The Sun.
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THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY MORNTNG, OCTOBER 8, 1842.

country would have made on the petty Princes
and people of India, and we are tbverefore bound
in self-defence to recover our positron, and con-
vince our enemies that England cannot be be-
trayed or insulted with impunity. For the safety
of the unfortunate prisoners we are as anxious
as their nearest friends, but no one can success-
fully contend that surrendering every point of
honour, and yielding to every demand made by a
treacherous foe, are the only means of effecting
their release. The prisoners themselves, if we
may judge of the magnanimous conduct of Lady
SALE, would be the very last to sanction such
ignoble proceedings.
It will be seen from communications published
in another part of the paper, since this article
was written, that the French telegraphic
dispatch is very incorrect, and fully bears out
the opinion we had formed of it. Not one
person was killed at the capture of Chapoo, but
from a misunderstanding afterwards, the Tartar
soldiers fired on some British officers, and
killed one and wounded three in the streets.
Nothing is said about sickness prevailing in the
army in Affghanistan, and we must therefore
look upon the bad news conveyed by the
Directors of the French telegraph as fictitious.

Our eloquent Contemporary, the Morning
_Herald, has evidently been taking lessons lately
in description of GEORGE RoraNs ; and to do
him justice, he bids fair with a little practise to
surpass his illustrious master. We hope GEORGE
will not be jealous, but really if he do not look
well to his laurels, he will stand a fair chance of
having them filched from him, and being
thrown into total eclipse by the superior
effulgence of our Contemporary's graphic genius.
But not only does the Herald exhibit
descriptive powers of the highest and rarest
order, but he exhibits also a genius fbr the un-
grammatical, which, if properly cultivated, may
entitle him to claim equal renown with the late
lamented SIMPSON of Vauxhall—that lofty and
daring violator of the petty, vulgar niceties
and proprieties of Syntax. Here is a speci-
men of our Contemporary's anti-syntactical
peculiarities, which it would be difficult to
equal, and scarcely possible to surpass :
" The oldest individual living cannot remember
such a long duration of seasonable, and the most
beautiful and invigorating autumnal weather as
the present, it being chilly and misty in the
mornings, until the glorious orb of day comes
forth in his strength and magnificence, dispelling
the hoary dews till he hastens on the noon of
day, rife with resplendency, warmth, and beauty ;
and having passed the southern hemisphere, and
travelled some stages towards the gorgeous
west, his power subsides, the air becomes chill, yet
clear and bracing, evening draws her sable cur-
tain round, and dark and dewy night succeeds.'
What a glorious confusion reigns throughout'
this impressive description ! W hat a happy in-
congruity of images! What an exquisite infeli-
city of epithets ! Metaphors—no matter bow
harmless and unoffending—are subjected to the
cruellest compound fractures, and poor Plus-
CIAN'S head is broken in the very first sentence.
Again we say, look to your laurels,- GEORGE, or
the Herald, with its fine imaginative comparison
of the sun to a stage-coach passenger " travel-
ling some stages towards the gorgeous west,',
will assuredly tear them from your brows, and
leave your scalp as bald as a turnip !

An incident occurred on Thursday at the Mary-
lebone Police-office, during the investigation of
the strange case of ALICE LOWE, who was
charged with having robbed Lord FRANKFORT,
With whom she cohabited, of articles of jewellery
to a large amount, which is well worthy of
notice, exhibiting, as it does, magisterial cant—
and where is solemn, ultra-dignified cant more
in vogue than among our Police Magistrates ?
in a very edifying and characteristic light. Mr.
ADOLPHUS having subjected the noble com-
plainant to a cross-examination, the evident ob-
ject of which was to show that his judgment was
at times not quite so unclouded as it might be,
Mr. CLARKSON interfered, apprehensive that his
Lordship's sensibilities might receive too severe
a shock, if his Learnel Friend's questions were
continued in so searching a spirit. The rest of the
incident we give in the words of the Reporter :

