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WE congratulate the electors of Derby on the good sense and sound principle evinced in their triumphant return of Mr. STRUTT. It was not only an act of justice towards their respected, intelligent, and bene ficent townsman, but a pledge of popular co-operation with the Government in that policy of practical utility by which it is expected their proceedings will be characterised. Were an appointment like that of Mr. Sviwrr on the railway commission to occasion the loss of his scat, the effect would tend to paralyze the activity of an administration in pursuing objects which may lack the stamp of party, but bear that higher seal of public good, of which party is so often regardless. Further importance is attached to this election as indicating the abatement of a mischievous delusion which threatened to divide the friends of religious liberty, and has therefore been eagerly seized upon by the enemies of religious liberty. The professed objection to Mr. STRUTT did not relate to the appoint ment by which an election was occasioned; it had no reference to his general conduct, character, or princi ples ; but was solely founded upon a single vote, that in favour of the increased Maynooth grant. For this, and this alone, he was subjected to the trial of an electoral contest. The issue extended no further. On that point the constituency polled. We will not call the result a decision in favour of the grant. Such a construction would be unfair, perhaps, towards a por tion of the electors. But what the result has decided is this: that a vote in favour of the increased May nooth grant, by a sincere friend of civil and religious liberty, is not to be regarded as a disqualification by his former supporters. The popular hostility to the Maynooth grant com bined some of the sternest friends and some of the bitterest enemies of religious liberty. The former looked at it as an application of public money in favour of a theological party, and therefore as a vio lation of their essential principle of religious equality. The latter only regarded it as an endowment of Popery, which they hold, or profess to hold, in horror and hatred. It was an unnatural combination. One class was sure to be made tools of by the other, in the event of the question coming into action at the poll-booth. And of course the most unprincipled and unscrupulous were the most likely to turn it to their own account. Intolerance is always active and jesuitical. It has eminently shewn itself so in this question. It has pitched foot with the opponents of all relations between religion and the State. It has fraternized with the dislike of the friends of religious equality to aid the cause of a sectarian ascendancy. It has helped to denounce the application of State funds to religious bodies, because in this case the cash was not going to its own church. And it has marked out, for the persecution of opposition, and if possible for the disgrace of rejection, some of the purest, truest, and noblest defenders of the equal and universal rights of conscience in the British Parliament. To this class belongs Mr. Srnurr, now, happily, again M.P. for Derby. He supported the increased grant to Maynooth College, because the former grant, which bore the character of a national compact, was insufficient for its profe-sed objects. He saw no principle of religious liberty involved in the numerical difference of pounds sterling; nor in refusing separate dormitories to Catholic students, and making them sleep two or three in a bed. He did not identify the promotion of instruction with the promotion of Popery. He did not insist, in the dis tribution of public money, on keeping the Irish Catholic below the Irish Presbyterian, as well as below the Irish Episcopalian. Nor did he yield to the charge being placed upon the consolidated fund, until Mr. WARD'S proposition for putting it on the Church Fund of Ireland had been tried and rejected. It is not necessary for us to enter more minutely into this really bygone controversy. The foregoing reasons may, or may not, be entirely sound and satisfactory. What we have to urge is, that Mr. STRUTT did not compromise his principles. An error in their application to a particular ease, is the utmost that can be alleged against him, and many others who were similarly circumstanced. He voted against bigotry and bigots. That is some presumption of his having judged and voted rightly. And he felt no uncomfortable con sciousness, no need of reservation for the future, any more than of regret for the past, in declaring that "the principle he had always held and avowed was this, that no man ought to be taxed for the support of another man's religion." That principle is an infinitely better test than the Maynooth grant. Electors who objected to the grant, on the principle of religions liberty, should apply it in preference. They should apply it to those who seek to take advantage of their objection. Let them test Anti-Maynooth and pre tended Protestant candidates by it. The action will be like that of the spear of ITIIIIRIEL. The slimy toad of cajolery will start up into its proper form, of the demon of Intolerance. This Sir DIGBT MACKWORTTI, for instance, sought to rcoommend himself solely by the assurance that :..~. he would have opposed the Maynooth grant. The hope was thereby to catch all voters who were opposed to the Maynooth grant, no matter oa what principles or with what objects. The man seems ignorant of what is meant by religious liberty. He objected to Mr. filraurr's looking upon " the Roman Catholics and the various Protestant denominations as being on the same footing and entitled to the same privileges." With consummate obtuseness he asked "if the religion of the Roman Catholics was to be considered on an equality with that of Pro testant denominations, why we should not make the religion of the Hindoos the establighed religion of Hindostan ?" His logic is on a level with his know ledge. "He was no political character." But he is a Protestant ; all Protestant ; nothing but Protestant ; though opposed to that right of private judgment, without which Protestantism is something worse than merely a name, and sinks into a schism and a crime. To make up, however, for all defects, this concen trated essenso of Protestantism " had followed the Duke of Wemaxerrox through the whole Peninsular war, and was present at his crowning victory at Waterloo." What an admirable course of Christian training. What an exquisite test of theological soundness. What a pledge against the doctrinal errors of popery. What an intellectual and moral qualification for service as a Protestant legislator. This dose must have been too strong for the stomachs of the Dissenters of Derby. The result of the contest sill. we hope, materially help to throw the bygone Maynooth question out of the electoral market. It should make the truth clear to the real friends of religions equality and freedom, that they are pursuing an unwise and pernicious course to let that question now influence their votes. And