The Sun. — London, England, 1844-08-27 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAK. `l7:-NDsop., MONDAY.—To-day Nva , the birthday of h:s Royal Highne s Prince Albert. The auspicious riert was celebrated at the Castle. Shortly before seven o'clock the band of the Royal Regiment of Horse G u trds assembled on the South Terrace, beneath his Royal Highness's apartments, and at seven o'clock precisely commenced a serenade. The first piece performed was " The Reveille of Walsh," introducing a chorale. Several selections from the works of Mendelssohn, arranged, by command, by Mr. Tutton, the master of the band, were then played, ,the *performance con cluding with "The C o b urg M arc h." The serenade oecupit , d an hour. • Her Royal Highiu;ss the Duchess of Kent arrived at the Castle, from Frogmore House, at half-past eight o'clock, to congratulate the Prince on the aus picious occasion. His Royal High , ies3 walked out in the pleasure grounds of the Castle. The Earl of Jersey, Master of the Horse, arrived in the forenoon, and had an audience of his Royal INhness. His Lordship afterwards took his departure. in the afternoon Prince Albert walked in the royal gardens. A number of the nobility and gentry called - during the day at the Castle to pay their respects. Among them were the Marquis and Marchioness of Thoniond, Lord James O'Bryen, the Countess of Norbury and Lady Georgiana Toler, Viscount and Viscountess Howick, Rev. Lord Wriothesley Russell, Lord and Lady 'Lad°, Sir George lfayter, Colonel Sir George, Lady, and Mi s Couper, Lieut.-Col. Bouverie, Colonel and Mrs. Berkeley Drummond, Captain Codrington, R. - N., Captain Copeland, R.N., Captain the Hon. and Mrs. C Grantham Scott, Captain the Honourable James Murray, Captain C. Seymour, the Honourable the Dean of Windsor and the Honourable Mrs. Hobart, Captain Pitt, Sir Gore, Lady, and Miss 'O use l e y, L a d y Ch ar l o tt e Duralas, Countess Wistislaw, Mr. Osborne Yeats, lion. and Rev. R. B. Stopford, Hon. Mrs. and Miss Stopford, Rev. Isaac Gosset, Rev. - William ani Mrs. Canning, Admiral Sir Edward Codrington, Miss Maria and Emma Codrington, Sir William Fremantle, Miss Hervey, Miss Hervey Bathurst, Mr. C. Wemyss, Lieutenant Hon. S. Jocelyn, Lieu tenant-Colonel Turner, Major and Mrs. Trent, Rev. C. W. Knyvett, Sir John Ki r kl an d, Si r J osep h W.hatley,lion. Henry and Mrs. A s hl e y, H on . L a d y ling, hi Marquise d'Harcourt, Mr. and Mrs. Har court, Miss Cavendish, Mr. Francis Cavendish, Major An derso n , G enera l an d L a d y J . W emyss, Lady Gra nt, Captain the Hon. and Lady M ar y H oo d, th e Governo r , and also the Naval and Milit ary K n i g ht s of IVindsor. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent dined at the Castle in the evening. The band of the Scots Fusilier Guards was in at tendance during dinner, and performed the following piece s : Prussian Army, March Zadooski. Overture, Oberon British Homage Waltzes Selection, Lucia di Lammermoor, Donizetti. • Polka, Favourite Tolbecque. Overture, La Part du Diable Auber. Chatsworth Quadrilles At eight o'clock the Eastern Terrace of the Castle Was illuminated. The battlements of the Terrace had a continuous row of white lamps defining the outline. The circular fountains and the vases in the garden enclosed within the Terrace were illuminated with v ariegated lamps. The flower-beds were ingeniously illuminated to represent glow-worms, and the shrubs • Were hung with lamps, forming imitations of fruit • and flowers, the whole having a most fanciful and enchanting effect. The words " Prince Albert " w ere i n t ro d uce d i n the Elopes, on the flight of steps leading from the garden to the Terrace. St. George's Gateway was illuminated with a royal :i3runswick star, supported by the initials " P. A.," In pearl lamps. In addition to the illumination of the Castle Ter . Il i. ", a mo s t b r illi an t di sp l ay o f fi rewor k s t oo k p l ace a ' the lodges forming the entrance to the Long Walk, Under the direction of Mr. R. Fenwick. f The exhibition commenced with a royal salute, °flowed with a display of moonlight fire, succeeded by a beautiful change to green, then to crimson, t hrowin g a very strong reflection on every sur iroc),.ll,nding. object. A flight of brilliant rockets fol fled, with a discharge of sosasonds. wi The first fixed piece consisted of a splendid break which, which working several evolutions, d di itself into three horizontal wheels, finishing r ll o ' Cie se discharge v of golden fire, a flight of large Sever a l brilliant and tail star shells. c h„, — g,rand Ro man can dl e battery was next fired, dis igmg every description of coloured stars. scripti he n followed a chequered piece, with every de of " of coloured fire, accompanied by discharges coloured shells and mines, a display of crimson fire, and several meteor rockets. A lar fr,e piece of firework, called the "Turning S un," with triangle wheels and a royal star, all re volving at the same time, and exhibiting variegated colours. A flight of large rockets, with blue, green, Purple, amber, lilac, and crimson stars. A splendid piece of firework of large dimensions, c ombining every colour known in the pyrotechnic art; a brilliant discharge of variegated-coloured rockets, concluding sNith a Royal Brunswick star, Kith the initials P. A., accompanied by flights of rockets, • Roman candles, shells, mines, and coloured fires. • From t en to twelve thousand lamps were employed in the illuminations. In the town the day was observed with the usual " demonstrations of respect ; the bells of the church :_ ▪ un g a joyou s .. peal, and in the evening the royal tradesmen illuminated their houses. • p r T heir Royal Hi g h nesses th e P r i nce o f W a l es , th e li ii, ; ne ess Royal, and the Princess Alice, were taken • o f :kgs, in the morning, and 'in the afternoon the Prince riag e "s and the Princess Alice were taken a ear 1, He :driv e accompanied by the Dowager Lady airin g in a elton a ' r 1 H'eess the Duchess of Kent took an n .Y .c a arria 't 'g l e ' i n n the aftDernoon. ,-. VICTORIA THEATRE. Victoria theatre re opened. last evening, after shart recess, during which the theatre has been pi ece and the corps dramatique reinforced. The ' 4 .eee S Chosen for the opening night were La Catarina, co l 'ew version of Auber's opera, Les Diamans de la r 4r()) //ze in which Miss Vincent sustained the cha ,4eter th e great spirit, and was . Mitch applauded. operetta fist! in which Mr. Binge, from Drury e ne, made his bow to a Victoria audience, and a "ew burlesque from the pen of Laman Blanchard, Z itit led Jack and the ,Bean Stalk, with Miss Vincent. to e renow ne d J ac k. Thi s b ur l esque i s one o f 11 1 ` )3 e glori ous bi ts o f f un f or t h e pro d uct i on o f w hi c h ' a nchard i s so cele b rate d . I t i s a regu l ar % sel-ea rner," and, h oweve r m u c h gen tl emen w h o do ,whe, le gitimate d rama may he i nc li ne d to sneer at t h ose make people laugh, yet it is these last, after th:, 2 win, and they may reply to the sneerers in vlords o f L u l l i to M. de Louvo i s, i n answer to a d elilitr • reproach--" Yon would be but too happy to ple !-' th e sainu you could." The getting up of all the b e , e " wa3 admirable, and if he goes on as he has be l e in 2 vve doubt not but that Mr. Osb a ldiston will a Prosperous season. The house was crowded. 101- 1 r 1 - 1 7 INDIAN ENCAMPMENT, b y e t : t ° er l d t ay D R wh ° , U h N a v e D• e x been Ili„111,tlog fur s ome wee k s p as t a t th e E g yptian Hall, the encamped at Lord's Cricket-ground, for " r l )O F , e of exhibiting their sports tri_ the open air. ' e ' Y a rrived in the ground at two o'clock, when the 1 0n ) pitched the wigwams after the native Indian dr op and lit a tire in the centre of each. A caul coutaining their food was then suspended over b e e in nre in one of the wigwams for the purpose of ip ta g Co oked, and the Indians ascended a stage erected ( I, n grounds and performed several of their national q ue e n e , " s , t? The cauldron was subse a a Y brone-ht on the stage with much ceremony, Medicine -man, having poured a portion . of In contents •on the ground (after the classical se a af " ,, e r of making a libation), the Indians thetnelves around the cauldron, and ( 4 1 . much Ceremony partook of its contents. Mr. % n o, who was i n atten d ance , exp l a i ne d th a t thi s 4 1 . 1 7, 11-l uny was a re li g i ous one , w hi c h a l wa y s was o b served the the Indians in making a fresh encampment. Ma e 4 t heo perfumed the Eagle dance, the most ani ere 4. 