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Hoole 39 Lart .35
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Hayward (deputy) .... 170

Eaileton (depauty-) 169
Holt
Ridley
Ashurst 67
Rutter
Virtue
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Mr. Wheeltor;
FARRINGDON V
Bedford (deputy) ... 154
Williams

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Marriott 25
Foster 25
White 2l
*Casterton

WITHIN.—(I4.)
I *Morris 5B

LABLACHE AT HOME.

~T

There is a house in Paris, No. 14, Rue Taitbout, at
which, if you pay a visit between the hours of half-past,
five and six, the door is opened almost before you have
rung the bell, and a smiling, polite, Italian servant dis-
burthens you of your hat, your cloak, and your cane,
with a ready attentian, which plainly shows that your
visit will be a most welcome one. You traverse and
ante-chamber, a drawing-room, sumptuously furnished,
and then find yourself in a second room, where the
family and a few friends are waiting the announcement
of dinner. A magnificent Paul Veronese, lighted by a
jewellers
illume similar to those with which the Paris
illume their glittering displays, adorns the walls at the
end of the room. Opposite this picture, between the
windows, stands the famous cupboard, which contains
200,000 francs worth of snuffsboxes, of every shape, of
every country, of every epoch, in gold, in shell, in porce-
lain, in agate, in rare woods, embellished with diamonds,
rubies, emeralds, portraits, landscapes, and groups.
Each sovereign, each minister of state, or celebrated
personage, has contributed his box to this gigantic col-
lection. Ever since he came into the world, Lablache
has received no present, no souvenir, no new year's gilt,
under any 'other form but that of a snuff-box. And yet,
in all this collection, the handsomest and the most cull-
°us are those that have been bought by the great Nea-
politan himself at private sales, at which he is the most
constant frequenter, and the most formidable bidder.
His eldest daughter, who is very handsome and witty,
was first married to Bouchet, one of the best French
painters, and after his death she became the wife of
Thalberg, the first pianist in Europe. She performs the
honours of the house, whilst leer husband, standing in a
corner, torments his victims with his last calembourg.
Henri, Mulas, Dominique, Mdlles. Nanina • and
Mimi, and, -when lie is -glole---fd leave Landon;
Frederic with his wife and children, complete this hand-
some and numerous family. Cottereau, a charming
painter, and the greatest inventor of paradoxes in the
world; the poet, Giannone; Accursi, the most intimate
friend of poor Donizetti; Garofolini, an amiable and dis-
tinguished professor; Doctor Marcrecelli, the brother of
the unfortunate companion of Pellico, and two or three
others—such are the ordinary guests of the illustrisus
basso. They talk, they laugh, and discuss every imagi-
nary subject, except music. From a fastidious feeling of
delicacy the words, music, singing, theatre, are excluded
from their vocabulary by the master of the house and
his family. As to Madame Lablache, she is everywhere
and nowhere. Active, indefatigable, she sees that the
dinners and other substantial repasts are properly served,
she receives the bulletins from the theatre, she gives a
shake of the hand to the guests, orders to the servants,
and advice to the cook. Half Lablache's successes must
be attributed to this excellent persoa. Give to Bartholo,
to Geronimo, to Lepordlo, an ill-tempered and cross-
grained wife, and Rosini, Cimarcsa, and Mozart would
still wait for an interpreter for their exquisite music.
The husband ofXantippe would have made but a sorry
singer.

But six o'clock has struck, and the Amphitryon alone
is missing. All at once the-well known sonorous thun-
dering voice is heard on the stairs. He, has but said
" Merci," to the porter who gave him his' journals and
letters, but the cannon at the Envalides does not produce
a greater explosion. Lablache..is received with noisy
and sincere acclamations of pleasure. He enters, with-
out seeing or hearing anything, with his hat on, and a
smiling countenance. He is lost in ;eestacy. • The
pockets of his paletot arc so inflated that he looks three
times his natural size. Each time his hand dives into
these depths he draws forth a statuette, a cup, a Chinese
ornament, a medal, a shell, or Mlle rare or curious
article, that he has just bought at the Hotel Bullion, or in
the Rue des Flaneurs.

Dinner is then announced, and Lablache tears himself
from the contemplation of his acquisitions, for the maca-
roni will not wait.

