The Sun.
London, England, 1846-11-28 00:00:00

fitarnin 2411 t

LONDON, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1846.

Although the affairs of Portugal have undergone
many remarkable changes since we last commented
1113011 the civil dissensions of that country, there is still
nothineo: propitious in its condition. The peasantry
and civilians are kept in continual trepidation in con-
sequent u of the harassing uncertainty of the events
which a,r,e daily transpiring in their neighbourhood.
Business is of course temporarily suspended ; the
wine trail e especially is suffering from a most ruinous
interrupti 3n; the lives and properties of the tranquil
inhabitant% are deplorably jeopardized ; a panic has
spread thro ugho-at the whole of that portion of the
Peninsula. 'When we consider these calamitous facts,
and rememb 21tr that they have all originated in the ob-
stinacy and t he unconstitutional interference of Court
intriguers in the affairs of the Government, we cannot
regard those . intriguers without the utmost abhor-
rence, and ye am for the peaceful satisfaction of an
outraged pop: alace. It is preposterous for the Exe-
cutive to ism se indignant proclamations against the
insurgents a s lawless disturbers of public tran-
quillity. they are lawless disturbers, they

have been rendered such by the despotic
proceedings' of an unpopular Administration.
If public tranquillity is destroyed by their insurrec-
tionary movements, such is but the natural conse-
quence of the military coup d' itat by which the
Liberal Ministry was recently ousted. When the
political and social rights of a population are trifled
with, as they have been in Portugal, it is but reason-
able that the multitude should at length release itself
from the painful suppression of its wrath by affording
it some ebulition ; it is but reasonable that the per-
tinacious denial of a lenient Legislature should ulti-
mately arouse the indignation of the Portuguese; it is
but reasonable that the latter should endeavour to
wreak their vengeance upon those who have treated
the nation so contumeliously for such a protracted
period. Such must ever be the result of encroach-
ments of a like character in these days of enlighten-
ment and civilisation. In the blindness evinced by
those who would engraft oppressive principles upon
liberal institutions, like the constitutional monarchies
of southern and western Europe, an ignorance is dis-
cernable which almost amounts to idiotcy.
Governments actuated by such sentiments are fa-
bricated of brittle and perishable materials. In-
stead of building up their power upon the broad and
enduring basis of popular affection, they reverse the
pyramid ; they base their influence upon an unit,
not upon the million, and the structure thus erected
is incessantly trembling upon a precarious balance.
The existing Government is precisely of this un-
stable character, and it is this odious characteristic
which has caused the present insubordination. _

language. Had the philosopher sought his
materials in the elementary principles of
political economy, instead of in the elementary
principles of grammar, we think Ms aspirations
would have had a better chance of being realised.
He would most speedily have disseminated an uni-
versal language throughout the world by advocating
and carrying into operation the system of free trade.
Already this effect is, to a considerable extent, pro-
duced. Those who have lisped as children in the so-
norous tongue of LOPEZ DE VEGA, are on the advocacy of
the beneficent doctrines of free trade, enabled to com-
mune with one, who, as WORDSWORTH has nobly
sung, speaks to them " the language SHARSPERE
spake." They are enabled to commune with their
English guest, but their communion is that of the
heart.

From the very commencement of these outbreaks
we have discerned the moderation of the wishes of the
insurgents ; we have insisted upon the unrevo-
lutionary disposition of the popular chieftains ; we
have endeavoured to demonstrate what has been so
generally misapprehended, that Das ANTAS and his
colleagues are not striving to impair the authority of
their Sovereign, that they are not desirous of transform-
ing the throne of MARIA DA GLORIA into a presidential
chair, or of even transferring her diadem to another
brow. We have maintained that their object is
entirely compatible with the principles of right
government and the necessity for municipal obedience,
that they are solicitous to release themselves from an
irksome domination by expelling an Administration
which has been odiously forced upon them by
midnight machinations, by military interpositions,
and by Gallic intrigues. That such is actually the
disposition in which these disturbances have been
germinated is demonstrated by every successive indi-
cation of the views of the insurgent leaders. By the
latest intelligence that impression is corroborated in
a signal and decisive manner. According to very cre-
dible informers, we learn that Das ANTAS, in his
communications with the English officer who has
been dispatched to negotiate, if possible, a reconcilia-
tion between the belligerents, had entirely satisfied
Colonel WYLDE that their objeet was solely to bring
about a change of Ministers and measures, and not,
as was erroneously reported in several quarters, to
annul the fundamental doctrines upon which the
Portuguese constitution has been erected.
Circumstances, however, have recently altered very
materially the position of the insurgents, and the
probability of their ultimate success. Cazar, and SA
DA BANDEIRA have encountered each other at a
place called Murcia, in the vicinity of Chaves, on the
16th inst. It would appear that the forces being un-
equally matched in the first instance, and the
cowardly desertion of the :31 and 15th troops, under
the latter captain, to his opponent at the opening
of the battle having materially increased that
disproportion, the consequence was a sanguinary
struggle, the utter destruction of the army which had
marched from Oporto on the 31st of October, under
the banners of SA DA BANDEIRA, with the avowed
determination to annihilate the QUEEN'S soldiers, and
the almost solitary escape of the discomfited General
himself. On the 20th SA DA BANDEIRA is re-
ported to have re-entered Oporto in a boat from
Regoa, accompanied by a few dejected attendants,
and betraying in his travel-stained dress and hag-
gard appearance the extremity of his defeat and aban-
donment. SA DA BANDIERA is no XERXES even in
miniature, but his recent overthrow in the meadows
of Portugal is an instructive example cf the un-
certainty of military as well as of all mundane
affairs, even under the most:propitious circum-
stances. With the dispersion Ind massacres of his
forces, a fourth of the insurgllnt army is destroyed,
the division of 2,000 under Conde DE Bolurim,
CELESTINO, and the Conde DE MELLo ; and the
division of 4,000 under the Conde DAS ANTAS,
Dom JAIME, JOSE ESTEVAO, and the Conde DA
TAIRA, alone remaining to obstruct the movements
of the army commanded by SALDANHA and his
subordinate generals. From these considerations it
must be manifest that further demonstration is neces-
sary on the part of the citizens and peasantry, or the
revolution must be prematurely closed. In the
desertion, moreover, of the two regiments at Murqa
we may recognise the impossibility of placing any
reliance whatever upon the faith of the Portuguese
soldiers.

