The Sun.
London, England, 1850-03-30 00:00:00

1850.

The following is the House List of Governors and
Directors of the Bank of Eng!and for the year ensuing:—

rot.: 601'2113(01M
Henry James Prescott, Esq., Governor.
Thomson Hankey, jun., Esq., Deputy-Governor.
FOR DIRECTORS.
Henry Hulse Berens, Esq. lAlfred Latham, Esq.
Arthur Edwd. Campbell, Esq Jame Malcol -m, Le

nla, imson,
James Morris, Esq.
Sheffield Neave, Esq.
George Warde Norman. Esq.
John Horsley Palmer, Esq.
Sir John Henry l'eiiy, Bart.
Willism Thompson, Esq. Ald.
Thomas Tooke, jun. Esq.
*Robert Wigram Crawford,
L.
*Benjamin Buck Greene,Esq

_tailor }Amu.
Edward llenryChapman,Esq,
William Cotton, Esq.
Ilonamy Dobree, Esq.
Charles Pascoe Grenfell, Esq.
John Oliver Hanson, Esq.
John Benjamin Ileath,'Esq.
Kirkman Daniel Hodgson,Esq.
Henry Lancelot Holland, Esq.
John Gellibrand Hubbard, Esq.
Thomas Newman Hunt, Esq.
Charles Frederick Huth, Esq..
N.B.—The gentlemen against whose names an asterisk is
placed, are new candidates for the direction. The election
for Governor and Deputy-Government will be held at the
Bank, on Tuesday the 9th April, and for Directors on Wed-
nesday the 10th April, from ten o'clock in the forenoon till
four in the afternoon.

AN EXIMPLARY FowL.—Yesterday a gentleman
residing in this neighbourhood sent to our office for inspec-
tion an egg, which, in point of size, might properly be held
up as an example worthy the imitation of all the hens in
the country, and possibly might stimulate them to greater
productiveness. It weighs close upon three ounces and a
half avourdupois ! (An extraordinary egg weighs two ounces.)
Its dimensions are six inches and a half round the centre,
and two inches and three quarters in length. This monster
egg was laid by a black Spanish fowl, and the owner in-
forms us that the hen has this season laid several other eggs
fully as large as this, if not larger. This, we submit, is one
of the advantageous results of the cheapening of barley
which the most imaginative corn-law repealer over antici-
patedo—Shefe/d Times,

