The Sun. — London, England, 1842-10-26 00:00:00

TILE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY MORNIN"G, OCTOBER 26, 1842. PORT NATAL. We have received Cape of Good Hope.pa?ers to the 7th of August, brought by the Bidston, Captain Harmer, which reached Liverpool yesterday. This arrival communicates the official fact of the final ces sation of hostilities between her Majesty's troops and the insurgent Boers. The terms agreed upon, toge ther with other extracts from the Cape papers, will be read with interest. (From the South African Commercial Advertiser, Aug. 6.) Her Majesty's frigate Isis arrived in Simon's Bay on Sunday last, from Natal, bringing back part of the troops under Lieut.-Colonel Cloete, commander of the late expedition, who immediately proceeeded to head quarters. On Monday the troops marched from Simon's Town to Cape Town, and in the afternoon of Monday the following " Government Notice" was issued for the satisfaction of her Majesty's loyal sub jects : " His Excellency the Governor is pleased to direct the following information to be made publicly known : "Lieutenant-Colonel Cloete left Port Natal on the 21st ult., on board her Majesty's ship Isis, and arrived in Simon's Bay yesterday afternoon, accompanied by a portion of the troops sent to reinforce the detach ment under Captain Smith, and has reported to his Excellency the Governor the final cessation of hosti lities between her Majesty's troops and the insurgent Boers—no further hostile demonstration having been shown by them after the troops under Lieutenant -Colonel Cloete's orders were landed. " The emigrant farmers having made a solemn de claration of their submission to the Queen, having re leased the prisoners, whether soldiers or civilians— having given up the cannon captured, as well as those belongingto themselves, and having restored all pub lic as well IS private property seized by them—the Lieutenant-Colonel, acting under the Towers vested in him by the Governor, granted a general amnesty or free pardon to all persons who might have been en gaged in resistance to her Majesty's troops and au thority, with the exception of Joachim Prinslo, A. W. Pretorious, J. J. Burger, Michiel Van Breda, and Servaas Van Breda. "He further declared that all private property would be respected ; that the emigrant farmers should be allowed to return to their farms, with their guns and horses—that they should be defended from any attack by the Zoolalis—that the tenure of their lands should not be interfered with pending the determina tion and settlement of her Majesty's Government— that beyond the limits fixed for the military occupa tion, their existing administration and civil institu tions should not be interfered with till the pleasure of her Majesty should be made known—that the Caffers should not be molested in the occupation of the lands on which they were settled at the date of the arrival of her Majesty's teoeps—subject to such futu re er rangemeets as' linty be made for general security by her Majesty ; and by a subsequent article appended to the cendition of this surrender, the IZeuteaant- Colonel, in consideration of Mr. W. Pretorious having co-operated in the final adjustment of the ar ticles of surrender, and of his personal humane con duct to the prisoners, and his general moderation, in cluded him in-the amnesty which he had extended to all, with the exceptions above named. " Major D'Urban and a second detachment of the 25th were to leave Port Natal on or about the 25th ultimo, leaving Captain Smith in command of the post, with a force of 350 men. " By command of his Excellency the Governor, (Signed) "J. MOORE CRAIG, " Acting Secretary to the Government. " Colonial-office, Cape of Good hope, Aug. 1, 1842." One thing we may point out, to satisfy, in some degree, the painful scorn and indignation universally felt at this disgraceful capitulation, namely, that the portion of it which recognises " the existing adminis tration and civil institutions" of the Boers is illegal. It is in direct contravention of an Act of Parliament made and provided expressly for the very case before us, of British subjects acting independently of the constituted authorities to the south of the 25th degree of latitude. This Act precludes all tampering with traitors or criminals of any sort, either by Lieutenant- Colonel Cloete, or Major-General Napier, or Lord Stanley, or the Queen herself. (From the Cape Frontier Times of Aug. 4.) The more we become acquainted with the courage, sufferings, and perseverance of Captain Smith and his handful of brave men, the more forcibly are we struck with the noble qualities which have been displayed. Every officer and every private soldier, -as also the youth of Albany, who were with the cam si p tio as n without waggon t drivers, &c., seem t o h ave b een ac tuated by one coil mon fueling of devoted heroism; .nor'& we doubt the statement we have heard, that rather,than surrender, they would, after ha v i ng h e ld th e ir position relief to -the very lastextremity, hay.' forth;- and either- have forced their .way through the : be- - siegers or else have fallen b e f o re > the fort which they had so long andgioinanfully defended. ' Many particulars of this conflict - are ecolabled in the subjomeiletter of our old friend Brown, 'which will he read with no small interest, conveyed as they are in' a style graphic, terse, and pleasing in no ordi-: nary degree. , This sensible and clever man will he brought by our publication of his correspondence. more fully before the eye of his superiors, and we shall rejoice if it at all subserve his advancement. This letter is, in many respects, incomparably the best ac count of the proceedings which has yet appeared. The table which we publish of the number of killed, wounded, &c., is, as proportioned to the number of Captain Smith's detachment, unusually large. Gallant fellows ! The dead are mourned by their country men; the living have their ad m i rat i on an d sympa thy ; and we trust will not go without more substantial reward. Of Colonel Cloete's doings little fresh has come to our knowledge. Every additional particular, how ever, corroborates the views of their character which we had previously formed, and leaves us utterly at a loss to what sources to ascribe a line of conduct, which strikes every one with astonishment, and calls forth universal blame. We have procured the following list of casualties amongst the British troops under the command of Captain Smith, from the commencement of hostilities with the Boers until the arrival of the Southampton. The list is not official, but we do not question its ac curacy. It does not of course include the soldiers shot the Boers, when the la n di ng was e ff ecte d under Colonel Cloete : Royal Artillery-1 officer, Lieut. Wyatt, 4 rank and file, killed ; 2 rank and file wounded. Royal Engineers-2 rank and file wounded. 27th Regiment-1 subaltern, En s i gn prior,ser geant, 7 rank and file killed. Died or wounds-3 rank and file. Wounded-1- Captain, Lonsdale, 1 subaltern, Lieut. Tunnard, .2 sergeants, 32 rank and file. Taken prisoners-1 sergeant, 1 corporal, 13 privates. Cape Mounted Rifles-2 rank and file killed; 2 ditto missing. 29 killed, 40 wounded, 15 prisoners, 2 missing.— Total 86. The reader will smile to hear, that shortly after the relief of the British camp, some of the officers who landed with Colonel Cloete despatched a messenger to Captain Smith to request a bottle or two of his best sherry, and some officers' biscuit. Of course the re quest elicited much merriment amongst the half famished garrison, to the great surprise of the envoy, until an eclaircissenzent took place. British Settlement, Port Natal, July 3, 1842. Dear Friend and Comrades—l am happy to state, with the greatest satisfaction in the world, that I and the other two buglers still survive, after being snatched from the jaws of death. I must say that the troubles of this wicked world were nearly over with us all here ; but thanks be to the King of Heaven, he has brought us relief, before we should perish or fall into that dreadful enemy's hands, who would not have left a man of us alive, if they could get their e n d s accom plished ; and I am happy to state that I had the plea sure to see the ruffians run, but not without taking was entirely J ul3r, and cu t our guns with them ; but, I hope, before long we nioaonndfigeldt h el' ieocffie: shall soon have them back again. I was rec b e e i c ied us y e o a ur n letter and Relter's, for April, on the Ist 11 I received your second letter for the 30th of May on c e t m e n fromt o r n f what e , a s communication,the 2d o f July. both by b y lreasonand and uf this sea, off from us by the enemy, during the siege and blockade. I suppose you requ o ir a e ,t a e s x t p a e t happened since my last letter from Natal, but this I hope you or any of the boys w it would be impossible for me to send the pstatea p whole e rt, ofo whatwritecanwouldtell orfour at present, but I hope in the Lord I will soon recover again. I mean to mention a happened after our arrival here. For some time the Boers were very peaceable, but at last they com menced to steal our cattle, and to take our herds pri soners. The Captain sent to thenisfolentele, f e o a u tt r le, but they would not send them back. We were after get ting our two 18-pounders mounted, one at the camp, and the other at the point, where our provisions and stores were, and a detachment of themselves to o: n r gun ners, one officer, a sergeant, and two corporals parties, wereon n e s am on p left there. to protect them. The Boers were seen on all sides of the wood, showing the morning of the 23d May in very large now and again ; but the Captain opened our hoist the but towards even ingthem from the camp. The 18-pounder made great openings among them, and put them to disperse for u ti n ie in C n a j p a t e a k in in in f t r e n n n d t ed of to nn , fi r re ea ll p that day. and one hundred The next day, being the Queen's birthday, mceerns N t N o ,er a e tt: , c a k rne th d e to D b u e tc r h ead c y am , p, the Captain held a c onsulta an i g io u d n n t s a w , and the hoWitzer were placed in a strong boat to proceed up the channel right under their camp, to throw in shells. The men left our camp at eleven o'clock, the night being clear and bright, the e nemy's and arrived close ' to 'DJ's camp Ptt 4 9U : 0 . , 'cl lc . op , ~.