The Sun.
London, England, 1845-01-03 00:00:00

MARY OF-4-NEWS

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" Who runs may read."

1110113 LION.
•
On the New Year's eve the King of the French IV
•ceived the President of the Chamber ef Deiuties, the..
Vice-Presidents and Secretaiies, and e4presied his WU-.
faction at finding them again selected as the represettte,-, •
Aves of the majority to present an address. from tliss
Chamber.
On Taisday,' Lord Cowley presented to the
letters from Queen Victoria, notifying- to his Maje.tv
the demise of the PrincesS Sophia Matilda pf Engiatia.
On the same day .14.dschid Pasha presented to his.,
Majesty a letter from his Sovereign, announcing trace
birth of the Imperial Prince Mehemmed Rechad.
The Administration of Customs had published tlyi re% • •
turns of the importt of France during the month. trf
vember last, the.duties.on which amounted to I 11,7 70,45-5 f.. •
They had been: in the corresponding =sigh of 1843.
12,041,991 f.; end in •1842; 11,567,330 f. The duties le-
vied on-foreign goods imported into Prance during the
eleven months of 1844 ending-on the ,lat,of I)ecember,
produced 138,717,910!; They had been 11.1,316,6831„ in
1843, and 124,879,491 r; in 1842..

The accounis tiuin Madrid of the 26th ult. .IWe devoid
of interest. The Bourse remaitied closed -on seem:tut of
the Christmas hot aria vs.

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The moniteuf iitlye of Monday states that the King
of the Belgian..i, !wing urwell,' would not be able .to re-
ceive
the authorities and public bodies, as-usual,' on New
Year's Day: ' ... . . .

Accounts have been received by .the French Govern- ,
went from tilt, Marquesas up to the loth July, at which
date a perfeet.unirrstanding existed between the Frenbh
and the natives, -.and everything was going. on satisfac.
torily. _
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The establishment of a Council of Prud'hommes ifs
Paris, which has long been in contemplation, is at length
decided upon by a linyal Ordonnanee in the Moniteur.
It is to be composed of fifteen. members, of whom eight
are to be manufacturers and seven toremen and work-
men. The functions of this body consist in the ami-
cable adjustment of differences which may arise between
manufacturers awl their men, or their apprentices, •or,
between two or more manufacturers respecting the
usages and customs of their trade and business.
The French Government, as a measure of precaution,
in the event of the epidemic disease which has mani-
fested itself among pule in some parts of Germany •
reaching France, has sent M. Vuart, the Inspector-
General of Veterinary Schools, and M. Renault, Direc-
tor of the Veterinary' School of Alfort, to Germany, to
watch the progress of the malady, and ascertain the treat-
ment that is opposed to it.
The French Academy met on Tuesday, but, in oon•
sequence of the dreadful misfortune that has fallen on an
illustrious perpetual secretary, M, Villemain, did net r
transact any business. On the proposition of the Pre•
sident the sitting w as brought to a close after the minutes
of the preceding sitting were read.
The price of bread for the first fortnight of the pre.'
sent month is fixed at 32e. the kilogramme.
A letter from Alexandria, of the 19th, states that the
Pacha of Egypt has concluded a treaty with the agent of
the English 'Postmaster-General for the more regular
and rapid transmission of lettere between Alexandria and
Suez. The precise terms of the treaty had not trans-
pired, but it was stated that it was for five years ; that
the mails would be conveyed by the agents of the Pacha,
accompanied by an' Enghsh post-office agent, in 'about
fifty hours ; and that the rate of postage to be charged •
by the Pacha would be two shillings English per pound
weight for newspapers, and six shillings for letters. It
was added that the transport of passengers and merchan-
dise would also be under the direct control of the Egyp.
, Sian Government, and be performed by its own agents,
and that the Pacha has created a transit board, at the
head of which he has placed the Deputy-Governor of
Cairo.
The Journal de Constantinople- announces in the fol-
lowing terms the satisfactory solution of the difference
which had arisen between the Porte and the English
Ambassador :—" A 'difference which' arose 'lately at
Trebisond between the Governor of the province anti the
English Consul with respect to the Drapmao of this
consulship, had called forth some complaints to the
Porte from the English Ambassador. We hasten to
state that this matter, to which more importance was
attached than it really deserved, is happily terminated,
and that the harmony existing between the Turkish Go-
vernment and the English Embassy has not been a mo-
ment troubled." - .

