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g CiiINA AND INDIA. CHINA. BRITISH NAVAL AND MILITARY FORCE IN CHINA, AND SUMMARY OF THE WAR. • The arrival of the last reinforcement, which left Eng land for China, will raise the British armament, now in the Celestial waters, to the enormous strength of 15,000 fighting men, exclusive of sailors and marines, who might, in cases of emergency, furnish nearly . pairaps 5,000 more of a shore-going force. The floatingarmament is still more formidable than this, consisting of five line-of battle ships, and 34 frigates S and smaller craft ; making 39 armed: sailing vessels in all. The steam flotilla will, on the arrival of the last dispatched vessels from 'Eng land, consist of the H. C. steamers Akbar, and Memnon, of 500 horse-power and 1,100 tons ; H. M. steamers Vixen, Growler, Geyser, Driver, and Lightning ; and the H. C. steamers Auckland, Sesostris, Queen, Hoogly, Nemesis, Pluto, Phlegethon, Medusa, Proserpine, and Ariar.lne ; the first two being wooden vessels of .1,040 tons, armed with 64 pr. medium guns, the two next being also of wood ; the remaining six, iron vessels of from 300 to 500 tons. As the next intelligence of importance will, in all likelihood,_ bring us particulars of the commencement of a new series of operations on a broader basis, and more extended scale than any which have hitherto been attempted, it may Hot be amiss to endeavour to draw up a brief chronological recapitulation of the principal operations of the expedi tion ; noting particularly, in so far as the documents in our possession permit, the strength of the armament from time to time ; and the periods at which each successive reinforcement joined it. . The first overt act of hostility betwixt the'British and Chinese on the present occasion, occurred on the 3d November, 1839, when Captain Elliot having gorie up the river with the Volage and Hyacinth,. with a view of delivering a chop, was attacked by about twenty•nine war-junks. These were speedily driven off; five of them having been sunk or blown up ; about 500 Chinese are, by some amounts, said to have perished on the occasion. The two small vessels just named, were at this time the only English ships of war in the Chinese waters. H. M. S. Druid, 44, from Sydney, was the next ship which reached—she arrived at Macao on the 24th March 1840. At the same date 11. M.'s 26th (Cameronians) and 49th ltegts. embarked for China :—they started under steam on the Bth of April ; the two regiments together se em to have been above 1,600 strong ; they occu pied ten trausportz, and were followed shortly after wards by the steamers Queen, Enterprise, and Mada gascar. The two first named vessels returned to India in April 1841 ; the Madagascar was burnt at sea. A native corps, about 1,000 strong, under the denomination of the Bengal Volunteers, formed part of this force. Simultaneously with this, a force consisting of a Brigade of Artillery, with two companies of Sappers and Miners, under charge of Colonel Montgomerie, were got in readiness, and embarked on the 24th April on board of the transports Rastomjee and John Adams, both of them apparently badly found in every way, and ill-suited for the service. On the 28th August, the 37th M. N.I. sailed on board of the Golconda, Sophia, and Minerva. The first-named of these vessels contained the Head Quarters of the regiment, consisting of about 300 men ; she is supposed to have foundered in a hurricane, and every soul to have perished, as she was never heard of after passing Singapore. The 18th Royal Irish after wards joined. This, with 16 transports, formed the Indian division of the force : it was under convoy of H. M. S. Wellesley, Conway, Cruizer, and Algerine, commanded by Com modore Sir Gordon Bremer. The place of rendezvous "was Singapore, from which they sailed on the 30th May. They reached Macao on the 21st June ; and having issued a proclamation declaring that after the 27th the Canton river would be placed in a state of blockade, without landing they sailed northwards to wards Chasm' on the 28th. The English division of the expedition sailed in April, 1840 ; they joined Admiral Elliot at the Cape, and were reinforced by most of the vessels at that station. These had along , with them a large body of Royal Marines. Admiral Elliot arrived in China in the month of July, 1840, and immediately followed the Commodore north ward. The force, when assembled, amounted to the following : European troops from the three Presidencies and Ceylon Native soldiers and sailors from do. do 2,175 Camp-followers, &c. do. do. do l,OBO Total 9,915 with the force from England, was estimated at nearly 15,000 men in all. Of this force nearly 2,000 perished from disease, at or near Chusan, in the months of September, October, and November. The Bengal Volunteers afterwards returned home, so that by the month of April, 1841, the force was reduced to prtibably about 4,000 fighting men of all arms, ex clusive of marines. The first reinforcement sent from India consisted of the whole of her Majesty's 55th, probably about 800 strong, which left Calcutta in June ; together with 100 men of her Majesty's 30th ; 280 of her Majesty's 31st, and 200 of the Cameronians—above 1,300 Europeans in all. About 500 of the Madras Itifles and armed Sappers and Miners joined at nearly - th, same time, with. nearly 100 Bombay Artillery men •short,:y afterwards—making in all a reinforcement of 2,000 int-m. The recruits and convalescents of her Ma jesty's 26ti: and 49th, amounting to about 500, joined a few weeks afterwards. A reinforcement consisting of about 100 men was in July sent from England ; making ltogether an addition of about 3,300 men, and raising %the expedition considerably above its original numbers. The heaviest reinforcements however, are those lately despatched from India—the 2d, 4th, and 6th N. 1., with 'Artillery. Sappers, 'and Miners, C. troop Horse Artillery, Gun Lascars, &c., in all amounting to about 5,500 men, from Madras; H. M.'s 63d Regiment., from Moulmein; a nd rs A Native Regiment from Bengal :—we are not cer tain that; either of the last-named regiments have not yet left. H. 3.1:5 98th was in February despatched direct from' Dublin; and' a M.'s 10th, by last accounts, was about to sail ; as also :vere betwixt 500 and 600 Marines and - others. This will bring the whole of the recent rein for,cement up to nearly 10,000 men. The Bengal Volun teers, as already mentioned, returned some while since 'to Calelitta; and the Madras 37th Grenadiers have just returned; Taking these things into account, and making all suitable allowances for casualties of every sort, we shall, after the last of the reinforcements arrive, still have . in China an efficient land force of nearly fifteen thousand fighting men; with probably not fewer than 7,000 sea- - - men—who, acting on shore, form the finest irregular ,troops in existence. SRIPB. have submitted to at our hands since November, 1839:;;-, the numbers of the troops engaged cannot be very ex actly ascertained from the returns before us : those we have set down will be found a very close approximation to truth. The casualty list on our side is official, and of course exact : _ _ Nov. 3, 1839.—H. M. S. Volage and Hyacinth, in ascending the Canton River, were attacked near Chuen pee, by 29 war-junks; an action ensued, and in less than an hour the whole of the junks were disabled-3 had been sunk, one had blown up, and a number had driven on shore. Our loss was one man wounded ; that of the enemy between four and five hundred killed and wounded, The Chinese force was computed at 3,000 men, and 300 guns ; our's amounted to 400 men, and 50 guns. July 3, 1840.—Amoy fort razed. .Flag of truce sent in by H. M. S. Blonde, was fired on—casualties not given —probably about 50 of the enemy killed. 16 junks sunk by H. M. S. Alligator—about 30 of the Chinese killed. The following list gives a tolerably correct account of tho naval portion of the expedition, with the strength of each ship, and date of its departure from the station which it occupied just previous to arriving in China ;- Volage * , 26 guns, and Hyacinth, 18 guns-In China Seto when the war broke out. Druid, 44-Sydney, Nov. 1839-arrived in China, March, 1840. • larnet, i5...-East Indies, April, 1840-June, 1840. Wellesleyt, ;'.l, do do do Algerine, 10 do do • do Blenheim, 72-Portsmouth, Feb. 17, 1840-Aug., 1840. Melville'', 72-Cal*, April-June, 1840. •Blonde, 42--Plymouth, Feb. 21, 1840-June, 1840. Pylades, 18-Plymo,ath, Feb. 24, 1840-June, 1840. Nimrod, 20-Ply mouth, Feb. 19, 1840-August, 1840. Modeste, 18-Cape, Nov., 1839-August, 1840. Pique, 36-Cape, April 5, 1840-August, 1840. Andromache, 26-Rio de Janeiro, Feb. 8, 1842-June, 1842. Conway,i 26-East Indies-June, 1840. Columbine, 16-Cape, May 14, 1840-August, 1840. Wolverine. 16-Plymouth, March 5, 1842-Aug., 1842. .Agincourt, 72-England, in May-August, 1842. Collingwood, 80-Under orders. Satharang,ll . 2.6-South A.merica-October, 1840. Cornwallis, 72-Plymouth, July 3, 1841-Dec., 1841. Tindictive, 50-Plymouth, March 21, 1842-Aug. 1842. Fl Idvmion, 44-East Indies, March, 1842-July, 1842. Th ilia, 42-Portsmouth, Jan. 7, 1842-June, 1842. Car. lbrian, 36-Plymouth, Nov. 8, 1841-May, 1842. Nori h Star, 26-England, Dec. 18, 1841-7 June, 1842. Hera,'d, 26-Australia, 1840-Nov., 1840. c a lliol.e, 26-South America-Oct., 1840. Alligatt.T," 26--Singapore, April 7, 1840-June, 1840. Pilo, 18- -Rlymouth, Jan. 23, 1842-June, 1842. Favourite, i'3--East Indies. Siren, 16-Cana, Jan. 30, 1842-June, 1842. Serpent, 16-F.'ymouth, Jan. 2, 1842-June, 1842. Pelican, 16-Cape.', Sept., 1841-Nov., 1841. Hazard, 18-PortsmOuth, Jan. 2,1842-June, 1842. Harlequin, 86-Plymmlth, Dec. 25, 1841-June 1842. Cruizer, IA-East Indies , D ec. 22, 1839-June, 1840. Clio, 16-' Cape, Sept., 1841-Dec., 1841. Childers, 16-East Indies, 1840-June, 1840. tiCameleen, 10-Cape, Sept. 1841-Dec., 1841. 'elleisle, 72-Plymouth, D ec. 19, 1841-June, 1842. Apollo, 46- 44 44 -June, 1842. S al -phire, 28- « ‘• -June,lB42. 10 -(Formerly Merchant Vessel)-June, lB4l . Sulp . Ou r, 8- Singapore-Dec., 1840. 6-Manilla-' s.—Chusan taken. 91 guns captured. Our force con sisted of H. M. S. Wellesley, Conway. Alligator, Rattle snake, H. C. steamer Atalanta, and 18 transports, con taining H. M. 18th, 26th, and 49th, Royal Marines, Ben gal Volunteers, Madras Sapper and Miners—in all 4,500 or thereabouts : that of the enemy nearly 5,000. 