The Sun.
London, England, 1845-04-05 00:00:00

FRID.A.Y NIGHT'S GAZETTE.
LORD CHAMBERLAIN'S OFFICE, APRIL 3, 1845.
Notice is hereby given, that her Majesty will hold Levees,
at St. James's Palace, on the following days, at two o'clock,
viz. : Wednesday, 23d April instant ; Wednesday, 7th May
next. N.B. The Knights of the several Orders are to appear
in their Collars, at the Levee on the 23d of April, it being a
Collar-day.
LORD CHAMBERLAIN'S OFFICE, APRIL 3.
Notice is hereby given that her Majesty will hold Draw-
ing• Rooms, at St. James's Palace, on the following days, at
two o'clock, viz. :—Friday, 2d of May next; Tuesday, 27th
of May next, to celebrate her Majesty's birthday. 'N.B. The
Knights of the several Orders are to appear in their Collars,
at the Drawin Room on the 27th of May.
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BOARD OF GREEN CLOTH, ST. JAMES'S PALACE,
Amur, 4.
The Queen has been pleased to appoint Colonel George
Bowles to be Master of her Majesty's household, vice the
Hon. Charles Augustus Murray, re ipned.
[The following article is substituted for that which was in-
serted in last Tuesday's Gazette :—]
WHITEHALL, Marto' 29.
The Queen has been pleased to order a canoe d'elire to pass
the Great Seal, empowering the Dean and Chapter of the
cathedral church of Ely to elect a Bishop of that See, the
same being void by the death of Dr. Joseph Allen, late Bishop
thereof ; and her Majesty has also been pleased to recom-
mend to the said Dean and Chapter, Thomas Turton, Doctor
in Divinity, 'now Dean of the collegiate church of St. Peter,
Westminster, to be by them elected Bishop of the said See.
WAR-OFFICE, APRIL 4.
Coldstream Regiment of Foot Guards—Captain W. M.
Wood, from the 60th Foot, to be Lieutenant and Captain,
vice the Hon F. J. R. Villiers, who exchanges.
19th Foot—Captain J. H. Fearon, from half-pay Unat-
tached, to be Captain, vice the Hon. C. R. W. Forester, who
exchanges; Lieut. H. J. M. Campbell to be Captain, by pur-
chase, .vice Hilton, who retires ; Ensign R. Warden to be
Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Campbell, -April 4.
25th Foot—Staff Surgeon of the Second Class J. M`Gregor
to be Surgeon, vice Nivison, who exchanges, April 4.
26th Foot —Captain W. H. Milks, from half-pay 55th
Foot, to be Captain, vice F. N. Skinner, who exchanges
Lieutentant J. Rodgers to be Captain, by purchase, vice
Milks, who retires; Ensign F. J. Cresswell to be Lieutenant,
by purchase, vice Rodgers ; D. H. Blair, Gent., to be Ensign,
by purchase, vice Cresswell, April 4.
28th Foot— Captain F. Fairtlough, from half-pay Sicilian
Regiment, to be Captain, vice Minter, promoted ; Lieutenant
P. A. Butler to be Captain, by purchase, vice Fairtlough,
who retires ; Ensign J. G. Maycock to be Lieutenant, by pur-
chase, vice Butler; M. Baumgartner, Gent., to be Ensign, by
purchase, vice ISlaycock, April 4.
29th Foot—Lieutenant L. Coker to be Captain by purchase,
vice M'Kenzie, who retires • Ensign 0. Carey to be Lcute-
nant, by purchase, vice Coker; Ensign J. W. N. B. Parry,
from the 41st Foot, to be Ensign, vice Carey, April 4.
34th Foot—Captain N. R. Brown to be Major, without
purchase, vice Byron, deceased ; Lieutenant C. F. Hervey
to be Captain, vice Brown ; Ensign C. W. Randolph to be
Lieutenant, vice Hervey, March 23 ; T. L Faunt, Gent., to
be Ensign, vice Randolph, April 4.
37th Foot—Ensign: G. A. J. M‘Clintock to be Lieutenant
by purchase, vice Davenport, who retires; T. M. Machel,
Gent. to be Ensign, by purchase, vice 111.‘Clintock, April 4.
41st Foot—R. F. S. L. Jenner, Gent., to be Ensign, by pur-
chase, vice Parry, appointed to the 29th Foot, April 4.