Saw AND PDXICX.
At Guildhall, yesterday, Ellen Carroll, a servant at
the Black Horse public-house, in Barbican, was, bt ought
before Sir James Puke, charged with stealing a suve-
reign, 20s. in silver, and Lis. in copper money,, from the
bar of that house. She was fully committed.
James Clarke was finally examined at 'Clerkenwell,
charged by William James Clarke, his brother, residing
in Sharpe s-alley, Cow-cross, with having forged his
name to a will and deed of assigrithent. The prisoner,
by the advice of his solicitor, reserved his defence, and
he was fully committed for trial.
Dias Gareiti, and Philip ./cem,ion, both of. them
Spanish refugees, were fully committed .from aryle
bone, charged with having, attempted to cut the throat.
of William Therman,u poor, shoemal;er, residing at li,
Hampton-court, Ossulston-street, Somers Town.
• At the Wership-street COurt, William Fraser, a. mid-
dle-aged man, of respectable appearance, was 'on Tues-
day charged before Mr. Broughton with having obtained,
by false pretences, a large quantity of spirits, from- vari-
ous licensed ;victuallers in the neighbourhood of Spital-
, fields. His plan was to order the spirits to II) sent to a
house in the neighbourhood, to waylay the messenger,
and get from him the spirits, under pretence of sending
him back to execute another order. The prisoner was
recognised by the officers in Court as having formerly
carried on business in the &strict as a respectable
licensed victualler, but who hal, from inveterate habits
of intemperance, reduced himse.f gradually to disgrace:
and ruin. He was rennanded.

comiT—rmizzow.axxs.
Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Cambridge
and the Hereditary Grand Duke and Duchess of Meek-
lenberg Strelitz will arrive at Cambridge House from
Kew on Monday next, for the season. It is stated that
the accouchement of the Hereditary Grand Duchess will
take place early in the ensuing month.
The Duke of Buckingham and the Marquis of Chandos
arrived at Buckingham House in the early part of the
week.
The Duke of Rutland has left Stanton Wedehouse,
and arrived at Belvoir Castle.
Their Graces the Duke and Duchess of Somerset are
spending Christmas at Wimbledon Park, in their usual
hospitable manner, by entertaining a numerous circle of
guests.
The Marquis of Worcester is expected in town fist
Beaudesert, the seat of the Marquis of Anglesea, to-
morrow, ea route for Badminton.
The Earl and Countess of Wilton, who are among the.
family circle assembled at Eaton Hall, return to Egerton.
Lodge, Melton Mowbray, on Monday next.
The Lord Chamberlain and the Countess Delawarr
are expected in Grosvenor-street from Bue&hurst Park
to-morrow. Lord Cantalupe has been pr.Lssing the pre-
sent festive season with lits noble paren'‘s at Buekhurst.
The Earl and Countess of Powis wad the Ladies Her-
bert returned to Powis Castle last v,eek, and are passing
the Christmas recess at the Cast His Lordship is ex-
pected in town the week aftec re Wit,

MIS 033.3.4.2m0ing.
In reply to a letter from 1.,0rtl Downshire, on the sub-
ject of the Irish railways, in which the Noble Lord in-
quires whether " the Board. of Trade has come to any-
decision whatever as to the merits of the two lines "
viz., from Enniskillen to _Dundalk, and from Baniskillesa
to Newry ? the Earl of ailiaousie states that no opinion
whatever has been expressed by the Board respecting
the comparative merits of these schemes, and that nu
decision whatever has been come. to on the subject.
It is expected in Oxford, that. some distinguished
member of the Board of lieads of Houses will address
a public remonstraDee to the Bishop of Exeter, in refe-
rence to his recent adnnuciversions upon the course pur-
sued by the late Vice-Chancellor, in the condamnatien
of Dr. Pusey.
The " first sod" was raised on Monday by his -Grace
the Duke of Leinster, on the line of the Cashel Eau-
way, near Adamstown Castle, about seven miles from
Dublin, in the presence of a large company, and all the
work-people and labourers who have been engaged for
the work. The scene was a very amusing one. His
Grace stripped off his coat, and in his shirt sleeves
handled tlie spade ‘• like a man." Having dug tip siy
sods, he threw them into a wheelbarrow, and rolled the A
by the
wdierree,ztury,
off in a style which excited the admiration of all arm' jeN
wfohroachhenenrdesdornhiem rat'A
of
er",
which a numerous company partook. All di
, 'vvrirk -
people were also regaled with a substantial and Vienti-
:(*)(nw;ifoerrrerel)d.
ful repast. '1 he occasion was an interesting ona, rA the
first important beginning of the railway retieulafeion in
Ireland. •
Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton, Bart.. • a
, angeroaaly in
disposed at his seat in Norfolk.
A young man. nainrd Irilner to M Caldw all of
liowden-mill, near Lronayara
, was killed on Saturday
evening last. It api,ear4 1
the smut blower ce machine
~!e was attending the strap to
full work ; the •
e,olls
ue.luenee durinttatthehtiismesikesas
caught the *.nticKinterl n few • ve"
ve#l
was _ and) in a minute', his W+,
ertie""(E"(77uu., d !s werefrightfully manspect.
q )1 Colona ot Sophocles is be,
frr re .ng prepe'red
preseutAtiou at the Grand Opera in 'Berlin, tr ans-
lated into. German by
Donner, the in usic by wen_
d dsshon. The celebrated poet Tieck is also preparing
the Urestiad of Aschylus, a trilogue, composed- -of the
plays of Agamemnon, the Choephore, at .d the Eumenides.
The music has been confided to M. M. Benedict,
der, and Muller.

