The Sun.
London, England, 1842-09-05 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 5, 1842.

hour and a half before the time it was arranged she
should progress upwards to the city. No Magistrate
nor public body met her at the barrier where the
keys of the city were to have been delivered to her,
and not a twentieth part of the immense multitude
saw her Majesty. anis, after having waited all night
for the express purpose, filled the minds of all with
one burst of indignation. None of our civic func •
tionaries were in waiting to meet her.
The whole Town Council went off immediately to
Dalkeith to state that they would not be answerable
for the peace of the city, if matters were not adjusted.
The apology made was the sickness of the Queen, and
it was promised that on Saturday she would have a
public procession from the Palace of Ilolyrood to the
Castle; but the public feeling has fallen down to
zero, and no appliances that can be made will again
bring up the steam.
REPORTED SCAFFOLD ACCIDENT.

%Ve have seen a letter from Edinburgh, dated Sa-
turday, giving an account of some fatal accidents by the
fall of a scaffold on the Queen's entrance into the
city, but have no doubt the account is greatly exag-
gerated, as there is not a word respecting it in any
Edinburgh paper, or in the letters of correspondents.
The only other reference to it is in a Glasgow paper
of Saturday, which is to the following effect :
" During the Royal progress on Thursday the fall
of a scaffold, which had been temporarily erected
within the railing that encloses the nursery in the
North Loch, in front of Prince's-street, took place.
The scaffolding was about fifty yards in length, and
perhaps five or six in depth. At the moment our eves
lighted on it, it presented a most frightful aspect. ."A
mass of human beings were thrown together in the
wildest confusion. So far as we could learn, no per-
son was killed on the spot ; but the broken bones,
bruises, and other injuries, Must certainly be of the
most serious character—we likewise saw several wo-
men, and also men, but chiefly the former, carried out
on shutters, to all appearance dead. Many others,
whose damage was slighter, were carried off in cabs
and hackney coaches."

THE PALACE OF SCONE.
.CROWNED AT SCONE."

The situation of Scone is magnificent. At the
foot of the park, and in sight of the windows of its
ancient palace, the Tay rolls, a majestic and un-
troll-bled stream, in breadth about a thousand feet ;
and the environs of Perth on its opposite banks are
extremely rich and beautiful. On the right the
Grampians terminate the view, and swelling fields
richly cultivated bound the prospect on the south.
Among these high grounds opposite to Scone, is the
nearly ruinous castle of Hunting-Tower, surrounded
by aged trees. It was a seat of the powerful family
of Ruthven, Earls of Cowrie, and was the scene of
one of their mysterious attempts on the person of
James VI. Upon their final forfeiture it fell to the
Crown, by whom it was granted to the Athol family,
and being, sold by the late Duke, is now used in part
as a factory.
Scone Palace is situated about two miles from
Perth. Though from its vast size, and unadorned
style of architecture, together with the dark red stone
of which it is built, it is generally reckoned a heavy
pile of building, yet its general appearance is un-
doubtedly magnificent, and is well suited to its repre-
sentative character of Royalty. Scone was long a
favourite residence of the Scottish monarchs, and the
Abbey was the scene of their coronations for many
ages ; the celebrated stone on which they sat, was
carried from Scone by Edward I. of England, and is
still preserved in the Coronation chair at Westminster
Abbey.
At the Reformation the Palace and Abbey of Scone
were destroyed, but the former was restored about the
commencement of the seventeenth century. In it
King Charles 11. was crowned in 1651, ten years' be-
fore his coronation at Westminster, and here James
VIII. (Chevalier de St. George) was also crowned in
1715, when he attempted to recover the throne of his
ancestors. Since these times Scone has not been the
scene of Royal pageantry, and in 1803 the old
Palace was removed by the late Earl, who erected in
its stead a splendid mansion, designed by Mr. Atkin-
son, which was finished in 1806.

