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01 - 4 , 011. Wind N. W.—Sld. Severn Steamer, NV..st Indies; Tut us steam -r, Constantinople. Cis, OCT. 2.-v• Wind Coverdale, Boa aon, Muntreat; B ,rueo.Cui.ningharn, Batavia. SCILLY, SEPT. 30.—Wind S.E. by E.—Arrd. Falcon, Wilson, South Africa; 31ary Ann Webb, Total ng, Shanghae ; Spartan, Simpson, Africa; Comet, Nels in, Buenos Ayres for Bremen; Argyll, Waverly, St. John's, New Brunswick. Off port Adolph, Valparalso for Hanaburgh. CORK, OCT. I.—Wind E.S.E., strong.—Sld. Governor Doughui, Sr, John's. SLIGO, SEPT. 27.—Sid. Coosa, New Orleans; Antolion, New York; Hannah, Quebec. LIMERICK, SEPT. 28.—S1d. Mary and Harriet, Quebec. CLYDE, SEPT. 29.—Arrd. Alexander, Porto Rico; Calypso, Colville, Trinidad. Std. Vestal, St. John's, New Brunswick; Pkenix, Demerara. BELFAST ' SEPT. 30.—The Industry, of Maryport, has been r a i se d. HARWICH, OCT. 3.—The schooner William, of Boston, Sharman, from London to Antwerp, got on the Long sand this morning, got oft, and sank in det.p water; crew saved and landed here. PETERIIEAD:OcTM:LiIe Friendship, of Dantzie, Archangel to Rotterdam, was abandoned 26th ult. in lat. 62, lon. 2 E., and subsequently foundered. BIDEFORD.—SId. Conquest, Prince Edward's Ishnd. MARGATE, OCT. 3.—The Vigilant, Russian schooner, Stettin, to St. Malo, capsized Ist instant, after striking on the Outer Garbett Sand, has since been towed in here derelict; crew saved. The following has been posted at Lloyd's:— NO TICE TO MARINERS. KINGSTOWN HARBOUR LIGHTS, EAST COAST OF IRELAND. The Corporation for preserving and improving the Port of Dublin, hereby give notice, that on and after the Ist of October next, the light hitherto shown from the Timber Building on the east pier of Kingstown Harbour, Dublin Bay, will be discontinued, and a light exhibited from the 'rower built on the Pier-head, which will thenceforth be illuminated every night from sunset to sunrise. Specification given of the position and appearance of the Tower, &c., by Mr. Halpin, the Inspector of Light houses:— " The New Tower is in lat. 53 18 10 N., and long. C 7 45 W., and bears from north end of Kish Bank, N.W. by W. 4 W., distant 6,t sea miles; from south end of Burford Bank, W. by N. N., distant 31 S'''s miles ; from Poolbeg Lighthouse, an miles. 6. W., distant 2 " The Tower is erected in the centre of the Eastern Pier-head—it is of circular form, as also the lower build ing around. The outer walling granite. " The light will be at an elevation of thirty-seven feet above the level of high water springs, and will, in appearance, be similar to the present light, viz.:—a re volving light, presenting white and rt d faces alternately, attaining their greatest brilliancy at equal intervals of thirty seconds. The light will be shown in all directions in which the present light has heretofore been 'visible; kept open, it will lead clear of the Muglins Rocks. " Until the erection of a light on the West Pier-head, the small fixed red light in the temporary timber shed on that pier will be continued as before. "Bearings stated are magnetic—var. 27 deg. W. ", Ballast-office, Dublin, Sept. 9, 1847." MARKET NEWS.-(THIS DAY.) CORN EXCHANGE-MONDAY. Coastwise up to our market, last week, the arrivals of English Wheat was somewhat on the increase, but by to means extensive. Of all other articles of home pro duce the receipts were on a very limited scale, the nineof year consid ere d. F rom I re l and and Scotland scarcely any Corn came to hand ; but from abroad we received 33,483 quarters of Whear, 8.803 ditto of Barley, 47,529 ditto of Oats, and 11,177 barrels of Flour. From Essex, Kent, and Cambridgeshire, as well as our other grain districts, the arrivals of English Wheat up to our market this morning, coastwise as well as by land car riage, and samples were very small, owing to which and the increased attendance of both town and country millers, many of whom were very short of stock, the demand for,all descriptions of that article was somewhat active, at an advance in the quotations paid on Monday last of from Is to 2a per quai ter, and at which most of the Samples brought forward were disposed of ; hidet d, we may ob,erve that the market closed firm. Notwith standing a very extensive quantity of Foreign Wheat Was again brought forward, a fair average amount of business was transacted at fully last week's currencies. In some few instances the very finest Dantzic was held at a rise iu value of Is per quarter. The general qua lity of the foreign Wheat was by no means first rate. For the best malting Barley the demand was very steady, and late rates were supported in most transac tions. Grinding and distilling sorts were, however, much neglect e d, though we cannot call them cheaper. The bulk of the English supply was de cidedly good, both in colour and condition. With Malt we were again scantily supplied ; neverthe less, the Malt trade was in a very sluggish state, at but little, it any, variation in the quotations. The supply of English Oats was very scanty, that of foreign very large. Selected parcels were mostly disposed of at lute figures ; but the out-ot-condition sorts declined 6d. per quarter, without much progress being made in sales. Indian Corn and Meal were in moderate request, chiefly for feeding purposes, and full prices were pail in every instance. There was a steady inquiry for Beans, and late rates were firmly supported. The sale for all kinds of Peas was steady, and some of the holders refused to sell even at extreme figures. The Flour trade was steady, and the prices paid on this day aennight were realised without difficulty. CURRENCY PER IMPERIAL MEASURE. Wheat—Essex & Kent, Malt—Chevalier.... • • 67s to 685 Red. ........ 515t0 553 Oats—Yorkshire and Ditto,White, New 545 ils Lincolnsh., Feed. 22s 21s Norfolk and Lin- Potato .•• . • 2Gs 285 coin, Red.— .• 48s 53s Youghal and Cork, Ditto, Whits .•• • Ses 57s Black . 205 23s Irish, Red •-•. • . .. —5 —s Cork, White . —23 s Ditto, White.. —s —s Scotch, Feed. .. • • 233 255 Ye—Old ............ ---s s Beans—Tick 36s 45s New, ............ 342 365 Pigeons ...... .. • Barley —Grinding. •• .. 25s 305 Peas--Grey .... .•• • • Malting ......... 32s 35s Maple. ... •• • —42 s Chevalier .. • • •• • 355 365 White... ... . •• • --1 — 8 WA—Suffolk and Nor- Boilers ... f01k..... •••• • • • 63s 66s Floar—Town-made Brown .•••• • . Os 63, Suffolk .. ... . 38s 44 5 Lingstonand Ware 66s 61 . 5 Stockta & Norfolk 381 42, ___ The following imports of live stock have taken place into London in the past week : From whence. Beasts. Sheep. _ nambur gh 54 ... 502 ... Niel Diep Rotterdam 291 1,8:)2 50 ... 120 Harlingen Antwerp '•' Flushing f Tonningen 474 280 ... Lambs. Calves. ••• '''' Total ......... ... 5,119 ... 131 ... 208 • Pigs, 10. f Ditto, G. At the outports the arrivals (mostly from liamburgh and Rotterdam) have comprised nearly 2.200 head of each kind of stuck, the quality of which has been by no means first-rate. The supply of foreign stock here, to day, was again extensive, viz., 964 Oxen and Cows, 3,800 Sheep and Lambs, 110 Calves, and 20 Pigs. All breeds, the condition of which was very inferior, met a very slow inquiry, at barely last week's quotations, and a total clearance was not effected. Fur the time of year the arrivals of Beasts fresh up from our various grazing districts, were good as to numbers, but very deficient in quality. The attendance of both town and country buyers being large, the primest Scots, Here fords, runts, &c., command, d a steady sale, at fully, but at nothing quotable beyond, the prices obtained on this day s'ennight, the former breed producing 4s Gd per albs without difficulty ; but the middling and inferior kinds of Beef moved off heavily, at barely late rates. The bullock droves and railway receipts from the nor thern grazing districts, consisted of about 1,600 short horns. From the western, midland, and eastern coun ties, we received 800 Herefords, runts, Devons, short- . horns, and S co t s, f rom other parts of England 600 of various breeds ; and from Scotland, 200 horned and polled Scots. The numbers of Sheep were moderately good, but their genera l qua li ty was indifferent. Com paratively speaking, the Mutton trade was in a sluggish state, at Friday's decline in value of 2d per 81bs. The highest figure for the best old Downs did not exceed 5a 2d per 81bs, and a total clearance was with difficulty effected. The primest Calve? were in steady request, at full prices ; but all other kinds of Veal commanded very little attention. Scarcely any Pigs have been on offer in this market from Ireland for some time past ; but the supply of English has been tolerably extensive, and of full average quality. Tu-day the Pork trade VMS rather inactive, yet prices were supported. The foreign Pigs were in wretched condition, and scarcely fit for consumption. - Per sibs. to sink the offal. s. d. to e. 0. s. d. to s. d. Inferior Beasts—. 