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THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY MORNING, DEC 1-41M1314111 261 1842,

Runjeet, in 1838, he was compelled to attend at the
Lahore Durbar to swell that monarch's train. The
Scindians threw off the yoke during the absence of
any power to compel their tribute. The King of
Bokhara possessed himself of Balk, and several wilder
and more distant districts maintained entire inde-
pendence. Shere Dil and his brothers maintained a
separate government at Candahar ; and Herat, though
deprived of its most valuable adjacent provinces, re-
mained in the hands of Mahmood, and consequently
of his son Kamran. During this convulsion, the
puppet king, Eyoob, fled from Caubul to Lahore,
where he remained a pensioner until his death.
The only one of the Barukzye brothers who has
exhibited any talent for governing, since the death of
Azeem Khan, is Dost Mahomed ; his rule was tolerably
equitable, and his provinces in the best order of any in
the country; and although, on assuming the autho-
rity of the Sirdarship, his position was a difficult and
precarious one, he managed by degrees to consolidate
his power and add to the extent of his possessions.
' Re made himself securely master of Ghuznee and
Jellalabad, to the governments of which he appointed
his brothers, Atneen Khan and Jubbar Khan. On
the death of the former, be bestowed the situation on
his own son, Ryder Khan. His eldest son, Meer
Ufzal Khan held the government of the adjoint dis-
tricts of Zoormut ; Azeem Khan had charge of
I3amean and the Hezarah country ; and a son of
Ameer Khan had that of the Kohiatan. Jubbar
Khan subsequently returned to Caubul, and Dost
Mahomed appointed his favourite son, Mahomed
Xkbar Khan, who has since become so fatally known
to the European community, to the government of
Jellalabad, and constituted him chief of the Ghilzies.
Attached to Sultan Mahomed's Government at Pesha-
wur, were two others of his family, his own uterine
i)rothers, Peer Mohamed Khan and Saeed Mahomed
Khan, who were entrusted with the petty govern-
ments of Hushtnuggur and Kohat, dependent on
Peshawur.

At Candahar the tyranny and exactions of the dif-
ferent brothers had reduced the country to the lowest
possible ebb of poverty and misery. The chief pos-
iessions attached to the province were the Barukzye
patrimony of Grishk, and the province of Zeminde-
. war. They were engaged in constant hostilities with
Mahmood and Kamran at Herat, and frequently
ander apprehensions of Persian invasion. It was
only on such occasions that anything like family re-
gard or relations was exhibited between them and
cheir brother at Caubul, who, although separated by
counter interests and jealousies, always declared his
readiness to assist them against any foreign invasion;
md in 1834, when Candahar was invaded by Shah
Soojah, and they were besieged in the city, Dost
Mahomed, although threatened on his own frontier
by the Seiks, hastened with a force to their assistance,
and saved Candahar by defeating Shah Soojah.
The number of the Candahar Sirdars was finally
reduced to Rehim Dil, Kohun Dil, and Meer Dil, who,
on the capture of Candahar by the British troops in
1839, sought refuge at the Court of Persia, where
they have since remained.
Having brought this memoir up to the date of our
invasion, and described the state of affairs at that pe-
riod, it is unnecessary to follow out the detail of
events that followed that occurrence; suffice it to al-
lude to the capture of Ghuznee, the flight of Dost
Afahomed from Argundah, the occupation of Caubul,
Ale victory over the Ameer at Bameean, supported by
the Wullee of Kooloom, and his surrender after the
affair at Purwundarrah% since which period he has
been in honourable captivity in llindostan, rendered
lately more constrained owinc, to the state of affairs
at Caubul. Mahomed Akbar Khan, his favourite son,
has lately earned a name of infamy by his assassina-
tion of the British Envoy, and the share he bore in
the treacherous destruction of our force last winter,
that bids fair to be handed down with execration to
posterity.
He is now a wretched fugitive in the Kohistan,
with every probability of being brought to the felon's
death he so richly merits.

GREAT FAILURES AT YORK AND
WAKEFIELD.
(From the York .Herald of Saturday.)
STOPPAGE OF THE YORKSHIRE AGRI-
CULTURAL BANK.
We regret to state that this Banking Company sus.
,pended payment yesterday (Friday).
There is not any possibility of stating at present the
cause of this lamentable event ; nor can we form any
opinion as to the probability of the Bank ever again
resuming payment.
As this establishment has had branch banks at Brid-
lington, Driffield, Hull, Leeds, Malton, Market-
Weighton, Pickering, Pocklington, Tadcaster, Whitby,
&c., we fear that its suspension will be seriously felt
throughout the country.
. GREAT FAILURE AT WAKEFIELD.
We lament to state that Mr. Dunn, the great corn
'dealer, at Wakefield, has failed. The liabilities are
said to be about 300,0001. This will be seriously
felt by thousands.

