The Express. — London, England, 1851-03-13 00:00:00

I ~i THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, MARCH 13 1851. and who would have to pay the rests out of the it own pock, es. Looking to those defects iu the law, lie hoped 4sat the bane would pass the bill u bleb he now proposed. .7lse provisions of the till were—first, with re• ' 'Ord to all young persons under eighteen yeses of- age wise were ander the control of others! as apprentices, where =asters or mistresses were legally liable to provide food for their sustenance, to enforce such liability under penakitei, the same as were in tone with refer, nee to infants of tendsr ?ears; and, further, with regard to the offence of committing an assault on any I young person, such as to injure health or endanger life, , without legal justification, the bill provided that such a ! ease was one in which a court of justice might pronounce a sentence of imprisonment for a long t.rm, and accompany , that imprisonment with hard labour. The second clause provided for the costs of prosecution being given in every ease which was a proper one for the award of costs. Ile (Mr. Haines) thought that such a discretionary power as this clause afforded was very desirable. 'There was another evil in the present state of the law which hail struck him very much in the course of discharging the duties which he had been fulfilling. When a person had been hired out of a workhouse, or I was apprenticed by the guardians, there was no pmvision now that care should lie taken of him after he had once been hired or been apprenticed. lie did nut mean to say that any legislation could make that provision, but he did say that until a person had arrived at 18 veoirs of age and so long as he should he within the union where he had been hired, or by the guardians of which he had been appren ticed, it should be the business of the guardians to have periodical visits paid to that person by some officer of theirs not kit than four times a year, whose duty it should be to report to the guardians if he found that the young person was subjected to cruel conduct. He was glad to say that that hint was given to him by the voluntary practice of three unions. This very rule was adopted at Oldham, in Lancashire, at Nantwieh, in Cheshire, and at Market Drayton, in Northamptonshire. There was yet another defect in the law. At present, when a poor person had received an injury, it was extremely doubtful whether the guardians had the power to prose cute; and when the Poor-law Board had the question put to them whether the union could prosecute in the ease of the Sloane., there was very great doubt about it whether the law would allow it. "In the cases of injury to pour persons under 18 years of age, if the magistrate before whom the case was brought thought that, under the cir cumstances, a prosecution should he undertaken, he pro posed to give him power to call on the guardians to institute a prosecution, the expenses to be borne out Of the poor rates; that was, in CcO4, where no provision was made of another description. 'f he right hon. gentleman concluded by moving that the bill he read a second time. Mr. HENLEY quite agreed with every word that had fallen from the right hon. gentleman, hut he had doubts whether some of the provisions of the hill ousel not to be general. The obligation of providing food and clothing must, of course, he confined to master and servant ; but, in the rose of maliciously assaulting young persons so as tc injure their health, he did not see why the law should no: be general. So also with regard to the third clause, whirl he thought too limited in its operation. On all other matters he fully agreed with the bill, and he thought they were all indebted to the right hon. gentleman for bringing it h. After a few words from Colonel leswoos and Sir J. Ductiwoigrit the hill was read a second time. The house then, at a quarter past fouro'cliek, adjourned. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. I the magistracy, but from a conviction that taxation an re presentation should go awe,: cr. • Mr. Henry IMICaI MOND, though claubtlig. the proetV ' ealoility of an e ff ectual contr ol b y such a m suppoffied HOUSE OF COINIONS.—WEDNZIMAT,MataI 12. the *mond motion of the hill ; as did aireals . ey. ese i , 'pule Isena••• to r. the chair at 12 o'clock. Mr. SPOON ER, neeenting to the pginta.)fie sat thsflartes BOROUGH OF HASTINGS. raven should hose a voice in t si-tretioon of On the motion of Mr. Peewee, copies were or dered of f unds, should vote for the seco a of,the bill, the memorials prevented to the Booed of Health , with in it+ present shape it carried ou the p • clurntilyamad riti.riwt.e to the Puhlic Health Act being put in force for • was fraught with mischief. the bormigh of fluting". Mr. RICE, not approving all the details of the bill, sups aGOUNTY RATES AND EXPENDITURE BILL. ported the siseasi feuding. Me• M. GIBSON. in moving the *wind readina of this an'atgipte..PtEoi • trLHAMmienp.iuedoiltelor,thhiee , b ,r a c l o , u s a l r eg . e c to c t o in u tr au the up hill, .aid that be did not think it unwary to enter at any e R. Eli, not disputing the professed principle ic ra nigth eseure in . tn rhe ci te innn tec li t "n al f thealrelletitle-knalbedimorn"itoin of the . p u il , l, re rete r„r o t m h m e ( bi ot i te ° tt e e ket ado co ption mi o ( f , Sir G. Grey's home, it having during the lest session been dee-weed. per Moe Mr. DEEDES would vote fur the wcond teatime of the The hill would enable eminty ratepayers to take • share in the control of enmity expenditure, and also in the as - bill if Mr. Gibson would consent to refer it to a select corn softie; of county raw.. Ito principle wags, therefore, suttee. The bill had been read Lord J. RUSSELL could only say, on the part of his perfectly tomaitatiorial. • easood time last guano. without • division, *lit hon. fri en d, wd that he wee perfectly to a wi se lli lec na t o cn if tn e mi his u b ee ill , and it was them referred to a select corrmittee. was read a time and referral Th.A select committee took the rather unusual course of to serve upon that committee—(hear)—to attend assidus meeting the whets of it ex, ept the first clause, hut, in re- •••ly to the hominess before that committee—(henr, hear)— tainong that clause, they haol approved of the principl e that and to state his opinion in that committee as to the mcde in which the object could be heat obtained. His right hon. county anemia! gown' wood.. that the ot herratepey'ercshnthonoldhcl:thiaC'het-eeininthe friend object not be expected to go %ether than tha— maaagenient of 'aunty rates. 'The inquiry which then took (hear)—or the government further to adopt the plan of the bill. If the bill were referred to a select committee his plareiiad been useful in enabling the promoters of this nan.ure to cornet many errors, and to make mane im- right hon. friend would serve upon it and state his views. morn. ots in the bill, was to carry out all those "ewers (Hear.) slack 1 1, y d es i re d t „ o h t m o , Th e hat was. f a ct, Mr. M. GIBSON, se far as he was concerned, would f ona d o st on th e r e port o f a r o mmittion, which recommended nn object to the hill going into committee, not for that reunt financial leoanle should be constituted, corn- evidence, but the consideration of clauees ana the aProp partly of nuigistretes and partly of ratepayer'o. The sioas. If he had a clear einderstandiog th t puomen t , th e guao h ans was a n l o nger a p e rt of the bill, going into committee was for that object he would no rho re th a t t h e j us tsmos s h ou ld he anted stand in the way of adoptina the propoul. q th a t th e e lective portion of the hoards Mr. HENLEY was glad to find that the right hon. of igaro a haw. n- ' merely to tierce* the power of electors, baronet (Sir 0. Orey) was