The Express. — London, England, 1851-03-07 00:00:00

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF LORDS.-TIIVESDAT, MASCO 6. Tae Luau lietoc:akkok took hi% scat at 6 o'clock. PETITIONS PIIESIINTED. PArAL A 0011141.1 0 ,1 —By the Earl of ENNISKILLEN, hut Ike City of Loadoodcrty, the town of Esaiakilles, Masochamiltoa ; sad Earl WALDEGRAVE, tcon pimps in Salfulk ; astaloat papal ayerreftioo. KLA*I• tU. Duke of ARGYLL, from Glooseer, aad other places, praying for the &Lydia of sore effectual nteaaoret foe the auppresaioa of *it an. lode. THI KAFFIR WAR. Lord MONTEAGLK waned to sea the noble earl the Senthary of the Cogeeiee an important question. He bad received edvices that day from the Cape of Good Hope, gee an account of a series of transactions in that colony, width if true were of great public interest; and if his no bl e *Mad was able to communicate to the house any destrateh whah be had refugied on the suLject, it would be mast desirable that be should de so. Ile had seen a Co py of a proclamation. dated the 206 of December last, by which Sir Harry Smith had felt it nee. soar, to proclaim martial law, and to call upon the people of the Cape, en miermr, between 15 and 50 years of age, to take up arms and defied the frontier against the Kaffir war, which appeared le be actually in progress. The farts related were extremely darning, and Ilea united the wont apprehensions of thine connected by commerce or the ties of relationship with the agony. He wished to ask his noble friend whether he had menived any communication on the subject, and whether he was able to give any information as to the present state of OM colony. He also wished to know whether his noble friend could mention what mean. of defence existed in the en=„ because some private letters whe had seen, that there was a deficienty of the hich of munitions war. As a m atter of ("ern he would move for a copy of the pro (Waste= of Sir H. !Smith. Karl °REY was sorry to say that hitelligence of an un mitffifactory dertription had been received that morning. The official despatch which he hail received was net later than the 3rd of January. but he had been layeured with the pe.usal of private kitten and papers up to the 4th of January from Graham's Town, by which it appeared that *ere had taken peace a most unexpected and unprovoked attack on the part of the Kaffir tribes; but, at the last moment, iii spite of symptom , of insubordination, Sir 11. Ithith felt the earned confidence that there would be no resistance to British authority. He, however, had =t the state of things *efficiently alarming to proceed to the district himself, and when he arrived there be met with great professions of faith fraud most of the Kaifu chiefs, and there was only one whom it was consi dered neoemary to arrest, and a force was sent ant for that purpose which experienced great re &Mame, and found the task a difficult one. Sir H. smith was IMMAlllded by a great number of Kaffir*. and Colonel Somerset, who had endeavoured to effect a junction with him, was unable to 110 so. l'he Kaffir* acted with great detenninatirm, an action hail taken place, and he wee sorry *say that there had been • loss of two officers, and 21 men belled. By later accounts which he had received he was happy to find, by a proclamation of Sir 11. :smith'', dated from King Williams Town, that he bad succeeded in mak ing his way, with a party of Cape m o unted Titles to that • pled., and lie mentions that all the important posts in Beffearia were occupied by regular troop., and he considered it of essential importance that Geese posts should he main tained, end he called on the colunista generally to rime forward and waist in the useaeureis of defence la contemplation. This was generally the state of affair. m well as he could learn, hut tie should take the earliest ;rittunity of laying the papers on the table of the house. . already given directions about them. He must add that although the force in the colony was out as great se it had been the munitions of war were curisiden..l by Sir D. Smith amply euthenist. There was no reason whatever to eappree that there was a deficiency. In a letter which be kad lately received from Sir 11. Smith he said that he was is a different petition from that in which he had been dur img the former war, from now having strongly fortified pleb and sufficient supplies. At the same time, the m oments which her Majesty's government hail received were wash that measures were now in proem.. for despatching mititienal fore.* to the (-ninny. (Hear, hear.) Lord STAN I.EY said the account whieli had been given by the noble earl was act likely to diminish the anxiety ehisb had been felt on this subject. lie should like to know what reduction had tak en place in the troops within the last two year. at the Cape ; and he should sup peep that reinforcements might lie sent (rum a quarter nearer the colony than from this country. Karl 0 ItelY said it was net in his pewee from memory to state what precise reduction hail been made within the last two years ; but, as well as he nanembered, the force now was brought back to what wax considered the ordinary ger- ANDS of the colony previous to the last insurrection. Im mediately after his appointment t o he found the Kaffir war is existence, and large reinforcement% were sent to the and the neluctien which hail taken place was meewt• y'that of bringing back the force to what it had pre ✓iously bean. With regard to Sir 11. Smith'. me,uuresand Meantime. he was sorry to my that he (Karl Grey) could met add anything, for Sir U. 'Smith was in Cattraria, and the ealy means which he bad of knowing his last preceding was from a proclamation and general order% published its the Orehme's Town newspapers. The outrage seemed to boo bra es thexpected, that a great number of persons pmt amitaisted with the habits of the Katfirs were sur prised, and fell a sacrifice ; and lie feared there was reason to believe that there had been a moot barbarous murder of • great number of settlers in the village. nu the lenitive. A umber of Keats attended a meeting (au we understood the noble earl, who was somewhat inaudible throughout his statements), apparently on terms of friendship, mid were =ably entertained ' when, at a given gnial, they upon their host s end inurdenal them. Ice appre hended Sir Harry Smith would has,• a force beyond that which was required to nankin the poets, but he nermed to *Mk it of the utmost importance that the regular troops should be kept in Cafraria itself. (Hear, hear.) lie had the to utak, that one large tribe of Kaffir% Fel med to have remained loyal, and it was also repelled that considerable mostanee would be given by the iodises in the colony. (Bear.) Lord MONTP.AULE said there hail be'e'n a report that Sir harry Smith himself had fallen a victim, which he was /guppy to find the noble earl wee able to contradict. It might be remembered that he had added largely to our territory in that part of Africa since the lava Kallir war, and thank/re a larger military force would be required than at the former insarreetion. (h ear, hear.) It must further be borne in mind that with every additional war these barbarians learnt more of the art of war, and became more formidable antagonists. Ile believed that all persons were prohibit( d from supplying them with arms, and if the merchants did not supply them with arms end aromunitiou they would not hear so frequently of these insurrections. As the noble earl was about to lay all the papers on this select on the table, he should, of course, withdraw his THF. INCOME TAX. Lard BROVG llAfil wished to lay on the tilde a series of issolutione on the subject of the ins one tax, which he had away. opposed from 1816. The noble and Kermit lord then reed the revolutions. " I. That • direct tax upon income ought never to he romorted to, unless in some great eniereency of public affairs, when an extraordinary expenditure may become unavoidable for • time, or in some pressure upon the tamers of the conatry which can be suatained by no otter moans. 