The Express. — London, England, 1848-10-09 00:00:00

the bounden duty of the Adanalty to bhp@ sad in troduce into the service speedily sad effidestly all improvements that are of a mend preenel eaten Bat them are very different ways of @stew about such exprimentkand &amended emaddia to pears neh cases Is, that the plea prepend glad act be either palpably eregesesa to prfesiplo or enselsedy If the Admiralty by a Om of li ion of which every ome knows Ohm bed qualities beforehand, and if it gala millisederagy in building I.rge ships of thus lainioawstomw their bad qualities, of which mei ass was certain, the mosey has been op mgedparseeed.Vdieil 'stinky spend public money it hems atitamt-aegine notoriously impracticable, sin prove miner* the in practicability of such plans on a men gigantic male than hatetoforr, it only commits the mere gi gantic folly. The public expect that the Admiralty shall adopt as speedily as risible all improvements in the ser vice. The public will not grumble, even if in this desire for improvement an occasional mistake may be made. Bat what it has a right inva riably to demand is that no plan shall be tried which is based on an unsound prin. or which is manifestly impracticable, or which others have formerly ascertained to be bad. They have a right to demand that the subjects selected by the Admiralty for their favoured experi ments shall be, first of all, those which are of greatest importance, either foe-economy or efficiency ; secondly, such as are founded on true theoretical ' principles; thirdly, those which past experience shows to have the ' , rimiest probability of success. Next, they have a right to demand that experiments be planned and conducted only by those purties who have the greatest knowledge and expeTien,:o of such matters, and that they be carried out in a gradual, prudent, and pro • penes manner ; and finally, that that there should sot be too many and too costly experimentsat one and the same time. If, instead of following this course, the Board of Admiralty take just the opposite one, surely there is room for complaint, both that the bad plans are adopted, and that their adoption excludes those which are really valuable. This is unluckily the &exacter of our Admiralty. Ever slow to introduce valuable improvements, they rarely try an ,original experiment that does not eLd in atter failure. Take one example—Lord DUNDONALIYS engine; an engine of which every engineer of character or repu tation knows the utter fallacy. His lordship, being a brave and distinguished sailor, turns to mechanical scheming—takes out patents far impossible projects. There is not an elementary work in the English lan guage teaching the principles of the steam engine, which does not explam the absurdities of the hunters after rotatory engines, and stamp them as visionary schemes. Yet this absurd project of engine their lordships of the Admiralty determine to try not on • small stale and as a preliminary experiment, for that his lordship had already dune on a smell scale over and over ogre And fiiiled—mieerably failed—but its having feifici on a small scale was considered no reason wby it should fail on a large scale, and so their lordships determine to give it a f ur chance on the largest ! Accordingly, on a scale large enough to ensure sus cer, their lordships male the triaL They build ex pressly for the purpose the Janus, a war steamer to carry guns of the largest class, and they build the ship of the kind best suited for Lord DUNDONALD'S engine. They also get engines and boilers of the new clams made under his lordship's personal super intendence—all this at the expense of the public. And thus the Admiralty, determined to do the - liberal and enlightened thing, spare no expense in giving it a fair riaL Of course time tries the truth, and, what all quali fied judges (thole lordships, of coarse, always ex cepted) knew perfectly well beforehand, and predicted unanimously, the affair turned out a total, unmitigate3, and utterly disgraceful failure. The Janus has cost 60,0001. or 00,000!. She is now worth for service exactly what a breaker-up of ships for firewood will give for her, and no more. So much for the nature of the inventions, disco veries, and meritorious novelties which the honourable board, in its plenitude of wisdom end the abundance of public money, selects from among the mass of creations of human industry to distinguish with es pecial favour. Their lordships thus establish their title to hold office as the responsible trustees of the public revenue, foe the purpose of maintaining and advancing the naval power of Britain. The fault, however, is not theirs—it is ours, who blindly sit by and allow men of notorious and mani fold incompetency to administer the affairs of a public =rtnient, requiring in its exercise the highest the profoundest sagacity, the longest expsei ear, and the stzonger common sense of any breach of government sorrier We entrust to such mew the =111:of 7,000,000!. per annum, and pay them abordinates 70,0004 per man fee the sealwdatializattoa thereat Tan insurrectionary movement on the north fron tier of the Cape colony doss not appear from the West devitalise to be brmifiNe. It might, imbed, be ' and render an exam for protracted sad expensive operations ed by the mis management of the authorities; but we hops better gimp of Bit HAIRY Berens. The meounts from the seems of action an confined in Use extreme, partly from the Rent incapacity of the writer, to tell a plain tale * y, partly from the exaggeration and confusion alarm in NM, and the of making themselves of conaeqesses in others, have imputed to their narratives. It is, however, sot very difficult, by esnaecting their stories with preeedent create in the lanes quarter, and check. 'Si this by known statistical details, to make a pretty dome approximation to the truth. The disterbasees have been ceefased to the north of the Orange river, or at most to the newly ism seated territory, on the extreme mortle-emt feentiee of the *okay. The insurrectionists appear to consist exclusively of those emigrants whom Enteral Aka sad habit have confirmed 'ls. the len of a 2. a lib of lawless independence as as only be led by men et civilised race on the disputed re between the nettlemsnts of a civilised, and th e of a savage, people. Faxeoares and hie base diet. adherents were among the first whom ea bop tam temper prompted to seek a solution of the sew treversise between them and the British meat, by emigenting from the they have by bag mom acquired col on a y ; predilestion ho the rude border or piocieer lib, is which the white man settles his disputes with the savage, or with strangers of his own colour, by the strong hand. Attempts have hoes made by some letter writers, whose groans have found their way into print, sad by the agents of Km ter Hall in the eolony,who have mill a hankeebt o r t e m e h ezeither empicious against the colemiste of origin, to represent the Boers in gamed se favreesebb to, and even implicated in, the movement; bet the palpable exaggerations of their statements warrant distrust of them. Major WARDEN, by %okra accounts, had found himself compelled to abandon the station of the Bloom Fontein to an enemy, whose object it appears to be to drive the English to the southward of Orange river. There is no reason to believe that PRA:TORII:re is supported by any bat the rode men of irregular habits we have described, and it may be the native allies of wham he is said to boast. If the re ports from the frontier may be relied on, there are Englishmen as well as Dutchmen among them. And their objects appear to be limited to preventing the extension of English law and sovereignty over the countries to the north of the Orange river. No person who knows anything