The Sun.
London, England, 1842-03-09 00:00:00

LAW OF MARRIAGES.

Lord FRANCIS EGERTON rose, according to notice, to ask
leave to bring in a Bill to amend an Act, intituled an Act to render
certain marriages valid, and to alter the law with respect to cer.
tain voidable marriages, and to d: fine the prohibited degrees of
affinity. If he could think, that after showing the necessity of
some measure on this subject, the House would give their sanction
:o his luting his Bill on the table, without pinging themselves to
its adoption at any future stage, he would be content
with that prospect, and would compress his introductory
observations as much as possible. But he feared his Bill would not
tie allowed to be laid on the table without serious opposition.
Therefore, he must beg leave to go back a fitt!e, and he hoped his
efforts would direct the attention of Hon. Gentlemen from party
conflicts to a measure of the most serious interest, and of most uni-
versal impot lanes. He must, therefore, carry them back to a period
seven years since, as, since that time, three general elections had
infused more than an average amount of changes into the compo-
sition of the House. It would be in the recollection of most Hon..
Gentlemen that, in the year 1835, a most important statute was
passed by the House under somewhat peculiar circumstance:, and
certainly without that deliberation such a subject demanded, and
that that measure affected a material portion of the marriage law of
ti e country. A considerableportion of that measure was retrospective.
It was with the prospective part of that Act that he came forward
to deal; and he should freely confess that if, at the time the mea-
sure had been passed, lie had been in possession of the knowledge
he had since acquired, however much he might have concurred in its
general object--that of preventing litigation in families—if he had
been in possession of full information on thesubject, he did- not think
he should have approved of the measure in the form in Which it
had received the sanction of the Legislature- The Act had been
passed in tha year 1835, at the latter end of the tnenth of August,
without a careful deliberation on all its bearings, and with -an im.
plied promise that at an early period of the following Session the
attention of Parliament should again be called to the subject.
For seven years, however, the question had lain dormant.
It might be asked why he now undertook to bring forward such a
subject. In replying to such a question, he would pass over any
considerations as to whether a person like himself, unlearned in
the law, and destitute of influence and authority upon such a mat-
ter, was entitled to undertake its introduction to Parliament. He
would only say that particular circumstances had induced him to
accede to the wishes of those who proposed that he should submit
the question to the oonsideration of that House.—(Hear, hear.)
He would not undertake to say that the House ought to pass the
measure, which it was his intention to introduce; but he would
say that it was not only discreet, but that it was absolutely neees.
sary that the attention of the Legislature should be directed to the
subjectin all its bearings. The law of 1835 had not gone forth
to the country, with the sanction of a law duly and attentively
considered; and it did not therefore carry with it that
weight to which it might have otherwise been entitled.
It had consequently been evaded by many patties who could not
be considered profligate or professed law-breakers. He believed
he might say it had been evaded by persons of education, and by
persons who had no other moral slur or taint upon their characters
than an evasion of a law which they considered enjust and un-
founded might be expected to leave. That was alone, in
his opinion, a sufficient reason for re-considering the subject,
in order that the object of the measure might be attained, namely,
prevention of much domestic unhappiness, and of expensive litiga.
tion in respect to the rights of inheritance. He did not think the
proposed object of the Act had been attained. He found that per-
sons resorted to Scotland in order to evade the law; and he'did not
believe that Lau yens were agreed as to whether that evasion should
be considered successful or not. He belie. ed that there
was no subject upon which such widely different opt.
nions prevailed among the highest law authorities in the country.
He should, therefore, think that it was desirable the matter should
be settled. They should not sit quiet because the subject was a
delicate one. He had documents before him, which, however, he
should not quote in detail at that late hour, for the purpese of show-
ing that lawyers of eminence were every day consulted as to the
means of evading the present law in some of its • parti.
culars. The solicitors of London and •of other towns
had petitioned in considerable numbers, not for the Bill
which be proposed to introduce, but for -a remedy for the uncer.
tainty which now prevailed upon the subject. He thought
that the opinions of solicitors were entitled to great con.
sideration upon such a question. They were, probably, better
acquainted with the course of society, and with the current
of the stream of life in thii country than any other body of men,
and they might be Considered in some respects as the con-
fessors of families.—(Hear, hear.) He did not think' that
they could be suspected of being Influenced by motives
of personal advantage in petitioning Against the existing law, as
they were thereby acting directly in the teeth of their professional
interest. He remembered a Story of two tbx.hunters who had
fallen into a quarry, where they were lying disabled ; upon which
ene of them told the other to lie still, and they should soon have
mpanions in misfit' tune. Now, that could not be said to be the
case with the solicitors in the present instance, because the exist-
ing law could only tend to produce a plentiful crop of litigation.
He ventured to say that such would be the result of the law, and
that result it was his object to prevent. Without entering into the
details of the measure he proposed to Introduce, he might' state
that one of its principal provisions, and the one perhaps moat
likely to lead to discussion, was, that a widower should be allowed
to marry the sister of his deceased wife. Now that was a very
important subject, and one upon which he was aware great
difference of opinion might prevail.' It might be looked
upon in two points of view—it might be looked upon
first in a religious point of view, and secondly in tegard to its
social expediency, or what he might call its consequences,
upon this side the grave. With regard *to the religious part of the
question he felt that he should tread lighly upon such sacred
ground in such an assembly as he was then addressing. He
would only endeavour to show the House that he had seriously
considered' that part of the Matter. • He hoped the House would
give him credit for sincerity when he stated, that if he considered
he was impeded by the revealed Weird of God, whose authority
they all acknowledged, from bringing forward Such a proposal,
he should never have said a word 'upon tiie subject.—(Hear)
He believed the objections were principally derived from a patti.
cular portion- of the Old Tenement, centeinedin the book of Levi-
ticus. He vowed that, upon carellilly considering that very clifll.
cult and abstruse passage, it appeared to him that the taw contained i
in that part of the sacred volume was not binding upon them under
the Chnstian dispensation, so as to influence their legislation in this
matter. That was an opinion which he would be prepared ultimately,
if necessary, to defend. He was fortified in it by the circumstance
that Protestant communities in general had acted upon the assume.
tion that there was nothing in the Word of God to prevent such en
alliance. He had no reason to suppose that that body to whose
authority he should feel himself obliged to bow, the clergy of the
Church of England, would oppose the measure on that ground.
Had their opinion been expressed against the proposal, he
would have considered himself bound to observe reverential
silence upon the subject. He came now to the other question—
that of expediency, and of consequences on this side the 'grave.
Now his view of that was, that there was nothing In the probabi-
lities of the case which would entitle them to interfere with the
choice of mature age—ti.at liberty which abstractedly every man
of mature age and understanding ought to enjoy in so solemn and
serious a matter, as that of choosing a partner for life. His
opinion was, that the balance of advantages would be in favour
of this enactment. It' had been supposed by many that
the permission to a-svidower to marry the sister of his deceased
wife would interrupt that Intimate intercourse which now existed
between parties so Interested. In some cases it might be difficult
to calculate the precise effect of the measure.. Some monster
might exist who would deliberately attempt to Seduce the sister of
hit loving wife, with the idea of marrying -herafter the tatter's
death ; and there might also be come wives who would harbour
feelings and suspicions of the most injurious character. He con•
ceived, however, that it was impossible to legislate for such Anon.
strous cases. It had been supposed that a measure of that kind
might diminish that sincerity which was now supposed to exist in
the sister of the living wife. It appeared to him that there were
degrees or shades of turpitude in the most licentious transactions,
and he would be the last to diminish those distinctions ; but it
appeared to him that they depended upon the same sort of
principle on which the law punished a domestic servant,
who robbed hip master, with peculiar severity. It appeared to him
that they depended upon considerations totally independent of any
statute which might-be enacted upon the subject, though he was
not disposed to say that for those additional shades of guilt It
might not be advisable to provide by penal statute. There was an..
other case which had been mentioned with regard to the inter.
course which was supposed to subsist between the sister of the de.
ceased's wife and her husband. Take the case of two persons of
attraction on either side, who :might be expected to marry if they
were enabled by law to do so. If two parties so situated were al-
lowed to marry they would derive advantage rather than any wee
judice from an enactment which gave them that power. But
as he had before observed, these were matters which could not be
taken into consideration ; when legislating on that subjects Cased,

