The Express. — London, England, 1851-04-19 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, SATURDAY EVENING, APRIL 19, 1851. FRANCE. of armed brigands in different parts of the territory. !heights where the Kaffirs were, and a message was appearances are against us ; that if their rights are The Minister of Finances admitted that the evil sent back by the officereommanding theCapeMounted not in their opinion sufficiently respected, let us for --- PARIS, Flimsy MORNINO. complained of had become very serious, but declared Rifles, telling Mackinnon that he (Somerset) was the future endeavour to do so; and let our dealings • that the government had adopted measures of ropes- only waiting his arrival to attack the Kaffirs. In with them repose on the broad intelligible basis of Let me draw your attention to a highly signifi- i sion, the success of which could not be considered consequence of the badness of the roads through truth and justice. cant declaration[ put f o rward to -d a y b y t h e organ o f . doubtful. The Courr i er pu bli s h es severa l accoun t s w hi c h they were led, and other causes, it took Mac- By an extra to the Graham's Thaw Afton,. o f 1 the fusionists, and much clearer than the weak ' u t t h e procee di ngs o f t h ese brigands, all of which kinnon three or four hours to reach Somerset, who, Feb. 25 we have news of the Kat River ontbroak and misty manifesto attributed to M. Guizot. ' show the absence of proper means of protection for wearied with waiting. after firing off some rockets having been quelled, and that decidedly, by General It was thought lev most that the new party of the life and property. One band had arrived at 'fatoi, among them. went after the Kaffirs, who had moved Somerset. with a force of Burghers' Hottentots. and A sa , l , . hi , e -Vtd ,,, mile intended to pursue with real w i t hi n a f ew no t es of the c apital, and put to flight a off with their cattle towards the Kat river. Somerset levies, with some Cape Mounted Rifles. Fort Arm-1 the prolongation of the President s powers. This detachment of gendarmes after killing One of them. followed them over the heights, on the other side of strong was taken from the rebels and levelled with' illusion is dispell.d today ; for the organ of Mole At Vrantsi a band of thirty brigands, atter commit- which he encamped for the night ready to lift the the ground. The victory is must decided. About 4th and Guizot mentions that eventuality in terms which ting other atrocities, pound boiling oil on the 4.090 lie saw in the distance on the morrow, as he Kaffir% and Hottentots are killed,l6o taken prisoners, ! prove that a lthou g h it w ill no t o pp ose the prolonga- b reas t s o f three females, and then sacked the village, did not doubt of Mackinnon ' s being with him with 70 to 11$) stand o f arms and 400 women and' Mon if desired by France, it will nut in the feast help carr yi ng o ff th e ir bo o ty without meeting with uny before then. Mackinnon, however, encamped on children. Somerset only lost 6 killed and 25 wounded. ', it on. It sub. : " Let we have no revolutionary ens* re „i stance . the Chumie, and next morning, after two By the last news from Graham's Town, of Ist March, i which dove nut lead to the re-establishment of the , • ----- - -•- ' companies of his levies had abrush with some Kaffirs there is little or no news. Doubts begin to be en-1 true and complete monarchy, henceforth the only 1 CAPE OF GOOD HOPE. ,! in the Lushington Valley, where they killed five or tertainmi about Cato, the chief that commands the definitive und duruble governmesit. To make under- , Isix without our hew to themselves, instead of follow- sea coast to the east and west of Bald° Month, as I stood and :tempted by the country the rte- I I ing Somerset; he returned to Fort Hare. Th • corn- many of his people who were in service in Albany mint of this munarchy us its true and only means of ! In addition to the intelligence given in the Re- , bitted movement being thus frustrated, Gen. Somerset had left their masters all at once and gone to Kaffir-1 salvution. is the whole end of our political task. We press yesterday, we publish the following interest- nut having sufficient force to attack the enemy alone, land. Thew people had been in service for some my this openly. and shall esteem it a twlniet to be mg letter from our correspondent. I Wao, obliged to return to Fort Hare also, without years. and were of material help during the last war I quoted as saying it. How does this affect the Prince 1 CAPE OF GOOD HOPE. Memel 3. 1 having done anything. If these details be correct , and until now the greatest confidence has been Louis Napoleon ? Ito we, from the present moment, ! The most important duty performed during the ;is I re no doubt they a, the failure of the move- placed in them. Doubts are also entertained of Ain-1 advocate the prolongation of his powere? Nu. We past month has been the conveying troops and stores most L., t o he entirely attributed to Mackinnon's hole, the supreme chief of the Gaikas, who has: ardently wish. we IN gard its infinitely desirable fin- f rom var i on „ par t, of t h e co l on y t o th e see n, o f w ar_ ' tardiness in joining Somerset on the first day, and to hitherto only been withheld from joining Sandillil the prt -ent good of Frame, that she should be deli- fare. Iler Nfajesty'e steam-vessels Hermes and Deed his entirely leaving him un the second, when he by means of his amapakati or councillors, who nitively extricated in D4:.)2 limn the deplorable and together with tau or three hired merchant veesels, I had it in his tower to make up for the blunder of the told him that as he had promised Sir ri preeuows state into which she was plunged by 1 , 41 , 4. pave beau o .constantly employed in this duty, and day before. Thus have these two attacks on Scoot°, Harry some time ago to " sit still," they But if, in 1e152, it :amulet not be possible to extricate already have 2,500 levies ben landed at Eist Lon- I and the attempts made to seize his cattle signally could on no account allow him to break his wort ft her definitively from that state, if the vital question don, together with about 1,500 tone of stores of i failed, from both of which so much was expected, so .is said that Nlackimion's retreat (of which I havegiven of her destinies should not be able then to receive its different kinds, with guns, ammunition, au mules f o r • confident wets Sir Harry that some signal tilleee6Bl you a detailed account) front Fort Hare has been true solution, we• believe that France would do well waggons, and about the same number of horses. Very would result from the combined movement he , called a defeat by the Kaffirs, and the 'WAIN of it not to throw down at all risks the tent under which : f ew nun l ev i es can h e ex p ee t e d, indeed hardly any, , thought 'je t ty t o tiseeplacebetween Somerset and Mae- I having spread far and wide, has infused fresh daring she is now sheltered. No engagement, and no pre- . for the last lot that the Hermes took only amountid!kinnon on the Chenille that he actually caused a great into the , " Kira warriors. Somerset's victory at Kat mature and absolute exclusion ; that is all that can to about 60. and at the various places she touched onIkr:1;11 to be built beside King William's Town, caber - I river wit! no doubt act as a check, and decide the I now be said." the coast for more she hardly succeeded in doubling , ble of containing the .3,1551 cattle he expected to see wavering on " sitting still." 