The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-01-24 00:00:00

THE NORTHERN TIMES.---LIVERPOOL, SATURDAY:

THE WAR IN CHINA.

A despatch from Constantinople, dated Wednes-
day, brings the following intelligence

"ALEXANDRIA, JAN. 15.
" The Calcutta steamer has arrived at Suez with
advices from Hong Kong to the 16th of December.
Yeh, backed up by the gentry and people, con_
Untied obdurate.
" The French Folly Fort had been taken and
destroyed.
"The Chinese had set fire to the factories, and
all the Aongs were destroyed.

" The Oriental, Agra, and Mercantile Banks
'were on fire, with no hopes of saving them.
" One fatal accident had occurred, 0. T. Lane,
nephew to Sir J. Bowring, being killed by the
falling in of a wall.

" It was said the city of Canton would no longer
1)e spared, and that the discharge of rockets and
shells had already commenced."

THE EXPEDITION

TO THE

PERSIAN GULF.

We learn from Trieste, by way of Vienna, the
lonowinct
The Lloyd steamer arrived; this evening at
Trieste with the following 1-iews
"'The British fleet as- taken possession of
lort of Bushire and the island of Karrak.'"

FOREIGN INELLIG ENCE.

FRANCE

PARIS, THURSDAY EVENING.
,Ferukh Khan paid a visit of ceremony •to Count
walewski, Minister of Foreign Affairs, yesterday,
icl presented his credentials to the Emperor
e day.
Kern, the Swiss Envoy Extraordinary, has
(irrived in Paris.
b The long pending case of the heirs of Louis
4-hillippe against Valette was brought to a con-
clusion to-day. The defendant, M. Valette, is the
vessessor of some very curious manuscript, being
a continuation of the historical work of Father
knselna. Many parts of these manuscripts
are in the handwriting of LOlll3 Phillippe, and
hle rest is supposed to have been dictated by
b- It is well known that he devoted many
'ears of his life, when Duke of Orleans, to the
title Valette,
of an historical work, with the above
Valette, who is a well known collector of
manuscripts, lately offered the work in question for
'ale to the Orleans family. After a good deal of
cot
„I'esPondence the princes of the house of Orleans
-rieinsed to buy the work, and b rought the present
beti°ll, alleging that the manuscripts must have
"n stolen from the Tuileries in February, 1848,
and that M. Valette could not have come honestly
1,3' theca. The Civil Tribunal of the Seine, has,
ti(a)wever, decided that there is no evidence to show
that M. Valette (who appears to have purchased
manuscripts at a sale as waste paper), had
ialo,Tainineer.d them in any illegitimate or irregular
The Court has accordingly dismissed
the complaint with costs to be paid by the Orleans
family.
1. The Bourse opened with a slight tendency to
butl, the movement did not continue, and busi-
tion invathimited. There is now a marked diminu
-reguliamti°ne'rX,riubje.r of operations, owing to the new
'ash and a nng payment for entrance to the
7::.;ollllfsetefoclosed tl rise of 10c for
Nn7tl, lata 681 5c and 68f
Bank of France ferlla2escfo.o Mobilier was nearly
more.citationary. Railways were languid, with scarcely
than a variation of 2f or 3f either way. It is
Iltetty confidently thought that the basis of the
41'rangement between the Orleans and Grand
l'entral will be the exchange of shares aainst
°rle;lns obligations. g
at the the close of the Bourse it was announced that
bullion in the Bank of France had been con-
4,ably augmented within the last two days
leg to large payments made by two great houses

TATEST PARTICULARS RESPECTING
VERGER THE ASSASSIN.

