The Express. — London, England, 1851-12-13 00:00:00

Zit, erpreisis. his own experiments and practice—mistakes and all --in the face of the most stolid prejudices of the agricultural classes. Now , one of this g entleman's merits is. that he does not hide his light under a bushel, bet on the contrary courts publicity, and rather enjoys than otherwise the being baited by the great wheat growing farmers of Essex. Therein he is unlike many of our first-class professional farmers, who illustrate by their practice far mere effectively the principles for which Mr. allant contends than he himself does, but who shrink from offending the sentiment of their class by frankly declaring protec tion to be,—as they know it to bC,—a delusion and a sham. Of this fact the paper read by Mr. Mer He on Thurs day night lx fore the Society of Arts, ,:ei British Clete war, confusion, and cadence reign from one agriculture, and his own operations at Tiptree - hall cad of France to the o ther. There is one ' pot in that farm, are example. A summary of that lecture aehappy country over which it is immovable to draw appeared in our columns, and it referred to questions, an impenetrable veil. That spot 6 Pari s and we , weed and economical , involving much of the future know the btu , el that ha. been spilled, the ty - of British aerieulture. and furnishing texts for many tinny that hats renewed the domiciliary visits of comment. Its main feature, however, was that—in 17:01, and the terror which daily rises on its menaces, fulfilment of a previous pledge,—he has given to the and extends its proscriptions. Of the rest of world his farming balance-sheet. Now we confess Fmuce we know little. The state of siege, 'we should have lost neither heart nor hope in which either existed before, or has beim __, the steady advance of Englieh husbandry, had instantly proclaimed in all the great towns, am Mr. Meeitt's balance-sheet proved ever so bad when:see there is an agelememtion of people, ~Twah. —and it is not improbable that it will bo cited sufficiently the state of men's minds, and the means in somo quarters to prove that "high farming won't relied on te coerce them i uiet. But so Bwe drawbacas to ch we ave cannot be everywhere, and nto whe q ri re this mateal, ldie thi rs s ' ra adverted, ut and ith in all de th spite of tha many deficiee h cies only support of the , dictutership jitet proclaimed, d oes . of Mr. 3lr. elf as a farmer, we do nut hesitate to say net happen to he present, said where, furtilica , t ' an e ' that the results of his improvements are to demon do not bristle, there we F ,^0 the population : stride the rapacity of our sells for increased produc rise in a kind of incontrollable though I tion, and the profitableness of remit-ling them thus aimless &Iva. and wuge a too natural , productive. Ito referred to the actual state of so war upon that authority, which has set the example many of the farina of this country to show how much Cl a thorough (-attempt of all right and all law. • improvement is needed: "Go (he said) where yon The south of Frame. it is well known, has little . wilt you may find abundant evidences of unused love or admiratien even for the gust NePoLeoe. j opportnnities—tumlile-49W11 awl misplaced build- Cireum.stancee have thrown it into extreme'. ings. full ditches, great and ugly ferees, queer, reople there are either legitimists or red repute- i smell, and misshapen fields, stagnant water for linens. And latterly 11. iii: L‘agjellEjAlauri'l'is' i want of drainage, and evil-washed animals who whited a these of one to an hereditary and manure, cumbrous and antiqa eted cenverances, celebrity in the other, carried with him large .an enormous waste of manual and animal 'Meier, and numbers oa h:. canvass for the presidency. i most extra Binary discrepanciee in agricultural prae- One is not surprised. then, to find the whole region . rice ., smiler the same circumstances of boil and du comtiotio iat a usurpation , for which they were climate lee us ask any one who moves about to little preetred, mei for a tyranny so that:y die- i Enalcuel e -he he protectioneet or fretatrader,—whether gedetel under the veil ..f an invitation to the good that is not a true, though melancholy, deeeription of people of France to sanction by . fteorte and universal a considerable portion of the aglicultural land of suffrage the ns!orliti-in of the imperial constitution this country ? of half a century back. SO nu erne are the foci I It is notorious that our manufacturers are often of insurrection in the wroth and centre of France, compelled to caet aside machinery which a few tears that wi re the parties pat down by the romp et , hit , previously may have coat thousands of pounds, hc but pet penal, feel were any military officer with a I r 1 Call.4C other manufecturershave adopted improvements militut ~ fins to hoist the ametitnteinal stand aril. a which enable them to undersell the aye: of the old was would be the teriesequenee, which' wouel convert newhinery mid thus drive them out of the market? all Fiume into one vast Venda..., and the coney- And is it to be mppoied that the landowner and the sawne, eof hue!' coul'l net lx' doubtfial. We hive farmer can ce, ape from this law of progress? tom; tie this declared that the resistance of a po- . How can the landlord who refuses to permit a puiar laity to troops in the streets of a town would , ; , tweigerow to be destroyed or diminished lest his ht neefiwth inevitably be overcome. MitlKiitritTine:n. game should he deprived of shelter ; or who cherishes had gushed the note, and were pre I. ' " his timber trees with a superstitious reverence almost under all circumstances and under every teepee ltruitlical, hope to receive the state rent for his land The resietanta of the people of a country against as the owner who clears away every imediment to the huge armies of the present day must be made in cultivation? Or, what chance has the farmer, who the country, awl upon a thousand points at once. , fellews the system, uses the means and implements, That the Freeeli people are willing and ready to de , and grows the small crops his irraedfather (lid Ware this is manifest even from the garbled amounts I him, whee he conies in competition with men who which melt us. But there is little likelihood of suell: ; adopt all our modern an means d appliances for the attempts succeeding, unite.; , rime military men of I cultivation of laud? expel-wore, and some personage of eminence, give I Take, for example, the steam-engine and ma tlwm the sanction and support of their presence. , ehinery for threshing used on Mir best fineries; there m vant i nu . I,,wis X ‘r,o.toist and his government 1 the Einneem can put their wheat into the cart for have mole meniket what party it is their intention to market at one sinning per quarter, allowing for all am ilium.. 