25 of the Chinese killed. September 19.—H. M. S. Druid, Hyacinth, and Larne, and H. C. steamer Enterprise, destroy a jos-house which had fired upon Macao. Troops engaged-120 marines, SO seamen, 180 sappers, 300 in all, under Captain Mee, of the Bengal Volunteers : enemy's force 1,000 (?) Our casualties were 4 wounded ; those of the enemy 40 killed. January 7, 1841.—Chuenpee and Ty-cock-tow forts destroyed. Our troops consisted of a detachment of Royal Marines, the 26th and 49th Queen's, 37th M. N. 1., Bengal volunteers, Royal Artillery, three guns, and a party of seamen—in all about 1,400 men. The ships engaged were, the Melville, Wellesley, Blenheim, Sul phur, Calliope, Hyacinth, Larne, Druid, Modeste, Columbine, Samarang, and Starling, and steamers Queen and Nemesis. The casualties on our side were 38 wounded ; of the enemy between 300 and 400 killed and wounded. 173 pieces of ordnance were captured on this occasion. February 22.—Masked battery of 20 guns at the back of Anunghey, destroyed by the Nemesis, without loss on our part ; 30 of the enemy killed • 80 guns disabled. -- 26.Annunghoy and North Wangtong captured : forces employed—detachments of the 26th and 49th Queen's, 37th M. N. 1., Bengal Volunteers, Royal Ma rines ; vessels—Blenheim, Melville, Wellesley, Calliope, Samarang, Druid, Alligator, Herald, and Queen and Madagascar steamers. Our casualities were 5 wounded; those of the enemy 500 killed and wounded—among the former was the Chinese Admiral Kwan ; 1,300 were made prisoners. 27.—Light squadron proceeded up the river and attacked the enemy, who were strongly posted near Whampoa Reach, with 40 war-junks, and the Cam bridge. In an hour the batteries, junks, were silenced, when the marines and small-arm men were landed and stormed the works, driving off the enemy's forces, amounting to 2,000, of whom nearly 300 were killed ; 98 guns captured ; our loss was 1 killed and 8 wounded. March 2.—Battery of 25 guns on Junk river captured,' with a loss of 15 of the enemy killed, and on our side 1 seaman mortally wounded. s.—Howqua's Fort having been abandoned the pre ceeding night, was taken possession of, and garrisoned by H. M.'s 26th Regiment. 6.—Troops landed on the left bank of the River, con sisting of the detachments of H. M.'s 26th and 49th Regiments, under Major Pratt, 26th ; and Royal Marines of the fleet, under Captain Ellis ; the light squadron and flotilla weighing anchor at the same time. On the first vessel passing the barrier, the Chinese fired off the guns in the centre battery, and retired ; the guns in the two flank works had been previously withdrawn, and these defences were immediately occupied by the seamen of the fleet. The town of Canton now lay at the mercy of the troops; but a letter having been received from H.M.'s Plenipotentiary by the Commander-in-Chief, the troops were re-imbarked on board the transports, and fell down the river to the Bocca Tigris. 15.—Attack and capture of a fort at Whampoa by H. M. S. Modeste and steamer Madagascar ; 3 men wounded on our side ; and many of the enemy found dead—exact number not known. 13.—Fort of Motao captured by the Nemesis and boats of the Samarang : 13 guns destroyed. Several other small forts also destroyed. 14.—Fort of Hong-how destroyed. 15.—Five forts, one battery, two military stations, and nine war junks, mounting 115 guns and 8 gingalls, de stroyed by Nemesis, &c., with 3 seamen wounded on our part—casualties of the Chinese unknown. 18.—Chinese fire on a flag of truce sent to the Impe rial Commissioner. Forts, defences, and flotilla cap tured off Canton : Union Jack placed on the walls of the British Factory in Canton by Captain Herbert. 123. guns taken. Enemy's casualties upwards of 400 ; ours being 7 wounded. Suspension of hostilities agreed upon. May 23 to 30.—Canton captured. 3,200 men engaged. Casualities on our aide, 13 killed, 112 wounded ; enemy's casualties, 1,500 killed, 3,000 wounded. 6,000,000 dol lars paid as ransom for restoration of Canton. Fleet re tired 31st May. Aug. 26.—Amoy captured ; 500 guns taken. Our casualties were, 2 killed, and 15 wounded ; those of the enemy about 100 killed. Enemy's force estimated at from six to ten thousand. '.; tail it\ c{, _— Dec., 1840. Tota l st tips of war, 39 ; total guns, 1,156. H. C. STEAMERS. S eFinstris, 1, 000 tons, 270 horse power, 2-68 s and 4-325, illespatched from Bombay, July, 41, arrived in China, August, 41. Auckland, I,OOG-270 h.p.— 2-68 s and 4-32 s —ditto, April, 4'2—May, 42. Men mon, 1,100--500 h.pe--2-64s and 4-32s—Cape, 28th A pril, 42—June, 42. Akbar, 1,100-500 h.p.-2-64 3 and 4-325. Que ?n 150 h.p.—Calcutta, 14 th Ma y , 40—June 40. ll oo ghley, 100 h.p.--,-Calcutttt. Iron ditto. Nett esis 500 tons-180 h.p.-323, swivel guns—C4 e, J‘t,'r, 40—Nov. 40. Pb leie, thon, 600-180 h.p.-3-323—England, 17th Sept., 40—July, 41. 1' roserpin, ~ 500-180. P-ittto, 500- --;Bo — England, March, 42—May, 42. Ariadne, 300— -80-2-24s—Bombay, Sept.—Dec., 42. :-Vedusa, 300-80--2-245--Calcutta, April, 42. • 1 aen, 800-270 h.v.H.an ' M. S7EAMERS. 7i I irowler—do.—Engl4/ —Mauritius, March—May, 42 . Y 3d April, 1842—July, 42 . Driver--do.—Pl ymouth, gl,. March 16, 42—June, 42 . ;Lightning—do.— En and April 4, 42—July 42 . 17 steamers in all, of wht . o 5 11 ' lon g to her Majesty, land 12 to the Honourable C(lMpany ; 11 are wooden, and 6 icon ; of an ag gregat e of a bout 4 0 1 20 horse-power. i b * Returned ta England with Rea:. Adkliral Elliott. ilit:s , , .I__Do., do., in February, 1842.. w: i .-s .- !.I.4iteft Singapore for England on the 7th March, 1842, to - , f f icl ~,, ,j1t 4 . 1.'.. V , . e Melville returned home to b epai, 'May, Isa -c-i . • horn ~.„„ . . ed to England with part a f Canton ransom - money. , -s tz-' - , , Awned to England in NI arch, 1841. ... _., !r , lsretv in Bombay harbour. 1 31.—Battery on the island of Quemoy destroyed by the Nemesis. Oct. I.—Chusan re-occupied by the British troops. Our force amounted to 2,600 men. 100 iron and 36 new brass guns, 550 gingalls, &c., captured. Our casualties were, 2 killed, and 27 wounded. 10.—Chinhae captured. 67 pieces of brass, and 90 of iron ordnance taken. Our troops amounted to 2,098 — those of the enemy to about 12,000. Our loss was, 8 killed, and 16 wounded ; that of the enemy 150 killed. 13. Ningpo having been evacuated by the enemy, was taken possession of by our forces on the 13th Oct. March 12, 1842.—Attack made by the Chinese on our troops at Ningpo and Chinhae. About 12,000 of the enemy entered the former city, but were beat off with a loss of 250 killed. They were also repulsed at Chinhae with great slaughter. Thirty junks destroyed near Chusan by the Nemesis, &c., &c. 15.—A body of between 3,000 and 4,000 Chinese hav ing encamped at the town of Tsee-kee, eleven miles west ward of Ningpo, for the purpose of stopping the supplies of the British, were attacked by a force, consisting of de tachments of H.M.'s 18th, 26th, 49th, and a naval brigade —l,lOO in all ; enemy's force about 6,000. They were quickly routed, with a loss of about 400 killed ; our casualties were three killed and forty wounded. Total British casualties; 35 killed and 276 wounded. Chinese ditto upwards of 8,000 killed and wounded. 1,819 guns captured and destryed. nr +s. :~~ 'allowin g list of engagement s—if the term can be laughter the Chinese 1--will show the amount of* L. *p1)1 ~. ~ TIM SUN, LONDON', SATURDAY MORNING, AUGUST 6 5 1842. force supplies and 'information, and keeping up our com►nwnieation with India and with Caubul, and secur ing for us Afighan co-operation, I may be allowed to ap preciate, and am bound to point out to Government. The medical duties of the garrison have been ably ful filled by Surgeon Forsyth, Superintending Surgeon of Shan'Sooja's force, and Assistant-Surgeons Ronertson anti Barnes, her Majesty's 13th Light Infantry, flare 35th Regiment, and Brown, late in charge of the Irre gulars. Capt. Mainwaring, Commissariat Officer to the force, has been indefatiganle in his efforts to keep the garrison well supplied, and his arrangements in very difficult. times have merited my highest praise. Captain Moor house, 35th Regiment of Native Infantry, has satisfac torily discharged his duties as Brigaide quartermaster; he was severely wounded on the 7th inst. It is gratifying to me to forward the opinion of my second in command. Lieut.-Col. Monteath, C. 8., placed on, record, without solicitation, his high sense of the merits of the .13th Light. Infantry, of whicn corps I am proud of being a Member. I fully concur in tile sentiments which he expresses, and hope the distinctions which he recommends for the officers of his own corps will be ac corded. The cheerful and persevering manner in which the native soldier laboured with the shovel, mattock, and hand-barrow, ►were as surprising as their steadiness and courage in the field were conspicuous. I have to acknowledge the zealous wanner in which Brevet-Major. Fraser,, Light Cavalry, Brevet-Captain Gerrard, hi the corps of Jazalchees; Captain Burn and Lieutenant Hillersden, of the Khyber Rangers, and Lieutenant Dawson, of the Janbazees, when their ser vices could no longer be available with their corps, vo lunteered to do duty with any regiment in which they could be useful. _ I must finally express my gratitude to Providence fur having placed su gallant and devoted a force under my command; in every way it has exceeded my most san guine expectations, and I beg leave iu the strongest manner to solicit the interposition of Major-General Pollock, C. 8., who has nobly laboured and sought to relieve it from its critical position in the midst of a hos tile canpire, in now committing it to use protection and favour the Rignt Honourable the tiovernor-General iu Council, and through him of the Court of Directors, and of our Sovereign. I ask permission specially to recommend the following officers tor honorary distinction or brevet rank, or both, viz.:—Lieut.-Colonel Monteath, C. 8., commanding 3.)th Regt. Native Infantry, now secontlin command ; isrevet- Major grazer, Light Cavalry, who acted as my Aid-de- Camp un the 7th inst. ; Captain Abbott, Commander of Artillery and Commissary of Ordnance ; Captain Back ' house, commanding the mountain train, and senior officer of than Shah's troops with my force ; Captain 13roadfout, commanding Suppers, and Garrison Engineer ; Captain Uldtield, sth Light Cavalry, senior officer of that arm : Captain Seaton, 35th Regiment Native Infantry, par , titularly recommended for his conduct on the 7th inst. by Lieut.