The Express.
London, England, 1847-01-12 00:00:00

CAPE OF GOOD HOPE.

We have been favoured with the perusal of an in-
teresting letter from an intelligent private soldier on the
Kaffir frontier. The wry dates of the letter are indicative
of the unsettled state of the country in which the writer is
stationed. It is begun at the commander in-chiera camp,
on the 18th of October, and finished at Block Drift camp on
the 29th. This is later intelligence from Block Drift than is
contained in any of the newspapers; it announces the arrival
of Sir Peregrine Maitland ; they only mention hi; being on
his way. The writer expremes considerable scepticism as to
the pacific professions of the Kaffir chiefs. From head-
quarters he writes :—" They are imams fur peace on their
own terms." And from Block Drift :—" We expect to
move again very shortly, as nearly the whole of the
Kaffir chiefs are about to surrender, and they
have sent in a great quantity of arms, cattle,
anal horses, as an earnest of their intentions, but we must,
even now, keep a strict eye on them, or they will take
us in."
The main interest of the letter, however, consists in its
real presentment of the state of the troops, and the harassing
duties they have to perform. Speaking of the camp at
head-quarters, we are told:
This is the don of all the camps, everything in apple-pie order.
We have Dthrtoons, Cape Mounted hill Artillery, 'tappers and
Miners, detachments of Han 45th and 90th Light Infantry, Hottentots,
Dutchmen, Fingers, and Malaya We &nu altogether as motley
an army as ever was
,gared on, and most of s..re like Folders
men, " rather ragged.' I expect we would at a tidy Arse if re-
viewed in Hyde-park, alonetiii.e of your gallant household troops. • •
A few days after our arrival the Kaaba had the audacity to come
close to the camp and drive off 55 slanght. r oxen that were out Free-
ing. Directly we knew of our low all was animation, the camp
trumpets rounding to hone, bugle calling the infantry, and off
we all ouirted PP hard ea tee could go over the road
we thought the, were meat likely to t ake. At five miles
we came upon the vow., which we followed nearly ten
miles along the sand on the ailswe, till we came to the mouth of a
river, where they appeared to bare struck inland. A eouple of miles
further we came up with the whole of the cattle, driven by only floe
of them (had not they a cheek !). The country was quite open, and
precluded all chanty or escape. Two fell by our firs in the attempt;
the Europeans would have spired the others, but the Hottentots (who
ore ut deadly feud with the came up and despatched them,
donned merrily round their warm belies, and strippid them. The
cattle were rent back to camp under charge of the cavalry, and the
foot prrpsrol to retrace their morning's route. When we reached
the sea, the tide bad risen, and we had ten miles to walk over dry
Isom sand knee deep. We had been marching • ornt hnuro without a
deep of water to dila. Many attempted to lie down, but quickly
me again, for the cold wind writ,' bosh of nand, that would
Mee covered them in three minute.. Night was beginning to
and I thought we should never reach the rump, for an of
In In our legs from draggingthmugb the deep heavy rands.
An epic la the reeks at loot allowed us to get on firm land, and
1111. char water was found. All ran to it, elbowing and Mining,
irMent regard to etre or rank. It was a deep ditch, with a couple of
Mt of nice mud before you could reach the water. Of and men
plunged in liken bevy of young otters, tiding their boot. with mad
and their stomach. with water. We then lay doom for half as hoar.
When we thought of starting again the water and mid wind had dons
their work; moot were so KM as to be incapable of exertion, and
I many had cramps in the Inside. Some of those who were ben obis
volunteered to go to the camp as quickly se possible, and send back
aid. Soon after their departure we strove to get on • little way, tar-
rying those who were too bad to walk. After we had got two miles
the surgeon met us with men, spare bores, blanket,, and brendy.
We rrached the camp alter a march of 54 miles, 20 of theta over Mae
sand, without any refreshment but some cold water.
Such are the hardships our soldiers have tar endure in that
miserable carnpaian, in order to reclann some threescore
bullock., losing which they must have gone on short allow-
ance. Soon after this adventure the writer was marched off to
Patii's Kraal,where 3,009 head of stolen cattle were retaken.
