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London, England, 1846-09-19 00:00:00

WHITEHALL, SErr. 16.

The Queen has been pleased to direct letters patent to be
passed under the Great Seal, granting the dignity of a
Knight of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
unto Edward Pine Coffin, Esq., Commissary General of her
Majesty's Forces.
WAR OFFICE, SEPT. 18.

9th Light Dragoons, Richard Iloghton, Gent. to be Cornet,
without purchase, vice French, promoted, Sept. 18.
Coldstream Regiment of Foot Guards—Ensign Edward
Heneage Dering, from 68th Foot, to be Ensign and Lieu-
tenant, by purchase, vice Verner, who retires, Sept. 18.
14th Regiment of Foot—Lieutenant William Douglas to
be Captain, without purchase, vice Brevet Major Martin
Crean Lynch, who retires upon full-pay, Sept. 18.
29th Foot—Brevet Major Edward Lugard, from 31st Foot,
to be Captain, vice L'Estrange, who exchanges, June 20.
31st Foot—Captain Harry Piesley L'Eslrmage, from 29th
Foot, to be Captain, vice Lugard, who exchanges, June 20.
34th Foot—Lieutenant Mawdistly Gaussen Best to be Ad
jutant, vice Bourke, who resigns the Adjutantcy only,
Sept. 18.
44th Foot—Assistant-Surgeon Edward Robertson, M.D.,
from 69th Foot, to be Surgeon, vice Murray, promoted on
the Staff, Sept. 18.
47th Foot—Captain George Thomas Evans, from 74th
Foot, to be Captain, vice Patton, who exchanges, Sept. 18.
54th Foot—Edward John Mathias, Gent., to be Ensign,
without purchase, vice Marriott, appointed Quartermaster,
Sept. 18.
61st Foot—Lieutenant Christopher Rowland Richardson,
from 62d Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Maunsell, who ex-
changes, June 15.
62d Foot—Lieutenant Richard Maunsell, from 61st Foot,
to be Lieutenant, vice Richardson, who exchanges, June 15.
68th Foot—Charles Ughtred Shuttleworth, Gent., to be
Ensign, by purchase, vice Dering, appointed to the Cold-
stream Regiment of Foot Guards, Sept. 18.
69th Foot—To be Captains, without purchase—Lieutenant
George Losack; Lieutenant William James Bury M'Leod
Moore, Sept. 18.
To be Lieutenants, without purchase—Lieut. Frederick
George William Fearon, from 57th Foot; Ensign Gordon
Henry Evans; Ensign Denis Dunne, vice Losack, Sep-
tember 18.

To be Ensigns, without purchase—James Hamilton Bel-
ton, Gent., Sept. 16; Charles Gilborne, Gent., Sept. 17;
Richard Fitz Gerald, Gent., vice Evans, Sept. 18; Oliver
Coathupe, Gent., vice Dunne, Sept. 19.
To be Assistant Surgeon—Assistant Surgeon Robert Vil-
liers George, M.D. from 3d West India Regiment, vice Ro-
bertson, promoted in 44th Foot, Sept. 18.
74th Foot—Captain Walter Douglas Phillipps Patten,
from 47th Foot, to bye Captain, vice Evans, who exchanges,
Sept 18.
80th Foot—Ensign Robert Glifton Gordon to be Lieute-
nant, without purchase, vice Bodle, appointed Quartermaster.
June 20; Quartermaster-sergeant Robert Crawford to be
Ensign, vice Gordon, Sept. 18 ; Lieutenant George Bodle to
be Quartermaster, vice Hayes, deceased, June 20.
84th Foot—Ensign David O'Brien to be Lieutenant, with-
out purchase, vice M'Cann, deceased, May 20.
2d West India Regiment—Ensign Thomas Parker Wright
to be Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Potts, deceased,
Aug. 7.
To be Ensigns, without purchase—Serjeant Major Patrick
M‘Lougblin, from Coventry Recruiting District, vice Dagg,
promoted, Sept. 17.
William Henry Penoyre Strachan, Gent., vice Wright,
Sept. 18.
3d West India Regiment—Anthony Concannon, M.D., to
be Assistant-Surgeon, vice George, appointed to the 69th
Foot, Sept. 18.
STAFF—Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Havelock, of
53d Foot, to be Deputy Adjutant-General to her Majesty's
Forces serving at Bombay, vice Lieutenant-Colonel Martin,
deceased ; Veterinary Surgeon Charles Brett, from 12th
Light Dragoons, to be Veterinary-Surgeon to the Cavalry
Depot at Maidstone, vice Black, deceased, Sept. 18.
HOSPITAL STAFF.—Surgeon Denis Murray, M.D., from
44th Foot, to be Staff Surgeon of the First Class, vice Charles
Quartley Palmer, who retires upon half-pay, Sept. 18.
MEMORANDI:3I.—The Christian names of Ensign M'Beath,
of the 25th Foot, are John Home.
WAR-OFFICE, SEPT. 18.
List of Non-commissioned Officers and Private Soldiers of
her Majesty's 10th Regiment of Foot, killed or died of
wounds, received in Action with the Enemy on the Sutlej.
William Anderson John M'Coy
Anthony Betts Samuel Mick
Robert Blaxter William Moore

