The Express. — London, England, 1851-11-08 00:00:00

gfte erortoo. TO CORRESPONDENTS. • foovil Ilitios•I . The Kama; cootaiwa• bi • Imo woolilr ( o potiOirl ens, Tawioy wed toWy wyibt, Is Um* 1111 gm& &gm ...ortrrralrairel tar " lbw Taproo t " Leedom Foram( perm sort le Olio DOW, 14 lkwoorwoOroot, )y Two o'cLecl, on dr IVOR WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE 1114,111,110.1. 11.99 m. Afterson, I Vs. Ta esamoir —Venom. Ili. 9.2. .Atterasea. LONDON, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 8. THERE i, no portion of the public policy, no de psalm nt of state, that is not deeply affected by this terrible Kaffrarian war. Whether it be considered as a purely military question, affecting the security and honour of the empire, or a colonial question, mixed up as it is with the prevalent die...vattd and emmtitutional demands of the colonists, or whether it be regarded as a mere financial question, sums equal to the amount of money of our most onerous taxes going in the larger expenditure of hush fighting and wild commissariat—it is the great question of the mo ment. More important than these, the management of Cape affairs in general, and of the war in .particu lar, may prove a stumbling-block to the wh ig admi nistration, and universally condemned as the Cape policy of the government is likely to be by so many parties in the House of Commons, it is to be feared that what Ceylon nearly did, Katfraria will do com pletely. There is. however, a higher consideration for the British public than even all these; and that is, how the war is to be terminated without deplorable weak nem or indelible disgruce. We cannot send 1(1,000 men and five millions a year to South Africa as the French have ileac in North Africa. We believe it was Bun Eater who said that no amount of soldiers would entrilue tribes without towns, and imbued with hereditary enmity and fanatic hate. The only mode et conquering was to destroy the means of subsistence of the fee ; and this pan alone he effected by mitzias in harvest time. When the Arab, found that th e y cannot reap and store because of a French urine Bleu they would submit ; and they have submit lid. The Kathie do not sow and do not reap. Their cattle are their provend. It is only by depriving them of their cattle that they can be reduced. And there is no use depriving them of their cattle, when they can steal the same or as many . from the settlers. It is a cruel thing to say, but it is only by the destructien of their cattle that the Kaffire can lie subdued, and by the colonists themselves—all who are expneed to inroad—depending upon corn, and nut herds, for sustenance. As to hoping that two pastoral nations ran 'main at peace in juxtaposition, the one retreating, the other advancing, is as utter rm impossibility as could he imagined. The war having been provoked, and been com menced, Sir Ilettite Salient was right certainly in him attack on the Aniatolas, and the capture of his enemies' heals. The fault lay in allowing the de feated Kaffir , to levy from the colonists the same amount of cattle that - the troops had captured from them. Since then the war has not advanced a step. The Kaffir* bring their cattle to feed almost under the n o ses of the British, and the either§ of the latter make attempts to capture them, which give a pour idea of their ,trategy and their talents. Hear Colonel NIACIiINNON'S story: On the nth I moved to Foonah's Kkinf. During the march I saw, at • short distance to the left of the road, the Kaffir. drive some cattle into a deep valley which leads down to, the t ish river, and I made arrangements for at tempting their capture nevi moraine. tin the 9th I de tached Lieut. Colonel Mitchell with the nth Regiment, Catty'. riflemen, Armstrong's horse, nail fifly of the levy, to the right of the valley whirr I had seen the cattle, and procreili‘l myself with two companies of the Queen'., the oletarlimenta of the Vinl regionrot and Cape Corps, to the tell of this valley. I detached Commandant hawks with the hity of the levy and guides, supported by two hundred of the guts n's under Cap! sin Oldham, to enter the valley and follow the tree.. at the cattle. I watched their progress (or WM' time, and saw them burn some huts at the upper end nt the oath -y. Some hiring took place, but it ceased, and the detachment a ntered the valley on the traces of the rattle. I then pd.. II villa , hilt of the valley, intending to gain a r t tt it grounol about two miles distant, front allich point I evuld observe their progress.. _ . So far, nothing could he better; Colonel Mae uast IN had ISO diVitletl lsis forces that both heights of the %alley were severed, and u detachment was sent ado it, to scour it throughout, width in case of being attacked could either full back upon him or be supported. lint although for years the Katfirs have been, by a series of well-arranged stratagems, con stantly taking the British troops by surprise, Cap uto Ottotau s party was 'epoxied to be as it were strolling through the valley for its amusement, and Colonel M WAINNON, having caught sight of another body of the enemy. forgets all about his intended cattle expedition, ur the danger which the party in quest of them would be subject to. and moves oft to soother game. I, however. Noun and a large body th of Kars at some distance, and moved to attack them. . . . 1 then proceeded to the rising ground. hut did not reach it till ten o'clock, when, seeing nothing of the detachment, and hearing no tiring, I rwaeht,hil thry hml scoured Me nifty, (awl p i ne d :%Icreitzt.t.." Truly it had joined kleretirtt, or rather Itztailitt. had joined it, at a most critical moment, it having lust two officers and twenty-one men killed, one officer and twenty tour men wounded, or one-filth of the detachment. It would have Ise,, thought that when Colonel MAI'AINNIiN hail first heard the tiring in the valley, lie would have us -11 his best endeavours to reach the detachment, and see with whom such a handful of men were engaged; but, attracted by what ap peared to him the larger bode, he marches off in another direction, and wonders, on regaining his former intended position, that no more tiring was beard, as if it were so unlikely a thing that a detach ment should not have been hemmed in by hundred. of grim savages concealed behind every bush. As we have said before, the natives almost wor ship cattle; they are not only food to them, but wealth and honours, and Colonel 31ACIi1NNON ought, therefore, to have known that where the cattle was, there would be found the main body of the enemy. Any man who has read of war, much more so one who has seen it, would be cautious of directing his throe against an enemy on a point which could have no interest for him. A feint is a common move in chess; and if a child can learn that by attracting the notice of his adversary to one corner of the chess-board he can checkmate him unperceived, is it improbable that the Kaffirs should attempt to attract the attention of the British from their cattle, by a body of men showing themselves in one direc tion and engaging him, whilst their much-loved spoil is being quietly driven off in another? We very much suspect that instead of Colonel Macetx mos having congratulated himself on the very clever way in which he had attracted the Kaffirs out of the Kloof, he ought to have expressed his very great re gret at having been so easily duped. As it appea rs by this mail that the war is only going to begi n on the arrival of fresh reinforcements, the last twelve months having merely been a little series of skirmishes fur the amusement of both par ties, we trust that some more sensible heads will be sent to superintend it, for instance, seine of those young and clever men who are to be promoted next brevet, and that we shall have no more occasion for those little epigrams which Sir lIARItT Slirril found it necessary to perpetrate on the return of this fa mous expedition to Fort Wiltshire. And might we ask what has become of the Artillery. and where were the howitzers which should have shelled these savages out of their recesses and bush? UNIVERSITY COLLEGE. Hosrrr.u.