The Express. — London, England, 1851-04-16 00:00:00

Mr. ItOEBCCK —Thebes!. gentlemen talked of justice. be spoke of humanity : he wanted to adopt the principles which between unions °Tomtit civilisation are adopted with Tweet to England and whet were celled her colonies. Tel, that hem. eentl•nien an.l those who blinded themselvee to this one feet. had fereete.ll Oita w, 11.1.1 berun with the natives by committine a gross injustice see fires our ordinary pnneipha were conteerned. Wh it heel we cone in e geeeie Who ',men by taking away a populous country And theo we :Are ,L.V.41 to hetiew out the principles of justice. We begen with the greatest provable injustice; and then we askcl Out ruler. to carry out principles directly the reverse tootle ie vn hest a c ts. (Hear. heir.) Was there au) t:eng to j estify .111 : II • taut there NM. He was prepared to begin with the injustice, at far as be tween man and man, in the ordinary circumstances of the case. He kept his eye-. wide open to thee injustice; be ad mitted it; he justified it; he acted upon it. How did he mean to justify it ? !femme:end it not now with in ancient state, on its eitscovery by Celuinhus, but considered what it might be in cepeeteney. lie weigheil the immediate mis chief. Great, enonassin, overwhelinine e and terrilge as were the confine-4%0t Cortes and Pixerro, nikereble as were the hereon urdevastatiun, he would centpate all these with the wonderful results which hail beta manifested by the discoveries of 'modern schme, and of European net lieetime Ile would take them together lie would take the honer., he would take the mionits aeeiitst the great advance, and accept the latter. Dill he not know, did not the history of colouheation tell him, that the moment the white man, and more especially the Anglo-Se:on white man, whirler he plans hie hen by the side of a brow. native—wht their it be in New Zealand or in South Aeries —the inferior mot vaniehei irons before him; and that the only question wee the loom agony of pret-nole d justice and the immediate or protracted extrusion if the aboriginal cohabitants? The omens of a fake phil Inthropy we are going to extrude there; we are Fenn; for that pur poe, and it le Nee and hypocritical to say that we are going to do anything It.. We led teethed a great rent of eivilieetion—we had arrived at a point at which It was norm-dole to recede. Heft aiti the Owe of men w • were about to plant —there was the env me, new unhappily a 41. graded h ine. The ques tion for us wee could we net that man up thrtnuth ell the gredetione between his stet, and our to Me side of the Min who civilises a lie said that was impsoseilele— that the savage en would vanish Irefort the for. of the white man. The tact of colonieation proved that we fend in Kaffroria already a man who livid by hunting, whose mode, of life required advance. We took he• teerittore ; we. wised it. Whet could he do ? Na ture told him whet to the Ile fnitzht us; to forte opposed cunning. Then peer Sir 11. Smith talk, dus if these people hail committed s o ma dire oll•nro i i ttt t morality when they up ,nt oust ou r doOliulne. The hon. gentle man said wr should do unto othen as we would tiny deould do ado a.. 11.. asked him. then, to heroine s Katfrarim. M het, thin, would he do? Suppose the Hemmen t' • to Eugene'. What would any man in Engine!, or sell a woul.l On hen. gentle lie en I • self do —mould this go with sir Harry Smith and talk shout tender mo Wou!.l the hon. gentlemen think that vindirateel his rule of morality It he did not use an amemai, he would put a neuseet bell thneueli the [lnnen tut. If they wen- aide tee iffineluts a Loge body of volu mene, then was he prepinel to go the whole length of co lenieetien but it wee not hon. -ty, unit humanity, untl jus tice.. to recede also they Iwd 11.10111 with takiteg away that which was tilt eleanst right--their lend. flew matters should not ke mined up with anything con nected with the colonisetiom ia the Cape of Good HOW. Ti., government of the Cape of Good Hoer was entirely ditfi'rent. !Selfish Kaffrarie was not woreeruell Wall this Cape of (heel Hoer, but was a colony by itself as it happeneel, the Gffiernier of the Cape colony, alio, was also the Chief Conomissione r of Kalfrana. Katfraria was taken poreessien of ley the British governor, and u military Imre yeas sent there military hove, but n o polsiiiia, (litat.) Ile should he glad if the hon. Under Secretary would tell him whether he was right or weenie. 1 le• Kaffir. load bristled up In tau.' they felt we hail el.one them a greet injuniee. Choy were tight in et, doeitre. itiel we could only put them flown by force. Talk of humanity awl Ow iorinciphoo of Christianity, while by lhe rules we (allowed we lied thus treeteil these aborigines. We all kuew Ouse men had hearts, and wen evneible• of injury, and yet we hail deprived them of their dearest poe n...non land—the soon, of their euloiste at... We hail de prived them of the mean, of tieing, and yet wouilend that they not. against the oppreseion. We Kett plant. d ninon( them a military mime:. awl were attempting to destroy then, as a people. Ile said to the British people he wiehe•d they would understand the comeopiences of their own acts In the Kaffir territory the British p e nple• prep.. el to pine English colonists. Tu. Englieh rolonist could nod he placed there without the ince nettle sariatilailutims sal' the aloorigines 'Phut had been dery in America and in eye ry 0111. - of our colonies. There was a meet entralonliitary inetauce in North Alperin], and new it would lit &n.. in Smth Afe lea it the present ay stem of rollonisetion were emetitotivil. Let the British people• rimer up their mind. who. ther • to oohedss• or not. Ile win pre leenel to sty col •.• : the Menet aye ti. IsUbfltilllte highly eiy host for a savage peed oi n ne That could not he d • without enteiling great eulferingsllllol. the savages. lie was prepared for ter it. t Wan. .tearer to my you ceuld attain On end without incurring the roonequences. Ill' would ask the noble lore( (lord delete ituesell) steout his progovitimi. Was there ever such a thing WI u government tempering with a guy-lien in this way ? What was the meaning of it Ile (Mr. Roebuck) could suppos• such a thing us that a cos emnient should he us week --so incapable of 4occrniug that it wee glad if any could he- fennel to get rill of the diffi culty ; hut, under we other euppontion could he undo...tend the propeeition of the noble lord. For whet did he (hued J. Russell) ask? For whet did the Secretary of State— the geoverounent of the noble lunl, ask? the people of Etienne'. the government shielded ito.ll under the inie•r dole subterfuge of a committet. of the house. A ...het committee, fennel% ! And in 111 V 111,11. ti tttt •. while. eleughter a..s vein:: in,, while money was twill./ spent. while the titierleief was going on, while the gnat nation of Bowknot was to he lowered, perhaps, in in dignity, the wane lord aekeel did I not 1.1.1.0 int u eO.ll - :" Did they bi lien that the Queen's ministers were about to ask for a tommittee toe take on themselves the responsibilitits whirl, belong.' to the government ? Let the noble duel sty at enter, " I am unilole to govern this counts"- let him say, " Os, r the colonies of this country I 'have no coinonand"--Ite him say, `. I am seo weak that I cannot rennet the tOlOllll , and let him east to this holes• the poem he he Id to the mivehiet of the great principle that government had the reetemeibility of gesernme in (la.. rOalltry. 1 . 11.