The Sun. — 1845-06-16 (London, England)

DEN-Nis, and still more by his un-Britishlike acquiescence in the barbarous and wholesale murders perpetrated in cold blood by our infamous ally SCHAH Soo.wr, on his prisoners in a memorable instance which Mr. HUME vainly endeavoured to bring under the notice and reprobation of the House of Commons. Sir JoHN, however, obtained the incredible reward of the honours of the Peerage, and 2,000/. per year for his own and two lives. There is as little com• paiison between any services that were rendered to his cou atry by the military career of the late Lord KEANE and the signal benefits which the diplomatic exertions of Sir HENRI, POTTINGER have secured for it, as there can be between the character, the intellect, and attainments of the mere soldier, ' and the statesman-like capacity and enlightened benevolence of the accomplished diplomatist. Will the Legislature be indeed content to give a less income to Sir HENRY POTTINGER for his own life, than it decreed to Lord KEANE for two lives ? We trust that it will show a better appreciation of private character, personal talents, and public merits.  We record in another part of the paper the particulars of a very interesting scene which lately took place at Bombay, interesting not only on account of the accomplishment of a noble work constructed chiefly for the benefit of the lower classes in that part of India, but for the encouragement, as far as honours can go, it gives to native princes and merchants to improve their country and ally themselves with rulers who, notwithstanding some egregious faults, not to say crimes of their servants, have conferrred inestimable blessings on India. The scene, which took place in April last, was at the inauguration of the great causeway constructed for uniting the islands of Bombay and Salsette, and thereby forming a safe and useful communication between the populous towns of Mahim and Ban tra. The whole undertaking was completed at the expense of a private individual, the lady of Sir JAMSETJEE lEJEEBIIOY, well known in this country for his generous deeds and his patriotic spirit, and for which, the SOVEREIGN was pleased to confer on him the honour of knighthood. This causeway, rivalling in many respects a Roman road, cost, with the approaches, the sum of 167,000 rupees, or about 16,8001., and was appropriitely named after its munificent founder—to be a memorial in after ages of the gratitude of the Indian Government, and of the patriotic spirit displayed by the wife of a native merchant of Bombay. The eulogium pronounced by Sir GEORGE ARTHUR, the splendid military ceremony, and the studied honours conferred on these two individuals, in presence of a vast population, were all welltimed and well-merited.  We have intelligence from Lisbon by the Royal Tar steamer to the 9th inst., but it is not of importance. A royal decree had been issued relative to the foreign trade with the island of Madeira. According to that decree the recent dues levied by the Board of Health, on ships touching at Funchal, had been suspended, and the previous scale of dues re-established until the Commission appointed to investigate the subject had made their report.  The intelligence from Madrid is to the Bth inst. The Government had received dispatches from Malaga, stating that a riot had taken place in that city, in which the provincial regiment of Jaen was implicated, but according to the Castellano the accounts were greatly exaggerated. The affair originated ,in a petty quarrel between some of the inhabitants and this regiment, and was quickly suppressed. The capital remained perfectly tranquil, but the funds continuel to decline to an alarming extent, the Three per Cents., on the 7th, having fallen to 30 for cash. The Espeeticlor had been condemned in a fine of 20,000 reals (2001.) for publishing an article offensive to the Government. The case was decided by the judges without a jury. The QUEEN still remained at Barcelona, where it was understood the greater part of the Ministry would be assembled on the 24th, in order to be present at the celebration of Queen CHRISTINA'S birth-day. Accounts from Bayonne, of the 10th, announce the arrival of Mr. BULWER in that town, on his way to London.