The Sun.
London, England, 1847-11-11 00:00:00

S rty NOVEMBER 115 1847.

of prosperity which may be attained will be steady
and assured in its progress, and not subject to that
constant recurrence of revulsions, and vicissitudes
which was the characteristic of West Indian agricul-
ture and commerce in former times.
The statements made to me by the gentlemen who
waited upon me with the present memorial were
strongly corroborative of this hope. They assured
me that they had no reason to complain of want of in-
dustry on the part of the labouring population. The
evil was not that they were wanting in industry, but
that they were too few in numbers for the many
employments of industry to which a state of free-
dom had given birth, independently of those in which
the fixed capital of the sugar- planter is in-
vested ; and that such is the real state of the case
is shown by the large increase of imports
which has accompanied the decline of exports since
the period of emancipation. Nor did these gentle-
men complain of the rate of wages as exorbitant. On
the contrary, they stated that they would be content
to pay the present wages, if a sufficiency of labourers
at those wages could be obtained with certainty and
regularity. Under these circumstances, it is evident
that no injury can arise to the native labourers of
Jamaica by the introduction of foreign labourers ; on
the contrary, it is most important to the natives that
this foreign aid should be given, deeply interested as
they are in the general prosperity of the island and
the support of the educated classes, and those of
European extraction, on whom for a long time to
come the civil institutions and the administration of
the laws must mainly rest. And it is worthy of re-
mark that, in some colonies at least, the negroes them-
selves have evinced no repugnance whatever to the
introduction of immigrant labourers, such as might
be expected in countries where there is a competition
for employment ; but that in many places the strangers
have been very hospitably received by the negroes,
and treated with a marked cordiality.
If this reception and the advantages they meet with
shall induce the immigrants to settle finally in the
West Indies, there can be no doubt that their gain
will be great in doing so. But, if they shall prefer
to return to Africa with the property they may have
accumulated, there will be a fairer prospect than has
into
that yet been opened of at length introducing
that country the arts and habits of civilized life ;
whilst the success of free labour in the West Indies
will co-operate with these civilizing influences in ex-
tinguishing the slave trade, and it will no longer be
the interest of nations claiming to be civilized to
promote the worst barbarities of those on whom the
advantages of Christianity have not yet been con-
ferred.
I stated to the deputation which waited upon me
some of the views which I have here developed, and,
at their instance, I have thus communicated them to
you; and as it appeared to them that some advantage
might be derived from making them known to the
Assembly of Jamaica, I have to request that you wil
submit to that body a copy of this dispatch.
I have, &c.,

(Signed)

GREY.

COURT CIRCULAR.

Wilipson, WEDNESDAY.—The Queen and Prince
Albert took their accustomed early walk.
Their Royal Highnessess the Prince of Wales,
Prince Alfred, and the Princess Royal, took walking
and pony exercise this morning in the Slopes. Her
Royal Highness the Princess Helena was also taken
an airing.
His Royal Highness Prince Albert enjoyed the
sport of shooting this morning, accompanied by
Count Dietrichstein, the Earl of Jersey, and Earl
Spencer, the Hon. Captain Gordon, Equerry in Wait-
ing, attending on horseback.
His Excellency Baron de Brunnow, and the Rev.
Dr. Phillpott (Vice-Chancellor of Cambridge), are
expected to arrive at the Castle this evening on a visit
to the Queen.

Their Excellencies the Count and Countess Die-
trichstein and Viscount Palmerston took their depar-
ture from the Castle to-day.
The royal dinner party at the Castle this evening
will include his Excellency Baron de Brunnow, the
Earl and Countess of Jersey and Lady Clementine
Villiers, the Earl and Countess Spencer, Sir Robert
and Lady Gardiner, and the Rev. Dr. Philpott (Vice-
Chancellor of Cambridge).
The band of the Grenadier Guards attend during
dinner. Her Majesty's private band will afterwards
attend in the Castle.

The band of the Royal Horse Guards attended
during dinner at the Castle yesterday evening, and
performed the following pieces :
March--(composed for the occasion) J. R. Tutton.
Overture—" Zauherflote"
Waltz--" Sutherland" .
Andante and Finale Symphony No. 8
Wedding March
Finale, Symphony No. 5

A Cabinet Council was held at half-past two o'clock
yesterday afternoon, at the Foreign. office. The
Ministers present were Lord John Russell, the Lord
Chancellor, Sir George Grey, Viscount Palmerston,
Earl Grey, the Earl of Auckland, Lord Campbell,
Viscount Morpeth, the Right Hon. H. Labouchere,
and the Right Hon. T. B. Macaulay. The Council
sat two hours.