of the country and men can an ticipate a lasting and sincere alliance between the emigrants and the native chiefs ; or hearty tion between the Dutch and English de And the colonial authorities have acted with a promp titude that will prevent their gaining strength by delay. One hundred and fifty soldiers were de vatched from Albany as soon as the news of FRATOII.IO3% proceedings arrived. Bir Range Semen received the intelligence in Cape Town on the 22nd of July. Ile proclaimed Elmo slue a traitor the same day, offering a reward for his apprehension ; he despatched expresses for Graham's Town, ordering troops to Coker bog and Bloom Fontein, and relays of horses to bo got ready for himself. On the 28th be despatched a war-steamer to Natal, with copies of his proclamation for the purpose of deterring any disaffe2ted who might be there from attempting a simultaneous movement, and strengthening the hands of the local authorities; and on the 29. h he was himst It on his way to the die urbtd &stint. There can be little doubt that such promptitude and mega will more stases. No other line of conduct could be ad~sopted towards PRATOZIN and his pieti sm. They bed appealed to the sward, and by the sword alone they mould be ensured. There is ocly ace way of &atlas with inserreetios sad that is to pat it Sum at cam This part of the basins' Is plain and miy. But after Pezroarus hes bees brought is sr shot is some scnffie, sad his bind reduced to f ekeSsreas. the really &Este and difficult task of gesiassat will commence, both in the older pro vinces sad the newly-incorporated dietriets. It is ad easy, in the present state of oar intima tion, to conjecture how Makin is tree of the story about Pummeled's =brim and letter to Sir AN DRIES BTOCIIINSTIIOII. Sir ANDRINte loyalty to the British government, and his wary prudence were too well known to admit of any expectation that be would take fart in an insurrectionary movement. If a letter were sent him from the insurgent chief— and that there wu a letter sent appears Pretty certain — it must have been an appeal to the most powerful and influential colonist of Dutch raise to mediate between his refractory countrymen and the British government The threat ening demonstration made against Major WARDEN, would seem to imply that there is sti some misun derstanding between the more orderly and settled Boers sad the government about the disposal and set tlement of lands. And even for the desperadoes beyond theOrenge river, there is thus much to be "Pd. That region has been deserted by the natives. Its occupation hes long been a bone of contention be tween the emigrant Boers and the bastard race called Griquas. The only claim that either of these con tending parties have to it is occupancy. Bat under tLe patronage of the missionaries, and through the influence possessed for so long a tract of years by the great London Missionary Societies in Downing street, the British government has, up to the time of Sir HAIRY Serrn's appointment, acted not am a fair arbitrator between them, but as the partisan of the mulatto squatters against the Dutch squatters. The reel source of difficulty and danger in the colony, con sists, in the more settled districts, in the want of a complete understanding between the settlers and the government, in the imperfectly settled districts north of the Orange river in showing favouritism to one class of the population at the expense of the other. The American governmenthu similar difficultiestooootend with in its terri•ories, especially in those frontier portions of them, where squatter+ and pioneers wage war " b their own authority" with Indians, and exercise Lynch law oa white men. But the all but lawless chronic Mate of these countries of is never fos tered into insurrection. The peculiar institutions of Amities are experimentally proved to be best adapted to the peculiar circumstances of such societies, and the remedy for the existing and prospective troubles of the Cape, is the adoption of as much of these institutions as is compatible with our monarchi cal form of government. Measures having this end in view are imperatively called for, not only at the Cape but in New Zealand, where Bishop SeLWYN appears to be playing the part of a croriered Paumaws. It is to be hoped that the British authorities in New Zealand will deal as promptly and energetically with the priestly English Pasrortius as those of the Cape are doing with the secular Dutch SELWYN. At all events, any salary paid by government to the THOMAS i BECKET'S of New Zealand ought to be withheld so long as he deserts his clerical functions to play the part of a political agitator. FRANCE. PARIS, BASVIDAY, 61 P.N. The magnificent oration of de Lamartine, de livered yesterday in the Assembly, has received to duy, as well from the press as from the public, un mixed homage ; indeed, it has been responded to with a burst of enthusiastic edmiratioo, which will in some degree compensate to the illustrious orator and poet for the coldness and apparent ingratitude with which he has been recently treated. The election of the conncils-general throughout France has just commenced. The presidents, vice presidents, and other super:or officers of these depart mental bodies, have always heen regarded as the surest indices for the expression of the prevailing sen timents on political subjects in the various depart ments. Of these elections we have received up to this afternoon the results of only fi ve or six. Ono only, the department of the north, has returned a presi dent, known to be a republican, and this return was ex tremely doubtful ; it was only effected by the third ballot. Be opponent was M. de Hapland, a well known legitimut, who loot the election only by a small majority. la the Pas de Calais, an ex-deputy, a conser vative, II elected president. The same has taken place at Anc ilk a a n n d in the Seine Inferieure. But the most tof the facts to-day reported is the result the election for the council-general for the department of the Bure. There it was considered that the claims of IN. Dupont de Mare. the Nestor of the Assembly, sad the object of oni veal respect, would be predominant, and that he would have been returned almost unanimously. Nevertheless the Dike de Broglie, ex-minister of Louis Philippe, has been returned. Two legitimists have also bees rearmed as vice-presidents at Angers and Arras. The Oeiiunittee of legislation has confirmed to-day the judgment passed yesterday by the committee of finance. upon the proposition of MM. Taro and Proadhon, relative to the esta blishment of a sort of paper circulation called the " fonder." One committee only, that of agriculture and commerce, approved the proposition; the other committee, however, in re jetting this project, did not intend to condemn in principle the institution of a mortgage beak. The proposition of MM. Tura and Prondhon was re jected, because it required that the paper should have a forted circulation.. The Committees of Finance and Legislation have, on the other hind, approved a proposition of M. olowski for the organisation of a mortgage system similar to that of Germany and Poland. _ _ This tins has many chances of imam in the Assembly. M. Proudhon is occupied actively with his project for a bank of the people, of which the shareers shall be operatives, with a capital of bar millions. A meeting for this purpose is to take place to-morrow. The speech of M. de Lamed's, yesterday, was the virtual aselosion of the debate on the presidimey. The universal feeling after itheonidasion was, fiat the 4oestion was practically settled. The debate WM is. mined to-day amidst a feeling of meallbst 'solitude and hepatica°e on the part efabs Assembly. On the amendment of M. Orevy, but there should be no president of the but merely a seemed of ministers, the Assembly :fled, and the result was—for the amendment 158 ; against it, 843. The Amembly then discussed the amendment proposed by M. Flooon, in favour of the nomioation of the President by the Assembly. After some discesnies the Asoembly voted almost unanimously the adoption of the 41st article of the constitution, to the following effect : The French people delegates the executive power to a citizen, who shall receive the title of Pre sident of the Republic." The 42d article, referring to the age of the President was postponed, and the debate was taken on the 43rd article, which declares that " the President shall be named by direct and universal suffrage, by ballot. and by an absolute majority." 