The Express.
London, England, 1846-12-01 00:00:00

AMSS

No. 79.] LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, DEC. 1, 1844.

SECOND EDITION.

From the GAZETTE of THIS NIGHT.

BANKRUPTCY ANNULLED.
J. TOPNAII, Brewood, Stafford.hire, road contractor.
BANKRUPTS.
J. B. ALLEN, Cifton-cottages. Brixton, ironmonger.
G. WILLDING, Dartford, miller.
R. STONE, Pelham, Kent, grocer.
G. Luca and W. Caorr, York-road, Lambeth, drapers.
C. M. BROWNE, Newchurcb, We of Wight, schoolmaster.
W. Wargo:4, Birkenhe id, Cheshire, licensed victualler.
J. PAINE, Weywouth, draper.
SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS.
J. 111)IBBON, and Co., Glasgow, merchants.
A. FALCONER, Dunfermline, book-agent.
W. J. ATSON, Blairgowrie, merchant.

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.
THIS DAY. Four o'Clock.
From the Cape of Good Hope we have papers to
the Bth of October. They do not bring any satis-
factory intelligence about the conclusion of the war,
but hostilities appear to have been carrying on
in a desultory manner only. Parties of the
armed burghers were returning to their homes
in a moot wretched plight, as might be expected
from the harassing nature of the duties on
which they had been so long engaged. It was in
vain that the field commandants remonstrated with

uncoil udej...l.7..irwar,ata and the exposed situa-
tion of the frontiers. The answer was, that they had
not been supplied with food either for themselves or
horses, and would submit to such privations no longer.
A seasonable supply of 500 head of cattle, and 1,200
sheep, for slaughter, had been received in the Graham's
Town district, in which much distress prevailed from
the previous loss, and, therefore, scarcity of cattle.
The following is from the Commercial Advertiser:
Conncetcd with the commissariat, the latest intelligence
from Waterloo Bay is not altogether unfavourable, hut it by
no means relieves government from the duty of surveying
the bay, or bight, or creek at the mouth of the Buffalo, in
the centre, as it were, of the enemy's country, and of the
future settlements and forts to be placed, as they now must
be, in advance, for the protection of the colony. in that
place Mr. John Findlay, of this town, anchored and
remained at anchor for seventy-two days, in 1833, and
landed supplies within the river itself, without foes or da-
mage to a single hag or package. He considers the anchor-
age good. The bottom resembles that in Table Bay—read
above clay. lie never elated his ground all the time the
vessel lay there, and on coming away he had a good pull to
haul up his anchor, on the palm of which there was stiff blue
clay. The lay of the lands and headlands is such, that
n ne of the stormy winds blow directly on shore. In
the most dangerous gales the ships head can be car-
ried seaward, and escape it easy. In northerly gales
in Table Bay, and southerly winds in Algoa Bay,
if you part from your anchors, there is nothing
but the beach for you. Mr. Findlay is of opinion that an-
choring is always safer here, and landing goods practicable a
greater number of days in the year than in Algae Bay. Such
statements from so experienced a band as Mr. Findlay, who
knows and has known for more than half a century what
bays, and beaches, and bars, and winds, kind surfs, and
rollers are in every part of the world, hut more especially on
the African coasts, justify, or rather demand, his Excellency's
most serious attention in the present circumstances of his
government. A good, or even practicable landing
for supplies at this point in Kaffirland, in con-
nection with Waterloo Bay, is equal, in a milkers
point of view, to a force of two or three thousand
men, five hundred cavalry, and thousands of drsught
cattle, constantly in motion ; even a much greater force than
this has not succeeded in dragging and protecting supplies
from Algae Bay to the neighbourhood of the Fish River and
Buffalo mouths, in time for effective service. A coasting
vessel, proceeding from Algoa Bay, may in a few days land
at the Buffalo month—if it be such as Mr. Findlaythinks it-
-200 tons of supplies,which 3,000 oxen, led and dnven by some
600 men, and guarded by nobody knows how many armed
men on foot or mounted, would hardly convey to beast-
quarters on the Fish River or Buffalo, in as many weeks, to
say nothieg of the comparative expense, which would be
estimated low as at pounds to shillings.
Government may itself cause the Buffalo as well as
Waterloo Bay to be surveyed, and experiments made of
landing and shipping cargo ; or it may contract with mer-
chants to land supplies at so much a ton, or bag, or cask, on
the beach, at either of those places, a sufficient force being
stat:oned at the Buffalo or at Waterloo Bay for protection in
the mean time. it may be that landing may be possible at
the one when it is not at the other, and where such a war
as the present is protracted solely from insufficient supplies,
no possibility of procuring them can be neglected without
incurring blame, amounting, perhaps, to guilt.
Besides mules and horses, if to be had, Mr. Palmer
should be authorised to collect, or order to be made.
some hundreds of light waggons, or carts, or frames on
wheels, on which two or four of these creatures can pull along
ten or fifteen hundred !sounds' weight of provisions as fast as
I troops can march, and almost wherever troops can march
Tide lighter array could often act where heavy waggons with
from 12 to 18 oxen are stopped, or disabled by a few shots
from the enemy, to the confusion of a whole convoy, as
at Block Drift and Trompetter's. The Kaffir; are now
scattered, or rather diffused everywhere, in small parties,
kw the purpose of pr.-curing food for themselves, and with
I the design of cutting off euppliet so as to starve the
posts and advanced positions of the army. This is
their plan. In their circumstances a better could not have
logn devised, though with them it is as much the result of
naciesity as of science. To civilised troops such a foe is
perplexing and even humiliating. They are baffled by an
enemy whom they ;scarcely ever see, or see only as he flies
from them. 'fhe parties are at present holding each other
in a state of siege or blockade, and the contest will be
determined by hunger at last. Hence the incalculable
value of an active and steady commissariat a commis-
sariat that has resources, ingenuity, Invention, foresight.
The Raffles are beginning to suffer from hunger. This is a
prelude to their submission, and unremitting vigilance must
check their supplies. Indeed, their commissariat stores,
which have hitherto been in the colony, are pretty nigh ex-
hausted. Some more of the chiefs have surrendered at dis-
cretion as Stock has done. The great chiefs still propose
terms.—but it is expected that unconditional submission will
Ibe insisted on. After breaking faith and spurning friend-
ship, they must now be made to feel, without mitigation, the
heavy band of a master.
The Court of Directors of the East India Company
have appointed Mr. Frederick Currie, of the Bengal
Civil Service, a provisional member of the Council of
India. Mr. Currie is at present Chief Secretary in
the Foreign Department of the India Government.

