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• CA Luti ; thirty five had been previoirly ain • Parn.orti's detaeliment on board the Coitel lac l st2.l in the pre vious orders the attack was changed, *tad I directed Captain Wells with a detachment of 35 men to land on, thn first point of the High * Bluff within the Bar, and drive the Boors out of the thick bush, whilst the Conch, the launch armed with a carronade, and the cargo, were to proceed direct into the harbour, land, and take pos session of the port. A fresh sea breeze fortunately set into the harbour at the very time of our advance ; the Conch taking thus the boats in tow crossed the bar at three o'clock, Captain Wells landed where directed, when a brisk fire was opened on the Conch and boats from both shores, that from the high wooded bluff . within twenty yards of the boats ; yet in spite of the short range and cross fire, under which the boats had to pass, so ,quick was our advance, aided by both wind and tide, that but little effect was produced by their fire. When opposite the landing place, from hence the fire still continued, I added to (iF 6:00 - ii i*Hili_L% GOVERNMENT GAZETTE EX- TRAORDINARY. CAPE OF GOOD HOPE, Jule . 15, 1842. PORT NATAL. His Excellency the. Governor has been pleased to direct the following dispatches from the Officer com manding her Majesty's troops at Port Natal, to be published for general information. Colonial-office, Cape of Good Hope, July 16, 1842. By command of his Excellency the Governor, J. MOORE CRAIG, Acting Secretary to the Government. have the honour to lay before you the follow ing particulars respecting the position of the force under any comma n d, f rom the date of my last dispatch until the period of their being relieved on the 26th of this month by .:,the troops sent for that purpose from the colony.., Various reports having been brought to me on the 25th May, respecting the intention of the farmers to make combined attack on the camp that night, kept the troops under arms, but nothing trans pired until a short time previous to day break on the following morning, when volleys of musketry, accom anied by the fire of large guns, was heard at the Point, which pos', I regret to say the Boors carried, after a deperate resistance on the part of the detachment stationed there. By this untoward event an 18-pounder, Which there had not been time to remove, fell into their hands, as well as the greater portion of the Government provisions landed from the Pilot. Fortunately all the Powder, with the exception of a stain portion for the 18-pounder, had been brought to the camp, in which I had caused a field magazine to be constructed. - The en gineer stores were also saved, but 'there being no place ft. this po s t w h ere i n t h e provisions cluld be protected rourthe weather, I had been obliged to leave the greater portion at the Point, merely bringing up a few waggon. loads. from time to time as required. Fi nding myself thus cut off from my supplies, I re solved to concentrate the remainder of my force in the Camp, and there await the re-inforcement which I made no doubt would be sent from the colony on the receipt ro fthe disp atc h f orwarded by me over-land on the even ing of the 25th of May, and intrusted to Mr. King. The farmers having desired the captains of the Pilot and .Mazeppa to write and express to me their willing ness' to enter into arrangements for the removal of the troops, which letter reached me the day after the Point fell into their possession, I accepted their proposal for a truce, .being desirous of gaining time to strengthen the , post as much as possible. During its con tinuance, they sent in terms so ridiculously extrava gant, that, although the quantity of provisions in the camp was, extremely limited, I immediately broke Off all communication with them, being fally determined, sooner than submit, to endure the extremity of privation. I thereore Placed the men upon half-allowance, destroyed 'a stMili post which I had caused to be erected between theiamp and some buildings occupied by the English residents, and made my position as secure as I possibly could, with a view to holding out to the last. Their arrangements being completed, the farmers,_ abatit.6 a.m. on th e 31st instant, ma d e a .d esperate attack on the camp, throwing into it during the course of the day_ 122 round shot, besides keeping up an incessant fire ~uf . musketry. On the following day (June 1), they slackened the. fire of musketry, but threw in 124. round shot, and on the 2d opened a fire from the 18 -.pounder which they had contrived to bring from Ille"Voint, while they still continued their discharges of musketry. During the course of this day they sent the Rel.. M r. Archbell with a flag of truce, proposing to allow the women to quit the camp, and to send back two Wounded men but this was done mer e ly t o ga i n ti me to repair some works thrown down by the fire from our batteries. Here I think it right to observe, that they 'were incessantly employed every night in making ap nrot,clies towards the post, which were constructed with e l ?lisiderabl e s kill ; t hi s , the nature of th e groun d ena bl e d t ueni to do with mu ch facility, and from thence a most 'galling fire was constantly kept up, particularly on the t wo batteries, wherein I had placed the 18-pounder and howitzer. . ordered.Alajor D'Urban to land, who immediately jumped on shore, and we rushed to the flagstaff to pull down the colours anel give her Majesty's frigate notice that we were in possession,_ and to cease firing. The Boors abandoned their strong ground the instant we landed, yet so thick was the bush and so broken, the ground, thut though from the smart fire kept up they must have been in force, yet not half a dozen Of them were ever seen; and on the southern bluff so thick was the wooded covering that nothing but the smoke from their firelocks was ever seen. I have since learned that the number . of Boors who defended the Port amounted to 350 men : their loss it has been impossible to ascertain. Having thus seized the Port and landed the men from the Conch, the troops were immediately formed : Cap tain Durnford was ordered to enter the bush on the right and drive the Boors before him, whilst I placed myself on a roadway in the centre, Major D'Urban taking the left along the harbour beach. In this order we advanced through a bush, the cha, racter of which it is difficult to describe, and which might have been held by a handful of resolute men against any assailants. On reaching the open ground we found the direction of Captain Smith's entrenched camp by the firing of his heavy gun. We marched upon the point, Captain Smith now threw out a party, and we joined him at four o'clock. Having thus executed your Excellency's commands with all military promptitude, by extricating the brave de tachment under . Captain Smith's command, I strengthened his post by Captain Durntbrd's detachment. teid directed Major D'Urban to hold Stellar's farm, returning myself to the Port, to arrange a post of defence with such of the troops as I expected would have been landed. The gallantry with which Captain smith defended his post for a whole month, under no ordinary circumstanced of privation, having been reduced to horse-flesh for food, closely hemmed in by a desperate and vigilant foe, with no less than 26 wounded within Lis closely confined camp; is highly creditable to him and his party. Thus was accomplished. within the incredibly short space of one month from the date of Captain Smith's re port of his position, the relief of his prty, at a distance of 1,500 miles from Cape Town, whence the relief was dispatched, his communiw.len having had to pass through hostile hands and a savage country. I have now reported to your Excellency the proceed ings which have placed use in possession of Port Natal ; and I have kept them distinct from any mention of the naval co-operation and assistance I received from her Majesty's ship Southampton, feeling it to be duo to Captain Ogle commanding, to Commander Hill, and the officers and seamen of that frigate, that their services to us should be separately noticed, whether as to their cheerful good will displayed towards us whilst on board, or subsequently in the more important service performed in covering our landing by the admirable practice from the ship's heavy battery, and spirited assistance given us by Captain Hill, in command of the boats. In my order of the day I have inadequately endea voured to express my thanks to those officers, and I should not be doing them justice without repeating it here in the strongest terms. If our success be not absolutely indebted to the oppor tune presence of the Conch, to her protection must be mainly ascribed the very small loss we suffered in forc ing the entrance. The troops conducted thenriselves with the greatest steadiness, and I am much indebted to Major D'Urban for his prompt landing, and the assistance he has afforded me throughout these operations. I also received the best support from every officer un der my orders, in conducting these operations, and par ticularly so from Lieutenant William Napier, who acted. as my Aide, and has been of the utmost service to me, not only by his spirit in our active operations, but equally so, by his attention to all details and arrangements so essential on such occasions. IvFinding that the few cattle remaining at the krall 1 dying