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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 vvant 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 cane
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
ever yet been opened of at length introducing into
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.

We have been favoured with a copy of the following
important dispatch, which was communicated last
evening to thvArest India Association
TO GOVERNOR SIR C. GREY, &C.
Downing-street, Oct. 30.
Sir,—l transmit to you herewith a copy of a me-
morial from proprietors, merchants, and ethers, con-
nected with the island of Jamaica, in which they re-
present the difficulties under which they labour, and
apply for assistance to be able to surmount them.
The topics brought before her Majesty's Govern-
ment in this memorial are, as you will perceive, the
same which have been for some time past under their
constant consideration ; but the progress of events
gives them every day an increasing interest and im-
portance.
Long hafore the enactment of the Act for the ulti-
mate repeal of the di.criminating duties on foreign
sugar, it had become manifest that in the existing
state of opinion in this country, founded as it was in
reason and on facts, if the cultivation of sugar by
free labour could not be sustained on principles of
free trade, it could not be sustained at all. So long as
these principles were not brought into operation
it was obvious that the basis on which this com-
merce and cultivation rested was hollow and unsound,
end that all calculations connected with it must pro-
ceed upon very doubtful and precarious data. It was
essential, therefore, to the welfare of all parties to
commence without delay the experiment of bringing
the principles of free trade by progressive steps into
full activity, and maintaining the cultivation of sugar
with a reduction and early extinction of the discri-
minating duties. This experiment being indispensably
necessary was to be undertaken in a spirit of hope
and confidence, and in that spirit I trust it will still
be carried on. But, at the same time, there is no
application of the principles of free trade which was
entitled to more anxious attention on the part of her
Majesty's Government with a view to promote its
success; because, of all merely commercial measures
it is that which involves the most momentous conse-
quences, moral and political, as well as commercial.
With the maintenance of the colonial agriculture and
exports is bound up the moral and industrial well-
being, the education, enlightenment, and good go-
vernment of the negro race in the British colonies;
and, along with that, the abatement and ultimate
extermination of the slave trade and of slavery
throughout the world.
It was with a full sense of the importance of the
interests depending, and of the critical nature of the
experiment, that I applied myself to the subject when
I assumed the seals of this office ; and then, as now,
the want of an adequate supply of labour was the
difficulty most dwelt upon by the planters and mer-
chants ; and this was the evil which it was obviously
most essential to obviate.
For the early, though not, certainly, the imme-
diate mitigation of this evil, I looked to the education
and industrial training of the negroes, and I have
pressed this subject repeatedly and most anxiously on
the attention of the Assemblies. For a more direct
alleviation I place great reliance upon the introduc-
tion of improved methods and implements of agri-
culture and processes of manufacture; and I have
rejoiced to receive, from time to time, reports of
improvements of this nature being in successful pro-
gress. But the supply of labour by immigration
was the resource for which it was conceived that the
assistance of her Majesty's Government might be
chiefly made available; and I lost no time in con-
sidering by what means this assistance might best be
given. The expense of the transport of Coolies
from British India was such as to excite
doubts on the part of the Jamaica Assembly
as to the expediency of carrying that immi-
gration forward, and I saw much reason to apprehend
that these doubts were well founded, and that this
immigration could not be conducted on any terms
which would render it adequately remunerative. It
remained to establish, if possible, an extended emigra-
tion from the parts of Africa where slavery does not
prevail, and whence an intelligent and serviceable
class of emigrants might be procured. After every
practicable inquiry had been made in this country as
to the prospect of succeeding in such an attempt, her
Majesty's steam-ship Growler was dispatched to the
liroo coast for emigrants, and, although she has been
for the moment diverted from the prosecution of that
particular service by the occurrence of an opportunity
of conveying a large number of liberated Africans to
the West Indies, the intelligence which has been
received by no means abates the hopes which have
been entertained, and she has gone back to Africa with
the additional advantage of conveying thither, as dele-
gates from British Guiana and Trinidad, between 100
and 200 Kroomen and other Africans. These persons
have been exceedingly prosperous in British Guiana,
and they return to their country, according to a