'lO this M. Leblond proposeu an amendment, requiring that the election of President be made by the Assembly. The following is the result of the important vote on this amendment:—Voters present, 813; foe the amendment, 211; against it, 802. SUNDAY, 11 A.M. The vote of last night, which I was enabled to send you in a very late despatch was one of vad im portance. It was given upon an amend ment of M. Lebloode, and before which several other amendments, including those of MM. Floeon and Orevy, were withdrawn, on the understanding that the whole question should be decided on that of M. Leblonde. By the vote which the chamber gave it rejected the principle that the President of the republic shall be elected by the Assembly ; it still remains to put to the vote the original article of the constitution which gives to the P at large the election of the President, but e = the vote of last evening, this is a mere form, the elec tion of the president by universal suffrage is virtually settled. The chief of the government and the ministry moved helms and earth to oppose this vote ; they were left, however, in a minority of 211 against 802, a moat signal defeat, and one which must, wider any other cireumrances than the exceptional state which I now prevails, have been followed by the immediate retirement of the government. There are still nearly 80 articles out of 120 to be decided before the constitution shall be definitively voted. The poetpcsoment tinnier% of the redden tial election mail that shall have best accompludied, would in the present state Of thing. be a vir tual annulment altogedwr of the vote of last. night. It I. evident that in the present temper of the country the provisional state cannot with safety be much. longer prolonged. It is there for* probable that the Assembly will hasten through the remaining articles of the constitution, and that the PrestdenUal election will then take place. It is generally supposed that the constitution may be voted before the close of the present mouth. THE EXPRESS, MONDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 9, 1848. gross mesa= at a peddle aneeSft in that town. A number do:idlers belonging to dthn regiments were remit, and a furious mint= ensued between them and the intruders. Several persons were wounded. The Danish government bee expressed its readiness to receive au ambassador from the central executive of Germany. A Sardinian charge d'ofcires has ar rived in Frankfort. The Danish question appears to be on the eve of a pacific settlement, at least tor the present. FRANKFORT Om. 4,' The state ofdege still luta, and it is said that the ministry has decided to prolong it till after the publi cation of the law proposed for the protection of the National Assembly. One of the articles of this law forbids all open air meetings at a distance lees than 5 German miles (30 English), and the ministry says that it cannot cause the state of siege to stop before a law has been passed which shall prevent popular as semblies in Frankfort or its environs. In the mean while we are everywhere moving towards military government, and the good citizens in the divers na tional assemblies of Germany would bo very much astonished if these projects, which are no longer secret to any with eyes and ears, should be carried into effect. itadetaki, Windiechgratz, i lellachich, Wrangel, and General Nobily, hold Ger many as it were in • net. If all these armies could be directed by one mind and to one object, it would be difficult for victory to escape them. Everything tends to indicate that all these movements are calculated against the representatives whose elec. I tion was the result of the revolution of March. But I think there is hope that, in spite of the appearance l of unity in the military movemelts, the day when it shall become necessary to act vigorously against the parliament or against the asruiblies of Berlin or Vienna, the princes of Vienna will make the same experiment as Laois Philippe with his hesitates and 80,000 men in Park When the camatilla in Berlin and Vienna have laid bare their game, they will find that several of the princes of the second order will not join them to fightagainst chambers and national assem , blies ot Germany. For if they did so join they would be abendored by their troops. The Kings of Bavaria and Wurtemberg will know how to profit by the op portunity to try and place themselves at the head of Germany. And in Prussia, as even in Austria, the reign of the sabre will not last long, for it will cost too much—in the former kingdom, especially, where all the people are, or have been, soldiers, it will never be possible to suppress for any length of time the natural current of the ideas of liberty and unity by the use of brute force and army corps. In the parliament of Frankfort there still exists a spirit of confidence in the army which has just de fended it from the barbarian of our hyper-civmsation. But this confidence does not show that it will last longer than is necessary. The day before ycatmday an inquiry . was ordered on Gen. Wrangel, who left his command in Schleswig before receiving the permission of the central power. Wrangel's friends and the sue porters of the state of siege endeavoured to rsject this proposal, and proposed r a vote of thanke. This was voted; but the inquiry was voted also, and the answer of the Minister of War to the question of why Wrangel had left his command without the order so to do, was sent to the commission of the central power. On another occasion the parliament has stown that it is nowise determined to allow itself to be dragged into reaction. The left had somewhat largely used the privilege of the vote by name. The right, which opposed this plan from the first, thought it would be convenient to have that privilege effaced from the re gulations of the parliament, and endeavoured to carry a declaration of urgency on the question. M. Venedey combated this, pointing to the example of Engles!, in whose parliament the minority has the right to seek delays by proposing amendments, and saying that this was a safety valve most necessary to prevent the machine from bursting whenever popular pas sions agitate parties too violently. The majority de clared the question non-urgent, and showed that it was only reactionary from over-confidence, and when it does not well know where it is about to be led; but that when it shall perceive it is being directed to wards the camp where Metternich and consorts seem still to govern, it will turn round and show its back to those who now seem to count upon it, as the soul of their intrigues and their only hope. A battalion of the troops of the l)uke of Nassau re fused to march against the insurgents in the duchy of Baden, and it was found necessary to employ mild means not to give greater eclat to the affair. AU the journals are silent on this fact, because the govern ment has taken the wise resolve not to mention it. SPAIN. We have received our Madrid correspondence orate I llst and 2nd inst. The Casette