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LON DON TUESDAY
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JUNE 20, 1849.

T" QUARTERLY REVIEW,
No. CLXIX., will be published ne%t week.

CONTENTS:
I. Herschell's Astrono ideal Obserraticns at the Cape.
11. Beattie's Life of Thomas Campbell.
111. Chess.
IV. Scottish Abbeys and Cathedrals.
V. Law of Marriage.—Mr. Wort!ey's 11111.
VI. Lyell's Second Visit to the United States.
VII. Austria and Central Italy.
VIII. Democracy.
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SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
TATTERSALL'S.—YESTERDAY.
The transactions on the Northumberland Plate were
limited in number and amount, the only horses in de-
mand being Legerdemain, Miss Ann, and John Cosser.
Very little was done on the two favourites. Business
was equally flat on the Goodwood Stakes end Cup; a
marked improvement in Cane= was its only feature.
The Flying Dutchman was backed for 1,500 even for the
St. Leger, and The Italian, Penang, Compass, John o'
Groat, Cyprus, and Tordesillas, for various amounts,
none of them large, for the Derby. The general betting,
owing to the departure of many of the subscribers for
Newcastle, was very flat.
NORTHUMBERLAND PLATE.
7 to 2 agst Mr. Green's Malton, 4 yrs (including
91b), 7st—taken and offered
9_to 2 agst Mr. S. L. Fox's Executor, 5 yrs, 7st 111 b
taken
6 to 1 agst Lord Stanley's Legerdemain, 3 yrs, 4st
81b—taken
7 to 1 agst Mr. Merry's Miss Ann, 3 yrs, 4st 61b—
• taken and offered
10 to 1 agst Mr. Eddison's John Cosser, 4 yrs, 7st—t
JULY STAKES (NEWMARKET).
4 to 1 agst Mr. Francis's Impression
Even on Tordesillas, Humphrey, and Impression agst
the field.

