The Sun. — London, England, 1845-01-03 00:00:00

11ff, :a , '1;.24. Tm. )4m. ;ire. Govern- cent.. ast divi- Securi interest r consti- y period the ass ns may free of I Agra, state of ngpo at In port expen-, Doudent iusan ie amerce. Id from cross a of the to the smug— rs. 3.7 to 3.40 pcs., of rs. 2.75 Ition of ught a .s. 16 res.. . 25, )resent rminal. lola, at the . 8.- . 16.- . 1.45 4xlrite 28.- 2.60. °lours. a bar [NA )I:fichir of the cut. ( 4. s►aure luded ine a the rices The., n the sales the A ntos, rung a in ►n of that s 1, to 1r in upon - cent. im bon, Ling , olt,, up- nee wol ior• ked )on left nel les Id 1- ft t SPAT' 441-1,--PITTIT.TC ZN.*.LF IRA T rue; OF Y' GLOBE.—We hod an arrival from Ineia and China yesterday. There is more than usual absence Of news of a striking nature in the letters and pipers thus conveyed. The pacific character of the intelli gence cannot fail to gratify the people of this country. The breaking out of a war between the Rritish Government in India and any of the native Powers, or the interruption of tranquility '‘y revolts of any of the t r ib u t ar ie s o f those Priirees, a n d - t he consequent employment of force to subdue t hem, are events to be deprecated whenever they arise. Their existence is prejudicial to commerce, and impedes the progress of the natives in those habits 'which are not less beneficial to themselves, than they are to the consolidation and solidity of the British em tre in the E as t. Th e c h ange d c h arac t er o f th e tidi ngs ought by these arrivals since Sir Henry Hardinge displaced Lord Ellen borough in the Government, is not 'More remarkable than gratifying. Durng the adminis tration of the latter, restlessness pervaded the Cul ;Teen Portion of the inhabitants of India. They felt their pro. perty and their prospects insecure under a Government the head of which was possessed by a penchant for milie taz Y display. They felt ~ that their interests were leopardieed by the constantly recurring warlike de- M onstratlons which the. Governor-General projected ; the military expeditions , ! . he set on foot, and per eonally beaded ; and the• dread he managed con stantly to excite. Fears. paevailed lest new wars 'would be. •undertaken, :and new territory seized 14 1 19 n and annexed. Thus the interests of corn llietee, which are •f o unded in peace, w e re in *) ell red ; and the integrity of the empire itself— based as ,it is on the confidence of the natives in the aklvantages they derive from the British Government -- waserilled by 'th e p rovoca ti on s t o di s t rus t th e Pledged faith of that - Government. Seeing—as th e y seen;--its vielat6n'of treaties with the Ameers of .e 4 Siade, and th e thretitAed interference with the Pun tahh, as the preliminziry of dealing with that territory the same way ashad been. taken with the Sindian territory, a jealousy and distrust of British faith would eAcito:l. Distrust would engender intrigues among neighbouring native Powers. These would ripen into hostile confederacies against our rule. The "IPioYment °flan immerfse force, to break up and imsperse the cdfifederates, which must be kept up to 'Prev en t a recurrence of 'similar embarrassing circum mtances, would impose an ;ini mense demand upon the re :venue, anden4arik4rthe stability ofour Eastern Empire. l e That such results would cer t a i n ly b e pro d uce d b y -Cord EllenhOrongh's policy was evident to the Hon. court of Directors, who repeatedly remonstrated with blirri ' and with,her Majesty's Ministers who selected tinefor the- p 44. Finding remonstrances, repeatedly 'Urged, utterly. unavailing—each successive arrival bringing some new proof of the Governor. General's d etermination to pursue his expensive and dangerous 3 liey—they at length interposed their power of recal. he mischiefs Lord Ellenborough had wrought were 'arrested; and began to subside from the hour that e ,ir Henry Hardinge set foot in India. Where ni ssatiafietion, perturbation, and alarm pervaded the Population, tranquillity has resumed itn sway. The eotainexcial interests are no 10-ver the prey of apprehensions that some new freak o , be Governor blieneral will unsettle the basis of trade, and entail 4°83 , if not ruin. upon the enterprises in which they Il te embarked. Sir Henry Harding, seeno , , in every t e s st"'"et, to offer a perfect contrast to his predecess or . There is no obtrusion of himself—no bembastic procla .lt,atioeis of his p o licy. Hi s ex p er i ence i n war, an d t he prominent part he, in former years, occupied in Military operations, has established his fame, and impart confidence to any undertakings of that find which an y events might demand. But th a t r 3 experience hes produced in him a conviction that a warlike policy is, of all others, the most de trsenental to British interests. He is, therefore, the Zitivator• of p eace . Th e f o ll ow i ng remar k s of the intes are in accordance with facts, and express our ' v iews of the effect of Sir H. Hardinge's policy, so far as that policy has been developed : " W e are glad to hear that Sir H. Hardinge seems to follow a judicious, a cautious, and a dis• eliminating line of conduct. He seems, if his plic y be we tnticipate, to h ave a f a i r c h ance of' cal ryieg his Iztentions into full effect, as there is neither war, nor a Prospect of war in any quarter; and even the civil war 1 4 the Ptzujaub appears for the present suspended. The prospects of commerce, too, are brightening, and, on the vdiolo, the contents of our Indian dispatches, the first teceiveei this year, are as satisfactory as we could well desire." "There hays been many powerful and justly-merited ‘exhibitions of the follies and faults of Lord Ellen. 'borough's administration of the Indian Government : the most effectual c ondemnation it has yet received is round in the opposite character and influence of his laeccessor, in the same high o ffi ce. STANDARD.—A long and not very well written tirticle, upon the existingrelatione between the Papacy Aid the several nations of Europe, appeared last Ppek in a morning paper. This article, though k.ish e d i n a j ourna l w hi c h can scarcely be r as hl to support the policy of the Government, ee,L, by a certain air of diplomatic triyeter ee i m 11 , 41 7 if ' upon some simple persona as a half-official s ot es to, and been eagerly seized upon by others Lion `O „,, si mple, to serve their own purposes of agita the -Lhe truth, we have reason to believe is, that no more responsible for the a r t i t t i i e s i h e G in overnment; is aBh itigton writ e ' question than the Government of or Pekin ; and we know that the twee.thannothing new een 13 • of the relations be- Th ee . • latish and Roman Governments, because r " nothing or t we new to tell. For many years— tish G e a r:v years at the least—every successive Bri thaintai4,_.ntnent has been under the necessity of lettip o i a n l u Tl a correspondence with the Pope as a ce eee pr ince, f or commerc i a l p ur poses, and for the li on ille nee of travellers. Previously to the separa 13ritish°f the kingd o m of Hanover from the tnerall Crow n , this correspondence was pretty -liai s e! carried on through the Hanoverian \Picea of o at Rome, though occasionally the ser ern„-eean Austrian or Prussian Minister were tlei o f"X• When, however, the Crown of Hanover t nlphe7 eri ti P" King Ernest the late Administration own C o " a stipendiary, but unofficial, agent of its W e hay Illanage the r a th e r unimportont correspondence tie e de scribed •the death of' that gen , n ' a n heat and upon - necess o s ummer, s ummer, Mr. Petre was named his as - be, r • This raised is the whole truth upon which have I nents, 8 ° many- fanciful stories of art ange. sel vee t o _ ne °rdys, &c. Before men allowed them was em.aoelieve that Sir Robert Peel's Government Part e .gf-'(1 in a violation of the law, and acting a by en°ghpconsistent with its character, es to attempt much oreet course what micriit be as easily an e e eee rn ore hono ura bl y ef f ecte d di rect ly, if it cou ld *Oll C e tPd in any manner, they would have done Ittki t „ si c "aider w h e th er th e object pureued was skt e, or worth the trouble of pursuing it. , e' er ;)lA„lye presume to he, some official control eoki 1 ememan Catholic clergy in her Majesty's .11,1‘08 rotestan,. -- spiritual control being, of course, what L Government has a right to claim. n ip?. Is order. to give s uc h official control as is here he e ". it s td, the Pope must first himself have it—but he trete ) i rl e °t, at lea s t i n I re l an d . Th e R om a n Cath o lic s "°Ps, bishops, and priests, in Ireland, care just 1 ear;ei!ch for the authority of the Pope as they e t fur the authority of Queen Victoria. The Ael l ) a ee of the Irish Roman Catholic Church to kepee"onian see is merely nominal. They use the t i , 4 7 of the Pope when it serves their own purpose ; E. l ,t tllre.w „ i e t tl l tte P r l s o . y the shadow of his Holiness's authority indifferent to them ; but let the Pope , only ,n° least disposition to control them, and they 1 41.1,, e r1 , i3T as little respect to his mandates as to a s speec h. This was proved in the case of eise ve, ho "0 controversy, more recently in the case of 1 6 !e eee P t.OFinan's privation, and in the cruel ~I L ";te a i l 4 1 ," of Dr. Mulholland, who, when he ex- Ln e :a Pope' s order to restore him to his parish, sign ed I nth the seal of the Vatican, and counter trst ee nY Cardinal Franzoni, the Pope's Secretary X 116 ,3 (we have seen the order auch as we de ,.