The Sun.
London, England, 1826-04-26 00:00:00

LONDON, .4r)
WEDNESDAY EVENING, APRIL ed. ism

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The Gazette of last night contains a letter from
Commodore Sir JAMES BRISBANE, C. 8., Command-
ing his Majesty's Ships in the East Indies, to J. W.
Esq., dated on board the Diana steam vessel,
above Prome, on the Irawaddy, on the 3d December
last, reporting that Sir ARCHIBALD CAMPBELL, the
Commander of the Forces, moved out of the British
position on the Ist of that month, for the purpose of
attacking the left column of the enemy, having re-
quested that the Commodore, at the same time, would
make a diversion in his 'favour by engaging the
enemy's centre position, at Pagoda Point, with the
Flotilla under his command. The result of these ar-
rangements was decidedly favourable ; the enemy's left
column, consisting of about 14,000 men, being com-
pletely overthrown, their ordnance and commissariat
captured, and a heavy loss of men. On the next day the
blow was followed up by an attack upon Pagoda Point,
the flotilla covering the advance of the Army along the
shore. After a cannonading of some hours, the troops
rushed to the assault, and carried the position in the
most gallant style. The flotilla at the
same time
pushed up the river, and captured the whole of the
enemy's boats (about 300), with several guns, 400
muskets, and a quantity of stores.
The Commodore speaks in the handsomest terms of
the gallantry and good conduct of the Officers and men
of the Royal Navy, and of the Honourable Com-
pany's Marine employed in the flotilla, and particu-
larly commends the zeal, judgment, and intrepidity of
Captain CHADS of the Alligator ; and also of Capt.
JoHN,F. DAWSON of the Arachne, the latter of whom
unfortunately fell, just as success had crowned their
efforts.

A Supplement to the London Gazette has been pub-
I ished this morning, containing the Dispatches from Ma-
jor-General Sir Ancrt IBA LD CAMPBELL reporting at
length the operations of the Forces on both banks of the
Irawaddy , down to the 6th December, and we must
refer our readers for the interesting details to the dis-
patches themselves, which are printed in another part
of our paper.
We most sincerely congratulate the
country on the brilliant success which, upon this oc-
casion, crowned the exertions of our naval and mili-
tary forces against the Burmese ; and we sincerely hope
that it may, in its consequences, lead to a termination
of the arduous struggle in which we are. engaged with
that people.

Last night, in the House of Lords, the Earl of LI-
VERPOOL moved that the further consideration of the
Bill to oblige the payment in gold of all notes issued
by country Banks, at the places where they were is-
sued, should be postponed for three months, and his
Lordship's motion having been agreed to, the Bill in
effect has been lost. His Lordship, in the speech
with which he_iorefaced his motion, made a communi-
cation to the House of much importance. He stated,

that although he hoped the. Committee, to whom the
question of the Banking system, as affecting Scotland
and 'lreland had been referred, would be enabled to
lay their report before the House previously to the
termination of the present Session ; yet he could not
look to the possibility of coining to any determination
on those points before the close of it. Under these
circumstances it would be, he conceived, better that
the subject should be left open till next Session.—
The intended measures for the immediate suppression
of Small Notes in Scotland and Ireland are therefore
abandoned, and, we have no doubt, that this determi-
nation will be hailed by both those Countries with
great satisfaction.

Our Readers will also observe by the Par-
liamentary Proceedings, that His MAJESTY has
been pleased, of his 'Grace and Favour, to sanction
the reversal of the Attainders of five other Scotch
Titles. Lord LIVERPOOL last night brought in Bills
for that purpose on behalf of the descendants of the
Earls of CARNWATU, and AIRLIE, and the Lords
OGILVIE, ELcno, and DUFFUS, and the Baroneicy
of FINGAsx. Scotland, and indeed the Country at
large, will duly appreciate this act of His MAJESTY'S
gracious goodness, and we cannot avoid venturing
to express a hope, that all other Lineal Representatives
of Titles forfeited during times, which ought to be
forgotten, who may be worthy of. such an act of
Grace, may be restored to the honours of their
Ancestors at no distant period.
The length of the Debates in the House of Com-
mons, prevents our offering any remarks on the
subjects which came before them last night. It will
be observed that . Mr. GEORGE LAMB s motion for
leave to bring in a Bill to entitle Prisoners to be heard
by Counsel, on charges of Felony, was lost by a ma-
jority of 105 to 36.