George Bradley Frederick Norman
John Brady Thomas O'Connors
Terence Cleary John Oldnow
John Connors Michael Piggott
Edward Evans Thomas Pilkington ,
Patrick Fitzgibbon Richard Robinson
_ . _ .

John Gleesoii (Corporal) John Shepherd
W. H. Graham (Sergeant) William Smith
Henry Hartley Henry Starkie
George Hickson John Thompson
Thomas Kelly Hugh Thornton
Martin Kiely John Turner (Corporal)

Philip Kirby John Tyres
OFFICE OF ORDNANCE, SEPT. 16.

Royal Regiment of Artillery—Second Lieutenant Edward
Eldon Robert Dyneley, to be First Lieutenant, vice Mackie,
deceased, Aug. 4.
BANKRUPTS.

James Joseph Fryer, stockbroker, Birchin-lane, Cornhill, to
surrender Sept. 30, at one, and Nov. 5, at eleven, at the Court
of Bankruptcy. Groom, official assignee, Abchurch-lane,
Lombard-street ; Lindsay and Mason, Cateaton-street.
James Blunden, grocer, Basingstoke, Sept. 30, and Oct.
29, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Bell, official
assignee, Coleman-street-buildings ; Johnson, Son, and
Weatherall, King's Bench-walk, Temple.
John Hatcher, butcher, Poole, Oct. 7 and- Nov. 5, at
twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Edwards, official as-
signee, Frederick's-place, Old Jewry; Holme, Loftte, and
Young, New Inn, Strand ; Parr, Poole.
John Edward ampbell Koch, East India merchant, Win-
chester-street, City, Sept. 28, at twelve, and Oct. 30, at
eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Graham, official assig-
nee, Coleman-street, City ; Helleary's, Fenchurch-street.
Leopold Anton Victor Rudolphi, merchant, Sunderland,
Oct. 2, at eleven, and Oct. 30, at one, at the Newcastle-upon-
Tyne District Court. Wakley, official assignee, Newcastle-
upon-Tvne ; Cooper, Sunderland ; Loveland and Beckitt,
Lincoln's Inn-fields.
Thomas Barrow, shirt-maker, Manchester, Oct. 1 and 23,
at twelve, at the Manchester District Court. Hobson, official
assignee, Manchester ; Milne, Parry, Milne, and Morris,
Temple; Goulden, Manchester.
DIVIDENDS
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Oct. 16. C. Movie, linen draper, Whitechurch, Salop,
at twelve, at the Manchester District Court—Oct. 12. J.
Wilkinson, grocer, Manchester, at twelve, at the Manchester
District Court—Oct. 12. R. Priestly, grocer, Manchester, at
twelve, at the Manchester District Court.
CERTIFICATES.
i ortcruNpetwcyp,LO Isle of Wight, at
London.—Oct. 13. G.
Broad-street, Golden- square, at
twelve,B. .adl2savr.t
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tint neockfaerefaenur,
eleven, at the Court of Bankruptry.—Oct. 12. W. Kennett
and J. H. Reynolds, tallow-chandlers, Lamb-street, Spital-
fields, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy.—Oct. 12. G.
Sex, livery-stablekeeper, Stone-cutter-street, Farringdon-
street, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy.—Oct. 9. J.
W. Ellis, warehouseman, Lawrence-lane, Cheapside, at
eleven, at the Court of 13ankruptcy.-OA. 13. R. Knight
and A. Knight, jun., stationers, Budge-row, at two, at the
Court of Bankruptcy.—Oct. 13. C. M'Kinnell, wine-mer-
chant, Fenchurch- street, at one, at the Court of Bank-
ruptcy.—Oct. 16. E. Brailsford, music-seller, Old Steine,
Brighton, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy.—Oct. 13.
T. Winfield, tea-dealer, Bristol, at twelve, at the Bristol
District Court.— Oct. 10. R. K. Frankish, builder, Scar-
borough, Yorkshire, at eleven, at the Leeds District Court.