Those who can sympathise with an innocent people
in their hours of unwilling tumult and desolation sill
sympathise with the inhabitants of Portugal in their
present distress. They will discover in these insur-
rections the love of a nation for social discipline
and liberal institutions, and not, as the Marquis
DE SALDAIS 11A has said, " the most unfounded and
unheard-of rebellion which ever has existed." They
will look with intense anxiety for the realisation of
the best wishes of Das ArTAS, namely, for the re-
establishment of order, and happiness, and freedom,
and prosperity in a country so well calculated to be
the scene of so many blessings. Queen MARIA
might readily accomplish all these things by a
generous concession to the demands of her loyal but
abused people, by banishing a Ministry which has
been introduced to the official apartments at Lisbon,
from the effect of an illegal surprise, and the permission
of a foreign fraud. The blood of her subjects would
not then ensanguine that scroll of history upon which
the events of her reign will be inscribed in per-
petuity.

In the magnificent Casino of Cadiz RICHARD
COBDEN has again received the homage of the admi-

ration and respect of the enlightened Spaniards.
We are especially rejoiced at these repeated indi-
cations of the esteem with which the illustrious
Englishman is regarded in the Peninsula. It is
but just that in the country from which COLUMBUS
departed for the discovery of a new world, and con-
sequently for the incalculable extension of commerce;
it is but just that in that favoured country the
Columbus of Free-trade should be welcomed with en-
thusiasm. As the greatest of navigators enlarged the

The merchants of Cadiz, loyal subjects of the
Bourbon dynasty as they are, coupled with the toast,
"To QUEEN ISABELLA !" the toast "To QUEEN
VICTORIA !" the toast "To RICHARD COB-
DEN !" There is a Marquis amongst those who
are desirous of honouring the English merchant and
statesman ; there is a Count ; there are men distin-
guished by the antiquity of their blood, and others
for their peculiar intelligence ; there is the editor of a
newspaper ; there are traders and private citizens—
almost every class had its representative in the
Casino. And what was the nature of the
sentiment coupled with the name of Mr. COBDEN ?
It was this—" May Heaven prolong his life, so as to
enablo him to behold the complete triumph of his
sound doctrines throughout Europe as he has already
done in England !" When we listen to such an
aspiration as this coming from the lips of a Spaniard,
and responded to by the acclamations of a large body
of the most influential of his fellow-countrymen,
we believe we have substantial reasons for congratu-
lating the vast .and increasing multitude of free-
traders. Those who croaked so lugubriously over the
prospective downfal of the system of affording eman-
cipation to commerce, will, we conjecture, feel
some amazement at the readiness with which
other nations are inoculated with the principles of
that admirable system. _ _

opportunities for international mercantile transactions,

As we have already reported in The Sun the pro-
ceedings at this interesting banquet in Cadiz, it would
be superfluous to comment in any measure upon the
simple, eloquent, appropriate, and graceful re-
marks uttered thereat by the champion of free
trade. It would have been almost sufficient for
him to have pronounced that assurance that
"he had seen many trades perish beneath the
destructive shadow of protection, but none, on the
contrary, fail to be invigorated by the salubrious
breezes of freedom ;" it would have been almost suffi-
cient for him to have referred to that one year in
which Cadiz was blessed with a free port,
and during which it " enjoyed extraordinary pros-
perity ;" but the Hon. .Member for Stockport
could not forego the opportunity which the occasion
presented to him for enlarging upon the advantages
conferred upon a commercial country by the removal
of the detriments of intolerable impoits. Never was
sickness of body the cause of so much and such use.
ful activity of mind. Mr. COBDEN is proving him-
self to be a philanthropist not merely in theory, but
in practice.