lit The
Paris correspondent of one of our metropo-
biwn eotemporaries thus writes on Wednesday
of
ris respecting the murderer of the Archbishop
Ve;:,the police are on. the look out for copies of
'''er.B books, which it is feared may be intro-
.aeea
'Tom Beirgium. It would be a good specula-
earn °r PUbVigher to bring them ont collated and
Mented.
'ant v.•We ought to know what this man
tetiti,:-Ns'il.at were his theories, and what his in-
;Pril,„;:B% They say he does not consider the
r'at, 'de over yet. He does not give up hope ;
14 • lives on in the belief that he will be able to make
'a revelations at the second trial, in which he im
au they believes. It is not likely that he can indulge
exPectation of a free pardon. One remarkable
fit;' in the trial has not been sufficiently insisted
iu , scarcely ever alluded to his act, and never
i,ernas of contrition. In fact, the act disappeared
ae" Were : the whole ceremony was nothing but
eon exhibition of a man of great energy, who had
iernitted a tremendous crime, who believed that
1)40"p/bitting it he was doing good, and whom
koAle came to look at before he was guillotined.
'td not choose to be merely looked at, but
.1"
N) t° make himself heard. Judges (packed) and
The tatters were indignant, and got in a passion.
lied hint
over-topped them by a head, so they
Per 'int silenced by main force. The appeal of
Ivie,,er against the decision of the Court of Assimes
LinL'e discussed tomorrow by the Court of Cassa-
.; end, although that court is not composed
14,,,r.ernarkably upright judges, many persons
aedlet. in saving that the sentence will he revoked,
•I hay new trial ordered. The informalities, which
ep Ie Pointed out in their general character, were
4ett:lPY and so flagrant, that the trial was a per-
'arce. The conduct of the judge was simply
He absolutely entered into an altercation
tire' the accused, and once exclaimed, " You
kial,thadman ! " Every one accuses the counsel
auk he defence for not taking up this admission,
heals4e°lomenting upon it. The judge, or the
, Pronounce the prisoner to be mad, and yet
111),- condemned to death ! This is evidently
pir-strous.
Then there is the affair of the witnesses.
I;ite4„'Verger is refused permission to call his sixty
criverVlce, who were to show that he had been
q!.11-:' to Phrenzy, not only by persecution, by the
Argil
a.of the horrible corruption of the priests and
ag '‘eS, to whom he was subjected as absolutely
Leyte-]deer is to his officer—more absolutely. We
it Ili.ll°thing to do with the value of this defence :
Pro the the only one Verger had to offer, and the
4'tl4,acilities are that it was in order to make an
But .-11 re that he committed his unheard of crime.
he was refused permission to call his wit-
trial" until the last moment—the eve of his
tliSt`bwilen, by way of derision, he was told,
at hi". a beggar, might call the said witnesses
irll;B,°ten expense ! No wonder that this infamous
'4(41 urov_
e the accused beyond all patience ; and
14", -eu• him so that he suffored himself to be
rtißQi„ beyond bounds, and gave an excuse for
th—g him out of court—so that he not only
fiZe °Pportunity of having evidence given in
,ati;:°ll, but of defending himself. At the trial
twit4„'r statement was made with respect to these
' " If they had been called, they must
"Ith „nail silenced." All these facts, combined
Nat,,-
~7e disappointed curiosity of the public, have
an almost general opinion in favour of a
a"rial ; and, if the Court of Cessation refuses
t.stipoe,.,°nen.t, it will increase its undoubted
the - • A. very odious system is adopted
clergy and it friends. Whoever
"It
st on the illegality of the proceedings
Saturday is accused of being an approver of