'llie reAuration of the. Pantheon to the uses expenees and wear and tear of the steam machinery, of pulnie wor.ship, in hail r 111/ hl : . Ode act, though an whereas those who use the flail pay no less than 4e. unpopelar one, ordained by the elder thou niuos.iuid ! a (pewter for threshing alone. And Mr. Mean says for that reason teversed atter the nvolnrion of July, I most truly that the eninpetition the backward farmer au simply a It legraphie musk. of acquainting the entire . and unimpnwing lenullord have to fear is the "com er the French clergy that the future Emperor is pre- I p e tition going on b etween var i ous portions of the peed 1,, maLe i ilCal every eime`yl'ekni• and c a pe - atm • kingdom, arising from difference of practice, isola fr"'n C'ent the Illmunt support- But, " 46 ' 1 0' ' tam of position, uncertainty of tenure, and variation such " I.ssie fish " of the legitimist party las ' (01 . valuation." How can such unimproved farms the lhue de Gruen; may be caught by such I faint, be expected to compete " with more fortunate dis afa eted piety, the trick is too grass for even M.'s- i t rios, blesses with in e igenlandlords , bl 1 • t 11 . t liberal core" T vi • Eal e atr to "v•dh'w• Arid "e don t. ' that even a , nants, ample capital, railway comn ttttt ication, good willing tetra could inatienee the royuliste of such needs, steam power, large and welletrained fields, towns as alontpetlier ur Toulemee to turn Ilunaptir- I ample stock and buildings, and ready communica feat,. tion with the consuming districts.?" Ilteithe hir appeals to the Jesuits and totbe nnny, Let these things he remembered when the wail- LOU is S %ribit:lPS has armed !anneal with dictatorial ings of the protectionists, which it is our lot to record powers. But for the ext mime of these, martial law this day, be read. The competition, the semi-feudal te nereseary. No regular tribunal or court owners of ineumbereel and entailed estates have to of justice could acknowledge as law the de'n'ts' Gar, is that of intelligent landowners who have the of M. de ii , at:': r, given frost the dilysae. means and the will to mike the earth bring forth its Martial law will then "'ate indl"ln "'nide in every fruit% and wile deal fairly with their tenants ; while town al :!I every depar.ment of France, although, in- the antiquated or trammelled farmer will in hie enter al-IL we met- consoler martial law as already uui- prising neighbours Lind fur more severe competitors Al. rsally established ./..tlti.to. All the lower ranks, than the fore i gn entn _ aeower. the he re pa wha maY re'ilt. are , we EA'. cm- We have said th at NJ' - r. 'aleent's balance-sheet does &intuit to be elm without delay or mercy. With serve the cause of hi g h b„.,nittg. In the Lint place Teepee to men, eminent non, deputies., and civilians, hie hind, naturally very bad, —i • valued by competent they an• to he tranenorted forthwith to Cayenne', if valuers at 34;M. per acre; that is something to begin they break the rule" impatel upon tlaens by the sac- with. 'Own taking the account without the live re:/far, . of the high polite. We' might expect an stock, and the purehaetel provender out which it is illaste; cu. buel of ("ilea, as flu result ~f such a tyran- Gsl, there is a profit of 711. a year, &aide-, Odell:et of "drat r* . : 0. "" . • lle , there exiata a gnail Pre:Flake 'a the capital : but upon the total vear . s balance, tivere is a Prettela of all classes against emigration. The b ract - wad. This includes NIL expended in labour nPl"r ranks never recovered the etket% of having forrinneent improven.ent, which is, in fact, an in nude that mistake at the commencement of the vestment of capital. The deficiency then is on the live great revolution. Si, that T . , ench politiciane. how- stock, and the items of this part of the account arc ever aged and timid, will still pie kr mumbling in remarkable. Tito sum of 7101. is expended in stock ; their country at all risks, to a min-nu:tit to either and Laast in the purchase of oil cake and corn to London or t'oblette. And vet many, who durst nut feed them. Against that outlay there is fur meat and take "el' a te'ndat" of thenewlvere will envy the live stock sold, 2,P41'. This amounts to 101. for good luck of M. Timm.; in having been sent to the every acre on the Linn of laa acres of cultivable frontier* by Louie Neimeteux. luny thi the whole. the difficulties which first beset the Now, except for the purpose of bringing the land path of the usurper base nut been removed or dimi- up to a point of high fertility, such an expenditure in welted- The "Pita' ill nut indeed in l'"w"!.. , the the purchase of food is undoubtedly excessive, but for very pirtiul attempts at such a rising having been that purpose, and as an outlay of capital, it is really pat down. Ittit the eery circumstances attending a judicious and provident outlay. Fertility once ob• the triumph of the regiment. in Paris, their high tune d i t may Le retained at a comparatively small gratuities or pe . t, and indulgences in pnwend, are cst, and we have no doubt that in after years Mr. ealculeted to excite the envy nether than the sulfa:- I%ltasat will be able to produce a far more favourable slut tuf the eeldiere ie the provinete ; many regi- balance-sliest. mute hat Mg been tailed there on account of their Let those who fear. or affect to fear, for the progress lukewarnmees to the imperial cause. That the die- of English agriculture look without prejudice on turbatwes iu the provinces must be put down by the what is going on around them wherever skill, capital, Imola there, and by no other, is also evident ; for to and intelligence are applied to farming. Inquire take the large garrison out of l'uris would have the of the best farmers of Norfolk and Lincoln instantaneous effect of prutlueitig a resurrection of s hi re w h et h er f arm i ng i s a h ope l ess b us i ness? the le/eras:els. Louts Nei-newts has about 350,000 and whether profits are not obtainable, whether soldiers. They may not prove sufficient, even if they be landlords or tenants. Nor are favour unaidnanaa to crush thirty - four mill ions of Pollak- able reports confined to the two highly-farmed tics• counties we have mentioned. For in Norfolk we we find Mr. WARN V.S. well known as the introducer of box feeding, farming a thousand acres of his own land; Mr. Pusev, in Berkshire, and Mr. Viten:it Sitet.r.re, in Sussex, all and each farming with spirit and with profit. We mention these names because they are well known to the public ; but every ono acquainted with our rural districts, knows that there are hundreds and thousands of intelligent farmers quietly going a-head of their felines, and practically giving the lie to the threadbare tales of agricultural ruin. such as clime yesterday uttered in such dolorous tones at the London Tavern. T) con nESPON I ENTB. 1...r,41T .1" Eaton..." isa.siaas he sane easolota twos•.,"V pa4il4ao anty Tames; sal Indy *W. la one kw pees. ow.. •• west. assorted far " Tao Essmos."Lasstea TWIN, aegor. • s• s.,s/N nOkS•frit-otiell. :if Two Wabash as. HMI WATER. AT LONDON BRIDGE Tat% PA7--,k,inr. 41. APiTimat. I.rearro-3.l 4 Ang. on. A.t/ifileek 64. gas. LONDON, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 13. Tifsverin tv we reported the statements of Mr. We i ❑ n on inipneved modes of finning: to-day we give the dreary, worn-out lamentations of Mr. Yoesa; and his clique. The new and the old seloul have thud had their agricultural advocate* before the public within a day of each other: the one all hopeful activity, the other all whining despondency —the one telling farmers to help themselves. and proper: the other calling on parliament to plunder the pure man of his cheap loaf, that ignorant, poor, and lazy tenants may still pay for ill-fanned land high rents to game-preserving landlords. Nothing can be more admirable than the con rage with which Mr. NIF1:111 confronts all the opponents of agricultural improvement, and attacks all the