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ghe •xlrefso. A .ecoe.. , Wilke of entalarne NNW ' , mime* t. tutu." is rat:aami leety SNOW ea f Mee, eight, to sloe Mir pell. &dm .thereto isteorle fee -TY Rome: Lambe twelve pepee, mu , to. at the teller, le, Seeeerehtereet, he T. Veloric ea the RION WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Tow Da —*vs's&3a. 1 Aftnissa.lll. Om. Tb.rosabw—liefulab. lb. 3. 1 ......-Abalbubbs. 16.120. r, THURSDAY. NOVEMBER G. Tsar chief, if not the only, portion of the message of the French PRESIDENT, which commands univer sal interest and attention, is that in which he pro to abrogate the law of the 314 of May, 1530. pro }poser is neither more nor less than the conserva tive charter. The revolution of 1448 opened the sluices of power to the popular torrent. The artisans and the working classes com posed the indubitable majority of electors, both for the legislature and the executive, and with how little selfishness and astuteness they exercised it, if tands on record in the composition of the National Assembly and in the choice of the PRESIDENT. But popular wis dom, it wu feared, could not last ; and it was con alder( d safest to exclude from the franchise the very electors who had returned a conservative assembly and a princely president. The opportunity was taken immediately after the Paris election of 1450. The metropolitan voters then returned M. DE FLOTTE and M. Sur. The one was an insurgent of June, the other a philosophic social ist. M. declared, that in consequence of the return of these two members, the Assembly was bound to revise the electoral law. This was pre chicly the same as if M. I,EDer-Itneux had moved, that because M. Ttueßs avowed his aversion to the republican form of government, a law should be pawed prohibiting all who had been functionaries or mini-teem, from serving as members of the legisla ture. One was just as logical as the other. The opportunity, however, was too good to be lost. And a project of law was got up, examined, re ported and passed, which, in fact, disinherited and disfranchised the entire of the working classes, and handed over their electoral rights and influence into the band of the government and of the middle class. In order fully to render this intelligible, let us con sider what was the nature, and is the result, of the obnoxious measure. The law of the 31st of May, POO. is in fact n I iw of household or rating suffrage, substituted for the law of universal suffrage, which formed the groat basis of the republican constitution of 1 , 111. It is much more restrictive than a rating suffrage would he with us. By the law of the 31st of May, no man is entitled to exercise the franchise unless he can prove himself to have had a domicile fur three years in one given district. In the first place, this mere condition of a domicile for so tome a period excludes the young, the active, the adventurous, altogether from the electoral urn. The artisans who crowd from country to town never obtain a three years' fixed domicile till they marry, and that is late in life. Those who hare nut a domicile of their own, but who, as workmen, servants, sons, or clerks, inhabit the household or annexed building s of a master, may en joy the franchise, but only on their master or parent civilising to come forward to procure it fur them. Here are two large classes eliminated from the suffrage. Still there would remain household suf frage for persons of three years' fixed residence, but for another quirk in the } rcnch law. According to it, there is but one way of proving a domicile—that of having paid in it the personal or furniture tax. The mode in a hid' this tax is levied is as follows total amount being fixed, it is distributed between the different departments and corn wines, and a certain quota assigned to each, ac cording to their popu ation and property. 'l'his quota is agaiu distributed amongst the inhabitants able to pay the tax ; and the distribution is made by the mayur, a functionary completely in the hands of government, and greedy for its honours. Louis throuraim, in his message, boasts of having dis aimed hurtle five hundred of them. The mayor may exclude , from the list of ratepayers, and, of course, from the electoral lists, whomsoever he pleaacee And, as a rule, if any citizen or artisan has ever received succour from a bureau it. bier faisance in hard times, which is universally the case when a man has nothing but. his earnings to depend on, and when he is seized with sickness, this man is always struck from the list of ratepayers. Thus, in the Wiwi. moot iln Ford, a manufacturing district, one-half of the adult mule population were eeetuded from the rate-paying lists, mid would be, of course. deprived of the franchise. We have a mime what similar case in our ten-pound householders, for so many of whom the landlord undertakes to pay the rates, charging the poor tenant in the mit, but excluding him from the franchise. Supposing this done, nut to save trouble and seek economy, but for an organised political purpose of narrowing the franchise, and you have the French law of May in all its odium and its exclusiveness. It is well known that great numbers of the dis franchised close, amounting, according to Louts NAPOLEON, to three millions of men, hut which we should say amount more nearly to five millions, kayo determined not to submit to the law, and that airy wpm w * general election, coming to the bismithigs, erased, if necessary, and prepared to defy, by their numbers, any force of military or police that government could bring to prohibit the exercise of what they deem their right. In toning forward to propose the repeal of the obnoxious law, LOUIS NAPOLEON has taken advan tage of the rumour, which he holds in terrnrenn up to the conservatives, adding to it the assurance acquired by his police of a general insurrection being organised all over Europe. We must confess that upon hearing that Loris Nsientreist had determined to repeal the law of the 31st of May, and that he had dismissed his ministry in order to form another favourable to so po pular a measure, we entertained hopes that he had at length awakened to the necessity of a more liberal policy, and that he was prepared to use con eihatory language towards the people. Ni. message, however, undeceives ns. Its language is still that of the policeman, not the statesman • of the terrorist, not of the liberal. Even his prop osal of abrogating the law of May does not strike us as sincere. It leaves the six months' domicile as a condition, the mode of proving the domicile remaining the same, which would not restore the dis franchised classes to their rights. Then he makes the distinction betwevu the expediency of universal suffrage for electing the members of the Assembly and its necessity for choosing the head of the execu tive ; all of which sounds as if, were the broader principle granted for his election, he would leave the Assembly to be re-elected by the restricted franchise. To procure a more enlarged constituency for himself, and to obtain the repeal of the clause prohibiting his election seems, in fact, to be the sole selfish aim of the PREMENT. Ile is driving a bargain with tho Assembly, cajoling and menacing its conserva tive majority almost in the same breath, and employ ing not even that outward respect fur the popular and liberal side, which would be but decorous in him, were