The Sun. — 1844-02-09 (London, England)

CHARLES NAPIER—it has placed before the public the real position in which he stood ; and it has elicited from all parties the highest tribute to his foresight, skill, and bravery. It has done more ; for the statements made by authorities competent to judge leave no doubt that if a General of less penetrating mind and less decision had been appointed to command the Sinde army, we should have had a repetition of the Affghanistan tragedy, the whole of the British troops and their auxiliaries would have been surprised, and every officer, soldier and follower, put to ari ignominious death. No praise, therefore, is too great for conduct which saved the nation from such a calamity, and prevented a general rising of all the discontented States adjoining the British possessions in India. Lord AsnLET's motion, to parts of-which there can be no objection, was lost by a great majority, and a mixed majority, too, consisting of Whigs, and Radicals, and Tories. Three of the leading members of the late Government voted in the majority, namely, Lord P ALMERETON, Lord JOHN RUSSELL, and Sir J. C. Honnousz, the late President of the Board of Control. This is fair and honourable, and removes all suspicions that Lord PALMERSTON or any of his colleagues would join in the wild cry of execrating a line of policy which was forced on Lord ELLENBOROUGH and Sir C. NAPIER, and which could not be condemned without involving that of Lord AucxLAND and Sir JOHN KEANE in the same condemnation. Lord AsuLEr has the character of being a very humane and impartial man in all his conduct, both public and private, but it is singular that a Nobleman with such a character should waste all his commiseration and tears only on one party, the hunting and tyrannical Ameers, and would again subject to their iron dominion thousands of emancipated slaves, and tens of thousands of industrious Hindoos, brought down to the lowest misery by their exactions and oppressions. Every author, almost without exception, who has written on Sinde, has described the sufferings of the people under the late Ameers as intolerable, and their government as the very worst to be found in all the East. Has his Lordship no sympathy for oppressed subjects and slaves, and is it consistent with his professed humanity to call upon the Indian Government to direct the " immediate restoration of the Ameers to liberty and the enjoyment of their estates ?" While he laments the fate of a few chiefs, allowei 20,0001. a year, and, with one exception, comparatively at liberty, he forgets the sufferings, the civil war, and the murders which their restoration, even for six months, would entail on their unhappy victims. Let the Ameers be treated with due humanity, let everything consistent with prudence and security be done for their Comfort ; but keep them at a distance from Sinde, and leave the inhabitants to the blessings of a civilized and paternal Government.  Madrid papers of the Ist inst. have .been received, and bring intelligence of vast importance. Another revolution in Spain has commenced whieb,in all probability, will lead to a bloody civil war. .On the 28th of last month a revolt of a formidable character broke out in the seaport town of Alicante. The provincial regiment, stationedat that place, joined in the insur• rection, and the general cries were--q Long live the Constitutional. QuEEN !" " Down -with the Ministers!" The military authorities were completely taken by surprise ; the General Commandant, snd the Political Chief were arrested by the Custom-house Carbiniers, and a Junta formed. On the intelligence reaching Madrid, a Council of Ministers was immediately summoned, the troops were all placed under arras, and orders ids y% for tk arrest of