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ee " e aie enneerned to add that a ball stuck Thomas eesercen, Mr. Boulcott's seivant, in the act of getting tof bed. The ball passed through his body, inflicting a mortal wound, and lodged in his back, fratn which atthsecpiently extracted by Dr. G a lb ra ith o f the 99th. 14Ir. llouscott himself rarrowly escaped the same fate. Immediately On receiving the dispatch informing him 99th ftwhat had o ccurre d , Major Last directed eo men of the h Regime n t to proceed to the stockade at the Hutt bridge, 'with instructions to Captain Hardy, the officer la co mmand. t o a d vance with his men to the support of ti ti lir comrades; an d shortly afterwards proeeeded him ‘ich self the scene o f act i on, i n company w i t h M a j or Itniond. On his arrival he found the rebels had crossed the river and under the protection of the stand- Tg bush they kept u p a straggling fire on the troops. he order ' was now gi ven f or t h e so l iers to advance in ext ended li ne, and drive them out of the bush. Epuni, .941 accompanied M a j or L ast , was very muc h struc k With the gallant manner in which this manmuvre was executed. Th roughout this and the following day (Sun- Y) the rebels remained in the Hutt, occupying the ground on which the troops were formerly encamped, .ftabeut ball* a mile beyond Mr. Boulcott's section. On is.aturea , they robbed WHardie's house, killed his pigs '°°d, and took away or destroyed all his property. _n obedience to a message from Rangihaeata, they re turned to Porirua on Monay. Darin g the whole of Saturday the town of Welling ,,,`" was in the mo s t p a i n f u l state of alarm and excite rats Families were flocking in from the Hutt. Fa thers and h eads of families were sending their wives and children to Wellington as a place of safety ; and rumours of all kinds were in circulation. At one time 1 t was b e li eved that the party of militia and police sta e untied at Tihata as an outpost, about three miles above ethfe the i np, "ere cut off by the nativ es . I n t h e ear l y part !I , the week M a j or Ri chmond, disregarding the warnings had received from differe n t quarters , h a d, f rom mo tit) ves of economy, disbanded the militia in Wellington, and reduced the company in the Hutt to 25 men, and but two days previous to tie attack had informed Mr T urnbull, the only acting officer, that his services would be dispensed with. So menthat, on S itray ing, the at Tih a t a were Only tnidor the ce d rnmand morn of a ser geant- Fortunately, however, ing their r e t reat, they succeeded in effect and joined the troops without meeting With any opposition. _ Every ass i stance was rendered by Captaintanley. Two of th e C alliope ' s boats were sent in the afternoon of Saturday to Petoni, one with arms, and the other to 13 , n r he ing ay. ay the w omen and children to Wellington. rewoundsd, who received every attention and assist e from D r. Turnbull until the arrival of Dr, Gal braith, were also sent over to Wellington to be placed in h n ospital. Th e slain were buried on Sunday, on the fi ef of battle. V__,Various measures of precaution and defence were now oeted — among others, that of arming the natives. P u ni's nffer, which was before treated with coldness and itelifference, was now eagerly embraced, and, with a little so licitation, the old chief was persuaded to arm W ith his tribe and fight with the settlers against his old se "l° Y. Accordingly a h un d re d stan d o f arms were - at over the to Petoni f o r the u se o f hi s t r ib e . O n M on d a y . were natives of the pass at Waiwetu, Pipiten, and Tearo, wtu c e s also supplied with arms, though the manner in bedthis 'a as do ne b y t h e superintendent was calcu rather to repel them than to enlist their services eartily in the cause b a Tvh; na tives are Placed under the comm a nd o f M r . b Scott, wh o w ill acs as the organ of communi ca ti on etw een them and the commanding officer. They are tillateended to form a sort of guerilla corps, fighting with tro ops eaem Y after its own fashion, and falling back on the r in case of need for support and assistance. 143 01 e s sr r ea b t ie dissatisfacti on was felt by the natives at the description of arms supplied to them Irma the for Tnei n ent stores. simile equiement of a New Zealander ,e nght is very p. A good musket, and a car treaisticownielaisht°,x to contain hie ammunition, strapped round ate all that he require s. But so little prepa supe • ut “tinst any emergency has been mace tie the iive rir een 0d aunt, that a great portion of the muskets de /emelt; !'° the natives were returned as . unfit fur use, .the awe rution had been formerly wet, until was unseryme and there were very few cariouche-boxes for the bovxv„lY of Our allies : the greater part of the cartouche . th s-8 giV(ll out to the natives me re obtained from out e°°) Pane's stores. It w ill h ar dl y be believed • ar°of the s e t t l emen t, t h at a l t h ough the militia been ca ll ed out since the destruction of or orarika, n ow a per i o d of fifteen months, and have been more or less employed (luring this interval, fo :Yhave nut even yet been supplied with scabbards t heir bay onets . The greater body of the natives be- T• ing to th e p as i n W e l l in gton went over to Petoni on anuesday, and are now encamped Letvreen the stockade nd Mr. Boulcott's section. The number of friendly atives un d er E pun i amounts to nearly 250 men. They d a war dance on Wednesday evening, and speschcs Were inede by the chiefs expressive of their determina tion to make common cause with the settlers. " Why," they said, "should we wait unt il some o f our own Peopl e are killed before we take up . arms ? It is true wo Ltiay remain here and not b e attacked, but are we to allow our pakehas, o ur f r i en d s , t o be killed before our face ? No—we will show our love to the pakehas, and • identify our interest with theirs." ' Rangihaeata is busily engaged strengthening the de fences of his pa at Pawaitanganui, and thinks, now that the Ngatiawas are arming against him, that affairs are assureieg a more serious aspect. After these defences, Which are on the plan of those at the north, are com pleted, he intend s t o sen d out part i es to ki ll and plunder r ev ery direction. The natives say h e o p en ly expresses determination "to continue t o kill w hi te people ; eei l ? ri lt . ,en he i s hi mse lf kill e d, h e may previously have Eph• e tt a great utu. He is determined to continue ; he will never end." f . e hav e t h us endeavoured to give a succinct but ealt hf ul narrati ve o f t h e events of the past week. We n ot pretend to decide where responsibility rests, but it must rest somewhere. Te linupataba, in a communi cation lately received from him, distinctly states, that cn their vi s i t to Perinia last week he said to Major Rich ullicoa 'sad M a j or L ast , " an at t ac k will b e ma d e on t h e utt ; when you reach (Wellington) take precauti ons ; c oncentrate the people."* Major Richmond was re peatedly, deliberately warned, from various quarters, that an attack was contemplated. What measures were adopted to ward off the blow ? What is intended to be done ? The natives have engaged heart and hand with the settlers from motives honourable to both parties, and their present conduct is the most satis factory refutation of the calumnies so often repeated by those who, wishing to excuse the conduct of the local Government with reference to the land claims, have asserted that the settlers of Cook's Strait were the oppressors of the native race. We do not repeat idle reports,. we are satisfied, from our sources of in formation, that we express the honest sentiments of the peat majority of the natives in the neighbouring dis tricts, when we say that in thus committing themselves to this contest, of w hi c h t h ey could have remained un cncerned spectators, they have been actuated by a sin good-will t owar d s t h e settlers, and a desire to up cere ml`"n the su p remacy of the Government—that they have ade common cause with us in a spirit of justice, and for Maintenance of peace and good order. They know that Rangihaeata is actuated by a savage thirst of blood, that heail insatiable desire of destruction—that he is at the edc f a band o f ro bb ers and murderers, the outcasts of ry tribe, wh o h er d toget h er for every evil purpose, avid that the s a f e ty o f t h e community depends on their bein g pi t down. They know that he has only 200 men et the uttermost under his command, that at present hthere is little probability of his being reinforced. Epuni hs 250 v , arriors armed and eager for the fight, and e Ngatiawas at Waikanai and Queen Charlotte's Sound who will join them number 600 more. We repeat, what is intended to be done ? Will the authori ties take advantage of the present feeling of the natives in their fas our, and crush this common pest, or will they suffer their zeal to grow cold by inaction and delay? We wain them —for the public good, and the present erisis requires us as public journalists boldly to proclaim the truth—we warn them that the natives are unable to account for the delay that has already taken place. They say if it had rested with them, not one would have re turned to Rangihaeata to give an account of the conflict on the Hutt, and that if it had been their quarrel they Would have ended it in a week, and they su the pek e h a to b e a f ra id or una b le to defend himsepplose f: W e Wave them o f th e m i sc hi e f occas i one d b y the westing , e precious time—of the reports which the emissari es of rgihaeata will circulate to our prejudice —of the eft e ii of thes e re p orts at t h e nort h, exaggerated as they U e i be in their progress. We warn them that the mur wfLut the Gill esp i es was no common cr i me, to be dealt .4" by the ordinary tribunals. It was a deliberate challenge by Rangihaeata. The challenge was repeated whoa the beats were fired upon at Porirua—it was re t)!'ated when Gillespie's but was burned, the day pre lOas to the attack, although the authorities remained • naceuainted with the fact—it was repeated in charac tbe ers 0s blood on Saturday. Permitted Bangßangihaeata will cel ed to con!plete hi s d e f ences , an d d ea l indis . nsitiate rain and