The Sun.
London, England, 1852-09-09 00:00:00

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THE CURE OF STRICTURE OF THE URETHRA, on Princi-
ples at once Simple, Safe, and Efficient, in even its most Inveterate
and apparently Intractable Forms. To which is added, PRACTICAL
OBSERVATIONS ON THE TREATMENT OF SPERMATORR-
-114:14.4.8Y OAUTERIZATI9N;- its Inefficiency and Danger.- •

BY F. B. COURTENAY,
Member of the Royal College of Surgeons of England.
"Those who complain most loudly are those only who know not
how to use the common instruments
geons has been inarced with all kinds of violence, an indifference
about the simple cure of diseases, and a passion for operations and
all the excesses and horrors of surgery."--John Bell's Surgical
Observations.—" In proof of his views he (Mr. Ceurtenay) has
given the history of a great many cases successfully treated, as bad
as any which Mr. Syme adduced, and on which he had operated.
Such are cases ix., xi., xii., and xviii. No. ix. had resisted, for a
period of twelve years, the treatment by dilitation, and was finally
removed in as many weeks. But cases xviii. and xix. appear, both
in duration, severity, and complication of symptoms, of a more ag-
gravated character than any detailed by Mr. Syme, and yet the
treatment adopted by Mr. Courtenay proved eminently successful."
—Protesstr Liners on the Treatment of Stricture.

PRACTICAL HINTS.
The season having been a wet one, Sportsmen have scarcely
commenced their campaign, though the Game is plentiful, but
speedy preparations are now being made for Sporting Excursions.
Let Sportsmen remember that the only Establishments where Dress
every way appropriate can be obtained with Dispatch and Economy
are those of E. MOSES and SON, their Style and Cut superseding
that of every house in the world; and their celebrated Boots, ex-
pressly made for Sportsmen, being proof against wet and damp. E.
MOSES and SON'S Clothing for the present time is designed with
surprising ingenuity, being light and waterproof, elegant and
win-
fortable, and in variety which affords inimitable opportunities for
selecting suitable attire fur railway excursions, for youths' and
children's wear, for every class and for all occupations ; each article
being cheaper, better, and more fashionable at E. MOSES and
SON'S than any dress which can be obtained elsewhere.

ENCOURAGEMENT FOR EMIGRANTS.
M. L. Faucher, Minister of the Interior of France, has
arranged
facts and calculations proving that the present Gold Diggings
go on for twenty-five years, and will, during that period, be a greatay
benefit to all the States in Europe : nor can the standard value of therefore go
gold decrease before that time. Emigrants may to
Australia with the most flattering prospects of success; but before
they embark they should visit the great Outfitting Establishment of
E. MOSES and SON, where a Department is expressly devoted to
Emigrants' Outfitting, where all the Goods, Utensils, Clothing, &c.,
&c., they will require are always ready. Being prepared with the
ex?erience f the most extensive outfitters in the world, E. MOSES
and SON'S Outfits are more suitable and cheaper than the inferior
goods offered elsewhere.
All requisite information relative to sailing of vessels, &c.,
and full Lists of Outfits, may be had on application, or post free,
to any part of the kingdom.
CAUTION.—E. MOSES and SON regret having to guard the
public against imposition, having learned that the untradesmanliko
falsehood of " Being connected with their Establishment" or " It's
the same concern," has been resorted to in many instances, and for
obvious reasons. They beg to state that they have
No CONNEXION WITU ANY OTHER Bonn IN OR OUT OF LONDON,
except their own Establishments, as follows :
London C 8
6, 154, 155, 156, and 157, Minories, 83,
84, 85, and 86, Aldgate, opposite the Church, all communicating.
London West-end Branch, 506, 507, 508, New Oxford-street, 1,2,
and 3, Hart-street, all oommunicating.
Bradford (Yorkshire) Branch, 19, Bridge-Street.
Suffield Branch, 36, Fargate.
Merchant Tailors, Clothiers, Hatters, Hosiers, Farriers, Boot
and Shoemakers, and General Outfitters for Ladies and Gentlemen.
The Establishments are closed from sunset Friday to sunset on
Saturdays, when business is resumed till Twelve o'clock.
A new Book, entitled " The Library of Elegance," containing a
full list of prices, and directions for self-measurement, can be had, I
gratis, on application, or forwarded, post-free, to any part of the

iingdom.
A handsome Almanac for the year ending 1852 can be had, gratis,
on application.
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DR. CULVERWELL'S NEW WORKS.
To be had of Sherwood, 23, Paternoster-row; Carvalho,
147, Fleet-street; Mann, 39, Cernhill ; or direct from the author ;
price One Shilling each ; by post, Is. 6d.

ENJOYMENT OF LIFE.
"Health, Eeereation, and Rational Use of Time."

CoNizNrs :—Early Rising—Spring and Su Aorningi—Ex-
elusions about the Environs of London—The Parks, Lanes, Hills,
Forests, Fields, High-roads, and other pleasant places—Country
Trips and Rambles—The Sea—London at Night—Evenings at Home
—Music—The Drasna—On Eating, Drinking, Sleeping, Bathing,
Air, Rest, Ease, Occupation, ace., gr,o.

FRAGMENTS FROM TUE MOUNTAINS. Two Volt.
Vol. I.

VISIT TO THE LAKES i SKETCH OF EDINBURGH, &C,
Vol. 11.
THE LAKES OF KILL ARNEY ; REMINISCENCES OF
DUBLIN, &c.
111.

WHAT TO EAT, DRiNIC, AND AVOID,
"That three score years and ten our course may run..

A popular review of almost every form (cause and cure) of ner-
vously-debilitated health and enfeebled constitution, that harasses
the young, besets the man of
anofpd rules
fe,obrutshineedisse,t andor
physicalstady, dregu..
em-
bitters.uonoofledvage
y.; withy
use.

Iv.
THE PASSIONS.
"What passions hart the body--what improve,
Truths as refined as Athens ever heard."

SCEJECT :—Life's pilgrimage, from infancy to old age. The ad'
vent of the passions. Chastity and its infringements. The casual-
ties oflicentiousncss and dissipation, with illustrations graphic, Wars
rative, and remediative. AdvocacVy of early marriages.

TIIE MARRIAGE STATE.
To be or not to be, that is the question."
Ploottharma:—Laws and obligations of nature, society, and rat_
glen regarding marriage, to be observed by either sex. Time and
choice, on both sides, as to age, temperament, complexion, and
figure, to secure healthy offspring, with the art of rearing them.
Physical defectiveness and its removal. Sterility and its conversion.
Cases, &c.
.
By It. J. CULVERWELL, M.D. (1841), M.R.C.S. (1527), L.S.A.
(1824). Twenty-five years Medical and Forensic Referee in these
-nlace
matters. Reception hours daily till Five. Evenings, Seven till

,
THE RE-OPENING OF TIIE BRITISH 'MUSEUM.—The
British Museum, which has been closed for several days,
re-opened for the admission of the public, after b
thoroughly cleaned, and various additions made in the gal-
leries. The institution will be continued open on AlotidaYs,
Wednesdays, and Fridays, from ten A.m to four r.m., till the
30th of April, 1853, with the exception. of a week from the
Ist to the 7th day of January, when it will be opened till
six o'clock in the evening. The workmen are busily engaged
in the erection of two fountains in the front of the court-yard.
The two old boxes for the sentinels still remain, which disfi-
gure the appearance of the colossal gilded gates.