—The Court of Assistants of the Grocers' Comp Any, on the Ith inst., voted the sum of fifty pounds M aid of the foods of this charity. TILE POET MONTGOMEItY.—On Tuesday the ve nerable and much-esteemed poet, Jame Montgomery, Esq., completed his SOth year. In celebration of the event an oak tree was planted on the lawn in front of the Sheffield Infirmary by . the venerable poet, whose name has been lett matcly associated with the annals of the institution since ft was projected in 1792. The ladies of ShetSeld also pre sented Mr. Montgomery on his birthday with a " friendship offering," consisting of a handsome easy chair, beautiful) in y carved walnut wood, with laurel leaves, and covered with Utrecht velvet; a reading stand, with ulrrit for the book :ow, the rose, thistle, and shamrock entwmaug the pedestal, with s t ir rest footstool ; together with a to be =, his honoured and highly valued nano, to the Wan i/Wdmray Society. A similar contribution was awarded to the tild School or Dings foe sat annul prim medal, to be designated " the Mestgowary Modal," end for fun pupils in Se sans inititsUon. 1. FRANCE. PARIS, NaIDAT Eveiritio. To-day the whole interest of the Assembly's sit ting was concentrated in the bureau:, which were employed in examining the new electoral law and in appointing a committee to ,report.on the bill. The debate was carried on with great warmth in all the bureaux. By the list of commissioners chosen, which I subjoin, you will perceive how decidedly opposed the parliamentary majority is to the new bill. I give the names in the order of the bureaux. The fifteen members of the committee are—Laroche- jacquelin, Wolowski, Baze, Chegaray, Grevy, Darn, Kermaree, Janvier, Dufour,. Amebic. Dubow, Vial mesnil, Benoit d'Axv, Jules de Lasteyrie, Mole, L'hassaigne-Goyon. 'Larochejacquelin and Grevy are the only commissioners favourable to the bill. In this committee there are eight Orleanists— Daru, Wolowski, Chegaray, Kermaree, Janvier, Chassaignc-Goyon, Haze, and Jules de Lasteyrie-- the last two known by their bitter hostility to the Elysee, and represented in the press by the Ordre; the others milder, and represented by the D el e te . There are two Herryer legitimists, Vutimcsuil and Benoit d'Azy ; twu fusionists, Mole and Dufour; one ultra-legitimist, Larochejaequelin ; one member of the tiemparti,Dubois; and one republican, Grevy. Cavaignac, in the 16th bureau, considered that as the law of May 31 might be looked upon as dead, the question for the majority lay in its modification. With regard to the executive power his policy will not change—it is the policy of re-election. Let us not (said he) recognise the principle of domiciliary capa city. Let us admit six months as the time necessary to constitute domicile. We would have it shorter. I regard the pure and simple abrogation of the law only as acceptable. NI. Piscatmy regarded it as a political question, of which the Assembly had at once shown its compre hension by an immediate resLtance to the proposi tion of the President, in which resistance it should persist. Were it not far this political character he would consent to modifications. M. Ikrryer said the principle of the law was not in the question of domicile. The majority might modify the law, but not at the expense of its di.aity. 7 l k e elections of the presidents and secretaries of the bureaux exhibit on one hand the coalition of the Orleanists and legitimists against the l'resident, and on the other the alliance of the Left with the govern ment party. In the llth tureaux ten members of the Mountain supported General de Bar, an Elysean, awainst M. de Beininat, who was, however, elected president. In the 3rd bureau, through the exertions of Count Beugnot, twelve members of the Mountain voted for I kfilon Barret, and thus threw out Changarnier. In several bureaux attempts were made to get up a debate about the law of May 31, but fell to the ground through the agreement of parties not to stir that question prematurely. Baron Wilier is spoken of as the probable minister of finance. The budget of the ministry of justice was voted without any debate of importance. That of the ministry of worship is now going forward. The questors' proposition has excited great indig- nation at the Elysip. The constitution nowhere says that the Assembly can appoint the commander of the troops it demands for Its protection. The pro position is therefore taxed by its opponents with unconstit utionalism. Fur the first time since the election of Louis Napoleon, a republican tone is observable in the Bonapartist organs. Such men as Cavaignac, La mm-tine,llault, and Lamoriciere, who have hi therto often been roughly handled by them, arc now spoken of with complacency, and represented as affording a sufficient rampart aguinst extreme democracy m a moderate republic, between which and a government of diviim right the Bonapartists now soy the real question lies. M. Monet has presented amendments to the Com munal Administration Bill, to the effect that all Frenchmen who have attained their majority, who have fulfilled the provisions of the law of recruit ment in the commune, and who have continued to reside in it—that all those who have not fulfilled the provisions of the ►aw of recruitment, but have ac quired their domicile in the commune by a residence of one year—that public functionaries and ministers of religion invested with functions for life—that fo reigners authorised to tiz their domicile in France, and who, previous to that authorisation, have resided for one year in the commune, shall be inscribed on its electoral lists. lie also proposes that the names of all persons deceased, those who have lost their quality of Frenchmen, and those who have taken up their residence in other communes, shall be struck off the lists. The Communal Bill, forming the most important part of the great bill on internal administration, was read for the first time last session. M. Vatimesnil's report embodies the amendments of the committee for the formation of the electoral lists. The chief feature of these amendments is that a residence of only one year is required in the same commune, iu stead of three years as in the law of :fist of May. The legitintists have adopted these amendments, and intend to vote for them when the Communal Bill is placed on the order of the day. The Club of the Rue des Pyramidcs, in a meet ing held last night at the house of M. Daru, do termined to oppose the electoral bill ; but they re solved at the saute time