Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-01-10 00:00:00

PESCI.

2.11C:11-4—
not had to complain either of the
language or reception of the Emperor."
The Servian Skuptchina, having once got the
power into its hand:B, has seized the opportunity,
to curtail the overgrown anthol'ity of the
Senate, by resrAving upon meeting annually. 1
The Senate has
Hitherto the accepted this without resistance.
power of convoking .the Skuptchina
was vested
not summ-aned it fc,r.
•In the Prince and Senate, whe, had
Skuptell the, last twelve The
t-ina has now laid. it aoivii a 11:;adamental
law t:oat it is to meet annually, for the making
'of 'taws, for the right of voting taxes, for the
faculty of impeaching ministers - and- other
functionaries, and, in general, in order to
"take cognisance of whatever coneerns the happi-
ness of the country," a clause evidently framed for
the purpose of making the.
.will,-of the, people
supreme even in matters of foreign politics. At
the same time, it has declared it high treason to
refuse obedience to the legal decisions of the
Skuptchina.
On Wednesday, December 29, before the pro-
vineial tribunal of Genoa, presided over by the
Chevalier Malaspina, a girl twenty years of age,
named Catherine Lavezzaro, was accused of hav-
ing clandestinely baptised .a Jew ehild, named
Leon Levi. She was, feaind.:guilty;•and sentenced
to pay a fine. of fifty clowns, with six ruOiiths'
imprisonment' in deNult of paymeht.
The arrangement's for the businessto be brought
before the Prussian Chambers at their approaching
meeting are still receiving the constant attention
of the Prince Regent and his ministers. The
session will be opened by—his—royal highneSs
in person.
A Toulon letter states that orders have been

received from Paris to build eight new gunboats
immediately. These boats will be so made as to
take to yiecey like a dissected map, and be readily
put together again.
The question of Reform is still the _ subject of
much dismssion and speechifying. At an important
meeting at Sheffield, the ballot was the principal
topic discassed. Mr. Whitehurst attended Lon
behalf of the- Ballot-Society, and Mr. Miles,: a
gentleman from America bore his testimony to the,
efficient working of the Ballot in that country. A
vote of thanks to Mr. Bright was unanimously
ado2ted. Mr. E. Miall has delivered an able and
effective address to the Banbury electors. The
staple of the speech was Reform, and on this all-
absorbing subject Mr. Miall spoke at great length,
generally laying down the broadest constitutional
principles of popular rights, and explaining that
what the practical demand must be is -as
full an instalment .of those rights a

pOsSitle to ring from the present-ruling elasseS.
On this point he ranged, himself closely beneath
the :etandard raised-by me. Bright. ' With respect
to thC' representation of 'Banbury, :Mr.. Miall inti-
mated that the choice. ht a-- candidate -would be
submitted. to the preliminary test of a voluntary
ballot on the part of the electors, and he chal-
lenged opponents to come forward and abide the
result. The address was exceedingly well re-
ceived by a large assemblage. Mr. Tite also has
spoken on public affairs, arid chiefly On Reform.
The member for Bath assured his constituents that
he would go for the largest measure of Reform
which might be brought forward, and he hoped it
would ba hom..st.and sincere as well as large.
On Friday afternocin a wages riot, on a small scale,
took place at Bristol. A crew had been shipped at
the rate, of £2 7s. 6d. per month, but several " land
sharks," or " quay men," thoight that this was
too little, a,nd., on the captain of the ship making
his appearance, he was set upon .by these fellows,
and knocked _and _beat about. Ultimately the
police succeeded in arresting six of the ringleaders.
A mutiny broke out in a ship at Gloucester,
last week, and it was with much danger
and difficulty that the ringleader. was appre-
hended. On the police making their appear-
ance on board he ran down the hatchway and
cut away the ladder. He had, at, the time, a very
large bladed knife, and he swore he would stab
any one who came near him. Ultimately, however,
he gave himself up ; he is an Austrian.
The notorious Humphrey Brown, late M.P., has
passed the London Bankruptcy Court, receiving a
third class certificate. EMI.. Townsend, late Z.P.
for Greenwich, has also received a third class cer-
tificate from the same court:

The man Burgess, who was convicted at the late
Exeter assizes of having murdered his little
daughter, six years of age, in Exmore Forest, was

executes

t Ta-unton onFrida

OF all our Colonies, one hears the least of those

of South Africa

And yet we believe they are

making, upon the whole, very

progress

—that is, ti

satisfactory

Whether it be the Cape,Colony proper
Le older Cape settlements—or British

Kaffraria, or Natal, or what is called the Free

State, there are evidences, in the accounts we are

continually receiving, of a gradual but sure advance

n population, in productive industry

'ealth and prose

and conse-.

