The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1846-03-24


which has been elt from the heart to the tips Of the
EXTREMIST members The corn laws are dead and
gone. Monopoly is stretched in its cerements. A
voice has gone forth among the nations, which Will
resound to the extremites of the earth. The eman-
which there is no appeal. The Autocrat of the
North has heard It, The despot OF central Europe,
the more paternal monarch Of Prussia, have been
reused by the announcement. II has resounded In
the halls OF the Pdlals Bourbon and the Luxem-
bourgh, and IT will not have resounded IN vain.
The establishment of free trade In England is
great event in itself. But il Is small event when
put in juxta-posltion with its vast consequences.
The movements Of the other planets, in harmonious
order round the great central fountain 1t light and
warmth, are not more inevitable consequences of
that great law which Newton inferred from the fall
OF an apple, than Is the fact that the chains must
drop from the limbs OF universal commerce all
over the world, as consequence OF the emancpa-
ton of commerce in England. America and
France, the two great models OF constitutional
States, will Immediately follow, and the rest Of the
world cannot afterwards lag behind.
The bewlderrient OF JOY in the public and in the
press Is such, that It is really difficult write or
think collectedly Of any subject but this great and
absorbing one. One Of the most curious conse-
quences OF this political CONFUSION is the utter de-
sruction OF oldestabshed parties which has at
tended It, The great, flood OF puollc opinion has
swept away all the political landmarks. The buoys
which guided the vessels OF party have been forced
from their moorlngs and sent adriit. The very
channels themselves have changed their positions.
Shoals and quicksands have disappeared, and, In
word, the chart OF the political waters has been
rendered obsolete and useless. New soundings
must be taken, new beacons must be erected, new
pilots must be elected, or the old ones must be re-
educated.
The wing party is annihilated, not by beng
broken up, but by being swamped in its general
fusion with the liberals OF every shade and CON-
pexlon. The chartists and corn-law leaguers are
annihiated from having no subject OF complaint on
which they can command the sympaihies OF any
portion OF the nation. The tory party has been pull
verised BY us leader, and its own blind obstinacy
brains against the wall Of projection s ' But let Us
not say aught that is i'll Of the dead il has ha its
day Req'.iescat IN pace. God be with it! 1t was
party. take it al! in all. we dope that ws) ne'er
shall look upon its like again.
II s astonishing how entirely this discussion has
Withdrawn the public attention from the Oregon
dispute or it would perhaps be more correct to
what entire confidence il has produced that that
dispute will be peaceably settled. No one can sup.
pose Tor moment that after opening her ports to
the free importation of food with one hand, Eng
land will shut those OF America against exporta.
ton with the other. Nor will any one believe that
America, with mart like England freely offered
10 every description OF her produce. will reject II tor
| such miserable political CROCHET az the Oregon
| question. To admit such a superstition would be
equivalent to Issuing statute OF lunacy against the
nations No; the Oregon question will be settled
in what manner, the people OF England do not care
rush, provided the national honor is saved from
! stain.
The impression which the battle, or rather battles,
OF the Sutlej has produced in England is of very
qualified character. The victory is held by some
TO be great and decisive by others TO be only the
beginning OF series OF calamitous successes
which Britain could very well have dispensed with
That the Punjaub will rather is conquered and
annexed to the British empire there is liille doubt
But Agsrs was many years ago CONQUERED and an
many behold In the Slkhs another race Of Arabs,
and dlmly discover through the mists Of futurty
difficulties and disasters awaiting us in this great
- I'd. - Ell
which the brave armies Of France have been vainly
| struggling for years, and in opposing which that
nation has already go frui,lessy expended forty m-
lions OF treasure, and shed in torrents, the blood Of
| her bravest citizens.
| AS the theatre of military operations, certainly
the most remarkable and important waicn have
been exhibited since the battle of Waterloo, the
Punjaub will no DOUBT be regarded by your readers
| with feelings Of much interest.
The part OF the Indian territory called properly the
Punaub, covers an area whose superficial magni-
ludc 10 little less than an hundred and forty thousand
square mlles-peopled BY nearly five million Of souls
Though much Of this extensive territory is rich and
fertile, yet IT includes also considerable deserts,
mountain chains OF mace ssbe elevation, and vast
| tracts covered with perpetual snow. The Punjaub
proper, Is one boundless plain, lying between the
| rivers Satlej and Indus, and lntersected by four
large rivers, which the Of its fertility,
and facilitate the transport OF goods and produce from
one part OF the Kingdom TO another Nature has be-
slowed the Punjaub two thousand miles Of inter-
! nal navigation, winch at a moderate expense might
be greatly augmented by art. The face Of the coun-
Try " slightly inclined plain soplng from its cas-
It's rivers, consequently, and the doabs which sepa-
rate them, descend regularly below each other, till
| we reach the mighty stream which, for a space Of
nearly five hundred miles, bounds the triangle on
the west Here the greatest heat felt the surface
OF the globe, Is some times experienced, the SUMS
rays being ercely reflected from sand almost vi
rlfied by constant exposure to them. From The edge
Of this vast plain mountain region abruptly rises,
the loftiest, the widest and the most wonderfully
diversified in the world containing secluded habita-
bic valleys, Graded brightness above the
region OF the clouds; lakes OF all dimensions, the
sources Of great nvers with piles Of glaciers tower
ing to height which the foot oil man has never yet
scaled On these aerial heights the boundary of the
Celestial Empire meets and blends, as it were, with
that OF lndla and here, also, is the birth place Of
many OF those strange opinions, which, modified by
the accidents OF climate, by tlme by mixture with
| other supsrshtions, have swayed the universal
mind OF Asia for many thousand years. Here
| human lite Is spar1ngy distributed, and seems
TO be almost sublimated into inactiOh, by the
height to which it is thrown up, whilst at the
| foot OF the mountains, over the whole plains
Of Hlndostan, men swarm like bees, and are
/ little addicted to those quiet habits OF contemp-
| lation which delight the sages Of Thibct. Com
| merce, however, finds its way even into those
dreary regions, whence at stated intervals, caravans
pass into The independent states Of Central Asia.
On the west OF the Indus the Sikhs possess two
provinces, that OF Ieshawhur and the Dersgat,
stretching from the Cabu river to the confines Of
Upper Sclnde Here, and in the doab of the Indus
and the Jhyum, we meet with that lofty salt range
OF country which constitutes the most extraordlns
~ feature OF this part OF Iadia while in the mme-
diate vicinity, those coal fields NOT yet sufci-
emily explored, which will probably in comm ages,
prove an unbounded source Of weal,h and power to
the country. Throughout the plains, there 10 every
where an excess OF animal life. all the trench.
dous game Of India, from the lion and the tiger
down, may be said to swarm in the jungles, with
endless tribes Of birds, remarkable for the brllsncy
OF their plumage or the melody of their song. The
vegetable productions are not less numerous and
various. Most OF the fruits and flowers indigenous
or naturaized in India abound here, together with
sugar-csne and indigo Of the Punjaub are equal,
perhaps, in quality any the East, and Of many
other productions OF the country, the same may be
said. BY the ancients, its rivers said to run