The Sun.
London, England, 1845-02-03 00:00:00

MARSEILLES, JAN. 25.

,
' The subscription for the railroad from Marseilles tce
Toulon closes to-day. Nearly double the amount re-
quired was signed for yesterday • the bankers, ltesera.
Roux de Fraissinet, agents for Messrs. Rothschild, have
names for more than 7,000,000 f. Notwithstanding the
commerce of Marseilles has come forward with. such
promptitude, we much doubt that they will be able to
carry out their project : they demand from the Govern-
ment a gift of 20,000,000 f. We would advise the Eng-
lish Company not to be discouraged, they stand a beret
chance than the timid bankers and merchants of the
south.

Our markets have been rather animated daring the
past week. Although we had only one arrival of
sugars-namely, the Jeune Clodie, from Guadeloupe.
with 214 hhds., the sales have been rather considerable ;
144 hhds. Cayenne found ready buyers at 34f. in bond ;
some Martinique, in small lots, fetched the same price ;
3,500 bales Bonds were disposed of at 63E, du.
ties paid, and a small discount. The cargo of the
Syrius, noticed in my last, was realised at 3,000
bales, for home consumption, at 63f. the cwt., and 800
bales at 62r. By the Baptiste, from Jacmel (Haiti), we
received 2,350 sacks ofcoffee ; little doing in this article,
and the only sales were 140 sacks Rio, in two lots, at
40f. the cwt.; 50 sacks ditto, at 42f. ; and 460 sacks St.
Domingo, price unknown. Cottons more brisk • 476
bales American T. 0. fetched 581. 20c. ; 50 bales liotz.,
siana T. 0., 57f. ; 30 bales ditto 0., 67f, 50c. ; 57 bales
Georgia, T. 0., 55E, and 10 bales Cassabar, 8.0., 701. -
by public auction, 511 bales Naplouze fetched from 46E'
50c. to 50f. 50c. Silks maintained good prices ; 25 bales
Persian fetched 16f. 50c. and 18f. 50c. ; 57 bales Cas-
travan, 14f. and 15f. ; 14 bales Salonique, 23f. and 29f. ;
8 bales Scelli, 23f. and 25f. ; 3 bales Payemboal, 15f. ;
9 bales Broussa, G.G., 17f. 25c. and 20c.L ; 4 bales ditte.
P.G.,201. 50c. and 21c. ; and 6 bales Antioch, 13f.
Wools have been in demand ; 108 bales Adrianople, fine.
new, sold at 130 f. per cwt. ; 138 bales ditto, second q_use..
;
lity, at 100 f. 265 bales Volo, at 85f. ; 94 bales of Py-'
lades white Constantinople, 64f. ; 22 ditto, grey, 36f. C
and 36 bales grey Crimea, at 35f. No change in corn ;
1,7000 hectolitres Polish were disposed of for home-
consumption at 20f. and 21f. 25c. Bills on London in
demand at 25f. 55c. ; piastres, 5E 44c. ; quadruples,
84f. 25c.

THE INDIAN ARMY IN DANGER.

