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debsely-wooded locality, where ‘.l.lscon3,'s den,"
deemed to be almost inacce2sib!P, was sittnted ins deep
kloof. This .". den," one of tho strongholds of the

EXPORTS To TunKEY.----Yeerday a rsetonripn,gthe
ob-
tained by Lord Dudley Stnart, was printed, showing
ouantities and declared value of the artielen of British and
Irish produce and manufactures exported to Turkey from the
United Kingdom in each year, from 1831 to 1850. La th©
first year the declared Arsine 9f the go9d4 was 686,654/., and
IA iiili);§t .

SPIRIT of the PUBLIO JOURNALS.
TINIES.—Sir James Graham'a address to the electors
of Carlisle is so thoroughly claafacteristic thee, what
ever its political value, i, cannot fail to be admired as a
specimen of the man. Every body recognises in that
mania power —a " Titanio energy," as we have seen it
expressed, which, like the mimics of an athlete, sug-
gests the idea of even 'a redundancy of strength. Thatr
le the character of this address. ;It is muscular dete-
lopment ogler highest strain, steepest at. fever Point, but
the grtee is not well directed, arid its objects are not
well chosen. Sir Jamea deseribeh in-successive pare-
graphs, with strenueue indignatfon, the politic with-
drawal of Protectionist chief's, thfeffieial cenduur of the
budget, the poseiblo dangrr of the electors, the private
opinions confessed by Lord Derby bn corn, and by Sir
John Pekington on sugar, Mr. D'brseli'e views no direct
taxation, Sir Fitzroy Kelly's on die repeal of the corn-
laws, 'and Mr. Dtsraeli's reniewed assurance Of
his good 'intention for the'; farmer; winding up.
-
with a. solemn caution against trusting men
who would, if they could, revei;retake the address as
a wholo,O Eir James throws
no new light en the condition oparties, much less on
the prospects of the country. ITb has not convicted the
Protectionists of dishonesty, Inclre e trade. But,-
" jetted them from their
reserve; he his not stripped the udget of its merit; he
has not persuaded us- that Lord' Derby and Sir Juhu
Pakington Will not surrender theiipriveto opinions, now
that it is convenient to do so; de has . not raised sie
Fitzroy Kelly into a
political eiersonage; he has not
proved that to vote for an adhereit of Lord Derby is to
aid and abet in the revival of
Pfotection; what is more
than all, he hasnot even attempted to tell us what is
the alternative, and what we are have if we have not
the preient -Ministry. We ar no admirers of .Lord
Derby's Administration. Their sition is humiliating,
to themselves and to the cotintr . ' We sac-neitheir in
their past conduct nor in their pritnises any trustworhy
pledge of the good' governinrtiott of thiaocomitee t
bat we are not prepared to 'say,., with Sir "James
Graham,• that to he
an' etaateponeet ,of Lord
Derby is an indisputable iTegam ,to our edit/lige.
We are forced to take ;thing as., aree-and
occasionally to put up with a bad thing for fear of
a worse. Nor is the " worse" in this case a mere sha-
dowy apprehension, It presents itself to us in the pal-
pable form of a triumvirate, of whore and of whose
policy Sir James Graham says nothing 'to the electors
of Carlisle. The day that sees the discomfiture, as we
think the deserved diecomfiture, of Lord Derby'iCabinet,
will see Lord John Russell, Sir Jkmes-Graham,. and Kr.
Cobden, either called to her Majesty's councils or estab-
lished in ..some. less-official, though not less powerful,
fraternity. In those ' three names we see no pledge
either of good government 'Or of stability. After the
invariable precedent of all trio virates; one of them
will ultimately carry the day, an jostle his colleagues
'mot of power. If that one .be ord John Russell, then
we shall simply see the two last natserable years of in-
action over spit); if it be Sir ames Graham or Mr.
Cobden, it remains to be seen ow far either is compe-
tenoto provide for all the iuteres of this country. With
so much uncertainty in that quarter of : thelterizon, Sir
James's total omission of the ;consequences , involved
in overthrowing Lord Derby, I though natural, is by
no means satisfactory. It is contrary,to all the rules of
common sense to go entirely by ',negatives. Sir James
telli Free-traders to ask candidstes--" Are you a sup-
porter or an opponent of Lord "Derby's Government r
No rational person would ever- of thus in his private
affeirs. If his choice lay betweqa two agents, he evjuld
not close with Scylla because hi justly suspected Cha-
rybdis. It is very true that' mere who, like Lord Derby
and his colleagues, confess to p Mete leanings at vari-
ance with what we believe to be;the common weal, and
avow an intention of following hose leanings as far as
as they can, are dangerotas pepple, and all the more
dangerous if they show signs of being also slippery; hut
what if the members of the other only practicable Go-
Are RU9.