'there were no news of I understand that the government is about to pre- nthat number. The two steamers will, however, hate i (sone i n . Th e t roo p s l e ft F o rt Hare on Mondayl Mackinnon's pa:rol that was to leave King William's sent two bill. of impurnmee. One is relative to do. ' sufficient to do in carrying the provisions and stores morning on their way back. Thee were attackeil ' Town about the Nth. A good deal of firing had micile in Paris, and will place ut the disposal of the ' ' that are constantly being wanted. "Ilk Hennes that early in the morning bI e a small body of the enemy, been heard in the Kloofs near Fort Wiltshire on the gove •nt persons of suspicious characters, whom has just un.ieeel from Eust London, brings directions whom they drove len•k. at the same time, killingifollowing day, where it was thought he was engaged the prefect of police nasty, at Isis will, remove from' N for .Ir. Montagu to smile Sir Ilarre with a re- about nine or ten of them. The Kaffirs in this in- with the enemy. the capital ac'c'ording to the abrogated law of 11+11).' mount fur the Cape Mounted Rifles, so the next duty stance occupied a densely-wooded hill,which Mackin- It is stated that the died of this law will is to re-1 that will have to letdone will be to cram the steam- non ordered the first division of levies to clear. This move limn the capital 25,000 individuals of the most ! ens with hoists, and despatch them ofl', they did in fine style, ably supported by the 7:lrd in dangerous character in time, of revolution. The Sir I larry'e operations in Kafh.aria have been few, the valley below. One of the levies was killed and other bill is relative to the publications of French pro- and to say the Inuit of them (as 1 shall show in the one wounded. The march was continued by Key. liticul exiles residing abroad. These publications seque l) un i m p ortant , if we (swi g th e r e li e f he threw se'r'a drift on the Keiskaninia, when the troops halted will be interdicted in France. into the two forts, White and Cox ; the other occa. to breakfast. On resuming their manta the Karnes Some of the Bonupartist journals propose a sell( me I *ions on which the troops acted were only two. They . attacked their rearguard, and billowed them all the for opening a register in evesy (immune for each were on patrol or foray duty, that is, engaged in way to Fed White. All advantage of ground was citizen to inscribe his opinion ut the prolongation of ' seizing the enemy's cattle, but the first aide- proved in favour of the enemy, the- country being every powers. a failure% or nearly so, for it was found that after where a dense bush; but the Kaffirs (as all ac- The council of state, in its last tau sittinge. adopted I they had exulted in seising 7 0 0 cattle, it tunnel out quainted with them agree in) are bad shots and a bill tar extending to the Ist January. 1862 I , the law that nearly all of them (.345)) belonged to one of their , know hardly anything of bush-fighting. Our levies of April 23. 11412, giving the state the exclusive b est f r i en d s , an d o f comse hail to le• returned to him.larc not much to brag of in this way, for on this day monopoly of the manufacture mid sale of tobaceo, I Thi s was d ine to th e great di sg u s t o f the I lottentot ' they fired away not less than 120,000 rounds of am- and a report un a bill for the management of salt l ev i es , w h o no t b e ing v e ry n e s . in th e ir distinctions ! munition. W • e• lost eight killed and 17 wounded.' I marshes. between Kaffir friend and foe, accuse the English of ' one of 73n1 killed and four wounded, the rest hying It scents as if all Paris had got into vehicles of , want of faith in returning the cattle instead of deal- I levies and. Fingoe:e Notwithstanding all this annoy every esonedvable description to form on endless pro-' ing them out as they had conceived was to be done once, l‘lackintion 6 party continued their match, cession', reaching from du: Bastille along the Houle- I with all the- clink in Kidfirland, no matter whose though nothing would have pleased the troops better muds and Chumps Elysees, through the Bede de 1 they were. On the second occasion great prepare- than to be allowed to turn round and give their Boulsone to the gates of that town. The most . tions were made ter the reception of the cattle that enemy a drubbing , which one would think they remarkable- turns out are those whose object was to be taken, whot to the astonishment of everi could easily have done. As it was, instead of a march, is to adeurtis% Here you see u series of gilded One, Colollel Mackinnon returned beim the enemy a it looked us if our troops were being driven out of care. suruiewited by under Ilas and pwasols of all comatry, where he hud been for four ur five days, but the country. Thus only one object of the expdition colour.; there a set of newly-painted coal wag- without bringing with him a single cow. But to the wins gained, leaving -WO men in Fort Hare, the, gon e with appropriate drivers; an ingenious lump- details of these evente, other was au utter failure, returning as it did to King maker settle to have turned half his stock into a Willians's Town without bringing m a single horn. Bellsre the governor could proceed against Sevolo, this el set of et hides. And thus, us the drop seems In smother letter from head-quarters of latest date the- S'Llitinliie chief, who interrupted his commend of theatres tire invaded by the. or e giehes of clothiers catiune with the colony at Line Drift, it was neves- Pith inst.), it was stated that they had just re and dentiete, 641 the brilliant promenades of Lung- sury to relieve Forts Ahite and Cox, that we're be- c-tired orders to hold themselves in nodiness to start chumps, ate utilised by ambitious tradesmen for le • Stu be in want of provieions. at daylight on the fellowing morning (25th) on an puffing their wares. other . expedition against &solo . On the 30th January, therefore, Col. Mackinnon Never Were the- Lent preachers in greater vogue By the last accounts from Natal it appears that Sir was sent with a mix;sl have of 2,200 men, corn than this year. The churches . are more crowded i Harry is disappointed of the Zoolalis coming in the, I esse . .el of the 73rd, With leVieS and Fin , from than the theutres, and thronging auditors make l. ' rear or hie enemies, though intelligence had only a I o•ng William's Town On the same day 17e. relieved homed at the great duurs Father Lam-duke 1 few days before reached of 3,000 of them having s pout ' White in doing * which