MAJOR HERBERT EDWARDES.
(From Bentley's Miscellany for March.)
Deeds of adventurous daring aro of no unusual occur-
rence ; and had Major Edwardes cola- distinguished
himself as a gallant soldier, it is probable that the artist
and the engraver would nut have been called upon to
furnish hie portrait, and that we should not have been
re quired to supply a notice of his life. Fortune favours
the brave ; but only the brave who are resolved to ex-
tort a smile from her. The man who, at the age of
twenty -eight, in a subordinate capacity, planned and ex-
ecuted a series of brilliart operations which suggested
the siege of Moultan, and resulted in the subjugation of
the Punjaub, is a hero whom a Clive would lave de-
lighted to honour, as a Wellington has been prompt to
applaud. A portrait of such a man, and a notice of him,
however brie, cannot but be interesting to our readers.
Herbert Edwardes, the sole survivor ef three brothers,
is the son of the lave Rev. Benjamin Ede ardes, Rector
cif Frodealey, iu Salop, and is descended from no old
Welsh family. Losing both parents while yet very
young, he was brought up by a near relative, John Tho-
mas (lope, Erq., of Nedra', in his native county. Ms
education was begun under the Rev. Charles Dehefosse,
or Richmond. Surrey, and completed at King's College,
London, of which institution (degree's then not being
obteinalile) he became an associate.
Despairing of tusking his way in England, ho solicited
and obtained from Sir Richard Jenkins, Bar., G.C.8.,
an appointment to India, at a period of life much ',ter
than is usual, tar he came of ago on his vos age out, an
event which was not celebrated by a devoted tenantry,
and which ruffled nut the leaves of the ponderous books
in Threadneedle-street. His fellow-passengers in the
Wishner Castle have since recalled, that (to relieve the
tedium of the so)ege) ho edited a weekly ship news-
paper called the ;Fulmer Gazette, and that for twelve
weeks (Mirabile dicta !) he conducted that journal with•
out offence.
Ile landed at Calcutta on the 29th January, 1841, and
was shortly afters ards attached to the Ist Bengal lure-
peen regiment, then just returned from the first Affghan
war, joining it at the close of the year at Kurnal, en the
north-west frontier.
Our young hero now began to study the native lan-
guages and Anglo-Indian history; and soon attracted
notice by a series; of monthy letters on political subjects,
in the Delhi Gazette, to which he affixed the signature
of Brahminse Bull. These were variously attributed to
several old civilians in the Bengal presidency ; but
the real author (after preserving his incognito for two
years) was at length discovered; and in November,
1845, he was selected by Sir Hugh (now Lord) Gough
to be an aide-de-camp on his personal staff. In the
same month he passed an interpreter's examination in
three native languages.
At this time the first Siekh war broke out, and Lieu-
tenant Edwardes sustained a severe wound in the thigh
at the battle of Moodkee, while carrying Sir Hugh
Gough's orders. During the second battle (Ferozshuhr)
he was lying with the wounded in Moodkee fort; but he
was sufficiently recovered to bake part in tho battle of
Sobraon, which closed the ca:-Tooign.
He now accompanied Sir Hugh Gough to Lahore,
and in March, 1846, was recommended by the gallant
veteran to the notice of Sir Henry Harding°, the then
Governor-General, who placed him on the new political
staff formed at Lahore under Sir Henry Lawrence,
whose private secretary ho became, remaining with him
until 1848, when the declining health of that distin-
guieed diplomatist compelled him to return home.
Shortly after Lieutenant Edward's received his new
appointment, he received a wound in his head while as-
sisting Sir Henry Lawrence to put down a religious tu-
mult in the city of Lahore. A month afterwards be
assisted at the siege of Kote Kangra (the Rajke Kote of
Lawrence's Adventurer in the Punjaub). In September,
1846, he was selected to relieve Major Macgregor, C. 8.,
in the important charge of the city of Lahore; but he
'had scarcely reached that capital when (the revolt of
Seikh Emamooden breaking out in Cashmere) he was
ordered to proceed to Jummoo, and rouse Mcharaja
Gholab Singh, to the assertion of the rights which had
been ceded to him by the British Government.
To effect this, Lieutenant Edwardes opened negotia-
tions with the Seikh himself, whom he induced to deliver
up the secret orders to rebel which he had received from
Raja Lal Singh, the paramour of the Ranee. On this,
the Seikh was permitted by Sir Henry Lawrence to
surrender, and giving himself up to Lieutenant
Edwardes at the foot of the Cashmere hills, he was by
that officer conducted to Lahore. On the evidence of
the papers thus obtained, the Raja Lal Singh was
brought to trial under the walls Of Lahore, was deposed
from the Ministry, and banished to Hindustan. •
While the new treaty of Lahore, December, 1846,
was being ratified at Byrowal, Lieutenant E twardes
was left in the sole political charge of Lahore; and for
his exertions in appeasing a second religious tumult as
the festival of the Mohurrum, he received the thanks of
the Court of Directors of the East India Company.
In February, 1847, he was deputed, in command of a
Seikh army, to make an amicable financial settlement of
Bunnoo, an Affghan valley west c f the Indus. Failing
in this—as Itueleet Singh had failed for a quarter of a
century—he projected and proposed to the resident ar
Lahore the plan of a regular military reduction and oc-
cupation of the valley, offering to conduct the cape dition.
This plan, recommended by the Resident and approved
by Sir Henry Hardiege, was at once carried out. • Lieut.
Edwardes, iu December, 1847, was dispatched with five
thousand men and two troops of horse artidery;
and in the brief space of two months to levelled
the walls of four hundred fortified villages, built a strong
fortress in their st. ad, and run a military ri ad through
the heart of rl o valley, by thePe means entirely subju-