Vernment have their lranings (thee their schemes to be
realised As possible, their d Ingerous points?
sell, Graham, and Cobden necessarily safe because!
Derby, Dieraeli, and Pakington are unsafe, and Kelly al-'
together contemptible? Of the :two 'aides, we feel far
serer that Derby and Disraeli Will follow all their date,
Wgorous professions than thatColarten will ever swallow his.
When a stranger whispers hi thet ear of the countryman,
" Don't trust that fellow, be is a teguNl'il show you how
to tuko care of your money," the countrymen, if he has
a particie of common sense,
will not infer that, because
one stranger may be a rogue, t 'e other must be honest.
But in this instance electors are Diked' to do this, for if
they reject one they cannot es ape the other. Nor is
the danger, diminished when, if they reject one chief,
they will be driven into the toils of a confederacy con-
sisting of three chiefe, who n.eret have acted well toge-
ther, and who, most probably, never will. Without in-
tending it, and misted by_ the te*tation tQ express him-
self clearly and forcibly, Sir Ja4ei Graham has not al-
together escaped a degree of unrairnesseeven to misre-
presentation. Nay, be has defeat efl hie' own pirpose by
some virtual incomistencies. He *scribes the last ;sha-
dow of protection seeming to vacish in the
_smoke of a
Militia Bill. Does he believe thishikterbse ,an actual re-
treat, or only a feigned one? eArs. Psis!, he claims for his
argument the benefit of both alterevetives. He calls the
Ch encellor of the Exchequer's H i Inane.a.
statement
" en
official homage paid to truth," and prondunce3 the
hod et for the current year an adoption of Sir Robert
Peel's policy. Is Mr. Disraeli to have credit for this,
or is he not to have credit? If
as teems the truest
solution, that hernage to truth was
inevitable, it tol-
lows,. what we thoroughly te
b y , E-
e believe that the pre-ent D
nistry cannot help themselve '
'. and the same inevitable
necessity will dictate all their -flo budgets. In order
to manufacture an additionalpoint
.
he Ministry.
Sic Jammorehae, nays, „ against t
Y an impor ant branch of Sir
Robert Peel's financial ;tulle i . t of indireot
Y t the reduction.
taxation, and the 'substitution within
of direct taxation,
moderate limits." He omits t lain that one of these
moderate limits was a short teo expthat the sub-
stitution . was only designed to b of years,
and. that
when the present Ministry ca p temporar.y,its
present
form had been already
conderte in the te
lex Inc
is the sin,
then, of looking to its early red' W er
cessation ?
In the oext paragraph Sir Jamesmendment or
brevity at
the expense of.perfeet Cando has sou ht t
Aits ' he says, "the
Chancellor of the Exchequerniv "'returned to his ori-
ginal ground ; and even nts 'has
rho budget
he has declared that, ,
when
speechmoon
tsty
shai)
have recurred to the tense en ei-he herr People, the
Government is prepared to lulfi-1 --
lies in their
power, that policy with r ,ae far; as
i ltural inte
r4,at which they advocated' cinrclhto 'the aZT•ca_
_we of the
t ,e OppubitiOn h
Home.'" Now, Sir Jame& ha the begin
ning and the end-of &loam s here given
middle of it,
though that middle containar omitting the
miconsi-
derably qualifies and nets acfxrereesion which
t.e
rmines the meaning of the
whole. To show what ha' been a' beste don `sve will give the
passage, marking the suppras 'e C' • •
surds in italeass:—'' I
have nn besitution in saying that
vror -
shall
have recurred to the sense 'of at when her Majesty t
,0
Government are prepared to her people her Mai eS )
(fit-rod/we, in due season,
those remedial measurek which
justice, and by regard to t h ILPY believe are required by
country I think there cane permanent interests of the
6e no misunderstanding in
'this House or in the coukin/ 'ea 'Ste
are prepared to- fulfil, as f a on that, subj .
that policy with regard to th er on lies in our power,
we advocated' on the other sled agricultural interest winch
of the House." The et-
preseion, " remedial measure:,
'that second`position watch Isit directs the attentionot
supporters have taken
up for rho last
and many of his
viz., the demand for agricultural last two or three years,
of certain supposed burdens that
relief, on the pretence
land, as a protected interest lt had accumulated on the
demand we-will not now enter Into the propriety of that
mends incessantly made b, ail but,' considering the de-
taken up by Mr. Disraeli and .c.lasses, the new position
less peculiar and obnoxione "A': friends 'was a much
for protective dilats. The ex an the original demand
sures," therefore, considerably alters)rs " remedial mea-
passsge, a . tel Sir James, whit the complexion of the
° denouncing tealtnent
ing concealment
that mystery, ought not to have .
