AIIIISCPURTIEOUS.

The Merchants House at Glasgow have adopted resolutions approv- ing of the Income-tax, as a temporary measure ; expressing much satis- faction at the important and comprehensive revision which the Import- duties have undergone, and hoping that efforts will be made further to relieve the Tariff from unnecessary restrictions.

The Kidderminster operatives have transmitted to Sir Robert Peel an address eulogizing the course pursued by himself and his colleagues, who "are acting nobly, practically, justly, and equitably." The Minis- ter returned a courteous acknowledgment.

The Archbishop of Canterbury gave his annual dinner to the Bishops, at Lambeth Palace, on Thursday, Ascension-day. There were present, the Archbishops of York and Armagh, the Bishops of London, Win- chester, Bangor, Rochester Lincoln, Chester, Ely, Ripon, Hereford, Salisbury, Norwich, Peterborough, St. David's, Worcester, Chichester, and Derry, and the Archbishop's four chaplains.

Sir George Arthur, accompanied by Lady Arthur, took his departure from London on Sunday morning, for Bombay.

The Senior United Service Club have elected Sir Allan lkl`Nab an honorary member ; waiving one of their standing rules in order to do so.

We are sorry to learn that Mr. C. Hindley, M.P., is suffering from severe indisposition at Pau, in the South of France.—Globe.

The Bath Herald contradicts the report that Colonel Gore Langton, the Member for East Somerset, has been at the point of death : he has recovered from an attack of influenza.

Lord Henry Russell expired on Monday, at the House of his father- in-law, Sir Robert Stopford, the Governor of Greenwich Hospital, in his twenty-seventh year. About five years ago, a rigging-block fell on his head, at Portsmoutk; and he has never enjoyed perfect health since. He was married about seven months ago, and had just returned to Greenwich from Ireland, on account of his delicate health.

By the Indian overland mail, we have Bombay papers to the 1st of April, and the London journals teem with the letters of their corre- spondents. The latest date from China is February 15th.

Lord Ellenborough arrived at Calcutta on the 1st of March ; the thunder of the guns which announced his approach mingling with the cheers which resounded in the Town-hall at a meeting to address Lord Auckland on his departure, with a request that he would sit for his statue, to be placed beside those of the Governors-General who had preceded him. Lord Ellenborough had as yet had no opportunity of publicly manifesting his policy ; but it is reported to be decided and warlike.

There had been no material change in the position of affairs in the North-west Provinces ; but what change there had been was favourable to British interests. The attitude of Shah Soojah is the subject of the most conflicting statements. He appears certainly still to exercise sovereign authority in Cabal, and his immunity from destruction is accounted for in a great variety of ways. He is said to have made friends with Shah Zeman or Zeman Khan, one of whom was set up against him, and to have appointed his rebellious rival to offices of trust. The Agra Ukkbar asserts that a letter had been intercepted from Shah Soojah to Shere Singh, the ruler of the PnnjIb, enjoining the latter to remain neutral; "by which means," says the Shah, "the Feringhees will be exterminated." Shere Singh, however, did not follow that advice, if he ever received it ; for he offered active aid to the British. Burnes's Cafila Bashie openly charged the Shah with a foreknowledge of the insurrection. In another place, he is said to have refused assistance to Akhbar Khan, for an attack on Jellalabad, merely because that chief had not tendered his allegiance to him. And lastly, he is reported to have corresponded with General Sale, begging for succours in men or money, and stating that in default he must retreat to Loodianah. The purport of General Sale's reply is not known ; but the succours were not sent.

The Bombay United Service Gazette copies from the Friend of India an extract of a letter from Sir William Macnaghten, which had been published by Mr. Erskine of the Bengal Civil Service, and which tends to show that the Envoy attributed the disastrous position of the British in Cabal to causes other than those supposed : the letter is dated Cabul, 9th December 1841—

" We have now been besieged thirty-eight days by a contemptible enemy, whom the cowardice of our troops, and certain other circumstances which I will not mention, have emboldened to assume an attitude of superiority. Our provisions will be out in two or three days more, and the military authorities have strongly urged me to capitulate. This I will not do till the last moment. We have rumours that a force is coming to our assistance from Candahar; and I sincerely trust it may, for we have no energy or spirit among those here."

