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HOUSE OF COMMONS.-FRIDAY

Mr. P. MILES gave notice that when the question
should be put that the Speaker do leave the chair for the
purpose of going into a committee on the commercial re-
solutions to be submitted to its consideration by Sir R.
Peel, he would move, as an amendment, that the house
should resolve itself into committee that day six months.
In reply to a question from Mr. LABOUCHERE;

Sir R. PeEt. said that since January, 1840, the Brazi-
lian Executive had the power of imposing discriminating
duties upon the ships and produce of such other countries
as would not accede to the Brazils the same commercial
facilities which they enjoyed in that country. The Bra-
zilian Government, therefore, had the power of imposing
discriminating duties injurious to the commerce of Great
Britain, but they had not done so, nor had he received any
intimation that they intended to do so.

FOREIGN AND COLOAIAL

IMPORTANT FROM INDIA

Despatches in anticipation of the Overland mail from
Bombay, of the 3rd of January, reached town on Thurs-
day. via Trieste, bringing the important news that the
Sikh army had crossed the Sutletj, invade.] the British
t,rritorv. and declared war against England; that the

GovernOr General had issued a pi oclamation declaring the
possessions of the Maharrajah Dhuleep Singh, on the left
hank of the Sutletj, confiscated and annexed to the Bri-
tish territory : and that an important battle had been
fought at Ferozepore, between the British and the Sikh
troops, which had lasted three days and nights, and had

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not terminated when the latest advices left, at which time
the British had taken from the enemy 65 canon. The loss
was great on both sides, but the enemy had been defeated
when the despatch left. Sir Henry Hardinge led the cen-
tre, Sir Hugh Gough the right, and General Littler the
left wing. The Victoria steamer, by which the mail was
conveyed from Bombay to Suez, had left the harbour
when the dispatches arrived, but had fortunately not pro-
ceeded too far to be recalled. The Sikh troops are said
to be about 70,000 in number, of indomitable courage,
and disposed to fight with the proverbial desperation of
fanatics. They are,. however, in so disunited and disor-
ganised a state as to render them much less formidable
than they might otherwise have proved. Stimulated by
the prospect of extensive plunder, and in opposition, it is
pretended to the wishes of the Lahore government, they
marched, towards the latter end of December, to the
banks of the Sutletj, compelling Lall Singh, the paramour
of the Ranee, to accompany them as a hostage for her
adhesion to their interests. By the Bth of December their
entire force bad reached the bank of the river, and formed
a line from Kussoor, opposite Ferozepore, to the Hurreke
Ghat. The chief appointed to the principal command of
the Sikh troops, Tej Singh, appeared to have delayed his
departure from Lahore on one pretext or another as long
as it was possible for him so to do, which would lead us
to infer that be was in the confidence of the Queen Mother.
We have already announced the departure of the Governor
General from Delhi on the 19th November, and his ar-
rival and interview with Sir Hugh Gough and Major
Bruadfoot, who had repaired to that place from Umhallah,
to consult with him on the measures it might be desirable
to adopt. It will be remembered that our last advices al-
luded ambiguously to some difference of opinion which
was said to have arisen between the Governor General
and the Commander-in-Chief; and it is now stated that
his Excellency had disapproved of the rapid advance of
the troops to the river's bank, as tending to precipitate a
collision which it was his great object not to precipitate.
On the 27th of November he set out for Umballah, where
be remained until the 7th December, engaged in review-
ing the troops. On the ll'h he visited the camp, for the
purpose of inspecting the various regiments. The deter-
mination of the Sikh troops to cross the Sutletj did not
transpire until the 9 h of December, when orders were
immediately issued for the assembling of the army. The
proclamation to which we have already referred was issued
on the 13th, and on the 17th the Governor General's
camp was at Basseean, within thirty-seven miles of that
of the Sikh army. The division under the command of
Sir Hugh Gough was stationed only five miles off. On
the 12th the Sikhs, amounting to 10,000 in number, and
with twenty-seven guns, crossed the river by a ford twelve
miles above Ferozepore. On the 13th they had approached
within seven miles, continuing to send men and guns
across by a bridge of boats. Thence they must have
proceeded to Ferozepore, where the battle above referred
to took place. The British army, which began to con-
centrate as rapidly as possible after the determination of
the enemy's council of war was known, was composed of
11 complete troops of horse artillery, 11 companies of
foot artillery, wi h four light field batteries ; a 12-pounder
elephant battery of 13 guns, 14 24-pounders, 8 howitzers
and mortars ; 3 European with 7 native light cavalry
regiments, including the body guard ; 4 complete corps
and a wing of the sth irregular cavalry ; 9 European and
25 native regiments of infantry, and nearly the whole
corps of Bengal Sappers and Miners, with reinforcements
on the march. By the 14th, 30,000 Sikhs, with 70 guns,
had crossed the river.