SMITHFIELD MARKET.
(From the Daily News.)
" Smithfield to the rescue." The rally of the dirty
legion to maintain this citadel, after the convention
for its surrender has been signed, is persevered in.
New recruits gather round their standard. The
Derbyite organ in the morning daily press brags of
the accession of the Whig organ in the evening daily
press. The champions of the weekly re-unions cf
horned cattle, sheep, horses, pigs, with all their filth
in Smithfield, evince a fervour in the cause ardent as
ever burned in the breasts of the knights of old, who
encountered there amid the crashing of spears; or the
martyrs, who there found a fiery death. But the poor
dumb brutes who are goaded into madness in Smith-
field, can preach more eloquently against the perpe-
tuation of the market than the most voluble of the
human donkeys who espouse that cause. On the af-
ternoon of Mouday--while "able editors" were in-
diting paragraphs in laud of the market—a bullock,
which had been purchased there and driven to
Clare-market to be slaughtered, broke loose
from its executioners and charged the assem-
bled multitude and chance passengers. In the
course of an hour or so it threw down two children,
injuring them so severely that they had to be carried
to the hospital ; struck down a female, gashing her
face and laying her nose open so that she was carried
to the hospital in great agony ; tossed a child to a
considerable distance so that it was injured by the
fall; knocked down an old woman, propelling her
to a distance of fifteen feet, so that her forehead was
gashed ; fell foul of a boy and terribly gashed his
left thigh. This is the execution ascertained to have
been done by the maddened animal in the course of a
charge along the Strand and Fleet-street, through
the crowds which throng that thoroughfare at mid-
day. We are complacently told by the advocates for
the preservation of Smithfield-market that the inha-
bitants of that locality, being as it were "to the
manner born," rather like than otherwise what would
be to other persons an intolerable nuisance. A rea-
sonable degree of scepticism may be indulged as to the
relish,—even by the denizens of Smithfield,—for
having their children and old women tossed and gored
after the fashion we have just described. Eels may
get accustomed to be skinned alive, but human beings
are more sensitive. And it is clear from the misad-
ventures of Monday that the inhabitants of me-
tropolitan districts, tolerably remote from Smith-
field, are endangered by the practice of driving
bullocks to and from that central locality. Every
week as soon as the clocks from the church towers
proclaim midnight—the close of the Sabbath—the
leading thoroughfares of London are crammed with
bullocks, and detachments of this brute army, more
or less numerous, continue to pass and re-pass till a
late hour of Monday evening. They jostle their way
through—to say nothing of adult males—through
troops of little children going to, or returning from,
school, old semi-palsied dames repairing to market,
trim damsels engaged in their favourite pursuits of
shopping. From Islington to Brixton, from Mile-end
to Kensington, the weak and defenceless are once a
week exposed to the caprices of infuriated brutes
with sharp horns, and many an accident occurs which
escapes the notice even of the übiquitous penny-a-
line corps. And yet we are asked to believe that
nothing would be gained by transferring the market
now held in Smithfield to some distant locality. Why,
one should have thought it palpable even to a City
drover that if horned cattle, suffering from thirst at
midsummer, and goaded by the sharp-pointed staves
of drovers, were interne (as the French President
would call it) in the outskirts of Bow, instead of
being allowed to range at large through the whole of
the metropolis, the number of individuals who in-
curred danger by crossing their path would be im-
mensely diminished.
But there is no real necessity for exposing any of
our suburbs to the unwelcome presence of those dan-
gerous visitants. The cattle purchased for the con-
sumption of the metropolis are at present either
slaughtered in that vicinity, and their quarters con-
veyed in market carts to the shops of.the salesmen, or
they are driven along the streets (like the hero of
Monday's casualties) to slaughter-houses more or less
remote. Now, eight or ten miles can be travelled by
railway in the course of some twenty minutes ; such
a brief period would, therefore, be the whole addition
to the time required at present to transport the car-
case from the shambles to the shop, were
,the markets
and slaughter-houses relegated to a distance of eight
or ten miles fromaeandou. - Sir cattle meritets with
slaughter-hodses might be established on six
great lines of railway for the accommodation of
six divisions of London. Less than an hour would
suffice to convey the master butchers at any time to
and from the market ; less than half an hour to bring
every morning by an early train the meat slaugh-
tered for the day to one or other of the six principal
railway stations. The number of market carts re-
quired to convey it from the stations to the shops
would not be greater than is now required to convey
it from the slaughter-houses to the shops; and instead
of being, as now, concentrated in a great measure in
Newgate-street, they would be spread over six remote
localities. The filth and' garbage of the slaughter-
houses, instead of being accumulated in one immense
mass, in a place whence it can with difficulty be re-
moved, would be kept apart in comparatively small
masses, and almost instantly be carted off as manure
to the surrounding fields.
The gambols played by the maddened bullock of
Monday all along the Strand and Fleet-street afford
the last illustration of the danger to life and limb with
which the perpetuation of Smithfield-market is at-
tended. Yet as Sydney Smith had no hopes of reform
in railway administration until a bishop should have
been burned, so possibly the Smithfield nuisance may
flourish till a brace of Lord Mayors have been tossed
and gored. Perhaps, however, the presence of cholera
at Danzig may accelerate the evacuation of the cell-.
tral district of London by its present foul and dan-
gerous occupants.
(From the Herald.)
Again, and yet again ! Two more leadingarticloesf
Smithfield upon Smithfield-market ! For one reason only do
we allude to them—namely, to keep before the public
eye the thaterledmwarikllabnloewfavcet,nture to
nonseayofththaet
the intended
opponents
removal, as at present contemplated and preparing,
will be any improvement. The most rabid of the
free-trade journals rushes into the fray yesterday in
the following polite fashion :
"' Smithfield to the rescue.' The rally of the dirty
legion to maintain this citadel, after the convention for
its surrender has been signed, is persevered in. Now
recruits gather round their standard. The Derbyite
organ in the morning daily press brags of the accession
of the Whig organ in the evening daily press. The
champions of the weekly re-unions of horned cattle,
sheep, horses, pigs, with all their filth in Smithfield,
evince a fervour in the cause ardent as ever burned in the
breasts of the knights of old,wholeneountered there amid
the crashing of spears; or the martyrs, who there found
a fiery death."
Here is no want of hostility to us or to Smithfield.
Yet even this assailant will not venture to say that the
change now proposed will be a change for the better.
Like the Globe, Spectator, &c., he desiderates
change, but not this change. Here is the new view
of what is required :
"Now, eight or ten miles can be travelled by railway
in the course of some twenty minutes; such a brief
period would, therefore, be the whole addition to the
time required at present to transport the carcase from
the shambles to the shop, where the markets and
slaughter-houses relegated to a distance of eight or ten
miles from London. Six cattle-markets with slaughter.
houses might be established on six great lines of rail-
way for the accommodation of six divisions of London.
Less than an hour would suffice to convey the master
butchers at any time to and from the market; less than
half an hour to bring every morning by an early train
the meat slaughtered for the day to one or other of the
six principal railway stations. The number of market
carts required to convey it from the stations to the shops
would not be greater than is now required to convey it
from the slaughter-houses to the shops; and instead of
being, as now, concentrated in a great measure in New-
gsteestreet, they would be spread over six remote loca-
lities."
This would be a great and total change, but it is
m
not the change proposed in the Bill of 1851. That
measure which the Corporation are now
engaged in carrying out—appears to have no friends.
At least, while several journals have taken part in
the controversy, we have not yet met with a single
argument in favour of the change which is now about
to be made.

