The Sun. — 1850-09-02 (London, England)

ROBINSON, R.N., who had bcen making a hydrographic survey of the coast, and was therefore well acquainted with the locality, declared his opinion, " that no person in his sound senses, looking to the nature of the _ coast, and going up the Frith of Forth, wculd keep his vessel only a length off to secure its safety." His was, therefore, the greater fault, and it was justly visited with the more stringent penalty. On the whole, the result of the trial will have a most salutary effect, as showing the nature of the important duties undertaken by masters and mates of merchant vessels, and the certain punishment that awaits any negligence or incompetence on their part, leading to an injury to the ship or cargo, or the lives of the crew or passengers.  The intelligence brought from India by the Overland Mail, which arrived" yesterday, is of such a character as to occasion even a still stronger feeling of regret than that we have hitherto expressed at the retirement of Sir CHARLES NAPIER from the office of Commander.in-Chief. It appears that the Afreedees have violated their recent engagements, and have recommenced their acts of plunder. On a former occasion the patrons of piracy and plunder in this country, who make it their business to excuse the atrocities of savages of all sorts, provided only the said savages are black, and are ignorant of the usages of civilised life, took these Afreedee robbers under their special protection, and declared that but fur the tax on salt they would be the mildest and most peaceable of neighbours—the salt-tax is removed, and behold here we have them again, at their old game of murder and robbery. As the Lahore Chronicle very justly observes : "The present Afreedee outbreak will show that the last was not owing to any increase of the salt-tax. In fact, as mere carriers (for their own consumption of salt is small), they were but little interested in that measure. It, however, answered as a pretext for concealing the real one—their objection to having a gunroad made through their pass. Yet many people at the time insisted that their only object was to lower the price of salt." We trust that neither the Government nor the public will suffer themselves to be misled by the clap-trap common-place of the humanitarian stump orators, whose crass ignorance of the nature and polity of the semi savage races of Asia is only equalled by the glib complacency with which they oracularly retail their crude notions as to the manner in which such races should be treated. It is abundantly evident that the Afreedees must be in the first place inspired with a wholesome fear of the British name, and that the gunroad must, coute qui coute, be run through their mountains, and a safe and regular communication be established between Peshawur and Kohat. The Afreedees are now much in the same state that the Scotch Highlanders were at the beginning of the last century, and what the road of Marshal WADE has done fur the Highlanders the gun-road will do for the Afreedees. It is much to be regretted that at this particular time the Marquis of DALHOUSIE should have considered it his duty to pursue such a course of conduct as to impose upon Sir CHARLES NAPIER the absolute necessity of retiring from the command of the Indian army. There is a prestige attached to his name which is worth whole regiments against such enemies as the Afreedee hordes, and in which, however perfect may be the strategy of his successor, that successor Must necessarily be wanting. We regard the retirement of Sir Cuent.ss NAPIER from the command of the Indian army at the present moment as a great public calamity.  --, ILI ..,.,-4 et ..,,, , ..._,.....„ co,t