that might help to explain the to omitted a single word
'We have made' these remarks, 'te3ttning of his opponent,
them, thotigle we feel 'that' then a ecause justice requires
guage and tone than to the'. sut;fs.ily more to the len,
address. Brevity is the soul of wit, of Sir James s
dealing with complex subjects, it is n'osusuett especially in
Candour`must submit to be
occasionally tedious.
soul of truth.
present knot of- political affairs is} 130 y tedious. Ihe
half a dozen terse sentences than it is by
to be cut by
unhappily the brief question which sire?
tit e sword; -and
puts into the mouth Of every British elector,
e" AreanGovern-
ment?" you
Darb''s
is only' preliminary. to another, Derby
re Sou a
supporter or an opponent of Lord Joh)), R
Utile bit. 11 Sir
James Graham,- and Air. Cobden ?" _ •
HERALD.—The dispatches from Southern Africa
contained in.the Gazette of Tuesday night, and which.
printed yesterday, are well worthy of an attentive we
sal. In thus drawing particular notice to their contents
we secure for their author, Sir Harry Smith, that mead
s
which
'of gratitude and admirationthe British soldier or
sailor—having performec/ his duty to the best of his
ability—never fails, under any circumstances, to obtain
from the English people. When, however, the public
remembers, the insult and the injury attempted to be put
on an old and most distinguished officer, by
a late Colo-
nial Secretary, these dispatches will be read with a More
heartfelt and thrilling interest. Sir Harry smith _
A. '"P-
posing E' Grey to be still in oflioe, with dignified
'calmness eeknowledges the receipt of The order for his
recall without murmur or complaint; but el the same
tinseintimatea that the.senso elf duty which bad hitherto
guided him would induce him' to persevere in the pre-
perstory Step he had taken for the expulsion
.of the rebel
Gaikas and Hottentots under Kiteeme. This 1 h
-a weatevery
ono expected from a soldier hied in the school of a wa.
lington. No amount of iosult. or injury from the bands
of an officisl supei ior has induced him to forget his duty
tr ), or to relax i -
to his Queen or cAin 1, _ n those efforts,
which under unparalleled diffieultlos seem
destined to
be crowned at length with complete success. The die-
petch dated from the Camp, Blinkwatcr on the 17th
March, is the oomph test vindication of the ill-treated
That
Red the severest condemnation of Earl Grey.
That documant announces - a smart affair with the
enemy,
and y, in which the 91st Regiment greatly distinguished
it.elf in whiCh 100 head of ca, tie and 40 horses
weie • 0 a- captueed Iraportaet successes have also been
. the ' the Fish River Bush by de-
tachments against enemy to, de-
tachments of the Artillery and of the 12th and 9lst Ue.
giment; and still more remarkable successes in that part
Qt. Ow Pings cried l'ulicetk r 4904 .fi very eAIOADivo wad
• -

ecemy, has been carried; many prisoners have been
taken, among others 130 women among whom are
Macomn's 3cting and favourite wife, and his " great
wile," Tambookie, much regarded among the tribe.
Between the 10th and the 13th of March Colonels

Pole,Michel, and Eyre captured nett. 700_ head of
cattle and 150 horses. The flying enevoy,were.on every
side iatereepted, and the diffienit and heretofore 'well-
maintained positions of .the liqtteracts and liefire-
-71amely, the Water.,lileor, Biinkwater, and Full,:r'a-
dock, are nor; compl,etely cleared. Not content with
these euceesse9, Sir Harry ,Smith has direc:.ed .Colonehi

Michel and Eyre to move, wits five days' provisions, on
the Chumie range of the Amatolas, for the purpose ,of
dislodging the tribe of Tyelie, and the rebel Hottentots,
and then penetrating into the heart of the mountains.
Site/Jerry Smith -had been sneered at by semis of the
Whig officials and writers as using hyperbolipal lee-
guage in reference to they campaigns, and in giving,
lavish praise to the ellicera under his command. Against
both charges he-defends himself in his dispatch very sue.
eessfuily. With all the experience of a gallant and dis-
tinguished veteran, Sir Harry remarks that troops acting
in the open field expect not the stimulus of praise. But
the war at the Cape is not a regular warfare in the open
field, but a desultory and most harassing struggle
neainst a sanguinary and most treneherous enemy.