gating it. While effecting this, his life was take a.-
tempted by certain patriots of Emilio°, who sought to
assassinate him in his tent. Oa the second occasion h,
only ascarel b) shooting the assassin with his own hand.
The reduction of Bunnoo was barely accomplished whets
die Moultan rebellion broke ow.
We have recorded several important servir es which
Lieutenant Edwardes was enabled to render to his coun-
try while yet a very young man; we have new- to tell
of those transactions upon which his 'mule for the pre-
sent rests.
In March, 1847, a treaty had been concluded, by
means of which the Governor-General (Lord Ilardinge)
had undertaken that the Punjaub should be managed
during the minority of Maharajah Dulcep Singh. Ile
engaged to control the civil internal administration of
the country, and to maintain tranquillity within, as well
as to provide for its external security; and this he en-
gaged to do at theespecial instance of the Siekh Surdars.
The consequence of this arrangement was that a peace en-
sued in the Punjaub to which it had long boon a stranger.
But in April, la4B, occurred the treacherous murder at
Moultan of Mr. Vans Agnew and Lieutenant Anderson,
young men of great promise, and who had already dis-
tinguished themselves. This event gave rise to cotnino-
tions in Moulton, which speedily spri ad into other pro-
vinces, and resulted in a general insurrection of the
Punjaub.
Wee!' the Governor-General, the Earl of Dalhousie,
became convinced that it was hopeless to expect that the
commotion at Moultan would die away, by the submis-
sion of the Dewan Moolraj, the chieftain commanding
at Moultan, or that it could be extinguished by the
force applied to put down the rebellion, he prepared to
enter into a vigorous war.
At this tune Lieutenant Edwardes, recently appointed
assistant ire the management of the country in the neigh-
bourhood of Moultan, and having at his disposal a single
native regiment only, conceived the design of driving t' e
rebel Moolraj into his f rtresr', and rescuing the whole
of the country round Moultan from his grasp. Ile effected
this, and he achieved it without the assistance of a single
European soldier. Such was his character, such the
confidence he inspired amongst the natives, such the
means that he used, and such the revenue he raised at
the moment, in the very country he was rescuing from
the treacherous Moolraj, that he was enabled to raise all
the mountain tribes, to discipline these raw levies, and
to drive back that chieftain into the very walls e f the
fortress from whose citadel he oppressed the surrounding
country. It was on the 18th of June, 1848, tint lie
gained his first victory, and took eight out of ten guns
which the rebels brought into the field; and on the Ist
of July, having been joined by the troops of the Newaub
of Bhewalpore under Lieutenant Lake, he fought a se-
cond battle, and again completely routed the array 01
the Moolraj, capturing two more guns. It was during
these operations that lie lost the use of his 1.04 hand,
by the explosion of a pistol in his belt while arming for
a fight. In these Lattlos Lieutenant Edwardes inspired
confidence among the troops by his exertions. and by
his uniform ability commanded the affections and the
respect of the natives who followed in his army.
Although, in the first instance, the Governor-General
of India and the Commander-in-Chiet considered that
the season would net admit of the march of European
troops, yet in consequence of the great efforts that had
been made by Lieutenant Edwardes and Lieutenant Lake,
it was thought advisable by Sir F. Currie, the resident
at Lahore, to dispatch: a forte amounting to about seven
thousand men of all arms under Major-General Whish,
from Lahore to Moultan. We have all read of Whisk's
attack on and capture of Moultan, which formed so
bright a page in the subjugation of the Punjaub.
No sooner were these brilliant operations of Lieu-
tenant Edwardes known in this country, than the Ge-
vernment recommended him to her Majesty as an officer
well worthy of immediate distinction; rewatda of what-
ever nature not being usually bestowed until the ter-
mination of a war. The Queen at once conferred upon
the young hero the local rank of Major, and made him
a Companion of the Bath. The Court of Proprietors,
following the illustrious example, voted him a old medal,
the execution of which was entrusted to Mr. \Vyon, and
which will soon be ready for presentation.
On the vote of thanks in the House of Lords to the
Earl of Dalhousie, the Governor-General ; to Lord
Gough, the Commander-in-Chief; and to other distin-
guished officers, the Marquis of Lansdowne specially
referred to Major Edwards, and gave a glowing descrip-
tion of his exploits.
Viscount Llardinge " agreed in what had been said by
the Noble Nlarquis with regard to Major Edward's.
He had been in communication with him while in India,
and had found him to he a most sensible, intelligent, and
clever young man. In a letter which he had received
from him, he stated that ho was most anxious that the
comrades who participated with him in his services
should also be associated with him in his praise, par-
ticularly Lieutenant Lake and Lieutenant Pollard, late
is student in the Kine's, College, and Lieutenalit Nichol.
son and other officers who had distinguished-tiwinselves."
And the Duke of Wellington said, " I entirely Concur
in the approbation which the Noble Marquis has ex-
pressed of the conduct of Major Edwardes and other
officers in the course of these actions. They have im-
mortalized themselves ly their conduct. It is impos-
sible to speak too highly' of Major Edwardes cu d
the other gentlemen who Lave been engaged in these
services.
After such praise as this, what more is to be said?
Major Edwardes reached England with his old com-
mander, Lord Gough, a few weeks since, and is now re-
siding in his native country to recruit his health and
strength, offer a nine years' set vice in India, larked by

