The Express.
London, England, 1851-04-19 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, SATURDAY EVENING, APRIL 19, 1851.

FRANCE. of armed brigands in different parts of the territory. !heights where the Kaffirs were, and a message was appearances are against us ; that if their rights are
The Minister of Finances admitted that the evil sent back by the officereommanding theCapeMounted not in their opinion sufficiently respected, let us for
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PARIS, Flimsy MORNINO. complained of had become very serious, but declared Rifles, telling Mackinnon that he (Somerset) was the future endeavour to do so; and let our dealings
• that the government had adopted measures of ropes- only waiting his arrival to attack the Kaffirs. In with them repose on the broad intelligible basis of
Let me draw your attention to a highly signifi- i sion, the success of which could not be considered consequence of the badness of the roads through truth and justice.
cant declaration[ put forward to-day by the organ of . doubtful. The Courrier publishes several accounts which they were led, and other causes, it took Mac- By an extra to the Graham's Thaw Afton,. of 1
the fusionists, and much clearer than the weak 'ut the proceedings of these brigands, all of which kinnon three or four hours to reach Somerset, who, Feb. 25 we have news of the Kat River ontbroak
and misty manifesto attributed to M. Guizot. ' show the absence of proper means of protection for wearied with waiting. after firing off some rockets having been quelled, and that decidedly, by General
It was thought lev most that the new party of the life and property. One band had arrived at 'fatoi, among them. went after the Kaffirs, who had moved Somerset. with a force of Burghers' Hottentots. and
A sa,l,. hi, e -Vtd,,,mile intended to pursue with real within a few notes of the capital, and put to flight a off with their cattle towards the Kat river. Somerset levies, with some Cape Mounted Rifles. Fort Arm-1
the prolongation of the President s powers. This detachment of gendarmes after killing One of them. followed them over the heights, on the other side of strong was taken from the rebels and levelled with'
illusion is dispell.d today ; for the organ of Mole At Vrantsi a band of thirty brigands, atter commit- which he encamped for the night ready to lift the the ground. The victory is must decided. About 4th
and Guizot mentions that eventuality in terms which ting other atrocities, pound boiling oil on the 4.090 lie saw in the distance on the morrow, as he Kaffir% and Hottentots are killed,l6o taken prisoners, !
prove that although it will not oppose the prolonga- breasts of three females, and then sacked the village, did not doubt of Mackinnon's being with him with 70 to 11$) stand of arms and 400 women and'
Mon if desired by France, it will nut in the feast help carrying off their booty without meeting with uny before then. Mackinnon, however, encamped on children. Somerset only lost 6 killed and 25 wounded. ',
it on. It sub.: " Let we have no revolutionary ens* re„istance. the Chumie, and next morning, after two By the last news from Graham's Town, of Ist March, i
which dove nut lead to the re-establishment of the , • ----- - -•- ' companies of his levies had abrush with some Kaffirs there is little or no news. Doubts begin to be en-1
true and complete monarchy, henceforth the only 1 CAPE OF GOOD HOPE. ,! in the Lushington Valley, where they killed five or tertainmi about Cato, the chief that commands the
definitive und duruble governmesit. To make under- , Isix without our hew to themselves, instead of follow- sea coast to the east and west of Bald° Month, as I
stood and :tempted by the country the rte- I I ing Somerset; he returned to Fort Hare. Th • corn- many of his people who were in service in Albany
mint of this munarchy us its true and only means of ! In addition to the intelligence given in the Re- , bitted movement being thus frustrated, Gen. Somerset had left their masters all at once and gone to Kaffir-1
salvution. is the whole end of our political task. We press yesterday, we publish the following interest- nut having sufficient force to attack the enemy alone, land. Thew people had been in service for some
my this openly. and shall esteem it a twlniet to be mg letter from our correspondent. I Wao, obliged to return to Fort Hare also, without years. and were of material help during the last war I
quoted as saying it. How does this affect the Prince 1 CAPE OF GOOD HOPE. Memel 3. 1 having done anything. If these details be correct, and until now the greatest confidence has been
Louis Napoleon ? Ito we, from the present moment, ! The most important duty performed during the ;is I re no doubt they a, the failure of the move- placed in them. Doubts are also entertained of Ain-1
advocate the prolongation of his powere? Nu. We past month has been the conveying troops and stores most L., to he entirely attributed to Mackinnon's hole, the supreme chief of the Gaikas, who has:
ardently wish. we IN gard its infinitely desirable fin- from varion„ part, of the colony to the seen, of war_ ' tardiness in joining Somerset on the first day, and to hitherto only been withheld from joining Sandillil