From the Atlaa.)
•
The more the cage of the 6th Light Cavalry is con-
sidered, the more inexcusable must the execution of the •
two sepoys appear. Had those unfortunate troopers .:
been tried nine months earlier than they were—had
they been found guilty at Jubbulpoor in December, in-
stead of at Arcot in October, even then death would
have been a punishment unjustifiably severe, and their
execution calculated to produce dissatisfaction through- -
out the whole Madras army. For it is impossible to
get rid of the ugly and exceedingly discreditable fact,
that the order depriving the regiment of field allowance
(which order produced the mutiny), was illegally issued.
Thus, then, the regiment, in its original complaint, was
wholly in the right ; those in authority entirely in the
wrong. But to permit a delay of nine months between
the offence and its investigation, and to allow, interme-
diately, the whole regiment, mutineers andel!, to du
duty as if nothing had occurred, and then to shoot like
dogs two offenders, is an affair so horrible--a proceed-
ing so wholly incompatible with justice—en offence so
flagrant against humanity, that the man who could per-
petrate it is wholly unfit for subordinate command, and
superior command in his hands must endanger the
fidelity of the army confided to his custody. However
mush, then, concealment may be, and we know is, de-
sired, Parliament cannot allow such conduct to pass by
=investigated and uncensured.
Inquiry into it by Parliament is the more necessary,
because, if we are correctly informed, facts favourable
to the regiment have been studiously concealed. The
regiment, it is stated by Lord Tweeddale in his general
orders authorising the execution, was dissatisfied when
ordered, at Kamp* to join the army of observation at
Saugur, and the cause of this dissatisfaction his Lord-
ship rather insinuates than alleges, was, that it had ex-
pected orders to return, and not to march further from
home. That dissatisfaction did then prevail is, we be-
lieve, certain • but a very different cause from that in-
sinuated by Lord Tweeddale has been assigned for it.
The Madras sepoy is generally accustomed to carry
with him his wife and family ; and the 6th Light Ca-
valry was so accompanied at Katnptd. When the orders
to join the army of observation were made known, the
sepoys of that regiment resolved not to take their wives
and families further out of the Madras Presidency, but
to return them to Arcot. And not only were they re-
fused the necessary advances, on the breaking up of the
encampment at Kampt for this purpose, but on reach-
ing Jubbulpoor they found them deprived of field allow-
ances. Tho former refusal endangered the safety of
their wives and families ; the latter deprivation with-
drew from the sepoys all means of assisting them. Is
it surprising that treatment such as this should have
driven the regiment into mutiny ? Is it not rather
surprising that, after such treatment, the simple exer-
cise ofogood faith should have restored the regiment to
ohedience
Severity. Lord Tweeddale's friends tell us, was neces-
sary to ',repress mutiny and insubordination in the
Madra4 army, because those crimes were increasing in
it. But granting (what we utterly deny) the necessity,
promptness in punishment was, therefore, only the more
indispensable. Terror could only bo struck into the
Madras army 'by punishment following the crime with
swiftness and certainty. Delay, even for three months,
would have defeated the object attempted to be gained
by severity ' • but a delay of nine months converted
severity into barbarity.
But severity was wholly unnecessary, because for the
mutiny and insubordination that have lately characte-
rised the Madras army those in authority are alone to
blame. In every case of misconduct that has occurred
the cause has been breach of faith. The most docile of
all soldiers is the Indian sepoy ; treat him honestly and
well, and he is also the most faithful ; but subject him to
violations of contract—to deprivation of accustomed al-
lowances, to trick, and to fraud—and to all these the
Madras army has lately been subjected • and those in
command, and not the sepoy, ought to be punished for
the natural, the inevitable fruits of such treatment. One
regiment of the Madras army is now, or lately was,
garrisoning that valueless but deadly rock, -Hong-
Kong, in violation of the terms on which it left India,
Another regiment of the Madras army which sailed for
Sinde has been fraudulently carried into the centre of
the Bombay Presidency, and is there deprived of field
allowances. And this very 6th Light Cavalry was
forced into mutiny by the issue of orders now confessed
to have been illegal. And it is after treatment such as
this that seventy is preached as the only means of re-
storing discipline ! Severity without justice and good
faith will ruin the army of India. With justice and good
faith severity is needless.
When Sir Henry Hardingo received, a few months
ago, his appointment as Governor-General of India, the
Chairman of the East India Directors, in the course of
his address to the newly-appointed Viceroy, remarked
—" At the present moment difficulties have arisen in
our native army requiring to be met with prompt and
decisive measures. We trust, on your arrival inindia,
those difficulties may have passed away, but should you
find them still existing, we are confident you will act to-
wards the sepoy with that degree of consideration and
indulgence compatible with the maintenance of order
and obedience, the first and paramount duty of "the
soldier."

Those difficulties have not passed away ; and how is
Sir Henry llardinge going to act towards the sepoy? He
is about, so we are assured, to revive the practice—the
brutal, disgusting, and inefficacious practice, of flogging,
abolished by Lord W. Bentinck in 1832. The new ar-
ticles of war about to be promulgated for the Indian
army will, it is confidently stated, revive the lash. And
this—let the Court of Proprietors look to it—with the
consent of the Court of Directors. Instead of keeping
faith with the sepoy, his back has to be tortured; instead
of doing justly by him, corporal punishment has to be
re-introduced ; instead of treating him kindly and libe-
rally, the cat-o'-nine-tails has to be restored. Is it in
order to prevent its abolition in the British army that it
has to be revived in India ?
If there be any truth in this report—if flogging be
about to be revived and perpetuated in the eastern ser-
vice, then is the army of India in danger; and from that
danger it can only be rescued by the force of public opi-
nion at home, and through the most needful interference
of the Imperial Parliament.

