The Express. — London, England, 1846-10-27 00:00:00

Now reedy, New Edition revbsed and enlarged, cloth 4a. bd. ItURAL CHEMISTRY : an Elementary Introdue - Gou to the Study of the Science it its Relation to Agriculture. y kareurn SOLLT, F.R.S., F.LS., F. 0.5., lion. Member of the Royal Agricultural Society, England.—Cos - rmers : Chapter I.—Objects of chemnatry—Arlinity—Nature of Combination and decomposition—The elements—The air, Its properties and eom =-Oxygen and niWbgen—Combitstion, results of constitution— ' acid gas—Water, ice, and steam—Effects of frost--latent heat—Composition of water—llythom Chapter 11. —Carton, its different forms--Cohesdon—Combastlon and decor—Carbonic acid pis, produced by respiration, combustion, fermentation, &c.—Native of acid. and salts—Carburetted hydrogen, flre damps, cal ass—Cloorpounds all debnite—Oambining weigtita— Carbonic oxide—Nitrogen combined with hydrogen forms ammonia —Nitric acid—Nitrates —Sulphur, sulphurous acids—tiulpburio arid, ottlpintes—SulPharetted hydrogen—Chlorine, miriade acid—lodine, Bromine_ Phosphorus, phosphoric acid. Chapter lll.—Bases—Alkalies—Potash, its propertios—Carbonate and nitrate of potash, gunpowder—Soda, common salt, sulphate, car bonate and nitrate of soda—Ammonia, its carbonate, sulphate, mu riate, and phosphate—The alkaline eartds—Lime, its nature and pro. pertics—Carbanate, sulphate, and phosphate of Ilme—Nagnesia, its carbonate, sulphate, murlate, and phosphate. Chapter IV.—The earths—Alumina, its properties—Alum, Silica, or 'aide acid—Silicates of potash and soda— Glssa—Silicates in the soil, In plants—The metals, their oxides and ralts—lroo, its oxides—Pyrites —Sulphate of Iron, or green vienol-0014--Stleer-3fereury--OopPer, —Zinc—Tin—Mananese—l ead—lictallic alloys. Chapter V.--O matted Vegetable imbodances—Lign or woody fibre—Starch, varieties of starch—Gum, soluble arid insoluble —Sugar—Cane, and grope sugar—Glut n, albumen, easeine,leguraine, fibrin, gliadipe —Chemical changes—Fermentation —Spirit of wine— Vegetable acids —Vinegar, citric,tartaric, italic and oxalic scats— Oils, realm, gum retsina, and o l ou ring matters—lnorganic comb '----•- •-• laws Animal sub:tancee—Albumen—Fibrin—Blood, and - - -Fat—Boxes, teeth, 1711 2 - - Cale, milk, and horn, /be—Protein, food of ar Wien of the blood—Urine. Chapter VL—The food of ,-- air —sources of oxygen, hydrogen, nitrogen, and motiMi-40MM0111_...._ derived from the soil--Sonrets of bstawool—ClMPßomegi soils, their formation—Dccompeedtion of silicates—MorilligiMlMOMes tare of soils—The Byline constituents of moile—Orgawii MOON in soils, humus, bombe acid, their use In soils—Gerininatiow, Moisture, air, and warmth—lniluence of light—Office of the Isatws— Roots—Formation of organic matter—Flowers, fruit, seeds—ovomki, and organised matter—Vitality of embro—Nature of seeds—Ma/thy substanm in plants—J.:erects of climate—Action of plants on the air. Chapter Vll.—Deterioration of soils, its cause—Modes of mantels. ing the krtility of the soil—Theory of fallowing—Rotation of cropt— Subeoil ploughing—Draining—Manure —Organic manure manure ; contains nitrogen—Results of putrefaction—Sulphuretted hydrogen—Low of manure—Liquid manure—Animal excrement; guano—Modes of affixing ammonia, by scids, by &c.--Strang Inanures — W ool, rage, oils—liones—baperphos of lime—Vege table manures—Sawilwit, seaweed --Green manures—lrrigation— Inorganic manures—Lime, chalk, marl, shell, sand—Gypeum—Phos. phre of lime—Ashes—Burnt clay—Soot, charcoal—Cram liquor— Potash—Alkaline salts—Nitrates, common salt Silt and lime. Chapter Vlll.—Compoetion of particular crops—Campewition of Wheat —Barley —Oats— itye— Main— Rice— Buckwheat,— Linseed— ftemp.seed--Oilweedr,— I;eans—Peas—Lentils—Veteties Potatoes — Bout" Jerusalem Arti,hoke—Ogalis —Cabbage—Turnips— Sweet Potato—Ciirrot—Parsnip --Clover—Lucern—Saintfoln. Composition of particular manurte—Cow's urine—Horse dung—Pig's dung Human excrement—Urine—Bons of Orm—Cows--Hormes—Pigs— Farm: and dung—Guano—Wood ashes—LLxiviated ashes—Peat ashes —kelp. Published at the oilier of Two " OARDENZIA` CHEDNICLI, AND Ao , ICI.I.TVIAL Gs -eerie." 5. ...Ivrc.. Wellington -street. Uswent-garelen. 7u - ht olt i prOg. MAILS. The overland clewed malls. via Marseilles, to the Mediterranean, Egypt. Aden, Ceylon, India, Hong-Kong, fic., will be made up on the evening of the 27th October (this day.) The mails for Comma, Vigo, Oporto, Lisbon, Madeira, Cadiz, end Gibraltar, will be made up on the morning of the 27th October (this day.) The mails for New South Wales, Van Dieman's Land, will be made up on the Slat October. The Wed India mails, including those for Mexico, Honduras, and Havana, will he made up on the morning of the 2nd November. The overland Mali. for Gibraltar. Malta, Greece, the lonian Islands, ran*, Aden, Ceylon. India, Ilene- Kong. and China, via Southampton, Will made up oft the morning of the 3rd November. TO CORRESPONDENTS. We cannot notke, In any way, any communication that la sent to as anonymously ; but thaw who choose to addrem no in confidence will find their confidence respected. NEITHERCAN WE UNDERTAKE TO RETURN ANY MANUSCRIPTS WHATEVER. 0 0 Advertisements intended for The Express, London evening paper, must be at the Othee by Two o'clock on the day of publication. MOE WATER AT LONDON-BRIDGE. TM DAY. Morning, 8 min. past 6; Afternoon, 33 min. mat 6. Ifteennuiow.—Morning, 7 min. peat 7; Afternoon, 41 min. put 7. LONDON, TUESDAY, OCT. 27. IT is satisfactory to see that the present India Mail contradicts the warlike rumours of the last. At least, it holds forth the prospect that no imminent outbreak on the part of the Sikhs is likely. Mooltan, the most refractory province beyond the Sutlej, has come to terms. GOOLAB SING was said to be recruit ing, but showed no signs of actual forwardness. The fears from Lahore are no greater than are naturally ingested by the position of so wild a country, so lately subdued ; whilst on the frontier the gathering of armies has been contradicted. Accordingly, events of lesser magnitude than the conquests of kingdoms or the insurrections of pro vinces, occupy the Indian press. Sir ClttatEs NA PIER falls in for his usual share of obloquy ; but if the report be true that he is to exchange Scinde for the command of the Indian army, the bitterness of his foes will receive new direction; and they will at least be furnished with what they seem to want—a new topic. WITH the sublime of extravagance, BURKE de picted the French democrats "pricking their dotted lines" on the carcases of great empires and great lords, in order to carve them into joints and sirloins. What would he have said to the Americans of our day, who, having devoured the better part of the Oregon, and all Texas, are "pricking their dotted lines" on Mexico, and driving the United States, uncontrouled, through the midst of that once puissant empire. Not only has Commodore BLOAT taken posses s i o n of California now and for evermore, declaring it part and parcel of the United States, but General KEAR NEY has done the same with Santa Fe and New Mexico, compelling alcaides and cures not only to submit, but to swear allegiance to President Pot.R. " It cannot be supposed," says the New York Morn ing Courier, " that these two officers of the United States military and naval service would have ven tured upon issuing proclamations such as these, with out express instructions ; and then arises a question, (which will be warmly discussed among ourselves) of the right of the executive thus to stipulate without condition, the annexation of whole foreign countries and foreign populations." American commanders, indeed, seem little restric ted in their grandiloquence by instructions from Washington. Yet the plan, if it be one of con quest, has not been ill-conceived. Well-concerted measures appear to have been taken by the generals, for becoming masters of all that portion of Mexico east of the mountains, and as far south as Tampico. General