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London, England, 1847-09-01 00:00:00

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PoTTlgis, whlsh just been published in
callatry, la 'of great importance, not only so far
thisas it relates to the colony in which it is about to be
brought into operation, but also with regard to the
improved management of our military forces since
the practical abolitiota of flogging, and the adoption
of limited enlistments. It is a step in the direction
we have so anxiously desired to see zealously pur-
sued, viz., that our soldiers should be influenced by
the hope of rewards as well as by the fear of punish-
ment, and that a prospect should be held out to every
well-conducted man of being enabled, after a course
of continued good conduct and long and meritorious
service, to retire into a situation of comparative inde-
pendence and comfort. Such a hope would do more
to induce a better class of recruits to enter the army,
and to devote their earlier years to the
arduous duties of their station, than any other that
could be held out to them ; and it would possess
this additional recommendation, that it could be
realised without any expense worth speaking of, with-
out loss or detriment to any branch of the public
service, and would afford additional power and
strength to the colonies into which the system might
be introduced, and cement more closely the ties by
which they are connected with the parent state.
The immediate causes which have led to its adoption
at the Cape of Good Hope may not exist to anything
like the same extent in any of our other settlements,
but we are convinced that when a few years have
tested the experiment, and exemplified its beneficial
effects, it will be brought into more general use, in
other localities, and with equally favourable results.
The regiments which have served with distinction
in the Kafir wars are those to whom the privilege has
for the present been conceded. They are on the spot,
and therefore both officers and soldiers have a full
opportunity of being well acquainted with the nature
and value of the advantages thus placed within their
reach, and should they decide on accepting thereof,
it will be with a full and distinct knowledge of all the
drawbacks and desagremens with which they
may be associated. They cannot! at any time
complain of any deception, or undue inducement
being held out to them, they will be purchasers with
full notice, and thus the most fertile cause of discon-
tent at a future period would be averted. It may
algo to a certain extent be looked upon as a recom-
pense for the labours they have undergone, as a
prompt and ready acknowledgment cf the discipline
and bravery they have manifested during an arduous
and trying contest, a full recognition of the value,
and efficiency of their services, the more flattering,
because the rewards will be reaped in the localities
where they were earned, and in the presence of those
who were eye-witnesses of the exploits by which they
were merited. It is perhaps, therefore, as well for the
oreseut that the boon should be limited ; but we will
cope that speedily a similar one may be offered to the
old and meritorious soldiers throughout the entire
army. It is, of course, only to the deserving men
that it will be conceded ; it would not be desirable to
retain others either as non• commissioned officers of
the militia regiments or as settlers. A full discretion,
will, of course, be intrusted to the Governor for the
time being, who will maturely weigh the characters
and claims of the several applicants, and whether that
discretion devolves on Sir HENRY POTTINGER or his
gallant successor, the hero of Aliwal, there is little
doubt that it will be judiciously and impartially
I exercised.
The .oble Secretary, in his dispatch, states that
orders will forthwith be sent to the Lieutenant- Gene-
ral of her MAJESTY'S forces at the Cape, for the pur-
pose of authorisieg the discharge of the men belong-
Mg to the27th, and the first battalion of the 91st Regi-
ment (which has been extended by the Governor
in his proclamation to the 90th Regiment also), whom
the Governor might think it desirable to retain in the
colony, if they should be willing to serve as non-
commissioned officers in the additional companies of
;ape Mounted Riflemen, of whom an extra battalion
has recently been formed, or in any militia force
which it may become necessary to levy, or if they
,hould desire to remain as settlers. His Lordship
Adds, "that the frontier districts of the colony having
luring last few years been materially denuded of
their native colonial population, would be so much
oenefited by the introduction of a British population
.nured to military discipline and habits, that I should
not hesitate to approve of your assighing, under pro-
per regulations, to a body of military settlers allot-
ments of land, should you find it expedient to do so.
The same considerations would apply to the officers
the regiments in question. It would, I think, be
desirable to encourage such of them as may be desirous
of settling in the colony, either by employing them,
should their services be required, in organizing a
militia, or by making grants of land to them." It is
hardly necessary to point out the vast importance to
the colonists in general of having interposed between
their holdings and the territories of their crafty, in-
sidious, and restless neighbours, a body of men so
qualified by habits and associations to restrain and
junish any aggressions. An organized force will be
,naintained without expense to the colony, or to the
Imperial Exchequer ; veterans trained to the use of
arms, will be prepared to fight strenuously pro
iris et focis. The savage Kafir can make no im-
,ression on such men, and will be unable to achieve
he temporary successes that stimulate to fresh ag-
;cessions, while those placed in the post of danger
md of honour will be influenced by an ardent
attachment to their native land—a faithful and
cealous loyalty to their SOVEREIGN—which must
save a considerable effect on the other settlers, and their
!hildren, educated in and actuated by similar feelings,
will perpetuate the connexion with the land of their
sires. Earl GREY has exhibited a sound judgment in
.nano instances since he has been called on to preside
over the Colonial Department ; but in no respect will
:le have conferred greater advantages upon a colony
and the mother country, and better deserved the
public thanks, than by the system he has thus intro-
.luced, and which we trust may ere long be materially
extended.

