Ilaistellantotts.

The following paragraph has been inserted in the morning papers ; first appearing, though not among the advertisements, in the Advertiser- " We have learnt within the last few days, that Lord John Russell has sig- nified to Lord Palmerston, in answer to representations made by the latter as to the necessity of the Liberals advancing with the popular feeling, that, closely-connected as he (Lord John Russell) is with the Bedford family, he could not consent to be a party to further reform; and that therefore he thinks it were better if the Opposition would look out for some other leader before the commencement of another Parliamentary campaign."

The papers announce another retirement : the Marquis of Westmin- ster gives up his racing-stud, and retires from the turf.

The Archbishop of Canterbury and Mrs. Howley have been ill ; Dr. Howley seriously so, with some spasmodic affection. He is getting better ; the lady recovered more rapidly.

Sir Robert Peel has at length been able to retire to Drayton Manor. The Lord Chancellor is staying at his residence at Henley.

Sir Henry Hardinge and Sir Edward Knatchbull left town on Thurs- day. Lord Stanley arrived in town on Monday, from Netherby, Sir James Graham's seat in Cumberland; having visited his father, the Earl of Derby, by the way ; and he proceeded to join Lady Stanley at Bromley, in Kent, where his Lordship has taken a villa for the summer.

Viscount and Viscountess Palmerston have left Carlton House Ter- race, for Pansanger, Hertfordshire, to visit the Earl and Countess Cowper.

Lord and Lady John Russell, who have been a few days with Earl Fitzwilliam, at Wentworth, went to Chatsworth on Tuesday, to pass some time with the Duke of Devonshire.

Lord Auckland, the late Governor-General of India, and the Misses Eden, arrived in town early on Tuesday morning, from Portsmouth.

Mr. Meredith Calhoun, Miss Calhoun, and Miss Lewis, have arrived at Mivart's Hotel, from New York.

Mr. Edward Everett, the America Minister, has gone to Paris, for a short visit.

Intelligence was received at Woolwich, on Thursday, of the death of Lord Vivian, in Germany. Richard Hussey Vivian was born in July 1775, and he entered the Army in 1793. He served with distinction in Flanders, Holland, and the Peninsula. In 1835 he was appointed Master. General of the Ordnance, and in 1841 he retired ; having pre- viously been raised to the Peerage. He was a Lieutenant-General, and Colonel of the First Dragoons. He was twice married; in 1804, to the daughter of Mr. Philip Champion de Crespigny ; and in 1833 to the daughter of the Reverend James Agnew Webster. He is succeeded by Major Charles Crespigny Vivian, the Member for Bodmin.

Five Colonial Bishops were consecrated at Westminster Abbey on Wednesday, by the Bishop of London, assisted by the Bishops of Win • cheater and Rochester. The new Prelates were Dr. Parry, Bishop of Barbados ; Dr. Tomlinson, of Gibraltar; Dr. Nixon, of Van Diemen'a Land ; Dr. Davis, of Antigua ; Dr. Austin, of Guiana. All but the erst are newly-created sees.

The Commissioners of the new Model Prison at Pentonville have appointed Mr. R. Hoskins Governor, at a salary of 400/. per annum, and the Reverend Mr. Ralph Chaplain, at a salary of 300/.

It will be remembered that Mr. Feargus O'Connor stated some time ago, as if on the authority of Mr. Acland, the lecturer of the Anti-Corn- law League, that the League contemplated the stoppage of all the mills on one day. This story has been revived during the recent disturb- ances; and the Northern Star, Mr. O'Connor's paper, has pointed triumphantly to the fact that the assertion passed uncontradicted. The .Anti-Bread-Tax Circular of Thursday entered into a long argument to prove how improbable it was that the lecturer of the League should have been in such confidential communication with the great upholder of the Corn-laws; but that hypothetical contradiction of the Circular was superseded by Mr. Aeland's positive denial, in a letter to the Morning Chronicle. This is the original story, as quoted from the Northern Star by Mr. Acland: Mr. O'Connor says- " Now let everyman pay particular attention to the following disclosure, coming says— "Now, the principal spouter of the League. Acland said to me, ' Well, Mr. O'Connor, we shall either have a repeal of the Corn-laws, or the Charter, in three weeks.' Mr. O'Connor—' Indeed! how so? ' Mr. Acland—' Well, I tell you in confidence, that the object of the League's present meeting in Lon- don is to take into consideration the propriety of stopping all the mills upon a given day! and they will do it ! "

