The Express. — London, England, 1849-01-22 00:00:00

k t F 1 ' f t tan penes. Beau without alteration in prim. Pats Bute deb.. Oats were is good coaditios, stA were geld at the prices of last week. Tons, Jas. 20.-We have rathee Sewer simples of geed Cora showing et oar market this day, sad the pries fd flask snide gentians measly the ems ss Ise the last two err dull weeks. Pettiest prima% Wheat. white,44e. to 475. pee imps panes: red, 41a to 44e. Barley, 'salami, 241 c es Ws. ; g, 21a. to 233. Beans, 33.. to Me. Malt, 665. to Oates ea. a 9.1. per stew of 141 b. Thar, Mle. to Ws. per mak et Naha ihnthelts Stm.l9.-We have to report smother dull market Z IA, mad we Pub test ao lower.es Indian otistesCerarzolos..peer qr., at fiiiiimerey et Tenney, :-Wheat, white. 245. to 965. ed.; gala. M Ohs. 6d. per 2801bs. Oats, 91. to 10c 6d. per , 12a. to 185. per 224ibs. Indian Com, Ma Wk. p ub s. Oatmeal. lla tolls. 9d. per cwt. Flour, Inomfie. 14e. to 1i s. per cwt. DRUMM, Jaa. 16.-We have variable, but sot wooolooo - weather, sad the usual labour of the enema is pia' ea la the ordiaary war. The planting of early Potatoes, sometime, and Witellsolleg, are all ia progress to ra fell aztest of tanner yeas. We have, for the mews, rather shove war usual supply of grain, owing, no deal*, to parties not *an disposed to wait tin release of bonded grain ea the let' ef February -Wheat matinees to he of better quality, sad in better condition, that earlier in the season. Prime samples maintain their value, whilst inferior are a dull sale, end 3d. lower. Flour : Th se is some difficulty at present in quoting prices; country millers, es well as dealer., selling es best they can. Amoebae, 27e. to 28e. per barrel. Barley must be quoted 3d. to 64. lower, and is sot readily sold. Parcels very dull. Ohs; Prime potato pretty nearly melanin value, whilst other qualities are Id. to 24. lower. Oatmeal is fully 34. to 4d. lower on the week, and the traesactions are all large. Indian Corn sells slowly, at 71. 10e. to 71.16 e. pelf Coax,. lan. 19.-The weather during the week has been chaoseable and mild. Trade continues exceedingly dull and prices of all descriptions of grain mat ifest a tendenty . to decline rather than to sdvence. We continue to receive rather large supplies of foreign pen. Those of home growth are trifling. liscept where quality has produced a varia tion, we have very little change in the value of say descrip tion of grain. la prepared Wheat we have nothing dr i p sad, with the exception of hooded, the teadeney is to lower prices. Barley remains unaltered is value. In the prepared article we have no business to report. Oats also are nomi nally the same. In prepared Oats no transactions have taken place. The inquiry for the article is languid, at lower raw, the value of whites this week being about 10s. 31 per barrel bee on board. A little business has bees done is Flour at late price, but the trade in the article is far from militated. Indian Corn has again raced d in value to the extent of 6a. per ton. the extreme quotations for prime Corn being 71. 12a. Bd. per tin; while exc-Dent Portuguese Cora can be had at 71. 10s. ; the current rates for ordinary qualities being 71. to 71. fte. Indian Meal is quite neglected. lammucx. Jan. 20.-The weather is mild sad moist, without any appearance of frost. The supplies of grain for the week from the farmers are lair. The price keeps mead), with plenty of buyers. A large striae! of Indian Corn and Wheat. Country millers buy but sparingly ; they u• work fag of their stocks previous, to the new law of free trade, white they thick to purchase on better terms. A good re• Lit trade in all coarse articles •f food. The following are pentad prises, but for foreign produce lees money would be taken : Wheat, red. 141 per stone; white. 144. to 16d. Oafs, 701. to Bd. Barley, 94. to 9,1 d. Galan Indian Corn, 81.2 a. 114. to 81. 6s. per ton. Dwell, 81. to 81 2s. 6d. ; American, yellow, 81.; white, 81. Irish Flour. 325. per tag ; Americus, 30e. per barrel. Oatmeal, ill. ; Aye meal, 6L ; Barleymeal, W. per ton. WaraltlMlD, Jan. 20.-Our supplies of farmers' grain dace Ilatunlay have been the smallest we have received in say week since harvest, and the trade, in consequence, is confined to trallactions in foreign corn and a few parcels of Oats, which are brought by brat from alto interior. The value of country Wh e at is nearly nomind, sad our millers, finding increasing difficulty in gutting the Flour, buy foreign (whether free or in bon4) with great caution. The trade in these articles ban therefore been exceedingly limited, at last week's rates. Our former quotations for Batley may be re pelled, but Oats moat to noted lower by 3d. per band for all bat the beet stealing qualities. Flour is in very slow de mand, at the prices of lest week. In Indian Com but little badness has been passing, although some holders have pressed sales at a doilies of Is. to ls. 64. per barrel. The following are the present quotations: - Budded, new: Wheat, millers', per 20 rat., 235.8 d. to 24c 6d.. *hipping. 20e. to 225. Barley, malting, per 16 stone, 135. to 16s. ; grinding, 1 la. 911. to 13e. Oats, white, per 14 Memo, Bs. 9d. to 9a 94. ; black, Bs. 9d. to 9s. Dried , end Mika: Irish Wheat, mann' per 20 stone, 265. to 117 e. Od.; shipping, 2'2s. to 245. ; P olish Odessa (in bond), lie. Od. to 26e. 64. ; French. red, 275. Od. to 275. ed. Barley, gprindhaz , per 18 et , 12e. 94. to 14s. Oats, white, per 14 Mow, lbs. 04. tolls. ; black, 9s. 9d. to 10e. Od. =6, per sack, 365. to 375., seconds, 345. to 345. 64.; ' 3os. to 31c ; fourths, Us. to 24a. Indian Corn, Danube, per 20 stone, 19s. to 20e. 04. ; American, yellow IMi red, 18s. to 19e.; Spanish and Portuguese, 185. to white, 18s. ; damaged for cattle, 12s. to 16s. ; balm Com Meal, per cwt., 9a. 3d. to 9s. 64. Oat meal, pet cwt., lls. to Ile. 64. Bran, per 6 stone, 3s. 61. to 36. Bd. IRON.—GL. sootv, Jan. 19.—Oar market has been rather stiffer this week, with an insprov,-d feeling both for pig and bar ; the priee of the former is 465. 6d. to 46e. mixed NM.; and ter all No. 1.465. to 465. 6d. prompt ash, f. o. b. ; and of the latter, 61. 10s. to 61. The demand is steady, without being active, end sellers do sot appear anxious to realise. The stock of pig Iron is stiff acesumulating. HOPS.—Bonorow MAZIEST.—MIIIII“. Pattenden and Ilißith report that theta Is a better demand dilate prices with but • ww7 short wapply of good flops a offer. CATTLE, &e. Bmminno, Two o'Clock. The supply of Beasts is rather larger than on Monday last. Trade u exceedingly dull, and it is with great difficulty that late quota. ions are realised ; halted, on the average, primps may be celled the turn lower. The number of Sheep le very small, but the demand is still less. We have a very slow trade, at lower prices. Calves ars scares ; Wade is brisk for them ; a °ham rue readily makes Is. 4d. The weather b^ing rather solder is ist favour of the Pork trade ; choicest qualities make a little more money. Frees Germany and Holland we have 132 Beasts, 290 Sheep, sad 18 Calves ; Norf .1k and Suffolk, 1,800 Besets; Leif:a/s -and Northampton, 7.0; Lincoln, 200; sad &mated, 200. Pie MOMS of Übe. a 41. ad. tot ems 0111ba 5. ff. s. d. 1105 Scam. theetards. 3 1 4 3 1106 t De 5.4113.455. Rs. 0 0 Ist Obomborr 3 4 0 Doi Lawne15........ 3 1 4 11100•11 IPAtili Bomb 3 3 4 De. de. Oben ......0 0 1.45 ........ 4 •4 i awes end IKCOII 55115115 11 5 4 54 1 Dot de. lbws .. .. 0 0 Wliiii:i itai:iiiils 4 45, Imola ... .. ... . 0 0 Womb 54 wiffisi. 