he Met with but little at Notre Dame tl hers against the greed U 6 ' , ms i . on ! ft for thou h crowds of Kalfire collected, ea actually started under the conduct of Mr. Shepetom, I gain und the irreligion of science. Padre I ltel.ll' thro ;the• Zoidalt commissioner. The account states ns the t n umongs g t them was sufficient to trice Ventura, in his blood Italian anent, introduces. reason of their not coming that no sooner had the. ill uwity and on their atticking his rear he ha' • dash of polities into his animated discourses. Abbit I Zuolahs started, than Sunda. the great chief of their lithe:Atli; in aiding then; lock into the bush out Batman preache e to full audiences of fashionable , ":..' race, from whom Sheptom's people awe seeders, i which ' the came. - Next day Fort Cox Was re people at the Nludeleitw ; and the Abbe de' Laplace : 1 i ,,,,,, withou Y showed symptoms betraying an intention of attack fills a ith Isis %onerous sermons the nave of St. Hoek " ing the cattle and families of the absentee Zoolalut, forts received six - weeks' su »le and ia; the third the las ourite church of Corneille. Never was pulpit- or perhaps the colony itself. On this the council at I thy that ie the- Ist Feb i r i e • the whole oarty re theme nee at such u premium. But one feels too I - ,- . Pit•ter Nlaritsberg resolved that the Zoolahs should g iMU $ ON II with out n101tlitl• • turned to Kin M - 11' ' 'l' ' - purele that fur one person who goes to hear these I lion. be immediately recalled, and an order to that effect J irtlirtun• fruni it religious motive, lull get bil. "' e it I Tide service wrfonned. and without loss to either was forthwith despatched by Mr. Sim, the governor, is the fnehion. The gossip of drawing.roonis tunes , to Mr. Shepstom, which mashed him when t - I s the i shell tl •wt n n the KOHN did oa the style of this or that isistor ; and instead of " Par t al'. She was already three days on his journey. h in en them, Si i r ul H ° a g Smith is at praising ilk , warbling of Sontag. your fair turtle s- more t • g ... . rrelt is said that Shcpstom himself did not quite rip en a quadrille asks you whether you have heard the it I S .- I w.. ll i serty to torn his attention to . eyo o. sobs we prove of the Zoolales going to oat. With the Kaffir's, ' striking discourses id' NI. Itavigtion. merited punishment for the trouble and alltlOVallee niassnuelt as it was only throwing them bock he had caused bint. On the 3rd, them COlonel The Prefeet of Police is oroupying himself with into that unsettled condition, front which it would! carrying into execution the new law of the 27th Nlllekinnoll Aias sent off _ill? charge of a strung patrol b e difficult to divert them back again to industrious ' Mar It last, aguitist Intuits of all kinds in the sale of i '4' Regulars, Levies, add ingo, to attack thatchice habits. Perhaps, after all. Sir Hm tarry nay have mereleindise. Ile hoe just referred to the COreet- sieze ae many of his cattle e as they could, and, if pos- cause to rejoice at their not appearing in the field, sible, buy hold of the prophet Umlanjini, Whiq is one timid Tribunal twenty-nine peoess-rerlearer tientinst for, by enlisting them, it was utile perplexing still butcher., pork buteltere truirours. grocers, and true of his follower*. Mackinnon was absent On this ex- more the already tangled condition of Kaffir affairs. terms, at whose shops unwholesome articles had petition about three days. after which he returned, and adding new Interests where they will soon be been sized. with hint about 700 head of cattle, bringing found to be sufficiently e • 1 oned anal abundant to The• metallie reserve of the Bank of France has and attributing his not being able to get attend to. Besides, their appearing on the been(' more to the bud weather that impeded again increased mark thus. millions in Puri*, and would certainly have the effect of extending the their . operations. The awkward mistake byline newly one million in the brunch banks. 'flu-discountbasso of country that is now in a state of discontent, • • menttoned vets then discovered- the grt•ater • aceonmuslation has decreased about three millions in • • , if not of rebellion. The claims of the Zoolahs would Paris and increased ewe arde of one million in the part of the . cattle! (aboutiM) be-longed to a friendly rust be. easily j settled, certainly not more easily than aline Siwana, the half-brother of Seyolo. This chief' proe inns. the &amount of the former being lithose of the levies ; and we have alreadv 44.721,5021 r., and of the latter 77,t473,64rtir. On the hind had the honour of dining with his excellency the seen that in their case there lies a source , of trouble fur side 01 the liabilities , . the nuns in cirtadation have day the expdition started, and it may be believed he the future. The Zoulahs would not be more likely decreased 11 millions in Paris,. sand about 2 millions was anything but pleases' with its very unsatisfactory than the Hottentots, but the reverse, to understand in the departments. The account current of the termination. The cattle had of mum to be returned . st . .. . . , why they might carry off the cattle from one klool, treasury has increased about 4', millions, the present buts I s' -the t ee'! " tO HUN flint in order and why they might not take those from another' ' amount being 91,515,550 fr. Private uccounte cur- o t set a Was r liee , ll46ary tt.) nave recourse to a MK.. kloOf Dot half a mile off—why they might take as rent purse dee teasel nearly 6 millions iu Paris, uud .111:bugles we • •Cl to sound tlw assembly, and many as they could catch of the one, because they Men-used about I million in the provisoes, the amount whil e the men wen all eitgaged, Thethe cattle even belonged to Sandilli or Seyolo ; but why thee must, handed over to hswanu •. this s people. result of of the former being 50,833,5 en fr., and of the latteron no account, think of even looking will, a covetous expedithe tion was seizing of somewhere about 200 25.052,311 tr. The whole amount of the metallic eye on those other, fur they were of the herds of . re. . rye is WON 5113', reunion., tu 5 head; this first attack ust Seyolo thus resulted in 221 millions of notes Sewani or Cmhala. something very like. a failure. in circulation. Sir Harry is not, therefore, likely to have much The next attack on Seyolo was on Thursday, the more addition to the number of men he already has 13th instant, when Colonel Nlackinnon again left in Kaffroria; anti the burgher force that will mast King William's Town at 4 in the morning, with as likely be collected after his last urgent proclamation, mixed body of 3,000 Men and 2 guns, the object of is tie doubt intended to act entirely on the frontier. the expedition being twofold, t o tak e 400 white As regards the colony, the state of the Kat River volunteers and mine artillerymen to Fort Hare, to settlement at present engages most attention, both juin General Somerset. asset to seize Seyolo's tattle. among those who had hoped it would have proved a 1 have received