The attributes of those, high days
Now only live in minstrel lays ;
Strength was gigantic, valour high,
And wisdom soared beyond the sky ;
And beauty had such matchless beam,
As lights not now a lover's dream.
Near the door of the Palace is a mount, called the
Mote-hill, where the Barons who attended the Royal
coronations are said to have emptied out of their
boots a quantity of earth which had been gathered on
their own estates, a custom originating in the wish of
each to stand on his own land during the ceremony.
In an adjoining wood, within a few hundred yards
of the house, is a beautiful sepulchral chapel, in which
are several splendid monuments in white marble. One
of these was erected by the late Earl to the me-
mory of his first wife, Henrietta, Viscountess Stor-
mont, daughter of the Count Bunau, in Saxony. She
lies buried in Saxony, where she died ; but her heart
is deposited here in a white marble urn, with a Latin
inscription, written by her sorrowing husband.;
HALL, SALOON, AND ANTE-CHAMBER.--The great
entrance to the palace of Scone is in the east front,
near the south corner. From the vestibule, which is
17 feet by 14, the visitor is conducted through a hall
(20 feet square, and lighted by a dome) in a
straight line, to the saloon. This apartment is
lighted by theee large painted windows, which
look into one of the interior courts of the building.
About the middle of the saloon on tin left is the ante-
chamber, conducting to the dining-room and great
drawing-room on each side, which are of equal dimen-
sions, and with the ante-room extend the whole
length of the south front. The window of the ante-
room is a Gothic oriel of richly stained glass.
DRAWING-ROOM AND LIBRARY.—In the drawing-
room are many valuable paintings, several of which
are by Titian : there is a fine portrait of Sing
Charles I. by Vandyck, and another of the great
Marquis of Montrose. The roof of the drawing-
room is groined in stucco, after the model of the
former one in the old Palace. The library, which
leads from the drawing-room, fronts the west; it has
two small turret-rooms, filled like the larger room
with valuable books. A door on one side of the fire-
place enters the end of the saloon, and that on the
other to a corridor, 109 feet by 22.
THE MUSIC-ROOM.—Adjoining the library is the
music-room. Over the fire-place hangs a portrait of
the great Lord Mansfield, as Lord Chief Justice of
England, by Sir Joshua Reynolds, as also some fine
portraits of the present family. Directly opposite
this room is the great staircase, conducting to the
rooms above.

Next to the music-room, and in the corridor
before-mentioned, is Lady Mansfield's sitting-room,
in which are some beautiful cabinet paintings,
principally of the Italian school. In a bed-
room near the family apartments is a screen
worked by the unfortunate Mary, Queen of Scots,
during her confinement in Loch Leven Castle. From
the middle of the corridor an arched cloister conducts
to the centre of the Great Gallery. This splendid
room is of the same dimensions as the former Coro-
nation Gallery, and part of the old walls are still pre-
served. The floor is of dark brown, inlaid with
lozenge-shaped black oak. It is lighted from the east
by eight pointed windows, the upper panes embla-
zoned with the arms of the successive Viscounts
Stormont and Earls of Mansfield, all painted by the
Countess. At one end of the gallery is a magnificent
organ, and at the opposite extremity are spacious fold-
ing-doors leading to the hall which connects the vesti-
bule and saloon. At the organ end of the gallery is
the billiard-room.

The great stair leads to the bed-rooms above, some
of which are splendidly furnished. The state bed is
of crimson damask, with the full Royal arms of Bri-
tain embroidered in gold at the top and head. This
bed was presented by George 111. to the late Earl.
In an adjoining room is a bed in which Queen Mary
slept, worked by herself; and in another, one which
was used by her son, James VI. In these apartments
there are several curious portraits of the Royal house
of Stuart. In the cloister between the gallery and
corridor are portraits of George 111. and Queen Char-
lotte, by Ramsay ; and some ancient coats of arms
cut in stone, and built into the wall.
Scone contains about 125 rooms. It is said that
ninety of these are bed-rooms. There are many
beautiful cabinets of ebony and japan, and others in-
laid with lapis lazuli and brass, some of which for-
merly belonged to the palace, and to the " Heroes of
the time of old."
" Here Galaad sat with manly grace,
There Morolt of the iron mace,
And love-lorn Tristrem there ;
And Dinadam, with lively glance,
And Lanval, with the fairy lance,
And Mordred, with his look askance,
Brunor and Belvidere."

TAYMOUTH CASTLE.
De Vaux had marked the sunbeams set
At eve, upon the coronet
Of that enchanted mound ;
A bannered castle, keep, and tower.
With battled walls and buttress fast,
And barbican and ballium vast,
And airy, flanking towers, that cast
Their shadows on the stream.
—Bridal of Triermain.
Taymouth, formerly called Balloch, was acquired
by Sir Colin Campbell, of Glenurquha7, Knight of
Rhodes, about the year 1840; from him is lineally
descended the present peer, whose ancestor was created
Earl of Breadalbane and Holland, by King Charles
11., in 1677.
The wings of the original castle, which were all
that remained of the old fabric, were lately removed,
and the present mansion, a design of Elliott, architect
of the Regent's bridge, &c., built, though Lord Bread-
albane has even more altered and improved it by his
taste.
On entering the visitor passes through a hall, the
lowness' of which tends to increase the effect produced
by the grand staircase, which rises to the full height