lugubrious predictions of protectionist alarmists. Indeed. his courage partakes somewhat of rashness, for though an earnest and energetic improver. we must confess that in many par ticulars he falls short of the characteristics of a farmer. Our own impression, on inspecting Mean's lann, has always been, that he is but on indifferent judge of stock ; keeping by no means the best kinds, and managing his numerous animals not in the most profitable or economical manner. Nor has he the facWty of collecting about hire first-rate servants. Moreover, we apprehend, he is often led away by novelties and by over sanguine expectations which have involved him in expenses for which, as a fanner, he obtains n 9 ade (pate return. When, therefore, we formerly desired to prove that low prim form no insurmountable bur to pro fi table farming,—and that all and more than all the difference betweca prewnt prices and the higher priers of by-gone days mar be made up by improved cultivation and better management, —we did nut seket Mr. Mycitt's Fannin as the most apt illustra tioa of our propositions. Nevenhelefs, Mr. MD 111 has done and is doing good service in the cause of agricultural improac ment. Re has got hold of the right principle. Ile would apply to husbandry and the manage ment of landed property those common sense rules of action he which the merchants, the traders, and the manufacturers of this country, have been guided and have fin iven so greatly; and he has the high moral courage to throw THE REVOLUTION IN FRANCE. PARIS, FRIDAY EVENING. I A decree appears authorising the collection of taxes and indirect revenues until April 1, 1352, and opening to the ministers a provisional credit upon I the budget of 15,52. The second article of this de cree prolongs for another year the present govern ment monopoly of the m inufacture and sale of / tobacco. The third article modifies the duty on cigars, pickets of which under 10 kilogrammes are to pay 2 1 francs the kilogramme. The fourth nr • tide opens to the ministers a provisional credit of ! 369 millions, which is the sum adopted by the com mittee of the budget for the three first months of 11852. The fifth article opens a provisional credit 'of half a million of francs to the Minister of War by anticipation on that of 1,500,000 f. allowed for military pensions. The 6th article authorises the minister of finance to create for the service of the • treasury and negotiations with the Bank of France treasury billsb,aring intertst payable at fixed dates. The treasury bills in circulation are not to exceed 150 millions of francs, which was the limit assumed in ISSI. This limit does not comprise the bills de livered to the sinking fund, nor those deposited as securities in the Bank of Francs, and at the coaspeuirs I descanldcs. The following decree appears relative to the fune tious of the consultative commission : 1. The consultative commission is charged with the gots neral examination of the votes expressed by the French people in the billet of the 20th and 214 Ikeenalser. In consequence all the minutes of examination drawn up by i the departmental c nominees will be intimated to it by the Minister of the Interior. The result will be promul gated by the executive power. 2. The consultative commission is called to give its opi nion nu the drafts of decrees is lagidative matters, which will be the l t t o ep i b e lic o . ounon of I w u r LTit ge tl f e un P etions a l t ef f e f rred state by Art. 12 of the law of July 19, 1515, except in I matters relating to ,illioini , trative eleeiNions in snits, for the I judgraint of which provision shall he mails by en ulterior Idecree. 4. The commission shall be presided over by the Fred . dent of the Items lie, imd iu his absence by R. liaroche, I appointed vice-pr s'alent. IS. A decree of the excretive power shall divide the con . imitative commission into secti , nt fur the examination of the , affairs which shall be submitted to it. ' 6. Th..: evt:lres iks layettes and auditors attached to the old Council of State may be called to fuhil, in conjunction with the consultative commission, the functions winch they exercised in the Council of State. ' A decree appear authorising the establishment of a railway slue within the fortifications connecting I the termini of the Western, Rouen, Northern, Stras burg, Lyons, and Orleans Railways. The Minister of Public Works is authorised to concede this railway to the united companies of the Rouen, Orleans, Strasburg, and Northern Railways, according to the conditions of a raider that charger which is Annexed. For the execution of this railway a credit of 1,333,333 francs is opened to the Minister of Public Works, I being the first disbursement by the comp accord ' ing to the terms of the annexed contract. Eceli of the ' four companies engages to contribute one minion of , francs to the execution of the r.tilway, one-third of which is to be paid on the first requisition of the ' Minister of Public Works, one-third before Jan. 1, ' 1553; and the last third before Jan. 1, 1851. The works are to be executed by the state. 'When the • Lyons Railway is conceded, the company which ob ' tains it will pay a similar sum of one million to the treasury. In return for these payments the comps ' nits will be ellowisl, for 99 years from the termina tion of the works, to work the railway. The Minister of Public Works is to deliver ' up the line to the companies within the delay of two years, ready for working, and the companies ' are to furnish all the moveable and s - ationnry ' stock for such working ; the said line is to be divided into three sections, the Ist front the goods station at the llatignollcs to that of the North ' ern and Strasburg goods' station ; the 2el from • the Strasburg line to that of Lyons ; and the 3d ' front the Lyons line to that of Orleans. the four compinies obtaining the outees,ion are to take possession of the various sections according as they shall have been tertniante d: the sums coining from the companies to the government are to be paid ' —one third, whim called fiw by the Minister of Public Works; one third, before the Ist of Jan., 41,53, I and one third, before the Ist of Jan., 1854; the line is to be kept in good working order by the ' state, and the length of the concession is to be 99 I years (ruin the period fixed for the completion of the works. • Another decree follows nuthorising the companies of the Northern and Strasburg railways to construct a railway joining the termini of La Chapelle and La Ville. tte. A commission of nine persons, at the head of whom stands M. d'Argout. governor of the Bank, is ap pointed to examine time statements of the companies ' which compete on the 19th instant for the adjudica tion of the Lyons and .kvignen lime votes of the navy up to December 11 on the President's appeal to the country arc as follows:- 7 Voters, 8,567. For the President, 6,2.12 ; against, 2,151; abstentions, 171. ' The Minister of Marine has presented to the Pre ' sidcnt the adhesion of the officers of the navy at Marseilles. Several fresh papers appear to-day. among which ::re the lidon, Opinion l'ablique, l'resse, and Cor aaiee. M. Emile do Girardin has retired from the diree ion and editorship of the Presse. M. J. Perodeaud is appointed by the proprietors editor in the place of M. Girardin. Several of the provincial journals publish the fol lowing telegraphic despatch from the Minister