The Express. — London, England, 1851-10-25 00:00:00

Zitt tervregifs. TO CORRESPONDENTS. • POONA Mile of .72. raprow," emetalsiai 'be Ms* reelliKe Goarno." Y peleobod tom Turoisy awl friday olebt. to Uwe Yr pont &Awn t.. wootoalowiwt for .110 Lwow," Lowden Swam pow, war to at tee tlelloe, tq Beeverle.dnet, )7 Two &clock wo INGE WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. TAP. D —Mem ic Sm. ....... Aftesses, lioulaikow—Menung, 2, 445. AttallNS. ta. LONDON, S.ITURDAY, OCTOBER N. Nfssirow, rapid, extreme have been the changes of fortune experienced by the illustrious guest of the English nation, who landed on Thursday at Southampton. 1k has been alternately the leader, as the former, of a middle class opposition in his native country, and the sole wielder of that country's destinies—subject to the surveillance of a timid government bullied by his and their enemies, repelled from the shore of France by the unworthy chief of a free people, and welcomed in England by the spontaneous ae..laim of an enthusiastic people. His life has been an alternation of storms and sunny burst., such as are felt only by ardent and daring natures like his own—alternations caused or pro voked by his impu!sive nature- -alternations which have helped to develop in him that earnest and fervid oratory by which be raised, upheld, and swayed his countrymen. To men like Kosserit the most glorious bursts of light are sometimes reflected by the stormiest waves—their most rapturous emo tions spring out of the veriest depths of their agony. The welcome shouts of a free people breaking upon his ear amid the loneliness of exile, have awakened —we may not doubt it—by no means the least glad some throb his heart known. Fur liossurtt has a heart that can feel such homage. lie belongs no more to the class of those who sway reluctant nations by cold state-craft than he does to those .• things of sabre sway" who crush them by the sword. lie is one of those mighty im pulsive natures, quick to be moved by his sympathy with his fellow men, and gifted with a power to con vey by burning worts leis own powerful aspirations into the minds of others, and make them firr the time capable of like efforts with himself. He has nothing of the ItICIILLIt es or VAN Wens about him,—men whit have a greatness of their own ; he has nothing of the Wi.LLINGTON or Narot.eos,—men who also have their peculiar greatness; lie is more akin to the Athenian Orsersritsses, or our own first Ulan's.% 11( in II great elementary power—genial as he is strong. He may make miscalculations from which the cold, eau tioua implicit of the statesman would save him ; but 1w ian impart to a people contagious emotions that will nerve them to deeds of which no mere statesman could ever render than capable. Such natures only are earth!, of combining all ages and either sex for a great national struggle, inspiring them with the resolution to stand or fall with their country. This is the conception of linssirit whiehlis deeds had impressed upon Englishmen before they saw him. '1 hey have now seen and heard him, and re cognise in him a spirit akin to the great patriots of their own story; plain and unostentatious in appear ance and deportment; only putting forth his strength when occasion calls for it, and then with a seeming . .- unconiwiousness of effort that reveals how great i t is. Kossum surprised liis audience with the mastery he evinced over their native tongue, but more by :he identity of his sentiments with those they are accus tomed to cherish. The secret of this is that Kossurff is a true man, and that consequently every true man, be his race nr nation what it may, finds the best aspirations ul his own nature reflected in KOSiriff. Kosst in is not a radical, or a doctrinaire, but a free man, sympathising with every manifestation of popu lar indeissulcine. hiving bed that which, by the length of its exintence. has apprusell its healthy and vigorous character. 1k cid( red at once instinctively into the feelings of Englishmen. and talked to them of municipal government, the Inuit-fat effects of eentralination, the true grandeur of a mo narchy which, based upon the household virtuen of a self-aiding people, partakes in a large measure of their hearty homeliness, just as they would them selves have talked had they bean endowed with his ondorieal gifts. 111 and the English found throes Ives at ones , on the vary footing of old and familiar friends. In many respects the demonstration nt Kossuries landing resembled others that we have witnessed— the welcomes given in our great manufacturing towns to Mhos LEI. and other orators and political leaden. in the full flush of their popularity. His being a foreigner made no difference : now as when IltomwEet. interfered in Iwhalf of the Piedmontese, Englishmen feel that the cause of liberty in every land is their own cause. What was peculiar in the triumphal entry of KOSSI . TII into England was, its !wire; a tribute to defeated greatness. It was no bending of the knee before success and pnwperity. It was a declaration that the people of England look to the motives of a man, to the mine he embrace*. and to the powers he develops in annerting it, not to his good or bad for tune. It was the unequivocal worship of virtue for its own sake. It au./ no weak or womanish condole ment, but a manly exprension of symputhy with one who it was felt had, even in dyke and exile, re sources, in his own ntrong mind, and in the recollec tion of great deeds worthily achieved, to Isar him up above despondency. It was alike honourable to the givers and the reedier. It was an unconscious ex pression of faith in the etentity of human virtue and Iseedum, of an ineradicable belief that any reverses buffered by eitlacr can only be temperary. Inv aggregate population of the Australian colo nies in is 3:18,0tX1, or considerably short of half-a-million. It may, therefore, appear to such poisons as dislike to have dism„,mvable topics pres_•etl upon their attention. that, whim speaking• us we of late have rep...m.4ly baind it necessary to do, of the tendency of the policy pursued by government to create disaffection in Australia, we gave been attribut ing undue importance to there provinces. This, Louever, would be a sadly erroneous slew of the matter. . We apprehend no immediate movement in Aus tralia to separate the destinies of that country from those of the rest of the British empire. What we few is that the line of conduct obstinately persisted in by giwernment may infuse into the minds of these infant communities a dislike of British rule, and even of British connexion, that will only be rendered more inveterate by the consciousness of their present impotence to break loose from it ; that will consequently .