The troops have to. ascend mountains—to penetrate
dense and tangled ravicesto defeat the stealthiest
stratagems, and to endure all the miseries of .savage life,
in addition to the labours of a campaign. In such dill';..
cult eircemstancee a general.would exhibit not merely
unfitness as a commander, but gross ignorance of human
nature., who failed to bestow on his troops the highest
encomiums. No man is less addicted to hyperbole -thern
the Duke at Wellington.. :The calmness and impassi-
ffili9eof his character—not to say the correptness of his
taste land the revive of his nature, revolt from all exsg
geration, yet no great commander of our day, excepting
Napoleon, has ever praised the soldiers serting under
bun more generously or more sincerely than the Duke
hiaiself. In following so great- an example—whatever
Earl Grey may say to the contrary-sh. Harry Smith
cannot err. In a very short time it is probable we may
again see the veteran on English ground, where ho wilt
receive a generous and candid appreciation from a Colo.
nial Minister more just and temperate than his predeces-
sor—and a cordial and respectful welcome from a people
who never sanction or support injustice.
POST.---With characteristic force and clearness the
highest military authority in the world answered some
time since, from his place • in -the House of Lords, the
opinion which bad been published on the career of Sir
Harry Smith at the Gape, and the condemnation which
had been conveyed to him by an official authority, then
high and unchecked in power, though, unhappily,
strangely deficient in fair spirit and judgment. Lord
Grey, visiting on the Commander •of the Forces the
series of disappointments, .the long-delayed success, and
protracted war, for which the weak and short sighted
policy of the lot:dal-office was in truth mainly resostpon-
sible, :wrote to recal.Sie Harry Smith from his p, in
terms of harshness and injustice which we should hesi-
tate to repeat, except for the purpose of calling attention
to the facts which have since reverted that eentence, by
a contradiction as strong and explicit Its that conveyed
in the words, of the great Doke: The dispatch to which
we refer, and which called forth the observations of the
Duke of Wellington, after detailing some or the diffi-
culties against which Sir Harry Smith had been force t
d o
contend with most inadequate means,• proceeded to in-
from him, in words which nothing short of failure the
most utter and inexcusable could have justified, that
" uPon a careful review of the events-of the war, and
those which preceded its breaking out, there was and
which it was impossible longer to resist, thatlie
had failed in showing that foresight, energy., and judq-
meatwhicte'h
and is very dniaffiacrualetterpiosstiintionnoLe required. This
happily worded t
Smith
on very consistently to communicate to Sir Harry
his dismissal - from his post, and to explain to him how
t failedhh aa entreatytrtel d
others
careful d review"one w well while
ha d
theirsatisfied
commander h
Lord. Grey a
d
l
miserably. -Such a sentence on a commander
'with the interest and honour of his countoy as
that which we- have quoted, if just and true, would and
ought- to be ruinous to his reputation, and in the case-of
an officer who had served before with such gallantry and
success as Sir Harry Smith, we shouldeif the evidence
had justified the punishment, have left the painful subject
with sorrow and- in silence, so soon as we had
•done our duty to the public by its communication.
But, if the -sentence be ill-founded, if the punish•
inept be.uejust, we hew another duty to perform. The
judge and the accused must change places. Something
worse than want of foresight, something morn serious
than creficiencf in judgment must, we thick, be '
charged egainat the author of the dispatch of the 14th
of January, answered; as it has been, first by the Doke
of Wellington, then by successive mails bringing fates
in full justification of his high opinion, and now by htti
to whom it Wes addressed, in the manly aed soldittelike
stateMent which we pebliab t,-day. The Duke enicl, it
will be Tecollected, " It is but jastics. to Sir Harry Small
to say, that 1, who am his commandiug eetirtly
approve dell his operations—entirely approve of all the
orders ho has given to his troops, and of the arm-e 1..-
ments he made for their success." This was the first-
answer to Lord Grey's harsh, offensive, and uncyalified
censure. The next was brought, if we mistake not, by
the first inward mail after the departure of that which took
out the Colonial Secretary's complaint and sentence, on the
charge that" no advantage of any real itripprtsnee had been
gained over the enemy." It was to the ett.ct that this
enemy, over whom no advantage had been gained, had
sued for peace, and had
have,
sincoleea tedath atthe the moats;v .important por
ptoainatt,
beers driven, with ,scareely.a
show of resistance, from all bat his very strongest holds.
We
oafndthtehseat tair
e
enemy has fled in all directions, leaving the wives and
effects of the formidable chief Macomo in our hands.
