra..;t:e ; the other, witlt the proceedings in the Hen se
of Assembly tlt Lower Canada. In neither do we find
intaligenee of any moment. The following arc extracts
from the entire of these Papers ;

" LATE AND IMPORTAI host MEXICO.
yet:teTrdliae packet
y,hall4
wiletielL4 z
e itiio,
6thz instant,Captain
bringing advises
from the tity ut Mexico to the Ist instant. The news is of
the ril's,st interesting character. A friend, who possesses the
oest sources of information, has obligingly furnished us with
the following summary of news from his private letters, dated
Mexico, Ist, and Vera Cruz to the 6th, which is much later
than has been received via New Orleans t--•
" The excitement, against the Atlitrivill3 in the whole
Republic was so great, in tontequence of the capture of the
Corrco, and the proceedings of the Texans, that serious ap-
prehensions wer‘,•; entertained for the safety of the persons
and VP:pay of the former.
" The popular party have made some demonstration to
disturb the public tranquillity, but the Government was in-
formed in time of their manoeuvres, and several of the
leaders were arrested. On the Ist, tranquillity prevailed in
the whole Republic.
" 2,000 infantry were already on their march to Mate-
moras, and 400 cavalry to Montersey. General Cortazar
was to take the command of the infantry, and General
Montezuma that of the cavalry. Santa Anna was to leave
his seat for Mexico on the 7th inst. He has greatly en-
larva the army for the last two months. The Bishops of
Puebla and Mexico have put at his disposal 2,000,000 dol-
lars, for the purpose of putting down the rebellion in Texas.
It was confidently expected that Santa Anna would go to
Texas immediately after the promulgation of the new con-
stitution, the basis of which had already been published,
under the title of Ada Constitutiva, We shall give more
details as soon as we get our papers."
On the 6th of May Mr. Cope, the English Consul at
Guayaquil, addressed a letter to the Provisional Govern-
ment of the Ecuador, relative to the part of the Colombian
debt, due by that State. The nature of the Consul's
communication, is sufficiently explained in the following

answer :

" STATE OF THE ECUADOR.
" Office of the Secretary of State, Foreign Department,
Palace of the Government in Quito, 19th May, 1835,

" TO THE CONSUL OF HIS BRITANNIC MAJESTY AT

GUAYAQUIL.

" The undersigned Minister for Foreign Affairs of the
Government of the Ecuador has had the honour to inform
his Excellency the Supreme Chief of the communication
which the Consul of his Britannic Majesty at the port of
Guayaquil was pleased to direct to him under the date the
6th current, requesting his Excellency to recommend to the
National Convention the payment of the portion of the fo-
reign debt of Colombia, which falls to the share of the
Ecuador ; and he has received directions to assure him,
that as soon, as the Government shall be informed in an
authentic manner of the part for which they are liable by
the Convention, which, as it has been privately given to
understand, has been concluded at Bogota between the
Ministers of New Granada and Venezuela, the Govern-
ment will adopt whatever measures may be requisite in the
actual circumstances of the country for 'the fulfilment of
the national obligations, and the upholding of the honour
of the nepublic. His Excellency will also call the atten-
tion of the Convention to this subject, as the British Con-
sul might justly expect, from the good faith of this Go-
vernment, which is so anxious for the fulfilment of its en-
gagements.

-‘-‘ The undersigned offers to the British Consul the assu-
rances of the distinguished consideration with which he is
his most respectful obedient servant,

JOSE M. GONZALES."

The nomination of Candidates for the Northern
Division of Northamptonshire took place yesterday
at Kettering, and was marked by a truly charac-
teristic out-break of Tory spirit. Previous to the
commencement of the proceedings a large body of
horsemen, in the interest of the Tory candidate,
came to the ground at full gallop, and dashed
through the assembled crowd directly up to the hustings,
bearing down without compunction every person who
stood in their way. These worthies were armed with
bludgeons and whips loaded with lead, and the ruf-
fian who headed them carried, in addition to
these weapons, a well-charged double-barrelled
pistol. The brutal conduct of these fellows occasioned,
as might have been expected, remonstrances from the
crowd thus trampled under foot ; when the worthy
Captain of the band levelled his pistol at one of
the remonstrants, and was in the act of pulling
the trigger, when his hand was arrested by one
of his companions, not quite so bloody-minded
as himself. A scene of tumult and disorder en-
sued which the authority of the High Sheriff could
hardly repress. We need not comment on the atro-
city of such proceedings. The bare truth is the
strongest condemnation that can be pronounced upon
them. To what straits must the Tory cause in
Northamptonshire, be reduced ?