de-tailed accounts of this raid, which trusty barrier against a hostile people, and among was even more unsuccessful than the former one, those who disliked from the very first the system of from two uffivere, one of whom commanded an ban- instruction pursued there, together with these who portant hotly, and from both of these it would alt- established it. All, however, charactense their eon pear, that to want of union between the two in com- duct as mad and rash in the extreme, and those who wand is to lee attributed the- failure which ensued. extended pity to them in their sufferings are now the Both my informants characterise the expedition as first to reprobate their present conduct. which will a iodic conducted one, and do not hesitate to say nu doubt end in ruin to themselves. They are al that the OM it will have on the Kaffirs will be to lowed to have had very great grievances, and to make them believe that on this occasion they actually have suffered much both in peace and war. In the chased us out of their country. As I said, the patrol various Kaffir wars they have borne the brunt of the left King William's Town on Thursday. proceed fight. and done their work well, and from the ing to Fort White by the Debe 'Nech. As , exposed position of their country, they have the troops approached this neck, or flat piece ' had to suffer the heavier losses. Vet not of ground, in three columns, with skirmish- only have their services not been noticed, but as in ing parties of the Cape Mounted Rifles in front Sir H. Puttinger's time, they have had to retura the lead rear, the Kaftirs were Wen to be collected in con- very blanket they got front government at the corn sklemble bodies. They seemed at first as if inclined mencement of the war by way of outfit. They have to make a stand, but a few shots at them with suffered from rulers who haled both the people and giberical case was sufficient to drive them away, and the system under which they lived, and when they possibly did some execution amongst them. when the took to the bush, and cut down their trees, the im troops were enabled to pass through without men position of a tax amounting to ss. on a load at once iodation till the rear came up. when the Kaffirs checked their industry, uud funned their discontent. made a regular sally, and bad a sharp skirmish When the Kaffir police were sent about six months with the Fingoes. • They reached Fort White sago to chase out some 90 or 104) Kaffirs that had got the same night, and next morning started I among the people of the settlement, so well and for Fort I where they arrieed in theleagerly was the work performed. that not only were : afternoon, having on the wav alittle more sphericali the-se turned out, but some hundreds more diet be , case-firing at some Kaffirs oho were a long way off, I longed to the settlement, who lived there us peace , and leaving a record of their march in the smoking I able inhabitants, and had no right to live anywhere huts that they set fire to on either side of their way.else-. Men. women, and children were turned out, On the arrival of Mackinnon's party at Fort Hare% and their houses burned before their eyes, while the the Fingoes belonging to Somerset were sent on to , Kaffir police. as they did so. remindea thou of how gain the heights between the Chumie and Lucking - ' well they had hunted their Kaffir brethren out of ton valleys. and a combined attack was to be made !the .-Imatulu hills in the late war. on these points on the following morning, by whichj On a re-slew of the present state of things existing means it was expected that all the cattle in theselin South Africa we will find that one feeling appears rich valleys, amounting to about 7,000. would fulllto occupy the minds of the Iluttentots, the- Cape , into their hands. Next morning. accordingly, Gen. I Corps. or some of them, the Kat River people. and Somerset, moved with his body 1,600 strong hay ing i the Kaffirs, and this is a feeling of deadly for this purpose been supplied with 1,000 of Mackin- hatred towards their common master—so that we non's levies) and some- rockets, up the- rent to Wu- may say we hare ut present something like a war of burn where they seem to meet, while- Mackinnon's races; the African of various shades against the tinny, with the two guns, skirted the hex of the white man. exeept in the case of the Fingues, who, hills more to the right. On Somerset's reaching occupied with the one feeling of hate to the Kaffir..Woburn, he saw a large body of Kaffirs on the in NV hOSC country they occupy the same position that heights beyond, but as they were too numerous the Helots did in Sparta, rejoice to find themselves for him to attack single-handed he resolved on in the ranks of enenues who they well know will waiting for Mackinnon's arrival, whom he expected inevitably conquer the Kaffir. to see every minute. Mackinnon's parts-, however, This discontent is too wide spread not to have had lagged' be the way, and. instead cif marching ! seem real cause, and when the cause is so great as forward after' breakfast a - of Cape Mountedi I to unite those who were before natural enemies it ._.. WEST INDIES. Our ordinary files of West India journals contain little to add to the extracts given in yesterday's Express. The Iforiday Joornal(Kingston, Jamaica) has the following with reference to the report of the Committee on Ways and Means, and to the finances of the island generally: The entire expenditure of the colony, classified under four heads, amounts to the very large sum of 269,000/.. iu which sum 10,650/. is included as a sinkinz fund for the liquida tion of u debt of 700,000 f , which is, or will due and payable to the government and to persons in the mother country, and to institut• and persons in this island. Of the first mentioned sum 138.2691. may 1w co mid. us fixed and permanent, and a further sum of 67,013/. mac also be reganlol in nearly the same light. For the present we may safely look upon them is items of expenditure which no economy, however severe, can reduce. and which cannot be got rid of. They amount together to 205,im0f., and exceed the total revenue of the island, which estimated at 159,000/. The deficiency apparent upon the face of the document is 79,0 1 0 t, and this sum the House of ..t.scinbly will be called upon to provide, if an end is to be put to the present system of actually running deeper into debt. The dt fieiency has been ascertained and must he met, and the proposition is to meet it by the following additional taxation : _ " A tut of 2s. on hones, mares, mules, asses, horned cattle, and wheels. . . _ increase of the ad ralarent duty of per cent. on the uneninuerated article , in the tariff to 7 1 re: cent., with drawback upon exportation. " A tax of :is. upon every taxpayer throughout the Wand. " A produce-tax of :is. per hogshead on sugar; 3s. per ; Icon on rum; 3s. per tierce on coffee; 2s. 64. per bag oil pimento; and correvontling rates uu arrow 'root, ginger, and other products. "A tax of is. on every horse, mule, and