3.121; ibser sad Led^ 17.430; Cable IT :11%50. Per Seturdeee Ne last pep Elie erpreMS. TM mils. via Mweellleh te thelladiteetimm. - the e C•3 1 !"t liail-Mwe. he, will he Each ap an the emeia A r4 the MI Jaw wm The mils he TV% ie nt Llsbee. lledebi. Culls, mai Oftweltas M owls wpm the et the 37th Jia. The mille he MUM Yawns. eat the 1743.1 Mahe, wi awilehe at the waft et the 17th Jai. The =be tar Iffew NMI Weise. Ma thew% Lai, mad New Sae/ma will be meth tip es the maim at the elet Jai. TM wile Mr the West Omit d Atha mad Miles wIR he maim tip as the itwgatthild lta et Us Wet Ma WM. tribulleg Oeheah wed abaft teed meltatiog thaw far = 2l ll, hemithltisareges. Clemble. mil Tin. will le mule up milts seeesiwg it lie MW The rib Mr Ihehire. erl Imam him ea he made up as the mit. etas ith 1119 Mei forabiller. /1/0/4 &OM the latim Wrath !gni, MIS. Ogles, MIK mersim Time-Itaegi awl ae, Rewlhasartoo. wtLL be =Me was the al the Nth Ftb. TO CORRESPONDENT& • fima Ur gam.* Soures•=4 by irroZek ea tar: , •=stbsa! MOB WATZI a? 141110011 INDS& Ton Day —liasoksg.ssa. Ns • aliftsses, 7 Waved 1. Tarsossar—galas 111 =aslant 1 a Aisruss,lllEls. I. LONDON, MONDAY, JAN. 22. A mesons change has come over the political rela tions of the metropolis and the provinces. From the time that the nation began to awaken out of the infa tuation which led it to recall Camel; IL without conditions, to the commencement of the Reform Bill agitation, London took the lead in all liberal move ments. The London liberals were the most forward in their opinions, the moat perfect in their organisa tion, the most prompt in action. Their proceedings roomed the emulation of the provinces, their declara tions gave the tone to the universal liberal party. About 1830 a Birmingham union for the first time moved pari passes, or rather somewhat in advance of the metropolitan reformers. Since that time the latter have gradually sunk into • comparatively passive date, contented to receive impulses from the provinces instead of communicating them. London was the lad place in the kingdom to take up the corn law repeal question in earned. Had this change stopped short at establishing Leat:equality among the Lorton and provincial —with introducing more reciprocity in giving and receiving opinions and impulses—it would have been quite natural, easily accounted for, and desirable. The centralisation of political activity in the metro polis was the consequence and sign of deficient information in the provinces. As soon as the out-ports came to vie with London in the extent and variety of their commercial transactions, and ever since new and populous centres of ali enated wealth, enterprise, and intelligence, sprang up in the manufaetaring districts, greater ,in dependenos and activity of political opinion has neces sarily pervaded the provinces. The assertion of a greattr equality in political movements was en in evitable consequence. The improvement of turn like roads and stage-coach communication did much, the introduction of the railroad system has done more, to THE EXPRESS, MONDAY EVENING, JANUARY 22. 1849. wile► hided e deep bat tranquil eurrest. Fifty loner down, at Miner, it first becomes navi gable, at least for timber-rafts At Waseerabini, 30 miles abo►e Ramnaggar t it *ea measured by Lieut. MscArritirt (the oompamon of ELPRIPSTONE), in the meth of July, when, of course, nearly at the fuileet, and found to be very nearly a Mile and a halt wide, with a depth of fourteen feet, and a ca l esut MN* swept pest at the rate of five mil's an hear. At Issaligur Bunn= saw it in the low season of Ihtintry, and wren then it was 300 yards wide and aims hot deep. New it was against each a natural obstacle as this, I kettlied by the presence on the other aide of an army of 40,00' men, ensconced behind masked benefice, and extending their fortified piequsta across the stream, and to an island is the middle of it, that the efforts of tke British were to be directed. Judging by the aid of snob evidence as we possess, the valour of the men is entitled to more praise than the skill of the general. There was undoubtedly a needless sacrifice of life, and apparently a very culpable de gree of incompleteness in those matters of detail and regulation, which can alone preserve in easy and vigorous play the complex machinery of a field force. The affair of the 21st November, for example, originated first in some "defect or misap prehension of orders," and was conducted to is unfor tunate result by an indiscreet and dangerous conversion of a reconnoissance into an attack ; and the whole of the mancenvms of the let and 2nd December were rendered entirely futile by the neglect of the com mander-in-chief to ascertain as a fact the reported existence of a fordable point three miles above his camp. The honour of the skirmish of the 21st November certainly remained with the British ; but the substan tial advantage was reaped by the enemy. Nothing could excel the gallant style in which the handful of dragoons and of light and irregular cavalry rode down upon the immensely superior body of Sikh troops. But it would be difficult to find any runnel cue in which an assault of troopers against such odds, and in the total absence of any immediate means of follow leg up the attack, was more perfectly gratuitous or more completely indefensible : and it was nothing but an appalling sacrifice of life and the energy of the seen which enabled us to conclude the day without eamesding some important advantage to the enemy. Already fruitful in disagreeable casualties, the affair of the 21st of November will for ever retain a melan choly notoriety u the occasion when Brigadier CURE- ToN fell in the execution of a senseless enterprise, and when, compared with the ordinary proportion of lames among field officers, the British army found itself sucidenly deprived in the desperate duties of a single skirmish, of such valuable lives as those of HAVELOCK, ALEXANDER, and FITZGERALD. The loss of CURETON in the first action of the cam paign is a national misfortune. He was one of the very few men entrusted high command who have passed through the ordeal of the ranks : and, probably, of all the distinguished officers attached to the army of India, there were none whose proficiency in his art had beeu acquired by longer service, by more diversified experience, or by the aid of qua lities more characteristic of the soldier. He bad gone throuzh the long campaigns of the Penin, stile. He had shared in one of the greatest of Indian sieges—that of Bhurtpore : he had seen the fall of Ohuzcee : had le4 on the advanced column which captured the Bala Hisser, and had borne a con spicuous part in all those operations which, between 1843 and 1848, ended in the subjection of Gwalior and the occupation of Lahore. If General THACKWELL had succeeded in crossing the Chenaub three miles above the British camp, there appears to have been some probability of compelling Sagas SINGH either to coin. out of his entrenchments or to submit to having his retreat effectually cut off. This was the obect of the manoeuvre, and in this it entirely failed. The delay of two days and the march of thirty or forty miles fully apprised the Sikhs of our intention, and gave them full liberty to effect a leisurely retreat. We cannot adopt the language of the official despatch, and describe an army as falling back in the " greatest disorder," when in the pre sence of such a force as that commanded by Lord Gouou it carried with it the whole of its heavy ar tillery, its camp, baggage, and its wounded men. We must now await as patiently as we can,the arrival of the next mail, and the reports given by Generals GILBERT and TUACEWELL of the results of their pur suit. These two officers are strong