KEARNEY has conquered New Mexico, General TAYLOR has taken equal pains for the occupation of Monterey and Saltillo. If General GAINES or General JESSUP succeed, at the same time, in the attack on Tampico, the Americans will have already carried for themselves a point of the Mexican empire, with Potosi and its mines within their reach, from which even Mexico is menaced. We cannot believe, however, that their purpose is conquest,withthe exception of California and of Santa Fe, which is eastward of their proclaimed boundary line, the Rio Grande. The government of Washington and the naval and military commanders certainly counted on the power and the will of SANTA ANNA to make peace. He has not been able to do this ; but it is evident that he is eager to do so, and that he will have the power, if the Mexican General AMPUDIA and his force should be driven from Monterey. General TAYLOR'S success, however probable, is by no means certain. Am ruDIA is a good artillery officer. He seems well supported. And General TAYLOR has given his foe advantages by changing his policy to wards the invaded country. At first he paid, and promised to pay for all provisions, and, like the British army in Spain, scattered dollars for the food of the army, But the Washington treasury has grown weary of such generosity; and orders have been given that the general and his army are to live upon the country. This severity will have the effect that the Mexican commander desired. AMPUDIA has issued terrible pro clamations to deter the Mexicans from supplying the foe. Gen. TAYLOR'S new plans of living by plunder will be more effectual than AMPUDIA'S proclamations in driving off the Rancheros with their provisions and cattle beyond the reach of the invading army, "If Am rrptA wui 'oui stay to be beaten," writes an American general, " all will be well. Should he merely retreat, he will baffle TAYLOR, and render his force and his expedition utterly useless." Every thing will depend on what takes place at Monterey. If General TAYLOR receive a check, we may reckon on the war being carried on with the greatest vigour against Vera Cruz and Tampico. Should the Mexicans, under AMPUDIA, be defeated and dispersed, SANTA ANNA may be expected to step forward and make peace; on terms, indeed, not so favourable as if he could have concluded it at once, but still on conditions not absolutely destructive of the empire. Should the war continue, fatal as it may prove to Mexico, it will scarcely prove less disastrous to the United States and to its government, whose financial discredit and distress will be laid bare. This would be not unlikely to produce a crisis, and either compel some new and rigorous taxation, or induce a vote of the Legislature reprobating the war and its author, the President. WHATEVER the results of the present registration on the electoral strength of pat ties, one consequence seems to be certain, that a larger amount than ever of disgust and impatience with the system has been produced in the public mind. Its absurdity and vex atiousness have risen to a pitch beyond endurance. The inconsistency complained of, in a letter from a correspondent which the reader will find in our co lumns of to-day, is only one instance out of thou sands ; and with a better termination than is generally arrived at. it is quite necessary that this nuisance should be abated. . Every element in the system contributes its quota to the chaotic result. The claimant is so perplexed by technicalities, as often to incur disfranchisement by a (legally) false description of himself or his property. Or he is forgetfulof the effect of a change of residence which has nothing to do with his qualification, ex cept to forfeit it. Or he lives at a distance ; or has travelled to a distance, from the registration court ; and is struck off for non-attendance. The overseer blunders in his list. It includes the disqualified, ex cludes the qualified; or fatally errs in describing the property. The agent of a voluntary registration society, sometimes well paid, and sometimes out of pocket for his pains, discharges his functions in like intermittent manner. Now, he sleeps over the inser tion of fraudulent claims, till the faction that fabri cates them is on the high road towards universal suf frage for its retainers. Anon ha puts forth a vigour beyond the law, objecting by wholesale to the most unexceptionable votes, pouncing especially upon probable absentees, and act ing on the principle of an agent who told the parliamentary committee, "I thought I would have a sweep against all who voted against us." Both sides agree in accusing the revising barristers of frequent caprice and partiality. And notwithstanding the occasional guidance afforded by appeals, which often is only the striking off one head of the hydra for ten to sprout in its place, the whole process begins, continues, and ends, in "confusion worse confounded." Registration is not what it professes to be, an auxi liary to government by representation. It is only a roundabout way of putting up legislative honours for sale by auction. It is one mode of working the money power. We do not allude merely to the multiplication of votes by the purchase of 40s. freeholds. hat certainly never was contem plated by the legislature in the extent to which it has been practised. It was never dreamed that Peers would create no inconsiderable class of county voters by 40s. annuities to their decayed serving men ; or that Manchester manufacturers would divert a portion of their capital to investments in rent charges in agricultural districts. The Houses of Lords and Commons were not aware that they over-rode the Splitting Act by the Reform Bill. Nor was it intended that 401. should be a market price for politi cal enfranchisement. Still, all this is legal. The votes thus manufactured are manufactured according to law. Registration is not supposed to be a judgment on the title to vote so obtained, but merely on the fact of such title existing, which its province is only to re cognise. And it does no such thing. It forms no sure connecting link between the legal title (rea sonable or absurd), and the list of voters in the formation of which it terminates. As we have said, the money power interposes. Suppose two parties possess each a thousand legal votes in a dis trict, either may obtain a large majority on the regis tration by a more liberal outlay of cash, and by the prying and spying, the trickery and impudence, which that outlay will purchase. Thus peers and million aires, clubs and leagues, can, whenever they please, command or conquer counties. There is less occasion than formerly to bribe persons, for corruption is thus created into an institution. A seat is purchased by the salaries of agents and objectors. It is a farce to connect such a process with any theory of repre sentation. The constitutional principle, so far as there is such a thing, we take to be this : living in a 10/. house, or holding a 40s. freehold, is presumed to indicate so much property or stake in the country, as is again presumed to indicate the mental and moral qualities which fit a man for assist ing in the choice of a legislator. The mental and moral attributes are the real qualification. In default of better proof, the house or freehold is taken as evidence of their existence. As we are not on the subject of the suffrage, the question whether better evidence of qualification might not be obtained, may be altogether passed over. The Reform Act has de fined the legal evidence. We only reason upon that definition. The essential blunder of the registration system is, that it makes the legal es idenee paramount to the moral qualification. Men of the largest un disputed property and attainments, dignitaries of the Church, ornaments of the liberal professions, chief magistrates of cities, members of Par liament, the judges of the land, are all, — some of all have often been,—disfranchised on the score of