No effort was made by the Kaffirs to detain them; but ten
days' marching, on an average 13 hours per day, through a
country worse than described in the above extract, with only
ft.ur days' rations, and the cattle captured, are more wearing
out than a fight. The crossing of the Keiskarnrna by this
detachment conveys a lively impression of what it had to
undergo :
We had to d.enend an abyss of loose rand and thorny term. Walk
down you mild not, and so we threw ourselves down, caching bold of
a tree occasionally to break our fall, by which means we gat nicely
tern withthorna both flesh and clothe. We had now to cress tho
river, which was up to the middle. We all took off our tmyraers, sad
rotting our belts and piovisions in them, tied them on our head% slung
our nrelotke limos our necks unit plunged in. The bottom woo large
mandataries, slimy with the action of the water, :And directly von
stepped in off went your feet into a hole, and your body immersed up
to the neck. We were an boor getting through, and it was not atom
twice the brtailth of the Regent's emit."
With this exoenditure of-physical exertion, they had to
march all day through a deserted country, carrying arras.
cross-belts, 60 rounds of ammunition, haversack, canteen
for water and tin, &c., for cooking, blanket, and big
coat, and sometimes an axe. At night they hail to sleep in
the open air, sometimes unable to kindle fires, on account of
the heavy rains. Scarcely did a detachment return from one
such expedition, ere it was ordered one on another.
This is the must disheartening aerviee a sold it r can be seat
upon. We can sympathi-e with the colonials, who, ha-
rassed for yearn by Kaffir marauders, and seeing no prospeFt
of a aatislartary settlement of frontier disturbanoes, complain
of the army. But we eau also enter into the feelings of our
gallant countrymen, when, after recapitulating such ad-
ventures as these, we have been detailing, be breaks out—
" These e iloilists soy we do nothing : d—n them, I wish they
had a taste of it."
The letter contains some admirable descriptions of scenery
and plunth.ird mi•sith,avy villafpa ; but we have prelerr(xl
quoting the practical illustrations of what our troops un-
Arn dergo.
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THR GF.RIIAN OVERLAN D POST.—The regular
march of this pest may be expected to produce a favourable
change in English opinions of Germany. At present
the English pap. rs derive their Get man news, as well as
that from Italy, Spain, Itussin, and the Levant, chidly from
the correspondence prepared in Paris. But this, having
passed Livros gh French journals, is frequently so altered
that we who are wal acquainted with it can hardly recog-
nize it in is new form. As an effect of the German over-
laid post we may expect that the London papers will be led
to extract German news from our own papers rather than
from their Paris correspondence. If we are well instructed,
next yeek four or five numbers of the Allgememe
Zeituna will he, at once, delis' 'red in London, and the
Gaily News, in spito ut the jealous efforts of the combina-
tion, will give the latest news from the cast of gimp.,
Aligenteine Zeitutig.

I

glbt i gun.
The QueEn and Prince Albert walked early yester.
jay is Claremont Park. H. It. U. Prince Albert atterwarde
the sport of shooting. attended by some of the
n of the myal suite.
Their R.R.H.II. the Prince of Wales. Prince Alfred,
do princess Itoyal, and e Prioc, as Alice, took walking
sad riding ezercine vesterday morning..
The Hon. and Rev. C. Leslie Courtenay left Clare-
pot yestentsy. In the afterntsott Her lit.ienty and her
soil Comfort promenaded in Claremont Park, and the
loyal Family took Bair usual airings.
A deputation front the Irish Itsilway Companies,
of Mr. J. G. Frith, Mr. W. 11. omit, Sir J.
Mr. I'. Tyrre'l, and Mr. F. H. !lemming, hat en
tibpelew with Ih .rd J. Ruseell yesterday at his oltici at mai-
awe m Doscong-street.
Mr. T. E. May, and Mr. S. Smith, had an inter-
,tre with the Bight Hon. E. Strutt yesterday, at the office
dthe Cometisd then of Railway.. Mr. Parker, I'., had
'oon intersiew with the right hon. gentleman yesterday.
The Rev. &once Smith hail an interview with Earl Grey
tidy at the Contiiinnoffice. The Archhishop of Canter-
ing had an interview with Sir G. Grey 'entering at the
Nome-office. Sir J. Walmsley hail an Interview with the
Sight Hon. T. DI. Gibson yesterday, at the office of the
Beard of Trade.
Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial-
from the G.gernors of Nen' Zealand, Cigna), and
the Car ..t G oil !lope.
The Chancellor of the Exchequer arrived in town
rate'sy evening, from Ilieklettrinsall, D dirinter.