The Suabian 21fercury, of the 22d, states that a
Garman merchant had arrived at Frankfort from
Cracow, where he had been some time established,
and does not intend to return to it, as he fears, from
the spirit of the people, that all German residents will
be in danger of losing their lives.

so has the Hon. Member for Stockport opened to his
trading countrymen a new world for their commer-

The Frankfort journals of the 21st state that the
Bourse of that city has recovered from the panic
caused by the news of the suppression of the inde-
pendence of Cracow.
The German Journal of Frankfurt states that the
last decree, relative to the peasantry in Russian Po-
land, has produced a sad impression. A Polish gen-
tleman near Warsaw, named Wouciu, has been
murdered by his serfs.
The marriage in person of the Duke and Duchess
DE BORDEAUX took place at Bruck, in Styria, on
the 16th. The royal couple made a present of
1,000 francs to the church, and gave 2,500 francs to
the poor.
The King of BAVARIA, in consideration of the pre-
sent high prices of provision; has made an increase
of 20 per cent. upon the salaries of all persons em-
ployed under the Government, and of the performers
and other persona engaged a% the Court theatre of
Munich.

The POPE has appointed Consuls for the principal
ports of Turkey, and his HOLINESS is about to send
an Ambassador to Constantinople to negotiate a
treaty for the purpose of securing to the Christian
subjects of the SULTAN the free exercise of their re-
ligion.

Madrid papers of the 19th have been received.

General FLORES arrived at Santander on the 11th,
and was to sail in the course of a few days with
his expedition against the Ecuador Republic. The
seizure of the Glenelg and the two steamers in the
Thames will probably, however, delay the departure
of the expedition.
The 19th being the QUEEN'S fete day the Madrid
Bolsa was closed.

We have received the Paris papers of Wednesday,
in all of which the conduct to be pursued by England
and France, in regard to the affair of Cracow, is the
subject of comment.
The Journal des Debats is on the whole well
pleased with the tone adopted by the English press,
and expresses a hope that Lord PALMERSTON may
yet be induced to join M. GUIZOT in a protest against
the usurpation of the three Northern Powers. This
is a matter of immense importance to M. GUIZOT
personally, for it is currently reported in the salons
of Paris, that in the event of England persisting in
her resolution of protesting singly, an immediate
change in the French Ministry will be the con-
sequence. This will perhaps account for the
energetic manner in which the French Ministerial
organ urges the necessity of a joint protest notwith-
standing its knowledge of the fact that Lord PAL-
MERSTON has already refused to make a joint protest,
and has, on behalf of England singly, already pro-
tested.

cial enterprise; he has removad the barriers of pre-
judice with which the industry and ingenuity of his
fellow-citizens had been hitherto restrained and
hampered ; and, more than this, he has divulged to
other countries the secret of enlarging the capacities,
of diminishing the corporeal privations, of abating the
social miseries, and of insuring the universal peace
and goodfellowship of mankind. His benevolent
policy has been more than patriotic, it has been cos-
mopolite. We have a sufficient testimony of this fact
in the eagerness with which his appearance
in other lands is welcomed, in the sympathy
with which his sentiments are responded to, in the
spontaneous gratulations with which he is loaded by
strangers, and strangers who are actually ignorant
of his language.
There is a deeper truthfulness in the indication of
the spirit of this civilised and advancing age afforded
by these [public entertainments to an English calico-
printer, and member of the British Parliament,
than is visible superficially. The truth avouched
at Paris, at Bordeaux, at Madrid, at Seville, at Cadiz,
that society is progressively attaining a moral eleva-
tion greater and more universal than it has ever
known before, is avouched, not so much by the giving
certain banquets, as by the enthusiasm there evinced,
not so much by the cordiality of the reception afforded
to a foreigner, as by the community of feeling mani-
fested among men who have been hitherto
separated from each other, and who are even
at the period of their meeting unacquainted with the
dialects in which they severally converse. It is
known that the immortal LiEnisiTz was engaged
during a considerable portion of his wonderful and '
able life in endeavouring to invent an universal t

