The Express. — London, England, 1846-10-07 00:00:00

• THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 7, 1846. mAyani.---- •zust any the officer's character.h sovereis •-. evidence that It pre- Pr i nc e , w us Until systematic and compre- ' be given to young men soln there ehe istwo northern regions. man! Coin.', fly to liberties your wealth, aos- I henaive professional education 1844. Mr. moll u prince, 'the prisaner of .e.• ' • -••11. for the army, the officering of our soldiers evinu' u' r h i }carsr t• , hots aao e ver, a s Burnet, of Gatlgirth , states:—" In autumn, 181 4, beneficent sentiments you n now. _ -*ter of blind chance, occasionally good, tailed to a considerable extent in in Al. --utly disgraceful and disastrous.t he expiator, net hitusAf es the holocaust, as , . some ffirmers lost nearly half their crops before olive branch to his enemies. nobly a.. they could raise them ; but being confined to off'f the Hoe lung, without do.. r i., however, after all, of the The enemies of the country, pecan_ On hint inquired into, or it was perhaps purp.tsely h' l u ttered replied b • insults ~ at certain farms, it was either not sufficiently peace v ic we hempy men. on our peaceful and conmator tos*, in csehan e fur the _ , "uithly concealed, to prevent those farms getting a bad name an d sare.omswhichuhn t h e i r o di ou s J o . meals a r e daly Had the Carr a`ole Mr. Drown, of Langline, in the tame tided. Instead of recei. ing the olive-brand: as a pledge of previous to the . , he r•q• potatces." hon. mentions that in 1844 the potato crop at concord, they have rejected it with arroga.lt contemn'. was plenty of time—v- Basques and Natarrese, we have fulfilled our they by this dreadful low it has sidle._ m im en c*c at u" Gove i n7men__ —r t_ t i lr ' tu u .nd at a place two miles to the west offer of peace ! Let the responsibility of the evilu which arc Colonel Iltrinzy, we regret to - t . a u to m at . to fall e E r t s e u r e tml mwarith theitl w in ei7 d h e t vo o k u nt those who wl h m ero exc r i e te . h il e l e w v a e l r b si e n s ee sj t e he m c d h , o . l d era my br w o i k th e o th U c t,An tuti , ag , front the same disease . Mr. an expression which .ice am is. I ti G n o g , o f t: or al h t , p h e r m m r p dnk of f had observed fused peace ! Let us unfurl the standard of true liberty, does not seem to he very popular. nee -in th e order, and justice. Charles VI. is the envoy of Providence A correspondent mentions that Sir Choi.' old to rest her ore n to so y: j u a ny pml yea pe N rity de a p n ri d ve h c a l. ppin lrt o h f e wh es i • c h h o cad - "ov, who:has promised you a noble, benignant, different articles of beer , brandy, dce moo examinin g n, cu es t to flu mty tie wow 1 -.semen; worthy of your sentiments. The r esu lt i s not stated.' The men . 'lstr ' they hail tak irk Charles Louis is not a restri c ted t o two chums of arrack p er diem, 4 • re % —Mr. Aide and of seund liberty, ter of course, had prndeved much grumbraa with loud ell ••hfull Prince, an Her Majesty's lith• at Salome were I excellent co. -en in the were to start from the place for K h eer y at •y. the fact, tha s•fs urrac ee on •e lst i 141 ' and he was INTELLIGENCY . . either side. woour. the kind, tb &merry, from sinmv ore. the gentlem . -1 "". 7 tb, 10k, s, ; ti f t An that • Ntauntioa Ink Inom poll above t "Um; !ni l r I ru m to do they di first day, w Carroll. ( Able t t. if th a, l t is • It I t 1, , to if at Le • thrt 1' to .nd a mot nano. will I. .a THE MUSIC BOOK, New Weekly Periodical of Original Music.—No. 11. on SATURDAY neat. New Sons( by WALI.Ar•:, " TIIE FALSE FRIEND," price Gd. Printed (rum En graved Fiates, on paper the usual music one. Nu. 1.. "SING, MAIDEN, SING , " Music by Bat" Words by BLRAT CORNWALL, WWI published bet Saturday. Office, 1, St. Bride's Avenue, Fleet.street, where Prospectuses may Office, be bad; and told by all Booksellers and Newsmen. do without it, and are perfectly secure against any ruinous fall of prices. Combined with the pressure at home, there is Ireland to redeem from absolute starva tion. All circumstances point to an acceleration of the gradual process of bread-tax extinction ; the imme diate antedating of the termination of its pernicious existence. Humanity may copy for once the fanati cism N% 11101 SCOTT describes as endeavouring to expe dite an execution ;—push forward the hands of the clock of time, and let it forthwith strike '49. the officer's character. Until systematic and compre benaive professional education be given to young men destined for the army, the officering of our boldiers Will be a matter of blind chance, occasionally good, ,often bad, not u nfrequentlydisgmeeful and disastrous. I. The non-commissioned officer is, however, after all, The great arbiter of the soldiers' destinies. On him it depends to make a barrack-room a decent earthy paradise (for a soldier), or a human hell. We regret to say that the author we have referred to gives but a low character of this all-important class. Servility seems the high-road by which most of them attain the three chevrons. Dishonesty and petty tyranny too oftm mark the exercise of their func tions. They are at present selected principally by the adjutants, whose car they set themselves to catch, and whose weak points they arc dextrous in flattering. The author of Camp and Barrack-roam gives flag rant instances of the misconduct which can hodly be separated from power obtained by these discreditable means. Ile throws out a valuable eugges . ion, that some institution should be formed in which young men of good character could be fitted fur the clinics et non-comm issioned office a; the candidates being drafted from the line on or after enlistment, and their quali fications tested by a close investigation or a probationary term The advantagesof such an institution would be many and great. A more respectable class of re cruits would be induced to enter, when once a road to promotion, through intelligence and good conduct, was opened to them. The elevation of the non-com missioned to the higher grade of a commissioned officer would be facilitated; and the sons of poor officers might, after probation in this class, receive commissions at a certain stage of proficiency in mili tary knowledge, to be ascertained by a board of examiners. While these attempts were being made to elevate and improve both classes of officers, greater attention should be paid to the private in barracks and in camp. Separate accommodation for the married men should always be given, both in barracks and on board ship. Regimental, barrack, and garrison libraries, as well as schools, should be established, and the canteen discouraged. Greater facilities should be afforded to the private for preferring complaints as to treatment, rations, &c. Above all, health should be considered in selecting camp-stations and quarters. The picture given in the work we have referred to, of the camp at Sukkur, on the Indus, is most heart rending. All or most of these improvements lie within the reach of the authorities. There is a disposition at present which promises well to the advocates of en lightened and necessary change. The army must not stand still, while in all other callings the slow but unceasing work of progress is apparent. That state of things cannot be allowed to continue which forces a truthful and sober writer thus to sum up his mili tary experience : " I thought I could be a soldier without being servile. I was simple enough to imagine that unblemished reputation, zeal for the service, and an earnest desire to be useful, would be my stepping-stones to preferment. I need hardly say that I was deceived." so many years ago as in the two northern regions. In Ayrshire, however, there is evidence that it pre vailed to a considerable extent in 1844. Mr. Burnet, of Gadgirth, states:—" In autumn, 1814, some farmers lost nearly half their crops before they could raise them ; but being confined to certain farms, it was either not sufficiently inquired into, or it was perhaps purposely concealed, to prevent those farms getting a bad name fur potatces." Mr. Brown, of Langtine, in the same county, mentions that in 1844 the potato crop at Loudon Castle, and at a place two miles to the west of it, suffend severely from the same disease. Mr. Alexander Montgomerie uses no expression which may perhaps be meant to imply that he had observed the taint even earlier than 1814: " The disease in the potato crop this year is one from which my crops have suffered to a trifling extent for some time past." This is all that see have been aVe to glean respect ing the history of the rise and progress