The Express. — London, England, 1846-11-19 00:00:00

r - f 2 THEATRE ROYAL COVENT GARDEN.— POBMVELY THE Len WEEK BUT 0241•191..1IILLIEN 11 CONCERTS.—CtIE BRITISH ARMY QUADZILLE TO-M(4lf. PROCHLULBE he TILLS EVENINO4=Vov. 19. PAM' 2.—Oeseenro. Me Tell. Rose Thehlteoet, Jallice.—seik imirer, Mew Ciala, Ciell.- 110 Alrem./ ken the :ymphaup la p, imema—Talea, Tballiminth, Sirlip.--bro, "gin• Mr. HILIW . . Le Beietel. Ohya.—QmaiNe, Ilia Edda Army (mistiming" Par Om/ Mug Brarrydrlim. PART 11.-111ord Mob% Onmi Seisslion bent the Mast Mater, with Solos by la Pnamr• end Bea Xmaiv laseint.—Te Original Poloaabe, Jullia.--adr. Oanairthia, Mr. Cam, Caea.—Neer Comte Polio, Tlas •0011124 JaMaa.-0 Ls Osteette, Nadir. Ombilmhat Ls% 2.21,10Mre ember The lag Oman wellies peones ISATUILDAY, November 29, and the mom terminals cm MONDAY. Morember M, with • OM= PAL NAIKIIM ---- 1-LO4 YCEUM THEATRE.ALLROFI'S VOCAL mad L'YSTRUMENTAL PROMENADE CONCERTS, S EVENCCO (faraday). Nov. IS. Puounws" Strauss. Solo, s—Patt I. Over ture, W illiam Dill. Welts, "Homage to the Qum ai the Saz Horn, Mt. H. Pada. New Polka, Vietoria-klhertl_P u S taL Ballad, Mr. Sinolair. New Quadrille, "The Royal Haut: Solo, Flute, Mr. Carte. Overture, Zanette. Mr. Henry Russell will ming . The Shlp li c :4," at. Part U. Opecalle Selection! from Don Trumpet, Mr. Diann. New Polka, ' The Royal Wetimteler‘ _Overture, Precioaa. Grand Duo, two Cornets-S -PIN% Bleehet. ibuiay and 0. Davie. Neapolitan Carnival Qu ails. Ibis. Ousts—Conductor, H. Negri ; Leaders, S Ira —Plt, Promenade, and Upper Ilona, Is.; Dees SIAL; Private Roam, One Guinea. Platen and POWs aim le Is had at the Box-office, and at Mr. Alleroft's, IS, Pm Isrlidesek ma 111. Xermt-mreet --- --- T 7----- i ulf AL SlatitE Y 1 REA fitt*,.— n° Pi oinuty , .1. , , and the Public are respectfully informed that Mr. dAVNI9LriOLT will make his First Appearance on any stage, THIS EVEN IKO, in Shaltspere's Tragedy - of MACBETH, with the whole of Locke's music, and a powerfully augmented Chorus, avowed expressly for this occasion. Macbeth by Mr. Boynton Bolt. After which, THE LOAN OF A LOVER. Gertrude, with songs, by Mai lamina Lynne, late of the Theatre Ito* Oasent-garden. To con clude with THE FIEND OF TUE EARTH by the celebrated Dentin Emile. Orchestra seats, 2a.; boxes, 2a. , pit, Is.; gallery, bd. 7: he ..,' 1 Prefso. MAILS. IV: overland mails for Medlar, Malta, Greece, the lonian Islands, Egypt, Aden, Ceylon, India, Ilong.tiong, and China, rai Southampton, will be made up on the morning of the 20th November (to-morrow). The overland closed mails, via .Var seines, to the Mediternmesn, Egypt. Aden, Ceylon. India, Hong-Kong, Sze., will be made up on the evening of the 24th November The mails for Vigo, Oporto, Lisbon, Madeira, Cadiz, and Gibraltar, will be made up on the morning of the 27th November. The mails for New South \Vales, Van Diemen's Land. and New Zealand will be made up on the ermine of the 90th November. The West India mails, excluding those for Mexico, Honduras, and the Havannah, will be made up on the morning of the 2nd December. The malls for the Broils, the River Plate, Monte Video, Pernam buco, Bahia, Madeira. and Buenos Arse, will be despatched on the evening of the 4th December. TO CORRESPONDENTS. cannot notice, in any way, any communication that is sent tone anonymously ,• but tboee who choose to addrer • us in confidence will find their oonfidence respected. NEITHERCAN WE UNDERTAKE TO RETURN ANY MANUSCRIPTS WDATEVER. ••• Advertisements intended for Me Express, London evening paper, must be at the Office by Two o'clock on the day at publication. WG:I WATER AT LONDON-BRIDGE. TRIO DAT. Morning, 47 min. pan 1; Afternoon, fi pee t 2. To.n oz zow.—Morning, • 25 min. pent 2 Afternoon, 43 Win. put 2. LONDON, THURSDAY, NOV. 19. The mystery of fatal accidents is amazing. Hardly one occurs that can be accounted for, except by sup positions which amount to miracles. In three eases the laws of mechanics are habitually supendetl, and those of motion made extremely light of. Timber declared perfectly sound behaves as if it were rotten; mortar, undoubtedly of the best quality, according to the man who finds it, conducts itself in a way un known to any combination of real lime and real sand, with which chemists are acquainted ; sound springs snap for all the world like flawed ones; the best boilers burst at their lowest pressure; causes disclaim effects, and effects dissolve their long-standing part nerships with causes. The thing is quite unaccounta ble. But there is another feature common to these accident-miracles: no one is ever to blame for them; everybody comes forward most handsomely to exculpate everybody. In harmony with the miraculous physics of the case, we have its equally miraculous ethics. Things that can only be accounted for by supposing the grossest negligence occur where caution is carried to a fault. The most sober drivers are fated to the most desperate upsets and most ghastly. collisions ; the most humane mill owners are visited by the cruellest accidents from un guarded machinery ; the most circumspect builders are overwhelmed by the suddenest downfalls of the soundest houses. In every accident, followed by one death or more, there is no difficulty in giving any number of irrefragable reasons why it should not have happened ; but the skill of surveyors, coroners, and even General PASLEY himself, seldom succeeds in arriving at one satisfactory reason why it should. A cause of this may be that such engineers think more of materials than of men : another, that even as to the materialsthey take the opinion of the persons who furnish them, or are in some way interested, to prove them of good quality. Besides, any weight of blame there may be is usually to be distributed over several pairs of shoulders. Every partial delinquent is bound, of course, to screen his neighbour. The conscience that would sink under a good, stout, bare-faced lie, will get along very pleasantly under a mild evasion. And thus, each contributing his little suppressio rem, and with it, perhaps, his unassuming suggestio.falsi, a stout wall of equivocation, falsification, explanation, and everything but justification, is built about the affair; nobody is found responsible, and nobody is I punished. A poor bricklayer has been crushed, a stoker, perhaps, or third-class passenger expended. A wife and family have lost their bread-winner. The parish has gained a pauper and her brood. This normal sketch of such proceedings may be filled up in detail from an inquest held on Saturday evening, and continued yesterday, in the large room of the Hoop and Toy Tavern, Old Bromp ton-road, on the body of James Casey, aged forty three years, a bricklayer's labourer in the employ of Messrs. William and James Emniens, builders, of Knightsbridge, and Notting-hill, who was killed by the fall of three new houses in Alfred-place West, Thurlow-square, Old Brompton, on the evening of Thursday last. Of coarse the jury went, in the first place, to view the body. Of course it " presented a shocking spec- tacle." They did not go to view the ruins. The latter inspection might sometimes be substituted for the former with good effect. The three fallen houses were part of a block of four, which had been " run up," as the phrase is, against time. The deceased and another were on a scaffolding round the chimneys of the middle house of the three. It suddenly fell down, dragging the others with it. Deceascsl perished ; his companion escaped with injury—severe, but not fatal. Now for the mystery, the cause of the accident. Three persons are