IMPROVEMENTS AT THE WEST-END. It
.having
been resolved by the commissioners, connected with the
ri age ways
paving board of the parish of St. James, Piccadilly, to relay
and improve the car
in that locality during the
present Parliamentary vacation, Mr. S. Carey, the patentee
of i
the concave and convex wood pavement, of the same
kind as that laid in Lothbury, by the Bank, n Cornhill,
and other places in the City, has received instructions from
the commissioners to take-up the existing
.wood pavement
in Piccadilly (which lie laid down about eight years ago),
and to relay the same in Jerrayn-street, which thoroughfare
was previously paved with wood by the Metropolitan Nyood-
paving Company. It is expected that the whole of the
work will bo completed previously to the opening of the
Houses of Parliament in November next. The whole of
Piccadilly will also, during the same period, be laid with
four..inch granite cubes of stone by Mr. Chadwick, the City
pavier, and that portion of the same line of road leading
from the mansion of the Duke of Devonshire to Apsley-house,
previously macadamized, is now nearly covered with stone,
authorities connected and Co., by order of the parochial
with the parish of St. Gorge)
laid by
.Messrs. Mowlern
Hanover-
Ware.

The intelligence from the seat of war continues
to be of the same dubious character as ever, and it is
the private opinion of those who: have
cully conversant with military proceedings on the
frontier that the settlement of this vexatious contest
is :as far off as it was twelve months shim
On the Ist of July General Cathcart issued a pro-
clamation, calling for the assistance of every man
capable of bearing arms, and on the been practi-
90th his Excel-
lency issued an explanatory circular, is which it is
stated that all he required was a deputation of all
the fighting men who can really coma to represent
the district, and for those wto cannot come to
assist those who can. The Governor insists on
this help. The mother country has sacrificed much
life and treasure, while its only real advantage was
the possession of the seaport of Simon's Bay- The
protection of certain colonists who settled on the
frontier 30 years since might be considered an obli-
gation,must probably be the last Rear r carried on at the
ha` their limits. This
costof the
et
British
oblGigoavteiornnsmehnt.
The object of Ge-
neral Cathcart's intended expedition was twofold—
first, to test the willingness of thg colonists; and se-
condly, if they came forward, to demonstrate to the
Kafirs that, independently of the Imperial force, there
was sufficient strength in the colony to chastise the
enemy should he again attack the frontier. If the
General found the colonists unwilling, be had ample
force to cross the Kei and vindicate the national
honour, but this would convince the world
that the colonists were deficient in their
former energy, and their chief
opponent Kreli
would ever after hold them in contempt. After re-
turning from the expedition beyond the Kei, the
Governor says it will be his duty to report to the
home Government if the colonists bad not rendered
him proper support, in that case he will
probably be
ordered to withdraw his army, when his parting re-
commendation to them would be to keep less sheep
and oxen, and more shepherds and herdsmen, for
wild men and wild beasts would soon recover their
ancient sovereignty in the Fish River and Zuurberg,
and the colonists will not be able to drive them out as
their fathers did in the olden time.

The files of Cape papers give the usual accounts of
cattle lilting by combined Hottentots and Kafirs, and
of reprisals by the regular forces and burghers. The
only k
at
er attackieef
byColonel worthy of
Buller,not ce
of theas one made on the
Rifles, on the
24th of July, when the Kafirs were lured from their
afeignedthererretailtl and were thus ex-
posed g
the() by
We
fu
full fire of
suf-
fering a loss of more than 100, while only three of
Colonel Buller's force were wounded.

Under date of the 2d of August,Lieutenant-Go-
vernor Darling has addressed a circular to the Civil
Commissioners of the western d istricts, in which,
after referring to General Cathcarts letter of the 20th
of July to the eastern provinces, he says that, by the
last newspaper accounts from Graham's Town and
Port Elizabeth, the Governor's views had been
promptly responded to, and that considerable contri-
butions had been cheerfully rendered towards equip-
ping the contingent from the eastern districts. Lieu-
tenant Governor Darling then gives instructions to
the Commissioners to make known through the field
cornets that they are ready to receive contributions in
money or kind towards the equipment of the eastern
volunteers, to be forwarded to the Treasurer-General
in Cape Town, and sending at the same time to the
Governor's secretary accurate lists of the names of the
contributors.

A private correspondent, writing from Cape Town,
on the 3d of August, says,—
" The Hellespont leaves this afternoon for England,
after a rapid passage out of 32 days. The intelligence
she takes home is in so far satisfactory as showing the
decided line of policy General Cathcart has adopted
in endeavouring to bring this inglorious but expen-
-sive-war to a- speedy- ttsrattnasts'n. ..he most important
dccument that has appeared since last mail is
the Governor's appeal to the eastern province
burghers, to join in the great expedition to the
Kei, and, it is roost satisfactory to add, with some pro-
spect of success. The Lieutenant-Governor has issued
circulars to those of the western province, urging them
by contribution, either in the shape of money or ar-
ticles, to assist in tho equipment brethren. This is looked upon as a wise measure, and will,
of their eastern
there is little doubt, be generally responded to. (Bothy
these notices appear below.) It ma__
here be mentioned
that the Cape Town subscript;
^ eh list to the relief of the
Kafir war sufferers is upwards of 4,2004 and that for
those by the lose of the Birkenhead about 1,4001., in-
cluding the Legislative Council's grant. The other in-
telligence from the seat of war consists of the same his-
tory of encounters between predator Minds of the enemy
and the frontier farmers Which hasmarked its progress
from the commencement; but although a late general
order mentions a strong body of cavalry and infantry of
the enemy having ' extended, closed, fired, retired, &c.,by the sound of the bugle,' they have suffered severely
in ono or two cleverly-executed ruses. The general
feeling is that the war is now drawing to a crisis. Me-
como is the only chief that has anything like a force to
depend on; the generality of the
Ghikas
the friendly
crossed the Kei or found an asylum among
Kafirs. General Cathcart's expedition was to have left
Fort Beaufort on the 31st ult.; ever mail from the fron-
anxiety.
tier is, therefore, looked forward to with great
" The news from the Sovereignty is very satisfactory;
Mr. Henry Green, Assistant Committal-
a constitution had been agreed upon by delegates au-
thorised for that purpose by the Hi h Commissianers.
have either
of Major
been sworn in as British Resident, in the room
Warden, who has been relieved. The inhabitants are
giving great attention to wool growing, for which the
country appears to be admirably adapted. It
"From Natal the news is also highly favourable.
has now been satisfactorily proved that sugars rice,
and
coffee can be grown to advantage. A vessel has arrivedi
from Mauritius with 15,000 cane tops to order, whiee
number of spirited individuals have sent one of their_e
number to Madras for Coolies, in order to cane
a the "
a fair trial. General, has
-

