The Express. — London, England, 1858-04-05 00:00:00

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LORD MALXISBCRT will find himself mistaken if he imagines that the English people have lost all interest in the question of our relations to Naples aince Warr and PARE have been liberated; and that he may now desert the Sardinian Government, and cease to be " unamiable " in his language and deportment towards the Government of Naples. Due satisfaction has not been made by the Go vernment of Naples to the two innocent and out raged Englishmen who were captured on board the Cagliari, or to the English nation, which was injured and insulted in their persons. Al regards Warr and PARZ the affair stands thos : They were illegally arrested at first. They were treated during their detonation with a wanton defiance of common huma nity, and even of Neapolitan law. They are, sr regards the Government of Naples, innocent as the babe unborn. Yet after an incarceration of nine months, they are liberated, simply and solely because the Government of Naples fears they might die in its hands, and thus draw down upon it the wrath and vengeance of England. The mental health of the one, the bodily health of both has been under mined by their detention under Neapolitan gaolers. They are mere wrecks of the men they were when they fell into the power of the King of NAPLES and his ruffianly Councillors and Bbirri. The Neapolitan Government persists in refusing to recognise the incontestable innocence of its victims ; it expresses no regret for their unmerited sufferings; it offers them no compensation ; it contemptuously flings them back to the English Government, after subjecting them for nine months to a living death, as if it said: " There, take what re " mains of your Circa Romani : we have done " everything to them our hatred of you could sag " gest, short of taking their lives, and we know you " will not hare the spirit to complain of the manner " in which we have treated, and are treating, theca " and you." From present appearances it would really appear that Count Cansers and his royal master have formed a pretty correct estimate of what they have to expect from the present u from the late Govern ment of England. The violation of the Law of Nations perpetrated by the Government of Naples. in the seizure of the Cagliari and the detention of its crew, was an insult and outrage both against Sar dinia and England. Sardinia and England had a solidarity of interest in exacting reparation. The whole tone and tenor of Count CA RAFFA'S corre spondence with the Sardinian Government shows that the maltreatment of the crew of the Cagliari (the English engineers included) was intended to be the exaction of a paltry revenge for 'the home truths addressed to it by the Congress of Paris, at the request of Sardinia, supported by England. The lawless torture of a Genoese crew, with a couple of Englishmen among them, had for the Neapolitan Government all the zest of an affront offered by one act to the two Powers whom it most hated. From the beginning of the affair Count CAVOCR saw the matter in its true light, and he acted throughout with dignity and firmness, though without precipitation. Lord CLARENDON, on the other hand, betrayed, as on every other occasion, an invincible repugnance to a cordial en-operation with Sardinia. That the negotiations have been allowed to drag their slow length through nine mortal months is owing to the somewhat more than lukewarmness of Lord CLARENDON. This the country is well aware of. For every sin of omission or commission in this affair Lord CLAREN IX./N is held responsible by the English nation up to the moment of the appointment of Lord DEIST'S Cabinet. But if the same shuffling course is pursued by Lord CLASENDOR'd successor, that noble Lord may rest assured that he will incur the same amount of national indignation—that be, too, will come to be regarded as an impossible Minister ; for this is certain, that even in the event of so deplorable a contingency as the return of Lord PALMERSTON to office, it is next to impossible that his lordship would venture to resters Lord CLaax..vnox to the Foreign-office. It is not without good reason that ws fear Lord MALMISSORT contemplates pursuing the identical course with regard to oar Italian relations that wee panned by Lord CLARENDON. From the papers re lating to the case of the Cegliari which have been printed with a view to their being submitted to Parliament, and from which extracts will be found elsewhere in our issue of this day, it is obvious that Lord CLARENDON pushed on the Sardinian Govern ment to take the lead in the controversy with Naples. This was done in such a manner as vir tually pledged England to - support Sardinia in the affair of the Cagliari, in which the two Governments had an equal hamlet. The Sardinian Government had reason to believe that on this point it had an ex press promise of support from England. And we regret to see that Lord MALMESBURT is now malting preparations to put himself in a position to deny that the English Government ever gave any such promise. In the correspondence between the pre sent occupants of the English Foreign-office and Sir JAMES Herrsom, a question is raised which can have no other object. Sir Liars is charged, and appa rently with good reason, with having used stronger language in his note to the Sardinian Government than his instructions from Lord CLARENDON war ranted. We have no call upon us to be the apolo gists of Sir JAMES lit•Deorr. We know, indeed, that in every other action of his prolonged residence at Turin he has deported himself as became a British stateimsn. Still we cannot deny that with reference to the note in question his conduct was unpardonably lax and careless. Had Lord CLAitlf- DON remained is office, that noble lord, with his well-known Austrian and generally despotic lean ings, might have bad good ground to complain of his being compromised in the es es of the Courts whose favour he has ever ambit ioned by Sir JAMES'S over sight. Bat what interest has Lord MALMLIBLJET id raking op the story? Is he Preparing to walk in Lord Cl.Aavrtiox's footsteps and to pay court to Austria by snubbing the English envoy Austria so hates, and dealing as leniently as possible with the King of NAPLES, and deserting Count CATOUR? It is evident from the letter of our own correspondent at Turin that this is the construction THE EXPRESS, MONDAY EVENING, APRIL 5, 1858. put in that capital upon Lord MALiensurnY's recent conduct. Lord MALEFABURY and hie colleagues may rest assured that if they act thus they will run counter to the English nation's sense of what is just and honourable. Whether they are strong enough to do so it is for them to consider. We appeal from Lord MALMENBURT to the head of the Government. Surely Lord DERBY is Englishman enough to com prehend that if Lord CLAIENDON did not instruct Sir JAMES HUDSON to use the language he did, Lord CLARENDON ought to have done so; and that it is the interest of his successors to make amends for his short-comings, not to emulate them. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. croon ou ow PARIS, 811NDAY Rvismo. This being Easter Sunday, and one of the greatest Parisian holidays in the year, is a blank day as re gards news. There are no evening papers. The government has just placed the Corse steam advice boat at the disposal of Marshal PeHasler, to convey him and his suite to England. Its astonishing how little one hears about the elections for Paris. Jules Favre will, I believe, be a candidate, but I do not think the liberal party are yet agreed upon any other name. M. Deamerest, the barrister who defended Tibaldi, is sp,ken of; and so are M. Charles Boisselet (au homms da latres), and M. Havin, of the &ids. Of course there must be many jealousies and rivalries among the members of the party to be got over, and as not only public but even private meetings in any con siderable number are impossible, there are great difficulties in the way of organising an opposition list. Still I feel no doubt that before the 25th three name* will appear upon one placard, for whom all those who returned Cavaign•c, Cernot, and Gond chaux will vote with admirable discipline. A prospectus is oat for a monster building to be erected on the Boulevard de Sebutopol,which, under the denomination of " Le Pallas da Commerce Universel," is to be a bazaar, a library, and an hotel, all in one. The projectors speak of vast suites of show-rooms, galleries filled with patterns, and a special gallery destined for advertisements from all nations. There are to be thirteen drawing-rooms dedicated to the principal States of Europe, and each furnished in an appropriate manner. Tables d'hote, coffee-rooms, reading-rooms, promenades, &c., figure in the prospectus. The bill of fare will offer to visitors of all nations at a fixed and moderate price their own favourite dishes. The Englishman will find his rumpeteak, the Italian his macaroni, the German his sour trout, the Scandinavian his quarter of reindeer, the Marseillais his bouille-i-baisse, and the Chinese his bird's-nest soup. This is a very seductive programme, but where is the money to come from ? One would think the present period of unexampled commercial depression a bad one for the inauguration of such • scheme. The projectors, however, point to the example of the Hotel du Louvre, and hold out an expectation that the Uni versal Commercial Palace will be finished in six months. ITALY. . CONDUCT OF THE ENGLISH DOVE; IN THE CAGLIARI CASE. (not[ 0171 OWN TURIN, 31.Asca IR. The rumour which wu yesterday spread that the Neapolitan government had rejected the list Sar dinian note, without making it any reply, has not been verified. Naples has not yet spoken. But I should not have written to you to-day merely to contradict a false report. Being desirous to inform myself minutely, and with certainty, about this un fortunate and compromising affair of the Cagliari, I have learnt some particulars which it is very im portant should be communicated to you, because tney relate to your own diplomacy, and because poor Piedmont can now no longer found her hope and her confidence on anything but on the power of the opinion of the English people. Be it therefore known to you that Count Cavour, when sending his ultimatum to Naples, at the same time caused the Marquis d'Azeglio to present to Lord Malmeabury a note in which the Sardinian government asked for the co-operation of the British government in what may be called their common business of the capture of the Cagliari and the judi cial incarceration of the crew. This note asked for the co-operation of England with the more faith is its being afforded, since in • communication three months ago made by Sir James Hudson to Count Cavour, the British minister had not hesitated to acknowledge the illegality of the capture of the Cagliari. Now, in reply to the note recently pre sented by the Marquis d'Azeglio, Lord Malmeabury wishes to have it understood that Sir James Hudson had wrongly interpreted the instructions and decla rations received from his (Lord Malmesbury's) pre decessor. This communication, which was certainly a most unexpected one, has excited in the cabinet of Turin no =at astonishment. It does, indeed, seem most extraordinary that a noble and powerful govern ment like the English should disavow its own spokesman, after an official act done by him has for several months put been producing notable effects upon the deliberations of the Court to which he is accredited, and after the Marquis d'Azeglio has been several times reminding the late English ministry of the signification and interpre tation attached to that official act. It cannot be de nied that Lord Clarendon's words spoken in the House of Lords upon this matter have been uncer tain, and those of Lord Palmerston likewise. But the Sardinian cabinet was bound to pay much greater attention to the official declarations than to the phrases uttered in a Parliament where the Ministers always shun making any speeches by which the liberty of their operations might be restricted, or by which they might be more or lees compromised with foreign govern ments. One thing, meanwhile, is certain ; and that is that the vigorous proceedings of Sardinia towards King Ferdinand have induced the latter to release the two English engineers. All the previous nego tiations had proved of no avail; and it was only after the arrival of the ultimatum of Sardinia that the King of Naples all at once became benign and compliant towards England. I therefore feel it my duty to tell you that if Lord Melmesbnry persists in disavowing the explicit declarations of his ambas sador, the British government may find itself justly accused of haring first excited Piedmont to make an exhibition of resolution and energy towards Naples, and then, when by means of such demonstrations of vigour the two English subjects have been liberated, intending to abandon its generous but weak ally to such