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SKIFFS.----We hear that the it f ;enious Mr. 'William
Martin has invented a skiff which.'is to beat London all
to stilli.s." It is a tiat,hottomed,•boat, with a sharp keel
or cutwater, which at the same time that it draws leas
water, offers less resistance than any existing form of
boat. With these advantages it. 'combines another, per-
fect safety. hi tile hands of " the Claspers,"' says the
philosopher, " my skiff egalnsit the world—and no mis-
take !"—Tyne Mercury.

CUEAI' AND EARLT MACRAREL. - Yesterday/
morning there was an allly idant supply of rnackarel
Whitechapel, Shorediteh„ and the eastern parts of '.ba
metropolis, which sold at six for Is. Soles west islavi
plentifully oftered at Id. per pair.
The Earl of Chesterfield and Mr. G. Lane Fo)
have consented to act us stewards at the YUrk luantu
race meeting.

OVERLAND MAIL.

INDIA AND CHINA.

(From the Morning Herald.)

We have received by special express the Overland
Mail from Bombay, and are enabled to publish the
lowing intelligence. Our dates are, Bombay, D(sc. 2;
Calcutta, Nov. 23 ; China, Oct. 12. :
(FlaOlt OUR PRIVATE CORRESPONDENT.)
BOMBAY, DEC. 1.
The intelligence of this month is, in the main, un-
important ; the ehief interest attaches to the affairs of
the Southern Mahratta country, which still continue
much disturbed. The second of the two principal
forts, for some time besieged, has fallen to our hands
by surrender, but the country continues full of
troops. Colonel Ovans, the newly-appointed resi-
dent, has fallen into the enemy's hands, and is kept
by them a prisoner. An insurrection has broken
out in the Sawunt Warree country; and in the two
together an army of nearly 8,000 men is occupied
in quelling disturbance. Everything continues
tranquil in Sinde. The health of the troops
in the lower country is good. At Shikarpore and
Sukkur sickness prevails to a very alarming extent.
Her Majesty's 78th Regiment, with the exception of
about 100 men, is wholly in hospital ; out of about
1,000 Cavalry and Native Infantry at Shikarpore,
between 700 and 800 are in hospital. The Punjaub
chiefs have become reconciled to each other, and
comparative tranquillity reigns in the country of the
Five Rivers. There seem to be some slight discon-
tents i❑ Gwalior, but not such as to occasion alarm.
Peace and prosperity prevail thr.ughout India at
large. Sir Henry Hardinge has continued since his
arrival constantly at Calcutta, and seems to have
been gaining golden opinions of all sorts of people.
His administration promises to be a plain, practical,
and peaceful one. The state of education amongst the
natives was the first thing to receive his attention,
and seems to occupy a most prominent place in his
mind. The encouragement of science, and the pro-
motion of domestic improvement—the improvement
of agriculture—the opening up of fresh roads—and
the construction of bridges, have all received more
or less attention. The most peace-loving suffer from
no fears ; the most war-loving entertain no hopes of
conquest or invasion under the present rule. A
twelvemonth of such management will get rid of
the excess of expenditure over income, lately amount-
ing to about a million and a half sterling. A twelve-
month more may bring back the auspicious state ofi
!matters which prevailed in the earlier part of Lord
Auckland's administration, when we had two millions
a year of surplus revenue. News from China ex-
tend to the 10th of October, but it is entirely com-
mercial, and not very in.portant. So extensive has
adulteration been practised at Bombay that Malwa
opium is quoted at 50 dolls. to 750 dolls., and is get-
ting rapidly out of repute, so that the swindlers have
Itheir reward in a ruined market.