it may also show the traffickers in such topics, those who watch the turn of the markets in order to bewilder and entrap honest though unwary men, that the game will not do. Their dexterity is foiled. They have stolen a march, but they are driven to counter march. Their false pretences are exposed. Maynooth may as well be left in its natural oblivion. It will scarcely catch more than a few stragglers. They must look out for something more plausible. A new hoax for the hustings is wanted. This is worn out already. The pill may be a bitter one for fraud and faction, cant and intolerance, to swallow ; but the fact is, that the Maynooth cry will not work at the approaching general election. Louis PHILIPPE is certainly a wonderful man in the acquiring and the wielding of influence, not only in his own realm, but beyond it. We are not now going into complaints of how he has curtailed us of influence in new constitutional countries, nor shall we indulge grave remonstrance as to more serious recent rumours which we would fain believe to be unfounded. For the present we are more inclined to smile, and applaud the address with which he has ousted Austria from her long un disturbed supremacy at Rome and in the College of Cardinals. It is certainly astonishing that a King of the French, the offspring of a double revolution,—the very changes which upraised him being in a great measure directed against the clergy,—that a prince so raised and so situated, should have contrived in very few years to make his influence so paramount at Rome as actually to nominate a Pope, and to govern the councils of that Pope by his envoy. This is one of those wondrous achievements, which cannot but make a striking chapter in the modern book, when ever there shall start up a modern MACH lAVEL to write it, which may be entitled " The Prince." The King of the French has one grand nostrum in politics; which is,to govern bya fusee milieu, or, as he calls it, a moderate party. In some cases it has unoceeded. In France it has been attended with many satisfactory results. In Spain it has most lamentably failed. In Greece it is playing the deuce. Still, wherever French influence predominates, and French agents rule, we find the same effects, the game principles, and even the same phraseology. Hence we were not a little amused by an article in the Journal des Dehats on Roman affairs, expressing hopes that the moderate party in the Roman States would succeed, and entreating the old Liberals to keep quiet, and be contented with the mild and liberal administration of Cardinal Gizzi and the new Pope Pius. As M. Ross!, the French Ambassador in Rome, is en old and constant contributor to the columns of the Debate, we recognised the official language, politics, and habits of thought, in the excellent article we allude to, and in the views put forth by it. We fully join in these. Muderadoisni would certainly be a very great amelioration to the Roman regime. Clemency, lay-tribunals, taxation on some rational scale, and provincial administration by functionaries somewhat more enlightened and less arbitrary than cardinals, would be boons. Even a rational despotism for some years, which would open the trade and industry of the rich Romagna, give its towns some few of their old municipal rights, and allow liberal and enlightened ideas to enter, not by contra band, but freely,—would raise and elevate the middle class, and render them far less dangerous. At present, the middle-aged, or the elders, or the fathers of families, crouch in secret, keep their bosoms and their money-chests close locked, and walk about as in a reign of terror, perpetually panic-struck. This state of the elders has such an effect on the young of the rising generation, that they either tremble too, or else, if of generous nature, think at once of resis tance and rebellion. Under the present state of things the entire youth of Italy, that portion of it which is endowed with spirit, meditates but the one purpose, that of throwing off an ignoble, an iron, a bestial yoke. The result is seen in yearly insurrections, in overflowing prisons, in misery, in execration, and in the rendering St. Plaza's patrimony a lazar-house et suffering, terror, and cruelty. The present Pope and his ministers have put an end to this. They have opened the prisons; but they seem to know no better way to avoid the necessity of filling them again, than by entreating the Liberals to be quiet and patient' A better way would be to give some municipal liberties, to open trade, to set industry active, and facilitate the employment of capital. This would turn men's minds into another channel. It would give confidence, occupation, and manhood to the rising generation, which would in turn resume its influence over their children. Without creating such new impulses as these, the very amnesty will be idle; and we shall find in Italy, as in Spain, the Moderates turning greater furies than the Liberals themselves, and ruling, like their predecessors, by the sword, the brand, and the whip. Bat hopes may be entertained of the sagacity and foresight of Count Rossi and Cardinal Gizzi. Their great object is to render the Romagna contented with the Pontifical yoke, and thus to obviate the yearly necessity of the Pope's looking to Austria for troops and succour. This can only be done by a series of measures calculated to conciliate a rich and indus trious region, with a large civic population. In the meantime, will Austria's double eagle look quietly from the other side of the Po on this diplo matic conquest of the NAPOLEON of Peace ? Prince Merrearrica and his council have been looking with great complacency and delight on the success with which LOIIIH-PHILIP PE has chewed us out of all in fluence at Madrid, at Lisbon, and at Athens. It now comes to be the turn of Austria herself, which is &mimed out sf its old supremacy at Rome. For our own parts, though somewhat jealous of the Gallic cock, especially when treading down constitutions and constitutional parties, we do rejoice to see it pecking and patting to flight the old stupid double eagle of the , modern CaSARS, and driving it from the walls of Rome. THE indirect, though not the direct, effects of free trade are beginning to be felt. The prices of prori sions here and on the Continent already approach more nearly to an equality ; and, in some instances, . the difference ism favour Of tilie country. imported from America, and the provisions 0, kinds imported from abroad, have kept the marknts moderate here, and raised them proportionally abroad. Indian corn sold last month far Ns. per quarter of 480 lbs., and the flour at 19s. to 20s. per 280 lbs.