The Sun.
London, England, 1842-11-08 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

WINDSOR MONDAT.—This forenoon the Queen and
Prince Albert walked as usual in the Home Park.
The Prince afterwards went on a shooting excursion
to Flying-barn, in the Great Park, attended by the
Earl of Dunmore, Lord Stanley, and Colonel Wylde.
Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales and
the Princess Royal were taken out twice to-day.
Lord Fitzgerald and Vesci arrived at the Castle, on
a visit to the Queen.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester,
attended by her Lady in Waiting, took her departure
to-day.
The Rev. Dr. Richards also left the Castle to-day.
Her Majesty and the Prince inspected the piece of
plate to be presented to Sir Moses Montefiore, which
was submitted by Messrs. Mortimer and Hunt, and
with which her Majesty and his Royal Highness were
pleased to express their approbation.
The Royal dinner party this evening at the Castle
will include her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent,
Earl and Countess Bruce, Lord Fitzgerald, Earl and
Countess of Dunmore, Lady C. Dundas, Lady C.
Cocks, Hon. Miss Devoreux, Viscount Hawarden
Hon. C. A. Murray, Sir K. Otway, Lord C. Welles-
ley, Colonel Wylde, and Dr. Proatorius.

His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambrid ,
tended by Colonel Jones, left his residence atg7i
yesterday, on a visit to her Majesty the Queen
.:
Dowager, at Canford House, Dorsetshire.
A Cabinet Council was held at three o'clock yes-
terday afternoon at the Foreign-office. It was at
tended by Sir Robert Peel, the Duke of Wellington,
Lord Wharnclifie, the Duke of Buccleuch, Earl of
Aberdeen, Lord Stanley, the Chancellor of the Ex-
chequer, Sir James Graham, Earl of Haddington,
Lord Fitzgerald, Earl of Ripon, and Sir Edward
Knatchbull.
The Lord Chancellor subsequently joined his
colleagues.
The Council sat two hours and a half.
Lord Fitzgerald left town in the afternoon on a
visit to her Majesty at Windsor Castle.
Sir John M'Neill transacted business yesterday at
the Foreign-office.
Lord Stanley arrived in town yesterday afternoon
from a visit to her Majesty at Windsor Castle.

" FUDGEi" was the heading given,by the Tunes yes-
terday to a borrowed paragraph, which referred to
Earl Spencer having dined at Windsor, and which
threw very serious doubts on a report that the Noble
Earl had been summoned at the suggestion of Sir
Robert Peel to advise her Majesty in the present
critical situation of the country. Did the Times
mean to represent the doubts as fudge, and the report
that the Earl had been summoned tor such a purpose
as correct ? Whichever it might be, it is certainly
not fudge that the country needs other measures,
whether they be planned by other men than the
Ministers or not. _

DESTRUCTIVE FIRE.—We have again to record the
almost total demolition, by fire, of the extensive mills
at O'Brien's Bridge, belonging to James Dennison
and Co. The fire originated in the upper lofts by
some friction of the machinery, which ignited the
chaff or dust, and in less than twenty minutes the en-
tire mills were on fire, together with the three kilns
in the rear. The mills were completely burned down
previous to the arrival of the engines. We are happy
to say that Messrs. Dennison are insured for 4,4001.
with the North British Company, a sum which, it is
expected, will cover his loss. 'T.be store and dwelling-
house, which are saved, were insured with the West
of England Insurance Company.—Limerick Repo ter.
A public meeting of the county is to be held here
(Paisley) on Thursday next week, to consider on some
mode of relief for the suffering and unemployed work-
men. Mr. Wallace has published a letter on the suL-
ject. The yroceedingsi. reli kely to be of great :kite
rest.—Re
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THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 8, 1842

