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London, England, 1846-09-24 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONi)6N Pliu.n.sDAv EVENING, SEPTEMBER 24, 1846.

of banishment at Ghent. At London a fresh em-
barrassment is being germinated in the conclave of
Carlists, headed by the Count DE AIONTEMOLIN and
General CABRERA. Every imaginary ingredient
is accumulated in the cauldron calculated to render
the political mixture most deadly and pernicious.
While these antagonistic interests are being thus
simultaneously fostered, the arrangements for the
performance of that ceremony, the mere announce-
ment of which aroused all these conflicting passions,
are continued in active operation. The requisite, dis-
pensations from the Sovexeign Pontiff are reported, to
have arrived at Marseilles on the 14th inst Accord-
ing to the Clamor, apartments of a silonptuous cha-
racter are being prepared in the mansion of the
French Ambassador for the recer,tion of the Due DE
MONTPFI,'NSIER. According tri Galignani, packages
have -already passed through. Bayonne containing the
bridal ornaments and robe:3 of Queen ISABELLA and
tier sister. Every preparation worthy of the occa-
sion on which the Sovereign of SPAIN and one of the
richest heiresses in the world are to be espoused
appears to be making, both in the banquet-halls of
Madrid and the worksbays of Paris. Whatever may
be the secret emotions c..f the royal personages in the
Escurial and the TuilLries—no matter 'whether the
sentiments of the Orleans be those of exultation,
while the sentiments of the Bourbrins be those of
humiliation--their subordinates ate kept in as cheer-
ful and -active employment as though an ordinary
state 'procession were about to pace the cor-
ridors of the palace. Meanwhile the Spanish po-
pulation, with something akin to unanimity, are
chafing under the yoke: of their Afrancesado rulers,
and are not merely prepared, but desirous for some
catastrophe which may effectually and permanently
rid them from foreign interference, and preserve to
them their independence as a nation. A generous
and enlightened opposition is raised, moreover, within
the: Frencb. territories; and the English people gene-
rally are indignant at beholding even the semblance of
coercion, whether employed towards a couple of youth-
ful princesses, or to an indolent but still chivalrous
community. Precisely at this particular stage of
these proceedings curiosity is aroused and coejec-
tures are excited by two very suggestive pieces of in-
formation. One, that several police agents have been
dispatched to London, to reconnoitre the movements
of Don CARLOS the younger, and his associates—so
that sundry Parisian officers of surveillance
may have an opportunity of cooling their
heels on the iloor-steps of the Brunswick Hotel,
Hanover-sque:re, of becoming themselves objects of
espionage to the metropolitan police, or possibly
even of tieing ordered to " move on" as suspicious
characters. The other intelligence to which we have
already alluded as so suggestive, is, that directions

have been forwarded to Vice-Admiral Sir WILLIAM
PARKER, Commander-in-Chief of the Mediterranean
station, to remain on the cruising ground of the
squadron of evolution from the Tagus to Cadiz and
Gibraltar. Such are the principal external circum-
stances attendant upon the internal commotion of the
Peninsula.

Active measures are now being made to interfere
with the Ministerial arrangements relating to the
INFANTA'S marriage with a French Prince. Within
the Chamber of Deputies, on the 17th inst., notwith-
standing the decided objections of Senor IsTuarrz, the
protest of Don EriaiQuE was formally perused to the
representatives by the Secretary, M. NOUDAL. As a
fitting corollary to this interesting document, M.
PASTOR DIAL addressed the Chamber during nearly
an hour, enlarging upon the evils which the proposed
marriage of the INFANTA was calculated to call down
upon the Peninsula, and impressing upon the
Spanish Government the importance of the objection
raised by Great Britain. From these circumstances
it will be manifest that the friends of independence
and the lovers of nationality are not pas:ive even
vithin the purlieus of the Court, within the presence
of those official personages whose principles have been

contaminated by the Afrancesado influence, and
within the hearing of the obedient President of the

Council.

