The Sun.
London, England, 1844-05-04 00:00:00

HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE

The first appearance this Season Cerito.
THIS EVENING, MAY 4,
Will be performed Bellini's Opera, entitled
LA SUNNAMBULA.
Asians, Madame Persian'; Lisa. Madame Beliini : Elvin*, Sid.
Mario.
To conclude with the Grand Ballet of ONDINE.
Principal Characters by Mdlles. Cerite, Scheffer, Plunket, Ferdi-
nand, ftrville, and !rusk, and Messrs. Perrot, Montaosu, and
S.. Leen.
Applications for Boxes, Stalls, and Tickets to be male at the Box-
ofliee, Oi.ora.oolonnade.

, ROEBUCK, and only regretted that he had not moved
that the Bill be rejected.
Lord HOWICK, Sir R. PEEL, Lord J. RUSSELL,
and a number of other Members, addressed the House,
when, on a division, the amendment was negatived
by a majority of 206.
The House then went into a Committee pro forma,
and immediately resumed.
The other orders of the day were then disposed of,
and the House adjourned at a few minutes past
„• One o'clock.

HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE.
Signor FORNASARI has the honour to inform the Nobility, Sub-
scribers to the Opera, his Friends, and the Publid, that HIS
BENEFIT will take place on THURSDAY NEXT, bias, 9. When
will be pertbrmed Herold's Chef d'oeuvre,
ZAMPA.
Camilla, Madame Persiani; Rita, Madame Bellini Zampa, Sig-
nor Fornasari (his tint appearance in this character) ; Alfonso,
Signor Corelli ; Daniel Capuzzi, Signor F. Lablache ; and Dal:i-
dols Signor Lablache (his first appearance in this character).
With other Entertainments, in which Madame Grist, Mdlle.
Favaati, Signor Lablache, and Signer Mario will appear
To conclude with the Grand Ballet, in Six Tableau; by 111.
Ferrot, entitled
ONDINE,; ou, LA NAIADS.
The Scenery by Mr. W Grieve. The music composed by Signor
Puglicipal characters by Mdlle. Cerito, Mdlle. Scheffer, Mille. Fer-
dihand, Mdlle. Plunket, Mdlle. Barville, and Mdlle. Adelaide
Frassi ; M. Perrot, M. Montassu, and NI. St. Leon.
Applications for Boxes, Stalls, and Tickets to be made at the Box
Ofttce Opera Colonnade. Doors ()pen at Seven. The Opera will
cortimence at Half-past Seven.

TMEATKE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE'
THIS EVENING, MAY 4,
Will be performed the opera of the BOHEMIAN GIRL Count
Anaheim, Mr. Borrani •' Thaddeus, Mr. W. Harrison • Devilshoof,
Mr. Streton ; Arline, Miss Rainforth ; Queen of the(lipsies,
Bette.
After which will be repeated a New Ballet, entitled LADY HEN.
guirrA; or, The Statute Fair. Lyonnel, M. Silvain ; Walter,
Mr. Howell ; Sir Tristram, Mr. O'Bryan ; Queen Anne. Miss
O'Bryan ; Lady Henrietta, Mdlle. Lucile Grahn; Nancy, Miss C.
Webster ; Mina Miss Carson.

IHEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET.
MK. BENJAMIN WEBSTER. LESSEE.

THIS EVENING, MAY 4,
Will be performed GRANDFATHER WHITEHEAD. Grand.
fathtr Whitehead, Mr. W. Farren ; Driver, Mr. Strickland; Bab
Lincoln. Mr. Webster; Louisa Drayton, Mrs. Edwin Yarnold.
After which, a New Comic Drama, entitled USED UP. Sir
Charles Coldstream, Bart., Mr. Charles Mathews ; Sir • Adonis
Leech, Mr Tilbury; Wurzie Mr. James Bland; Mary, Miss Julia
Bennett ; Lady Clutterbuck, Mrs. Hamby.
To he followed by a New. Original, Occasional. and Local Extra-
vaganza. founded on Fact, entitled'r HE DRAMA AT HOME; or,
An Evening with Puff: Principal Characters by Mr. C. Mathews,
/dr. J. Bland, Mr. Caulfield, Mrs. Glover, Miss P. Horton, and
Miss Lee.
To conclude with a New Farce, entitled LOVE IN A SACK.

PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET.-
LESSEE, Mr. J. M. MADDOX.
THIS EVENING, MAY 4,
Will be repeated a New Comic Opera
DIAMODIDS. Count de Campo Mayor, Opera,
entitled CROWN
.. Wei ss ; Dan Hn-
riques de Sandoval, Mr. Allen; Rebolledo, Mr. Paul Bedford ; e
la
Caterina. Madame Anna Thillon ; Diana, Miss Grant.
To conclude with a new Fairy Burlesque Extravaganza, called FAIR
frrAR .; or THE SINGING APPLE, AND THE DANCING
WATERS. The principal characters by Messrs. Wright, Paul
Medford, °sherry, Mrs. H. P. Grattan, and Miss Fortescue.
And other Entertainments.

THEATRE ROYAL LYCEUM, LACE ENGLISH OrEISA-
HOUSE.
Under the Management of Mrs. KERLEY.
" Open Sesame; or,* Night with the Forty Thieves," continues to
be nightly received with perfect enthusiasm by crowded and
ilishionable audiences.
THIS EVENING, MAY 4,
Will be repeated an Original Comic Drama, entitled THE
THREE WIVES OF MADRID. Prineip_al Characters by Messrs.
Keeley, Diddear, F. Matthews, Emery, Wigan, Craven, Turner,
Yarnold, Miss Woolgar, Miss Fairbrother, Miss Greve, Miss Turner,
Mrs. Wigan, and Mrs. Keeley.
To be followed by an Apropos Bagatelle, called POLK AMANIA
Characters by Mr. F. Matthews, Mr. Wigan, Mr. Keeley, Miss
Woolgar, and Mrs. Keeley.
To conclude with a Grand Burlesque Fairy Extravaganza, called
O?EN SESAME; or, a Night with the Forty Thieves. iba.
rectos by Mils Wool pr, Miss E. Chaplin, Mrs. Woollidge, Mi,s
Turner, Miss Grove, Mrs. Wigan, Miss James, Miss Fairbrother,
and Mrs. Keeley, Messrs. F. Mathews, Turner, lounge, Wigan,
Yarnold, and Chaplin.

It was well remarked in our hearing yesterday by
an East India Director, who had for years supported
the politics of Sir R. PEEL, that bad as the Whigs
might be, they were not traitors to their principles,
like the Tories. And he added, that never again
should Sir R. PEEL have a vote from him.

It may be said, that this was only the dictum of
one man—of an East India Director it is true, but
what then ? We will answer the question; it is
only the dictum of one man, but it is the opinion of
thousands, who, having always, as they thought, sup-
ported Tory principles, find, at length, that Toryism
has no principles, and that it is based upon founda-
tions which will neither bear the light of day nor the
merest view of the merest tyro in political knowledge.
Toryism and principle ! Sir ROBERT PEEL and prin-
ciple ! ! The terms are just as applicable as Reform
and finality I—GRAHAM and fixity of purpose !!
Just as well might it be attempted to fasten the wea-
thercock, in order to ensure the point from which the
wind should blow, as to determine the measures of a
Tory Government by the open and apparent signs
which their declarations and movements indicate.

" Vox et preterea nihil" is the-motto which all the
loud-sounding proclamations of Toryism deserve ; and
they have not only deserved but gained it; and we
are greatly deceived if the reign of Toryism be not
terminated by the full and complete conviction of the
entire British people that Toryism is mere induce-
ment—that all its promises are wind, and all its pro-
fessions empty sound.

ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE OF ARTS.
Proprietor and Manager, Mr. BATTY.
Diumphant Success of the Grand National Spectacle.
THIS EVENING. MAY 4,
Will be repeated the Hiltoric.sl Spectacle of the INVASION OF
IIIiGLAND BY WILLIAM THE CONQUEROR ; or, the Battle
ef Hastings. With all the effects of the Norman Conquest, Death
of Harold, &c.
M. ?lege en the Tight Rape. New Scenes in the Circle.
Te conclude with a laughable Farce.

Total and immediate repeal of one branch of agri-
cultural protection forms an item in the Chancellor's
Budget ; the duties on wool, which were described
as the Magna Charta and Bill of Rights of British
farmers, are wholly abolished, and we have not yet

ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE.
THIS EVENING, MAY 4,
Win be performed, CAESAR, THE WATCH-DOG OF THE
CASTLE! or the Sword of ray Father. Caesar, (the Watch-dog)
Xis& Vincent. •
After which she Popular Drama, in Three Acts, entitled THE
OLD MAN'S BRIDE; or, the Murder at Norwood Vills. Sup-
ported by Messrs. Freer, as Grantiv ; Is/ants, as Tony Smooth ;
Dale, Seaman, C. J. Bird, Gardner, Paul, Coreno, James, Miss
Arden, and Miss Vincent.
To be followed by the celebrated " Polka Dance" every evening.
:Co conclude with the Melo-Drama, of TOM CRINGLE ; or Mat
G
filf the Iron Hand. Tom Cringle, Mr. Freer; Mat, Mr. Nlintz ;
ypsey Jack, Mr. Corms ; Elisabeth Stanton, Mrs G. Lee ; Fanny
Yeagipve, Miss Arden.
Private Box es,A I. Is. and Al. 11s. ed.

comitants of ignorance, are constantly before their
eyes. Really our men in authority, whether lay or
clerical, have much to answer for, in not at once
straining every nerve in order to supply the benighted
lower classes of their fellow-countrymen with the
blessings of a sound, homely, practical education.
The evil is one that ought to be immediately grappled
with, fur it yearly assumes a more dangerous charac-
ter, such as cannot fail to excite a feeling of deep
anxiety in the minds of all thinking people. Pro-
vide the ignorant poor with competent instructors ;
elevate their nature by providing them with at least
the rudiments of knowledge, and you will hear no
more of servile insurrections, of the excesses of
Swing, or the mad, mischievous pranks of Rebecca
and her accompli4hed daughters ; but leave the lower
classes in their present state of crass—to use Lord
BuouortAst's favourite expression—ignorance, and in
periods of difficulty and effervescence, you will not be
able to guarantee the tranquillity of the country from
one week's end to another.

VAVIDGE'S
THIS RO
EVYALENING MAY 4 SUR THEAlltle..
,
1111411 be produced a New Tragedy, entitled OCTAVIA BR A-
GALA I ; or, The Confession. Supported by the Entire Company,
add Miss Charlotte Barnes, from Nevi York.
After which, THE SCAPEGRACE OF PARIS. Robin. the
Sea °grace, Mrs. R. Manner.
To conclude with an entirely New Drama, embracing all the
strong effects of the celebrated work, entitled WHITEFRIARS,
la which the entire Company will perform.
To conclude with a Domestic Drama, entitled BROKEN HOME.

THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI.
OPEN EVERY EVENING.
The GREAT WIZARD of the NORTH is getting more
end more mysterious. He nightly introduces new wonders.
His Mystic Temple is thronged with most brilliant audiences,
Mo • proclaim him to be the only legitimate Professor of
odern Magic, the very " ne plus ultra" of Cabalistic
Phenomena. He performs more a onders in one night, than all
other Professors could accomplish in a month. The " Great Wizard
of the North" has no rival, no equal in Europe or the world. He
will be fouhd nightly " at Home," Plucking trom his Mystic Caul-
igron NEW MAGICCOPIC AL EXPERIMENTS of Natural Phi
i.,sophy bringing from any Gentleman's Hat a Feather Bed and the
Bifts of Flora.
hotwoen thp partf of the Wizard's Performances, Mr. SMITH
will perform on his sew usstruni
Pr. PHILIPS, the Banjoist, will nightly appear. The THREE
141FANT ARABS, Seven Nine, and Twelve years of Age, go
through a new and original'Performance.
Drees Circle, 35.; Pit. Is. 6d.; Gallery, ed. Reserved Seats, and
Filvato Boxes can be secured at the lheatre, and of all the Agents.
Seeeitld Price at Nine o'clock.
Dans open at Half-past Seven—the Wizard appears at Eight.

