The Express. — London, England, 1852-08-11 00:00:00

ghe exnreoo. • TO CO It RES PON IMN TS. A intl..: -.an et" The Kamm." ersiststar • bit maw nrairles (... ' r pubWird *wry Tawdry sail Friday rier, ir 6.4 Malt for "The Ezprefo."Limiss =rely paw, • 'b. Soaiverbratzesto/ TWO Vigo* an UN dig • , ,leatkos. uM WATER AT LONDON BRIDOII Two Da , —llanduir. 101 i. ...... -Abeam'. la 41s. T0...a...--klamiskLilk.l.4k.........Mamis. I.k. 392 L LONDON, WEDNESD.AT, AUGUST 11. WITH regard to the meeting of parliament, all that can be predicated with certainty is, that it will be put off as lung as possible. Having done their utmost to bribe and bully voters, ministers now re quire a few days of grace to tamper with membersof the House of Commons. They know that a majority of the house is opposed to them, but they cherish a lingering hope that some members are of that soft, waxy nature that easily receives new forms and im pressions, if skilfully manipulated. Why precipi tately open the 'realm before they have tried whether some of the "doubtful," may not be in clined to " listen to reason ?" Conservatives and Liberals, in these days, fade into each other by such delicate and imperceptible gradations of tint, that it is often hard to say whether a man ought to be classed as s "Con servative Liberal" or a " Liberal Conservative." Not a few of the gentlemen who affect one or other of these dulcet denominations are of the number of those, whom a late popular novelist described as " men with quiet easy consciences, which never did them anv harm." Show them that they can gain by it, and they will, without hesita tion—as Mr. Moniapie Tiyi changed his name, by transposition, to Tigyi Moiltaytie—place either the '• Liberal" or tho Conservative" foremast in describing their political tendencies--assume the character either of " independent supporters," or an-factious opponents" of ministers. And there are a great many ways in which ministers can con ciliate gentlemen so " reasonable." 'f here are railway and other job. to be promoted or resisted; road bills, harbour bills, and so forth; deputy lieutenancies or commissions in the militia to be disposed of; partial changes in the manner of conducting business in the Custom-house, or Excise surreys to be con ceded. The man who is a " Conscrrxtive Liberal," to-day, if judiciously handled, may six weeks hence have thawed into a " Liberal Conservative"—that is, bare been sweetened from a sub-acid adversary of the I)titux cabinet into a milk-and-water supporter of it. The season is propitious to a ministry that has so much to gain by evading its pledge to assemble per. hament at an early day. The opening of the session can be put off under the most seemingly harmless sad plausible pretexts. The elections (oUowed so close upon the rising of parliament that members have not yet enjoyed either relaxation or repose. On Thursday grouse shooting commences, and black cock shooting eight days later. Then ten more days bring in partndge shooting ; and a month later pheasant shooting begins. Every Englishman is— or affects to be--a sportsman. Ministers give them. selves airs of postponing business for the sake of sport ; even stern oppositionists conform to the fashion, and affect to sympathise with such jaunty neglect of duty : Whig and Tory laughingly up braidthg each other with being lazy fellows. But all the while the Derbyites, though seemingly aban doned to idleness and pleasure, are working double tides in their political capacity. Every official or semi-official ministerial at that can get out of town is out of town. No business that can be put off is transacted. Dinners and all other political demonstrations are discountenanced. Nothing is raid or done that can give a handle to poli tical But political setters are ranging the country on all sides in guest of pliable °ppm tionists. When such a one is put up, he is quietly but pertinaciously plied by ministerial agents. Their fingers are never o ff his buttons, their noses never out of his ears. He is held fast and drenched with whispers all tending to sap and undermine his very easy political virtue, to wash out of him the very slender portion of starch mixed up with his limp political character to stiffen it. The question that all friends of rational promss and good government have now to ask themselves is not " what is the balance of parties in the new House of Commons at present ?" but, "what will that balance be two or three months hence, if Lord Main sweet& in putting off the opening of the session so long ?" There is a majority against Lord Dram in the House of Commons just now; but, with the ) possibility of a seven years' parliament in view, with ministers utterly unscrupulous in their exerciae of official patronage and power, and with so many ,members of the House of Commons in whom a strong regard for their own individual interests is only kept in check by a very feeble and lukewarm concern for public interests, or respect foe public opinion, it would be rash to assume that there moat of necessity be a majority against him in November. It is thesoixo in no wee spirit at ecostitatianal pee/mg the the attempt er minimise to as keine possible the uplift d the Hoese ll e s t= asnarotiousil he declare whiter they enjoy the general esedissee et not, is eenspleined o f. This =riis is sentrodistien at the customary enshoenuisoo, hot that is not The objoet siehisio in this t, as was well vonoriod lsy wo, tly on Saturday, is to pot es opperisnitv to tamperwith the jury inipan se Ms try the validity of their claims to public coadenes. In gamma essiety you do not meet with a man so blind as ast to eve that this is the came. But the paid. maw *be without its leaders. There will be no desidee meessmat to frustrate this irradiate it the Diebyiles, unless those who take upon tlMmarirm to be leaders on the Liberal side set them selves to week. And they are all as torpid in reality as the Dengue' affect to be ; the opposition leaders are sleeping madly, snoring audibly, while minis .** and task agents are only playing 'possum." Whip and Peditss. Manchester men and Hawke,— else and as it *sea fold thsk ants, decline their Ireads. and Waist in a shade. They alter no pro test sepia* indelnile Isowpeelingpenenesst of the smating et porlimmoot. bow ma slip pery mimeo ikey ha* to deaf with, the y leave the. owned to the tampering and temptations of tnieffelsta nay indulge in the Joke for ?dents, while me sAer another of their pawns is being Angered of the board. If Lord lour Rusern„ Sir JAmes 011AMAX, Mr. GLADSTONE, Mr. Hums, Messrs. Bumf and COBDEN, do not bestir them selves iaamedistsly, to compel ministers to summon parliament M meet without more delay, they will es domelese to the suspicion of having courted defeat —of having connived at the postponement of the day of battle until their antagonists could bring into the held a force numerically stronger than their own. THE Kaffir war hes become a chronic disorder in South Africa. It has nothing about it of the passing fever fit, sharp and weakening, but to the end of which we can confidently look forward. It has more the look of one of those organic, ineradicable diseases which continue to torture the patient at intervals till death relieves