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

PATENT PARAGON CAMPIIIITE 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 f.rming 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 fall action, emits a light equal to
16 wax candles.

C. Watson's Warehouses, 41 and 42, Barbican, and 16, Norton
Folgate, will contain, throughout the season, all the moat elegant
recherche and new patterns, comprising Or-mole, China, Glass, and
Opal.

Old Oil Lamps fitted with the Paragon Head for 21s. And the
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. RAjUITCA:N. and 16, NORTON FOLGATE.

I'HE MONSTER BELL
FOR YORK MINSTER CASHEDRAL.
No doubt, gentle reader, you've lately heard tell
Of the size and e weight of the "York Minster Bell".
This bell, which was cast by the famed Messrs. Mears,
Is upwards of twelve tons in weight it appears;
And eighteen strong horses are needed to draw
The " Monster," whose equal your eye never saw.
When we think of this Bell and its number of tons,
We cannot help wishing 'twere MOSES and SONS'.
For 'tis certainly suited remarkably well
To ring for that house whi '2.11 has long " borne the Bell."
Its sound, which is doubtless a powerful one,
Is just the right thing for E. MOSES and SON.
Row loud could it speak with its ponderous clapper
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 tit use might be made of this Bell,
By letting it toll 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. MCSES and SON, who have long " borne the Bell."
A new work, entitled " THE LEVIATHAN OF TRADE," with
Hull directions for Self-Measurement, may be had on application.
or forwarded post-ttee.

£ s. d.
—from 0 8 t

COVENTRY and LEICESTER JUNCTION
RAILWAY.
BRANCH LINE from NUNEATON to form aJr NCTION with
the BIRMINGHAM and DERBY JUNCTION RAILWAY, near
COLESIIILL.

Length, Ten Miles.
Increased capital, 225,0001., in Shares of 25/. each.
Deposit, 11. ss. per Share.
The Provisional 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.
B. HARTLEY KENNEDY, Chairman.
London, April 4, 1845.

OVERLAND MAIL

INDIA AND CHINA.

The intelligence by this mail is not of great import-
ance. India is perfectly tranquil ; the affairs of Sinde
tre 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
n the same unsettled state, but no new outbreak had
aken place. Our troops, however, were still gathering
In the frontier, and by this time amount at least to
40,000 men. Sir Henry Harding° remained 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.
Ile latter, we think, a very questionable measure. It
is, at all events, dangerous, and may lead to serious re-
mits. The Calcutta correspondent of the Times gives
:he following account of the new tariff:—
" The most important occurrence of a domestic kind
which has for some time happened here is the publica-
-ion 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
,nd unwrought ; on all marine stores ; on woollen ; on
Aton and silk piece-goods ; on wines and liquors ; on
:pints; and on all manufactured articles not enumerated.
3otton-thread, twist, and yarn have escaped with the
duties, except foreign thread (an article of little im-
lortance), which now, for the first time, is subjected to
iouble the duty of British. The best exposition of
the proposed Act is to be found in the Hui-hunt,
which has opposed the change fram the first.
Che Englishman, also, intimates the probab:e
,nischief it will do to foreign commerce ; but, at
-he same time, expresses a regret for the necessity
which it supposes to exist for such a measure ; the Star,
at the eleventh hour, shows an opposition, after having,
rbsffitehee s ,
suggested
of cleric
steda
an
n apologyor sfeocrreitt,ariny
aosf soupputnseedreluvsesnutee
he revenue from the abolition of the Madras transit
lutics. Nothing but a proved necessity can excuse such
a measure. Marine stores are raised from 3to 5 per
:ent. ; metals, from 3 to 5 per cent, ;
i woollens, from 2
so 5 per cent. ; tin, from 3 to 5 per cent. ; cotton and
.ilk piece-goods, from 31 to 5 per cent. ; porter, ale
weer, from 3to 5 per cent. ; wines and liquors, from an
-Id valorem duty of 10 per cent. to 1 rupee 8 annas (35.)
Jer gallon ; and all unenurcerated articles from 3i to 5
ser cent. These are the rates cm British goods ; on
foreign the rates are raised in the same proportion; and
the distinction is preserved and the same proportion con-
inued between imports on British and on foreign bot-

toms."
The same journal makes the following just remarks
respecting the sickness of the 78th Highlander! :—"The
aealth of the troops in Sinde is admitted to be in general
good. The only exception has been the 78th High.
lenders, 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-
!•ally admitted. Even the Bombay correspondent of the
ilorning 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 Meanee. It is easy to prophecy
after the event. " I sent you last month," says that
correspondent, a copy of the proclamation of Sir
Charles Napier on entering on his expedition into the
hills, together with a few particulars of the earli
itself. r pro-
ceedings of the expedition On the second head I
nave 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, for it was
foreseen from the first that if the enemy chose to walk
away there really was nothing to he 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
r. shot"
toe
ff
t effect
anythingenemy stoaogdint still
be
o
The accounts brought by this mail are of the follow-
ing dates :---713ornbay, March 1 ; Madras, Feb. 91 • Cal-
cutta, Feb. 19 ; Lahore, Feb. 9 ; Sinde, Feb. 20 ; Sin-
gapoze, Jan. 26 ; and China, Jam. 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 9.,000 Sindian auxiliaries, to put down
the freebooters who have infested cur frontier ever since we ad-
vanced it beyond the Indus, remains with the troops on the othur
a bolda score
or e thousand
two
of
plunderers stolen cattle
killed
or were Zucnudeded,
Ade 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
et
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taken,
aok
assault,eien,a n of
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rapid march or two, were at the outset duly
mt faith in general crderFi which ccncluded, in reference to the