it not also politic. On the whole, Lot Is NAVOLEON'S message strikes us as calculated neither to disarm a foe nor to make a friend. GOVD will come of the St. Albans enquiry : of that we may now be certain. The investigations of the commissioners have not been confined to the miserable dirty work done in the borough itself. or to the hundred times told tale of back-rooms, accessible by strange approaches, where some mysterious man sits with money bags before him, and hands over to every venal voter (after an interchange of ‘• sign and word," as in mason lodges) the price of his rascality. The commissioners have very properly set themselves to detect the parties who trade whole sale in the corruption which has again and again been proved to be manufactured for retai in St. Albans, and hundreds of other boroughs. Convinced that the only way to put a stop to any iUegul or demoralising traffic is to close the market—that as long as there are buyers offering a tempting price, manufacturers and venders will be forth coming—they have directed their inquiry to the exposure of those who have supplied the funds by which the poor scoundrels in St. Albans have been bought ; convinced that the same parties would be found actively engaged in the same way in other They have not been mistaken ; they have = l y lii. obtained a glimpse of one central Domdsniel TAB EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 6, 1851. from which Lame many of the ramifications of the corrupting agency by which purity of election has been assailed or sapped and undermined. We rejoice at this ; even though the thief heavy blew has fallen upon the patty, gent . rally friendly to reform, and national policy, and tree institutions, and liberal sentiment and opinion. There is no synsting the truth : the whig or liberal party has been fighting its opponents with their own hereditary weapons. The reform act of 1831 left enough of the old vicious system of elections in existence to keep the anti reform party still dangerously strong. The re formers as soon as they became aware of this, adopted the specious (but as will now be found dangerous) policy of turning this remnant of what was bad to their own account. They Toothed their consciences by the sophism that they . descended to unworthy practices only to wrest the instruments of evil from the hands of these who would use them for evil. They acted on the Jesuitical maxim that the end justifies the means ; and organised a system of cor rupt influence by which they profited for a time, only to suffer lees and disgrace by it in the end. kor the revelations extorted from Mr. Corrocx cannot fail to injure materially what is called the liberal party. The commissioners may fail to make out an equally clear case of organised corruption against the conservatives. And even though they do succeed in making out a case equally clear, that party has always maintained that a wide popular suffrage can only be made compatible with the existence of an efficient executive by means of cor ruption. The revelations of Mr. Corroex will be used by it to delude the public into a belief that there is no material difference between any of our political parties. The tones have no character for purity to lose. and cannot be weakened by any ex posure. Hut there is not a liberal candidate in the kingdom who will not suffer at the next election from the doubts and jealousies awakened by the St. Albans disclosures, and the suspicion diffused throughout the whole electoral body, that all pro fessors of political purity are only playing a part to 'observe hidden and selfish ends. And vet we rtjoice at these disclosures. For wc feel, ana have long felt, that the weak and wicked tampering of reformers with corruption has deeply injured the cause. It has placed them at the mercy of allies who seek only to make them a stepping stone to poser or profit. We speak not of all men who have entered on an official career—we speak not of official men only—there are as inveterate jobbers among those who mouth independence to divert attentiuu from their mercenary intrigues in what are esteemed merely private and mercantile speculations, as are to be found in office. So long as the reform cause is seemingly held in the ascendancy by the aid of associated bribers at elections, so long will real reformers be made the mere tools of those who pro fess reform principles only to get into positions where they can serve their own ends and battle all real reform. The St. Albans exposures will shame reformers into a renunciation of such hollow, insidi- out, and dangerous allies. Henceforth they must seek to obtain their objects by legitimate means. We have no wish to exaggerate the disclosures made by Mr. COPPCX:K ; we have no end to serve by so doing. They are substantially as follows :—ln 153.1 he became secretary to a self•constituted "Re : form Association "in London. In that capacity he has become intimately acquainted with the political relations of " every borough, and every city, and every county in the kingdom." Ho can "hardly tell how," but he has always " in some way, as con nected with the liberal party, been one of the first to know when a vacancy anywhere occurred." The " Reform Association," Mr. tOreOCK tell " died .„.-. . . four or five years ago," but he has carried on the business on his own account. 'flicre is no " orga nised system" now of finding candidates for boroughs, but he supplies the want. Ilc acts only for " the liberal party. Ile hunts out seats for in dividuals wishing to get into parliament; ho hunts out candidates for constitnenciew who have lost their members. Money is passed from one party to another through his hands. He gets appointments for those who serve him. " I have placed people in my own office. I have got them into other persons offices, and into railway employment, and so on. • • • I certainly have been the means of recom mending people to situations under government." This is enough for the purpose of putting down corruption, not of inflicting vengeance on its agents or the victims of its seductions. It is clear that there is wide spread systematic corruption by a party calling itself liberal. Various election commit tees have proved that the conservative party had its CROUCHER, and has his successor or successors in orrice. The duty of reformers, the interest of the people, is to break up both conspiracies against free and pure election. Upon the means for etheting this some light is thrown by Mr. CoreocK's evidence before the St. Albans Commission. " After Sir OEORGE WARD left St. Albans," said Mr. Correct, "he went to Sheffield. His election for St. Albans cost 2,400/. His election for Sheffield cost 1801. To such an extent was it carried in Sheffield, that the gentlemen who dined at the hotel with him paid each his own bill." This shows the tt that still prevails in the new large constituen- Nor is Sheffield an isolated instance of this proud and guarded purity. Were it necessary we could name, on our own knowledge, other large towns, where as honourable a part has been played. Yet even these constituencies are watched by tho electioneering agencies, and unconsciously made at times to play their game. Thus, for example :—ln Scotland, under the old system, there was an or ganised whig and an organised tory party in Edin burgh. Their agents were the leading lawyers on both sides. These agents acted in the various