RETIREMENT ov M R. NIALTRY,TII K NIA(IIsTR ATE.—
Mr. Maltby has resign, d on account of ill hvilth, and in to
be succeeded by Mr. Bingham, from the Worship-street po-
bct•cour.
oF NIR. CR, LATE M.P. Tolt ClREN-
onba.—Bfe have to record the th nfsei of anothg veteran
beibtar, Joneph Cripm, H.q., lateM.P. for Cirencester, who
on tke Bth loot., at Ashcroft, near that town, aged 81.
Ns was a banker in the lumdigh. au Kest India proprietor,
ad a governor of the Van Diemen's I. mil Company. In
off be was of cted for Cirencester, and continued to repres
-Mg it until 1811, when le retired, and w ts succeeded by his
4" OM of the present member*. When Etig'istal mu
ilindened by a Frenchinvasiou, thingentleman commanded
*lay of volunteers.

COURT OF ALDERMEN.—Yeateriar, being Plough
Nesday, a court wan held for receiving thu present-
emile of the several wards. The foreman of the precinct
lop ef St. Dunsten's made a presentment against cor-
bel QM houses in Fe:ter-lane, helo• sing to the City
• ejlendon. which were male depositories of filth, to the
Ciihame and injury of the neighbourhood, and other
in the ;same sicinity, in which the lives of the
inhobitants were in constant deem, on account of
.I:ll=eus accumulation of offenrive mat:er in end shout
Dee. It also mentioned other dilapidated houses. Sir James
(the alderman of the ward) sail there was abundant
'saga evidence to show that the densely crowded state of
AliSeighbourhood, and tne want of sewerage, produced fever
.rem alarming extent in the close localities to which the
fluent alluded. The dangerous state ii,o•her house.,
.e=ded the building of them, should be also particularly
to by the Court of Aldermen. The Lord Mayor
mid the jury ought to imply, in caw of the apprehended tall
at any house*, to the district surveyor. Ile should himself
• Bike eare that the other matters alludes to in the present-
-MO should he attended to. The Cite Solicitor Paid that in
'4111111pwric•• (4: the event alteration in the law any person
. ileapprehended danger from a building could apply to the
Ditrist surveyor, and at once ohl ge him to move in the
Aim.
• 'WANTS' RIC:TITS.— Lan evening, a meeting of
tie farmers and agriculturists (convened by the Ferran,.
i Illal), leek place in the large saloon of Reelley's Hotel,
t. Blaekfriars, for the purport of enneidering the
of tenant right, with a view to obtain some reale-
Fest.
wure from the legislature, and to show how far a
• eleilingnlated system of tenant right he beneficial to the
. based. Mr. T. Fisher Hobbs, Mr. Shaw, and Mr. W.
Deseret, besides several other gentlemen, adareevd the
: Posting, and a committee having been appointed to Conlin U-
lids with the membt•rs of parliament on the subject, the
: lesilag ',Netted.
WESTMINSTER- PRIM E.—A meeting to consider the
isepseed eaction of a bridge at Charing-prom, in substitu-
• Oaks, the prey nt one at Westminster, washeld last night
of Westminster Literary Institution, Great Smith-street,
• tbs requisition earnestly soliciting the attendance of those
. aeons of opposing a meseure so inconvenient and costly to
Ile pablic,Bo destructive of important exieting inti rests, and
rito all improvement in the densely-peopled districts
estainster. Sir D. L. Evans, M.P., on taking the
' air, explained that the object of the meeting was to con-
' Agit the last course for preventing the removal and &boll-
; 800 of Westminster-bridge, a step which wax in direct oppo-
: titian to the report of the committee of the House of Commons,
: led tewhieh he wassueprieed the governmenteould have been
, bleed to lend a so,etion, without consulting the commis-
imam of that publi • building. which enjoyed a greater
.seat of traffic than any similar building in the world
t .arepting London-hrldie. (Hear, hear.) If any such pro-
, Delitiould be firelight before parliament, he should give it
Di wet derided opposition. The following resolutions were
Inedxnensly adopted :
!bet the pennon abolition of Westminster-bridge, and the appli-
Onisert ruads Iraiest by parlisment for its maintenance to the
dumber near therm-craw, is token and injurioua
en le
St. Margaret and S. John, and to in-
i eir she i=garrineinal reason. : --Bee mew it would
s,
: dem the laureeabaseed thoroughfare from Surrey to the
WilibliWWW, St. Jamen's-park, and the daily-increasing
a
i ef Pimlico and C'belses, and leave no coromuni-
neetteng wenn the river writ of t boring-crow free
: d le I and also became the cost of approaches to in bridge
! et linnler site alone would nufece for the erection of •