destruction through the land, or be st!acr:.ally arrested in his career, depends entirely upon time is they make of the present opportunity. The the 1i Pig• God grant we may not have to record— time is past! In consequence of the report of an attack on the camp, thee Lheriff, in the absence of his honour the superinten . dent (who had gone to the Hutt without leaving any instructions behind him) called a meeting of the settlers on Saturday afternoon at Barrett's Hotel, for the pur pcse of adopting measures of defence. Mr. Revans bay it g been called to the chair, Air. Lyon said that he had. bt en requested by the sheriff to explain that the magis trates had, in the absence of his honour, requested the oitcer in command of the militia to call, out the whole of that force, and that they had applied to Captain Stanley, of the Calliope, to land the marines and small arms men. Mr. Vincent and Mr. R. Davis then moved a resolu tion that a deputation should wait upon his honour to ascertain what steps he intended to take for the protec tion of the town; colt , entl and that C apta i n Daniell, Mr. Boul e and Mr. Lyon, should form suc h d eputation. The gmen named, how ever, immediately d ec li ne d wait ing upon his honour on the groun d that Major Rich char Mond had proved himself utterly i ncompetent to dis ge the duties of his office, and had so grossly neg lected the warnings given him that they deemed it not Inerely useless to hold any communication with him, but that they were unwilling in any degree to induce a be lief that any confidence could be placed in the superin tendent. Other parties were then proposed, but they all declined to form superintendent. part of any d eputation to his honour the l O° Sunday l ast 1, large ca noe w i th thirty natives, 'Wed with provi s i ons, for the supply of Rangihaeata andr his band, was seen in the eastern arm of rorirua garbour, approaching his pa. The police-boat immedi • The following is the original of Rauparaha's letter:— " Kihai i mate nga pakeha na kua ki atuano au ki a te Riti- Mona raua ko te Rati kei Heretaunga te huiki ai, e tae, kia 1491119 ilighigil ittli Pp Palssillun etely gave chase, and were rapidly pining upon them, when the canoe reached a point tea and which the party stationed at Porirua were terbid&n by Major Last and the superintendent iii their last visit to that station to pass in pursuit of the natives, and they were, therefore, reluctantly compelled to turn back. ' The rebels imme diately landed, and taunt, d their pursuers with coarse and insolent gestures of mockery and defiance, and after wards manned their canoe, and in derision pretended to chase them, taking care, however, not to pats the charmed line. They have since circulated reports along the coast that they chased the pakeha boat, and nearly succeeded in capturing it. In consequence of the reports in circulation on Tues day, and the apprehensions entertained that the town would be attacked by the rebels, application was made to the superintendent by the settlers for arms, and other measures adopted which we have above related. In order to secure the inhabitants from any sudden attack, a strong line of picquets, of the military, volun teers, and militia, encircled the town, and patrolled the outskirts, extending some distance on the Karori road, and strong parties of militia were stationed for the protection of the powder magazine. Captain Stanley also landed seventy men from the Calliope to assist the settlers in the event of any attack. It is intended to adopt these judicious precautions every night. On Thursday night, although it rained very heavily, the volunteers and militia cheerfully turned out in discharge of their self-imposed duties. The outsettlers at Karori and Porirua have also been armed and are on the alert. From the number of armed persons passing and re passing, the town presents quite a warlike appearance. Yesterday morning a detachment of marines were landed from the Calliope, under orders to proceed to Porirua, to reinforce the troops at that station. ItEGISTRATIONS. CITY OF LONDON. On Saturday Mr. T. J. Arnold revised the list of voters for the perish or St. Giles Without, the only parish in Cripplegate ward; and the list= for the pa rishes of St. Augustine, Christ Church, and St. Faith under-St. Paul, in the ward of I?arringdou _Henry Fendt, who wa.3 on the list for premises in Bridgewater-gardens, in the parish of St. Giles With out, Cripplegate, was objected to by Mr. Luckett (the et nservative objector) on the ground that he was an alien. Mr. Fenit appeared and was sworn; and Mr. Brown, who supported the objection, asked him whether he was horn in England. Mr. Fendt refused to answer the queetion; and Mr. Ledger (the Liberal agent) submitted that he was justified in this refusal, on the ground that a man could not be called upon to answer questions the replies to which might lead to his disfranchisement. Mr. ARNOLD considered the question was one which might properly be put to the witness ; but he (Mr. Arnold) thought it right to state ti.at he had no power to compel the witness to answer it. The question was pressed by Mr. Brown, but Mr. Fendt positively refused to answer it ; and as no evi dence was adduced to prove the validity of the objection", the name was retained. The following is the result of the day's revision:— Failed or Sustained. withdrawn. Conservative objections 95 Liberal 5 •• Double 9 Liberal claims 1 It is expected that the revision will be concluded on Saturday next. .._"'"Mr. ARNOLD proceeded on Monday with the revision of the lists .for the parishes of St. Martin, Ludgate ; St. Matthew, Friday -street ; St. Faith-under-St. Paul ; St. Michael le Quern ; St. Peter, Westeheap ; St. Vedast, alias Foster ; St. Andrew, Holborn ; St. Bartholomew the Great, and St. Bartholomew the Less, comprised in the wards of Farringdon Within and Farringdon With out, north side. The REVISING BARRISTER gave his decision in the case of Thomas Parsons, who had claimed to be registered for "rooms " in Aldermanbury, and whose case came before the Court last week. It appeared that Mr. Parsons occupied two rooms, be tween which there was an internal communication, on the third floor, and a cellar, which was used as a work shop, on the basement story of the same house. The three rooms were rented by the claimant from the same landlord. There was no internal communication between the cellar and the rest of the house, and there was a distinct entrance from the street into the cellar or work shop. The annual value of the three rooms together was upwards of 101., but the val:te of the two rooms or of the cellar separately was below that sum. The claim to be rated was for two rooms" only. Mr. ARNOLD said, the first question in this case was whether the two rooms on the third floor and the cellar did not constitute two separate and distinct buildings, which could not be joined together for the purpose of conferring a qualification. But supposing that these separate rooms could be regarded as constituting one building, the question arose whether the claim to be rated, which was for " two looms" only, was a sufficient claim to be rated for the two rooms and the cellar. Al though he entertained some doubt on the last paint, if the case had rested upon that point solely, he would have been disposed to consid, r it a virtual rating ; but as the Cellar appeared to be a separate and distinct tenement prom the other trio rooms, be must d. tide against the claimant. The following statement shows the result of the day's revision Failed or Sustained. withdrawn. Conservative objection; 69 ... 93 Liberal DouYe Liberal claim Accounts were received from Porirua on Thursday, which stare that the rebels did not lose a single man in the late attack, and that only one of their number was wounded. They boast aho that they were on the point of making a second attack %hen - Major Last arrived. They boast also that the party under Kaiparetehau did not exceed 'sixty men. In consequence of recent events, eight of the intruding nativcs belonging to the Wan franui tribes, who were staying at Ohariu,...have joined Ruaihaeata. (From the same Journal.) We must not, however, omit to chronicle the factS connected with this outbreak of the Maories, and the most prominent among them is that full notice of their intentions was given to those whom they attacked. A fortnight before Te Rauparaha informed Major Rich mond of what Rangihaeata was going to do; and indeed so widely had it been published, that no Maori was ignorant of it, and many settlers were alAo acquainted with it. The chief Epuni, a staunch friend to the settlers ever since their arrival in New Zealand, personally in formed his honour the superintendent that the hostile natives were going to make nn inroad upon the Hutt, and requested that he and his followers might be supplied with arms in order to repel them. This application was rejected by Major Richmond in a manner extremely offensive to Epuni, and an offer on the part of Colonel Wakefield to supply him with arms was treated in the same manner hy the superintendent. This intelligent officer was informed by other persons of undoubted credit of the mischief about to happen, and treated all his informants in the same manner, by appearing not to believe them. Cognisant as we must presume Major Richmond was of the inunded movement on the part of Rangihaeata, not a single measure of precaution was issued on the subject, and everything remained precisely as it had been since the governor left Wellington. The result has been that a fourth of the number of the troops at the upper station on the Hutt has been put hors de combat, and the whole settlement is threatened with destruction. Died, on the 21st instant, at the residence of J. Boni cott, Esq.. Te Aro, to which he had been removed, Thomas Roseman, aged 25 years, of a musket-shot wound received in the engagement on the Hutt, on Saturday, the 16th instant. An inquest was held on the body, before 1)r. Fitzgerald, coroner, when the jury re turned a verdict of " from a gun-shut wound." 