con stituencies by means of the lawyers with whom they had business connexions. In any of the large manu facturing towns of Scotland the tories have no chance, and the whigs—were the electors left to their free choice—very little. But the Edinburgh Whigs have been known to give the cue to their local agents, who, as of the liberal party, con trive to get themselves on the registration and election committees. These gentlemen, when any constituency is in search of a candidate, take care, if an independent man is sought for, so to arrange matters that application is made only to such independent liberals as are pre-engaged or un willing to go into parliament. Time is thus wasted, and at the last moment one of that class of aspirants to parliamentary honours is suggested who profess ing (or perhaps entertaining) sentiments in advance of men in office, can always be counted upon by ministers as a sure vote in eases of emergency. The local patronage is placed by government uncondi tionally at the disposal of these semi-purists, and thus an official party is in the course of formation in each of these boroughs, already large enough in most cases to hold the balance between the contending local parties. Analogous means are employed to bring into harness the large constituencies of England and Ireland. Now for the means of destroying the systematic corruption which exists in boroughs like ht. Albans, and is growing up in the new and numerous consti tuencies. We ask for no more credit to the means suggested by Mr. Correct; than knowledge derived from other sources, and from reason may justify. He has told us that in the large and new constituency of Sheffield, a chivalrous purity still exists in matters of election. It is well known that this is the case in other similar constituencies. One way then of puri fying elections, for a time at least, is to bring into existence an additional number of numerous consti tuencies, a large proportion of whose electors shall be men who have not hitherto exercised the franchise, and are yet unhackneyed in the ways of venality. But how to keep these new constituencies pure? "The ballot," says Mr. ('orrocs. "is the only check you can ever have against bribery. You may have inquiries like this, l plenty of them ; but you will never weeny result unless you meet the evil by the ballot." This is a declaration on Mr. CUPPOCK . t. part that the ballot—i. e. secret rainy—would baffle the efforts of agents like himself. It cannot be denied that the experience of Mr. CUP POCK entitles him to be listened to, if we could but rely on his sincerity. And that he is sincere in expressing this opinion we have good grounds to believe; since he but corroborates what has been said by an im mense majority of our most experienced eleetioneerers and soundest reasoners. Here, then, we have pointed out three indispensa ble requisites in any reform bill that can be reason ably expected to cheek electoral corruption. In the first place it must substitute large constituencies for small; in the second place it must throw into these large constituencies a great number of new men; and in the third place every elector must be com- 4f — dlll, vote SecMtli. The new felons' it, to* effective, must embrace:—se of the :electoral districts"; extension of ewe'leta. by . Isnot. . , --, • ----:-.• .. Welira thaw "to Lo - rd Jonx RUSSELL, and tell Wm animiy, deliberately, uncompromisingly, all these E illijill*"d in any bill that reformers or the TX. at his x no measure . liter th n Lre an fe t t: lhaley that open to the least suspicion of being a new sacrifice to appearances. From Lord JonN we turn to the gentlemen who are to meet next month at Manchester, and tell them in the same spirit that it is now too late to dream of adopting any course merely or mainly to help ministers. They may lose themselves, but cannot aid others by acting with that view. They must sincerely and unreservedly aim at obtaining a real reform, leaving it to the good sense of ministers to act for themselves—to choose between the people and the old corrupt system. FRANCE. PARIS, WEDNESDAY EVENING. Lord John Russell to-day paid a visit to the Pre sident, at the Elysie. Notwithstanding the attempt of the Club of the Pyramides to prevent the interpellations announced on the subject of General St. Arnaud's circular, it is said they will be made to-morrow. The following is the text of the electoral bill read yesterday in the Assembly: Art. 1. Within thirty days after the promulgation of the present bill the electoral list will be drawn up by the mayor, aided by two delegates from each commune, named by the juge-de-paix, and living in the canton. Art. 2. It shall contain in alphabetical order all French ' seam 021 years of age, in possession of their civil sod rights, and inhabiting the commune for six months at inset; such persons as shall attain their majority before the definitive closing of the list; soldiers and tailors on duty inscribed on the electoral lists of the commune, where they shall have satisfied the necessary conditions. Art. 3. Public functionaries, whatever may be the length or brevity of their residence; also clergymen of religions recognised by the state. Members of the National Assem bly shall be allowed to vote where the Assembly sits. Art. 4. Are excluded from the list the persons designed in Paragraphs 1,2, 3, 5, 6, and 7 of Art. 3 of the law of March 15, 1819 ; bankrupts, individuals designated in Pa ragraph 4 of Art. 3 of the law of March 1.5, 1849, whatever may be the term of the imprisonment to which they are condemned ; persons condemned to imprisonment in virtue of Art. 330 of the penal code ; individuals con demned for acts against public morals and decency ; individuals condemned to more than three months' imprisonment in virtue of Articles 98, 100, 101 102, 103, 105, 106 107, 108, 109, 112, and 113 of the law of March 1849; notaries and other public functionaries dismissed to mal-practices ; persons con demned as vagabonds; pen ins condemned to more than three months' imprisonment by the application of Arts, 439, 443, 444, 44.,, 446, 417, and 442 of the penal code; soldiers condemned to the punishment of public works, or to wear the heavy ball en the leg ; individuals condemned to imprisonment by the application of Arts 38, 41, 43, and 45, of the law of March, 21„1851, concerning the recruitment of the army; and individuals con demned to imprisonment hy the application of Art. 1 of the law of March 27, 1851. Art. 5. Persons condemned for violence to the public authorities, or for violating the law relating to secret so cieties or clubs, or that concerning; the hawking and sale of books, cannot be inscribed on the electoral list for five years after the expiration of their punishment. Art. 6. Individuals who shall have incurred • condemnation for crimes provided for by Arts. 338 and 339 of the Penal Code, shall be struck out of the elec toral list for a period of not less than 5, nor more than 10 years, the duration to be fixed by the tribunal. Art. 7. Soldiers and sailors in active service will continue to be divided into the different sections of each department, and their bulletins collected and sent to the chef lieu. Art. It. No one shall be proclaimed representative at the first ballot, if ho has not received a number of votes equal to one-fourth of the electors inscribed on the electoral lists of the department. Art. 9. In