' man leap on, or eicne to, the present site. Recluse it
nia seetety put a stop to the opt dux of new stmtes through
assoloriounly crowded. in-draine. and dilapidated portions of thear
~ oar of which greets ho, already received the sanction of
) and preveat ell improvement., therein. Because the
Ts eanneske with the present bridge were laid out q commis-
: Memel= by parliamme. and a very large amount of property
h Ma a created war an impl cd agreement that a ladies
•
none be maintained by parlement on this spot for ever, and that the
indetinalon of • bridge na silent site (involving an enormous degas-
; Malice M the value of sea property and almost ruin to many lad-
. eldrAbleald be a leach dbith which ought not to receive the leo-
' en Imeleinied Ihebbeeependenna of the mog important cons
ems arleined he the therner resolution, and of the questions
Iheselst, beet. and ettilltelnial Invoked in the propueed fur erecting
• tie kegs neat Chealetememb and making the approaches thereto:
le meeting is of epees Sae ha substitution foe :bridge on the pre-
San site would be prates** of manifest public inconvenience, be-
gged It would throw the MAOus carriage traffic of Westminster-
nr,f
ra.nr:no TIP Iced t...ha,ttzo rentzt,r4terrlzbir,,iiigeo,nanad ultimately
spot thei,
sow at times iinpaisible by r, aeon of the immense triple from
• the City to the went end an.! si-stem suburb./ of the metropolis.
, . Meta ropy of the foregoing reentutions be forwarded to the commie.
news of Westminster-bridge. and that the memUers for the city of
• Illeestineter and the borough of Lambeth be rsinested, both as mcm-
,g . We of tea eommerden and one representatives in parliament, to
need elm appropriation of the property net apart for maintaining the
pima bridge to the erection of a bridge on a distant site; that a
acs es be formed to consider the best memo of opposing the
• endialie =mare, if expedient, in concert with other opposing
~....ad that a subscription be commenced to defray the neenwary
THawes, M.P., the Dean of Westminster, and Mr.
.- ',lately, were amongst those present.
ASYLUM FOR TIM 1)E.% F AND DUMB.- -An election
k eel place yesterday at the London Tavern, for the purpnee
, ef electing 30 from the list of candidates to so many existing
vacancies in the charity. The following are the nacres o
• the successful candidates, with the number of vote. for each
—F. Williams, 3,440 • Emma Thom on 3,439; Mary Anne
. Bear, 3,439; A. Horton, 3,437; Martha Malin, 3,436; S.
• Lynn, 3,43.5; R. G. Thompenn, 3,434; Martha Vaghy,
. 2,941 ; Eliza Beyes, 2,856; W. J. Vick, 2.852 ; Emma Lie,
2,916; E. J. Colley, 2.788; E. Lewis, 2,613; S. Taylor,
• 2,604; E. Walsh, 2,49-5; J. Finch, 2,470; Mary Stan-
ton, 2,443; M. E. Barnett. 2,401; G. Pike, 1.988; S.
Haynes, 1,726; J. Boom, 1,708; W. Driscoll, 1,551 • It. W.
Ridley, 1,437 ;W. J. Georpe, 1,046; J. Sheller, 999; Eliza
M. Allen, 9111 R. Fovs'er, 880; Louisa Fisk, 687; H.
Levy, 663: J. Stephens, 565
• lkils.3 WALwrr's SOlREES.—Yesterday evening the
first of a series of " musical soirees and sketches of cha-
racter" was given by Miss Ilarriet Walcott, formerly a
. member of the corps ctrawatique of the Theatre Royal,
Lyceum, at the Music-hall, Store-street. This lady ventured
upon a lase of ro ordinary difficulty. To entertain an audi-
ence wholly by the efforts of one individual, requires mere
than ordinary artistieal skill, and the venture a a b ild one;
and though Miss Walcott did not " achieve greatness," she
certainly succeeded in affording amusement, and as far as we
could ascertain satialaction to a respectable, hot, we regret
to say, remarkably thin audience. The first part of the
entertainment comprised the recitation and embody
ment by Min Walcott of "Collins' Ode on 'the Pas-
lions," aided by scenic effects, and aecompagjel with
the original music. The Recollections of Irela *served
to introduce several jokes, of which it may he cl, as
re
of "Squire Acre's ;lathe," that "nothing b their
antiquity makes them respectable." A new monntle
ti en-
tled ••1 will find him out," presented the artiste ight
different characters, in each and all of which Miss N cott
acquitted herself with great ability, and received, as sl/Pde-
served, general plaudits. Of the whole, however, we must
express our regret that the arrangements lack novelty, and
will, we fear, fail to attract that patronage and support which
will be remunerative. At ad event., we recommend a ,bit
to the entertainment provided, which, we believe, will be
repeated every evening during the present week.