of the Interior to the Prefects :—" Give the most severe orders to arrest the Montagnard and Socialist chiefs who may endeavour to quit France after their defeat in Purim:" Generals Harispe End Valliant arc raised to the &pity of Marshals of France. fhe chief reason assigned for the promotion of General Valliant is, that this officer, though he had from motives of delicacy dechued assuming the prerogatives of the post of commander-in-chief of the expedition to Rome, wldch had been conferred on him, had notoriously directed all the operations of the siege of that city, and ensured the success of the expedition. General Raudan is appointed Governor of Algeria. l'hc only departments where the insurrectionholds out are the Basses-: Ipes and the Var. There is little interest to-day beyond the decrees contained in the 31oitilriir. The reappearance of four fresh papers has not contributed a single free opinion to the press. The government journals still dwell on the providential salvation of France front lactitte'rr'o, which was preparing to break out in the year 1552. The insurrection has been put down everywhere except iu the Masses-Alper and Var. It has been everywhere of a purely communist charac ter, and the royalists have come forward generally to aid the government in putting it down. But they , maintain their protest against the legality of the go 'PRE Senntruxe TELEGRAPH. The directors vernment. The next telegraphic despatches will of the Submarine Telegraph Company have 'eve - probably bring the news of the extinction of the in ret aew metallic cubits making, which wisp be submerged surrection in its last stronghold. General Morris, in addition to that already in operation, one conductor who set out on Wednesday to take the command of being already insufficient to convey the multitude of des. the expedition against the insurgents of the Blades patches now exchanged between London and the Continent. Alpes, served with credit an Africa and at The directors arelalso anxious to be no longer dependent on Rome. The prefect was marching to relieve the a single line. Although the telegraph has been opened but fortress of Sisteron. In the Var the rebels are com a few weeks, the facility and certainty with which it has minded by a former re•hteettr of the Journal du worked have effected a great revolution in commercial ar- I People. Two hundred and sixty of the insurgents rangements, which would be thrown into confusion by the of Clamecy arc already in the hands of justice, and I rupture of the communication. 12.1 have been conveyed to the gaol of Bourges. FOENDER'S-DAY AT THE CIIaRTERHOUSE.—Yes- The President is occupied in reorganising his antsy the celebration of the foundation of this institution household. All the corps of the army by land and by Thomas Sutton, took place with great rejoicings, and in sea will be represented in his court. • Tiie ains the presence of a large number of old Carthusian . The .x ppo proeeedings commenced with Ferrit e in th e c h a p e l • w h ere merit of the naval captain, F celmans, son of the a sermon was groat hed by the Rev. Wary Wright Fhillott, marshal, to be an Oder urilonnanre, which I men -11.A., _rector of t?- , aunten-oa- the -Wye. the company then tioned yesterday, is the fi rst nomination of this kind. retired to the Great-hall. where an oration in laths wasl I hear that Generals Magian, Baraguav d'Hilli ers , j delivered by Mr. Dawson Darner, the orator for the year. and Carrelct, have been decorated with . the (hand The Carthu.i ins present aftenrards dined together under the presith try of Archdeacon Hale master of the Char- I C rab s of the Le gon Ho norer. the of I t..thouse, who was supported by Sir Charles L Eastlake, General ltlagnan has drawn up a report (given president of the Royal Academy, the Dom and Rev. O. 'below) of the proceedings of the army d ur i ng th e Ilu s tioros, Geas.ce E. 'Error, Esq., and by several other gee- insurrection. It abounds in warlike and triumphant denten. Various speeches were made and numerous toasts phraseology not commonly used by distinguished proposed. A handsome subscription was entered into towards Vofficeni when desei ibin g the result of internecine defraying the university exp ense s o f the one sr, who is labout leasing the ached fir Trinity Celle etc, Oxford. i street fighting. The general cl a i ms f or hi s army THE Fou.—The City and suburbs of London were • the credit of having saved, not only France, y esterday visited with a fog more d, sec than any which but Europe. Ile recounts the operation s o f th e has occurred this year, or indent durinz any year for the I carbons generals under his command with as :aat cltht or nine. All the shops, puWic otlices and build- I much pomp and circumstance as if he had just ings were lighted sip with 40. On the r:ser, the railways, ' conquered half aarter of the globe, and coucludes, and in the streets the tra ffi c was considerable interrupted, but we are happy to say that up to the hour our going to t in the fom usedby commanders-in-chief after a press, no acchkat of a serious character occurred, great battle, by sayiug that he has a long ILA of THE EXPRESS, SATURDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 13, 1851. officers of all ranks who have so especially distin guished themselves as to be entitled to rewards. No reader of the report could be led to suppose that the battle in which so much glory had been obtained, was fought between an overwhelming military force fully prepared, and an insignificant fraction of the populace taken by surprise, who without lenders, without concert, and almost without arms, were rash enough to fall into the snare laid for them, and to accept an unequal combat. It by no means follows that the suppression of this corn , pamtively petty insurrection may not have afforded scope for the meritorious and even heroic discharge of a soldier's duty. But the qualities deserving of praise in a soldier called upon to perform the dis trcssing service of using his arms against his fellow citizens are not only courage, but patience, for- 1 , bearance, and an anxious watchfulness not to over step by one hair's breadth the stein necessity of the occasion. It is not, however, for nny such military virtues as these that General Magnum praises his troops. He says that before the battle he knew their ardour and their impatience to fight. He attri butes the small lass of the army compared with the slaughter of the insurgents to the great ardour of the former. But although in general the vigour of the troops is lauded no explana• ion whatever is given of the murderous tire on the boulevards be yond this single sentence, that in passing the Hue Montmartre General div ision encountered rather a smart tire. This is all that is said by way of excuse for a continuous tire, during ten minutes, into all the houses from the CatZ! de Paris to Porte St. Denis. It is to be remembered that for many months past oftlars have, by their speeches, been preparing the soldiery to fire without mercy upon the mob, and their injunctions have been obeyed. The ex-Minister, M. Ilineau, is appointed inspector of mines of the 2nd class. Sine.? the late events, the railway trains coming from Valenciennes and from Paris are co:upelled to stop at the entrance of the fortifications at Mons, where the passengers an: obliged to go through various formalities. The gates of the town arc shut at