The Sun.
London, England, 1852-05-08 00:00:00

MEMORANDUM OF MOVEMENTS.

Head-quarters, Seven Kloof Point, Amatolas, Camp,
March 24, 1852.

The columns under Colonels Michel, Eyre, and Perceval,
will have this day completed the movements previously or-
dered in the Inner Amatolas for the expulsion of the rebel
Gaikas, and will thus continue to prosecute this service.

I. Colonel Michel will establish the base of his operations
at Fort Cox.

2. Colonel Eyre will march rid Fort White for the purpose
of taking with him fifteen days' provisions, and establish
himself near his old camp, in the Keiskamma Hock, as the

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base of his operation.
3. Colonel Perceval will march rue Fort White, taking
with him fifteen days' provisions; and, as the base of his
operations, establish kimself in the Quilli Quilli range, taking
his guns with him.
4. Colonel Pole will march rid Fort White and King Wil-
liam's Town, and with a corps of cavalry, levies, and Fingoes,
which will be given to him, establish himself on the Ka-
bousie Neck, with fifteen days' provisions and forage.
5. These corps will daily dispatch strong patrols in every
direction from their respective bases, so as to reader the
Amatolas too hot for the rebels to remain in them.
6. The garrison of Fort Peddie will frequently patrol the
Fish River Bush ; the garrison of Fort Brown, the Ecca bush ;
and the garrisons of Fort Hare, Blinkwater Post, Post Re-
tief, Elard's Post, and Whittlesea, will patrol their respective
neighbourhoods with vigour and activity.
7. Meanwhile Blajor-General Somerset, with his field
force of regular soldiers, levies, and burghers, will act upon
the north side of the Amatolas, penetrating these mountains
daily, and communicating with the Cradock burghers under
Commandant Gilfillan, and with the cavalry under Colonel
Pole, on the Kabousie Neck.
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Head-quarters will be at Fort Cox on the 25th inst., at
, Ali\lary Secret
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King William's Town on the 26th, where all reports will be
forwarded.
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G. SMITH
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KING WILLLUIS TOWN, Mown 21.
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saly
looking for the Graham's Town post to hear of Sir Harry s
proceedings. We have no newaaince the 12
It is reported there has been a de
Kromme range, and that Sir Harr clear sweep made in the
Chumie Hook on the 118th. I y intended to move on the
the rebels making away with allperceive you have heard of
bead, fourteen troop horses, and the Fort White cattle-147
of the Queen's killed. It ,i
all the officers' horse one
stationed at Fort White . ssaid that Montagu's horse,
themselves. There is a repod anything but distinguish
°
1,000 head of cattle to that Kreli has collected
that he has told Sandill pay
Government with ; also a report
Lieu-
tenant Girard, 4'3d, not to make any concession.
with the remaining arrived at King William's Town to-day
There are several efthe ill-fated Birkenhead troops.
Several of the incidents of a most heart-rending cha-
racter.and planks by poor fellows were torn of the yards
clothes. It is saidt_sharks,a which selected all the men without
and foolishly securedh that Major Seton had a life preserver 07:
neck, and, strange to three hundred sovereign round hh
weight of theseke t say,h his ipistols. It is thoughta_uathee
perished. Stock, it
tpis
said,s head under wtharteeer,a d thus
councillors to
has sentm
the Slambie Commissioner peace, but he would
not see them. Pa
to entreat for
K -
t told them to go across the eibefore
they asked for °
peace. Two spans of oxen were cut from
the yokes last night
at Fort Murray, and three of the troop
horses taken out of the ; stable, where three men were
sleeping. The fellows pulled down part of the sod-gable to
get the horses out.