— less than a penny a pound. Considering the greater amount of nourishment in Indian corn, this is almost as cheap as potatoes. Food is becoming permanently cheaper, and waves more available. It is not so easy to trace the effect of the change upon exports, nor wsuld it be reasonable to expect to discern it there so soon. The influence of the new American tariff cannot yet be felt. In the south of Germany and Sicily much injury has been done to the harvest by droughts, and fears are entertained that the price of provisions will be high throughout the winter. Disturbing circumstances like these retard the operation of the more liberal policy. A table of the declared values of British exports for the first six months of 1844, 1845, and 1846 is before us; but is referring to it we must keep in mind that the prices of goods and yarns have this year been much lower than they were last, and that the same money sums consequently represent a larger amount of yards and pounds. The declared value of cotton manufac tures exported during the first sir months of 1846 was 8,899,792/. ; in 1845 it was 9,590,3231. ; and in 1844, 9,192,5721. The declared value of cotton yarns this year is greater : it is 3,523,7931., against 2,983,5771. in 1843, and 2,914,8721. in 1844. The state of the exportation of silk manufactures does not confirm the apprehensions of those semi-free traders who have been accustomed to represent this as an excep tional manufacture. The exports of silks which, for the first six months of 1844, were valued at 380,8371., rase in the corresponding period of 1845 to 385,9891., sad of 1846 to 421,910!. In iron and steel there bas beat a marked increase : from 1,548,4141. in the first six months of 1844, to 1,772,6081. in 1845, and 2,199,006/. in 1846. Hardware and cutlery have been nearly stationary : 1,053,1251. in 1844 ; 1,068,6181. in 1845 ; 1,069,0451. in 1846. The aggre gate values of the twenty-six principal articles of export during the first six months of these years are : in 1844, 24,495,9721. ; in 1845, 26,166,7321.; in 1846, 25,020,9721. The reduction of the minimum of discounts by the banks would have exercised more influence, but for a prevalent apprehension that it may soon be raised again. If lasting, it may lead to the relieving of the bank vaults of a part of the sixteen millions of bullion now boarded there. This, by lowering the value of money abroad and raising prices, might, eventually, tell in favour of our export trade. At home, the effect of easier discounts, if permanent, will be in favour of the working classes. It will accelerate the construction of the great lines of rail way ; relieve the labour market of part of its sur plusage ; and keep in the view of all labourers a class of their fellows in the permanent enjoyment of high wages. Our columns to-day are more than usually occupied with Foreign Intelligence, the arrivals last night having been numerous, including accounts from India, America, Mexico, and the West Indies. Our despatches in anticipation of the Overland Mail from India, which extend to the 18th of July, are chiefly remarkable for the melancholy intelli gence which they convey of the dreadful mortality, caused by the sudden appearance of cholera, which prevailed at the seaport of Kurrachee during the middle of June, and where, within the brief space of a fortnight, no fewer than 8,000 persons were swept off. Of these the greater part were natives, but the European troops also suffered most severely. It is satisfactory to know that when the last ac counts left Kurrachee—on the 30th of June—the rage of the pestilence had ceased, though it was said to be creeping up the river. The visitation of this scourge, since the occupation of Scinde by oar troops, has been triennial, but its ravages in 1839 and 1842 were alight compared with those of which we now speak. The political news of India supplies us with no subject for commentary. The accounts from the United States mention that in all probability the tariff bill will undergo some modifications in the next Congress. It is thought that there would be an increased duty on coal and iron, and that a duty would be levied on tea and coffee. The Mexican war,—if war it can be called, — drags its slow length along ; the American public are indifferent to its progress, and the administration wish it well at an end ; the expenses which it entails being so heavy. The harvest prospects throughout the Union are satisfactory. By the West Indian mail we learn that a declara tion agaityit the existing Mexican government, and in favour of Santa Anna, took place at Vera Cruz on the 31st of July. The ex-President had left the liavannah for Mexico. Vera Cruz and Tam pioca were still blockaded by the American fleet. We have received with our private correspondence the Paris journals of Thursday. The Chamber of Deputies, after our express left, elected on Monday their two questors, Messrs. Clement and 1)e l'Espee, to whom are entrusted during the time of the Parliament the interior management of the house. They are both Con servatives, and M. Clement has been questor for manY M. De l'Espde, who was Secretary in the previous Parliament, repl aces General Laydet, of the Opposi tion, who is no longer a Deputy. Before quitting the chair, which he had provisionally occupied until the nomination of M. Sauzet, the senior member of the Chamber, M. Sapey delivered himself, according to custom, of a Nestorian oration, in which he recom mends, in the following terms, economy and progress : " You will not be called on, like the Chamber which has gmsestlet you, to vote a line of fortification round Paris—avast network et railroads from the Ocean to the Mediterranean, from the Rhine to the Pyrenees ; nor a credit of ninety three millions (of francs) to render our navy prepared for whatever may fall out, and sufficient to protect our com merce and ensure respect to our national flag. You, then, the faithful guardians of the public purse, may effect re trenchmenta which may enable us to ease the burthens of the state, and among others the duty on salt, whose high price does much damage to our agriculture, and im poses grievous privations on the humble classes—but, above all, we must re-establish that financial equilibrium which is the safety of the present and the guarantee of the future. Honour to that financial minister who shall achieve this important result, so often promised and as often postponed. Thus this session opens under favourable auspices, when your votes will not be asked for fresh and extra ex but for the amelioration announced in that eloquent remarkable speech (by M. Guizot) at Lisieux in which the ideas of a useful and necessary progress are prOclaimeff with a power and authority of reason, which leaves no doubt as to the accomplishment of the promises it holds out. The progress which experience has rendered indispensable is loudly called forby public opinion. In the state in which minds are in France the march of representative government cannot halt without danger. It is in vain you would seek its duration in a state of inactivity; it is not there that you will find it. It requires for its existence a continual advance from good to better. Its progress must be marked by successive ameliorations, so sagaciously devised that they shill be enduring." We do not give any report of M. Sauzet's speech of inauguration, observing only that he evinced great forbearance towards the majority of his honourable friends, who, whilst they gave