tcu o'clock, and no one can either leave or enter till the morning. These measures will be continued until a fresh order. The last telegraphic accounts of the insurrection in the Basses Alpes state that when Sevne was in vaded by the insurgents, on the Gth, thC garrison of the town consisted of :100 recruits of the 2.3 th Light Infantry, and forty gend irmes. One gendarme sent out by the prefect to reconnoitre was wounded. The prefect then retired into the barracks and resolved to hold out to the last extremity. The mayor after wards thought it right to accept the services of a number of the national guard, who offered to concur in protecting the town. But when they were ad mitted to the barracks the greater part of them shouted " Vivo la Republique Democratique et Swink." Upon this intimation of feeling the pnicet left the town, and the insurgents immediately after ward, entered and took possession of the prefecture. Toulon, on the tlth in,tant, is reported to ha quiet. From Privas, Dec. 11, the news is that alarm is over. Some of the chiefs, at the head of armed hands, are still in the rural districts. M. Dutheil, the editor of the Aleph, of Marseilles, is at the head of the insurgents itt the Var. At :Montpellier numbers have responded to the call of the mayor to form a corps of volunteers. A man named Verguier, who btrasted that he would stab General Itustolan, has been arrested. All is quiet iu the department. From Gap, Dec. 8. it is stated that the arron dissements of Furcalquier and Sisteron continue to be in the possession of the insurgents. A part of the garrison of Briancon has 1),..eu sent for to operate against Sisteron. At Digo,: the office of the receiver general has been pillaged. Thu correspondent of a morning contemporary, under the same date as the foregoing, says: The bits, of the new vonstitution to be given t', Fresco are described to he something like the following :—" A Council of State, to he entirely named by the President of the Republic. Tau senate to be composed of SO inendwrs, of whom 41 will he named by the Preeident, wed :it by the Councils-Oeneral, from a list of candidates made out by the executive power ; the legislative corps to he named by universal suffrage, but after the fullowing MAW ma. :—A south' to take place, at the commune, for the nominution of an elector for eacit commune ; and the communal electors thus chosen by unit.. rail sutfr,ge, and amounting to in tramber, to finally 'tame 54.1.1 representatives. I , roin that list of 500 members, the President of the Republic to select 250 rcpt.:- scut:dives wherewith to form the legislative corps. The President of the Republic to be elected fur ten years, with the title of Regent of the iti public; to be responsible, but not to be subjected to impeaelnneuts directly by the legislative corps; the people alone to have the power of el -1 pressing its opinion on the executive power by niuning,three times euusccutively, a legislative corps, whose refusal of the budget shall be considered as the condemnation of the policy of the Regent; and the result of such eOIIIiCIIIIIAtitAI to be the retirentent of the Regent front power. The press to be free, but not to be allowed to call in question matters relating to religion, the rights of property, and the organisation of society, as established and recognised by the law of the land. Each session of the Chamber to be fur six =tithe at the utmost. Clauses ut a lees general kind may be appended for the abolition of tile must unpopular of the imposts, tic., the teirei duties and the tax on spirittrus liquors. In au old, the new cunstitution to be —wile some modifications, rendered necessary by the progress and changes that hare occurnel since then—the reproduction, or rattier the imit ohm, of that of the year VIII., and which, with • ume difference, is the system cspl,iined by the President lit his work entitled" Les lik , es Supolkiniennes." I give yon the above hasty sketch without vouching for its accuracy. It will, however, show the iuterest the topic is beginning to excite. THE GOVERNMENT ACCOUNT OF THE IIiaITING IN PARIS. The Commander-in-Chief of the arms of Paris has addressed the following report (noticed in the liver of our Paris correspondent), dated the 9th, to the Minister of War, of his proceedings during the in surrection: " Monsieur le Minister,—l have already had the hotour to address to you a summary report on the events of the 3d and 4th instant, and to render to you an account of the results obtained from the arrangements made in anticipa tion of those events. Now that the partial reports of the generals commanding division, under my orders have reached me, 1 hasten to send you the details which com plete my former reports. On 06 morning of the 3rd nu merous and threatening assemblages took piece on differ ent points, and the various amps of the army of l'aris marched to take up their position fur combat. Gen. Marti lea, who, with his brigade, occupied the Place de la Du thie, on being informed that a barricade had been raised at the corners of the Rue du Faubourg St. Antoine, and the Rues de Cotte and Ste. Marguerite, sent to that spot three companies of the 10th Light Infantry, under the orders of Commandant Pujol, and supported the movement by advancing himself at double quick time at the head of a battalion of the 44th into the Rue de Churoune, so as to advance on the barricade by the Rue do Cotte. The assemblage, at the head of which were three Montagnard representatives, seeing the troops advancing, fired, and mortally wounded a soldier of the 41th named Sirlan. The first platoon returned the fire, and the repre sentative lhaudiu was kille I on the barricade. In the atur noon General Hertel:on, who had taken up a telethon ou the place de Plletel de Ville, being informed that barricades were being raised in tho hues du Temple Rambuteau, Beaubourg, lie., marched immediately t o the spot at the head of a column formed of the oth battalion of Foot Chaeseurs and a piece of artillery, and overthrew all the obstacles which he met with in his passage, whilst a battalion of the 6th Light Infantry destroyed in the Rue du Temple the barricades which had been commenced. In the evening fri sh barricades having been raise d in the Rue Ileaubourg, Colonel Chapuis, of the 3rd regiment of the line, taking with hint a battalion of his regiment and a company of engineers, again went through that quarter, where he was received with a very warm fire, which did not, however, stop the advance of his column. All the obstacles were carried, and those who defended them were shot. Assemblages which were formed in other quarters were dispersed by the energy and the attitude of the troops. Seeing that the day was passing in insignifi cant skirmishes, and without any decisive result, and sus pecting that the intention of the chiefs of the rioters was to fatigue the troops by carrying the agitation in succession into different quarters, I resolved to leave the insurrection for some time to itself, in order to give it the facility of choosing its ground, of establishing itself, and, in short, of forming a cons; act mass against which I could act. For this purpose I withdrew all the small posts, ordered the troops back to their barracks, and waited. In the morning of the 4th the reports of the Prefect of Police and my own reconnaissances made me aware that several assemblages were formed in the Quarters