The Sun.
London, England, 1842-11-22 00:00:00

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SUN OFFICE Three o' Clock.

AFFGHANISTAN AND
CHINA.

The news forwarded by an extraordinary mail
from Bombay, containing ample details of the
operations of the British forces on the east and
west of our Indian possessions, is the most im-
portant ever brought to this country from the
East. The skill of the Generals, the bravery of
the troops, and the determination of the British
Plenipotentiary to obtain full redress, have all
been crowned with complete success. The Gal-
lant Commanders of the two divisions in Aff-
ghanistan left their respective quarters nearly
about the same time, marched with well-equipped
armies on Caubul, and after defeating the enemy
in every battle, and clearing every dangerous
pass with little loss, planted the British standard
a second time on the Bala Hissar of Caubul.
Thanks to the energy, the spirit, and the noble
feelings of British and Indian soldiers, the
,wrongs of our countrymen and countrywomen
have been avenged, and the temporary disgrace
cast on the English name has been completely
effaced. Let us hope that this success will be
followed up by the Governor-General, and a
treaty be formed with some Affghan Chief, who
can command the affections and support of
his countrymen. The success of our arms
will bring many over to British interests,
and if affairs are properly managed complete
security may be obtained in that quarter against
all invaders.

From China the intelligence is still more satis-
factory, as we have not only gained every object
for which war was made on three hundred mil-
lions of people, but have also concluded an
honourable peace, and opened up an intercourse
with the most fertile provinces of the empire.
In place of one port for carrying on trade, British
ships are to be allowed free access to five,
namely—Canton, Amoy, Foo-chow-foo, Ningpo,
and Chinghae. The position and advan-
tages of Canton and Arnoy are well known.
.Ningpo and Chinghae are equally advantageous,
and will afford a short communication with the
great tea district in that quarter, and also secure
intercourse with Nankin and other large cities
along the Grand Canal, and the noble river
Yang-tze-kiang, where a British fleet, many
miles up the country, now for the first time in
the history of the world, lies safely at anchor.
Foo-chow-foo is to the west of these places,
and is situated on a fine river called Min,
which takes its rise in the black tea
district, and flows past Chaou, Yen-ping,
and other cities of great importance. The selec-
tion of these ports has evidently been made with
due consideration, both as regards our communi-
cation with the inhabitants, and security against
any infraction of the treaty. Let us hope that
this glorious termination of the war will
be favourable to the interests of both
nations, and that it may be the means
of spreading civilization and useful knowledge
among three millions of heathens. We therefore
cordially concur with Sir 11 ENRY POTTINGER'S
devout wish at the conclusion of his address,
when he congratulates her MAJESTY'S subjects
on the occasion of a peace, which " he trusts and
believes will in due time be equally beneficial to
the subjects and interests of both England and
China."

We quote the following strange paragraph
from a Worcester journal :—" A servant girl,
Magistrates for running
had been hired at
abnlaevfmaoyie.edfrtoMllineAsenevirlveill:teeio.llllaosinAhrre was recently brought
Ci-
rencester for a year certain on the lith of Octo-
ber, and went away two days after. Her excuse
was, that she did not like the ways of the house.
Why ?' .said the. Magistrate's clerk. After some
coyness,
she said, because I had to go through
the man's bed-room to my room!' The Magistrate
replied, 'this is a common thing in
Th; ;
:
farm-
houses,' and the girl 'was sent to Northleach
d aysbat we can scarcely is so unjust, so
gaol for fourteen
preposterous
a decision,
be-
lieve it possible that any Magistrate could have
dared to make it. Surely our Contemporary
must have exaggerated matters! What, impri-
son a young girl for fourteen days in a common
gaol, where she will, of course, be compelled to
herd with thieves, and prostitutes, and the
very scum and refuse of society, and where
her sense of delicacy and morality will be
liable to outrage every ;hour of the day
and night !_subject an innocent girl to an
outrageous punishment like this, for no worse
crime than that of leaving a situation rendered
abhorrent to her ideas of propriety, from the
circumstance of her being compelled to pass
alone, at night, through a man's bed-room !
never was there anything so monstrous! The
decision is a perfect burlesque on justice. Pos-
sibly because the delinquent was poor and lowly
born, the Magistrate took for granted that her
disinclination to see liove a man looked in his
night-cap, was mere mock-modesty, such as did
not become her station; but we can tell this
righteous Solon that an innate sense of delicacy
is by no means confined to the upper classes of
society; the humble, untutored peasant-girl may
have as virtuous and sensitive a feminine instinct
as the most refined patrician beauty. Had the
servant-maid in question sacrificed her notions of
propriety to her worldly interests, she would
then—in the Cheltenham Magistrate's opinion_
have acted with sense and prudence; but because
she was unable to play the hypocrite, and treat
as a thing of no account what she deemed highly
indelicate, she has been convicted of a gross
offence, and punished accordingly. We have
often heard of women being committed to gaol
for loose behaviour; but this is the first time, we
believe, "within the memor-
y of the oldest.inha-
bitant," that a servant-maid was ever imprisoned
for the crime of modesty ! Were she to be found
guilty of qualifying for the Magdalen, she could
not be worse treated!