case of vacancies by resignation or otherwise, the electoral college which is to fill it up must be summoned, within a delay of six months from the date of the notifica tion made by the President of the National Assembly to the Minister of the Interior. Art. 10. For the drawing up the electoral lists, all the regulations provided for by the law of May 15, 1849, are to be observed. The annual revision of the lists will also be regulated by that law. Art. It. The law of May 15, 1849, will also remain in force for elections in Algeria and the colonies, until the promulgation of the organic laws provided for by the con stitution. Art. 12. All the former laws are abrogated, in so far as they are contrary to this law. In its sitting of to-day the Assembly proceeded to ballot for the renewal of its board. I. irst the pre sident was elected. M. I was re-elected by 367 out of 552 votes. M. Michel de Bourges obtained 183 votes. The ballot for the vice-presidents was next undertaken. In the first ballot General Bcdenu obtained, out of 568 votes, 369; M. Daru, 327; M. Benoit d'Azy.3o6; M. Leon Faucher, 208. The three first, alone having obtained the absolute majority, ' were proclaimed vice-presidents. A fresh ballot for the nomination of the fourth vice-president will take place to-morrow. MM. Yvan, Chapot, Lame, and Moulin were elected secretaries. A fresh ballot will take place to-morrow for the election of the two remaining secretaries. Hence the only change yet effected in the board by the votes of to day is the election of M. Moulin, a distinguished fosionist, and the first reporter on revision, to be se cretary, while neither of the Bonapartist secretaries, Pea in and Berard, were re-elected. The Assembly's vote of yesterday, by which urgency for the new electoral bill was rejected, implies not only the defeat of the ministry on the cardinal point of its policy, but the rejection of the bill in its first stage. This is the prologue to endless delay. The bill will now, according to the organic law of the Council of State, have to be referred to the examination of this body, the slowness of whose labours are so well known. This vote is, indeed, the first blow in a tre mendous struggle between the conservative league, composed of the regentists and legitimists, against the President, backed by the Left and the extreme Right, while the party of the Journal des Deletes, forming the bulk of the club of the Pyramides, waver in a position of neutrality. The meeting at M. Daru's last night is the first step taken to shield the government from the fury of the new conservative opposition, led by Berryer and Thiers. Every day this opposition must, by the force of things, become weaker. There will be such demonstrations throughout the country as will show that such an attitude on the side of the parliament can only lead to civil war ; for the law of May 31 is doomed, and delay in its abrogation will not bo brooked by the democratic Part Las Y• t night there took place a meeting of the club of the Pyramides, at the house of M. Darn. The sitting wan much occupied with the vote by which the Assembly had rejected the urgency demanded by the government for the new Electoral Bill, and charged its bureau to con fer with the legitimist and fusionist club in order to adopt a more conciliatory attitude to- 1 wards the government. It was deemed highly inopportune and even dangerous to bring forward the interpellations, on the order of the day, of Gen. St. Arnaud at this moment ; and it was agreed to vote against the menaced motion on this subject, in ease it should be proposed. To-day the Assembly will elect its board. As for the tone of the press, the Debats merely chronicles the meeting at M Danis. Notwithstanding the conciliatory resolutions of that meeting, the .Isaeniblee Nationale says: We must not cherish fatal illusions. The political sites. don has changed. The President of the Bennlits hes ceased to be the elect of the party of order; hehsafhrsrrs the Mountain. By the course he has adopted ls Ire thorn the country into agitation, compromised the ME *IMAM se oar prosperity, and given arms to civil war. The able of 1852 commences. The safety of the country henceforth 11111 in the firmness of the parliament-in the union of the ma jority. In this deplorable crisis, created by the executive power, one subject for congratulation is, that the policy of that power is no longer clothed in vague terms and that the author of this electoral agitation has given all the arguments upon which his attempt is founded. The Union says: "It was prophesied that the majority would retreat. The majority has not retreated." The Freese says : " It was prophecied that the President would reflect and yield. He has reflected, but not yielded, and the new cabinet has taken an attitude which justifies the expectation that it will not shrink from its task." The Steele is cold, and while approving the aboli tion of the law of May 31, complains of the Presi dent's " puerile persistence in praising the law in rela tion to the past, even while he demands its abroga tion," and remarks on the insufficiency of the ministry. The National says : " The hour of reparation has struck to-day, and sounds to our cars like the funeral knell of reaction." I need hardly quote the Ordre and Opinion Pub lics.. The thorough opposition of those organs to the President is too well known to be thew only At the Bourse the Five per Cents. fell 23c., closing at 90.5, the Threes fell 10c., and closed at 55.70. The fall is attributed to the hostile attitude of the Assembly towards the President. The Fire per Cents. were at one moment as low as 89.80. SPAIN. MADRID, Ocr. 31. By order of the Queen the court goes into mourning for eight days for the death of the Duchess d'Augouleme. The suspension of the journal Europa has been ordered, in compliance with the request of the l'ope's nuncio. The modcrado opposition is pre paring to attack the ministry on the opening of the Cortes. TUSCANY. The Monitore Toscana publishes a decree, dated the 25th ult., by which the land-tax is fixed at five millions of francs for the year 1852, as it was for the preceding one; whereas the personal tax is fixed at four hundred thousand francs less than in the pre ceding year. LATEST FOREIGN EXCHANGES. PARIS BOURSE. For Account. •Opesl977 , Higilset. , Lowest.: Oaring 55 70 55 70 55 CO 55 70 57 97 90 5 119 90 90 4 - ... ... ... - PARIS. Nov. S. I Pew Moser. 3 per Cent. , 3 per Cent New Lan . 4 tier Cents. 46 per Cent* Rawanes on Leaders; at alidtt, 93 114; 99 dere. 2374 y.. kr, 5. 1540 3, 1341 Maass Win, 1831 741 ... Do. 44 Do. 21 .. . I Treasury Bonds /Madman 3 p.Ct. 79 IS .. Bask Snirce Paws, Nov. s.—Versailles (left bank), 2037•.; Faris and Ortease, 657 30; Pans and Rouen, 300; Roues and Irene, 207 30 ; Marseilles and Avignon, 217 iu ; Strasbourg and Bale, 1.10; Gene, 42130; lioniegse end Amiens, 21, 73; N7rthern, 458 73 ; Pane and ttresboang, 55) 23; Tata* sad Manta.. 233 73. MADRID, OCT. 31.—Three per Cents., 361 ; after 36i. Four per Cents., 141. Five per Cents., 16; ; after Bolsa, 16} cash. Coupons, ; after Bolsa, B}. Passives, 6 3-16 ; after Boise, 6 3-16. Bank of St. Ferdinand, 99 cash. Exchange on London, 50.75 cash. ssis i 90 IS [By Electric Telegraph.] ANTWERP, Nov. s.—Fice per Cent. :11etalliques, 73. Fire per Cent. Ardoina, 131. Three per Cent. Intericur, 34 13-16. Russian Four-and-a-Half per Cents., Exchange on London, 23 271,. BRUSSELS, Nov. 3.