The Express.
London, England, 1848-12-16 00:00:00

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COLONIAL.
CAPE OF 000 D HOPE.
We lame reosivad this Caps Mintier Mau (0,,
haw. Teas paw) of 12th October, which pias
umbra ef sae fall and romut intelligence P.".
internal saaweenants in the enters districts m .61
than the Journals received yesterday. The contests et
paper 011116111 the Impression we have repeatedly masa.,
that neither within the colony or beyond the Ns'
matters la sash a satisfactory monition as Mom who lob:
to military mews and stage effect an disposed to beizz
On the Tapia frontier of Natal (at the eastern es
Hafilrinad) the conduct of Panda is disquieting ale Of
The eqUeveal conduct and mysterious. memo( the
Kaffir chiefs at their interview with Sir Harry gag*
not asesped the notice of the Albany settlers. Th. wit
of Catch race are far from satisfied with the
stringent measures adopted towards their kinsmen :I.r
counts from the Coleman and Hesitant dintricts,"
Frontier Tunes, " represent the general feeling of Aar
habitants, the overwhelming majority of whom ere DZ.
as umarrourabla to the proceedings of his Excellency." 1.74
em met likely to be conciliated by the news of the
a Dreyer, which no person in those parts of %Tula lit
whisk the intelligence had reached ventures to dahaU
wept upon a hypothetical assumption that " there issithici
been some unknown reason for it." Meanwhile the agiyte
In the eastern districts for their erection into a
Won, makes decided progrees. Meetings were held n Nis
Elisabeth on the 4th of October, at Oraham'stown col;
6th, and at Bidbury on the 9th of the ante month. at
of these meetings resolutions were pasted in favour of la,
palate representative government for the einem hip.
and committees appointed to promote the object. A
had been held, with the same results, at Fort Beach-WI
early m the 4th of September. On this movement, tails:
connexion with the policy adopted by the governor is
spent of the Dutch farmers, the Frontier Times eminent's
follows :
The news of the miserable affair over the Orson River, larnat.,
of which will be found in another column, will excite the itsapaim
grit wherever it goes; and It will be well ter the c4lony if
end What do not speed within its toundary, and manor gerT,'"'
be not holed at the thus of rebellion that has been ligana Lai
tininess bewail lt. The peisot war over the Orange S.
the e neegnent beard lea of human life, and the expend‘7,
add* Immo whisk kw spin been incurred, shady a -
It Is mid, to some day er smote thoutand pounds, not ta=l
the some which may yet be expended before the back of no
',ham= Is beam,
_are the natural "nits of the aka.„
of an independent Wad and responsible government ena,
can doubt, for instance, that if his &chinch
resident instead of • visiting governor, had gone amongst
stated lumen, had taken time tojudp for himself of the ra7.4
serdlosents of the whole body m to their desire of corning an* ad.
tick rule; sad if upon the information thus obtained, acting *tat*
Edelen of a loch executive council, he had Meee,
eirmately Introduced a course of policy for the
aldrs over the boundary, indeed of rapidly traversing a a
In covotry. contenting himself with a hurried Intercourse win a ti
tithe inhabitant+, and Call-40ff to be published the most Manna
sad Inflated accounts of the mum.adtd pressen of his journey
making all poedne haste back to Cape Town, the sett of goen--
the land would not now have been wet shit the blood of Mo eta,
trusts men for unfortunate they are, however greet any yes
the sin of cebdlion) who have been mowed down by Bridal hand
shell-nor of those brave sad pliant troops whose us,, raw toa
only spared during a two years' war with the savage foe, to km tram
at last at the hands of British subjects whom it was their eddy, lb*
and their iseerest to protect We shell not it prow
dwell an this pastel subject, meeting to remark Uhl,
hoped that the fresh expenditure that Is new being incased las
suppemelem of the rebellion beyond the north-astern froths,'
teach the Brithit government a useful lesson (which one inanities
=t after that which had been taught by the Kaffir war, thee
in. been no occasion to repeat), not to place the infant
intermimil this remote province sad the countries beyond it hie
hands of a governor resident in Cape Town.
The news from Natal is only to the middle of Mien
Pleas Zama, where a number of disbanded soldiers 64,►
olive& ernes, had been named Smith's Town. The ors
settlers, it is said, were " giving creditable symptom of ie.
duetry," and new comers were flowing in. A report Ind
reached town that about a hundred families of en**
boors had returned from behind the Berg, that they bid
ototapanned immediately beyond the frontier, and wt moi:
servants to begin tilling the grounds they had formerly On*
pied. Thirty families had mourned possession of they funs
the week before. If the Colonial-office would only lea
the settlement alone, there maid be no doubt -snug
"dY Programs