him. The present aspect of the Kaffir war is briefly as follows:--Along a line stretching one hundred and twenty miles inland from the sea, and for fifty miles o• either side of it, the black and white races are :Srin • desultory, aimless, seemingly intermi war. All is terror and insecurity, both on the Kaffir and the English side of the frontier. One dos LI British expedition sets fire to half-a-dozen native vil is, shoots a few score of natives, drives off some hue reds of cattle. Next day bind:sof Kaffir warriors burn down as many En g li s h and Dutch farm-stead ings, kill a few of their inmates, and carry off what ever they can lay hold of. Detachments of British soldiers penetrate now into one Kaffir fastness, and again into another. Bands of Kaffir warriors take rip positions within short distances of Uitenhage and ciroiaff Reynett, among the ravines and woods, and lie in wait for travellers. Each side inflicts grave losses and sufferings on the other, but neither can so weaken and subdue its antagonist as to afford the slightest ground for expectation that these reciprocal robberies and murders can at any period, however remote, be brought to a close. Lased the respect of peace app. 'vs more remote now than it did at any former period. Sir HENRY Burnt provoked the war by his melodramatic quackery, and proved himself utterly incapable, not merely to bring it to a successful termination, but even to maintain that ascendancy while it lasted which the more civilised party to the strife might naturally have been expected. But Sir HENRY'S successor his con trived to make bad worse. His retirement within the frontier might be absolutely necessary, but it was calculated to discourage the colonists andembolden the enemy, to • degree that can only be counteracted by increased efficiency of the operations conducted from the new basis. And the more recent operations have led to results even more humiliating than those of Sir HENRY SMITH. The fiercer and more savage man ner in which the war is carried on by the new com mander in-chief has been less successful than the more measured and humane strategy of his prede cessor. Governor CATHCART breathes gibbet in every pro clamation, and makes no distinction of age or sex; and this indiscriminating recklessness has skilfully been turned to account by UITIIALDER, the llottentot leader. It is clear that we have not now mere sa vages to deal with. It is emitted now that the Hottentot insurrection has been occasioned by tears, entertained among that portion of the Cape popula tion, that compulsory la bo ur laws were about to be enacted. It is well known from what source these fears have been instilled into them. Tho Montague fac tion among the officials have for a long time back been labouring to make the whites jealous of the blacks and the blacks jealous of the whites, on the Ma chiavellian principle of " divide and govern." They have sowed the wind and are now reaping the whirlwind. The insurgent Hottentots, it is clear, have among them daring and cultivated spirits, who have been frightened into having recourse to arms, and who are being confirmed in rebellion by the coarse violence of the new Governor, and the M ucosa that has attended it. And they have in their service trading agents—some of them apparently Europeans—who, when ono channel for procuring arms mad ammunition is dammed up, dispo . ly s zo mesa ineethie sad enterprise in opening up That the coloured people can overcome the whites we have no notion, but they may so establish themselves be the country they at present occupy, as to be long a thorn in the side of the colony. It is now apparent that European settlement in South Africa has been too hastily pushed on. This has been owing partly to the consequence of the eagerness of the settlers to open up and appropriate new pastures; but to a far greater extent to the dispersion of the Boers, ostelossd by the harsh and unwise policy of the Mae government. But whatever the cause, ties anew quence is that • thin and straggling Ihmegess population has been spread over an immense terri tory, surrounded by a fierce and warlike popu lation that far outnumbers it. For the European settlers to draw back and concentrate themselves within narrower limits, is impossible; that would be interpreted by the natives as a sym of her and weakness, and would invite The settlers must keep their ground ; they can ste/y do es by sleeping with their arms below thole bores, and keeping their powder dry It is as yet impossible to hem the most remote conjecture of what the follies and extraysgao. .es which have been enacting in South Africa tier the last quarter of a century are yet to cost the nation. Sir George Grey has, we understand, declined to become a candidate for the representation of the city of Durham, vacant by Mr. Granger's death. It is rumoured that Mr. Henry Fenwick, who lately con tested Sunderland, will be the liberal candidate.— Doily News. THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, AUGUST 11, 1852 gaming upon this to raise the arrogant exactions of France. We learn that Leopold had sent for M. Verhnegen, and held a long conference with that gentleman, who is president of the Cham ber of I)epaties. In consequence of the King not haring convoked the Chambers, it appears that he was of opinion that these would not hear of the re newal of the treaty at the sacrifice of any moral principle, and that the result would have agitated the country and aggravated the bad understanding with France. The Debuts contains the following notice on this subject : The accounts which we receive from DTWIIeIII announce that the present ministry remains in office, with the excel)• Lion of N. Freer Rebut, who retires from the Finance de pedant, and is about to proceed on a journey of pleuuro into Italy. His successor is not yet named. It is known that the negotiations of the treaty of commerce which have beat suspended for some time, are about to be resumed. Lisdta, governor of Brabant, and one of the negotiators of the treaty, returned to Paris the day before yesterday. ' A . prnislonel emanation will be signed for ex tending the treaty to the end of the year, but the only object of this convention is to avoid the rupture of the treaty, which was about to expire, and the deflnAive treaty appears likely to be KM concluded. It Is, in feet, announced that the Belgian Chambers will shortly be convoked to discuss the bill relative to the treaty, as according to article 68 of the constitution, treaties of com merce cad other treaties which may tax the state or indi vidually bind the Belgians, cannot take effect until after , they have received the assent of the Chambers. This ex traordinary session, in which the members cl! the Chamber of Representatives will meet for the first time, wid be effort, and will not lead to any political discussion. The bill rale tive to the treaty of commerce will be the only measure on ! the order of the day. It is generally believed that it will be , accepted, but by a small majority. _ _ _ The Mimiteur of this morning contains the first official allusion to the President's trip to the Sologne, in the following paragraph: The Prince President set out on Saturday evening to visit the works that he is