either from wounds or want of sustenance, , dh'ected that they should be killed and made into bit ilort Iredecing the issue to half a pound daily. I also ,ltd aiwell dug in the camp, which gave good water, there 'einil'il risk in going to the valley at night from whence i re had hitherto procured it. In resuming my detail of proceedings. I may state ge nerally that the attacks on the camp were continued from day to day with more or less spirit by the farmers who, having soon exhausted their iron balls, fired leaden balls from their large guns, in some instances sending them i , ;ith much precision. Our practice from the camp was eXeellent, a shot from the 18-pounder having dis mounted one of their 6-pounders on the 3d inst., besides wounding,.several of those attached to it. On the night of the Bth I sent out a party to destroy some4orks in our front, which was accomplished with out loss. In a subsequent sortie made on the night of the Ththitilitant we were less fortunate, although the alutx_warliprfnimed with great gallantry, the Boors lbeiag siiitised in the attack, and many bayonetted atiter-a *teat resistance. In this attack, which was hestslad )4,Lieutenant Molesworth, 37th Regiment, I hadlo regret.the loss of Ensign Prior and two privates of bile - Bartii!corps, who were killed, besides four others beitir snilerely wounded. i,.. , Ron inquiring into the state of the provisions this day 1 and'that only three days' issue of meat remained. I t ierefore directed that such horses as were living tnighLbe killed and made into biltong. We had hitherto riven issuing biscuit dust, alternating with biscuit and rice, at - half allowance. The horse-flesh, of which 'there was but little, we commenced using en the 22d, and ! by a rigid exactness in the issues, I calculated we might certainly hold out, although without meat, for nearly a inontlilonger, for we had eleven bags of forage corn in `,ltcre, whi c h I h a d commen ced grinding into meal ; and Li y every o ne contr ib ut i ng w h a t rema i ne of private into Ible public stock, a tolerable quantity of various articles r,)f sustenance was procured. On the ni g ht o f t h e 24 t h, severa l roc k e t s , a pp aren tly fro, n a vessel in the bay, assured us that relief was nigh at h an d ; t h ese we answered. On the night of the 25th, the i nany rockets from seaward assured us that not only w” I t vessel i n t h e b ay, b ut t h at s h e w as commun i cat i ng with ith nntaher in th e offing, a surmise corroborated on the folio tyin g d ay by the landing of the party under Colonel net?, and their final relief of the post in gallant style, Letweeu three and four o'clock in the afternoon. , To the dry detail of the proceedings I have given I ',n a eg; to add a f ew remar k s ; an d fi rst w i t h respect to our 'w ss. Within the period embraced between the 31st f ) ltty and 25th June, 651 round shot of various sizes had eon tired a t the camp, in addition to a continued and watchful fire of musketry, and , yet our loss during that peri id was but one sergeant and two privates of the 27th killed, and three wounded, one Cape Rifleman and one . !avili::n killed, and one wounded, exclusive of the loss I hale previously noted as occurring during the sortie on tthe morning of the 18th inst. The damage to the wag. g ons and tents, and private as well as public property Vv.; however, great, for these it was impossible to secure in. such a manner as to preserve them from injury. A..nong the serious disadvantages I had to contend Wt th, . may mention that the numerous people attached as leaders and drivers to the different waggons, many 11 4% ',;ng large families who required to be fed, hampered the sadly in the trenches, whilst the vast number of e at . 2e originally with the waggons, acre a very great in- Lun i brance. These, however, were soon driven off, for t a rt v, all the Boors (contrary to the opinion entertained "3' i he colony) were mounted, and thence enabled to 1110 V, s f rom po i nt to p o i nt w i t h a ce l er ity w hi c h b a ffled 11 `''. l % . y. every movement that the infantry could make ~ iTaiti st them. - I In .NC thus given a detail of the chief circumstances ' e ,°fltiee,ted with the command intrusted to me. That it ''''' hid 1 ave been so far unsuccessful I regret, but the r k . s . , 1 . u‘lanc k . on the part of the farmers since my arrival ` 4 `; been universal, those few who professed themselves r *"'"ndly having carefully abstained from giving assist- - nutt,- in must cases using that profession as a convenient "g!ecn.for the purpose (4 hiding their disaffection from (I 4 i i, - Itlivati All the property of the English residents V, ..Ors ' p l iund.srecl and sent to Pietermaritsburg. They 1 4 i 0 took out the greater part of the freight of the Ma ti pa (including the whole of my own property), which ir," gent to . th e same place. The prisoners tak en at the plulin (English residents as well as soldiers) have also l ti n marched thither ; and the former have, I under -7nd,- been:treated with great harshness. After bein g b l undered, the i Mazeppa escaped from the harbo ur on 'att.iiight of th 10th inst. ~,' in egnelll3lon, j beg to state that nothing could excee d "" b Patience and cheerfulness evinced by the troop s under the privations they suffered, and I feel satisfied, that had it been necessary to have held out for a longer period, they would have endured their further continu "n,e Without a murmur. I have the honour to be, Sir .}'Our most obedient humble serrant, , . J. C, SMITH, Captain, 27th Regiment. - "la Honour Colonel Hare, C.B. and KM., " • Lieutenant-Governor. L 1.5.4 - I omitted to mention in its place that a round ". 1 t no the Bth instant broke the carriage of the 18- Pok \der in two places, but we repaired it so as to be per fectly semiceable. J. C. SMITH. I enclose a return of casualties. I have the honour to be, Sir, Your most obedient humble Servant, A. J. CLOETE, Lieutenant-Colonel Deputy Quartermaster-General Commanding. His Excellency Sir George Napier, K.C.B. Governor and Commander-in-Chief; Ric. P.S. I also enclose a return of guns and ammunition captured on the 26th. (Enclosure No. 1.) (Translation.) The General Commandant of the Emigrants of Natal has positively determined to allow of no correspondence with Captain Smith's camp. (Enclosure No. 2.) Her Majesty's ship Southampton, June 2.6, 1842. MEMORANDUM. The attack on theJ;;m4,:rant Farmers' position at Natal will be made in two divisions. The first, under the immediate command of Lieut.- ColonelCloete, who will cross the bar, force the entrance, and seize the Sandy Point. The second division, commanded by Major D'Urban, will land, if practicable, on the sea beach, about a mile above the Sandy Point, spread itself, take the insurgents in flank, forming by his left a juncture with Colonel Clcete's division, and extend his right towards Captain Smith's camp, with whom he will open a communication. A. J. CLOETE, Lieutenant-Colonel, Deputy Quartermaster-General Commanding. (Enclosure No. 3.) Port Natal, June 27,1842. BRIGADE ORDERS. 1. Lieut.-Colonel Cloete, commanding the troops at Natal, has to congratulate the detachment of Royal Ar tillery, under Lieut. Maclean, detachment 25th Regi ment, under Itljor D'Urban, and detachment 27th Re giment, under Captain Durnford, with the success of the expedition on which they were employed in extri cating a detachment of her Majesty's troops under Capt. Smith, closely surrounded by bands of hostile insurgent Boors, against whom they gallantly maintained their post for a whole month, though reduced to horse-flesh for food. Lieut.-Colonel Cloete has to thank Major D'Urban and the troops for their steady and spirited conduct in the affair of yesterday. To the able assistance and spirited co-operation of Captain Ogle commanding, and Captain Hill, and the officers and seamen of her Majesty's ship Southampton, is entirely due the very trifling loss sustained in forcing the entrance into the harbour, in which the troops re ceived the valuable protection of the Conch schooner, commanded hy Mr. Bell. 2. Correct returns will be sentin immediately to hehi4 quarters of the exact strength of the several detachments composing the forces employed at Natal, with a nominal list of the casualties that occurred yesterday evening. A. J. CLOETE, Lieutenant-Colonel, Deputy-Quartermaster-General Commanding. (Enclosure No. 4.) • CASUALTY RETURN. Return of casualties during the disembarkation of her Majesty's troops, at Port Natal, on the 26th June, 1842. Killed—One lance-corporal, 25th Regiment, one pri vate, 27th Regiment. Wounded—Three privates, 25th Regiment, one pri vate, 27th Regiment, and two seamen of her Majesty's ship, Southampton. Total—killed, 2, wounded, 4. NAMES. Lance-Corporal Arthur, 26th Regiment, Light Com= pany, killed. Private Richmond, 24th Regiment, Light Company, wounded dangerously ; (in despatch of 27th of June included among the killed.) Ditto, Dennis, ditto, ditto, wounded. Ditto John Cross, ditto, ditto, wounded. Private Jennings, 27th Regiment Grenadiers, killed. Ditto l‘PCaffry, ditto ditto, wounded. (Signed) A. J. CLOETE, Lieut.