The Sun.
London, England, 1845-11-04 00:00:00

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LONDON, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 4. lizen

The intelligence received from India for the last six
months leaves no doubt that the hitherto peaceful Go-
vernor-General is about to assume a new character, and
follow the policy of his relative and predecessor, Lord
ELLENBOROUGH. That nobleman had to run tb e
gauntlet of the Indian press, and strong attempts were
made by not a few journals in this country to expose
him to ridicule, and hold him up as a firebrand cas t
among the quiet and submissive native princes of India..
The conquest of Sinde was denounced as a stational dis-
grace, the opening the Indus a contemptible scheme,
and the suppression of feuds and conspiracies in neigh-
bouring states the effects of a morbid craving
for notoriety, and especially military fame. But justice
has at length been done to his character ; and though
with the spirit, it is true, of a man conscious of the rec-
titude of his conduct, he refrained, during the whole of
last session, from justifying his Indian policy in Parlia-
ment, the public voice has gone with him, and even some
of his most violent accusers are compelled to admit that
Sinde was a most valuable acquisition, and that the
Ameers were not the innocent victims so pathetically
described. The question now is—what is to be dont,
with the Punjaub ? It cannot remain in its present
state, for it is little better than a nest of highwai
robbers, called Seikh soldiers, who depose one chief, sett:
up another for a few months, plunder alternately
friends and foes, and always take care to be
well paid by the new Sovereign, and to ob-
tain an indemnity for all their past misdeeds.
But the miserable inhabitants of that fine district are not
the only sufferers nor the only parties interested. The
people of Sinde, those of the British Indian possessions
adjoining, the East India Company, and, indeed, the
whole United Kingdom, have a deep interest in the
matter. Large bodies of troops must be kept up on the
frontiers, the peaceable inhabitants of the neighbouring
regions not only live in a state of constant anxiety, but
their trade and commerce are paralysed, and the great
advantages that may be justly anticipated from throwing
open the Indus cannot, under present ciruwstances, be
realised. There is a still more important consideration,
one which vitally affects the security of our Indian
empire. While RUNJEET SINGH lived the Pun-
jaub _formed a secure barrier against the in-
roads of Affghans and Persians, and other still
more powerful enemies on the west ; he would allow no
trifling in that qaarter, and had a well disciplined army,
ready to obey his commands and support measures
offensive as well as defensive. Since his death all the
institutions have gone to wreck : the different armies
are quarrelling with one another—they only combine in
plundering the helpless population ; and, what with the
disorganisation of the troops and the destruction of the
resources of the country by the interruption of trade from
unceasing turmoils, in a brief period the country would
be unable to defend itself, and become only a tempting
prey for AKBAR KHAN, or some other adventurous chief I
It has already been overrun and subdued by the Afghans,
and possibly nothing averts a repetition of invasion but
the army with Sir CHARLES NAPIER in Sinde, and the
British forces assembled at Ferozepore. An Indian
paper, that should be well-informed on the disturbed
state of the country, and the evils which it spreads
around, makes these remarks:—" Who can see stores of
great wealth lavished daily in the cause of rapine and
plunder, and not regret that those gifts, which wereplaced
at the disposal of man, to minister to his happiness, should
only tend to produce his misery ? Who, in short, can
behold the garden of nature turned into a slaughter--
house 'by man, and not lament that barbarism which
leads to so sad a misapplication of the gifts of a kind
PROVIDENCE? But regret for these anomalies should
only make us exert ourselves to prevent their conti-
nuance. Forced as we are to witness the ill effects of
this savage barbarism, we should bestir ourselves to effect
its removal; and it becomes an imperative duty upon
those who are in power so to regulate their policy to-
wards the state of Lahore, that they may bring peace
and happiness into a country now remarkable only for
anarchy and confusion. If we are to form new treaties
with the Punjaub Government, it should only be on such
terms as will improve the condition of the millions who
inhabit the country. The happiness of the mass is the
true foundation of all good policy ; and it is upon such a
basis as this, we trust, our negotiation with Lahore will
rest." In these sentiments all unprejudiced persons
must concur; but the writer goes fprther and implies

BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, Nov. 3.
Anglo-Belgian — Madrid and Valentin...
Boulogne and Amiens ll Namur and Liege
Bordeaux &Medderraa North Jamaica
Bordeaux and Toulouse Orleans and Vierzon
Do. & Cette (Espeleta) 2 Orleans and Bordeaux
Do. ( Mackenzie's) .. Over Yssel ......
Central of Spain .. — Paris dos (Laffitte)
Demerara

