The Express. — London, England, 1847-01-11 00:00:00

2 da RA - hit-MLR PARTIES.—The ORGUEI Mt:WORM LENT ix quadrille and ether mealcal parties 4 1" elikk it lii remelted, adapted, me performer upon It Mid equal le a paid lewd Teed to be had at the rood of the agent, J. F. Myers, 43, Cluirlettednet, Fltsrorwquare, whin a special prefix. same by • Ladled ienalids to place doily. contuieseing at 3 and =r ou t..3. Tad performance !dodo. intenders Lowed, auno, ambits, polkas, ?dere, and chords Adnibeion gratis T. JAMES'S ASSEMBLY ROOMS, (late Credited's). The IIIIKD hiIIIiaCRIPTION BALL of the Ar rant sodas eIM Ode ghee THIS EVENING, at Ten Ocilla paaefaN7, bads die It i, T ., of the Elite of thearlstowacy and Paley now M hied ' for a gentleman, Ss ; for a Lady ad gentians% /11. M. Pert ' names are received at the foEoes the Libraries di Meigedllere: Meows Eters, Alleroft, Chiippel. Olivier, aid leder, mil Omsk. Boedstivrt ; Mmes Cramer and Bud, Mons. Maw ad H. Bailey, Regent-street; Fentum, Si, Medd ; Me. Bates, ill ; Mr. Pn-day, Rt. l'eura-chureb pad ; Me. Prods, • and Mr. Turner. Yoshi"; also at Mr. ark °Moe, S.I. M. sure, adjoining the establishment. Them dkedid deft may be secured on my other evening, by ad der/di • line to the treeruner. AEIPPERPS SOIREES DANSAN'IES.— reimmen ODSCEKT ROOM'.—Til IS EVENING yl, Jan. 11, sad every Monday. A initecriber of two wider =Med le • double didieshle ticket for oil welts, and the sots diode eta seenmeme as say Allo silay. Tbe [Wire Ihnd combo: of the nemitindles se Mimi bier MojeNdy'• Scat:. Italia and Almartia. Onslookw Mr. Wilmr& Leder, gismo &ebbe. Cornet-k.liesne, Mr. Ileselk i Opidide, Y. Ercepere. MX., Mr. Corrie. eons tome at did. Mad, Is each, at Weippert's Quadrille Gam, 11 I, Soho pear& ENGLISH MUSIC, EXETER-HALL. The Committee of the Mullah Testimonial Fund beg le 'se to am nuance • Series of POUR CONCERN, dbeirative of the history of English Vocal Muse. A New Olean will be erryted by Mr. It.dason =7 for these coneerb ; an ellicient Orchestra will aim be pro or the Second, Third, and Fourth Ganevrts. The FIRST CON CERT will be held on MONDAY EVENING NEXT, January It. Principal Vocal Performers.—Miss Raluforth, Mies Dolby, Mr. linavers, sed Mr. Later. liskets—Area, 2e, for the emir*, 3s. ; western Itallery, IL ad., for Ma series, It Id.; reaerved seats, fur the strive 210.—m ty be hod of Mr. fluter, publisher, 443, West streli, and of the principal nisrelbire. HADAYS, -FOUR rEW FIGITRILS.—Jsmen I. of Y.ll4iand In U. .9 1 .thdld thololoc of the nb*the heroes Hardings and Gough in their uniforms as Oenersla • Mr. Idameady, the eminent igedisa, In the moot 'Outdid classical EOM= costume ever Aeon no England- Maxiiifleent ventilating dome, at a toot of COES Olin from II till dusk...mil from ? till 10. Admittance la laspoleon Room, di. Amin TUdnAIID and IiOSS, Basses, Itslimeitecet. LAURENT'S ORIGINAL CASINO, ROYAL ADELAIDE GALLERY, Strand, nightly Increases to attrac t!. entertsbunerge being produced regardless of expense. Grand Concert —Popular Vocalist. —Bend of Fifty Performers. After the concert, the wonders of creation displayed by the Monster Oxy hydriern Nternssops (introduced by en aanatory lecture), includ tog some tine apseinans of British Wee ,or illustreted In Dr. Marcy 's Peyeelogis Brit von. ttareshinent+ of the tint quality, et reduced prim. Ailmksion. Is. Doors open et seven, commence at helLeeet, aid terminate at h •If-pset e errs o'clock. MAHYLEBONE LITERALLY and SCIENTIFIC INSTITUTION, rdwirrhatreet, Cortmaariguare.—Mr. J. L HATCON trill give hie SECOND MUSICAL EN I' ERTAINM ENT, Vocal and lostranaantal, in the I.:lcahn of the above lirtitution, on THURSDAT EVENING neat, on which oeescion he wall Mint antral and admired ago and Infra:air µreason of the pianoforte tltya of Carla. Handel, Sebastian Reek Monet, Beethoven. re. Adatinsion, 2a. ; Reaeirred -eats, 2.. Id. 11.Aela to be had et the peineltiol Rusin Slags and at the Inati.ution. Cumenasen at right o'clock malady. B:YAL POLYTECHNIC INS'fITUTION.- PROVER:4Oft SCIIfEN REIN'S GUN-COTTON, and other re Compounds, with brillizit Experiments, lectured on by Dr. Ryan, daily, at half-pout three o'clock, and on the Evenings of Mendedneedays. and Fridays. The princi pk. various of the Ta. zutail V MAGNETIC TELEGRAFIIs expininci duly by Probreor Eleeddiciffeer, Including the patent of Mows. Cook end Wheat atone, in nor on the Railways, and the more recent patent of Madera Nott and Gamble. The various Models explained. Magnified =ens of DISEASED POTATOES eshi oiled by the OX Y4l T EN MICROSCOPY, with the Dietnative Insect, supposed by A. ems, Lv.. F.R.S., to be the cause of the diaeow. A beautiful merles of NEW DISSOLTINO VIEWS. The DIVINO-BELL find DIVER, with Y.aFteimenta. The POYSIOSCOPF., New CORO MATROPE, Re. Ika—Admbssicm. la.: Schools half-price. CROSBY HALL-ETHIOPIAN SERENADERS. LAST NIGHT BUT TWO. —THIS HYMNING (Monday).— Partite wooing from • &num ehreold notice the hour that the aoors pm. as, from the crowded state of the hall on each omission. numbers hue been unable to gam admisios. boors open at HALF-PAST BETEN. and the performseces commence orecieely at F.IGHT o'clock. The ETHIOPIAN SERENADENS w.ll repeat their inimitable enter tainments on Wednesday sad Friday nut, being positively their lost appearance. at Crosby-b•M raIEAFRE ROYAL, ADELPHI. Glorious Anausement—Decided hit of the n,r eplenchil Rouontic of "Culornts. the COMiCl.ll4.er." lit week of the wonder of the rm. the celebrated EntortiLitioni..te," end the magnificent Fairy Spectacle of the " Phantom D incers."—During the week the eneemeful new Ramada Dooma of COLONIBA, THE CORSICAN SISTER. With the extraordinary I:ntortilatienosts in their wonder ful JEW( UTMNASTIQUES. To conclude with the PILANTOM DANCERS, or the Will. Bride. 7,r he epproW• MAILS. The melba for Vigo, Oporto. Lisbon, Madeira, Cadiz., and Gibraltar, will be made up on the morning of the 11th Jrnuary. The Wert India mails, exeluding those for t:c-n, Honduras, and Bose Savannah, will be made up on the morning of the lath January. The overland mailetne Gibraltar, Malt+, Greene, the !rattan Inland., MtAden, Ceylon, India, Hoag-Kong, and China vin liouthnnapton, made up on the evening of the morning of the 20th January. The overland cloned mai* rio Marseilles, to the Mcditerroncon. Isnot, Aden, Ceylon, India, Meng Kong, Ac., will be made up on the evening of the 10th hatter, The mail, for New South Wale., Van thenen . s Land, and New Zesdand will be made op on the evening of the 31st January. The mails for British North America, Bermuda. and the United Wales, will be made tip on the evening of the Jril February. The malls for the Brazils, the River Plate, Monte V.dco, Pernam buco, Bahia, Ms leirs, and Buenos Ayres, will be &notched on the wooing of the ith February. TO CORRESPONDENTS. e e • Advertisement, Intended for no Erprer; London evening paper, malt be at the °Mae by Tro it'd** on the day of publication. HIGH WATER AT LONDON-BRIDGE, life and judgment, have become fascinated and entangled by the study of saints and fath,‘rs, seem to have been struck by the novelty of tlin g.s there disclosed to them. Their theological stu lies had evidently not mule them acquainted with the histori cal course and developement of church opinion. They dived into unopened volumes, penetrated int.' recesses where the student's lamp never burned, and they were fascinated by the pleasure of discovering what, if familiar to them, they would have regarded cs trivial. Defective theological studies aro the caus , of the dizziness in the ideas, and change in the convictions, of so many of the conscientious clergy. Oxford has become a school of doubt, of ignorance, and of error, and =mill stly abuses and misperforms that duty entrusted to it by the state, of which it enjoys the greater portion of the monopoly, and for which it is monstrously and superfluously paid. We cannot close these remarks without a favour able mention of the simple, lucid, and strong statement of Dr. iiocie, published under the title