of the potato taint in Scotland. At Tobermory, in the west; in Shetland, in the north ; and in Aberdeenshire, in the east ; we may say with confidence that it has been known from eight to twelve years. The observations of Mr. Davidson and Mr. Burnet show that it has existed in districts where its peculiarities have either remained unnoted, or its existence was wilfully concealed. The report from Shetland shows that the disease after existing fer some 3 ears, it totally disap peared in 1843, without any change being made in the seed. It may "be that the disease has been gathering strength and extending with years, and is now about to become universal:y fatal to the vegetable. But it may also be that we have only been made aware of the extent to which it at times exists, by attention being more directed to it. man ! Conte, fly e. Mist under the bar.ner of your lawful prince, whose eovereig. ttt is the representation of your liberties, your wealth, sib: prosperity ; of the august young prince, the prisoner of .',urges, whose paternal and beneficent sentiments you now. Ile has sent the olive branch to his enemies: nobly and generously ofkring himself as the holocaust, as the expiatory victim. The enemies of the country, plow-fling, without doubt, on our peaceful and conciliatory wpm*, in exchange fur the kiss of peace which we offered them, hays replied by insults and sarc.ums, with which their odious jo. insole are daily tided. Instead of receiving the olive-braneL as a pledge of concord, they have rejected it with arrogant conteintr. Basques and Natarrese, we have fulfilled our they by this offer of peace ! Let the responsibility of the evils which are about to ersue fall with all its weight on thtase who excite them. Eternal war to; the malevolent who have re fused peace ! Let us nnfnrl the standard of true liberty, order, and justice. chin!, VI. is the envoy of Providence to restore to you prosperity and happiness, of which you have been so many years deprived. It is he who can make you happy, who:has promised you a noble, benignant, and protecting government, worthy of your sentiments. Ilusques and Navarrese, Charles Louis is not a de, pot, the antagonist of progress and of sound liberty, a. his enemies have asser:ed. This youthful Prince, an exile from 11,8 most tender years, ha. learned to govern in the school of misfortune; in it he has studied the wants of his generation, and the means of satisfying them in conformity with duty and justice. His knowledge, his frar.kness, his amiability, and his many virtues, are known to you. Who but he has claims to your love and loyalty ? To whom but to him is it given to put en end to the evils which afflict you ? Basques and Navarrese, let union and decision ho our dev:ce. Let us forget old feuds, if, indeed, any remain in our memo ries. Let us know, for once, what are our real interests, and save our country and our honour from the disgrace which threatens them. Long live the King! Ti ue liberty for ever! Long live our ancient c institutions! Long lire our Farms! —Camp of Honour and True Liberty, at the foot of the Py renees, Sept. 14, 1546. stead of being placed in the barracks they h a d f vacated, and to the oc cu p at i on of which their I, t' ' .1 arduous march cert a i n ly ent i t l ed them, they had bee, ',,,.."' put in tents. Their constitution., previously weskeiC. the climate and mortalitych, could thembear up ap aa ,,,l disease, and the amongst was ~2 more than double that cf any . other regiment. Th e —1 „„, visors seemed, on parade, mory like patient. disc/tars/4 a fev I: er hospitl, than the soldiers of probably the finest ment (ccrtainly in point of men) that ever leaded is l a r k Had the corps been sent to B im b ay or Peivaik previous to the close of th e season and for which t h, was plenty of time—all the horror, it ha. suersined, ac t h t dreadful loes it has suffered, might have bees spend k Colonel Derinz, we regret to hea, hal been matt ill ever since the cholera broke out, and it is dou'ited vr he will be able to do duty with the 86th again. His sw does not seem to he very p o p u l ar. am, A correspondent mentions that Sir Chorles Nspier kad 4 : setting a all the medical men at . Govei assent listim hi r the 16th, for the purpose of inspecting an elan:tiing sh different articles of beer, brandy, dw., give, i to the me t The result is nor stated. The men bed Ise ea previeuely • restricted to two drams of arrack per diem, ids ich, as a a l e ter of course, had Frevelw•ed much grumbling. Iler Majesty's litir at &Alcor were very at lely. •rh l were to start from the! place for Kurrachee en tl 't lst but. It WU the fret. jority in .. close of thi 1. 644 ; 110 , bitiOri of tt hiSSCS, , Sir G. was not a. porters,' present gl re hint en' had taken n , rendered tee aldermen. were voice: Court of Al would entire city oughts He would they had t: _Mr. Al& w ith loud ei excellent co, the fact, the and he vrie either side. the kind, tl the gentler , All that ci poll above t to do they el Ant day, v Carroll. Ilr. Alden , taken care I contest twat with 116 0. sous %%rote It altogether en of 11 wand I letter from , borate the was himself summoned t 4 ho would ask to be rt padie lie thought which his b appearing.. Anderton 11111 Sir O. Car said yesterdis o'clock on t o was, that the him had the Carroll from by thankiug occupied on addressed th two o'cloth t Tits: I'o I:flare - tons. St. Pati,ra• mouth Arme pose of adept pedtent for tl the pari-li. voted into th, the minutes , ensued lietwe and Laurie, confirmed ; the prt cedine COUpCr, the . committee of 'duct of all tit , consider the i liO4ortlo, UI the worktainn found in 01 been made that the es house was when it v house was iii which has be further Mon press their i others centside tion . w i l i i t ie 6 h he irw. the place ratio the most tritli thing ought to sugge.tion, if f factory to the sidered, that could only ac impartial Om , the motion.-1 proposition tin satisfied the I thought that bra loud tone as au amenein it be left out, a COratilitteit to An angry ant/ length, the as, by the chair went. It . Whitford's rt.' pressed for a di earned by a nif E.IItLY ( . 1. the klefropolit evening, at Ha the purpo-e 01 theof shortly add .14 r....,t bled, in accord a committee to what was the ceased to earl, Early Clotho: that their etf particular el• bring under There had been their objee; : Parliament , of i last had been p the matter re.fi. they asked a on object.—:.lr. k i conded, it re-eiu year, which w. Wilted various lonsliire, tihffer oil with gr. at . where the .1101 • district meetink Cushy with the a l'Unfac Ili Ostrich, arrived brought a Iseg tronsitts to Den . the government Ildu•eurn at Co l that state. 'ln Board of Custin • shipped to Mad through this cot to the goveriarne permitted to be been nettle •f tlt f lotions fur the . . lit:mi.:MKS the lthrlit thin. I, anskitratik• eitlieli kV' Many mirth 4 lee0111111(Thl .1110111 d WY Ildsilll ~..:Itg til Phileibey of Lauleit Slog tintilif 1r w.f.., mu , of mod:netted ilelocy of iiihipling twaire to nor to loe t iirring ii, Inidnii, i ld lee, rt'll ler the future fitu-perit il.hip, will rutty e, unit • 1 -et, k I. of coniluding view of preventi tan with corroetwi glob ly re , er•sarV t "Diplom, Loot it tfla orightul ultra nwippeur, and, i ',Stein. Yet curl, tattled Irclaiul titer to make per the 001Inive 'reined only t loge moat likely to II lactive Ira ty try. they ore now ileinu2 Mani cunwiu.int to yr Mai no aceit.t. , ow lit klal,loill leure..; upon Illitid and "(enlarged rill have proceeded I Lt i llunil, In the vureßt rash,iy ii liteh von .1: MIDI, which G ,. .1 for )0 entitled to the tloa MO Cr t AN it W•LA 11..4 liDo On a (ark,. pre a r i ? lt front Hoe Ondol iffeds. llenour CI ao`eS hare concur net In -fisted to tato' every .....i , flancl., and 104 the receiver. thillt in thus pis L not to lay be but to prepare MK now tdke ph "%Pisa is the primal, obsertins isfimedi.te I arfare.,, your hie, meat extensive, mi. to all, and tote...On, net produelnz, awl, malts which ore ail =Me Cause unto not 1/I•Wer is In every oi is bardlY a Person w. mak and oatmeal, i.i drily the warm. to,,u in a kindred or in, , speak without pr,d.ff faithful sere:tat, 11() Rsk8 VER the railroads, ani many people won, Son 'of horses USCI generally predietc 1 " TIIE FALSE FRIEND." 