—Beigian Five per Cents., 981; ditto Four-and-a-lialf per Cents., 893 ; ditto Two and-a-Half per Cents., 49:. Exchange on London, 25.274. _ _ AMSTERDAM, Nov. 4.—Five per Cent. Metal liques, 70 ; Five per Cent.Ardotns, 13 3-16 ; Three per Cents. Interior, 341 ; Russian Four-and-a-half per Cents., 994- ' Two -and-a-Half per Cent. Integrals, 57 5-16. Exchange on London, 11 85. VIENNA, Nov. 4.—Five per Cents., Metalliques, 91 4 _1; Exchange on London, 12.28 ; ou Paris, 148. HAMBURG, Nov. 4. Three per Cents. Inte rior, 32/. Russian Four-and-a-Half per Cents., —. Exchange on London, three months, 13.61; at sight, 13.8. VIENNA, Nov. s.—Five per Cent. Nlkalliques, Exchange on London, 12.28 ;on Paris, 148. Aglo on gold, 301 ; ditto on silver, 2-11. IIAXBVRO, Nov. 3.—Thrve per Cents. Interior, 32 1 ; Four-and-a-Half per Cents., Russia, Kt. FRANKFORT, Nov. 3.—Five per Cent. Maui liques, 72k. Three per Cent. Interior, 31 1. Ex change on London, 1191; on Vienna, 94g. BERLIN, Nov. s.—Voluntary Loan, 1021; Na tional Debt, bBl. Four-and-a-lialf per Cents., Russian, 101. Tug Firrii or NOVEMBER. This anniver sary was better observed yesterday than it has been for many years past, and those who have long sighed at the decay of our old customs had some cause to congratulate themselves on the revivification of this. The gunpowder plot appeared to have been well remembered in all parts of London, and there was no lack of Guys to divert the young by day and feed the evening fire. The artists entrusted with the construction of the effigies appetred to have re veiled in the wildest imaginative freedom in choosing their originals. While many had wrought out rudely the sem blance of a pope, others took Cardinal Wiseman as a model. Some, carried away by the enthusiasm of the hour, dressed up the young Emperor of Austria, who was chaired wi'h a copy of a celebrated morning journal attached to his coat. Marshal Hayman, with his lash, as if seek ing another Madam Madersbach, and Nicholas the Czar, with his knout, were also seen among these specimens of our risicg art. To complete the con fusion of all characters, a monster Bloomer was paraded, doubtless in the belief that a greater gay could not be found than this strange creature. As an appropriate termination to the eventful day, a grand display of fire works took place on the grounds of the Merchant Seamen's Orphan Asylum, Bow-road, in aid of the funds of the in stitution. The grounds were illumicated somewhat after the fashion adopted at Vauxhall ; and, in order to give full effect to the entertainment, a band of music was engaged. The fireworks were upon the most "liberal scale," consist ing of every variety of the pyrotechnic art, the rockets being decidedly in the ascendant. In the rear of the pre mises was a gibbet, to which was suspended an effigy of the Pope, and around it were several barrels of tar, which at the proper time were consumed in a most formidable blaze, and his Holiness was soon duly reduced to tinder, much to the amusement of the spectators. The grounds were attended by a large concourse of people, and the result of the exhibition promised to be of considerable benefit to the charity. THE ELECTRIC TELEGRtPII IN Paitts.—A group of 18 wires starts from the telegraph tower at the Hotel of the Minister of the Interior, follows the Rue de Grenelle, goes along the Esplanade of the Invalides as far as the parapet of the Qum d'Orsay, and, following the line of that parapet goes as tar as the Pont d'Jecia. At that bridge the group divides into two parts, the one going to the 'Detre& wall at the Barriers de la Cunette, which it follows as far r the terminus of the Chartres railway at the Derriere de Maine and the Orleans terminus. The other part of the group crosses the Pont d'Jena, ascends the Trocadero to the °arm wall of the right bank of the Barrier des Bons Hem mss, and thence to the Rouen, Northern, Strasburg, and Lyons railways. As to the new electric telegraph which crosses the Channel to form a communication between Lon don and Paris, the wires are placed underground in a wrapper of gutta percha and follow the following itinerary: They leave the Batignolles, follow one of the side alleys of the outer boulevards to the Barriere de l'Etoile, then down the Champs Elysies to the Rood Point, then by the Alla d'Autin to the river, which it crosses under the Pont des Invalides, and, following the Quai d'Orsay, reaches the Ministry of the Interior by the Rue de Grenelle. The wire with its wrapper of gutta percha is only placed about from 40 to 60 centimetres underground on a bed of sand. It has been already laid down as far as the Barriere du Route, and it is expected that it will be completed forth with. _ _ _ NEW RULWAT IN THE MANCFACTURING Dts- Taic-rs.—A company has been formed for making a new railway between Leeds and Bradford ; and application will be made in the next session of parliament for powers to con struct it. Nearly all the shares will be taken by the promo ters, who are wealthy people resident in Leeds, Bradford, and Halifax. It will be rementberes . l that some months ago the Court of Queen's Bench issued &mandamus to com pel the directors of the Lancashire and Yorkshirr Railway Company to make a branch line from Bowling, near Brad ford, to Leeds, which would have accommodated a very large manufacturing population, in the populous towns be tween Leeds and Bradford; but the company having taken no steps la the matter, their powers have now lapsed, and they cannot make it without having additional powers granted to them by parliament. The object therefore of this new company is to make an independent line, which will reduce the distance between Leeds and Bradford from 13 to about nine miles, and will greatly facilitate the coal and merchandise traffic between Leeds, Bradford, and Halifas. DEATH ON BOARD A DUBLIN STEAMER,—The coroner for the borough of Liverpool and a jury were en gaged on Tuesday in an inquiry touching the death of a child on board the Dublin and Liverpool screw steamer Times, on the passage between Dublin and Liverpool on Thursday last. The mother stated that she was one of the deck passengers, of whom there were a great many ; that 1 the hold was full of cattle, and that there was no place , whatever to shelter the passengers. The wind blew hard, the rain fell heavily, and all on deck were saturated I with wet from the sea and the rain. Her child got very ill I and cold from such exposure, and she asked one of the en gine men to let her take the infant to the fire, but she was refused because she could not satisfy the man's demand of a ' sixpence. She was therefore compelled to remain on deck ' all night with the sea continually washing over the vessel. She wrapped up her infant in her cloak as well as she could, and on arriving in the Trafalgar Dock she begged one of the crew to warm the child. The man took it to the fire but found it dead, it had been, in fact, smothered on its mother's breast. The jury, in returning their verdict, made a presentment that it was a most abominable thing that there was no shelter in these boats for passengers, particularly fur those who bad infanta and children, and that the hoes of the child's life was, in a great measure, owing to the want of • place where she could have taken her child to warm it. THE KAFFIR WAR ARRIVAL OF THE BOSPHORUS. The Royal Mail steam-vessel, the Bosphorus, Captain J. V. Hale, arrived at Plymouth on Wed nesday morning, from the Cape of Good Hope, hav ing made the passage home in 35 day& She left the Cape on her homeward voyage Oct. 1, arrived at Sierra Leone Oct. 17, St. 