The Express. — London, England, 1847-01-12 00:00:00

le { Mn,two roMMINh moo 1. pekoe Mee cloth. THE WORKS at WALTER SAVAGE LANDO& lechelloglimiggskuoy Conmesstboaswith•New Oviglaal Series; Makin owl Itsords; Ezenilnatlon of Shakepeare; Pentameran of Ihmemband hams; Balmier (sow ice. the first time published); Tragedies: and Poor. With many birge Wiliam throughout,F. b a awdnd the makes% last .vreet ccereedom it: vise, oeefea COLOSSEUM. NEW ARRANGEMENT. invistus OF Mil:S.—Panorama of London and 51micton, Is. ; the Conserraterles, Seim Cottage, Meth Mem , rim. the Stalactite Caverns of Malmberg, Is. ; the Prim Cartoons on View, Do ails charge. Everiewa—Grand Promenade, Mimeo= of Sculpture, Comm treks, Avlmy, Swiss Cottage, Mont Mara, mad Torrent, kg, Is.; the Marvellous Panorama of Leaden by Nicht , with Atmospheres Fleets every half hour. Is. extra: the Stalactite Mown., le extra. The whole brilliantly illumineted. Musk from two till dark, and Mot MI hall-past ten. Children, day and evening, half price Open from is till dusk, and from seven till half-past ten. The whole Exhibition iikeigned by Mr. W. Bradwell. SACRED HARMONIC SOCIETY: he commencement of $ new year *tering a (avowable optic, Inaity, perms; drams of becoming Sulacribers ore requested, in order to sceure denials to the first Subecription 0.110111 (the CREATION, m 19th WM), to apply at Exeter-ball this (ToesdaY) gamma, between g and 10 o'clock; or to Mr. 1131/10y, MI, (Ruing-erore. The subscription is One Guinea, or for referred ante in the aroa ea gallery, Two Guinea per annum ; and during the past year there lam been twelve subscription cameo*. The committee have much pleasure is announcing that la the mauled mainin thee hope to produce eereral works which hare not yet been performed by the society, among other. Dr. Mendelemohn's ELUA et II; and that Dr. Mohr bas ale, accete their in/Ratko to goedu tbe performance of several of his comp p ofi d tione. THOMAS BREviya, Hoe. Pre. ENGLISH MUSIC, EX ETEIt-HA 'rhe Committee of the Mullah Testinamial Fond ba g le me to anneemee • aeries of FOUR ONCERTS, illustratiee ed the 11thorf of Englieb Vomit Mus'e. New Organ will be erected by Mr. RoMon =fty for them ecorerts; an efficient Orcigistra ale be pro the Second, Third. and Fourth Concerts. The VI KAT CON SORT will be held on MON IYBT EVENING NEXT, January 18. Principal Vora! Performera.-51Lve Relnforth, Mies Wire'. Mr. *savers, ant Mr. Lerner. Tier Leta—Aron, as., for the win, ; western gallerr. Si. the *Niel% 10a rAt.; re•erved seam, vs., for the amiss. 31x. —asa7 be had of Mr. Part , r, publisher, 445, West Strand, and cd the prfeemat innetarellem C _ ROSBY lIALL—ETHIONAN SERENADERS. LAST Nil FIT BC r ONE :—TO-11ORROW EVENING (Weel - aesday), lan. 13. Front the crowded Mate of the Hall on Monday, all tickets purchased for that night wilt he admitted to-morrow even ing. Doors open at HALF-PAST SEVEN. The ETHIOPIAN SERENADERS, Pell, Harrington, White. Stanwood, and German Moe the St. Janutia Theatre,, will reptud their inimitable entelten ciente at the above Hall TO-ONVIOVI evening (WelnrwlaY). and on Friday evader Dent, being their bet apptarance. Tickets man be kid at the Library of the Institution, and at the daces an the Riede of perform ere. FRENCH PLAYS.—ST. JAMES'S THEATRE. --Seated appearance the seamen of the celebrated actor, M. Lennie, and Made). Clare*, THIS EVENING, in the popular play at DON MAR DE BAZAN.—TO-BORROW. (Wednesday) Meese Varlrrthe of LA DOT D'AUVERGNE. After while DON MAR DB BALtN ; Don Omar de Bas" H. Lernetre , I s Xleitass, saes.—Doom open at sevm o'clock. ADELPHI. trlortolle kenmesseat—umanea hit of the new eplendid Romantic Drama of " Colomire, the Conine% Sister." Last week of the wonder ar the Nee, the celebrated " EnteeillationSta," and the magnificent PINT Spotted* of the • Phantom Dencera."—During the week the oncomieful new Romentic COLOMBA, THE CORSICAN SISTER. With the extraordinary with in their weeder fel 'KUL OTMNAsTIQUES. To conclude with the PHANTOM DANCERS, or the Wilts Bride• LEATRI ghe , 'L' prefisi. MAILS. no nab Bw I.3lllmahcm, Madeira, Culls, and Gibraltar, igEbe nob tip ea the et the nth January. Ile Wog Mrs noda, dam he Mexico, Honduras, and deveneele, will be mile en all 1110raing of the 18th January. The eeneleni be , leak Orme, the lonian Wand a, Nes" Ansa,Oelies, Snit, IliegZeee„ sad Chien, chi noutnampton , valte lIWINI Mahe mankind the 20th January. The 111111111 d Pig MilliMea, to the Mediterranean, =disk WM. nen Kees Ike., will be made up on the dike The nails he Mew Wen Van Diemen's Land, and New teedßßlmarfobyeahei.aw of the 31st January. Vie nit kr DM* Mirth America. Bermuda, and the United Seim w 0 be eob nip en the evening of the 3rd February. The mans kr mss : the Ay res, te Monte V,deo, rernam =:hia, ed Buenos will be ill/Taloned on the of the Mb Tebruary. TO CORRESPONDENTS. •.• Advertisements balledei for The ' the,E•res tonolon eyrning paper, oust be at the Oibi VI TWO o'cloolt on dof pubtioatton. 111011 WATER AT LONDON-BRIDGE. Ts. MT.—Warning, 14 oda. post 9 ; Afternoon, 39 min. pad 9. Te-Mossow--llonaing, 37 min. post 10; Afternoon, 13 nil. past 11. LONDON, TUESDAY, JAN. 12. Tire resolutions adopted by a body of Irish land lords, and about to be proposed in a conference in Dublin, can be considered as little less than an abdi cation of their rights, powers, and duties by this important body. Ireland, they declare, cannot feed its destitute poor. The ground cannot be tilled for the next year's crops, nor seed even found to sow, provided the land were tilled. The state must do all, and not the Irish, but the Imperial state. The labour rate they denounce, the country not being advanced enough, the proprietors not rich or disinte rested enough to spend money on public works. Private agriculture—the cultivation of each man's farm and potato garden--is all that can be aspired to, and this no one can do without money being advanced to him for doing it. The landlords, moreover, demand the suspension of the laws of tra de.: They insist that dearness of pro visions shall be removed by government, or bodies' empowered by them, selling provisions under market price: the necessary consequence of which would be, that the English government should, of itself, under take the amply, not of every Irish market, for a st market would no longer exist, but of every Irish poor-house, to be converted into a granary for the occa sion. Moreover, they demand money for clearing their estates by emigration, and by work upon railroads. Of a poor-law, ever so modified—of waste lands—of giving leases—of selling their encumbered property, they say not a word. They come forward, not as men affected by the distresses of the population, and prepared to strain every nerve in their removal, but as a body of persona who have combined for the purpose of escaping liability, and damage, and expense. They see Ireland wrecked, and its crew struggling with the waves, whilst they, the officers, have got into a life boat, and have pushed off by themselves, leaving Englishmen to save the crew or the vessel as they please. We are very sorry, indeed, to see the Irish land lords thus come before the public and the state. They have been much misrepresented and maligned. Their position is a fearful one. We are far from taking the extreme and unfavourable views of their claims and merits, that many leading organs of opinion in this country do. But we must say, that if the Irish land lords come forward, as they are about to do in Dublin, denouncing everything the governmen t has done, deny ing. everything that government requires ; allowing thew people to starve, whilst they . are clamouring for alms and immunities, pertinaciously the domains which they cannot cultivate, requiring England to take away theirsurplas hands and months— if this be the amount of sagacity, and humanity, and