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TILE case of MATTHEWSON, a private of the 7th Hussars, convicted last week by court-martial, will probably excite attention from his evidence given at the inquest on FREDERICK WHITE, and his subsequent insinuations against his commanding officer. It appeared to us at the time that the public sympathy expressed towards this man was ques tionably, if not ill, directed. His evidence at the inquest was not corroborated. His character in the regiment, before the death of WHITE, was bad. At the time WHITE was punished, he was himself under sentence for using improper language to his superior officer, and for insolent and disrespectful conduct towards Lieutenant-Colonel WHYTE. It is probable enough that 111.vrrimwsos is a bad soldier. The late charge against him is of using threatening and disgustingly abusive languag e to Lance-serjeant ROBERT O'DONNELL, while on duty as sentry at the Cavalry Barracks at Hampton Court. We cannot for a moment think it probable that any vindictiveness towards MArrnEwsoN, on account of his evidence on the inquest upon Wit I IT, is felt by ! Colonel WHYTE, or any officer of the 7th Hussars, or has had any share in prompting the charge on which he was last week convicted. The whole tenor of the evidence in Willi - es case showed the Colonel of the 7th iu the character of a straightforward, blunt soldier, not remarkable fur nicety of phrase, or tender ness of heart, but the last man in the world to cherish a secret dislike to any one for speaking out. If MArritEwsoN's evidence was false, the Colonel was likely enough to say so in pretty round terms. But he showed himself anxious to impress on the man that what he had said, true or false, should not tell against him in the regiment. The private conversa tion he was imprudent enough to hold with MAT THEwsoN, seems to have had this aim. MArrtlEws(tx interpreted it in his own, and a much less probable way, to the colonel's discredit. The court-martial was composed of officers of the Blues and the 12th Lancers. Except the pro secutor, no officer of the prisoner's regiment was press nt, or took any share in the proceedings. The prisoner was convicted on evidence, however, such as a court of law would have hesitated to convict upon. The accuser was the only witness to the use of the language which constituted the offence. A counter charge of drunkenness made by the prisoner against the accuser, was unsupported by evidence. The re giment, since the offence was committed, had marched for Ireland. This was the very unsatisfactory reason given by the prisoner for not producing witnesses to ' his allegation that O'DoNNELL was drunk. Ile was declared by Corporal on the other hand, to have been perfectly sober. The balance of evidence THE \VSON', , 4 thereraZ, OgOingle intit% YOE TRAVELLEIta ON THE CONTINENT. Now reed, In kap. tiro., prior Ga., PICTURES from ITALY. By CHARLES DICKENS. Coierrava—Tiula to Cludons—Lyona, the ItLone, and the of Avignon—Avignon to Genoa—Genoa and its Neighbourhood —Parma, ri alma, and lidogna—lerrara—Verona, Mantua, Milan, and the simplon—Rome, Naples, and I lorenee. London: Bradbury :mil Evan., Whiter -jars. SHIPPIN•ii INTELLIGIiNCIt. ISUMBAT. Autt,Al,•.—August 3rd, &revery, from Singapore., 611, Aden ; Eliraibetb Walker, Louden. trlla, Sr ; , Scinirainis,Aden. nth, Atiet Rahimon, Mauritius. 11t Cusnuajoe, Port Louis. 13th, Ann atal Jane. .4den; .1..11 I 3 , Portsmouth. 16th, Lanrick, China, 214, Persia, L oa *, Marina, Livcrpnol. 22nd, Anna Eiir.a, China ; Laeki a , palm Annul, Mauritius; Bralun n, bmdon. 2.M4 h. d ; from Soa ; (steamier), Surat. 29th, Ayrshire, Adam; tterck, cis Forbes (steamer), Surat. 2oih, Ilint:uotan, London. Dersareams.—Auanast 4th, Zoe, for China ; Ilonlerrr, (hi e , kk, Anson Taylor, China ; Raliannun, China ; Hatsaa, Chum. "t , 1 7. blab; China. 9th, Duke of 31 ellington, Mauritius; Ruh London; William Parker, Calcutta. 11th, Wed Indian, I r at. , Cadeutaa ; .11olaufar, CalcuVa. 13th, Fulau S 16th, Bolivar, 3lualras ; Sir boug Leerporal. luk Oriental, Calcutta. 19th, itnurvriek, Lowhin ; lacy N t dine Ann and Jane, Coast. 2 , 411, Duke of Portland, Naa. 4 ,,' as sal Madras. 22nd, John Brightman, Cakutta ; .4.ltaa, 11, d _ Rukeliv, Calcutta; Helen, Calcutta. 24th, Indian. Tutaoria arid, Ikaidon; Futta li-ahaoomy, Calcutta. 25th, Druid Chau. One thing we would remark. Its ravages have as vet been on the whole more extensive and inveterate in the most highly cultivated regions of Scotland. Yet in these regions, from the multiplicity of other resources, least alarm is excited by its progress. Having thus closed the history of the potato taint in Scotland to the begiiming of the present season, we subjoin a continuation of the communications il:ustra tire of the aspect it has now assumed, with which we are favoured from some of the most intelligent and in fluential inhabitants of various districts of that country. . . FRANCE.—LOUIS PUILIPPE, King of the French, completed his seventy-third year yeaterda". He is the oldest sovereign in Europe, except Ernest, King of Hanover. GEll3lA.NY.—Anunsr OF NIENDELSSOHN, THE Cosi POS ic.—The warrant issued, on political grounds, for the arrest of the advocate Dr. hilendelssohn, has given rise to a curious mistake. At Hernestshl, a little Prussian town, near the Belgic frontier, the gendarmerie arrested the advocate's cousin-german. the celebrated composer, Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, who was returning from Belgium by the railway, and who is also a doctor, but in music, while his kinsman is a doctor of laws. The artist vainly showed his passport, which was perfectly regular, and meetioned his office of director-general of religious music in Prussia; the officers found the deserip:ion in the pas.sport very similar to that of the person they were to apprehend, and imagined that the passport hod been got by some ruse, to elude the vigilance it the authorities. Dr. Mendeltsolin Bartholdy was conveyed to prison, and was not released till the following evening, after he had obtained the att.. ndance, from Cologne, of two respectable witnesses to his identity.—Gazette Musicale. DOMESTIC OCCURRENCES. Beams.-girl, lady °flames, Esq., surgeomgeneralom, at a t ._ bay, 7th August-Buchanan, wife of J., Esq.. C. S., soa, at 11th Augwit.-Cumpbeli, hirs. J. A. It., daughter, at Came,ore Aust.-Castnn, wife John F., merchant, saa at sth August.--Claricson, wife of the W., dauhter, a! Liaroda, 7th August.--Creasl, Lilly of Cam. Ilenry, Art diem, olaaa,u: at Poothah, Ibth .lugust.-Gairalier, lade of lieutenant-Chian'. W C.IL, commanding 16th Br Meal Grenadiers, .011, at Simula, iq August. -Gordon, wife of Robert, Esq., aim, at Agra, 411 Una. Harris, lady of Lieut. S. A. C. 0., son, at Cawnpore, 4th Met llarri,oth lady of John, Fa., I. N., son, at Cuctun, lib Aun t _ Ilasehrood, wife of Capt., Sri regiment N. I , on. at Pma, tat August.-Neatly, lady ut Capt tin, 11. M. 22nd regiment, aural*, at Poona, 12th AugusL-Ltiolay, Mrs. J. W., eon, a! Cakutt t, lan August-SlcLean, Ludy of Lieut. 67th regiment N. 1., duo* at Delhi, 10th August.-Quenfin, I * of Major, Pith Rana! Hasse:, daughter, ut sea, 12th Jidy.-Shortt. lady of LieuteMomcatul, 11. N. 62nd Infantry, daughter, at sinihr, 11th Aogust Isity of LapL S. It., Assistant Conim'ssionee s. Pronti, r, daughter, Poorulta, 81anbhoom, Bth August.-Wooden, wife of Mr Wank daughter, at Naraingapooram, 15th August. - Young, wile of Wilm a J., Eaq., son, at llomhsy, 25th August -Hume, Lieut-.llexander, of the Ist European Bee gal Fusiliers, to Mary, relict of the late ('apt. James Dunne, Ile! Majest'il Uth Foot, at Landour, 4th August. -Ma Jame., beth, Jae, Lsq, 11. M. 'Pith regiment, to I homasine Mare, daughter o f th e late Rer. Henry Vaughan Towns; ot the paaisii of Vere, in the Wad d Jamaica, at Meemut, Ilth .lugust. Datirta.--Campbell, Susan, daughter of Doeb - e .1. Campbell, 11. g. 22nd regiment, Poonuh, 10th August-Cooke, Cornet W., aeulud to the Ninety nwinient, Light Cueu!ry, ut Poona, 12th .August_ heritage, Miss Caroline C., daughter of the late ale. John M. I leritace, brunch pilot, aged 14 years, 6 months, and slays, Calcutta, August.- Potter, Mr., Lite Met officer 04 the steamer at Iloarah, Gth August.-Prim, Mrs., wie of Mr. Prim, .1.-Istant Steer. intendant of the Revenue survey, at Poona, Inth August-Seas, Georgianna, infant daughter of Mr. W. Scott, at Madras, Mb Aeuat, -shame, infant non of Lieut. Sharpe, 46th regiment, h. N. 1., it Barr: rapper, 7th August.-Williams,Serjeatit-ilajorllenryllenstal IL N. I ith Ilmeass, aged 28 years, at ma, off tit • Cape of Goal Hula (11..XsLOW.