Verger's act ; so that in mixed society many people
express their impressions rather timidly. For my
part, I find it necessary constantly to apply to him
the most contemptuous word in my vocabulary,
and call him a Bonapartist. The wretched man
did, indeed, use expressions at his trial which
justify this epithet; but as he may have merely
sought in this way to obtain a hearing, it is possible
that I have uttered a calumny. As to the stories
with which the papers are now crammed about
his conduct in prison his letters imploring
clemency of the Emperor—his various alter-
nations of hope, and confidence in his
manner—his former life—all these must be looked
upon with extreme incredulity. We know nothing of
this mysterious being; but what could be gathered
from the few phrases he was allowed to utter at
his trial. What stress can we lay on reports of I
conversations with his father, coming from people
who, a fortnight ago, averred of their own know-
ledge that the said father had cut his throat years
ago ? Of course, now that the man is confined in
the awful prison of La Roquette, in a strait waist-
coat, it is easy to publish defamatory details about
him. He is not likely to have another oppor-
tunity of denying them, although they attribute
to him the absurd hope of being released,
and being able to reward with money his
defender, who betrayed him. There is but
one opinion, indeed, as to the speech of M.
Nogent de Saint-Laurens. It was a monstrous
mockery. He called his client "ce malheurt-dx,"
and strung together a a few short ph
effect that he was mad. One wov.l,- r.' es to the
A imagine that
the fee which Verger.
had ;:)een unable to give
him had come to h
from another direction.
The effect
.of all, these ciroutnstances was so
strong on f.::Le. minds of the jury that it was only,
I b'ffeve, by a bare majority that the verdict
Of guilty was found. The jury was far from
unanimous, at any rate. Many of them obstinate-
ly desired to acquit, on the ground that no defence
had been allowed; others wanted to find " extenu-
ating circumstances ;" but the majority, however,
of one, two, or three, voted for death. No one
blames them—although all would have applauded,
had they, in soue way, expressed their disgust at
the scene they had beheld. Of course, Verger
deserves death, if he cannot be classed among
madmen; but his trial is none the less infamous.
All good men are horrified, and disturbed in
conscience; and women go about propheysing
strange things to come. It is impossible, indeed,
not to admit that the half revelations of this crimi-
nal priest, corresponding, as they do, to the suspi-
cions and even experience of most people, have
given a heavy blow to the church in France. It is
natural that pure minds should shrink from a
house, which calls itself the House. of God, and
in which such terrible things happen, whether it
be the nameless sin that maddened, or the bloody
crime by which the madness exhibited itself."

THE EMPEROR OF AUSTRIA AT MILAN

MILAN, JAN. 17.

On Thursday, the 15th, the Emperor of Austria
made his solemn entry into the Lombard capital,
which city he has not visited since 1851, and of
his reception on that occasion he does not appear
to cherish very fond recollections. This time,
however, as you have repeatedly heard, the local
Government has been indefatigable in getting up
a display that might look as like enthusiasm and
happiness as anything false and fictitious may
represent reality ; and to the honour of Baron
Burger, the Lieutenant of Lombardy ; Signor
Martinez, the Director of Police; and Monsignor
Romilly, Archbishop of Milan, it must be said
that the whole ntise en scene was most admirably
managed as a theatrical exhibition. The inanimate
scenic arrangements consisted in some pasteboard
erections (for the most part in very good taste), as,
for instance, a kind of kiosk at Loretto, a village
about a mile from the town on the Bergamo road,
where the Emperor and Empress were to alight
and dress, and receive the homage of the
Milanese aristocracy; a triumphal arch at the
" Porte Orientale," through which the procession
was to pass ; and a Gothic cross in front of the
Cathedral ; together with posts decorated with flags
and garlands at intervals all along the line from
Loretto to the town end of the Corso Orientale.
The houses on either side along the whole line from
Loretto to the Royal Palace were of course em-
bellished with something or other hung from every
window—that is in compliance with a standing
order of the police for aii Imperial fetes—and the
steeets were swept and fresh sanded during the
night previous to the arrival.

