The Express. — London, England, 1851-02-20 00:00:00

I311)E1t1AL PARLIA3IENT. 1101:SE OF COMMONS.—WeDyr..RDAT, FEB. 19. The Sr EA LEM took aka chair at 12 o'clock. I'ItIVATE BUSINESS. SECOND UtAIHNOS.—Butt , n, Blackburn. Clitheroe, and West Yorkshire Railway; Caledonian Railway (Mother well Branch Extension and L ouahagow Branches Lease) ; Blind Improve:neat Waterwurea and Lighting; Great Northern Railway nt (No. I); Great Northern Railway ); rt ton Cattle Market ; Li... lam! Royal institution; ltianehes ter and Salford Extension Moakland Railways; Royston and ilitenin ltolway ; Scottish Central Railway; Waterford and Kilken . ir Railway; Ministers Widows and Orphan.' Fund of the I Chomh of Scotland; Bills. PUBLIC BUSINESS. PETITIONS PRESENTED. Parts Drry.—By Mr. HENLEY, from Wigan; Mr. CHAPLIN, from bsaker., no•r•hants, and manufacturer; a Kendal; Mr. BANKES, from Lyme Regis; Mr. WAK LEy, from Islington A ; Mr. (I I', from hull; Mr. HUME (5), from carious plisr-es ; Col. CIIATTERTON , from the Council of the City of Cork Scientific and Literary Soriety ; for the repeal of the exci.e duty on piper. ECCLEMASTICAL TITLI4 A•4SI.:MYTION BILL.—By Mr. PRENCII, front Romoonnon; Mr. REOOII, from Ath loot ; Mr. REYNOLDS, hone . .Virklow, Dublin, Kildare, and Kilkenny; Mr. ISCCLLY (I). from plae in the county of Tipperary, simian thin hill; also, to the same eff-ct. by Mr. ME.W111:11, Iron the catholic inhabitants of Trinity parish, Waterford; and by Mr. DEVEREUX (3), from parishes in the county of Wexford, against any measure of airirremion upon the religion. liberty of the Roman at holies. THE WINDOW TAX. Viscount DUNCAN stid he had a petition to present barn Math, ir. which surprise was expressed at the proposal (lithe Chancellor of the Exchequer with regard to the win dow duty, and which prayed for unconditional repeal. The SI'EAK ER said tits petition was informal. Mr. WAKLEI thought that as it was probable many Ober petitions would he prepared to the same effect within a few day., it vomit' t .titt to the tone( nieuce of the house Ise the Speaker to state the rule distinctly. The SPEAKER said tie^ rule of the house was that no rpm out of the hots, should allude by petition or other- war to what Ind taken place in a debate in the house. If a mkt...Bien bad lien mein:milted to the house for an alteration of the window tax, and thus formed part of the processlings, an that infirm etion restarting it could he oh tamed in a legitimate manner a petition might be presented in reference to it: but it was not ...most. nt to partiess to petition abut a measure which could only have OMe to their knowledge throagh reading the debates "(the house. 115111 LAW UNIONS, SUFFOLK. Mr. BANK ES gave notice that he would this day ask Use Preside nt of the Poor L tw Board whether he had heard of any disturb - Rees iu union-liouses in the county of Suf folk I. •sides flame in the Barham occasioned by able bodied men beimg seat to them for want of employment ; also that he would put a qa scion to the Home Secretary *shale, to tagrancy is Etc metropolis. WOODS ANI) FOJIF.STS. Viscount DUNCAN gave motet., that on Thursday, tht• gib i.riko, month, he would make the fallosc'em motion . s. That, VP NT..., it appears by returns laid before this boom., and Itefore the Selist Committee of Woods, Forests, a.r., that during a period of seven year. (from 1/42-13 to It IN-19) the ere. income derived from the pos sessions and land revenues of the einem has amounted to 2,t tti.7s."./., and that out of this sum only 774,0001. has been paid into the pulilic account of therm:helmet ; soul, wherrio, &Irina the said Ist it appears that a sum, amounting to 11,572.7 sit, has Ist n withheld for charges of collection and muumgerrictit. and for ...titer espen.-- charged upou the said 'Vm uuc o it is tt1..411.111t, v, jilt a Vie , " to litter this branch of the public series , under the more immediate control of parlemietit, that the gr.... iviNtlill• derived from the said revrnius.b.ould hereafter Is. paid into the exchequer, and that the to eessary elpmnes for collecting and managing the sane .10,u1,1 Is• anted by this house, upon estimates to annually submitted to parlimueut by her Majesty's government." COUNTY COTRTS IN SCOTLAND.—METILOPO - LITAN CEM ET Elt I ES. Mr. 111 . ME wove moth"• that he .h.ouht the day ask the g..ternmitat if they had any intention of bringing in a bill I. estefol to Stealtand the art relating to Ow rernYrry of un.trr AM. ; also, titer any and wind ',nacres. had been made in the purchase of new cemeteries for the metro rai• by the Brim! of Ilealth. NEW '3IENIIIEIL. Mr li•on took th;:;4 - 11;:g;o1 big , l'At a mrntb,r for hi - u-.L!,.;;11441. Jr.WISII DIS.11111.1M:S. 1..441 J. It t•SSELL tray: tortim that on Monoluy he would mot, that thg• it,ar int.. Al committee of Ow %1...1r Mount• to take into r.mod+.ratinn the node of adinini.t..ring the oath of altjunition to ttrrmu+ profvvtimt rdigines. (14)114/CND 110USEIIOLI)E1IS Fir W. CLAY. is mot ina the ..ttnntl Trading of which he .../n1 mt+ liar , t..r line and Ifni.' tut wool ti, • the bill of last it , ottiort In iaq to rouble iiit. to lb.. frantlitc u, tavl • where the rompountlml for tho• Mr. W MS winntleol the motion. Mr. F. MACKENZIE must appeal to the linio. member I not t.. pry. the ....mond nailing. there wax very little di ' cussion upon the bill last year, an.l if any Ruch TavasUfe were per. oalml with at all, it 'Mould h.• on the responsi- ' NM% of On goy. rnaseut. It order to bring this matter to a pinto. he would move that the 101 l should be read a arrosal time that day fortnight. laird If. fiIfOaVENOIL hoped lois hon. friend, the member Mr the 'Tower Hamlets would not yield to the two. 31 'shah hail Mart made to hamlets, ((Ivey...) The bill was fairly diarussed lad year: it Wa. at... discuss.' in the pr. aims year, nail amo.agst those who then took part in th *lobate, was the light haa. baronet the member for !Inane I. could not he wall, therefore, that the house wA.. tali. n Izsorpriow. Mr. hill NElt hooped the hill would be prowponell. Lord J. RUSSELL said ha did ion Ann. any reason why hM hon. friend should agree to the postponement. Tie 'Nita 11:1 , 111111.. 1 . 1131111.1 r to the 11011.4. , atul the ool t jection tun .. to a former oweayioni that it was loTonintlit forward at a l a t e hour did not Apply on the present occasion, when it wls Oar...limed at one &Omsk in the day. The neat guess tom was who ther his is on. friend aAn entitkil v. bring for want any tutrasare of the kind. Certainly, if any large amendment of the Itio6oras hill wen• contemp:ateil, it might properly Irritate the task of tie goiernment ; but he did not si , that the argument applied to tile ea, of the Ke aton 1..11. Thew were two flue-lion. übiell were In rfeetly distinet. (Me was estenolina the franchise, of Vie Iteforin Bill, and the other was how the frunehises already con ferred by tied ItivoinUno should lw curried out in their in tegrity. Now, the elate.