now causing to be executed in the So logos. He will return soon (pnxhairiensenl). At the time of the publication of this annousoe ment, the Prince had already returned to St. Cloud, where ho arrived safely at 7 o'clock last night. By a decree in the Moniker the interim adminis tration of the ministry of thOnterior, agriculture, and commerce, during the absence of M. Persigny, is con fided to M. Mage e , minister of public works. By another it is declared that the clauses of the decree of the sth November, 18.51, relative to borax, shall be exclusively applicable to raw native borax. M. Barre has been appointed chef du cabinet of the minister of public works. A further official list of councillors-general elected on Sunday is . published to-day. M. Duces, the mi nister of marine, has succeeded in one of the cantons of Bordeaux. The results of the polling in the other cantons is not given, from which circumstance it is supposed that some opposition candidates may have been elected there. At Rouen the government no minees have all been chosen, but the abstentions were more numerous than on the first occasion, only 4,200 electors out of 23,000 having voted. At Hans only 1,070 out of 8,000 took part in the ' election. On the second ballot, however, the elec tions are valid without reference to the proportion of the eleetors that may vote. A protest has been signed by a number of the inhabitants of the Cha rente InPricure against the election of Prince Murat, upon the ground that the prefect declared in a pro clamation that to vote against Prince Murat would be to vote against the President himself, and that leave was refused to the supporters of M. Chasseloup Laubat to placard his name in the election-hall by the side of that of his opponent. The protesting parties pray that the election may bo declared void,' and call upon the returning officers to annex their protest to the return. It is an argument in favour ' of the petitioners that the council of the prefecture of the Pas do Calais has can celled the elections of the opposition municipal councillors of Fampoux, as having been affected by illegal pressure, disloyal manceuvres, and lying reports. A letter from Vienna, of August 5, published in a semi-official lithographed correspondence of Paris, states that Cardinal Hohenlohe, one of the most intimate friends of the Pope, is expected at Vienna to negotiate on the subject of the evacuation of the Roman States by the French and Austrian troops the re-organisation of the pontifical army being nearly completed. The preparations for the ftte of the 15th are pro ceeding actively in all parts of Paris. In the Champs Epees a great number of workmen are occupied in erecting fountains on both sides of the roadway, and in cutting trenches for distributing the water. The basins of the fountains will be in zinc, and the wood-work will be stuccoed. There are to be two falls of water in each fountain, one from a consi derable height. It is believed that the electric light playing on the water will produce a great effect. In I the centre of the Rond-Point, the temporary pedes tal destined to receive the equestrian statue of the Emperor is nearly completed. The pedestal has been covered with stucco, and workmen are employed in forming basso-relievos on it. The wood-work for the fireworks near the Chamber of Deputies, is pro greasing rapidly. Stands are to be erected on the, Quai de Billy, to afford a view of the naval combat which the frigate is to maintain against some steam ers. The frigate is already completely masted and rigged. The operations of the vessel have been con ducted by Capt . Montour, aide-de-camp to the minis ter of marine. The choice of the fourteen young females who are to receive dowries on the occasion of the 16th August has been made. The marriage contracts will be signed at the Hotel de Ville, in pretence of the pre fect of the Seine, and the marriage ceremony both civil and religious will be performed on the 14th. The horticulturists know not how to supply the ' numerous orders addressed to them for flowers for the famous ball at the central markets. The Dames de Halles themselves require more than 4,000 bouquets. The flowers of which they will be com posed will be selected from among the finest that the gardens round Paris produce. contractors for the decorations of the ball-room have been autho rised to choose in the forests and parks of the state the freshest and finest branches to ornament the ap proaches to the interior of the room. Several of the Dames de la Hallo have decided on assuming for the occasion a costume which, from its form and richness, will recall to mind the fashions of the empire. More than 600 workmen are now at work is preparing and decorating the temporary ball-room. At the Bourse the Four-and-a-Half per Cents, fell 40, closing at 104.50; the Threes fell 26e., and closed at 74.80. The fall was attributed to uneasiness on the subject of Belgium. Bank of France shares fell 20. The Orleans railway fell 17.60; Northern, 15; Lyons, 8.75 ; Strasbourg, 8.25 ; Havre and Western, 6 each; Rouen rose 2.60. The correspondent of a morning cotempormy says : It is rumonred that some untoward accident has occurred to interfere with, some say to break off entirely, the Presi dent's projected matrimonial alliance. In quarters that ought to be well-informed it is denied that a rupture has taken place, though it would appear that something ham ft marred, not, howevea, u I am informed, of a serious cha racter. Every one knows that the " cosine of true love I never does run smooth," but I believe it would be puma tare to say that it has been definitively interr u pt e d. Th e President's brief absence within the last day or two has also given rise to a multitude of rumour s , a n d that about the marriage wee one of the first. The President returned to St. Cloud last night. arrests. Fifty-four soldiers had deserted in conse quence. Mews. Collie and Co., of Manchester, had claimed two mead ready-made clothes seised by the custom house officers of Civita Vecchia. Count Antonelli had arrived from Paris. NAPLES, Acourr 4. General Filangieri is again Lord-Lieutenant of Si cily, having triumphed in the cabinet council of Gaeta. There are, however, moms difficulties yet to be surmounted, the question of unlimited rule in Sicily being the chief feature in this quasi-reconci• listion between the king and the old soldier of Mu rat. Like all irresponsible governments, the cabinet of Naples is divided and full of intrigue, his Majesty playing the part of big bully when things come to a crisis. I am told fresh communications have reached the Neapolitan government, relative to the retirement of the French troops from Rome. The Pope, it appears, does not want the Austrians to go too far from the Vatican,unless ho can count on Neapolitan or French aid. GERMANY. The Courrier du Btu-Rhin that the German governments havo ratified the convention with France for the junction of the French and Ger man railways. FRANCE. PARIS, TIIIIIDAT STRAIN°. The Moniteur contains the following importan The treaty of commerce concluded on the 13th of Decem ber, 1846, between Priam and Belgium, and respectively corded into execution from sad after the 10th of August, 1846, expires