9 MIDDLESEX. The revision for the list of viaers for the county t f Middlesex was commenced on Monday at White Cot deiL-licuse, by Mr. Shadwell, the barrister appointA for that purpose. The Liberty of the Rolls, and the parishes of St. George the Martyr and St. Andrew, were gone through. The claim of the Rev. W. n Ro , Yers was opposed by the Liberals, on the ground of an insufficient description of his qualification. In consr - quevce of infermation r 4 ceived from the ria tlves of Rangilu.cata's intention to make tan attack, the troops at Porirua were under arms all Wednesday night. Since the late reconnoissance of Rangihneata's pa, an order has been issued to assemble the soldier, at Pot irua under arms every mulling at daybreak. It is reported that Rauparaha has sent to Pangihacata a portion of the sugar and flour he lately received as a present from Major Richmond.—May 16. We learn from Aliaroa and Port Cooper that the na tives are very troublesome to the settlers there, refusirg to allow them to occupy the land, and demanding exor bitant rents from the owners of cattle stations. It is said that they are acting under the advice of Charley, who has been down to the southward, and has told them that tke natives at Wairarapa get high rents, and that they should imitate their example. This is the same native who, it will be remembered obtained a present of a set of sails, &c., from his excellency the governor. Mr. JAMES, for the objectors, submitted that the de scription of " incumbent of the district church of St. Thomas, Charter•house," was n.,t a sufficient description. The law could not recognise such a qualification, and, in Brighton the barrister had struck off five clergymen out of six on the same ground. Mr. Payne, the Conservative agent, said that he wa3 aware that the Revising Barrister had expuno , d the name last year upon the same ground, and if he now retained his opinion, all he (Mr. Payne) would ask was, that a case might be granted. The Learned BARRISTER said he had no objection to do so. Claim disallowed. On Saturday last the militia in Wellington were dis banded, and we believe it is intended to reduce the num ber stationed at Taita to 25 men, who will be placed under the command of Lieut. Nl'Donogh. The claim of the Rev. Edward Pizey, perpetual curate of St. Peter's district church, Saffron-hill, was also dis allowed under similar circumstances, the Barrister ob serving that unquestionably the Rev. Gentleman was entitled to be on the register if the qualification had been properly described as " freeho!cl pew rents." An appeal, in which all ca-es of a similar nature would be consolidated, was then granted by the Bar rister. WANGANUL—By the Catherine Johnstone we have received the following communication from Wanganui:— " The Victoria brig arrived off Kai Here on Wednes day evening, April 29. There being no wind, she an chored there for the night, and landed Mr. Symonds and party. On the following morning they arrivedin Wan ganui all well. Th e nat i ves h ad a lull meeting at the Missionary Pa, P ut iki, on M onday last, which ended in their unanimously agreeing to complete the sale of the land, On Wednesday the surveying party, accompanied by some of the principal Macri chiefs, commenced a survey of the boundaries, in which they are still en gaged. The probability of a satisfactory termination to the Wanganui land question i s now greater than ever; yet several difficulties have to be overcome, and the gentleman to whom the affair has been committed will have no easy part to perforth; but from the judgment he has hitherto displayed, we have every reason to hope he will be successful, and th at my next letter to you will announce our right to a Crown title." The lists of Gray's Inn, St. Giles-in-the-Fields, St. George's, Bloomsbury ; Islington, Clerkenwell, and St. Botolph without Aldcrsgate, were gone through without any point meriting notice having arisen. The overseer of the latter parish presented his bill of expenses ; but the Barrister refused to allow any, as the Ist of objections and claims had not been properly made out, the claimants being inserted in the general list, and the objections mixed up with those relating to the City. Mr. SHADWELL said he hoped it would make the overseers more careful in future. In the list of St. Luke's the name of a Mr. D'Effangor was objected to by Mr. Payne. The claimant's qualifica tion was for a rent charge of 40s. per annum. According to the deed of grant the first half-yearly payment became due on July 2, but a receipt dated January 10 was pro duced for 11. OTAHEITE. The following account of the late events at Otaheite have been received by the French Government from Captain Bruat, dated Papeiti, June 3, 1846 : " Monsieur le Ministre,—As the attacks of the insurgents on Papeiti and our other positions at Otaheite were not discontinued, I took advantage of the presence of Admiral Hamelin to march against the insurgent camps of Papenoo and Punavin. On May 8 I set out at the head of 800 soldiers and sailors, and 200 friendly natives. After having, with out striking a blow, successfu:ly driven the insur gents from their positions at Papuna, Abonn, and Tapahi, I attacked on the 10th their positions at Papenoo, which they did not quit until after a combat, which placed the four forts raised at Papenco in our power. After having pursued the enemy to the bottom of a valley, which at last became impracticable for organised troops, and having forced from them two new positions, I bivouacked until the 23d at Pspenoo, getting every thing .destroyed that could serve to the establish ment of a new centre of insurrection at that point, and erecting at the important position of Tapahi a blockhouse, which opens to us the way to the eastern distracts, and doses it to the insurgents. After having rested one night at Haapupe, I en tered on the 24th the valley of Fantahua, the inha bitants of which bad come as far as Papeiti to com mit depredations. At Papenoo all the resources of the enemy in the valley were destroyed, and the column did not return on its way until after having met with an impracticable country, and taken from the enemy a fortification so strongly constructed as to offer a firm re,istance. On the 25th I was at Haapupe. After having concerted with Admiral Hamelin, and given forty-eight hours' rest to the troops, I set oLt on the 28th for Punavin. The number of armed natives marching with our troops was 261. The expeditionary column bivouacked on the 28th at Utu reaoro ; the next day it marched on the entrenchments of Tapuna and Atihue, which our Indian scouts found evacuated. On the 29th, at nine in the morning, we Ptunavin and the ou t s ki rts o f the valleys, o to ccupiPd which he insurgents had fled. O n t h e 30t h , at five in the morning, I entered the valley with three companies and a half', and a mountain howitzer, some of the natives serving us as scouts. The enemy evacuated their first entrenchment without strik ing a blow;after th e secon d was taken a slight en gagement. Although I had given orders to stop there,. in order to reconnoitre the groan - ', the adv a n ce d y guard bein g l ed away by our Indian au x ili ar i es , w h o believed th e f ort to be partly a rtl y abandoned, entered more de b o e t h p I s y ides in t o by th e nearlyva l ey, p , which atthis rocks,spot s a b n o d u nhdoes n d on t more than forty y ar d s of widtlen It I s on for ce this .s p o A h t a oleic that the insurgents had conce ntratedtheir in the mornintr, at the moment the column arrived there to support the advanc e d guard, which wo rd that they were about to enter the fort b a n a t r ve i m ri sharp fire was directed ag ai nst them from a, placed behind an elbow of the river, and entirely protecting the enemy ; at the same time masses of stones and rock which were rolled down from the tops of the heights commanded our position. I stopped the head of the column in this place, jud g i ng the natural fortification which we had before us to be impregnable, without first occupying the height which commanded it, and which I knew to be already occupied. I had some observations 'cede which fully confirmed my opinion of the strength of this position, and the number of men in possession of it. I then destroyed in the %stile f all the resources of the enemy, without their venturing to disturb us by a single shot. The firing of the enemy at the cemmenc( Went o f the action caused the death of the bravo Commandant d Breu, who was s:ruck by a, ball in the breast. Lieutenant Malmancho of the royal navy, end the head of my staff, had his leg shattered by a ball, and amputation was found to be necessary. Captain Ceriere, of the 31st, and M. Lejeune, enseigne de valsseau, were also wounded. M. Perrotte, eleve of the first class, was killed in the entrenchments. Several of the men received contusions from the fall of stones, but their hurts are not serious. At Punavin, as at Papenoo, I had the fortifications raised by the natives destroyed, as well as everything that could favour a fresh assemblage of the insurgents at this point, where I considered it indispensable to erect a blockhouse. I shall countinuo to occupy Punavin with the forces which I can dispose of, until such time as the works which I am getting constructed for the per manent occupation of this point be terminated." (The dispatch concludes with a list of those officers who mot distinguished themselves, and who are recommended to the consideration of the Governor-nt.) • The total loss is stated to be 9 killed and 35 wounded. Mr. James and Mr- R. Fitch supported the vote, con tending that the payment on January 10 was a sufficient enjoyment of the rent-charge for six months prior to July 31, to satisfy the Reform Act. Mr. Payne, on the contrary, urged that the voluntary payment in January was made for the purpose of obtain ing a vote, and that the en j o y men t of the rent-charge could only 4e said to have commenced on July 2. The Learned BARRISTER, however, decided that the payment of the amount in January was a sufficient seisin in compliance with the statute, and allowed the vote. The lists of Islington, St. Marylebone, and Stoke Newington were disposed of without the occurrence of aught deserving notice. The remaining parishes of St. Pancras, Saffron-hill, and St. Sepulchre, were also gone through without elicit ing any feature of importance, and the Court adjourned shortly before 6 o'clock. _EAST 8 U I.thEY. The Revising Barrister