AMERICAN NEWS.
SOUTHAMPTON' FRIDAY EVgNING.—The Herm t aann eam-
ship, arrived in Cowes Roads at one o'clock today,
zi
,fromtaNz.
Yoak direct, which place she left on Saturday
She has made a quicker voyage than usual ; her new boilers
having, no doubt, contributed to her Improved speed. The
Hermann brings a large cargo and 3,000 dollars for Bremen.
After transhipping her mails and passengers for England
into a small steamer provided for the purpose at Cowes, the
Hermann proceeded on her voyage to Bremen.
By this arrival we have three days' later intelligence.
We find that money was in more demand, at from 5 to 8
per cent. sterling. Exchange active, at 109 to 1091 e.
Stocks firm. Cotton brisk, with large sales; middling, Oic.
ti) 81/2c. Flour dull.
Three emigrant ships had arrived at Quebec front Live-
rpool, one of them being the Toronto, which arrived on the
15th, being 23 days out.
The floods continued throughout several of the states. Ten
persons had been drowned at Pittsburg, ten at Virginia,and
three at Washington.
Eleven houses had been blown down by a gala at New
York, but no lives were sacrificed. A schooner, however,
sank in the bay, and all on board perished.
The national theatre at Boston had been accidentally
burnt, and all the properties destroyed.
The steamer Cherokee arrived on the 23d, from Hai
gold.vannah , previously from Chargres. She brought bat little
The use of chloroform had been discovered at Louisville;
several robberies and murders had been effected by it.
ofn to
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engine-eboiler
ahnadinbsutanrstuoinietohuesiEyrkieillßedai.lroad, at New
3d of
excite
YoArkn,
Kossuth had been to New Haven ; he was last at Spring-
field, where an immense crowd awaited his arrival.
eonferaAl April, had
Advicesfrothoef
ctihtye existence iMsteexnciceo,
been
I a received.
consequence
no further trouble was
in reference w the new tariff adopted by G meat
pignosition to the Garay grant.
Relations publishes a lengthy re-
for Matarnoras, and the refusal of to abide by it,
the old one had been restored, and
tAlh ien
pi sat
pe re
rost
iFn ocir
pe
pfeaortTrehidne.
The old rumours of Cabinet changes
The line of magnetic telegraph were again current.
the city of Mexico was finished on the 30th tilt.
between Vera Cruz and
Letters to a late date from the Rio Grande represent every-
thing as quiet; no further filibustering attempts having
the capture of Carvajal.
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Sir James East. .- '

Jlr James East and Mr. Charles Barter bad an interview
1741 J9hla PAkingt9n yesterday at the colonial-office.

Obirat
nit
LONDON SATURDAY, MAY $, 1852.

Unable to bestow that blessing upon the
vagricul-
turistsouring in particular, the llovernment is
endeavouring
to accord to the entire country the advantages of
Protection. Instead of being protection against the
importation of foreign corn, it is to be
Protection de-
rived from the militia. Among the many legislative
anomalies which
have marked the present session,
assuredly this is by far the most remarkable. It dis-
plays the members of the newly constituted
Adminia-
tration in the light of humourists rather than of
statesmen. After maintaining, as Lord Dzawr un-
questionably did, in the memorable speech 111aUgura.
tiTe of hiS Cabinet, that there was no likelihood
of any such warlike invasion as had been anticipated
by the alarmists—grounding his assurance upon the
fact of our friendly relations with foreign countries,
and referring, in illustration of this, particularly to
the amicable disposition shown by the PIL IN
c P"-
SIDENT of the French Republic towards England—
the PREMIER has, nevertheless, consented to counte-
nance the Bill introduced to the Commons by the
HOME SECRETARY, as a measure directly emanating
from the councils of her MaJzsrr's Government. The
result of this inconsistency has been no less extraordi-
nary than the inconsistency itself—larger and larger
majorities being accorded by the popular representa-
tives on each successive division to the very same
kind of project, the folly of which led to the disrup-
tion of the late Administration. Ministers have
placed themselves, therefore, in this rather ridiculous
position—they are virtually approving when in office
a panic which they disdained when in opposition—
added to which, they are forcing upon the country
the protection of a militia to which they were not
pledged, while, at the same time, they are coolly
setting aside the protection the revived corn-laws,
of
to which they wire most s- lemnly pledged to their
constitusncies, and, indeed, to the entire body of
agriculturists 1

Yet this is the party whose advent to power was
made tha subject of
a
the
lfetlic thanksgiving by the
Hon. Gentleman
snr for North Warwick-
shire! An amusing
allusion
roeetwthas made to this cir-
cumstance by the Hon. LI a 0
I 8.
desultorye Representative of
Marylebone in the course
before the Militia Bill was lan night discussion
again considered