•,: 4 The grenadier company arrived here on the 24th of June, on board a merchant schooner, but she had to beat about the harbour until the arrival of the frigate. On the 25th the frigate came in sight, and fired two guns and three rockets as a signal to us, which was answered by us with one gun and one rocket, t• let them know we were in distress, and where we lay. On the morning of the 26th, being Sunday, all pre parations were made to effect a landing. The frigate formed a flotilla of gun-boats, each boat bearing a howitzer placed in her front for throwing shells ; all the other boats were laden with troops. At one o'clock the troops set off from the different vessels under the frigate's fire ; the gun-boats led the . van, and it was very handsome to see all the boats sailing up the chan nel, each having its standard waving in the stern. The enemy now commenced a strong fire on the boats from their guns and small arms, but without much ef- The moment the enemy perceived them in front of their camp, they fired such a dreadful volley of mus ketry on our men, that it made a great many inter vals through the ranks. Our men commenced a file firing, and kept it up very well ; the guns and rock ets kept playing into them on all sides, and the how itzer from the boat sending well-directed shells into the camp; but notwithstanding all this, the enemy kept a heavy fire up, their number was so great; they were cutting off our men very fast, and it was very little wonder, for they had ten times our number. After about an hour's engagement, the enemy's fire began to slacken very much, and the Captain intended to charge them, but when he saw he had so few to charge, he declined, and thought proper to retire home to the camp. You must understand, that where the action was fought was close to the sea, and it being a spring tide, our men were up to their waists in the water, and as soon as a man was wounded, he fell into the sea, and was drowned, for no person could offer any assistance at the time, for the enemy came in close pursuit after us; we left our dead there in like man ner. The most of the artillery was swept from the guns ; out of eighteen gunners, there were twelve cut away, killed, and wounded. The officer of the ar tillery received a shower of balls in the body (three in the head and four in the body). lie was in the act of firing the gun at the time. The gun oxen were all shot away, and it was impossible for the men to swim and draw the guns, as the tide was so full in. Many of our men fell victims to a watery grave, pe rishing in the water. We had not long arrived home at the camp, when the enemy made a dreadful charge on the camp on all sides, but they were repulsed with great loss. You may say, my boys, this was one of the most horrible nights ever I witnessed in my life : from ten o'clock until clear daylight in the morning. On this night's action the killed and missing were -17 and one officer ; wounded 24, one captain, one subaltern. The next day the enemy brought up our dead : they could only find 12, and the artillery officer. We buried them in a large pit convenient to the camp. The other five men must have been driven out with the tide ; so I intend to finish with the affair of Congella, or the Dutch camp ; and I must say it was an unfortunate thing for our guns to fall into the enemy's hands, besides a great number of small arms and ammunition; but I assure you it could not be helped, for you may easily know our situation. The number of the enemy killed on this night is estimated to be 130, and 70 wounded. There were 90 killed belonging to them in one kraal, by a shell from the howitzer. The Boers now seeing that our guns were already in their hands that were left be. hind previous to the action at Congella, and so many of our small detachment cut oft; they thought proper to cut off all communication by land, and the next thing they had In, few /Vdl re engage titsf point, and capture all our provisions.l,ceordingly oit the ‘26th morning they engaged the point, and, alit , an hour's engagement, they captured it, hilt no with out losing a great number of men. Our small detach ment, as I mentioned before, did their endeavour to keep it, but they were soon overpowered. There were only one sergeant, two corporals, and 13 men, and four gunners. The artillery fought well, until two of them were killed, and two wounded. The two that were wounded spiked the gun before the enemy came up to them, but when they saw the gun already spiked, they drew their knives, and ripped them from the bottom of the belly to the throat. They took all the rest prisoners. There were only one corporal and one private wounded, but the four artillery were killed. Now they had us completely blockaded by sea and land. They also went on board of the two vessels that were lying in the harbour, and took about thirty Englishmen prisoners, and bound them in irons, with a strong guard over each vessel. It happened very fortunate, that the officer belonging to this small detachment was up at the camp on duty , or else he would have been taken prisoner also. The Dutch Chief sent many letters to the Captain, entreating him to quit the camp, under the following circum stances :—To pay the sum of 10,0001. to the Dutch Republic, to pay the damage done on them, and, further, to give up all our arms, only twelve stand, that he would allow to each vessel to guard us down to Cape Town. Ile wanted to send us in the two vessels that were lying in the harbour, but this proposal only made our Captain smile, and he sent him back word he never would do any such thing. This made the impetuous chief bluster out with great execrations, and said he would starve us to death and burn our camp. The cap. taro knowing now they had three guns of ours in their possession, knew very well they would soon visit our camp, and blockade us, and keep us from getting any provisions or water; as the water was pretty far dis tant from the camp, he ordered the engineer officer to snake entrenchments all round the inside of the camp, =and build a breastwork up against the front of the Waggons, the way it would save the men from the enemy's shot. At this time they had the whole of our cattle captured, with the exception of 24 head, and we had, very unfortunately, only one waggon load of bis cuit up from the point before it was taken. On the night= of the 30th of May the enemy made all prepa ration for besieging our camp, and on the next morn ing, being the 31st, they commenced a dreadful can ' nonading on our camp. They had their guns point ing in every direction towards the camp, namely, one 18 pounder, two 6-pounders, one 12-pounder, two 4-pounders--total, six guns. I forgot to mention, that they had some handicraft among tbem that unspiked the 18-pounder and a 12-pounder that be longed to them, which was spiked by us when we came here first. They fired 160 rounds from their guns, besides showers of musketry the first day; but, thanks be to God, they did very little harm—only smashed the sides of the waggons. We had only two guns —one 18-pounder and howitzer—and they were kept going the whole day at the enemy. The 18- pounder dismounted one of the 6-pounders the first day, and the howitzer killed a great number of the enemy with her shell. The enemy now dug entrench ments at the distance of one hundred yards from our camp, all round, for their small arms, and to save themselves from the fire of our camp. Here now I, may mention that we were no loner inhabitants of the earth, but o f th e un d er wor ld, living in subterra neous caves, or caverns, or sepulchral tombs. Our situation now was surely miserable, and we could get no water, only running in danger of being cut to pieces going for it outside of the camp, by the enemy's fire, for that was the only time they kept up a strong fire. On the third morning of the siege the enemy sent us a flag of truce to our camp for the purpose to send our women and children, sick and wounded, on board of the vessels in the harbour, and that they would be taken good care of; but this was only policy of them