The Sun.
London, England, 1844-01-05 00:00:00

FLANDERS MAIL.

BRUSSELS, Jaw. 2.—The King. accompanied by M. Con-
way, set out this morning for his country seat at Ardenne.
This evening, at eleven o'clock, a funeral service was per-
formed in the church of St. Jacques, near Candenburgh, on
occasion of the anniversary of the death of Princess Mary,
Duchess of Wurtemberg, sister of the Queen of the Belgians.
A great number of persons of distinction were present at this
service, which his Majesty causes to be performed every year.
The Queen was accompanied by the Countess de Merodi ; the
Marquis de Rumigny, the French Ambassador; the Duke de
Bassarra, Chief Secretary of the Legation ; all the Ministers,
the persons composing the Royal household, some Senators'
Deputies, &c., were present. Her Majesty and all the per-
sons of her household, were in deep mourning.

The Monitor). publishes the 14w which fixes at 41. per 1,000
kilogrammes the import duty on ;tarley till Dec. 31, 1844, and
which enacts that when wheat is exempt from import duty,
the Government may subject rye to the same regime.
The Moniteur, of the 3d, contains several columns of com-
plimentary addresses to their Majssties, in the name of the dif-
ferent public bodies, on New Ye3r's Day.
ROUE, DEC. 23.—A few hours since Cuunt Von Manteuffel,
Aide-de-Camp to Prince Alber' of Prussia, arrived here, ex-
press from Berlin, bringing to their Royal Highnesses Princess
Albert and Prince Henry of Prussia, the intelligence of the
death of the Count of Nassau. Notwithstanding the deep
snow, he performed the journey in eight days and a half.

The Russian General Paskewi:ah, brother of the Prince of
Warsaw, died this afternoon.
P. S.—The melancholy news of the death of her father has
induced Princess Albert to give t'p her plan of remaining here
for the season. She has determined to leave Rome within a
weak, and return to Berlin.—Allyenteinc Zeitung, Dec. 30.

RICHARD PAnn.—The order for the transmission
of this unhappy young man to Eogland is in the hands of the
authorities here; but it is held back from a kind and merciful
consideration, and will not be rut in force until a few days
before the commencement of the assizes ; his imprisonment in
the common gaol of the county will consequently be very brief.
Very brief also will be his trial evidence of his insanity for
some time previous to its rcelar,choly consummation will be
given by one or two of his ititime..e friends, artists, sufficient to
satisfy the jury, although forming but a small part of the proofs
that might be adduced, if necessary, and the poor fellow will
be at once removed to some lunatic asylum for the remainder
of his sad life. Latest accounts d3scribe him as in a bad state
of health, but receiving unremitt lag attention from the persons
under whose care he is placed at Tontainbleau. —Art- Union.
KINGS COLLEGE HOSPITAL.—HOSPITAL PRACTICE.
—A case occurred yesterday, at the King's College Hospital,
which proves the superiority of London surgeons. A man,
from near Colchester, was edit fitted on the previous day
with dislocation of the left huratsrus, or of the left arm, at
the shoulder socket. He stated to Mr. Steel, the house-
surgeon, that the dislocation took place three weeks ago ;
that he consulted a surgeon immediately after the recep-
tion of the injury, and Was told by him that there was no
dislocation. He then consulted two other local surgeons,
who acknowledged the injury, Dud endeavoured in vain to
remove it. Ono of the operations lasted nearly five hours,
causing the patient the most intense pain. Mr. Steel, asto-
nished at the recital of these facts, particularly one of them,
when the dislocation was so palpeole, ordered the man into a
warm bath, telling him that two o'clock on the following
day Mr. Fergusson, one of the chief surgeons of the hos-
pital, would operate on him. Tho patient was kept on low
diet, and an hour previous to the appointed time for the
operation, took a second warm bath. The critical time
arrived ; Mr. Roberts, pupil of ldr. Fergusson, accompanied
by several students, passed through the ward (the Albert) in
which the patient lay in bed, into the operating theatre with
the necessary apparatus. Great interest was shown by all
the inmates of the ward for the success of the operation,
rendered extremely difficult by reason of the length of time
that had transpired since the occurrenee of the dislocation.
The presence of Mr. Fergusson, the operator, was announced,
and the patient rose from his bed cheerfully, and walked into
the theatre. The first attempt failed owing to looseness of the
apparatus, and the man was brought back to his bed still con-
fident. A smaller apparatus having been procured, he again
submitted to the painful operation, told in less than 15 minutes
the dislocation was reduced, to the infinite satisfaction of the
patient himself, and to the joy of his fellowsufferers in the
Albert ward. This triumph of London hospital practice is an
additional inducement to the benevolent to support the public
medical metropolitan institutions.

