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era. THE VICTORY SOW%AON. CLOSE OF THE WAR. THE LONDON GAZETTE EXTRAORDINARY. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 1. [This Gazette, in addition to the official dispatches, which will be found in eur preceding columns, contains the following most important documents] : INDIA BOARD, APRIL 1, 1646. _ _ _ The Secret Committee of the East India Company has this day received, from the Governor-General of India, a dispatch, from which the following is an extract The Governor-General of India to the Secret Committee. Camp. Canha, Cuchwa, Feb. 19, 1846. (Extract). The immediate result of the victory of Al iwal evacuation by the Seikh garrisons of all the onforts,was the t hitherto i side of 3 occupied by detachments of Laho.re. so ld i e rs, the River Sutlej, and the submission of the h whole of the territory on the left bank of (that river to the British Government. The Seikh army remained in its entrenched position ; and, though on the first intelligence of the victory of Aliwal, and at the sight of the numerous bodies which floated from the neighbourhood of that battle-field to the bridge of boats at Sobraon, they seemed much shaken and disheartened, and though many were reported to have left them and gone to their homes, yet, after a few days, the Seikh troops seemed as confident as ever of being able to defy us in their entrenched position, and to prevent our passage of the river. The Commander-in-Chief was not in a state to take advantage of the enemy's defeat at Aliwal, by an attack on his entrenched position at Sobraon, until the troops under Major-General Sir Harry Smith should have rejoined his Excellency's camp, and the siege train and ammunition should have arrived from Delhi. The first portion of the siege train, with the re serve ammunition for 100 field guns, reached the Corne mander-in-Chief's camp, on the 7th and Bth instant. On the latter day, the Brigades which had been detached from the main army for the operations in the neighbour hood of Loodiana, rejoined the Commander-in-Chief. Within forty-eight hours from that time the enemy's intrenched camp was carried by storm, his army almost an nihilated, sixty-seven guns captured, and, during the night of the 10th, on which this glorious victory wasachieved, the advanced brigades of the British army were thrown across the Sutlej. Early on the 12th our bridge was completed, and on the 13th the Commander- in -Chief, with the whole force, excepting the heavy train,and the division left to collect and bring in the wounded to Ferozepore, with the captured guns, were encamped in the Punjaub, at Bussoor, sixteen ropes from the bank of the river opposite Ferozepore, and thirty-two miles from Lahore. For the details of these important and decisive operations must refer you to the inclosures of this dispatch. I cannot, however, refrain from expressing briefly the Pride and gratification with which I communicate to you these results, so eminently evincing the energetic decision of the Commander-in -Chiefs operations, and the indomitable courage of the British Indian army under his Excellency's command, and which will, I am convinced, be met with a corresponding feeling by the Home Government and the British public. I returned to Ferozepore from the field of Sobraon, on the af ternoon of the 10th, within a few hours after the action had ceased, to superintend the passage of the Sutlej by our troops. I joined the camp of the Commander-in •Chief at Kussoor on the morning of the 14th. On the arrival at Lahore of the news of the complete vic tory of Sobraon, the Ranee and Durbar urged Raja Golab Sing to proceed immediately to the British camp, to beg Pardon in the name of the Durbar and the Seikh Government for the offence which had been committed, and to endeavour to negotiate some arrangement for the preservation of the country from utter ruin. The Raja first stipulated that the Durbar and the chief officers of the army, as well as the members of the Pun chayets, should sign a solemn declaration that they would abide by such terms as he might determine on with the British Government. This is said to have been immediately acceded to; and, on the 15th, Raja Golab Sing, Dewan Dena Nath, and Fakeer Nooroodeen arrived in my camp at lius- Boor, with full credentials from the Maha Raja, and em powered to agree, in the nt - me of the Maha Raja and the Go vernment, to such terms as 1 might dictate. The Raja was accompanied by the Barukzie Chief, Sooltan Mahomed Khan, and several of the most influential Sirdars of the nation. I received the Raja in Durbar as the representative of an offending Government, omitting the forms and ceremonies usually observed on the occasion of friendly meetings, and refusing to receive, at that time, the proffered Nuzzurs and complimentary offerings. I briefly explained to the Raja and his colleagues that the offence which had been committed was most serious, and the conduct of the chiefs and army was most unwarrantable-- that this offence had been perpetrated without the shadow of any cause or quarrel on the part of the British Govern ment, in the face of an existing treaty of amity and friend ship, —and that, as all Asia had witnessed the injurious con duct of the Seikh nation, retributive justice required that the proceedings of the British Government should be of a cha racter which would mark to the whole world that insult could not be offered to-the, British Government, and our pro vinces invaded by a hostile army, without signal punish, anent. I told the Raja tkat I recognized the wisdom, - prudence, and good feeli ng evinced by him in having kept himself separate from t:nese unjustifiable hostilities of the Seikhs, and that I was, prepared to mark my sense of that conduct in the proceedings which must now be carried through. I stated, ir, the most marked manner and words, my satisfac tion ttatt he who had not participated in the offence, and whose wisdom and good feeling towards the British Govern rie;e: were well known, had been the person chosen by the as their representative for negotiating the means by which the atonement might be made, and the te rms on which th e Seikh Governmen .tmight be rescued from impend ing destructi on , b., aarneturn to am icable relations b e t ween t h e British Gornment d the Lahore St a t e . I told th e Raja and his colleagues that Mr. Currie, the Chief Secretary to Government, andmy dAeltajor La . wrence, my agent, were in full possession o f determination on the subject; that they were in my entire co might leaanrdn from Irore (erred the chiefs to those o ffi cers, that they rn i them the principles and details of adjustment which I had ni determined to offer for their immediate acceptanc.e, The chiefs remained the greater part of the night in con ference with Mr. Currie and Major Lawrence; but, before they separat e d, a pa p er was s i gne d by them to the effect that all that had b een d eman d e d wou ld b e conceded, and that art rangements would be immediately made, as far as were in the power of the chiefs, to carry out all the details that had been explained to them. • The terms demanded and conceded are, the surrender, in full sovereignty, of the territory, hill, and plain, lying be tween the Sutlej and Beas rivers, and the payment of one and a half crores of rupees as indemnity for the expenses of the war—the disbandment of the present Seikh army, and its re-organisation on the system and regulations with regard to pay which obtained in the time of the late Maharaja Runjeet Sing —the arrangement for limiting the extent of the force to be henceforth employed, to be determined on in commu nication with, the British Government—the surrender to us of all the guns that had been pointed against us—the entire regulatio n and control of both banks of the river Sutlej, and, such 'other arrangements for settling the future boundaries of the 'Seikh State, and the organisation of its administration s , as flight be determined on at Lahore. It was further arranged that the Maha Raja, with Bhaee lam Sing, and the other chiefs remaining at Lahore, should forthwith repair to the camp of the Governor-General, and Place themselves in the hands of the Governor-General, to accompany his camp to Lahore. I had prepared, for circulation on my artival at Kussorrr, a. proclamation declaratory of my present views and ia:ten tas, with regard to the Punjab, a traßslation of whicl was given to Raj a G olab Sing and his colleagues, and a copy of Which lt was is en closed for your informaticn. determined that the Mahe. Raja should meet me at Colleens on the 18th (Yesterday), when the a t camp arrived that place. On the afternoon or the 17th, it was announced to me, that the Maha instantlßaja, w'ah Bhaee Ram Si ng an d other Chi efs , had Golab Sin recrA ns v i .- the summons f rom R a j a g.hasteneyd on from Lahor at Raj a Goieh Si ngs e, and th a t t h ey had arrive 4 i capap, pit c h e d about a mile beyond our upon me. p ic quets, and thath ss Zighnf_ls was r I consider it r i g h t to, eady at once to, -wait abildneuhy the first arrangement, and I directed that it should • the chiefs, that I iv Mahe Raja and ouige tecZaeted. to the appointed, at Lullean. a, . t i evan _.„ e u s . Righness, on the day to Lahora mile s in adv.ance, on the road Rajai,akateteended by Raja Yesterday afternoo, 2, the 144 Nhooroodeen, Golab Sing, Dewar Deena Nath, - Bhaee Ram Sing, an .d ten or twelve other chief interview with me in my Durbar tent, where the Go ; net n a n n d i er n : in -Chief and Staff h ad been invited receive them. by me to be pres ent e n the on the occasio a of - Baja Golab Sing's visit, I om' customaryeusual salute to - cat other ' the Maim Raja, and curtailed —ctti toh ceremoni es on his arrival at my te e explained tiv 4, u n til h in e Jatt Cat/sing it l '...td been distinctly tendered by the M oho Raj a i s n u p e - ret nil ' sized, and r ' _ ecei vr id, a 3 a frier "a . 