't Part of the war dance. Targets were then ar e c h' n in the ground, and they exhibited feats of for a s -17, using, however, light and embarbed arrows c e , l ea r of accidents. After the archery the ball play Th e tri e en eed- This was a most lively, amusing scene. „ 0 " 111 , which resembles an ordinary tennis-ball, is the ba' Indi an rac k ets, an d as t h e l oways s t ruc k mated and ran a f ter i t over th e grounds, the ani traqd a ppearance o f t h ese S ons of the Forests con solerned strangely F with their ordinary grave and respmbl.n• demeano ur . The game itself bears a strong eia to the Irish game of hurling. At toT.O clock the Indians left the ground for the t ian Hall. These sports are, we understand, first every d ay t hi s wee k . Thi s i s t h e 411 7 -Indian encampment ever formed in England, r e d' 41 " an exemplification of the manners of the Us so {aroili 7 1 , .Nvith wh om th e wor k s o f C ooper h ave ma d e ra ast ar, the exhibition is certainly one of the 11414 e.interesting in London. The company was rested and deli and fashionable, and seemed much inte lityghted. W e t o F :11 7eeatly regret to hear that there is no probabi- Year. I t h h e usual annual furloughs Lein granted this lows t Irelaanzn(e,dtt; army is so weak, and its duties so numerous, ' 4 tate 4 i ar e required to be present. But the disturbed B tate our relations with- France, and the still dubious et.t a , r; o sa g id ran to tt, b d e i th h.. e i,i chief causes that fur- M i T ia %ar G e winter,-- ral and THE LEVANT MAIL. From Beyrout our advices are of the 3d inst. Essad Paella returned there on the 2 , 1, after completing the disarmament of the population of Tripoli, and re establishing order and tranquillity in that town. Twelve of the most influential inhabitants had been arrested by his orders and sent to prison. The moun taineers of Beisciarre, who had assumed a hostile at titude, had returned to duty, the Pacha having thought proper to suspend the collection of the miri until their claims should he examined. The Ottoman fleet, with the exception of two ships of the line sta tioned at Tripoli, was still lying at anchor in the roads of Beyrout on the 25th ult. The British fri gate Tyne sailed from I3eyrout for Alexandria on the 31st. Our private correspondence from Alexandria on the 7th inst. announces that Mehemet Ali, after having received a visit from his son, Said Pacha, who followed him from Alexandria to Cairo, had consented to receive Ibrahim Pacha, and had subsequently con sented to resume the administration of affairs and to return to Alexandria, whence a steam-boat had been dispatched on the 7th init., which was to meet his Highnns at Atfe. Much apprehension was felt at Alexandria that the inundation of the Nile during this year would not be sufficient to produce good crops. No case of plague had been reported for some days. The Geyser was waiting at Alexandria to con vey Lord Ellenborough to Marseilles. His Lordship was expected to arrive at Alexandria in a few days. Our letters from Jerusalem .of the 18th ult. state, that a very considerable sensation still existed there amongst the French and other Christian population, on account of the murder of the French Consul's ser vant (mentioned in one of our former letters). It was even said that the Consul was so alarmed at the ap pearance of affairs, that he would write to his Go vernment to supply him with means of protection for the French now in his neighbourhood. Our letters from Constantinople of the 7th instant state, that the intelligence from Alexandria had pro duced a lively sensation in the Turkish capital. The Ministers immediately met in council, at the country seat of the Grand Vizier, and the result of their deli beration was, that Masloum Bey, the Minister of Justice and Charge d'Affaires of 'Mehemet Ali, should repair forthwith to Alexandria to inquire into the real situation of affairs. Maslotim Bey accordingly em barked on the 7th in the French steamer to fulfil that important mission. The last packet from Salonica conveyed to Constantinople 227 other Albanian pri soners, among whom were several chiefs, who were thrown into prison to await their trial before the Su perior Council of Justice. The Russian steamer Polar Star had arrived with the family of M. Cata cazy, former resident Minister of Russia at Athens, ' where he had resided for some time. A libel on the Minister of Finance having been received by the last Levant packet, and profusely circulated in Constan tinople, Baron de Bourqueney had given permission to the Ottoman police to examine all the brochures arriving by the French mail, and to seize such as it might disapprove, of a political character. Our naval intelligence from Malta is to the 15th inst. Beyond the arrival of the two Dutch frigates, the Rhin, having on board his Royal Highness Prince Henry of the Netherlands, and the Jason, both from Tunis, there is, however, little to communicate. They are both performing quarantine. Her Majesty's steamer Acheron returned to port on the 13th inst., from Toulon, where she had been obliged to put in, in consequence of the violent gale of wind she encountered. She was ten hours under full steam from this port to Toulon. The sea broke over her in a fearful manner; at one time she had six 'inches of water on her decks. She got under the lee of the islands of Hyeres, for shelter from the fury of the gale. The Acheron was the bearer of the news received at Malta on the 4th, from Alexandria. No communication whatever was allowed with the shore. The quarantine flag was hoisted on her arrival, and the Captain, with Mr. and Mrs. Carter Smith, landed with the dispatches. After waiting an hour at Tou lon the Acheron returned to Malta. Oa leaving she took no mail, and several letters sent by her in the hope of being landed, were brought back to the senders on the return of the steamer to this port. The Oriental arrived this morning, and will leave port to-night, for Alexandria. The Sydenham had been sent from Barcelona to Marseilles, with dispatches by a Queen's messenger. The Tyne and Belvidera had arrived off Alexandria, from Beyrout, but having exchanged signals with the Geyser, put back again for the port they had left. The Polyphemus leaves to-day for the lonian Islands and Greece, with mails; and the Acheron for Gibraltar, with the intermediate London mail. The Orestes was at Argostoli, and about to Pro ceed to Samos ; the Medea at Corfu, Snake and Virago at Athens, and the Beacon at Poros. The news of the bombarding of Tangiers reached Malta on the morning of the 15th. The following is the disposition of the fleet on the Mediterranean station : Malta Harbour—Ceylon, 6, bearing the flag of Rear-Admiral Sir L. Curtis, Lieut. R. Curtis ; steamer Locust, Lieut. Commander J. Lunn ; Alecto, Lieut. W. Hoseason. On Surveying Duty—Beacon, Commander Graves. Gibraltar—Caledonia, 120, Captain A. D. Milne ; Albion, 90, Captain Lockyer, C. 8.; Formidable, 84, Captain G. F. Rich ; Warspite, 50, Captain P. W. P. Wallis; Scout, 18, llon. J. R. Drummond ; Hecla, Commander John Duffil ; Vesuvius, Commander Ommanney; Sydenham, Lieut. Commander Mapleton. Pirxus.—Savage, Lieut. Bowker ; Virago, Com mander G. G. Otway. Coast of Syria.—Tyne, 26, Captain W. N. Glas cock ; Belvidera, Captain Hon. G. Gray. Chalcis.—Snake, 16, Hon. H. B. Devereux. Alexandria.—Geyser, Commander Carpenter. Corfu.—Orestes, Commander Cannon; 1119dea, Corn mander Warden. Con stantinople.-I)evastation, Commander Kitchen. PRECAUTIONARY MEASURES. We have been informed, and are most gratified at learning, that measures of military precaution of the usual kind in fortified towns have lately been adopted in this invaluable fortress. To whatever inconve nience such a measure may subject the inhabitants of this island, it is, nevertheless, called for by circum stances. There cannot be a shadow of doubt that, whenever France considers hostilities about to take place with England, she will attempt a coup de main on Malta. It is not for us to point out the most vul nerable point in either harbour, nor the means of pre venting a furtive nocturnal entrance of the one part or the other, and of securing the entrance into Val letta, in case of an attempt of the troops located in the other cities and suburbs. These are matters we are not bound to deal with, and which, no doubt, those who have the responsibility of keeping pos session of the place have already calculated in all their details. It is sufficient for us to re peat—we will do so a thousand times if necessary— that France has commenced naval and military operations, incompatible, if carried out, with the in terests of England ; —that a similar course, simul taneously pursued by Spain, and some of the northern Powers, the former confessedly under French in fluence, is of a nature to show a common intention of throwing down a formidable barrier to French ambi tion to the westward. In Tunis we have a British Consul insulted—the Bey intimidated—a Maltese party conciliated—with a contemporaneous 'stirring up of parties within the Island of Malta. In Egypt we have the opening act of a new French intrigue. We have also a pamphlet which, boyish as it is, and however covered up with hypotheses, is evidently in tended to heighten the moral influence of France, and . to weaken that of England, with Powers subject to the maritime superiority of either Power, and to in timidate those in the united kingdom who are engaged in the pursuits of maritime commerce. Whether these , demonstrations will be acted upon now, or, being found too premature, will be desisted from till a future period, we neither know nor care. This we know, that whenever they may be persisted in England has the power, and her Administration will, no doubt, have the firmness, successfully to re sist them. To talk of Br . :tish