3 0 a 6 Second quality ditto 4 2 4 4 Second quality .. •• It 8 310 Coarse.woolled ditto 4 6 4 11 Prime large Oxen.. 4 0 4 2 Southdown blether 4 10 6 2 Prime Scots •••• • • 4 4 4 6 Ditto eut of the wool -- Prime Large coarse Calves 310 4 6 Large Hogs 4 0 4 4 small ditto 4 8 6 0 Small Porker . ; ... 48 5 0 II ucklin Calves —lB 0 2a o Quarter old Pigs : .16 0 18 0 Inferior Sheep 3 6 4 0 Lambs .......... 0 0 0 0 6 lIITLY AT MARKET, Beasts. ShBeP• I Calves. I P i gs. 4,143 I 26, 020 155 290 N IiNIT GAT 11 AND LEAD M7O max zi. Up to these markets, since Monday last, the arri va l s Of country-killed have been on the increase, but of very middling quality. With meat slaughtered in the metro polis we have been seasonably well supplied. Prime Beef, Mutton, and Pork, from their scarcity, have com manded a steady sale, at full prices. All other kinds of meat have met a very dull inquiry, at barely late rates. Not less than 3,800 carcasses of foreign meat have ap peared on sale in miserably bad condition, and which have sold at very low currencies. At per atone by the Carcase. E . s. d. to s. d. I I. d. to s. Beetinferior 2 6 2 8' Mutton, inferior .. 3 6 1 $ .-- middling prime large .. pr i me .... 4 4 4 8 prime small •• 3 6 3 8 Pork, 1arge........ 4 0 4 8 Veal•• •••••••• •• •• 3 10 4 10 small . ..... .. 410 b 4 Lamb. Os Od to Os Od. BONLOpGI3 AND SPITAIMIELDS. A few arrivals of Potatoes have taken place since Monday last from Yorkshire and Kent. Although the demand cannot be considered active, a good business bag been doing at from 110 s to 120 s per ton for York Re gents ; 108 s to 1103 for Shaws ; and 100 s to 105 s for Kent Whites. BOROUGH 110 P MARILET. Our market still continues in a very inactive state for all kinds of new hops—ttie supply of which is almost daily increasing —and, in most instances, the quotations have a downward tendency. Yearling and old Hops are almost nominal in value. The duty iscalled from 170,0001. to 175,000/. WOOL. The p as t - week's Imports of wool, into London, have l '' 4 " l - 'DMI bersJ , viz., 1,964 bales from Port Phillip ; 700 ditto frorn Alva flay ; 250 ditto trom llawburgii ; and 300 ditto from various other quarters. The sc,,reity of men,ey has produced considerable heaviness in the de mand fur both English and Foreign Wools, and, whcn sales are pressed, ratio r lower prices are accepted. TALLOW. Notwithstanding the imports of Tallow since this day se'nnight have ben lapin liberal, bu}ers have conic forward somewhat more freely, and full prices have been realised in every instance ; indeed, we may observe that in some cases 3d per cwt. more money has been paid for fine quality, which may be quoted at 47s ; other descrip. tions, 46s 64 to 46s 9d per cwt. For forward delivery a moderate business is doing at 45s 9d to 465 per cwt. Town Tallow is 48s net cash, and Rough Fat, 2s 8d per 81bs. FLANDERS and I!AMBURGH MAIL. BRUSSELS; SEPT. 29.—From the 20th to the 25.,h of September twenty-two vessels, hden wholly or in part with grain, entered the port of Awwerp. The importations male were— Kils. Wheat.... Rye .. Barley Total . 5,000 637,480 4,710,670 THE TO WN AND HARBOUR OF BOYI), TWOFOLD BAY. NEW 601:TH WALES. 'lhe town of Boyd is situated on the east coast of Australia, in latitude 37 deg. 4 min. S., and longi tude 150 deg. 5 min. E. This harbour and w haling station lies nearly midway between Port Philip arid Sydney, and is protected from all winds by points of land jutting out from both sides of the bay. It is also most easy of access to ships of any burden, no pilots being required. The inner anchorage is about three miles wide, the bottom a clayey sand, with three fathoms and a half near the shore, increasing to six fathoms and a half at a mile out. It is now well known as a general rendezvous for the whalers of all nations employed in the southern hemisphere, and has become so principally on account of the abundant supplies of cheap fresh and salt provisions, live stock, &c., which can be procured at less than half the prices charged in Europe. There are two very good pictures of this rising township, in the Pictorial Times of the 2d October. (From the Pictorial Times.) It seems almost incomprehensible, but it is never theless true, that while Government is perplexed in the extreme as to the best means of disposing of the superfluous population of Great Britain, some of our most productive and important colonies are languish ing for want of efficient labourers. It is true that something is done towards the promotion of emi gration, but that something is such a pitiful atom of relief, and is, moreover, administered with so little judgment, that the colonists are better without than with such a mockery of assistance. The great majo rity of the emigrants are Irish, and it is notorious that their indolent habits utterly disqualify them from rendering efficient service, even if they arrive at the colony to which they may be sent in a sound state of health. Of late, the expatriated masses have carried with them the typhus fever, which has been ravaging the famine-stricken districts of Ireland, and healthful colonies have thus become mere hospitals—and very costly hospitals withal—for the miserable refugees, by whose industry they expected to benefit. If the au thorities at the Colonial Office were to apply the grants of Parliament to the dispatch to our distant possessions of healthy, well-disposed, able-bodied English labourers, some amount of good might be done to the agriculturists in the colonies, and England would reap the reward of her prudence In the abundant com mercial returns from those settlements; but until then we must expect to hear of nothing but the mischiefs of redundancy at home, and the evils of a scarcity of productive hands abroad; crowded unions in England —bankrankcy and wasted lands in her distant depen dencies. The deficiency of labourers is most dis tressing. Mauritius and the West Indies have sought a remedy in the importation of Danger coolies from the eastern parts of India, and Australia is actually recruiting her population from the South Sea Islands. This last succedaneum is to be ascribed to the energy and public spirit of Mr. Boyd, a dis tingui.,hed resident in Sydney, who, while the local Legislature was debating the best method of solving the great question, " How is labour to be obtained ?" set sail for the South Seas, and brought back sixty five young active men, selected from Tanna, Bahama, and Lefoo, islands of the Loyalties—a group very imperfectly laid down in the charts, and which lie between New Caledonia and the Hebrides. Sixty-two of the young men were immediately set to work on the lands belonging to Mr. Boyd, on the Murray river, and so well pleased were these islanders with their treatment, and so zealously and conscientiously have they worked for their master, that it has been deemed expedient to return three of them, that they may make a report to their fellow-islanders, and in duce a more general emigration. The three South Sea islanders to whom allusion has been made, are severally named Etoisi, Paryella, and Sabbathahoo. The first is a chief, and brother to Zuela, the King of the island of Lefoo. Paryella is his conjuror, and Sabbathahoo is the conjuror's ser vant. They are represented to be highly intelligent men, with an unexampled power of rapid calculation by a system of decimals. They are exceedingly active, and possess great capacity for comprehending what is required of them in the way of personal ser vice. And while enterprising colonists avail them selves of the opportunity at their disposal of engaging such men, it is consolatory to think that they will not be expte ed to the imputation of kidnapping, or of taking yeop!e from happy homes to subject them to an employment repugnant to their natures. The islands whence the men are induced to emigrate, are in the most miserable state of destitution. So greatly in excess of the means of sustenance is the amount of population, that cannibalism an& infanticide, and other revolting means of diminishiiig the human race, are practised throughout Tanna, Khhama, and Lefoo. The South Sea islander will see nothing of this on the estates in New South Wales ; and, on the other hand, he will derive all the benefit that an intelligent human creature can desire, from sound instruction, Christian example, and gentle treatment. But let such active and meritorious individuals as Mr. Boyd do what they may, the home government must not suppose itself exempted from the responsibi lity- of providing European labour for the colonies. The South Sea islanders cannot be expected to supply all the wants of Australia, or even a portion of them, for some time to come. Confidence, as the proverb bath it, is a plant of slow growth ; and it will not he until the prosperous emigrant returns and tells his tale of success and happiness, that his example will be freely and generally followed. Meanwhile, the Sydney agriculturist, who is blessed with prolific ewes and cows, is doomed to boil down their offspring for want of hands to tend them, and the English market is de prived of the copious supplies of wool and hides which the full grown sheep and cattle would yield. It seems surprising that, with so many thousands of people vainly seeking occupation in this country, there should be the slightest hesitation about the send ing them to Australia. It is merely a question of ex pense ; and there can be eo doubt in the mind of any sane man that the balance of economy must be on the side of emigration. We hope the Legislature will repair the omissions of the last session by looking well into the subject at the next meeting of Par liament. The pictures which have suggested this article re present two views of Twofold Bay, New South Wales. The interesting town which stands on the shores of the bay is named after Mr. Boyd, who is recognised by the inhabitants as pre-eminent for his talents and enterprise. THE REFUSAL OF FRANCE TO RECEIVE BELGIAN I COIN.