The Sun. — London, England, 1846-02-04 00:00:00

;f1 selbo" te s the Sts 'a 013 el 0 (err! ~./ e bel 111 OVIl v , r le ° 'ere OIS g re° fi I°6ssC°' fed their ft he o fi be Ll ' p. hob` of w o l odef.{tsti. 1019 51 de. V 01'1.0 t ood _01; co t he v 096 ,"? fr,,, w ie c i t y 111 ) .411 O I L - irp e ro fis9 r Forger COURT CIRCULAR. Th, early Queen an d P r i nc3 Albert took their accustomed walk yesterday in Claremont Park. Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales, Prince Alfred, the Princess Royal, and the Princess _Mice, were taken for pony and walking exercise yesterday in the pleasure grounds of Claremont. Her Majesty and her Royal Consort took an airing in the afternoon in a phaeton, the Prince driving, attended by the Ecrerries i n W a i t i ng, on horseback. The Dowager Lady Lyttelton arrived at Claremont on Monday. The royal din ner party at Clarement y es t er d ay even ing was expected to include Lord an d L a d y 1 )e Ros, alsior - General Sir Robert and Lady Gardiner, and Mr. and Mrs. Spicer. ,M. Ge orge Pemberton INTember of the Leve - ' ° uncil of C anada, and Mr. W. Henry Tilston, had giSlati an Interview with Sir George Clerk yesterday at the office of the Board of Trade. , Count d e R aventlow, the Danish Minister, transacted easiness yesterday at the Porei 4 n Oe. Mr. E. Wodehouse M P I , . ~ vac an interviewwith , Earl c ~,, o. Dalhousie yesterday at the office of the Board of -trade . The S ecretary of War, and the Vice-President of the Board of Trade, had interviews with Sir Robert Prel yesterday. Coloni a l D ispatch es were sent off yesterday evening from the Office for the Governors of the North Ameri nal Provinces. DRUR Y -I. ANE d in An original opera buffa in two acts (so described in th e b ills I t;h a e s music by G. A. Macfarren, entitled produced here lust eveeing, and .if the final judo of a first night audience Is, to be taken as rn. a —"`Jaapnent then is the opera of Don Quixote alno 'l3 r7iftil!. 1129.3. successful ever produced. The libretto is by ..r...(i.• Macfarren the father of the composer of the s.."lct and the portion of the adventures of the Knight of '44 Mancha chosen for musical illustration is the adven ttlre of Cum 1 the Rich d Basilius the Poor, the irratitat salter s for th e hand an d Basilius the Poor, the ope Utters f or tha hand of the fair Quiteria. The opens with a serenade by Cumscho (Mr. D. W. S a fr n g, ) and his companions, under the window of the . to - . xtide ria (Miss Rainforth). The serenaders are in wirdelstad by the arrival of Don Quixote (Mr. Weiss) fri n(1 6 ) 411°11° (Mr. Stretton), who are received in a tie Manner, and conducted into the house to par theeisclf the hospitalities of the rich Cumacho. Basilins feelings°r ,(Atr . . Allen) then enters, and gives Tent tu his t. infa nt 'a a ballad, " Sweet were those hours o an t f h Y''' Bichw was sun , . with such exquisite taste eo Alim ent YAllen as to elicit a loud encore ;. the andsotilaill-thi-e7lefinitilOb:3l7 paid to M t evidenSly rather to the singer e°tcposer. Quiteria appears in the balcony, of course, a duet for the tenor and th d e e an °. which was delightfully given by Allen an and i lls Don Quixote, followed by Sancho, enters fsnetitel"spts the lover's ald a long concerted piece . Rai, ci ' ia which Basilius appears on the balcony disd -41 Mel t 3 la d,Y, claiming the protection of the Don, and toista, Aileo imitating the voice of a woman, sings ,. the to 'le entitled " Alas! a thousand secret woes, in atna.."9 admirable meek - -heroic style imaginable. This .. Is m iee, whish is in itself a very pretty composition, ki ss °IIIIY encored. The Don, mounting a ladder to s th e h scene at r-trough to th s i and of the lady, is suddenly sized and lashad to a Is - lete°ll3'. Sancho, who gives an alarm, is duelled .e _ , and the dsop fails on a most admired the Of confusion. In the secon I act ws feri r d:ler of Quiteria remonstrating with her . on g er toi° l ls aft ction for Basilius the Poor, and urging . th e , roarr c umach o the Rich. In this scene we have , v day g.( P o f the opera, the song by Miss Rainforth, " . Ah . less w l3 , We love," a beautiful song, and not one whit the thWith e'eonle from reminclina• us of a beautiful ()Id ballad, an: ,flearly s i is styledata milar title. - A good imitation is better he lib ret ti e a original b et , :, ary tr t i i u m m e p . h T s li ne e n n e w ,,, e have what in f in honour o T itt s ll 4 l l 9ll , 4° ,te• In this scene there is introduced a -g ere el '? c ' 61 13, at the expense of the ducked Sancho. -be? . p lB , a very similar chorus in the first act cf )•ekrs T se4 ats, and if Weber 11 , urished twenty % It s i before Mr. G. A. Macfarren, certainly etti l lea Is s : l et the fault of the Englih composer. l lece c l ; La ," a grand concerted . fine e, ins which is in th: 8 IS'ede n a nee and a procession in honour of . Cuma ..l4;te.iles4silare tilaltgl): jolly a Iv ch orus, g, ; and in which Don Quixote, e aided by Anacreont ,, m, bgi i a re as. e 'e as invented the Bovvl, —(we were not *Ong in Quixote was in the habit of in thileh ,All en s°li gs of the "Jolly Nose" school)—and ill ,ed 1 as Basilius, sings a delicious ballad, an vil tsn l e al gait /ay pillow," in such an exquisitely pa_- -q e, ' 411Ittve style, and in which he exhibits such sash s ack „ a ser Power ecution, and (strange . as it may seem) a 3 , 41 11 ' " Would be alone sufficient to save a much Alle y .dish than this of . Don . Quixote. There is not e a i h. t enor singer living who could approach %It 11 13 e . ' 410 IC eelltloll of this song. lie is, at the pre the tige r meat day' ar and away the first English tenor I of the tale is carried out in hand era, s ., The lot ast er ' of go lli 's + asilius pretends to be dying, receives the h .1 1iti o " "er;ft, immediately recovers, and, by the st3s agars Pl ace Q u ixote,allare recon ales]. s, As did 1 On the stage in admirable style, the rietts°.rlnesi its artists that artists could - for it, and i the orchestra ok; l og t o c " o Part admirably. Mr. A acfarre . n has the Presents M it P l ata of as to the manner in which tfl tis 4lva ci s aer n ~,e1 to the public. Now, with regard th 'elatesof on it is the worls of an accomplished ‘ , 4l , lc) t r h () 4 ll t !' h e l.S' unaT r e st : nd h s o has thoroughly studied and his art—of one who has learned titldelell esloannotbehtliught----butwho does not possess that it • I N as 0 taualit genius. The overture, con h . 15 41.8 0 anslllll2jeal alit, exercise,. is faultiest', but esor °lain l es eas .? ex ore .g s, and if the music of tha . opera . end t i I s 381se than that of the °verbs:so, it is be te. 4 ossews largelysac far trusts less to I..“'a own resources, kash, Prettily from his Predecessors. This opera les 4° d ohatrraLtiged rechauffe e of reminiscences, and e lks " t en' s ° i" 1 nave ribs., but we must demur to Mr. Peter. e naitn to beeonsidered as an original English liob r‘ A 011*-, 41 Nti 11. '"t 4 `' e ' i .4 ' l 't It SPRINk 1 .. 44.0 r tol eea , „,"-Ilie r ,, , 6 ~,, '' ) r the Tradi 4 14 ) "sss n '''', 9 St 2113 e 0 ,4 541 .0 1; ' Yrs, Bst 101 6 4 . 4 411 t15 , ' 4 r, B st 101 b t. 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ENEFIT. xN c . f . er, iq t he 50th ana ,111 be re -at , 1 . % r• Wail t une, for the b • N, loh, i p o ll , 01 , ace, who is w enebt of its talented 4 4 4 ,Ylitli r i k allsb 411„e foremost e trust and 'oelieye, to bs di/ , t„,, Q. -si, cool ~era. Certaia7long the founders of a ,I,ttc.e,t, , and __:cser h as ez ,,, 1 1 1 :, 'Y no first work of any re'hlidateric,will o`o* h ave no clo u t, ' 2,ted half the promise of La, but that the English ett tilli'. period Icl,,(1,011r to th e Iv - 4 ; ,• " n ter oa E n ni , ,n , i ts of One, who will at gnu' rausie a world-wide o d oitj ei‘ o oY ! In .. I liatz t A re ti, Witty '''''r aERSEp rn 11,4 h,,,,e eeti ti zed fc is---ttE PRISONER NOON th e ta ngy said tO JUry ~,,.. rhe trial of this ill-fated man t to, cillo, h ave c - ',O inonths hare nearly elapsed srfi t •qie ts ged. D ori TM/lifted this fatal deed with which tottetuadB; IteofTs hie positri,g this long period he has borne 411, 0, diet .44 bee4..eioigniltyrip the most extraordinary 1) 1s n , 4 '• • i lelie r th;4t141,,, *o,2 l4 ta llee of , from hi „ tunes dragged throusgi the I•4By,eri, and chkfa_ro; Pris9n-house, to the - ur , ip...e,with tremendous crowd s of Wil" 111.1 11 4 1 :Y 1 that fre 4)414113' Pris ene n r zY ha s , i r i ng him on his way. 'WO b..tip,,h one a Period's is ,Tgth C . olne to tile relief of tii'JY Itn.o sta6`of`&l,o his suCLa Chnstian hope that God 4,: . % ? ti,,itod th e . -1 ,-' l B ti a l, an'aurs• lie has already gone "111, ..,T er ° 141 Y b e a P L Psal to th IT° I" await ilial—the fey zi ' L oned! IF rttod the -And what 74 e 8 : il k , 80. 1 24 is the Inquiaition re- TELLIGENCE. MEETING, 1846. les Cup of 200 sous., &c. 