Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1841-1853, 1846-04-23
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Thrce DAYS Iater from EncIand.

Thrce days later from England.
London dates to the 18th March have been received
at New York, by the ship Northumberland. Tie
Ners gives the following summary
The latest dates from the United States were 10 tho
l6ih Feb. by a vessel arrived at Havre, carving CT
the commencement of the debate on the Oregon cues
ton in the u. S. Senate.
The British Government were preparing 20 send
out large reinforcements TO India.
The steamer Great Liverpool from Gibraltar for
England was lost off Cape Finisierre on the 24th
Feb, three passengers lost
The hostile character of the intelligence received
from Washington via New York Is referred to by
most of the Paris journals. Some of them calculated
on hostilites between England and the United States.
Others-Ld PresSe, for example-"think that, after
all, there viii be no war;" But the general feeling
was one of apprehension.
The passage of the Notice resolution in the
House created much excitement in England.
On the 9th of March the House of Lords resolved
itself into a committee on the Irish Coercion Bill,
which, after some amendments, was determined TO be
in force three years from October next. The custom
and corn Importation acts were under discussion in
the House Of Commons, but was not finally deter
mined.
The Irish coercion bill is a terrible stringent mea-
sure, authorizing the lord lieutenant 10 proclaim dis
tricts in a state of Instruction, and furnishing with
transportation for eighteen years any person found
out of his dwelling between one hour after sunset,
and one hour before sunrise.
The attention of the London press was not given
exclusively TO affairs in the East. The passage of
the Oregon notice resolutions in the House of Repre-
sentatives gave the journalists material for divers
leading articles, the staple of which was q compound
of v~irulence and anxiety.
The London Times money market article of the
9th, evening, says:
The market for English securities was depressed
this afternoon. In the morning an appearance Of
weakness became evident, but it was more severe to-
wards the close of business, a rnmor then being cur
rent that a message from the Queen would be received
by the House of Commons tonight on the subject of
America. Consols fell on the whole about one-half
per cent, the last quotation being for money 95I 10
and for the account, % IS to 4. After the regular
hours of business bargains were even concluded at
lower prices than those already quoted.
The Dock and Navy Yards in England were most
busily employed in fitting out vessels of war.
The Morning Chronicle of the 9th says, the INTEL
ligence from the seat of war in the East is far from
satisfactory. Without giving credit to every rumor
atioat in India, we must still confess that each sue
cessive mail only increases our anxiety, bringing, as
it does, fresh proofs of the extraordinary want OF
wisdom which has characterized all the proceedings
of our Indian government.
The government of the Sinks was making every
effort TO renew the war in India. Several attempts
had been made in different places to cross the river.
The result of the battles fought on the 18th, tie
21st and 22d of December, is of a purely negative
character. The Sikhs were efiectualy prevented by
the bravery of the British troops from advancing upon
the territories of the protected States, or from opening
a campaign in British India. They were repulsed
! with loss; but they were by no means routed.
Nof a man was driven back across the Sutlej, until
they thought fit deliberately to withdraw six or seven
days after the battle. They retained the command OF
one fortified bridge, and on the 18th of January a
I party of the enemy, which had been operating eighty
miles further up the river, crossed it again, and took
u another entrenched position, near Loodianah.
Some of the native troops are said to have thrown
down their arms, ard to have fed. leaving the Faro
peans to bear the brunt of the battle. Her Majesty 5
ODD and 3lst were engaged, and are said TO have sat-
D fered severely, but they demanded TO be led anew to
the fight, which Sir II. Smith did not deem 1t prudent
TO do, and therefore withdrew the troops.
The British army advancing against the Silks
amounts to no less than $4,000 men, with a large
train of artillery. The season from The LIST of Febru-
airy to the beginning Of April is the most favorable
the 42,4S0 men who will probably cross the Sutlej in
this campaign, there are at present only 1850 men of
European cavalry, and 6, $50 of European infantry.
Some diminishing took place near the Sikh bridge
of boats on the 18th, 18th, and 18th of January, with
out any remarkable effect. On the 18th the Skis
came over the river at Phulloor, p~lundered the neigh
~borhood, and pitched a camp on the left bank, in tue
British territory.
Misunderstanding TO a letter from Breslau, dated
9th ultimo, the rebels of Cracow were in possession
of the town as late as the 25th, and the provisional
government, In anticipation of an attack on the 2Sth,
by the frusslcn troops, nau ordered all lhe HlaIe ~
habitants from eighteen to fifty years of age TO take
up arms in support of the Instruction. A proclama-
ton had been issued exhorting the people to exertion,
and promising abolition of all their grievances. The
force of the insurgents in the city of Cracow is ex-
tremely formidable.
REDUCTION OF POSTAGE IN FRANcE.-The French
Minister of Finance has at last introduced into the
Chamber of Deputies a bill for the reduction of post
age on letters. He proposes for single letters that
the charge shall be two SOUS, when the distance does
not exceed ten kilometres Twelve and a half English
miles y four sous, the distance not exceeding forty
kilometres; and increasing in the same ratio up to
ter sous for a single letter, the maximum postage
proposed for the whole of France. The bill did not
appear to meet a favorable reception in the Chamber,
as a more radical change, something like the English
penny postage, was expected.