On the question of the renewal of the
English alliance we find the following
in the Constitutionnel. It is the bill of
indictment of the constitutional Liberals against the
uste-milieu, and is curious as asserting that it was
M. GUlzor who, on the 12th of May, 1839, engaged
France in an "ultra-Egyptian policy," and who, by so
doing, is consequently responsible for " the untoward
events" of 1840—events, however, of the occurrence
of which he was not slow to take advantage to pro-
cure the downfal of a political rival, and to raise
himself to power. The Constitutionnel says—
" The Journal des Daats has been pleased to copy,
with its full approbation, a part of the article which we
published on Monday on the utility and possible gran-
deur of an alliance between France and England, sup-
posing this alliance to have for basis the defence in com-
mon of the Liberal cause, an intelligent appreciation of
the interest of the two countries, and reciprocal faith.
The Debuts insinuates, however, two things : first, that
the language which we employed on Monday was novel
for the Constitutionnel ; and, secondly, that the only
obstacle to the alliance of the two countries has hitherto
been the susceptibility of public opinion, unceasingly
kept alive by the clamour of the Opposition. We can-
not allow these two statements, so contrary to truth, to
pass unnoticed, notwithstanding the pacific and honeyed
tone adopted in asserting them. For the last four
years, on every occasion we have professed on this point
the same opinions, and we have not done so alone.
Several of the principal speakers of our party professed
the same views in the Chamber with all the force that
belongs to their language. But some merit existed both
for these orators and for us to so express ourselves in
favour of the English alliance, when we thereby added
to the strength of the Ministry which we opposed. The
Debuts, on the contrary, must permit us to tell it, that
to serve the Ministers in recommending as it did, this
alliance, must certainly have cost it little. It would
have been far more easy for us to excite the public feel-
ings, and the resentment of the country, to attack the
English alliance in an absolute manner, as well as the
Ministry, and to urge against the Cabinet all the anger
and all the prejudices of public opinion. The masses
understand but imperfectly the distinction, deep though
it be, that may exist between two modes of understand-
ing and practising the same alliance ; they wait, in order
to perceive it, the demonstration which results from
events alone. One must love one's country and the cause
which one defends far more than immediate success, to
have the courage to remain in the just measure, and not
to say more than truth. But, at present, events render
evident what was before contested, striking what was
obscure, and justify unfortunately our previsions and
our language. Every one, even to the most indifferent
and most prejudiced, begins to perceive the difference
b Aween in English alliance, barren, convenient, all

THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 28, 1846.

words, powerless in action, full of conflicts, hostile to
liberty, such as our pretended Conservatives desired to
form for us ; and an alliance, active, generous, liberal,
in conformity with the nature of things, which from
evil or pusillanimous sentiments they were unwilling
to realise, and which would have saved the liberty
of Europe from the grave check which it has just
experienced. The obstacle to the popularity and
duration of the English alliance does not, therefore,
proceed from the just complaints expressed by the
Opposition, but from the faults of the Government ; this
is superabundantly demonstrated by the facts which have
lately taken place. If, in 1836, the Government had
not refused to execute the quadruple treaty, and had not
thus from fear broken its word ; if, in 1839, on May 12,
it had not, when counselled by M. Guizot, engaged
France in an ultra-Egyptian policy, which they bad not
the courage to support to the end ; if they had not after-
wards offended the susceptibility of France by endea-
vouring to throw her into the arms of England, would
the alliance have been at a later period so unpopular and
so easily compromised ? What was since then the first
conflict ? The Right of Search. It was the Govern-
ment which spontaneously produced it, by signing,
without cause or necessity, the treaty of 1841, a con-
cession without dignity made the day after a check.
What was the second difficulty between France and
England ? The useless, onerous, and absurd conquest
of the Marquesas which the Ministry effected of its own
full accord and with ostentation. There were, however,
in these two questions, on the one side, the philanthropy
and Protestantism of England, and on the other, the
high bearing and irritability of France. Our Ministry
did not comprehend this it created, imagined, invented
these two causes of conflict, and during four years the
two nations have been on terms of dissent for these two
questions. In fine, after having brought Queen Victoria
to France, and taken the King of the French to West-
minster ; after a thousand sacrifices, a thousand em-
braces, which some great act accomplished in common for
the glory of the two nations or for the liberty of the
world could alone have justified, everything is broken up
and abandoned for a marriage, concluded, not with the
Queen of Spain, but with the Infanta, who, it is hoped,
will be removed from ever from the throne by the speedy
birth of heirs from Isabella. Then the affair of Cracow
bursts forth ; treaties are torn to pieces ; Europe is
profoundly shaken ; a generous nation pays with the last
independence
remnant of its for the faults committed by
our Government ; and it complains of the rupture of the
English alliance, of the speeches of the Opposition !
Was there ever seen a less sensible conduct and so
great an inconsistency ? Now, as four years back, with
new force and conviction, we say that there was some-
thing else to be done with the English alliance. We de-
sire that the two Governments may draw close together,
that the two nations may agree better and may compre-
hend what interests unite them, what sacred cause they
have to defend. We ourselves contribute towards the
restoration of this good intelligence. We know how
difficult is the realisation of these hopes. We received
yesterday from London the intelligence that the English
Cabinet has not accepted the proposition made to it by
M. de Jarnac, in the name of our Government, of a col-
lective protest, and that it persists in protesting by itself.
We regret it ; this isolation weakens our protest and its
own. We hope, however, from the wisdom of the two
countries, fur an approximation, useful to the common
greatness and to the Liberal cause."
The National taunts M. GUIZOT in the following
bitter terms with the consequences of his policy :
" England has hastened to protest energetically
against the destruction 'of Cracow. What has the Go-
vernment, which hangs as a burden over France, done?
Nothing. We have had two or three Ministerial articles
warmed up in a bainmarie ; Huninguen has been talked
of, and it has been said that neither the death of Poland
nor that of European right could ensue. But is there
any intention of acting? A Government which has the
disposal of the public force, which has the budget and
the army—a Government which confesses that it has
been set at defiance by the three Powers—is such a
Government to limit itself to words and signs?
It complains of the violation of treaties ; it
cannot deny that there is a menace in the
last act of despotism. How will it reply to it? It
has not even dared to protest. All that it has done up
to this moment has been to send instructions to Lou-
don to endeavour to conciliate Lord Palmerston. And
in order that nothing may be wanting in this humilia-
tion, its journal has for two days asked pardon, apolo-
gised, lowered its tone, and bowed its head to the
Whig Cabinet. Where, then, are the haughty it' i 074-
phateurs of the last fortnight? What has become of the
brilliant diplomatic success of M. Guizot? Where are
the proud phrases of the Government which passait outre,
and the contemptuous railleries against that England
which, it was said, would not long be sulky? All this
is now converted into entreaties and friendly- advances.
The Debuts, dissatisfied with its own style, borrows the
language of the Constitutionnel. The Enolish alliance!
Who has ever said anything against it? Who has ever
called Lord Palmerston an etourdi ? Who has denounced
him as a brand of discord, a torch of revolution? The
other day M. Thiers was a brouillon, to-day his ideas are
admired and his article copied."
After stating that it is evident that England will
not consent to a renewal of the alliance, save on con-
dition of a formal renunciation by the INFANTA, fur
herself and her children, of all right to the throne of
Spain, the article concludes in these words—
"ls it decided that this shall be done ? Will they
descend so low as this ? We are curious to know
this ; and if this abdication is to be made, it would be
as well to give some previous notice to at least
Dynastic France. As far as we are concerned in
this matter of abdication we frankly avow that this
is not the abdication we should have chosen."
We find the following in the Presse on the subject
of the affairs of La Plata :