Mr. Clarkson here made some observations relative
to the painful situation in which his Lordship was
placed by the line of cross-examination which had
been adopted, when he was interrupted by
Mr. Adolphus, who said with much emphasis—And
don't you think the poor giil standing now at the bar
ft e's her situation equally painful, if not more so
A number of persons here simultaneously cried,
" Bravo," and, by the clapping of hands and stamping
their feet on the floor, caused an interruption of some
moments to the proceedings.
The worthy Magistrate spoke with a proper degree
of warmth with respect to the highly improper and in-
decorous ebullition of feeling which had been evinced,
and stated, that in the event of a similar disgraceful
scene being enacted, the parties so offending would,
if pointed out to him, be severely dealt with.
This virtuous indignation on the part of the
Magistrate seems to us to be utterly uncalled-for
by the circumstances of the case. What is there
" disgraceful " in people being strongly affected
by an irresistible appeal made to their sense of
justice and compassion ? We look upon Mr.
ADOLPIIUS' impassioned retort as one of the
happiest and most effective ever delivered in a
Court of Law; its appeal is direct to the heart;
and he must have been more or less than man
who could have heard it unmoved. And
yet we are gravely and oracularly told
that all those who were affected by its truth,
and force, and pathos, acted disgracefully in
allowing feelings so creditable to their nature to
escape them, and deserved to be punished
severely as offenders against the awful etiquette
of a Police Court! Surely this is being punctilious
over much! Police Courts are often in roars of
laughter when some absurd drunken frolic of an
Irishman, or a Captain SNOOKS, is brought under
the cognizance of justice, and no Magistrate ever
dreams of reprehending such levity, but on the
contrary, enjoys the joke quite as much as the
spectators—especially if he happen to be a Lord
Mayor or an Alderman, in which case he is sure
to be a wax. Why, then, should the momentary
interruption occasioned by an involuntary out-
burst of serious natural emotion be so vehemently
objected to by the Marylebone Magistrate ? This
is a question to which, we apprehend, no rational
answer can be made.

At the Sixth Annual Meeting of the Notting-
hamshire Agricultural Association, which took
place on Tuesday last, Mr. (TALLY KNIGHT ob-
served that the " exhibition of stock had been
so excellent as to allay all fears of the quality
and breed of our animals being excelled by
neighbouring or other nations." We hope
this remark which, as coming from a
decided Tory, is of more than ordinary
moment—will tend to reconcile the agriculturists
to the Tariff, and convince them that their
doubts of its safe and salutary operation are in a
great measure unfounded. For our own part,
we cannot express our joy at hearing that a free-
born British bullock will still maintain its
superiority over one born and educated
in Holland or Belgium, for our rump-
steaks and sirloins have long been, like
our Constitution, the " envy and wonder
of surrounding nations," and it would be a
grievous shock to our patriotism, were our
acknowledged excellence in this respect ever to
be surpassed by foreigners. At the same agri-
cultural meeting, Mr. NORTON—who, we
believe, is also a Tory—made some ob-
servations on the late changes in the
Corn-law, which evince a moderation and even
liberality of sentiment strikingly at variance
with the opinions of those who assert that agri-
culture is on its last legs, having been brought
to that lamentable state of decrepitude by the in-
judicious nostrums of the Tamworth Doctor.

A report was current at Madrid, on the 28th
that Government had received important news
from Valencia, which city had been threatened
for some time with serious disturbances. It was
e-ven asserted that an insurrection had taken
place, and that the insurgents had insisted that
the QUEEN'S majority should be fixed at 18 years
of age.

The'Peninsular of the 28th ult. publishes a

letter from Algesiras, stating, that on the 17th
ult. a British officer, belonging to the Admiral's
ship, presented himself at the port of St. Philip
with two boats filled with troops, and ordered
the commander of the Spanish guard-ship to
withdraw. One of the Spanish officers imme-
diately landed and apprised the commander of
the troops of the line, who immediately assem-
bled his men, and marched them to the sea
shore. The English officer then asked whether
he was on the Spanish territory, and on being
answered in the affirmative, he withdrew with-
out further explanation.

Private letters from Madrid state, that on the
day appointed to receive tenders for the new
loan of 40,000,000 of reals, no offers had been
received by the Minister of Finance.

On the Madrid Bourse, on the 28th ult.
1,800,000 reals were sold in the Three per Cents.
at 211 at 60 days. The rive. per Cents. were
done at 26 for cash, and 25/ 26 263. 9-16 at 60
days,prime and 11 coupons due; 21
casliwih
t'ilti3 coupons.

The Paris papers received contain unfavour-
able news from the seat of war in Africa.
It appears that General CIIANGARNIER, a highly
distinguished officer, had marched to the western
frontiers of the province of Oran, and invaded
the territory of some tribes which had not yet
been visited by French troops, where he expe-
rienced a most vigorous resistance from their
warlike population. The Arabs fought during
two days with a courage amounting to heroism
and are supposed (no doubt correctly) to have
sustained considerable loss. In these conflicts
the French confess to have lad 150 men killed
and wounded, including six officers killed, and
amongst others Lieutenant SEDASTIANI, nephew
of Marshal Count SEBASTIAN'.