POPULAR EDUCATION.—A lecture on this subject I
was delivered last evening at the National Hall, Holborn,
hy a Mr. Gurvey, whose name we do not recollect as having
been pin, lamely before the public. Slaving reviewed ail
: that up to the present moment has been done in this im-
portant metier, the lecturer proceeded to criticise the plan
' tstely propounded be Dr. Honk, of heed., whir,' lie pro-
nounced defective, because it retained the fault of, to some
extent, mixing up religious with secular education. 1)r.
Hook's plan, giving one system to the members of the
Church of England, and another to all sectaries, he likened
to the child's glove, which contained one place for the
thumb, and one other for all the finger. Mr. Blinee's late
letters came also under the lecturer's anima:version. The
aftertiin of that gentleman, that there were only in Eng-
land and Wales 62,000 children without school accommoda-
tion was perfectly ridiculous, there being more than that
number in London alone, who were wholly unprovided with
the mean., of education. Having alluded at axe length to the
intellectual destitution of the country prolud by the startling
. rut, that only 40 out of every 100 of the population could read
or write. Mr. Garvey contended that it we- 1 matter that re-
quired the immediate attention of governinctit. The work-
tag classes in this country had an equitable right to have
their children educated at the expense of the state. First,
becalm, they could not understand the requirements of the
constitution under which they lived without it : and, 2ndly

bemuse our socials ystem required that their whole energies
should be expended in the procuring food for themselves and
families, thereby rendering the education of their children
by themselves or at their own expense next to an impossi-
bility. Government should at once then undertake the good
work, undeterred by religious prejudice or political clamour,
and construct (or the people a smells of strictly secular edu-
cation, which, while it enables all to understand the truths
of religion, should leave each in the undisturbed possession
of his own peculiar mode of belief. Tho lecturer was much
cheered by an audience, which, although not very numerous,
was exceedingly attentive throughout.
REMOVAL OP TIIE ALMONRY IN WESTMINSTER.—
A step has been taken towards the Wedminster improve-
ments, in the removal of the Almonry, Westminster. Eight
or ten houses have already been pulled down, and others
will, no doubt, shortly follow.
LITERATURE Is A GONVICT-SIIIP.—The Thomas
Arbuthnot, convict-ship, Captain Thomson, sailed from
Spithead on Sunday. fur Port Philip, with a superior class
of delinquents, officially called "exiles." These are the
first "exiles" sent to the above settlement, which the in-
habitants of that respectable place are very wroth at, and
have memorialised the government on the subject. Themoet
ingenious trades and professions are carried on ou board this
ship; in fact, we believe all trades in vague have their re-
presentatives on board. The most ingenious affair, however,
is a newspaper in manuscript, published every Saturday,
having its f.reinn and domestic correspondence, advertise-
ments, and, indeed, all the necessary accessories to an ap-
parently well-conducted journal. The articles are well
written and the arrangements well made. The name of

this paper is the ritad;l, and the conductors dub the captain
of the ship " the governor." The Citadel having no oppo-
nents enjoys a large circulation. The editor is a man who
has been of considerable note in the legitim ite literary
world; but all names and circumstances in connection with
their present position is strictly preserved secret with re-
gard to these exiles," the great majority of whom are
juvenile offenders from Millbank, Pentonville, and Park-
hurst (Isle of Wight) prisons.

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AMERICAN PROJECT FOR IRISH EMIGRATION.—
The Belfast Vindicator contains the following "We are
enabled to state, on the authority of private letters from re-
lipectable parties in New York, that a plan for enabling the
destitutelrish to emigrate, on an extensive wile, from their
present wretched habits.inns to the deli..htful valley of the
Mississippi, is in contemplation in that city. The outlines
of the project are these : —A large monied company is to be
formed in New York. By this company ten good ships, at
the least, will be provided to bring out Irish families, for the
purpose of forming a colony in the valley of the Mississippi.