commerce on the sea being a vulnerable point now that steam-vessels are in use is ridiculous. Was it a serious vulnerable point in the last war, when protected by sailing vessels ? Certainly not. But a steamer will protect a merchant fleet better than half a dozen sail ing ves;els. Neither can France place on the water an equal number of steam-vessels with England fully manned ; but she would have to combat against Bri tish sailors, with sea-sick soldiers; nor can she dis perse her guerilla steamers over the ocean, unless' accompanied by transparts loaded with combustible matter, whereby to produce the steam they move by. Be all this, however, as it may, the Island of Malta ought in the meantime to be most diligently watched against surprise; and when our neighb.mrs shall attempt to scour the ocean withaut coals, to put in practice the schoolboy exercises of fighting, running away, joining, and disuniting forces, they will soon find that there is nothing new in this ; on the con- Crary, it is as old as the first details of the history of play-grounds and warfare. But single-handed fight ing is nothing when powder and fire-arms are the means of offence. No man can carry his own depot with him, nor can any depOt be safe without an as sembled force ; and, in this respect a steam-vessel may, by analogy, be compared to an individual, since she cannot carry with her a supply, for any length of time, of what she is most in want of in order to in sure her efficiency.-3falta Mail. TRIPOLI, JULY 22. The British Consul-General, ten days ago, dis patched a courier to Malta. However, no letters were permitted to bri sent by that conveyance. The affairs in the mountains have been settled without bloodshed :a demonstration was sufficient to keep that people in order. The difference had been settled - by the old Barachala, c.)lonel of the irregular .eavalryt and at4ehed to the present Government, like to the THE SUN, LONDON, 117.0SDAY EVENING, AUGUST 27, Caramanlies in times past. If the rule of the present Pacha is hard and oppressive, on the other hand it cannot he denied that he had established a perfect tranquillity and safety throughout the Regency. The roads are now cleared of the robbers and highwaymen. Communications by land with Marzuck, Gadanes, and Bengazy are regular, and every week a courier departs on dromedaries. The spirit of independence and rebellion is suppressed, and the troublesome Arabs are forced to keep peace. The skill of the Pacha in all the branches of the administration is very remarkab'e ; he is a particular ruler, and keeps the finances in admirable order. The fear of his sagacity is so great, that none of the employes attempt to defraud public money. In fine, the Pacha has established a firm Government, th it is unpleasant for swindlers and for riotous people accustomed to per petual rebellion. To organise a regular administration in this lawless country is very difficult, and impossible to be done without force. Single individuals may suffer, but the whole benefit from it. The Smyrna papers praise the Pacha, and we praise him too, if imposi tions, taxes, and duties would be more moderate, and taken in proportion to the annual production, and not according to the currency in circulation. The French Chancellor Ledeaux left on the 20th instant for Tunis. The news from the interior is important. The re maining son of Abd-el-Gelil, who fled to Toba, a town in the interior, half•way from Marzuk to Boman, had a struggle with the people of the large country called Wadey, on the occasion of the spoliation of a kaiifa or caravan ; in consequence a battle was fought, and the son of Abd-el-Gelil was killed. Rumour is also in circulation that his relation, the last of the great Saf fanasser, had been likewise killed in this battle ; how ever, the Arabs are incredulous as to the particulars of Saffanasser's death, looking upon this as an inven tion of the Government. Surely the death of both must be agreeable to the Turkish rulers, and is neces sary to give greater quiet to the country. The French have taken possession of Tuggurt, and have sent a message to the large country called Sauf, at present an independent place, to submit or to suffer the fate of those who rebel against French rule. The people of Sauf, who have 10,000 men fit for war, are little disposed to submit, and have written to the Pacha of Tripoli, claiming his protection, and offering to take the Sultan for Sovereign. The Pacha has answered that he is willing to send the Turkish Government and Administration to Sauf, de claring this country to be a dependency. upon Tripoli. This proposition is much more than the people of Sauf wish for. This fact is of high importance, the boun daries of the French conquest now touch upon the Turkish empire, and quarrels will not fail to happen, like those with Morocco, and provoke new conquests based on the right of strength. EXPENDITURE. Salaries and allowances of the principal A a. d. officers of tke Duchy, and their esta blishment of officers and clerks .. 4,866 11 10 Salaries, allowances, and other expenses connected with the new Stannary Court... Salaries and allowances of all other officers, receivers, and agents, em ployed in the collection of the revenue 837 15 4 Superannuation allowances and annuities 1,656 5 5 Donations and charities 381 5 0 Law charges 544 12 10 Tithes, and expenses of tithe apportion ments 69 15 9 Surveys and maps . 421 2 7 Audit expenses . 195 19 8 Disbursements and incidental expenses.. 901 4 2 Rents respited and exonerated 95 10 6i Investments in the purchase of the sur render)rrent s madeof to beneficial his leases 2,000 0 0 Payments Royal Highness's use'.. Balance due to the Receiver-General th e _ _ 31st December,lB42,ineluding arrears 2,585 16 14 Outstanding arrears due to his Royal Highness on the 31st December, 1843 1,904 10 3i Balance remaining in the hands of the Receiver-General 3,996 1 11+ £40,100 18 11i DUCHY OF LANCASTER. An Account of the Gross and Net Revenue of the Duchy of Lancaster, for the year ending Michaelmas, 1843, showing the amount of revenue which became due, the moneys received and paid within the year, and the ar rears and balance at the end of the preceding and cur rent years. INCOME. £ a. d. Rent and arrears received during theyear ending Michaelmas, 1843, deducting 5,4901. outstanding arrears 23,031 16 1 Fines on renewals of leases Sales, grants in fee, grants of rents and enfranchisement of copyholds, under TUNIS, JULY 18. It seems that fate will not desist from oppressing the poor Maltese, who have chosen Tunis for their asylum; since their Consul, on one hand, permits their dwellings to be searched so as to ascertain whether any smuggled tobacco is there concealed; and, on the other, the people and the Bey's public force avail of such permission to profit by the detection of such smuggling. Such, therefore, is the sad condition of the poor Maltese, who speculate in that article. Now for facts : A few days ago, the tobacco contractor took eight quintals of tobacco from a Maltese resident at Tunis, besides many more quintals of that same article, from various other places in the same city. Moreover, on the night of the 22d of June a Mussulman of Nabel thought proper to surprise some Maltese, who were introducing into the city some tobacco from the shore. When the Maltese had nearly saved their tobacco, the impudent assailant advanced abreast of the leading escort, and ordered them to lay down their tobacco. The Maltese offered to transact in some way or other with the Mussulman, but the latter, instead of coming to the proposed terms (though he was not one of the contractor's emproTrs), more wantonly persisted in annoying the Maltese, who, having lost all hopes of carrying on his contraband, discharged a pistol at the Mussulman and killed him on the spot. Next day a report was circulated, that the killed Turk had, before his death, declared that his mur derers were persons lodged at an inn kept by a certain Shellughi, whose real name is Giuseppe Muscat. The British consular agent of Nabel (Salvatore Borg), in consequence of Sheih Abdilla's report, arrested all the persons found in the said inn indiscriminately, without inquiring whether the innkeeper, or the other inmates, had any. hand-in -the business, whilst -Vin cenzo uereb, who had murdered the Turks, had already embarked for Suva, and thence, God knows where. Sir Thomas Reade, on hearing the agent's report, detained in gaol for some time the pretended murderers, and afterwards sent them to Malta. Acts of Parliament - 418 311 Dividends on stock, beim. , the produ ce o f sales of lands under the Land -tax Re demption Act, and of grants in fee, sales of rents, and enfranchisement of copyholds, under Acts of Parliament 927 9 2 Casual revenue, and all receipts not in cluded as above Balance (including balance to Michael mas, 1842, on the account of the Re ceiver-General) £33,037 18 Oi Queen Victoria has sent to this Bey a present con sisting of jewels, worth nearly 8,0001. sterling. The Sardinian steamer is preparing to depart for Genoa, and the cause of so much disturbance has not yet come to light, it being still unknown how the Sardo-Tunisian difference was settled. The general opinion is, that all the manoeuvres of the Sardinian navy, in the seas of this regency, will only tend to wards weakening the respect formerly shown by the Tunisians towards Europeans. The corn crop is plentiful. The olive trees and the vineyards are wonderfully loaded with fruit. [ADVERTISEMENT.]