to find out how many were disabled, that they might make an attack on our camp. None of the women would go, only Mrs. Lonsdale, and the captain would not admit of any of the sick to go, and said he would nail the flag to the mast-head before he should ever give them the satisfaction of surrendering. Our provisions now were getting very scarce, and the enemy shot most of the few cattle we had in the kraal to keep us from living, if possible. All the oxen we had now left alive were killed immediately to make 'biltong' of, lest the enemy should destroy any more of us. The enemy still kept up a formidable fire every day on the camp—upwards of 100 rounds every day. We were living now on six ounces of biscuit-dust and a half a pound of biltong. Our coffee and sugar were all out in like manner. This only kept the human frame from failing; and this was not all ; after the biltong was all out we were obliged to feast on horseflesh. This was very disgusting at first, but hunger obliged us to make use of it. I now wish to make a remark, that we should never frown when the Lord sends us good food to make us happy, as it is often the case men frown at bad meat and bread ; but if they were in our situation, they would be glad to eat any kind of bread or meat before they would eat horseflesh that was putrified, or blue moulded dust, but we were very glad to make use of it. To finish the siege, and not dwell longer upon it, the enemy kept their guns going for sixteen d a y s on our camp, and then brought them down to fortify the point against the reinforcement that was coming up, for they were well aware that King made his escape, and that he would discover all. Although i the guns were taken away, they still kept us in by their small arms. The captain now determined to level some of the intrench ments belonging to the enemy, in the dark of the night, and out went twenty men and two officers. They went on their hands and feet until they came on top of the enemy. They were all asleep, only the sentry, who fired and shot Mr. Prior in the heart. This alarmed all the rest, and such a dreadful car nage never was heard tell of before. Our men fired and charged them with bayonets, and muzzle to muzzle; the Dutch shouted for mercy, but of course they got none. They drew their hunting knives, and scarified a great number of our men ; but they only killed two and the officer, and our men killed every one •in the intrenchments, in number about thirty six, and then returned to the camp. If they waited much longer, the whole of the enemy would have cut them all to pieces ; but they were in good time here. We remained until the reinforcement arrived. 4. FRAUDS ON THE COFFEE TRADE I "'I F O'•'T - .:N(i I , TE141.••(.. t'l E. NE . 11 .zutik.--.%.0...0.k v :swim • -- ENTRY FOR TUESDAY'S RACES. 3 ° l , list three miles of B.C.—Faina, 4 yrs—Ajax, 4 ps—f out of Flambeau dam, 3 yrs—The Biddy, 3 yrs— „,rile eltailye of Sil ver k e l d Well, 3 yrs —P roso d y, 3 yrs— .iopsail, 3 yrs •by Bolero, out of Captain Hook's d., 2 Yrs—Rice (Rhodocantha filly), 2 yrs—Nylghau, 2 yrs, and Barbarina, 2 yrs. olSweepstakes of 10 sovs. each, last half of Ab. M.— ,i' llil s°tcf 4 • yrs—The King of the Peak, 5 yrs—The Z we s-C 5 yrs—Sister to Glencoe, 4 yrs--Pelerime, 4 fs7-11apture,3 yrs—Bridale, 3 yrs—Sweetmeat, 3 yrs— ', 1 1 Plenipo, out of Marefield's dam, 3 yrs—and Badwell Asia, 3 yrs. ii na ldicap Plat e of 100 i. D.l.—St. Francis, aged -sefils, 6 yrs—Tamburini, 6 yrs, 9st 21b—Belissima, Yrs ?it 121 b—Discord, 5 yrs, 9st 21b—Una, 4 yrs, , _it 81b—Fama, 4 yrs ?se—Snowdrop, 4 yrs, ist—The ' l4° .}a of Silverkeld ' Well, 3 yrs, 6st 31b—Prosody, 3 Y rs 3 , 6st 71b—Ma Mie, yrs, 7st 51b—Arcanus, 3 yrs, ist 21b . Ps 4ecePtances for the Nursery Stakes.—First Class : i le , s Y, Sat 81 b—Cotherstone, Bst 41b—Bessy_Bedlam f, 18/4,131b,--Rook's Nest, 7st 131b—Galata c, rst 1 11b— I --l'a idato, 7st 101b—Nylghau, 7st 71b—Bothet'em, slits.ib. Second Class : Queen of the Gipsies, Bst 10lb-- r,_ to.„-c.ombat, Bst 41b—Fanny Davies f, 7st 1 11b— hi taitok colt, 7st 111b—The Saddler filly, 7st 61b -'elit), filly, 7st 51b—Marquis, 7st. .a_BC.EIVED THIS MORNING.) ~ I'h AR KU HOUGHTON MEETING. Ze iiiiierable state of the weather having prevented sindirig a full report of all the races from the Heath, fo ° k_ ith itnn . soiree additional particulars of the running "ittue Criterion and C am b r id ges hi re St a k es . !3:/e lllllla -km—Gaper jumped off with the lead at a good ' followed by the Macremma filly and Testy ; at the t,,_ 1 . 8 _Read the two fillies changed positions, but still toirtelesely upon Gaper to the cords, here the Yaxley Wil;h4wentPassing neckm filly, and cleared the _ 4 O ~,,,.n k claw with his before Testy, and his head at litio,L'' 's t ail ; Lord Exeter's filly was beaten a couple of th e 7,'"B from Testy, and had a trifling advantage over Co estneeothers were beaten off. kfter43II3RIDGESHIRE STA S ES.—The race commenced tim e' s w,o failures, about half an hour after the appointed_ b*t,,, ho lead being taken at a good pace by the Bus i k . IN - ' the Gleaner, Lady Adele, and several others . fo de D ,Y,„g,iu the track. At the turn of the lands Belissima kV( ) all the Busk mare of the lead, and attended by the am - ; ) ,•ues, Garry Owen, Knight of the Whistle, Florence, 1410j,lee or four others, west on with the running to Nize.'s Stand. where she gave up, and Florence took 1110Vild with Lady Adele, Garry Owen, Knight of tpte th, es and Ralph closely laid up, made strong play . L° rty 1 : "Os- Ralph then drew up, passed Florence ‘ lean l rom the chair, and won easy at last by le_ .acj,l , ' ady Adela was two lengths from Flo c' *4 not a neck before Garry Owen, who X",...4 t 0 81 ° 2 11r e t advantage over Belissima, the i „ .7 --nre 5e ,,,, ~ e, Whistle was sixth, .an . d _I-am_-no s t s - Z 4 Pare gt : l hn• laellOr, the Gleaner, Gillingham La ,74„ a l' o , - 7, , weeabenten,off a long way. Value of the zgate e 4 -- " The ectral number of c:tartei-s was ()illy , 'elZ 1%2, h ie Dalt , of Bedford's Moneda, which hat), a .hottli,'"gi,,,,fNi for, having been declared not to start I t eatil zt rure the ring broke up, we were not apprised of th e ter our express had left. ti tesk set did not finish until four o'clock, and the I ' l , l U , 4 rig in shortly after, there was no ring in front i' it ilts • r P il s• The only bets laid were 50 to 30 on the _twir,e3s r ort . :l l ld gg p s h tA ili lu p r , at,and 500 even between the both for the Derby : b rottgr na tell between John o'Gaunt and Janne Forest is it forward from Saturday to Monday. 'll TUESDAY. kkee settling for the Criterion and Cambridgeshire It list4, °e cuPled the whole of the morning, and, in the the L ai ' ef complaint, may be put down as a good one ; , t he I ,„ 4 nes, ,we believe were not heavy. The weather a. .ao lve - 0. 7. Bo cold and rainy as on Monday, but __w , as , mrs ~.,,,‘ e nough to make close carriages desirable. The rtrti es „ i, contained six races, of which we subjoin the lat t —,rs, with the exception of the Feather Weight ttill:4_'die:.:ivesh Iv" not decided when our account left. •er, p 't.'P Plate of 100 L, for three year olds, &c. 1). I. St. Francis, aged, 9st 21b (Chifney) 1 kirevr o , . It ir. lir ... 7 s Lna, 4 yrs, 7st 81b 2 Jr. J. ! T S er's Bellissima, aged, 7st 1216 ,41r.,/, Clarkearnburini 6 yrs, Bst 51b 4 j r ,' • , 9 .od 4% ,_ , a Arcenus, 3 yrs, 7st 2lb 5 h ilt. o,, v 7eY a Snowdrop, 4 yrs, ist 4k 6.l.steY'S Snowdrop, 4 yrs, 7st ' Lydon' Bo • 6 85t 71b 1, bett ia , scius, yrs,B r x„aei s 4 , -- ‘) to 2 agst Bellissimii, 3 to 1 agst St. 1 rto sei ' ' to 1 agst Una, and 6 to 1 agst Arcanus. red h t k B , ll 3ae the running for the first half mile, fol 'ellissut• Y-e l anta, and Bellissima ; he then gave way, and F, 44 4 -4 . went on with a good lead at a severe pace,__ t td this ..°nowdrop lying up with her, Arcanus and S . , l ei t ,th the rear. Bellissima lasted to the cords, and L itt ` ll•° PPed b lisl e astern ; St. Francis mn . v drew towards Y a 1 ' her ft few strides from the Chair, and won easy 411 ens el/ g t ilt ai , ; Bellissima a very bad third ; and the Lbtrk 4 ed' off. le jof liedford's John o'Gaunt, 4 yrs, Bst 71b (Ito -`' l i % :1 4i tg Lord_Eglintou's Doctor Carus , 5 yrs, Bst; 4 t o " ,'life; II : 1 luhn. o'Gennt, who won by eight lengths. hail tit Of 15 Sm. each, for three yra old, 7st 10_1: , ft 1 81 44th ; five yrs and upwards, Bst 81b ; las 14‘Ln ° 4 • - k., • the winner to be sold for 804 &c. .. p s nikittli r 4 ut k i, lrteci ti . • Th a of R ed , Inure, 3 yrs (Nat) 1 k z e foNirdia King of thaPeak, 5 yrs yrssex,tl3ll, .Iti . so started, but were not placed :- 8 1 ,•, -4 dr,E t ,-'ells„ on, 6 yrs—Sir S. Spry's Jewess, k —I. to Gier,_ -ke st'elerine 4 yrs—Mr. E. R. Clarke's on r • Pettit' s s--ie: 4 Yes_Lord Orford's Bridal, 3 yrs -4 °3 M aresfi e d ee : ilt eet, 3 yrs—Mr. Rush's c by Plenipo, 1,14h* yrs. 3 d arer, 3 yrs—Mr. Sare's Badwell 44 1g5 ... 