disinterestedness in the Irish landlord class, their beet friends will be driven to join their worst enemies in a unanimous cry against them. Irish landlords may depend upon it, they will profit more by coming forward with rational proposals and demands than by thus entering upon a system of war very much akin to a repeal agitation, the result of which most be their being mercilessly and deservedly sacrificed. Nevertheless, we do think the Irish landlords war ranted in claiming that all that is temporary in the present famine should be relieved by imperial aid. If a universal blight fell on all produce, corn and green, in any wide district of England, north or south, the government would not think of throwing the burden exclusively on either the poor rates or the property of the afflicted district. Aid from more fortunate provinces would be demanded, if not of right, at least from humanity. The reliehst - permaname distress should indeed be *ought from Irish resources andlrish property. And _ one good room for not pressing too hard upon Irish landlords is, that this will task their utmost efforts. , Not only are the poor to be fed through this dread season, but they are to be guided and enabled to raise food for future years, and food of another kind, more certain, and of a higher nurture. Towards this the landlords ought to come forward. They ought to proffer something more to the pea sant than the old ruinous con-acre, and on asking government to perride seed and funds for the employ of the peasantry in agriculture, surely the landlords ought to explain and pronounce what they propose to do. If they have no energy but in complaints ; no ingenuity except to pick boles in the existing law; no experience, no knowledge, no sug gestion, except that lowest kind, which broadly and impudently asks alms, then, indeed, the Irish land lord cannot hope to be listened to. If be come with fair proposals and average wisdom, he would command resticet: One of the great difficulties with respect to Ireland unfortunately, to get instruments to carry out Illf MUMS of salvation and reform. 'Mose of the coun try are xeiclom to be trusted; yet what blunder. are every day made bluargolpirs ? The adventures of the unfortunate overseen nil sFseyors of public works . • ludicrous and humiliating. English writers are every day clamouring for the extension of the poor-law to Ireland. They should first look into the histories of Irish Unions, of the poor-law boards of guardians in that country, the impossibility of reconciling the upper and middle classes, the guardians elect ejecting their ex-o f ficio colleagues , and , in boards met for the relief of the poor, engaging, not in pauper business, but in the strife of repeal and no repeal. Then, again, look at the presentment sessions ; the mise rable failure of the attempt to open the grand jury, and get the tenants and the landlords, the priest and the parson, the upper Irish nation and the lower Irish nation, as MADDEN says, to act together. The same difficulties start up in the way of whatever may be devised. And if we are now to follow the suggestions of such writers as we see, for example, in the Times, and enter upon a war ad isternetioneti with the Irish landlords, the only mode of carrying . out even the smallest reform will be for the Imperial Government to take the entire management of public and private property in that country, and convert it into an Eastern region consisting of a ruling power, function aries, and slaves. One of the things looked to by government is the sole of some of the embarrassed and unimproved Irish property. Such a measure is indispensable. Yet even here what difficulties are to be encountered ? The English capitalist will never venture his money in the shaking bog of Irish tenure. The Irish alone will buy. And thus will be materially accelerated the revolution in progress, by which the lower Irish nation is by degree! ousting the upper Irish nation from its supremacy in land. The change is inevitable. Rut connect it with the quarrel of Repeaters and no Repeaters, with the leaven of religious inequality still fermenting, with the unavoidable rancour and im patience of the losing side, and see how utterly im practicable will prove these essays at local manage ment and self-government, which form the wheels of our system, and without which poor-law, emigration, reclamation, or any form of improvement, cannot be worked. TREES is a closer parallelism at present between the conditions of the Cape of Good Hope and New Zealand than of any other British colonies. It is only in these two that the question, how to deal with a pretty numerous and intelligent, though uncivilised native population, is practically urgent. The latest accounts from both colonies are, so far as warlike movements are concerned—if that phrase be not too grandiloquent to express the exertions of due ciplined physical force required to repress savage ma rauders—not disquieting, though they can scarcely be called satisfactory. In both, turbulent chiefs and their rapacious followers have been made to feel their inability to cope with the British government. In both, however, there appears to have been a degree of remissness that threatens to render the impression of this useful lesson less per manent. At the Cape of Good Hope, the governor, instead of pressing home his advantages, had allowed himself to be drawn into protracted discussions by the artful savages with whom he had to deal. In New Zealand the British troops appear to have been kept in the background, and their commanding officer to have gore to Wellington before the campaign was ended; thus leaving its result to the chalices of the dilatory Mead mode of proceeding, and incurring the risk of oar native allies flattering themselves that they have put down lIANOiHAEATA, and that the Pak ahi (white men) could not have done it. Whenever a civilised government is compelled. as ours has been at the Cape of Good Hope and in New Zealand, to en gage in hostilities against uncivilised subjects or I neighbours, true humanity consists in making them feel their inferiority as thoroughly and as speedily as possible. From any blunder, which have been committed in military matters, however, we apprehend no more serious evil than a little prolongation of such an un settled and uncomfortable state of affairs in certain districts of the two colonies, as prevailed in Scotland along the Highland line, before the abolition of here ditaryaudicatures and Marshal WADE'S roads put down terans. We are more alarmed by sonic indications which seem to augur a stormy political future for these colonies. The symptoms are as yet, perhaps, inconsiderable, but the proverb says " the mother of mischief is no bigger than a midge's egg." In so far as the Cape of Good Hope is concerned, the symptoms to which we allude have shown themselves in the eastern districts. These districts are the scene of the most active industrial enterprise in the colony, and the seat of the keenest political feeling. Or, what is the same thing, they are the most essentially English part of the colony. In the districts more closely con nected with Cape Town, the settlers of Dutch origin appear to have inherited much of the phlegm of their ancestors; and the settlers among them, of Anglican race, to have acquired it. They go on prosperously and steadily, but without striking out new hues of business, much after the humdrum fashion of old set tled countries. In the eastern districts, on the contrary, the inventive energy of the English colony, which was planted as lately as 1820, has already made, what was then little better than a desert, almost as produc tive and wealthy as the neighbour settlements, which are its seniors by some two hundred years. Leave the western districts of the Cape Colony to plod on in their old accustomed