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General Rivera was the first president of the Banda had Or got rid ido Hef the - Buenosasele ctedAi3an and Brazilian nrleB3l,aft.ertheorien armies.tl His term of office expired in 1835, and by his influence one of his officers, D. M. Oribe, was elected his successor. Rivera had been no friend to Rosas, President of Buenos Ayres. He had refused in 1831 to deliver up such of the Unitarianos as had sought refuge in Monte Video. Oribe, on the contrary, not only proscribed these men at the request of Roses, but formed a plea for destroying the independence of his country by an nexing it to the Argentine Confederation. This was in 1836. The national party took the alarm, end Rivera, whom Oribe had attempted to deprive of his em ployment as commander in chief, putting himself at the head of those disaffected to the Government, obtained possession of the whole country, except the towns of Monte Video and Paysandie, to both of which he laid siege about the months of August and September, 1838. Soon aft er O r ib e made a formal renunciation of his presidency, which being accepted by the Congress, he retired into private life in Buenos Ayres. Rivera was elected President is 1839 ; Oribe in the meantime having protested f orma ll y against the validity of his act of abdication. Unhappily, tha new President was persuaded by the Freneli, then blockading Buenos Ayres, to declare g war aainst Roses, under pretence that that he had abett e d the intrigues of Orib e ; b u t i n 18 40, w h en great power adjusted its quarrel, "nothing was done about the auxiliary war declared by Rivera, who was thus left t o h is own resources and the effects of the . folly of the French had all but forced him to commit." Oribe thenceforward ent ere d i nto the service of General Rosas,assisting him in all his wars, and styling himself the legal president of th e U ruguay republic, although he wears the Buenos Ayrean badge of servitude, a portrait of General Rosas, etitel'ed on his coat, on a red merino ground, surrounded by a motto, " Death to the savage Unita- Hanes." This is also inscribed on the flag of the despot ; which once, and we hope once only, at the house of a Briti s h m i n i s t er, mingled its folds with those of the banner of St. George. Without this portrait and this d ev i ce no person i n t h e dominions of Rosas may enter a church, establish a school, fill any public office, or serve in the army. Even the Uruguay officers who have joined Oribe must tarnish their honour by wearing it, or pay the forfeit of their lives. Oribe, then, as Rosas' General, entered the Banda Oriental ; and of the horrors of that warfare, General O'Brien enables us to judge. He says, "At the time that Oribe invaded the Banda Oriental with the army and the Massorea Commissioners of Rosas, I was then residing on my estate in the country. I am aware of wretches being staked into the ground 48 hours, before their heads were sawed, not cut off; of the lasso being flung over persons' necks, and then dragged by a horse at full speed, until life became extinct ; of spikes being driven into the mouths of human beings, and they, whilst living, thus nailed to trees !" After various fortunes of war, Rivera, in 1842, sent agents to London and to Paris entreating foreign intervention to arrange an accommodation. In consequence of this Mr. Mandeville, then British minister at Buenos Ayres, On the 16th of December, 1842, addressed a note to the Government of Roses, requiring him to abstain from marching a fresh army into the Oriental territory. The Monte Videans at this took heart, strengthened their ch.feccs, enrolled their citizens, liberated and armed their slaves, and prepared to resist the land and naval forces already investing their city. But Rosas paid not the smallest attention to the requirements of the representative of Britain. His troops marched on as before, and Mr. Mandeville, fearful of having al ready exceeded his instructions, did not even lift up his voice in protest against this insult to his Sovereign. Not so Commodore Purvis, who, in the Alfred frigate, had come from Rio Janeiro to sup port, if need were, the representations of diplomacy, by a show of British guns. Thus have matters remained Up to the present year, when the British and French Governments undertaking at all risks to restore the blessings of peace to the Banda Oriental, have sen traops to compel th e b an d s o f R osas to retire. This, a their bidding he i s unw illi ng to d o, preferring to tras to the natural defences of his country in the event o hostilities with the two great Powers.—The Union Ma. gazine, EAST INDIA SHIPPING. IM PE RIAL PARLIAMENT HOUSE OF LORDS, Tuesday, Feb. 3. Their Lordships m e t to-day at Five o'clock. The Duke of ROXBURGIIE presented apetition from Seacombe, in ;favour of agricultural protection, and against any interference with the existing corn-laws. Lord FEVERSHAM presented :a petition from the landowners, farmers, tradesmen and others, of Melton, in the county of York, against any alteration in the corn-laws. He also presented a number of petitions from other places to the same effect. Lord MONTEAGLE moved for a copy of certain re turns from the Secretary of the Treasury, relating to local taxation.—Agreed to. RELIGIOUS DISABILITIES BILL. The LOP., CHANCELLOR obtained leave to bring in a Bill for relieving her Majesty's subjects from cer tain penalties and disabilities respecting their religious opinions, and moved that it be read a first time. Lord CAMPBELL ask:d if the present Bill was in ! conformity with the recommendation of the Commission appointed to consider the subject last year ? The LORD CHANCELLOR, in answer to his Noble Friend, had only to state that he hail advised Sir Ed ward Ryan to divide the Bill into teo Bills, and this was one of the Bills: tile other Bill r‘ latA to the Acts of Allegiance and Supremacy. The Bill was then read a first dine, and their Lord ships adjourned till ThurfAgy. HOUSE OF COMMOAS, Tuesday. Fcb. 3. The SPEAKER took the Chair at Four o'clock. NEW MEMBERS. 1 Mr. STuArtr took the oaths and his seat for the borough ' f New ark-upon-Trent. g_'. MosTYN took the oaths and his sent for the city of Lichfieij. Mr. SPENCSII WALPOLE Lock the oaths and his seat for Midhurst. Mr. It YORKE presented a petition for the better supply of water to the cii,.7 of York. Mr. ITUDSO R N iI your of p lL re W sen A pe O t NS o . ns in fa ted P se -E ve l rn in / the York and North Midland, and Leeds and Rugby Ex tension Railway Bills. Mr. MILLS presented a petition in favour of the County Down Railway. Mr. SPOONER withdrew both the notices of motion which stood in his name on the paper, with respect to the Belfast and County Down Railway and the Newry and Warrenpoint Railway. Petitions were presented for the Somerset and Mid land Railway and the Wilsontown Railway Bills. NEW WRIT. A new writ was moved for the city of Chichester, in the room of Lord Arthur Lennox, who has accepted the stewardship of the Chiltern Hundreds.—Ordered. Petitions were presented against any alteration in the present corn- laws. Lord J. RUSSELL presented a petition in favour of the Ten Hours' Bill. BOSTON, NEWARK, AND SHEFFIELD RAIL WAY. Mr. STEWART presented a petition, signed by the High Sheriff on the part of the inhabitants of Mans field, in the county of Nottingham, in favour of a rail. way from Boston to Newark and Sheffield. NOTICES OF MOTION.—RIGHT OF SEARCH. -Captaia PECHELL gave notice, that on a future day, he should ask whether any communication had been re ceived by the Board of Trade, or the Commissioners of Excise, relative to the thirteenth article of the convention with France, which regarded the right of search in French fishing-vessels. He should also put the same question to some member of the Board of Admiralty. CUBA SUGARS. Dr. BOWRING gave notice that, on Thursday, he would put a question to the Right Hon. Baronet, the First Lord of the Treasury as to whether he had received from the Spanish; Government any intimation of their intention to visit with retaliatory measures the com merce of Great Britain, if the duties on Cuba sugar were not reduced. ECCLESIASTICAL COURTS. Mr. REDHEAD YORKE wished to know from the Right Hon. Baronet if it was his intention to bring in a Bill with reference to ecclesiastical courts? Sir R. PEEL said that he was not prepared on the part of her Majesty's Government to answer the ques tion put by the Hon. Member.—(Hear, hear.) THE TARIFF. Mr. REDHEAD YORKE might, perhaps, be per mitted to ask another question, although he had given no notice on the subject. He wished to know whether, in the arrangement of duties proposed by the Right Hon. Baronet, watches were included in the reference made to clocks. Some doubt existed among his constituency on. this point. Sir R. PEEL said, that if he recollected aright, watches were separate!y classed. The duty on clocks did not apply to watches. TIMBER DUTIES. Sir R. PEEL said that he was not aware whether it was exactly regular, bat the importance of the question to which he was about to refer was such that he felt it necessary to take that opportunity of announcing the intention of her Majesty's Government with respect to the proposed reduction of the duties upon timber. He did not propose to make any immediate reduction upon the differential duties upon foreign timber. It was the intention at a future time to reduce the . present duty of 255. by 155., with the view of insuring as great benefit as possible to the consumer. The demand for timber was now very great and the supply was hardly sufficient. He therefore proposed, that front the sth of April, 1847, a reduction of ss. should be made on hewn timber; and on the sth of April, 1848, a fur ther reduction of ss. upon hewn timber should take place. He chose April, as that was the time of the year when a reduction was likely to be attended with the most beneficial results. With regard to sawn timber, a. reduction of 6s. should take place from the sth of April, 1847, and a further reduction of 6s. at the same period in 1848. With respect to the smaller de scription of timber, such as spare, &e., he pro posed to make some reduction, but he did not know if it would be done immediately, aid he would, therefore, reserve his opinion on the subject. In the course of the evening the resolutions on that subject would be laid on the table. An Hort. MEMBER inquired if any alteration in the duties would take place before 1847 ? Sir R. PEEL said that the duties would remain the same until the sth of April, 1847. TURNPIKE TRUSTS. An Hex. MEMBER wished to ask whether the Govern ment were satisfied with the operation of the Act which was passed •in 1844 respecting the law of Turnpike Trusts? Sir R. PEEL would be glad if the Hon. Member would put his question when his Right Hon. Friend the Secretary for the Home Department was in the House. THE GOVERNMENT COMMERCIAL MEASURES. gir ROBERT PEEL would take that opportunity of putting a question to the Hon. Member for Ashton under-Lyne (Mr. Colquhoun), or if the Hon. Gentleman was not in the House, he might put the question to some - gentleman who usually acted with the Bon. Mem. be n The Hon. Member for A s hton-under-Lyne had giv e n notice that he would, on Monday next, meat to the motion that the Speaker lea ve the House going into Committee commercial policy_ of the coun tr y if the Honourab le Gentlem en possession of the beads of . There was no answer given to _ the was not in the Er i e 3 . A. move an amend meat Chair ore h ve uestion of the mi x.