1. That it believes the parliament, as faithful gam , dian. of the people's rights and interests, to take care that taring the temporary existence of this tax its premiere shall Is distribut d in sueh • manner as shall make it bo most ,easily and most patiently borne. •• 3. 'llut, with this view, it is expedient to make a db. unction between income arising from capital of rem Ascription and income arising from labour merely, lez sag a smaller proportion of the latter income than brow . 1. That, with the same view, it is expedient to maks a distinction between income preoissed by person. who how only an interest in the same for their lives, or for some IDIOM term, and income poseessed by persons who have In interest in the capital whence the income arises, ins a larger proportion of the latter income than of the armee. "5. That it is neither consistent with justice nor with sound policy to levy a greater proportion of tax upon larger incomes than upon smaller ; and that an exemption of even the smallest incomes from the operation of the tag ens only be justified upon the supposition that their owners arie wholly unable to pay it." " 6. That no modification can remove its inquisitorial aperatioa, which is equally vexatious, whatever be the yams levied, and falls reclusively upon eone claws of the imetutunity, while other classes escape from it only ly beinff compelled to pay in a larger and unequal pro " 7. That no modification can remove the injustice and insinsistracy of making money Previously invested in im provements. or in trade, and which yielded for some years no income, pay as soon as it yields the expected profit, this Imposition being, in fact, a tax, not upon income, but upon empital." " O. That, besides all its other defects. an income-tax is shiectionable as offering, by the facility of raising its amount according to the supposed exigence of the public service, a constant temptation to extravagance on the part a the government. removing the most effectual check upon improvident espendtrate and dispensing with the necessity of seeking • revenue in retrenchment. " 9. That this tax being of all others the worst, with the ' inception only of taxes upon food, upon law proceeding., sot upon knowledge, it ought on no account to form part of the ordinary retenue of the state, but to cease with the neeemity which alone could justify its imposition. " 10. That, while it is the duty of the people to bear Ore burdens which are necessary. for supporting the credit of the country and maintaining the security of its widely extended donainioffs7iT a — equally the duty of parliament So afford them every procurable relief, by enforcing strict ommorny in all the departments of the public service; by discouraging all proceedings which may endanger the alatiaossce of peace; and by adopting whatever measures Mg best conduce to the improvement of our national re names." DESIGNS EXTENSION ACT This bill was read • second time. LAW REF'ORY. Lord STANLEY inquired whether the contemplated sees of law refines would be intradeceeci is that or the Mbar home ot parliament. The LORD CHANCELLOR sell they you'd be intro duced in the House of Commons. Their ioniships them st a quarter Wore six o'clock. wilpeansed. MR. amyl% PAMPRI;LT. nu day id paleidaed. pr:da 'OTES on the C.INtaKUC I lON' of SHEEP II TOLD& By load Rreata, M.A , Author of "Reda LAapli et Aidelnnur-," he. Usage andtb, Oder dad CA. PAITOVS moons OAILDISS. Mk day prim ti Is.. e:cinnely bumbd in claft. gilt .dice. THE FIRST VOLUME of PAXTON'S FLOWER GARDEN. DI De. LI.OLIT and Jowls P . thietretrd mat lininuiallpimoiniand Lop nem; aticl tine EMT on WOOL 144 , XM ves yelpird se *.e 14 of Merck. and No. the 111th nay is had dell awns. Wilkof !.t eirstml. gilt erfreoo. TO CORRESPONDENTS. Agorimigliimonded far .• no Express* London Ecesitut paper, art bo at He Wilk IQ. Boavorkbaticsk by Two o'clock 0$ tko My id pabllcadock HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. D.4-16eraisg. 4k. 411 s kareams, 4k Om. To•alsaaow—lionikg, Stu Ika. Micmac*, N. 17. LONDON, FRIDAY, MARC!! 7. TILE unexpected intelligence received yesterday from the Cape of Good Hope, will, we fear, exercise no very agreeable influence over the financial medi tations of the Prime Minister. Already in the hot breath of sudden and sanguinary insurrection the glittering surplus of revenue seems to melt away. Men read the sad details of unavailing bravery and innocent suffering—of treacherous cruelty and deso ' toting invasion, with mingled sentiments of selfish vexation and generous resentment. The latter prompts the thought of retribution ; the former asks gloomily what is it likely to cost? The last affair of arms in Calfraria cost us not much less than 2,000,000!. The accounts of the present outbreak, so far as they have reached us, may be exaggerated in some respects, and we are bound to hope the best ; but already instructions have been given to send out reinforcements from this country; and who will un dertake to say what amount of unlooked for expe nse a six weeks campaign in such a country may entail ? We gave yesterday the circumstantial particulars of the first few days struggle. The main features are easily apprehended and appreciated. Two chief tains of the Gaika tribe having for several months evinced feelings and designs hostile to the British power in the colony had been summoned to meet the governor, along with their equals and kins men, on a given day, and at a place named of easy and general access. All the Kaffir chiefs excepting ABTA and SANDII.LI CAM; but they affecting to distrust the intentions of Sir HARRY SMITII remained ab sent. Upon this they were deposed ; and an English officer placed as political superintendent over the native authorities appointed to exercise local jurisdic tion in their room. In this act all the rest appeared to acquiesce; whereupon the governor seems to have taken the resolution of attempting to arrest the de posed and still recusant chiefs. In order to effect this purpose, a force of 600 men, commanded by Colonel MACKINNON, was ordered to proceed in search of SANDILLI ; and on the 24th of Direember, while ascending the course of a mountain gorge, this de tachment was suddenly attacked by the enemy from both sides of the ravine. With the loss of thirty eight men of all ranks, killed or wounded, the supe rior position of the assailants was forced; and Colo nel MACKINNON halted for the night at a missionary station in the vicinity. But on the following day he thought it prudent to abandon the object of his march, and to make the best of his way back to Fort Cox, where he had left the governor with a force siaalkr than his own. Meanwhile, along the frontier scenes still more lamentable were enacted. While the unsuspecting dwellers in the European settlements of Auckland, Johannisberg, and Wuhan., were keeping the Christmas festival, their homes were surrounded by the invaders, and the inmates indiscriminately put to the sword. A similar fate appears to have befallen a small party which had been despatched on some special service by the commandant of one of the armed forts which constitute the chief defence of the colony against the influx of the marauders. Finally, an attempt