• which his hon. friend %skived to char up wan already in the R. form Bill, and declared that the .1.11.1111ef 01 a lot. hon., lout %Ito, rate, were pad by the latiilionl might apply himself to la• rated, and thus obtain the fromehisr. That wan a clause in which the late laird at y had ta'oon ,ottrat inured ; lout it a'.l',,n,li that, nova Moo:outing All the care taken, permits so violinist:awed had found gnat difficulty and often failed altogether in ob taining the franehiw. It woo alrailutooly necessary that this ditlieulty should Ire cleared up. and, if the bin went no further, it wa. a neeesisit7 piece of legislation. For thew reasons he should give his note in Eavour of the second T.:tidbit. suggesting that the rommitter should he deferred a rrivionalote time in order that the great towns might have an opportunity of aseertaine the bearings of the bill on their interests. Mr. HENLEY was willing that the Reform Bill should be fully and fairly earriost out, but tioared that Cie bill pro powsl to go farther. lloowes tor. he Was content to let the lig he read a second time. pros idol a reasonaeolc period was allowed to Ammo before the committee. Att era few worts Inou Sir W.C1.1 v. lilr.MactiEN 7 tr. with drew hi* amendment. and the hill was read a neenud time, it hieing umirstosal that the committee should be taken on that dal' thrre week, I.:KN.:Xt.:ES OF PROSECVTIONS BILL. .._. Sir G. GREY moved for leave to bring in a bill to amend and render more uniform the law relating to the expeitst of pro.ctition, The chief object of the bill appeared to he to tran.fer from the court. of quarter ww.ionot throughout the country. to the werilary Of .fate, the regulation of the fees and ecp.n.c.i of pro.ccutionY. and to give power. on the reeeminendation of the court. of quarter %mien, to pay the clerk. of the peace hr salary, instead of feeq. After ...my ohmerrationg from Mr. II e mg, Mr. S. WORTLEY said he was in !tor, the right hon. pinion in would hate directed hi. attention not only to the 1 . ‘111`1144 but also to the mode of conducting pnwecutiono. fly tboncht mime provi.ion might be mole to tic the re .omewhere for the proper management of pro cutions without going the Length of appointing a public pronivutor. sir G. GREY admitted the great importance of the Pug godion of Mr. S. Wonky.. hut did not gm how th..y could out without the anointment of n public pro- Went Or. a few words from Mr. llFaux, leave wrs given, and the inn was brought in and read a hest time. REMOVAL OF SMITHFIELD MARKET. Sir G. GREY rove again to ni:iv, 7 l;r leare to bing in a bat to provide for the retional of Smithfield . . , la.ket. and eowt.nilid that it became neeivemre to pros Lle a cattle market in lieu of Smithflell-market,and to appoint a com mission by which the proper site should be cliover. and 1) whir.% the regulations for it. management should be made. The distance ot the site not to tweed hoc mire from the metropoliv. and power was to be given to borrow the rev quivite -11111 e for providing the market upon the credit of the future tolls to be levied on the cattle sold there. • • Mr RICK thought the (antler. would feel gr..atly in• • i l c h!, d t. , the gosentment fur bringing in the bill. Mr. A. STAFFORD hoped that ample time would hr aivrit for eomilderation before the 'email re iding of the bill. Sir G. GREY said he would gist as much time so the standing enters would permit. NI, S. WORTLEY would not oppose the introdurtiem of the bill. but hoped it!, the would be refen'etl, with those of another bill on the •arne subject, to be considered by a sole t committee. After a fi w obserrations fi-orn Mr. Etats, Leas.- was given. and the bill brought in and read a first time. EMIGRANT SIIIP WASHINGTON. Oa tit. motion of Mr. MI'II.LAOH. a copy was ordered of a letter addressed to the Land and Emigration Commis sioners by Lord Robert, inelosing a letter from Mr. Vert Foster to his lordship, detailing the treatment to which be was subjected, in common o ith the other ia.engere on board the emigrant ship Washington. in the month or No vember, 15.50, while ca her passage from Liverpool to New York, with a copy of the answer mtUrned to Lord llobart by the commimioners ; and also copies of any c deuce between the commissioners and the emigrati=r at Liverpool on the subject. REAL PROPERTY. On the motion of Yi.courst DUNCAN, a return was or dered showing the total sannial value of real property in each county of England and Wales assessed to the Property and Income Tar , disting ui s hin g thatou land , houses, tithes, manors, fines, quarries, mines, iron works, fisheries, canals, railways, &c., and any oth er property not eomprised in the foregoing, for each year ending April, 1314, to April, 1850. Similar return for Scotland (in continuation of parliamentary paper No. 102, of Se. , :ou 1314 ) . The house adjourned at 2 o'clock. ' , VERT lIATTIRDAT AFTERNOON Xt ILL BE pupusHED. BXHIBITIO DouN EXPItE6S, Biaggi Daily Vend" ble taper. PRI. E Ocedaidne emery po-albleiabreatice , relative le the 1.11.1t4T EXHIBITION OF lASI, Its Ohjests. Bahflabre Prospects. intended Contents, Arrangement; Appearance, Preamese. inst and future. The enormous aumtse of proses untreated in the forthenmiss iiteat itsbibition of the World's Ind - 'try hemp Milano, nal no eat, factory rmrseentative in the press—no riper rultkiectly aid with mr,Manisne tonere:engin - 'Dough to grasp and exemplify fiir.heunxing expo:ohm with lithe ea • MAT of so run as erent the aroprerturs of t! e allitESS have determined apse twain, every . Saturday afternoon. a &Kehl, sheet of :hat paper, to contain the Tallest sad latest information relative the Exhibitnw. together with a ewe of other matter weeptable to the multitude of names interested either as ganerat an-I ;seal committeemen •I'Vri. Lan... members of peeincial travelling clubs, exhitxtore, friends 07 exhibitors, rinslii of eithibibies„ anti the end larger and wider circle of those who are to be the hundrels :laceown.ls of cantors to the mete matt dining the forthcoming Con cise of leedwitry of at Nations. la addition to everything relative - oaths Expoitios this double sheet will ere general news, and wilt, snorer, spec/any attend to all ciirrebtevents In literatmc, ma nee, leed art. 1)5 erry day except satardsy the 'nee of the EXPRESS will be threepence. as heretofore. The grant value M the EXIIIBITION EXPRLS3 am a medlom it Itevalint to Wet !Wen , . All wlreitisceletta 1.114 N at the Aloe in Whi , errlare at or 1 eras the event...daub Nish to wenn mthe number A ;Le allowing/7 4 1 , 11. Ilsaselbarsit. rintAirlat THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 20, 1851. Zite eratrosg• TO CORRESPONDENTS. principle, and of the powers which upheld it. There was a time when we might have rescued Sicily, and might have saved Rome. Had we done so, we should not have WISEMAN and CULLtN stranglingus at home, and we should nut now be entering protests against Austrians swallowing Italy into a new German empire. We did none of these things, however. We allowed Italy to be reconquered and its liberties to be extin guished. In Germany we took no active or efficient part on behalf of the constitutional states against the despotic ones. We silently assisted and ,applauded the progress of that reaction which has swept consti tutional government from Europe; and having done so, there is no longer a policy or a necessity fur oui cavilling and quarrelling with the mass of allied despotism, that new Holy Alliance, which we'per mined to be formed. dfott:.elbertx Intruded tur "710 lapfetw,. lAteden Evening payer, mum bo. a: #be oltioe, 10, BoueeYtaeueet, b; T•o tickxtb ua tbo ity of pubacattua. 111011 WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Tail Wt—Morning, Stt. len Arlern.n, 511. 