(t '' )-- harl the document all but flung in his face. qi . p e P e rfectly untrue, therefore, to say that the Ati has more power in Ireland than in Prussia, or France. The Pope has t h Power whatever in Ireland. in Lev_ dependent power of the Roman Catholic tith e a in Ireland is an anomaly, but like the 4 tal It anOtnal of the Pope's concordat with Pro- Ile of t Pr ussia, on w hi c h the changes have been th e f en run g, it is an ano maly inseparable from the con stitution co nstitution of the United Kingdom. It (I%,ee . s implest thi ng i n the wor ld f o r a d es p o ti c t ha e e rel gat who can by a word or a nod corn ql t e _ t he civil obedience of all his subjects in "'Poral things, to arrange with an ecclesiastic, t iltit h t h r a i.s e sic o i r abroad, the limits of spiritual and civil time. n, and this is just what is done by a con te 44. But how can the Government of a free • ti ls • Y . ' in which every man claims and enjoys 111, li ght to thi n k as pleases him, to believe as k4r ase4 him, and to act as he th i n k s fi t, ma k e 14 such th e arrangement? France is just now 'lied a g o ny of the attempt t o reconc il e estab- N teßoman Catholicism with civil liberty ; ;,:tee oe u e e, , symptom s of the experiment hitherto , r 7i are the very reverse of encouraging. Nti.it.ed States sought to get rid of all difficulties it 9 kind by altogether rejecting religion from Politi ca l constitutions ; but late events at rt,;-;.tia ore and Philadelphia, and late alar ms a t New te e ' seem. to pr ove t h e inefficiency of this expe tte '" To us it is as clear ns any proposition t (it e he, that no free Government can ever tth any satisffietory and useful arrangement '''•°/110, and, whatever our opinion of the ge .• .tsalicy of the Papal see, we do not f oun d thi s n up on any offensive hypothesis, but upon l'y o nsiderati on , t h at as un d er a free ;'orm of go e• e tae nt, the cl ergy mus t b e as free as :he laity, a V' • lb. h, " Catholi c pr i est un d er suc h a government, in- N 7 I as be is with more or less of personal power, will, 'ersely disposed, resist the Pope, by virtue of ciNil privileges, and evade_.,oh?flic:nr , _! to the eCvill ~verntnent in ri;zlit of his caosi 7 , ship. Take the case of Ireland. Is it from the Pope that the Roman Catholic priest who leads his 10,000 to a monster meeting, derives his power ? does he even use the Pope's name to muster • them ? Nothing of the kind; his power is the power of elaborate craft over gross ignorance— ha demagovie's power over all whom he can terrify, , n d al whom ho 4-An teach to heliove in his skill and in his sympathy with their wishes, over all in whom 10 can inspire the passion of vindictive hatred, an ft the hope of indulging that and other gross o: vile passions. No, it is not the Pope that is to blame for the state of Ireland ; the blame is due to our ancestors, who inflicted upon an ignorant and barbarous ,ountry the fatal gift of premature freedom, which always turns to real slavery—such slavery as that in which the mass of the Irish peasantry are now held by the oligarchy of pi iests. FASHIONS FOR JANUARY. (Frq m the Londnn and Paris Ladies' Magazine of Fashion. Velvet is the universally favourite material this) winter. Morning dresses, carriage dresses, and even inw dresses, are made of it, the style being adapted to the use required ; some high, with buttons, others with revers, and others with pointed bodies and berthers of lace, jet, or chenille ; it is equally used for pelisses, mantalets, scarfs, as also for trimming dresses of satin and other materials. Lace and gimp form almost indispensable accom paniments for every article of dress. Point d'Angle terre is used for satin and darnas Pompadour; and point d'Alencon for velvet. Tunic dresses are very fashionable ; made of crape, gauze, organdy, with the latter several rows of gold or silver cord, intermixed with silk cord, are often introduced with good effect. The redingote form is also adVantage 7 ously used for evening toilettes in satin or pekiri, trimmed with gimp. Black preserves its favour; dresses of black tulle are trimmed with satin fringed ribbons, forming what used to be termed volants a. la Ninan. Robes, redingotes of serget de' soie or ' cloth, are made with the corsage casaque; that is tight demi-busque in the waist, with jacket all round, rather deep. The Amazon form is much adapted for walking dresses, and admits of various modifications. As double skirts will be much worn, besides the ornaments of flowers hitherto in use to raise them, a new style is introduced; very small flowers, forming a chain, made narrow, and terminating in large flowers, are placed on each side, and the body and sleeves corresponding. Furs are much in favour : sable mantelets palatine, and pelerines echarpes of ermine and marten fur, with long square ends, and rounded behind, are used for the pmmenade. Velvet manteaux are edged with marten or ermine, and have collars forming pelerine to !mach. The bonnets are now all velvet or satin, ornamented with biais and lace ; some are made of velvet, with crowns of satin fulled under a biais ; thase of velours epingle are finished at the edge with biais of satin, and an other round the crown ; others are ornamented with 8 plait of satin rihl:on. Capote a coulisses ornamented with lace laid at the Hive of the first runner, and another on the crown. The petits bonds Regence, the turbans Roxane, the Druid coiffure, coiffures a la Vierge, Ondine or Cerito are all fashion able. Little caps of silk tulle are trimmed with two hiais of tulle, and a wreath of blue flowers. Muslin caps are deep at the sides, and trimmed with several rows of narrow lave very little full, and separated by small coques of red velvet, each side being finished with a chou and ends of velvet. Caps are still worn small, bat the crowns are more ornamented than they were. For eve-ring parties little caps, toques, or turbans, are very much worn, placed more or less backward on the head, hut always very short at the ears, with long ribbon-ends drooping on pompons, or branches, which spring from flowers tailing on the neck. These coiffures are made of velvet of every colour, inter . - mixed with lappets of lace or wreaths in feuiliage, placed on f , undations of point lace; of gold reilles, With hunches: of beads falling at the •ide, or with fringes of bugles, black, green, or white, terminating the scarf which encircles the face. PRINCE ALBERT'S Ox.—Not unmindful of the little romance which has hung itself—in place of the cattle-show ticket—round the neck of this extraordinary animal, and rendered him, to a certain degree, a public character, we feel justified in giving a biographical sketch of him. Our hero—we mean our ox—was born of re spectable parents in a paddock in the Home Park, at Windsor, and at a very early age began to exhibit a talent for eating which marked him out as a fit sub ject to be stuffed for some future cattle-show. On ono of the visits of Prince Albert to the farm, the brute was en gaged in discussing a bunch of turnips with such ex traordinary gusto, that his Royal Highness was attracted by the circumstance, and made inquiries of the-principal bailiff, who was told to keep his eye on the subject of our present biography. Our hero's heiferhood passed in one continued round of munching, and it was remarked by those who had charge of him, that tares or turnips, grass or grain, beans or beet-root, came all alike to his rapacious appetite. In the course of a few months his hide began to expand, and he evinced all the usual characteristics of a prize ox—such as losing the power of walking at -a greater rate than half a mile an hour, while shortness of breath, and other con comitants of fatness, became extremely evident. The success with iihich these qualities were cultivated is well known, and we find our ox ultimately installed at the Baker• street Bazaar, where he behaved himself with the dignity becoming a prize, and thus set an example to the surrounding cattle. It was in this honourable situa tion that our hero attracted the attention of Mr. Ban nister, the butcher, of Threadneedle-street, who, having mentally divided him into sirloins, estimated his ribs, made a rough calculation of his aitch-bones, and cast off his steaks, consented, with much spirit, to give 60 guineas for him. Our hero's fate now appeared to be sealed. and nothing was apparently capable of saving him from being gibbeted at Mr Bannister's, with a placard announcing his having gained a prize, stuck with a wooden skewer into his back, as an invitation to cus tomers. Fortunately for the sagacious creature, Prince Albert paid a visit to the cattle show, when our hero. panting w th fatness, chanced to put out his tongue just a- his Royal Highness passed, and the tongue coming into contact with the Prince's heed, the incident was at tributed to a burn of affection, though it really was n o. thing more than a tipsus lingua, or slipping out of the tongue, from sheer want of breathing-room. The cir cumstance was noticed by the Queen, and the result is known. The ox, that was standing on the very brink of untimely shambles, has been restored to his paddock at Pzine!r. SEizunp O F AN ILLICIT STILL IN WORCESTER.