TR E KAFIR WAR.

POWTOUTEI, DIURSDAY.—By the arrival of her
Majesty's ship Apollo, Captain Rideliffe, which came
up to Spithead this afternoon, we have files of Cape
papers and intelligence from that colony to the 7th of
October inclusive, being eighteen days later than those
last received.

Her dates are, Simon's Bay, October 7 ; St. Helena,
October 18; and Ascension, October 27; at which latter
place she stayed four days ; her passage is, therefore, a
most extraordinarily quick one.
She had brought home the following invalids and pas-
sengers and a large mail. From the Cape—Captain
Wilmot, R.A. ; Lieutenant Frye, R.A. ; the Hon. Mr.
Napier, R.E. ; and Mr. Deere. From St. Helena—Mr.
Gideon, merchant ; Mrs. Hornsby and three children ;
and Miss Wragge. From Ascension—Lieutenant Wake,
of the Styx steam-sloop, which vessel is very sickly ;
Mr. Pullen, master of the Flying Fish, 12, which vessel
had gone to the Bight of Benin ; Mr. Kelland, purser
of the same ship ; and Mr. Barr, Assistant-Surgeon
of the Tortoise ; and twenty-one invalided seamen and
marines from the squadrons on the Cape and Coast
stations.

At the above date the war with the Kafirs was still going
on, but it was rumoured that the Governor shortly con-
templated some [decisive measures for putting a period
to it.

The Kafirs had made several offers of capitulation, but
the Governor wanted his own terms complied with,
which were, that the insurgents should give up all their
arms and restore the cattle they had stolen. The Eng-
lish boundaries were also to be extended.

The Apollo landed the 17th Regiment at Algoa Bay
on the 17th of September, and they marched off to Gra-
ham's Town.

The Inflexible steam sloop, Commander Hoseason, ar-
rived at Table Bay on the 28th of September from Eng-
land, and, having landed her officers (Lieutenant 'Colonels
APKinson Montresor, Nicholls, and Napier, tied Majors
Stocks, Vhitenall, and O'Grady) and specie, went round
to Simon's Bay to refit prior to proceeding to New Zea-
land, to relieve the Driver.
The 90th Regiment were at Fihh River at the above
date. More troops were expected out from England.
The Conway, 26, Captain Kelly; the Samarang, 26,
Captain Sir Edward Belcher (senior officer); the In-
flexible steam-sloop, Commander Hoseason; the Thun-
derbolt steam-sloop, Commander Boyle. were in Simon's
Bay when the Apollo left, as was the French frigate La
Gloire, 60 guns, Captain Peter, refitting prior to sailing
to relieve the French Commodore in China.

The Larne, 18, Commander Brisbane, was the only
man-of-war at St. Helena, and she was on her way home.
St. Helena was healthy.
The Devastation steam sloop, bearing the broad pen-
dant of Commodore Sir Charles Hotham, K.C.B, Com-
mander-in-Chief on the coast of Africa (who had arrived
some ten days prior, and was refitting), and the Tortoise
store and guard-ship, Commander Morrell, were the only
men-of-war at Ascension (which island was very healthy)
when the Apollo left.

The Alajagascar Indiaman left Table Bay the day
after the Apollo left Simon's Bay, with the 31-. t Regi-
ment on board for England, and also left St. Helena a
day after the Apollo.