It is at Lablache's house only that genuine macaroni
is to be met with. Everywhere else it is spurious.
There it may be had at any hour of the day. From
morning till night there is an unceasing consumption
of macaroni, and often has the unfortunate cook, who,
like the ancient vestal, never extinguishes his fires, to
melt, butter and scrape Parmesan at four o'clock in the
morning after the return from a ball.
Nothing can be more cheerful, more animated, than a
dinner at Lablache's table. This cosmopolite artist, who
has seen so many countries, known so many illustrious
personages, who speaks or understands. so many lan-
guages, relates, when thus amongst intimate- friends,
such a number of amusing anecdotes and singular his-
tories, as would make the fortune of twenty newspaper
editors. From the time, when extended on his back, he
made the Marionettes of Saint Carmo perform their va-
rious antics, until the present, when Sovereigns and Em-
perors tap him familiarly on the shoulder, what a host of
events and reminiscences has he stored up! One can
never weary of listening to him.
Durino• descent a few more uabitufis Aron in and then
measure. At times the stentorian voice of ialtniacne
heard thundering above the din. At last, during a mo-
ment's pause, Cottereau takes the opportunity of ask-
ing Lablache what is the best remedy for a cold. " The
best remedy for a cold," he replies, " is this.. ....One
day I was at Vienna, there was a concert at Court. At
the moment when I approached the piano, I was seized
with such terrible hoarseness that not only I could not
sing a note, but I could scarcely speak a word. The
King of Naples, old Ferdinand, who had always ex-
pressed great affection for me, kindly approached, and,
taking me aside, said, Will you cure yourself imme-
diately?'
" Please Heaven, Sire !'
"‘ I have an infallible remedy against colds.'
" Save me, then, your Majesty.'
" ' Listen to me attentively.'
"' I am all attention.'
" You will take a large black raddish—you know
what a reddish is ?'

*Phillips .
M`Laughlen 53
Blake
Hartley 4l
*Humphries
*Young 32
Wheelton

has resigned.
TITHOUT.—(I6).
Burn
Obbard (deputy) 124

Anderton
Buckmaster
Taylor
Lynch
Isherwood ••••• • 129 *Walter . lO6
*Lies
LIME-STREET WARD.
The annual election of Common Councilmen for this
ward was presided over by Mr. Alderman Farebrother,
and although two vacancies occurred by the retirement
of Mr. Deputy Mitchell and Mr. Robert Corser, no
degree of popular feeling was in the least manifested
either on the otherwise prevailing subject of the disa-
greement of the two City estates of aldermen and com-
moners, or in the election of the successors to the two
former representatives of this ward. Mr. Daniel Cork
and Mr. Thomas Bridge Simpson were re-elected, and
Mr. Symonds and Mr. Tanner were quietly returned to
supply the vacancies.
PORTSOKEN.—(B.)
Wright (deputy)
59

_
Killhy _ _
65
Christie
Parker
62 Jutsum

"I know nothing better, Sire,'
" You will have it cut into thin equal slices."
" Very Good, Sire.'

The polls will finally clos
Those marked thus * are

" You will take care afterwards to powder it well with
sugar, and you will leave it during an hour or two, in
order that that sort of white liquid which exists in ra-
dishes may be entirely extracted.'
" Certainly, Sire.'
" Then you will drink a spoonful on going to bed,
and another when you wake to-morrow morning.'
" And then ? '
"And then, that is all ; it is an immediate and com-
plete cure.'

"6 I very humbly thank your Molest):
"'Have you well understood everything ?'
" ' Perfectly, Sire.'
" That will do !
and ou revoir.'

take care of yourself

" Two days after I sang at the theatre the Marriage
Secret.' I never felt in better voice, and was never re-
ceived with more indulgence by the audience, King Fer-
dinand being the foremost to applaud me. Between the
acts his Majesty sent for me.
" ' Well, what did I tell you?' cried the King, in a
triumphant tone ; Did you follow my prescription?'
" Yes, Sire,' murmured I, blushing in spite of
myself, I never could tell a lie in my life. The truth is,
that not having great confidence in his Majesty's specific,
I had thought no more about it after leaving the palace.
" A. h,' said the King, who apparently laid great store
by his cure ; and let us hear how you set about it ?'
But, Sire . . . . I first sent for a radish.'
" Well!'
6" I cut it in slices.'
" Very good.'
it
The
" `;Then, I put pepper, salt, oil, and vinegar, and eat
it as a salad.'