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The Britannia steamer, Captain Hewitt, has just
sailed (seven r.m. ) carrying the mails to Halifax, Nova
Scotia, and Boston, United States ; the mails for Canada
alone weighed upwards of a ton ar.d a half, and the number
of letter and newspaper bags made a total of 128.
A Correspondent of The Sun paper, enclosed to the
editor, in a letter from Cowes, Isle of Wight, flowers of all
seasons, indicative of the extreme mildness of the weather,
and, no doubt, as a strong hint, touching the soft loveliness of
the air in the warm south coast of England. But we can tell
The Sun's Correspondent (for it is a Sun's affair) that at
Stoncl ouse, between Devouport and Plymouth, in a garden
behind Messrs. Payne and Wrentmore's premises, is a tree now
garnished with two hundred apples as large as wallnuts ; not
a confectioner's twelfth night show, but placed there by
Nature's own sweet and cunning hand. We surpass them at
Cowes, we have had flowers (blossom), and fruit..-Plymouth
Journal.

INDIA AND CHINA,

The following are additional extracts from the
Bombay and Canton papers :
DREADFUL SICKNESS IN SINDE.
(From the Bombay Courier.)
The state of the troops at Sukkur and Shikarpore, instead of
improving, as we thought some time ago, is, we regret exces-
sively to hear, getting worse and worse ; it would appear that
the fever is positively on the increase; the state of the Artil-
lery, especially, is most deplorable ; and we cordially join in
the hope of one of our correspondents that Government will be
induced by these public representations, if not by those which
have been made officially, to adopt some speedy means for
saving the lives of the remainder of the two unfortunate com-
panies. They can be of no use in their present state, and the
facility with which they might be conveyed to Kurachee ought
surely to be an inducement to allow them that only chance of their
being preserved to the service. The apathy which hasbeen evinced
in supplying the station with additional medical aid is really
most discreditable to Government, and relleots on every mem-
ber whose business it should have been to obliate by timely
assistance the frightful results of sheer carelessness and neglect.
That Sukkur will be found altogether unfitted for a European
station must be sufficiently clear, and we only hope that the
experience derived from the fate of the unfortunates who have
been sent to deposit their bones in such a Golgotha will have
the effect of opening the eyes of the authorities, dearly as it has
been bought. We had entertained some hopes that Shikar-
pore, being beyond the line of jungle, more open to the west,
and less exposed to the malaria of the immediate neighbour-
hood of the river, would have proved a more advantageous post
than Sukkur in point of sanatory considerations, but there
appears very little difference in the proportionate number of
sick in both stations.

(From the Delhi Gazette, Nov. 15. )
"Sukkur, Nov. 5, 1843.
" The state of the Sukkur brigade is, I hope, at its worst, at
least there are very few men now left to go into hospital,
and from all I hear the average number of all grades per com-
pany at muster on the Ist of November, 1843, may be taken
at 10; but you must bear in mind that many of these are
totally unfit for more than standing sentry, and many not
equal to that. All regiments are the same. Not one out
3f the six medical men have been able to leave their ,
beds for the last three days. Every guard has been reduced to
the very lowest, all orderlies, as far as possible, withdrawn, and
death is beginning to make rapid strides amongst the natives ;
40, or about, I think, of the two companies of European Ar-
tillery, out of 180, have already been carried off, and the re-
mainder look more like ghosts than living beings.
" Of officers, who possibly are of the least consideration, we
have only, by God's providence, lost one ; fifteen have gone
away in different directions on sick certificate, and I suspect
some five or six more will leave shortly, as soon as the doctors
are able to make out the certificates ; at Shikarpore the third
company and the detachment of Chamberlain's Horse are, I
believe, no better. Only two officers at the station have
escaped. This I write, being certainly not an exaggerated
statement of a Bengal brigade in an enemy's country, whatever
others may say to the contrary. This sickness commenced in
August, and the only assistance we have' had from our ewe
provinces, after repeated applications, has been one assistant-
surgeon, sick the day he arrived, about the 30th of October,
and, I think, two native doctors - neglected by our own Pre-
sidency, we have to thank Sir C. Napier for his timely assist-
ance in sending us two medical officers, who, I regret to say,
are both very ill, and we have accounts of another having left
Hyderabad, although they can ill spare him, being just as bad
as we are. Sir C. Napier has also issued a very handsome
order to the medical officers for their attention and exertion in
these trying times.
" Seven natives died last night out of two regiments."
From Hyderabad we regret to hear almost as melancholy
tale. Every regiment has its hospital filled with sick. '1 he
9th Bengal Cavalry have 375 on their sick list, and the num-
ber is daily increasing. There, moreover, they have not the
cool weather beginning to be enjoyed at Sukkur ; the sun is
dreadfully hot in the day, and the nights cold and damp. The
following is a late letter from that quarter :
" Lower Sinde, Nov. 2, 1843.
" Sickness still prevails here to a very great extent, net only
amongst our own men, but also amongst the inhabitants of the
country ; there is not a single family some of the members of •
which are not laid up; and numbers of children, unable to
withstand the dire malaria, perish daily. A season so remark-
able for rain and sickness has not been known in Sinde for
years. The crops, which might otherwise in a manner have
compensated for these evils, have been attacked by locusts r
l'irStWitrstanding the fires kindled in every direction tco;:kee
them off, these insects have committed grievous damagel
'where they have once been allowed to settle down, scarce)
'vestige of cultivation has been left. The direction of'
flight was almost invariably from west to east. The
Hyderabad are more sickly than ever ; one regiment,
stand, mtistered only 20 men yesterday."

