The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-09-23 00:00:00

Salaries . .

• • .

General and incidental expenses
Office expenses, including rent, stationery, &c.
Balance in I►and

" Total . . r . . . £1,206,933

" The following is a Statement of the Earnings and Dis-
bursements of the Royal Mail Steam-packet Company from
January 1 to August 31, 1842 :

'"
RECEIPTS.

Payments from Government
Payments due on the 31st of August . ' .
Earnings in passage-money and freights . .
Estimated amount of passage-money and freight
received in the colonies to the 31st of August . 12,000
Due from Government for coals supplied, and
sundry amounts for freights, &c.

" Total
" EXPENDITURE.

. . . . 4214,296

Coals purchased 105,000
Less stock on hand ..... ; . 30,000

Coal sacks . . . . .
Stock in hand . . . .

4,148
. . 2,000

Depots and agencies, coaling, washing, pilotage,
and provisions purchased in the West Indies,
c.
Stores and supplies received from Government
Outfit of ships for first and second voyages, stores,
crews' wages, provisions, Six
Current wages due on ships at sea
Salaries
General and incidental expenses
Office expenses, including rent, stationery, adver-
tising and travelling

75,000

37,600
4,620
76,169
7,000
3,200
1,554
2,198

£209,489
Excess of earnings over disbursements . . . . 4,807

Total.

. £214,29G

Mr. Liggins first addressed the meeting, and said that as
the report contained matter the importance of which the
shoreholders could not appreciate at the moment, he should
deem it advisable to propose that a week's adjournment take
place, to give every shareholder an opportunity of investigat-
ing it with the view to deliberate discussion.
Mr. J. Montague seconded the proposition.
After a few remarks from the Chairman, who assented to
the proposition, again repeating the desire of the direction to
accord with the wishes of the meeting, this resolution was
put and unanimously carried.
A. long and desultory conversation followed, in which Mr.
Liggins, Dr. Bowring, Mr. Montague, the Chairman, the
Deputy-Chairman, 'Mr. Maynard, the solicitor to the com-
pany, and other siarebolLrs, took part. It chiefly con-
cerned the code of by-laws, which it was contended exhibited
many inconsistencies, and bore with much oppression on the
class of shareholders who held below five shares, containing
a provision stipulating their exclusion from all meetings.
In answer to questions put by shareholders,
The Chairman stated, that at present it was impossible to
tell with any accuracy the position in which the co npany
stood with respect to Messrs. Acraman, of Bristol. The
vessels were registered in the name of the company, and the
assignees had never attempted to dispute their right to them.
(This latter statement elicited loud expressions of applause.)
The meeting adjourned till Wednesday next at one
o'clock p.m.

CAPE OF GOOD HOPE.

(From the Times.)

It is a remarkable fact, connected with the disasters re-
cently encountered by the British troops in South Africa,
that the late ministry were distinctly forewarned by Sir B.
D'Urban, then Governor of the Cape of Good Hope, of the
consequences that would follow the orders given for the
change of boundary. This fully appears from the official
despatches of the ex-governor, published among the papers
relating to the Caffre war, laid before Parliament in 1837.
But the whole question is so little understood by the British
public that it may be useful previously to give some account
of the events which have led to the expatriation of the Boers,
and converted them from peaceful subjects and colonists into
the bitter enemies of the English. These they have them-
selves set fortli in a manifesto issued so far back as the 21st
of February last, and addressed to Sir George Napier, the
present Governor of the Cape of Good Hope.
Their dissatisfaction arose in the first instance, from
the losses to which they were subjected from the eman-
cipation of their slaves. They have complained also of
the absence of laws for their protection, from the evils
of uncontrolled vagrancy, and from the depredations of
the swarm of vagabonds with which the colony is infested,
but, above all, of the insecure state of the eastern frontier,
and the inadequate protection afforded them by the
English Government against the Caffres, by whose
incursion their best farms had been laid waste and
hundreds of them reduced to ruin. In their manifesto
they declare that the Government first gave them the
right of property in slaves, and afterwards deprived them of
it, promising them full compensation, but putting them off
with only one-third of the value to which they were entitled.
They charge the government with employing them without
remuneration in the defence of the frontier against the depre-
dations of the Caffres, and then denying them all compensa-
tion, on the ground that the boers, by their own encroach-
ments, had justly brought upon themselves the wrath of the
aborigines. The cause of all the evils, including that of in-
sufficient protection, they allege to be the absence of a repre-
sentative .government, _which ought in justice to have been
accorded them. Under all their sufferings, they say that they
have behaved most peacefully, that they have not taken up
arms, like the inhabitants of the Canadas, and that, having
sold off their farms at low prices, and even notified to the
government that they were going to leave its jurisdiction,
they were allowed to depart. After their departure they de-
clared their independence, made war and pesce on their own
account with the natives, negotiated for tracts of land and
took possession of. them, and all this time the colonial go-
vernment teither notified to them that they could not re-
lease themselves from their obligation as subjects, nor afford
them any assistance when' in danger from the native tribes.
The latter, on the contrary, were most befriended by the go-
vernment; as the export °fan:munition which were requisite to
the defence of the Boers was prOhibited. For these reasons
they declare that they cannot look upon themselves as rebels
against their lawful Government, and express a strong doubt
whether they would have been interfered with had they gone
into the heart of Africa. With respect to their designs upon
the Ceres, which were made the cause of military occupa-
tion by the Government forces, they state that their reasons
for removing them are founded on true philanthropy, since
hostility and bloodshed would be the inevitable consequence
if they allowed the Zoolahs and other nations to leave their
old.residences,.and take up their abode among them in large
numbers. Having become strong, they think the first act of
the natives would be to exterminate them, to keep possession
of their cattle. Hence their measures have been to ward off
such dangers in time. As to the government taking posses-
sion of the territory acquired, they declare that such territory
would then immediately become valueless to them, as they
would be in the same state of insecurity as before. They
say there is every reason to believe that the government only
sympathizes with the uncivilized native, and that they (the
Boers) might be butchered in their sleep, while the philan-
thropists of the day would invent accusations against the
Boers to excuse the aggressions of the natives.
The grievances of the farmers are thus pretty fully set
forthl the communication of Sir Benjamin D'Urban to
the then Secretary of State shows that they were known to
the government. He predicted an extensive abandonment of
Albany and Somerset, on the ground that the farmers had
considered themselves left without protection for several
years previous to the Caffre war in 1811, 'and that
they were much excited by the emancipation Act, but
still he said they remained in the hope of some remedy
of their grievances, and the war had the temporary
effect of allaying their discontent. The proclamation
annexing the country between the Keiskamma and the
Kye, had removed all thoughts of emigration for the time,
and they waited in hopes of receiving additional compensa-
tion. But no sooner was it asserted that the change of
boundary would not be confirmed by the government, than
the disposition to emigrate revived ; and it was from observ-
ing the disposition that Sir Benjamin predicted that when
they had once ascertained that the new province was to be
renounced, they would again prepare to go away, and no
legal power would restrain them against their will.
These predictions have been accurately fulfilled, and the
troubles that have resulted are now at their height. When
such warnings had been given, and such results to have
taken place, it is no wonder that the colonists accuse the
Government of mismanagement to the most culpable degree.
Of course, by these remarks it is not intended to take the
part of the emigrants, whose justification for throwing off
their allegiance from the Government is still far from a com-
plete one.