DECEMBER 2.
The Ist of the month falling on Sunday post-
-pones by a day the dispatch of the steamer; but, in
Fact, a single paper in former days was wont to
contain more intelligence of interest than a whole
month in these piping times of peace can supply.
Curiously enough this insignificant insurrection
in the southern Mahratta country engages more of
air troops than Lord Keane had with him at Ghuz-
nee or Caubul in the year 1839—nearly twice as
many as Sir Charles Napier had under his command
at Meanee or Dubba. When I last wrote you the
Fort of Samunghur had been captured, and the army
of General Delamotte had marched from Kolapore.
As he approached the capital the malcontents, to the
amount of about 3,000 men, retired on Bathudghur, a
hill fort, considerably stronger than that previously
captured, which was held by about 1,000 Gudkurries,
men holding their lands on military tenure, the inter-
ference with which is said to have given rise to the
insurrection. A wing of the 2d Queen's Royal Regi-
ment with the 14th Light Dragoons and her Ma-
jesty's 22d Regiment, having proceeded directly from
Poonah t ) Kolapore, were left there while General
Delamotte proceeded with about 3,000 men, in quest
of the insurgents. He arrived before the fort on the
Bth, having experienced some skirmishing on the way.
While waiting under the walls until the battering guns
could be brought up, the chiefs came into camp and
made submission on the 10th. A. light detachment
having been sent. out to take possession of the fort,
now promised tole made over to them, was detained
for four hours before the gate. Treachery had
turned out to have been practised, and while we were
waiting without the whole of the Kolapore malcon-
tents were making their escape by the other side of
the fortress. A light detachment having been sent
after them, under the command of Col. Wallace, was
too late in starting to make up with them, so that
while the fortress was made over to us, the garrison
escaped us. Having left the light detachment to
occupy Bathudghur, General Delamotte, on the
19th, broke up his camp, and prepared for a re-
turn to Kolapore. Colonel Outram, in the mean-
while, having either resigned his appointment or
been superseded (for it does not appear whether
the act was his own or that of Government), Co •
lonel Ovans, resident of Sattarah, wag or-
dered to proceed to Kolapore in political
charge. On his way from the one place to the
other he was waylaid anti .nade prisoner on the lith,
and is now detained by the enemy in one of their hill
forts. He has been treated with every kindness and
attention by his captors, and is permitted to corre-
spond with his friends ; but the untoward circum-
stance of his detention in the hands of the rebels has
occasioned much delay and embarrassment in the
prosecution of further arrangements. Meanwhile an
insurrection has broken out in the Sawunt Wa:ree
country, adjoining Kolapore, which, though insigni-
ficant in itself, is a source of great annoyance to us,
RS it compels us to have a considerable force in the
country. The light Mahratta troops flit about with
such celerity, and are so skilful in taking advan-
tage of the strong positions with which the Ghauts
abound, that to send out very light detachments in
quest of them is unsafe, and to have heavy ones
requires a large military establishment. Whatm (ay be the nature of the grievances of the many
malcontents does not at all appear. A chief, who
gave 'us much annoyance in 1838, appears to have
cnsidered himself affronted in some way or other,
and to have taken to plundering the country as the
means of avenging himself on Government. Unror

tunately be managed to prevail on the young Prince
of Warree to join him, and by this means to give a
colour of right to the insurrection, as if the malcon-
tents were supporting native authority in opposition
to English interests. The youth is happily ashamed
of his own conduct already, and his friend., are now
interceding for him that he may be allowed terms
1030111 d he come in. The whole of this quarter of

x'rom the Konkon to the Mysore country, seems
to be in a very disaffected state, greatly discontented
with their own Government, and not very well pleased
at our interference. So soon as the intelligence of the
Warree insurrection reached Bombay, a wing of the
Queen's Royals quartered at Colaba, and which
had been suffering excessively from sickness,
was dispatched by steam to Vingola, in the neigh-
bourhood of which some skirmishing hat taken
place, and a Sepoy detaehment had been ver roughly
handled. This nearly stripped the TUrnbP..); garrison
of troops, and her Majesty's 13th, which had come
down the Indus to Kurrachee, with a view of eni.
barking for Eiy-fland, were directed to take shipping
for Bombay, anc; there for the present to remain. A
wing of her Maje%,ty's 17th Regiment, on its way
from Ahmednuggel. to Aden, was also arrested on its
way, and will remain here till the arrival of the 13th
Regiment, or return \Ne the 2d Queen's. The news-
papers seem very inditTerently informed with respect
to the causes or origin of these disturbances, and the
Government itself not very clear as to the best
remedy to be provided for them. I suspect the only
one is for us to take the whole country into our own
hands ; and for this I ha, no doubt we shall shortly
find a very sufficient justi,:i4lition. We cannot afford