60th Foot—Lieut. and Capt. the Hon. F. J. R. Villiers,
from the Coldstream Regiment of Foot Guards, to be Captain,
vice Wood, who exchanges ; Lieut. D. D. Muter, from the
89th Foot, to be First Lieutenant, vice Saunders, who ex-
changes ; Second Lieut. G. B. Jennings to be First Lieu-
tenant, by purchase, vice Bruyeres, who retires ; A. C. Gre-
ville, Gent , to be Second Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Jen-
nings, April 4.
87th Foot—Lieut. W. Houghton, half-pay 15th Foot, to
be Paymaster, vice J. F. Duvernet, who reverts to his former
half-pay, April 4.
89th Foot—Lieut. H. Saunders, from the 60th Foot, to be
Lieutenant, vice Muter. who exchanges, April 4.
Rifle Brigade--Lieut. the Hon. E. F. N. Fane to be Adju-
tant, vice Somerset promoted, April 4.
2il West India Regiment—Lieutenant M. Stedman to be
Captain, by purchase, vice Simmons, who retires; Ensign
J. C. Harnett to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Stedman;
D. A. Patterson, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice
Harnett, April 4.
BREVET.—Captain W. Fairtlough. of the 28th Foot, to be
Major in the Army, July 19, 1821 ; Major W. Fairtlough, of
the 28th Foot, to be Lieutenant-Colonel in the Army ;
Captain W. H. Milks, of the 26th Foot, to be Major in the
Army, Jan 10, 1837.
Hoses-rm. STAFF.—Surgeon J. F. Nivison, from 25th Foot.
to be Staff-Surgeon of the Second Class, vice M'Gregor, who
exchanges, April 4.
OFFICE OF ORDNANCE, APRIL 4.
Corps of Royal Engineers—First Lieutenant J. G. M'Kerlie
to be Second Captain, vice James, placed on the Seconded
List; Second Lieutenant J. F. M. Browne to be First Lieu-
tenant, vice M'Kerlie, April 1.
Commissions by the Lord-Lieutenant of Nottinghamshire.
Southern Regiment of Nottinghamshire Yeomanry Cavalry
—J. S. Sherwin, },.sq., to be Major, vice G. Robinson, re-
signed ; C. G. Balguy, Esq., to be Captain, vice J. S. Sher-
win, promoted; H. F. S. Robinson, Gent., to be Lieutenant,
vice Oldknow, resigned; W. Francklin, Gent., to be
Lieutenant, vice R. Kelham, resigned, March 3L
BANKRUPTCY SUPERSEDED.
William Fielding, silk manufacturer, Taunton, Lancashire.
BANKRUPTS.
John Paulton, stone-mason, High-street, Portland-town,
to surrender, April 11, at twelve, and May 16, at one, at the
Court of Bankruptcy. Whitmore, official assignee, Basing-
hall-street; Letts, Bartlett's-buildings; Holborn.
Thomas Dinglay, draper, Strutton- ground, Westminster,
April 11, at one, and May 16, at two, at the Court of Bank-
ruptcy. Alsagar, official assignee, Bircliin-lane; Dean, Leeks,
and Dixon, Co., St. Swithin's-lane, City.
John Currie and Louis Elize Seignette, merchants,Mincing-
lane, City, April 17, and May 16, at eleven, at the Court of
Bankruptcy. Pennell, official assignee; Trehern and White,
Barge-yard Chambers, Bucklersbury.
Richard George Ward and John Perry, meat salesmen,
Newgate•market, April 15, and May 24, at twelve, at the
Court of Bankruptcy. Follett, official assignee, Sambrook-
court, Basinghall-street ; Young, Warwick-square, Newgate•
street.
Alexander Horatio Simpson, engineer, Blackfriars•road,
April 15, and May 24, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy.
Follett, official assignee, Sambrook-court, Basinghall-street ;
Michael, Red Lion-square
-William Giles, boarding housekeeper, Brighton, April 16,
at half- past two, and May 16, at one, at the Court of Bank-
ruptcy. Johnson, official assignee, Basinghall-street ; San-
ford, John-street, Adelphi.
Charles Day, Chemist, Acton-street, Gray's Inn-road, April
16, at half-past twelve, and May 16, at twelve, at the Court
of Bankruptcy. Bell, official assignee, Coleman-street-
buildings; Pain and Hatherly, Basinghall-street.
John Lanyard, printer, -Stanhope•street. Clare-market,
April 16, at eleven, and May 13, at one, at the Court of
Bankruptcy. Edwards, official assignee, Frederick's-place,
Old Jewry ; Vandercom, Comyn, Cree, Law, and Comyn,
Bush-lane, Cannon-street.