examined. Mr. HOLMES, the builder ; Mr. DONALDSON, the district surveyor under the New Buildings Act; and Mr. BLORE, the surveyor to the estate. Mr. HOLMES provided the bricks, employing a Mr. EMMENS to find "time and labour." The erection of the fourhouses was commenced two months ago. The outer walls of all four had thus been raised to the chimney top in eight weeks, fro weeks to a house. The district surveyor had attended, and made no objection to the work. The surveyor to the estate had also visited the place almost daily. Ile (Mr. Holmes) attributed the falling of the houses to the wet weather and the number of men who had been running up and down the ladder and scaffold for some days before, which, added to the wet weather, occasioned the toppling of the chimneys, which would briag down the whole of the building with It, as it wan all tied together. The Deputy Coroner asked Mr. Holmes if the jury were then to un derstand that the chimneys having toppled on a damp house bad oc casioned the fall I—Mr. Holmes replied that and other thingstogether. —The Deputy Coroner said they had then come to this point, viz., that the accident had been occasioned by the toppling of the chimneys upon a damp house. Here is a reason, and a curious one. A house is brought down by the running of the bricklayers' men up and down their ladders, and the weight of the chimneys ! What a very secure and cheerful WA of it the tenants of such houses must have ! If the tfitee fragile sections of Alfred-place had survived the build ing, we shudder to think of the results of possible polka parties. But it is the " toppling of chimneys on a damp house " that has done the mischief. How comes the house damp? If the mason's work had been executed properly and with safe speed, would the fall have occurred ? Let us hear the account of the district surveyor : Mr. Donaldeon, being sworn, said that he bad found no occasion to complain of the materials used or the mode of erection, revept that they put bets, which are want/ Bcicles, at the foundation, when he wished them to put good bricks there. Hie duty was mile to aieend to the thirknees of the wall. Mr. Holmes was building tinder an agarliment with Mr. Altinfidcis the owned of Ore property), and Mr. More. his surveyor, had the right to object to any materials. Thought the Wormed good. Could not pre eat builders using rots. tie had only toda with the quality oftbe b, ice nerd.aedesottei'h the ferns or sin.—Mr. Llolmen observod ftat he had hadbeveral walls not - '• high 1,11, and so hod other builders.—The Deputy Coroner bat if a wall falls without having the superinnunbent It, It did not argue wen foe its security.— r. Donaldson l thidhs haute might as *cell be run Ng, in sir weeks as in and, therefore, be could not complain in this ease of haste. sr above the attic floor, for the twenty feet, were one foot th, and when that toppled over, It took the attic Obits aimed the front and back wars to double in, Irmo in The number of labourers which follow each other acCi ri dtt n t.-I; l e n Tict n ay Conn uted roner wished n lo a ask Mr. I the la ttin'allndti , derived that information from, as he teas not hinaetf there et the time of the arridest.—Mr. lkssaldson add from. Wearers. Ile did Not know their names. MATS was me that Win so. We are sorry that Mr. DONALDSO N was not de livering this remarkable testimony as a witness the Central Criminal Cou r t , t hat he might ha% enjoyed the privilege of cross-examination, to which it certainly entitles him. Mr. DONALDSON considers " bats" small bricks. Does he call them " sound " bricks ? His notions of a surveyor's duty seem vague, almost self-contradictory. His duty "us only to attend to the thickness of the wall ;" and again, he " has only to do with the quality of the bricks." Which only are we to limit him to? He appears, however, to us to misstate his duties altogether. The clause in the act which determines his functions states the first of them to be " to see that all the rules and di rections of this act are well and truly observed in and throughout his district." Among the provisions of the act we find that every foundation must have its " foot ing," to be built " either of sound bricks or stone, or of such bricks and stone together, laid in and with mortar and cement in such manner as to produce solid work." The same words are used of walls. Does not Mr. DONALDSON find in these clauses, when put together, any authority to object to materials? It seems to us, on proper interpretation, that these words give him a power which might almost be called arbitrary, but that it is vested in him for public safety, over materials as well as dimensions. Mr. DONALDSON'S usefulness, judging by this case, seems small. Perhaps this arises from his narrow views of his pow.rs. We are glad to sug gest to him an interpretation which will enlarge them for the future. We are curious to know, as the "green state" of the walls, according to Mr. DONALDSON, made them double in on the toppling of the chimney, how the haste used in building is of so little importance that, according to the same authority, "a house m a y be as well run up in six weeks as iu six months ?" Is the six months' work as " green" as the "six weeks," or is there any assignable limit to the time within which " green" masonry may be so safe as to allow the bricklayers to work without bringing it down? But Mr. DONALDSON afterwards informe, the Coroner Mortar when aped ought to be allowed to set; fur when it is moved by the oscillation he had spoken of it gets rotten. Is this fact of no importance as uffecting the rate of speed at which houses may be "run up ?" Was time given for the mortar to set in this case? We have no hesitation in saying that it was not ; and further that Mr. DONALDSON has neglected his duty, as district s urveyor, in not iuterfenng to ascertain that the mortar had set, and, if not, to stop the work until it had hardened so as to ensure the stability of the wall. M-. IILORE does seem :to have had misgivings on this A point. Mr. Ulore In answer to rptestions port to him by the deputy coroner, said he saw the buildings on Tuesday last, when he own ptained that there was not wifficieht bonding in the wall, and told the workmen that they mast take flee or sir courses of bricks off. Ile asked to see Mr. Enunens, but was told he was not there. lie then asked for Mr. Emmens's son, but he wag not there. Ile then saw Mr. Strekwell, the foreman, who told him what he desired should be done. He was of opinion that it had not been done, an the wall had, before it fell, been carried up to a great height. Did not stay to see that it was done. Prefenett bond timber, bat iron tying doers for it. Wood bonds were liable to tire. Thought, when he was last there, that they were getting On too fast, but he had no power to stop them. Can anything be more confirmatory of Mr. Do- NALIISON'S evidence? Clearly the thing is a miracle. The builder exonerates the district surveyor, and the district surveyor the builder, and both exonerate the estate surveyor, and the estate surveyor returns the com pliment. The jury, however, very properly refused to be a party to this mutual exculpation. Its ver dict will be read with pleasure at the end of our ' report of the inquest, and is well deserving of atten tion in the right place. Ttir. revelations made on Tuesday evening to the fair members of the Surrey Protestant Alliance, con gregated at the Horns, in Kennington, are enough ' to appal the stoutest heart. We live in awful times; though by the aid of Captain JAMES Goanox and the Rev. HOBART SEYMOUR, we have yet some chance of getting safely through them. These gentlemen, upon whom the mantles of DANGERFIELD and BEDLOE appear to have fallen, possess a special gift of recognising Papists in all disguises, and seeing their secret workings, even through stone walls. Like the woman in Scotch legends, whose eye had been anointed with fairy salve, and who in consequence saw the loathsome reality, not the glamour-bestowed beauty of the " gond people," our man of war and minister of peace walk the streets descrying Jesuit agents where common mortals see nothing but common- place men of business. It is with a shudder that we reflect upon the toils in which we are entangled, as revealed by these gifted seers. The reporters of the London daily Journals are a band of popish emissaries sent into the galleries of parliament to suppress Pro testant arguments, and propagate Roman Catholic fallacies. 