'Vincent's Oct. 22, and arrived at Plymouth Nov. 5, at 8 a.m. The Bosphorus brings a heavy mail, in charge of Commander Wolrige, a cargo of sundries and specie, and ten passengers. The dates from Graham's Town are to the 23rd of September. The intelligence by this mail is of a similar cha racter to that brought by the previous one. Colonel Mackinnon and Colonel Eyre had returned from patrols in the Fish River bush, having suffered severe loss, without anything done. The official ac• count of losses in the Fish River bush, a summary of which reached us by last mail, is more dismal than it was oven supposed to be. The return shows the serious total of 78 casualties, of which no fewer than 29 men are killed on the spat, 2 have since died of their wounds, and 8 arc unaccounted for, but have, there is little doubt, fallen by the hand of the enemy; thus making the loss in killed 39, and exactly the same number wounded. These casualties include six officers, being eight per cent. of the total number. It is affirmed that a great many of the enemy were killed in these severe combats, and we can hardly, . - suppose that such severe loss could have been sus taided on our side without inflicting signal chastise ment upon the savage foe. The body of one soldier of the " Queen's " was found surrounded by five liaffirs, who had fallen with him in that mortal strife. Col. Mackinnon's and Col. Eyre's patrols came into head-quarters on the 17th September, the gal lant 73rd looking ragged enough—the Fingoes sing ing their war song. They were halted opposite the Governor's quarters, and his Excellency addressed them. . . It was thought that the next movement of the troops would be to throw supplies into Forts White and Cox, by which time the arrival of the Rifles and Lancers might be expected, enabling the commander in-chief to perfect his arrangements, and to enter upon future operations upon a more extended scale, and with more decisive effect. There was at latest the appearance of much restlessness amongst the Kaffir tribes. Some apprehension was expressed for Mount Coke and Fort Murray—Seyolo hovering in their vicinity, and seeming to threaten an attack upon one or other of those points. In consequence of this, the mounted men at King William's Town had been directed to hold themselves in readiness at a minute's warning. Other reports sav that the design of this chief was to attack Fort Peddle, which was quite prepared to give him a warm reception. The Cape Monitor of the Ist of October has the following summary of the operations on the frontier : Since our last summary of the state of the war, prior to the departure of the Birkenhead, nothing decisive has been effected. The dispersed guerilla parties of the Kaffirs and their rebel allies had alarmed the frontier districts of era dock, Somerset, and Albany. The farmers everywhere mus tered in self-defence, and behaved gallantly. On the disap pearance of the enemy from Albany, Colonel Eyre returned to head-quarters. The 2nd Regiment lost no time in taking the field under their gal lent colonel. Their ardour was worthy of a nobler foe. Being new-comers and unacquainted with the country, they were attacked in the most determined manner. The result was such as might have been anticipated. Though every bush had been transmuted into a swarm of Kaffirs, and though every thorn had become an assegai, yet little loss of life would have ensued but for the lament able desertion of the Cape Hottentots, our former spoiled pets, many of them trained marksmen. The casualties on the part ot the 2nd Regiment have been unusually numerous, not without, however, the infliction of a severe punishment on these ambuseading savages. It is to be deplored that the insufficient amount of European forces has necessitated the partial employment of native levies. These are treated by the rebels with distinguished favour, which, we may presume, is in many eases reciprocated. Another evil arises out of the unobstructed intercourse of friendly natives with the various forts and camps occupied by our troops. It has been ascertained beyond a doubt that information of the strength and route of every patrol is quickly transmitted to the enemy, who is able at discretion to waylay or avoid us without much risk. They are evidently in communication with traitors within the colony, for the coloured people are often found blabbing the news they have received several hours before the arrival of the regular post. The most disastrous event of the war occurred during Lieutenant-Colonel Mackinnon's patrol through the Fish River bush. Two companies of the 2nd, supported by a party of levies, were detached from the centre line of march to scour a defile, and rejoin the main body at a specified point about two miles off. The levies managed to sheer of, leaving their regimental comrades to be literally surrounded and massacred. In this miserable affray Captain Oldham and a great part of the Grenadier and light companies were cut to pieces. To quote from the general order, " Captain Oldham fell as becomes a soldier ; the fame of valiant deeds ever outlives the man, and posterity will class Capt. Old ham among British herons, as well as those soldiers of his Grenadiers who shared his tall. Colonel Fordyce, with a part of the 74th, made an ad vance upon the Kroome bush, near the Waterkloof, where be twice sustained a formidable attack of upwards of 2,000 Kafiirs and Hottentots, headed by Macomo; and, but fur a panic of the Fort Beaufort Fingoes, while threading a nar row bush-skirted defile, would have sustained no serious loss. Many extraordivary instances of personal valour and strength arc recorded of the 74th, while fighting hand to hand, as the lurking natives now and then dared to emerge from the concealment of the bush. Our troops are being collected. The Lancers and Rifles have arrived, and proceeded without delay to the frontier. A simultaneous withdrawal of the liatt.rs from the ad vanced biding-places indicates a concentration of their forces for some fresh effort. Soma apprehensions had been - utertained at Graham's Town of an attack to be made on that place, as soon as 5,000 natives should assemble in the neighbourhood. A wounded deserter gave the information, together with the alarming intelligence that nearly half the required force had been collected. The inhabitants Dave, in consequence, marshalled themselves into a pro visional guard, convenient localities being agreed on for mutual defence in case of actual onset. The demonstration of their readiness to repel any attack was expected to be sufficient; though no precautions can ever be regarded as unnecessary in dealing with treacherous savages, aided, wo lament to say, by resident traitors within our gates. The Frontier I'ost arrived yesterday afternoon, bringing intelligence from Graham's Town to the 23rd, and from King tVilliam'a Town to the 20th inst. A few depredations are reported, but not so many as usual. The enemy was supposed to be concentrating his forces for some important movement. Much satisfaction had been caused at Gra- ham's Town by the appointment of Lieut.