The Sun.
London, England, 1842-10-10 00:00:00

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C INA
APPREHENSION '
OF MORE CHAR- INDIA, AND
TISTS AND RIOTERS AT MANCIIESTEIL H
On Wednesday last, a Man name'd fames Chippen- AFFGHANISTAN.
dale, a journeyman sawyer, living tit 1-Itilifak; ttitg
apprehended at that town by Feathers, of`tllE tltilitak
police. On Thursday night, a man named Thomas
Guest was apprehended in his own dwelling in Sal-
ford. On Thursday, John Eccles, a watchtnan tit the
foundry and works of Messrs. Nasmyths and Gasket],
at Fatricroft, was apprehended there by Superinten-
dent Wovenden. They were examined at the New
Bailey yesterday, Chartists and rioters, and the result
was as follows:—
Guest was committed fir trial, at the Special As-
sizes, commencing on Monday, at Liverpool, the
amount of bail required being two sureties in 601. each.
James Chippendale, for conspiracy, was remanded
till to-morrow (Friday).
John Eccles, for sediti in, was committed for trial
at the approaching Special Commission; the amount
of bail to be taken being fixed, as in the case of the
three prisoners, Williams, Braid, and Forrest, com-
mitted in August last, for the part they took in the
same proceedings, at two sureties in 601. each.

COVENT-GARDEN THEATRE.
Semiramide was performed on Saturday night to a
crowded audience, and was eminently successful.
The opera was followed
.by a new farce, said to be
wi itten by Mr. Morton, and resembling, in some re-
spects, a short piece, entitled A Wife for a Day,
played someyear or two ago at the Haymarket. The
language is common-place, and the few jokes at-
tempted are not of the highest order. The audience,
however, were in good humour, and ;bestowed their
applause with liberality upon the slightest provoca-
tion. The plot runs thus :—Squire Mulberry (Mr.
Bartley), a jolly fox-hunting country gentleman, has
a niece, who marries Captain Bantam (Mr. Walter
Lacy). The captain is a duellist—an accomplishment
which the Squire detests—and being engaged in
an affair of honour soon after his marriage, Mrs.
Bantam (Miss Cooper) endeavours to conceal the
fact, by passing off her cousin, Doctor Lambkin (Mr. 1
Harley), upon the old gentleman as her husband.
The Squire, who had never seen either of the gentle-
men, is delighted with his new relative—and the
Doctor, who is really in love with the Squire's ward,
Rose Maynard (Miss Lee), finds himself under the
disagreeable necessity of sustaining the character
which had been forced upon him. in the meantime
the real Captain Bantam, having disposed of his duel
by wounding his antagonist, resolves on paying a visit
incog. to his wife's uncle on his way back to town, and
assumes the name of Cou.sin Lambkin. The Squire
receives him as his ward's intended suit )r, and the
mistakes arising out of this double personation are
very laughable. The Captain gets furiously jealous
when he learns that another person has usurped
his name and place, and the Doctor is equally enraged
to find that there is another Richard in the field who,
is making love to his intended. At length the Captain
and the cousin meet, a mutual explanation takes
place, and they each agree to keep up the decep-
tion. The honest Squire perceives that there is
some mystery which he cannot penetrate—passes
himself as Captain Bantam to a strange gentle-
man, who is making particular inquiries for the Cap
tain, and gets himself arrested for a breach of the
peace, instead of th, real delinquent. A general ex-
planation and reconciliation at length takes place, and
all parties are made happy and comfortable, according
to stage custom. Bartley played the old Squire ex-
(ellen ly ; and Harley was quaint and humorous, in
a part which afforded little scope for his talents. Mrs.
Humby had a little chambermaid part, which she
did well.

HAYMARKET THEATRE.—The performance ct
this theatre on Saturday included the Irish Lion.
The celebrated part of Tim Moore was filled by Mr.
Malone Raymond, and the applause which that gen-
tleman obtained from the audience was very richly
deserved. Mr. Raymond is gifted with a fund of
quiet humour, and may be said now to stand alone
in that department of the drama Which was so long
and so ably filled by Mr. Power.
ROYAL OLYMPIC THEATRE.--Amongst the new
engagements entered into at this theatre we notice the
name of Miss Lavinia Melville, a young lady who has
acquired not only considerable provincial celebrity,
but has been for a considerable time a favourite in
town. This lady's performance of Gertrude Douglas,
in The Adventures of a Gentleman, was such as to
convince the most sceptical observer that she possesses
the capabilities requisite for a pleasing and a sterling

actress.