dispatch from Governor Light, of which a copy is
annexed, with large sums of money, the earnings of
their labour in the West Indies ; 29 of them having
deposited in the hands of the captain of the Growler
no less a sum than 571/. 15s. 10d. lam not, there-
fore, without hope that the succeeding operations of
the Growler may realise the prospect of emigrants
being obtained from the Kroo coast in large numbers,
and her Majesty's Government are prepared to take
prompt measures for conveying them to the West
Indies with the least outlay which may be found to
be compatible with the proper conduct of the service.
It is indispensable that that outlay should be defrayed
by the colonies to which the emigrants are taken; nor
is it possible for me, especially in the present state of
the resources of this country, and having regard
also to the extraordinary demands made upon them
from the various exigencies of the time, to hold
out any expectation that her Majesty's Government
can recommend to Parliament that either a grant
of money or a loan should be made by this country
to the West India colonies for the advancement of
these objects ; but any number of merchant vessels
will be employed which it is found possible to em-
ploy with advantage, and the expenses of which the
colonies may be prepared to provide for. The man-
ner of conducting the service must afford an absolute
and indisputable security against any
immigrants
being taken without their free consent, obtained by
fair and well-founded statements. Her Majesty's
Government cannot for a moment admit the validity
of the arguments in favour of Africans being rescued
from slavery by purchase, in order that they may be
removed to a state of freedom. Such a proceeding
would be sure to make more slaves than it redeemed,
and to make them in the worst way, by furnishing,
like the slave trade itself, a provocative to the system
of barbarous outrage and warfare by, which that
traffic is fed. It is indispensable, in order to
guard against abuses of this nature, that the
service should be conducted under the regu-
lations of the Government, and on those parts only of
the African coast where slavery and the slave trade
are found not to prevail. At present, however, there
is nothing to show that the employment of ships of
war will be necessary, or that any cost of superin-
tendence need be incurred beyond that of a Govern-
ment agency on board the vessel and on the coast.
Such a superintendence is, in fact, as necessary to the
success of the undertaking as it is essential to the
character of this country; for any occurrence of
abuses would inevitably put an end to the operations.
With regard to the means by which the colonies
might be enabled to meet the cost—when I first came
to the consideration of this subject, the wisdom of the
Assembly of Jamaica had already furnished, in the
suggestion added,for
clause of their Immigration Act imposing stamp
attention t
h a s y
e im-
position u
oof
duties on engagements for immigrant labour,
an
example of legislation which I did not fail toadopt
and
the
hrn
eed
Legislaturee wre recommendeed I
of to
sotji
al other
Jamaica,
recommendhae
irea c, colonies. osnui egsgi
to
thhraobwita them
of a monthly tax on immigrants introduced
at the public expense, and not under a the
stamped
en-
gagement to labour. This may not be required in
comparativethe
isolation the Coolie
the immigrants,community whose
res
upon
ource. engage
B m
utent I s
should fear with the planters as a necessary
that • h - wit out it the
African immigrants introduced at the expense of th
colony, in order that they may hire themselves
e ves to
work, will not always be found to fulfil that expecta-
tion and repay the cost of their passage.
Such are the measures which I have hitherto
adopted and recommended to meet thedeficiency the supply of labour, and the steps which in
sary to give effect to these measures, wf
awe neces-
as they
depended upon her Majesty's Government
hr
taken, I trust, with the least possible delay,
aved been
all the care requisite to give them a fair ,roasnp e
ewt with
success ; and there Is no other proper and prospect
measure calculated to advance these objects in which
we should not most gladly co-operate with the Legis-
lature of Jamaica to the utmost extent of the means
at our disposal.
If the measures now in contemplation, or any
others which may be devised, for the introduction
of immigrants, should have an extensive success ;
and if neither that success, nor the anticipation of
it, be allowed to interfere with the diligent pur-
suit of every possible improvement in agri-
culture and manufacturing processes, and still less
with the education and industrial training of the ne-
groes, I trust there is good reason to hope,
not only that the present difficulties of the West
Indian interest may prove to be temporary, but
that when they shall have passed away, any measure

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I stated to the deputation which waited upon me
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Patent Candle (marked " Palmer") Bd. per lb., English's Cam-
phine, in sealed cans, bs. per gallon. The money retarned for every
article not approved of. Detailed catalogues with engravings sent
(per post) free.—Established in Wells-street, A.D. 1820.