of the central tower, and is embellished in the richest
style of florid Gothic architecture, copied from Henry
yll.'s chapel at Weltminster. This superb stair
is lighted from above by long pointed windows in the
upper part of the tower, and below, open galleries,
lead to the rooms in the higher stories. The windows
in the centre tower are filled with stained glass, re-
presenting various parts of the family armorial bear-
ings, taken from ancient authorities. Their softened
tint is particularly beautiful, reflecting various colours
on the rich ornaments, and harmonizing withthe dig.
pity and grand features of the lofty edifice.
The suit of state apartments is extensive, and mag-
nificently furnished ; some of the public rooms are of
great size. The Baronial Hall is a very splendid
apartment : at one end is a large mullioned widow,
representing, in stained glass, the Earl and Countess
of Breadalbane in the centre, and in the different side
effigies of-the successive Knights
and Barons of Glenurquhay, descended from Sir
Colin, each having painted on his shield his own
proper heraldic bearings. Other devices in the same
style occupy the small divisions in the upper part : all
of which are taken from an illuminated MS. on vel-
lum, in Lord Breadalbane's possession, made out and
painted by Sir Duncan Campbell, seventh Laird.
Taymouth is situated in a delightful valley of the
Highlands, and is perhaps 'one of the choicest resi-
dences in Scotland. The deer-park is very extensive,
and is covered with fine old trees, particularly a cele-
brated avenue of majestic limes nearly a mile in length,
the vista of which is like the regular and continued
arches of a Gothic cathedral.
Lord Breadalbane's estate is about 100 miles in
length : and before the abolition of heritable jurisdic-
tion, the power of the family was immense, as the
valleys are very fertile and populous.
In 1819 Taymouth was visited by Prince Leopold,
who was received with a Royal salute from the fort :
and Lord Breadalbane having summoned part of his
vassals to appear before him, in honour of the illustri-
ous visitor, about two thousand men assembled before
the Castle, in full Highland costume, and after going
through various evolutions, formed into detachments,
and retired by different avenues to the sound of their
respective pibrochs.

THE AFFGHAN WAR.
FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAY.