fashions, and they will give little trouble ; but the men of the Albany districts are of the same race as the men of New England, and have much in common with them. The formation and growth of inveterate factions among such a community is to be deprecated. At this moment, even while a yet unsubdued enemy is restless on their frontiers, there are strong indica tions of party spirit being at work. The unsuccessful campaign of 1846 has given rise to recriminations. There are some among the settlers who do not had tate to attribute its failures in a great measure to Sir ANDRIES STOCKENSTROM. They accuse him of having used his local influence in such a mannner as to have attached the greatest number of the burgher levies to hie own person, and secured for his own party an unduly large share of the supplies collected. They charge him with having withheld supplies of men and provisions from the officers of the regular army, in order to obstruct their operations, that his own movements might show off to advantage. in comparison. On the other hand, the partisans of Sir ANDRIES STOCKENSTROM are not slow to charge the English officers with having thwarted Sir ANDRI ES, 64M1 jealousy of his superior abilities, and with having used low language. in the hearing of some d kis commandants, against the burghers. This is aft a quarrel of races. Sir ANDRIE-', a man whose lams shows him to be ambitious, and capable of leaking himself all things to all men, to suit his pur poses, has given deep disgust to many of the Dutch , settlers, by the manner in which he once obtained the appointment of lieutenant-governor, and is supported by the English of the missionary party. On the other hand, his opponents at present seem partly to consist of independent settlers, and partly of military officials, who, from professional pedantry, may under value the services, and exaggerate the defects, of the burgher levies. It will require mach judgment on the part of the new governor to avoid blowing these sparks of faction into a flame. Of the evils which ensue when two races come to constitute I antagonist political parties, we have recent warning in Canada; and of the danger incurred by allowing officials, civil or military, to adopt an habitually super cilious tone towards colonists, the American revolution ought to be a lasting warning. Even the stamp-act and the blockade of Boston could not have brought about that event, had not the affections of the FRANI. LINS, WASIIINGTONS, and ADAMSES been previously alienated by the systematic affectation of treating the colonists as an inferior race. Our fears in respect to New Zealand have bees excited by a disposition evinced in certain quarters tol criticise rather captiously the New Zealand Chit. ter.' It is received with cold wishes that it may work well. Flaws are hinted at ; technical omissions, and verbal inaccuracies critically exposed. It would be better in a manly and candid manner to state the real cause of the misgivings which have been rather hinted at than expressed. They appear to have their origin in the probable distribution of political power under the charter. The nucleus of New Zealand colonisation is a body of intelligent, educated capitalists, of good standing in society, some of whom have gone out a settlers, while others remain in this country. Around the settlers of this class have gathered not only a' . comparatively numerous population of labourers, bat a heterogeneous assortment of adventurers from the neighbouring colonies. The originators of New Zea land colonisation on one hand, and the home govern ment on the other, feel alike that in the political institu ' THE EXPRESS, TUESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 12, 1847. tive element is needed. Government have sought to reconcile the existence of this conservative element with free institutions, by giving a wide elective basis to the municipal councils, and by making all other elections indirect. The object of this arrangement is apparently to compel the legislatures and executives of the provinces to conciliate popular opinion, yet to retard the operation of that opinion by the complexity of the elections through which it may make itself felt. The educated and capitalist class connected with the colony seem to fear that the great extension of the elective franchise may enable mere de magogues to fill the municipal councils and legislatures at the outset, and that the complexity of collegial elections may enable them to retain the power they have once acquired. They fear that the constitution bestowed upon New Zealand by the charter may prove an artificial means of transferring the political influence naturally appertaining to the proprietary class to needy political adventurers, who may be bought by the executive g overnment. The doubt, though we do not share in it, is so important, and so of being supported by plausible arguments, could be wished it had been frankly stated, of being brooded over as a cause of secret struat, expressing itself only iu captious words. The present colonial administration has done nothing to deserve the suspicion of placing such a sinister game. Neither the personal dispositions of its members, nor the hereditary principles of their party, make them likely men to adopt the unworthy policy of forming an alliance between executive despotism and passionate ignorant mobs in order to neutralise the natural influence of the intelligent middle classes. Now is the time for candid and sionless expostulation, the want i,f which may long create a mischievous antagonism. that it instead MR. GEORGE BY NO, who has just expired at the advanced age of 82, after having represented the county of Middlesex in Parliament for upwards of half a century, was certainly neither an orator, nor a cabinet minister, nor a statesman of the first rank of talent lie admitted this himself, for he was con tented to follow, not lead, especially when ho found such a man as Fox in the front rank before him. But political virtues are not confined in this country to the front rank. And although consistency may have become a very old-fashioned virtue, in presence of the new-fashioned vice, which is its contrary ; still, to have preserved an unswerving and consistent political career for half a century, is a merit which, if but for its rarity, ought to be revered by Englishmen. Mr. BYNG belonged to the old country party, when country was a term opposed to court, and when liberalism and independence were its characteristics. So strong was his feeling of entire independence, that Mr. BYNG on three separate occasions refused a peer age, and declined the honour as an unnecessary and somewhat onerous incumbrance. The widow of Mr. Brso survives him. It is generally understood that Lord ROBERT GROSVENOR will succeed, without difficulty or oppo sition, to the representation of Middlesex. Indeed no party or person can be conceived likely to start as antagonist. We have received our Paris Express of Sunday. While the far more numerous, but less reflectin E portion of the French public are discussing the ques tions of Cracow, the marriages, and the British alliance, the more intelligent part of the community bestows its anxious thoughts on the financial condi tion of the country, and the way in which commerce, and especially the smaller ranks of commerce, will be affected by it. In our recent Paris correspoedence we mentioned, more than once, the solicitude with which the proceedings of the Bank of France were regarded. That much consultation and discussion have taken place in its Council Chamber; that frequent and important inter-communications have been made with the government ; and that many expe clients have been proposed, is well known. It is now confidently affirmed, that the government have urged upon the Bank the expediency of raising its rate of discount. Such