A letter from Munich of the 24th states that it
was generally believed that the convocation of the
Bavarian Chambers, in extraordinary session, would
take place on the 12th of October, the Government
being desirous of obtaining an authorisation to
borrow, from the Mortgage Bank of Munich, the
sum necessary to complete the railways which have
been commenced. Other questions of considerable
Importance will also be submitted to the Chambers,
such as the introduction of oral and public proceed-
ings in courts of justice, without waiting for the
completion of the codes, which will not be ready for
some years ; the creation of grain stores, the want of
which was greatly felt during the recent food crisis ;
:he suppression of the lottery, &c. It is stated that
the commission charged to draw up new codes has
just received orders to insert a clause in the penal
code for establishing trial by jury, which already
exists in the Rhenish Palatinate.

Letters from Rome of the 21st
h2adlstforwulare
ded
mo,
state that the Secretary of State
a note to the Cabinet of Vienna,
s t ina nswhich
he declared that, should the
evacuate the town of Ferrara within a fortnight,
the POPS would recal his Nuncio
tfhroemAVusitrenianua,Ae
amnd
.
send passports to Count LUTZOW,
bassador at Rome. Count PIETRO FERRETTI, th
brother of the Secretary of State, who had been
charged with a mission to Naples, returned to Rome
on the 18th. The POPE had instructed the Gover-
nors of Ancona and Civita Vecchia to supply those
fortresses with three months provisions. Count
BLuporr, the Russian Envoy, had taken leave of his
a liness, and departed fcr St. Petersburgh. Accord-
ba insurrection
w er
were
wasem ebxatrekneddi
Accord-
ing to the last accounts from Naples, the Calabrian
s, to reinforce GenergNOaßil_prl
°gat. the
aTex
Lnl :At
two 17th
w four
who
ote bat-
frigateam was
operating against the revolters in the neighbourhood
of Cosenza. It was rumoured that several English
ships of war had been seen off Otranto.

Madrid papers of the, 25th ult. have arrived.
They are filled with conjectures as to the course
which will probably be pursued by M
AILTAE2I, but
these conjectures are of such a contradictory cha-
racter that it is evident nothing is known of the
matter. According to the Heraldo, 1: was the QUEEN,
and the QUEEN alone, who sent for him.
On the 24th the QUEEN held a brilliant levee, in
honour of the birthday of her sister, the Duchess,of
MON TPENSLER.
The climes troops defeated a OlirliSt baud, at