e‘vijryn.or,Atocoinmsnipeisestiok aspppooti,n thedu by
" In Cape Town public attention has been directed to
the alleged discovery of coal about twelve miles from the
wishing any other fact than fcoal. but
the existence o
to what extent, or whether worth working, has yet to
be dot •
unlined. One or two scientific men are, however,
very „aa!
mine so near
aguino as to the result. A coal
the port would prove more valuable than gold diggings.
We subjoin
done your
and no doubt hawviell
the following circular :--
of July,
" Sir —y " Fort Beaufort,
returned without esta-
blishing Lieutenant-Go-
vernor,
In
duty in forwarding its object. ' Every
ln the wording of the ordinance, the phrase,
mannece capable of bearing arms,' appears. It is scarcely
in the literal to explain that I do not expect this to bo takenl
at borne,
the literal sense• all I require is pa deputation of a.
fighting men who can really come to represent their
district; but I expect that all those who are not fighting
men, and stopand assist to the
utmost them
- those whogo forth in
.in their cause, giving
ample means support in respect to
their of equipment and supPa-
:l they meet me,
for I • horses, arms, and sustenance, until -
corn© will not issue rations to those who f ss to
may pro C
41 I and he
not arrive.
am re to d
t ell end to this long
and tire 0 my best to put this
frontier
some war, and to establish a lasting peace on
if I
can, but the colonists themselves must help
me to do so.
' 'rho hostile Rafirs are nearly subdued and removed
to a distance from the border; a little more exertion and
perseverance Certain Hotten-
tot complete this work.
t marauders are still ro • bout the country, but
when c aming a
t amount to 300
men, concentrated for mischief do a°
"As to the Kafirs, precautions must still be taken
calculatedmeasures
to prevent their return, and tardy or half
will not suffice As to the 300 rob-
bers, to do this.
t a thousand mountedpolice whet if they are not
already enrolled .fault•of mine—should
suffice and on duty, 18110
alone to protect these frontier districts from their
ravages, and, if duly supported, ere long to root them out.
Majesty's Much treasure, loss of life, and hard service of her
atesty's regular troops and paid levies have, as you well
know, been
expended by the British Government for the
Protection of this colony, from which the mother country
derives no real benefit except in the possession of the
scertain extent
eapert of Simon's Bay; the mother country is, there-
fore, actuated, possibly in some degree by national pride,
but mainly b._
y benevolent sympathy in making the great
pecuniary Compensation, sacrifice she has done in this cause•
" Perhaps the protection of certain colonists who
were encouraged by the British Government on the
" This., must
eastern frontier upwards of 30 years ago might, to a
g in Iv
encourageon i t
due
proclamatione t
i.iao.
tf i
ot
hu : a
letn
d.
obligati, ' e considered
nts of
ailshave their limits, and gra better land
b - •dered au obligation, but such
elsewhere, where sheep and oxen can feed in tecurity or
sterling, ee9sico of Kafir wars, would provide amply and equi-
tably for any such claims •
far less expensive than a sue-
on in this country probablyf the British Government,
for th at the cost o
be the last Kafir war crrried
e expenses of another, amounting to 1,000,000/.
of the Imperial Parliament, from the pockets of the
g. cannot aain be expected to be drawn, by vote
British constitue " a cause in which, except from
motives of ney, in
sympathy and benevolence, it hat no real
interest.