• holuse did not now govern. The hotsy was only to lok• the governing power as a ',est resouree. It was net the ailminietretition its, If. The time wa. demise:: the supremecy of republicanism when it might In el that the house was the ten eminent of the country. lie (Mr. lleteloffik) thought we had get rid of thosee times. Ile hail thought that we hail now got a euunitutional monareley. No committee of that house was entitled to take upon itself the gees e•rnittent of the country, because the government were totally unable to perform the funetione they had hitherto held, he could nut :soy they had adorned. (liver. hear.) Mr. I.AIIOUCIIER mouplained that the hon. member (Mr. Roebuck) Anil OW right hon. gentleman (Mr. Glad stone) haul on sonic measoiro• Instil guilty of entorgeration. 'flee hen. memiter (Mr. Reeleffik) had ympneseedliiii surprise that the. government Mould hare proposed to the hoess.• the appointment uf a committee toconsideriraportant seinen with respect to the colony, and bad suppoeed that the ineverninent in [skillet this course haul d •an unprece dented net. that they wen• virtuelly ahendening the func tions of their 'init.., and that such a pretporsit . could only have preen-dell from a weak government. lie chew.) ww eurprieeel that such a COW,' of argument Mould be 1...80wed by twee bon. gentlemen so well acquainted as they (Mr. Redneck and Mr. (iladstone) were with the his tory of ear nolimies, and who had taken such a promi nent part connected therewith. The right hououreble gentleman the member for Chalon University (Mr. (iliffietuter) moot know very well, that the meet diffi cult and important col vial question that had ever fallen to this country to deal with, seemly, the question as tee how the slave 11•111\11.160,1 should he dealt with, hied been referred he in to the oef a comouittee. The whole course of legislation rewarding theft• colonies had Men curried on in anonlence with the ncommendatione of committees. The quietens of elesery had "liana in thew recommendethms, and. ill truth. the liberation of the slaves bad been carried in accordence with the recememenellytion of a committee of the Muse. (Hear, hear.) When the question of appren ticeship hat% hem before t he consideration of the house it had been referred to a memmitte, and the Steretery of State (lord Stanley) hail then teought it his duty. and con anto-at with his iiuthority, to support the appointment of Out committee. The nettle lent tined Stanley) did rot then think 'h• was low center the eutleorier of his othce to ask M this way the assistance of ihe House of Commons, and in afterwards asking the **sent of the house to the measure they afterwards propoecel. they went the length of saying that the affairs of the colo niee were tee In• left to the Colonial.oftlee he (Mr. Lahou elven.) could not see the, they were entitled to reproach the government in asking for a committee to consider a moot importent colonel question. lie (Mr. L. boudoir) legged to remind the house what the question really before them was. The houuurehle gentle man who leggin this dinuesion had propoeed that commie ' ee should be sent out to the colony. NOW there wen aulovtantial anel irrefrattahle moons he thought against the adeption of suck a inane. the government of the colony Ws , tafTittt On by anthem who were quite as compe tent is any commissioner% who could be sent out, and if a mitten...ion were s e nt nut the effect would he to weaken the autleority of theft• officers ut a moment when that autho rity should fly nu wans he weakened. The other preposi tion—the am' ntlnient eel his noble friend (Lord John Bus frell)—wag, that a committee of this house should he to consider the whole difficult question a. to hose they Moffitt deal with the Cape Colony. Hon. gentle men !lad repine:ll the propmition as though the government had &venni themeelvee of the authority and r.eponsibility which rested upon them. But the govern ment did not wish to shako off any responsibility at all. It was fora CCTV llarttrilt purpose indeed. It was not to meet any sudden danger, or any emergent %tete of things, that the motion was made ; hut the appointment of the committee wee promote! in order that it might gravely eon der what should be fi •ed and settled policy with re gard t.. the Cape frontier. (leer.) That was a ques tion wen worthy of their m o st remota attention; and it was of quite as niuch importance ee that which had formed the subject of the committee on Canada in DIX, or of that upon West Indian slay, ry. (Cheers.) It was a matter upon which he thought the government might as properly ask cur a committee to won end give weight to their delibera tions as any upon which committee had been appointed in pest times; and he did therefore hope that the house, which always claimed, and claimed justly, to bear its full • • share in that imperial authority which it was necresary for the benefit of the colonies themselves, quite as much as for that of the mother country, that they should exert over the moot distant member of our colonial empire—would encourage the government in the course which it had pro posed to pursue. (lased c he e se.) Mr. HUNIE insist«l that the time had come when the colonist, should have self-government, and the management of their own affairs, which they were prepared to under take. Ile hoped the house would not appoint a committee, but he believed a commission sent out to the Cape would be of great service. ' Mr..l. 1iF.1.1. protested against the doctrine laid down by Mr. Roebuck, who had avowed the principle of doing evil that good might come. If a doctrine characterised by such a bloodthirsty and rapacious spirit were to be acted on, where would the mischief end ? Who was to be the of which of two nations was the more civilised ? Mr. s. HERBERT disputed the precedents appealed to by Mr. Lahouchere. But, independent of precedent, did this particular ram., he asked, justify the appointment of a committee? The circumstances of the ease required the exercise of discretion in the colony, or by the government at home, and this attempt to delegate responsibility, while it was not justified by the circumstances of the case, would be detrimental to the public service. Mr. BOOKER eupported the amendment. Mr HAWES said the appointment of the committee would not suspend the functions of the government, while there was on advantage in having a committee that could collect the fu lest information, and satisfy the house that the policy of the Cape government had been misrepresented. Mr. ADDERLEY wished to say, in explanation, that he had made no reflection whatever toe Lord Grey except as an exponent of the system which pursued. 11 hat he wanted the commission to do was merely to wind up those grievinees which the crown had pledged itself to redress ; and Living done so, he would then leave the colony to ma nage its own affair.. As his proposal was not accepted at all by the house, he thought the In at plan would be, nut to take the sense of the house upon his motion, but to take it against the motion of the noble lord, the greatest success anticipated from which was that it would result in the re contmendatinn of such a eommission a. he now proposed. The house then divided — For Mr. Adderley motion Against it On Lord J. Ito.