24m. Tu.sumnow—fkorausg, bb. 402.1 Alittgbooll, eh. la. That triple alliance of despots may, indeed, not love us, or may not regard England with affection or its freedom with equanimity. It will, probably, increase towards our merchants the severity of fiscal prohi bition, and towards our travellers the suspicion of the police. But it will not make war upon Englund, or provoke it. The despotic alliance is now master of Europe. We have not interfered to prevent it ob taining that mastery, and the best thing we can do is now not to interfere with their retention of it. Retain it long they cannot. For military governments can found nothing. The people of Germany and the people of Italy will watch the op portunity to emancipate themselves. But in the mean time all we have to do is to remain passive spectators of events, which we cannot hasten and cannot control. Of all the absurdities that we could possibly com mit, the greatest would certainly be that of keeping up armaments in maritime or military force, which we otherwise did not require, merely because of the unsatisfactory state of the continent. The continent has nothing to say to us, nor we to the continent. Amidst the millions of armed men that are now eating up the produce of Europe, any little armv that Britain could employ would be but lan insignificant detachment. Let UN avoid all contact, and their rulers can have no cause of quarrel with US. The cause that is now alleged for entangling Eng ! land in the polities of Europe, is that Austria, our pet Austria, has had the audacity to propose in eluding Lombardy in the Germanic empire. Now, what on earth is it to us, whether she does or not ? Austria is mistress of Lombardy, and the Times MIN us, she has a legitimate right to be so. If so, can it prevent Austria from concluding a treaty of alliance offensive and defensive between two portions of her own dominions ? Oh, but, argues the Times, what we object to is, that Lombardy- should form part of the same vast empire with Prussia. But what has the Times been hammering at for the last two years but to solder Austria and Prussia into one, to get Prussia to fling away her liberal aims and constitutional tendencies, in order to unite with Austria on the principle of one federal despotism? This accomplished, as it has been accomplished under the patronage of the Times, does it not instantly follow that to all purposes of military strength and political alliance Lombardy and Brandenburg are one? Permanently one they are not, and never can be, for this good reason, that Prussia and Austria with such divergent interest never can be one. Tho uniting them in the bonds of a fede ration is merely so much waste paper, for I such federation can never, in the event of an European war, make two such great powers feel' identically or act fraternally. The force of parchment will never tie Buda, Milan, and Berlin together. The project is as idle as the Abbe St. PIERRE'S notion, of universal peace. We can see, therefore no cause for England in terfering in anything that it may please the good people ut Frankfort to devise touching the connexion of North Italy with Germany. Italy can never reach a normal, a happy, or free state, till the Aus trians are kicked out of it. And the more injustice they I work, the more tyranny they inflict, the surer and the sooner will that day come. The including Lombardy amongst the circles of the German empire will but add to the number of foreign faces and musters who lord it in the streets and offices of Italian states. And that, instead of giving strength, will but add weak ness to the fragile state of Austrian supremacy. The French may feel nettled at this, and may remonstrate, if it so please them. But we maintain that England, especially after the quiet and sub- 1 missive part England has played of late, has no claim nor right now to become remoustrant. Neither do we see that Ions; BULL can be called upon to pay one more pound to the sum of military estimates, bemuse it pleases Prince SCLIWAISZENIWIII: that Lombardy should appear as part of the German CCM tilleration in the next edition of the Almanac of Gotha. LONDO.V, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 20. ON t. of the most important premises laid down in the statement of the (.ItANcum.on of the Ext.:HE- W:Lit is the impossibility of any reduction in the military establishments on account of the unsettled state of Europe ut present. Now, as Europe has not offered so settled an aspect for this great number of years, we cannot admit either the truth or specious-, mess of the Cnestuunes allegation. Europe, indeed, is far from being sattkd to the mind or satisfaction of any liberal man. But pacified it is, the people quiet, the authorities in fu ll I and uncontrolled sway, the principle of absolute and military government unquestioned and uncon tradieted, every attempt at revolution hopeless, 'whilst any possibility of the sovereigns or powers of Europe quarrelling amongst each other is out of the question, since they mast know that in such a ease their ',ample would rise, nut to fight for either or any sovereign, but to put them down. Whatever dis satisfaction, therefore, we may fed as to the state of Europe, no fears need be entertained of its peace. Nor can we admit the fetters, that have been rivetted upon! our German and Italian brethren, to be any plea or excuse for increasing the fiscal burtheos of Vaigland.'. It is amusing to observe that this cry of " Wolf," in echo of the Citescmott of the EXCHEHCER, this clamour that the Continent has flail into the hands of ambitious powers, which threaten as as well as the public peace, is raised by thaw very orgat.s, the :rims and Chmide, that have been all along, with true tory instinct, abetting and applauding the progress and the triumph of those powers. Austria has been the favourite of the 21illos daily epic for the last three years. Scilw.euz- Extimu has been its AGAMEMNON—IttnErsKt and IlAysee its ACHILLES sand DiouEn. The tritunph of these mighty men and their holy government was to restore order and confirm peace, re-establish the balance of power, allow commercial enterprise and industrial activity to resume their course. In Also, the Times and its female, the Chroutl.h• (fur they are both of the some flintily, though endowed with different cokes), kept continually assuring the commercial and intel lectual world of Englund, that the success of Aus tria over that nasty Prussia and those horrid Italian liberals would be a restoration of the reign of Saturn. IVhat was not the enlightened King of NAPLES to do fur that happy portion of the pe - sula which he governed? In the columns of the Times, this royal Jack Ketch was debriefed as a Sotox. Whut columns of devout and right catholic THE trial of the London Dock Company in the Court of Exchequer has terminated ; the trial of her 'Majesty's Customs us the court of public• opinion is about to begin. At the instance of the Board of Customs the Lon don Dock Company was arraigned on a charge of at tempting to defruud the revenue of duties on 2511 cwt. of sugar and 8,000 lb. of cocoa. This pretty exten sive defalcation was alleged to be only a sample of systematic evasions of the paymeut of duty, and the appropriation by the company of the property of merchants intrusted to their care, practised in the docks. The directors were not, indeed, charged with being actually conversant with and participators in the frauds, but they were accused of having held out inducements to commit them. •• Ile would be able to prove." said the SOLICITOR-GENERAL, in his open ing speech, " a systematic plan of abstraction from packages, and so robbing the owners and the crown. It was not meant by the crown to charge individual shareholders or dir'ectors with a guilty knowledge of all the frauds and plunder that had been perpetrated, but they