° q. wished to know mild put the House is his a mendment.—(Hear.) to the question ; Mr. Col• Lord JOHN RUSSELL wished to know if any further correspondence had been received with reference to the affairs of Cuba? Sir B. PEEL said he thought there had been. Lord J. RUSSELL—Is there any objection , to its being laid on the table ? Sir R. PEEL said he would gi • ve an answer on; future day. THE APPOINTMENT OF MR. CHAPMAN. Mr. WODEHOUSE said, that in moving for a copy of the warrant, or other document, by which Mr. Chap. man had been appointed Chief Judge of the Supreme Court of New Zealand, he would take leave, in the first place, to make known to the House that he entertained no hostile feeling towards Mr. Chapman.. It was due to that gentleman, who had received. the highest-testimonials from the lon. Member for Lis keard, the Hon. Alember for Cumberland, the Hon. Member for Bath, and the Hon. Member for Westmin ster, to state that he (Mr. Wodehouse) believed that the Noble Lord, the late Secretary for the Colonies, was perfectly justified in making the appointment. In bringing his name before the public he was actuated by no hostile motives, but he was compelled to do so, because in his report, laid before Parliament, there were innumerable errors of such a serious nature that it was impossible for any one to pass them over. The Hon. Member then read several quotations from Mr. Chapman's reports with respect to the price of wheat from the year 1800 to that of 1815, which quotations he denied to be correct. Mr. Chapman, in speaking of the price of wheat in 1800, said that it happened to be rather less dear than the preceding year, while the fact was that it averaged seventy-five per cent. less. He also said that he had no means of judging the pre cise quantity of foreign grain which might be let in from , the Baltic, Poland, and Russia; but he considered. a tt a considerable quantity might b e expected froes e r,° / l ouse He also begged leave to call the attention of e t e h ys: a with. to another extract. The King of Pru.srsiaGovernmcnti respect to the duty on corn,_ that othreernment muciz would not meet the English of commercial com modities.longer in free interchang ethe English Govern.: He though , t 0 f creating the unnatural meat were the occasio n o f say that he believed there price of wheat. Be 1 w n ° cl among them the lion. Memo were various parties,narig ii 0, who held the opinion that bee for Durham (AY- . Prussia VraS ri t , , ht in doing what he pleased the King of iiecountry. He hoped that the Parr with the corn of . ia+ me nt of this cou ntr y for 45 wound recollect that yea years! they supported themselves oul with out the aid of foreign corn. H e believed that the Government were leagued wit h the League, and totally indifferent to the • the prosperity of the country. He would interest anti the other document which he now pass to copy of a paper published in the moved for, he meant the dispatch from H. U. Add' United States. It was re Canning, dated at W I ' Addington, Esq., to Mr. Secretary as iington,on the 13th ofAugust 1827, Nothing could be more conclusive than that letter, and there was this remarkable fact, that neither Mr. Cherie* Bold (now Sir Charles Bold), nor Sir Charles Bagot, nor Lord Dudley, made any allusion whatever at that time to the subject of corn. The question related to Swedish iron, hammered iron, and bar iron. Corn, irs fact, was never mentioned. The concluding paragrap!c of Mr. Addington's dispatch was to the effect that he had only to add, that had any restriction on the importation of foreign corn existed in Great Britain, the tariff would never have passed either House of the Legislature, be cause the a T riculturAl states, and esp ecially rennsyl. Legislature, ..i. .....„-. --",,,,,,..a i..,. ~).mate enactment.'. , TIME SUN, LONDOK, 'WEDNESDAY FOR POSEN, JAN. 2-t.--Accounts from a pretty authentic quarter affirm that Dr. Their,er has reolved to join the movement originating with Czerski and Bongo. We shall be very happy to see this confirmed ; f, r, with all respect for the moral and physical courage of the two reformers, we shall be happy to see so eminent a man as Theiuer at the head.—Haniburgh Papers, 30th Jan. HEREFORDSHIRE AGRICUL TUIZAT, PROTECTION SOCIETY. MEETING AND DESERTION IN THE CAMP. 1114 REF0RD, FEn. 2.—To-day a meeting of the above Society was to take place, Earl Somers in the chair, but great indeed was the consternation at the appointed hour, to find oily a very few persons, except a dozen landlords, in attend ance. They shortly broke up, fully satisfied that the meet ' ing was a complete failure, and declared the "great fact" that they had not now, in their utmost need, the expected support of the tenant farmers ; indeed, so indifferent are the latter become, that they prefer an immediate total repeal of the corn-laws to the proposed lingering sliding -scale for three years longer. What may be said next week in Parliament by the Noble Chairman, and our three Tory county Members, as to the general feeling here for protection, remains to be seen ; but if they do not vote for immediate repeal, they will misrepre sent the wishes of a great majority of the tenant farmers in this county.—From a Correspondent. MEETING of the PROTECTIONISTS OF SUSSEX AT HASTINGS. On Saturday last, the 31st of January, pursuant to placards plentifully distributed, a meeting.of " the Sussex Protection Association, and of the merchants, traders, and other inhabi tants of the borough of Hastings, favourable to protection, and opposed to the Anti Corn-law League," was holden in a room in the Swan Hotel, High-street, Hastings, at 12 o'clock at noon. Sir Charles Lamb was called to the chair, and the meeting was addressed by Mr. C. 'A. Frewin, the Tory candidate for the eastern division of the county, who, in a rambling speech comprising all kinds of t op i cs—promising what he would, and what he would not do, if elected their representative, and most violently abusing Sir Robert Peel, and condeming his proposed tariff--concluded by proposing the first resolu tion.. This, after being seconded by Mr. Wyatt, of Hastings, in so many words, was handed to the chairman, who then inquired of the meeting if it was their pleasure that the reso lution should be agreed to. A few hands were held up, and the chairman declared the resolution to oe carried. Mr. SHADIVELL then, in similar terms, proposed the second resolution, in a similar stile of eloquence, quoting strongly from Mr. Edward S. Cayley's opinions and writings, —con deeming Sir Robert Peel, and deprecating his proposed mea sures. A seconder having been found, and the resolution put, it was in like manner declared to be carried. This is a description of the average manner in which the business of the meeting was conducted! Nothing could be too strongly condemnatory of the conduct of Sir Robert Peel in breaking the compact entered into by him with the agri culturists, when brought into office by them, that he would maintain protection principles, and act upon them ; and broadly asserting that would the agriculturists but act to- ' gether as one man, as they ought, Sir Robert Peel's nefarious plans would yet be defeated. They urg e d an appea l to t h e country by a di sso l u ti on of Parliament, totally forgetting that, in such an appeal, how many hundreds of thousands of men, well qualified to judge of, and decide upon this question, far better than most of the agricultural electors, had no voice in the matter, and that therefore what they call an ap peal to the country, was but a partial appeal to a small por tion of the nation, when all were equally interested in the question. But, to return, the first three resolutions were put by the chairman in the affirmative only, without even asking for the opinion of those present on the contra! A good por tion of the meeting, however, getting tired of the farce, some one f on the fourth being put in the same manner, called out, " Put it the other way—' those who are against,' " amidst con siderable applause,wten he was met by cries from the platform of " Turn him out !" " Silence!" Amidst the novelties of the proceedings are was an assertion quoted from the oft ex ploded doctrine of Mr. E. S. Cayley, that the manufacturing population was as nothing when compared to the agricul tural, as it did not amount to more than two millions of souls. That this had been published by Mr. Cayley, and therefore Inigf'A be presumed to be correct. Assertions there were 7,lenty, but of reasons very, very few. Meagre as the meet ing was in numbers, it was still more so in talent, and the most anxious free-traders could desire nothing better, than that there should be plenty of such meetings, and the pro ceedings reported most fully in detail. There never could be in the room of the protectionists at any one time, more than from sixty to eighty persons, the remainder were free traders (though by the notice excluded), who held the whole farce in utter contempt, but who, at the close of the proceed ings called o u t f or " Cheers for , free-trade !" when three times three hearty cheers were given, to the great conster nation and alarm of the protectionists. A very short time after the meeting terminated, the fol lowing hand-bill was printed, and in a few minutes plenti fully distributed amongst the farmers and corn-dealers in the market-room . " DEATH OF THE FREE-TRADERS. " The Madame Querouaille Richmondites have this day met at the Swan. and decree the immediate downfall of her Majesty's Ministers, and consequently the rapid rise of mono poly. Glory to these wise and fir-seeing farmers. They alone can now save the British Empire, upon which the sun never sets. Sussex produced the poison —Cobden; she has now produced the antidote. " There were six farmers in the room who have pledged