St. Antoine, St. Denis, and St. Marti I, and that they were beeinning to relic' barricades there. The insurrection had its focus in thestreets comprised between the Boulevards and the Rues du Tempe, Itambu ' teau, and Moirmatre. At noon I learned that the barri cades were becoming thrtnidable, and that the insurgents were entrenching themselves ; but I had decided ou not attacking before two o'clock, and, firm in my resolution, I , did not hasten the movement, notwithstanding all the en. treaties that were made to me to the contrary. I knew the ! ardour of my troop., and their impatience for the combat, and I was sure of overpass ering the insurrection in two ; hours, if it would accept the conflict. Success justified my ; belief. The attack ertlerid (or two o'clock was to mu scat* with a convergent movement of the eivisione of ' Generals Caarelet and Levasetur. In consequence the bri ride Bourdon took up a position between the Porte St. Mviiis and the Forte St. Martin. The brigades of Cotte and Canrobert occupied the Boulevard des Italians, whilst General Dulac occupied the Pointe St. Eustache, and the port the movement of the division of Gener al Carrelet. At d b e rift i ad r e id o x f Ge G n e e n rs e d ral ße u ibe . ll ,,e to ti o r k f u o p nn i c ts dni in ns tl t i o e s l u tu p e . two o'clock in the afternoon all the troops moved forward. positionhi Isis cel u The Bourgon brigade cleared the Boulevard to the Rue du Temple, and went down that street as far as the Rue Rent buteau, carrying all the barricades on its pass me. The brigade of General Cotte was engaged in the Rue St. Denis, whilst a battalion of the 14th Light Infantry pro• corded to the Rue du Petit Current, which was already barricaded. General Cmrobert, taking a position at the Porte St. Martin, wont through the Rue du Faubourg of that name and the adjacent streets, obstructed by strong barricades, which the sth battalion of Foot . Chasseurs, under the orders of Commandant Levasson emtval, car ried with rare intrepidity. (inter Dulac sent to attack the barricades of the Rue Itambuteau and the adjacent streets columns formed of urea battalions of the 51st of the line, cominaneed by Colonel de Lnurmel, and two other battalions, one of the 19th of the line, the other of the 13rd, supported by a battery of artillery. At the same time the brigade of General llerbillon, formed of two columns, one of which was directed by General Levasscur in person, pee°. tested into the focus of the insurrection by the Rues du Temple, Rambuteau, and St. Martin. General Marulax threw into the transverse' streets a light column, under the operates' in the same same sense by the Rue St. Bemis , an d orders of Colonel de la Motterouge, of the 10th Light In fantry. General Courtigis, on his site, arriving from Vine evolve, at the bead of his brigade, swept the Faubourg St. Antniae, in which several barricades haul been constructed. I These different operations were perfermed, under the fire of the insurgents. with a skill and seal which could not for one instant leave a doubt of success. The barricades , attacked in the first instance by artillery, were circled at the point of the bayouct. All that part or the town between the Fan hourgs St. Antoine and St. Martin, the Pointe St. Eustache and the Hotel-de-Ville, was covered in every sense by our infantry criminns ; tho barricades were carried and destrnye4 end the insurgents dispersed or kill( I. The crowds, who endeavoured to farm themselves again on the boulevards, were charged by llse cavalry et General Rabin, who sustained a sharp lire at the top of the Rue Montmartre. Attacked on all sides at the came time, dis concerted by the irresistible ardour of our troops, and by that ensemble of arrengements, enveloping as in a not-work oe iron the whole quarter where they had waited far us, the insurgents no longer dared to undertake anythiee serious. At live o'clock in the evening the troops of the division of General Carrelet came, and again took up a 'venire' on the boulevards. Thu, the attack, which had commenced at two o'clock in the afternoon, was terminated at live. The insurrection was vanquished on the ground which it had choeen. Some partial combats, however, took place in other parts, which I thiale it my duty to point out to you. On the 4th, about Nevelt o'clock in the evening, some bands of insurgents, who had been diverged by the different columns united at the upper end of the Rues St. Ronnie's, des realise, and other small streets adjacent, and commenced to raise barricades. Other assemblages took place at the same time in the Rues Montmartre and Meat orgueil, the lumps in which hail been extinguished, and where the insurgents, under favour of the darkuess : had been able to erect fresh barricades. About eight o clock Colonel de Le:ulna, of the 6lst of the line, who had remained in position near the Point Ste. Eustache, al though well understanding all the difficulties of a night attires, decided on snaking one immediately with the 2nd battalion of his regiment. The first four barricades were immediately carried at the point of the bayonet with the greatest ardour by the grenadieri and voltigeurs of that bat talion. A lifth berricade still remained, higher and better de fended than the others. In spite of the darkness,Col. de Lour mel hesitated not to make arrangements for its attack. Fif teen grenadine, under the eel rs of Sergeant Pitrobs, first advances', closely followed by the other grenadiers and voltigeurs of the battalion, led on by Commandant Jeennin. Nothing could resist the ardour of these brave soldiers. The barricade was carried in spite of a desperate resistance. It was defended by about One hun dred insurgents. Forty of them were killed on the spot, and the others were made prisoners. About a hundred muskets and other weapons, and abundant ammunition, fell into the hands of our soldier,. Colonel Courant, of the 19th of the line, who with his regiment occupied the Pala' National, le:wring that a considerable number of insur gents, who had been driven from the Curti, St. Martin, had rallied our the Place des Victoirce, and threatened the Bank of France and the neighbouring quarters, proceeded thither at double quick time with his regime::(, carried the barricades in the Rues Pagevin and des Fostsle Menthe:are, arid then retained and established him self at the Bank, whence he could maintain the tranquillity of the quarters of the Bank and the Bourse. I should never finish were I to begin to mention pparticular names, but I cannot, however, retrain from doing justice to the energetic skill with which Captain de la Roche d'Oisy, commandant of the Ith company of the let battalion of the Getularinery Mobile, protected through the whole perhel of the *resurrection the nationel printing-office, wluch was constantly surrounded by threatening getups. Severed barricades were constructed in the neighbour ing streets, fur the purpose of cutting off communicatiuu with that establishment. Lieut. Fabre, of that company, at the head of 24 men, carried the 'stronger of thew berri cedes' formed of overturned eidigenceymrrels, and pieces of wood, and, the others being successively destroyed, the circulation was kept open by means of frequent patrols. At La Chapelle St. Denis some companies of the 2eth Regis nient of the Line carried :1 number of barricades, and maintained tranquillity in those populous quarters, which