unhesitatingly charged that the strongest inducements were held out to the servants of the company." After a trial of the unprecedented length of eleven days, the jury virtually negatived these grave cliarges. Their verdict was:—" We find fur the crown as regarding the two boxes of Ilavannah sugar, and for the dock company as regarding the remainder; also that there was no intention to evade the duty." ..... aspirations did not Times and Chronicle put firth for the re,t,,rition of the Ports.? Wellawluis been restored. And what is the comalmeneell That his Holiness forthwith sent his emissaries to insult our Queen, and stir up a flume of quasi-rebellion in these islands, whilst his own popul towns are either terrorised by the pollee or victimises' by brigands. Need we depict the state of Germany, of Ilungary, of 'tree, the hunt:liation of Prussia, the occupation of the free cities, and the proposal to turn them, as well as the smaller princes, out of the Diet ? As lung as this work of despotism was in progress, at lung as there was a single free state to be bllll - or tree principles extinguished; as long, is lam us there was a single link in the chain of European despotism remaining to he rivettial, so lung the prise and Chronicle kept applauding and en enuraging. and crying down with insolence any at tempts to commiserate German or Italian, or to doubt the justice or wisdom of despotic reaction. Now, however, that the work has been accom plished—that the Austrian eagle Moats supreme front the Baltic to the Black Sea, those organs of the Bri tish press which acted as jackalls for the devouring maw of Austria, turn of a sudden to declare that there is reason fur alarm in what has been achieved. Austria, they tell us two, is an ambitious power. She has half a million of awn in arms; she seeks to include North Italy in the German empire, which she has reeompose4 under the feet of her armies and at the dictation of her scribes; she is garrisoning Hamburg as well as Frankfort, and threatens to make a Cracow of both. Nav but, my good gentlemen, ye ought to have thought of this before. When you were hallooing on kionsat against Milan, and RAYNAt against Hungary, and telling us how beneficial their success would be to the cause of order and peace, you ought to have foreseen the result. Mien hilt a few weeks ago you still supported the claim of Austria to dominate in the Diet, and to march her troops into Hesse. what face have you now to come and corn plain of Austrian ambition:' You affect to be dile gusted because Austrian troops have garrisoned I Limburg. Why then did you so fiercely insist on their right to send an expedition to North Germany ? You have acted fugleman and trumpeter to every march, every advance, and every conquest of the Austrians, and do you now pretend to use the same trumpet in order to recall and drive them out again ? Why, you must take the people of England, at least such . as are your readers, to be the most arrant fouls and unprincipled men that the world ever pro duced, thus to preach to them in February facts, principles, and hopes diametrically We reverse of those which you preached in December. We knew, indeed, that all which the Times and Chrouirk had been arguing and asserting respecting , Austria for the last two years was, front beginning to end, a falsehood. We knew, and we said, that the putting down of Italian and Hungarian, and Pravda', and German resistance, would terminate neither in solid institutions, settled liberty, commer cial prosperity, or popular content. We knew it would result in a brute military tyranny, and no thing more. And we knew, and said moreover, that this brute military tyranny, not contented with the enslavement of thi centre of Europe, would, the instant that enslavement was ac.samplished, proceed to dictate to, uud press upon, the states of the west, till they excited antagonism and war. What we said, has turned out correct. Not a week has elapsed since the complete subjugation of Germany, before we find France and England, in despite of their past acquiescence, obliged to protest against what they consider to be an aggression and an infraction of the treaty of Vienna. We have been all along for resistance, moral re sistance to the advance of the military and despotic Customs ; but it is impossiblo to read a great part of the evidence adduced for the prosecution without! feeling that there is maple matter for still worse sus vicious. The existence and extent of the alleged frauds and peculation were sought to he established by witncsses,who admitted theobeing parties to the com lmission of these frauds. These " Queen's evidences" were, at the time they appeared in court, and had been for sonic time previously, supported by the Customs. The whole tenour of the volunmunereildence shows that the irregularities which undoubtedly prevailed were carried on in the most red less and open manner. How came they to escape the notice of the tide-waiters and landing-waiters of the Customs P Is there not reason to fear that the good understand ing between the Customs' officers and these confessed delinquents, which has now enabled the former to obtain the self-criminating evidence of the latter, I mac have at an earlier period enabled the latter to obtain the connivance of the former ? The interests of the mercantile community, and the character of her MaissTY's Customs, impera tively call for an investigation. Even the compara tively shadowy ground of suspicion now indicated would in a matter of such consequence call for inquiry. But unfo.iunately there have been re peated detections of extensive frauds and peeulations among officers of the Customs, the remembrance I of which gives increased force to these suspicions. Besides, the very composition of the Board of Cus toms, and the manner in which its official subord;- nates are appointed, affird peculiar facilities for the creeping in of abuses. The members of the board are appointed on political considerations; many of them have no previous knowledge of its usiness to qualify them for discharging it, and most of them notoriously take matters very easily. Again, a fla grant system of political jobbing patronage is under stood to prevail in the appointment of those highly I responsible officers, the landing-waiters. They are generally nominated to their posts on the recom mendation of members of the legislature, and the antecedents of some of them have been rather curious. Some time ago we drew attention to the anomalous arrangement, in virtue of which no locker, however 1 competent, or of however well-approved integrity, can be promoted to the office of landing-waiter ; i although the new hands who are appointed to the latter post arc committed for instruction to the charge of the lockers, are therefore unavoidably for some time at their mercy, and too often devolve the most laborious part of the business upon them perma nently. It Is not likely that this country will ever be dis- I posed to abandon entirely the system of raising a large proportion of the public revenue 4y means of, Customs' duties. And the collection of . tv.ese duties must always subject, even under the most impecca ble administration, the commerce of the country to a beat deal of annoyance. But this annoyance may I augmented to un intolerable and almost ruinous extent, if by incompetence in the supreme direction, and neglect of duty, or worse, on the part of subor dinate officials, systematic abuses are allowed to creep in. The Customs department of a grant commercial country