The old Cape Colony is, of course, the principal
scat of South African Commerce ; and, as well as

its own general trade, its ports are the outicts for

s of wine;

ttely, of suza

, of wool, and of

and co

a also. We

,hough in some respects

most important, of our

South

s is a course of

steady

progress, and less an anxious

experiment now than the others are
Kaffraria has had to be peopled, and is still
undergoing that process. Dutch and German

British

emigrant

it seems, as well as Englis

h, have been

received there during the last few months. Those
who preceded.thezn had gone out too soon, and had
therefore to endure much hardship and suffering

its of land intended for

them, were not ready,

So that many of them

were obliged to go and seek for employment in the

ys a recen

accoun

they will

tx very

successful as settlers within the colony, when they
seek for situations ; and, probably, those who may
be desirous of returning to Kaifraria, will be • able

to get toge

a little stock by the time the

survey of their land is made, so that when that is
ready for them they will be in a much better
position to take advantage of it than if they had
entered on it at once." There is one fact which is
rather calculated, one would think, to excite some
that of the great influx of Kafir immi-
grants that is taking place. One of the frontier

anxiety

papers, we sec, says, " it is believed that upwards
of 100,000 Kafirs are now dispersed throughout
the Eastern Province." So that the Kafirs are

likely to constitute a large majority of the popu-
lation of the new Colony. The effect of this ought

to be

to arouse the Colonial

authorities in

Downing-street to a full sense of their duty, at

quoted

aimirably at Ekukanyeni, the Church

station, nes;

product of our South

such a conjuncture, in promoting, to the utmost of
their power, a larger and better English emigra-
tion, so as to keep the Kafirs in check, at the same
time that they taught them, by their example, the
customs and .the obligations of civilised and indus-
trious

But Natal would seem to be making the most
rapid material progress. Among the last accounts
from the Cape is 6.TIC which says,--" Matters are
in a flourishing state at Natal, in as far as the
increase of produce is concerned. The quantity
of sugar grown has increwd so rapidly, that the

THE N RIRERNTIIMES,IAP NA.4I; (Os ,-A§Ct

/3upply has considerably exceeded the consumption
of that article, so that Natal can now no longer" be
called a sample growing colony. The growth of
coffee is also rapidlf increasing, and some activity
is diSplaycd in the cultivation of cotton ; and to
all theSe is now added a desire to make Natal a
wool-growing country. A company has been
formed,- and £l,OOO subscribed, for the purpose of
introducing wool-bearing sheep into the colony."
Here, then, are considerable evidences efuligment-
ing prosperity. The produce is' :that. which
appears admirably to _suit the country, its climate
and its soil ; and it is a valuable description of
produce in itself, and such: as will alWays find a
ready and profitable market here at home. The
most important item of that produc

for several

reasons, is cotton. And it is satisfactory to find,
from one of the last numbers to hand of the Port
Elizabeth Mercury, that " Government are taking
active steps for encouraging the cultivation of
cotton by, the natives." The South AfriCans
are found well adapted for field-labour, and prifrate
enterprise is calling them into requisition in several
localities. It is stated that " the assistance and co-
operation of the missionaries are confidently ai#ici-
-pated, and will- be very valuable." Parties had
arrived out with seed and other appliances, andf t
the landowners were offering them liberal facilities
for the experimental cultivation of the plant. The
Missionaries find its cultivation a great furtherance
of the work, by enabling them to bring the natives
into. habiti of industry, as well as by providing
them witli:daginentdd resources. "So far as it
has been tried,'.' . says the local paper already

we believe the cotton plant thrives

llission

laritzburg ; and the Opinion of the

most competent judges is in favour of inland

Cotton, therefore, may be-

African