Another letter from Major Pottinger, dated the 30th January 1842, throws some fuller light on the matter-

" General Elphinstone, at the time after the murder of Sir W. H. Mac- naghten, when the evacuation of Cabal and its neighbourhood was under dis- cussion in the British cantonments, was so ill from gout and a wound, that all active measures had devolved on Brigadier Shelton. Major Pottinger proposed marching from the cantonment to the Bala Hisaar, or evacuating Cabul, with the sacrifice of their baggage, and fighting their way to the nearest British sta- tion. Brigadier Shelton declared the first proposition impracticable' and the Council of War would not agree to the second; consequently General Elphin- stone acquiesced in the vote of the Council of War, which was for the disas- trous course adopted."

The British prisoners detained by the Afghans were well treated ; and, with the exception of General Elphinstone, were in good health. There were in Mahomed Shah Khan's Ghilzee fort, in the Lughnan valley, General Elphinstone, General Shelton, Lady Macnaghten, Lady Sale, Mrs. Short, Captain and Mrs. Boni, Captain and Mrs. Anderson, Lieutenant and Mrs. Waller, Lieutenant and Mrs. Eyre, Mr. Main- Waring, Mr. Trevor, Captain Troup, Captain Melville, Major Pottinger, Mr. Brown, Captain Mein, Dr. Magrath, Mrs. Smyth, Captain John- stone, Mr. and Mrs. Ryley, Captain Mackenzie, Sergeant and Mrs.. Wade, and a European child. Besides those, fifty European soldiers and three officers, Lieutenant Swayne, Fifth Native Infantry, Ensign Burt, and Lieutenant Magrath, were brought into camp at Peshawar for sale, and had been purchased from the Khyberees. Lieutenants Blair and Bygrave were also safe ; and two hundred rupees had been asked for the latter ; which had, of course, been given. Other persons

who have been heard of are Colonel Chambers, Captain Hamilton of the Fifth Cavalry, Captain Miles of the Fifth Native Infantry, and a Captain Martin ; but there is said to have been no such person as the last with the Cabal army.

Sir Robert Sale remained safe in Jellalabad on the 4th March : he had secured ample provisions for his party, and he held out bravely. On the 15th February, Akhbar Khan encamped on the bank of the river, opposite to Jellalabad, with 2,000 men. On the 19th, the town and fortress were visited by an earthquake; which was also severely felt at Peshawar, Meerut, and elsewhere : it shook down two of the bastions and a portion of the walls. General Sale, Colonel Monteath, Captain APGregor, and others, had a narrow escape of serious injury by the falling of a wall. The damage was hastily repaired. Next day, however, Akhbar Khan, perceiving the defenceless condition of the fortress, marched to the attack. "General Sale," says a writer in

General Pollock's camp, "ever on the alert, sent off the whole of the cavalry, and some guns ; and a good number of the enemy were cut up. It was a short and bloody conflict : we lost in killed and wounded, two grass-cutters and twelve men; the enemy's loss could not be num- bered."

About this time, treasure, amounting to 3,000 rupees, which had been despatched on the requisition of General Sale, who was much in want of money, arrived in safety. The parties who conveyed it had been induced to do so by a promise of liberal recompense; to wit, 100 per cent on such amount as they could prove to have been safely delivered. The report is, that after this repulse, Akhbar Khan's strength was broken up : the correspondent of the Times thus describes his con-

dition— " The large party which attached itself to him in the first instance, as the boldest and most successful leader, seems, after having effected its object, to have

declined in power, or to have split into factions. And this is reconcileable with the course of events; for so long as revenge and the hope of plunder kept the insurgents together, their privations were considered of small moment. Their object effected, however, and no doubt suffering from the cold and snow, large

parties have gone off under their own chiefs, and few in comparison have ad- hered to Akhbar Khan. He has not been able to follow up his successes in any way; and he is described to be sometimes at Badeabad, in the Lughnan district, where his prisoners are, with the Muvab Jubbur Khan, and at others at or near All Musjid, in the Khyber Pass, with a few indifferent cavalry, en- deavouring to secure it against the advancing columns. What, therefore, is more likely, on the relief of Sale's brigade by Pollock, assuming the latter to be successful, than that Akhbar Khan, as the only means of saving his own life, may bring all his prisoners safely into the British camp, and through them make terms for himself attainable by no other means ? "