-Colouel Monteath ; Captain Younghusband, of the same regiment, who was distinguished with the advanced guard in the Khourd Caubul Pass, and there severely wounded ; Captain Burn, late Commandant of the Khyber Rangers, and doing duty with the 35th Regiment Native Infantry ; Captain Wilkinson, on whom the command of the 13th Light Infantry devolved in the field on the fall of Colonel Dennie, C.B. ; Captain Fen wick, her Majesty's 13th Light Infantry, whose highly deserving conduct in the Pass of Jugdulluck, was noticed then in my despatch ; Captain Havelock, her Majesty's 13th Light Infantry, Persian Interpreter to Major- Generals Elphinstone and Pollock, and attached to me as staff, and who commanded the right column in the final attempt on Mahomed Akbar's camp ; and Captain Hamlet Wade, her Majesty's 13th Light Infantry, my Brigade-Major, whose exertions in the action of the 7th I have elsewhere highly commended. Both these latter officers rendered most valuable services throughout the investment and siege. The officers of all ranks, and soldiers of all arms, European and Native, I have like wise to represent as generally and individually deserving of reward and encouragement, and I hope that the Go vernment will sanction my calling upon commandants of corps and detachments to send in rolls of such native officers as they may deem worthy of the insignia of the Order of " Merit of British India."—l have the honour to he, &c., (Signed) R. SALE, Major-General Commanding (True Copy.) Jellalabad. (Signed) R.. C. SHAKESPEAR, Military Sec. NAMES OF OFFICERS WOUNDED.—Artillery—Captain Abbott, slightly. Sappers and Miners—Captain Broad foot, severely. Her Majesty's 13th Light Infantry— Lieutenant and Adjutant Wood, slightly ; Ensign Oakes, slightly. Examined. (Signed) R: SALE, Major-General Commanding the Force. (Signed) HAMLET WADE, Captain-Major of (True Copy.) Brigade. (Signed) R. C. SHAKESEEAR, Military Sec. FROM LIEUT.-COLONEL J. MONTEATII,COMMANDING 35TH REGIMENT, TO MAJOR-GENERAL SIR R. SALE, K.C.D., COMMANDING IN GARRISON, JELLALABAD. Jellalabad, April 16, 1842. Sir,—The exertions of the garrison of Jellalabad be yond ordinary routine having ceased since the decisive victory obtained over the enemy on the 7th instant, and now finally terminated by the arrival of the-Bri tish army under Major-General Pollock, C. 8., I trust I may not be ef+nsidered -as going beyond the limits of . my proper duty in addressing you, to state as follows : As doing but due justice on this occasion to her Ma jesty's 13th Light Infantry might be looked upon as a highly•coloured record of the merits of your own regi ment, and seeing that no such partial bias can possibly be suppo,ed to guide my feelings in the estimate I have formed of their deserts, I have pleasure in sincerely de claring, that their conduct throughout the painful and perilous position in which they have been so long placed, has been such as fully to deserve the applause and admi ration of their country, and the confidence and best con sideration of our well beloved Sovereign. On our throwing ourselves, on the 12th of November last, into the old and ruined town of Jellalabad, without money, without food, and almost without protection, with a nation of highly excited and barbarous enemies in arms against us, our situation seemed as hopeL , ss a one as British troops were ever called upon to confront ; notwithstanding which the enemy was twice within 20 days attacked, and on both occasions defeated with signal success. You yourself will doubtless detail the works performed by the regiment ; let it then be only my province, who have witnessed their exertions almost hourly during a period of five months, to record that their devoted perseverance and cheerfulness amidst all the gloom that surrounded them, after the destruction of their comrades of the Caubul force, could not have been surpassed by any troops in the world ; and that after months of extreme toil, when an earthquake such as man is not often in the habit of experiencing, in a moment left scarcely a vestige of their labour standing, their flying as they did with redoubled zeal to the work and completing it in ten days (so that on the arrival of the enemy before Jellala bad, they declared that the calamity which had befallen the valley arose from nothing but English witchcraft, it being the only place that had escaped uninjured), was what none but British soldiers could have performed, and what no price could have purchased, for it was the labour of the heart—work of all others most deserving of distinction and reward. _ . In regard to the native troops of all arms, I shall re frain from saying much, for a reason which has in a measure induced me to address this letter to you, but as you have yourself been a daily witness of their conduct under every description of circumstance, you have it fully within your own power to say all of which the Govern ment they serve may very justly feel proud, and it may serve to show, as an example for imitation, what noble enthusiasm and zeal may be lighted up in their breasts by the high bearing and considerate conduct of deter mined British officers. I shall conclude by observing that we can now, Sir, proudly march forth from this garrison with the enemy's standards in our hands, and their captured cannon to fire a salute, on delivering over the care of the honour of the British name, which we have had within our keeping for the last five months, pure and unspotted, and without a single circumstance existing to cast a breath upon its lustre. _ . . . The conduct of the officers of the 35th Regiment gene rally, as well as of those doing duty with it throughout the siege, I am proud to say, has been such as well to deserve any reward or distinction that can be conferred upon them. Of those holding the rank of captain, and above it, which enables her Majesty to advance them a step, I could strongl)! recommend Captain Seaton, 35th Reoi ment ; Captain Younghusband, 35th Regiment (severely wounded), Brevet-Major Fraser, late 2d Light Cavalry, and Captain Burn, Ist Regiment Native Infantry, both doing duty with the 35th Regiment. Of the native officers of the 35th Regiment I could also strongly recommend that six should, as a compli ment to the regiment for its gallant and meritorious con duct, receive the Order of Merit and of British India : viz. Sahib Ram, Subardar ; Manick Sing, Subadar ; Sing, Jemadar; Rambaccus Tewarry, Jemadar ; Hoolas Ram, Subadar ; and Hurram Sing, Jemadar. have the honour to be, Sce. (Signed) J. MONTEATH, Lieut.-Colonel, Com manding 35th Regiment. (True Copy.) (Signed) R. C. SHAKESPEAR, Military Sec. By order of the Governor-General, T. H. MADDOCK, Secretary to the Government of India, with the Go vernor-General. (True Copy.) J. Y. WILLOUGHBY, Secretary t 3 Government. MILITARY INTELLIGENCE FROM MAY 24 TO JULY .17, 1842. PROMOTIONS.—Ensign H. Daly Ist European Regi ment, t o b e Acting Adjutant of the Guzerat Provincial Battalion ; Lieut.(Bt. Cap) T. Mayor, 6th Native lii Pantry, to be Captain ; Ensign C. H i odgkinson, 6th Na tive nfantry, to be Lieuten ant ; Second Lieutenant J. R. Hawkins, Artillery, to be first Lieutenant ; Lieute nant W. If. Godfrey, 7th Native Infantry, to be Captain, and Ensign J. Poison, to be Lieutenant ; Ensign J. H. Champion, 24th Native Infantry, to be Lieutenant; Cor net J. M. Jones, 2d Light Cavalry, to be Lieutenant. APPOINTMENTS.—Brevet -Captain J. W. Renny, 19th Native Infantry, to act as Interpreter to the Marine Bat talion. Captain H. Hobson assumed charge of the Stud Establishment ; Assistant -Surgeon L. Cameron is ap pointed to the medical charge of the 2d Troop Horse Bri gade ; Captain C. Denton. 2d European L. 1., to act as Brigade Major ar, Poonah ; Assistant-Surgeon D. Clark is attached to do duty with the Ist Battalion Ar tillery at Ahmednugger ; Brevet-Major H. Lyons took charge of the Pay-office, N.D.A. ; Capt. E. Whichelo, Assistant-Commissary General received charge of the d th e e ncy Co o m n i o n i C in h s i p ef et N i s o i n t suite, ana to p i e r f t oe e ? d e t , o P p r esi- Deputy-Commissary General's Office ; his Excellency maantoduerr. INDIAN DESPATCHES. OFFICIAL ACCOUNT OF MAJOR-GENERAL SIR R. SALE'S FORCE AT JELLALABAD. NOTIFICATION.-SECRET DEPARTMENT. Bombay Castle, June 11, 1842. The Hon. the Governor in Council is pleased to re publish for general information the following notification issued at Allahabad on the 26th ult., under the orders of the Right Hon. the Governor-General of India. By order of the Hon. the Governor in Council, J. P. WILLOUGHBY, Secretary to Government. NOTIFICATION.-SECRET DEPARTMENT. Allahabad, May 26, 1842. The Right Hon. the Governor-General of India has been pleased to direct the publication of the annexed copies of the despatches from Major-General Pollock and Major-General Sir R. Sale, K.C.B. (Copy.) FROM MAJOR-GENERAL POLLOCK, C.D., COMMANDING TROOPS WEST OF INDUS, TO T. 11. MADDOUK, ESQ., SECRETARY TO GOVERNMENT POLITICAL DEPARTMENT. Camp Jellalabad, April 19, 1842. Sir,—l have the honour to forward a letter from Major-General Sir Robert Sale, K.C.8., detailing the progress of events during the long and perilous siege sus tained by the force under his command. 