EFFECTS of the SLIDING-SCALE.
(From the Leeds Mercury of Saturday.)
The sliding-scale is slaying its hecatombs, and
piling them upon the altars of monopoly. Tempted
beyond the power of most men to resist by the pros-
pect of large gains to be suddenly realised on the
opening of the ports, the corn merchants of England
imported two millions and a-half quarters of wheat
this 3,ear. If the harvest had been like those of the
previous four years the supply would have been abso-
lutely necessary to avert scarcity, and the importers
would, perhaps, have made fortunes by their specu-
lations. The sliding scale induced them to col-
lect the greater part of this grain against one
Particular week, namely, the week of the open-
taoh t thteheygrain wouldas i t
not
open-
ing of the ports ; but for that scale, they would
have
llbu events
a n ted,
washav we
eagerly
brought every bushel they could lay their hands
on,
to be ready for introduction at ujition at the lowest duty : the
sliding-scale offered
tune, if they were in timme,a
wpitrett,heperhap
prospects' for-
eof ere penalty f they were too late. Thearticular
Week arrived ; the flood-gates were opened ; but the
corn came to a declining market, and the large im-
port greatly accelerated the fall of price. n the
week ending the 16th July the average price of
wheat was published at 655. Bd. By the week end.
ing the sth of November an average price is pub-
lished of 48s. 7d. After having paid Bs. per quarter
duty, and perhaps as much for expenses, that is, 16s.
per quarter in the whole, the importer has to bring
his commodity to a market which has fallen 17s. ld.
per quarter, or about 26 per cent. in three months
and a half! What can be expected but wholesale de-
struction ? And this is just what has happened.
Failures to a very large amount took place in the
corn trade in London within two months after the
opening of the ports. In various parts of England,
and also in the principal corn-exporting places of the
Baltic, similar disasters have occurred. And within
the last fortnight two great houses in the trade at
Wakefield, Messrs. Fernandes and Messrs. R. Dunn
and Son, whose liabilities are exceedingly heavy, have
failed, drawing down several other houses with them.
One house is likely to stop (if it have not already
stopped), which a short time since entered the busi-
ness with an unfetterred capital of 20,0001. Of course
the losses must be exceedingly great to the corn mer-
chants generally, though happily in the majority of
cases they are not ruinous. It is the less prudent
houses which get ensnared; but the law presents so
great a temptation, and so suddenly entraps its vic-
tims, that the sliding-scale ought to be symbolised by
an enormous Trap. And we say it is an infamous
shame, that these Man Traps should be laid by Par-
liament in the very highway of lawful and necessary
commerce. Among the merchants of London, and
throughout the country, the opinion against the
Sliding Trap has become almost, if not quite, uni-
versal ; and we apprehend the ranks of the Corn-law
repealers will have been materially swelled by the ex-
perience of the last three months.

brother, Summud Khan, expiring a few days before
lhim. On his deathbed, he bequeathed all his trea-
sures to his son, Hubeeb Oolah Khan, amounting to
about three crores of rupees, and charged him to
wipe off the stain on his parent's memory, and to
carry fire and sword into the Punjaub. His death
was the signal for a scene of family contention:
Wheu Hubeeb Oolah would have assumed his po-
sition as heir to his father, Dost Mahomed resisted
him, declaring that he himself won the Sirdarship of
Caubul, and that though he had been induced to re-
sign it to his elder brother, it now reverted to him by
right ; and he raised a strong party to support his
claim. For some days Caubul was an arena of strife
between the uncle and nephew, but the talent of the
former preponderated over the wealth of the latter.
Shere Dil Khan, anxious to try his own chance of
ultimately gaining the ascendant, accepted an invita-
tion from Hubeeb Oolah to come to his assistance,
but seeing how affairs stood, he privately made party
with his brother, Dost Mohomed, treacherously per-
suaded the nephew to have an interview with the
latter, with the view to a compromise, during which
he was seized and imprisoned.
Shere Dil and Dosc Mohamed now came to issue
regarding their prize, and fought in the streets of
Caubul for several days running. At last several
others of the brothers having arrived, they were in-
duced to come to terms. Shere Dil returned to Can-
dahar with the greater part of the treasure left by
Azeem Khan, and Dost Mahomed retained the go-
vernment of Caubul and the adjoining provinces,
which he continued to hold until dispossessed by the
British Government in 1839. This state of anarchy
and confusion led to the entire dismemberment of the
Dooranie empire, founded by Ahmed Shah. Pesha-
wur, as already stated, was reduced to complete vas-
salage to the Seik Durbar, although Sooltan Ma-
homed Khan was allowed to retain the government as
a tributary; such, however, was his degradation, that
at the interview between the Governor-General and