the pettiest technicalities. The very same property, with the very same title to it, which gives them a vote one year does not give them a vote another year. The law is a) administered as not to take its own selected proof of qualification. A Lord FITZHARDINGE, or a Manchester League, finding or not finding the funds to work the registration, may make all the difference. The evidence itself (of the personal qualification) is uncertain enough ; but the evidence of the evidence raises the uncertainty to the highest power. Houses and grounds are palpable realities, which a Government might register, with tolerable complete ness, by its own agents. To register rent charges, and similar qualifying claims on freehold property, is an onerous, but by no means impracticable undertaking. As property is made by law the test of personal fitness for the suffrage, let the qualifying property be duly taken account of. In this operation there would be no arena for registration battles. The human ap pendage to house or field, who in its virtue gives the actual vote, must usually be indicated by the property itself. The proprietor, in most cases, and with suffi cient accuracy for the purpose; the occupying tenant always and infallibly. Such a record would super sede the registration courts, with all their quibbles, their uncertainties, their factiousness, their partiali ties, their vexations, their expense, and their corrup tion. The fact would be determined, independent of party; nor would it signify if, in the intervals of revi sion,property changed hands. Suppose persons should, in that interval, come to the poll who have parted with their property qualification ;—they have not thereby lost the moral qualification to which that property testi fied. Electoral wisdom in A.B. was proved by his living in a 101. house. There was legal evidence of his wisdom at that time. The fact cannot be destroyed by his removal into an 81. house. The personal qua lification, once ascertained, by whatever means, re- I mains, unless the man falls into fatuity. We see no great harm in such persons continuing to hold the franchise until the period for revision comes round. And this is the chief exception that can be taken. There are mach more questionable exceptions in the present system. What we desire to see is at least a consistency between the professed objects of the Reform Act, and the results of the machinery by which, at present, those objects are as often neutra lised as they are accomplished. To this the public have a right. It is imperatively required for the safety and ease of honest voters, and for the existence of real representation, the great bulwarks of our national liberties. " FREEpost of the press" has been a theme ibr un measured glorification and unreasoning abuse. It may not be the safeguard of liberty, the security against class-encroachment, the breath of constitu tional life, which its advocates maintain it to be; but it certainly is not the spring of anarchy, irreligion, hasty change, and intolerable despotism of the major ity, which its opponents would make it out. The good and ill of it are mixed ; the good largely and necessarily predominating. How far its essential benefits exceed its accidental mischiefs, depends on the spirit in which it is asserted and exercised. Fearlessness in the judgment of public characters, and the comment on public matters, is one necessary character of an influential and healthy free press. Respect for the seal of pri vate confidences; caution in accepting information; scrupulous abstinence from subjects, which, however tempting, can only become matter for newspaper comment by theft, treachery, or accidents, of which it is dishonest to take advantage; are other features which should mark the journal, not less than rever ence for the truth and a daring utterance of it on all occasions. Journalists of all parties have a common interest in insisting on the observance of all these con ditions. Undue control of opinion, as expressed in the journal, is impossible in this country. Our utter freedom from it binds us with a double obligation to the observance of our own self-imposed re-' straints. That the unfortunate broadsheet of Madrid, weighed down by fines, its impressions seized weekly by the police, its Editors imprisoned, its existence tole rated only on condition of daily falsehood, should, when it gets the opportunity, revel in private imputa tion, and find in personal spite some compensation for public nullity, is intelligible enough. In France, also, the severity of state control over the journal has borne its fruits in the reckless readiness of attack, the wilful and systematic misrepresentation, and the per sonal bitterness, which mark the Opposition prints in that country. Despotism over opinion engenders innumerable basenesses in the exponents of it. The English journalist has no such tyranny to complain of. The absoluteness of his freedom binds him to a scrupulous use of it. Even in his utmost latitude of comment, it becomes him to remember the dignity and self-restraint of the free man. Above all, he is pledged to respect the sanctities of private correspondence and domestic life. He can only vio late these at the price of his character. It is not necessary to descend to the impurities of the Satirist to earn a portion of its reputation. The private letter should be as sacred as the marriage bed. Holding this theory of the journalist's duty, which becomes, if possible, more incumbent as his pro fession rises in public estimation, and in the character of its representatives, we have felt at once shamed and shocked by the publication in a morning con temporary, of two private letters; so obviously con fidential, that the communication of them to the newspaper in question can only be accounted for by treachery or dislonesty. The person who furnished them, may have found them by accident; he may have rummaged another's writing desk ; he may have broken a seal, or picked a pocket. The degree of ras cality, on any of these suppositions, is very much the same. But bad as the original perpetrator may be, the publisher of his stolen information is worse. The law supposes an equality of guilt between the thief and the receiver. But who does not feel that FAGIN is, in the eyes of a higher jurisdiction, more guilty than BILL SYKES? The paper which publishes these private letters, which it must hare known were surreptitiously or criminally procured, makes a parade of "omitting some passages that are evidently private." The honour of such a proceeding is much like that of the receiver who re fining from circulating plate with a cypher on it. He sweeps it into the smelting pot, and disposes of it in ingots. " Our object," says the journal in question, " in giving the letters, is simply to avail ourselves of the information they convey on political matters." Few persons would suspect otherwise. The de tails of purely private scandal, or the first easy household talk of intimates, can hardly have much attraction for the public. Had the case been otherwise ; had the readers for whom these letters were printed been as eager for the tattle of May-fair as the whis pers of Downing-street; we have no doubt their pur veyor would have shown the same alacrity to cater for them in the one way, as he has already shown in the other. He would have expunged the politics and printed the small-talk. But we cannot recognise the virtue of his distinction. The violation of private con fidence is the same in either case ; the means used to get at the information as dirty and as despicable. We are glad, for the honour of the craft, that this unscrupulous IKEY SOLOMONS of the daily press has found no imitator. A contemporary, as bitterly opposed as the offender to the Government which these revelations are intended to annoy, had the same letters offered to it. It refused to avail itself of them on the grounds which would at once have suggested themselves to every