MR. BARON PLATT.—On Friday the ',earned
Barn gave the usual inauguration dinner on his eleva-
tion to the bench, to the judges and sergeants-at-law, at
the Dining-hall, in Sergeants' Inn, Chancery-lane. The
whole of the judges and sergeants honoured the Learned
Baron with their attendance on the occasion.
ELECTRIC CLOCSS.—The following interesting ex-
tract from a letter from Mr. Finlaison, of Loughton
appears in the Polytechnic Revietc:—" I think you will be
pleased to hear that Mr. Brain has succeeded to admira-
tion in working electric clocks by the currents of the
earth. On the 28th of August he set up a small clock
in my drawing-.room, the pendulum of which is in the
hall and both instruments in a voltaic circuit, as fol-
lows :—On the N.E. side of my house two y'
•
es
foot square, are sunk in a hole, and suspendednei4t7o' aa
wire. This is passed through the house,
dulum first, and then the clock On theS..tosidteheorthne-
house, at a distance of about. forty
sacks of co mmon coke
buried in it ; among the coke another wire was secured,
and passed in at the drawing-room window, and joined
to the former wire at the clock. The ball of the pendulum
weighs 'Abs., but it was mcvcd energetically, and has
ever since continued V) do so with the self-same energy.
The time is to perfection, and the cost of the motive
power was only 7s. 6d. There are but three little wheels
in the clock, and neither weights nor spring; so there
is nothing to be wound up. To another friend in Bat-
tersea,
he has given three clocks, two small ones and one
a hall clock, all moved by one current, and regulated by
one and the same pendulum. This is all he has completed
in England, having just reached Edinburgh, where he is
to establish a manufactory of these clocks, which, for
accuracy, cheapness, and utility, will, I believe, surpass
every timepiece hitherto contrived.
TOTNES.—The result of the last Parliamentary
revision is now made apparent by the judgment of the
Court of Common Pleas, on the disputed cases. This
judgment places such a decided majority in the hands of
the Liberal party, as removes all doubt as to the result. •
of any election under this revision. Mr. Barry Baldwin,
it is generally believed, does not intend to contest the
seat. Mr. Baldwin is wise. We congratulate the Tot-
nes Liberals on the result of their united efforts,— •
Ffee•ern

• FLANDERS and HAMBURGH MAIL.
BRUSSELS, JAN. 29.—The Chamber of Representatives
bag not yet concluded the general debate on the Budget
• of the Minister of the Interior. The debate to-day was
animated and interesting. M. de Decker and several
other Members spoke in favour of the Ministers. M.
Saved Martel supported M. Osy's motion for an address
to the King. against the Ministers. Several members of
. the Opposition intending still to speak, it is not likely
that the discussion will be concluded even to-morrow.
JAN. 30.—The sitting of to-day was opened by M.
Verhaegen, he spoke with much bitterness ; in the
first speech, which he delivered on Friday last, his at
tacks were chieity directed against the Ministers; to-day
be attacked the majority in its orators. We think it
right to mention this circumstance, for we perceive in it
, an important symptom. M. Verhaegen can no longer
reckon on the speedy dissolution of this majority.
M. Verhaegen's speech was followed by some general
explanations, which proves that the combat is again be-
tween the Right and the Left—between the old majority
and the old minority.
The speech of M. Verhaegen was followed by a reply
of the Minister of the Interior. But the most remark-
able incident of the sitting was the speech of the Count
de Theux. Various conjectures had been formed re-
specting the part which he would take. He declared
that there was no serious reason to overthrow the Ca-
binet, and that, without making any engagement for
the future, he should vote against the motion of M. Osy.
M. de Foere commenced a long speech, in which he
blamed both the Opposition and the Cabinet ; he could
net conclude, on account of the lateness of the hour, and
will finish his speech to-morrow.
We believe that no choice has yet been made of a suc-
cessor to M. Rochussen, Ambassador of the Nether-
lands at the Court of Brussels.
FROM THE MAINE, JAN. 19.—1 t MU lately said that
if Mr. Wheaton should propose to resume the negotia-
tions between the Zollverein and the United States, the
proposal would probably be acceded to. We do not
believe that Mr. Wheaton is authorised to take any
official steps in this matter, which, besides, must be with-
out any result, as the Senate was adjourned on the 4th
of May, and the new Senate does not meet till December.
'.Ve believe, too, that we affirmed that the principle will
be insisted on at Washington, that the Hanseatic cities
shall enjoy, as free perts, the same advantages as for
direct consignments from America to the ports of the
Zuilverein, and we much doubt of the consent of the
latter to such a stipulation.
FRANKFORT, JAN. 21.—Mr. Fox Strangways will re-
turn to his post here in April at the latest, by which
time the representatives of France and Russia will also
return. We expect, also, not only Count Von Munch-
Bellinghausen, but Prince Metternich, sooner than usual
—perhaps in the spring— at Johannisberg, there to
make a long stay.
-ST. PETERSBURG'', JAN. 18.—By an imperial order
of the day of the 13th instant, the Grand Duchess Olga
is appointed chief of the Elizabeth Grand Regiment of
Hussars, which is to be called henceforth the Ilussar
Regiment of her Imperial Highness the Grand Duchess
Olga Nicolajewna.
DRESDEN, JAN. 16.—We hear that some of the Ro-
man Catholics here intend to follow the example of
those at Tchneidennihl.
HAMM:BCH, JAN. 27. —About four o'clock this
morning, the tide running up strungly, part of the outer
line of the-works of our harbour was carried away. The
slamage is estimated at 12,000 marks. Every precaution
has been taken to prevent damage to the vessels in port,
and the breaking up of the ice.