on account of Caubul and China advances, and are
properly war charges. The deduction of these brings
the total for 1840-41, from '84,35,855, to 53,08,605.
This, however, only, inclUdes the charges in Bengal
proper, to which alone the marginal entry in para-
graph 5 of the resolution has reference. There is,
over and above this, an item of 24,63,830, occasioned
by contingent disbursements in 1840-41. The total
then with which we have to deal is 1,08,89,655, or,
excluding China and Caubul, 77,62,405. The charge
corresponding to which in 1830-31, as entered in the
civil auditor's .books, was only 37,34,687, which still
leaves ample ground for inquiry and report.
17. We are now applying ourselves to separate
from these totals the contingencies in the political .de-
partment, and more especially to examine this class
of Charges in: the. North-western Provinces, where
loCal experience and situation will facilitate research.
But we are hopeless of being able to effect much good
as regards the Bengal' contingencies. We cannot he
expected to have any familiarity with the details of
the Calcutta customs, salt, opium, and marine depart-
tments, whilst the organisation and circumstances in
the judicial and revenue, and several branches of the
general department, are so different from what arc
found in this part of the country, that without the co-
operation of officers of experience at the Presidency,
we should be slow to apply to the former principles
which we can unhesitatingly adopt in the latter.
. 18. But whilst we remit no exertion in the prose-
cution of the course detailed above, we would take
leave to point out a method by which some immediate
reduction may be effected, and in the enforcement of
which there need be no delay.
19. Contingent disbursements are of all others
those which most elude Oneral rules or fixed prin-
ciples. Their amount is ever varying with the neces-
sities of the moment, the temper of the disbursing, or
the activity of the controlling officer. The first cause
may not admit of regulation, but the two latter are
open to influence and to correction.
20. We would recommend that a circular letter he
addressed froM the head of the Government to each
disbursing and controlling officer, pointing out the
importance of 'extreme attention to this subject, and
enjoining the observance of scrupulous care in the
admission of each item. We would hope that the
exertion of each person, though in itselt yielding a
small result, would together produce an aggregate of
some importance in its bearing on the public expen-
diture.
21. We would only further observe that if the
suggestion contained in the conclusion of paragraph
17 be approved, we would hope that we may have the
benefit of similar co-operation at the Presidency in
our inquiries regarding Bengal civil salaries and es-
tablishments. We have the honour to be, &c.
(Signed) T. H. ADDOCK.
F. CURRIE
J. THOMASON
C. J. MANSEL
J. STUART.
TABLE OF ANNUAL CONTINGENCIES IN THE CIVIL DE-
PARTMENTS OF BENGAL AND THE NORTH-WESTERN
PROVINCES FOR 1841, AS COMPARED WITH 1830.
BENGAL, 1841.

Section writing

Deputation allowance .. 2,63,936
Travelling charges.... 55,136
Temporary establishments . . 3,13,579
Miscellaneous contingencies

Total Bengal contingencies 84,35,865
NORTH-WESTERN PROVINCES, 1841.
Section writing (included in temporary es-
tablishment)
Deputation allowance . 2,30,228
Travelling charges 2,881
Temporary establishment 8,04,818
_ _.

Miscellaneous contingencies. . 13,86,370

Total contingencies of N. \V. Provinces 24,53,800
By order of the Hon. the President in Council,
11. V. BAYLEY, Dep. Sec. to Govt.
JOURNEY OF THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL
TO SIMLAH.

