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1-#/ 6-‘ 1 1 // • THE NEW IT] • ~~ ,~, LANET. When Galileo had laid down the true princi# chanics, and traced, by his admirable labours, r• c observation that ought to be pursued •-- analysis to the ;.. -- • : - .... , ,:::: . .L; . :i ... ? : 9 c i ....xt . .. _ ~. - : !L .. . i. „.....),,,, ,,i i- i Ir 6: '..•:4-,,,,,. ez-tio ;Ado , -f- , ve , ii • 1 4 . . "": .44 • - ,,) ,PA i•WO. fF". ''',"' ' . _ . 4% .* lX't , -- - '' Al 7... , 04....t1" c 1 c I A.A., '...........51 1 s7' t,, Al it , irt:\ :• l ' , 4 , IN. $ . ' .r. ,/ r •,,,, .., - 'IV . ...„."..) , ~,,,,,,,,,jc.... :ei., ', f . • , „-,----_-__ _ , ~,,s.oi _..... 4-,,-- ..0. - , , - , ,„, ti .z r \t„, s .,• ‘,,, feJ qA .. k • •1 , ....:..' ..,...;<.,;-... .. 410,1,.......... allakt• 1‘... --" 1 . i ( 1 1 : _::.. / , ,,,, , ,,, , , , , , , ~ 1 04 4 -7, D RACTA FOR TRAIN AND PALE SEAL OIL. - -tqf of theSITREREErER GENERAL of the NAV): ttri. 4Pc i ) I It4t;o. `-' 4 k ..~~:~r.~zsw SOMERSET-PLACE. P August 4th, 1846. T HiE • - onunissioner s for executing- the Office of Ir e ,; l High Admiral of the United Kingdom of Great Britain L'Ote 0 - ;,,'T• do hereby give notice, that on TIIIIIISDAT, the 27th ins . s . 1b,„,;,, ° ', k, they will be ready to treat with such I ersens a b,,,,;'„""ntt to °, t Ends C O N T RA CT for SUPPLYING her Majesty's save ,,,.,k ei,jhRAIN or PILCHARD, and PALE SEAL OIL. ;:,,,Itid o l ut Ati " of the oil and a form of the Tender may be seen at et —e a. ..So Tender will be received after one citlock,' on the kent „r nt i d uly t3', nor anY noticed, unless the party attends, or an „ , e , rne authorised in writing. t'.f 441 . tiler must be addressed to the Secretary of the Admiralty, i, st n ,..he left bud corner the words " Tender for er .; atn be delivered at Somerset-place, accompanied by a 1 , .. ..4110 . ill, „ " 0 Y e responsible person, engaging to become bound 'tt ' e rsan tE Bering, of for the dae perfolm- Of the.c,,yran in the sum 4OOl. Iti. ' t et. feH i c -- -----._.____ • t t , cox4IL,t),ND RAT L. NV AY.—The RiCiIMOINI) i.' l :tri ' ' ANCE Coll"engaged to supply station le:l„,a_v,tr.y. train . to t Convey ' passeacers from the station at 4 gt,Q., eli t a ltkeuharn, Teddington , ' and Hampton Court. -1131-1846.. eA sTL ,9--a, MANCHESTER, Inci NEW z.-T.TPON-TYNE JUNCTION RAILWAY th e 7t ti le? tlrst G ener COMPAN Y. abitin e T , al and Special Meeting of the Shareholders, held hotel Maochester, on Saturday, July 25, 1846, pur • RE,..1.1,.nt convening the same, theTtioreaV:.l, BOULDSWORTIL Esq., in the chair. kid c a •L'"sasti ST. JOHN YATES, Esq., of Manchester; se 1/4hearried .‘LLIIIT.IbiN, Esq., of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, th e r :" tan] inously, 1, 65,4 3. a , hi „ t am of the Directors, which has just been read, be re ' IN l'`".", and printed and circulated among the share trioeed 1, 4 ' 4 411 "Y HENRY HOULDSWORTIL Egq., seconded by gibea m e rte Esq., or Liverpool, and carried unanimously, ollowing gentlemen be appointed auditors, and that " ,ne ees annual' Y the sum of 201 . each, as a remuneration for 11,43.44 ch arl es Album Henry Brockett, Esq., of Newcastle-upon- Sivt ki ll ved b allow, Esq., of Manchester." WILLIAM CRAM, Esq., of Newcastle-upon-Tyne ; 1,, THOMAS HEDLEY , Esq., of Newcastle-upon "at kth. it le ,uer „ er meeting do now stand adjourned until the 16th day of 141 1 ,441, and that a committee of shareholders, to be now Zit le "at . e re gi ' e a t ,tterneantime investigate thoroughly the accounts, Viers of both Companies, with a view of ascertaining vq,„ Y ton of the amalgamated Company ; and that they do ilt e „Rny 1"t as to the manner in which the available fuods of the if a st and invested, and with what liabilities they are .. (h i hat, nY ktt, e tw o C a v iew of carrying out this resolution, the Directors N a t al etitnslianies now ainal-araated be requested to call in and '7 „t" be t t T il ing liabilities ' and prepare the balance sheet ne a , tuq eu crtriitted to the said . Committee, with the vouchers re- Ntt eel _ en t `A an thereto, it was moved by WILLIAM NICOL, Esq., ktt; („ tat a :te,conded by CHRISTIAN ALLIMSEN, Esq.:— . !Mice ot Investigation be appointed to inquiry into i h to th e Companies, andtthe yarious transactions re- N.,reet e — re 4 Made 111 the raikway journals as to the conduct kkt,,"eeh olr aba i 4 " a t Ta loi l a t is d o as to the disposal 0! the shares of the Coin 1y otio q I " , Port to , and report thereon ; that this Committee do a 8 to tl the proprietors as early as possible." t here a „ atnendment was here put, when, upon a shoe! of , e f , teti c h ile ypeared 31 for it, and 40 aeainst it.• Majority against ti•e• ski I .' L 9 ; on which a scrutiny was demanded by alr. 4 tee s_te:ssm. lloulibworth, Nicol, Allhusen, and Yates, were ktl,4fth e `Jatineers, and retired for the iturpose of taking the .by Dro i _ i ar:aholders present, and to ascettain the number repre- N, thei r trah raPPeafollowsa and the Chairman resuming his seat, the ' , tared as Present. Proxies. • Total. 4alZ e ndtrient .. 6,420 .. 13,504 .. 19,984 '•• • • • 12,247 . • 6,423 .. 18,670 as M • kority in favour of the amendment .• • . _1,314 4 ill b_qy,„, e " by ALEXANDER. GEORGE GRAY, Esq., of /Newcastle ' '`l‘l I :" ; seconded by THOMAS ROBERT WILSON FRANCE, Esq., e U 11 Stoll and carried unanimously— •.4,•titiLlianiadibnbTrEPsrqe of Manchester; Wit isalll Cram, Esq., Nicol, Esq., be appointed the Committee of Investiga ti, b JOSEPH ST. JOHN YATES , Esq.; seconded by WIL - T 0,: "To j, Esq., of Rochdale ; and carried unanimously— be an instruction to the Directors of the two original It4 l ‘ii t ii•! to ascertain their liabilities, and close their accounts land that they furnish the Committed with balance itsci ~ vouchers, the Cominittee baying power to call for all h t ath,,""eliments from both Companies." VQI by JOSEPH ;SandT. Joax YATES, Esq. ; seconded by Cams ‘,)`4at ii t l 'ut 7 scii, Esq. birectors be empowered to pay to the Secretary of the rur the time being a sa!ary nut exceeding 300/. per „ti h , rr ove Jimaaat Gum, Esq ; seconded by GEORGE BEAU -1,44t, oi Haltralt ; and carried Unanimously lany fo i e , following gentlemen be appointed the . Directors , of the o ll eim as w milling year, viz., IN bliam Hutt, Christian Allhu- Otit iNVestob_ Alexander Gearge Gray, William Amos Sear kßcise„, „3 . 'i Thomas Robert Wilson France, Henry Houlds t~ tjuT M John Yates, Edward Harper, Thomas Broadbent, reev an. and L o t G ard i ner. " ~1 14 tied ,7 a by J. HATNE, Esq., of 5, Dorset-square, London ; "Y iIENRI ALCOCIE, Esq., of Skipton ; and carried hß~ire tto ` In of 1,000/. be annually set apart as a remuneration :ii hh ,e _ re r b s y fo! services:' GAMES EDGCOME, Esq., of Newcastle-upon-Tyne; t„,l4Tpley ; a t _, ll As CLIFTON WILKINSON, Esq., of Cayton hall, I: Ti !. the se disks carried unanimously— teh,tittirhe,;`,lka of the shareholders be given to the past Direc 1/4kohi ices, mid that the sum of 5001 . be voted to them." 411 4 , 11 etl Y THOMAS lisoaneENT, Esq., of Manchester; pl'h e a L"itsl 3 ,_:" ° T GARDINER, Esq., of Manchester ; and carried t th e _ lie,4lezt o rdinary meeting of Shareholders be held in tho T he th(„8141. imam a h ,geite m ` r nlaii „ HENRY HOULDSWORTIT, Chairman." batreset: meets' n stated that be believed that, as the business of „Tec ' t ato a ! Ives concluded, it was necessary they should 'Decial meeting, pursuant to the advertisement to for at th e • 1 W by iia"sfas HEDLEY, Esq. ; seconded by Tames As able th aaks itc goN, Esq. ; an d carried unanimonsly— (Sie., c°11 4., , °l ' this meeting be given to Mr. Houldsworth ." ea) "'n the chair this day. The W. 11. INGRAM, 'ten, nteeib, I Secretaries. bei h . e g bo n ; C• MOORE iCiion the acc!krdingly made special, the several agree- Cr ea ' and , e _Liverpool, Manchester, and Newcastle-upon-Tyne I, l •4D h t lkar, -M anchester and Leeds, the East Lancashire, and ' '' 3 4t h ies t were " England and Newcastle and Darlington Railway °veil h„lrtneed and read by the solicitors. e g b olt y : aEs WILLIAM Gm, Esq.; seconded by JOSEPH ST. JOHN j?tithheylbe greernenstq and carried nnanimously— kt N e ,..and the Man '8- c , now produced) entered into between this Dahl nth of E ngian re-ter and Le-ds, the East Lancashire, the It 47 0 ' ha confirmed' ; an a d the Newcastle and Darlington Railway R at ad that copies of these agreements be 114 t , , e Minutes of this meeting." THOMAS HEMET, Esq.; seconded by RICHARD ' of Allston, near Sktpton; and carried unani tr 44t he itt:xeri t te, thanks of this meeting be given to the solicitors for t klee hri is , and assiduity in conducting - the bus iness of the amat an3' up to the present period. (;lr kJ —,led ) " HENRY HOULDS WORTH, Chairman." r\ `JD -WOOD RACES, a C AND to o , - g-vv o ,,„ GOOD-CLOTH COATS. Ateetel y T " good-cloth :" that's a bit of a pun, 14, as g ent : keeping with MOSES and SON. lor'toe!, not ot ° ,` the sport are a mirth-loving folk, iRt t ""kv, ° f Season in coining a joke. 13, at to business—to this we would cling— ra,,„ t era,h; is the principal thing. ,1 1 ,!,ost a of . 