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that his life would be spared, and was detained for a time
as a prisoner at Sukkur. His detention was considered

, a breach of faith on our part, and though he was after-
! wards relieved, his clansmen vowed vengeance against
us, and this is in obligation they rarely failed to carry into
I effect. lam as yet without particulars of this unfortu-
nate affair. So much as I have stated is universally
believed in. Two troops of irrigular horse, with
Captain Foster's artillery, were immediately pushed
on from Sukkur, while the 9th Native Infantry, pre-
viously under orders to proceed to Ferozepore, were
commanded to hold themselves in readiness to
push on to Shikarpore at a moment's notice. The
present reverses took place near Poolagse, close by the
scenes of Clark and Clibbon's disasters in May, and Au-
gust, 1840. The system these warriors invariably pur-
-1 sue is to dash down upon us from the mountains in the
hot season, and so draw us into the desert, where the
quickness of their horses enables them to escape from
I us. I tremble at the thought of another hot wea-
-1 then campaign of however limited extent or dura-
tion. It was thus our mishaps begun in 1840,
which terminated in the siege of Caubul. We taught
the enemy to defeat us on a small scale, till they
learned to put in practice against us the bloody
instruction we had given them on the largest. I
do not know whether or not this will do anything to en-
lighten you as to the geography of the western frontier
of young Egypt. You all seem to be content to assume
that our boundary has actually been improved, and
then proceed to argue on the illegitimacy of the means
resorted to for its improvement. If you turn to the
map you will find that Shikarpore, Larkhana, Kolra,
Tatta, &c., are on the western bank of the Indus, with
our own strong posts in our rear; those of the enemy
in our front. Should the Murrees manage to sack one or
two of these posts, the people at home may discover that,
at least in a military point of view, it is anything
but an expedient arrangement. The editor of the
Naval and Military Magazine I observe, recommends
to station posts on the Beloochee hills ; I thought Khan
Kelat and Quetta had cured you of this nonsense ; a
map of Beloochistan would show you that the hills that
skirt the Indus extend for 500 miles in the direction of
Persia, resting on an unexplored country, about the 1)e-
-bosheer of the Helmon. You must double the Indian
army before you can supply this without posts. A
great noise will doubtless be made about the collec-
tion of 130,3001. of revenue, reported to have taken place
at Hyderabad and Kurrachee. It must be kept in
view that this has to meet an expenditure of a million
and a quarter on troops alone. The mutiny amongst the
Bengal regiment ordered for Sinde has, for the present,
been subdued. The men have been frightened by the dis-
bandonmen t of the 34th N. 1., one of the least offending of
the mutinous corps, and the publication of a juggling " ge-
neralorder," which is interpreted one way by the soldiers
and another by the Government. The men believe that
everything which they desired has been conceded to
them ; whereas, Government, in reality, intends to
give them no more than what they previously pos-
sessed. The 64th, in which mutiny first made its ap-
pearance, having afterwards volunteered its services, ar-
rived at Sukkur on the 9th of April, and it is said broke
out into mutiny afresh so soon as they discovered the
trick that had been put upon them. Should this
prove. true, it will be pleasant to have one regiment
disaffected and two others nearly devoid of officers, in
presence of a fierce, vindictive, and indefatigable
enemy. The facts above given are chiefly de-
rived from Kurrachee letters. At Sukkur they are all
Bengallees, and hare but little correspondence with us
in Bombay. Sir Charles Napier left Kurrachee on the 2d
and arrived at Hyderabad on the 7th April; and after re-
viewing troops, inspecting cantonments, and flying about
everywhere, returned again to the sea-coast on the 17th.
The buildieg of a Government house has been com-
menced at Kurrachee, and here the general treasury,
medical stores, and general head-quarter establishments,
have been sent. It is believed that Lord Ellen-
borough will find himself compelled to rescind the
order that Sinde should be occupied by Bengal
troops alone, and once more commit a charge of a
line of the Indus to the Bombay army. An absurd sys-
tem of mystery-mongering has obtained since the news-
papers become somewhat free in their strictures on the
recent conquest. A register is kept at all the post-
offices both of the addresses of letters and the names
of the party who send them ; and these are very
unscrupulously used for the detection of news-
paper correspondents. It is curious how the
General forgets how easily this may be evaded. It is
said that he, when he used to write for the ***, sent his
letters to his wife, Lady Napiet forwarding them, not to
the editor, but to a friend high in the staff. The
Ameers of Sinde have been sent round from Bombay to
Calcutta ; while here they were treated with the utmost
kindness and attention by the Governor, Sir George
Arthur. Gwalior wears a somewhat threatening aspect.
Lord Ellenborough appears to be equally unfortu-
nate in his policy, either in going tco far, or not far
enough. Sinde is an example of the first, Sindian coun-
try of the second of these. The regency which we have
set up in Gssalior has become in the last degree unpopu-
lar. Ram Pas Phalkea, our protege, is now suspected
of having been the author of tho disturbances which
occasioned our advance. Determined to be revenged on
his opponents he betook himself to the plan not
unfrequently resorted to in Europe in the 15th
century, of bringing in a foreign foe to upset the indepen-
dence of his country for the sake of overwhelming a rival
party. His confederates doubt, his brother chief:despise,
and his victims detest, a traitor such as this set over them
by the force of foreign bearance. The Gwalior contingent,
powerful as it is, would do little against a general rising of
the Maharattas ; and should the Government we have
set up be overturned, we have nothing for it but the
commencement of a new war, and the ultimate appro-
priation of the country altogether. Insurrection and
disorder continue to prevail in the Punjaub, and the
period is obviously not very far removed when we shall be
called upon by one party or another to act as allies or ar-
bitrators, in either case ultimately to take the place of
principals, and make a quarrel first and the country sub-
sequently our own. Dost Mahomed is said to be rapidly
consolidating his power around Caubul, and should he
seize upon Peshawur, as is most likely, and we conquer
the Punjaub, as is next to certain, we shall find Akbar
Khan, whom we would have hang( d if we could
have caught him, our next door neighbour, and
probable our most able ally. Lord Ellenborough
is at present at Calcutta, but it is said
that he was about to proceed to Allahabad, conceiv-
ing that nothing in the way of civil or military ar-
rangements can be properly managed without his
personal presence. The death of Sir William Case-
ment will be a great loss at the Council Board. From
China we have news to the 18th of March. The
difficulties attendant in carrying the various com-
mercial arrangements of Sir H. Pottinger into effect
begin already to be experienced. It is singular that the
first instance of this has arisen from a British merchant
putting himself forward as an informant against opium
smuggling, with a view it is said of gratifying private
malice. The hot weather has set in all over India, and in e
this quarter apprehensions of inconvv, nience for want of
water begin to be entertained, in consequence of the deli- ,
,:iencies of last year's rains. Trade during the past
month has been done to 4 fair extent, although in prices
no improvement is observable. The short period of the
active season now remaining, and the large supplies '
of goods arriving and expected, have produced in
'solders an anxiety to get rid of their stocks, which
being thus pressed upon the market can only be realised
at declining prices. We have suffered a severe loss in
our society by the death of 1)r. John Grant Malcomson,
formerly of the Madras medical service, ,lately of the
house of Forbes end Co. He was a man of great talent
and learning, of the highest integrity and utmost bene-
valence of character ; he was cut off by dysentery when
engaged in a tour through Goozerat.
0. P. Q. IN THE EAST.