made by Colonel SOMERSET, who was in command at Fort blare, to open communications with Sir IIARRY SMITH at Fort Cox. after some hours' desultory fighting, was battled by the overwhelming numbers of the insurgents. Five days later the governor, finding himself sur rounded by large masses of the enemy, determined to force a passage through their irregular host, and, at whatever risk, to return to King Williams Town. Escorted by 250 men he succeeded in doing so, appa rently without loss. and forthwith issued a procla mation declaring several districts to be subjected to martial law. A letter from Cape Town, given else where, describes the sense entertained there of the gravity of the occasion and the active measures that had been adopted to reinforce the beleagured gar risons of the frontier forts. No cause for appre hension as to the safety of any of these outposts was felt; but the prolongation of a wasting and predatory warfare in a widely extended territory, could not be looked upon with other feelings than those of humiliation and sorrow; while it would seem to be admitted that if the contagion of dis affection should extend to the Kaffir tribes hitherto supposed to be faithful to the government, it was im possible to foresee by what means this state of things could be put an end to, until the arrival of troops from the 'Mauritius or from England. From the observations which fell last night from Earl GREY in the House of Lords, we gather that the public are fully informed of the worst that is to be known; and that already orders have been issued for the purpose of hastening the departure of additional troops for the Cape. Of the policy or necessity of the steps about to be taken it were premature to speak. We are willing to be lieve that the alarm and loss is chiefly attributable to the suddenness of the irruption; and that its re volting enormities will be confined to the unfortunate localities whose names we have noted. But even thus we own we are tilled with misgivings as to the it effect on our financial prospects for the year. WE shall not be sorry to find to-night that minis toe are taking time to remodel their budget. The success of this first of cabinet measures depends as much on expectations excited, perhaps, as on the I intrinsic merits of the scheme. And the longer the , delay at present, the more will public expectation be I excited and aroused. We cannot but also conceive hopes that the taxes on knowledge will have re passed under the consideration of the CHANCELLOR, and that he will have been more dispos n c g d a it:ry at tention to those commercial interests e in the circulation of intelligence, which, above al others, a government should respect. There is no truth, no principle more irrefragable, than that the people have a right to as cheap a press as competition and ingenuity . can procure for them. The essence of a newspaper is that it is a record of daily events, of laws made, altered, or applied. It is, in fact, the only instrument by which laws are pro mulgated, and the people informed about them. Mo rally, socially, commercially, politically, the newe -1 paper is an indispensable instrument to the formation of public opinion. Newspaper and oral communica tion farms the very atmosphere of every day knowledge with us. And as the English are neither a carefully educated, nor a communicative people, the newspaper has perhaps more influence than in any other country. Undoubtedly, there fore, the press, like the postage. is one of those things that a legislature should exert itself to cheapen and render attainable, in order to remove that inequality between rich and poor which operates r so much to tho disadvantage and ignorance of the I latter. e therefore say, as strenuously as any, away with the taxes on knowledge. Bat at the same time we do not know that we either expect or desire all thow results from such a merourc which „. . were contemplated by the cookers on Wednesday In the mecing of Long-acre. What we should desire would be to see the first-rate records of events, now enjsyed by the middle and upper classes — to see them ren&red accessible to the leered class of readers. But what some of the speakers in Long-acre desired was, that the people and the lowest of the mid dle classes should have their own papers ; that is, papers written in their interests and views, and that ' like some American journals, they should cost a penny, nay, a halfpenny. THE EXPRESS, FRIDAY EVENING, MARCH 7. 1851. Now, first of all, we do not think this attainable, and, secondly, we do not think it desirable. The essential quality of a newspaper is to ho a trust worthy -meted of events and facts. To procure them, test them, and put them into lucid order, requires large expenditure, so large that the idea of the legis ' lature to keep up their respectability by increasing the cost is amongst the greatest of absur dities. To procure reports of debates in parliament requires many thousand pounds a year ; trust worthy foreign intelligence requires equally large sums. To furnish faithful reports of what passes in the law couple and in the world is equally costly. Now a newspaper at a penny can incur none of these expenses. It might go on for a time on the plan of stealing from others; but that must end either in the prevention of the contraband, or the rain and stopping of the great supply of intelligence. If the American press be adduced as an example, see what it does for the American public. First of all, it contains no report of the debates in Congress! A strong speech or an occasional row is all that the public learn of proceedings in the great federal council. The debates in the state legislatures are not much more fully given. Of the law courts merely the salient and the scandalous trials are published. We ourselves are obliged to peruse column after column of the American press, and we can safely say that no idea at all, much less a correct idea, can be formed from that press, of what is really passing or thinking in the country. To be satisfied on this point, one has but to address any intelligent American. We should therefore very much deprecate the pro curing of any such prints as the American for the in struction of the people of this country. And as little should we hail with pleasure the creation of organs for different classes of society. The worst of the penny press, the only degrading portion of it, was that of which the writers were conscious, that their lucubration never fell under an educated and cri tical eye. That cheap press was from the first re deemed by honourable exceptions ; but the great pe culiarity of those exceptions, as well as of the more recent periodicals established at low and po pular prices, is precisely that they arc addressed to all grades of society from the highest to the lowest. They are as welcome to, and as fitted for, the peer's drawing-room as the cottager's kitchen. And they there act not only as instructors, but as links, be tween different classes. We must confess we should like to see newspapers play the same part. Far from desiring to see the cobbler devour his Communist sheet as in France, whilst the shopkeeper reads the o,n -steintionnel, and the idle gentleman picks his teeth over the Debats, we should consider such a chasm between the pursuits and ideas of high and low, one of the worst signs which the times could show. With us the gulph between them is too great already; to make it greater would imperil the whole machinery of society. Mr. COBDEN seems to say, that none of the daily papers take a tone sufficiently popular to please him, and that the weekly were more to his taste. But