heard of sheep disappearing from our fields, and shep-
herds sinking in desperation. Our backs are to he
dependent on foreigners for clothing, but our stomachs
are still to be restricted to British foal; foreign wool

Madrid journals of the 25th have been received,
but they are barren of intelligence. Very little busi-
ness was done on the Bourse on that day, and the
Funds remained nearly stationary. The quotations
were—Three per Cents. 36i ooh, 37i at 60 days;
and Fives 22fr at 60 days.

The Paris papers bring no intelligence of im-
portance. Wednesday was observed as a strict
holiday at the Bourse, and the Post-office closed at
the o'clock, so that the accounts of the receptions at
the Tuileries are very meagre. Indeed, the only
notice of the oeremonies is in the Univers, which
states that the Archbishop of PARIS presented himself
on Wednesday, to congratulate the KING on the occa-
sion of his fete. "We have been assured," adds that
journal, " that the reply of the chief of the State to
the good wishes of the venerable Archbishop did not
breathe the benevolence usual on such occasions. It
appears that the word liberty' had been introduced
by the Archbishop Tinto the harangue, and that his
MAJESTY did not relish the expression."
The general debate on the Education Bill in the
Chamber of Peers was brought to a conclusion on
Tuesday, when the Bill went into Committee.
The Deputies were still engaged in discussing the
Bill for the improvement of prison discipline. The
following are the average prices of wheat in the
different markets of France for the month of April.
The price at Toulouse, Lyons, and Marseilles was
23f. 32c. the hectolitre (equal to two bushels three
quarters Imperial measure); at Marans and Bordeaux,
at 21f. 84c.; at St. Laurent and Le Grand Lemps,
at 21f. 59c. ; at Bergues, Arms, Roye, Soissons,
Paris, and Rouen, at 19f. 34c.„_. at Saumur and Nantes,
at 20f. 18c.; and at Metz, Verdun, and Charleville,
at 16f. 79c.
At TcarroNis, on Wednesday, the Three per Cents.
were quoted at 84f.

may come in freely without danger to Church or
State, but foreign mutton is still held to be subver-
hive of the altar and the throne. The skin of the
sheep is the frontier between safety on one side and
danger on the other ; all that grows upon it is safe
and innocent, but the perils centred in the flesh within
can only be warded off by discriminating duties.
Assuredly the brains of our rulers have gone wool-
gathering with a vengeance! Two exquisite rea-
sons have been assigned by Mr. GOULBURN for
making such a distinetion heesveen wool and
other agriculaaral produce. He says that e wool
is the raw material of an important branch of the
national manufactures;" no free trader could assign a
better reason for the removal of monopolist restric-
tions and discriminating duties; but can any man tell
why the application of this principle should be con-
fined to the sheep-walk and not extended to the corn-
field ? Wheat is clue of the most important of raw
materials in every branch of manufactures ; the
weaver must have food as well as yarn ere he can
use his loom ; the smith must have bread as well as
iron ere he can exercise his hammer. We say no-
thing of the many manufactures in which flour is used
in various shapes ; this though not unimportant
scarcely strengthens a case, in which every possible
form of industry has a direct and obvious claim.
Unless men eat they cannot work, and unless they
work they can produce no manufactures. Wool and
corn stand precisely in the same position, and Mr.
GOULBURTeII principle (would, that we could add
his practice), are just as applicable to the. one as to
the other.

EGYPTIAN HALL, PICCADILLY.
IMPORTANT NOTICE.