in cavalry, and the 21st November is too recent to permit any bravado A decisive blow, fall where it may, upon the cause of the insurgents will be most desirable, for there is every day additional evidence that throughout the whole of the country our prestige and authority have been suspended. In the Jullundur Dosb—in the very vicinity of the Governor-General's camp at Simla—there is again a disturbance. The free booter, or prophet, or whatever he may be celled, RAM SINGH, has again made his appearance, and if he has not strength to raise a war, he 111 sufficiently for midable to be a nuisance. Brigadier Warman and Brigadier PENNY both find employment in their rear to clear out forts and chastise delinquents; and in the Hazareh there is every probability that Lieutenant HERBERT will have to give up Attock. It is the anticipated fall of this important post, and the retention of Major LAWRENCE and his family, which account for the otherwise inexplicable march of CHIITTUR SINGH to Peshawar. Moved down with ce lerity,the forces of Caurrea SINGH might have joined those of his son in time to attack a detachment of the British army previous to the arrival of Lord Cilouou, and this must have been no small temptation to such a movement. On the other hand, a departure to the westward confirms the hold of the rebels upon the mountain country, and promises a longer protraction of the war. - At Moultan nothing has been done, and apparently nothing will be done until the arrival of the Bombay column, by which time MOOLIIAJ will have made his way to the northward. The whole of the troops called into requisition by this gratuitously provoked campaign—at first a con temptible affray, which it was scarcely worth while to notice, so ran the versions of the summer — are now on t he verge or within the confines of the Pun jaub, and at present they are divided into six divi sions. There is first the grand army on the Chenaub, commanded by Lord Gouou, and composed of 6,600 European and 15,400 native troops . ; in all, 21,000 men. Next there is the Lahore division, under Gen. WHEELER, of 1,000 Europeans and 4 ,500 natives ; total, 6,500 men. There is then Brigadier WKEELEIeB force of 2,360 men (210 European and 2,150 native). Gen. Winos has with him, at Moultan, 7,580 men, of whom 2,120 are aropean and 5,460 native. The Bombay contingent, under Bri gadier DUNDAS, amounts to 6,750 men (2,240 European and 4,510 native) ; and, lastly, the reserve army under Gen. HILL, at Sirhind, is 5,800 strong, in the proportions of 1,000 European and 4,800 native. Collecting all these elements, we have a grand total of 49,000 fighting men (12,130 European and 36,890 native), possessing among them very nearly 400 pieces of cannon. With such materials and such strength nothing but the infatuation and the misfor tunes of Walche-en can deprive us of a speedy and a decisive victory. Wrier some defect or abuse results in a public catastrophe, like that of the Tooting tragedy, it sometimes comes to pass that they who have to bear the brunt of the indignation which thereupon arises, are as little responsible for the cause of the evil se their accusers. It has seldom, however, happened that the supposed administrators of a law have been gravely charged with the non-prevention of an abuse, which their accusers have rendered them powerless to check. This is, nevertheless, the position of the poor law board, and of the journalists who hold it account able for the misdeeds of Mr. Ditourr, and the reek lessnees of the guardians who knew of and tolerated them. Ever since the passing of the Poor-law Amend ment Act there has been no theme of abuse more fer tile than the alleged power, tyranny, and irresponsi bility of the Poor-law Commissioners. The articles in newspapers, denouncing them officially, vilifying them personally, anathematising their policy, ridi culing their conduct, and, above all, inveighing in unmeasured terms againet their power—would, if printed in volumes, fill a library. The natural result has been, that men thus harassed and impeded in the fulfilment of a duty necessarily unpopular, have been not only daunted in its performance, but stinted by timid governments and time-serving perils ments,in the means requisite for its due and effective discharge. We are certainly not disposed to indorse all the acts of emission and commission done or left undone by the defunct dYsestilit Sommestehosse. Neither are we anywise bound to eimmend the vied= or the fortitude with which frond itis trials. , With that neither we nor the coastal ere any longer concerned. The odium it received, and the effects produced, ' , have however descended to its successors; and if ever there were men placed in a position at once respon sible and powerless, desirous of doing good from the highest motives and wish the purest objects, yet bereft of adequate meansof success, andoertain to incur the blame of failure; those men are Mr. BAII7IIB and his colleagues in office. If any one will be at the pains of reading what the sundry poor law acts require to be done, and will then contrast with it the power they afford to do it, he will (unless he be an anti-poor-law journalist) feel the truth of what we have said. The treatment and management of pauper children is among the strongest instances of this. The 4th & sth .V., c. 76, a. 15, requires the commissioners to wake order. for the due management, superintendence, education, &c. &c., of these children; and a bookful of "orders" were accordingly issued, of which article 114 and several others contain sundry wise provisions not only for the education in religion and industry of these poor children—for their proper diet, clothing, and classification, but fer the restraint of undue punishments. We believe that these wise regulations have been more or less disregarded in three-fourths of the unions in the country. Why is this ? Simply because, though the commissioners have power enough to order, they have no effective power to ea force their regulations: and the guardians and the Mr. DROUETS know it as well as they to. There are cer tain fines which doubtless might be inflicted for the violation of some particular requirements by particular officers. But their enforcement would in most instances be either impracticable, or, if effected, result in tenfold worse negligence. to matters over which the guardians have sole control; and with which, if incensed. they could pay back in terference with interest. In such cases it would be impossible for the poor-law board any longer to exert that moral influence on which their slender power of doing any good whatever now alone depends. The effects of the incessant abuse of the Poor-law Board and its authority has been of course to induce parliament to place all additional power in the hands of the guardians, who (at least as regards what is due to the education and industrial training of the children) are about the unfittest persons to exercise it of any class in the kingdom. In 1844 some clauses were introduced into 7 & 8 Viet., c. 101, giving power to the commissioners to term district schools for pauper children, so that they might be removed from the contamination of wallower, and have efficient training under proper management As usual, this provision was nullified by limitations (of area and expenditure), which ren ' dereo it wholly inoperative. It might as well never have been passed. In the only cases (including that of the London Unions and Tooting) where it might have been enforced there was an express condition that the consent of the major part of the guardians or direc tors should be first obtained, as a sine qua non to the adoption of the measure. Of course it remained equally inoperative with the rest of the clauses. Mr. CHARLES BULLER procured (in the 11 & 12 Viet , c. 82) a removal of the restriction of area and expense, but that act extended the condition of the con sent of the guardians to every union and district throughout the country! It is likely to share the fats of its predecessors. Thus hampered and obstructed—bereft of power to correct abuses on the one hand--and condemned for their continuance on the other,—the poor-law board are in a position from which it is due as much to the interest of the country as to themselves to rescue them. Their irresponsibility in parliament—which was always made a source of accusation and a reason fur withholding power from the last board— exists no longer. The president and one of the secretaries have each seats in the house. Let their responsibility be increased rather than dimi nished, but give them full power to do their duty. They have it not now. It is for the government to see to this and for parliament to effect it. 