- -to troop off 8,000 or 10,000 men when our hands

may be full enough, at any rate to assist the foolish

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cilief in keeping his subjects in order. Our troops
are meanwhile scattered in large detachments through
the coctntry—the principal force by this time being
before ,h. in possession of a couple of forts, which till

lately ;)tit, and in ore of which Colonel Ovens

continue- , captive.
Sin), . fhere are still occasional robberies and

murders in Sinde. A large kaplah of 300 camels
was lately plundered near Lehwan, but upon the
whole the country is quiet. The troops at Kurra-
chee and Hyderabad are comparatively healthy. At
the former station great improvements in every way
have of late been going on. The revenues of the
country are in the main turning out better than was
anticipated ; and altogether a considerable share of
prosperity is exhibited. The total collection will in
the present year probably amount to half a million
sterling; the civil charges, including those of collec-
tion, to between 300,0001. and 400,0001. sterling.
But then we have an army of 12,000 men to support
of whom about 9,000 were raised avowedly for Sinde,
these, consisting of ten men added to each company
of each of the Native Infantry Regiments of the
Bengal and Bombay army, not on field service in
February, 1843, and of a newly-raised regiment
of Irregular Horse. The cost of the mili-
tary establishment in Sinde, in fact, will alone
absorb more than its revenues—the civil charges
falling on the general treasury of India.
The expense of a large steam flotilla on the
Indus not required for mercantile purposes, and of
three or four steamers belonging to the Indian navy,
chiefly employed in plying between Bombay and
Kurrachee, is itself no trifle. Your views and mine.,
however, differ on these matters, so I shall say no
more about them. Sir Charles Napier, with his staff;
left Kurrachee for the upper country on the lith. It
was said that he intended to have an expedition sent
into the Warree country, to avenge our mishap at
Poolajee, had there been a sufficiency of troops at
Sukkur or Shikarpore. This, unfortunately, there
is not, both posts being disabled at present by sick-
ness. At Khanghur, our' extreme outposts, about
two-thirds of the men are ill of fever. At Shikar-
pore of itself about one thousand men, belonging to
the 6th Native Infantry and 7th Cavalry, between
seven hundred and eight hundred are in hospital,
About three-fourths of the Horse Artillery are unfit
for duty. At Sukkur the 78th Highlanders are
about seven hundred in hospital, and about seventy
fit for duty. It is scarcely four months since it left
Kurrachee—not yet a twelvemonth since it quitted
Bombay in the highest health. It will be
the third European regiment sent back from
Sinde in the course of a twelvemonth so
utterly disorganised by disease as to be ren-
dered, for a long period after its return, unservice-
able. The native infantry at Sukkur are also begin-
ning to suffer, though they have hitherto in a great
measure escaped. Curiously, the European officers
have, throughout the season, been exempt from sick-
ness, as have also the natives of the country.
The following letter from Shikarpore, which has
r,just been published in the Delhi Gazette, gives a still
more deplorable picture of the state of matters than
any which has reached Bombay direct. It is the
more valuable as coming from the pen of a Bengal
officer, generally believed more in favour with the
conquest of Sinde than those of the minor presidency,
who are more intimately acquainted with the country :
" Shikaore, Nov. 12, .
" Dear Mr. Editor,—My dawk-rp book reminds m 44e
I
have not written to you since the 23d ultimo, and I re-
gret I cannot give you now a much more flattering state
of our salubrity than in ray last. I saw the remains of
the 69th Regiment on parade two days since, under
their adjutant, without arms, being too weak to carry
them, and on inquiry found they mustered 75 file. The
7th
Cavalry manage to get two troops out for walking
exercise every morning, but I observe the proportion
of troopers among the riders is but small, and I am
told they could not turn out an efficient troop if one
were required ; and moreover, that men of theirs who
had escaped fever for 12 days, were again going into
hospital. The horse artillery troop are the only ones
that seem to be improving, for the day before yesterday
I observed they had three guns out; one would have
been their maximum last month. At Khanghur the
sickness continues unabated; Captain Smith, of the Ar-
tillery, who has just returned from thence, is a daily
sufferer from fever; Captain Tait, too, who has just left
us, had it up to the moment of his starting. At Sukkur,
however, they seem to be still worse off than ourselves,
for the accounts from there are quite appaling, 700 of
the Highlanders are in hospital, and men dying daily,
and 500 of each of the native corps, both of which are
weak in strength, are also sick. Mr. Assistant-Surgeon
Cannon is, we hear, again in arrest. Now the natives
of the surrounding country unanimously declare this