of opinion that they ought to and that the y might elect any ratepayer they pleased. separate the judicial and the financial functions of the (Hear, hear' magistrates, and thought he could see his way to effect that Sir J. PAK I NGTON mia that in opposing the sensed object. There being no difference of opinion on any side of reading of this hill he should not adduce the armaments the house that taxation and representation should goo hand whirl. on a former ore sawn he had brought forward in hand, he would be inclined tr give the right hon. bayonet against it. Ile believel that, with Cie a seeption of the me. an opportunity of developing his plans in committee. Ile eistrat• losong elected at the quart 'session., the alterations (Mr. !leaky) and the country would, however, have been mate i n th' m ea s ure r ere h l ed it o hj e ctionahlo. and much better adieltiel if the right hon. baronet (Sir G. dame noes than ever. rli suc , heir) It s first important Grey) had during the recess been endeavouring to arrive at clause was the fourth, by which the new financial hoards a solution of the matter, ind had been prepared to brim were ..,,,,,,ta u tma ma t th e new a d m i n istration, co mpo t e' forward a bill which would have had the weight and half of ratsimyen and half of magistrito s, was to conduct re monaloility of a government meseure. There would then county aff oirs. Now he del not in the slighted degree oh- have lean betterchence"of arriving at a propereolution ofthe jeet to the stoat priori do that representation and taxation question. Ile wan not at all surprieed at the repugnance of the donut , 'g., to other . Ilia, with natant to this hill, that hon.memberfnealanchester(ear.MAJOloon) to haveanything • prowl • - s . h. u i h ams , guar. to h e a ppli e d in a manner likely tusk, with evidence, but he was surprised to hear him (Mr. to Ise very dangerous to the public service; in point of fort, Gibson), candidly admit his repugnance on the subject. its promoters were led an." by a fallacy, The constitutouri (Laughter.) If the hon. member had gone on some other did net Went the justices of England with any seulone with his evidence, he would have Mund himself put arbitrary power of aviation; they had no power fairly out of court, Ile (Mr. Henley) would leave him uf tazation except such LS heel been conceded to self very much in the hand% of the hon. baronet below him them from time to time hy the legislature. One (Sir J. l'akington ). If the hon. baronet thought fit to id the objectless made to the bill of last year wan, that it divide the boom, he (Mr. Henley ) would vote against the would interfere with the functions of county justices, bill. Still, after what hail paned, it might be better for but if this altered hill were n•aol a serond time, enact- the hon. baronet to withdraw his amendment, for it would meats would be sanction ol which very materially inter- scarcely he fair not to elbow the government an opportunity fend with the functions of these justice.. The whole of of showing what they could do with the bill. the boll from clause 13 t tai was entirely new. Clawless 12 Sir J. PAKINGTON had not imputed any want of said 11 provided that all the powers now vested in the truthfulness to the evidence of Mr. Roberts, but he had said judo,. miter the rural police should he transferred to the that he (Mr. Roberts) knew little of county affair.. The new hoards ; and he was desirous of knowing whether the question bad now assumed a different aspect from that eight Woe baronet the Secretary for the Home Department which it presented when he had moved his amendment, and lime fl. Grey) would assent to such a provision as that. after what hail been said on behalf of the government he Clause If, took the management of gaol. out of would not divide the hooey. hands of the justices, and would, in fact, create The bill was then read a second time. • complete r 1 volution in the manner of conducting EXPENSES OF PROSECUIIONS BILL. county affairs. Ile wished to know whether the Oa the order of the day fur the second reading of this lonise, by a side-wind- this hill Wing simply called a bill Ming read, 'County Kate awl Expenditure Bill" —would take out of Lord EIIRINGTON said he thought that local and the lianas of (hi. county inagidraey the control they now county expenditure should be consisiered more comprehen , a nasal user the pollee and the semis ? Ile warned sively than it had hitherto been. 'floe late Sir Robert l'eel them that by passing this clause tiny would n•pail nu had introduced a proposition for saddling the consolidated fewer than nine acts of parliament which had reference to fund with all the expenses of prosecutions. Ile (Lord comity gaols. (Misr.) Then, the hill proreedisl W declare Ebrington) would suggest that they should recant a little that all powers were to hi• taken away from the justices, the allowances made out of the consolidated fund in order not only with revert to the police and the gaols, but also so in some measure to alleviate the pressure of county taxa ter as lunatic asylum. were concerned. Ile thought that, bull, fur since the magistrate' bad obtained local eontrol in in thus sketching the hill, he had said enough to show regard to provocations the expenses had greatly inereamei. that, under a epecimn jontroina it. promoters were Mr. W. FOItBES was I.lUderalutod to support the prin attempting to introduce most dangerous changes— eipb• id the bill. changes to which he holed and billeted the house Mr. PACKE could state that, es regarded the quarter would 11.4 be • consenting party. (Rear, hear.) sessions genera', every attempt wa s made to economise the Was the right honourable • gentleman the Hoene Seem- public money. The right hon. baronet (Sir G. Grey) would, try about to give his sanction to a hill ba which he would however, du much good if he could usimilate the expenses deprive the justices of England ,of all their function's in the of the assizes to thou of the quarter ResNioll3. superintendence of gaols and lunatic. asylums? He warned Mr. IiItOTILEICION said it would he • considerable the house to take rare hew they tampered with the prin. Raying to the country if the imyment of officers were made elide ot such an institution as the unpaid magistracy of by salaries and not by fees. England. This bill was unjust, uncalled for, and 'ma' Mr. Alderman SIDNEY asked if the right hon. banmet chievones, rind if he et, .l alone he should protest against it. (Sir G. trey) intended to make the costs of the prosecution lie noised that the bill be read a second time that day six and maintenance of criminals fall equally on all names mondlos. hove localities in the country. Nor ti.G REY said that as an appeal hail been made to him Mr. HENLEY, with reference to the observations which by the hon. baronet, he thought it was slue to him and the hat fallen from the noble lord (lord Ehrington), seal he hoes.• that he should emu. his views with meant t o the lall, slid not know that there had loin any documents to show Ile woulol at once may that, although he Rowel with the that the increase of expenses had been more than was hos. gentleman that there oar, magic clauses of the bill legitimately caused by the increase of criminals. which required consideration and amendment in committee, After a few wont, from Lord Ell RINGTO.N, he could not concur in the feelings of alarm which hail been Sir J. JOHNSTONE trust. d the bill would effect the de impressed by him, so far 13.1 t h e principle of the bill was sirable object of impaling a check on all unnecessary county recleaned and the e ff eet to be produced by it after the eon. expenditure. seleratem which it would receive, either from a whet cons- Mr. 