INDIA.
T►:e following letter from Ptshawur will he read
with interest:—

"Camp Jammed, April 13.
" We still lay enc.:tinted in the plaie of Jumrood, in
the vicinity of the Khyber Pass, the small fort of Jum
room being a little in advance of us; and here we are now
likely to remain for a month at least, owing to the site
selected for a cantonment by a committee composed of
military acrd medical officers assembled for that purpose
being considered at present in an uninhabitable state.
The committee consisted of Brigadier-General Camp-
bell as president, wiLla Superintending-Surgeons Demo-
stem and Strider r, Captain Goldie; of the Engineers, and
Captain Ramsay, Deputy Qaertermaster-General, as
members. The substance of their report is said to
have been something like the following—not having
seen it, I do not vouch for the literal correctness of
what I send you :—‘ The commlttee having assem-
bled and carefully examined the country in the neigh-
bourhood of Peshawur, ere of opinion that a tract
of elevated land situated to the e est of- the Balla
Hisser-or fort of Peohawar, and extending in a south-
west direction from the old Seikh cantonment, will
be found to be the most eligib!e site ler a canton-
ment. Its centrical position, the command it possesses
of the surrounding country—more particularly of the
road to the Khyber Pass —its vicinity to the fort and
city admitting of one portion of it being protected by the
guns of the former, without the inconvenience of too
close a proximity to the latter, with other advantages,
viz., a salubrious situation, firm soil, and abundance of
water, combine to recommend it to the Committee.
aa the moat favourable locality in the neighbourhood
ot' Peshawur.' The report then goes on to state that the
table land selected might be considered of too limited
an extent for a cantonment as it is usually planned in
the upper provinces of India, but as it would appear
essential for safety that the buildings should be
laid out in a compact loner, and with regard to be-
ing easily defended, the committee did nut anticipate
any disadvantage to arise tharcfrom. We should have
removed to the new cantonment long ego had it not been
that on measuring the place selected Or, Quartermaster-
General
found that, owing to the ground baug too limited
fur an encampment, although sufficiently large for a can-
tonment, he would be obliged to pitch some of the tents
for the troops on a low swampy piece of ground, which
would not at all answer. The Sappers and Miners are
busy clearing away all the old ruins of houses, and stop-
ping up all watercourses, as no irrigation whatever is to
be allowed within a mile at least of the cantonment, for
fear of malaria arising. This was strongly recom-
mended in some notes appended by the medical
members of the committee above detailed. It is
said that Dr. Straker recommended that a per-
manent committee, composed of the senior surgeon
of the European troops, Bombay division, and the
senior surgeon of the native troops, Bengal division,
with two assistant surgeons, one from each division,
under the superintending-surgeons should be ordered
for the purpose of bringing to the notice of the Briga
slier from time to time anything they may deem ceces-
sary for the health of the troops and prevention of disease.
This has b. en sarctioned by Brigadier Dundrs until the
cantonments are reported habitable. D:. Straker, in
accordance with this order, has been away at Pesha-
wur for the last three drys on committee duty
daily, with the other medical men above mentioned.
It is thought the 31st I3sn4al Native Infantry
will be housed fur the summer
•in General Avitabile's
hetniv, the GUI 'Mks in the Residency, and the tat
Bombay Fusiliers in Sultan Matiomed's house. The
remainder of the force will stay in tents choppered over,
the artillery going into the fart. The troops are in
excellent health just now, and sickness appears to be
on the decrease. The average number last week
in the Bombay force amounted to 4.43 per cent.,
that in the Bengal division being 5.40, or nearly
1 per cent. more. The Bombayers at first suffered
largely from diorama, which was probably principally
owing to the re-action of the system occasioned after
the excitement of their late incessant marching. and
then on their 'arrival hero leading a line of idle-
ness. Exercise seems the most easy ant certain
remedy fur and preventive of this disease. We at
first on joining Sir W. (inhered camp here appre-
hsnded great molestation from the Afreedees or
hill tribes, our encampment bring in rather close
proximity to the mountains, which rendered straying
about to any little distance• in that direction anything
bat safe. Oilieers were prohibited riding further than
the fort of Jumrood, and were directed on all occasions of
doing so to be armed. Several murders and thefts of ca-
mels were committed, notwithstanding all the precaution-
ary measures adopted; three camel-men were on one oc-
casion killed, and on another the mountaineers were
walking off with 500 camels in open daylight. They
came clown in such numbers that the small guard of
Sinde horsemen, who are always over the camels when
they go out to graze, deemed it unadvisable to attack
the nsaurauclers, but one of them galloped into camp,
and intorined Lieutenant Malcolm of the cir-
cumstance, when be, with a body of his men,
instantly started off in pursuit. I believe they had a
short but sharp contest with them, in which two of
the robbers kissed the dust, and a number were
wounded and captured. They succeeded in retaking all
the camels, and in addition brought in a large number of
their Cattle. These Shiite horsemen are so deservedly
made and thought so much of that they eagerly plunge
into every danger with the greatest nsnchalance, and al-
ways manage to come off, as they deserve, victorious. Re-
cently another murder was committed on a Naick belong-
ing to the baggage corps. Nine men have been appre-
hended on suspicion of being its perpetrators, and as it
was deemed illegal to try them by a military court, they
occasion
two
me ton
( leaven ativesh)is
have been. handed over to the civil power, and are at
present undergoing their trial. The other night a
man of the Fusiliers, on the outlying picket,
had casi
guard, and kit his
firelock along with the others, as he imagined
he would have no need of it. While going along
he noticed
walking behind him at no
great distance, but as they were csming from the direc-
tion of the camp he fork nu further heed of them thinking
they must be camp followers. He had hardly sat down,
however, when the ruffians made for and attacked him
with swords. One of them inflicted a severe wound on the
poor fellow's arm, which he had raised to ward off a
murderedcomrades
erhad hisnn t
seeing
ec
blow aimed at his head. He would doubtless have been
gi cries a frodr
tent,assistance
rLotn bt eo e nhheard
übey.
them approach, made off in the
direction of our own camp, and effected their escape by-
getting into our dooley.bearera' linos, after which no
trace of them could be discovered. This led to the be•
lief that the intended assassins were none
other than our own camp followers. Next
day, accordingly a circular was issued to the effect
that all the dooley-bearers in the division were to mus-
ter at four o'clock P.M. at the field hospital, for the
tsin-
spection of the Brigadier and supsrintending-surgeon.
It was arranged that as soon as the whole of them had
aroundlefttheir theirline huts, s,
each regiment was to post sentries
9 and on no account to permit
anything to pass out, while an officer and
a small party of men were to search them for
arms, &c., as every one of them had either one or mere
swords, while others had matchlocks, jinjalls, &c. This
was accordingly
dune, and au immense number of arms
of all starts were seized. In one way I pay the poor
followers if they are not allowed compensation for the
weapons of which they have been deprived, as it is well
known they scrape together every fraction they can to
procure for themselves some means of present defence and
future trophy ; while, on the other hand, it is well known,
though of course it caenot be proved, that camp fol-
lowers are in nine cases out of ten the perpetrators
of the murders and robberies laid at the door of
our enemies, not only in this campaign, but in every
one in which we ever have been engaged in India.
Many of your readers will rern,risber the deeds of
blood comente d by the followers of our army in
the first Affglian campaign, and for which the
Aflghans on all occasions wreaked the direst vengeance
on them, tss witness the sight presented in the Bolan Pass.,
where some hundreds of Bengal camp followers, chi, fly
women, were found by the Bombay column on the side of'
one of the mountains in a sort of cave literally hewn to
pieces. I do not mean to excuse the Bombay renewers,
but those of a Bengal army are at least four times as
numerous generally as ours, and as they cannot all have
pay from Government, they turn their hands to any-
thing in the shape of plundering which holds out a
large chance of profit with a smell probability of de-
tection. Btaides this, there is no doubt they often
settle their private quarrels on the road by giving ore
another an inch or two of " cowld stale," knowing
well that rho murder is laid to the charge of the
enemy and that no inquiry is made into the matter. Al-
together, the measure adopted of disarming all our camp
followers is, I think, au eminently judicious one,
though most undoubtedly they should recd ive a
fair recompense for their loss. Peshawar is. I think,
without exception, one of the finest towns I have ever
been in in India : the streets are wide, and the houses
extensive and lofty. On going into the main bazaar
the houses or shops are so built that a beautiful
circle is formed in the centre, where one can prome-
nade up and down when tired looking at the goods laid
out for sale: then there is a row of mulberry trees in
front of the shops, which sets them off to great advaso
toga." In one of these circles nothing but silk is
manufactured, in another silk and other cloths era sold,
in another posteens, &c., and so on—every thing ap
peering
to go on with the utmost regularity. Then
there are the public baths (or, as they are called, the
humaums.') It is delightful to visit these. You are
put into so many attitudes, and the method they adopt
appears to be so ancient. The only thing which
annoys a European is that they scrub one so unmer-
ciful, as if the dirt of a century's accumulation
at least were engrained in one's cuticle! After
the bath they give you a drielt of iced 'fuloeda'
(I think it is called), when you -are taken into ano-
ther room, where a barlacr is in attendance to brush
your hair and shave you it you require it; and all this
for the small sum of half a rupee, The climate ur
hero is indeed very changeable. The second night
after our arrival at this place we had a great whirl
wind and dust storm, and shortly after that a heav3
fall of rain, accompanied with a great deal of thunder
been I think still more changeable, the first two dap:
the thermometer in a tent being 90 degrees, while for
two days it rained incessantly, and reminded me of
and lightning. During the last week the weather ha:

the monsoon in Bombay, the thermnme:er stand-
ing no higher than 60 degrees. On the evening
of the sth instant ue had a most awful thunder-
storm ; it threatened rain towirda evenin;-,,,, and about
eight o'clock it came down. The thunder is generally
Too !er here than I have ever braid it anywhere else,
but that night one clap in pirtieular was the !endear,
and most terrific any of us ever remtmbered, and
not a few were trglacted out of their wits. A
tent was struck by the electric fluid, ' and one
man and a horse were killed on the net, nine others
being severely burnt, one of whom has stnee died. Ru-
mours are afloat that we are to receive a donation of 12
months' field batta for tho Puejsub campaign, and six
more for driving the Affgbans in the Khyber Pass; but
this I suspect is too good to be true. Each regiment is
sending in a drawing of the medal we are to get, from
which I suppose the Governor-General will select the
ono most to his taste. It is, I beli,ve, to be a handsome
affa'r; when it will be issued to us Heaven knows.

THE FRENCH REPUBLIC.

We have received the Paris paper 3 of yesterday.
The Moniteur publishes the following telegraphic
dispatch from Civita Vecchia :

" CIVITA VECCHIA, 23D JUNE.
" ADMIRAL TREHOUART TO THE MINISTER OF MARINE.
" General Oudinot writes to me as follows:

"From the Trenches, 22d June,
Two o'clock, A.M.
" The assault took place last night at eleven o'clock.
Three columns have scaled the breaches made in bas-
tions Nos. 6 and No. 7, and the curtain which unites
them. Our troops marched resolutely, and carried the
positions without great loss. Up to the present moment
the field hospital has only received two captains and
eight or ten men. The gabious placed at the entrance
gorge of the two bastions is in a state of great forward-
ness. , In short, the whole of the operations have been
most satisfactory. .
"'The Austrian troops evacuated Alessandria on the
18th of June.'"