'fhe measure first and urgently needed seems to be that of empowering the commissioners at once, and without seeking any consent whatever, to compel the establishment of district schools for the training of the pauper children, apart from the workhouses, in religion and industry, according to their existing and now powerless " orders " (magni nominal' umbra !), and under the constant super intendence of the Queen's inspectors of schools ; and as regards the regulations for their physical tree men and condition, under the vigilant and effective control of the poor law inspectors. If any abuse still prevails, we shall have a right to blame those who really, and not as now only nominally, administer a system which appears to effect little else than a mis chievous example of laws defied with impunity. extend sod confirm this equality—to mike rest part of the kingdom all metropolis. Londe' sever ma nada that superiority over the provinces it once local onest i ed, Dar is iton desirable that it should rarsi . The blio on el a however libe and =p metropolis, a g e d by the eenseerse et public leaders who resort thither, and I=di interests that are there urged and de ltas still of necessity a tinge of par desbrisei r NA abido nerrowness. The circumstances Mak have mere of originality and Inds peedisops ha polities, plead the previnme a a equality in respect a polirkal me ss with mstrugelks and facilitated the co d merry NA provincial liberals on C li e li gill hodsg, are wasting a really natioeal public opinion and seism of popular, power and rights. But, unfortunately, the change his not stopped short at such establishment of equality—of alterna tion of impulse between the metropolis and provinces. The London reformers have sunk into a state of comparative political apathy and inertios. The battle of corn-law repeal was all but gained before the London forces could be brought into action; and though the crowning and most decisive straggles w eaned in London, the most active sad prominent agents were provincial. And the same inertness, the same avoidance of earnest and effective action, threatens to characterise our London liberals in the great struggle for retrenchment and the alleviation and equalisation of taxes which is now a-foot. This is not owing to any abatement of the liberal ity and independence of opinion which used to cha racterise the metropolitan community. "In society," says the Spectator of Saturday last, " one hears a sood deal maid in favour of the Manchester movement." Sir CHARLEs NAPIER can tell what answer one metropolitan constituency gave to his modest appli cation to allow him to continue to be their member. in order to lend hiss weight with the Admiralty, and thus place him in a position to call in his Portuguese debts. Mr. Hawes can tell how unceremodesely another got rid of a representative woo sought to win them by professions of independent liberalism, is order to throw weight into the conservative-whin scale. In asserting local rights and ferretting out local grievances our vestries and ward meetings are shrewd, active, and uncompromising as ever. But to any gnat national call our London reformers remain defies the adder always is, and torpid as be is found in times of frost. This is disgracefuL "In society one hears a good deal said in favour of the Manchester movement." Then a h 7 not proclaim aloud what is thus everywhere confidentially whispered ? Why not give themselves and their countrymen the benefit of a publio avowal of their dissatisfaction with the present system of pro- fuse and profligate expenditure ? The opponents of retrenchment and of reduced and equalised taxation are not strong in themselves ; any little strength they may possess consists in the heel remissness of the advocates of these im peded objects. Not one of the opponents of re tioashment has ventured to meet the demand by a }dot e blank denial that it is desirable or practicable. admit, in general, that reductions can and ought to made. Bat they carp and cavil at the exact amount ; they hesitate doubts and insinuate difficul ties in every plan that is proposed, taking care to propound none of their own. They enlarge upon the number of different plans proposed, Lot with a view to discover what they possess in common, not to point out that they prove unanimity as to the end even when they indicate differences as to the means, but to furnish a pretext for asserting that their discrepancies are irreconcile able. Above all they are liberal in their imputation of ulterior and improper designs to all who take a prominent part in recommending . economy. have recourse to the stale and despicable fallacy Tf b a mitting that there is equity in what is proposed, and then asserting that this proposal is a mere stalking horse to cocceal some terrible machinations, the na ture of which they do not condescend to explain. They labour incessantly to awaken vague and unde fined terrors. They act on the old maxim, " Throw plenty of dirt—souse of it will stick." Upon public opinion such paltry substitutes for ergs- 1 meat are powerless. But in parliament, unless coun teracted by . a vigorous and unequivocal expression of public opinion, they are powerful. The elaborate ex positions of the difficulties of the task appeal irre sistibly to the indolence of ministers, of political Moden of all parties, and their parliamentary gar denia The insinuations that irreconcilable differences of opinion pervade the advocates of retrenchment inspire members of parliament with hopes that their constituents may not press hard upon them. The groundless aspersions cast upon the leaders of the financial reform movement supply plausible pre texts for not co-operating with them. The tax payers of the empire are warranted in laughing to I scorn the shallow fallacies with which the cause of public economy is assailed in so far as their own con viction' are concerned ; but they act unwisely if they undervalue the influence of these sophistries upon ministers and parliament. It is oat of doors that the friends of reasonable ex penditure and equitable taxation are powerful. And so part of tt.e three kingdoms ought to be better aware of this than the inhabitants of tte metropolis. They are an important section of public opinion, what are they in parliament? The metropolitan boroughs, with a population little inferior to that of Scotland, with an amount of accumulated wealth within a circle of half a mile radius round the Exchange superior to the aggregate of that country, and including among them the leading