It is difficult in the uited efforts of the triad of
authority above mentioned to distinguish clearly
to which attribute any particular effect is due, but
I believe the Archbishop deserves most credit for
the town having been inundated with peasants even
on Wednesday, and who probably never left it until
atter the great event of Thursday, for the streets
were thronged with them at a very early hour on
the morning of Thursday. The exhortations of the
country clergy in the neighbourhood under his in-
structions most likely produced this ; but whoever
was the originator of the scheme deserves great
praise, for it.. Was wonderfully successful, and on
Thursday, when the Emperor passed, there was
10'; above one per 1000 of Milanese to country
people in.the line of procession, so completely had
the latter taken possession of the town.
The entry, which was at first announced for 11
a.m.; was postponed to 2 p.m., and, finally, about
3 p.m. the guns of the citadel made known to the
lieges the arrival of their Majestiesat Loretto To
Loretto 108 gentlemen of Milan went to meet and
greet the Emperor.of whom 60 were unofficial, and
must therefore be considered as volunteers, though
some, I have heard, went under terror of the
Conscription Law being enforced against their sons.
The Emperor, I have been told, addressed very
few words to these gentlemen, but said he was
glad to see there were so many.
The Imperial and Apostolic toilets having been
made, the Emperor and Empress started in an
open carriage, followed by their suite, and by so
many of the carriages of those gentlemen who
went forth to meet them as the authorities thought
worthy to join in the train. Arrived at the city gate,
they were, of course, received by the Podesta, Count
Sebregondi, who read an address to the Emperor
full of ornamental phases, but containing also a
hope that the Imperial visit would contribute to
the amelioration of the city, and that his Majesty
would himself perceive the increasing wants caused
by the progress of society, which was, from some
reason or other, entirely omitted in the report given
by the Government Gazette. His Majesty replied
that he was willing to forget all that had occurred
within those walls, and hoped the Milanese would
give him reason to exercise his clemency. The
windows and balconies of almost all the houses
along the route of the procession were more or less
occupied ; but there were some exceptions which it
is said the Emperor himself observed and remarked
upon, particularly, the houses of Count Orese and
the Marquis Crivelli, as he seems to have expected
that the political refugees would have returned to
meet him, whereas there were only two, the Duke
Litta and the Marquis Raimondi. Notwithstand-
ing the vast crowd of persons thus collected to wit-
ness this show, there was not, as far as I was able
to judge, the slightest enthusiasm—certainly none
within earshot of where I was myself, and from
what I have been able to learn from others, none
elsewhere, except at the covered way where the
Imperial party passed on foot from the cathedral
to the palace, and where it was said the police had
stationed their best claquears. I ought to have
mentioned that the weather was remarkably propi-.
tious—a clear, crisp, frosty atmosphere, with bright
sunshine ; but it was hardly necessary to say that
there was a great display of troops on the occasion,
and these to the number of 15,000, as the govern-
ment G azette announces,defiled before the Emperor
after he reached the palace. The samo evening the
Emperor and Empress went to the Scala. The
theatre was well filled, but not with the right
people, that is, not with those who are ordinarily
there. It was a packed house, in fact, and the
packing was well enough done, had it not been
that the zeal of the packed carried them
beyond the bounds of reason. The applause given
to the Emperor and Empress was infinitely greater
on this occasion than the moat popular Sovereign