nut to juin in any aggressive legislative act ugaiust the executive power, from whatever side it might come. If they adhere to the latter resolution, the bill of the questors will be thrown out by a large majority. About 200 mem bers were present. N IM. de Broglie, Odilon Barrot, and Leon Faucher, were the chief speakers. The following is the text of the questors' bill, which I mentioned yesterday : Art. 1. The President of the National Assembly is charged to watch over the internal and external safety of the Assembly. He exercises, in the name of the Assembly, the right, conferred on the legislative power by Art. 32 of the Constitution, of fixing the number of troops required fur its safety, to dispuee of them, and to select the chief charged to command them. To this elect he has the right to c all on the armed force, and all the authorities whose co operation he may think accessary. The demands may be addressed directly to all officers, commandants, or fan,- tionaries, who are bound to attend to them under the pe nalties fixed by the laws. Art. 2. The President may delegate his right of requisi tion to the questors or to one of them. Art. 3. The present law shall be placed on the order of the day of the army, and posted up in all the barracks throughout the terntory of the Republic. The Gunton., Ii see, General LCFLO, DE PANAT. Urgency is demanded. The Coastitutioor.e/ contains an important article on the above proposition, which says that if it be voted by the Assembly that body had better at once demand the whole army of Parts fur its protection. This would place the public force, which forms the strength of the executive, at he disposal of a questor of the Assembly. The Press, says that the real aim of the questors bill is the maintenance of the law of May. The second ballot for appointing the two remaining secretaries of the Assembly resulted in the election of MM. Grimault and Peupin. M. Berard is there fore not re-elected. It was announced lad night that M. Blonde' had defi..itively refused the Ministry of Finance. The French government has ordered two war steamers to be prepared at Brest for an expedition against the Moorish pirates. General d'Alphonse, commander-in-chief of the state of siege of the department of the Cher, has issued an order closing fourteen cafes and public houses at Bourges M. Conti, a native and formerly representative of Corsica, has been appointed secretary-general of the ministry of justice. The Petrie of last evening says : " The govern ment has received from Lyons most satisfactory ae- I counts of the commercial situation of that manufac turing capital. The orders from America are abun dant, and promise to keep the Lvonese looms at work until the end of January. The Exhibition of London, where French silks obtained such a triumph, has contributed much to this happy result. The news from the coal districts are also satisfactory, and state that that important trade is every day improving. From Roubaix, Tourcoing, Lille, Elbecuf, and Sedan, the official accounts received also state a marked o improvement in business." To show the practical change already produced by the demonstrations of the executive against the law of May, I need only call your attention to an article of the litipublique, which would infallibly have been prosecuted under the ministry of 31. Leon Faucher. This journal says that "the law of May 31 never had right in its favour, and now it ceases to have THE EXPRESS, SATURDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 8, 1851. any force. The Assembly may do what it pleases; but the law is dead, and all Frenchmen, 21 years'ef age, aria having raided for six menthe in their com mune; trill vote in 1852. To render that remdt in evitable the President has only to do nothing. If the Assembly reject the bill now, they will be ebliged •to pass it three months hence." The majority will be daily more chagrined by such language being allowed to pass unchal lenged •by the authorities. But as -the li berals say, the work of reparation has begun ; and the message of Nov. 4 is the knell of reaction. M. Berryer found that he overshot the mark in mov ing for a committee on the state of the country. In other words, it was moving fur the attainder of the President. Dupin evaded putting such a motion from the chair; and the leader of the legitimists was fain to withdraw his aggressive proposition, and accept the interpellations offered instead by the government. A curious communication has been made to the Moniteur Ju &dr, by the Abbe Dufriches des Go nettes, rector of Notre Dame des Victoires. The reverend gentleman announces that all the mosses celebrated in his parish yesterday, Nov. 5, were in tended as a special ' amende honorable," and repa ration to the Holy Virgin for the odious sacrilege which the Mayor of a certain town in England pro to commit on that day at the head of a ri o :e ed licentious mob. BELGIUM. Yesterday the Senate proceeded to form its defi nitive bureau. It elected M. llumon-Dumortier president; MM. de Renesse and D'Omslius, vice presidents; and MM. Grenicr-Lefebvre and Spitaels secretaries. UNITED STATES. The United States steam-ship Atlantic,Capt. West, arrived in the Mersey on Friday evening, with three days' later news from New York and other cities in the United States. The Atlantic sailed from the port of New York on the 26th October, the day following her usual time. She reports the arrivals out of the Pacific and Niagara. The number of passengers by this arrival is 26, and the amount of specie four hun dred thousand dollars. Monetary affairs at New York continue to improve, and business generally was in a more flourishing condition. The stock and securities market was in active. Messrs. Jacob Little and Co., bankers, New York, failed on the 23rd ult. On this subject the Nero York Herald says: " We arc gratified to state that this eminent firm will probably make a satisfac tory compromise of their liabilities, and again resume operations." The democrats of the city and county of New York held their ratification mass meeting, in Tammany Hall, on the 23rd October. Amongst the resolutions passed at a full and enthusiastic meeting, the follow ing have some significance:— The metallic reserve of the Bank of France has de clined both in the Paris Bank and in the provinces, in the former, nearly 1 million, and in the latter 4/ millions. The discount-accommodation has fallen off in Paris 5I millions, and increased in the departments 3; millions, the amount of the former being 31,162,G11fr. and of the latter 641,162,641 fr. On the side of liabilities, the notes in circulation have fallen off 3 millions in Paris, and increased of a million in the branch banks. The account-current of the Treasury has declined 31 millions, the prese.it amount being 34,310,38nfr. Private accounts current have declined 2/ millions in the Paris and increased 2 millions in the branch banks, the amount of the former being 84,310,381*. and of the latter 31,263,393 fr. The amount of the metallic reserve is at present 0031 millions to 5321 millions of notes in circulation. That, to the democratic party alone now u heretofore, must the duty be entrusted of developing the great destiny of the American people ; that we can no longer regard with indifference and inaction the aggressive combination