'fhe Roman Catholic colleges are educating " gentlemen of the press," with a view to pac4: the newspapers. The additional grant to Nllynrtli has been expended upon a stenogmphical class, in order that papistical short-hand may make short work with our holy religion. When we turn from the press to the pulpit, matters are every whit as bad. Our clergy are being reconciled to Rome by scores, and holding their livings till it is convenient to declare their altered faith. It is like Rubble-Bubble's dream, in which the hero, stooping to pick up a weaver's bobbin, it went off in his face like a cannon. It is like the incantation scene in the " Freischutz ;" we grasp at a tree to resist the pulling of Ziniie!, and the stem to which we cling proves to be the fiend himself. There is something dreadful in this night-mare state of existence—this semi-somnambulism, in which we are aware that everything around as is different from what it seems. We could almost wish that the ultra-Protestant professors of ciairroyance would restore us to the tranquil state of delusion in which they found us. Would that we could still believe that reporters are merely reporters ; and curates. rectors, and vicars staunch adherents of the national church ! Unluckily for our repose, we know better. Not poppy, nor mandragora, Nor nil the drowsy syrups of the world, Shull ever medicine us to that sweet sleep Wks h we owed yesterday. Universal scepticism possesses us. As the man with the jaundice sees everything yellow, we see Papistry everywhere. Even Colonel Sir DIGBY MACKWORTEI does not escape our suspicions: does he escape his own ? Does he feel perfectly assured that where so many anti-papistical exteriors conceal the substance of Popery he is not himself in the same predicament ? Monsieur JOURDAIN talked prose all his life without suspecting it till the schoolmaster told him ; the witch-finders of the seventeenth century convinced many an old woman that, without her knowledge, she had sold herself to the Evil One, and exercised supernatural powers,. and Colonel Sir DIGRY ACKWORTH, though no conjuror, may, in these times of Popery, have caught the contagion without being aware of it. It is a suspicious name, DtortY : historically associated with reminiscences of GUY FAWKES, and redolentof the Gunpowder Plot. Sir HIGHT'S denunciations of mis sionary reporters and apostate clergymen may, after all, be only meant to put us on a false scent, and divert attention from the real agents of Rome. This may appear to some over-refining, or excessive suspicion ; but the spirit of TITUS OATEs has been successfully evoked : the rustle of his canonicals is heard in the evening wind ; the frizzle of his white wig gleams in the incipient fog; and, in his presence, every man suspects his neighbour of being accessary to " the pleat." Even Captain GORDON, however, and the Rev. HOBART SET MOVR, must yield to the alumni of the Glasgow University in the faculty of detecting latent popery. A numerical majority of these youthful sages discovered, in the proposal to make Lord Jos.; Russs.u. their rector, a toil set to catch them in the meshes of the Romish church. The genius of WORDS WORTH was invoked to dissolve the spell, but the latitudinarian lowlanders of Fife and the Lothians gave an equality of nations to the Premier, and the sastir,g vote of the Vice-Rector has installed him. In vain dill the second-sighted sons of Rothsay pro claim thatLordJonN was the Pope,and that Professor NICHOL was the incarnate spirit of Popery itself; the Romish iniquity sits stothroned in the hallsof GEORGE BUCHANAN and ZACHARY 80 - , D. Bat what can the anti-Papists of Glasgow College expect, seeing they have themselves apostatised to prelacy? They have set up against the papistical Whigs. PEEL, STAN LEY, GRAHAM, SCOTT, and WORDSWORTH —all Pre latists; but when have they ventured to enter the field under a true-blue Presbyterian ? • 101 131 V ne el • lath it, which o . • 4 rep Wale. dory In a etrii eared the amide east whip he it •, • • • .apt being merle either by _ ~al-owners or by the Government of the country to prevent their recurrence. On Tuesday morning, it would seem, a number of men, amounting to nine , teen, were destroyed by an explosion of fwe.damp while in the execution of their daily work, without one moment's warning, without a chance of escape, and, as we must repeat, without any effort having been previously made to avoid the known danger, or to provide an escape from the consequences of an acci dent which experience has shown to be not only likely, but almost certain, to happen. We feel bound to press most urgently the im portant question, Has any effort been made at any time beyond a barren inquiry to ameliorate the con dition of these poor people ? Factories have been regulated; outcry has been raised with regard to over-work and disagreeable employments ; and justice has been done, or at least an attempt has been made. No effort has been made, however, to remedy this frightful evil; no inquiry as to the means of effecting a remedy has been seriously and earnestly set c foot. The public apathy is, no doubt, one main cause of this. The sufferers are not in a condition to make themselves heard, and the wholesale murder goes on. The plan in adoption before the accident is continued after it. The newspapers duly record the matter ; the inquest is held, and the verdict of " Accidental death" is returned. The sufferers are buried, and the inquiry is buried with them. If it were the case that the occupation of coal mining necessarily involved these results, even in that case the subject would be worth considering. But it is not so. The care and attention devoted in some mines is much greater than that observable in others ; the ordinary condition of the mine may be bad or good with regard to the important subject of ventilation ; and in this way there might be, and there ought to be, a condition which should exclude half the smaller accidents that happen. But yet more; there is an invention actually used occasionally in most mines, believed to be a safe guard against accident—certainly a most admirable and safe contrivance—we mean the Davy lamp. The Davy lamp is known, is firmly trusted, but is not used, except when the danger has happened. If the inquiry is made—What do you with your Davy . ? the answer will be, in many cases—Oh, the pit is not very foul ; we are not using it for working ! No one doubts that it can be so used, because sometimes it is. No one doubts that, wl.ea used, it is a great safe guard, if not absolutely a preventive of accidents from fire-damp ; but no one can use it extensively, because his neighbour would be able to extract co a ls a little cheaper by