-cell's untendrneut, which was moved as a .ulestantive proposition, the division was a. follows: Fur Lord J. Russell'. motion l2B Against it RETURNS ORDERED On the motion of Mr. Iltstiten a select committee was appointed to consider the puliey of extending the law of mortmain as as to include personal ..state, unit generally to consider whether any alteration should he made in the law as it affect. testamentary or other dispeimitions in favour of religious, charitable, or le rnement objerts. The following bills were brought in. On the motion of Mr. C. lataWl4, Bill for re-building the Bridge over the river Ness at the town of lowans., and for improving the apposiehes thereto." On the motion of Lord VANE : Bill for übselishing the fees paid to county and other coroners, and for providing fur the payment of such coroner. by %Marie," On the motion of Colonel Dr NNE a return was ordered of the different works of drainage in Ireland, under the set 5 and 6 Victoria, e. SO, &c., distin geishinet, first, those finished, showing the name of district or work, the county in which situated, the quan tity of land originally estimated to be benefited, the quantity of land fienal to be benefited on revision and detailed survey, the stint originally estimated for the work in the printed reports sanctioned by the Board of Works, the total cost of the works, with other details. The small Tenements Bating Act Amendment Bill went through esommittee. revirte wore resumed on the Assessed Taxes Act,the Timber and Coffee Duties Act, and the report of the Com mittee of Supply. SALE OF AItsENIC REGULATION BILL. This led went through committee for the purpose of lying reprinted. The other orders of the day acre then disposed of, and the house adjourned at one o'clock to the '2Bth inst. PARLIAMENTARY DI VISIONS. 110 USE OF COMMONS. KAFFIt.tItIA. Homo mode, and idoredon pr is sed, " Thot an humble address be prim rued to h. r 11.rjes•y, pray., g uot .he will be gra. umly plumed to app lot w.r. ,erase serum,: it. rA with in:Jut:l .la W privet d to .sin A ries, t,. in-,mare oral iciv.rt ••• I. the lis-t nio le ii• • justoor Om ral.tions mum a .his country and co Kaffir tribes-I out slur ol rick rnmalso 'he i arc:roman. triter.) Into by her Lsj.-'ty's Hour Comm' Ammer 1.1 It, vettliinelit 01 the extended terrirery :" (Mr. Add 01014 .Inendinort orontr.il, to leave out hom the won, . Th. t " to the %rid or the 4,laeat.on, to to tier to add the wino-' u•telt et 4111101th , t, hr appoinirsi, to in.,Wre into the se atom, b Deism this waretry sell the K ,ffir snd other tribes on our South Alien fr siler"—(Lord Jolt, Russell ) —mum' Hutto( taw mum put. •• That the words groused to be :elt out stand port of the querition." Toe boo. or. thud: Ayes, 111, 0r.., 1.9. AYES. Arkwright, George Goaludi, J.mies U. Palmer, Robert Budd, 11.3. Gl.rlst art, lion W.E. Widow George W. 3. Winer., idorge Good, Wyoulnain Itueleak. John A. . Beckett, William Greene, Joan tWillty, Frontal Illar.totr). lint (iuerusei, Lord Sooner, Hinny Its. Getlwell. Ed used Halsey, Tumuli, P. Pigott/T, Richard Carew W. 11. P. IluMilt , n., Lord C. Rolm", Augustus • Clot I, ' Sod la Illertert, Kt. Iln. S. stormy, Hoak L.ll. Chriot 'piker, It. A. llocutry. J.M3 Stuart, 11. nry cocks, unmoral S. Glum , , J .se.ib start, Henry U. Deed's, Wdu ing Kea taw MAI I*. Sint , ut. John II X. Disraeli, lien) roan Loi Ohara, Urinate Cr Mu se Dana Duckwortlkelir J. T.B. Maus rs, lord U. Beery, Hun Thme" Dutton., (i..ege Attu& Tor Henry Vim., Wenard H. IL Dunne, Colonel Miles, V. W. S. Watley, Traumas Las , Sir James B. Mould, William Wegg.Preaser, E. R. Elwards, Henry Monett, Frames Warsaw, %%dos Evris s. Willeam J. Ka" laud V.l.'s.. sir Wound Ws:, II in. Gerard J. TOLLoini. tow W. J. O'curinell, John Mnlcasonh, Sir W. Fuller, Aug:situ. E. o . oJandl, Morgan .1. Adderley, C. B. NOL.3. A , l .Ir, Ilugh E. Ergs., John Morris, David Adair, It A. s. Ewan, WiLiara Mular.ive, Karl of Abu ioby, Henry A. Fltawrllhim, IIn.G.W. Stirrer% Lord Anson, Ilan. i 'irk I . ..r.ter..tialthen Nontya, Mr H. J. Amos; Vises:int Forte, re, Colchester Ord, Nitlinta • Ansley, Tuoin Is C. Vote,. ~ 110. J. W. Paget, Load Alfred Baushaw, 1 11.1 In.volul. Cal. Paget, Load Clarence ' Bamest, ill. II in. X. G .tell. Ch in a Paim.rston, Viscount Banos, Rt. ills. Sir P. Glyn, Guitar C. Porker, John IMP, .1... t. tio.idard. A. 1.. P.nney, William Waleavr,ltiebard M. Gres ell, I. 1'.1.300 Plowilm, W.ll. C. lagrkeley, Haw. 11. F. Grentelk Cli oNo W. )'rice, Sir Robin Illighelry, C. L. G. Gr ey , Kt lies. Sir U. !burr, Poing MOW BeIPA Grey, Ralph W. Lowden, Cu ones Illoot.Joun Mill, air Ikolloo n Lice, Edward it. ea. Richard llormas 10.41.00T:I A. Itieb, !Limy WOK Sir Tiro nos Metes, 'Boa:moan Romany, Colmar' Wass r,T4.144.14.11 W. Ileadlorm. 'boa. E. Rumbas, (Merles E. il Pyle. Wm. Col Ileall, Jaws Russell, Load John Illgookk burst, John Heywood, Jam.. Itumell, Iln. Law. S. Ilretbat“n, Jivisiph Ile der, eb ales Ss.llloUr, Lord Ollwanory, Edward 11. H0b0.... Timmer. B. sberan, Ittchard B. ailLor Nemo N. II mar.l. L ord ul L. smith. Jam I. Illgorton, Sir EN. Iliwartyla.C. W. G. Somerville, Sir W. X. 01111.4 Joke B. Howard, Ho. E.G.1.. Spearman, Henry J. Ehogoollob. iron. (1.11. Jug ili o, Trminnt tcan ord, John F. Cboolm. William J. Kershaw, Jaisirs Stanton. WH. Omp.hinsi Istria here, tit 110.11. Tents 11, Edward K. Clow Dar Willman looney. Its, ii. It. Thoinigua.C..lonel Goollanorn, sir A J. 0. lowa, George C. Taut nely, Manna. pile, lion E. K. L eke, 4 oseP l) Townemy, Juno O*no, Walnut 11.1:6111S111. W. A. Townley, itclurd G. OPWptr. lion. W. F. M•Gergur, John Townaher.d. Copious Oran, Sir W. G. Maim r. the k I%or. Vaal`, Lord 'Larry Cberrodor, Rich er-I B. Mao iesike, Vise rant Willaux, B. X tatil Shllll.lll. Hoe. T. V. Mar-ho-1, .I..inel G. Willunnoun, sir IL Inlyggrmarl,llorkii.T. Msralsall, W. Watson, Joints DegOOKIIir C. h. Slats son, Col. Wi.00,1, MatlbeW Deires. lamas llon. P. Wood, Bt. ILL BM C. LiOnink Male.' Mi a nim I Bt. , Visoiont Wood, 8 r willies P. Onmelm.RLlkozsirD. II dove. KIVI.all Si. Wrill. slormadubsi 1 111wImilos, Vis.uuot Ilashill. Mom. A. ?SLUMS. BIBS, &Wad li.orde, Chokes A. Borer, ilklln. W.G. ' OW, John Morthon, au W. Hall, lord Marcus Weal* •Dato.—Mail Valetta". ao amended, put. The home Wearied: Aye., IX, Slcoa,Cd. ATE& bdalr, )(ugh E. Wass, Julio Mulgrove, Earl of Mau, R. A. S. Lear, Wilaani Kerrey% lord Aalioube. Henry A. Vita /Wiliam. IIn.G.W Soot's, Sir D. J. Anion, 11. n. soil. Vorolir, Nephew ord, William Ann It, tweount Emir-cue, Chieuester Paget, Lord A. Amory, •1110.11111- C. Fortercue, Illn. J. W. Paget, Lord C. liagsbas. Jahr Frftstura, Colonel Palmerston, Vmount Waimea, W. 1111. X. T. thseb, (Lade. Parker,Jabn narrow W.llinimarF. Glyn, Ogre Care limn, William Bell, Jae .b tiorkLakl, A. L. Plowsms, Walborn 11. Bellow, Ruh trd Si. Creston, C. P. Price, tilt Ito lert • Illsrkeier, C. L. U. tireoleli, Chutes W. Posey, Perim Bersol, Ralph Grey, llt. HMI. Sir U. KAVF•IO,I, C.ololltl Om, Juno Grey. Ralph W. Rice, Ldwanl Loyd 111.1.1e11, Richard Halt, Sir Iteitiotrita Rub. Usury glieb, Sir Th Imes B. 11 rnicaule. J.viiiph A. Itomilly, Colonel Illoolurr, "Ds onas 10. HAIY. Kenji omit Wambold, t bark, E. in le, lion. Cul. Ileadlum, lani.a E. batmen, Lord Juba W. dd. Wow Jiihn Ileald, Junes Russell, lion. EI. nougherius, Jur. ph Heywood, 3111101 Seymour, Lord may, Edward 11. Medley, . r ay Cies Sheridan, It 1.1. Imam. Pius,' S. Huhn.... B. Smith, Jobe Abel Illszton, air E. S. Howard, Lord &Asa Samersille, Ito SIT W. I Carter. John tr. Howard, Hon. C W. Spearman, Henry J. Cavendish,llon.G.lL Howard. lin. L. U.G. Stanton. Walt= H. Cbsualin. `A . J. Jim lyn. Viscount Tenieen, Edward K. Clay, James Kershow, Jornee Thompson, Col net lay, Sir W. Imbouchett. II .n. 11. Thorntly, Thomas Cobbold, Jam C. Cawley, lion. R. R. Townley, John Cockburn, sir A. J. E. lambs °nage C. Townley, B. G. Callue, Hon Erlwd. K. late, Justin. Townattend, i apt. Whir, Willnos Ilaelinnn, W. A. Sew, Lord Harry Oimpet, Hon. W. F. Wtiremr, John Witleos, B. 313)M o c. 5 .,4 1 , s ir SO 1111...1310. Yahoo, Metal; amen Wilson, William Crowder, Richdr.l E. Man .evine, %Mama Withanosak Sir U. Iligemon, 11-in T. V. Wombed, James O. Wawa, James lggysecurt, lin. C.T. Marshall, WWl.