The Sun.
London, England, 1844-01-08 00:00:00

THE OCCUPATION OF SINDE.

We find the following in the Chronicle of this
morning :

" Our Indian Correspondent, O. P. Q.,' has sent
us the following extract from a letter, written by Sir
Henry Pottinger, to a friend in Bombay. Inde-
pendent of Sir Henry's high character for talents and
uprightness, no officer of the empire is better quali-
fied, from experience and long residence, to give a
conclusive judgment on the affairs of Sinde."
The following is Sir Henry's letter :
" Your letter brought our happy and merry days
in Sinde vividly to my mind, and I lamented, on
reading it, if possible more deeply than I had done,
over the ' fallen estate' of my old friends the Ameers,
of whose case I have all along said, and ever shall
say, under all circumstances, and in all society and
places where I may hear it alluded to, is the most
unprincipled and disgraceful that has ever stamped the
annals of our empire in India. No explanation or rea-
soning can, in my opinion, remove the foul stain it has
left on our good faith and honour, and as Iknow more
than any other man living of previous events and
measures connected with that devoted country, I feel
that I have a full right to exercise my judgment
and express my sentiments on the subject. I was in
hopes that some influential voice would have been
raised in England against the tyranny and spoliation
that had taken glace, but the intelligence by the last
mail—that of July—holds forth no such prospect,
and all that I can now hope is, that the author of all
this cruelty and misery may meet with his deserts
hereafter. I shall only add, that I shall esteem it a
favour, if you will let my opinions be known wher-
ever you hear the affair mentioned, and that you
cannot use too strong language in expressing my
disgust and sorrow on the occasion."
We are inclined to regard this letter as a forgery.
It is extremely unlikely that Sir H. Pottinger would
thus boast of knowing more about Sinde than any
other person:living, or that he, a representative of her
Majesty, would apply such an outrageous epithet to
Lord Ellenborough, or Sir Charles Napier, or Major
Outram. The opinions expressed, too, are at utter
k variance with Sir 11. Pottinger's sentiments, expressed
in his communication to Lord Auckland in 1839.
By that time no doubt remained in his mind
that the Ameers had acted treacherously towards
the Indian Government, and had been intriguing
with States hostile to England. On March 14, 1839,
he thus writes :—" I found he (one of the Ameers)
was ignorant of most of the intrigues that had been
carried on by the Ameers with Persia and the Can-
dahar chiefs during the last year; and when I laid the
proofs of them before him, and deduced from them
that our recent arrangements 'were, in real truth,
forced on us by the Ameers, he admitted
the fact, and said he had not one word to
urge against them." In another interview with
these chiefs, he said distinctly that " they must hence-
forward consider Sinde to be a portion of Hindostan,
in which our position made us paramount, and en-
titled us to act as we considered best and fittest for the
general good of the whole empire." But in addition
to these strong proofs that the letter is a fabrica-
tion, we may state that before the Resident in Sinde
left, several parts of the territory had been taken
possession of by the Indian Government, and for the
very reasons, too, which, induced Lord Ellenborough
to occupy the whole—namely the hostile and
treacherous conduct of the Ameers. In writing to
one of them he says, " It is to be perfectly under-
stood that his Lordship will not overlook the conduct
of the authorities at that place (Kurachee), in know-
ingly and wantonly offering an insult to the British
Government, and consequently that place will not be
restored." On the 7th of March, too, he thus writes,
" After their long course of deceit and treachery I
am loath to pledge my word for their sincerity."
And in a letter of the 11th of the same month he
uses these remarkable words :—" It seems to me that
it would be better at once to take possession of Sinde
(or such parts of it as we require) by force, than to
leave it nominally with the Ameers and yet deal with
it as if it were our own. The one line is explicit and
dignified, and cannot be misunderstood, the other I
conceive to be unbecoming our power."
After Sir Henry Pottinger's departure, which shortly
took place, and especially during the passage of the
Indian army and their stay in Affghanistan, the
Ameers scarcely observed one article of the ,treaty,
and for proof of their treachery and hostility it is
necessary only to refer to what has been said and
written by Dr. Kennedy and Lieut. Postans.

ANTI-STATE-CHURCH A SSOCIATION,—A meeting
of thislassociation, of which the Rev. Dr. Cox is the president,
was held on Thursday evening last, at the King's Head, Poul-
try, to receive subscriptions and to forward the general in-
terests of the Society. There was a large accession to the
number of members, and great interest seems to have been ex-
cited by the efforts made in various parts of the country. So
soon as the conference assembles, branch associations will be
formed in every provincial town throughout the country.