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""------ MICHAEL SAWARD, Secretary
------

WFORTESCUE lIOTEL, BARNSTAPLE, DEVON.
..C°RY, in returning thanks for the liberal
r4ranv . support he has received whilst conducting the above
Dtiblt;' "I'd commercial Hotel, begs to apprise his friends and the
solieit.generally that he has renewed his lease on it, and respectfully
solicits a continuance of their esteemed patronage and support.
—.........ftaP1e, Dec. 21,1846.

REMARKABLE CASE of RESTORATION.
the 4el
A striking instance of the power of scientific art to Terl eldly
ar, gentle"' of nature has lately occurred in the case of a Mr.l . ,Is,
emanresiding Wortham, in Norfolk, who, in the year 1842,
returningsi from If arlestone Market to Wey bred, where he then Fe-
yiisustained so severe a fall from his horse, as to bring on an ill-
" several months' duration, during which period his hair con-
bar .itchme off, till he became, to use his own terms, " asrperfectl
then --, is head had been shaved and the Rev. J. L. Daniel,
1141 e'ergYman of the parish, offered him a wig as a substitu e or
ost hair. Under these circumstances, he was induced to try the
to ~ct,,ef LOWLAND'S MACASSAR OIL, and it is highly gratifying
with the most happy results. As coon as part of a bottle was
tiTetthe growth recommenced, and he has new to borist of a very
Mat' ttici luxuriant head of hair, which prssents this peculiaritylr,
th ;p°4ll prior to losing his hair it evinced no tendency to cut ,
foreits-7 growth is curly and strong. This fact speaks too strongly
_e_f to require observation.—Bell's Messenger.
piaIy;WLAND'S MACASSAR OIL preserves and reproduces the
1/.4 , Prevents it from falling off or turning Grey ; Changes Grey
Hair to Its Original Colour ; frees it from Scurf and Dandriff, and
r It beauthully soft and curly.
bt.,..l3evvare of "spurious compounds" under the title of " MA-
e_AR OIL," some under the "implied" sanction of Royalty and
,T,,Yernment Departments, with similar attempts at deception.
MACAS'S kit OIL is sold by the proprietors, at 20,
e I.OIT-GAIMEIT ,LONDON, and all respectable Chemists and
mu:am.

" ' Farceur!' cried the King, bursting out laughing,
' You merit that I should not give you this pretty snuff-
box that I had intended for you.'
" ' Oh ! Sire.'
" ' Take it, you rogue; and try in future not to laugh
at the doctors.' "

After dinner, when he has no other engagement, La-
blache's greatest enjoyment is his rubber of whist. If
MM. Rothschild, Hopp, and Delmare, if the public—the
richest and most egotistical of all these millionaires—
could hear the heavy sigh he heaves when obliged to go
out, they would not have the heart to draw him from his
family circle and his whist.
Like all the great artists, at certain intervals Lablache
is seized with the mania of solitude and retirement. He
has built a magnificent villa on Mont Pausilipe, where,
he says, he will finish his days in peace. This villa oc
cupies all his thoughts, and at last he obtained leave of
absence for three months in order to go and visit his
laurels and orange trees. He arrives there with immense
delight. The first week he finds his Paradise rather
monotonous; the second he ennuyes himself; the third,
he discovers that he does so; and the fourth, he speaks
of it to his wife. This Paris life, which does not render
him happy, but which prevents any other from doing so,
when seen from a distance, inspires him with involuntary
regret.