= Wrisork Mathew Douglas, Sir C. E. Ilaturoa, Colonel W. 01, Rt. Hoek SOC. Duaerni, 'Soiree Moult, W. llak Fez Wood, Sir William P. Hondas Adtuiral Melguod, Vtaanant *rill, Mormaduk• [Madre, Sir Hunt Milne., Weberil M. BoBlllslo4 Voronitat Illitchail, [bonus A. 0 • tax.oo. Mimi, Carman! Mince. Sur N illloos Hoyle., Rt. Hu. W.G. Ells, John Norris, travail HAW Lied Kamm SOFA. Arigwvirt.t. 0. Coghill, Junta M. 03DonstU, V. J. Boob, 11. J. Cilachoone, lin. W. IS Palmer, Bob, rt Banter, heard' Gould, Wyndhant Reroo. G. W.J. Deligett, Wax= Gnome, John Roebnek. John A. Borgoey,l. SI 0411,11.1. laird Scully, Erasers oordweil, Edward Horny, Mum. P. Stint mr, 'testy E. Carew, Wlllarma 11. P. Banta-44 bed C. Signae,, KI / ha,d CMI.I, Smith Hatbiet,ltt.lan.U. B. Stoff...l, Augusta* Clariatoplam, R. b. llorn3y, Jehu Sturonl. Ju F. Cock., liionvos S. Hume. Joseph Stanley, hoe. K. IL Deed.", wti,..c. Wwiirg, Robert Stuart, Henry llgorsed, Penjornin lockout, Walborn Blurt, Henry G. Duckworth. sari .T.B. Bloomer's, Lord 0. lhattM, J. H. X. Dudes, Georg* Meow Ott Henry Urquhart, David Dunne, Colunei Miles P. W. S. Peary, Haw T. Last, Ste ,nne• 5. Homed, W dune I'm ItichardELlLll Edward.. envy Moody, Chartres A. W , Thogo s a Evelyn, W. di on). Illogra.t, Fronds WM- r P.l. Moser, Our Edmund Blom, Lord swain Paz, W. J. Soil, How 0. J. Molessorth, 84 W. Feller, Augustus. E. O'CoMMIL John &Mein, C. R. THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, APRIL 16, 1851. ghe ervrefo. isentative system of government, reasonable beings for governors, and permission to take care of them selves at their own expqmse. They are proud of English citizenehip, and wish to retain it; but they feel that the true link to unite the colony and the mother country is to be sought in mutual good offices and common interests ; not in a system of government that keeps them in a perpetual poli tical nonage. TO COIiItESPONDENTS. A Freund Edhlon .f " The }levees," e ultsming he some e• nines Gcurtte." Is published every Tociday sn I Enday night. Is dos for pod. Adverueeraenta Wended for '• The Looks teesbee paper, mtpit b, the mike, io, louverse•street, by Two o'clock co eke eloy d pub.untiou. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Tem tr.e--)ternien. 7h. 7.. Anemoe, 2b. MIA Turoaa•v—Monty, 2A. Sles .Alum, Sw 12•2. IT is no part of the duty of a liberal journal to explain away, to make light of, or to gloss over, faults and errors committed by individual members l of the liberal party. What is censurable in their op ponents cannot, by any perversity of logic, or conve mency of morals, be commendableorexcusable in them. So of St. Albans, as we did of Aylesbury, we must say that Mr. BELL would have been much better away at the last election than present at such a scene of electoral corruption, venality, and scandal, as then occurred, if not with his sanction, certainly at his cost ; or, if resolved to contest so notorious a place, he might, iu the interest of his party, have, at least, taken a lesson from the conduct of Mr. ROBERT LONDON, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 16. Mr. ADDERLEY wants a royal commission to pro ceed to South Africa, to inquire on the spot into the actual relations between this country and the Kaffir tribes, and the relations which it would be most ex pedient to substitute for them. Lord Jolter Res- SELL prefers the appointment of a select committee of the House of Commons to inquire into the rela tions between this country and the Kaffir and other tribes on our South African frontier. In so far as Mr. Aoneniet's motion and Lord Jonsi's amendment alone are concerned, the former i is unquestionably to be preferred. In tho recent debate on Sir it W. BARRON'S motion for a com mittee of the whole house on the state and prospects of Ireland, the value of committees (and commissions too, by the way) was illustrated in a very striking manner. According to Sir WILLIAM SOMERVILLE, in the course of the last ten years II commissions and fi3 parliamentary committees have inquired into and reported on the state and prospects of Ireland. What good has come of all their labours ? What has Ireland been benefited by them ? Each and all of these committees and commissions have presented to parliament their blue books. and under the accu mulated mountain of colossal folios, the means of benefiting that unlucky country have been buried far out of sight of mere'human intelligence. The experience of more than twenty years ought to have taught earnest politicians by this time that In minty-nine cases out of a hundred, a committee Is a mere substitute for action. It is a device for gaining time when a ministry is pressed to do what It has no will to do, and cannot decently refuse. The Ceylon question was sufficiently complicated, ana obscure before the appointment of the committee of lust session, but the labours' al that honourable body' have introduced each admirable confusion into it that the most san guine have ceased to hope that the " mysteries of Ceylon" can ever be unravelled. When the Anti- Corn-lawdelegates first came toLondon the ministers of the day kindly offered them a select committee. The delegates knew better than to accept the otter. Had they done so, they and their cause would have been witldrawn from public notice ; it was by keep ing both constantly in the public gaze that they were enabled to accomplish their mighty tusk in little more than seven years. For such a purpose as ascertaining the true cha racter and merits (or demerits) of our South African policy in relation to the Kaffir tribes, a royal commission to act on the spot is a shade better, and only a shade, than a select parliamentary committee. The committee must examine such witnesses us are on the spot, or such us they are advised to send for to the colony. When it has got these witnesses before' it, it lacks that knowledge of local circumstances and personal rela tions that is required to enable it to estimate aright the value of their evidence. If there is anything suspicious about the evidence, supplementary or op posing evidence must be sought tar at hazaid, with much expense and considerable loss of time. A com mission on the spot can see as well as hear, and judge in some IlleaSUM for itself, and can convene witnesses with less of expense and loss of time. But even a commission labours under this disadvantage ; it' its members are residents in the colony they arc liable to local biasses and partisan prepossessions; if strangers, they are liable to innumerable misappre hensions of a state of society with which they are previously unacquainted. If', tlarefore, it were absolutely ircumbent upon us to give a vote in favour of Mr. Aotmeet.ee's motion, or Lord JOHN iII",sELC , amendment, we would give it for the former, but with great doubts as to the ex pediency of either plan of prixavding. And seeing that theree is no cull upon us to take part with either the one or the other, wo frankly contiss that both proposals appear to us little likely to lead to profit able results. The truth is that action, not inquiry, is called for. The numerous blue hooks on Cape attitirs that have heel) issued since Ifi3s contain all the information that committee or commission can