him their votes, have been known to say that it was very easy to find a more able President. M. Sauzet promised, to treat all and every member with the greatest courtesy, and, as is now the fashion, summed up with a few words about progress. A few minutes after the nomination of the commit tee appointed to prepare the reply to the King, a ready-made congratulatory address was submitted to the house by M. Vitet, the lately-elected Academician and appointed for that purpose by his bureau. According to the regulations of the house, the de bate, or rather vote, was postponed until Thursday. It was, however, preceded by a conversation which took place u n a question put by M. Larabit, De puty fox the Department of L'Yonne, upon the incen diary fires w spread desolation over the country, and the measures to be taken by the Government to restore confidence to the population. This, coupled with the fears entertained concerning the deficiency of the harvest and the price of corn, is a source of great anxiety. A large quantity of corn has arrived at Marseilles from Odessa. A general regulation concerning the manage ment and working of French railways has just been signed by the King, and will be issued forthwith. The Bing of the Belgians, travelling incognito un proceedk 1 5 1131----- 'The ,k.kka l " '4:04.21th ult. areitains rumours of an . 10 . fen aei inroad_ of .Abdulaader A man of the Arbed recently arrived from Algiers says that there is a report in the south that Abd - el-Kader is w ith the Oulad-Sidi-Chikh-Garabas, where he is said to have been well received." This requires confirmation, but it is certain that letters have been sent by the Emir to the tribes in the south, particularly to the Oulad- Naila, and to the inhabitants of Djebel-Amour, call ing upon them to be ready to renew the struggle against the Christians, and announcing his intend= senee amongst them towards the end of the Rha The Oulad-Nails are said to have heard with plea sure the announced arrival of the Emir. It is not no, however, with the tribes of the Tell, of the Ouarensenma, and the I)jurdjurn, because they are within reach at the French, and are still smarting under the punish ment inflicted upon them of late. Late on Wednesday night the following was known in Paris, having been brought from Madrid by a 'pedal courier:— The Gaceta de Madrid, of the 29th ultimo, contains a decree of her Majesty Queen Isabella, announcing that, having consulted with the ministers, she has decided on marrying her first cousin, his Royal High ness the Infant Don Francisco de Anise, Duke of Cadiz, eldest son df Don Francisco de Paolo. The Cortes are convoked for the 14th of September, to receive the communication of the royal decision. ...~.- \. Although not officially announced, the marriage of the Infanta Donna Luisa, sister of the Queen, with the Duke of Montpensier, is finally set tled. Queen Isabella was born at Madrid . on the 10th of October, 1830. Her Majesty is, accord ingly nearly sixteen years of age. H.R.H. Don Francisco de Assise was born on the 13th May, 1822. The Duke of Montpensier was born at Neuilly on the Slat July, 1824. Donna Maria-Luisa-Ferdinand wee born on the 30th Jan., 1832, and is therefore only Ibarteen years and seven months old. A private letter from Madrid of the 29th confirms the statement which has already appeared, that the betrothal of Queen Isabella to Don Francisco de Anise took place on the night of the 28th. The regular post which reached Paris on the 3rd instant does not bring any additional particulars or news of interest. FRANCE.--THE REVELATIONS OF JOSEPH HENRI. —The copper tube found in the hiding place in the cellar, as described by Joseph Henri, was opened on the Ist instant, in the presence of the culprit, by a Jugs d'lnstruction ap pointed for the purpose ; a statement was drawn up of the papers contained in the tube, and of the answers Joseph Henri made on the subject of those curious precautions. Conformable to the indications he gave, the tube contained a detailed account of all his plans for carrying out his pro lect. He describes the manner in which the pistols were to be oaded, and declares that they were not to contain any pro jectile whatever. He adds, that to give this act of madness all the appearance of an attempt on the king's life he should make up the story of the pistols being charged with a piece of iron rod rounded off by a file and kept in the barrel by his finger. He indicates what he intended exclaiming at the moment he was arrested, to make believe that he had accomplices. It will be remembered that this was a precau tion he took to escape • sudden outburst of public indigna tion. In short, the document bears the singular stamp, found by the ficulty in many cases of mental derangement, of a chain of incoherent and curious ideas, arranged with precision, and clearly expressed. It seems that if Joseph Henri had been condemned to death, he would have con trived by some means or other to bring these papers to light. This, he thought, would have caused deep regret to his judges that they had come to extreme measures with him, and, as he expressed himself, would have been a hard blow to capital punishment. No answer has yet be en made to his petition for mercy, but it is generally supposed that his punishment will be commuted into simple confinement. ITALY.—ROME, AUGUST 22.—The papal govern ment intends reducing the fire per cent. debt, and raising a loan for this purpose with Roman and Belgian capitalists. On the 20th a circular was issued to the different legates and delegatea, requesting them to send in to the Secretary of State an exact list of all their functionaries, indicating their respective salaries and offices. The presence of the Grand Duke of Tuscany is attributed to the projected establishment of a railway across the Maremmes. Duke Marco Massemo has been appointed member of the commission on railways. GERMANY.—VIENNA, AUGUST 27.—Prince Met ternich is occupied at Kcenigsworth with the question of the duchies of Schleswig and Ifolsti.in. It is looked upon in a federal point of view, and the decision of the diet will be regarded as law. All the German dates agree on this point.—llansburij Correspondent. HOLSTEIN.—KIEL, • AUGUST 27.—The Danish government seems startled at the manifestations that have taken place in the duchies. So much is certain that the government has engaged a large steamer for the purpose (should the case require it) of transporting troops to the duchies. According to the German Federal Convention, foreign states, who have possessions in Germany, are not allowed to send their troops there. The Danish goeent ment does not place too much confidence in the troops et Schleswig and Holstein, and not without a cause, as the Commander-in-Chief has sent in his resignation. BERLIN, AUGUST 23.—The Saxon government has just acceded to the convention entered into between Prussia and England, on the 31st May last, relative to copyright and literary piracy. LEIPZIG, Auo. 30.