The Sun.
London, England, 1851-10-14 00:00:00

TEXAS.

There seems to be a dreadful state of morals and
soci IA life upon the frontiers of Texas. The papers
just received from Galveston, San Antonio, and
Brownsville are filled with details of homicide, rob-
beries, and personal violence. The Indians are com-
mitting frigntful ravages on the Rio Bravo, and a
revolution is oa foot in Tamaulipas, aided by Texan
volunteers.

The following bloody duel at Brownsville, on the
7th inst ,is a specimen of the occurrences on the
frontiers :—" We have to record an unfortunate oc-
currence in our streets, which has produced - con-
siderable excitement. On Sunday evening, about
eight o'clock, a dispute arose between Mr. W. H.
Harrison, of this city, and 1141 r. G. W. Clarke, of
Point Isabel, which re-ulted in the instant death
of the latter. For some days past a serious mis-
understanding had existed between a brother of
Mr. Harrison and the deceased, which threatened
to end in a duel. On Sunday it seems to have
been stopped, or in some way abandoned, and
was regarded of little further importance. In the
evening, about eight o'clock, the parties met acci-
dentally at the Gem, and another contest sprung up
between the parties to this melancholy affair. A sort
of informal duel, with five-shooters, was proposed
and accepted on the instant in the street. They went
out, and at fifteen paces commenced the contest.
Both pistols missed fire in the first attempt ; the de-
cease& pistol missed a second time ; his antagonist fired
without effect, and again fired a second time, when
the deceased fell by a shot near the region of the
heart. Though comparatively a stranger among us,
he was buried on Monday, and his body attended to
the grave by a large and respectable body of citizens.
A warrant was issued for the arrest of Mr. Harrison,
but he passed into Mexico before it could be executed.
We learn that he will return in time to meet any in-
vestigation that the authorities may institute in the
case. The character and position of the parties con-
cerned render it a melancholy event. Mr. Clarke was
nearly forty years of age, and his antagonist several
years his junior."—lVew York Tribune.

THE RIVER PLATE.
(From the Journal du .Havre.)
By the Sirene, Captain Andoire, arrived at Bor-
deaux on Monday last, we have received news from
the River Plate to the 10th August (on which day
the Sirene left Monte Video), four days later than
that brought by the last packet. It contains the re-
cite! of an execrable deed, for which civilised nations
cannot find terms of reprobation too strong, perpetrated
by one of Oribe's generals. The following are the
facts :

On the Ist of August the national guards of
tb
Colonicede-
parture
had ventured to manifest their satisfactionom at
ed
of the troops of the garrison, commanded by
Lieutenant- General Moreno. At the same time they
took little pains to conceal the fact that the en try of
Generals Urquiza and Garzon into the Oriental terri-
tory-was not displeasing to them. Observing these
symptoms of the tendency of public opinion, the police
agents of Oribe hastened to inform Moreno, who was
then encamped six leagues from Colonia. As soon as
this officer had examined the reports of his spies he
returned with ail speed to Colonia, bringing with him
about 400 men and 200 horse, entered the town, and
gave the signal for a general massacre ; men, " sus-
pected" children fell under the knives of the cut-
throats. Moreno, to excite by his example the fury
of these assassins, with his own hands cut the throat
of a y2ang man named Napoleon Neves.
Fear incidents marked the progress of this scene
of carnage. These executioners, infuriated against
their victims, were seen to mutilate them, to rob
the corpses of their jewellery and earrings, and, not
satisfied with cutting off their fingers and noses, to
cut up their skins into strips to make ropes for their
cart harness. The refinement of cruelty which can-
nibals inflict upon their ptisoners has been fairly sur-
passed by a lieutenant of Oribe.
It is beyond a doubt that amongst the victims, the
precise number of whom had not been ascertained at
the departure of the last letters, was a Frenchman,
who had been a long time established in Colonia,
where he executed Daguerreotype portraits, and who
had always kept himself aloof from the political affairs
of the country. This unhappy man has been basely
massacred. At the moment when the cut-throats of
Moreno entered Colonia he was enjoying the amuse.
ment of fishing. Two of the wretches were expressly
detached from the troop to put an and to him, and a
few moments afterwards his mutilated corpse was
stretched upon the shore.

THE LONDON GAZETTE.
(THIS EVENING.)

LIVERPOOL, OCT. 9, 1851.
The Queen was this day pleased to confer the honour
of Knighthood upon John Bent, Esq., Mayor of Liver-
pool.
FOREIGN-OFFICE, OCT. 10.
anger C. has been pleased to approve of Mr. Alex.
--er O. T t ky as Consul at St. John's, New
Brun. ren.oiv...-
Ths:lakek, for his Majesty the King of Prussia.
...ceen has also b.,,Qn pleased to approve of Mr.
Salvatore Pisani at vof as Consul Malta for the Free Han-
seatic City , t.remen.
:giment
Ist R, • "AR-OFFICE OCT. 14.
Frederick Marshallt Dragoon' Guards—Lieutenant
Lieutenant, vine Bii, from 10th Light Dragoons, to be
,u,ivahr) retires, Oct. 14.
6th Draguon
Istilda—Assistant
Fenton Cameron, -Surgeon George
Surgeon, vice Carline •
a from 3d Foot, to be Assistant-
9th Light Dragon' ne4teased, Oct. 14.
Bailey Tuson, from
53a
Foot, Edward
vice Macpherson, promoted •t, to be Assistant-Surgeon,
11th Light Dragoons— fn the 59th Foot, Oct. 14.
from 72nd Foot, to be Sure%" John Mere, M.D ,
ghan, M.D., who retires on half. vice Patrick O'Calla.-
15th Light Dragoons—cor„tPE4y, Oct. 14.
Lieutenant, without Purchase,
vieodpwlatk4l Harnett to be
tires ; Cornet John Puget to he Lieutenant,eabara whh° "-
chase, Vice Donovan, appointed to the -3' Pur-
-Ist Drst
Guards, Oct. 14._gnu,
Coldstream Regimmt of Foot Guards—Second I,i
-- Eli
tenant George Lord Bingham, frcn:i the Rifle Brigade to
be Ensign and Lieutenant, by purcho.7e, vice Reeve,-
' pro-
moted, Oct. 14.
3d Foot—Assistant-Surgeon Dowell O'Reilly Chyton
M. 1)., from mu --Staff, to he Asstztent-Surgeon, 9;eo
Cameron, appointed to the 6111 Dragoon Guards, Oct. 14.
11 .:1 Foot Assistant- Surgeon Edward William