in Europe could have any right to expect.
From half-past 7 till half past 8, the audience
was kept waiting for the Imperial presence, but
at last, when the Emperor an Empress en-
tered, the long suppressed sentin-leuts of loyalty
burst forth like a torrent breaking into a new
course, so that if a perfect stranger had been pre-
sent, he might well hai'e fancied the Emperor
Francis Joseph was adored by the Milanese,
whereas every one knows that they are discon-
tented. But this was not all ; at the end of each
act the same thing was repeated, and when the
Imperial party rose to go away the house was
convulsed in the midst of the ballet. On Friday
there were receptions at Court. The Emperor
received all the different civil and reliaious cor-
porate bodies, and the military, and afterwards
the Empress held a Court. The Emperor's recep-
tions were of course numerously attended, seeing
that all the persons who went to pay their court
were officials of one sort or another, but the
number of ladies was extremely limited, having
been only twenty-five Lombards, one Piedmonteso.
one Tuscan, and five or six Germans. This
paucity of female aristocracy at Court in a city
which boasts of six hundred noble families, seems
to have astonished some of the German courtiers,
for the Countess Esterhazy, the Chief Lady of the
Empress, remarked that it would be impossible to
estaili-sir a Court at Milan, since there were no
materials from which to form it. Yon may con-
ceive the dismay of the Milanese on learning next
day this deliberate opinion of such an experienced
person. But the most annoying thing to those
ladies who did go to Court was no doubt that their
female friends and relations were either in their
balconies or in the Place of the Cathedral to see
them pass as they went to the palace, and possibly
said ill natured things of them afterwards. At the
reception his Majesty, the chief points that
seem to have caused remark were that, when he
received the magisterial body, he amused himself
from the ennui of a very tedious day of receptions,
and in reply to the Central Congregation,
he said :—" Gentlemen, I hepe you will know
how to preserve the provinces which you repre-
sent, in sentiments of fidelity to my per-
son." On the whole, his Majesty's manner has
not produced a favourable effect on those who
went to Court ; they say he is stiff and morose,
while the Empress has made herself a reputation
for amiability and prevenanee, and her good looks
have gained her many admirers of both sexes.
On the evening of Friday the Court again
went to the Scala, rather unexpectedly, so that
I was in hopes there might have been a chance
of seeing the Emperor and the Milanese brought
face to face in a natural state, but this was not
allowed. On Thursday evening everything was
prepared, and all went merrily as a marriage
bell, but it was very amusing to see the desperate
" whip" made on Friday to fill the theatre, to do
honour to their Majesties. It was only late in the
afternoon that notice was given that the Scala was
to be lighted "al giorno," thereby intimating that
the Emperor was to be present. There was not
much fear of the house being well attended even
if this notice had not been proma!gated, as
the box going public of Milan have, for the
most part, renounced the theatre for the
season, in order that their absence during the
royal visit may not appear invidious, but, after
after the announcement, it became necessary
to make arrangements for filling even the pit.
The performance was advertised in the supple-
mentary notice afore mentioned to commence at
half past seven, and the opera (the Trovatore) to
begin with the third act, which their Majesties had
not waited to see the night before. I went into
the pit about eight o'clock, and found the first four
rows, as usual, crowded with Austrian officers,
(these seats, which occupy the best part of the
pit, have been taken possession of by the garrison
by right of conquest, and are now railed off for
the exclusive use of the military), besides a fair
sprinkling of uniforms in other parts of the house,
but the pit far from full, and quite half
the boxes unoccupied. I presently perceived a
gentleman, who was standing near me, and who had
been surveying the different tiers of boxes with
much attention, beckon to a police commissary in
uniform, with a cocked hat, and three stars on his
collar. The commissary removed his hat with
great respect when signalled to, and approached
my neighbour, from whom he received some instruc-
tions apparently (their conversation was carried on
in whispers), and then went out. Shortly after the
exit of the commissary there was an influx of men
into the pit, of that peculiar type that at once pro-
claimed them as some of the lowest agents of the
police. About a quarter past eight the opera com-
menced without their Majesties, and it was not
until half past eight (an hour after the time named),
and after Giulini had sung the miserere, that the
Emperor and Empress entered the State box. On
their arrival the performance was stopped for a few
moments while the audience rose to applaud Roy-
alty—the applause being comparatively less than
the night before in the same proportion as the
assemblage was less numerous. In the meantime
many of the formerly unoccupied boxes had become
tenanted, so that the dearth of society was
not so remarkable, and after a while in came the
Commissary again and approached my neighbour,
to whom he gave sotto voce explanations, and
pointed out with his chin (livers parts of the house.
all which seemed highly satisfactory to the gentle-
man in mufti, for he smiled approval on the official
in uniform. Still my neighbour was not quite easy
in his mind. There was apparently one particular
box, the emptiness of which seemed to give him
anxiety. He went to the entrance of the pit and
called the attention of several people standing
there connected with the theatre, to the deserted
state of that box, and they all looked at it and
evidently spoke much about it, but whatever
opinions they may have offered on the subject
generally ended in a toss of the bead and a shrug
of the shoulders, and as the box remained tenantless
I presume the proprietors must have had a friend
at Court, though not at the Court of Francis Joseph.
(I should have observed before, that on the night
before the police took possession of the boxes not
occupied by the proprietors or their friends, and
there was not more than six boxes on the second
tier occupied by their right owners.) On Friday
night the Imperial party made their retreat almost
unobserved, and there was, consequently, no clap-
ping of hands on their retirement.