of Russia, England, and Austria, against the republican move ments in Europe and America; that the arrival of the illus trious Kossuth upon our soil will be an auspicious occasion for the democracy of the United States, in their primary assemblies, to proclaim anew, for the encouragement of the prostrate masses of other countries, the principle of the sovereignty of the people, that all governments exist by their consent and for their welfare ;and that they have at all times full authority to alter existing and establish new insti tutions and forms of government. That the democracy of New York, now universally and cordially united, go into the approaching election with an invincible determination to restore the ascendancy of de mocratic men and measures in our metropolitan and state administrations ; that the overthrow of the whig power in this city and state is the great and final measure of prepa ration for the national contest of 18.52, when the American democracy, victorious in every issue of principle which they have heretofore submitted to the popular vote, with their flag borne aloft by a dauntless, progressive, and radical de mocrat, will again enter the field, re-altirmieg the prin ciples which have secured the triumphs of the past, and proclaiming for the future guidance of our Federal govern ment, the fixed and unalterable purpose of these United Suites, to adhere no longer to the dogmas of neutrality in our foreign policy, while the monarchies of Europe are forming alliances and conspiring to exterminate republi canism from the Old World, and to circumscribe and im pede, on the continents of North and South America, the progress of republican institutions and governments. At the Bourse the Fires fell 35c., and closed at 90.30 ; the Threes fell 25e., closing at 55.75. Rail ways were less firm. Most of the lines fell slightly. SPAIN. The Madrid journals of the 2nd contain no poli tical news of importance. The government continues to display great rigour towards the opposition press. The C'unstitacional and the Epoca have been again seized. . Tho Cortes were to meet on the .Itlt, without any xtraordinary pomp or ceremony. ITALY. PIEDMONT. Silvio Pale° arrived at Genoa on the 27th ult. TUSCANY. The following proclamation had been issued by President Fillmore in regard to expeditions joining the revolution in Northern Mexico. It is said that France and England have pre sented an explicit note to the Tuscan government, protesting against the absorption of Tuscany by Austria. Whereas there is reason to believe that a military expedi tion is about to be fitted out in the United States, for the purpose of invading the Mexican Republic, with which this country is at peace; and whereas, there is reason to appre hend that a portion of the people of this country, regardless of their duties as good citizens, are concerned in, or may be seduced to take part in the same; and whereas, such enter prises tend to degrade the character of the United States in the opinion of the civilised world, and are expressly prohi bited by law —now, therefore, I have issued this my pro clamation, warning all persons who shall connect them selves with any such enterprise, in violation of the laws and national obligations of the United States, that they will thereby subject themselves to the heavy penalties denounced against such offences ; that if they should be raptured within tho jurisdiction of the Mexican authorities they must expect to be tried and punished according to the laws of Mexico, and will have no right to claim the interposition of this government in their behalf. 1 therefore exhort all well disposed citi zens who have at heart the reputation of their country, and are animated with a just regard for its laws, its peace, and its welfare, to discountenance, and by all lawful means pre vent, any such enterprise ; and I call upon every officer of this government, civil or military, to be vigilant in arresting for trial and punishineut every such offender. (liven under my hand the twenty-second day of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand right hundred and fifty-one, and the seventy-sixth of the independence of the United States. By the President : J. J. Crittenden, Acting Sec. of State. SWITZERLAND. The elections for the National Council of Switzer land have resulted in the return of 25 conservatives, '9 liberals, and 66 radicals. MILLARD Fiumuue. The above proclamation has been issued in conse quence of intelligence received from the consul at Matamoras, to the effect that a company of Texans had been organised, and had marched into Mexico, and that nee• enlistments were in progress for similar movements. Great excitement was produced at Philadelphia on Wednesday, by the arrival of the ship Shackamaxon from Liverpool, with about CAW passengers, among whom the small pox had broken out. The police were instructed to prevent the vessel from landing at the city dock, and the Board of Health would pro bably order her to the quarantine. The packet brig Belle, which recently plied be tween Boston and Halifax, was wrecked, about twenty miles from the latter place, on Monday morn ing. She had on board a large number of passengers, all of whom were saved, but the vessel and cargo will prove an entire loss. By the way of Washington, we are informed that there is a probability of the release of the entire party of Cuban prisoners who have been sent to Spain. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. Naw YORK, OCT. 24. BREADSTCTIII.—FIour advanced to 3 dole. 87V. to 4 dole. fur State, 3 dole. 87tc. to 4 dols. 12ic. for estern, 4 dole. 25c. to 4 dole. 62c. for fancy Ohio and Gene see, and 4 dots. 50e. to 5 dole. 75c. for extra ditto, with sales of 12,700 barrels. Southern continued un changed, though there were but 800 barrels sold. Small lots of rye flour, and 200 barrels Jersey meal, brought 3 dole. 311 e. Wheat moved to the extent of 1,800 bushels Genesee white, at 94c. ; 5,500 Michigan, with 2,700 Ohio ditto, at 88c. ; and 42,000 Canadian, in bond, at 84c. to 85c. ; while of rye 1,900 bushels only changed hands, at 71c. Of barley, 1,700 ditto, at 76e. 3,000 bushels Canadian peu realised 60c. ; and 40,000 bushels unsound to prime mixed Western corn, 554 c. to 57ic. ; with some Northern yellow at 61e., an improvement. COTTON.-1110 sales to-day were 1,000 bales, with a fair market, at the annexed quotations. Telegraphic despatches of light frosts at Macon, Geo., and Columbia, S. C., on the night of the 23rd instant were received to-day ; but no im portance was attached to them, as, with the dry atmosphere existing, it would require black frost of a radical nature to stop the growth of the plant. Lircaroot au/imams. • - -- --______ New °demo. rploals. Florida. Mobile &Tem. , Inferior... _ -------- Ordinary Good ordinary 8 to 8 8 to 8 to St illddllao Good middllog Bl to 6 81 to to 9 9to 9 1 9to 9/ 9to 9/ Middling fair Pair roily fair 1 Mond tall Stock in city, in all hands, estimated at 17,000 bales. InoB appeared higher, the sales consisting of 130 tons Scotch pig, at 21 dots. to 21 dots. 30e. ; and 150 English bar, at 33 dots., AM months. Imported this week, 12,724 bars railroad iron ; 4,181 bars, 6,219 bundles, 1,570 bundles hoop; 4,035 bundles sheet ; 669 sheets ; 436 tons pig ; 3,501 plates ; 203 bundles scroll. - - PILOVNIONS.