the prt -ent good of Frame, that she should be deli- fare. Iler Nfajesty'e steam-vessels Hermes and Deed his entirely leaving him un the second, when he by means of his amapakati or councillors, who
nitively extricated in D4:.)2 limn the deplorable and together with tau or three hired merchant veesels, I had it in his tower to make up for the blunder of the told him that as he had promised Sir
ri preeuows state into which she was plunged by 1 ,41,4. pave beau
o.constantly employed in this duty, and day before. Thus have these two attacks on Scoot°, Harry some time ago to " sit still," they
But if, in 1e152, it :amulet not be possible to extricate already have 2,500 levies ben landed at Eist Lon- I and the attempts made to seize his cattle signally could on no account allow him to break his wort ft
her definitively from that state, if the vital question don, together with about 1,500 tone of stores of i failed, from both of which so much was expected, so .is said that Nlackimion's retreat (of which I havegiven
of her destinies should not be able then to receive its different kinds, with guns, ammunition, au mules for • confident wets Sir Harry that some signal tilleee6Bl you a detailed account) front Fort Hare has been
true solution, we• believe that France would do well waggons, and about the same number of horses. Very would result from the combined movement he , called a defeat by the Kaffirs, and the 'WAIN of it
not to throw down at all risks the tent under which : few nun levies can he expeeted, indeed hardly any, , thought 'jetty to tiseeplacebetween Somerset and Mae- I having spread far and wide, has infused fresh daring
she is now sheltered. No engagement, and no pre- . for the last lot that the Hermes took only amountid!kinnon on the Chenille that he actually caused a great into the," Kira warriors. Somerset's victory at Kat
mature and absolute exclusion ; that is all that can to about 60. and at the various places she touched onIkr:1;11 to be built beside King William's Town, caber- I river wit! no doubt act as a check, and decide the
I now be said." the coast for more she hardly succeeded in doubling , ble of containing the .3,1551 cattle he expected to see wavering on " sitting still." 'there were no news of
I understand that the government is about to pre- nthat number. The two steamers will, however, hate i (sone in. The troops left Fort Hare on Mondayl Mackinnon's pa:rol that was to leave King William's
sent two bill. of impurnmee. One is relative to do. ' sufficient to do in carrying the provisions and stores morning on their way back. Thee were attackeil ' Town about the Nth. A good deal of firing had
micile in Paris, and will place ut the disposal of the
' ' that are constantly being wanted. "Ilk Hennes that early in the morning bI e a small body of the enemy, been heard in the Kloofs near Fort Wiltshire on the
gove •nt persons of suspicious characters, whom has just un.ieeel from Eust London, brings directions whom they drove len•k. at the same time, killingifollowing day, where it was thought he was engaged
the prefect of police nasty, at Isis will, remove from' N
for .Ir. Montagu to smile Sir Ilarre with a re- about nine or ten of them. The Kaffirs in this in- with the enemy.
the capital ac'c'ording to the abrogated law of 11+11).' mount fur the Cape Mounted Rifles, so the next duty stance occupied a densely-wooded hill,which Mackin-
It is stated that the died of this law will is to re-1
that will have to letdone will be to cram the steam- non ordered the first division of levies to clear. This
move limn the capital 25,000 individuals of the most ! ens with hoists, and despatch them ofl', they did in fine style, ably supported by the 7:lrd in
dangerous character in time, of revolution. The Sir I larry'e operations in Kafh.aria have been few, the valley below. One of the levies was killed and
other bill is relative to the publications of French pro- and to say the Inuit of them (as 1 shall show in the one wounded. The march was continued by Key.
liticul exiles residing abroad. These publications sequel) unimportant, if we (swig the relief he threw se'r'a drift on the Keiskaninia, when the troops halted
will be interdicted in France. into the two forts, White and Cox ; the other occa. to breakfast. On resuming their manta the Karnes
Some of the Bonupartist journals propose a sell( me I *ions on which the troops acted were only two. They . attacked their rearguard, and billowed them all the
for opening a register in evesy (immune for each were on patrol or foray duty, that is, engaged in way to Fed White. All advantage of ground was
citizen to inscribe his opinion ut the prolongation of ' seizing the enemy's cattle, but the first aide- proved in favour of the enemy, the- country being every-
powers. a failure% or nearly so, for it was found that after where a dense bush; but the Kaffirs (as all ac-
The council of state, in its last tau sittinge. adopted I
they had exulted in seising 700 cattle, it tunnel out quainted with them agree in) are bad shots and
a bill tar extending to the Ist January. 1862 I , the law that nearly all of them (.345)) belonged to one of their , know hardly anything of bush-fighting. Our levies