fate as may befall. This suspicion, however injurious it be to your present system of diplomacy, finds but too frequent confirmations in the history of foreign policy. In any cue, there is one single thing of which I feel quite assured, and it is this—that the magnanimous English people abhor such artifices, and would abhor them all the more i■ our case, inasmuch as they would have been employed to the damage of an ally which, though small, is a loyal one, and which is not less jealous of its own dignity than poorly furnished with the means of readily and securely 1 defending it. A. (710111 ANOTIIII COSAIIIPONDINT.) TURIN, Naacz 27. Mr. Hodge underwent his second examination yesterday ; tt woe not minute, and wu conducted with great fairness on the part of the Sardinian authorities, who alone were present. The knowledge of M. Outrequin by Mr. Hodge, as manifested by the letters of M. Bernard, was satisfactorily ex plained. The fact was elicited that the latter ten ' thin= had given Ilr. Hodge two or three letters of introduction to tradesmen in Paris, that he had availed himself of them, but on finding that the character of these houses of business was not alto gether satisfactory he wrote to Bernard to that effect, who thereupon sent a letter to M. O•itrequin request ing his services in favour of Mr. Hodge. These ser vices were accepted by him, and he was so satisfied with the manner in which M. Ontrequin behaved towards him that he invited him to dine with him once at the table d'hote at the Louvre. It is reported that no farther examination will be allowed by the Sardini .n Governments and that as soon as there is time to communicate with France Mr. Hodge will be discharged, as the Sardinian authorities have admitted they have themselves nothing against him of sufficient importance to justify his detention on their account. This fact is contrary to the statement of the Gavottes del Popolo of the 24th inst., wherein it was stated that Mr. Hodge would have to undergo his trial there, and that M. Brofferio. as mentioned, was engaged for his lefence. The conclusion probably was come to from the fact that Brofferio had visited him in the Ospe dale del Cavalieri, but the positive statement may be made that no further proceedings will be had against him in Sardinia, and that the Government of that country will not object to his further residence in Piedmont. The conviction that Mr. Hodge had no know ledge of the attempt at Paris has awakened • very lively interest iu his favour amongst the Piedmon tees rand an invitation has already been sent to him by a gentleman of fortune to spend some weeks with him at his villa on the Lego Maggiore. The sacrifice which the unfortunate Orsini has made of himself for the redemption of his country has raised in his favour amongst the youth of Italy, and the republican party in general, an intense ex citement. A handsome monument will be raised to his memory ; a medal will also be struck in his honour, and his two children will be fully provided for. It was reported at Turin that the Empress of the French had offered to take them under her espe cial protection, but that the uncle of Orsini, who en joys both wealth and position in the Roman States, had treated the proposal with indignation. tared, and there are but twelve of the runaway loose at the present moment. The re-captured prisoners are not punished very moth for running away and they heat the affair as rather a good joke. All the punialunent awarded is that the prisoners have for a few days been handcuffed and kept on "spare diet"—the spare diet, we suspect, is much better than the diet the Kaffir, have been accustomed to. The prisoners, without the least hesitation, tell the sentries bow the escape wee designed. They say they selected the fleetest runner, who was to alarm the sentry, and then jump from the wall and run as fast as he could. They thought the sentry would cheat§ him, and then the others, 160 in number, could run out at the door, which they calett lazed would be left open, and they were all to take an opposite direction from the man pursued. The man who was to start, they all felt sure, could never be overtaken by the sentry. The sentry, however, did not run after the Bret who started, before be had called out the guard. The whole of the 160 had not time to get away. Forty-three only succeeded in doing so, the others were compelled to run b ick to their cells. It is rather remarkable that none of the prisoners whale wives are now in Cape Town, escaped from the battery. Some of those who are looked to as head men among the prisoners, remarked, when questioned about the attempted escape, that no one provided with a wife had made any each attempt. Some persons allege that the cause of the attempted escape was the vain hops entertained by the Kaffir, that they would be able to make their way to Kaffirland to get their wives. There Is to be a court of inquiry, over which Mr. Charles Piers, superintendent of convicts, is to preside. It is not in , and near Cape Town only that they have escaped; the 'same thing hes occurred on the frontier also. Twenty ' three Kaffir prisoners just before this escaped from the gaol at King Williams Town, including the chiefs Tote, ' Umfuudisi, Kozo, and other unpronounceable celebrities. Sir George Grey is said to regard this es a most pro yoking circumstance. The escape totems to have been I mangged with the characteristic cunning and boldness of the Kettle :n the middle of the night hideous yells were heard to issue from the piece, giving the startled gaoler the idea of lire, or were other dire calamity. The door wee un locked in all haste, when out rushed the Kaffirs, and before their unhappy custodian amid recover his feet and give an alarm, they had got far beyond the reach of immediate pur suit. Two men, under sentence of death, who were confined in a separate cell, were ell that remeined in the prison. A cordon of sentries was at once put round the town, and we meet out in all directions, but without effect. The patrols ure police were sent in pursuit. The Cape Mon Mail states that a sergeant-major and ten men of the German Legion, who had been engaged a coast shies at King William's Town, have been dismissed from their employ taint by the magistrates on account of neglect of duty, In having allowed a number of iiiffirs to break out of gaol. They were to be replaced by as many English. Mr. Hood, a military settler, and formerly a non-commimioned officer in the C. M. K., had been