working with ordinary candles. Now, generally, no doubt, people will look after their own interest, and their own safety, but there are exceptions to this. Hundreds and thousands of the population of England live in towns imperfectly drained, with churchyards immediately adjoining, and without employing water to clean either themselves or their houses. fhese people no doubt pay the penalty of neglect, partly their own; they also aie, but in dying they bequeath a terrible legacy in the fever which rages in consequence of their neglect. And it is felt to be the duty of Government to look after these people, who arc not fit to look after themselves. No one doubts that this is a duty, although it is certainly an interference with a private right. We argue that it should also be so with regard to mining. The miner, whether proprietor or working man, does not regard his own best interests. Perhaps he cannot, but at least he does not. Surely it is for Government to help the honest and well-meaning, and to enforce sound regulations on those who will not act properly without such supervision. vrEvEn. may be the difference of opinion between contagionists and anti-contagionists on the subject of plague, there seems to be hut one opinion with regard to the desirableness of obtaining a modification of the present system of quarantine laws which have exclusive reference to that disease. A system which commenced its existence amongst the superstitions and prejudices of semi-barbarous times, and which at the present moment has not a voice to uphold it but the cupidity and ignorance of a few interested individuals. It might appear at first sight a very easy . matter for Great Britain and France to abolish their quarantine restrictions, and set a good example, but the nature of the case will not admit of this, for should these nations refuse to exact quarantine from vessels coming into ports over which they have control, they would at once be placed on the list of sus pected vessels on enterino , ports where the quarantine laws are severe, and their term of quarantine would be greatly increased. It is thus necessary that not only Great Britain but all powers having porta in the Meiliterrancan should agree upon the terms of quaran tine. Several attempts have been made to effect this, but first one objection and then another has been offered, and no congress of powers to consider the subject, which was long ago proposed, has yet taken place. We hope, however, from the nature of the correspondence on the quarantine laws, presented to the House of Commons, and published in May last, that this congress will not now be long delayed; and it will have this advantage both in France and England, a mass of information has been collected on the subject of plague which will be of the greatest value in assisting its deliberation. The difficulties which exist in altering the quaran tine laws are very considerable. By some govern ments it is feared they are employed as an engine of state for political purposes. By others they arc main tained as a means of employing a certain number of persons who would otherwise be idle. Thus at Naples, where the quarantine for vessels passing through the straits of Gibraltar is fourteen days, an attempt was made about five years ago to reduce this period to three days ; but a great number of people being thus thrown out of employment, the King thought it expedient to return to the old period, and fourteen days of quarantine are still required at Naples. At Leghorn, and other places on the continent, the right of malting quarantine laws is vested in a Council of Health, over which the government has no control ; and in these cases laws are most severe and oppressive. An instance is related by Sir W. Prat, Superinten dent-General of Quarantine, in which a vessel coin ing from Jamaica, loaded with cotton and coffee, was made to undergo twenty-one days quarantine, in addition to the exposure of the cotton and coffee, although she had come direct from Falmouth, where she had already . performed ten days' quarantine. Another case is given by Lieutenant-)ol. BENNETT, in the correspondence already alluded to, in which a child was taken ill on board a vessel during quarantine, and the surgeon who was sent for, was only allowed to examine it at a distance. It is needless, however, to go into the details of the loss of time, the injury to merchandise from exposure, and the host of petty annoyances to which travellers are subject by the present badly conducted systems of quarantine. It is only right to add, that the most influential European powers in the Mediterranean—Great Britain, France, and Aus tria, are anxious to adopt some uniform system. Then come the questions of modified quarantine and no quarantine. There are some persons who maintain that plague is not a contagious disease, and cannot by any means be communicated by per sons or things, and they would abolish all que -1 rautine. But however correct this view may be, there appears no probability of its being acted on at present. We must, therefore, seek for such a mitigation of the severity of these laws as the result of the knowledge, real or assumed, of the ma jority of medical men and persons conversant with this disease will permit. Both English and French governments have been engaged in collecting facts with regard to the nature of plague, and medical men in both countries have arrived at nearly the same conclusions. The report of the French Academy of Medicine on the subject is a very full and complete one, and examines in detail all the facts with regard to the plague that could be considered to have any bearing on the quarantine laws. In this report plague is stated to be sporadic and epidemic The former is not transmissible by contagion, but the latter is, and that within certain epidemic foci. The contagions nature of the disease is thus admitted. The report goes on to say, that it is indisputable that the plague may be trausmitted beyond, or away from - - . important conclusion at arrived, is this—that when plague is imported into any place, there must be present a pestilential con stitution of the air to propagate it. But these inqui ries would have been incomplete could not the period have been ascertained which elapses between a per son being exposed to the contagion and the appear ance of the disease. From extensive inquiries on this subject, the French report states, that there is uo con clusive evidence that it ever breaks out after the eighth day. On these grounds the French commission recom mencl—lst. That for vessels having a medical man on board and coming from Egypt, Syria, and Turkey, with a clean bill of health, ten days' quarantine be required, to date from the departure of the vessel, but if it has afoul bill of health, the period of quar antine to be fifteen days. 2d. That when a vessel, coining from the same ports with a clean bill of health, but having no medical man on board, then ten days' quarantine be required from the arrital of such vessel; having a foul bill of health, then fifteen days. Such a system would be an immense improvement on the present; and although we are inclined to think that, on further inquiry, even this might be dispensed with, we should be glad to see such a system adopted, with modifications according to circumstances, in all the ports of the Mediterranean. The state of anxiety noticed in our Paris corre spondence of yesterday continued to be manifested ' there on Tuesday. Independently of the unfavour able effect of the state of uncertainty of the interna tional relations with this