of April 23. 11412, giving the state the exclusive best friends, and of comse hail to le• returned to him.larc not much to brag of in this way, for on this day
monopoly of the manufacture mid sale of tobaceo, I This was dine to the great disgust of the I lottentot ' they fired away not less than 120,000 rounds of am-
and a report un a bill for the management of salt levies, who not being very nes. in their distinctions! munition. W•e• lost eight killed and 17 wounded.'
I
marshes. between Kaffir friend and foe, accuse the English of ' one of 73n1 killed and four wounded, the rest hying
It scents as if all Paris had got into vehicles of , want of faith in returning the cattle instead of deal- I levies and. Fingoe:e Notwithstanding all this annoy-
every esonedvable description to form on endless pro-' ing them out as they had conceived was to be done once, l‘lackintion 6 party continued their match,
cession', reaching from du: Bastille along the Houle- I with all the- clink in Kidfirland, no matter whose though nothing would have pleased the troops better
muds and Chumps Elysees, through the Bede de 1 they were. On the second occasion great prepare- than to be allowed to turn round and give their
Boulsone to the gates of that town. The most . tions were made ter the reception of the cattle that enemy a drubbing, which one would think they
remarkable- turns out are those whose object was to be taken, whot to the astonishment of everi could easily have done. As it was, instead of a march,
is to adeurtis% Here you see u series of gilded One, Colollel Mackinnon returned beim the enemy a it looked us if our troops were being driven out of
care. suruiewited by under Ilas and pwasols of all comatry, where he hud been for four ur five days, but the country. Thus only one object of the expdition
colour.; there a set of newly-painted coal wag- without bringing with him a single cow. But to the wins gained, leaving -WO men in Fort Hare, the,
gone with appropriate drivers; an ingenious lump- details of these evente, other was au utter failure, returning as it did to King
maker settle to have turned half his stock into a Willians's Town without bringing m a single horn.
Bellsre the governor could proceed against Sevolo,
this el set of et hides. And thus, us the drop seems In smother letter from head-quarters of latest date
the- S'Llitinliie chief, who interrupted his commend-
of theatres tire invaded by the. oregiehes of clothiers catiune with the colony at Line Drift, it was neves- Pith inst.), it was stated that they had just re-
and dentiete, 641 the brilliant promenades of Lung- sury to relieve Forts Ahite and Cox, that we're be- c-tired orders to hold themselves in nodiness to start
chumps, ate utilised by ambitious tradesmen for le • Stu be in want of provieions. at daylight on the fellowing morning (25th) on an-
puffing their wares. other . expedition against &solo.
On the 30th January, therefore, Col. Mackinnon
Never Were the- Lent preachers in greater vogue By the last accounts from Natal it appears that Sir
was sent with a mix;sl have of 2,200 men, corn-
than this year. The churches
.are more crowded i Harry is disappointed of the Zoolalis coming in the,
I esse..el of the 73rd, With leVieS and Fin , from
than the theutres, and thronging auditors make l. ' rear or hie enemies, though intelligence had only a
I o•ng William's Town On the same day 17e. relieved
homed at the great duurs Father Lam-duke 1 few days before reached of 3,000 of them having
s pout' White in doing *which he Met with but little
at Notre Dame tl hers against the greed U 6 ' ,
msi .on !
ft for thou h crowds of Kalfire collected, ea
actually started under the conduct of Mr. Shepetom, I
gain und the irreligion of science. Padre I ltel.ll' thro;the• Zoidalt commissioner. The account states ns the
t n umongsgt them was sufficient to trice
Ventura, in his blood Italian anent, introduces. reason of their not coming that no sooner had the.
ill
uwity and on their atticking his rear he ha'
• dash of polities into his animated discourses. Abbit I Zuolahs started, than Sunda. the great chief of their
lithe:Atli; in aiding then; lock into the bush out
Batman preache e to full audiences of fashionable , ":..' race, from whom Sheptom's people awe seeders,
i which' the came. - Next day Fort Cox Was re-
people at the Nludeleitw ; and the Abbe de' Laplace : 1i,,,,,,
withou Y showed symptoms betraying an intention of attack-
fills a ith Isis %onerous sermons the nave of St. Hoek " ing the cattle and families of the absentee Zoolalut,
forts received six- weeks' su »le and ia; the third
the las ourite church of Corneille. Never was pulpit- or perhaps the colony itself. On this the council at
I thy that ie the- Ist Feb irie • the whole oarty re-
theme nee at such u premium. But one feels too I - ,- . Pit•ter Nlaritsberg resolved that the Zoolahs should
g iMU $ ON II without n101tlitl• •
turned to Kin M-11' ' 'l' ' -
purele that fur one person who goes to hear these I lion. be immediately recalled, and an order to that effect
Jirtlirtun• fruni it religious motive, lull get bil."'e it I Tide service wrfonned. and without loss to either was forthwith despatched by Mr. Sim, the governor,
is the fnehion. The gossip of drawing.roonis tunes , to Mr. Shepstom, which mashed him when
