The Sun.
London, England, 1842-10-08 00:00:00

WAKEFIELD CORN MARKEV.

The supplies of Grain were moderate, and the Wheat trade
without variation. Barley fully Is. per quarter lower. Oats
were steady, but Shelling has again declined 6d. per load.
Means as before. No alteration in other articles.
Wa est, Red, Essex and Kent s. tOs. to 51s. fin, 53.
Norfolk asset Suffolk —s, 4133. to sf/s. fine 52s
-- Lin. and Cam.
-- Yorkshire —s. 463. to 481. fine 49
white
....—.-- Foreillara, rted s. s. to 4s. fine 51,
---. White —s. —s. to —s. one :
Barley, Norfolk and Suth,lk 3oa. to :,13. fine 1.-,2,
—... Lincolnshire
--.-- Yorkshire Wold . 4Bs. to 303. fine Pis
--- Foreign
Beans, New
-- Old
Oats, Potato —s. to 20a. tine ...9,
—.... Poland —s —s. to `2OB. tine 22s
-- Vriezlanel and Small —s...-.s. to --s. tine —.,.
l4caling .
ShAling '2.l. to 25a. per Lose
Malt • • 378. fine 39a. pet / cael
Rapeseed -I.os 231.03. 291. Os. per List

LLOYD'S SHIPPING—(THIS DAY.)
LONDON", OCT. B—Wind this day at noon, N. E., mode-
rate breeze, and hazy.
MARGATE, OCT. 7.-22 casks of palm oil, 3 casks of
spirits of turpentine, 6 crates of glass bottles, and 161
staves, have been brought in from the wreck of the Susan.
DEAL, OCT. 7—Wind W. N.W. light.— Sid. Gambia,
Sierra Leone ; Crusader, Honduras ; Mars, Bermuda.
OFF DOVER, OCT. 6.—War-steamer, Etna, Texel, for
the. West Indies.
OFF THE WIGHT, OCT. 2.—Norman, Copenhagen, for
St. Thomas.
SClLLY.—Previous to September 30 the Harmony,
from London for Glasgow, put in here, with bows stove,
Laving been in contact.
PORTSMOUTH, OCT. 7.—Wind N.N.W. to N.—Arrd.
Numa transport, London, for Bermuda.
SHIELDS, CcT. 6.--Sid. Romulus, Demerara. The
Australia, bound to Bombay, in being towed nut yester-
day took the ground, but is not supposed to lave re-
ceived any damage.
LIVERPOOL, OCT. 7.—Wind W.N.W., fresh.--Acrd.
Marth, Stute, Porto Cabello.
SOUTH RONALDSAY, OCT. 2.—The Dahlia, from Li-
verpool to St. Petersburgh, which got ashore on the Little
Pentland, Skerry, on the 30th ult., has become a total
:vreek ; crew saved.
CLYDE, OCT. 4.—Sid. British America, Antigu t ;
Clydesdale, Antigua ; Callao, New Orleans.
Hum., OCT. 6.—Arrd. Sir E. Hamilton, Lundie, St.
Andrews.

NEWPORT, OCT. 6.—Sld. Czar, St. Thomas.

DEA.TII OF TILE DUCHESS OF ATHOLL.—Her Grace
the Duchess of Atholl died at Dunkeld House, on
Monday, the 4th of October, at a quarter before five
o'clock, in the 81st year of her tv,e.
M`Douall, the Chartist, has beeii taken into custody
in Guernsey.—Leeds Mercury,
The Duke of Wellington arrived at Apsley House
last evening from Walmer Castle, in order to be present
at the obsequies of his lamented brother. The Hon. and
Rev. Dr. Gerald Valerian Wellesley is also in town, and
staying at Apsley House until after the funeral. The
Earl of Mornington arrived at his mansion in Savile-row
early in the evening, from Deal Castle, Kent. The
Noble Earl, as eldest brother of the deceased Marquis,
will attend as principal mourner. Bis Excellency Lord
Cowley, the British Ambassadcr at Paris, reached town
last evening from the French capital, the Noble Lord
having come expressly from Paris to attend the funeral.

THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVEN ENG, OCTOBER 8, 1842.

CHINA, INDIA, AND I
AFTGITANISTAN. I

HYDERABAD, Auc. 23.—1 t is now broadly
stated that. General Pollock was not in a condi-
tion to retire when the Governor-General's order
arrived fur him to retrace his steps, and that he
could not move the whole of his army without a
reinforcement of carriage. Advance, therefore,
would havebeen out of the queStion, except by a
small portion of his force, and would have been tu,
tile without a corresponding movement from Can-
dthar. Brigades, however, from both the
forces-have been actively employed during the
.past. month. One under Col. Moataath advanced
as far as Pesh Bollik, and demanded the property
abandoned. there by Captain .Ferris, which was
in a great measure restored. Oa the road to
Pesh Bolak, at the village of .Ali Boghan,
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
io the neighbourhood of Pesh Bolak who at-
tacked 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 been 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 had, of course,
been determined on, and elephants had been
dispatched from Jellalabad, to assist in tran-
sporting the guns through a mountain pass which
led to the chief's abode.

Monteath's operations have had some moral
effect also. The chiefs of the Lughman valley,
seeing that those near Pesh Bolak and under the •
Sufftd 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 no doubt that
various dile& of rank are occupied in arranging
negotiations independently of Akbar Khan, who,
though supreme in Caubul and the Balla Hissar,
does 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 Futtch Jung, he apparently dared
not 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. Dost Mohamed and his son,
Akbar Khan, as .a supporter of the Sudogy e
family, could not together inhabit Caubul, nor
even Affghanistan. 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 the army of reserve nothing further has
transpired, than that it is to assemble at Feroze-
pore, and that many officers in the staff, belong-
ing to regiments which are to compose it, have
been ordered even from Calcutta to join it. From
this it,is argued that something more is intended
than a mere demonstration or military display,
and that asnothingbas 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 for a hostile purpose somewhere.
It_is not likely that it is to be marched to Caubul,
because it would be impossible to transport heavy
ordnance, or half the army there. The insurrec-
tion in Bundlekund, if not entirely suppressed, is
nearly so, and a force is to be formed to
averawe that country after the rains, com-
posed of some Madras and Bengal troopsjoined.
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 pubiishing I3urnes'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. the 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, Dcst Mahomed made no secret of his ap-
prehensions of the encroachments of Runjeet
Singhi and of the danger of his leaguing with
Sooltan Mahomed Khan in Peshawar, to rob
from him more of the Affghau territory. It is
also true that he 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 Dost Mahomed
had openly turned 'back the emisaries of Persia
from Candahar,. "reported by Burnes," and yet
in the Simla proclamation, said to be based upon
Burnes's correspondence, Dost Mahomed is
openly accused of giViog his support to the Per-
sian designs in AffgoauiStan, as if' 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
provinceS had gradually increased north-western
, till an excess
of expenditure over previous.
years of one crore
(1,000,0004 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 a
Committee to inquire into the subject of an in-
crease so enormous, without any apparent com-
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 could
effect them. It is unfortunate that his exertions
should have had a contrary effect. The Gover-
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 indi-
vidual convenience.. A similar Committee has
been ordered for Bombay. •
Another subject which 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.pos-
sibility be in a worse condition. The present
plan of Lord Ellenborough, which is but a pro-
position, however, is to form the whole of the
constabulary into a semi-military body, to have
additional mounted men, and that all should be
enabled to act in bodies either for the protection
of districts, for the suppression of gangs of
thieves, or insurrections. His Lordship proposes
to dress the policemen regUlarly in a simple
manner, and . .to arm them with musket and
bayonet, that they should be accustomed to act
together regularly, and be efficient to escort
treasure, to act as irregular troops in the attack
of mud-walls and in jungle.
If' it had not been utterly neglected and over-
tltrown, for the mOst-Ort in the Company's ter-
ritories, the whole of India 1-possesses an admir-
able and very numerous Polite in PY.elif
a certain number of the inhabitants of winch
hold or held lands to serve •as.si,atchmen, and to
kick after their (MI boundaries. Perhaps in