It will be in the recollection of our readers, that the
Lords of the Committee of his Majesty's Privy Coun-
cil for Trade, being desirous to obtain the most cor-
rect information on every subject connected with the
supply of Foreign_ Corn, appointed, in the early part
of last summer, WILLIAM JACOB, Esq., the Inspec-
tor-General of Corn Returns, to visit and eNamine
into the state of those countries, the produce of which
find an outlet by the river Vistula into the Baltic, to
ascertain the prices of the several descriptions of corn
at the places of their growth, and the expences of con-
veying them to Dantzic and Elberg, and to report the
result of his inquiries on these and the several other
subjects to which his attention was particularly di-
rected, as bearing upon the question of the growth and
importation of lioreign Corn.
The instructions under which Mr. .I.iccon acted
appear to have been drawn up with much perspicuity
and judgment; and he has made a report of his pro-
ceedings and observations, which fay prove the assi-
duity and ability with which he has-executed the diffi-
cult duties" entrusted to him. This 'Report has been
published by, order of the House of Commons ; but as
It occupies 48 folio pages, exclusive of a voluminous
appendix, we must, for the present, defer offering any
remarks upon its details. Deeming it, however, to be
full of matter of the highqAt interest to our agricultuna
and commercial Readers, we shall, by degrees, publish
in oUr columns the Report at full length, as other
matter will allow of our devoting sufficient space to this
purpose.

The Etoile dated yesterday reached us this morn-
ing by'expross, but it .conteins nothing new or inte-
resting.
FLINCH Ft!Nn9.—PARIS, APRA 24.—Five per Cents. 96f.
80c.--Three per Cents., 61f. tisf.—Hank Stock, 2,o2o.—ltentes
de Naples, :74f. 50c.
k.Gartnan Mail arrived this wailing, from which
we I:n4 the following extracts I—,
" MARCH 29.
Forninaso di gornma, Marquis de Oirtiello, Lieutenant-Ge-
neral, and Counsellor of State, died suddenly yesterday evening.
His Majesty has ordered all the honcituv etritable to his rank to be
paid hint.
The Austrian garrison in this capital has to-day celebrated,
with every demonstration of joy, the happy recovery of his Ma-
jesty the Emperor of Austria.
This morning eight battalions of infantry and two squadrons of
cavalry, repaired to the river Chiaia. After a solemn mass, Te
Dem was performed in the Church of Chiaia, during which the
troops fired several vollies. The Duke,of Wurternburg, the
Prince of Mecklenburg, Count Fequelmont, the Austrian Minister
to our Court, Lieutenants-General Lederer and Koller, were pre-
sent at this ceremony, as also several Neopolitan Generals, .and a
great many persons of distinction. ,
The Austrian army, as a testimony of its joy on this happy event,
has placed in the hands of the Minister of War, the sum of 8,090
francs, to be distributed among the widows of Neapolitan officers
in this capital. The Austrian garrison at Capica has also sent
his Excellency 1,000 francs for the widows of Neapolitan officers
settled in that place. The Austrian garrison of Palermo is leav-
ing Palermo: On the 20th of this month some companies had
already quitted that city, and the little fort of the Mull was given
up to his Majesty's troops. One battalion of the regiment of the
Emperor Alexander will go hs' se4tto Venice, and a battalion of
chasseurs to Trieste, the rest 'orthe troops will land at Naples, and
thence proceed to the left bank of the Po.

VIZIMA, APRIL 11.

The Journals contain a circumstantial account of the construc-
tion of an iron rail way between Eudeveis and Manthausen, for
which the Emperor, by a resolution of Sept. '7, 1824, granted im
extensive privilege with great advantages for 50 years, to Mr.
Anthony Gerstner, and which is now proceeding with great fwd..
vity. A company war formed last year, and the subscription
opened on the 12th of March, amounted in a week to 800,000
florins. The materials having been collected, and all the neces-
sary preparations made, the work was begun on the '7th of August
last, and that half of the road which presents the greatest difficul-
ties was chosen to commence with. According to the report
made at the end of November, by commissioners sent for the pur-
pose to the spot, a length of road of 4,768 toises had already been
made of wood and iron ; a distance of 1,300 toises of wood only,
and workmen were employed on 110 toises more. The commis-
sioners declared the work to be performed in the best manner.
It was found on trial, that a single horse drew without great ex-
ertions, a weight of 280 quintals, of Vienna, descending, and of
173 quintals, ascending, both in those parts of the road which are
in a straight line, as in those which make great sinuosities.
On an accurate estimate of the whole expense, founded on the
cost of the part already done, it appears that the construction of
this road, in a very solid manner, which has not yet been practised
either in England or on the Continent, will not cost more than 11
or 12 hundred thousand florins, and that the probable revenue
accruing from it will be at least 8 or 9 per cent.

WEIMAR, Aram 7.

A report is current that the question relative to the succession
to the Duchy of Gotha and Altenburg, is on the point of being
decided by an arrangement, by which the boundaries of the Duchies
of Hildburghausen, Coburg, and Aleinengen are so ieguhited as to
remove all confusion of the respective, territories.—Frankfort
Papers, April 19.
(No news whatever from Greece, in the Franckfort and Aug...
burgh papers of 19th, or in the Austrian Observer of the 14th
April.)