-Col. Deputy Quartermaster-Gen. commanding. (Enclosure, No. 5.) Return of the Guns, Ammunition, &c., taken at Port Natal on the 26th June, 1842. . , One iron gun (4-pounder), placed on the north side of the harbour to command the entrance. One ditto ditto (4-pounder), placed on the Bluff Point,' south side of the harbour, looking seaward. Two quarter barrels of powder, L. G. Fourteen rounds of ammunition, 31b. each, with lead balls, weighing 6 and 81b., 14 in number. (Signed) I'. MACLEAN, Lieutenant Commanding Royal Artillery. Port Natal, July 3, 1842. ' Sir,—The immediate effect of taking Port Natal on the afternoon of the 26th ult., as reported in my des patch of the 2Sth to your Excellency, was, that on the same night the master of the Pilot brig, who had been detained as a prisoner among the Boors, and four other persons, made their escape from Congella during the janic caused by our advance movement on Captain Smith's camp, and joieed me at this place. They re ported to me that the Boors had abandoned Congella in Port Natal, June 28, 1842. the greatest haste, and had taken flight. Sir—On the 27th instant I availed myself,of a Catfre On the morning of the 28 t h, however, we discovered thQ..;senger to r e nort to your Excellency in a few ivords, w i t h our s py-glaises that there Ivere a number of horses ~_.t Captain s ui ',l..ll was extricated, and Port Natal hi a b ou t Congella, and I immediately d etermined t p march our possession. upon it, for which purpose I collected from each CA' the It • is now ivy drAy t 0 give the details of my pro- outposts 100 men, and with this force and a howitzer I c tedine.s, took the road to Congella. A small party of the insur- Her b M a. - t •-' . ampton arrived and anchored 1 . ► S th' „ L .. jes ...) s s tip on gents' scouts were seen a little in rah mice of the place; on . e 25th inst. ."' fort Natal on the night o, the ~, i schooner Conch, with perceiving our approach they retired under the shelter of C• Here was found at anchor t rend a detachment of ". ptain Durnford, 27th Regiment, the bush, and we entered the village, consisting of about some des- 15;or 20 houses, without any opposition. Here we found ; _ i . oo men, two small howitzers, amp stores . on 10th inst. P ached by Colonel Hare, from Algoa Bu,": t 7ent Boors curious establishment for moulding six•pouuticr leaden I,.. l ,%Alltaiit.Durnford reported that the insur shot. I resisted the burning of the place, and prevented Smith, 7 .refased him all communication with Captain • all plundering ;as however the troops were still without `i i ‘ -i ct? , WicloAure No. 1,) - who was still holding his i 'e st ; any of the provisio is to be landed from the Southamp .lUt; the headlands at th e entrance of the harbour w.'re I ton, and with only two days' provisio ns in hand, I tirind with guns, and that the Boors had collected in I directed such articles of consumption as were necessary I f''reP to oppose our l a ndi ng , si gna l gu ns and rockets 1 7'ir the use of the troops to be put into a wa gg on, which were, fi r ed from the frigate to intimate our arrival to we found there, and convey these supplies t o the camp. . 1 1titain Smith, and every arrangement made for carry- Four' Persons, inhabitants of Congella, gave them. ra g th e place as soon as tie tide served, and the 'could be placed so as to cover our landing-. frigate selves up to rue ; one Quintus, a German naturalist, another &Colts, practising as a doctor, and two others ; At two o'clock p.m. on the 26th inst., the Sonthainp- I availed I:us: 4 f of these people to convey to the mis • tr`il Was in i position, and the troops were embarked in guided Boor.; Ole merciful intentions of Gover nment, - 1 4 boats, which, however, could only take eighty - placing in th3ir hocis a copy of a public notice, which 1 f he price o had e below the same. 93 93i for Exchequer )e. 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I regretted my force did not permit hie to leave a guard for the protection of the property, the more so as I felt every apprehension that the number of Caffres, who had made their appearance as soon as we got into the place, would plunder it the moment of our leaving it. I understood the Boors have retired to one of their camps about 12 miles off, where they were said to be 400 strong, with four or five guns. Without any of my provisions or ammunition yet landed from the Southampton, or uny means of organiz ing tranSport, I did not feel justified in entering upon any forward movement, which would tend only to lead me away from the more important object of strengthen ing my posts, forming and securing my magazines. Upon these objects I have since been engaged, and having required of 'the Caffres to bring me in as many horses and cattle us they could get, I have no doubt that I shall soon be in a condition to take the offensive with some effect. The Boors will in the mean time have had ample time to conm aer their position, and the terms of my notice ; upon the subject of which I received on the 30th ult. a letter from.Pretorius, their Military Commandant, asking me if I wished to confer with them, and if so, to appoint a place between Congas and Captain Smith's camp to meet him. I answered that I could enter into no ne gotiation with him without a previous declaration of sub mission to her Majesty's authority. To this I have re ceived no reply. • Several inhabitants, 15 in number, have come in and taken the oath of allegiance. On the 28th, 29th, and 30th the weather had continued so boisterous that, on an attempt being made on the last of those days to send on shore some provisions, the men's packs and our ammunition, the boats struck on the bar, one man of the 25th Regiment was drowned, the whole of the provisions were lost, all the men's packs thrown overltard, and 18,000 rounds of ammunition destroyed. The greater portion of the men's packs were fortunately picked up (411 the beach the following morning, when we found that the frigate had been obliged to put out to sea. I regret to be obliged to close this dispatch with a re port which reached me last night, that the Caffres had begun to set upon the Boors, and that three had been killed by them. The enclosures explain the manner in which I have treated this subject, and upon the prin ciples of which I purpose strictly to act ; for if England will not put don n the Boors by her own legitimate, means, it were better c to abandon the question altogether, and submit even to the insult we have received, than to adopt the degrading process or enlisting the savage in our c use, or call upon the Zoolah assegais to commit all the atrocities of indiscriminate 'bloodshed and spoliation. I have received such aid from Lieutenant Maclean Royal Artil!ery, and his services will be of such advan tage to me in our forward movement, that I have not sent him back in the Southampton. I hope to be able to send the sick and wounded by her. I . have the honour to be, Sir, )(cur Excellency's most obedient humble servant, A. J. CLOETE, Lieut.-Colonel, Deputy Quartermaster-General Commanding. His Excellency Alajor-General Sir George Napier, K.C.8., &c. P.S. Since writing the above, the Maid of Mona has come to anchor, and the Reform is in the offing. A. J. CLOETE. (Enclosure No. 1.) NOTICE. Congella, Port Natal, June 28, 1842. 1. By the authority vested in me, a free pardon is hereby granted to all deserters from her Majesty's army who shall return to their colours at the head-quarters of the troops at Port Natal, within ten days of this date. 2. All inhabitants of Natal who shall be peaceably disposed, shall, on making their submission to her Ma jesty's authority, receive protection and remain unmo lested. All those neglecting to do so will be treated as being in arms against her Majesty's Government. A. J. CLOETE, Lieutenant Colonel, Deputy Quartermaster General Commanding. (Enclosure No. 2.) NOTICE. Port Natal, July 2, 1842. A report having been brought in to me that :he Caffres have killed three Boors (Dirk Van Rooyen, Theunis Oosthuizen, and another), the insurgent Boors are warned of consequences such as these, which it will be impos sible to arrest while they continue in arms against her Majesty's anthority ; and thus bring all the evils and horrors of Caffre murder and devastation upon them selves, their families, and properties, in spite of every en deavour on the part of her Majesty's troops to prevent them. A. J. CLOETE, Lieut.-Colonel, Deputy-Quartermaster General Commanding. Port Natal, July 4. Sir,—Since writing to your Excellency yesterday, I have received from Pretorious a communication com plaining that the Caffres were committing fierce outrages upon the Boors—that we were receiving the cattle plun dered from the Boors—that the destruction of the Caf fres must follow such proceedings—and that anxious as the Boors were to put a stop to all this war and coming bloodthed, that it was impossible for them to accede to the conditions of my notice. which required, us a first step, a declaration of submission to her AF. , ,jesty,s au thority, and he ends his letter thus : _ " I must also acquaint you that we have already made over this country to his Majesty the King of the Nether lands, and have called upon that Power to protect us, so that we have every right to expect that our cause will be supported in Europe." My answer to this letter is enclosed. [See below.] I have also been informed that Pretorious and his hos tile bands have retired from this neighbourhood to within 15 miles of Maritzburg ; this sudden. move I ascribe to the rumour that has just reached me, that Panda and the Zoolas were marching against the Bonrs. All this is a melancholy state, but unavoidable, when dealing with Such elements. I have the honour to be, Sir, Your most ob dient humble servant, • A. J. CLOETE, Lieutenant- Colonel, Deputy QuartermaLter-General Commanding. His Excellency Major-General Sir It. G. Napier, P.S.