sat again yesterday at the Board-room, Bermondsey. Mr. Curling, whose case was reported yesterday, at tended, accompanied by his tenant and Mr. Allen, a surveyor, for the purpose of substantiating his claim to vote. Mr. Allen, in answer to questions from the Barrister, said that lie bad viewed the piece of ground in question, and although it was certainly very small, yet it had two frontages, and was in a rapidly increasing neighbourhood; he considered it would be eligible to build a small shop on, and that for this purpose it was worth 50s. a year. Mr. Drew, the vestry-clerk, who opposed ac claim, said he was of opinion that the New Building Act that had just come into operation would prevent a house from being built upon a piece of ground in the confined posi tion this was. The Act required that there should be some outlet at the back of every building, for the pur poses of air and ventilation. Mr. Allen said it was sufficient if the windows fronted an open thoroughfare ; and, according to his interpreta tion of the Act, a houze might be built upon the ground fur which the claim to vote was set up, and upon this view of the case he considered it was worth .50s. a year. The REVISING BARRISTER said lie was of opinion that upon this evidence Mr. Curling bad made out his claim, thud his name would, therefore, be placed upon the list. Mr. Curling complained of the unnecessary trouble to which be had been put by the parish officers objecting to his claim, when he said there could be no doubt it was a good one. He had offered to depose to the value of the property, which was all that was usually required, and yet he had been put to the trouble and expense of bring ing his tenant and a surveyor before the Court. Under these circumstances, he said, he trusted the Revising Barrister would think it was a case in which costs should he awarded. The REVISING BARRISTER said it appeared to him that the parish officers had acted under a tonci fide im pression that the property was not of sufficient value to give a vote, and, therefore, he did not consider that there was the slightest ground fur the application for months, o costs. t I s t i eymott, the There were four claims to dote in respect of a renchargewueproenh objectedouses tiobAnebecy i‘ Bermondsey viz.naira. x and R yett e r dthey were not entitledh a h si n e o , xi payment t h Conserva tive agent, on the ground that although the prop er ty had been in the possession of the claimants for th e requiredriod ba d actually by th e to vote. The REVISING BARRISTER, who had considered his decision, stated to-day that, in his opinion, it was suffi cient for the parties to be entitled to the amount speci cified, and that it was not necessary for them to have actually received it. Ile, therefore, held the claims to be good, and the names were placed on the list. EXPLOSION COLLIERY NEAR WAKEFIELD.--OR Tuesday morning last , between eleven and twelve o'cloCk, a a t n stanieyexplosion4aonfefi.erned-t,lamp took place in Haigh Moor pit, near Wakef ie ld, b e l ong i ng to AleArs. Hudson and Co., of Leeds, by which three men lost their lives. The names of th e su ff erers were Norris Beaumont, James Sidebottom, and George Clayton, who were all shockingly burnt. INCENDIARISIC—On Monday morning an attempt was made by some person or perso ns un k nown to de stroy the premises belonging to Mr. Salmon, in White street, Bermondsep street. It appears th a t w hil e police constable 185 M was passing along his beat, his atten tion was directed to the premises . by a strong smell of fire. Having aroused the inmates, it was soon perceived that a large bale of woollen yarn, standing in the gate way, and under the bedrooms, had been wilfully set on tire by some one. The goods were not of a very corn bustible nature, or it is probable that the piace would have been destroyed. r f iE .I,9Nnoi l / 4 4 1 _1 7 VEDNESDAV MORNING, OCTOBER 14, 1P46. THE CONDITION of the PEOPLE OF THE HIGHLANDS AND ISLANDS OF SCOTLAND. (From the Times' Commissioner.) DUNVEGAN (ISLE OF SKYE), OCT. 6. The conclusions likely to be drawn by an intelligent and reflecting foreigner who might be ignorant of the laws affecting landed property in Scotland, and of the modern history of its management, were such a one to visit this part of the country, would in all probaJility surprise us as much as they would instruct us. The strange perversity with which we contrive to thwart nature—the ingenuity with which we insure that land which nature intended should grow food for man shall lie a perpetual waste, and that man, whose labour should make it " teem with fatness," shall starve in idleness beside it. or be driven out to seek in distant • lands those opportunities for his industry which cry out for his industry at home, though we mark it not, fami liarised by its constant occurrence—would surely excite the foreigner's astonishment. I write to you now from the northernmost part of the island of Skye, having traversed a great portion of its length. uring my short stay in it, in the gardens of those gentlemen to whom I have had the honour to be introduced, I have seen the greatest luxuriance of vegetable growth. Such is the mildness of the climate, combined with great humi dity, that vegetables, grasses, and flowers here, as in Ireland, grow with rank luxuriance. In several gar dens I have seen fuchsias and dahlias growing in the open air, with every other description of flower common to England ; and strawberry-plants, vegetable-marrow, and other kitchen vegetables, spreading with profuse ness. But here labour and skill were applied, and na ture kindly aided man's industry. It is not the soil, then, that is barren ; it is not the climate that forbids vegetation. What a far different scene awaits you out of these gardens of the rich ! This fine island, which is sixty miles long, is at no part of it more than three miles from the sea. Deep lochs stretch into it in every direction from the sea, and the land is thus divided almost like the rays of a star-fish. Every loch yields sea-weed and shell-sand for manure in abundance, as well as fish for food. Yet from one end to the other of this island, with all these facilities and capabilities, the eye rests on scarcely anything but bleak hills, and vast uncultivated tracts of land covered with moss and heather, here and there dotted over by the wretched black huts of the inhabitants, who exist wretchedly in the midst of thousands of uncultivated acres, which only want their labour, directed by skill, to yield them corn fort and plenty. The foreigner would probably exclaim, " What a pity it is that there are not more peopl e t o cultivate this vast extent of land ! how strange it is that in a civilised country all this land should be thus left uncultivated !" But if he should be told that the few people that do exist on it are absolutely almost starving for want of food, he would no doubt exclaims, " Then, why on earth not cul tivate this waste land, and grow food for them as a re payment for their labour ?" Greater - still would be his astonishment if told that it was the "civilised" state of the country, or rather the laws of a civilised country, prompted by and acted on by the selfishness of man, which produced this desolation and caused the want of population. He would naturally ask, "But how ?" He would cease to wonder when told what those laws were, and he began to consider what was the natural operation of cause and effect. Explain the Scotch law of entail to him, and how the pride and selfish ness of man, through it, had rendered vast tracts of country unsaleable, affording no security for money, whilst it but gave a life-interest to the possessor, and often burdened him with charges which ren dered him careless of improvement and helplessly poor, inasmuch as he could neither 5.:.11 nor borrow money on his estate ; then explain to him the providens of the S,•otch Pkg.•,r-law, the i fleet of which is to send off the youth and the vigour of the popult,ti. n to give their s;re7igth to benefit other lands, whilst it Laves the infirm m.d helpless chargeable en Ali, I see," the foleig:ar would v.:cc:aim, as the light of this precious " civitisatien" broke in upon him, " the pro prietors of the soil have made themselves too poor to cultivate it—to give employment to labour ; so the la bour that makes wealth goes elsewhere. Then, the in firm and helpless of the population Icing only left as a burden on the pour proprietors, they try to get lid of the people by ' clearing them off,' and proposing plans of emigration to save their own pockets. This accounts fur the ee.mporative thince,s of the pupt.l:sfien. Alv, I see. What an ingeniously perverse systun of civilisa tion ! How admirably calculated to ex terininate the people, to preserve the land in the condition in which it was left by Noah after too flood, and to perpetuate poverty, and helplessness, and miser) ! Surely barbar ism is better than such _ But if such be the habitual condition of the population islandsthis description i ca i l o a n n Scotland n he d g l ai d n o . not must be r a h u n e t d h t h of ir condition now, when even that scanty food, on which they contrive to exist in ordi nary years, in many parts has entirely failed? Even at the tables of those who could purchase potatoes if they were to be had, and at the hotels, I have not seen pot t toes at dinner above once or twice during the last fort night; boiled rice and other vegetables have taken their place. I am assured by a large proprietor here, intimately acquainted with the condition of the people of the island, that out of a population of about 26,000, fully 20,000 persons depend for existence on the potato crop, and that there is not above a month's consumption of oatmeal grown in the island remaining. Neither is there any employment whatever for the people, to enable them to purchase food out of the profits of their labour. The rental of the island is about 26,000/. a year, or about 11. for each person. If the support of 20,000 of these poor people is to be derived from the land, it is quite clear that the rental cannot support them. This, then, is ft great and peculiar emergency; and, however much it is to be lamented that the island is in such a state of uneultivation as to afford no em employment