The Sun.
London, England, 1845-04-04 00:00:00

ADVERTISR ME NTS INSERTED in ALL THE THREE PAPERS, Morning, Noon, and Night, thereby insuring a TO WN and COUNTRY CIRCULATION at ONE CHARGE.

S Anti) HARMONIC SOCIETY, EXETER-
HALL.
On WEDNESDAY EVENING, April 9, will be performed,
for the first time in London,
DAVID, an Oratorio, by the CheVallee NEOKOMM.
Principal Vocal Peribrmers—Miss Lacombe, Miss Barrett, Mr.
Mativers, Mr. Allen, Mr. Machin, anti Herr Staudigl.
The Band and Chorus will consist of above 500 Performers.
Tickets, 3s. each ; Reserved Scats, ss. ; may be had of the prin-
cipal music-sellers; of Mr. Bowlsy, 53, Charing-cross; Mr. Mit-
chell, 39, Charing•eroft ; and Mr. Ries, 102, Strand, opposite Exeter
Hall. THOMAS BREWER, Hon. Sec.
The Subscription to the Society is One Guinea per annum.
Persons desirous of becoming Subscribers are requested to apply at
Exeter Hall, on Tuesday Evening, between the hours of Eight
nod Ten.

ROYAL POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION.
The ATMOSPHERIC RAILWAY, exhibited by a working
Model Fifty Feet long, having a power to carry visitors from end
to end. A Curious MECHANICAL HAND on a person who has
lost his natural hand. Dr. Ryan's first Series of LECTURES on
the Chemistry of Domestic Life daily, and on the Evenings of
Wednesday and Friday. Professor Bachheffner's varied Lectures
with brilliant experiments. Lectures on Character, with Musical
Illustration., by Mr. J. Ru,scil, accompanied by Dr. Wallis on the
Piano-forte, on the evenings of Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday, at
Eight o'clock. New and beautiful Objects in the CHROMATROPE,
PHYSIOSCOPE, PROTEOSCOPE, and DISSOLVING VIEWS.
Submarine Experiments by tha DIVER and DIVING BELL.
Working Models described day.
Admission, is. ; Schools, Half-price.

NATIONAL LOAN FUND LIFE ASSUR..
ANCE :30CIETa ,
26, COUNIIILL, LONDON-
Capital-th 00,030.
Empowered by Act of rarliemexit.
- DIVISION OF PIZf FITS.
the sti.li.d? fp-Tees:l ,riere,stig 7,,,wer,vrity of the Soe!ety bait
enabled the Director*, at the last afar. 1 ,I,ll,:o*lkzAtien to declare tt
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74. 3 4 1839 144 2 2
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64 5 6
151 511

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The division of p:oftt, is annual, and the nezt will be made in De-
•rober of the present year. _ .

Tlnfi insti.dion offers many important and substantial advan-
tages with respect both to Life Assurances and Deferred Annuities.
The assured has, on all occasions, the power to borr )w, without ex-
pense or forfeiture of the Policy, two-thirds of the premium paid,
(sce table) ; aiso.the option of selecting benefits, and the conversion
of his interests to meet other conveniences or necessity. Assurances
for terms of years are granted on the lowest possible rates.
F. FERGUSON CA.MROUX, see.

ROYAL FARMERS' and GENERAL, MI:0
LIFE, and HAIL INSURANCE INSTITUTION.
Empowered by special Act of Parliament.
Capital, 500,000/.
Offices, STRAND, LONDON.
The Proprietary of this Company exceeds 1,960 in number.
All persons whose Insurances with this Office fall due on Quarter
Day, are respectfully reminded that, to preserve the benefit of their
Policies, the Premium should be paid within fifteen days from that
date, and that the Receipts are now in the hands of the Agents.
FARMING STOCK Insured, without the Average Clause, at 3s.
per cent., no duty.
COMMON INSURANCE.—Private Houses and Shops, Is. 6d. per
cent. Hazardous, 2s. 6d. per cent. Double Hazardous subject to
special agreement.
HAIL-STORM INSURANCE.—Premium 6d. per acre for Wheat,
Barley, and Peas ; 4d. per acre for Oats, Beans, Turnips, and Po-
tatoes.—Glass in Hothouses, Greenhouses, or Private Houses, 20s.
per Cent.

Insurance of Lives on an equally moderate scale of charges.
Annual Premiums on Life Insurances for 100/.

Age 20 I 30 I 40 50 I 60 I 65

XI 16 1 I 2 7 1 I 3 3 5 I 4 10 3 I 7 5 5 I 9 3 4

Endowments of all kinds for future or existing children.
Prospectuses may be obtained at the office, or will be forwarded,
post-free, upon application. The usual Commission to Solicitors.
Agents are appointed in the Principal Towns in the Kingdom.
W. SHAW, Managing Director.