t - I s thei shell tl •wt n n the KOHN did
oa the style of this or that isistor ; and instead of " Par t al'. She was already three days on his journey.
h in en them, SiirulH°a g Smith isat
praising ilk, warbling of Sontag. your fair turtle s- more t • g
... . rrelt is said that Shcpstom himself did not quite rip-
en a quadrille asks you whether you have heard the it I S.- Iw.. ll
i serty to torn his attention to . eyo o. sobs we prove of the Zoolales going to oat. With the Kaffir's,'
striking discourses id' NI. Itavigtion. merited punishment for the trouble and alltlOVallee niassnuelt as it was only throwing them bock
he had caused bint. On the 3rd, them COlonel
The Prefeet of Police is oroupying himself with into that unsettled condition, front which it would!
carrying into execution the new law of the 27th Nlllekinnoll Aias sent off
_ill? charge of a strung patrol be difficult to divert them back again to industrious '
Mar It last, aguitist Intuits of all kinds in the sale of i '4' Regulars, Levies, add ingo, to attack thatchice habits. Perhaps, after all. Sir Hm tarry nay have
mereleindise. Ile hoe just referred to the COreet- sieze ae many of his cattlee
as they could, and, if pos- cause to rejoice at their not appearing in the field,
sible, buy hold of the prophet Umlanjini, Whiq is one
timid Tribunal twenty-nine peoess-rerlearer tientinst for, by enlisting them, it was utile perplexing still
butcher., pork buteltere truirours. grocers, and true of his follower*. Mackinnon was absent On this ex-
more the already tangled condition of Kaffir affairs.
terms, at whose shops unwholesome articles had petition about three days. after which he returned, and adding new Interests where they will soon be
been sized. with hint about 700 head of cattle,
bringing found to be sufficiently e • 1 oned anal abundant to
The• metallie reserve of the Bank of France has and attributing his not being able to get attend to. Besides, their appearing on the been('
more to the bud weather that impeded
again increased mark thus. millions in Puri*, and would certainly have the effect of extending the
their. operations. The awkward mistake byline
newly one million in the brunch banks. 'flu-discountbasso of country that is now in a state of discontent,
• • menttoned vets then discovered- the grt•ater •
aceonmuslation has decreased about three millions in • • , if not of rebellion. The claims of the Zoolahs would
Paris and increased ewe arde of one million in the part of the. cattle! (aboutiM) be-longed to a friendly rust be. easily j settled, certainly not more easily than
aline Siwana, the half-brother of Seyolo. This chief'
proe inns. the &amount of the former being lithose of the levies ; and we have alreadv
44.721,5021 r., and of the latter 77,t473,64rtir. On the hind had the honour of dining with his excellency the seen that in their case there lies a source, of trouble fur
side 01 the liabilities,. the nuns in cirtadation have day the expdition started, and it may be believed he the future. The Zoulahs would not be more likely
decreased 11 millions in Paris,. sand about 2 millions was anything but pleases' with its very unsatisfactory than the Hottentots, but the reverse, to understand
in the departments. The account current of thetermination. The cattle had of mum to be returned .
st .
.. . . , why they might carry off the cattle from one klool,
treasury has increased about 4', millions, the present buts Is' -the
tee'!"
tO HUN flint in order and why they might not take those from another''
amount being 91,515,550 fr. Private uccounte cur- ot seta Wasrliee,ll46ary tt.) nave recourse to a MK.. kloOf Dot half a mile off—why they might take as
rent purse dee teasel nearly 6 millions iu Paris, uud .111:bugles we • •Cl to sound tlw assembly, and many as they could catch of the one, because they
Men-used about I million in the provisoes, the amount while the men wen all eitgaged, Thethe cattle even belonged to Sandilli or Seyolo ; but why thee must,
handed over to hswanu •. this
s people. result of
of the former being 50,833,5 en fr., and of the latteron no account, think of even looking will, a covetous
expedithe tion was seizing of somewhere about 200
25.052,311 tr. The whole amount of the metallic eye on those other, fur they were of the herds of
.re.
. rye is WON 5113', reunion., tu 5 head; this first attack ust Seyolo thus resulted in
221 millions of notes Sewani or Cmhala.
something very like. a failure.
in circulation. Sir Harry is not, therefore, likely to have much
The next attack on Seyolo was on Thursday, the more addition to the number of men he already has
13th instant, when Colonel Nlackinnon again left in Kaffroria; anti the burgher force that will mast
King William's Town at 4 in the morning, with as likely be collected after his last urgent proclamation,
mixed body of 3,000 Men and 2 guns, the object of is tie doubt intended to act entirely on the frontier.
the expedition being twofold, to take 400 white As regards the colony, the state of the Kat River
volunteers and mine artillerymen to Fort Hare, to settlement at present engages most attention, both
juin General Somerset. asset to seize Seyolo's tattle. among those who had hoped it would have proved a