There was a rumour current in Paris yesterday
that CUARLES ALBERT was dead. We do not attach
much credit to this rumour. Intelligence has been
received by the Peninsular Company's steam ship,
direct from Oporto to the 20th, at which date
CHARLES ALBERT was reported to be recovering from
a severe illness.

Tne Government has lost no time in putting into
rigorous execution the law on clubs passed by the
Assembly on the 19th. M. DUFAURE, the Minister
of the Interior, has issued the following circular on
this subject to the various Prefects of Dtpartrnents in
whose districts elections are to take place :
" Monsieur le Prefet,—The Moniteur of yesterday
contains the law on the clubs and other public meetings
voted on the 19th June by the National Assembly. I
con,ider it necessary to esplain to you my ideas as to
the object of that I,w, and on the manner in which you
should cause it to be evocuted.

" The constitution recognises the right of cit7z?ns to
assemtle pi-aceably and without arms, but it has not
made it an absolute and unlimited right—it has, on the
contrary, made it subservient to public security.
" Alreldy restricted by the law of June 7 and July
28, tt.e assembly has judged it necessary to add further
restrictions as far as regards public meetingv.
" We are in one of those serint; psi ions where the
most faithful friends of liberty cannot hesitate to de
mand extraordinary sacrifices to save it from its own
exceslTs.

" Public meetings, under the name of clubs, or
under the form of banquets, have for the list
tiftt en months eo,hyed almost unlimited liberty. You
have witnessed :he results. Hsve they Given a
salutary or fruitful idea to society ? Have they
inspired citizlns with one useful id a as to the du
ties which they have to fulfil ? Have they inspired
respect for the Government, whose first duty it was to
remove sill those feelings which the remembrance of a
former period had called into action ? You are aware,
Monsieur le .P. 4 et, that the mission of the clubs has
been completely different. They have everywhere beer,.
frequented by men of ardent and overheatel imaginations,-
"and who would, at any price, invent" something beyond
the liberal institutions which Franco now enjoys, and
which she has adopted duce the revolution of February,
and when they found our political institutions able to
resist their Violence they attacked the foundati,ins of
society. There are none of the principl#s of focia 1 life
which they have not repudiated and set at naught ; and
thesa doctrines were att-nded with such success that the
flame of civil war was ready to break out throughout
two-thirds of the French territory ; a misfortune which
was only prevented by the account of the repression of
the insurrection in Paris being so speedily known.
" The clubs alone are not the guilty parties in this
excitement; the press has performed a very considerable
part.
"Society, however, and each of its members, has the
instinct of self-preservation. It would defend itself, and
called for prompt means to prevent a recurrence of such
deplorable disorders. The law of 19th June is one of
these means.

" The first use which you will make of it, Monsieur le
Prefet, will be to interdict throughout the whole of your
department, and in an absolute manner, any clubs or
political meetings in which public affAirs may be dis-
cussed. They are a source of permanent danger, and
certain to renew that excitement which has led to the
late events. As to banquets and other public meet-
ings your prudence will readily see the character
which they may have. Let us prevent uneasy agi-
tations from impeding those useful works which tend
to the true interests of society. When an accidental
or permanent meeting may appear to 3ou dangerous,
you will interdict it. You will, if necessary, cause the
doors of the place in which it is 11,13 to he closed, and
if necessary occupy the place with the armed force.
Should, however, the meeting take place, ycu will em-
ploy all-the legal means in your power to dissolve it, and
will proceed against any one who may refuse to obey
lour injunctions.
" The law does not intefere with religious, scientific,
or literary meetings, having a determinate view, and
which end with the accomplishment of the of jest in-
tended, and above all, with electoral meetings which are
truly such. Oa the contrary, if such meetings be held
in your department, you will afford them every encou-
ragement, for it is good that electors should meet and
discuss the claims of candidates and the principles on
ehich they foiled their titles to the suffrages of their
fesaltlios
rsy-
yot iuz
resnesif
that h
at t hseucehanao mGettimmge, yBaoru
ewillin
n reality slitycarewhat
to
h at
they profess to be, and that they were not held under a
mere pretext for forwarding designs dangerous' to the
peace of society.
"I have said enough to you, M. le Prefet, to give you
to understand the desire of the Government that you
should exercise the power delegated by law with firm-
ness and moderation; the result of the sacrifices which
wo demand from liberty is that order should be re-esta-
blished in our agitated society.