6 t 1 / 4 4" i tle 6t o / ° 4 agst King of the Peak, 6 to 1 agst 4to 1 • agst Sister to Glencoe, 6to 1 agst Bridal, Aft a gst Sw off " t wo or eetmeat. k o with a three false starts King of the Peak went the u t i ' all t °43(l .i n lead at a rattling pace, followed by Ita °Pea the b uP except Rapture and Chilson. At bt P ul tUre p tuin. two drew upon the leading horses, and by a e Peak b f . thena in rapid succession, caught King IV n „„eolt. 13 4 ,,,ew, Yards from the chair, and beat him j o .tee wi,,,'''`alt Badwell Ash, and Jewess were well °MT t gii n . i er ,was claimed. ee p r "'s It srni ° ll s Pompey, Bst 71b (Lye), beat lilrd , o tupe . aid. Bst 21b. T.Y.C. 100 h ft. 13 to 8 1 a length easy.. ' ' ''etl td i. d ' rfor W 4 rl %kV beat c e , St. Patrick, out of Wild Duck W u y le Ives s c by Onas, out of Mopsy, Bst 71b 4 by s i.,;;' 100 h ft. 2tol on Lord Orford's colt. t k - Length & ltt jk ,, ZuItDINARY CHARGE OF it ea N l , S abhaT L t E EP-STEALING. o r ctg wm - i li . Lust, an extraordinary charge of sheep. ~ 414 % , rought against two Cumberland drovers t'Pret. era, 'who la w uebd„, l gave their names as Foster, and were Vir e t 011..b. 4 — ; and examined at Raecleugh, or Raick- A. it'S Iv ' °n the Moffat and Crawford toll •road. 7,zaf,.ie.‘,tebted for the following particulars to the it we I.llints:-- l ot alhiZl, been informed that the Fosters had been ib C) f all 'lst, where they had purchased a large itig the4ieest--•fifty score, we believe—but in driv -0.,..the ~,,,.,I , l t h for Carlisle, it was alleged that, l i t u a ltecl r e Q old Border fashion, they had re • Oita s tiets a s tel!iginal numbers, by taking up some loTw th at "eY Went along. ' Be that as it may, we 'leen at the friend Mr. Hevvetson of Auchenbenzie, N D ' she e ,_ "e TrYst, where he had ' also purchased a ti 4 Wer e - 1. 1 N'llich were on their way home, when P Y • Th 041 3" taken out of a field and driven c°4l4 e te r till ht i eY al , , ver e afterwards got among Messrs. th e t,Pers en. - LI With another lot belonging to an t 'nate air. Hewetson's drivers gave chase to 4% hi. r ill in 44. 41 V lttlt of ~eensequence of information given by hew er at ii,„"ir• Hepburn, late in Comrie, now I N:r t l °4l B 14; 111 . His servant . had . seen My. to , ot. 0_ taken in the direction of the tlirtS7ll2 Ponsteirri H i ewetson's servants getting up -4ter as giv e sheep, near Crawford, a plump 1 , va s reN and nto their flock being among Messrs. brvi t arttsa 4°tl ling but a put-off abusive rebuff Il f seY llet in m sfa a nl all inspection denied. Another 4 11„ e114 er i —rnetlen " who was minus a small lot t*et ' 'reatz ki ng "4lll • ' met with tile 1 41 • tent, similar inquiry, et e ukt ti • Meantime Messrs. Foster, who had h:lB Ver Y 4 °14 for • ob t 4 : i -.xi— grazin g quarters for their large eh ste„„,e n t rh os -Y t m d their stock, driving on -4-`ll4.yalpf, s uspicioust earitnt.fiv ciec rn u i m le s s tan . c: i s r — . H w e it w h - - t, 4 its B i Plier s •Y , Sta nce were advised t e o apply for redress 44 4 B°ll of I, t° E. Irvine,E M.P., of N ew /1, 4,_ , th e 1.,_• sq., , . tt ~ beta 'cite Lord Newton. On the circum I vev s "ebt 06 , st ated to him, he instantly set out, ppli,,?ast U p ''° Messrs. Foster, who, by this time, etio7s ti nnw:, l ° ll on the Moffat side. Mr. Irvine's Part, to' gi ven. met with a similar refusal, and no satis . - 44 ha swear SIVe .It became necessary then, on his ti the ploevina parrevlinouesoinstables, which he instantly did, Ile f 0 tirat ort „ y sent an express to Lanark for est e : l ll a m _f . l , l seal of the county, he then went in `•stait_ll Ti le _ wi tn goodly force in search of Messrs. tviis;44.l intn•Y Cos overtaken and forcibly stopped atio u e arri v • sba dY, and the Procurator Fiscal t4ll Wit In g, they were examined along with f e eln • n esses or th .ta t t tts and a warrant granted immediately i del lt /v ltb r en le : _to Lanark gaol, whither they were Per ta ,fled ed• Mr. Hewetson and his drivers the 4 ill Pvvatds of f f his o sc n o g re o sheep, and the ni s sear c h •-• 'o 2 , i ti i : i g e l :l; enseneenethesatioimr all lot of seventeen also got Messrs. Foster's stock. N °2o 'noi, all t' ) 1 , 4 ! 1 ti;tit4"tos'rom Braechat to Ben Ijaish -3,,,' 411,..`)11,Ptains are thickly coated with snow. •r•ttt,.' - 41dvelliser. ‘ci rt: paper lately tiekl f„,,RE, Or TUE LUNGS.—In °Pinion tl " em 3 " LA ex treti l i he mammaiia, 4s (4 ' -- tn e -A. d , f Sciences, t M. Bourgery. at th e , , iat Irian and in general, t 4 se s 0 1 ties of their lives, ektr vortebrated • ls which display the two ernc,s ~,, , animals approach the two the says a alth„,„ , ~ '- aerial respiration. In fact,l , , from Yea r to .„48 adolescence approaches, the g un - faces to t he air .)ear, present fresh sanguineous sur ~ t ot b ,so that the breathing, by its development,e2l. s mi Y e t, forms of its organs, more and more pruports*the i respiration of birds. In the old man,. in g.radti. i i `'n to the advance of decrepitude, -the lu.ngsa.... 11141411 ; (101oposecl into aerial caverns, which that his res i ,e ''anguineous surfaces in proportion ; so t t t he t ititer., ti Ircitiori, both bts actual volume, and by . 44,4441,(1312 of the strutre of the organ in . which it _____. f'") Nt‘lblo6 tilat of roptiloio.-ilfedwa Gag T'sE, NEW CONSTI'IIJTION FO!; Nu:LANv. (From the Neu:Pundlander, Sept. 1.5.) There are already several candidates in - the field seeking the suffrages of the constituencies. What their chances of success may be seems to be proble matical, for noth►ng like a general move on the subject has yet been made. But little time, however, can elapse before the tone and disposition of the electors must be elicited to a certain extent, when something like an opinion on the issue of the returns may be better ascertained. The movements in St. John's must be regarded as important, exercising as they do an influence on the island generally, and as these have already been partially made, it becomes our duty to consider whether they are of a nature calculated to promote the public interests. A meeting was held on Sunday last to consider the propriety of nominating three fit and proper persons to stand as candidates for this district, or in other words to consider whether the representation shall be made a question of party, to be determined wholly by the power to make it a monopoly. Three candi dates were named, viz. :—Dr. Carson, L. O'Brien J. V. Nugent, Esqrs., and from this it will clearly be inferred that the determination was arrived at to admit of no compromise, as if the inevitable consequences of such a proceeding were a matter of no moment, as contrasted with party interes t. -These are times when it is necessary and impera tive that we should speak plainly, and place the cir cumstances of the country before the public under the influence and in the language of reason, for we are on the eve of events whose importance cannot be too highly estimated, and which, if not properly dealt with, a vast amount of injury must be the conse quence. It therefore behoves every man who values the prosperity of the colony to fling aside party con siderations—and where such interests are at stake as are involved in the proceedings in which we shall soon be called upon to act—to make the public good, the common weal, the sole guide for the regulation of his conduct. The struggles and contentions of party have hitherto proved a bar to every measure of improvement. So ciety has been split and severed by its blighting influ ence—and eventually has it led the way to the pre sent anomalous form of government. But " there is a soul of good in most things evil," would we but draw it forth • and in the constitution which has been given to us, there are elements which seem almost to demand 'of us that co-operation should take the place of former disunion and strife. The people are, as it were, called upon to sustain themselves against a power ful executive control•—their proceedings will be scru tinised under the rigid surveillance of the Crown, and toward that power, be it ever so rigidly used, a jea lousy on the part of the representatives of the people will natuvally be felt. Could any other circumstances be so well calculated to make the latter a compact body, or render it so essential that they should be so, and yet the opportunity of merging points of past dif ference, which alone can lead the way to that concur rence of action, seems to be wholly neglected, though necessity, as well as so many other considerations, set so strongly in favour of such an arrangement. But if the elections in such districts as this are to be carried coute qui coute, the bad feelings they will engender will not be buried with the occasion, and we have said enough to show the ultimate effects. LUDICROUS BLUNDER.—On Friday, a curious mis take occurred at the Romford Quarter Sessions. One of the Magistrates, T. Mashiter, Esq., having desired a policeman to stero Mr. Surridge, at the bank, for two " bk. draughts," the messenger, it would seem did nit understand whither he was to go, for he went with the note to Mr. Sewell, the chemist, and speedily re turned to the Court with two black draughts, which the worthy Magistrate took (into his hand), and the mistake, as may be imagined, caused a shout of laughter upon the bench.—Essex Herald. AN UNCLE STABBED BY HIS NEPHEW.