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in Committee. It will be perceived from the re-
marks of Sir BENJAMIN HALL that the incident
occurred on the occasion of a meeting of the
acting committee of the National Association
for the Protection of Industry and Capital throughout
the British Empire, the meeting being held on the
Ist of March, in the metropolis, and the association
being under the patronage of such personages as the
Judge Advocate, as the Secretary at War, as the
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, as the
Prime Minister, as the Lord Steward, as the Lord
Chamberlain, as the President of the Board of
Control, as the Foreign Secretary, and as the Chan-
cellor! Under the sanction of such authoritative Vice-
Presidents, the acting committee convened the meeting
in question, where, Mr. NEWDEGATE being in the chair,
"it was resolved, that this association, first humbly
acknowledging the hand of Almighty Goodness in the
event, hails with fervent gratitude the advent to power
of the Earl of DERBY." Yet, with the terms of this
grandiloquent resolution staring him in the face, the
Hon. Member for North Warwickshire could yes-
terday deliberately assert that the proceedings on that
occasion were not commenced with prayer—as if
there were not prayers of thanksgiving as well as
prayers of supplication—and as if the resolution
quoted by Sir BENJAMIN HALL were not a
prayer of the former description Mr. NEWDEGATE
consequently rendered himself liable to the banter of
his brother legislators, not merely by his authorization,
as chairman, of this public prayer of thanksgiving,
but subsequently by his formal repudiation of the
charge of having thus celebrated the elevation to the
Ministerial chambers in Downing-street of the party
he believed in his heart to be destined to revive the
obsolete, the buried system of mercantile monopoly.
The Hon. Baronet the Member for the borough of
Marylebone, in thus dragging the devotional loy-
alty to Protection of Mr. NEWDEGATE before the
notice of the House of Commons, may assuredly be
said to have but little of the bowels of compassion.
Had it been otherwise with him in these respects, he
must inevitably have reserved the joke to himself for
exclusive enjoyment, instead of insisting that the
whole House should participate in its appreciation.
Nevertheless, it must be allowed that the temptation
before him was almost irresistible. The very terms
of the resolution, more befitting the platform of
Exeter-hall during the present May meetings, than
the walls of the South Sea House, were sufficient to
induce Sir BENJAMIN HALL to break through all or-
dinary considerations in the way of lenity or amenity.
One might have reasonably expected to find in the
chairman of a meeting, of which this was the first
resolution, some Reverend Muggletonian, rather
than the Honourable Gentleman the representative of
North Warwickshire. It was but reasonable, there-
fore, to find Sir BENJAMIN HALL cruelly provoking
the laughter of the House of Commons without any
sort of regard for the feelings of Mr. NEWDEGATE.
The Earl of DERBY, it must be acknowledged, is
suffering more severely from the zeal of his sup-
porters than from the rancour of the Opposition.
\V hat with the prayers of Mr. NEWDEGATE and the
extravagant declarations of Sir FITZROY KELLY,
the Noble PREMIER has anything but a quiet
life of it. The formal assertions of the SOLICITOR,
GENERAL as to the necessity of abolishing free trade
brings Lord DERBY'S policy at one moment into a
position fraught with embarrassment, while at
another time—what is yet more lamentable—the
solemn thanksgiving of the would-be Presi-
dent of the Board of Trade brings the whole Cabinet
into ridicule, rendering its situation little less than
absolutely ridiculous. Well may the Earl of DERBY
exclaim, " Save me from my friends !" and care-
fully will he have to observe their proceedings if
he aspires in earnest to work out the consolidation of
his Government.