in truth, we know of no weekly paper that differs widely , from the daily press, except one or two, which take very peculiar views with regard to reli gion, and which enjoy their sale from their general ' ability, and not so much, we verily believe, in conse quence of the singularity of their religious views, but in despite of them. The cheapening of the press, with the rendering it more easy of success as a commercial speculation, should not be argued upon party grounds, or pressed upon government or parliament because it might be supposed to further political views or changes. The thing is, first of all, a right ; secondly, all parties, aristocratic as well as democratic, ought to trust to the power of truth inherent in their doctrines, and scorn to seek an ally in ignorance and in the obstruc tion of knowledge. Let there be free trade in books and journals and advertisements; that is the great principle. For our part, we by no means think that either radicals, or even liberals, will be the only artics to profit by it. FRANCE. PARIS, THURSDAY ETISINO. The Assembly met yesterday, in its bureaux, to examine the budget of 1832. The debate bore, in the greater part of the bureaux, on the general state of the financial situation. The accumulation of the floating debt, which has been increased about 71 mil lions in the course of the lust year, was the subject of general apprehension. Several members, and in particular MM. Barthelemy St. Hilaire, Vitet, and Quentin Bauchart, were of opinion that the com mittee of the budget, in order to anticipate the dan gers of the political crisis of 18.52, ought to recom mend the contraction of a loan as speedily as pos sible. In many bureaux the question of public works was treated with much detail. M. Goutu and other members insisted that, in order to give the financial situation its real character, there should henceforth no distinction be drawn between ordinary and extra ordinary expenses. Several members demanded the diminution of extraordinary works, and recommended Ithat the state should relieve itself by transferring its engagements in this department to private industry. M.M. Leon Faucher, Randot, and others, spoke in this sense. Various suggestions were made as to the means of improving the receipts. The restoration of the tax on salt was generally recommended. Useful reforms were indicated in the door and window tax. It was generally felt that no reduction of importance could be made in the expenditure at a period so un settled. M. Baze thought that until the crisis of 1852 was over, the less the system of taxation or expenditure was meddled with the better. Even the re-imposition of the salt tax, desirable as it was, ought to be postponed. The members of the Moun tain entered very little into the discussion. Some, like M. Bard, would systematically refuse all subsidies to a government which had violated the constitution by the electoral law of May 31. Others, like M. Savatier Laroche, demanded radical reme- 1 dies, such as the suppression of the dotation of the clergy, and the diminution of the army. M. Rigal, entering into more details, attacked the law of licenses, highway duty, the personal tax, and others. M. Ilennequin proposed a tax on capital and income, and the suppression of a host of function aries employed in collecting. M. llniet-Desvaux said that the extraordinary ex penses ought not to be paid out of the ordinary resources. In order to execute extraordinary works, recourse ought to be had to a loan, or to the floating debt. The savings-banks formed n hazardous resource, from the run made on them at a crisis. At present the deposits amounted to 134 millions: they increased every month seven millions, and would soon amount to 2110 millions. No buyers would be found for the forests of the state in the event of political compli cations. The committee on the budget was not com petent to propose reductions on the army and navy, which were submitted to other committees, on the public force, inquiry into the marine, &e. Re did not think that the budget of expenses could be ma terially reduced, or that any important increase was to be expected on the receipts. He thought that one effective mode of relieving the treasury would be to impose 12 millions of new taxes. Ten millions might be realised by a tax on papering, and two millions on mirrors. N. de Montalembert said that it had been pro- I posed to establish a tri-coloured ticket, on which ouch taxpayer should be able to sec what he paid to the state, the department, and the commune. Such a contrivance would be a real step of progress. He was also desirous that there should be presented in a summary of the budget a moral view of how much revolutions cost, that the people might be warned against the pecuniary burthens to which they ex posed themselves by favouring such movements. He wished that the expenditure of the state should k ee in view the amelioration of the pinched classes. H e preferred a restoration of the salt-tax to the increase of the land-tax. He praised the resolutions of the councils-general prescribing a reduction in the sale of forests. The forests were increasing in value, and the state should reserve to itself the benefit of this increase, instead of incurring a loss, as it almost always did, by the sale. M. Fonld defended the forest sales, on the ground that 5 per cent. of the forest lands cost the state more in keeping than they produced. I. 1848, the public works had absorbed 148 millions, in 1847, • 175 millions. The embarrassments resulting from the revolution had restricted these expenses. 304 millions remained to execute ; 70 millions in 52, and so on for each vear during ten years past, up to the public works ordered in 1842. He was no friend to new taxes, because they took ten years to acclima tise, and created irritation, while the old ones were borne from habit with less complaint. Still he was not a systematic foe to reforni; only he wished them to feel their way prtidently , towards improvement. The other elections effected to-day in the bureaux , ore : 9th, Berryer and Bixio ; 11 th , N'itet and C unin Oridaine; 13a., Lepelleticr d'Aunay and Mortimer I Ternaux ; 16th, Creton and I)elbccquc. Only three of the bureaux, the Ist, 7th, and 10th, bad effected their elections yesterday. The commis sioners appointed are, in the first bureau. MM. Oermoniere and Wolowski; in the 7th, MM. La yenee and Montalembert ; and in the 10th, MM. NWT and Hennessy. You will observe that the motion of M. Emile de Girardin for abrogating the Assembly's claim to I usurp the functions of the judicial power in enacting pains and penalties, and for repealing bills of pains and penalties already passed, amounts to a repetition of M. Creton's proposition, which is included in it. Therefore, the Assembly will not have to wait for six months in order to pronounce a fresh verdict upon M. Creton's proposition, which may be brought forward in the shape of an amendment to Girardin s. The recall of the Duke of Sotomayor, of which I apprised you some time back, is now certain. The reason which has been assigned, namely, the umbrage of thevernment at the honours with which he received go Narvaez, appears to be correct. To-day, at 12 o'clock, took place in the church of the Invilides, the funeral of the Marshal Dods de la Bruncrie. The church was hung with black; a catafalque was placed under the dome. The great door of the court of honour was also hung with bleak, and adorned with the escutcheon of the marshal. Detachments of all arms assisted at the service, and accompanied the body to the cemetery of Pere la Chaise. The hearse, adorned with