'ioodwood, remind vou, good sirs a nd each s ortsman Prefers. ' 4, 1 .44 Lin "" 80 N - (as is clearly displ p ay'd . s 4 l ,., l 'with the trade. tt, vSts , ‘ ` c ede have been left in the lurch Aldgat e, right facing the church. Nit• "bali;is ate "MOSES and SON have design' pnd' "It both th i e la th e ,__ Your body and mind. "est, and they stand " wear and tear," • D t r ,io rta theo ` b et e ly suited for ev'rY-day wear. 1„ n h ._ 'told them, they all praise them up, I;l4l3),otgatirt::zethaitehsesrs. MOSES deserving a " cop " sliced of a racehorse, and run . cli tt pt - ew coat of E. MOSES and ON. , rd t . d " Past, Present, and Future," with full Post I`r." may be had on application, or ' hp TaU LIST OF PRICES. READY MADE. Z s. d. n 7 6 I,,the :(!fitt ' l,; l( . l aacirington TaglioniS •• • • •• 0 18 6 it' , 4•L'Nl3.“: In every Miscription and make, including ..IQ4 C oat . ' 1 11 (11 d p t Z e e rr rn mQ ateria . •• from 0 2 3 1 , ,k a eam /, 'urnmer Vests 1441, p„„ ers'an ditto, in endless variety 0 4 6 S.atin, ditto 0 6 0 ‘lt• • .. •• .• 0 4 6 to - "'. t'v 's e MAIDB TO MEASITILI. • ty art,' Material adapted for the season, in any 1 ,5 1 t. re and fashion, to order.... • • .. from 0 16 n 6 '• 6 d. each or three for. ...... 0 19 0 • i pti t i l n a ev.ery va • riety of pattern 08 6 vs, h oth or no fancy ............ I , l r itek si '' a simere ditto •••• .. •••••. .. • • •• 08 0 I,4gt 00.42g1e-milled ditto •• • • 013 6 B tiled "kldin every Pattern. 0 la 6 4 , 4 4 ek b res. s,i,lbert Victoria ditto ..... ••••• • • • • /3 19 1 12 0 1, tom. anufactured ••••••••• • • • • • • • • ... 2 15 0 be at ° • ...... ~................... • `vim 1 15 0 n'antd'aetured •• • • ••••••••• • • • • • • 3 3 0 11 i, 41 42 111 4, to any extent , at five minutes notice. I)2P,'.:,..,tPiateihased or made to returned if sot approved of, exchanged, or the money. te t itlit er • MOSES and SON, Tailor:s, Woollen Drapers, Hat. ttoE. '• Outfitters, and general urehousemen. regret to be •Uard the pub', against impos f it!m i t , , ,in but, ha i v n tg te, l i ea7% kN t i t:ridesmanlike false no (1 of resorted to in ' many Tl in. 011 the same concern,has 'l 4 k i tl i) l,te b r, for obvious reas&ns, they nave no connexion with 4, 41, ),,;"e in or out of London. t Vilt h , Who desire genuine Cheap Clothing should, to prevent • q. - 'tnt, call at or send to the 3,11.1.0rig5. and Aidgate, City, t 'lli f i l tlotiN and SON . Tailors, Woollen Drapers , Hatters, Hosiers, Atol i, „Al t i: r4 , l Itos. 154, 155, 156, 157, iiinories , a nd 83, 84, 65, t e, City, London. 1?s .1.4 A entrance to the Bespoke Depar tment is at 84. ti , Iv4ve t ,?: U. ; nisacted at this Establishment tran sunset en ~,e ,4 5 Z 11 ! 1 sunset on Saturday evening, when it is resumed ROWLAND and SON, 20, 1•4 4 11tl e `ta•TTON-GARDEN, LONDON. lit tat % Whettley Lodge, near Taunton. S el l . ll lt4 f lica", l c onsider It almost an imperative duty to state the ‘lsh`ja . °lt ha ve most excellent MACASSAR OIL. For the 'II I ' 4 ' 1,1- 14 7 - "a've be bald, occasioned by a most dreadful f . t. _ t I have used almost ev ery means to procure a Iy~ap give Han d ' but all my efforts seemed fruitless, acci- Nan Of a ' - ' ll .etl tr ' ll ed the use of your valuale Hair Restorer, 4 )eit tol'el f :ar h e anie,) and after using a . 3s. Gd bottle, every IN an th family hair began to shsw itself, io the sti , surprise N~NAy' ° -er h ot av„ resolved on having another, and oh han r nob le ' and before the whole of which was used, I '-c at cart as handsome a head of hair as ever man en- I tt , o ll, wii catly Si rs •i iin t f commend all who have not tried this most Your ad to do so. 14 i' ' °a t grateful and obedient servant, ki• tl a; f th AtOliv IlDpir A J. WALKER, Colonel. ft/ t h •. ,, VD'S' MACASSAR OIL . 'lt i o crt (1 6 5.'Ach„ Produces and restores also WHIS" prevents Hair from 411 3 . „ tur ntn "S, and EYE-BROWS itt °o lelkliiat '. ol. grey to the latest period of life; changes grey .!.eUttt our —frees it from scurf, and makes it beauti 'l t otind,, 4 ?' and GLOSSY. For children it is invaluable, a')/r e or a BEAUTIFUL HEA O HAIR pr:„,.."'RIGUS IMITATIONS ! I D !—Th F e geline nr. "ROWLAND'S MACASSAR OIL. " on the 7 s ; v ~1,3 . . e, 2 a 'nilY Bottles (equal to 4 span), t s , q• Per bottle. 113 Pr 10s. Gd., and l„ and by Chemists and PerfilTileTß. 1'1 ? 1441, 1 \ 11ii ---- LOTION for Purifying the Skin Ko . r - ;_of e to , „and Preserving the Comp'exion. 14 1 4si b .,_cry s „r 'and's Lotion is speedily followed by the disappear- P 44 t l ea of eruptive inlady, d!scoloration, and the ii t Zlt tl r ' cll l47l ° ,. a :Pnr.e surface in the skin, accompanied by the ",! 4 , 1 4,4 ed e 7liich constitutes the tint of beauty; whilst . as „__`) La the most susceptible complexion, and sustains !t tp :,;ot at Y .„ at, wt,rloo the softness of texture and vivacity peculiar w • Lon, „ . as wh , o s in white letters on the Government g n, i uone is genuine. Price 2s. 9d. ; Is. Gd. ; li, Sol db. all Perfumers and M e di c i ne V en d ors . g R . 1 / 4 1 to t ,e T rh ,i - 14 % g, NEW INVENTIONS. ' l air' Brush. One stroke of this is equal to the t h he 1, etratin&, Ilve small-tootla combs, and one even-cut 1 t5 3 , 41 114 tittleitifTble ti-Pressure Nall Brush, which does not ~heotii4!rzll aq,j to the. nail. no pressure being required, and tho- Z 4q • 4 ‘ ,14 h PoNsilst s the nail s i n a t ent h part of the time o f , Iv e 1,- kz, less us New Toothpick Brush, which entirely 4 ,le ss i nt , ert ices of the closest te , Ah ; marks, No. 1, „ r 4 3, middling 4, soft, at Is. each, or ql4 ."rltf,l mae ; und 4. each or 21s. per dozen in ivory, the lirOtr,,, ( hel,,,'%` - er to con) 4 . out. The Medium Shaving Brush, to,the hf'lit ha d onl baelzer h4t r mil bristle hria , h, being a selection of fr4 Zaiaiom t, 'so badger skin. The atmve articks beh,„ B " Ross and go ns, 119 and 120, Bishopsgate-street, rOttOtOti, au , one imitating them will be pro- - No. 16,810. LON DON, NV_E_DNE:3DA r••• r • 1 , , 11!" . th. E XETER, YEOVIL, AND DORCHESTER RAILWAY. • The Committee of the House of Lords having reported that they are of opinion that " a Direct Line of Railway from Exeter to Salisbury by Yeovil is required, hut that the Bills In their present state should not be proceeded with this session;' the Committee of Management beg to inform the Shareholders of the Exeter, Yeovil, and Dorchester Railway Company, that arrangements will be made with the London and South-Weidern Railway Company for carrying out therrecommendation of the House of Lords. JOIIN CLENCH, Secretary. 13, Bedford-circus, Exeter, August 1,1846. T HE - NORTHERN COUNTIES UNION RAILWAY. _ _ Incorporated July 27, 1846. NOTICE to the PROPRIETORS of ORIGINAL LEEDS and CARLISLE SHARES. The Directors having resolved to equalise the amount of deposits paid on the different Scrip Shares jn the Northern Counties Union Railway Company, hereby give notice to the holders of Original Leeds and Carlisle 'Scrip, that- they may rec -ive the ems of One Pound Two Shillings and Sixpence upon each share of 251., on the registration of the same. The Office of the Company, at No. I, Poets' Corner. will he open every day, from Eleven to Four o'clock, until tbrty-eight hours pre vious to the general meeting, on the 25th of August, for the purpose of registration. By order of the Board, CHAS. LOCOCK WEBB, Secretary. THE No RTHERN COUNTIES UNION RAILWAY. (Late YORKSHIRE and GLA.i.GOW UNION, and YORK and CARLISLE.) Incorporated 27th July, 1846. FIRST GENERAL ItEETING. 'Notice to Shareholders. Notice is hereby given, that the Act of Parliament for the Incor poration of this Company, having oa the 27th of July last, received the Royal Assent, the FIRST GENERAL MEETING of the SHAREHOLDERS (required under "The Cempnnles' Clauses Con solidation Act," to be held within One Month from the passing of the Special Act), is appointed to take place at the London Tavern, llishopsgate-street, London, on TUESDAY, the 25th day of August, at One o'clock. • • - • _ One or other of the following conditions must be complied with to entitle the Shareholders to be admitted to the Meeting : Ist. They must have signed the Yorkshire and Glasgow Union or the York and Carlisle Deed, and must produce and leave at the same ti •ne for registration, the identical Scrip for which they signed. 2nd. Parties who have not signed the Deeds, but who have bought Scrip or Shares, must idfirtefitatelY deposit or have the same deposited at this Office, or at the Company's Office in Leyburii, Yorkshire, or at the Company's Office in Kendal, Westmoreland, for registration; and such Scrip cannot be received at either Office later than forty eight hours preceding the Meeting. 3rd. Parties who have sold Scrip for which they signed the Deeds. and have purchased and now hold other Scrip, must observe the second condition. 