Hitherto the troops despatched from Peshawar to the relief of Jella- labad had met with various obstructions. The failure of Brigadier Wilde to penetrate the Khyber Pass is attributed by some to the want of cannon, by others to the misbehavour of some native troops. He had fallen back on Junirood : his force much weakened by sickness, with nearly 2,000 disabled. General Pollock still remained at the mouth of the Pass. On the 25th of February, he issued an order to march; which he afterwards recalled. The officers are said to have been dissatisfied with certain limitations on the amount of baggage

which they were allowed to carry ; but the Bombay correspondent of the Morning Post says—" None of the papers here have as yet ventured

to express what, however, is perfectly well ascertained, that two of the Bengal Native Regiments have positively refused to enter the Khyber Pass. They are aware of the massacre of our troops at Cabul, and will not incur the same risk. General Pollock has sent for reinforcements

of Europeans, under the supposition that where there are European troops to lead, the Native troops will follow." Troops were accordingly

on the march to join Pollock, from Ferozepore, and the Punjab; and it is estimated that the gross amount of the British force in Peshawar would be 15,000, with 8,000 Sikh allies—in all 23,000. The General was to move on the 20th March ; but there were some rumours that the Khyb9rees, who had hitherto refused bribes, would now accept the terms offered—two lacs of rupees per annum. The last intelligence from Candahar is to the 10th March. All was safe there. There was a large body of Afghans within twaty miles of that city ; but their leader, Salter Jung, a son of Shah Soojah, ap- peared to dread a rencontre with the British troops. There were up- wards of 7,000 troops in Cauclabar ; and a reinforcement of 2,500, with money and ammunition, has been sent to General Nott from Sukkur. Khelat-i-Ghilzie was, with its garrison of 1,000 men, also safe.

The cholera had appeared in Bombay.

There has been an insurrection among the natives at Kandy, in Ceylon ; created by a pretender to the Kandian throne, aided by some Buddhist priests. The British had not yet interfered; and the only importance which the matter possesses is the injury which add- vators in the neighbourhood are likely to sustain from the disturbance.

The intelligence from China is not of first-rate importance. The Chinese having garrisoned the cities and forts of Yuyao, Tsikee, and Funghwa, which are situate forty, twenty, and thirty miles respectively from Niagpo, with a view of awing those who had submitted to the Eritish, a force consisting of three steamers, with about 700 men, WBS despatched against them, on the 27th of December. They were soon occupied; the only opposition being an attempt at one place on the part of the Tartars to defend the town from without the walls : but, although they opened fire, the Tartars fled as soon as attacked ; they were pur- sued, and lost about 150 men. The only accident sustained by the British was a contusion on the foot of Mr. Lock, a midshipman of the Blenheim, who was struck by a spent giojall-ball. The snow which covered the country saved the others, as their pursuers did not know the safe paths. The ammunition, arms, clothing, and other war-stores, were destroyed, and the public granaries surrendered to the natives. The expedition returned to Ningpo on the 12th of January ; and Sir

Henry Pottinger then sailed for Hong Kong, where he arrived on the lst of February.

He at once put a stop to the practice of seizing the trading-junks. Trade was carried on successfully with the Southern ports, and opium was selling freely along the coast ; for the powers of the Government to control the use of that narcotic appear now to be in a great measure -paralyzed. In the mean time, the Mandarins at Canton and their Dutch engineers were busy in erecting fortifications along the banks of their river : they had already erected twelve stone or earth batteries along the Macao passage and the Salt Junk river, in which they had placed nearly four hundred guns of large calibre. As the export-trade from Canton con- tinued, Sir Henry Pottinger decided, while trade was allowed and the river below Whampoa was unobstructed, upon not attacking that place again ; for, as he declared to some Mandarins, who came commissioned, as they said, by their Celestial Monarch to treat with the British Pleni- potentiary, "I will not now enter into treaty : I will negotiate with the Emperor personally at Pekin "; and to that object he had directed all his preparations.

It is reported that Chusan, Amoy, and Hong Kong are to be free ports. Buildings of various kinds were springing up fast in the last- named island.