gentleman. " These docu ments," it remarks, " are very tempting to a newspaper; but, as we understand them to hare been obtained in an irregular manner, we will not dishonour the Herald by giving them a place in its columns, though we are informed that co pies have been also sent to certain of our con temporaries." Thus, it will be seen, the irregularity of the channel through which these letters passed to the newspaper office was no secret. At this time, when public opinion has acquired a power unknown to earlier periods ; when the rapidity of communication carries the expression of that opinion with lightning speed through the length and breadth of the empire ; when its organs are acquir ing a development and an importance commen surate with the resources they employ and the means they set in operation; the character of those organs is a matter of public concern. As that cha racter has risen, not less by a bold use of authorised and fair weapons, than by an abstinence from under hand arts and dishonest arms, we have felt it our duty to protest energetically against an act which, without such a protest, reflects an implied dishonour on ourselves. The feeling which has excited us to this expression is, we are proud to believe, common to our brethren of the daily press. We should not, until yesterday, have excepted a single accredited journal from the compliment. All minds in Paris are engrossed by, and all hearts filled with affliction, at the results of the terrible disaster with which it has pleased Providence to afflict those districts of the country traversed by the Loire, its tributaries, and the other rivers which have broken or overflowed their banks. We learn from our Paris correspondent that the reports on Suuday in that city were generally to the effect that the waters were subsiding. Painful apprehensions never theless continued to be raised in many minds by the constant rain which prevailed in Paris throughout Saturday, Sunday, and the intervening eight. The confusion and dismay, and the heartrending spectacles of distress exhibited everywhere throughout the vast theatre of the calamity, appear to have paralysed all activity, so that it was difficult to obtain clear and intelligible accounts of the actual state of things, and impossible as yet to form even the most distant approximation to the amount of the ' loss which has been incurred of life and property. There is too much reason to fear that in and around many of the farm houses and buildings which have been suddenly and totally submerged, whole families will be found drowned on the subsiding of the waters. Accounts are arriving hourly of the vast loss in cattle of every description, the carcases of which are seen floating on the waters, or resting on those points left diT by their subsidence. fhe Minister of Public Works, with a view to acce lerate the rescue of those who are surrounded by the water, sent from Paris on Thursday, by railway, 80 =EIM THE EXPRESS, TUESDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 27, 1846. boats, and 250 boatmen who had volunteered their services with the most laudable zeal. Our correspondent has selected from the reports which arrived on Sunday the following particulars : In one place a horrible spectacle wee presented; a church and churchyard being inundated, the tombs were over turned, and the graves literally pre up their dead. On the subsidence of the water, heaps of human remains, bones, heads, and fragments of bodice, were scattered about or thrown promiscuously pell-mell in Inapt. In the midst of this frightful disaster, as unfortunately happens in such eases, the basest propensities of our nature showed them selves in a few individuals, who were not deterred by the general distress from availing themselves of the opportunity of entering the deserted houses, and robbing the unhappy owners of such objects of value as the flood had spared. It is feared that the amount of the loss in cattle alone and horses will be immense. The rush of the waters was tar too rapid to allow the escape of these creatures. Quantities of sheep, cows, oxen, and horses, are everywhere floating on the surface of the water. The metric of Orleans has been converted into a depot of bread, where the wretched suffer ers daily receive subsistence. The innumerable houseless receive there also billets for lodging, and are cheerfully received and accommodated in sueh buildings as the flood has spared. The extraordinary rain which has pro duced the floods of the Loire has extended over a _great portion of the south and south-east of France. On the night of Saturday, in particular, a frightful hurricane manifested itself at Valence, accompa nied by thunder and lightning. The rain resembled more that of the tropics than what is seen in Europe. The strangeness of the phenomenon filled with terror not only the human race, but the inferior animals; vast numbers of birds of every species flew fur shelter from the surrounding country to the town. Flocks of thrushes, widgeons, and ducks were seen and heard in the streets and gardens of the town • some of them, attracted by the light, took refuge in the elle/I, others descended the chimneys. On the same night, a phenomenon most extraordinary, though not abao lbtely unprecedented, took place at Grenoble. On Sa turday morning the thermometer fell suddenly above thirteen degrees, and the barometer fell to the point marked storm. The firmament was loaded with a brown, thick, dusty-looking vapour, which produced almost com plete darkness. The heavens retained this appearance with out rain until the evening, accompanied by an oppressive heat and gusts of a southern wind, like the Italian sirocco at 11 at night, preceded by loud (laps of thunder and terrific flashes of lightning, the rain began to pour and speedily assumed a violence as though it menaced a deluge. The streets were filled with tiles, slates, and the d. , bris of chimneys blown down by the force of the) wind. Flacks of birds invaded the houses, entering through doors and windows. The same storm was manifested on the same day, at distant points, in the departments of La Dame and Isre, and was accompanied by an extraordinary phenomenon, which the witnesses call showers of blood. The rain which fell lett upon the cloth ing, the umbrellas, the leaves of trees, panes of glass, reddish spots resembling blood. A bucket of this liquid was saved, and forwarded for analysis to a chemist at Lyons. An apothecary at Bourgoin is said to have ex amined the spots found on the leaves of plants, and found that it was composed of iron, silex, alumina, and carbonic acid." How, it may be asked, did iron and flint get into the clouds ? It was conjectured that these and the other solid materials were drawn up by a vast water spout, which had been reported to have been seen in the vicinity of the storm by the conducteur of one of the diligences. The terrific character of the inundations in some places may be collected from the fact, that at the bridge of Per tuiset the waters rose, between noon and six in the evening, to the incredible height of 50 perpendicular feet, and, strange to say, this particular bridge was one of those which escaped destruction. The amnesty announced in our correspondence of yesterday, which was received by the mail of the 18th, was regarded by all parties in Paris, even including some of the ministerial journalists (the Editors of La Presse, for example) as a cruel insult and wanton mockery. Under the pompous language iu which the Spanish ministry glorifies itself for this measure of clemency is concealed only a decree of continued incarceration and persecution against the victims of a long succession of struggles for liberty. The fact communicated in our correspondence of yesterday, that Gonzales Bravo and Costa Cabral have delayed their departure from Madrid for Lisbon is confirmed. These individuals have thoughtit more prudent to wait for more certain information of the