The Metropolitan Sanitary Commission held a
meeting at Gwydyr House yesterday.
Sir James Carnegie had an interview with Sir
George Grey yesterday, at the Home-office.
Viscount Palmerston arrived in town yesterday from
Windsor Castle.

Viscount Morpeth has returned to town.
Dispatches were received yesterday at the Colonial-
office from the Governors of New South Wales, the
Mauritius, the Cape of Good Hope, and the Gold
Coast.

The Archduke Stephen of Austria, who returned
to Vienna the day after his instalment as Obergespan of
the city of Pesth, has daily conferences in the Chancery
for Hungarian affairs in the Austrian capital. The Em-
peror and Empress, accompanied by Archduke Stephen,
purpose leaving Vienna on the 11th instant, to be pre-
vent at the opening of the States of Bohemia. Prince
Metternich will nut this year accompany his Majesty.
Notwithstanding the fact that Baron Kaisersfeld, the
Austrian envoy to the Helvetic Diet, has left the Swiss
territory, the concentration of the Austrian troops on
the Swiss frontier is such that in the little town of Bre-
genz alone there are three battalions of infantry. These
troops are provided with every means for crossing the
lake at a moment's notice. Austria is prepared for
every emergency. Baron Kaisersfeld has taken up his
quarters at Bregenz. As regards the military measures
taken by Wurtemberg, the Stuttgard journals of the 2d
November deny that any troops have advanced towards
the Swiss frontier.

WARMING RAILWAY CARRIAGES.—In America a
patent has been taken out for an improved mode of
warm!ng railway passenger trains by a combination of
flues, connected, by elastic and flexible hose, with open-
ings and registers in the bottoms of the carriages.—
Rudder.

CoSnsitrStitnraotpfloerdtoCarensnuimnge,hips revious to his arrival at
Constantinople
functions as British Am-
bassador, is to visit the King of Hanover ; his Excel
lency, after concluding the object of bis visit to his Ma-
jesty, which we hear is of a diplomatic character, pro-
ceeds to Berlin, and subsequently repairs to Vienna.
Eventually the Right Hon. Gentleman and Lady Can-
ning and daughter go to
_Trieste, and their embark for
Constantinople.
SINGULAR ACCIDENT.—About a quarter before
nine o'clock on Monday morning, as the vehicles used to
convey the articles that form the Chinese :exhibition
from -Fairfield, Bow, en route for Birmingham, entered
Leadenhall-street, one of the caravans, which was heavily
laden, with a greater breadth at top than at the bottom,
drew up close to the kerb, when, on coming opposite to
No. 70, which is in the occupation of Mr. Cockburn,
toyman, the front of whose house is one of the old pro-
jecting ones, extending four feet seven inches beyond the
line', of houses, the heavy' packed load caught against
the projecting front. The carman not being aware of
the danger, and having a powerful team, whipped his
stanfotrtwhaerilr,
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ptoerrritiofinc
ccharoamrssehesdtawwsn.hhiecahrdr policeeaadned n a
them
ecninoningo constable on duty was knocked
dewn
injury.bysom of the falling timbers, but sustained no
serious
SAWING Taos.-- It is often forgotten by smiths
that iron, when heated, may be put into a vice, and the
ends may be readily split by a suitable saw. A saw fit
passengers Dublin
slsotteweokaamws
for this purpose should be thicker at the edge than at the
back, and with uniform teeth, one-twelfth of an inch
apart. The saw when used must be often dipped in water,
to prevent its becoming too much heated. It may be
mentioned that a bar of iron of almost any size may be
sundered, while hot, by the simple application of common
roll brimstone.—Builder.
ACCIDENT AT SEA.—LIVERPOOL, WEDNESDAY.—
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be
The Isaac Millar, from New Orleans, has just reached
the Mersey, and reports that she was in contact with the
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or not.