horned 'dock sold by peukeepers. " A tax of 2 per cent. on the annual value of houses, other than those on estates and tens paying the produce tax. "A tat of 4 per cent. on all income of and over 100/. per annum, except the net proceeds of produce of cbtates Arcady taxed." The bill whieh provides a salary for the governor had passed the Assembly after considerable discussion and several divisions. It provides a salary of 4,41001., %%Well, with I,:oot from the permanent revenue, makes in all 6,00/. per annum for the present re presentative of majesty. It also provides that upon his ivlinquishment of office the salary to his successor shall be in the whole 5,000 t per iumum. It is to i endure until the 31st December. lssl. The Clyde started from St. Thomas on her home ward passage to Southampton at 1.55 n.m. on the 22nd ult. She experienced strong easterly gales and a heavy sea during the whole 'swage. .C../n the 3rd inst. she was in lat. 35.32 N., don. 10.38 W., with only 302 tons of coal. The commander, with the sanction of the Admiralty agent, resolved to put into Fayal to take in enough coal to reach Southampton. The Clyde arrived at Fayal on the 7th with only 190' itons of coal on board. She took in 75 tons, and left for Southampton on the same day. On the 17th, when oft' Falmouth, the commander found again that he had not coals enough to reach Southampton, and it was resolved to put into that port for a supply. The mails on board the Clyde were landed at Fal mouth at 8 a.m. on the 17th. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. lims/los, Ja Marten 16. Tram De Cordova's . lot, lliyesurr.) The " report" from the committee apointed by the House of Assembly to regulate the financial attain of the colony has been thrown out, in consequence of the non-observance of some legislative formality ; but it is questionable if it would have met with any other result had the matter been debated in the house. We should state that among the suggestions offered by the committee with the view to meet the expenditure of the country by increased taxation, it was recommended that an additional import duty of ;J per cent. ad valorem should be imposed on all unruted iroi d., such as linen and cotton fabric", jewellery, tte., which additional duty should be over and above the rates paid under the existing act. The failure of the " report" has, of course, interposed an ob stacle to the present consideration of the Import Duty Bill. We may, however, observe that the strong oli jections which were taken to any augmentation of the present per centage on unrated goods renders it very unlikely that the suggestiun of the committse will be reinserted in the new report which they arc now engaged in preparing. The general impression appears to he that the duties on imports will be reduced to a considerable extent, and that the revenue of the island will be derived princi pally from a property and income tax. We would, however, caution our readers on the other side of the water against placing any reliance on the reports in circulation on this subject. The matter is so much involved in uncertainty that it is scarcely possible to arrive at any safe conclusions with regard to the intentions of the house in this re spect. The financial arrangements for this year will in all probability be adjusted before the departure of the next packet. By a recent enactment of the Legislature all vessels trad ing to this island fnon places within the Tropic of Cancer are exempted from the payment of lighthouse and tonnage dues. The arrivals since our last have been on an exceedingly moderate scale, and the market has in consequence become firm for most articles. Breadstuff's, however, are still ne glected, owing as well to the excessively large stock on hand us to the abundance and cheapness of native vegetables. We notice a somewhat lively speculative demand for pork, un der which importers' hands have been very nearly cleared. Cod and pickled fish are now in small supply, and holders arc firm at advanced rates; the former especially is in good inquiry just now, in consequence of the advent of Lent, at which seaman there is always an increased demand fur the article. The cholera yet lingers in some of the rural districts; but, on the whole, the late accounts from the agricultural pa rish., are favourable, and represent the disease as having very nearly exhausted itself. The mills are about pretty generally, and in the coffee districts they arc commencing to be busy ; there is, however, as was anticipated there would be, a sad deficiencyl s.f continuous and available labour ; and the gathering in of the crops will be retarded in consequence to some extent. Rum is quiet at 3.. 81. to 3s. 9d, per gallon for 21 proof. SUGAIL—The purchases fur shipment have nearly there the market of the stock in factors' hands ' and prices are generall y well supported. No late sales of dark have taken place at anything under lert., and middling to fair has realised 16s. to 26. per 1001 h. Corm.— Ordinary hiss been selling readily at 335. to 375. per 1001 b. Timm eo.—The late sales of Cavendish It's were effected at Is. sd. to Is. fi'd. per Ib., but holders are now firm at ad- Tamed rates. Leaf is plentiful. GOLD.—AmericAn cumin:mils 2 to 21 per cent. Doubloon are very scarce. The premium on American gold is paid invariably on the dollar valued at Is., and not on is. 2d. 'this remark applies likewise to American bills of exchange. EXCIIANUE,—On Ness: York Merchants' bills are pro- curable at 2 per cent.. 60 days' sight. On London: Colonial • SPAIN. MADRID, Area. 13. The government has not granted the request of &nem] Survaez to h• permitted to rink to Anda hisia to see his mother. whose health dues nut *AVM to lie worse than usual, or to be such as to rause any alarm for her life. The lialoll de Hourgaing, French ambassador, is preirailag fur his departure. M. de AVulewski, his auet.cssor, is arrived ut Iluyonne. GERMANY. A letter from Vienna. of the 13th inst., in the Lidepriii/oiter 11.1 q,, states that the deisirture of Count nun for Frankfort, was delayed by Prince Schwurzenberg at the moment of his departure, in con sequence of a telegraphic despatch from Berlin. At the Pltill• time. while the letter referred to, an order was sent of to the Austrian troops in Holstein to bus 'wild. until further orders, the preparations for leav ing the duchy, which had been commenced. MUNICII, Amu. 12. _ _ . A C'ahinet Council hail been held, in which it has been decided to milt' the Bavarian Plenipotentiary front the ('onfcu•nc of Iht:sden. 