— Sulwrigtendent Phillips and Serg-ant Chipp, of the City Police. having reason to suspect that an illicit still bad been some time in operation in Worcester, quietly set to work, and :lie result was that they made an appointment with Mr. Green, Supervisor of Excise, and another Ex cise officer named Rouse, to meet them in the Corn market, at ten o'clock last Saturday night. At the time in question, all parties were at the place of rendez vous, from whence they went to a house adjoining the Black Swan, in Quay-street, some of the party going to the front and some to the back door. While endeavouring to gain an entrance at the front, a man came out at the back door, and was instantly seized by Phillips, who, seeing him :tiding a key, cxclaimed t " This is the man, and he has got the key iu his pocket !" The key was instantly taken from him, and he was given into custody to the officer on the beat, while the others entered the house, which was uninhabited, and merely contained two or three chairs and a table. On reaching the top room, they found a thirty-gallon still in work, with several barrels, and about 120 gallons of wash. The prisoner proved to ho a man named Frederick Har bridge, and the way in which his apparatus was fitted up showed that he was no novice at his business. On being ordered to the station-house, he asked for his hat, which Phillips said he would look for, and some time afterwards, when they had thoroughly inspected the pre mises, and the Excise officers had taken possession of the apparatus, and throw away the wash, he found a hat containing a handkerchief in the still-room, which he took into his possession. The next day (Sunday), when in the station-house, the prisoner asked for the hand kerchief, to tie round his head, which Phillips refused to give up, alleging, as the reason for his refusal, that he meant to bring it in evidence against him, to which the other replied, "There is no necessity, as I shall admit it." He was taken before the magistrates on Monday, and, in default of paying 301., was sentenced to three months' hard labour. We understand that Harbridge is native of Staffordshire, and rents a house in Birming ham, where his wife resides. He is a tinman and bra zier by trade, and possesses not a little knowledge of practical chemistry. Of late he has been living at the Black Swan.— Worcestershire Chronicle. MISCONDUCT IN Cituacif.—A boy named Henry Brown, apprentice to Mr. Bealam, carpenter, of Col chester, was on Thursday charged with wilfully disturb ing the congregation of St. Peter's Church by his mis conduct on Thursday evening last. Richard Norman, the organ-blower, stated that the defendant was in a pew near him, and 'immediately upon Mr. Carr giving out his text, "I will behave myself wisely in a perfect way," be said, in rather a loud voice, "I wish you might." Ile then came behind the organ, and commenced blow ing the bellows violently, with other acts of misconduct, tending to disturb and annoy the congregation. The defendant promised not to offend again, and after a se vere reprimand from the Bench, and paying the ex penses (Ss. 6,1.) he was discharged. SINGULAR CIRCUMSTANCE. Saturday week, a l a dy, who resides in Elderslie, left Paisley by the second class rattway train, at half-past one o'clock, for GI isgow. After passing through the tunnel at Arkleston, she dis eovered that she had been robbed, by her pocket being cut near the bottom, and about fifteen shillings abstracted. Ail the persons press-nt being. to appearance, most respectable, it never occurred to her that any of them could be the perpetrators; but on stating the drown stance to her fellow-passengers, one of the gentlemen suggested that the whole party should be taken to the station-house and undergo an examination. Circum stances led the inspector to suspect that the person who gu ilty person. He sat next her in the carriage was the was rethitted back to Paisley gaol, and has been eN amined by the Procurator Fiscal. lie still remains in custody. He was most respectably attired, had a gold watch. gold rings on his fingers, and about SQI, is gold and silver in his puokets,—Glavow Arra, THE FRENCH TN oTAHEITE. orrival of the Reiiie Bianche at Breit, a"- , counts have been received from Otaheite of the 14th 1 of July. The last number of the Oceanie has the • following " At the moment of going to press her Britannic Ma jesty's sloop of war Carysfort, Capt. Lord Paulet, appeared • off the ridge which closes in the roadstead of Papeete, and without entering, saluted the flag of our commander, which was returned by the Uranie. A t the same time the Governor received a visit from Lord Paulet. The Carysfort brings private letters from France, which come via Panama, with dates up the 26th of February, but no dispatch for the Governor, nor a single . iournal. The Governor has only received a letter from an officer who commands one of King Louis Philippe's ships in the South Seas, announcing that a French jommrel, whi c h had reached Valparaiso, gave intelligence that the whaler Elizabeth, which left Otaheite within the first fortnight of November in last year, carrying dispatches, inform ing the Government of the motives which forced Admi ral Dupetit Tnouars to convert the Protectorate of Otaheite into an absolute possession of the island, had made her passage to Havre in 95 days. The same jour nal of the 29th of February, says, that after the recep tion of the dispatches we have mentioned, his Ma jesty declared that he could not accept the full possession, but he must adhere to •the protectorate: We repeat, that the Governor has not received any official dispatches, but nevertheless, on reading the letter sent to him from Valparaiso, he hastened to send the chief or his staff on board the Basilisk, with a letter to Queen Pomare, acquainting her with the state of affairs, and in" vitin,g her to come OR shore. This letter was interpreted to Queen Pomare in the presence of the bearer and of the Captains of the Carysfort and Basilisk. Pomare replied that she had determined not to land, but would go to Borabora, and there wait the conclusion of the affair." • The Oceanic of July the 7th contains the follow ing summary of the recent expeditions against the natives : " The expeditionary column, headed by the Governor, left Papeete in the morning of the 29th, marching upon the insurgents of Papenoo. It returned in the afternoon of the 30th, in the steamar Phaeton, after having beaten and dispersed the rebels. In this affair the loss Dr the natives was much more considerable than ours. In the night of the 29th another action took place .against the natives of Ponnavia, reinforced by Indians from the Island of Eimeo, who had come over in pi rogues. This passed near Faaa, a point opposite to that - to which the Governor led the columns under his imme diate command. It was directed by Captain Bonard of the Uranie frigate. At this point also the rebels weredispersed. While this was passing round Papeete,Commandant d'Au bigny secured the defence of this place,which the natives had boastingly threatened to storm and set fire to. The block hoase and Government-house being well guarded, the Commandant sent out reconnaissances, formed of the troops of Papeete, or of the sailors of the Uranie, who were encamped towards overt' point he deemed neces sary to be explored. The Governor and the expe ditionary column of Papenoa being returned, the troops were kept on the alert for several successive days. On Monday, July 1, the Commandant, at the head of up wards of 400 men, marched towards Faaa, where a large body of the natives was said to be assembled. But on his approach they all fled from their positions, although from behind them they might have done much injury to our troops. These species of intrenchments were destroyed, and M. d'Auhigny returned without having had any engagement. One native was captured by an officer, but was afterwards shot in attempting to make his escape. During these last days, slight skir mishes have taken place bctween the sailors and the na tives in the environs of the camp formed of the Uranie's men. The frigate's long boat was armed, and kept con stantly plying along the shore, firing shot upon every group of insurgents found within range, and repeatedly killed some of them. On our side we have not had a single man killed since the affair of Faaa on the night of the 29th. We have had to lament time death of a young volunteer in this engagement, together with four sailors, and also of nine wounded, among whom is Cap tain Bonard, but happily he is not in any danger. A panic, which we attribute to no other cause than igno rance of the strength of an armed force, seized the natives and strangers residing at Papeete, on the depar ture of the Governor. The natives retired to the srnal island of Mouton Outa, in the middle of the roadstead, and the strangers went on board the ships, with all their merchandise and other property." The following is the report to the Governor of Chef-de-bataillon De Bres, iviilitary Commander of the expeditionary troops, dated Papeete, July 2 : " The column, formed of a company of artillery, with a mountain-howitzer, a company sent on shore from the Uranie, and four companies of the marines, making an effective force of 405 men, left Papeete at four in the morning of the 29th for Hapape (Pointe de Venus). At nine we reached the foot of the mountain, which we were obliged to cross before we could enter the valley of Ha papa, coming from the village of Papana, where we were joined by some Indian auxiliaries. At this place, the men sent forward from the advanced guard fired a few shots upon the vidette of the enemy, who immediately took to flight. The mountain was climbed with no other difficulty than that presented by its extreme steepness. The Phaeton, which followed the move ments