CHILD DROPPING.—About half-past six o'clock
yesterday morning, as one of this gardeners, named
Gore, employed in St. James's Park, was sweeping the
walks on Constitution-hill, he discovered, ;lying under
some dried leaves, the body of a female child, wrapped
in a black silk shawl. Information was given to the po-
lice, and the body was removed to the workhouse of St.
Martin's pariah.

THE kAFIR WAR.

We have received Cape of Good Hope papers to
the 7th of September, which contain an important
proclamation from his Excellency Sir H. Pottinger,
denouncing the Kafir chief Sandilla a rebel, and
ordering his country to be invaded forthwith by the
colonial forces. All classes and conditions of persons
have been invited to be aiding and abetting in car-
rying out the intended measures, by assembling in
commandos, under leaders appointed by themselves,
and the booty to be captured by them will become
the bona fide property of the captors. We subjoin
the proclamation, with other extracts :
(From the Graham's Town Journal of August 28.)
IVEDNESDA Y.—We have information from Fort
Beaufort which goes to show that the forbearance of
our Government is having the worst possible effect
upon the Gaika Kafirs. Macomo, who is permitted
to perambulate Fort Beaufort and neighbourhood at
his pleasure, does not scruple publicly to declare his
conviction that the British Government is afraid of
his countrymen, the Kafirs. He speaks of the troops
and of the parade with contempt, and states plainly
that no concession will be made by his people to gain
the favour of the colonial authorities. The tone
assumed by Sandilla is equally audacious. Every
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etreated
fi awn
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telling his people not to listen to any messages from
the colony, but to proceed with their ordinary occu-
pations.

FRIDAY.—To-day the following proclamation has
been issued by the Right Hon. her Majesty's High
Commissioner, denouncing Sandilla, paramount chief
of the Gaika tribes, a rebel to the Queen, and calling
her Majesty's subjects to aid him in punishing that
contumacious and refractory chief. This document
is of peculiar interest, as well as of momentous im-
portance, as showing what the colony has escaped,
and also what it may prepare for. The tone of this
proclamation is befitting her Majesty's High Com-
missioner :

PROCLAMATION
By his Excellency Major-General the Right Hon.
Sir Henry Pottinger, Bart., G.C.8., Governor and
Commander-in-Chief of the colony of the Cape of
Good Hope, her Majesty's High Commissioner, &c.
Whereas, the Gaika Kafir chief Sandilla was, in
June last, called upon by my authority, and in con-
formity with the engagements entered into by him,
in common with all the other Kafir chiefs, to deliver
up a thief who had stolen 13 goats from the settlement
of Stockenstrom (Kat River), and of whom he (San-
dilla) denied all knowledge, at a moment when it was
positively ascertained that not only had he the culprit
in his power, but that he had plundered him and other
(innocent) persons belonging to the same kraal of
the whole of their property, on the plea of punishing
them: for the said theft.
That whereas I deemed it to be my duty to direct
that Sandilla should be called on to make atonement
for the said breach of his engagements, in not de-
livering up the thief, as well as for his subsequent
measures, which, instead of checking plunder and
theft along the colonial border, were, in my estima-
tion, eminently calculated to encourage excesses ,of
that nature, by allowing thieves and marauders to
escape, whilst he (Sandilla) benefitted and enriched
himself by confiscating their property, and that of
other persons, against whom, in this instance, there
was not even a pretence for a charge.
And whereas Sandilla not only declined to make
the atonement required of him, but sanctioned and
encouraged his followers to repel by force of arms
the detachment which had been sent to enforce my
demand, by which violent proceeding two of her
Majesty's subjects were killed, and several wounded,
and Sandilla obviously thereby placed himself in the
light of a rebel to the Queen's authority, and set at
nought the paramount power which he had acknow-
ledged, and under the protection of which he had, cal
certain defined terms, been admitted.

And whereas the commissioner for the Gaika tribes
has been, since the above described event, in frequent
communication, under my instructions, with San-
dills, with the object of inducing him to make repa-
ration, so far as that was possible, for his rebellious and
violent course, but without success.