country consequent on the marriage question, the events which are in progress in Portugal, and the financial disasters at Lisbon have contributed ' to the decline which has taken place in every description of public funds ; and more espe cially in railway shares. The alarm alluded to in our correspondence some days since respecting the pos sible augmentation of the rate of discount by the Bank of France, is not diminished ; and some measure of that kind seems the more proba ble, from the fact, that while the amount of specie in the Bank this time last year was 180,000,000, it is at present only 106,000,000. It is now known that a strong minority in the direction is favourable to a restrictive principle of discount, and very slight causes may convert that minority into a majority. The draft of the note of M. Guizot, in answer to Lord Palmerston, was, as stated in our correspondence of Tuesday, sent to the King at Compiegne, but did not arrive there until after his departure on Satur day. Ho received it at St. Cloud, where a cabinet council on the subject was held on Sunday, after which the despatch was sent to M. de Jamie, to be immediately delivered to Lord Palmerston. The announcements of the Paris journals of Tuesday confirm what was previously given in our cor respondence, that, after a temperate refutation of Lord Palmerstim's arguments, M. Guizot formally and cncrgetica declares that France will never consent that the Duke and Duchess of lontpensicr shall renounce for themselves or their children their hereditary rights in Spain. The President of the Council, who arrived in Paris on Saturday evening, visited the Kin personally at St. Cloud on Sunday, but only sent his card to his colleagues of the Cabinet. Another Cabinet Council was held at St. Cloud, under the presidency of the King, on Monday. Although no direct armed intervention in Switzer land is menaced, measures are in progress which leave no doubt of the sentiments which animate the two great powers, from which chiefly intervention might proceed—France and Austria. The tone of the ministerial journals of Paris, combined with the concentration of troops on every part of the Swiss frontier, and the simultaneous movements which arc ' exhibited on every part of the Austrian Helvetic frontier, manifest, if other evidence were wanting, the concert with which these powers are active s . Seeing that the liltramontaine cause must be lost if a majority against that party is formed in the Diet, Austria is now employing all her influence to detach the Orisons from the Liberal party. M. de Phillippsberg, former Charge d'Affaires from Vienna, has been accordingly commissioned to intimidate the authorities of that canton. This emissary is reported to have declared to them that the Emperor, animated with the kindest intentions, was confident that the Orisons would not lend themselves to the opposition raised against the seven cantons, but that if his confidence should prove to be illfounded, the inhabitants must expect to see those advantages, which had been accorded to them in their intercourse with Italy, withdrawn. In fact, M. de Phillippsberg, far from endeavouring to keep secret the intentions of his master, demanded that they should be communicated to the Vorort. Notwithstanding these efforts, and the less open proceedings on the part of the cabinet of the Tuileries, there is a prospect, amounting almost to certainty, that the effect of the political movements in Geneva, Bale-city, and other cantons, will create a majority in the Diet by which the league of the seven cantons will be dissolved and the Jesuits expelled. The Reeve de Gen %Iv has an article written in a tone of much moderation on this subject in which the part which the radicals will take in the event of the de crees of the Diet being resisted by the cantons of the league, is stated : In that case, it will not he necessary to proceed by force of arms to break this alliance, so contrary to the federal pact. We shall probably wait for aggressive proceedings on their part before acting. If they attempt ti.em, they will be de feated; if they do not, the fanaticism of their partizans will defeat them. To exist, such an alliance must be based on falsehood, and on such foundation it cannot long stand. Who can believe that the population of the seven cantons can long continue in their present ignorance of their true situa tion. The thing to be obtained is a majority in the Diet, . which, when that has pronounced by a legal decree their dissolution, all Switzerland will conspire to give abet to it. It is not by force of arms that we shall dissolve the ultra montaine lsague ; it is by the federal spirit of the population of the cantons. The Madrid mails of the 12th were due, but had not arrived in I'aris on Tuesday. The Bordeaux courier had arrived, but did not bring them, the mail not having arrived at that city before his departure. SPAIN.—Ma. COBDEN AT SEVILLE.—The Man chester Guardian has published an extract from the Diario de SeriPa, of the 4th inst., from which we learn that several merchants, landowners, and public functionaries gave a ban quet to Mr. Cobden, at Seville, on the 2nd inst. The chair was taken by Senor Miguel Chacon y Duran, director of the Economical Society of Seville, seven members of which were present. Senor Chacon proposed the toast of " Mr. Cobden and the application of his ideas to the economical state of Spain." Mr. Cobden replied to the following effect in English, which was translated by Senor Alberto Prate y Soler: — "Gentlemen, I return you my most sincere thanks for the kind reception which you have given me in the beau tiful capital of Andalusia. I am aware that, personally, I am not entitled to the consideration with which you so generously treat me. I have, however, had the pleasing satisfaction of finding at Seville a great number of en'ight ened individuals who share those principles of which I have sought to be the interpreter. As I have already thanked you for the expression of your kindness, scarcely an thing remains for me to say. ICI bad been a Spaniard, I should have given you the trouble of listening to a long speech. I should have endeavoured to show that free trade would confer the greatest benefits on this country, that it would cause activity in your ports and mancets, that it would enrich your agriculture, and that it would render your finances prosperous. I should have inculcated the moral advantages which result from the mutual communication of nations. I could have drawn you a very lively picture of the pacific benefits which would ensue from the general adoption of the principles of free trade. I could have demonstrated to you that nations greatly differing from each other, if it were possible for them to communicate their ideas, laying aside their mutual prejudices, would gain extraordinarily by the acqui sition of information which would be useful to the country, and would increase its enlightenment. I should enlarge with pleasure on these principles, were I a Spaniard ; but, as an Englishman, I thiepe it more dislOtte to leave the defence of tbjem to Spaniard., in order last I may not be blamed for seeking to propagate, beyond' my own country, doctrines of which the advantages are entacienffy known. I believe, however, that, in this enlinhtena assembly there are persons who, with the eloquence natural to their na tidn, will know how to defend successfully those princi ples of humanity aed philanthropy upon which it is not allowable for me to expatiate. I am glad that after I have communicated my sentiments to you, you will respond