WAR IN AFRICA.

The periodical intimations which the French receive
of the incompleteness of their Algerian conquest appear
likely to be given this autumn in a more forcible tone
than usual. At this season of the year Abd-el-Kader
ordinarily contrives to convince the world that he is nei-
ther dead nor disabled, and he now seems willing to
show that his recent retirement from the scene which
supplied the French with such materials for gratula-
tion has been turned to as good purpose as if he had
been sweeping the plains of Algiers at the head of a
hundred squadrons. From the information which we
have published during the last few days, it may be col-
lected that the Emperor of Morocco, so far from being in
a position to assist his French allies in securing or sub-
jugating their slippery foe, is actually in danger of being
supplanted in his authority by this indomitable chief ;
and that there is a probability that the resources of the
Moorish empire will be brought up in support of a ge-
neral rising throughout the very provinces which the
last French returns reported as either desolate or paci-
fied. Abd-el•Kader has two mighty engines at his ,
command by which he can raise the population of
the country. The French are obnoxious as invaders
and as infidels. They are considered as much in-
vaders at this moment as they were on their first
landing. Whatever fifteen years service may have
done in forming a formidable army, or in gaining glory
for the African Chasseurs, it has done nothing whatever
towards reconciling the Arab race to the contact of the
French. Nor is this in any degree surprising. It
would be difficult to point out any moral or social
benefit which the natives have derived from
the strangers. We do not mean to assert, that in
this particular they ever enjoyed such ample oppor-
tunities of doing good as were found and embraced by
the Company's servants in ilindostan. The equitable
and patriarchal rule, which has been discovered to exist
in full vigour throughout the Sahara, and up to the far-
thest known limits of the real Desert, honourably admi-
nistered as it appears to be, commended by its antiquity.
and admirably calculated or the habits and manners of
the people, is not likely to be easily superseded by the
Code Napoleon. The Arabs are not plundered by
their chiefs or impaled by their governors. Their li
extortions seem confined to strangers and trespas-
sers, with some occasional practice against a weaker
neighbour. It is very questionable whether much
of the civil polity of the French, either in form or
spirit, could be advantageously introduced amongst
the itinerant herdsmen of the Sahara, or the more
settled population of the Tell. But if the French
had not this opportunity of exhibiting themselves in the
character of protectors or legislators—if they were not
enabled to rescue the oppressed and helpless from the
rapacity and cruelty of tyrants, and to convey the ru-
diments of law and justice to a people who had never
experienced the blessings or heard the name of either—
yet they might at least have set en example of supe-
rior civilisation in mitigating the horrors of war, and
in rejecting the savage enormities of retaliation and
revenge which are reckoned among the virtues of bar-