And whereas, to evince my deep anxiety to avoid a
recommencement of hostilities, and to preserve and
encourage feelings of good order and friendliness
on both sides of the frontier, and among all
classes of people, I lately directed it to be inti-
mated to Sandilla, that if he would, even at that mo-
ment, give in two hundred stand of arms, and seize and
deliver up the thief who had been the cause of this
discussion, .1 would pardon, on the Queen's behalf,
all that had passed, and would allow matters to revert
to their previous friendly footing, which intimation
Sandilla has totally disregarded, and is further under-
stood to have adopted steps to defend his country, and
to set her Majesty's authority at defiance.
And whereas 1, taking it into my deep and length-
ened consideration, that such contumacious and
headstrong behaviour cannot be longer overlooked,
without endangering the general peace and tran-
quillity of the whole colony, and particularly both
sides of the frontier, by disturbing the system which
I have been for months past most anxiously and
sedulously endeavouring to introduce and perfect;
and, moreover, reflecting that where people dwell (as
is the case with some of the colonists, and a part
of the Gaika Kafir tribes) on either side of an ima-
ginary line of demarcation, it is alone by mutual
rigid adherence to their engagements, by the strictest
observance of good faith, and by crime being speedily
and effectually punished, that the success of the desired
system can be possibly secured, or even anticipated;
have determined, in the Queen's name, and in virtue
of the powers confided to me as her Majesty's High
Commissioner, to have recourse to the only method
that now remains to call Sandilla to account for his
contumacy, and to vindicate the offended dignity and
honour of the British Government.

I do, therefore, hereby proclaim the said Gaika
Kafir chief Sandilla to be a rebel, and denounce him
as no longer under the protection of her Majesty's
Government, and I do further hereby invite and call
on all classes and conditions of persons residing in
this colony, to be aiding and abetting in carrying
my intended measures against the said rebel chief
into effect, by assembling in commandos, to be headed
by leaders appointed by themselves, at Shiloh, on the
day of the ensuing month of September, and
thence to enter, supported by her Majesty's regular
troops, and the colonial native levies, the country of
the said Sandilla.

And I do hereby further proclaim and promise, as
an inducement to all persons to come forward, that
all cattle and other booty captured by such com-
mandos, belonging to, or found within the country
of the said Sandilla, or any others who may take
part with him, shall become the bona fide property of,
and be retained by, the captors, and that no claim
shall hereafter be made on the part of Government, or
on any other pretence, for an account of, or the
restoration or relinquishment of cattle or other pro-
perty so captured.
And I do hereby further proclaim that all the
other Gaika, T'Slambie, and Tambookie KaSr chiefs,
the Bushman Madoor, and their followers, who have
declared their wish and intention to remain neutral,
and to abide by their engagements during the ap-
proaching hostilities, are and shall be understood and
taken to be under the protection of the Queen of Eng-
land, so long as they shall act upon and be guided by
the above• mentioned declaration ; and I do strictly,

solemnly, and unqualifiedly enjoin and command all
persons bearing allegiance to her Majesty to refrain
from molesting such neutral (or friendly) Kafirs, and
to consider the protection of them and their lives and

GD A.B
property to be aoparsamy Tin QERN !ount duty;

Dated at Graham's Town, this 27th day of

August, 1847.

HENRY POTTINGER.

(From the Zuid• Afrikaan, of Sept. 6.)
The post of last Saturday brought no additional
information, except that the Kafirs are quite alive as
which thl-
to the intended movement of the troops,
say is about to take place on or about the 20th inst.*
With reference to his former proclamation, her
Majesty's High Commissioner had deemed it expe-
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colony,
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hostility
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for removing live stock and other movable property
and he recommends them to adopt precautions
cordingly.

' Then they say morn than her Ala./joiCom-
missioner, who in the proclamation has left the date
fixed for the march blank.

GREEN'S AERONAUTICAL ASCENT IN PARIS.—Mr.
Green made an ascension in his balloon from the Hip-
podrome, on Sunday afternoon, at about four o'clock, ac-
companied by a French gentleman, one of the female
riders of the Hippodrome, and an interpreter. There
was an immense concourse of persons to witness the
ascension, amongst whom were her Royal Highness the
the Duchess d'Orleans and her children, and his Royal
Highuss the Duke de Montpensier. Soon after five
o'clocZ, Mr. Green and his three companions descended
in safety at Villiers-le-Bel, five leagues north of Paris.
RIPE STRAWBERRIES IN NOVEMBER.-0n the 2.d
instant, a very fine dish of Alpine strawberries, quite
ripe, and of good flavour, grown in the open air, was
gathered in the garden of Mr. Michael Delaunay, of
Crumpsall, near this town.—Manchester Guardian.