The Sun.
London, England, 1844-01-17 00:00:00

SUMMARY OF NEWS

SIR IL pOTTINGER AND THE
AMEERS OF SCINDE•
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
SIR,—I have just read a letter, published in the
Morning Chronicle, and said to be written by Sir
Henry Pottinger upon the events in Sinde.
With you, Sir, I hold this letter to be a forgery—
a shameless one—put forth to abuse the public mind
previous to the expected debates in Parliament on
Sindian affairs, which must take place before Sir
Henry Pottinger can disavow the letter attributed to
him.
I add this reason also to those you have advanced,
in disproof of its authenticity. Sir H. Pottinger, in
his travels, speaks of the Ameers' government as one
" whose extortion, ignorance, and tyranny, are possibly
unequalled in the world."l
But whether the letter published in the Chronicle
be, or be not, a forgery, it most insolently proclaims
a falsehood.

WM. NAPIER, Major-Genera
Guernsey, Jan. 12, 1844.

DOVER.
(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
DOVER, JAN. 16.—Arrived from Calais H.M. Steamer
Princess Alice, Captain Luke Smithett, in one hour and
forty minutes, having on board her Royal Highness the
Duchess of Cambridge, and her daughter the Princess
Mary.
Their Royal Highnesses wero received by Colonel
Rice Jones, R.E., commandant of the garrison, with a
guard of honour from the 77th Regiment, and landed
under a salute from the Western Heigkts• After par-
taking of some refreshment at Worthington's Hotel,
they proceeded, under a second royal salute, for London,
intending to reach Cambridge House to dinner.
It is expected the South Eastern Railway will be open
to Dover on the Ist of February.

131snor's-couirr FARM, near to Benson, in
Oxfordshire, with a tenant upon it (Mr. Shrubb), whose
family Lave domesticated and thriven upon it for nearly
a century, is directed, by the Court of Chancery, to be
sold by Mr. George Robins, to-morrow, at the Auction
Mart. This sale will afford the means of forming a com-
parative judgment upon the conflicting opinions as to
the present value of land. The fame of the Corn League,
it is believed, will be put into j.eopa.rdy ;toutb to-morrow,
nous verrons. Benson is a quiet little ono stage
extinguisher upon in most
tfromlierOaixirfooardds,
haveanl hasput theitn good. fortune to have four
coaches travelling through it daily,. a circumstance that
other provincial towns. The tenant of the farm kept
-the great inn there, until thirty miles an hour put it to
rest. Inns are no longer required where railroads prevail.
—Post.
NATAL INTELLIGENCE .--GIBRALTAR, JAN. 6.
At Anchor—Her Majesty's ships
.Belvedere, and steamers
Geyser and Locust. The Geyser arrived on the 4th, with India
mails from Malta. LzsuaN, JAN. 9.—Her Majesty's ship
Warspite, and the French brig of war Volage. The iPacha
spoke the Peninsula and Oriental Company's steamers—on the
7th the Oriental, 10 leagues S.E. of Cape St. Vincent ; the
9th, the Lady Mary Wood, off Oporto; and on the 13th the
Liverpool 2, off Ushant. No ship of war at Cadis on the 7th
inst. ; nor at Vigo, of any nation, on the 10th.
Mr. Bartholomew, the state porter at Dublin
Castle, is about to retire, after a service of thirty-seven
years. He opened and closed the portals on twelve
Viceroys in his
time, from the Duke oiliichmond to Earl
de Qrey.

AND

Vubitt Optuton.

" TVlto runs may read."