like ours ought to be, like Ctssn's wife, above suspicion. Apart from any other considera tion, the exaggerated tone assumed by the Customs in their lute proceedings ngainst the 1)(1 companies of the metropolis has au air of vimlictiveness about it. It looks, on the least unfavourable construction, like an attempt to take vengeance on the companies for not having been on the alert to prevent irregulari ties, which it was the duty of the customs them selves to prevent. The sudden burst of outrageous zeal which has led to the prosecutions instituted against the clock companies, looks marvellously like an attempt to divert attention from the negligence of the Customs department, and the suspicious con duct of some of its understrappers, by raising a clamour against other parties. ABANDONMENT OF THE CLERGY RE SERVES LN CANADA. COPT OF A DISPATCH PROM THE RIGHT HON. THE EARL GRIT TO TILE RIGHT HON. TILE EARL OF ELGIN AND KINCARDINE . . Downing-street, Jan. 27, Wit My Lord,—l have hitherto deferred answering your lordship's despatch No. 198, of the 19th of July last, ia which you transmitted to me au address to her Majesty front the House of Assembly, on the subject of the clergy reserves, because when this despatch reached me the session of the provincial legislature having already been brought to an end, and that of the Imperial Parliament being about.to close, nothing could for some months be done on the subject referred to, and I therefore thought it advi sable that it should be reserved for that full and de liberate consideration of her Majesty's government, which its difficulty and importance deserved. 2. I have now to instruct your lordship to inform the House of Assembly when it shall again be called together, that their address to the Queen, which was transmitted to me in your despatch, huts been laid beLre her Majesty, and that her Majesty has been pleased to receive it very graciously. You will fur ther inform the house. that while fur Majesty's ser vants greatly regret that a subject of so muck diffi culty as that of the clergy reserves should, after an interval of some years, have again been brought under discussion, it has appeared to them on mature deliberation, that the desire expressed by the Assem bly in this address ought to be acceded to, and they will accordingly be prepared to recommend to par liament that an act should be passed, giving to the provincial legislature full authority to make such alterations us they may think tit in the existing ar rangements with regime' to the clergy reserves, pro vided that existing interests are respected. 3. In coining to this conclusion, her Majesty's go ' rernment have been mainly influenced by the consi deration that, great as would, in their judgment, be the advantages which would result from leaving un disturbed the existing arrangement by which a cer tain portion of the public lands of Canada are made available for the purpose of creating a fund fn; the religious instruction of the inhabitants of the pro vince, still the question whether that arrangement is to be maintained or altered is one so exclusively affecting the people of Canada, that its decision ought not to be withdrawn from the provincial legislature, to which it properly belongs to regulate all matters concerning the domestic interests of the province. 4. It has therefore appeared to her Majesty's go vernment that it would be impossible for them, con sistently with the principles on which they have always held that the government of Canada ought to be conducted, to advise her Majesty to refuse to com ply with the prayer of the address of the House of Asoembly; and they have had the less difficulty in coming to this conclusion, because they have ob served with satisfaction that the Assembly, iu their address, have recognised the claims of those who are now in the enjoyment of incomes derived front the funds realised by the sale of the lands in question, and have not asked that in any alteration of the act of parliament now in force authority should be given to the provincial legislature to interfere with the continuance of these incomes for the lino of the parties by whom they are received. The course thus taken by the Assembly is alike consistent with sound policy and with justice, and has obliOed what would otherwise have been a great difficult: in the way of accomplishing the object they have in view.. 5. lou will cau.e copies ot this despatch to be laid before both houses of the parliament of Canada at their next meeting. I have, &c., (Signed) GREY. The Earl of Elgin and Kincardine, &e. Itegiird to the public interest compels us to re mark in connexion with this virtual acquittal, that the dock company have not come out of court so cre ditably as could have been wished. The severe cen sure implied in the recommendation to the dock com pany, with which the jury accompanied their ver dict, "to be stricter with regard to their subordinate officers, as many irregularities had occurred at the docks," was amjily mcritech The appropriation of the second samplings of sugar by the company as a perquisite appears rather a questionable proceeding. In the out-ports we are given to understand that they are uniformly accounted for to the importer ; and we have been assured, on the authority of a con siderable sugar importer in one of them, that by ex changing these samplings with the sugar railer', he provides for the annual consumption of refined sugar ui a pretty large establishment. This. however, is a matter for the consideration of the London merchants, who, now that attention has been drawn to the irre gularities iu the London docks, are perfectly compe tent to take care of their own interests. The questiou arising out of these proceedings, which is of most importance to the public, is the con nexion of the administration of the Custotuswith the alleged frauds. It is impossible that the irregularities which the jury declare have prevailed in the Lou don docks, could have taken place without the MEETING AT 'BRISTOL OF THE Rome; CATHOLIC I cognisance or connivance of the Customs' officers if LAITY.—In consequence of the statements made by Lord they did their duty. Indeed, we take it that the Beaumont, Mr. Brotherton, and others, to the effect that tiouctrort-GENERAL, in opening the case, admitted the proceeding of the papal see in creating a Roman the existence of a culpable neglect of duty on the catholic hierarchy in this country did 12 , 4 meet with the part of the Customs. After a ship arrives in port, aoivt7c"clatfoli) e la cia t thol f ic c body in ggn7 3 ml. al wi se ltretitg and leave has been obtained from the Customs to die- the convent nsto of St . Catherin e ''te ehaelt he said, catholic school- room , " the great object was to ascertain of Sienna, at the former place. A petition to the House of whe er the quantities were correctly reported, and Common: Wai adopted by the meeting, in which it was I with n view to ascertain that fact two talc amen were I asserted that the English catholic body long desired this appointed. one a tidewaiter and another an officer of "hark in their spiritual government, and that they most boon from the Huly See. That , the Customs. The goods were weighed at the ship's thelathUlic cllu 'v rc e h ' does not now claim or assume any new I aide; but since the establishment of the docks the jurisdiction within these realms ; she merely confers upon crown placed unbounded confidence in them, and the her own numbers a permanent and mauler ' form of epis company had been allowed to warehouse the 4 . 