ROYAL EXCHANGE ASSURANCE
CORPORATION,
ROYAL EXCHANGE, LONDON.
(Establi:died by Royal Charter A.D. 1720.)
FIRE INSURANCES.
. NOTICE.—The usual fifteen days allowed for payment of Pre-
miums falling due at Lady4lay will expire on the 9th day •of April
next. -
LIFE INSCRANCES.
. .
Two-thirds of the Profit on the Company's Life business; since De-
cember, 1841, *vin 'be apportioned, periodically, among Policies ibr
Life, without involving the assured in-gny risk or partnership.,
The Company has now returned from its temporary offices in Lora•
bard-street, to the position in the New Royal Exchange which it had
occupied in the former building &Om 1720 till its destruction by fire
in 1838.
Entrance under the 'Western Portico.
Branck Office, 29, PALL-MALL.
THOMAS TOOKE, Esq., Governor.
WILLIAM SAMPSON, Esq., Sub-Governor.
The lion. J. T. LESLIE M ELV 11. LE, Deputy-Governor.
DIRECTORS.
Henry Bainbridge, Esq. Chas. John Manning, Esq.
George Pearkes Barclay, Esq. Henry Nelson, Esq.
Edmond S. P. Calvert, Esq. Edw. Howley Palmer, Esq.
Alexander Colvin, Esq. John Henry Pello,.Esq.
Wfillaru Davidson. Esq. -Abraham J. Bobft, Esq. . .
John Deacon,- Esq. Chatl,s Robinson., Esq.
Riversdale W. Gren'ell, Esq. Sir Samuel Scott, Bart.
William T. Hibbert, Esq. William Saltau, Esq.
Lancelot Holland, Esq. Robert Thorley. Esq.
Sir George Larpent, Bart. Henry War re, Esq.
John Chr. Lochner, Esq. Oct: rigs IVigram, Esq.
Sir J. Wm. Lubbock, Bart. Charles Baring Young, Esq.
ILEXR. GREEN, Secretary.

VIC'T'ORIA
ORIA LIE A SSUR.-INCE COMPANY,
No. 18, KING WILLIAM-STREET, CITY.
Sir JAMES DUKE, Alderman, M.P., Chairman.
BENJAMIN HAWES, Esq., Deputy-Chairman.
Benjamin Barnard, Esq.
.John Knill, Esq.
Charles Baldwin, Esq. Thomas Nesbitt, Esq.
B. Donkin, Esq., F.R.S. John Notion, Esq.
Aaron Coldsmid, Esq. Major-General Robertson
James Law Jones, Esq. Daniel Sutton, Esq.
J. L. Kettle, Esq.O'R. B. Woolsey, Esq.
The attention of Assurers is particularly directed to the detailed
Prospectuses of this Company. Assurances can be effected on a pro-
fit or non-profit scale, and for short periods at a very moderate rate.
When on the life of another, the Policy may be rendered secure, not-
withstanding the life assured may go out of the limits of Europe,
without the necessary permission of the Directors having been pre-
viousle obtained—this Plan makes a Policy an absolute security.
Credit of half the premiums for the first live years allowed on Poli-
cies effected for the whole term of life.
Advances are made to Assurers on real or undoubted personal se-
tAtticntitemnrtys.
WILLIAM and Secretary.
se-
curity, for terms of by
e repayablelt T s,

GREAT BRITAIN MUTUAL LIFE AS-
SURANCE,
14, WATERLOO-PLACE, PALL-MALL, LONDON.
THE CHISHOLM, Chairman.
WILLIAM MORLEY, Esq., Deputy-Chairman.
John Brightman, Esq. James John Kinloch, Esq.
Francis Brodigan, Esq. ) Henry Lawson, Esq.
James William Deacon, Esq. Henry Penny, Esq.
Alex. Robert Irvine, Esq. Robert Power, Esq.
John Inglis Jerdein, Esq. The Rev. F. W. J. Vickery, A.M.
GREAT ADVANTAGES OFFERED TO POLICY-HOLDERS BY
THIS INSTITUTION.
A large and immediate acce, slot' of Assurances by the transfer of
the Policies of the " Achilles British and Foreign Life Assurance
Association."
PROFITS.—The whole of the profits divided annually among the
MEMBERS, after payment of five annual premiums.
An ample guaranteed Capital, in addition to the Rind continually
accumulating from Premiums, fully sufficient to afford complete
security.
CREDlT.—Credit given to MEMBERS for half the amount of the
first five annual premiums, without security.
An extremely low rate of Premium, without participation in the
Profits, but with the option, at any time within five years, of paying
the difference between the Reduced Rates and the Mutual Assur-
ance Rates ; and thus becoming Members of the Society, and entitled
to a 11111 participation in the Profits.
Extract from the Reduced Scale of Rates, for an Assurance of 1007.