—The detachment by the Maid of Mona has been landed. A. J. CLOETE. 1 "Port Natal, July 3, 1842. " Sir,—l have received your letter of this day's date, and no one can lament more than myself the melancholy prospect before us of seeing the savage engaged in a murderous onset of extermination against you and your fellow-countrymen ; but it is an evil so unavoidably consequent upon the events which you and your unfor tunate misguided people have brought about by your acts of determined hostility against her Majesty's Go vernment and troops, that it ought not to surprise you ; and in spite of all my efforts to prevent, and my deter mination to arrest, as far as in me lies, these excesses (as you will have seen by my public notices of yesterday, which I have sent to you), you must be perfectly well aware that beyond such positive prohibition, and the having employed persons to explain my determination to the Caffres, I have no power over these people. I have certainly required the Caffres to bring into my cantonments all the horses and cattle they can get, so as to enable me to act with vigour, and put down the state of war and bloodshed which you have spread over these districts ; and to expect that I should deprive my self of the only means I possess of equipping myself and that too, in the face of your having cut off the whole of Captain Smith's cattle, to the amount of some 700 oxen, besides causing the destruction of his horses, and having further seized all the stores of those inhabitants who are peaceably disposed towards her Majesty's Government, is to suppose me incapable of reasoning and acting. You have caused the horrors of this state of things, and you must bear the consequences to yourselves, your properties, your wives, and your children. You say you would still be disposed to avert the evils of this coming bloodshed, which you are aware will lead to extermination. If you are sincere in this, there can be nothing degrading, in so great a cause as humanity. in your giving in your submission to her Majesty's authority, as . an indispensable and preliminary step to a final adjustment, which you may be very certain the Government has every disposition to settle with justice and leniency towards the emigrant farmers ; and in the favourable interpretation to your interests you will find in myself a friend, rather than ono inimical to your un happy countrymen. I regret much that you should have allowed yourselves to be so grossly deceived with regard to the intentions of the King of holland, by a person totally unaccredited, and that you should have been urged to act as you have, upon the vain supposition that any of the Eu ropean Powers would lend an ear to any question arising between England and her colony of the Cape of Good Hope, of which you cannot be so ignorant as not .to knc that Port Natal has always been a de pendency. I shall be happy to lend my best efforts to arrest any general rising, or partial acts of violence of the Zoolas or Caffres ; but I feel my incapacity to do much in this respect K bile your people continue in arms against her Majesty's authority, and thus lead these tribes to think that whatever injury they do you must be pleasing to the Government. I have the honour to be, Sir, Your most obedient humble servant, A. J. CLOETE, Lieut.-Colonel, Deputy Quarter master-General Commanding. Mr. Pretorius. . , additional 5 per cent. unon all the customs'duties in the kingdom and coloni..s ...ill which 11:: i 9 determined to persevere. i The Tariff Convention has made no advance since my last communication. The distress continues to be most alarming in the. Douro district and in Tps-os- I , M rites. The Queen and Court re'irned. from Cintra on Saturday to take up their residence definitively in Lisbon, the great heats having subsided. The proro gation of the Cortes will take place by Royal decree, without any formal speech. same time, some expressions relative to his having betrayed somebody, but at that moment a carriage approached, which from the softness of the road had not beelt heard till then, upon which the ruffian ran off amongst the trees towards a place adjoining, called Highfield. Peirce made his way home, and was too much alarmed to com municate he matter to the police. On the following Tuesday, Peirce was returning home across the Houndwell (an open piece of ground near the High-street, Southampton), about eight o'clock in the evening, when he found himself dogged by a man whom he recognised as the ruffian who assaulted him on the Common. At a moment when no person was apparently near, the fellow fired a pistol at Peirce, and the bullet passed through his hat, doing him no injury. The assassin fled and escaped. Peirce com municated the facts to the Home-office, and a gentle man (Mr. Hay) from thence, and subsequently, we be lieve Sir J. Graham, have attended the examination of Peirce before the Borough Magistrates. No clue has been at present obtained, but a Government pro clamation, offering 1001. reward for such information as may lead to the apprehension of the assassin, will be issued forthwith. As before stated, we have been refused a perusal of the depositions, or any informa tion, by the Magistrates, who, however, seem fully impressed with a belief of the fact of Peirce having been shot at, a police constable and a woman, in the vicinity, having heard the report of a pistol at the time. THE ROYAL VOYAGE. (From the John Bull.) By the kindness of a friend, we have been favoured with a narrative of the Royal voyage homeward, from which we proceed to give a few extracts : It is already known that her Majesty, on the out• ward voyage, was in the Royal George yacht, Captain Lord Adolphus Fitzclarence, towed by the steamers Rhadamanthus and Black Eagle. The weather being fine the passage wa.s excellent, and the triangular group formed of the three ships had a splendid effect. But the voyage had its drawbacks. The columns of smoke from the two towing steamers, instead . of as cending high in the air and dissipating, being now kept down by the atmosphere, fell back on the Royal George filling both decks and rigging with their un savoury vapours, and with pertinacious loyalty pene• trating under the awning where the Queen and her Royal husband sat. This visitation made the Royal couple cough and rub their eyes just as any other good man and wife would do. Moreover, the officers of the squadron could not conceal from themselves the fact that if the weather should become boisterous the Royal George would pitch and plunge, and if the warps should break she would have to trust entirely to her sails. The possibility of such an occurrence was strongly set before her Majesty by Sir Robert Peel and the Duke of Buccleuch, who told her that she came a little too late in the season to rely on the weather. It was therefore determined that she should return in the Trident. Admiral Brace, the com mander-in-chief, hesitated about taking the command of a merchant ship ; but Sir R. Peel, well acquainted with the etiquette of the sea service, assured the Gallant Admiral that an order from the Prime Minister would immediately turn the Trident into a respectable steam frigate, and it did so. Sir Robert gave the orders, the Admiral boarded the Trident and hoisted hi s flag ; Captain Bullock accom panied him as pilot-in-chief. Both officers fully confided . in th e seamans hip o f C a pt a i n Sharpe, of the Trident, now converted into an acting master in her Majesty's service. The officers and men all concurred in approving of the change to the Trident, for their eyes had been much inflamed by the smoke from the two steamers ahead of the Royal George, though they could not but regret that her gallant Captain could not have the honour of bringing the Queen home as well as out. Her Majesty and the Prince kept on deck all day. They were determined to have one more look at every interesting object, and their questions showed some knowledge of the coast. As they approached the dis trict of Alnwick Castle, they began a little debate as to whether the edifice would be seen or not. The Queen thought they should see it—Prince Albert was of a contrary opinion ; and one word brought up another, until they appealed to Captain Bullock, who gave his casting vote against her Majesty, explaining that it was covered by a dip in the hind. However, if the castle was not seen it was very well heard, for it fired a royal salute in excellent style. On Friday morning the Trident was off Flamborough Head. When islands were approached they sailed between them and the main land, steering as well as possible through the centre of any fleet of merchant ships which they came up with, her Majesty being desirous that all parties should have an opportunity of seeing and being seen. When they made the Fern Islands her Majesty remembered the heroism of Grace Darling, and was evidently touched on hearing that the brave young woman had died but a few days before. rt• * * The Queen is a good sailor, but as yet Prince Al bert does not relish the salt water. He was so dis tressed at one time that he was obliged to say he was " struggling between nausea and hunger.' The Queen assured him it would be all over by the time he reached Windsor Castle, at which he - could not help laughing a little. The redundancy and cu riosity of the fair sex astonished him. " Wherever I go," he said, " I see as many women as men, even here at sea in open boats." Here want of space obliges us to conclude these extracts from the " log"—at least for the present. Baron Rothschild has recently purchased an estate situate at Mentmore and Ledburn, in the vicinity of Leighton, where he is expected to erect a splendid man sion, and to support a large hunting establishment. — Bucks Gazette. MORE BEAUTIES Or THE INCOME-TAX. The Wilts Independent, speaking of Sir Robert Peel's pet Income-tax, says :—" On the very first day the returns were made in Devizes, the contents of the schedules were r km : wn, an d were t h e su bj ect o f common conversat i o n."