The Courrier Francais publishes the follow-
ing account, dated Algiers, September 25, of
the affair :

L 4 General Changarnier's column, 2,500 strong, had
arrived in the aghalick of Onaz, between Milianali and
Mascara, when the Arabs and Kabyles of that district,
re-inforced probably by the troops of the Emir, at-
tacked them with extraordinary fury. The combats
succeeded each other so 'rapidly, that for two whole
days they were fighting with swords and bayonets,
or within pistol. shot. Our column could not
be shaken, but it obtained no result of any
importance. The troops behaved admirably, but the
balls did not spare them, and we had one hundred
men either killed or wounded. Whether it was that
the officers exposed themselves too much, or that they
were particularly aimed at by the enemy, it is certain
that the number of them who were killed or wounded
is out of all proportion with that of the private sol-
diers. The loss of the enemy has been considerable,
but ours has been very important, for MM. Moran-
gies and Magagnos, who have fallen, were two of the
bravest and most experienced of leers in the army of
Africa. It is probable that a new expedition from
General Changarnier's column, the garrisons of Mili-
ana and Medeah, and the column of D'Arbouville, will
be sent into the country of the Braz."

The Afoniteur Parisien accounts for this cala-
mitous affair in a different manner, and repre-
sents the loss of the French as less important :
" General Chano.t"arnier," says that journal, " was
attacked suddenly by forces very superior in number
to his own, and we have to deplore a pretty consider-
able loss,i including several' officers' amongst whom
are mentionel the following :—M. Laplanche, of the
staff, attached to the Zouaves, and M. Sebastiani and
M. Maquards, of the same corps, and AI. Denantes,
of the Ist regiment of African Chasseurs."
_ _

The Maniteur Parisien does not give the de-
tails or even the date of this affair, but it must
have taken place on the 19th ult., as the death
of Lieutenant SEBASTIANI is stated by the Mar-
seilles journals to have taken place on that day.
In his march to Tekedempt, from Mostaganem,
the French General D'ARBOUVTLLE likewise met
with unexpected and determined resistance, and
was obliged to fall back, with the loss of 9 killed
and 62 wounded.

The province of Tlemecen was perfectly tran-
quil. In that of Constantina there had been
some fighting, in the direction of Setif and
Bugia. General SYLLEGUE having left the for-
mer place to levy contributions among the neigh-
bouring tribes, came up with a large body of
Kabyles, whom he attacked and dispersed, with
the loss of 100 of their number killed, and many
wounded, having had himself 55 men put
hors de combat. At Bugia, the Arabs made
a desperate attack upon the French advanced
posts, but after a fruitless attempt to carry some
of the blockhouses they retreated, leaving, it is
stated, 100 men dead on the field. The division
which was to march to the East, under the corn.
mand of the Governor-General, had been or-•
dered to rendezvous in advance of the Maison
Carree on the 29th ult. It was to consist of
nine battalions of infantry, 400 cavalry, two sec-
tions of mountain artillery, and two of rampart
guns, and a detachment of engineers. The
column was to take provisions for twenty days,
and to bring with it 500 oxen.

This news produced a ivery unpleasant im-
pression on the public mind in Paris on Wed-
nesday.
The Commerce seems to anticipate another coup
d'etat from M. TRIERS for the purpose .of restor-
ing that gentleman to office. "The commercial
union between France, and Belgium," it says, " is
exclusively, solely, and; absolutely for the bene-
fit of Belgium. This fact is well-known and ad-
mitted, but it is added that these ' sacrifices
will be compensated for by political advantages.'
Now, we maintain that the sole political
advantages which could compensate for the dan-
gers of a commercial union would be a complct&
union between the two countries." " M. TRIERS,'
it assert.; elsewhere, "is a party to this scheme,
and it is thought by his partisans that the mo-
ment is favourable for opening this new breach."
We have, received the Smyrna papers of the 19th
instant. The Journal de Smyrne of that day an-
nounces the arrival of Admiral La Susse, in the
Inflexible, the Grenadier corvette, the brig La Fleche,
and the Santi Petri, from Ourlac. The British
corvettes, Beacon and Alagicienne, and the Medea
frigate had also arrived.
A letter from Alexandria, Sept. 10th, says :
" The Vanguard and Cambridge arrived at Bey-
rout, and left instantly, (after communicating with
the Cyclops) it is said for Candia. Probably the
next troubles will be with Greece. The Egyptian
fleet is still out of port, though in sight almost every
day.—Le Constitutionnel.

OVERLAND MAIL
INDIA AND CHINA.
We have received the following telegra-
phic dispatch, in anticipation of the anxiously-
expected Overland Mail from India. It arrived
in Paris on Wednesday, and was immediately
published.
The dates are from Calcutta the 13th, from
Bombay the 27th of August, and from Macao
the 7th of June.
The dispatch is as follows :
" MALTA, SEPT. 30.
" The Oriental arrived this morning, bringing
the following intelligence, extracted from the
Overland Mail :
" Brigadier Monteith had gained several suc-
cesses at Pesh Bolak, and in the Valley or Shur-
warre.e.