House of Representatives, Washington. Jan.lo, 1846
Mr. Hudson rose on a privilege question. He sent to
the clerk's desk- a copy of the Union, containing a long
and severe attack upon him by Major Heiss. The clerk
read it at length.
Mr. Hudson defended himself. It was a fact that the
president's message and public documents were formerly
returned printed in about a fortnight. It was net so now.
Mr. M'Connell, of Alabama, called the gentleman to
order. He had no business to abuse the organ of the ad-
ministration. (Laughter.)
Mr. Hudson said he had no inclination to play upon
that organ. He would leave the management of the dis-
cordant notes in the hands of the gentleman from Alaba-
ma. (Laughter.) Mr. Hudson said the question was,
whether an officer of the house should attack the house, or
a member thereof. The doorkeeper might as well call the
members to account for words spoken on that floor.
Mr. M'Connell rose to order.
The !•:peaker : The gentleman will state his point of or-
der (he pronounced the word point, pint )
Mr. M'Connell said, he would state his point, not his
pint (pointing to his throat, as if he had swallowed about
that measure.) Mr. M'Connell stated, that Ritchie and
Heiss would not touch the gentleman with a ten-foot pole.
Mr. Hudson would not reply to the gentleman from
Alabama. After referring to the delay of the printing last
year, saying that it was not their fault, but the fault of the
conductl of the engraving committee, he left his casein the
hands of the house.
Mr. Davis, of Kentucky, submitted a resolution, that
J. P. Heiss, a person in the employ of this house, having
charged upon a member of that house falsehood, &c., be
dismissed from the office which he holds under this hcuse.
He was going on to defend this motion, when
Mr. M'Connell called him to order. If the gentleman
takes up the gentleman from Massachusetts, it is dirty bu-
Indian accounts state that a sum of nearly thirteen siness in dirty hands.
thousand rupees has been subscribed for the proposed The Speaker called to order.
new college at Kishnagur, for the most part by natives. Mr. Davis : I have no reply to make to a drunken
LONGEVITY.—The Courrier Francais states that a blackeuard. (Sensation.)
woman lately died at Tolosa, in Spain, at the extraordi- Speaker : The gentleman from Kentucky must not in-
nary age of 150 years. She leaves a daughter in her 82nd dulge in such language.
year. Mr. Davies : I beg pardon from the speaker.
A letter in The Times, dated Lisbon, January 24, says, Here Mr. M'Connell left the house, in company with
the Patriota gives later intelligence from Loando, an- Mr. Sims, of Missouri.
nouncing that the Lady Sale has been condemned as a The votes were soon after taken, and we need scarcely
saver by the Portuguese judges of the mixed commission, refer further to the proceedings of this body We find in
against the opinion of the English, who did not consider t the recorded proceedings one member calling another a
the case proved by the evidence. " liar," and another " a scoundrel." As a sample of their
FAMINE IN SWEDEN. A letter from Stockholm of Oregan eloquence, we give the following:—
the 15th of January states, that in the provinces of Upsal, Mr. Kennedy, of Indiana, was the victor among some
Stockholm, and Westmanland, the scarcity has reached thirty combatants for the floor. He said the people out
uch a degree of intensity, that it is feared generally lest a west got their education in wrestling with bears. They
mass of unforttepate; persons rush to Stockholm, which were not even afraid of lions. If the British lion got into
would inevitably produce a famine. In Upland there are our path, it must get out of the way. The west was not
14,000 persons without food or shelter. for war, but they would not give up their country to dicta -
MARTIN LUTHER.—Th(-, 3001 h anniversary of Luther's tion. He himself was a quaker : but he would fight for
death, which falls on the 18th instant, will be celebrated his nation. England was not so much, after all. If the
with the greatest pomp in all the Lutheran churches of British lion put his nose into our affairs, we would run
Prussia. In that of the Royal Palace of Wittemherg, in the eagle's talons into it, and make it spout blood like a
which repose the mortal remains of Luther and Melanc- whale. He did not stick to party here. The Whig party
thon, 400 artists and dilettanti will perform the Messiah, are true as the other party on national honou'. We will
and Luther's celebrated hymn, " Emu Festerurg ist unser people the whole west. Put a singe pair of human beings
Gott," composed by himself. out west, and visit them twenty years afterwards, and
ALGERIA.—The accounts from Algeria are unfavour_ you'll find their number twenty, and so we'll go on with
able to the French. It is now quite certain that Abd-el- thousands and millions in that ratio. Our institutions
Kader has not retreated, and that the French army is so should and would spread. Cuba, California, Oregon, all
knocked up as to be unable for the present to undertake would come within the widening circle. The British go-
any expedition of consequence. The Alperie mentions a vernment was the worst government in the world. (M r.
report. that Abd-el-Kader, on hearing of the disaster of Pakenham was in the house during part of the speech.)
General Lerasseur, even ventured upon an excursion to On her brow was written " Evlene, Mene." (Here the
the very walls of Setif. Hebrew quotation failed amid roars of laughter.) The
A SOP TO THE POPE.—The debate on the University British lion must get off our territory, if it costs millions