—THE TURN OF LIFE.-- CURE EXTRAORDINARY BY HOLLOWAY'S PILLS.—A respectable woman, aged forty-seven, named Graham, residing in Scotland-road, Liverpool, was in the most critical and dangerous state for nine months, being sometimes almost choked with phlegm, with shortness of breath, palpitation of the heart, together with a general derangement and debility of the whole system. Her life was in the greatest danger when she commenced the use of these miraculous Pills, which restored her to the highest state of health in five weeks. They are the finest medicine in the world'for females of all ages. Sold (also Holloway's Ointment) at Professor Holloway's establishment, 224, Strand (where advice may be had gratis), and by almost all respectable vendors of medi cine throughout the civilised world. --- TEE HOUSE OP COMMONS' LIBRART.—The pre sent library is wholly unworthy of the first assembly in the empire. It consists of little more than 4,000 volumes, and is in many respects imperfect for the purposes of ge neral reference. It contains no collection of cases heard by the Lords or Privy Council ; nor is there a complete series of private Acts of Parliament, nor yet of the mul tifarious official papers printed by order of the House. But it is in other particulars defective. Small as the col lection is, the arrangement, or rather the want of ar rangement, has been found to create much inconve nience, whenever it has been necessary to search for precedents. This difficulty was remarked particularly during the discussion of the memorable question of " privilege" raised by the arrest of the Sheriffs, when the librarian and three assistants were occupied nearly a whole week in searching for a particular case supposed to bear upon the subject. The contents of some of the presses are not known to the oldest officers of the House ; in one is deposited a very mysterious green bag, which again encloses a Post-office bag of letters, unopened, of the year 1690. During the session there are generally from sixty to eighty Members consulting the musty archives. Strangers are admitted to the library on the Speaker's warrant, but the privilege does not appear to b e held of much value, for it is very rarely solicited. It was admitted, when the state of the library was referred to a Select Committee, that a complete set of the printed papers of the House of Commons is not in existence ; though it is believed that detached portions are preserved by private individuals, the possession of which by the House is an object of much anxiety : It is understood that the collection will be greatly increased before the opening of the new Houses of Parliament, several impor tant addttions having been recently made by the pur chase of private libraries. INGENIOUS EXPEDIENT.—On Saturday one of the most ingenious expedients which the endeavours of cab men and omnibus drivers devise to elude the vigilance of the police was discovered by the merest accident at the Bow-street Police-court. It is the custom, on the conviction of a cabman or any offence, for the clerk of the Court to write on the back of his license the descrip tion of offence he is convicted of, the :late of the convic- tion, and the penalty inflicted, which is signed by the convicting magistrate, and the number .of convictions guides the registrar of licenses as to the propriety of issuing fresh licenses_ to the same drivers, three convic tions in one year incapacitating a driver from holding a license for the next year. On Saturday a well-known cabman having been convicted by Mr. Twyford, handed in his license to have it marked. Some 'surprise was evinced by the magistrate and clerk, who knew him well, that he had been allowed his license again this year, as he was a well-known offender, but still greater surprise was caused by Mr."Rowstead, the second clerk, declaring that as fast as he wrote on the license, his writing be came dim, and when dry he could rub it. out with ease. Mr. Twyford expressed Ms surprise, when, in holding the license between the light and the eye, the signature of the same magistrate was dimly traced to a previous conviction six weeks before, but so very .dimly as for the signature alone to be visible. The driver was questioned about it, but he, of course, knew nothing, and it was not until one of the summoning officers proved that he had been convicted in the same Court six weeks before, that he gave in. The fact was, that a chemical process had been used so as to eradicate, except to the most p r yi ng eye, the fact that the defendant had been convicted, so that for several years one of the most refractory of drivers had been bearing with the registrar the most unexceptionable character, besides incurring only small fines from magistrates on account of first offences. Mr. Twyford detained the license, and declared he should make a representation in the proper quarter, so as to put a stop to such underhand proceedings. SINGULAR CAB ACClDENT. — Yesterday afternoon, a singular accident occurred on the cab-stand in St. Clement's-churchyard. The driver of a cab was quietly sitting on his box waiting for a fare, when the horse suddenly took fright, and by its plunging overturned the cab, throwing the man with some force into the road. Attempts were made to quiet the animal, but without success, until at length the cab was so much knocked about that the body fell off. The horse then galloped off towards Temple-bar, and was not stopped until it came in contact with the shaft of a large waggon, and suffered such injury that it was soon after killed. Though the streets were much crowded no one was hurt. MC DUCHIES OF CORNWALL AND PAST AND PR ESENT STATE OF LANCASTER. The two follo w i ng ta bl es s h ow t h e gross an d net re - Th e following walObeßreOadC wit h interest at the pre venues and expenditure of the two Duchies:— sent juncture : DUCHY OF CORNWALL. The empire of Morocco, l vernacu arly designed An Coo Acc rnwall,ount of from th the Groe Ist ss and Net Ja Revenue of the DuchY Mogh'rib -a -azza, the f ar th est west, is a remnant of f of nuary, 1843, to the 31st of Dec em b er , 1843, a l low i ng th e amount o f re- the great African monarchies formed by th e S aracens • venue which b ecame d ue , t h e moneys rece i ve d an d pa id Mauritania ; and it was the dynasty of the Eiri within the time, and the arrears and balances at the sites , whose capital was Fez. It w as d u bb e d emp i re end of the preceding and current year. from ',being formed by the union of several small INCOME. kingdoms, or rather large provinces, perpetually at Rents and arrears of rent received from s. d. variance among themselves, till at length they were the Ist of January, 1843, to the 31st subdued and united under one sovereign by the Sche of December, 1843 Fines on new grants of leases Dividends of stock, being the produce of Mesquinez, Sugulrnesse and Tremezen ; b u t th ey the sale of la n d s undr the land-tax have all latterly merged' into those of Morocco and Redemption Acts, sales, grants in fee, Fez. Anarchy and intense discord s h ave re d uce d and enfranchisernents of copyholds under Acts of Parliament 667 16 2 their boundaries; but the empire is still possessed of Compensation in lieu of the tin coinage a surface at least equal to that of Spain ; and the pre duties Produce of Royalties of the coal mines in ous revolutions, maintained itself in the musnud for the county of Somerset ... 9,690 12 10 about three hundred years. Produce of Royalties and reservation of The empire of Morocco is on the extreme west of dues of mines in Cornwall and Devon 2,842 1 101 North Africa, bounded on that side by the Stannary Court fees, and all other casual O cean ; on the east by the river Mubria, which parts revenue 206 14 4 it from Algiers ;on the north by the Mediterranean Sea; and o n th e sen d ) b y the river Sus, beyond £40,100 18 111 which is the Sahara, or Great Desert. This extensive space is finally diversified with hills and valleys, a great part of which has never yet been visited by Europeans, and there are various rivers flowing from the great Atlas range of' mountains, which traverses the empire in its greatest length, at some distance from its southern and eastern boundary, and attains the height of nearly 12,000 feet. These rivers dis emabogue into the Mediterranean Sea and Atlantic Ocean, the large ones forming bar harbours, which, though now so neglected as to admit of small vessels only entering them, might readily be converted to good stations for steamers. A ramification of the great mountain range turns to the north, and is there known as the Lesser Atlas, of which Mount Abyla, or Ape's Hill, opposite Gibraltar, may be deemed the northern scarp. The country generally rises from the sea shore, which in many places is rocky and in accessible, and extends in wide plains ascending like terraces one above the other, the eastern being