• grow with their growth and strengthen with their strength;" and that will here after lead to an angry sepura.ion. We arc quite aware that when Australia becomes more populous it will be impossible to keep the iwople of that con tinent in a relation of subordination to the people of our own islands. The time will come when the re lations of all the Anglican communities scattered over the globe must assume either an international or a federal character. We believe that either may be rendered compatible with the power. prosperity, and prestige of our native land. pew-it/id nothing be done to rnrovisoste ir, linys 'wards f/se motber country in thr /writes VUr stah.s or 1110- einem But we du dread the prospect of a disruption of the illiperid connexion in anger. Now the time when Australia will be able, if im pelled to such a course by inclination and necessity, to stand alone, cannot be far distant. The increase in its population front the end of l8:19 to the begin ning of 1851 has been at the rate of 1:0; per cent. Its population has been more than doubled in the course of eleven years. The condition of the 1198,000 inhabitants of Australia may truly be called affluent. In 1418 the aggregate value of the imparts for the year exceeded two Millions and a half; the aggre gate value of the exports was greater than that of the imports by more than a quarter of a million. The imports averaged about 71. 1 Is. 0, per head of the population ; the exports about 8/. 11s. The scarcity of labour ensures high remuneration to all who are moderately industrious, and consequently enupetenee —the enjoyment of more than the mere neces saries of life—is equally diffused through society. Commanities in such a condition could not fail under any eireumstaneesp go rapidly ahead. The disco- Toy of gold at diflerent places in the mountain rangt s which extend from Hunter's River to Spencer's Gulf -trout the frontier of the Moreton Bay district to the centre of South Australia. mint of nceessitv give an accelerated impetus to the progress of the colonies. The population of Auitmli.t will amount to a million before smother decade has expired. The time is rapidly approaching when even those who are only care ful to abstain from offending the strong will admit the importance of dealing justly with the Australians. It is still in the power of the British government to reclaim the affections of the Australian colonists, which it would be as unwise as it is impos sible to conceal from ourselves have to en alarming extent been alienated from the mother country. To accomplish this, it is only necessary to exercise the imperial authority judiciously, discnminately, and with due respect to the public opinion and sentiment of the settlements. By acting thus, they may make of the future Australia a people linked to this country by the tics of blood and affection—lnfinitely stronger than any mere political ties—and of the present, a harbour of refuge for such of our enter prising spirits as find it difficult to get on in the overcrowded mother country. An opportunity of convincing the Australians that the prosperity of their country is the real and sole aim of the imperial government now offers. The discovery of a rich good deposit calls for regulations to ensure its excavation in the way most conducive to the general interest. The regulations promul gated by the governor can only be considered as interim or provisional. They are, we are free to admit, as moderate and judicious as could be ex pected in his ignorance of the course the home government may be disposed to adopt. Still, how ever, they appear to us to require modifications — such modifications as can only be effected with the sanction of the imperial authorities. The essential features of the interim regulations arc as follows: No person is to be allowed to dig, search for, or remove gold from any land, public or private, unless he has taken out and paid for a license. Licenses to search for and remove gold from lands alienated by the crown in fee simplie will only be granted t the proprietors or persons holding their written consent. The license fee has been fixed for the present at 11, lOs. per month, sub ject to future adjustment. I'arties applying for li censes must be able to prove to the satisfaction of the commissioner that they are not improperly absent from hired service. The last condition is in the pre sent state of the colony highly proper in a theore tical point of view ; whether it will be found possi ble to enforce it, may admit of a doubt. But the three preceding are the essential regulations. The idea of exacting a license fee from proprie tors searching for gold on their own lands originates in the determination of ministers to assert for the crown a royalty over all mines or deposits of pre cious metals in Australia as in England. W. much doubt whether the colonists will sub mit to the introduction of this rag of feu dalism into their country. The results of the attempt to enforce it in South Australia (and to extend it to all kinds of minerals) are not very encouraging. The distinction, too, made between private and public lands shows that Sir Ctt %Imes FITZROY and his official advisers are quite sensible of the difficulty. One thing is clear, that anything in the shape of a royalty must be strictly confined to the precious metals, and exacted and administered upon princi ples materially different from those that are recog nised here. Mining industry has made rapid pro grees in South Australia, where the right of proprie tors to open and work mines on their own lands has been conceded. In Now South Wales where the right in minerals has been reserved to the crown, even the working of its valuable coal deposits has been sensibly obstructed; and until the recent accidental discovery of the gold absolutely nothing had been done to develop its mi neral resources. We confess we see no reason why any distinction should be made between the precious metals and other minerals; but, if any is to be made, it must be not for the purpose of adding to the wealth and power of the crown, but fur the advantage of the whole community. The license fees will be consi dered, if the property of the crown, as a reserve fund which government nay dispose of without consulting the representative legislature. As such they will be viewed with jealousy, and the p ayment of them constantly evaded. the small miitary force and in considerable police of colonies whose population falls short of half a million will be powerless in the wide and scarcely-peopled regions over which the gold de posit is known to extend. lotions affecting the search for, and removal of to be efficacious must be such as the colonists themselves will sanction and enforce. If, therefore, license feces are to be exacted, the proceeds must be allowed to flow into the public treasury, and be placed at the disposal of the representative legisla ture, to be expended for the public advantage. Keep ing this principle in view it would appear that some such overture from the imperial government as the following would be likely to meet with acceptance in the Australian colouicu u First, to repeal all restrictions on the competence of the colonial legislatures to deal with the local finances; e. r., to allow them to discuss and fix (sub jeet to the approbation of the crown) the civil list and manage the land fund. Second, to call upon the colonial legislatures to reserve the land fund exclusively for colonising purposes, i. e., for promoting emigration, opening lines of communication with the yet unsettled districts, and similar objects. Third, in the event of license fern for working deposits of the precious me tals continuing to be exacted, to enact that they shall be held to be part of the land fund. The policy of exacting license fees for