AI
7NTm.,aIIETIsiTEsR,AIDAENcC.
112E2S.T—BYResAteNrDdayLmEoErDn!
ing an accident occurred on the Manchester and Leeds
Railway of a very serious character, but fortunately no
lives were lost. It appears that when the frost gave Kay
some of the rocks through which a great portion of this
RA LCNCv AI DYE.
line is cut began to slip. During the night of Sunday a
large piece of stone slipped froth one of these cuttings
on to the line, near the mouth of
in
the tunnel at Ludden-
foot. About six o'clock themorning a luggage train,
travelling at full speed, came in contact with the rock,
which threw the engine and tender off the rails. The
concussion was very great, and three of the trucks were
broken, and the engine and tender much injured. At
the moment the concussion took place the stoker jumped
off the tender, and, falling on the rails, broke his leg.
No other injury was sustained. The road was blocked
up for some time, and the first up-train was detained up.
wards of two hours.
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her feet. She formerly. resided. at Corfu, and was treated by the
best practitioners there, from whom, however, she derived no benefit,
whatever ; when, after using five or six boxes and pots of Holloway.s
Pills and Ointment, a perfect. cure was effected. The truth of this
statement is so notorious in Malta, that the editor of the ":Malta
Mail" newspaper was induced to insert the particulars of the case in
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CAPE OF GOOD HOPE.

By the arrival of the Tartar, at Dover, from the
Cape of Good Hope, we have received papers from
thence to the 15th October, and from Graham's Town to
the 7th. They are five days later than the form( r ac-
counts. The following official dispatches, received from
Colonel Somerset, are from the:Cape Frontier Times:—
" Head-quarters, Camp near Fish River Mouth,
Ceded Territory, Oct. I.
" Colonel Somerset, with a detachment of the second
division, has been employed since the 16th of September
in scouring the country on the other side of the Kies-
kamma. The following extracts from dispatches re-
ceived from that officer report his proceedings :
" 'Near Chalumna River, Sept. 22.
" 'Sir,—l have the honour to acquaint you that during
the operations of the last two days, although the weather
was most inclement, my troops shot four of the enemy,
took four prisoners, 15 horses, 112 head of cattle, and
three guns, belonging to Seyolo's tribe.'
" Camp Goolah Heights, near the Buffalo,
24th September, 1846.
"' I have the honour to acquaint yen for the Com-
mander in Chief's information, that I fell in with the
Gaika cattle yesterday on the Buffalo, about six miles
elow Mount Coke, and captured 1,100 head of cattle
and thirty horses, and shot five of the enemy. Having.
had a long march and it being late I was _not able to do
more.' "

" Bridle Drift, Buffalo River, Sept. 29, 1846.

" Sir,—l have the honour to acquaint you, for the
information of his Excellency the Commander-in-Chief
that I moved from my camp on the Goolah on the
afternoon of the 27th instant (the moment the weather
moderated), with 750 men, and making a night march
-to the-Grahoon River, I established myselftrmidnight
in the midst of Umhala's tribe, without their having the
slightest intimation of my move. Lying perdu until day
dawn, I dispersed the troops in various directions, and
although the enemy drove off their cattle aed abandoned
their kraals with the utmost expedition, I pursued them
to the Gonuble-River, and by midday the troops had
secured 3,000 head of superior cattle, with a few horses.
Almost the whole of these cattle are superior colonial
cattle, with a moderate number of draught oxen. . .
" The enemy called out to us this morning that we
had now taken all their cattle, and they had nothing to
live upon. We have experienced very severe weather,
which much impeded my operations, but the troop% have
continued healthy.
" I must express my unqualified approbation of the
exertions of all the effacers and troops engaged in these
operations. Twenty-two of the enemy have fallen ; we
have had no casualty.—l have the honour to be, Sir,
your obedient servant,
(Signed) " H. SOMERSET, Colonel,
Corn. Division.
" Lieut.-Colonel Cloete, &c. &c.

" have directed Captain Tench, 45th Regi-
ment, whom his Excellency sent with a detachment to
my support, to recross the Keiskamma, and hold the drift
o❑ the opposite side till I cross with the cattle.' "

By the above it will be seen that Colonel Somerset is
still actively and successfully engaged in his operations
against the enemy. This officer seems to be always in
motion, and neither to take nor to require rest. . . .
It seems that the Amaponda chief Faku, whose move-
ments towards the colony had excited some apprehen-
sion, has returned home again without attempting to
take the colonial cattle which were depasturing on the
banks of the Bashee. He does not seem to have shown
any hostile ingredients towards Kreli, although he is re-
ported to have fallen upon some native tribes in the
neighbourhood of the Bashee, and robbed them of their
cattle. Major O'Reilly returned home this morning,
having spent the night in patrolling the country in the
neighbourhood of Driver's Hill. He reached Waay
Plaats at two o'clock Liu. this morning. He neither
saw any Kafirs, nor the indications of the presence of
Kafirs. Report sent in that about fifteen or twenty
Kafirs had been seen in the neighbourhood of Mr. Ma-
loney's residence, Howison's Poort. No aid could be
rendered from town to pursue these marauders.