TIMES.—As our readers will expect, we recur to-
day to the subject of Lord Ellenborough's proposed
I withdrawal from Affghanistan. We are disposed to
speak cautiously of that Noble Lord's policy, because
it is at present plainly unintelligible to the Indian
world, who have far more opportunities for making
themselves acquainted with it than ourselves. One
or two points, however, are plainly level to English
judgments; and among these, first and foremost
stands the impossibility of retreating one step with
honour,'so long as English subjects, British, Hindoo,
or Mahommedan, remain in the hands of Akbar
Khan. On this, we trust, there is in the English or
Indian world no difference of opinion. It would be
neither more nor less than a base desertion of those
whom, if we cannot protect, we have no right to call
ourselves a Government or a .nation. If Lord El-
lenborough has seriously contemplated such an act,
we have no more to say for him. Differences of
opinion may exist as to the best means to be adopted
for their liberation : negotiation, exchange, money,
and the sword, will each have their partisans ; each is
open to objection and difficulty. But that that libe-
ration must be a part, nay, more, a condition prece-
dent to any pacific arrangement, to any relinquish-
ment of territory, is a sentiment which comes home
as an axiom to every English heart. It is impossible
to believe that it was or is intended so to betray our
countrymen and women. The policy which left
them in the hands of our lawless enemies would be as
execrable as that which placed them there. And now
as to the omission to march direct upon Caubul :
if that omission resulted from indecision—if Lord
Ellenborough allowed himself to be played with by
the Affghans, to be delayed by promises, and
hopes, and understandings held out by this people
of approved faithlessness ; or if the inaction re-
sulted from any indifference to the recapture of the
English prisoners (which would be evidenced by
a retreat not conditional upon their re-delivery), then
any English writer or thinker is justified in saying
that Lord Ellenborough is not fit for the crisis on
which he has fallen. But if, as we most certainly
hope—as for the credit of the British Government
we are willing to believe—the question of advance
has been one of mere military policy, it would be a
somewhat ludicrous act of presumption to pronounce
as yet dogmatically on the merits of that course. A
Contemporary tells us that we shall march to Caubul,
but that we might have done it more easily long ago.
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have been done sooner and better." So it was while
the Duke of Wellington was carrying into effect his
long-sighted policy in the Peninsula; so it always
will be while human nature and political contests
remain the same. The charge may be true, or it
may be false : but which it is, the maker of the
charge has no proofs which a man engaged in earnest
upon the administration of affairs would not laugh at.
We may further add the exasperation of our own
troops as a reason for wishing to avert, if we can with
honour, the necessity of a campaign. Already, it
seems, atrocious excesses have begun ; an English
regiment,, part of Colonel Monteath's expedition,
having burnt to the ground an unresisting village,
with all the usual and shocking accompaniments of
military vengeance. The only provocation was the
sight of some articles which had belonged to the un-
fortunate 44th. The officers, it need hardly be said,
are no parties to this outrage, and the General is de-
scribed as highly displeased. But still we confess
ourselves little anxous that the English name, which
has enough to bear already, should be further dis-
graced by a barbarous vengeance, inflicted, not on
the treacherous leaders of our enemies, but on vil-
lagers who, so far as they have been concerned in our
disaster, have but been guilty of what, as against
the French or Russians—at Algeria or in Circassia—
most of us would have honoured as an act of wild
heroism. This is not the way in which people are
inclined to regard this matter, but it is a true way.
It is the way in which multitudes of Asiatics
will look at it, and all Europe speak of it. Nor
shall we be proud of a campaign which only teaches
India to regard our rule as a cruel, unscrupulous, but
irresistible tyranny. We are not urging this state
of the army as a conclusive reason against an advance.
It is not so. Discipline may contain it within
bounds; and, if not, when war is necessary its con-
sequences must be borne. But, though not a conclu-
sive reason, it is a most weighty consideration
in favour of a pause, if possible, and when
possible—a consideration which will be felt
by those, and they are now many, whom the
thirst of conquest and vengeance allows still to
perceive that blood is blood, and that a cruel
or indiscriminate vengeance is no less abhorrent to
humanity than a tame desertion of those whom our
national duties bind us to protect. We repeat, we
feel the difficulties in which the Indian Government
finds itself. We sympathize with its wish to be quit
of an expensive, sanguinary, ani disc -ed:table war.
But such a quittance may be bought too dear. We
demand, certainly, no extension of territory. On the
subject of retribution we might feel less sensitive than
some ; but we should feel no hesitation or mercy in
pronouncing our judgment on a statesman who
should dare to terminate the war before terminating
the captivity of our countrymen.
POST.—At a moment when it is perfectly noto-
rious that the army at Jellalabad is without the means
of conveying the ordinary stores for half the number
of men to Caubul, and, if there, tiny could not get
back before the setting in of winter and its snows,
Lord Ellenborough is attacked for not pushing the
army onwards at all events. Why, if the army did go
to Caubul, and gain possession of the place, starvation
would soon begin as it did last year, and the choice
would again between perishing of hunger in the city or
perishing by the sword in the snow-blocked passes
in the mountains by which a retreat might be at-
tempted. And yet because the army is not fofced
into this danger—because Whig folly is not imitated by
such a movement—it is exclaimed that Lord Ellenbo-
rough has "deliberated and calculated the abandon-
ment of the British prisoners at Caubul ;" that he
has abandoned "children to slavery—women to law-
less violence—men to butchery," &c. &c. Of all the
nonsense we ever read in our lives this is the most
outrageous. How can any man in his senses sup-
pose that the best thing for the prisoners is to try to
advance with an infuriated army upon Caubul ? We
say an infuriated army, because it appears from the
treament of the village of Ally Boghan by the troops
which advanced upon it from Jellalabad, that when
the memory of the slaughter of our troops last Ja-
nuary occurs to their brother soldiers, there is no re-
straining the execution of immediate vengeance.
Upon all rational calculation, then, the advance of
our army upon Caubul would be attended with cir-
cumstances most perilous to the prisoners. Probably
it would lead to their being all put to death. N o
doubt among the reasons for not attempting to push
forward to Caubul, one very important one is the deep
concern of the Government for the safety of the pri-
soners. Suppose our army were to reach Caubul,
they would find no prisoners there. The. prisoners
' would, by that time, either be killed or carried off
into the mountains where no army could reach them.
We can only hope to get back the prisoners by means
of some negotiation. They must be voluntarily given
back for some equivalent. Though it were in our
power to conquer Affghanistan, still we could not get
back the prisoners by force. We trust they will
; never have to accuse the 'additional rashness and folly
of Conservative policy, for aggravating the evils of
their imprisonment, or hurrying them from captivity
to a violent death. The plain matter of fact is, that
I so far as the intelligence received by the last packet
I can enable prudent men to judge, the Governor-Ge-
nerd is adopting the best course which, under eircum.