Annual Premium,

Age' I One Year. (Seven Years.lWholeLife

Xs. d. 4 s. d. XO. d.
1 0 9 1 1 6 1 13 11
12913 3 2 2 1
15617 6 2 16 4
1 15 9 2 1 6 4 1 11
335317 0 6 8 3

Full particulars are detailed in the Prospectus.
A. R. IRVINE, Managing

WIL SO N'S SCOTTISH ENTERTAIN-
MENTS.
At the MUSIC-HATA, STORE-STREET, BEDFORD-SQUARE,
On MONDAY EVENING, April 7, at Eight o'clock,
Mr. WILSON will give hisnew selected Entertainment on the

SONGS OF SCOTLAND.
PART I.—Ye Banks and Braes o' bonny Doon—Of a' the Airts the
Win' can biaw—Last May a brew Wooer—Auld Robin Gray—Dun-
can Gray came here to woo—John Anderson my jo—Jenny's
Bawbee.
PART IL—Thou art gene awn free me, Mary—John o' Bedenyon
—Jock o' Thar/Mean—The Birks of Aberfelily —My jo Janet—Wily
wadna feet for Charlie.

Piano-forte—Mr. LAND.
Tickets, 2s. Reserved Seats, 2s. 6d. Private Boxes for Six, 15a.
for Eight persons, 1/.

PRESERVER FIRE, LIFE, ANIfIFAMILY
ENDOWMENT OFFICE,
BOND-COURT HOUSE, WALBROOK.
As an Indemnity to the Assured, a Deed of Settlement has been
executed, whereby Property, producing upwards of Five Thou-
sond Pounds per Annum has been secured to Trustees for the
fulfilment of all engagements entered into at this Office.
The peculiar advantages offered over those of similar Institutions
are, amongst others—
TO ASSURE FROM LOSS BY FIRE EVERY DESCRIPTION
OF HOUSE, CHARITABLE, and CHURCH PROPERTY, Farm-
ing Stock, Goods, &c., at a considerable reduction from the charges
usually made.
TO ASSURE THE LIVES OF INDIVIDUALS OF ALL AGES
the payment of the principal sum to he made EITHER ON THE
DEATH OF THE ASSURED, OR ON A FIXED DAY, IF HE
BE THEN LIVING.
ADVANCES OF MONEY FOR LIMITED PERIODS on the
deposit of Title Deeds, without the expense of Mortgage Securities.
LOANS TO NOBLEMEN AND GENTLEMEN of established
position, in conjunction with Life Assurances, upon their personal
responsibility alone.
The ASSURED MAY PASS FROM ONE COUNTRY TO AN-
OTHER without forfeiting their Policies, and MEDICAL EXAMI-
NATIONS are dispensed with.
li
Vac icies for a few Agents. , • 7.
340,,,AWVOIliat1/4494 tettlt* 1F.A.4 lhe.,?*ntest- pro-.•
ciston, ma;,.- be had at the Mee. -

JOHN" WII)OWSONi Secretary.

MIIE- LONDON MARBLE- AND STONE
WORK ING 0011 PANT, Esher-street, Holywell-strect,
Westminster (established 1S21), are enabled, with their PATENT
MACIIINEItY, to execute Chimney Pieces, Monuments, Tablets,
Slabs forIITC, and every description of. .such Work, with an
accuracy, ranbinty of execution, beauty end durr.blllty of Polith, and
reduction of cost, which cannot be obtained elsewhere.
The Public are invited to inspect their aXteriSiye SEOW-ROOMS,
containing the largest stock in this country.'
The Trade supplied with every description of Rough Slab Blocks,
or Scantlings; or Blocks sent to the Works cut to order.
Please to he accurate in copying the Address, to prevent imposi-
tion, the Company hating no connexion with any other Establish-
ment but that In Esher-street.

ONE GUINEA WELLINGTON BOOTS,
MADE TO MEASURE,
By G. GARRETT, Boot-maker by special appointment to the
King of the Belgians. A Stock of the most fashionable and highly-
finished Boots of all kinds kept ready made to suit the convenience of
Noblemen, Officers of the United Services,' and Gentlemen who pre-
fer trying on Boots previous to purchasing, or giving an order.
G. Garrett, Army Boot-maker, 130, Jennyn-street; and 4,
Leicester-square.