-Colonel Eyre to command in the district of Albany, and Major Wilmot at Fort Peddle. The former officer, with a force of 400 infantry and 70 horse, was to take post about 15 miles east of Graham's Town, occupying Driver's-hill and Waay Pleats. Major-General Somerset was drawing together kis forces, and preparing, as was supposed, fur another attack upon the enemy iu the Kaga Mountains. The following are the reports by Cu!. Mackinn _ - and Col. Eyre, of their patrol operat ions. Tho former writes as follows : King William's Town, Sept. 17. Sta,—l have the honour to report that according to your excellency's instructions I marched from the station ea the 6th inst., with a force of 1,230 men, composed as follows : 2nd Queen's, 398; Gth Regiment, 419 ; Royal Marines, 52 ; 73rd Regiment, 152; Cape Mounted Rifles, 33; Arm strong's Hone, 29; Catty's Rifles, GI ; Levies and Guides, 103. Total, 1,250. I detached Lieut. Col. Michel with a part of the force by Fort Welishire, and proceeded myself with the supply waggons by Line Drift. On the 7th inst. the whole force met at Fort William's. On the Bth inst. I moved to Foonah's Kloof. During the march I saw at a short distance to the left of the road, the Kan driving some cattle into a deep vall.y which leads down to the Fish River, and I made arrange ments for attempting their capture the following Morning. On the 9th inst., leaving a sufficient force for the defence of the waggons I marched at half-past 3 a.m. I reached Lieut.-Col. Michel with the Gth regt., Catty's Riflemen, Armstrong's Horse, and 50 of the levy, to the right of the valley where I had seen the cattle, and proceeded myself with two companies of the Queen's, the detachment of the 73rd Regt., and Cape Corps, to the leg of this valley. I directed Commandant Davies, with 50 of the Levy and the guides, supported by 200 of the Queen's, under Capt. Oldham, enter the valley and follow the traces of the cattle. After detaching Commandant Davies and Captain Old ham, I watched their progress for some time, and saw them burn some huts at the upper part of the valley. I Some tiring took place, but it ceased, and the detach ment entered the valley on the traces of the cattle. I then proceeded along the high ground to the left of the valley, intending to gain • rising ground about two miles distant, from which point I could observe their pro ' grew I, however, soon perceived a large body of Kaffirs and Hottentots at some distance to my left, and I moved to attack them. I extended the two companies of the Queen's in skirmishing order, keeping the 73rd in reserve. The Queen's engaged the enemy with great spirit, and drove him into a deep valley or kloof which rune dowa towards the Fish River. As the enemy possessed • great advantage here, in firing upwards at our men, I withdrew the Queen's from the edge of the kloof, and formed the 73rd in skir mishing order behind the scattered bushes at some distance from the kloof, retiring the Queen's through the intervals of the 73rd. My object was thus to draw the enemy into snore favourable ground for us. This mancenvre was entirely successful. The enemy thought we were retreat ing. Ile came out, and suffered heavily. I then proceeded towards the rising ground before mentioned, from which I hoped to obtain a view of the detachment in the valley. I did not reach it till 10 o'clock, when seeing nothing of the detachment, and hearing no firing, I concluded that Commandant Da•ice and Captain Oldham had scoured the valley, and had effected their junctu.n with Lieut.-Colonel Michel. . . . . . The enemy now appeared again in our rear and flanks, apparently' intending to oppose our progress towards tho camp. We again drove them off, but they did not fight with the same spirit as before. On reaching the road be tween Fort Peddle and our bivouack, I found Captain Tainton with 180 }lngot% awaiting me. lie had been accidentally detained at Fort Peddie beyond the time at which he was directed to march. . . lip to this time we had had three privates of the Queen's wounded, two of whom are since dead, and two privates of the Evora Monitilli, and two of the 73rd wounded. It was only at this period of the day (eleven o'clock) re ported to me that eight privates of the Queen's were missing. My men were too much exhausted (they had been marching and skirmishing incessantly fur 17) hours) to retrace their steps in search of them, but I scut the Cape Corps and Fingoes, with the captain of the company to which the missing men belonged, to search tho ground near the point where they had last been seen. The search was unsuccessful. I returned to our bivouuck at a quarter be fore 1. Lent: Colonel Michel returned with his detachment to the birouack at a quarter before 4 o'clock. He reported having met with no opposition. lie worked along the heights to the right of the valley (the route being cir cuitous), and after twice crossing the Fish River, entered the mouth of this valley. He effected a junction with the detachment under Captain Oldham and Commandant Davies about 9 a.m., at a most critical moment. It appears that the enemy attacked the rear of this detach ment soon after they entered the valley, and that they met another body of them in their front. The Levies and guides outmarched the Queen's, and the latter g 4 separated; Captain Oldham, with one company, leaving the path down the valley and losing his road. Ile was surrounded by Kaffirs, was killed himself, and hi• men suffered severely. The loss of this detachment was one captain and nineteen rank and file of the Queen's and Quarter Master Ebden and two rank and file of the Levy killed. Twenty rank and file of :he Queen's, and Commandant Davies, one sergeant and one private of the Levy, and two Kaffir guides wounded. The opportune junction of Licutenant.Colonel Michel's column enabled the detachment tobring away their wounded in safety. On the 10th instant, I proceeded to Breakfast \'ley, for the purpose of co-operatin4 with Lieut.-Col. Eyre, who was to have moved from Committee's that morning. lie had however, been diverted from his intended movement, and had made a night march by the (Toga upon a hill to the left of the road between Breakfast Vley and Committee's, where he found a body of Katlirs and Hottentots posted. Ile attacked them, and routed them with considerable loss. I enclose his report. Lieut.-Colonel Byre joined me at Breakfast Vley with 300 of the 73rd Ra.gt., and 60 cavalry, whilst my column was halted there and preparing to !novo towards Committee's. I then moved to Fort Williams. sending the wounded to Fort l'eddie. ' On the llth instant, the troops rested, and I procured some supplies from Fort Peddle. On the 12th instai.t 1 returned to Foonah's Kloof, and made arrangements for again scouring the valley where the division suffered so severely on the 9th. On the 13th inst. I detached Lieut.-Colonel Michel, with the 6th, Catty's Riflemen, and 100 of the Queen's, to the right, over theme ound he before traversed. I sent Major Armstrong with the cavalry, the Levy, and 100 of the Queen's to the rising ground to the left of the kloof, and T. proceeded myself with the 73rd, 100 of the Queen's, and the lingoes, down the kloof. We had a drenching rain all day, and either this or the large farce we displayed de terred the enemy from any serious opposition. A few shots only were fired at us as we entered the kloof, but the troops suffered no loss. We thoroughly scoured the kloof down the Fish River, and formed a junction with Lieut.