spirits of the age, are represented in parliament by 16 members. A frank, energetic, persevering demand in their own persons for economy in the public expenditure and an equit able adjustment of taxation will be listened to with respect and deference. If they leave to their represen tatives in parliament the task of pleading their comae, they will be out-voted there by the members for a dozen boroughs like Great Marlow and HighWyoombe. The exertions that are being made in St. Pancras and Marylebone, and in the various city wards, for 1 reforms in the matter of local rates for water, gas, pavements, or the support of the poor, are not to be undervalued. In this country the burden ofd local taxation is an important part of the general public burdens, and as t counter-agent ' to excessive centralisation it is desirable that this sheald continue to be the ow. But is it wise in the load communities we have alluded to, or is it oon indent with their self-reepect, to limit all their exer tion to the redress of peculiar parish gnevames, and stead aloof from a national effort in which they have a sleeper stake than any other equal number of the inhabitants of the empire? Oh, for an hour of honest old FRANZ PLACS, and the friends who used to assemble in his back shop at Charing-cross. Tin military operations in the Punjaub, described with seasiderable minuteness in another part of our impreseirk have arisen out of one of the most difficult attempts which can be undertaken by an army—the pussy of an important river in the face of an active l ead powerful etiem. We anticipated, on the arrival of the former mai l, that, from the posture of the armies of Snean SINGH and Lord Gouoa, an action more or less general was in the highest degree pro bable. Posted with a force now described by Lord GOUGH as 40,000 sines, and possessing 38 pieces of Gannon, the Sikh general had taken spa strong posi tion on the right, or westerly, bank of the Chenaub, in the immediate vicinity of the town of Ramnuggur. Around Ramnuggur there is a spacious plain, and, during the supremacy of RIMIZET, he found it convenient to render this particular point of hie dominions a frequent rendezvous tar the troops employed noon his service in the western provinces of the Punjaub. The inten tion of SUCRE SINGH in selecting this advanced posi tion, and in placing himself so near to the capital, does not appear to have included any design of fighting a pitched battle in the open plain. He seems to have reckoned upon the advantage of his strong entrenchments and on defensive operations as suf ficient to keep his assailants in check. Upon the side of the British general there was the greatest desire to force the enemy into a formal battle, not only with the view of deciding one of the leading issues of the campaign, but also with the con fident expectation that &victory over the most formi dable of the insurgents would in a great measure restore general tranquillity, and overawe incipient disaffection. Rising in the fastnesses of Thibet, and pursuing a course of 540 milts, the Chenaub is considered the largest of the five rivers which divide the plain of the Punjaub into as many dabs, or sections, and supply it with a name. At Rihursi, where it debouches from the hills into the level country, it is about 200 GERMANY. PRUSSlA.—Letters and journals of the 18th have come to hand from Berlin. Amongst the government propositions laid before the congress of master employers and journeymen now officially assembled in Berlin, is one for legally fixing the price of bread in general, a regulation now only applied to the so-called "black bread." Govern ment propose, moreover, to establish trade tribunals, with jurisiiction similar to that of tribunals of com merce. The congress of teachers has also been opened at Berlin by the Minister of Public Worship and Education. Herr Von Unruh, the president of the democntical portion of the late National Assembly, has pu'rlished an address, setting forth that were the future deputies to declare the octroye constitution null and void, they would be playing into the hands of the aristocracy. He recommend., therefore, the former to make use of the weapons which that con stitution has placed in their hands, and to develop still further the principles of freedom of the press and of association, communal and municipal indepen dence, and other popular rights. The Brunswick government have solemnly pro mulgated the sections of the bill of fundamental rights voted by the National Assembly in Frankfort. The Duke has officially declared in favour of the election of the King of Prussia as Emperor of Ger many. The cholera is still making sad havoc in Breslau. It may be stated here,as another warning for the rich in all countries, that the disease first broke out among the ill-fed and ill-clad persons who, under the name of " honseleu poor," were crowded together in a species of workhorse in the above town. The fatal disease has now attacked all classes of society, and spares neither the capitalist nor the beggar. AUSTRIA.—We have accounts from Vienna up to the 13th, and from Pesth up to the 12th. Three or four of the ministers had arrived in the former capital. The coolness between the government and the Diet was daily increasing, and the ministerial salon were all but deserted. Nevertheless, it is not believed in political circles either that ministers will resign or that the Diet will be dissolved. Col. Von Mayen), it is said, has been sent on a government mis sion to Munich. The sitting of the Diet at Kremsier on the 12th inst. does not present any incident of ge neral importance. The Wiener Zeitung publishes three more sen tences. Ist, on a medical practitioner, who is con demned to three months' imprisonment in chains, for exciting the Viennese to continue the combat, upon the ground that the Hungarians were approaching ; 2nd, on two grenadiers, coademned to eight years' hard labour in chains, for taking part with the Vienna insurgents during a part of the month of October; and 3rd, on two pioneers, condemned to ten years' hard labour, for having enrolled themselves during the insurrection in the above capital in the Garde Mobile, with the pay of 23 krvuzers per day. It is believed that the ministers intend to make some alterations respecting the customs' regulations of Hungary. In other words, to throw open to Austria the commerce of that " kingdom"—a term which, if the plans of the Olmotz Camarilla be car ried into effect, will be soon replaced by that of pro since. Lieut. Field marshals MogaDietrich and Hrabowsky had been brought prisoners to Vienna, there to be tried by court martial for siding with the insurgents in Hungary. On the other hand, Kossuth has taken two imperial generals with him to Debreczin. Gen. Ham merstein, who commands the troops in the division of Galicia, has declared the whole of :hat province (with the Bukowina) in a state of siege ; called out the land storm; ordered all persons (except certain clesses of government employee) to give up their arms ; sup- Prall but a few journals, which are to be sub to a severe revision, and threatened death to all persona taken with arms in their hands, exciting to insurrection, or siding in any way with the inane - I gents. He declares, moreover, that any one accused of spreading reports of a disadvantageoos and alarm ing nature, will be tried by court martial. The Olmfitz journals eonfirm the intelligence that Gen. Bem (one of the leaders of the Magyar insur gmta) has marched with three columns into the Bukowina, on hie way to Gallic* where, being a Pole, be expects to fled many adherents. Meantime, the