ILVER SUPERSEDED, and those corrosive
1.. Y and injurious Metals, called Nickel and German Silver, sup-
planted by the introduction -a a new and perfectly matchless
ALB ATA PLATE. '
C. WATSON, 41 and 42, Barbican, and 16, Norton Folgate, aided by
a person of Science in the amalgamation of Metals, has succeeded in
bringing to Public Notice the most beautiful Article ever yet offered;
possessing all the richness of Silver in appearance, with all its dura-
bility and hardness—with its perfect sweetness in use, undergoing, as
it does, a Chemical Process, by which, all that is nauseous in mixed
Metals is entirely extracted—resisting all Acids--may be cleaned as
silver, and is manufactured into every Article for the Table and
Sideboard:—

Fiddle. Threaded. Ring's.
Table Spoons and Forks, 16s. 6d. doz. 30s. 358.
Desert Ditto .•• • • • 12s. 6d. 255. 28s.
Tea Spoons.. •.• • • • 58. 6d. —12 s. 6d. 13s. 6d.
Sugar Tongs •• • • Is. 3d. 3s. 3s. 6d.
C. WATSON begs the Public will understand that this Metal is
peculiarly his own, and that Silver is not more different from Gold
than his metal is from all others—on its intrinsic merit alone he
wishes it to be tested, and from the daily increasing enlogiums he re-
ceives, he is convinced that nothing can prevent its becoming an
article of universal wear.
C. Watson's handsomely Illustrated Catalogue and Price Currant
Is just published, and Families who regard economy and elegance
should possess themselves of this useful Book, which may be had
Gratis, and Post Free, from the above Address.
PATENT PARAGON CAMPIIINE LAMPS.
The perfection of these Lamps over the Vesta has been
happily attained by the invention of two parallel flat rings—a larger
and a smaller forming a cone round the margin of the wick, which
cause a rapid reverberation of air against the flame—thus condensing
every particle of volatilized vapour, it is free from smoke or smell,
having perfect combustion, and in full action, emits a light equal to
16 wax candles. .

C. M'atron's Wareh9uses, 41 and 42, Barbican, and 16; Norton
Folgate, will contain, throughout the season,, all the. most elegant
recherche and new patterns, Comprising Or-molu; Cidna,'GlissOuld
Opal.
Old Oil Lamps fitted with the Paragon Head•for 21s. And tie
Paragon Apparatus applied to the Vesta for 6s. The Spirit analysed
and recommended by Dr. Ure, is delivered in screw cans by C.
Watson's carts, at 4s. per gallon. •
•
41 & 42. BARBICAN, and 16. NORTON FOLGATE.

THE MONSTER BELL
FOR YORK MINSTER CASHEDRAL.
No doubt, gentle reader, you've lately heard tell
Of the size and tte weight of the " York Minster Bell".
This bell, which was east by the famed Messrs. Mears,
Is upwards of twelve tons in weight it appears;
And eighteen strong horses are needed to drip'
The " Monster," whose equal your eye ncve .w.
,)Thea we think ofiNs.llo4 • s
eiiiitiotkelp t• 1,•01
Fortis certainly sufted.remarkab y'We i .
To ring fin= that house wilt % has long " borne the Bell."
Its sound, which is doubtless it powerful one,
Is just the right thing for E. MOSES and SON.
How loud could it speak with its ponderous clappe'
Of a beautiful " Frock," or a " Vest," or a " Wrapper,"
With the rest of that choice summer dress, which discloses
The taste and the elegant fashion of MOSES.
Another fit use might be made of this Bell,
By letting it toil competition's sad " knell."
For all competition must quickly " expire"
Since MOSES and SON have provided attire.
No tradesman in Europe can ever excel
E. MOSES and SON, who have long " borne the Bell."
A new work, entitled " THE LEVIATHAN OF TRADE," with
full directions for Self-Measurement, may be had on application,
or forwarded post-free.

~..

£ s. d.
Beaver Taglionis. .
Ditto Chesterfields .
Ditto Codringtons •.
Ditto Pembrokes, Athols, l'eltoes, and every description of
Winter Coat, handsomely trimmed •
Boys' Winter Coats, in every style..... •••. • • • ............ 0 8 6
Warm Winter Trousers, lined.. •••••• • • • • • • .............. 0 4 6
Ditto Doeskin • •
Dress Coats, edged, &c..
Frockditto, ditto. •••••.•••••••••• • • • • • .. .. • • .• .... 1 3 9
Rolling Collar Vest • • • •
Double-breasted Ditto
Boys' Hussar Suits • • • •• • • ••• • .
Ditto Tunic, neatly braided • .

MADE TO MEASURE.
Saxe Gotha Coats, velvet collar and cuffs .••• • • • • from 1 18 0
Winter Coats, in every style and shape, handsomely-trimmed 1 5 0
Milled Tweed Wrappers • •
Ditto ditto Trousers • • •

Buckskin Di ..
•tto•• • •• • • 012 6
Doeskin Ditto, any pattern ••••••••. • • • . • • • . ...... •• • • ... 0 12 0

Best, or Dress Trousers ........ ............ • • 1 6 0
Cashmere Vest
Winter Ditto, in endless pattern • • •• • • • • • . • • • • • • • • • • • •• • • 0
.8 6

Dress Coat

1 12 0

_I

Ditto, olitto, best manufactured
Frock Coat .... ....... ........ .
Ditto, the best manufactured ..
- - -