a measure would be at tended, in Paris, with commercial results infinitely more serious than would follow from a corresponding step in England. The Bank of England forms but a small portion of the discounting agency of the capi tal; the Bank of France is the chief, nay, almost the sole, discounting agency of Paris. The slightest dis turbance in its customary operations would create a serious commercial convulsion. The circumstances which have produced the present state of embarrass ment are easily explained. The amount of specie in the cellars of the Bank at the close of the year have been generally near 200 millions. Thus, in 1843 the amount was 187 millions. Now the amount at the close of 1846 was only 71 millions ; a comparaive de ficiency existed, therefore, of 116 millions. The proxi mate cause of this is found in the diminished balances of the treasury account on the one hand, and private accounts on the other. At the close '31'1845, the balance of the treasury was 95 millions; at the close of 1846 it was 48 millions, giving a deficiency of 47 millions. At the close of 1845 the gross total of private balances was 118 millions; at the close of 1846 it was only 61 millions. The causes which have led to this extraordinaly drain of specie are twofold-Ist, the unusual magni tude of the public works in which the government and private companies have engaged, among which railways hold a conspicuous place • and, 2nd, the extensive importations of grain rendered necessary by the deficiency of the harvest. As it is certain that both these causes must still continue to operate, that the calls of public companies must be met, and that the deficiency of the harvest, and the consequent pres sure on the labouring classes, will render it still more incumbent on the government to prosecute the public works ; also that the mportations of grain already made are insuffi cient to cover the deficiency of the harvest, further purchases will be indispensable, it is expected that the balance of 71 millions remaining in the Bank at the close of the year must soon be exhaust d. Reme dial measures are therefore indispensable. This state of things becoming generally known, has been felt on the Bourse, and on Friday the Bank shares tell 60f. The two remedies proposed are; that the Bank should increase its stock of specie by loans effected upon its own credit, and of course at its own proper coat, or, by contracting its issues. That something has been recently done to bring into operation the first of these remedies, is known • but the extent of what has been actually effected is not cer tain. M. Hottinguer, during his late visit to London, succeeded, it is said, in establishing credits there upon which bills may be drawn in Paris to fume limited extent, according to the exigencies of the Bank. The amount of this credit is, according to some, 20 mil lions; accordiaz to others, much more. According to other reports, M. Hottinguer failed in establishing a credit to such an amount as would set the Bank at ease, although his operations were, to a certain limited extent, successful. Much uneasiness was produced within the last few days by the report, generally believed, that the Bank, being either unable or unwilling, by the in fluence of its own credit, to augment the amount of its specie, and moreover pressed thereto by the govern ment, had in contemplation the adoption of some of those expedients by . which its issues would be con tracted. That of raising the rate of discount appears unlikely. The Bank of France has always adopted the fixed rate of four per cent.; from which, in the most formidable financial crises to which it has been exposed--those for example of 1830, 1832, 1838, and 1840—it has never departed. Is it likely, then, that in the present comparatively trifling embarrass ment it will do so ? It is more generally believed in Paris at present that the screw will be put upon the duration of the bills discounted, or upon the amount of the credits allowed to commercial houses. Thus, it is feared that discountable bills will be limited to 60 instead of 90 days, as hitherto. In any ease the pressure on commerce will be severely felt, and the mere apprehension of this is manifested in the price of securities of every kind. The Three per Cents. have, within a few days, trembled on 79. This subject naturally engrossed the serious attention of most of the leading journals of Paris on Sunday. Various versions of the Royal Speech were in cir culation in Paris on Sunday, moat of them agreeing in substahee with that which we lately gave. It is certain that after haying been read and re-read, cor rected and re-correeted„.and after many parties besides its author and his caleagues wereconferred with upon it, the document was settled, with the exception of a few phrases, having reference to Cracow, at the cabi net council held at the Tuileries on Thursday. The phrase which has been stereotyped in royal speeches for thirty veers Aentsratnee of" the continued pacific assurances of the foreign powers," will be pro hoc rice suppressed, and a sort of vague expression of the hope of the continuance of European tranquillity sub stituted for it. The marriages will be alluded to with the greatest circumspection and tact, something being said about private happiness, &c. Ihe greatest point of difficulty and difference has been the expression in which the Cracow affair shall be alluded to ; one party being for a strong declora- I Hon in favour of Polish nationality, and the other desiring a simple statement of the protestation that has been made. We give elsewhere a letter from our correspondent of Constantinople of the 23rd ult., from which it appears that the government of the Porte has not suf fered itself to be bullied or wheedled on the subject of Cracow, and that, although Turkey was not one of the subscribing powers to the treaty of Vienna, it has nevertheless protested in a very spirited manner against the spoliation affair. P.S.—lt was reported on Sunday that overtures had been made to M. Dufaure to enter the cabinet, which that deputy declined. His ambition is said to be the presidency of the chamber. M. Martin (du Nord) Keeper of the Seals, was still indisposed, and it was said would be compelled to withdraw for the pre sent from the business, in which case he would be re placed by M. Hebert, Procureur-General of the Cour The Madrid mail of Jan. 4 was received on Sunday in Paris, but brought no political news of importance. Lujan and hlendizabal made speeches on the 3rd, in the Chamber of Deputif s, in a tone of much moderation. The verification of powers were con tinued on the 4th. The election of M. S ,rtorius was confirmed. The commission of verifications had re ported on thirty elections, but the Chamber was not expected to be constituted before the 15th, nor would there be any important debate until then. The following are the principal heads of the speech of M. Mendizabal: The Minister of the Interior has Raid that one of the two consequences of his administrative cares, ought to be the creation of a government according to my idea, he ought to have added national government. After four yearn absence, it seems to me as if 1 were awakening from a long sleep, and of my dreams there remained to me but one remem brance, one thought—that my happiness would be complete if, on the day of the inauguration of congress. I might make my voice heard to the nation. (Hear.) What I wished to say, and what I do say Is, that it was reserved to the present congress to raise its voice with force, firmness, and unanimity to express the wish that a veil may be drawn over all the political errors in which we may ell, more or less, have fallen. (Sensation.) This, gentlemen, is the only means for creating a national government. Exclusions only prove one thing, the weakness of the institutions (and remember that many of you contributed in drawing them up), or a great artlessness on the part of those in power ( old remember that you enjoyed it during that period), or a great importance of the excluded. Forget not the people who, tor 12 years, have made so many Raeritices—the people who have seen illustrious men shed their blood to fix the constitutional crown of Spain firmly on the brow of Isabella 11., our tdueen. Let us forget the past, and only con , ider the future pros pects of our country. I should not hesitate to bring forward a proposition on the subject, but that glory is reserved to the deputies at the other side of the chamber. It I will be our duty to second their endeavours; it is then that we wig be truly . strong, and. they will repeat on us the words of a virtuous Spanish citizen : Beware, the abyss at your feet will receive the one and the other, some will fall first, the others will tollow. A ter rible truth ! When called upon the deputies of the mine . ri.y of the congress will give their support to so patriotic a • measure. Such are my present sentiments, the same as in 1113.), when I returned to my country after twelve years of painful emigration. It was said in Paris on Sunday that M. Martinez de la Rosa was called to Madrid to use his influence in reconciling those differences in the cabinet, which it was feared would produce a crisis, especially by rea son of the pretensions of M. Mon to the presidency of the council. PARIS, JAN. 10. In your number of the Bth instant, you state that there is a schism amongst the members of the Opposi tion, and that M. Thiers now remains alone opposed to his old friends. These I take to be party rumours given out by the ministry. It may be that MM. Duvergier d'llauranne, de Remusat, Vivien, 0. Barrot, Chumbolle, and Leon Faucher, differ in opinion from M. Thiers or the question of the Spanish marriages ; but these partial differences will cause no schism in the ranks of the Opposition. The members whom you mention are too deeply sensible of their duty and of the importance of the circum stances, either to disagree or to approach in disorder their common enemy M. Deka- To-morrow, as won as the speech from the throne shall have been deliv ered, the members of the Opposition are to assemble at the house of M. Odilon Barret, to deliberate upon the line of conduct to be pursued, and fix a decisive plan of tactics. To this plan all the members of the minority will conform. Much has been said, and, perhaps, with better foundation, of a separate alliance between M. Dufaure and M. Billault, whose common anti pathies are to be united against England, and will tend towards the formation of a new tiers parti. That M. l)ufaure should perform such a mauceuvre is probable, and hatred of M. Thiers is known to be his principal incentive to this s'ep. But M. Billault has given no reason for such a severe judgment from public opinion. No doubt he approved of the Spanish marriages, but vtich approbation is far from causing a rupture between him and his political friends. The state of isolation in which France has been placed by the acts of the present ministry, leaves a wide field for the criticisms of the Opposition in the debate on the address; but unfortunately the Opposi tion has not, as it ought to have, the sentiment of its power. And the proof of this is evident in the polemic carried ou by the Constitutionnel, which insists that ' the Opposition ought not to discuss the foreign ques tion. In each a case to abstain would be to abdieate. 0. CONSTA.NTINOPLB, Dec. 23. Before the incorporation of Cracow was generally known kere, Count Stunner, the Austrian internuncio, received instructions from his government to lay before the Grand Vizier all the documents connected with that extraordinary . event, and to urge upon Reschid Pasha the propriety of approving of the con duct of the Northern Powers, or of at least remaining neutral. The iuternuncio manifested the greatest anxiety to have an immediate reply. His first inter view with the Grand Vizier lasted from nine o'clock in the morning till tor in the afternoon. But to the arguments and entreaties of Count Stunner, Reachid Pasha answered that the opinion of the Turkish government could only be made known after the meet ing of the grand council, which would take place as usual at the end of the week. The intermincio thew sent in a long memorandum, in which, after detailing all the circumstances, according to the views of the cabinet of Vienna, connected with the extinction of the independence of Cracow, he alluded to the im portance which Austria attached to preserving theami cable relations which for many years had existed be tween that power and the Sublime Porte ; that the interests of Turkey and Austria were in many points identical ; that they had a long line of frontier in common, and hinted that some concessions might be made which would prove advantageous to the autho rity of the Ottoman governinent in the Danubian pro vinces. The Porte, however, has not only refused to approve of the incorporation of Cracow, or even to remain neutral; it has gone further, it has protested against the measure. The sense of Reschid Pasha's reply to the internuncio was, " that the Porte was most anxious to preserve the friendly relations which had so long existed between Austria and Turkey; that the government of the Sultan would be always willing to accede to any just demand on the part of the Cabinet of Vienna, but that in the present instance the principles upon which they acted, and to which they were determined to adhere, rendered it impos sible for them to comply with the wishes of Count Stunner; that the Turkish government was not a party to the Treaty of Vienna, and therefore could not be sepposed to be immediately interested in any event which might affect the object for which that treaty was made ; that, however, the Porte would only prejudice the interests of the Ottoman empire, as well as its own character in the eyes of Europe, did it in any way express its approval of the event which formed the subject of the internuncio's memo nr.dum ; that the Porte regarded all treaties as sacred, which on no pretext were to be altered but with the consent of each of the parties by - whom they had been signed, and that therefore it was forced to express its regret at the conduct of Austria towards the republic of Cracow." It is impossible to approve too highly of the manner in which the Turkish government has acted in this matter. All feelings of immediate advantages, or the possibility of any semis events which such an act might entail, did not prevent the Porte from obeying the dictates of justice and of that spirit of a wise and ; enlightened administration which is so apparent since Reschid Pasha's accession to power. By adopting such a line of conduct, the ministers of the Sultan i have shown a decided s7mpathy with the constitu tional governments of Europe, to whose support they have thus established an additional claim. It is un necessary to P oint out the importance of a close alliaece with 'turkey in case of a rupture with the northern powers. Iteachid Pasha and his colleagues have thus boldly declared their principles, but they are not in a position to defend them airninst a serious opposition unless aided by France aid England. The appearance of a Russian fleet in the Buspiiorus would at once change the whole face of events in Turkey. During the rebellion of the Wahabees, and the oc cupation of the northern part of Arabia by the Egyp tian army, the province of Yemen raised itself into a kind of independence. A warlike people of the sect of Zeydi, who had, since the first Ottoman conquest, inhabited the mountains in the neighbourhood, assisted by the Sheik of Eboorish, took advantage of the disorders which existed in that part of the empire during the late