" Satisfactory intelligence had been received
from Lady Sale and the other prisoners.
" Colonel Palmer (the late Commandant at
Gbuznee) was dead.
" General Pollock remained in the same po-
sition.

" It was reported that General Nott had re-
ceived orders to march forward on the 29th of
July, and it was expected that he would be before
Caubul on the oth of September.
" Softer Jung had surrendered himself to the
British forces at Candahar, and Colonel Wymer
had destroyed several forts at the distance of 80
miles north of that place.
" Sickness continued to prevail in the different
divisions of the army.

" From China, the last accounts are from Ma-
cao, and are dated June the 7th.

" Our forces had taken possession of Chapoo,
and in so doing had suffered more loss than in
any previous engagement in China. Very im-
portant news from that country is expected by
the next mail."

Chapoo is a fine harbour, about fifty miles
north of Ningpo, lying on the other side of the
bay of Hangtchou, and is conidercd the great
emporium for vessels engaged in the Japan trade.
It has been occupied, no doubt, with a view
to further operations, embracing Nankeen and
other large cities in that populous and rich
district. It is only forty-five miles from Hang-
tcl►ou, where the Grand Canal terminates, and,
owing to its position and trade, is considered a
place of much importance.

CHINA, INDIA, AND
AFFGHANISTAN.

(From the Times.)

Our dispatches in anticipation of the Mail trona
India have arrived, bringing,; intelligence from
Bombay to the 28th from Calcutta to the 13th
of August, and from China to the 6th of June.
The most rcmarkable fact mentioned in
the letter of our correspondent, is the de-
cision taken by the Governor-General to
send forward the troops from Candahar and
Jellalabad to Caubul. This decision appears
to have been adopted immediately on the
receipt of dispatches, which reached India by
the mail that left England on the sth of June.
Notwithstanding the efforts of two prejudiced
journals, one of Calcutta and the other of Bom-
bay, by even unwarranted statements to mis.
lead public opinion as to the means of
carrying forward the campaign, and as
to the advantages which such a proceed-
ing was calculated to produce, this deci-
sion of the British Government appears to
have given general satisfaction. There bad pre-
viously existed throughout India a strong feeling
ofdissatisfaction, to which some of the journals had
afforded a decided vent. That discontent took
its origin from the presumed apathy of the
new Governor-General, who, having some
months back taken himselt away from Cal-
cutta, seemed in his comparatively retired
retreat at Allahabad to have resolved that
the troops should be left in inaction at
Candahar, and to suffer a variety of misery at
Jellalabad. The soldiers expressed their eager-
ness to be led against the enemy, and in parti-
cular against the murderer Akbar Khan; but
the order for the onward movement had been
delayed by Lord Ellenborough. The efforts of
the Government had, however, in the interval
been actively directed to supply the troops with
every requisite. The force at Candahar, under
General Nott, was so well furnished with car-
riage cattle as to be able in July to move in any
direction. The spirit of those troops may be
learned from the following anecdote :—When
that General was told that he should evacuate
Affghanistan, he is said to have inquired " by
which route, whether by Quetta backwards, or
to Caubul forwards?"

The Candahar army having, on the 30th of
July, received the welcome notice for a move-
ment, was ordered to form into two divi-
sions : the one under General England to pro-
ceed towards Quetta, and the other under
General Nott to move to the north-
ward. These two divisions are thus com-
posed : under General England, the Bombay
troops, which are coming towards the Indus,
viz.—Cooper's troop of Horse Artillery, Bullock's
battery (six-pounders), detachment of Poona
Horse ; two Ressalahs, Christie's Horse; 25th
Bombay Native Infantry ; Company's late
Light Battalion; Ist, 2d, and sth late Bengal
Irregular Infantry. Under General Nutt, the
Bengal troops, with her Majesty's regiments,
about to gather fresh laurels, viz.—Leslie's
troop of Horse Artillery, Anderson's ditto
ditto, Blood's nine-pounder battery, detach-
Im...nt of Bengal and Madras sappers, 3d Bom-
bay Cavalry, Haldane and Christie's Horse, her
Majesty's 40th and 41st Regiments, 2d, 16th,
3Sth, 42d, and 43d Regiments of Bengal Native
Infantry, 3d or Craigie's Irregular Infantry. The
latter division has taken the battering train, which
fact indicates a disposition not to spare the Aff-
gban fortresses, and especially Ghuznee and
Caubul. The abandonment of Candahar seems
to be decided on, for a general destruction of
guns, ammunition, and small arms, which could
not be conveniently removed, was stated to have
taken place. Among other arrangements, the
distribution of warm clothing to the Bengal
troops was not neglected. The report at first
circulated among General Nott's division was,
that they were to proceed from Candabar to-
wards Ferozepore, via Khelat-y-Gbilzie, and
Dera Ismael Khan. This line of route, a part
of which is unknown to Europeans, was consi-
dered to be but a feint.