Spain must not degenerate into provincialism.
Spaniards must not dwindle down into a nation of
sycophants. Let them summon to their recollection
the hours of their glory and their greatness, when
their Government was dominant among the most
dominant Governments of Europe, when their
MUBILLOS, their SAAVEDRAS, and their SOLIS were
an evidence that the intellect of Spain was
no longer dormant; when the geographical discoveries
of COLON were a proof of Spanish enterprise; when
the progress of COETEZ was a testimony of Spanish
prowess ; when the crown of ISABELLA. was a symbol
of the generosity of the Spanish ruler; when the
councils of XIMENES attested the wisdom of Spanish

statesmen. Spaniards have arrived at a terrific ordeal,
but with courage and circumspection that ordeal may
be passed triumphantly.

The frequent instances, recently brought to light,
of the neglect, misconduct, violent treatment, and
positive inhumanity on the part of the police, call
aloud for unmitigated censure. If not daily, we are,
at the least, every week shocked by the most flagrant
examples of atrocious conduct on the part of members
of a body, instituted for the protection and comfort
of the public, but fast degenerating into a tyrannical
scourge, and becoming as imperious as they seem
wantonly to imagine they are almost irresponsible, both
from the vast number of their corps, and the absolute
necessity that exists for some such a force being kept
on foot for the protection of life and property. We
are not, we are persuaded, yielding to a delusion,
when we express our conviction, that the opinion
and outraged feelings of the country will soon
suffice to impose a salutary check upon the repeated
perpetration of deeds, which cover with merited odium
these pseudo-conservators of the public peace.
It is not above a fortnight since we felt ourselves
obliged to notice the barbarous treatment to which
the wife of a respectable tradesman, far advanced in
pregnancy, was inhumanly subjected by a policeman.
In the short time that has elapsed since we expa-
tiated upon this case, we find that a verdict of man-
slaughter has been returned against JAMES PRO-
BEAT, an officer, who recklessly deprived of life,
with a blow of his truncheon, REUBEN BUSBY,
whilst he was inoffensively enjoying a rural
file, held near Northleach, on the estate of Dynevor.
This poor man's life was sacrificed in consequence of
a stranger, somewhat inebriated, having refused to
pay for a glass which he chanced to break. The
landlord called in the police, and the officer in ques-
tion, when there was only a slight disturbance, and
no breach of the peace had been actually committed,
at once set about wielding his weapon in all direc-
tions with the fury of a wild beast, so as to produce
even a remonstrance from and excite the apprehen-
sions of the very landlord who had required his pre-
sence, and the result was that REUBEN BUSBY, quietly
seated at a table, received the fatal blow that hastily
summoned him to another world. We fear that such
frightful instances as this would not have occurred,
or certainly would have proved exceedingly rare, if the
magistrates generally had not unhappily evinced, as
they notoriously have, too marked a leaning
towards every idle statement concocted by the police
to cover their delinquencies. The sense of impunity
under which the police appear to act seems, like-
wise, to inoculate every 'person connected with
them. Thus, the solicitor, concerned to watch the
last-mentioned case on behalf of the constable, was
so persevering in attempting to fright the seat of
justice from its propriety, that the Coroner forced him
to leave the inquest-room.

The lengthened investigation that has been carried
on with reference to the murder of the policethan,
CLARKE, in June last, near Dagenham,has been brought
to a close. Nothing can well be more momentous
to the public than what has been elicited in the
course of this protracted inquiry. The police—and
one of them a sergeant—who gave evidence, are
charged generally with having combined to defeat
the ends of justice, and committed foul and wilful
perjury. The Coroner, in his remarks to the jury,
thus expressed himself:—

" With reference to the conduct of the police generally
in the case, there were no words strong enough in the
English language to express the disgust which must be
felt by all right-minded persons as to their conduct. He
applied his observations to those policemen who had been
guilty of the foul and heinous crime, to say the least of
it, of wilful and corrupt perjury. The unfortunate cir-
cumstance was, that these very men, the servants of the
public, had in the first instance been engaged in tracing
out the perpetrators of the deed and in forwarding the
ends of justice, and they had been the principal means
by which the ends of justice had been defeated. They
had bean engaged t 9 awertAill thy perpetrators of the

diabolical deed, and they had do. Ae everything in their
power to repress the truth. TAi consequence of these
circumstances the greatest d,i,f iiculty and mystery had
been thrown around the case.