manner in which the coup d'etat of the Queen will be received throughout the kingdom. The ('onstitution ad states, that the reported arrest of tho Duke of Terceira has been confirmed. The Count Das Antes who commanded at Oporto, having been apprised of what was in contemplation, and summoned to Lisbon under pretence of suppressing a movement there, refused to obey, and when the Duke of Ter ceira disembarked, intending to take command of the provinces of the north, the Count had him arrested and immediately conducted to prison. A provisional junta it is said was named, the forfeiture of the Queen pronounced, and her eon Don Pedro pro claimed king with a council of regency. Coim bra, Evora, and Braga, adopted it is said, the same course, which seemed likely to be followed by all the cities of the north. There was still current in Paris, in the principal political circles, reports of a ministerial change. The retirement of M. Lacave Laplagne, to give place to either M. Rignon, or more likely Passy, as men tioned in our correspondence of yesterday, was re peated as settled. M. Martin (du Nord) was to give place to M. Hebert, and M. de Salvandy to M. Rossi. But the great ministerial event talked of was the re tirement of Marshal Soult, and the elevation of M. Guizot to the presidential chair. Some persons main tained that the royal will is strongly opposed to this step, as one which would infallibly alienate still more the Cabinet of London. The old Marshal, it is said, although a political nonentity, is nevertheless an excellent cloak under which to attempt to recover the favour of England; M. Guizot, on the contrary, is the very impersonation of the latest ultra-dynastical pranks of the cabinet, and would be not unwillingly sacrificed in high places. Royal gratitude, as we all know, does not aspire to actual heroism, and the Minister of Foreign Affairs might possibly be offered as the first holocaust to the manes of the entente cordiale. Others, however, usually well informed, assert posi tively that the retirement of the Duke of Dalmatia is settled with the full accordance of the Château. The motive of such accord is, however, according to La France, dictated by a somewhat long-sighted and crafty policy : This combination (says that journal) would amount to no thing less than a project leading to the ultimate disgrace of M. Guizot. After having, in fact, proved the difficulty of composing a cabinet out of the elements of the actual minis try, the following project was decided on .—to remove imme diately the old Marshal, to save him the mortification of a fall ; to invite M. Guizot to the presidency of the cabinet, which would be newly patched-up, then some fine day to pull the whole to pieces, to give satisfaction to England, and in fine to return to a cabinet formed out of the elements of the old one, making Marshal; Soult its president. Whatever course be followed, equal disgrace seems to await M. Guizot. It is in a word the prevalent opinion that the retreat of the Minister of Foreign Affairs is the most certain mean+ of calming the sneer of our neighbours. It re mains to be seen if Great Britain will be satisfied with it. At the moment that our Paris correspondent closed his letter, no Madrid mail had arrived. The cause of this delay must have been south of the Pyrenees, inasmuch as the journals of Bordeaux andthe southern towns on the route of the Madrid mail have reached Paris. AMERICA AND MEXICO. The St. Louis Republican contains a circumstantial and ' not uninteresting account of the march to Santa Fe by the Americans, and the taking possession of that city. It would seem that General Armijo had actually 4,000 men at his command, but very badly armed ; and that on the 16th they left for the place appointed as the battle-ground. When he got there, however, a council of his officers was called, and, " much to his satisfaction," they refused to fight. His second in command, Col. Archuletti, was exceeding tido. rous up to a late date, but very suddenl7 changed his entire views of the necessity of the quarrel. N cry soon after this determination, Gov. Armijo turned his head towards Chihua hua, followed by a few dragoons. Meantime the American General Kearney continued his march, meeting with no opposition, and informing the alcaldes and curets along the road that he came to claim the country for the United Statos, that he would not plunder, but pay for everything; would respect religion and protect it ; and would act as sovereign, not as conqueror. The following account of the successful issue of the expedition is from the diary of an officer : Aug. !X.—Started as usual, and at Mx mile; came to the cannon, where the Mexican army bad been assembled. There hiel been 3,050 troops there, but it seems that the nearer we antroached them, the fewer the. became, and when we passed through they had all gone. The position they chose was near the lower end, and it was one of great strength. The passage was not more than forty feet wide—in hoot they had made an obstruction with timber, and beyond this, at 900 yards distance, was an eminence in the road, on which their can non had been placed; and it was thought by us that their position was equal to 1,000 man. We reached the hill which overlooks Santa Fe at five, r.s. Major Clark's artillery was put into line, and the mounted troops and infantry were marched through the town to the Palace (as it is called), on the public square, where the Gene ral and his staff dismounted, and were received by the acting governor arid other dignitaries, and conducted into a large room. The. General stated, in a few words, the object of his visit, and wave assurance. of safety and protection to all unoffending citizens. While this transpired, the stars and stripes were hoisted on the staff which is attached to the palace, by Major Swords ; and as soon us it was seen to wave above the buildings, it was hailed be a national salute from the batteries of Captains Fischer and Weight Man, under the command of Major Clark. While the General was proclaiming the conquest of New Mexico, as a pert of the United States, the first gun was heard : "There," said be, "my guns proclaim that the ((ago( the United Stales &ate over this capital..." The people appeared satiatleaL The General slept In the palace, (we demo crats must call it the governor's house). One company of drammos was kept in the city as a guard, and the business of the day was ended. Thus in the short space of fifty days has an army been marched nearly 900 miles, over a destrt country, and con quered a province of 80,030 soub, without firing a gun. Aro. l9.—The General addreased the wole people today more at length than he had on other omissions, and too:: particular care to give them the most positive assurances of protection their pence', pro perty, and religion. Many families had fled on his apPrust at end be told their friends to bring them beck, and to say to them they would be more safe under his administration than they had ever been. He stated, that in taking pooseasion of New Mexico, he claimed the whole of it for the United thetas, without reference to the 810 Grande. Ile absolved them from their allegiance to Mexico and Governor Ar rnijo, and proclaimed himself gevenior of New Mexico, and claimed them DA citizens of the United States. The acting Governor and Alca ldes then took the oath of allegiance to the United States, and the people, with a si multaneous shout, exclaimed, " Vice la General." The acting governor then addressed the people as follows: — John Baptist, Vigil and Atcalde, political and military Governorpro Less. of the department of New Mexico, to the inhabitants of Santa ke, the capital thereof, greeting ; It having been out of my power, by all the exertions that I could put in practice, to calm the fears impressed on the inhabitants by the desertion of General Don Manuel Armijo and his soldiers, and what was most frightful, he having made them conceive, on