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THE_SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 8, 1844.

INDIA AND CUINA

N.B.—The master, on his arrival at any foreign Fort,
where there shall be a British Consul or Vice-Consul,
shall deliver the agreement with his ship's crew, to such
Consul or Vice. Consul,. which shall be returned to him
before leaving the pOrt.—Friend of China and Hong-Kong
Gazette, Oct. 7 and 14, 1843.
PROCLAMATION.
Sir Henry Pottinger, Bart., G.C.8., her Britannic
Majesty's Plenipotentiary, &c., &c., in China, now makes
public, for the information and guidance of all her Ma-
jesty's subjects; the annexed abstract of the Supple-
mentary Treaty between her Majesty the Queen of
Great Britain and Ireland, &c., and his Majesty the
Efuperor of China, which was finally concluded, sealed,
and signed, at the city of Ifoo-mun Chai, on the Bth day
of October, 1843, by the said Plenipotentiary and his
Excellency. the Imperial Cominissioner Keying, &c.
His Majesty the Emperor of China having consented
to ratify. the Supplementary. Treaty, without waiting for
the previous ratification of her Majesty the Queen of
Great Britain and Ireland, &c., one of the originalcopies
(of which four were signed and sealed) has been for.
warded to Peking for that purpose, and will be trans-
mitted, with a espy of her Majesty the Queen's ratifica-
tion, to England, as soon as it is received back.
In the meantime, and until the Treaty shall be duly
ratified, exchanged, and published, her Britannic Ma-
jesty's Plenipotentiary, by this proclamation, enjoins
and requires all her Majesty's subject 4, by their alle-
giance and loyalty to their Sovereign, to be obedient to,
and guided by, the provisions of the said Treaty, as set
forth in the annexed abstract.

who was in Colonel Stoddart's service during his first captivity,
and afterwards in Captain Conolly's: This man was in confinement,
together with others of Captain Conolly's servants, including
Yeusoof, the Greek, in the Black Well, and confirms in many
particulars, the statement of Mahomed Suleh Akhoonzadeh.
formerly given in the Time's. He was liberated, and shortly
afterviards heard ;that Mahomed Suleh and Allandad Khan had
been put into the Well. About forty days after his libe.
ration he received orders from the officers to leave
Bokhara; and he went to Herat, where he was
seven months ill, and he then went to Meshed. He was told
at Herat by fool Mahomed, another servant of Captain Conolly,
who had been in the well with him, ,but who was released two or
three days after himself, that he, fool Mahomed, was in Bokhara
at the time it was declared that the officers had been put to death,
but that he had never seen any one who had witnessed their exe-
cution, which was said to have taken place in a small square near
the prison, which, however, was not much frequented. God Maho-
med said he took courage,and ventured to got the place of execution
about a week after the event. He examined it carefully, but
was unable to find any traces of blood, or of earth •recentlY dug,
nor were there any motinds like graves. For these reasons Gool
Mahomed thinks they were rot killed, and Rejib himself hopes
they are not dead, for the' Ameer, he says, has a practice of secretly
putting people Into prison, and of placing them under the charge of
one person, who Is certain to suffer death If he reveals their exist-
ence. He confined one of hii Viziers in this manner for five
years, whom he finally liberated.
An envoy from Bokhara had arrived in Teheran, but Colonel
Shcil had been unable, in consequence of the Shah and his Minis-
ters being out of town, to communicate with him before the depar.
ture of his messenger.
Sir S. Canning sends home by a messenger dispatched on the 3d
of January, a report from the British Vice-Consul at Trebizond,
dated December 11, stating that eight natives of Bokhara had
arrived there on a pilgrimage to Mecca, having left Bokhara
six months previously, and passed through Meshed, Teheran,
Tabreez, and Erzerum. These persons say that they left in
Bokhara an English " Miralai " (Colonel), who had been a resi-
dent there for three years, had become a Mussulman, and on doing
so had received from the Ameer the title of Khan and the situa-
tion of Chief of Artillery, and was named by the Ameer Abdul
Semmet Khan. He is a tall man, having a long dark beard,
and has with him a companion, a middle-sized man, with a
short light beard, who served Abdul Semmet Khan as secretary,
but they did not know if he had become a Mussulman. Both were
In the confidence and favour of the Ameer, and seemed to enjoy
freedom, more particularly the Colonel or Khan, who was admitted-
in the presence, and allowed to sit at the side of the Ameer. Both
lived in a large dwelling, or fort, allotted to them. This statement was
first made to the doctor of the quarantine; the British Vice-Consul
received the same account from four of the party, whom he
saw first ; but although the other four, who came in after.
wards, confirmed the statement respecting the English Colonel
cr Abdul Semmet Khan, they did not confirm that regard.
ing his secretary. They said the latter might be in Bokhara, but
they had not seen him, They had frequently seen the Colonel
and had received alms from him.