stances, he could adopt. He is not abandoning the
neighbourhood when it is necessary our power should
still be felt, nor is he rushing onward into a position
which (until better provided) would be sure to bring
, a repetition of defeat and disaster at no distant time.
CIIRONICLE.—What idle absurdity it is to at-
tempt to turn public attention from Lord Ellen-
borough's order to retreat, to a consideration of the
general question of the policy of having gone into
Affghanistan at all. Suppose everything that is said
upon that subject were true, how could it justify the
Governor-General's command to evacuate the country?
The public mind will note be diverted by such devices
as this from the only question that is really as issue.
There i 3 no doubt that Lord Ellenborough did com-
mand the evacuation of Affghanistan immediately.
The difficulty of retreating through the Khyber-pass,
and the unwillingness of General Pollock, without
remonstrance, to carry such an order into effect, alone
prevented the accomplishinent of this measure, which
all parties agree in condemning as most disgraceful in
its character and most disastrous in its consequences.
If Lord Ellenborough's decision rested merely upon the
authority ofrumour, we should perhaps hesitate in adopt-
ing it as strictly correct; though the veryexistence ofsuch
a rumour, prevalent and generally believed through-
out India, is in itself an indication of great mis-
management, and must be followed by the most per-
nicious consequences. See the effect of it upon the
troops at Jellalabad. To what mischievous results
has it not already led at Caubul ? Every account as-
cribes the success of Akbar Khan to the impres-
sion that the British troops were about to retreat.
But it is not, unfortunately, upon rumour that the
belief in Lord Ellenborough's order is founded. The
order issued upon the 14th of May from the Adjutant-
General's office, puts it beyond question that an im-
mediate and general retreat was what was contem-
plated by the Governor-General. Even the corre-
spondent of the Times newspaper says that this order
" seems conclusive as to the retreat?' That the
tain. We are entitled, then, to assume that Lord
re-
treat was to have been " immediate" is equally cer-
Ellenborough did order an " immediate" withdrawal
within the British provinces of the troops serving
west of the Indus. Most gratifying is it t 9 observe
that this proceeding not only
is not defended,
but that every writer who has spoken of
it condemns it in the most strenuous terms.
This is the way in which the subject is
treated by the whole Press. So that we may be
satisfied that that weak and inhuman order will never
be carried into effect. Still, however, the consequences
of having issued such a command have been already
most disastrous. Not only has it established the mur-
derer of our Envoy and the gaoler of our people " in
a decisive supremacy over the whole Affghan nation,"
but it has prevented the re-occupation of Caubul by
the united forces of Generals Pollock and Nott. This
fatal delay of the troops at Jellalabad was not, as was
charitably surmised by the palliators of Lord Ellen-
borough's proceedings, suggested by the difficulty of
the march. Indeed, upon that point, as we have
already observed, the Governor-General has proved
his utter incompetency to give an opinion. The whole
of the military operations which he did order were
pronounced, when submitted to military authorities,
to be impracticable. The retreat through the Khyber
General Pollock refused to undertake, and the evacua-