Caldas, in Catalonia, on the 19th, and on the 20th since renewing their visits. Midle. de Lnzy, who was '
two Carlist officers, named BOIEVA and Jovn, were altogetdher a
hstratingere dito
direction
institution, was to
of remain
tried by a court-martial at Barcelona, and condemnedthemilTelf!:: the
cdheatvrogiesellewsitdu Praslinec; I'll it.he
to be shot. missing her, gave no other motive for her sending
The Eco del Comereio states that four of the her away, than the too liv,ly affection which the
children felt for their teacher —an affection of
secret police of Paris had arrived at Madrid, charged
which she was jealous. Mademoiselle de Luz}, some
to manage matters calculated "to seat the family of days before the tnur,ler, during the stay of the
Louis PsuarrE on the throne of Spain." It says family in the country, had received a commission to
tnerrcehtaos et
afkoor
otnh e
theirchildreny
throughatn g:c
Paris.
at
vhestis which ihe
his
they
that that they are supported by certain Spaniards who
took an active part in the Montpensier marriage the evening hefore the crime, M. d Praslin accompanied
affair, and that they will endeavour to divide the four of his children, who brought from the country to
Progressist party, and to increase the bands of Mon- Mdlle. de Luzy a basket of fruit and flowers. It was the
first time that• he visaed the institution. He was re-
temolinist insurgents. cklived by Wile. de Luzy in the parlour, the rPgulatious
The Gaceta publishes an official denial of the of the house forbidding the visit to be otherwise. The
rumour that Ganeral Ros DE OLAND, who met mistress of the school spoke ap,,rt to the Duke ot nrrtaln
rumours which had n'achedherrelative to Mdle,de Luzy.
NARVAEZ at Bayonne, had been dispatched on any
and expressed ln-r surprise at th •se reports, w bleb con-
rnision by the Government. trasted so strongly with the lively friendship which the
MADRID BOLSA, AUG. 25.—The Three per Cents. Duchess authorised between her children aid their
were done at 27k for cash. former governess, since she permitted these ladies to
c,,me, with an attendant, and pass whole days at the
As. school; and clecla-ed to him her intention to write to the

Duchess herself, to demand a letter in refutation of thest,
reports. The Duke approved of the design. The letter
was written iinmediatt ly, but had not tune to rt ach the
Duchess. It trts boen delivered up by the mistress to
the Procureur du Roi."
The Three per Cents. closed on the Paris Bourse on
Monday at 76f 65c.; the Five r Cents., 1181. 20e.; the
Orleans Railroad Shares, 1,2301. ; Rouen, 9521. 50e.;
Havre. 577 t. 50c.; Gl...at Northern, 5371. 50c.; Avign.n,
595,.; Vlerzon, 570 f. 25e.; Bordeaux: 4661.25 c.; Bou-
login , 3601.; 260 E; Paris and Strasburg, 3921.
50c.; Paris and Lyons, 3951. ; Lyons and Avignon,
448 f. 75c.
MARSEILLES, AUG. 26.-Marseilles and Avignon,
5971. 50c.; N‘,rthern, 528 f. 750.
LYONS, AUG. 28.-Paris and Rouen. 952 f. 50c.; Avig-
non and Marseilles, 586 f. 25c. ; Vie:zon, 5681. 75c.;
Northern. 535 f.; Paris and Lyons, 393 f. 75c.
BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, A.uGusx 31.
Northern of Franca, 11%-Paris and Lyons, 3%-Paris
and Rouen, 87.