GOVERNMENT APPOINTMENTS.

His Excellency the Governor and Commander-in
Chief of Hong-Kong, &c., is pleased to make the follow
ing appointments _

llaTor Eldred Pottinger, C. 8., of the Bombay Artil-
lery, to be an Extra Aid-de-Camp on his Excellency's
personal Staff from the Ist of September, 1843.
Alexander Anderson. Esq., to be Colonial Surgeon of
Hong-Kong. from the Ist of October, 1843.
. .

Doctor Winchester will continue to act as Assisthnt
to the Colonial Surgeon until further orders.
These appointments are subject to the approbation
and confirmation of her Majesty's Government.
By order, RICHARD WOOSNAM.
Macao, Oct. 2, 1843.

HENRY POTTINGEE.
Dated at the Government House at Victoria (Hong.
Kong), this 18th day of October. 1843.
. God save the Queen.

THE ARMY. OF EXERCISE.
DIVISIONAL STAFF.

Artillerv.—Brigadier G. E. Gowan, Commanding; Captai,
J. H. M'Donald, Deputy-Assistant Adjutant-General ; and
Captain E. F. Day, Commissary of Ordnance.
Cavalry.—Major-General Sir J. Thackwell, K.C.B. and
K.H., Commanding; Lieutenant J. D. Cowell, 3d Light.
Dragoons, Aide-de-Camp; Captain E. J. Pratt, her Majesty's
16th 'Lancers, Deputy-Assistant Adjutant-General; and
Captain H. Clayton, 4th Light Cavalry, Deputy-Assistant-
Quartermas t er-Genera I.
Infantry, let. Division.—Major-General J. Grey, C.B. ;
Captain W. L. Tudor, Aide-de-Camp; Captain J. Guyon,
Deputy-Assistant Adjutant-General; and Captain J. Reid,
Assistant-Quartermaster-General.
2d Division.—Major-General T. Valiant, K.H. ,• Lieut.
Nelson, Aide-de-Camp ; Captain P. M'Kie, 3d Buffs, Deputy-
Assistant-Adjutant-General • and Lieutenant N. B. Cham-
berlain, 16th Grenadiers, Deputy-Assistant-Quartermaster-
General.
3d Division.—Major-General J. H. Littler; Captain P.
Harris, Aide-de-Camp; Captain H. M. Graves, 16th Grena-
diers, Deputy-Assistant-Adjutant-General ; and Lieutenant
E. Croker, her Majesty's 39th Foot, Deputy-Assistant-
Quartermaster-General.
BRIGADE STAFF.

Some of the companions of the above party reached Trebizond
on the 15th of December, and the quarantine doctor told the Bri.
tish Vice-Consul that they confirmed the statement of the others,
though they had no previous communication with them.
With respect to the foregoing statements from Trebizond,
it is to ►e observed that a person, named Abdool Samar Khan,
appears continually In the cor►espondence of the Foreign.
office, in connection with the officers. Colonel Stoddart's re.
lease from his first confinement was effected by the instru.
mentality of this_ person, and both of the officers lodged in
his house for a short time after Captain Conolly's arrival,
and Captain Conolly got from him a sum of nearly 1,6001.
(3,000 tillahs). Of this person Colonel Stoddart wrote, in
March, 1841, that he was a native of Aserbijan, and arrived
In Bokhara about• four years before; that he was :$7 years of
age, forty of which, on and off; he had been with the British,
having been drilled by them at Tabrees, and lived with them in
India ; that after his arrival he persuaded the Ameer to let him
drill the Persian slaves, and he had accordingly disciplined a large
body of them, with twelve guns, with a powdEr factory and a fur.
time for casting guns, &c.
_ _