military authorities of Lemberg are on the alert, and imperial troops have been posted on the Hunga rian frontiers. Further accounts from Transylvania not only con firm the intelligence of the capture, by the Magyars, of the important town of Klausenbuig, but show that the imperialists, under Major-Gen. AVardener, were totally defeated at Dees and driven back to Hilda's. It is rumoured that the Magyars also defeated Jells- chich, near Kecskemet, after the loss on both sides had been very groat. It is certain that there has been an important battle. It appears that Gorgey, after he withdrew from Perth, was still at the head of 20.000 troo?s, with 60 pieces of artillery. He was followed by Wrbnal as far as Waitzen, which the imperialists took, the in surgents retreating to Erlan. It is believed that Kos suth has left Debreezin for the Gallician frontiers. According to the latest accounts, the fortresses of Leopoldstadt and Comorn still held oat. According to private letters, Perezel had been to tally defeated in the neighbourhood of Yeah. The German Reforme says that Messaros, the Hun garian Minister of War, blew out his brains at the moment he fell into the hands. of the Austrian soldiers. ._...._ _ FRANKFORT.—Our intelligence from this city is to the evening of the 113th inst. In reply to a question respecting the publication in Hanover of the funda mental rights of •he German nation, as voted by the Frankfort national assembly, the Baron Von Gagern stated that the Hanoverian ministry had informed their subordinates that the Hanoverian government must first discuss the validity of the laws passed by the above assembly before they could promulgate them in Hanover. Von Gagern added that Hanover was always ready to supply its contingent of men and money. Moreover, it was not the fundamental rights of liberty (as drawn up by the Frankfort national assembly) that the Hanoverian government hesitated to publish, but the regulations relating to the division of property. He (Von Gagers), however, entertained the opinion that in Hanover, as in other parts of Germany, the bill of fundamental rights was legally in force, by virtue of the central statute of Dec. 27. Herr Gross announced that he should make a motion respecting the conduct of Hanover. The debate on the question respecting the future head of the German empire was resumed, and after several members had spoken was again adjourned. WURTEMBERG.—The government of Wurtem berg officially declared on the 17th that on and after the 21st, that portion of the bill of fundamental rights already voted by the Frankfort National Assembly, would come into force throughout the above kingdom. This declaration has given much satisfaction to all friends of German unity. BADEN.—Letters from Manheim to Jan. 16, state that on the 15th there was a meeting in the Aula for the purpose of discussing a pamphlet against the government respecting the refusal to deliver up arms. Severe censures were passed upon the soldiers, who, it was affirmed, resorted to violent measures against unoffeGding burghers. One of the students named Streuter made use of the unguarded expression—" The soldiers are scoundrels in uniform." This expression was immediately reported to the military, among whom it excited great indignation ; and the morning of the 16th the dragoons in garrison here gave a protest to the communal council, that they would not be an swerable for anything, unless Streeter publicly re tracted the offensive epithet. The infantry made a similar protest. BRAZILS. Her Majesty's packet, Linnet, Lieut. Jamey, arrived at Falmouth on Friday, from Rio Janiero, Dec. 16. The packet following had not arrived at Rio previous to this packet's sailing, but a steamer had been specially chartered by the authorities at Pernambuco to take down the nee* to the imperial government of that province, being in a cons. plete state of insubordination. At Rio business wu dull— politically, nothing stirring. In the River Plate affairs re mained unaltered, except that the French had landed 400 men at Monte Video. The Spider sailed, Nov. 26, with the River Plate mails, and the Inconstant sailed, Nov. 27, for the same destination. The Juno arrived, Dee. 3, from the west taut of South America, and a •fled on the 14th Di c. for England. The Kestrel arrived, Dec. 12, with the River Plate mails. On Dec. 17 remained at Rio the Hydra, Cres. cent, and Kestrel. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. More activity prevailed during November than in preceding months. In produce transactions were of considerable importance the amount of business done in exchange was in advance of that I n any purloin month ante March, and, despite an extrsordinsay quan tity of almost every devenption of 'moons, the sales were extensive of such articles as were liable to deterioration, or which could not afford the armee of warehousing. Coffee supplies were tolerably free daring the month, but notwithstanding that European advises were ants. vourable, prices were firm, sad advanced about 100 eels, in conse quence of an uninterrupted inquiry for the United States, whither fiSt per cent of the tota expatation wail sent. Some few select parcels commanded an advance of 100 and ISO Teta above the highest prices quoted. On Nov. 16 the duty of 80 per cent levied upon all boots and shoes, realy-made clothing, and furni ture, in pursuance of a law of last session was put in force. A com mittee has been appointed to revise the laws and regulation* of the means. This has become imperatively called for ; and from the combined intelligence and reputation of the gentlemen nominated, we really hope and tepee some materal improvement, and the rewinding of some absurd, amoebae, and unjust regulations.— Coffee : Washed. per cwt., ifs. ad. ; superior, 235. 4d.—sugar 22a. per cwt.—Freight for the channel 30s—Exchange, sig tot; markettelosed rather firmer.—Diacounts without change, with a limited inquiry.— From the Rio Mtrearstite Cirerior, Dee. 9. FRANCE.—BaZAKINO UP OF METTRAT.—We learn with deep regret that the reformatory settlement of Mettray, near Tours, is in danger of being broken up, through the disordered state of the national finances. Government has notified to the managers of the institution that the annual " subvention " cannot be paid, the funds at the disposal of ministers being insuffifient for the demands upon them. This decision can scarcely he regarded as final, and steps will be taken to procure a revision of it ; but the wont may be feared, as the plea of the government is only too strong) founded.—Spectator. BELGIUM —By dates from Brussels, to Jan. 20, we learn that the Chamber had that day terminated the discussion of the project of law relative to the revision of the law on pensions. The result of the discuuion was, that pensiens allowed to the old ministers, by virtue of the law of the 21st July, 1814, be retained, but that this law be =for the future by new legislative measures. The es er expressed their conviction of the necessity of im mediately framing a new law on this point. HOLLAND.