MRS. ALFRED' SHAW.—The story of this accom-
plished vocalist, who has recently made so successfu
a debut at Covent-garden, is an odd one. She was
a factory girl in one of the manufacturing towns of
Lancashire—Rochdale, we believe, and some one noti-
cing that she had a fine voice, had her taught singing,
and she is now unquestionably the first contralto of
the day. Mrs. Shaw was engaged at the Liverpool
Festival in 1836, when the town was thronged with
factory girls (her old companions), who had come
from Rochdale to " hear Peg Postans sing," for, by
her new name, they had not schooled their tongues to
call her. The lady's husband is an artist o: some
celebrity, and a brother of Mr. Shaw the architect of
Christ's Hospital, under whose superintendence the
new wing of Eton College was erected, and who has
also been appointed architect for the proposed Royal
Naval School. Musical Review.
THE GLACIARUM AT THE COLOSSEUM.—The " Gla-
ciarum," or " Skating Hall," at the Colosseum, has
been so much approved and called into action, that it
has long been the intention of the proprietors to form
a surface of artificial ice, for the purposes of safe skat-
ing, upon the most extensive and elaborate scale ; and,
in order to give effect to this extraordinary invention,
and to represent as far as possible the characteristic and
sublime features of the chain of alpine mountains, co-
vered with eternal'snow, Mr. P. Phillips, the artist,
was, nine weeks since, dispatcled to Switzerland, to
transfer some of the magnificent scenery of those icy
regions to the walls of the new establishment. Mr.
Phillips returned to town yesterday from a profes-
sional and purely artistieal tour through Belgium,
Rhenish Prussia, Northern Germany and Switzerland,
having in the brief period ofa little more than two months
succeeded in making no less than forty-five sketches,
taken from the most picturesque scenery of those
highly interesting countries, and so elaborately
worked, and so happily combined, as to enable an
artist of even moderate pretensions to convert their
similitudes to the smallest cabinet pictures, or to ex-
tend them to the amplest scope necessary for dioramic,
panoramic, or pantomimic exhibitions.
DEAL.—(From a Correspondent of the Dover
Chronicle.) —The hopes of Captain Bush regarding
the establishment of his " Light of all Nations" on
the fatal Goodwin appear to be as bright as ever.
A damp has been attempted to be cast on the project
by the Globe and Ti aveller ; but that organ has
"travelled" a long way out of the course every well-
wisher to so desirable a desideratum ought to have
kept in view, to say the least of it, by throwing cold
water on the laudable and humane enterprise.
SALE OF A RAILWAY.—The sale of the Clarence
Railway, the first of the kind in connection with rail-
ways, is authorised to take place by the Loan Com-
missioners for Public Works, to whom the railway is
indebted. The line is situate in the county of Dur-
ham, extending from the river Tees to Stockton, with
numerous branches, a distance of thirty- six miles in
length. It was constructed soon after the Liverpool
and Manchester, and cost upwards of half a million.
The traffic in passengers is small, the trade being
principally derived from the haulage of minerals,
wharfage, and shipping.
WILL OF TUE LATE EARL OF FALMOUTH.—The
will and six codicils of the late Right Hon. Edward
Boscawen, Earl of Falmouth, and Baron Ross Bos-
cawen, has just been proved in the Prerogative Court
of the Archbishop of Canterbury, by Charles Lord
Bayning, Vice-Admiral Nicholls, and George Bankes,
Esq., the executors. Amongst the several legacies, he
gives his wife Frances 4,0001. to purchase a house ;
to Vice-Admiral Henry Nicholls 5001., " as a token
of esteem for valuable and impartial advice and as-
sistance;" to his son, George Henry Boscawen, all hid
estates in the county of Cornwall. The will is dated
15th July, 1819, and the property sw•rn under the
value of 60,0001.
DRAYTON MANOR, THURSDAY. —The Earl of Aber-
deen and Lord Stanley have joined the party assembled
here to meet his Imperial Highness the Archduke Fre-
derick of Austria. His Excellency Prince Esterhazy,
the Austrian Ambassador, has left for Chandos House.
Dr. Whitfield, the botanist, has lately returned
from Africa, with a large collection of rare plants and
animals. They have been consigned to Knowsley Park.
The Doctor has devoted upwards of a quarter of a century
to his favourite pursuit, and in the course of that time
has visited the four quarters of the globe. his last voyage
was undertaken expressly at the request of the Earl of
Derby, who has in his menagerie many objects totally
unknown in our public collections.
The Marquis and Marchioness of Normanby, after
visiting the Duke of Devonshire at Cht.tsworth, and
Earl Fitzwilliara at Wentworth House, went to Ravens-
worth Castle, Durham, the seat of her Ladyship's
father, Lord Ravensworth, to join the distinguished circle
invited to meet their Royal Highnesses the Duke f
Cambridge and Duchess of Gloucester. Her -Royal
Highness the Duchess of Gloucester, accompanied by
Lord and Lady Ravensworth and a select party, left the
Castle on Tuesday last, attended by Lady Caroline
Legge, for Alnwick Castle, to honour the Duke and
Duchess of Northtunberland with a visit. The Royal
Duchess was received with all the honours due to her
elevated station.