—Pork was rather cheaper. The sales, in cluding 300 brl.. new mess, at 1.3 dols. 12ic. ; and ditto prime, at 13 dols. 75c., while beef remained arm, nith over 200 brls. sold. 1,000 dressed hogs realised Sic. to 61c., and 180 brls. Ohio lard, at Bic. to 9c. There was nothing new in butter or cheese. i';;;;i:CU.:-guiett Tuesday 600 hhda. Kentucky have been purchased, at Sc. to 91c. ; 393 bales Baracoa, at 191 c. ; and 28 Sagas, at 20c. Market brisk and uniform. Im ported this week, 1,003 bales, 718 oeroons, 5 tierces to- ESCIIANGE.—SterIing is firm, but not active, at 91 to 101. Francs, 5 dols. 15c. to 5 dots. 131 c. At New Orleans Bret class bils sell at 71e. to Sc., and bills with bills lading attached as low as 6c. to*. These prices must soon reduce the rates here. Fuzionrs for Liverpool are firmer, with some transac tions. Engagement, 20,000 bush. Wheat at 4je. to 41c.; 3,000 or 4,000 brls. flour at 12d. ; cotton, id. ; 300 brls. lard, 15s. ; 500 oars, id. To Glasgow, a small parc e l w h ea t 3d. To London, 200 lbs. lard 205., and cheese 304. A char ter was made from New York to St. John's for flour at 4.k., and two to the West Indies at round sums. To California there is a moderate business at4oc. to 60c., according to date of sailing. _ NEW ORLEANS, OCT. 24. The sales of cotton this morning were 3,000 bales ; strict middling, 7c. The week's sales have been 32,000 balm. The receipts this season have been 176,000 bales, against 94,000 at same time last year. The stock is 102,000 bales against 73,000 last year. New sugar is at 4:c. for good common. Mess pork is dull at 14 dole. Rio coffee-3,000 bags sold at Bc. to tqc. Freights are dull ; cotton to Liver pool is taken at 9.16 d. Sterling exchange is quoted at 61 to 8 premium—the latter being for fancy signatures. Flour is dull, and good brands of Oh i o a r e offered at 3 dols. 66e. Lard-500 kegs prints sold at 101 c. Whisky is heavy, at 191. EGYPT. An English line•of-battle ship and a steam frigate arrived at Alexandria on the 15th. The former, the Vengeance, was commanded by Lord Russell. On hearing of his arrival, the English consul came from Cairo to visit him. THE EGYPTIAN RAILWAY. A letter, dated Alexandria, Oct. 23, says: " Intel ligence has been received from Constantinople, to the effect that the Sublime Porte at Constantinople has removed all ommition to the construction of the Egyptian Railway. Abbas Pacha's petition to the Sultan fur have to make the railway was not couched in terms exactly suitable to the Sublime Porte, but, on deliberation, it was determined that no further difficulty should be made. The engineers have received instructions to begin their work at once, and it is now hoped that they will be able to proceed without fur ' ther delay, and no bring this undertaking to a speedy end. A regular divan or administration has been formed at Cairo for the railway, having as director Abilallah lley,an English man long resident in Egypt, and who has been in great favour for some time past with Abbas l'aeha. This divan is to co-operate with the railway engineers, to provide for their wants in the shape of materials and manual labour, and assist them in every way in the prosecution of their work." LATEST FOREIGN EXCHANGES. PARIS BOURSE. PARIS. Nov. 7. ,011gbeet.' Lowest.' Mein, 3 par Oasts. I par Osage 9O 63 90 90 10 30 90 30 3 manta. New ! .. ... per Oasts. q per Ornt. . . ... ... , , "schwa an Imam :at MAL 2521 1 ; 90 day's, 237 2. Bor.'. mu 3, 1042 — ... Boman Lon, 1631 73 ... Do. 46 Do. 2 .. . .... ... Treasury H oods ... Piedmont 5 p.Ct.... .. 7310 ... Bank Mare. Pima, Nov. T.—Versailles (right bank), 256 25; ditto =bank) 210; Puts and Deism., k6O ; Paris and Room 367 50 ; and Harris 207 SI; Mamas. and Arisnes. 116 23 ; litres. Bourg and Bale. 113 73; Centre. 423 75 ,• Boulogne sad Andras. 260; Orleans and Bordeaux. 976 23; Northing Of 75; Parts and Strasbourg. 353; Touts and Nudes. 233 73. 1 I M me,. %swing $6 11.1 I - 1 90 49 Vor Account. [By Electric Teleerspb.) VIENNA, Nov. 7.—Five per Cent. Metalliques, 917.. Exchange on London, 12.42 ; on Paris, 151. HAMBURG, Nov. 7.—Three per Cents. Interior, 321 ; Four-and-a-Half per Cents., Russia, 96-1. Ex change on London, 3 months, 13.61; at sight, 13.81. FRANKFORT, Nov. 7.—Five per Cent. Metal liques, 711. Three per Cent. Interior, 341. Ex change on London, 1191; on Vienna, 931. BERLIN, Nov. 7.—Voluntary Loan, 1021 ; Na tional Debt, 881. Four-and-a-Half per Cents., Russian, 1011. ANTWERP, Nov. 7.—Five per Cent. Metalliques, 72. Five per Cent. Ardoins, 151. Three per Cent. Interieur, 3 4 1. Russian Four-and-a-Half per Cents., —. Exchange on London, 25 23. BRUSSELS, Nov. 7.—Belgian Five per Cents., 98; ; ditto Four-and-a-Half per Cents., 89,1; ditto Two and-a-Half per Cents., 491. Exchange on London, 23.23. AMSTERDAM, Nov. 6.—Five per Cent. mete liques, 138! ; Fire per CentArdoine, 15 1-10 ; Three per Cents. Interior, 34: ; Russian Four-and-a-Half per Cents., 991; Two-and-a-Half per Cent. Integrals, 0 1-10. Exchange on London, 11 83. THE FATAX ACCIDENT ON THE CITY Or Bou- LOOSE STEAMBOAT.—Irst evening Mr. J. W. Pays*, the ' deputy coroner, held an inquest at St. Thomas's Hospital, on the body of Edward Gore, aged 42 yean, who lost his life under the following eirearastances:—Henry Holey , a mariner, stated that on Tuesday afternoon last the deasaied, witness, and four other men, were employed on board the City of Boulogne steamboat, at that time moored off the lower end of Nicholson*s-wharf, London-bridge, when the starboard paddle-wheel was found to be fixed. The five et theta were then ordered by the engineer to get into the wheel and try if they could push it round. They all sat oa different parts of the wheel, the deceased taking the lower position, when the wheel suddenly took half a revo lution, and several of the men disappeared into the water. Witness climbed upon deck through the trap-hatch. The Captain picked the deceased up, and pulled him into a small boat. Heard no order given about the engine. The en gineer was also in the wheel, and was precipitated into the water with the deceased. By the Coroner: Believed that nothing but the pushing of the wheel put it in motion. William Slack, the engineer, said that on the day in ques tion he found that the engine had what is termed "stuck." Witness asked for assistance from the captain to move the machinery, as there was more power over the engine by means of the paddle-wheel in such difficulties. The steam was on at the time, but the wheel was positively moved by I the men. It was a common practice for men to get into the wheel. Several persons were in the engine-room, and wit ness was confident n 3 one touched the levers as they were in the same position when he returned, although the machi nery was altered through the action of the wheel. The yea sel was just going to start on its voyage. Mr. W. C. Thomp son, the house surgeon, said the deceased had received ma extensive scalp wound and concussion of the brain, awl died in three hours after admission. The iminsikagnagane of death was severe shock to the nervous system* t♦e %- jury to the brain. The coroner having re ea the case, the jury returned a verdict of "Accidental bath," at the same time expressing an unanimous opinion that more caution ought to be used on such occasions for the future. went I Ine