--George Copser was charged before the Rev. J. P. Newby, at the Count .office, Leicester, on Saturday last, with stabbing John Kenney, with intent to murder him. The prosecutor owns some houses at Whetstone, one of which the prisoner had occupied for some years, without paying any rent. After repeated applications, the prosecutor caused a warrant of dis tress to be issued upon the goods of the prisoner, who told the officer serving the warrant that he " would murder the old devil (meaning his uncle) the first time he met him." This threat being communicated to the prosecutor, he went to Blaly for the night, but returning the next morning, thinking the passion ofl his nephew had subsided, he went into his garden. The latter no sooner caught sight of the prosecutor than he rushed towards and stabbed him in the left side with a clasp knife, inflicting a wound three inches in depth, and an inch and a half in width, penetrating through a fustian coat, waistcoat, and belt. The pri soner had withdrawn the knife, and was in the act of repeating the blow, when his arm was arrested by another person of the name of Cosper, who secured the prisoner. Medical assistance was forthwith pro cured, and the attendant said, that had not the knife taken an oblique direction, death must have been in stantaneous. The prisoner was fully committed to the assizes on the capital charge. SCARCITY OF WATER.—From all parts of the coun try we haxe accounts of the scarcity of water, and wheels depending upon water power are every where nearly at a stand, while many works have been totally suspended. As great eagerness is manifested for the return of rain, as we are in the habit about this season of feeling for the continuance of fair weather. A few slight showers fell on Monday and Tuesday, but a cold dry wind has since set in, which has for the present deferred the wished-for change. The oldest people cannot remember a season when, at this time of the year especially, our moist climate exhibited such a protracted period of dry weather. The Clyde is at present as low as it has ever been, a curious effect of which is produced when the tide is flowing. The ordinary current of the river presenting no per ceptible resistance to the upward flow of the tide, the stream may be daily seen at the time running through the arches of the bridge eastward, with considerably greater rapidity than the river usually flows west ward. The scarcity of water in other parts of the country, and in many places in our own neighbour hood, is fortunately not experienced in the city, where it is supplied by our efficient Water Company in abundance and purity, in the worst of .times.—Scot fish Guardian. THE ANTIPATHY OF THE MONREY.—Most animals entertain a morbid antipathy to the serpent species, but in no one instance is that antipathy more sen sibly manifested than among the monkey tribe, as the following narrative may tend to elucidate : A company, consisting of about twenty monkeys (the Hoonoomuns), or black-faced monkeys of Bengal, had colonised in a lofty tamarind tree, near the little village of Rhannaserye, a short distance from the town of Dantoon. The tree was situated on the road side on the route to the temple of Juggernaut, and was resorted to during the sultry tide of noon by viatory pilgrims and others, who occasionally in. dulged the inhabitants of the tree with fragments of plantains and other fruits (for the Hindoos enu merate the Hoonoomun monkey among their nu merour divinities.) On one occasion an ex citement manifested itself among the Hoonoo mun corps. A general whooping, chattering, and screeching simultaneously burst forth from the tree, which had become the seat of the utmost confusion. On our approaching the spot, the scene was utterly indescribable ; the whole of the branches of the tree were agitated by the manual ex ercise of the black-faced fraternity, as if they laboured under the convulsing influence of a north-wester; in short, had not the cause of this very extraor dinary commotion been elicited, any cool rea soning person would have been led to believe that Bacchus had misled this sober society from the routine of their wonted gravity ; but upon our casting our eyes upon a bough half way up the tree, we perceived a huge cobra capello snake lying at full length, which had ascended thither, with a view, no doubt, of satiating his appetite with a squirrel or two, with which animals the tree was furnished. The tree standing by itself, none other being in jux taposition with it, the alarmed colonists could not effect their escape by a transit, and to descend one inch nearer their scaly foe than where they then were, would have been worse than undergoing the chance of breaking their necks by leaping down upon the ground from their elevated situation. At length one of the troop made a tremendous spring, which ex ample was followed successively by the whole of the body, and the runagates scampered away into a jungle on the opposite side of the road. The snake we suc ceeded in destroying, but the horror which the sooty countenanced community felt at the serpent's en croaching upon their dormitory was so impressive that they were never again seen near the tree, although many a weary pilgrim afterwards found a grateful shelter under its umbrageous branches. IGNORANCE AND CRIME IN CHESHIRE.—On look ing over the list of prisoners tried this week at the Knutsford Quarter Sessions, we find that out of 114, one-half can neither read nor write, 32 can read and write imperfectly, 24 can read, and only one can read and write well ! Such statistical facts as these ought to be perpetually held before the public mind, in order that the influential classes may be stimulated to exert themselves for the promotion of popular instruction. In the late disturbances, we have seen the effect of ignorance on a scale of fearful magnitude ; and. it would be well if a timely lesson could be learned from it, by th ose who have it in their power to apply a remedy. The Magistrates at Knutsford were very properly engaged on Monday in discussing the best imeans of lessening the enormous expense of prose cutions to the county. If one-half o f the large sum thus expended were to the education of the negl b :ct a ed ppli portionl.e l fora do fgf good the popula tion, might it not be expected t ed oy in the way of pecuniar y savin gyineaterrsetso ?--Macclesfield Chro- I nick. A highly respectable and influential meeting of parties engaged in the coffee trade was held on Mon day, at the London Commercial Sale Rooms, for the purpose of taking into consideration the best mea sures to be adopted for effectually checking the whole sale losses incurred upon coffee delivered from the various docks short of the original weights, and also to discuss the causes of the. same. Mr. EDWARDS took the chair, and, in opening the business of the meeting, took occasion briefly to re mark, the difference between the original and re weights at the docks had become so great as to show that it was high time something should be done for the protection of the importer. He was satisfied that semething unfair was going on, from the carelessness of the servants in the various docks, and it would be for the meeting to consider what would be the best steps to be taken with the view of obtaining redress. Mr. RICHARDS observed, that this was not the first time such malpractices were complained of. Two years ago great pains were taken to obtain satisfaction, and the agitation at that time produced some effect, but since then the losses had again arisen, and were now almost equal to those at the period complained of. Their property was not adequately protected by the Dock Companies, in justification of which assertion, he could refer to facts. Looking over the-clearances of coffee by his firm, only since the new duties had' come into operation, he found they had sustained losees to the extent of 1,6311b5. ; that, moreover, there- was much inequality in the amount of such= losies, while, • in one or two instances the weights had - inereased e especially of six tierces in the West India Docks-. The managers of the docks ascribe this deficiency to natural causes ; but, if such were the case, the loss would be regular, whereas some of the bags were equal to the landing weight, others had increased, and many were short llb. to 21b. How could this be the result of natural causes ? On the 9th of September last he cleared one cask of coffee from the West India Docks, and when it came home it was llb. short of weight. Subsequently he took out two more casks of the same paral, and found that one had lost 91b.; and the only answer received from the docks, after a delay of one month, was, that it must be attributed to natural causes. He trusted that the trade would take steps to get satisfactory explanations, and have their property protected; and concluded by putting the first resolution, to the effect, " That the great losses sustained upon coffee in the docks demanded redress." Mr. Quicx seconded the resolution, and proceeded to the detail of various losses incurred by his house since the reduced duties caine into operation. Mr. SATOW thought that as the present meeting was convened for the discussion of a trading fraud, it might be well timed to call attention to the deficiency arising upon other goods. The cbserved that if too much were undertaken, the meeting might fail in its present ob ject. When the coffee trade had its losses