of Madrid, of the 2nd Oct., publishes the weekly amount of the Bank of San Ferdinand : 2,925,800 realm of notes had been paid off, leaving the amount in circulation, 114,570,000. From the 25th to the 30th ult. there had been exchanged for cash 3,559,600 reels of Lotto. MADRID, Ocr. 1. I described to you in my letter of yesterday the affront of fered to the Minster of the United States ' in an attempt made by the police to arrest his servant. The general, I understand, lost no time in addressing an energetic note to Senor Pidal, which was sent to the Ministry of Fortino At tars yesterday evening. This morning an answer has been received. Fidel makes the most ample apologies on the part of the government for the disrespectful proceeding of ite po lice agents, of whom he pismires the pulisheaent and dis missal. He also concedes the exemption of the servant Fer nando from military service. Tons the American minister has obtained, by assuming immediately a firm and decided attitude, all that he asked without the lima delay. A party of 70 insurgents, well armed, have entered through the High Pyrenees. On the 21st they were at the flusetuary of Henn ' where they paid for the previsions they took. They then p roceeded torin the band of the eabsailla Cuaeolet. The Gamete contains a deems for opening certain Hues of road in Catalonia, and milling the funds for their construc tion in that province. Cabrera is said to contemplate a second visit to the Ammudas. Captain Costa wee shat at Vida. as the 26th ult., by one of his soldiers, whoa he bed horse dr day benne with the flat of his sabre. The retort assimpil Is the Carlists. ITALY. LOMBARDT.—The following address, says the Augsburg Gazette, has been Untied at Mil an, in the name of the Austrian government : In the hope of speedily beholding_ trenquillity restored in all the provinces of the L o mbardo Venetian kingdom, and aalmated by the desire of causing their popuLtions to parti cipate In a ll the liberties enjoyed by the other provinces of the empire if Austria, we consider it right to at once make our intentions In that respect known. a have alreaby az carded a complete amnesty to all the inhabitants of the Lona. bardoVenetian kingdom, for the share that they may have taken in the political events of the present year ; we have ordered that they she:l be neither promoted nor puni.ited, attention being paid to certain considerations at which it may be deemed necessary to atop in tie confirmed et of public employments. Our will at the sans time is that the bibs ; bitants of the Lombardo.Venetian kingdom shall receive a constitution, suited nut Ins to their nationality, and to the wants of the country, than to their union with the empire of Austria. To that effect, as soon as order and peace shall have been sufficiently maimed, we shall convoke in a place to be hereafter designated, representatives of the nation, who shall be free:y elected by all the provinces of the Loup berdo-Venetian kingdom. TUSCANY.—The Petrie of the 30th ult. aye, we had hoped that legal government would have been re established at Leghorn, but it seems otherwise. The new governor and authorities have been refused admittance at Leghorn and have returned to Florence. They have made en official report to the Minister of the Interior, in which they state that so soon as they had arrived they found the Gonfalonier, who an nounced that their entry at Leghorn would cep. tainly lead to disorders—that some of the must in fluential of the people had assured him that re miasmas would be offered to their reception, and that the people were coming armed to conduct them as prisoners to the fortress. The banker Adami, who had promised to supply the necessary funds to the municipality had, from the fear of disorders, occasioned by their presence, withdrawn his pro mise. The chief of the municipality had gone to, Florence to prevent their coming, and to com municate the actual state of affairs to the cen tral government. The new authorities had there fore returned to Florence for new instructioas. The new governor, who was thus rejected, issued a pro clamation in which he says that he came tore-establish order, fraternity, and respect for the law. That he had presented himself without being accompanied by any force, and he offered on the part of the prince a I complete amnesty. ' The Genoa Gazette, of the 3rd instant, states that perfect tranquillity reigns at Leghorn. A meetinj was to take place to consider the steps to be taken in consequence of the rerolutions of the Tuscan ministry. It was supposed that some ultimatum would be proposed, and that • deputation would be sent to wafer directly with the prince. GERMANY. AUSTRIA.—We have received the Vienna papers of the 3rd instant. The snout ooatradictary reports are afloat respecting an engagement between the Hungarians and the Croatians. One correspondent from 'Vienna states that the Hungarians gave battle to the Croats, in which the latter sustained a complete defeat. Another report says that the Croatian out posts alone had advanced to Ofen, and were there repelled by the Hungarian troops; while • third com munication states that the Minister of War had just received intelligence that, after sustaining a bem boudinent of two hours, the city of Olen seerendmed to the Ban of Croatia. As moon as this 'stalls's°, was keown at the Beene, the funds immediately roes. Oar 'correspondent write@ ; VIENNA, OCT. 2,4119“ is as pesiOve intelligence yet from Path respestimi the alleged remenese of Bede to the Ban of Crawly and rensials se waindislary. Ones in Beds, Medi& wadi be amok** wear of the Hen. prism ke he seal& rodeos it is sir in a few hours by a bestMeimmt from the lortrase of the former. It ap pears b e y sum moonnte that, alter dm seemenation of Coma Lem wits la sow elated. eared as eserget resist ance to h a ustrigraes), a mot of tulip of Mom prev io ailed for a time in Path, =I semi N Also to popular hwy. The Hampden la Ois sepltel he.. bend a similar is which they desire that *ale esesiernsa bed attacked the army of the Ban sear iltallesekwalerg i _aad had driven it Ism*. Alleflog to other sesseass, th e Hungarians had alma KO Omen, after mom had sham/shies, sear Volume, sad bad also captured a large quantity of =gui don. Count Bathyaai, who resigned his rat ia the Han gman ministry, la still In Vienna. Oar. B.—Up to 8 p.m. no certain news from P.M. The Psalter Zeitwv of the morning of the 30th only states that ea the priers day the decisive battle had commenced at 11 as 1M I molt is sot yet known. Four couriers arrived la this egglid ou the It bat., bat they brat IS no =mount of the unmisatkis of the contest. The Al • Oeskr- Matta& Beating steers that a courier had announced to the pow* of Pee= that the Hangman' had triumphed at Fame% and that the Bea had retreated beyond the Plat- Met Lake. It is easerted, too, that deteekasy and P It Wank= the Croatians with 12,000 natiosel guards, and con trasted to the " victory." Austrian trmps have loft for , end it is expected that every moment Koteuth will ed a traitor. The POl4ll Oallicia are sending amblense to the Hungarians. It may be remarked here that U Jellashich had really entered Buds, we sh ou ld have had Istellgase from him berms this time. The probability is Has Ito remind a check. The Minister of War at Vienna has addressed the following circular to all the generals in command: Complaints have bean made for some title in regard to military expressions which are calculated to dkquiet the public, by making the sentiments of the imperial army appear hostile to the institutions which his Majesty has given his people, and this refers especially to the corps of °facers. It is my imperative duty to maintain in Ike army unity of sentiment, conscientious discharge of duty, and unbounded obedience to the orders of the august monarch, consequently also respect for the constitutional institutions of the state, and net to sufhr any one to speak spinet the will laid down by the socersign, or against the new form of the state. I easidentlystspeet that in future it will be considered a leered ditty to the throne and to the country to avoid every rise to sosmations of this kind, and that all the officers will act in this respect to all their subadinates. A deputation of the national guard yesterday waited upon the Minister of War, to inquire whether the city was sufficiently protected by troops. The reply of the Minister of War was as follows " There are at Vienna and its vicinity 40,000 men, and, in case of need, these may be easily reinforced." PRUSSIA.