Court, • WINDSOR., Nov. 7. The Queen walked in the Home Park and the Slopes this morning. the l'rinee of Wales, the Prince.; Royal, and younger members of the Royal Family took their accustomed p lay and walking exercises. Prince Albert went out shootinz this morning, attended by Colonel lion. Charles Grey, Colonel F. li. Seymour, and Mr. Ormsby Gore. The Dowager Lady Littelton and the Hon. Caroline Lyttelton, and the Right Hon. Sir Charles Wood, are ex pected at the Castle to-dry, on a visit to her Majesty. There was no addition to the royal dinner party last evening. The finance committee of the Royal Communion for the Exhibition of the Works of Industry of all Nations in 18.51 had a meeting yesterday at the Board of trade. There were present Earl Granville (chairman), Sir Wm. Cabin, Mr. Baring, M.P., Mr. T. F. Gibson, and Mr. Bewring (were tary),lr. Cole, Mr. Dilke, and kr. Carpenter, attended. A deputation, consisting of Mr. Leslie, chairman of the London Coach-makers' Committee, Messrs. Booker, Thrupp, Peters, Robson, Rowley, Turner, and Shillibeer, had an interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer yesterday at his official residence in D4wniug-street. Sir W.M. Colebrooke had an interview with Earl Grey at the Colonial-office yesterday. Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial-office from the Governor of Malta. . . . Despatches were sent off from the Colonial-office yesterday to the Governor of Canada and the Governors of the other North American provinces. The Chancellor of the Exchequer left town yesterday evening for Windsor Castle. (From butt night's Gazelle.) DOWNING -STREET, Nov. 7.—The Queen has been pleased to appoint Alexander Williams Anderson, Esq., to be Inspector of Schools for the Island of Trinidad. ADMIRALTY, Nov. 6.—The naval war medals (not including those for the Burmese war) for which claims were preferred prior to the Ist Sept. last, will be ready for issue. either on personal application, or by letter addreised to the Secretary of the Admiralty, on and after Monday the 10th inst. By command of their lordships, J. valises. It is now rumoured that Mr. Senior's appoint ment to the place in the Indian council, left vacant by the death of Mr. Bethune, is not certain. Mr. C. Villiers and Mr. Roebuck hare been talked of for it. THE Baerrr.—The Brevet will, as we have already stated, be published in the Military Gazette of Tues day evening next, the 11th inst., and will extend to the names to which we have already alluded, viz., to the heat: generals of 1838, includirut Lord C. Manners; to the major generals of 1841, including Major-General Aitchison; to the colonels of November, 1811, as tar as Colonel Chamberlayne may ; and to the lieut.-colonels, majors, and captains of 1840. This brevet will cause a number of changes in the stall, as well as the regimental appointments of the army. THE GREAT EXHIBITION. For awhile after the formal closing of the Ex hibition, its portals, which now remain wide open throuhg out the day, to facilitate the escape of its vast con tents, have been usually surrounded by a number of persons anxious to take a final glance at its departing treasures; but 'within the last day or two the waggons have been suffered to leave unregarded, and people for the most part seemed reconciled to look upon the Great Exhibition as amongst the things that have been. It may be mentioned, in connexion with the Exhibition, that a handsome silver teapot and jug have been presented by the district superintendents to Mrs. Belshaw, as a mark of their esteem for the manner in which Mr. Ilelshaw performed his very arduous and responsible duties us general superintendent. A morning contemporary has the following ac count of the arrangement with Messrs. Fox and Henderson regarding the building: The report agreed to by the Royal Commission at their meeting on Thursday was not the only important feature of their proceedings on that day. They also had under their consideration the question of their agreement with Messrs. Fox and Henderson, the contractors, and the validity of those equitable claims founded thereon to which the cha racter of the work and the outlay in its completion have given rise. Before we state the terms of the decision at which they arrived upon this subject it is necessary to ex plain a few facts, which may help the public to a sound de cision with regard to it. The original contract for the building provided that a sum of 79,8001. should be paid for the use of it towards the purposes of the Exhibition, and in the event of its purchase the price was fixed at 1.30,0001., but it had also attached to it a schedule of prices according to which all additional work nut included in the specification was to be executed. The additional work so provided for and found to be required in the pro gress of the undertaking raised the contemplated expendi ture of 79,800/. for the hire of the building to 1(19,0001., and that amount has been nearly paid under the strict terms of the contract. When, therefore, the period arrived fur a final settlement with Messrs. Fox mid Henderson, sup posing that the ltoyal Commission had determined to buy the building, the price of 1.50,0001. fixed at the outset must have undergone in conformity with their contract a propor tionate increase, and would have stood at about 20d,0001. With the question in this position, it became known that the contractors, pressed by time, by the addi tional outlay which it rendered unavoidable, by the increased work put upon them, which made the whole still more difficult to accomplish within a limited period—deprived, too, in a great measure, of the power of effectually controlling their outlay for labour, and driven, as the public sill remember, to a day almost for the completion of a work in which the credit of the country for punctuality was deeply implicated—it became known that if held to the :strict letter of their bond they would be heavy losers. Then it must be remembered that the transept roof and the architectural decorations of Mr. Owen Jones and Mr. Barry were executed gratuit ously. The Royal Commission could not, under the cir cumstances, have stood rigidly upon their contract in the event of its being determined that the building should be pulled down. The very novelty of the undertaking pleaded on behalf of the equitable claims which the contractors pee- Bused upon their overflowing exchequer. It was, therefore, foreseen that when the fate of the Crystal Palace had been settled definitively, if its purchase right out was not in some shape or other provided for, the amount that the con tractors were out of pocket in its construction must be taken into serious consideration. the Royal Conimissiun have not as yet, of course, finally decided with reference to the building, but, unless we are very much mistaken, they have approached so near a conclusion as to render the event certain. Without waiting for the moment to which they might have postponed Messrs. Fox and Ilenderson's equita ble claims, and when, had they been resolved to give up the Crystal Palace, they could alone have considered those claims advantageously to themselves and the public, they, at their meeting on Thursday, adopted tho following minute:— "It was resolved that, although under ordinary circum stances the payment of a higher