public expediency must be established to entitle the Legislature to In.
terfere. He had taken upon himself to state that this statut e had been
evaded. and that it did not meet with that respect which was paid
to mere ties of consanguinity. He believed that four or five

cases of evasion had occurred at Manchester. That would enable
non. Members to fOrm some opinion as to the extent to which the
law had fai'ed to excite respect in this country. He thought it
was snore likely to be evaded in the lower classes than in the upper.
It was not always easy to put themselves in a position to consider
the cases and feelings of individuals . There was one argument of
Bishop Jewel on this subject to which he would advert. It was
simply this—" The world is wide, and there are other per.
sons from whom you may choose a wife." "The world
was all before them where to choose." But what consolation did
extent and variety of choice bring to them when they saw the
sword of the angel flourishing over the gate which was closed for
ever against their return ? Did they not feel that to them the
world was a desert ? If in such eases the yoke of
Heaven man silent, was it for man to speak out?
It was hard to pronounce what change of scene—what length of
time might mitigate regard, or deaden the affection of one who
was usually of an age when, as Mr. Burke said, "passion had lost
half its groisuess but not half Its power "—one-who felt affections
which might have been crushed by domestic afflictions, revived
and rekindled towards an object, legitimate in his conviction, and
worthy of his warmest regard. If they would and must blast the
hopes of an individual in a position such as he (Lord F. E.) alluded
to—if they conceived it to be demonstated to be socially expedient
—still more if they thought that Revelation and the law
of God enjoined them to adopt such a course, let them at least
spare him their cold and insulting consolation. brt them preach
to him; let them reason with him; let them threaten bins. if
they would, let them tell him of Basil, Theodosius, and the Coun-
cils. He might obey their dictates ;he might perhaps submit to
their law ; but lie (Lord F. _ Egerton) feared that he
would resort to every expedient to evade the law.
Such oil and wine as theirs would but fester in the wounds with
which he was afflictid. Cases daily occurred to strengthen the
view which he (Lord F. Egerton) took of the subject. In a cons.
munication which he had received frost an Hon. Friend there was
mentioned the case of a gentleman of character and reputation in his
profession, who had received from the lips of his dying wife
a solemn injunction to commit her six children to the wedded
guardianship of the sister whom the !eft behind. If, then, the tase
of expediency was not demonstrated entirely to their satis-
faction, he must say that it was a fright ful responsibility to come
between that num to whom he had just referred and the injunction
which he had received from the death-bed of his wife. This was a sub-
ject which ought not to be treated with haste; it called fot mature re.
flection and deliberation, avid they were not entitled to legislate
upon it in the manner ie, which they had in the year 1835 ; al-
though at the time it was confessed that the legislation was not'final,
but open to consideration on all the bearings of the case,
as ho had brought them before the House. He did not
think it his duty to go into the history of the Is!,
by which prohibitions were enacted against the contracting of such
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marriages It was well known that, up to' the WIN of the
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statute of 1835, those prohibitions rested merely on the authority
of the canons of 1603, which embraced the prohibitory decrees
Archbishop Parker. The only legislation they baldcozil
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effect of those canons was the enactment of 1835.
which he (Lord F. E.) proposed wou,liellirstemuol h e the degrees of con.
remove
wished e twhieeeff
decotnofevtehrayt
statute, and would set forth in the
sanguinity and lineal affinity, •
should be his object to
as
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make those prohibitions
thought that by a c
of the stricteit justice, they would strengthen
careful consideratiO
'naves in a spirit
whichnrhich on every ground they %vett bound to support.
they wished to maintain—they would fortify that moral
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Re need hardly mention the state of the law in foreign countries English from Cabool, on the road to Jellalabad, and Dr. Bryan
reports having witneseed seyen.,officrs Iw/tottered., .yr - • • . -
on the subject. He believed that in most Christian communities
• The ladies, siiieen in number, were taken bad.
Cahoot by the
these marriages were allowed, but under various restrictions. • -
-A ifitilims. A_lrcirse fate than death awaits -them-1-- It is reported
The restrictions in the Protestant States of Germany were directed 1.
, that Major. Eldred Pottinger, and two or three other officers, have
chiefly arairnst" the crime of adultery; and" wiih *that avieW they- '
also escaped. . • ' I had invested the Sovereign Power with the authority of dispel' lion,• . • .
' We can have no further particulars for some days. Id, is not
with which in the Roman Catholic religion the Pope was in 'steel. Morning 1 I minutes after d I Evening - minutes aft
HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE4oI'HIS DA
I- stated how Dr. Bryan effected his escape; nor is there a whisper
Therneasure which he would propose would remedy all the rious it..llmflom''o-------•••------,
evils connected with the subject. He trusted that whatever ight
ofthe fate of Shah Soojah.
- ot, °;ea a dale. ° What is to be done to retrieve these disasters is a question easier
-be the decision of the House, justice would be done to the i erests , 'se, ' O- , i :10 i
asked than answered. Already about fourteen millions sterling
of society in all grades. He would conclude by moving fo leave t 1 I • uetiori4rcw..voi „..,..01
to bring Ina Bill to amend the Marriage Act of 1835. I '-'4l To have been expended in attempting to retain possession of a -country,
the gross annual revenues of which do not exceed the rent-roll of
Mr.. P. BORTHWICK seconded the motion.
The .SPEAKER having put the question,
" . • .., some of the English nobility—and in- creating a " friendly power"
on the N. W. frontiers of India.
• Sir. R.• H. INGLIS said, regretting as he did, that the bject I' ; I
had been introduced at all—(Hear, hear)—he doubly regrett that tronllZtuttoit (From the Bombay Times of Feb., l.) '
At the date of our last advice. three regiments„ whi were
it bad been introduced by one—he would say nothing f •tOs
attempting to march under Colonel M'lairin, from Candaha to its
-acquirementa or station, but whose character we
SUN OFFICE, Three o'ool* h.,.
telief, had been stopped by the snows westward of Ghuzni, and
sutßeient - to . give additional weight to - wha he
Compelled to return whence they ceme. . Ghuzni itself was Snowed
(Sir 8.. Inglis) believed to be evil. There was one cons latthlonot
----...-.:--- • up O its garrison contained but a single sepoy regiment. Sir R.
which he had in rising after his Noble Friend, and that wa t
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he already knew, and the House knew, not only that he
feud,t INDIA AND CHINA• :sale's brigade had left Cabool in the beginning of October, sod
1 s reached Jellalabad on the 12th NoveMber, and there they remain
posed te .hear with respect whatever fell from his Noble
the
t.4bject, ' cooped up and unable to move at peril of their existence:, The
and to imitate the calmness with which he had discussed l
but also that he (Sir R. Inglis)
IMPORTANT NEWS. ' beleaguered host could receive aid from no one; they cadre sur-
rounded by an enemy from 15,000 to 20,000 strong. Their Corn.
in any way whatever upon the matter. ...s.
was not influurcNeclobbley pFarriteynideelhina,gt
missariat, having almost at the first outbreak been destroyed, they
eoitfhehriswondiliadsuhree
said that he would not rely on the introduction
Lamentable, indeed, is the news brought by the
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were by the date at which the present narrative commencesj ill off
upon the theological merits of the question.
the land.flail • • • According letter .from for
f ._ from India. , to one I . clothing, and solely pinched for food. The force, besidds, was
(Sir R. Inglis) enter upon that subject, because he
. felt th' t
questions gent rally, -redivided. It consisted.. of nearly 6,000 men, one half in the Balla Hisser,
House, unfit as it was to entertain theological
Bombay', of the Ist ult. the whole of the British at ley in
or citadel, within the town, the other half in a fortified camp six miles
was still more unfired to discuss in detail acts relating to the scent
.Affgharus• tan, consisting of her Majesty's 44th regiment off, a deep mountain stream which they were never able to find in-
s. subject. He would follow the example of the Noble Lord, and no enter
tervened. By the 20th much annoyance and some apprehons:on
into any theological discussions. He evouldnot go into the con •dera. of foot, and detachmeuts of five- native regiments, to
tion of the question whether these marriages were prohibited y the
him (Slr R. Inglis) t state tile number of 5,400 men, besides camp followers, overt, began to be entertained of the effects of the effluvia of the heaps of
Wont of God or not. it was sufficient for unburied dead everywhere strewed around; about ten thousand
to havebeen cut
,to pieces. rcpoi ted
that they had the concurrent testimony that it had always ben the
conviction of -the Universal Church that those marriages which the sination of the brave Sir WM. MACNAGHTEN, o 4 the Elphinstone, threatening to add the horrors of pestilence to those of
Noble Lord now sought to legalise were not in the sight o'• that 25th of December, whose head was - cut off and famine- and the sword, as soon as a reiexing temperature should
Church -sanctioned or adopted. That was a position which he paraded on a pole through 'the streets of iCa stimulate putrefaction. An attempt was at this time made to sub.
thought Vie Noble Lord himself could not dispute. \Whether Merge the camp, by diverting a torrent from its course, and direct-
those marriages were or were not contrary to Scripture, cer- bool, and afterwards stuck -on the wall in. ing its waters against the entrenchments. Fortunately it was pre.
taro it, .was that they had never been sanctioned by the derision, the British trooPs, according- 'td''' this I ,ttee, vented ; a canal guided the stream harmlessiy away. In the; camp
Church. • . The Universal Church, for fifteen con uries,.• d to effect •-• teat.
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evacuated the city, an endeavoured it
had, decreed that such marriages were not expedient,
the o . tifirl. In the citadel both food and powder were nearly expended.