appointed superintendent of the new force, of which six, it la said, wore to bs mounted and armed with Coles reodvers. Irk Court. WINDSOR, Aram 3. The Queen and Prince Consort, with nines Arthur and Princess Conies, walked sad AVM la the Bowe Park this morning. The Pr ihoa orW ales d Prince Alfred rode out =Una ble, attended by Mr. Gibbs end Lieutenant Cowell, R.E. Princess Alice and Princess Helena rode in the Riding bseas. The Qum sad Prince Consort, accompanied by the Prince of Wes and Priam Alfred, drove to Clilden in the after nom, end hosoared the Doke and Duchess of Sutherland with a ,Wt. Her Majesty wee attended by the Countess of Coldest, the Hos. Lucy Kerr, Colonel the Hon. A. N. Hood, end Captain do Plat. In the evening the Duchess of Kent dined with her Ma jesty, ceded by Lady Fanny Howard. Colonel the /lea Sir Checks and the lion. Lady Phipps, the Hon. Mrs. Bid dttipb, and Lieutenant Cowell, li.E., had the honour of being invited. Aran. 4. The gorse and Prince Cowart, the Printreo - of Wales,Prince Alfred, Princess Altos, Princess Helena, and the Duchess of K eat, the ladies and geellesesu of the court, and the domestic household, Weeded divine service this morainic to the private chapel. The Hon. end Very Rev, the Data of Windsor performed the service and administered the Holy Sacraamme. Mr. F. G. Young had an interview with the Earl of Derby on Saturday at his official residence in Downingsetreet. The Bishop of Cape Town had an interview with Lord Stanley on Saturday at the Colonial-onion Despatches were received on Satarday at the Colonial-ofilms from the 00111MOff of the Welt India colonies. Despatches were sent on Saturday from the Oelnstal-office to the Gover nors of Ceylon, Hong Kong, the Mearitius, and Langan. WINDSOR, Rouen SUNDAY. Tier Majesty and the Prince Consort, with the royal family and suits, es k enetweary on Easter Sunday, honoured with their presence the public promenade on the Grand Parterre this afternoon. Shortly after the arrival at four o'clock of the bands of the Royal Horns Guards (Blue) and Scots Fusilier Guards, the royal party mune= the Beet terrace by the private entrance to the Chrome Tower, whet the bands played the National Anthem. The Queen end perineum wore white bonnets and green mak Mew, and the Prince of Wales wore for the first time in public the Windsor uniform. The terrace wee unusually crowded by a fashionable company, and notwithstanding the pierdag cold easterly wind to which this portion of the terrace is exposed, her Majesty, with the Prince Consort and royal party, re trained here upwards of half an hoar. A laughable incident occurred during the royal promenade, in consequence of an eccentric old lady waving her bonnet to the Queen and run- Wog up the steps with the intention as she said of shaking hands with her Majesty; the ardent loyalty of the old dune was, however, brunsdlately checked by one of the police in pinta clothes, who gently escorted her off the terrace. Dar- lag the Easter week the grand parterre, through the kindness of her Majesty, will be thrown open to the visitors, and the military bands will be in attendance in the afternoons of Monday and Tuesday. It is understood that the band of the let Battalion of Coldstream Guards, which battalion will ar rive at Windsor on the 15th inst., will play in the Long-walk on Thursdays during the summer months. His Excellency the Ambassador of France and the Counter de Perelvy will kayo Albert Gate Howe file afternoon, on a elate to her Mapiety, at Window Coa t* and will return to town on Wedneedey. Hie Excellency the Prussian Minister and the Countess Barrister!! gave a grand entertainment, at the Legation, on Carlton Boerne-terrace, Wit evening, to his Royal Highness Prince George of &molly. The following wore Invited to meet his royal highness:—The Duchess of Inverness, hie Excellency the Russian Minister, his Excel lency the Austrian Minister, his Excellency the Bexaa Minister, his Excellency the Hanoverian Minister, his Ex cellency the Portuguese Minister and the Countess L embo, Re. Major Relent was in waiting on his Royal ILigkeses„ The Baroness Brannow is expected in town early eat week, from Stella. The Duke and Duchess of Hamilton will leave Rome on the 18th hut., for Nice. Their graces are expected to arrive In London at the latter end of the month. The Duke and Duchess of Northumberland are piecing the uaaon at Sion Hones, Isleworth. The Marquis of Salisbury has returned to Hatfield, from Scotland. The marchicoom is staying on a ,fait with the Earl and Conners Delawarr, at Bacchant Pork, war Tani:wale Wells. The Marquis of Clanricarde left town on Satur day, for Ireland. The marchioness kayos to-day cm a visa to the Bart sad Countess of Cork, at Manton Home, Ilasser satehirm The Marquis and Marchioness of Ailesbury are paring the arra at Sarrnske Lodge, Wilts. Tha Harland Countess of Derby and Lady Emma flashy law arrival se the lustily mansion ha &. J rod a quer% ram 11.1elwand, where the noble earl and her lady ship ham ham staying for a law days peat. The Earl Grey has left town for Howick Hall, Northumberland. Her ladyship remains in town. The Earl and Countess of Dacia have returned to tows for the *woo. His lordship has purchased a arrow at Princes-gsts. The Counter of Dunmore has taken a mansion iaSt.Jareee's-square—late the residence of the Dowager Lady Lytleltow—for the worm. Mr. Harcourt, M.P., and Frances Countess Welds drays bare left town for Strawberry Hill, for the Beater holidays. We regret to announce the death of Elisabeth, Dowager Viacountow Dort, widow of Chadors, road VIP. mist Gob, which took place on Friday lest, at Peter arm% b Sviney. Lord sad Lady Londesborough and family passed through Landau an Saturday, en route from Paris to Ott..• tan Part, Yorkshire. Lord and Lady Overstone and the Hon. Mims Jeer Lloyd have kit lows for °voodoo' Park, Nortluunp torkire, for the Easter holidays. Lord Redesdale and the Hon. Mime Mitford are expected in town at Ike latter end of t►e week, from Han ford Park, Gloneretanbire. Lord and Lady Sa!teen have left Claridge's Sold far Udder'. Park, sear Wimbarne, Doreetalgra. Lard and Lady Nw will return to town on the 1511 bra, from visiting Col. and Mn. Wyndham, at Pr im*, Saar:. Leely Ernest Bruce is pining the season at Brighton. The noble lord is in Paris. Lord and Lady de Lisle and Dudley have left tows kir Isioldeby Manor, Yorkshire. The Dowager Lady Lyttelton has taken a resi dence in Stratton-etreet, Plooaddly. The Count and Counts= St. Clair have left the Brassy** Hotel, St. lames's, for Paris. Ur. Otway, her Majesty'. newly-appointed Minister for Mexico, hes also taken his departure from the woe establishment. Sir Edward and Lady Caroline Kerrieon have left town foe Broom Ball, Norfolk, £2 Me RUIN' holidays. The Right Hon. Henry and Lady Mary Laboa cher* have kft town for fltowey Park, Bomerestalunr. General and Lady Alice Peel come to town to morrow from Marble Hall, Twickenham. The Right Hon. W. E. Oladstone and Mr.. Gladaanno, and family, coma to town to-day from Hamadan Caulk, Master. STATUE or rat LATE DrKE OF DEVONSHIRE, AT DIIIMIT.