season to have been the most healthy one they have had
for many years, so that we have a cheerful prospect in
looking forward to next August, September, and October,
which will in all probability annihilate the remains of the
different corps here; but perhaps that was the object of
our paternal Government in sending all the mutineer
regimemts to Sinde? and yet the 64th are to go to Agra
this year!,! Oh, wise and judicious arrangement, thus to
offer a premium for mutiny by withdrawing a corps
which has three times been guilty of it from this detested
province, to the preference of other corps that have be-
haved as quietly, respectfully, and orderly as ever
since the general strike, and who I am sure are heartily
ashamed they ever listened to the tempters that drew
them for a short time from their allegiance. Sir Charles
is still expected up here to destroy Poolajee, but he will
have to bring his troops with him, I rather think. I will
write again at the end of the month, and until then,
yours sincerely, " BO PEEP."
A singular change has taken place in the politics
of the Punjaub; the leaders of the opposing parties,
the Minister Raja Hera Singh on the one side, and
Goolab Singh, Lord of Jumboo, on the other, who
have been at deadly feud for a twelvemonth past, have
become reconciled to each other, and are now living
together in amity. Two causes are assigned for this.
This year the general relief of the regiments of the
north-west provinces has been carried into effect
somewhat differently from the usual practice, the re-
lieving regiments having been directed to be all
brought up before those to be relieved were permit-
ted to march. The last apparent accumulation of
troops on the frontier occasioned great alarm ; this
was fortuitously increased by the permission reluc-
tantly granted to the Commander-in-Chief to inspect
the troops at Loodianah, Balla, and Ferozepore. Sir
11. Gough is very well known to be most anxious for
a brush with the Seikhs ; he has, in fact, omitted no
oppertunity of expressing himself on this point, and
his opinions are known at the Lahore durbar. His
progress along the frontier river from the hills to Fe-
rozepore, and in many instances through the posses-
sions of the Seikhs on this side of the Sutledge will, of
course, increase the alarm, so that it will riot be won-
derful were the army now at Lahore to advance under
the united chiefs to the banks of the Sutledge to be
ready in case of emergency. The fear, therefore, of
an immediate invasion from British India made the
two Singhs reflect that in fighting together they were
doing the very thing we most desired—flying at
each other's throats, that we might have an apology
to step in and settle the quarrel by seizing the coun-
try. Another reason is said to have been the ex-
haustion of the treasury at Lahore, where, it is said,
the Minister will scarely be able to muster funds
enough to pay the troops their arrears. This has
been occasioned by the unbounded lavishness of
lleera Singh from the first moment of his last year's
triumph, and especially to the foolish facility with
which he suffered the treasures of the State to be
seized on by Goolab Singh on his visit to Lahore in
September. The Lord of Jumbo() is said to have
8,000,0001. sterling of accumulated wealth in his
hands, and can, by this means, readily command the
services of a rabble and mercenary army.
The apprehension expressed that the unpaid sol-
diers would revolt and threaten the British frontier
seems groundless. Whatever may be Heera Singh's
difficulties in the case, Goolab Singh is perfectly
aware that were disturbance such as to incommode
us to make its appearance, the Punjaub, with Jum-
boo and its treasures, would at once be seized on.
The two chiefs may quarrel or arrange matters with
each other as they best can ; they will furnish us
ith no apology for attacking them which they can
avoid. Sir H. Hardinge has given such unequivocal
proofs of his determination to avoid war
where it is possible, without dishonour, to
preserve the peace, that there is no fear of
us seeking for excuses for attacking any one. All
doubts on this point which might have been
entertained by those desirous of winning laurels have
been dispelled by the extent to which leave on
"private affairs" has been granted to military officers.
for four years this indulgence has been in a great
measure withheld, and the result is that officers are
now taking
advantage of the privilege accorded them
to an unprecedented extent—an extent which never
would have been permitter]had Government had the
most remote idea of a campaign in the course of the year. You may assure the military journals who
are constantly arming the public with the cry of war
in the Punjaub, that war there will be none with
an
foreign enemy on our borders before this time next
year, year, if Sir H. Hardinge is spared. In Affghanistan
as well as iu the Punjaub, matters appear to be as-
suming more tranquillity. Dost Mahomed is mani-
fe3tly both able and willing to keep the peace ; there
has been„ some fighting in Kohistan, in which the
Ameer's son, Akram Khan, has been successful.