POLICE IN

CLERKENWELL-7(:THIS DAY.)

Thomas Moore, a half-starved famished-looking lad, of 17,
whose rags scarcely concealed his nudity, was charged with
begging.
Police-constable E 41 saw the prisoner begging near Sir
Frederick Pollock's house, Great Guildford-street, Russell-
square, and took him into custody.
The prisoner, on being interrogated, replied that he was a
native of Bristol, and had beers at Chatham, Woolwich, and
Portsmouth, endeavouring to get naval employment, but failing
in his object came to London. He had been in London a month,
during which time he wandered about the streets, sometimes
getting lodgings in the straw-yard of a workhouse and some-
times travelling about all night. He had had some food at
the Alendicity, and did not deny the fact of begging. The un-
fortunate boy had neither shoes nor cap on, and a more
wretched-looking object could hardly be met anywhere.
Mr. GREENWOOD humanely directed the overseer of St.
Giles's to be sent for, that the poor lad might be provided for.

UNION HALL.-(THIS DAY.)
Jane Anderson, a good-looking girl, of fifteen years of age,
was charged with robbing her mother on several occasions.

The mother, who was very much affected while giving her
evidence, gave a variety of instances in which she had been
robbed by her daughter, who was in the habit of breaking open
the drawers, and stealing the clothes, which she either pawned
or sold to obtain money.
Mr. TRAILL—What does she do with the money? Com-
plainant—To pay for her admission to the Bower Saloon.
Nothing will keep her away from that place of amusement.
Mr. TRAILL—If she stays out late, why do you let her into
the house? let her go to the workhouse.' Complainant—l
have even locked up her shoes, and still she contrives to get
out to go to the Bower Saloon. lam afraid, although so
young, she has bad acquaintances. She gets over the back
yard wall late of a night, and gets into the house.
Mr. TRair.r.—She must be broken of the habit of going to
the Saloon, or else she will soon go to destruction.
Defendant, who stood at the bar quite unconcerned at her
mother's relation of the circumstances, here exclaimed, " I
only goes to hear the music."
Mr. TRAILL—Why do you rob your poor mother to go to
such a place ?—She made no reply
The MAGISTRATE said that be should give the defendant a
taste of Brixton treadmill, instead of committing her fur trial
for robbing her mother, and that if she was brought there
again he would send her before a jury.

MARYLEBONE.-(THIS DAY.)
Joseph Luerd and Ann his n ife were placed at the bar, the
former charged with drunk and disorderly conduct in Foley-
place, and the latter with attempting to rescue him.
Smithers, 28 E, said that the male prisoner was singing at
half-past eleven on Saturday night. He therefore took him
into custody ; but the female threw herself on him, and the
prisoner then escaped. He called assistance, and took him to
the station-house.

11r. RAWLINSON-Why I find here (on the sheet) that six
policemen were required to take that slight drunken man into
custody.—(Laughter.)
The constable said it was so, and considerable amusement
was created in Court when the six powerful policemen were
called or,, he the ghosts in Richard, and each recounted, in
good set phrAe, his share in the capture.
The prisoners were fined, the husband 15s. and the wife 55.,
in default to be sent to the House of Correction.

LLOYD'S SHIPPING.-( THIS DAY.

LoNnorr, JAN. B.—Wind, fresh northerly breeze, and fine
clear weather.

DEAL, JAR. 7.—Wind N.W., moderate.—Arrd. Mary
Bibby, Archibald, Honduras, with loss of sails, bulwarks,
mizen-mast, &c ; Governor, M'Donald, Sierra Leone ' • Eme-
rald, St. John's, New Brunswick. Sid. Zenobia, Cape of
Good Hope ; Chartley Castle, Valparaiso ; William Ward and
Alexander Edmond, Savannah ; Flora and Caroline, Jamaica ;
Grace Darling, Madeira; Charles Homerton, St. Domingo.
It blew last night heavily from the westward. The shipping
in the Downs all rode well.

COWES, JAN. 6.—Arrd. Volunteer, London, for Mauritius ;
Brightman, ditto, for Antigua; Achilles, Shields, for Ceylon.
TORBAY, JAN. 6.—Arrd. Lady Sale, Leith, for Havannah.
PLYMOUTH, JAN. 7.—Wind W.—Arrd. Crane (packet),
Rio, sailed Nov. 24, with a large quantity of specie and gold
dust ; Justina, London, for Calcutta.
PORTSMOUTH, JAN. 7.—Wind W. to N. W., fine.—Arrd.
Lady Kinnaird, London, for Calcutta.
POOLE, JAN. s.—Arrd. Nymph, Newfoundland.
BROXHAM, tJAN. 6.—The King of Tyre, Stevens, from
London to St. Michael's, has put into Torbay, to-day, under
jurymasts, and with loss of sails, rigging, bulwarks, &c., having
been totally dismasted during a heavy squall, Ist instant, in
lat. 47, lon. 12.