of the column, having doubled the small promon tory formed by the mountain, which ends abruptly at the sea, fired some rounds of grape-shot, to ascertain the depth of the valley. On my side, in conformity with your 'orders, • I fired some shots from the howitzer, with the same *Cot, as the troops arrived at the summit. I afterwards sent Mr.., Lavoisskere,, Lieutenant de Vaisseau, in reconnaisance with thq first section of the Marines, in the wooded plain which' w - its'ettended before us. These dispositions made, I marched on the column advancing along the shore of the bay towards the village of Hapape. The section seat in reconnaissance entered the wood immediately at the foot of the mountain, and fired some shots in the enemy's videttes, who returned them, and heat a retreat. M. de Lavoissiere conducted this reconnaissance with great discernment. At half past ten o'clock we were at Hapape, where, according to orders I had received from you, I halted in front of a large building (case), about 100 paces from the shore. Here all our troops found space enough for resting with out being obliged to separate. Perfectly tranquil on the side of the coast, which is entirely open, I made my ar rangements to prevent any surprise from the opposite direction. To this effect, I posted a line of sentinels along the edge of the wood, after ascertaining that it was clear to the full distance of .gunshot. Everything convinced us that the enemy was waiting for us at Papenoo. Consequently I resolved, after a halt of three hours, during which the troops took refreshment, to narch forwards to this bay. About two o'clock we re sumed our march, passing in front of the church and the great building of the English missionaries to turn Pointe le Venus. At the moment when the rear-guard, formed of the 28th company. came up to the church, the enemy ..arne suddenly forth, and attacked it in rear and in flank. The 28th bravely sustained the shock, which was fatal to one of the missionaries, who was struck by a ball from the insurgents, and instantly laid dead on the balcony in which he was standing. In compliance with your orders, I immediately closed up the columns to meet and repel the enemy. In an instant the last platoons were in line and opened their fire, which was so well kept up that the insurgents at once retired again to the shelter of the woods. They were pur sued by our troops to the entrance into the wood, and there the firing was kept up on both sides with great vivacity. According to your instructions, as soon as the position of the Tirailleurs was established, I formed the re serve en masse, behind the church and missi. n:L'rr build ing, and went to reconnoitre the position of the enemy. f soon perceived that there were points at which the fire of the insurgents was better kept up than at the others, and thought that the howitzer might be used against these points with powerful effect. I communicated this idea to you, M. le Gouverneur, and Captain Samsois received orders to plant his howitzer against the points indicated. The officer fully justified the confidence I had in his experience, and accomplished the task with courage and sagacity. His fire, directed against the different points, threw the enemy into complete confusion. One point, however, remained, at which he seemed to concentrate the whole of his efforts. Pro tected by the nature of the ground, and skreened by the foliage of the guava trees, they showed a resolution to brave our fire. The combat had lasted nearly three hours, and it had become necessary to put an end to it by a bold measure. I ordered the company of the 28th to advance and take this position. I ordered a charge to be beat, and the company, led on by its brave cap tain, rushed on with their bbyonets. I shall say no thing of the vigour of this charge, for you were on the spot. The enemy was obliged to fly. Our Tirailleurs, following the movement of the 28th, advanced, and drove the insurgents to the mountains, pursuing them with a continued fire. Daring the whole of the battle the enemy drew off his killed and wounded as they fell, but the last charge was made with such vigour and rapi dity, that those who were struck could not be carried away, and we therefore found nine bodies left on the ground ; but, from the traces of blood, we were satisfied that the loss was very considerable." The report concludes with a statement that the expedition had four killed and seventeen wounded, and with mention of those who had particularly dis tinguished themselves. The Oceanie says— " Mr. Makinn, the English missionary who was killed at Hapape, was at the moment when the ball struck him in the forehead in the balcony of his house, occupied with looking at the movements outside. The column was de filing before him, and the insurgents, who had just taken position in the huts which our troops had evacuated in or der to go forward, were at a very short distance from the column, and so masked as not to be seen. There was no expectation of being attacked at the moment. The sharpshooters had come in, and the column was ad vancing tranquilly, when at the instant it was passing the house where Mr. Makinn was standing, a sharp fire of musketry, proceeding from the huts occupied by the natives, was directed against the rear-guard. The balls passed over our soldiers' heads, and one struck Mr. Makinn right in the forehead and killed him on the instant. The Governor had saluted him the moment before in passing." A letter from Papeete, dated the Bth of July, writ ten by a Frenchman, and addressed to the Debats, contains the following : " The insurgents have become remarkably bold; to say the truth, the entire population of the island, with the exception of two or three districts. have risen against us, encouraged by foreign instigation, and furnished with arms and ammunition of every kind. You will say, perhaps, why do you suff,r this ? I answer that, although Otaheite is only 25 leagues in circumference, we have not small vessels enough to keep outside a watch which would render almost impracticable the facilities of communication with the neighbouring islands ; and how Can we, in the interior, keep up a good police in a country of which we occupy so small a portion ? Be this as it m a y, th• mischig has been done, and THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, JANUARY - 3, 1845,, I has propagated itself insensibly, without, I imagine, its beir ui derstooti were made, would there be any security for the coite.), when the whale population could rise in arms at the first signal ? Different expeditions have taken place re cently ; the first had for object to dislodge the enemy from a mountain in which they were said to have in trenched themselves. But the natives, who are not yet excellent soldiers, came down to attack us on the plain, covered, it is true, by thick bushes, fur such is their in variable practice. After an engagement of three hours, they gave way, and we saw no more of them. In the meantime, and in an opposite direction, a nocturnal coup de main was attempted against the insurgents b) the commandant of the Urania ; but, instead of sur prising them, he was himself surprised, and this little success had so emboldened the insurgents, that, on the following day, they showed themselves close to Papeete. A column of troops was sent against them. They re tirpd, but immediately after our troops had left they recommenced their demonstrations, and even me naco us with an attack on a fixed day ; but it did not take place. We are, however, continually on the qui rive, and are actively at work on the for tifications. We desire nothing better than an attack, to spare us the necessity of going after the natives in their mountains and ravines ; but the poor colonists are not of that way of thinking, for their wooden houses, covered with thatch, would run great risk of being burnt down. Fire, in fact, has played a great part in this war ; the natives have too frequently recourse to it. The captain of the Uranie had• contracted -for some supplies with a colonist who had a property at some distance from Pa peete, but who bad not hands enough to cultivate it. Our sailors performed the labour, and received two thirds of the produce. The property has just been ravaged and the house burnt down. Our missionaries have also been victims. Their residence, which was a perfect palace for this country, has experienced the same fate, and everything indicates that the mischief will not stop here. We must not ; however, despair. The presence in our roads of the English steamer Salamander will, without doubt, change the nature of events, the captain observing an opposite line of conduct to'that of his predecessors. Far from seconding the insurgents, he has written to them to state the true position of England as regards France, and has threatened to join with us if they should attack Papeete. The step is, probably, only the prelude j of an entirely new policy on the part of the representa tives of England at Otaheite." The letter concludes with a strong eulogium upon the climate and vegetation of Otaheite; but the writer observes that the French are unable to enjoy them from the want of peace, and the deficiency of labourers to cultivate the soil. The Oceanie gives the following account of the burning of the missionary residence : " At the moment when the steamer was entering the harbour a very thick smoke arose behind the cocoa-nut trees beyond the camp of the Uranie. It was the house of the French missionaries, which the natives had