—The Berlin journals of Oct. 6 have reached us. In the sitting of the Constituent Assembly on the sth, the President of the Council announced that orders had been issued to raise the state of siege in Posen, unless special grounds existed for not taking each s step. This afternoon a number of civic guards• men publicly burned the new law relating to their body. About 40 soldiers belonging to the so-called garde di, ro•pa in Potsdam were enlisted on the night of the tird inst., on the charge of having committed COLONIAL. CAPE OF 0001) HOPE.--IMPORTANT NEWS. The following from the South African Adoertia; of August 5, appeared in part of our Saturday's issue : On the 17th July, Protorius &dunes& to Blom Fontein, at the head of 400 wanted men, cad halted about two miles from the village, from wbome be despatched a nes: auger to Major Warden, the idlest, offering tonne of capitulation, to prevent blemished by a hope less resistance to so superior a hen. Writes'. whole faros consisted of flfty-eoven men, slam recruit, with forty-two others, eivillame, Maims, and drivers of waggons, and 8 deserters re coady pertioned. He was also encumbered with about 200 women, children, and hotplate natives, who had fled to the village for protection. Major Wardea was farther Warmed, on authority which he relied , on, that should he masa the terms o ff ered to him, Premium could Mai assist ble a k • deset time, a fixes of probably not Mss tbesl,ooo MM. It dm not appear that awytbieg like a fort, or place of *mot had previously beat mustmeled at Bloom Fontein ; and although - Mar Warden had for some days been lehosolag M Strew eg ri me kind of preemies works, they were um la a endittes to stead a siege. In short, Bloom pFe ontei a n me a Name sesidemy, sod set as advamd military erbisb ea enemy sail be bold la *sok uuSl re. listed' ; new was the hose watiesed time suMehatly strong to fall back with Natty es the allay, whew suddenly cove loped by a Tigard assailant. Bader all them elimmotaa see. =WC Nurse, will be eabjestal strist , Major Warden a the terms Pretoria & , yid were, that he srZ eli retire hyoid the Orange River, unmolested, with all g e ttis ius an private belonging to British subjects; hiseself a amela weber el venom far this purpose. The as allowed to mks to - their T beans or tribe, sad the wane shish wore to be i=of this arrngemsat All this had been carried into effect, and Beitieh eathority, for the mesamit, has been expelled from the northern side of the Osman River. Sir Harry Smith left Cape Town on ftirisy morning last, at 8 o'clock, for Colesberg, a Jeartasy of at least ten days' rapid driving, accidents not included. Hie staff COW. aimed of his private secretary, Mr. Southey whet seem ' puled him on his former tour from the selsay to Metal, Major Genrock, Capt. Holditch, and Dr. Hall. Things of all these strange events having reached Gra ham's Town, and despatches from heed-quarters being also received, the military authorities on the frontier lost no time in making arrangements suitable to the exigency, and a large fora will probably reach Colesberg as early as his ex. celliney—it is to be hopsd not later. On Saturday last H. 41. steamer the Dee arrived in Table Bay, from the Buffalo, conveying about 300 men of the 73rd regiment. In obedience te express ordain, the women, children, iktt, out were landed, and the vessel, after taking in coals, proceeded with the troops, on Wednea tay,for Neter, to provide for the want. of the service in that quarter. His excellenay had reached Worcester in safety, bating the snapping of an axletne, which a correspondent ascribes to the badness of the roads, that were not prepared for so rapid a traveller. He was greet doa his way with demonstra tions of loyalty and affection, with which he expressed his satisfaction, adding that he hoped in • short time to sup press, in a proper manner, this abominable rebellion. NEW ZEALAND.—GOVERNOR GREY'S TOUR-- The last dates from Wellington published by me wire to the 20th of May. The following, though no later in date, is interesting: Captain Grey embarked in her Majesty's ship Calliope, accompanied by Lieut.-Col. W3rnyard, C. and the gover nor's staff. On reaching the Bay of Islan ds ls the party was ktined by our staunch native ally, Tommaty Wake. Crossing the country designated the Nine•mile Bush to Hohianga, visiting that fatal pah of Ohalowal (now In ruins), the party experienced all the casualties incidental to bosh travelling. On reaching Erika's Captain Grey re ceived a missive from the no.mieus lieki; from the nature of the reply lieki thought Governor Grey wished to see him. On the governor's return to Walnut*, and when about starting again lick' and his wife meowed themselves. The lady rode a lively galloway, with a eplandidly decorated side saddle. lield was accompanied by about 100 armed men. "You see," said Captain Grey, glancing from their arms to his own cane, " we entertain no apprehension of you, for we come perfectly unarmed." The insurgent chief made a courteous reply, and they were invited to breakfast.; on reaching the house Hard wan pulled back, and a chief stood in the doorway to prevent his in gress, suspecting treachery no doubt. They remained outside a snort time, and were harangued by Tummaty Wake. Finding that the Europeans were all seated, Heki entered the apartment and approached the governor. H. Li pressed his excellency to discuss politico, saying, such was the Maori custom among friends. The governor declined, remarking that the English custom was to meet on iriendiy terms, and to depart when business or pleasure called, and that kis "seellency's time was pro-engaged. Throughout the interview his excellency preserved a civil but a judicious indifference. remarking to the wily chief that if the chief tains would reside in towns and villages he would send Europeans among them, and erect hotpitat ter the sick, Hai made light of hospitals; of scriptural quotations he • was one Used he nxpeessed great pleasure at having min the gevornors anqustatsaes, apologised that in his bent issesent bimeetfo dm had arced for procuring proses% ma begged kis esmilieney to accept a very Sae green mese Mel eel simple of large porkers. The Sydney Meriting Beraikr•• sernspoadeat, in &scribing the inter nee/II Of ffgwenor Grey with the natives, onserves "He has eeryesK the colony and won golden opinions. He has ended lish k 1 isle ISpitatiams, and he is about to be en tingled "Mb es asamehen of huge and unwelcome, because ramenake, swittlaxeby." The following is txtractad from a late - New Zealand paper ; A nuseement was on foot to present Governor Grey with seise ailosseriedsvasent of the sense of the colonists of New itaelend he lib premptitude in preventing the "new constitu tion" bombeingbrenght into operstion. A oomparativestate mentoftheflurepesa populat:onoftheprincipaldinxinatfNew Zealand, acoording to returns drawn up at the end of each of the years 1845, 1846, and 1847, gives the following results : -Auckland, 1845, 3.970; 1846, 4,866; 1847, 6,217. Wel lington, 1846, 4,704; 1848, 3,977; 1847, 4,480. Nelson, 1845, 2,910; 1840, 2,849; 1847, 2,867. New Plymouth, 1845, 1,093; 1848,1,038; 1817, 1,137. Bay of Islands, 1847, 677. Akaroa, 1816, 201; 1346, 247. Petra, 1845, 190; 1846, 216 ; 1847, 186. NEW SOUTH WALES.