to the people, and that the proprietors can not give that emplo3 ment, however willing so to do, still it is incumbent on the Government to see that the people do not starve. One most wise measure of the Government, and admi rably calculated to meet the peculiar condition of High land proprietors, so far as it extends, is the recent sta tute, the 9th and 10th of Victoria, c. 101. This statute authorises the Commissioners of her Majesty's Treasury, upon the application of commissioners appointed to carry the Act into execution, to advance out of the Con solidated Fund 2,000,0001. for Great Britain, and 1,000,000 L for Ireland, for the purpose of draining lands; such advance to be made a prior rent-charge on the lands drained, at the rate of 6i per cent. for the period of 22 years, when the principal is calculated to be redeemed, and the rent-charge is to cease. The execution, or carrying out of the Act, is, however, subject to considerable, and no doubt, necessary delays; whilst the emergency which presses is immediate. For instance, by the Bth clause no advance of money can be made in compliance with any application until the same has been submitted to, and sanctioned by, the Com missioners of the Treasury. By the 16th clause, if the Commissioners sanction the application, then the plan, estimate, and specification of the proposed drainage must be submttted to the Government surveyor appointed; and by the 18th clause, no certificate for the advance of money shall be issued until nntice of the application for the advance shall have been published two successive weeks in some local newspaper, and in the Gaulle, and until " two calendar months shall have elapsed from the publication of the last of such advertisements," in order that persons having charges upon the land should have the opportunity of dissenting from such application if they should think fit. Though these are very proper precautions, they consume much time, and are not fitted, nor were they intended, for the present pressing emer gency. Again, though draining will enormously benefit much of the waste hinds, and render them fit for cultivation, yet in a majority of instances draining alone will not suffice. The land wants trenching, and fencing, and liming to make it properly productive, and to make it give an adequate return fur the outlay expended upon it. But the poor proprietors, or a majority of them at least, cannot afford a single pound for either trenching, or fencing, or liming ; the poor people on the land neither can nor will work for nothing. Hence this Act, though a most excellent measure, was not calculated to meet the present emergency, nor yet does it go far enough in its useful provisions. Another and more serious view to be taken is, t'lzt probably this failure in the potato crop may be per manent ; at all events, it behoves both proprietors of land and the Government to take some precautionary steps to avert such a calamity next year. Should it turn out that the potato is becoming extinct, other food must be grown as a substitute. But it will require at least double the quantity of land now sown with potatoes to produce a sufficiency of food to supply the place of potatoes. This land in the highlands and islands of Scotland is lying waste in abundance, by thousands of acres; but the proprietors cannot of themselvesl gene rally afford to employ the labour upon it in trenching and fencing, as well as draining, which will bring it int) cultivation, and the people will not do it unless they are employed. Without some enabling measure, there fore, there is every prospect of a recurrence of dearth next year. . _ Several proprietors with whom I have had the oprr tunity of conversing, express their readiness to charge their estates in a similar manner to that authorised by the statute 9 and 10 Victoria, c. 101, for these objects, if they can only get the money, satisfied that such im provements will immensely benefit themselves as well Ls the people and the country generally. They urge the necessity of an immediate advance of money for these objects, in order to give employment and the means of obtainieg food to the people; such advance to be sanc tioned by a retrospective Act of Parliament. The proprietors, and the people too, with seeming justice complain, now that Government grants are the order of the day in Ireland for public works, " Why should not we be also relieved ? We have suffered as much by this calamity as the Irish ; we are quite as poor ; our people live in huts as miserable, and subsist Chiefly on potatoes, which have now failed them ; why should we not also get public grants as well as the Irish? Is it because we are peaceable and obey the laws—be cause we have neither soldiers nor police among us, and because we do not perpetually shriek out our complaints, but suffer in silence, that we are to be passed over and suffered to starve unaided, whilst the Irish, who are no worse off than ourselves, are rewarded for their turbu lence and defiance of all law by grants of public money?" Such observations are quite general here, and are natu ral enough. 1 he people themselves are extremely well conducted and peaceable. But, appalled by the prospect before them, they are beginning to discuss questions wl ich excite unpleasant apprehensions. They are beginning to question the unlawfulness and sin fulness of helping themselves to food from the sheep of the farmers on the hills, rather than that they should starve. Such feelings can only be allayed by promp measures of relief, For the hake of thele.ple them• selves such relief ought not to be eleemosynary, but in the shape of employment which will enable them to purchase food. There is here the greatest facility for employ meet calculated to be productive of permanent profit and advantage, but there is no capital —no means of setting it agoing ; and without that employment being given to the people the prospect is frightfuL They are abso lutely without food, or the possibility of getting it. The chief proprietor of this part of the island is Mr. M‘Leod of M‘Leod ; in the parish of Duirinish, iu which this village stands, there is a population of 3,000 souls entirely depending upon him, the food on which they relied having failed them. It is hardly to be ex pected that any one proprietor can undertake either to support or to give employment to so many persons out of his own means. Mr. M'Leod has, however, com menced marking out allotments for the people, and giving them employment in draining and trenching, re lying on the aid of the Government. The efforts, how ever, of any one individual are feeble, and insufficient to meet such an emergency ; and, however math we may deprecate the existence of such a state of society as here prevails—the want of persevering industry of the people and the absence of all enterprise —or the unwise and in judicious laws which have tended to such a result, yet the people must not be permitted to starve, nor be al lowed by the pressure of want to be driven to acts of desperation. The prevention of these evils is the duty of the Government ' • and by its effo r t s t o meet the same mischiefs in Ireland, where there is a louder complaint, it would be unfair to assume that it will shrink from meeting the difficulty here, when that difficulty shall be made known, backed as it is by that best of alt recom mendations, a peaceful, a well-disposed, and deserving people in want. REVIEW OF THE BRITISH CORN TRADE DURING THE PAST WEEK. A vast quantity of rain has fallen during the week, and present appearances indicate a further fall. The land has been too wet to admit of its being advanta geously worked, and out-door operations must there fore for the present be suspended. The lifting of the potato crop is likely also to be interrupted ; and it is more than probable that those in the ground not destroyed by the murrain will be injured by the wet. The accounts respecting the yield of the main crop of potatoes, where diving has been finished, repre sent the failure to be quite as serious as had been pre viously apprehended; and, from all we have been enabled to learn on the subject, we are inclined to think that the produce will fall short of half the usual quantity. How so great a deficiency of food is to be met under existing circumstances is a startling question. Presuming that we have a full average of wheat— a deduction which many are disposed to dispute— how are we situated in respect to other grain ? Barley, Oats, and nye are admitted, on all hands, to have fallen materially short in consequence of the extreme heat and drought experienced daring the summer months, whilst beans and peas have given a still worse return. Nor had Are any stocks of im portance of old grain at the time of harvest, and the new crops weroscommenced upon almost as soon as gathered. It is, therefore, self-evident that a very large importation will be required ; and from whence are we to draw the requisite supply ? Much has been said about the immense resources of America, and state ments have been published to show that the last harvest has been unprecedentedly great in the United States. We much fear that these statistical tables are not to be received with implicit faith; indeed com mon sense must point out that what is found tit:Beak of attainment here, viz., to procure anything like a cor rect estimate of the result of the crops, must be al most impossible in such a cont.try as America Here, on a comparatively limited surface, with every country and parish accurately Int:pped down, we are unable to thew how mtnty quarters of grain have been grown; whilst in the United Stater, with no defined limits—at least to the wev..