The position of the force at Jellalabad under
General Pollock during the months of June and
July had attracted much attention, for the
difficulties which surrounded them had been ex-
aggerated to extremes by the croakers. There
was abundance in the camp of every necessary,
but not of luxuries. The principal want was
beasts. of burden. Among the rumours was
one that the owners of the animals taken on
hire from- India .had refused to allow their
cattle to proceed further than Peshawar. The
activity and energy of the Government agents
had in a'great• degree obviated this difficulty.
The fume at Jellalabad was then considerable,
for besides the " illustrious" garrison, which
had, under General Sale, withstood the siege of
Akbar Khan, and the troops that stormed the
Khyber Pass, under General Pollock, a con-
siderable body of Sikhs, against whose beha-
viour, as auxiliaries, no great complaints were
urged, was collected there, and to whose custody
it was said that the fortress of Jellalabad and
the care of the Khyber Pass were to be intrusted I
after the retirement of the British.

The unwarlike hesitation of the troops at Jel-
lalabad having been misinterpreted by some of
the Affghan chiefs in the neighbourhood, whose
bullying propensities lead them always to. assault
those who exhibit any symptoms of doubt or
fear, and above all those who seem inclined to
retreat from before them, it became necessary
that General Pollock should chastise the most
refractory. Detachments were therefore sent
out, which soon brought those worthies to their
senses, and obliged them to pay the sums due to
the revenue.

On the 13th of July a new negotiation on be-

half of Akbar Khan was commenced; Captain
Troup, who had been Major of Brigade in the
Thitish contingent to Shah Soojah, and who is
one of the prisoners, ca me to Jellalabad : he was
accompanied by a Candahar chieftain. The
object of his mission was, under pretence of
making terms for the restoration of the prisoners
in exchange for the reinstatement of Dost
Mahommed, to gain time, and to delay opera-
tions until the approach of another winter
should be sufficient to paralyze the movements
of the Indian troops. But those negotiations
had, as far as Akbar Khan was concerned,
tended to no purpose, and several letters brought
by Captain Troup from the prisoners, both fe-
males and males, addressed to their friends in
India, have contributed to allay the great
anxiety felt on their account. They were then
confined in a fortress five miles distant from
Caubul, the approach to which is described as
rather difficult. Some of them were allowed to
move about the mountains, and to ride in small
parties into Caubul. Lady Sale, who occa-
sionally botanized, was always guarded by
two Affghans. The officers might perhaps man-
age to escape, but Akbar Khan's agents took too
good care of the ladies and children, whontie
looked upon as his safe hostages. The most ac-
credited report respecting the real position of
Akbar Khan was, that he had appointed himself
Vizier under Futteh Jung, the son and nominal
successor of Shah Soojah, but that he was not
in favour with the inhabitants of Caubul,
over some of whom he exercised the most
horrible tyranny, and who also appeared
to dread the approaching vengeance of Bri-
tish troops. The Kuzzilbashes, a strong party
in that town, were opposed to him. He was
therefore compelled to act with some modera-
tion towards the prisoners, for the people of the
town and district looked to them being protected
by Futteh Jung as the acknowledged represen-
tative of his father in the alliance with the
British. The report industriously circulated by
interested parties some months ago, that Akbar
Khan intended to take the prisoners, in case of
his being hard pressed, over the Hindoo Khoosh
into Bokhara, had lost credit, for it was said that
the King of Bokhara, although he treats
Colonel Stoddart and Captain Conolly, his pre-
sent captives, with great rigour, does not wish
for more Feringhees; and having subdued the
Chieftain of Kollar', and gained influence with
the Walee of Kholomn, had obliged the latter
to refuse permission to Akbar Khan to take
those prisoners through the passes. It was,
therefore, supposed that on the arrival of the
British troops from Jellalabad and Candahar at
Caubul, the ill-acquired domination of the ambi-
tious son of Dost Mahommed would speedily be
terminated. There is no doubt now of his having
murdered Sir W. IL Macnaghten, for the fact
of his having done so has been admitted by
himself.

Simultaneously with the receipt of the order
by General Nott, an advance movement had
been effected from Jellalabad by Captain Broad-
foot, who took post on the 24th of July at a
small fort 15 miles from Jellalabad, at which thrt
it was supposed that a part of the force from that.
fortress would soon arrive.

Most of the Affghaus in and around Caubul
were stated to entertain great alarm, and were
begging written notes and little bit 4 of scribbled
paper from the prisoners to serve as tokens for
their preservation. It appeared to be expected
in some usually well informed quarters that little
or no opposition would be made to the advance of
the British.