Horse Artillery.—Brigadier E. Bidodulph ; Lieutenant E.
G. Austin, Major of Brigade..
Foot Artillery.—Brigadier J. Tennant; Captain A. Huish,
Major of Brigade.
Engineer Department.—Major E. J. Smith, Chief Engi-
neer ; Brevet Captain W. Abercrombie, and First Lieutenant
J. A. Weller Field Engineers.
Cavalry, Ist Brigade.—Brigadier A. Campbell, K.H., Cap-
tain Spottiswoode, 9th Lancers, Major of liirigade.
24 Brigade.—Brigadier D. Harriott ; Capt. G. A. Barbor,
Major of Brigade.
3d Brigade.—Brigadier C. R. Cureton ; Capt. R. Pattinson,
16th Lancers, Major of Brigade.
4th Brigade.—Brigadier J. Scott, C. 8., her Majesty's 9th
Lancers ; Capt. R. Cautley, 10th Cavalry, Major of Brigade.
Infantry, Ist Division, Ist Brigade.—Brigadier W. A.
Yates ; Captain C. Dickson,-51st Native Infantry, Major of
Brigade. -
•24 Brigade.—Brigadier R. BlaCkall ; Captain G. Dalston,
58th Native Infantry, Major of Brigade.
2d Division, 3d Brigade.—Brigadier G. Moore ; Captain T.
Young, 2d Native Infantry, Major of Brigade.
4th Brigade.Bragadier L. R. Stacy, C.B. ; Captain P.
Lunes, 14th Native Infantry, Major of Brigade.
3d Division, sth Brigade.—Brigadier T. Wright; Captain
Nixon, 39th Foot, Major ofißrig,ade.
6th Brigade.—Brigadier S. D. Riley Captain J. Hen-
nessy, 70th Native Infantry, Major of Brigade.

Colonel Shell calls this person the Chief of Artillery at
Bokhara, and he received a letter from him in June last,
dated March 24, 1843, in which he refers to the money ad.
vanced by him to Captain Conolly. He did not mention the
death of the officers in this letter, though he sent a manu-
script dated March, 1841, given to him as a keepsake by
Captain Conolly. Bnt after saying that the officers were
taken from his house on the breaking out of the insurrection at
Caubul, he goes on—" All my exertions in their favour were fruit-
less, and these were so strenuous that the Ameer began to enter-
tain suspicion of me, and treated me with harshness., As he who
contends with fate will injure himself, my efforts were fruitless."

BRITISH MERCHANTS AND PR,O
PERTY.AT MONTE VIDEO.