—The Bank of France having refused, as we before stated, to receive the Belgian coin, Belgian five-franc pieces, which was in fact the commence ment of a prohibition for the entrance of French money into Belgium, remonstrances have been ad dressed to that Bank by our Government, in con sequence of which the prohibition will be withdrawn, and Belgian coin will be admissible as heretofore. THE POLITICAL CHANGES IN 13ADEN. Nothing has as yet been settled respecting the changes which are so ardently desired and so much wanted here. Perhaps in no part of Germany are the inha bitants so completely under the thraldom of foreign manners and opinions as here; all is in imperfect imitation of our southern neighbours. Many of us, in fact, seem to forget that we are Germans. The names of our public buildings are inscribed in French, in the reading-room the German newspapers are banished to a side-table in the back ground, our play-house is designated Theatre —(it is a marvel that we have phi) s in the German language) —our native tongue is scarcely used —explod ed, and instead of the rich tones of our native language, we are assailed on all sides by the certainly less harmonious sounds of French, spoken as loud as possible, and in must ceses so incorrectly that a genuine Parisian is ashamed to own it. Surely our countrymen are no better than hirelings who endea vour to imitate their masters with servile precision. Truly, all the attractions of nature and art are needed in order to make Baden palateable to educated Ger mans, to make their residence here at all tolerable, and it possible to make them forget that here, in certain respects, Germany is found in her state of degradation. ST. PETERSBURGII, SEPT. Ig.—The last military bulletin is dated the 20th August. Turtshidag was left on the 6th August by the Commander with Samur troops, as nothing further was to be appre hended from the cholera. One detachment alone was left, while he went with the other divisions to besiege Aul Salta, in order to save himself against hostile attacks by the taking of this stronghold. On the following day numbers of the enemy appeared on the surrounding heights, and at night made several attempts on the Russian camp. A hostile band of from 7,000 to 8,000 cavalry, under Daniel Bek, made a threatening movement against the left flank of the Russians, in the ravines betwe n Kejer and the bridges of Chidatti and Salta. Count Wo renzow, however, also had meanwhile received rein forcements from fort Chodshal. Macha attacked them on the night of the 18th of August, and sur rounded the enemy, who was only able to save himself by a speedy retreat. Aul Salta, however, had not been taken, but the General intended to renew the attack. ST. PETERSBURGII.—The intended journey of the Emperor, who has just set out for Moscow, appears to be given up for the present. This is probably owing to the progress of the cholera. In consequence of the prevalence of this pestilence the projected re views and levying of the troops are likewise post poned for the present. In order that trade and commerce may receive no check from the spread of the disease, the Emperor has commanded all convey ances, whether by water or by land, containing cho lera patients, shall not be detained after they have given them over to the official authorities. During the prevalence of the cholera in Cis, Trans-Caucasia, from 16th October, 1846, to 13th January, 1847, more than 17,050 individuals were attacked, of whom 6,310 died. Various remedies resolved upon, viz. rub bing the body with ice, internal applications of ice, of cold water, after the Priesznitz, method, were very successful in the first stages of the disorder ; after wards, friction with woolen cloths, and other stimu lating applications, warm baths, an elexir of corn brandy, saltpetre, pepper, naptha, salamonia, olive oil, and mint, was much used amongst the lower orders, and was found very efficacious, especially the naptha In the middle of July the pestilence appeared at Astracan ; it soon spread over the whole town, and raged especially in the low damp quarters. It pene trated into the hospitals, where it seiaed patients however afflicted with totally opposite diseases. The male sex was attacked with five times the force that the female was--adults more frequently than youth., and proved snore fatal to the Russians than to the Calmuks. This is explained by the fact that the Mahometans are more cleanly in their mode of life, clothe themselves better and warmer than the Rus sians, and are very moderate careful in eating and ' drinking. The Calmuks are less liable to it; living in their steppes, they are constantly in the open air. It attained its greatest pitch on the 30th of J uly, on which day 137 persons died. Now it has almost disappeared here. THE CONVICTS UNDER SEN TENCE OF DEATH. Immediately after the conviction of Hutchings for the murder of his wife, he was handed over to the Sheriff of Kent, the offence having been committed with in that county, and was conveyed to Maidstone Gaol, where he now lies, awaiting the execution of his sentence. Ever since his conviction he has declared his innocence of the crime, and some humane indi viduals, who entertain an opinion that the evidence was insufficient to warrant his conviction, have in terested themselves to procure a remission of his sen tence. The convict has complained bitterly of his son Th oma s, who, it will be remembered, was examined as a witness upon the trial, and says, that if he had told the jury, what he knew to be the case, that on the morning of the day his mother died she declared that she wou!d destroy herself, he should not have been convicted ; and in a letter written by the con vict within the last few days, he entreats the persons who are interceding for him, :to lay this fact before the Government, and have his son examined upon it, as he insists that this must have the effect of saving his life. At present no day is fixed for the execution, the law now giving the sheriff some latitude, and merely directing that it shall take place within a certain period. The woman, Mary Ann Hunt, under sentence of death, for the Marylebone murder, still continues in a most distressed state. It appears that the late sheriffs of Middlesex and London very materially exceeded their powers in not having the sentence carried into effect in due course after the prisoner's conviction as she did not plead pregna nc y ; b u t ex p ressl y replied, when asked by Mr. Straight, the deputy clerk of the arraigns, whether she had anything to urge in stay of execution, that she had nothing to say, and in strict ness the law ought thereupon to take its waderscoue. The sheriffs, however , upon the statement at the trial by Mr. M‘Murdo, the surgeon of the gaol, that he believed the prisoner was three or four months advanced in the family-way, took upon themselves to delay the execution of the sentence, and in the result it turned out that the wretched woman was not in the condition suspected. The ordinary period for the execution had then passed away, and as the Court was not sitting, nor wny judge who could take cogni sance of the matter, it was found necessary to delay any further proceedings until the Central Criminal Court again assembled, and the prisoner la as then formally (as detailed last week) called upon to say whether she had an) thing to urge in delay of her exe cution ; and it was considered more satisfactory by 4 the authorities that a jury of matrons should be em -1 panelled, to decide the question. The execution is fixed to take place this day week. COURT CIRCULAR. The Queen and Prince Albert rode out on Friday afternoon in an open carriage, the Prince driving. Lady Caroline Cocks arrived at Osborne on Friday. Colonel Wylde arrived on Friday at Osborne, and had the honour of dining with the royal party in the evening. His Royal highness Prince A lbert went out shoot ing on Saturday. The royal children took their usual airings on Saturday. Sir James Clarke arrived at Osborne on Saturday, on a visit to her Majesty. Yesterday morning the Queen and Prince Albert, and the Ladies and Gentlemen of the Court, attended divine service in Whippingham Church. His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge ar rived in town yesterday, from the residence of the Duchess of Gloucester, in Richmond Park. His Royal Highness the Duke of Saxe Meiningen, and their Serene Highnesses Prince Edward and Prince Gustav us' and th e P r i ncesse s of Saxe Weimar, a ttended by the Earl of Denbigh, rode out on horse-. back in the Parks on Saturday. At the Chapel Royal, St. James's, yesterday, the prayers Here read by the Rev. G. Helmore, and the lessons by the Rev. W. Hall. The sermon was preached by the Rev. Dr. Wesley. The anthem was "By the waters of Bab ylon" (Boyce). Sir George i Smart presided at the organ. EXTRAORDINARY CASE OF CHILD STEALING IN NOTTINGHAM.