1 ,'nine e could not be recog- Nibraission wa is tend ered b. . accompanied th a m h err) e-., the Government w as a a .4 a j ' a, and the Minister and chiefs, who dictate, in the ' reque s ted c .., ue , Pardon of the British that the ondi most ex lf az ," e B 4 conditions as I ehettld 4044 hi;syitlic ka tea t I n T s : after which, I stated: 1 1111.4. "'v....vw Y made 1... t. ..4.OWA O the Minister Raja Golab Sing and the chiefs accredited with him, it was unnecessary to discuss them in that place, and in the presence of the young Maha Raja, who was of too tender an age to take part in such matters, and that, as all the requirements of the British Government had been ac quiesced in, and th e i r f u lfil me nt p r omised in the name of the Maha Raja and, Durbar, I should consider myself j ustified in treat iLlg the young Maha Raja from that ;,foment, as; Prince restored to the friendship of the British Governmeat. After some remarks, regarding the fame and character of the late Maha Raja Runjeet Sing, and hope that the young Prince would follow the footsteps of his father, and my desire that such relations should henceforward exist between the two states as would tend to the benefit of both, I broke up the Durbar. On his taking leave, I caused the customary presents to be made to the Maha Raja; and, on his retiring from my tent, the usual salute was fired from our 24-pounders, drawn up at the bottom of the street of tents for that purpose. yo ln uag th il e ia c h ou a r ß se a of discussion, i r h e e ttun lilin to ist t e h r e a ß sk an ed e , e a i t f Ltha-ja should now hore, or if it w as m y d es ire that he should remain at my camp? intimating that it was for me to dispose of the young Chief as I pleased, and as I might consider best for his High ness's i nterests. I replied, that I thought it advisable that his Highness's camp should accompany mine, and that I should myself conduct him to his capital, which I purposed reaching in two marches, that is, by to-morrow morning. The remains of the Seikh army, under Sirdar Tej Sing and Raja Lal Sing, on retiring from Sobraon, encamped at Rae bara, about 18 mil es eas t o f L ahore. They are variously es timated at from 14,000 to 20,000 horse and foot, with about 35 guns. They had been positively ordered by Raja Golab Sing to remain stationary, and the Mahomedan and Nujeeb battalions, in the interest of the Minister, have been placed in the citadel and at the gates of Lahore, with strict orders to permit no armed Seikh soldier to enter the town. It was intimated to me, late last night, that the inhabit ants of Lahore and Umritsur were in great alarm at the approach of our army to the capital, and were under appre hension that those cities might be sacked and plundered by our troops. I therefore caused the proclamation, a copy of which is inclosed, to be issued to the inhabitants of those cities, informing them of the result of my interview with the Maha Raja, and assuring them of protection, in person and property, if the Durbar acted in good faith, and no fur ther hostile opposition was offered by the army. On our arrival at this place (Kanha Kutchwa, about six teen miles from the city of Lahore, and twelve from the can tonments), heavy firing for the best part of an hour was heard. This proved to be a salute of seven rounds from every gun in Lahore, in honour of the result of the Maha Raja's meeting with me yesterday, and in joy at the prospect of the restoration of amicable relations. PROCLAMATION BY THE GOVERNOR GENERAL OF INDIA. Camp, Lulleeanee, Feb. 18, 1846. The chiefs, merchants, traders, ryots, and other inhabit ants of Lahore and Umritsur are hereby informed, that his Highness Maha Raja Dhulerp Sing has this day waited upon the Right Honourable the Governor-General, and expressed the contrition of himself and the Seikh Government for their late hostile proceedings. The Maha Raja and Durbar having acquiesced in all the terms imposed by the British Government, the Governor-General, having every hope that the relations of friendship will speedily be established between the two Governments, the inhabitants of Lahore and Umritsur have nothing to fear from the British army. The Governor General and the British troops, if the con ditions above referred to are fulfilled, and no further hostile opposition is offered by the Khalsa army, will aid their en deavours for the re-establishment of the Government of the descendants of Maharajah Runjeet Sing, and for the protec tion of its subjects. The inhabitants of the citiesin the Punjaub will, in that case, be perfectly safe, in personand property, from any mo lestation by the British troops ; and they are hereby called upon to dismiss apprehension, and to follow their respective callings with all confidence. By order of the Right Hon. the Governor-General of India, F. CURRIE, Secretary to the Government of India, with the Governor-General. BATTLE OF IVIOODKEE. The following is an extract from a letter from an officer in the 3d Brigade Horse Artillery, who was en gaged in the battle of Moodkee:— " Ferozepore, Jan. 28, 1846. " Dear Sister,—l had the pleasure of receiving your note about a month ago, but h a d not the opportunity of answering it till now, on account of the post being stopped; but, as it is now open, I take the opportunity. of sending you a few lines, which you must be content with for the present, and I will write to you again in the course of a short time. My dear girl, we were engaged with the Seikh army on the 21st and 22d of December. Our army was about twenty thousand strong, and that of the Seikhs about sixty thousand. We commenced the fight about one o'clock on the 21st, and kept it up till after dark, when we retired, and took up our lodgings for the night on the cold sand —and a cold, bitter night it was; nothing to eat or drink —not even a drop of water—for the space of forty-eight hours. We renewed the attack on the morn ing of the 22d, and stormed the Seikh camp about one o'clock, and took about 100 pieces of cannon : this is the second battle I have; been in, and to tell the truth, I never wish to see another ; but I expect to see many more yet. We are going to cross the river in a few days, towards Lahore, about the 10th of February. The enemy is lying just over the river, opposite our camp, and I have no doubt there will be many a hard fight with them yet ; they are very numerous ; they can bring three men on the field to our one. We lost about 3,000 men, killed and wounded. The field was literally strewed with dead and wounded. My old troop had twelve killed and sixteen wounded. Thank God, I have escaped all at present, but it is my opinion there will be thousands more share the same fate yet, for the Seikhs will not give in easy." THE BATTLES OF AL.1":;:•; SOBRAON . AL AND ....• (FROM A PRP; ' ATE LETTER. ) s CALCUTTA, FEB. Is,--r' 'ATE the dispatch of my last the official report of 0,0; battle of Aliwal has been received, and will be fo7oarded with this; but I fear it will be a twice-told ffte, for you must have received it by the mail which l'.:rt Bombay on the 15th. I shall, therefore, refrain fi.'Z;na giving an abstract of it here. But I have received an acceuat of the battle from a young friend who was engaged in mortal combat for the first time, which I send you, and I think you will find it of sufficient interest to give it a place in your columns. The loss of the enemy has been variously estimated. The number left dead on the field is only stated to be about 700, while the casualties in their headlong flight across the river are estimated at between 5,000 and 6,000 some letters say 10,000—drowned in attempting to ford the river; their confusion, while attempting to cross, being greatly increased by the destructive fire of our Horse Artil lery !guns, which galloping to the very brink, scattered death among the multitude. My friend's letter is as follows : "At five o'clock, A.M. , of the 28th, we were all ready; and as all had received every order and instruction the pre vious night, we marched off without having occasion to sound a bugle, and without the least noise. Th e I st troop, Ist bri gade, hich had come from Ferozepore with Colonel Wheeler, and two other Horse Artillery guns, were attached to our troop, making a total of ten Horse Artillery guns, all under Lane's command. Mill, of our corps, commanded his four guns of the Ist troop, Ist brigade, and I commanded our four guns, and the two others were under another young officer. We were brigaded with some cavalry, the Queen's 53d, the 30th Native Infantry, and the Goorkbas. We left all our baggage at Budhowal, under guards from corps, and went down to attack the Seikhs in their position in regular fighting order. We marched in three divisions, and after proceeding about nine miles, we got to the top of a rising spot, and there was a most splendid plain before us, stretching down to the banks of the Sutlej and the Seikh army, r ; l b o a u r t i Y lO B h , amounting to 24,000 men and 70 guns, all ready on the look c () .. ti e t for us. It was about half-past 9in the morning, thesun o i o n o in m g, en b , u a t a no t t h t e o o hi h il , ju a a n t d g o a u in r g forc da e, wn am qu ou ie n t t ly ing in t too th e • of cave] n (Pl.ain), and the Seikhs standing in dense masses splendid, glerionZ' 1 ,•„,,, Ja rYg,otinfantry, and guns, watching our movements. position, not 1,z!a0001 then i made ; and it waa indeed a most 6,u'r'-'faorinationdwown fairly, the order was given to halt. artdtsofrsoeme otuhrefienneemfelyluswgsutnask,ignagieutplythaneidr knowing that ere mananY r9view hay] I ever witnessed, and j u rist as steady minutes had passed by we should be engaged. in mortal fight the Seiks. Without exception' the wl-Lole panorama was the the field, ours and the Seikhs. hen i nfan try-- lam word was given to advance • aut ought to have told via l —bactta:alry on the e-xtr;ine that our line was formed in this w ' right —the infantry—then 9-pounie: Infantry —then *len our guns, two Queen's corps—then native r-- horse artillery—then 31st Queen's—thr-n Queen's and native cavalry. Every c.:,,,rp; moivnfantry and ..Inents, and this was a ir a the Seikhs at a - steady walk. The .aeikhs did notedstlown on but steadily watched our move pace, ous moment to all. After we had advanced aboutn3kr or 400 yards, an immensq 'must of smoke appeared all along th e enemy's front, and, long before we heard the report of their guns down cam e their shot in a storm along our whole line. tearing' a w ri a n s g i niidp the e e"'A a beautiful sight, shot and shell plunging an d ground round us. Nothing could surpass the steady way in which our fine fellows advanced; not a step ":as quickened, not a turn right or left, but all pressing onwards. At last the order was given—" Open your fire, Artillery," and the word was " Trot—gallop," and away we went in advance of all, till we got within, about 300 yards of them. Then " left about" and our -- whole artillery opened with a most tremendous roar. 1 7.1 the mean while all the in • 1 fantry, according to orders, lay flat clown on the ground, so we had it all to oursel';es. It was at this time the shot came the best, and it., was at this time that whilst laying the howitzer I had -,', narrow escape. We poured round shot and shrapnell !alto them incessantly, and for three-quarters of an hour this artillery fight lasted ; but then the Seikhs had ',lad enough of it, and we found their fire had almost ceased, so up got the infantry, and then we limbered up, and at a gallop advanced to the front of all. Here we came upon some of their guns (about 20, chiefly 9 and 6 -pounders), some dismounted, others knocked over, waggons blown up, and their artillerymen lying round them ; some of the poor horses were dragging about the field the dead home P t i tached to guns and waggons, showing how tremencinis galloped on, mus t have been the eff ec t s o f our s h rapnel] amongst th-,., w of course, did no t wa it to spike the guns, b"* with a squad ron o f L ancers, and the both , - tection, after the enemy, who w..- ~ guard as our pro . P pro to the river. Poor creature- • now in full retreat especially the infantry, ^ , they kept looking round, mined to stand to V- -.ad. seeing no escape, they deter at me whilst I - .last: One very fine fellow cane down to lay do- ...am leading the troop on. I shouted to him he w- .