--It bsa been determined to alai IL Matta of the to Dohs of Devonshire, in hie county town of Derby. Illeesld there be say surplus fonds they are to be de►oted to seam charitable purpose, such as the late duke wonkl have egsweved oL THE CAPE OF GOOD HOPE. We have received advices from Cape Town to Feb. 20. Hia Excellency the Governor was still on the frontier, but was expected to return to Cups Town in the early part of the following week. It was said that Sir George was organising a regiment of Kann for service in India; and that a great many had already volunteered. His excellency intended pay leg England a short visit in the course of a few months. To an address presented to him at Graluunatown he had replied as follows • "Geettlemen,—l feel very ranch obliged to you for the kind address with which you have again welcomed me to Gra hamstown. It is moat gratifying to me to observe the pro green which this city has mule sines I was last here, and to find that those in whose welfare I take so great an interest, have been watching with so much satisfaction and anxiety the efforts I have been making to overcome the great diffi culties which beset us. The sweets hitherto attained is, under the blessing of Divine Providence, to be mainly attributable to the seal end energy with which the various authorities, militiay and civil, sad the inhabitants of the oountry generally, have per formed their duties. So long an her Majesty and the country are so well served, I have no doubt it will continue in teen rity, and will advance in wealth and prosperity. " I may, perhaps, be pardoned, after twenty-one years of foreign service—much of which time has been paned amidst the anxieties attending actual or threatened rebellions, and only seven months of which I have passed at home, in de tiring to visit for a short time my native oountry. Never theless, unless my duty to the Queen and to this country will permit of my going home without injury to public in terests, I shall not think of deserting my post, and if I do return home for a time, you may rely that I will not lass care fully attend to your interest, than if I were in this country.—l have the honour to be, gentlemen, your moat obedient hum ble servant, (Signed) Geo. GREY. "The Commissioners of the Municipality for the City of The total number of horses purchased for the service of the Indian government by Col. Goad and Major Apperly (the remount agents stationed at Cape town) has been nearly 2,000 Of these, 4.50 horses had been shipped to Bombay, while 1,073 had been forwarded to Calcutta, and 290 horses ware to be shipped to the same place by the Hydaspes and Fleetwood. The Janus Ston would proceed to the frontier to embark horses for Bombay. The remount agents on the frontier had 'leo a large number of horses in stable awaiting embarka tion. The steamer United Kingdom and the clipper -ship Lightning were daily expected in Table Bay also to embark horses. The amount received on acoount of the Indian Relief Fond to date, amounted to 4,6681. The colonial parliament was to be opened on the 10th of March. The parliament having expressed its intention to devote 200,0001. to the service of immigration from Europe, the Cope Tows Nail of Feb. 20 devotes an article to a Mater meat of facts relative to the Cape, which, in its opinion, ought to encourage respectable English families to go there. It contend.. that South Africa has at this moment all the chersctetiatice of a new country open for settlement, with many of the advantages of an old one. Those who now mire enter upon a rich inheritance, natural, slid improved by past labours, " with the certainty of rendering it ten times sac valuable to their successors." The Lord Bishop of C►ps Town was lam at 81. Helena ; and the formation of that island into a separate as was on the lapis. The idea originated with his lordship, and at • public meeting held on the 21st December, It was resolved : " That this meeting, looking to the great distance from, and difficulty of intercourse with the Cap of Good Hope, and the unceasing demands aptn the Was of the Bishop of CAWS Town, would at the fastens of his lordship endeavour to obtain the foundation of • see at Bt. Raises, which would include Ascension, and perhaps Tristan trActutha within its limits, and also embrace the pastoral snpeot•tendence of the congregations on the eastern coast of South America. "That " a committee be appointed and empowered to obtain In aid of the Saint Helena Bishopric Fund I,OOW. by loan, the Interest upon which, with or without the principal, be paid annually, by an amessment upon property; end that such committee be further empowered to communicate with his Exoillency the Governor, with the view of obtaining an ordbminoe which would legalise the imposition of a property tax, whereby the payment of such annual interest and in ' stalment may be levied and secured." A great many of the men who had deserted front the British German Legion had been almost as quickly appre headed, on amount of their non-acquaintance with the coon ' try. Much dissatisfaction was reported to exist among t!'4 body. Tter. were 42 vessels in Table Bay, making altogether 18,889 tons, and carrying 881 men. In Siam'. Bay were her Majesty's slips Seringapataza, Castor, and Simoom. The Cyclops left on the 20th January for India. The United Stake steam &igloo Powhattan, 11 guns, Captain Pearson, from Norfolk, United States, foe China, arrived on the 19th of February. Her Majesty's ship Firefly wan at Ascension, and the Napoleon, msrnhant vessel, from Bombay, was dis charging her cargo there to repair. ESCAPE AND RE-CAPTURE OF KAFFIRS. (From the asps dryers of Feb. 20.) The Kaffirs are impatient of the restraint imposed upon them, and • great number, indeed the largest portion of them, who have been apprenticed out Ili servants have led, and are undoubtedly already hack to their native