All these statements, coupled with the facts
that have occurred since the disastrous retreat
of last January, serve to prove that the fatalities
of November, December, and January, were
owing more to the want of talent and energy on
the part of the British leaders than to the enter-
prise or patriotism of the Affghans. Captain
Troup had declared " that no doubt exists, if a
single wing of a regiment had marched into
Caubul on the 2d of November, the much talked
of insurrection would have been completely and
effectually put down."
The distance from Candahar to Ghuznee, via
Khelat-y-Ghilzie, is about 240 miles. In the
year 1839 Sir John Keane's arm:7 took from the
I ' 27th of June to the 21st of July, both days in-
eluded, to perform that march. rGhuznee and
lJellalabad are nearly equi-distant from Caubul,
each being somewhat more than 00 miles. It
was expected that both armies would meet in
Caubul before the middle of September. The ex-
pense of this campaign has been estimated as not
likely to exceed 25 lacs, or a quarter ofa million
sterling, while its moral effects in India will,
it was expected, prove incalculably advantageous
in demonstrating, not only to the Affghans,but to
every inhabitant of India, that the British troops
when properly led are invincible. It will also
secure the result of having the prisoners restored,
for in Caubul they can be demanded, not
from the tricky negotiator Akhar, but at the
point of the sword front all the chiefs of the
Ghilzies and Dooraunies united. This campaign
will also enable the Supreme Government to
withdraw its soldiers from the valleys lying to
the westward of the Soliman Mountains, and will
relieve the present Governor-General from the
disgrace of being the first that accepted dis-
graceful terms as dictated by a semi-barbarian.
The policy of Lord Ellenborough in maintain-
ing his own secrets, and in communicating them
solely to the Comtnander-in-Chief and to the
Generals, having produced considerable advan-
tages, it was said that the Governor-General was
about to proceed from Allahabad to Kurnaul, or
rather Simla, in order to Ihcilitate those commu-
nications. The army of reserve was ordered to
assemble in November next on the Sutledge.
The presence of this army so near the Sikh
frontier supposed to have some object in re-
lation to the dis Satisfaction and disturbances pre-
valent among them; but the real fact appears to be
that it is collected to be useful in case of neces-
sity. For the same reason a corps of observation.
is to be formed in Scinde of troops sent from
Bombay, in , addition to those under General
England, as soon as the monsoon terminated.
This. corps is to be under the command of Sir
Charles Napier.
The transports sent from England with the re-
inthreements had arrived. The 78th High-
landers and 86th Regiments having made rapid
passages, reached Bombay in the beginning of
August. Somo of the men had died of cholera.
The 28th Regiment, from New South Wales;*
had also arrived there. The resolution and
activity displayed by the British GovernMent
on this occasion had, infused new vigour into the
whole of the Hon. Company's service.
The Finance Committees were at work ; but
the utility of attempting to effect savings by re-
ducing the salaries of the civilians was much
questioned. •

The examination into the causes of the Caubul
disasters was 'eolith-Ming, under the superinten-
dence of Mr. Cameron, the Law Commissioner.
There was an odd discussion attempted to be
raised by interested parties, as to the propriety
of reinstating Dost Mohammed in Caubul. But
the policy of this proceeding was much doubted;
for Futteh Jung, the new Sovereign of Caubul,
is the second son of Shah Soojah, -and had
succeeded in virtue of his' elder brother
having Voltintarily resigned his rights to
the throne. Futt.eh Jung is now King, and
adMitted to be such by even the noto-
rious son of Dost MobarnMed. it would be a
strange act, if the British rulers should now
attempt to disposSess the son of Shah Soojah,
in order to replace Dost Mahommed, who never
was more trAhl an Ameer or Prince, who,
although 'he had for some time exercised some
rights as a Chieftain, never could - establish his
claim to the absolute 'sovereignty of any part of
Affzhanistan, and much less' of • the whole
QUuntry.

The news from China was to the 7th °Mine. It
contains the account of the capture of Chapoo,
on the 18th of May, which was effected without
loss to the British, but when the troops we're
moving th rough the town; violent resista ace
was made from a Joss-house, into which at. ,me
Tartar soldiers had retreated, who, fearing %bat
if they stir rendered they would be cut to pie:ces,
unexpectedly fired on some British cornpa, ales.
Colonel Tomlinson, of the 18th Royal rrish,, was

killed, and Colonel Mountain, and Captain,
Campbell, and Lieutenant Jodell wounded.
An apprehension prevailed in India that but
little would be effected this year against China,
in consequence of the delays that had taken place.
The want of vigour in the prosecution of this war
was much spoken of, particularly as the season
for sailing along that coast, without danger, Wtl3
allowed to pass over. The expedition was, how.
ever, said to be preparing to attack Nankin, the
southern capital.
The monsoon had set in rather late, but, a
plentiful fall of rain had taken place subsequent
to the well-known holiday called " Cocoa-nut
day," when the Indians suppose that the violence
of the storms has ceased. The cholera had con-
tinued its ravages, but the heavy rains would, it
was hoped, speedily lessen them.
Several shipwrecks had occurred: among them
were mentioned that of the Adele from Bombay
for Mauritius, of the Copeland from Liverpool to
China, of the Martha Ridgeway and the TWO
Sisters in the Eastern Seas.