permission to work mince (or deposits) of the precious metals, is a question so wide as to require discussion in a sepa rate article. FRANCE. PARIS, FRIDAT EVISSING. The following composition of the cabinet is an nounced as destined to appear in the .31miteur , ; Interior, 31. Billault ; Justice, M. Casablanca , Fo reign Affairs, General Bourjollv; War, General St. Arnaud; Public Instruction, 31. Fortoul; Finance, M. Ilucos; l'ublic Works, 31. Bineau; Commerce, M. Targot ; Marine, M. .acrosse. NI. Arrighi de Padone is said to be appointed Prefect of the Seine, and 31. de Maupaa Prefect of l'olicc. In the meeting which took place last night of the legitimist party it was resolved unanimously to op pow an energetic and persevering resistance to the new policy of the President. For this purpose it was agreed that arrangements should be made 80 as **produce the adhesion of the other fractions of the oosjority to the same policy. It was determined that the demand for the total abrogation of the law of 31st May should be rejected with unanimity. The representatives of the democratic opposition held a meeting yesterday in a room of the Legisla tive Palace, which was presided by NI. V. Hugo. All agreed that their colleagues in the country ought to be urged to return to Parts before the re-opening of the Assembly. 31. Corti., judge of the Paris Court of Appeal, is cited to appear before the Court of Caseation on the sth November. It may be remarked that M. Carre was in the office of the Voir flu Proaerit when the police entered to search for papers connected with the French-German plot. The treaty of the company of the submarine tele graph has * been signed by the Minister of the In. tenor. M. de liatzfeld. the Prussian ambassador, is ex pected to arrive in Paris this evening. Numerous arrests continue to be made in the de partments of the ('her and Nievre. Several prefects are said to have sent in their re signations. The Cosistifutiumiel notices as follows the article of the /Winds on the subject of the candidateship of the Prince de Joinville fur the presidency of the re public: The article in the round des 141sats yesterday has been made the suhiect of much comment. V. e think that it has produced an etfe.et contrary to what was intended. The lh sats, doubtl, ssPIM to throw light on a fact, or rather on a cate of thin•; but it must permit us to say that it has only succeeded in rendering it more &ware. Thc article has givin rise to the most opposite interpretations. Accord ing to some, the of of it was to maintain and confirm the candidateship of the Prince de loinville, while others say that it is a di avowal and a withdrawal of it. The former say—Sisre the declaration, according to which the prime make known that he was at the disposal of France, is rou,wed, or rather maintained, the candidateship is th rehire maintained. The latter said—This declaration C.lllllot be in riously taken for a manifesto. A manifesto is something clear. Th. 11.*6rtts, moreover, speaks of an ere dna , candidateship. An es entitality is not a fact. The Ifaarts Lilacs adtuits that the candidate,hip of the Prince de Joinville would be of a nature to render the unity of the parliamentary majority mare difficult; that principally signifies that it would more the legitimists. Therefore, 11 THE EXPRESS, SATURDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 25, 1851. would a candidateship, the defect of which it is avowed would be to divide the conservative party in the Assembly, *mete nlly the same party at theeleetions t They temelude from all this that the article of the Debah had in object, if not to withdraw the eandidateshipi of the Prises de Joinville, at least to veil it. We are of this opinion. We will add that, according to the explana tion given by the Dtiben, the article was caused by Stock liachange reports, by the announcement of a manifesto which, it was said, would clearly bring forward the ean didateship of the Prince de Joinville. This report did not appear to be without some foundation. It is at least certain that the fervent Orleaniste thought the moment well chosen to take a new step in this canlidateship. The article of the DAats has interfered to oppose it, and, if it is not itself a step backwards, it has prevented the one in advance. However it may be, one thing astonishes and distresses all those who, without espousing the cause of a monarchy, or of an Orleanist eandidateship, have at heart the consideration of the royal house of Orleans ; it is, that it is wished to make a prince of that house play a part without daring to avow it ; and to have a cal.didateship of salvation for the country, and yet appear to conceal it, as if it were a bad action. Let them speak candidly ; the name of Orleans is a name which they might loudly declare. Under existing circumstances, serums political men ought not to speak in enigmas; they ought not to make use of words in order to avoid expressing their ideas. In the exhibition of the Royal Academy this year many of your readers may have observed a beautiful picture by Mr. K M. Ward, representing the royal family of` France in the prison of the Temple. At the feet of Marie Antoinette, who is mending the King's coat, and casting an anxious glance at her husband, while he slumbers uneasily on the prison couch, there is seated a girl, whose lair ringlets look no yet unsulled by powder. Ihe destiny of that young captive prim:, ss has just been completed. She died the other day at Frohsdorf, full of years and sor rows. Maria Theresa of France was thirteen years old when she entered the Temple to share the captivity of her father, her mother, her brother, and her aunt. She saw successively full around her all whom she loved: her father was guillotined on the 21st of January, 1793; her mother shared a like fate on the 16th of October; her aunt, Madame Elizabeth, on the 9th of May, 179-1; her brother expired in his prison on the Sib June, 1793. Left alone of this group of victims, the young princess was only restored to liberty in December 1795, when she was exchanged for the commissaries which Dumouriez had delivered up to the Austrians. Madame Royale, as she was called, went first to Vienna. In Mae, 1798, she re joined her uncle, afterwards Louis XVIII., at Mittau, where she married her cousin, the Duke d'Angoulkne, eldest son of the Count d'Artois, afterwards Charles X. The Duchess d'Angoukme followed all the vi cissitudes of her exiled tinnily on the continent, and afterwards in England, where she resided at Ilart well, in complete retirement, until the restoration. On the 4th May, 1814, she returned to Paris with Louis XVIII.; she was at Buideaux when the Emperor landed at Cannes. Forced again to quit the country, she returned to Eng land, and again came back to l'uris on the 28th Jule, 1813. Fifteen years after, in the same month of July, a new revolution again drove her into exile, where she finally expired, having at her side the heir of her royal lineage', her nephew, in whose favour her husband had abdicated his title to the throne of France. Like many other princesses who have suffered through popular revolutions the Duchess d'Angoulioie leaned towards absolutist principles of government. And the only important political fact connected with her demise la that she was one of the most influential of that party about the Count de Chambord whose suggestions may be yet pregnant with fresh disasters to the elder branch of the Bourbons. _ The legitimists go into mourning for six months for the death of the Duchesse d'Angouli•me as for a royal decease. The Fives closed to-day at 90.11, with a fall of 20e. The Threes also fell 20c., and closed at 5.16 a. Ihere was some talk at the Bourse about M. Billault being, after all, charged with the Ministry of the Interior. The illness of the Pope, reported be• a Turin paper, was also a matter of speculation. The prolongation of the ministerial interregnum is re garded as greatly prejudicial to commercial affairs, and the Bourse as beginning to be disturbed thereby. THE KAFFIR WAR. eeetnepond ent at the Cep says :—During the =11•10 , . 