elicit, and more than is necessary to guide the legislature and govern mut to a sound decision on the policy that ought to Ibe adopted ut the Cape. In these voluminous and tumid collections arc to be found full ac counts of our various Kaffir wars ; full description of the various tribes of aborigines in South Afric..., their migrations and actual position ; ample insight into the composition of the European society at the Cape, Dutch and English; information respecting the missionary operations among the natives, and the relations of the missionaries to the colonists and go vemment ; and a fair picture of the consequences of the manner in which the colony has been adminis tered. What more can committee or commission tell us ? It' upon these data government and the legislature do not feel themselves in a condition to act, they will be equally irresolute and undecided after committee or commission have tried to illumi nate them. One thing is clear, that the system of tying up the hands or the colonists, and leaving a local gover nor uppointed by u distunt imperial government to negotiate and fight with the uncivilised tribes or their bands on their border has lamentably railed. Under this system a Kuffir war has been sure to recur at intervals varying front three to five years. And these wars have each of them cost the mother country a suns varying from a million upwards. The colony could not be moreprecariously circumstanced, more exposed to the inroads of manniding barbarians, if left to provide for its own defence. And the mother country would thereby be relieved front au ever-recurring source of bootless expenditure; for so long us it takes the defence of the colonists into its own hands, tying up theirs, and compelling them to look idly on, it incurs the responsibility of the ex penditure incurred by its own and its agents blunders. And the colony is fully adequate to its own de- I fence against any aggression from uncivilised neigh bours. In the event of a war between this and any other civilised country, the colony may be exposed to attacks, and as these attacks would be made upon it as a part of the empire, it would be entitled to look for aid from the mother country, and would nerd it. But the attacks of barbarous neighbours mire prompted by . different feelings from those which impel civilised nations to war; they must be evaded by a different policy; they are more desultory and leas dangerous. It is only in unforeseen, first attacks, that uncivilised tribe; ever pig' an advantage over civilised men. The knowledge, resources, and orga nisation of the latter, always ensure them the ascendancy in the long run. The attacks of bar hams neighbours can only be averted by the watch fulness and prudence of those who are liable to them. The colonists who have to deal with them know best how to avoid giving them provocation—they have the strongest motives to avoid giving them any. A remote • government, or its agent sent to the colony for a few years only, have neither the same opportunities to learn the characters of the tribes nor the same motives to watch them closely. The history of European settlement iu New Zealand places this in a strong light. The first settlements on Cook's Strait were straggling communities of run away sailors and escaped convicts engaged in bay whaling. These men, few among many savages, rude and ungovernable though they were, felt the necessity of keeping on good terms with their way ward neighbours, and of watching their deportment closely. The consequence was that they lived in perfect security among these cannibals. Since New Zealand has liZen blest with Colonial-office governors and English troops, there has been more than one bloody war between the natives and the settlers. We have occasion to know that this is the view entertained by the most intelligent and most nume rous portion of the community of the Cape Colony. There are jobbers there as well as here, and that amiable class wish the policy hitherto pursued to be continued, as it tills their pockets. But the honest, industrious, intelligent colonists. to a man, when asked what measurts are best adapted to insure peace and security to their settlements, and whether they wish for numerous troops, or committees, or COTIIMifF Ilions of inquiry, reply, that all they need is a repre- (. 7 1tAWFtntn --. at Harwich, and confined his expendi ture to what was lawful and proper: that at Har wich, in Mr. CRAWFORD'S case, not exceeding It is indeed wholly incomprehensible how so respectable, and intelligent a man as Mr. BELL could have been induced to go to so wretchedly venal a borough as St. Albans. There is some thing ofkitsive and even insulting in the very notion of liming anything to do with the place. Mr. Alderman Sheriff CARD EN is not an over-sensitive, delicate, or scrupulous person. But even he purged his mind, buttoned up his pockets, and read a homily on purity before he started for St. Albans. Yet there he seems to have found a much better man than Mui r self—a successful London tradesman—a scientific chemist, a patron of tine arts, and a member of the Society of Friends, at high ,finks with corruption hand in glove with the dealers and chapmen in votes; surrounded by a set of scamps who would sell their country, and thank their stars that they had a country to sell. What could have persuaded Mr. But to go thither, to have tolerated such a band of electoral ruffians, to have dirtied his hands by coming into contact with them, to have yielded to their ways, and to have begun his public career on such a foundation, is one of those strange occurrences that altogether puzzle and defy ordinary observation or common-plate solution. One feels that it can only be explained by some secret piece of his tory ; one hopes that Mr. BELL ignorantly fell amongst thieves as he travelled along the highway of life, and, like Aannx SMITH, became so thorunglily the victim of these land pirates us to appear to pass ing gaze one of the party. Mr. BELL, we are willing to believe, is rather the instrument of the traffickers in elections at St. Albans, than he was the chief actor in or stimulator either of what occurred during the contest, or at the very audacious attempt made during the recent inquiry to defeat the ends of justice. In all that has Own place, there is an amount of experience, tact, and in solence, courage and skill of a bud order, that cannot belong to a person so new to politics as Mr. BELL. His fault appears, then:Coe, to have been that he got into hands from which he could not escape ; that one false step led on to an other ; and that with him as with 2 1 / a rbeth, "re turning were as tedious as go o'er." His position is not, however, an enviable one; his return was secured by means that are indefensible, that strike at the very root of representative government, that are a scandal to the country ; and his return has been protected by practices which, if submitted to, would render the administration of justice a mockery, and reduce the authority of parliament to a point below that of a small debt court. Mr. BELT. remains member t'or St. Albans ; but in all probability he will he the last of its representatives, for so little Met • has even the late disclosures had on the bo rough-mongers of that town, that it is under stood that, in anticipation of a general election, they have already sold the seat, at least in advance, to a notorious tructarian, whose chance of being again re turned for his county is nought. Whilst, therefore, uniting cordially in the animad versions that are mode on the