the approach of the military forces of the government of the United States of Piorth America to the capital, that said forces were composed of cruel and sanguinary savages, and for which many families have Leh their homes, to hide themselves in the desert, be lieving that no wear& , no protection of their lives or property was to be expected from the commander of said fortes: and in order to appease these feats I thought it convenient and necessary to order to be set up in the most public places, the proclamation of the chief of said forces, of which the following is its tenor." lie then read the proclamation which General K. had sent among the Mexicans in advance. Genera/ Ampudia has published no less than five pro clamations. The following is one : The General-in-Chief of the corps d'ormee of the north to the inha- bitanta of the departments of - Coahuila, Nuevo La" and Taman. Ilpas. FeDew-citizens (Conciudadanos): For the second time I enter this Interesting part of the Mexican territory, to lead the soldiers who are anxious to fight, in order to humble the pride of the foreign invader, and to liberate from the minions of slavery, to which we shall he re duced, if he shall consummate his depraved intentions. We have visible examples of this assertion in the disgraceful condition of the inhabitants of Bejar La Bahia, and recently the district of the north of Tamaulipas. We apprehend the great principle is incontestible, that the people which seeks to he free, is so. Recollect, countrymen, that the Spaniah nation, with the warlike and formidable armies of Napoleon in her capital and strong places, maintained a vigor mu and triumphant re sistanee to the end of the glorious struggle ; and we ought not the less to remember, that the heroes of our own temintipation from the mother country, without science in war struggled for the space of e!even years to break the chains that found as to the will of a monarch distant two thousand leagues. My Mends: Our brethren from the neighbouring depot amen hasten to the war ; they send thousands of brave volunteers to your aid; and lastly, it is very probable that the leader of our independence (:) and founder of the republic (! l) General of Division anti benefactor of the country, D. Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna, will come to the theatre of the war, at the head of a large reinforcement of troops, to conduct the campaign. In the meantime, courage, ouuntrymen, and oppose the enemy by your utmost etforts.—llead-quarters, In tip• city of Saltillo, Aug. 27. (Signed) PEDRO DE A To-morrow, I will enleavour to translate and send the others. Another says, Considering that the hoar has arrived when energetic measures end precautionary dispositions should be taken to liberatethe departnients of the East from the rapacity of the Anglo-Americana ; and for attend ing to the rights of the people and the usages of war, every person who may prove a traitor to he country, or a npy of toe mine, shall suffer death without any remission of sent, nee ; and, taking into con sideration that it is 1111 , bounden duty to put an end to the evils which have been caused by the contralaind trade that hen been indiscrimi nately carried on by the usurpers of our sacred territory; and using the faculties which the laws have empowered me with, 1 decree as fol lows : —l. Every native or foreigner who shall, either directlyor indi rectly, voluntarily aid or amid the enemy in any manner whatnoever, shall nuffeffdeuth by Deltic shot.-2. All those who, after the publica tion of this proclamation, shill continue to traffic in contraband arti cles with the enemy, shall suffer the same ps natty named in the pre ceding article.-3. The authorities of every branch of the public ser vice will take especial care, under the strictest responsibility, that this article shall be rigorously complied with. PROCLAMATION. To the inhabitants of New Mexico by Brigadier General S. W. Kearney, commanding the troops of the ended States in the same.— As by the act of the republic of Mexico, a state of war ethos between that government and the United States, and as the undersigned, at the head of hi• troops on the Itith; inst., took possession of Santa Fe, the capital of the department of New Mexico, he nowannounces hie inten tion to hold the department with its original boundaries on both sides of the Del Norte) an a part of the United States, and under the name of the Territory of New Mexico. The undersigned has sorer to New Mexico with a strong military force, and an equally istrongone ie following Close in hisrear. Helms moretroops than necewary to put down any opposition that can possibly be brought against him, and therefore it would be but folly or madame for any dissatisfied or discontented persons to think of resisting him. The undersigned has irestructioas from his government to respect the religious institutions of New Mexico, to Iprotect the property of the church, to cause the worship of those be onging to it to be undisturbed, and their religious rights in the amplest manner preserved to them. Alno, to protect the person and property of all quiet and peaceable inhabitants within its boundaries, against . their enemies, the Eutaws, Nayahoes, and others; and while he ensures all that it will be his pleasure as well as his duty to com ply with those instructions, he calls upon them to exert themselves in preserving order, in promoting concord, and in maintaining the authority and efficiency of the laws; and to require of these who have left their homes and taken up arms against the troops of the United States, to return forthwith to them, or etre they will be considered as enemies and traitors, subjecting their per sons to punishment, and their property to seizure and confiscation, for the benefit of the public treasury. It is the wish and intention of the United States to provide for New Mexico a free government with the least possible delay, ...Fidler to those in the United States, and the people of New Mexico will then he called on to exercise the rights of freemen in electing their own representatives to the territorial legisla ture ; but until this can be done the laws hitherto in existence will be continued until changed or modified by competent authority, and those persons holding office will continue in the same for the present, ' provided they will consoler themselves good yin-yens, and willing to take the oath of allegiance to the United Staten. The undersigned hereby absolves all persons resit:lag within the boundary of New Mexico from further allegiance to the republic of Mexico, and hereby claims them as einem., of the United States. Those who remain quiet and peaceable will be oonsidered as gent citizens, and receive pr o tection. Tame who are found in arms, or Instigating others against the United States will be considered as traitors, •and treated accordingly. lion Manual Armijo, the late governor of this department, has fled from it. The under signed has taken possession of it without firing a gun, or spilling a drop of blood, in which he most truly rejoices, and fur the present will be considered as governor of the territory. Given at eonta Fe, the capital of the territory of New Mexico, this 22nd day of August, 1816, and in the seventy-fird year of the independence or the United States.—By the Governor, S. W. Kessaini, Brig. Gen. A correspondent of the New York Herald of the Bth iad. writes as follows - - - - • • - Idarsmouss, Maxico, SEPT. 14.