always some hundred feet higher than that immediately west of it, until at the range of the Lesser Atlas they pro bably attain an elevation of 4,000 feet. Morocco is necssarily warm, but not so much so as might be expected from its geographical situation; the interior is cooled by the mountain winds, and the margin experiences the alternations of land and sea breezes, while the climate is at once mild and salt'. brious. The seasons are divided into the dry and the wet, the latter generally being from November till March. The soil, where cultivated, is in the highest degree fertile ; but there are everywhere large tracts entirely uncultivated. Corn, dhurra, fruits, rice, maize, and pulse, are extensively reared in most of the plain districts ; and there are raised and collected, oil, cotton, tobacco, indigo, sesamum, gum, honey, wax, salt, saltpetre, hemp, saffron, and madder-roots ; they have also manufactories of linen, scull caps, morocco leather, barracans, shawls, carpets, soap, and hides. The declivities of the mountains are sprinkled with forests, in which the cedar, cork, ilex, carubba, walnut, accacia, and olive trees are prominent ; and though iron, copper, lead, and antimony, as well as gold and silver, have been produced to a certain extent, the mineral wealth of these mountains may be said to be as yet unknown. It is truly a luxuriant yet indigent country, favoured by nature, but ne glected by man. With soil and climate so excellent, if cultivated with tolerable skill and industry, Morocco would yield in quantities the products of most other parts of the globe : but this cannot be hoped for in a country groaning under the galling yoke of oppr ess i on . Still their agriculture, it seems, is equal to the wants of the people, these wants being most blindly curbed down to mere animal desires. The great dogma of the politico-economical school, that " cheap corn is a blessing," meets its full refutation in this country ; where the cheaper the corn the more are the people proportionably poor and wretched. Domestic animals are numerous, amongst the foremost of which must be named their horses, since they have ever been famed for rearing those animals, which, though inferior in size, have for ages excelled in elegance of symmetry, fleetness, hardihood, and peculiar docility. The sheep, which are considered as indige nous, produce a wool of eminent staple and softness ; and the oxen, cows, asses, mules, camels, and goats, are esteemed in their several kinds. Poultry, pigeons, partridges, and indeed game of all kinds, are everywhere plentiful ; and the coasts have many varieties of fish. The woody and uncultivated tracts abound with deer, antelopes, and wild boars; and the southern district with bears, panthers, hyaenas, lions, wolves, monkeys, snakes, cranes, and ostriches. As might be expected in such a climate, they are abun dantly provided with musquitoes, and all "the light militia of the lower sky." But the most dreaded of all animated evils is a visit from the locusts, which takes place ever and anon to the waste of whole pro vinces. The creatures are considered to come from the Great Desert, where their myriads are mar shalled, and start on their northern incursions in a dense body, devastating as they go, for after deirours , ing all other vegetation, they even attack the trees, and strip them of their leaves and bark. In retaliation, they are brought to the markets pickled, and eaten by the Moors. There are many difficulties, and some almost insu perable, in the way of the inquirer into Moroquin statistics. From all we could gather a few years ago, the population of the whole empire might amount to about 7,ooo,ooo—plus or minus—it having under gone a serious diminution in the course of the pre ceding century. Of the number above stated, about half consists of Moors and Arabs ; one-quarter con sists of the Berbers or aboriginal inhabitants ; with nearly half a million of Jews; and the remainder will be found negroes, with a very few Christians, and still fewer rencgadoes, which last are deemed " pariahs" by all, only intermarrying among each other. The Moors are the principal inhabitants of the towns, where they fill the higher offices of Govern ment, and form the military class ; hereditary dis tinctions, however, are unknown among them • by ' birth they are all equal • and they admit no diffe rence of rank, except such as is derived from official employments, on the resignation of which the occu pant mixes again with the common citizens. They are the only nation of Morocco with which the Euro peans have had an immediate intercourse. Their lan guage is the Moghreb, a dialect of the Arabic, inter mixed with many Amazirk (the original tongue) and Spanish words. They are tall, handsome, and of every shade of complexion. The Arabs are the next important branch of the Moroquin population, although evidently not an indigenous portion. Their language is a tolerably pure Arabic, and they are supposed to be the de scendants of those who fled from Yemen, when the Mahometan tenets were first promulgated. They are widely dispersed over the plain, where they still adhere to their no-made wanderings and pastoral avocations, and are at once active and intelligent. They live in dusky encampments called douars, each consisting of numerous tents, and having large flocks and herds, from which, with a slight attention to agriculture, they entirely subsist themselves with food, home-made raiment, and surplus for markets ; but they are expected to pay the garahm, or pro perty tribute, and are obliged to provide passing troops with corn, butter, honey, and meat. The Berbers, Berebbers, or Brebes, are known -as the Amazirghif, who, if not the aborignals, are the most ancient inhabitants of North Africa. They are divided into two great families—the Ereefins, or dwellers on the Ereefe mountain range, and the Schelluhs, who occupy the branches of the Greater Atlas—the first being herdsmen and hunters, the latter working principally in agriculture and handi craft—while both classes are temperate, agile, war like, and hardy. Armed with a long gun, sword, and dagger, in the use of which they are very expert, the Ereefin is an object of alarm to the enemy. The Berbers only intermarry with each other, and are somewhat irregular Mahometans, as they eat wild boar's flesh, and drink wine of their own making. The Jews are a mystery, both here and throughout Barbary, being very numerous, and intermixed among all the people whom we have spoken of. Their condi tion is best among the Ereefins, but among the Schelluhs and Moors they are exposed to the most ignominious treatment. Yet, under all their oppres sion, the Jews contrive to have substantial advan tages over the Moors; better understanding the na ture of trade, especially that carried on by the incom petent medium of exchange of commodities, they are the active agents and brokers in all large bargains. The negroes are the last in number of the people of Morocco, yet constitute an important branch of its population. They are usually imported es slaves, though, on good behaviour, frequently obtain their liberty; and the kind liberality with which they are . generally treated ensures the propriety of their con duct. From among them is formed the body-guard of the Emperor—a force once very formidable, hut, at present, not above 5,000 or 6,000 strong. The Government is absolutely more arbitrary than the Turkish ; and that their Emperor, or rather Sul tan, is the most despotic of all despots, uniting in his own hands the various ramifications of power, without the shackles of council, divan, or laws. His authority extends not only over the lives and property of his subjects, but their consciences too, of which, as the representative of Mehemet, he is the spiritual guide. He is the farmer, judge, interpreter, and , when he pleases, sole executor of his own decrees; and the duties, coins, weight, and measures, are consequently as variable as his own opinions. The capricious tys inconceivable as the abject ranny of the monarch is as • pa siveness of 'the subject, who, with arms in hi • hands s and means at command, thinks of nothing but unconditional submission, nue a bad Government, EXPENDITURE. X s. d. 4 s. d. Salaries and allowances of the principal officers of the Duchy, and of their establishment of officers and clerks 5,949 3 0 And of the law officers of the county Palatine . 763 210 6,712 510 The like account of receivers and agents employed in the collection of the re venue ...................................... The like of stewards and bailiffs of ho nours lordships, end others pl emoyed in the and hun dreds, 202 8 1 collection of the revenue. Annuities and retired allowances 1,227 0 0 Donations and charites, including sti pends and eleemosynary annuities Law charges Surveys, valuations, repairs and_ iln' 712 5 4i provemonts Labourers' wages, expenses in holding manorial courts, land-tax,- and other charges fixed by law, rents, insurance, audit expenses, books, stationery, and all other expenses not included above 3,581 18 3i Purchase of stock from moneys arising from grants in fpo, siting of ronta, and enfranchisement of copyholds Payments made out of this revenue to her Majesty's Keeper of the Privy Purse Balance remaining on the account of the Receiver- General to Michailmas, 1843 4,941 12 31 Balance then remaining in the hands of receivers or agents Arrears discharged........ 