CONFERENCE BETWEEN COL. JOHNSTONE
AND THE GAIKA. CHIEFS.
MONDAY.—lnformation reached town on Saturday
that the Gaika chiefs had refused to accede to the
terms submitted to them by Colonel Johnstone, on the
part of the Commander in-Chief. The meeting took
place on Thursday afternoon, the Ist inst. (not on the
30th ult., as stated in a former page), on the banks of the
Chumie River, near Black Drift, a message having been
previously sent to Macomo—who had made the over-
tures on the part of the Gaika chiefs—by Lieut.-Col.
Campbell, that Lieut,-Col. Johnstone would meet them
there. The chiefs present were Macomo, Sandilla, Dot-
man, Souto, and all Macomo's sons, one only excepted.
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excellent older, the barrels burnished and cleaned as it
expressly for.the occasion. Macomo looked ill, and very
weak, and was labouring under a severe attack of dy-
sentery. There was no difference in the appearance of
the other chiefs. Botman locked as fat and sleek as
ever. They did not seem to be humbled, but they all,
however, appeared heartily tired of the war. Besides
Colonel Johnstone, who conducted the negotiation,
Major Smith and several others were present, amongst
whom was the Rev. Mr. Calder wood (formerly Macomo's
missionary), not, however, as the bearer of dispatches, as
erroneously stated by a contemporary, or as a
Government agent, but at the special request of
his Excellency the Governor. Colonel Johnstone
informed the chiefs of the determination of the
Governor, which was in substance—that be did
not want war, and loved peace ; but that he was deter-
mined there should be an end to the outrages which
had for so long a period, in defiance of treatee, been
committed upon the colonists by the Kafirs, and which
the chiefs either would not: or could not restrain. That
he had taken possession, in the name of her Majesty, of
their country as far as the Kei River, which would
henceforth be the colonial boundary. That it was his
intention to locate the Fingoes and Hottentots, and such
Kafirs as had not joined in the war, in the ceded ter-
ritory, That such of the chiefs and their people who
agree to give up their arms, and restore, or assist in the
restoration, of the cattle stolen from the colony, would
be allowed to remain in the country between the Keis-
karnma nnd the Kei, not, however, as independent chiefs
or tribes, but as subjects of the British Government ;
and that those who refused to submit to these terms,
would be driven over the latter river, and the cattle
taken by force of arms. Macomo appeared evidently
inclined to accept these conditions, hut he was closely
watched by the other chiefs, who were not dis•
posed to submit except on their own terms—Macomo's
sons particularly—with whom, it is said, he has had
several quarrels lately—were determined to yield
nothing. Sandilla and Botman displayed a good deal of
hauteur, though there was an absence of that insolent
rudeness which had been usually exhibited at similar
meetings. They, as well as Macomo, were desirous of
being allowed to return to their former abodes, and, as
regarded the surrender of their arms and booty, Botman
s tid, in reference to the former, that such a demand was
uever made by one nation that conquered another—
their guns were their property, bought with their
money, and could not, therefore be demanded of
them. The cattle, he said, were dead—and what was
taken in war was taken, not again to be restored. The
chiefs were told, that whilst they were talking of peace,
their people were committing aggressions in the colony
in every direction. To this they replied in the old strain,
that those were thieves whom they could not restrain,
and who should be shot. Sandilla said they were de-
termined not to fight any more—that his people would
go on cultivating their gardens, and that the English
might come and kill them. They were then told that
having declined the Governor's terms. they had now
nothing to expect but war. The conference then broke
up, the Kafirs retiring to the Amatola mountains (from
whence they had come) in an orderly manner. Macomt,
it is supposed, will yet submit, and accept the terms
offered him, in which case the confederacy existing
between the Gaika chiefs will be materially weakened,
if not entirely broken up, he being regarded by the rest
as their principal head. Amongst the guns in the pos-
session of the Kafirs assembled on this occasion, we
understand several of the Cape Corps double-barrelled
guns were noticed, and several of them were mounted
on Cape Corps Horses. One Kafir was wrapped in a
cloak belonging to the Cape Corps. The women, it is
said, are cultivating patches of ground in every direction.
This should be at once stopped, if it be intended to
subjugate the Kafirs and bring the war to a spec dy con-
clusion. These women are described as being in a
wretched plight : some of them were seen burning the
hair off bits of skin, which they then pounded between
two stones and greedily devoured. Report says, also,
that the Kafirs are suffering very much from dysentery.
From Colonel Somerset's Camp we have the fol-
lowing :—" Colonel Somerset has captured about
3,300 head of cattle (amongst which are many fine
colonial) and 60 horses, and killed 22 Kafirs. The
Kafirs are so frightened that they won't stand. The
captured cattle belonging principally to Pete., Jan Tzat-
zoe, Umkye, and Umhala. The Kafirs have cultivated
all their gardens, which are locking very green, but Col.
Somerset told them they would not be allowed to reap
them. We have had a great deal of rain, and the coun-
try is looking very beautiful. We go out in patroles of
about 100 men, and take cattle in every direction. Lieut.
O'Reilly took 400 head yesterday, after exchanging a
few shots, and those at 150 to 200 yards distance, The
Kafirs will not face us any longer."
TlJESDAY.—Received a communication from the im
mediate frontier, from which the following extracts are
taken:—" Captain Sutton, with the Kat River Hotten-
tots, has been very active in patrolling the country be-
tween Eland's River Post and Fort Beaufort, and has
often accompanied the patroles himself. The week
before last they took from the Kafirs about 170 head of
cattle, some goats, a number of horsed, and several guns,
killing four Kafirs., Last week they again shot four
Kars, and took upwards of 60 head of cattle, some
sheep and goats. Last week Lieutenant-Colonel John-
stone, who succeeds Colonel Hare in command of the
2d division, met Sir Andreas Stockonstrow, at Blink-
water, to arrange plans for protecting the colony, and
future movements. Sir Andreas intends dividing the
Hottentots at present at Eland's Post, into several en-