—At the hour the poet left (midnight, the 30th nit.) a great conflagration was raging at Leipzig. Five persons had perished in the flames, and the civic guard was under arms. Three hundred and fifty men bad arrived by railway to help to extinguish the raging element.—Deuteehe Allgemeine Zeitung. HUNGARY, AUG. 24.—1 n the district of CEdenbarg Listb. the celebrated pianist, was unanimously elected mem ber of the anseabiy of the province. TILE GAME-LAWS IN GERMANY.--According to a law promulgated in 1840, the gamekeepers of noblemen in Germany have the right of firing at poachers, if the latter do not throw down their guns on the first summons. Two men have just been shot at Luneburg, in Hanover, under these circumstances. One of them leaves a widow and seven luldren. .~__ ~. 7:T*".."7 ."F" ti ( ...e t e a th way good in their way, still these are not ob by a sweeping sacrifice of the colonial poe- In the meantime it is our grateful privilege's be able to state that a complete change appears to harm titbit plum Is She weather, which Is now all that the colonial 22= desire; and as an* good season is generally the another, there is every prospect of the crop of next yeartildlyr as wide a leap as that of 1842 improved 'upon 1841 while in, Jamaica increased from 35,000 to 50,000 hhds., and out the whole West Indies, from 2,148,000 cwta. to 2, Surely, therefore, on account of any temporary Moon arising from the present short crop, the frie nd s of emessiga tion throughout Great Britain are not going to ors *maw to the admission of slave-labour produce, whichntuallemessa• City discourage and retard every species of imgmeasmsall eon nected with the former, in proportion alit is caballed to hese fit, and therefore to confirm the system on which the Isfaeris based. True, the West India planter has no more artived at perfection in his system than the British farmer hasdone ; but so far as circumstances have permitted we have nothing to be ashamed of in a comparison in this respect. And if we have nest gut quit of all those " defects" of our system, which have repeatedly, and from the first, been pointed nut by ourselves, in various essays, letters, pamphlets, &c., upon the readily and effectually as could be wished, such is mist as y not to be laid to the account of parties resident is the island, but rather to that of those whom they reprises% and who are natural!y slow to admit the propriety, and who find it equally difficult area dangerous, even when they dose, to carry out their views, except by exceedingly slow and easy stages. The directors of Smith's Agricultural Society, with a capital of 400,0001., have declared that they are now to treat for the purchase and renting of properties i:1 1 = island. Besides, the many thrown-up estates which they may, no doubt, readily obtain, there is certainly no lack of, properties still under cultivation, which they will be able to command at a very moderate price : and we, therefore, anti cipate soon seeing operations commenced on an extensive scale. Already, we learn, has a vessel, called the Sisters, been dispatched from Liverpool, with a cargo of horses, cows, pigs, agricultural implements, and farm servants for the purposes of the society. We are happy to he enabled to state that coolie immirra tion, so far as it has yet been tested in this island, has fully ' answered the expectations of the planters. At this season of the year especially, when the operations of clearing and supplying the cane fields require all the labour which can Ibe obtained, and while too many of the native peasantry have been engaged in holiday keeping or attending to their own provision grounds, the services of the coolies have prayed invaluable. Among the improvements recently put in pnctical opera lion in this island, we may notice the hot-air vacuum pan of IS WM. Noyes and Dodson, for the manufacture of sugar, at a much less expense for machinery than appertains to the usual steam vacuum system. We are also happy to learn that the patent filters of Messrs. Watson and Spalding are now brought to perfection, and may be expected to be placed before the public within a short period. The coffee crop promises well, and in many districts the harvest has already commenced, which is unusually early. The pimento crop, however will be almost a total failure,— the late spring in the tree s occasioned by the wet weather having destroyed the bearing Sickness has been very prevalent, especially in Westmore land, and other localities where swamps abound, but we cannot say that the mortality has been unusually great for the period of the year. A dreadful thunder-storm, attended with torrents of rain, visited the neighbourhood of Mon tego Bay, on the evening of the 30th ultimo : the focus of i a violence appears to have been at Reading Pen ; a consi derable portion of the Grand Interior road (famous in the annals of the late rebellion) has been utterly destroyed; in some parts of what was once the highway vast chasms have been excavated, while in others, huge masses of earth and stone have been accumulated. So vio lent was the action of the water that enormous fragments of boulder rocks, above a ton in weight, seem to have been transported by the torrent with the same facility as pebbles. On both sides of the road the pasture walls have been en tirely swept away, and the fields covered with wreck. On the same evening, in the neighbourhood of Port Antonio, a house was struck by lightning, and left a mass of ruins. Three men, two women, and two children, were about taking their suppers when the melancholy affair took place, one female within a few days of her confinement) was killed upon the spot, her mother and one of the men only recovered their sews about eight o'clock the following morning, the other man stunned for about an hour, and on coming to himself found the two children nearly covered with stones and mortar. On the following day two sloops were struck by lightning off Port Morant, and considerably injured ; for tunately no lives were leer. Among the recent deaths we regret to mention the names of the lion. James Geddes. cantos of the parish of St. Mary ; Dr. Patrick Anderson, and Dr. H. J. Archer, both highly esteemed medical practitioners in Trelawny. The rumour which reached us by the last packet, touching the improbability of Lord Elgin's return to this island, has created, we are sure, but one impression upon the minds of the inhabitants, that of unmingled regret. NEWS FROM MEXICO. (From the Bermuda Rlyal Gazette, Aug. 18.) When the Dee left Vera Cruz the coast was still block aded by the American squadron, consisting of the Cumber land, 60 guns, Potomac, 60, St. Marys, 24, Somers, 12, John Adams, 24, Mississippi and Princeton steamers. The Cum berland, with the commodore's broad pendant, has been on shore near Alvarado, and so much damaged as to require proceeding to the States. No attempt has been made on the castle of San Juan de Ulloa, nor was any contemplated with the present force. Paredes had left Mexico to proceed first against the insurgents at Guadalaxara, and afterwards against the Americans, leaving Geniral Bravo as vice-pre sident. A