00 d, • copecy in place of a temporary and abuornuil one. That before they mere brought to the scales, to pack, un- , the sanurci,t;ii is an ~authorityessential 53 tca w" ture in th t ? he hi ca era d r a e ot y e hres been intrli pack, and repack cargoes. and to deal with them in ! an.. that an Interference by the civil power with its free all respects as if the duties have been paid." This is . exercise will be, therefore, in opposition to the express dc the statement put into the mouth of their counsel by I claration of her Majesty in her recent speech from the the Customs. and it amounts to this, that they h ave throne, that it is her "'Arm determination to maintain un delegated to others the task o f superintendence which imp a ired that religious libert y which is so justly prized by they are paid to perform ;these others haring a direct th Ac a o . ple k o x f S thl TElr un .tN try D .' HIS CONSTITUENTS.— Mr. • interest in evading the superintendence. Chisholm Anatcy has contradicted the statement of his ; This is an awkward confession on the part of the intended resignation of his seat is parliament. FRANCE. PARIS, WEDNT.3IOI:f EVENING. Fourteen of the fifteen bureaux have completed their elections of members of the committee on the Municipal Bill. Out of the 28 elected 17 are hostile to the bill. There is, however, a great difference, in the amount as well as in the kind of hostility evinced by these 17, some of whom desire only modt ifications of minor importance, while others are for abolishing the electoral law of May, and making all I the mayors elective by the COMMUM s,WithOlit allow ' ing the government the right of investiture. fhe following are the members of the committee on the municipal law who have been appointed: Ist Bureau, MM. de Lasteyrie and EmmanuelArago, against. 2nd. M. de Cronseiles for, M. de Lamy against. 3rd. Prosper dc Chasseloup-Lauhat against, Monet for. 4th. MM. Hem-tier and ltouher for. sth. MM. Moulin and Mcluu for. 6th. Chum ranhet for, M. Dcsrotours de Chanlicu against. th. M. de Broglie for, General Lamoriciere against. Bth. MM. Favreau and Fa Bonnet against. 9th. MM. Betty de Lancastel and Frichon against. 10th. Lemayrac against, Dufour for. 11th. MM. de Laboulie and Vatemesnil against. 12th. MM. Michel de &urges and Savoze against. The 13th had not, at half-post five, completed its election. 14th. MM. Odilon Barret and ])enjoy for. hith. Vernhette against, Grimault for. This gives a ma jority of 17 out of 28 members of the committee already chosen against the bill, and hence a majority out of the 30 forming the entire committee. ' The following were the most important speeches in the debate which took place: M. LEON FAVCIIER said that the bill pushed deeentr.di cation to the extreme limit admissible iu France. Many on this occasion had attributed the superiority of England to the independence of her municipal institutions. In Eng land, however, there was nothing which resembled even remotely the French rural communes. Let them not prop the cause of decentralisation en the example of England, where every innovation had, on the contrary, a centralising tendency. The municipal liberties of England dated from the reform of Is3l, which abolished the abuses of the old corporations. It was only since that epoch that the cities had ceased to be exploited by a burgess aristocracy, and been freely administered by an elective government. But in tho rural districts nothing of the kind existed. The au . . . thority charged with ordering the police, with maintaining public order, and executing the laws was neither communal nor of the parish. It was the sheriff and the justices of the mace, both delegates of the central power, and appointed by it. The parishes since 1831 had not even the adminis tration of relief for the pour, which was concentrated under the direction of a sort of cantonal committee. Centralisation, so much cried down in France. notwithstanding the ser vices it hail rendered, made rapid progress in Great Ittitain, where each step towards good administration was marked by the abandonment of some local privilege. lied they had not just seen the torn"' themscii :Is demanding the translation of a part of the burdens of the counties to the public treasury. The fact was, that in England the long practice of ryprcwntative government had imbued the people with a taste for political life; whereas in France not one eloctive function in ten of the many created by the Repub lic was exercised. Ile wss extremely surmised to hear ' many, who had voted the electoral law of May, now turn against it. It was clear that the same electoral list which served for choosing representatives in the Assembly ought to apply to the municipal elections, because the principle of a fixed domicile was at the bottom of both. As to the no mination of mayors, the system of their appointment by the government had prevailed from 1831 to 1.818. and since 1818 the elect:ve system. The results of the first system had been excellent; those of the second deplorable. Half the embrimisaments of the government proceeded from the in subordination of the mayors elected in the rural communes. As to the attributions of the municipal councils, the bill gave these the freest scope possible, and only re served fur the government a right of control and surveillance in matters of taxation. To destroy this con trol. which was the object of a consideraliV party, would make a swarm of petty republics, without cirri a federal government to bind them together. In that ease, their municipal law would lie:gis ing civic rights to anarchy. General Lamont et EatE.—Two kinds of principles arc the h is," of the projects we are now considering—the organisa tion of communial interests, and the administrative func tions. The municipall couucils have three species of func tions—they decide, the y deliberate, and give advice. The projects of law regulate appropriately thew• three points. the meetings of the communal and cantonal councils must not be public; but it should be otherwise of the meetings of the councils-general and the councils of the prefts.ture. The projects of law confer on the councils-general these three kinds of functions—it is a happy Moto ation. The cantonal councils are a good institution ; they will grow with time ; they agree with opinions which it is easy to point out. The sub-prefects must be 'continued as instruments of ad ministration; they will assist the operations of the cantonal councils. The guarantees required from councillors of the pre fecture are too general and too vane; they should be made more important if the presentation of the Council General should also be required. The new regulation of the Cum- Huns of the councils of the prtecture is a wise measure, as is also the defining them more precisely. The Article 8 may he objected to. The title of citizen is the relation of any one to the city. The communal right is thus emir. 111 l idea with the political right, lint it is it- leeie. NVe should, then, begin , by organising the municipal electorate. Thy registry of citizens admitted would be sufficient. Each one should be inserihyd by three different titles: first as having been born in the commune in which he resides; then, after haying quitted it, us having again come , to reside iu it. To be so inscribed, a certain domicile should be necessary. And last, so, being a stranger to the commune, basing comae to r•main in it; and for this a longer term of msidence sl Id be retmilvd. Universal suffrage may sure the