themselves willingly to take office in the new Ministry; and there is but little doubt but that they would have immedi ately farm a Cabinet out of the seventy or eighty present, had it not been carrying out the principle of monopoly rather too far. " The vulgar and ignorant free-traders mustered about eight or nine hundred at their meeting, but not one of theM had talent enough for a Minister. How Sir Robert will tremble when he hears what us mighty men, the farmers, have done at Hastings. " One who would like to see the " RICHMOND CABINET. " Hastings, Jan. 31st, 1846." -- GREAT ANTI-MILITIA MEETING AT ROCHDALE. On Friday evening, the 30th January, a public meet ing was held in the public hall, at eight o'clock, for the purpose of protesting again s t th e present outrageous at tempt to raise upwards of 40,000 so ldi ers, and exposing the absurdity of working men joining militia clubs. The large hall was crowded iu every part, and a number of individuals could not gain admission. John Petrie, Esq., was called to the chair, and after a few introductory ob servations, the following gentlemen were respectively called upon to submit the following resolutions : JACOB BRIGHT, jun., moved, and OLIVER ORNEROD seconded —" That this meeting protest against the present attempt to raise the militia of Great Britain, because it is certain to pres heavily upon the working classes, affect the prosperity of the country, and foster a military spirit, which is bad in principle, inconsistent with British liberty, and totally at variance with the spirit of the times." WILLIAM LOGAN then proposed, and JOHN Asu- WORTH seconded—" That this meeting, believing that the system and practice of war are directly opposed to the spirit of Christianity; calculated to promote un cleanness, intemperance, together with every species of immorality ; to unsettle the peace of families; to arouse the jealousy of foreign nations and increase their armies; to augment the enormous military burdens of this kingdom, do solemnly protest against the present move ment to raise the militia." The Rev. GIBBONS then proposed, (which was sup ported by Messrs. James 11. Midgley, jun., and C. Towns end) "That, should the proposed enrolment of the militia actually take place, this meeting earnestly recommend the friends of peace to consider whether it be not their duty peacefully to endure all the legal consequences, rather than consent to serve or take any steps to provide a substitute, or sanction the assumed right of Government to compel men to take arms against their conscientious convictions, or to subject them to any penalty in conse quence of refusal." Ak this stage of the proceedings the respected CHAIR MAN suggested the following resolution, which was car ried in the most: enthusiastic manner, viz., " That a subscription be raised to support the families of working men who may conscientiously refuse to serve when bag toted for the militia." EDWARD TAYLOR then proposed the following peti tion, which was supported by Messrs. Doyle and E. Mitchell, and is to be entrusted to S. Crawford, M.P. for the borough:— "To THE HON. THE COMMONS OF GREAT BRITAIN, ASSEMBLED. " The petition of the Inhabitants of vv Rochdal e , sheeth—That decidedly an d consc i ent i ously believing that the system and practice of war are contrary to all sound principles of reason, morality, and religion, they can never look at the existence, much less at the ex tension, of this system, but with the most unfeigned dis satisfaction and regret. " It is, therefore, with extreme pain that your me morialists have learned that instructions have been given to enrol the militia of Great Britain for immediate ser vice. " Under any circumstances, your memorialists hold such system of military training to be altogether at variance with the spirit and acquirements of the Chris• tian religion, and fraught with danger to the liberties of British subjects, and the pea ce o f the empire ; as well as greatly detrimental tipublie morals, subversive of com mercial prosperity, an d peculiarly oppressive to the working classes of the community ; besides adding largely to the pecuniary burthens of the whole nation. " But your memorialists are more deeply concerned that such measure should be proposed at the present thee,tim when peace has so long.L'en preserved amon g great nations of the, earth ; when no valid reason exists for expecting its interruption ; when in so many iustitacea the possibility wad adyptage of settling inter- lIAMB UR GH MAIL. POLISH FRONTIER, JAN. 15.'.---Our latest accounts from Caucasus, which came down to the 20th of Decem ber, state that the mountaineers on the left wing of the Russian line, had made an attack in the night, in which they surprised and demolished two forts. The RuSsian garrison in them, consisting of 800 to 1200 men, were perily killed, partly carried off into the mountains. The loss on the part of the mountaineers is said to have been likewise considerable. As usual, they made re p ated attacks on other parts of the line, and so diverted the attentions of the Russians from the part on which the principal attack was to be directed. They took a considerable quantity of arms and ammunition in the captured forts. Schanayl is very active, and seems to intend some more important under taking against the Russians in the course of the winter. They appear to be aware of his designs; at least, Prince Woronzow has given orders fbr military preparations, which are not usual at this season of the year. STOCKHOLM, JAN. 20.—The distress of the population in the provinces of Upland, Stockholmsiand, and West moreland is dreadful, and it is generally feared that multitudes of the unhappy people will flock to Stock holm, and thereby cause a famine in this city. Extra ordinary efforts are indeed made, both by the Govern ment and private persons, to alleviate the general distress; but it is impossible sufficiently and per -1 reanently to relieve the vast number of suf fevers. In Upland, 14,000 of the . labouring class are without bread, and with ou t s h e l ter. A ship bound to W esterner, with 1,000 tons of wheat end peas, was unfortunately wrecked and sunk with the whole cargo. This larnenlable distress is attributed to the total failure of the cropc.—From the Universal Prussian Ga ze'te. national disputes by arbitration, without any resort to arms, have been practically proved ; and when, bc4ides, so large a standing , army is actually em b o di e d and sus tained at a coast of so many millions of pounds sterling per annum. - " Yeur memorialists are constrained, therefore, by their most deliberate convictions, respectfully but firmly to record their protest aga i ns t th e proposed measurer; and most earnestly to ask of her Majesty's Government that it be not carried into effect, eith e r i n w h o l e or in part. And your memorialists, &c. The interest of the meeting was sustained with great spirit until about half-past ten o'clock, when a vote of thanks having been proposed to the chairman, the large asembly quietly separated. At the close of the meeting the following individuals were appointed a Committee, for the purpose of carrying out the fourth resolution, and adopting every moral means in their power to crush the war spirit and propagate the Principles so plainly taught by the Prince of Peace :—Messrs. John Petrie, Henry King, Oliver Ormerod, James 11. Midgley, jun., John Ashworth, Edward Taylor, Jacob Bright, jun., Jesse Hall, and William Logan. FALL of a BONDED WAREHOUSE. FURTHER PARTICULARS. The particulars of the matter, as far as we have been with certainty able to gather them, and, as far as they go, they may be relied upon, are, shortly, as follows : The warehouse is the property of Mr. John Tipping, in the rental of Mr. Dean, who again sublets it. It is situated in Moor -street. To most of our readers, no doubt, the locality of the street is known ; to such as may not be acquainted with it, we may say, it is a narrow street. not more than seven yards wide, and runs west from Fenwick-street to the Gjree - chambers,parallel with James' -street. To the nor th of it is another narrow street, called the Old Ropery, and the warehouse which has fallen stood about milway of Moor-street, and run back wards into the Old Ropery, and is said to have been built more than sixty years ago. Moor-street, it may be remarked, en passant, is one of the oldest streets in the town, and took its name from the once celebrated family of Mores, of Bank-hall, one of the ancestors of which, according to the annals of Liverpool, was knighted and bannereted by Edwari the Black Prince, at the battle of Poictiers:, in the year 1346, and it will be found from the same authority, that so early as 1235, Sir John de la More occupiei the Old Hall, in Old hall -street ; and in 1688, the Mores sold all their pro perty in Liverpool, and thirteen adjoining townships. This street is frequently mentioned in the family records. These particulars, though not absolutely relevant to the matter we have in hand, go to show the antiquity of the street in which the event we have to record took place, and may not prove altogether uninteresting to the ge neral reader. But to the subject matter. The south-side of the ware house, situated as we have described, fell on Seturday . forenoon. About twenty-five minutes to twelve o'clock police officer 540 was on duty at the south end of George's Dock, when he heard, as he describes it. " EL long rumbling-noise," andimmeclietely ran in the direc tion from which the noise proceeded, but was prevented going far by an immense cloud of dust, and when it had somewhat cleared away found himself near to the ware house, and a man standing close beside him. He found the street blocked up with ruins, and the place in which the warehouse had stood as open space, no‘hing more than a part of One wall being left standing. He immediately ran and gave notice to Mr. Dowling, at the office in High street, and that gentleman proceeded at once to the place, accompanied by Chief-Superintendent Quick and Superintendent Cluff ; and, shortly afterwards, the