'T. EGERTON advocated the appointment of salsas I mime' or n committee of the whole house. The bill having ri gi d prosecutors, as the best method of discouraging ono.. Uneasily been before the home hi would oeily again declare enemy prosecutions. Where there sus such a hunt of moie ties adhs•rence to the principle of the admixture of rviiresen- nays conducting prosecutions the expenses could nut be tattoo in the management of county expenditure. The hon. otherwise then large. beanie* del not object to that principle, and the olnistions Mr. EItEWEN thought • clause should be inserted in W the bill which he hail dated did Hot appear (so insurer the bill to compel county officers to send in returns of aisle as to preclude the poroiloility of the boll being so county expenses. am 001011 as to embrace the principles while the objections Mr. HOME said that when Lord Althorp had thrown were nanevid. Ile (sir hi. tiny) agreed that it would he the common of prowmitions ton the consolidated fund he a goat calamity if the magistrates wen. to be deprived of hail ventured to state that these expenses would go ono m- • functions which they hail performed with so much credit pidly Mereadng heeause there had Men no proper la thenesclic, partieularly in their character a visiting cheek impends Ile would have the right honourable justwa, which he should he sorry to see taken away. baronet (Sir G. Grey) to consider whether provision should There was one portion of the bill in which he ilia n o t nut be made for the appointment of public proseon emeroor, and which provided that in the election of county tors. Ile (Mr. Hume) was of opinion that all hands by the gnanlian end the nuirristrates, those mem. officers connected with the criminal jurisprudence het. that were elected by the' ratepayers should nut he of the country should be paid by salaries isiaaidretse, and be deeientrti from the provision of the and not by fees, ho he conceived that no fee whatever 4th chew, which reoricted the election of the menthes to should he imposed upon any of her Majesty's subjects who namenem, and which deprived the guardian.; of the power wire seeking the redress of grievances. (leer.) of eh cling magistrates. If then. were any restriction at Mr . 'r. EGEIaTON realeakeol that the nelson of ao many all, on which he gave no opinion, he thought it ought attorneys being employeil was that the magistrates clerks rather to be the other way, and that it should conceived it but fair to divide the briefs, and so long as the rather he requin•d that the po now to be elected present system tested such a distribution of favours might amok! powwow the qualification of being a magistrate be desirable. It slowed at the least that the clerks acted thanthat they othould not be jusaices. That wouldhe perfectly with some degree of impartiality. euesettent with the principle of the bill, and if etiolate! Sir 0. GREY said that when the change haul been made would demur of all objections, and the body of gentlemen in lel6, it had appeared desirable to place some efficient at the finaneed boards would he magistrate' and still veer- cheek upon the expenditure. The "outsell had been sunder nu their fauctione; but at any raw hr objected to the pro- consideration from time to time, and he could assure the position that half of the board ehould of necemity nut be bonne that the government had been exceedingly desi niatts.trate.. flu thought there wax no such donate nuns to effect so desirable an object. He had stated of an amnia ecomons as w as anticiputed by the hon. when he brought forward the bill that he had baronet, and • us from the Munn'. lk•oich called for retunos from the various counties and boroughs would lie again.' the financial board*, as well ens amine, of the average expellee of proanutions at assizes and Pet maitiatrutos, if they slid not comply with acts of parliament. don.. The result was, that making every fair allowance With regard to the subject buy taken up by the govern- for the varying circumstances of counties, the difference in went, he cold oaly say that whin het )ear this bill was the average amounts for prosecutions was so great that referred to •erlecteummitteithe hoped that committee would then• existed nu approach to uniformity. With reference base neutered room aoistanee than it ilbl in settling the to what had fallen from the hon. member for Oxfordshire &mule of the wiener,. When the question woo asked of (Mr. Henley) he had to remark that judges of assize and him of the woreniment would LAC aurae of the hill, he magistrates in quarter sessions were constrained to certify shamed that in the Mees he would consider the evidence the amounts whether they were just or not. It area with tel. n before the committee, and weigh the difficulties , ' the view to remedy these evils that the first and second which had influenced the romiraittre in thinking that the clawws had been framed. The clause referring to clerks bill should be cenolu,•ted by the rmsernment. Ile had done prevented them from acting u attorneys in caste com es, end he saw many objections to ilitails of the hill, which mated by the magistrate* to whom they ufficiattel he thought his right han• friend had done tosioly in try ing clerk , . The honourable member for Cheshire (ale. is meet ; and he still tlsoueht that if the hill was read 3 Egerton) had recommended the abolition of fees altogether I :HEFTING OF ROMAN CATHOLICS.—A very' large newel time and n•femel to a whet nnuniittee, not for the and the substitution of salaries, This suggeatimi he I meeting of the eatholies of Liverpool and its vicinity sus purpose of taking evidence, but of settling the detail. of (Sir 0, Grey) would take into consideration. The exiwnsee held at the Amphitheatre on Tuesday : 'f. W. Blundell, the hill, it would tend much to (*ablate' it. working. Ile of Weins had been alluded to by several hon. member. Esq., was called to the chair, and, in opening the proeembuirs, world be ready to 14-rte on *Web • committee, but Ile (Sir G. Grey) had much pleasure in °Wareing that sou that they had assembled on that occasion for the purpose he did not think the government were called within the last year or two about twenty thousand pound s iof repressing their feelings and sentiments ou a suheject closely oie to take the hill out of the hands of hi. hail been saved at the Yorkshire Assizes. Some arrange. I connected with their welfare as csothodice. (Cheep.) The right hen friend If it came to a second reading he should went had beets entered into by the judges and the greed bill that had been lately introduced into the House of be prepared to d , -eote hie :abash.n in all its elutes and he jury whereby the case. were taken according to an under- : Continuous wise not only dedined to impede the exercise of homed shut all objection, of detail *soul,' be remosed. He stood system of rotation, and the whole of the witness," w e re catholic charity, but to infringe the principle of civil and oduould Ville for the wconil reading of the bill. not brought up sit the commencement of the assizes, but , religious liberty, PA deur to them. (Cheers.) It was, both Mr. W. MILES said that the right hon. gentleman had were only present on those days when the re.pmeive cases in itself and all the circumstances connected with it, a gross gown the very beet moons why the hill oiliouhl emanate for which they were summoned were expected to come on, ! insult to the Roman catholics of Great Britain and Ireland. trona the government. 