war with Mehemet Ali, to take pos session of Yemen. The Porte has determined to esta blish its authority over this province, and for that purpose an army is to be formed, the h ead-quarters of which will be at Mecca. Fahreff Bey, one of the commissary-generals of tics l'orte, has already set out fur Egypt to make the necessary preparations for the expedition. C'hekib Effendi, appointed ambassador at Vienna, left this by the last Trieste steamer. Before going te his post, he is to visit Rome, for the purpose of offering some splendid presents to his Holiness from the Sultan. He is also the bearer of an autograph letter from his Majesty, congratulating Pepe Leo on his accession to the pontifical throne. We have had no English war-steamer here for some time. The naval force ix the Mediterranean is so small that the admiral cannot spare the Blooi hound from Malta, whither she was recalled to re place the Heels, ordered to Lisbon. THE REIGNING SOVEREIGNS OF EUROPE. We extract the following from the De:rtsehe Altge meine Zeitung : Of the fifty-two sovereigns reigning in Europe, two ot them have reach. d their 70th year—the King of Hanover, the oldest sovereign in Europe since the decease of Gregory XVI., and the King of the French. Of the other sovereigns. thirteen are between GO and 70 years of age, fourteen from 50 to 60, eleven from 40 to 50, eight from 20 to 30, and two have not yet reached their 20th year, namely the Queen of Spain, who is only 16 years 3 months, and the Prince of Waldeck, who is not yet 16. Of all the sovereigns the Prince of Schaumbourg-Lippe hat reigned the longest of the time if his minority is counted. He boo reigned for nearly sixty year... Two have reigned more than forty year equally counting their minority ; four from thirty to forty year. ; nine from twenty to thirty years: twenty-one from ten to twenty seam ; toe MU e3l other sovereigns. ot whom three ascended the throne during 1845, have not reigned more than ten years. By counting the reign from the date only of majority, not counting the year in which a sovereign was still a minor, the longest, reign is that of the Duchess of Parma (32 years 7 months), as the Princes of Scheumbourg-Lippe, of Lipne and Selmarzhourg-Rudolstadt and the Duke of Saxe-Meinengen, reigned many years before they reached their majority. Six sovereign.. are unmarried, namely (in dependently of the Pope). the Grand Duke of Mecklenburg- Schwerin, the Duke of Brunswick, the Princes of Reuss- Schleitz, Reuss-Ebersdorfe and of Waldeck. The King of Hanover, the Grand-dukes of Hume end of Oldenburg, the Duke of Nasesu, are widowers; the Dusters. of Parma is a widow. The Sultan is a polygamist. The Elector of Hesse has contracted a morgana'ic marriage. The thirty-nine others contracted marriages suitable to their rank ; two have been married thrice, eight twice. Of the forty-six anvereigna married or widowed, thirteen have no children. Of the thirty-three others, after the Sultan, comes Prince of Lielitenstein, who hu nine children. The King of Bavaria and the Prince of Lippe have each eight; the Orand Duke of Baden seven ; six other sove reigns have each seven—three only one. Fifteen sovereigns hove grandsons the King of the French has fifteen ; the Emperor of Russia. the Grand Dukes of Hews and of Saxe Weimar, and the Prince of Hohenzollern Sigmariagen have each six. As the Duke of Saxe Altenburg has only daughters there are thirty-two sovereigns who have heirs. presumptive ; fourteen have collateral branches for successors—twelve have brothers: the Queen of Spain, her sister; the Prince of Hohenzollen-Hechingen, the eon of his grand uncle. Six sovereigns have no fixed fume...ors ; they are, inde pendently of the pope, the Duchess of Parma, the Dukes of Brunswick, of Anhalt-Bernberg, of Anhalt-Cohen, and the Prince of Reuss-Sherder , . Of forty-six hereditary princes and heir-prvaumptives, the eldest being the Prince of Reuse Schleitz, 57 years and 2 months, the youngest the Prince of Reuss-Greitz, only 9 months of age, 23 are married; one has contracted a morganatic marriage, one is divorced for the second time, sixteen have children : Prince John of Saxony hu nine. In the course of laid year, eighteen deaths took place in sovereign families; three reigning Prince a, Pope Gregory XVI., Francis IV., Duke of Modena, the Landgyave Philip of Here-Homburg, one ex-sovereign, Louis Bonaparte, ca king of Holland; the Dowager Duchess (properly speaking princess hereditary) of Anhalt Dessau, mother of the reigning duke and his sister, Princess William of Prussia, aged 72 and 71 years, both sisters of the late Landgrave of Hesse-Horn burg ; Prince Henry of Pletwia, uncle of the present king, aged 65; Prince William of the Netherlands, aged 10 and a half; the hereditary Prince of Hesse-Philippthal-learch felsl, aged 21 ; Prince Charles of Waldeck, uncle of the reigning prince, aged 43 ; •Count Henry of Reuss Kostritz, aged 78; Count Ferdinand of Lippe-Blester feld, aged 74 ; the Grand-Duchess Mary of Hestia, daughter of the Grand-Duke Michael, aged 22 ; Primus Augusta of Noun- Usineen, married to the Count de Beenark, the divorced wife of the Lenderrave Louis of Hesse-Homburg, who died in 1839, aged 68 ; Maria Luiaa, Princess of Spain, wife of the Duke of San Fernando, aged 67 ; the Princess- Dowager Leopoldine of Liechtenstein, horn Princess Ester hazy, aged 58 ; Princess Louisa of Hohenzollern Hechingen, widow of Baron Heer von der Burg, aged 72; Prioress Caro line Louisa, of Schaumburg Lippe, sister of the reigning prince, aged 60. Among the births, 16 are especially worthy of notice ; those of the sons of the King of Naples, of the Queen of Portugal, of Prince Luitpald of Bavaria, of the Prince-hereditary of Reuss-Greitz, of the Prince-hereditary of Sardinie, of the Prince-hereditary of Schaumburg Lippe, of the Duke Eugene Erdunarna of Wurtemberg, of the hereditary Prince Charles of Heese-Philippthal, and of Count Jules of Lippe Blesterfeld ; then those of the daughter of the Queen of Great Britain, of the Duke of Nemours., of Prince of Liechtensti in, of the Princes Louis of Naples, Peter of Oldenburg, and Augustus of Saxe-Coburg- Gotha. In 1816 the following marriages took place in sovereign houses:—that of the Queen of Spain with her cousin the Infant Don Francisco; of the Oulu. of Montpensier with the Infanta Louisa of Spain; of tile Prince Royal of Wurtem berg with the Grand-Duchess Olga of Russia ; of the Princess Mary of Holstein Bliickehurg (willow of Colonel Lasperg) with Count Alfred of Hohenthal-Kiinigsbruck ; of Count Henry 11., of Reuss Kostrite, with Countess Clotilda of Caatell ; of the Hereditary Prince of Monaco with Countess Antoinette of Merode. We may notice, in conclu sion the divorce of the l'rinee Royal of Denmark from his second wife, a Princess of Mecklenhergalltrelitz. FRAIjCE.—TnEFRENCTIM I SRION IN Cu .—The affair of the French mission in China has been settled. The French Consulate at Canton is suppressed. A French Charge d'Affaires is appointed to the Celestial Empire. M. Forth-Rouen has been nominated to the post; be is to reside at Canton, where the viceroy resides, the legal repre sentative of the Emperor of China towards the Europeans. If, at a later period, the hopes of the English government arerealucd, and foreign agents arc admitted into Pekin, the French representative is to take the title of envoy extraor dinary and minister p'enipotentiary to the Chinese court an interpreter, • seactary, and a chancellier are to be attached to the mission. M. Lefevre de Bicourt, French consul at Canton, has been appointed consul-general at Manilla. M. Fibre, consnlar agent at Manilla, bag been appointed consul at Santiago, in the island of Cuba. and M. de Montigny has been appointed consular-agent at Changhai. FRENCH MattarEtts.—From the 9th August, 1830, to the Ist January. 