abroad, stating its willingness to enter into ne•
gociations for the regulation of the future relations
of Neuchatel, now that its preliminary stipulation
had been fulfilled by Switzerland, and this state-
nient of the Minister President points out how
the negociations are to ba carried on. The plan
of a Conference of the European Powers has
certainly the very bet reasons in its favour, but
I am- not aware whether this Government is in
possession of any more definite grounds for
choosing this course.
Of course, all the world has known a good deal
more fully and a good deal earlier than the inha-
bitants of these parts what has been going on in
Switzerland during the late crisis, for not only
were the diplomatic relations between the Govern-
ments of Prussia and Switzerland interrupted, but
also all letters addressed from there hither were
written with the greatest circumspection and cau-
tion on account of the danger attendant on being
suspected of Royalism by a population so excited
as the Radical fraction of Switzerland has begin

lately. In addition to these causes of a scarcity of
Swiss news here must be mentioned the parental
care shown by this Government in preventing its
subjects from being unnecessarily vexed by those
naughty Swiss ; the officials of the Prussian tele-
graph station in Frankfort had orders to transmit
no Swiss intelligence of an exciting nature ; and
the Swiss papers that contained anything of the
sort were either withheld by the police or by the
proprietors of places of public resort. This course
is no extraordinary innovation, but is in strict
conformity with the provisions of the law governing
the press, and the practice of the police in con
nexion with it ; nothing must be allowed to appear
in the columns of any journal that will produce
excitement or excite attention (was Auffallen erregt,
means something between the two) ; and it is
also in conformity with that cardinal axiom of
the civic morality of Prussia and Germany, viz.,
Rube est die erste Burgerpflicht (tranquillity is the
foremost of civic duties). It may be easily ima-
gined that where such views as these prevail in
administrative and private circles, social and poli-
tical life resembles only a stagnant pool, overgrown
with bureaucratic duckweed, which, it affords high
delight to the ducks and geese that float at the
top, keeps all below in a pitiful state of darksome
ennui.

As regards the terms the King is likely to
stipulate for when the question of his ceding his
rights to the sovereignty of Neuchatel comes be-
fore the conference, the only thing I hear is, that
in general terms he will demand an indemnity for
the revenue that he used as Prince to derive from
the State domains in Neuchatel, namely, about
30,000 thalers, £4,500. I hear nothing about his
retaining this, that, or the other chateau, nor about
bargaining to have the Prussian flag to wave over
their battlements. I cannot affirm positively that
such things will not be talked of somewhere or
other, but as yet I do not hear anything of them
here.