mayor, Mr. James Lawrence, Mr. James Aspinall, Mr. Maxwell, and others, and also Mr. Hewett, of the fire station and a number of his men were in attendance. Mr. S. Holme was also there, we believe on the part of the corporation, to assist by his valuable directions as to what could best be done. Every exertion was made to clear away the ruins, which work was carried on with the greatest anxiety for several hours, as it was up to that time gen era lly supposed that the man Tracy, if not others, were beneath the rubbish. " The warehouse was seven - stories high, exclusive of a cellar, stored with rum, belonging to Mr William Preston, but the cella r b e i ng arched, it is probable no injury has: been done to it. • It is not positively known whether, at the time of the building falling, there were or not persons within the cellar, but it is satisfactory to know that the customs' locker states that he left there but ten minutes before the event took place, and at that time there was not any one within. The upper-stories of the building were filled with barrel flour, a quantity of wheat, oats, and a large quan tity of peas. Several men, (their number is not exactly known), were employed turning wheat in one of the rooms, but on bearing the first noise intimating the giving way of the building, they ran backwards, and made their escape from the rear into the Old Ropery- One of the men states that he was working on the second story when he heard what he calls a " crash," and, upon look up, saw the beams giving way over his head. He im mediately ran backwards, seized a ji gger - rope, and threw himself o u t, an d in less than half a minute after wards a tremendous crash took place, the beams in the front portion of the building having snapped like matches, and the whole of the front part of the immense pile toppled into Moor -street, a mass of ruins, inter mixed with the wheat, flour, and other contents of the warehouse. One incident connected with the subject is worth re lating. There was a man delivering corn from a lorry into the warehouse, in Moor-street, directly opposite the building which fell, and, as is usual, the chain-horse bad been unhooked, and the chains thrown over his back. Upon hearing the crash, the horse erected his ears, and evinced alarm ; instantly another noise was heard, when the animal gallopped off with all the speed his awkward harness would permit, and instantly the shaft horse fol. lowed his example, but the lorry had scarcely cleared the distance of the building (for indeed some of the bricks caught the hind part of it) when the warehouse fell into the street. Had it not been for this impulse of the horses, both man, horses, and lorry would have been covered by the falling pile. IVe understand that Mr. Slattery is the owner of the corn, and :hat the flour belongs to Messrs. Steele and Co. The amount of the contents of the warehouse, or the value of the damage done, we have not been able yet to ascertain, but it will of course be immense. There is but one opinion, that the casualty took place in consequence of some of the floors being over laden, but which floor first gave way we have not as certained. No doubt inquiry will be instituted into the whole circumstances of the case ; therefore it;would be pre mature and wrong to offer any comments, but we are positively informed that upon one floor, a large room, barrels of flour, averaging about 2 cwt. 20Ibs. each, were piled seven deep, independent of a very large quantity of other goads. As it may, to - persons not acquainted with the circum stances, appear strange that the back part of the building did not also fall, we may observe that there may be two reasons assigned for this. In the first place, we under stand, it was not so heavily laden; and in the next, that the house flanked on either side by buildings of modern date, and that in the back part these were built close up; whilst in the front, on the renwick-street side, there was a narrow distance intervening, so that when the side wall gave way, the beams naturally became unsupported, and the building toppled and fell in the manner described. It must be remarked, that the part of the warehouse looking into the Old Popery is much bulged out and cracked, and will, of course, have to be taken down. At present it is supported by props, and is in a very dan gerous state. Since the above was put into type we find that we have been somewhat misinformed in stating that all the work men have been accounted for. The man Tracy has not Nwtvilchemi which hung r hl e ga l l s O i b i n V e e i s tah b ef o u u r w i n e ad d r. e b hy e o n eus e st e a e t r h nd yet appe are d, and i t is now almost beyond a doubt that hisge engaged e a ad t s , aneary thee atrroutisilwhsweearrsee removing the rubbish, but in doing this, little progress has been made. It is right to say, however, that we have heard that Tracy was seen in the Haymarket after the time of the accident.—Liverpool Albion. NARROW ESCAPE OF LIFE FROM TIM FALL OF A WALL AT DOVER. (From the Dover Telegraph.) One of the most miraculous preservations from ins pending danger and death that it has ever fallen to our lot to record occurred in Snargate-street during the present week. About midnight on Monday Mr. E. Bottle, grocer, of Snargate-street, was disturbed by a noise, apparently like the falling of bricks, in the rear of his premises. Supposing that depredators were endeavouring to effect an entrance, he aroused the male inmates of his establishment, with whom he searched the yard, &c., and for a while watched the back of the premises; but observing no indications rendering further precaution necessary, the whole then retired to rest, totally un conscious of their critical and perilous position. About three o'clock (Tuesday morning) Mr. Bottle was awakened by a loud crash, and on proceeding towards the supposed spot a brick struck his hand, and knocked out the light which he held. The fearful truth now flashed upon his mind—that the wall at the back had fallen against the house, and alarming the inmates, whose exit by the staircase was stopped by bricks, &c., he then called the assistance of the police, who promptly repaired to the spot and procured ladders, by which all in the house, via., Mr. and Mrs. Bottle; two Miss Frys (who were staying on a visit), two young men, and a maid -servant effected their escape in their night clothes from the front-window. After some time had elapsed it was found, on an examination of the premises, that the wall erected against a bank at the base ofd the cliff, about thirty feet in height, and the same in length, as well as some of the bank, had fallen, and partially destroyed a range of storehouses, and the parlour, some of the furniture of which was driven into the cellar, while portions of the fallen mass had forced their way into the very apartment where the Miss Frys slept, and who, but fur the fortunate position of their bed, must have bcen crushed to death. At the dawn of day the removal of the rubbish was commenced, and upwards of two hundred loads have been already re moved. We hear that Mr. Bottle, who has recently purchased the premises, is a sufferer to the extent Of about 4001, anal that the re-building of the destroyed property, &c , will require an expenditure of 300/. or 400/. more. The premises adjoining Mr. Bottle's also experienced the destructive effects of the calamitous occurrence. At Mrs. Brewer's (the 800 Hive) large masses fell on a-- workshop and the kitchen, driving the materials into the tap-room, over which Mrs. Brewer was sleeping ; but the head of the bed being placed against the wall, the progress of the large stones was checked. Some loose rubbish fell, however, on the head of Mrs. Brewer's bed, and slightly grazed her face, while two pigs were actually forced into her bed-room. At Mr. Elgar's, fruite;er, a quantity of rubbish also fell through the roof iuto an Attie, where two of his soils were sleeping. The whole family were immediately aroused, and in a state of alarm all rushed into the street with only their bed clothes on. THE TEN HOURS' BILL TO JOHN BRIGHT, ESQ., M.P. have seen Sir,—_l h ave marked your public progress with con siderable anx i ety and attention. I have joyfully watched you e merge from your privacy at One Ash, to becomethe H onourable Member for Durham. Since then, I for th e emancipation of Commerce. Your course was you warmly, zea l ous l y , and elo r ugged—indomit a bl e perseverence hath rendered it com paratively smooth, and you are nov on the eve of quently plead wit nessing our virtuous Queen si g n the d ea th warr ant of monopoly. Through this you have deservedly earned and won the esteem, admiration, and gratitude of your countrymen, They , have beheld a young and earnest pleader of their rights, nervously confront a titled bligarchy, i n l anguage rendered doubly beautiful y its intensity of vigour and truthfulness. You have appeared as " the poor man's guardian ;" and helpless in tellect —because destitute of worldly wealth— haat silently prayed for you and yours. The pale Themeheeck of p overty and destitution have hung with un fading hope upon your holy denunciations of wrong and misrule. You have thus created a fair and spotless fame in the brief period of seven years. Why, will you blight it ? You advocate the establishment of mental institutions for working men. But of what avail are they if time is not allowed for the feasting of the mind ? You assert " that a majority of the working classes are not in favour of a Ten-hours' Bill." Fain do I trust that you did not mean it. The vast majority of the operatives in manufacturing districts are heart and soul for the Bill unimpaired. This being the case, who else ought to be asked ? If the tenant-farmers were for unshielded trade in corn, you would hold that - alone as sufficient for its repeal. Opera tive cotton spinners are tenant labourers for millowners, as tenant-farmers are for landowners, and they request a Ten Hours Factory Bill. Will you grant it ? Will it bring suffering ? Hear yourself : "He (Mr. Bright) did believe