—With regard to the prosterts of the working eLywirs dining the ensuing winter, I do not take the same gloomy view that many do. I incline to believe that welraye o.! in the manufacturing •striet of the west of wetland and tae Ilabrides at least finirstifths of the potato crop, and that the out crop is much le,w productive than ho- been fur several years, b cattails- true. In some places the Hos n potato, is estimated only at one half, in others only at a qu irter; but the latter are kw. But, :a the northern enuntits of Scotland, the potato is much 1.1 , 4 injured than with us. Still there Is a delicien:y od both potatoes and oats. Notwithstmiling, lum not afraid of much suffering. except in the western islands. st here there are no nation...c hases, anti no great public works m mopees to give employment to the ropulation. and money wherewith to pun.it,e dear t rov With us matters are in a dirferimt slat , : every prison who is dis ms,4 to work tan have eintiloymeat, and the rate of labour never was high in this country as it is 2' present. Ablesbialled labourers in and illiout Glasgow :ate grating from ifet. to IS.. a week, and such wages, eve n with the high price of provisions, may keep the labouring man :mil his Lunde as comfortable as they have been for iny Yeats. My opinion of the probable mice of provisions, especially bread-stuffs, during the ensuing winter, is that they vv.!t net average :.hose the present rate, but rather under it—the continent of Amen,' will afford LA abundance. In my own mind I hive little doubt that to an anno.pherie influi•ne , acting on a weakened constis onion of the plant, Born improper cultivation, are we to attribute the potato failure—l hail almost ~bid calamity, but Ido nut view it in that light. It alforded Si B. Peel a powertul re.oon for his corn-law rermin ; anti it wilt, by forcing the labouring claw in this country to udorga higher standard of food, rids, them in the wale or society. srl RUNG. - I csatsider the potato crop an abiolute failure. In this neighboukiessi *the potatoes searelly attained the middle sire when they became tainted; vegetation then erased, and of nurse tlw crop became welts& In this country there ran he 31. dependence 011 the potato crop for the inainteaanye of the ponik : it is to the COIL Crops we must alone look. I 1.1:11e no doubt myself that the potato disease too:evils from atmo•pheric come-.; but when the atm.:sphere becomes tintinusw,l, the potato will retain a place in the rotatent of farming. .flirt corn crops 11..ve become blighted (nun wane unknown owner this year, to a coasiderable ex:, tat, though attention has not been generally direoisl to the eireukrutakicy. his will have a very set ions effect upon the consumable produce of the enuntry. As yet there appears little tUstriss among tither agricultural or rnimufac t ming labourers here. AU are fully employed at high wage.: a scarcity of Labour prevails. long as this enemies the poor will offer tr.. from the deficient home supply of their UAW' articles of fool. In the I lighiand coanties I beliesethr (LAC to be yen' &Invent DINuWAL.I--Tlw laboortrs in Itoss-stiire have 14.4 their potato crops, on which they depended fur stiport, and will be severely tried unless some provision is made :or them. 'There la a fair demand tor Labour in the kokuttry at tee-. alt. Xlany labourers hove guns...nth Aim* the railway works commented. and consequently there have been hewer hands for local v ark-. Theirs is, however, no sears-its of labourers, and work- is done at a uteri trifle of .11h.t.:(C 1.1 the low Tate , ill late years. Steps are taking at Stornoway, with the zealous co. operation of Mr. Mate-oh, M.P., to pros kV a quantity of Baal to nutty the &lien ncy occasiomsl In the labiate 1,1 the potato crop. Mr. imager at Tailor*, has vinous! a small &Id or potatuot to test experinicatally the etticacy of Autumn planting. ITALY.—We find the following in a letter from Leghorn, 24th :—" The general subject of conversation here is the constitution which is to be granted by the Pope in the beginning of November. It will comprise provincial councils with the prineiple• of election, and a consulting seteite, to be assembled at Rome every two years. It is still said that the National Guard will be organised at Rome, where the eiViNl already esists, and will be re-established iu the provinces, where it ceased to exist in 1832. As to the secularisation of the higher government offices, it is believed that this measure will not yet be carried into effect, on account of the opposition which it meets with. It is, how ever, added, that Cardinal Gizzi, Secretary of State, will, in ail cases, nominate as governors of provinces cardinals who are favourable to the new system, is are Arnat and Ciaechi, who arc destined for the legations of Bologna and Forli; and Ficsel.i and Altieri, who are said to be inimir d to .tostiia, are destined for the legations of I'errara and Ravenna, the two countries which conic nearest in contact with the Austrian dominions. According to a letter from home, in the (barrier de Marseilles, the following may be added to the above nominations ; that of Savelli to the legation of Urbino and l'esaro. Monsignor Ito-si, legate at Ancona, has heen dismissed, and sent to the convent of the Mission, to await the issue of the inquiry which the govetnment has instituted into his conduct, and Monsignor Grassilini has been vent to fill his place. A great mmy subordinate officers have been dismissed from the government offices. Time wirrespondent of the Courricr de Marseilles 1:0111111M1 the news of the formation of a National Guanl at Rome of 4,000 ; and that of an analogous: orgahisatiou ia the provinces. In the Edinburgh Journal of Agricultifre for this =ant, I; jalblished a rejaart of the I I ighland Society on the disease of the potato crop in Scotland, in the year 1845. An interesting collection of communica tions from almost every county in Scotland is appended. Most of them nre 'dated in April or March of the present year, and may be regarded as containing the history of the disease as far as it has been observed up to that time. For our purpose it will be sufficient to take the state of the potato crop in Scotland in the year 1845- 46, as it existed in four great divisions of the coun try :—the counties north of the Great Glen (including the Northern Hebrides, Orkney, and Shetland); the Grampians, or the mountain moss which stretches along the south side &the Great Glen from Argyleshire (including the Southern Hebrides) to Aberdeenshire ; the Lothians, Fife, Kinross, and Stirling, and the lowlands of Perth nod Angus; and the Southern Peninsula between Clyde and Solway - . The first division includes the counties of Ross, Cromarty, Sutherland, Caithness, and the Orkneys and Shetland. With one exception the reports from these counties deny in Into the existence of the disease there in 1845. Mr. Davidson, of Tulloch, Ross-shire, however, states:—" Although there is an evident re luctance on the part of many growers to admit the fact of taint existing in their stored potatoes, I have examined minutely ninny such, and almost without exception have discovered the infection." lie admits, however, that the disease has not in his county been so violent, " in other words, the decay has not been so rapid as in some other counties." An important statement is made by Mr. Tulloch : " I have met with many who said, ' Oh! if that is the taint, we have seen it for some years back.'" Mr. Duncan, of Tow, in Shetland, says, "The potato disease was unknown in Shetland until some six or seven years ago, since which time its effects have been generally and severely felt, ' till last year (1815). when it appears to have nearly disappeared altogether." The disease here spoken of is obviously the same that now prevails. Mr. Duncan I states that it " is not the common rot ;" that " the diseased potatoes are undistinguishable from the clean until some time after they ace taken out of the ground ;" and that " they are then distinguishable from others by being marked with brown spas on the surface." From these statements it appears that the po- tato taint has existed, though not to the mine extent as now, both at the southern and northern extremities of this region for several years past. It may have existed in the intermediate counties, though attention was not drawn to it. Under the designation of The Grampians we com prehend Argyleshire, Ins-ernes , -shirr. Nairne, Moray, Banff, Aberdeenshire, Kincardineshire, and the hill districts of l'erthshire. It embraces the mountain mass between the Great Glen on the north, and the Friths of ('lyde and 'fay on the south. In Argykshire and Inverness, that is, on the south or north-west declivities, the taint was very destructive. In Aberdeenshire, the northern extremity of the range, the disease appears to have been confined to the Buchan district. sairne and Morayshire (from Banffshire there is no report), the north-eastern declivity of the range, were exempted from the taint. Kincaidineshire, the