We have received the Paris papers of Monday.
The Journal des Debats has a long article on the
affairs of Italy, from which it is evident that the
courageous and straightforward conduct of the POPE
has angered M. GUIZOT, because it has forced him
either to break his bargain with Austria, or to sub-
mit to the disgrace of seeing some other power as-
sume the position of protector of the freedom of
Italy, which he has abdicated for France, in order to
secure an additional throne for the dynasty. It would,
no doubt, have suited admirably the purposes of M.
GUIZOT, that the POPE should, by appealing to the
Powers who had signed the treaty of Vienna, have
given the French Government the opportunity of be-
traying Italy, as they have betrayed Poland, and as
they seek to betray Switzerland. As it is, thanks to
the spirited conduct of the PoPE and his Ministers,
France must interfere to protect Italy against Aus-
tria, or suffer others to perform the duties which she
has neglected, and to assume the position she has
abdicated. The following is the article in the
Debate:
" The occupation of Ferrara by the Austrian troops
has become a subject of discussion, of which most of the
journals in France and abroad have taken possession.
Whilst the Sovereign Pontiff has been publishing pro-
tests of a nature to inflame the Italian people, and whilst
several journals, printed with the approbation of the
censorship in the Roman States and in Tuscany, have
been making very strong attacks, not only on Austria,
but also on France, the Cabinet of Vienna has inserted
in the Austrian Observer an apology for the conduct of
the Count d'Auesperg, whe commands the imperial troops
at Ferrara. Though scarcely informed of the protests
of Cardinal Ciacchi, the English journals have openly
declared themselves in favour of Pius IX., and sour
among them have not failed on this occasion to attack
in the strongest rottener the French Government and
all France, which they accuse of intending to deliver up
the Pope to the Austrians. It is not re cessary to ado
that in France the journals of the Opposition make
common cause with the enemies of our Government,
and of our country abroad. We shall only say a few
words to day on a question with which, without doubt,
we shall have to occupy ourselves frequently. In our opi•
flint), whatever may be the rights conferred on the Aus-
trian Government by the treaty of Vienna, rights that we
have not now to discuss, it is greatly to be regretted that,
under preseta circumstances, the Aulic Cabinet bas
thought it right not to maintain the status quo with re-
spect to the Pontifical Government. Whatever may be
the apprehensions which the state of central Italy may
have cuts. d at Vienna, it seems to us that nothing war-
ranted such a violent and unexpected manner of acting.
The Austrian Government knows Italian affairs too well
not to have foreseen all the effervescence which the oc-
cupation of Ferrara must produce, and we cannot con-
ceive how it did not feel that, in the eyes of all Europe,
such a proceeding would pass for a provocation. After
having expressed our opinion in a manlier so explicit,
we will nut fear to add that in an affair which, apart
from the question of opportuneness, !educed itself at
bottom to the interpretation of article 103 of the Con-
*gress of Vienna, we could perhaps have dt sired that
the Pope should have addressed his protests to the
several Powers which had signed the t- eaty oi Vienna
rather than interest directly his subjects in a quarrel
which ought, in our opinion, only to be treated diplo
matically, and from Government to Government. No
doubt that in a negotiation purely diplomatic the rights
of the Pontifical Government would have been sus-
taint d by the majority of the great Powers of Europe,
and as we believe that the C:thinet of Vienna has not
now the-intention of openly commencitg hostilities in
Italy, there is every reason to believe that these nego-
tiations would have been crowned with success. At
present new difficulties have arisen. On the one hand,
by the protests of Cardinal Ciacchi, the diplomatic re-
lations between Rome and Austria have become less
' easy, and, on the other band, the irritation produced by II
these protests is such, that if not appeased, it spay
trouble the glorious work of Pius IX., and compromise
to a certain point the peace of Italy. We will not reply
to the attacks of certain radical journals which appear in
central Italy. France will never cease to manifest her
sympathies for the legal and pacific reforms which are
being made in the Peninsula, and our Government, we
are convinced, will know how to take all the measures
necessary to defend the independence of the Italian
Princes, if it should be threatened. Let us make the
declaration :—We cannot conceive that any one can
intervene in Italy without calling forth on the part of
France, which does not abdicate her rights, prompt and
energetic demonstrations. It remains to be seen if, its
pushing things to the extreme, the violent party in Italy
would not assume a responsibility which would weigh
heavily on them. The language of some English jour-
nals does not astonish us. Without being moved at the
vulgar insults which they contain against France, we
cannot retrain from applauding their good intentions in
favour of the liberty of Italy. We understand that in
the country of that Lord Nelson, who gave, half a cen-