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THEATRE ROYAL. COVENT-GARDEN.
THIS EVENING, DEC. 26,
Will be presented Shakspeare's Comedy of THE MERRY
WIVES OF WINDSOR. Sir John Falstaff, Mr. Bartley;
Master Slender, Mr. Harley ; Mr. Ford, Mr. Cooper ; Mrs.
Ford, Mrs. Walter Lacy ; Mrs. Page, Miss Rainforth ; Anne
Page, Miss Poole; Mrs. Quickly, Mrs. Orger.
After which, a New Historical Comicality, called PUNCH'S
PANTOMIME; or, HARLEQUIN KING JOHN, and
MAGNA CHARTA. By the Writers of " Punch." King
John, Mr. W. H. Payne; Harlequin, Mr. J. Ridgway; Pan.
saloon, Mr. Garden ; Columbine, Mrs. J. Ridgway ; Clown,
Mr. T. Ridgway.
Doors open at Half-past Six, and the Performances com-
mence at Seven.—Dress Boxes 75., Second Price 3s. .1(1. ;
First and Second Circles 55., Second Price 2s. 6d. ; Pit 3s;
Second Price 2s. ; Gallery ls.
Tickets and Places for the Boxes to be taken of Mr. Whit-
low, at the Box.office, from Ten till Four, where Season
Tickets may be had.
Private Boxes to be had at the Box-office ; of Messrs. An-
drews, 167, New Bond-street; Mr. Mitchell, Old Bond-street;
and of Mr. Sams, Pall Mall.

THEATRE ROYAL, HAY-MARKET.
THIS EVENING, DEC. 26,
Will be repeated the New Drama, called GRAND-
FATHER WHITEHEAD. Grandfather Whitehead, Mr.
W. Farren; Drayton, (a Builder), Mr. Tilbury ' • Langley, (a
Retired Trader), Mr. Stuart ; Driver, (a Lawyer), Mr.
Strickland; Bob Lincoln, (his Clerk), Mr. Webster; Snap,
Mr. Clark; Edward Drayton (Drayton's Son ), Master George
Webster; Louisa Drayton, Mrs. Edwin Yarnold ; Susan,
(Servant to Langley), Mrs. Stanley.
After which Mr. C. Mathews' Burletta of PATTER versus
CLATTER. Captain Patter, Mr. Charles Mathews.
To be followed by the Drama of THE BASTILE. Louis
Quatorze, Mr. H. 101 l ; Fricandeau, Mr. Webster ; the
Duchess de Montbazon, Miss Charles; Ninon Labatte, Ma-
dame Celeste.

After which will be produced a Grand Comical Burlesque
Barletta, called RIQUET, WITH THE TUFT. Prince
Riquet, with the Tuft, Mr. Charles Mathews ; Green-horn
the Great, Mr. James Bland; Prince Finikin, Miss Charles;
The Princess Emeralda, Madame Vestris.

PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET.
This New and Elegant Theatre, fitted up in a style of splendour
hitherto unequalled in this country,
Will OPEN THIS EVENING, DEC. 26,
With an ADDRESS, to be delivered by Mr. J. H. Wall ark.
After which, LA SONNAMBULA. Count Rodolph, Mr.
W. H. Weiss ; Alessio, Mr. Walton ; Liza, Mrs. T. H. Se-
vern; Amina, Madame Eugenia Garcia (her first appearance
on the English stage); Elvino, Mr. Tetnpleton.
To conclude with a New Fairy burlesque burletta, entitled
THE YELLOW DWARF. Principal characters by Mr.
Oxberry, Mrs. Anderson, Miss Noel, Madle. Melanie Duval,
and M. Deneze, who will make their first appearance in this
country in the incidental ballet.
Places and Private Boxes to be had at the Theatre, and at al!
the principal Libraries,

THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI.
THIS EVENING, DEC. 26,
Will be repeated the new Burletta, entitled THE MER-
CHANT AND HIS CLERKS. The principal characters
by Messrs. Lyon, 0. Smith, Paul Bedford, Wright, Maynard,
Wieland, Miss Chaplin, Miss Brooks, and Mrs. P. Grattan.
After which,* New Faree,called YANKEE NOTES FOR
ENGLISH CIRCULATION. Principal Characters by Mr.
Rice (the celebrated representative of Negro Character),
Messrs. Wright, Wilkinson, Maynard, Mesdames H. P. Grat-
tan, H. Beverley, and Chaplin.
To conclude with a New Christmas Pantomime, called THE
CHILDREN IN THE WOOD ; or, HARLEQUIN AND
Boors
Pantaloon,
NOBODY. Harlequin, Mr. Frampton • Anti .Clown ( No-
oors open at half-past
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.yos)xa,ens3d, le4rrs.s. ,; V
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nil.
D.
six, commence at seven o'clock.