4th. Parties who hold Leeds and Carlisle unstamped Scrip or Allotment Letters, 'in either the Leeds and Carlise, the Yorkshire and Glasgow, or the York and Carlisle Companies, must also observe the second condition. Shareholders to whom it may not be convenient to attend and vote at the meeting on the 25th of August. can vote by proxy, and upon communicating to me their desire so to vote, a form of proxy will be forwarded to them. Such proxy, however, duly signed, must 1.): lodged at this office atleast forty-eight hours preceding the meeting. By order of the Board, CHAS. LOCOCK WEBB, Secretary. Company's Offices, 1, Poet's-corner, Westminster, July 31, 1846. FORM FOR REGISTRATION OF SCRIP. • I herewith deposit Scrip, viz.:— Shares in the original Leeds and Carlisle. Shares in the Yorkshire an,l Glasgow Union. Shares in the York and Carlisle. For For And for And I claim to be registered as the proprietor of the said shares. subject to the general rules, regulations, conditions, and orders of the Northern Counties Union railway Company. I request to have sealed certificates in exchange, in which describe me as follows : Christian Name .. •• • • • • • • • • • • Surname •• Designation .••••..... Usual Signature • - • • • • .. • • • • • • Dated this , IS4 To the Secretary of the Northern Counties Union Railway, 1, Poet's•corner, Westminster. N.B. In transmitting Scrip, it is particularly requested that the words " Forwarded for R.( gistratiou." may be written across the face of the Certificate. At full length. N ATIONAL LOAN FUND LIFE ASSUR ANCE SOCIETY, 2G, CORNHILL LONDON. Capital £500,000. Empowered by Act of Parliament. This Institution embraces important and substantial advantages with respect to Life Assurances and Deferred Annuities. The assured has, on all occasions, the power to borrow, without expense or for feiture of the Policy, two-thirds of the premiums paid (see Table) ; also the option of selecting benefits, and the conversion of his in terests to meet other conveniences or necessity. Assurances for terms of years arc granted on the lowest possible rates. DIVISION OF PROFITS. The remarkable success and increasing prosperity of the Society has enabled the Directors, at the last annual investigation, to declare a fourth bonus, varying from 35 to 85 per cent. on the premiums paid on each Policy effected on the Profit scale. LEGAL and GENERAL LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY. Notice is hereby given, that an EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL MEETING will be held at the house of the Society, No. 10, Fleet street, London, on T.IIFSDAT. the 25111 day cf Autust instant, at One o'clock., for the purpose of ta•cing into consideration certain clauses of the deed of settlement which have been recommended for amend ment by an Extraordinary Board of Directors. By order of the Board T. It. EDMONDS, Actuary. pOYAL .POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION. IL , A CHEMICAL LECTURE, by Dr. Ryan, gaily, and on the Evenings of Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays. Professor Bachhotiner's LECTURES on NATURAL PHILOSOPHY, with 6rilliant experiments, daily. NIACINTOSH'S REVOININ;; EN GIN-E.. COLEMAN'S PATENT LOCOMOTIVE ENGINE for as cending and descending Inclined Planes. FARRELL'S ARCH EDIAN RAILWAY. The ATMOSPHERIC RAILWAY, all in action. HALLETTE'S ATMOSPHERIC RAILWAY VALVE. The OPAQUE MICROSCOPE. The OXY-lIYI)ROGEN MICROS COPE, exhibiting a fine Collection of Living Objects. A beautiful Picture of the CHAPEL in the CONVENT CATHERINE, near Jerusalom, by Mr. Charles Smith, is one of the Series of DIS SOLVING VIEWS. Admission, Is. ; Schools, Half-price. COLORED .PHOTOGRAPHIC PORTRAITS. " We have been much pleased with the inspection of some portraits taken by Mr Beard. A great improvement has been effected. The portraits noit , exhibit a degree of boldness, aod stand out with a relief greatly desiderated In all the earliest specimens of the art ; while the method of colouring renders them agreeable and lily-lik."—Times. Mr. Beard's Establishments, 85, King William-street, City; 34, Parliament-street, Westminster; and the Royal. Polytechnic Insti tution, Regent-street. _REGISTERED andP7AvLETOT ictor;a, cap. 6 o s f LLAMA CLOTH, 6 Patronised by the Prince Consort, Prince George of Cambridge, the Duke of Wellington, and the following distinguished visitors to this country :—The Emperor of Russia, the King of Prussia, the King of lielgium, the King of Saxony, the King or Holland, Prince William of Prussia, and further honoured by the • ntiuued patronage of all who seek an unaffected gentlemanly appearance. The cloth is made of Llama Wool, a fabric most agreeably soft and elastic to the ;ouch, and is one-third the weight of ordinary woollen clothes, but it corresponds in shades of colour. It is very durable, and naturally a cepellent of rain, yet so porous as to admit of a due escape of exces sive bodily heat. These advantages, with the very moderate price charged, renders the Registered Paletot worthy the attention . of all. 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In the exposition htreby offered of the till now hidden truths of nature, of human disappointments and their ways of relief, it is not contended that every reader shall become his or her own physician any more than their own lawyer, but it is Insisted upon that we should know the simple principles of our owu organization, the laws whereby our existence and the issue thereof in their several healthy states depend, the duties that are expected of us in our individual capacities in the family circle, and the terms on which the health and happiness of the present and future race of mankind have to rely. By such knowledge, and which Is herein faithfully imparted, health will be found to be in our own keeping, and happiness within the attainment of all ; by the availment hereof in fulfilling our duty to ourselves, we secure the like advantages on our offspring to follow, and finally by the cultivation )f our faculties, which is in consistent with degenerate health, the mind as well as the body may be exalted to the summit of perfection, as best becomes the highest of God's creations. The author's justification for this seeming eulogy of his own writ ings, and the avowal of their integrity at' purpose, must be measured by their perusal—his accredited qualifications guarantee that the topics broached h►volve his legitimate study and pursuit. 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The circumference of the stein is eight inches; the length of the stem is two feet and a half ; the diameter of one of the ribs of the leaf is an inch and three-quarters; the length of the central rib one yard and eight inches; and tile circumference of the leaf itself upwards of eleven yards and a half! From these calculations some con ception may be formed of the solidity and weigh of this very wonderful piece of Nature's handicraft. In ancient times it might have screened several millions of elves from the moon- Learns; supposing those luxurious gentlemen ever condesc..ended to di Tort themselves in aki tch en-garden ! If Beckmann's word can be received as a voucher, two thousand six hundred florins have been given for a single tulip; and if the price of vegetation increase proportionably with its bulk, we conceive this specimen would defy the jewels of the grand Sultaun and the bullion of the Bank of England. Chopped up and trans formed into a rhubarb pudding, this single stern would baffle the mastication of a Brobdignag. THE LASH.—EXPOSURE OF THE PERSON AND TOR TURE—" Two AGONIES LN ONIC."—If the Government do not take speedy warning the spread of reading and intelli gence will reach the soldiery to such an extent as (coupled with their knowledge of the sympathies of the public being with them against this beastly punishment of torture, and possible manslaughter or homicide) will goad them to a secret understanding among themselves, which, watching its opportunity, will some day place us of a sudden, and when we least expect it, or are prepared for it, in the midst of a social revolution ! It only needs a martinet man-flayer to procure for a soldier, who is a favourite with his comrades, a sentence of exposure and flagellation—his comrades resent its unjustness—demur—murmur —refuse to carry it out, or to permit it to be earth d out :—they are mutineers I —Another regiment is called in to butcher—to fire upon, or sabre them—this other regiment refuses to do so—and then, not only military flogging is abolished for ever, but, God grant that, with such a mode of abolition, military license do not spring op too, and the social fabric fall to pieces at once and, perhaps, for ever! We describe not this possibility—probability will be the fitter name, as time goes on and intelligence spreads a thousandfold with it—from any desire to produce it, but with the opposite desire of era dicating am! abolishing for ever an irritant, an exasperant of blood and ignominy, which, otherwise, sooner or later, will infallibly produce a catastrophe, The torture of the lash is the combustible matter, now in an exposed situation, which a mere spark will some day ignite and explode ! We would ask for the new Government a fair trial ; but if, at starting, they commit a capital crime against all notions of humanity and social improvement, by defending the use of the accursed lash, we shall pray for their doom to he sealed, and their days to be numbared.