—The last arrival from Camargo brought information that M`Cullough's Rangers had met a party of the enemy's cavalry on the road to Monterey. The Rangers were about 40 miles beyond Se ralvo, when they saw a considerable body of horsemen, armed and mounted, supposed at first to be Canale's ran cheros. The Mexicans retreated, and were vigorously pur sued, until they came up with a large body, consisting of near a thousand men. The Rangers then retreated in turn, and brought the news to our general. It was thought that this Mexican force was the advance of their army, and that they intended to give us battle between Seralvo and Monterey, several leagues from the latter; of course we have reason to expect this, if they intend to defend their city. It was even supposed that the enemy might be advancing to fight Gen. Worth at Seralvo, before Gen. Taylor and the rest of the army should come up. This they could not do, however, as Gen. Taylor must have arrived at Seralvo before that place could have been reached by any part of the enemy's force. The brigade of Gen. Quitman was the last on the ground at Seralvo. It is believed he reached it about Friday last, the 11th. And I think we may safely calculate that the army moves this morning for Monterey. The enemy may attempt to interrupt the American general's communications; this would be as effective as a direct attack. Contemplating such • possibility, the com mands at the principal depots, from the Brazos to Camargo, are awake. In this city we have a strong guard in the Plaza, a command of artillery in Fart Paredes, and Col- Cartis's regiment of Ohio volunteers encamped near by. Any reverse, or even check, of Gen. Taylor would so embolden the inhabitants of this frontier, that a series of attacks upon our different positions might be expected. The steamers are still busily employed in throwing supplies to Camargo, and, that they may be forwarded, a large force will be required to keep open the road thence to Monterey. It cannot escape observation, that Gen. T. is now march ing at the head of • force far larger, but widely difPrent in , character, from that which fought at Palo Alto. There, all were reg ulars. He knew every officer, and had the utmost confidence in every man. Now, he has a mixed force Though he does not distrust the courage of his countrymen, he has, in his long career as a soldier, had numerous occa sions to know the magic effect of discipline. This cannot be overrated. The Mexicans know well, that the former bat tles were fought by regulars alone, on our side; and I am told that they count much upon what they conceive to be the comparative inefficiency of the volunteers. But if our great superiority of race is not as clearly demonstrated in any coming, as it has been in any past conflicts, I misjudge the character of our troops of both descriptions, and am wholly mistaken in the spirit which animates the entire force which now composes Gen. Taylor's army. We hear they are in the best and highest spirits, and confidently expect to meet the enemy. COLONIAL NEW SOUTH WALES. Papers were received yesterday from Sydney, down to the 18th June, from which we learn that on the 13th of that month, Sir George Gipps had prorogued the Legislative Council to the 25th August. We regret to learn that the Governor's health was in a declining state. INDIA AND CHINA. THE OVERLAND MAIL. An announcement of the arrival of the India Mail, with a brief summary of the news, appeared in the Express of yesterday. We now supply particu lars of intelligence from files which have reached us with dates from Calcutta, Sept. 8 ; Madras, Sept. 12 ; Bombay, Sept. 13 ; Ceylon, Sept. 16; and Hong Kong, August 28. - - (From the Bombay Times, Sept. 15.) We continue, as for months past, to suffer from scarcity of intelligence. We have letters from Scinde only eight days old, but they are newsless. The country seems generally pretty quiet, but the people continue to suffer severely from scarcity. The unhealthiness of the chief sta tions is at length admitted by the Kurrachee Adrcrtiser,— long understood to he the organ of the local government. Everything is tranquil at Lahore, and peaceful and prosper ous in the Jullundur lloab; but no preparations have as yet been announced for the withdrawal of the army, though we are now within a few months of the time when we pledged ourselves to retire—the end of the year. Lord Hardinge and the Commander-in-Chief are expected about this time to quit Simla and proceed on a tour of inspection along the frontier. Colonel Lawrence, the Agent for the Governor-general, has gone to Lahore. The rains are now almost entirely over, the weather for six weeks back having been singularly beautiful. The Governor of Bombay and his family arc ab nit to proceed to Khandalla, for the benefit of eK.nge of air; the Commander-in Chief and staff remain at Ptionah. The Governor of Madras continues at the Nedgherry Hills, so that by next month all the governors India will and Tho n t 11 1 len gearyreil-dlif ofb epromises to be abein:lan:::: of grain in Bombay is so Lrgs that much lt, stroyet before a new crop is admtted, fk. exercise the closest and most capricious the prices almost to famine rates. SCINDE.—This province seems tranquil,—the people sufferin g s e „ re r fi t lower Cholera had again sh own i tself in the low Nit form very mild in comparison to that ftrra c i, it. The flood of th e I ndus was nearly at its bi g waters had spread over a surface unusually expa g We find the following in the .Frorramiser of the 29th :—" Ilead-quarters, lua rut , te August 18, 1816.—N0. 3. The Idtjor.orte, placed Lieutenant Moore under an arrest, yea% took upon himself to divide his detachment al part of it to Chutter for the purpose of agi n „, of the Khan of Khelat ainst his Iliehnere„ also made a long and dgerous my t h towel and might have lost ha lf his men and horn, tokil. The proceedings were contrary to order,. Moore appear s to have forgotten %ha no ofte n except the governor of this provinse, has a ri g detachments and occupy_ freak pate even yi n " ; yet Lieutenant Moore took upon hind: far beyond the frontier, and without pennimm bility which the governor himself would not pre,, without leave from the pet rnorirene n d . knows his duty as a military man ever wru ng , troops under his command without orders. A re e tion of responsibility is the surest sitrit that tart know his business. The governor will for on, this disobedience of orders, and Lieutenant k return to hie duty. But should such again oblige the governor to uphold discipine, and offender to a court-martial. Zeal excuses asse excuse of disobedience of orders, beams eery t solves a military force, and turns an array a The Khan of Khelat must protect his ova Kyberies; if the latter choose to belL.ve like en must take the result.—C. J. NAPIEU, Zijc“, mending the troops in Sc,nde." SUfifil:fi.—A letter from Sukkur, dated August, states that the weather had grown a beginning of August the thermometer ranged to 100 deg. within doors ; but it had lowered e and in particular in the mornings, which w e , The Indus war very full, and had risen several it four days •, the force with which it flowed I Island of Bukkur and Sukkur was tremendous however, looked upon as fa from king an cavil the artillerymen were looking very ill when qui the 7th Regiment Native Infantry, which h Scinde in January with seventeen otfiein, had eight present, many tieing absent on sirs meth bay Gentleman's Oazctte, September 3. TUE PONJAUB.