set fire to. The next morning the chapel also was burnt to the ground. The missionaries have lost everything. The holy vessels and all the objects used in Divine worship were pillaged by the natives, or destroyed by the flames. It is fortunate that the missionaries had left their house in time." THE LATE ACCIDENT ON THE MIDLAND COUNTIES RAILWAY. When Mr. Justice Patteson the other day defined manslaughter to the grand jury at Nottingham, he was dealing with more interests than he dreamed of. He was not only disposing of the cases of the respective individuals who stood accused of the crime in question, but he was also, it seems, most thoughtlessly annihi latinsz the law of a very great constitutional tribunal. He forgot that coroners' juries had a character to lose. Ho forgot that he was making ducks and drakes of the legal reputation of very high and learned authorities. He overlooked the fact that " crowner's 'quest law" had been before him. There was not only a law for him to expound, but a decision to reverse. The case required nut only learning, but delicacy. Reputations were at stake—authorities were in peril —much legal wisdom was exposed to ambiguous mis. construction. It was an occasion for wary and tender walking, yet Mr. Justice Patteson went, as the boys say, "slap at it." He walked straight through the question, as if there were no such thing as " crowner s 'quest law" in rerun natura. He was as provokingly silent about the legal speculations of the juries who had committed Messrs. Lightfoot and Raven as if the jurymen had neither the intention nor jurisdiction to decide legal questions at all ; as if, in short, they had been actually and physically shorn of all perception and compreherAon whatever, beyond that required for the mere ascertainment of facts, and had had no idea that such a thing 23 law had , evei existed. Poor Mr. Justice Patteson ! What has he suffered in return! Or, rather, poor unfortunate " public " for the public it is that, as usual, ha s mos t particularly to pay the piper. The unhappy " publi c ,' in common with Mr. Justice Patteson, has been visited with a pamphlet-defence of the juror's law, signed by ten of the jurors who sat on the inquests upon the late Mr. Dean and the late Mr. Bolestridge, and vindicating, with as much display of learning and acumen as can be mustered for the occasion the claim of all " crowners"quests" in general, and of these two " crowners"quests" in particular, to the character and functions of judges learned in the law. All this weight of learning the public, or we who represent the public, are now expected to read ; and that for two reasons—namely, first, in order that we may for the future know and recognise better the legal weight and authority of coroners' juries; and, secondly, that we may have the satisfaction of thinking, as often as we travel on ill-regulated railways, that if we are annihilated by a concussion, or smashed by a break down, the jury th a t s i ts upon us w i ll proba bl y com mit the engine for manslaughter, and defend the legality of the course by a pamphlet. This would, of course, be truly consoling-. We have n ow b e f ore us the pamphlet of the ag grieved and offended jurors who committed Mr. Light foot and Mr. Raven for manslaughter on account of the late accident on the Midland Counties Railway. The bare fact of its publication forms a startling epoch in the annals of coroners' juries. A coroner's jury bandying law with one of her Majesty's justices of as size is itself a splendid novelty. The daring bravery of the attempt is alone almost enough to attract ad miration and sympathy to the men who have ori ginated it. Let us, at any rate, give the " crowner's 'quest" men fair play. But the quarrel between the judge and the jury, setting apart the question of the wounded majesty— the " spreta injuria forme"—of the latter is, unhap pily, plain and straightforward enough. A collision occurs on the Midland Counties Railway, from a mis• understanding between the officers of the company. Death ensues. Juries sit on the bodies. They exa mine the facts for several days together. They have proof that great deal too much trouble is taken by Mr. Lightfoot, and none at all by Mr. Raven (he having, in fact, no autharity to interfere with the busi ness), to prevent a collision. But, by reason of a blun &ring, and certainly most unpardonable, mistake, of Ir.Lightfoot's, the collision occurs. The j uries, wishing to punish, find that the mistake is manslaughter, and that the excessive trouble taken by Mr. Lightfoot arose from a " a want of due diligence." Mr. Justice Patteson comes down and tells the grand jury that manslaughter means no such thing at all as any error of judgment—that if a man has honestly done all he can to prevent accident, and yet is unfortunately mills taken, this is no crime, and cannot possibly be man slaughter. So the bill is ignored. And the judge adds, that if the misunderstanding could be proved to have arisen necessarily from a want of the proper means and machinery for carrying on the railway, then, of course, " such a fact would be decidedly in favour of the accused—the blame would rest on a higher party." " He," Mr. Justi ce Patteson. " did not see that such a charge was made out against the company ; but if it were, it could not be used as an argument against, but in favour of, the prisoners." This we take to be the plain, common-sense view of the matter ; and if the juries, instead of speculating whether Mr. Lightfoot's over-anxious, but mistaken care could by any means be brought under the defini tion of manslaughter—a definition which describes the crime as a want of due diligence—had only col lected facts to prove that the charge alluded to against the company, was, in truth, supported, they would have done more service to railway travellers and railway proprietors than by the publication of 500 legal (or illegal) pamphlets. Their law-learning, indeed, is somewhat funny. Their object is to prove Mr. Lightfoot guilty of man slataghter, in opposition to Mr. Justice Patteson, who affirms that "no man can be indicted for manslaughter for a mere mistake or error in judgment." The pam phleteers, therefore, are very learned in the outset in defining what manslaughter is. They tell us it is "a want of due caution," a " want of due diligence," and the like. This, however, is not at first sight very much at variance with the judge's law; and as all they can prove against the accused really only amounts to " error" in judgment, they are obliged to quarrel a little with the law which defines error to be no crime. They, therefore, proceed. Their reference to " the books" are as facetious as they are overwhelm ing. " When a man tileing a house lets fall a tile knowingly, and without giving warning, and so kills a man, it is manslaughter." Therefore, say the pam phleteers, Mr. Justice Patteson is wrong ; for there is a palpable similarity between dropping a tile know ingly from a high station to kill a man, and dropping down a railroad oneself from a high station, as Mr. Lightfoot did, to prevent people coming up it to their destruction. " So, if a man have a dangerous ox," continue the pamphleteers, " and he does not use all due diligence to keep hium up, and the ox gets loose and kills a man, it is manslaughter." And by parity of reasoning, we presume, they would conclude that if the ox is, for greater caution, tied up, e.g., by the heels instead of the head, and it turns out that the ox in question is a knowing animal, and, unlike other oxen, is able to untie his own heels, whereas he could not have untied his own head, and so gets loose, it is manslaughter (not in the ox, but) in the man that tied him up, to use this mistaken diligence in doing so. Mr. Lightfoot, they go on to say, was in error. He " mainly erred" going down to Baotou ; but error ig proved by the ox and tile cases to be the same thing. s " knnwing. and wilful negligence ;" ergo, the crime of manslaughter was committed. Again, Mr. Lightfoot was -" in error" i n thi n ki ng th at the ob struction on the up-line would be removed in time; ergo, he was guilty of manslaughter, for manslaughter is, not error, but want of diligence. Such is the logic of the railway juries. We recommend these jurymen, who place so strong a reliance on their own versions of the precedents of the broken tile and the vicious ox, to stick to their lasts. They will take nothing but hard knocks by a collision" with Mr. Justice Patteson. If, indeed, they hal traced the cause of the "misunderstanding" in question to its real source, and not attributed it to a mere " want of diligence" in this or that individual, and that especially in a case where the real fault was an anxious excess of diligence—an excess and an anxiety probably caused by the want of sufficient force for a due and regular organisation—they might have done service; as it is, they ars only making them selves ridiculous.—Times. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. (YESTERDAY.) MANSION -HOUSE. Sarah Phillips and John Lewis were brought be fore the Lord Mayor, charged with having attempted to rob a gentleman on London-bridge. The woman, it appeared, from a City policeman's statement, left the male prisoner to follow the gen tleman, who evidently wished to be released from her importunities. After having met with a decided re pulse, she returned to the gentleman and tried to get at his pocket, and the policeman went up and asked him whether he had lost anything. He replied, upon searching his pocket, that he had not been robbed, but he said that he might have been robbed of a pocket-book containing 501. The policeman having known the woman to be a thief, and having seen her for three hours about the neighbourhood in inti mate conversation with the male prisoner and another man, took her. and the former into custody. Sarah Phillips declared that she had come to town very lately from Bristol, in the expectation of being engaged by the celebrated Mr. Moses, in the tailoring line, but she was unfortunately disappointed, and she then determined to get into work as well as she could. The LORD MAYOR—How did you happen to look for business in the tailoring line on London bridge ?—Sarah Phillips replied that she had acci dentally met a gentleman, who entered into conver sation with her, and appointed to meet her on Lon don-bridge, and when she was speaking to him the policeman interfered and improperly accused her of an intention to commit a robbery—a thing which never entered into her contemplation. John Lewis said he was passing at the time the policeman took the woman into custody, and he just stopped to see what was the matter, when he was charged as an accomplice in a robbery. The policeman stated that Lewis attempted to escape when he perceived that the woman was ap prehended. The LORD MAYOR said he clearly saw how the thing was planned between the two prisoners and their friend, who had escaped, but the evidence was not strong enough against John Lewis to justify the committal of that prisoner. His Lordship, however, thought it necessary to mention that he expected to see Lewis again at the bar. As for Sarah Phillips, his Lordship was sure there was quite enough to authorise her committal to Bridewell. Committed accordingly. ---- A man named Thomas Evans was charged under the following circumstances : A respectable stationer stated that the prisoner, who had been employed by the persons engaged to print for him, called and gave up a duplicate for the amount of money received for a quantity of paper delivered to the firm in whose service the prisoner was to he printed. The paper had been delivered but a short time before it was sent to the pawn broker's shop and pledged for twelve shillings, and the prisoner had left the ticket for the purpose of giving the owner an opportunity of redeeming it from its discreditable situation. The prisoner stated that the printers by whom he was employed were in the habit of sending him out with paper just received from the stationers to pawn broker's shops for the supply of their immediate 'necessities. On the present occasion he had re ceived the prosecutor's paper to put in pledge in con sequence of his employers' inability to pay him his wages, and he thought it was most proper for him to deliver the duplicate to the owners of the property. The LORD MAYOR—Have your employers always taken the paper so pledged out of pawn ? Prisoner —Always. They furnished me with money to take it out. The LORD MAYOR—Have you frequently done business in this way ? The prisoner—l have been three or four different times a day to the same pawn broker, Mr. Grant, of London-wall, with paper for my employers, and I took this paper in yesterday. The assistant to the pawnbroker said that he knew perfectly well the person of the prisoner as an habitual customer, and that on one day the prisoner might have pawned, at three several tunes, reams or paper at the shop. The complainant—Does not your Lordship con sider that the pawnbroker is very culpable for taking such an article as paper from such a man as the pri soner, who, he must have known, could not be the proprietor The LORD MAYOR—Certainly ; Ido think him most culpable. His LORDSHIP then directed an officer to desire the presence of one of the firm to whom the prisoner alluded as having employed him. One of the partners in the printing firm attended, and stated, in answer to questions from the Lord Mayor, it was true that upon some occasions they had, to answer an immediate emergency, sent reams of paper which they had received from persons who employed them to the pawnbrokers, but in a few hours they invariably redeemed the property. With respect to the present paper the prisoner had uttered a falsehood, for he had been sent for the paper in the morning, and he had never returned from the com plainant's. The LORD MAYOR—You owe him wages, do you not ? Witness—About five shillings. The prisoner declared that the sum due to him was considerably more. The LORD MAYOR—I shall bind over the prisoner in his own recognisances to appear here if the pro perty be not released ; and I shall expect his employers to appear also. Probably many persons who pawn goods which are not their own do not know the se rious extent to which they are liable. Now I can tell such persons that, by the Bth section of the 39th and 40th George 111., cap. 99, it is enacted that, if any person pawn any goods or chattels the property of another, without being employed to do so by the owner, it shall be in the power of any justice of the peace to inflict upon the person convicted of so pawn ing a penalty not exceeding M. and the full value of the goods, and. in case of the non-payment of such penalty, to commit the offender to hard labour for three calendar months, and if, within three days be fore the expiration of that period, the forfeiture be not paid, the justice may order the convicted person to be publicly whipped. This piece of information made a sensible impres sion upon several persons in court. His LORDSHIP said, in conclusion, that he hoped the Act from which he had quoted would not he for gotten by those who might, for a temporary accom modation, be tempted to violate it, and therefore be subject to all the consequences. MINING IN 1844. (From the Mining Journal.) The transactions in mining shares during the Jast twelve months have so far exceeded the average busi ness of many years, that a general review of the mines at the present time may be interesting to the mining speculator. The increase of business in this description of property may, perhaps, in a great measure, be accounted for by the abundance of un employed capital in the money market, and the little interest paid by Government securities ; but we flatter ourselves it has been also owing to the in• creased confidence of the public in mining property, when conducted on fair and legitimate principles. The dividends paid in the last twelve months on twelve of the principal mines have been as follows : East Wheal Rose Lead Mine, 46,4001., or 3621. 10s. per share—original outlay 50/. per share ; Botallack, 10,000/., or 100/. per share ; Fowey Consols, about 10,000/. ; Par Consols, about 10,000/. ; South Cara don, 9,600/., or 751. per share, upon an original outlay of Si.; West Caradon, 5,000/. ; South Wheal Basset, 7,3601.; Tresavean, 4,5601.; Trethellan, 4,2001.; Brewer, 3,600/. ; Tamar Consols, 4,500/. ; Tincroft, 3,oool.—making a total of dividends paid in twelve mines, of 121,220/. ; an average of 13 per cent. on the market value of the mines, and of more than 100 per cent. on the original outlay. Besides the above, di vidends have been paid on Wheal Providence, 1,2801.; IL:Ambush, 1,0001. (the regular dividends on this mine amount to 6,0001. a year; they have been less this year, owing to the erection of a large steam-engine, which will soon be completed, and dividends resumed; there are large bodies of ore in reserve in this mine, and it is to be hoped more of it will be raised in future, than is sufficient to pay the agents' salaries); Cern Brea, 3,0001.; East Wheal Crofty, 1,600/.; East Pool, 512/. ; and in oth e r m i nes o f - minor im portance. The dividends in Tresavean were tempo rarily suspended in September last, the mine having up to that period paid, without intermission, 445,000/. profit to the shareholders. Trethellan dividends were also suspended at the same time, after having, without any original outlay by the adventurers, paid 38,400/. profit since 1837. The dividends in both mines, we understand, will be resumed in January next. Of mines, some of good promise, and others coming into a profitable state of working, after having large sums of money expended upon them—there are, of the latter, West Wheal Jewel, leaving a small profit , ill there has been 50,000/. laid out in opening levels, driving cross-cuts, &c., to facilitate future operations in this mine, and as there is said to be a large reserve ,of ore standing, we hope, after eight years' patience, the shareholders will soon reap the benefit of it. Stray Park and Camborne Veen, leaving a profit, outlay 43,000/.; two months since a course of ore, worth 701. per fathom, was discovered at the 100 fathom level at Camborne Wean, the one being in whole ground, from surface downwards. Treleigh Consols, outlay 30,0001., now leaving a profit of 4001. a month. Wheal Seaton, outlay 2,4001., leaving a profit, but not yet paid a dividend. Callington (formerly Redmoor), outlay 15,000/., now returning sixty tons of lead per month, and paying cost; a copper lode has been discovered in this mine, from which great things are expected. North Wheal Rose, outlay 1,600/, three of the East Rose lodes hare been cut in this mine, hut not yet deep enough ; from one lode, however, twelve fathoms only from the surface, thirty-two tons of lead have been raised. Penhallow Moor, outlay about 4,0001.; this is a very large sett, and will require a large outlay to bring it into a profitable state of working ; twenty tons of lead have been raised. New Quay, out lay, about 4,0001., now paying cost. Bedford United, outlay 9,0001., leaving a profit of 5001. a month, and will pay a dividend of 5 per share in February next. Trelawney Silver-Lead Mine, near Liskeard, outlay about 1,500/., nearly paying cost, with a prospect of soon paying a dividend. Caradon Consols, near West Caradon, outlay about 4,000/. Tokenburv, y outlay, 12,000/. ; and Trenen Consols (formerly Wheal Neptune), the ores of this mine are very rich. Of young mines of great promise, so far as they are developed, are the Caradon Mines, Go namena, Wheal St. (leer, Cradick Moor, the Caradon United Mines, St. Austle Consols, &c., in the eastern district; and Wheal Acland, Wheal Catherine, Pcncorse, Wheal Hope, and Rose Consols lead mines. The greatest advances in prices of shares have been in East Rose, 1,000/. to 1,500/. ; North Rose, 20/. to 70/.; Tamar Consols, 6/. to 9/. (when at 6/. there were only 6,000 shares, now there are upwards of 9,000); West Caradon, 250/. to 800/. ; Bedford United, Si. to 10/. ; Trelawney, 20/. to 1201. ; Caradon Mines, 1/. to 80/. ; Gonamena, 1/. to 1201. ; Callington, 12/. to 25/. ; Cradick Moor, 1/. to 70/.; East Wheal Crofty, 300/. to .5001.