Ain indictment will imme-
diately eafbuel
preferred
r disclosures! r
If-Ist these abettors of iniquity,
adign punishment will overtake
and we hope that co'
them. But this r
..ione will not satisfy the country.
.
True it is, that
in a incultar, '.bat we have just referred to develops,
'manner, the horrible depravity of the
constable 9 implicated in that particular transaction ;
but it is, unfortunately, but one powerful instance of
tt'ie detestable indifference to crimes of the highest
magnitude with which it is manifest the mind at large
of the police force is seriously impregnated. The
magistrates themselves, at length aroused to a sense
of danger to the public from the corrupt con-
tempt of these subordinate officers for justice,
mercy, and every good feeling, have constantly of
late denounced their proceedings in no very
measured terms. The magnitude, then, to which
this evil has now disseminated itself, calls for the
prompt attention of the Home Department; and we•
hope that Sir GEORGE GREY will speedily adopt
every necessary step towards restoring public confi-
dence, of which the police, as a body, have deprived
themselves, and without the enjoyment of which they
never can adequately discharge the important duties
they owe to society.
Our catalogue of complaint is swelled by the melan-
choly account of death in a station-house, which will
be found in another column. SARAII lIARMAN, tht
wife of a painter and glazier, subject to swimming if.
the head, went from her home, perfectly sober, on
Saturday night last, to fetch some beer for the
family supper. She staggered and fell, just as she was
served with a pint of beer by the publican. Because,
forsooth, she happened to be seized with illness in a
public-house, she was forthwith assumed to be in-
toxicated, and conveyed upon a stretcher by police-
men to the station-house, where the sergeant, consi-
dering her, we suppose, to be drunk, because she
was insensible, charged her on the police-sheet with
having been found drunk and incapable of taking care
of herself. She was then thrust into a cell and left.
Two hours after, and then only to make room for
another charge, the cell was accidentally visited, she
was taken out, medical aid sent for, and in twenty
minutes was a corpse—the surgeon having declared
his impression that intoxication had killed her.
At the inquest Mr. T. H. COOPER, surgeon to St.
Pancras workhouse, and who had opened tht
body, proved that a vessel in the head had
given way, and that from natural causes, and not
rom drunkenness, had the unfortunate woman ex-
pired. We pronounce the features of this case to be
absolutely revolting. The hard-hearted indifference,
the shameful neglect exhibited, renders it tantamount
to civil murder. All that appears to have fallen from
the Coroner was to recommend the police to be more
careful in such cases. had this poor creature been
taken to a hospital, instead of to a station-house, her
life might perhaps have been saved. We think the
police are bound to be constantly visiting, or to have
somebody continually present, with thoae who happen
to be in their custody in an insensible state ; nay,
further, that medical men should be specially ap-
pointed to attend in all cases where parties are
brought in deprived of their senses. If people are
in custody, the authorities should be taught that
power over the person gives them no warrant to
trifle with the lives of their prisoners. Even in cases
of drunkenness, how frequently may not life be sacri-
ficed from the want of a little humane attention ! It
seems, however, that any body who may happen to
be suddenly stricken with illness in a public-house at
night, runs the risk of being immured in a cell for
hours, and of being handed over a corpse to his rela
tives in the morning. We sicken at the thought
of such heartless unconcern respecting the
life of a fellow-creature. We solemnly protest
against the continuance of such unphilanthropic
arrangements, and we trust the people will quickly
and loudly demand reform in a body, where integrity
and benevolence are all but supplanted by corruption
and tyranny.