1 have received de-tailed accounts of this raid, which trusty barrier against a hostile people, and among
was even more unsuccessful than the former one, those who disliked from the very first the system of
from two uffivere, one of whom commanded an ban- instruction pursued there, together with these who
portant hotly, and from both of these it would alt- established it. All, however, charactense their eon-
pear, that to want of union between the two in com- duct as mad and rash in the extreme, and those who
wand is to lee attributed the- failure which ensued. extended pity to them in their sufferings are now the
Both my informants characterise the expedition as first to reprobate their present conduct. which will
a iodic conducted one, and do not hesitate to say nu doubt end in ruin to themselves. They are al-
that the OM it will have on the Kaffirs will be to lowed to have had very great grievances, and to
make them believe that on this occasion they actually have suffered much both in peace and war. In the
chased us out of their country. As I said, the patrol various Kaffir wars they have borne the brunt of the
left King William's Town on Thursday. proceed fight. and done their work well, and from the
ing to Fort White by the Debe 'Nech. As , exposed position of their country, they have
the troops approached this neck, or flat piece ' had to suffer the heavier losses. Vet not
of ground, in three columns, with skirmish- only have their services not been noticed, but as in
ing parties of the Cape Mounted Rifles in front Sir H. Puttinger's time, they have had to retura the
lead rear, the Kaftirs were Wen to be collected in con- very blanket they got front government at the corn-
sklemble bodies. They seemed at first as if inclined mencement of the war by way of outfit. They have
to make a stand, but a few shots at them with suffered from rulers who haled both the people and
giberical case was sufficient to drive them away, and the system under which they lived, and when they
possibly did some execution amongst them. when the took to the bush, and cut down their trees, the im-
troops were enabled to pass through without men position of a tax amounting to ss. on a load at once
iodation till the rear came up. when the Kaffirs checked their industry, uud funned their discontent.
made a regular sally, and bad a sharp skirmish When the Kaffir police were sent about six months
with the Fingoes. • They reached Fort White sago to chase out some 90 or 104) Kaffirs that had got
the same night, and next morning started I among the people of the settlement, so well and
for Fort I where they arrieed in theleagerly was the work performed. that not only were:
afternoon, having on the wav alittle more sphericali the-se turned out, but some hundreds more diet be-
, case-firing at some Kaffirs oho were a long way off, I longed to the settlement, who lived there us peace-
, and leaving a record of their march in the smoking I able inhabitants, and had no right to live anywhere
huts that they set fire to on either side of their way.else-. Men. women, and children were turned out,
On the arrival of Mackinnon's party at Fort Hare% and their houses burned before their eyes, while the
the Fingoes belonging to Somerset were sent on to , Kaffir police. as they did so. remindea thou of how
gain the heights between the Chumie and Lucking - ' well they had hunted their Kaffir brethren out of
ton valleys. and a combined attack was to be made !the .-Imatulu hills in the late war.
on these points on the following morning, by whichj On a re-slew of the present state of things existing
means it was expected that all the cattle in theselin South Africa we will find that one feeling appears
rich valleys, amounting to about 7,000. would fulllto occupy the minds of the Iluttentots, the- Cape ,
into their hands. Next morning. accordingly, Gen. I Corps. or some of them, the Kat River people. and
Somerset, moved with his body 1,600 strong hay ingithe Kaffirs, and this is a feeling of deadly
for this purpose been supplied with 1,000 of Mackin- hatred towards their common master—so that we
non's levies) and some- rockets, up the- rent to Wu- may say we hare ut present something like a war of
burn where they seem to meet, while- Mackinnon's races; the African of various shades against the
tinny, with the two guns, skirted the hex of the white man. exeept in the case of the Fingues, who,
hills more to the right. On Somerset's reaching occupied with the one feeling of hate to the Kaffir..Woburn, he saw a large body of Kaffirs on the in NV hOSC country they occupy the same position that
heights beyond, but as they were too numerous the Helots did in Sparta, rejoice to find themselves
for him to attack single-handed he resolved on in the ranks of enenues who they well know will
waiting for Mackinnon's arrival, whom he expected inevitably conquer the Kaffir.
to see every minute. Mackinnon's parts-, however, This discontent is too wide spread not to have
had lagged' be the way, and. instead cif marching ! seem real cause, and when the cause is so great as
forward after' breakfast a - of Cape Mountedi Ito unite those who were before natural enemies it
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WEST INDIES.