of the Three Reformations. For members of the Church of Eng land, who have paid little attention to its Tractarian controversy, or in attending slightly, have cared or comprehended little, such a brief expose as Dr. HOOK'S, will prove highly valuable as information,—inde pendent of its controversial merits or truth. THERE are many benevolent theorists who would turn prisons into schools. It would be well if they could change the direction of their labours, and set about establishing schools, which might super sede prisons. In dealing with education, we are apt to concentrate attention on the schools which ab sorb the bulk of the rising generation, such as the national,or the British and Foreign. The chi! Iran who attend these, belong to the lower classes of :he popu lation. But there lies under the strattna which furnishes our national and British and Foreign scholars, a lower deep, teeming with life,—all the more active for the putrescence W-ich en genders it. In oar large towns, there arc thousands of children, who never receive even such education as the existing schools can furnish. They are turned over to a different discipline. The streets are their school-room ; the Fagins are their school masters; pilfering is the staple subject of their les smut Their inspections are carried on by the police. Their universities are our gaols ; and their highest degree is taken on the scaffold. The prison can never be a school for these unhappy Pariahs, except in crime. Parkhurst and Pentonville are alike impotent with the youth and manhood of this class. Besides, if their instruction were efficacious, it is not wide enough. It takes in only a miserable minority of those who need it. And even the best I and honcstest of its converts arc found powerless to resist the evil influences, amongst which they are unavoidably thrown on the expiration of their term of imprisonment. Reformatories may do much. but it would be a great achievement to diminish the necessity for them. It is only recently that the raw material of crime has been taken in hand. Industrial schools for pauper children have, it is true, existed for some seven or eight years at Norwood. They have always, how ever, been confined to the overflowing of the metro politan workhouses. The Children's Friend Society had a similar establishment at Hackney Wick; but a clamour, excited by some injudicious disposal of the labour which they trained, has led to the suppression of that society and the destruction of their schools. But until the ragged-schools were set a-going, we are not aware of any attempt having been made in London to subject the young Arabs and Bohemians of the streets to any disciplinal process, except of a penal kind. It is within the last two years that the hand of humanity first stirred the pestilent mud, that stagnates round the basements of London life. The work began amongst humble men. We are not certain of the fact, but we have an impres sion that it was a Windsor chimney-sweep, who, within the sound of royal carriage wheels, the glitter of lordly equipages, and the sober eplendours of episcopal liveries, at the very focus of our mighty system of Church and State, first drew together the juvenile rabble of Windsor va grancy, into a " ragged school ;" and there, unaided, except by his own small knowledge, and great Chris tian love and devotion, began to teach those whom no man had ever thought of teaching before. Be this as it may, wherever the notion originated, it is in process of being carried out in London and elsewhere. We learn from an article in the Quar terly Review, based on the second annual report of the Ragged School Union, that there are now open in the metropolis about thirty of these schools, with an average attendance of 3,000 chil dren. Of these schools, some are open on Sunday evenings only, and in that case the instruc tion is entirely religious, and conducted by voluntary and unpaid masters. Some are open two evenings in the week ; others five, and in these cases the educa tion is conducted by a paid master. Not more than two or three are open during the day. In the schools which are open on week days, reading writing and arithmetic are united to religious instruc tion and devotional exercises. It is apparent that mere instruction in religion, even when accom panied with lessons in reading, writing, and arith metic, can do but little for a set of children, who are generally dependent for the day's meal on the day's precarious earnings or petty plunder. The lessons of the school must receive a perpetual counteraction from the life of the streets. Still the results of what has been done are remarkable. They show a singular apti tude and eagerness to learn amongst a race, which has been hitherto considered inaccessible to good influences of any kind. When some of these establishments were first opened, they were instantly filled by a rude I rabble of children, who came, not to learn, but to " have a lark." Lights were put out, benches and forms overturned, books, slates, mud, and stones flung at the teacher's head. He had no power to punish—the notion of coercion was ridiculous. Yet, despite of the previous training of the pupils, and of the utter power lessness of the teacher, except in that power which glows of charity, and zeal, and earnestness, patience and principle have, as the reviewer remarks, con quered these difficulties, "and now we may see, on each evening of the week, hundreds of these young maniacs engaged in diligent study, clothed and in their right mind." No praise caa be too high for the promoters and teachers of these schools. We cannot conceive any more Christian-like achievement than the establishing of such a centre of industry, order, and knowledge, amidst a population which has never had addressed to it the words either of instruction or kindness. TIM DAT. —Wein i. 14 Min. pest n; Afternoon, SO mi. port S. To-llosnow—lfornlng, H min. past 9; Afternoon, SO min. past 9. LONDON, MONDAY, JAN. 11. THE English sulocription for the starving poor of Ireland and of Scotland thrives and swells beyond the utmost hopes of its originators. It is not a question of party. The Standard and the Chronicle alike open their columns to the appeal. Mr. Huou MscNt.lL is as eloquent in its behalf as the warmest Anglo-Irish Liberal. ----- Amongst the suberriptions wo have much pleasure in recording that of the QUEEN DOWAGER for one thousand pounds. Tux conversion to Catholicism of a knot of the clergy of Leeds has given rise to very natural feelings of impatience, sorrow, and dismay. When the wolf so easily devours the shepherds, is the reflection, =rely he will make but light work of the sheep. The sheep, however, seem in no danger ; the "she-wolf of Rome," so very dexterous fur the moment at run ning away with shepherds, is without power or Late for preying on the flock. Your great founders of religion and of sects were wont to come forth and address the multitude, and ling their nets wide amongst the shoals and masses of mankind. The Romanisers of the day do not fish with seta. They go forth to angle with a rod and a fly which they fling on the ripple of the secluded stream. Here they hook one or two solitary fish, which creates much splash and some sport, and is a feat for the angler. In the deep pools that run, or rather that stagnate, under cloister walls, these anglers have of late years caught some stupendous fish. Bat how can such diminutive slaughter be considered to affect the fortunes or the numbers of the finny tribe? One of the great mistakes of the present age is the tendency of certain callings and professions so to practise and develope the science appertaining to them, as to suit the whims and fancies of the adepts of the profession, leaving the world and its welfare out of the question. Thus we have law made for the pleasure and advantage of lawyers, poetry written and j praised that can only be admired by poets, and schools of art landed as the only true ones, the works of which none bat artists can comprehend. Some doctors