south eastern declivity, was affected partially to a very in considerable extent. In the uplands of Perthshire, the south-west declivity of the range, Crieff and Ardoch are the only points from which we have reports ; and at both the blight prevailed to a considerable extent In this second region, as in the first, there are traces of the disease having existed to a less alarming extent in former years. Mr. Lach lan M'Lean, of Tobermory (Mull), mentions, that, about tittle° years ago, when residing on a neighbouring island, he lost his whole crop of pota toes by this disease. He adds : "I had known and heard of thediscase in the neighbourhood previously." There is a less certain trace of the taint having been observed in Buchan eight years back . " It is about eight years ago," writes Mr. John Hutchinson, " since there has been a great failure in the potatoes in this quarter." He thus describes the symptoms: " Many had the appearance of a dry mould on them, when taken out of the pit to plant, there being also a few slight black or brown marks to be seen on the skin of the potatoes." Lord Arbuthnot (Kincardine shire) writes to this effect: "The disease which so extensively affected the potato crop of last year, pro bably appears among the potatoes more or less every year. The remainder of Scotland we divide into two regions by a line drawn along the summit of the hill ridge which divides Dumfriesshire from Itoxburg,h shire, and continued between Lanarkshire and the Lothians, and thence northward till it strikes Ben Lomond. Both are, for the most part, highly culti vated regions. The western includes the principal manufacturing and mineral districts of Scotland, with a considerable tract of pastoral and agricultural country, which, from its proximity to them, and from its being traversed by the high roads from Carlisle to Glasgow and to Belfast, is more advanced then most merely agricultural districts. In the eastern region the a gricult neat character predominates, though rtt in tervals it is studded with important scats of manufactures. The richest and most highly cultivated districts of Scot land—the Lothians and the Carse of Gowric—are embraced by it. In both of these regions the taint was last year almost universal, though its destructive ness was less than it has proved this rear. In neither of them do we find that the taint has been noticed statements. But the case suggests some considerations of a wider range than that embraced by its own circumstances. Suppose "HaTittEwsos to be all that the harshest construction of his conduct would lead us to infer ; a turbulent, ill-conditioned, foul-mouthed, and mutin- 1 ous soldier;—suppose the germs of this character to have existed in him when he joined ; —what machinery does our service present for eradicating these, and implanting seeds of good in their place? Neither the average character of the recruit, nor his attain ment, is as high as could be wished. He usually belongs to the most indigent and uneducated class of the community. The array is the last resource even of this class. A haok has been lately pub lished under the title of Camp and Barrpck roam, which gives us an insight into the condition of the private soldier, only to be obtained by the aid of one who has himself belonged to that grade. Its author is a young man of education, who lett the pen for the musket, enlisted iu the 13th, served with his regiment in Scinde, rose to the rank of staff-serjeant, and then purchased his discharge, after more than two years' service. This book contains revelations by which many may profit besides the young soldier. It may help to open the eyes of our higher military authorities to abuses as pernicious as they are rem e diahle. We refer to it at present as illustrating the real character of military education. - - Wy. have received, from an intelligent and known correspondent, a statement in reference to the hero of the hair-brained scheme exposed in our paper of Saturday, on which ix lianee may be placed. " Sir,—Yeur well-timed and important article of Saturday last, on the Flores Ex; edition, has put the parties coaxerned in that plot on the qui rice, anti I perceive, by to-day's Times, they have been ende ivouriag to throw dust in our eyes, by the publication of long extract: , from au expos,: by an Equatoriano (i fancy only nominally so), justifying the invasion and military conquest, by foreign forces, of the Republic of the Equld it. Let me place the public on their guard, by giving here concisly General Flores real "relations" with that state. By the original constitution of the Equador, the President is to be elected for three years. Genera: Flores having obtained the presidency, he felt unwilling to give it up at the conclusion of his legal term of service. He had a military force, and by means of it he obtained an obsequious Congress, which elected him for eight years. The respectable part of the community resented this arbittary act. The real aristocracy of the country headed, and encouraged the movement. Don V. lloenfuerte, the most distinguished man in tke Republic, and whose mime is moat favourably known in Europe, had been banished by Flores, but M. Ohnedo, a person of rank and influence, with other , of the Fame highc r class. came openly forward to put down the unconstitutional rule and military power of Flores. lie, finding the total impossibility of resisting the voice of the co .entry, and this powerful com bination against him, capitulated ; and the parties engaged, desirous of getting rid of him peacefully, allowed him to retire from the Equader, under the " treaty " which the Equatoriano has given in his t.r108.:. A new congress was called together by the provisional government, and it is most important to state that that body repudiated the " treaty' made with Fierce, on the re asonable ground that a simple eitiren or general, for he is not recognised as the president, which in point of feet he had ceased to he, could not be a principal to a treat: with the executive government of the cotiatry. The treaty, the ref ire, was annulled ; sad General Flores erased to have any legal power, present or prospective, in the F.quador. With respect to the President Roca, whoever knows anything of the Equador is aware that Le then occupied a better plac, in society than General Flores; himself. Ile is designated throughout as " Zimbo" Roca a Zambo meaning a man of colour) ; but the epithet is no more applicable to ltoc.e than to Flores. It is simply " a weak invention of the enemy." The development of tic neral Flores' expedition will show whether it he an seer..-ion purely of his own, or one aided and abetted by Spain, as a nascent attempt to recover a tooting in South America. It is enough to know that, in either way, the expedition is an invasion of a peaceful country by a f -reign force. As such it will be roosted by every independent state of the sou:hern hemisphere. As such, if allowed to depart, it will bring incalculable evils on countries with which we have a large commercial intercourse, and in which British interests to an enormous amount: will be exposed to loss and danger. The enterprise is equally rash, illegal, and hopeless ; and it ought to he loudly demanded of our Government that it use every possible means towards preventing the expedition from leaving either England or Spain. AN ENGLIAR MERCHANT. Let us suppose the recruit to be of the better class of such men. He is subjected to mischiev ous influences from his first presenting himself to the recruiting serjeant. He is fleeced, if he joins a dept; and thrown among gross brutality and unrestrained filthiness of the most degrad ing description. No books are provided for his I entertainment or instruction, during the intervals of duty. His only resource is the canteen, and his most accessible pleasure drinking. There is no classification attempted, in the ranks or out of them. Good and bad are confounded in the levelling uni formity of a discipline, in the course of which the private never, or most rarely, comes into contact with his commissioned officers, except through the intermediation of a serjeant or serjeant-major, often uneducated, dishonest, and possessing no claim to his post beyond the very unsatis factory ones of servility, hypocrisy, tale-bear ing, and petty Machiavelism. His comfort or discom fort depends on the favour or dislike of these men. They may be propitiated by the most unworthy means, and disgusted by the most becoming conduct. The recruit's feelings of decency are outraged by a weekly public inspection against which manhood revolts, and by the absence of all proper separation in barracks, or en