—A singular case of this dese, iption oc• (ured in Nottingham a few da3s ago. It appears that a little boy, mum d William Dorsey, about seven }ears of age, was standing at the corner of a street, near the market-place, when a young sweep came up to him and told him he was wanted; the child, however, refused to go; upon this an elder boy, of the name of Dodd, came to him and took him to a public-house in an adjoining street. lie was there received by a man named William Duesbury (a sweep), who stupitied the child with ate. Early on the following morning Duesbury proceeded with his little captive to Carlton railway station, a short distance from Nottingham, and from thence they started fur Hull. From information obtained by the police a warrant was issued tor Duesbury's apprehension, rnd shortly afterwards he was brought to Nottingham and taken before the magistrate. The prisoner stated to the mayor that he wanted a boy, and he wrote to a man in Nottingham named Neal (who is blind) to procure him one. Neal made the circumstance known to a sweep, and by that means the lad was obtained. The prisoner added, that it was a regular thing for one sweep to steal a boy from another when such could be done; he had been stolen himself, he said, when a lad. he was re manded for further examination. On Saturday the pri soner was again brought up, but no one appeared to prosecute. The ma} or informed him he had had a very narrow escape, for had the charge been proved against him he would have been liable to transportation. The prisoner was then discharged. ROYAL MILITARY ACADEMY, WOOLVVICII—The forty-one gentlemen cadets who passed their examina tions on Friday last, and were recommended for com missions in the Ordnance corps, have obtained leave of absence until they are Gazetted and appointed to com panies in the Royal Artillery and to the Royal Engi neers. That no time may be lost in bringing forward a nearly similar number of gentlemen cadets for commis sions, forty of the theoretical class studying at the Royal Military Academy were examined as to their fitness for entering the practical class, and passed their exami nations. A JUST JUDGMENT.—A wealthy farmer, living not more than► three miles from Tyrone, was offered 2s. S stone for 1,000 of oats., but he would not take less than 2s. 6d. A few days ago he avid the whole tor a shilling 1i atone• RETURN OF MR. B s l a ii i s le.d arduou s m i ss i on , and after , a OO KX.—AIr. Brooke, the Raja st, of Sarawak, arrived b y the Ifriidunus Southampton, am steamer yes te i n r d h a i 3 s (Friday) morning. I t is nine years since this distin ua e i s h b t e . d t h p e h a o n y t a h l i s o t n , many toils and difficu lties he has a gain reached h i s na tive shore. Mr. Bro oke does not - look much the worse for wear—he is somew hat older — and his hair begins to ex hibit touches of grey ; hu e, on the whole, he is little altered. If ever the tr,nours of this world were richly merited—it ever the good opinions of mankind were de served—they are by a chivalrous and high minded countryman, who, having chalked out a path for him self, of no small trial and danger, hag lived to triumph over the many obstacles he had to encounter, and by the force of genius has founded, by his own unaided exertions, a new colony and civilisation in one of the largest Islands of the Indian Archipelago, amongst hos tile tribes of men, and the most piratical of the human race. We trust Mr. Brooke may long be spared to the land of his adoption, and to reflect, in the novel position he occupies, the blessingi of peace, happiness, and every good, to those over whom he has been called to preside. Her Majesty's Government have appointed Mr. Brooke to the government of the lately ceded island of Labutn, the notification of which reached him yesterday morn ing on his arrival. Mr. Brooke is also invested with the important functions of Consul-general of Borneo, and the adjacent islands. Ile will remain in this country about six months. Hampshire Independent.— [Mr. Brooke arrived at Mivart's Hotel from Southampton on Friday night.] ExPLOSION or THE CRICRET.—"Henry Haisman, against whom a verdict of manslaughter was found by the coroner's jury on the above case, surrendered himself on Friday last. It is stated that he never in- tended to abscond, but chose to conceal himself till his bail could be produced. Sir George Grey, Bart ., ualified as a coun t y q magistrate, on Moniay, at the adjourned sessions in Alnw iek. The Right Ilon. Baronet has presented 20/ e to the Newcastle lufirmaryo And 5/. to the Newcastl Eye Infirmary. 114 BUN, LON'ZIONS WWI I:JAY EVEN'IVG. OCTOBER 4, 1447, oyE 13 LA Ti) MAIL (From the Times.) We have received by extraordinary express from Marseilles our letters in anticipation of the overland mail of August. The dates thus received are from Bombay to the 31st, Madras to the 20th, and Calcutta to the 14th of August. The wet season was drawing to a close; the rains had been sufficient and favourable, and there was a prospect of abundant crops. Sir Charles Napier had sent in his formal resigna tion of the government of Sinde. In the Punjaub the influence of our Resident with the Durbar continued on a firm footing. The Governor-General was to have left Simla on the 20th of August for the seat of Government, by way of Lucknow. Her Majesty's 21st and 50th Regiments are the two which will come home—the last when relieved by the 18th, at present at Hong-Kong. Some disturbances had arisen in the Jullundur Doab. It appears that since our troops have occu pied Jullundur the Muslulmans did not avail them selves of the right to slaughter cattle until lately, when a Mussulman butcher set up his trade outside the city, upon which there was at once a tumultuous assemblage of the.Hincloo community, but they were ultimately dispersed by a body of troops. Since that time, up to the latest news—a lapse of about ten days—murders had been frequent, and the ilindoos had refused to open their grain shops. The father of the butcher who offended in this instance was, we are told, formerly hanged at Jullundur for killing a cow. Another episode still more characteristic of India of old and the half administered native states at the present day, is mentioned from Nepaul. The deposed Maharaja of Nepaul had been residing for some months at Segow ley, on our frontier, notoriously occupied with designs on the life of his enemy, the actual Prime Minister ; when in the thick of his in trigues he himself fell into a trap, has been made prisoner himself, and nearly all his supporters put to the sword. The ex-Maharaja was, it appears, led to believe by the Minister's emissaries that the Nepaul army would rise in his behalf, were he to make his appearance near the territory; and accordingly he secretly collected a number of his adherents, and pro ceeded a short distance into the Nepaul state, ex pecting to hear intelligence of the first movement in his favour. There a " chuppao," or night attack, was made by a detachment of the Nepaul troops ; the ex- Raja's followers, to the number of about 500, were slaughtered, and himself carried off. News from Bokhara is said to have reached India in various directions, to the effect that the King had put to death with his own hands the infamous Abdool Samud, by striking him on the head with a small axe, upbraiding him with having instigated him (the King) to take the lives of Stoddart and Conolly. The case of Lieutenant Bird, of the Indian navy, who had been dismissed with a pension of 1001. a year, was exciting great sympathy throught The following extract from a dispatch, published by the Superintendent of the Navy, contains the sen tence on Lieutenant Bird : " The Superintendent of the Indian Navy is pleased to publish the following extract of a dispatch from the Hon. the Court of Directors, No 30, dated 26th May, 1847, for the general information of the ser vice. " 1. The conduct of Lieutenant Bird has already several times incurred severe reprimand from his su• periors, and has, moreover, been animadverted on in terms of displeasure in our marine dispatch, No. 50, of the 31st July, 1844, on the occasion of the steam vessel Cleopatra, while under his command, having been run ashore and severely injured, to the great hazard of the loss of the ship