The Sun.
London, England, 1845-02-01 00:00:00

MARSEILLES, JAN. 25.

The subscription for the railroad from Marseilles to
Toulon closes to-day. Nearly double the amount re-
quired was signed for yesterday ; the bankers, Messrs.
Roux de Frais,,inet, agents for Messrs. Rothschild, have
names for more than 7,0u0,000f. Notwithstanding the
commerce of Marseilles has come forward with such
promptitude, we much doubt that they will be able to
carry out their project : they demand from the Govern-
ment a gift of 20,000,000 f. We would advise the Eng-
lish Company not to be discouraged, they stand a bet er
chance than the timid bankers and merchants of the
south.

Our markets have bee❑ rather animated during the
past week. Although we had only one arrival of
sugars-namely, the Jeune Clodie, from Guadeloupe,
with 214 !Aids., the sales have been rather considerable ;
144 hhds. Cayenne found ready buyers at 34f. in bond ;
some Martinique, in small lots, fetched the same price ;
3,500 bales Bonds were disposed of at 63f., du-
ties paid, and a small discount. The cargo of the
Syrius, noticed in my last, was realised at 3,000
bales, for home consumption, at 631. the cwt.. and 800
bales at 62f. By the Baptiste, from Jacmel (Haiti), we
received 2,330 sacks of coffee ; little doing in this article,
and the only sales were 140 sacks Rio, in two lots, at
40f. the cwt.; 50 sacks ditto, at 42f. ; and 460 sacks St.
Domingo, price unknown. Cottons more brisk ; 476
bales American T. 0. fetched 58f. 20c. ; 50 bales Lou-
siana T. 0., 57f. ; 30 bales ditto 0., 67f, 30c. ; 57 bales
Georgia, T. 0., 55f., and 10 bales Cassabar, 8.0., 70f. ;
by public auction, 311 bales Naplouze fetched from 46f.
50c. to 50f. 50c. Silks maintained good prices ; 25 bales
Persian fetched 16f. 50c. and 18f. 50c. ; 57 bales Cas-
travan, 14f. and 15f. ; 14 bales Salonique, 23f. and 29f. ;
8 bales Scelli, 23f. and 25f. ; 3 bales Payemboul, 15f. ;
9 bales Broussa, G.G., 17f. 25c. and 20c. ; 4 bales ditto,
P.G.,20f. 50c. and 21c. ; and 6 bales Antioch, 13f.
Wools have been in demand : 103 bales Adrianople, fine
new, sold at 130 f. per cwt. ; 138 bales ditto, second qua-
lity, at 100 f. ; 265 bales Volo, at 85f. ; 94 bales of P
hides white Constantinople, 64f. ; 22 ditto, grey, 36f. ;
and 36 bales grey Crimea, at 35f. No change in corn ;
1,7000 hectolitres Polish were disposed of for home
consumption at 20f. and 21f. 25c. Bills on London in
demand at 25f. 55c. ; piastres, sf. 44c. ; quadruples,
84f. 25c.

THE INDIAN ARMY IN DANGER.

(From the Atlas.)
The more the case of the 6th Light Cavalry is con-
sidered, the more inexcusable must the execution of the
two sepoys appear. Had those unfortunate troopers
been tried nine months earlier than they were—had
they been found guilty at Jubbulpoor in December, in-
stead of at Arcot in October, even then death would
have been a punishment unjustifiably severe, and their
execution calculated to produce dissatisfaction through-
out the whole Madras army. For it is impossible to
get rid of the ugly and exceedingly discreditable fact,
that the order depriving the regiment of field allowance
(which order produced the mutiny), was illegally issued.
Thus, then, the regiment, in its original complaint, was
wholly in the right ; those in authority entirely in the
wrong. But to permit a delay of nine months between
the offence and its investigation, and to allow, interme-
diately, the whole regiment, mutineers and all, to do
duty as if nothing had occurred, and then to shoot like
dogs two offenders, is an affair so horrible—a proceed-
ing so wholly incompatible with justice—an offence so
flagrant against humanity, that the man who could per-
petrate it is wholly unfit for subordinate command, and
superior command in his hands must endanger the
fidelity of the army confided to his custody. However
much, then, concealment may be, and we know is, de-
sir,d, Parliament cannot allow such conduct to pass by
uninvestigated and uncensured.
Inquiry into it by Parliament is the more necessary
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The Madras sepoy is generally accustomed to carry
with him his wife and family ; and the 6th Light Ca-
valry was so accompanied at liamptt. When the orders
to join the army of observation were made known, the
sepoys of that regiment resolved not to take their wives
and families further out of the Aladras Presidency-, but
to return them to Arcot. And nut only were they re•
fused the necessary advances, on the breaking up of the
encampment at Kamp* for this purpose, but on reach-
ing Jubbulpoor they found them deprived of field allow-
ances. The former refusal endangered the safety of
their wives and families ; the latter deprivation with-
drew from the sepoys all means of assisting them. Is
it surprising that treatment such as this should have
driven the regiment into mutiny ? Is it not rather
surprising that, after such treatment, the simple exer-
cise of good faith khoy.ld have restored the regiment to
obedience ?