to them by showing the state. of the country, and the appli cations of my doctrines of which it is capable, which it is not for me to explain. In conclusion, I would wish to propne a toast in favour of Andalusia; but I experience a difficulty in finding one in a country privileged by nature, sal abounding in every kind of produce. What can I . THE EXPRAS" THAI BITIVING'i - . NOVEKI3 0, .19, 184' 6. . ,t , l . CO* _eolamiliethis marline aandialice mil lino If ept is foci, ton Trines at sea, or in Idi 7"' be sidilenV th io tof *Sae fligt* ate b i n thatizarettos o 4. a( - ,i,;: from 'the af . • ' ornextaSki ajaseliaissal-tables,. • The reportsillt*.hOtectleN &at theyliave met with V I ,i n which have" so often attracted attention for -- Via• 'no facts to Owe thatinirchtnrtiso can transport the it " e moment. These accidents seem to recur with a regu- diecase beyond foci ; and that even with regard to se L i di larity which it is almost horrible to think of, but - the clothes worn by persons - having the plague, the cases P l en occasion passes by, and is soon utterly forgotten, no are too few to warrant the conclusion that the _.. .....—,.• hwiner made either by the combined efforts of disease can be conveyed even in this way. Another r_ . ,- :.,,,,,tAnt conclusion at which the reporters have r, - • • —_, :...... I - . iesire for this country ? A single thing is wanting to ; double its wealth—freedom ot trade. Let us drink to its attainment." Other toasts. among which were th e heaalis of the ladies of Seville, and of Mr. Schwabe, Mr. Cobden's travelling companion, were proposed and drank; and several speeches were delivered by Senores de lee Rios, Pests y Soler, and other gentlemen. BELGIUM.—The discussion of the reply to the recent speech from the throne commenced on the 16th inst. in the Chamber of Representatives. The delude was opened by M. Delfosae in a remarkable address, who, in reference to a certain paragraph in the royal discourse, asserted that ' his Majesty was deceived, when he was informed that the political situation of the country was a calm one. He (M. Delfosse) maintained that considerable discontent existed among the public, and that that discontent might be directly traced to the continual increase of burdens; to the defective system of taxation; to the revolting partiality exhibited in the distribution of government posts; and, above all, to the ascendancy of the clergy, particularly with reference to public education. M. de Broutikere severely condemned the government for secretly threatenin; todismiss public functionaries unless they ceased to belong to political association. Thep remarks called up the Minister of the Interior (Comte de Then:), who contended that the moral influence of the clergy was always considered to be au additional guarantee for the suffering classes of the com m unity, and that it could not prove injurious to the country. lie maintained that it was impossible for the clergy to exercise any domination over the temporal power. The minister iustified the conduct of the government with regard to pub lic functionaries, on the ground that the latter could net con sistently belong to associations having in view the withdrawal of certain constitutional powers from the King, and a system of electoral refocus, which was considered dangeraus by the cabinet. The discussion was resumed this afternoon (the 17th instant). A singular case of abduction of a married female, and imprisonment of a British subject, occurred lately at Ostend. An Englishmen, named Hall, arrived last week at the above port from England, accompanied by his wife, a native of France. Immediately on landing they were both arrested, and the lady, in spite of all her remonstrances, was burriedoff by the Commissary of Police to an hotel where her parents and her brother were staying, and Mr. Hall was conducted to prison by five indvuluals in the pay of the police. It transpired that the lady, who is entitled to con siderable property on coming of' age, eloped about four months ago from France, and was married in England. The plea for the imprisonment of Mr. Hall during an entire night WM, that his passport was two days out of dale. The case was submitted by Mr. Currie (the English consul at Ostend) to the attention of the English ambassador at the Court of Brussels, who has forwarded it to Lord Palmerston. Mr. Currie, in spite of all his exertions, could not procure the liberation of Mr. Hall until the latter had been twelve hours in prism, and his wife beta conveyed in a carriage across the French frontiers. NETIIERLANDS.—ItorrEnDax, Nov. 14.—The spirit of emigration appears to begin in this city ; several families are going on board a ship bound to America, with a great number of natives of Zealand and other provinces, who are going to seek their fortune in a foreign land. Many more families ere preparing to fellow their example. THE HAGUE, Nov. 16.—We understand that all thepersons condemned for the disorders at Delft have w ith drawn their appeal to the Court of Cessation, and have signed a petition for pardon. GERMANY.—BERLIN, Nov. 13.—The following cabinet order has been issued respecting gun-cotton and other similar preparations :—" As the explosive substances known by the name of gun-cotton and other similar prepa rations being preparations of cotton, wool, &c., which, with respect to their rapid explosion, are at least as dangerous as gunpowder, I hereby order, in consequence of your report of 27th last month, that from this time throughout the ex tension of the whole monarchy, that all legal measures and police ordinances and penalties relative to the manufacture, safe keeping, transmitting, and sale of gunpowder at present existing to prevent danger, shall be fully applicable in re spect to the above-mentioned manufactures. You are to publish this decree, by my order, in the bulletin of the laws. rdtett: and te." —To t Sans S he uc l's i l'i N ni o st v e . r 6 Of l S B4 ta 6 te . , (S V ig an ne ßod d) F el ß ach m Tri w n i g e h, Von Duesherg. Nov. 12. Among the many rumours men tioned of measures to relieve the financial crisis, s loan is said to have been attempted by the Seehandlung with Messrs. Rothschild in London, but did not succeed. Another I rumour is now current, which, if correct, refutes many un favourable reports, namely., that the taxes due to the state in December are not to be collected till March next. This would tell well for the state of the treasury, and would be a great relief when money is so scarce, for it is beyond a doubt that nearly in all circles pecuniary means are not equal to the wants. This might become a greater evil for the working classes, should it necessitate an interruption in the railway constructions. Every measure has or will, however, be taken to prevent so alarming a , crisis. PnaNxFoRT, Nov. 13.—The new loan contracted by Hanover is still the subject of conversation in financial eir• des. The panic which the first news of it caused on the Frank fort Bourse, and which did not even spare the Austrian Five per Cent. Metalliques, has subsided. This is to be partly attri buted to the fact that the Berlin Bourse was not greatly affected by it. The contracting parties (Mears. Lehmann, Cahn, Michel, Berend, Ezechiel Simon, and Adolph Mayer, of Ha nover) have, according to all accounts, engaged to pay into the llanoverian treasury the sum of 4,600,000 dollars, in ten lots, from the Ist of February to the Ist of November, 1847. Participation in the loon has been offered at Frankfort, at 1 from to commission, but little has been done. VIENNA. Ilia Excellency Count d'Appony, Austrian Ambassador to the C curt of the Tuileries. left Vienna for Paris on the ith instant. The director of the Hungarian Commercial Company, Szabo, whose flight was mentioned in a former number, has been arrested at Laibach, and sent to Pesth. HAMBURG, Nov. 9.