The Nabob of Surat and the Ruler of Oderf
pore had died. The latter, although the sun °f
Hindoo royalty and mythological ceremonies'
had not the honour of having more than 00e
lady of his numerous family burned with big
corpse. Suttees begin not to be quite so fashion-
able in India as they formerly were.
The removal of the troops from Jellalabad
peared to be necessary, as sickness prevailed,
and several officers had died there since the
arrival of General Pollock. Every preparation
was making at the period of the latest intelli
gence for a speedy movement.
In a postscript it is stated that the troops were
o march from Candahar on the Bth, 9th, or 10t r
August, and that rumour asserted that AO%
Khan whose great object was delay, had send
mother of his prisoners, Captain Lawrence, °II
to J ellalabad, to try to make some furtliez.

arrangements.
The fall of rain in Bombay during 10 daYO Pr,-;
vious to the departure of the mail had been le
great. It was stated that the overflowing of t.he
'i"
Ganges had done considerable injury to the „
digo crop.
nale
Letters from Mauritius mention that. 9-
commercial difficulties bad arisen there, esti'eu
by the want of sufficient metallic currency
The banks had therefore narrowed their Or
rations.

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENc'
(From the Bengal Hurkaru, Aug. 12.)
STATE OF THE MARKETS. • ' ,r.
We give our usual notice of the state of.coranl-ed
cial affairs here ; which have not, however, assumed
that active condition we had expected to have rOll e
when we last wrote : one reason of which Toq':tl
think, be found in the corresponding action plwilitist
by the dull state of the home market shown in, the has
mail that reached us, arising from the delay that the
taken place in the final decision on the Taritf, and f
1 ~ o
next mail is, therefore, looked to with some deginto
anxiety by our merchants here. Freights eon7sd
also at a very low ebb, 355. being taken for a‘e,oo
weight, and we have even heard of one transal,to
below that sum. This has given encouragenlen der
shipments, which have, however, been chiefly naing
drafts against the consignments, not above half hay
been taken up in the market.
MONEY MARKET.—The demand made by the Court
iellsrst
of Directors of 2s. hi. for their bills having hau,' to
was to be expected, its full effect on remittanc;eh
this place, prevented our markets from being rat be
affected by the arrival of the mail, and it Inushielt
some time yet before the arrival of the specie vr 5 to
had been shipped can give its due effect of livelinesithy
our market, which, however, continues in a belittle
state. The rates of exchange have, for some aoel
time past, been rather favourable to the buyer' hills
as it is well known that a considerable' amount 0,1 l id.
is now in the market, the prices now quoted of le. ,`titae
to is. Hid. may be expected to exceed 2s. by tl'
e
the Express leaves.
Imports of European goods have experienced ta,tobet;
more activity than when the last overland leitaro,
but they have been considerable during the 2!wisst
and much exceeding those of the same period laroar
year. There still exists, however, among thLeeee
chants in the upper provinces, a want of connurahle
in bills on Calcutta houses, and this has a cons'deafillY
effect on the market for such goods as are lyeer.
taken by them in large quantities at this time° i that
COUNTRY Paopt:cr..—lndigo having arrived:awed
period of the season when an estimate may- bein't-erestl,
with sonic degree of accuracy excite,: inuchk-- Float in
and we regret that the close of the ,:easoa i'''
..Itea
th, Bt.,- c.'. factories, INI,;oh itas, 1.1.;-- ' " ''''
' tn'ters'
place, shows a very bad prospect for theilia nate
most of whom will think themselves forty de,
if they cover their outlay. We last montha 0.0
tailed the bad state of many districts, and of
these we have to note that the continuance
a heavy fall of rain has put an end to thee later
hopes that then remained of a recovery of tieed 0
sown plant. Poorneah, which we then nl4.lftricts,
less reduced from the season than most other di:Not.
has since suffered severely to the north an does
Some parts of Shahahad still promise well, Il'upper
also what plant there is in Bllagulpore. In the but
provinces they have comm-nced rnAnufactnrinagloat
their dependence is confined even there, whereto,. the
continuance of fine weather raised good hope iboory
out-turn, to the koontee, as the veil jotter
falls of rain that have visitel them in . tl-T....., to