113/4
11,4
2%

Dendrej Valley ......
Dutch .Rhenish ...... 9
Dieppe & Paris Janet.
Dijon and Mulhouse —
East Indian
Fampoux & Hazebrouk
Grt Northern of France
(Laffitte's)
Ditto (Rosamel's) 3%
Do. (Le Boeuf)
Do. Pepin le Halleur —
Great Paris and Lyons —
Great Western Bengal 1
Jamaica S. Mid. Junction
Do. Nort h Midland —
Do. Extension
Jersey 1
Louvain and Jemeppe 314
Lyons and Avignon— —
Luxembourg
A

Aanneron's).
Ditto (Caloa's)....
Paris and Orleans
Paris and Rouen . ... . .
Paris and Strasburg
(Ganneron's),
Do. (Aymard3)
Do. (Compte de L'Est)
Paris and St. Quentin.
Rouen and llavre..
Royal North of Spain.
(Sambre and Meuse ....
Strasburg and Basle
Tournay,Jurbise, Lan-
dent, and Hasselt...
Tours and Nantes
(Mackenzie's) .
Do. (Lefebvre's)
Verona and Ancona
Wait Flanders

DVANCE IN THE PRICE OF
PROVISIONS.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
SIR,—If you can find a space in your columns for the in-
closed, just to let the world know what the honest free-
traders of Exeter are paying attention to, you will much
oblige all your readers in this locality, for whom
I am, Sir, your oiedient servant,
10, Salutary-place, Exeter, Nov. 3. R. II OLWELL.
"To the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty. This memorial
humbly sheweth,—
" That your Majesty's peaceful, loyal, and dutiful subjects,
the undersigned working and labouring classes, and inhabi-
tants of the borough of Exeter, in Devonshire, are seriously
alarmed at the excessive advance in the price of provisions at
this usually the cheapest season of the 3 ear, with the belief
that a famine price will be imposed on the working classes
before the ensuing Christmas—unless the aid of foreign corn
and cattle, of every description fit for the daily food of man
and beast, be admitted duty free, and the importation thereof
be promoted by those who wish for the happiness of the
labourer, his wife and family, by the abolition of all taxes
and dues of whatever description on the necessaries of life.
" We, therefore, humbly implore your Majesty's most
gracious aid and assistance by your orders in Council, in ac-
cordance with your royal prerogative, to cause the said laws
of duty and restrictions to be immediately abolished ; or, as
the King of the Belgians, consort of the late Princess
Charlotte, has done, suspend their operation for one year from
this day, ov. 1, 1845: and your memorialists, as in duty
bound, will every pray, &e."—[Here follow about 1,000
signatures ]