on the 9th instant. This treaty having been neither prolcapd nor mewed, the commercial relations of the twe *natio an replaced nudes the regime of the gene ral tariff. It has long been the knows blood= of the French government to mob tits Beigiamt as hard as possible upon this que, and, by the declaration of a war of tariffs to force Leopold to throw over all plans of a liberal adesinbitration, and put himself in the hands of the Jesuits. This cowardly policy was distinctly proclaimed in those articles aril. iiranier de Comagnac, in the month of June, whisk exalted unloose! indignation through out Europe. Bat, netwitbetanding this warning, it was always begs& anti _particularly since the acces sion cl M. Dregs is lobeys to the ministry of to =B4ffsires, Viet tbe widen would be settled , and that the tr imly would at least, accord ing to tba venal diplomas indoes, be provisionally prolonged ontib keek emerineste had been con shied. Imised. thieseeme 'neared so obvious that tin sonstmament whisk recently appeared in the mat at organ., such as the Independance 34, that it wield be adopted, produced little sen sation; and so utterly unexpected is the announce ment contained in the Mowiteur, that the same Bel gian paper renews to-day its former assurance, and M. Armand Bertin, in the Debate, states that the treaty would be provisionally continued. Since the commencement of the ministerial crisis in Belgium, the question concerning the terms upon which the treaty would be renewed, or whether it would be renewed at all, has been the chief source of diMculties in the formation of a new cabinet. The behaviour of the catholic party in Belgium during the whole of this period has been such as to justify M. Cemegnaes assertion that they desire that their country should become a province of France. If the interest of Belgium in the renewal of the treaty had been greater, the Jesuits would probably have car ried the day, and we should have witnessed the dis graceful fact of a small kingdom being bullied into the adoption of a policy in religious matters which the great majority of the inhabitants hate and repudiate, simply to prevent commercial embar rassments. But the advantages which Belgium would derive from the renewal of the treaty are hap pily not so preponderating as to force the king and people to submit to the dictates of the French poten tate in favour of the papists, and thus to pave the way for incorporation with France. In fact during a succession of yeses the commerce of Belgium with France has been decreasing, while the general pros perity of the former kingdom has been advancing ; so that the maintenance of the differential duties is not a vital question for Belgium, such as the catholic party represent it, and indeed of much less import ance than the question of national independence and dignity. In 1838 Belgium exported four mil lions kilogrammes of linen cloths, of which France alone took the whole all but 2 per cent. In 1841 the exportation fell to three mil lions and a half, of which France took 80 per cent In 1845 the proportions exported to France were the same. In 1830 of two millions ex ported France took only 31 per cent. In 1831 the quantity of cloths exported fell to little more than a million of kilogrammes, of which 39 per cent. were exported to France. If, therefore, the French market was a vital resource for Belgium in 1838, on the other hand, in 1851 the expectations to France having diminished by two thirds in relation to the whole quantity exported in the same year, and to one-fifth in relation to the quantity exported to France in 11838, such is no longer the case, and Belgium may snap her fingers at France and the Jesuits. In fact the industrial activity of Flanders has taken another direction, and the efforts of the government to open fresh sources of trade have been crowned with nom plete success, Besides, it is absurd to imagine that all the advantage of the treaty denounced has been felt only on one side of the frontier. Wines, thread, and woollen textures, articles of fashion, silks and other French productions, have been the object of large concessions made by Belgium to France. The Belgian producers complain, on the contrary, that their interests have received no equivalent con ' cession on linens and threads from France. The Indepenannee of to-day complains bitterly of the unworthy conduct or the clerical party, who have not ceased to perplex the negotiations with France, to aggravate the difficulties it presented, and to exert themselves in every way so as to prevent the possi bility of a satisfactory conclusion. That party has not ceased to proclaim the renewal of the treaty indispensable to the linen trade of Belgium, and pro- SWITZERLAND. The Ofrial Gazette of &Irv, of the 6th, states that the telegraphic lines of Switzerland aro shortly to be opened to the public, and that the union of these lines with the 'Curio and Chambery line has been agreed upon at Geneva. The point of union is said to be Annecy. It is believed that the Turin and Chambery line will be flubbed by the 15th of October. ITALY. ROMAN STATES. Our Roman correspondent, writing on the 4th of August, contradicts a rumour prevalent in Rome that the triumvir Calandralli had escaped from the fortress of Ancona, in company with Edward Mur ray. A murder was committed in Anoona on the 28th ult., two hours after a murderer had been pub licly shot. The Papal government had doubled the export duty on oak timber, which is wholly consumed in the royal dockyards of Great Britain. Thus the tax is a direct blow against the Admiralty. The military plot at Velletri was causing many TILE NORTH AMERICAN TO THE EDITOR OP THE DAILY NEWS. Stu,—The American fisheries dispute will upset the Derby administration, and I should not be at all .urprised to find that the United States government authorised the American fishermen to arm and defend themselves when attacked in their long existing calling. It is not likely that 20,000 resolute men, such as the American fishermen are, will submit quietly to be deprived of their means of subsistence, to which they have a prescriptive right. Once let an affray take place between the Americans and British and vengeance will fall, as it ought to fall, on the present government, for provoking this die pnte. 