Boy's Hussar Suit • • •
Ditto Tunic • • • • • • • • •

1 8 0

Mourning to any extent can be had at five minutes' notice, at the
following prices :
Men's Suits, dress coat, vest, and trousers • • from 1 16 0
Ditto, jacket, vest and trousers •• ..
IMPORTANT.—Any article purchased or ordered, if aot approved of,
exchanged, or the money returned.
Observe--E. MOSES and SON, Tailors, Wholesale and Retail
Woollen Drapers, Outfitters, and General Warehousemen, 154, Mine-
ries, and 86, Aldgate, City, opposite the Church.
C unow.—E. Moses and Son are obliged to guard the public
against imposition, having learned that the untradesmanlike false-
hood of being connected with them, or it's the same concern, has
been resorted to in many instances, and for obvious reasons. They
gve no connexion whatever with any other establishment, in or out
of London, and those who desire genuine Cheap Clothing should (to
prevent disappointment, &c.) call or send to 154, Minories, or 86,
Aldgate, opposite the Church.
N.B. No business transacted at this Establishment from sunset on
Friday till sonunset Saturday when business is returned till twelve
o'clock.

NEW EDITION of Dr. MicDLEY!S SCHOOL BOTANY.
This day is published. in demy Syn., With nearly Four Hundred

- -
Illustrations,
SCHOOL BOTANY; or, THE RUDIMENTS
of BOTANICAL SCIENCE. By JOHN LINDLEY, Ph.D.
F.R.S., Professor of Botany in University College, London. A New
Edition, with numerous alterations.
London : Printed and Published for the Author by Bradbury and
Evans, Whitefriars.

NEW POEM BY THE HON. MRS. NORTON.
In Imperial Bvo., price I6s. cloth gilt,
THE CHILD of the ISLANDS.
A POEM.
By the Hon. Mrs. NORTON.
With an Illustration by Daniel Maclise, R.A.
London : Chapman and Hall, 186, Strand.

NEW WORK BY MRS. ELLIS.
In 2 vols. post Svo., pric7 21s.
LOOK TO THE END ; or, THE BENNETS
ABROAD. •
By the Author of " The Women of England."
" Amusing, instructive, and full of intetest.7
Fisher, Son, and Co., the Caxton Press, ,ikngel-street, Neivgate-
street, London. Sold by all Booksellers.

LAMERT ON DEBILITY NERVOUSNESS, AND ALL
,
DISORDERS AntslNG FROM EXCESS, 8"'
" He, who in pleasure's downy ads
Ne'er loot lila health or youtlnill charms,
A hero lives, and justly can
Exclaim, in me behold a matt I"
Just published (in a sealed envelope),, Tenth Edition, price 2i. 6d., or
sent by post, free, to any address. 3s. 6d.'
ELF-PRESERVATION : a Popular Essay on
those concealed disorders, on in youthful CXCCSSCS,
and terminating, in Nervous Debility, Local and Constitutional
Weakness, and all those Sinkings, Anxtetes,
and Tremors, which
afflict the Weak, the Sedentary, and Delicate. With Practical
Observations on Marriage, and ea ,!..natomy, Physiology, and
Diseases of the Reproductive Organs, with plain Directions for thet
perfect Restoration. ' •

TrETIrOIII;WiriEET,
latriculateil 'Alelllller of the University of Edinburgh, Honorary
Member of the London Hospital Medical Society, Licentiate of

Apothecaries' Hall, London, &c.
" The various positions of Lover, Husband, and Parent, the in-
herent privileges of mankind, are frequently marred and prevented
through the follies and frailties of early indiscretions. To such, among
others, this Essay addresses itself; and by its perusal many questions
may be satisfactorily adjusted that admit of nO appeal even to the
most confidential friend."—Stafford Gazette.
"Long experience in the treatment of a class of diseases hitherto
neglected and most imperfectly understood by the great bulk of the
medical profession, has enabled the writer to prove that tb,re are
concealed causes of Nervous Debility in existence, where the mere
routine practitioner would never dream of finding them; traceable
to certain habits, forming the most secret, yet deadly-, and fatal
springs of domestic misery, and premature mortality."—Wakelleld
Journal.
Published by the Author, and sold in London by S. Gilbert, 51 and
52, Paternoster-row; Stade, 23, Tichborne-street, Quadrant, Regent-
street; Ilannay and Co., 63, Oxford-street; Noble, 114, Chancery-
lane Goydon, 146, Leadenhall-street ; and by all Booksellers.
At home every day till Three, and from Five till Eight.

BRITISII AND FOREIGN INSTITUTE.
Tuesday, April 8 .. ... ?Monthly Dinner, at 6
Wednesday, April 9.... Lecture--*Zoology, at 8
Friday, April 11 ... •.. COnversazione—Mary Stuart, at 8
The Volume of the Society's Transactions, including Reports of the
Lectures, Discussions, Soirees, Reviews of Books, &c., in demy quarto,
illustrated with numerous engravings, is now in the press, and will
be ready for delivery to subscribers at the close of the season.
JAMES S. BUCKINGHA'M , Resident Director.
13, George-street, Hanover-square.