of Oxford have undertaken to do the same by religion, to make a new one for priests to glory on, rather than for the ' , people to better in. Such selfish views are, per haps, hidden even to the eye which contemplates them. For one part of the scheme is to create an /Esthetic religion, which is to captivate men by their tastes and senses more than by their reason. All those aids, and enticements, and embellishments to devotion, found useful in a period of ignorance and darkness, are preposterously brought forward at the very time when education is progressing so as to render them roost useless. Never was • movement made so directly contrary to the current of all things and all ideas as this. It would be idle to exaggerate the importance of a school which, like Young Englandism in politics, seeks to guide and reform fashion rather than creed, and would put the clock of life back five centuries, merely because it admired the cut of men's beards, or the authority of the Vavassora of that time. There is ooncealed in this, no doubt, • wish to restore feudal authority, as corresponding to scrfish submission, in Church and State. But the attempts are too puny and too preposterous to be formidable. It captivates the fancy and enlists the zeal of the would-be reformers and professors, but it affects not the crowds that walk the common paths of the world. Though no precaution be required to preserve the public from being converted to a merely dilettante weed, something of the kind does seem requisite, vindicate the" character of the University of Ox ford. It is found guilty of generating these puerihties, and bow? In all probability, by too narrow sad too dogmatical a course of theological edu cation. Those grave divines who, in mature But something more is wanted to convert these lehmaelites into useful members of society. They must be taught not merely to read but to work, and not only must they be instructed and habituated to employ themselves, but, when this habit is formed, masters must be found to employ them. Whatever be their ultimate fate, it is better they should meet it taught, however imperfectly, than altogether untaught ; and we may even be tolerably , certain that once taught, their names will be found less frequently . in police sheets and prison registers. Take the criminal returns of 1845. We find that out of the total of 59,123 persons taken into custody, 15,263 could neither write nor read; 39,659 could read only and write im perfectly! Significant as these figures are, however, it is an idle dream that mere instruction in lettters or religion will remove crime in a country like England, where, without work, a man must beg, pilfer, or starve, or take up the pauper existence, in which these three resources alternate with life in the work house. On considering these facts, industrial schools appear to involve great, and comparatively unde veloped, means of good. Industrial classes have, as we learn from the reviewer, been established in one only of the ragged schools. After four days of study, on the British and Foreign school system, on the fifth day all the girls are set to needlework, the boys to tailoring and shoemaking. Admission to these class. sis treated as a reward. Yet such is the rambling life which these children often necessarily lead, that out of 283 received into this school, tho average attendance goes no higher than 53 boys and 71 girls. 'the expenses are moderate : about 3d. a week for each child on the average attendance of 124. We have introduce.' the subject of industrial schools in connexion with the lowest and most neglected class of the population. We shall return to the matter at the earliest opportunity, directing attention to the effects of industrial training as they are illustrated by the examples of the Norwood, Aberdeen, and other schools of thes character at home and abroad. THE late action at Torres Vedras was certainly a very gallant feat. That 3000 Portuguese should ad. vance through a defile, and against batteries well served, wig manned by a force equal to their own, and in the at tempt suffer without flinching a loss of THE EXPRESS, MONDAY EVENING, JANUARY 11, lad. six or seven hundred men, forms a respectable page in the annals of Portuguese warfare. Setting aside the immediate political results, such an event is likely to have every salutary influence in restor ing to civil war and insurrection that seriousness, which in Portugal it had almost lost. Nothing can be more fatal to a country than the habit of insurrection, with out object, without result, and without any serious consequence to victors or vanquished. Although one cannot but applaud the generosity which spares life after contention, nevertheless, certain impunity ren dere insurrection a pastime, which, however amusing ' and tinhurtful to the originators and actors, is most painful and destructive to the commonwealth which it undermines. The sacrifice of one thousand men in a sanguinary action, the death of one leader, the capture of another, however lamentable such circumstances in themselves ? are not altogether thrown away for the 1 peace of the country. At the same time, the Queen and court, rendered triumphant by this action, seem most foolish and short-sighted in their policy—contenting none, conci liating none—offending alike the grandees and the 1 citizens, alienating every friendly power abroad, and every powerful class at home : grinding the people by the must onerous taxes, and frighting away com merce from the ports by almost prohibitive customs duties. In fact, Donna MARIA seems to have con centrated, under a mock constitutional system, the worst defects of the administration of the most imbe cile of her ancestors. And what do we see at present, but a repetition of what has taken place twenty times before,—the two great cities of the kingdom occupied by hostile parties; Lisbon for the court, Oporto for the opposition, the army divided between them, with all the concomi tants of sieges, blockades, embargoes, destruction of property and life. No matter what the government at Lisbon, Oporto is ready to hatch and bring forth an insurrection against it. CABRAL marched from it some years back to restore the court to power, ai DAB ANTAS not long since left it to crush the same ' court. One would think that no government in Portugal could have attained power without making some effort fbr effecting some union and similarity of feeling be tween the two cities. The first and simplest requisite for this would be to open a road between them, and thereby create a channel of communication. These two principal towns of Portugal are about as far asunder as London and Liverpool; yet there is not what can be called a high road between them. There being no facile road, of course there is no communica tion. And because there is little communication, government sees no necessity for making the road practicable. When a railroad was talked of, it was met by the same objection. Our steamers by no means supply the place of land communication; for, whilst none can get over the bar of Oporto, few can even land the mails in that tempestuous sea. So that the two chief towns of one of the oldest and proudest European empires, which concentrated within itself at once the choice wealth of the two worlds, have no more facile or general communication between each other than Bahia and Rio. The giving to a country a free press before it is given roads, and constitutional government before it cares to read, is a difficult task. We do not say that, it is beginning at the wrong end, for if not begun at this end, it will not be begun at all. But a court, and a Cortex, and a government, which wrangle and fuss about the merest trifles, which raise and which ex pend a very large revenue, and which toss and winnow as much speculative theories and political systems as might suffice the most advanced of coun tries—for them to proceed thus without providing for the very elements of material life and political union, is most preposterous. At present, however, the