'rho grievance of the Canadian colonists was a stereotyped one. The rights which it as sumed for the colonists have been lost for want of usage. The Americans will claim according to the wise old Dutch custom in this country, their " right of way ;" you cannot shut up a path or a road in England after it has been traversed publicly for a certain period. Common sense and common necessity will sometimes override the strict letter of the law. Depend upon it, air, my country men will understand why the present government is provoking an antipathy between the British and American nations. I happened to be in Southampton when the late election was going on there, and I , heard ono of the candidates—a Mr. Bailie Cochrane, who went the whole hog for Lord Derby —say that the great object of the Derby administration was "to stem the tide of democracy." Yes, Mr. Editor, and to encourage the inroad of despotism. What is meant by stemming the tide of democracy is stopping the progress of the people towards in creasing liberty and happiness. How the Emperors of Russia and Austria would rejoice, if they could see the two great nations who welcomed Kossuth engaged, through the agency of my Lord of Malmo,- bury, in a bloody and desperate warfare. But the cod fishery in the Bay of Fundy must not—cannot— involve England and America in actual war; but it will ensure the fall—even if no other came ensured it—of the Derby government. AN AMERICAN IN ENGLAND. August 10. GOLD IN NOVA SCOTIA. The following, from the SP. John, New Brunswick, News, is additional news respecting the discovery of gold in Nova Scotia : We saw • letter from Annapolis, addressed toe gentleman in this city, on Monday, which says that a returned Cali , fornien and several persons proceeded a few days since, with Lpicks and shovels, to explore for gold, s i nce an i nv i tat i on ad been held oat to them from Blackwood. They accord ingly came to a certain place in the valley of the Annapolis, and, after digging a hole big enough for • child to tumble in, the Californian brought to light a handful of gravel mixed with particles of gold. The whole company looked upon the auriferous handful %SY eager delight; and, with out further hesitation, each concluded that his fortune was made. While examination was going on, another of the company seized his pickaxe and made a dreadful blow at a large rock near by, and brought out • piece with small particles of gold aAhocias to it. The com pany, after making these discoveries, split es. hatd as they could for the wiliest to ascertain of the watchmaker (it seems that there is only one watchmaker in Annapols) whether what they had found was real gold, or only mica. The watchmaker got his crucibles in working order, and, after chemically testing the stiff, it turned out (says the writer) to he the real thing, according to the best knowledge and belief of the watchmaker. Some of the good folks of Annapolis, however, think that the Californian had been playing • trick—that he dropped the gold dust into the hole himself among gravel for the fun of the thing. The gold seekers, on the other hand, don't b e li eve • wor d of this, for the best proof they have that there is no imposition praeised is the piece of rock which "Jem" broke off with his own hands. The whole town and county of Annapolis are in one blaze of excitement. The people are all satisfied that the country abounds in gold, and great preparations are making for the diggings. Our hardware dialers need not be surprised if they receive orders for all the pickaxes and shovels they can supply. A steamer was advertised in our streets on Monday " For the gold digginp." As soon as we learn any more news from the diggings we shall lay it before our readers. The above may be relied upon. We read the letter f ounelvire.—The Ontario Reporter (Whitby, Games at), July 17. PANORAMA 01' THE AUSTRALIAN GOLD FIELD. A panorama of the voyage to Australia, and of the gold fields district, at the Antfipdean colony, wee opened yesterday to private view, at 3M, Regent street, and the speculation " being in all respects one Just now mast likely to attract great attention among intending emigrants, there can be very little doubt that it will amply repay the enter prise in which it has originated. It is a very genuine affair altogether ; and, with some little amendments in manage ment, must prove directly useful and instructive to a large class. The Australian portion of the panorama is painted in an effective, though not even in the most finished panoramic style, from sketches taken by Mr. J. S. Prout—not the Prout, but an accomplished ma. The marine and introductory series of views era by Mr. T. 8. Robins and are about the finest of the kind we aver sa w . The " Natural History "—an extensive department in the filling in of the rest—is by Mr. 0. Weigel], and is very good also. The views in the colony include the principal towns and harbours and settlements, the routes to the different " diggings," and the " diggings " themselves. Perhaps there is not suet orreetnees in the scenery and colouring, =fudging from what we know by books and by per descriptions of Australia, we fancy we observed many aeon a notorious fact—such as in the sire, dress, and arms of the natives and in the undue amount of foliage given to the trees—but the authenticity of the ge neral scope and outline of the panorama is guaranteed by the statement that Mr. Print has sketched from what he has really visited. What is mainly wanted in such a work Is • rough idea of the country ; and as that is given, • real utility is provided. We therefore recommend all those in terested to see the panorama without delay. The lecture, explanatory of the views, is ingeniously bad, bald, tame, and unsatisfactory. There is no reason why at an exhibition of this kind the same valuable and full geo graphical, geological, and political information should not be conveyed as was given in his " Gold Lecture" at the Museum of Practical Geology, by Mr. Jukes. We hope the manegon, for their own sakes, will take the hint. WRF.CH OF AN EMIGRANT SHlP.—Letters have arrived announcing the melancholy loos of an English emi grant ship, the Trusty, of Scarborough, having on board nearly two hundred emigrants, off the shores of Cape Gaspe, while on a passage to Quebec. The vessel. which was commended by Mr Foster, sighted the land near the Cape on the 22nd of July, when ker course was shaped to the northward. On the following morning a dense fog came on, preventing the crew observing any distance be yond a cable's length or so of the vessel ; and, although orders wt re given to keep the ship well off the land, sh e eventually struck on a reef of rocks within • short distance of the Cape, where she speedily filled and settled down. Against the command of the muter, one of the boats was lowered and cut away from the vessel. It con tained in all, it is supposed, about twenty persona. An attimpt was made to gain the shore, but so great was the surf, that the boat was capsized by it before it had reached many yards from the wreck, and the whole of the helpless creatures perished. Among them were the under mentioned persons:—Thomas Blake, Daniel Seunderson, John Dickenson, William Brown, David Hodgson, John Atkinson, Thomas Shaw, William and Thomas Stallings, Thomas Winteringham, Stephen Bullock, Martha Tiller, Wright Banker, Robert Yates, Frank Francis, and Thomas Burton. For sight hours the position of these on the wreck was as. of great peril ; the sea was sweeping over her decks, and it was expected every moment she would go to pieces. Soon after day had broken • schooner bore down to the spot, and, with the aid of the crews of two other vowels that came up, the whole that were clinging to the wreck were taken off in safety. Their luggage, how. ever , was lost, for in a few days the vessel broke up, and was a total wreck. The emigrants have since been for warded to Quebec.. CAPE OF GOOD HOPE, THE KAFFIR WAR. [A summary of the following appeared in yester day's Express.] ARRIVAL OF THE PROPONTIS. The General Screw Steam Shipping Company's vessel the Propontie, Capt. Glover, arrived at the Mi'duty Pier, Plymouth, at 0.30 p.m. on Monday, with