1847, there have been 5.5 ministers at the different portefeuilles. The mii,ists rs the longest at the head of office are :—Guisot, about 101 rears; Souk, 94; Dochitel, 94; Martin, 8j; Cunin Gridsine, nearly 7; La cave-Laplagne,6S ; Thins, 44; Salvandy, 3 years 10 months Mackau, 31; Duman, 3; 11016, 21; de Broglie, 2 years and 7 months. COLONIAL. WESTERN AUSTRALIA. ALBANY (KING GEORG l.'s SOT'. N —We have bina favoured with the following extract from a letter, dated 15th July last, just reef-lived from an intelligent settler at Albany:— With rameet to timber, I have sees and been about the country, and on both aides, and I give you my opinion. It would afford me muc h co l on i•t to th•nk tbr timber lieculatka now in peogreas on the other side may entered ; yet, although the quality of the mahogany is unsurpaverd. the went of baboon., distant hill , &e., will, In my opinion, rend, it of minor horertanee; but I r certain if a company could be rained with a gaol capital to work -. timber on the mem at the " Nornoleep" inlet, about sixty miles to thegestwarflo' Albany, much profit cow: lbe made. I now give you a harried description of the place, and the resmuttee as to timber. The entrance to the ••• Nornalerp" inlet is narrow, and gat-bottom vessels drawing not more thaneightfeee only could enter; there are three rivers in the inlet. The West Hirer I have been up eieht miles; os the right hank, a mile 'ram the entrance of thin river, it a studded with the most gigantic " Mart," or tilurgurn, if immenne height, and straight as a trumborrel, mixed with %behest mahogany and another kind of valuable timber. The mUistle ovum n contains another river which I did nuts nos r, but there appeared to Ice the same timber up that river. The last Myer on both bank. contains the some demerit. lion of timber, bit of much more considerable extent and Importance. The timber on them rivers would .n by the whole of Great lit gain for shipbuilding for very many years. lath fiT the nary and mercan tile purposes. We have a newel called the blmma cherratt of 94 tons register, built et Torbay, about tea mica west of Albany, trading to Adelaide, the Isle of From:, Ate., and uut now on a voyage to the latter port. Ibis veesel was on the stocks nearly tea peen building. I bought one fourth to aunt i the pinks to send her tons. She la entirely planked with the " Tnart." After lying in the bays, whaling, he., foe ncarty twelve months she mole • pamsge to the Isle of Prance, where the wee mg. pared, and the worm had not touched her. Having commanded vessels for twenty-five years, I can only my it OA the best wood I ever -w Oar planking and other purposes in shipbuilding. The Emma gberratt titan sound an a rock to thin day, and perfectly tight, not a piece of timber having been removed since she we. built. To work the timber at the " Nornalecr inlet I should recommend, in the drat place, to build gets on the sap at, to raft the timber down the riveninba the inlet, also bantling on the spot an many semen of about lab tons berthen, gat badmen, and of light draft of water to carry the timber to the port of shipment, which I hood recom mend to be at Albany Princess Royal harbour, where Nips cm lay with thew raft porta out in Rarefy at all sasennn of the year. In such case the company would first obtain a license from the local government m as to obtain the whole of cite " Nornaleep" district, and and out nunicient shipwrights, ...mums, car penter, and 'Libman 0, with material, of iron and copper fastenings Pot building the verela alluded to. I should suppose a steam-engine would be useful for sawing, alai blocks, tackling, he. Mc., tor trans porting the timber. A good quantity of salt pork would waist for victualling the men. Flour and fresh MY( can be °Mottled in any quantity at Albany. The inlet abounds with gab, and vegetables can he soled on the spot. I will now audios ire you v. pot down my name for shares , of pounds each. a • • I heel almost for gotten to mention that the timber is growing clam to the water side on • declivity alto cing it to he brought to the Flats without mach labour. The in-- owsli rough sketch wiU give you a complete idea of the "Nornalter inlet with its riven,. NEIV ZEALAND. By the ship Mary, from Auckland, arrived yester day morning, we have papers from that settlement to the 20th of September. They contain no further intelligence from the Cook's Strait settlements. An intimation in the New Zealander, of 19th of September, that the legislative council was to be summoned in the course of the ensuing week, explains the object of the governor in returning to Auckland at that time. "As vet," says the journal we have named, we are kept in total ignerance upon the interest ing question of who the gentlemsn may be who arc to repre sent vein the council " Equal ignorance is professed of the i measures likely to be submitted to t ; but conjt dun% are hazarded that the governor may present a hill for"regu lating the purchases of land from the natives," a cattle slaughter ordinance, a mutual fencing bill, and a dog nuisance ordinance. (The land ides are the principal object ; and the journal to which we refer shows symptoms of some perturbation among the laud sharks.) It announces that the period allowed in the Government Gazette of the 16th June, 1816, for.cnding in to the Colonial Secretary's office the documents relating to the purchase of land from the natives expired on the 15th inst. A hope is expressed that the governor will be too high-minded to take any advantage of the disabilities of the claimants." Some light is thrown upon this dark inuendo by what follovn If the quantity of land claimed by a purchmser should appear excessive, when compared with the price paid for it, it will be meal leeted that such disproportion is no evidesee against the validity of the trannartion. The question will be, we presume, Did the natives willingly alienate such a rionnity of land for so small a considera tion, and were they winded with the payment! Instances of fraud may be detected, but we are not aware ut any having been perpetrated. Ephraim Jenkinson could not have stated the case more clearly: it is the case of the gross of green spectacles over again. Mr. Ephraim would have argued that Mr. Moses Primrose "willingly alienated" the wall-eyed horse for " so small a consideration" as the grog% of green spectacles, and was " satisfied with the payment:" demurely adding that " fraud might be detected," but that he " was not aware of any having been perpetrated." The New Zealander of 19th Sept. contains the abstracts of revenue and expenditure Iv the northern (or Auckland) division of New Zealand for the quarters ending respectively 31st March and 30th AMP, 1846. The revenue for the quarter ending 31st March (including arrears of previous years) was 3,32.51., of which 2,5191. was derived from CLA- W= duties levied at Auckland, and 51/. from customs duties levied at Russell. The revenue fur the quarter ending 30th June (arrears included) wax 3,3391., of which 2,2461. was from Auckland customs, and 931. from customs at Russell. The expenditure for the quarter ending 31st March was 4,1801. for current expenses, 6.0711. for arrears. The expenditure for the quarter ending 30th June was 3,8741. for current ex penses, and 1,174/. for arrears. The customs revenue collected at the ports of New Zealand, for the years 1841 to 1845 inclusive, was :-6,274/. in 1841 ; 18,5881. in 1842 ; 16,206/. in 1843; 11,4261. in 1844 ; 9.3401. in 1845. No cus toms duties were collected during the last two quarters of 1844, and the first four or five months of 1845, Governor Fitzroy having abolished them. This accounts in part for the great falling off in these years. The deficit is also in part attributable to the native disturbances. It is greatest at those parts which have been the scene of hostilities. Aucklaud being