ONE SHILLING Admission to THE NAPOLEON MU-
SEUM. tho most magnificent and extensive Collection of Histo-
rical Curiosities and Works of Art ever known to have bees formed
by One Person, during Twenty-five years of elaborate research, at a
cost of 60,000 guineas, and to completely illustrate, in the most in-
dtructive and interesting manner, tho most Important part of Euro-
pean history, via.—CHARLES 1., OLIVER CROMWELL, and
LOUIS XIV., to the deaths of GEORGE 111., and the EMPEROR
NAPOLEON, in 1821. This unique Museum has been visited often.
eliviug the last and present year, by the Royal Family, the Duke of
WA,lington, the Foreign Princes, Ambassadors, and their Ladles,
else many thousands of the Nobility and Public ; and the Pro-
prietor has recently been able to increase. by several very fine
picture', as., his previous almost incredible number and variety of
WIS., Works of Art, and a multitude of valuable Relics, and other
curiosities, iu this most instructive and, as hundreds have said it
ought to be, a National Museum. Many thousand have inspected it,
and THIRTY PRINCIPAL EDITORS of the PUBLIC PRESS
have stated that it ought to be seen by every one. The price of admis •
ioo is reduced to ONE SHILLING.
The NAPOLEON MUSEUM is to be seen oily at the " Egyptian
Ha 1.1;" Piccadilly, daily from Ten till Dusk.

THE WEATHER.—SUN OFFICE, MAY 3.
THERMOMETER, Lowest, 43 ; Highest, 66 ; Noon, 60,
BAROMETER, 30.27.—W0rn, N.E.

Harz.—The number 32 on the Thermometer denotes the
Elsezing point, and 55 temperate. In Barometers fair is
,usually placed opposite 30, and rain at 29.

8100 WATER AT LONDON-BEIDGB TIES DAY.
M.renll3B 38 minutes after 2 1 Erasing ... 2 minutes after B.

THE TRISH STATE TRIALS.—On Thursday Mr
Fitzgibbon addressed the Court, and the Lord Chief
Justice, observing that he spoke on one leg, kindly
intimated that he might speak sitting. Mr. Fitz-
gibbon at once availed himself of this favour, and
there he sat all the day long (we quote from a Tory
journal) talking at, and scolding the Learned Lord
Chief Justice for his charge to the jury, just as if
half-a-dozen speeches on the same topic had not been
delivered within the past few days. At four o'clock
Mr. Fitzgibbon was analysing the early portions of
the charge; and from the industry he has displayed
in picking out words and sentences supposed to have
been prejudical to the traversers, it is not likely he
will come to a close for at least another day.

ROYAL ACADBMY.—Her Majesty and Prince Al-
bert,littended by the Royal Suite, visited the exhibi-
tion qf the Royal Academy, in Trafalgar-square,
yeste4ay. The august party spent upwards of an
hour in inspecting the numerous and interesting works
of art, and then returned to Buckingham Palace.

The sapient Duke of RICHMOND, who has been
placed at the head of the land-monopolists vice
BuciiwGrum papve&Aripii isvmpetretpil has talzpri
alarm at the Chancellor's new profession of faith in
free trade, and has given notice of a notion which
will afford him an opportunity of reading a homily
to his creatures, the Ministers, on these symptoms of
rejecting the infallible decrees of the snuggery at
Goodwood. The bleatings of the sheep on the downs
of Sussex will not be more pathetic or more pastoral
than his promised oration. We seem already to hear
his Pandean pipes attuned to notes of woe, and his
title established to the name of " Gentle Shepherd,"
whieh has remained unappropriated sinee the days of
CHATHAX. We can fancy his melodious sorrowings
over deserted sheep-walks, exiled shepherds, absent
shoulders of mutton, unattainable trotters, and lamb
disappearing to the manifest danger of the mint.
"How fluent nonsense trickles from hie tongue,
How sweet the periods neither said nor sung."
Mut his Grace's sympathetic bleatings will be of no