fate and conduct of the country have fallen into a single hand, that of SAL DANIIA. If be had wisdom equal to his vigour, with a fair and grateful recollection of those liberal princi ples by which he rose, SALDANIIA might now secure his own reputation and his country's liberties. This, however, can only be done by generosity to the con quered party, and by perseverance in a system of true though moderate Liberalism. Should the Marshal give himself up blindly to the guidance of the court and its French agent, Dierz should he summon back the detested and inquisitorial CABRAL, who turned Lisbon into what Venice was in the last century—should he repose his whole trust in courtiers and soldiers, and do nothing in the mean time for the country or its industrious classes, then SALDANIIA'S name will but go down with those of so many other Portuguese statesmen, who wasted in selfish indulgence and idle resentment that power, which might have been employed for the regeneration of their country. The following programme of the proceeding of the Chambers for Monday (this day), and on the suc ceeding days, which corresponds in substance with what we ourselves announced some days since, hu appeared in the French papers: To-day the session of the chambers will opened by a royal speech. This year there will be no provisional bu reaux. The session having simply been prorogued. the bureau of the two chambers remains the same so in August I ist. At the Chamber of Peers, therefore, to-morrow (Tuesday) preliminary steps for nominating the commission on the address will be taken, and as the drawing up of the form is rapidly executed by this commission, the debat es may commence before the end of the week. It is, there fore, before the Chamber of Peers that the first ministerial explanations will be given. At the Chamber of Deputies, the first day will be devoted to ballotting for the formation of the bureaux. The nomi nation for the commission on the address will take place on Wednesday. The chamber will then be occupied with examining the validity of some of the returns of deputies elected since the prorug ition. They are ten in number: MM. Bethmont, Gen. de Lemariciire, Marquis de Roure, Hennecart,Guerrin, and Portalis (the two latter replace MM. Genoux and Fortelle, deceased since the hat elections) t MM. Conyers. Draulc. and Hallez•Claparele, whose elections had been annulled by the Chamber. M. Trete submitted to reelec tion, owing to his having accepted office as a public tune tior ary. The election of M. Fortelle will probably be declared in valid, as he was not of age at the time of his election. The other nominations will scarcely give rise to a debate, but the Chamber will have to investigate the election of M. Drou illard, whose admis•ion was adjourned. The. college of Condom is convoked at the present moment owmg to the promotion of M. Jules Persil to the bench of judges. The college of Lectoure in the department du Oen will deo he shortly convoked. owing to M. Selyandy's having de pied for Wrens. This choice will be official only after ha, in- been announced to the Chamber. M. Berger has de ided for Paris, and General Thiard for Chilon-surthone. These were double returns, and the Colleges of Thiers and of Laudon will have to be convoked. The number of deputies present at Paris is estimated at 300. his not likely that the discussion on the address will com mence till the 26th at the Chamber of Deputies. It has been announced that the ministry intends present ing to the Chamber, at the commencement of this second part of the session, the budget of 1848, and the laws and re gulations of the grants of 1844 and 1846. The near approach of the great Parliamentary con flict sustains the system of reciprocal skirmishing between the outposts of the two parties in the press. Whether there be or not a schism in the ministry on the one hand, or in the opposition on the other, con tinues to be debated. Most English readers of foreign policies know that the division of the chamber to the Left of the Centre is led by M. Thiers, and is that section of the opposition whose principles differ least from the present Conservative cabinet. Further to the Left of that, and differing still more,is the division in which MM. Billault, Defame, and others are prominent. Between these sections government parties wish G. prove that there prevails at present view so discordant on some of the leading topics of the day, that they cannot co-operate. This, on the other hand, iv loudly end emphatically disavowed by the organs of the Centre-left, while those of the Left are more reserve d. In short, that there are differences of more or less weight both in the Ministerial party—nay, in the Cabinet itself—and in the Opposition, is certain ; hut whether these differences will prevail over the great personal interests which lIIILit induce to parliamentary co-operation is another question. A portion of the Cabinet disapproves of the precipitation , in the accomplishment of the Spanish marriages, or rather of the Montpensier marriage, for that of the Queen has in reality nothing to do with the question which produced the rupture with the cabinet of St. James's. While the Centre-left differs from the Left section in attaching greater importance, and in a wil lingness to make greater sacrifices for an alliance with England. All this is very apparent to any one who views with sufficient proximity the workings of party in Paris. The strong measure adopted by the Spanish cabinet in arresting M. Olozsga has excited a feeling so una nimously indignant in Patis that the organs of the cabinet themselves have been compelled to express their disapprobation of it The Madrid nail, with the correspondence and Y ~d iwt~ jeans'', of that-city, of on Friday. The Heeakt) stye . the 'comtnisaian appointed for the vaisiAcatiou of powers,' waa to present on the 2nd, all the reports on the election of deputies of 11m drat category', 'acid that tke debates would com mence on Sunday or Monday: The question of the le,ral retain of M. Olozese would he postponed, it was lOW tin titter the legal constitution of the chamber. The Clamor Pgablieft.states that M. Olozaga pealed through Eirauda de Duero (province of Burgos) ea the 30th inst., under a strong escort. NEWS FROM PORTUGAL. By the Achilles, Capt. Wilson, arrived at South ampton, we have lICWaI from Lisboa to tho 61. She brinss portion of the last India mail, brought by Mr. Waghorn. She had touched on her way at Lisbon, for the purpose of coaling. 'there is not much news of importance. Colonel Wylde had left Lisbon on the 2nd inst., to watch the movements of the Queen's troops. Saldanha had advanced to Coimbra, and was to enter that town, with the concurrence of the inha bitants, ou the sth. It was rumoured that Vinhaes had been attacked at Villa Beal by Baron Castro Taira, and defeated. From Oporto there were ru mours of an intended junction between the Septem brists and Nlignelites ; but they are not much to be relied upon. M•Donnell was said to be in that city. A good deal of sickness prevailed in the two divisions of the fleet wider Admiral Sir W. Parker. (From our men Correspondent.) Demon, Jan. 6. . . . Since T last wrote (by the Iberia) no military incidents of a character worth recording have exurred at the head quar ters of Saldanha. Colonel W)1(1.-, accompanied by Count Ilemedortf, left the capital on the 2nd of this month, in order to observe the Que en's forces no their present march : up to yesterday afternoon no intelligence had reached Lisbon from him ; bin it is probable loefore I close my despatch that I may olestai some information of a precise cha racter respecting the military movements on this aide of the Douro, in which caw I will append it to this letter. It may, however, he advisable to observe that, in the opinion attune then one well Menai( d witnes- (and I here speak of pencils who are p 'lrony competent to offer a judgment at the present state of adore in Portugal), the settlement of the question clues not depend un the success of filaldantuie riper ohms, although it would be greatly intlueuced by the triumph of the S iitemberists.