The Sun.
London, England, 1844-01-25 00:00:00

RAILWAY SHARES.

Versailles, R.B 340 ... 342 50.. 340 ... 342 50
L. 8...
Rouen
Rouen to Havre 665 ... 665 ... 660 ... 662 50
Orleans
Strasburg to Bale 235 ... 235 ... 230 ... 232 50
Avignon to Marseilles 685 ... 690 . . 685 ... 690

RAILWAY SHARES, FOR THE ACCOUNT.
Versailles, R.B 342 50... 342 50... 340 ... 340
L 8...
Rouen .. 850 ... 850 ... 850 ... 850
Rouen to Havre......, 665 ... 665 ... 662 50 .. 662 50
Orleans . 862 50... 867 50... 860 ... 867 50
Strasburg to Bale 235 ... 235 ... 230 ... 232 50
Avignon to Marseilles 682 50... 690 ...682 50 .. 690

In the Number of the Edinburgh Review (CLIX.)
which has just come out, we find a remarkable con-
firmation of the views announced in the article we
publish to-day on the subject of the " Oregon Terri-
tory." It occurs in an able paper on Captain Sir
Edward Belcher's " Voyage Round the World, per-
formed by her Majesty's ship Sulphur, during the
years 1836-42. (London, 1843.)" The passages to
which we would direct the readers' attention are
these : (The Reviewer has been quoting a dispatch
from the Right Hon. the Earl of Aberdeen, repudiating
a sort of compulsory cession which had been
made of the Provisional Government of the Sand-
wich Islands by the Queen, Pomare, to the Queen
of Great Britain, in consequence of certain
extraordinary proceedings of Captain Lord George
Paulet, in her Majesty's ship Carysfort :)—" This
sound doctrine, moral as well as political, . . .
may also serve to abate the furious attacks of our
transatlantic brethren on this occasion, who, in no
measured terms of accuse, abuse the British Govern-
ment of an all-grasping disposition to plant colonies
h ich by alone
legitimate authority,
n
in every part of the world. If priority of discovery
authorised
d of
possession, possession—which,
territory,session madew
it does not; but
if
a cessiontct
which it does—then the Sand-
wich Islands might, long ago, have been annexed to
seues
the British Crown—a formal cession of them having
been made to the King of Great Britain, in considera-
tion of services rendered by Captain Vancouver.
But supposing the charge of all-grasping to
be true, what prevented us from establishing colo•
nies in every part of the Pacific, and on the
northern and western coasts of America p Instead of
which, what did we do ? We ave up Nootka Sound
and its islands, which were ceded to us by Spain. We
left the Falkland Islands a derelict on the ocean, also
ceded to us by that Power."
" But the Ame-
ricans are the last people in the world who should '
" It is somewhat
ac-
cuse us of a grasping
,disposition to seize upon new
acquisitions of territory.
whimsical, and augurs no great share of moderation
or modesty, that a nation brought into existence only
about half a century ago, and which by its grasping
propensities'
has swallowed up nearly the half ofa vast
continent, and will not be satisfied until she has got the
whole,—so that its two shores may be washed by the
Atlantic on one side and by the Pacific on the other,
—that such a nation. should talk of the grasping pro
pensity of others.

SIR H. POT TINGER AND THE
AMEERS OF SINDE.
We find the following in the Chronicle of yester-
day :—" A most diligent Correspondent of The Sun has
induced that journal to fill three of its columns with
extracts from Sir Henry Pottinger's correspondence,
which prove Sir Henry's extreme distrust of; and se-
rious complaints of, Noor Mahomed Khan, the chief of
the rulers of Sind°, at the date of that correspondence,
viz., 1838 and 1839. These extracts are adduced by
the writer in order to place Sir Henry in contradiction
with his more recent letters, in which he laments the
treatment of the present Ameers. Now, the fact is, that
Noor Mahomed died in 1841. The present, or late,
Ameers were another generation, and had as much
to do with the Ameers whom Sir Henry Pottinger
spoke of in 1838, as the state and policy and fears of
Sinde, at the time when we were preparing an expe-
dition to Caubul, has to do with the Sinde of
1843, after the English Governor-General had solemnly
declared that the Indus was the irrevocable frontier of
the empire."
We know not what to make of this article. The ob-
ject of our " diligent:Correspondent" was to show that the
whole tenor of Sir Henry Pottinger's correspondence
relative to Sinde was at variance with the letter published
in the Chronicle ; but, convincing as the extracts are,
that the letter is a forgery, they are still surpassed by
the remarks of our Contemporary. "Now the fact is,"
says the writer, "Noor Mahomed died in 1841. The
present, or late, Ameers were another generation," &c.
How, then, can Sir Henry Pottinger call them his "old
friends ?" In 1841 these were all dead men, the new
generation had begun to reign, and he, therefore, could
have no personal knowledge of them, or of the affairs of
Sinde; for in August of that year he was on the opposite
coast of Asia, at the distance of five thousand miles,
and was actively engaged in drawing up counter-procla-
mations to those of Lin, or Keshen, or Elepoo. His
opinion respecting events which occurred after his de-
parture, and when his old friends, the Ameers, were
dead, is no authority whatever. But, taking it for
granted that all but one of these friends survived
what becomes of this deliberate opinion recorded in his
dispatches—" It would be better at once to take posses-
sion of Sinde by force, than to leave it nominally with
the Ameers, and yet deal with it as though it were our
own ?" This act of taking possession by force is de-
scribed in the letter as " the most unprincipled and
disgraceful that has ever stamped the annals of our em-
pire in India," while the same authority, in published
dispatches, declares it " explicit and dignified," as com-
pared with the policy pursued under the government of
Lord AucKLAzip. The Chronicle may choose either of
the hulas.