The Sun.
London, England, 1842-04-06 00:00:00

may be thought of the opinion which prevails in this
country to a considerable and increasing extent, of the
inexpediency of extending our Eastern possessions,
there will be but one feeling as to the necessity im-
posed upon our Government of vindicating its own
character, by convincing the native powers of
India, that though perfidy may oecasionally be suc-
cessful, it is invariably punished. Akbar hhan must
be subdued, or other. Akbar -Khans will arise, who,
encouraged by his impunity, will imitate his duplicity
and cruelty ; and thus the British Empire in the
lEast may,cease—solely through a want of prompti-
tude in applying our power to punish an act almost'
i I unexampled n the history of Eastern faithlessness.
A Contemporary has, with accustomed precipitancy,
condemned General Elphinstone and the other British
authorities, for agreeing to the convention in . vio
lation of which our brave troops were massacred.
Agreeing fully in the demand for searching investiga-
tion, we think even that demand should suggest a
suspension of opinion, and especially a forbearance
from unqualified condemnation, in the absence of all
evidence as to the circumstances which determined
the General, and those who acted with him, to sign
the convention.. We give, among our extracts from
the Indian papers, an account of the fate of the offi-
cers engaged in this disastrous affair. With the ex-
ception of the 44th Regiment, which was composed
entirely of British-born, all but the officers of the
other regiments, including the camp-followers, are
Sepoys and natives of India.

ELECTION COMMITTEES.
(Continued from our Afternoon Edition of yesterday.)
WIGAN.

The Committee decided aiai;;ClVlr. Austen's objection.
The case of Haig was then proceeded with, and the Com-
mittee not having decided when it was announced that the
Speaker was at prayers, the formal declaration of the decision
was deferred till to-day. The Chairman, however, an-
nounced that the vote was retained, still leaving Mr. Standish
in a majority of one over Mr. Crosse.

GREAT MARLOW.
Mr. Cocs:Buaw addressed the Committee ,and it being near
four o'clock when he concluded, the Committee adjourned till
to-morrow, when Mr. Wrangham is to be heard.
The parties are, therefore, in the dame position they were
on Monday. •