-Il 'iith arms, and he should not be killed, but ..ITO, his sword over his head, and with great courage - -@ tight at me. He tried to get on the near side of my little horse ) when) I suppose, he thought he could do aes ha likbd 1 but this, of course, I would not allow, and lit him on my sword hand. All the sergeants of the troop were shouting out to me to take care-4 , Take care, sir, for God's sake take care, Sir, he will be using his matchlock I" But he contented himself with his sword, and whilst he was trying to cut at me one of the men rode at him and gave him a fearful blow over his head, and the poor wretch was killed. It w i t, whilst I was laying the howitzer at a mass of their cavalry, a g. -bounder shot of theirs passed between my l iag?? '4S they were be 't in the act of stooping down to bring 4 1 7 eye on a level with ::he tangent scale of the gun and the muzzle. The sergeant of the gun said to me, "For God's sake, take are, Sir, here courg ii round shot 1" but before I TBE SU N I N N, Tll tT s Ai .Wv-ENING, APRIL could move it had passed through my legs, and bounded right over the limber waggon, horses and all, flying a long way to the rear, doing no harm. I could not help looking lf. down to my legs to see if both were there and all did think one of them must have b ' for but, through God's mere ,- "A . passed in-e- Knocked to atoms, without a scratch. „...KKiers had been taken, amongst them a Euro. ,umn deserter, formerly belonging to the Horse Artillery, from which he deserted eighteen years ago, and has been ever since in the Seikh service. He says they have been most handsomely beaten, but at the first fully expected to beat us. " Our loss is 151 killed, 814 wounded, and 18 missing; and we have taken 52 guns." And so ends my young friend's account. The battle took place a considerable distance above the bridge of boats thrown across near Hureekee, where the Commander-in- Chief s army is encamped, and many bodies must have been deposited on the margins of the river, and on mud-banks in the centre; notwithstanding which, the number which reached the bridge is stated to have created the greatest consternation in the minds of the Seikhs, in this their grand army; but it is to be hoped that the arrival of Gholab Singh, who is stated to have brought 12,000 troops with him, to be followed by about 15,000 more, with vast stores, will induce them to make a stand where they are, and thus enable us to route them without having far to go, so that if successful, which there can be little doubt of, we may gain possession of supplies sufficient to find our army for a long time, and of the 300,000 bullocks which have brought those supplies, which would enable us to follow up the enemy and attack him again, if he should rally to make a second stand. Letters from camp describe the enemy's position as very strong. The tete de pont is well constructed, and connects the bank of the river above and below the bridge, the enemy's batteries on the opposite bank protecting the bridge, and giving a cross fire to their guns in the tete de pont. The right bank of the river is also about 40 feet high, while the left bank, where our guns must be placed, is almost on a level with the river. The heavy guns for our army arrived on the 3d; but it is said that there is a deficiency of heavy howitzers and mortars, and some say that a further delay will take place to allow another serge train, on its way from Agra, to arrive, when the attack will take place. It is greatly to be regretted that these delays should be necessary; for, although our troops are in the highest spirits, and there can be no doubt as to the result of any future encounters with the enemy in the minds of our men and those who are in the possession of the means of judging correctly, yet this abstaining from taking advan tage of our several successes, by advancing into the enemy's country, appears so strange to the ignorant mass of the peo ple, that it is not possible to make them believe that the ac counts of victories which have for some time been promul gated by Government orders and our newspapers are true; the question being ever ready, "If our army has been victo rious, why does it not advance? The English generals must be afraid to cross the Sutlej. And though they have, perhaps, beaten some of the Seikh detachments, they are afraid to go across and attack the grand army, which reaches from Hurreekee to Lahore." Such is the way in which many intelligent natives reason, and add that this was not the cus tom in Lord Lake's time. FEBRUARY 20. Again I am happy to communicate another victory gained over the Seikhs on the 10th instant. The official announcement is merely that we have gained a victory and taken 66 large guns, and 100 camel swivels. From private sources I am enabled to give you the following parti culars :—. At 7 a.m. of the 10th, our army, under the command of the Commander-in-Chief, approached the enemy's intrenched position on this side—in fact, the fete de pont in which they had upwards of 30,000 men, and between 70 and 80 guns, most of them of large calibre, defended by a deep ditch of six feet, and wide in proportion, with a breastwork so contrived that six ranks could fire at the same time on an advancing enemy ! As our force advanced, it was furiously cannonaded by the Seikh artillery, which did considerable mischief among our ranks. But our howitzers and heavy guns soon told among the enemy's guns, and succeeded ere lung in blowing up the bridge of boats, and thus destroyed the communication be tween the beleaguered foe and his friends on the right bank. Anticipating defeat, and that we should pursue them across the bridge, the enemy bad covered it with combustibles and large quantities of gunpowder, in order to blow it up after their own safe arrival on the right bank ; but they reckoned without their hosts. By the fire of our howitzers or mortars the bridge was blown up so as to destroy it sufficiently to dis connect the Seikh force on this side from the right bank and their friends there, and deprive them of all succour; but in stead of being moved by this to make greater and more glo rious efforts to conquer, the being caught in their own trap seems to have paralysed them. They appear, however; to have stood so long as their guns remained in their possession. About ten o'clock our infantry advanced to the storm, and by some accounts it is stated that they moved on sooner than was intended. The leading bri gade, commanded by Brigadier Stacy, in which were her Majesty's 10th and 53d Regiments, was momentarily checked by a tremendous shower of round, grape, and shrapnel], from the Seikh batteries, when the divisions under Generals Smith and Gilbert were pushed forward, but, from the same cause, did not make much progress, till the horse artillery galloped to the front, and by their animated fire checked that of the enemy ; and the whole line were not long in penetrating the enemy's intrenchments on all sides, and driving them from their guns at the point of the bayonet ! As I have mentioned before, the bridge had been destroyed previous to this time, but the Seikhs at tempted to retreat by the ford breast deep, when three horse artillery batteries were brought up, and, as emphati cally stated in the account, " destroyed them all ;" and the river is said to have been choked up with their dead bodies, scarcely any of those who belonged to the force in the tete de pont having been so fortunate as to escape to the other side. An account which I have just seen says, the Seikh intrenchments were as strong as it was possible to make them, consisting of three consecutive ramparts, with a ditch outside of each, which explains how six ranks Could fire upon their assailants at once. It is to be presumed that the outer rampart was the l owes t, t h e second a little higher, and the inner one the highest of all. The whole of our troops, European and native, bore th emse l ves i n the most noble and gallant style ; and the little Goorkhas (the Nus seree and Sirmoor rifle corps) were the admiration of both Europeans and our native regular battalions, and are said "to have fought like devils." It it impossible to conceive that men could have evinced greater bravery than was shown by every branch of the army, during the to have been wonderfully st , -, n late momentous struggle. The enemy's defences are shown they made ditch, defended by -^ Ouuandguns !—and .u, . men eighty —a triple rampart, with ten o ost resolute resistance from seven till past :: , ock, pouring into our troops an incessant fire of shat guns and musketry; and whilst our men were exposed, without any shelter, to their murderous discharges, their opponents were protected by their breastworks. At half past ten our gallant fellows got into their intrenchments, and then began the retaliation on our part, and before noon all the enemy's guns were in our possession, and in a brief space afterwards not a living Seikh was to be found. The enemy's loss is estimal,ed at from 15,000 to 20,000 men, the latter number being understood to constitute their force at the tete de pont, of whom scarcely any are sup posed to have escaped. General Grey's division is said to have crossed the Sutlej on the 10th, and the main body of our army was expected to cross forthwith at Bboonda Ghaut, which is the next to Ferozepore, and the one at which General Grey's division crossed. The rumours in camp were various, some stating that Raja Ghoolab Singh had declared for us, and that the Governor- General was inclined to accept Ithe terms offered, and that there would in consequence be no more fighting; others, and I am of their opinion, say we shall be at Lahore about the 21st (this day), and that it would be as impolitic as it is opposed to the opinion of Sir Henry, to enter into any sort of treaty with Ghoolab Singh or any of the Seikh chiefs. The game which Ghoolab Singh has been playing has been a deep one. He refused f or a l ong t i me to j o i n the Ranee, or take part in the outrage against us. He has evaded all the entreaties of his mistress and the soldiery to come and take the manage ment of the war. He thought it most prudent to allow things to take their course, while he prepared to take those mea sures which the march of circumstances rendered most advis able. In pursuance of such considerations, he got together a large quantity of provisions, and came slowly on towards the capital. Just as he approached it, our victory occurred at Aliwal, where he affected to have disapproved of all the hostile proceedings against us; and, it is said, immediately made overtures to the Governor-General, who will not, I sin cerely trust, be duped by Ghoolab Singh, but proceed to take advantage of our brilliant successes, and annex for ever the Punjaub to our empire in the east. THE INDIAN MAILS. ALEXANDRIA, banal 20. ''he Hon. East India Com pany's steamer Akbar, with the Bombay mail of the 3d inst., reached Suez en the 17th. The mails arrived at Alexandria this day, and the English steamer Iberia, with the London mail of the ith, not having yet made her appearance, Cap tain Lyons, the Hon. East India Company's agent in Egypt, sends on to-day the India mail to Malta, in charge of a special messenger, by the regular French steamer which should have sailed early this morning, but was detained until this afternoon for this purpose. The route vid Trieste seems to find great favour with the passengers from India, and the last Austrian steamer, which left on the 18th, carried upwards of 20 of them. besides other passengers. The Marquis of Sligo, after having been more than live months travelling in Egypt and Syria, also left for Trieste by the last Austrian steamer, on his way to London. The transit through Egypt is now entirely and exclusively in the hands of this Government. The Pacha has tried to obtain possession of the station-houses in the Suez desert, but the Bombay Steam Fund, to whom they belong, strongly object to this, and have given orders to their agents in Egypt to demand their restitution, and to give them in charge to a disinterested party. In case this arrangement ann;tombe carried eGovernment.to effect, her Majesty's C onsu l-G enera l in Egypt has re ce i ve d orders to offer the station-houses to cannot !!s ,,, r2iffremegiers THE SPRING TESTIMONIAL.