2d. The gallantry of the Major-General and his small force are too well known to Government to require any commendations from me, but it is very pleasing to me to be the channel through which their many trials are brought to the notice of the Right Hon. the Governor- General of India in Council. I have had an opportunity of inspecting the works thrown up for their protection, by the indefatigable exer tions of Sir R. Sale's force, and my surprise at their strength and extent has been only equalled by my ad • iniration of the excellent arrangements which must have pervaded all departments, since, after a siege by greatly superior numbers, of upwards of five months' duration, I find the garrison in excellent health and spirits, and in an admirable state of discipline, with a good supply of ammunition, ready and anxious to take the field, and most willing to advance on Caubul. I have the honour to be, &c., (Signed) GEO. POLLOCK, Major-General, Commanding Troops West of Indus. TO T. H. MADDOCK, ESQ., SECRETARY TO GOVERNMENT, POLITICAL DEPARTMENT. Jellalabad, April 16, 1842. Sir,—The relief of this place having been at length effected by the victorious advance through the passes of the Khyber, of the army under Major-General Pollock, C. 8., I conceive that I owe it to the troops who have so long formed the garrison here, to address to you a re port, which may convey some notion of their conflicts and the severity of their duties, labours, and privations. It has before been made known to Government, that I reached Gundamuck on the 30th of October, 1841, under instructions from the authorities at Caubul, and there re ceived intelligence of the breaking out of a terrific insur rection at the Afghan capital on the 2d November. My retracing my steps on that city was, in a military sense, impracticable, since the first inevitable sacrifice would have been of the lives of 300 sick and wounded, whom I could not have left in depot with the treasonable irre gulars at Gundamuck, whilst my cattle was unequal to the transport of my camp equipage, and my ammunition insufficient for protracted operation. In the position which I occupied, I could not absolutely command a day's provisions or even water, and should have been hemmed in on every side by hostile tribes, amounting to 30,000 or 40,000 men, part of whom might have seized Jellalabad and reduced it to ashes, or holding it, have left me no alternative but a disastrous retreat towards Peshawur, I therefore came to the resolution of anti cipating any movement of this kind, and by possessing myself of this city, establishing a point on which the force at Caubul might retire, if hardly pressed, and re itorincr a link in- the chain of communication with our pr~nces• Two marches brought me, after a successful , contest Futtahabad to Jellalabad . My breaking u p from Gun m ,..- -, nck was followed by the imluet.iate defec tion of the irreign:•irs there, the destruction of the i.;,zn tonment, and a generu:„.l rising of the tribes. .ht have I found the walls of Jellalabad state . which " justified despair as to the pOSSIO2 Iit of defending them. The enciente was far t)0 exte nsive for m y small g force, embracing a circumference of upwards of 2,300 yards. Its tracing was vicious in the extreme ; it had no parapet excepting for a few hundred, yards, which there was not more than two feet high. Earth and rubbish had accumulated to such an 'extent about the ramparts, that there were roads in various directions across and over them into the country. There was a space of 400 yards together on which none 'Of the gar rison could show themselves, excepting at one spot ; the population within was disaffected, and the whole enciente was surrounded by ruined forts, walls, mosques, tombs, and gardens, from which a fire could be opened upon the defenders at twenty or thirty yards. • The garrison took full possession of the town in such a state on the morning of the 15th of November, and in the course of the day the place and detached hills by which on one side it is commanded were surrounded, and surmounted by a force of not fewer than 5,000 in surgents. A general attack on the 14th of November ridded us of these enemies, and a similar array brought against us a fortnight afterwards was dissipated by a second sally on the Ist of December. But we had seized the town, having in our possession not quite two day's provisions and corn for our men and horses, and beheld the arduous task before us of striving to gender the works defensible , and collecting supplies, for our maga zine from the midst of a fanatical and infuriated people, with very narrow means in the way of treasure to pur chase them. I appointed Captain Broadfoot, Shah Soojah's Sappers, Garrison Engineer, and Captain Abbott, of the Artillery, Commissary of Ordnance. Captain M'Gregor, Political Agent, gave me the aid of his local experience, and through his influence and measures our Dak communication with India was restored, and a great quantity of grain collected, whilst the'unremitting and almost incredible labours of the troops, aided by the zeal and science of Captain Broadfoot, . put the. WWII in an efficient state of defence. Captain Abbott made the Artillery disposition in the ablest manner, and used every exertion to add to and encourage our resources, in the way of gun and musket ammunition, in both of which we were deficient for the purpose of a siege. Lead and powder werepro cured in and about Jellalabad, and a quantity of cart ridges discovered in an old magazine, and thus the troops completed to two hundred rounds per man. It is to be remarked, that I might, in the second week'of November, have marched upon Pesh Bolak, relieved from investment the corps of Jazalchess under Captain Ferris, and with it operate .1 a doubtful retreat upon Peshawur. But I felt it to be my duty to give support to the last moment to our troops, struggling against their numerous enemies at Caubul, and maintain for them a point on which to retreat and rally if they met with reverse. On the 9th of January I was summoned by the leaders of the Affghan rebellion to give up the place, in fulfil ment of a convention entered into by the political and military authorities at Caubul, but as I was fully assured of the bad faith of our enemies, I refused to do this, and on the 13th received the melancholy intelligence of the disastrous retreat of our troops froni the capital, and their annihilation in the Ghilzie defiles by the rigours of the climate and the basest treachery on the part of those in whose promises they had confided. Almost at the same time it became known to us that the brigade of four regiments marched to my succour from Hindostan had been beaten in detail, and forced to fall back upon Pe shawur; my position was most critical, and I might, whilst our enemies were engaged in. plundering the force from Caubul, have attempted, and perhaps effected, though with heavy loss, a retreat across Khyber, but I resolved at all hazards on not relinquishing my grasp on the chief town of the valley of Ningrahar, and the key of Eastern Affghanistan, so long as I had reason to consider that our Government desired to re tain it. The discouragements of my garrison at this moment were very great, their duties most, severe, their labours unceasing, and the most insidious endeavours made by the enemy to seduce the native portion of them from their allegiance. But their fidelity was unshaken, and their serenity amidst labours and privations un clouded. With reference, however, to the state of fana tical excitement and national antipathy which prevailed around us, I had been compelled, as a measure of pru dence, to get rid, first, of the corps of Khyber Rangers, and next, of the detachment of Jazalchees, and a few of the Affghan Sappers and a body of Hindostanee gunners, who had formerly been in the employnient of Dost Ma homed Khan. Works had, in the meantime, been com pleted, of which the annexed reports and plans of Cap tain.Broadfoot contain ample details. Generally, I may state, they consisted in the destruCtion of an immense quantity of corer for the enemy, extending to the demo lition of forts and old walls, filling up ravines, and de stroying gardens and cutting down groves, raising the parapets to six or seven feet high, repairing and widen ing the ramparts, extending the bastions, retrenching three of the gates, covering the fourth with an outwork, and excavating a ditch ten feet in depth and twelve feet in width round the whole of the walls ; the place was thus secure against the attack of any Asiatic enemy not provided with siege artillery. But it pleased Providence, on the 19th of February, to remove in an instant this ground of confidence. A tremendous earthquake shook down all our parapets, built up with so much labour, injured several of our bastions, cast to the ground all our guard-houses, de molished a third of the town, made a considerable breach in the rampart of a curtain in the Peshawur force, and reduced the Caubul gate to a shapeless mass of ruins. It savours of romance, but it is a sober fact, that the city was thrown into alarm, within the space of little more than one month, by the repetition of full one I hundred shocks of this terrible phenomenon of nature. The troops turned with indefatigable industry to the reparation of their walls, but at the moment of the great convulsion, Sirdhar Mahomed Akbar Khan, Burultzye, the assassin of the late Envoy, and treacherous destroyer of the Caubul force, having collected a body of troops, flushed with a suecess consummated by the sliest means, had advanced to Murkhail, within seven miles of our gates. He attacked our foraging parties with a large body of horse on the 21st and 22d of February, and soon after establishing hi§ head-quarters to the westward, two miles from the place, and a secondary camp to the east ward, about one mile distant, entered the town and esta blished a rigorous blockade. From that time, up to the 7th of April, the reduced garrison was engaged in a suc cession of skirmishes with the enemy, who, greatly su perior in horse, perpetually insulted our walls by attacks and alerts, and compelled us daily to fight at disadvantage for forage for our cattle. The most remarkable of these affairs were those of the cavalry under Lieut. Mayne, commanding a detachment of Shah Soojah's 2d Cavalry, and Jemadar Deena Singh, sth Light Cavalry already reported ; a sally under Colonel Dennie, C. 8., to defeat it suspected attempt of the enemy to drive a mine, on the 11th of March; the repulse of an assault upon the trans verse walls to the northward of the place, on the 24th of the same month, by detachments under Captain Broad foot (who was severely wounded) and Captain Fenwick, her Majesty's,l3th Light Infantry; the capture of bul locks and sheep by Lieutenant Mayne on the 30th and 31st of January; and the seizure of large flocks of the latter, in the face of Mahomed Akbar's army, by a force of infantry under Captain Pattison, of her Majesty's 13th Light Infantry, and of cavalry under Captain Oldfield, on the Ist instant. These successes were crowned by Providence by the issue of the brilliant, and decisive at tack on the camp of the Sirdhar, on the 