the harbour into which government stores were imported, the receipts there have declined leu than at the rest. Oa the 15th of September, H.M. et. Driver sailed for Wel lington with Col. M'Cleverty, who had been appointed Quarter-Master-Oenersl. On the 16th, H.M.S. Castor sailed for the Bay of Islands. CAPE OF GOOD HOPE. We have been favoured with the perusal of an in teresting letter from an intelligent private soldier on the Kaffir frontier. The wry dates of the letter are indicative of the unsettled state of the country in which the writer is stationed. It is begun at the commander in-chiera camp, on the 18th of October, and finished at Block Drift camp on the 29th. This is later intelligence from Block Drift than is contained in any of the newspapers; it announces the arrival of Sir Peregrine Maitland ; they only mention hi; being on his way. The writer expremes considerable scepticism as to the pacific professions of the Kaffir chiefs. From head quarters he writes :—" They are imams fur peace on their own terms." And from Block Drift :—" We expect to move again very shortly, as nearly the whole of the Kaffir chiefs are about to surrender, and they have sent in a great quantity of arms, cattle, anal horses, as an earnest of their intentions, but we must, even now, keep a strict eye on them, or they will take us in." The main interest of the letter, however, consists in its real presentment of the state of the troops, and the harassing duties they have to perform. Speaking of the camp at head-quarters, we are told: This is the don of all the camps, everything in apple-pie order. We have Dthrtoons, Cape Mounted hill Artillery, 'tappers and Miners, detachments of Han 45th and 90th Light Infantry, Hottentots, Dutchmen, Fingers, and Malaya We &nu altogether as motley an army as ever was , gared on, and most of s ..re like Folders men, " rather ragged.' I expect we would at a tidy Arse if re viewed in Hyde-park, alonetiii.e of your gallant household troops. • • A few days after our arrival the Kaaba had the audacity to come close to the camp and drive off 55 slanght. r oxen that were out Free ing. Directly we knew of our low all was animation, the camp trumpets rounding to hone, bugle calling the infantry, and off we all ouirted PP hard ea tee could go over the road we thought the, were meat likely to t ake. At five miles we came upon the vow., which we followed nearly ten miles along the sand on the ailswe, till we came to the mouth of a river, where they appeared to bare struck inland. A eouple of miles further we came up with the whole of the cattle, driven by only floe of them (had not they a cheek !). The country was quite open, and precluded all chanty or escape. Two fell by our firs in the attempt; the Europeans would have spired the others, but the Hottentots (who ore ut deadly feud with the came up and despatched them, donned merrily round their warm belies, and strippid them. The cattle were rent back to camp under charge of the cavalry, and the foot prrpsrol to retrace their morning's route. When we reached the sea, the tide bad risen, and we had ten miles to walk over dry Isom sand knee deep. We had been marching • ornt hnuro without a deep of water to dila. Many attempted to lie down, but quickly me again, for the cold wind writ,' bosh of nand, that would Mee covered them in three minute.. Night was beginning to and I thought we should never reach the rump, for an of In In our legs from draggingthmugb the deep heavy rands. An epic la the reeks at loot allowed us to get on firm land, and 1111. char water was found. All ran to it, elbowing and Mining, irMent regard to etre or rank. It was a deep ditch, with a couple of Mt of nice mud before you could reach the water. Of and men plunged in liken bevy of young otters, tiding their boot. with mad and their stomach. with water. We then lay doom for half as hoar. When we thought of starting again the water and mid wind had dons their work; moot were so KM as to be incapable of exertion, and I many had cramps in the Inside. Some of those who were ben obis volunteered to go to the camp as quickly se possible, and send back aid. Soon after their departure we strove to get on • little way, tar rying those who were too bad to walk. After we had got two miles the surgeon met us with men, spare bores, blanket,, and brendy. We rrached the camp alter a march of 54 miles, 20 of theta over Mae sand, without any refreshment but some cold water. Such are the hardships our soldiers have tar endure in that miserable carnpaian, in order to reclann some threescore bullock., losing which they must have gone on short allow ance. Soon after this adventure the writer was marched off to Patii's Kraal,where 3,009 head of stolen cattle were retaken. No effort was made by the Kaffirs to detain them; but ten days' marching, on an average 13 hours per day, through a country worse than described in the above extract, with only ft.ur days' rations, and the cattle captured, are more wearing out than a fight. The crossing of the Keiskarnrna by this detachment conveys a lively impression of what it had to undergo : We had to d.enend an abyss of loose rand and thorny term. Walk down you mild not, and so we threw ourselves down, caching bold of a tree occasionally to break our fall, by which means we gat nicely tern withthorna both flesh and clothe. We had now to cress tho river, which was up to the middle. We all took off our tmyraers, sad rotting our belts and piovisions in them, tied them on our head% slung our nrelotke limos our necks unit plunged in. The bottom woo large mandataries, slimy with the action of the water, :And directly von stepped in off went your feet into a hole, and your body immersed up to the neck. We were an boor getting through, and it was not atom twice the brtailth of the Regent's emit." With this exoenditure of-physical exertion, they had to march all day through a deserted country, carrying arras. cross-belts, 60 rounds of ammunition, haversack, canteen for water and tin, &c., for cooking, blanket, and big coat, and sometimes an axe. At night they hail to sleep in the open air, sometimes unable to kindle fires, on account of the heavy rains. Scarcely did a detachment return from one such expedition, ere it was ordered one on another. This is the must disheartening aerviee a sold it r can be seat upon. We can sympathi-e with the colonials, who, ha rassed for yearn by Kaffir marauders, and seeing no prospeFt of a aatislartary settlement of frontier disturbanoes, complain of the army. But we eau also enter into the feelings of our gallant countrymen, when, after recapitulating such ad ventures as these, we have been detailing, be breaks out— " These e iloilists soy we do nothing : d—n them, I wish they had a taste of it." The letter contains some admirable descriptions of scenery and plunth.ird mi•sith,avy villafpa ; but we have prelerr(xl quoting the practical illustrations of what our troops un- Arn dergo. 9ie THR GF.RIIAN OVERLAN D POST.—The regular march of this pest may be expected to produce a favourable change in English opinions of Germany. At present the English pap. rs derive their Get man news, as well as that from Italy, Spain, Itussin, and the Levant, chidly from the correspondence prepared in Paris. But this, having passed Livros gh French journals, is frequently so altered that we who are wal acquainted with it can hardly recog nize it in is new form. As an effect of the German over laid post we may expect that the London papers will be led to extract German news from our own papers rather than from their Paris correspondence. If we are well instructed, next yeek four or five numbers of the Allgememe Zeituna will he, at once, delis' 'red in London, and the Gaily News, in spito ut the jealous efforts of the combina tion, will give the latest news from the cast of gimp., Aligenteine Zeitutig.