COVENTRY and LEICESTER. JUNCTION
RAILWAY.
BRANCH LINE from NUNEATON to form a JU F.CTION with
the BIRMINGHAM and DERRY JUNCTION RAILWAY, near
COLESHILL

Length, Ten Miles.
Increased Capital, 225,000 t., in Shares of 251. each.
Deposit, IL ss. per Share.
The Previsional Committee of the Coventry and Leicester Junc-
tion Railway, with the view of accommodating the important tho-
rough as well as local traffic between Leicester and Birmingham, have
decided upon this extension, which will effect a saving of upwards of
Twelve miles in a distance of Forty-nine miles between these impor-
tant districts. The country to be traversed presents no considerable
engineering difficulties, and the traffic returns show an ample source
of revenue.
The Shares will be appropriated to holders of Coventry and Leices-
ter Scrip in the proportion of two shares to every three held In that
Company.
Allotment letters will be delivered to parties producing the Scrip
of the Coventry and Leicester Railway Company, any day after
Wednesday, the 9th, till Wednesday, the 30th April, instant, inclu-
sive, between the hours of Ten and Four, at their Office, 3, Church-
court, Old Jewry, London.
All parties not so applying, will be considered to have waived
their option.
•
London, April 4; 1845;

0 V..1,17.1,.-L-A.N-D . MAIL.

INDIA -AND CHINA.

Theintelligence by this Mail is not of great import-
ance. India is perfectly trenqiil ; the affairs of Sinde
are going on as well as might have been expected ; the
campaign in South Mahratta had closed, and the British
troops were leaving the country. The Punjaub remains
in the same unsettled state, but no new outbreak had
taken place. Our troops, however, were still gathering
on the frontier, mud by, tils.;,!..ip?o amount at least
,Jp-,
10;i1 00 r2icn"...- if'easy 1 /titled at Calcutta,
peacefully occupied in adopting measures for improving
the education of the natives, and also increasing the re-
venue by additional import duties on European produce.
The latter, we think, a very questionable measure. It
is, at all events, dangerous, and may lead to serious re-
sults. The Calcutta correspondent of the Times gives
the following account of the new tariff':—
" The most important occurrence of a domestic kind
which has for some time happened here is the publica-
tion of a draught Act, just read a first time in the
Legislative Council, for altering the import duties. It
is proposed to increase the duties on all metals, wrought
and unwrought ; on all marine stores ; on woollen ; on
cotton and silk piece-goods ; on wines and liquors ; on
spirits; and on all manufactured articles not enumerated.
Cotton-thread, twist, and yarn have escaped with the
old duties, except foreign thread (an article of little im-
portance), which now, for the first time, is subjected to
double the duty of British. The best exposition of
the proposed Act is to be found in the /fork/To,
which has opposed the change frjm the first.
The Englishman, also, intimates the probab:e
mischief it will do to foreign commerce ; but, at
the same time, expresses a regret for the necessity
which it supposes to exist for such a measure ; the Star,
at the eleventh hour, shows ae opposition,
after having,
in the spirit of a clerk or seerstsry of some revenue
office, suggested an apology for it, in a supposed loss to
the revenue from the abolition of the Madras transit
duties. Nothing but a proved necessity can excuse such
a measure. Marine stores are raised from 3to 5 per
cent. ; metals, from 3 to 5 per cent, ;woollens, from 2
to 5 per cent. ; tin, from 3 to 5 per cent. ; cotton and
silk piece-goods, from 3i to 5 per cent. ; porter, ale
beer, from 3i to 5 per cent. ; wines and liquors, from an
ad valorem duty of 10 per cent. to 1 rupee 8 annas (35.)
per gallon ; and all unenurcerated articles from 3i to 5
per cent. These are the rates os British goods ; on
foreign the rates are raised in the same proportion; and
the distinction is preserved and the same proportion con-
tinued between imports on British and on foreign bot-