—with immense tracts of land thinly populated, and the means of communlention far more rittlicult than at home, it is pretended to give the produce of cacti particular crop to a bushel before the corn is off the ground. Such returns must necessarily be loose and unsatisfactory ; and we cannot, therefore, take them as a b Isis on v. hich to ground a calculation as to what quantity ti~ grain the Americans may he in a position to furnish us with. A fltr more slfe criterion will, in our opinion, ha afforded by referring Leek to the tab!. aof expt,rt, , . in previous seasons. On examin iog these we fled that the al erage shipment from the United States for 13 corse-Jutiveye.ars bus been 997,771 brls. of fleur. of which four-fifths have invariably g ,, 1:6 to the Bri e ish, West Indian, Cuba, Newfoundland, ant.' the South Am rican markets. Admitting that in entire ' quence of the yield of the last year's crop, and the impetus given to trade by the alteration in our corn-laws, the States may be enabled somewhat to exceed that quantity, still it is char that, with a deficient harvest in many countries in Europe besides Great Bri tain, the supplies from the other side of the Atlantic can scarcely be expected to satisfy our wants. This is a reasonable conclusion, and we cannot agree with those who can see no danger in our position. It is far from our wish to create needless . alarm, but we must confess that we view the prospects for the approaching winter with some apprehension, more particularly as re gards Ireland. The wealth and resources of Gi eat Britain will, ve doubt not, enable her to secure a suffi ciency of food for the consumption of the inhabitants ; but to succeed in this it will be necessary to pay high prices : and, important as has been the rise in the value of wheat within the last two months, we question whether the highest point has yet been touched. The trade has, nevertheless, been much less animated this than the preceding week, and it is not impro bable that a temporary cheek may be given to the up ward tendency. The millers have latterly bnnght pretty ' freely, and they are likely to conduct their operations cautiously until a portion of that which they have now on hand shall have passed into consumption. Mean while the farmers continue to bring forward good sup plies ; and as the condition of the new must ere long be effected by the change in the weather, a slight re-aeion in prices may perhaps take place. The arrival of wheat coastwise into London has amounted to 8,242 quarters up to this (Saturday) even ing. The greater part of the supply is from Lin colnshire and Cambridgeshire ; and most of the cargoes from the east coast have gone direct to the millers without appearing at Mark-lane for sale. Their immediate wants having been thus provided for, they have had the less occasion to purchase on the spot; and the business done has, consequently, been rather circumscribed. The few runs of wheat exhibited on Wednesday on the Essex and Kent stands moved off somewhattardily, at the prices of Monday last ; and, moderate as was the quantity on sale, a portion remained undisposed of. Later in the week the inquiry rather improved, but fsctors found it impossible on Friday to establish any advance on previous prices. Holders of free foreign wheat have manifested no anxiety to realise, and so far from any disposition having been evinced lo accept less money, the contrary has been the case ; and fine qualities, such as high mixed Dentzic and the best descriptions of Lower &Lite red, were actually held at rather higher terms at the close than at the be ginning of the week. This may in some measure ac count for the very cautious manner in which the millers have conducted their operations ; and as the market has not been attended by many country buyers since Mon day, the transactions have been on a restricted scale. Wheat in bond has met with some atten tion ; but the article having been held at prices scarcely 4s. per quarter below those at which free might have been bought, there has been no induce ment to speculate. Some further orders have come to hand from France ; the limits have, however, been too low to admit of their execution, and we have heard of no bargains being closed. During the week 3,705 quer tt-rs of wheat have been received from abroad, the grea er part from America. The ditty fell (as was expected) to 7s. per quarter on Thursday, and will continue to recede step by step to the minimum point. The last return for the kingdom (545.) shows an advance, as compared with that for the preceding week, of 11d. per quarter ; and the London average published on Friday (61s. 4d.) was ls. 2d. per quarter higher. The metropolitan bakers have bought flour more cautiously, and have shown a determinat on to work up their stocks closely before they consent to pay the ad vnced rates demanded by millets. The top price of town-made flour is now 60s. per wick, and good Norfolk households have been held at 50s, in the river ; whilst for fair brands of American 355. t o 3G s . p er barrel, ditty paid, has been demanded. The arrival of barley has not been large, and the en hancement of Monday last has been well maintained. Su pLrior malting qualities have been placed without diffi culty at 445. per qr., but to succeed in the disposal of the secondary sorts (of which the bulk of the supply has consisted) it has been necessary to accept comparatively 'ow terms. Grinding parcels have, on the other hand, been in fair request , and for good awcet qualities of the latter very full prices have been obtained. Choice samples of malt have met a ready sale at the late advance ; and though the inquiry fur the inferior kinds has not been lively, Monday's quotations hove been firmly supported. Besides 3,073 qrs. of oats from our own const, 740 qrs. have been received from Scotland, 4,171 qrs. from Ire land, and 7,058 qrs. from abroad, making together a fair supply. The factors being, however, fully aware that the stocks in the hands of the dealers are inconsiderable, and feeling convinced that the Irish arrivals will be much smaller than usual, have declined making any concession. Under these circumstances the trade has been far from animated, still needy buyers ha, , e had to pay full terms for good corn. The few parcels of English beans which have come to hand have been taken at the enhanced terms of Monday last. In foreign beaus, on the spot, there has nut been much doing; Egyptians have, however, bren•held firmly at 38s. to 393. per qr. Floating cargoes have been in quired for, but the prices demanded have been so high as to check business. _ — Peas have met with very little attention since our last ; and though the quantity brought forward has been trifling in the extreme, the value of v; hite boilers has rather tended downwards, and even hog peas have mored off at former terms. Indian corn, in granary, has sold in retail at high rates ; and cargoes on passage have been sought after by buyers from Ireland. The f. ee• on ha and sales have bean rather considerable, and in some cases prices have been paid not previously obtainable. FOREIGN CORN TRADE. We have had two or three arrivals from Amsrica this week, the latest bringing Nov York advicts to the 19th Of September, and accounts from ether parts of the United States of corresponding dates. From New York we learn that the advance wheil had bten established in flour some frvw days before, in consequence of • the new from England, nad been well maintained, and that.erne rather larg purchases of the article had been made at prices vary ing 4d. 50c. to 4d. 75c. per brl. The sycks on the spot were then trite inconsiderable, end it was not exreeted that the arrivals from the interior would be very lai-ge till the spring of the year ; it is probable, therekre T CIRCULAR. CO U) „ WINDSOR, TUESDAY,— 'Phe Queen anti Prince Albert took their accustomed early morning walk. The Royal Family took thtirt usual exercise this morning on ponies on the terrace and grounds of the Castle. Her Royal Highness the Princess of Hesse visited her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent this morning at Frogmore House. The royal dinner party at the Castle this evening will include her Majesty the Queen Dowager, her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, her Royal Highness the Princess of Hesse, his Serene Highness Prince Edward of Saxe Weimar, the Lady in Waiting on the Queen Dowager, the Lady in Waitinc , on the Duchess of Kent, the Lady in Waiting on the Princess of Hesse (La Baroness de Scheel), the Baroness de Speth, their Excellencies Mons. and Madame Van de Weyer, Earl Howe, Viscount and Viscountess Palmer ston, Lord and Lady Cowley, the Gentleman in Wait ing on the Princess of Hesse (Le Baron Meysenbuch). The band of the First Regiment of Life Guards attend during dinner. Her Majesty's private band afterwards attend in the Castle the remainder of the evening. Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, and the Hereditary Grand Duke and Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, and his Serene High ness Prince Frederick of Hesse, honoured Mrs. de Rothschild with their company at dinner on Monday. Mr. Thomas Wyse had an interview with Lord John Russell yesterday. Dispatches were received • yesterday at the Colonial office from the Governor of Malta. SPORTING INTELLIC,PNCE - - -- - NEWMARKET SECOND OCTOBER MEETING. NEWMARKET, MONDAY NIGHT. LATEST BETTING ON THE CESAREWITCH. 7 to 1 agst Tom Tullock 30 to 1 agst 7 to 1 agst Terrier 30 to 1 agst Giantess—(t) 12 to 1 agst Kesheng 30 to 1 cast Cherry 20 to I agst Dulcet 30 to 1 ngst Jonathan Wild 25 to 1 agst Jenny Wren—(t)! 30 to 1 Pgs t. Flahowlagh 25 to 1 agst Khondooz—(t) 30 to 1 agst Fort William 25 to 1 agst Lightning—(t) 33 to 1 agst Wolfdog 25 to 1 agst Arthur 45 to 1 agst Sheratan 25 to 1 agst Camera Obscura 45 to 1 agst Plantagenet 25 to 1 agst Glossy—(t) The following are all that are scratched :—Sir Tatton Sykes, Sting, Grimston, Plaudit, Scarlet Runner, Princess Royal, and Longstock. It is thought that two or three-and-thirty will run. CLEARWELL. The following stand :—Madge Gray, Archness, Glentill f by Cardinal Puff, Cheapside, Resolution, Nerissa, Reminis cence, Maid of Athens, Clearwell colt, Sister to Sorella, Agnes, Cobweb filly, Sister to Samphire, Halo. TUESDAY. The Steppingley Stakes of 50 EOM each, for colts, Bst 71b, and fillies, Bst 41b. T.Y.C. (4 Subs.) Mr. Bouverie's War Eagle, allowed Bibs. Duke of Bedford's Bridle, albs. Lord Normanby's Queen of May, 3lbs. 6 to 4 on War Eagle, who waited on Bridle ball-way into the cords, and won cleverly by a length. Run in 1 minute 15 seconds. Match, 200, h. ft. T.Y.C. Duke of Bedford's Black Cat, Bst 81b (Robinson) 1 Mr. Merton's Jumble, 7st Glb 7t04 on Jumble. Won by half a length. The Cesarewitch Stakes of 25 soya. each, 15 ft, with 300 added ; the second to receive 50 rove. out of the stakes. Cesarewitch course. (45 Subs. ) Mr. Wreford's Witsend, 3 vrs, Est 21b (Donaldson) 1 Lord Chesterfield's Jenny Wren, 4 yrs, ost 81b 2 The following also started, but were not placed :—Lord Exeter's Sister to Pergularia, 3 yrs, sst 71b—Mr. Meiklam's Lightning, 5 yrs, Ost 31h—Mr. .aloore's Wolfdog, 4 yrs. Bst 121b—Sir G. Heathcote's Khondooz, 6 yrs, Bst 91b—Mr. Parr's Dulcet, 4 yrs, Bst 21b—Sir C. Monck's Glossy, 6 yrs, 7st 12Ib —Mr. Wigram's Keslieng, 4 yrs, 7st 91b—Mr. opeland's Arthur, 4 yra, 7st 91b—Lord Sandwich's Plantagenet, 5 yrs, 7st 91b—Mr. 13. Green's The Conjuror, 3 yrs, 7st 81b—Mr. Stewart's Cranebrock, 3 yrs, 7st 71b—Mr. Wyatt's The Mangler, 4 vrs, 7st 71b—Sir J B. Mill's Giantess, 4 yrs, 7st 31b—Mr. O'Brien's Jonathan Wild, 3 yrs, 7st 31b-111r Stephenron's Sheraton, 3 yrs, 7st 3113—Lord Albemark's Beaumont, 5 yrs, 7st 21b—Mr. Nevin's Remorse, 4 yrs, let 1 lb—Lord iMiltown's Flahowlagh, 4 yrs, Oat 101b—Mr. Drinkald's Widred, 3 yrs, Oat 91b—Lord Chesterfield's Cherry. 