The Sun.
London, England, 1826-02-08 00:00:00

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The following is an extract of a 'letter dated
Bombay, Sept. 10; it is written by, an officer of rank in the
army, who is well acquainted with the particulars which he
relates;—" We are all in a bustle again.on thisside of. India.
" The authorities of Sindh, the country on each bank of the
" Indus, are showing a hostile disposition, and we shall,
" think, shortly have something to say to them, and perhaps
" extend- our territory in that quarter. A force Is collecting
"`with extraordinary dispatch at Mogi, in Cutch, consisting of
" all the 4th Dragoons, the troop of lwrse artillery from Kana,
" half a regiment of native cavalry, a large „portion of foot,
" artillery, engineers, and six regiments of native infantry, the
" King's sixth, and the flank companies of the 2d European
" Regiment. The whole to be commanded by Colonel Nati tEn,
" of the 6th."

Yesterday afternoon at two o'clock, a Cahinel
Council was held at the Foreign Office in Down
ing-street nareeahly to summons which was at

endeil by 'the Earl of Ilarrowl;y, the Earl o;
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Westmorland, the Earl of Liverpool, the Chan-
cellor of the Exchequer, Mr. Canning, Mr. Peel,
Earl Bathurst, Nr. iluskissoniViscount Melville,
the Duke of Wellington, Lord Bexley, and Mr.
Wynn. The Council sat iu glose deliberation
till past four o'clock..
Yesterday the Portuguese Atnhassador trans-
acted business at the Foreign Office.

Mr,II uNtEa, sett., the Kiog's Messenger, •vas
sent off a fow days ago to our Ambassador at

Peru.

A Ituisian Journal, edited by a Frenchman
named Lapierre, who. was formerly attached to
the Embassy to Constantinople, is published at
Pekin under the title of Le Flambeau.

The. Government of the Pays-Bas has approved
of the scheme of' "a' canal from Liege to Mews-
strieht, and atso of forriiing a suspension bridge
over the Meuse, between Ain appe and Seraing.
• It is generally supposed that this is necessarily
the last Session of the present Parliament. This
is a mistake, for though this is the seventh Ses-
sion„it is yet ostly the sixth year, and the legal
duration of Parliament is " seven years," not
seven Sessions. The seven years will expire next
April twelVe-months. Ministers, of course, will
not allow- the-prerogative of the Crown . to fall
into desuetude by waiting the legal termination.
The Stamp.oftice is preparing by order of Mr.

lixitittcs, and preparatory to the discussions on
Friday, an account siwning the Number and
value of Country Bankers' Notes, of each de-
scription, stamped in eacb quarter of a year,
from Jan. 6, 1820, to Jan.s, 1828 ; and the total
value of the whole stamped in each year during
the same period.
The De L'lsrA. claim of Peerage
(derivable
from the first Furls of I.4lgsex, Warwick, &c.) is
to he further prosecuted before the Committee of
Privikg" of the House of Lords this Session ;
the investigations, are ordered to be resumed on
the-20th instant.
RICIIARDSTAPFORD COOKE has petitioned the

4ouse of Lords on the subject of, the Stafford
claim of Peerage, for the correction of what he
alleges to be error in the minutes of evidence
ta kot. the rettpen
Fifty-seven Peers were excused from the ballot

for , Lords to, attend the hearing of appeals ;
amongst them were (besides those noticed yester-
day) Lord Redesdale, the Bishops of Rochester,
Carlisle, Norwich, •Hereford, Worcester, Win.
chester, and Durham; the Earls of 'Fitzwilliam,
Derby, Portsmouth, &c.
A letter dated Liverpool, Monday night, states
that there had been no new failures in the town.
A letter from Pernambuco, of the 20th Decem-
ber, was received yesterdaY,.which states the ar-
rival of • Sir CHARLES STUART at that place from
Rio de Janeiro.
Seven waggon loads, of bullion, about 9.8 tons
of gold and silver, were delivered at the Bank
yesterday morning, from South America.
THE STARVING WEAYERS.----11iS MAJESTY has
given orders that the rooms of his , palace at
Windsor shall be hung round with silk of the
Spitalfields manufacture. It is expected that
many of the nobility will testify their compas-
sion for, the unfrrtunate weavers in a similar
manner. The distress in Spitalfields is now
dreadful in tha.extremei many of the wretched
fimilies are actually starving. • •
HORRIBLE Occuattatict.—On. Wednesday
night, at 8 o'clock, a most horrible occurrence
took place in the town of Neweastlei county of
Limerick. Sergeant Holland, of the 62d Regi-
ment,.who was stationed there on the recruiting
service, waowalking up the street with a young
man, who had offered himself for enlistment; when
they got to the topeof the square, and not 100
yards from the barrack, the person he had been
'walking with stepped aside, and joined three
ether men, who iMmediately approached Serjeant
Holland, and deliberately fired a shot at him,
which took effect, and the contents struck him in
the left arm, between the elbow and the shoulder,
inflicting a most desperate wound, the entire of
the fleSh baiting been torn away from the undey
and the bath: or slugs
part, passing through at the
,upper. Prom the extent of laceration it appears
probable that It was a blunderbuss those nightly
assassins made use of to carry their diabolical
purpose into effect. The poor man lies• in a
wretched: state.--(Limerick chronicle.)