The Levant Mail has arrived, bringing intelligence
from Malta to the 15th, Athens to the 10th, and
Constantinople to the Gth inst. The Constantinople
journals contain an account of the successes of the
Pacha of BAGDAD against the chief of the hereditary
district of Ravendorz, who had refused to obey the
orders sent to him by the PAcuA.
We find in these journals letters from Erzeroum of
the 29th ult., which state that the cholera at Teheran
had in some degree subsided, but that it was making
great ravages at Kasvine, Zenginau, Koum, and
Cachan. The mortality at Teheran had been great,
but less than in 1835. Amongst the victims at Tehe-
ran, or in the camp of the StiAII, were the Minister
for Foreign Affairs, the Keeper of the Seals, the
Farache Bachi, IsmAIL KIIAN, and Mr. ROBERT
GLEAN, an attache of the British Embassy. It is
stated that the lion. Mr. WELLESLEY had been seri-
ously indisposed at Constantinople, but that he was
gradually recovering. Lord W. CLINTON had arrived
at Constantinople, to replace Lord NAPIER, attaché of
the British Embassy, who has been appointed in the
same capacity to replace at Naples Mr. C. A.
MURRAY, appointed Consul-General at Alexandria.

It is rumoured in Constantinople that serious dif-
ferences have arisen in the Cabinet between RESCHID
PACHA and RIZA PACHA, and that the latter appeared
to be the more powerful of the two.
The Athens papers are filled with accounts of acts
of brigandage and rapine, which M. COLETTI and
his colleagues appear either unable or unwilling to
prevent. Near Vrachori, 11. VALTINO, brother-in-
law of M. Z0T215, a Deputy, had been shot by a band
of ruffians; another band had stopped an old man
and his son, and after cutting off the old man's ears,
set the son at liberty, telling him to endeavour to
procure two thousand dollars for the ransom of his
father, and return with it, failing to do which they
declared that his father should be murdered. The
son having no means of raising this large sum,
the wretches kept their word by murdering their
prisoner.

The following is the resolution of the German Diet
on the question of the succession to the Duchies of
' Schleswig and Holstein :
" His Majesty the King of Denmark, Duke of Holstein
and Lauenburg, having made known by the declaration
of the 7th September, in reply to the petition addressed
to the Diet by the States of Holstein on the 3d August,
that he had never entertained an idea of attacking
the independence of the Duchy of Holstein, nor to
arbitrarily modify either its constitution, or the other
institutions which the custom or the laws of the
country had rendered sacred; his Majesty having, more-
over, given the assurance that his efforts to regulate
the order of succession of that Duchy had not for its ob-
ject to interfere with the legitimate rights of the Agnats;
in fine, the intention of maintaining intact the con-
stitutional right of petition of the states being mani-
festly expressed by his Majesty, the Upper Diet feels
confident that by deciding in a definite manner on the
questions in the letter patent of the Bth of July, his
Majesty will respect the rights of all, and particularly
those of the Confederation, the legitimate rights of the
Agnats, and those of the legal representation of the
country. While reserving to itself the right, as organ
of the Confederation, to avail itself in case of need of
its constitutionnl competence, the Diet declares that it
cannot see in the States of Holstein the legal represen-
tatives of the Federal State to that Assembly; their
mission should be confined to the defence of their
constitutional rights, and that the complaint of
those states on the subject of the changes made
in an illegal manner in their constitution, is not
well founded. On the other hand, the Diet considers
that the order transmitted by his Majesty to the Royal
Commissioner to the states, not to receive any more
petitions or remonstrances relative to the question of
succession, is not, when interpreted in an absolute man-
ner, in accordance with the literal meaning of the law of
May 28, 1831. 2. The Diet is pleased to render justice
to the sentiments of patriotism which on this occasion
have manifested themselves in Germany; but it, at the
same time, deplores the hateful accusations and provo-
cations which have been evinced. It expressed a hope
and confidence that the Federal Governments will apply
themselves to put an end to those !passionate agitations.
Neither does it doubt but that his Majesty the King of
Denmark will hasten to act in the same manner, with
the most entire reciprocity. 3. The Envoy of Denmark
is invited to make known this resolution to his Court."