—a dividend of 25/. per share is shortly expected here. [ADVERTISEMENT.] MEDICAL ADVICE. There cannot be a grosser delusion than this. It is only because Doctors, in order to make a trade of medicine, use poisons and anti-medicinal preparations as medicines for the cure of diseases, that "advice," as it is called, becomes necessary ; but if you do away with poisons or anti-medicinal preparations, and only take that which is proper and good, and which acts in accordance with the laws of Nature, then all advice becomes unnecessary. This is the reason that all true Hygeists are their own Doctors, and laugh at what Doctors term "advice." Whenever they feel pain of any kind they have recourse to the Vegetable Univer sal Medicine, which they can regulate without fear, so as to produce proper evacuations ; hence the fact of staunch Hygeists in some cases taking twenty, thirty, and even forty pills at a dose, thereby proving the Universality of the Medicine, as in the case of Lady Sophia Grey, for disease of the spine, Sir Richard Sutton's son, for consumption, living monuments to attest the fact, and thousands of others. But with the poisons of the Doctors, such tis prussic acid, opium, arsenic, deadly nightshade, &c., &c., if you take even half a grain too much, death is the consequence ; and therefore, to those persons who are, from a state of ignorance, obliged by Doctors' t eatrnent to make use of such poisons, " advice," of course, becomes necessary. It is by giving advice that Doctors make a trade of medicine ; and hence their violent and unjust opposition to Mr. Morison's system, because it does away with all mystery, and enables every man to become his own Doctor. This should never be for gotten by the public. Issued by Morison and Moat, of the British Col lege of Health, New-road, London, for and on behalf of the body of Hygeists, who contend, that, since all diseases arise from one cause, namely, an impurity of the blood, they can be cured by the Vegetable Uni versal Medicine, which being composed of innocuous ingredients, may be taken by any person without the aid of a Doctor. THE ARMY. (From the Limerick Chronicle, Dec. 28.) The late Colonel Battersby, who died at his resi dence, Listoke, county Louth, last week, served with the Bth Regiment in the campaign of Egypt, after wards in the West Indies, till the expulsion of the French from Martinique. On the breaking out of the last American war, he was appointed to the com mand of the Glengarry (Canadian) Fencibles, and distinguished himself in the force under Sir John Prevost ; and on the conclusion of peace he was pre sented by the Legislature and House of Representa tives of Upper Canada with their marked thanks, and with a sword of great valtip, cnr hi. eArulnet and ser vices during the war. Upon his return to England, the late Duke of York placed him in command of the 64th Regiment, then at Gibraltar, but from which ill-health obliged him to retire. The 14th depot re-embarked at Kingstown on the 20th instant on board her Alajesty's steam-vessel Dee, Lieut. Driver, R.N., which sailed for Liverpool same day. Strength-16 sergeants, 1 acting sergeant major, 6 drummers, 12 corporals, 212 privates, 96 soldiers' wives, and 48 children—nine invalids left in Dublin. 11th Hussars.—Head- quarters, Dundalk. Strength —5 sergeant-majors, 16 sergeants, 211 troop horses, 6 trumpeters, 5 farriers, 241 rank and file, 47 officers' chargers, and 5 troops. Belfast-1 troop, consi s tin g of Captain Douglas, Lieuts. Tynte and buncombe, 1 troop sergeant, 2 sergeants, 1 trumpeter, 1 farrier, 46 rank and file, 47 troop horses, and 7 officers' chargers. 4th Royal Irish Dragoon Guards, Caher.—A de tachment of 1 sergeant, and 10 rank and file, arrived in Killaloe, from this garrison, and occupy billets , a detachment of 1 sergeant and 10 rank and file ar rived at Nenagh, from this garrison, and occupy billets. 2d Dragoon Guards, Longford.—Half a troop is ordered to march for Mohill ; a lieutenant and half a troop is ordered to proceed to Ballinamore, to be stationed. Royal Artillery, Portobello Barracks, Dublin.— Major Rawnsly's company, 9th battalion, stationed in detachments at Shannon-bridge, Bannagher, Kee logue, Meelick, and forts on the Shannon, is under orders to march for Dublin. Captain Tylden's corn. parry 9th battalion will relieve it from the forts at Lough Swilly and Foyle. Major Harrison's com pany, Bth battalion, will embark by steam-vessel at Dublin, for Cork, there to relieve Captain Stokes's company, 6th battalion, ordered to join head-quarters at Woolwich. 16th Regiment, Cork.—Two companies under Major Brand embarked at Kingstown on board her Majesty's steam-vessel Rhadamanthus, and joined head-quarters at Cork. Strength, 10 sergeants, 1 drummer, 9 corporals, 172 privates, 34 women, 23 children. A company of the 34th Regiment arrived at Carrick-on-Shannon from Athlone, on Christmas day, to be stationed in aid of the civil authorities. 33d depot, Cork.—Effective strength-14 sergeants, 1 sergeant-major, 4 drummers, and 280 rank and file. Recruiting-2 sergeants, and 16 ditto. Two companies of the 54th Regiment, from Mullin gar, have marched to Ballinamore and Mohill, county Leitrim, in support of the civil power. The 32d, at Dublin ; 54th, at Mullingar ; 60th, at Fermoy ; and 61st, at Buttevant, send recruiting parties-32d to Kells, 54th to Dunbar, 60th to Fat hard, and 81st to Macroom. The 35th depOt at Nenagh, 38th depot at Boyle, 77th depot at Waterford, 82d depot at Tralee, and 90th depOt at Clonmel, will send recruiting parties respectively-35th to Tulla, county Clare ; 38th to Mohill and Strokestown, 77th to New Ross, 82d to Abbeyfeale and Killarney, and 90th to Caher and Clogheen. The depots Ist and 2d battalions of the Royal, at Clare Castle and Enniskillen, will send out recruiting parties to Enniskillen and Manorhamilton. Lieutenant C. B. Crause, Cape Mounted Riflemen, who was sentenced to be cashiered by court-martial held at Graham's Town, has been pardoned by the Queen, in consequence of the recommendation of the Court. Ensign Frazer, Cape Rifles, who was tried by Court-martial the same time, is dismissed the service. Of the Royal Marines four rank and file are em barked at Cove on board her Majesty's steam-vessel Stromboli, for Carrick Island, River Shannon, there to be stationed, relieving a similar detachinent of the same corps, ordered to return to Spike Island, to join head-quarters. The 72d Highlanders, which lately embarked for Gibraltar, never before served in that garrison, or any other Mediterranean station ; neither has the re giment been employed in the West Indies or Ame rica ; notwithstanding the regiment has been in ex istence for the last 66 years. The services of the 72d have been up to the present confined to eastern stations. It was in India for 16 years, from April 1782, to January 1798, including a short service in Ceylon. For nearly the last forty years, with the exception of a few years at the Mauritius, the regi ment has had no other foreign station but the Cape. The third and last division of the 67th, under Major Orange, has landed in Dublinfrom Woolwich. Captain Stokes's company, 6th battalion Royal Artillery, has embarked at Cork for Bristol en route to Woolwich. Major Harrison's company, Bth battalion Royal Artillery, has embarked at Kingstown for Cork, and arrived yesterday, per Dee steamer. The troops ordered to O'Brien's Bridge, Silver mines, Castle Connell, Cappaghmore ' Cloghjordan, Borrisoleigh, are c o u n t erman d e d f or the present. The detachment of the 4th Dragoon Guards or dered to march for Killaloe and Nenagh if., counter manded for the present. Lieut. Grogan, 7th, Lieut.-Colonel Cs:a.khnln, Goth, and Lieut. Shirley, 87th, sold out of the service last week. Seven cadets of the Royal Military College w ere appointed to ensigncies last week, without lurch e. The senior lieutenant of the 7th Fusiliers, and pay master of its depot, has sold out of the service. Captain Norman's company, 54th, has arrived at Ballinamore, county Leitrim, from MulUngar, head quarters. Good service money is awarded to Lieut.