that many years would not pass by before the operation of the eleven hours' system would become universal. * * * And no one would rejoice more heartily than he should to witness such a state of matters." Why, then, retard, the benign con summation? Sir Robert Peel says, three years before a repeal. and you reply, now ? You say a few years, and then shorter hours of labour ; but the operatives say. " now I " Either procrastination is good or it is not ; and if you will not allow Sir Robert to defer, how can you expect the working-classes to permit you to post pone ? They join you, Sir, and ejaculate, Now ! It is truly painful to witness you sacrifice yourself thus Whether right or wrong, the feeling will go abroad that you are determined to " protect " your call at all hazards? I incline to the contrary. I attribute your unfortunate support to long and tedious hours of labour, to mistaken views which reflection will cure ; and, to pre serve your unblemished reputation, reflect in time. In your speech you say, "On one point we were all agreed, that for men to work ten hours was a more comfort able and a more desirable thing than to work twelve." If, Sir, you are all " agreed " that it is more " de sirable " f o r men t o work ten hours instead of twelve, why don't you support the ten lours ? I simply ask you, why ? I don't wish to " parade" a dish of hor ribles, but yet I have seen factory operatives, when leaving their emplopment, jaded, fatigued, and ex hausted, and totally incapacitated for intellectual en joyments. It has appeared as if " Their very pulse of life stood still, And nature made a pause." I wish you, respected Sir, to consider this brief effu sion as the spontaneous production of half an hour, and not as a studied or elaborate piece of composition, mean/ for critical analysis.—l am, Sir, your faithful friend, 3, South-street, Manchester, J. E, Opposite the Free Trade Hall. MURDERS at the CAPE of GOOD HOPE. (From the South African Commercial Advertiser, Dec.l3 MURDER OF CAPT. SHEPHERD, R.A. The following shocking intelligence has just been transmitted to us. 'We give the account in the words of our correspondent, who writes from Port Beaufort, under date 31st ult. "Information has just come in from Post Victoria, of the murder of Captain Shepherd, R.A., supposed by a man of his own corps, and who is said to have shot him as he passed his quarters about two o'clock in the after noon. No person saw the act committed, but on going immediately into the room of the suspected man, his gun was found quite warm, and had other appear ances of having just been discharged. The man himself was found lying on his bed, apparently quite uncon cerned and unconscious of what had taken. place. It seems that the ball entered the side of the deceased, and taking a slanting direction passed out at the shoulder Wale. His death was instantaneous." On Tuesday, the accused, under a strong military guard, was brought into Graham's Town. He is at tached to the unfortunate deceased's company as an ar tiacer, or what is technically called a wheeler. It is said that he had been on bad terms with Captain Shep herd and that the evidence of his guilt is very strong, if not altogether conclusive. MURDER OF THE REV. M. SCIIOLTY. The following most distressing intelligence bas been received from the Rev. W. J. Davis, Wesleyan mis sionary at D'Urban. " " In much haste an i Zg U re rb a a t ra dis N tr o e v s . s 2 l 9 ;e l n B d 3 y 4 :o N u oaonna.c count of an affair of the most painful nature, which occur red in this neighbourhood last night. Three newly ar rived German m i ssionaries, of the Berlin Society': Mission, reached the top of the Fish River Heights, about seven miles from Port Peddie, with three wag gons, on their way to join their brethren in Kaffirland. They retired to rest in their wag gons, and the men in charge lay down by the fires as usual near the waggons. All were at peace, until about two o'clock this morning, when the men by the fires were alarmed by the barking and baying of the digs. They thought, as the dogs ran towards a small clump of bushes adjacent, that a wolf or some beast of prey was near, and two of the men proceeded towards the spot, when suddenly a rush was made on them by three or four Kaffirs, and who stabbed at them with their assegais. The two men instantly retreated towards the fire, where lay two other men. Their assailants followed them, and one of the men had an assagai thrust at his chest, but which he parried by a bough of a tree, behind which he had taken refuge. At the same time, one of the men, who was lying near tho fire, endeavoured to escape, but was struck by an assagai in the back, He call out for assistance, and the missionaries hearing the noise, two of them leaped out of the waggon to ascertain its cause. In stantly one of them received a severe wound in the ab domen, and the other retreated into the waggon. An attack we,s then made on the other waggon, in which were sleeping two of Mr. Tainton's sons, to whom the waggons belonged. The Kaffirs tore off the front flap of the waggon, and almost at the same instant mounted the waggon behind, taking away a large coat from under the head of Tainton, jun., and a counterpane by which he was covered. Mr. Tainton's two sons then sprang ont of the waggon, and ran round the thick bush to alarm the people of some other waggons who were near at hand, and obtained their help. On their arrival at the waggons, the Kaffirs had already disappeared and were not again seen. • • " ins mcrning early, a report was sent into Peddie of this affair, and Mr. T. Shepstone, the diplomatic agent, accompanied by Dr. M'Grevan, and Capt. Campbell. 91st Regiment, proceeded to the spot. I accompanied them, and the first news I heard was, that the man who was stabbed was found about ten yards from the waggon dead. He had run to the jungle, to hide himself, where he was found dead with his clasp-knife open in his hand, with which he had doubtless endeavoured to defend himself. The missionary was yet alive, but appeared in a very dangerous state. Arrangements were imme diately made to remove him to the mission station of D'Urban, and the doctor remained with the waggons to render any assistance which might be necessary on the road. The waggons proceeded, but had not travelled far when he was found to be in a dying state. He called his brethren, bade them farewell, and resigned his spirit into the hands of Him who thus called him early to his great reward. "Mr. Shepstone is using every exertion to find some clue to the murderers, but I fear he will not succeed. Still as he has 20 0 men at this mom en t engaged in searching the neighbourhood, and has s en t messages to all the Kaffir chiefs, urging on them the ne cess i ty of co operating with him in endeavouring t o apprehend the murderers, and as his known activity in th ese matters promises much, we have yet a faint hope th a t h e w i ll be successful. " P.S. The name of the missionary who is murdered is Ernst Scholtz, and the other man murdered is Mr. Ste • phenson's own servant." In addition to the foregoing we have to state that the f tim his honour's move e we write, since his departure. l i eutenan t- gov ernor proceeded to the s cene of the outrage early on Monday last , accompanied byKaina, the Kaffir chief, and who happened to be in town on the rece i pt of m th e e ethashee: intelligence. received, N o u information p to the o a ßi fi s r b e c; :w w in hce b e, : w SERIOUS FIRE NEAR BLOOMSBURY•EQU Art ... for upwards of an hour, burned with great force, broke out in the pre • —Monday right, and Mr. Caldecott, an extensive upholsterer and cabinet-maker, miles night, o s c h c o u r p t i l e y d before conjointlynin e b., o'clock. A f r. situate in Gilbert-street, Bloomsbury-square, and adjoining the Bloomsbury Dispensary. An unusual light shining in the upper floor, belonging to Mr. Caldecott, caused some of the neighbours to make the unwelcome discovery. An in stant alarm was raised, and in the space of a few minutes the escape belonging to the Royal Society for the Protection of Life from Fire, arrived, as did also engines of the brigade 1 from Holborn, Crown-street, Wells-street, followed by Chandos-street, 1 and the West of England staons ; thse Ivere others of the brigade from Fa ti rringdon-estreet, and Watling street, and also the one belonging to the County Fire-office. By the time, however, that the first- named engine had ar rived, the flames had obtained the complete possession of the upper floor, and the stock deposited_ therein being of an ignitable character, it proved sucht aatpowerful auxiliary to the flames, that they speedil penetrated the roof, and rose 'ortunately n o • to an alarming height.. time was lost in waiting for water, and the cngines . being set, a powerful stream was discharged into the blazing property, but it was o'clock before the fire was safely nearly eleven extinguished, and not until the whole of the property in that p art of the building belonging to Mr. Caldecott was destroyed, and the tenanted by Mr. Bishop underneath, severely premises . iii_ the disaster could jure . d The origin of nor yet whether the parties were insured. The more exten sive premises tunately uninjured. The Sarth has overflowed its banks from the late rains. Several quarters of Le Mans are submerged, and the Pont Leveque has been completely carried away. A num ber of persons have been obliged to quit their dwellings, which have some feet of water in them, and remain without asyhun.