prone/win/nut/0i took place at Vera Cruz on the 31st July in favour of Santa Anna, and a deputation from that place arrived at Havannah, in the Dee, to invite him to resume the command, with which he complied, and eft Havannah in the Arab, and English steamer, on the Bth August. Ihe Eurydice and Rose were at Sacrificios on the 2nd August. Alarm and Daring were daily expected. The American army remained in position at Matamoras, awaiting, it was supposed, the cessation of the rainy season, before which it was generally thought that the effervcsenoe of the volunteers would be greatly evaporated. The return of General Santa Anna is favoured by the Americans. The victories they have gained have been much exaggerated. We have been kindly favoured with the following extract of a letter, dated— " Vera Cruz, July 31, 1846. " This day a pronuntiansierato was made in favour of Santa Anna, whisk has thrown the city into a state of great ex citement. They say that a deputation is to go by the packet to Havannah, to invite Santa Anna to return to this The country. " American squadron has not yet attacked this city, nor the castle of San Juan de Ulloa; it is supposed that they intend to direct their force against Tampico and Alvarado. On the 29th July all the ships got under sail from Isla Verde, and stood towards the south, some thought with the intention of burning Alvarado, to force the Mexicans into terms. The commodore's ship the Cumber land grounded on one of the reefs off San Anton Lizardo, and the weather setting in rainy and squally that night, the vessel continued thumping on the reef about 30 hours, and was only got off with the help of a large steamer, after throwing overboard same guns, taking out shot, provisions, &c. "Mr. Murphy arrived here a few days ago, on his way to the city of Mexico." Her Majesty's steamer Vesuvius left Vera Cruz on the 28th ultimo. Left there her Majesty's ships Endymion and Rose, quite healthy. The American force consisted of two frigates, 60 guns; two corvettes, 23 guns two brigs, one large steamer. A corvette was at Tampico. No active measures were anticipated at that time ; two line-of-battle ships were expected. The Raritan, American frigate, had left for Pensacola, very sick, suffering rom scurvy. The castle of San Juan de Mos was in a good state of defence ; the ball practice from their heavy guns excellent. The American boats bad been fired on while watering near Antigua. The other foreign men of war were one Spanish frigate and one brig, one P tench brig. The rains had set in heavily ; the town was nearly deserted. INDIA. ARRIVAL OF THE OVERLAND MAIL. Since the publication of the announcement, in yesterday's Express, of the arrival of the Over land Mail from Bombay at Marseilles, on the 2nd instant, we have received our usual despatches. The latest dates received by this mail are from Calcutta to the 7th, Agra to the Bth, Delhi and Meerut to the 7th, Madras to the Bth, and Bombay to the 18th July. The news they contain is, with the exception of that from Kurrachee, barren. Cholera, as we announced, had broken out at Kurrachee on the 14th June, and in the course of a single fortnight carried off upwards of 1,400 fighting men, nearly 900 of whom were Europeans ! Her Majesty's 86th alone lost upwards of 3.50, the Ist Europeans nearly as many, and the 60th Rifles upwards of 100. About 600 native soldiers had been cut off ; and nearly seven thousand of the inhabitants of the town and suburbs were also destroyed by the pestilence. Altogether: it was computed that eight thousand human beings had been swept off in the short space of fourteen days. The effluvium arising from the festering dead was said to be dreadful. The charac teristic humanity of the Governor had conspicuously shone forth on this trying occasion. He was con stantly on foot, looking after the sick, and doing everything in his power for the alleviation of their sufferings. Sickness to a great extent had prevailed amongst H.M.'s 17th at Sukkur, and the regiment was about to be ordered to the sea coast. The Governor-General and Commander-in-Chief were at Simla. The former had been rejoined by his son from Cashmeer. The Governor of Bombay was about to return to England, the state of his health not per mitting him to remain longer at his post. A rumour respecting a Scotch marriage, claims to which are always so easily made, is connected with his Excel: lency in the columns of the Bombay Courier. Col. Martin, Deputy Adjutant - Genera l, Queen's troops, Bombay, had died of dysentery, at Poonah, on the 13th July. A rumour prevailed that an army was to be assembled in the north-west during ;;- f Total 2 ( • I. 30 1358 i~ A ►+ T • r- the next cold season. Everything in India and t h e Punjanb continued tranquil. BOMBAY, 18r hiy. Since I last wrote you, intelligence has bun re. wield of the appearance at Haunches of one seas ma Wel of epidemics, cholera; and the ravages rmessieMlE ad h•a•e been truly appalling; no f ewer t h an one four hundred and ten fighting men cut ist la the short space of ten days. The disease that assallalasi Welt' in camp on the evening of Sunday, the 14th Jeuelveintiktaneously with the appearance in the sky of a this& lurid cloud, and so rapidly did it spread that the hos pitals were during the night crowded with its unhappy violins. It at first raged with the greatest virulence in her Milleety's 88th foot, and is the 'course of four days upwards of twe kindred men had fallen victims to the fell disease. The other European corps at first escaped, but it was not for long, for they were shortly afterwards visited with the pestilence, and suffered in nearly as great a degree as the 86th. The native regiments also suffered dreadfully, and by the 27th, —thirteen days from the first breaking out of the disease— the following deaths had occurred:— °lacers. Serfs. Yea. Weroca. Child. Total. 6oth Rake 0 both Pout let 80. Ear. Ft hers 1 Artillery 3rd NI. 0 0 11th 31. L Belooch Batten= . 0 - - From the above you will see that the total number of Europeans cut off amounts to 895, and of natives 695. The mortality amongst the families of the Sepoy corps is un known, but must have been very great. Immense numbers +of camp-followers perished ; and it is said that, in the town, betwixt six and seven thousand inhabitants have died: in all probability between eight and nine thousand human beings hurried into eternity in the short space of a fortnight ! Such an awful visitation I never remember to have heard tell of in India, and trust such another tray never have to be recorded. The kindheartedness of the Governor of Scinde was conspi cuous throughout this most trying period. He was hen, there, and everywhere, superintending the convenience of the sick, to the hospitals, encouraging rind consoling the sufferers, as the ease required. Ail forms were suspended, and the me dical officers ordered to procure as they liked any and every. thing they thought would possibly be of any service to the sick—alas ! to no purpoee. The angel of death was abroad, and whose hand could stay him bi.t that of Rim by whom