—Hood's Magazine for August. MEssna. NICOLL. THE CO UR T T A ILORS, OF REGENT- S'S:UM—Tile extensive workshops used by them, In making the itegist,r Paletot and affording room for three hundred' hands, all lighted with skylights, have been much injured, but which has not extended further than the destructleu of glass, the goods having been expeditiously removed. ORIGIN AND PROGRESS OF THE CAFFER WAR. (From a private Correspondent of the Nortitett Whig) Cape Town, Nay 15. You will have seen that we are at war with eir Caffer• or, to write more correctly, our Kafir, neighbours, who lie along our North-Eastern boundary. There is no good map iifthe Cape eoleny. Arrow smith's, and that published by the Useful people, are both incorrect. Our boundary, however, is the Great Fish River and the Kat River on the east. In 1819, we had advanced our limits to the Ker Kamma River, farther up. But the chiefs and ficiple had been allowed to settle westward of Keis Kienma, and had remained there until in the course of ime com plaints of depredations on the colonists became so held and general that a partial expulsion of sone of the tribes was determined upon. The teetvatre wig carried into effect with some severity. and at a season (f the year unfavourable to the Kafirs. They resented the clearance like Tipperary boys. • But they nursed their wrath. and kept it warm. until they had matinee! their designs, and extended their confederacy ; and then, in December, 1834,. they rushed in . numb- - rs ' into the colony, burning, plundering, and rnurdeving,right and left. Sir Benjamin D'Urban, then Goverror (under whom Sir Harry Smith, who won the battle of Aliwal. the other day, then served), hastene I to the frontier, called out the inhabitants, collected a large force, gradually worked the Kafirs out of the colon!, fellowed them over the boundary, and at length granted them terms of peace, by which a new presvinco was added to the Cape colony, the eastern boundary of which then became the Great Kye River. Lord Glenelg, taking an unfavourable view of the causes of the war and believing it, though apparently aggressive on the part of the Kafirs, to have been, in reality, defensive, rescinded the D'Urban policy, and ordered that the territory teem en the Keir Kamma and the Kye should be unc o nditionally aba,ncioned, and that the space between the Grel.. Fish River and the Keis gamma Ihe ti..iutrel ~aue(tmes theeedua teirite.ry), .be surrendered to the occupation of the Kafirs, who con sented to receive it as a boon, and to regard it as subject to resumption by the colony, in case of had behaviour. The conduct of Lord Glenelg, in thus undoing what Sir Benjamin D'Urban had done, is even yet a subject of fierce contention in the colony. But the immense ma jority are against him; and, for my own part, looking at the matter after a ten years' experience, I think his conduct was unwise. He applied to the lands in ques tion English ideas of ownership, inapplicable to the Kafirs and the nature of their occupation. They are, themselves, like every other tribe in South Africa, upon ground which their old men remember the time they took possession of. Their desceat is not clearly traced, but they are not the aborigines. They found in those ter ritories the Hottentots, who had exterminated the Bush mans; and the peculiar click of the horrid Hottentot tongue has been, to some extent, adopted by their con querore, whose original language (judgine; from such kindrel dialects as I have heard spoken), was tor mented by no such miserable sound. And in his estimate of the Kafir character, Lord Glenelg was mis led by a good man's sympathy. The Kafir, certainly, never sheds biood for the mere tiger-like delight of shedding it, like the miserable, half-human Bushman. But he is an incorrigible liar and thief, uncivilizable (so to speak), beyond, I imagine, any other savage ; and. though he does not, murder for mere fun, he discovers no regard for either your life or his own, when cattle are in question. The missionaries have wholly failed to make any impression on them. Witch doctors and rain makers never had more influence in Kafirland than at this moment, and missionaries, I regret to say, never had less ; while I have reason to know, that the custom of the forcible abduction and violation of females, after having been for a time discontinued, has been renewed by Sandilli, the paramount chief of the Gaika tribe, the most numerous and warlike of our immediate neighbours, and has been agreed to be put in force against the families of missionaries, and missionary stations, generally. In regard, moreover, to the cause of the war, Lord Glenelg refined too murh, and applied reasonings two much concatenated for the Kafir understanding. I do not find that they themselves defend their attack upon the grounds on which the Secre tary of State supposed them to have been driven to it. But, besides all this, the thing was done; and the true policy, I apprehend, would have been, to regard it as a fait accompli. The Kafirs had become British sub jects, had received British laws, and, in time, might have bent insensibly %hued with the rudiments of Bri tish civilisation. lam far from blaming Lord Glenelg. His dispatches, as published, do him, if he wrote them — 'or Mr. Stephen, were he the writer—much honour. If he erred, he erred on the noblest side. The Colonial Office should not be judged hy *the event. So .tedged. Lord Stanley's New Zealand policy may well beTalled mischievous. So judged, Lord Glenelg's Capii policy may well be called the same. Both aimed to secure the rights of the aborigines. Bath mey end in wars, in which the qu-scion simply is—ball the white man die under the native, or the naive die under the white man? This is a war of which all past history is a prophecy of the ultimate result. At this moment there is, upon our frontier, a beginning of this end. When the D'Urban policy was overthrown, treaties with the chiefs were entered into. With same of the mummery of that of Waitangi, they contained a pri! ci ple fully comprehended by the Kafirs. The Chiefs were to repress cattle-stealing by their people ; and, when stolen cattle were traced over the border, the Chief of the territory into which the " spoor," or traee, was car ried, was to compensate the owner, and punish the thief. To work this system, and render a vigilant executive authority compatible with a supreme Government, six hundred miles distant, in Cape Town, a new officer, called the Lieutenant-Governor of the Eastern districts, was created. The first appointed was, probably, the most remarkable man ever produced in this colony, Sir Andreas Stockenstrom. His father, who was Laudrost, or Chief Magistrate, of Graaf Reinet, fell in a bor der foray, under the assigais of the Kafirs. Sir Andreas succeeded to the office, and rose, by energy and ability, still higher. As Lieutenant-Governor, he might have done the colony much service. But he had given evidence, in London, before the Abori gines Committee of 1837 ; and his evidence was sup posed to have pressed hard on the colonial character, and, therefbre, on his return, as Lieutenant-Governor,he was received with one roar of indignation, from Gra hamstown to Colesberg, which, being a man of excitable temperament, disturbed him more than, perhaps, was necessary. After remaining a couple of years, he went home, in Sir George Napier's time, to resign. Lord Gle nelg, to whom he tendered his resignation, refused to ac cept it, and pressed his continuance in office. Then Lord Glenelg awoke, one morning, and found his ser vices dispensed with ; and Lord Normanby quitted Ire land, to take charge of the Colonial-office. The new Secretary re-considered the matter, and wrote to Stocken strom, that, in consequence of his unpopularity with the colonists, he considered him unfit to serve the public as Lieutenant. Goverror. Perhaps this was questionable ground to take. How long would Lord Normanby have been Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland, if unpopularity with these whom the Government was de termined to check and control, had been deemed a good ground for recalling him? Then there was, as I have heard, much writing to and fro between the ex-Lieu tenant-Governor and the Secretary of State ; but no thing very satisfactory. The end was, that Lord John Russell, who exchanged offices with Lord Normanby, made Sir Andreas a Baronet, and gave him a compen satory pension of 7001. a-year, charged on the colonial revenue. He has since lived here in private life, he having with much prudence and circumspection. But to myself; as to all who know him, it is a source of no little surprise, that he has not received a Govern ment in some other possession, or, has not in some other way, been brought again into the public service of the Crown. Hyd Stockenstrom remained to work the treaties which he framed, depredations might have been sup pressed. He knew the Chiefs, and they knew him ; and every inch of their difficult country was as familiar to him as to themselves. Colonel Hare, of the 27th, a right good soldier, succeeded Stockenstrorn in 1839, and has since administered the frontier system. Early and late have he and the successive Governors, Sir George Napier and Sir Peregrine Maitland, worked at this ques tion. It' Peel's difficulty be Ireland, the difficulty of every Cape Government has been the Boers and Blacks beyond us. Sometimes winking at depredation- ; some times threatening chastisement ; sometimes trying sub sidies ; sometimes placing troops within the ceded terri tory ; sometimes moving against a particular delinquent; thus things were on. The cry, from the frontier to Cape Town, was continually for protection. Horses and oxen were constantly disap re aring, carried off with a dexterity and daring truly wonderful. The mutual understanding, or common c onsciousness, that seems to exist between a Kafir and an „x he never saw before, heats mesmerism. A peculiar whistle sets the creature flying. But the farmer pays for the Kafir's whistle, which is rather hard. Sir Peregrine Maitland relieved Sir George Napier, in the beginning of 1844. When he visited the frontier in the September of that year, besieged by complaining colonists, he summoned the Chiefs, remonstrated with them, and, in order, if possible, to st o p their plunder, remodelled the treaties ; an d, for the purpose of further checking them, availed himself of a power, expressly re served by treaty, to establish a military post in the ceded territory. The erection of pos t Victoria, and the brave words previously uttered. for a time abated the nuisance; but when a conflict beyond the Orange River, between our emigrant Boers and the Baastards, or Griquas, called away the troops from the eastern frontier, to put down the Boers, and protect the Griquas in their lands, de predations began afresh, our complaints became less regarded, and a tone of insolence not previously assumed began to characterise the communications of the Chiefs. Compensation under treaty was refused or delayed on the most frivolous pretences. - It was easy to see that war was in the wind. Such a state of feeling was hut natural. The passion of a Kafir for cattle, like the passion of a miser for gold, is much more intense than a mere desire of property, or of what property will procure. But even cattle are with him only a means to an end. It is with ca ttle that he buys his wives. 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'74 0 TA-79 Au G U.sT 5, 1846. they want wives, and must steal cattle to purchase them ; they perceive their numbers increasing; they 4.btain gutty and ammunition from the traders, who take in return gum, hides, and ostrich feathers ' • and, looking upon the flocks and herds of Al. any and Somerset, they doubtless say, with al Blucher, lo , king down on London, from St. Paul's,—" What a plunder !" Peace and plunder would be their first wish ; but, if you will not suffer them to combine these two, then, war and plunder is wish the second. 'Co Young Kafirland" the chiefs and counsellors have given way; and hence we are cow fig,tuing. The real grour.d of war then is, that the Kafirs, whether by war or pence, will carry on depredations, and that the colony will not put up with depredations in peace. The only alternative is war. One important point is to he borne in mind, as an in disputable fact, that, for the last seven years—l might go turther back—but, for the last seven years, at all events, no colonist, of any sort, size, or description has committed any act of violetce or outrage in any part of Kafir land. The immediate ground of war was this:—,A Kafir, within the colony, stole a hatchet, and, being caught, was sent to jail. While on his way, under a small escort of Hottentot constables, sixty or seventy armed Kafirs. of Botman's tribe, burst into the colony, attacked the escort, hurried over the boundary the rescued prisoner, and a constable, to whom, for safety, he had been hand cuffed, severed the hand of the constable. is order to free the prisoner from him, and then put the constable to death with assegais. During the scuffle, a shot, from one of the escort, killed one of the attacking party. The gang belonged to Tola's people, who are again a pari of Botman's tribe, who again recognise the para mount authority of Sandilli, the head of all the Gaika Kafirs, son of Gaika, the late Chief, by his great. or Tambookie, wife : and in right of that origin, superior to his elder,' and far abler, brother, Macomo, the off spring of an inferior mother,. not of the aristocratic 'fambookie race. Colonel Hare demanded the surrender and punish- A — We ' - iirdirrers from TrOft, - -Bottnati. 2 , id San dilli. No Kafir ever gives a direct answer. But they gave no satisfaction. An axe, they thou.-ht, was a small thing to send a man to prison for. If one of our people bad been killed so had one of their people, and the dead men weighed equally heavy. They thought that no more should be said upon the subject. They neither promised nor pretended that they would comply with our demands. Recent events had tended to give significance to this conduct. Sandilli, a feeble young man, with no capa city, a shrivelled arm, a crooked leg. and a crooked temper, had lately performed some strange pranks. By treaty, he was bound to protect traders sojourning in his country ; but he had gone to a trader's store, forced him to open it, struck him for being slow, and had then taken away such goods as he thought proper to select. The same chief had carried off cattle from a missionary station, and flatly refused to give compensation to a far mer whose cattle had been carried, by the thieves, into his country. The diplomatic agent for the Gaika tribes, Mr. Shetch, sent for satisfaction for these injuries. His messengers found the chief in a passion. The cause was this : Finding the water failing at Post Victoria. the Go vernor wished to change the site. Blockdrift, on the Chumie Haver, was supposed to be an advantageous po sition ; and, as it was beyond the ceded territory (where we had, by treaty, a right to place forts) negotiations were opened with Sandilli, for the purpose of obtaining the necessary right. He proposed his terms. which were under consideration, when the Governor considered that a previous inspection, before closing the bargain, would be desirable. By a misapprehension of orders, what was intended for a mere inspection became a sur vey, by a small party. N. intimation of the thins• had been given to Sandilli; who, therefore, had a right to say, that, notwithstanding his offer, we had no authority to view the offered property, without his permission. Mr. Shetch's messengers arrived the day after the surveying party. Sandilli received them at his Kraal, or Great Place, which is close to the spot, and, having heard them, returned a most insolent reply.—They were to say, that the Governor was a rascal; that the Lieutenant-Governor was a rascal ; and that Shetch himself was a rascal. Traders and missionaries were under his feet, and they must lie quiet there. He would give no compensation for Ranbenheimer's cattle; and if the Governor came to ask fir'. it, his answer would be, " there are my warriors," Shetch, he said, must not sleep, till ho had sent this message to the Governor. And the tent there must go, and the party, also. There must be no soldiers in his country; and Sheshago (Port Victoria) also mu-t be quitted. * This was his word. On hearing of this message, Col. Hare left Grahams town, and proceeded to Fort Beaufort, from whence he sent a me-sage to Sandilli, to meet him, the next day, at Blockdrift.,ln reply, the Chief sent him an apologetic tne§sage-kaCk. His old eQunsellors were not with him whetrhe had spoken foolishly to the former nwAsengers, and with the young' men he had been a chirct'alnotig children. He would come to the Lieutenant-Governor, if.the latter would guarantee his personal safety. This wag, of course, guaranteed. Next morning came a message to his Honour, from Sutu, Sandilli's mother. asking forgivenness for her son. Colonel Hare, about three years ago, saved Sao's life. Tyali, a halt-brother of Sandilli's, and a full brother of Macomo's, had died. When a Chief dies, unless in war, or great old age, his death is ascribed to witch craft. Under Macomo's patronage, a wi►chdance was held; and the doctor, after snuffing about for the party who had bewitched Tyali, ended by smeling out Sutu, who had been Gaika's great Wife, and was the mother of the paramount Chief. That Macomo had managed the matter, for his own ends, no reasonable doubt can be entertained. An informality in the cere monies required a new dance. In the mean time, Col. Flare, contrary to Grotius and Vattel, and in derogation of the independence of our allies, sent in troops, who carried Sutu into the colony for safety, and thus saved her from a lingering death. Some people blamed his in terference ; but, for my own part, I warmly approved of it. It is terrible even to contemplate the torments of those who are made the victims of that mixture of trickery and superstition, compounded by the scoundrel witch-doctors of Ksfirland ;—now devoured, by being forced into a nest of red ants ; now roasted between red hot stones ; now subjected to yet more capricious cruel ties. Poor Sutu ! the idea of roasting her was too bad. She is the fattest woman it, Kafraria ; and weigLs better than five-and-twenty stone. I have mentioned Macomo. William Howitt, if I re member rightly, in his book on colonisation, says,— " This Macomo seems to be a very fine fellow." This is a mere matter of taste. His wish to roast old Sutu I have told you of. For the last seven years, he has been dead drunk, in Fort Beaufort canteen fin