SWANSEA, JAIL 6.--Sid. Lady Mary, Valparaiso.
CORE, JAN. s.—Arrd. Thalestris, Alain, Demerara. Sid.
Sea Queen, Port Philip,
HULL, JAN. 6.—Wind S.W., strong breeze.—Arrd. Me-
gunticork, Mays, New Orleans; Victoria, New York.
FALMOUTH, JAN. 6.—Wind W. S. W. to W. N. W.,
strong gales and squally. 7. W. S.W., fresh.—.Acrd. Madi-
son, Rotterdam for Mobile, leaky, and with pumps choked.
Sid. Penguin, packet, Teneriffe and Brazils.
LIVERPOOL, JAN. 7.—Wind N. W., fresh.—Arrd.
Samuel Hicks, Bunker, New York; Larch, Lemon, Ba-
thurst ; Severn, Boult, Pernambuco ; Gossipium, Brown, and
Rienzi, Smith, New Orleans ; Sisters, Berry, Nassau ; Mary,
Stickney, St.: Andrew's. ' The Fanny, of Fleetwood, slate
laden, is ashore on the Horse Bank, near South Port; crew
saved. A vessel of about 600 tons was seen on the 4th inst.
in lat. 49, lon. 11, with foreyard lying across the deck, and
only bowsprit standing, by the Rienzi, arrived here. The
Franklin, which was on the bar at New Orleans, got off pre-
vious to the Ist ult., and sailed for this port. The Minerva,
of Kincardine, supposed from the Clyde to Bombay, has struck
in Blackwater Bank, and becoming unnavigable, drove on shore
on Cahore Point ; crew saved.
LivaitrooL, JAN. 7.—The Nymph, from Limerick, laden
with wheat, took fire to-day in the King's Dock, and was
towed to the basin and extinguished without much damage,
cargo discharging.
WEXFORD, JAN. s.—The Wanderer, from Dublin to the
West Indies, is ashore on the N. E. end of the Sluice Back,
and expected to become a wreck.
Txuaso, JAN. 1. —The Marys, from Shields to Liverpool,
was totally wrecked Ist inst., forty miles west of this Tort—crew
saved.

OMAN, JAW. 4.—The Angelina, from Liverpool to Shields,
went on shore in the Sound of Leing 2d inst., but got off, and
was towed into Esdale very leaky, but will come up here to be
beached.

YARMOUTH, JAN. 7.—The Coundon, Ramshaw, from
Stockton to London, got on Scroby Sand sth inst., but was
assisted off and beached below Winterton, but has since been
towed into the harbour, after throwing half her cargo overboard.
STitomizss, JaN. I.—The Theodore Henrick, from Riga
to London, has put in here from Longships, leaky, and must
discharge.