he was permitted to act ? The name of the European officer of the Fusiliers who was cut off is Captain J. B. Seton ; that of the officer of the 12th is Lieut. Davison. Sir Charles Na pier has been indefatigable in his inquiries as to the probable cause of the disease . the soldiers' provisions were found fault with, and sundry articles of hospital stores , such as wine and beer, condemned. The exciting cause of cholera hitherto has been, and very likely will ever continue to be, a mystery : it appears under every variety of form, in places the most opposite in causes likely to tend to is generation— in wet and dry weather—in swampy and dry localities. The 86th are to be sent to Hydrabad for a change. Several deaths had occurred along the banks of the river, and the inhabitants of Hydrabad were watching with the greatest anxiety the approach of the dreaded disease. In the time of the Ameers, the fort had several times been visited by cho lera, when the inhabitants almost invariably flea. H. M.'s 17th at Sukkur have suffered a great deal from fever, and I believe lost a large number of men, though no particulars have been received. They are to be brought down to Kiirrachee. A report of an intended advance of the Scinde force on Bake wulpore during next cold season, had been in circulation at Hydrabad, though no reason had been assigned for the movement. Should an army assemble in the north-west provinces of India at that time, as is reported to be in eon templation, the Hydrabad rumour will, in all likelihood, prove true. Subscriptions are being raised for the purpose of purchasing ap the jewels, &c., of the Princesses of Scinde, shortly to be exposed for sale in Bombay, and restoring them to their owners—it being justly considered a stain on the chivalry of the British army that such articles, even had they come lawfully into our poseeesion, should go to make up prise-money. From Lahore there is nothing worthy of mention. It is said that a memorial is in COWIE of preparation by some in fluential men, to our government, to take the c ,untry entirely to ourselves, asserting that, on our retirement, the same scenes will be enacted as obtained prior to our interference in the affairs of the Punjaub. The latter part of the asser tion will no doubt prove true ; but that we are likely to attend to the first part of the rumour, is very unlikely. It is now said that the lioness has not the slightest wish that we should leave the country ; her wishes this way and that depending apparently on the degree of influence possessed by her party in the Durbar. Charges still con tinue to be made against the Maharajah of Jamoo, Goolaub Singh, of trying to bribe the troops of the state to leave their employ and join his standard, and probably with much truth. The differences betwixt the Durbar and the Dewan of Mooltan continue as before, the latter professing to be anxious for their speedy settlement, merely to gain time to enable him to complete his arrangements for a successful resistance of the claims of the former. The Dewan had been requested to present himself at the Durbar at Lahore, when everything would be arranged betwixt them ; but he seemed to think matters could be as well settled by an am bassador, and stated to the Durbar that he would resist any attempt ;node to force him to accept of their proposals. The army, on its way to Moulton, were in the meantime halted not far off their destination. It was reported at Lahore that Sir John Littler intended returning to England in October or November. The officers of all the regiments at Lahore were to have a dinner given them in succession by the Maharajah Dhuleep Singh, who would seem to have found out that an Englishman is always in best humour when well fed !_ _ _ Intelligence from Cabool to the 12th May has been pub lished by the Delhi Gazette, the editor of which paper seems to think that something is " brewing in Cabool which may lead to serious consequences." The cause of this thinking so is to me inexplicable. The report goes that a messenger had arrived on the 4th from the Shah of Persia, and was received with the liveliest marks of respect; the whole of the chiefs of the Cabool Durbar having been schooled for days previous as to the manner of their behaviour towards the envoy, the guns having received an extra polish, and the soldiers about the court having had new clothing given them. Several of the most influential men in the city had been sent out to meet him, he being accompanied from Candaliar by one of the Birders. The envoy was feasted and fked for the next few days. He at last, through the Candabar Order, ex plained his mission which was no less than this : the Shah of Persia wished Diet Mahomed and all the different chiefs throughout the country to combine, and at once declare war against the British ! The case with which the Feringhees might be annihilated was explained to the Ameer, who, however, knew better than to believe such absurdities. He is said to have apparently consented to the feasi bility of the scneme, some of his chiefs proposing that Persia should supply the money, and that they would find men in whose bravery and willingness to fight they could confide. And this ia the ground on which the Delhi editor gives it as his opinion that " something serious is brewing at Cabool." May we never have greater occasion to fear than we have at present, or than we should have even were all the chiefs of Affghaniatan, backed by the King of Persia, banded against us. The Envoy and chiefs mean while spent their time pleasantly enough, eating and drinking from night till mom; a pleasanter occupation than they would find that of annihilating the English to be. Another rumour is, that the Ameer Dot Mahomed had become so disgusted at the conduct of his son Ukhbar Khan, that be had determined on resigning his throne and at once proceed ing to Persia, thence to Mecca; at the same time inviting all who wished for a quiet life to follow his example. He would not be reasoned with, but shut himself up in his house, refusing admittance to all, even his high-priest. It is unlikely that the Ameer intends doing what is above stated, it being doubtless merely • ruse to try and wean Ukbhar Khan from his evil habits and the extravagant notions of conquest held by him. News from Peshawur comes down to the 12th of Ma Disturbances amongst the Yoorooksiees had arisen ing payment of the revenue, and a large force bad been sent to compel them to pay their portion of the revenue, which is almost invariably collected in these districts by the collectors with an armed party at their back. If the people are unable to cope with the troops they down with their quota ; if tkey are, then the collector gets abuse and insult heaped on hint Wind deoin. The Maharajah of Jamoo is said to have asst re sent hither to enlist as many Affghans into Lis ser vice as he could get. The garrison of Peshawar is said to consist of nearly eight thousand men, with a considerable number of guns of large calibre mounted on the fortress. The death of the ex-Lord Chamberlain of