STARTED FROM ARRIVED AT
Allahabad, on August 20 Futtypoor, on August 21
Futtyp00r........ ...... 21 Cawnpoor
Cawnpoor ...... ..... 24 Areul ...
Aroul.
Bewar 27 Etah •• • Ih• •• • 27
Allyghur .......... .. 28 Boolundshuhur .. 29
Boolundshuhur ...... 29 Mrut
Meerut . ..Sept. 1 Shamlee ... Sept. 2
Shamlee ... 2 Kurnaul... 3
Kurnaul
Umballah . . •• 8 Bar .. ... 9
His Lordship travelled in his own carriage, and
was followed in a Palkee gharee (a carriage formed
by placing a palanquin on four wheels) by his pri-
vate secretary, Captain Durand. Mr. Maddock pre-
ceded his Lordship by one day, and the other secre-
I taries (Colonel Stuart and Mr. Mansell) followed on
the following days. The reception of his Lordship
at Cawnpoor is said, by a correspondent of the Agra
Ukhbar, to have been ungracious. He set out, it
appears, with the firm determination of declining all
private interviews, a resolution which, though it can-
not but contribute to the avoidance of much trouble,
has at the same time the bad effect of depriving the
Governor-General of a mass of useful information to
he obtained from the official persons residing in the
country through which he may be passing. At
Cawnpoor he was the guest of General Sir Joseph
Thackwell ; at Allyghur, of Mr. Tierney, the Judge ;
at Meerut, of Mr. Franco, the Commissioner ; and
at Kurnaul, of General Fast. A dinner was given
to his Lordship at Meerut, by the officers of H.M. 16th
Lancers, followed by an evening party at Mrs.
Franco's, which was very fully attended. A party
was attempted at Kurnaul, but in consequence of the
Governor-Generals anxiety to push on, he declined
the offer in tilt first instance, and when in the course
of the day it was found the quantity of rain rendered
it impossible for him to start it appeared that there
was not sufficient time to make the necessary. prepa-
rations. He left Kurnaul on elephants, as if deter-
mined to try every mode of travelling, and reached
Sitnlah on the 10th. Two members of his Lordship's
personal staff, Captain Somerset, Military Secretary,
and Captain Hillier, Aide-de-Camp, have proceeded
in the most rapid manner available to join General
Pollock's force in Affghanistan.
THE CAUBUL_ PRISONERS AND

HOSTAGES.
We regret to have to chronicle the death of one o
the unfortunate hostages left at Caubul when tht
army commenced its disastrous retreat. Rumours
of the ill-treatment by Zeman Khan of Captain John
Conolly had sometime since reached us, but we be-
lieve that his death, which we have now to record
was not accelerated by the treatment to which he is
said to have been exposed. It is asserted he fell a
victim to an attack of brain fever, after having paid a
visit to Lady Macnaghten at the fort in which she is
confined with the other prisoners removed from Lugh-
man to Caubul by Mahomed Akbar Khan. it is
reported that the Sirdar offered to send the remains
of the deceased to General Pollock's camp in order
that the nature of his death might be satisfactorily as-
certained, but this it appears was not deemed neces-
sary. Of the prisoners and hostages generally veryfavourable accounts have been received, and we sin-
cerely trust that the next mail will carry home the
ardently looked for news of the whole of the prisoners
and hostages having been released by the advance of
Generals Pollock and Nott.
THE CAUBUL PRISONERS.
(From the Delhi Gazette of Sept. 21.)
Amongst the items mentioned in our letters from
Jellalabad, is the almost incredible report that Ameen
Oola Khan, the chief of Logur, one of the principal
insurgent chiefs, and the contriver of Shah Soojah's
death, had arrived from Caubul in General Pollock's
camp, and offered his services.
We much regret to learn, on what we deem good
authority, that all the prisoners have been removed
from Caubul towards the Hindoo Koosh, with the
exception of
still with Akbar Khan at Caubul, and Captains Eyre
Captains Troup and Bygrave, who are
and Anderson, whose families are too ill to be re-
moved. Dr.
attend to the sick. Should this prove true, and,
Campbell is also left in the capital to
we are sorry to say our information is so pre-
cise as to leave but little doubt of the matter,
there are but slender hopes of the speedy re-
lease of our poor countrymen. The only hope on
which we can build for the present is founded on the
resolution,
said to have been come to by the Gover-
nor-General,p to act by the members of Dost Maho-
med s family in India in a summary method, and at
once send them off to England via Bombay. The
horror with which the communication of this deter-
mination
is said to have been received at Loodianah,
is, Ive trust, an earnest that the threat will have the
desired effect. The Dost will, of course, accompany
he younger branches of his family, in the event of
this determination being carried into effect, and of
this there is little doubt, unless the speedy restoration
of our prisoners should prevent its execution. Cap-
tain Mills, officiating assistant to Mr. Clerk, at Loo-
dianah, announced the intention of Government to
the detenus there, only the evening before what may
be deemed authentic intelligence of the removal of
our countrymen reached that station. Our informa-
tion says that the official notification took the Air-
ghans quite aback, and that they stood perfectly
aghast."