— The p Licy pursue,' by true British minister in re-pert to this partieular n o. emeut, is, I think, tolera-aly clear. Not so that of the two other power* intereot.3l, unless, indeed, the secret aent,yopen arguments, and avowed wishes of their agents and representatives at thin court may guide the judg ment, in which ease it easy bo ergu- cl that the cow, d'etat of Oct. 6:h has the entire approlaition of France acid Spain. The most important subj. cc, however, for the consideration of our s lee public men (and in this term I include the finan cial and ounnuentiel, as well a. the political world) is, whether the teedeuey ea Lord Palmersten lo policy is to give greater stability to the iustitutons of Portugal, as guranteed by the charter, than they would derive from his counte naming the government of Lisoon in the vagartes which have recently been displayed by its decrees and other acts. It is nut withia my province to olf-r any opinion upon this point ; alt I aim at is, to collect Gem, and to place them in tee best Lehi I am enabe-1 toe do; for (mete alone, andnotsup positions, must constitute the grounds fir ultimate decision. The facto which I have already, iu my previous corn 111111DICaliU12.' laid before )ou, briefly summed up, amount to this: Lord Palmerston, strongly aympathiainr with Donna Maria in the ate males, position in which her advisers have Owed her, namely, of being a constitutional Queen, with a di spot is mini. ry, no:noted tho British repre senta:ive at this place to afford to her Majesty every guaran tee and sosistauce in his power toward,: maintaining her dignity and her rights unimpeired, but at the same time strictly ei joined the mist entire abstinence on the put of the British ligtl.ta fr.lll any roterference with the internal dissentious ut Portugal. The while questien of interven Lion resolved itsdf into that of the Queen's personal safety, and her freedom hum all restraint or coercion on the part of the Septembrists, in cams they had triumphed. I seed not renal to mind the loud and reiterated asser tions of many, who, in November lest, boldly main tained that, intervention being required for the purpose of preveutieg Donna Maria from being "hustled off the throne," it was bout insauediote.y to take place in the shape of two or three battalions of marines being landed from Sir W. Parker's fleet. 'hat such a step would have been equally grata> ing to the court and momentarily conclusive ,f the mooned so ugele, .t needs no lengthened argument to prove. But it was not to be, and tne prudence and caution displayed hy our government wet e ao unpalatable to all the adherente of the court, as to occasion those m anifestations of dislike,.spieion, mid even of rupture, whirls were elaborately exposed in my comrnuoicationsof Nov. 30—and subsequently. Since then it has been seen by the court party, that a grave blunder wan committed by them, in having ventured to mix up Ole. Southern and Sir W. Parker in the wretchedly framed and abortive accusations brought against the exiled Duke of Pahnella; and some efferts toward, effecting a restoration to the former cordial relations have been made, the most notable of which was a dinner given by her Ma- Pasty, at the palace, to these two gentlemen and to the cap tains of the fleet, on New year's Eve, the incidents at which, under the melanceoly influence of the recent sanguinity battle, must have somewhat resembled the wedding -tenet in Hamlet." The sup, however, was one taken in a right direction, insomuch as it tends to show that the court party is not obstinately determined to shut the door upon convic tion, and to rely for support in its ab.ulutst tendencies solely upon the other power., w tivieg the benefits which Lord Palmerston's more moderated zeal and assistance may ulti mately afford it The deductions, therefore, which suggest themeelves, from a couxidera-ion of these unquestionable facts, seem to me to be, that, finding from the roane already punned by our ministers during the recent sharp crisis, there existed an insuperable indispisition to middle in a pacer struggle, and moreover that there likewise existed a perfectly unmistak able, thou oh tacit and den want, disapprobation of the whole galley of the government since the 6th of October, Donna Marie's athi -Ts are pnpared, to a very considerable degree, to retrace their it , ps, and, as soon as they can with any show of decency towards her Majesty, and consistency with the respect that is due to the nivel attributes, take a retro rade stride, to n.ake such eoncession. to those who have been driven into the commiesion of acts of open hostility towards the troops of their severeign, as may hilly meet the exigencies of the Cone. Its what manner this most desirable object is best to be attained, it is for far wiser and higher heads than mine to devise. Much has recently been said here about a contem plated junction between the Septemhri.ts and the Mi gfatlites; the basin of such an arrangement being that, whilst the latter give up their chief, the form, r will Mascot to merge the sovereignty of Donna Maria into that of Don Pedro V., and the establielesent of a regency. If my judgment serves me rightly, and if my reason is not warped by any undue tendencies, they both load me to the convic tion that this.rould be alike the most contemptible and the most dishonest mode of palliating toe existing difficulties that could possibly be resorted to, and moreover that it would be equally abortive and ruinous to the dynasty and to the public men here who shall have sanctioned it, rendering the latter odious in the eyes of every sound politician in Europe. I have been betrayed into the expression of an opinion re specting a subject on which it may seem to be wasted, an the alleged compromise may not seem be contemplated; the information, however,which has reasehedme from Oporto, induces me to believe that what I here state has formed the topic of conversation, to say the tenet, in the political circles there, and that to Jose Pm-os and others of the Junta is ascribed such a scheme; some ingenious persons adding, by way of illustration, that Sada Nogueria has actually gone to England, to negotiate for supplies of arms, etc., whilst his brother, Pia dm Bandeira, has utterly ignored the whole affair, and has retired from active co-ope ration with the junta in consequence. This despatch of Casal, with the account of the affair of Braga, is contained in the Dhgrio of the 4th, and it states, amongst other particulars. that the Miguelites had 240 men killed, and the Queen's troops only 36 killed and wounded. It is asserted that Macdonnell was seen at Oporto publicly walking the streets on the 31st ult. I am enured however, that the person taken fir him was Guedes. one of his aides. It is currently rumoured here that the Viscount Vinhaes, who has a small command under Canal, was attacked at Villa Real, in the Tres oe felonies, by the Baron Castro Dian, and defeated. These, however. are only reports and not to be implicitly trusted. On similar authority it is asserted that Dos Antis his left Coimbra for Oporto. His object is amerted to be that he may hold a conver sation with the Junta. The same authority (if it deserves this title) adds that the Septembriat troops have left Coimbra, and are now on their march to the north. In the absence of any intelligence from the British commissioner, Colonel Wylde, I abstain from giving any importance to these re ports. The only certainty which has been attained is, that Saldanha was at Leiria when the last accounts were received from him. General Mesquite was moving in the same direction with the Marshal in a parallel line, the former taking the new sod the latter the old road. The operations carried on to the south of tne Tagus, under We direction of Schwalbeck, are limited to keeping St. Übee, Palmella, Allasar do Sal, and the adjacent country clear nom Guerillas. Count