'The ought hon. gentleman haul Ile hoped that this system would be adopted to • consioleras (Cheers.) He hoped they would prove by their conduct 4-teemed to its very kaoline principle. namely, that the. Me extent. The country , ho begeed to say, was much in- that evening the heartfelt gratitude with which they Number,. of financial hoards elerted by Teter nem should slehted to those gentlemen who maid on the grand juries fur had received the laws which had been establishes! by not Is' instristrates, and he was depirOUo that the election the willingness they displayed to facilitate the administra- • his Holinees the lope for their spiritual benefit. elieuld Is' tree. Ile went even furthar. and said that he lion ofjuitier. lie assured hon. merabere that a eatisfutury : Ile hoard that as they were always sensitive of their poli o es they l not b d s 7 leßi SO of er reigiords us would prefer, there if was to be any notriction, that stub arrangement as ent would be made far as possible upon all reurntem shouldshould compel the per qualified tube elected points involved. ri heal pn ghts. (H vileg ear, hear.) wou He d shoul like to my th a i few l wa to la mairistratt a The effect of that, however, would he The bill was then mail • second time, and ordered to be respecting the many remarks and oba•rvations that had shut ths• i often been made regarding the act of his Holiness. It wet hn " . ""' l b'arth would he enrol...sal of magistrates committed An Wednesday next. hr. mulitied to perform their duties. All the mattirtrates APPRENTICES AND SERVANTS BILL. i , called the papal aggression. Now he (Mr. Blundell) thought who attended quarter sessions were not qualified fur sitting Mr. BAINES rose to muse the second reading of this that no term could he more improperly chosen. That act um the humor committee*, and in hisrounty that committee bill. He said that public atteution hurl lately been most woe entirely for their benefit, and for the benefit of ten was composed of nine magistrates who were elected fm a painfully drawn to several casesof cruelty towards servaat., millions of 'British subject.. (Loud cries of "hear, Isear.")lt certain number of years, three going out annually. In the and in particular the late case of the Sloane,. There had was not an act to extend the dominion of his Holinces—far flaancial 'wants the election of all would be annual, and been other CaSes of • einstlar description to that of the from it—(hear, hear)—it was merely a name for a diocese, mitt] who knew the hut about this descripti on of m a m ma , Slo.ones, but none equaling it in atrocity—none so di!. - and what offence could there he in that? He saw none. welsh! leo probably elected. If it could be shown that there gusting. Various attempts had been made to legislate for the Several gentlemen addressed the meeting in a similar was a Zeneral (editor in the country in favour of financial Protection of young persons from the cruelties to which drain. and • series of resolutions, claiming freedom in spis boards, the house would he bound to attend to it ; but if they were not unfrequently subject, but the law, as it ritual marten, asserting attachment to the constitution, the movement came from a portant,' place • and w a s gist did nut, he WAS SAM to my. sufficiently reach all classes, and denouncing the Ecelniutical 'Titles Assumption Bill as np for • particular purpose, and a ll th e petition. It WaS with the view of providing some remedy that he an insult to the Roman catholic,. of the kingdom. haying smassitsal from that plans andwere tranemitted undertook to submit the present bill to parliament. There been adopted, the meeting dispersed. • to the boards of guardians, it was a different ; was one defect in the law, made manifest in CHELTraillaM, OXFORD, AND LONDON JUNCTION , matter. la hie county the rate+ and expendirun the late trial of the Sloane'. It had been found lautwev.—Yeaterdav the first meeting he to settle 1 . t 13- Were small is proportion to the population. Lena the accounts I that however clear the obligation on the maeten pain of the thareholdren in this core sir was held before were published PO that the publie might know what the jor mistressee of young ',creme was to provide them the Master in Chancery Ilumphry, ulnas:dos of 140 mein expenditure was, while financial looted. might expend o with food for their necessary sustenance, the criminal . hers of the provisional committee, of whom the first list of 40,0001. in building a new priont without anybody bang I law afforded no means of redeem except in the cues of contributories consists, having been summoned, and at able to say a word about it. lie did not seso how county ! infants of tender years. It was considered that inasmuch tending cit er personally, by counsel, or solicitor. Mr. affairs could he batter or more econoinkally tarried on than 'as Jane Wilfred was not an infant of tender years. although Daniel, with Mr. C. Smith, appeare las counusl far the the shenow Were. e hada remedy of a civil description, yet she had uo pro- official menaaer. 'Mr. Ouodrhap and Mr. L. Ro o _e f se th ll e , y Mr W. MILES supported the amendment, observing %retina afforded her by the criminal law. This he con- Frecling, and others, as conned for mem bers that Sir George Grey had given the best readtll36 why this , rented w as not a desirable state of matters, for a pOrSOII in vieional coramittee. The list was only partially p m d e d Illra•ure should emanate from the government. Under the I the position of Jane Withred ought to hare the protetaion ' with, shout one half of it being a djourn e d until the s• present system there we. sufficient publicity, and it wee inu ;of the criminal law as well as an infant of tender years. It of Healey, now down fur hearing before the Lord Cl 'asc prarticable to administer thecounty funolsmore economically. was to meet this that be proposed the first clause. Again, , cello?, and which it is. expected will rule them, shall an el, HUME supported the bill, which sae no att ac k upon oby the law as it stood 130 ease of aweult. however violent it settled the question whether the payme nt f s hav e n the magistracy, whose interest it was tO disentanahel • might be , could be punished with hard labour, unless it provisional committeemen to meet Arm ando, d. fi n i c e n s e ihr i !tit from disputes with the ratepayers , could be brought under the category of felonious assaults . with liability under the act. Other ea were adjourned for Mr. WODEHOUSE opposed the bill, as not called for All that the law did was to treat uvula not the admisstiou of the parties all to their hav•Tr e s ha any general opinion, and as introducing into county felonious as eases of misdemeanour, the punishment for cation for shares, and fur the examination of g t h e aPPryli niannement • hody of men who could nut give proper which was simple imprisonment. This seemed to him a to prove the allotments. The petitioners for t w e iti l l .c i n ig stn uC attention to the subject. very serious defect. Another defect in the law was that the comp:int are the Revs. R. A. Barr 4t, A. Bh+Wn , d Mr. WILSON PATTEN should vote for the second there esisted means whatever of providing fur the costs , 11. G. !land, ore.ooo'dge. A :t e acher clei l'tc a n a . an reateer of the bill, there being • growing feeling that some of the prosecution in • ease of assault , miles, it were a f e le. : the name is one be air Wes r the Foliei m tor , tro ai t n h s e t ono shooatd he, pie s n to, th e r a ve l eer* over coma:, ex• nious one. Let thern take the case of dome Wilbert!. She company, a"c io am oun t . 'to 3 , 000! . Ther e a tat of peuseure ; but he thought the bilLehould he taker. up by I. told the law in this ease—that n a coals of prosecution arc -1,0 fasd withthemast ma r nac' t n a c ;e r'gliarnto.:ta tero 'c roceedare t not th th e government. allowed. Cate, however, must be proyided; and then- decision in the ease of Ca . that ' all c ales ELLIS likewise bore teatime... 4 to the ;minter desire fore it would be imposable fur her to have rade, as unless 't liable," has directed the wheal' for • control over county rates, nut through any &Artist el she meted to some charitable persons taking up the ease, with it at praeah • ofrltsAt. ld CATALOGUE OFFICR, 29. New Thritige-Mreel, Black- a% aod at the fahilitke Building, Hyde Park. Noi iCP.