— f fai is a fine practical comment on the Premier's decla ration that the Income-tax should be attended with no unpleasant revelations, but that every man's business secrets should be maintained inviolate ! Here is another instance of the working of this delectable impost :—" An extensive proprietor of cottage tenements," says the Leeds Times, "has at present one hundred and fifty houses, for which he receives no rent whatever, forty-six of them being empty. We believe that owners of cot tage property generally have incurred heavy losses of the same kind during the last six months. It will add to the afflictions of these parties to find that they will actually have to pay an Income-tax on the arrears due to them, and which they may never receive."—To compel a man to pay a tax, not on that which he has got, but on that which ho has not got, and never may get ; in a word, to screw three palpable, substantial pounds, out of an impalpable, non-existent hundred—this is a stretch of ingenuity every way worthy of a Tory Premier. The old adage says, "you can't take the breeks off a High lander ;" but Sir Robert Peel says you can, and hastens to prove the fact by squeezing an Income-tax out of those whose incomes is a deficit. ATLAS PRIZE ESSAY.—The Atlas, our weekly con temporary, has offered 100/. premium for the best Essay "on the causes of, and remedies for, the existing distress of the country." The plan is commendable, and we trust that all becoming renown and advantage may at tend it. The causes nre-1. Misrepresentation ; 2. The Corn-laws, and the "protective" system generally : the remedy, complete suffrage; full, fair, and free repre sentation. Printed essays, however, are not to bele ceived, otherwise we should send in our claim, convinced that we should stand at the top of the poll ; but as that is nut the case, and as the causes and remedy are now obvious to all the world, we must allow the second best candidate to bear off the prize.—Morning Advertiser. LODGING-HOUSE SURYANTS.- 7 It would frighten any servant but a real Lon don Cinderella, to go d own into the kitchen ill a morning, and see the wor k t h ose little hands have to do. The rows of bo o t s an d s h oes to clean—the candlesticks to rub bright—the dishes to wash up—the pots and pans to scour—the rugs to shake—the about of , her own, all the week, washingalthough she is always adoing, 'hen the number of times she goes in and out in a day—now off fur tea—then butter—next time for a chop —then a bottle of soda-water for the gen tleman who had drank too much over night—again for the newspaper—a letter to the post-office—a pair of shoes to mend—a bundle to b e carr i e d t o th e l aun d ress — a q uartern of gin for the landlady. As she is ever taking down her little bonnet, which she never ties, and throw ing on the half shawl she never pins—then with the . latch-key in her hand, p o i n ti ng h er h ea d t wen tydiff erent ways—going—returning—then diving into the kitchen for a few moments to do her work—then up again to answer the bell ; and never executing a single command of the lodgers' without being called into the parlour to tell the landlady what it was.—Godfrey Malvern. We have heard a report that it is in contemplation to stop half-pay from all officers while on leave from their regiments, except on medical certificate. We do not crc pit this report (which throughout the Service would be regarded as oppressive), but merely mention that it is cur rent among men generally well informed on military to pics.—Natal and Military Gazette. CORONER'S INQUEST.—Last night an inquest was held at the Coal-hole Tavern, Fountain -court, Strand, before Mr. Higgs, on the body of Jemima Maria Sutton, an infant, six weeks old. It appeared from the evidence, that the parents of the child were respectable persons, living at No. 4, Fountain -court. On Thursday morning last Mrs. Sutton was walking down stairs with the deceased in her arms, when she unfortunately slipped and fell down several stairs. The screams of the infant brought Mrs. Fitzgibbon, the landlady of the house, and others on the landing, when they discovered Mrs. Sutton stretched on the floor, in a strong fit. The deceased was lying about a yard distant from her. The mother was assisted to her bed-chamter, and came to shortly after. She was severely bruised by the fill ; the deceased del not at the time appear injured. The assistaet of Mr. Wentherfield, surgeon, of Henrietta-street, Covent garden, attended Mrs. Sutton, and gave his opinion that the fall had been brought on by an epileptic fit. The child showed no symptom of having received injury by the fall, and continued in apparent good health. O n Sunday morning, however, she was found dead on the right ,ide of the mother. The Jury returned a v er di ct of "Died by the visitation of God. PORTUGAL. FALMOUTH, SEPT. 17.—The Lady Mary Wood steamer arrived last night with Peninsular mails; her dates are, from Gibraltar the Bth, Cadiz the 9th, Lis bon the 12th, Oporto the 13th, and Vigothe 14th inst. LISBON, MONDAY, SEPT. 12.—The Cortes will re main open throughout this week for the purpose of carrying the Douro Wine Bill, the Bill for trying the assassins of persons in authority by court-martial, and some other administrative measures. The Ministerial question remains in the same position, with this dif ference, that the Minister of Marine, Campilo, tired out by the badgering in the Chambers, with reference chiefly to the case of the General Marinho, condemned for irregularity of papers, and, in reality, a slaver, has withdrawn temporarily (meaning finally) from the exercise of his official duties, and that Baron Tojal, by Royal decree, holds this portfolio together with th a t of Finance. The Baron lies instituted a searching inquiry into all the circumstances of this affair, which is clearly most disgraceful to the previous ad ministration of the Marine Department, it being per fectly certain that the custom-house officers were in fluenced to make a fraudulent valuation at about 1,2001. of a vessel clearly worth 5,0001. Baron Tojal will this day bring together the mem bers of the Finance Committees of the Peers and De puties, and submit fo - them his project for levying an HAMBURGHMAII. HANOVER, SEPT. 13.11 is Royal Highness the Crown Prince returned to this city yesterday evening in good health. Froth Dusseldorf, we learn that his Majesty continues to get much better, so that he can sit up for several hours during the day. The King will not; however, be able to return for some time ; but let us hope that he may be hoine by the end of the month, wheri illustrious visitors are expected here. It is reported that the King and Queen of Prussia are coming. The Journal de St.Petersbourg contains a programme of the festivities on occasion of the baptism of the young Princess Alexandra, daughter of the Crown Prince. The day .of the ceremony, which will be performed in the chapel of the Palace at Zarskoje zelo, is not yet fixed. CIIRISTIANAi SEPT. 9.—The motion relative to the permission for Jews to reside in Norway, has been rejected by the Siorthing. It is true that 51 mem bers voted for it and 41 against it, but as it is a ques tion involving a change in the Constitution, which re quires two-thirds of the votes,,it was, of course, lost. —Hamburgh Papers, Sept. 16; - BELGIAN FUNDS.—BaUS3ELS, Sap:. 17. Actual Debt, 2% per Cent , 52 li Rothschild's Loan, Five per Cent 10:5, Loan of Thirty 51111iOns, Four per Cent .., PI _ Three per Cent . . — .—..Thirty-seven Milli , ns, ditto ." • ll% ---.-- ----- (1840) ll2 Loan of City, 1832, Four per Cent 92 Society of Commerce, Four and a Half per Cent WI Bank of Belgium, Five per Cent ................ . . National Society ' " : Exchange on London (short) .., ......... .. .. —Brussels Papers, Sept 17. AUSTRIAN I , IIN DS.—Vimsa, Sspr, 7 Five per Cents. Metalliques ............................ , Pedit Four per Cents ........ .. ..................................... : Mil 'three per Cents .... ............ .....--...... ............ 76l 's Bank Shares... ................. ....-- ........ “ ..... .. Allgemeine Zeilung, S pt 12. H A MBUROH ISORSEN HALLE, SEPT. 16. Bills. Money. Austrian 5 per Cents. Bank Shares 1653 1653 Anglo.ltussian Loan 1 u9'i IFYJI.', Russians per Cent., Ist series, Certificate„„„ i ()si t 103 % insuription, Ist series lO3 Russian a per Cent. Hope and Co., tki and 4th Series Ditto in Certificates New 4 per Cent. (1840) 89% titP,l, Dutch Actual Debt, L. % per Cent. ......... - 51% 51% Ditto 5 per Cent _ ...... Polish Bonds New Tickets Anglo-Danish Loin, 3 per Cent. Bl Spanish, New 5p r Cents. .. ... .......... ....., is EXCHANGES ON LON DOre. Mototmett, SEirr. I .