4,941 12 31 62 17 6 £33,037 18 Oi SURREY ZOOLOG ICAL G ARDEN VICTUALLERS' Albert, the Lice great ; crowds wereearriving d oou—Yesterday being the anniver sary Gardens. The fair, in honour of the day, and for the bene cnaseaiVictuallersgaBv.—e t T he n t B r annual fete of his Royal Highness Prince through the entrance gates. fiasantrdeyffoaftnhctehyire schcol, . the grounds of the Surrey Zoolo gicalconcourse of company was very thousand visitorsduring the day, and several must, in the course of it, have passed these occasions,A , e of, a b ri sbrisk sale grounds kept gates. The articles to be disposed things as are generally seen on arranged under tents in the usual manner. The purchasers seemed liberally inclined, and up. In addition to the sights ex hibited in these band doNsunds on ordinary occasions, an excel lentßussian family Rant ts in attendance ; there was also the military effect. Herr Meyer,de series of amusements his art ; were wa di s r9witz, dressed in their national cos tume, who sang and, in a word, the their native melodies with very good ' l called the "magic siffleur," also hours, to the of d t e h l attended and eightaof both the young and the old. The and exhibitions lasted for many a more cheerful,evening fireworks appearance pre sent, was very g London in 1666 was children of the school, who were eh a a n r d ge c d le , clean condition. n th d e i tio n. great Ifinretheef healthy,no children oould have exhibited managed, and speaks well repeated. The whole was well gardens under the news well for the arrangements of the proprietor, Mr. Tyler. EXTRAORDIN AR y between one and two o'clock, the Thursday night, occurrence took place clock, the following very strange Dublin :—lt appears' th at the Northumberland Hotel, name as William A. at a gentleman, who gave his the county of Marsh,Westmeath, and said ho was a native of hotel on Monday, where in question, a n d at theh he continued up to the night and leaped out of the • our stated he got out of bed Police constable 45 C was near window into the street. who did not ar the spot, and took up the gen tleman,leaped, according to th seem much hurt, although he had third story ; but the e policeman's account, from the the second window e fe t n h tleman himself said it was from companied Mr. Marsh te e building. The constable ac • where he (Mr. Marsh) tuk Tackville-place station-house, M`Cann, the insieset,-„ u the following story to Mr. duty :___. aroused from his sleep by hearing He said he was in the closet, who were speaking the voices of persons king about a steamer for a pleasure trip, and going on board hurry ing for some plac e, wh ich he could not name. The noise, that they were he said, continued f or some time, and in a v e ry con f use d man ner, so he got afraid, and le a His left a rm was a little hurt. lieped out o f t h e w i n d ow. the hotel, and as Mr. M `Cann had refused to go back to the gentleman, he brou ght him to no ch arge aga i ns t Hotel, where he w ent to bed. It is the Prince of Wales little short of a per fect miracle that Mr. Marsh escaped ' considering the dangerous leap h e m almost unhurt , made. DEATHS IN THE MILLRANK PRISON'—'An was held last even in g in th e Millbailr ON.----An inquest Peni tentiary), before Mr. H t h e iggq, on Prison (late bodies of Robert J a mes, aged 24, and John Ward, aged 41, convicts under sen tence of transporta tio n. The body - mos t e maciated ever seen even within of James was the a ppearance was th at of a human skeleton this prison ; the eleton with skin drawn tightly over it, the bones almo s t it. Mr. Samue l Hatchard, deputy piercing through i governor, said the deceased Robert J ames was rec eived 28th of March la st, from Exet er gaol,o that gaol on th e under sentence of trans p or tation for ten years, having been convicted on the 2d of January at the Exeter Sessions ing. He had be en in that p rison beforeof housebreak and a half, having been previously for th ree y ears convicted of a similar crime, and sentenced to ten years' tr ansportation, which was commuted to the above term of • imprison his term expired he was sent to his i mprisonment. When (Exeter). The dece ased on his second native place admission told him that for some time before he committed the crime h e h a d been sleeping under hed g es, and w as nearly starved. Dr. William Baly, physician to the prison,said the dece a sed laboured under scr ofula and consu mption when admitted. After he had been in about six w eeks he was removed into the infirmary, where he remained until his death, which took place this (yesterday) m wine, brandy, egr, and everything he morning. He had required. For the last three month s he becam e so e m • aciatel that it was he surprising he lived so lon g . I n fact , had never seen so thin a man. In th is case a verdict of ' Died of con sumption" was returned. With reference to the other he deceased (Ward), it a pp eared that was received into prison on the 2d inst. from Ipswich having been convicted at the sessio ns held in that gaol, toown on the sth of July of horse stealing , and s entencedten years' trans portation. On the 9 th of the present month Torah he was at tacked with water on the brain ; Le fell into a state of in sensibility, and died on Saturday. V erdiet," Died from water on the brain," 418 3 11 844, and a worse religion, have corrupted sentiments and enslaved the understandings, as well as the persons and consciences, of the people. But the Moors have no notion of sovereignty without despo tism; and to the inherent quality of this tyranny in repressing improvement, the low state of Moroquin knowledge may be ascribed. Education, therefore, is in a dreadful lethargy, for, as Monsieur St. Olen remarked :—" The Moors of Morocco are not much addicted to reading." Yet it is scarcely five cen turies ago since the intellectual light of 'those regions beamad in Spain ! With such motley and contradictory. elements, it is difficult to predict the consequence of an invasion of Morocco on a complete scale, or what would be the nature and amount of its army on a crisis. In this manner he might raise from 150,000 to 200,000 men of sorts with barely any distinction of uniform, and variously armed, but all capable of enduring hunger, thirst, and fatigue, _ with the utmost patience. Indeed, men imbued with the principle that though it is necessary to do their duty, yet it is not necessary to live, are not readily put down ; and opium and predestination, as Prince Eugene observed, will make any man brave. Averse to the sea, though dreaded as rovers, they never were good sailors, but on land seem ever ready for action : and with them a stranger and an enemy are synonymous terms. Their general plan of attack is that of riding up till within a couple of hundred yards of the enemy, when they level muskets, fire, wheel round their horses, and gallop away at full speed; after which, when beyond shot-range, they reload and return to the charge with loud yells. If the enemy gives way, or exhibits signs of fear, they venture to push for wards; but if attacked, man to man, with the sabre, we may safely consider their resistance as likely to be very short, since they are obliged to hold both bridle and gun in one hand if they use the sword with the other. The latter they avoid to the, last moment, preferring to rely on the swiftness of the attack and retreat, and on a dexterous use of the musket. We are here speaking of the Moors; but the Berber tac tics are, after the first fire, to rush in pell-mell among the enemy, with bayonets fixed to their long guns, which they manage with impetuosity and bravery, placing their dependence rather on steel than powder. But should a powerful enemy succeed in occupy ing the plains of the country, with their towns and cities, it is still very far from completing the con quest of Morocco; and even to maintain such occu pation, it would require that the conquerors should be absolute in the maritime supremacy of the Mediterra nean. Under this military cantonment, the fastnesses and elevated table-lands of the extensive Atlas range must remain independent sine die; for they teem with an unsublued race, in command of difficult passes untraversed as yet but by themselves, and where even the footsteps of the stranger would be instantly traced by their keenness and sagacity. Full of fire, strength, and courage, they are suspi cious, cruel, and implacable; and not at all remarkable for sparing those who fall into their clutches. They already view in Abd-el-Kader—who is descended from one of the most ancient of the Arabian families—the gallant defender of their faith, and the heroic chief of the Holy war, in which light the present contest with the French is univer sally regarded. A cry against them has broken forth throughout North Africa, and given birth to a feeling which will interfere with colonisation. Fanatically attached to the rights of their soil, their religion, and their race, the Atnazirghis—whose