ROCHESTER, JAN. 6. THE RECENT CHARGE
AGAINST A CLERGYMAN AND A BUTCHER FOR SELLING
UNWHOLESOME FOOD.—The adjourned inquiry into the case
against the Rev. Henry Winter, chaplain to the Fortitude con-
vict-ship, and Mr. George Bassett, butcher, of High-street,
Chatham, was resumed yesterday, before a full bench of
county magistrates. The inquiry excited the most intense in-
terest, and during the five hours' investigation the court was so
densely crowded that it was impossible to obtain standing room ;
every avenue leading to the court was blocked up by farmers
and others of the neighbourhood, anxious to hear the result.
The evidence adduced on the previous day having been read
over, and some additional evidence brought forward, Mr. Espi-
nasse was heard at length for the defendants. Ultimately the
chairman decided that, in default of any evidence on the part of
the defendants, the Bench must hold them to bail, to answer
the charge at the quarter sessions. Mr. Espinasse begged
leave to offer some evidence, and to make some observations,
submitting that the bench ought not to hold the parties to bail,
but leave the prosecutor to prefer an indictment at the sessions.
The Learned Gentleman then called Robert Maynard, in the
employ of Mr. Bassett. He stated, I recollect the carcase of
a heifer being brought
pto my mast ti on the 25th of November
last, in Alr. Winter s cart, by Mr. Winter's man. Mr. Bassett
went to the cart, and said he did not think he could do any-
thing with it. The next morning, by my master's directions,
I out it up for the hogs. The bones I had for my perquisites,
and the skin went to the tanner's. This witness underwent a
rigid examination by the witnesses, but persevered in his tes-
timony. Mr. Espinasse offered to produce Mr. Bassett's
pocket-book of the entry of the transaction. The magistrates
retired fer ten minutes, when, on their entering the Court
again, the Rev. Chairman informed Mr. Espinasse and the
prosecutor that the Bench had determined to discharge the
defendants, and leave the prosecutor to indict at the sessions
or assizes.
THE QUEEN AND THE POOR ACTRESS.—There is
a little incident connected with the temporary residence of the
Princess Victoria at Tunbridge Wells, which I delight to re-
cord. It so happened that the husband of one of the actresses
at the small theatre in that lovely and captivating watering-
place, died, and left his widow in the condition of about
becoming a mother. The fact came to her knowledge, and she
applied to the Duchess for aid to the unfortunate lady.
Always anxious to relieve distress, she placed 101. in the hands
of the Princess Victoria, who added a similar sum herself. She
then applied for permission to be the bearer of this sum of 204
to the distressed and disconsolate actress. With that activity
which distinguished her in all her proceedings, she hastened to
the afflicted woman, conversed with her with great kindness
and affability, witnessed the good which was accomplished by
the bestowment of the sum in question, and afterwards made
many inquiries as to her condition. Here, however, her
Royal munificence did not terminate, for whets her Majesty
ascended the throne she forgot not the poor widow of 'I un-
bridge Wells, but sent to her a kindly intimation that an an-
nuity of 401. would be paid to her during the rest of her life.—
Frazer's Magazine.
ST. STEPHEN WALBROOR.—ANOTHEK AIONOMA•
masc.—During the delivery of the Rev. Dr. Croly's sermon,
yesterday morning, a person who occupied one of the centre
seats in the church, suddenly rose and exclaimed, " It's all a
delusion, it's all a delusion ; I'm ashamed of you, Sir, for ut-
tering such gross falsehoods." The congregation was as-
tonished, and rose en masse to inspect the strange intruder.
The Rev. Doctor was alluding to the state of the new year, and
to the happy state of the country under the reign of our gra-
cious Queen. Mr. Rock, who was present, immediately re-
moved the offender from the church, and gave him into custody.
THE FOREIGN MAILS.—The following notice was
issued at the General Post-office, St. Martin's-le-Grand, on
Saturday last :—" The next mails for Oporto, Lisbon, Cadiz,
Gibraltar, Malta, Greece, and the lonian Islands will be made
up on next Thursday morning, the 11th instant ; and for Eeypt
and India on the morning of the Ist of February, to be for-
warded ens Southampton. The West Indies, Madeira, Ber-
muda, and St. Jago de Cuba on the morning of the 17th
instant, by the Tweed steamer, via Southampton. All letters
passing between the United Kingdom and any place in
Jamaica, when conveyed by packet, will henceforth be charged
•nly Is. 2d, per half ounce, and to Kingston, Jamaica, Is, per
half ounce, not being liable to inland postage. A ship letter
bag will be made up on Tuesday, the 9th instant, fur New
York, to be forwarded by the Hendrick Hudson, •
Portsmouth."

On Christmas-day a number of young men were
amusing themselves by target shooting on Mount Batten, when,
unfortunately, one of then, named
injured
Copplestone, an ap-
prentice at the Journal office, was to such an extent
that the loss of an eye is the unhappy result of the carelessness
of the parties. The circumstances relating to the affair were
as follow : Copplestone was on the top of the castle, erecting
the object to be shot at, when a lad named Daniel Dyer in-
cautiously fired before the former had retired, and a portion of
the shot struck him in the head, one shot passing immediately
into the ball of his right eye, another perforating the eyelid of
the left, and several shots entered the forehead.—North Derma
Advertiser.

A Pious PAGAN.—M. Dumoutier, a Frenchman,
has been " round the world," at the expense of his Government,
collecting sk ills and casts of the various races of the great
family of man. Many savage tribes, attaching great sacredness
to the remains of the dead, were loth to gratify his scientific
cravings. One of the natives of a most ferocious tribe of the
Malays, of whom M. Dumoutier requested a skull, tendering
him silver in exchange, offered to go and decapitate an enemy
immediately for him, and give him the skull, but would not
allow him to touch the hones resting in the tomb.

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