The Property and Income-Tax Bill has passed
through Committee in its present highly objection-
able form. It was read a second time, at nearly two
o'clock yesterday morning, as we announced in our
last impression, in an almost empty House. It was a
complete surprise; for Members of all parties, (save
those specially retained at the instance of the whipper-
in) had left the House, supposing that no further
business would have been transacted at such an hour.
It is by no means impossible that the Bill would,
under any circumstances, have been carried through
that stage without a division. There could,
as we have already stated, have been but little
difference of opinion as to the propriety of its
renewal for a limited period, until the fitting opportu
nity for the general revision of taxation shall arrive.
Any possible question as to the modification of
Schedule D, and the more equitable assessment of the
impost, would be more properly disposed of in Com-
mittee than on the second reading. The discussion
that might reasonably have been anticipated under
other circumstances, and at a more seasonable time,
would, however, be valuable, and some important
views and opinions would probably have been
elicited. It is hardly fair to submit matters
of such vital importance to " a beggarly account
of empty benches," in the absence of those who could
and would have thrown additional light on the sub-
ject. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER might
consider himself bound by the pledge he has already
given not to propose any measure of finance which
might affect the means of raising the revenue during
the present session, or, indeed, until the rapidly ap-
proaching appeal to the country has been responded
to ; but there is no reason why other Hon.
Gentlemen should not give expression to
their feelings on the all-important topic.
If ever there was a subject where speeches to the
electors from within the walls of Parliament would
be proper, it is that which may justly be termed
the most interesting question of the day, and on which
the several constituencies should be stimulated by
every lawful means to express decided opinions, so 53
to permit no possibility of misconception ; and yet we
find it hurried over—we will not say at an advanced
hour of the night, but rather at an early hour of the
morning—as if it were a mere matter of course, on
which neither doubt, difficulty, or discussion oould
possibly;arise.
Last night again it passed through Committee
almost sub silentio. The Hon. Gentleman the
Member for Montrose unquestionably moved the
adjournment of the House; but the amendment was
withdrawn, the several clauses were agreed to, and
after a few brief observations from the CHANCELLOR
of the EXCHEQUER, the matter was practically dis-
posed of, so far as the popular branch of the Legisla-
ture is concerned for the present year.
The people must now speak out boldly and unequi-
vocally ; they must clearly perceive that their only hope
is in their own exertions. If any undue charge were
imposed on real or personal property—if the fund-
holder, the landowner, or the shareholder,
were unjustly attacked, a cry of "confiscation"
would speedily arise which would reverberate through-
out the length and breadth of the land. But is
" confiscation" worse than robbery ? and what is it
but robbery, and that of the very worst description,
to compel parties to pay ten or twenty times as much
as under just regulations they could be called
o
to contribute. The person, who having earned
41. °r Si. per week by excessive labour, and who is
obliged to apply
thereof, a large proportion, more than half
in liquidation of outstanding liabilities, so that
he has less than 150/. available for the maintenance
of himself and family, feels a deep and burning sense
of injustice at being classed with the owners of from
6,500/. to 8,54-30/.
the Three per Cents., and com-
pelled to pay as much to the collector. He must submit
to some serious privation, or borrow money at an
extravagant and usuriousus
premium, his mind is
harassed by the knowledge of the recari •
ous character
of his position and the difficultiespwlf which he must en-
counter when ill health or loss
of employmment deprive
him of his scanty resources,
or even supposing that
he should be so fortunate as to retain his situation for
life, as to what will become of his w
•
ife and children
after his removal from this transitory scene. The
fundholder has no such care or anxiety on his mind.
If he has incurred debt or liability, he
can easily
satisfy it by the sale of a portion of his •
capital, and if
his income should be thereby reduced below 150/., he
will be exonerated from any demand ; whether he be
sick or well, occupied or unoccupied, he will still
amount to the
re-
ceive the stipulated very hour.
He has nothing to -ear from the bankruptcy or
caprice of his qxat loyer, or froma failure
of his own powers of endurance. Even after his
death there is a certain provision for his family, and
that without the allocation on his part of any Portion

of his receipts, either for insurance or accumulation
in any form. It is, therefore, so perfectly
absurd to say that the equal taxation of all descrip-
tions of income can for a moment be justified,
that if it had not received the legislative sanction for
ten, we might say for eleven successive years, it
would seem to be a fighting against shadows to
controvert it. It is, however, a sad reality ; and
since the anomaly has been supported as it
is still maintained, without amelioration, no
exertion should be spared to obtain the intro-
duction of a wiser and more equitable system, of one
that may be examined in all its details without ex-
citing blushes in the face of every right-minded Eng-
lishman. The time is rapidly approaching when such
exertions may be beneficial : if every elector, who
feels himself aggrieved under the existing law, deter-
mines that under any circumstances he will not bestow
his suffrage on any candidate who will not pledge
himself to support an equitable modification of
Schedule I), the matter will be speedily placed on a
proper foundation, and the impost will never be re-
newed in its present highly objectionable form.

