Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1846-03-21

he News DrOuSHt ny Tie AudiluC slcdinouP III
BERNIA, which sailed from Liverpool on the 4th
instant reached US last night in the Baltimore and
Philadelphia papers. We have endeayored to ac-
commodate il to our crowded columns by condens-
ing into as small space as possible its most ini-
portant parts, as follows:
pRoa TnE LIVERPOOL EUROPEAN TIMES on MARcHf.
ENGLANDs COMMERCIAL POLICY.
The great debate on Sir Robert Pees financial scheme,
which extended three weeks and afforded food for twelve
nights ncessant oratoy, brought to close ON the morn
ing Of Saturday last by division which gave the Minister
majority of ninety seven! .s
The division presents curious results The House
consists of 656 members of these 227 Liberals voted with
the Minister and liz Toes-otal, 339 against him.
Liberals and 23l Tores-tota 242 which makes the ma
ony of o. There 80 Liberals absent and 10 Tories
III Liberal pairs l3 Tory pairs vacancies and the speak
er, s. making up the full compliment OF the House-656
Sir Robert Pees supporters it will thus be only num-
Der about sh of the representation and in this estimate
included ~ officials Il is clear then, that without the
aid Of the Liberals he would have been h0rs de combat In
other words he would have been destroyed by those who
made him. ai ks
The debate which closed Saturday the first skmish
the precursor Of the general engagement The House, by this
maoiy has only pledged itself to go into committee All
he mulaous parts Of the scheme have yet to be discussed
and affirmed rejected before reaches the House Of Lords
there the TO be repeated, and
probably the spring may be far advanced may have got
into the summer sostce legislative adjudication be
plete Sir Robert Peel has determined proceed with the
colnw part Of his scheme first This scheme, readers
know proposes the extinction Of the coaws in three years
from the present time and the next great battle, well
the next solemn talk will have reference TO the immediate
or the postponed repeal.
IL pieof the in the Lords is pregnant with
seqences Of the highest the most commanding interest The
is safe in the Commonsthat undeniabe it
in the Lords Will the Peers, with majority in the Com
of 81 and in the present state Of excited public feeling
throw the measure, and thus force dissolution Of Par
lament Our firm belief that the Peers will pass the bill
and in this opinion strengthened by the private tes
Of several influential members Of Parliament with whose
views we have been favored
GREAT BATTLE IN INDIA.
Three thousand three hundred British and native troops kill
edand Doundsd and reported loss Of thirty thousand Shs
at lMoodkee and Ferozeshdh.
Our advces from Bombay the sailing of the steamship
Cambria down 10 January lh and furnish accounts Of
Of the greatest battles fought by the British in
Indian empire in which have sustained the known loss of
800 Of brave soldiers including the gallant veteran Sir
Robert Sale, Sir J. McCaskl, and Major Broadfoot When
these left the Of action for Bombay for
mission England there several regiments from which
had been received that further loss may be
calculated upon.
An extraordinary gazette gives the official Of all the
military operations this great struggle The result
proud say glorious and decisive victory
ed the British arms and equaed only by the field of Water
loo Previous to laying before readers copies Of the
important dispatches, prefix the following brief outline
On the 18th, 18th, and l4h of December the Sikh army
SuteJ al lowest estmate
of whom 20, 900 $4,000 cavalry, and about $50
pieces Of Of the largest cabe movable in the field and
exqussly fnshedan artillery UNNECESSARILY power
full than brought into the field by Wellington Ma
poeon II is only in morals that the Skhs be ranked
barbarous They vigorous in body acute in
intellect and sklu in all the arts they cultivate of which
the chief the generality of Europeans The place
which this formidable host passed the river may be about
forty fifty miles from Lahore the capital Of the Punanb,
and within much less distance of Ferozepore the ad
vanced Of the British posts. Ferozepore about fifteen
twenty miles from the point at which the Skhs crossed the
river, if it is much.
their force the British side of the Sut made slight
demonstrations Of attacking Ferozepore in the interval be-
tween the 18th and 18th but upon the astnamed day.
broke up and taking the direct road Delhi, proceeded in
souhery direction, they would mask Ferozepore, leaving
o their right In this direction division of 80, 900 of the
md proceeded ebout twenty-fse miles, to place
called Moodkee, when the evening of the 18th, they
met by part of the British army commanded by Sir Hugh
Cough and the Governors General Sir Henry Hardinge, who,
second in command took the field in person. fierce
ict ensued in which the Skhs lost the artillery attached
their DIVISION in number seventeen guns. Il in this
stage the battle that Sir Robert Sale and General McCask
fell The proceeded angudy through the 18th and
20h the armies both sides being occupied with the burial
Of their Dead and the reorganization of their respective
mics. During these days the British commander
ceived renforcemens; but the invaders having fallen
back upon their main body probably 80 900 49, 000
scented prodgousy augmented force when the shock of bat
lie renewed the 2ls, at place called Ferozeshar,
the invaders had prepared strongly enenced camp which
they stood prepared defend with 100 pieces of their huge
field artillery, and 10000 Imagination scarcely
depict the fury and the obsnacy of the two days fight that
must have preceded the capture of the invaders camp, with
all its Daerie and artillery, and the utter dispersion of the in
vadng army the 22d December The most fortunate
capped to islands in the Sue or, perhaps the Punaub
bank but the greater part scattered broken parties
through the British territories Their loss is varousy esms
ted at from 25 900 IS 900 in killed and wounded Our
loss in killed and wounded be feared falls little short
of 3, 800, including City European officers
Sir Robert Peel in the lower and the Earl of Rpon, in
the upper house, moved the thanks of Parliament the In
dian army, in good set phrase, on Monday night
FRANCE
PARrs FEBRuARr 2s-A postscript to my last informed
you of the rejection of the amendment of M Berger by very
large majority. The effect of this amendment express
sort Of sympathy to the United States in preference to Eng
land and its rejection was therefore, remarkable. Another
amendment of similar character has since met with SINH
lar fate On the discussion of the paragraph Of the address
in the Kings speech, in which satisfaction
pressed the coseness OF the alliance with England NJ
Remusa proposed addition to the effect that each nation
should preserve its entire liberty Of action in the two worlds
In speaking support of this amendment M de Remusat
expressed his satisfaction the alliance existing between Eng
land and France declared that necessary for both
es and for the peace Of the world and hoped that it would
be continued But he required that in in which the
sacrifice hers for the benefit Of England He took the Of
he United States example Of what he The in
of the and the power of the United States
naturally Objectionable TO England, but decidedly for
the advantage Of France and therefore, France should lean
rather the United States than England least main
tain strict independence ssThere is difference, said he
Gin the views Of England and France with respect to the