Colonel Hare had arrived in the Thunderbolt from
Waterloo Bay a day or two before the Apollo left.
The Helena, 16, Commander Sir Cornwallis Ricketts,
Bart., hod refitted and gone to the Mauritius. All well
on board.

Rear-Admiral Dacres, the Commander-in-Chief, was
expected from the Mauritius in the President, 50, flag-
ship, a few days after the Apollo sailed.
(From the South African Commercial Advertiser of
Oct. 3.)
" This morning a mail arrived from the head-quarters
of his Excellency the Governor, near Waterloo Bay, but
does not bring any official intimation as to the terms of
the dispatches received by his Excellency from Earl
Grey. It is confidently reported, however, that these con-
tain the most positive assurances of adequate support from
the home Government in any measure it may be thought
necessary to adopt for bringing the present contest with
the Kafirs to a satisfactory and final close.
" The Thunderbolt is said to bring round 15,0001. in
specie. Information has also been received from Colonel
Somerset, who, we stated last week, had moved along
the Keskamraa and Beka with a force of 1,200 men, for
the purpose of scouring the woody ravines which border
and branch up from those streams. This operation had,
it appears, been conducted with Colonel Somerset's usual
zeal and address, the results being, up to the date of
these alvices, the capture of 3,000 head of cattle and a
good many horses, with the loss of several men on the
part of the enemy. Colonel Somerset had sent for a ten
days' supply of biscuit, he being about to move forward
towards the mouth of the Buffalo, where it is said there
was a prospect of his falling in with the treacherous,
cruel chief Pato, it being affirmed that he was secreted
in the rugged bushy kloofs which characterise the loca-
lity in question. _ _

We received a report to-day that a few Kafirs had
been fallen in with by Messrs. Leppan and W. Wake-
field, on the Graham's Town road, about 20 miles this
side of Somerset. It was late at night when these Kafirs
were observed stealthily creeping along the road, upon
which Mr. Leppan fired, but deemed it prudent imme-
diately to retreat to the shelter of some waggons in the
rear. The next morning part of the face, with an eye,
of a man was found on the spot, from which it would
appear that one of the marauders must have been mor-
tally wounded, and carried off by his comrades. The
footmarks of two or tree other Kafirs were observed
near the spot.
" We regret to hear that, despite of all the exertions
of their field commandant, most of the Stellenbosch

Burgher force have, under the general order,' broken
up their encampment, and are on their way home. Waay
Platts, Mauley's Flat, and Fitchet's are entirely aban-
doned, but there are yet weak parties remaining at
Driver's-hill and at Fort Dacres. To the remonstrances
of their commandant, the men replied they had not been
supplied with food either for themselves or horses, and
were determined not to submit to such privations any
longer.

"Nearly official information, and which merits every
confidence, permits us to announce that the question of
La Plata may at present be considered as concluded. It
is already known that Mr. Hood's mission had not the
result that was expected, because M. Deffaudis refused
to accept the article of the treaty, according to which
the blockade of Buenos Ayres, the return of the Ar-
gentine troops on the territory of the confederation, and
the disarming of the foreigners at Monte Video, were to
take place immediately. This last obstacle to the re-
establishment of peace has just been removed by the
Minister of Foreign Affairs, who is about to order M.
Deffaudis to sign the treaty, such as it was proposed by
Mr. Hood on the part of France and England, and ac-
cepted by Rosas, Oribe, and the men of Monte Video."
Count ST. AM.= has received orders to leave
Paris immediately for London.
The Three per Cents. closed on the Paris Bourse on
the Five per Cents., 117 f. 45c. •, the
a; res, 1,227 f. 50c. ; Rouen, 870 f. ;
Northern, 637 f. 50c. ; Avignon, 86Sf.
HOWrael
vedarni
ss d6a3Rysafa.i
it;
roBGa2drf .e
Great
ssct
h.
75c. ; Vierzon, 571 f. 25c. ; Bordeaux, 547 f. 50c. ; Boulogne,
440 f. ; Troyes and Montereau, 340 f. ; Basle, 218 f. 75c. ; Paris
and Strasburg, 480 f. ; Tours and Nantes, 490 f. ; Paris and
Lyons, 503 f.
Cette.
03E7
47 75c.
; Lyons and Avignon, 492 f. 50c. ; Bor-
deaux and .sf. ; Spanish Domestic Debt, 325/s.
BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, NOVEMBER 26.
Boulogne and Amiens, 131/2—Bordeaux, Toulouse and Cette
(Mackenzie), 114—Ditto (Espelete), 34—Demerara, 4%_
Direct Bombay and Madras, %—Great Western Bengal, 14
—Jamaica South Midland Junction, I:%—Luxembourg,
—Namur and Liege, 3%—Northern of France Constituted,
10—Paris and Lyons Constituted, 4%—Rouen and Havre,
25%—Tours and Nantes Constituted, 4.