and he thought that where they found 'that such restric. Front lst • letters reported to be received onAi i'mry, On the 19th a convoy of ammunition was sent, to the Balla issar,
tions had been the universal practice of the. Universal Church, in Bombay, tinted from Jellalabad, the 7th of-tfan tary, under Colonel Oliver, of the sth Native Infantry, but the olonel
it must be held that such restrictions had originated in a con- it would appear that they evacuated Cabool on ilie,429th . having reached the Nullah, which runs between the Cabool
victim. on the part of the• Church that such ma gages ' -,! cantonments and the town, sent to report that the
,bridge was im-
ecember, and before reaching the fatal Khoord Cabool - . .
were contrary to • Scripture. The Noble Lord ha re- of P_practicable. An order, therefore, was sent. from head quitters,
ferred. to ...the Council of tneberis. Now, he (S R. -Pees, seventeen miles from the city, they were surroililecl. commanding the party to return ; and although, ere the order had
Inglis) ,Could refer to other authorities, but he- would epeat by the Whole insurgent army, amounting to about 2V,000 • reached, the party had actually crossed the Nullah, they retUrned,
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through- deep snow, and. with not- twenty rounOs''
his proposition, that there was no ingtauce of the Christian C uteri .
men. The British troops,perishing with hunger f and brought back the ammunition. On this day there was # fight
, es attiog .
In the town, the Kuzzilbashes having incensed Shah Zemaun's
authorising those marriages which it was sought to sanction y the • • , _
0- • party-by refusing to give up some persons on our side, to whom it
proposed law. When they-found these marriages were repo fated
alike by,the Church of Rome and the Church of England ; }when cartridges, fought bravely for three days, but in tht end - was alleged they had afforded protection. Ort the 20th it Was in-
they found that these two Churches, which differed in so many nearly the whole of them were slaughtered. One account timatedsto the Envoy that an immense bogy of Affghans intended
other points, agreed in refusing. to sanction these maraages,
states that, it .was a perfect .massacre- the unfortunate.. to surround the cantonments on the following day, and explode
he thought they might faille, conclude that there ,was -good, reason
aoldiers..wading through the deep snow being shot down ourt magazine with' red-hot shot. The
.powder was apcord.
log y removed the night, but. everything was tenet during
for presuming that- these marriages. were contrary to the s ill of
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like - .snipes. .An officer who escaped to Jellalabail ro- the next day; the enemy being employed in making powder
God. • ,Butit was not necessary to rest the question on thee( ound
ported that -he saw seven of his companions quolly ‘ and hammering shot Ott the 22d they again mustered on
that these marriages were contrary to the revealed will of God. He
(Sir Re Inglis) believed there were social, practical, and politi_ butchered
.by the Atighane; that he did not, think the heights, and Major Swayrie, of the sth N.L, wag sent
a man would escape alive ; and that sixteen ladies, in- with a party to occupy Dehmeru. As he marched :upon
cal rounds of objection sufficient to induce the House to ferrule
its gsanction to the proposed measure. The Noble Lorca had eluding --Lady MACNAGHTEN, all wives of British it, the enemy evacuated, but the place, for some unaccouhtable
stated ono cause of hardship of a husband who had been ddsired officers were made prisoners by the Affghatis,who after reascn, was not taken, and the enemy returning got.possession of
by his wife, on her death-bed, to confide her -children to the care being subjeeted to the most dreadful outrages, ltould it again." The cantonment had hitherto drawn their provisions
. of her sister, and to marry her. He (Sir R. Inglis) did notoletly. probably 'be offered as a ransom for DOST MAHOIED friem a village called Dehmeru, close by ; the guard protecting it
. that such a case might exist. But for one such, case of hardship. KHAN, the prisoner of the British Government in Te.dia. was a weak one; it wasoverpowered by a native chiefewith 1,000
he thought he might produce 49 cases of greater hardship, in +Web . followers, and the grain inentore and the village fell into his hands.
Such is the most gloomy news from India,-brought bty. The enemy had captured an old 18. pounder gun at Charekar on the
parties now received the sister of their deceased wife intoitheir
the Overland Mail.' Resting as it, does upon state Men s
houses as the best friend and assistant they could have in bringing 3dOwhen 800 Ghoorkas were cut to pieces 'by them. Having
up their children, and who were regarded by. them in thesame in native letters, there can be but little doubt that' it is - placed this on the height within long range of the cantonments,
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light in which they would their own sister.—(Hear, hear.) In the much exaggerated. The Bombay Government hat not they began to assemble in force, around it about the 22d, and to
records .of the Courts .of Law in modern times, he be- received despatches from Cabool of a- later date than annoy by their fire the troop!
_in camp. Their strength did
hewed there was only one instance of any alleged- im- the 25th of - December, at which time the army not at first seem to have been suspectectby us. They must have
• ~ , proper intercourse taking place between a husband ' and expected to hold out till the arrival of re-in- mustered above ten thousand. A light detachment sent
the sister of 'his wife? And why was this? Why, because there forcements from - Sir ROBERT SALE'S Camp; .at out' by General Elphinstone to attack them, bravely inshed
up the acclivity, but on attaining its summit'. found them-
was not one man of well-conditioned mind who did not regard his Jellalabad, - a distance of ninety miTs. The road-
selves surrounded and in danger ef being cut off They succeeded
wife's sister as he would his own.--(Cries of " Hear, hear," and 13 • e
tween Cabool and Jellalabad lies through a
" No, non He hoped that that denial did not mean to say that there
series of tremendous defiles covered with show, with difficulty in regaining the camp hotly pursued by the enemy.
A second and more. powerful body imnieeliately sallied out, and
was any man either in the House or in the country who regarded ,
and penetrated with difficulty, even when - there -is drove the enemy before' them, They suceeeded in reaching the
no foe t
the sitter ethic wife in any other light than his own ?—,-(Cheers.)
o contend with. To the pass of. Khoord.Cahool - crest of the hill and dispersing the insurgents posted there, but were
He considered that if he even limited his view to the single cm-
e is an almost perpendicular. ascent -of 1,100 • unable to capture the gun, which was withdiffieulty carried off' by
• sideratien which hie Noble Friend had adduced in introducin,l the ti
and not the enemy. The Ghilzies were dispersed with great slaughter,
measures he shoved sufficient grounds for his opposition. When. feet, the pass itself is .. six miles long,
face of a Bill what he considered a 'valid exceeding two hundred ' yards in the broadest -thirteen distinguished chiefs., having been reported as slain. On
ever he saw upon the
inchadd.(iTtei:leasl .. .
the same day the troops• iri the citadel were furiously attacked :
objection to it on principle, he always thought it his duty,at once to place. ' A river runs through it which
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oppose it, and to afford the House an opportunity of at once de- the road twenty-three-times, thus creating. we suspended our fire till the assailants . were eelose upoh us,
- ciding on the principle;, and in the present case. he thought there impediment •to the march of an army.
and full of steeppre- and then so murderous a volley of grape and musket
pouied in upon them, musketry was
was sufficient ground to refuse the motion of his Noble Friend, for around the pass is rugged, rocky, that whole avenues were cut. by the ar.
not only did -he propose .to.legalise the marriage with the sister a cipices, so as to be at all seasons neatly impassible her an tillery in the advancing masses. - A sortie, headed:ll the Vuz-
- a deceased wife, but he proposed to add a schedule of other '
mar army. _ Taking, therefore, 'all the difficulties of a zees and Prince Softer Jung, completed the aes.6ucticie the
rages which might be allowed.
- march .from Jellalabad .to Cabool- into consideration ;
• • storm of shot began; the slaughter was terrible
-;..the . the slain
' Lord F. EGERTON—Disallowed. lay in heaps; and it " went ill with the faithful everywhere that
Shr ROBERT INGLIS—That would amount to the same tiling ; reflecting,- too, upon the distressed, condition of the -day." The battle onboth sides had been bravely fought, nor
• for whatever was not included in the schedule would be so much troops in • Cabool, as. shown by Sir WILLIAM. could -we boast a bloodlehs victory. Colonel Oliver, captains
withdrawn from the prohibited degrees of kindred as established by MAcNAOHTEN'S consenting to treat about the evacuation Westmacott, Walker, and M'Kenzie, and Lieut. Laing fell; Colonel
the law of the Church of Rome, of the Church of England, and of of that city, we are forced to -admit the probability -of Mackrell afterwards died of his wounds; 30 other officer' were
the Greek Church. His Noble Friend had said that in relation to much of the terrible accounts supplied by the Alight-in wounded more or less severely. The enemy continuing undis.
correspondents of the Anglo-Indian journals. There
euetnthloisst timesight ito fwaats
tahiesceooymermedenetehtnatentCofapttabine
that subject Heaven was silent, but man had spoken,; but what se.
'to the
mayed, next day again attacked us, when a snow storm put an end
whot haAdbleo
were 10,000 British troops at Candaltar, but they could
. . Johristonfi,gh
curity would they have if they consented to his Noble Friend's Irma
sure that. the schedule itself would not require some alteration, and not reach Cabool for some weeks.
that in seven year's time they. would not have some pew law proposed
The murder of our ego-:.0 t Envoy
n- Sir WILLIAM insurrection iu the city, and was supposed to have escaped to Ge.
On the subject of marriage. And he would ask was the subject
in neral Elphinstone's
ntAC.NAGHTEN produced the' t•d
of marriage one of so little exciting a nature, that the House could
India. -Never did the Indian _lose a n • was. inferred he- must have 'perished: Accounts were also rea
renew that discussion of it every seven years ? He felt that there .
anti . . store ceived of the death of Dr.
of the Bill to atitho- valuable more universally beloved public servant. ineritO 1 o r. Grant, in medical charge at Kohistan, a
were sufficient grounds in the announcement r ous officer in the Bombay, service, • •
rise him to take the sense of the House on the subject ; and he The sad intelligence wag announced to the public by on the 25th Mahomed Ukhbar Khan, the favourite so