SHEERNESS, OCT. 4.—An order has been received
here to increase the complement of the Camperdown to
the peace establishment crew ; she will therefore carry
620 men. Volunteers are coming forward smartly fur
the navy ; the Ocean has now a full complement of men,
who have been entered for general service, and in conse-
ouence of their coming forward so fast they are drafting
all the Ist class boys from the Ocean to
areothe amongstCaier-
down. A number of very fine young fellows
the general service volunteers at this port, which gives a
very- striking proof that the new regulations in the ser-
vice are duly appreciated by them.—Devtneport Independ.

IltnEstsfisn, Auo. 23.—1 t is ;HOW broadly
stated that Cieneral Pollock was not in a condi-
tion to retire when the Governms-General'
tshat h order
e
arrived fur hitt: to retrace his steps, assi
could not move the whole of his army witliou: a
reinforcement of citeriag,e. Advance, therefore,
'would have been out of the question, except by st
small portion of his force, and would have been fu-
tile without a eoreesponding movement from Can-
dshar. Brigades, however, from both the?
forces have ben actively ettivioyed during the
past month. One under Col. Monteath advanced
as far as Pesh Wok, and demanded the property
abandoned there by Captain FerriS, which wa6
in a great measure restored. On the ss.:Siti to
Pesh Bolak, at the village of Ali Bog-ha.::
some accoutrements of' the men of the 44th
were discovered ; and I regret to say that
there were some excesses committed, both
by Europeans and natives, roused as they were
to exasperation at the sight of their murdered
comrades' property. From the occurrence at
Ali Boghan, the press argued a universal scene
of rapine and destruction in the advance of either
army, and it is satisfactory to observe in what
has been done, that discipline has been entirely
preserved, and that though forts and mud walls
have been plentifully overthrown, no violence
has been done to the people themselves. Briga-
dier Monteath's present occupation is not only
to blow up the forts of those chiefs immediately
in the mighbourhood of Pesh Bolak who at.
racked Captain Ferris, and notoriously assisted
in the destruction of the fugitives from the
Khoord Caubul massacre, but to, collect the
revenue from that district, and from the
chiefs under the Suffed Koh. As yet we have
not heard of his having experienced any
opposition, nor that his brigade has beet, in any
way under fire. It is reported, however, that he
has at last come upon a refractory chief who
occupied a very strong hold, and who had defied
him. • The reduction of this castle bad, of course,
been determined on, and elephants had been
dispatched from Jellaiabad, to assist in trans
sporting the gulls through a mountain pass which
ltd to the chiefs abode.
Monteath's operations have had some moral
effect also. The chiefs of the Lughman valley,
seeing that those near Ptah Bolak and under the . •
Suffed Koh have been unable to make any op'
position to the force, and that their castles have
been deliberately destroyed, have naturally be-
come anxious for their own, and have therefore
been exerting themselves, by their agents at
Caubul, to procure the liberation Of the prisoners
or some terms for the evacuation of Affghanistan.
What real power or influence they do possess
does not appear, but there is 110 doubt that
various quiets Of rank are occupied in arranging
negotiations independently of Akbar Khan, who,
though supreme in Caubul and the Balla Flissar,
doss not appear to possess any power elsewhere.
Akbar Khan's position is a curious one : pos-
sessed of the supreme authority by the, defeat of
the Prince Futteh Jung, he apparently dared
nut assume it. He has consequently set the
Sudogye Prince upon the throne, and has
made himself' Vizier, thus virtually retain-
ing the power. The Kuzzilbashes, however,
keep him in check, and upon his intention
being made known to seize Mohunhall, the
traveller, who is in Caubul, and whom the tribe
protect, they declared to a man that they would
take up arms against him, and overthrow him--
a threat which they could, it is understood, exe-
cute at any time. According to accounts also, it
is said that he appeals for aid to the English
officers, and for their intercession on his behalf
to the British Government, pointing, as a proof
of his pacific intentions, to his having raised a
Sudogye Prince to the throne, and recognised
the validity of the claims of Shah Soojah's de-
scendants. To this Lord Ellenborough is said to
have replied by an offer to exchange all pri-
soners, including his father. Here, however, is
another dilemma. post Mohamed, and his son,
Akbar Khan, as a supporter of the Sudogye
family, could not together inhabit Caubul, nor
Afghanistan.eveAfghanistan. Nor could Akbar Khan
preserve his present position, which all agree he
is bent on doing at all risks. What course will
be pursued, then, it is impossible to divine.