—Want of money was never so severely felt at Hamburg as at the present moment. Dis count has risen to six per cent., and funds and securities have fallen considerably. Hamburg-Berlin railway shares have been sold in large lots at 901, although the opeMilg of the line is fixed for the first of next month, and the receipts of last month were above 800 dollars daily. The ware market shares the fate of the money-market. On Thursday a meeting is to be held to hear the resolutions of the senate on the financial condition of the state, and to con cert final measures for the loan of four and a half million dollars. That this sum is required for ths completion of the railways no one can doubt for a moment ; but it may be questioned if those works ire of such pressing necessity as to call for funds procured even at a sacrifice, or if it were not better to postpone them to better times. Another method were practicable to relieve the market—the issuing of paper money—the objections to this are placed in the invalidity of such an operation. But extraordinary times demand extra ordinary means, and it is not the issuing of paper-money which may be bjected to, but the bad use which often is made of it. There are, however, many states which, notwithstanding bank-notes and treasury bons have remained honest, and to such would Hamburg belong. The Danish Government is said to have agreed to the additional statutes of the Berlin-Hamburg railway, and to have agreed to the opening of the whole line on certain conditions accepted by the company. The whole line will thus, in all probability, be open to the public on the 15th of Dseciubcr next. Bniltswlca.—Universal joy has been spread here on the news, just received, that the Zollverein has provision ally allowed the free-importation of corn, flour, B:c.-Ifogde- Intern Zeitung. SAXONY.—ANNABERG, NOV'. 11.—A disburbance took place here on Monday last, owing to 600 workmen keying entered the manufactory of Messrs. Fisenstuca and Co. demanding the destruction of a piece of machinery which they said threw many of them out of work. No such machine was found. They smashed some of the other machinery. Order has since been re-e.tablished. AFFAIRS OF SCTILESWIG.—In the sitting of the States of the 9th instant, M. de Leeaen proposed the adop tion of the Prussian currency in conjunction with Hamburg and Lubeck. He said that Prussian money had long been current in the duchies, and that it was already adopted in Oldenburg, that Mecklenburg was inclimeal to do the same, and that at Hamburg the principal commercial houses had declared themselves !nits favour. In conjunction with these reasons, he notified that the adoption of the Prussian cur rency would be another step towards a closer union with , their common German fatherland, and to this alone was to be attributed the endeavours of the government (led by Count Charles Moltke) to maintain the existing cur- ' rency in the duchies. " But," he added, " the ob stinate will of a single individual cannot long with stand the tide of events." Many of the members opposed the motion; among others, Jensen, who alluded to the difference of exchange, and Count Reventlow, who said that the time was not yet at hand. The commissary did not question many defects of the present system, but referred the meeting to a proposition of the king already before the states for a new division of the bank dollars. The motion was referred to a commission by 24 voices against 13. The prohibitions of publications still continue. Wienborg's pamphlet on the Nortorf meeting has been prohibited and the copies seized. A Copenhagen journal, the Fadrelaudet, announces the assembly of the States of Schleswig to be nothing less than revolutionary, and others call upon all good Scandinavians to stand up in the defence of the integrity of the state and Danish nationality, which are menaced. The nine prdfessors of Kiel, who published a work on the "succession in the duchy of Schleswig," have received a mild reprimand from the king. Meetings ace being held all through Germany to concert measures for providing cheap food for the poorer classes of the population. According to the Etberfeltl Zeitung, a meeting of dealers in red-coloured yarns was held in that town on the 12th instant, in order to draw up a petition to the minister of finance relative to the announced increase of the duties on twists. It was agreed that the above functionary be solicited to grant a drawback of three thalers per cwt. on all exports of red-coloured cotton-woollen yarns, and that Herr Witten- Stein, a member of the council of commerce, be sent to Berlin with instructions to urge the claims of the petitioners on the attention of the government, and, if necessary, on that of the King.—lt appears, according to the latest accounts from Schwerin, that the German journals (amongst others the Vossische Zeituaig) which announced the proximate seces sion of the Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg to the Zollverein, were, to say the least, premature in their statements. No negotiations on the subject had even been commenced up to the 10th inst. On the contrary, at that date, the States of the Ducey were discussing a proposed system of taxation widely different from that of the German customs union. i The Deutsche Allg. Zeitung states that a violent explosion took place on the 12th inst. at Berlin, in an estab lishment for tho preparation of gun cotton. Considerable damage was done to the premises, and three men were dangerously injured. The Crown Prince of Bavaria left Munich on the 12th inst., en snide fur Palermo, The i h o e r ret i y ita y r . ()mid Duke of a7:det ierl alse e t y The Silesian Gazette contaioa a W ars , dente of the Bth inst. in which it is stated with their Rabbi at their head, had appli e d t , ties of that city for permission to wear their sae They were not only refused, it appean, t h eix they had the additional mortiticauo a of b e i their beards and flowing locks, and, me t " the barbers. _ The Frankfurter Journal of the 16th j on the authority of its Basle correspondent, 0 1 of that place have conferred o n micron (Maui ' right of voting at the elections of the Council of This step will, it is supposed, add 390 passi m rale. The elections at Basle commenced on du They will continue until the 28th, and on the government will commence its duties. If tt Beale in the Diet be obtained fur the Literal/ bable), the Zonderbund, or s.parate alliance d Cantons, will have the majority of the Diet at ' Immense quantities of corn (says Oi l Courier) base been stored up i n Moldavia a and considerable quantities continue to ant / Hungary. POLAND.—THE REPUBLIC OF Care THE FRONTIERS, Nov. 9.