—Adseriormeols Intended for the First not s of a Quarter of a million of the Small catalosu•. In alm for the Foot F. liti ins tyre ll'uatra ed„ the Berman. and tr. neb CatnLig , es atanwil he rent i.. immediately, in or. !hat they os7 be classified and painted forthwith. I. Liter..larc and the Pine Attn. , G. Times of Publiz Amuse :. New 'imagism. I meet. 3. Acrienlturel Machines and 17. Railway and Steam boat lir . lloGhnuenm „ I ronnemenni. 4. Insur.noe Offices. 8. Cianallkathm of Trades and Howe Aireney —Hotel*. I Miami:al:iron, earns. and I,4lenit•Anitlee. holembe CaOtlE. ANU SUNS, Primer., Joint Contractors t I the Royal Coalmine:ln LORD JOHN THYINO IT ON AGAIN. PITNCII, of Morel 13. 0110., µ llsouotrefet; oodsit licotpel er. sod !ffelrmen. the erprelas. TO CORRESPONDENTS. Ad no to.rroento Intended foe Tb. Easton," Londas Evenisn paper, must be 5, the Otte, IN Bolrecie.actset, b 7 Two o'cluels os the day of pub.oatma. 111011 WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE Tnis ,r—hlotning, 90. Jiro Attansoon, Inh ?Gm. To.noaaow—Hornise. 110. dos. Afternoon, 110. 46m. LONDON, THURSDAY, MARCH 13. Mn. MILNER Ginsost will, we fear, have to ham mer for some time at the portion of our " territorial constitution," which he has undertaken to reform, crc he beats the agricultural clement out of it, or makes it amalgamate, as it ought, with the general interests and rights of property. The squires are too strongly entrenched in their predominance over counties, to he shoved from it by any effort short of "a pull altogether" of that same majority which carried free trade. Nevertheless, some progress was made yesterday. The same party which shelved the bill last year, by referring it to a committee, of which seven stanch tory members went resolutely against the feeling of parliament, of government, and of the country ' has indeed recurred this year to the same dodge, but no longer so eftietual a one. The com mittee is to hear no evidence. The Home Minister is to make one of it and it is to be hoped Sir JAMES GRAHAM may make another. And hopes may fairly be entertained that a bill may result from it, goring ratepayers in counties that control and that station, of which they have been so unreasonably and so contumeliously deprived. We cannot well conceive to what kind of a future agricultural magnates look. The result of each year is an augmentation of the non-agricultural tion, a diminution of the agricultural, a stride of the commercial and moneyed interests, and a retrogression of the other. This is not only taking place throughout the land, but in some half dozen counties, constitut ing of themselves more than one-third of the entire population of the kingdom, the agricultural interest is as nothing compared with its rival. Yet even in these tho landlord party will not abate one jot of their ascendancy. They will maintain their jurisdiction, keep the police in their own hands, levy on the occupier what rates they think fit, and utterly ignore either as to the electoral franchise or the local taxation, the claims and rights of the great majority of the property and intelligence of these counties. And with all this arrogance is mingled the ' most consummate blindness. For whilst the land lords refuse to allow the owners of other property than land to wield county authority, even in industrial districts, they arc literally giving away, or allowing the government to steal by degrees, the very foundation on which local influence is built. Go- vernment, to the applause of the squires, have already I taken away from them the burden of prosecutions, and of a large class of prisoners. The remainder of I the criminal burdens, and by consequence of the criminal jurisdiction, will follow in good time. Sir CHARMS Woof, proposed to relieve them of pauper lunatics, and Sir GEORGE. GREY will one day, no doubt, rid them of the trouble of attending to rural police. 'That, too, will be centralised, as in Ireland. In this respect, no one has struck so sweeping a blow at what he pleases to call the territorial constitution ' as Mr. DisitiEt.t himself, who, by proposing to fling en maw one half of the local Surthens on the consolidated fund. sought to do more towards cen tralising and Frenchifying all influence and autho rity in the country than any foe to the aristocracy, be he despot or democrat. Yet nothing is plainer than that the government of this country cannot remain long in the hands of the territorial party. Even without electoral reform, or even with that moderate extension of it that is now inevitable, the agricultural influence must diminish in the government. And vet the squires are giving up to the government what they might impart with much more advantage to other interests in the same counties with them. Was landed property to sympathise with other property, were the harriers of education and prejudice more removed, a strong and compact local interest would arise, which might defy the central power, or the democratic power either. In such an alliance men of birth and estate would always be respected, always hold their own predominance. But the squires will not meet their fellow-citizens, will not amalgamate with men of other classes. The evidence before the county rates commission suffi eiently shows, that even our * Poor Law Boards are too rough for the gentry, who shrink from contact with business men. And that class, whose peculiar glory it was to mingle with and talk to all ranks, now shrink into their llynereen, or female circles, in stead of having the roughness and openness of pub lic life. No Roman patrician ever scorned the forting; and as soon as the Roman Patriciate did do so, it lost its freedom and its privileges, and sunk under the sway of a tyrant. The French system established in 1830 had some excellent arrangements, although neither the monarch nor his minister would lend themselves to carrying them nut. They—that is, Loris PitittrrE—were all for centralisation, which produced the convulsion of 1848. and had rendered it incurable. One of the great institutions of 1830 was that of depart mental councils to vote and control local ex penditure. These bodies or boards were to be elected, of course, from the most capable country gentlemen. And amongst the categories established of dignitaries, without haying reached which no one could he a peer, was that of having been elected to the departmental council. Thus the monarch might make the country gentleman a peer, but he could not do so, unless the squire had so far acquired the confidence of his fellows as to have been elected to the departmental council. But, unfortunately, the centralising government would give the depart , mental council nothing todo. Andhence the want of that political instruction, independence, and weight, only to be found in countries with free local institutions, local development, local independence. England has a great deal of all three. But, of late, things have taken a dangerous course. The gentry have held aloof, have constituted more and more a caste professing to have and to guard exclusive interests, and either subjecting or repelling the classes around f ad r titonm p g e e ke on t Tot i hffe c oy, n il. )vt, reeo t :enererd x.nmeantenaipoi may them. For the sake of the gentle class this it should be put an end to. Distinct ion will remain, aii th d t in the r e concernss ) h e will h oughta n experience, there that A honesty s o t f olir. s itirittinGtellitliiogeNn.ces bill,. be styled a Manchester one, we are confident that it will be even more salutary and will be more wel comed in agricultural counties. In a cabinet council held in Berlin on the I Ith, it was resolved unanimously, says the Nene Prosssisrfic Zeititlig, to draw up a memorandum giving a full account of the demands of Austria and Prussia, and to transmit this paper to the cabinet of Vienna. A memorandum much to this effect, the Kolner Zeitany says, has already been prepared by one of the members of the administration. Thnt journal gives the heads of this document as follows : The official proposal of the board of Nine is not therein denied, but the consent of the small states is insisted on. The demand for the '•Parity" is prominent. With respect to the collective entrance of Austria, i t i s said that Prussia supports it neither directly nor indirettly. Prussia yields it, but will not enter the Bund THE BEITISII ASiOCIArION.