-Colonel Michel near the river. On our way down the kloof we found a number of dead Kaffirs, which confirms the account then given by a Kaffir prisoner whom we captured, that the enemy suffered severely from the lire of Capt. Oldham's detachment. On the 14th, I proceeded to Breakfast Vley. On the 14th, 1 moved at 4 amt., in the direction of Coin mittee's towards the point where Lieut• Col. Eyre's combat of tho 10th was fought. A body of Kaffirs and Hottentots drew up to oppose us, but were quickly routed by the 6th and 73rd Regiments. We oscasioned them severe loss, but had one private of the 6th killed, and one of the same re giment wounded. I moved on the afternoon of this day to the Goya. On the 16th, sending the waggons uuder Licut.-Col. Michel, with the 6th Regiment, two companies Queen's, and Armstrong's Horse, round by Line Drift, 1 proceeded with the remainder of the diviaon by the mouth of the Qa lagha to the Tanialca. We captured a few cattle and eight horses on our march, killing several Rattles. I returned this day to King William's Town. I annex a return of the casualties which occurred during them operations, including Lieut.-Colonel byre's loss on the 10th inst. I have to bring to your excellency's notice the great ex ertions of the troops, and to express my thanks fur the aid I received from the officers commanding the different corps. I beg to thank Lieut.-Colonel Michel, commanding 6th Regt.; Lieut.-Colonel Eyre, commanding the 73rd Regt. ; Lieut.-Colonel Burns, commanding the Queen's , ; Lieut. Harris, commanding the Royal Marines; Major Arm strong, commanding the Mounted Levy; Captain Campbell, commanding detachment of the Cape Corps; Captain Catty and Commandant Davies, commanding the Levies. I beg also to thank Major Pinckney, 73rd Regt., and Ma jor Robinson, of the Queen's, for their exertions while commanding detached parties under me. Lieut.-Cel. Michel mentions the service of Major Wiltnot, R.A., and Lieut. Paley, R.A., who acted as staff officers to his column. _ . _ I have received every passage advantage from the energy and ability of Captain Faunce, my Brigade Major; reed Lieut. Whitmore, C. M. Rifles, who acted as my Aide-de- Camp, rendered most efficient service. The officers of the medical department deserve my warmest acknowledgments for their attention to the wounded.-1 have, &c., GEO. 71IACKINNON, Cum. '2nd Division. His Excellency Sir H. G. Smith, Bart., G.C.8., &c. The following is Colonel Eyre's report : Camp, Fort Montgomery Williams, Sept. 11, leol. Sir,—l have the honour to report that I moved with the force under my command on the morning of the 9th instant from Tminpetter's Drift to Fort Peddle, and being there joined by one hundred lingoes, under Cap tain Rae, I proceeded to the Goga, where I halted for, • few hours, with the intention of reaching by daylight on the following morning one of the enemy's positions on Committee's Bill. Soon after daylight on the 10th instant, the enemy showed himself, but not in sufficient force, as I conceived, to make it worth while to attack him, I therefore moved on; on observing which he came forward with great bold ness, and in considerable numbers, shouting, and evidently challenging us to combat. 1 instantly halted and deter mined to attack him. The Ilottentot rebels, in number at least fifty, were drawn up in two ranks like regular troupe; the lia.ffirs were so scattered that it would he impossible accurately to enumerate them, but they were in consider able force, and advantageously posted ; they were drawn up in various groups on the brow of a hill, with a valley and dense bush in front, between the enemy and us. Round the head of this valley, and to our left, was a connecting ridge, over which several paths led through an open bush that was perfectly practicable to all arms. I directed Major Arm strong to make a dash with his mounted force to Heise this ground, thence to threaten the enemy's right flank and cut him off from a deep kloof, into which he would probably endeavour to escape. With the three companies of the 734 and the lingoes, I moved at once through the bush to attack the enemy in front. The enemy made against us but a feeble resistance, he evidently sided off as we ad vanced to our left flank, to attack the Cape Mounted Rifles and Armstronis Horse. As they attempted to eras the head of the valley on our left, Major Arm si dismounted his men, and, in skirmishing or der, I ell the ground with great spirit. As the main forte of the enemy was evidently there, the enemy haying changed his position as we advanced, I halted, and moved to Major Armstrong's support. I found him warmly en gaged with the enemy, who lay scattered and concealed, within a few yards' distance, behind a thick hush. On reaching the ground, I immediately extended the grena diers of the 73rd, who, led on by Cap, Hewes, gallantly dashed into the bush, under a sharp fire,driving the enemy and pur suing him down to the bottom of the kloof, and burning or de stroying all his numerous huts, which were concealed in the bush. Several articles were found showing the luxury of these rebels, who were evidently living on what they could plunder from the colony. The enemy made several attempts to steal on our flanks, but were driven off on each occa sion, with great spirit. After repulsing the enemy, and silencing his fire, I held the ground for above an hour, when, perceiving nothing further to be done, I retired from the position, leaving a company in ambush, in case the enemy might follow us, but lie offered us ne further resistance. I marched to Breakfast Vley, the nearest point for water, where I joined the patrol under Colonel Mackinnon. It is with much pleasure that I am able to report the admirable conduct upon this occasion of the Cape Mounted Rifles, under Captain Campbell, and Armstrong's Horse, under Captain Tekusch—the whole under Major Arm strong. The brunt of the affair decidedly fell upon them, and nobly did they respond to the call—they held their ground with firmness until relieved by the 73rd, who with them speedily put the enemy to flight. I beg to express my thanks to the following officers:—To Major Armstrong, commanding the mounted force; to ,Captain Bewes, commanding 73d Regiment; to Captain Rae, commanding the lingoes, for his personal exertions and example ; and to Lieutenant Gawlcr, my acting adju taut.. I was much obliged, also, to Mr. 1). leer, a civilian, who accompanied me from Fort Peddle as a guide, and who gallantly assisted me in the field. Oar casualties, 1 regret to state, are considerable. Three officers woundeseverely—Lieutenant Walters, 731; En sign Thunby, C.111.1t. ; and Captain Tekusch, of Arm strung's horse. One man killed C.M.R. ; three men wounded, 73d Regiment, of whom one mortally ; and three men of Armstrong's horse, of whom one mortally. The loss of the enemy must have been considerable, but it is impossible to ascertain it.—l have, die. (Signed) WILLIAM Erne, Lieut.-Col. 73d ltegt., Commanding. Tho following general orders among others were issued on the return of the patrols of Mackinnon and Eyre Head-Quarten, King William's Town, Sept. 17, 1861. The commander in-chief has received with much satis faction Colonel Mackinnoa's report of tke continued opera tions which he was directed to carry on to dislodge the united rebels—Raffirs and Hottentots—who had posted themselves in the fastnesses of the Fish River Bush.