—EarIy in the month gained currency that the Wuzeer Lall Singh ha dered. It came from so good a source, and a , nently probable, that it quickly gained general e proves without any foundation whatever. Th e Sir John Littler continues quiet and inactive at We were bound by treaty to withdraw that 1) the year. The General, it is slid, h as write government is gaining in strength daily, am' no reason to apprehend the consul uencesof, erdd drawal of the troops ; and it is understood the , am cold we: Lt her there;will be a general move. Cal agent Cr the Governor-General, has set out he Lahore: Lords Hardinge and Gough were, it stood, about to start on a tour of inspection. native had to an unusual extent even during the flowed its banks and the country near the cape for a time pettishly submerged. Some of our a amusing themselves with boating under the walk dant crop was expected as the result of the filed able change in the weather had occurred about it August, when cool and refreshing breezeihad take of the stifling sweating atmosphere which ha since May. The force had throughout onion health, and never were troops more fur good conduct and order and propriety composing the army of occupation at L arrangements betwixt Government and th Mooltan were on the point of being amicable is firm and prudent proceedings of Colonel las terms of the treaty arc said to be these :—The 180,0001. as a gift to the Lahore government; i the latter to occupy all the forts of the former ; t of the state of the revenues of toe country Jan every year at Lahore by the chief in peak Bhugwan Singh should be permitted to retain of the Mooltan territory he had acquired; a whole tribute of the present year should health up. The chief appeared to have assented to the demurring only to the occupation Obis forth, u himself to quit his own country on a visit to He assembled all his chief officers, cot& them for the assistance they had gives I the late disturbances, and selected a large tote pansy him. The Moonshee Jun Mull was seat lion to intimate that arrangements had been ma ception ; his personal safety was under Betel and an honorary escort, under Dewaa Deena fi out to meet him. He reached Lahore on the 204 was received with the customary honours. Bat ranee', there is nogreat reason to imagine that Is entrusted himself to the hands of his superiors LAIIORE.—The following letter of the I gust appears in the Ayra Chronicle of S that month : We have had a glorious change In the weather knee week. The close calmy atmosphere which has stehde since May, has given place to a refreshing caolnee,• was positively coldish, I hope this is the warn t weather. This change has not been produced by rag have had very little for a month. It must have Wks the however, judging from the sudden rise I This river, which runs about half a mile from Lthars flow its banks three or four days ago, and it now ens of the city. As you stand on the parapet of the the liadu h ahee Musjesst, you see nothing before st you but a vast sheet of water dotted with insulated pats getation, groves of trees, and a faw of the tall as: temples common hereabouts, while the bridge of ks some weeks ago over the small stream which then ma t now stands useless and unconnected in the midst of d scene Is very striking, and partakes even of the sa there is not much stirring. The quarrel ofthe Sikh p the Maxim of Moulton is being amicably arranged. I is expected to came to Lahore, and Dewan Deena Na decant to start from this and escort him here, ended. him to some agreement with the terms of the Durtor. Tk tern has been brought about by the letters alebi—rd to Rajah Tall Singh and Dewan 3loolraj on the subject. selves, there would probably have been a year'squales skirmisbee before the dispute would be settled. One el meat has taken place between a party of Adelina is ; Mooltan (not Aff(hans of the villages, but sailers um • Military Officer of the Nazim's) and a detachment of M; Singh's army, in which the latter was defeated, the MT taken prisoner and the second In command killoi. 1 upon here as a sad blot on the fair fame of the Serharte however, unfortunate with the Pennines on the busks: have hitherto maintained a superiority over their Pat ca the banks of the Indus. The mutinous regiment ore to be re-organized, tae turned aside and encamped at Prom this they have sent notice to the Government d to be paid up and discharged, as they do remain in the Sikh service any longer. Kober a this from a body of mutineers, he it not! Fereral gear been dispatched to restore them to subordination, but a as yet, and sufficient means for their coercion have not the disposal of these officers. Meanwhile the minima the Fouj.i-klas, as the regiment is styled, have amt the Governor-General requesting him to interfere el the will probably do so, as the cause of the mutiny is ncoi arenas—a matter in which the British Government tine being done by the Durbar to their re-enlisted ed Ilazareh country the Mabomedan tribes have rebels new Soiereigh Maharajah Goolab Singh; and they ha' successful as to base defeated his troops stationed thee their commander with a few followers in a fortilistribi also show symptoms of insurrection—instigated, rt use late Sikh governor, who is prompted to thismane of e worthy Prone Minister byre, who hates hie highwew of hates, or ought to hate, the Prince of Darkens head pretty decided n.issive on this subject his readied headquarters, front which the letters to the Rajah of b more in the style of warning and rebuke than oroawl present position of the Vixier, although the higbcst a decidedly the most unenviable. He meat have sad fan future. His pillow is not one of ranee,l7l warnat it tlingh, the bazaar here is full of reports that he is prow the British ; but I look upon these rePoct! I" 2 " Such an act of folly would be in opposite, to the of the :Maharajah's life, which has been one of lax where his interests were concerned, and of a well-fkw ; entitled to the name of wisdom in its war. It W rq brother of the Ranee's, who has lately been risii young o n De sent on a pilgrimage to Bemires. the is an in on the part of the Visier, as the young ebid wash looked up to by a number of discontented Sedan as to his sister's favourite. This is one way of attar 8 w of the tion I The Ranee herself, by the way , ha religious of late, i. e., she distributes large soma to the poor people, brother, who is unwell. He is expected, here 88 '1: Lawrence fs now on o se n r i. money t y ro to in G seinu ya to to biald Lg alen l caller he or Major Lawrence wilt remain dared British troops in Lahore. There is a report that err camp next month, and start in Nevember. For the b date I should be inclined to put the end of Decerobw, a General will probably give the benefit of the presence Army to the Sikh Government as long as eariantar siouslyexprrneed resolution. But this ii eta oßnert sure that Viscount Ilardinge himself has yet Mal uPw time for our withdrawal. Another correspondent of the same journal, days later, says— The slides behave very civilly towards us. but !..." with great independence : they have a large b ut hBr, allowed to enter the city, except by permission , +. 8 8., within ten miles round in two days they Can card to tight against us. The town people say they are Tel the British troops here, and that they ne ver en l oYew quietude before, although I fancy there is atill a greator going on, of which we have little notions Vere, upper eases. Of. Lawrence arrived here us toe amongst: i and the }taw appear to be in grand:on-pate say they will be dead In less than a week after ied ear b y drawn. lam living in part of the h house occup. Kurruck Singh, in moons surrounded by mirnws az? ti kinds. The heat is seldom less than lea elega wind (at night espeeisili), owing to the heat fives walla, so that we lie kackuir lend gasping tor brew . ..'ll frunigmht,thleikietny.shesh.outA a ll the wa manly act of Men, and sees - ternrel ate and earare have a good mess , band, and ask club, an by these Ili we manage to get over the time. All the I,6m o :ft:- ! rate, and no one knows any one, except in In:, races are to take place here in the mid , lk of being the great festival of the &Idol 1 88 7" (1 1„ they will muster from all the remote cornet.. t o e ffi r, ,, th m e e.Jinly this itsrirdmic teconint_t_ean I capital, and no doubt swayer their disbanded scPo?.% attend; in ease there is to be a row it will owar y •l y, festival continues for. ten days. The whole of the for the relief, which we expect here shortlY. zwi the latter end of October ; and they sty that wf .. ..47 but I fancy the news is too good to be tru e : ! d; ,.. forward young shaver, and is frequentle seen n Sowdars after him. Ile caught a little boy the ottie; his eye out with his thumb as a punishment. I eil a few days ago tor murdering We son a he e take care of his own neck. The Ranee onierd..o_,7