Ward transports, of the unmarried men from the married and their families. Ile finds no opportunity, except by thh merest accident, of making known to his superior officers any claims to promotion which his conduct or education may give him. Ile becomes hopeless of advancement, if he have ever entertained feelings of honest soldierly ambition ; and he rapidly falls to the level of those about him, if baffled hope do not grow int., despair and sink him even lower. We have taken the ease of a man possessed of better feelings and more refinement than fall to the lot of most recruits. But it is obviously the duty of our military authorities to regulate the service by the standard which such men furnish. If few recruits come up to this, in fact, it should be the aim of the regulations to raise all towards it. The line should dress, morally and intellectually, by its tallest and straightest man. The rules should be framed to fit the best, while they contain provisions for adapting the worst, as far as possible, to their limitations. If we would have the soldier worthy the respect of the civilian, we must teach him to respect himself. Ile must more over have this self-respect heightened and con firmed by the example of his officers commissioned and non-commissioned. Our military academies are insufficient to furnish the army with a complement of educated and duly qualified commissioned officers. Raw lads, hot from the false morality and imperfect training of a public school, are set to command others, before they have had ono lesson in the art of com manding themselves. Ignorant of the very rudiments of finis profession, they are crammed with its theory and practice, in a time utterly inadequate for proper acquisition of either separately. Many of them go through the intermediate grades between ensign and colonel, without b,ing able to direct the ordi nary manoeuvres of a field day. The two ad vantages which our officers do pusses, as a class, to set against many and most glaring disadvantages, are personal courage, and, 'bating some points of con ventional barrack-room laxity, a high feeling of honour. But these form the mere substratum of The following is Count lontemoiin's proclamatim to the Spaniards. Basques and Navarrese :—The revolution, involved in the chaos of its fatal measures, urges us on towards the abyss in which it hopes to bury your lihertie-,rights, and privileges— those precious gifts derived from the virtue and heroism of your ancestors. Not content with having traitorously and shamefully violated the most sacred of your venerable insti tutions, it has proved false . 9 the very promises with which it deceived the incautious, credulous, end docile children of Biwa, and Navarre, and trampled under its ignoble foot that constitution which, if its theory hail becn realised, might have conferred happiness on a nation with laws less wise and well considered than those of Iberia. The Government under whose yoke you groan, and which, whilst you were armed, promised you a hundred times the preservation of your privileges, is about to strike a mortal blow at your dearest interests now that it thinks you powerlem. IThe tributary system, the offspring of error and mis conduct, is about to plunge you into tie most abject poverty. Your sons and your brothers, torn from their hearths by the Quints, are about to swell the ranks of your opts , ewes. The di-loyal and anti-national banner unfurled within your provinces is a perfidious snare to deprive you of the most vigorous of your youth. The extraction of salt, the culture and preparation of tobacco, the free exercise of your industry and commerce, are about to be abolished by a stroke of the pen. Your forests, which have hitherto given you such rich unfits, are quickly destined to pus into the power of your rapacious governors, not to be applied for the benefit. of the country ; in short, you will see yourselves deprived of your deputations, which constitute your power and the wisdom of your legislation. You will no longer have those fathers of the provinces who represent your rights and defend your interests. All your prosperity is about to vanish for ever. You well know, by experience, what credit ought to be given to those deceitful promises of peace and liberty. Soon will you experience the results of your generous but imprudent uonfidence, if you do not hasten to throw off the yoke which is attempted to be imposed on you. Will you ever consent, I:bisques and Navarrese, to such degradation ? Will you stiffer an our rage which is a stain on your nobility, your loyalty, and your reputation i Will you longer bear this tyronnical, and at the same time shameful oppression? Oh! forbid that your enemies should complete your slavery arid ruin ! Be ware, lest, on en-hained, it may he difficult to break the fetters which' bind vou. Basques and Navarrese ! at ti -e words Laurae-hat " let the four provinces rise like a single Oramso. MAI LS. The overland clewed mails, rim Marseilles, to the Mediterranean, Egypt. Aden, Co don, India, !long-Kong, Sc., will be made up on the evening of the 7th october abia day',. The Wept India Inniis, exeltelivog Nate for Mexico, Ilonduraa, and Havana, wiU be made top on the uturning of the 17th October. The mail[ for British North Americi, and the United States, will be made up on the evening of the lith October. Thl overland mails for tai!waltar, Mahn, Greece, the lonian island*, Egypt, Aden, Ceylon, India, (tong-Bong, and China, ria &mkt:inapt/AL will be made up on the morning of the 2011 October. The mails for New South Wale., Van DieuuMa Land, will be made up on the 31st October. TO CORRESPONDENTS. We cannot notice, in any way, any communication that ta Rent to 118 anoliymoudy ; but this.* who chocac to addrefin car in confidence will hill] their confidence reapectcd. NEITIIEitCAN WE UNDERTAKE TO ILET URN ANT MANUSCRIPTS WHATEVER. • Advertiactuenta intended fur Ihe Er pees. tuuot be at the Office by Two o'clock on the day etpublication. UIGH WATER AT WNDON•BRIDGE Tall DAY. Manes& 3 me. pet 3; Alternate, 23 min. pest 3. To.nottow.—llerning, 44 e• past 3; Afternoon, 3 luta. past 4. LONDON, WEDNESDAY, OCT. 7. Is the ensuing winter we shall have to look to ourselves as well as to Ireland. Through the six weeks ending Sept 29, the averages have regularly risen, from 435. 11d. to 535. Id. per quarter fur wheat. The threatened influx upon the markets of foreign corn in bond, combined with the supply after harvest of home produce, have left a result directly the reverse of that predicted by the Protectionists. I'riccs are still looking up. The potato failure appears to be nearly as general in this country as in Ireland. In Pry nee, incendiary fires are the herald beacons of ildvant.. ng scarcity. In the metropolis, a halfpenny is I ,;:f.e of the four pound loaf. The Con added to ti•. 9 fulcra allows no syn ;;ltoms of the practicability of enlarged importation. And We are paying a dying protective duty of Bs. per quarter on all foreign wheat released from bond, of which the stock is now by no mea ns ample. The prospect is not to be contemplated without some anxiety. Were it necessary again to slay the slain, we might Out to this elate ef thin" as csiecinir the utter fal lacy on which the Corn-laws were founded. A sup ply of food independent of the foreigner, was the promise of those laws thirty years ago; renewed every time they were debated up to the very last. Throughout that long period, ample opportunity for experiment, they have never stimulated agriculture to produce sufficient food for the population ; and they expire, leaving the horrors of scarcity impend ing over the whole extent of the British isles. A more miserable failure is not to be found in history. An entire generation of human beings has been taxed and pinched to nu purpose. Selfish legislators, ignorant politicians, and complying statesmen, gave the corn monopoly almost the third of a century to make good its boast of independence ; and not one step nearer has it brought us on the way. It was quite time for the disastrous trial to terminate. The delay of another session on the part of Sir ROBERT PEEL, would have been fraught with miseries which it is fearful only to imagine. Where is the ruinous abundanee, of which we were told in the spring by Lord G. BENTINCK, Mr. MILES, and Mr. DisRAELI ? A deluge of food flowed in their speeches; but the mirage has vanished. They arc shamed every way. Neither are the people over fed, nor the fanners ruined. To con over their own speeches would bring blushes on a " front of brass," were it endowed with consciousness. Monopoly had a long experiment ; a short one suffices to settle their