James Knight Cotterel, grocer, Glastonbury, April 23 and
May 16, at eleven, at the Bristol District Court. Kynaston,
official assignee, Bristol ; Nash and Rooke, Glastonbury.
Samuel Parker Bidder, slate dealer, Fleetwood-on-Wyre,
Lancashire, April 14 and May 9, at twelve, at the Liverpool
District Court. Turner, official assignee, Liverpool ; Bridger
and Blake, London-wall ; Dodge, Liverpool.
Henry Hartshorn, plumber, Shrewsbury, April 14 and May
15, at eleven, at the Birmingham District Court. Whitmore,
official assignee, Birmingham; Parker, Boswell-court, Lon-
don ; Powell, Birmingham.
DIVIDENDS DECLARED.
W. Robertson, insurance broker, Great St. Helen's—first
div. of lid. in the pound, April 5, and three following Satur-
days, at the office of Mr. Groom, Abchurch-lane.
J. L. Gray, tailor, Jermyn-street, St. James's—second div.
of 10d. in the pound, April 5, and three following Saturdays,
at the office of Mr. Groom, Abehurch•lane.
J. Richards, livery-stable keeper, Oxford-street—first div.
of 3s. in the pound, April 5, and three following Saturdays,
at the office of Mr. Groom, Abchurch lane.
DIVIDENDS.
At the Court of Bankruptcy, Basinghall-street.
J. Bohn, bookseller, King William-street, April 25, at
eleven—F. B. and W. Stacey, warehousemen, Lawrence-
lane, Cheapside, April 25, at half-past eleven.
In the Country.
J. T. Nash and J. Tomlinson, jun., mustard manufacturers,
York, April 25, at eleven, at the Leeds District Court—H.
Lewis. cabinet •maker, Haverfordwest, May 1, at eleven, at
the Bristol District Court—T. Berridge, tobacconist, Man-
chester, April 25, at eleven, at the Manchester District
Court—C. Evans, banker, Manchester, April 30, at eleven,
at the Manchester District Court—R. Greenwood, bookseller,
Bradford, April 29, at eleven, at the Leeds District Court—J,
Crisp, auctioneer, Liverpool, April 25, at eleven, at the Liver-
pool District Court—T. Coleman, J. Morris, J. B. Morris, and
T. Morris, bankers, Leominster, May 1, at eleven, at the
Birmingham District Court.
CERTIFICATES to be granted, unless cause be shown to
the contrary, on the day herein mentioned.
T. Browning, innkeeper, Old Bailey, April 15—W. and
R. Smith, warehousemen, Bow-lane, April 25—W. Dettmer,
pianoforte manufacturer, Upper Marylebone-street, April 25
—J. H. Charnock, share broker, Wakefield, April 25—A.
Brideson, cheesemonger,Clare• street, Clare-market, April 25
—J. Harwar, pianoforte manufacturer, Charlotte street,
Bloomsbury, April 25—H. R. Stutchbury, dealer in curiosi-
ties, Theobald's-road, Bedford-row, April 25.
PARTNERS RI PS DISSOLVED.
W. Sharp and J. Hutchinson, common brewers, Pudsey,
Yorkshire—F. W. Tomlinson and W. Keary, attorneys,
Stoke-upon-Trent, Staffordshire—S. Perkes and G. Barton,
commission agents, Liverpool—G. R. Richardson and J.
Midgley, drapers, Hull—H. J. Bowen and D. Lloyd, sur-
geons, Greenwich—G. Overton and J. Langley, carpenters,
Kirton, Lincolnshire—S. and E. F. Satterthwaite, tanners,
Manchester—J.- Lewis and J. Turpin, timber merchants,
Brighton—J. Mackarell, sen., T. Mackarell, and J. Macka-
rell, jun., joiners, Liverpool—J. Wilson and H. Harris, coal
merchants, Coventry—R. Taylor and R. Taylor, jun.,
drapers, Bristol—J. Beynon and J. P. Lowther, sliip brokers,
Newport, Monmouthshire—J. Kenyon and J. Shepherd,
butter merchants, Rochdale, Lancashire—J. Cattle's', S. W.
Cattley, I. Carr, and J. G. Cattlev, Moorgate-street (s() far as
regards S. W. Cattley)—R. Josland and J. Baker, drapers,
Exeter.

SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS.
Duncan INl‘Corkindale and Co., merchants, Glasgow, April
10 and Nay 15, at one, at the Black Bull Inn, Glasgow.