The Toulon Journals announce that orders have
been received to lay down two new schooners, to be mo.
delled after the Dauphinoise, and to be carried on witi
such expedition, that one may be finished by the end 01
the present year, and the other early next year.
The German papers contain intelligence from St.
Petersburgh of the 16th nit. Prince Paskewitch had pre-
sented to the Emperor the accounts of his administration
of the kingdom of Poland from 1835 to 1839. The popu-
lation of the kingdom amounted, in this last year, to
4,428,546 souls, of whom 469,930 were Jews, having in-
creased by 325,350 souls since 1834. Warsaw contained
then 139,295 inhabitants, including 36,531 Jews. 97
persons had reached the age of from 100 to 120.
The concierge of a house in the rue de Grenelle,
Faubourg St. Germain, having perceived the day before
yesterday a strange pigeon perched and immovable at
the edge of the roof; as if exhausted by fatigue, went up
and attempted to catch it. He had nearly laid his hand
upon it, when the bird flew away, and the poor man, in
making an effort to grasp it, slipped and fell headlong to
-the pavement. He was immediately taken up and carried
to the hospital of La Charite, where in a few minutes he
expired.
The Aloniteur publishes the account of the opera-
tions of the Bank of France during the first three months
of 1842. On the 25th of March there were 211,909,148 f,
in specie deposited in its vaults. The commercial bills
discounted amounted to 152,259,492 f. ; the advances on
ingots and money, to 3,023,600 f. ; the advances on public
securities, to 10,662,071 E ; the current accounts, debtors,
to 16,146,188 f. ; the capital of the branch banks, to
20,000,0001'. ; the reserve, to 10,000,000 f,; the lodgments
in public securities, to 50,187,018 f.; the hotel and furni-
ture of the bank, to 4,000,000 f; and Various debts and other
objects, to 362,620 E, making the assets ofthebank amount
in all to 478,550,140 f. The bank-notes in circulation at the
same period, exclusive of those issued by the branch
banks, represented a sum of 228,180,500 E; and the bills
to order, 1,102,969 E The discounts, advances, and loans,
on commercial bills during the three months amounted
to 229,120,0001'. ; on ingots and money, to 7,335,600 f. ;
on public securities, to 1,006,900 f. ; on Mint bonds, to
863,700 E—in all, to 247,326,600 f.
The Phare of Bayonne announces the arrival in that
town of M. Telleria, canon of the Cathedral of Toledo,
who has been condemned to eight years banishment by
the Royal Court of 4Tadrid, for refusing to recognise in
his diocese the authority of the Council appointed by the
Government. He was accompanied to the French fron-
tier by a police agent of Madrid.
According to the last census, the population of
Lyons amounts to 155,939 souls—viz., 43,800 single men
and boys, 28,904 married men, 2,149 widowers, 44,752
single women and girls,, 28,777 married women, and
7,557 widows.
The number of effective horses for the military
service in the inner territorial divisions of France
amounts to 56,865. Deducing those of the Gendarmery
and Municipal Guards, of the officers of the other corps,
and those at the Riding-school of Saumur, there will
remain 38,944 'for mounting the cavalry in general.
The horses are renewed by eights or 5,868 per annum,
costing a yearly expenditure of 2,716,191 E, whiell may
be thus divided, viz. :-806 horses for the heavy
cavalry, at 750 f. each ; 1,343 for the Dragoons and
.Lancers, at 550 E each ; 1,208 for the Chasseurs and
Hussars, at 480 f.•; 37 picked horses for the School at
Snumur, 533 E.; 1,070 for the Artillery and waggon
traint, at 500 E; 414 for the Horse Artillery, of which 332
are geldings at 600 E, and 82 mares nt 540 t. If to the
above sum of 2,716,191 f be added 199,946£ for the pur-
elmase of officers' horses, the total annual expense for the
general remounting of the army, according to its effect-
ive force on Ist January 1841, will be 2,916,131 f. In
the above calculation are not included the newly-formed
regiments of Chasseurs and Hussars, comprising about
2,200 horses, the annual cost of which may be estimated
at 132,000 f. The daily ration of each horse, according
to the contracts entered into for -five years from Ist
January 1830, was If. 13c., but since 1840 this price has
been increased by 2 cents. a ration.
The Courrier de Lyons states that Messrs. Grand,
brothers, of that city, have just manutaefured, for the
granl saloon of the apartments of the Duke of Orleans,
at the Tuileries, a suite of silk hangings, which sur-
passes in richness and splendour the most sumptuous of
the times of Louis XIV. The pattern is of the moresque
style in the purest taste, of gold on a crimson ground.
The draperies for, the windows are all of one piece,
three yards wide by one yard sixteen inches deep. This
is the most complete specimen of the great progress
which has baen made in this branch of the arts.
We understand that letters have been received in
town, stating that a strike has taken place among the sailors
and canal porters of Lynn, and that it was found necessary to
send to Norwich for thu military. Several of the ringleaders
have, however, been captured, and the riot has been suppressed.
Her Majesty has fixed Saturday next, for receiv-
ing the Dublin Corporation Address, on the Throne. Mr.
O'Co,neh, the Lord Mayor, will present it, accompanied by
the officers of the Corporation.
A correspondent writes from St. Petersburgh, 16th
inst.:—" Prince Paskewitsch has presented to the Emperor
the accounts of his admini-tratiun of Poland during the five
years from 1835 to 1839 inclusive. In 1839 the population of.
the kingdom amounted to 4,428,546 souls, of whom 469,930
were Jews. Since 1834 the population had been increased by
3 5,350. Warsaw contained in 1839, 139,295 inhabitants, of
whom 36,531 were Jews. There were 97 persons between the
ages of 100 and 120. It is announced as certain that the new
railroad will be finished in 1849. In the mean thne, applies-
tio,:s will be made to the Government to authorise the forma-
tion of two branches; one in the direction of Nischni Novo-
gorod, the other in that of Kolonia, which is the principal sent
of commerce for the southern provinces. This distance will
then be performed In 24 hours, instead of requiring as now
four days."