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 PLATED SEAMLESS TEAPOTS can-
not be distinguished from 'ver, or leak or lose their shape;
while from the peculiarity of the process of making (just patented),
their prices are about one-half of any other sort. Portland. 235. ;
Oval plain, 235. ; Round plain, 255. ; Round engraved, 30s. ; Antique
(superior even to silver itself in delicacy of finish), 40s.
Detailed Catalogues, with engravings, as well as of every iron-
mongery article, sent (per post) free.
WILLIAM S. BURTON'S (late RIPPON and BURTON'S) Stock
of general Furnishing Ironmongery is literally the largest in the
world, and as no language can be employed to give a correct idea of
its variety and extent, purchasers are invited to cal 1 and inspect it.
39, Oxford-street (corner of Newman-street), London. Established
in Wells-street, 1820.

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.

A R R I
A G E.
m One half the world are desolately single, and the other
supposing them married, questionably contented. Diffidence, or a
sense of right determine the former, and miscalculated hopes em-
bitter the latter. The solitary one may shield himself under the plea
of caution and worldly prudence, and the indissoluble, regret un-
corn prosing hurry; but the truth lies deeper. Physical incapacity,
and broken health, are the great hindrances to domestic happiness
and social content. The dowry should not be the only marriage set-
dement. Honour and justice demand that health should form an item
In the compact ; it alone dignifies the alliance. Blighted hopes or
neglect wound snore sorely than poverty or misfortune. Reader, if
these surmises concern you, procure Dr. CULYERWELL'S little
MEMOIRS 'On Single and Married Life," pus. In 2 vols., Is.
each (by post, In stamps, Is. Gd. each). Let no imaginatively
reined, er prudish feeling deter you, by their titles, nor be hindered
by misinterpretation of their supposed contents, from obtaining
them. They are not intended certainly for mere idle curiosity, but
for the closet perusal of those mere deeply interested, to whom
they are offered as antagonistic to the empyrical trash put forth on
the above subjects, by unqualified authors, which aline or
together, are a disgrace to the age. Furthermore, two other
little publications claim your attention (same price Is. each,
by post Is. Gd.) called " What to Eat, Drink and
Avoid," and " Ilow to be Happy." They are not merely
pamphlets, but equal in quantity a library volume, nor are they the
mere ephemeral scribblings of the hour, but the study of the author's
life, who owes his present existence, health, and position to this ob-
servance of the maxims he would inculcate—to do unto others as he
would be done unto—to live after nature's laws—and to keep always
on the "sunny side of the way." The above works may be had of
Sherwood, 23, Paternoster-row ; Carvalho, 147, Fleet -street ; Mann,
39, Cornhill ; Nelson, 457, West Strand ; or direct (by post or other-
wise) from the anther (who may be conferred with personally.
alornings and evenings), 10, Argyll-place Regent-street; and all
Rookmellerc