trusted that that sense would be expressed so effectually and so . a" General Order " of the Governor in Council, doted - Dost Mahomed, joined the insurgents. At first a
_hope waseteorf
clearly as to prevent a renewal of the discussion. —(Hear.) the 21st of January, which directed mourning to be Worn tabled that he had come on purpose to mediate in our favourwith
Mr. NIONCKTON MILNES regretted the intention of, the •by the officers of the Civil, Military, and Naval Services his
people; and to obtain such arrest, as might meet the exigencies
Right Hon. Baronet to take the sense of the House on the bringing ot. ,
the Presidency of Bombay, for a period of three week's. of bethparties. The belief in this was transient : it soon appear-
is of the Bill, not because he had not a just right to take the sense 'We have not space to-day for the -whole of General, ed that the presence of the prince added fresh vigour to the on
of the House on the principle of the Bill, but because this was a e e,
Sir ROBERT SALE'S Despatches from Jellalabad, but slaughts, and bitterness to the hate of the assailants, who were
very peculiar case, and it was but right that every Member of the . . recommended more than ever to prosecute the bloody work of ex.
the one to which we :have iven insertion 'roves
House should take the case into his thoughts and into his confide- , . g s termination against the " Feringhees." On the 28th we shelled
ration, and not decide till he bed maturely considered the subject, • how impossible it was foe that officer to attempt the village of Dehmeru from the cantonments, and compelled its
He demurred to the grounds assumed by the Right Hon. Baronet. a forced march upon Cabool. The Gallant General was abandonment; but shortly after this it again fell into
The Hon. Baronet . said that the decision of the Catholic- surrounded by enemies who hareassed him day, and the hands of the insurgents. 'A detachment of irregular cavalry,
Church . was clear. • He.. (Mr. M. Milnes) knew .all that night, nor could he depend upon the fidelity of a single while guarding our baggage camels, was attacked by a
had been -said on the subject of the canon law, but he also knew ally, from the moment his services appeared essential to force of some 1,000 or 1,500 horsemen ; after a severe action
that the canon law had always
,provided and permitted a system of the progress of our arms. • 'The 'Jaubazees, when ordered and gallant defence, they were compelled to retire. ' They had been
dispensation.—(Hear, hear.) But the canon law went further to, charge the enemy, deserted' to them, as did most of fearfully outnumbered, and suffered severely. On the 25th a
with regard to the prohibited degrees ; it prohibited the marines the Shah's troops, although in every attack our forces large body appeared on the heights, with the gun which they had
. , between second cousins, and to declare at once ,on this subject,taken, hoping to tempt us forth 'to its recapture, by . spreading re
were victorious. The Jaubazeeg before d - st.
, esei mg
that they would not legislate because the Church of England bad s ports that their horse hadgone out
to meet the brigade advancing
murdered their officer, Lietenant GOLDING, of the 2d .
chosen arbitrarily to limit the decrees of the . Catholic o, ,from Candahar. -The cavalry, it subsequently appeared, were con_
Church Regiment. .
Church .. in this matter, . without giving any right i'-' . . . , • coaled behind the footmen; but the ruse did not succeed. Several
of diepeessietion
.„, vow .. piece of gross tyranny, which Strong re-inforcetaents were, however, on their way. days passed without any fighting, the enemy threatening to attack
neither, Church'. nee,, Same ought to sanction. They ought from India. Our allies, the Sikhs, have granted us .n pas-. our cantonments, but not fillfilling theii threats. On the Ist Dec.,.
not to consider this question merely in relation, to 'their own feet.- sage through, their country. Colonel WILDef3 brigade ~however, they attacked the Ball. Hiss.,
Hiss, but were repuieed. On the
lags, or those of that class of society in which they habitually was at the 7th of ' December, at Khybur : Pass, waiting 4th, having planted some guns on commanding ground, they were
moved. No doubt, considering merely the habits of the upper the arrival of General PoLLOeli, who was to take the firing into the cantonments alt day. At nightfall they made a rush
' classes, any change in the law on this subject would be disagreeable.- command of the re-inforcements, consisting of her Mai es- for a fort, which we had captured early in the month, where
' But they should consider how the law operated upon the middle and ty's 9th Regiment, 26th Native Infantry, a Compauy of Lieutenant Cumberland, of the 44th, with 100 men, was sta.
lower classes.—( Hear, hear.) He thought that neither loyalty to
the 60th Native Infantry,. the recruits of her Alajezty powder bag at the wicket, but with no
's boned loded a
, and exp
the State, nor devotion to the Church, required that summary dis-
13th and 44th, the 10 Li ht Co mpany, a squadron of ir- effect. On the sth the enemy burnt the bridge across the Nullah,
missal of the question which it was the determination of his Hon. . between cantonments and the town, and on the 6th they succeeded
• regular cavalry, and a detail of artillery, with three 9- • •
Friend to propose.—(Hear, hear.) m recapturing the fort, wounding Ensign Gray, of the 44th, anti
ounders, and howitzer • .11 • -
Mr. HOPE would give his cordial support to the motion of the P a 24-pounder to reach Jellalabad the garrison offering' no resistance. On the Bth a convoy of am-
Hon. Member for Oxford. He had heard with great amazement before the advance of General Sir B. SALE upon Cabeol, munition was attacked on its way to the Balla Hisser, and forty
the speech of the Noble Lord tine Member for North Lincolnshire, and thus form a component part of the army destined horse loads fell into the enemy's hands. On the Bth December
who panegyrised persons who within 'the last seven years had to revenge the murder of the Envoy. - • an attempt to throw supplies into the citadel was unsuccessful, a
transgressed the laws of ,the State and of the Church.—(Hear, Amidst so many disasters we are happy to learn that' large portion of the ammunition having fallen into the enemy's
hear.) The prohibition of such marriages as the Noble Lord wished within the confines of our Indian 'territory tranquillity- hands. On the 9th there were only three days' provisions in
to legalise took place in the earilest days of Christianity, and ought happily prevails. - , • camp- at half rations. -At this time we were once More on
not to be abrogated for such rash, slight, and unsatisfactory notions From China the news is of the 4th of December. It treaty with the insurgents—the terms propoeed by them abating
of advantage as the Noble Lord had expressed.—(Hear, hear.) Be. nothing in extravagance. The insurgent chiefs seemed to have
was reported then at Macao that lIENne PorrisdEß
• sides the religious view of the question, the Noble Lord had 'di- . ,
vas returning to II r' '
ing ong eong preparatory t
rected attention to the social views. Now, a step-mother might, be '
signal --o. taking than 5,000 horsemen in the field, wellmounted and armed. The
vengeance
either a good one or a bad one.—(Roars of laughter). Notwall-infantry, though about double t. his in number, were indifferently
. . standing their laughter he would go on—(Renewed laughter)—and Ilis Excellency was reported to be much -displeased with appointed, • and not formidable as enemies. The troops, especially
if a man .married his wife's sister, she would 'be, to the -Major-General BR UNELI. and Captain loitAS for having in the Balla Hisser, began now to be pressed exceedingly for food.
' children 'of his sister, either a good step-mother or, a remained passive spectators of - the bad faith of the ' The particulars of their sufferings have reached us in scanty mea.
bad one.—(Renewed laughter.) If she were a kind woman she • Chinese. It is therefore not at all improbable that • sore and imperfect form. The chief part of the Commissariat fell
. woulti take care of the children, if she remained unmarried to their Canton is by this time (Mee more in' possession of our into the hands of the Ghilzies at the beginning, and the make-
S father • and was not wise to place her in a situation in *which she troops, and if so, it is not six millions of dollars, wrung- shift system of subsisterice, thus necessarily resorted to for mere
m aid be likely to have children who would be their rivals,— from Hong merchants, to be paid- as a tax on tea by than four weeks to supply a force amounting at the outset to
. ..
. (Laughter, and loud cries of "Hear, bean') He called upon the ourselvet,,- that will rank= it: .
' . House, net by a precipitate measure like the present, to put the Mist have so pinched them with hunger, that there is at
Church in danger, and to hazard the honour ef its clergy. If they BOMBA Y. , least nothing improbable in the rumour, that by the end of
~ granted this step, by and by they would Le called upon to sanction FEB. I.—The intelligence by the present mail Is the Most gloomy 1 NoveMber they were supported chiefly by the slaughter of their
the marriage of an uncle with his niece, and silo! tly afterwards a _ aunt disastrous that has ever been transmitted -to - Englai.d from . beasts ef • burden, and were living on horie.flesh. S.) extreme
brother with his sister. the shores of India. The consummate wisdom and prudence of were their necessities, that treaties- began to be . discussed, the
Mr. ,CHARLES BULLER wished that this question had been the advice given by the Duke of Wellington, the Marquis %Vela issue of which, under the most favourable,circumstances, must
a . brought forward at a time when the House might have had a , lesley, blontstuart Elphinstone; and others,' 'against the original have 'teen no better for them taan this-4hat they shoUld be 5uf-
...., greater opportunity of discussing it. The question was one' of expedition into Affghanistan, are now, alas ! too.vivielly apparent. 'roved "to march out with their baggage anti arms, to seek their way
e.„ great importance, and be trusted that the Hon. Baronet, the Cabool Isis fallen, the whole British force there, amounting to 'unprovided for (the Affghans themselves were pressed On support,
; hteuilier for Oxford, would postpone his opposition to a future stage about six thousand men, annihilated; one entire British regiment, and could have afforded them none) throUgh an uninterrupted
e, of the Bill.- lie thought it a Most inconvenient course to discuss series of 90 miles of pauses, the most difficult perhaps ii, the world,
the 44th, erased at one fell stabop from the army list, and five,
e , the question , now.—(Cries of "Go on, go on.") He wished to fall back on the post of Jellalabad, at that time but a shade
native regiments cut to pieces. The ladies of the Envoy and the
that HoMeraale. Gentlemen would consider the importanie.of better off than therreelves, and whose next 'Point of retreat was