'TIE LEVANT. We have received by the Levant mail Constanti nople journals to the ith. and Athens papers to the Bth, both inclusively. Neither one nor the other contain any news of political interest. A meeting of the Turkish ministers had been held at the Mint, to take into tonsideration the present state of the bank and the question of the exchanges. A num ber of bankers and merchants were invited to attend. The principal subject of discussion was whether the establishment should be kept up, when it w.t. ultimately decided that it should be maintained. but that 111t1111,4 should be be de% ised to ameliorate the present condition of the bank, and diminish its losses and expenses. Sir Stratford Can ning had given a grand dinner to the personages who were about to proceed to London to attend the Exhibition, including Gelaledin l'acha, Mustafa nolo, vice-admiral; M. Mussurus, envoy extraor dinary and minister plenipotentiary in England; M. Aliso Vogorides, councillor ot his mission and those mentioned in another column. We perceive by the Athens journals that the state ment of the dissolution of the Greek Chamber o f lk•putics, received rii Trictitc, was unfounded. The (',Atirricr el*.illonex, of the Bth, con tains a report of the sitting of the 4th, in which questions were put to the ministry on the subject of the depredations sad atrocities committed by bands . party - . " Bunk-90 dup., par ; elidays7, per emit. prendiun ;30 days, Rifles, was sent to see where gomerset was. This I becomes high time to see what influences us in our , per cent. premium. Jamaica Bank-93days, pur ; 60days, party saw General Somerset three miles off, near the dealings with these people. And if it be seen that I per cent. premium; 30 days, 1 per seat premium. AMERICA. By the arrival of the Franklin at Southampton w•e are in the receipt of news three days later from New York. The slave agitation, consequent on the rescue of the negro Shadtuek at Boston, had led to the arrest of several other fugitives. The State Legis latures of Vermont, Massachusetts, and Ohio, are those most loud in their attacks against the fugitive slave bill. There is nothing stirring of interest at New York. Subjoined are the latest commercial items : New Tuna, Arum 4. The activity of the stock market it well sustained, and the prices still show an upward tendency, although the ad vance is not PO regular as it was at the commencement of the movement. lu exchange there is no activity. but rates are firm for sterling ut 10 to 10; ; Francs arc heavy at .1.10 to 3.071 ; Hamburg, 37 to 371 ; Bremen, 79 to 721 ; Am• sterdam, 411 to 42. Freights remained unchanzed. About 1,001 hales cotton were engaged at 3-10 d. to 7.22,1. ; 1,000 bbls. flour, 12th. ; 1,000 bbls. turpentine, l.al. ; 700 bbls. resin, Shl. ; and , dead weight at 12s. 0.1. to 1f,.. To Cuba two vessels were engaged at 21..5. and 21. is. 64. fur Europe. To California there bt a moderate amount of business doing at 41k. to 611 c. Asu I:..—The market is steady for pots at 5 dots. to dots. 06e., with a fair demand. Pearls arc hardly PO firm; I sales at dols. 714:. to .1 dots. SI ; about 10 brls. sold. (*. riTON lets advanced be. from the lowest prices of yes terday, with sales of 4,000 bales, principally to shippers. Our market now stands where it did on Tie ' , thy last in quouttiuns, superadding rot active demand. We give quo- Wilms : Ober I Atlantic Ports. Florida. Gulf Corn , . Mk-Mo. nom. 111 , M. 1.131. toroiniry, low to gnol In to toi 10 to Ind ... 10 t 101 Middling, low to god pep to 111 ... 101 to 111 ... 111 to 14 lair maw 11. to 14 ... 12/ to la, Far fair to gad 1.11 121 nem. ... 1 t G.ot snd fine . ILIA' It AND M EAL.—There in more buoyancy in our market fur the low grades of State and Western }lour, and prices of the former are a shade better, with more doing fur the east and city trade. There is some inquiry for export, but at prices olightly , below the views of holder.. New Or leans is in better demand, and the common grades are bet ter. Sales at 4 dols. 681 c. to 4 dol.. 871 c. for common to choice brands Scioto Valley. Canadian is without move meat, and the market is nominal at 4 dots. 621 e. in bond. The sales of domestics reach 6,000 bbl. at 4 dols. 18 3 ,e. to 4 dols. 25e. for No. 2 superfine ; 4 d015..50r. to 4 doll. 561 e. for common to good strait State ; 4 dots. 46.1 e. to 4 dots. 74e. for Michigan and Indiana; 4 dols. 96... to .1 duds. for Pure Genesee; 4 duds. to 5 dol.. 25c. fur fancy Ohio and Gene see; 5 duds. 2.1 e. to .1 dodo. 37,e. fur extra Ohio ; and 5 did.. 30e. to 6 dots. 40e. for extra Genesee. Southern is better with a good demand for the West ladies and the trade in part to arrive. Sales of .1,700 bids. at 1 dots. 681 c. too dots. 811 c. for mixed to strait brands, and 5 cols. ton dal. 30c. for fancy. ltye Hour is steady : sales of 100 Mils. at 3 dols. 371 e. to 3 dols. 41c. Corn meal is very quiet : sales of small lots of Jersey at 3 dole., and 100 bble. Brandywine, in lots, at 3 dots. 381 e. ORM N.—fhere is abetter feeling id nor market for wheat, with more inquiry for the cast and fur export. Low grades of wheat an' firmly held for an advance. have only to note sales of 2,500 bushels of Ohio and 2,500 bushels of Genesee on term. not made public, for milling ea.twaril. Canadian is held more firmly and is quiet. Rye is steady; nudes of 2.300 bushels Jersey at 75c. Oats are steady and saleable at 45 to 47c. for Jersey, and 18 to 50e. for Northern. Barley is in fair demand, lint is scarce at 1 121 to 120. Corn opened firm, with a fair demand for the home trade and the east, lint closed dull and heavy, with more offering to arrive. ShippG• bold off for lower priers; sales of 14,000 bushels at 68 to 6141 c. for Jersey and southern yellow, closing at the inside price. No white ofliging ; it is much wanted. l'uovistoNs.—Our market for old pork is again better, but is less active. New is held firmly at former prices, but is i n a c tiv e . Sales of 04)0 bids. at 10 dells. 50e. for 011 prime, and 13 dots. 50e. for du. mews • 11 slob. 75c. for new prime, and 11 dd.. for do. mess. Beef is steady. Sales of NO bids. at 4 dots. to 6 dots. fur prime, and 9 dull. to 11 duds. :stk. for mess. Beef 11:111V , arc steady. Sales of 290 bbls. and tes at 7e., part weighed out. Pickled meats ar, seam., particularly good hams. Sales of 173 bbls. and tco. fair hams, at B'c., and itimd shoulders at Mc. Lard is less buoyant. Sales of 200 blds. and tr.. at B.‘, to Me. Butter i s firm, and prime daries salable. Cheese is undimmed. mirs.--The market is dull, and buyers are holding oir in the anticipation of lower prices, as considerable supplies are daily expected. There are no dry Buenos Ayres in first bands, but a large supply of Rio Grande freely offering at 111 c. without sales. file sales are 1,000 Porta Cabello., VII,. at 121, usual selections ; 700 Laguayras on private terms; 1,000 English slaughter at 6 c. to i e. fur good, and c. to 0 c. for inferior. LEATHER. —The market shows an increasing demand above the receipts. The stock is very deficient in prime qualities of light weights. Prices are very firm. NEw ORLEANA, April 2, 9 p.m.—Cotton is dull, operators waiting the Baltic's news. Flour is selling at 4 ilds. to 4 duds. 6e.; taros pork has advanced to 13 dols. Vie. The holders are asking 11 dots.