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AFFGHANISTAN.
(From the Delhi Gazette, Oct. 26.)
In our last we gave a considerable amount of news from ,
Central Asia, in which the position of Dost Mahomed Khan
may be considered to be correctly set forth. Distrusted at
home, his authority defied by his kinsmen, and resisted by the
nearest chiefs, his treasury empty, his troops leaving hiW
for want of pay,—nothing seems left him but the desperate
resource of some foreign expedition, by which he may be
able to acquire an accession of wealth and territory, of auf"
ficient importance to raise him in the eyes of his more jai'
mediate subjects. He is only poor and despised because they
are rich from our spoils, and able to resist his power, and
were he in a condition to recruit his finances, the relative
position of ruler and suhject would be greatly altered front
what it now is. The consciousness of this state of thief.
is inducing him to look now with more anxiety than ever In
the direction of Peshawur, and although he might be able
to gain but few proselytes at Caubul and its vicinity, where
the people are gorged with plunder for some years t.e i
come and listless for the acquisition of mere, he might, l
once a nucleus of an army were set in motion, be able te
collect the tribes on either side as he passed down. Tbels'
again, it is doubtful how far the Khyber tribes might be
&hied to assist, viewing, as they doubtless do, Peshawur v
their own peculiar prey, and considering, as they probabl
would de, any attempt by Dost Mahommed as that oi an ID.
terloper. A considerably strong opinion seems also to preys!'
in Caubul that the ruler of Bokhara is inclined to extend
dominions across the mountain chain, and that the people
Upper Affghanistan would not be loth to submit to hi'
and
nation. The disunion which has arisen between father an._,
son seems against the latter being deputed to carry out the!!
equally hostile views on Peshawur, though later account
would incline us to the belief, that Sirdar Mahommed Akbilf
Khan had set out on such an expedition. The whole of these
considerations only tend to show that the present tenure
sovereignty by the Ameer is very insecure, that the position u;
affairs is entirely changed from what it was before we lava.'"
the land, and that the whole face of it will be in a state of
security and disorder until some strong hand shall arise td
coerce the people under a powerful Government. It wool'
appear lsy the Candahar news that our surmises regarding tbe
preparations of Shere Mahommed have not been far from the
real state of affairs. He has been employing his time awn
the Western hill tribes to tame purpose, and may, in the 'were,
state of the garrisons of Upper Sinde, be induced to try his °-
tune at least against the Shikarpore detachment.