toms."
The same journal makes the following just remarks
respecting the sickness of the 78th Highlanders :—"The
health of the troops in Sinde is admitted to be in general
good. The only exception has been the 78th High-
landers, which had lost in five months to the Ist of Fe-
bruary 431 men, leaving only 494 remaining. Sickness
was diminishing in the regiment, which was coming to
Bombay in a steamer from the mouth of the Indus. It
is necessary to be cautious in giving credit to the exag-
gerations circulated on the subject of the mortality, with
the evident object of damaging the reputation of Sir C.
Napier,-as if, while the other troops continue compara-
tively healthy, ho was to be exclusively blamed for the
sickness prevalent in that regiment."
We have all along contended that the sickness in
Sinde and the difficulties attending the occupation of this
fine district had been greatly magnified by interested
writers forlndian journals, and the fact now seems gene-
says that
of Sir
gene-
rally admitted. Even the Bombay correspondent of the
Morning Herald goes out of his way and counteracts the
policy of the journal by which he is employed to have a
" fling" at the hero of Matinee. It is easy to prophecy
acoftrerrespthoendeevnetn,t."
a" Icospeynt
Charles Napier on entering on his expedition into the
hills, together with a few particulars of the earlier pro-
ceedings of the expedition itself. On the second head I
ofyon the lastproclamationmonth
have really very little to communicate. An army of
,5,000 British troops and 2,000 allies have been in the
field for nearly a month, and have apparently done no-
thing—for the best of all reasons, however, fur it was
foreseen from the first that if the enemy chose to walk
away there really was nothing to -be done. It seems
most extraordinary that a man of Sir Charles Napier's
undoubted talent and great knowledge of mankind
should not from the beginning have perceived that, un-
less the enemy stood still to be shot at, it was impossible
to effect anything againt them."
The accounts brought by this mail are of the-follow-
ing dates :—Bombay, March 1 ; Madras, Feb. 21 ; Cal-
cutta, Feb. 19 ; Lahore, Feb. 9 ; Sinde, Feb. 20 ;Sin-
gapore, Jan. 26 ; and China, Jas. 14.
(From the Bombay Times, March 1.)
The month of February has proved singularly barren in events.
Sir C. Napier, who went forth in the end of January, with about
5,000 British troops and 2,000 Siudian auxiliaries, to put down
the freebooters who have infested our frontier ever since we ad-
vanced it beyond the Indus, remains with the troops on the other
side of the Desert, at the base or in the bosom of the mountains.
Some successful attacks (adverted to in our last) were made on the
enemy, in one of which three thousand stolen cattle were rascued,
a village taken, and a score or two of plunderers killed or wounded
--a bold assault, and rapid march or two, were at the outset duly
set forth in general orders! which concluded, in reference to the

marches, that " the glory of soldiers was as often won by their legs
as by their arms." From the 20th of January to the Bth or 10th
of February, the force seems to have done nothing but con-
sume their supplies, which at the latter date were pretty
nearly exhausted. The enemy were never seen, though
the incessant robberies which occurred in and around
the camp showed that they had not wholly departed. The
people generally remain quiet, and the troops, with the exception
of her Majesty's 78th Highlanders, healthy, throughout Sinde.
Of this unhappy regiment more than one.half had died in five
months ; the survivors are this day expected to arrive from Kur-
rachee at Bombay, to abide the determination of Government,
whether they shall be sent to the Deccan, the Cape of Good Hope,
or England. The troops are now in process of being withdrawn
from the disturbed districts of Kolapore and Sawunt Warree. A
number of " small affairs" have come off in the course of the
month—martial law has been proclaimed—some 600 or 700 pri-
soners are in our hands waiting to be tried by military tribunal—
and one of the most turbulent of the insurgent leaders, Lall Gheer
Gosain, has been hanged. Colonel Outram has been appointed
political agent or resident at Sattara. The Punjaub continues
turbulent, and the chief military stations 'on the north
west frontier . are being reinforced. There seems no
idea of a Sikh war for the present—the measures which have been
adopted being preventive merely. Little more of the Cashmere or
Nepaul troubles has been heard in the course of the month.
Gsvalior teems peaceful ; and the unquiet aspect of the horizon to-
wards the north is vanishing away. The hot season is at hand,
when military operations must be suspended till September. The
British dominions throughout India enjoy profound peace. From
China we have tidings to the 14th of January ; their interest is
chiefly commercial. Sir Henry Hardinge continues at Calcutta,
devoting himself to the concerns of a thoroughly peaceful admi-
Listration, and continuing unwearied in his exertions to advance
the education of the people; and the comforts of the humbler ranks
of the army. If the history of the present time is uninteresting,
our prospects, are cheerful. ,