tion of Candahar was countermanded. We are told,
indeed, that Lord Ellenborough's incapacity will be
compensated by the wisdom of the Duke of Welling-
ton. If his Grace were at Simla instead of Strathfield-
saye, there might be some reason in this. It is not by or-
ders from Downing-street that the administration of
India, least of all operations in a distant part of India,
can be carried on. And yet the informant of the Go-
vernment Journal distinctly says, "No move in ad-
vance seems to be intended ; and without it be ordered
from home, it does not appear to me that the Governor-
General will direct it." Most fortunately the " move
in advance" has been "ordered from home" and will
be carried into effect. But it will be in violation of
the orders of the Governor-General of India. Our
experience of Lord Ellenborough s character, as a
man and as a receiver of the public money, shuts out
the hope that even such a censure as that would scare
him from his splendid and lucrative position; but we
doubt if Sir Robert Peel will feel it safe to remain
longer respofisible for the proceedings of a man,
whose want of judgment and decision, whose indif-
ference to the fame of his country and the feelings of
his countrymen, are already so glaring as actually to
leave him without an apologist, even amongst the ob-
sequious writers of his party.
HERALD.—When, after the disaster of Caubul,
it was first announced that we were t. 4 prosecute the
war, the reason assigned for doing so (the reason ac-
cepted by every man in this country) was, that it was
and rendered
because otherwise India would be lost. I.Ve alone
necessary for us to retrieve our military character,
exposed this fallacy, and we asserted that against such
a danger no precaution could taken,bpea
red c e
nfd real,d
sin
the consequences must have ape
the employment of military force beyond the Penin-
sula impossible, before any orders to that effect could
be conveyed to India. Every man now knows that
this reason, accepted by him a few months ago,
was wholly without foundation, withoutdiscovering
his own dangerous habit of reasoning without
knowledge, and deciding without reason. The
public mind was next worked upon by the
atrocities which (who could doubt) had been
practised by the savage Affghans on our fellow-coun-
trywomen and upon British officers. A few weeks
bring us the intelligence that the prisoners are safe
and well treated. We are then told that we must
prosecute the war to avenge ourselves upon a nation
that we had attacked ithout cause, object, or provo-
cation. The Prime Minister of England improves on
this suggestion, veiling its deformity by prostituted
words of right and law. He tells the joyously ex-
ulting House of Commons that British troops are to
be sent forth to avenge on the Affghans the
violated laws of war. Good heavens, England
asserting the majesty of law ! England speaking
of law where she alone was the aggressor, and
declaring war for the first time, because she had
been defeated ! When recently we learnt by the
mail before the last that Lord Ellenborough had had
the courage to determine upon withdrawing (th )ugh
lamentably not the' knowledge which should have
enabled him to effect this holy purpose), the organ of
the ex-Foreign Secretary denounced him as the basest
of men for abandoning the British captives in the
hands of an enemy. Now the war is to be prose-
cuted, and new thousands upon thousands of lives to
be sacrificed, solely to get prisoners back ! Have
the Affghans refused peace on the condition of
restoring those prisoners? If they had, would
that be a reason for attacking anew a people to
whom we have given the right of hanging every
Briton they can capture as a pirate and robber ?
Have we no prisoners to exchange ? By the
simple release of a friendly Prince whom we have
dethroned, and whom unjustly we detain, not a pri-
soner, but a slave, our prisoners are at once restored.
The pretext now for the war is recovery of prisoners
whom it is in our power to recover by merely ceasing
to be criminal, and whom we endanger
only by the
measures we propose for their release ! Revise this
story, and say whether it is, not that of England, but
—of infatuation. If those are to be maddened first,
who are afterwards to be
destroyed, say, if such a his-
tory as this be not the fitting prelude for a na-
tion's fall. To crown this eventful history,
we are told that the Duke of Wellington
has arranged the next campaign. The political ad-
mirers of this great military genius have attributed
to him the singular honour of having at once de-
tected and denounced the insanity of this war. When
this announcement of his reprobation was publicly
made, we gave (in February last) insertion in our co-
lumns to these words. The war undertaken against
the secret protest of the Duke of Wellington by the
Government of which he was the patron, will be pro-
secuted after his public reprobation of it by the Go-
vernment of which he is the head. This announcement
appeared incredible-.it has been realised—nay even
more. The Duke of Wellington plans the next cam-
paign ! Perhaps the illustrious Duke conceives that he
has fulfilled his duty as a citizen by stigmatising that
war as criminal and unwise ; and that it now remains
for him to fulfil his duty as a soldier by contributing
his talents to render crimer and folly triumphant.
ADVERTISER.; _-The news from India by the
last Overland mail is remarkable chiefly for the de-
termination said to have been formed by the Go-
vernor-General to withdraw the troops from the
theatre of war—a determination which it were al-
most superfluous to say has struck general astonish-
ment and dismay into the Angle-Indian community
as well as into the Press of this country. Orders
had been issued, it was asserted, to General Pollock,
to return immediately when he
had relieved the force
at Jellalabad ; but against which that General had
remonstrated, advising a less precipitate retreat from
the country, or even an advance, in concert with
General Nott, from Candahar, upon Caubul itself.
The number of British troops in Affghanistan, and its
immediate neighbourhood, is 25,000, an army cer-
tainly strong enough to exact retribution from the
enemy, if under able command; but the fact can no
longer be denied, that British honour is unretrieved
in that quarter : from whatever cause, it does,
however, openly appear to, us that scarcely one of the
military leaders employed has realised the expecta-
tions that were to have been expected from British
military science. We speak not of personal prowess;
but of that skill and knoyvledge of war to which we
are indebted for all India. The Indian papers are
almost unanimous in their expression of opinion rela-
tive to the evacuation of Aftglia nistan under present
i
circumstances. In fact, n India, where the question
of withdrawal or the reverse must be clearly and per-
fectly understood, the only parties not urgent for the
war to be pursued are the civilians, who are afraid
their pockets may suffer in the necessity for reduced
pay, and a few sordid traffickers anxious to carry on a
small barter in central Asia. With these exceptions
all the British world of India are solicitous forgiving
an honourable termination to the affair, regarding it,

as we ourselves from the first - have done, as the sine
qua non of our sway over the Eastern provinces.

CHINA AND INDIA.

(From the Friend of China and Hong-Kong Gazette,

April 14.)
PROCLAMATION.
With the, desirable object of preventing disputes,
and laying, down some defined system regarding the
circulating medium in this settlement, his Excellency
Sir Henry Pottinger, Bart., her Majesty's Plenipoten-
tiary, and Chief Superintendent of the trade of British
subjects in China, is pleased to promulgate the follow-
ing brief rules, which are to be considered applicable
to all common bazaar purchases and barter, hire,
&c. &c., but not to interfere with, or affect what may
be termed mercantile transactions; and are to be in
force on the island of Hong-Kong, pending the
gracious pleasure of her Majesty the Queen of Great
Britain.
Ist. The following coins are to be deemed legal
tenders :—Spanish, Mexican, and other dollars, and
their component parts ; Company's Rupees and their
component parts. " Cash," or the copper coin cur-
rent in China.

2d. Dollars of whatever denomination or device, and
whether whole or chopped, are to circulate at par with
reference to each other, always providing that they be
of the proper weight and standard.
3d. Two and one quarter Company's rupees shall
be considered equal to one dollar.
One rupee and two annas (or half a quarter) equal
to half a dollar; and half a rupee and one anna (or
nine annas) equal to one quarter of a dollar.
4th. Twelve hundred cash ' (1,200) (copper coin)
shall be equal to one dollar.
Six hundred (600) to half a dollar.
Three hundred (300) to one quarter of a dollar.
Five hundred and thirty-three (533) to one Com-
pany's rupee.
Two hundred and sixty-six (266) to half a rupee.
One hundred and thirty-three (133) to one quarter
of a rupee.
sth. Any other coins, whether British or foreign,
not enumerated in the preceding rules, are not to be
deemed a legal tender, but they can, of course, be
sold, or otherwise bartered in the bazaar, according to
their intrinsic value.

