The Sun.
London, England, 1842-09-19 00:00:00

HOP MARKET.

A good business done, but prices were still de-
pressed, the supply being large ; 90s. to 160 s. for new.

1V001: MARKET.

The public sales proceeded with fair spirit, and at
nearly the last sales' prices.

7a-- Les • " Port Natal, July 3, 1842.
•,sr, . rr--I have received your letter of this day's date, .-see.
.' Ilk ,1/4t,l Flo one can lament more titan 11
myself the melancholy LODGING-0113E SERVANTS.— IT—would frighten
7trii..9,pect before us of seeing. the savage engaged in a any servant but a real London Cinderella, to gn down
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onset of. extermination against you and your into the kitchen in a .morning, and see the work those
!!14t 1"W-eetintrymen ; but it is an evil so unavoidably little hands have to do. The rows of boots and shoes to
'el;tesequent upon the events which you and your unfor- clean—the candlesticks to rub bright—the dishes to wash
"-IttA et • ' e misguided people have brought about by your up—the pots and pans to scour—the rugs to shake—the
te eof determined hostility against her Majesty's Go- washing about of her own, all the week, although she is
1, t" le went and troops, that it ought not to surprise you ; always adoing. Then the number of times she goes in
4! I.,'s spite of all. my efforts to prevent, and my deter- and out in. a day—now off fir tea—then butter—next
a t'itt4"on to arrest, as far as in me lies, these excesses time for a chop--then
e a bottle of soda-water for the gen-
-, a ;yol. will have seen by my public notices of yesterday, tleman who had drank too much over night—again for
nieb. _I have sent to you), you must be perfectly well, the newspaper--a letter to the post-office—•a pair of shoes
"i are t-fsat beyond such positive prohibition, and the to mend—a bundle to be carried to the laundrese—a
''ll4, - 7.ireg e tuployed persons to explain my determination quartern of gin for the landlady. As she is ever taking
ii‘ll.ll7.e CaNres, I have no power over these people. down her little bonnet, which she never ties, and throw-
''"if have certainly required the Caffres to bring into my ing on the half shawl she never pins—then with the
111Itlennenes,all the horses and cattle they can get, so as latch-key in her hand, pointing her head twentydifferent
' k sable me to act with vigour, and put down the state ways—going—returning—then diving into the kitchen
!A.°,2, war- and bloodshed which you have spread over for a few , moments to do her work—then up again to
---ntki e districts ; and to expect that I should deprive my- answer the bell ; and never executing a single command
of the only means I possess of equipping myself, and of the lodgers' without being called into the parlour to
tj'4 toe, in the face of your having cut off the whole of tell the landlady what it was.—Godfrey Malvern. •
ap t gin Smith's cattle, to the amount of some 700 oxen, The General Steam Navigation Company's vessel
luixe.-4-. ies causing the destruction of his horses, and having the Ocean, Hest, from Rotterdam, arrived off the Cus-
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:si e• seized all the stores of those inhabitants who are tom-house yesterday, . with the Dutch mail ; also the
Pe' at eably disposed towards her Majesty's Government, John Bull, Corbin, and Hamburgh, arrived off the Tower
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: suppose me incapable of reasoning ana acting. this morning, with the Hamburgh mail.
lou have caused the horrors of this state of things, We have heard a report that it is in contemplation
ad you must bear the consequences to yourselves, your to stop half-pay from all officers while on leave from their
1) -11iperties, your wives, and your children.
Y regiments, except on medical certificate. We do not ere-
ou say you would still be disposed to avert the evils dit this report (which throughout the Service would be
l 4 f this Cowing bloodshed, which you are aware will lead regarded as oppressive), but merely mention that it is cur-
, exeestninetion. It' you are sincere in this, there can rent among men generally well informed on military to-
i •-t nothing degrading, in so great a cause as humanity,
~ pies.—Nueal and Military Gazette.
414, Your giving in your submission to her Majesty's
it tbority as an indispensable and preliminary step to al6th inst., with
the Marshes
STlLLER.—Experiments took place in
at oo mei, on
fe al '
„., adjustment, which you may be very certain the.
2:-,‘ eeernment has every disposition to settle with justice Captain Norton's concussion shells, in the presence of
Major-General Drummond, C. 8., Director-General of
• t. I leniency towards the emigrant farmers ; and in the Artillery, and a numerous field of Naval and Military
.
la v.Curable interpretation to your interests you will find officers. Twenty shells were fired at the wooden frame,
1! k 'yself a friend, rather than one inimical to your un- at a range offour hundred yards, ten from the
-eight-inch
inp,e countrymen.
gun, and ten from the thirty-two pounder. This was
to I rex-ret much that you should have allowed yourselves the trying test, and the result was highly favourable and
, lie et: grossly deceived with regard to the intentions perfectly conclusive.
"I,rethe :bang of Holland, by a person totally ietiaccredited,
.---The steam-ship Ant-
EXPEDITIOUS TRAVELLING
*//I.l7,t_thatshould have been urged to aot as you werpen, Captain Jackson, left Antwerp on Wednesday
'4l.'r ye, upon the vain supposition that any of ebe Eu- e
mternoon last at a quarter past one o'clock ; she got up
1,21; 'Can Powers' would lend an ear to any question to the St. Katherine's Wharf, Tower, before nine on
--,iiiie- between England and her coleny of the Cal te of
• Cr;sufficient es , end Hope, of which you cannot be so isnorant .4,s Thursday morning, and in time for a merchant
of Liverpool to leave London for that place by the ten
".te e to know that 1'0" Natal has always been a dee' o'clock train, so as to reach Liverpool that evening ; to
:.11'll'Vene•Y* use the gentleman's own words in writing after his arri-
• 4.- shalt be happy to lend my best efforts to arrest any
I ;ene.val rising, or partial acts of violence of the Zoolas Loal,rs`:ol--ceonaplishing the distance of 440 miles in thirty'
_st te Caefres ; but I feel my incapacity to do much in this
inspectN bile your people continue in arms against h A parajraph, originating,er Globe, has been goin s the round of the papers, stating
Majesty's authority, and thus lead these tribes to think in-
thethat the penalt%' for sportingl'
creased from t4wemey tofifty without a license was
we believe, with the
that whatever injury they do you must be pleasing to
Government.
—Worcester Relate: pounds. It is not correct.