M. George Fabricius, a German violinist and mu-
sical composer, committed suicide a few days ago at
Brussels, in consequence of having, from agitation, failed
in the rehearsal of a concert which he was to have given
on Monday at the Theatre Royal.—Galignani.
A LUCKY MAN.—On Friday last a person of Ab-
botkerswill, being too late for the express train to Ex-
exter, sauntered about the vicinity of the station until
the next train went. Having occasion to go down a by-
lane in the new road, he took a parcel, containing fo-
reign coins to the value of 501. from his trousers pocket,
and placed it on a stone by his side; shortly after he
went away and forgot his parcel. He arrived in Exeter,
and while going up Fore-street-hill he missed his money.
He immediately went back to the station, and was in
time for the express down train for Newton. On arriving
he directly proceeded /to the lane he had been in three
hours previously, and fortunate for him, the money lay
undisturbed in the same place he had left it. Several
persons had passed the place during the time it was
there without noticing it.—Devonshire Chronicle.
THE DEODORISING PROCESS.--Yesterday Mr. El-
lerman exhibited the extraordinary deodorising effects
of his disinfecting fluid, at Mr. Burt's premises, in York-
street,
scientificVtr gentlemen.estm before The experiments
p 7,
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their
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those
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madeof t haet
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on Tuesday last, although on a somewhat smaller scale.
In the first instance, two gallons of nignhdtril. were ex-
perimentedt emitted
wnerpeonal whenonee
ntheentfr,ffaelinsesidveba
us
tsontheepvinirttuoefstohfe
variousfluid. Inot h tehre
deodorising succeedingy
additionzi:
the"
mo only
experi-
liquids,
namely, chloride of lime, and Mr. Beaufoy's and Sir
William Burnet's re-agent were compared with those of
Mr. Ellerrnan, when it was satisfactorily proved that the
latter possessed superior
equal effects to three pints qualities,
one pint producing
eitherD of the others, while
its cost is not above one-tenth. Ure Dr Carpenter,
Dr. Grainger, and other competent 9 *
judges who were
present, expressed their perfect satisf
action at the result
of the experiments.
THE SPIRIT TRADE.—An order was
issued by the revenue authorities to the
effect
tetcheat it
having having been ascertained to be the practice, at some of the outports in the kingdom, to admit rum, which has
been reduced in strength with water in the- bonded
warehouses or vaults, to entry for home consumption,
and it appearing to the Board of Customs that such
practice was objectionable, and attended with great in-
convenience to the department, and moreover, unneces-
sary for the accommodation of the public, inasmuch as
spirits can now be imported in casks of twenty gallons
contents each, thereby affording to all parties the op-
portunity of purchasing the article in small quan-
tities, as imported, and of afterwards reducing it
when in their own possession equally as free from
adulteration as if reduced whilst under bond, the
practice of admitting for home consumption, i.e.,
for home use, on payment of the duty levi-
able on the article at so much per gallon of liquid
and proof-strength spirits, reduced with water in the
bonded warehouses or vaults, be forthwith discontinued.
The Commissioners have since received a communica-

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-
sent at the opening of the States of Bohemia. Prince
Metternich will not 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
warming 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.—
Builder.

DR. LAWERT ON TLIE SECRET INFIRMITIES OP YOUTH
AND MATURITT.—WITII 40 COLOURED ENGRAVINGS ON
STEEL.
Julsi:tnpvuelbo!ii,seh,e,2%.an6dd,Toary
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SELF- PRE SE RVATION ; a Medical Treatise
on the Physiology of Marriage, Infelicitous and Unproductive
Unions, and the Secret Infirmities and Disorders of Youth and Ma-
turity, usually acquired at an early period of life, which enervate
the physical and mental powers, diminish and enfeeble the natural
feelingv, and exhaust the vital energies of Manhood ; with Practice:
Observations on the Treatment of Nervous Debility and Indigestion,
whether arising from these causes, close study, or the influence of
tropical climates: Local and Constitutional Weakness, Syphilis,
Stricture, and all Diseases and Derangements resulting from Indis-
cretion. With Forty coloured Engravings, Illustrating the
Anatomy, Physiology, and Diseases of the Reproductive Organs,
explaining their structures, uses, and functions, and the various
injuries that are produced in them by solitary habits, excesses, and
infection.

Sir Stratford Canning, previous to his arrival at
Constantinople to resume his functions as British Am-
bassador, is to visit the King of Hanover ; his Excel•
lency, after concluding the object of his 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
horses, which made them go forward, when a terrific
crash was heard, and in an instant the projecting portion
came down. The police constable on duty was knocked
down by some of the falling timbers, but sustained no
serious injury.
SAWING IRON.— 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
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.

BY SAMUEL LA'MERT, M.D.,

9, BDDFORD-STRBET, DEDFORD-SQUA.R,II,
LONDON,

Doctor of Medicine, Matriculated Member of the University of Edin-
burgh, Licentiate of Apothecaries' Hall, London, Honorary Member
of the London I lespital Medical Society, &c.
Marriage requires the fulfilment of several conditions, in order
that It may be really the cause of mutual happiness. Could the
veil, which covers the origin of domestic wretchedness, be raised,
and its true source in every instance disclosed, in how many could
it be traced to physical disqualifications and their attendant disap-
pointments. Excesses are always injurious ; the gift, which whet
used in moderation is fraught with advantage, becomes, when
abused, the prolific source of mischief, and of greater or less injary
to the constitutional and vital powers. The particular excesses, on
the mature and consequence of which this Treatise professes to dilate,
are productive •f greater severity of misery to the human frame,
than any other to which it is subject.

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I oagny aocfcutriaiete
Reproductiveand completeOrgans,ac coit n t
andof theor
AtTrahtoisinwyorak contains
their relative conditions in health and disease. It deservedly
requires the closest attention and study, for what subject can
be of mire importance than the preservation of the health,
arid of the physical capabilities of which every man should
be possessed. It unfortunately happens that the unhappy
victim of excessive indulgence and vicious habits, whether acquired
in early life or from the follies of advanced age, while suffering
from their iuvariable consequences, unwisely entertains a fear of ap-
plyin to a qualified physician for relief. Shame and the dread so
frequently, but erroneously entertained that these complaints are
beyond the reach of art, alike restrict him and prevent his seeking
for assistance where alone it can be procured. In acting thus, he
forgets that accurate discrimination in ascertaining the causes of
disease, sympathy with the sufferer, and, above all, secrecy, inva-
riably characterise the intelligent and practical physicists, and to the
medical man who can show by his posse sion of the requisite legal
qualifications that lie is entitled to esteem and respect in his profes-
sional pursuits, the utmost confidence should be extended. Dr.
LA'AIERT has obtained the highest medical honours, as his diplomas
testify, and the great extent of his practice fer many years is a
guarantee for his professional experience, which has reference almost
solely to the treatment of these diseases.
Published by the Author, and may he had of Kent and Richards,
42, Paternoster-row; Hannay, 63, Oxford-street; Starie, Tichborne-
street, Haymarket ; Mansell, 115, Fleet-street ; Gordon, 146,
Leadenhall-street, London ; or, free by post for forty-two stamps,
from the Author, who may be consulted on these disorders personally
or by letter, daily, from Ten till Two, and from Five till Eight at his
esidence. 9 Bedford-street Bedford-square .Laudou.

tion from Mr. Parker, one of the Secretaries of the
Lords Commissioners of the Treasury, signifying that,
having laid before their Lordships the Board's Report,
on an application from an eminent metropolitan wine
and spirit house, requesting that a quantity of rum, im-
ported into the port of London in a vessel from one of
the West India Islands, and which has been vatted in
the bonded warehouse, and reduced in strength by
water, may be admitted for home consumption, he (Mr.
Parker) has been commanded to acquaint the Board
that, under the circumstances, their Lordships are
pleased to authorise the Board to permit the delivery of
the rum in question, together with such other quantities
as may be at present in the warehouse under similar cir-
cumstances. This order from the Treasury is of very
material importance to the trade.

ACCIDENT AT SEA.—LIVERPOOL, WEDNESDAY.—
The Isaac Millar, from New Orleans, has just reached
the Mersey, and reports that she was in contact with the
Dublin steam-ship, Queen Victoria, off the Skerries, at
five o'clock this morning. Twenty of the steamer's
passengers got on board the Isaac Millar, and the Queen
gVivicetnoraisa
twoawshlce,stkiet sirghstheoEsuslttaiwnaesd, haonwyesvecr•ri,oudsarlcdaarat
athgee
time, five A.M., and no satisfactory information can be
or not.