and the lives of the crew and passengers. At the close of this dispatch it is stated—" We are induced to refrain from direct ing what we should otherwise have felt our duty, the removal of Lieutenant Bird from the Company' s ser vice ; but, as regards his future employment, we leave the question entirely to the Superintendent of the Indian Navy, in whose direction we have full confidence." " 2. The hope of amendment which induced us to take that lenient course appears to be totally disap pointed by the report now made to us, from which we gather that after the receipt of our dispatch above adverted to, the Superintendent was induced to place Lieutenant Bird at Kurrachee, where he has proved himself unfit to perform the very simple duties re quired ; that the public service has been thereby much obstructed ; and that the conduct of Lieutenant Bird has caused great displeasure to the Governor of Sinde. " 3. We cannot permit an officer while on the effective list of the Indian navy to continue unem ployel ; and as it is obvious that there is not a post to which he can be usefully advanced by your Govern ment, we feel it necessary that it be forthwith intimated to Lieutenant Bird that we have no further occasion for his services. " 4. In coming to this conclusion, it is not our in tention that Lieutenant Bird should be deprived of the means of subsistence, and we have resolved to grant him an allowance of 1001. per annum, to com • mence from the day when his pay as an officer of our Indian navy shall cease.' " The following summary of events is taken from the Bengal Hurkaru of the 14th of August : " The past week, the brief period which we have now to review, has furnished us with but few subjects calling for special notice. "The most interesting item of intelligence which we have to communicate relates to the affairs of Nepaul, and as yet rests on the authority of a solitary letter, received by us from a correspondent at Moote haree, a station near the frontier. According to this account, the designs of the ex-King and his adherents have been most signally defeated, and the fallen monarch is now a captive in the power of the Minister against whose life he has lately been plotting. But we will let our correspondent tell the tale in his own words : " A bloody tragedy has just been acted within a few miles of Segowley cantonments. The ex- Maharaja of Nepaul, who was for some months residing at the latter place, plotting doubtless to regain his lost guddee, and who was led to believe that the Nepaul army would rise in his favour, de parted on the 23d ult , for his own territory, accom panied by a number of the refugees, and some five thousand miscalled fighting men, who had been privately, it is said, collected by some influential zemindars in the neighbourhood. It would appear that these men joined him on the frontier, as he left Segowley with only a few followers. He took up his residence at a place called Allow, a distance from the boundary, evidently expecting to hear of a move ment in his favour, as also with the view of adding to his force of raggamuffins. His dream of restoration was most disagreeably disturbed by a chappao, or night attack, by three detachments of Nepaul soldiers, on the night of the 27th, during which native report states, 400 or 500 of his followers were killed, and the ex-Raja carried off to Katman doo. He was treated with the greatest respect by the commandant of the detachment, but, on his refus ing to accompany the party, he was carried away forcibly in a palkee, after several vain attempts to convey him on an elephant. No mercy was shown to his followers, who were slaughtered forthwith; their proximity to the boundary' alone saved any of the party, as on the first alarm there was a general rush into our territory. They made no stand what ever, and from all accounts not a Nepaulese soldier was wounded on the occasion. There can be no doubt of a ruse having been played off on the ex- Maharaja by parties in Nepaul for the purpose of getting him into their power, and of taking vengeance at the same time on the refugees for their plots and attempts on the Prime Ministers life. It was for this purpose the Raja was led into the belief that the army was on his side, and only waited his presence on his own territory to rise to a man, and replace him on the guddee. He took the bait, and now that he is in the power of his enemy, it remains to be seen furth how er he will be dispose d of. Should I gather any information in t he matter, I will not fail to give it to you, but for the present you will say this is enough.' " It has already been announced that the British Resident at Katmandoo had formally recognized the change of Sovereigns there, and as the old King is now in the power of the ruling party, we shall pro bably hear no more of this revolution of Nepaul. How long it will be before we have another to record is, however, another matter. " There is nothing new from the Punjaub beyond an intimation that Colonel Lawrence visits Cash mere instead of Simla, and that his brother, Mr. John Lawrence, has already proceeded to Lahore, to relieve him from the duties of the residency. " Lahore is reported to be very healthy for the season. The relief lately published gives to the gar rison a second European regiment. " We have not yet heard of the capture of Doon ghur Singh, and fear we shall not have to report that event yet awhile. The bold outlaw is still moving about, scattering dismay over the country in which he is exercising b Potion. He lately - - threatened to attack a town cf some iinp:,rtat:ce called Bhawanie, which iq nut a hundred uliies from Delhi. To the authorities at the last-named place application was made for protection, and a force of cavalry and infantry was immediately sent off toward the threatened town. We have not yet heard the 1 result of the expedition, but it is to be feared that if Doonjee's threat was anything more than au attempt to throw. the authorities off his track, it would have been fulfilled ere the troops could arrive to prevent it. " The Governor-General leaves Simla in progress hitherward about the 20th instant. We believe he purposes paying a visit to Lucknow while on his way down. " We have little to report of proceedings in Cal cutta for the past week. Government has announced its intention to establish a Normal Institution, con sisting of a Normal School for the training of teachers, and an Elementary Model School. Such an insti tution has long been required and often promised. The weather continues variable, and much rain has fallen at intervals. The acccunts from the indigo districts are still anything but cheering, the crop yet suffering from excess of moisture. " We are glad to be able to report somewhat more favourably on commercial matters than we have lately done. In both imports and exports there has been a little mare activity ; money is DOW less scarce than it was; freights have fallen and continue to fall, and exchange is still on the decline. Two cases be fore the Insolvent Court have lately excited the at tention of the mercantile community. In each of these insolvent firms were pros ed to have obtained bills:of lading for goods which were never shipped, and afterwards to have raised 'money on bills for which these fictitious shipping documents were given as security. The Commissioner pronounced the of fence an indictable fraud, and has withheld the dis charge of the parties for six months, to afford an Op portunity for their prosecution by those aggrieved. DOONGHUR SINGH. (From the Delhi Gazette.) AUGUST 4.—A report having reached Delhi from Rhotuk on Friday night er Saturday morning last that the town of Bhawanie, a place of great mercan tile importance on the line of road into the Sheka watee country, had been threatened by Doonghur Singh, two companies of the 42d Light Infan try, under Brevet Captain Knox, with three other officers, and two Ressalas of Major Forster's Cavalry, under a native officer, were, on the requisition of the agent and commissioner, ordered to hold themselves in readiness to march immediately, and left Delhi on Sunday morning in the direction of the threatened town. We strongly suspect the demonstration has only been a ruse of Mr. Doonghur Singh to divert attention from some other point of attack, though if he really meditated this plan, he will have carried it out, and left Bhawanie one hundred miles in his rear before any assistance can possibly have reached the place from this. It must also be remembered in sup port of our doubts, that the chief must have heard of the march, on Tuesday last, of Major fait's Irregulars towards Nusseerabad, and it is hardly probable he would venture to attack a place not far out of the line of mach of this corps. Major Tait would at the time of his suspected attempt be at or near Rewaree on his right, the station of Hansee as far on his left, so that an attache on Bhawanie would have placed him between two fires—a contingency to which it is hardly probable he would have run the risk of exposing him. self. The Nawab of Jujjur and other Jaghirdars have been required to send their quotas to assist in repelling the threatened inroad. AUG. 7.