Notwithstanding the indifference which was at first
manifested. it is satisfactory to find, by letters from
Constantinople, that the Porte is now disposed to adopt
energetic measures for the chastisement of the blood-
thirsty Beder Khan, who lately massacred a body of
Nestorian Christians, taken captives by his followers
in Kurdishtan. The matter has been the subject of
several public councils, at which Reechid Pacha pressed
the necessity of punishing the rebel leader, if the
Porte did not feel inclined to encourage the belief
throughout Christian Europe that it connived
at the murder of its own subjects. The con-
sequence of these deliberations has been a semi-official
announcement, in which Beder Khan is denounced
as a rebel, and characterised as a destroyer of the
human race, against whom coercive measures are to
be immediately applied. That such measures will be
taken seems certain, though probably not so much on
account of the Nestorian massacre, as because the
Kurdish rebellion is daily gaining strength. Many
leaders have recently joined the standard of revolt,
who can bring a formidable force into the field, and
the object of the Porte is to bring matters to a crisis
before Beder Khan can obtain a farther accession to
his strength. The Partriarch of the Nestorians, who
escaped from Mossul, has been recaptured, and num-
bers of Christian have been destroyed since the mas-
sacre at Bias.

Arksßeny
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We learn by a recent arrival from Batavia, that the
Netherlands Indian Government have declared Ma-
eassa a free port. It is intended to form a main central
depot for the trade of the different islands in the
Archipelago, where their products can be disposed of
in barter in exchange fur the manufactures suited to
their wants.

Late accounts from Australia, received by the last
India mail, inform us of the arrival, at Sydney, on
the 2nd of August, of her Majesty's ship Carysfort,
having on board the new governor, Sir C. A. Fitzroy
and family. A vessel arrived at Sydney had brought
news from Tahiti, announcing that the French troops
had surprised several of the posts established by the
natives, but had, themselves severely suffered in the
i encounter. The commander, M. Brea, was killed in
the affray, and his aide-de-camp lost his legs.
The natives reported their loss at five killed,
and two wounded, and represented the French
to have had one hundred killed, and nearly as many

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wounded. The court-martial on Capt. Bonard, of the
Uranie, charged with having attacked the natives of
Huahine without orders, had selaitted him, and Admi-
ral Hamelin had sailed for California, taking with him
M. Movenhant, appointed Consul at that place. The
state of Tahiti appears to be truly wretched. Trade
and agriculture have been entirely abandoned, and in
order to starve the natives into submission the French
are said to have destroyed the bread-fruit and other
trees upon which the unfortunate people depended
for subsistence.

SMITHFIELD CLUB CATTLE SHOW.—Active pre-
parations are being made at the Horse-bazaar, King-street,
Portman-square, by fitting cattle-stalls and sheepisens for
the reception of stock intended to be exhibited for prizes.
The stalls, &c., will be on an extensive scale, end the upper
portion of the building will be appropriated for agricultural
implements and machinery, roots, seeds, &e. The stewards
of the club will appoint cattle judges, who will give their
decision on the merits and breed of the stock offered for
competition, and award the respective prizes on Tuesday
next, December Bth, and on the following day the premises
will be opened for the inspection and ale of cattle, &e., and
the exhibition will continue open four days successively, and
will be lighted up with gas in the evening.

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FOREIGN IRON.—Very extensive importations of
of iron are at present taking place, especially from Stock-
holm, Gothenburg, and Odle, the produce of Sweden, one
vessel having brought 10,88.5, another nearly 14,000, and a
third, the large quantity of 18,349 bars of the article. Nu-
merous other vessels have arrived from the same places with
large cargoes, varying from 5,000 to 10,000 bars of the same
description of me Image on board. These large arrivals
et they J• m reset be accounted for in son-
less to eat* the eon-.
tionatiou or completion d the vast amount of operations
in progress or in embryo throughout the country, re-
quiring such description of article for present or stock pur-
poses, with the probability of the demand being still further
increased at no very distant period. The iron pines of
Sweden are known, to be inexhaustible, and to afford ample
means for responding to the calls which may be made upon
them, and which, indeed, would appearevident from the fact

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