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.
(From Ths Sun of last Night.)
The sake of Cotton at Liverplol yesterday wore about
7,000 bales, including 6,300 American, at 51. to 6V. per
lb. ; 400 Surat, at 4d. to 4id. ; 200 Egyptian, at 70. to
Sid. ; and 50 Bahia, at 6d. per lb. Shares had been
rather cheaper, except in one or two cases.
The sale of railway shares, to-day, at Messrs.
Lamond and Co.'s, went off flat ; an indisposition to
buy existed. 'There was an absence of business among the
speculators. A great many shares quote downwards.
An average amount of business done, but at reduced
prices. The following are a few of the principal sales :
Great Southern of Madras £0 8 6
Great Western of Bengal 0 5 6
Armagh, Coleraine, and Portrush
Madrid and Valencia.
Shrewsbury and Herefordshire
Leicester and Birmingham
North Wales
Great Indian Peninsular
Taw Vale Extension and Dock . • 015 6
Oxford, Witney, and Cheltenham 0 10 0
Shrewsbury and Birmingham ... . 4 17 0
Madras
East Lincolnshire
Great Luxembourg
Goole and Doncaster 2 4 0
Shropshire Union and Canal
Leicester and Bedford
East Indian

The arrivals in the Thames continue large, and the
vessels bring ample supplies of necessaries and luxuries.
By way of Portsmouth we have late accounts from the
Cape of Good Hope. The date from Simon's Bay is
October 7th. The most recent advices obtained from
the frontier state that the British force had not
yet accomplished any particular advantage, although
the number of men, including farmers, under arms,
was full 10,000. It is asserted, on the other hand, that
the Kafirs, almost from the commencement of the war,
had been eminently successful. They had captured our
baggage in the outset, and but for a subsequent gallant
little " affair," in which the dragoons had the only op-
portunity yet afforded of showing their superiority at
close quarter fighting, the whole of the eastern province,
it is said, would, have been at the mercy of the Kafirs.
The absence of rain had sadly impeded our opera-
tions, and, therefore, it is highly gratifying to
remark that sufficient showers had fallen to-
wards the end of September to freshen the whole
country, and furnish pasturage and water for our troops
within a few weeks, the new grass not being considered
good until about a month um The colonists appear to
have too lightly estimated their foes, and the extreme
difficulty of the country, owing to its ruggedness and in-
tersection by streams occasionally swollen to a den
gerous extent, rendered it a toilsome undertaking to
victual a large force, but it is probable, from the sup-
plies of cash sent out, together with biscuit and
other articles of food, ammunition, and troops,
especially riflemen, we shall shortly be enabled to
teach the Kafirs a lesson of :respect, and at the same
time to indemnify our colonists for the immense losses
they have sustained. It is obvious that the natives
must not be allowed to retain the stolen cattle, or to
evade payment for them where they have been con-
sumed or destroyed; and as to the neutral territory, we
must maintain it as a barrier against the warlike and
impetuous tribes which constantly violate our territory.
In our remarks yesterday as to the modification of the
Lisbon financial decree, we should have stated that the
notes of the bank were to be estimated at the current
rate of the day in respect to all past transactions, all of
which were made upon a specie basis. The decree stands
good, however, for all bargains effected after its pro-
mulgation, and Bank of Lisbon notes must,
therefore, be taken at par, however small the
intrinsic value of them may be estimated, and which
we may suppose must continue unfavourable, seeing that
the Bank is well known to be in a weak position.
The public securities have been alvanced about cent.
to-day, Consols being 941 to 95 fog, Money. For the
15th January the rates have been 95 to 951, showing a
decided increase since yesterday in the rate of " con-
tinuation," and therefore renewed confidence among the
Bulls. The daily purchases for the Savings'-banks,
Annuities, &c., must, while continued, have a favourable
effect, and the only counteractins, influence will be in the
event of the rich corporations which hold largely, espe-
cially the insurance offices and banks, deeming it ad-
visable to sell out at any advance offering a fair profit.
Exchequer-bills are not higher at present than Bs. to
I ls. premium. Bank stock has been steady at 205 to
206. The New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cents. have
been 951 4, and the Three per Cents., 932 to 93i. East
India Stock is worth 2572.
The foreign securities have been very inactive again.
Portuguese Four per Cents. are somewhat firmer at 37 to
2; Spanish Three per Cents. are 371; Chilian Bonds have
been 53 to 54, and Brazilian 8.11 to 85 ; Russian Bonds
have been at 1114 ; Dutch Two-and-a Half per Cents. at
592 1; and Belgian Four-and-a-Half per Cents. at 95.
hares are nearly all rather higher to-day, and
Shrewsbury and Birmingham and other favourite scrips
more especially so. The French lines have participated
in the rally.