DAVIDGE'S ROYAL SURREY THEATRE.
The Grandest Christmas Entertainments ever offered to the
Public—A lavishing outlay—All the First-rate Artistes—
Everything of the most costly description.
THIS EVENING, DEC. 26,
Will be produced a New Drama, entitled RICHARD
SAVAGE, in which Messrs. Hughes, Hicks, R. Hornier,
J. Webster, Neville, Smith, Mrs. R. Honner, Mrs. H. Vining,
Miss Terrey, &c.
After which, a ' &c., will perform.
New Grand Fairy Pantomime, with splendid
Scenery, Dresses, Tricks, Mechanical Changes, and Appoint-
ments, to be called HARLEQUIN PUCK; or, THE EN..
CHANTED STATUE OF THE CHRYSTAL FOUN-
TAIN. Harlequin, Mr. Harvey; Clown, Mr. C. Montgo-
mery; Pantaloon, Mr. T. Blanchard; Columbine, Miss M. R.
Fairbrother. The effects will exceed everything hitherto
attempted.
Places and private Boxes to be had of Mr. J. Kerschner, at
the Box-office, from eleven to four.

THE WEATHER.---SUN OFFICE, DEC. 24.
THERMOMETER, Lowest, 33 ; Highest, 49 • Noon, 40.
BAROMETER, 29.75.—W1ND, W.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE THIS DAY.
lorning 4 minutes after 8 l Evening 3i minutes after

mons admirably. To make the nation prosperous,
contented, and happy, he has no power and no
skill ; but he has hitherto ruled and guided the
country gentlemen to their_heart's content. He
has been the idolised of the squires—those gentle-
men who commit men to gaol for doing a little
of what they do a great deal of. All the boobies
who must have something to worship, have
worshipped PEEL. Amongst the blinded mono.
polists he has been the one-eyed king. We are
not quite sure that his late measures have not
couched his blind adorers, and that when he
meets them again, they will not pretend to see
as far as he can. It is clear that they begin to
waver in their faith. The gaffers throughout the
land are quite at a loss to understand their oracle.
They would have cared nothing about his pro-
mulgating free trade doctrines; but their rents
are fulling, and the Income-tax must be paid.
In almost every part of the country we hear
of gentlemen being compelled to remit ten,
twenty, or even thirty per cent., to their
impoverished tenants. This they cannot,
and they hesitate and doubt, till a suspicion
arises that they may ultimately break their idol
in pieces. When such is the case, Sir ROIERT
PEEL will retire from office, with the reputation
of the most plausible talker that ever spoke in
Parliament, and one of the worst statesmen that
ever attained to great eminence.

Atthisseason of the year, when, in general, the
hoarded pleasures of some weeks or months are
expected to be enjoyed when the country should
resound with the sounds of gladness; when fes-
tivity should sit around every board in the em-
pire, there is little more heard than the
moans of bankruptcy, the curses of discon-

tented tax-payers, and the wailiugs of famine.
There is no relief for distress. If mankind are
to " read the history" of our present statesmen
in the " nation's eyes," if it is their chief duty
to " scatter plenty o'er a smiling land," which
we do not say, but which they have most rashly
undertaken, the sufferings of our industrious,
enterprising people, throughout the year 1842,
and at this Christmas, will tell a tale to after-
times that will be read with feelings of the
liveliest indignation. The season is beautiful.
Nature smiles on man. All seems divine
around us save the grasping spirit of monopoly
that meets us in every quarter and at every turn,
and dooms the nation to bankruptcy, plunder,
and famine. The source of hope lies in the
people themselves. The spring beams from
their looks on the winter of our despair. Deeply
touched in their pockets, pinched in their bodies,
and pained in their minds, they seem generally
to eye the dark and brooding spirit with grow-
ing dislike, and ere the summer's sun shall ripen
the next harvest, we trust that they will for ever
have rescued dear old England from its loath-
some and ruinous presence.