We have lately felt it our duty to direct public
attention to the cruel position in which the sangui-
. nary hostilities carried on by the forces of Buenos
Ayres, under the command of General Rosas, against
the Republic of the Uruguay, have placed numbers
of our countrymen, who are engaged in commercial
pursuits in the city of Monte Video. Our readers
have been apprised, in particular, of the formal decla-
rations made, and repeated assurances given, by our
Minister in the Plata, of the determination of her
Majesty's Government to afford all that necessary
protection " so justly due" to our countrymen in that
city, in answer to the pressing representations to Mr.
Mandeville personally, of the danger they must be
exposed to in the event of Rosas being permitted to
invade the territory of Monte Video. Ihis declara-
tion appears to have been nullified—these assurances
have been disgracefully violated, by the whole course of
subsequent events. Since the battle of Arroyo Grande,
the arms of the Argentine Confederation and its squa-
dron, under Rosas, have carried all the horrors of
war, the savage extermination of human life, and the
wanton destruction of property, through the territory
and to the very walls of Monte Video; burning and
pillaging every chattel, all merchandise, stores, &c., in
the remotest degree of Monte Video ownership, in
their ruinous operations. From the waste and pil-
lage thus perpetrated on the defenceless customers
and connexions of British merchants, who had sup-
plied them, in the usual manner, upon credit, British
property to the enormous amount of between one and
two millions of pounds sterling has been sacrificed ;
and many of our countrymen have thus been ruined.
The charges made in the following letter against
Mr. Mandeville, our Minister—(especially the insinua-
tion that he has thus receded from his public and
private assurances as to the trotecting aid of a Bri-
tish armament, out of a desire to maintain his own
friendly personal relations with Rosas)—are of too
grave a character, we apprehend, not to call for a
searching examination by the House of Commmons.
The whole of the case is succinctly stated by our Cor-
respondent, whose letter we subjoin, together with
its documentary disclosures :
Sza,—The reply (marked B.) of the Earl of
Aberdeen to a letter lately addressed to him by the
Liverpool Mexican and South American Association, is
only a repetition of the promises so often made by her
Majesty's Government, that protection should be afforded
to British interests in Monte Video. Now how stands
the case in reality, as between the British merchants
and the Executive ? If the public were once awakened
to a sense of the numerous losses sustained by the mer-
chants who trade to Monte Video, and if it can be proved
that they have been the victims of the unaccountable line
of conduct pursued by our Government, it is to be hoped
that investigation before Parliament will at least visit the
authors of all this loss with well-merited retribution.
The merchants of Monte Video charge our Foreign
Executive with havingpractised a wilful and cruel decep-
tion upon them ; with having paraded before them, in
the most unequivocal manner, a determination on the
part of our Government not to permit any invasion of
the Monte Videan territory by the army of Rosas ; with
having given them the strongest assurances, through the
British Minister in the Plate, Mr. Mandeville, both be-
fore and after the battle of the Arroyo Grande, that
Great Britain would not
_permit the invasion. These are
undeniable facts, attested by the British residents on the
spot, appealed to in the memorial to Mr. Mandeville, and
to this Government, and not attempted to be denied.
Were denial attempted, the official letter of Mr.
Mandeville to the Monte Video Government at the
time, confirms it in the most ample manner beyond
dispute, and in again handing you the copy of that
einister's letter to the Government of Buenos Ayres of
December 16 (the only one which has been made public,
and cannot be denied—marked A.) the British mer••
chants are prepared to produce further, and still stronger
proofs, from the official communications of Mr. Mande-
ville to the Monte Video Government, thathe did assure
that Government and the British public generally of
the firm resolve of her Majesty's Government to prevent
any invasion ; but no denial of these facts has been or
will be hazarded—they are too strongly recorded. The
fatal confidence into which our unfortunate countrymen
were lulled—the amount of property which they were
thus led to confide, as before, to their customers—the
sweeping loss of nearly all that property which they
were doomed to sustain—and their present perilous
position, both as to life and property—all this train of
evils has been caused, by whom ?—by the foreign
enemy? by some unexpected political or natural convul-
sion ? Quite the reverse. By the deliberate recorded
acts of our own Government, with full knowledge of
facts, and ample warning from the merchants here of
the approach of the political changes against which it
was necessary to guard. The amount of property thus
sacrificed is variously estimated, at from one to two mil-
lions sterling, involving the ruin of many parties. In
consequence of the previous assurances of probation
from the foreign Executive here, and in consequence of
Commodore Purvis having refused to permit the
blockade of the port by sea, the British mer-
chants here, even after the news of the siege
of Monte Video by the army of Rosas, still entertained
a hope that the apparently cruel indifference of Mr.
Mandeville to their situation, and the unaccountable in-
consistency of such desertion after his previous declara-
tions, would receive its merited condemnation at the

ands of our Government, and that an effectual though
:ardy protection would still save their friends at Monte
Video from further suffering. But to their grief and
surprise the reverse has proved to be the case; they
learn now that Mr. Mandeville is to be their only refuge,
that Commodore Purvis is to obey him, and, as a tit
commentary on such mode of protection, Mr. Mandeville
immediately announced his acknowledgment of the
blockade of Monte Video by Rosas' squadron, thus
giving all the assistance in his power to Rosas' force.
Such conduct on.the part of our Government seems
inexplicable; those who previously wished to ground
their exculpation on the blunder of Mr. Mandeville, now
find to their dismay that he acted by orders, and is sup-
ported in all he has done. Explanation—speedy, un-
equivocal explanation, is loudly demanded ; the mer-
chants of Monte Video appeal to their countrymen and
demand inquiry. Those who are inclined to find some
apology for our Government have endeavoured to sup-
pose that in the first instance Lord Aberdeen did in-
struct Mr. Mandeville to be prepared to interfere and
prevent any invasion by Rosas; that Mr. Mandeville
followed those instructions so far as entering a protest
in :his said letter of the 16th December, but shrunk
from actual coercion (although his force in the
river was ample on Commodore Purvis's arrival)
until further orders reached him. The inference