much more than half his time. A missionary, in his neighbourhood, remonstrated with him for killing one of his wives, in a fit of drunken fury. He professed sorrow—(not that he ever pretends to be a Christian)—and was very anxious to know from whom the missionary had learned the fact. And then Macomo, sinking the fox. came out the lion, and avowed that his object was to put to death the author of the information. But while sober, which he seldom is, his faculties are superior to those of any other chief. I saw him in Fort Beaufort, last year, looking well, and showing no signs that constant drinking had destroyed his con stitution, or dimmed, in any way, his clear and cunning eye. He, and the four or five wives who were with him, begged from me at once, as all chiefs, great and small, invariably do. My interpreter remarked a good-look ing Gonah girl as a new wife, and asked how much she cost ? Macomo answered, six oxen. He said she was cheap, and seemed well satisfied with his bargain. But, to return to Sutu and her message. It was con ceived in the figurative language, which is their prose, and our poetry. The Lieutenant-Governor was a great father, Sandilli wal an erring child. The father might be angry and punish ; but afterwards he would pity, and protect. The Kafirs were very fearful about their land. When Fort Wiltshire was built, in Gaika's time, it was said that it was built to strengthen Gaika ; but, after wards, land was taken. The Lieutenant-Governor, therefore, must have patience with Sandilli. This was the word of Sutu. She sent it to save her child. At tile place of meeting, at Blockdrift, Colonel Hare assembled a considerable force of horse and foot, and some field•pleces. light opposite advanced Sandilli, at the head of 7,C00 Kafirs mounted and armed with guns, and a great multitude of men on foot. Fearful of being surrounded, Colonel Hare extended his line upon which the Kafir horsemen extended line, as well. The con ference was long, and, it would appear, satisfactory to his Honour. Judging from the report of it which I have heard, I could not participate in this sentiment. The insolence was, in part, disavowed ; but the refusal to give compensation—the arrogant claim to treat traders and missionaries as he phased—and the impudent de. rimed, that no military post should remain even in the ceded territory—wefe all maintained. _ A difference of opinion exists as to the conduct of Colonel Hare on this occasion. Some think that the irregularity of our unlicensed survey demanded all pos sible forbearance from us. Others conceive, that San dines duplicity, upon the subject of his negotiation for the site of a new post, only aggravated the insolence of his general demeanour, and are of opinion that Colonel Hare should have given him an hour to comply with his demand for apology and redress, and, failing his com pliance, have sent some shells and the 7th Dragoons into the midst of the masses collected, obviously for an osten tatious display of force. But others, viewing some late passages in border war, arc of opinion that it was very fortunate we made no movement at Blockdrift, as the probabilities are, from the disparity of force, and the unexpected determination now shown by the Kafirs, that they would have been worsted, and pursued into the colony by a furious throng of savages, flushed with triumph, ready to disperse in plundering hordes, and to spread ruin and devastation over a country wholly un prepared to resist such an invasion. lam one of those who take this view. These events left the minds of all in a very feverish and unsettled state. The colonists, in alarm, were arming, to detend themselves from an anticipated attack. Thtre was a loud cry to the Government to be firm ; and much was written and declaiteed ebout energetic measures, and dignified attitudes, and God knows what beside. And then, the Kafirs, seeing the preparations in the colony, began to prepare, too. Guns, ammunition, assegais, and Veldt-schoen (field shoes) were purchased by them, in every quarter in which they could be found. There was much usutual apprehension PRICE SD. and distrust. Sooner or later, it was clear, that war must come. Hence the outrage which I have before described, and the effect which, owing partly to its own inherent grossness, and partly to the particular time at which it was perpetrated, it instantly produced. Colonel Hare then pulaliely announced his determine den to chastise our turbulent and faithless neighbours, and vinciica . ed the insulted power of the colony. The Qte en's troops on the frontier are somewhat over three thousa - :d men. Colonel Hare devolved upon a yeomanry force the defence of Grahamstown ; made other arrangelnenta for relieving the regular forces, in other places ; and, dividing the army into three divi sions—one at Fort Beaufort, one at Fort Peddle, and one at the Kat River—reported himself reraly to move into Kafirland, or, at least, into the ceded territory, and wrote to the Governor, in Cape Town, to declare the war. To conduct military operations, when you are six hundred miles from the scene of action, is impossible. Seventy five is late to take the field. But the Governor at once recogni,ed the necessity of proceeding imme d,ately to the frontier, which he reached in the Admi ral's ship the President, placed at iris disposal. In this hasty and imperfect sketch,l cannot stop to de scribe the events which have since occurred ; hut, I re gret to say, that their general result is unfavourable to the colony. Our enemies are more numerous, more for midable, more active, and more determined, than had been anticipated ; and our preparations for resisting them have proved very incomplete. I have already referred to our actual line of boundary, the Great Fish River. Opposite Fort Beaufort, and in that direction, are the Gaikas. the most warlike and worst conducted of all the Kafir nation. Between the Gaikas and the sea, down towards the mouth of the Fish River, are the Tslambie and Congo tribes. On the other side of the Gaikas, and stretching thence Eastward, lie the Tambookies,—a numerous, but comparatively paci fic class. Crossing the Kye, and along its left bank, you have Creili, the successor of the Hintze, the most power ful potentate amongst the whole of the Amakosa Kafirs; and between Creili and our new settlement of Port Natal, spreads nut a fine and fertile country, inhabited by airliner branch of the Kafir family. under.Esku. With all these Chiels the corny had treaties of friendshiii . and alliaitee. Our war was with the Gaikas. With none of the others had we any ground of quarrel ' • and one of the Gaika chiefs had long separated himself, by good behaviour, from the rest, and had been admitted to a separate treaty, at his own request. This was Eno, who died since the war began, being, as is supposed, nearly one hundred years of age. He was friendly to the last. Shortly before his death, he paid Colonel Hare the greatest compliment a dying chief could pay, by sending a messenger to say that he trusted to him to see him buried, and not to leave his body in the bush. Every attention was paid to the old chief, by the colonial authorities, civil and military, near his Kraal. He is succeeded by his son Stock—called after Stockenstrom— as the Kafirs pronounce his name. For some days after they entered the ceded territory, the troors, instead of meeting any opposition, did not see a soul, save now and then a mounted Kafir, engaged in reconnoitering. But, some mismanagement gave a new turn to affairs. An immense train of baggage waggons (the necessity of which I have never heard explained) was brought through the bush, stretching for miles, and guarded by a couple of hundred soltliers at each end. One of the middle wag • gons stuck in a drift or ford. and stopped the huge pro cession. Down rushed Kafirs in thousands, starting from the bush, like the mountaineers of Roderick Dhu. I The leaders, and drivers, and soldiers opened a fire ; but itvva.; soon silenced by the close and continuous rattle .)f the Kafir musketry ; and the upshot was the capture of between 50 and 60 valuable watzgons, with their oxen, and much food and clothing, worth not less than 10,0001. The enemy drove off the oxen, plundered the waggons, and then burned them. Rescuing the ammunition wag gons with difficulty, the troops retreated, pursued and harassed by the Kafirs to their very encampment. The things captured were rare trophies. Sable gentlemen arrayed themselves in mil;tary coats, and proud of their upward spletdour, disdained to wear any other article of clothing whatever. They attacked the medecine chest, eating blistering plaster, and, it is said, swallowing the laudanum. But, besides all these, there was not a little food, which they carried off to their fastnesses in the Amatola mountains. Encouraged by this signal success, the enemy became more darir g; and their greater daring led to more suc cesses. The troops, in fact, were outnumbered, and brought to act on the defensive ; and then the Kafirs, delayed by no commissariat, driving no huge train of waggons, and greedy for he plunder of our scattered homesteads, rushed in plundering parties into the colony, cutting off aragglers, stopping the