electoral corruption of this borough, we cannot, however, join with Mr. CannEs's friends and relatives in the Tithes, in cen suring the committee for not voiding the election. For, though there was a moral certainty that Mr. llEtis Success was owing to bribery and treating, there was little legal evidence Mom the committee of facts whereon to reach a judicial decision to that etfeet. Suspicion there was in abundance—ample testimony, too, of the abduction of the witnesses who were expected to prove acts of bribery— confident assurances that if the absentees could be procurod the case would be made, and every reason to believe that such would have been the result of their capture and production. But when it is con sidered that grave doubts had arisen whether the committee had not, by an unauthorised adjournment, voided and terminated the powers under which it sat; that there was no reasonable expectation that the efforts of the petitioners and their agents to secure the lcvanting witnesses would be successful; and above all, when it is eousidered that, under the provisions of the late statute, the com mittee have moved the House of Commons to direct a larger inquiry into the electoral condition of the borough, the conclusions to which it came were, we must think, right and reasonable. No doubt that result gives Mr. ISELL a seat to which few can think him entitled; but either the proceed ings of a committee, whose legal existence had be come doubtful, 11111.4 have been indefinitely pro longtd, or an inadequate, hasty, and insufficient in vestigation have taken place. As it is, the committee, by the course they have pursued, have terminated an inquiry that must have been uusatistiwtory ; but only to originatcunother that in all probability must, from its sufficiency, termi nate in the disfranchisement of St. Albans ; and by its disfranchisement lay the foundation of its future prosperity; for when the electors of small boroughs arc corrupt and venal, they are also indolent, idle, and worthless inhabitants of a decaying town ; and, until deprived of the casual means of living which the representation gives them, it is hopeless to ex pect their mural or material improvement. ' be Court. Prince Albert presided yesterday afternoon at a meeting of the Royal Commission for trie promotion of the Exhibition in 18:il of the Works of Industry of all Nations. His Royal Highness arrived at the Exhibition Building in Hyde-park at three o'clock, attended by Lieut.-Col. llun.C. B. l'hipps, Colonel lion. Charles Grey, and Lieut.-Coloucl lion. Alexander Gordon. The commissioners present were Earl Granville, Lord Overstonc, the Right lion. Henry lalsmehere, M.P., the Right lion. William E. Glad stone, M.P., Sir Richard Westmaeott, Sir Charles Lyell, Sir Charles L. Eastlake, Mr. Baxley, Mr. Cobden, M.P., Mr. Cubitt, Mr. John Gott, Mr. Pusey, M.l'., Mr. John Shepherd (Chairman of the East India Company), and Mr. Hopkins (President of the Geological Society). Mr. Scott Russell and Sir Stafford Northeote, Secretaries to the Royal Commission, and Mr. Rowring, Acting Secre tary, were in attendance. Colonel Reid, Chairman of the Executive Committee, Colonel Lloyd, Special Commis. &loner, and Dr. Lyon Playfair, Sin cial Commissioner, were also present. The meeting broke up at half-past five o'clock, at which hour the Queen arrived to inspect the Exhibition. Her Majesty was accompanied by the Princess Royal and the Princess Alice; and was attended by the Marchioness of I Douro, Lady in Waiting, and Colonel Buckley, Equerry in Waiting. Colonel Reid, Chairman of the Executive Com mittee, received the Queen un alighting from her carriage, and attended ller Majesty and Prince Albert during their I is of the works of sculpture, and other object. of • 1 interest in the Exhibition. Her Majesty and Prince Albert I , took their departure a little before 7 o'clock, and returned Buckinghim Palace. Prince Albert, attended by Lieut.-Col. Hon. A. Gordon, de out on horseback yesterday morning. 'lhe Prince of Wales, attended by Mr Birch, took a drive in en open carriage yesterday. The Princess Royal mid the younger members of the Boyd Family took their accuetomed eiterei.e yesterday. Her Majesty and Prince Albert, attended by the Mar chioness of Douro, Colonel Buckley, and Licut.-Col. the lion. A. Gordon, visited the Duchess of Gloucester yester day evening, at Glouct,ter House. Lead Byron has relieved the Earl of Listowel in his duties as Lord-in-waiting to the Queen, and Captain the Don. Joseph Denman, lt.N., has relieved Lieut.-General sir Edward Bowater in his duties as Groom-in-waiting to I her 3lajesty. A deputation on Smithfield-market had an interview I yesterday with Sir George Grey, at the Uome.office. The deputation consisted of Sir James Duke, M.P., Mr. Master man, M.P., 'Mr. H. L. Taylor, Mr. John Dixon, Mr. It. Taylor, Mr. Deputy Lticks; Mr. J. H. Hall, Mr. Dakin, and the City Itemembrancer. Mr. Prewly bad an interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer yesterday, at hli official residence in Downing street. FRANCE. PARIS, Try, 411.,y ErZNINn. The committee on the Municipal Bill has termi nated the first reading of Book I. of the government's bill. It has decided that in case of dissolution of the Municipal Council the re-election ought to take place within six months, and that the council is not to be replaced in the interim by any commission. The committee has charged the sub-committee to ex amine in what circumstances, and by what jurisdic tion, the suspended mayor might be visited with temporary or absolute ineligibility. The new ministry presented yesterday a bill de maturing an additional credit of 800,000 f. on the budget of war for the distribution of succour to the old soldiers of the empire. The uppermost topic of political conversation is the plan put forth in the Bulletin dr Paris, which I de scribed yesterday, for convoking an extraordinary session of the municipal councils. The Unano believes that the government will appeal to the councils general of the departments for a simple categoric vote on the revision of the constitution. The cabinet council which sat yesterday at the Elytic is said to have been occupied with this subject. The Duke of Levitt has arrived in Paris, with a mission from the Count of Chambord, to confer with I Count Mole. and M. Guizot upon the subject of fusion. The ...IssemWe Nationale, organ of the latter party, announces to-day the change, of which I informill you some time ago, which has taken place in the property of that paper. It states that personages of high consideration in the political world have wished to make this journal the vehicle of their opinions, and the supporter of their efforts for the definitive union of the great elements of the party of order. An incident highly chatructetistie of the moment occurred to-day at the door of the Assembly. As M. Haze and a friend of his were exchanging con gratulations on the opening of the vacation, a national guard on duty called out—" Would to God that we were rid of the Assembly altogether r Upon this the irate questor immediately summoned the officer in command and gave the out-spoken national guard in charge. The delinquent was immediately arrested, and eommittcsl to the black-hole of the guard-house during the rest of the sitting. The benches of the Assembly were still thinner than yesterday. The proposition on the order of the day were adjourned ut the request of their authors. The report on petition was then read, and resented only one point of the least interest. M. Valentin. a member of the