—Gulignani. WORCESTER, TENBURY, AND LUDLOW RAILWAY. A meeting of the directors and shareholders of this Com fpany was)selcl;at the London Tavern yesterday, at one o'clock, r the purpose of cons i derieg the proceedings necessary to e hereafter adopted with respect to the undertaking. Wil liam Richardson Esq., occupied th e c h a i r. A. ver , y small number of shareholders were present. The Cfratuerssx said he had much pleasure in meeting the ehareholders on that occasion. They had fulfilled the trust reposed in them as far as was practicable, as they had complied with the standing orders and lodged the neces sarybeenatde They t were, e e r n e, te however, o I li i ga o n_ deposits with the Accountant -General, and were . isable, if possible, that, in order to obviate unnecessary expense, and a con test in which be feared they would not be successful, that i i t 'ea w d o y uld to !nation with the Great Western, or some other company, but they (lid not feel themselves at liberty to take such a course without the consent of the s hareholders, and had therefore called them together hear a st atement read re s p ect i ng the proceeding disbursements. s and a to balance - sheet of th e receipts and Mr. PULSFORD then read the statement referred to, which sot forth that the Company was registered in May last, that the capital was proposed to be 400 , 0 00/, in SOO shares of 50/. each, deposit 21. 153. per share, and was intended to com mence at Worcester, and to be carried near Tenbury, to termination at Ludlow. L eav i ng the vale of the Severn, its it would reach with an easy sweep the Terne Valley, and, running up the course of the Terne, would pursue throughout the greater portion of its course a water level, and would form a portion of that great chain of communicatirn between the metropolis and Porthdynllaen. 2,245 shares were issued in the first instance, and realised 6,1731. 15s. In June the Great Western Company obtained their Bill to make an extension from Worcester to Portlidynfirien, the road proposed to be traversed by this Company. A second allotment of 4,665 shares was shortly after made, and realised 12,8281., leaving 1,230 shares still to be allotted, which, et 21. 1.55. per share, would make a further capital of 3,3821. 10e. Communica tions were thee entered into with the Great Western with a view to effect an arrangement with them for the sale of the Company. They sought to obtain 10,000/, then 7,0001., but the Great Western refused to give more than 5,000/., which was refusel, and the negotiations were broken off. They anticipated, however, that as an independent scheme they would meet with success in the House of Com mons, in which case they would have to call on the shareholders for an additional deposit of 2/. 10s. per share, in order to comply with the standing orders of the Lords. The balance showed that they had received 19,022/. 17s. Bd., out of which they had paid 11,300/. to the Accountant-General, and 6,485/. 1/s. 10d. of the various expenses of the Company, including 1,933/., 155., which had been paid to the engineer and traffic-taker. All their liabilities consisted of the re mainder of the engineers ; and the solicitors ; and Parliamentary agents' bills. The balance at their bankers' amounted to 1,237/. ss. 103. The CHAIRMAN said he should feel happy to give any ex planations that might be required with respect to the affairs of the Company. A SHAREHOLDER inquired the amount which the engineer claimed in addition to the sum he had received. The Out:term( replied, that be had already received 1,5001., but he had not supplied them with a bill, setting forth the whole sum he claimed, although requested to do so. His demands and estimates were very extravagant, so much so, that the direct ors f e l t i t their duly to dismiss him, and they had now a working man, who would do all that was necessary at far less expense. Mr. Gar vitt, who was the engineer, had behaved towards the board in a very unsatisfactory manner. If they found his bill ex orbitant, he would suggest that it should be submitted to a jury of their countrymen. A SHAREHOLDER said he was anxious to know the whole amount of their liabilities. The CHAIRMAN said they had already expended 6,4851. lls. 10d. 10,000/. he considered would meet the whole of the expenses, including the liabilities to which al lusion had been made. err. Ksox inquired if the provisional committee had taken up their shares ? The CHAIRMAN said that all the directors had paid up the whole of the shares allotted to them—in fact, they held nearly one-fourth of the whole number issued. The provisional committee had no shares alloted to them, because they did not apply for them. A SHAREHODER considered that the names ought to be published. Mr. KNox said it was important to know that the original shareholders had taken no interest in the Company. The CHAIRMAN said he had only been connected with the Company for a few months, and had been requested to join it by Mr. Bryden, the Parliamentary agent. He took 20 shares, in order to qualify himself for the office of director, but subsequently he had taken 100 more, on all of which he had paid. The directors had taken great pains to bring the Company to the state it was then in. Several shareholders regretted that the directors had not accepted the terms offered by the Great Western Company. Mr. STEPHENSON (one of the directors) said none of the original Company sat on the board. IVhen the present di rectors became connected with the Company they found that it had been greatly mismanaged, and by their united exer tions nearly the whole of the *bares were allotted and paid upon. The directors had not trafficed in the shares which they had taken up, but had continued to hold them up to the present time, and if the deposits had not been sufficient to comply with the standing orders, they would have raised the necessary capital amongst themselves. The SECRETARY, in reply to a question, stated that the directors had returned deposits to the amount of 385/. to the parties who wished to withdraw from the Company, on ac count of the shares not being considered good. In reply to other questions, the CHAIRMAN and some of the directors stated that the feeling in the locality through which the line was prop ose d to traverse was as much in favour of their project as of the one projected by the Great 'Western Company. They believed that that Company was prepared to enter Parliament, but they could not ascertain the fact until Friday; which was the last day for petitions. They an ticipated that the expenses incurred would amount to be tween 105. and 12s. 6d. per share. A DIRECTOR said he feared the feeling of the locality was in favour of the Great Western project, on account of its being an established Company, and no doubt they were prepared to give them the most determined opposition, and to sweep them off the line if possible. After some discussion, Mr. Keeox suggested that they should endeavour to amal • gamete with the Great Western, as they would realise more by that arrangement, from the premium to which the shares of an unopposed project could not fail to attain. The CHAIRMAN —The directors were of the same opinion. Mr. KNox then moved, " That the directors be authorised to effect an amalgamation with the Great Western or some other company, and to take such measures as may appear to them to be conducive to the interests of the Company." The CHAIRMAN said he had reason to believe that the Great Western would not object to amalgamate with them. A vote of thanks was then passed to the Chairman and committee for their exertions, which was acknowledged by the Chairman, and the meeting separated, on the under standing that another meeting should be held, but that the directors should inform them, in the event of an amalgama tion being effected, where they might obtain the necessary scrip, or, in the event of a dissolution of the Company, where they might obtain the return of their deposits, less the ex penses incurred. THE MANUFACTURES OF THE STAFFORDSHIRE POTTERIES. (From the Stlffordshire Mercury.) An important and highly influential meeting of the manufacturers of this district, engaged in the American trade, took place at Trentham Inn, on Monday last. Jost of the principal manufacturers were present, or re presented at the meeting, which was called for the pur pose of taking into consideration the propri e ty o f re vising prices, and reducing the extravagant discounts ; such proceeding was rendered necessary by the scarcity of coal and its consequent advance in price ; also the advance in price of clays, flint, and other materials ; the expected advance of 3s. to 4s. per ton for freight, other causes also operating to render our staple manufactures far from adequately remunerative. In the production of the darker patterns of printed ware, indeed, it is calcu lated that the additional cost to the manufacturer will be 51d. per dozen. John Ridgway, Esq., was called to the chair. After the fullest discussion of the various points, a series of resolutions were agreed to by all present, and the concurrence of others who were absent has been subsequently very generally obtained, the greatest una nimity indeed prevailing on the subject. The principa points of the resolutions are— " That the earthenware trade, in common with others, ought to advance its prices, or lower its discounts, with the increase of demand and expenses, and should not form an exception to the general rule. " That the increased costly quaPty of all fine goods, the large proportion of a common description, the extra vagantly large sizes, and expensive shapes, together with the greatly increased thickness or weight of articles now made for the American market, render it absolutely nc .3essary that prices should fully cover the cost of produc tion, and fairly remunerate the manufacturer. " That the time has now arrived when such is the in creased and increasing price of coals and slack, flint, lead, freights, and the various advances of workmen's wages, that there must either be an immediate advance on the selling prices or goods be made at a positive loss. "That the list of 1814, as enlarged Dec. 1, 1843, and as revised Jan. 26, 1846 (this day), shall be the govern ing prices of the American trade. That all orders taken in England on and after the 4th of Februay, 1846, and in America subsequent to the arrival of the steamer leaving Liverpool that day, be on the revised list of prices, and new rates of discount. " On all common goods £35 per cent. On all figured ware On all light blue printed pink, brown, green, and purple On all dark blue printed On all flowing