barism. This they have not done. They have offered
to the natives nothing in the shape of example or in-
struction which might compensate for the hatefulness
of their presence. They will be remembered by nothing
but their razzias. They have spared no efforts, and
stopped at no sacrifices, to establish their supremacy in
the country, but without any ulterior object of humanity
or philanthropy which a native can comprehend. And
therefore, they are but invaders still. The Arabs can
see nothing but pollution in their presence, or expect
anything but indignity from their sway ; and at the first
call of a native chief they rush as eagerly to arms for
the expulsion of the hated stranger as they did on the
day when the first French legion set foot on the shores
of Africa. The other element of Abd-el-Kader's power,
as it is perhaps the stronger and more widely operative
of the two, so it is certainly one over which the French
have less control, and for the influence of which they
are less to blame. They cannot be said to have pro-
voked the religious jealousies of the people
by any too didactic exposition of their own
creed. They have not committed the ordinary
mistakes of a too zealous proselytism. Their policy
in this respect has been a vast deal more like that of
Napoleon in Egypt than that of ourselves in India.
There is no fear of any Vellore in Algeria. If we are
not deceived in our recollections of a statistical paper
concerning the affairs of this Mediterranean province,
iseued by authority some time ago, mosques were enu-
merated amongst the public buildings which had been
raised at the expense of France. But the blaze kindled
by Omar and Amru still burns with a fierceness
over its native and congenial sands which was
seldom found amongst the isolated and degene-
rate invaders of Ilindostan. Neither Mussulmans
nor Brahmins on the- banks of the Ganges ever
gave us so much trouble as the sincere fanaticism
of Morocco and Algiers is apparently preparing for the
French. Abd-el-Kader has but to point to the infidels,
and the holy war is raised in a moment from Tangier to
Boua, and his exasperated squadrons rush upon the
Christains with as much zest and zeal as ever Mahomet
commanded or Kaled taught. So powerful is this feeling
in the breasts of the Arabs and Moors that it appears
not unlikely to overwhelm the sentiments of loyalty
which attach the latter people to their Sovereign. A
Mussulman‘and a warrior who promises to lead them
against an infidel and a foe obtains in their eyes a popu-e
tar legitimacy, and a practical claim to homage, superior
to that due to a vacilating or inactive Emperor. They
would rather be Abd-el-Kader's soldiers than the Em-
peror's subjects ; and at this moment a powerful French
division is concentrated on the borders of Morocco in
the expectation that to their tasks will be added that of
interfering in the affairs of the empire, and combating
the resistance of a population which is passing en masse
to the ranks of their most formidable foe. Such is ap-
parently the programme for the ensuing season, and such
the price which France is paying for those advantages
and prospects of her Mediterranean settlement which
we explained a week ago.— Times.