Some disturbances took place at Schleswig on the
occasion of the visit of the King of DENMARK to that
town. About 2,000 men assembled in the square
before the Hotel de Ville, and, after cheering voci-
ferously the advocate BESELER, a member of the
States of the Duchy, and President of Neumunster,
who had declared himself against the union of the
Principality with Denmark, went to the residence of
the new governor of Schleswig-Holstein, named
SCHEEL, and gave him a charivari, which was repeated
before the houses of several of the Government
officers. Some disturbances followed these demon-
stratione, mid the windows of the bowie of a Dane,

who is said to have been guilty of various provoca.
Lions, were broken. After this exploit the crowd
began to disperse, when a detachment of dragoons
came and prevented the peace of the town from being
further interrupted.
The Grand Duke MICHAEL of Russia has been ap-
pointed by the Emperor of AUSTRIA. proprietor of the
Mazuchelli regiment of llungarian Infantry.
The Austrian Cabinet feels so much annoyed by
the strictures which have appeared in the German
journals on the revolutionary movement in Austrian
Galicia, that it has addressed a circular to the Ger-
man Governments, calling their attention to the dan-
gerous tendency of the German press. This circular
it is supposed, induce the Diet to consider a
general law on the press and the censorship.

Madrid papers to the 17th have arrived.
A report of the debate which took place in the
Chamber of Deputies on the occasion of the address
will be found in another column. The address on
the marriage of the INFANTA was not agreed to with
that unanimity which the Paris telegraphic dispatch,
published the day before yesterday, seemed to indi-
oate. The following was the actual dispatch received
by the French Government :
" The paragraph (of the address) relative to the Queen
was voted by 179 voices, the House being unanimous.
(h the paragraph relative to the Infanta, nineteen mem-
bers abstained from voting, and one voted against.
Total, 160, or 159 to one."
Somewhat different from the account which the
'rench Government thought fit to publish. Verily,
the French telegraphic system is in the strictest sense
of the term "au organised hypocrisy." As there is
only one Progressista Deputy, and only one Carlist
Deputy in the present Chamber, which was elected
under the bayonets of NARVAEZ, it follows that even
among the obsequious retainers of the Camarilla, of
whom, with two exceptions, the Chamber is exclu-
sively composed, there are at least eighteen who will
not follow their employers in degrading their country
to the position of a French province.
All the Opposition papers are regularly seized
every day, yet, notwithstanding every attempt that is
made to suppress the expression of the popular feel-
ing against the MONTPENSIER marriage, it is every
lay manifesting itself with increased intensity. The
military were actually employed to prevent persons
from signing the Madrid protest, notwithstanding
which it received upwards of 8,000 signatures. Gerona
Burgos, Corunna, Leon, and several other places,
have followed the example of Aladrid, and also pro-
tested. The following statement made by the Madrid
correspondent of one of the French papers, is most im-
portant :

" his cry generally believed that the Carlists and
Progressistas have laid aside their old differences, and
Cabrera has agreed to co-operate with Mendizabel for
placing the Crown on the head of the Count de Men-
temolin."

MADRID BOLSA, SEPT. 17.—The Three per Cents.
mlightly improved, being done at 36 for cash ; the
Four per Cents. at 22 ; the Five per Cents. at 221 ;
the Debt without Interest, at 6Z ; and the Coupons at 2i.