This is Mr. Acland's version-

" On the evening in question, prior to the commencement of the discussion, a conversation took place between O'Connor and myself, on the probability of the Chartists succeeding in their object at an earlier period than the League could hope to succeed in theirs. O'Connor inquired, Will the League stop all the mill,? ' I replied, That would give you the Charter in three weeka, which you can hardly expect from long-headed men who are not Chartists.' O'Connor then remarked, The middle class have no other practical measure by which to attain their ends '; and I replied, By the non-payment of taxes they could procure the repeal of the Corn-laws in three months.' And then the lion of the Northern Star reporter went to work, and (on the unquestion- able authority of that personage) devoured me !"

The fate of the Regency Bill in the French Chamber of Deputies was decided on Saturday. M. Chapuys de Montlaville moved as an amendment, "that the Regency be confided to the mother of the minor Sovereign." It was rejected, by a considerable majority. Another amendment was moved by M. de Sade, as follows—" At the close of the present reign, should the Prince, called to the throne by the declaration of the 7th August 1830, not have accomplished the eighteenth year of his age, and until he shall have reached that age, the eldest of his pa- ternal uncles shall be invested with the Regency." This amendment was condemned by M. Thiers, who declared that. it:would compromise the Monarchy of July. The amendment was rejected. M. Odillon Barrot's amendment, fixing the majority of the Regent at twenty-five years, was also rejected. Another amendment, of M. de Tracy, limit- ing the rights of the Regent, was then dismissed, amidst impatient cries from the Conservatives at the delays of the Opposition members. An amendment of M. Beaumont, (de la Sauvre,) proposing that the Regent should convoke the Chambers in twenty days, instead of forty days after the King's death, was likewise put to the vote, and rejected. Finally, the whole bill was put to the vote; and it was carried by a ma- jority of 216.

The bill was presented to the Chamber of Peers on Monday.

On Wednesday, the Duke De Broglie read the report of the Peers' Commission on the bill : the report opposed the main objections that had been urged against the Ministerial measure. Count Mold has pro- mised to support it. M. D'Harcourt and M. De Boissy are to move amendments; but no serious obstruction is anticipated.

M. Thiers is considered to have made a complete rupture with the Left Centre in his treatment of M. de Sade's amendment ; and the de- cidedly Ministerial tone of his peroration had made people suspect a coalition with Guizot or Mold-

" I see behind us Counter-revolution. I am not the dupe of its language. It tells us that it has been corrected. It pretends that it required the expe- rience that the result of the Ordonnances of July taught. It declares itself liberal now, and that it leans on no foreign party for support. But Counter- revolution deceived the country once, and would do so again. It gave the Charter of 1815, promising to observe it ; and when that Charter became serious and efficient, it violated it. It pretended to be patriotic, and called Massena the pet of victory ; but it shot Marshal Ney. I would never, as I never was, be deceived by their promises : that party must lean on the foreigner, because it has no support in the country, and because there are no hopes for its return- ing but by the same way it came in first. I am as much afraid of that party as I was in 1830; and therefore I now give my utmost support to the reigning dynasty. So much for the party behind us ; and now for what is before us. The Ultra-Liberals are incapable of either governing themselves or governing the country. There is nothing but anarchy in them, and men incapable to come to any understanding as to the formation of a government. They are incapable of keeping order in a country, or of doing any thing except repeating the revolutions of forty years ago, without the glory that then attended them. Such was that party in 1830, and such is it now. Honest men are obliged to separate themselves from those who attack the first principles of society. Be- yond even the anarchists, there are, further still, men professing the most abominable principles. If the Counter-revolution is behind us, here is an abyss before. Let us stand where we are, then, on the ground where the Charter has placed us. Our labour should be to build, not destroy."