-13 91i, Two months 1 ; 8. PETERSBURG, SEPT 9.—Three months. 37% pe nce. RIGA, Son'. r. -Three Months, 3S. PRUSSIAN FUNDS.—Baam, Sam 13. Bills. Money St. Schuld Sch., 4 per cent. Prussian English Bond 1630, per cent. 1.2 4, Exchange on London ....... ...... •.. -- 6 4tH Prussian State Gazette, Sept. 14. COURT CIRCULAR. - - - WINDSOR, Mosnay.—The Queen and Prince Al bert took their accustomed airing this morning. The Earl of Liverpool arrived at the Castle at ten o'clock this morning, and had an audience of her Majesty. His Lordship took his departure shortly of terwards. In the afternoon her Majesty and Prince Albert took an airing in the park in a pony phaeton, the Prince driving; General Wemyss and Colonel Bou verie, the Equerries in Waiting, attending on horseback. Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales and the Princess Royal were taken their accustomed airings. Sir W. C. Ross had the honour, by command of her Majesty, to attend at the Castle this morning, for the purpose of perfecting the engraved likenesses of his Royal highness the Prince of Wales and her Royal Highness the Princess Royal.: The Countess of Mount Edgecumhe has succeeded the Duchess of Norfolk as the Lady in Waiting on the Queen ; and Mr. Ormsby Gore has succeeded Captain Meynell as the Groom in Waiting on her Majesty. The Duchess of Norfolk has taken her departure. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, Lady 'Charlotte bundas, and Lord Charles Wellesley, will dine with her Majesty at the Castle this evening. his Serene Highness the Her editar y Prince of Mecklenbur g h Strelitz, has left town on a visit to her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cambridge, at her residence at Kew. His Royal highness Prince George of Cambridge has returned to town from Kew. The Netherlands Minister, accompanied by Made moiselle Dedel, embarked last Sunday on board of the Antwerp steamer for the Rhine. His Excellency's absence is not expected to exceed three weeks or a month. Count Kielmansegge, the Hanoverian Mi nister, and the Chevalier Bunsen, the Prussian Minister, tran sacted business yesterday at the Foreign:office. The Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone 13 re coverin g from the effects of his recent accident. THE QUEEN'S RECENT VISIT TO - SCOTLAND. The following is a copy of a letter from the Earl of Aberdeen to the Lord Advocate of Scotland : " Dalkeith, Sept. 14. "My Lord,--I have re ce i ve d t h e Queen's com mands to signify her Maj es t y ' s mos t g racious appro bation of all the arrang ements ma d e for her recep tion, and that of his Roy a l Hi g h ness P r ince Albert, Scotland. , in " I am to request that your Lordship will commu nicate to the Sheriffs and Magistrtcy of the different counties through which her Majesty has passed the sense entertained of the judicious measures adopted by them for the preservation of order and regularity during the progress of her Majesty in this portion of her dominions. ... " The Queen will leave Scotland NI ith a feeling of regret, that her visit, on the present occasion, could not be further prolonged. Her Majesty fully ex pected to witness the loyalty and attachment of h er Scottish subjects; but the devotion and enthusiasm evinced in every quarter and by all ranks have pro duced an impret-sion on the mi n d o f her Majesty hich can never be effaced. " I have the honour to be, &C., (Signed) "ABERDEEN." CONSPIRACY TO DESTROY THE QUEEN . [We do not vouch in any degree for the credibility of the subjoined story, which we transfer to our co lumns from the Hants Advertiser. Nevertheless,, it would be unwise not to submit to the perusal and judgment of our readers.] An investigation into ci rcumstances o f the most alarming character, connected with a Chartist con spiracy to destroy the Queen, has been secretly going on before the Magistracy of Southampton for some time past. We have taken all im a ginable pains to obtain correct information on the subject. We be lieve our account to be correct in the main, though, from having been den i ed permission to look at the depositions, we may slightly err in the details. The party through whom the notice of Govern ment has been directed to the investi ga tion, is named Peirce, considered a m grocer i s n o Ca e nalwalk, S outhampton . P e i rce was time back the leader of the Chartists in this town, and fro m hi s hav i ng ma d e him Self very conspicuousin that eher ecter was doubt less thought by the chiefs of the London' Chartists RS a fit . person •to enrol in their secret band. This band, the existence of - .which. has been long suspected .by the , London p ollee, seems to consist of a select number of the most del*,rate characters among the great body of the Chartists. They direct the movements of the uninitiated, arrange the principal meetings, send delegates to disturbed districts, and, as it will be seen, are sworn to attempt the ac complishment of their treasonable d es i gns, at all hazards, even if by the assassination of the Sovereign. It would seem that the secret conclave we have referred to considered that th e destruction of the Queen would have the effect of overthrowing the Government, and that they should, in the general consternation and confusion that would ensue, be able to carry out their particular ends. About five months since, as we are informed, three me n called' on Peirce at his shop in Canal-walli, and after making themselves known to . him as leaders of the London Chartists, and by communications Which, to hi m , were convincing, and after goingint o .details w i t h w hi c h to I we are unacquainted, proposed nin to take the oath binding him to assist in the destruction of the Queen! Peirce was horror-struck at the proposition, being one of the crowd of • deceived persons who b elieved the acquisition of the five pointsto be _the , be-all and the end all of Chartism. The parties left. I f eiree with a threat of fatal consequences to himself , i . he. divulged their visit to any party. H e , however, did communicate his secret to a brother Chartist, and, for the credit of that person, we hope it is true that it was owing to his counsel that Peirce commun ic ated with the Government on the business. Peirce was sent for to London and was examined at the Secretar,Y, of State's-office and being taken to Newgate to see I nine's, the regicide, at once pronounced him to be one of the three men who had paid him the visit spoke.° of 1 It was d eeme d advisable by the Privy Council to let th e matter rest for a period, i n order it t o see any further movements were m contemplation. Tho fact, however, of Peirce's revelations had probably come to the kn ow l e d ge o f the Chartist l ea d ers , for on the evening of Friday the 3d instant, as Peirce was returning to Southampton down the London-road on the Common, a fellow suddenly appeared before him from among the trees, and presented a pistol at him, uttering at the LORD ASHBURTON AT CAM BRIDGE. (From the Boston Argus.) The dinner of the Phi Beta Kappa Society on Thursday was one of the pleasantest of its pleasant social meetings. The very large assemblage of the brethren, the pleasant associations of the agreeable events and exercises of the two preceding days, the new life which a centennial anniversary with its re collections of past honours always infuses, and more than all, the presence of the distinguished stranger to whose self-devotion and intelligence we are indebted in great measure for the happy termination of the difficulties between us and our mother country, gave a peculiar zest to the hilarities of the occasion. The treaty arrived in Boston on the very morning of the festival; this circumstance, the news of its per fect settlement, and the presence of Lord Ashburton and other English gentlemen at the dinner, gave a di rection to much of the wit and eloquence which cha racterised it. We have thought that an attempt to recal some of these tokens of the universal joy at the confirmation of the peace would not be unpleasant at this moment, while the statesman to whom England and America owe so much, is yet among us. The President of the Society, the Hon. Jostau QUINCY, Jun., presided at the table. There appeared to be about three hundred of the brethren present, comprising a proud representation of the literature and learning of the country. The President made some introductory remarks on the pleasure of return ing to the seat of science, and the recollection that whatever had b een the subsequent calling in life of the brethren of the Society, they were all scholars once ; and he gave as an opening toast—" The in fluence of classical study felt through after life—the needle retains its polarity long after the loadstone is withdrawn." The PRESIDENT again rose, and in a graceful and eloquent speech, remarked that one of the greatest glories of literature arose from the inducements it fur nished and the rewards it gave to eminent public ser vices. Alexander was a conqueror, because he slept with the Iliad at his pill ow ; an d th e Roman hero could not rest when he saw arrayed around him the statues of the Fathers. Such had always been the connexion of literature with fame : p oe t r y and history had for ages incited and immortalized the conqueror and the oppressor, and as literature would still hold its sway, it was to he hoped that a better era was com mencing; and, that as " peace had her victories as well as war," future historians would per petuate the fame of the benefactors of mankind. That name, asked the President of his fellow- students, would stand first on the first page of that history' Should it not be the name of one, who, in advanced life, left "honour, love, obedience, troops of friends," that he might cross the ocean to settle those differences between kindred nations, that in other ages would have been decided by the s wor d. Thi s day tells us that he had been gloriously successful. But for him, the same result might have been obt a i ne d a ft er the earth had been heaped with slain and the ocean stained with blood. What must be his sentiments as he crosses that ocean, carrying with him the blessings of the New World, to be received with the acclama tions of the Old—when he reflected that but for him it might have been purpled with brothers' blood ? lle closed his speech by proposing—" The health of our distinguished guest.