Ke"i
I.Ttweot-fold:---
the
" The object of my intended expedition beyond the
to come forward in their ow (ulnae.
" 2. If they do
oo weeormaen
forward,
rw willingness
a rd.
too f t
demonstratethe colonists
t o
n d
the influential paramount chief of their most formidable
and rancorous Kafir enemies s that, independently of the
irresistible power of her
the
colony
armies, there is a
force and energy within
him should he again be guilt f sufficient to chastise
Y o
hostilities against the colony aiding or abetting in
"If, therefore, I should find myself
this occasion, which I will net believe, ill-supported on
means to go forward with her Majesty's i '
I have ample
vin-
dicate the national honour ; but I should then troops
arrive at
and
the painful conviction that the colonista of
day have not the energy to exert themselvesthe present
own cause, and therefore have not the power
in thrir
their enemies at the distance to which sve have erto keep
removed
them; and, what is worse, the chief Kreli, convinced
the same fact, instead of standing in awe of them, heed
of
woula
thenceforward hold them in the estimation
V hick they
would deserve.
" There are persons who attempt to prejudice the
good opinion I now cherish of the people of this part of
the colony, which I am appointed to govern, who tell me
that my predecessor was disappointed on a similar occa-
sion, and that I sm too sanguine in my expectations that
the call which I have made will be duly and cordially
responded to. I will not believe them. I have myself
witnessed too many brilliant examples of patience under
misfortunes, of energy, and of courage among the
colonists of these northern districts, which are more im-
mediately under my own eye, to give the slightest atten-
tion to such unworthy rumours.
"I will wait and form my own judgment on the event;
but should I be disappointed I wish you to remind the
inhabitants of your district of the moral of the fable,
which says, that if, when the waggon is in a hole, the
waggoner will not put his own shoulder to the wheel,
Jupiter will not help him.
"In preparing to go to the Kei I have not been un-
mindful of internal security. Three whole regiments
and numerous armed levies will be left within the fron-
tier to support an ample police force, which either is
or ought to be in activity, in the protection of the
eastern districts; an equal force will occupy British
Kafraria, beyond your frontier, during my short
absence.
" When I return from my expedition beyond the Kei,
I must make up my report to her Majesty's Government,
not only as to the result of: that expedition, but as
to whether I have found the people of this colony
grateful for the support which has been afforded them,
and willing and able to exert themselves in their own
cause, and therefore deserving, or the contrary, as the
case may be, and whether, therefore, I consider their
cause worth fighting for or not.
"In the latter event, I should probably be ordered
to withdraw my army; and my parting advice to the
colonists of the eastern half of this colony, at least, could
only be—keep fewer sheep and oxen, and provide your-
selves with more shepherds and herdsmen; for wild men
and wild beasts will soon again recover their ancient so-
vereignty in the Fish River and Zuurberg, et ultra; and
you will be unable to drive them out as your fathers did
in the olden time.
"I have the honour to be, Sir, your obedient servant,
66 GEO. CATHOART , Lieut.-General,
" Governor and Commander-in-Chief.
" The Civil Commander of
The latest intelligence from Kafirland and the
border is as follows ; it is dated August 3
By yesterday's post from the frontier we learn
that a most diabolical outrage had been perpetrated near
Fort Pato, in Kafraria, by a body of about two hun-
dred Kafirs, who attacked the cattle herds on the after-
noon of the 23d, killed and roasted of a fire one of them
(a Hottentot), and took prisoner a Kafir, sweeping off
at the same time sixty-two head of cattle belonging to
the post. The marauders were of the tribes of Tola,
Stock, and Seyolo.
" An attack had also been made on the evening of
the 26th on some waggons at the foot of Woest's
near Graham's Town, by a band of rebel Hottentots, who
captured two spans of oxen. Commandant Currie was
in pursuit with his mounted police.
" A spirited affair took place in the Waterkloof on the
morning of the 24th inst., when Colonel Buller, having
received information that a large number of Kafirs were
congregated at Mundell's Krantz, moved from his camp
with a strong column of infantry, cavalry, and artillery,
to surprise them. This, it is reported, was successfully
effected, and the savages exposed to a severe fire of small
arms, after which, having been lured from their fast-
nesses by a feigned retreat of the troops, they were ex-
posed for a length of time to the full fire of the Artil-
lery and Riflemen, suffering, it is said, a loss of at least
100 killed, while the casualties in Colonel Bailer's force
were but three wounded.
" The Graham's Town Journal announces that it has
been officially reported to the Governor by the
ll'Slambie Commissioner, Captain Maclean, that most of
the hostile Kafka, with the exception of those with Ma-
oomo, had dispersed themselves among the friendly
tribes. Sandilli, it is affirmed, has with him not morn
than twenty followers.' The outrage mentioned above
hardly corroborates this.
" Most strenuous exertions were being made to equip
a respectable Burgher force, to meet the Governor on
the Gth inst., for the grand movement against Kreili.
Numerous volunteers have been enrolled, and consider-
able subscriptions made at Graham's Town and other
border towns, as also at Port Elizabeth; and it was ex-
pected that a strong muster of efficient men would take
place. There was, ,however, much difficulty iu pro-
curing horses, and the country is described as being
dreadfully parched with drought.
" The Mail of this morning reports that a fierce attack
was made on Fort White about the 25th
mat., the assail-
ants being fortunately beaten off; also that Mr. Carlisle's
valuable cattle, so lately recovered from the enemy, had
again been swept off, and,
it was feared, irrecoverably
lost."

e take the subjoined "monthly summary" from
the Capc Town Mail of the 3d of August :
" Alter eighteen months of harassing and destructive
warfare between the British Government and the Kafir
tribes, during which the inhabitants of this colony have
been exposed to an untold amount of sufferings and loss,
it would be a grateful task to have to report the cessa-
tion of hostilities, or even such an approximation to a
satisfactory termination of the war as would enable the
frontier colonists to return to their deserted homesteads,
and resume the peaceful occupations of husbandry and
trade. With grief, however, we still have to record the
continuance of this miserable struggle. Thu scene of
contest is not yet even removed from the ruined districts
which bore the brunt of the first outbreak. The chiefs
Sandilli and Macomoet with the remnant of their tribes,
although repeatedly and gallantly attacked by the troops
and burghers, still hold possession of their impregnable
fastnesses in the Amatolas and the Waterkloof, while
marauding. bands of loose Kafirs,' with their Hottentot
rebel allies, still roam in detached parties, carrying
terror and devastation throughout the open country; end
even within the last few days attacking herds and
sweeping off cattle within sight of Graham's Town, the
metropolis of the eastern districts.
"Pursuing the course of events, wo find, by general
orders since published, that the attack upon the enemy
in the Buffalo mountains, noticed in our last, was made
in consequence of information having been received of
the existence in that quarter of • permanent lagers of the
rebel Hottentots, who, associated with the hostile Kafirs
recently issuing forth in large marauding bands of
mounted men, committed great ravages, and alarmed the
peaceable inhabitants within the colony.' It will be re-
membered that the task of routing this formidable horde
was most gallantly performed by Lieutenant-Colonel
Eyre, with only a small portion of the foroe destined for
the purpose; and the spirited and soldier-like manner in
which the service was performed has elicited the,
warmest expressions of approbation from General Cath-
cart, who declared his intention to bring to the special
notice of the Duke of Wellington the meritorious conduct
of Captain the Hon. P. Herbert, Captain Green, and
the other officers and men of the two companies of
the 43d Regiment, who were alone engaged on the oc-
casion.
" Information was shortly afterwards received that
about GOO K.afirs and rebel Hottentots were assembled
in the neighbourhood of the ruined village of Auck-
land, threatening au attack upon Alice. Lieutenant-
Colonel Napier was immediately ordered to move over
the hills from Blinkwater, where he had been stationed,
taking with him three companies of the 91st Regiment,
a squadron of Cape Mounted Rifles, a company of the
Loyal Kat River Hottentots, a detachment of the
enrolled Fingoes, and 'two guns. A reinforcement of
two companies of the 2d (Queen's Regiment) were also
ordered to join him from Fort Hare, and General Cath-
cart proceeded in person to the camp. The force moved
forward at 4 A.M., and reached Auckland at daybreak,
when the lager and kraals were at once vigorously as-
sailed. The,onemy, however, offered no resistance, but fled
with their cattle over the tops of the mountains, into the
Amatola mountains, where pursuit was fouad to be 'im-
practicable.' Eighty recently erected huts were de-
stroyed, and several saddles, knapsacke, and other arti-
cles belonging to the Sappers recently killed at the Ko-
nap, were recovered.; His Excellency having witnessed
this operation, and satisfied himself as to the safety of
Alice, returned :to bead-quarters—Lieutenant-Colonel
Napier falling back upon his former position at Bliek-
water.
" On the 6th, 7th, and 81 of July, General Cathcart.
having with him the 60th Rifles, a detachment of Royal
tapers and Miners, a company of enrolled Fingoes,_
wo guns, penetrated and scoured a large portion,,?stcto7
monutain ridges bounding the Waterkloot. mid.
Lucy entered through the noted Bush Neck "c pass
night of the 6th, and at daybreak ascended the s k'
with the resistance
near Wand's ;arm, without meeting„sail with
which was anticipated. He then proceeded Kafirs and
shells and rockets the lurking places
of the
the southern
rebel Hottentots within range-
side of the kloof, however, neithOonnremt
speedily made
kyraals nor cattle
tracks were to be seen, and the e 13y a well planned
themselves scarce in that quart_ers'imnar
and ably executed movement
the
force also ap-
northern side. Lieu-
peered at the same time at t
tenant-Colonel Napier had W directed to move from
e
Blinkevater at three Audi. "."-h a squadron of the Cape
t
Corps, three companies of the 91st, the lint River Mote
tentut Levy, Captain Lakeman's new company of Euro-
peans,of Fingoes, and ON guns.
a strong &tool:Iola.t