from his subsequent conduct is, that Lord Aberdeen
forgot, or neglected the matter. No decisive orders
were given, and Mr. Mandeville quietly saw his

threatening protest of the 16th December treated as so
much waste paper by Rosas, and it was only when the
news of the invasion being accomplished, and of his
Minister's threats being treated with contempt, reached
Lord Aberdeen, that he was recalled to a recollection of
the matter. The first impulse was to support Mr. Man-
deville's declaration and coerce Rosas; the second, to see
if the French Government would concur in this. An
immediate communication with that Government fol-
lowed, but M. Guizot declined to meddle; and then it
was that Lord Aberdeen, regardless alike, as it appears
to us, of the reflection upon our national character, by
thus abandoning the ground Mr. Mandeville had insisted
upon with Rosas ; of the fatal consequences which may
ensue from thus bullying a semi-barbarian without car•
rying out our threats; and of the loss and injury which
would be thus inflicted on the British merchants at
Monte Video, who had confided in the assurances of
their Minister, revoked his former instructions to Mr.
Mandeville, left that functionary to back out of his
hostile message of the 16th December in the best way he
could, and sacrificed the British interests at Monte
Video to the maintenance of friendly relations with
Rosas. It is a bitter irony when the deed is done, when
the British merchants have thus been made the victims
of their confidence in their own Governinent's assurances,
and seen their property confiscated by the ruin of their
debtors in the sweeping destruction of the army of
Rosas, to now have the assurance again made to them
that "British subjects and interests will have all the
protection to which they are so justly entitled by that
neutrality which her Majesty's 'Government have pro-
posed and enjoined."
It is worse than irony however, it is opposed to the
fact,; for who that reads Mr. Manoeville's letter to
Rosas, of the 16th Dec., will, for one moment hesitate
to put the same interpretation upon it which the Govern-
ment of Monte Video and the British merchants did,
confirmed as this interpretation was by Mr. Mandeville's
verbal assurances to the merchants, and by his official
communication to the Monte Videan Government,
copies of which are forthcoming to prove it—namely,
that Great Britain would cover Rosas, prevent the.
invasion, and save Monte Video.

We leave Lord Aberdeen in this dilemma; but trust
that he may be required, at an early day in the pre-
sent session, to reconcile suds conduct with hone •ty or
sound policy.
ONE OF THE MONTE VIDEAN MERCHANTS.

(A.)
BUENOS AYRES, DEC. 16, 1842.
In conformity with the instructions which he has re-
ceived from his Government, the intentions of the Go-
vernments of Groat Britain and France being to adopt
' such measures as may be considered necessary for bring-
ing the hostilities between the Republics of Buenos
Ayres and Monte Video to a close, the undersigned
Minister Plenipotentiary of her Britannic Majesty to the
Argentine Confederation, has the honour to represent
to his Excellency M. Arana, Minister for Foreign
Affairs of the Government of Buenos Ayres, that the
sanguinary warfare at present carried on between the
Governments of Buenos Ayres and Monte Video must
cease, and, for the interests of humanity and of British
and French subjects and other foreigners established in
the country which is now the seat of war, he requires of
the Buenos Ayrean Government :

Ist. An immediate cessation of hostilities between the
Argentine troops and those of the Republic of the
Uruguay.
2d. That the troops of the Argentine Confederation
—it being understood that those of the Republic of the
Uruguay shall adopt the same course—shall remain
within their respective territories, and withdraw to them
should they have passed their frontier.
The undersigned begs that his Excellency will ac-
quaint him, as soon as he conveniently can, if the inten-
tions of the Buenos Ayrean Government are to accede
to these two requests, and has the honour, &c., &c.
(Signed) J. H. MANDEVILLE.
(B.)
FOREIGN OFFICE, JAN. 8, 1844.
GENTLEMEN,—I am directed by the Earl of Aberdeen
to•acknowledge the receipt of your letter, of the Ist
December last, relative to the lamentable state of
affairs in the Rio de la Plata, and I am to assure you
that her Maje Sty's Government have given such in-
structions to the British authorities in that quarter as
they believe and trust will insure to British subjects
and interests all the protection to which they are so
justly entitled, in consequence of that neutrality be-
tween the contending parties which her Majesty's
Government have professed and enjoined.—l am, Gen-
tlemen, your most obedient, humble servant,
(Signed) CANNING.
To the Mexican and South Australian Association,
Liverpool.