—An amonnt exceeding 3001. has been subscribed as a testimonial to Spring, the pugilist. GREAT WESTERN RAILW AY. —Yesterday, the Great Western Railway Company commenced running an additional ex press train. It started from Paddington at half-past six o'clock in the morning, leaving Exeter in the evening, so that now a person may leave London in the morning and return to his home by ten or eleven o'clock in the evening, baying bad Iseven or eight hours for the transaction of business in Exeter. The pcople of Exeter, of the death of Edward Thomas Esq., of Stoke Edith Park, which event took place on Mon- Foley, .) The deceased gentleman was eldest cOlir wi Se e .r r e e o g ei r v e e t eq t u o al a a n e n c o omm unc o e dation. present Lord son of the late o • Foley, and cousin of the Mon day last, at his seat E as dw aho u N d 'e r . olTey, with 'DIE SCOTTISH HOSPITAt. Yesterday the Quar terly Court of the Governors and Friends bf the Scottish Hospital was belch at the Mee of the aficient Cotpotationi Crane-court, Fleebistreety to receive the report in reference to an address to the ])tike of Sutherland, on his Grace's resignation 'of the ;presidency , er In the chair. Major Adair, , the secretary, read the minute s rePly of the Noble Duke and on other business. Dr. W eb- MU previous meeting, and stated that, in conformity with tie resolution unanimously agreed to, the address (which was beautifully written on satin, in illuminated letters) had been presented, and that his Grace had forwarded an answer. The Secretary read the letter. The account showed that, during the quarter, there had been received 3691. donations, 3771. 12s. annual subscriptions, and that the total receipts were 1,3781. 17s. The sum of 9721. 18s. had been given away in relief, and after paying all expenses there remained 2941. 7s. The Chairman, at the conclusion of the proceedings, directed the attention of the Court to the Charitable Trusts Bill, observing that some steps ought to be adopted by them upon the subject, and that petitions were forwarded from the Royal Hospital and other institutions upon the subject;; Mr. Nesbitt then moved, and Mr. Morris seconded, the appointment of a committee, to act in conjunction with the president and vice-pre:l - for the purpose of protecting the interests of the Corporation . from the operation of the Act. The resolution was agreed to ; and it was stated that 32 pensioners had applied for the 101. pension, the number of vacancies being 34. The Court then separated, thanks being Toted to the Chairman. APPROACHING MARRIAGE IN HIGH LIFE.—We have the gratification to announce that the preliminaries for a matrimonial alliance have been definitively arranged between Viscount Fielding, eldest son of the Earl of Denbigh, and Miss Pennant, niece of the Earl of Cardigan, and heiress to the Downing estates and property in Flintshire. The lovely bride elect is daughter of the late David Pennant, Esq., of Downing (grandson of Thomas Pennant, the his torian), by the Lady Emma Brudenell, sister of the present Earl of Cardigan. Her father died in 1835, and her grandfather in 1841, whereupon becoming entitled to a large fortune, she was made a ward in Chancery, The bride is exceedingly beautiful, and will attain her eighteenth year in August next. Her laconic, real and personal, will exceed 10,00011, per anntiln, The gierriage is AppOinted W tag plAce tlra KU CI image _ 11 1 A GAZINES. BLACKWOOD. The manifest a ti ons lately made by the small republic in Europe, an d t h e great republic—the "model repub lic" in America—have been of more service to crowned heads than their vast armies, and all the other safeguardsof monarchy together. In Switzerland, scenes disgrace ful to any Government have been exhibited year after year, the inhabitants of one canton have been arrayed against another without any sufficient cause, Catholics and Protestants, plebeians and aristocrats, have been at different times contending for the mastery. Jesuits have been plotting against the disciples of Calvin, and a civil war actually broke out, with much loss of life, because Lucerne preferred a system of education which some of its neighbours considered wicked and damnable. Great anxiety still prevails throughout the country, and the citizens are ready to rush to arms because there is no head, no executive Government, which can combine the heterogeneous elements, or control the factious and meddling cantons. The picture furnished by the great republic, however, completely eclipses its elder sister. The Swiss pay their debts, they are content with their " area" of mountains and valleys, they do not quarrel with their neighbours, or abuse their best friends ; they do not appeal to the first chapter of Genesis as an au thority for sanctioning robbery, or a settlement in any rich country that takes their fancy ; and they do not at the same time encourage slavery, and commit blasphemy by offering up thanks for the blessings of freedom. Much might have been made of the late dis plays in these two republics by the advocates for absolute monarchy, as well as limited monarchy. B u t we have seen nothing worthy of attention till we opened Blackwood this month. In that number we find an article entitled "How they Manage Matters in the Model Republic," which hes the merit of novelty, as well as a very fair proportion of moderation. The writer dates his effusions from New York; and though his strictures arb severe, and his language will sound harshly in the ears 'of Whigs and Democrats. of the representatives of the Atlantic as well as of the Western States, they have themselves only to blame, for he quotes from the official paper published at Wash ington, and condemns them by their own words. He gives extracts from the speeches, as published in that Government paper, and certainly displays of oratory more disgraceful, ludicrous, and unprincipled, never ap peared in any reports of the proceedings of a legislative body. The public owe a debt of gratitude to the writer for these elegant extracts, not one-tenth part of which have appeared in any European journal. We transcribe one as a specimen. The speech was made by Mr. Kennedy, a democratic representative from Indiana, one of the insolvent States:— " Sir,' says Mr. K., when the British lion, or any other lion, lies down in our path, we will not travel round the world in blood and fire, but will make him leave that lair.' . • " After this mysterious announcement, he inquires— " Shall we pause in our career, or retrace our steps, be cause the British lion has chosen to place himself in our path ? Has our blood already become so pale, that we should tremble at the roar of the king of beasts? We will not go out of our way to seek a conflict with him ; but if he cross our path, and refuses to move at a peaceful command, he will run his nose on the talons of the American eagle, and his blood will spout as from a harpooned whale. The spectators who look upon the struggle may prepare to hear a crash, as if the very ribs of nature had broke !'. . . . . " Once more into the lion—or lioness—for it does not ap pear exactly which this time ! " We are one people and one country, and have one inte rest and one destiny, which, if we live up to, though it may not free us to follow the British lion round the world in blood and slaver, will end in her expulsion from this continent, which he rests not upon but to pollute 1' " rhe writer thus sums up his character of the people among whom he dwells:—" If a man wishes to form a . _ low idea of his species, let him spend a week or two at Washington ; let him go amongst the little leaders of party, in that preposterous capital, watch their little tricks, the rapacity with which they clutch the meanest spoils, and wonder how political profligacy grows fat upon diet so meagre and uninviting. He will come away with the conviction, already indorsed, by the more re spectable portion of the American community, that their Government is the most corrupt under the sun." We have in this number a continuation of the " Student of Salamanca," which we believe fewres;dl"; good life and history of Antonio Perez, minister and victim of Philip IL of Spain ; the " Crusades," founded on one of Michaud's works, and an interesting history of the Marquis of Wellesley's government of India. There is no political article, but, by some legerdemain, the opinions of the editor on the changes going on in the commercial relations of this country, are thrust into a review of the " Memoirs and Correspondence of the most Noble Richard Marquis Wellesley." After stating that the abolition of the corn-laws will throw a fourth part of the land out of cultivation, and drive all the gold out of the country, he thus foretels universal ruin : " But the true conspirators see deeper. They know, that a revolution in the food of the people is the immediate fore runner of a revolution in the state. Prom the moment when foreign corn is admitted free of restraint, the confi dence of the farmer must be shaken. From the farmer, the shock will Instantly reach the landlord; his rent must be di minished. To one-half of the great proprietaries of the king dom, a diminution of rent, even by a third, would make their possessors personally bankrupt. Their mortgages and loans must be repaid; and nothing would remain. The land. lord now pap the Church. If he is ruined, the whole Church income, independent of the small portions of glebe land, must perish with him. " Then will come the agitation for a still more daring pur pose. It will be asked, why must the system of English life be artificial ? Because we have twenty-eight millions ster ling of interest to pay, and for this we must have taxes. But why not sweep the national debt away, as France did in her day of royal overthrow ? A single sitting of the Convention settled that question ! Why not follow the example? Then will come the desperate expedient, and all will be ruin on the heads of