7 the troops in Kaffruia were out on three '.lbe first of these, which returned very early in the =oath, was intended to have been a combined one, under Col. Michel of the 6th, Capt. Tylden and Gen. Somerset, but failed in being so, for they each acted in dependently, end the result was that success fell only to the lot of one; while of the other two—one lost cattle to a very considerable amount, and in the other the amount of killed and wounded among our troops was greater than at any period since the first brush or two that ushered in the war. Col. Michel was fortunate enough to take about 1,600 cattle from the enemi, Tylden congratulated himself on haring lifted Inoue 300 cattle till he found out that the KOHN, taking advantage of his absence, whistled away no less than 1,000 head from his own people, thus leaving him with a less of 700. The loss that occurred in the division acting from Fort Hare (Somer set's), was in the 74th Regiment. This regiment behaved with great bravery, and never flinched, though under a heavy fire ; but being unused to such fighting their command ing officer, on approaching a body of K affirs, ordered his men to deploy in line and fire volleys into the bush, instead of skirmishing in small parties, which is the only way to meet this most wary of foes. The consequence of this manoeuvre was, that whenever the 74th fired a volley the Ruffin were safe under cover of stones and bushes, all ready to start up and fire into the large body of men that they could now attack in safety to themselves, and with the certainty of doing some execution. Some five or six of that fine regi ment were killed, and about seventeen wounded, with one officer. The next patrole went out under Colonel Michel, to the Fish River bush, to endeavour to clear it sufficiently of the marauding parties that infest it to admit of waggons and escorts passing safe between the colony and Katfraria. Those who infested this very dense bush are chiefly Hot tentots and Kaffin lately in employment in the colony, and , being acquainted with our habits, and to a certain extent ! skilled in the use of our weapons, they are a most dan gerous enemy, perhaps the most so among the many we have now about us, fur, in addition to this skill which we have taught them, they know the value of combining it I with the cunning and wariness that oelong to their race. In this patrole there was little or nothing done, fur the enemy is as expert as any Kaffir in getting under cover, and in general he fires as straight as we do. We lost three or four of the 6th Regiment, and took sixty cattle, with some women and children. While this patrole was out Col. Eyro 73rd ltegt., conducted another in the Buffalo Range, where he took 240 head of cattle, and inflicted on the Kaffir a loss of 12 killed, a few of whom were recognised as having belonged to the Cape Mounted Riflemen. Ano ther, and third patrole, was ordered to start on Tuesday, the . '9th of July, The orders were for every efficient man to leave King William's Town on the morning of that day, to provision Forts White and Cox, and then it is thought to work up the Amatolas in order to harass Sandilles people us much us possible. The only certain result brought about by all this mo notonous marching and countermarching °rpm/vies between King \ Town and different places in the enemy's coantry is, that both Englishman and Kaffir are heartily sick of this wearisome war. In as far as the com batants are concerned, they would hail with delight any measure that would end it ; and whatever appears to lead to this mu-h-longed-tor consummation is eagerly caught up and retailed Irons mouth to mouth, so that from this strong wish for a termination to hostilities may have arisen the hequeut reports that the war was on the eve of closing. The soulless generally dislike this war from the apparently Unsatisfactory results that attend almost every action they en in ; and they feel little disposed to he in good humour by thinking of the effects id the aggregate of a continued repetition of them on the Kaffir. They suffer a good deal from exposure when out ou patrole, and when they conic in, have only the ordinary commissariat tents to go to, that Use iusullicient to keep out either heat or cold. B esides, there is neither glory nor plunder to be got in a war with Xaitlrs, nothing they say but hard work. The Kaffir* again wish the war over—not that they have lost much cattle, ler those who have the beet means of knowing, say they have not lost so many us we have, but because their herds MU getting lean from over driving, in order to keep them out of the way of patroles. They begin to feel the incouvcri'mce of having no Kraals to go to • and besides, the season for ploughing and setting about the cultivation of their maize, millet, and water melons, is now coming on, and the Kaffir does not like to see the time pass away without doing so. Besides the, more general reasons fur knowing that the Kaffir is getting anxious to have the war concluded, there is strong ground for belxv lug that Sandilli has mediately been suing for peace. Wei know that Krell, the paramount chief of the Amakosa, has sent in to Sir Harry to know what he is to do with the disaGeted Hottentots that have entered his country, which looks very much like adopting our side of the question; and wily old Uniliala, the Illambie chief, and the shrewdest of them all, seeing that the wind is coming from another quarter, has already begun to trim to it, by reprobating his old friend Sandilli, and wondering why he and his people could out "sit still" under such a gentle sway as that of the English lnkola lakidah. It is said by persons from the cutup that the last few penults would have finished the war hut for two circumstances — *e first is the Hottentot rebellion, which demanded the presence of troops to act against them, and withdraws SO many from Kuttraria ; the next is the impossibility of get ting the native levies to remain any longer in the field. Every persuasion was used to induce them to remain a couple of months longer, but to no effect. They had fur the present got sick of soldiering, and only wanted to get home again, which was the more to be regretted as they had wily lately learned the use of the musket, and were becoming expert in their duties when out on patrole. When they first joined they were, of very little further use than just the show they made in the field. The quan tity of powder and shut they fired away was almost incre dible, amounting in one match of about ten miles to about . . . . 140,000 rounds ; and there is little doubt but that many of the wounds they got were their own doing, fur about ten of them were shot in the right hip, which it is evident was done by some of them near them letting their muskets go Mr when priming thou. When Sir Harry shall have gut the three regiments from Eugland, with the 12th Foot that the Bernice brings over from Mauritius, and who will most probably be all in the field by the Ist of August, he will out again require the as sistance of the lesies, but with the Puree he will hove, amounting to more th ou 4,000 men, will be able to show the Kattirs that he is in earnest with them. If we mean to sub ' due and subjugate the race of people that have again risen against Our rule, it will be necessary to do so by a severe lesson; for if we do not want to see them visa again in a year or so, we had better thrash them well now, that they may know what to expect in the event of another revolt. For this purpose Sir Henry will most likely set about driving the Gaikas out of the Antatulas, soil scud them over the Eye into Kreliis country, to do which he will have to form a camp mining the Amatulas, and thus make the strongholds of the Kuthr the centre of his operations. Atter this is done, and to show the Kaffirs that we are really in earuest, we will have to maintain our position by means of a very considerable force by retaining the troops at present in the country, instead of removing them immediately the fighting is over, fur if we mean to prostrate this people, and keep them so, there is only one way of doing so, and that is by force con tinually applied, and nut by an irregular application of it, which has hitherto been attended with the very worst consequences, seeing that out of this have sprung all our wars. The driving of these people out of their country will not, certainly, have the effect of making them leas troublesome, but, on the contrary, considerably more so, and the doing ito will entail the necessity of keeping a very large force fur many a day to come on our froutier if we mean to repress the inroads of a people that, from being cooped up in a country much too limited for the nature of their wants, will have g.'euter inducements than ever to rob and steal. Already they complain of not having sufficient grass for their cattle mu seasons of drought, when it becomes necessary to have some place to widish to drive them to keep them from perishing, and after they are driven out of their own country and back upon another, their cattle will only be worse off than ever when rain shall fail. Nor is it to be expected that with no grass for their cattle, and no milk, and but little Indian corn for their wives and children, who will then be the chief sufferers, the Kaffir will sit contentedly by and not help himself from the hoards of his neighlxiurs. This will lead to a war in which the Kaffir will out be the loser, seeing that his condition could not by any chance be made more wretched, and he would rather die fighting with hi, assegai in his hand than gradually pine away with his wives and children from hunger and wretchedness. Yet we cannot patch up a peace with the Kaffir at this moment, for what would be the con sequence? lie would go and secrete fur the pre sent his gun and hit amegais, and take to raising his corn and guiug on with his other agricultural pursuits as if nothing had ever happened, and then as soon as ever he had got his crops stowed away and out of our reach, and as soon as he had got his arms in order again, together with a decent supply of powder and bullets, he would be all ready fur another brush with us whenever we liked, or rather before we liked it. Of course the question as to whether our predominance in KulTraria is out bought at rather a high price, and it it is really worth au much, is quite another matter, and it becomes rather an important one when we reflect that our force will want increasing even . a:though we may not be ailsancing our boundary. For we see that every year the Kaffir is becoming more and more proticieut in the use of our weapons, and the close neigh bourhood of the European will be found not to have the same etKet of thiuning this people as it did the Hottentot and the North American, for the Kaffir goes on flourish ing and multiplying close by our side as fast as ever he did. Sur have we yet driven them very , far back into their country, every inch of which they I pear disposed to fight fur with a vigour . and tenacity of pur pose that shows them to be no easily destructible race : Every our praises the Kaffir for having true genu i ne pl uc k: and there is no doubt that he skirmishes to admiration, only wanting unless end combination to make first-rate troops. Nor is he criminal or depressed by th e v i c t or i es we , I have gained over him, 1111111 V of which he denies to us and lays claim to himself. ludividually the Kaffir scorns to fear us, and will coolly advance and fire at a body of our troops that ha well knows will return it with at least fifty shot, or, as happened during a late patrol, he will trot down at his usual pace in front of a whole company, and not fitly yards in eileance of them, altogether regardless of the shots that ore flying about his ears, and that even fail : to quicken his pact. It may he asked—are there no other menus of dealing wish this people than that of driving it t rzi ~ t o i r t t s h h w a n d il g tr re t s o sio l z kati.tchkeir upon handths: In re them out of their country, and thus increasing the chances otour i i ) in t rf o e tb rii i i s g past, and see how the Dutch deeded with the Kaffir before I and for years alter England had taken possession of this colony. It is commonly said that, had the Dutch had their own way In managing the tribes that hovered about their frontier, there is no doubt but that long before this all Kaffir wars would have ceased. Could not this commando or reprisal system be again had recourse to, but with this difference front the old ones, that it would have certain checks to prevent its evils. It would bo necessary for a plaintif f to state all the details of his leas, both as to its extent and the time of its committal before a court or quorum, say of three per sons, who, after examining the merits of the case and finding the statement correct, might order a com mando into that chief's territory, where there was good reason to believe the stolen property . was taken to. The court might be formed of three individuals: a soldier, a missionary chosen by the Kaflirs, and a colonist, who might be a magistrate. These courts might be established at the two or three chief military posts along the frontier, where a few soldiers would form an excellent nucleus fur the mounted burghers, who would be nothing loth to make a mid into the enemy's country. This system would be very far from expensive, and it woulo do away with the necessity of keeping large bodies of soldiers on the frontier; it would also unite justice with rigour, for, while the acting under the orders of an impartial court would be ample , ccurity for its justice, it would want none of the rigour that characterised the old commandos. This of course would involve the necessity of a strict defi nite boundary to be consented to both by Englishman and Katfir. One side to be purely Kaffir ' and one purely colo nial, without commissioners in tribes ever interfering and meddling between the chief and his people for the purpose of destroying the influence of the former and replacing it with that of an alien, but not unfrequently ending, as in the present war, by both chieftain and people ranging them selves in open hostilities against us. SPAIN. A telegraphic despatch received from Paris says : Arteta, Minister of Commerce at Madrid, was replaced by M. lteynoso, under date of the 21st instant. The Madrid Gazette of the 10th contains, in Latin and Spanish, the text of the concordat concluded be tween the Pope and the Queen of Spain. It enacts that certain acts may be done be the Queen alone, and that others niust require the co-operation of the Pope. The said Gaulle contains a royal decree, enacting that all contracts and notarial acts executed in France and in other foreign countries, shall he held valid by Spanish tribunals, if in accordance with the following conditions: 1. That the affair or subject of the act or contract be licit, and permitted by the Spanish laws. 2. That the con tracting parties shall be legally qualified to bind themselves by the laws of their countries. 3. That all formalities required by the laws of the countries in which the said acts shall have been passed shall have been fulfilled. 4. That when mortgages shall be given on real property in Spain, en inset iption shall be made in the offices of the locality in which the property is situated, within three months, if the contracts have been entered into in Europe, nine months if in America or Africa, and twelve mouths if in Afoul. 5. That the countries in which the acts and contracts have been passed shall recognise the validity of the acts and contracts I drawn up in the Spanish states. ITALY. A letter from Turin announces that the Popo is seriously ill, and that prayers arc publicly put up for his recovery. Another letter from Turin mentions a report current there in the ministerial circles that the British and French governments have instructed their representatives at the court of Tuscany to declare that England and France witness with aissatisfation the establishment of relations between the Tuscan government and that of Austria, which, if continued, will be destructive of the independence of Tuscany. TURIN 0ct.21 Tho resignation of M. Pietro Gioia hating been accepted, NI. Carlo Farina, member of the superior board of health, is gazetted as Minister of Public Instruction in his place. RUSSIA. Our Berlin correspondent writes as follows: BERLIN, OCT. 23. These is a report of a conspiracy against the im perial government at St. Petersburg, mentioned in the second edition of the Cotoync Gaulte, which, if true, is very important. I translate rerlkutim the I communication I allude to. " Rumours are in cir culation of a newly discovered conspiracy among the nobility at St. Petersburg, and of the arrest of several considerable persons standing very near the throne. The discovery, it is said, was made by officers of the body guard of the Emperor, whom the con spirators endeavoured to bring over to their party, but who revealed the whole matter to the Emperor. Further details are not known. The St. Petersburg journals make no allusion whatever to the affair. But it is not to be expected that in ltussia such events should be publicly announced till three or four months after their occurrence." ALGERIA. The last accounts from Algeria call attention to a fact which is considered of great importance to the French :—An assemblage of Arabs was formed in the environs of Ouarglahunderthe orders of a cherill; and menaced the southern tribes. General de Salles, commander of the province, at the latter end of Sep. tember ordered 400 horsemen of the goums of Cheik el Arab to proceed to Tuggurth, which the insur gents were expected to attack. Although the dis tance was 200 leagues the march was effected in eight days. The goums found the insurgents at tacking tuggurth. They immediately assailed the enemy, and, after a combat, which lasted two hours, completely routed them, with a loss of d 0 Only two men of the gowns were slain. No Frtnch troops took part in the engagement. NAVAL NTM EN T.—ADM IRA LT T. OCT. 24. E. Deeley, to Ilirtenh,ad. LATEST FOREIGN EXCHANGES. oaf Meraint. PARIS, Oen N. IMuno, . owning I ILIghoW i Lowest Clsing. 3 per Cents. . 35 42 r SI II 113 3.5 35 sn 55 65 5 per Cents. I le OS SO ni 90 SO 10 20 20 35 4 per Cents... ...... - ... .- ... ... ... 46 do. Nees Ur .. .. ... ... ... 3 per Crow. Exchange Go : et sled. 25 2..4 ; 90 days. 23 10. Belgian, 0, IBM lOll Monty. I Naples Mentes .... 09 25 kloom. Do. 5, 10.2 — Homan LOall, lASI ... 741 ... Do. 44 ....- Do. 25 Piedmont SD. Cent. 79 15 1 lirok Attire, Pima, Ocr. 24.—St. Germain, —; Versailles (right bank), 250 25; ditto (lett bank--, 200 73, Pans Anil Orleans, 032 ..0 ; Paris and Rouen. 505; Mourn and Havre. • Marseilles and Avignon. 211 50; fitrerbourr: and Hale, 116 25; ' Centre, 411 5.;; Northern, 4.55; Pads and Stmobourd. 350. (By Electric Telegraph.) BERLIN, OCT. 24.—Voluntary Loan, 1021 ; Na tional Debt, SBl. Four-and-a-Half per Cents., Russia, 100 . . i. VIENNA, OCT. 24.—Five per Cents., 3lkalliques, 92,_ 2 ; Exchange on London, 12.1 S ; on Paris, 1461. HAMBURG, OPT. 2•l.—Three per Cents. Interior, 33 ; Four-and-a-Half per Cents., Russia, 96 ; Ex change on London, 3 months, 13.31. FRANKFORT, Ocr. 24.—Five per Cent. Maal liques, 741. Three per Cent. Interior, 34 3-16. Ex change on London, 119! Lon Vienna, 971. ANTWERP, OIT. 21.—Five per Cent. Metalliques, i 3;; ditto Ardoins, 131. Three per Cent. Interior, 333-16. Russian Four-and-a-Half per Cents., 991. Exchange on London, 23.30. HltCssELs, OCT. 24.—Belgian Five per Cents., 981; ditto Four-and-a-Half per Cents., 90; ditto Th-o and-a-Half per Cents., 491. Exchange on London, 23.30. _ . . AMSTERDAM, Oct'. 23.—Five per Cent. 111C:tal lhjues, 71"4. Two-and-a-Hall per Cent. Belgians, —. Five per Cent. Ardoins, 1-11. Three per Cents., Interior, 34. ltussian Four-and-a-Half per Cents., 997. Two-and-a-Half per Cent. Integrals, 57 7-16. Exchange on London, 11.90. Zbe Court. WINDSOR, OCT. 24. The Royal dinner party, yesterday, included the Duchess of Kent, the Lady-in-M. Biting to her Royal High ness, the Baroness de Sped], Monsieur and Madame Van de Weyer, the Count and Countess Lavradio, Lott and Lady John Russell, and Colonel Craufurd. . . The Band of the itoyal nurse Guards attended during dinner, and played the following pieces : Overture, "Cstair ut ..... ....... Meyerbeer Arts, " ohert [reverent" w-dtz, ['sum Diabolism," » U.Albert selecuon, " Busuenols” Aleterbeer Calrop " Hugo" ller Majesty's Private Band afterwards attended in the Castle, and performed the following selection : Overture... Le Pre sue Clercs" Herold t bde, 3rd Act, treis-huts" Weller ttAlet Musts, Msetoteao" Atitmr This morning the Queen walked in the Rome l'ark and Slopes. The Prince of Wales, the Princess Royal, and the younger members of the Itoyal Family took their usual pony and walking exercise. Prince Albert went out shooting this morning, accom panied by Lord John Rat.ell, and attended h 7 the Earl of Morley, Maj.