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London, England, 1854-09-13 00:00:00

had amassed wealth might find au esbato and an
agricultural hdne when desirous to enjoy the fruit Of 1
his toil. The forty or fifty miles between the
mining territory and the sea is described as nearly •
level, and as offering every facility for the con-
struction of at least a horse tram-road. Navvy
work in a sandy barren plain would of course in-
volve some peculiar expenses ; but there would be
no land to purchase, and'no lawyers' bills for Par-
liamentary expenses. Hitherto the Governor has
declined granting any governmental aid towards
the object. He is probably right, but the
subject will soon be discussed with full knowledge
in the new Parliament. According to present
accounts, we must think that the Namaqualand
copper mines, with the railway, by which these vast
riches will be easily brought to market, present a
most tempting fiel d. to the British capitalist. We may
hope that some of the wealth liberated, or rather
created, by an abundant harvest, will find its way
to the opening and working this copper California.
It is nearer home by half than Australia, and
will prov,e a much more safe and reliable invest-
ment.

LATEST NEWS.

THE WAR

THE PRINCIPALITIES.
The following is the latest 'communication ye
received ; it arrived this morning from Pesth :
The Austrians, under General Coronini, were ex-
pected in the capital on the 6th of September, and
great disgust at their arrival was expressed by
almost all the Wallachians. General Popovitch
and Allemand, with a small staff of officers and a
few orderlies, had already arrived. 12,000 men
were to have reached Krajova on the 26th ult.
General Hess's proclamation, a oopy of which
was sent to you by the last despatch!, remained
still suppressed. Austrian influence had, however,
already shown itself in certain orders issued by his
Highness Omer Pacha. But first it should be men-
tioned that, on the 18th of last month, on t.lati occa-
sion of his Imperial Royal an d Apostolical Mejesty's
fete, his HighnessOmer Pacha informed M. Roesler,
the Austrian . consul at Rustchuk, that he and his
superior officers wished to assist at the fete, and,
to simplify matters, desired that M. Bossier should
draw out a programme of what he might think de-
sirable on the occasion. The programme was so
drawn out, and intimated that at a certain hour
his highness would be expected, at another hour
the generals of division and brigade, and so fofth.
His Highness issued his orders agreeably, and they
were carried out—all the powers that be being par-
ticularly punctual. At Bucharest his highness is
pursuing the same course of conciliatory policy to-
wards his fellow-countrymen (the Austrians), and
is even said to have expresssed his intention of
visiting his native land at the close of the war—an
intention which it may be easily imagined he has
not the faintest notion of carrying out. At the
instance of the last invaders of Wallachia his high-
ness has made over to the Austrian consul a major
of Cossacks, a certain Aarcn Keinie, a Wallachian
TranSylvaman and an Austrian subject. The un-
fortunate man is now a prisoner, with chains on his
legs, in the prison attached to the consulate. By all
Austrian partisans he is' said to have committed
assassination and robbery, and is about to be
pursued for a criminal, not a political offence.
It is to be supposed that his Highness Omer Pacha
cannot have given up this man without having all
the documents (at least) duly declaring his guilt ;
but this act has been followed by another, which
throws some little doubt on his probity in the mat-
ter in question. Another treaty between the same
Powers stipulates that the. Turks shall not employ
political refugees in their army near the Austrian
frontiers. Upon this treaty a requisition has been
made by the Austrian consul to have those officers
who fought against the Government he repre-4
sents, in the Hungarian war, sent away from'
the headquarters of the Turkish army at Bucha-
rest, in consequence of the propinquity to the fron-
tiers of Transylvania. To the infinite disgust of
all the refugees, this requisition has been acceded
to by his Highness Omer Pacha, and eight of his
aides-de-camp have been ordered to Monastir.
Most of these officers are decorated ; they served
the Turkish Government in the war in Bosnia ;
they have, during the present war, done good ser-
vice and this is their rewaril. ; for an order to Mo-
nastir is only preparatory one for Asia. Most of
them will sooner resign the service than suffer such
ungrateful treatment, and the rest of the British
officers who have been serving with the Bashi-
bazouks, have tendered their resignations to his
Highness Omer Pacha in a body, in consequence of
the ill-treatment their men had received at his
hands. They and their horses were left for days
without either food or forage ; pay was hardly to
be expected, or compensation in lieu of rations for
man and horse. The corps, several thousand
strong, was stationed near Turtukai, where the
men had absolutely to support themselves on
Indian corn-cobs and hips and haws from the
woods for twenty days ; it may be imagined, then,
how the horses fared. His highness was remon-
strated with, but in vain. The only reply he
vouchsafed was, that the patriotism of the Bashi-
bazouks had never failed in other hands—a, reply
which was written somewhere about the same
period that a number of them were disarmed on
the island of Ramadan, opposite Rustchuk, by
main force. This latter fact was not reported to
you before in consequence of its having reached
your correspondent late, and on no very trustwor-
thy authority. The disarming was performed by
the regular infantry, who were eventually compel-
led to fire upon the unfortunate wretches, five or
six being killed, and perhaps treble the same num-
ber wounded. But to return to the English Bashi-
bazouks. The receipt of such a reply, at a period
when the officers had been spending money from
their own private resources to keep starvation from
thinning their ranks, naturally enough determined
them in a body to resign, and of course the men will
disperse. Among them, as mentioned in former let-
ters, are a number of Hindostanees, whose conduat
and fidelity have been uniformly exemplary—as,
indeed, has that of all those under the Englishmen.
Some of these men, on a former occasion, when the
Turks took their horses from them, and wished to
make foot soldiers of them, justly claimed to be
British subjects—it is to be feared with little avail,
as diplomatic authorities are rather rare in these
latitudes, The manner, too, in which his highness
moved, and communicated his orders to the troops
under General Beatson's command, could certainly
not have been practised in any other country but
Turkey. Let it be imagined with what astonishment
a commanding officer would view a thousand men
or so tiling off away from his camp, without having
received the smallest order authorising such a
movement ; and his, if possible, greater astonish-
ment, when a colonel or a major under his orders
produces a written ()icier for the move. This was
precisely the manner in which General Beatson
was treated, and every ono must own his resigna-
tion was the only alternative open to him. The
eeneral and his officers are about to place them-
selves at Lord Raglan's disposition.

OMER PACHA AND BARON HESS'S
PROCLAMATIONS.

The Satellite, of the 2d inst., says that it is re-
ported that Omer Pacha had forbidden the procla-
mations of Baron Hess to be posted up in Bucharest ;
and that the Hetman of the Wallachian. militia,
Salomon' had been imprisoned for disobeying this
order. This measure, if true, must surely have
originated in some misunderstanding ; at any rate,
it scarcely agreeS with the proclamation of Dervish'
Paella, of the 28th ult., wherein he announces that
" the Austrians advance into. the PrincipaPities as
friends of the Turks." This step would be any-
thing but a friendly one.