The Kreuz Zeitung contains the following gene-
rous offer from a rich landed proprietor in the
Prussian provinces of Saxony. I mention it the
more gladly that instances of large heartedness are
rare enough in the world in general, and par-
ticularly so in North Germany. A Count Alvens-
leben, of Caro-bei-Geuthin, who is an honorary
citizen of Neuchatel, in virtue of the freedom of
the Principality having been conferred on an ances-
tor of his, and can consequently number himself
among the Royalist citizens of that place, offers to
any of those Royalists who are compelled to leave
their homes until the affair is finally settled an
asylum on his estates, either for the moment or
for the whole duration of the time ; he begs his
fellow Royalists in Neuchatel to allow him to dis-
charge himself of this duty towards the cause, and
requests the French and Swiss journalists to assist
him in making his offn. known. While thus making
a sweeping accusation of narrow-heartedness
against the North Germans, I must, however, be
careful to mention that the greatest kindness and
charity have been shown both by the governments
and inhabitants of Prussia, Hanover, and Saxe-
Coburg to the numerous clergymen, schoolmasters,
and officials, who for a long time past have been,
almost daily, deprived of their offices and livings
in-Schleswig and Holstein, and even in Altona and
T auenburg, for suspected preference for the land
of their nativity, Germany.
As I haver the Kreuz Zeitung before me, I may as
well, for your readers' sake, pluck from its columns
a flower of literary elegance of unusual beauty, and
present it to them as a sample of the style it treats
its subscribers to, who are represented to he rather
more select than numerous, and to be met with
chiefly in the upper circles. In repudiating a
suspicion somewhat universally entertained, that
the party it represents would gladly get rid of
the Constitution and the Chambers, and return
to the former unlimited monarchy, this paper
without question the best edited journal in Berlin,
says :

We do not belong to the number of those that worship
the charter, and we reprobate strongly the sort of idolatry
that is here and there exhibited towards it. But this we do
believe, that there is hardly an cld washerwoman to be
found to warm up such stale old cabbage as that we want
to get rid of the constitution and the chambers.
This is the style served up to the highest classes
of a nation that prides itself upon wsthetical
niceties, and is nothing if not critical.

The Minister President has repeated the same
statement, as mentioned above, with regard to
Neuahatel, with a slight variation of the words, in
the house of notables to-day.

Person of high respectability is at this very moment
'n extreme embarrassment.

CAPE OF GOOD HOPE

We have received Cape Town journals, dated
Nov. 25.

The news from the frontier is favourable. The
lower and principal branch of the Tambookies,
under the chief Joi, are pictured as ploughing and
sowing most extensively, as also are the Amapon-
das and Amapondamesi, who think and say that
the prophet is a "fool.'' M`Gobo, the Netos (2),
Claka's son, and Xoxo, Kafir chiefs beyond the
Kei, our information (King William's Town Gazette)
states, are extremely impatient, and have extended
to the prophet the remnant of this moon for the
fulfilment of his promised miracles. They com-
plain that their wives and children will starve
next year through hid representations, and should
the promises of the prophet not be realised
within the period specified, they care not for
Kreli or any other potentate. Umhalakaza, and
all belonging to him, " shall be cut into rimpies,"
or, in more intelligible parlance, they will make
mince-meat of him. The Umdumbe (Mr. Shaw's
station) has been lately attacked by a part of the I
tribe of the chief Dumas. Being apprised of their
intent, the women and children, with their pots,
kettles, and calabashes, were bundled off to the
bush, so that no loss of life ensued to the attacked,
only one man receiving a slight wound on the heel.
Five kraals of cattle were swept away by Dumas.
Immediately on the retirement of the foe, the
vanquished gave the alarm, and assembled a large
force with the purpose of acting on the offensive.
Pursuit was at once made, a fight took place, the
whole of the cattle were recaptured, and a sound
thrashing administered to the rascals.
Through there is scarcely a cultivated blade be-
tween the Yellowoods and the Kei, the inhabitants
of the intervening country are described as being
remarkably civil.

The Galekas are said to have been very much
astonished and alarmed at the anchoring of a ship
opposite to the mouth of the Kei. Expresses were
despatched through the country, informing the
natives that the governor had sent four large ships
to the Kei, which were landing troops as fast as
possible. The Kaffirs, we are informed, assembled
in immense force to oppose the disembarkation.
Upon inquiry of the boat, which appeared in the
river, they were informed that the ship required
fuel. Whether this be so or merely said to lull
their suspicions, by the officer of the steamer sent
to survey the mouth of the Kei, we shall not for
some time be able to ascertain.