the kraals within reach. Here a decided resistance was
experienced, and one man of Captain Lakeman's com-
ollfatvhiengkigoaoifti,
pany was killed. 'ln this day's work,' writes General
etdhisthfeortcaeblperolacnedcdwedhicthocartamckanadnsdtbhuartnpaarltl
Cathcart, ' the loss of the enemy must have been severe,
from the well-directed fire of the artillery, and the energy
with which the attacks were carried on.' On the Bth,
at daybreak. the two columns united on the north side,
when the ii.dle Brigade, with the Levies and Ficgoes,
proceeded vigorously with the work of ' scouring'--
rockets being thrown and shells fired into the liloot be-
low, where the numerous kraals wero found easily cc-
cessible. In these operations one man of the Rifle Bri-
tnhde a
troth
dßly-
ifieL.
rale was killed and one Fingo wounded. At noon the
headquarters column returned to its former position,
re-passing the Neck without loss, although followed up
Next day the troops returned to quarters.
" On the 14th General Cathcart again proceeded with
chtylanggreedat
thnoutniih‘ie.risthof
therear-guard
the
ene mYv'
w who
u
of
the troops to the Wuterkloof, accompanied by Captain
Moodie and Captain Jessie, to eeleet a spot for a per-
manent post, to contain a large force, and capable of
being easily guarded by a few men. A locality was
chosen within a few hundred yards of the place where
Colonel Fordyce was killed. Here it is intended to
possession.
, s,sßesy tsio
erect two stone redoubt., securing the approach from
the west, and communicating with Blinkwater post by a
mule path to be cut through the cliff. This work is to
be at once proceeded with, the 60th Rifles, four
guns, and a large body of levies, being left to hold
post r we
laTstherecfeoiuvredgufnrsoTwhtiheehsehaataofbewean
learn that this force had had a
smart affair with the
enemy, whom they had drawn out of the Kloof by a
feigned retreat.
pre-
viously placed ia position, opened unexpectedly upon the
pursuing mass; the Rifles at the same time, pouring in
a deadly fire. One hundred of the enemy are said to
have fallen; while the troops had only two men of the
Rifle brigade and one Cape Rifle wounded.
has been gallantly repulsed by a small
"An attack by a body of rebels upon Eland's post
detachment of
the 91st, stationed there under Captain Wright (the
survivor of the Birkenhead). The enemy appeared in
considerable force and manceuvred with all the skill of
disciplined troops, extending, advancing, and retiring b sound of bugle. After endeavouring, almost success-
fully,)
to draw the little garrison into an ambuscade,
they sounded the 'close' and the ' advance,' and moved
on to the post. Captain Wright, with only twenty-
three men of the 91st, then marched out to meet them,
and, being joined by a party of the Kat River ,
drove them off with loss. i

"An enumeration of the various encounters which
havo taken placo daring the month, within the colony,
between the predatory bands of the enemy and the scat-
tered farmers of the frontier districts, would present a
distressing picture of ruinous disasters, manfully but
ineffectually struggled against. At this moment life
and property are scarcely anywhere secure within 100
miles of Kafirland, except in the immediate vicinity of
military posts. Productive industry, within that wide
space, is everywhere paralysed; and the inhabitants of
the best portion of the Eastern Province are reduced to
the misery of seeing their once fertile lands thrown out
of cultivation, their valuable flocks of the finest wool-
bearing sheep in the world plundered, driven about, and
destroyed—their labourers dispersed, and either enticed
away to join the savage enemy on one side, or be em-
bodied in scarcely less savage bands of irregular levies
on the other—while their families are kept in continual
alarm, liable at any moment to be huddled together in
lagers, or exposed to all the demoralisation of crowded
camps.

"The call which has been made by General Cathcart
upon all the men of the eastern districts capable of bear-
ing arms to meet him at the Imvani, beyond the Kei,
appears likely to be well responded to, as a last desperate
effort to pnt and end to this detestable war. Consider-
able sums have been subscribed in some of the frontier
towns by those who are prevented by circumstances from
giving personal service, in order to equip and assist
those who are preparing
to turn out.
" A report has been circulated of an alleged discovery
of a conspiracy among some of the Hottentots of the
Bethelsdorp missionary institution to join the rebels, and
several of these men have been committed to prison by
a local functionary who is known to have long enter-
tained a strong feeling of hostility to that institution;
but the charge has not been traced to any satisfactory
foundation.

"The territories in the neighbourhood of the colony—
Kefirland always excepted—appear to be generally in a
peaceful state. The trade between the colony and the
Orange River Sovereignty, the Trans Vaal Republic,
and Natal is rapidly increasing; and to this we hope
soon to be able again to add the once valuable Kafir trade.
" A great impetus has been given to business by the
opening of the extended lines of screw staam communi-
cation to India and Australia; and efforts are being
made, though tardily, to provide secure harbour accom-
modation fur the crowds of shipping now directing their
course towards our port, on their way to the golden
regions. _ _

alreldy
" A reward of 1001. was offered last week by Lieute-
nant-Governor Darling for the discovery of coal in the
Caps
attained. Samples of an excellent description of
k-aps colony, and it is believed that the object has been
coal have been brought to town, said to have been found
in the neighbourhood of the celebrated Constantia vine-
yards. The fact appears credibly attested, and a
.com-
mission, consisting of the Secretary to Government, the
Surveyor-General, the Astronomer Roy, and Messrs.
Antdell and Chieppini, were to proceed to the spot alyes-
terday for examination and report. Their report has not
yet appeared.
" An earnest but friendly and considerate appeal has
just been made by Lieutenanta?vernor Darling to
the inhabitants of the western districts, calling upon
them to contribute, either in money or kind, towards
the equipment and maintenance of the volunteers who
are now going forth from the eastern part of he
colony to join the standard of the Commander-in-
Chief. This appeal, we feel confident, will be met
in a generous and
patriotic spirit by the Cspe public."
The following addresses have been presented to
Captain Watts—one by the merchants of Cape Town,
and the other by the passengers on the home voyage
per Hellespont :