sum than that agreed upon for work executed under a contract, after public tender, is highly objectionable, and would establish a very dangerous precedent, and although the commission could admit no claim on the part of the contractors, yet that they were of opinion that, under the circumstances recapitulated in the report of Lord Granville and Sir William Cubitt, Messrs. Fox, Henderson, and Co. should be secured against ultimate positive loss, and that the sum of 3:40001., as recommended in the above report, should be forthwith advanced to them, upon their written agreement to abide by such terms and conditions as the commission may hereafter prescribe. " It was also agreed that the further questions raised in that report, as to the final verification and settlement of the accounts, and as to the conditions to be imposed in case of the materials being sold for a higher sum than that esti mated, should be referred to the Finance Committee. " The above conditions agreed to : " CHARLES FOX, "JOHN HENDERSON. "Nov. 6, 18.51." This document may fairly be accepted as an unmistake able proof that the Crystal Palace is to be preserved. • • • • As long as the question of retaining the building involved a sacrifice of not more than 79,000/., the arguments pro and con might, perhaps, have been consi dered fairly balanced. When, however, the actual expen diture under the contract rose to 109,0001., and when it became evident that beyond that amount the contractors were serious losers, and under circumstances of such a chit meter that the Royal Commission could not equitably hold them to the strict letter of their agreement, then the policy of preserving the building could ns longer be doubted. Obviously acting upon this conviction, the Royal Commis sion have adopted the foregoing resolutions, and as Lord John Russell was present on the occasion, and, with Lord Granville, voted in favour of them, it is no great stretch of assumption to infer that the government are prepared to complete the purchase of the Crystal Palace, and thus to give effect to the wishes, not only of the public, but, if we have not been misinformed, of the Queen herself upon this , subject. LORD MAYOR'S DAY.—The following line has been laid down by the officer charged with the arrangement of the Lord Mayor's Show, fur the procession from Guildhall to Westminster, on Monday next:—The procession will move from Guildhall at II o'clock precisely, and pass through Gresham-street, Coleman-street, Fore-street, the Pavement, West-street, "the north and cent sides of Fins bury-circus, Circus-place, London-wall, Moorgate-street, Princes-street, King William-street, Adelaide-place, to London-bridge, thence by water to Westminster; and will return from Westminster to Blackfriars-bridge, and pass through New Bridge-street, Ludgate-street, St. Paul's Churchyard, Chcapside, and King-street, to Guildhall. At the Obelisk, Bridge-street, the procession, on its return, will be joined by the ambassadors, her Majesty's Ministers of State, the nobility, judges, members of parliament, and other persons of distinction invited to the banquet at I Guildhall. THE ACCOUNTS OP THE KING OF HANOVER'S HEALTH, telegraphed to Berlin on the 4th, were less favour able than those of the two preceding days. The official bulletin, issued at Hanover on the 3rd, stated:—The King has passed a tolerable night , the symptoms remain un altered. THE LIVERPOOL COUNTY COURT.-THE INQUIRY AT PRESTON. PRESTON, Nov. 7. After our parcel was despatched yesterday, tho examination of witnesses en behalf of the memorialists was resumed on the re-assembling of the court. Sir George Stephen was examined, and deposed that the demeanour of the judge on the occasion of Mr. Whitty's examination was most excited, and wanted both dignity and calmness. lie remembered seeing a gesture used by the judge while the witness Hartley w as under examination, and some words were used in an untlertobe—it was ei.her dunce or ass. Was not a spontaneous witness, because ho thought it was no part of counsel to become a partisan. The judge held up his fist in this manner, and whether tho word was dunce or ass, he said, " Don't you know we call this in law a fist ?" Ilad read the short-hand writer's re port, and it was certainly faithful. Mr. J. B. Aspinall, the barrister, was also examined.— lle was present en the occasion of Mr. Whitty's appear ance before Mr. Itamshay, and it struck witness that the judgo was exceedingly angry, and very much out of tem per. Never saw a judge on the bench cleaver judgment in such an agitated manner before. The judge was ex ceedingly violent, and his violence wan entirely uncalled for. Mr. Simon, the barrister, was treated with the great est possible violence by the judge. (Mr. ltamshay, who was sitting immediately under the witness-box, here be came much excited, and threw his pin down on the table with considerable violence.) Mr. Aspinall proceeded to say that with the exception to which he referred, he had not a word to say against Mr. Itainshay. The latter gentleman here ruse, and made some observation which wan not heard; the witness, addressing the noble lord on the bench, said, "Mr. Itamshay says I have nothing to say for him now, my lord ; I have to s.ty that he behaved with great courtesy to me." Mr. James Macdonald, surveyor, deposed that when the bailiffs came for Mr. Whitty he was at that gentleman's office ; and on the officers saying they had come to bring him before the judge of the county court, witness asked if Mr. Ramshay was having another banquet, and wished Mr. Whitty to go to it. The bailiffs said " No; they bad come to arrest Mr. Whitty." Mr. Whitty said he did not choose to go, and they said, " Well, we must take you, for he is going on like a raging bull se us." Witness asked them if they had a warrant, and they said they had not. lle then said they must be mad to come tar a man like Whitty without a warrant, and the judge must be madder than them to send them. Dr. Matintyre was next examined, and corroborated the testimony given as to the vio.ent demeanour of the judge on the 27th of September. John Jones, a native of North Wales, deposed to the facts of his committal for contempt by Mr. ltamshay. It would be absolutely impossible to conva.y any idea of the effect produced by this witness, who, it will be remembered, was sent to Lancaster Castle for putting on his hat in the anti room of the court. The Earl of Carlisle manifested a deep interest in the poor fellow's narrative, which he detailed with a simplicity and pathos at once affecting and ludicrous. He had b en ordered into custody for not paying a debt of 205., and on getting into the waiting-room he put his hat on; but before he had taken two steps, a malt came and " grabbed" him. The witness suited the action to the word, and seized hold of Dr. M'lntyre, who was sitting near him, to exemplify the manner of his arrest. On being taken before the judge, he said that he had no intention of doing anything wrong, and was very sorry if he had offended his lordship, but the judge said the people of Liverpool were continually " contempting'• hint, and he would make an example of those who were guilty of such -- " it was a hard word," said the witness, " but I thought he meant something dreadful." He was sentenced to pay a fine of 55., or an