the performance of deeds which it has fallen t) the lot 01
very few At such an age to achieve.

RAILWA Y RETURNS
it.ulm ♦T TEATTIC.—The following are the Total Receipts of Ran.
ways for the past week—that Is to say, up to the date to which tin
respective returns are made, together with the receipts of the semi
we.k in the previouti Ye. r

"I-
t 9
Week
Last f
ending =LAME OF RAILWAY. We4k. r =
0q
G.) -,
Mill=1•••• , .1••••=..................
••••.........., ...............1
Mar. 23 Aberdeen
... ...... ... •••••• .. ..... 9 g di
37 4311 Atliens and Boulogne ....• ••••• • • • • - ion
23 Belfast and Ballymena 590 • •
24 Birkenhead, Lancashlre, and Cheshire 816 800
24 Bolton, :Ilack burn, Cli theroe, and W. Y. 489 372
24 Brittol and Exeter ............ • ..... 3,155 -
17 Cale donian.. ..... ...... .... •• • • ...• 6,291 4,883
24 Chen ter and Holyhead ... ... .......... 1,453 • 1.210 21 Dub/ tn and Drogheda.. .... •
......... 920 , 744
26 Dubl. n and Kingstown •• • • .......... 0t46
017
21 23 Dundee, Perth, and Aberdeen •. • • • • 1,030 1,017
21 East Anglian
~
t 07 622
23 Edinburgh and'Glasgore . ... ........
23 Edinburgh and Perth •••.• • • • • • 3.034 3,501
• • 2, 116 1,014
24 Eroteri i Counties and North Eastern.. 14,379 12,668
24 East Li meashire ••• • . ..... .......• •• 2,1•09 j,ygg
24 Eastern Union"... •..••• • .. • • ,a•• •• 1.808 1,150
23 Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and Ayr •••••• 2,761 2,868
2.1 Glaegow and Greenock• ....••• . • • •• 1,032 952
17 Great Northern and E. L.......• • • 3,090 1,03
23 Great Southern and Western .. .• •• .. 4,149 24 Great Western, ke
1
24 Laricashive and Yorkshire...... •• • ... 11,170
118,6:r77
09
17 Lancaster and Carlisle.. •. • • ...• •• • • 3,171 2,033
- Leeds and Thirsk .. .. ••..•••• • • . • • • - ' -
24 Liverpool, Crosby, and Southport• •.• 96
2a Londonderry ant Enniskiilezi •••• ... 84. 140 143
21 London and North Western, &c...... 41,609 , 37141 24 London and 81ackwa11.......... •• • • 604 ,
417
23 Louden Red Brighton .... ..... ...... 7694 7,416
24 London nod South Western....... • • 8,,43s 8,495
- Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire - 3,374
24 Midland, Bristol, and Birmingham.... 20,106 20,384
24 Midland Great Western (Irish) .... • • 1,012 1,072
23 Monklands
.. 791 736
`l4 North British ••..•••••••.• •• • • • • • • • • • 3,075 2,613
23 Paris and Rotten .
23 Rouen and Havre ..••••. • • • • • • • .... 2,080 2 3;5
24 Scottish Central • ...... ....... .. .. . • 1,251 963
28 Scottish Midland • • ....
24 Shrewsbury and Chester ••••.• • • • • .. 1,343
.1,403
24 Shropshire Union .. - .............. 446
23 South Eastern and Branches ........ 8,592 6;870
17 South Devon ........ . • ..... ... 1,707 1 415
'l3 Taff Yale .•.••.••-.. • • • • • • • • ,
.• • ... 224 Ulster ...,000
801 683
- Waterford and Limerick.......... - -
17 Whitehaven Junction ... •••••• • • .• • . 201 174
- York and Newcastle .•••••••• • • .• .. - 11,336
24 York aad North Midland. •• •• - •••• 6,793 6,557