claims to statesmanship. Every pretension is demolished in this interval between their first and second session as a party. But they made one declaration which may as well not be forgotten. It suits them now to recognise the fact of scarcity, that they may present themselves before the farmers with some explanation of the falsification of their arguments by the present price of corn. Up to the time when their pleadings were thus demolished, they denied the fact. Strenuous in that denial, they yet announced hypothetically what they would have consented to, supposing it estab lished. Lord G. BENTINCK would not have ob jected to open the ports had it been necessary. In the debate of the 27th of February he answered, not only for himself but for " his honourable friends around him," and their " perfect readiness." By his own showing, the necessity is close at hand, if not already come. 1 lis present doctrine is, that the depressing action of the new law upon prices is defeated and reversed by the in fluence of scarcity. The argument requires that the scarcity should be more severe in his own estimation, than in their's who take a different view of the ten dency of Sir lionenr PEEL'S measures ; and he avowedly regards it as so awful, that it evidences an avenging interposition of Divine Providence. Now, then, is the time for the " perfect readiness" to show itself. For the next five weeks every quarter of wheat pays Ss. duty. lip to lust week, it paid 10s. duty. The country holds Lord GEORGE BENTTSCK'S pledge, in his own name and that of his party. If they be not as false to the people as they say Sir ROBERT PEEL was to his followers, they are for opening the ports. There is no escape for them. The assertion of the pressure is the basis of their operations now, as its denial was during the session. As politicians, they live on its reality and extent. They stand or fall with the approach of famine. The hypothesis has become an admitted actuality. Providence has fulfilled the con dition, and we claim their bond. Apart, however, from all consideration of the BENTINCK party and its consistency, the question is one to be put very earnestly, whether it be fitting that the national supply of food should continue to be taxed till February, 1849 ? Ought an Bs. duty to be levied at this moment? Ought the 4s. duty to be levied when the price rises higher, as rise it must ? With the prospects before us, does not the importation of food demand a bounty rather than a tax? At any rate, is not its free ad mission a most reasonable, just, and humane require ment? We believe the Government would be secure of public approval, support, and gratitude, in the measure originally contemplated by Sir ROBERT PEEL eleven months ago. Wore the ports opened by an Order in Council they would earn, not only a bill of indemnity from Parliament, but the heartfelt thanks atd confidence of the country. This is not simply an Irish question. England will feed Ireland; but who is to feed the feeders? The public money which will cross the Channel for public works, does not drop from the clouds. No small portion of it comes from those who feel an eighth of a penny in the cost of a pound of bread, a palpable diminution of their scanty means. Taxation cuts off a slice of their loaf for Ireland; it would well become agricultural Protection to forego its claim for another slice. The principle of the bread-tax is re pudiated. Its date is determined. The protected can far Court.. WINDSOR, TUESDAY.—The unfavourable state of the weather prevented her Majesty and 11.11. H. Prince Albert leaving the Castle this morning. The Marquis of Lansdowne (Lord President) and the Marchioness of Latsdowne arrived at their reddens in rkeley-square on Monday evening from the Continent The noble marquis attended at the Council-office yeAenlay morning, and in the afternoon left town on • vi-it to the Earl of Clarendon, at kis seat, Grove-pick, WatiOnl, liens. Sir Valentine Blake had an interview with Lord John Russell on Monday, at his official residence in Downing-street. Dispatches were sent off yesterday evening from the Colonial-office for the Governor of Gibraltar. OF SIR if ENRY RYCROFT, B ULT.—Sir Henry Ityeroft, Bart., knight-harbinger to the Queen, expired on the 3rd inst., at Brighton, in his eighty-first )ear. lie was the second son of the Rev. Sir IL. Itycr.ft, tbet baronet, by the daughter of the Rev. R. S*.tehewer, LLD., r..ctur of Houghton-le-Spring, Durham. lie married sown' years mince the daughter of Ferdinand° True,. T.... reiet of W. Lennox Dutton !Sailer, H.q. In 'NIG the deceased was appointed knight-harbinger to the Qum; receiving, at the time, the honor of knighthood. The reel deuce of the deceased was at Bolney, Sussex, in which county the family have resided many years. THE. REGISTRATIONS. LONDON.—At the sitting of the court yesterday ' Mr. Arnold said, on going over the list for the parish of lit. Peter le Poor, he observed the name of a party with the nature of the qualification and the description of property similar to that of a Mr. Catherwood, whose name had bees expunged. The name in question stood thus:—" Robert Lewin Holt, Upper Norwood, country house; Old Bread. street, being a successive occupation with 3, C rown-court." Mr. Catherwood's description was " Country house, Warn -I.rd-court, in successive occupation with /So. 3," and it was proved that he had removed from No. 3 to No. 1. He thought that he hail the power to insert " No. 1" as the qualifying property, and that the description " No. T' might be commonly understood to mean No. 3, Warnford-court, but as there was no description of the nature of the qualifi cation at No. 3, that was an omission which he could not supply ; and thinking the case fell withiu the principle of Bartlett and Gibbs, he expunged the name. In dealing with Mr. Halt's case, he found it necessary to look at the powers of alteration given by the 40th Section of the 6th Vieteria, c. 18, and as no evidence was offered to supply the omission of the nature of the qualification, or the description of the property occupied by Mr. Holt at No. 3, Crown-court, he was prepared at once to expunge the name. The section was not brought under his notice in Mr. Cole rwooefs case, but he was now satisfied that its peni.ions applied to such a ease ; and that his former decision was incorrect, and he was glad that he had an op portunity of reconsidering the case, as, otherwise, there having been no notice of appeal in that ease, Mr. Cutherwood would have been improperly expunged from the 11•1% Rav ing no douht that he might make the alteration before men tioued, the only question was, whether he could supply the omission of tile nature of the qualification with r. gird to the premiss occupied by him at 3, Warnford-court, namely, " country house," nod inasmuch as the onsiseion was supplied to hie satisfaction, he thought the mune ought to have been retained, and should therefore re-insert it on the list, making the necesoary &Aerations. In Mr. Holt's ease, if the matter omitted should not be supplied, his name would be expunged. The lists of the following parishn, iu Castle-Baynard ward weie gone through in the course of the day :—St. Ann, Illackfriant; St. Andrew, in the Wardrobe; St. Bose, Paul's Wharf; St. Gregory, by St. Paul ; St. Mary Magda kn, Old Fish-street. The result of the day's revision was Liberal objections sustained, 13; failed or withdrawn, 77. Cowen-ake objec tions sustained, 58; failed, 46. Double of jectious sustained, 19; failed 1. Liberal claims sustained, 2 ; failed, 20,—ten of which are subject to an appeal on the question or tender. The c met at its rising adjourned until Thursday. FAST SenttET.—The Court sat again yesterday at the Venn Camberwell. No fewer than lift) . claims were sent in by members of the Licensed Victuallers' Asylum in the Kent-road. They described their qualifica tion as freehold houses and land. The claims were objected to by the overseen of l'amberwell, in which parish the asylum is situated.—Mr. Russell said he was instructed to support the claim made by these parties, but upon the con sideration he had been able to give to the question, he was of opinion that the claims could nut be substantiated. 'iho parties claiming to vote were toe members of an asylum estahlishe l by the Licensed \'ictnaicrs for the reception of decayed members of their body, and the whole of them had, no doubt, contributed towards the expense of the building. They were, however, subject to dismissal under certain cir cumstances, and it was questionable whether they possessed such a freehold interest us would entitle them to a vote. lie should, therefore, refrain from going further into the epics 'tion on the present occasion, and consented to abandon all the claims.