officers, sixteen in number, have been carried into
arr captivity by tlre
eying Ahet due eeliberation to a question like (be.
. . ruthless Affghans. O
rrWilliam Macnighten, our Envoy at Cabool, ' • -
tOroueh the Keybur Pass to Peshawur, still 103 miles in their rear. •
, present, , beeriest .as it did upon all ° 'the Telaticins had been treacheroirsly assassinated by the son of Dost Malenued, '
Ile terms actually proposed by the insurgents, if correctly reported
i I life' 'II trusted that the House wouldallow •
.toof fhOee.a ..J. e the debate . to usaindicite how conscious they were that we were. utterly at
his head cut off, paraded -through the streets on a pole, and stuck adjourned, and for the purpose of taking the sense of the - their mercy. These were in "
effect,, that we.
in derision on the svelte of Cabool by ' ' •
the insurgents. • •should surrender
House on that.subjects he would make that motion.
The SPEAKER having put the question that the debate should ,to the 28th. of December, in the 'accompanying papers ; but'
1` married. officers and their wives were to be retained as hostages; and
be adjournetL - may -here briefly' recapitulate that the British force, venetian of returned to us only when we had
.got heyend Peshawur, and
Mi. PLUMPTRE horsed that the Hon. Member for Oxferd . Her Majesty's 44th Foot • • ' g 700 ` :nest Mahomed been restored to them. The Envoy's answer to
• would withdraw his opposition and take the discussion on the sth Regiment Bengal K. I. - •. . 90, • ... - this was,- that " death was preferable to dish-er:Air, that we trusted
- second reading. 37th ditto ditto ' • 700 :* .. to the -God of Battles, and that in 'his name we defied them
' Sir IL INGLIS could not agree to such a proposition. - 54th ditto ditto .
Mr. BORTH WICK hoped the House would ace the propriety Shah's Regiment - - . 7.50 -a- in our information. - The fighting appears to have continued with
.
'•••• orris motion of the Hon. and teamed Gentleman opposite for the Artillery , •
- adjournmerit, of the debate. . Sappers - . - ' , .
.
Dr,3'
NICHOLL believed that the law applicable to this case was sth Cavalry
• not the law of 1663, but the Statute law of the realm. Anderson's Horse
Sir R. PEEL, while he admitted that it was competent to the 2d Resales Local Horse...' 2OO place, where we were worsted, and suffered very severely'. Further
House to discuss the present question on a motion for leave to treaties seem to have followed this, as we find reference made in the
.
bring in a Bill, thought that, if the Bon Baronet had entered his 5,400 men, despatch of the 25th to terms which had before this been discussed.
prOtest against the introduction of the Bill, and taken the in two divisions—one half in the Bala-hissar, or citadel of Caren!, On Christmas-day the Envoy, attended by Captains Comity, Law_
discussion on the second . reading, that would have answered and the other half in an entrenched camp, six miles distant, Con- rence, Trevor, and M'Kenzie, having gone out, apparently at the
request .
of the insurgent Chiefs, to discuss the terms of a capcula.
every object lie had in view. He, for one, wished this not tinued beleaguered there by an enemy from 15,000 to 20,000
to be considered in the light of a political question. strong, from the 2d November, 'the date of the insurrec-
, , lion, an angry interview ensued it • appears ,probable thai the same
He thought it was due to the importance_ of the subject, that the lion, to the 28th December. The' Commissariat having been insolent terms previously rejected by the Envoy bred been pressed
discussion shoulet be full mei ample. Upon the whole, he thoueht destroyed at the very commencement' of the outbreak, our troops upon him in a manner more intolerably offensive than those for.
that the Course least subject to ebjection would be to adjourn tine were miserably ill-off for food, clothing, and ammunition, and were merlY employed' He appears to have treated them with scorn ;
debate, althOugh at the same time he must express his willingness obliged to subsist upoii horseflesh end such other food as they could high words ensued, when Sir William Macnagliten was shot
to take that debate on the second reading. ,
- : procure. No assistance could be alaorded them. There are only dead on the spot, it is believed, by the hand of Ukhbar Khan,
, .
,
Mr. CHA HMO'S" BULLER wished to know .to what day it was two roads into that impracticable country, one by Candahar and Captain Trevor, having drawn his sword, and rushed on the sour-
tine intention of the Right Hon. Baronet to adjourn the debate. ' Ghuznee. from the south; and the other from the eastward, by Jella- derer, was immediately cut to pieces, and there is too much reason
Sir R. PEEL said that it was diffit ult for him to mention a dayn Jabod and the- KhoOrd - Cahoot pass, almost impracticable at any to fear 'that at least two of the remaining three officers have also
it was his intention to-morrow to bring forward the Corn-laws, season, but now blocked up with snow. A brigade under Colonel perished: The charge of' the mission now devolved on Major
Thursday he had- no control over, and on Friday he should. bring. Eldred Pottinger ; the much-co•Teted Envoyship, with a salary su-
M'Laren, which attempted to' resell Ghusnee from Candahar, for
forward the area*, question of which he had given notice. . . . . the relief of Cahoot; was obliged to fall back, from the severity of perioT to the income of the Governors of Madras or Bombay, with
After a shorrieliscuesion the. ebate wain adjourned to Wednesday the weather, the passes being completely blocked up with snow. 'an amount -of power scarcely exceeded b .the
3 Governor-General
next (this olay week).,.
~, . , General Sales' brigade was cooped up` in Jellalabad, badly off' for of. India, fell to the lot of a Lieutenant of the Bombay artillery
PETTY SESSIONS BILL. • supplies, and unable to move In any • direction. No relief, Major only by Brevet—a circumstance telling 'fearfully
Mr. BANKES said, in moving for, leave to bring in a Bill to
.therefore, of the
could be afforded to cur troops'
at Cabool'. slaughter of our political.. Nor did it lapse into unworthy
make further provision for the holding of Special Petty Sessions, During the months of November and December, there appears to hands. Herat had before been defended successfully by Pol-
and for providing that: in certain cases, where persons accused shall have been frequent skirmishing between our troops and the enemy, Unger single.handed, so far as British officera' were
concerned
voluntarily desire to plead guilty, it shall be competent to the Ma- and but for the severe cold there would have been a pestilence He had now a inure responsible and much more dila Concerned-
voluntarily
gistrates at such Sessions to award the sentence of the law, for the from the putrefaction of so many unburied corpset, which lay ft s. ' duty to perform. The first act of his authority was t
purpose of shortening the periods of imprisonment before trial, and tering round the city. Our troops, as well as the enemy, were at forward the despatch announcing that "the comedy, or rather tit;
of preventing unnecessary expense to the public and inconvenience length reduced to such extremities that overtures for terms of acs tragedy of errors, was at an end." The terms partially acme-led to
to witnesses, he should move the second reading of' tine Bill commodation were at length mutually agreed to be discussed, and by Sir Win.. Macnaghten were yet to be accepted, if conceded by a
early in May, in order that the Bill might be inspected by the Mae on the 25th of December, Sir W. Macnaghten, with several offi. army perishing of hunger. They were to move fbr Jellalabadn
through the fearful passes of Khoord with
gistrates of the country. - ' cers, were invited to- a conference with Mahomed Akbar Khan, the lion .Cabool, the determine.
Mr. HARDY seconded the motion, and after a few wordsof Dost Of h edand other chiefs, at which dishonourable son aom ,
from Mr. Ctiwries and Sir EARDLILY WILMOT, terms were proposed by the latter, viz.,-that we should surrender tack on the cantonments was announced to have commenced before
The SPEAKER, having suggested an alteration in. the Motion, our a; •
arms, and evacuate the country altogether; that the mariied
. .. . the despatch was closed, an evil augury of what was to follow,
leave was given to bring in the Bill. A private letter of the 28th announces that the genii h
- officers. and their wives should be retained as hostages, and re. on had not at
Mr. GREENE brought up the Report of the
Committee
of turned to us only when we got beyond Peshawar, and Dost ala. that time left, but were about to move
. immediately,. This is the
Supply; and theSvotes were agreed to latest authentic date we possess. The native rumours,• •
homed was returned to them. " When terms dishonourable to the which
. MUTINY BILL usually by several days anticipate the arrival of regular been' •
Sir H. ll.katlatNGE brought •in the Mutiny - .
British arms were proposed by the leaders of the insurrection at intelligence,
state that the force has quitted, and been in a gieat measure de.
read a first bine: . . e Cabool, his Excellency heroically replied, that 'death was prefer-
strayed. Other accounts mention that they have obtained fresh
The other Orders of the day wore then disposed of, • able to dishonour; that we put our trust in the God of battles, ra.d
supplies, and can stand out a month longer. The latter ' unfortu-
HouSe adjourned at One o'Clock. and t1;10 in his name.we defy our enemies.' "
- • - nately is Improbable. In a month from the 28th Dec., it would be
' possible for the Bengal brigade to reach them ,were the. passes clear
of snow. Their only chance lies in this. How fearful has been the
havoc during these miserable wars amongst the very flower of the
intellectual risen of our service ! Eight political agents have
perished violently, amongst those whose affairs they had been ap-
pointed to arrange. Young Edward Conolly, brother ofthe travel-
ler, was shot through the head by the side of Sir Robert Sale,
29th Sept. 1840. Dr. Lord fell at Purwan Durrah, Nov. 2
Rattray, his-succsesor, and Dr. Grant, his assistant and friend,
were killed in Kohistan on the outbreak of the present insurrec-
tion. Sir William Macnaghten, Sir Alexander Burnes, Captain
John Conolly (not the traveller, he is at Khiva), Capt. Broadfoot,
and Lieut. Burnes have become victims at Cabool.
The list which we gave in our last of the officers captured,
wounded, or slain in or near Cabool, betwixt the 2d and 17th of
i November, to which our former dates extended, we find to have
been an irnperfeet one. We stated that eleven had fallen within
this brief but disastrous period—there in fact appear to have been
16p. The names of Ca tains Tr ' '
Hatighton and Rattray were
omitted In our abstract ; those evor,
of Capts. Johnston and Troup, and
Dr. Grant had not been been rece •
Casualties between the received.
under Sir R. 28th October, of the force
Sale,
on
their march through, the Khoord Cabool Pass
to GundanteCk :--