redressed, many other articles might be taken up on the same principle. Mr. SATOW recommended that a Society should be formed, to include the merchants of every trade, so that their remonstrance might come with more force before the Dock Companies. There were grounds of complaint in reference to goods exported, and the tares allowed were also not fair, and such as they used to be. Mr. Rowe concurred in the remarks of the last gentleman. Other goods increased in the gross weight as well as in the tares. There was a great anomaly in the various docks, and only one conclusion could be drawn, and that was, that some malpractices were carried on by the Companies' servants. Why, there fore, should not a remonstrance be drawn up to in. elude all goods, as, in the event of the coffee trade suc ceeding, the other merchants would have to go over the same ground again. An endeavour should be made , to get the whole evil remedied at once. Mr. Wy.f.,Es objected to a coalition. They should urge the coffee question first, and take the others afterwards ; it was absolutely necessary that the in quiry should be made, as the deficiency must arise from an imperfect method of weighing, for he had observed upon personal attendance that the Crown officers weighed goods without any one being by to check them, and might therefore return wrong weights more or less. DELAFOSSE stated that coffee used, 20 years ago, to weigh over the landing quantity, even after being in dock seven or eight years, but that now, upon a lot of 100 bags, he had discovered a deficiency of 2201b5. Mr. SCHNELLE said that if the coffee interest alone remonstrated the Dock Companies would wonder why they had no complaint from any other branch of trade. As a general merchant he might observe that losses upon goods exported could not be recovered, for it had been found that merchandise shipped to the Con tinent, even though but from 12 to 24 hours in Iran situ, was not, upon arrival at its destination, of the weight specified in the invoices. Parties in holland had made frequent complaints upon this subject, and though he did not mean to deny that frauds might be committed in the warehouses abroad, yet it had been made, a point to weigh the goods immediately upon their being landed at Rotterdam, and yet they were found to be short. Complaints were made that the English were losing their 'foreign trade, but such facts would partly account for the decline. Co-operation and assistance were necessary in such cases, especially as the coffee trade had been disappointed once in their application. The CHAIRMAN rema rked that the present meeting was called to consider the coffee question only. Mr. RICHARDS begged again to call attention to the fact that formerly coffee almost invariably in creased largely. Upon casks cleared in 1832 he had an increase of 51bs. to 7lbs. ; and upon others landed in 1831, and not cleared till 1833, there had been an increase of 81bs. to 121bs. each. Mr. HARRISON considered it an important circum stance in their favour, as showing that coffee should increase when left in the warehouses, that the Excise formerly allowed two per cent. on the value, but which it took away on the ground that the article increased in quantity. The resolution as to the existence of frauds, &c., above given, was then put and carried. Mr. HUBBERFIELD (of the firm of Peek Brothers) moved that a Committee be appointed to remonstrate with the Dock Companies on the subject, and to ob tain redress. Mr. QUICK seconded the motion, which was agreed :o, and the following seven gentlemen were se __ _ _ leeted Edwards, Mr. Richards, Mr. Hubber- field, Mr. John Wyles, Mr. Lewis, Mr. Richard Hillhouse, and Mr. Quick. After some remarks from Mr. Sydney and others, thanks were voted to the Chairman, and the meeting adjourned. EBENEZER ELLIOTT AND THE CHARTISTS.—The following is a letter from Ebenezer Elliott to the Chartists of Dunfermline :—" Sirs,—Your letter of the 24th of August last reached me this day in my fort nightly parcel from Sheffield. You ask me if ces sation from labour would be useful as a means of procuring the Charter ?' Can any man, in his senses, seriously put such a question to any man out of Bedlam ? Universal cessation from labour is re volution; but it is necessarily involuntary—hence its unresistible force. You could not command it if you were mad enough to try; and vo luntary cessation from labour being necessarily partial, would leave you further from your object than you are, if it is an honest one ; for the less you labour the less you will have ; and the less you have, the less able you will be to contend with your cunning and merciless foes. The idea of obtaining the Charter b e y refusing to labour, is about as wise as the plan of 1. C. Salt, of Birmingham, to procure it by abstain ing from the use of tea and coffee, for which there are no substitutes in bread-taxed England ; or as that of the O'Connorites, to destroy class-legislation by sup porting the food-tax, its main bulwark ! If your op pressors care one straw for any number of such strate gists, they are as senseless as yourselves ; for your strike has taught them, if they knew not before, that it is easier to cut down square miles of you, than to mow an equal breadth of oats. The bread-taxers, I suspect, originated your strike ; and from the way in which you use the name of Sturge, I suspect you too, of treachery to the people. Surely, in bread taxed Britain, the manufactories are likely to stop quite soon enough of themselves ! When they so stop, the conservators of wrong will have to deal, not with a mob refusing inadequate wages, but with a mob necessarily rioting everywhere at the same moment because wages cannot be obtained at all. Then will come the beginning, of which not one in three of you or them will see the end; and if such a result would please you, you are as base a n d blind as they ; for tho ug h a people universally unem ployed is necessarily a nation revolutionised, it by no means follows that the Charter would be obtained through revolution. The first French revolution ter minated in total non-representation ; and the second, in a constituency of two hundred thousand, out of a population of thirty-two millions.---I am, Sirs, your oppressed fellow-countryman, EBENEZER ELLIOTT.— Hargit -hill, Sept. 11, 1842." DEATH or W. H. IRBY, ESQ.—The demise of the above gentleman took place on Monday morning at his lodgings at Newmarket. For some months past Mr. Irby had been out of health, and at Goodwood House, during the late races, he suffered from the rupture of a blood-vessel in the stomach. On Sunday a recur rence of the hemorrhage took place ; it was follo we d by a restless night, with occasional faintings, &c., and in one of these fits of syncope he ceased to exist about eleven o'clock on Monday morning, notwithstanding the assiduous and careful attentions of Mr. Faircloth, surgeon, of Newmarket. The probable immediate cause of death was the rupture of some large vessel with internal bleeding. The loss of this gentleman will be severely felt by a very numerous circle of friends. Mr. Irby was a cousin of Lord Boston, and a constant frequenter of the Newmarket meetings. feet. The frigate now opened a formidable fire on the enemy froth her forecastle and poop, broadsides from her 88 -pounders; the boats also kept up a dreadful fire, pitching shells every moment. The frigate's heavy fire made such openings in , the woods among the enemy that they were soon conspicuous to the troops, who kept up a heavy fire of small arms on them. The shells from the boats swept the enemy from their guns. The haughty rebels were now seen to fall. All on a sudden, after an half-hour's engage.. ment, the out-laws made to the country, bringing the guns with them. Our 18-pounder kept up a heavy fire on them as they passed the woods going to the country. The troops having now possession of the harbour, they hauled down th e D utc h Jack, and hoisted he Union. The troops now made their ap pearance through the woods towards our camp, and took 12 rebels prisoners. All the rest fled. Oh, Hea vens ! what a joyful sight to see we were once more inhabitants of the upper world. No tongue can de scribe or no pen can write the joy we met in meeting the Grenadier Company and the 25th Re giment here. We gave three hearty cheers that rent the air and drowned the noise of the cannon. The next clay Colonel Cloete marched up the troops zo the Dutch village, and plundered it all over. We were only allowed to partake of eatables, but not to meddle with anything else. But some made well of it. We took meal, flour, bread, tobacco, coffee, sugar, butter, cheese, tea, rice, brandy, wines, pigs, and every kind of poultry, and cooking . utensils. I have now the satisfaction to feast on their sumptuous food for the long starvation they gave me. The enemy is making fortifications up the country at their town, lest the troops should follow them. All the troops here are kept busy every day making fortifications round our camp, an d a t th e po i nt or harbour. We expect to follow the Boers up the country in a few days. There are about seven hundred men here now, with the '2sth and ours. They are mounting all the fresh guns the frigate brought up to proceed up the country with a. strong force of men. The Caffers are burning and destroying all their small villages, and putting every one of the enemy to death they come across, and bringing us dozens of cattle every day. All our sick and wounded aro on hoard a. ship to forward to Cape Town, and there are a great number of them. All the waggons that were damaged are taken to pieces and put on board a ship to go to Algoa Bay to be sold by auction. Captain Lonsdale,. with family, is on board to join head-quarters. I am sorry to mention to you that your old friend Cartev dropped dead in the intrenchments on the morning of the lath. _ PORTUGAL. FALMOUTH, OCT. 24.