UNITED STATES.

The packet-ship Cambridge, Captain Barstow, which sailed
from New York on the Ist instant, arrived in the Mersey
yesterday morning. She has brought news from New York
and Washington one day later than that received by the
steamer, the Britannia.
The proceedings in Congress had been rather interesting.
On the morning of Friday the 30th ult., the President sent
a message to the House of Representatives with a notiffcation
that he had approved and signed the Tariff Bill. He also
sent another message with a protest against the Report on
the Veto-Message made by Mr. Adams and adopted by the
house. The President requested that the Protest be entered
on the journals of the house. Mr. Adams excused himself
from making any motion on the subject in consideration of
the delicacy of his situation. Mr. Botts read to the house
some extracts from a speech made by Mr. Webster in the
Senate on resolutions touching the protest of President
Jackson, for which resolutions Mr. Tyler voted. These re-
solutions Mr. Botts now offered for adoption. They are to
the effect that the President has no right to make such a pro-
test, that his doing so is a breach of the privileges of the
house. and that the clerk of the house be directed to return
it. All the resolutions were agreed to, save that embodying
the last sentence, to send the message hack, which was
lost.
The Loan Bill, reviving the Distribution Clause, omitted
from the Tariff Bill, had passed the Congress and been sent
to the President. It was expected that he would not notice it.
No change bad occurred in the Markets since our last.

INDIA MAIL.—The departure from London of the next
Indian mail, via Falmouth, will, it is said, be on Friday, the
30th instant, and that via Marseilles is fixed for Tuesday,
the lth of October.
Accounts from Valencia, Spain, present a melancholy pic-
ture of the ravages committed over a part of that province by
a hail storm on the 29th ult. Stones fell for 19 minutes, of
unprecedented size and weight ; some were pieces of ice
weighing from 1 lb. to 8 lb. ! The entire harvest of rice, oil,
wine, mulberies, oranges, pomegranates, and fruits of all
kinds are destroyed, valued by the provincial authorities at
5,460,000 reals, above £54,600 sterling.
BUENOS AYREs.—The Buenos Ayres papers of the 16th
of July, allude to the escape of the Revistera squadron, seen
off Martin Garcia, out of the reach of Admiral Brown, whose
flay ship had got aground, and prevented his proceeding.
The three vessels, it was expected, would take an uninter-
rupted course to the Parana, and there co-operate with the
troops on its banks. The British Packet gives the particu-
lars of the interview of the new Brazilian envoy with Rosas,
who had received that delegate with the honour necessarily
due to his character and station. A slight reaction in the
quotation of the exchange would lead to the supposition that
business was not so brisk as it had been : the last quotation
was 3d. per paper dollar. There were GI vessels in port at
the latest date.

The Ausburg Gazette of the 15th instant has the following,
under the head of Brussels :—" During the negotiations for
the treaty of commerce between Belgium and France, two
notes, one from the Prussian Cabinet, the other from that of
England, were transmitted to the Belgian Government. The
English note contained menaces ; that of Prussia observed
that the King of the Belgians and his Ministers would under-
stand too well the interest of their country to draw upon it
the hostility of the rest of Europe by an exclusive adhesion
to the interests of France, and the Prussian Government
would see with pleasure the Belgian Government contributing
to the modification of the Belgian duties on the Prussian
frontier. -,The Belgian Government did not allow itself to be
intimidated by the note of the British Government, and pre-
ferred acting in the sense of that of Prussia."