mails from tho Cape of Good Hope, Sierra Leone, &e. . . - . . . ThiPropontis left Plymouth on her outward voy age May. 15th, St. Vincent's May 28th, Sierra Leone June 3rd, and arrived at the Cape of Good Hope June 20th. She left the Cape of Good Hope on her return voyage July 2nd, arrived at Sierra Leone the 18th, and sailed the 19th ; arrived at St. Vincent's on the 24th, and sailed on the 26th, and arrived at Ply mouth August the 9th. The Propontis brings a general cargo, including as usual some ivory, palm oil, and gold dust, and the following passengers :—Capt. Vial, Capt. *Kenzie, Capt. Fitzgerald, Capt. Harrison, Lieut. Halo and servant, Cornet Elwes and servant, Mr. Morris, Mr. Slater, Mr. Seligman, Rev. Dr. Judge, Mrs. Hogge, four servants, and child, Mr. Darnell, Mr. Hender son, Capt. Brown, of the merchant service. She also brought a large mail in charge of Com mander Thurburn. The mail was landed on the vessel coming alongside the pier, and received by Mr. Mark, as the postmaster of Plymouth, where the letters, &c., were sorted and distributed to their destinations the following morning. Had the vessel been half an hour earlier, or had the mail train been kept back for that period , the mails might have been forwarded to London on Monday night. This, how ever, would not have expedited the delivery in the north of England, and would have considerably de layed it in the western counties. The Osprey schooner, Captain Way, left the Cape for London on June 24th, with a valuable general cargo. The ship Mary Cannon, Captain Renney, was at the Cape, from Calcutta, taking in addi tional cargo for Liverpool, when the Propontis left. Her Majesty's steam-vessel Styx was in Table Bay June 29th, and her Majesty's steam-ships Hydra, lthadamanthus, and Senngapatam, were in Simon's Bay at the same date. The Ellen Rawson bark, Captain Sadler, arrived at Cape Town June 24th, with a valuable general cargo from Lon don. The Marchioness, schooner, Fowler, from Liverpool, arrived Juno 24th, with a cargo of sundries. On the 10th of April, three days after leaving Liverpool, James Rottman, an appren tice, fell overboard and was lost. The ship Resolute, It. Lewis, from Madras for London, put into Simon's Bay, to land passengers, June 18. The Warrior brig, Capt. F. *Lean, arrived June 9, with cargo of sun dries. July 6, in lat. 26.20 S. don., 10.50 E., the Propontis exchanged signals and spoke the British ship Barhamporo from Singapore for Liverpool. 40 miles S.W. of Sierra Leone she spoke H.M. brig Crane, and on the same day spoke the Ellen Munro, coming out from Sierra Leone. July 24 left at anchor at Porto Grande H.M. ships Herald,, Torch, Pluto, and the merchant schooner Nautilus. The Harbinger, with the outward Cape mail, arrived at St. Vincent's as the Propontis left. July 27, she exchanged signals with the barque Glasgow, bound for Panama, in lat. 18.27 N. don., 24.62 W. Aug. 8, lat. 47 N., lon. 91 W., saw the Oriental, of Stockton. The Peninsular and Oriental Company's screw steamer Chusan arrived in Table Bay June 2* at seven o'clock, having left Southampton on the 16th of May, and St. Vincent on the 30th. She brings 27 passengers for Port Phillip and Sydney, and has 200,00 W. in specie, and a mail. The Propontis left St. Vincent two days before the Chusan, and arrived at the Cape the day after her, but it should be borne in mind that the Pro pontia went round and stopped at Sierra Leone, which the larger vessel did not. The Chusan left Table Bay June 29 for Sydney with her original cargo, a mail, and three additional passengers— Messrs. Ravenshaw and Sampson, and Capt. Lewis. The news from the frontier by this arrival is of a very unsatisfactory character, although not of a very sanguinary complexion. The Kaffir war appears as far from its termination as it did on the arrival of the first mail steamer from the Cape some eight or ten months since. We are still informed of robbeiiell and some cases of murder, of cattle lifting and steal tche mail bags, of skirmishes in whi c h so m e f ew ere have been killed and others wounded, of • few Minie rifles captured and diaahled. and of the capture of a rebel or two, but of nothing that induces the hope of the end of the war being near. According to the South African Commercial Ad rertiser of July 3, " the details of assaults, robberies, murders, pursuits, skirmishes, and personal exploits is which the colonists have been distinguished actors ge sufferers would fill many columns. Disorder and dosser, as well as actual war, have become familiar 6r 60 miles or more on both sides of the border line, some 100 or 160 miles in length. The latest reports give reason to fear that strong parties of active marauders have already established themselves among the mountains and forests not far from the towns of liitenhage and Port Elizabeth." One melancholy item of intelligence by this arrival is the news of the death of Major W. 8. Rogge, who, it will be recollected, went oat during the last year as one of the government assist ant commissioners. The major died at Blows- fontein on June Bth, after a few days' illness, brought on by exposure to bad weather. The monthly summary of the aim Town Mail d July 2nd contains all the gist of the news brought by the Propontis : No decided change has taken plies either in the prognosis or character of the Kaffir war since the date of our het summary. Up to the time when the latest intelligence teen received from Kaffirland hostilities were still being carried on with undiminished activity on both sides. Routed from one fastness, the enemy plunges into another, and oar bran troops, in following him up, are exposed to a constant enel. cession of hardship, labour, and privation, in with which the perils of more molar warfare might girded es trifling. It is again our painful task to report that, during dm month, several of our fellow-colorists have met with Yin lent deaths from marauding parties of the enemy within the colony. A young man sassed Humphries ' driving a waggon near the entrance of De Rauin's Poort , was ebM down, and the oxen carried off. A sergeant of the Cape Corps, parsing between King William's Town and Monad Coke, in company with two Englishmen, was shot, and the body was subsequently found with fi ve Magai wounds in it, his companions having apparently escaped. An oil man named Baud, once in opulent dreliesebesees, was working in a garden in Olifant Hoek, when several of the prowling enemy rushed upon him, and hest his hulks out with his hoe, then stripped him naked, sad made sir with everything within their reach. A few days after wards, in the same neighbourhood, an Englishman named Thomas Williams, who had ventured into the huh after a strayed hone, was waylaid and killed, and his body barbarously mangled. In numerous instances, waggons passing from plies to place bees been fired at and plun dered, far within the colonial boundary. On one of these occasions, near Somerset, a respectable colonist, Mr. Bouvier, was shot through the arm and thigh, and disabled for life. Ho Excellency has made a tour of inspection among the various forts and outposts along the frontier line, paying a brief visit to Graham's Town ,:where he received ad, resets from the inhabitants, and assured them