—sales have been made of 700,0001 b. of bulk hog round, at 31e. to 41e. ; bacon has advanced to Me. to Me. Mr prime ribbed sides ; the ittr,ta tions for choice Moltiv•es am 30e. to 31e.; for Rio conic, 101 e. to 101 e.; fair sugar, 4lc. to s:e. Sterling exchange i. at 101. Freights are dull. April 3, 6 11.111. —The cotton market is very dull, all parties keeping back fur the Baltic's news. The transactions were about 2,000 bales, at pre vious quotations. Com is inactive, with sales of 5,000 bushels yellow, at ae. to 67c. There is a good demand fur Ohio oats at 12e. to 46e. Me' pork is sees firm, and in active request, at 13 doll. Vie. to 11 dots. 'the stock on hand on the 14 inst. was 21,000 barrels of all kinds. Bacon odes sold to a fair extent during the day at 81c. In cut meat. there a good business doing at Ge. fur prime shoulders. Panne molasses have advanced to 32c. per gallon, living very scarce. The transactions in lard 6ir two days reach 1,000 barrels prime, at 14,,c. to 81c. Freights are drooping. lizeh.tgc remains firm. Tultaceo has been rather dull, at 6 e, to 71e. for ordinary Kentucky, and 10c. to Ir4e. fur prime. FOREIGN CORRESPONDENCE. ROME, Aram 10. His Holiness is this morning occupied at the I Vatican in putting the finishing touches to the lcurdinalitian dignity of the two recently arrived mem bers of the sacred college, viz., Cardinal Fonatri, late Apostolic Nuncio at Paris, and Cardinal Gousset, Archbishop of Rheims. The public receptions, fur the purpose of congratulatory visits, took place on Monday evening, Cardinal rornari receiving in modest style at the Borghese Palace, and Cardinal Gousset at the Colonna Palace, the residence of the French ambassador, with all the " pride, pomp, and circumstance " suiting to the yrande natimi. I hear, however, that Cardinal Gousset is a worthy and ex emplary prelate, who would never have thought of coming to Rome to go through the ovations custo mary for ecelesiustics appointed to the purple, unless M. de Rayneval had expressly invited him so to do, and offered to Isar all the expenses of his journey and stay in the eternal city, which he can certainly do without much inconveniencing himself, now that he is promoted to the high diplomatic rank of ambassador with a salary of 11;0,000 francs per annum. The stipend allowed to a French cardinal by the republican go vernment is 40,000 francs per annum, equal to that of a marshal in the army ; a sum near double that which the government of his holiness allots to Italian cardinals. In addition to this, Cardinal Gousset has 30,000 francs per annum as Archbishop of Rheims; making his total annual income 2,5001. The cere monies attendant on his eminence's installation will not be very grateful to the recollection of the Ro mans, as many individuals have been arrested for displaying party feeling on the occasion. Although Cardinal I- ornari had no music whatever betbre the Horghese l'ulacc, on the evening of his reception, it was thought necessary for Cardinal Gousset to have two orchestras in front of the Camila l'ulaee, one of which consisted of Roman performers, and the other of French military musicians, playing pieces alternately for the benefit of the crowd assembled on the Piazza dci Santi Apostoli. The crowd, however, would not satisfy itself with listening in silence, but must needs applaud vigorously after the Roman performance. the harmonious efforts of the French men being treated with frigid indifference and occa sional hisses or shrill whistles. This spirit having manifested itself on Monday. General Gcmeau, ever on the watch to prevent disturbances, sent out pat rols on the following eve • g, and had the Piazza well lined with sbirri and French gendarmes, who seized any person attempting to disapprove of the French band, which certainly was so inferior to the Roman one as fully to justify the marked difference with which the two were received by the public. I observed one gentleman myself, who had been whistling to his dog to keep him away from the crowd, walked off to prison by five lrench gen darmes; his dog, a fine black setter, the uncon scious cause of his mishap, following him to gaol with true canine fidelity. It may be asked whether the French authorities take their own law, or that of the Roman States, for the guide of their actions in similar circumstances, as the city not being in a state of siege, General Gemeau has no right to act otherwise than according to law, unless, indeed, he considers law sufficiently esta blished by the behest of his ecclesiastical masters, and deems himself sufficiently honoured by being chosen to " do their spiriting gently." Since the immense majority by which the second reading of the Ecclesiastical - Tithes Bill passed, the Roman government has been flattering itself that, after all, its interests will be very little affected by the bill, and consoles itself for the loss of the shadow by the reality of the substance which remains. The ire of the ultras, however, breaks thrth in the lid lowing abusive article on the subject, quoted by the 08serratore from the Ilifancier. In parliament the most distinguished men of the United Kingdom are quarrelling as to whether the spectacle of religious intolerance and persecution, at present prohibited (!), is to be renewed in our days. Tho greatest, the most cunning, the moat powerful nation in the world, is afraid of the ecclesiastical titles which the head of the catholic religion confers on the catholic priests of the United Kingdom! This na tion, which affects to despise the pontifical authority, fears it, because she knows very well that she is in the wrong, and would fain withdraw from the remorse of her miserable apostacy. She knows that at every step which the ancient religion of her hither* makes in the kingdom of Henry VIII., the power of that church which sprung front the lasciviousness of a king and a courtesan, trembles and falls away. If catholicism is re-ordained and concentrated by divipline, although poor and weak, it will in time be able to beat down the ephemeral Anglican schism, in spite of its usurped treasures, and the arms with which it is girt. In this struggle the most •acenslitedi states m, it appear to us so poor in great and generous ideas, so niggardly (Titres sire, that we should deny them any nobility of mind or heart if we did not know that the highest qualities of the intellect are lost when they turn away from justice and truth. These men rule in the name of faulty ; they Mau -1 gurate the most insane and fatal revolutions to reticent na tions in the name of liberty; and yet, in the name of liberty, they line and persecute catholic pritsas, if, instead of calling themselves archpriests or vicars, they call them selves bishops of a city in the United Kingdom ! Was it worth while to lose so many months in distilling the project of a law which the mere attitude of the parliament has emitted to ix! so strangely mutilated ? a project which has paralysed the action of England in an extraordinary man nee, and 1111101 11 ' • • heel its credit and influence ; a pro ject w hich tends to destroy a solemn act of justice, the act of cm:mein:awn! Anglican fanaticism is nut yet 111{1111a, and we regret to behold the silent rabble of London asso ciated