The Moniteur Universel of Friday contained the official announce- ment, that on the previous evening the Dutchess of Nemours gave -birth to a son, on whom the King has conferred the title of the Count d'Eu. All the Royal Family were present, with Baron Pasquier the Chancellor, and the Duke Decazes, Grand Referendary of the Chamber of Peers. The Morning Post recalls the relationship of the new Prince with our own Royal Family— "The Datchess of Nemours is the wife of Louis Philippe's second son. She was the Princess Victoria Augusta Antoinette, born 14th February 1822; and daughter of Duke Ferdinand of Saxe Coburg Gotha, uncle of Prince Albert. She is niece of the Dutchess of Kent, King Leopold, and of the reigning Duke Ernest of Saxe Coburg Gotha, and sister of the King of Portugal, the second husband of Donna Maria da Gloria. She was married to the Duke of Nemours April 17th 1840; and the Count d'Eu is the first child. Louis Philippe's chateau d'Eu is between Abbeville and Dieppe. The church contains the tombs of the indent Counts of En. The King of the French las now seven grandchildren,—the Counts of Paris and Chartres, (sons of the Duke of Orleans,) the Count of Eu, Prince Philippe, (son of Prince Frederick and the Princess Maria of Orleans,) and the Princes Leopold and Philippe and Princess Maria of Belgium, (the children of King Leopold and the Princess Louisa of Orleans.)'

The Emperor of Russia issued, on the 2d of April, an ukase to free the whole of the serf population of Russia. The measure, however, had met with so much opposition from the nobles, that he was obliged to maintain severe restrictions on the serfs, both as to compulsory labour and their civil rights; and eventually he was compelled to issue an ordi- nance substantially annulling the privileges granted by the former ukase.

The Madrid correspondent of the Morning Chronicle professes to have discovered a new scheme on the part of Louis Philippe- " You are aware that France claims from this country a debt of something like a million and a quarter sterling for the expenses of the army of invasion of 1823, and putting down the constitutional system of that period in the Peninsula. France has now, I can assure you of the fact, made a formal de- mand for the payment of this sum to the Spanish Minister I In other words, Prance has the shameless audacity to exclaim to her victim, Spain, A million sterling, or the marriage of your Queen to the son of the bigot-despot Don Carlos!' " The Chronicle itself regards the story as incredible.

Intelligence has been received from the United States to 14th of April.

The New York Morning Herald of the 9th mentions a rumour, ihat President Tyler, thwarted in all his plans, intended to resign his office.

Mr. Henry Clay retired from the Senate on the last day of March ; most probably not again to enter the political world, unless as President. He is in bad health, and rest is prescribed.

The Queen's ship Warspite, which conveyed Lord Ashburton, arrived in Annapolis roads on the evening of Saturday the 2d, and fired a salute. The arrival of an English frigate with a special Minister on board -caused quite a sensation at Baltimore, and Sunday was a busy day -among the citizens. On the 4th he proceeded to Washington. He had made a conimunication on the Boundary question to the Governor of the State Or Maine ; which the Governor had assembled the State Le- gislature to discuss. There are manifestations of a strong disposition to receive Lord Ashburton favourably.

There is a report from Rochester, that Hogan, one of the party that destroyed the Caroline steamer, had been arrested there ; but as be was seized on a warrant granted in a different State, he was released, and placed under the protection of a constable to be carried back to Canada.

Having received the following letter, couched in terms which bear • the impress of reality, we recommend it to such of our readers as have snore time and opportunity to investigate the facts than we have-

33, Clement's Lane, Lincoln's Inn Fields, 4th May 1842.

.gd Sir—I pray you in the name of God and humanity not to refuse me a place in your valuable paper. I am fifty-nine of age, suffering the last privation ; since my wife and myself have not tasted a piece of bread today; and, being naked. we are not able to go in the streets. I implore the well-known humanity of the British to pity me. For my wife and myself, we must sleep in the street, hiving not the means of paying our rent. I. have certificate to prove that I am not an impostor.

.‘ I am, Sir, your most obedient servant, "Captain TIJEOPHIL PIETRASSEWSKI, Polish Exile. MARY PIETRASZEWSKA."