Th.. company will have its own responsible agents both in
Ireland and America; it will supply to each family no
brought out 100 acres of hind, implements of tillage, nod
everything neces my for their new condition during the first
twelve months The remunerations from the colony to the
company would he by yearly instalments, extending over
several Tears, in order to make the repayment of the ex-
penses incurred easy to the settlers. It is believed that, by
this means of transit, 10,000 souls could be removed from
the shores of Ireland to the banks of the Mississippi in a

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RISE OF TILE THAMES.—WESTMINSTER PALACE.
—1 have noticed, for nearly half a century, the gradual and
regular rim of the waters of the river Thames. My atten-
tion was first drawn to it by finding that extreme high. tides
were not preceded, nor succeeded, by similar tides. These
were recorded by the watermen of the Westminster llore-
ferry, by notches cut by them on a post there, ere the pant
was removed when the street was raised. I now observe,
that professional men in reporting on some localities, such
as Westminster, say that the sewers there were originelly too
low. But it appears that the said sewers were high enough
when they were first made ; but are not so new, owing to
the rise of the river. It appears that I ant the first
person who has noticed a cireunritance so universally
continuously evident. The architects of modern as
well as ancient buildings were not aware of it, as
will be too plainly seen by referring to the floor of
Westminster-hal, the upper line of the starlings of old
London-bridge, the gate of Lambeth Palace, the York-
Water gate, Adelphi, the level of the wharfs there, &e. 'the
ground-line or plinth of the palatial Houses of Parliament is
already below the level of extreme high tides. The dif-
ference of the rise of the highest tide before the Parliament
Houses were burnt down, to the last highest tide, viz. in I
December, 1845. is but ten inches. The prece ;lag highest
tide was in October, 1841. These two tides were very care-
fully noticed at the " Fox under the lull)," Adelphi, the
people there being up at the late hours both these tides
occurred at ; the difference was exactly one inch ; the Ue
of elevation are painted in the tap-room there.—Correspowl-
era of the Builder.
SLAUOIITER-HOUSES.—The slaughtering of animals
in towns is necessarily attended by circumstances which
render the practice injurious to the health of the com-
munity; and it is very questionable whether any regu-
lations, short of prohibition, will materially amend the
present state of things. It is no doubt possible to &holed'
private establishments of this kind, and to compel all
parties to make use of those specially provided for the
purpose; but so long as the practice itself is permitted
within the precincts of towns, so long will it be a
public nuisance requiring removal. The views ezpressed
on this subject in the second report of the Sanitary Com-
, mireioems, are very decided, and, we think, perfectly
yarranted by the facts of the case. The commissioners
'state that, " the efflavia arisir.g from the blood and the
entrails of animals, where recently slaughtered, renders
the carrying on of such business in the precincts of large
towns incompatible with due sanitory regulations, even
when the offal and filth see speedily and effectually re-
moved. In scarcely one instance, however, in which sham-
bles or slaughter houses have come under the observation
of the cemmissioners, either in the metropolis or in provin-
cial cities and towns, have there been fount in force any
regulations or authoritative supervision to compel the speedy
and regular removal of offal from, or the effteient cleansing
of such places. They have, on the contrary, been found to
be, almost withoet exception, centres of the diffusion of
noisome influence*, affecting, with more or less intensity,
the immediate vicinity, deteriorating the sanitary condition
of the surrounding population, commonly poor and item*,
as recorded in the local reports of the commissioners, and Let
• more remote degree vitiating the general atmosphere of
the town, and thus becoming a nuisance to the inhabitants
at large.—HeoftA of Towns' Adcoeste for January.
AN ILLUSTRATION OF THE WORKING OF THE
QUARANIINE Lawn.—The following case affords a striking
proof of the hardship which the 'mice enforcement of this
law occasionally inflicts. The vessel Sir C. Napier, of
Southampton, was on her voyage from Fero, laden with a
perishable cargo of orange., lemons, and figs. After having
encountered a suecession of stormy weather and a hurricane,
in which the bulwarks were stove, and the creek-house on
deck, and a brat, swept away, they were scoring Scilly,
when they fell in with a vessel in a sinking state, which
proved to be the brig Syron, of Sunderland, bound to Liver
pool, from a port in the Black See, with a cargo of linseed.