~ Cape Town, Aug. 2.
" Dear Sir,—As this is probably the last voyage of the
Hellespont to Table Bay, we, the undersigned merchants
and other inhabitants of Cape Town, hasten to take the
opportunity of expressing our sense of the important ser-
vices you have rendered to steam navigation.
" The rapid passages made by you in the Hellespont
have demonstrated the important fact that the screw
propeller is fully adequate to compete successfully with
the paddle, and your last voyage made in the short space
of 32 days is without parallel.
" The uniformly rapid voyages made by the vessels
under your command are, we conceive, abundant proofs
of ono of their
you will render as
that it is to your skill and seamanship, and not to chance,
the time of regular communicationt;lianti
erbetween this colony
and the mother country has been so materially abridged.
66 It affords us equal satisfaction to aurcekwl
continuous courtesy and hospitality with which you have
treated those who have had the pleasure of sailing in
your vessel, and which has secured you in return, we
learn that,
tthhaet,peornsonyaolufrriernedtusrhnip
home,
er,esypeocutr osferuvsicaells.
" It will be a source of much gratification to us to
Your present
have
been duly appreciated by the energetic comp=
served,y who'll
you
ut
eeeireoelognugeweegaminayue have the
sioetle
dhytt vaensdo
al ognrge e
b zealously
le
a
first class vessels, which, we doubt not, and
vessel.—We remain, dear sir, yours very sincer I
" PHILL eiLL'
" Signed by the merchants and IPs AND ',LAG.
Town. tradesmen of Cape
cculanvedyaenffieceieriat:

~ Mr. W. Watts, Commander of tho Royal Mail
Screw-Steamer Ilellespont."

Helles nt Sept. .
" Sir,--After an expeditious and everyPc) ' ay pr 0S -
IF
ue
nr porous
it voyagewould
soefemthnirotwy:towfoadllapyassTetnh,,eerussubaylwgtho-oedmfoerj..-
you, we are anxious to express,
leaveespont—wo are on the point of landing. Before 15',
terms, both to you and the other officers of the eeiTt',
our full appreciation of the attention vvo have we° w.
regularilY'
since we left the Cape. A general order and
atten-
ready
cleanliness, civility, and good humour, and
hot y contribute
Lion on the part of the servants, while -ea-peel:111Y in a
not a little to the comforts of a voyaggetetst credit on the
in the strov,riest
crowded ship as this is, reflect the g
or
er
we
have most as-
commanding and other officers he
suredly met with, and we most
for them. that, in the changes about
" It is more than probabnlete
bune_ .ng
hi of the larger
officers; thank you all
to take place consequent
crew may not remain in the
steamers, you and your
t,.rriy do we desire to hear shortly
Hellespont (and most
a sphere wider and more adapted
of your removal
d for the future, we wish you the same
fi;otour valuable qualitiki); but wherever
you hall
_the now proverbial good fortune of the
to thes exercise
Ann
good fortune
if that we may have the luck to sail
and sh.ould any of us be destined for the
same port
with Yon. convey our thank to the officers cf
Begging you to co
Hellesponttls
ship, and to accept the same yourself, we are, sir,
your
yoursc ,
(Signed by all the passengers.)
Watts, &c., Hellespont:"
yours falthtUlly,

Active measures are being taken to render Table
Bay a convenient place for coaling the numerous
steamers that may be expected to call here for India
and Australia.

Wool has advanced in consequence of the rise in
the London market. Fine wa3bed may be quoted at
16d. per lb., and in the grease at 9d. .
The proposal to equalize the duties on all wines
imported into England has excited. very little atten-
tion ; in fact, some think the doing
differen-
tial duties will have rather the. effect of
the exportation of good win.e.s, which there is no
only taken.
doubt can ha made at the Cape it care i. 4
Royal Artillery. ; A.l.jor Burnaby,Captain Digby,
12th Lancers; Dr. Atkinson, staff surgeon; and
Lieut. Lucas, Cape Mounted Rifles; have leave of
absence to England.
1 Her Majesty's steamer Styx left for East London

The Australian Mail Steam Packet Company's
steam-ship Australian, from Plymouth, arrived in
Fable Bay on the 1911 of July, and sailed on the
221 for Adelaide Port Philip, and Sydney.
His Netherland Majesty's frigate Zuid Holland
was expected at Table Bay from Rotterdam.
Her Majesty's steam-vessel Pluto was at anchor
off the town of Porte Grande on the 231 of August,
and sailed therefrom on the 25th, at 7 P.m., for
Sierra Leone, with the English mails brought in the
same day by rthe Lady Jocelyn.
The Gene al Screw Steam Shipping Company's
steam-packet Lady Jocelyn arrived at St. Vincent
on the 25th of August.
The Hellespont has a full cargo of oil, wool, ivory,
wine, and a small quantity of specie on merchants'
account.
Aug. 13.—Lat. 12.05 S., long. 10.00 W., ex-
changed colours with Dutch brigantine, showing
No. 1,384. The ship Zetus, of Prince Edward
Island, for Bombay ; Ausa, from Bombay, for
London; and Marchioness of Alisa, from the
Mauritius, for Cork for orders. Aug. 14.—Lat.
09,48, long. 12,26 W. The barque Canderpalm, from
Aug. 18—Lat. 02,09 N.,
on. Manilla,
18,03 W.
R. otTtehredam.
ship
John Carson, of Belfast,
from Liverpool to Port Philip. Aug. 20.—Lat.
08,58 N., lon. 20,28 W. The Dutch barque Meyer-
-IMa6l
heid. Sunday, Sept. s.—Lat. 44,00 N., lon. 12,00
W., spoke English barque Nymph, from Odessa for
Cork, and the brig Glide, of Waterford, same day,
lat. 45,00 N., lon. 06,30 W., the schooner Conquest,
54 days from Ibraila. Cape Passengers—Mrs. Gray,
lady of the Bishop of Cape Town; Major Bernaby,
R.A.; Mr. and Mrs. Boyle, two children, and three
servants ; Mr. and Mrs. Nixon, Miss Horne, Mr.
Nesbit, Mr. Ruikir, Lieutenant Marryatt, R.N.,
Lieutenant Lucas, C.M.R , Mr. Newbury, Captain
Best, .
Sedge'', Mr. R. Cross, Master Morton,
Mr. Carney. From St. Helena—Captain Greethatn,
,
i
and servant ; Mr. Maddock, Mr. Boyer, Dr.
Ferguson,n charge of a detachment of the St. Hel-
lena Regiment, 38 men, 4
Lieutenant Vincent,r.wromen, and 6 children;
The mails were dispatched efnci. rom Plymouth by the
express train which should ar •
5 o'clock, but which lost two hours
at Paddington at
at Creech, near
Taunton, where the fatal accident occurred, and an
hour at Langley Marsh, where some defect was dis-
covered in the locomotive en '
Tipzat.