additional imprisonment of seven days in Lan caster Castle. Ile said lie was a pour man and had only a shilling, and hoped his lordship would be merciful as 120 meant no offence, but the judge still sentenced hint to Lan caster Gaol. Lord Carlisle—What, after you had twice apologised, my man? ‘Vitncss—Yes, my honour, and after taking me to Preston, the bailiff missed the train, and kept me in Preston all night and all day Sunday, and when I was discharged from Lancaster Castle I had only SAL left, and had to walk all the way back to Liverpool. His Lordship manifested great distress, (annoyance would he ton weak a word), as Mr. ltanishay, at the con clusion of the witness's evidence, borrowed hall-a-sovereign from Mr. Thurburn, the barrister, and presented it to the witness. Just previously, Mr. ltamshay had inter rupted his counsel, to the mortification of Mr. Serjeane Wilkins, who said, "If Mr. Haunshay would be advised by me, he would take a horse and go into the country until this inquiry is over." To Mr. Monk, his Lordship said, in allusion to Mr. Itarushay's interruption, that, to say the least, it was very disorderly. This morning the examination of witnesses was resumed. James Brown, tailor, was the first witness examined—Ho detailed the circumstances attendant upon visiting tho County Court at Liverpool on the 29th of September. William Austin, a bill sticker, examined by Mr. Atkin son—Had been a bill sticker for nine years. It was tho custom of newspapers in Liverpool to have bills posted con taining the heads of the news in the paper. Had been em ployed by Mr. Whitty since he had had the Journal. Wit ness posies! the bills for Mr. Whiny on the 27th of Septem ber. He posted one of the bills on a board near the county court, on which there were all sorts of bills. Whitty did not instruct witness to post the hill near the county court liad posted a bill for Mr. Whitty, containing the words " County Court Curiosities; " also another bill having in it a line, " A Smart Breeze in the County Court , " another contain ing the words " Extraordinary Proceedings in the County Cturt." Mr. David beans, of Liverpool, solicitor—Was soli. citor for the Guardian Society. had occasionally prac tised in the county court for his own clients. On the 25th or 27th of September in the case of " Roster v. Mercer," which was an action fur rent, Mr. 'lime, solicitor for tho plaintiff. proved that a quarter's rout was in arrear. Witness called tire witnesses for the defence. The cling: had been tried before a jury, and a verdict given for the defendant ; a new trial was applied for, and after evidence had been received on both aides, Mr. ]tam shay re-culled the plaintiff, and after having examined him for three-quarters of an hour, he addressed the jury in a long speech, altogether in favour of the plaintiff, urging all he could against the evidence which had been adduced for the defendant, and concluded by calling upon the jury, in mercy to the defendant, to find a verdict fur the plaintiff; " for," he said, " I have the power of granting a new trial • hundred times." Mr. William Duckworth, a merchant, of Liverpool, was examined.—He was present on the 29th of September on the examination of Mr. Whitty, in the Liverpool County Court, when the conduct of the judge appeared to be wholly unbecoming and exceedingly indecorous. lle seemed to be labouring under the influence of great excitement and strong passion. He refused to take evidence in favour of Mr. Whitty, and altogether acted in a most partial manner. A witness who said he was not struck, hut merely collared, was prompted to say that Mr. Whitty, jun., held his list in his face, and many other suggestions emanated from tho judge entirely uncalled fur, and in witness's opinion grossly improper. Mr. Samuel Rolm°, a member of the Liverpool town council, and a resident for 50 years in that town, deposed that on the 29th September he went to the county court, in consequence of there being great excitement on Change, and witness went from a feeling of curiosity. At that time he was very much prejudiced in Mr. Itamshay's favour, but he soon found that continual interruptions took place be tween the bench and the bar ; and Sir George Stephen, who was Mr. Whitty's advocate, had repeatedly to sit dosed in despair. When he turned to pass sentence on Mr Whitty his conduct was very undignified, and there was a degree of ferocity in his countenance such as he had never seen in a judge or a magistrate. Captain Cook, superintendent of pihsts, described the ap plause which took place in Mr. liamsbay's court, on the occasion of Sir George Stephen saying if en unauthorised person were to enter his house without a warrant, he would shoot him, as "a clap of cheering like electricity." lle came forward on account of having received a circular from the solicitors to the memorialists, and considering the con duct of Mr. Rumshay to be very undignified, and entirely unbecoming a judge. Mr. Quick, superintendent of police at Liverpool, corro borated the evidence as to the excitement of Mr. Itanishay, when the expression of feeling broke out in his court, and to the other circumstances connected with Mr. Whitty's examination, including the direction to lock the doors, and he would commit every person. Mr. Monk said that he had examined these witnesses, be cause he thought it due to his lordship that after the ad journment the testimony of those who witnessed the occur rences in Mr. Itanishay's court should be laid before the court, although merely corroboratory of the short-hand writer's notes. Ile would place in the box Mr. Whitty, to whom allusion had so frequently been made in the mune of these proceedings, in order that the learned serjeant might have an opportunity of asking him any questions, and that would conclude tho case on behalf of the memo rialists. Mr. Whiny was then called, but the learned aerjeaat de clined to " cross-examine upon nothing," and that gentle man was allowed to retire. The evidence in support of the memorial having been concluded, Mr. Serjeant Wilkins applied to his lordship for au adjournment of the case, until the 12th of January. Ile said it was morally impossible that Mr. Ramshay could meet a case which he did not know until he came into that court. The Earl of Carlisle said that there was very little evi dence brought forward which Mr. Ramshay was not aware of, and which had long been matter of public notopeiy. It was very desirable for the public interests that this in quiry should be closed as aeon as possible, and he would not consent to an adjournment beyond Monday next. An adjournment of the court until Monday next, at 11 o'clock, was then formally announced by the Attorney- General for the Duchy. Poiasmount, Not•. 7.—A court-martial was held on board the Victory, flag-ship, to-day, to try Mr. Archi bald Armstrong, M.D., Assistant-Surgeon of the Hecate, steam-sloop, on a charge of drunkenness, on the evening of the 29th of October. On being called on for his defence, the prisoner said he had nothing to say. Ile had not during the examination of the witnesses put any questions whatever to them, apparently treating the matter with in difference. The court having been cleared, and re-opened, the decision was read, by which Mr. Armstrong was dis missed front her 3lniesty's service. .11!•