end of July must have done much irklayo the
Ushulah sowings. ' The quantity of rain fallen
last two months in Calcutta and its neighb° of the
has exceeded thirty-five inches, whilst in sonlearedbf
Bengal districts full ten inches more his aPPe afore'
'II tber ill
the rain-guages to be the quantity ; it wl , 0000
be readily believed that but little colour can r'' seeo si
the plant under such a drenching. We lulitveipita c 1
memorandum of estimate made by a geb'esome c
several factories which he has lately visited,• in the
them holding marks that secure good pri!e'twit lint
market ; this shows that at certain concerns ot 0'
year turned out 26,500 ,maunds,_ there will For tee'
year be more than 8,500 maunds. Inforrait Ilitocet
from all quarters, on which we can place Tess the°
'induces our estimating the probable crop at: its due,
85,000 maunds, which will doubtless have tb°s-t.
influence on the home market to the benefit
~.,," yes of
who have been able to hold. Little now .rell"thea de;
our last year's crop in Calcutta, the past innf Great
pasture having taken away 4,050 matioda„"°,,,auous
Britain, and 18 maunds elsewhere, 140,288 to to the
being the quantity that has left Calcutta'. up •
present period. . terlgile
SUGAR.—The last month began with at, coed
qua;
demand for Benares sugars of first and secen lea
lities, at exorbitantly high rates, which on'Yeeo,oo
until the arrival of the overland brought i 1 5140
11 ifts
of the decline of price for this species °ll, ye
d
the London market, which, though only sortie,Or
brought the article below a remunerative .0 .1, ou
° 1 Ale
satisfactorily proved that the priceshholingding tPI t
market would barely yield a remittance, loe:11j
all profit. A stagnation took place in th%-opell,B
consequent on this news, and when it as, si° it
it was at a decline of from 4 to 6 ana.....,, . ele
when but few lots have been taken is arneo,
on the reductions, and no business done in 1.501 °t
he
to any extent. As was before state 3, wet
°. Offer or
' sider that middling descriptions continue ~.e e%til e,
best prospect to the speculator, to whom t,",,r inda,s,
dinary low rates of freight offer yet Stronli:B9s Inceuitr,
ments. The shipments of July were 2°,tiast )an
against 117,435 Inds. in the same month, nt',tirae, il.•
the prices ranging even higher than at month
oestls,
the average rates of good merchantable anu.ht all d the
of all descriptions being about 10 per cent:t;tigi, at
more than when our last mail left this ; tbtidarci•
present time rates are at about the illneflost leo/th
SAS:METRE at the commencement tine -oil tohith
was in free request, but the arrival of nitig °feat
a temporary damp on the market,. and combseated &led,
failure in supply of the best descriptioreiLi allot to
dullness; this, however, is now son*iiVils-ialpee,,save
and a steady demand is going on at frPITI/3/4taio '' of
6-3 rupees. The shipments to Great , eitieflY,.9
been in all July 52,037 maunds, and beingc;
at 5-1°
good quality, the average price. has SW°
oa 5 '
Aot,
rupees. . . deg."' verY
RAW SILK finds no sale, except for fine „,st, e 9,
which are, and have been for sotnetiinex:iforr.
st
scarce indeed. We still continue under P. ae is nt
slippingsi on tha t
awayw•ebefore t •
us, and,
dt,htaltla
ut
ntliisss:ts,i:o3.,,,le
einetoet!,le_?.
prising Europeans be found to take an
_aet,ilivegetl e. 10:
in its production we shall lose the mat:10:0;1e of prolt
notwithstanding that the country is etc that na-the
clueing, both in quantity and quality, silk art. of
„sBO,
successfully compete with that oranii,Pmda. 1,
,nth
world, the exports of ' July have f,..)!',e_5i(0,16 0) hole
-nearly 33 per cent. less than those ot. wv-Itbe Nr,,,at
in last year, when Aids. 1,472 left this P,P, .'ilst of Tat
of -which was shipped for Great 13ritain,. A_ lilt to the
gilds. 89P `` r..
leaving in the past month only J. • , • 110
• torahs t
country.
We Inoue th se I
been more active even than when .
doubled '"° fro°
;SILK PIECE GOODS.--The market f°l.
report. The exports of July have
.ratiging 1„00!,
the same month in 1841, the prices'shalft
ever, that has been parted wit}., in
' R5..120 to Rs. 142 per corge;•the'
theiiwoies otii tide
lower rate, makes the average of 'ohs have ',..,re
month nearly Rs. 140, Coloured gootrt, ',, ‘,ieces 1270 r
demand, although during the month 'hi r,Y,,.K20,00u.'
been taken for the home market, and above_ of
Vombay and Rangoon at low prices., ..,, demand,
LI4LC AND LAC DYE CORtildlitilliittle t0.‘.:11-i.4o:,::tito: