The Express. — London, England, 1848-02-02 00:00:00

h* erpretsg• MAILS • The owland malls for Gibraltar, Malta, Greece, the lonian Islands, Zinn, Aden, Ceylon, India, Song-Nona. and Chins, *in Woutltsrapton, ea he made up oa the morning of the 3rd February. The mails for the Brazils, the River Plate, Monte Video, Fenian. =.lll=hl4atditc, SA and Buenos Ayres, will be made op on Mee The mall. for Vge, Oporto, Lisboa, Mieleirs, Cadiz, and Ofteshar Will be made up on the morning of the ith February. The overland skied mails, via Miustellice, to the Mediterranean, Tgypt, Ades, Ceylon, India, Rang Bo Sm , will be wade up on the eveniag of the 711 iebrawr• The mails for British North Arteries, Bermuda, and the United Matra. will be made up on the evening of the 11th February. Th e. West India Malls whirling Bermuda, Meru, Havanna, Honduras New Orleans Vera Cro; Tampico, and Form Mee, end including thou for Medeith, Jame, Carthaerts, Santa Martha, Charm, Ruston, West Cssut of south America, and St J uart.dis Nicaragua, will be made up on the morning of the 17th February. The omits for New South Wales, Fan Diemen's Land, and New Zeeland will be made up on the evening of the Path February. The mails for the Wed Coast of Atom and Madeira will Ire made up on the evening of the Mb February. TO CORSESPONDZNTS. COl Tsa number of STAMPS issued to the DAILY Mtn s by the authorities of the Stamp - office , durin g the year 1847 was 3,447, 009 Frow JAN. 1,13 Dec. 31, This, we believe, is within eight sent. of the number issued to the Morning H erold, M Chronicle, and Morning Post, ALL rur TOOETHER. In addition to the above, issued to the DAILY NEWS, Mornino Paper, there were tutted for the Evening E dition, TUE EXPRESS, From JAN. 1, to Dec. 31 778,714 Which was more, we believe, than were issued either to the Globe or Standard, Evening Papers. aepr meat • • AbeeetteMenee 1 abraded few The !sprees Lamb= melte . be eagle eSft. IA breserie4beeet. be T. detest ea , \e bet a PeWsti.m. II lOU WATEL At LONDON RAM S. TAN D A A—lldasias: aslA.not Mien." is =la. 1.11 00000 —1000.1.0.630 OWL w 0 Alimoos, I W. ip OM I. LONDON, WEDNESDAY, FEB. 2. Ceslre•oo On general expectation. the Court of Queen's Bench was equally divided on the question of issuing a mandamus in Dr. HAMPDEN'S case. The writ is therefore refused only on the technical bendgroud that, on an equal division, the judgment must the negative. If the form of the proceedings had been reversed, and the court had been moved to com pel a reluctant archbishop to proceed to confirmation, a similar division of opinion would have established the validity of the claim which is now overruled. It cannot be said that there is any preponderance of authority on either side. Lord DENMAN and Mr. Justice ERLE would neither claim greater weight than their dissentient colleagues, nor would it be reason able to attribute to them lees. When time shall have changed the constitution of the court, the whole mat ter will be re-opened, and considered as a res integra, unless the legislature interposes in the meantime by some remedial or declaratory law. The delivery of the successive judgments formed a more exciting scene thin any that is usually wit nessed during the sittings of the superior courts. Mr. Justice ERLE, as the junior judge, began with a con cise, distinct, and positive declaration of opinion that the right claimed was non-existent, and the remedy therefore uncalled for. Shortly expressing his per suasion that the judicial power in confirmation had never at any period of English history belonged to the archbishop, he relied principally on the positive words of the statute of HENRY VIII. The election, he said, is declared to be valid to all intents and par poses. If it is voidable at the judicial discretion of the archbishop, it cannot be good to all intents and purposes. Again, the archb isho p is required to confirm without condition or limitation, and is sub jected to a pratmunire if he fails to com ply with the act. The learned judge remarked that no single instance of the exercise of the right under discussion had been established ; and justly ob served that the forms of procedure could prove no thing against the distinct enactments of the law. There are innumerable forms in the legal proceedings of the courts themselves which they will not allow to be questioned, although they are utterly at variance with the facts which they purport to represent. On these and other grounds , which w ill be found at length in oar report, he was confidently of opinion that the rule ought to be discharged. Mr. Justice COLERIDGE followed in an eloquent oration of an hour and a half. He maintained that the judicial power of the archbishop up to the refer motion had been filly established by the authorities cited at the bar, and drew a distinction between the general canon law of Christendom, which he consi dered to have been universally recognised in England, and the decrees of domestic provincial councils, which are referred to in the preamble of the act under which canon law retains its present uncertain authority. The strongest part of his argument was that which was founded on the particular form of the motion before the court. Strong as his leaning appeared to be in favour of the whole claim set up by the prosecutors of the man damus, the learned judge professed himself to be far from satisfied as to the merits of the case. On this ground he thought that the rule ought to be granted, so that a record might be produced, on which the opinion of a court of error might be taken after judg ment, or a demurrer to the writ or to the return. A decision on the motion in the negative would be final, in the affirmative it would be subject to revision. The weakest part of Mr. Justice COLERIDGE'S judg ment was that which in point of oratory was the most effective, his denunciation of the act of HENRY VIIL if construed as urged by the crown lawyers, as tyran nical, oppressive, and injurious to all who, like the learned judge himself, were members of the Catholic church of England. With the exception of an easy triumph over the Somerton-GENERAL, who had made the wonderful blunder of asserting that the crown enjoyed spiritual supremacy, including the papal prerogative of dispensation, the eloquent declamation, which sounded eo strangely from the bench, seemed rather to strengthen the arguments that it was in tended to destroy. There is no doubt that the act is in the highest degree tyrannical ; or rather it would become so, if the penalties prescribed by it were en forced. If it was wished to give the crown absolute power over episcopal appointments, it would have been simpler to have abolished the intervention of the spiritual authorities, than to have compelled them to form acts, which might be morally criminal on their part. But we cannot see how this affects the question. In construing a statute of HENRY VIII., if we were compelled to look be-yond the letter of its enactments, we should cer tainly incline to that construction, as most probable, which savoured most of arbitrary power. If the KING had ordered, as very probably he may have ordered, the celebration of a Te Deum in honour of any of his own enormities, he would certainly have thought a bishop or priest who 'refused to obey him leniently treated, if he escaped with the penalties of a prcemunire. Mr. Justice COLERIDGE'S assertion, that the worthy Defender of the Faith understood and re spected conscientious, scruples requires no inconsider able limitation. He undoubtedly understood and respected his own scruples; and he took care that his subjects should respect them also, without bringing forward any scruples of their own to clash with them. If ever the claim to oppose a confirmation is set up again, it will be on Mr. Justice PArrusoN's authority that the opponents will rely. His judgment formed a model of the careful, dispassionate attention to the law, and to the law only, which has so long distin guished that most able and impartial judge. He con sidered that the mandate to confirm mast be inter preted according to the meaning of confirmation at the passing of the act of HENRY VIII. If, he said, the archbiahop had asked," How am Ito invest or to consecrate?" he would have been told, " As you did before." Why not, then, confirm as he did before P— an act which, in the learned judge's opinion, was historically proved to have been, up to the Reformation, substantially judicial. On the whole matter, however, Mr. Justice PAT-. moots entertained grave doubts. His mind, he' said, had fluctuated from one side to the other, both dazing the argument and since its conclusion. But these very doubts enabled him to form a practical decision. The act which provided for the revision of a record in mandamus by a court of error had, he thought, materially modified the duty of the Queen's Beach in considering the original application for a writ. Whenever a prima fade case for a mandamus appeared, and when a doubt existed as to the substan tial merits of the case, ho was of opinion that the court ought to grant a writ, that the matter might be fully discussed on the return, and, if necessary, taken up by error to a superior court. On this last point, which determined Mr. Justice Parrssoies judgment that the writ should issue, Lord DENMAN expressed almost entire concurrence with his colleague. If, he said, it was a case of a THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAIG „o when 'mastery asenciations ars got op Is 1 lointsetesk•banks, 4t railithys, elsotrio• talsgmph com partiesovith a view to divklerlds, this dread of dekcidlon is .rather out of plass, Folks noel \live, if they graze,qike the sexton's donkeys, oaths rank growth of the grave, or pick a gpal from dndelr tom b- s t on es, like the ghoule in the story. It is aboard to be nice. Let theni adiertise by all means, sad do it . handsomely.. We can conceive 4 very cellist-array "I:capitals on such a subject. They might throw off with a " REQUIESCAT IN PACE,' and go on—" This is a wish generally expressed by the friends of the departed, but which , in existing grave-yard!, there is little probability of seeing gratified. In the W. L. C., on the contrary, the remains are certain to rest in peace, and on ex tremely reasonable terms," &c. &c. ; or, if they would combine the advantage of a learned language with the facetious attraction of a pun, they might, perhaps, venture on ' DE MORTUIS NIL NISI BON'ENI.' There is nothing for the dead bat carrying them off, body and bones.' This abominable practice is freely resorted to in the churchyards and vaults of the metropolis. Bow much - better to secure a quiet resting-place, by at once investing in the W. L. C. &c. &c." We bcig to throw out these hints to all cemetery companies. If they advertise, let them use the arts of the advertiser. Profanation, desecration, pooh ! The dead must be made to contribute their share to the prosperity of the living. But, better still than newspaper advertising would be a van in the streets, driven, for greater effect, by a man in a skeleton suit , or a shroud, and with death's heads and cross-bones at the corners. This would be certain to catch the eye, and be a pleasant and edify ing spectacle—a wholesome " ',lenient° ,nori" to the thoughuess crowds who throng our thoroughfares. They might be awakened to at least as much thought of their latter end, as would be implied by their at once rushing away and securing posthumous places in the West London Cemetery. Tattle is too much truth in the representation of the state of Jamaica contained in the report of a com mittee of the House of Assembly of that colony, which we printed on Monday. It deserves the most serious attention of the public in the mother country ; it establishes a etrong claim on the part of the people of Jamaica to the immediate adoption by the government and legislature of the mother country of any measures really calculated to benefit the sufferers. Two fallacious applications of the facts stated in this document must however be carefully guarded against. One is, that the case of Jamaica is the miss of the whole of the West Indies. The smaller and more densely peopled islands have not suffered to anything like the same extent with the three great colonies, Jamaica, Guiana, and Trinidad—Barbados and Antigua, in particular, have escaped with a com paratively slight pressure. Trinidad has, at no time, suffered to the same extent as Guiana and Jamaica, and has already almost, if not entirely, restored its annual sugar crop to the same amount as before the abolition of slavery. In legislating for the West Indies generally, the average condition of the group must be kept in view, not the extreme cases of cer tain localities which have suffered more than others. The other fallacious application of the facts stated by the committee of the House of Assembly is as follows :—They state the number of estates which have been thrown out of cultivation since the Eman cipation Act passed; and they contrast the quantity of sugar and rum produced in 1832 and 1847. This shows how much Jamaica has suffered, not from negro emancipation, but from the bungling manner in which emancipation was effected. But it does not show that Jamaica will ;or ever be unable to compete with countries where slavery prevails without the protec tion of differential duties ; and it does not show that it will be unable to do so under the gradually dimi nishing protection of the existing Sugar Duties Act. The committee have omitted to state that, low though the annual produce of Jamaica is now when compared with what it wee before emancipation, it has been lower. Fee some years back, the annual produce of the island has been steadily increasing from the minimum point to I which it fell ; and the cost of production is, in like manner, being reduced from the maximum it has attained. The new system of free labour is beginning to work, and the question is, whether the prospect of a speedy termination to all protection, and a gradual diminution of that protection, be not required as a stimulus to accelerate the time when it will work perfectly satisfactorily. One fact stated by the committee goes far to ex plain the cause of the enormous decrease which has taken place in the annual amount of produce in Jamaica since emancipation. For 41,820 slaves employed on estates in 1832, there are in 1847 only 13,973 resident labourers. There is a little exaggera tion in this statement. The number of slaves in 1832 considerably exceeds the number of efficient field labourers at that time ; the number of resident labourers in 1847 is an under-estimate of the labourers whose assistance can be obtained. But wo have no hesitation in admitting that the number of efficient and available labourers since 1832 has been reduced from two-thirds to one-half, though we are convinced it is again on the increase. But this deficient supply of labour is not the sole cause of the difficulties with which the planters have had to contend. Before the slave trade was in terfered with, before the labour of slaves was regu lated, their profits were enormous. Even subsequently to the suppression of the slave trade by British sub jects, and the limitation of the amount of labour allowed to be extorted from British slaves, large pro fits continued to be made by the planters under the protection of prohibitive duties on foreign sugars. In the day of their prosperity the planters contracted im provident habits—managed their affairs in a wasteful manner —and they persevered in the same expendi tare and the same carelessness, in the face of their steadily diminishing profits, and in despite of expres sions of public opinion from all quarters, which must have convinced any men of common prudence that the approaching change of system was inevit- I able. They continued to receive advances from the merchants in this country on the same scale as for merly, regardless of the steady decrease in the amount of their produce and the corresponding in crease in the cost of production. The consequence is, that of the comparatively few West Indian estates which are now mortgaged to the teeth, the ,owners are still so far at the mercy of the merchants, from whom they receive their stores, that they cannot ba lance and close accounts with them, although they know of new and trustworthy houses anxious to do baldness with them on more reasonable terms. The stern, sharp fever-fit which has followed emancipe,- I=krfound weakened constitutions to straggle it. For the undue severity of the trial the mother-country legislators are in great measure to blame; of the embarrassed and dilapidated state of I West Indian affairs, which rendered the proprietors so ill able to encounter the trial, the fault is entirely their own. In measuring the allowance to be made for their sufferings, both facts mast be kept steadily in view. Another consideration to be taken into account is the degree of earnestness and activity displayed by the West Indians in their endeavours to help them selves. We published, on Monday last, the sugges tions submitted to the Colonial-office by the London West India interest, on the subject of free-labour im migration from Africa. We animadverted upon the lenity with which, instead of doggedly and per tinaciously following up that policy, they had rested satisfied with suggesting it, and turned away to fol low after other projects. Facts dated by the com mittee of the Jamaica House of Assembly establish the justice of oar remarks:—" In respect to immigra tion the Asiatic labourers have not been found to answer the purposes of the counfry while, on the other hand, the Africans have proved eminently useful, as shown especially in St. Thomas-in-the-Fast, where, from their numbers, the estates on which they are located have been able to keep their factories at work during Saturdays, and to have their general labour better performed.' Here is an important admission that the planters are already actually getting more and more continuous labour. And this admission demonstrates that had the West India body from the beginning stuck to' their point of getting free labourers from Africa—had' they urged their claims upon the Colonial-office is season and out of season—had they, instead of co quetting underhand now with whig and now with tory ministers, thrown themselves upon the support of the public, they would long ere this have 'iad an ample and efficient supply of free labour. railroad or any similar interest, be would grant! the mandamus at once ; but in the present case,• conc. daring the length of time which must elapse before the question could be finally decided if a record wen I once framed, with a view to the peace of the church and the safety of the state, he determined that the court, in the exercise of its discretion, was not, milled upon to make the rule absolute. Like Mr. Judie. COLERIDGE, the Lorin CHIE? JUSTICE gave ve nt to his feelings in eloquent and forcible language. Ile denounced an attack made by Mr. DEL i t on the memory of CRANMER, as unfit to be listened to in so solemn an assembly, and referring to the touching piety of Sir F. KELLY'S peroration, he wondered with Cicero, how two augurs could look one another in the face without laughing. " If," the CHIEF JUSTICE observed, as the ATTORNEY GENERAL had observed before, " the forms of confirmation are so shocking a profanation, what is to be said to tho religions rites which equally accompany election ? Every one, counsel on all sides, and Mr. Justice COLERIDGE, have given up the election absolutely to the tender mercies of the crown. It is difficult to understand why the tender conscience of HENRY VIII. should have been more delicate with respect to confirma tion. On this point Lord DENMAN had the advantage of his colleague ; bat we confess that in both cases we should have willingly borne the omission of some of the most impressive parts of the judgments. We cannot understand that the Queen's Bench has any authority to lay down matters of faith ; or that it ought to be influenced by the predilections of its members for particular ecclesiastical views. The public have nothing to do with Mr. Justice COLE RIDGE'S character of member of the catholic church of England, er with Lord DENMAN'S devotion to the same church under its protestant manifestation. It is not a point of law that CRANM CR was a good arch bishop—Mill lees is it law that the Pope might justly have claimed an appellate jurisdiction over England. Roman catholic' may sit on thebench—Unitarians may sit on the bench. It is only by accident that one judge las the opportunity of promulgating from the j udgr nent asathm unpopular v loam and anntium his popular behef. The judgments of both judges were no doubt sub stantially unaffected by their feelings ; but feeling, and the eloquence that arises from it, always tend to hide and overshadows the calm and impartial judg ment which alone is desirable on the bench. There was no difference of opinion as to the power of the court to grant the writ, es to the locus stands of the applicants, or as to the operation of the Church Discipline Act. All these points were ruled in favour of the prosecutors of the mandamus. Lord DENMAN'S weighty remarks on the importance of maintaining the efficiency of that prerogative writ may be instruc tive to those who in the sudden mania for preroga tive which has recently been displayed, were disposed to think that even the Queen's Bench was tending to disloyalty in entertaining an application which seemed directed against the authority of the crown. We should now say that the question of the HAMPDEN appointment was at an end; but we have so often been disappointed in anticipating that con summation, that we shall wait till the Bishop elect is fairly and finally consecrated, before we congratulate him and the public on having done with each other at last. When that happy period arrives, we hope he will find little difficulty in outliving the memory of the heretical works wnich no one has read ; and that, if in religious disputes such a thing is possible, he and his opponents may even go se far as to forgive each other the various wrongs which they may be accused of having committed against each other, the "-nub, and the world in general. Is this shop-keeping country of ours, even King Death comes under the bankrupt la ws as " a trader. He supplies the raw material for undertakers, ceme tery companies, burying societies, funeral clubs, and the " heart-broken and mitigated departments" of the advertising tailors. SHILLIBECE, who first started omnibuses for the living, has turned his attention to economical hearses for the defunct. He appeals to the relish of a cheep pennyworth in the sorrowing minds of bereaved relatives, as confidently as he spe culated on the same consideration in the sharp calcu lations of the man of business. Cemeteries are said to be capital speculations. One thing is certain : all must, sometime or other, invest in them. Vanity, purse-pride, and affection, whether in the departed or the survivors, find elbow-room in Rensell-green or Highgate, which is denied them in the close-packed churchyard of St. Giles's or St. An drew's. And though we do not quite rise to the French prettiness of Pere la Chaise, or exactly use our tomb stones as eligible advertising mediums, our suburban necropolises have a pleasant advantage, both to the eye of the landscape gardener and the tradesman, over the smoky, narrow, expensive, and squalid grave-yards of the crowded city. • In the midst of life we are in death" is a motto which has no business over the gates of these places of eligible investment and comfortable interment. It should be transposed, to suit them, and run, "In the midst of death we are in life." Thoughts of dividends blend with memories of decay, as the shareholder meditates among their tombs ; and pleasant anticipa tions of lusty premiums sweeten the sad thoughts of the departed who slumber under the quaint assort ment of squab urns, Egyptian obelisks, Etruscan I sarcophagi, Sew-road angels, and genii from Batter sea stone-works. In our limited familiarity with these modern tomb-lands we have no knowledge of the particular locale chosen by the West London aad Westminster Cemetery Company. We are glad to learn, however, from a report in our paper of yester day, that their affairs are "in a state of progressive improvement." The income of last year has exceeded that of the preceding. Last year was very unhealthy, and no doubt all the cemetery companies are " looking up." A somewhat meagre dividend of 3s. 4d. per share is announced " clear of income-tax." And then ensues a discussion on the report, of a very instructive and remarkable character. A shareholder regrets that more money has not been spent on advertise ments. He considers the company has not I been " worked " sufficiently in the newspapers. He instances remarkable examples of the great effects which had grown from journal publicity. There was PACKWOOD'S razor strop, and Dr. SOLO- I YON'S balm of Gilead, and Mr. MECIII'S different in ventions, which had all realised pounds to the pro prietors for shillings spent in puffs. Why not invoke the same machinery to carry up the West London Cemetery shares as have been so usefully and spirit edly employed by Messrs. HOLLOWAY and Moen? It should not be forgotten that these gentlemen have availed themselves of something beyond the vulgar advertisement. P•cewoon kept bis poet, in times, it is true, when poets were kept remarkably cheap; I and Moses has even now in his pay a similar fano denary, who, by the way, occasionally displays a vein of tender melancholy which would render him a very effective promoter of the cemetery in terest. His unrivalled quatrain on the mourning department of Messrs. MOSES' vast establishment, with a little alteration, might be set up with good effect over an advertisement of " cheap and speedy burial." These four lines can never be forgotten by any one who has read them. They run, as we re member : Whenever orders are received Prom parties painfully bereaved, Five mulutee' time is all me ask, To 'mute the mournful tank. We would urge upon the shareholders of the West London Cemetery (if they shrink from the expense of a poet) the importance of giving to their advertise manta at least all that artificial eclat of type of which the late Mr. ROBINS was such a consummate master. This might secure to them that attention which they aim to doubt whether they can obtain by sliver ' in the common style in the columns of thnimes, which, it was remarked, were so crowded that no particular advertisement had any chance of being noticed. There may be something in this. To took for the West London Cemetery, among that dense array of wants and offers, which leads off with the steam-packets in the corner of the first page, and brings up its rear with the sales by auction, far away in the dim and distant recesses of the fourth page of supplement, may be very like seeking for a needle in a bundle of hay. Bat all papers do not labour under this plethora of announcements. We humbly place our own compact columns at the service of the com pany, and we have no doubt they will find equally comfortable and welcome reception with any of our daily contemporaries. Still, if they insist on be stowing their advertisements, as worldling. make their testaments, To m or etha‘t'w=?lifoosUrnaluelb,' we recommend them by all means to hire a poet. One squeamish subscriber objected to Raver tiamg the carriage of the dead; he thought there was something like desecration in the practice. But, G, FEBIIITARy 2, 1848. t!sy .fle truth is, that were el`raid of this con ...station, lett it ebonld deprive them of their plea f or continued piotective duties. The of state affairs in Jemaiss,, described in the com mittee's reports the coasequepes of pro tection, and will endure as long as protection endures. " Hardly in say case will the people work on estates for more than five days in the week ; Jrt ,several districts they refuse to work more than four days in the week ; the average dans of labour is from five to six hours a day." Again :—" The labour given for the wages is not only inadequate in quantity, but generally ill performed. On the anniversary of freedom, and at Christmas, the entire agricultural population spend from one to two weeks in idleness, and in some dis tricts this is also the case at Baster." Of course the negroes, when they find that by such desultory la bour they can earn enough to provide plenty of food, fine clothes, bottled porter, and Madeira, arc not such fools as to work longer or oftener. But bow comes it that they are able to do this? Because the protective duty enables the planters, though with a pinch, to keep paying them at this rate, and because so long as they are protected from foreign competition, the plant ers will not set themselves seriously against the exorbi tant charges of their labourers. When the West Indians ask for a protective duty to support free labour against the competition of slavery, they mean free labour such as described by the Jamaica House of Assembly. The 10s. per cwt., the most moderate differential duty asked for, means a tax upon the in dustrious classes of this country, to enable the West Indian planters to indulge their labourers in a " six hours labour bill." The sugar imported last jar from the West Indies amounted to about 2,800,000 carts. The tax upon this would be 1,400,0001., paid in a great measure by the middle classes in narrow circumstances and the labourers, in order that JACOB OMNICM may retain his house in Belgravia and his negroes enjoy their bottled stout and Madeira, for working twenty or twenty-four hours in the week. The fact that ths quantity of sugar annually pro duced in the British West Indies is steadily increas ing ; the fact that free-labourers from Africa can be got to work well and a sufficient number of hems for equal or even less wages than the creole nevus; above all, the fact that, even during the last trying year, our West India sugars have kept their ground in the market against all competitors, shows that our West Indies can save themselves under the existing law if they work with a will. The experience of the put shows that the requisite effort will not be made so long as a shadow of hope remains to them that protection will be allowed to continue after 1851, if so long. In the name of the over-tasked mechanic of this country, in the name of the hard-working capitalists of this country, we protest against any additions to their taxation, to gratify the Sybarite propensities of lazy West Indian capitalists of the I enders regime, or the maudlin fantastic sympathies of those who see no virtue except under a black skin, and who would sacrifice, without remorse, every English labourer, in order that their pet blacks may be kept sleek and fat. We have argued, and will continue to argue, this question as an imperial, not as a sectional question. We wish the re si dent West Indians to have the same justice as the residents in the old country, and no more. The emancipation of our negroes has cost us much, and however well conducted, must have cost us much. But it has been borne by both parties. In the West Indies a large number of estates have been temporarily thrown out of cultivation, and the cost d production has for fifteen or sixteen years beta doubled. In this country we have paid twenty mil lions down on the nail, and for half a century we have paid annually to the West Indians the whole excess of what their sugars actually brought in the market over what they would have brought but for the ex clusion of cheaper foreign sugars by duties which were long prohibitive, and have been till lately all but exclusive. If anything we have paid more than the West Indians, and considering the amount of' ' capital realised in the slave trade, and in the West Indies, and invested here, we think this quite lair. But the balance having been struck, we must start on a new score, and the West Indians must help them selves. This the residents are obviously willing to do. But the West India interest on this side of the water seems differently minded. While the residents are urgent for the abolition of the navigation laws, the absentees and mortgagees are anxious for their preservation. The truth is, that the so-called West India interest in this country consists with a few honourable exceptions of two sections—the proprietors who account them selves of the landlord class, and share and cultivate its prejudices; and the merchants, who either hold the planter's property by mortgages, or keep him at their mercy by advances of stores continually renewed, and who, mixed up with the shipping and other local in terests, would keep the real West Indians serfs and thralls. It is this pseudo West India interest that is so clamorous for permanent and increased protection, and if many of the resident West Indians still cling to the delusion, it is owing to the misrepresentation of their pretended friends on this side of the water. ROME, Jaw. 21 • The expected arrival of the King of Naples, which was the current report in Rome, and which turns out to be prematurely credited, originated with Baron Charles Rothschild, who is here, and whose motive for circulating such rumour I don't pretend to fathom. It is now ascertained that Ferdinand is seriously in disposed, sad has been bled twice by his physician since the news from Palermo. The Pallade of this morning announces as certain that Count Pietro Ferretti has been definitively placed at the head of the finance department, in place of Monsignor Morichini, who gets a mitre in the neigh bourhood of Rome. Also, that Savelli, the blunder- , ing governor, who caused the false alarm on New Year's-day, is to go abroad as legate or nuncio, some where or other, and Duke Oitetani to succeed him. This is the foarth governor of Rome we have had during the last six months, some fatality seemingly attending such_functionaries. In the church of Santa Croce, at Florence, a solemn dirge was ming on the 19th for the souls of the slain in the streets of Milan. The Jews of Rome have just presented an address to the Pontiff, couched in the most enthusiastic terms, and delicately hinting that they hope for participation in the full rights of citizenship. They thank him for what he has already done in their behalf, pledge themselves to form a battalion of the civic guard, and finish by calling him " the delight, the joy, and the wonder of manMnd.' Cardinal Bofondi (not long created) is to be the new President of the Cabinet, and Secretary for Foreign Affairs. Cardinal Ferretti insists on retiring. The architect Camporesi, who was employed by the late government in various works, and was dismissed lest year for jobbery and peculation, has called for a trial. Two days ago the Pope visited the " Hotel Dien" of Rome, the hospital of Santo Spirito, without notice to the officials : he overhauled everything, medicines, utensils, blankets, food, &c. Having tasted the soup, he found it such poor trash that he broke out in energetic terms against the managers, and threatened to dismiss the whole staff if on his next visit (which would be unexpected like the pre sent) he found his poor people treated like dogs. The revenues of this establishment are enormous. The young lads and boys of Rome to the number of several hundreds are to be seen after school hours undergoing the drill exercise under the instructions of an old Piedmontese veteran, Colonel Pannier. Their battalion is called La Speranza, and there are hopes of a brilliant future when such are the pursuits of boyhood. The grown-up civic guard will have successors who may /rupees their sires. His Juventus arts partatibas Lifecit agree sanguine PUnieol DENMARK. --- COPENHAGEN, JAN. 25. King Frederic VII. has signalised his succession to the throne by an ad of permanent genercsity and political wisdom, which has met with the meet universal approbation through out the kingdom of Denmark, as well as the German duchies, and fully justifies the most sanguine expectations. A supreme rescript, addressed to the Danish Chancery, re specting processes against politics and the press, is to the following effect: With reference to oar patent of the 20th lest., Maned on the event of our accession to the throne, we feel graciously induced to set amide all processes now pending againstall misdemeanors et the peels and of a , inpogtaicfalonnaaitt;tr:itl% our olitnagdmcs.nrolazgautle neeearry measures, duchies. Our Chia. =as speedily as possible give publicity to our royal rescript. We commend you to God.—Given at our Court of Chrletiansbnrg, 21. (Signed) Faxon= Rex. Jan. In the forenoon of the 24th the magistrates of Copen hagen were admitted to an audience o f his Me ia. on the occasion of his accession to tke throne, as i the Chief President, Lange, addressed his Ma in a long speech , in which he took a retro s?i,t of the measures of the late king upon the deplorable variances between the Inhabitants of the different provinces, dissatir at Oa reed les front of Colonel Holmes s „ wry geed. aid ft toes empeeted, cakes delayed by th e smisionlieneweimme. is.. that thejunetke mans t a b. 4th er SS keens. Omni Cortlandt leaving Isildieece tliejg,w7, ere orb pleased to dad Iy this aixonnt that the SUM stray state of Om 1p ase that awake searesly have been exposes ti"'wthsillueSekMateh.Prol;,":lll*l7.thPlakerti:ril:"4ll.""aveleewslaak:thethillipeesta":ll:lkimailacllethth:". Cf's;choe"inoGerldn'o7D:,-7.41°";:-.8...:7:: bay was expected at the latter place about the 151.11....th a date of his intended departure from the presidency has not transpired, probably about the 10th. Major Browse, yd. N. 1., died at Kotree of small pox, on the 7th of the death of Lieut. Tolfrey, 4th N. 1., by his own knob, a the same day at Kurrachee, doubted in my last, bin i s ; n life . mail fvi t ilpect if e drs u d a rdua t t : sw tl hed . h c i e , bt : ! u a ir ; kowo t t ma 9 : : : a.e hßt era tl ihi:ja cet.Dß Z thh P ai h g ekti y ee rpra l oh t: . : : i ine s cr o ; A olf f n : : : rena The R r2 , l:: i t h , i.je annein ll: ::h i d ry o u T t :n ic° l fta ti f w t h e piwards : o4.ud iickaM 7beelt e 7: l:2_l_, Qa : 7 l -1. ! -- 7:te. jungles of Boud by a wing of a native corps and h "" r his vend petty skirmishes have taken place in the district et Cb r kapaud, and several of our impels have been killed esb wounded by enunseen foe bid in the dense jungle tim es , which they pass front place to place. A son has bun unto the King of Nepaul, which has caused the great e m os • throughout the state ;—and this constitute' all the mews oeived from this quarter. The story about the bodki n , of the princes, &c., by the brother of the Niz s ea n oss 4 to be substantially correet! Captain Malcolm, moistest to General Frau r, at Hyderabad, has left for his new ap • ment at Jodhpore, carrying with him the good wish es d nearly the whole population of the Nizam's capital. s o , disturbances took place betwixt the Hindoce and Mahon. medans on the occasion of the last day of the Mob arsna festival, when the latter would Nem to have pnrpos s j y pis , 4 a quarrel with the former. General Frazer u said t o i s only waiting for the request to be preferred by the Is,. when be wili at once dismiss th e minister from offic e . - 13 Dighton's name is still mixed up te:lt H.7derabad Asia as much as ever; and the capital is the scene of b roi l, betwixt rival clans, as usual. When is all thin cease ? Lord Gough is still at Simla. It is pain*. known that Sir W. Cotton succeeds him in t O s commander.in-thiefship of India. Sir W. leaves Be ro t n in April next to take up the appointment, his pres ent sts i accompanying hint. The lieutenant-govenor of the north. west provinces was last heard of at Bareilly, whichetc, 114 left on the 18th December, on his tour through &c. The Marquis of Tweeddale and family preZdn by the Fox frigate (Commodore Blackwood) on the 15th of the present month, the vessel first calling at Ballwin • la is strange be should leave before the arrival of either sir S. Pottinger or the new commander in chief. Mesas. C. B op J. J. Franklyn, and L. C. C. Rivett have hem ares...,l sheriffs for the ensuing year at Calcutta, Madre', sad bay, respectively. The expediency of abolishing the N g, altogether had been recommended . at all three Fir sa vv y, by the press, and at Bombay by Su E. Perry. It keine feet sinecure as far as duties are concerned, the whole rock falling on the deputy. Sir E. Perry has pew ee , on a visit to Calcutta, its object being s h a m , The Bishop of Bombay does not return to U s : bay till April. The 28th Foot from Bombay, eta 4th from Madras, and the 21st from Bengal, 1,„ India for Ragland in this and next month. The 18th Sew Irish are on their way from China to Calcutta, matii 42nd Madras Native Infantry have reached that from the same quarter. Hong Kong is thus =ll7. nutted of troops. The trial of Chief Justice Bell, by order of Sir John Davis, on charges of perence, has created the greatest surprise here. All mks had the plea.ure of knowing the late Mr. S. Terry, cd g N house of Higginson and Cardwell, of Bombay, will is deeply grieved to hear of his demise, which Mk phase% 21st ult. He had formerly been of the Egyptiaa lead Briggs and Co., and came to Bombay only three Matra since. Hie retiring and unobtrusive manner had gained, him a few friends, by whom his loss is much deplored. Es has left a wife and three children behind him. I told yoi in my last that an engineer had been granted by governs= to ass ist in the tuition of destitute lads at the Polyteche Institute: Mom then the boon has been canceled, Sir Robert Oliver having intimated to government that Ai services of Mr. Adie could not be dispensed with in the navy! The founder of the institution is the editor of the Times, sai people at once attribute Sir Robert's conduct to spite, is the share that editor took in exposing the malpractices and tyranny of the superintendent of the Isdiso navy. The splendid passenger steamer Ajdaha, reached Bombay he Wednesday. She was 76 days under steam and sail on he way out, having been detained the remainder of the tier coaling at Madeira and the Cape. She is at prevent a mkt didly fitted-up boat, but it is not expected she will long is main so. She came into harbour in such thorough trimths she could have at once started wh wished to be sent The wreck of the Indus steamer has been abandoned; al her machinery was saved, and one boiler.—Col. Dough 78th Highlanders, lately commandant of this garrison, lave this evening for England.—Nothing more has been heard c Ragojee Bangria ; theGhaut Light Infantry are afterhins,te he 'semi too 'cute for them—General Barr and family ma Ahmedabad, the old general being • favourite whom s's' goes. The 86th Foot have reached Deese, and the 7th sad 18th N. I. returned from Scinde to the presidency. I so tinned some time since that coal beds had been discovered In Lieut. Evans, assistant to the resident, at Mundlaine, the river Nurhudda. An engineer from the dock-yard (21r A. Johnstone) has been deputed by government to 011611 and report on the mineral, with a new to working the minas should it be found that it can be laid down en Bombay cheaper than from England. The coal is said to be hi superior to that supplied from home. Lieut. Evens has succeeded Captain French (lately appointed private secretes, to Mr. Clerk) as political agent at Nimaur, and well he is. ee mp rv emo u lf i b ti t7 h b e y2 u ttah r e steN ac oam ti y v em e a an brepoozi. d intel ligent man. Bombay ThonetheLonsadoe a fr o m which the reign of Ki n g Christian VII. would have been one of the happiest epochs in the history of the state, and which his late Majesty would unquestion ably have 'settled, as he would also have farther advanced the free development of the public jurisdiction, had net death interrupted him in his work, and thus indicated the duty which Providenoe hut now assigned to the new sove reign. The faithful capital had perfect reliance and well deuce, from the letter-patent of the 21st January, that the King, well acquainted with the hopes and expectations of the people, had resolved, not only to carry out the improve ments begun by the government, but also the intended re- I gulation of the public affairs of the state by his predecessor, lc. To this speech his Majesty was pleased to reply : I thank yon for your sympathy la the great Mellon which has • Ice me and my country, end which nobody mu teel more deeply than I de. I has already ezprrd in my leiter patent to my sub jects, tbat It shall be my f r e t sa d most =Moue endeavour to folios the example of my departed father—and especially to carry out the regu lations of the public relations, which in conjunction with my so g . ✓atios, he was in the act of putlinggnio execution when he wag be upon Me sick bed. In that letter I hare decl wha in many re sped. the mo ment obliged and enabled me to ared express t ; and et truly ea l shall keep l my royal word, so truly, so conildently, do t rely that r l ny peep wall t r ke wl i l j, await, po rel r i t an . c: on t ttr KV, the r d es , o4uton wt r c e ll that I ungraciously siTd affectionately dispoeed towards you and the eity of Copenhagen. We learn from some of the journals, as also from the offi cial answer from the Secretary of State to the deputation of the Institutions of the island, that his Majesty, on account of the multifarious urgent business of the state, has resolved for the present not to receive any addresses of condolence or on his accession. Thus, therefore, the address of the burgher representatives, as well as one from the German duchies, cannot for the present be presented to his Majesty. dresses to the King from the states deputies of the Danish islands now in Copenhagen, as well as that from the re spective Copenhagen burgher representatives, call for con stitutional, definite, and legal participation in the adminis tration of the affairs of the state, and demand that a com mission, consisting of men having the confidence of the people, be summoned from tie various provinces of the kingdom to draw up the project of a free constitution, which shell then be submitted for final decision to the united states of the government. BR/UAL—Accounts have been received to the 18th of December from Bahia, by the Chanticleer. The mercantile Latices are exceedingly bad. No sales could be effected ; purchases almost suspended; and money and con fidence both equally wanting. COLONIAL. SOUTH AUSTRALIA.—We have papers from Adelaide to the 19th of September. The general intelli gence is satisfactory as to progress, without any particularity of occurrence. The Australian Register gives an abstract of receipts and expenditure for the quarter ending June 30, 1647. The "fixed" receipts are stated at 16,2761. in round numbers ; the " fixed" expenditure, 13,7231. the quarterly surplus was therefore 1,5631., or at the rate of 6,2131. per annum. The clear customs receipts amounted to 12,9101., and the proceeds of the sale of crown lands to 8,0171. The grand total of expenditure, fixed and casual, was, however, 29,0971., and of receipts no more than 26,8671. A sale of 1,662 acres of government lands took place on the 27th of August, and realised 2,0861. THE OVERLAND MAIL FROM INDIA. An outline of the following appeared in our last evening's edition. We have received our despatches and papers from India. From Calcutta to the 21st of December, and from Bombay to the let of January. At Bombay the firm of Slam, Livingston, and Co. had stopped payment, but it was hoped payments would be shortly resumed. At Calcutta two more failures had occurred —that of Messrs. Colville, Gilmore, and Co., and that of B. T. Ford and Co. For faller particulars of thew disasters we refer to oar money article. Reports that the failures of large houses at Calcutta had seriously affected the Union Bank, combined with the intelligence from England, induced a requi sition to the directors to call a meeting without loss of time and afford information on the state of the institution. The proceedings will be found elsewhere. Of political intelligence there is none of any special moment, and for a complete summary we refer our readers to the letter of our Bombay correspondent. BOMBAY, Jere 1, 1848. Another year bas passed away in peace and tranquillity, and at the present date India from end to end, with the ex ception of the petty but harasAng forays in the Goomsoor districts, enjoys the most profound repose. Lord Dalhousee has by this time reached Madras in the steam frigate Moozuffer, this vessel basing left Aden on the 19th ult. His lordship intended spending a few days with his relations, and would probably leave fee Calcutta about the sth, as 4 reach that city by the 9th or 10th. Lord Hardinge arrived at tke seat of government on the 11th of December, haring left it for the frontier on the 22nd of September, 1845. He quitted it a baronet, and returns a peer, having, during his absence, couquered and humbled the last fee to our rule on our frontier. Would that other states within our terri tories were conquered as the Sikhs have been their humiliation proving the greatest piece of good fortune which could have happened to them. The retiring ruler's career in India has been one of the moat advantageous to the country since the days of Corn wallis. He found us outrunning our income by upwards of a million a year, and leaves us with an annual balance in our favour of double that amount. The reception Lord Her dinge met with from the inhabitants of the City of Palaces was most enthusiastic. An address of ungretulation was presented to him, and a meeting has been called to take into consideration the best means of perpetuating his memory in the land which it has been his constant endeavour to benefit. One of his greatest triumphs has been the success which has attended his efforts to procure the abolition of the barbarous customs of suttee or female self-immolation on the funeral piles of their dead husbands ; female infanticide, by which thousands of infants were destroyed to avoid the expense attendant on their betrothal, and the supposed dis grace attending an alliance celebrated in poverty ; sod the time-hallowed custom of slave.dealing amongst the native powers in or near our territory. On the 2nd of December Lord Hardinge by public notification tendered his thanks to the Maharajas of Lahore and Gwalior, the Niaam of Hyderabad, and twenty other independent rajahs and chiefs of Upper and Central India, for having so cordially seconded him in the putting down of these abo minable practices in their domineers ; and states that " he confidently expects at no distant day to hear of the complete renunciation of them in every state in alliance with, or under the protection of, the paramount power of India." It is confidently expected that Lord Dalhousie will follow in the path for the last three years pursued by his predecessor ,• and if our anticip a tions be realised, ere twenty years, should the same honest course, be pursued, the country will be tra versed throughout by railroads, and the commerce of India be increased a thousandfold. These are bright an ticipations : who shall say they may not be realised ? In Bombay one firm—that of Messrs. Syers, Livingston, Coun. and Co. has shut up, and it is expected that it will in a short time re-open ; the necessity fur its suspending operations I WINDSOR, TUESDAY.—The Duchess of Cambridge having been doubted. It is to be hope d the crisis has passed and Prince F r ederick of Hesse took leave this morning d by, and that such a blight may n ot a g ain come over commas.- I the Queen and Prince Albert and the King and Qum d vial matters. Nothing of interest has reached from the Pun- the Belgians. The Royal Duchess (tt Sereneerided by es Lady A. jaub or Affghanistan since last mail. Mr. John Lawrence Cadogan, Lady in Waiting) and his Highns lelft bad assumed the duties of resident at Lahore till the arrival their departure from the Lancaster Tower in a curie's id of Sir F. Currie. Brigadier Campbell is said to be about four, at half-put 10 o'clock, for Kew. General Wenge!d being relieved by BrigadierWhish, in command of the troops Mr. R.Ormsby Gore attended her Royal Highness and Pr ante ies of the division. Several of the chiets a nd girders of the Dar - Frederick to their carriage. The Duchess of Kent d bar had had titles and honours conferred on them. The early this forenoon at the Castle from her residence, flee Dewan Deena Nath had been wounded in the face by a more-house, to pay a visit to her Majesty The Earl to tas Ake ks, remindar, who conceived himself insulted by him : the hurt of the King and Queen of the Belgians. was trifling, and would seem to have been inflicted in a mo- deen left the Castle early. The Marquis and klarchiseeell went of passion. The Dewan was, two days after the occur- Lansdowne took their departure this forenoon, **MO Ili O rence, formally installed as rajah of Kalanoor. The sirdar for town, and the marchioness to proceed on a visit S i Lena Singh is said to be about quitting the council and the Earl of Ilchester, at his seat in Dorsetabire. Madams as country, and retiring to Bemires, to lay him down de Weyer left the Castle to-day. Colonel Beckley miss by the holy Ganges to die the death of a de- at the Castle this morning, and has relieved General Wasp votes. A fire had occurred in Colonel Lawrence's in the duties of Equerry in Waiting to her Majesty. quarters on the night of the Bth but till con- but was speedil y The Queen's private baud attended in the D eeded h pat out by the soldiery — not , Monday evening, and performed, among other pin% siderable damage had been done. Colonel Lawrence had fantasia on airs composed by Prince Albert. been entertained by the soldiers of the artillery prior to his At twelve o'clock, the King and Queen of the Ili departure—the Sergeant-Major in the chair . A y , Colonel s took their departure for the continent. nip QIN M Lawrence did not deem t insult hum bled it accepting a fare- and P r i nce Alb er t a ccompanied their swot wall dinner from the common soldiers—nor did the brigadier royal en t ran ce. The royal children aka eseisee _ l vidisw refuse to join in the expression of their grateful thanks by these men towards one who bad ever shown him self a true Majesty and her Royal Consort. T he ladies and gleilem had all been a friend to the soldier, who conducted himself as Briton should do. The reliefs of the regiments Lady in Waiting, Lady Caroline Cocks, and t he N M of the royal household, including the VieWunten Paget, Maids of Honour, the Master of the lionsaillale effected. The Delhi Gazette gives the following account of the movements of the expeditiou into the Benno° and Tank Our Peshawur correellendut, who hod renamed from the Yeeeeet districts: equerry to the Queen, attended than aue R. Ormsby Gore, Groom in airing , and ‘. . G oei en n ersl o W oo : sue camp, seeing that Ultras prase, so maim se a be n carriages and four by ere Buckley, Equ igloo entrance, where they were handed into o e ne4f ix the iresi l, evidently of • roving depseliu, NMI not &blotter than the Queen, and Capt. the Hon. A. H. Gordon, go and see how a eikh way void ample pttbroeib k er rather Waiting to Prince Albert. In another royal over, the passes at I p e=eselitetbsPennee and Tank districts, west of the India, eat Uwe. Togior joined the ounp on the Queen of the Belgians, his Excellency Yoo the 23rd of November, b=difour were la Marquise de Trueynies, Lady in ber *Mous, but we MUM lo so lob ow Iwo et the tat Major de Moerkerke, in waiting on the King o Lieut. L.de. tiufs miewrarijrZtathstentn... 8 f.." i"). Weyer, Lord Byron, Lord in Waiting to the f ol•Qa Et sel, de instate, via. Dire regimental wowdrh _thou ottoloiry, or troop Their Majesties and suite proceeded to the Siough • of moo aehlteeTi wits I.IM maw the Dwi11444 1 ear- the Great Western Railway, and travelled to town by de dare—altegether about KO am Beeares es Ilest tin gm, d i d tha n , to any it us t o bee af see eppraftlea Nue was day afternoon by special train of the • w ufter igdi rste l" tbat esui et ul ieast) tevisateewssyllial (teem s ialhavlr ama ls e s Their Majesties_ and suite left for Calais south-rAw ys6!, =ga....14606116 6 ,0 severs was "mid bg, Is Is susgesei. owes Railway ; the train started shortly eta on thein sued country .1 0 _ 1 _ 1 1*2 their private carriages' having been previously despatelletP. 1:1=1 ift=tilete e > eaiaa. is. .... n niohi 7 . special train an hour in advance of their *Veda* Edislobot oor owe onowOlo ism to art From this s h eeted for the departure. Mr. chairmen • li e yeas sonoiwo eta owl Iwo boon the toil and chairman • Mr. M. L. Pritchard, the deputy -006 gobwL et" opool: Iwwwwwow le sense easuseisticall - imadin i — c e . with royalty, the Bricklayersj'amArmse• ti•evegneheorel,; 01 10010 .... 0 /OAbIS MP Powo 84144010 0 waggons. slid Jerk, a director ; and Mr. James Walter, chefs upenneef. le sss,"'" au' eek ti. I ni a ttr o g sul t, eir ant of the line ; received their Majesties. The royal ur • to eintsrk• and , " MOM 8 . 1 "11INRW We liege& 171111,2110 n i n to th e up the line, and we understand , e:preseal to Mr. e g Oa sealkers gide et ow the co loosbe d log ation, his Majesty his g e e ir tneen et c"""... 6. diorlir. mew The a w e — g " t ; travelled at the same speed as on th th e at occasi pw o io n u o s f plain wcrm si . ei e si t thArea b i ea te r el.efeeell su e tglieTirilLinefficiency and discipline of the railway oasi s able eel oraiodww. Oa the Other Ina ram oar dam, kopower, . 0 4 tb,—ibui"7lX °mu ' ths wi l."l ihe presidency. coapan T :T o h ow e engine two o'eldt °ff th. g" aid" bi aim dawn 11. P.P. • UM " A cabinet council was held at half-past wawa owl me wee 04 emu, but oat wawathe residence of Lord John Avow tbo ail woo modal Is *ova Two Ni. Wind so in afternoon, at . present were Lad ow a s ors. two *mobs almost lagesdble tbey could In Chtuhlet - place . The ministers uis - of L ord be /WM as for two 14s at g/L o o mana that Russell, the Lord Chancellor, the marq _ _ lioolowoota=r lohoo w. with the_, Sir George Grey, Viwount Palmerston, Earl . . tire 7 vkjeldeasereseieug l"lB. ' we ,1=1.1....,7°PeZ,7 Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Earl of AUCkllnd, below *MOW mow* ad admit astsz x wi se : n th' Wew, we house, Viscount the Kamen • of Chuiricards , assiseke, dualippi einsitso "pis* ate suaeocitee. the ]tight Ron , T. B. Allosuar. frimiama Yowl -14owwwpwa"mrtbotolowiftwasa minig oomo t o Campbell, the Hon. H. Labouchere, Sir John evcrepstves,:nbj gr. Ferna•P' LOSS OF THE STEAMER SCOTIA. Respecting the lows of this vessel, which we announced in our telegraphic despatch of yesterday, the Malta rinses of Jan. 25 contains the following : "01 the morning of the 15th the Scotia was observed lying in the Bay of Store much deeper in the water than customary, consequently, as there was no one on board, Capt. Williams, of the schooner Rhoda, lying at anchor clam by, lowered his boat and went on board, accompanied by a portion of his crew, when to his surprise he fund that the water had risen 'so as to cover the ma• chinery, and that it was fast increasing, which he imagined must have been occasioned by a material damage from • French brig which parted from ha anchors and went foul of her on the night of the 11th inst. Captain Williams did not leave the Scotia until ths arrival of Captain Pereira, which took place shortly, when consultation was held as to the expediency of running hum shore in order if possible to save a wreck of the ill fated ship, which was done by the sole exertions of the Rhoda's aro and three or four of the Scotia's men. She was speedily ma on the sandy beach and immediately parted asunder. Os the following day a large portion of her wood work vw sold by auction on the spot. The boilers and part of ha engines were observed peering over the troubled waves, eai will no doubt be ultimately recovered. , J The Mhr attired the NI The An,, Right Roo.l Baird of 3 n Mr. For, fnterview fa Chaduoul ca m " re Kauritiui Despc'A the Color al colonies, LEVE I two lever ■ course of o. THE '•.A . Bounnv - sofft Ind , . wu.oPP? ADDI • TI arranger , five p.m. h Western n t been t • is, aw l it compani. I of the Pc f aience to h them lit. LORD C Court wi bate Majt t ladies to .1 Deeklacee a pets. Tl.a Or plain 1 change tl e ladies to vi and tipp. ,-, silver itt Fa black coo white al 1 swords a .d Court to 4c - - DOw• orders f r Littler, • Member o Knights 6 also %%ppm her Majesr FORE! pored o f for his Ms THE I) &turtle; average. the re fa pox, Intl irt It b deaths t from inh iei fetal cars i the weel r IMO upwr were the cast of Ihursclay I lent on hie bury G un hire. Thi authority, newspaper 111., c. 50, bet thi.t a & 6 \VII enacted. the enacto become a practic•• of of them. THE A( The co at the Its station as i victim of this jury h formed th to the SI issue ha a ligenct ttu oa renistic h►d reeds • • ' weft hal to mkt owl inform you y ou ler y ret. r, not dot •tt power. St Mew In hi DOW Ott Woo, — Woods. tot itaipt Hoene.ott a the pal that they them, an W ad• ,, ao the only the acew Benel , prom. et' the .ri! mete, t duty to 111.0t10.1 and Fli order th mese no de 11 , been .41 mom UT aired hii Und. r t coon • at hl..rt 71;7 , lily lai the ro , —lOO Kit tending shou! Won who in jr ti ans. been ri Jcae T hali re nee. ami e 011 r I'..e the re eu•e • t told .1. woo .1 no at b