wild!. Those who were hired out as servants and were left at work la the fields and other open places had excellent opportunities for making off, and none were surprised that they did so. It was regarded for some time as a thing of course; but no one expected that the prisoners locked op is the Amsterdam Battery and in the gaol would ever attempt to io so. How ever, in this respect, as well as in most others, we had formed no true conception of the Kaffir character. Sir George Orey had kit Cape Town but • very short time whoa Pony-three of them in the Amsterdam Bat tery succeeded in effecting their escape. Cape Town was thrown into a state of excitement on the morn ing of the sth of this month, by the announcement that 43 of the 150 Kaffir prisoners in the Amsterdam Battery had meek their move, and were gone off to Table Mountain. The Caps Royal Rifles were mustered at about noon and were sent off in pursuit. There was no skulking. The vokatsers were ready to a man, and although it was a bands( but day,tlia hottest we have ever known, the corps went eagerly to work to bring back the runaways. They filed to bring back any on the first day, although they were set for nine hours. On But next day they heard that the Kafir, bad been " spoored," and they set out again, ware soon on the right inset, and before evening key* back fourteen. This fourteen were taken by ay* of the Cape Royale. &Alden, at any rate to Fors ths pluck d the corps. Others were afterwards cep- ARRIVALS FROM LUCKNOW. The steamer Indus, Captain Evans (Admiralty agent, Lieutenant Gibbon, R.N.), arrived at Southampton on Saturday, with the heavy portion of the India and China mail. She left Alexandria, March 20th; Malta, 24th; and Gibraltar. March 28th. Amongst her cargo were 1,149 cues of silk, and specie to the value of 86,2131. From her we learn that 22 deaths had occurred among the Europeans shut up in Bangor. Captain Hersey, long supposed killed, had arrived in disguise at Lohaghat. Lady Canning was going to the Neilgherry Rills. R.M.'s 6th Regiment had strived at Calcutta, and were quartered in the fort. The 64th Regiment had left Calcutta to join the Commander-in- Chief. Some Bengal Sepoys had been landed at Canton ; they had volunteered for service in China. The mails and passengers by the Indus were detained in crossing the Isthmus of Sues in consequence of the inefficiency of an engine on the Egyptian railway. The Indus conveyed from Alexandria to Malta the Russian Prince Obelenski and General Isetkoff ; also the Egyptian Colonel, Selim Effendi. The Indus landed at Southampton 41 first-class passengers and 16 children. Amongst the former were General and Mrs. Yaldwin, Captain Gossett, LE., and Lieutenants Doger and Griffiths, R.N. The following passengers belonged to the old Lucknow garrison, and were at the famous siege from the commencemenhvis. ' the widow of Captain Radcliffe, 7th British Light Cavalry, and two children; the widow of Lieutenant Duhwood, 48th British Native Infantry, and two children; the widow of Mr. Cooper, But India Company's service, and two chil dren; Captain and Mra. Gennep, Captain Rutrgler, and Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Clarke. The following grangers be longed to General Havelock's relieving force—viz., Captain Johnson, Major North, Lieutenants Dekker and Birch. Lieutenant Delafore was ono of the only two persons who escaped the horrible massacre of Cawnpore ordered by Nana Sahib. He is a floe looking young man, but he declares that he has only a dim recollection of the scenes of the mas sacre, or how he escaped. His mind appears to have been affected through the horrors he witnesed at the massacre and the excitement of his deliverance. His faculties seam now, however, completely restored. A letter from Berlin of the let, in the Nord, of Brussels, mays For some time peat the ladies of this capital have been in the habit of assembling about noon in the alleys of Thiergerten, where the Princess Frederick William has been in the habit of taking her rides on horse back. For some days past the ladies have, however, been doomed to di appointment, u the equestrian exercises of the illustrious amazon have been interdicted by her physicians for some months to come. Soon after Easter the Prince and Princes Frederick William will pay visits to the courts of Deus; Weimar, Gotha, &a In May the Princess of Pnusla will go to Carlaruhe to be present at the oonfine meat of her daughter, the Grand Duchess of Baden." The military household of the Emperor Alexander is composed of aides de reap, adjutants general, end generals. Ile has 77 aides de camp, amongst whom there are 46 colonels., 2 Heater att-colonals, 11 chefs d'esoadron, 3 captains, and 1 captain-lieutenant dike navy; 101 adjutants gateral, and 41 generals—making the military household altogether amidst of 219 Milan. It was never at any former period so nen:mamas. A letter from Paris says :—" We must not omit to mention the rtithotion we experienced on hearing Miss Belie this week in a private *Ansa the fadtion able world. This young lady is unknown to the Parisian public, but she is evidently destined to achieve fame wherever her exquisite school and pleasing quality of voice are heard. We confer we never listened to so young an artist who executed with so much ease and taste the difficulties of her art. Miss Bslfe is a singer as we understood singing in the days of Malibran and Persieni." . _ At the date of the last amounts a number of Ger m= missionaries were shortly expected to entre at Natal from Europe, to engage in the missionary work among the Zulus on the llnivuti River. _ HIGHWAY ROBBERY BY ICAFFIEB.—A few days ago, Mr. Warden, whilst riding across the i Karroo observed as a Kaffir walking up to him in • cringing way, f to beg ; and, supposing the 111412 to want something. he pulled up his hone and waited. The fellow came up with a limping gait, sad at last placed himself immediately at the head of the horse, when three others sprung out of ambush, surrounded him, and demanded his money. Lie saw that he had no help, and that it would be useless to offer any resistanoe ; so he took out his ports-ssormste, which bad two compartments, ens for gold and the other for silver. There WWI a great quantity of silver in it, which the Kaffire snatched at immediately, and it fell out on the ground. They all four made • scramble for It, and Mr. Warden immediately galloped off with the gold.—Ceps Argus, Feb. 20. WRECK OF A FRENCH VESSEL.