—8 y the Liverpool steamer, arrived last night with the' Peninsular mails, the lie comp? Trinz dispatches riere received. .Her date ? , of teuvliig• tree. ;Toni i7ibrdtar the hith, litdiz the 14th. Li.lx Lhe. 176. from °pork, -am t i . Vigo O w 18t1; iDstant, LBPox, Om .17.—Up to the pre.teau ihoinent there has not been any announcement either of the settlement., or even of the progress made, on the ar rangement of the new tariff. This important subject, so highly interesting to every one, is the topic of general conversation; for while the suspense occa sioned by the protracted delay of this negotiation con tinues, no speculations of any kind will be entered into, and commerce will consequently remain at a stand still. The Government has issued orders to make prepa rations for the electioneering in those parishes of the provinces where vacancies have occurred, or where the former elections have been annulled, or where the de cease of the electors have been the cause of the inter ruption. The day fixed upon for the purpose is the 6th of November next, and the 20th of the same month for that of the twenty Deputies, who are still wanting to complete the number w hich constitutes the Parlia ment. Economy being now the order of the day (and, perhaps, better late than never), the police force of Vienna a n d B raga h ave b een dissolved, the cavalry and infantry of these extinct corps having been incor porated into other reigiments ; similar dispositions will be adopted in other parts of the country. A list of all the employes in the several custom-houses of the kingdom has been published, and a new organiza tion entered into of the same. A Committee has also been formed to take into consideration salutary mea sures for the better administration of justice, and an other for the formation of a prospectus of a permanent law for the levying and receiving of the decima and other taxes. In Oporto several persons have been arrested on suspicion of being implicated in the coining of false money and manufacture of paper, with the forged Government stamp, which was discovered through secret information given to the police , in a small haus% fitted up with all -necessary machinery and utensils for the purpose. A large quantity of amalgamated raw metal was: found, toge the r with a good deal of base coin, ready for circulation.:. The authorities are, of course, on the al and the trial of the : parties : is to take place in a few di!ys ;` in this - country the pun ishment for this offence-is 4104 pn the 6th inst., in the same . city, the fiist - stone'vnts laid,' with the usual formalities, for The election '`of' the new . Cominerciai Exchange, the funds for the purpose having been raised by voluntary contributions of the wealthy mer chants there. - Preparations are, making, in the Royal Palace, for the reception of his Royal Highness Prince Joinville, who is expected here on his way to Rio Janeiro. The Royal Family all enjoy perfect health. Every thing is tranquil, the late revolutionary movements up the country having been completely quelled. WARSAW, OCT. 15.—The Emperor set out yester day afternoon to return to St. Petersburgh. His Ma jesty's brother, the Grand Duke Michael, arrived here last night. The Princes of Warsaw, who ac companied the Emperor to Nova Georgiewisk, re turned yesterday to receive the Grand Duke, in whose honour the city was illuminated.—Prussian State Gazette, 21st October. Earl Spencer and the Hon. Captain and Mrs. Fre derick Spencer and family, are passing the autumn at Althorp-park, where a select family circle will shortly assemble. ACCIDENT ON THE BIRMINGHAM RAILWAY.-011 Monday morning the down-train, which leaves Lon don for Birmingham at six o'clock, met with an accident within a short distance of the Leigh ton station, in consequence of its coming in con tact with a bull that had jumped over the hedge, and was crossing the line. Three carriages were thrown off the rails by the concussion, but fortunately the passengers escaped without the slightest injury. The legs of the poor beast were cut completely off, and the animal was otherwise so severely injured that he died almost instantaneously. In consequence of the occurrence the up-train was delayed for more than an hour and a quarter, as well as the trains which left London. On Saturday was buried, in St. Margaret's Church, Westminster, David William Gregorie, Esq., late Police Magistrate of Queen-square-office, to which he was appointed from the Western Circuit, coming from Christchurch, Oxford. His lose will be deeply felt by the objects of misery who cro w d th e po lice-offices of this city; whilst he judged in public, he gave in private. The poor in his own neigh bourhood will long remember him as the fearless visitor of the sick, for, whilst others fled in the fearful season of the cholera, this excellent man was seen at the bedside of the dying, cheering them, relieving them, and praying with them. Mr. Gregorie has left a widow and four young children ; to her in affliction may be some consolation the universal and deep re gret felt for this pure, high-minded, and gentle hearted man. THE LATE SIR JOHN COWAN, BART:—The late Baronet, whose death was announced in our obituary yesterday, was born March 18, ;774, and was conse quently in his 68th year. He married, Aug. 22, 1810, Sophia, third daughter of James Mullett, Esq. Sir John, who was an Alderman of the City of London, was son of Mr. Robert Cowan, of Perth, by Mary Rentoul, his wife, and traditionally a descendant of John Cowan, of Stirling, who founded, about the year 1620, Cowan's Hospital in that county. Mr. Alderman Cowan filled the civic chair in 1837-8, at the period of her Majesty's visit to the City, and was created a baronet on that occasion. We understand that Government are in treaty with the Earl of Haddington for the surrender of his rights as keeper over the King's Park, Edinburgh, which our readers are aware gave him almost uncon trolled power over this !loyal demesne, preparatory to various improvements on the grounds, and other alte rations, which, when finished, will impart a new aspect to the ancient Palace of Holyrood, as it is not impro bable that her Majesty may revisit Scotland at no dis tant period, and the Palace will be in other respects made fit for her Majesty's reception and residence. A second Anti-Slavery Convention will be held in London in 1843, commencing on the Nth of June. TUE WAR in The completest account of the Chinese war yet published has just issued fromthe press, from the pen of one of the gallant actors in it, and whose gallantry has met with its deserved re ward—promotion. We allude to a Nareatire of the Expedition to China, by Commander F. Elliot Bing- bam, late First Lieutenant of her Majesty's ship Mo deste. The narrator commences with the commence ment, b ment, and brings down his relation to the presentperiod, interspersing his account of moving accidents by flood and field, with many interesting and many racy anecdotes of the Celestials, and which, as hap pens with most anecdotes that ar e facts,j 0 11 80. [Th e often lead to inferences of no mean value."— universal desire in the public mind for accurate infor mation respecting not only the proceedin gs o f our f a or d c es peculiaritiesth e Chinese t s h e e a seas, bu t manners, customs, h te inhabitants of that hitherto almost unknown country, will the perusal of this interesting tramk, which makes by acquainted with every 81"ade of Chi nese lif e , f ro m the highest Officer of the St a t e to subjects.] the most abject of its SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS, FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF-YESTERDAY. GLOBE.