-General Henry Monckton, and Major-GeneraLs Al exan d e r Thompson and Willi am A. Gordon, the first to re ceive 177/. per annum, and the others 1004 each Major-Generals R. G. Hare Clarges and W. F. P. Napier are to have the increased daily pay of 255. Major Bennett, of the Royals, has put to press his " Thoughts on Army Education," with reference to the instruction of the soldier. LONDON and CROYDON RAILWAY COMPANY. A special general meeting of the Shareholders was held at the London-bridge station yesterday, for the purpose of considering the expediency of applications being made to Parliament, in the ensuing session, for powers tai enable the London and Crovdoa Railway Company to effect the following objects :—The widening or enlargement of the London and Croydon, the London end Greenwich, and the Bricklayers' Arms Branch Railways, with a view to an additional line, or additional lines, of railway, upon the atmo spheric principle of traction ; the formation of a rail way from the Croydon Railway to Chatham, with a branch to Gravesend ; an extension of the Chatham line, to join the Canterbury, Margate, and Ramsgate Railway, at or near Chatham, with branches to Sheer ness and Faversham Creek: the formation of a railway from the Croydon Railway to Maidstone, with a branch to Tunbridge; an extension of the 'Maidstone line to join the South-Eastern (Dover) Railway at or near Ashford; an extension of the Epsom Railway to Dorking, unless provided for by the direct London and Portsmouth Railway; a branch from the Croydon Railway to Orpington, unless pro vided for by the Chatham line; and also to adopt such measures with reference to the said several matters, or either of their, and to the capital necessary to be provided for them, or any of them, as to such meeting shall seem expedient. At one o'clock the chair was taken by Mr. kinson, the Chairman of the Company. The notice having been read, The CHAIRMAM, after seine preliminary observa tions, proceeded to refer to the schemes of the Direc tors, as stated above. Some of those schemes, he said, were merely duplicate schemes, to be carried out as the success or failure of the other plans might render desirable. Contemplating, for instance,. the possibility of the Portsmouth Company. failing to get their Bill, the enlargement of the Croydon Company was a scheme for which it was neccessary to provide, and a similar remark would apply to one or two other projects. But with re spect to the main plans of the Directors, after giving their best consideration to the subject, and taking the best advice that could be obtained, the Directors were of opinion, and after calling together and obtaining the concurrence of a meeting of gentlemen holding 100 shares the Directors felt the greatest confidence, in asking the supeort of the Proprietors in carrying out their views. The main purpose for which they had convened the meetin g , was t o p ropose th e ma ki ng of a line from Syde n h am t o A s hf or d, M a id s t one, an d Tunbridge.—(Hear, bean) The necessity for this. project had arisen from tie- declaration of the views of the South-Eastern Company, made at their general meeting by Mr. APteregor in December last., intl.- mating most clearly that it was the intention of that Co mpany to make a direet line to Tunbridge which should avoid the Croydon line. Relieving, as they did, that there was no necessity for a measure which should include the avoidance of the Croydon line, the Directors thought themselves entitled to propose that this Com pany should carry out the scheme instead of the South-Eastern Company.—(Hear, hear.) The latter Company had proclaimed to all the world, for the last nine months, that it was about to supply all Kent with railways. At present, however, it did nothing whatever towards fulfilling its promise. It now proposed to accommodate the public by avoiding the Croydon Railway. l'Vere that the sole object, their only course would be to acquiesce • for unques tionably the public benefit was the grand thing to be considered. But the question was, whether the public benefit could not be equally well provided for without the avoidance of the Croydon Railway? The Directors. of the C ro yd on C ompany believed that it could, and as they formed part of the public, they had a right to expect that their interests should not be forgotten. The Dover Company pro posed to make a line from the Greenwich Railway. He then proceeded to explain, by the aid of a chart, the course of the lines proposed by the two Com panies. and dwelt on the superior advantages which would be afforded to the public by the direct line to Maidstone. They proposed to continue the line as far as Ashford ; and not only so, but, by making an at mospheric line, they would be enabled to convey the public cheaper and quicker than the South-Eastern Company. He saw nothing inconsistent or im proper in so small a Company embarking in this un dertaking, provided only the public convenience was consulted. On that point everything must de pend, whatever might be the length of railway which it was proposed to construct. He had heard it said that the great interests of the Dover Company should not be hampered by those of so insignificant a Company as the Croydon. Granted; but the question was, whic6. was the Dover Company ? He was prepared to contend that, for all public purposes, that was the Dover Celle pany, because it had the power, which the ot)'.er had not, of making the line which should be rnr':st conve nient for the public.—(Hear, hear.) ^ The Dover Company had for the last nine months placarded the country with announcements of it', intentions with respect to the county of Kent ; hv'.t these announce ments had all ended in nothing k iend theirs was, at that time, the only body which was in a condition to afford that accommodation to the public which the Dover Company had confessed to be necessary for the public interest.—(Hear, hear.) The Dover Company was a day or two too late in putting in its plans ; and though this difficulty might possibly be surmounted, he thought they (the Croydon Company) should take care that their own interests were protected. The- Dover Company proposed to amend their line by a plant not so convenient as theirs; and, lender all the circumstances, both morally and politically, the roe prietors of the Croydon Company would be justified in the course which they were asked to pursue. He did not mean to promise them entire success., whether in carrying out their own plans, or in opr,osing those of others ; but considering the irnpartial4y and intel ligence of the Legislature, their chrasee of success was certainly such as would justify them in proceed ing. Sir Robert Peel had laid down the principle, that a railway should not be allowed to be made by the side of an existing one, solely for the p ur p ose o f absorbing the pr o fit—th a t money should not be taken out of the pocket of A solely to be. put hits that of B; " hut," said he, "if the advancement of aciencee, or the improvement of machinery, enables one company to accommodate the public much better than another , E, then the public ad van t age must b e considered first. ' Applying that principle, he thought they had a good chance of success in the projects which they were called upon to undertake ; and he felt the greatest confidence, therefore, in proposing them for accept ance. A great deal was said at the present time about aneetigatnation. He was not prepared to say that well a result would not be attended with mu tual advantages. They had, however, made a pro position t o th e B r i g ht on C ompany. Th e y had put to them this question—" Will you guarantee either that the whole of the traffic shall come by one rail way, or that such traffic as may come shall pay us the present amount, viz., 20,000/.?" and, in cas e , of compliance, they offered to remit half the toll et: preseot levied. That proposition was declined, and it:. would be too much to expect that it should be. repeated after their opponents had been defeated isa Parliament.—(Hear, hear.) In cases of amalgama tion it was generally expected that the party seeking it would give up some advantages. Thouh they' were willing to amalgamate, th ey Wou l d note onsent to sacrifice their interests to those of their rivals. lie then west into a calculation, for the purpose of proving that it was impossible that the Dover Com pany could obtain a sufficient profit to make their scheme successful, taking into account all the ex penses and obligations which would be incurred, and setting against them the probable returns. Sinee the opening of the Dover Railway the average receill l had been about 4,500/. ; and, with all the exw increase of continental traffic, he could not think that the increase would be sufficient. After some furtb.er observations, he concluded by pr o p os i ng a ser i es O f f resolutions ounded on the several schemes stated_ ' !u the notice. The resolution was seconded, and, after a. %b or t conversation, was carried unanimously. In reply to a question from a Proprietor, The CHAIRMAN stated that the agreer.ne n t ma d e with the Chatham Committee was this:--The Croy don Company undertook to pay the expenses of the application to Parliament ; and, in case of failure, the Chatham Company would e ith er receive hack their money with five per cent. upon it, or } lave t h e option of taking Croydon shares hearing five per cent. A vote of thanks was given to the Chairman and. Directors, and the meeting then separated. CHILD EXPOSED.—The dead body of a runr-bon male infant was found in a field at Hillhouse:tad, p• a Friday last. It was eneloted in a smell r!oedeit ►b oa , Edinburgh Advertiser. The investiture of the Knights of St, paridk i s postponed from Saturday, the 4th, tollfw: my, the ich oY January.