question, in the Chamber of Deputies, was brought to a of lives and oceans of blood. That is all the war spirit in
close, but without a division, on Friday, after a speech the west.
from M. Guizot, universally admitted to have been bril- Mr. Chipman, another honourable member of Con-
liant, but which embraced an avowal that has brought greys, said he went for the whole of Oregon. He was not
down upon him the ire of all the journals opposed to the like the man who went for the middle extreme. Ile was
Church. M. Guizot avowed that the dissolution of the not for steering between Silly and Charybogue. (Roars
Council of the University, by the Royal Ordinances of of laughter.) Mr. Chairman, said he, what is the
the 7th of December last, had been done with a view to question? (Loud laughter.) We hear great talk about
propitiate the Pope, who would otherwise have opposed being s !tired by a lion in place of a wolf (referring to
the break-up of the Jesuit establishments in France. Mr. Holmes's speech on Oregon). He was not and
Letters from Leghorn of the 25th ult. state, that the would not be afraid of English lions. He gloried in the
Pontifical Government apprehend another movement in speech of the gentleman from Massachusetts (Mr. Adams.)
Romagna. The political prisoners confined at Civita He had bad prejudices against that venerable man, but
Castellana have attempted to escape, the guards were they were all dissipated by his noble position on Oregon ;
obliged to make use of their arms, and killed and wounded though his head was white with blossoms [noises, I be-
several of them. At Imola, a detachment of Carabiniers lieve, blossom], he was in favour of the rights of his
and Swiss soldiers baying met in the streets a band of country; he had touched the hearts of the nation with a
young men singing patriotic songs, fired upon them, and live coal from off the altar of patriotism. The brightest
killed two and wounded some others. Much agitation page of history would record the name of Adams, who
bad prevailed at Forli since the murder of the Commis- was the breathing living history of his country's diplo-
sary of police of that town. macy. Mr. Chipman then went on to distinguish "joint
GERMAN POLITENESS.—The Frankfort Journal gives occupation" from " joint occupancy." He gave his
the following anecdote :—" About a week ago the Duke views upon arbitration, by supposing that some loafers
of Nassau, while walking on the banks of the Rhine, near would gather around him and ask him to arbitrate about
Mayence, asked a boatman whether the river continued his own coat, to which his right was " clear and unques-
to rise ? ' You,' replied the man, using a term equiva- tionable." Uur right was as clear to Oregon as his right
lent to calling the Duke a stupid ass, ' have been walking I was to his coat. It did not come by Adam's will; it was
an hour here, and ask me whether the water rises !' The 1 by the will of Omnipotence, whose plastic hand had made
Duke turned away laughing. 'Do you know whom you this continent for our governing hands. Lewis Cass, of
have been talking to ?' asked a second boatman to the Michigan, he said, would do great things. Michigan
first. ' No! who was he ?' ' Why, it was the Duke of i would take the conquest of Canada by the job; Michigan
Nassau !' Well, lam glad I was not rude !' " would take Canada in ninety days, and give it back to
STATE OF PRUSSlA.—lmportant news has arrives: from England fur the pleasure of taking it again. He then
West Prussia. The persons compromised in the Polish went into a defence of his former views on " Education
plot had been transferred to Grandentz, and the authori- warring on Democracy. He repeated it. It thwarted tha
ties imagined that they had thus prevented every explo- ways of Providence, and made men Whigs. (Laughter.)
sion of violence and discontent. This hope has been dis- He seemed to be afraid of war, but he was not afraid.
appointed ; on the night of the 18th ult. an attempt was if a British man of war was lying in the Potomac with
made to gain possessien of one of the gates of Grandentz, a broadside I veiled at this hall [the capitol is not on a
and to deliver the prisoners by force ; it is said that this level with the Potomac], and did she Ihreaten us with
attempt proved a failure. Patrols of cavalry put the re- destruction if we did not give up a certain territory, aye,
bets to flight, and numerous arrests were made. Mde even one square yard, he would say—(a long pa use]—
1 Bodelschwingh, Minister of the Interior, has sent out for Fire. (Shouts of laughter, and cries of "Go it.
) He
Grandentz, to take in person the necessary information. had in his eye the boa constrictor freedom. The hedge-
It is said that a Polish Count, seriously compromised in hog of British usurpation spread out his quills. (Here
the plot, and dissatisfied at having been made the dupe of the gentleman shrueged his shoulders, and spread his
vain promises, has offered to make important disclosures fingers, to imitate a hedgehog.) But let that hedgehog
I to the government.—Frankfort Paper. beware how it came within that boa constrictor.

Their sole object in this aggression appears t 9 have
been plunder, which they expected to obtain with little
difficulty, and they carried with them provisions for the
carnpaiwn, under the dread of being poisoned if they
trusted to the food they found within the British territory.
They must have been much surprised at the warmth of
their reception, having had, it appears, an imperfect idea
of the preparations which awaited them. The Queen
Mother remained at Lahore, pretending that she opposed
the march of the troops, but they had refused fo obey her.