OPENING OF THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS TO
BARRISTERS.—Hitherto no counsel had the privilege of
pleading at the bar of the Common Pleas except ser-
geants-at-law ; but an Act passed last session (9 and 10
Vict., c. 54), abolishes this exclusive privilege, and next
term juniors will have right of " audience.' This Act
is unusually concise. It runs thus :—" Whereas, it
would tend to the more equal distribution and to the
consequent dispatch of business in the superior Courts
of common law at Westminster, and would at the same
time be greatly for the benefit of the public, if the right
of barristers-at-law to practise, plead, and to be heard
extended equally to all the said Courts ; but by reason
of the exclusive privilege of sergeants-at-law to practise,
plead, and have audience in the Court of Common Pleas
at Westminster during term time, such object cannot be
effected without the authority of an Act of Parliament ;
be it therefore enacted, by the Queen's Most Excellent
Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the
Lords Spiritual and Temporal and Commons in this pre.
sent Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the
same, that from and after the passing of this Act all
barristers-at-law, according to their respective rank and
seniority, shall and may share and exercise equal rights
and privileges, of practising, pleading, and audience in
the said Court of Common Pleas at Westminster with
the said sergeants-at-law; and it shall be lawful for the
justices of the said court, or any three of them, of whom
the Lord Chief Justice of the said Court shall be one, to
make rules and orders, and to do all other things neces-
sary for giving effect to this enactment."
COMMONS INCLOSURE.—By the Act of Parliament
which came into force on the 26th ult., " to amend the
Act to facilitate the inclosure and improvement of Com-
mons," power is given to the commissioners to vary or
amend their provisional orders at any time before they
certify in their general annual report that the proposed
inclosure would be expedient to be made. By the 4th
section it is enacted, with respect to allotments for exer-
cise and recreation, "that where allotments for exercise
and recreation, or for the labouring poor, or for any
other public purpose, shall have been made the condition
of any provisional, or any supplemental provisional
order, it shall be lawful for the commissioners, on the ap-
plication in writing of the valuer, at any time before
such valuer shall have made his award, under seal, to
allow au equal quantity of the land proposed to be in-
closed to be allotted for either or both of the purposes
aforesaid, or for any other public purpose in lieu of
that which may have been directed to have been al-
lotted by the original or any supplemental provisional
order." There are 15 sections in this Act to amend the
Act of last year.
A brutal assault was committed on Tuesday by a
paviour, named Simon, a man remarkable for his mus-
cular strength, on a woman named Brone, of whom he
had become amorous, but who had resisted all his so-
licitations. In the absence of the woman's husband
Simon entered her room, and on her still refasing to
yield to his wishes, gave her a violent kick in the abdo-
men, although in an advanced state of pregnancy. She
fell senseless to the ground, and in the course of the day
gave birth to a dead child. Some neighbours rushed in,
and notwithstanding the strength of Simon, succeeded in
overpowering him, and handing him into the custody of
the police. The medical men who attended the woman
in her delivery have given their opinion that the child
was killed by the kick given by the ruffianly assailant of
the mother.—Galignani. .
COMMITTAL OF A GAME-KEEPER FOR SHOOTING
A YOUNG WOMAN.—William Hayter, the game-keeper
of the Rev. Walter Radcliffe, of Warleigh, Devon, has
been committed for trial at the next Exeter Assizes,
charged with wilfully and maliciously wounding Marina
Hacker Hickes, a girl of sixteen years of age, by twice
shooting at her on the 4th of September last. The fol-
lowing extract from the report of the examination of
the prisoner, which appears in the Plymouth Journal,
will put the reader in possession of the facts of the
case :—The complainant was the daughter of a person
who rented land of the Rev. Walter Radcliffe, and he
occupies a portion of garden ground which abuts upon
a plantation. It appears that between this piece of
ground, so cultivated, and the plantation, there is no
fence of any description, and on the 4th of Sept. the
complainant thought it no harm to enter the plantation to
gather blackberries. She had ascended some distance
upon the incline, when the defendant made his appear-
ance, and called out to her in language of a very bad
description, and ordered her to start from that place.
The poor girl was somewhat surprised at such a saluta-
tion, and she endeavoured to make the best of her way
off from the place, and in her attempts to get away, the
defendant discharged one of the barrels of the gun at
her, and though fortunately it did not take effect, he
was not content with that. His intention was not to
frighten her merely, for when she got further down the
hill, he fired another barrel at her, and the consequence
was that two of the shots entered her person—one
entering her thigh and the other one of her fingers.
Fortunately for the defendant, the principal charge
entered a tree, near where the complainant was standing
at the time, and a very large number of shots were found
in that tree.
COMMENCEMENT OF THE JEWISH YEAR. —On
Monday next, the 21st inst., the year 5607 of the Jewish
' era begins.