The mountain range of the Water Kloof, supposed by the
liafirs to be inaccessible, has thus been completely
cleared; so have other formidable strongholds; and when
Sir Harry's last dispatch was written, the army frcm
whose command. he had been so unjuetifishly displaced,
victorious at all points, under his orders, was about to
proc,ead tp assail every part of the discomfited enemy's
country. These facts were. published in a some-
what different -form several days since; but in Sir
kiarry.Smith's dispatch of the 17th Mirth, now before
us, they are concentrated into a clear and continuous
narrative as an answer, and it is the beat, the most
menly, and most soldier-like answer that could .ilave
been given to Lord Grey's offensive and unmerited letter
of reproech and ,dismissal. The, folloteieg .simple and
straighlferward lines contain the only notice,whicleehe
objebt of such mliplaced harshness condescends tq take
of his recal, conveyed as it was in terms, which would
have beep cruel if welt feunded, and, as it is, were 601:a:'
thing worse:—

. . " Camp, Blinkwater, March 17, 1852
"My Lord,e—l had the honour to receive ene the Ist
instant, at King William's Town, your Lordships die-
patbh, No. 732, of the 15,h January last, intimating to
axe that her Majesty's Government bad deemed it an
unavoidable duty to relieve me from my present Ration;
that my Sovereign had approved of the measure, and
that my successor was immediately to leave England.
At that period, however, such were the prospectssof this
war, and so rapid the progression towards the state of
things which can alone perpetuate peace (best shown by
the proclamation issued by ma an the 6th of February,
and again inclosed), that a sense of the duty which has
guided me in the service of my Sovereign and country
for.so many years induced me to persevere in the pre-
peratory steps I bad taken for the expulsion from
certain strongholds within the :colony of -- the
rebel- Gaikas and. Hottentots,• under the wily
Chief `Metoomo, a . renegade from :the an-
eternity of his paratnonnt Chief,Sandilli; as also for ex-
pelling the Gaika tribes from British Karraria, end
driving them over the Lordship KMy intention was
communicsated to your iu my dispatch of the
_l6th ult."
Sir Harry Smith ;via riglit'in thus briefly acknowledg- ;
ing a dispatch which, had his case been less strong, the
natural tendency of man to self-defonee migkt have led
him to (Unties and deny, paragraph by paragraph,
'charge by'hhirge, There was no need for this. The
narrative'of what has been done, of the condition in
which he leaves thelvar which he was accused of having •
grievously mismssaged, forms the best vindication of the
general, disproves most strongly the allegations against
the welt-won honours of a long
-and hia/h ace lree rin
once
his
country-1a service, and places the veterdie
more before the public 'as one who deserved all honour
where the rash bitterness of a petulant and unjust judge
had dealt out to him disgrace and oondemnatiou. We
are glad' o have it in our power to give, by every
means within our reach; our testimony' to the repa-
deserves.
ration 'which Sir Harry Smith so fully
13tat:we- hope that in higher quarters the necessity
of 'that reparation may be both felt and shown-. • It
would be too muish perhaps to expect candotte and
justice from the late Colonial Secretary. but it atly be
thatkorne other Noble Lord, or some independent Mem-
ber of the Lower LIMN may sea fit to draw the atten-
tion of Parliament to the injustice showtt to a gallant
and deserving offiaer, and to the vindication of his cha-
racter andipolicy, which the course of events has bronght.
There is one more passsge which we nsay (rote from
intrepid
hut to that of the gallant
fSeirrenloit,a:
men tieder his orders; still it applies no less te the
Smith's letter; it is used by him with re'
of the right which the troo had earned, to his praise'
rnOt to his own case,
and approval, Sir Harry Smith
nays of the .solder est
the Cape, and we may ssy it of Sir Harry Smith min..
commander than' the soldiera which he led. 61)E2Iting
self, and of every man 'who serves his conetry ill the
highest or the most humble post—" He does his duty ;
heart sensible of the approbation of his superior. ' That
approbation Sir Harry Smith has already had from a far
but human natnre reudere even tho soldier's
higher cparter than that which censured him. Be will
have it also from the country which
ve violation ho server.
A. very gra of the eon.
DAILY NEWS.
stitutionat privileges of Parliament has been attempted
by Ministers. It has been the understood privilege of
the House of Commons to refuse the supplies to Es Mi
nutty not to their teinci; the. Lord Chamberlain he
tarred the tables on the House of Commons—who alla
things considered, can scarcely look to find much favour
in thu eyes of that N9klo Iml aial Ilia cyllesguee—aud