Bomtin, General C. lestino, and several of the prin cipal reasoner* captured at TOMS Vtdras, have been re moved from their filet place of confinement, on board the Diana, to the Rainbow frigate, stationed off Belem. The reason for this removal is said to have been the dimentiona created amongst the different officers and prison, is, as to the causes which led to their defeat, and the reproaches and menaces uttered by them towards the general in command at Torres Vedres. It has fermed a suliject for comment, and even blame, on the victor in that affair that he permitted the regulars who surrendered. to march out of the fort in which they were captured,with all their baggage, and with colors flying and drums beating. The wounded have all been brought to Lisbon, and about 140 of them are now in the Marine Hospital. On Sunday last the Queer, went thither and visited the wards, offering a few words of condolence to the soldiery as her Majesty passed their couches. There exists. I am worry to my, a good deal of sickness in sue or two ships of Sir W. Parker's squadron. The came , however, hove not as yet proved of a very serious descrip tion. Erysipelas, accompanied with a lowfeser, it the form which tho malady takes. Preparations have been made to land the oink men at I3elem, where an hospital is ready •A Airs 4.11 1 .11*«41A,R05"igt14.1*1411.1,443,:' • . iy:%;11 , I . • • i,‘„, : 'sit: /fst their reception. It has not escaped attention b;re, that sb,4o . very first opportunity which o ff ered it ac lf to Lord Palmerston of publicly testifying his 'ppm 'lation of the more punned by Sir William Parker during Ole recent awl existing political crises, has been seized by his lon.'ship, hy conferring upon the Admiral the highly honourable .:nd lucrative post of principal naval aide-de camp to her Ma sty Queen Victoria. A fact such as this is must carry conviction with it, and it corroborates the views which were exposed in my last communication of Dec. 31, respecting the rumoured changes here. I enclose in this packet the two last numbers of the anonymously circulated journal of the Septembrists, the Spectre of Dec. 30 and Jan. 2. The contents, in point of in telligence, are unimportant, but they serve at least to evince that the spirit which animates their writers is unbroken. I have said little or nothing respecting the financial proceedings of the ft , 4overnment here, in so fur as the payment of the dividends in London is concerned. The persons interested in this matter, who are on the spot, will be far better informed on the subject than I can pretend to be, but it may not be generally known that the mode of providing for the payment if it should be made, is asierted to be the sale or depositing on pledge of a number of bonds which were issued for a very different purpose, and which are thus disposed of in order to create a fictitious and tem porary credit. In the Diario of the 4th inst., the quotations of stocks, exchanges, and prices of metal, state the discount on the bank of Portugal notes to be about 21 per cent. 114. 10 A.M. P.S.—A report is very current here, that Evora bas de clared for the Queen. I have referred it to more than one competently-informed authority, and am assured that it is unfounded; but, as come assumptions may be built upon it, I think it right to mention it. Another statement has reached me, which I do believe, as it accords with what I have already written above—namely, that Saldanha was to enter Coimbra yesterday, the sth ; a deputation from the inhabitiutta having bcenrent to his head quarters, stating their wish to receive him. FRANCE.—BREAD RlOTS.—Serious disturbances have taken place in the department de la Vienne, owing to the high price of corn. Same of the national g uard, who endeavoured to prevent a pillage of the market, were dis armed, and the gendarmerie is said to have been driven back by the victorious rabble and obliged to shut themselves up in their barracks. It was at Lenc near Chatellerault, that these disturbances took place. THE IcCARCITv OF FOOD IN FRANCE.—The Man chester Rrominer publishes the following extract of a letlei: from Mr. Cobden, M.P., dated Marseilles, Dec. 29, 1846: " I Sod an immense movement in earn here. The port is crowded with ships. Upwards of 1,200,000 quai rs of wheat have been imported, and nearly all of it is gone into the interior, chiefly in the direction of Lyons, by cuts. The roads are so cut up by the traffic, that they resemble rivers of mud. The French government has suspended the naviga tion lawn and corn is brought in free of duty, by ships of all nation*, from any ports ; a large pi Rion of it is imported here from the Black Sea, in Greek ships. I hear there is still a vast supply in Southern Bosnia—that the Russian harvest is mast abundant. ACCIDENT ON THE NORTHERN RtILWAY.—An accident took place on Wednesday, on the Northern Rail way. The following note was issued by the company to the Courrier du Nord: " This morning, ...an. 6, at a quarter past four, the passengers trails coming from Paris ran into a luggage train which preceded it, near Somain, and greatly damaged three lugg.ice v ins which were left on the rails. No one was hurt. AU the signals were lighted at the time of the accident, which can only be attribute,' to the negli gence of the engine-driver. He was immediately dismissed." The Courrier du Nord adds " The reports which circulat d to-day at Valenciennes, stove to this accident all the horrible proportions of the catastrophe of Fampoux. The pre ceding note, and which we have reason to suppose exact, will, we hope calm all anxiety on the subject. The private information we have received on the subject agrees substantially with that given by the company, and adds only that some of the passengers received a few slight contusions. A few days since, two or three trains on the Northern railway having pasted the lodge of the guard, near Slangy, without perceiving signals, the door was knocked at, and, no reply being given, was forced open. The guard, with his wife and son, were found dead. They had lit a fire of coke before going to bed, and their s!cepinc-room being hermetically closed, they were overcome in their sleep by the fumes of the charcoal." The news given in La Presse of a schism in the centre-left party is confirmed. MM. Bhlault and Duaaure and others have separated frem M. Thiers, not merely with regard to Spanish marriage, but on several other points of foreign and domestic policy.—Journal de la Ilaye, Jan. 8. BELGIUM.—The arrival of the Daily News, the other day, with exclusive Indian intelligence, created no slight stir amongst the English residents in Brussels, many of whom attach peculiar interest to East Indian news, on account of haring resided in India or of having relations in that quarter. The Belgian journals also attach particular importance to the event, inasmuch as it holds out a further hope that the Indian mail wilt finally pass through this country. The Belgians generally most heartily wish success to Mr. Waghorn. and their sentiments are shared by the numerous English residents in this country.— Brussels Herald, JIM. 9. Mr. Barry, the architect, has been elected an asso date of the Royal Academy of Belgium. It is calculatxd that the recent appeal of the Bishop of Ghent, in favour of the poor of his diocese will produce the sum of 100,000 fr. During the month of acember last forty vessels (6,688 tons) entered the port of Ostend. Twenty-two of the number were English. Steamers and fishing-boats are not included in the above forty. During the year 1846, 729 vessels (including 462 English) entered Ostend. ANTWERP. - The Commercial and Industrial Association of Antwerp has taken steps for providing the poor with bread at 10c. below the normal price. Baron de Rothschild, in addition to the 1,000 francs contributed by him towards the relief of the general poor of Brussels, has forwarded an equal sum for the benefit of poor Jews. The Nuremberg Correspondent asserts that King Leopold has at last accepted the post of mediator between France and Eng land. At the last meeting of the ironmuters of this country it was resolved not to raise the price of raw iron. The pay ment of the indemnities for the losses incurred by pillage, &c., during the Belgian revolution, will commence on the Ist of next month. ITALY.