—The most contradictory reports cotinue to be received respecting the whereabouts of Doon ghur Singh. It is pretty clear now that the threat ened attack on Bhawanie was not even the ruse for which we gave the man credit, and was merely ap prehended by Major Dixon, at Ajmeer, on some vague information. Nothing in reality is absolutely known of the movements of the Chief; beyond the fact that he had, when last heard of, only six horse and two camel men with him, that he was beginning to get alarmed at the measures adopted for his appre hension, and was therefore constantly on the qui vine, scarcly halting at any resting-place more than a couple of hours, sometimes only one, in the 24, and then his horses and camels were never unsaddled. A number of small parties of sufficient strength are out in all directions, and under the immediate eye of Major Ludlow, who was, when last heard ot; at a place named Magloona, or Muglona, a point at which, according to the map, the states of Beekaneer, Mar war, and Seekur abut each other! as nearly as pos sible. It is to be hoped that the measures now adopted will be successful, and put a period to the very dangerous state of anxiety which has brought the trade of that part of the country almost, if not en tirely, to a stand -still. THE P UNJA U.B. (From the Delhi Gazette, July M.) • LAHORE.—A letter regarding the alleged conspi racies at Lahore was handed to us some days ago, the writer of which assured us in the strongest pos sible terms that such conspiracies did exist, that there was every reason to believe that his Highness Maha raja Ghoolab Singh was at:the bottom of the whole of them, and that our situation was by no means so enviable at Lahore as the authorities and their friends wished to make us believe. It was our intention to have published this letter, especially as it came from one wishing to do us a service, and who would, we are convinced, not have written what he did not be lieve to be true. By some accident, however, his letter has been mislaid, and we have been compelled to give only the substance thereof; we are not the less obliged to our friend for his good intentions, but would take the opportunity of assuring him that he has been misinformed, and that really and truly there is no ground for his allegations. The nature and extent of such conspiracy as did exist, tht Prema conspiracy, hatched and discovered in February, and most unlikely to have created the least alarm in the minds of those most concerned, we gave a faithful account of some six weeks ago. It is . possible that the fellow and his confederates may know more than has been hitherto revealed by them, but whatever that may be, it cannot be of any great importance, as although the mem apprehended and imprisoned have already done their very best to im plicate almost all the Sirdars in their plot, they have signally failed in producing the slightest evidence that would be received as convincing in the most credulous court of justice in the world. The only name that has, we are told, never been mentioned by any of them was that of Sirdar ',Tej Singh, and one only of the band has named Dewan Deena Nath and Lena Singh, Majeeteea, and yet it has been the object of certain parties, well known, however, to the authorities, to endeavour to persuade the public that Tej Singh and Deena Nath were in deep conspiracy with the Ranee, with Maharaja Ghoolab ',Singh, with Bhaie Maharaj Singh and Dherea Khan, who escaped from Govindghur. In deed, a friend on whose judgment we can place the utmost confidence, says that " Colonel Lawrence makes no mystery at this place (Lahore) of the fact, that there was not a tittle of evidence to convict a single chief, and that Prema could not have been ap prehended but for Ghoolab Singh, as the said Prema had taken refuge in a sanctuary, which a much less clever fellow than the arch-fiend of Cashmere could have declared it was impossible to violate." Our cor spondent alluded, inter alia, to Futteh Khan, Ts wana, but whether as an accomplice or an ill-used man, we do not exactly remember. All we know of him is, that he is a revenue defaulter, and still in prison on account of his fiscal misdeeds, and if he escape he would do so at the intercession ofour autho rities, who may think it useless to keep him, as he has neither the power nor the means of being mis chievous in any other way, in lengthened confine ment. We are perfectly satisfied of the correctness of our information, and of the vigilance of those in authority, and have the greatest confidence in the regime prevalent at Lahore. HAYMARKET THEATRE. Mr. Webster takes the field for the winter season in greater force than ever. It is true, he has lost Buekstone, but this loss is more than compensated for by the acquisition of Mr. and Mrs. Keeley, and Mr. Alfred Wigan. With the exception of Buckstone we have all the old favourites, Mrs. Glover, Mrs. Nisbett, Miss P. Horton, Miss Fortescue, Miss Rey nolds, Miss Julia Bennett, Mrs. Humby, Mrs. W. Clifford, and Farren, Hudson, Tilbury, Howe, Brindal, and, although last not least, clever, quaint, little Clark. The new engagements are Mr. and Mrs. Charles Kean, Miss Helen Faucit, Mr. Creswick, Mr. H. Farren, Mr. H. Vandenhoff, Mr. Ranger, and Miss E. Messent, in addition to the Keeleys and Mr. Alfred Wigan. The theatre was opened on Saturday night for the season with the School for Scandal and the Invisible Prince. The following was the cast of the comedy, and since the days of Elliston and Charles Kemble never has this chefd'oeuvre of Sheridan been so strongly cast as it was on Saturday : Sir Peter Teazle Mr. Farren Sir Oliver Surface Mr. Tilbury Sir Benjamin Backbite Mr. A. Wigan Joseph Surface Mr. Creswick Charles Surface Mr. Henry Farren Careless Mr. 11. Vandenhoff Rowley Mr. Gough Moses Mr. Webster Snake Mr. Braid Sir Harry Mr. Canfield Crabtree Mr. Rogers Trip Lady Teazle ... Mrs. Nisbett Mrs. Candour Mrs. Glover Lady Sneerwell Mrs. W. Clifford Maria Miss E. Messent Maid Miss E. Woolds It was a bold attempt on the part of Mr. H. Farren, to appear for the first time before a London audience in the character of Charles Surface, but the success of the attempt was quite equal to its boldness. Mr. 11. Farren in person resembles his father. He is tall and well proportioned, and has very expressive fea tures. His voice i 3 powerful, and his manner easy. At first he appeared somewhat stiff, but as he warmed in the part he acquired confidence. The auction scene was very good, and the screen scene was excellently given. The manner in which he banters Joseph and Sir Peter at the conclusion, was quite equal to the most gifted of his prede cessors. Mr. Creswick is a careful and clever —and if he would dare to be original—he would be a great actor, but he must avoid Macreadyisms. His Joseph Surface would have been first rate had it not been marred by his imitations of Macready's worst faults. He emphasises every syllable, for instance, he always spoke of Sir Peter Teazell, not Teazle, and, like Mossop, rolled his thunder in monosyllable. Let him cure himself of this propensity to imitation, let him cease to be a disciple of a bad school, and he may attain the very highest position in his profession. His conception of character is admirable, and his powers are great. The Sir Benjamin Backbite of Mr. Alfred Wigan was far and away the best that has been seen for years. It was quite equal to Jones's, and that is giving it the highest praise pos sible. Miss Messent was timid and nervous, and therefore scarcely did justice to herself, in Maria. W ebster's Moses was first-rate. It had all the quaint humour of the Moses of Yates. Mr. H. Vandenhoff made the most of Careless. He was admirable in the auction scene. His person is good, and his voice melodious, and he will be an acquisition to the company. Farren, Mrs. Glover, Mrs. Nisbett, and Mrs. W. Clifford all seemed in excellent health and spirits, and acted as they alone can act. It was the most perfect repre sentation of the .School for Scandal that has been seen for years. The National Anthem was sung at the conclusion of the comedy. The house was crammed to suffocation in ev e ry part l o n g b e f ore th e rising of the curtain. THE NATIONAL ANTI-GOLD-LAW LEAGUE. (FROM A CORRESPONDENT.) The following suggestions are humbly offered for the consideration of the Nalonal Anti• Gold-law League, being indited solely with the patriotic view of obviating the pecuniary difficulties of the present period. ht—Applications to the Prime Minister, through elected delegates, f r an " Order in Council," to authorise the issuing of " One Pound Parliamentary Notes." 2d—With these representatives of national wealth, the contractors of those railways in progress to discharge the w ages , and other debts, due for materials used. 3d—At the expiration of six or twelve months from the opening of such railway, the holders of the notes so issued and numbered to present them for payment at the respective banks of issue—such notes to be then cancelled. 