tri-coloured flags ut each corner, was drawn by six horses along the Boulevards. At the commencement of the ceremony and during the absolution the cannon of the Inva lides tired repeated salvos. A great number of high civil and military officers attended the funeral; but the governor of the Invalides, Jerome Bonaparte, who has just returned from Chartres, sent to the marshal's widow to express his regret that he was confined to his bed by illness, and would be thus prevented from paying the last honours to her de ceased husband. Generals Excelmans and Oudinot are spoken of as likely to be promoted to the rank of marshal, vacated by the death of M. node de la Bruncric. The Constitutional explains to-day, at much length, the motives which have determined the government in the suspension of the mayor of Grenoble. It seems that this municipal magistrate has applied the funds of the commune to the establishment of an alimentary association in the view of supplying the inhabitants with meat and other provisions at a cheap rate. In doing this he is held to have ex ceeded his attributions, which do not allow that the funds of any portion of the citizens should be applied to their detriment. The consequence of the mayor's project would be to ruin the butchers and bakers of Grenoble. An attempt has been made by 21 of the prisoners lately confined to the dungeon at Belleisle to escape by excavation ; but they were detected by the sen tinel on duty, and conducted to a stronger place of confinement, Fort Fouquet. 'rhe 3foniteur announces that the royal commission fur the London Exhibition had reduced the space originally allowed to French exhibitors, and enlarged the passages through the reduced space. To-day there was a decline in the funds, for which no reason in particular can be assigned. The Fives closed at 96.70, with a fall of 20 centimes on yester day. The Threes fell 30 centimes, closing at 57.60. ITALY. ROMAN STATES. Our Roman correspondent states, in his letter of the 28th, that the government, viewing with alarm the fierceness with which the French and the Romans pelted each other with missiles, which passed for sugar-plums during the first days of the carnival, in tended to prohibit the " moccoletti" on the last day. A French sergeant had been stabbed and flung out of window. Prince del Drago had been created senator. A republican demonstration had taken place at Tcrni, in consequence of which that town was occupied by the Austrians. The brigands con tinued their raids. LANDING IN LIVERPOOL OF HUNGARIAN REF CGEES. OnWedneloday, at 1 o'clock, the Sardinian brig Arpin, Captain flartholetto (whose arrival in the Mersey, with Hungarian refugees, we announced in that day's Express), entered the Queen's Dock, Liverpool. The Arpia is from Con stantinople direct, and the expenses of the vessel thence to this port will be defrayed by the Ottoman treasury, it having been arranged with the authorities of Liverpool that the whole of the refugees, who are 262 in number, should find a hospitable reception there, and be provided with the 111(.0.114 of joining their brethren in the United States at us early a period as possible. So great was the interest at tached to the arrival of this band of brave hut unfortunate men that as early as ten o'clock considerable numbers were attracted to the shores of the Mersey eager to obtain a sight of these emigrant refugees ; and when, at the hour above named, the Arpia entered the dock there was a general expression of mingled welcome and sympathy among the many hundreds assembled. The sleek of the vessel was covered with the refugees in their various cos tunics, some wearing the square red cap of llungary, others the undress Italian blouses, and others the significant Polish fez. Among them are men of distinction, as regards both rank in their respective countries and position in the army of which they form a remnant. Some line intelligent men, some mere striplings, whom the beholder would scarcely deem old enough to have been soldier', far less to have undergone the perils of an internecine war, and eighteen months captivity in a strange land. Although the vessel is but a small brig, there has been no loss of life on the voyage, and comparatively little sickness. The refugees speak in high terms of the attentions they have received both from the Turkish authorities during their captivity and from the commander of the vessel during her voyage from Con stantinople to Liverpool. Orders had been given by the authorities here that no person except the customs officers and those who will have the future charge of the emi grants should be permitted to go on board the Arpia until their diwmbarcation. Owing, however, to the courtesy of Mr. Sabel!, of the emigrants' home in Moortields, to whom is confided the rare of these men until their passage can be secured to the United States, our reporter was enabled to authenticate many interesting particulars in connexion with the arrival of these very poor but unfortunate claimants upon English help and sympathy. It may be recollected that whim, in August 1849, the brave Kossuth retired from the command of the Hungarians, he took measures to secure a retreat into Turkey of the l'olish and Italian legions, who would otherwise have expiated their crime of revolt, like so many others, either on the scaffold or by endless slavery in Siberia. The Russian government having demanded the delivery of its subjects who had sought refuge in Tur key, and the Sultan having, at the suggestion and by the advice of the English minister, refused to comply, negotia tions were for some months carried on between those two powers, during which it was feared that the refugees would eventually be sacrificed. However, an arrangement was eventually come to, by which the Poles were to be confined in Koniatt, and the other refugees to be permitted to quit Turkey for the United States. Upon the arrival in New York of one por tion, whither tie present men are about to proceed to join them, General Taylor, while sympathising with them in their struggle for constitutional freedom, and in the cala mities which had befallen their unhappy land, offered them, in the name of the citizens of the United States, protection and a second " home. " A public ball is already determined on at Liverpool, to aid in the raisingof a fund for their emi gration, and a subscription will be announced in the course of the present week for the same laudable purpose. Many men of the highest local influence and commercial standing have interested themselves on behalf of the re fugees, and, judging by the preparations which we witnessed at the Emigrant's Home, in Moor fields, under the direction of Mr. Sebell, we cannot doubt that these poor fellows will have just cause to be grateful for English hospitality. Some hours' delay took place in the passing at the Custom-house, each man having in his possession a few ounces of tobacco, which, insignificant enough in detail, amounted in the aggregate to more than 2 cwt., which the collector and authentic& hail no power to pass. At a quarter past four, however, they were received at their temporary home, where an excellent and substan tial dinner had been prepared for them. Among the offi cers are General Szeredy, the leader of the Vienna Zringi Legion, Major Wallinski, Capt. Zsabitzky, Lieut. Sipes, &c. Not one man was absent, on the last being called, from indisposition, speaking volumes for the attention be stowed on them during the voyage. OPPOSITION TO TUE HOUSE AND INCOME TAX.