—Rome..—THE NEW CARDINAL/L-11M Holiness Pope Pius IX. held, on the 21st ult., a secret consistory, in which, after a brief allocution, he created and proclaimed cardinals of the holy Roman Church Mgr. Gaetan Baluffi, Archbishop of Imola, born at Ancona on the 29th March, 1;8.8, of the order of priests and of the order of deacons; Mgr. Peter Marini, governor of Rome, vice-cham berlain and director-general of the police, born at Rome on the bth October, 1794. His Holiness also created and reserved in petto two other cardinal.. His Eminence Cardinal Acton, instead of the title of Santa Maria della Pace, received that of Saint Marc. In a postscript, dated December 25, we read that the following prelates are sent to the leg tions :—Ancona, Mgr. Rusconi ; Pennies, Mgr. Consolini ; Asooli, Mgr. Diehl ; Rieti, Mgr. Badia. The ca-delegates of Perouza, M,^r. Belgrsdo and Mgr. Serapini, will be clerk of the chamber and votants of the signature. Three new domestic prelates are named Mgr. Sbaretti, who was tin years Vicar-General of Imola when the Pope was bishop there. Second, Mgr. Rufini, an advocate, and not in any religious order, and Mgr. Bruni, ex-lieutenant of the government. On the 24th, Cardinal Pietro Marini received the hat and took the usual oath. The Bishop of Imola, Cardinal Baluffi, had not yet come to Rome to receive the hat. He was Bishop of Bagnorea, Extraordi nary Legate to New Grenada, Archbishop of Camerino, Secretary of the Congregation of Bishops and regulars, and finally Bishop of Imola. PERIODICAL LITERATURE.— A correspondent of the Atheneruns communicates some interesting statistics of the press of Italy "A Turin paper," he says,' entitled /1 Mon& Illuatroto, enumerates the journals published in each state of Italy in the years 1836 and 184-5, together with the population; thus showing the advance which this branch of literature has made within the last nine years, and the pro portion of the population for each journal. The table is as follows: Popular.* tea Ms to etch intusal. Province of Lombardy 2l 30 65,000 Prawns* M Vents* Sardinia IS 90 143,000 =of 11.6=sm Lama ll IS 74,000 14 BO,OOO The Fope p Tgaselsims Kingdom of the Two Similso 62 61 122,000 • 171 105 702,000 Taking this table as beta; mane indication of the degree of mental progress in Italy, it will appear that the Pope's States have made a Foster advance than any other portion of the peninsula, whilst the Venerim States have made a retro re movement—the first part of this statement being, per haps, almost contrary to e - rpectation. But then we must not forget that the Pope's S' rtes embrace Bologna—almost the most enlightened and in alependeut-spirited portion of Italy. The Lombard province,, though they have made but • slight progress within the lret nine years, are supplied with jour nal. better, it seems, in relation to the population, than any other portion of Italy ; and, indeed, any oae coming from the south, and rem raining some little time at Milan, will perceive that he among,: • people wider awake, and more under the i rivigorating influences of northern civili sation. The wr art supplied are the Sardinian States— then the Venet , en—thi n the Neapolitan. Now, the first and last of t* awe are completely under the dominion of the lesnits 1. and so severe is the censure of the pre, t kingdom of the Two Sicilia, that it is diffi cult to get c anything sanctionrel for printing or publication. What wonder is it, then, that • literary famine should be the consareenee ? Besides those above mentioned, seventeen journals I,D the Italian language were published in 1836 in Luganc., Magliari, Paris, Itiveredo, Trieste, and Zara ; whilst, in 1845, others were published in Malta-Fiume, Con stant inople, Corfu, and Montevideo. Having thus disposed of Italy, the writer in It .Hondo' /1/ustrato proceeds to give • statement of similar particulars with respect to the other states of Europe, and thus silently institutes a comparison between them and the Peninsula. Thu, s adopting the same arrangement u in the other table, he gives the number of ; j ournals in the first column, and the relative popalation for each journal in the second : Aunt,* including the Lassbartio.renerlitoJournals. Population. Kingdom German Conledenitiem Amtrian and Petu nias DepeolsuMsa ischnled Mums 1114 Belgium Great Main Russia Numerically considered, then, France, Belgium, at 47 tlie German are better supplied than Great Britain withpettloAlal9 whilst Russia and the Austrian provinces are the worst supplied. This is, however, no proof that periodical literature is lees diffused in this country than in the others, with which it is comp►red above. B,.me of the forsian journals have but a very limited eireul ition ; fur in stance, a pirtieular journal at B 'Logue has only 500 subscribers —and it is cited as a proof of the encouragement of periodi cal literature. Yet a political journal in London has its 20,000 purchasers and upwards, and readers it is impoisible to say how many. THE NETHERLANDS.—Tire HAGUE, JAN. 7. —State of the Dutch Navy on the lot of January, 1817 :- 2 ships of the line of 84 guns: b of 71, of wisich 3 are ing; '2 of 60 : 1 of 54; 11 of 44; 2 of 38, building; 3 of 32 ; 9 of 28 ; 4 of 20, of which 2 are building ; 2 of 22 ; 2 of 20 ; 11 of 18, of which 1 is building; 1 of 16 ; 11 of 14 ; 7 of 12, of which 4 are building ; 2 of 8 ; 5 of 6. sof 5 ; 4 of 4 ; and 3 af 3 guns: in all 92 reseals, with 2,356 guns of differ. cot calibres, besides these are 10 steamboats carrying 61 guns; 2 iron steamboats. and 1 building; 5 transports; 10 gunboats; and 1 bomh vessel._ . . . ROTTERDAM, JAN. 6.—The thaw which has set in for two days begins to give some animation to our commerce and navigation, and though the Mame is still full of X mating ice, three ships and a schooner les re seen to work their way through it to the Bridle channel, in order to take to E 'g land their cargoes atlas, linseed, and various kinds of grain. Minn:EDAM, JAN. B.—The direct English mail had not arrived when we went to press ; however we have re ceived, by way of Belgium, letters (rem L indott of laid Wednesday evening. GERNIANY.—BERLIN, JAN. I.—Letters from Vienna say that at this moment there is agmin a great deal Of business doing in the Eva. Chancery. To this news we may add that here also there has been for some days an extraordi nary diplomatic activity, and yeaerdrty Mr. Webster, the cabinet messenger, arrired from London, and Baron Burners, from Vienna, with despatches. VIENNA.—A letter from Vienna, of Dec. 31, states that the embanaador from Sweden to the Austria,, court has delivered there a protest against the incorporation of Cracow. —Journal des I)4ass. lIARBCRO, J. 2.—The railway from Zelle to this place is near its complvtion. J. s.—The last Paris mail of the Ist of this month h., not yet arrived. The London mail of the cons date was likesnse due when we went to press. I.lmer an, Dec. 30.