The Sun.
London, England, 1845-11-06 00:00:00

of WorkS and the Board of Woods and Forests)
have disfigured, according to the tardy admission
of the Premier himself, " the noblest site offered
by any capital in Europe." But the deformities of
Trafalgar-square exhibit their culminating enormity in
the still unfinished monument to the ill-requited but illus-
trious saviour of his country, the immortal NELsos—to
that sublime genius, and that undaunted spirit, which pur-
sued the naval power of the most victorious enemy we had
ever coped with, over every sea, to every shore of the habit-
able world in which the standard of France was successively
unfurled, in flight or in aggression, and broke and triumphed
over all its might and all its valiant resistance ;

—to him whose crowning victory rescued this
mighty kingdom from becoming a mere province
of that universal empire, which, but fur this over-
throw of the combined fleets of France and Spain, the
stupendous ambition of NAPOLEON would have achieved and
established.

But these are not times when either the aspect of our foreign
relations, er the relative power and state of preparation in
which foreign powers are maintaining their forces—especially
their maritime service—will tolerate any longer any indig-
nity to the memory of that great man, whose renowned
name alone will'yet act as a spirit-stirring spell, a trumpet-
tongued inspiration to the navy of Great Britain, under all
circumstances and in every exigency. The common sailors
will rush into action, whenever the fatal necessity for action
shall arrive, with the indelible name of " Nelson " engraven
on their memory, as the undaunted and affectionate com-
mander who led their fathers and their brothers into every
engagement with the assured confidence of victory, and
the irresistible determination to distinguish themselves. The
young officer and the veteran commander will be animated by
the same impulses, heightened by reminiscences of the tena-
cious 'generosity with which this illustrious Chieftain—far
from coldly discouraging the just demands of his brothers
in arms for distinctions in proportion to his own rewards—
warmly, importunately, fervently pressed, even to his own
prejudice and the incurring official rebuke, on the reluctant
attention of Lords of the Admiralty, Prime Ministers, and
even the SOVEREIGN, the ample rewards and honours due to
those whom his heroic affection always designated as forming,
with himself, " a band of brothers." Let this signal reflection
on the national gratitude, on its sense of true glory, its sense
even of its own political interests, be instantly effaced, we say,
by the completion of the "Nelson" memorial. And since Chan-
cellors of the Exchequer, and First Lords and First Commis-
sioners seem inaccessible to anything like kindred emotions of
sympathy in that feeling which first prompted, among private
or professional "individuals," its erection, let all the great
communities of the kingdom repair the evil by furnishing the
supplies vainly demanded of the Government. The spirited
little town of Greenwich, dignified as the locality of the
noblest home and retirement which public gratitude has yet
provided in this country for our decayed sailors, has
set an admirable example, that may be instantly
and efficiently followed by every other town in Great Britain.
It has originated a penny subscription among its 14,000 in-
habitants. A penny subscription among the millions of our
large marts of manufacturing, and even agricultural and com-
mercial industry, would realise ample funds for the comple-
tion of this monument and the erection of another, which, in
point of grandeur, extent, utility, and beauty, might put to
shame all that the Legislature has yet decreed er the Execu-
tive erected,' to do honour to the greatest hero of all naval
story !