—Mr. Shentan, one of the overseers, wished i 1 to be understood that the claims had not been scat in with the sanction of the authorities of the asylum.—Mr. Meymott said he was instructed to oppose thee claims, but of course it was now unnecessary for him to do S). lie, at the tome time, observed that the parish had been put to a great deal of expense in printing when the martin clearly had no quill- Seat list. Lout.atwere The whole of the names then struck out from the PROVLNCIAL.—BatcIiroN.—The Court for the review of the list of voters fur this borough was held at the Town-hall on Monday. There were 65 claims, 58 of which were by the Liberals, and 7 by parties not represented. Of the former, 27 were allowed. The number of objections, which had been all made by the ' Liberals, was 48, of which 41 were sustained. The result of the revision is to place the Liberals in a better position on ' the register by 71 votes than they would have been had they ' taken no steps to amend the overseers' lists. CHELYENHASL—The revision of claims and objcc tior.s for this borough, took place on Wednesday and Thurs day last, before W. 8. Kinnersley, Esq. The total number ' of objections were 531, of which 314 were by genre rvetives, ' who succeeded in getting 121 Liberal votes struck off. Of 217 objections to Conservative votes made by the latter party 150 succeeded, so that they gain a majority of 29. WINCIIESTER.—IIere also the Liberals are in a majority; 13 Liberal votes haviug been gained by the borough revision. dayMAYORALTY ELECTlON.—Yeaterdav being the last tor ?oiling, a considerable crowd had collected in the hall about four o'clock, anti much anxiety was ntattift-rcd, as INDIA. We have been favoured with files of Bombay paperi to 27th August, in anticipation of the regular Overland Mail, which supply some items of informa tion not already given. The following arc extracts: Sir Thomas al l .Mahon, who is still at Poonah, is to r• tire in February from the command of the Bombay army, and to return with his family to Europe. The natural term of service of the Commander-iii-Chief expired in Feta uary, 1815, and he has been c,ntinned in office two years be yond the time, by two successive extensions, the last of which concludes at the ,lute ref.... 1 to. Dosing the period of his command. 8010 ay has been under the tele of five administrations—that of Sir J. Carnac, Mr. Ander son, Sir G. Arthur, and Mr. Reid. Mr. l'ringle has been appointed provisional Fourth Member of Council at Bom bay. and Mr. A. Millet to officiate as chief secretery to government. The retirement of Mr. Jeffrya, the Archdea con of Bombay, was shortly expected. The Bishop of Bom bay was to leave Ahmediniggur for loonah. Colonel Vandeleur, of the 10th Hussars, has l.csen appointed to com mand the garrison of Bombay. We learn from good authority that the government being sensible of the ads antages that would accrue to the state ley extending the Customs system to the Jullundur Dooab, have determined upon establishing a line in that country. It is to commence from the Sutlej—fullewing the oourse of that river till it meets the Beare—and then run along its banks. A deputy-collector, with the requisite number of patrols and assistant pan'', have been appointed to carry out the mea sure, and °sicced to join without delay. e are glad to find that an addition of 50 rupees p-r month is to be made to tit , pay of the assistant patrols dining their employment in the Juleundur. Cholera had again broken out among the men of the 7atli Highlanders, but the deessisc, happily, was not of a fatal character. The decease of Mr. J. M'Kenzie, of the firm of Messrs. Leckie and Co., an esteemed member of the mercantile community, is announced. Letters have reached us front Kurrachee to the 16th ult., containing a good deal of valuable intelligence. Some por tion of the news has already been laid before the reader, through differ-sit channels, and in a different shape. One of our correspondent., who emphatically characterise-a Seinde as the " land of death and desolation," affords us some particu lars relative to the lamentable effects of cholera in her Ma jesty's 86th, which it is well worth our while to transcribe. Ile observes that the unfortunate regiment in question is very nearly destroyed, and that it sell take a long time to renovate it at all. On tile 11th Jute, the disease broke out in its ranks with such violence that on the following day upward* of seventy men were buried, sixty on the 16th—.and fifty-four on the 17th—making is total of ISt no n in three clays ! The loss no to the date of our friend's letter, was as (Awes : serj• ants, 16; corporals, 13; drummers, 2 ; privates, 218; wenn a, It.; children, 12; total, 276. There were, besides, beta( 070 and 80 in hos pital. All the stall-serjeants had died, with the exception of the quarter-utast( r sergeant and armotirer. The regiment had lost its serjeant-major, band-serjeont, paymaster's clerk, orderly room clerk, master tailor, schoolmaster-serjeant, and hospital-serjeant—a sad slow this to the unfortunate corps. Strange to say, those who MI victims to the scourge were principally the finest, strongest, and nrsst powerful nt• n in the regiment : the weak men, and patients who were in the hospital, almost all recovered ! Of thirty-four grenadiers who died in four slays, she average height was a frac tion more or less than six feet: in fact, the front rank of that company had been mown down as if by a chain shot. Nine of the band had died. No fresh cases had occurred slice the 12th, when three were admitted, one of which proved fatal. The weather had improved, but was still very hot. It was computed that at least 9,000 natives ' had diet in and about Kurraehee. The Fusiliers and Rifles had lost altogether between 90 and 100 men each ; the 12th Na,tive Infantry about SO or 90; the Bela/thee battalion uewards of 100. The 3rd Native Infantry had been more furtunAe, having only lost about o 0 men, but the disease bat not yet left. theta. Only three officers in all had died, viz., Captain &ton, of the Fusiliers; Lieut. Dawson, of the 12th Native Infentre ; and the Governor's nephew, Captain J. M. Napier. The viaduct of the officers of her Majesty's Stith. during the dreadful scenes that took plus* while the pestilence lasted, is described to have I been most exemplary. Front mornieg to night they were constantly in tile hospital, endeavouring to keep up the spirit* of the men, who were enthusiastic in their ex pressions of gratitude for such attention. Many of the un happy sufferers are said to have expired without pain: they merely complained of being sick, lay down, and died! One of our informants states that it was more like a plague than anything else—so rapid and awful was the mortality—so inexorable the angel of death. It is supposed, as stated by us on Monday, that the scarcity and badness of the food pro -1 curable at Kurrachee,were the chief cause of the malignancy of the cholera. " The congriviting," says a correspondent, "such an immense force of Europeans at Kutrachee was, without exception, the most foolish act ever perpetrated, particularly during the hot season, and with two regiments and: r canvas. The resources of the place were wholly in n& quote to their support, and the eon /ell:nee was th .t, for a month before the pestilence broke out, nothing but com mon carrion could be purchased in the Bazaar. The food, therefore, given to th • men, was of the worst description, and although, had it been better, cholera would still have appeared, yet the want of proper nourishment predisposed the men to the disease, and consequently the mortality was infinitely ereatei than it otherwise wools! have been.—One proof of this is to be found in the escape, in a great measure, of the offieers, who of mune procured comparatively whole some fod, and out of ISO of whom only 6 were attacked— one of them (Captain Napier) basing ?seen in such a state of ilt Leath previously that the slightest disease, of any kind, would have carriedliim off. The circumstance of IL M. 86th laving suffered to a greater extent than the oilier regiments is attri'euteel to the fact th4l they had been more than two years and a halt in Seinele, —had been stationed at Hyderabad during the hot season of 1844, where they bu rial in one month upwards of 20 men, struck stead by the sun, and had returned to Kurrachee in August, more like invalids than working men. They had marched nearly IMO miles to Bliawulpare and back, we re at arly four months and-r canvas, an.l on tl.eir arrival at Kurn.chte, il