blue 25 „ On all pearl white ware 45 " That a circular be prepared, embracing the requisite part of these resolutions, and that the same be forwarded per steamer on the 4th of February, from Liverpool, to all principals, agents, and country dealers, advisin g th em that no orders will be taken after the arrival thereof, except on the revised list of prices and new rates of discount. " That it be specially recommended to all manufac turers going ont to the United States, and to ag en t s re siding there, immediat e ly t o meet on the receipt of these notices, in order, first, to carry out the advance, with the revised new 1814 list, forthwith; and, secondly, to establish such a mode of communication together as shall secure their honourable observance." A circular has been addressed to the manufacturers generally, recommending the limitation of work to three days a week, in order that the supply should not exceed the demand. We do not hear, however, that this re commendation is likely to be adopted. On _ niday night last, as two sailors of the English schooner Elizabeth, moored at the Quai de l'lsle, at Havre, were returning on board their ship, they both fell into the wl;ter. A sub-officer of the Customs, named Paris, imme diately plunged into the sea after them, and saved one of the men, but the other was drowned, and his body has not yet been seen. It is reported, that only half an hour before Sir Peel proceeded to the House of Commons, on Tuesday, to an nounce his plan, it comprehended the immediate abolition of the corn-laws; but, yielding with great repugnance to the earnest entreaties of his colleagues, he consented to the re tention of duties on the new scale for three years. It is also said that, in consequence of their sentiments on f ree _ trade, Captain the Hon. W. Gordon, and the Right Hon. 11. Corry, the Secretary are about to retire from the Admiralty.— Hampshire Telegraph. The East India and China Association have just pub lished their comparative statement of the number of British ships, with their tonnage, entered inwards and cleared outwards from and to places within the limits of the East India Company's charter in the years 1844 and 1845. The result of the tables of the entries inwards show, for the port of London, an increase in 1845 of 60 vessels, with 29,773 tonnaee, the respectiv e num b ers for the respective periods being being 538 'vessels, with 221,122 tonnage, and 598 vessels, with 250,895 tonnage. Liverpool figures for an increase of 19 vessels, with 564 tonnage, the numbers in 1844 b e i ng 210 vessels, with 90,496 ton nage ; and in 1845, 229 vessels, with 91,960 tonnage. Bristol and Hull show a decrease of 6 vessels, with 1,593 tonnage. The entries at these ports in 1844 were 18 vessels, with 6,391 tonnage ; and in 1845, only 12 vessels, with 4,798 tonnage. The Clyde and other ports show a decrease of 18 vessels, with 6,089 tonnage. The entries were 39 vessels, with 13,596 tonnage, in 1844 ; and 21 vessels, with 7,507 tonnage, in 1545. The gross results of the return are a total increase in the entries inwards of .55 vessels, with 22,655 tonnage. The great increase appears to have been in arrivals from Calcutta, Madras, China, and the Cape of Good Hope ; and the decrease appears to be in arrivals from Bombay, the Philippine Islands, and Java and Sumatra. The statistics of the clear ance outwards give an increase in favour of the port of London for 1845 of 51 vessels, with 35,629 tonnage, the number for 1844 being 449 vessels, with 186,917 ton nage ; and for the latter period, 500 vessels, with 222,556 tonnage. The return for Liverpool gives an increase of 18 vessels, with 15 1 858 tonnage. The departures from this place in 1844 were 350 vessels, with 119,340 tonnage ; andin 1845 they amounted to 338 vessels, with 135,198 tonnage. The clearances from Bristol and Hull were 14 vessels, with 2,796 tonnage less than last year, the number of vessels leaving in 1844 being 24, with 7,014 tonnage, and in 1845, 10, with 4,218 tonnage. The return for the Clyde and other ports shows a decrease, in 1845, of 13 vessels with 468 tonnage, the respective numbers being 172 vessels with 60,644 tonnage, in 1844, and 159 vessels in with 60,176 tonnage, in 1845. It will be perceived, in this case, that although the number of vessels has decreased, the amount of tonnage despatched is not greatly deficient. The gross results of the return are, that the increase in favour of 1845 of clearances out wards is 42 vessels, with 48,233 tonnage. A considerable increase appears to have taken place in the clearances for Calcutta, Ceylon, Arabia, and New South Wales, which, however, is balanced in a certain degree by the decrease in the departures to Arabia and the Cape of Good Hope. A correspondent describes to ,a u law s nady a si‘ v i e r r . y ou s b it i i --- t g t, ul t a i r ie case of spontaneous combustion, for which, perhaps, some of our scientific friends can account. A fine beast upon the farm of C. T. Tower, Esq., at South ,Weald, was choked by eating mangold wurzel, and was sent to the premises of Mr. Bell, butcher, of Brentwood, to be killed; on cutting the throat of the animal a body of blue flame rushed out four or five feet high, singing the whiskers of the butchers employed, and s sending them scampering back with alarm. The hypothesi s the air.—Essex Herald. n was received by fromofg a s the i thads learnedbee npeculiari generatedn naturesuch eixamatterspnttlhwoeadone exploded dozen o n o lez t l ehea stomach coming hedoamnoen,?sniand nsessegit ,rhpsin.a esiapprehension neighbourhood parcone toojahtcontact neb:taslana:l csstfip is, itfofootnwro ekeni ostnsh, whichf, ROBBERIES.—On Monday information t the hours of half-past 11, , d_l',. ing. r_ Morris, grocer, Boling broke-row, on Sunday, from the house of Mr. M in gold and silver, and a 51. broke-row, Walworth, about 449 L in of skeleton-keys, during the u f rsday last, the Rec tory-house' by means se at the powder-mills of family. From the counting-house at g th a e ob° co uil u t nty of Somerset. oad Hounslow Heath, Hudson 2 d l s .oni n w go ldabsence of f n a t noh on four gravy spoons, two Messrs. the s t p o police elcinciertoifs between talt and e dil following a rve 3,,H robberies anwor t -road, been committed m_it r t . eti a .: sdlesticks, a snuffer and with nig h t the e nf name T. h snksir of sugar tongs, and a buttergold kanoidfe,si,alvllerhaaysinilgvear A reward of p t w al l silver.i a r a am t nP e - b ha u no s o r nu g n fAse l d Eed a l :s r no 't i o o gi o fn t u sl thatha nelcra cash-box, i n a ol s Newtoni r r on- o t tb i k e ,t c oh e l l:S o n e' s t. o w o p L f e n ent great oa , : a n n ii ndn value,a l ar g e carriedquantity off.of silver The , s t t: e wa d bsoel o ev f esnp t toeo o en :I dressing-roomdt andoe zae spoons, ca three p cstdrar l eea a ls t s,t e e,s rpoa d t c fo o o pfoa z n oan z r s ti i g e r , s with offeredpo spoons, kind osr, stihxs ofd dessert discovery r e i r f fi t ns' Spoons, head. the burglars. On the same night the House of Mr. Green wood, at Springfield, near Chelmsford, Essex, was broken open, and a 10%. note, 11/. 4s. Gd. in property, were carried off. STEAM -BOAT W AR ON THE RIVER. —An indictment, containing twelve counts, was ' and other oohtta,hsfeorbuerea tablearticles 0 f presented to the Grand Jury yesterday, at the Central Criminal Court, against the Black. friars Free-pier, erected by the Corporation. The pier is described in the indictment as a nuisance, and an obstruction to the Queen's public highway, an impediment to the navi gation on the river, and a s'urce of danger to the public at large. Several persons assaulted by the police at the Black friars-pier, while attempting to land from the Watermen Company's steamers, it is said, also intend to indict or bring actions for personal injuries received. SUICIDE WITH Om OF ALMONDS.—On Monday Mr. W. W. Carter held an inquest at the Queen Charlotte, Mill pond Bridge. Bermondsey, on the body of Lucy Rebecca Bondon, of No. 3, Millpond-street. The deceased's mother stated, that on Sunday forenoon last the deceased came down from her bedroom into witnoss's shop, and appearing greatly excited, said, " I have often said that I would do it, and now I have done it at last." Her eyes immediately afterwards became swollen, and she foamed at the mouth. Medical aid was qaickly sent for, but deceased died in about twenty minutes. Mr. Edward Austin, surgeon, said that he was sent for to see deceased. On his arrival he found her in a state of insensibility, and presenting all the appearances of having taken prussic acid. He applied the stomach pump, and administered cold water effusions and ammonia, but without effect. Upon the mantel-piece witness found a tum- i bier which had contained prussic acid. Mr. Charles Clayton, apothecary, of No. 4, Millpond-street, said he had known de ceasedof his. On Thursday last he sold to deceased some ra le , on Sunday he which contains essential oil of almonds, and ar ticle. He had served her two small quantities of the same several times served her with some of the same preparationunderstood that for some time past, she having been a regular custo m e r t _ e rd'et—"Tens weetmeats. Ve 1 she wanted it for flavouring , B porary mental derangement.' ENT ON THE CANTERBURY THE LATE FATAL ACCID EN T SOUTH-EASTERN RAILWAY. AND ASITFORD BRANCII F during the last three hanre m si o d n en th t s, en a g n i d ne h e e r ° the CaUSO of this melancholy occur -An investigation into Saturday last, before Mr. Delascaux, d into on ranee was entered into Frons the evidence of Mr. the coroner for C Higginbotham, t i the giving way of the arch was found engineer of the line,. d by the to have been occasioned late excessive rains pene trating the brickwork. The immediate cause of the accident was the yielding of the outside wall nearest Canterbury, which drew with it two of the smaller arches. The jury returned a verdict of accidental death, with a deodand of Is. on the rubbish which fell upon the deceased and caused his death, 15 , ;PI S} ...' s,/ •"' 1 0) 00' .... 5 1 41