FOREIGN.
On Monday a great deal of business was done on the
Paris Bourse, and at higher prices. The Three per
Cents. closed at 82f. 75c., and the Fives at 125 f.
Great distress, according to the National, prevails in
the manufacturing districts of France.
The Greek Government having, says the Moniteur,
requested from that of France the permission to send to
Toulon several young Greeks to pursue the maritime
studied necessary for the grades which King Otho in-
tends to confer on them in the Greek navy, and the per-
mission having been immediately granted, six young
Greeks have arrived at Toulon, and have been placed
under the care of an officer of the navy. The son of the
celebrated Canaris has been received on board the
Marengo ship of the line, now in the Levant.
On the Ist of January the citizens of Stockholm gave
a grand ball in honour of the Royal family. At nine
o'clock the King, accompanied by the members of his
family, arrived. His presence caused the more pleasure
as for several years his Majesty has not been present on
such an occasion.
The German papers state that a report was current
that the Germanic Diet had made a representation to the
Government of the Grand Duchy of Baden relative to a
third duel, which was to take place in the affair of Goeler
and Haber.
A letter from the Hague, Jan. 10, says:—" The Mi-
nister of Marine has lost everything by the fire which
destroyed his house. He was obliged the same night to
take refuge in a public hotel with his wife, who was ill,
and his two daughters. The next day he received an
invitation to occupy the palace which his Majesty pos-
sesses near the Royal chateau. On taking possession of
the apartments, Vice-Admiral Ryk found on a table a
pocket book containing 25,000 f. in notes, and in a ward-
robe were placed a great number of rich silks, velvets,
and satins, for dresses for Mine. Ryk and her daughters."
According to the Augsburg Gazette, the property left
by the late Count of Nassau has been estimated far too
highly, the real amount being not more than 70 millions
of francs.
The weather at Paris, which for several weeks had
been generally so unusually mild for the period of the
year, changed suddenly in the night of Friday. A
sharp frost set in, and at six on Saturday morning the
mercury fell to 22 Farenheit, and at noon it stood at
26. On Sunday it continued nearly the same.
The Madrid papers state that the weather in Navarre
during the latter part of December and the beginning of
this month was severe almost without precedent. Snow
had fallen at Taffala for fifteen days consecutively, and
prayers had been put up in the churches for a cessation
of so rigorous a temperature. It was feared that all the
olive trees would be destroyed.
A letter from Manheim, in the Journal de Franefort,
states that Dr. Goldschmidt, of Gottingen, has disco-
vered that the little comet seen at Paris in November,
describes an ellipse altogether differing from the usual
parabolic orbit of comets, and revolves round the sun
in somewhat less than seven years. Its orbit comes
nearer to a circle than that of any other similar body
yet discovered.
PUBLIC OPINION.
The Times of this morning observes, in reference to
the blunders made by the Counsel on both sides, at the
commencement of the Irish State trials, on Monday .
" All this is very funny, and makes people laugh, and
relieves the uniformity of Court proceedings. It is very
amusing to see Counsel making mistakes, and forgetting
facts, and to see the Judge looking annoyed and angry,
and snubbing them ; and the " Just wait a minute," or
the " We shall be ready in five minutes," and " Really,
Sir Colman O'Loughlin," and all that, is exceedingly
entertaining, as a national specimen of Court manage-
ment. But we must say—really, Sir Colman O'Lough-
lin, and really, Mr. Moore, and really learned gentle-
men of the Irish bar, we wish you would be a little
more business-like and regular in your proceedings. We
feel interested in your Court as a Court of Great Bri-
tain, and an institution of British law ; and we wish,
Saxons though we are, that you would deign to take a
hint from our more sober and regular English practice
on such occasions."
The Chronicle remarks in an article on the state of
parties in France :—" The first reflection which strikes
one on observing the attitudes of parties on the opening
of the French Chamber, is the total disappearance of
anything like a Liberal Opposition. M. Guizot's is
avowedly a Conservative Ministry, based on the principle
of no change, no concession, no augmentation of popular
rights, no limitation of the jurisdiction of the Peers.
And yet, in the face of this part borne, as it is called,
this party whose God is terminus, not one man or deputy
is found to raise the banner of progress. The left--for
one is really at a loss how to designate the parties in
opposition—has given up Liberalism as something worn
out and common-place, and quite uncalculated to com-
mand the sympathies of the country. For the old prin-
ciple of Liberalism they have substituted a false, base-
less, and puerile Anglophobia ; not that they deem it
just, not that they have the least idea of its being useful,
but merely because it is a stirring topic, a kind of big
drum, by thumping which they can attract a crowd of
listeners, if not adherents."
The following is from the Pest :—"Whatever may be
thought or said by violent partisans who are disposed to
deem everything right that may be done by such a per-
son as O'Connell to thwart the proceedings of the
Crown in a Criminal Court of Justice, we are persuaded
that all fair and impartial men will feel something like
disgust at the continued attempts which are made to
hinder a judicial investigation of the accusation against
O'Connell from taking place. 'Why should these at-
tempts he made, and made as often as abuse of legal
technicalities will permit ? If Mr. O'Connell be inno-
cent of the offence charged against him, why should he
have so strong a reluctance to come to the point of inves-
tigation ? If he be not innocent, why should he take so
unworthy a method of dealing with the circumstance as
that of merely formal and untenable objections to pro-
ceeding to trial ?"
The Advertiser says :—" The landlords are at length
beginning to move. Naturally they are a lazy class.
Hitherto they have had matters all their own way, and
they had fondly fancied that things would go on in the
same smooth, easy manner, until the " last syllable of re-
corded time." A change, however, has come over the
spirit of the country's dream, and the landocracy are he-
ginnitig to feel the ell'eets, a that ehange. They arc be-
ginning to discover that inglorious ease will no longer
avail them. They begin to fancy that if the monopoly
on which they had fed and fattened for so long a period,
while millions have been starving of hunger, is to be
maintained, it can only be by hard fighting. They have
made the discovery rather late. The League have evoked
a spirit in the country, which is not to be laid by any
efforts which the adverse party can make. The monopo-
lists may now fight as courageously and resolutely as they
please, but they will fight in vain. Their desperate re-
sistance to the League will only hasten the victory of the
latter."