MYSTERIOUS DEATIL—About three weeks since
Miss Stabbins, whet resided with her brother and sister at
‘Vorle, Somerset, alter she ha I retired to her bedchamber, at
ten o'clock, said to her sister, " I will go down and see if the
street. door is locked," which she did, but not returning, her
sister went down to ascertain the cause, and found on the table
the young lady's cloak, shawl, and purse, containing several
pounds, and the street-door open. The distracted relatives
continued making every inquiry, but could hear no tidings of
her until Monday last, when her body was discovered by John
Cox in the river Yeo, full five miles from the house of Mr.
Stabbins, at Worle.—Bath Journal.

•
FAILURE OF THE RENFREWSHIRE BANK, GRIM-
NOCK. —This Banking Company has stopped payment. This is
a finishing stroke of the most dreadful description for Gree-
nock, as many wealthy individuals have lost their all, and
are bankrupt. Several have al. eady announced them-
selves as down, amongst them an extensive shipowner.
The notes in Greenock were first sold at Its., and as the
day wore on, the price gradually lowered to 2s. 6d. A
very severe run was made upon the Savings' Bank, in
Greenock, last night ; but, of course, the parties. in charge
were prepared for it. There are only three partners in
the bank, and it is said, instead of having any capital in the
concern, they are collectively indebted to the Company up-
wards of 40,000/. The deposits are said to be from 170 0001.
to 200,0001. Glasgow Paper.
PETITIONS AGAINST PEEL'S INCOME TAY.---We
have learned that several petitions against Peel's income tax,
are being got up for presentation to Parliament, in the East
Ward of Westmoreland. We wonder who Alderman Thomp-
son represented, when he declared himself in favour of this

abominably unjust and odious measure ?—Kendal Mercury.
The Leinster Express of Friday, announces the
stoppage of the large manufacturing firm of Beale and Co., of
Meuntmellick, and that a thousand persons have been thrown
out of employment in consequence. -
The Handelsblad of Amsterdam relates the follow-
ing lamentable occurrence on board the steamer Desire van
Amsterdam, during her last passage back horn Hamburgh.
Among the passengers was a lady, a native of Coblentz, with a
son about ten years old, and a much younger child. Her hus-
band, a German, had emigrated to America, and two years ago
invited her to join him. She went, but was so ill-treated by
him, that she returned to Hamburgh, and was on her way
back to her country on the Rhine. ' Her misfortunes created a
depression of mind which was apparent to all who saw her.
This affliction degenerated into lunacy, and while-in this state
she threw her younger child from the vessel into the sea, and
was in the act of springing after it, when she was caught and
secured. The poor infant perished, and the distressed mother
has ever since remained completely deranged. Every care was
taken of her and her boy until the arrival of the steamer at Am-
sterdam, whence they will be sent to their family.

On the 29th ult., says the Precurseur de r 0 uest,
a boat was upset in a large pond belonging to the convent of
the Bon Pasteur, at Angers. It would appear that nine of
the nuns having got into a boat, which upset, and precipitated
all, except one, into the water, their cries aroused the neigh-
6urs, and several soldiers, who were passing, rushed to the
convent-gates to lend assistance, but were peremptorily refused
entrance. They, got over a wall twenty feet high, and suc-
ceeded in rescuing six of the women, v, ho were supported in
the water only by their clothes. Two others were beyond all
human aid when taken out of the water, and a third, who was
restored to life with great difficulty, expired the same night.