mails, and scattering the contents, and sweeping off cattle with a celerity ' altogether w onderful. Farmers and their families were soon flying for protection to all strong positions ; thei; hou-3es were being burnt in all directions. With the elk celytion of forts and towns and some well situated and` strongly fortified farm-houses, the whole of Albany, and much of Somerset and tritenhage, were in possession of the enemy. The effects of all this speedily became visible. The war with the Gaikas is now a war with all Kafirland. The Gaikas point to the plunder derived from the capture of the waggons—to the droves of colonial cattle brought in ; and incite the cupidity of the rest, by the spectacle of their triumphs. It is not in Kafir nature to stand this. The consequence is, that the war-cry has been raised by Pato and the Tslarabies ; that the Tambookies are wavering, almost certain to declare against us ; and that Creili is rumoured to have entered into the con federacy. To meet the mighty danger in which the colony is placed, the most active measures have been resorted to. Martial law has been proclaimed throughout the entire colony. The Burgher force of every district, from Colesberg to the Cape, has been called into the field. All persons and all property are placed at the disposal of the Government, in this great emergency. Now, in the winter season, the farmers and their people are called away, from sowing time, to march hundreds of miles to the seat of war, receiving but scanty food, and sleeping nightly in the open air. Horses, fire-arms, waggons, &c.,—all are, under the pressure of necessity, seized, and applied to the equipment and conveyance of the in habitants. It is a struggle tor life or death. To secure a favourable termination of it, we require to array a large proportion of our adult population on the frontier. The Burghers are advancing; but, what with horses and oxen knocking up, they are advancing but slowly. When the present levy reaches the frontier, the Governor will be at the head of the largest force ever assembled in this colony—say, 12,000 inhabitants and 3,000 troops. More of the latter are soon expected. The head-quar ters of the 90th, from Ceylon to England, put in for water to Simon Bay, and were instantly sent round to Algoa Bay. The other division is expected to touch; and, if so, they will share the same fate; and the 45th Regiment, from Rio Janeiro, is looked for daily. OF the ultimate result I entertain no doubt. We shall beat the enemy; but it will be at a cost to the Home Government, to the Colonial Government, to the frontier inhabitants, beggared by the invasion, to the inhabitants generally, whose property has .been seized for the public service, and to the colony at large, which will suffer for want of hands to till the ground at this the proper season of the year;—to all these interests success will be purchased, at a cost which it is frightful to contemplate. We must count it, not by thousands, but by hundreds of thousands—perhaps by millions. God grant us a good deliverance! The loss of life on our side has not been great, whilst the Kafirs have fallen in considerable numbers. Both are consequences of one cause. Since the war of 1835, the Kafir has changed his weapon. Then, he used the assegai —now, he fights with the musket. But he has rarely anything better than a Birmingham article — made, like Hodege's razors, to sell, not shoot—with which he blazes away, doing small damage, but dreaming that he is doing wonders. Encouraged by this notion, he is more daring than before; and is, therefore, more frequently shot down. It may safely be asserted, that more Kafirs have already fallen in this contest than fell throughout the entire of the last war. When (as must soon be the case) their ammunition fails, and they must again have recourse to the assrgai, it may be expected that their confidence in themselves will be lowered ; while there can be little doubt, that our Burghers will then proceed with more fearlessness through the bush than they do at present. I believe the Governor's plan to be, to await the coming up of a large irregular force to support the troops, then to divide the latter into two bodies—one, under himself, to enter the ceded territory of Fort Peddle, and the other, under Colonel Hare, to proceed to Fort Beaufort. In the meantime, we see, by the last arrival from Grahamstown, that Sir Andreas Stocken strom has been appointed Commandant-General of the Burgher force—a nomination which has restored the confidence of the public in the proper conduct of that body. Leaving people enough to protect Albany and Somerset from any flank march of the enemy, our forces will penetrate the Amatola mountains, where the Gaika and colonial cattle are, and where the enemy must be found in masses, and must fight. But, at present, all is despondency. Burning 'houses literally redden, every night, the skies of Albany and Somerset; and immense numbers of cattle are driven off before the faces of our troops, too weak to turn out from shelter. Not less than 60,000 head of cattle have been thus carried away, whilst the destruction of sheep has been immense. The enemy are cruel, always destroying the wounded, and uniformly disfiguring the dead. We soon hope for better things. Unlike the last war, this war has no opponents. Mr. Fairbairn, son•in•law of Dr. Philip, and proprietor of The Commercial Ad vertiser, a political writer of rare talents, who strenu ously opposed the last war, strenuously supports this ; and the name of Sir Peregrine Maitland will be taken as sufficient security for the necessity of the war, by a large class in England, who might canvass the conduct of another Governor with more severity. The prayer of every one is, that this war, so disastrous, so expen sive, so harrassing, and so likely to prove protracted, may so terminate as to prove to be the last of our con flicts with these people. A Kaffir war every ten years would ruin us. As it is, this war will throw us back five-and-twenty years. The contemplated matrimonial alliance between the Right Hon. Sydney Herbert, late Secretary at War, and Miss A'Court, niece to Lord Heytesbury, is expected to be solosiulsed at the close of the month. . of stia. le method pnysics, the apptie gation of natural causes became ir, - itn a new path was opened to the human mind. Huygens and Newton engaged them selves in it, and the developments which mechanics re ceived, in the discovery of the laws of universal attrac tion, still bear testimony to the power of their genius. Then the world learned how the boundaries of ob servation and experience may be overleaped— how, without their aid, the certain knowledge of several series of (yet) unperceived pheno mena may be acquired. The example of Huygens and Newton did not remain unfruitful, and on every side less importance was attached to the seeking out of new phe nomena, than the laws of the phenomena formerly known. Scientific men no longer waited for chance to throw discoveries in their way ; they were led to them by rigorous analogies. Involuntarily, and a it were, in spite of ourselves, the more we meditate M. Lever rter's work on the motions of Uranus (Herschel), the more our mind reverts to that celebrated period in the annals of science and civilisation. Now, as then, analysis transports us to the regions of the unknown ; and (a certain guide) brings us back laden with the most splendid discoveries. On the 13th of May, 1781, Herschel was examining the little stars in the vicinity of (ID Gemini ; one of these stars appeared to him to have an unaccustomed diameter ; he made it out a comet. Scarcely was the discovery of Mr. Herschel made known, when the savans hastened to compare the position of the new star with that of the fixed stars surrounding it. They sought, thus, to determine the curve accordieg to which its displacement was effected. Vain efforts Useless trouble I Although the star moved slowly, they never succeeded in representing the ensemble of its positions. The observations of one month upset from top to bottom those of the preceding month. At length it was perceived that a circular orbit would sufficiently satisfy all the observations recorded. The most difficult step was then passed, and Uranus became a pia: et. But the miscalculations expected by the astronomers were not to stop here ; and, in' spite of the persevering researches of M. Bouvard, Uranus every day strays more and more from the route traced out for him in the ephemerides. Instead of stopping, on ap proaching this problem, at the hypotheses, more or les ingenious, which have hitherto been suggested to explai these singular anomalies, M. Leverrier perceived that there was no chance of attaining a satisfactory solution except by resuming the theory of the planet in all its elements; he therefore determined anew the perturbs fions exercised upon it by Jupiter and Saturn, carrying the approximations as far as the square and the pro ducts of the masses, and reduced nearly 300 meridian cesservntlures - of -- --Uresseereekeavaaaply -ftorAbis,labo_ar, as repulsive from the length ot theTcalculations as it-Wait difficult from the invention of the methods, that M. Leverrier was able to tell the Academy, " The irregularities of Uranus are due to the action of a planet as yet unknown, which, in January 1, 1847, will pass by the 325th degree of heliocentric longitude." No one will, we fancy, entertain the idea of wishing to reduce our solar system to narrow limits, and thence to draw a conclusion against the existence of the new star. In this case, however," adds M. Leverrier, " I will reply, that the same reasons might have been alleged fur affirming in 1781 that Saturn was the last of the planets, safe to be contradicted the next day by the dis covery of Uranus." The hypothesis that there exist planets more remote from the sun than those we already know, is not new. In 1758, the illustrious geometrician Clairaut, declared, at the public sitting of the Academy of Sciences, ( n the subject of the perturbations of Hal. ley's comet, " that a body which traverses such remote regions might be subject to forces totally unknown, such as the action of planets too distant to be ever perceived." Let us hope that the stars of which Clairaut speaks will not all remain invisible, and that if chance discovered Uranus, H e shall soon succeed in seeing the planet whose position has been ascertained by M. Leverrier.