the secret societies had so deeply agitated. Whilst theqi vents were taking place on the right bank of tile Seine. Gen. Renault, commanding the 2nd division, occupied the left bank, and by the aide arrangements which he made, and the firm demeanour of Isis troops, was able to guarantee from all agitetion the working population of the eleventh and twelfth arrondissements, in which, at other periods, insurrection could boast of such nu merous proselytes. The reserve division of Cavalry, under the orders of Gen. Kerte, summoned in from Versailles, took up position, at first in the Chumps Ely -1,6C11 and afterwards in the Boulevards, ar.d contributed powerfully by numerous patrols to the arrest of a great sanuher of insurgents, and to the complete re-establishment of tranquillity. As the reports sent iu to me, the night of the 4th, on the state of Paris, gave me almost a certitude that the insurrection would not venture to again raise its Bead, I withdrew at midnight a part of the troops from their Tpositions to give them that repo s e they so we ll mer it e d. he next slay, Dec. 5, I determined to make a display of all the army of Paris to the population, intending by that de monstration to reaesure the good, and intimidate the evil disposed. I gave orders that the brigades of infantry, with their artillery, and their companies of engineers, should proceed through the city in moveable columns, to march on the insurgents wherever they should show themselves, and to destror all the obstacles which might impede the circulation. f o that effect tics. Carrelet, ut the head of a column of his division, proceeded about nine in the morning to the Barrier° ltochechourt, where a formidable barricade existed. But the insurgents, terrified by the results of the preceding day, slid not venture to defend their entrench ments, and abandoned them at the approach of the troops. Another barricade, raised in the Faubourg Poissonnilire, was likewise deserted by its defenders before the arrival of the column under the orders of Gen. Canrobert, charged to carry it. From that moment tranquillity was no more troulikel in Paris, and the circulation was fully re-estab lished on every point. The army returned to its quarters; and the next day, the Gth, Paris, no longer beholding in the streets that unusual display of troops, was restored to its activity, movement, and life of every day. I know not how, Monsieur le Minietre, to render to the troops who fought on those two days all the justice which is due to them for the firmness, spirit, and discipline which they con stantly displayed. Officers and soldiers, they all compre hended what the country and society expected from them at that solemn mei:tent, and all nobly did their duty. I have in particular to praise the energetic co-operation:of the gene ral officers under my orders. All followed my instruc tions with an intelligence and devotedness which penetrate me with the liveliest gratitude : everywhere they showed to the troops the way which they so nobly followed. Unfortu nately, operations, so complicated, could not be executed without sensible less. We bad in these two days 24 men killed, of whom one was an officer: and ISt wounded, of whom 17 were officers: of this number was Colonel Quake, of the 72nd regiment of the Liue, who had his arm trans pierced by a ball, at the same time as his Lieut.-Colonel, , r, k of e the smallness gresi tesotfdis our tinel,t,tiz compared, eau sedin to the M. Loulreau, tell at his side, mo r t a lly woun d e d. Th e w h o l e army joined in the regretete which the loss of thi s su p e rior offi t ic ha 7 t 2n oi d. the The numerical in surgents, is owing to the energy with which all the obstacles were attacked by our men, and the determination with which the insurrection was put down. In two hours of combat the army obtained the result which it desired ; it worthily justified the confidence of the President of the Re public, and it must feel satisfic I that it has nobly aided in saving society in France and perhaps in Europe. I shall be fore lung have the honour of sending in to you a statement respecting the men of all grades who appear to me to have the greatest claims to recompense, and to whom I shall pray you to direct the kind interest of the President of the Re public.—Receive, Monsieur le Ministrc, the assurance of my respect and devotedness. . . MAGNAN, PARIS BOURSE. PARR Dec. IL I roe Moor,. ' Opening tor Account, Bpr Cents. 1111 * Ss is 99 is 1 59 5 4 ler Cents. .1 N fa 50 1 59 55 per .... Is do. Neer bran 11 3 per Dent... Brehm* cc London t ' it sight, 25 20 ; 90 days,* & Beers., ISNI 99/ Massy. Naples 8ear 5........ Maw 190. 5, 13.2 — !roman Loa.i., 1E51.. 76 1 ... lb. 41 .. Do. do. P 10... 771 Do. 21 ... Treasury Bonds ... Pie :Rona 5 n Cents. 83 Both Storni 2290 ... PARII,, DEC. 12.—St. Germain, 420 ;Or (right hank), 7.. 4; to left bank), 215 ; Parts and Orh on% 932 50 ; Part. And It no a. st• 2 3 ; wen and Havre, 22150; Manville* and Arise .1.1. etra..bours and Bale. 158 75; Centre, 4,0 ; Bou logne and Amiens, 26.; Orleans and Bordeaux, 342 50 ; Northern, 811 7.7; Can- a mruslx.urg, sat 2s; Tours and Nantes, 262 50; Hontoratt and Troyes, 93 7.5; Dieppe and Peanut', 200. afting N II au b j METROPOLITAN SEWERS COMMIsSION. Yester day abpc c i court was held at the principal office, in Greek-street, Soho-square, when, after disosing of appeals and summonsts, the court passed a resolution authorisin; the borrowing of 5,8001. from Mr. 11. Rains, on mortgage. Another resolution WWI agret d to, directing " tho payment at the sum of j,BOO/., pursuant to an agreement between the said Henry Rains, the metropolitan commissioners of sewers, and the Bermondsey improvement commissioners. dated August 12, 18.31." GERMANY. A letter, dated Vienna, Dee. 9, says :—" The Duke of Bordeaux has left Vienna. The clerks of tho Northern Railroad were given to understand that ho was going to Prague, but it was believed his destina tion was further to the north-west." The legislative assembly of Hamburg has jog y e . jccted, for the second time within these few months, a proposition made by the senate, on the represtnta tions of Austria, tending to restrict the liberties of the press by penal laws. A Berlin correspondent of tiro Olierposlit outs Z,7 , e,r9 mentions a report that the French minister at dm Court of I'russia bad complained to M. Min:tend of the articles hostile to M. Bonaparte, which h 4 appeared in the Berlin papers. CONSTANTMOPLE. The governor of tke Dardanelles having inflicted punislunent with a stick on the dravnian I,elonqi ng to tho Austrian consulate, all the emruh hivu struck their flaqs, and suspended counduaieutiqui with the governor. TILE KAFFIR WAlt ARRIVAL OF TILE CAPE MAIL. The General Screw Steam Shipping O.:l:pi:ifs vessel, the Peoratis, Captain Glover, ara.ivul at Plymouth on Ihursdav night. She made tile Breakwater about 1U o'clock, but, in eont , -qtr•ace of the thick fog then prevailing—which for nine or ten hours before that time had prevailed, and was on, of the most dense ever recollected in that part of tho country—she dropped anchor just inside the lirtak water, and at 12 o'clock, it having cleared up some what, she again gat under weigh, and came into Millbay pier. The Propuntis left nn her outward passage September 16; arrived at St. Vincent's on tho 21th. leaving on the same day; Sierra Leone, October 3, leaving on the .Ith ; and arriving at the Capo on October 30th. She lett the Cape on her return voyage Nov. 5, arrived at Sivrrit Leone on the 21st. and left again the same nizitt, reached St. Vincent's on the 26th ; left on the 2.;:11, and arrived at Plymouth Dec. 11. She hri;!....