We see with much regret that two extensive
failures, one of a bank, with numerous branches,
have taken place in Yorkshire, which will neces-
sarily involve other failures, and add to the want
of confidence, and to the distress in the commer-
cial world, which already prevail. The particu-
lars of these occurrences, as tar as they are
known, will be found in another part of The Sun.
In the absence of all information concerning the
cause of the bank failure, it would be folly to
wake any remarks on the lamentable event; but
there can be no doubt that the unexpected and
large fall in the price of corn is the cause of the
failure of the Messrs. DUNN. The mischief of
such a fall, for which no person was or could be
prepared, as the law which is supposed to
regulate price and is passed to keep it high re-
mains in existence almost unaltered, is much
greater, we believe, than any mischief which
could be produced by abolishing the law, which
would at once put persons on their guard, and
prevent any great fall, by the stimulus it would
give to enterprise. Another lesson is taughtby the
several important failures of the corn importers.
If the fall of 20s. a quarter has- ruinektlmi out
and out, it is quite clear that all apprehension of
prices being beaten down here by a vast foreign
importation must be wholly unfounded. Such
a fitll ruins the importers, and would stop im-
portation. It remains now with the public to
decide how long the fortunes of the middle
4asses—the lives of the lower classes are, unfor-
tunately, considered by our lawmakers to be of
uo importance whatever—are to be the sport of
laws, which, being most ignorantly designed to
secure stability of price, cause in reality the
most dreadful fluctuations.

The monuments about to be erected to the
memory of the Scottish Reformers of 1793, and
the very general tribute paid to them for the
principles they advocated, form a noble contrast
to the bigotry and persecution which distin-
guished the age in which they lived. They were
charged with exciting, by means of seditious
speeches and harangues, a spirit of disloyalty and
disaffection to the KING and the established Go-
vernment, and also of publishing seditious and
inflammatory writings for the same purpose.
That was the sum of their offences, even
according to their accusers; and for this
they - were reviled in Government prints,
tried for sedition, brow-beaten by the
Judges, and finally condemned to exile, ,from
which only one returned to his native country.
But the real offence was for attempting to de-
stroy the overgrown power of the aristocracy, and
to obtain a more equal representation of the
people in Parliament. The Tories of that day,
and especially thelTories of Scotland, which was
one great rotten borough, saw that such a result
would be the downfal of their party, that the
right of returning Members of Parliament, and
the privilege of granting and obtaining places
and pensions would be taken away, and, like men
fighting for their existence, they stopped at no-
thing to crush the darintr intruders. The same
attempt was made in England, but, thanks to
the independent and upright spirit of English
Juries, to the sympathy of the English public,
and to the skill of the Counsel employed, the
English Bench escaped that disgrace which now,
almost by general consent, attaches to the High
Court of Justiciary. Theirpersecutors, not con-
tent with reviling their political opinions, stirred
up religious prejudices by describing them as
Deists or Atheists, whose object was not
only to overturn the Constitution, but to
deprive mankind of the consolations of reli-
gion and the hopes of immortality. The beau..
tiful and affecting letter of MUIR, which we
published on Friday showed how cruelly he and
his party had been maligned. No man perhaps
was ever more thoroughly imbued with the
purest feelings of Christianity than the unfortu-
nate writer ; and he was not the man, therefore.
who, for a temporary blessing, however great,
would associate himself with infidels and rebels.
The truths of Christianity formed at last his only

ROBERT PEEL for a model, without simplification
or .esseuoal improvement." Other taxes are al-
ready bitterly impugned, and Sir ROBERT PEEL
has now made;: us great financial resource of the
Government its, only means of raising an in-
creased revenue .in war, by his injudicious and
unjust mode of col lecti ug• it, ex tre mely n popular.
Such a consequence of his conduct seems to have
torn from him almost the last rag of reputation
th-,t till now hung around him.
This consistency has long been whistled down
the wind. He never had credit for being a states-
man. He was always supposed, however, to be a
clever, careful administrator—a man who never
would unnecessarily, and for the attainment of
any trifling object, rouse the discontent, and even
the. wrath, of the bulk of the middle classes.
That he has done. The hostility of the lower
classes towards the Government was previously
fierce and unmiligable, and he has kindled almost
as fierce an hostility in the middle classes by his
routine and injudicious mode of levying an In-
come-tax. In common with many others, we re-
garded him, till lately, as a skilful hand to work
the machine of our government; but by his
tariff—unsettling many things, and taking on
himself the blame of falling prices caused by a
reduction of the means of consumption—and by
his Income-tax, he has proved that he is really one
of the least skilful Ministers that has of late un-
dertaken the management of the national affairs.
The only thing that can now be said in his
favour is, that he manages the House of Com-

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