COURSE OF EXCIL
Amsterdam CF. 12 6
Ditto, at sight l2 4
Rotterdam 2U. 12 6*
Antwerp
Hamburgh M.B l3 14
Altona l3 141
Paris, 3 days' sight 25 65
Ditto, 3 months 25 85
Marseilles
Bourdeaux 25 90
Frankfort on Maine

ANGE.—(THIS DAY.)
Gibraltar
Leghorn 3O 45
Genoa 25 90
Milan
Venice 47
Naples
Palermo, per oz ll7
Lisbon 54
Oporto 531
Rio Janeiro 23
Bahia 23
Buenos Avres
NewYork,2ldyssight
Philadelphia
PRICES OF BULLION, PER OZ.
Foreign Gold, bars. £3 17 9
Portugal Gold Coin 3 17 5
New Doubloons 0 0 0
New Dollars 0 4 9i
Sifter in ears 0 4 11

Petersburgh, 3Us 364
Berlin 7

Vienna, effee. fl. 3 M 953
1 rieste, ditto
Madrid 37

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Cadiz
Uilbao 36

Barcelona 36

Seville

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

(THIS EVENING.)

HOUSE OF LORDS.

Their Lordships assembled at Five o'Clock.
The York and Scarborough Railway Bill was read a third
time and passed.
In answer to a question from Earl FORTESCUE,
Lord WHARNCLIFFE stated that the papers relating to
the appointment of Mr. Gray to the mlgistracy in Ireland
would be shortly presented to the House.
The Gold and Silver Wares Bill was read a second time.
Messengers from the Commons brought up several Bills.
TRANSFER OF REAL PROPERTY.
. _

Lord CAMPBELL said that as their Lordships did not seem
to be troubled with much business, he would take that oppor-
tunity of putting a question to his Noble and
Learned Friend
on the Woolsack, with respect to a Bill which be had intro-
duced at the commencement of the Session, to facilitate the
transfer of freehold property. He wished to know if the Bill
was intended to be proceeded with this session.
The LORD CHANCELLOR said the Bill was of a very
complicated nature, and he had felt it his duty to submit copies
of it to some of the most eminent conveyancers in the country,
and
several of these conveyancers had not yet sent in their
opinions upon it. As soon as those opinions were received
the Bill would be proceeded with.
PRESBYTERIAN MARRIAGES.
The Earl of ROUEN presented a number of petitions pray-
ing that Presbyterian mixed marriages might be legalised.
Also petitions againts the Dissenters' Chapels Bill.
Their Lordships then Adjourned.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.
The Sriwcza took
NEW the Chair
WRIT. at Four o'Clock.

Mr. YOUNG moved that a new writ be issued for the
election of a burgess to serve for the borough of Enniskillen,
in the room of the Hon. Arthur H. Cole, who since his elec-
tion had accepted the office of Steward of the Chiltern Hun-
dreds.—Ordered.
The Report on the Epsom and Croydon Railway was fur-
ther considered, and the Bill ordered to be engrossed.
The Pulteney Town Harbour Bill was read a third time and
passed.
DISSENTERS' CHAPELS BILL.
Sir JOHN LONSDALE presented a petition from Scar-
borough against the Dissenters Chapels