Our ordinary files of West India journals contain
little to add to the extracts given in yesterday's
Express. The Iforiday Joornal(Kingston, Jamaica)
has the following with reference to the report of the
Committee on Ways and Means, and to the finances
of the island generally:

The entire expenditure of the colony, classified under four
heads, amounts to the very large sum of 269,000/.. iu which
sum 10,650/. is included as a sinkinz fund for the liquida-
tion of u debt of 700,000 f , which is, or will due and
payable to the government and to persons in the mother
country, and to institut• and persons in this island. Of
the first mentioned sum 138.2691. may 1w co mid. us
fixed and permanent, and a further sum of 67,013/. mac
also be reganlol in nearly the same light. For the
present we may safely look upon them is items of
expenditure which no economy, however severe, can reduce.
and which cannot be got rid of. They amount together to
205,im0f., and exceed the total revenue of the island, which
estimated at 159,000/. The deficiency apparent upon the
face of the document is 79,010 t, and this sum the House of
..t.scinbly will be called upon to provide, if an end is to be
put to the present system of actually running deeper into
debt.
The dt fieiency has been ascertained and must he met, and
the proposition is to meet it by the following additional
taxation :
_

" A tut of 2s. on hones, mares, mules, asses, horned
cattle, and wheels.
. . _

increase of the ad ralarent duty of per cent. on
the uneninuerated article, in the tariff to 7 1 re: cent., with
drawback upon exportation.
" A tax of :is. upon every taxpayer throughout the
Wand.