—The Cape papers report the wreck of the French ship Auguste in St. Frauds' Bay. She was quits a new vessel, not having been launched *even months, and was on her homeward voyage from St. Denis to Marseilles, with a cargo of sugar and general mer chandise. Nothing extraordinary happened until the morn ing of the 22nd inst., when, about 3 • m., at a time when the captain thought he was imam thirty or forty miles from the land, to his dismay and the consternation of all on board, the reel " smack" the outermost reef of rocks W.S.W. of St. Francis' Bay, and gradually drifted in further to the shore. AU hands remained on board until 5 o'clock, when the order was given to get out the beat. This was acne plished,and two men had already got Into it, when •Issavy sea struck the ship, causing her to part from the boat, which effected • landing about two miles to the westward. Almost immediately after this the feel broke up and parted from under the seventeen men. An attempt was made to reach the shore by swimming, and out of the seventeen, nine men including the captain succeeded, and, much exhausted , gained • footing on the beach. The remaining eight were drowned. Every attention was shown to the survivors by Captain Boys, and it was the intention of the vice-consul at Port Elisabeth to bring specially to the notice of the French goveament the commendable aoudad of that gentleman, who had, on other coossiona, rendered satesial service to sailors wrecked on that part of the east. FIRES IN THE Mtraorowa.—Last night, shortly before nine o'clock, a are happened la the premises belonging to Mr. Francis, linendraper and silk mere, No. 6, Boling breoke-row, nets the Camberwell-gate, at the furthermost end of the Walworth-road. The Sr. was discovered by • policeman of the P division who noticed smoke pouring forth from the lower part the building. This convinced him that the place was to &mei, although the residents had left only a few minutes perviowely. The engines were quickly in attendance, but the fire was not subdued till the prmisies of Mr. Francis were nearly destroyed, and those of Mr. Palmer and Mr. Wall were severely damaged by fire and water. The property was hue in d the Sun Fire-office. Another Sr. took place in the premises of Mr. Chandler, • russia-mat dealer, No. 6, Waterloo-road. The inmates escaped by means of • ladder. The damage done wee con siderable. NAVAL AND MILITARY. EXTRAORDINARY CHARGE AND CAPTURE or A BATTERY. The war in India, while it has abundantly proved that the race of our great commanders is far from being e n . tinct has no less shown that our officers and soldiery e n alike worthy to follow such leaders. In the battle fought% the 23rd of November, 1857, near Mundisore, Central Ind* by the force under the command of Brigadier-General Stuart. the battery of artillery commanded by Captain Hungerford had for its escort a party of twenty men of her Me= 14th Light Dragoons, headed by Lieutenant Cunlife llazelr, of the Ist Bengal Light Cavalry. The enemy, numbering 5,000 men, fought well, and suffered a very ham" loos, while that of the comparatively small British division was very severe also. During this action Captain liungerford directed Lieutenant Martin, with his twenty Dragoons, to charge • battery of six gum, advantageously posted by the enemy on a high bank In a village situated in the British front, the battery was accordingly charged an d captured by this handful of men; but on a plain just behind the village was an overwhelming force of the enemy, in. Sentry and cavalry, end which lost not a moment in attack. Tits little party was borne down by the force and weight of number., but yet faced about and fought its way back slowly and strati!y upon its supports, never running one step i n its retrogrde movement. This was the more difficult pare of the operation, and those who witnessed its orderly execu tion in the face of such overpowering odds hardly knew which to commend must, the headlong charge against a heavy-armed and well-served battery, or the resolute and ad dbrlike conduct of the retreat, in the face of a savage enemy confident in their numbers—men who gave and received no quarter. We are not in possession of the report of Major Gall to the brigadier-general, but in the despatch of the latter officer to the Commander •in-Cidef all who are me m. Honed by Major Gall are strongly recommended to the uotica of his Excellency, and Lieutenant Martin especially. Captain Hungerford, of the Bengal Artillery, who ordered the charge of cavalry, writes in his report I regret to say that in this charge, moat gallantly led by Lieutenant Martin, that officer was shot through the thigh and disabled. It is unnecessary to speak of the conduct of my own men, and of the squadron of cavalry under my command, as the briga dier witnessed it. I beg again to bring to his notice Lieu tenant Martin's vary gallant conduct." Lieutenant C., c 4 the Bengal , L i ft Cavalry , who witnessed the ch writes wounded through the thigh= —" making, with dragoons, the most gallant charge ever seen." Lieutenant Martin has, we are glad to say, receversel from his wound, and he is now restored to the service; but his escape on this, and on another trying occasion, wee almost miraculous. During the mutiny of his corps—the Ist Bengal Light Cavalry—his clothes and cap were torn with shot, and those who witnessed the terrible scene, oonclwied no must have been killed—and his death was actually announced in the Calcutta newspaper. But his time had not arrived, while Norman, his younger brother by four years, ma brought to the earth by one shot. We learn that Lieutenant Martin has been recommended for the Victoria Crate— r/tilted Berries Gagne. CHATHAM, APRIL 4. The large screw steamer Hero, 91, the launch at which is definitively flied for the 16th inst., is ordered to be fitted with the following powerful armament :—Lower d►ck, 34 8-inch guns, 66 cwt., 9 feet long; [Rohl deck, 34 32-pounder, 68 cwt., 9 feet 6 inches long; upper deck, n 32-pounders, 46 cwt., 8 feet 6 inches long; 1 pivot 66- pounder, 95 cwt., 10 feet long. Admiralty orders have been received for the following ad ditional war steamers to be laid down at this dockyard, viz.: —Atlas, 91; Bulwark, 91; Undaunted, 60; Orpheus, 22; Rattlesnake, 22; and Rebidwr, 16. PORTSMOUTH, Aran 3. The squadron of vessels now lying at Spithrod proceed very slowly with the entrance of men to fill up their complements. The Marlborough, 131, has only about 680 men of her complement of 1,100. She has entered yen fete