the most helpless of the community ; for the national debt is only a saving bank on a larger scale, and nine-tenths of its creditors are of the most strugg li ng or d er o f th e emp i re . Of course, we do not an ti c i pate th i s frightful catastrophe under the existi ng G overnment, nor, per h aps , under its im mediate successors, nor under any Government which knows its duty. But, let the " pressure from without" be once an acknowledged principle; let agitation be once suffered as a legitimate instrument of public appeal ; let the clamour of the streets be On@ received with the slightest respect, and the game is begun ; property is the chase, the hounds are in full cry, and the prey will be torn down. BENTLEY. The present number opens with a short narrative of the manner in which the escape of Prince Charles Edward was effected by Flora Macdonald after the battle of Culloden. The paper, which is from the pen of Charles Whitehead, is illustrated by a portrait of "the heroine of 1745," engrave d by F reeman , fro m th e original portrait by Allan Ramsay. The amusing adventures of Brian Olinn are continued, and we have a valuable historical sketch of the Seikhs and the Pan jaub, by Dr. W. C. Taylor. The account of the rise of the power of Runjeet Singh, and of the anarchy which followed, upon hi s d eat h , in 1839, are particularly in• teresting at the present moment. D. Canter continues his Outpourings ; and in this, his twelfth libation, gives us his reminiscenc es o f poor Liston. " The Mermaid, from the Danish of IL C. Andersen, translated by Lady Duff Gordon," is a fantastic story, illustrated most fantastically by Leech. Alfred Crow quill continues the " Old Manorial Chamber," and in the present number gives us the "Reflections of a Pier glass,"—reflections which are "Though deep, yet clear; though gentle, yet not dull." The article on gaming, gaming-houses, and gamesters is concluded, and Mr. Albert Smith continues his " Po pular Zoology" by an appendix on gents, and a sketch of the zoology of the ballet-girl. The number concludes with "Tipperary Hall, No. 3," which bids fair to rival the " Noctes Ambrosianae Take for a specimen the following . SONG BY THE WHISKEY DRINKER.—" WHO'S FOR A SHY AT THE SIEGE OF LAHORE, MY BOYS?" AIR—" Paddy O'Rafferty." Have yon not heard of the fighting in India,• boys? Sure 't was at Moodkee a beautiful shindy, boys. Better than hunting the fox from his cozy Shaw Was hunting the Seikhs from their camp at Ferozeshah, At Alival, too, we complately astonish'd 'em, Over the water we coax'd - and admonish'd Though bullets fly fast as bad eggs at the pillory -0 we are the boys that can spike their arti▪ llery ! Chorus. Come to the Sutlej, where loud the guns roar, my boys ! Come ere the fun and the fighting's all o'er, my boys!! Come where there 's honour and plunder galore, my boys; 0 I who's for a shy at the siege of Lahore, my boys ? Hardinge 's a hero; bowld Gough is another, boys, Don't they call Napier " the diva's own brother," boys? Ne'er in the East such a gallant commander was, Since on the Indus the Great Alexander was. Under Sir Harry Smith foes we could thump any ; Who'll serve the Queen and the East India Company? Shew them our soldiers the right sort of men are all; Fight for the Crown, and the Governor-General. Chorus. Come to the Sutlej, &c. m. Rid the Ranee of her Punts and her Punches, boys ! Serve them a mouthful of lead for their lunches, boys ! Down at their river we will not stay long, my boys ! Smash into smith'reens their fins tete du-pong, my boys. If the powther is scarce, and the &.^ans they won't play on it Try the could steel, and push on with th e b ayonet ! When once we are over, 'tis we'll have a slap at all Their camps and their camels, Macir cash and their capital Chorus.. Then come to the Sutlej,wherel.oud the guns roar, my boys! Come ere the fun and the fightin g ' s all o'er, my boys 1 Come where there's honour arid plunder galore, my boys! Oh! who's for a shy at the si . age of Lahore, my b o y a r, TAIT'S Af-' IGAZ/NE. Tho article on " The I Me and Correspondence of worldcs pt Isgaleyent:i genius s r reawit ashsesrbt i e tllo o t bs e f o r David Hume," which is col icluded in this number, forms the most interesting feature in the magazine. It is a topic suited to all tastes. Hume is well known to all admire in his works, as classes, either from his history or essays, and though he h as ven great offence both to the political and religious toodo u ih c . h to well as in the whole teinour of his life, that no culprit ever found so many persons ready to forgive him. He never brings forward his peculiar opinions merely for like Gibbon, and o f t e he rs of that class, whose ob -12,1 public feeling than to ar rive at the truth, and who e igh ted in turning into ridicule principles of belief calculated to console the mind in the deepest distress, and raise the thatights of frail mortals to another and a better state of existence. If Hume at his y outh, and endeavouring Th h e ir , review reasoning of h f i a s c w ul o t r i faculties led any time offends in this reap act, h© appears to be only collowing out those philosophica'i disquisitions on which ic . is :ibl , i i s i h eve th w eo er r e ie j. s ,u6 w sat hi t .c he Mr. Barton does r fu him i full man, j b u . t ; a t t ic o e f in h this respect, and - , erhaps, the bes t accouinstvnaoriteodnlaybdofatbhiee him to b.. - r - o ' rb. ' some :hi s orpli writings, he was one of nciple . s . of commerce, and more to the subject might .tenoritemp?rary and intimate friend altogetherltwhifoeerkso soundest works. tnjhdiuesdsigt:vit, Judging . gni ant I:. e. i . ~ , ti 0 n had e `that alth of Nations." Adam Smith, in his wor. k on t tn have dehfea far sue directed s his hisal 0 . of standard pfodae- We are not aware of ally ' ar 0911 where the eyiki a m 94, I °P°IY aucl the bleiyAge of free trade are painted out with such force as in the fol lowing brief extract:—" National exclusiveness in trade is as foolish as it is wicked ,• no nation could profit itself by stopping the natural flood of commerce between itself and the rest of the world ; commercial restrictions deprive the nations of the earth of that free communi cation and dichsinge, Which the Creator of the world has intended, by giving them soils, climates, and geniuses so different fro m eac h o th er ; asel like the free circula tion of the blood in living bodies, free trade is the vital principle by which the nations of the earth are tobecome united in one harmonious whole." It would be impos sible to say as much for the principle for which he con tends in fewer words. " Antonio Perez and Philip the Second" contains a vivid picture of Spain during the reign of that cold-blooded tyrant, to whom we owe chiefly the horrible cruelties that disgraced England during the reign of Queen Mary. We may refer the reader also to the brief article on Scottish entails, in which the injustice and absurdity of the system are fully exposed. The "Politics of the Month" exhibits little novelty, and is deficient in that vigour and boldness usually displayed. The following contrast, however, is well drawn : " The great curse under which our agriculture has hereto fore laboured, is the want of that organization, and rapid cir culation of ideas, by which one mind influences others, and improvements are suggest e d, cons id ere d, an d pu t i n execu tion with promptness and decision. The agric u lt ura l m i n d o f England is a sluggish cloddy mass. To excite it to energy and teaitcgot suchh iv b i e t d y u irs w st ut o erublmad experience.na cr h keT a v ehov e er e manufacturer ylealenmi itsum fap d ere etl u uev t mre t e e mer r n l el y nto sot k h ta ss o h p aa e rtw l o e eue s s an n, around i r v ase i ain t v h noe o on u wga t h a s o b i s m o about farthing per cent. on his outlay—he looks abroad over all the earth to find out any nation that will give him a farthing more than its neighbour for his completed fabric. The agri culturist has his eyes buried in the sod h e t rea d s . H e leaves inventions and markets to other people. H e d es i res states men, who know that world of which he is so ignora n t, t o pro tectteharet earth h a, m i a s m e , hp i in so God'sug plough father w name, taahmn wheels , a g r p a onoadrnf grandfather peasant, and four at ehesra d horses, thrashing with his hands or a windmill, and expecting that thirty millions of people will require no more food in the present century than fifteen in the last." -..~ L as he drops to the ground, which guinea he utClaree he has found), intending to rescue him from Blast and place him at school. In the mean time it is announced that the candidate opposed to St. James has withdrawn, and the young noble attends at the town hall, imagining that he is to walk over the course for the borough of Liquorish. Not so, however, had determined Ebenezer Snipeton the old usurer, the husband of Clarissa. Ile at the eleventh hour proposes Mathew Capstick, Esq., of the Tub, (our old friend the muffin-maker), as a fit and proper person to represent the borough of Liquorish in Parliament ; and, as Snipeton was pos. sesscd of that necessary article in borough elections — gold—of which Blast had deprived Tangle, Capstick of course becomes the member for Liquorish, and just as ho was declared duly elected the Rev. Dr. Gilead announces the lost box of guineas had been found con cealed in one of his fish-ponds. The present portion of the novel concludes with the chairing of Capstick. We have devoted so much space to our old friends St. Giles and St. James, and Capstick, that we must content our selves with observing that the other papers in the pre sent number are good, and fully sustain the high cha racter of the magazine. We cannot, however, resist quoting the following admirable apology for philau thrope literature, from a paper entitled " Our Village as it ought to be :" "llete we may just put in a word in reply to a charge which we have heard preferred against our modern philan thropic literature—that it would make social improvements a substitute for religion. This is not true; but we would measure the depth of religion by the extent of its benevolent operation ' we could conceive of it as not merely a shut-up doctrine, but as a spirit, with life and love, raising and re fining all life and practice. We propose social improvements as instruments to be swayed by such a spirit, and, with re gard to that form of religion which refuses to employ them" we say it may be very comfortable for an individual who is satisfied with it; but it is not the religion required in order to realise even Our Village as it ought to be.' " THE UNION. This is a good number of The Union. The opening article, a " Comparative View of the Rise and Pro gress of Liberty in England and France," is an admir able specimen of the philosophy of history. We look for its continuance with much interest. "Late for Lectures," is a good sketch. " Young Oxford and the Fair Maid of Meath," which is illustrated by Phiz, is an amusing legend of the " °Wel Ireland." The Review of Leigh Hunt's Stories from the Italian Poets" is admirably