of his determination to afford every possible protection to the expeeed district.. With this view four companies of the 73rd Regiment have been moved into Albany, in addition to the 12th Regiment, previously stationed there under Colonel Perceval. A singular oceurrence took place in Kallirland about the end of May, information of which did not reach Cape Town until I after the monthly steamer had sailed. The Kaffir chief Tone, who has fr.un the commencement of hostilities remained I apparently neutral, residing in the neighbourhood of King William's Town, was suddenly seised by a party of about 40 rebel Hottentots, who bou n d hi m an d carried him off to the enemy's camp, as they stated, by Sandilli's orders. What passed afterwards has been variously reported. Tone himself states that before meeting with Sandilli he was set at liberty by the Hottentots, on their learning that he was to be put to death without trial. He consequently returned to his former station, and was made, by the way, the bearer of a curious communication to Omen] Cathcart from the chief of the rebel Hottentots, Cithaalder. It consisted of the fol lowing letter, written upon fine cream-laid note paper, by a Hottentot named Laverlot, who, it 'poem, acts as Uitheal der's secretary and chaplain. The letter has already ap peared in this paper, but as it is the only thing yet done in the way of negotiation, it is not oat of place hero [Translation.] May 26, 1802, My esteemed Sir,—General,—l esabreee this opportunity to write you this letter. We inform you, that we are es eeedingly grieved in consequence of what we see with our eyes—that your liscellency fights with women an d children, that i. to say, wars with them, for where all were fighting it was against men. Women we always excepted, that is according to the proclamation. We hope not that your Excellency will do the same as Sir 11. Smith and Colonel Somerset. We were in the neighbourhood of Bathurst. There we fought men that had guns, those we shot down— and those who had no guns we excepted. This is according to proclamation. And, furthermore, if your Eseelhlicy wishes to speak to u s , it is practicable for you to s p ea k w i t h us because our hostilities arc distinct from those of the Kaffirs.-1, your servant, Wtt . ULTUAALDSL. What notice may have been taken of this missive by the governor does not yet appear. About midnight on the 2nd of June, a hold attack was made upon the cattle kraals of the Mount Coke missionary institution, by a body of about fifty rebel., supposed to le ; under [Tithe:alder. Seven men belonging to the station were killed and ten wounded, but the msailants were cromp:ly repulsed and compelled to retire, without effecting their object. They managed, nevertheless, to cut loose the oxen from four waggons, and after ,• desperate struggle, daring which these oxen were three times taken and retaken, they succeeded in getting off with them, a body of 100 mounted rebels, who had been stationed as a reserve, coining up t., their assistance. The pursuit however was not relimpaislied, but the brave men of Mount Coke, obtaining the ind of a party of a friendly tribe, followed the marauders, and iu a running fight of nearly three hours kille I and wounded a considerable number of them, though without, after all, recovering the cattle. On information reaching King Wit ham's Town, 200 of tho 12th Lancers started in pursuit, arid swept through the country as far at the Debe Neck, but did not overtake the nimble toe. A most unfortanate occurrence took place on the 12th. Five waggons, proceeding from Graham's Town to lead quarters, with military supplies, consisting o f a very large quantity of ammunition, 3.5 Milne rifles, u box of carbines, and 40 suits of clothing and other stores, w ere captured by ' a party of Kaffin and rebel Hotteutots who bad lain in wsut for them near the Ronal) Hill. The escort, under Captain Moodie, R.E., consisted of 34 men of the Royal Sappers and Miners, nine of whim, with two of the drivers, were killed, and seven wounded, by the murderous fire suddenly opened upon them. Very early on Sunday, the 20th, an attack was made on the camp of the rebel leader, 17 ithaulder, on the Buffalo, by a combined force under ?dajor.ft, new Yorke, Colonel Eyre, and Colonel Michel. The movement was apparently intended as a surprise, but the enemy era on his guard, and the column of Col one l E yre which had moved from the lieisteansma, coining first UpUll the amend, was received with a heavy fire. Two companies of the 43rd, while being placed in position, were aurrnunded by about 500 or (100 of the rebels, whom they charged in gal lant style, and a squadron of dragoons coining up, with the 73rd, under Major Pinckney, the enemy was oomph bly routed and put to flight, about i being left dead on the spot. The encampment, consisting of about 2MI huts, WWI burnt, and a considerable quantity of ammunition taken. A number of articles were also found, belonging to the Sappers and Miners who fell at the Kenap, and three of the Mime rifles were recovered. One of the rebels, fornue;) a corporal in the Cape Corps, was captured by the column under Major-Oeu. ral Yorke, and hanged at once. In this affair only live were wounded on the aide of the troops, one of them, it is said, being struck by a Minie ball which had been rammed into the gun the wrong way. Twice during the month the post between Graham's Town and heed-quarters has been intercepted by the enemy. On the first occasion the mail-bags were wholly carried off, but in the second instance they were opened and only the newspapers taken. A confession im.de by a rebel Hottentot who was lately apprehended in titenhage, seems to throw team light upon two matters likely to excite considerable slo t ee Intim in England—the oriein of the Ilotteutot rebellion, and the source whence the Raffles obtain ammunition. 1 he former suhject, it would appear, le in some way commit with the apprehension which has been from time to time unfortunately raised amongst the coloured clasa s, that it was the intention of the whites to pass compulsory labour laws, which would deprive them of their freedom. Uu the latter point, the supply of ammunition, it mass equally clear that some of our own countrymen, who may easily be traced, still make a regular trade of supplying the enemy with gunpowder, purchased fur cattle in Moshesh's country. A knowledge of the existence of such sources of danger is half the remedy. A proclamation has been issued by the governor, offering a reward of 501. for the apprehension of any person dos covered famishing ammunition to the enemy, with proof to hang him or her ; which penalty, under martial law, he declares he will inflict without hesitation, when convinced of the fact. With grief we have to record the death of Major Rogge, one of the assistant commissioners sent out by her Majesty's government, little more than a year ago, to aid his Ex cellency the High Commissioner in settling the affairs of the territories beyond the colonial boundary. The degree of success which had already attended the labours of this lamented gentleman, in conjunction with his colleague, Mr. Owen, had given rise to san guine h 'pea that the relations between the colony and the