We gave in last month's summary some particulars of the march
of an expedition of some magnitude, which started from Sukkur
about the middle of January, into the haunts of the robber tribes
nearest beyond our new frontier in the direction of Shikarpore.
Our present information from the field force extends to the 10th of
February. The force dispatched was by general order directed to
consist of 2,440 infantry, and 1,600 cavalry, besides artillery, from
Sukkur—viz.: four 4i inch m9rtars, two and two 41 inch
howitzers. From Lorkhana the Sinde horse and camel corps,
with the volunteers of her Majesty's :39th (drafts from her Ma-
jesty's 13th) mounted on camels, with two mountain guns, were to
proceed on the 13th. Ali Moorad promised to bring 2,000 and
Wullce Mahomed some 600 or 800 followers into the field (it was
feared our allies would tax the supplies to a larger amount
than the value of their services); so that in all the force
probably amounted to nearly 7,000 men, 4,500 British
and 2,500 allies, with ten or twelve pieces of ord-
nance. The troops under the governor having crossed the
desert, Capt. Salter with the 6th Irregular Cavalry marched 40
miles, and Captain Jacob 37 with the Sinde horse, on the 16th ;
Captain Mowatt in 24 hours marched 56, Lieutant Smallpage with
136 police on foot marched 40 miles through the desert in 16 sue-
ces,ive hours—feats rarely exceeded in our military annals, consi-
dering the climate and country where they were performed. Ge-
neral Sir C. Napier stated that such performances made him proud
of the force under his command, " the glory of soldiers being as
often gained by their legs as by their arms." Nothing could be more
essential to their success than the celerity of their movements.
Captain Jacobs, on the 16th, reached the village of Shahpore before
the inhabitants had time to abandon it, Though strongly fortified,
and stoutly defended, the irregular horse carried it with the
rapidity of lightning, made prisoners without injuring one of
them, of all its occupants ; and their gallant leader was deservedly
complimented by the general for the resolute, prompt, and humane
conduct of his men. Capt. Salter, with the 6th Irregulars and
two guns of the mountain train, overtook the robbers the same day
near Ooch—surprised and defeated them with considerable loss—
amount:ng, it is said, to 40 killed or wounded. On this
occasion 3,500 head of stolen cattle were recovered while on
their way to the hills. The troops under General Hunter crossed
the desert to Khangur in two detachments, on the nights of the
19th and 20th, and found the way smooth and the weather cool
and agreeable; the next morning at daybreak they reached Mi.
notee ; on the 21st they started for Shahpore; and on the 22d
proceeded to Ooch. Here they were inspected by the Governor
on the 23d. On the night of the 22d Colonel Geddes had marched
with the camel corps and Captain Mowatt's troop to a place 20
miles in advance of Ooch—Bejar Khan, with some 2,500 of his
followers, being understood to have got surrounded in the vici.
nage by the tribes friendly to us. From this time our accounts
from the Kutchee force are scanty; the communication with
Shahpore is said to have been uninterrupted, and the enemy had
learnt wisdom and retired within their fastnesses, leaving their in-.
vaders to wander up and down shine through the glens. On the
25th and 26th the brigade under General Hunter and the head-
quarters of the Governor, were at Sooroo Kooshte. The pass in
fr

.ont of them was, on the 27th, found deserted, and on the 29th
the troops had got through the defile, and established therm.
selves within the mountain range, where water and forage were
abundant.. The army had now been thirteen days in the field ;
the commissariat had only been ordered to provide supplies for a
fortnight, and provisions began to fail.
From other parts of Sinde the intelligence is of comparatively
little interest. The country continues quiet, and the health of the
troops is improving. From the return of the strength of the
armies of the Indus, with the numbers in hospital at the beginning
of last month—those with General Napier not being included—it
appears that we have a force of 10,417 in the country, or reckoning
•'4,500 for those absent 40 the: overnor, of nearly 15,000
Pn sal. Of these,. 1,144 are in hospital,

CAUBUL.
(From the Delhi Gazette, Feb. 18.)

We will commence with the events in Central Asia, premising
that although our communication with that country was inter-
rupted, as stated in our last, we have since then received our usual
half monthly letters with the missing ones in duplicate, by a mes-
senger dispatched specially to Peshawur, the most recent leiter
bringing news to the 26th December in the ordinary courses. It
appears from our letters that Dost Mahomed was, up to their
latest date, still at Caubul, engaged in the ceremonies of a marriage
with a young damsel of 14, daughter of Taj Mahomed Khan, whom
his principal wife, the mother of Mahomed Ukbar Khan, had
been anx►ous to obtain as a bride for her son Shere Jan Khan. The
fact of her being betrothed to Dost Mahomed became only known
when the lady went to the house of the girl's father to open the ne-
gotiations for her son, and the pertanacity with which the Ameer
persisted in carrying out his new matrimonial connexion will, we
have great reason for believing, from what we know of the consc.
quence of the like events in Mahomedan families generally, lead to
the most serious consequences. Great dissatisfaction had been
caused in Caubul, by the unwarranted disgrace of two of the most
respectable men in the place, Surwur Khan, Lohanee, the chief con-
tractor of customs, and Meerza Khodadad Khan, the agent of the
great Bokhara merchant, the late Buddur.ood-deen, his associate.
The pretext made use of was that they had not accounted faith-
fully for their receipts, and was of course only advanced as usual
in all such cases with the view of extorting money. When they
have been well squeezed they may be restored to such favour as
their poverty will admit of.

him to enter on the stage. He is probably biding his time, though
we have no opinion of his talents. What may be the ImmediAte
cause of the march of troops in such numbers towards the N. W.
frontier we are at present unable to state; but whatever it may be,
there can be little doubt of the propriety of the step which has bcea
taken by the Government.