THE WEATHER.—NOON, MARCH 9.
ROYAL GALLERY OF SCIENCE, ADELAIDE-STREET.
Thermometer... 41) Highest 54 Lowest ....... 34
.I.laratr.ater-429.58.--Wintl4.-VA—Freezing-Point

" I've buried my friend," as the undertaker said
when he buried the quauldoctor. •
The Tories are about to try, on a small scale, nn
experiment which, when attempted by the Whigs, was d: -
nouneed as a virtual revival of the Slave-trade. Her Majesty's
Government have determined to allow a free emigration of
Hill Coolies and other labourers to the Mauritius. Our own
people leave our shores in thousands, and no man troubles him-
self farther as to their whereabout. • The only object is to
get them away, and then, since they can no longer increase
the public burdens, they may sink or swim. The miserable
black challenges no emotion of pity or kindly feeling in
America: all commiseration is reserved exclusively for-6' the
sons of the pale faces." In England, to preserve the balance of
humanity, the white is scarcely considered, while the negro
has universal regard. Let it be known, that a tribe tinged
with the.hue of the torrid zone is likely to suffer wrong, and
straight the milk of human kindness flow* abundantly ; while
white paupers may be shipped away by thousands, to be set
sloWn amongst swamps, sandbeds, kangaroos, tigers, or an-
throPoPhagz•