There were on board her, the captain and ten men,
who were rescued from their approaching destruc-
tion with great difficulty by the Sir C. Napier,
Mr. Hicks. 'rite homeward voyage having been pro-
longed beyond the ant)) ipated time, the pros Unties
on board the Sir C. Napier, originally only calculated for
six hands, were running short, and the addition of eleven
others to oh ire the scanty supply at once reduced all on
boar.) to an exceeding short allowance. The little store,
however, was cheerfully portioned out to the shipwrecked
men, who partook equally with their rescuers as long as
a biscuit remained on board. In working up channel
Capt. Hicks was compelled to run into Cheese! Cove, near
Portland, to obtain a fresh supply of biscuit, and he then I
came on up to Southampton, where he arrived on Sunday I
last. During this time all on board had suffered consider-
ed* hardship from the limited sleeping room in so small a
mewl, and what little food they had cooked had to be
dressed in the cabin, in consequence of the cook-house
being wa-had away. Here, however, instead of le ins released
at once from their comfortless position' the vessel was seat
down to the lotherliatik to perform five days' quarantine,
because the shipwrecked men, who had been takta on board
at great risk, sod in the exercise of • noble spirit of huma-
nity, had been rescued from a vessel coming from a port
which would have rendered her liable to that period of do.
tention in quarantine, had she arrived safely, instead of
sinking beneath the waters of the Bev of Biscay. The law
admitted no relaxation; the quarantine was endured, and
the vessel was not released until Thursday morning, wham
she arrived in the docks, and landed the nnfortuuate crew
of the Syron who were loud in their expressions of grad-
tilde for the truly humane manlier in which they hod bees
treated by Captain Hicks and the crew of the Sir C.
Napier. It was not, however, only the el:teen persons
on board the vessel who suffered from the enforcement of
the quarantine; the consignee of the cargo, Mr. T. B.
Thompson, has, we hear, sustained considerable toes by
the detention of the vessel. The cargo being of so
notoriously a perishable nature, it was, of course, a great ob-
ject to get it landed as quickly as possible, and when the
vessel came up on Sunday the fruit was in tolerable condi-
tion, the previous cold weather having counteracted the ef-
fect of the prolonged voyage. But the change which then
took place, awl whiter has since continued, to a mild temper-
ature, and moist state of the atm sphere, began to affect the
cargo, which has greatly deteriorated in value from this
cause. Mr. Thompson is thus made to pay
fo in puree, asee the
crew of the Sir C. Nit:4er did in person, r the exerci of
their humanity in saving the lives of eleven fell° e-creatures.
—Harnp_shire Guardian.
A Vont> ABOUT GAME.—TiIiS peculiar, landlord-
created burden on agriculture is a constantly irritating and
festering sore on the rural body. Few of our readers will
forget Lord Hardwicke's description of the hopeless state of
depression of his tenants, and of the ill cultivation of Ws I
farms, and that we suggested at the time that those evils
were probably caused))) the mismanagement of the landlord.
Now, that view is confirmed by the following paragraph we
meet with in a local paper :
eerie...m.l,er Imerseieues k shooting pier OR a
snot w the Edr, of ih.,rdwiel.e, of ‘i impoie ILdl, CAtobritlitruldre,lant
week, durinr foot hour. in each of three eueerasive day., killed 340
rheas:AMA, 303 hares, 9 woodcocks, and 3lin rabbits; total, 1039. The
pure. we have been informed, enneiri•ed the Fad of Hardwie ke,
the 31einnita of Exeter, Lord I,eett, Lord thsybrooke, lion. C.
Drummond, lion. E. Yorke, and one other gentleman.
If six gentlemen can, in four hnnrA, kill 1,039 head of those
destructive vermin—game, on ono estate, what must he the
condition of the tenantry' Let the English farmers answer
the quesfion. If the game killed amount to one-sixth of the
whole quantity upon the estate—which is far too teeth
an estimate—there will he upwards of 5,000 of these de-
stroyers left to breed and batten en the scanty crops of the
impoverished tenant of the Wimpole estate, until, probably,
this time 12 mouths, when the porting destruction of them
11111," afford anotherfour hours' APOILT to six idle gentlemen,
Well may the tenants exclaim—" It may be sport to lords
and squires, but to tenant-tarmers it is ruin." The remedy,
however, is in the farmer,' own bonds. They should quit
We farof ganni-pressre.rs at all hazards, f.r no tenant
can eve err
thrive nn a game-ridden farm, sad leave such pro-