written, and we are delighted to see the reviewer take up the cudgels in behalf of Dante, against the namby-pamby sentimentalism of Leigh Hunt, who, " Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike," would fain, " Damn with faint praise" the glorious old Florentine. We cannot, however, agree with the reviewer in his depreciating estimate of the " Gerusalemme" of Tasso. Notwithstanding the dictum of Boileau, we cannot but confess that we prefer— " Tout le clinquant du Tasse a tout l'or de Virgile," seeing that this much lauded Virgilian gold is about as genuine as German silver. The concluding article, en titled " The Holy Coat and German Catholicism," is a history of the most remarkable intellectual movement of the last two centuries—the new German reformation. Much misapprehension exists as to the tenets of Ronge and the German Catholic Church, and as both have been purposely misrepresented, it may not be, perhaps, out of place to give the following short extract, showing what those tenets really are : " The great principle announced by the German Catholic Church is that of 'freedom of opinion and the right of pri vate judgment.' The proximate cause, as has been seen, of this announcement now, is a flagrant outrage by the Roman Church on Common sense and common decency, from which men, who could exercise private judgment, and whose power of forming opinion was not annihilated, revolted so utterly that even a tacit acquiescence in the monstrous claims asserted by the Church could no longer be enforced. " One great doctrine which German Anti- Romanist Theology teachers profess, and to which the new body of noncon formists hold, is, that theology as a science is, like others, subject to improvement, and must yield to change ; and, further, that religious forms are not independent of the state of society and progress of civilisation." DUBLIN UNIVERSITY. Whilst thousands have been expended in the endea vours to discover a north-west passage to India, which, like Gratiano's reason, when you have found it is not worth the search, the valuable Indian islands, Borneo and Celebes have been entirely neglected ; and at the present moment we are actually better acquainted with the geography of the uninhabited and uninhabitable Mel ville Island than we are with that of the largest and most fertile island in the world, which is situated in the midst of the Indian seas, the Island of Borneo. We are delighted to find, however, that public attention is becoming gradually awakened to the importance of this fine island, and the country is indebted to Captain Keppel and Mr. Brooke—to the former for his interesting narrative of the recent expedition of the I)ido to that island for the suppression of piracy, and to the latter for his philantrophic endeavours to introduce amongst the inhabitants the two main elements of civilization, Chris tianity and commerce. The opening article of the Dublin University Magazine for the present month is devoted.to a review of that portion of Captain Keppel's work, which relates to the labours of Mr. Brooke. Those labours have been crowned with great and deserved success. Piracy has been suppressed, and the " Son of Europe," as the natives call Mr. Brooke, is now Raja, Prince, and feudal proprietor of a considerable portion of the country, and is the agent of Great Britain in his adopted home. The fol lowing description will give seine idea of the importance of Borneo in a commercial point of view : " The soil of this island is one of the most fertile in the world, producing rice and sago of the best description, nut megs, and every kind of spice; it has also camphor of the first quality. Antimony is one of its staple commodities; and it possesses iron, lead, gold, diamonds, and—more valu able still—coal. The climate, though near the line, is, like that of Ceylon, temperate; and Captain Keppel reports it as healthy." We have a third paper on the " Insurrections and In surgents of Italy," bringing down the history of the struggles for Italian freedom to 1831. " Glintings of the Shannon," the third of the series on Irish rivers, gives us some graphic pen and ink sketches of the pic turesque scenery of that most magnificent river, and this paper is followed by some pleasant recollections of the Burschenshaft of Germany. The concluding ar ticle is a review of Mr. Butt's book, entitkd, " Protec tion to Home Industry," in which all the old exploded fallacies of the protectionists are reproduced, as if they were new discoveries, and of course lauded to the skies, HOOD'S MAGAZINE. Excellently does this number commence with some most touching sonnets from that right-charming son neteer, J. Jones, " A Pica for the Ten Hours' Factory Bill." They form no mean enforcers of the principles advocated by Lord Ashley ; they are tender and pa thetic, because they are so true and simple. " Nell Gwynne" progresses with the same accumulation of slouched hats, and rapiers, and excruciating slang, both from Dutch skippers and the ruffians of Alsatia, such as would furnish materials for twenty penny weekly nove lettes. It breathes of blue-lights, and Batty's, and Berlin gloves. It is essentially melodramatic, with a patch of staring brightness here and a blot of gloom there, just to produco a startling contrast with as little effort as possible. It is a diseased species of romance, and we yearn to see it thoroughly exploded. Those must have unhealthy literary palates who can derive gra tification in discussing such a furious mountain of im •nrobabilities and incongruities. Surely some blunder on the of the printer alone insinuated such an abortive effort at sent, LTnent as the following piece of inane and unrythmical trasb:— NIGHT. The earth and air are .SUnt, the pure sky i Relieved alone by pale clotui;P (Wng by: The summer moon in her soft majes - . 4 i, 4 , , Is pouring silver(!) on the sleeping sea. This is the hour when love, deceitful sprite, Steals with his magic thro' the shades of night. Giving in lover's eyes a holier smile Unto the beams which kiss each leafy isle, Unto the firmament a softer mood— Unto the sea a deeper solitude. We would recommend the writer to visit the Lyceum, and hear Keeley tell the sailor how "he answered him in the firmament I" or to the Adelphi to witness the anguish of Wright, as Mr. Honeybun, when he imagines the baby is " squashed behind the chest-of-drawers," or to visit any other region of drollery and facetiousness, until his very diluted imaginings are scared away by some comic actuality. He will feel vastly better himself by the transformation, and—so will his readers I Mr. Percy St. John gives us another of his delicate little romances ; one entitled " The White Cloud," a tale of Florida. " The vision of Iquez Castro," by the author of " The Cathedral Bell," is chastely worded, and filled with a subtle sombreness, most consonant with the ideas of the dream. " Marco Brandi" advances well ; the interest increases ; the situations are dramatic, and the characters painted with singular boldness. Two more chapters of " The Bushranger of Van Diemen's Land," a story about " Caleb Von Dustenberg," and another about " The Siege of Antioch," complete the April number ; which, if it wants in solidity of matter and refinement of composition, has a superabundance of that honhonimie, which imparts such a decided zest to light literature. We perceive, with much pleasure, that the next magazine, for May, will contain an article upon the " Antigone of Sophocles," from which we are in clined to anticipate a vigorous critical disquisition, NEW SPORTIAG MAGAZINE. What with its usual array of contributors, its editor's indefatigable assistance, an engraving from Herring, and another from Bateman, the New Sporting Magazine comes off, for April, gallantly. " The High-mettled Racer—the Sweat," by Herring (that prince of the painters of horse-flesh) is a rare piece of deception ; while looking at the animal in full gallop, you can almost body forth the dent in the turf, the roll of the hoops, the flapping of the cloths, and divers other et ceteras. " Leatherlungs the Leg" pursues his career bravely ; and Craven gives us a capital account of " Baron Rothschild's hounds and country." " Saron" and " Castor," and " Harry Hieover," and " Polonides," and that pleasant fellow " Scribble," each contribute their quantum to the magazine. While "Bee's-wing" innovates with a humourous, sketchy paper on the "Hunting Parson." The number is altogether exactly suited to the Spring season. NEW MONTHLY BELLE ASSEMBLES' A fanciful portrait of Gulbeyaz, by Kenny Meadows, illustration of Byron's renowned descrip t i o n, forms a p r etty frontispiece to the Belle Assemblie the for Ap of ril. Mrs. Abdy concludes her " Passages in Life a Coquette ;' there is a continuation of the " Martyr ;" another description (may be the thousandth) of " Ni a . gars ;" a small but agreeable contribution from Eliza beth Youatt, and some curious lines by Camilla Toul min. Some pap ers are really above mediocrity, thou g h the raw are of that class which may be designated, in the strictest sense of the word, " flims y ." Many are, i u deod, too imiPicl to bo lounged over in 4 boudoir ; we '...) 4 , tr trifle r wotild recommend the entrepreneur to be more eaittiona in her selection. Informati easily combined with fiction—they might ajtelF.r, other, &rid lend a new variety to the publication. • ( ) 81111A10,./VDS'S COLONIAL. Charles Hooton, we perceive, has joined the corps of this Magazine ; his very first contribution proves that he will be an acquisition. Though some may remember his " Rides, Rambles, and Sketches in Texas," when they appeared some years back in Tait, they will not regret a renewal of that acquaintance. " Arctic and Antarctic Discoveries" is a ♦aluable paper ; it is replete with facts, newly arranged and accompanied with sen sible comments. The " Tale of Australia" advances both in extent, interest, and ability ; so also do the " Reminiscences of the Island of Cuba," " Emigration and Colonisation" is deserving of serious consideration; but so indeed is the entire number, which is good in more than one particular. FRASER' 3 MAGAZINE. The Seikhs are now the lions of the day ; they are talked about in every society, their history and late deeds have formed topics for the newspapers for several months, and the magazines have taken up the tale, and published long dissertations on the origin of this warlike race. The account of them in Fraser is well drawn up, though we could have wished to have learned a little more about the Lion of the Punjaub, and the extraordi nary manner in which he, an illiterate man like Mehemet Ali, acquired such ascendancy over a turbulent race. In two respects these remarkable adven turers agree. They saw the defects of their native system of government, but still more the mili tary system, cast off their national prejudices, and employed foreigners to teach their troops the arts of war. In Runjeet Singh's case the experiment was completely successful. He raised, by that means, the most powerful army ever commanded by an Indian chief, amounting, independent of irregular troops, to 150,000 