bands during the last three weeks. The Itenoan, still many men short of her crew, scarcely any having joined since her snivel at Spithead. At present her force is end 760 men. The Diadem, 32, and the Caravel, 31, are seat about 20 men short of full complement. It is reported here that the new Board of Admiralty pro pose that all ships put in commission for the future shall be retained in commission five year., instead of being paid off at the expiration of three years, according to the premed system. Considerable excitement has been occasioned here during the past week in consequence of • series of disturbances having occurred between two of the militia regiments—the Rceooinnion and Royal Wiltshire—now stationed in this garrison. What the came of the dispute is Las not yet tree spired; but it Is evident that deep-rooted animosity exists between them. Several severe conflicts have already wined, and some of the men have been seriously injured in the affrays which have taken place. The authorities have, as a prima tion, increased the number and strength of the picquets that patrol the struts. Major Joseph Oates Travers has resigned his office of barrack-muter of Portsmouth, end hes beta succeeded by Msjor Hell, late, we believe, of Shorncliffe. On the redly ment of Major Travers, the lieutenant-governor of the ger riAon, Major-Genend Sir James Yorke Seneca, expressed his sense of the uniform propriety with which that office bad discharged his duties, and the great benefit which hid accrued to the service by the unremitting attention which had marked his career. DEVONPORT, Arun. 4. The Agamemnon was commissioned on Thursday aCaptain G. W. Preedy. She is to have a complement ci men, and 30 seamen riggire, to be lent from this dock- Mr. Alfred Joseph Voila]. Mister of her Majesty's ship Niger, and for many years in commend of the Avon Mean tender at this port, his been appointed by Admiral Sir M. 81ey mow, E..C.8., harbour master at Canton. Ships in %emission at this port : In Ilerbonr—lmple• cable, Royal William, Exmouth, Cambridge, Valorous, NM I Hogue, Wellington, Euryslus, Nautilus, Niagara, = Avon t Conflance, Priespero, and Pike. In the 8 Lapwing. THE ORDER OP THE MEDJIDIE.—A supplernent to the Gazette, published on Friday, contains a list of office of the navy end marines who have received her Majesty's per mission to accept and wear the insignia of the Order of the Medjidie, conferred upon them by the Sultan for their die. tinguiehed services during the late war. EXECUTION OP JOSEPH SHEPHERD, .AT TOBL Joseph Shepherd, the murderer of Bethel Perlin. .on, on Wadsworth Moor, near Halifax, underwent the at. teems penalty of the law on Saturday at noon. The oulpdt was visited on Fnday night by the Rev. J. Parka% who arrived at the oondemned cell at eleven ceded, and remained with the wretched man until live o'clock a Saturday morning. Shepherd, if it be possible, was ear hardened than ever, for when the rev, gentlemen convent with him upon the concerns of his soul, and 'Ai red up pray, in his behalf, he laughed aloud. Mr. Parkes remonstrant with the culprit, bat all hi ears were of no avail. He toil the prisoner that he could not expect happiness and rani the next world if he acted in that manner, upon whir Is remarked with a smile, "If there's no rest for we in the next world, I might r well have an much rest here while I stop," and then laid himself down on bis bed. Several OM during the night he re-asserted his innocence. He asp st intervals, and at four o'clock ha went into a sounder sir than nasal. . . Mr. Noble, the governor, also visited the unhappy sat and in the course of conversation he told him that if he ON in his present state, and did not repent of his aim Is would surely go to hell. The culprit answered, " Newt mind, 1 Mall be all right in the snowy weather ; I id be right during one half-year, when the weather's cole The culprit also made a simil ar observation to Mr. all% the deputy-governor. Shepherd was removed from the condemned cell to a tat on the opposite aide of the Castle-yard, sod adjoinet the scaffold, at about six o'clock in the rooming. Wbsi the officers were ready to conduct him, the culprit wallid away quietly, his nerves were unshaken, and bil peered determined to meet his fate with perish melees ' and to retain his self-possameion and fortitude to the lest On coming through the office, in which there is a debt Shepherd looked at it, and observed the little pile at els, remarked "When that gets to the top 1 shall be teas for; it will be all over then." On drawing himself belle full of joke and' fun. When the officers of the prison ass conducting him across the castle yard he was is high and laughed sit before. He looked et Clifford's Towm t said, " That's the old tower, I suppose." Since his trial the culprit had never Leen hard to Wel word of prayer, and his conduct throughout hod bean d Se most aliens character. When be arrived in the ametnel adjoining the scaffold, be threatened that when ha wed the drop, If be had the chsnce, he would " Mott sat Ketch over." The culprit, mince his enademnation, a wish that he could obtain arsenic and= t r inrs:ll, and had said that be deserved to be hanged, he did not murder Parkinson, still maintaining his sweater tion of innocence. lltuirg the twenty-Sve years that Mr. Noble hes belle York Castle, be has known about twenty men n s " .b on the scaffold, but in all his experience he never met wiff man like Shepherd, so hardened, so callous, and so load teal sense of religion. The Under-Sheriff (William Grey, Esq.) arrived at el Castle at a quarter to 12; and at 12 the processioo weds appearance au the scaffold, Shepherd being attended bit Thew. Mr. Parkes and the gaol officials. He was held by ," Green, the vender keeper, until the executioner complete arrangement's, and repeated two or three times., " Lord, mercy on me," after which the bolt was withdrawo, 2:114 unhappy man was launched Into eternity. a wn unhappy much fora short tame. He made no conkarim. weather was fine, the sun shining brilliantly, and them eel from 10,000 to 16,000 persons gement, many of whom awl from the country, sad from the neighbourhood of Ilafitkt STEITZ OP BURKE FOR T. STEPHEN'S MAW" Mr. Theed hes just finished his statue in marble of Hd Burke, for the Hey Pekoe, Westminster. This state, complete the series for Bt. Stephen's Ibe rune eV! hes likewise finished the bas-relief of " The Field It Cloth of Gold." sad "Elisabeth Knighting D rab,' easaidell kr the New Palace. r