Douglas Swan, boot maker, Edinburgh, April 8 and 29, at
one, at the chambers of J. Gardiner, Edinburgh.
David M'Niven, chemist, Glasgow. April 9 and 30, at one,
at the chambers of W. Burns, Glasgow.

The intelligence by this mail is not of great import-
ance. India is perfectly tranquil ; the affair. of Sinde
are 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
in the same unsettled state, but no new outbreak bad
taken place. Our troops, however, were still gathering
on the frontier, and by this time amount at least to
40,000 men. Sir Henry Ilardinge 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.
The latter, we think, a very questionable measure. It
is, at all events, dangerous, and may lead to serious re-
sults. The Calcutta correspondent of the Times gives
the following account of the new tariff :
" The most important occurrence of a domestic kind
which has for some time happened here is the publica-
tion 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
and unwrought ; on all marine stores ; on woollen ; on
cotton and silk piece•goods ; on wines and liquors ; on
spirits; and on all manufactured articles not enumerated.
Cotton-thread, twist, and yarn have escaped with the
old duties, except foreign thread (an article of little im-
portance), which now, for the fitit time, is subjected to
double the duty of British. The best exposition of
the proposed Act is to be found in the Ilurltaru,
which has opposed the change fram the first.
The Englishman, also, intimates the probable
mischief it will do to foreign commerce ; but, at
the 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,
in the spirit of a clerk or secretary of some revenue
office, suggested an apology for it, in a supposed loss to
the revenue from the abolition of the Madras transit
duties. Nothing but a proved necessity can excuse such
a measure. Marine stores are raised from 3to 5 per
cent. ; metals, from 3 to 5 per cent, ; woollens, from 2
to 5 per cent. ; tin, from 3 to 5 per cent. ; cotton and
silk piece-goods, from 31 to 5 per cent. ; porter, ale
beer, from 31 to 5 per cent. ; wines and liquors, from an
ad valorem duty of 10 per cent. to 1 rupee 8 annas (35.)
per gallon ; and all unenumerated articles from 31 to 5
per cent. These are the rates OR British goods ; on
foreign the rates are raised in the same proportion; and
the distinction is preserved and the same proportion con-
tinued between imports on British and on foreign bot-

toms."
The same journal makes the following just remarks
respecting the sickness of the 78th Highlanders :—" The
health of the troops in Sinde is admitted to be in general
good. The only exception has been the 78th High-
landers, 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-
tivelyn
es hseap lelrtehvya,hnot wasinthat to
regiment."b
exclusivelye blamed for the
sickness
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 for Lilian journals, and the fact stow seems gene-
rally admitted. Even the Bombay correspondent of the
Morning Herald goes out of his way and counteracts the
policy of the journal by which he is ernp'oyed 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 earlier pro-
ceedings of the expedition itself. On the second head I
have 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 beat of all reasons, however, for it was
foreseen from the first that if the enemy chose to walk
away there really was nothing to be 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 the enemy stood.still to be shot at, it was impossible
to effect anything againt them."
The accounts brought by this mail are of the follow-
ing dates :—Bombay, March 1 ; Madras, Feb. 21 ; Cal-
cutta, Feb. 19 ; Lahore, Feb. 9 ; Sinde, Feb. 20 ; Sin-
gapore, Jan. 26 ; and China, Jas. 14.
(From the Bombay Times, Diarch 1.)
The month of February has proved singularly barren in events
about
Sir C. Napier, who went forth in the end of January, with
5,000 British troops and 2,000 Sindian auxiliaries, to put down
the freebooters who have infested our frontier ever since we ad-
vanced it beyond the Indus, remains with the troops on the other
side 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
enemy, in one of which three thousand stolen cattle were rescued,
a village taken, and a score or two of plunderers killed or wounded
bold assault, and rapid march or two, were at the outset duly
set forth in general orders ; which concluded, in reference to the
marches, that " the glory of soldiers was as often won by their legs
as by their arms." From the 20th of January to the Bth or 10t1.
re of February, the force seems to have done nothing but
con-
sume their supplies, seen,
which at the latter date
nearly exhausted. The enemy were never though
the incessant robberies which occurred in and around
the camp showed that they had not wholly departed. The
were ptty
people generally remain quiet, and the troops, with the exception
of her Majesty's 78th Highlanders. healthy, throughout Sinde.