-.DR. LEICHARDVB Ex- PIDITION.-Intelligence hat been reoeived from this enter prising explorer to the 4th of April. As it is probable nothing more will be heard of the zealous advasturers until the middle of 1849, some particulars of Dr. Leiehardt's pro !rem will he interning : he and his party were all will and in good health end spirts. The doctors communication being rather lengthy, it has been carefully abridged : taboo Station et Mount Abundance, April 4, ISIC-I send you a description of the exantry ewe leaving Mr. Elmira at Condomino, to the plate. I left Mr. March 23rd, and reached one of my old e naps at Dogwood Creek, In lat. 26 deg. 33 min.; creased the erect un the 24th, and kept a westerly course for about six miles, when I meta good size creek and en , sniped. This creek is, probably the outlet of the Emu creek+ which Mr. F. peace Is going to occupy. On the 2,11 h again travelled to the weateurd over a fine country, and came into the waters ot Sandy Cook or the Gregor, and encamped In lat. 26 deg. 32 min. We took a N.W. by N. direction on the 20th, anti W.N.W. cm the 27th, encamping at Mamba* river, in 14. about deg. 43 Isla. Our clover on Use lath unsettle won, and encamped on the Yahoo river, of toy firmer trip. On the 29th we travelled scarcely two and a half nolce, through styli scrub, when we acne to another large crack which, no doubt, In one of the branches of the Yahoo river. On the 32th our course wa W. by it., mostly through thick Wicklow scrub, and cm :awed in a huge creek in lat. 26 deg. 43 min. March 31, we traveled W. by N., sad encamped on another good sized creek, in lat. 26 deg. 41 min., wbtah I named le rreek, Mr. Kent* baring found that letter on one of the trees near the camp. On April I, we travelled eleven miles and u half W. by S., over a staccanou of beautiful dawns and forest land. On Aped 2, we moved tan miles W.N.W. over 'lonise land to that of the I previous day; to the norchair we descried two bilk; ; to the outward we sew the blue Oration range; to the W.N.W. a sawabby short range, wavered of two swelling hills and a hillock, proved to be Mount Abundance. On April 3 we travelled over the scrubby gram ut Mount Abundance to the W.N.W. From Siren's to Me unt Abuts ! dance, a distance of 118 miles, occupied us eleven dace We were kindly treated by the squatters wherever we went. I cannot spank in iv it tgh terms of my present party, vibe seem to free to be well quali fied for the long and tedious Journey which Is be fore us. We hare killed our first bullock at this ste.loo to obtain the necessary pron. Mons to carry us to the Victoria. We have been extremely favoured by the weather; our wake and bullocks are very genet, and we have travelled from Canninga owns to Mtn 4-downs without any aocideat and without interruption front the 3rd of March to the 3rd of ApriL gbi Court. OSBORNE, SATURDAY.—Sir James Clark arrived at Osborne yesterday afternoon, and had the honour of joining the royal dinner party yesterday. Mr. George Edward and the Hon. Mrs. Anson and Sir James Clark returned to London this afternoon. _ SUNDAY, OCT. B.—The Queen and Prince Albert, accompanied by the Prieceas Eliza and Prince Victor of Hohenlohe, and attended by the ladies anct gentlemen of the royal household, Attended Divine bemire at Whipping hem church this forenoon. The sermon was preached by the Rev. Protheroe. Prince Victor of liohcolohe arrived at Osborne yesterday afternoon, and joined the royal dinner party. Her Majesty will probably lowed Osborne for Wind sor-castle to-morrow afternoon. The Marquis of Lansdowne has returned to his seat, Bowood-park, Wilts. Lord John Russell has arrived at Mintahouse, RoxbarAhshire, the seat of the Ea l of Minto. Despatches were received on Saturday, at the Colonial office, from the Governor of the Cape of Good Hope. The Earl of Carlisle expired on Saturday morning, at his seat, Castle Howard, York.kire. DEATII OF TIIII EARL. OF CABLISLE.—We have to record the demise of this nobleman. The melancholy event took place at eleven o'clock on Saturday morniug, at the family Beat, Castle Howard, Yorkshire, after a lengthened illness—indeed for the last few months the noble earl was unable to move. •There were present on the occasion the Countess of Carlisle, Viscount Morpeth, Mr. and Lady Caro hoe Lamella, Lady Dover, the Hon. Captain Howard, M.P., and the other members of the family, with the ex. eeption of the Duchess of Sutherland, who was absent owing to the indisposition of the noble duke. The deceased, George Howard, Earl of Carlisle, Viscount Howard of Morpeth of Northumberland, and Baron Oillesland county of Cumberland, in tha _peerage of England, a privy councillor. and Fallow of the Royal Society, was been on the 17th of Septemter, 1773, and succeeded to the title on the 4th of September, 1826, haying married on the 21st of March, 1801, Lady Georgian& Dorothy Caven dish, daughter of the late and sister to the present Duke of Devonshire and to the Countess of Granville. By this lady be robed issue twelve obildren. The eldest, George Wil liam !Frederick Viscount Morpoth, niccevds to the tttle and *states ; a vacancy in consequence arising in the representa tion of the western division of Yorkshire. The deceased earl was also father of the Duchess of Sutherland, Lady Dover (mother of Lord Clffden), the late Countess of Bur lington Lady Caroline trashes, the Hon. Captain Howard, M.P., the Hon. William George Howard, M.P., and the Hon. IL Howard, now connected with the British Embassy at Lisbon. The decried MY con sequently brother to the Dowager Lady Cawdor, the late Duchess of Rutland, Lady Gertrude Stanley, the Hon. Colonel Howard (who fell at Waterloo), and to the Hon. and Very Rev. Henry Howard, Dean of Lichfield. The dressed nobleman was educated at Eton and at Christ Church, Oxford, where he took a high degree. In 1795.6 be aceorpanied Lord Malmesbury in one of his missions to the continent, and was, no doubt, thus early initiated into the mysteries of diplomacy. On his return Its took his seat in the House of Commons, and continued to devote himself to parliamentary duties with much attention. In 1806 he was commissioner for the affairs of India, and so competent to his office, that we are indebted to him for a very able speech upon the affair of thst country. It was published separately as a pamphlet, and was the ond sleet publication which can be attributed to his lo rdship. He was, however, understood to have contributed a Latta poste to the Anti-Jacobin newspaper. Subsequently to the latter-ment ioned period, the noble lord was sent • • •• • nu ajseciel mieston W , but the particular object of the t suer transpired. Attar remaining some time in Prussia his lordship_ returned house and resumed Ids parlia mentary duties. Ie seldom awls a epeech, yet exercised, in consequence of his acknowledged talents ea intelligence, a beneficial influence more Mt than heard of in the govern ment of the nation. In 1827, when Mr. Canning wu called upon to form a ministry, hie lordship, between whom and the minicar an intimacy bad long existed, accepted the odes of First Commissioner of Woods and Forests, with a seat in the cabinet. His lordship was ha a subsequent calsine; without holding any office. For some years put he bas re mained in retirement. The deceased earl was formerly lord lieutenant of the Bast Riding of Yorkshire, but that office is now held by Lord Morpeth. By his decease a blue riband is at the disposal of the premier. CROWN RENTS IN LONDON.