The National contradicts a previous statement by the Journal des Daats, that Rear-Admiral Dupetit Chouars had sailed for the South Seas to establish a colony in the Pacific ; adding, that the real object of his mission was to prepare a place at Bourbon for the reception of transported political offenders. Private letters of the Times reiterate the original assertion ; one of them, however, saying that the expedition was bound for New Zealand.

Intelligence has been received from Madrid to the 17th instant. Some disorders had taken place near Alicant, where the inhabitants of four of the neighbouring districts had combined and joined in an attack on the Government salt-works. The assailants succeeded in carrying off a large quantity of salt. The Political Chief immediately repaired to the spot, at the head of some troops, and easily succeeded in restoring order and arresting the principal leaders.

It was remarked that Mr. Aston seldom appeared of late in the poli- tical saloons of Madrid.

Advices from Constantinople of the 7th instant confirm the general impression that the quarrel of Persia with the Porte is on the eve of adjustment. Sir Stratford Canning had obtained redress for disorders committed by Albanians in the Ionian Islands. A Turkish flotilla will unite with the English ships on that station to capture marauders.

Letters from Alexandria of the 7th instant state that the Nile con- tinued to rise very slowly, and caused great anxiety for the crops. A board of twelve physicians had been appointed to devise measures against the plague in Lower Egypt. The number of cases in Alex- andria did not exceed two or three a day.

A former report is confirmed that the Russians have sustained a severe reverse in a late encounter with the Circassians. The Russian General Grabbe's camp was attacked on the 13th June : eight pieces of artillery were captured, but were retaken, except two pieces ; with a loss, however, of 1,600 Russians and sixty officers.

The Woolwich correspondent of the Morning Post, writing on Sun- day, gives some news of the Niger Expedition- " Corporal T. Edmonds, of the Company of Royal Sappers and Minerr, stationed at Woolwich, arrived here on the 19th instant. Notwithstanding the unhealthiness of an African climate, and the hardships to which he was ex- posed by the death of so many of his comrades, his constitution remains un- impaired; and having laid aside the wide garments of a sailor, he has again re- turned to his duty as a soldier. The rest of the Royal Sappers and Miners who embarked in the Albert, Wilberforce, and Soudan steam-vessels, and who have escaped with their lives from the pestilential climate of Africa, are on their way to England, as the project for the continuance of the expedition has been abandoned. The sole cause of such a step being taken is the impossibility of achieving the desired purpose—the extinction of the slave-trade, &c.—with- out a cruel sacrifice of European life. Only six persons of the Albert steam- vessel, including Corporal Edmonds, have survived the ravages of the pesti- ferous climate in which they served, and the river fever."

Extract of a letter dated Sierra Leone, 27th June 1842. "We are very healthy here at present : the rains have come in very kindly. The slave-trade is as brisk as ever in the neighbourhood. At the Gallinas, which you will recollect are only a few miles from here, 1,800 slaves have been shipped within the last few weks, notwithstand- ing the Pluto demolished several of the factories there about three months ago."