—" I communicate leg to authentic information, that the tl powers of Cracow have taken the resolution to the independence of the Republic which se dangers the repose of the neighbouring Stab diately to sanction the union of the teeth Austrian states, to whick it already belonged p r , As the Prussian and Austrian comttissioner s a in Vienna are said to have been authorUed 1 to arrange some commercial matters intereun powers, without being obliged previously to and Petersburg, and as these relations do not any particular difficulties, it may be taken f within a few days the publication of this de place in Cracow; and you may, therefore, co lition of the republic, and the reunion of thi with Austria, as already dose. The °satin' Cracow as an independent state has been i s compatible with the tranquillity of the Poli the safety of Germany, and the three polies / out the co-operation and sympathy, nay, t h, of any other European power, had establish as it were by way of trial whether a shadow pendence were still possible, rstolved a t a abolish their own work, which had not :a pectations. I said the foundation of the re made by way of trial, as both originally, it , conventions, it was expressly decreed by powers that, in case circumstances should Untied existence of the republic dangerous c it should he abolished, and the country ag Austria. The establishment of the republic combined by the powers with a conditional purposely, or in obscure anticipation of subs Ai.iciA, Nov. 4.—llowever mere seem, reports are current of an insurrretil among the nobles of Poland. The preesuni governor are such, that any attempt mu The nobles are said to count upon the pests: law has struck terror into the hearts of the be rigorously executed. Persons found ports not in due order are sent to prim t sta rA . SlA.—Aecording to the last Bagdad, the cholera was making great rut 1,400 pi yawls having already died by the dig entertained that it will reach Conetantinepli the same direction that the Lst attack came. COLONIAL CAPE OF GOOD HOPI The dates brought by the Mary Ai mouth, are Cape Town, :oth Sept. ; tftahs Sept. The intelligence from the cpital is tent. The news from the frontier shows t authorities are wasting time is " eliploats acting. They are negotiating with Kreli— a step as it would have been some two han d the government of this country to have Johnie Armstrong or any other border mu The South Ali wan Commercial Jounial vious to the sth of September the chief S dered; Macomo and timbale asked for; accepted the terms offered him by the As Macomo and Umbala were still at largo of little weight. Stock was to be allowed Peddle, together with some councillors of the party supplying themselves with food. however Stock had been allowed to vie kay river (between the Gonubie and the 1 % people, leasing his two broth rs at b Peddle. The negotiations with Krell an teristic part of the affair; and we there% readers the principal points on which they i in the Graham's-Town Journal. Sir An visited Kreli at his kraal, and " mutat the diplomacy on four points." These al been : I. For KWh a harmer permitted 'the Araakom woo paramount chief, to make war uron the n made war upon the colony 11:mse7, by permia the Amakova, or frontier tribes, acabbt the n imprisoned and put in fear of their lives de I in his territory, and the milkvinnaries e.t Lubelc given harbour to colonial cattle Wien farm the e trymen. To these chantey Kinn replied : " • 1. That the British government could not core for the acts of tee frontier Kaffirs, inasmuch a, colony had nude treaties with them entirely i Besides this, why did oar government suppoeti the war of 1829, when his father Whiz. nos fur their ntireleeds '-2. That the colony mann joining In the war, merely because !sane of his p it, when it could be proved that be had not col; to go, but had punished a chief and all bls pea 3. That it did not become a great nati n to ea nation upon the report of one man. tin sod, understood, customary to ask for cop! iota had been alarmed, and made a false reor.; rrc that he, fearing for the agent's slew, had noun to leave his station, or he would be Lelni ; ands believed him and Mad, he was unable t. protmt but that, notwithstanding he had rent many fri agent since.-4. lie demanded proof that be h lsnMl cattle. lie denied positive 1y barrtg clone These exculpatory assertions Sir Mehl fected to believe, and offered on the part conclude the following arrangements with 1. Kenn to br acknowledged paramount thief that capacity to be responsible fur the conduct towards the oolony.-2. That he, es paramount British government , all the Kaffir territore bet. Rivers, to be settled by the Queen of EnriMni. of the treaty of peace made by the governor, Sir 1833.-3. That ample restitution stould be mad missionaries for all the losses they hods:Oft - red, permit and request the return of the ltri. , elt rr 1 Krell should restore to the colony an tho robin country. These terms Kreli, after some hagglim article, accepted, and the conference el turn of Sir Andries to head-quarters, th operations was adopted:—The colonial Kci were withdrawn. Kreli engag.d to on that river. Sir Andries undertook t line from Kr, li's borders towards the in the Orange river. Col. Hare fell b -At and Capt. Sutton occupied Eland's post. to whom it had been intimated that thq disptvisetl with after the 9th of Septet continue in the field as long as they The results of these negotiations and will best appear from a privee letter fro 9th of September, and from the !totem Stockenstrom's organ, the South A Advertiser. The letter states that, — The Amatola heights and ravines are as ' that Col. Mare war going t' make ,combined Major llogg has been sent for from Tatnbooki this movement. iaCoillo LS maid to be almos tares of rare, but on terms that cannot be are The tournal above-mentioned states,- 11,000 sheep are reported no having bee lager, the spoor of which a party sent nut et'' were not able to find. There are 250 farmers mounted. large numbers of Hanks are said Baviaan's River, where there arc numerous Numerous parties of Kaftirs are said to be the Tarka to the sea. Captain limp pissed 11 way to the camp of the governor. All the ca swept away from Botha 's Past—no re:4,l.one being so weak. it appears to be very r Prod many Kaffir, in the extensive jun Kat and lower part of the Somerset is about to full back to I. latter stream, there is reason to hope that I shortly he cleared of these marauders. Thi , , upon the real and address with which he IT side of the bush ; for it is very certain that if force be not stationed along this line, so a, both bank of these streams, the enemy, sel Somerset's force, will retire upon the colony. worse oft than before. It may also be remar warfare now carried on by the Kaffir+ will 11 teracted until we base a force so equippcvl or enter the bush, and follow the enemy tine( complicated windings of his favourite retry In addition to this discouraging piety mercial Advertiser says: "There is or 30 or 40 miles of the boundary which not reach unperceived when they pleas, successful with cattle and horses. A troops in regard to provisions, and dra the same authority informs us that Kaffirland, but too late for the hots forces, whose bones whiten the field." The whole business is most diserci authorities allowed themselves to be tint, and since have shown thenuttiv means of repelling predatory rang TEST OF THE QUALITY OF Pelouze has announced an important d laboratory ; it is, that when xyl greatest degree of explosive power, 1 . soluble in ether. Hence a test of q uell best make.—Literary Gazette. CURE FOR RABBITS.—I WaS rabbits have a dislike to treading uN toil—(says a correspondent to the Gar. thought I would give the thing a I young cauliflower plants were put in known to be ; the plants were allowed t for the first two nights after they third morning a few planb were desh of that day the ground was disturbe the next morning when they were cli were safe; the hoeing was continued the plants were well taken with the e n is the case, they arc seldom eaten b are very numerous and provision short done in a few minutes in the evening, otf the rabbits, is a benefit to the plant