4th—These operations to be repented according to the requirements of each special railway, and as the funds arising from the traffic of such railways shall appear to warrant. Let the " Order in Council" only vote the Parlia mentary 11. notes, and all the serious impediments— mercantile industry (of both railways, in forming, and the whole trading interest) are removed.—Deo volente. TILE VACANT CoLoNELCIEs.—•The vacancies in the 10th, 33d, and 94th Foot, have at length been filled up, and, strange to say, the Guards are for once in a minority of favour. The officers who have been selected by the Comm.:nder-in Chief are Lieutenant General Sir Thomas MeMah , .n, Major-General D'Oyly. and Major- General Sir William Warre, all of them officers of dib tinetion.—Mited ervice Gazette. CHARGE OF 111 E HORRIBLE MURDER OF A CHILD BY ITS MOTHER.—At the Dowlais Petty Sessions, Mar garet Davis has been charged with the wilful murder of Anne Davis, her female infant daughter, by forcibly immersing it in a pail of water. The prisoner, who ap peared wholly unconcerned, declined saying anything in her defence or putting any question to the witness who gave evidence against her. The magistrates fully com mitted the prisoner for trial at the next assizes.—Here ford 7 imes. FATAL ACCIDENT AT WATERLOO-BRIDGE. —On Saturday afternoon, a fine boy, aged about seven years, son of Thomas Bunker, dairyman. of Marquis -court, Drury -lane, crawled through the balustrade on to the entablature of Waterloo-brn.ge, where he overbalanced himself, and fell from a height of above thirty feet, pitchieg upon the watertnens' stone steps. A person, well known as Rubinson Crusoe, from constantly paddling about the river in a canoe, was on the spot, and imme diately conveyed the child to Mr. Snitch, surgecn, of Brydges-street, who recommended his removal to Charing- cross Hospital, where the little sufferer arrived only in time to breathe bis last. The moilier of the deceased happened to be at the hospital, visiting her father, who had his ear cut off by being run over in Bow-street the same morning, and was on her return when she discovered the dead body of her child in the hall of the institution. Loss OF THE HON. EAST INDIA COMPANY'S WAR STEAMER CLEOPATRA. — For several weeks past a feel ing of the deepest regret has prevailed amongst the authorities of the East India House, in Leadenhall-street, in consequence of the receipt of intelligence from the Company's Marine Depot at Bombay, announcing the probable lose of the above-mentioned vessel. The cir cumstances attending her destruction will most likely ever remain in mystery. The Cleopatra, it is stated, from her peculiar form of build, was not well adapted fur the service in which she was commissioned. She measured nearly 800 tons burden, and carried four guns. She steamed from Bombay on the 14th of April last, with orders for Singapore, and had on board nearly 200 convicts. Her crew comprised 70 persons. There was also a detachment of Marines on board. Among the officers in charge of the ship may be mentioned—Captain J. A. Young, com mander, Lieutenant Eden, Lieutenant Ralph, Mr. F. W. Nott, Mr. T. G. Croad, acting master, and Mr. J. Soady, son of Captain Soady, R.N. Four days after the departure from Bombay, it came on a frightful hurri cane, which continued with unabated violence three days —the 17th, 18th, and 19th. It is very probable that the Cleopatra had, at the time of encountering the storm, reached the Malabar coast, off which, unfortunately, there is too much reason to believe, she foundered, with every human being on board. The marine authorities at Bombay sent out two powerful steamers in search of her, and, according to the last account, not the slightest discovery had been made that would tend to clear up the mystery that at present surrounds the fate of the h theab i e l i d - in i a s t l e a d n d vwasess vessel . thought The thatuninmg btot probablywhich it have been driven, had been inspected,steamers westward , b neither had any wreck corresponding ithutthoe C f leopatra been been picked up. he estimate for building and fitting the unfortunate ship exceeded 30,0001. THE LATE EXPLOSION OF FIREWORKS.—One of the three parties so severely injured by the explosion of fireworks which occurred on Friday evening last, in the Blackfriars-road, and reported in this journal of Satur day, has expired from the effects of the burns received. The deceased was a brother of Mr. Mordey, and a b out fourteen years of age. At six o'clock last evening (Sunday), Edward Perry, another of the injured per sons, and Mr. Mordey, were lying in such a state that very little hopes could be entertained of their recovery, Indeed, the death of the boy Perry was hourly ex pected. Everything that humanity or surgical skill can devise has been done for the unfortunate sufferers by the surge,us of Guy's Hospital, to which institution they were removed, but it is feared without success, for the chest and other vital panof Otia 61'0 believed to be injured. ~..5. ~'~ SIGN LE. We have hut little news from the banks of the Indus since our last. A newspaper is about to be established at Kurrachee, under the designation of the Sinde Gazette, but which seems fortunately more disposed to deal in geography, natural history, and statistics, than in politics. It is supposed that no more than a single regiment of Europeans will here after be retained at Kurrachee, and that the rest of the country will be confided entirely to the native army. According to the Kurrachee Advertiser, a notification has been issued, intimating that if a husband detects the infidelity of his wife he may kill her on the spot, thereafter reporting the matter to the police. If this has in reality emanated from the Governor, it is the most striking instance we have met with of summary administration of justice. One of the servants in a respectable hotel having been convicted of selling spirits to soldiers, contrary to orders, was punished by being sentenced to pay a fin e of 151 ., and to be im prisoned in the felons' gaol for six months. Inquiries were still in progress in reference to the enormous financial mismanagement of the camel baggage . corps, and the local lieutenants belonging to it, , tz s imn Harvey, and Lawrence, were kept i cl 0 i s ear r o es s t: their ov e r npapersm e n t. The hav inreg comalml beenn s the c m b n y m i t te thecommittee G in reference to a sit e f or E uropean barracks h a d been thrown aside ; the same fate awaited a similar paper from the barrack building Y committee at II de abad. Some bed s o f the valuable sponges had - discovered off K urrac h ee , an d th e pearl fishery had just been let f or 1501. Th e coun t ry generally is ap parently quiet and contented, 18,000 men being still thought requisite for its protection. Considering the position for fouryears occupied by the Governor of Sinde within the sphere of his authority, we could hardly have conceived it possible that the prospect of his almost immediate retirement would have been met without emotion; if any has been occasioned, it has as yet afforded no manifestation of its existence to the outward world. As intimated in our last, a steamer 1 at his repeat be conceded to Sir Charltl .1\ apic.r for the Furl - ACAW, and family direct from Kurrachee to - 4.uf::L . !,Iliaalak. p a s taa vere indisposition of Lady Napier wiis Staff;d2l;le primary and most prominent ground o s alai aayrittriaa: merit : her ladyship recovered so far ara:taeorra slTy: till December was spoken of; a relapse has rf011it4e11.41.4 . ST the most rapid arrangements i desirable. nearly the whole members of the Sinrle :star propoeca t-ta said, to retire with their chief. i .The Aloo zuffer is understood to be the vessel n question; e she will quit this plac some days hence,. and , it is probable the party she conveys will" endeavour so to arrange matters as to join the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company's . veasel either at Aden or Alexandria, in which case they may be looked for in England about the end .of October, That the system of politico-military government he endea voured to work out has completely failed, is admitted by all parties—by none more emphltically than some of his most ardent admirers. The fault has been that of the system, not of the man. Sir C. Napier has himself laboured with the utmost energy and zeal to work out the plans he had laid down. It is now understood to have been the decision of Lord Ellenborough and himself to try Illy experiment of dispensing with the services of civilians, and to en trust to officers of the army, without previou• expe rience or instruction, the duties of collecting the revenue and administering the law, in preference to those whose profession it was to attend to such things, and who had from the beginning been trained.. in view to these employments. When the