—We have dates from the Hague, to Jan. 19. The Stoats Courant publishes the survey of the public receipts during the year, 1848, in comparison with those of preceding years. They produced in 1848, 63,499,599 florins, and in 1847, 54,032,307 florins. The diminution in 1848 is 853,000 florins, in import and export dues, tonnage, lighterage. &c.; of 631,336 florins on registration dues, stamps, &e ;of 29 , 788 .lorins in the postal department ; and of 135,816 florins on lotteries. Oa the other hand, there was, in 1848, an augmentation of receipts of 454,015 on di rect taxes, rights of patent', &I. ; the excise also showed an increase of 670.447 florins, compared with the preceding year. The Hantiekblad, in an article on the discovery of the gold mines in California shows the great advantages which might be obtained by the Netherlands' commerce in that country. It calls upon the government to send a steamer to those parts where the Netherlands flag is almost unknown, and where its Interests are not represented either by a cwisul or any agent. It recommends that vessels be sent to California, not laden with passengers, who shall go to those shores for the purpose of collecting the gold, but well stocked with provisions, wearing apparel, and other common necessaries, for thoie who have gone thither for the purpose of seeking for gold ; but who, with all their riches, are exposed to the peril of dying of hunger, and the want of the common necessaries of life. MALTA, JAN. 12.—As customary on board all men of war, Christmas Eve is generally an eve of jollity. In the Rodney was served out an extra allowance of grog. The day and evening paused off in mirth and harmony; but at half put nine the order was given to out lights and turn in. Half a dozen youngsters, not long in the service, and half drunk, thee b'gan to make a noise and skylark, throwing the mess kids, &c , about the decks. The captain and officers went round, and all was quiet; but as the noises were renewed, four of the ringleaders were seized, put in irons, and a few days afterwards punished with four dozen lashes each. This was merely a movement of the " spirit," in the shape of too much rum and water, for the Rodney is in fine order, and ' was highly complimented by Vice-admiral Parker for her state of discipline and practical efficiency as a man-of-war. She is taking in two months' provisions, and will probably also sail with the Vanguard on the 17th. One of these ships will take home the officers and crew of the Locust steamer, paid off here into ordinary. the Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer Sultan came in on the Bth from South ampton and Gibraltar. She did not communicate at the lat ter place, as England is still in quarantine there. She left on the 9th for Constantinople and Trebisond. Mr. %due, the British consul at Cairo, came here in the Nil en route to Egypt. He proceeded on in her to Alexan dria The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer Ripon came in last night, 11.30, from Alexandria, with the Calcutta and Bombay mails. The Medina goes on with the overland porti-in of them immediately. The Corfu packet Merlin, due this morning, has net yet arrived. The French steamer Alexandre, from Constantinople, due yesterday, has not yet come in. The weather has been awful, and still con tinues so ; a more revere winter is not within recollection. The Medusa, expected on the 14th from blarseil;es, will pro ceed on to Alexandria with the mails and passengers. She is a fins %learner with acoommodations for 60 pain her commander, Bathurst, the Lad= of men, y a TURK EY. —We have letters from Belgrad e t o a le 13th Jan. The Sultan hvs issued a &man in wfddih ift . cords to Christians the privilege of attainiNt to ems highest dignities--even that or pasha or t o NZ' salmon have =mitered grads indignation at the pedra is i a of this airman. COL. FNIAL. preys. r bj pth2Hmtilhel Hastings nyhb eß s. ieirAucos b e 7uou snpamd: t a n tio_e: ra:rtßnioa c e i.nEugalisyol o ti f uT: tetihoenhftie.. commando-in- ch i e f , admiral ,rhaf l Auj o ,le ninNeirlortilL After r arnevheathutrßdiln hoi s ted p 0 nnetigappearedia.a,n.hd:Tihett shndgnoktottih:toehnir3joto: l ie t e l iTTl the it.o:s: ty to jughibiet:hrteo.ll.ll4.-B-1....:z"-'...wei.. ter Palawan Pgiftgg by her Msjesty's sloop Fury, a g ship, but emotive here awaiting the arrival of the lonntt in which vessel our governor ill proceed on to Ca' His excellency is living in obscu rity; for, baring at Christopher Rawlinson's dints. r indulged in, some p at j ag — g aced unjust animadvenions on the mercantile coonesti"ers by pist o refusing ,e to r ca 2s l .. o t n he or a m u e he e t t an h c i e s e o x t ce . ll th within fifteen minutes of the steamer's a nchoring . The t — mg : y ng d the t i dß iaim e li: e t t n r akee l i l e ) cat a e h vt o g.a breon, extraor dinary v r . i dteg t: c d , °et : aced h s de n au t 4tieols academe em L t en : e . ti e i t fr e dr a t : z' farm I ,: t7 t a ni et h , e' i t ' e t e" id (Madras . 6po ri frt us etle T E Auck landfd':ltt satisf ac to ry , enth e i , ien re ' lef t B dhlSStraits ad fee t s j ib the 21st, carrying over 25 Kings . These men have beer id g ; r t India n the rally Kidnapped, fo r the shipm ant of o a t yes of lei* to pany's territories is declared by Act 14 of 1839 to be gpj.. - • baying been towed over from Labium by the Auckland: The commander, officers, a,d ship', company of tits Royalist were all more or less suffering from Sal vy sad Labuan fever. The vessel was ordered to Trioco r milee - refit, but before leaving this the remittent fev er broke ti with violence. Four of the crew were removed to the 0 : man's hmpital, one of •chore died a few hours al di. TAe Commander, Lima Gordon was removed to the non but expired in a few days. Lieut. Everest, of /1.318: MtegatteT, is temporarily app Anted to the commend of tag 1 sat th the mired Royalist, apparently sending wh ic h g g r ea tl eftt h l f t u o l j ust i ce,revs i t a t to I C u lb y ee l e u e n n. ua e i „, c e n h l' f " a l e t tl ut h oh c h u e re u p, crippledPa7ui followed t a r. diti L on Aß in uA w N hie — h F a ro he m w t e h s, is u n i e rd w er se i t u t r l t e - m m e m:a t , w o eit e e t a ll yser i se ship's company sick, and the new commander attacked w ith counts lever Sir e Brooke tdh s e t y e 9 h h tf oeewNrLrvuloi: Renee. bv" the a . i u n i n T t . t a ir t i yt a: hkieeitvnoji obligati onsfnoo c gl n i ' y r e 0 e n .° t° whey t he S the lr o s l b were carried into effect. On Oct. 21 his Excellence G em . arrangementsn theo r e Brook e river the party halteu near the town, and a royal salute we fired from the Silica' fort. Rajah Brooke end suite nen eccommodated with temporary lodgings erected on the the of the battery which first opened fire on the steamer Paley. thou. On the 26th, accompanied by the email number of Europeans pr sent, and attended by hie suite end a party et the Mmander's marine. from Libuan, Sir James Beteks resenteJ the Sultan with a ratified copy of the tree; with • the Queen of England, enclosed within a hannome idea box ; the latter was eyed by his highness wins vials =ark* of satisfaction, rut the treaty he did outland& trouble to examine. Sir James then, in Wai name of the Quern, informed his highness that eternal Liesdnip having been sworn between thew, her Majesty Ind directed him to present his highnen with 3,000 S..saio Willies, sat mark of respect for the free ension of the island of Latium Sir James then prevented Pangeerea Moormein withl,ooo dollars, and other sums to the m_mben of the mutt etwhiek they were deliohte el ; the peese ntivion in ea h cue head aceenspaved,d by some approprian remarks from the hoi offlarawak. The out; reteeeed to L Ilene on the BK. The accounts from Labium Realtors very uniatisfsoo.y. Sid.. • sass way general among the email nuinoer ut persons ot lbs island. The colonial surgeon had happily recovered, but Sir James Brooke win 'Ad up with fever at the (late of our let 'deices. The site selected for the town appears to be in unhappy one, being in the centre of a swamp, part of whin is below high water mark. The Chinese sod Kling COOl6l had Wznost