—The nations he has united shall join in his praise, and future generations shall call him blessed." On the annunciation of the toast the company rose and drank it with all the honours. When the cheering subsided, Lord ASHBURTON returned thanks for the kind and enthusiastic manner in which hi 3 name had been received. The proudest moment of his life was that in which he received the orders of his Sovereign to undertake the mission which had so prosperously terminated ; and he was happy to find that such a body of gentlemen as he had the pleasure to address in ale halls of a University which was one of the most distinguished institutions of the country, should exhibit tokens of such enthusiasm and gratification at the allusions to the negotiations wkich had just been brought to a close. Ile could not refrain, at the same time, from expressing his warm thanks towards those with whom he had been engaged in the conduct of that negotiation, and in general for the kind feeling which in this country had answered to that felt towards the country by the Government of England. The PRESIDENT stated that he found he was in the neighbourhood of a " Philadelphia Lawyer," (Mr. Reed, the orator of the day, sat at the left of tho chair), who could find two meanings to one word, when Yankee could hardly get the meaning out of two ; and after alluding to the family name of their distinguished guests, he gave as a volunteer— " International Questions—Easily settled when once brought to their proper Barings.' Then followed a rapid succession of sentiments from the chair, which called up sucessively and elicited speeches and sentiments from President Quincy, Lord John Hay, Mr. Justice Story, W. B. Reed, Rev. 1)r. Bethune, Mr. Peter, British Consul at Philadelphia, I and u host of others. Lord Join IlAy made a brief acknowledgment, when called on by a sentiment to this effect :—" The Commander of the Warspite—ho has brought the Herald of Peace, in the Spite of War." He said that the order to convey his distinguished friend on his mission, was the most gratifying; order that he had ever received, and he wa s h a ppy diat he should have the Pleasure to convey him home, now that that mis sion had come to a termination, which would be as gladly received in England as in America. We cannot attempt to follow the other speakers, even in as meagre a sketch as we have given of a few of their predecessors. We must close only by a mention of a few of those speeches which had a national or public allusion. The PRESIDENT closed a few appropriate remarks ' with the following, which was received with great ' enthusiasm .—" The Treaty of Washington—it was well for America that a Daniel had come to judgment." Judge STORY spoke with warmth and feeling of the virtues and the learning of Dunning, the first Lord Ashburton, a connexion, we believe, of the present Lord. Mr. I3ANCROFT responded most eloquently to the following ;—" The memory of James Grahame, the historian of America. Ir e has engraved his name on the temple of our country's history. It shall never be erased until the temple itself shall be destroyed." Lord ASHBURTON, after saying that, although occa sionally the services of a diplomatist might be of use to extricate nations from some temporary entangle ment, peace was to be constantly preserved only by the general education of the people, alluded to the high character of the common school education of Massachusetts ; it was by such efforts as her citizens had made, that the foundation was to be laid on which the temple of eternal peace must stand. Ile proposed as a toast—" The schoolmaster—all over the world." Mr. GRATTAN closed an appropriate and witty speech, by proposing the health of Professor Long fellow and the poets of America. Mr. IIILLIARD, at the close of some eloquent and graceful remarks, gave' England and America—tnay the peace between them be as firm as the cliffs of their coast, and every element of estrangement be as eva nescent as the bubbles that break on their shores." Dr. BIGELOW was called up by a proposition, to bestow, " pro honoris causa," a doctorate in medicine on their distinguished guest, on the ground that one who had healed the differences between two coun tries, was worthy to be considered a professor of the healing art. The Learned Doctor concluded a most witty address by giving for a sentiment the lines of Horace :-- Sed levius fit patentia Quiequid corrigere est nefas." Which he paraphrased thus :—" There is not in the world an evil which is past Baring." The following • allusion to the Christian name of Lord Ashburton was received with great applause "True greatness—Which shall the Christilm historian place first ? the Alexander who severed nations by the sword—or the Alexander who united them by peaceful negotiation ?" Among the volunteers sent to the Chair was the following :—Virgil sang of the " penitus toto divisos orbe Britannos." We rejoice, that, if they were se parated from the " Orbis Romanus," they are so near to us as to need the most illustrious statesmen 011 earth to " settle the boundary ;" and that, if they had no representation in the Roman Senate, and no place among " Greek Letters," they have so noble a repro scntative here. It is stated, on good authority, that the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and the Duchess of Gloucester will arrive at Ravensworth Castle, near Gateshead, on Thursday next.—Durham Chronicle. The Lord Chancellor has presented the Rev. W. R. Mahon, to the rectory of Ilonington , i n the count y of Suffolk. DOVER, SEPT. 19 _Yesterday Prince Esterhazy, who has been taking the benefit of sea-bathing here for these several weeks past, left Dover for London . Fitz. The Prince was accompawed by three carriages. Dud ar his stay amongst us, his Serene Ing uh i n l i n dr e .e s r s been t h h as jearin,ersilicog u en :: est excellent patron to the theatre, &c. On Mond ay an e z n ex t e i e s l n le o n w t house.i xing o th f e ti p ie er , f , o c r r t ( n )p a i n u e . e d !, ( c f o o i r ne t d h i e sn i s )e ) ne N% fi ,e t r o e f immediate patronage, when v tl r i o e i r n e i w s ' e a d s hose notices expire this day, complete their week's work. ° sp u i T n .— ner 3 s l v i : are ceasing labour as they fulffl i l l e E d. Tu T ß l N i; tunes that number of other descriptions ("hands, ?Jill five e e out. Four hundred spinners, affectin of sixty-four other spinners will expire nexihSoatiulertdiaeyc.s. This will produce atrig e h t t a f i Venatmou. amount of distress in the o bo b th rin o g re a r b a o ti u v t es cable settlement of the dispute ; borough, unless s t eps b that all the well-meaning amon g and we sincerely hope, em ployers will do their utmost to bring elusion. Seventy. fou r demanded. One spinners are working at the ad vanceaanndftluj and two Others co ncern conceded the advance yes terday,strike.—Bolton Free a re Press expected to give it without a HAYMARKET THEATRE. A smart, lively, laughter-moving three act farce, (designated in the bills a new and original comedy) from the pen of Mr. Bourcicault, entitled Alma Ma ter, or a Cure for Coquettes, was produced at this theatre last evening with complete success. The scene is laid at the University of Oxford, where we find Wildfire (Mr. H. Hall) and Gradus (Mr. Vin ing), the two nephews of Sir Samuel Sarcasm (Mr. IV. Farren), studying at Brazennose College--that is to say, Gradus studying his books, albeit lie devotes some little time to making love, after the Modus fa shion, to the fair Lilly Venture (Miss Charles) ; and Wildfire devoting his days to making love to Lilly, and his nights to studying whist and whiskey-punch brew ing, taking as his tutor in the first Count Pave (Mr. Brindal), a vulgar edition of Dudley Smooth, and in the second Major Garrett O'Gorman, a rattling, rolicking, kind-hearted, honourable Irishman, excel lently acted by Mr. Malone Raymond. Wildfire, having considerably exceeded the allowance made to him by his uncle, has become involved in pecuniary difficulties, and has employed his friend Pliant (hlr. Webster), also a Brazennose man, to see Sir Samuel Sarcasm on the subject, and to endeavour to procure from the old gentleman a supply of the needful. Pliant, however, fails in his mission, through his over-complai sance ; heagrees with Sir Samuel in every thing; and nothing so angers the testy old bachelor as not con tradictingawakened, Dactyl ( , (Mr. r T o c i e n !ds ) th O e xfo h r e d ad , t o o r t c h o e ns