We have received the Paris Papers of Tuesday.
In reply to the taunting questions of the Journal des
Debats, whether the liberal opponents of the MONT-
PENSIER marriage would make common cause with
the Carlists in opposition to it, the Conqitutionnel
says " That the Ministerial journal
"Is evidently raving. The Opposition wishes Spain
to be free, tranquil, and independent, and that she should
proceed without any civil war iu the constitutional
line. Shotild civil war again break out in Spain—
should Count de Montemolin call his partisans to
arms—should Narvaez prepare to shoot the in-
surgents, and blood flow anew on the other side of the
Pyrenees, we certainly ought not to be held account-
able for those evils, whose real authors are the able ne-
gotiators who contrived to set Spain in a blaze by a mar-
riage which they planned, during three years, without
having the talent of bringing it to a favourable conclusion.
Why should the Opposition prevent that marriage ? We
regard as perfectly proper, that a young Prince, distin-
guished by his understanding and personal qualities,
should marry a Princess said to be charming,
and richly endowed ; and, if the two families
are agreed, why should we oppose it ? But you
have concluded the marriage so fortunately that you
have brought about a misunderstanding between Eng-
land and France, and that you excite the discontent of a
portion of Europe. That is your work, not ours. We
are mere spectators, and we will not quit our position.
It is in London and Madrid that your diplomatic
triumph is discussed; it is in London and Madrid that
you must contrive to inspire the satisfaction you ex-
perience. Convince the Spanish people of your liberal
intentions, and the English Cabinet of the loyalty of
your proceedings; reduce to silence by your arguments
the English press; that is the opposition you should
combat and convince."
The National thus describes the annoying effects
which the provoking silence of the English Cabinet
is producing at the Tuileries :
" The French Government courier who left Madrid on
the 18th instant, with the vote on the address in the
Cortes, brought dispatches which caused more uneasi-
ness than this vote caused pleasure. Those dispatches
announced that the entire population of Madrid was
strongly excited by bearing that an English fleet, com-
posed of eight ships of the tine, four frigates, and six
steam boats, armed as vessels of war, had anchored
in the Bay of Cadiz. The appearance of so
considerable a fleet in the Spanish waters had closely
followed the instructions addressed to Mr. Bulwer by
the British Government. These instructions had ar-
rived, in fact, on the morning of the 15th inst., at the
moment the squadron was entering the harbour. This
news produced so great a sensation that the Ministerial
journals hastened to announce that the British fleet would
only remain two days under the walls of Cadiz." " The
impression produced here," adds the National" was not
less serious. Every one begins to be convinced that the
opposition of the Whig Ministry will be more difficult
to disarm than was at first expected. A Privy Council
has been held at the Tuileries, and every mode is
anxiously sought in order to remove the ill-humour of
the English Cabinet. But the Whig Ministry ap-
pears to have adopted a provoking system. We wish
to speak, we speak much ; we would speak still more,
but conversation is refused to us. We have a strong
disposition to write. We write on every subject and to
everybody ; and we receive mere acknowledgments in
reply. It was believed that the Marquis of Nor-
manby returned expressly from Vichy to commence
a negotiation, but he is as cold as marble, and
mute as a statue. We would not desire better than
to renew the treaty of Utrecht, to prove that we aspire
to no exclusive advantage, and that the bait of 30,000,000
alone deranged our prudence. Our diplomatists at
London are commissioned to say so; they receive no
reply. A treaty of commerce is spoken of ; a smile
of disdain is the return. It is proposed to negotiate
on the affair ; and in reply we are told that the
affair must be first discussed at Madrid, and subse-
quently in Europe. From pure desperation it was
proposed to request the Duke de Broglie to set out
for London, in order to unravel the knotty point.
And at the same time it is proposed that the Prince
de Joinville and his squadron should proceed to the coast
of Spain. It was suggested at the same time to send the
Duke de Montpensier and his suite by sea, inasmuch as
Cabrera boasted to carry eff the bridegroom if he dared
to traverse the Basque provinces. Much apprehension
prevails, but the marriage will be consummated.
Nevertheless, the alarm which prevails at Court has had
its effect on the Bourse, and the funds have fallen.
At Madrid, much effect was created by a protest ad-
dressed to the Cortes by the Infante Don Enrique.
M. Salamanca received it, and handed it to the Presi-
dent. He demanded that it should be read publicly.
which was refused. At present we shall make but one
observation on this document. If the entire efforts of
this young man are to be confined to those complaints,
and to this protest, much too princely for our taste, it
would be puerile to occupy the public with it. If it be,
on the contrary, a just, circumspect, and legal pro-
ceeding, under which the Progresistas may see a deter
mined disposition on the part of the Infante to serve the
liberty, the independence, and the constitution of their
country, this document, in such case, might be regarded
as a fact of importance. Future events will teach what
importance is to be attached to this document."
The Due DE MONTPENSIER'S route to Madrid will
be determined by circumstances. Should the Car-
lists be in force in the Basque provinces and Cata-
lonia, he will go by sea to Valencia. The movements
of CABRERA and the Count DE MONTEMOLIN are in-
volved in obscurity. The Quotodienne says :—"We
believe that we are well warranted in stating that the
Count DE MONTEMOLIN crossed the frontier on the
15th. He is said to have gone towards the north of
Germany. His friends may be tranquil. He is in
faithful and courageous hands."
The Courrier Francais has the following :—" The
Ministry is thrown into great agitation by the flight
of CABRERA. and the Count DE MONTEMOLIN.
We learn that as soon as it was ascertained that the
two fugitives were arrived in England, it sent off to
London four agents of the secret police, who are to
communicate, day by day, accounts of their move-
ments. It is also hoped, at the same time, that by
means of orders rent to the commander of our naval
station the fugitives may be prevented' from landing
in Spain."