OITE CLOSING
PRICES OF BRITISH FUNDS. O'CLOCK. PRICES.
Bank Stock
3 per Cent. Reduced Ann 5........ 93%1/4% 93%
3 per Cent. Consols Annuities 9434 95 95
New 3% per Cent. Annuities 951/2% 95. A
Long Annuities to expire Jan.lB6o 9,f 15-16 9 15-16
Ditto 30 years, Jan. 5,1860.... 10 1-16 3-16 10 3-16
India Stock 257.1/i 256/2
South Sea Stock
Ditto Old Annuities
Ditto New Annuities
Consols for Opening, Jan. 15 99454 95
Exchequer Bills, 10001. 11,0.... 811 p 8 p
Ditto, 5001
Ditto, Small -- p 8 p

CLOSING
rnicEs
84

ONE
PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS. O'CLOCK
Brazilian Bonds
Chilian Bonds 6 per Cent Cent
Ditto Deferred
Portuguese Bonds, 4 per Cent .. 37
Ditto Account
Ditto 3 per Cent. —
Ditto, Account —
Russian Bonds ........... 1114
Ditto. Account
Dividends on the above payable in London.
French Renter, 4% per Cent —f. —c. 104 f. 50c,
Exchange —f. —c. 25f. 70c,
French Rentes, 3 per Cent.
Exchange —f. —c. 25f. 70c.
Belgian 4% per Cent
Dutch, 2% per Cent .
Ditto. 4 per Cent. Certificates 91%1/ % 91%
PRICES OF BUSINESS DONE CLOSING
RAILWAY SHARES PAID.
AT ONE O'CLOCK. PRICES.
Aberdeen
Amber., Nott., Boston,
and Eastern Junction 2% 2%
Armagh, Coleraine, and
Portrush l%
Belfast & County Down 4% —
Birmingham and Dudley 425. ...
Birmin. and Gleucester..loo
Ditto New 17% — .... ....
Birmingham and Ox-
ford Junction
Birkenhead, Lancashire,
and Cheshire Junc.... 2% —
Boston, Stamfd, & Birm. 225. —
Bristol and Exeter 75
Ditto, New
Bristol and Gloucester... 30 ......
Bristol and Liver. Junc.. 2%......
13uckinghamshire
Caledonian
Ditto Half Shares...... 212 2Vs ...
Cambrian & Grand June 42s
Chester and Holyhead... 27% 25
Churnet and Blythe 2
Chester and Manchester 425. —
Cheltenham and Oxford 2 ...... . .
Clydesdale Junction.. ... 20
Cork, Blackrock, and
Passages
Cork and Killarney ... 2% —
Cork and Waterford ... 11/2

............ ...
Cornwall
—'.. .............
Ditto, Half Shares
_ ..........
Cornwall & Cent'l Devon 2% _
..... ....
..
............
......
Direct Lincoln, Last Het-
ford,and Sheffd. June. 2%
Direct Northern - .......... . ... 2
Direct Norwich
...... ...............
Dublin and 13elfastJunc 12% .
Dublin, Belfast, and
Coleraine
Dublin and Galway...
...... .
Dundalk & Enniskillen 10
...... -
EasterttonNewCounties 141. 165....... 22%,,, 23
Di .......p
7 . 5
. 12/ 16s ....... 7%1/2 tA p
Ditto Perpetual, per
Cent, No. 1...••„ 61.135. 4d...
Ditto ditto, No. 2... 61. 13s. 4d... Do., York Extension.. 2 ...... 3%... .
EastDereh'm andNoech 1
Eastern Union ............ 35 .. ... 511
Ditto, Quarter Shares 834
Do. Exten.(Harwich) 17/8
Do., Ca ."'•'.'.. •..••
East Lancashire rib. and Ely.. 2% —
Ditto, New ......... 14
5 —"• 9% .
Do., do. (late Preston
and Ormskirk)... .. 2y2 --
East Lincolnshire
East & West of England 1% —
Edinburgh and Glasgow 50
Ditto Half Shares ... 10
Ditto, Quarter Shares 121 A ...... Edinburgh &Northern.. 12%
•••
Edinburgh and Perth... 3
Ely and Huntingdon ... 12t4 12/24 124
Enniskillen and Sligo ... 21/,, —
Exeter, Yeovil, & Dorset 54 3IA 3%
Glasgow, Kilmar.,&Ayr 50
Ditto, New .. 15 —
Do., 4 Shares (5 per
cent. guar.)
Glouc.,Aberystwith,and
Central of Wales 0i1...—. •• .
Goole, Doncaster, &c. .. 425.
Grand Union (Notting-
and Lynn -
Great Eastern &Western 2,,...... ........ ... ..
GreatGrimsby and Shef-
field
Great South. and West.
271/2 29% 28%
(Ireland)
Great Munster .. 2%.•.•••
_
3-4 .............. . 236
GG
rr
ee
aa
tt
NNoorrtthho of fESncgoi tal
na
dn c.:1.1 0
ITA .. ..2
Ditto New
5
Ditto, New .
••• '
Ditto, New
85
Great Wrn este
Ditto 1/2 Shares 5O
Ditto 4 Shares lO
Ditto Fifths
Ditto, New ••• 2
Huddersfield & blanches. 13
Ditto, Extension ...... 3
Hull and Selby SO
Ditto 14 Shares ...... 121
Do. Half Shares ...... 25
Ipswich & Bury St. Edm. 111/ l2l~/21A% 12%
Do., do., and Norwich 2% 2% '9/8 2l/2
lianclunec 0094419.., 50 -,

20/4

173/4
30