—The meeting of the with the rest of her provinces which are now emphasis is is F l re oi n d ch on p t ro h :et c i , t me is ai a ve lso ent m m e n u c t e io u n . ed ith . Association at Ipswich is to commence on Wednes N ou p t reference to Prussia, greofatietm. day, July the 2ad, and extend over seven or eight days, unu'inoton the supattioann d tlit t t a prussia might that such a duty would be subordinated to higher state The officers selected by the London council are : President —Professor Airy, Astronomer Royal. Vice-Presidents—The Bishop of Norwich, Professor Ilenolow, Professor Sedg- interests. On this last point we are less confident than on wick, Sir J. P. Boileau, Bart., Lord Rendlesham, M.P., the preceding particulars. Sir W. F. F. Middleton, Bart., J. C. Cobbold, Esq., M.P., When the post left Berlin a conflagration was T. B. Western, Esq. Treasurer—J. B. Alexander, Esq. consuming the meeting-hall of the Upper House of Local Seeretariesl-C. May, Esq., W. D. Sims, Esq., G. A. the Prussian Parliament. The fire broke out at Biddell, Esq., G. Ransome, Esq. There is no doubt, from 8 p.m. on the 10th. the presence of all the most distinguished scientific men fhe free trade question is again much occu_pving th r oughout the world in Englandduring the ensuin g s ummer , the attenti on o f t h e G erman papers. M. von Ptord in consequence of the Great Exhibition in Hyde Park, that ten, in answer ton question in the Munich Second this will be the most brilliant meeting the association has Chamber, as to whether he was prepared to re,ject ever had. The local secretaries have already received the the overtures of Austria on the Zull union project, names of several hundred intending visitors, amongst whom eulogised the Zollverein, but added that a more COM. are Lueign Buouoparte, Prince of Canino; Sir R. Fehensivecommercialsystem,whieh should includeall chison, sir la B,che, Sir W. Jardine, Sir C. Lye'', Germany and all Austria, was necessary to make Ger- Sir D. Brewster ; l'rofessors Daubeny, (of many a great comm erc i a l p ower . Th a t th e Z o ll vero i n rite). Owen, Ansted, and the celebrated naturalist, M. L or - , we/if/004,1nd that the system he alluded to, which was rillier, a relative of the late Baron Curter.—Bury Post. l fully explained in the Bavarian memorandum PARLIAMENTARY COMMITTEES. SMITHFIELD MA MITT REMOVAL BILL.—The spied eom mittee on standing order; have decided that the standing orders in this case may be dispensed with, dot the parties be r ermittcd to proceed with their bill an inserting the notice once for three weeks in succession in tie newspapers, and that the committee of selection Ise instructed not to appoint the first meeting of the committee on the bill fur an earlier day than the lot of May. LIVERPOOL DOCKS BILL.—EMIORANTS . 101/E.—Mr. F. Mackenzie, on Tuesday, reported from ills committee on group 2 of private bills, thnt the parties promoting the Liverpool Ducks (alteration of management, &c.,) Bill, had stated to the committee that the evidence of the Bev. Wm. Welsh, John Lockett, James Tyrcr, Jesse Ilartley, henry Primmer, John Bromley Moore, Willitun :feisty Duncan, Jame+ Aikin, Thomas Littledale, and the production by the said Thomas Littledale of the plans nod estimates for an Emigrants' Home, and the books of the dock committee relating thereto, was essential, in order to enable them to establish their case before the committee; and it having been proved that application had been made to the above named parties, but that their attendance could not be pro cured without the intervention of the house, he had been instructed by the committee to move house that such several parties be ordered to attend tte said committee forthwith.—Ordered. STANDING ORDERS COMMITTEE. ULM/LI - PIONS IMPORTED ON TTEADAY. 1. That, in the ewe of the Smithfield Market Removal • Bill, the standing orders ought to be dispensed with: That the parties be permitted to proceed with their bill nn inserting the endless once in the London Gazette, and for three successive weeks in the newspaper, and that the com mittee of selection be instructed not to appoint the first meet but of the committee on the bill fur an earlier day than Thurs day the lot of May. 2. That in the ease of the Bangor and Caernarvon Railway Bill Petition, for additional provision, the standing orders ought nut to be dispensed with as regards clause two, hut that the parties be permitted to introduce their remaining provisions, if the committee on the bill shall think fit. That the committees on this and the preceding bill du examine, in the first place, how far such orders have been complied with, and do report the same to the house un the report of the bill. 3. That, in the ease of the Dundee Police Petition, fur further extending the time fur the second reading of the bill, the standing orders ought to be dispennsl with:—That the time for the second reading of the bill be further extended to Friday the 24th instant. 4. That, in the ease of the Kensington Improvement Bill Petition, for dispensing with standing order No. 151. the said standing order ought to be dis pureedwith:—That the parties he permitted to proceed with their bill. 4. That, in the case of the Magneto-Elec tric Telegraph Company Bill Petition, fur dispensing with standing order Nn. 161, the said standing order ought to be dispensed with:—That the par ties be permitted to proceed with their bill. 6. '1 hat in the ease of the East stonehouse Waterworks Bill Petition, for dispensing with standing order No. 152, the said standing order ought to be dispensed with:—That the parties be permitted to proceed with their bill. 7. That in the ease of the Liverpool Docks (Altenitiun of Management, &e.) Petition, for additional provision, the standing orders ought not to be dispensed with. S. That in the ease of the Charing-cross Bridge Petition the standing orders ought to he dispensed with:—That the parties he pi...minisl to proceed with their bill, provided the same be presented not later than three clear days after the presentation of this re port. O. That in the case of the North British Railway Petition, for dispensing with standing or ders Noe. 105 and 166, the said standing orders ought to he dispensed with. That the parties be permitted to be heard on their petition before the committee on the bill, notwith standing the same shall have been deposited later than seven clear days after the second reading of the bill. 10. That, in the case of the Great Northern Railway (No. 1) Bill, petition of Henry Hunt, for dispensing with standing order No. 101, the said standing order ought not to be dispensed with. IL That, in the ease of the Great Northern Railway (No. I) Bill, petitiun of Rector, &e., of St. Mary's, llonewy, fur dispensing with standing order No. 105, the said standing order ought nut to be dispensed with. First, third, fourth, fifth, sixth, eighth, and ninth resolutions agreed to. Report to lie ou the table. FRANCE PARIS, WEDNESDAY EVENINO. The three regiments which have received orders to quit Paris, were marched out to-day to the Champs de Mars, in order to be reviewed by the President ; but the weather was so dismal that Louis Napo leon, not caring to appear on the ground with a drenched plume to his cocked hat, and