Of this
unhappy regiment more than one.half had died in five
Months ; the survivors are this day expected to arrive from Kur-
rachee at Bombay, to abide the determination of overnment,
whether they shall be sent to the Deccan, the Cape of Good Hope,
withdrawn
from the disturbed districts of Kolapore and Sawunt Warree. A
number of " small affairs" have come off in the course of the
month—martial law has been proclaimed--some 600 or 700 pri-
of being
or England. The troops are now in process
Boners are in our hands waiting to be tricd by military tribunal—
and one of the most turbulent of the insurgent leaders, Lall Gh
ointed
eer
Gosain, has been hanged. Colonel Outram has been app
u
political agent or resident at Sattara. The Punjab continues
turbulent, and the chief military stations on the north
west frontier are being reinforced. There seems no
idea of a Sikh war for the present—the measures which have been
adopted being preventive merely. Little more of the Cashmere or
Nepaul troubles has been heard in the course of the month.
Gwalior seems peaceful ; and the unquiet aspect ef herizon to.
wards the north is vanishing away. The hot season is at hand,
when military operations must be suspended till September. The
British dominions throughout India enjoy profound peace. From
China we have tidings to the 14th of January ; their interest is
chiefly commercial. Sir Henry Harding c continues at Calcutta,
devoting himself to the concerns of a thoroughly peaceful admi-
Eistration, and continuing unwearied in his exertions to advance
the education of the people. and the comforts of the humbler ranks
of the army. If the history of the present time is uninteresting,
our prospects are cheerful.

SINDE.
magnitude, which started from Sukkur
We gave in last month's summary some particulars of the march
frontier in the direction of Shikarpore.
of an expedition of some
about the middle of January, into the haunts of the robber tribes
wasb
Sindey generalhnrse
and order
admire:teen:
pt
so,
from the field force extends to the 10th of
and 1,600 cavalry, besides artillery, from
fionufran4ti":;"h mortars, two .3-pr. and two 4i-inch
noeuarr es t
presenteyo
information
t oenw
February.
consistsukk ur of_ Sukkur—viz.:
The force
howitzers. From Lorkh
with the volunteers of her Majesty's 39th (drafts from her Ma-
jesty's 13th) mounted op camels, with two mountain guns, were to
Ali Moored promised to bring 2,000 and
proceed on the 13th.
Wullee Mahomed some 600 or 800 followers hit° the field (it was
feared our allies would tax the supplies to a larger amount
than the value of their services); so that in all the force
disapnaatchtedne
to nearly 7,010 men, 4,500 British
probably amounted
and 2,500 allies, with ten or twelve pieces of ord.
er the governor having crossed the
mince. The troops unde
6th Irregular Cavalry marched 40
desert, Capt. Salter with th
37 with the Sinde horse, on the 16th ;
miles, and Captain Jacob
Captain Mowatt in 24 hours marched 56, Lieutant Smallpage with
136 police on foot marched 40 miles through the desert in 16 suc-
cessive hours—feats rarely exceeded in our military annals, consi-
drring the climate and country where they were performed. Ge-
neral Sir C. Napier stated that such performances made him proud
of the force under his command, " the glory of soldiers being as
of. en gained by their legs as by their arms." Nothing could be more
essential to their success than the celerity of their movements.
the 16th, reached tie village of Shahpore before
Captain Jacobs, on
the inhabitants had time to abandon it. Though strongly fortified,
and stoutly defended, the irregular horse carried it with the
rapidity of lightning, made prisoners without injuring one of
them, of all its occupants ; and their gallant leader was deservedly
complimented by the general for the resolute, prompt, and humane
conduct of his men. Capt. Salter, with the 6th Irregulars and
two guns of the mountain train, overtook the robbers the same day
near Ooch—sui prised and defeated them with considerable loss—
amount;ng, it is said, to 40 killed or wounded. On this
occasion 3,500 head of. stolen cattle were recovered while on
their way to the hills. The troops under General Hunter crossed
the desert to Khangur in two detachments, on the nights of the
19th and 20th, and found the way smooth and the weather cool
and agreeable; the next morning at daybreak they reached Mi.
notee ; on the 21st they started for Shahpore; and on the 220
proceeded to Ooch. Here they were inspected by the Governor
on the 23d. On the night of the 22d Colonel Geddes had marched
with the camel corps and Captain Mowatt's troop to a place 20
miles in advance of Ooch—Bejar Khan, with some 2,500 of his
followers, being understood to have got surrounded in the vici-
nage by the tribes friendly to us. From this time our accounts
from the Kutchee force are scanty ; the communication with
Shahpore is said to have been uninterrupted, and the enemy had
learnt wisdom and retired within their fastnesses, leaving their in-
vaders to render tip ad dm ;lone through the eau, On the