CULTURE OF LAND FOR WHEAT.
When land is ploughed only to the depth of three
or four inches, the active soil is so very limited that
the least change in the weather is injurious to the
plants growing on it. The manure which is always
applied to the wheat crop under this system of shal-
low ploughing forms a layer near the surface ; the
roots of the plant ramify only through the furrow-
slice in which the dung is placed, and consequently
the plant has but little hold of the ground. It is
thus, in severe weather in spring, the plant gets
" thrown out," 'as it is termed, by the frost. The
roots having spread out horizontally, near the surface,
are easily exposed to the weather, and, whether it be
mild or frosty, dry or damp, are entirely under its
influence: in a dry season, the shallow soil and the
manure in it become parched and inactive; in wet
weather, the roots having but little hold of the ground,
a soaking rain and a little wind loosen the plant, and
it is blown out. Wheat sown on a deeply-cultivated
soil, exerts the whole of its energy, at first in the pro-
duction of roots. These strike deeply in the soil,
filling the whole of it with their minute fibres. The
plants may appear thin during winter and in spring
—those which turn out the best crops often have this
appearance then—but whenever genial weather comes,
the organs of the leaf being highly excited, are pre-
pared for vigorous and luxuriant growth; and a wide
field having been laid under contribution for the pur-
pose, the roots easily provide the nourishment required
to support them under it. If a plant in such a con-
dition be pulled up—if the soil be pulled up, it will
be found to have sent out its roots as minute fibres,
18 or 20 inches from it in all directions ; it is evident
' that no variations of weather can affect it, situated
thus ; it draws its nourishment from sources be-
yond the influence of the variableness of external
agents.
Thus deep cultivation, by encouraging depth
of rooting, indirectly effects for the plant a com-
parative independence of the weather; but it has
a direct influence in the same direction, for, if the
weather be wet a great depth of soil readily absorbs
the water, and conveys it down to the drains ; and, if
it be dry, it retains for a longer time a sufficiency of
moisture. Of two crops of corn, equally luxuriant
in their growth, that is not so liable to lodge which
is grown on the deeper soil, for its growth has been
more gradual and natural, and less the result of
artificial excitement. The manure in the shallow
soil has not had its rankness rectified by mixture
with a great mass of earth, and wheat grown upon
it will spring up rapidly, but without rigitity ; and
though it may at one stage of its growth look more
luxuriantly, it will at another yield less abundantly
than a neighbouring crop which has throughout
grown slower, and generally promised less. Of
course it must be understood that deep cultivation
can be safely entered upon only on soils that are
naturally or artificially dry. And now a few words as
to the depth at which wheat ought to be planted. We
think this has not yet been satisfactorily determined.
Nature ought to be our guide in things of nature ;
she always drops her seed on the surface; and when
it is necessary that any particular seed should get
deeper than its natural gravitation would enable it,
she provides them with means for the purpose. Thus
the barley and wild oat have awns, or beards, by
which every motion of the seed pushes it forward;
such a seed, lying on the ground, assisted by the
wind, very soon wriggles itself beneath the surface.
We think, therefore, that the nearer the surface a
seed is planted the better, provided it be placed deep
enough to protect it from its enemies, the birds, &c.
This conclusion at which we arrive is strengthened
in reference to wheat by another circumstance; for, if
a wheat-plant be observed in spring, it will be seen
that at whatever depth the seed was originally planted,
the lateral roots which it has sent out to supply it with
nourishment are always sent out from it at a point not
far below the surface, certainly not more than one inch
below it. Agricultural Gazette.

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formation. The festival was most numerously attended, and
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