The soldier who was flogged to death the other day,
almost within sight of the Metropolis of the British
Empire, will, we hope, be the last victim to that re-
volting system of torture which has so long disgraced
the British army. The public sympathy has been
powerfully excited in favour of those unfortunate men
who, from the moment when they enlist themselves in
the service of their:country, are subjected to treatment,
compared with which the atrocities practised by the
negro-driver may be pronounced humane and merciful.
Men are now beginning to feel that they cannot remain
passive spectators of such outrages against humanity
without participating in the guilt incurred by their per;-
petration ; and the natural result of this just and conscien-
tious feeling will be the zealous use of such means as
lie within their power for putting an end to the enor-
mous evil. They must not trust to the promises of
men in power, when they have before their eyes the
evidence that these promises, though made in the face
of the nation, have been disregarded. They must hold
public meetings, and, if necessary, form associations,
with the view of vindicating the rights of injured hu-.
manity, and wiping off the . reproach of barbarity from
the national character. This is the course which has
been successfully pursued in other cases, and there
can be no doubt of its success in this. Let the people
once show their representatives that they are in earnest,
and flogging will not 'survive another session of Par-
liament.

In the mean time let accurate information respecting
the extent to which this inhuman practice haa been
carried, be circulated as widely as possible. We have
now before us a little pamphlet, published by Ridg-
way, on this subject, which is well calculated to open
the eyes of those who are either ignorant of the tender
mercies of the " cat-o'-nine-tails," or who think that
instrument indispensable to the maintenance of disci-
pline in the army. It is entitled " Military Torture,"
and is written by JOHN TEESDALE, late of the 28th
Regiment, and Staff Sergeant at the Military College
of Sandhurst. Mr. TEESDALE lays before the public,
in a plain and unostentatious manner, a statement of
the discipline of the " cat," as exemplified in the 28th,
which absolutely makes the blood run cold. We could
not, without the testimony of an eye-witness, have be-

lieved that such torture, under the pretence of punish-
ment, as is described in this narrative, coulU have been
inflicted or sanctioned by British officers.

EASVINDIA HOUSE—THIS 701,0 e..

A Gener4l:Quarterly Meeting of the Proprietors of India
Stock was held this morning, tit Leaclenhall7strect--:it was
also made •Apet:iritt for the ptil'peee of considering several no-
tires of motions.

\V. S. CLAtiKE, Esq., Chaitinan, tied a ntirnhei of tie
Director's took their §6its at tweli7e
The Ckkiiimikti ilifttitied the ("iota that , ;•?,,ri'4.2.! or
the half yeatly .ready fdt tiblitety on the i.)6th
of January, The Chairman then informed the Ciotirt that the
Coma of Directors had resolved to recommend a grant Laf
moot. to the Earl of
.Clarc---that was the first matter for dis-
tussio'n..

,
Sir iti;:43l:6 aliCl WEEDING OUJOCt.CU to La&4 [I
tatting preccdehce of motions Of a much older date; -
The CitAttimAisr said he wbuld hare nti OtljeCtion itl hold
another or an . dutift to=morrow; lii •ettit,f t 4 get
tllrnugtl the whole of the business:
Sir C. FORBES felt butind to persist hi keeping the Court
in the usual totithib. tie itio4red that the Case Of ttirtipisa=
three of the Company's Captains be first proceeded
with.

Mr. FEILLIkit seconded the toothotn
Tile question gave rise to a discussion of some length, dur-
ing which the Directors said the arrangement of the business
was always left in the hands of the Chairman.
6it C. roatiEs would perbist in his motion, and from the
course taken by the Directors he felt bOund to say that the
proTrietort ought to be just before they were generous.
The question was then put, and the Hon. Baronet's motion
was lost.