country, localise it is a principle in which the people have confidence ; the elections of the Constituante are a proof of this. I require, then, that the part which constitutes the electoral body should he made the subject of a separate law. For the nomination of mayors the present system is good ; it works well, and seldom exhibits its imperfeetioas by the necessity of revoking the mayors. M. °MON DAKUOT rose to reply to the interpellations addressed to him as to the part he had taken in the crustiest of the cantonal councils. The misfortune of all slur con-' stitutions (said he) is, that instead of profiting by the actual power of the country and relying on it, we MOTs' frequently'! hitherto have created artificial powers. What, then, has happened? Frequent commotion', at each of which these powers vanish like smoke. Su much melancholy experience should at least be of some use to us. Our country offers this grievous singularity-, that instead of those populous eons mune* which are found, for instance, in ancient Flanders and the Unite.' States of America 29,000 of these communes out of that is, more than three-Murals, have not a population of 1,000. This thinness of population of our communes has been a great obquele to the development of the commercial spirit in our country. Now what is the remedy ? Is it by mating some artificial power, or by maintaining that which exists ? In your correspondence from Constantinople. your attention was lately drawn to the efforts of French diplomacy to undermine, by acting at head-quarters upon the Sultan and his ministers, the influence which England is acquiring gradually in Egypt by- Cairo becoming a thoroughfare to her Indian posses sions. It seems highly probable that the quarrel which blazed out between Prance and England in 1810 may be repeated in 1931, unless the government of Louis- Napoleon be firm enough to resist the itch of France to foment in the Egyptian government rebellious tendencies against the suzerainty of the Porte. The naval returns of England - suggested some re- marks on the state of screw-steamers in France. It may lie remembered that in France the first serious attempts at screw navigation were made on board the Napoleon, in 1543, by the zeal of the post-office administration and they proved the value and Mi -1 penance of the new invention. Eight years have' since elapsed, and would have beensufficient to create a sufficient body of screw-vessels. And yet, if from the list of screw-vessels he excepted some petty advice-boats, of 120 horse-power, useful at most tocarry a letter, and two or three won vessels, quite unfit fo'r fighting, it will be found that French war-vessels with screw-power are reduced to the Pomone frigate, of 116 guns, and 220 horse-power, the machinery of which was made by M. Mazeline, of Havre ; and the Isly frigate, of 24 guns, the machinery of which, made by M. Cave, has not been yet received. The Charlemagne will be the only French screw-ship-of the-line fit to be at full work this year. As to the Napoleon, the Austerlitz, and Jean Bart, the period of their being fitted out cannot be foreseen. The Committee of Naval Inquiry has been much occu pied with the question. The Mimiteur contains an official contradiction, given by the director of the National Discount Bank, to the report that the Bank of France had refused to advance to that establishment two millions of francs on railway securities. The funds recovered to-day . some firmness. The Fives closed of 96.63, with a nse of 20 centimes on yesterday. THE NAPIITIIA EXPIA),ION AT SALFORD.--Jona than Lowe, the joiner, who was severely burnt by the naphtha during the tire as hieh took place on the preadsel of 31r. S. White, Springfield-lane, Salford, last Fnday morn ing, and who was removed to the Manchester Royal Infir mary, died there the same evening. An inquest was held upon his body before the borough coroner, on Saturday, awl the same witnesses having been examined as were examined before Mr. Rutter, on the inquest upon the body of Mr. Hodgetts, the jury returned a verdict of "Am dental death." William Cliffe, the other man who was burnt upon the same occasion, is still lying at the Infirmary in a very precarious condition, inflammation having taken place ; and but little hope is entertained of his recovery.— Manchester Guardian. GERMANY, A telegraphic dispatch, dated Berlin, Feb. IR, (evening) states (on the authority of the Deutsch e Befurnt) that Nianteuffel had at noon unexpectedly arrived from Dresden ; had immediately seen tho King, and was to return to Dresden the same night or the next morning. Manteuffel and tichwarzenherg, as announced would be the rase, met at Driaden on the IGth. Oar correspondent writes as follows: BERLIN, Frn. 17. The journey of the Prime Ministers of Austria and Prussia to Dresden, recalls attention to the Dresden con ferences. As vet nothing whatever has been done; and no matter what the newspapers may say on the subject, I dis tinctly assert that the report of the first commission on t h e proposed alterations in the organisation of the confederation is the only result which has as yet to be chronicled. The protests against those alterations have not yet been presented, hut will doubtless be handed in at the next full sitting. All the stories about proposed executive organs are more moon . , shine. No proposition on the subject has been laid before the conferences, nor can 1 learn that any has actually been ugns d to between the two great powers. It is the policy of Austria to keep this point vague until she has secured the greatest share of power in the Engere Rath, which the proposed redivision of the votes would have placed in her hands. The opposition of the small states to this measure, and the lukewarmness with which Prussia has support sl it, have convinced Sehwarzenberg that he cannot carry it out, and he now meets ISlonteuffel with th ,, intention either to persuade him to consent to the ri ron=ti tution of the confederation, notwithstanding the opposi•i.i n of the smaller states, or to withdraw the former plans .1114 propose the simple reconstitution of the old Diet on' it. 0:4 footing. The latter is now generally considered the most probable termination of the conferences. The Nei, sisehe granny of this evening complains bitterly that tla• Dresden conferences will not lead to the desired strengthenin g of the supreme power in Germany, and informs us, what have long since told your readers, that the union betwis Austria and l'russia is not so firm a , to promise their mutual sanction to a common course of proveeding. The chambers did not meet to-day. While Arnim ass attacking ministers in the debate of Saturday, he had in los pocket a note from the King, informing him that ord. rs had been given for the marching of l'russim troops into holstein. The l'rnssian nation now learns what the direct cost of the mobili,ation of November has lv.ten. The deficit in the annual accounts of revenue and expenditure for [l^ past year amounts to more than thirty-two millions of thalers. •Phis sum includes the eighteen millions which were voted fur military purposes in Febru• ary last, of which four or live millions remainad in hand when the mobilit,ation was decreed. o h`r.•n squandered away, together with the other fourteen millins, which are on the wrong side of the account. The thirty millions ur• exclusive of the two million tie„ hundred thousand thalers which will be produerd by the side of the enormous quantity of horse. parch:co 1. It ton ' -• • .. . • io Kutch- a,..erte4l that the moduli...oton ot . the annv hut. •ritaikit mom the country a direct cipi•niliturc of fully •ightmn million thakra. On the 15th, a courier left Vienna for l'a• charged with important dc,putcht-s relating to th.