-A return made to the House of Commove shows that there are 31 places in Middlesex and Westminster leased by the Woods and Forests. The places are principally clnb-houses. The Hay market Theatre is leased to Mr. Morns for 99 years, from 1821, at 3381. 91. fid., and 381. 19s. in lieu of land tax • and the Opera House and premises adjoining on various tiama, loading October, 1892, at 8001. a year. Exeter Hall is leased to Sir Thomas Baring and *then at 4881. a year for 99 years from 1829. At Lae I -clay last 12 of the places were in mean The Chariotereas Hospital owed upwards of 4,0001., owing to the inadequacy of their funds. - - SALE AT STOWE.—Saturday was the concluding day of the sale at Stowe. The amount produced up to the end of the first catalogue was 71,3031. 3s. 3d. In addition to this Tuesday produced 2,4711. 10s. 6d. ; Wednesday, 3211. 16s. 6d. ; Thursday, 4591.55. 6d.; Friday, 6341.95. 61. • Saturday, 4761. 10s. Od., making the sem realised 76,6641. 14e. 3d. The only habitable portions of the mansion at this moment are two or three rooms used by the Marquis of Chiusdoe when at Stowe. The chapel has not sea in the general wreck. The altar piece and the organ have both been sold, but the colours of the Royal Bucks Militia, bequeathed by the Marquis of Buckingham to the we of his descendants, which hang over the gallery, are yet untouched. What is to become of the mansion and estate nothing authentic is known, though a variety of reports are in circulation. THE CHOLERA IN LONDON.—Tbe following state ments, extracted from the Observer, leave no doubt of the presence of Asiatic cholera in the heart of the metropolis. On Wednesday last two patients, father and daughter, suf fering from cholera, were admitted into St. Bartholomew's licepi , al. The male patient'. name was Jomes George, aged about 40, a labourer, employed in looking after but chers' carts in Newgate Market; the female patient, his daughter, is in her seventh year. The man died on the day of his admission ; the little girl is recovering. The three principal physicians of the Ithspital have certified the death as resulting from Asiatic cholera, aced leave certified as much to the government authorities. A ward in a new wing of the institution has been for some time past prepared and fitted for the reception of cholera patients. It was stated also at an inquest held on Saturday, at the Bedford Arms, Bedford-street, Commercial-road East, before Mr. W. Baker, the coroner, by the medial witneas, that the Asiatic cholera, in its most severe form, had made de appearance at the east end of the metropolis. In reply to quesuons from the coroner, Mr. Faulkner, the parish sur aeon, said that he had three cases of real Asiatic cholera under his immediate notice, one of which proved fatal on Wednesday last, after a very short dines.. Thom could be no doubt whatever in the case, the body turning quite blue. As it was most probable that the remai ning two cases would also prove fatal, he wished to know wh‘ther the coroner would, under the circumstances, ho:d an inquest. The coroner said that undoubtedly he should hold an inquest in every case. All the cases mentioned by Mr. Faulkner Save warred in Mile Zod 014 Town, pariO, of btepney. ee p(lWBnrnyeltaffiallyrtothrield"antgpteaunmea:ddahis:pekacileav erso .e s aw l a rg t : :; ! rth t e : : ptfl e 7 w e; : t ee ba m t....tg s o b ? r,hdh r t e. ::: : : cc i u i r:: : : :hb il iti : c l! . i ... . at 18, Hennington-place. Upon arrivi p n a g i there h o er r e i b mi.k. e fos te d! ... swiimpatedmutete:hedesboThrfasonwWdak:ambedTtobthizhipanmwilekhouse for a recover or not it es at present impeesble to tell, r. r er to slaltiagthhmtaeihtbt biodirrieoymans-nerodwasa.tiwtacat;nehokFTteed:p!eollidicenreeieutiehilmat'alw,elty,orraiimli:lbyievair.th:dowdohortitewredediwoear to sh o f l t r t v: h ic ai r n . m,panu e . il rba,7 l ll l (7: tre ; iza, case that may occur in their districts to head.gusetrry.'s progets—The following mass have occurred at Worg s t; on board the Justine en d Unit; conykt-ships : the first ,„. that of a prisoner named Owen Jones, who was tak ss 3 with violent diarrheca and other symptoms of spau ss Z choicest, and died on 'needs". The sonnees ingu sig — ' surgeon of the convict establishment, gave it is k. opinion that the decessed di. d from Englisk s s; lera. At that time some other cases, Stough .., of a very marked character, were on the i - Z list, but on Friday evening itutherted, a curvietewe as cook of the Justitia, was suddenly taken tit with and died early on the following morning. When W e w s was being carried out another prisoner, named Jam, ii ... , seized with int • me fear, and immediately exclaimed,. p ss ne m t: n abo ran ut hire ° , a lst u e r u g e e d on it him. and wts* sP a y s at lig pitio h: m. do oT se fhi o lle f purgative medicine, telling him that di m was nothing the matter with him. Ahout oneArelnek, lo w ever, the man was seised with strong symptoms of chok e . and died in leas than t ro hours, his death taking piles t bSi three o'clock on Saturday. There are KU four or five mi , seiner* labourieg under the mime form of isesee. one of,* the ease of a pr.soner named ilig,tond, ix exoected te tw. mined* fatal.y. A communication, embracing MO 111011 facts, was forwarded on S►turdav night to the Iloomeller, with the view of obtaining the attendance of the tardiest i s .. specter of prisons or of some other eminent physician. It is deserving of mention that although cases of violent diarrhea have been common in the town of Woolwich, no can of Asiatic cholera has yet occurred. Thr three men who hen died were men of broken eldisti:utions, although free from any disease at the time they were attacks d. Trig POTATO DifiltASE.—Althuagh it appeals that the northern potato crop has, to a great extent, escaNg the disease which in the south has tarried potatoes to Si. per too in the month of Octob-r, yet it is a mistake to haulms that it has escaped there, or is entirely free from danger. From Scotland we have the following letter, which emu from high authority:—" We have had a month of terantikd weather, which has enabled the farmers in the low country: of Scotland to secure the harvest in the finest possible mats . Hon. It is a full average crop of all sorts of great, and them i a very large i rep in the Highlands, but which it will remise another fortnight of good weather to make safe. Tne petals di/mashes opt, aced everywhere, but has dere no great in jury as yet, except, it is said, in some of the sonnet countiee, and along the writ coast, where it is most *allot. At Ullapool, velsels is within a few miles of the deer fares, in which I have been, I was sutured that nearly the whale of the pota'oes were already destroyed." We are also INV obliged to add th►t the disease has mode such progress to some parts of the nor h of France as to be compared by fly people there to the rut of 184.5. We also learn that in several instances it has been found extremely adventagonis to dust the potatoes with fresh burnt gypsum be Ere storing them. This is done without washing or clecnirc the tubers, and is said to act with great and uniform eu•_ceas.—Gw dester'a Chronicle. FOUR PERhOti a SUOT.