tury ago, such an efficacious protection to the Neapo-
litan patriots, the necessity should be felt of sending a
new Lord Bentinck to the Mediterranean, to proclaim,
as in 1815, the independence of Italy. Let us bore, I
however, that the English Governmeut would not, aster
the events, disavow in these days its agents, as Lord Cate
tlereagb did thirty years ago."
The allusion to those who, thirty years ago dis-
avowed the agency of Lord W. BENTINCE, is some-
what unfortunate, inasmuch as it was with those very
men that M. GUIZOT formed the entente cordiale, and
it is only among their ranks that he has in England
lily supporters. There is something exceedingly
rich in the idea of the "Man of Ghent" sneering at
England, because fifty years ago she supported ;the
King of NAPLES.
The Union Monarchique says :
" The following intelligence reaches us from a certain
source. Toe English Cattinet has just sent an order to
the lonian Islands to prepare an expedition for Italy.
Two le giments will be immediately conveyed to Ancona.
Lord Palmersten has given notice of this resolution
to the Cabinet of Vienna. The real motives of this re-
solution are those : Lord Palmerston became ate
quamted with an undersoending between France and
Austria ; he knew that the Cabinet of Vienna had as
cured itself of the perfect neutrality of the Cabinet 01
the Tuileries on the Italian question at the moment at
which England pressed Austria to make common cause
with he* in a protest against the marriage of the Duke
de l'ilontpensier. By this hold proceeding, which obliges
Austria to stop, Lord Palmerston effects two objects at
the same time—that of making Austria abandon the
policy of temporisation with respect to Spain, and of
obliging Fran( e to make a demonstration. Louis
Philippe and M. Guizot have returned to Paris to occupy
themselves with this grave affair. The Council is to as-
semble to-day. England has not waited for events ; she
has foreseen them ; she acts. The following words have
been said in a lofty region, 'lt is now evident that Lord
Palmerston labours for war ; he is an evil genius who
will put Europe in flames."
The above announcement is, at all events, pre-
mature, but if France and Austria pursue the
plans which they are now pursuing, it is not impro-
bable that Lord PALMERSTON may find himself
forced to adopt some such course as that above
alluded to, and that it would be successful there can-
have
for h
can-
not be a doubt. A bold policy always is so.
The Constitutionnel gives the following as the new
organization
ofist
mentorh the Government
General
cin h
ang ar n Algeriai
" The Duke d'Aumale is to be Governor-General,
and et.,7vho is to
be promoted to the rank of Major -General. General
Bedeau is to return to Coast •
riciare to Oran. A sole Directiona Constantine., General Lamo-
r Civil Affairs is to
be substituted for the present three Directions of
Finances, the Interior, and Publio Works.. M. Vaisse,
Prefect of the Pyrenees, who, before he became Secre-
tary-General to the Prefecture of Marseilles, was Secre-
tary-General to the Civil Intendant of Algeria, is de-
signed for this place. This change will produce others
in the composition of the superior council of administra-
tion. is which the three present directors will have
seats, and into which the Major-General will be admitted.
This, it is- evident, will be to the advantage of military
influx nce. In fine, it is. reported that the Minister of
War will no longer have the exclusive direction of the
affairs of Algeria, but that they will be divided between
ell the departments of the Government. There is, how-
ever, to be formed in the office of Minister fur Foregn
Affairs a direction, in which will be concentrated the
whole of the correspondence between the colony and the
mother country."
The Court of Peers on Monday decreed the prose-
cution against the Duke of PRASLIN terminated by
his death, and ordered Mdlle. LUZY DESPORTES to be
tried by the ordinary tribunals.
The Presse gives the following particulars relating
to this unfortunate young lady :
" Mdlle. de Luzy was a resident in the school of the
Marais for oily a month. She had barn introduced
there in the name of the Duke and Duchess, and w u.,
ace- .flurallied on her first visit by one of the demoiselles
de Praeltn. When she took up her residence there, her
pupils, in bringing her a superb copy of tee ' Imitation
of Jesus Christ, offered by the Duchess herself, as a
testimony of gratitude, came and aided in effecting her
removal and settling her chamber, besides frequentl/

MARKET NEWS.-(THIS DAY.)

CORN EXCHANGE—WEDNESDAY.
Notwithstanding the arrivals of English Wheat since
Monday have been on a very moderate scale, we have to
report an extremely heavy demand for all descriptions
today, at barely the depression in value noticed on last
market day. Upwards of 30,000 quarters of foreign
Wheat have arrived this week. These large arrivals
had a most depressing influence upon the trade, and, to
have effected sake, lower rates must have been submitted
to. The Barley trade was very dull, and grinding par-
cels were I s per quarter lower. In Malt so little was
doing that priers were almost nominal. Oats, Beans,
Peas, ludian Corn, and Four, were a mere drug.
ARRIVALS.
Barley.
120 qrs.

English .. • • • .

Oat,. I Flo'ir.
130 qrs. I 2,280 -.10.
2,140 and
I 12,070 3.i,2sUbrlit

Irish. ...•
Foreign •• •• .. I 30;50