___•, _ ..., - Dorchester 2,,
Gloucester, Aberystwith, and
Central of Wales ...... ...... 1% — to
Goole and Doncaster 425.
Grand Junction 100
Ditto 1,4 Shares . 50
.t. rndUnion(Notting. &Lynn) 1% 2%...... to
Great Eastern and Western.. 21
GreatGrimsbyandSheffield... 23/4 to
3reat South and W.(lrish) ... 15
Ditto Extension
27 •
to
.
Great Munster . ...
Great North of Scotland ...... 2% — to
Great North of England...... 100
Ditto New ... ... 5
Ditto New 2 — to
Great Western BO
Ditto. gulf Shares ......... 50
Ditto Fifths
Guildford, Fareham, Portm& 2% 2% to
Harwich
Hull and Selby 5O lO2 ..... to
Ditto, Half Shares
Ditto Quarters
Hounslow Western
Hull and Gainsborough
Inverness and Elgin 1 .. ... ...... to
Irish North Midland l% . to
Isle of A.xholme 2% ... ... ..• •,
to
Kendal and Windermere l% — to
Kentish Coast
to
f .aneaster and Car1i51e......... 25 ...... 55
Larne, Belfast, & Ballymena
....-
Leeds and Westßiding JUIJC. IA - ...... to
Leicester and Birmingham... 225.
34 p... to
Leicester and 8edf0rd.......,. 225.
Leicester and Tamworth ...... 425.
Liverpool and Manchester...100
Ditto Half Shares ............ 50 ......
Ditto New Quarters......... 25
Liverpool and Leeds Direct... 2% 34 to 2%
Liverpool, Manchester, and
Newcastle Junction ......... 21 — ... .. to
London and Birmingham ...100 2lB -to 217
Ditto Thirds ...... .
Ditto 4 Shares .....•......... 2
Ditto Extension
London & Blackwall... 161. 13s. 4d
Do. New.. l% 44 to
Do. Extension
London and Brighton
Ditto Consolidated Bths 35
Ditto, Sixths O%
London and Croydon 13/. 15s. 9d. 21% to 20%
Ditto Guaranteed 5 per Ct.' 8
London, Cheltenham, Oxford,
Gloucester, and Hereford... 1%,
London and Greenwich... 12/.155. 4d —
Ditto Preference
London, Hounslow, &Western 2 . ....
London and South Western.. 41%..... 75
Do. New consolidated Bths.. 20
Ditto New .... •.. 2%.. ~. 12
Do. New
London and South Essex — .....• to
London and Y0rk........ 2% .... 54 .. .... to ;5%
London and Windsor ... 1 . .....
Lon.,Warwck, Kidderminster 214 —. ...... to London, Salisbury, & Yeovil 2% — ...... to
Londonderry and Coleraine... 5
Londonderry and Enniskillen 5
Lynn Lynn and Ely
5 ..... .., .. to
and Dereham
5 ......
PRICE OF GOLD —On the 31st Oct. the premium Manchesiei and Leeds 76 ..... ...... to
on gold at Paris was 12 per milk which, at the English Ditto Half Shares - 34 ...... -- ...... to Ditto Quarters 2
Mint price of 31. 17s. 104 d. per ounce for standard gold, gives
to
Ditto Sixteenths ... ..... ... 44 ..... .
an exchange of 25 45, and the exchange at Paris on London
to at short date being 25 55, it results that gold is 0.40 per cent. Manchesterland Birmingham 40 ...... 80 ...
Ditto Quarters
dearer in London than in Paris. On the 31st Oct. the price 4 ..... •• •• to Ditto New Quarters. .....
of gold in Hamburg was 430 per mark, which, at the
...... to
Do. Continuation & Welsh
English Mint price of 3/. 17s. 10d. per ounce for Stan- Do.
/%, — ...,.. to
dard gold, gives an exchange of 13 7i, and the exchange
Manch, Buxton, & Matlock 225.
at Hamburg on London at short date being 13 7i, it
4 p . . to 5 p
Manchester,Birrninglaam, and
results that gold is 0.12 per cent. dearer in Hamburg
Mould Junction
than in London.
......
Manchester and Southampton 2
„, _ ..... to
The Duke and Duchess of Norfolk will receive a
Midland
100 •150 -
select circle at Arundel Castle during the week, including Ditto Fifths
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Princess Nicholas Esterhazy, the Earl and Countess of Jersey
and Lady Clementine Villiers, &c.
_
The Marquis and Marchioness of Camden and
to family are expected in Belgrave-square to-day, from the Do. Extension f v0.(1)
.2 WI _
Nee-castle & Darli-agton a'unc 25 ... ... ... -
0
Wilderness, Kent, for a few days.
The Marquis of Westminster has deferred his de- Ditto New Brandling
parture for Motcombe Park until early in the ensuing week, Newcastle and *Berwick .
having accepted the invitation of the Lord Mayor elect to Newcastle and Carlhle lOO ••• •
the civic banquet on Monday. Newcastle.,Durh am, and Lan..
HIGHWAY ROBBERY.—Saturday morning, between cashire Junction 1% — to
two and tl ree o'clock, as Capt. Watson, residing at No. 29, Newport and Abergavenny .2%
to
Park-place, Peckham New Town, was returning home to his New Ross and Carlow 225.
to
residence, he was attacked by three men in the Commercial- Newry and Enniskillen ...... 2% . 1 zii -% to
road, Old Kent-road, who suddenly theew him down with i Newark, Sheffield. and Roston 2%...... 4%....
great violence, and while two of them held him down. the i Nortell,itish - . ... to ---•third rifled his pockets. Fortunately Capt, Watson had not ; Ditto New ...
was gold watch with him, and all the ruffians got from him North Devon ,
_ -
was a scarlet silk purse containing 155., and a dark silk pocket Northern and Eastern ,44
handkerchief with a scarlet border, with which they decamped

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