men, with 400 pieces of artillery, many of them of large calibre, and made according to the European principle. He thus was enabled to subdue all the Sirdars who claimed separate jurisdiction, take Mooltan from the Ameers of Sinde, Peshawur from the Affghans, and include the whole of the country, being the Punjaub or Five Rivers, under his dominion. Like Mehemet Ali, he also showed great prudence. He never ventured a serious contest with the English, but remained satisfied with what he had gained from his less warlike neighbours. Unfor tunately for them, his successors :.have departed from the principles on which he ruled the country, and the dispatches just published show the result. The history of this people, as given in Fraser, will be read with interest at the present moment. The history which is continued under the title of " The Italian Cam- paigns," is less striking, and from the great length to which it has extended, four numbers, is beginning to be tedious. But the writer, like Colonel Mitchell, evidently considers it his duty to point out the extravagant praises heaped on Bonaparte's military talents, and to reduce them to their proper level. He brings them, however, below that point, for though it cannot be denied that Melas lost the battle of Marengo from sheer German apathy, and most of the other battles were lost in con sequence of the sluggishness of the Aulic Council, still it cannot be denied that the French leader generally, if not always, knew when to seize his opportunity, and saved himself from dangers which he probably would not have incurred had he been pitched against more active and skilful generals. At all events he succeeded for at least ten or twelve years, and never was fairly defeated till over whelmed with numbers at Leipsic. Success, if not the most unerring, is certainly the most palpable test of a general's abilities. He failed, it is true, in the Belgian campaign, but all know how speedily he dispersed the Prussians ; and all know, too, that but for the imperturbable firmness of the English, and the timely relief of a Prussian division, which struck the balance, he would have protracted his reign for at least twelve months more. It is impossible to deprive such a distin guished captain of the highest honours obtained in modern times. We have a continuation of " Contempo rary Orators," which include two rising statesmen— Lord Grey and Lord Morpeth. Their characters are impartially drawn, and with vivid effect. The writer of these biographical sketches deserves great praise, not only for avoiding all political bias, but for giving the main features by which the speakers are distinguished with great correctness ; and instead of assuming the harsh functions of a censor, making every reasonable al lowance for defects or peculiarities. We give a sketch of Lord Morpeth as a speaker in 1840 ; and it may be necessary to state, that the writer states he has since then much improved in his style and manner : "He has begun to speak. He has delivered an ambitious exordium, stilted and high-flown in language, but elevated and generous in sentiment. His voice is rather harshly high in its tone, and too uniform in its sound. But there is vigour and 'earnestness, and here and there a touch of manly feeling that almost startles by its contrast with the odd, overgrown-boyish, yet no unprepossessing, figure and manner. The action, also, is too formal, it has too much of the schools; and there is altogether an artificial and ambitious effort at eloquence, that makes one wish Lord Morpeth would trust more to his own unfettered impulses, and not so much to the lessons he has learned of some elo cution master, who has tried to teach him what never yet was taught, and never will be. The style is too much that of the " young gentlemen's academies" on examination day. But the more you hear, the more you like both the speaker and the sentiments ; in spite of all his peculiarities he has warmed you up. If you don't think with him, at least you feel with him. You have forgotten, too, the little traits of the ludicrous, in the palpable moral integrity of the man before you, instinct with a consciousness of the deep responsibilities of his exalted rank and station." UNITED SERVICE MAGAZINE. Of the eulogium upon the Emperor Nicholas we can merely observe that it is a waste of chivalry in a most damning cause I Not all the most artfully balanced " periods " in the world can obliterate the flaws, and the rankling blains, and unsightly darkness which render the autocracy a perfect bugbear to those who are free to-think and free-to-judge. Panegyrics have been writ ten upon Robespierre; Marat was apotheosized immedi ately after his as29.ssination ; Catherine has not passed without her admirers ; Nero was beloved, as the flowers upon his grave attested ;ar the gloomiest, fiercest, bloodiest despots earth ever beheld, have, turn, each and all received commendation from some among fellow-men. It is not, therefore, so utterly incompre hensible that a biography of this eulogistic nature should be devoted to the present Emperor of the Rus sias. In endeavouring to cover foulness with tinsel, the operator stands a tolerable chance of getting mi serably daubed himself. What we more particularly object to in this instance is, that while one page of the United Service heaps benedictions upon the fair fame of the Imperial Majesty Nicholas, another has the audacity, or we should rather say the ignorance, to brand Napoleon with the guilt of crime in connexion with— (whom does the reader think ?)—the "Duc d'Enghein, General Pichegru, Capt. Wright, cum muftis aliis." Why history has long since proved that Pichegru and Captain Wright both committed suicide, and common sense has proved that the First Consul, far even from desiring their death, must have been most anxious for their evidence at the trial, anterior to which they expired. With regard to the Duc d' Enghein, Hazlitt, our own English his torian, emphatically says, " If I had been in Napoleon's place, and if I could possibly have done so, I would have had him killed six times over." Humanity required it, the peace of France and of the European Continent re quired it, the perpetuation of a free Government required it ; so did every feeling of justice and of law. After these insinuations of the reviewer in the United Service, we cannot but look upon his corollary cum multis aliis as being tantamount simply to cum cateris paribus— mere visions, idle, delusive, non-existant. What small powers of discrimination—what an inca pacity to appreciate the truly glorious—what a bias towards the truly ignoble—to applaud Nicholas and asperse Napoleon Hamlet's indignation recurs to us, "Leaving this fair field to batton on this moor." Mr. Keon continues his spirited narration of " The late struggles of Abd-el-Kader and the Campaign of Isly ;" the near termination of which narrative we cannot but regret. "A Proposition for Manning the British Navy with Volunteers" is filled with judicious hints, some of which are exceedingly feasible. Too much attention cannot be directed to the subject, as it should never be forgotten that, " England needs no bulwark, No towers along the steep; Her march is on the mountan wave, Her home is on the deep." The voice of the Delphian oracle should ever reverbe rate in the ears of the Legislature. " Your only de fence is in your wooden walls 1" There are various other papers of more than average merit. DOUGLAS JERROLD'S SHILLING. Jerrold is himself again. Ho begins this month with " St. Giles and St. James," and concludes with " Juni per Hedgehog," who discourseth in his own quaint sar castic way on the blasphemous absurdities of the poor old dotard John Quincy Adams, who, as the cabman shrewdly observeth, " somehow or other reads his Bible upside down." To make up for recent lathes, the Editor gives us t'h'ree chapters of " St. Giles and St. James," and capital chapters they are. Our readers will recol lect that some three months since we left Mr. Tangle bereft of his box of gold, which had been stolen by Tito Blast and Jingo, on his way to join young St. James at the rectory. The robber and robbed, Blast and Tangle, met at the barber's ; and, to Tangle's horror, it is sug gested by the barber that the fellow that had the keep ing of the money was the thief. Tim Blast, who is vastly amused at the idea, declares that there is nothing more likely, and an admirably drawn scene follows. St. Giles enters the shop as Tangle quits it, and recognises and is recognised by Blast. In order to avoid this hu man fiend, St. Giles goes into the fields, where he meets with Bright Jem ; and where, seeing Jingo in a tree, he C 414 Chi /NY 4431 (4919 9/4 1 89'0 Pocket §guilleg 1..0.115 THE ROME MAGAZINE. This is the first number of a new adventurer among the monthly p er i o di ca l s ; an d th oug h th e multitude of its predecessors must preclude it from obtaining a very wide circulation, the ability it already evinces will entitle it to general attention. Of the opening article—the in troduction of an " anciente storie" of the 16th century-- can i merely say it is an att e mpt, which from its bold ness s deserving of success ; it is called, rather poorly we opine, " The Royal Marriage." To this are ap pended a few critical observations on the recent works of Michelet, Gilfillart, and Carlyle, upon the reprint of Hood's poems, and upon Lamartine—noble amidst the poets of Gaul. These effusions are on the average tolerably good specimens of reviewing —neat, rather than V igorous. They form, however, a fair characteristic of the Home Magazine generally. THE FARMERS' MAGAZINE. A digest of everything worth the immediate cog nizance of the agriculturist. The essays u.r9 confined to no mere section of farming, they apply to the entirety of the profession. One paper we must particularly mention for its utility—"Pleuro Pneumonia." The Farmers' Magazine must prove a boon to a very ituportant class. DOLMAN'S. fWith this, its fourteenth number, Dolman's Magazine commences under new and favourable auspices ; the editorship has fallen into the hands of Mr. Miles Gerald Keon, a young, author, who has so identified himself with the social, theological, and literary position of Catholics —who has evidenced such a pure, tolerant, and sustained enthusiasm for the cause of his religious brethren—and who, in doing so, has displayed such capacity as a rhe torician (and we apply the term in its most compre hensive sense), as to afford a solid assurance of his com petency for the office. His editorial address, of itself, is a clear exposition of the spirit with which this periodical will henceforth be animated ; it promises largely, with out ostentation ; it ambitions much, without betraying audacity ; it advocates, in a bold and manly manner, the views of one portion of the community, without en croaching upon the bias of the remainder. As to the exact principles upon which this magazine will be con ducted, we cannot do better than quote the language of the present editor : " Those principles are two—the first is the conciliation of Protestants; the second the reconciliation of Catholics.. . • The