avail. The West Riding of Yorkshire has triumphed
over Sussex ; wool has won a victory over mutton ;
and henceforth the total and immediate repeal of
the agricultural protection is an established precedent
and recognised principle in legislation.
Mr. Gout hues advocated the repeal of the wool
duties on acoount of the stimulus that will thus be
given to manufactures. Thus early has the senseless
fallacy of over-production been abandoned by those
who took it up for a party purpose. Instead of pre-
tending to fear ally surplus of production, the Minis-
ters plainly declare that it is the duty of statesmen to
stimulate production, and to remove the,rostrietions
by which it is fettered. It is to be regretted that
those converts to the true faith are not yet so tho-
roughly fixed in their new creed as to be perfectly
consistent. The protection accorded to earn is a
greater blight oa industry than that which was
granted to wool, and we hope that the defiance given
to the monopolists in one item will inspire courage to
attack their citadel.

We quote the following passage from an interesting
document which has been issued from the Metropoli-
tan Police-office in Whitehall, and which contains n
account of the number of persons taken into custody
by the police authorities, and the results, in the year
1843 :—" Respecting the degree of instruction of the
persons taken into custody, it appears that out of
62,447 individuals taken up, 11,336 males and 5,682
females—in all 16,918—could neither read nor write ;
that 25,897 males and 13,170 females—in all 39,067
—could read only, or read and write but imperfectly ;
that 4,918 males and 906 females—in all 5,623—
could read and write well, and that 654 males and
15 females were of superior instruction. Of the
number summarily convicted or bailed, 7,053 per-
sons could neither read nor write ; 15,924 but
imperfectly ; 2,874 well ; and 320 had had
superior instruction. Of those tried and convicted,
1,214 could neither read nor write ; 2,088 but im-
perfectly ; 172 well ; and 31 had received a good
education." These criminal statistics are exceed-
ingly curious and important, and show—what we
have often taken occasion to remark—hew closely,
we might almost add, how inseparably, connected
with each other are crime and ignorance. We here
find that by far the greater =jolity of persons taken
into custody by the metropolitan police consists of
those who can neither read nor write, and that the
numbers are few, comparatively speaking, of those
who have received the benefits of education. Surely
facts like these—facts given on unimpeachable evi-
dence—should speak trampet-tongued in favour of
a system of general instruction for the lower classes!
Of what use is it to build new churches'in the metro-
polis, when there are so many thousand people resi-
dent in London and its suburbs, who are unable to
avail themselves of such a spiritual advantage, by
reason of their utter inability to read the word of
Gon? To our thinking, the Biihop of LONDON, hold-
ing the high—the solemn—the responsible office that
he does, would be far more serviceably employed in
endeavouring to provide the means of education for
the neglected poor of his vast diocese, than in building
new religious structures, from which those only can
expeet to derive spiritual benefit, who have received
some sort of instruction. It is idle to hops to
engraft a sound religious feeling on the minds of the
utterly ignorant. The soil must first be cultivated
so as to fit it to receive the wholesome seed, otherwise
it will never bring forth fruit in due season. Religion
should not precede, but follow in the train of educe
tion. Churchmen, however, can never be brought to
see this, even though the proofs of the dreadful immo-
rality and impiety that are the almost invariable con-

THE &UN, LONDON, SATURDAY MORNI NG, MAY 4, 1844.

INDIA AND CHINA.