sit shivering on horseback before troops who had received ex press orders that they were not to cry under arms, sent an orderly from the Elysee at two o'clock to tell the colonels of the regiments to march back their men to the barracks, and fold up their colours for a serener day. The review is adjourned to the first re turn of sunshine. I am enabled this evening to communicate to you an important resolution which has been adopted by the Board of Professors of the College of France. The professors met to-day to the number of 21, and passed a vote of censure upon the lectures of M. Michclet, by a majority of 17 against 4. M. Michelet declares that he will close his course and resign his chair in consequence. The students arc furious, and menace a demonstration to-morrow. According to the (*.mat/tut/mind, M. Bcrryer has presented a proposition to the Assembly for the reimbursement in four years of the tax of the 45 centimes. To cover the deficit, M. Bcrryer proposes the re-establishment for four years of the salt tax, and an increase of the duties on foreign salt. This motion has made a great sensation. You are aware that the direct taxes were increased in 1818 by the provisional government 43 per (vitt. This is what is called the impost of the 43 centimes. The propo sition of M. Berryer to reimburse the taxpayers for this imposition is the most severe censure which could possibly be proposed against the government of the revolution of February. Hence the Mountain to-day were furious, and at the close of the Assembly's sitting some members of the Extreme Left placed on the bureau a motion which I understood was in tended as a pendant to M. Berryces, and proposes the reimbursement of the billion of francs which was voted in MI by the government of the restoration to the endyr:s. Thus parties are engaged in erecting batteries at each other and gratifying their political spite, instead of doing the business of the nation. Themain obstacle to the formation of a definitive ministry is the indispensability of M. Achille Fould to the President as a minister of finance. Now the Assembly has shown, by the composition of the com mittee on the budget, a decided reluctance to ad mit a repetition of the Fould administration of the financial department. Fould's mode of hiding the decayed side of the melon is deemed by the com . mare mom ingenious than useful ; and m future it is evident that the confidence of the Assembly will be given to none but a straightforward statesman, , who is prepared to waive plausibility, show up frank accounts, and carry out sweeping reforms in ; his department. The grand evil of the present sys , tem evidently lies in saddling the state with the Ma l rs a h n i r r ui nc e ed de to la y u o ru u, ne u ri pz tlia ttr it d w ezase i total responsibility in all enterprises of public works. in coofntetmhe- plation to bestow the vacant dignify upon General Execimam, Grand Chancellor of the Legion of Honour. The 21fonikor of this morning contains a decree to that effect. The dignity of marshal, con ferred as a reward for time-honoured services, could not be more aptly bestowed, for Excehnans was held by Napoleon for one of his most deservi officers, and destined, in common with Foy, Geard, and Clause'. nearly forty years ago, to receive the baton which has only just been put into his aged grasp. The last brilliant feat of arms before the Restoration, in ISIS was performed under the walls of Paris by General Excelmans, who by a gallant dash cut off and destroyed two Prussian regiments of the ad vanced guard of the allied armies at Roqueneourt. Eager to follow up this blow, the general pointed out to the provisional government how the rush ventures of the enemy might be turned to his destruction ; but the game was up, and the daring achievement remained without result. Of the six surviving mar shals of France, Soult, Gerard, Sebastian, Reille, Jerome Bonaparte, and Excelmans, there is not one perhaps, who, in case of war, could take active ser vice, so aged and infirm are these veteran cam paigners The dignity of marshal must therefore re , mrded at present rather as an honour of retire ment'than a rank with active duties of command. M. Sallandrouxe, the French commissitry-general fur the London Exhibition, has been in l'aris fin• the lass two days, to explain the result of his negotia tions with the royal commission, and to appease the discontent of French exhibitors at the reduction of the s q uare feet allowed them to make room for passages. M. Sullandrouze attended a meeting of the central jury yesterday, at the Northern Railway terminus, and gave all explanations required. To night he returns to London. A singularcause has just been decided by the Court of Appeal. An action lad been brought by the heirs of two illegitimate daughters of the Count of Charo lais against the Duke of Aumale, who inherited the count's estate through the Duke of Bourbon and the Prince of Coud , . The court confirmed the judgment against the plaintiffs given by the Tribunal of First Instance. It turned out that they had received a pension of 2,000 fr. a year from Louts XVIII. Among the important alterations making at the Louvre is one which will rejoice all friends of the tine arts. The long gallery, whose side-lights have fretted so many picture gazers with their treacherous reflections, is ut last to be lit from the roof. As I passed through the court I oltserved some workmen removing the pedestal which once supported the bronze equestrian statue of the Duke of Orleans, and which later recorded an inscription to the victims of February. They told me it was to be replaced by a handsome fountain. Rouen is becoming quite an important port, in consequence of the improved state of the Seine's na vigation, and brigs of good burthen trade therefrom regularly with the Levant, which saves an immensity in land-carriage. The difference is said to be as much as from 60fr. to 130 fr. the ton. The sitting of the Assembly was insignificant. A string of motions of no interest were adopted, re jected, or adjourned without discussion. The house broke up early. The budget-committee was occupied yesterday with the budget of justice. At the request of M. Schneider, the Minister of Commerce, the discussion on the Sugar Duty Bill, which was to continence to-day, has been postponed to Monday next. It was reported last night that the National Guard of Strasbourg had been dissolved. General Maginot has resigned his scat in the National Assembly. The Bourse was calm. The Fives closed at 04.15, with a fall of 5 centimes 4 and the Threes, at 57.85, with a rise of 5 centimes on yesterday. GERMANY. which had issued from the conferetteCS, WM% Wt . / ; and that he was anxious to retain the good chiefly with a view to acquiring the better, to which object he should devote all ins energies. M. Munteuffil, in answer to a remonstrance on the free trade gm,. tion from Elberfeld, seems to express himself uith studied ambiguity. A programme has been handed about within the last tew days at Hanover, which is conNidored u bume on whieh a 'toll union with the Zollverein niav brought about. It pnqxsies-Ist, That raw im m i n ,„ should he admitted duty free ; 2nd, A itiod. i;de approximation of the Steuerverein duties on colonial produce to those of the Zollverein; adoption of the 10 per cent tariff on mau factures ; 4th, A gradual equalisation of dol., on home and foreign raw augur.; ; sth, Abolition of transit duties ; 6th, Abolition of all passage dues within the bounds of the convention, and an eilualku tion of the duties on wine, tobacco, brandy, : I nd sugar within the same limits. The whole force stationed at Lubeck, amoutititip s • in the whole to 4,000 men, inclusive of artillery, th, correspondent of the Kutner Zetinny says, h ave n. _ aired orders to break off towards Bohemia. and h v the shortest was-, through Prussia and Saxony, The Deutsch; Reform will appear heneci;,ra,ad under the title of' the Pretessioche isituny. THE KAFFIR WAR. SUCCESS OF THE 11111T1s11 TROOPS. ARRIVAL OF THE BOSPINITS 11101 TUE CAPE OF Goob 1101'E. The Bosphorus, screw steam-vessel. Capt. J. Vine Hall, arrived at Plymouth last evening at In o'ebsk, having made the itassage from the Cape in thirty-eight days, including stoppages. She left the Cape on February 2; Sierra Leone on the 21st February, haying stopped there four days to coal. She Itft Cape St. Vincent on the 28th of February. The feeling at the Cape on the leaving of the Bos phorus was that Sir Harry Smith would very shortly reduce the Kaffirs to subjection. Troops and inom:Y were, however, much wanted. The extracts from t h e papers will show that the gallant commander n3ll bent on taking decisive steps. There were 3.05) troops there, and 2,000 Hottentots, under Sir Harry Smith, who was still in King William's Town.