NEW ZEALAND.

•There has just been issued in a printed form (pursuant
to an order of the House of Commons, dated 26th ult.),
a document containing further papers relative to the
affairs of New Zealand, and which were recently pre-
sented to Parliament by command of her Majesty.
The following are extracts therefrom, presenting the
most interesting and important portions of the cor-
respondence:

PROPOSED CHANGE IN THE CONSTITUTION.
COPY OF A DISPATCH FROM LIEUTENANT-GOVERNOR
GREY TO LORD STANLEY.

Government House, Auckland, Jan. 27.
My Lord,—There is one subject of much importance
to this colony, to which I am anxious to request your
Lordship's early attention ; this is the difficulty I forsee
that I shall experience in administering this govern
ment in such a manner as to satisfy her Majesty's
wishes, unless some chance is made in the constitution
of the colony. If, in the present state of New Zealand,
the framing and enacting of laws was left solely to
the Governor and his Executive Council, it is pos-
sible that the Governor, by having a steamer at his
disposal, and frequently making visits to every portion
of New Zealand, might administer the Government in
such a manner as to be satisfactory to her Majesty and
consonant with the interests of the colony. This, how-
ever, would be a very imperfect arrangement, wholly
dependent for success upon the energy and health of the
Governor.

I am, however, now quite satisfied that I shall find
great difficulty in carrying out the government of the
whole island with my legislative council, constituted as
it is at present.
New Zealand is divided into several settlements, sepa-
rated by long intervals, having, in some respects, interests
totally different from each other, and none of them ex-
ceeding the other so much in wealth and importance as
to possess preponderating influence and recognised su-
periority. _ _

Froni the very limited nature of the society in these
small settlements, I cannot hope to find in any one of
them gentlemen of such extended information and ac-
quaintance with the whole island, and of such large
views and forgetfulness of local interests and local
clamours, as to be able in all instances to legislate with
a view to promote the interests of these islands as a
whole, perhaps in some cases even to the apparent ee-
triment of their own peculiar settlement in which all
their fortune is embarked. Nor can lat present indulge
any hope of finding gentlemen in sufficiently affluent
,circumstances to abandon their hopes for the purpose of
repairing to another settlement to fulfil protracted
duties in the legislative council. Nor can I, referring
to the very imperfect means of communication which at
present exist, ever hope to be able to keep the inhabi-
tants of the distant settlements so sufficiently informed
upon the intended legislative measures of the Govern-
ment as to enable them to acquaint me with their views
and feelings with regard to such measures previously to
their being passed into a law.
I beg further to state, that I feel doubtful whether the
creation of municipal bodies, with extended powers of
passing bye-laws, will remove these evils. I fear that
this measure would rather increase them, and that the
municipal bodies, feeling that just grounds of complaint
existed regarding the imperfect mode in which the
legislative body discharged its duties, would endeavour
to usurp an authority and power which did not belong to
them, and neglecting their own duties, would busy
themselves with those properly belonging to the Legisla-
ture. I also feel satisfied that they would soon contract
large debts, the settlement of which would ultimately
prove very embarrassing to the Government.
Upon the whole, a simple mode or avoiding the diffi-
culties which exist in this respect, would be to create a
Lieutenant-Governorship in New Zealand.
The Governor-in-Chief and his Council would then
exercise supreme legislative jurisdiction in one portion
of the island, whilst, in another portion, the Lieutenant-
Governor, previously to assenting to any Bill passed by
his Council, would i❑ the usual manner transmit it to
the Governor-in-Chief, in order that he might decide
whether any amendment should be insisted on, as a
necessary condition on which alone the Lieutenant-
Governor should assent to the Bill. I think it would be
indispensable to the general welfare of the colony, that
uniformity of legislation upon subjects connected with
the aborigines, administration of public lands, and other
matters of general interest to the whole islands, should
be secured by some provision of this nature.
Undoubtedly some increased expenditure would, if this
course were adopted, have to be incurred for the creation
and maintenance of a separate Government establish-
ment, but I think that by judiciously curtailing that now
in existence, no very large additional expenditure would
be necessary, and the executive, as well as the legisla-
tive duties of the Government, would be so much more
efficiently performed, and the development of, the re-
sources of the colony would be so much more rapid, that
there is every reason to think that the whole colony
would, under the proposed arrangement, be able to de-
fray the whole of its expenditure at a much earlier
period than it could otherwise do ; so that an ultimate
saving would result to the British Treasury. Indeed I
feel quite satisfied that New Zealand will soon yield a
large revenue.
(Signed) G. GREY.
LETTERS FROM NATIVE CHIEFS; THEIR DESIRE FOR