COURT CIRCULAR.
NSOR, Fitm.ar.
Her Majesty and his Royal Highsss Prince Albert
took their usual morning walk.
The Royal Family took their walking exercis•
in the Slopes and Windsor Park.
The Queen and his Royal Highness Prince Albert,
the ladies and gentlemen of the Court, and the do-
mestic household, attended Divine service in the
private chapel of the Castle.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent also
attended the service.

The Hon. and Re.. Gerald Wellesley officiated and
administered the Holy Communion.
There is no addition to the royal dinner party this
evening.

The Earl of Carlisle left town on Thursday, for his
seat, Naworth Castle, Cumberland.
Dispatches from the Governors of Ceylon and New
South Wales were received at the Colonial-office on
Thursday.

GREAT CIRCLE SAILING.
Mr. Towson has the merit of introducing in navi-
gation a new feature, of such obvious truth and de-
cided advantage that it is only surprising that navi-
gators have waited till this time of day to adopt so
self-evident a fact. The importance of the principle
appears to us to be so great that we think it will be
interesting to our scientific readers to quote in our
columns a short popular account thereof:—" The un-
precedented short voyage made by the Constance has
been acknowledged to have arisen from the applica-
tion of a simple scientific principle to navigation, by
which a month has been saved from the average time
occupied by modern voyages. There is nothing
visionary or abstract in the principle on which this iii-
provement is founded ; but it is one that has obtained
the universal consent of civilised mankind—that this
earth is a globe. But as a practical principle this fact
has been too much disregarded by the mariner. His
chart is a plane, and by it he has been accustomed to
navigate the ocean, and we can scarcely persuade him
that the portions of distant lands are otherwise than
they appear on the chart. This error was of little
importance whilst the Mediterranean sea was the
principal seat of commerce, and the transit of the At-
lantic Ocean was an event of rare occurrence. Then
it was that Mercator's chart was received from the
hand of its inventor as a most acceptable boon to the
navigator. But now a very different order of cir-
cumstance exists. The members of the same British
family are antipoded to each other, and the chart of
half the earth's circumference is more frequently em-
ployed than that of the Atlantic had been a few score
years since. Under these circumstances, the Alerea-
tor's chart has become inadequate to meet all the
requirette-nts of the navigator. Ile is now called on
by the men of science to regard the earth's true
form, and when he undertakes voyages to distant
lands to take into consideration the circumstance that
the chart is an artificial contrivance, which in many
instances may lead him to false conclusions. To
avoid the erroneous conclusions drawn from Merca-
tor's chart, we would re fer the mariner to a work
published by the British Admiralty two years
since, entitled " 'Tables to Facilitate the Practice of
Great Circle Sailing," constructed by Mr. John Tow-
son. We do this with greater confidence, since by
its aid the Constance emigrant ship has shortened her
voyage at least a month. But he will undervalue
these Nbles if he imagines it will only enable him to
follow Captain Godfrey in his track to Australis,
which route his late voyage has demonstrated to be
the best practicable track. It is serviceable in all
cases of voyages to regions situated at a great dis-
tance east or west of each other, both in shaping his
track, and in choosing his tack when unfavourable
winds prevail, for we are convinced that errors in both
these particulars are of daily occurrence, arising from
his disregarding the globular formation of the earth
The track pursued by the Constance is denominated
by the author of the work alluded to, " Composite
Great Circle Sailing," and is usefully employed when
the great circle route would lead to impfacticable la-
titudes. In the southern oceans it is. peculiarly
applicable, since in Captain Godfrey's maximum
latitudes, 50 deg., favourable winds continually prevail
for going out by the Cape and coming home by the
Horn. To Australia 900 miles is also saved, and in
a voyage to New Zealand 100 miles more. Beside,
this advantage, the region of storms is avoided.
Around the Cape of Good Hope is the only track in
which storms prevail which an emigrant ship has to
pass after she has crossed the tropic of Capricorn. In
future voyages the mariner, by following Captain
Godfrey's track, will, to use a sea term, " give the
Cape a wide berth ;" so that we may anticipate that
voyages on Captain Godfrey's track will not only be
completed in a shorter period than previously, but
that this improvement in navigation will confer the
additional advantage of a greater degree of safety
from wreck. We are assured by scientific men who
are peculiarly qualified to give an opinion on this
question, that the system of great circle sailing offers
immense advantages ; and we find America and se-
veral continental states are already adopting Mr.
Towson's tables.—Athemeum.