BRAZILS.—Dates from Pernambuco to the ith
November have beam resolved in Liverpool. The lewd
features of trade remained as per last advises. &chasm
ruled at 25 d.

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OSBORNE, FRlDAY.—Admiral the Hon. Sir Bit&
Capel, Lieut.-Col. the Hon. C. B. Phippe, and Mrs. &pp;
had the honour of joining the royal dinner party put*
evening. The Duke and Duchess de Nemours left Osturso
this morning. Prince Albert crossed to Portsmouth kat
Fairy this morning to view the practice and observe*.
system of education pursued on hoard H.M.S. Excelled.

The Duchess of Kent arrived at Clarenoe How,
St. James's, yesterday morning, from the Priory, Parson,
the residence of the Queen Dowager. Her Royal High=
loft town in the afternoon on her return to the Priory.
Despatches were received yesterday at the Colosii.
Aloe from the Governor of the Cape of Good Rapt.
Viscount Palmerston arrived in town yesterday
from Brighton.
[ Mr. Hart Davis, Deputy Chairman of the Fa*
and Mr. Hisham, Secretary and Comptroller•Gessrallofte
Commissioners for the Reduction of the National Dibe,
interviews with the Chace 'nor of the Exchequer yoga%
at his official residence in Downing.street.
Despatches were sent off yesterday evening in
the Colonialuffice for the governors of the North Amiss
colonise.
The Judicial Committee of the Privy Connell at
yesterday, and heard an appeal from British Guiana, "
rindell v. Retemayer." The court then rise.

MATH OF LORD DURCANT.—Lord Daneeny dW
at Clevedoo, in Somereetshire, oa Monday, the 11th isd
Lard Dunsany, the 14th baron of that title, was one of tits
representative peers of Scotland, and Lieutenant and Cub*
Rotuloram of the county of Moab, and formerly Rectum&
colonel in the Coldstream Guards, in which he served is
Holland and Egypt, at the landing in which latter mar,
he was severely wounded. His lordship war in his NI
year, and is succeeded by the Hon. Randal Edward Hu.
nett. The late lord had been a constant resident ca
property In the county of Meath, where he gave auk
employment to the poor.