inhabitants of the neighbourin g c ountry would ere long, be arranged upon equitable and mutually advan tageous principles. Exposure to heavy ruins while on a pacific visit to the country of Moshesh, and continued sub sequent exertion, brought on fever, which termicated fatally on the 9th of June, at Bloemfontein, in the Orange River sovereignty. A convention, or federal treaty, of a highly important cha racter, has been entered into by General Cathcart, in his capacity as high commissioner, with the community of emi grant farmers settled beyond t hei Vaal River (the northern boundary of the Orange ltiver sovereignty), whereby they have acquired the proud position of an independent state. By this convention—the terms of which had been previously agreed upon at a meeting of the assistant commissioners and • deputation of the principal farmers, headed by their elected commandant, I'retorius —the inhabitants of the franc-Vaal country arc guaranteed " the right to manage their own affairs, and govern themselves according to their own laws," without interference or encroachment from the British government. They are assured that "it is the fervent desire of the British government again to esta blish free trade and an amicable understanding with the emigrant farmers inhabiting, or who may hereafter inhabit, them territories." It is agreed that this non-interterenee and free trade shall be reciprocal ; that trade in gunpowder with the natives shall be peremptorily prohibited on Roth sides; that no slavery shall be allowed north of the Vaal River; that the British government repudiate all alliances with coloured tribes north of the Vaal River; that escaped criminals shall be mutually given up, if required ; that certificates of marriage issued by competent officers be held valid ; and that, with the exception of criminals and debtors, " every person now in possession of any landed property residing within the British territory shall have full liberty and power to dispose thereof, and to remove unmolested be yond the Vaal River, and to and fro." His Excellency has formally ratified this convention in a proclamation expre.sing his trust " that the freedom which the emigrants are thus permitted to exercise may result in lasting friendship with the British government, neither entertaining put prejudices nor adopting former causes of quarrel ;" assuring them that "he is, on the contrary, most anxious, should it be in his power to contribute to their welfare by p romo ti ng re li g i on and education amongst them." Lamentable account' have been received of the mortality among the inhabitants of the Trans-Vaal territery, arising from a contagious disense peculiar to the country, which has this season assumed an unusual degree of viniletes. Upwards of 300 of the settlers have been cut off in see locality. The disease, it is said, is very rapid in its opera , tion• generally ending in death within a few hours of its ap pearance. In the Sovereignty, peace continues to prevail, and affairs appear generally prosperous. Considerable alarm, how ever, bail been excited by Earl Grev's intimation that her Majesty's government had resolved upon a ithiltaw ing British dominion from that territory. A strong re monetrance against such • measure had been addressed to General Cathcart. The decision of Gosensor Catheut so to the fate of An dric, Botha, the Hottentot Held-cornet of the Kat River Settlement, sentenced to death for high treason, hie just been announced. The punishment has been commuted into imptison.rent, with hard labour, for life. The first steamer of the Australian line, the Chosen, touched here punctually on the 24th, and, after coaling, sailed again for Sydney on the 29th. Yesterday (July let), a proclamation was issued by the governor, announcing his intention to make an overwhelm ing attack upon the contumacious chief Kreli, and com mending out the burghers of the eastern districts to unite with her Majesty's forces for that purpose. on the 6th of August next,—" thereby terminating the premot tiresome hostilities." The followin g is the important proclamation re ferred to at the close of the summary. It was pub lished in an Extraordinary Gazette, July I: I . KOC Lill AT I UN EY 818 EXCELLENCY LIEUTENANT-OENEELL THE lioN. 010001 CATHCART. &C. Whereas the Kaffir Chief Kreli, who resides beyond the Kci, and whose territory is separated from that part of licf Majesty's dominions called llntish Katfraria by that river. although recently chastened for his well-known underhand, as well as open, hostility, by order of Governor Sir Harry Smith, has not ceased, from the time the ex p edition was withdrawn, contumaciously to comfort and assist her Ma jesty's rebellious subjects, now associated with the rebel Chief Sandilli, Kaffirs as well as Hottentots, in carrying on • protracted war, and even to harbour rebel Hottentot in his own country: And whereas the said contumacious chief Kreli, when mercifully called upon by me to desist from his evil prac tices, and use his well-known influence in putting an end to the Gaika rebellion, and, in token of his good faith and slue submission, to pay up the fine of cattle imposed by my pre decessor, Governor Sir H. Smith, which the said chief had promised to pay, and on the l a ith o f w hi c h promos , the last expedition was mercifully withdrawn after the indic tion of half the punishment ilesorviil, has insolently .t nt back my peaceable remonstranc.. suit just demand in defi ance And whereas it is necessary. in vindication of hi r Ma jesty's authority, and in order to put an end to this war, that the said chief Kreli should, without loss of time. re ceive the full chastisement he deserves : Now, therefore, 1 du hereby proclaim, declare, and make known that, tor the purpo.c of such chastisement. it is my intention, on the 6th day of August neat, to ble a sufficient force of her Majesty's regular troops. avail y. infantry, and artillery, paid levies, and enrolled Fingers, with abundant supplies for the campaign, on the Univani River, near Bram Neck, midway between Shiloh and the White Hei ; and that it is further my intention with thii force to cross the Kei, end establish my hestl•quurtir , at Kreli's Oreat But, wishing to show to her Blajesty's enemies that, he• sides the forcesof her regular armies, she possesses the loyal support of her faithful subjects, and that, at her call, they are ready and willing to take the field in her cause : wishing also, to giro to these who, an a hotly, have suthrest severely from tht war an opportunity of recovering , by force of arms, some compe - usation for their lenses, —1 hereby, in the name and on behalf of her Majesty, command all burghers of the divisions of Uraaff-Heinet, Vitenhage, Port Elisabeth, Somerset, ( T. dock, Albany, Albert, Victoria, Fort Beaufort, and t ale berg, capable of bearing arms, to take the field, upon the old commando system of the colony, and join inc on the Umvana river, near Bram Neck, midway between bbdgh 1 ,1 3 , ' lulu two p dams wok ro bred who M Um the re Pim I and !to bo tz: aft / tr it is t►e 'Spate rue.: lathe malt. 061111 id et pre' Isispi to value , shove dleri N g mow; •14110, I . el dam, a saga 414 0.4 rat e Nadel Elated Ram Orbit at hu wins i kelem • - ..F.