very name signi fies n9ble and free—live in a state of almost indepen. dente, under the administration of their Omzargh, Amzgar, and Amueran, elders and lords who are here ditary, and ever ready to lead. Their scheiks are also active and intelligent in warlike affairs, as, in deed, they are expected to be : " The want of courage in a chief," saith one of the proverbs, " is the standard of revolt." They are at once very inclined and well calculated for hostilities, as the rulers of Morocco have frequently found ; for the mutual jealousies of the mountain chiefs seem to be the only causes which preserve to those rulers the shadow of authority over the tribes. The population of the Morocco empire is variously represented. Jackson professes to have had access to the Imperial Registers, and gives the following as the result :—City of Morocco, 270,000 ; city of Fez, 280,000; -city of Mequinez, 110,000 ; other cities, 135,000; provinces, 13,991,000. Total, 14,886,000. There is evident great exaggeration in this statement. More recent travellers have set down the population of the city of Morocco as 30,000, and the other towns in proportion. Another writer is of opinion that the entire population is not beyond 5,000,000. Perhaps 6,000,000 is nearer the truth. The plain between the Atlas mountains and the sea is between four and five hundred miles in length ; and the highest peak of the chain is 13,050 feet. In 1547, an Arabian chief, of the race of the Schireffes, ascended the throne, and his posterity still rules. THE GORGON STEAM-FRIGATE. Extract of a letter from her Majesty's steam-ship Gorgon, dated-Monte Video, May 16:— " The Gorgon is what we call in nautical phrase ' high and dry' on the beach, but as sound as ever. In a very heavy gale of wind on Friday, 10th May, two of our chain cables broke, and we let go the third cable, and tried to steam out to sea; hut failing in that, and being without anchors of sufficient size re maining to hold the ship, we were driven up on the sandy beach in this bay, about two miles from Monte Video, and there we stick fast. The ship is 204 feet long, and draws 17 feet of water; she is eight feet deep in the sand, and is raised up eight feet above her usual line of floatation. We are busy in taking everything out of her, engines, boilers, &c., which will occupy two months at least, and then we shall heave her off. The French, American, and Brazi lian ships of war have offered their assistance, and tike beach we are upon is in possession of the party who are at war with the Monte Videans, and they, have offered us se v er a l th ousan d s o f th e i r so ldi ers if necessary ; so I think there is no doubt about our get ting off again. We think to be afloat in a month, and it will then take us two months to get all her stores in again, so should we return to England with the utmost dispatch, we could not arrive there for six months from this time ; in this case we should sail home, but if we wait to put our engines together again, we could not possibly get to England for some months longer. The ship is uninjured. The con tending parties in this wretched country vie with each other in showing us every attention ; an officer of the outside party lives on board to attend to our want, and provide us with everything the country affords, and we are more comfortable than we have ever been before. This day week we were expecting to go to the coast of Africa, but fortunately that cannot now happen. We are very well off as to our living and comforts in general; we have a good supply of beef, mutton, poultry, and vegetables on reasonable terms, also milk and butter; and we always bake our own bread. The weather is getting cold also, hut clear and dry; we have just put on our winter clothing ; the air of this country you know is remarkable for its freshness and purity, and we are all so delighted with the health and plenty which we enjoy, that we do not wish to get afloat again for a month or two at least. Many of our men had not been on terra firma since they left England, and they pretend to fear they will be sea-sick when we get afloat again. The war of extermination still rages with brutal ferocity ; the beach and country are strewed with the uninterred banes of its wretched victims. These cold-blooded and barbarous scenes have sickened me of, at least, this kind of prolonged and revengeful war which we call the Indian system of war. In Europe, where fleets and armies are so expensive, the contend ing p irties seek each other, a battle is fought and peace restored; but here a large portion of the popu lation lire by war ; they avoid general combats, they plot schemes of revenge with Indian patience and cunning, and exult over their fallen foes in a manner shockingly revolting to the feelings of those who have been accustomed to civilised life. The Indian females fight on horseback alongside their husbands, and throw the lance with great accuracy. Even hospitals are not respected; lately an hospital was surrounded, and the doctor and all the patients put to death. After the ship is off the beach we shall have to drag her over the ground in seven or eight feet water for nearly a mile before she will float, which will occupy several days. The tides are influenced with the winds, and inds, and they rise when it blows from the S.W. (which it did when we went on shore), and the people all say here, that it had not been so high for twenty-eight years as it was during the hurricane when we got aground. Several houses near the beach were washed down. GIG ACCIDENT.—On Wednesday last a very serious aecident occurred to Sir John Broughton, Bart., at Kingston. Th e Baronet was riding i nh i s gig on the Upper Ham - road , and had arrived o pp osite El ect Lodge, Ilicnhis out horse took fright and shyed. Sir Joh n was gig into the road, and fell w i t h such pitched ‘ of the his collar bone, and otherwise injure forcelial. as to break Ile was assisted by some persons passi ng at t h e. time, and afterwards taken to his own res id ence by Mr. Harding, the farrier , at Kingston. Dr. SudlOw Roots was soon in attendance upon him, and he is fast recovering. HIGH TlDES.—Yesterday afternoon, shortly after two O'clock, the neighbourhoods on the banks of the Thames were inundated by the encroaehtnent of the tide, which was of unusual height. Some of the steam •boats h a d some difficulty in passing under the different bridges, owing to the funnels coming in close contact with the upper part of the arches. Parts of Wapping and Tooley street, near the banks of the river, were quite impassible for some time ; the river also rushed into the cellars and kitchens, doing considerable damage. THE BUTTER TRADE.—Great excitement prevails amongst the merchants and persons connected with the butter trade in this city, in consequence of -intimation having been received from the other side of the channel, that extensive frauds are practising on the Weigh-house: brands, the qualities of butter shipped at this port hav ing been altered. An investigation is _to take place before the sow-committee of the committee of merchants.—Cork . Examiner. MODERN FRENCH MANNt RS. By this time I became aware of a truth which bad dawned on my mini, that the French common people hare lost much of that grace of manner which once distinguished them above all other people. More courteous than the Italians they could not be ; but, while their manners were more artificial, they were more playful and winning. All this has changed. I did not remark the alteration so much with regard to myself as in their mode of speaking to one another. The " Madame" and " Monsieur" with which stable boys and old beggar-women used to address each other, with the deference of courtiers, has vanished. No trace is to be found of it in France. A shadowfaintly exists among Parisian shopkeepers when speaking to their customers; but only there is the traditional phraseology still used ; the courteous accent, the soft manner, exist no longer. I speak of a thing known and acknowledged by the French themselves. They want to be powerful; they believe money :mist obtain power; they wish to imitate the English, whose influence they attribute to their money -making propensities, but now and then they go a step beyond, and remind one of Mrs. Trollope's description of the Americans. Their phraseology, once so delicately, and even, to us more-straightforward people, amus ingly, deferential (not to superiors only, but toward one another), is become blunt, and almost rude. * * * Perhaps more than any people, as I see them now, the French require the restraint of good manners. They are desirous of pleasing, it is true; but their amour propre is so sensitive, and *their tempers so quick, that they are easily be trayed into anger and vehemence. * * * On board these _ long, narrow river -steamers I found the same dereCts : the air most agreeable to a traveller, of neatness and civility, was absent. There is, however, no real fault to be found, an I I should not mention this were it not a change ; and I sincerely wish the French would, return to what they once were, and give us all lessons of pleasing manners, instead of imitating and exaggerating our faults, and adding to them an impress all their own; a sort of fierceness, when displeased, which is more startling than our sullenness., As I said, this has no reference to any act towards - myself; but the winning tone and manner that had pleased me of old no longer appeared, and it was in the phraseology used among each other that the change was most remark able.