The several rumours of expeditions to various parts
of the country seem pure fabrications. A dreadful
plague is said to have broken out in Turkistan,
and to have spread to Bameean, but has not yet ex-
tended beyond the Hindoo Kosh.
The Chinese intelligence is of a character wholly
commercial, and for details on this head I may refer
you to the extracts from the papers.
We have now seen'enough of the Governor-General
to feel assured that his policy :will be most deter-
minedly pacific. According to the accounts of the
East India Company lately published, conjoined with
the statements made by Sir Robert Peel in intro-
ducing the income-tax, on the lltil of March, 1842,
there was, nine years since, an excess of income over
expenditure amounting to a million and a half, and
that when Lord Ellenborough left there was an ex-
cess of expenditure over income amounting to nearly
a million sterling. This fearful state of matters was
brought about solely by the war policy of the last six
years ; before the end of the year 1847 we may have
a balance in our favour at least as large as that which
existed in 183.5. Were this expended in peaceful
improvements throughout the country, yielding, as
these have been invariably found to do, a return in
direct profit of from 10 to 25 per cent., the Company
might add a half to its revenue before the expiry of
its charter. Already are all the munificent and
philanthropic projects which our wars beyond the
Indus caused us to throw aside begun to be resumed.
Mr. Thomason, Lieutenant-Governor of the north-
west provinces, has entered on a tour through the
Dooab Rohilkend, the valley of Dehra, and the
Hureenaeab districts. While secretary to Government,
this distinguished individual was one of the most
zealous supporters of the Dooab Canal scheme, which
now, it is hoped, under his auspices as Lieutenant-
Governor, will speedily he resumed. The canal,
it may be remembered, will traverse a dis-
tance of 270 miles, and cost the Company about a
quarter of a million sterling. It .s ill supply with
the means of irrigation eight minims of acres of fer-
tile ground, at present barren for the want of water,
and relieve a population of above two millions from
the terrors of famine recurring periodically. If the
people of England knew how immeasurably desirable
and profitable was peace, how enormous were the re-
sources the expenditure of the surplus revenue of
India would develop in India itself, and how fear-
fully calamitous, how absolutely superfluous, have been
nine-tenths of our most successful wars, the value of
such a man as Hardinge would come to be appre-
ciated as it ought.
(From the Bombay Times.)
The only warlike event of any political importance
which during the past month has attracted attention,
is the continued disquietude of the southern Mahratta
country, and some further outbreaks in Sawunt
Warree, which have occasioned fresh demands on the
Bombay army. The political charge being about to
he placed in the hands of Col. Ovens, resident at Sat-
tarah—Col. Outram returning to Bombay—the former
officer was made prisoner on his way to Kolapore,
and still remains in the hands of the enemy. No
further action has taken place since our last, but an
army of some 7,000 or 8,000 are still moving about in
divisions through the country. The fort of tadurghur
was surrendered to us without serious fighting. Disaf-
fection seems to be more extensively spread, and more
difficult to be put down, than was anticipated. An out-
break in the Sawunt Warree country—a very turbulent
and unmanageable district adjoining Kolapore, has oc-
casioned some loss of life, and compelled further de-
tachments to be sent down from Bombay. Her
Majesty's 13th Regiment, ready for embarkation for
England, is to be detained another year to garrison
Bombay. Her Majesty's 40th remains till next year

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at Calcutta. The Seikh chiefs seem to have settled
their own quarrels without interference, and the Pun-

, ...
jaub is, at the date of our latest intelligence, more
peaceful, and less likely to occasion collision than it

has been at any time for the last twenty months--
perhaps since the death of Kurruck Singh in Novem-
ber, 1840. Sir Henry Hardinge continues at Cal-
cutta, devoting himself to the domestic improvements
of the country, the extension of education, and of
the means of inland transport, and striving to increase
the comforts of the private soldiers of the army. He
is proceeding quietly and considerately in the work
of government; as yet his rule has passed nearly
without censure, and the commendations he has earned

are likely to increase. Being in all respects as unlike
as possible to a predecessor whose policy we are
assured he was sent out to pursue, he promises
to be an eminently upright, useful, and energetic
Governor-General. Should he be spared to us he
may yet deserve infinitely higher praise. The most
ardent lovers of martial glory are beginning
to despair of gaining laurels in the field, un-
der the present rule, unless our neighbours should
force war upon us. Everything continues tranquil
in Sinde. Sickness is on the increase both at Shikar-

pore and Sukkur. At the former place, out of about
1,400 troops, nearly 800 are unfit for duty; at the
latter, H. M.'s 78th have only 70 men out of nearly
900 fit for service. Hyderabad and Kurrachee con-

tinue healthy. Sir C. Napier left the latter place on
the 15th ult. for the upper country. Cholera pre-
vails in some regiments of the Madras army in the
4outhern Mahratta country. The Commander-in.