Of time army of reserve nothing further has
transpired, than that it is to assemble at Ferozes,
pore, and that many officers in the staff, belongs,
ing to regiments which are to compose it, have
been ordered even from Calcutta tojoin it. From
this it is argued that something more is intended
than a mere demonstration or military display,
and that asnothing has been omitted to complete
the army in every material, including heavy
siege ordnance, intrenching tools in large quan-
tities, and ammunition to an immense amount,
that it is meant fur a hostile purpose somewhere.
It is not likely that it is to be marched toCaubul,
because it would be impossible to transport heavy
ordnance, or halt' the army there. The insurrec-
tion iii Bundlekund, if not entirely suppressed, i$
nearly so, and a force is to be formed to
averawe that country after the rains, com-
posed of some Madras and Bengaltroopsjoined.
Politically speaking, the possession of the Pun-
jaub is too obviously necessary to admit of doubt,
and with the Indus our own, we should not only
possess the noblest frontier possible for India,
but with our steamers upon its waters could do
more to extend our commerce , a hundred fold,
than has been effected by the advance of our
armies into regions they ought never to have seen.
The Bombay Times has done good public ser-
vice, and saved Ministers, both former and pre-
sent, a vast deal of trouble, and hosts of excuses
in publishing Burnes's correspondence " entire "
and noticing the Parliamentary Blue Book edi-
tion of it. I suppose that no documents were
ever so mutilated to serve a purpose, or no matter
ever so perverted to gratify the ambition of one
man (the late Envoy) than those letters were.
In no one case does it appear that Burnes was
treated coldly by time Ameer, Dost Mahomed,
nor that other than the utmost deference
was shown to him. Even the admission of
the terrible Russian Envoy to Caubul would
have been forbidden by a word of his. It is
true, Dust Mahomed made no secret of his ap-
prehensions of the encroachments of Runjeet
Singh, and of time danger of his leaguing with
Soottan Mahomed Khan in Peshawar, to rob
from him more of the Affghau territory. It is
also true that be feared Persia, and wished us to
interfere to prevent heraggressions. In regard to
the former, we can only say that the star of the
Punjaub was in the ascendant, and had for the
time dazzled the weak understandings of the Po..
liticals, who could not be brought to see that
Runjeet Singh could hardly retain his conquest of
Peshawar .without the British aid, in enmity
against Dost Mahomed. But in regard to the
latter, we can only see wilful blindness and wil-
ful aggression. The brothers of Dust Mahomed
had openly turned back time emisaries of Persil?,
from Candahar, " reported by Burnes," and yet
in the Si ela pruclamatiou, said to be based upon
Burnes's correspondence, Dust Mahomed ib
openly accused of giving his support to the -Per-
sian designs in Affghanistan, as it' it were possible
for him to have done so without contriving his
own ruin with the Affghan people.
During Lord Auckland's government of India,
it appears by a general notification from Lord
Ellenborough that the charges in the civil ad-
ministration in Bengal and the north-western
provinces had gradually increased, till an excess
of expenditure over previous years of one crone
(1,000.0001. sterling) had been gained. How this
has come to pass no one can divine, and it has
been a wise act of his Lordship to institute It
Committee to inquire into the subject of an in
crease so enormous, without any apparent corm'
mensurate benefit. The papers say, that there
is no increase observable in any department, and
that the late Governor-General was constantlY,
occupied in making savings whenever he conic'
effect them. It is unfortunate that his exertioaft
should have had a contrary effect. The Goner'
nor-General's notification is very distinct, and
allows of no compromise, and the Committee are
exorted to do their duty impartially and without
any reservation in favour of individuals or
vidual convenience. A similar Committee bs6
been ordered for Bombay.
Another subject w Bien early pressed itself upon
the notice of the Governor-General, is the police
of the Bengal Presidency, which by every ac-
count, official and private, could not by, any Po'
sibility be in a worse condition. The prese"
plan of Lord Ellenborough, which is but a prr
position, however, is to form the whole of "me
constabulary into a semi-military body, to hae
additional mounted men, and that all -wild DP
enabled to act in bodies, either for the protectio_iii,
of districts, for the suppression of' gangs t_l!
thieves, or insurrections. His Lordship propos"
le
to dress the policemen regularly in a sit Bpd
manner, and to arm them with musket 11_4
bayonet, that they should be accustomed to .
escort
attack together regularly, and be efficient to es
treasure, to act as irregular troops in the c'l:
of mud-walls and in jungle, over'
if it had not been utterly neglected an ,
,s ter
thrown, for the most part in the Compan) •
ritories, the whole of India possesses an a,,.."re,
I able and very numerous police in every vilirich
a certain number of the inhabitants of to
hold. or held lands to serve as watchmen, woe ja
look after their own boundaries. Perhari