The Sun. — 1846-03-02 (London, England)

THE ARMY. The Earl of RIPON then rose to move the thanks of the House to the officers and men employed in the army of India. Their Lordships were more niggardly in offering their thanks to those whose services were given to their common Sovereign and their common country, who had exercised all the powers of their minds and the strength of their bodies with the view of promoting the honour, and the interest, and the safety of the country ; and their Lordships might be well assured that they never tendered their thanks to those gallant men without inspiring them with feelings of gratitude which must tell and did tell in their future exertions and contributed to produce those resolute actions for which they were that day called on to return their thanks. It had always,been the desire, in order that the expression of their Lordships sense of gratitude might be tendered in the most gratifying and graceful manner ; it had always, he repeated, been their Lordship's desire that nothing in the words in which the thanks were expressed, or in the manner of recommending them, that should prevent their Lordships from coming to a unanimous vote upon the subject. That was the course which he intended to follow on the present occasion ; and in the mode in which these resolutions of thanks had been worded, he thought that he would give occasion to no expression of dissent from any of their Lordships. It would be his endeavour, of course, in the observations he should have to make to them, to avoid saying anything that would be inconsistent with this principle. Their Lordships would bear with him in proposing :;his vote, if he stated as briefly as possible, the circumstances which, connected with these affairs, for which they were about to give the thanks of their Lordships' House. The papers which had been laid upon the table, were not placed there for the purpose of calling on their Lordships to express an opinion with regard to the political question involved. Those papers were laid upon the table for the purpose of exhibiting to their Lordships our singular feature in the state of affairs in the city of Lahore. Intrigues of every kind, violence of every kind, murder after murder from time to time practised against those who had obtained power in that state. All those circumstances occurred time after time for a long period extending disorder and confusion to a degree that bad no parallel even in India itself. It was obvious that this state of things could not fail to excite the constant anxiety of the Government, still the policy which was pursued by the Governor, on which he (the Earl of Ripon) did not call upon their Lordships to express any opinion—was that it was not desirable for this country to embark in hostilities for the purpose of attempting to put an end to the horrors which were taking place. It appeared however in the course of these transactions, that an idea was en way. Burnley Improvement and Waterworks. Newcastle and Darlington Junction Railway and Tyne Dock. Newcastle-upon-Tyne and Carlisle Branch Railway. Kennington-lane, &c., Lighting, &c. Mitcham and South-Western Railway. Derby, Gainsborough, and Great Grimsby Railway. Shrewsbury, Oswestry, and Chester Junction Railway (Crickheath and Wem Lines). Shrewsbury, Oswestry, and Chester Junction Railways (Extensions and Deviations). North Wales Mineral Railway (Deviation and Branches). Monkland Canal.  Great North of Scotland Railway. Bromsgrove Improvement and Small Tenements. Rochester Bridge. Electric Telegraph Company. Salford Hundred Court.  City of London Coal Market and Improvement. Billingsgate Market. Sheffield, Ashton-under-Lyne, and Manchester Railway (Peak Forest and Macclesfield Canal Purchases). Huddersfield and Manchester Railway and Canal (Oldham Branch). Huddersfield and Manchester Railway and Canal (Huddersfield Diversion and Cooper Bridge Branch). Wishaw and Coltness Railway (Greenhill Branch). Glasgow, Paisley, and Greenock Railway (Harbour Branch). Glasgow, Paisley, and Greenock Railway (Polloc and Govan Branch). Scottish Midland Junction Railway (South Inch of Perth Branch). Scottish Midland Junction Railway Branches.  Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and Ardrosian Railway.  Aston Rates.  Eastern Union and Harwich Railway and Pier. London, Newbury, and Bath Direct Railway. Great Western and Uxbridge Railway. East Lancashire Railway (Deviations and Branches).  Great Western and Wicoinbe Railway.