"Other Govvrnments havt; felt as we have done the
necessity of estlblishing internal ponce, without which,
in Fact, no society could exist. Their mistake has been
in thinking, that so soon as law had resumed il3 course,
anti that material order was established, they had dis-
charged their whole duty. The Goverment established
in France by the double election of the 10th December
and 13th May, will not fall into this error. Other in.
structions will, in a f,:w days, ccnvey to you my views
on this subj;:ct. For the moment I must confine myself

to one of the means afforded for the re-establishment of
respect for the Constitution in our country, the most
scrupulous obedience of the Isws, and protection for the
rights and honour of each citizen. Without these con-
ditions it cannot be too strongly borno in mind, there
cannot bo acLivity of labour, nor development of intelli-
gence. nor grandeur, nor true liberty.
"You will keep me informed of the execution of the
law of the 19th June, which you know does not modify
the law of 28th July, 1848, in all that concerns secret
sotieties. " Accept, &c.,

" The Minister of the luterior, DCFAITRE."

The Ministry yesterday introduced into the
Legislative Assembly the new law for regulating the
Press. M. ODILON BARROT btated that it was

Evy tertlth Leofccatintended merely as a temporary measure to regulate
the position of the Press until the orginic law on the
jstoiPou
nnet PHILIPPE, tbs hepe
ei
nromenailpyt
taebadlme
toeo il if
remainlawof
g
l
subject should be passed. The law is nearly the same
as to a i
at the sum fixed under the Provisional Government.
in the LEgislative Assembly, and powers are iv
for the temporary suppression of every jog en
urnal
attacking the Constitution, or making
e. MAR-
GIN appeal to
g
arms. The Bill was declared crur enC
GIN then commenced his interpellations on tli.
subject of foreign affairs, and the debate was proceed-
ing when the post left. The Union _Electorate has
published the following as the list of candidates for
Paris, recommended by the Ministerial party :
Urn de Maleville, Achille Fould, Lanjuinais, Cham-
belle, General Do Bar, Louis-Lucien Bonaparte,
General Magnan, Ferdinand Barrot,Th6adore Ducos,
Benjamin Delessert, Boinvilliere, Gamier- Pag es,
Plat, Boissel, Arnedea Thayer, Bonjean, Fernand
Foy, De Chabrol Chemean,,, L'abb6 Coquereau, F.
Marbeau.
The name of M. DE LAMARTINE would have ap-
peared in this list, but he refused to pledge himself
to sit for Paris, in case he should be elected for two
places ; a pledge which, with the union electorate, is,
it seems, de riguer.
The Republican list has not yet been published.
PARIS BOURSE, MONDAY.

THREE o'CLocK.—Tne Funds opened to day consi-
derably higher than they closed on Saturday. in conse-
quence of the news of the entry of the French into the
suburbs of Rome; but they afterwards gave way, and
ultimately closed a shade lower. The business done was
excessively limited. Railway Shares were firm. Ex-
change on London (thirty days), 25 40 ; ditto (ninety

-
.- _
dip), 25 30. _ . _
at:SINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK-EXCHANGE,JUNE 25.

Boulogne and Amiens, 7i/4—Dutch Rhenish, % Orleans
and Bordeaux, 3k.

[PRICE SD.

SPAIN.
Madrid journali of the 20th have arrived.
General NaavALz had set off on that day for
Aranjuez to join the QUEEN. The object of his
journey was involved in mystery. He left immedi-
ately after the breaking up of a Cabinet Council.
Almaurn HOLSA, JUNE 20.—Three per Cents., 25
to 25 15-16 ; Five per Cents., 10-4. Exchange on
London, 50 60 nu►ney.

GERMANY

A ND

THE NORTHERN STATES.

BADEN.

The French Government has received an account
of the complete rout of the insurgent forces under
Almost,Awsxr, by the Prussians. The following is
published in Vie Itioniteur du Soir of last night :
" The Government has received news that the Baden
army, concentrated on the banks of the Neckar, has
been attacked on its whole line, and entirely routed by
the armies under the orders of the Prince of Prussia
and General Peuchner. Alanheina and Heidelberg are
taken. Mieroslawski and the rJmnant of .his•army ate
in flight tocards the line of mountains on the borders of
the Grand Duchy of Baden. The
_corps francs have
dispersed in the country."
RAVRAU, a member of the German Provisional
Regency, died at Baden on the 21st, immediately on
his arrival from Stuttgardt.