in the work of its revival. - .. .... . Perhaps the glorious restoration of the "flourish ing kingdom of England," to the bosom of the Homan church, may be miraculously essisted by same of those supernatural prodigies which have astounded sceptics and tilled the hearts of true believers with tender gratitude in this part of the world. Some zealous converts in England lately made application to the English college hem for exact copies of the miraculous copy of the Madonna at Rimini, whose winking propensities have aftbrdcd subject for such scandalous jukes in Puma,. and Dr. Grant consequently commissioned Signor Cumismile, a skilful Hotnan copyist, to execute two toes' •des to begin witti. The difficulty was how to copy the pic ture without going to Rimini, since, however popu lar it unity become amongst devout catholies in England, it is not sufficiently so in Home to be met with every day. Signor Campanile, however, dis covered that his lloliness was in p /t4SCSSit of an exact copy. which had been painted for bins immediately after the miracle, and had hung in his bedroom at the Vatican ever since; at the painter's entreaty. Monsignor Talbot waited on the Pope, and explained to him the importance of the object for which the pictures were wanted, and the happy results that might be expected from them in catholic England ; on which his Holiness, with his customary benignity, allowed the Madonna to be transported from the Vatican Palace to Monsignor 'Pallets private apartments, where Signor Campanile set actively to work. and has already nearly completed the two copies, which will be sent per steamer to England the moment they are dry. As scone of your readers may be curious to know exactly what the picture is like, I beg to inform them that it represents the Virgin Mary, with her eyes thrown upwards, in the net of seraphic contemplation, and her hands meekly crossed upon her bosom. She wears a brown veil, a pink dress, and a dark blue mantle. 'lle picture is of no value as a work of art. It does not appear that the copies have hitherto given any proofs of in heriting the miraculous mobility of eye attributed to the original. General Weser is now mentioned as likely to suc ceed the recently defunct Colonel de !Icemen in the office of organising the Papal, tinny, and carrying out Baron Kalhermatten's plan of obtaining recruits for his Holiness front different istrts of catholic Europe. Colonel Kalbermatten, brother of the late Minister of Wur, is at Forli, where ire is engaged in licking into shape about seven hundred llll . ll of various nations, chiefly Bavarians, Belgians, and Swiss. The government, duly solicitous tier the spiritual ns well us military instruction of these neophj tes, has just desisttehed two monks front Rome as temporary chaplains, to preach to them and prepare them for their Easter devotions. The second battalion of Roman infantry has marched to gambol' the city of Spoleto, and will be replaced in the capital by the arrival of the third battalion remit the provinces. So much for military mutters. With mspon to the navy of his I dul lness, f have to inform you that on Monday last a small iron steamer, destined flir the navigation of the Tiber, was launched outside the Porta ['tartest., a somewhat rare occurrence here, being only the second boat constructed in the Milian arsenal. An English engineer had the chief part in her build. In my last communication I mentioned to yen that torture had been resorted to in the prisons of An cona, in eider to extract C11111CV•10111% in accordance with the Austin-papal will. lam now glad to say that the mere movement made by the British consul in the criminal tribunal, although he could not see the President, was sufficient to check the further preme ditated punishment. I hear that the Austrian gene ral is furious at such prison mysteries having been divulged, and declares that he was totally ignorant that such proceedings had been resorted to. It is well for these poor victims of reactionary vengeance that they call occasionally make an appeal to the huma nity of a foreign consul; but in the interior, where such functionaries do not exist as a salutary cheek on despotism, it is dreadful to contemplate the im punity with which the brutal acts of brutal men may be perpetrated. The papa authorities have referred the collision ease to Home, and as Monsignor Amici returned to Ancona on the 7th, some proposition may possibly have been made on the subject by him to Mr. Moore. It must be re marked that, in all cases admitting of doubt wherein mercantile vessels tire concerned, it is a general and liberal rule that the datnage be divided between the parties; how much more, theretlire, should such at principle influence the commander of a ship-of-war ? A British captain of a man-of-war, in such a ease, would never have stooped to ask for payment ; whereas this Austrian, front the very outset, and without the slightest investigation, has never ceased pertinaciously dunning tlw British consul for the whole 'moment of his assumed claim. With re spect to the probability of the papal authorities re funding on account of the pilot's negligence, there can be no doubt that an extraordinarily thick and sudden fog prevailed at the moment that he took charge of the Albert, and, if this fog had not intervened, there cannot exist the shadow of a doubt hut that he would have moored the vessel safely in the harbour. The main question there fore seems to rest in the fact of the pilot attempting to bring in the vessel at all, under the circumstances. Ile should have declined to take charge, and havo ordered the vessel out to sea a g ain, or have caused her to cast anchor immediately in the roadstead where he found her. At all 'events the summary mode adopted by the Austrian captain, and his re fusal to refer the dispute to a tribunal, or to compe tent arbiters, are not proper steps by which to &salve at a conclusion. The Grand Duke of Tuscany left this city for Naples on the morning of the nth ; nor is it et:titan that he will return for the Easter ceremonies. During his stay he resided at the house of his ant bassadur, Chevalier Bargaglia, where he received the visits of General Gemeau and ether function aries. NAPLES, Arum 9. General Florestano Pepe is no morc. Naples has lost one of her best and bravest generals, and Italy one of her most illustrious patriots. Like his brother, the hero of Venice, Florystano will hold a noble and important position in the page of modern history, whether for the dangerous vicissitudes he experienced, or the elevated qualities he displayed. His early life is identified with the most stirriv events of the amp, the solitary and death-like bar nes% of the prison, the intrigues of court life, the flightsof kings frandseir thrones, the triumph of the French in Italy, the restoration, and filially the modern struggle for constitutional hberty.• In 1814 an extensive conspiracy of the Carbonari having been farmed is the Calubrias, he was sent by • Is Ur 3odas ossiedin Popo awed sad was wounded. I