7th instant. I have to notice as a measure of defence, my having enrolled, as a provisional battalion, a large body of our camp followers. and armed them with pikes and other weapons. On all occasions of assault and sally these men were available to make a shoev upon our curtains, and I have pledged myself to them to recommend to Govern ment that they should enjoy all the pecuniary advantages of native soldiers beyond the Indus, I at the same time held forth to the troops of Shah Soojah's force the ex pectation that they would be put, during the special service, on the same footing with their comrades of the Bengal army. From the time that the brigade threw itself into Jel lalabad the native troops have been on half, and the fol lowers on quarter rations, and for many weeks they have been able to obtain little or nothing in bazaars to eke out this scanty provision. I will not mention as a priva tion the European troops from the same period having been without their allowance of spirits, because I verily believe this circumstance, and their constant employment, have contributed to keep them in the highest health and the most remarkable state of discipline. Crime has been almost unknown amongst them, but they have felt se verely, although they never murmured, the diminution of their quantity of animal food and the total want of' ghee, flour, tea, coffee, and sugar ; these may seem small matters to those who read of them at a distance, but they are serious reductions in the scale of comfort of the hard working and fighting soldier in Asia. The troops have also been greatly in arrears of pay, besides their severe duties, in heat and cold, wind and rain, on the guards of the gates and bastions. The troops, officers and men, British and Hindostanee, of every arm, remitted fully accoutred on their alarm posts, every night from the Ist of Marcie to the 7th of April. The losses of officers and men in carriage cattle, camp equipage, and baggage, be tween Caubul and Jellalabad, were heavy, and their expenditure, during the siege and blockade, in obtaining articles of mere subsistence and necessity, has been exorbitant. I feel assured that Major-General Pollock will consider it a most pleasing duty to bring the series of labours, privations, and conflicts, imperfectly sketched in the foregoing details, to the notice of the head of the Su preme Government in India, and through his Lordship to that of the Court of Directors and our Sovereign, as a claim for . public acknowledgment and substantial reim bursement and reward. The report of Captain Broadfoot, in his capacity of Garrison Engineer, will meet with attentive perusal. I have already stated how much I have been indebted to his scientific attainments, as well as his distinguished activity and resolution during the siege. His fertility in resource obviated great difficulties in procuring iron, timber, and charcoal, and to the foresight of his arrange ments we owe our having had a very ample supply of tools. The corps under his command performed, from Bootkhak, the duties equally of good sappers and bold light infantry soldiers, and the Affghan Huzaree and Eusilyze portion of it have been singularly faithful in time of general defection. The two infantry regiments, under the lamented Colonel Donnie and Lieut.-Colonel Monteath, have vied with each other in the steady per formance of the duties of that arm ; and it would be im possible for me to discriminate in favour of either, in awarding praise to the squadron of sth Light Cavalry, un der Captain Oldfield, and the Resellah 2d Shah Soojah's Cavalry, under Lieutenant Mayne ; Lieutenant Plowden of the former has been distinguished on several occa sions. The artillery practice of No. 6, light field bat tery, has ever been excellent, and has been equalled by that of the mountain train. Captains Abbott and Back house, and Lieut. Dawes, have proved themselves excel lent officers of ordnance. I have more than once brought it to notice that Captain M'Gregor, Political Agent, has cheerfully rendered very able assistance in serving the -- g n - g in every crisis of pressing danger. Of his labours in his OM „v)artment I ought not perhaps to attempt to b constitute miself-aj9dgeut I know that they have been unremitting, „All e y „stilt in obtaining for my can ; Lieutenant H. Boy e, 22d Native Infantry, was appointed an Assistant in the Deccan Survey, under Lieut. Nash; Capt. G. S. Brown, 16th Native Infantry, •is appointed Commissariat Agent at Bhooj ; Col. Sir George Arthur, Bart., K.C.H., has been appointed by • the Hon. Court of Directors to the office of Governor of Bombay and its Dependencies; Capt. Frederick L. Arther, her Majesty's 4th, or King's Own Regiment, to be Military Secretary; Capt. the Hon. Charles West, 21st Fusiliers, and Lieut. C. C. Domvile, her Majesty's 85th Light Infantry, to be Aides-de-Camp; Lieut. George D'Arcy, her •Majesty's 94th Regiment, to be Acting Aide-de-Camp; Assistant-Surgeon T. Young is attached to do duty with the 2d battalion of Artillery; Assistant- Surgeon H. Glasse, Vaccinator in the Deccan; Assistant -Surgeon Jephson, M.D., Civil Surgeon at Broach ; Lieut. E. B. Eastwick has been placed at the disposal of his Excellency the Commander-in-Chief for military duty ; Ensign G. 0. M'Neill, at present. doing; duty with the 19th Native Infantry, is removed to do duty with the 23d Native Light Infantry. RANKED AND POSTED.—James Richard Swinton, rank as Ensign, and appointed to the 34 Native Infantry; John.Deen Simson, rank as Ensign, and appointed to the Gth Native Infantry; Lieut. R. Douglas is posted to the 2d Troop Horse Brigade; Anthony Charles Romer, rank as Second Lieutenant, and appointed to the Regiment of Artillery; Murray Haig, rank as Ensign, and appointed to the 24th Native Infantry; David Irving, rank as En sign, and appointed to the 17th NaLive Infantry ; Mi chael George Head, rank as Ensign, and appointed to the 24th Native Infantry; Robert Palmer Warden, rank as Ensign, and appointed to the 16th Native Infantry ; John Cruickshank, rank as Ensign, and appointed to the 2d European Light Infantry. ATTACllED—Assistant-SUrgeon W. Campbell, M.D., is attached to the 2d Battalion, Artillery, in Fort George Barracks ; Assistant-Surgeon J. Behan is at tached to the left wing of the 2d European Light In fantry, at Colabah ; Cadet C. T. Patin is attached to 2d Grenadier Native Infantry ; Cadet G. 0. M'Neill, ditto, to 19th Native Infantry ; Cadet W. M. S. Bolton, ditto, to 2d Grenadier Native Infantry ; Cadet Soppitt, ditto, to Ist European Regiment. RESIGNATIONS—Capt. H. Bart, ,6th Native Infantry ; Captain R. Farquhar, ditto ; Lieut. C. Podmore, ditto ; Lieut. B. H. Combe, sth Light Cavalry. CASUALTIES—Lieut. H. P. H. Hockin, 6th Native In fantry, died. Lieut. G. Skottowe, 3d Native Infantry, ditto. Lieut. 'l'. G. M'l)onnell, Artillery, ditto, on oth May. Capt. Knipe, 17th Native Infantry, ditto, on ditto. Lieut. Stone, 24th Native Infantry, ditto, on 12th ditto. Bt. Capt. Dallas, 2d Light Infantry, ditto, on 18th ditto. Ensign Raikes, 16th Native Infantry, ditto, on 21st ditto. Ensign Madden, 2d European Light Infantry, ditto, on 30th ditto. Lieut. W. Baird, her Majesty's 17th ditto, on 29th ditto. FURLOUGH—Ensign F. Levien, 15th Native Infantry, for three years to London ; Assistant-Surgeon W. W. Pigou, for one year, to proceed to sea. SOUTHAMPTON ELECTION. THURSDAY.— The writ arrived on Tuesday afternoon, and was immediately proclaimed. The_ nomination is fixed for Saturday, and the polling for Monday next. The Tory candidates, Mr. Humphrey, Sir John Mild may, and Mr. Hope, the expelled from Weymouth, com menced their canvass on Tuesday afternoon. They have not met the electors publicly, nor do they intend to do so. Mr. G. Thompson arrived on Tuesday evening, and addressed a very crowded meeting at Andrew's Bazaar immediately afterwards. He was received with the greatest enthusiasm, and a resolution, pledging the meet ing to support him as a candidate on the Liberal interest, was carried by acclamation. Mr. Thompson commenced his canvass yesterday morning. Lord Nugent, the second Liberal candidate, arrived by the six o'clock train last evening, accompanied by Sir John Easthope, 'Bart. An announcement was imme diately made that both candidates would address the inhabitants from the window of their Committee-room at seven o'clock. An immense crowd speedily assembled. Sir J. EASTHOPE presented himself at the window, and was loudly cheered. He said he had now the pleasure of introducing to them, as one of the candidates for the borough, his Noble Friend, Lord Nugent—a man whom he had long known, a man known to the world as the friend ofliberty, and the hater of corruption—(Cheers)— no friend to taxation, no tool of the Government, but one admirably adapted to represent the town of Southamp ton. He could not do better than introduce to their no tice his Noble Friend, Lord Nugent.—(Cheers.) Lord NUGENT 'then came forward, and was received with cheering. He said, by a deputation which arrived that morning in London, he had been encouraged to stand forward amongst them, not for the purpose of so liciting their support on his own behalf, but of claiming i: because of those principles which he had always held. - —(Cheers.) He was the irreconcileable enemy of cor ruption, of intimidation, and of anything that trenched on those principles, under the guidance of which the British constitution had vested the representation of the people in the people's hands.—(Cheers.) He entered Parliament during one great struggle in behalf of reli gious liberty—the struggle for the repeal of the Test and Corporation Acts—which was succeeded by the repeal of the laws affectin g the Roman Catholics. He contended that man had nothing politically to do with the manner in which his fellow man ap proaches the throne of the Creator.—(Hear, hear.) He did not say that the Reform Bill of Lardl Grey was to be the be-all and end-all of Parliamentary i representation.