— Yesterday evening, a numerous and influential meeting of the inhabitant ratepayers of the parish of St. James, ClerkenweU, in pursuance of a requisition to the church wardens, wss held in the vestry-room of the church, "to take into almideration the propriety of petitioning par liament against any tax on houses, in lieu of the tax on windows; also against any new tax, in the prosperous financial state of the country. Also to consider and deter mine upon the propriety of opposing a renewal of the income-tax." Resolutions in accordance with the object of the meeting were passed unanimously, and a petition to the House of Commons against those taxes was adopted. lIMANY. The Cologne Greats publishes a document, believed in well-informed aircies to be authentic, containing the propositions of Countßrandenhurg at Warsaw, and the answe roof Prince Schvrarzenburg, wit h ltdd tion al remarks by both parties. This document is taken from a work entitled "From Warsaw to Olmutz," which was first published at Berlin on the 4th inst. It is remarkable that in these Warsaw negociations, one of the Prussian propositions was, that Austria, with all her states, should enter the Bund ; but that nothing was further front the thoughts of Prince Schwarzenburg titan ceding a parity, either in the presidency or in the executive, at that time to Prussia, appears clearly from this document also. The Neue Prrassiache Zeitung says that a new note has arrived from the Elysk at Vienna, stating that the entrance of the Austro-Italian states into the confederation will be considered by France as an immediate (not this time erentual)casus bent. Our correspondent writes : BERLIN, MARCH 3. Three thousand Austrians are to leave Holstein and return to their own country. A part of the Austrian gar rison of Hamburg is to leave that city, and its numbers are to be reduced to those stipulated in the convention, viz., 4,500. The under-secretary of state fur foreign affairs, Herr Le Cocq, has been elected to the Upper Chamber for the district of Elbing-Stuhm-Stargardt. The electors knew nothing of the gentleman's capacity, character, or views, but elected him without opposition, to show there confidence in Manteuffel. The report of the committee on Vincke's motion for a committee to examine into the condition of the country, moves that the Chamber proceed to the order of the day. The reporter is ltodelschwingh. The First Chamber to-day was occupied with petitions; the Second discussed and adopted several paragraphs of the disciplinary law for judicial functionaries. THEKAFFIR WAR. The subjoined particulars, though not adding any thing absolutely new to the detailed accounts given in yesterday's Express, will doubtless be read with iiderest : The folloning is a private letter from the frontier, with which we have been favoured : Graham's Town, Jan. 3, Iftn. Since I wrote you last, strange events have taken place in this in-fated colony. I gase you an account of Sir Harry Smith's visit to Kafflrland, and how he had, as he and indeed all the colonists supposed he had, settled all the various disputes between the white man and the Kaffirs. Re deposed Sandilli, chief of the Guilt" and proclaimed an Englishman chief. Well, he left for Cape Town, enjoying the otiuni of aguveruor favoured in public opinion, when rumours again arose that the Kattirs were not satisfied, especially Sandilli, whose temper was hurt by his unceremonious dismissal from all the honours of chieftain . ship, ;;YliVai : g eneral outbreak amongst the Gaikas was to be expected. The farmers, most of whom had expe rienced great loss during last war by staying in their farms, took alarm, and collected their flocks and herds and all their moveable property, and started off to different places—sonic to George, some across the Orange River, and indeed anywhere quite out of reach of the Kulfirs,' leaving the frontier for miles and miles quite bare—not a white reran to be seen. The Kattirs became insolent, and attacked torn , government waggons in the Debe Flats, near King Williams Town, British Kaffraria, and also broke into several houses and stole fire-arms and did much mis chief. Sir Harry promptly came up again, bringing with him the 73rd and artillery front Cape Town—and proceeded to Fort Cox, in Kuttirland, and there met the chiefs again, Sandilli not appearing. Many said they would stand by us, and Pato, chief of the T'Slambie tribe, an influential friend, promised to keep all roads open in case of war. Sir Harry offered a reward of 600 head of cattle for San dilli, and 2.50 head for Anta, Sandilli's brother, a great warrior, and there the matter ended for a day or two. On the 24th December Sir Harry, fearing that Sandilli might try to get into the Amatola mountains ' the stronghold of the Katfirs, sent off a force under Colonel Mackinnon to intercept him, and this force, in passing through a narrow defile, was attacked by • large body of haters, armed with guns and assegais (a spear they throw with fearful pre cision). The result was that the force was obliged to retire, leaving 1 officer and 10 men dead, and having 2 officers and 20 men wounded. The Kaffirs allowed the Cape Mounted Rifles, a force of Hottentots, and the Kaffir police—an armed police force consisting of Kattirs otfimred by Eu ropeaus—to pass, and tired only on the red jackets; and next day the whole Kaffir police, .500 strong, armed and mounted, went over to the enemy, leaving no doubt that they had led Colonel Mackinnon into the pass the day before. The same day, or rather on the 25th, two military Tillages were burnt, and all the people killed and fearfully tortured, and war was declared. The governor was at Fort Cox, and in attempting to communicate with him from Fort Hare, • distance of fifteen miles, our troops, the 91st, 1.50 MCII, and Cape . Mounted Rifles, 60 men, had au engagement, in which we lost two officers, 91st, killed and 20 men, one officer and 10 men wounded. The Kaffirs are very bold this war, and tight in the open country- -a thing unknown before. They say they will kill all the white men, and regain their land. We have lost upwards of 100 men and three officers in four days. Sir Harry was hemmed in at Port Cox, without pro visions, but to-day news has just arrived that he has cut his way through to King William's Town, and may be ex pected in here. So much for the war; now fur its results. Martial law is proclaimed in all the eastern province, and western also. All business, surveying, and farming, is stayed ; crops are left uncut on the ground, for this is harvest time here ; and the whole couut7 fly into the towns—cattle, horses, sheep, &e. Graham'sl own is full, and everything is at war price. Levies are being formed, and the Burgher forces are called out, as Sir Harry says in his despatch to-day, to kill and exterminate the savage tribe of Gaika, and root them out of the Amatola Mountains. There are only the 73rd, 91st, Gth, 46th, and Cape Mounted Rifles, with some artillery, in all about 2,000 men, in the colony. There are about ten posts to he defended, and a field force to be also provided out of this force. So that all depends on the levies and farmer or Burgher forces. This small force is the re sult of the Exeter-hall patriots. Last war 5,000 men could not beat the Kattirs, and now 7,000 or 8,000 will not ; for even Sir ft. Smith, who knows the Kaffir. as well as any man, owns that their tactics are quite different. Nearly all have guns, and are good shots. And God knows what will become plus all. I suppose at home they will grumble at the expense of sending troops out. Let them consider the ruinous loss all we here have—men losing their all, and having to begin again, after the war, with only a good name and a knowledge of their losses. It