(From list night's Gazette.)
ST. JAMES'S-PALACE, DEC. 14.—The Queen 111
been pleased to appoint the Rev. George Augustin Freida
Hart to be one of the Chaplains in Ordinary to her Rehilf.
WHITEHALL, Disc. 13.—The Queen has km
pleased to present the Itev. John Bobb to the dumb of
parish of Imside, in the presbytery of Dear. and Kat
of Aberdeen, vacant by the death of the Rev. Jobs lamb
late minister thereof.
WAR.OPPICE, Dze. IS.
9th Lt. Desge.—Osr. H. A. bust to be lieut., by par., vita Bon
&AGM prom.; W. W. Arbuthnot, Gent., to be oor, by pW, WII
Seri
tun la. Drags.—Cor. J. Drummond, to be heat, by per, its
Pselmr, who ret. ; F. B. H. Carew, Gent., to be ow., by par, WO
DedmilwiL
15th LL Mrsp.—cer. J. H. D'Azwy Haden, to be lieut, by pat,
vise cuesta s. who rot; W. 0. Bird. Cent., to be ens, by par, WW
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SNOB Pallier Oda—Capt. P. L. C. Port, from 5 ith F., to be list.
sal apt., vim Hay, who mad
Illtiaag. v.—L&eot H. B. Norman, to be cant, vitiation,
vise Mellbwirceth, died able wounds; Ens. P. B. Loess. to to bey
vies MseMai.
leth P.—Lieut. A. Lowry, to be cent., by per, rice WMuseia,
mt.; Tam. W. E. Hepburn, to be lieu by vice Lowry;
bs aw., by par, rilhaV—(apt.
H. G. Hart to beWeeby par vies Pew, pro.
soled in the fad West India Best (feat FL 9.1 D. Polka lobe
met., by par., vim Hart; Ma. W. W. Mallknd to be heat lining
vice Talton ; Gent. Cadet O. H. Lamb, dm the Royal 011,10
be ens., by pur., vice Maitland.
84th P.—ut. and Capt. J. W. Hay, ham the Book Pai9ll Wig
to be Olpt, vise PRO, who whinge&
Bath P.—Liettt.. J. M. ILUDI10" C. B, to be col., vice list.
Gas. J. Wardlaw, deereed.
kind F.—Lieut. J. M. M. Hewett to be adjt., vice Undid, its
nmix the adjutoasy only.
IL Lem to be rapt, without pines, viee G. G. Maws
who fate. on f.. 0.; Ens. D. C. A. Delicate to be lieut., vier Lees.
99th P.—LIM. W. Illnebin to be rept., by pur., vice Hewmime* to
n,
rata.; Ens. J. H. Armando, to be Bat., by ply.,
0. L. C. @myth., gent, to be ens , by par., vice A
tad Walt India Regt.—ltalor W. It Pater, treranmattlileveStit F, is 114
Itent.-eaL, by per., eke Allen, who retires.
Thurractow.—Lieut. J. IL Warkkobure, from the 9th Lt. DM",
to sept., by per.; Lieut. A. lisnae, from tat Royal Nowise&
led Onimsides, te rapt, without pee.
Masenasown.—The removal et les. J. C. Goodfellow, tram the
IMh F. to the Uri 7, SI stated la the Casette of 15th Mai
has been eassalleL Capt. T. Souks, wen b..p del* lei Wallas
law leen permitted to retire from Ur army, by the We do
urienial semaise, as a esphda et infantry, briat WWI
Made at the Caps of Good Hops.

THE SEAT FOR TRUIIO.—The Plymouth Amid
says: " Since the death of Mr. Turner several candidate
halo been spoken of besides iiumphry Milhaud, Esq. 30
Samuel Spry, lint , of Tregolls, the defeated of Borings,
spoken of by the tortes."
CHOLlas.—Yeaterday the Beard of Health IV
°lived reports of the following fresh caw Whitectispel. 4;
fit. Oleos, 2, 1 fatal; Cambridge, 2 fatal; Monkeemmoodb
2 fatal ; Edinburgh, 8, 6 fatal ; Gisegow, 14 fatal; Marrs&
town, 18, 6 fatal ; Dumfries, 1 ; Furnvald, 2 fatal; CmldM
(Ml; Beloaaghie, near Castle Douglas, 1 fatal ; LeaaCA•
towE, I fatal ; Heim, 4, 1 fatal ; Mathew, 1. Total, 83
saw assns; 37 deaths.
BANK or ENOLAND.—The quarterly court for the
tmassotion of the usual routine business was held on Thew
day. The moretary read the minutes et the last quintal/
well as throe of the adjournment day, when the
os of the amount of dividend was determined by Wl'
e rhiedi was confirmed ; and there being no other Winne
the court was adjourned. The whole of the proceedMif
occupied merely three minutes and a half, during Moo
there was not a single proprietor present.
NATIONAL PROVIDENT INBTITUTION.—The Mug
meeting of this institution was held yesterday at the Lochs
Tavara, when the thirteenth report of its state and raped•
was submitted to the members. The directors therein ob
ems' that during the past year 1,679 proposals ivr
rime had bass submitted to the board, and of three 1,428
had bean assepted, and policies thereon issued, the mall
premiums cm wkielt amount to 24,473 i.; 137 more had bent
accepted, but en ewe the policies had not yet been non-
Tye rinoakdellt 113 proposals the directors had ea-
' lidera' it prudent togooline. The annual income is immems6

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