" A produce-tax of :is. per hogshead on sugar; 3s. per
; Icon on rum; 3s. per tierce on coffee; 2s. 64. per bag
oil pimento; and correvontling rates uu arrow 'root, ginger,
and other products.
"A tax of is. on every horse, mule, and horned 'dock
sold by peukeepers.
" A tax of 2 per cent. on the annual value of houses,
other than those on estates and tens paying the produce
tax.

"A tat of 4 per cent. on all income of and over 100/.

per annum, except the net proceeds of produce of cbtates
Arcady taxed."

The bill whieh provides a salary for the governor
had passed the Assembly after considerable discussion
and several divisions. It provides a salary of 4,41001.,
%%Well, with I,:oot from the permanent revenue,
makes in all 6,00/. per annum for the present re-
presentative of majesty. It also provides that upon
his ivlinquishment of office the salary to his successor
shall be in the whole 5,000 t per iumum. It is to
i endure until the 31st December. lssl.

The Clyde started from St. Thomas on her home-
ward passage to Southampton at 1.55 n.m. on the
22nd ult. She experienced strong easterly gales
and a heavy sea during the whole 'swage. .C../n the
3rd inst. she was in lat. 35.32 N., don. 10.38 W., with
only 302 tons of coal. The commander, with the
sanction of the Admiralty agent, resolved to put into
Fayal to take in enough coal to reach Southampton.
The Clyde arrived at Fayal on the 7th with only 190'
itons of coal on board. She took in 75 tons, and left
for Southampton on the same day. On the 17th,
when oft' Falmouth, the commander found again that
he had not coals enough to reach Southampton, and
it was resolved to put into that port for a supply.
The mails on board the Clyde were landed at Fal-
mouth at 8 a.m. on the 17th.

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.
lims/los, Ja Marten 16.
Tram De Cordova's. lot, lliyesurr.)
The " report" from the committee apointed by the House
of Assembly to regulate the financial attain of the colony
has been thrown out, in consequence of the non-observance
of some legislative formality ; but it is questionable if it
would have met with any other result had the matter been
debated in the house.
We should state that among the suggestions offered by
the committee with the view to meet the expenditure of the
country by increased taxation, it was recommended that an
additional import duty of ;J per cent. ad valorem should
be imposed on all unruted iroi d., such as linen and cotton
fabric", jewellery, tte., which additional duty should be
over and above the rates paid under the existing act. The
failure of the " report" has, of course, interposed an ob-
stacle to the present consideration of the Import Duty
Bill. We may, however, observe that the strong oli-
jections which were taken to any augmentation of the
present per centage on unrated goods renders it very
unlikely that the suggestiun of the committse will be
reinserted in the new report which they arc now engaged in
preparing. The general impression appears to he that the
duties on imports will be reduced to a considerable extent,
and that the revenue of the island will be derived princi-
pally from a property and income tax. We would, however,
caution our readers on the other side of the water against
placing any reliance on the reports in circulation on this
subject. The matter is so much involved in uncertainty
that it is scarcely possible to arrive at any safe conclusions
with regard to the intentions of the house in this re-
spect. The financial arrangements for this year will in all
probability be adjusted before the departure of the next
packet.
By a recent enactment of the Legislature all vessels trad-
ing to this island fnon places within the Tropic of Cancer
are exempted from the payment of lighthouse and tonnage
dues.
The arrivals since our last have been on an exceedingly
moderate scale, and the market has in consequence become
firm for most articles. Breadstuff's, however, are still ne-
glected, owing as well to the excessively large stock on hand
us to the abundance and cheapness of native vegetables. We
notice a somewhat lively speculative demand for pork, un-
der which importers' hands have been very nearly cleared.
Cod and pickled fish are now in small supply, and holders
arc firm at advanced rates; the former especially is in good
inquiry just now, in consequence of the advent of Lent, at
which seaman there is always an increased demand fur the
article.
The cholera yet lingers in some of the rural districts; but,
on the whole, the late accounts from the agricultural pa-
rish., are favourable, and represent the disease as having
very nearly exhausted itself. The mills are about pretty
generally, and in the coffee districts they arc commencing
to be busy ; there is, however, as was anticipated there
would be, a sad deficiencyl s.f continuous and available
labour ; and the gathering in of the crops will be retarded
in consequence to some extent.
Rum is quiet at 3.. 81. to 3s. 9d, per gallon for 21 proof.
SUGAIL—The purchases fur shipment have nearly there
the market of the stock in factors' hands' and prices are
generally well supported. No late sales of dark have taken
place at anything under lert., and middling to fair has
realised 16s. to 26. per 1001 h.
Corm.— Ordinary hiss been selling readily at 335. to 375.
per 1001 b.
Timm eo.—The late sales of Cavendish It's were effected
at Is. sd. to Is. fi'd. per Ib., but holders are now firm at ad-
Tamed rates. Leaf is plentiful.
GOLD.—AmericAn cumin:mils 2 to 21 per cent. Doubloon
are very scarce.
The premium on American gold is paid invariably on the
dollar valued at Is., and not on is. 2d. 'this remark applies
likewise to American bills of exchange.
EXCIIANUE,—On Ness: York Merchants' bills are pro-
curable at 2 per cent.. 60 days' sight. On London: Colonial
•