—The great fear that Fort White and Fort Cox would Mil for want of provisions had ceased, as Sir it. Smith was moving towards them, and would undoubtedly soon open communications with Fort Hare. Pato remained faithful to the English, and had gua . mnteed to keep the line of road open between the Buffalo mouth and King William's Town. When Sir Harry Smith left Fort Cox, as stated in our last accounts, he rode all the way escorted by 300 of the Cape corps, an ample pro ' tection. It is true that there was some occasional tiring by the Kaffirs, but with little or no effect. Many of the Katfirs, however, were themselves shut. The Cape corps, Hottentots, are quite staunch to the government, and no had feelings existed among them. Them are no soldiers at Cape Town or at Graham's Town, every one being sent into Kaffraria. The only engagement of importance which had taken place since the Bth of January was brought on by an attack by the Kaffirs on Fort Hare and tho town of Alice, in which they were defeated with great loss. The Guvernor-General was waiting until all his levies should have arrived before commencing operations on a great scale against the enemy. People at the Cape were confident that with his present forces Sir 11. Smith would quell the outbreak within three or four, or, at farthest six months. The native prophet timlangeni is not now in so much esteem with his countrymen as previous to the outbreak. Ile then possoised great influence over the chief Sandilli, and assured hint that the English bullets would melt into water, that the English would be transformed into cattle, and tho trees would become Kaffirs, and thus the English could be easily and effectually extirpated from the Cape. When Sandill's men fell dead in the field ho lost faith in the stn het, who cunningly attributed their deaths to the Keith's purr having fired the first shot, which was contrary to his previous admo nitions. A number of Kaffirs, many of them spits, wets imprisoned in Graham's Town. On her arrival in Plymouth Sound, the Bosphorus was brought direct alongside the pier of the Great Western I) ilk Company, and the mails were at once landed, in charge of Mr. Markes, the postmaster of Plymouth, and conveyed to the station of the South Devon Railway Company. As the ordinary train would not have started from Plymouth before 6h. iil)m. this morning, the officials of the railway, agreeably to prior arrangement by the directors, at once had a special train prepared to bring on the mail, despatches, and such :passengers as were disposed to avail themselves of it. This train was ready for starting at about a quarter to two this morning, and by this arrangement nearly twelve hours were gained in the de livery of the letters in London. pled the vessel gone on to Southampton, her letters could not have arrived in London until some seven or eight hours at the least later than they were received. The Bosphorus lirings a heavy mail, in 14 boxes and 8 small bags, in charge of Commander Wool ridge, who speaks in very high terms of the vessel. Captain Armstrong, of the lath Regiment, on official duty, came in the Bosphorus from the Cape. Staff- Surgeon Berry came a passenger from Sierra Leone, and Mr. 'Falvey is a passenger fi'om the Cape. Thu Centaur, Commodore Fanshawe, and the Dolphin were at Sierra Leone. The Teviot, royal mail steam vessel, left Cape St. Vincent nine hours before the Bosphorus. The mail included several boxes for the Admiralty and for other departments of the government, and many seamen's letters. The Cape of Good Hope Obserrer, of Jan. 28, says: The intelligence from liaffirland is that the governor would move, it wail supposed, yesterday morning, upon an encampment of the liattirs on the De be Flats, between Fort Cox and Fort White. It is trusted by all that the Kuffirs will here attempt a decided stand. The desultory operations of last war were the strength of the euemy. They scarcely once offered our troops a hope of entering into fair contest with them. Wearisome marches and counter-marches, with the position of our enemy very often unknown to us, were the characteristics of the contest. The Prophet has so far worked upon their hop..s thin time, that Ilerrnanus and his people had the boldness to attack even the town of Fort Beaufort, and they happily met with a fit repulse. Ile has, it is said, held out hopes to them of successfully encountering the troops on the open field—a proceeding in which the military power of the civilised man when opposed to that of the savage, will not fail to as its superiority. The prospect, thus, of some effective proceedings against the Latin appears nearer. The speedy arrival of the vo lunteers sent from the west hail much encouraged his ex cellency, and they would form probably a part of the force with which Sir 11. Smith would proceed. The movement, it is stated, was of the greater importance as it would con vey relief and the means of communication to Forts Cox and White. Aletter from Graham's Town, of which en extract is published below, speaks very despondingly of the extent of the disaffection attributed to the Hottentots. The people at the station of Theopolis arc said, it is feared upon unex ceptional authority, to be disaffected to the English, and to be engaged in some conspiracy against them. The number of persons ut this station is not large, certainly, but each addition is painful that is made to the distrust which exists between the several portions of the community in the cast. From Kut Oliver reports are more favourable. The Frontier Times states that 400 Hottentots are in camp at Buxton, under Field-Cornet Botha, and 300 are at Fort Armstrong. Of the loyalty of these, no suspicion is men tioned, a circumstance in the highest degree encouraging. Field-Cornet Botha is the officer named in his excellency's recent proclamation, commented upon last week. Some partielars of the proceedings at Theopulis are given ' from the Fronlier Times. The employment of the pores-gang at Graham's Town for the compulsory service of coloured persons only, is a most unfortunate business. There can he no doubt that on the coloured people at this time, within the border, de pend.; much of the safety of the colony. Some fears arc entertained of their faithfulness, exaggerated perhaps, but yet saving at least a measure of foundation. Hence the present is not a time, if any time may be permitted for the purpose, to make improper distinctions between the races, or to tempt them to view the whites otherwise than as friends and equals. Tho Cape of (deed Hope Exchange Gazette, of Feb. 1, says : -' Ti;:.: lt , t post brought n?ws of another success achieved over the Kaffir enemy. On the 21st ultimo, at 9 a.m., Fort Hare and Alice Town were attacked by a very strong force, estimated variously at from three to six thousand men* f I 1,. fight 7110 U hey. of v den haul Lei Lin fon To,