CHILD DROPPING.—About half-past six o'clock
yesterday morning, as one of the 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 femalwrapped
in a black silk shawl. Information wasgiven t po-
lice, and the body was removed to the workhouse of St.
Martin's parish,

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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.)
WEDNESDA r.—We have information from Fort
Beaufort which goes to show that the forbearance of
our Government is having tie worst, possible effifct
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 couptrymen, 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
message from the Governor has been treated with
disregard, the chief assuming an altitude of defiance,
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 111_ajor 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, on
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-
dilla, 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, I 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 I, 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 Kafir 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
property to be a paramount duty.
GOD SATE THE QuzEN!
Dated at Graham's Town, this 27th day of
August, 1847.

HENRY POTTINGER.

(From the Zidti- Afrikaan, of Sept. G.)
The post of last Saturday brought no additional
information, except that the Kafirs are quite alive as
to the intended movement of the troops, which they
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-
dient to direct the attention of all persons residing on
the frontier, to the necessity that will probably
arise-
for removing live stock and other movable property
further in the colony, during the pending hostility ;
and he recommends them to adopt precautions ac-
cordingly.

Then they say mom than her Majesty's liigh Com-
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
'scension, amongst whom were her Royal Hii;hness the
the Duchess d'Orleans and her children, and his Royal
Higharss the Duke de Alontpensier. Soon after five
o'clock, Mr, Green and his three companions descended
in safety at Villiers-le-Bel, five leagues north ofnPtahrem.od
RIPE STRAWBERRIES IN NOVEMBER.
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TO THE RDIT'OR o.o_-THE SWV.• • ( J.:
Sra,—At least one of our daily papers (rir/Oisi ,i Nov. 2, 1847) lately stated the number and the names -.,
of the causes now set down for healing .-in thACauits:-
at Westminster ; but I do not find thatioy,paper has
stated the number of appeals already heard, lajvand
now waiting'for the judgment of, the Lord Chancellor.
I therefore take the liberty to furnish you with a list
thereof, to enable you to supply that omission, toge-
ther with a few remarks upon the consequences of
delay in giving judgment upon appeals, in the hope
that, with your usual desire to protect the interests
of the public, you will give insertion to such of them
as you may consider pertinent.
About three-fourths of the appeals in the annexed
list, and now standing for judgment, were heard by
the Lord Chancellor last year, some of them as long
ago as July, 1846.
No one can doubt its being a misfortune to get into
litigation, and numberless are the cases in which
parties submit to be plundered rather than to he en-
tangled in the meshes of law, with its attendant evils
of expenses and delay.
Circumstances, nevertheless, compel others, how-
ever reluctant to enforce their rights, or to resist
attempts at pecuniary oppression by an appeal to the
law; the care, anxiety, trouble, and expense neces-
sary for travening the highways and byways, and
- escaping the traps, pitfalls, and chicaneries of the
Court of Chancery, inevitably to be encountered, are
surely misfortune enough, without the aegravated
misery of having to wait a year, or perhaps two or
more after the cause or appeal has lwen heard, for
the decision of the judge. In every case there must
I-e a wrong-doer : this delay on the part of the judge
is a premium to the wrong-doer. Common sense and
common honesty dictate that a judge should deter-
mine one cause before entering upon another; a
competent, just, and duty-doing judge would always
act upon that principle. But, allowing for necessary
exceptions to such a general rule, what can justify
the postponement of a judgment for months or years?
The argument of counsel must of course be forgotten,
and such causes will at length be decided upon on
imperfect recollection of the facts, or a cursory re-
view of the papers : thus, besides the injury of delay,
there is the waste of time expended in arguments,
and the loss of money paid in fees to counsel.
There are now twenty-seven reserved judgments ;
the last on the list was heard four months ago,
the first sixteen months ago, and the amount
of money or property involved in such cases
probably reaches to nearly a million sterling
no small portion of which is, perhaps, locked up in
the Court of Chancery.
The amount of suffering endured by parties, and
their families and connexions, who ought to have
their cases decided, and this property distributed
months ago, is incalculable. And what now is their
situation ? Their counsel say, if you press for judg-
ment you will irritate the Chancellor, and he will
decide against you ; wait his time, your case is
good, and he will decide in your favour; but wait-
ing his time consigns the party to bankruptcy and
ruin, and when tardy justice at length arrives itis
rather a triumph to the evil-doer, at having de-
stroyed his adversary, than compensation to the party
injured.
There is no exaggeration in this statement, neither
are there any of our institutions that require more
vigilant surveillance than the administration of the
law ; and, acting on the impression that you have
only to attain a knowledge of abuses to endeavour
to reform them, I take the liberty to forward these
observations, hoping that such use may be made of
them, if possible, as may lead to an abatement of the
evil.