-General Sir E. Bowater, and Colonel F. 11. , Seymour. Monsieur and Madame Van de Weyer, Count and Countess Lavraitio, and Lord and Lady J ohn ltussell are staying on a visit to her Majesty. The Marquis of Lansdowne, Lord President, returned estertlay to his seat, Duwood Park, Wilts. The Chairman of the East India Company had an inter iew yesterday with the Chancellor of the Exchequer. Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial thee, from the Governors of the West India Islands. Despatches were sent off yesterday from the Colonial Mire to the Governors of Ceylon and Hong-Kong. Despatches were also sent to the Governor of Malta. (Ern:l2l.ot nittt'A I:rszette.) WINDSOR, OCT. 23.—This day the Right Honour able Edward Adolphus St. Maur (commonly called Lord Seymour) was, by command of her Majesty, sworn of her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council, and took his place at the Board accordingly. WINDSOR, OCT. 23. —lt i s this day ordered by her Majesty in Council, that the Parliament, which stands pro rogued to Tuesday the fourth day of November next, be fur ther prorogued to Thursday the fifteenth day of January next. FOREIGS-OFFIcB, OUT. 21.—The Queen has been pleased to approve of Mr. E. L. Montehore as Consul at Port Adelaide for his Majesty the King of the Belgians • Mr. Valentine Holmes as Consul at Belfast for the United States of America ; Mr. Alexander Sheffield as Consul at Demerara for the Repuhlic of Venezuela ; and Mr. William Pryor as Cunul at Halifax, Nova Scotia, for the Free Hanseatic City of Hamburg. WIIITEIIAI.I., OCT. 22.—The Queen has been pleased to present the Rev. William Cesiar to the church and parish of Tranent, in the presbytery and county of Haddingtun, vacant by the death of the Rev. Robert Stewart, late Minister thereof. _ _ _ _ CROWN -OFFICE, OCT. 21. Member returned to serve in this present Parliament for the Borough of Brad ford : Robert Milligan, of Acacia, in Rawden, in the parish of Guist:ley, in the esunty of York, Esq., in the room of William Dusteild, deceased. COMMUNICATION FROM THE F....RL OP CARLISLE RESPLETINO TILE COESTV Cut T.—Yesterday (Friday) morning the following communication, addressed to Mr. Samuel Ilolme, wasreceived from Lord Carlisle, re specting the inquiry into the conduct of Mr. Itanishay, the Judge of the Liverpool County Court, from which it will be seen that his lordship has decided that the inquiry shall be conducted in Preston, and not in Liverpool, as had been requested by the memorialists; this will of course increase the expelue as well as the trouble of conducting the cane, but there is no appeal from his lordship's decision: " Duchy of Lancaster Office, Waterloo-bridge, London, Oct. 23, lSil.—Sir,—l am now directed to acquaint you, for the information of the committee appointed to prepare the late memorial to the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lan caster, that a communication having been received from Mr. Itamshay repudiating the charges made against him, his lordship has decided to hear evidence in support of and against those charges on Wednesday, the sth of November next, at 10 o'clock in the forenoon, at the Court-house at Preston, in the county palatine of Lancaster, when Mr. Itamshay and the memorialists may be respectively re presented by counsel if thought am, air, your very obedient servant, F. K. DAWES DANVERS." Immediately upon the receipt of the communication, a meeting of the committee was called, when it was deter mined to present a memorial to the Town Council, on I Wednesday next, pra)ing that the council will undertake I the conduct of the case, conceiving that it is one of so great importance, and involves a question so deeply affect in{ not only the due administration of justice, but also the '! personal liberty of every member of the community, that ; it should be conducted by the authorised bands of this ! community, and not by private individuals. Petitions from the burgesses of each ward to their respective representa tives, urging them to support this opinion in council, have been prepared, and are already in course of extensive signa -1 ture. EXPERIMENTAL COTTON GROWING.—Mr. Fleming, secretary to the Manchester Commercial Associa tion, received yesterday, from the East India Company (through their secretary), 1,1)00 bales of cotton (per Armide), grown in the district of Dharwar. Of this 828 bales were from the indigenous plant, and 172 from New Orleans seed. The cotton is sent for sale to the trade in Manchester. AT a MEETING of the numerous of the CHAMBER of StIMIAMPTOS, Oa Tuesday last, the secretary reported that a memorial had been prepared and forwarded to Lord John Russell on the subject of the transit through Egypt, and its threatened interruption. The questionof the bonded privileges of the port was discussed with reference to some cases which had specially been brought under the notice of the directors, and the matter was referred to the custuins committee of the chamber for investigation, previous to the expected visit to this town of a deputation from the Committee for Rerorm of the Board of Customs,with whom the chamber have been in communication. KOSSUTH. RECEPTION IN WINCHESTER. WINCHESTER, FRIDAY. The ancient city of Winchester was this day the scene of unusual excitement, in consequence of the visit paid by the illustrious Kossuth to the country house of the Mayor of Southampton, situated on an eminence outside the town. Something very little exceeding an ordinary friendly visit was eortem plated by the distinguished strangers; but the inhabi tants of Winchester, animated by love of the prin ciples for which Kossuth and his companions have suffered so much, had determined upon making their entry into their ancient city a triumph. The party left the town house of the Mayor of Southampton at 11 o'clock, in three carriages and four. In the first sat M. Kossuth, the Mayor, Mr. Croskey, the American consul, Mrs. Croskey, and Madame Pulski ; in the second were M. Pulski and Mr. T. Smith ; and the third contained the High Bailiff of Southampton, Mr. G. N. Cooksey, Mr. J. N. Hardy, and one or two other gentlemen. An im mense crowd cheered their departure flout Southamp ton, and at the several villages on the route the inhabitants mustered in force to give them wel come. At Otterbourne quite a demonstration took place, and at Compton they were met by a cavalcade from Winchester. It appeared that in the latter city the promised visit of Kossuth had created quite a municipal war. The Mayor and the majority of the corporation concurred to give the visitors a triumphant reception. Among the more important of the clerical functionaries a similar feeling was ex hibited ; but a section of the prebends had, it ap peared, taken fright, and succeeded in communicating their fears to a portion of the town council. The consequence was that no bells were rung, nor did the municipality appear in form to welcome the stranger. But whatever deficiency might have been created by the bigotry of the prebends or tho fears of a few of the council, was amply supplied by the magnificent and spontaneous outburst of popular welcome which met the visitors from the moment of their entrance into the town. It was