—Amid the violence of party strife, it -- is gratifying to observe the unanimity which per vades the public-Press whenever an outrage has been perpetrated against the rights of humanity, whether by the hands of lawless wrong, pre suming upon impunity because of the possession of rank or wealth ; or by the perversion or abuse of the powers which the laws entrust to its offi cers for the benefit of the community. Such an unanimity is manifest in the comments of the public journals on the disclosures made by the inquiries which have taken place by Coroners' Inquests into the deaths of per sons recently prisoners in the House of Correction at Northleach. The facts have been furnished to the public in the reports of those inqUiries.. The comments freely and fearlessly made upon the fact by the local and metropolitan Press have found a response in the public opi nion. It is impossible that the .practices which have been thus brought to light should be allowed to pass unnotiiced in the Legislature. Parliament —either at the instance of the Government or of some independent e Mmber—must interfere, and by a better system of prison discipline prevent a recurrence of calamities which are no less fearful to the sufferers than they are detrimental to the character of the national institutions, which must suffer in the estimation of the public, and in the estimation of foreigners, if not at one placed on a footinc , better adapted to answer the ends pro posed b y e the punishment of offenders, and con sequently more in unison with the claims of jus tice administered in the spirit of humanity. The system of discipline in the Northleach prison is impugned on two grounds—the severity of the labour, and the insufficiency of food. The for mer being apportioned to an extent:beyond the physical powers of the most robust; while the latter, reduced to the lowest minimum, is in adequate to sustain human strength. The con sequences of such a state of things, wherever it is found, are obvious. If endured for any length of time, the physical powers will gra dually fall under the unnatural exaction, until the individual is prostrated by exhaustion;- and, in many instances, by the slow process of disease, rendered the victim of premature death. The " hard labour " of the prisoners confined in the Northleaeh House of Correction, as in most other convict persons, is that of the treadwheel. We are not about to indulge in the fine-drawn senti mentalities of some who have, in their theories of prison discipline as the means of moral refor mation, contended that to connect " bard labour" with imprisonment, as an instrument of punish meat, rendf.n . lAotirotliollsm Ow Es in- l ati ort of the elas con_ipti3eti tip tuilforti,..ofeai, of tf.A;,t enee, " tr. - hose Jot is Iss i.d. hibour, ha,',7er vvilieti it i- in ?Le pone: of ;11 ,- , }4 - 0 - ,s to i mpo ,, L .-, Reformation i 'Mt 3Seiu,ively the and of pu nishment. It must be painfill ac, well as Wu. tart'; and is frequently salutary because it is painful. With regard to the tread wheel, pro perly regulated, and the exertion it requires, carefully apportioned to the relative strength of the individuals placed upon it, as an impor tant instrument in prison discipline, our opinion is decidedly favourable. But, if left to the caprice of gaolers, and even of visiting Magistrates, to direct, it may be convert ed into an engine of torture, and even of murder. STAN DARD.---We published in Friday's Standard a somewhat elaborate correspond ence between Miss Harriet Martineau and. her Whig friends, relative to the pension which was offered to her as a reward for past services ; and although we may question the value at which they appear to have been estimated, there can be no doubt that she might fairly have accepted what those who profited by them profess to have considered their value. Her objection to the . title of her would-be benefactors to make such a donation is another matter, and one that we must leave her to settle with her own conscience. Had such motives been general during the regime of her friends, they would have effected a large saving for the country. Her apprehension that her " influence over the public mind," and " through the public press," would suffer, if she received a pension, was equally misplaced. Her last reason is even more absurd. She says she cannot reconcile herself to living upon money (not salary), " levied afflic tively on those whom she has made 'it her busi ness to befriend, however humbly—the work ing classes." This is -- mere display.. She > - would have done the poorer classes:- leis injury by accepting-, s - the - -prolferet.- - 'pensinir -- ---- than , by. advocathig - . - :the:, 40: `,l'.oroitlass. What she 'declinei a - Ocejibaftijot . she has no objectiOklo*Eilte, a -*7l=' .7 thongh such a imode of pll; ►iris Ittitou 3 precisely that obligation of future service iiht4 she appears to deprecate ; , to say-uoihmg of the ~, decline 00influenee:r which,Aotordinr.to hkr ""'L 'theory, a stipend-of-this.destri ptictt tably entail. Beside which, irt..what branch of the public service couldher employment warrant any such salary ! .No fallacy can be greater, how ever, than Mies MartineatesnOtion.that a pension, if earned by literary desertit'orife.ks any stigma on the party accepting - An cases in which the public voice responds to that of the Minister in the bestowal of such rewardS, no testimony can be more honourable. But we fear that the gene ral estimation of Miss Martineau's efforts would hardly have invested the pension which was offered to her with this extraneous value. Did any stigma attach to the receipt of a pension fairly earned, Wordsworth, Southey, Montgomery, and Moore, would never have consented to accept one. iVhatever be the grounds on which Miss Martineau declined a pension, however, she has given a proof of the sincerity of her opinions which entitles her to respect for her motives. For our own parts, we are sorry she was so fas tidious; as, although we have seen little to ad. mire in her writings, she evidently possesses qualities better calculated to win private esteem than the greater part of Lord Melbourne's pro' teges. MONEY MARKET and CITY NEWS. FROM TUE MORNING PAPERS OF YESTERDAY. TIMES.—As the subject of " repudiation " begins to be discussed with fresh earnestness among the 13 .1 , c a pho l si e ls t a se t s e s r bse f oe r mi o i t e n piun G bt e el n irse e hs r et a .d l creditors of America, as w e ll as among t h e c i tizens rA o i f icra. t n h c a pa t al hp c oe o uns u n, n , i t uN r , a ill -) • A at I i s h there e ltAol inl eti to much in this letter of which we entirely disapprove, referring to the " United States' Bank," we confine ourselves to a brief notice of General Hamilton's re marks on "repudiation." The present degraded situa tion of his country he seems to feel acutely, and while he observes that with all the abundance of money in London, the Commissioners of the United States could not get money at 10 per cent. in this country, he is perfectly aware that the distrust is not in the resources of the United States, but in the principles of the people. The comparatively insignificant town of Hamburgli has been able no negotiate a loan at 3k per cent., while the vast country of the United States would not be able to effect one at treble the interest. Denmark, Belgium, Holland, without a prospect of being able to pay off the principal of her debt, could all come into the market as borrowers, anti yet that market is completely turned against United, States' securities. It is in vain, he says, for Ameriee to pro fess that she does not. want European capital, wpen_ao. agent has been sent out for her daily:prpad.' TIl e houn to do object of the letter is to e xhor44r,,-,,ca1 . . credit of his country something towards restoring the - Thisof by introducing a uniform currency. part . it we decline noticing in detail, our only-object being to against " repudiation" which is show the feeling springing up among the honest men both of the in debted and the crediting couzitr.v . POST.—The destruction of the caisson lately formed on the Goodwin Sands by Mr. W. - 1.) &Juan, and the loss of life which attended the event, are a subject of much regret to the commercial body. Great be nefit to the public, especially the shippie— and trading interest, had been anticipated from Mr. Bush's inge nious contrivance ; and the circumstanc e th at it sho u ld have been run foul of and annihilat*d by that for the protection of which it was invented, namely, a ship in distress, is rather an aggr av at i on of the disappoint ment felt at the unfortunate issue of Mr. Bush's ac tive and persevering exertions in ffi bringing his under taking to the requisite point of e ciency. The merits of the work, us a practical instance of what may be attained by the application of genius and science to objects of this natm •e, are in no way touched by the calamity just communicat ed from Deal regarding the embryo " Light of All Nations." The caisson has, it seems, totally disappeared. It is stated on good commercial authority that tie Marquis d e Lavalette, the nobleman who recently married Madame Welles, the widow of the opulent American banker, and merchant at Paris, is corning to England partly on an excursion of pleasure, but more particularly on n mission of some kind from M. Guizot, probably to conduct a negotiation on the right of search question just now so much before the public. CHRONICLE. —We stated on Saturday that it was by no mean' improbable the Chancellor of the Exchequer may find himself in a situation to carry out a conversion of the Reduced Three-and-a-Half per Cent. Annuities and of the New Three-and-a- Half per Cent. Annuities. amounting together to e 12,503,002/. The special ground on which we expressed that sentiment was the abundance o f money, worth only two per cent. on commercial paper, and the absence of demand for commercial in vestment. This dulness of trade forces money into the public funds, and the lowness of individual credit creates a forced and .fictitious enhancement of public ciedit. We mint remind the monied Wants, and 11 oT :It