—(Cheers,) Ile had always been the enemy of monopoly and the friend of free trade. His Lordship expressed his opinions on this subject at seine length, and then continued—Now, the evening was coining on, and were lie to detail the conduct of his pest life, and the hopes of the future, it would detain them much longer than he sho.dd be in any way justified in doing. Besides, in such a large a-sulubly he could not answer questions so fully as he would wish to do, and he would wake it his business to see as many of the elec tors as the time between that and tae day of election would allow, and answer whatever questions they might propose to him, when he should be able to descend from generalities to particulars. If they should approve of the principles he proposed, he hoped they would give him their support, and if they disapproved of them, then let them give their votes to some one whose principle they agreed with.—(Cheers.) Mr. YOUNG, a Chartist, then asked the Noble Lord if he 4vould support the six points of the Charter ? Lord NUGENT, in reply to the question put, said he was for a very considerable further extension of the suffrage ; he was for household suffrage, but he was not, as society is at present composed, for universal suffrage. He would support the ballot, as he had done for many years.—(Cheers.) He was for considerably shortening the duration of Parliaments ; he would vote far triennial Parliaments ; but he was against annual Parliaments. He was decidedly opposed to the property qualification of Members of .Parliament, because he believed it to be a very imperfect test either of wisdom or integrity. He had not any objection to Members of Parliament being paid for their fair services, but not in the way of hire or corruption.—(Cheers.) And lastly, he saw no sort of objection to equal electoral districts, but he held that to be a question of arrangement and detail, subservient to the great one of fair and equal representation ; he would give no pledge on the subject, but would go the straightest way, in his opinion, that might be proposed, to the great object he had in view —full, fair, equal, and pure representation.—(Cheers.) A CHARTIST in the crowd nut some further questions relative to the views of the Noble Lord on Universal Suffrage, in reply to which his Lordship said he would take the payment of direct taxes as a test of qualification for the franchise, because at present he knew no better. GEORGE THOMPSON, Esq., then presented himself at the window, and was greeted with enthusiastic cheering. He - regretted that it was not in his power to address that audience as fully as the importance of the subject de manded. The circumstances of their town at this mo ment yere most peculiar. There had never devolved on an English constituency a more solemn duty than that of the electors of Southampton at the present crisis.— (Hear, hear.) They had a character to redeem, an ex ample to set, a great crime to bring under public execra tion. They had their owse sins to atone for—(Cheers) — and they were called on how, in the language of the Baptist, "to bring forth fruits meet for repentance." It was a doctrine of his that it was never too soon to leave eff doing wrong, and the best way was to leave off alto gether. Therefore he was determined, if they had any thing to do with him, that they should have nothing to do with corruption—that he would nut spend a penny beyond the legal and necessary expenses of that election that he would not give away a drop or beer, not a dr.') of ardent spirits, nor a morsel of bread, as an induce ment to obtain the votes of the inhabitants of this town. —(Cheers.) He offered them neither meat, drink, silver, nor gold, but he set before them great principles, and gave them an opportunity of approving, adopting, and carrying them into practice. He had told them by what motives alone he was influenced in asking them to send him to the House of Commons; and that if lie were re turned lie should express not merely the opinions of the particular number of men by whose votes he got there, nor the opinions merely of the inhabitants of the town he represented, but the public opinion of this country on those measures vital to the prosperity of the country. This was his only claim to their consideration. He told them that lie was the enemy of all monopoly, eccle siastical monopoly, the monopoly of political power, monopoly in commerce and trade, and above all, the mo nopoly of the land of this country and of its fruits. Ile execrated the Corn-laws, and he believed the existence of those laws was the greatest impediment in the way of the extension of the suffrage .—( Cheers.) He was happy- that he did not stand alone as , a candidate for their suffrages.—(Cheers.) He was delighted with th e address of the Noble Lord. They should accept with thanks what the Noble Lord was willing to labour to ob tain fur them. In the peculiar circumstances of their town, they should not reject one whose heart inclined to give them full justice, whose understanding was free from prejudice, whose motives were clear from corruption, who was the friend of the people, and who, though one of a class of society above them, yet had cern° down to link himself with the people, to make common cause with them, and determined to fight their battle.—(Cheers.) He was less anxious about the result of this election than the character of the electors. He conjured them, as they loved their interests, and desired to witness their tri umph, to determine that this election on their side should be distinguished by peacefulness, intelligence , forbear ance, and forgiven e ss, whil e a t th e same time they abated not one jot pr tittle of their principles, to court the smile or win the gold of any one who might be in the town.' He would indulge in no personalities towards his opponents, but he was glad that there was this dif ference between them—that while they courted atten tion, and provoked as it were the electors to catechise them, studied silence, almost invisibility, attached to their opponents, and it was impossible to come at their spe cific views. —(Cheers.) After some further avowal of his sentiments on the Corn monopoly, Mr. Thompson retired amidst great cheering. Sir JOHN EASTHOPE then again addressed the crowd, and called on them to be firm and determined in the c!Altest that the town of Southampton might set a noble example by redeeming the past.—(Loud cheers.) Lord NUGENT announced that he should' commence his canvass immediately, and spare no time in paying his respects to the electors. If the time should not allow him, to call upon all, he hoped they would not attribute it to disrespect on his part. With regard to bribery, the Noble Lord said he had never been rich enough to bribe, and if he had the means, he had nut the inclination to do so. If he would, he could not, and if he could, he would not.—(Cheers.) T. L. HARMAN, Esq., announced that the Committee would continue sitting, and would be happy to receive the names of any voters who might wish to record their promises for the Liberal candidates. The assemblage then quietly dispersed. The Liberals, as will be seen by the foregoing ad dresses, are fighting their battle upon principles of the strictest purity Of election. The Tories, however, are at the old work of corruption:" Agents, well known from their former participation in the mal-practices of the party, are most actively engaged in endeavouring to con rapt the poorer electors, nut so much as heretofore by treating, but by direct offers of bribes. The.cativiks by both parties has been prosecuted with the utmost vigour during this day ; and the contest, which is properly re garded as one of principle against money, excites the greatest interest. An open-air meeting will beTheld in St. Mary's parish, the strong hold of the Liberals, this evewng.. Both can didates will attend. NOTTINGHAM NO Ni /NATION. (FROM A CORRESPONDENT.) THURSDAY NIGHT.—ThiS has heen a glorious day for complete Suffrage. Early this morning the pppulation assembled by thousands in and near the market-place, to be ready to gain admission into the Exchange, the place appointed to take the nomination. At half-past nine, Mr. Walter, with a few Conservative friends, passed into the Exchange, amidst hootings and hissings of the most awful kind. At a quarter to ten, Joseph Scurge, accompanied by about 200 of his influential friends, left, the central Committee-room, and, on reach ing the market-place, the air was rent with deafening cheers. The doors were then thrown open, and in a few minutes the great room was packed. After the usual oaths, and the reading of the laws against bribery, &c. the Sheriff addressed the crowd briefly, calling upon J them to keep order. Mr. Hardwick rose, amidst fearful groans, to propose John Walter, Esq. Mr. Sturge, Mr. Vincent, and Mr. O'Connor rose, and urged the people to give all parties a fair hearing. Mr. Hardwick then said a few words in praise of Toryism, but he would keep them long, "us this was a dry, cold water election." Mr. Charlton seconded the nomination. SAMUEL BEAN, Esq., then rose amidst loud and re peated cheering, to propose Joseph Sturge, whose recep tion was enthusiastic. J. CRISP, Esq., seconded the nomination of Joseph Sturge in a very eloquent speech. JAMES SWEET then proposed; amidst loud cheers, Feargus O'Connor, and the nomination was seconded by a working man. J. FOWLER, Esq., then proposed Henry Vincent, amidst peals of enthusiastic cheering. The nomination was seconded by Mr. J. TIFFIN. JOHN WALTER, Esq., on coming forward, was hissed and groaned at, in the most awful manner. Mr. Sturge insisted that Mr. Walterbe heard. The people then listened quietly. He went over the old ground about the Poor-law, &c. &c. JOSEPH STURQE, Esq., next rose, and was tailed with deafening and-prolonged cheers. He made a most effec tive speech in defence of population representation. FEARGUS O'CONNOR, in a speech of great power, next addressed the people, exposing the iniquity of Toryism and the necessity for Reform. HENRY VINCENT, on rising, was cheered for several minutes. He spoke in defence of democratic principles, and in vindication of the working classes. The Sheriff then proceeded to take a show of hands, when Mr. O'Com-ron rose and said, ." Mr. Sheriff, it is not my intention of proceeding further in this contest." Mr. VINCENT-Mr. Sheriff, I beg to retire from all further participation in this contest.—(Loud cheers.) The Sheriff, after making announcement to the above effect, took a show of hands for John Waltei, when about twenty or thirty appeared on the platform, but not one in the body of the meeting.