c u o lt lle l ge vit , h as D t r o . hi m . Si r Samuel having his suspicions ury t c, the proceedings of his nephews, and arrives in Oxford the da y before his t wo nep h ews go up to be examined for their degree. On the same day there arrive in Oxford the Widow Venture (Mrs. Glover), and her daughter Lilly, who intend taking up their residence there while Somerset Venture (Mr. Howe), the son of the Widow, pursues his studie s a t the University. The Widow had two-and-twenty years before been a flame of Sir Samuel Sarcasm, but had lost him through her coquetry, and in the article of coquetry Lilly is the Widow's own daughter, for, although she loves Wildfire sincerely, yet she would rather run the risk of losing him than not indulge her penchant for teasing. Sir Samuel ever since his disappointment having entertained a more than .Jonathan-Oldbuck hatred of womnankind, 'is dreadfully annoyed at finding himself thrown thus into the society of the Widow Venture ; while she, determined to he Lady Sarcasm, sets her widow's wits to work to make an impression on the apparently im penetrable heart of the irritable Baronet. In this she is assisted by Lilly, who lays her commands on Wild fire to write a letter to his uncle, stating that to ex tricate him from his difficulties, he must marry a fortune, and requesting Sir Samuel to inter cede for hint with the Widow Wildfire, who has already given him some encouragement. Wildfire having written this letter, is so annoyed with the coqueting of Lilly, that lie determines to drown his troubles in wine, and accordingly invites Count Pave, the Major, and a host of others to his rooms, to make a night of it. Meanwhile, the Count has not been losing his time : not knowing which is the fortune, the mother or daughter, he prudently makes love to both ; they compare notes, and prepare for him a bitter disappointment. The supper takes place at Wildfire's, whose rooms are immediately over those of Gradus. Gradus, stunnea by the noise, comes up to beg them to desist ; is induced to sip some of the wine, then some of the punch, and at length be comes so merry that he dances round the room, and plays a solo on the trombone. Sir Samuel having heard of the intended supper, breaks in, accompanied by Doctor Dactyl, on the revellers, and the second act closes with the confusion occasioned by their sud den appearance. In the third act Wildfire turns the tables on Lilly, by informing her that he has taken her advice, and is about to marry another; and Sir Samuel, who had called on the IVidow as the ambas sador of 'Wildfire ends by making love to her on his own account, in a scene made excellent by the ad mirable acting of Farrell and Mrs. Glover, but which rather too closely resembled the love making scene between craves and the Widow Franklyn in Money. The result may be easily guessed, the Widow Venture becomes Lady Sarc asm; the quarrel of Wildfire and Lilly, like all lovers quarrels, is only the prelude to reconciliation ; Count Pave, completely exposed, wail:s out to avoid a more summary process of ejectment; and Gradus, having taken his degree and honours, thanks his fate that Lilly is married, because now he shall have no wife to prevent his sitting for a fellowship. The curtain fell amidst loud applause, and 'Webster announced the piece for repetition every evening, with the unani mous concurrence of a crowded house. In obedience to repented calls for the author, ➢lr. Bourcicault leaned forward from a private box, and gracefully acknowledged the applauses bestowed upon him. The dialogue is very smartly written, and some of the hits are excellent. For instance, the offer of Sir Samuel to endow a Professorship of Common Sense in the University, if it could produce a man qualified to fill the office, was very good, and was loudly ap plauded. In fact, the piece is overflowing with fun, the joyous mirth of good spirits, and it is impossible not to laugh at it from the beginning of the first act to the end of the third. There are, howc%er, marks of g►rent baste and carelessness' in its composition. It is evident not only that Mr. Boureicault has never heel' a member of either of the Universities, but that he has not taken the trouble to make himself ac- painted with that which is fa►niliar to even a fresh- man of two days' standing; for instance, he 'maws one of his characters, who has been three years at Brazennose,to-morrow, talk of matriculating to - moow, mean ing, thereby, going up to be examined for his degree; and at the conclusion Giadus comes in and informs his friends that he has taken honours as a wrangler. Now, a reference to the University Calendar would have taught Mr. Bourcicault, that when men first enter the University they are said to matriculate, and although Cambridge boasts her wranglers, Oxford confers no such honour; a first class man at Oxford. being equivalent to a wrangler at Cambridge. Ilia Dr. Dactyl, too, is infinitely more.like a parish school master than the head of a - college. The dons of the University seldom condescend to pun upon moods and tenses. cVe would also hint to Mr. Bourcicault, that it is not usual for young men at the University to swear by the Vice-Provost's wig. We point out these things, because we are certain that if Mr. I3ourcicault chose to apply himself; he could give us a real sterling good comedy, but to do this requires pains-taking and study—two qualities which, we fear, the min vellous facility of com position with which nature has gifted Mr. Bour cicault, makes him hold somewhat too lightly. As 4 is, although the Alma M a t er i s a mos t amus ing piece, and will, doubtless, draw crowded houses, and have a run, yet it will hot take its place among the sterling English dramas. Like the music of Donizetti, it is an amusing rifacciamento, and nothing more—a clever dove-tailing together of old incidents— an entertaining collection of characters well remem bered by every play-goer; but Mr. Bourcicault can, if he pleases, give us something more worthy ; let us hope that he will. The acting was perfect; that of Farrell and Mrs. Glover would have saved a piece of much less buoyancy than the Alma Mater, and Mr. Malone Raymond hit off the Irish Major to a nicety. Ile has an acute perception of the line which separates humour from vulgarity, and is cer tainly the most efficient representative of 1111 Irish gentleman on the stage. The getting up of the piece was excellent, and the scenery good and approp riate. The opening scene of the third act is a beautiful picture. The house was exceeding,lv well tilled, and doubtless Alma Mater will draw. Every one who enjoys .a hearty laugh should see it. of of - shells, in the presence of CONCUSSION SllELLS.— Experiments tOO k . place in, the Marshes at Woolwich, on Friday, the 16th inst., with Captain Artillery, and a numerous field of Naval and Military officers. Twenty shells were fired at the wooden frame, o ta r i • n G e N n o er r t t r l 's )ru " w i to u n i7C.lL, at a range of four hundred yards, ten from the eight-inch gun, arid ten floor the thirty-two pounder. This was the trying- L o st, and the result was highly favourable and perfectly conclusive. ExPEDITrous IRAVELLING.—The tk s 'am-ship Ant werpen, Captain Jackson, loft Antwe rp on Wednesday n fternoon last at a quarter past one o'clock to the St. hatheri ne's Wharf , . T ock ; she got up Tower, before nine on Thursday morning, and in sufficient time fora merchant of Liverpool to leave London for that place by the ten o'clock train, so as to reach L . use the g entleman's own words l in verl36°l that evening ; to writing after his arri val, " recomplishing the di hours." stance of 440 miles in thirty THE DUBLIN COLLEGE ELECTION.—The Mai/ states that the result of Mr. Hamilton's canvass—assured to him in writing —p resents a most decisive major i ty i n his favour. One day's polling, the Mail adds, would place Mr. Hamilton in a majority which no Government candidate could approach ; but so richly—in the opinion of the Mail—does Lord Eliot deserve the drubbing he would receive, that the Mail would almost behold the withdrawal of the Gover n ment candidate with regret. Mr. Stephen Plummer, of 11, Ludgate-hill, has published a statement of the number of persons, vehicl es , and horses, that passed his house on the 13th inst., from 9 o'clock in th e morning till 9 in the evening ofthat day, being an ordinary day of business, and at a time when London is considered empty, and no business doing, by which it will appear there were 8 , 5 4 .2 vehicles, in 12 hours, 714 per hour, 12 per minute ; 13,024 h orses i n 12 hours, 1,085 per hour, 18 per minute ; 105,352 p ersons in hours , itus AccnomsT.—Yesterday, as th e younger 8,779 per hour, 146 per minute. snm son of Sir Henry yarding° was landing from a steam-boat nt Westminster, his leg was caught by the cable, and he . fe . n. On his bei ng remove d to hi s residence at \\Ameba% ho was attended by several surgeons, M`Can n , M r. Whi te, Mr. Lawrence, and Al i r. s' Hughes . On th e i r exam i n i ng t h e i n j ury it was found that i mmediate amputation was necessary. The young gentleman bore the o p era ti on w ith th e gre atest possible fortitude, conversing with the surgeons as to the progress they were making with this painful duty, and the probable l engt h o f t i me h e wou ld be confined. We are happy to s t ate h e i s go i ng on as well as could I possibly be expected on such an occasion.