MILITARY INTELLIGENCE.
(From 27th August to Ist October, 1842.)
APPOINTMENTS.
Assistant-Surgeon Shaw, M.D., from the Marine
Department, is placed at the disposal of the superin-
tending surgeon at Poonah.
Assistant-Surgeons G. Maitland and J. Peet, are
appointed to do duty with her Majesty's 28th Regt.
Assistant-Surgeon T. J. Young, attached to do
duty in the Native General Hospital.
Ensign C. W. Walker, of the sth Regiment Native
Light Infantry, to act as interpreter to her Majesty's
78tH Highlanders.

S J. Lowry, to act as Adjutant to the 14th
Regiment Native Infantry.
lEAssistant-Surgeon R. Collum, M.D., is appointed
to the medical charge of the details of her Majesty's
28th Foot, ordered to Kurrachee.
Assistant-Surgeons T. J. Young and J. C. Tres-
trailt, are directed to proceed to Ahmedabad for
general duty.
Assistant Surgeons M. Style, W. J. Stuart, and
K. J. Russell, are directed to proceed to Kurrachee,
lby the earliest opportunity, for general duty.
Ensign Field, appointed to act as Adjutant to the
left wing 6th Regiment Native Infantry.
Ensign W. P. Gray, 26th Regiment Native In-
fantry, is appointed to act as interpreter to the left
wing 18th Regiment Native Infantry.
Lieutenant 1). Milne, Sub-Assistant-Commissary-
General, appointed to take charge of the Deputy
Commissary-General's office.
Lieutenant D. Erskine is appointed Adjutant of the
Artillery at Candahar.
Lieutenant and Brevet-Captain H. W. Brett is ap-
pointed to act as Secretary to the permanent Select
Committee of Artillery officers.
Lieutenant Bailey, of the Artillery, to act as Com-
missariat officer, and. in charge of military bazaars,

at Aden.
Assistant-Surgeon G. K. Dickinson, now in the
Deccan, is directed to proceed as early as practicable
to Aden)itr duty.
Assistant-Surgeon J. Peet is directed to do duty
with the left wing 2d Regiment European Light

Infantry.
Major-General J. Morse is appointed to succeed
Major-General Willis on the general staff of the
army of this presidency.
Assistant-Surgeons G. Shaw, M.D., now on duty
at Poona, and T. J. Young and J. C. Trestraill,
at
present under orders for Guzerat, are directed to pro-
ceed to Kurrachee, for general duty.
Assistant-Surgeons S. M. Pelly and C. T. Weston,
M.D., are directed to proceed to Ahmedabad for ge-
neral duty.
Lieutenant S. R. Morse, of the Ist Bombay Euro-
pean Regiment, is appointed to act as Superintendent
of Police, during the absence of Captain Burrows on
sick leave.

PROMOTED.
Lieutenant F. Fenwick, 10th Regiment Native In-
fantry, to the brevet rank of Captain.
Second Lieutenant C. B. Fuller, of the Artillery,
to be First Lieutenant.
Lieutenant-Colonels J. Sherreff and T. Dickinson,
of the Bombay Army, to be Brevet Colonels. •
The undermentioned gentlemen are admitted to the
service, in conformity with their respective appoint-
ments, as Cadets of infantry, on this establishment,
and promoted to Ensigns :
Mr. Waddington, Mr. W. R. Troughton, and Mr.
R. M. P. Billamore ; date of arrival at Bombay 6th of
September, 1842.
Vero Seymour Kemball, to rank as Second Lieu-
tenant in the Artillery.