will be two years before the colony is tit for anything again, for many farmers have left it entirely, with all they can muster; and the war, all say, will last twelve months at lewd. lam one of the ruined. The following letters from a reliable source will also be found most interesting: Cape Town, December 28, 1810. It will now be pretty evident, by the last news from Kat traria, that my surmises about Sir Harry's not seeing quite clearly the conclusions to which the adoption of his new policy would lead, were correct. Either one of two things has occurred. Sir Harry either took the step of deposing the great Oaika chieftain, Sandilli, and of replacing him by his commiuioner, Mr. Brownlee, without being quite alive to the consequences of it, or without reflecting how unlikely each a measure would have any quelling effect on either Sandilli or his people ; or—and I have heard that this is the ease from the best authority possible—he gave way to the opinion of Colonel NPKinnon, the commandant of British Kaffraria. That officer thinks, though it is to be feared far from correctly, that the time has come for casting to the ground at once and for ever the power of the chiefs, which he believes to he already suf ficiently sapped and undermined to enable it to he done without danger. A step was made in advance, by deposing Sandilli, and placing Brownlee over the Ciaikas. All dis guise then ceased, the mask of conciliation was removed, and on its removal there was revealed in its stead a deter mination and resolve that told the Kaffir, intelligibly enough that nothing would now do short of their defeat and total overthrow. But by this evening's mail we find that the steps taken in advance have been retraced. It is now thought that the mine has not yet been sufficiently worked, some more sap ping and underground-work must yet be gone through, the conciliatory system has not been worked enough, and if possible it must be renewed, and for that purpose Sandilli's mother, Sutu, has been called to exercise the functions of chief to the Amambombo tribe. This step is decidedly re trocedent, and Sir Harry is back again to his old policy, which, it is natural to conclude, will be of less value now than it would have been before, inasmuch as not only San chili and his brother Ante, but every Kosa in Kaffraria, knows now that had Sir Harry the power, he never would have returned to the old system of patting them on the back and telling them to sit still, but would have advanced at once, and steadily proceeded to their final subjugation. In other words, the accession of his mother Sutu to the chieftainship is a victory to Sandilli, and at this moment there can be no doubt that he, and he only, is the chief of all the Gaikas. By the proclamation of the 20th December, at Fort Cox, Sutu is assisted in her government by sixteen coun cillors, eight of whom arc nominated by his Excellency, and the remainder by herself. At the meeting held on the 19th Dec., at Fort Murray., by Mr. M'Lcan, the Tsambie commissioner, the insincerity of the different chiefs of that tribe was most evident. Pato, the chief, said that of course he could not be expected to catch Sandilli, as he (Pato) was of • different tribe, and belonged only to the English government; while another, • minor chief, called Taise, said just the reverse, saying that neither Sandilli nor Ants would ever be given up by their own tribe. They all agreed in one thing, that he would be a lucky fellow that would catch him, for he would get I plenty of cattle, though it did not appear that any of them : showed much eagerness in the pursuit of this good fortune. January 2, 1801.—By yesterday's mail a state of things has taken place on the frontier, that had fears of anything o very short of it been expressed • month ago they would have been received with indifference or contempt. The Kattln have risen on all sides, and Colonel M'Kinnon, while proceeding with detachments of the 6th, 73rd, Cape Mounted Rifles, and Kaffir Police through • narrow gorge in the Keiskarnma, was attacked and suffered • serious loss. Ile retreated back to Fort Cox, send- ing instructions at the same time to Lotonai Eyre, who commanded the division at the KgbOUbie Neck, to fall back at once on King William's Town. M'Kionon•s division amounted to about 500, and on their way bank they came across the dead bodies of 14 of the 4.lth ltegioletit, who were lying stripped, with their throats cut. It a who feared that Colonel )I`Kinnon has been duped by tho Kakis, and it is not improbable that he was decoyed into this gorge by the Kaffir police. A private letter says that so confident was he of the good feeling of the natives that when his men were attacked in the ravine they had nut even their mu.kets loaded. The governor is in Fort Cos, and so surrounded with Kaffir' that the last despatch to Fort Hare was accompanied by an escort of 80 mounted riflemen, under Major Somerset, and even this strong body was followed and tired upon by the enemy that lurked in the bush. Some of the military villages have been attacked, and many of the inhabitants murdered. In one it is said that only two women have escaped with their lives, and there is another report of a hundred Fingue women having been murdered in cold blood. Indeed, the atrocity of their present proceedings is said to have been hitherto without parallel in the experience of Kaffir warfare. The enemy is everywhere hanging about the colony and committing the most fearful outrages, even robbing within two miles of Graham's Town ; and what is worse than all, the Kaffir police has gone over to the enemy, carrying with them their arms, ammunition, and horses; and that train ing which will make them and the rest of their tribe such dangerous enemies. It wax the Kaffir police who were with fil'Kinnon that deserted, and it was only the 46y before they did so that he held up their rondo. t as admirable, in a despatch. As all the contractor's cattle destine d for Fort Cox have been token by the enemy, Sir Ham will have to leave that fort as well for supplies as to protect the frontier. It may be camidered matter of regret that Sir Harry, when he left the conciliation policy, was ever tempted to return it, as it only betrayed weakness and hesitation. The doing so no doubt has buoyed up .he enemy, and gone a good way to accelerate their measures, and make them unite in one body. While it makes people euviciou4 of a rule of conduct that is characterised with so much . . vacillation and want of decision. lied he now an op eu foe to meet, we might expect that seeing his Excellency has laid aside the pen and taken the sword in his hand, some thing brill ant would be done ; that when he got back into his own trade, for which no doubt he has such a relish, hu would show his enemies what he was in the field. But such un anticipation cannot be indulged in, fur this is only the first of a system of bush-fighting that may be carried on fur years, and which, however it may end, will cost us much blood and treasure. Aud it is the more likely to du au now that our enemies have gained considerable experience ; they have now a large body of well-trained men, and trained by us, too, to our practice of war ; they now know the value of the bush in lighting with British troops, and wilt no doubt stick to it; and besides, they are now all half frenzied with the wild hopes that their acknowledged SAW _ . . ems over us has raised is them. January 3.