—Constie tationnel. MILITARY FLOGGING. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Stu,—ln your paper of yesterday, I see a statement con cerning military matters, which I am sorry to say is by no means correct. In this you have been led away by the paper you quote from, the Plymouth Journal, the editor of which unluckily was not in possession of the facts of the case when he published that paragraph —a proceeding, on his part, that shows the truth of Mr. Fox Maule's observations as to the incorrectness of a portion of the press. The facts are these :—Private Higgins was sentenced, not for only threatening, but for actually throwing a pair of boots at Colour-Sergeant Williams, and violently striking him after wards. lie was perfectly sober at the time, and received no provocation; far from it; the sergeant was giving him these boots, he having made away with his others. He was taken down after receiving 150 lashes, but it is contrary to the regulations of the army that a man should be again brought up to receive the remainder of a corporal punishment when he has been considered by the surgeon as unfit to bear the whole of it. Lee's offence was a similar one, striking a sergeant, a crime now very frequent in the army, and striking at the root of all military discipline; but in consequence of his previous good character he was sentenced to four months or 112 days' imprisonment, and no flogging, as the Plymouth paper states. In your well-known regard for justice you will not refuse to put the truth before the public. Aug. 2, 1846. A CONSTANT 'READER. IRELAND. Abi)itt. • SS Thrit‘TINP4JBEAT.PEEL. DUBLIN, AUGUST, 2.—The following is a Copy of the address forwarded from Belfast to Sir Robert Peel, and an nexed is his letter in reply to Mr. R. 31•Dowell, President of the Chamber of Commerce, who forwarded the address:— "TO TOR /SIGHT HON. SIR lIMIERT PEEL, BART., &C. " Sir,—The Chamber of Commerce of Belfast. and the other undersigned inhabitants of the town and its vicinity, cannot permit you to retire from the helm of public affairs without tendering to you their tribute of gratitude and respect. " During the time you have directed the public concerns of this great empire, the measures which you have brought forward have uniformly been directed to extend the influence of British commerce and. manufactures, by ridding them from many shackles that had previously impeded their full development, " It is our earnest hope that this system of commercial freedom, auspiciously commenced, may extend to all civi lised nations, uniting them by the powerful bonds of mu tual advantage, and inducing them to cast aside those na tional prejudices which have hitherto obstructed the advance of civilisation and happiness. "Feeling satisfied, as we do, that the present era of rapid communication will ultimately overturn commercial restric tions everywhere we admire and respect the wisdom and firmness with which, in the midst of opposition, you have made our country the leader in the great work of com mercial emancipation, and thus secured for her the glory of fitting an example worthy of imitation to the civilised world. "Chamber of Commerce, Belfast, June 7, 1846." " Whitehall, June 30, 1846. " Sir,—The address which you have transmitted to me from the Chamber of Commerce, and from many ishabitanta of Belfast, has given me very great satisfaction. " It has been my earnest desire, during my tenure of injury offi cial power, to apply sound principles of commercial legisla tion with as much caution and as little to individual interests as were consistent with the great object to be ulti mately attained. " felt a strong confidence that a community so enlight ened, and so deeply interested in the removal of restrictions from commerce, as that which I am now addressing, would approve of the course which I have pursued—would give me credit for being influenced by no other motive than the desire to promote the general welfare, ariat would rely upon their own skill, and industry, and enterprise for a pro tection from foreign competition more effectual than the protection of prohibitory or exorbitant duties on imports from abroad. " It is highly gratifying to me to find that confidence so amply confirmed by the address which you have been autho rised to convey to me. " I have the honour to be, Sir, Your faithful servant, " ROBERT PEEL. " President of the Chamber of Commerce, Belfast." FATAL ACCIDENT.—(M Saturday morning, between nine and ten o'clock, as a youth about eighteen or nineteen Years of age was removing a lighter from the West India Docks into the river, he tell into the water, and instantly sunk. The drags were immediately procured, and the body was some time afterwards recovered, but animation could not be restored. The young man lost his father about three weeks since only, and his mother was solely dependent on his labour for her support. ILLNESS OF• THE BISHOP OF KILDARE.—The Bishop of Kildare had been seriously ill for some days past, with an attack of indigenous cholera, now very prevalent. The Bi• shop is a very old man. Rear• Admiral the Hon. George Elliott is spoken of as the successor of Rear-Admiral Sir S. Pym, the superin tendent of this dockyard.—Deoonport Telegraph. ACCIDENT OFF NORTHFLEET HOPE.—A waterman of Limehouse, Robert Wallis by name, in charge of a boat belonging to Mr. Williams, of Limehouse, was lost off North fleet Hope, and the boat sunk. He put off to the Brodrene, Neilsen, from Gatbenberg to London, and made fast along side. The boat filled with him on board, and sunk. Every effort was made to save the man by the master and pilot of the Brodrene. • FIRE IN ST. KATHARINE'S DOCKS.—Monday Hight, about ten o'clock, a fire broke out in a portion of the St. Ka. tharine's Docks, which for a time threatened to be of the most serious consequences. It appears that the fire broke out in one of the workshops connected with the cooperage (from what cause is at present unknown), but owing to the prompt arrival of the several brigad e (together with the West of England and the County) engines, and a plentiful supply of water, the flames were confined to the building in which the fire originated; and by twelve o'clock all fears for the surrounding buildings were allayed. SAVINGS' BANKS.—Mr. Hume, by his repeated sen sible motions in the House of Commons relative to Savings' Banks, deserves the lasting thanks of the industrious work ing classes. The reduction made by the late Government in depositor's interest is anything but creditable to them; and that persons well circumstanced in life— such as respectable tradesmen, professional men, and men even having real pro perty depositing on their own account, or in their children's names, though really their own money. is disgraceful; and yet it exists to a considerable extent. The object of the Act of 9th Geo. IV. was to provide for the safe custody and in crease of small savings belonging to the industrious classes; to accumulate the produce at compound interest on Govern ment securities; and to return the whole, or any part of the deposits, and the produce thereof. It is stated that the First Lord of the Admiralty, and some others of the Board, together with the secretary, will be at Portsmouth on Wednesday next, to meet her Ma j esty, who, with Prince Albert and the Royal Family, return to Os borne [louse on that day. CONSISTENCY.—On Friday, the 24th instant, Lord William Powlett, of this city, took the oaths and his seat for the small borough of St. Ives ; and on the same day voted with Lord George Bentinck on the Sugar Duties Bill, and, of course, formed one of the minority of 38. On Tuesday last he again voted with the minority on the same Bill. This is admirably consistent with the declaration of his Lordshi2 on the hustings at St. Ives ; " I am a sincere advocate for au artices of foreign import being introduced into thian _seco_ani7 at the lowest possible duty." This is the_ sn e OI L want to represent Bath t —what a pity it is th agree with their proposals...7.27adal