3 yrs, Est 71b—Colonel Anson's 'I om Tullock, 3 yrs, Est 51b (carried Gat 71b)—Mr. Mytton's Auricula, 3 yrs, 6st 51b— Duke of Rutland's Sister to Flambeau, 3 .yrs, Est 21b—Mr. Wall's Zela, ci vrs, 5.3 t I`2lb—Mr. Pemberton's Tugnet, 3 yrs, sst 12Ih—kr. Crockfcrd's Terrier, 3 yrs, sst 121b—Mr. Mostyn's Camera Obscura, 3 yrs, Sat lib—Sir J. Hawley 'a Prospect, 3 rs, sst 91b—Lord xeter's cby Colwick, out of Czar's dam, 3 yrs, 4st 10ib. Batting-7 to 1 agst Kesheng, Bto 1 agst Torn Tullock, 9 to 1 agst Terrier, 16 to 1 agst. Lightning, 16 to 1 agst Wolf dog, 20 to 1 agst Dulcet, 20 to 1 agsi. Widred, 25 to 1 agsi. Kliondocz, 25 to 1 agst Glossy, 30 to 1 agst Jonathan Wild, and 30 to 1 ajest Wit's-end. Won by a length ; Sister to Pergularia an indifferent third, but not placed, Kesheng and Wolfdog next. Run in 4 minutes 6 seconds. [Particulars of the running in our next.] Match, 300, h ft. T.Y.C. Lord Chesterfield's Lady Wildair, Bst 71b ...(Nat) 1 Lord Glasgow's Physalis, Bst 51b 7104 on Lady Wildair. Won cleverly by half a length. Run in 1 minute 15 seconds. The Clearwell Stakes of 30 soy s. oath, 20 ft, for two yrs old colts, Bst 71b; and fillies, Bat bib. T.Y. C. (40 Subs.) Mr. Alostyn's Glentilt (Abdale) 1 Mr. Newton's Reminiscence Mr. Payne's f by Venison, out of Cobweb The following also started, but were not placed :—Lord Albemarle's Madge Gray—Mr. Coape's f by Cardinal Puff, out of Jinglepot's dam—Mr. Copeland's Cheapside—Lord Eglington's Nerissa—Mr. G. Ongley's Maid of Athens—Lord Orford's c by Clearwell out of Zifforah—Mr. J. Osborne's Agnes—Colonel Peel's Sorrel—Duke of Richmond's Halo. Betting-6 to 4 agst Glentilt, sto 2 agst Cobweb filly, 4to 1 agst Nerissa, and 6to 1 agat Agnes. Nerissa made the running, followed by Agnes and Glentilt, Reminiscence waiting, but the whole lot lying up. They ran so to the new ground, where Glentilt obtained the lead, Reminiscence taking the second place, and the Cobweb filly the third; in this order they ran home, Glentilt winning by a length, and the same separating second and third. Run in 1 min. 14 secs. The Royal Stakes of 200 sovs. each, 120 ft, for three yrs old, colts, Bst 71b, and fillies, Bst 21b ; the second saves his stake. A.F. (14 Subs.) Mr. Combo's Sister to the Nob Mr. Bowes's Mowerina .. - Lord Albemarle's I; ad ul ph us Mr. Wreford's Wooden Wall Betting-5 to 4on Mowerina, and 2to 1 agst Sis to Nob. Sister to the Nob made all the running, and won by half a length. Run in 2 minutes 20 seconds. Match, 100, h ft. T.Y.C. Mr. Shelley's Broadsword, Bst 71b, received forfeit from Sir W. W. Wynn's f by Gladi ator, dam by Buzzard, Bst 41b. Match, 800, h ft. Ab. M. Mr. Merton's Ides, Bst 71h, received from Mr. Bowes's As-you-like-it, 6st 91b; both four vrs old. Mitch, Mr. W. H. Johnstone's Blind Hookey received from Mr. Clifton's Miss Love, Bst 71b each. Y.C. 100, h. ft. Match, 200, h ft. A.F. olonel Anson's lago, Bst 71b, received forfeit from Lord Eglington's Dolo, Bst 21b. Lord Glasgow's Conspiracy, 7st 71b, received forfeit from Mr. O'Frien's The Traverser, Bst 71b. A.8.M., 5001., h fr. Match, 300, h ft. R.M. Lord Glasgow's Conspiracy, Bst, received from Mr. Gully's Mendicant, Bst 111 b. Match, 500, 200, h ft, Bst 71b each, Duke of Bedford's Black Cat, received from Lord Glasgow's f (dead) by The Saddler, dam by Jerry. PERTH RACES. -..FRIDAY. A forced Handicap of 10 sovs. each, h It, with 50 added. Two miles. (12 Subs.) Mr. Merry's John Harris, 4 yrs, 7st 71b (H. Robertson) I Duke of Atholl's Glencronie, aged, 7st 71b Mr. Merry's hr c, by Don John, out of Peri, 3 yrs, 7st 41b 3 Mr. Campbell's Jack Cade, 5 yrs, Bst 101 b Won in a canter. The Member's Plate of 50 sovs., given by the County Mem ber; for 3 yrs old, Bst 51b; 4 yrs, 9st Ulb ; 5 yrs, lOst 21b; 6 yrs and aged, lOst 51b. Scotch bred horses allowed 31bs; half bred, 71bs ; and mares and geldings, 31bs. Twice round. Mr. A. Johnston's Sir George, 3 yrs Mr. Robertson's Tom 'rough, 6 3•rs .......... ....... Mr. W. H. Johnstone's Roper's Daughter, aged ..... dis Tom Tough won by a length, but having taken the wrong side of a post, was disqualified. The Caledonian hunt Plate of 50/. Heats. One mile. The winner to he sold for 200/, &c. Mr. Merry's Badinage, 4 yrs (H. Robertson) 1 1 Mr. Ramsay's Mid-Lothian ................ 2 2 Won easy. The Hurdle Stakes of 5 sows. each, p.p., with 20 added; Mt 71h each ; half bred allowed 71b. Once round and a die. ; over hurdles. Gentlemen riders. Mr. Hunte►'s Biscuit ...(Owner) 1 Mr. Robertson's Bullfinch, G yrs Duke of Atholl's Hotspur As Captain Liddell, eldest son of the Hon. H. T. Liddell, M.P., was exercising with the yeomanry cavalry. on the Town Mocr, Newcastle, he had an awkward fall from his horse, and received a kick from the animal on his chest. The sufferer was immediately attended b) the medical officer of the corps, and was afterwards con veyed in a carriage to Ravensworth Castle, where, we are happy to hear, he is doing well.—Durham Advertiser FATAL OMNIBUS ACCIDENT.—An inquest was held on Monday evening at St. Thomas's Hospital, before Mr. Payne, on the body of Robert Smith, aged fifteen. From the evidence of Mr. Wyse, tobacconist, of Wellington street, London-bridge, it appeared that on Saturday even. ing last he saw the deceased dart from the pavement as if he had been waiting an opportunity to cross, and on endeavouring to get to the other side, he ran or fell against an omnibus from the railway station. He fell just behind the horses, and both the wheels of one side of the omnibus went over him. The omnibus was pro ceeding at a moderate pace, and the driver could not possibly have pulled up in time to prevent the accident. Deceased died a few minutes after his admission to the hospital. Verdict,," Accidental Death." Tun NEW PLANET.—The present distance of the new planet, ex . pressed in common measure, is about 3,200,000,000 English miles from the sun, and about 3 ,100,000,000 from the earth. Its distance from Uranus —whose motions it disturbs—is about 150,000,000 of miles. Its diameter is estimated at 50,000 miles. That of Uranus is about 35,000 ; of Jupiter, 86,000 ; of Saturn, 79,000 ; of the earth, 8,000. Its cubic bulk is to that of the earth as 250 to I. The new planet is the largest in our system except Jupiter and Saturn ; and since these two planets, as well es Uranus, are each at tended by a train of satellites, it is extremely probable that the new planet will have a similar accompaniment. We had the pleasure of seeing the planet on Thursday night from the Calton Hill. It comes to the meridan a few minutes before nine, and is within a short distance of Saturn. With a power under 200 it is not distinguish able from a fixed star.—Scoteman. MAPPRRUENSION OF A RUNAWAY CLERK. -- On Wednesday information was given at the police•oflice that Mr. Joseph Clay had absconded, taking away a large sum of money belonging to Messrs. Leo Schuster. and Co. On the information above stated being com municated to Mr. Beswiek, chief superintendent of the detective police, he dispatched Inspector 2.l‘Mullen by the two o'clock express train, on Wednesday, to Liver pool, in search of the offender. The same evening Mr. Bcswick sent down to Liverpool Inspector Maybury, to assist M'Mullen, and about twelv e o'clock the same night the two officers went to the Liverpool Arms Inn, Water street, where they found Mr Clay in bed, cud imme diately took him into custody.—Afanchrsier Times. • • that the next advices from the other side of the Atlantic will inform us of a further important in quotations Owing to the boisterous state of the weather during the greater part of the week, our usual advices from the north of Europe had not come to hand up to a late hour this after noon. The latest accounts, therefore, which we have from Dantzic only reach to the 29th of September. The English advices of the 22d and 23d•ult. had caused much excitement there, and for the best qualities of high-mixed Whc at prices had risen to 555. to 575. per qr. free on .board; whilst for secondary sorts from 50s. to 535. per qr. had been paid. Within a day or two at least 5,000 qrs. had changed hands. All other kinds of grain had been held at ma terially enhanced terms, say making haley it 40s. to 445., arid boiling peas at 40e. to 41s. per qr.; but there bad been very little doing in either of the last-named articles. From the Lower Baltic ports the accounts are of a similar character ; and it is abundantly, evident that to secure supplies from the northern countries of Europe we shall have to pay very high prices. From Hamburg we have letters of the 2d inst. Ep corn appears to have excited more attention at that port than wheat, but for moderately good qualities of red marks 51s. to 525. per quarter, Lee on board, had been firmly insisted on. The inquiry for barley had been active, but owing to the extravagant prices asked (say 335. per quarter for good Saale), few bargains had been closed. Oats, to be shipped from Denmark, had sold freely at 21s. to 21s. 9d. per quarter free on board, weight per bushel varying from 37i lbs. to 39 lbs. In Holland wheat seems also to have further risen in value ; and we learn from Rotterdam that, on the 6th instant, good qualities of white were worth 58s. to 61s. per quarter. These rates, it will be remarked, do not admit of shipments being made from hence with a prospect of profit, but they are sufficiently high to cause the Baltic shippers to give the Dutch markets a preference. From the Mediterranean the reports are of much the same character as before; prices of both wheat and Indian corn were rapidly rising at all the leading ports, owing as much to the fear of local distress in conse. quence of the scarcity of provisions as to the exciting nature of the English advices. Since writing the above, the Hamburgh mail of Tues day has arrived, bringing advices of corresponding dates from the Baltic, by which it appears that a further ad vance has taken place in the price of wheat at all the principal markets.