THE QUEEN OF THE SOUTH.
From the following account of the distance made eaah
day by this splendid steam-ship, with the various winds,
it will be seen that there is nothing in her voyage to dis-
appoint the sanguine expectations at first entertained of
her capabilities as a sailer-her sea-run having only oc.
cupied 31 days and 15 hours.
She left Plymouth on the 20th, and on the 21st ran
142 miles, wind W.S.W.; 22d,:156, W.S.W.; 23d, 247,
W.S.W.; 24th, 217, S.W., W.S.W.; 25th, 209, westerly;
26th, 258, northerly and N.E.; 27th, 256, north, north-
easterly; 28th, 250, N.E.; 29th, 247, N.E.; 30th, 260;
arrived 2h. 255. P.N. at St. Vincent's, making the run of
2,242 miles in 9 days and 15 hours.
July let, coaling; 2d, ditto, sailed at nine P.M. for
Ascension; 3d, 128, variable easterly; 4th, 220, NA;
sth, 221, S.S.W., S.W.; 6th, 217, S.W.; 7th, 203 S.W.,
southerly; Bth, 170, southerly, 9th, 100, southerly;
10th, 184, S.S.E.; 11th, 219, S.S.E.; 12th, 198; arrived
at Ascension at ten A.m., making the 1,860 miles in 9
days and 10 hours.
July 13th, 14th, 15th, and 16th coaling, and sailed at
eight P.M.; 17th, 115, S.E.; 18th, 206, E.S.E.; 19th,
226, E.S.E.; 20th, 218, E.S.E.; 21st, 213, E.S.E; 22d,
137, E.S.E., N.E.; 23d, 240, N.N.W.; 24th, 258 N.W.,
westerly, under sail only; 25th, 248, S.W.; 26th, 219,
W.; 27th, 241, S.W., N.N.W.; 28th, 247, N.N.W.;
29th, 190; arrived in Table Bay at ten .&.M., !waning
the distance of 2,836 miles in twelve dw, a and fourtßen
hours.

COILS AT Tan CAPE.—The Lieutenant-Goveraor has
offered a reward of not less than 50/. nor exceeding
100/. to any person or persons who shall prove to the
satisfaction of the Government the existence of a good
coal within such a distance of Table Bay or Simon's Bay
as will render it possible to deliver it at either of these
places us cheap as when imported from other countries.
Thin layers of coaly matter—that is, of compressed and
hardened vegetable matter, have been found near the
surface in vaibus parts of Southern Africa; and, though
not very probable, it is not without precedent, that a
bed of coal reposes in the Great Valley between Table
Mountain and the Tygerberg and Stellenbosch hills.
A vast deposit of coal has been found in the
state of Virginia, the lowest of the beds resting imme-
diately on the fundamental granite. Such a cup of
granite may possibly be found in the Cape Downs, filled
by what are called the coal measures, the edges of which
may crop out about Tygerberg, Wynbertg, and other
amsfeopdaointadtaetliynt
hoel:hbueas
elevations. This is well worth scientific investigation,
cekdbenodur Table
or
even at considerable
,expense. A report having Veen
examination
b basin
si Mountainof
, the
between spot
made to the Lieutenant-Governor that coal had just been
of a rivulet.
discovered. at some. twelve miles' distance from Table
to be made, and the party appointed were led by the dis-
coverer
and lout's Pay, where small pieces of coal
Nothing, however, was discovered, so far as the public
have been informed, that give much,
encouragementt. t.no
hcßoaavvyee'r ehbree telo.n:
the hope of finding coal in any considerable
that. direction. The geological formation oftheluan quantity
1
such
woe
peninsula, indeed, is unfavourable toexpectations,
but as isolated coal-beds have been discovered
in forma-
tions_ equally discouraging, the
investigation
. ought to be
pursued.—South African Commercial Advertiser.

THE LARGE BEQUEST TO THE QUEEN to
The Kentish Gazette adds the following Pargiwl,a.rBAft,
the statement published by us on Monday heel:—ned ef
John Camden Neild, of Lincoln's Inn, was F°„,,ssed- penu-
an immense fortune, but was of very eccentric twenty "years
rious habits. At the death of his father,
which
since, he came into possession of about 250,0001.,
.of his death.
sum had not been touched up to the Pen , greet coat.
The deceased was never known to wear metal buttons.
He usually dressed in a blue coat, withit would take off
which ha prohibited being brushed, He held consider-
the nap and deteriorate its velcei
and, in Bucks, and was
able landed property in Re7nCitation from his tenantry
always happy to receive an
be
ese
wsiaons did,a
boften
o ad
dtremain-
ingto
a month at a time, as
o and manners led strangers
his saving& His appease the lowest verge of penury,
to imagine that he was excited in his behalf, an in-
and their compassion tie be mentioned. Just before the
stance of whicil
to visit them, which he oc
t- may
railway system of travelling,
introduction
°had been on a visit to some of his
ie deceased
was
returning to London, when the
coach stopped the passengers all retired to the inn.
rt
eh
tthh
ee
Keeper
. deceased
eepe r
of told
tthe
e
of our In-; coach companion, and recollecting his
Missing their
e they conceived he was in decayed
, .„pearano ,
estates, and at Farningham. With the exception
circumstances,decnYe" and accordingly a sum was subscribed,
at
ibi Yu
se n
• of brandy and water kindly sent
bumping glass
gentleman, which he thankfully ac.
out
Many instances of a similar character might be
°opted.
and tao the poor
his death
of his executors that he had made a most singular
one
will, but as the property was his own, he had done as
Privy Seal for the time being (Dr. Tattan) and Mr. J.
ee f
executorso r e h
Stevens. of Willesborough. After bequeathing a very
few trifling legacies, the deceased has left the whole of
edAwfiethw idtaysThb
his immense fortune to " Her Most gracious Majesty
Queen Victoria, begging her Majesty's most gracious
acceptance of the same, for her sole use and benefit,
and of her heirs, Stc.'' For some years past Mr. Neild
has scarcely allowed himself the common necessaries
and comforts of life, and has left a poor old house-
keeper, who was with him for more than twenty-six
years, without the smallest provision or acknowledgment
for her protracted and far f
rom agreeable or remanent-
tive services.
he pleased

Their
EXPRESSES on the GREATWE STERN•
hours and expressthree-
mtrialins leave little to be
desired, travel-
ling their 120
hour, and say). in two
of fifty-three
miles fromthree-quarters,
(London to Brirsitmo
Paddingtonarters,toorptihdecootnei3D
sixty minutes—
starting
express dashes along at the nate of seventy miles an
g punctually, arriving punctually. Often their
at by an occasional explode
which you are moving
throe •h a bridge,
so to speak, or the flash past you of an
Standing on a platform, this
you are only made aware of the terrific pace
express the other way. S
p'issage of two trains is seen to be positively terrific; so
much so, indeed, that it is not wise for an unsteady
head to get too near thQ edge on such an occasion, lest
the influence of the whirlwind should prove too strong
fo
d and this rate is little more than four times
less than that of a cannon ball when discharged; a
perr i,:con Se, venty wiles an hour may be called 105 feet
second,
----,‘ Leaden messenger
That rides upon the violent speed of fire;"
excepting on
an occasional bad bit of
road, you
et itbin,yowu
may ride without inconvenience, so steady
in an express thus flashing along. Trees, fields, vil-
is the carriage. These very lines,
lames, hills, come and are hone;
the near
indeed, we do write
objects first,
those in the distance remaining longer in sight (like
the earlier events of life in our memory)—yet the
Paper may be held steadily, and the pencil controlled.
--Builder,