LAW AND POLICE.
The Worship-street Magistrates have received dona-
tions of 51. and IL, to be applied to the relief of a poor
woman, named Ho'croft, living in one of the courts in
Quaker-street, Spitalfields. Two very young boys, her
sons, had been brought before the Magistrate on Satur-
day, by a police-constable, who found them in a more
than half-starved condition, hanging about the windows
of some provision shops. The place where they lived
being visited by Clements, one of the summoning con-
stables attached to the Court, the mother and several
children were found in a miserable state of destitution,
the bed, sheets, and other articles having been disposed
of to procure food.
At Guildhall, James Marden, a young man employed
as a clerk by Mr. Finiger, a furrier, in Noble-street, was
charged with absconding with 301., which his master
entrusted to him to pay into Messrs. Masterman's. The
prisoner said he was tipsy when his master gave him the
money, and being so at the time he missed a sovereign,
he spent more money in drink, and was then afraid to
return to his master.—He was committed for trial.
A labouring man applied to Mr. Broderip, at the
Thames Police Court, for advice under the following
circumstances :—He bad picked up on the road a lady's
bag, and having put it into his hat, with a view to exa-
mine it at leisure, he returned to his work. The lady,
however, soon came to him, claimed it, and having exa-
mined it found that five 101. notes, which it contained,
were safe. On leaving, she gave him the sum of 2s. He
claimed salvage, which he understood was a shilling in
the pound. Mr. Broderip told him he was not entitled
to a halfpenny, and that the 2s. ho had received was a
gratuity not a right.
COURT-FASHIONABLE. _ _

The Duchess of Cambridge and suite landed at Dover
from Calais, at ten o'clock on Monday, having made the
passage in the Princess Alice within the two hours.
After a dejeune a la fourchette, at the Ship hotel, to
which Col. Rhys Jones, the commandant of the garrison,
Captains Hamilton and Smithett, &c., had the honour of
being invited, her Royal Highness came to town by the
South Eastern Railway.
The Marquis and Marchioness of Clanricarde and
family are expected to leave Portumna Castle early next
month, for Carlton-terrace, for the season.
The Marquis of Granby, the newly•appointed Lord
of the Bedchamber to his Royal Highness Prince Albert,
is expected to return to town the week after next, to
enter on his new duties at Court. The Marquis left
Fenton's Hotel on Monday, for Burghley House.
Lord Suffield, who has recently returned from a
lengthened tour on the Continent, left Fenton's Hotel,
yesterday, on a visit to Mr. Sanderson, M.P., at Gunton
Hall, near Norwich.
The Dowager Countess of Leicester and the Right
Hon. E. Ellice, M.P., have arrived at Rome from Naples.
They are expected to leave that city on the Bth of next
month for Nice, en route to this country. The Earl of
Leicester is expected in town the first week in next
month to take the oaths and his seat in the House of
Lords on coming of age.
IVIISCELLANEOUS.
The weather has again suddenly changed, and the
frost, which had continued severe for two days, has dis-
appeared, the thermometer, at mid-day, standing above
40 degrees.
The Horticultural Society of London, on Tuesday,
held their first meeting for the year, at their rooms, in
Regent•street, Mr. Burchard, V.P., F.R.S., preSiding.
The exhibition-stands contained a large assortment of
the rarities obtainable at this season. Amongst the
specimens of flowers was a new and remarkable plant
of the evergreen tribe, indigenous to the mountains of
the Brazils, but naturalised and cultivated in this country
under the name of gautheria ferruginea, by Messrs.
Veitch and Son, of Exeter.
Colonel Sibthorp, M.P., has forwarded 50/. to the Lin-
coln and Lindsey Agricultural Protection Society, as his
contribution in aid of the objects it has is view.
Sir James South states, in A letter t 9 it Contemporary,