6th. Cash " (copper coin), at the rate laid down
in the 4th rule, will be sold to any individual requir-
ing it in sums of not less than fifty dollars, on appli-
cation to the Treasurer and Secretary to her Britannic
Majesty's Superintendents of Trade, &c.
God save the Queen.
Dated at Hong-Kong, Government-house, this
29th day of March, 1842.
(Signed) HENRY POTTINGER.
Her Majesty's Plenipotentiary and Chief Superin-
tendent of the trade of British subjects in China.
By order, CHAS. E. STEWART.
Assistant Secretary and Treasurer.
General Orders by his Excellency Lieut.-General Sir
Hugh Gough, G.C.8., commanding Expeditionary
Land Force in China, dated Head Quarters, Ningpo
City, 14th March, 1842.
Lieutenant-General Sir Hugh Gough congratu-
lates the troops both at Ningpo and Chinhae, on the
recent gallant repulse of the Chinese, in their bold
and well planned night attack upon these cities.
All those employed manifested the spirit which the
Lieut.-General feels assured that the whole of the
troops w*uld have displayed, had circumstances enabled
them to come into closer contact with the enemy.
Sir Hugh Gough begs Colonel Schoede and
Lieutenant-Colonel Morris, C. 8., to accept for them-
selves, as Commanders at the points of attack,
his very best. thanks, and to convey his Excel-
lency's highest approval to the officers, non-com-
missioned officers mid soldiers, under their respective
commands, particularly to those mentioned by them,
and by Lieutenant-Colonel Montgomerie, C. 8., who
commanded the sortie, from the north gate of Ningpo,
and whose praiseworthy conduct was such as might
have been expected from this gallant and judicious
officer ; Lieutenant-Colonel Mountain, C. 8., Deputy
Adjutant-General ; Lieutenant-Colonel Hawkins,
Deputy Commissary-General ; Major Moores Deputy
Judge Advocate-General ; Dr. French, Superintend-
ing Surgeon; Captains Moore and Balfour, and Lieu-
tenant Molesworth, Madras Artillery; Lieutenants
Murray, Armstrong, O'Toole, 18th N. I. Regt.
Brevet Captain Moorhead, 26th Cameronian regiment;
Captain M'Andrew, Lieutenant Grant, Lieutenant
and Adjutant Brown, Lieutenants Ramsay and Mi-
chell of the 40th, and Captain Daubeney and Lieute-
nant Shaw of the 55th Regiment.
By order,
A. S. H. MOUNTAIN, Lieutenant-Colonel,
Deputy Adjutant-General Expeditionary. Force.
General Orders by his Excellency Lieutenant-General
Sir Hugh Gough, G.G.8., commanding the Ex-
peditionary land force, dated Head Quarters,
Ningpo city, 10th March, 1842 :
Lieutenant-General Sir Hugh Gough congratulates
his brave comrades in arms on the opportunity which
was given to them on the heights of Segoan, of
proving to the elite of the Chinese army, the supe-
riority of Britons both as soldiers and as men.
Sir Hugh Gough will not here particularise, as
the frequency of brilliant deeds in their small but
formidable torce renders it difficult to vary the ex-
pression of his approval ; and where all did their
duty nobly, the Lieutenant-General requests all to
accept his warmest thanks, with the assurance that
he will not fail in his dispatch to do justice to their
gallant and exemplary conduct, so creditably displayed,
as well in the field as in their forbearance towards the
the peasantry, who were in many cases intermingled
with the fugitive soldiers.
The Lieutenant-General's thanks are equally due
to the battalion of seamen and marines, and he feels
assured that every officer and soldier will join with
him in admiration of the spirited advance of a small
body of the battalion by the fortified encampment on
the hill to the right of the enemy's positions, headed
by his Excellency Sir William Parker.
By order, A. S. H. MOUNTAIN, Lieut.-Col.,