—(Shouts of derision fol lowed this display.) The SHERIFF then took a show of hands for Joseph Sturge, when a scene of the most astonishing nature presented itself. On the platform at least 400 hands were held up, and all the body of the meeting. The cheers and clapping of hands that followed cannot be deSeribed. The applause must have lasted ten minutes. A poll was then demanded on the part of John Walter. Mr. Sturge and Mr. Vincent afterward addressed the people frim a window in the market place ; and Mr. Vin cent eallea upon the people not to sleep until the election was won. Great excitement exists throughout the bo rough. The people will watch the bribers all night, and it is confidently expected that to-morrow will see the death of Toryism in Nottingham. This has been a glorious day. MON EY MARKET and CiT Y NEWS. FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF YESTERDAY. CHRONICLE.—The contents of the Report of the Commissioners of Exchequer Bills have transpired, and are known to be generally tavourable to the claims of the bona fide holders. We under,.;and, however, that the Report classifies the holders. This result is strictly in accordance with the views we have support6r in this question from the very first blush of it to the present moment. TIM ES.—The Directors of the London and County Bank declared, at their half yearly meeting to-day, a dividend, at the rate of 51. per cent. per annum, clear of the income-tax ; and it was stated that the business of the parent establishment, as well as its branches, is pros pering in the most satisfactory manner. It appeared from the report read by the secretary, that no new branches have been opened since the last meeting of the share holders, and that the call lately made to increase the capital of the Company had been promptly responded to. A shareholder inquired whether the reserve fund was in vested in the public funds, or employed as part of the work ing capital of the bank? In answer to this it was said that the reserve fund was employed in the business operations of the concern, but that a much larger amount than that fund was invested in Government securities. The profit and loss account exhibited stated " current expenses, with the Directors' fees, interest on current and de posit accounts for bad and doubtful debts, and rebate on bills not due, 15,9091. 108. Bd. ; dividend for the half year, 2,596/. 16s. Bd. ; and balance of profit and loss, new account, for the half-year ending the 30th of June, 1,5861. 15s. 4d. ;" making 20,093/. 2s. Bd., an equivalent to the stated gross profits of 20,093/. 2s. Bd. The wine trade are looking forward with-great inte rest to the motion of Mr. Masterman in the House, which stands for to-morrow (Friday), - and the object of which is the reduction of duty on wine, consequent on the completion of a treaty with Portugal. . A return has just been published of the aggregate value of gold and silver coin coined and sent by the Mint to the Bank of England, and of the total amount of light coin received by the Bank of Eng land and its branches since the proclamation against light gold. From this it appears that the total num ber of sovereigns coined and sent to the Bank since the proclamation, from the Ist to the 22d of July in clusive, amounted to, 337,0861., and the total number of half-sovereigns to 209,579/. 10s., making, altogether, a total amount of 546,6651. 10s. The total amount of silver coin coined and sent to the Bank, from the 20th June to the 20th July inclusive, was 30,400/. The total amount of light gold coin received by the Bank of England and its branches, and delivered to her Majesty's Mint, or retained by the Bank and its branches, since the proclamation against light gold, from,the 11th June to the 28th July inclusive, was 4,285,837 L . . There is one fact contained in this return which is worthy of special observation, viz., that the amount of silver paid into the Bank was only 30,4001., and not 300,0001., as was currently reported. POST OFFICE. MONTHLY STATEMENT OF LETTERS DELIVERED IN THE UNITED KINGDOM : Week ending July 24, 1842 . . 3,909,532 Week ending July 25, 1841 . 3,746,008 Week ending Nov. 24, 1839 . . • 1,585,973 Incretzse since 1841, on the week's letters . . . . . . 163,524 Increase• since 1839, on the week's letters . . . . . . 2,323,539 THE TARIFF. STUTTGARD, JULY 22 —Sir George Shed, the Eng lish Ambassador, has agreeable news to send to London respecting the Customs Union, the augmentation of the import-duties on twist, appears not to be approved of, notwithstanding the urgent solicitations of the advocates of such a measure who are now here. Prussia fears that it would thereby be drawn into tho prohibitive, or at least, the protective system. On the other hand the deputies of the Customs Union (doubtless according to their instructions), . are said to be inclined to augment the duties on woollens and mixed cloths, for while cot• tons, for instance, pay an import duty of fifty dollars, merinos, mousselines de lane, &c., pay only, thirty dol lars, though the value of these articles is much greater. By this disproportion in the duties, the woollen manufac tures, especially ladies' dresses, have become the most dangerous rivals of cottons, the consumption of which accordingly decreases. But on the other hand itis to be observed that woollens in general undoubtedly give warmer and more durable clothing than cottons, and the public is consequently essentially interested in: not having the prices of these necessary articles artificially increased, and that regard must,be had to the poorer classes, to whom warmer and yet cheap clothing is so necessary ; for the finer goods used by the rich are much less affected (in proportion to their prices) by the the Import-duty. Now as we have not, and do not, mean to introduce the system of ad valorem duties, the proposed measure might very easily affect the public without benefiting the manufacturers. AMSTERDAM, AUGUST 2.—To-day being, the 24th anniversary of the birthday of his Royal Highness Prince Alexander, his Majesty's second son, was kept with the usual ceremonies. According to a report received by the Minister of Commerce from the fair of Beaucaire, business has been extremely brisk—hosiery and linen and woollen cloths finding a ready sale at good prices, as well as silks and fancy stuffs for dresses. Sir Edward Cholmeley Dering, Sir Thomas and Lady iteynell and family, Count Albanessi, &C. &c., left London on Thursday by the Antwerp Comrany's steam-ship, Princess Victoria, Captain M►nter, from St. Katharine's-wharf, Tower. The same Company's ship Antwerpen, Captain Jackson, arrived from Antwerp after a passage of 18i hours only up to the wbar£ BRIGHTOIi RAILWAY. The half-yearly meeting of the Directors and Pro- ; prietors in this Company was held yesterday, at the London Tavern, for the purpose of receiving the Report ' of the Directors, and taking into consideration the pro priety of declaring a dividend. JOHN HARMAN, Esq., the Chairman of the Directors, took the ,Chair, and said, that the Directors were anxious to come before the Proprietors, owing to the imputation cast upon them in the public prints.—(Hear, hear.) The Directors sought strict investigation ; and he should be . most happy to answer any question the Shareholderi_ot might think proper to put to him.—(Hear, hear.) Ilor thought that they were now arrived at a momentous crisis of the history of the Company, and that the time was come that a ,full and fair understanding should be come to between the Shareholders and the Directors. The Directors had been visited with a degree Of opprobrium from anonymous sources, totally' undeserved. (Hear, hear.) If those charges were proved to be true, then they (the Directors) w ere ready to bear the responsibility. lie had received .eve' ral letters from anonymous persons, imputing to the Di rectors fraud, in raising 70,0004 more than they wanted r the purpose of putting it in their own pockets. lie would - allude to that part of the Report which bore refe rence to the great increase of expenditure over the es' timates. He was free to confess that the increase was large, but he would, at the same time, say, that no un dertaking in the kingdom, skthe kind, had succeeded in accomplishing their work. 4 within the estimates. The Honourable Gentleman then read a statement of the receipts and expenditure of the Company, which are detailed in the Report below. In the in" provements and additional expenses entered into by the Directors, they had contracted for new branch and terminus, in Brighton, as they considered the town of Brighton had a claim upon them, as the Act of Parliament gave them reason to believe that the Rail ; way would be continued further into the town. The Hon. Gentleman then read further accounts, from which it would appear that 11,3454 remained in the hands of the Company. But it was right to say that they had, ordered extra waggons and trucks to the amount ed 5,0001., and they had incurred an expense of 9001. iu having the engines "running on four wheels altered to run upon six wheels. The next point to which he would allude was that respecting the money received from the South Eastern Company. At their last meeting he in; formed them that this money would not be appropriate to the purposes of the Railway; he was happy to confine that statement.