We have no further news respecting the in-
surrection at Barcelona, as no details had reached
Paris beyond those contained in the telegraphic
dispatch. According to the intelligence from
Madrid on the 13th, a large part of the troops
composing the
re-
main, and a strong force was concentrating round
So
the capital. garrison had been ordered to
me reports said that Don FRAN-
CISCO DE PAULA had been proclaimed Regent at
Saragossa, and others that Government feared a
republican movement.

The good news from China has not a little sur-
prised our Paris Contemporaries, who, like some
of our countrymen,
have been foreboding only
disaster and disgrace to our brave troops in that
part of the world. Some of them give the tele-
graphic dispatch without a word of comment.
Others, however, have broken silence to attack
our policy in the East, and claim for the French
the right of trading -
be opened to the English. The National thus
announces the to those ports which are to
good news :—" Foreign intelli-
gence communicates this day important events.
Great Britain has just gconcluded with China a
treaty of peace, by
which this last Power engages
to pay 21,000,000 of dollars. The English are to
remain in possession of two positions on the Chi-
nese territory until the entire sum is paid off. A
general amnesty is to be published, and the of-
ficers of both nations are to be placed on a foot-
ing of equality.
"Sir R. PEEL was anxious to terminate this
war, of which all Europe condemned the ini-
quity. lie had given orders to treat on reason-
able terms, and those which Great Bri lain has just
obtained are larbetter than common justice would
permit one to expect. It is true that a treaty with
China is not precisely a very solid bond. The Em-
PEROR, who in
a recent edict execrated himself
for not having yet exterminated the barba-
rians, will no doubt have given permission
to some Mandarin to sign this convention ;
but this is not the first time since the

commencement of the war that treaties
and those who signed them have been disavowed,
and even punishedby the Celestial Empire. The
Chinese feel Alit few scruples when they enter
into an engagement with Christians, and, should
the expectation of victory give them courage,
there is but little probability that they would
remain faithful to those stipulations which force
alone could' extort from them.

" We do not, however, wish to see renewed the
horrible carnage of which we have read 'the ac-
counts. The sight of violence is always a melan-
choly spectacle, but it becomes revolting when
violence is employed to prepare a triumph for in-
justice. The Chinese saw themselves attacked,
invaded, and delivered up to all the horrors of
war, and finally compelled to pay ransom for
having refused to allow themselves to be poisoned
by the English. Whatever may be the duration
of the treaty, and whatever may be the definitive
issue of the contest, public opinion throughout
Europe will rank this enterprise of the British
amongst the most odious facts which figure in
her history, and this history, every one knows, is
not unstained with odious precedents."
"This treaty," says the Univers, "does the
greatest honour to the English Cabinet, as it