—On Saturday evening, between 7 and 8 o'clock, considerable alarm was created throughout the neighbourhood of Maiden lane, King's crow, in cones quince of a rumour that several persons bad teen fired at by a man earned routs Lanham, better known in the vicinity by the cosnornee of " Happy Jack," and that many ha been seriously wounded. About 7 o'clock on &birch), night Lanham cane home intoxicated, and, having bed a quarrel with his %ire, who wee al o the worse for liquor, he took down an old military musket which hung over the mantel-piece, deliberately loaded it with powder and mull shot, and fired at her. Several of the shots entered her jaw and lips, and her screams naturally attracted a number of pecans to the spot, who, on learning what had happee4 gave expression to their indignation. !his proceeding excited the ire of Lanham, who, without warning, immediately re loaded his musket, and coming out to the road in front of his cottage heed indiscritrioasely amongst the people. At the moment of firing a pour women, named Eliza Carter, residing at 4, Adam's Cottages, Maiden lane, w paw on her road to market, and unfortunately re. ceiveds n rt the principal contents of the musket in her face end ' neck. A boy named Henry Chapman, living at No. 4 Randall's.row, also received nearly 20 shots i n th e h ee d an d face ' and another boy, named Robert Gr e e n , was also I severely wounded in the back of the neck. lin. Cuter and the two boys were conveyed to the shop of Mr. ' Thompson, surgeon, 11, River-terrace, who advised her im mediate removal to the Royal Free Hospital, where the wee Aeon by Dr. Marsden and the other medical gentlemen of that institution, and several of the shots were extracted. Mr. Thompson succeeded in extorting some shots from the face of the boy Chapman, some of which were so near the eye as to render the open- Hon exceedingly dangerous; he also extracted a shot butted deeply in the fleshy part of the neck of the hey Gress. In the Interim the miscreant Lanham had succeeded in loading his musket for a third time to fire upon the people, and wee about to do so, when a young man named Band on , a paper hanger, jumped over the reilinens, end after a considerable struggle succeeded in disarming him. The police shortly arrived, and took Lallham into custody, but were met by him with • resistance so desperate that they w; re compelled to tie him in a truck to convey him to the station-house on lalington-green. The wife of the accused is much wounded about the mouth, and other parts of the face. The man Lellham, who is said to be 86 years of age, will be taken before the police magistrates this day. FIRRS.—SUSPECTED ARSON.—On Saturday Mr. W. Payne, the coroner, held a court of inquiry at the Ship Tavern, Stone's-end, respecting two very mysterious fires which occurred during the nights of Wednesday and lkurs day last, upon the premises belonging to Mr. Samuel Jack son, an oil, colour, and varnish maker, carrying on business at No. 76, Blackman-etreet, Borough. On the first•named night a fire broke out on the first-floor, and was discovered by Mr. Jackson through hearing glass breaking. Upon hastening up-stairs he found the flames playing round two rooms, and also extending along the passage and up the stair cue. By a great effort on the part of the police the Bassi ware extinguished, but not before considerable damage wet done. The only cause thatconld be wiped for theoccarrathe was this. A can containing the dregs of some varnish had been planed to heat in a copper of boiling water, and it is presumed that some of the green left in the can had igeited from the fire in the copper and extended to the two rooms. The following evenirg, about half-past six o'clock, a strong smell of something burning was detected by the inmates, and in making an examination a second fire was fogad to have occurred in an apartment occupied by Mr. Cope, a soli citor. This fire wee soon extinguished, when it was aseer. tained that a quantity of paper had been fired is one of the cupboards, but by whom was a mystery. 11 wu WLfie tornJJ proved that the latter fire had no communication with the fiat one, and at the request of the jury the inquiry was adjourned for additional evidence. INQUESTS, SATURDAY.—ALLEGED MEsmeitteleta or • CHILD.-By Mr. G. J. Mills, at the Bedford Anne, Upper Seymourntreet, Euston-square, on the body of Edith Mary Ho*ate, aged one year and two months. Mrs. Marla Reigate, of No. 10, Eversholt-street, Oakley-square, mother of the deceased, deposed that the child had died on Friday mon:Ling. It had been suffering from a spinal affection from its birth, and he had taken it twice to the Spinal Institution, in Norton-street, Marylebone, but no good could be done for it its it was too young. About six weeks ago a lady named Morgan (u was understood) came into the shop, and, seeing deceased, advised mesmerism. The lady meson need the child several times herself, and then recommended that a friend of hers, Mr. Barth, living at DI O. 6, Eversholtstreet, and who witness understood was a medical man, shou'd per form the operation . Mr. Barth came and mesmeri sed the child several times a week for about six weeks, until its death. — By the Coroner: Did not know what mesmerism was, but understood it was done to strengthen the child and cure the curvature of its beck. All he appeared to do wan to pass his hands over its face.—The coroner remarked that a crooked cane might as well have been mesmerised to make itstraight —Evidence continued : There was ao charge made for mes merising the child, but the expectations held out to me were that the child, under its influence, would recover. The ef fect produced on the child by the mesmerism, as far u I sew, was no more than would have been produced had it bora practised on a wooden doll. It did not make It sleep, but sometimes it would cry while the operation was being per formed.—Mr. Reigate, the father of the deceased, in avow to the coroner, admitted that he consented to the operation, understanding that it would do no harm, and might do good.—The Coroner remarked that it was not so much that these fallacious remedies were calculated to do injury in themselves, se they were calculated to lead people into error and deceive them into a belief that something was being done for a patient, and thus that which might really prove beneficial wan neglected. A child on which mesmensm was attempted afforded a fair test of its powers, because it had not, like adults, the sense to practice deception and feign various Wass, which was always in such cues, he believed, more or less adopted. It had, 'how ever, been proved in tLis case that, notwithstanding the many times the attempt had been made, it had always proved a failure.—Mr. Barth who was in attendance, in answer to the coroner, admitted that although he had studied medicine he was not a licensed practitioner. He mesmerised the de owed two or three times a week for the lady alluded to, merely as an act of humanity, and he considered that doing so might have had a beneficial effect.—Mr. Donald Fraser, surgeon, of Oakleynonare, deposed that he was called in to see deceased two days before death, and it was then fart sinking. He had opened the body, and found the imme diate sense of death to be disease of the lunge. Had he been called in a week earlier he might have done something for the deceased.—By the coroner : Did not conn:ct the mes merism with its death. It woulu to neither harm nor good. —The jury ultimately returned a verdict, " That the de ceased died from natural causes; that they believed the mesmeric initiative under which the deceased hal been placed, as proved before the court, had no e winexion with it." —Ewe OVER—By Mr. W. Carter, at the Tulseduß Tavern, Tulse-hill, Lambeth, on the body of Mr James Hill, a cowkeeper. The deceased resided at Brixton, and on Wednesday had gone to the cemetery at Norwood for a load of grass, with which he loaded his cart, and was on his return home with a neighbour, who accompanied him. When the cart reached Tune-bill, the dectased took the reins, and Sat on the Malta to keep the horses up in the descent, which • very rapid, but be found the weight in it forced the hone it, and he wee tumble, by race pulling, to keep him in. lie