Chief of India left Simla on the 12th, and is now on

.
a tour of inspection on the north-west frontier.
11. M.'s 40th are on their way down the river to Cal-
cutta, where they will be detained for a twelve..
month to garrison Fort William. The left wing of
the Queen's Royals have suddenly proceeded to the
Sawunt Warree country on service; they are still
very sickly. The cold season is proceeding very
agreeably, and peace and tranquillity appear to pre-
vail throughout India at large. We have news from
China to the 12th October. Commerce appears to he
extending, and the Chinese aversion to intercourse
ith foreigners seems on the decrease.

SOUTHERN MAIIRATTA COUNTRY.
We gave in our last an account of the capture of the
fort of Samunghur, the dispersion of this portion of the
Kolapore insurgents, with the advance of our troops on
the capital, and the endeavours of Colonel Outram to
bring matters to as amicable conclusion. At this (late
her Majesty's 22d, commanded) by Colonel Poole, and a
squadron of her Majesty's 14th Dragoons, under com-
mand of Captain Shaw, were encamped at Sattarah.
They moved for Kolapore on Oct. 30, and arrived at the
capital, without accident or obstruction, on November
5. The 3d Madras L. 1., which left Bellary on the 11th,
arrived at Belgauxn on the 24th, in great strength, and
hi high spirits and condition. They started, under the
command of Colonel Williams, for the scene of action
on the 25th, mustering 15 officers and 900 men. Colonel
Wallace, now under the walls of Kolapore, contrived
meanwhile to get the young chief and his mother out of
the power of their turbulent subjects, in whose hands
they had been in a state of virtual durance, though os-
tensibly unconstrained. One company of the 21st Bom-
bay N.L, with some artillery, had been left in the
ruined fort of Samunghur. The malcontents, on our
advance, retired from Kolapore, and to the amount of
about 3,000 men, proceeded to join the insurgents, who
had, from the commencement of the outbreak, main-
tained themselves in Badurghur. A strong detachment
was sent out in quest of them. It consisted of
the 3d and 20th, and one company of the 23d
M.N.L, three companies of the 21st B.N.L, two of the
2d Bombay Europeans, two troops of the sth M.L.C.,
one troop of horse, and two companies of European foot
artillery. This detachment, amounting to about 3,000
men, was commanded by General Delamotte. It halted
five days within eight or ten miles of the position of the
• insurgents, while Colonel Outram was endeavouring to
Ibring them to terms. On the 7th a detachment of the
2lst 8.N.1., forming the advance of the force, on arriving
1 at a hill about four miles from their previous encamp-
ment, found a body of the enemy in an attitude of oppo-
sition right on their line of march. About 400 men were
pushed forward to disperse them, and having advanced
without firing, a volley was poured in at the distance of
about 130 yards, when the enemy broke and fled down
the opposite side of the hill. They were pursued for
about a mile and a half, when the recal was sounded, and
the pursuers rejoined the column. From thirty to forty
of the rebels are supposed to have been killed or wounded.
On arriving at the new encamping ground the hills were
found to be covered with the enemy, who appeared in
1 numbers not fewer than 1,000 to 1,200. A com-
pany of the Madras 23d N.I. (Rifles) were sent out
to dislodge them ; when some apprehensions beginning
to be entertained that they might be sur-
rounded and cut off, a company of the 21st Bombay
N. 1. was ordered to assist them. On arriving at the
stunmit of the hill, both detachments speedily found
themselves engaged with the enemy. The insurgents
and were for nearly three miles pur-
nients, till they took refuge under the walls of Badur-
ssupeededtihljrroguagvhe awsaeyries of light breastworks and entrench-
ahnedr eweesr tea
nextbli s hed
morningthein-
selves under .
g_hur. The pursuing
the
last
breastwork,de c
permitted us to infantry. The insurgents hating.
detachment
joined by Colonel Wallace with the remainder of the
esta-
blish ourselves, commenced a fire from a 6-pounder
placed in one of the bastions ; this was hotly returned,
u
ii
and from sixty to seventy of the enemy were supposed
moved
to have suffered. Our camp was after this
to the position just referred to, held by Capta, prior's
Pally, and here it was intended they should remain
till the battering guns could be brought up, provided
the enemy, in the mean time, should net have consi-
dered it advisable to surrender at discretion. The