FOREIGN POTATOES.—The vessel Pearl, which has
just arrived from St. Michael's with a cargo of orangeA, has
brought a quantity of new potatoes, the growth of that
southern district.
VERY BAD INDEED.—An exchange paper says--
" The girls in some parts of Pennsylrania are eo hard up for
husbands, that they take up with printers and lawyers. '—
Canadian paper.

" Massa, Dandy Sam made comblunderum !"
" Well, what is it?"—" Pose I shoot bullet troo deal board
wid him pistol, what else I make beside round hole?"—" Gib
him up ?"—" Why I make a riddle."
Trim CHOLERA IN LoNpos.—The Board of
Health have published a neat diagram, on card, showing
the deaths from cholera in the sixty weeks ending the 24th
of November, 1849, to every 10,000 inhabitants in each dis-
trict of London, and the annual mortality from all causes,
eoafehthdeisdtirsictrti,ctatheaboavveeragtbee
elevationthew a ter
of
Trinity liigh-water mark; also the density of the popu-
lation, the average annual value of houses, and the amount
companies
themp inhabitednies sup supplying
partsing
paid for the relief of the poor. From this table it ap-
; ears that the inhabitants of the north side of the
Thames are at an average elevation of M feet- above
the high water • mark, while the density of the popula-
tion is in the proportion of 52 to an acre and 8 to a house,
the houses averaging the annual value of 461. The weer is
supplied chiefly from the Thames above Battersea, from' the
New River, and the Lea. The inhabitants of the south side
of the Thames are on an average only 5 feet above Trinity
high-water mark ; and as regards density, in the proportion
of 14 to as acre and 6 to a house, the houses averaging 251.
in annual value. The money expended in the relief of the
poor by the inhabitants of the not th side was I s. in the pound,
by those of the south side Is. 6d. in the pound house-rent.
'filo water is chiefly from the Thames below Battersea and
the Ravensbourne. The general mortality did not differ
much on the north aria south sides of the river; it was 251
annually in 10,000 inhabitants of the north; 257 in 10,000
inhabitants of the south side of the Thames. The density is
less in the Surrey districts of London, which have onty.this
great advantage over their northern neighbours. The mor-
tality from the cholera was very different. It was 44 on the
north, and 127 on the south side of the Thames, in 10,000
-inhabitants. It also appears that the value of houses de-
creases very regularly in the bands of districts proceeding
• eastward from blaryiebone, Hanover-square, and St. Mar-
tu Bethnal-green. Thus, the average value
of houses is, in Hanover-square 1531., St. James 1281., St.
Giles 601., Holborn 521., Clerkenwell 33/., St. Luke 2.84
Shoreditch 201., Bethnal-green 9.

Politeness of the heart consists in an habitual bene-
volence, and an absence of selfishness in our intercourse witk
society of all classes.—Eliza Cook's Journal.

John Stitt, captain of the smack Earl Grey, of
Wigton, was drowned off the Bell Buoy on the 15th, •
steamer having run foul of his vessel whilst she was lying
at anchor.

The Chancellor of the county of Durham, b3ra Ist.
docision, declared that odd-feUoire' lodges are illegal.