Such .is a brief outline of events, as authentically known here tip
:o csterclay.

For the last three days, however, native reports have been cur-
rent of the entire destruction of our force at Cabool. These re-
ports, which generally reach us from six to eight days before au.
thentic accounts are received, have hitherto invariably been fouhd
to be correct in the main.
You will remember that the accounts of the first outbreak in
Cabool, arid the death of Sir A. Burnes, transmitted to you two
months ago by the mail of the Ist of December, were not, at first,
believed here. Eight days afterwards, however, they were fully
confirmed. The death of Sir W. Macnaghten was reported here
amongst the natives six days before accounts were received;
and so on in numerous other instances, the wholes of
which have ultimately turned out in the main to be
oorrect. This morning, however, accounts have been re.
ceived from Jellalabad to the 7th of January, two
days later than the previous advises. At that time a Dr. Bryan,
or some such name, had reached Jellalabad, having had a miracul-
ous escape, and one of the few survivors of the whole Cabool army.
A hurried despatch seems to have been sent oft' immediately on
his arrival, from which it appears that the force must havemarched
out of Cahoot about the 29th of December. They had three hard
days' fighting in the fatal Khoord Kabool Pass, seventeen miles

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THE SUN, LONDON, W_WNESDAY EVENINCr. MARCH 9, 1842.

Killed.—Capt. Wyndham, 35th B. N. 1., Lieut. Jenkins ditto;
EnsigtrKing; her ,Dl4€l4l.llth'4. 1-.7 • -,T ;
Wotinded.-:-Maj6r.:'Geri. Sir R.'Sale, commanding ; Cafit:!Wadea
-staff; LtrUt: Mein; ber-Mare'sty's 13th L I.; Lkut. Oakes, ditto,;
Lieut. Frerd, dittO ; Lieut. Jennings, ditto; Lieut. Ilolc,imbe; ditto ;
Lieut. Rattray, ditto ;• Capt. Younghusbatid, 35th B. N. 1. ; Lieut.
Coombs, dittli; Lieut. Orr, sappers and miners.
Capt. J. 0. Gerard, Ist B. E. L. 1., wounded on retreat from
Gundamuck to Jellalabad.
Capt, J. Woodburn, 44th B. N. 1., S.S. F., killed near Gbuznee
3d November.

Between the 3d and 17th November, at .Caboo!
Killed.—Sir A. -Burnes, Bombay, N. 1., political resident;
Lieut. Burnes; ditto, political 'agent, Ghuznee ; Captain Swayne,
KM., 44th ;regiment ; Captain Robinson, ditto; Lieut. Itaban,
4
ditto; Captain Maule, artillery; Lieuts. H. M. Wheeler, 45th
8.N.1., E. W. Salisbury, Ist 8.E.L.1., W. Broadfoot,'ditto, Shah's
force9t ; Ensign T. W. Gardon, 37th B. N.l. ; Lieut. C. Codrington,
h 8.N.1. ; Lieut. C. Rattray, 20th B. N.I.
Wounded—Captain Bott, sth Bengal cavalry; Lieut.• Eyre,
B. artillery ; Lieut. 'Evans, her Majesty's 44th foot ; aptain
Mackenzie, pay department; Lieut. Sturt, B. engineers; Lieut.
Waller, B. artillery ; Lieut. Warburton, B. artillery.
Between the 17th Nov. and 25th Dec., at Cabool
Killed—Col. Oliver, sth 8.N.1.; Captain Mackintosh, ditto;
Captain Laing, 37th ditto; Captain Walker, ditto ; Col. Mackrell,
her Majesty's Capt Westmacott, 37th 8.N.1.
On t
Killed.—Sir Wm. Hay Macnaghten, Envoy; Capt. Trevor, 3d
Bengal cavalry._
iesie t2ys's t4h4Dthee foot; Capt
Cabool

Lieut. Hamilton, sth cavalry; Captains C. Troup, 48th 8.N.1.,
and 11. Johnson, 26th 8.N.1., reported killed, uncertain, though
they are missing.

Major Eldred Pottinger and Lieut. Houghton, 31st 8.N.1.
wounded.

hoop, ;nailer.a;yorted,,l2rs14rs. ,Sytel, per cwt.—Swe-
dish lieg-and Swedislifagot, }qrs. :,fiead, per cwt.—Pig,
,
120,. to 12iis.;....iheet;_14Ars. ; red, Ors: ;- white; 12rs.; patent'
shot,.ll rs_to 12rs. • ;Pin rlatcs, per box,. 16r5..t0 16irs.
StOres—Canvas, bleached,- 16rs.; Cordage, per cwt., 25rs.- Twine,
per lb.. 8 annas. Prol;kions, p,r tierce—Prime Beef and Pork,
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Tar, Stockholm and Coal, per cwt., lire. Cotton Yarn--Mule
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60,.101; 70, 101; 80 to 100, 11 to 13 rs. Ale and Beer—Ale,
per hhd, Allsopii's, Bass's, Tennant's', 'Hodgson's, others, nominal.
Castor Oil, 21 to 21 per 284 Colombo roots, 6to 7 per cwt,
Senna,leaves, 6to 61 per cwt. Sago, 7-per cwt. Safflower, st.
new, 3to 4. Gums-(garbled), per 'cwt.—ammoniac, none; 'animl,
50; arable, 18 to 191 ; asafetida, -,15 to 16 ; benjamin, first per
st., md. 25 to 25.; second, per at. md., 15 to 20; myrrh, per cwt.,
85 to 90 ; olibanum, 84 to 88 ; gamboge, 100 to 110 ; tumerlc,
per cwt., 8 to 10 rs. .

•
SPICES, &c.—Cassia Lignea, per lb., 110 to 112 rs. Cardamoms,
rnd., 3711 b. ; short, 42 rupees ; long Malabar, 39 to 31 rupees.
Cloves, per md., 41.061 b; Bourbourn, 25 to 28 rupees, none.
Cubebs, per ditto, Bto 9 rupees. • Nntinegs, per lb., rupee.
Mace, per ditto, l to 21 rupees. Silk,.per seer, 1 8661 b. China
nankin, none. Canton, No. I, II to 12 rupees; No. 2, 10 tol4
rupees ; No. 3,9 to 10 rupeek; No. 4, 6 rupees; No. 5,2 to 2i
rupees. Persian, 9rs. to lOrs. Bengal, Radnagore, 9rs. to
10rs• ; Low qualities. 2frs. to 6rs.

In the hands of the enemy.—Capt. Drummond ; Lieut. J. B.
Conolly, 20th 8.N.1. ; Lieut. Lawrence, Bengal cavalry, officiating
Military Secretary to Envoy; Capt. Sir A. Mackenzie, 48th 8.N.1.;
Ensign Rose, 54th 8.N.1.

SUGAR.— China,:per md. 38i1b., white superfine, sirs.to:slrs.; 2d
sort, airs. to 4rs. Manilla, fine, none, Bengal, per bag 1681 h.—
Fine, 20rs. to 2lrs.; 2d sort, l2rs. to 17rs.; 3d sort, lOrs. to Hrs.
Siam, per md. ; 2d sort, 4rs.
&c.—Madeira, L.P., per pipe, 150 rs. to 500 rs. ; Sherry,
per but, 15Ors. to 300 rs. ; ditto, per dozen, 6rs. to 18rs. Brandy,
per gallon, Jars. Gin, per gallon, ir. to lit's. Bottles, quart,
per dozen, 10 to 14rs., pint, 14rs. to 15rs.
SUNDRIES, per lb.—Cochineal, 2to 2irs. Gunpowder,. to
Dams, good Yorkshire, to irs. Cheese, Pine, to frs.
_Saffron, 17 to Hrs. Corks, per gross, li to 2jra.
Freight.—London, 21. 155.; Liverpool, 21. 15s. ; Clyde, N.
ship; ( hina, 18 to ,lOrs.; ditto, opium, 4i to 5 dollars : clipper,
6 to 6i dollars.
Ex, hanges—London, 6 months, 2s. op. to 2s. aid.; 30 days,.
Is. 111 d. Calcutta, 30. days, ins. Madras, 30 days, 98is. • Can-
ton, 30 days.