will put an end to one of those immoral wars
which-the last Ministry bequeathed to its suc-
cessors; but it imposes at the same time great
duties on the European Powers, and on France
in particular. Let England keep possession of
the island of Hong-kong, which has been ceded
to her for ever ; but the temporary occupation
of the islands of Chusan and Golong-Soo must
necessarily awaken the most active vigilance of
the European Powers. If it be permitted to the
English to trade in five harbours of China, let
us hope that France and the other Catholic
Powers will exert themselves to obtain the same
privileges for their national industry, and that
if the Methodist minister be authorised to dis-
tribute the Protestant Bible through the Celes-
tial empire, the Catholic priest will now find
some protection against the fury of a despot and
the fanaticism of his Mandarins."
The Courrier Francais takes the same view
of the subject. "The evening paper," it remarks,
"publishes news from China, which the last letters
from Macao did not lead us to anticipate. If this
news be true, Great Britain is extricated from a
serious embarrassment with honour; but we can-
not accept this news without observing consider-
able caution. If the English be permitted to
trade with China, it is impossible that other
nations should be excluded from the commerce
of that empire. It will become the duty of our
Government to make the rights of France avail-
able. Our Government did not, we apprehend,
send two French ships-of-war into the Chinese
seas for the mere purpose of countersigning by
their presence a concession in the advantages of
which our future commerce could not participate."

BELGI AN FUNDS.—BRUSSELS, Nov. 19.
Actual Debt, 2% per Cent , 53%
Rothschild's Loan, Five per Cent. lO3
Loan of Thirty Millions, Four per Cent .... —
Three per Cent....
--.. Thirty-seven Milli, ns, ditto
(1840) lO4
Loan of City, 1832 Four per Cent 9B
- _ ._

Society of COMmeice, Foiir and a Half per Cent.
Bank of Belgium, Five per Cent 7BX
National Society
Exchange on London (short)
—Brussels Papers, Nov. 10.
A USTRI AN FUNDS.—VIENNA, Nov. 11.
Five per Cents. Metalliques. 1(13 15-16
Four per Cents.
Three per Cents
Bank Shares
•• ••••••
Aligemeine Zeilung, Nov. 15.
HAMBURGH BORSEN HALLE, Nov. 18,
Bills. Money.
110

Austrian 5 per Cents.
Bank Shares 1635
Anglo-Russian Loan lOB% 10834
Russian 5 per Cent., Ist series, Certificate.-- 1034
Inscriptie», Ist series lO3
Russian 3 per Cent. Hope and Co., 3d and 4th
Series —
Ditto in Certificates 96 --
New 4 per Cent. (1840) 874 87
Dutch Actual Debt, 236 per Cent. ......... 51 51
Ditto 5 per Cent.
I'ollsh Bonds
New Tickets. —
Anglo-Danish Loan, 3 per Cent.
Spanish, New 5 per Cents. .

EXCHANGES ON LONDON.
EIAMBURGH, Nov. I'.-13 9%, Two months 13 7%•
STOCKHOLM, Nov. 11.—Seventy-five days, 12 '<O.
Prraassuao, Nov. S.—Three months, 37% pence.
RIGA, Nov 10. —Three Months, 311%.
PRUSSIAN FUNDS.—BERLIN, NOT.

Bills. Money
St. Schuld Sch., 4 per cent.
Prussian English Bonds, 1630, t per cent. 102% 1..1%
Exchange on London - 6 24%
Prussian State Gazette. Nov. 18.

LLOYD'S SHIPPING—(THIS DAY.)
LONDON, Nov. 22.—Wind this day at noon E. to
N.E., light, with snow and rain.
PORTSMOUTH, Nov. 21.—Wind N.E.—Arrd. Eve-
retta, London for Sydney; Zenobia, London for Cal-
cutta ; Mary Hartley, Webb, Berbice. Sld. Mediator,
' New York.
COWES, Nov. 21.—Arrd. Maria, Odelmark, Buenos
Ayres ; Columbus, Egerton, Monte Video.
GORING, Nov. 21.—Part of the head of a vessel,
marked in large gilt letters " James Gibson," has been
picked up near here.
SHOREHAM, Nov. 21.—The Mary Agnes, Smith,
has been got into dock, and will be surveyed.
LIVERPOOL, Nov. 21.—Wind E., moderate.—Arrd.
Thos. Mellor, Palethorp, Pernambuco, left 21st ult.;
Evergreen, Quebec. Sld. Lady Rowena, Batavia;
Woodstock, Calcutta ; Laurel, Savannah; South
America, New York ; Neptune, Newfoundland ;
Kellermont, Africa.
OFF DOVER, Nov. 21.—Palestine, Sidney, New
South Wales.
DARTMOUTH, Nov. 20.—Arrd. Bernhard Hertog
Van Saxe, Weimar ; Dordrecht, Batavia.
Orr THE GALLOPER, Nov. 11.—Emelie, Ancher-
son, New York.
DEAL, Nov. 21.—Wind N. to N.E., moderate.—
Arrd. Denmark, Frost, James River; Medora, Walker,
Halifax ; Caledonia, India. Sld. Eliza, Grenada.