SPAIN.

MADRID, Area. 13.
The government has not granted the request of
&nem] Survaez to h• permitted to rink to Anda-
hisia to see his mother. whose health dues nut *AVM
to lie worse than usual, or to be such as to rause any
alarm for her life.

The lialoll de Hourgaing, French ambassador, is
preirailag fur his departure. M. de AVulewski, his
auet.cssor, is arrived ut Iluyonne.

GERMANY.

A letter from Vienna. of the 13th inst., in the
Lidepriii/oiter 11.1 q,, states that the deisirture of
Count nun for Frankfort, was delayed by Prince
Schwurzenberg at the moment of his departure, in con-
sequence of a telegraphic despatch from Berlin. At
the Pltill• time. while the letter referred to, an order was
sent of to the Austrian troops in Holstein to bus-
'wild. until further orders, the preparations for leav-
ing the duchy, which had been commenced.
MUNICII, Amu. 12.
_ _ .

A C'ahinet Council hail been held, in which it has
been decided to milt' the Bavarian Plenipotentiary
front the ('onfcu•nc of Iht:sden.

'TIE LEVANT.

We have received by the Levant mail Constanti-
nople journals to the ith. and Athens papers to the
Bth, both inclusively. Neither one nor the other
contain any news of political interest. A meeting of
the Turkish ministers had been held at the Mint,
to take into tonsideration the present state of the
bank and the question of the exchanges. A num-
ber of bankers and merchants were invited to
attend. The principal subject of discussion was
whether the establishment should be kept up,
when it w.t. ultimately decided that it should
be maintained. but that 111t1111,4 should be be de% ised
to ameliorate the present condition of the bank, and
diminish its losses and expenses. Sir Stratford Can-
ning had given a grand dinner to the personages
who were about to proceed to London to attend the
Exhibition, including Gelaledin l'acha, Mustafa
nolo, vice-admiral; M. Mussurus, envoy extraor-
dinary and minister plenipotentiary in England;
M. Aliso Vogorides, councillor ot his mission
and those mentioned in another column. We
perceive by the Athens journals that the state-
ment of the dissolution of the Greek Chamber
of lk•putics, received rii Trictitc, was unfounded.
The (',Atirricr el*.illonex, of the Bth, con-
tains a report of the sitting of the 4th, in which
questions were put to the ministry on the subject of
the depredations sad atrocities committed by bands

. party - .
" Bunk-90 dup., par ; elidays7, per emit. prendiun ;30 days,
Rifles, was sent to see where gomerset was. This I becomes high time to see what influences us in our,
per cent. premium. Jamaica Bank-93days, pur ; 60days,
party saw General Somerset three miles off, near the dealings with these people. And if it be seen that I per cent. premium; 30 days, 1 per seat premium.