Capt. Golding, commanding Janbaz corps, murdered by his men
at Candahar; and Lieut. Patterson, severely wounded.

CALCUTTA.
NOTIFICATION. •
Fort William, Secret Department, Dec. 24, 1841.
The Right lion. the Governor-General of India in Council has
great satisfaction in publishing for general information the fol-
lowing copies of despatches from Major. General Sir Robert Sale,
K.C.8., the first dated the 18th ult., detailing the circumstances
attending the march of the force under his command from Ounda.
muck to Jellalabad, and of a most successful attack made upon the
rebels before the latter place on the 14th ult. ; the second, dated
the 2d inst., reporting the brilliant success of a detachment from
the force collected at Jellalabad in routing, on the preceding day, a
large body of insurgents at that place.
By order of the Right lion. the Governor-General of India in
Council,
T. H. MADDOCK,
Secretary to the Government of India.
FROM MAJOR-GENERAL SIR R. SALE, K.C.11., COMMANDING AT JEL-
LALARAD, TO MAJOR P. CRAICIE, ACTING •DJUTANT.GENERAL
OF TUE ARMY, DATE JELLALABAD, NOY. 18, 1841.
Sir,—The troops under my command reached this city on the
12th inst. It illustrates in a painful manner the excitement of
the mind of the people against us at this period, to relate that my
decamping from Gundamuck on the 11 th was the signal for the
commencement of a scene of shameful defection amongst the irre.
gular troops, and a general insurrection of the surrounding
Kheits, which had before remained quiescent. Brevet Captain
Gerard, of Captain Ferris's corps of Jezailchees, had been in-
trusted with the duty of holding the Fort of the Urz Begee.
The engineers blew up, under my instructicns, two
of its bastions, and though an accidental fire prevented the demoli-
tion of the other two, the ruin of the place was nearly effected by
the conflagration. But as the irregulars retired towards the eau-
tonment of Gundamuck, they were attacked by the Ooloose of the
Mamoo Kheil, who had before been so submissive. In this mo-
ment of need the. Jezailchees behaved admirably, but Captain
Gerard found himself deserted by the whole of the Janbazes,i who,
secured by their native Commandant, Noorooddeen, a traitor fos-
tered in the Shah's family at Loddianab, went over to the enemy
almost at the same moment. Captain Burns's corps of Khyberees
showed symptoms of disaffection, and though a portion of them were
kept around their colours, it was soon seen that a retreat from Gu 'lda
muck, which the Ooloose of the whole country were attacking,
had become inevitable. The cantonment was plundered by the
mutineers, Who, in their breathless haste to destroy it, blew up its
magazine and many of themselves with it.. Captain Burns's two
field-pieces were spiked and abandoned near Alee Murder] Khan's
bridge, and three hours after nightfall the debris of the irregulars
came in full and disorderly retreat into my camp at Futtihabad.
My own line of march on the lith was no otherwise interrupted
than by the attacks of bodies of phOderers on the baggage, who
received signal punishment from our precautionary parties; but
as the camp . broke up on the 12th, from 2,000 to 3,000
armed men began to close round our troops and loaded ani-
mals, and these were joined by the whole population successively
on the line of march. Lieut.. Colonel Dennie commanded the
rear-guard. He retired slowly before the enemy, repelling him
by skirmishers and cannon as long as the ground continued abrupt
and rugged. But on approaching the plains he commenced to
manoeuvre, with the view of drawing, them into an action on the
level ; their boldness favoured his stratagem, and foreseeing this
result, I had despatched the Rissalah of the Schah's horse to rein.
force him. At length the desired moment arrived, and the Lieu..
tenant-Colonel directed Captain Oldfield. of the sth Light Cavalry,
and Lieutenant Alayne, of the Schah's 2d, to make a combined
charge against the Ooloose. This was executed with great rapidity
and resolution, and in very compact order, and in a few minutes
upwards of 100 of the Affghan matchlockrnen were sabred and shot,
and the rest driven in irremediable, confusion to the heights. It
wimaseertained on the spot that the Ooloose had left in the course
of the whole affair 150 dead on the field, and the proportion of
their wounded must have been heavy. After this salutary lesson
their efforts to annoy our column on their route up to the walls of
this place were cautious and feeble.
The defences of Jellalabad consist of a mud enceinte of upwards
of 2,000 yards of weak curtains and round towers which have a
narrow rampart, of no sufficient parapet. On the northern face
the profile is less bold than elsewhere, and there was exoallent cover
for an enemy within pisiol shot. On the evening of the I2th our
infantry occupied the gates and the ill-constructed citadel, whilst
the artillery and cavalry were dispersed to the enclosures adjacent
to the residences of the King, and Envoy, and Minister, without
the walls. On the morning of the 13th some regular occupation
was taken of the place: Troops were posted in the whole of its
bastions. The two infantry corps were established in
the citadel, the artillery on an open space in front of it,
and the Cavalry, In the Schah's garden. Abont 250 of the
Khyberees had regturned steadily to their allegiance,the Jezailchees
were emulating tbs. regular battalions in zeal and courage, and un-
remitting efforts were made, by plying our intrenching tools, and
the substitution of camel saddles for sand bags, to put the town
into a state of decent defence. In the meantime the enemy in
great force had assembled under the v.alls to the southward and
westward, whilst other masses came down from the direc-
tion of Sughman, crossed the river, and invested us closely
to the northward, detaching parties to set fire to the
cantonment raised at, so great an expense in 1840. It
had been in part biunt down the night before, and was
now involved in a general conflagration. The enemy,
masked by trees and old buildings, kept up an incessant fire of
musketry against the walls, at a very short range, for upwards of
24 hours, by which our men sustained some loss behind their grow-
ing defences; and, as it was desirable to diminish the consumption
of provisions within the city, and there was reason to apprehend
that the armed inhabitanti would join in any attack made on us
from without, I adopted the measures, first of permitting the wo-
men and children to withdraw, next of excluding all strangers and
suspicious persons, and finally of getting rid, as far as it was prac-
ticable, of the whole male Copulation, excepting the shopkeepers,
whose stay was valuable to us,
On the morning of Sunday, the 14th, I determined to attempt to
dislodge the enemy from a part of their position. I planted for
this purpose a force consisting of 300 men of the 13th, 300 of the
35th, 100 Sappers, three guns of Captain Abbott's battery, the
whole of the cavalry, and 200 Khyberees, at the disposal of Lieut.-
Colonel Monteath, C. 13., and directed him to sally from the town
and assail that part of the enemy's line from which I was most
desirous of expelling them. I beg to forward his report of the very
gallant affair which followed,and which I had the satisfaction of wit-
nessing from the walls. This spirited attack upon not fewer than 5,000
men has;wholly broken up the enemy's investment, and we have from
that hour scarcely seen an armed Affghan in our neighbourhood.
We have availed ourselves of this pause to put the walls into a
state of defence, which will, I trait, enable us to defy the efforts
siege artillery, and are Using every
of arty
exertionA stoiatsitcorfoorocrerruin naaigdaed by
ys
with grain from the adjacent vil.
lages. I enclose reports from Lieutenant-Colonel Dennie and Cap.
tails Oldfield, and casualty returns from the 1 lth to the 14th inst
inclusive. I have, &c.
IL SALE, Major-General, commanding Jellalabad.
P. CR A IGlE,Deputy-Adjutant-General.

Prices of Bullion—Sovereigns, each, 10-13 rs. to 10-15 rs. Bank
of England Notes, per X, 10.13r5. to 10.15r5. Spanish dollars,
per 100, 220 to 220irs. German Crown, per 100, 214 rs. to 215 rs.
Syce Silver, per 100 tola, 103irs. Gold Leaf, per tola, 16irs.
Government Securities—Five per Cent. Transfer Loan, 108 to
109. Second Five per Cent. Loan, par to I per cent. premium.
Four per Cent. Loan, 89. dank Shares, 23 per cent. premium.

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The following.: sutEhesoElß:iaAlLanDnoEZeitnTlenmtEoNf
T7e murder of Sir
William Macnaghten:—
•
" Bombay Castle, Jan. 21, 1842.
" GENERAL ORDERS By THE.HON. THE GOVERNOR