A LIST OF APPEALS HEARD BY THE LORD CHAN-
CELLOR, AND NOW WAITING FOR HIS JUDGMENT,
NOV. 6, 1847:-

Curzon v. Be!worthy
Bellamy v. Sabine
Vandeleur v. Blagrove
Coore v. Lowndes
Minor v. Minor
Wrighton v. Macaulay
Andrews v. Lockwood
Stocken v. Dawson
IVatts v. Hyde
Eyre v. Green
Davis v. Chanter
Bell v. Earl Mexborough
Lacy v. Ingle
Bainbriggc v. Baddeley
Kirk v. Bro►nley Union

Strickland v. Strickland
Morison v. Morison
Parker v. Morrell
Penny v. Dawson
Peacock v. Kernot
Willinck v. Bentinck
Attorney. General v. Mer-
chant Venturers of Bristol
Grand Junction Canal Com-
pany v. Dimes
Jones v. Rose
Mason v. Wakeman
!Westwood v. Slater
!Hodgson v. Barrow, heard
July, 1847.
November 6, 1847.

IMPROYEMENT OF PULLEYS.—A patent has been
taken out in America for increasing the adhesiveness of
the surface of pulleys, drums, &c., by a coating of India-
rubber, or some other gum of similar nature.—Builder.
EMANCIPATION OF SOUTHAMPTON FROM TORY
MISRULE.—This borough has been so long in the hands
of the Tories that they considered it their property; but
by a majority of one single vote, on the Ist of November,
a Liberal councillor was returned in the place of a Tory
one; and on the electicn4 the mayor and five aldermen
this day (9th November), all Liberals, a substantial
Liberal majority is secured. The following gentlemen
take the place of an equal number of Tories:—Daniel
Brooks, Esq., mayor ; Aldermen Paulk, Brooks, Bien-
venue, Allen, and Stace; who are expected to make a
clear sweep of a mass of useless machines, the place now
occupied by which is to be filled by members of a more
modern and useful kind.
An atrocious crime was committed in the railway
station at Dresden, on the 30th tilt. At about ten o'clock in the morning a well-dressed young man en-
tered, and walked about for some time in an agitated
state, smoking a cigar. All at once he rushed towards
a young female who was about to enter a carriage, and,
drawing a pistol from his pocket, discharged it at her.
The ball entered her heart, and she died immediately.
The murderer then drew another pistol from his pocket,
and placed the barrel of it in his mouth, but just as he
was about to pull the trigger, his arm was seized by a
bystander, and the ball lodged in the ceiling. The
murderer was immediately arrested and placed in gaol.
Ile is the travelling clerk fur a manufactory of arms at
Liege. The young female belonged to a respectable
family at Berlin, and had been carried off by the mur-
derer. Her father and mother having followed and
overtaken her, insisted that she should return home,
and she was about to set out with them on her return
wh,,n the murder was committed.
At the Postal Congress, now sitting at Dresden ,
the Austrian commissary proposed the following uni-
form tariff for letters:—lid. (three kreutzers) for all
letters within a circuit of five miles, and 2id. (six kreut-
zers) within twenty miles, and sd. (twelve kreutzers) for
all letters exceeding twenty miles. The postage to be
divided equally between the receiving and sending office.
It must be observed that the German mile is equal to
461 English miles. There are sixty kreutzers to the
florin, and ten florins to the pound sterling.
PARK THEATRE, NEW YORK.--DolllZelti'S opera
of the Favourite has been produced at this theatre in the
most complete manner, and met with perfect success.
Miss Brienti (a pupil of Mr. Manvers) made her first
appearance as Leonora. She is a charming vocalist, with
a voice that touches the heart. She was received with
enthusiasism, and has made a most favourable impres-
sion on the hearts of the Americans. Mr. Manvers, a