adninds tration of the law is spoken of, the phrase must be taken with great allowances where every tribunal was a law unto itself—half a dozen of conficting codes being referred to, or more frequently set aside, to attain the ends .otaconcise and summary government. The whole scheme of the judicial earl executive, which could only endure in the hand of its designer while he was allowed to work hi; pleasure—and even then for a few years only—must be broken up and re, constructed on his retirement. We have now been nearly two months without hearing auy.hing more of steam communication betwixt Kurrachee aid Fert:zepore; end from the ailence maintained on the subject compared with the alacrity usually mani fested in the publication of agreeable iirtelligence, we may assume the experiment to have been less satis factory than could have been desired. Besides the question of the possibility of maintaining steam com munication on the river such as will, even in the hands of the Government, compete with camels or common boats, the rext question that arises is, will it pay the steamers ? Whatever Government may con sider expedient in the matter of starting the scheme, or showing what may be done, assuredly they will never be so unwise as permanently to constitute them selves, at a loss, carriers of goods. For a steamer of 80 horse power, and 200 tons burden—the most con venient size for the river—the expense of each voyage of 800 miles is estimated at 2501. KUREACHER, AUG. 13.-1 see it occasionally stated in the Bombay papers that the weather at Kurrachee is delightful, and the Europeans healthy. The wea ther certainly has been much cooler and more agree- . able than last year, amid generally cloudy ; but as to health, if we except that awful visitation of cholera, I much fear that our hospital books will give a diffe rent result. Although there have been fewer cases in hospital of all classes, yet the cases of disease at tributable to the climate h ave b een more numerous and more fatal than last year. During the last fort night, I believe I may say hardly a day has passed without one or more funerals among the European troops; and this is producing its effect on minds and bodies already depressed and enervated by the deadly effects of this most insidious climate. The last hope to which they clung—viz., a change to the Presi dency, it seems now pretty generally understood here will be withdrawn from them by the final announce meet that one certainly, and most probably both, the European corps, arid probably the artillery (Row land's troop) will lie detained here areal er year. Let the medical officers of these troops be asked if they can trace the effects of climate more distinctly during the present (healthy) than, during the last (unhealthy) season ? Let them be asked, further, are these symp toms beyond a doubt yet on the increase? And, again, let them be asked whether the observations which they have made on the various cases that have come under their notice, induce teem to believe that these symptoms will be both multiplied and aggra vated by a further detention in Sin& ? And whether, on the contrary, they are not unanimously of opinion that a removal to India will check the spread of these diseases, and render these same men, after a time, - again fit for service in Sinde ? Why, then, keep them to die here, rather than afford them a chance of recovery in India But to another point. he Bilks are strong in numbers, the Fusiliers weak. If a dread of Sinde does not pre vent them, the former will probably be increased by volunteers from her Majesty's 28th, and they have a very large re-infoicement expected from England. Should any regiment be sent from the Presidency it is believed that it will be her Majesty's 22d (also a strong corps) ; should either of the two European corps in ainde be relieved, it must be the Fusiliers, who first came to the country. Thus, then, we shall have a considerable increase of Europeans if any relief takes place The present force can hardly be accommodated even by occu pying barracks pronounced by the executive engi neer to be unsafe. How, then, is it proposed to ac commodate yet larger numbers ? The answer is clear. A large military hospital has been built at Hyderabad; and people have long asked cur - how? A reply will be given by sending there all the Europeans who cannot be accommodated here. Verily, Government acted with unusual foresight in building the hospital first ; for that all who go to Hyderabad will be its tenants during nine months out of the twelve, is of course perfectly understood. Another question is asked here—viz., why, if a relief be intended, should her Majesty's 22d be selected in preference to her Majesty's Bth, who have not as yet had an opportunity of detailing to their friends in England alli the delights of Snide ? But, leaving that to be settled below, why should any, and still more, why should two Eur o p ean corps b e requ i re d i n a country which its present governor (no bad judge) officially, or, at any rate, publi c ly declares would be sufficiently garrisoned by its present police force ? I fear I have already trespassed on your patience, but if you are polite enough to think otherwise, you will probably hear again from—MEMPHIS." NEPAUL. In our last we gave particulars of the bloodless :deposition of the Maharaja of Nepaul, who, after the massacre of last year, had proceeded on a pilgrimage to the holy city of Benares, to expiate his offences. He had at that date written to his Ministers to send certain of their number to him under an escort, that they might be dealt with according to their demerits. The Council of Administration, who had acted in his absence, looked on his conduct as that of one who must needs be insane ; they proceeded accordingly to depose him in form from the throne, and invest a sovereign to , rule in his stead. An account of u hat had occurred was thereupon written hi,o ; he was reproached with having abandoned his kingdom, and desired the blood of innocent men; but assured at the same time that he was at liberty to return to his country as a subject or to remain in India, in either case receiving an al lowance and consideration becoming the rank of prince of the blood now no longer ruler. The latter course he preferre-d, and remain, d encamped near Sergowlie, with a large crowd of refugees and mal contents in his train. It being obvious that the ar rangement just made at the capital was one that met with general approval and promised to be conducive to the welfare of the people, the elected Monarch was recognised by 0 , 2.7- Government, our resident remaining in the , - ; apital. The offers and the latitude allowed him were so ample that it was belived the ex-Sovereign would take advantage of them, and abandon all thoughts of attemplimg t o regain authority. lie was meanwhile encamped close to our frontier, where, suddenly, arms and atnmuni tion were secretly collected, and a large reinforce ment of men a dded ,uiptt.ao, partly y s t e o A s hir t . egah l d - l a e no a t btlength l3a,toteoro b marched men, eing. for the borders o f his o wn dominions, an d entere d as mor e expert marksmen , and prove servi cea bl e i n the more h p a e u 2 le 3 s d e pronounced them artlikelyy ot o Nn destruction of the usurper. Ile had been led to tilat discontent was already general throug ho ut 'ie" the army would to a man be fowl ' t d t e li,h country favour; t that soon as he appeared in their presence, and that the troops on their march to oppose him were most likely to cross over and join his service. These last con sisted of five regiments of regular soldiers, nominally under the command of the second son of the ex. King ; in reality led by General Bum Bahadoor, eldest brother of the new monarch, who, having just before acted as chief justice in the Court of Right, had quitted the bench for the saddle, and laid aside the statute book to assume the sword. An address was read to the troops on the parade-ground just be fore they marched. They were desired to spare the :exiled Sovereign if pssible, and to fire blank cartridge the first round ; if this did not intimidate his followers, they were then to attack them its earnest. The armies met on +-lie 28th of July. The hopes held out of aid, and the rumoured attachment of the troops, proved to have been contrivances of his adversaries to lure him on to his fate. No one joined him—none bid him welcome. The army, under bi g son, took the invaders by surprise, and attacked them fiercely. After a deadly volley had been discharged, fell tfhuerioNuesplyauolnesethesoflodei.ersonderehwuntdhreeidr an d n s ,e w r o e rd le s f , tdead on. '.tred the spot (the correspondent of the Bengal litirkfini says three hundred), the rest scatt ered in all d tions : the Chief of Gopal was among, , st the slain. The ex-liing was taken prisoner, and remains in the hands of the General, awaiting orders from Kat mandeo. Frca the indifference with which Lis situation seemed to We been viewed, and the col