—The Young Widow. GREAT FOOT-RACE FOR 20/.—Yesterday a very 12.rge numb'r of persons assembled at the Beehive ground, Walworth, to witness the race between Bad cock, of Birmingham. and E. Smith, of London, both of whom have acquired some notoriety. The contesting distance was one mile. In betting Badccek was the fa vourite, Smith's friends being very shy and cautious. At the start Badcock took the lead, which he maintained and came in a gallant winner, his opponent and his friends appearing much discomfited.and chagrined at the result. Yesterday a match of cricket was playedlletween the Islington and Finchley Clubs, at Garratt's•ground, Copenhagen-house, which terminated in favour of Isling ton, they winning by one innings and 89 runs. GROUSE SHOOTING.—We have a rather indifferent account of the sport upon the Monmouthshire hills, the extraordinary drought of the spring, conjoined With the unlawful proceedings of the biped poachers having made the birds exceedingly searce.—Cambrian. MERCHANT SEAMAN'S ORPHAN ASYLUM.—Yes terday the general meeting and autumn election of this charity was held at the London Tavern, for the admis sion of four girls and eight boys into this institution. The chair was taken LT Captain Nelson, the treasurer. A report of the Committee was read, from which it ap peared that, owing to an_improvement in the finances, a double number of children were admitted at this elec tion. The amount realised at the last annual festival was 6691. 51. 6c1., in which were included 501.. from the Honourable Sidney Herbert, M.P., and twenty guineas from Joseph Somes, Esq. Sixty boys and thirty girls were then in this asylum. At three o'clock the poll closed, soon after which the names of the successful candidates were announced, when a vote of thanks was passed to the chairman, and the business of the day ter minated. VISIT OF PRINCE WILLIAM OF PRUSSIA TO DIVER.. POOL —LIVERPOOL, MONDAY. —H is Royal Highness Prince William of Prussia arrived at the Adelphi Hotel last night, en route from Scotland. He left Glasgow cn Friday, slept at Carlisle on Saturday, and yesterday rroceeded to Lancaster, whence, after having taken a view of the castle and the localities generally, he came by railway to Parkside, and thence to Liverpool. On his arrival at Lime-street station, he was met by the Prussian Consul, in full uniform, the Mayor, and Mr. Alderman Bramley Moore. His Royal Highness, ac companied by the May - or and two of Ills suite, then pro ceeded in the Mayor's private carriage to the. Adelphi Hotel, where he dined, the President Von Gerlach, a Prussian judge, forming one of the royal dinner party. His Royal Highness took-sa tour through the town this morning, viewing the principal objects of interest with as careful an inspection as his limited stay would admit of. He started from the Adelphi at seven o'clock, ac companied by the Mayor and others members of the Corporation, and took his d, parture for Warwick Castle at half-past eleven o'clock A.M., by railway. His Royal Highness, after leaving the Adelphi Hotel, visited the Brunswick Dock, the Custom House, the Royal Mail steam-ship Britannia, steamed along the line of docks in the Redwing, visited the Waterloo and Prince's Decks, the Fish Market, the Assize Courts, and, finally, passed through the beautiful suite of rooms at the Town Hall. From Warwick Castle the Prince will proceed to Hampden, and thence to Drayton Manor, where he will make a brief stay with Sir Robert Peel. DETERMINED SUICIDE ON BLACKFRIARS-BRIDG E. —Last evening, about a quarter to six, a respectable looking young man committed suicide by throwin g him self off the balustrades of Blacktriars-bridge, near the centre arch, when the deceased immediately sunk, the tide running down strongly at the time, and was never afterward seen. The deceased was observed to mount one of the recesses with the apparent intention of look ing at the craft on the river, and nothing particular being observed in his manner no notice was taken of him until he was suddenly seen to jump up on the balustrade, and before any assistance could reach him he had precipi tated himself into the river. Boats immediately put off and the drags were put in use, but up to a late hour last night the body had not been found. His hat was picked up, but it does not afford any clue to who the un fortunate person was. The name " Binden, maker, Cam berwell," is on the lining. THE OPENING OF THE ROYAL EXCHANGE...--We are given to understand that a meeting of the Joint Committee for the affairs of the Royal Exchange is to take place on Friday, the 30th instant, to receive the report of the progress of the works, and to fix the day upon which everything connected with the opening of the Royal Exchange is to be completed. On the day of the meeting of the Committee inquiry will be made as to the cause of the hitherto unaccountable delay which has taken place in the preparation of the buildinz for the reception of the merchants aad traders, to whom that delay has been so serious an inconvenience.' Eight months ago it was announced to the public, that if the weather should prove favourable, the building would be ready for business in June. How then, ask numbers of our fellow-citizens, happens it, that although no obstacle of any kind has presented itself, and although the weather has been most auspicious, doubts are expressed as to the completion of the works before the termination of another month ? It is positively asserted in the City, I that without any extraordinary exertion on the part of those who are responsible, the merchants might have been " on 'Change" two months ago ; and people say it is hard to suppose that any public body or set of trustees, would so far neglect their duty as to wink at the violation of the contracts. The meeting of the Joint Committee on the 30th instant, however, will ex , plain all about it. ACCIDENT ON THE LONDON AND BRIGHTON' RAIL-, 'WAY.—As the last down train, on Sunday night, tree proceeding in the neighbourhood of Balcombe tunnel, William Johnson, Jackson's stoker, while engaged in emptying a sack of coke on the tender, .overbalanced himself and fell off. His right arm unfortunately fell across the rail, and the wheels of the train passing over it crushed it in a dreadful manner. The train was im mediately stopped, and the sufferer was conveyed by means of one of the engines and a single carriage with all possible expedition to Brighton. On arriviag at the terminus the poor fellow was placed in a fly and sent to the Sussex County Hospital, where amputation of the limb was performed, and the sufferer remains in a very precarious state. BOULOGNE AND CALAIS.---ThC number of persons who passed to and from France via Boulogne during the week ending last Thursday, was 3,367, and via` Calais,_ 500. The numbers during the correspon di ng week of last year were, Boulogne 2,446, an d C ala i s, 696. FIRE AT EANDFORD HALL.--Between eight anti nine o'clock on Thursday evening, a fire broke out on the Lamb-fair Farm, a t Handfor Hall, in this town, which created extraordinary alarm in the immediate neighbourhood. The premises, which are of great ex tent, are surrounded by a water-course and pale-fence. The farm servants had left work about an hour when the alarm was given. The flames were seen issuing from a largo straw-stack which stood in a corner of the yard, close to the fence, and immediately adjacent there Was a ran g e of corn and hay- s t ac k s , f orm i ng a dir e ct line of communication with the farm-house, the barns, granaries, stables, and other out-houses. A large number of persons who were assembled at the fair quickly collected, and the engines were brought flow' Ipswich, together with the police and a party of the 4th Light Dragoons. By zealous and well-direetcd efforts, the flames were prevented from extending to the corn-stacks, which, owing to their position, must have inevitably sprt ad destruction over the whole of the pre misf.,S. The straw-stack was, however, wholly Con sumed, but the loss is inconsiderable. It has been ascer tained, from examination, that the fire originatedin the fence, a portion of which is charred, dose to the spot where the o s n t straw-stack wilful ac design, was esig n situate. bu t as yet' lh n i s o fcalcuteraiseshas beentli is e p obtained to account for the outrag e, nor any person suspected.—lpswich Express. THE MOORS.—The accounts from the numerous sporting grounds in the county continue to represeet the sport as unusually excellent, notwithstanding that the weather has not been, as a whole, for the past ei g ht days, particularly propitious. The quantity, of 'birds arriving .at, and passing through, the city, on their route to all parts of the compass, is enormous, and almost beyond precedent. —Perthshire Advertiser. 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