standard favourite here, made his first appearance these
four years, and fully proved his claim to the title of
the best tenor on the continent.--New York Daily Globe.
DETERMINED SUlClDE.—Yesterday Mr. Wakle7,
M.P., held an inquest at the Star, Chad's-rove, Kings-
cross, on the body of James Clark, aged 25, potboy at
that establishment, who;was found dead onSundav:morning
last, under the following cireumstadces:—Harriet Groom,
charwoman, stated that at eight o'clock on Sunday
morning last, on entering the washhouse of the Star, she
saw deceased lying on the floor with his face and head
immersed in a washing-tub, anc4apparently quite dead.
Mr. Bigley, the landlord, stated that on the morca—
ngunidn
question he was summoned by Mrs. Groom
i : deceased lying as described; his face was
qu, and his
withhb
heisenhetialdted partiallyand
propped cov e r covered
d by
with the
stones, ws te r
apparently. The ttub
pbuorth•
carrying
position,o u t of
withhis
pose. The bodyiwasin a semi-kneeling a view to facilitate the effectual
n cealrir
pocket was found an empty
'Mr. Hicks, a surgeon, said
phial, arms outside
marked the
~ tub.poia
"poison."
,
but since
' ly a case of drowning;.
.hearing the
that on seeing deceased, his first impression was that it
was snap
history of the case, and seeing the phial, which had con-
tained
laudausm, he considered that the deceased had
taken the laudanum with the intent of paralysing any
struggles for self-preservation.l The jury returned a
verdict, " That the deceased died from suffocation by
drowning, being at that time of unsound mind."
FATAL ACCIDENT ON TILE RivEn.--Yesterday
morning an inquest was held before Mr. W. Baker, at
on view of the body
sailor.
the Five Bells public house, opposite Limehouse church
of Andrew Numier, aged thirty-,
five, a It appeared that the deceased had joined
on board the schooner Margaret, lying in the river off
about twelve o'clock, hennlesfet. then
Dawson's Dock, Limehouse,
vessel kiu Saturday t
hnight
purpose lttsk
of going on shore, and while walking upon a plank,
which was placed on a descent from a tier of vessels to
the pier head of the wharf, he suddenly slipped, and tell
into the water. It was raining very heavily at the time,
and the plank was very slippery. The deceased ex-
claimed that he could swim ashore, and a sailor belong-
ing to another vessel immediately went to his assistance,
but he had disappeared under the water. His body
was recovered about two hours afterwards. It is a re-
markable fact, that when the deceased was searched his
watch was found to be exactly twelve o'clock, the time
when the unfortunate occurrence happened. The jury
returned a verdict of " Accidental death."
in Shef-
field, says the iris, which frequently arises_
d laifficult to
IS BAD WORK TO BE PAID FOR P— This is a
field, and one which it is often exceedingly gY_
stud' for files was given to
decide, especially as to work sent_ p
recent instance, a quantity of st
d of doing them properly
et:be done. In a
a workman to cut, and instead
work was badly done. Th©
he flat, and the
for 255., which the
man to cut t
his employer
himself; he employed a boy toa
cut the round part and &
workman summoned
mayor restricted
to be paid, as he conceived that, ordering that sum
to 20s.,dismissing the summons, but
the employer" might manage to get
though
rather an equivocal re..
rid of them i
tion surely, from a magistrate. The defend-
antcommends ,
badly
neuts'ome manner:
was by no means satisfied with the decision, es-
pecially as this was but one out of many instances in
which he would be obliged to " get rid" of bad files " in,
some manner."—Builder.