Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1841-1853, 1846-04-09
FOREIGN ITEMS.

BRITISH ARMY IN INDIA Letters from England
state that twenty-five additional Regiments are to be
raised for tile Army in India. The war against the
Sikhs is one of a bloody and desperate character.
More British Officers were killed in the battle Of
Ferezepore than In anv battle since Waterloo. The
population of Asia, in the regions not heretofore
occupied by the British. is of a harder and more
energetic character than those who Lave been con-
quered. 1t is doubtful whether the extension of the
British Empire in India can be of any essential SER
vice. 1t may rouse up a warlike spirit IL the native
population.
The English Government is building two steamers,
each of 400 tons, in the dock yard at Bombay also
an 81 gun ship and two briggs for the naval service.
A French steamer of 500 tons has likewise been
purchased.
A college has been established at Nuddoah, India,
the seat of Braminical lore, by the British govern
ment. In this it has been greatly aided by the natives,
who contributed about 5000 0 at a single meeting /!
1t is, however, one of those gilded pills which the
English government knows so well how to administer
to its conquered subjects.
FATAL ExPLosIoN.-A coal mine exploded last month
near Newport, MonmouthShire, England, by which
the lives of ~thirty-fve persons were destroyed!
New CITY.-Birkenhead, according to the Lon
don Times, is the name of a new city On the Mersey,
opposite Liverpool. Seren gears, ago, upon its site,
there were not three dwelling houses and now it con-
tains tlcenty thousand inhabitants, and is acknowledged
to be a successful rival of its famous sister city. The
projection and soul of this gigantic enterprise is a GER
tain Mn. Jackson. That. we believe, is more rapid
increase than we can boast of even in this country.
6TPunch thus laughs at one of his ~contempora-
ries -
The corn lar fgkt.-The terrible Post says-'It
S not so the battle of protection must be fought. 1t
must be fought calmly, but boldly, and fought, if need
be, inch By inch" Would it not be at once more he
role and more agricultural to say, 'tlrley-corn by
borley-corn 2"
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following had occurred in this country, it would have
afforded a text for many a discourse in the English
newspapers, upon the working of the { democratic
principle" American Z" oppression, " and the like. A
poor man was recently charged before the Justices of
Cheltenham, Eng, with selling oranges after l O'Clock,
contrary TO a bylaw of the town, and fined about four
dollars. Being unable to pay the fine, and having no
property to 4" distrain on" he was committed for a
week TO North leach Jail, being compelled to walk
%tbither, II miles, handcufed as a felon!
Nearly a page of tie London Morning Chronicle
of the 18th ult. is taken up with tie first cOmmunlca-
ton of the correspondent 1T has stationed at Wash
ington.-He treats of Gen. Cass, Mr.. Adams, Mr..
Benton, Mr.. Calhoun, the Democratic party, the de-
fenceless situation of the Union, American cupidity
and ambition, and other rife topics in the stream of
detraction, and bitterness, and gall, that distinguishes
the English press generally when speaking of Ameri-
can affairs.
The Austrian Government have adopted Morse's
American Magnetic Telegraph, in preference to the
English and French limitations.
A girl in Paris is said to possess the power of Civ
ing shocks like those Of the torpedo.
lis stated that an uxorious lady, living near Berlin,
in Prussia, who has only attained the age of 1C3 years,
has Just contracted a fourth marriage with a youth of
70. But the cream of the joke is, that among the
children which the bride brought to her new husband
was a boy of Sd.
Bonaparte's house, at Longwood, st. Helena, is
nov n norn-fhe room he died in n sfabIe-aud vvbara
the imperial corpse laid in state, may be found a ma
chine for grinding corr.
The Locosses" of Berne (Syitzerland) have
gained great triumph. A majority of D, 900 against
10000 of the whole people has decided that an az
sembie constituents shall be elected by the ID of March.
for the drawing up of a new constitution, in place of
the existing one, which is too aristocratic.
DESTRUCTION OF SACRED Booxs-The Jewish tenn
pie lately destroyed by fire at Avignon, France, con-
sumed every thing within it: the heaviest loss being
that of the Sacred Books, many of which were of
great antiquity. The collection of the Book of the
~Law-Lepher ThorG-was composed of AZ rolls oil
m rchment, and was one of the richest in the world.
This book contains a MS. of the Pentateuch. which is
: so valuable that it Is only at Jerusalem that the Rab-
bins may devote themselves 10 the labor. Years are
: consumed in the production of one of these copies, for
the slightest error, the smallest erasure, the most mi
mute lmperfection, or inequality in the letters neces.
states the recommencement of the work. The let.
tiers of the book are counted and are two millions ir
number. With the exception of the temple at Bor
e deaux, the edifice destroyed was the finest in France
; Tie marriage of the daughter of Mehemet Ali was
y celebrated at Cairo in December The festivItie.
lasted six days. On the first day there was a granC
: banquet of 500 covers, at which the Viceroy, thu
? Pashas, and other dignitaries were present. Tn,
ladies were admitted to a magnificent supper giver
: by the eldest daughter of the Pasha, when not les.
!" than $500 women were present, and it was said tina
over 800 cooks were employed to prepare it. TIL,
d whole town was Illuminated, and it is stated that thu
t feasts cost about 100000 sterling. There wer
n sixteen English ladies' present.