The Goverriment is very active in preventing
either Carlist ,ar Progressista refugees from entering
Spain. VILLA, REAL, BARGAZ, and CASA EGUIA
have been aritested at Bordeaux, and will be impri-
soned in the
astle of Blaye. It appears as if the
French Govern meat feared the affair might take a
serious turn, foz
the Ilioniteur publishes a royal ordi-
"nee; call% Ito active service 53,000 recruits of

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FATAL ACCIDENT ON TIIE RIVER.—This morning,
about two o'clock, as two men were going on board the
Bee steamer to sleep, in consequence of the rain pre-
venting them from going home, one of them fell over-
board, and his companion, John Matthews, jumped after
him in hopes of saving him, when he unfortunately lost
his life. The other man was saved. Matthews has
left a wife, far advanced in pregnancy, and three children.
NEW ZEALAND.—Extract of a Letter received at
Lloyd's :—Auckland, New Zealand, April 25.—" The
Governor and the squadron are still in the south, and
we have had no intelligence of their movements for
nearly two months. Report says that the troops have
been engaged with the natives in driving them off the
disputed land on the Hutt. In the north hostilities are
confined to the native tribes at war with each other.
Several engagements have taken place within thirty
miles of Auckland, and it behoves Government to watch
narrowly their movements. We have not by any means
a sufficient fOrce in the colony ; from 2,000 to 3,000
men will be required before the Government can ex-
ercise authority over the aboriginal inhabitants. The
colonists here are anxiously looking for reinforcements
from England." .

LOWESTOFT.—A large number of Dutch fishing-
boats came into our South Roads, preparatory to com-
mencing the herring fishing. They " wet" their nets
annually on the 21st of September.
We understand that the Solicitor-General, Mr.
Dundas, will be the new Judge, in the room of the late
Mr. Justice Williams.

The cellular van in which Joseph Henry was con-
veyed from Paris to Toulon,arrived at the bagne last
week. He was in such a state that he was unable to
move, and was obliged to be lifted out and carried in.
He is said to be subject to nervous attacks, under one of
which be was then suffering.—Paris Paper.
On Thursday last three large packages passed
through Bayonne, addressed to the French Ambassador
at Madrid. It was said that they contained the wedding
dresses of her Majesty.—Galignani,