magazine shall lose no time in entering upon the high and difficult career to which we have pointed . . . . We would fain have it address the general public; and address it in a light, attractive manner. . • • • • We have our quarterly review; we have our weekly newspaper; shall we not have our monthly periodical? . . . . Possessing, then, a grave and scientific critical journal, and a widely-circulated political organ, shall we not also possess a lighter literary representative? On the library-tables of the kingdom we occupy a place; in the political mind we occupy a place ; in the drawing-room and the gallery, in the studio and the cabinet shall we occupy no place ? " These sentences will give the reader some inkling of the plans and the practical sentiments propounded in tho " Editorial Address ;" but they afford no notion what ever of its more thoughtful and energetic passages, of its eloquent earnestness in allusion to its higher creed, or of the perspicuous enumeration of its contributors. Among those contributors we find many names of unquestionable eminence, as a testimony of which we may simply men tion that of the historian Lingard. Throughout the present number we can already detect an improvement upon its predecessors ; its religious opinions are ex• pressed with candour, and opennns, and—be it observed —with a gentlemanly forbearance. We wish the new editor success in his literary mission ; by proceeding upon his present system, he cannot fail in the realization of his proposed principles—" conciliation to Protestants— reeonciliation to Catholics"' " The Wanderer's Death" will be attractive to English readers, from its novelty, being one of the many adventures encountered by a Roman Catholic Priest in the discharge of his clerical duties. The scenes are clearly pictured, though in some minor particulars the style of composition is too ornate ; this, however, is a blemish which, by practice, will ripen into a beauty. " Gleanings in the Green Isle" breathes of that enthusiasm of life, of eye, and of heart, which is a characteristic almost peculiar to the children of Hi bernia. It betokens considerable shrewdness of obser vation and forcefulness of thought—rugged perhaps at times, but genial and spontaneous. " The Vicissitudes of Illustrious Men" will ultimately form a serial, which we presume, will not be unacceptable to the subscribers and readers of this magazine—seeing that it will form (if persevered in) a perfect library of the lives of illus trious men of all ages, and of all countries. It creates, indeed, quite a new species of biography. The inci dents are grouped together in a popular strain, while historical accuracy is strictly adhered to—the different authorities being acknowledged in almost every particular. Thomas a-Becket is the subject of the present article. "My Heart and Myself" is a charming little poem ; we would gladly transcribe it but for the length to which our notice has already extended. Of "The Catholic Man of Letters in London," by the Editor, we could scarcely, with any propriety, speak at the present moment, the story having just reached a transition point. But that the chapters before us are adorned with Irish landscapes, most delicately pencilled, we should miss those subtle delineations of character, and those battles of badinage and satire which charac terised the preceding numbers. Dolman's Magazine is altogether a worthy expositor of a class, a system, and a creed ; if the Roman Catholics of this country have an eye to their own interests, they will rally round it in a spirit of unanimity. THE BUILDING TRADE IN LIVERPOOL.—We are sorry to say that nearly all the men connected with the building trade in Liverpool turned out yesterday morning, rather than agree to abandon the union which has organised the turn-out at Man chester and at Birkenhead. The number of workmen who turned out yesterday, in this town, is estimated at about 3,000. They are, with few exceptions, good and skilful workmen, earning and re ceiving high wages, and their turn-out will deprive them of some thing between 4,005/, and 5,090/. a-week. This must have a very bad effect on the retail trade of the town so long as the struggle con tinues. At present there is every appearance of a very long and obstinate struggle, for the union must be well in funds to support the workmen atter the last three years of prosperity, and the Blasters all declare that they cannot and will not pay the wages or agree to the regulations proposed by the men. The following is a copy of the declaration which the masters require the men tosign : " We, the undersigned, do hereby declare that we are not, or will not remain members of any trades' unions, or of other societies, under whatever designation they may be known, which have for their ob jects any interference with the rights of labour, or with the arrange ments that may be entered into between employers and workmen. And we further declare, that we will not appropriate, and, as far as, we are able, will not permit to be appropriated, for the purpose of supporting a turn-out here or elsewhere, amongst the building branches or otherwise, any sum or sums of money belonging to any sick, burial, or other society which has been established for benevo lent purposes alone."—Lirerpool Times. THE STRIKES AT MANCHESTER. MANCHESTER, WEDNESDAY MORNING. There are no fewer than two distinct strikes of the operatives of this town going on at this moment. The one has been in existence more than twenty weeks, the other is now ill the fifth week of its continuance. The first is that of the journey men tailors. But as these tbings easily escape public attention, it may not be out of place here to state simply, that the chief cause of the strike ways custom which had recently grown up here, and In toitleiehroluseargse of to the o f pe or r th at e i ves,employersa practice a rt e ch ou th t e wo o r p k er t a o ti b; es do as ne se five, and even seven human ofto m be ::r p t reg ni n i a se n ry t w o tt ic h kri gre es tt danandgersutffoertiggputoblitch:rawlthor,kearind an th d e cause families, ctic tA : wh y ! fliZi-,etjfients in which the work was carried on, it being e._gp.:romizzy.thtehroeve,erib-e:w, ding of ill-ventilated, and fro be crammed into one small room, which served the pue. beings to pose of workshop, sleeping reoin, kitchen, scullery, and all other domestic purposes. The mei insisted on nqouent uncommonly having proper and well-ventilated workshops, on or near 11:!A employer's premises. This the masters peremptorily refused to accede in, and hence the strike. At the outset about 30% of the men were involvZ'd in this strike. At present the number actually on strike is about 2 1 0, the numbers having been reduced by one or two large houses having yielded to the demands of the men, and others having found employ nent else where. It is said to be in contemplation by the Tailors' society in London, after the Bth instant, to admit all that are now on striko in Manchester as free members of that society, with the view of taking them out of this portion of the labour market, and thus cripple the spring operations of the obstinate employers. Whether or not they' may be able to accomplish this object, of course remains to be seen. A few days ago, the committee here issued a monster placard, ad dressed " To the Public," and headed " Continued Oppression of the Journeymen Tailors." In this placard, after refuting some state ments made in some of the local journals, they give the number of men now at work iu the " struck shops," and also the actual number who turned out from each shop respectively. From this it appears that 270 men struck at the outset, and Abet, at the end of twenty weeks, the employers have only been enabled to procure, by Over- &e., 123 very inferior workmen. Thus stands the CM at pre sent. The strike has already cost the operatives 2,3001. POPULATION OF A WORKHOUSE.-411 An inquest held yesterday at the St. Marylebone Workhouse, by Mr. Wakley, 31. P., the Hon. Gentleman, in speaking of the paupers in that vi cinity, remarked that there were then upwards of 1,950 inmates in that establishment. SOCIETY FOR THE RELIEF OF WIDOWS AND ORPHANS OF MEDICAL MEN.—Last evening the half-yearly general court of the above society was held at the Gray's Inn Coffee-house, Martin Ware, Esq., vice-president, in the chair. From the report it appeared that the subscriptions, donations, &c., with the pr evious balance at the bankers', amounted to 2,2271. Bs. 9 d. , from which, after distribu ting no less than 700/. upon the charitable objects of the institution, ds, 5d At the last there remained at the bankers a balance of 3481 . 2s. . were fraying the necessary expenses, and depositing 1,1001. in the Fun 00/ • Dr. Werbur" ("°. made, including Sir C. M. Clark, Bart., 1 ' The total amount in anniversary dinner of the society, several liberal donations _ deceased), 105/. • Dr. Chambers, 1001., &c. Debt is 44,450/. 1 ls. 7d. After some other e rout ine c. D broke up. were awarded to the chairman, &c., and th f tobacco pipes used vested with the 'Commissioners for the Reduction _oufsinthew4e.Nathankitional TOBACCO PIPES.—The number i o 52,416,000 pIPeS ; it re in London last year was 364,000 ti 4 dozen per week, for quires 300 men, each man the making i cost osw r ea w : s ie g d if e lali d sd u - p down in a horizontal 40,950/. The average would reach o t n o e athbeoveexanteontht another one year, to make them ; length of these pipes is 123¢ inches, y would reach 135,148 times as high as St. perpendicularly , the -del 1,137 tons 10 cwt. ; and it would require Paul's ; they would w 321bs. of tobacco to fill them. position, end tol,6oeondy toge the if r , they y ey 104 tons, 9 cwt., DESTRIIcTIVE FIRE AT F ACCOINIBE, Musing/RE._ ANE ,,,, E ., Maxim 31.—Last night the inhabitants of Andover and the surrounding villages were alarmed about ten o'clock by the ap pearance of an extensive fire, which, upon proceeding about seven m it e s towards Newbury, was discovered t o b e rag i ng on th e f arm o f 31 d .Clarkson, between seven and eight from Newbury, Berks. Upon the s cene about half-past twelve, we found the entire farm. reaching er,taend s An Faccombe, a village on an eminence nine miles from with the exception of the dwelling-house, a heap of ruins. The fire originated through the carelessness of a carter, while going to bed la a loft over the stable, and the flames spread so rapidly, that the man himself escaped with difficulty. A large quantity of valuable stock —horses, pigs, wheat ricks, in fact, the entire contents of the farm yard, are totally destroyed. We are happy to learn that Mr. Clark son is insured. Letters received from Gibraltar by the overland mail, mention that considerable inconvenience was experienced at that place from the immediate return of the steam-mail packet from Southampton, after the delivery of the outward mail, not allowing time to answer the letters. The mercantile body at Gibraltar had, therefore, drawn up a memorial, addressed to the Secretary of State for the Colonies, which enters (idly into the subject, and would be RI/Yarded by tnts wag mall-