THE .MARKETS.--(THIS DAY.)
COLONIAL MARKETS.
SUGAR.—The market for B. Plantation has been
dull, and the sales are not above 250 hhds at previous
rates. The quantity of B. Plantation landed last week
at the East and West India Docks was 409 hhds,
49 tierces, and 2 barrels, and there were taken for
home consumption 1,413 hhds, 113 tierces, and 212
barrels. The stock in the same place is 15,448
hhds, 1,945 tierces, and 1,565 barrels.
COFFEE.-951 bags Ceylon have been brought to
auction, all the sound of which were taken in 63s 6d
to 64s for good ord quality, being above the value ; a
small portion of damaged sold comparatively cheap.
RUM.—There were no landings last week. There
were taken for home consumption 271 puns 52 hhds,
and exported 17 puns 8 hhds. The stock in the East
and West India Docks is 14,404 puns 2,622 hhds.
TEA.—The important news from China has caused
the market to become very uncertain, and few parties
are disposed to do business, although the quotations
are nominally ld to Lid per lb. lower than before the
accounts reached. The heavy public sales amounting to
above 60,000 packages have been postponed till Monday
next, and some anxiety is felt for the receipt of the
letters which may have been brought by the Over-
land Express. There seems every prospect now of
increased extension on the part of the Chinese in cul-
tivating and supplying us with the leaf. The delive-
ries are moderate.
TALLOW.—P.Y.C. is steadier at 48s 3d to 48s 6d
per cwt on the spot. Town is 51s 6d per cwt.
This is likely to be a dull week in the Colonial
Markets, but few public sales of importance being
being declared, except those of Wool. A little Cot-
ton is to be offered on Thursday.
HAY MARKET.
SMITHFIELD.—Coarse Meadow Hay, 3/ to 3110 s;
useful ditto, 3/ 15s to 4/ ; fine Upland ditto,
415 s to 4/ lOs ; Clover Hay, 4/ 5s to 5110 s; Oat
Straw, 1/ 16s to 1/ 18s ; Wheat Straw: 1/ 18s to
2/ per load. Supply good, and trade excessively dull,
at barely the above quotations.
CUMBERLAND.—Coarse Meadow Hay, 3l 5s to 3/
15s ; useful do., 4l to 41 4s ' • fine Upland do., 4l 5s
to 4/ 12s ; Clover Hay, 4158 to 518 s • Oat Straw,
1/ 18s to 2/; Wheat Straw, 2l to 2i2s per load.
Both Hay and Straw were amending, at the above
currency.
WHITECHAPEL.—Coarse Meadow Hay, 3/ to Si
10s ; useful ditto, 3l 15s to 4/ ; fine Upland ditto, 4/
5s to 4/ lOs ; Clover Hay, 4/ to 51 15s ; Oat Straw,
1/ 16s to 1/ 18s ; Wheat Straw, 1/ 18s to 2/ per load.
A full average supply, and a heavy inquiry.

We have inserted in another part of the Paper a
letter, in which the writer states that he recovered
from what appeared to be a hopeless case of consump-
tion. We know nothing either of the individual or
of the means by which the cure was affected; but if
a remedy for this fatal disease has been found, it may
be regarded as one of the greatest medical discoveries.
TILE GUARDS FROM CANADA.-LAt a late hour last
night the band of the Coldstream Guards received
orders to be in readiness at Nine Elms, by three
o'clock this day, for the purpose of welcoming their
old comrades from Canada, who will arrive, per train,
from Southampton at that hour.
THE INCENDIARY FIRE AT TEDDINGTON.—John
Morris, who has been in custody since the 6th inst. on
suspicion of having set fire to the barn and premises
of Mr. Gunner, farmer, at Teddington, was yester-
day committed for trial by the sitting Magistrates at
the Staines Petty Sessions.
The Earl and Countess of Jersey and Lady Cle-
mentina Villiers, returned to Middleton Park, Oxon,
yesterday.