STATE OF THE INDIAN ARMY.
(From the Delhi Gazette of the 6th of March.)
Our latest intelligence from Ferozepore communicates
indications that active steps have been taken by the Com-
mander-in-Chief for the removal of the mutinous corps from
their dangerous proximity to the frontier. .The 7th Light
Cavalry marched for Loodhoeanah on the 29th ultimo, in
compliance with the orders we mentioned in our last. The
34th were also sent off on the 2d instant, with present in-
structions to march to Meerut. No orders had been, ac-
cordiag to our last advices, received from head quarters, as
to the destination of the horse and foot artillery, but we re-
gret much to find the troop mentioned in such a manner as
to lead us to the painful belief that they also had joined in
the combination. The 69th Infantry were in state quo, and
it seems to have been most wisely determined not to run the
risk of a refusal on the part of the 4th Infantry, which reached
Ferozepore on the Ist instant, by asking them to proceed on-
wards. The plan is the best in regard to them that could be
pursued, but we should deem it absolutely necessary to re-
move the whole of the refractory and suspected corps from
the frontier at once, and before the 64th reach Ferozepore, as
we should not be at all surprised, if this is not done, to hear
of the men of that regiment being overawed by their mutinous
comrades in other corps into withdrawing their offer to pro-
ceed. The determination of the Supreme Government on this
most unfortunate business must shortly be known, and we
look forward with much anxiety to the measures which it
may deem it right to adopt for the vindication of its autho-
rity, and which has suffered so sadly of late. We must at the
same time be permitted to express a hope that such vindica-
tion will not prevent their affording justice to the corps who
may ultimately be sent to Sinde.
SINDE.
(From the Agra Ukbar of Feb. 28.)
The mutiny in the 64th Bengal Native Infantry appears
to have subsided, the regiment having, in the presence of
General Fast, volunteered to go to Sinde. It would appear
that the option left of proceeding to Sinde or receive severe
punishment has had a good effect. The native officers of the
corps declared to the General that, as a regiment, they had
never declined to go to Sinde ; the obnoxious urzees were
the production of one man, who was subsequently joined by
five or six individuals. The conduct of the 7th cavalry is
more reprehensible. The officers offered to guarantee to the
troops the batta out of their own pockets, to prevent the
shame they were bringing upon the standing order of the
regiment. The native commissioned and non-commissioned
officers and about two hundred troopers marched with the
officers ; the rest held back
The Delhi Gazette, February 28th, remarks, that it is
evident Dost Mahomed had succeeded in strengthening him-
self sufficiently on his throne at Caubul, to admit of allowing
of Ukbar Khan's proceeding to Jellalabad. One step which
the Dost has adopted for the purpose of strengthening his
rule is the admission, to a more active share in his councils,
of his cousin Mahomed Zumau Khan (the good Nawaub)
and his brother Jubber Khan.
A man has arrived from Peshawur in great haste, an-
nouncing that Mahomed Ukbar Khan had arrived at Jel-
lalabad with four or five regiments of infantry, 6,000 cavalry,
and ten guns, and on reaching Jellalabad he had written to
Tej Singh to be under no apprehension regarding his move-
ments, as he had only come down to settle that part of the
country.
The following is a letter from Kurrachee, Sinde, of the
29th
" Imprimis then you are aware a large dinner was given
to Sir Charles Napier on the 17th, which was admirably
arranged and went off well. The Governor's speech, like all
the triumphs of his tongue and pen, was amusing enough,
and was, of course, received with thunders of applause by all
the eaters of good things in esse, and the expectants of geed
things in posse. He endeavoured to prove—and doubtless
did to his own satisfaction and that of his numerous staff
and parasites—that Sinde paid itself. There were, however,
some who deemed his reasoning lame—who thought that it
fell like an inverted cone, wanting its proper base to stand
upon.' But for this you might be prepared. Sir Charles is,
however, by no means stinted in the gift of the gab, and
his speech was on the whole well delivered and adapted to
his audience. By the bye, he touched upon the licentious
and vicious press of India—out of the fulness of the heart the
mouth speaketh--and doubtless the Bombay Times and
Journal of Commerce inspired him on the occasion. General
Sale is expected daily—a ball, of course, to be given to his
lady. The Quartermaster-General and Captain Napier have
gone to Sonmeanee on a surveying expedition—to spy the
nakedness of the land. I have heard that instructions have
been received from Lord-Ellenborough for the construction of
a fin-ad/cation at or near Ram Bagh, which is about midway
between the cantonments and Bonder, into which, when
finished, the ordnance and engineer parks, as also the com-
missariat stores, are to be removed."

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