PRICE SD.

comments, better, as he thinks, to protect the colony,
and also to get some melie, pumpkin, and other seeds
into the ground. Sir A. was to pr. teed to the
Tarks post, to make arrangements there for further
operations. He has been, it seems, caecting more
Dutch Burghers." Another letter states—"ln the
beginning of last week; the Kafir's cominenced firing
Phillipton; a very good house and carpenter's shop were
burnt down. Two days afterwards, a great blaze was
seen in the night, and the next day it proved to be the
chop], which has been totally destroyed. This will be
a greet loss to the London Missionary Society, and to
the Hottentots.' Unhas protected, no doubt all the
Ifliildings will be burnt, as-also thoSe of Balfour. The
Kafirs are no djubt doing this out of revenge for the
active part which Are Hottentots of the settlement have
from the beginning of the war taken against them.
Wool, —We have much pleasure in laying before our
readers a report of the London_Wool :sales held in the
month of July last, drawn up by,Messrs. W. Anderson,
:t'en., and Co., of ..-LtiridniTAhirrtirialf given to us for in-
sertion by their house here. This report gives good and
substantial reasons for the recent decline of prices in r ur
wools, and at the same time encourages us to hope that
the next sales (to take place in the month of Sept.) n.ay
show prices perhaps as high as those of the sales held
in the month of May last. It appears that at the close
of the sales a reaction took place in the prices, and it is
accounted for by " the amicable settlement of the Oregon
question; the passing of the Corn-law Bill; and a pros-
pect of the new Ministry carrying their liberal commer-
cial measures without dissolving the Parliament; and to
the improved tone of the Money Market; all of which
are calculated to stimulate and give energy to the home
and foreign trade of Great Britain." The report urges
(as Messrs. Anderson, Sen, and Co., have all along
urged), the necessity of attention being devoted by the
wool growers to improvement in the growth aid condi-
tion of their flocks, and assures us that " the home Go-
vernment are at length sensible of the policy and justice
of providing adequate protection hereafter" for life and
property cn the eastern borders of the colony.

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