• tho following passenger.; :—Major Fordyce, 7tt it I f igh !antlers ; Cornet Gabbett, of the 12th Royal I.lrl , ; Captain Millar, late of the Royal Saxon, au vessel ' Capt. Wilson, and Mr. Smart, front 1!, and Mr. Ramsay from Sierra Leone; and 74 r . dvce's servant, fr ont the Cape. SI, a . heavy general cargo. The llarbi”,. Screw Steam Shipping Company's vt , s, Oct. mail, had passe t Sierra Leone. 'lll , i t, with the November mail, was at St. Vincent whcit the Propontis called there. The Propontis ‹;14..• to H.M. steamer Rattler on the 22nd of Nev..tah.r, going into Sierra Leone. There were no war at Sierra Leone when the Propontis e::ropt an American vessel. The Propontis to the Rouver brig, bound to Cape Coast Castle. - . In respect to the war it would seem that t'.e dents at the Cape do not anticipate its em :y nation. Some of them have bencfltted lt; the pre sence of the troops, and imagining them...Het s T ato sycure, do not cure much bow lung it it it continues to wear the same aspect as it ha • do:, • Mr some time past. The Jettlers in Katfraria, I.;:e colt tram-, wish for the end of the wnr,but like !ir it I ri, .1,14 at the Cupc do not think its speedy concM-Mit pro bable. It is said that the settlers it.td hoer , . if they were free to do as they thought 11,4. will soon bring matters to an issue by slmrtiag and destroying all the Kaffir, and Ilottentots that canto within their reach. This was tho opinion tif soul° of the people who have been amongst tit, ut. Tho proleet of civilising and Clnistiani,ing the :Lb:rig:tics of South Africa would seem to be It -at ligmtmly prosecuted than formerly. And in won of tie,. wo were told by persons ou hoard the Propontis that the Wesleyans had abacdened several of (hair mis sionary stations. lie hope of inducing Katiks or Hottentots to keep faith or adhere to treaties mado with Europeans, has been almost wholly ultamloned. The cry for more help from England to end this slow fever of war becomes more loud and pressing. The despatches from the Governor-General brought by the Propontis aro understood to be very urgent upon this point. Wu have received our usual files of papers by this mail, but the news contained in them lets been anti cipated by the arrival tit* tin Teviot, whkh exchanged journals with the Propontis at Vitie-aes. De tails of the occurrences which had taken place in the colony up to Nov. 4, appeared in the E.ll,eass of Thursday. Ine Court. OSBORNE, Fu.tn T Iler Majesty, Prince Albert, and ;be Itoyal Family walked early yesterday in the ground. gardens. Viscount l'almerston, Secr e tary of Stato for For.:ign Affairs, the Prince l'arini, and Sir Julius Ilartainn, K.C.11., arrived from London at 2 o'clock. Viscount l'almerston had an audience of the 'M. en. Prince Carini, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary from his Majesty the King of Napa,. was presented to her Majesty by Viscount Palmerston, and de livered his credentials. Sir Julius Itartenaint was presented to her Ma,edy, and delivered a letter front his Majesty the King ut Ilniocer announcing his accession. The Duchess of Kent arrived at Clarence Douse, St. James's, at 12 o'clock on Thursday. from I•'rogmore. lice royal highness visited the Duchess of (Ileac, •t•r, at Oloa cester House, and left town at three o'clock to returu to Frogmore. Mr. Macgregor, M.l'., had an interview w:th the han eviler of the Exchequer yesterday, at his ot11:i.t1 r,idi nee in Downing-street. Mr. Currie, M.P., had also au inter view yesterday with the right hou. barmet. Viscount Palmerston has returned to town from Osh...ne. Isle 01 Wight. Despatches were received at the Colonial.oifex yc..le relay evening from dm Governor of the Cape of Good Dope. (Pram lastalght'a casette.) OSBORNE, DEO. 11.—Thin day had audience of her Majesty : The Prince di Carini, Envoy Extraordinary And Minister Plenipotentiary from the King of the, Kingdom of ' the Two Sicilies, to deliver his credentials ; and Lieut.- General Sir Julius Hartmann, K.C.8., one special mi..ion to deliver a letter from the King of Hanover, notifying tha death of the late King, and announcing his own accer.oms to the throne To which they were respectively introduced by Viscount Palmerston, G.C.8.. her Majesty's Scen.tary of State for Foreign Affairs. DOWNING -STREET, DEC. D.—The Queen has been pleased to appoint Robert Duncan Wilmot, El., to he Surveyor-General for the Province of New lironswicia. CArE NEWS.—In consequence of the complaints ngainst the commanders and Admiralty agents of the Cape of Good Hope screw mail steamers for refusing to exchange journals with the Brazilian mail steamers at St. Vincent. by which the puLiie and the government were oftentimes unnecessarily kept in ignorance of the ',regressor the Kaffir war, orders were issued to the authorities on board tho Cape steamers to give every [reality to the despatch to Eng land of news from the Cape. The utility of these orders has been made manifest in the Teviot bringing files of Capo journals left for her at St. Vincent by the Cape mad screw steamer Propontis. The Propontis left St. Vincent on the 28th ult. direct for Plymouth. The Teviot left St. Vincent on the 29th ult., and had to call at Tcnerilfe, Ma deira, and Lisbon, on her way to Southampton.. The Teviot is a remarkably fast steamer. The Propontis encountered head winds after she left St. Vincent, and being a screw steamer she could not compete successfully with the Teviot. CROWDED STATE OF I ItItiftTLEBONE —Yesterday, at the weekly meeting of the Board of Guar dians of the above workhouse, an intimation was received from the master of the house stating that the whole of the wards were full, and that he should bo compelled to refuse admittance to further applicants. The total number in tho workhouse is 1,764, of which 261 aro in the sick wants. Mr. Messer, the assistant overseer, suggested the propriety of a committee being appointed to go over the house, and select such inmates as might be sent out with a weekly allowance. The suggestion was adopted. DIRECT BIRMINGHAM AND OXFORD JUNCTI(N RAILWAY.—The Master in Chancery Brougham has ust notified that he has, in pursuance of the judgment of the House of Lords, in the case of Hutton v. Thompson, ex ',tinged from the list of contributories, or in other words, released from liability, ail these shareholder, whose names are contained in lists 2 ' 3, and 1, amounting: in all to 20 15 persons, those in the 2nd list being shareholders who paid the deposit on their shares, but who did nut sign the d..eil; those on the 3rd, who paid on their shares a contribution of 2s. rid. per share towards the expenses of the company ! but did not sign the deed ; and 4th, these who neither pant the deposit on their shares nor signed the deed. This leaves only class 1, consisting of 57 members of the pro visional and managing committee, liable for di ho and costs, which arc understood to amount to upwards of 10,0,10 f. THE GRE.►T BRIT.►IN STEAM-SIIIP.—Tho proprio tors of this leviathan vessel, now lying in the SAndon grav ing dock, at Livemool, are about to gut her of her steam ut.tchulery and salt. 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