de scree 1 the place or died of fever, and such we the scarcity of labourers that the wooden homes g the governor and others, which were co eructed at Singapore, and carried over in the WOMB Shand, were not set up. The local Bothnia* were living in rude huts built on the mud, but were abut to remove to some higher ground, u fever hal laid nearly evsy. one prostrate. Three more of the giie .nder's marines din, and every one of them we-re on the sick list. The admitil hod ordered t eeir immediate relief by Madras sepoys frog Singapore.. Where so much fever prevailed, the cluing a the ungle was • sf c arse proceeding very slowly, and tat public works were comparatively at a Rand. Colonisatin is out of the question, fur until the island is drained ad salubrity establethsel, it would not be prudent or safe to as bark life or capital an the venture. The b erque Willis Shaud left for Si n gapore on Nov. 6, and brought away fees the island the whole of the assistanta to the lieut. governs, postmaster, and surveyor, who had severely suffered boa fever, and quitted the island with a firm resolve at to It turn to it on any rate of salary. About fifteen coolies left by the same vessel. The whole of the artificers also essayed* leave, but were prevented by the marines, cod forced to labour, although :named to mere skeletoos. CEYLON.—Oar slates from this colony are to the 15th of December. The state of the bland was the resent of satisfactory. The general impression among t. e Europese planten was, to use their own words, that "the natives mesa mischief." Lettets from Kandy received in Colombo on the evening of the 14th Dec , stated teat 2 officers and 31 met of the Bth Regt. hao b. ear marched for Mateile ; and 10,000 cartridges sent to be distributed among the planters there. A company of the 37th was to be rumba Irons CoMenbo for Kandy early on the morning et the 16th. The Colombo chamber of commerce ad on the 12th of December, and addressed a strong remonstrance to Earl Grey, against the tone and tenor of his reply to their petition. They complain, in particular, of his imputing to that petition • conne :ion with the satin insurrection, and of his laying to their charge some enema of the local press with which they have no cousioo. A petition to the House of Commons, numerously and respect- ably signed, complaining of the treatment which the ogee, has experienced at the bands of the home government, was pseud at the same time. The mercaotile distins continued unabated. In this state of affairs S.r RIMS** Tennent has proposed in the Legislative Counci: the imposi tion of a general land tax. Necessity might excuse this, and it the retrenchments he promises are carried into effect, no bad consequences might ensue ,• but the speech in which he proposed it was garnished with fierce personal denuncia tions, attacks upon representative government far colonise in general and Ceylon in particular, and theories ',notched the late insurrection which were repudiated in council by some of the official members. SOUTH AUSTRALIA. A smelting and a water company have been organised in Adelaide; one. fourth the number of shares bad been taken The sup ply of water will be drawn from the Turrets, er from Brownhlll Creek, and the profits are estimated at 16 per cent. A great movement has been made on behalf o! emigrwion. The Bishop of Adelaide and his clergy had stood forth as champions in the cause, and had called forth co-operation of 'the cletoy in England to aid in promoting emigratioa. rite address is not long, and is of sufficient im portance to the starving or half-fed labourers who caned find employment in the mother-country to claim pron. nent insertion. It is dated 9th Oct., addressed to the pug chial clergy of the church of England, and ought to be copied into most of the English, Scotch, and Irish journals. Reverend and dear sirs,—Knowing from our own experience the unwillingness felt by many clergymen to recommend the norms of persons or families under their charge - partly from uncertainty* to th eir temporal prospects in the colon ies; and still more from the presumed insufficiency of religious ordinon ees and pastoral meetr tendenee—we, the widereigned (the Bishop and clergy of the dame of Adelaide). beg to mew e you that abundant employment, Pr* wages, plentiful and cheap subsistence, the means of grace in all the more settled distrietaare to be found in this province and diocese,* ga d ge mith a tone of brelligeme and moral sentimen. superior* some respects to the average attainment of the industrial clamor* England. We can safely, therefore, advise you to direct that arm people, who desire to better their temporal condition, to emigrate le this colony; and we promise, as fa: as lies in our power, toned/ pastoral care and eminence to all such as skill bring with them letters commendatory from the clergymen of their several plight*. Sir Henry Young, the new lieut.-governor, appears toile" become a great favourite with the colonists. In the Adelaide journals we observe his Excellency presiding at bible toddy meetings, meetings, convenaziones at the Mechanics' Institute, patio* icing assembly bells, &c. The Bishop of Adelaide had takes his departure an ll.M.'s colonial schooner Champion, or s diocesan visit to Swan River, Western Ault:relit, The Right Rev. Dr. Murphy, Roman catholic bishop of Soon Australia, bad returned from Sydney. A swarm of locusts had visited the colony, and dose much damage. A nun* rously signed memorial has been addressed to the Lint: Governor on the subject of special surveys, his Excellent having refused to grant further surveys of 29,000 ache which would limit the field for immigrants. The Lint - Governor, in reply, stated that the memorial would be for warded to the Secretary of State. Col. Robe, the late lien: governor, left Adelaide by the ship Constance, bound to China. NEW SOUTH WALES.—Our dates from Sydney extend to Oct. 5. The principal topic of excitement the alarm into which the colony had been thrown by t o discovery that a great number of forged one pound na upon the Bank of New South Wales had been pa: i o nta culation. The execution is stated to have been god thf , they readily passed current ; the plates are supposed to ha been engraved in Sydney. Active measures were in prir for organising a railway company Sydne Sr Chy. Fitzroy has expressed himself favourable to the &chyme. Iss, favourite line is one which has its starting Point at the hea d of Darling Harbour, and terminating at It. .pc net.l3 miles at a total estimate d cost of 66,0001. Toe e.mpanys capital is set down at 101,000/. Sydney now boasts two spore big papers—the Bell's Life and Australian Sportsman_ . own PORT PHILLIPS—Our advicea are brought d . _ to the beginning of October. A diocesan society . haz, !Wu Bibles, &a. The Melbourne Argus, in some " exiles, " states that the police-sheet has been augmentea °inn ing th e e d e a recti t Moenlbooufrnctuureubdeser a tb gid e schools , auapiee of th e th redentubltc;ird.kbsubt:lition:Pio! fourfold since their advent in the colony. a febrile character prevailed, which had theocesswidoatee_.. pointment of a unitary committee. With the vi ew brought tainiug the truthfulness of the charges of brilizry utterer- Mr. Fawkner against Major St. John, the * _ general, Sir Charles Fitzroy, has requested Mr. . 1 1 Trobe to insist on the major commencin g a Gal notion against his accuser. A legal inquiry had Minh sick ap. Pt 4 e~ i • instant y a Trol to SSW i t , the s in Ina against 1,896,2 bed Ins Wimsa shrP. 6710;2i. 32; 4,000 i. custom boor De 8,56. 1 writs : tell. hint each oho' QOM SOW drat End " C a