Mountain demanded the reference to the committee of a petition against the law of P4:11, which permits the government to place officers in disposability by widulrawing their employment. General Lannwiciere having defended the right of the gwernment, the Assembly passed to the order of the it was yesterday affirmed that General Perrot, commanding the national guards of the Seine, was! to be superseded. It was said that the general, when called before the council of ministers to give his opinion on the bill relative to the organisation of! the national guards, was not well satisfied to find his ! opinions opposed by a simple suiwrior officer of one of the legions of Paris, introduced an instant after him by order of the President. It is also said that the general considered it his duty to oppose certain personal exigencies, tending to introduce into his stall; and even to place at its head, a man who does not enjoy his confidence. The successor of General Perrot has not been mentioned. The o,avtitntimine/ contains an article setting forth the necessity of completing the defences of Cher bourg, the arsenal of which, it says, might be easily burnt by an English force of steamers, which might reach Cherbourg in eight hours from Portsmouth, or in three hours from Alderney. The sums already expended on Cherbourg amount to 151 millions. 'With the six millions now voted. Cherbourg will be placed in a complete state of de fence on the seaward side. Four forts, three of which belong to the breakwater, will protect the port, and when those works shall have been finished, an enemy rash enough to enter the harbour would probably not be lucky enough to get out again. The whole of the defensive works of Cherbourg arc to comprehend, independently of the tbrtilieations in the sea. a series of fiats on the heights above the town ; but these last-named works ate of a less urgent character, and it has been considered that they may be adjourned without danger. It has also'' been thought that, as Cherbourg ought to lw some day or other in communication with the capital by a I railway, the facility to transport there in a ti:w hours forces and stores, might render unnecessary part of the works designed by military engineers. The question of the land works consequently has been reserved. The government has determined to apply to the Assembly for funds for the reparation of the damage done to the Tuileries by the invasion of February. A report on this subject gives a sad account of the treatment which the portraits and busts met with in the Hall of Marshalls. The full-lengths of Bugeaud and Soult were, however. the only pictures of mar shals completely destroyed. The test gut off with more or less shots and sonic tearing. The busts were not treated with more revtrence. A dinner was given on Sunday, at the Hotel des Princes, to Generals lkinbinski and Chryzanowsld, the former recently returned from Turkey and the latter from Italy, by a hundred Polish emigrants. Prince Adam Czartoryski was in the chair. Toasts were given to the two distinguished guests and to the fraternity of &laves. Count Teleki, die only Hungarian who was present, proposed a toast to the , Polish emigrants and to the memory of General Bem. ' The whole of the company present loudly expressed' their gratitude to the Sultan Alelul Medjid, and wishes for his long reign. They considered that it was owing to the liminess shown by him in defend ing the sacred rights of hospitality that they bud the pleasure of again seeing General Dembinski among them, instead of his being now undergoing captivity. A convention has just been agreed on between the Northern Railroad and that of Belgium and Ger many, by means of which travellers and correspond ence, from the Ist of May next, will arrive in Paris on the evening of the day following their departure from Berlin and Hamburg, and letters from every part of Germany will reach their destination one day sooner than hitherto. The funds continue to fall. The Fives declined 15c., and closed at 92.85. The Threes fell also 15c., and closed at 57.30. ITALY. Our Boman correspondent, in his letter of the 10th inst., states that the Grand Duke of Tuscany took his departure from Rome on the Nth. The Pope was holding a public eonsistory on the morning of the 10th. Ile jeering receptiou of the two new cardinals by the populace, and the demonstrations of the crowd before the French embassy, had been followed by numerous arrests. Thr; miraculous Madonna of Rimini is being copied to be sent to England by spe cial permission of his holiness, at the request of Monsignor Talbot. The Onsereatore contains a highly abusive article on the Ecclesiastical Titles Bill. The organisation of the Papal army was progressing. The British consul at Ancona was awaiting a solution of the collision case. . TURIN, Aram 11. The Croce di Saran announces that the Austrian government he.s applied for a free passage for its troops over the Sardinian territory, in case of a change of policy in France, and demands fortresses as a guarantee. A bill on municipal reform will be presented. to the Chamber in 20 days. GERMANY The Hanoverian correspondent of the lkutschel Aluemrine Zeitung asserts, in very positive terms. that , Lord Cowley and the Marquis Tallenay have received i instructions from their respective governments to leave Frankfort the moment the question of the in- I corporation of the Austrian provinces in the Band I may be mooted at the Diet. A Russian note on the subject of the incorporation rather favouring than discouraging the project has, it is said, been received at Vienna. (Previous accounts have stated that Russia had advised non-persistence in the project.) In a general assembly of the Protective A'eretn at Frankfre, under the presidency of Prince Ho henlolie, it was unanimously resolved to use all possible means to bring about a 'Loll Union with Austria. A consistory of Prussian Puscy -1 ite (called Evangelical) clergy at Konigsberg, have issued an evangelical letter, ca cathedra, in which they solemnly put out of the pile ' of christianity the "free corporatiens " (jreigenarinefe) of the Prussian province, and call upon their paii.4l. ioners to give in their adhesion to this declaration, The clergyman of the highest rank, of the largest parish of 'Konigsberg, a conservative in church and state, has protested against this pro ceding. PORTUGAL. The Oriental Company's steam-packet Iberia. ('apt. F. !Showy, arrived at Southampton last night, with dates from Gibraltar to the sth of April ; and I Lisbon, 9th; and Oporto, 10th; and landed her mails, under charged Lieut.Jam•s Inglis, Admiralty agent. 'Me revolution had not extended to Oporto when the Iberia left. The members of the British ' embassy at Lisbon arc stated to believe that the revo lution in Portugal will be a most serious one. Al though Saldanha is the idol of the army. the Portu guese court do not fear him so much as has Antes and Banderin, the former being at Mahn, and tho latter at Saint Uhcs. At Gibraltar an action had taken place between a Spanish guards costa, and an English smuggler. The captain of the former was killed, and two of the crew of the latter were wounded. An angry dispute has arisen in rellW , quenee. Mentes, the celebrated Ind!