—(Cheers.) Some difference of o pinion had arisen as to how this money should be appropriated' He had recommended that the amount should be divided amongst the original subscribers, they having subscribed the original loan, but it was discovered that the mortgagee s and the holders of the loan notes had a prior claini• But one thing was very clear, and that was, that the interest of the money could not be claimed by those mortgagees, and the holders of the loan notes, as the in' terest upon their claims was regularly paid up. There" fore this sum would be at the disposal of the Shirr holders. The Hon. Gentleman then referred to the ex' penditure in the purchase of land, and said that amount purchased was three times as much as leg° originally calcuiated. He was asked at the last meetinf how they were to pay the interest of the loan notes an°, debentures out of their earnings. Ile then demurrm to answer the question, and the 'reason was obvious, their traffic had then fallen off to nothing. Since that time the traffic had gradually increased, and he had n° doubt that the traffic would go on increasing in a lik e ratio. It was well known that the first year n ° railway could get up its traffic. Their expense s had not increased, but if anything had decreasedi He had no hesitation in saying that by the next h° , l , yearly meeting, unless some unforseen accident happene ° they would be enabled to offer a very handsome divide indeed. With respect to the dividend to be declare d; that day they would have to decide whether it should 1 14/ 15s. per share or 10s. per share. If they decided 'O t t 15s. per share, the interest upon the loan rates and bon ° . would be charged in the next half year, or if 10s. tl accounts would run on regularly. He should then eau. on the Secretary to read the Report. ~,, The following Report was then read, together ss°"" the Report of Mr Rastwick :-- GENTLEMEN,—The Directors now lay before you a fell s e !! explicit statement of their proceedings since the lasthalf-)e ar ' i t meeting, by which you will be put in possession of the presen , position, and. as far as they are able to give it, the future p ro '' pects of the Company. al They feel bound, in justice to themselves, to refer to sev er a subjects contained in the Report of the Committee appoin te in January last, to investigate the account, of the CompatiY-, e In the first place, the Committee allude to the impen e , mode of keeping the accounts, and the difficulty they found I classing the expenditure under appropriate heads. o f The course which the Directors originally were desired' 0 vie they in keeping the accounts, was to follow the sYs e _, adopted by other great railway companies, and with this iL they procured introductions for their late secretary to the ... 0 M countants of both the Birmingham and Great Western !!',„ ways, and considerable time was occupied by him in exarnio° the mode in which their accounts were kept, after which he a_' cured the Directors that he had made himself thor,ughly master of the subject with a view that the accounts of this C. °T,P a ,,,. should be conducted on similar principles, and although it L u t bt pears that he adopted a different method, there can be no have that had he been present at the inveatigatiens be yi d have removed many objections raised by that Comibittee, rendered their inquiry less laborious. out a complete and detailed account, classing ndtturts t he expe It has alwas been the intention of the Director s to make y of every department under its appropriate head, from the egli . ; meneement of the undertaking ; but during the progress u` the works it was found utterly impossible to follow oat this syr tern, although it will be adopted when the accounts of the seve rul contractors are closed. The same difficulty existed with regard to the accounts for land, as it was necessary, from time to time, to take additional quantities, and, in some instance* absolutely to purchase a portion of that which had only. hese taken for temporary purposes, while, in other instances, nients were made on account, in order to obtain possession 0 ' the land pending the investigation of the titles, and tho.e.br counts will also shortly be closed. • Another portion of the Report requiring notice, is the ex cess of expenditure over the original estimates. The Directors cannot be expected to take upon themseiy_ e d g the great responsibility of the various estimates, either for la " or works, but they confidently refer to the Reports which they have'from time to time submitted to the Prop ictors, as being most full and explicit ; they have never withheld informatiott!, but as the necessity for further capital presented itself, t he made it known to the Proprietors without reservation ; and eve_ up to the last half-yearly meeting, so far from any acedi s satisf tion having been evinced, the Directors and Engineer h been encouraged by unanimous votes of thanks and confiden ce. The Directors are quite as much concerned at the addition°. expenditure which has been incurred as the Shareholders; theY_ have never parted with the funds of the Company without 0° strictest scrutiny, nor have they acquiesced in any ex•pendit, e o rB without being fully convinced by their Engineer that if absolutely necessary. In order to account for the 'oree'l en expenditure, they refer to the explanations of their EnginM" which were embodied in the Report of the Investiga" -- Committee. Another subject in the Report to which the Directors hbe! to refer, is that the amount of 2,639,000/. was stated in t hf - , half-yearly Report in a manner which might, at first gig 0 lead to the conclusion that the cost of the Railway v'' o amount to that sum, instead of 2,568,000/. The facts are 3, follow : that besides a sum of 2,269,3591. already expeev e li and an amount of 298,8.52/. whieh it was estimated would be required to complete the works, making together 2,568, 21 0 r the sum of 71,0001., which was a liability of the Company „ money borrowed, was inadvertently included in the be ragraph of the Report, making the estimate 2,639,211/. addition of this sum was an oversight in drawing up the Iteln ; but the Directors distinctly assure the Proprietors, that was no error of the sort in the books of aecount,- a s has b e : generally inferred from the Report of the Committee of 1 "; Yestigation, nor in fact does that Report state it other'" than as an error in the paragraph. Another subject connected with the Report of the C,o l ° . mittee of Investigation, demands the notice of the Director'', At the special general meeting of the Proprietors upon ref ceiving the Report, an observation fell from the Chairman that Committee which has been the subject of mea l s pec o,, ;, (' tion, and has given rise to many unpleasant remarks. 1111 . b that gentleman expressed himself ready to a nswer any rip tions which might be put to him, he added, " taking care . say nothing that would tend to the injury o f th e endertakint,, there the lips of the Committee wer e sea l e d," Th e Direct"'". aware that this observation applied only to oases of disputed" counts with contractors and others, did not think it neces d , to offer any observations, more particularly as, in his concl!,, i ing sentence, that gentleman stated, he was not aware that tir t ,t, had anything of the slightest importance to communicate. whi t was no; already embodied in the Report. This assertion4l Directors considered sufficient to satisfy every unprejsu'' mind. Having felt it due to themselves thus to draw the attenti° of the Shareholders to the Report of the Investigation Coeli raittee, the Directors beg to add, that they have, as far as . has permitted. followed the sugeestiens therein contained. o f [Here follows an account of the receipts and exp en dauel the Company, up to the 30th of June last.] a se It will be seen by these accounts, that the traffic aril*. as last six months has pr od o: e.. u , c it ed ohde .63 eX 3F p 26 e r n oi d in. itl ts r h. e i23 :1 :u' t m h w e h: Co seht m : e .1° : b l -til : P balance on last half year's account of 1'2,4794 125..t3d _ O2 l - 0 t . d a o n u c t a t h m e e d o 3 37B t , t h 7 0 96/ o f f 7.518°65 June, sll. leaving 37,009/. 14s. ; but which sur e , f chargeable with i n t eres t pai d to the 15th of . January bile 9,364/. 25., thus showing an amount of 27,645/. 129. at disposal of the Shareholders. It is right to state that this 01 : may be further charged with interest from the 15th of Jari°,% to the 30th of Ju ne ; b u t on t h e ot h er h and, a portion of t interest due upon the d e bt p a y a bl e by th e South East er' t, Railway Company is appli ca bl e t o t h e p ro fi t an d l oss s tenos of the same date. During the first three months of this year, endine, on ! 2d of April. the average receipt per week was 1 ,tr:of ss. suit ' and during the last three months, ending on the 2i of JelY', was 2,9891. 16s. 4d. per week; and the avera ge wee kly expel . ' of working and maintaining the line was 101941., arid in the month of July the average receipt per week was 3,96/. Os. 9c/ ' thus showing a great progressive increase. It must be borne in mind that the Company have been su b „ . jected to serious losses by the accident which mewled in t" ( j . autumn of last year on the Brighton line, and the confine' interruption on the Croydon line. It will also be seen from these accounts, that goods are ee e , carried upon the Railway, and it is gratifying to the Direc t to state, that there has been a grad ua l improvement in sh', branch of business since the commenc ement , and that there every prospect of considerable increase. th Arrangements have been made, a n d are st ill ma ki n g, '" 1 „. various persons in the different town s along the line, and ads. cent to the Railway, for the establishment of permanent in merchandise, which will be mutually beneficial to the trader * the public, and the Company. The receipts upon the Sh ore h am B ranc h and also Kingston Wharf increased been ta run ti n new won d in u nd r e i n ng : no the foelar the sthalfyear; a a beensteam o - p b e o n a e t d s , witha d t a he n C i W ila h c a e r a f t hv t a he e wharf has whichor t important nt will accommodationadtlinMirlding°i increase of trade, with ou t any additional expen di ture . conveyance of good s an d merchandise has recently comm ence at this wharf along th e ma i n line, and a considerable trad; in e n g U r n e l a C t a l t y i° t n o coals has already been established with the interior of the country. By the annexed Report of the engineer, it wil, a . spen a tbst he has almost • compieted the contract and exs„ s wer e., whi at the last general meeting, he stated remained to be execute d ' o and he assures the Directors that the es. 4. ma w he then Is ee d i f those works will not be exceeded. He, i s enga ged in the b e __. n s ment of the cont rac t ors ' accounts , verkich there is every reaj to believe will be adjusted before st as next general meeting. o f At the last g enera l weeny' 211- s hares were forfeite d, which numb e r 41 have s;: nce ‘been re.allotted to the• ~ever!_ Proprietors, upon thee- paying all the calls due, with the inte i rest thereon. T tSarran gement referred to in the last Heel part Of I hav e open: the li The best oi Att now n, louo dthi (Ay c Le Pai Ar. Poi 11? stoi] tw su let tst i in ap k ld:ti t t ~~ ~ 1 a,~ ~$ ~,