—The war steamer Hermes is on the eve of starting for ButEdo with every man from the garrison at Cape Town, consisting of small detachments of the Cape Mounted Hides, 73rd, and Artillery. She also takes pro visions, and as many horses us she can carry. The troops she carries amount to about 220 men, and she is to return with all the WOITICII and children belonging to the regiments on the frontier. Orders, it is said, are issued for the 4.3 th to march from Natal to Kitfraria. 13) a letter received at the commissariat to-day, Sir Harry has retreated from Fort Cox, and is now in King s Town. His measures will now be strictly un the defensive; and if he can defend the frontier until troops come from Mauritius or England, it is as much as he can be ex pected to do. With his present troops, amounting to 2,sist men, he cannot advance unless he again wishes to suffer for his temerity. It is not known whether he lost any men in the retreat from Fort Cox. Report says that Pato, chief of the Tsatubie or Covert tribes, is to join Sir Harry with his men; if so, things will not be so tedious. It is to be feared this is not to be trusted, and if he joins the Oaikas, it will take years before these Kailas are subdued. At the meeting of the chiefs at Fort Cox, on the 19th, at least 3,004) Kaffirs were present, and among them all the principal chiefs, with the exception, of course, of the outlaws, Sandilli and Ants. Even these two, it was said, were at no great distance from the place of meeting, and received, from time to time, reports of the proceedings from their fol lowers who were present. So far as professions went, the replies of 'Maccono, Stock, Rottman, Tola, and the other chiefs, to the demands and warnings of Sir Harry, were fair enough. But there was a tone of insolence and nonchalance in some of their remarks, which made an un pleasant impression, and increased the suspicions that were previously entertained of their good faith. The governor, however, evidently desirous of pur suing the system of conciliation to the last, culled upon the Kuffirs to choose a chief to fill the place of Sandilli in the government of his tribe. And when Sutu, the mother of the deposed chief, was named, the Governor at once accepted the nomination, and appointed the " great widow" of Gaika to the station, which she had once before filled with great discre tion. The proclamation announcing this appoint ment is dated on the 20th of December. With regard to the attack on Colonel Mackinnon's force, private letters add, what is not stated in the official report, that the baggage of the troops, in cluding an ammunition waggon, was lost, and that the dead were left on the ground. Sir Harry announced his escape in the following proclamation : _ _ _ GOVERNMENT NOTICE.—King William's Town. Der 31, 11150.—ilia Excellency the Governor, accompanied by Col. Mackinnon, reached King William's Town to-day at I o'clock, having fumed his passage with a large escort of the Cape Corps through numerous bodies of Kattim from Fort COX eia Fort White. It was his intention to have pro ceeded to Fort Hare, but the enemy were in such force that his means were not adequate to its accomplishment. Every power is delegated to Colonel Somerset, during the forced absence of the Governor from the colony, to raise levies, ler, and to name the rallying points of assembly. And his excel lency dues most ardently hope that the colonists will rio en masse , to aid her Majesty's troops, and the reinforce ment of men and guns, which will shortly arrive at East London, to destroy and exterminate these most barbarous and treacherous savages, who fur the moment are formid able. Every post in British Kalfraria is necessarily main tained. The abandonment of one of thou would have bes a the signal for revolt to every T•Slambie Chief. They are well provisioned for six weeks, and form a nucleus for aa invading army of patriots. 'the (Rakes must be dn. , a out of the Amatolas, and expelled for ever! However gre it the inroad into the colony may have been, it is consoling to his Excellency to know, that the maintenance of tin , e! posts, which indeed could not have been abandoned, 01 . 01- pies the attention of thousands of Kaffir*, who would otherwise have gene into the colony. The line of the Buffalo must be maintained voids gui collie. It involves the safety even of her Majesty's troops, which is paramount. By his Excellency's command, Jolts GanvocK, Lieut.-Colonel, Private Secretary. With regard to future plans and prospects the Cape Town 2lfail extra of the Bth Jan. says : Fort Cos, as well as all the forts along the line of the Buffalo, will he maintained—East London being made the have of the military operations now about to take place. Supplies may be readily landed there, and then forwarded with great facility along that line. By holding this chain of posts, the attention of the Lefties is drawn off from the colony, and to which we may attribute our comparative freedom from any large bodies of the enemy, so that our fanners have been able to send their cattle to the rear, and to reap a considerable quantity of corn. Had the governor relinquished these posts, it would have greatly inspirited the Kaffirs, and thousands would crc this have rushed into the colony, and laid waste the border districts. His excel lency's presence in King William's Town is very oppor tune, as it may probably have the effect of keeping Umhala quiet. At present, he is strongly suspected of cherishing ho.- tile intentions, but, like all Ins countrymen, he is a shrewd calculating savage, who weighs the probabilities with g reat care, and will only act with decision where he secs, or fancies he perceiver, his own immediate interest. Pato re mains unequivocally allied to the British cause. His con duct throughout has been marked by a frank deciaionwhich gives confidence, difficult as it now is to inspire this, in the sincerity of such professions. His son Delima, it is said, is in the neighbourhood of King William's Town with 1,400 men ready to set with the governor on any service he may appoint. It is expected, too, with confidence, that diversion will be made in favour of the colony from Pert Natal. In that settlement there are many thousand Zoola warriors, a portion of whom, if moved along the Quath• liunba to the sources of the T'somo, might effectually ea gage the attention of the Ama-Temboo (Tambookies) and Ama-Galeka (Kreli's) tribes, and prevent them from en gaging with the other tribes in the war now waging will the colony. Added to this, a reinforcement of troops, wit artillery, is expected immediately at East London. The following is a statement of Colonel Somerset% loss in his attempt to reach Fort Cox from Fort Hare : Lieut. Melvin and Adjutant Gordon ; private Samuel Reeves, J. Harding, J. McDonald, John Sweeney, Drummer W. Smith, Corporal Stephenson, Drummer I). Morrison ; Privates J. Nicol, A. Scott, Corporal Potter; Privates A. Thompson, T. Clegg; Drummer It. Walsh ; Corporal W. C. Robertson ; Privates Barker, W. Cleaver, T. Tollord, T. Smith, W. Phillips, D. Ramsay, and T. Deans. Some of the wounded will not survive long. McNair is seriously wounded, and a few others. The most of the men were killed with assegais, and the gretter part of the wounded. The names of the wounded at the military villages are-91st Regiment: Corporal Burnsides (dan gerously), Privates Whitesides, Vanner, McFarlane ; Sergeant Cook, Privates McNair (since dead), J. Cul verwell (since dead), M. Flynn, P. Mason, T.Pringlc, A. Campbell. There were also two men of the Caps Mounted Rifles wounded. - - - LARGE IMPORTATION OF FOREIGN ICE.—Yeeterday and on Wednesday, five vesicle, laden with nearly 3,000 tons of ice, arrived in the river from Norway. This large importation bee been rendered necessary from the t failure of the English ice harvest.