-tighter, died at I Cadiz. The Iberia brings 3,0001. specie. INDIA AND CHINA. THE OVERLAND MAIL. We have received, by express, our letters and papers in anticipation of the Overland Mail from India. The dates are :--Itombaty, March 17 ; Cat. eutta, March 7 ; Madras, March 12; Cohmtho, March 14 ; Singapore, March 6 ; and Hong Kong, Feb. 27. Our Bombay correspondent writes as fellows:— BONBAY, MAMA 17. The event of the present mail is the death of Major-General Sir Dudley St. Leger Hill, K.C.8., commanding the Sirhind division of the Bengal army, which occurred suddenly at Umhalla on the 21st of February. The gallant officer was, it appears, walking in his garden when he suddenly felt ill, staggered against a tree, and, in a very short time, was no more. By his death the coloneley of the itfth Foot has become va cant. Sir W. Gomm, in announcing the death of the gallant general to the army, concludes by stating " the commander-inwhief mourns the loss of an old and valued friend anal brother in arms." It is thought Sir Colin Campbell may amerced darn on the general staff of the Iktigal army. At the same sta tion on the 214th Feb., died Captain John Davey Cunningham, of the Bengal Engineers, whose " History of the Sikhs," published in 11419, gave such aflame to the home authorities as to mud. his removal from political employ at Bhopaul. He was an upright, inhemaident, man, and spoke his mind freely in his work, and when did one who had the (satrape to utter un palatable truths ever escape the malice of those whose midloings are exposed? Ile Mal been o n that time up to the present without any really remu nerative employment, but just before his death he had been pwated to the charge of the Meerut division of' public works—an appointment he was not destined to join ; death had claimed him as its victim. At Bombay, on the 11th inst.; died Dr. Fraser, surgeon of the 6th N. 1., atter a service of nearly 211 years ; and at Barrackpore, on the Sth, died Surgeon Pear son, of the Bengal army.--From Pisltawur we have accounts of a daring outrage rommitted by MOM` ma rauders of the hills on a Miss Curling and Captain Gnintham, of lI.M. MOM wham were out riding a few miles from the cantonment. A few ruffians having emerged from their hiding •plaee and laid hold of the young lady's horse, the captain dismounted to make them let go, when they set on him with their swords, and cut him down, and then threw him into • a ditch for dead, making off with the two horses. The youn g lady returned on trot to the canton ments, and related what had happened, when a party was slit out in Mardi of the wounded gen tleman, whom they discovered 'diarist lifeless where he had been thrown, Ile was by last ndviees out of danger, hut one of his hands had been obliged to ho amputated, and he thus rendered a cripple for life. Miss Curling was not injured fortunately by the robbers, or the gallant captain might have bled to death before assistance reached him. It' I mistake not Captain Grantham was once before cut down in his tent by robbers iu his !ilk's at Peshawar. Even in the heart of the cantonments robberies were of fre quent occurrence, not unfrequently attended by violence and murder, so that parties proceeding to a distance could acareely look Mr anything but moles tation. The Delhi Gazelle gives the following scrap : We hare received intelligence of a gallant skirmish, in which the rear guard of Walsh's regiment, the 2nd l'un jaub Infantry, consisting of only I') sepoys and 1 l sumo, repulsed the attack of not less than :Pe Wugeerees, horse and tint. The regiment was marching tuna Nurree to Buena, whoa they heard firing in the rear, and Lieut. HeklOrti was sent back to make the nivessary dispositions. He found that the enemy had made a dash in 61 , 11.115 , of carrying oft' the baggage, but the little party showed a Hem front, anal held their ground. Lieutenant Eckhord or dered the advance sowers to right .and lit 011 the hanks of the enemy, and throwing a few piles out in Irma as skir mishers, moved un through the lows. The enemy,flowever, had no stomach fir lighting h r such rondo , and made for the hills, their hornsi climbing the st,s-p paths like goats. Having obtained a considerable elevation, they halted, and prepared to nveive the exps , cted rush of our trops, hut the latter were tau wary to fall into the trap. Having defeated the object of the attack, the mar guard were ordered to rejoin the headquarters of the regiment, which they effected with the line of a /410 1 iL1t..1111 11 1 .1 0 , , the nsils being too distant to do farther execution , thou g h the bbullets occasionally pattered amongst the rocks through which the small party were threading their way. Had they attempted to stand on the defensive, insteiul of giving the Wurverees the alternative aim tight, nu plunder, then , is but little doubt that the result would have been very diffe rent. It is high time these things were put a stop to, if this be possible, either by Mir 111(1111N or by force of i arms. The Govenuir-General waa to be at Peshawar len the 9th or 10th inst., and would doubtless( call a • meeting of the mountain chiefs and endeavour to pro cure their (Ai-operation in restraining the marauders of their hills; but they appear to have no control over them, and even if they had, would most likely not exercise it so long as we keep bodies of our troops amongst them: let us but withdraw our detutliments from the pods at Kohut uudelsewhere and there can • be nodoubtthe hill chiefs will for a trainer oonsidera tion guard the passes for us much more efficiently than we can do so for ourselves. Let the trial be made; if they prove treacherous, let them be rooted out at once and effectually ; the half and half measures now in rogue satisfy neither party • we are the greatest sufferers of the two. Lord Ihilliousie will be wise to take warning in time, he must by this time Net the uselessness of half doing things—either pay (aye, there's the rub, our dignity is offended b y the word) the hill people to behave themselves, or he must de termine un exterminating theta-41' he can, and setting up strongholds thickly over the country for our own protection. Humanity and roe ! nomy alike point to the former course as the better one of the two. An absurd rumour has been spread by the MOitsdilite to the effect that the noble Marquis had entered into negociationswith Mid Mahomed of Cuhul to deliver up the Affghan chief, Sultan Mahomed Khan, who, while Governor of Peshawur under the Seikh dynasty, treacherously delivered Colonel Lawrence and his family into the hands of the enemy, in the end of 1847. The story is not believed by any one as even being likely. How have we behaved to the Cabool ruler that he should be expected to do our bidding in this mat- I ter, the traitor being his countryman? There in, it would appear, very often foul play put in practice •by the boatmen on the Suticj and Indus, when con veying passengers down those rivers to Kurruehcc— such as wrecking the boats or burning them, in order to enable them to plunder the kit—and an officer of the 98th has lately been obliged to foot it from Sukkur down, his bout having been destroyed and everything it contained sunk an the Indus or stolen. The commissioner was still in Upper &Sado, as also Gen. Manson, by latest accounts. A force of 2 guns, a squadron of the 3d cavalry, and 2 companies of the 35th N. 1., under Major Drummond, of the former corps, left Nowgong on the '2lst January for a fort named Alipoor, 12 miles distant, to expel an usurper who had for five years kept the proper rule out of the rajahship. The troops reached next da ( when the usurper lost heart and bolted. Butuakt7 kinutd is said to be in a disturbedstate. ; and staff reached Delhi on the 4th, Sir W. Oilli*.ok on the 6th, on his way to Calcutta. The lieutoiSlat. • governor of the North-Weet Previnete returns:ooi • , sy 1,1 I . ' 7 - o