The resolution of the Court of Directors on L6rd Clare's
case was then read, and
The CHAIRMAN said the proprietors were aware, that when
Lord Clare went out to be Governor of Bombay, he pro-
ceeded by way of Egypt, by consent of the Directors.
Through the neglect of the officers of the Company, his Lord-
ship was detained at Terceira for three months. lie was put
to great expense and loss of salary during that time. The
Directors were also much satisfied with the manner in which
the Noble Lord had acted during the time he was Governor
of Bombay. He had relieved the country of great liabilities,
and conducted the Government with great zeal and ability.
Considering all these things, the Directors felt themselves
compelled to give his Lordship some testimonial of their ap-
probation, and they had considered it incumbent on them to
recommend that a grant of 5,000/. should be voted to the
Noble Lord, as a small mark of the approbation of the Pro-
prietors.

The Deputy Chairman, J. R. CARNON, Esq., followed the
Chairman with much pleasure in recommending the Court to
agree to the grant under _ consideration. The Noble Lord
had a very peculiar claim upon the East India Company.
Lord Clare was the first who bad the courage to break through
all the prejudices by which the natives of India were excluded
from office, and were made an inferior race, and he was cer-
tain that if they had a voice in the present question, the only
objection to the grant would be as to its smallness. Lord
are's whole conduct in the Government had entitled him
most eminently to even a larger sum.
Mr. FIELDER said he saw there were eight directors' names
not attached to the recommendation, and when he saw among
them such names as Astell, Wigram, &c., he wished to inquire
whether there were any written dissents lodged.
The CHAIRMAN said there were not.

A PROPRIETOR called upon Mr. Astell to give the Court his
reasons for dissenting from his brother directors ; such a course
was taken when Mr. Grant dissented to such a recommen-
dation.

Mr. ASTELL was most happy to follow any precedent,
set him by his most respected and revered friend, Mr. Grant.
He,, therefore, had no hesitation in complying with the call
made upon him, to state his reasons for dissenting from the
recommendation. He agreed with what had fallen from the
worthy Chairman and Deputy, in respect to the manner of
which the Noble Lord had fulfilled the duties of Governor in
Bombay, but he could not give him all the credit of having
broken through the distinctions of colour and of caste. In
that be obeyed the orders of the Court of Directors, who
were entitled to the credit.—(Cheers.) Again, be dissented
from it because he did not think Lord Clare would condescend
to accept such a paltry gift as a sum of 5,000/. ; neither could
he (Mr. Astell) agree to he generous when there were so many
claims lying upon their table.
Mr. Wreanm said it was to be borne in mind that it was of
his own free will that the Noble Lord had chosen to go to his
government, in a way never before done by any other Gover-
nor—(Cheers)—and the Company bad not by any means
undertaken that there should be,a steam boat at Suez. They
had acted upon a strict rule in not granting to any one of
their civil officers the Indian allowances until he had actually
arrived in the country, and in common justice they were
bound to act upon the same rule now; and therefore he hoped
the proprietors would reject the recommendation.
Mr. LINDSAY (Director) said he agreed in all that had
fallen from his bon. friend who had preceded him. He gave
full credit to Earl Clare for his conduct in the government of
Bombay ; but he could see no one reason for making such a
grant as that now in question. The Noble Lord had
selected the manner in which he should proceed to
his government. It might be that he had gone
overland as a speculation'; he might expect to get there in two
in place of six months, and he had failed. The natives of
India had a right to the best energies of their Governors
without being called on to pay specially, as was wanted here.
—( Cheers.) He agreed with Mr. Astell that this was a
paltry grant, but he trusted the Court would not begin under
the new charter, by setting such a bad precedent.—( Cheers.)
Mr. WEEDING then rose, and was left speaking.
One of the sons of Tippoo Saib was introduced shortly
after the sitting of the Court. He sat amongst the Directors,
and appeared to pay much attention to the proceedings.