A DASHING EXPLOIT.
Intimation was sent home by the last mail of some rather
serious disturbances which had broken out at Khetrie,
Shekawattee, where an elderly Ranee, of unpronounceabli
name, had collected 5,000 matchlock-men, and taken possessicdt
of the tort, expelling the mother of the infant Raja FUttell
Singh, to whom the stronghold of right belonged. It war
stated too that Major Forster, with a detachment of the She-
kawattee Brigade, was about to take measures for the recovery
e
of the fortress and the punishment of the offenders. Weshe
now enabled to give particulars of ‘the insurrection, and Of 'of
proceedings adopted by the gallant Major with the vie/
quelling it, which he succeeded in doing after a long and viehe
contested engagement with the enemy, terminating in t
capture of the town and fort of Khetrie. lf
It appears that Ram Nath l'erohif, the Kamdar on begs,
of the miner Sovereign of Khetrie, was ejected by 12r
from:his appointment, and his place occupied by the DWI::
who was supported by a very large assembly of insurged:e,
These, to the number of about 5,000, took up their quart7r
in the pass, town, and fort. On the 21st of October Mait:s
Forster, who had been encamped at Singhana with two p°(
guns, three companies of infantry, and two rissalaha
of
cavalry, proceeded towards Kotcpootlee, for the purposelo
seizing a fort in that neighbourhood, of which some of
rebels had gained possession. On the approach of our troFrd
the insurgents evacuated their position and fled, leaving beld°,
them six pieces of artillery which they had brought fr;
Khetrie. The fort was dismantled and blown up , and 31t1°,,,
Forster proceeded to Dadta, where he also dislodged a 1),go
of rebels ; and the haunts of the principal leaders (DI W 111) b
about eight were captured) were then destroyed. On the utv
November he marched to Khetrie, and attacked the maid bo'
of insurgents, when a gallant and decisive action took OW.
Major Forster's force consisted of 2do foot and 60 horse °l,
the Shekawattee brigade, with three guns ; and tOt ma`tc„l3,
lock-men and 80 horse, belonging to Jeypore, with four gut's'
The enemy are said to have mustered 6,500 men. The 000
was a very strong one, situated on a steep eminence, ,
feet high, and approached by a difficult defile five miles
length. Both the fort and pass were occupied by the jo!ur 00.
gents in considerable numbers, but they were soon driven fr,
the latter, and obliged to take refuge in their stronghold.
was invested without delay. After some heavy firing 1",: at
short time, they capitulated, promising to evacuate the 'e",i
within six hours. During the night most of them diater
and on the evening of the next day Major Forster took Ps;
ce
session of the place. Amonst those who fled was the Dba"'
Kanai Ram, the leader and chief instigator of the rebellidted
During the attack on the fort, Captain Forster, at the h"0,0,
of the light companies of the brigade, aided by a strong:was
of matchlock-men, directed his steps to the town, whic"jto
strongly occupied by the insurgents, who appeared reselvedive
defend it with vigour. They were obliged, however, t.,°t, %r-
-way, and were eventually driven out with great loss, and
sued to the hills. The Victory was completed by the de( eft
,
of
a strong body of men stationed on an eminence to the le,ho
the town, and commanded by a bold and courageous chief' vitiJ
seemed determined to maintain his position to the last, an as;
indeed, on the conclusion of the conflict, was found stn
the number of the slain. ettt'.
among them the nephew of the Dliab
Several other chiefs of note fell during the engageo 00
our side are stated as 2 killed and 42 wounded; and °nil°
part of the rebels 16 killed and upwards of 80 wounded•.
aoit
skilful and masterly manner in which the above spirited, „O-
wes conducted is worthy of all praise. The conspicuouoifrt'iop
lantry of Captain Forster, in the storming of the last I'"lidual
is, in particular, highly spoken of ; and to his tdutdariog
bravery the very satisfactory termination of the maid'? Jared
and ably. executed enterprise is doubtless in no small
. The casualtieatio
attributable.

CHINA.
The following elegy upon the late C°11,11,,i::
s!oner Lin is said to be from the pen of his

tial Majesty himself:—
"AN IMPERIAL EDICT.—The great statesman, POO'
sen preserved an undeviating line of rectitude, and t"1,8i5
ciples of probity and uprightness were rooted in jogle-
ture. In manner, he was plain and affable, and hisign of
ress of heart was even eminently displayed. In the r:eatioo,
Kea-King, having been honoured by an Imperial exam`,:ortri
he was raised from the rank of Han-lin (the highest 'lto the
graduate) to a seat in the Cabinet. We, upon corning burl'
throne, and observing his patriotic spirit, his dispatch in ore
ness, and his extensive and varied experience, ordered tn6beri
sence about the Imperial person, in which capacity to, rre,r„fttult;
for upwards of ten years without a single instance 0' -rioter,'
Last year we sent him to the province of Ho-nan to suPeeanr
the embanking operations on the Yellow River in the .th 110
boo district, which were conducted and completed vri to
usual zeal and energy. Our Council then recoremendingst
take his ae into consideration, and being fully aware th
tore with him was en the delay, we granted him a double tern

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