—The Northern railway, which was to be continued to Buthnitz, will now, in conse quence of a resolution which has been adopted air co the late events in the political world, be continued to Cra ow, in order to indemnify that city for the lom of its lihorty, by a dlre et communication with the heart of the maim trek y. ZELLF, Dec. 23. The desire of emigr.dion, which is so general in Germany, has also exterdert it, in fluence in some provinces of our kingdom. Curevans from the vicinity of Hildesheim and Pine, with emigrant., have gone to Bremen to cross the ma, in seers* of a new country. COLONIAL. CAPE OF GOOD HOPE. The following is extracted from Cape papeis, the receipt of which we announced yesterday The dates are: Cape Town to Nov. 10 ; Graham's Intro to Oct. 31:— On Mm dt) the 19th of October, o ,el Johost am had an interview at Block's Drift, with Maromo oral so • other chiefs, who professed • desire to lay down their a -an, and restore such cattle stolen from the eoliely aohad not de& The chief. endeavoured to enrage Colonel Johnstone in a discussion, which he wisely declined, fixing Weilnewlay m xt as the last day on which the guns and cattle would lw re ceived. Mr. Calderwood, missionary, who was present at the interview, had a long confidential conven i• ion with ?denim° after Colonel Johnstone left, the result of which wax, that Mr. Calderwood applied for • prolongation of the term to Thursday. This was granted. On Friday Itlaeomo and his confederates again assembled at Block's 'Drift, where they were I refuse of pro fusions of contritinn, sod stated that " they had resumed their lands, were cultivating the soil, and placed theraselee in the bends of the governor to await his decision." On Saturday, 24th October, Macomo sent in eighty horse. to Fort Beaufort. All were in good condition, many of them were recognised by their proprietors. On the other baud, some sheep were carried off by Kaffir' from Leowefontein on Wednesday the 28th of October ; and on the same day 210 merino sheep were stolen from Botha's-hill. Various other acts of Impression ate reported, along wPh the further disastrous intelligence that dysentery, the result of privations in the stormy season, had shown itself at Outlaw's Town and in the vicinity. Illness had also been so prevalent among the troop. at the mouth of the Fish River, that Sir Peregrine Maitland had talked of removing t'.em to Fort Beaufort until a more favourable seuou. On Oct. 31, intelli genre reached Graham's Town that the governor had arrived at Block's Drift from Waterloo Bay, where lie had been encamped to decide on the terms asked by the chief.. From Tarka, intelligence reached Graham's Town on the 31st of October that the Tambookie chief Mapissa had been severely wounded in the leg by a musket-ball, and had sent in to offer unconditional submtaion on the part of him self and followers. The principal chief of the Tambookie, Umterara (or Urntekaka), had sent in 610 oxen for the acceptance of the governor, of which 300 had reached Tarka. They were received, not in the character of a present, as the thief wished, but aa an instalment of the stolen colonial cattle to be restored. A private letter of the 28th, from the neigh bourhood of Fort Beaufort, alluded to in tin. Sorel A triton Commercial Advertiser, represents the Keflin us much dia• pirited, in consequence of the operations of th' troops in the Amato's, hill country, which they had deemed inaccessible. Col. Johnstone, at the time of these, the latest despatches, was making arrangements for an attack, should the Kaffir chiefs refuse the terms offered by the governor. Mr. Di puty Commissary Palmer had already ...vote 1 in rendering the commissariat more efficient. By abandoning the system of impressing wagons, and offering the full current price (enormously high as it then was) for wagons, he had ob tained plenty of offers, and, by averting competition, had materially reduced the charge.. An intimation had been made by the civil commissioner of Albany to the municipality of Albany, that he had been in structed tocall a draft of 200 hurghen from the Albany division for field service, of whom 160 were to he supplied from Gra ham's Town. The municipality replied, that on holding a muster, the men liable to service in all their wards were found not to exceed 318. This number in exclusive of the "Yeomanry,' the "sporting club," and the " tirailleurs," all mounted c - rps, which hold themselves in readiness* to pro ceed to any part at a moment's warning. The Graham's Town Fineries (originally enrolled for the defence of the town), and the Graham's Town liottenten, are actually in the field. The municipality represent that, considering the amount of property in Graham's Town, 318 effective men are no more than is required for its protection ; arid that, considering the force already contributed for field ser vice by Graham's Town, that number may be allowed them. NATAL.—.. Private letters," says the South Tuve COW. menial Advertiser of Nov. 4," as well as the lo cal newspaper s at Natal, represent the cultivation ore-ono° a+ proceeding with great rapidity, and promising much success. It is also pro posed to try coffee and arrowroot, as the climate and soil appear to resemble those of some countries where those productions come to perfection. Cotton is already placed beyond a doubt." It is already placed beyond a doubt that cotton can grow there, but this was never doubted, nor is it the main ques tion. Can cotton be grown there to any extent, at such a cost as will render it mailable for our manufactures? gbe eourt. - - - The Queen and the Royal Family walked on Saturday morning in Claremont Park. if. R. H. Prince Albert, attended by some of the gentlemen of the royal suite, enjoyed the sport of shooting on Saturday forenoon. The Hon. and Rev, C. Leslie C,urtenay arrived on Saturday at Claremont, on a visit to her Majesty. Yesterday morning her Majesty and her Royal Consort enjoyed their usual early walk. The Royal Family walked out in the forenoon. The Queen and Prince Albert and the ladies and gentlemen of the court attended Divine service yesterday at Claremont. The Hon. and Rev. C. Leslie Courtenay US- Mr. Qaibler, from Montreal, had an interview with Earl Orey at the Colonial-office on Saturday. Mr. Perry had an interriew with the Right Hon. E. Strutt oa Saturday, at the office of the Commissinnen of Railways, in Great Georgestreet. Mr. Rowland Hill had also an inter view with the Right Hon. Gentleman on Saturday. Mr. W. Coulson had an interview with Sir G. Grey on Saturday at the Home-office. Mr. Uniack had an interview on Satur day with Hurl Grey at the Colonial-office. At the Chapel Royal, St. James's, yesterday, the prayers were read by the Rev. Mr. Helmore, and the lessons by the Rev. Mr. Haden. The sermon was preached by the Rev. Dr. Irwin. Mr. Cooper presided at the organ. The Marquis of Salisbury, the Bishop of Ely, the Countess of Charlemont, Lords Sandwich, Clive, Canterbury, and Dillon, were among the nobility present. Viscount Palmerston has left town for his scat, Broadlands, Hants. Sir J. Y. Buller, Bart., M.P., Lady and Miss Y. Buller, have left Purrance's Hotel for tradbourno Hall, near Derby. SUDDEN DEATH OF SIR E. EAST, BART.—We have to announce the sudden decease of Sir E. Hyde East, Bart., at his residence, Sherwood-lodge, Battersea, in his 83d year. Sir Edward was one of the memben of her Majesty's Privy Council, and Indian lIIISCSAOT. He went to town on Thursday, returned apparently ia hie usual health, and retired early to rest, aft,r partaking of a very hearty supper. It had been the deceased's invariable custom to throw open his chamber door at seven o'clock every morning, that the fi re might be lighted. At eight o'clock on Fnday morning the door was not open as usual, and the domestics, after knocking for some time and re ceiving no reply, became alarmed, forced the door, sad discovered Sir Edward lying in bed, dead and cold. He appeared to have eppired without a struggle. The neces sary information has been forwarded to Mr. Carter, the coroner for East Surrey. Sir E. East was extremely charitable, and his loss will be much felt by the poor of Battersea. THE QUEEN'S LerrEß.—Sir,—Permit me, through your journal, to inform the public that there still rear -Ins undispeneed more than 10,0001. of the fund raised under the authority of the Queen's Letter some year' ago, :ind handed over to the Manufacturers' Relief Committee, who used to meet in King William-street, City. Now, it may well be ' asked why is this money kept for years, and esponally at a time when misery and distress eaista in different parts of Great Britain ? De allow me to ask this committee if they have ever published an account of their receipis and expend'- , hare, and if so, where it can be had ? andoblige, AN luntlass. London, Jan. 8, 1847.