• Turco-Egyptian complication, which had cau,cd a fall in the Vienna fund., TURKEY. CONSTANTINOPLE. FEB., Intelligence from Bagdad states that there 1.1. been a great deal of fighting between the Arah. and the Turkish Nisums. Five hamlets' of the fortes r attacked 200 'Turkish horsemen. The latter (Anima them, killed :30 men, and wounded Sheik Aznil, their chief, and pursued them us far as Ahantar, hours distant from Bugdal Mali Paella, and Machoidi Puttut of Basra, were actively preparing for the campaign ; 6,000 regular troopt, infantry and cavalry, were ready for action, mid in the case• of the iegoe•ia tiois opened through the medium of the foreign enn •uls fading, they were to attack the Arab and bring them to subjection. From Kurdi , tan aceuttah are favourable to the interests of the Porte, and it NY e. anticipated that the mission of Nana Paella tignitt•l Suleytnanieli would have terminated suece,stally. From Syria all is satisfactory. 1 , 01111 & ••• La" aa an.•••,•.,••••... • Sir Stratford (Aiming gays to the inhabitant, of Pcra one of the most splendid bails that has vur been given in the Levant : upwards of 1,600 invizt dons were issued. COLONIAL. CAPE OF 6001) HOPE. Tho following letter, written by a turrespon lent, gives an exact picture of the state of allltirs iu latish Kaffiaiiu: CAPE TOWN. Mr. 12. In my letter of the rith inst. I mentioned to you that Quarana, the chief of the krial to which the stolen ox was traced, hail isiguitied his ilesie: of not only repaying the ori ginal tine of four bullocks fur that theft; but also of paying the Hue of twenty head of rattle forhaving re4cued the tour bullocks while they were beingcarried off by the police, as well as of giving up the two guns, together with the :use gals that were wall on the cession of that rescue. This Colonel M.K innon, the emumandant of British Kalfrarki, stated in his despatch of :nth ult. to the Gov-enter. It appear., however, that the Kaffir, have since changed their minds on the subjeet, and have refried to pay these tines. firandilli, the lately deposed chief of the tiaika. is v's ith great reason believed to Ile the chief cause of this r, - vista ncr, acting no doubt upon people restless under rule, and ever imbued to throw it WI. This opposition to the government is strongly manifested at this moment, anal there is every reason to think that the lute nteasure of the Govenior's, by which hi:placed an Englishman over people, has gone a good way to alb nate the whole tribe, us there is no doubt that even the well affected to us feel the wet as an insult done them, and think they see in it the commencement of a system that will cud with the extinction of their rare. It ie just poi,,ible that Sir Harry did not quite see to wlr tt conwipteneeA the de1...11..1'0i. ..uprente chief of the Otiik.t4. and the incisting hal witlt lda power, would lead, and what nu tt,w policy would neet,,it.tte his i'ollowing, else lie would not have left Kaffraritt su s , “.n as ho did. Had he merely deposed Sandilli to replace him IT some subordinate chief who was well dispo,ol to hint, his excellency might have had a right to turn the deaf ear he did to the requisitions from the frontier emo- Moto for him to prolong his stay, because be could hove counted on leaving behind him a party among the Kadin that were in his power, and there would have lain no national feeling outraged. But how could he think he could so easily, and for ever, !11l aside a hereditary rote of chieftains, to replace the loot of them by an alien, mah out making implacable enemies both of him he deposed as well as of the whole race of nomadic warriors over w horn his ancestors had a t long ruled, and under whose conduct they had advanced from the interior of Africa to where they now are, in the teeth of hostile nations, whom tlo y had not only conquered but in some eases made shin, , ~t ? Above all, how could he expect this measure to sot t es..- fat while Sandilli himself was left among his people ? Can it be believed that Sandilli would think himself the less a chieftain because " Old " Father Smith," as he is called, read a proclamation, set ting forth that he had ceased to he one, or that his people would ever cease to regard hint as such, so long an he re mained among them? Certainly not; and when Sir (lorry tells the Kaffir chiefs that he means to rule for the future without their assistance, then, it is evident, ho will have to strengthen his power by some other means. By this time Sir Harry no doubt sees that his new system can only be supported by more troops and the four com panies of the .3rd, with the artillery that he brought up with him in the Hermes war -steamer, and landed on the 9th inst. at Buffalo Mouth, the key of Kaffmria, together with the 91st and Cape Mounted Rifles, that :Ire ordered to meet him at King William's Town. It is the first application of that force he will find he can never do without so long as he maintains his present svotem—a system w hick if souAt to he carried out nothing Alert of extermination will ac, OIW plish, and which will compel him to hunt his opponents down like wild beasts. Dec. 17.—8 y a letter from Colonel 31•Kiniton to the 'oven - tor, but written before the arrival of the hater at King Williant's Town, the war party is said to have lost its influence ; and the next day Sir Barry, in his notice, congratulates the people on the frontier, amongst other things, on the divided state of the Kaffirs, though his assu rance, at the same time, of his having a force amply mall eient to put them down, would lead one to think that he does not consider their dissensions to be of much 011,U quence. It may be, however, that this quarrelling is a for tunate thing for Sir Harry, inasmuch as by disuniting thorn they will be the more easily subdued. They are doing ha him that which he himself was nearly undoing, strange to say, he congratulates the people on that which his own policy really meant to counteract. For if he con gratulates them on the prc.ent divided state of the Kaffirl, it will be upon that which his own measures really went to neutralise, and it will be then evident that when he left his " old frontier system " he did not quite see to wh a t results the adoption of his new policy would lead, for in their union, which the investing Mr. Brownlee with the chieftainship of the Gaikas went to effect, lay his weakness. Though the governor's notice is intended to allay any feeling of alarm that may be felt among the colonists it can not be said to have yet had that effect, fur in this evening's intelligence from Graham's Town, it is mid that all the operations of industry are paralyzed, and ruin and &sway is spread along the whole line of frontier. The farmers are busily engaged driving their sheep and cattle into the colony, and hundreds of sheep have died on the journey from overdriving and want of food and wa t er . Tome Of the fanners that had left their farms before the governor's first visit, and returned to them on the strength of hi: pro chunation that all was quiet, have again left them, and so convinced arc some of them that a Kaffir invasion is inevi table, and that the frontier will long remain in an unsettled condition, that they have made arrangements never to re turn there again. Their fears rest upon the influence