-111ark-lane Express. MADAME ANNA BISHOP. In the last number of the Musical WOricianarrative is given of the career of Madame Bishop abroad, evidently gathered from authentic sources, by which it would ap pear that every circumstance of her professional:life, be tween the years 1839 and 1846, has been attended with reputation and distinction of the most brilliant and un precedented kind—that the potentates of Europe have vied with each other in heaping honours upon her, not only in oral eulogies, but in gifts of excessive value. Her successes, indeed, on the Continent, if the record doth not " protest too much"—and, having last night heard her, we do not believe that it does—have never been equalled by any English singer ; and, so far as the recognisance of our own native talent is concerned, we are gled that; in these sorry times of its manifestation, a special instance of intellectual and practical merit has not bean overlooked. A note or two borrowed from the memoir alluded to may at this moment not be without interest ; Madame Bishop was the Miss Riviere who, in 1838, was one of the best and most pro mising pupils of the Royal Academy of Music, singing with applause at the Ancient and Philharmonic Conceits, and also at the principal festival;. After this, influenced by the suggestions of the present Earl of Westmorland, she commenced the study of operatic music cf the Italian school, with a view to an experiment on the stage, and in 18:39, at a dramatic concert given by Bochsa at • the Opara House, she sang selectiens from Rossinea Tancredi and Gthrzl Ladra in character, with credit and success. In the latter part of the same year ahe went ever to Cop:, - nhFtgen, where he gave tea concerts ueder the pa.ronage of the court, netting durin g her thr: , e months' resid e nc e i n I),nmark upwards of 12,000 thalers. In 1840 she traversed Sweden, and divided with •JenLy Lind, then, .as now, the • pr:ma donna of the Tiitatre the public Cavell:, en joy iog at the same time the immediate countenance of Prince Oscar. At Ursula she was scratald h . ), three hundred of the univ ersity students, vt Ito committed va rious other extravtigarcies denoting the • int( ieity of their admiration. Triumphs more brilliant still awaited liar at 4t. Petershurgh, w h ere s h e sang &fere th e i r Imperial Alajesties and the leading members of the Russian nobility, eciving costly tokens of opinion in d amends and precious gilts. From St. Peteraburgh she went successively to Doman Riga, Mittau, Moscow, Novogorod, Kasen in Tertiary, Odessa, Yessi in Mol. davia, Lemberg in Krakova, and Brume There seems to have been no limit to the enthusiasm which her pro faress over this extended route awakened—in one place she was presented with a Persian carpct and an elegant eofe ; at another some dozen pairs of bracelets were trans mitted for her acceptance ; while at Yassi the reigning prince condescended to lead her out to dance at a court ball, an act of grace which the Princess Royal followed up, by bestowing on her a set of turquoises and a purse of 300 sequins. We read also of a shawl worth 1,000 rubles, as an offering on the part of the Countess Paturka. A similar kind of ecia was iu store for her in Germany and Hungary: She gave concerts at Vienna (which she reached in 1842), Presburg, Pestle Raub, Carlsbad, Frankfort, Mayence, Darmstadt, Maeheim, Munich, Innspruck, Trieste, and Rovedero—the King of Bavaria being her kindest patron during this section of her career. In 1843 she visited Verona, Padua, Venice, Ik.igo, Fer rara, Florence, Rome, arriving at Naples in May. 'ln the last-mentioned city she remained upwards of two years, the whole of which time she enjoyed the position of prima donna at the San Carlo and the Fondo, exceptirg a short interval in 1844, when she sang for a few nights at Rome. It seems that her popularity with the vola tile Italians never abated during this long period, and that the mad enthusiasm which was exemplified on the night of her last Neapolitan appearance ex cee d e d a ll ordinary manifestations of popular frenzy. At the espe cial command of the Bing of Naples, she was then ex pressly engaged for the celebrated fetes of Palermo ; and having again reaped a harvest of hcuours and rewards from illustrious hands, she turned her steps homewards, through Switzerland, giving concerts at Zurich, Berne, Neufchatel, Geneva, and Basle ; afterwards at Heidel berg, Liege, and Brussels. Such has been the profes sional career of Madame Bishop since the public first became acquainted with her as a pupil of the Royal Academy of Music. - . . POST-OFFICE -- 13IPRO VEMENTS, The 10th inst., being what is known as the official quarter in most of the public departments, the altera tions which are said to have been in progress for some time in the General Post-office, with reference to the dassificatioa and salaries of the sub sorters and letter carriers, were expected to have been so far matured as to come into operation from and after the . above-named period. It is in those two multitudinous branches of the establishment, viz., the sub-srters and letter-carriers department, where the greatest discontent has pre vailed, where the prospects have been disheartening, and where justice, or aught like a fair and equitable remu neration for toilsome duties performed have been so long withheld. According to a return of the names, salaries, &c., of all persons employed in the General Post-office, ordered some time ago by the House of Cominous, it appears, that the maximum amount of salary, which the sub-sorter can—it may be after forty or fifty years' services —attain, is 1101. per annum ; nor may he even reach this, upon the average, until after a service of twenty-five years. By the new scale, which is now said to have been determined upon, and which is, in one respect at least, an improvement upon the old, it is proposed that there shall be twenty sub sorters at 1 le/. per annum ; 20 at 1001., 40 at 901., 40 at 80/., 20 at 67/. 125., and 20 juniors at 6.5/. Thus 1101. is still to be the maximum salary, but then you have a considerable numerical augmentation of the higher claisitications, and, consequently, better pres peels of speedy promotion. With reference to the letter carriers, it has been known for some time that the "Christmas gratuity" system was to be abolished. corifng to the Parliamentary return above alluded to, sr m , of the senior Imer-carriers receive in salary from the revenue only 361 S 5. per annum, or 14s. a.wetlc (It was net until 1832 that the ralary was increased to 1/. asweel:), whilst in some instances the gratuities average upwards of 100/. a-year. The new arrangements, it is trederetootl, aboihh it t.do this most objectionable, prin ciple of paying a public servant, and in consideration of the deprivation of thesegratuities, fix the scale of salary et from 60/., the minimum, to 110'. ter annum. Great im provement: are in ercgrces in the mercy-order depart ment of the Charing-eroes hraech. Frem the progres sive increase of business there, it has been found neces sary to afford the public greater accommodation and faciLties, and a number of workmen are engaged in en larging the money-order cflice, so that the public may have the same acres as to the counter in banking houses; indeed, this department of the rust-office may be, not inaptly, perhaps, termed a sort of Hank of Exchange." City estate (Lady When the Lord Mayor and the deputation from the Corporation of London visited the Dacre's bequest), at Brandsburtont inYorkshire, they in the most tiourishlng condition, and t f h ou e n t d en t a h n e ts pi a •o l ipy e e e rt r: rnted and happy. His Lordship and Aldermen Farebrother and Sir Peter Laurie having learned that Pcseyism was the order of the Sunday in a great part of the district, sent to ascertain whether the elerg - yman of the parochial church of the place was in the habit of preaching in a v:hite surrlice er a black gown. Upon being informed that he mounted the pulpit in white, they intimated that they were most desirous to:at tend Divine worship, but that they could not sanction any innovation upon the religious observance of their forefathers, and could not think of being present except the curate would exchange the white for black upon the occasion. There was no hesitation upcn-the subject. The offiektting clergyman, notwithstanding the establishment of the surplice es a preaching dress by Archdeacon Wil berforce, sent word to the deputation that they should see nothing to be cavilled at in any part of the service, and accordingly the Londoners had it all their own way. The church was crowded on the day the deputation at tended, and they departed, without having in any respect compromised their consciences. It is said that some considered this interference of the deputation as a proof of great liberality, ',ill calculated to operate as a lecture upon the new system, while others thought that it might just as well have ben let atone. PIN E ALT S IN SC OTL AN 1).-A correspondence bit A ixt the Honourable Board of Scottish Manulkicturers and the Royal Scottish Academy of Painting, Sculpture, and Architecture, relating to the accommodation of the latter in the Royal Institution huildings,Edinburgh,has re lived-the unnaturalcontest between these national bodies. The former a:4llounce that it will cut off the accommo '(.!t.tiens 'of the latter for annual exhibitions after 1847, and seems, indeed, determined to employ every means is can to depres,s, if not to destroy, the cultivation of that fine arts in Scotland.—Litcrary Ga.:ate. E 1