Deputy Adjutant-General, Expeditionary Force.
Arrived April 20—Columbine, Major, Singapore,
and Calcutta ; 21—Rosa, Metcalfe, Chusan ; 21—
Singular (Sp.) Bordenove, Manilla; 21—Isabella 11.
(Sp.) Gordonsilho, Manilla; 22—Courier, Roskell,
Manilla ; 24—Maria, —, do.; 27—11. M. S. Calliope,
Captain Kuper, Calcutta ; 29—Margarida, Aquino,
Singapore ; 30—William Hughes, Abbott, Sydney ;
May. 2—Castle Huntley, Reddie, Bombay; 3—Ves-
tal, Young, Bombay; s—Falcon, Baker, Calcutta;
6—Eagle, Wilson, Chusan ; 6—Orion, —, Batavia ;
6—II. C. Tenasserim, —, Calcutta, and Singapore.
Sailed April 20—Palatine, Gardner, Singapore ;
24—Tremelga (Port), —, Batavia; 24—Good Suc-
ce
ss, James, Siam • 25—Eleanor, Holderness, Bom-
bay ; 29—Anna, Riestro, Lima ; May 3—Forth,
Baxter, Lodlion ; 3—Cecilia, Campbell, Singapore.
Under dispatch for Singapore, Cecilia, on the
27th; for Chusan, Alibi; for Manilla, Ceylon, to-
day, 4 p.m. ; for Singapore, Madras and Calcutta,
Moulmein, do. ; for Lima, Ann, to-day.
Vessels expected from London, Dovecot, Anna
Eliza; from Liverpool, Robert Whiteway, Abbots,
Reading, John Christian, Gulnare ; from do. via
Singapore, Ann Birdson ; from do. via Manilla, Bor-
kessia ; from Calcutta, Harlequin, Dido, Falcon,
Lawrence, Water Witch, Anna Watson, Sea Queen,
Fortescue, Bengalee, Clarissa, Louisa.
HOSTILE PREPARATION.—It is said, with what
truth we know not, that the Chinese are making pre-
parations at the Bogue to rebuild the forts there, and
her Majesty's ships Herald and Cruizer, and Hon.
Company's steamers Hooghly and Ariadne, have on
Wednesday last gone thither, from Hong-Kong and
Macao Roads, to ascertain, we suppose, the truth of
these reports, and to destroy such works as may have
been commenced. It is excessively foolish in the Chi-
nese to attempt these works at the Bogue, they having
been repeatedly warned against it; but the orders
from the Court are peremptory, and they are perhaps
obliged, in order to convince the Emperor of the
possibility, to make a show at least of obedience; the
interruption of their labours by the British ships of
war will release them from all further responsibility.
—Canton Press, April 16.
The Mhor has brought a heavy packet from China.
Our Canton papers, however, only come down to the
3d May. Extracts will be found in another column.
Private letters from Macao extend to the 10th May—
those from Hong-Kong come down to the 9th.
The Tenasserim steamer had reached Hong-Kong,
and was to sail for Chusan on the 11th May. The
Falcon has also arrived at the island with Calcutta
news. We subjoin the extracts from letters :
HONG-KONG, MA.Y 9, 1842.—As a mail per the
Mhor (via Macao) is to close this day, I hasten to send
you the last number of the Friend of China, to enable
you to extract a few items therefrom. Amongst the
on dits you will observe that the city of Ningpo had
been evacuated and destroyed, and Hongchowfoo
captured—hut that is not the fact, as our letters from
Chinhae of the 20th and Ningpo 22d April, make no
mention of the circumstance. The truth is that they
require a stronger force to move northerly. We are
gaping for the expected reinforcements. On their
joining this division, Sir Henry Pottinger will ac-
company them to the northward.—Calcutta English-
man, June 24.

We believe Major-General Burrell, C. 8., com-
manding the Hong-Kong Division of the Expedi-
tionary Force, will shortly return to Europe, and
Col. Batley, her Majesty's 49th Foot, daily expected
from Europe, will succeed to the command. Lieuts.
Montgomery and Lane, 49th Foot, return to Bengal
in the transport Eagle, Capt. Patterson. Lieut. G.
Bartley has come down here, and it is said he is an
expected Omedwar on his father's staff.—lbid.
By her Majesty's ship Druid, which has just come
in from the north, we hear that no move had been
made ;. but that the Chinese were doing their best in
the way of drifting fire-rafts amongst the shipping,
and kidnapping our people. The body of a soldier of
the 26th Foot was picked up headless ; the nails from
his fingers were torn out! The Chinese must have
toured him t 4 death, The native compounder

(" Sewburrut") attached to the medical depot under
Dr. Graham was also missing.—lbid.'
THE ATTACK ON THE AMERICAN BOAT.—We un-
derstand that Commodore Kearney, whose ship still
remains at Whampoa, and will be joined there by the
Boston, had some difficulty at first to convey a com-
munication to the local authorities of Canton, the
Hong merchants being serious that it should pass
through their hands, which the Commodore refused.
It was at last settled that an officer from the Constel-
lation, a lieutenant of marines, should deliver the
letter, and he in consequence went up to Canton,
and was there received at the Consoo-house by the
Kwangheep (military Commandant of Canton) to
whom it was handed. An answer, as we learn, has
been since sent to the frigate at Whampoa. The
subject of the correspondence is, we believe, the at-
tack on the boat of the Morrison, on the 22d of May
last, when a Mr. Sherry was killed by the Chinese,
and the authorities of Canton excuse or palliate this
event by stating that the boat was attacked at a mo-
ment of great excitement and disorder, when it was
difficult to distinguish between neutrals and enemies.
—Canton Register, May 7.