cheese fair day in the ancient city, and therefore the streets were more than ordinarily thronged, but far beyond the ordinary concourse on such occasions the people from the surrounding country poured in to pay their honest, unbought homage to the champion of constitutional liberty. The cortege entered at Kings gate-street, and passing the college and Wolsev's Palace, proceeded through Cheesehilhstreet, into too High-street, where the progress of the procession wau much retarded by the dense accumulation of the people. The scene at this moment was most strik ing, and the more so that nothing like such a de monstration had been expected by the visitors. Tho whole of the long street front end to end was densely filled with people, except the narrow space allotted for the passage of the cortege. Every window, every balcony, every house-top, in fact, was studded with welcoming faces, and above the crowd the Hun garian tricolor might be seen waving in every direc tion. The universality of the demonstration took every one by surprise, as the Mayor of Southampton had not in tke first instance intended to pass through the town. The popular voice was, however, too strong, both for his resolution and for the scruples of the cathedral authorities. The people rose in their thousands, and the demonstration of their feelings was as impressive as it was spontaneous. In the High-street an interesting incident for a mc meat stopped the slow progress of the cortege. A working man stepped forth from the crowd, and tendered to Kossuth a glass of ale, which the latter gracefully accepted, and drank to the pros perity of the city of Winchester. On arriving at the Mayor of Southampton's country house. M. Kossuth immediately entered the balcony, and addressed the thousands who crowded the road nearly as follows:—" Tho reception I have met with in this city has taken me quite by surprise ; I was wholly unpre pared for it, but I heartily thank you. Words can only represent ideas, and all ideas in my mind are absorbed by the warm fet.ling of gratitude with which your gracious reception has inspired mc. I feel that I stand here on sacred constitutional ground. Ou this spot your forefathers conquered liberty for you, and you show yourselves worthy of the liberty so gained, not only by maintaining it kir yourselves, but by endeavouring to extend its blessings to all the world. (Loud cheers.) I have deep respect for the inhabi tants of Winchester, the oldest corporation in Eng land, but with a proSe as young and fresh in the sentiments of municipal liberty as when those senti ments were first recorded in institutions. Again I heartily thank you." (Loud and continued cheering.) The Mayor of Southampton next Caine Ibrward, and expressed the satisfaction he felt in having Louis Kossuth under his roof, a man who with the mind of a giant had the heart of a lion, and who in the early part of his career had at one blow emanci pated four millions of serfs, who never again could be enslaved. (Cheers.) But with that he was not satisfied, nor would he ever be, so long as a single fetter remained on any member of the great family of man. (Loud cheers.) Ile (the mayor) wished that there were a few men * like Kossuth in England. (Loud cheers.) Kossuth was a man of the people, who had raised himself by his talents, and had subsequently devoted those ta lents to the welfare of his country. Ile had received threatening letters for his reception of Kossuth, but lie disregarded them, and declared that so long as he had a home Kossuth should have she:ter, as long as he had a sixpence Kossuth should share it. (Loud cheers.) Three cheers were then given for Kossuth, three for the Mayor, and three for the Doily News, after which Kossuth and party retired into tbo house fur refreshment. The Mayor gives a public breakfast tomorrow to the municipality, and on Sunday Kossuth will attend service at the Cathedral. Mr. Cobden arrived in Southampton rather late. He regretted that he had nut witnessed the landing of Kossuth, and immediately proceeded to Winchester, where he arrived at nine o'clock this evening. Every ticket that has been issued for the South ampton banquet to Kossuth has been sold. The decoration of the banquetting-hall has been com menced. The corporation committee of the Kossuth banquet met today to finally determine on the programme. COVENTRY. On Wednesday evening last, a very numerous meeting was held at St. Mary's Hall, for the purpose of voting an address of sympathy with, and admiration for, the illustrious Hungarian refugee. The chair having been taken by Mr. W. 11. MARDVION, the first resolution, ex pressive of sympathy with the struggle made by the Hun garian people, was moved bV the Rev. J. Lewerr, who traced the events which led to the recent outbreak g in o, o t r h n a rn t c e n o t u , n t h t r a y , e e n p i i o e n te s d o t f h e m y K r a o n . n u y f to the ob t in str n ia . n . tiered independence for his countrymen ; hi; noblo sacrifice of case, social comfort, and fortune in tho cause of liberty and independence ; and his claims upon the sympathy of Englishmen, as the possessors of freedom in their own country ; and concluded a speech which was much cheered during its delivery and at its ter mination, by moving the following resolution, which was seconded by Mr. THONIAS HILL, and carried unanimously: "That this meeting rejoices to learn of the deliverance front exile of the noble and patriotic Kossuth and while it cannot but deplore the present re s ults of the struggle in which he and his compatriots were engaged, yet cannot but look forward with well-grounded hope to the resuAitatiun of the nationality and independence of Ilungary." Mr. Macteem then proposed the adoption of an admirably written Address to M. Kossuth, which was seconded by Mr. WARDEN, and carried with acclamation by the meeting. Mr. E. Goons then rose to propose a vote of thanks to the mayor for the use of the Hall ; and, in the course of his remarks, stated that as he understood many per,oni in Coventry had expressed a wish that Kossuth might pay a visit to this city, on his arrival in England, he (Mr. Goode) had written to Lord Dudley Stuart, earnestly entreating him to endeavour to make arrangements for that purpose ; to which his lordship replied, that the stay of M. Kossuth in this country would not be more than ten or twelve days, after which he would proceed to America; but that lie would soon return from that country to England, when it was not unlikely lie would be able to 'my a visit to Coven try. Mr. Goode added, that he would leave no stone un turned in order, if possible, to get the illustrious Hungarian to meet the inhabitants of this city face to face, when ha was sure the reception lie would tacit with would be hearty and enthusiastic. This statement was warmly received by the meeting, which was characterised throughout by an enthusiastic feel ing on behalf of its object: and, after the veto of thanks to the Mayor, CM well as one to the Chairman, had been passed the assembly broke up.—Coventry Herald. LEEDS, OCT. 2.l,—The Leeds Town Council, at a special meeting held yesterday, iezre,d to an address to tho illustrious Hungarian patriot, Kossuth, on his arrival in this country. The address was carried unanimously. .~