THE FRENCH REPUBLIC.

We have received the Paris journals of yesterday.
The Pays and Public have received a first warning
from the Minister of Police for publishing an appre-
ciation of debates in the Corps Legislatif. The dis-
tribution of the Emancipation Beige is stopped for
the same reason. The Journal de Geneve is prohi-
bited in France. The Constitutionnel (and of course
the Pays itself) expresses astonishmentot the:warn-
ing given to the Pays.
The tlloniteur contains a treaty, signed April 27,
between France and Holland, stipulating pilot dues
on the footing of the most favoured nations.
The Council of State has given its approbation to
the Bill for calling out the contingent of 80,000 men.
It has also completed the discussion on the Bill rela-
tive to the modifications to be introduced in Articles
5,6, and 7 of the Code of Criminal Instruction.
The Council of State has voted as urgent a proposi-
tion for a credit of 360,000 f. for the establishment of
a canal and the improvement in the rivers of the
Sologne.
It is said that General DE GOYON will be charged
with extraordinary powers to examine the proceed-
ings of all the political prisoners still confined in the
fort of Bice tre, and release such es may receive that
indulgence without danger.
The two regiments of artillery in garrison at Vin-
cennes and at the Ecole Militaire have just been fur-
nished with howitzers on the model invented by the
PRESIDENT of the Republic, which were recently
tried and highly approved of at Vincennes. These
pieces have all engraved on them the arms and initials
of the PRESIDENT.

The body of General ARTHUR O'Comsoa, after
being embalmed, was buried in the family vault in
the Park of Bignon. Among the mourners was M.
ISAMDERT, one of the oldest and dearest friends of the
deceased. Before the tomb was closed, M. ISAMBERT
made a very affecting funeral oration, in which he
warmly eulogized the virtues of the departed general,
and enumerated some of his numerous acts of charity.
The third spring meeting (Paris races) of the
season took place on Thursday in the Champ de
Mars. Although the weather was rather cold fur the
month of May, it was very fine. The attendance of
spectators of different classes was very great for a
week day. The stands were fully occupied, chiefly
by ladies, and within the cords was a rather large
gathering of dashing equipages. The assemblage of
members of the Jockey Club, end of sporting cha-
racters, was very numerous. The PRINCE PRESIDENT
of the Republic arrived shortly after the commence-
ment of the business, and remained nearly to the end.
The PRINCE went to visit the tribunes in course of
erection for the grand military &splay on Monday.
He was received with every mark of respect by the
spectators, and was accompanied by General MAGNAN,
General ST. ARNAUD, Count DE MORN; and M.
FOULD.

The fourth and last of the Paris spring meetings
is to take place on Sunday. The day's business will,
it is expected, be the most brilliant of the season.
The Bourse was feeble with not much business doing.
The Four-and-a-Half per Cents. opened at 100 f. 20c.,
rose to 100 f. 35c., fell subsequently to 100 f. 15c., and
closed at 100 f. 20c. for the end of the month; the Three
per Cents. closed at 70f. 50c.; Orleans Railroad Shares,
1,185 E; Rouen, 772 f. 50c.; Havre, 291 f. 25c.; Great
Northern, 587 f. 50c.; Avignon, 288 f. The.; Vierzon,
585 f.; Basle, 247 f. 50c.; Bordeaux, 618 f. 750.; Paris
and Strasburg, 568 f. 75c.; Tours and Nantes, 368 f. 75c.;
Paris and Lyons, 613 f. 75c.

BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, MAY 7.
East Indian, 22 N—Grand Junction of France, 4
Luxembourg, 3:lA.—Northern of France, 231% ex div.—
Orleans and Bordeaux, 15;4—Tours and Nantes, 11 ;a—
Western of France, 7%.

SPAIN.

Our accounts from Madrid are of the 2d inst.

On that day the journals appeared in mourning in
commemoration of the insurrection of the 2d of May,
1808, and of the gallant victims who fell on that un-
happy occasion.
The 2d being Sunday the Bourse was not opened.