The vast extent of the British possessions in India, their
wealth, population, and growing power, as well as their
supply of native productions to this country, and the con-
sumption of articles of British manufacture, must place
them in the highest rank among all our foreign possessions.
Indeed, England, so famed for her system of colonisation,
and so successful, especially during the last two cen-
turies, in establishing her sons in almost every
clime of the habitable globe, can boast of nothing at all to
be compared with her dominion in India. It is altogether
an anomaly in every point of view. Such a cluster of great
states—many of them large enough for kingdoms—attaching
themselves to a foreign power, and remaining faithful tribu-
taries, almost without compulsion or restraint ; more anxious
for admission within the English pale than to remain subject
to their native chiefs; requiring but a handful of European
troops, rather as models for imitation than as guardians of
public order or instruments of subjection, altogether exhibit
a picture of Government hitherto unknown in the his-
tory of the human race. The Romans extended their
conquests only by force of arms ; the Greeks were
more civilised, planted colonies, and made progress
rather by the influence of arts and sciences and theirsuperior
skill in civil policy, than by their warlike habits, and in this
respect formed a precedent for the progress of British power
in India; but the extent of their colonial possessions was
nothing compared with the vast expanse where the
English language is spoken, English habits in-
troduced, and bonds of friendship established which
hold out fair prospects of long and uninterrupted
duration. A speedy and secure communication, therefore, be-
tween these countries and the parent state, is of the very
first importance, and ought to occupy the serious attention
of the Government. Even within a few years, entirely by
means of steam, a vast change in that respect has been
effected. Formerly the time required for a voyage to
India was between' three and four months—now it
is accomplished in one month, and by and by we
shall have monthly, or weekly, if necessary, intelligence
from Bombay in about the time which travellers in
weeks of yore required to pass from London to Edinburg}'.
Mr. WAGHORN, who has already done wonders, engages
to complete the journey at an average of three
weeks from Bombay to London, and, we have no
doubt, when such great interests arc at stake,
he will receive the utmost support both from the East India
Company and her MAJEarY's Ministers. Speedy intelli-
gence from that quarter must be obtained. We have
lately acquired a large territory to the north of Bombay. A
new source of trade and commerce has been opened up with
the inhabitants on the banks of the Indus ; the Pun-
jaub itself is a kingdom now of primary influence
in our operations in the north, and more particularly in our
relations with the Affghaus and Persians. An Anglo-Indian
army of fifty thousand men is about to assemble on its fron-
tier, for purposes which will require not only all the calm
reflection and ability of Sir H. HARDINGE, but the early and
positive Pastructions of the Home Government. Rapid
communication with that army becomes absolutely indis-
pensable, and a few thousands of pounds wisely expended
may save as many millions.
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dangerous, and neither Parliament nor the
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country would grudge any expense to render quick and punc-
tual the intercourse with such distant countries, and with coun-
tries, too, in which not only the India Company, merchants and
traders, but every inhabitant of the United Kingdom, have
more or less interest. The route taken by Mr. WAGIIORN
with the last overland mail has long appeared to us prefer-
able to that through France. Our peaceable re-
lations with that country, which, we hope, will
long remain uninterrupted, are not, it must be
admitted, so little liable to be disturbed, as those
with Germany, where there is much less jealousy of
England, and where the people are more commercial and less
warlike than their excitable neighbours in the west. The
Governments, too, as will be seen from Mr. WAG-
HORN'S letter, are fully disposed to render every facility,
and even break through their ancient laws and cus-
toms (a vast concession for an Austrian Cabinet), in
order to establish a line for the Indian mail, through
an extraordinary instance of Austrian
their States. The following extract confirms the assertion and
describes one of the many wonders of the day :—" I may
Company, and all the elite of the mere
nsadysatlitetion. His Excellency the Governor of
Trieste, Count STADION, Chevalier DE BRUCE, the head of
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'given by order of the Emperor of AUSTRIA, and countersigned
at Vienna by the representatives of Belgium, Prussia, Baden
and Bavaria, countries through which I passed; indeed:
I was not asked a question throughout the journey."
The French journals, in order to create a counter-
balance to this, are urging the Government to hasten the
completion of the Lyons and Avignon lines, because, when
these are finished, the passage will be made in much less time
than through Germany. But the German, as well as the
Italian States under the dominion of Austria, are also ac-
tively engaged in forming railways; that from Ostend
to the Rhine has long been completed, so is one from Bruschel
.to Manheim, and it is not too much to anticipate,
in these days of improvement and change, that tber„vill, in
a short time, be a continued railway route from the English
'Channel to the Adriatic. Even in the present state of the
.roads, the journey was performed with most extraordinary
speed, when it is known that on the voyage from Alexan-
dria to Trieste the steamer experienced a tempest
which caused her to be a day and a half longer than
usual. With the plans now in progress for shortening the
time occupied in the journey between Bombay and Suez, no
doubt can remain that the whole journey may be accom-
plished in twenty-one days, and, with the aid of railroads, in
i a fortnight. News thus could be brought from Moulton,
on the borders of the Punjaub, by steamers down the Indus
to Bombay in ten or twelve days, and the entire journey
° from Ferozepore to London made in little more than a month.

which two Spanish officers,
Madrid journals of the 29th October have been received.
S,LNDOVAL and MADERA, who,
The Gazette of that date contains a royal ordinance by
bad been serving with the French army in Africa, are
directed to join the Russian troops in the Caucasus, and re-
port upon their operations. The arrest of Colonel SOLER,
commanding the Regiment San Fernando, in the public
streets, by orders of NAaVAEE, had given rise to some talk
in the metropolis. The story is, that the Commander of the
Forces had intimated his intention to review the regiment on
the 28th, but not arriving at the time appointed, the colonel
had left, concluding that the inspection would not take place.
It appears that the priest who had been ordered to quit
Madrid in twenty-tour hours, was the confessor of Don
Fitaxasco DE PAULA, but the cause for this step has not yet
transpired.
Some public business was done on the Bourse on the 29th.
The Three per Cents. were not quoted. The Five per
Cents. were done at 221 cash, and the Debt without Interest,
at 71, cash.

Several of the Paris journals are chiefly occupied with the
affairs of Syria, and the serious misunderstanding. which