Gwalior has been announced. He was called the Dada Kbasgeewalla, and at one time exercised sovereign sway over the infant ruler of Gwalior ; and his unlawful assumption of the government of that state it was, you will remember, which caused us to interfere in its affairs, and gave us the victories of Maharajpore and Pannier in December, 1843. He died in confinement at Benares, of dropey, on the 11th of June. He is said to have died worth nearly a million sterling ; a pretty convincing proof that he was not over-honest while in power. The affairs of the Nizem's dominions may at last be said to be drawing to a crisis. Not content with murdering one another, the mercenaries in the employ of the state have taken to the practice of attacking our troops and officers when opportunity offers. Not long since Captain Malcolm, the Assistant Resident, was fired on by a party of Sikhs, which was endeavoured to be explained by stating that they were merely hailing him to impart to him their grievances : and lately a party of our Sepoys were attacked, and three men wounded, one of whom has since died—the women of the party having been mutilated by having their noses cut off. If this does not lead to active interference on our part, nothing will. The Prime Minister and our Resilient, General Fraser, have had several meetings, the object of which would seem to be the expulsion ef all the Arabs, and ether obnoxious individuals, from the country. Affairs in the Golcoidah district continue in a very un settled state, and more troops are being sent from Madras, to enable the authorities to act with more vigour against the Rhonda. Sickness lead manifested itself amongst the troops, which prevented any active operations being entered on. The Governor-General and Cemmanderth-Chief continue at Simla. The son of the former has returned from Cash meer. Nothing of consequence has occurred in the Bengal presidency since my last. Gaieties of every description were being carried on at Simla, where a large number of officers were amembled. The officer whom I mentioned as having afi be i ! mat arr uctin es akny ted . iitta fo to r awsibe forge ratin ry torg so :r n iaanl e o a f sh th ro e tu n e o yu rtli thre_o -w isi ea rganiiedl te „ rn dis banks banfidl is the Bandkkhand legion. The Governor of Ceylon has published a minute, by com mand, modifying the sweeping condemnation passed by him on the members of the civil service of that island, which has not been over-well received. Civil servants have been pro hibited from engaging in railway speculations. A statement of the revenue of the island for the past year has been pub- Lik "?' T:l7 \ t 4 ' "b 0;110 1MI N .', '! 1111';14.4; r - 4 , • ! i . i , A , RDAir I FIVE f }, , EMBER 5, - 1 ,1446 ) • , .;.•. \..... - -- :,, ........a... our Of this country. The doer 1 der the Amalie( Count of Ardennes*, permed through traffic are ca, and the provisions of all Stenaz on the 27th ult., on his way to Luneville, to be obtal ,i,....1 h..s. lent the markets 141enolfliOrTPT5"*IT to the Tyrid and Switzerland. seN l i°". . tbs. • THE ` ' ''' WEST INI)IES. By the Dee steanier, the arrival of which vessel at Southampton was announced in "THE EXPRESS" of yesterday, we have late files of West India papers. The state of the weather and the appearance of the crops throughout all the islands were most satisfac tory. In Jamaica there had been an abundant fall of rain, so that in the course of a few days the face of the island had undergone a complete change. In many places where the cane was supposed to have perished in consequence of protracted drought, it had revived, and in all quarters had advanced so rapidly that the sugar crop of the next season will, it is anti cipated, be a large increase upon that for the present year. The coffee prospects were also most encou raging. Trinidad had been visited by a heavy gale from the south-west, which had done some injury. We have also important intelligence from Mexico. When the last accounts left, it was understood that Paredes would place himself immediately at the head of the army which was marching to the north. The Dee has brought the following weengers : Don L. Costerica, Captain Liot, General Colonel Super intendent Royal Mail Steam Packet Company, and servant ; Mesas. A, de Boon, T. A. Bureau, C. de Quires, Pridham, Mackerdy, Klein; Mrs. Andrae and daughter • Messrs. Toulguce, Urbino, F. de Sotomayor, S. de Mart iartu and servant, A. Kleinwort, T. F. Liaeros Mrs. Scull and daughter, Rev. J. C. Hall, lady, and family; Messrs. Weed moreland, R. Mom, Benito, and J. Blake, Mr. and Miss Read, Mr. Foster Miss Stopford, Messrs. Leguin, Bowen, and Armstrong ; daptain R.A. ; Messrs. St oekin and Scott, M. Le Dentu and two children, Messrs. Couchimbert, Buchan, Barr, and Turner; the Right Hon. Lord James Butler and servant, Mrs. Row and family, and Captain Cowell, 29th Regiment. . . JAMAICA. (From the Jamaica Dispatch, Aug. 8.) The packet which leaves our shares this day will convey to our friends on the other side of the Atlantic the very pleasing and gratifying intelligence that the whole face of the island has been blessed with the most abundant rains, and that we have experienced once more the visitation of those seasons which were so peculiar to the tropics, but which for a series of years it hath pleased Providence to withhold from us. The entire aspect of nature as a coasequence, now wears a change which is almost indescribable—the pro cess of vegetation has been so rank and studded as would appear incredulous to any but those to whose lot it has fallen to have resided in those colonies. The rapid growth of the sugar-cane is most amazing, and we are happy to state that plants, which in many districts were conceived to be entirely burnt out of the ground, are now making great strides, with the assistance of nature, towards advancement. Next year's crop will be very early ; and, lf the weather continues auspicious, thee e can be no doubt there will be a large increase on the present. The coffee properties are also reaping the benefit of the fine seasons—the appearance of the fields is most cheering, betokening a growth of wood which mast yield very large returns at maturity if attended to, while flas new cro promises fair—we do not think exces sive, beta • advance on the last. The drought had tangle& dm trees to such an =tent, that although ty exhibitil a most unusually heavy blossom after the rains, still they had not sufficient stamina to afford sustenance to the fruit, and hence a large quantity has turned black and fallen o ff? (From the Jamaica Times of August 8.) The fact of the cards having once more turned up in favour of Lori John Russell certainly augurs anything but favourably for co.bnial interests ; still, although we have little to expect from his love, we have something to hope from his fear. We do not therefore altogether despair that, having once secured Aloe, our Whig rulers will discover that a peculiar degree of caution is required in dealing with the sugar duties, and that although cheap sugar and foreign l ~...-- *~~ " !