Papers have been received from the Cape of Good Hope to the 18th of June. The "little war" in which this country has become engaged without knowing it, against the Anglo-Dutch settlers at Natal, has proved disastrous in its actual commencement. Captain Smith arrived at the settlement, with a detachment of the Twenty-seventh Regiment, and some Sappers and Artillery, on the 4th of May, and took up his position about a mile from the town, in a flat that fronts it. A Dutch schooner which had visited the port had sailed before the troops arrived. It is supposed to have been the bearer of communications of some kind, public or private, which emboldened the Boers. They had an encamp- ment containing about 600 men which was reinforced by 200 more ; and they were able to muster, it is computed, about 4000 fighting men. They instituted a system of annoyance, though Captain Smith ab- stained for some time from hostilities; but the receipt of an insolent letter, demanding that the British force should instantly quit Natal, followed up by the removal of a quantity of cattle belonging to the troops, rendered it necessary to take some active steps. The result is narrated in a despatch by Captain Smith, dated Port Natal, May 25th, to Colonel Hare, the Lieutenant-Governor of the Eastern Province- " I determined, after mature consideration, to march a force and attack their camp at the Congella, (a place about three miles from our position, where they have been for some time collecting,) and set apart the night of the 23d instant for that object. As the road leading to the Congella from the post the troops now occupy lies for the most part through thick bush, I thought it best to cross the sands at low-water, as by this means I could avoid annoyance from the Farmers until within a short distance of their station. Fitting a howitzer, therefore, in a boat, under the superintendence of Lieutenant 'Wyatt, of the Royal Artillery, and leaving it under the charge of a sergeant of the same corps, I gave him directions to drop down the channel to within five hundred yards of Congella, and await the troops, in order that they might form under the cover of its fire, aided by that of two six-pounders, which accompanied the force I took with me. This consisted of 1 subaltern and 17 privates, Artil- lery ; 1 subaltern, 1 sergeant, and 2 privates, Royal Sappers; 2 captains, 2 subalterns, 5 sergeants, and 100 rank and file, Twenty-seventh Regiment; and 2 mounted orderlies of the Cape Rifles. " Having previously sent out a picket to feel the skirts of the wood in front of our position, in order to prevent our movements being discovered, I put the whole party in motion at eleven p. m. (it being bright moonlight); and arrived without molestation till within nearly 800 yards of the place I proposed to attack. To my great mortification, I found the boat had not dropped down the channel according to my instructions ; but as I considered it imprudent to wait the chance of her arrival, I vras forced to make the attack without the valuable assistance a discharge of shells and shot from the howitzer would have afforded me. Giving the order to advance, therefore, the troops had just moved to where the termination of a range of mangrove-bush opened to a level space in front of the Congelh, when a heavy and well-directed fire front the bush was poured on them ; upon which they immediately formed, and commenced a fire in return while the two six-pounders were loading.

I " Unfortunately, one of the draught oxen being shot caused some interrup- tion ; but this being soon got over, a destructive lire from our guns silenced for- a while our opponents : but several more of the oxen being wounded, on es- caping out of their traces, rushed among the troops and caused much delay and confusion in the ranks. This circumstance again favoured the Boers ; who, taking advantage of it, opened a renewed fire with their long pieces, (much- more destructive than a musket,) and a severe loss among the troops was the consequence. "Finding, then, that I was not likely to accomplish the purpose for which I had put the detachment in motion, and that the men were falling fast,1 thought it expedient to retire ; effecting this object after some delay, the partial rising of the tide rendering the roail difficult. The troops, however, reached the camp about two o'clock, in tolerable order ; leaving behind them, lregret to say, the guns, which the death of the oxen rendered it impossible to nmove.

"Thinking it probable this partial success of the Farmers might induce them to make an immediate attack on the camp, I made such preparations as I thought necessary; anti found my suspicions realized shortly after by a large body of them opening a heavy fire on three sides of it. This was met by a spirited resistance on our part ; but they did not finally retire until about an hour before daybreak."

One great cause of failure, says Captain Smith, was the mismanage- Ment of the boat ; which dropped down the channel too late to be of any Use. Lieutenant Wyatt, who commanded it, was killed early in the action; and of the men 14 were killed : Captain Lonsdale and Lieu- tenant Lunnard, of the Twenty-seventh, were severely wounded ; and 25 men were wounded, most of them seriously. The loss of the Boers is also said to have been severe.

Captain Smith's despatch was conveyed to Colonel Hare by Mr. King, a resident at Natal, who volunteered for the service ; and he reached Graham's Town in ten days. A despatch was forwarded to the Governor-General, at Cape Town, within three hours ; and arrange- ments were at the same time made for the instant departure of a reinforcement of about a hundred men by sea : the Conch coaster was to sail with the troops from Port Elizabeth on the 9th June, and would probably arrive at Natal on the 13th or 14th.

The original expedition ought to have been sent by sea : the Gra- ham's Town Journal justly sneers at the route selected— "Four tedious months had the detachment been wending its weary way thither, which by sea, the best of all highways, might have been accom- plished in three or four days. We say nothing of the expense, though doubt- less something will be said about it elsewhere, and which, after all, looking at the object to be attained, seems to be very like an attempt to climb o'er the Louse to unlock the little gate.'"

Leaving an available amount of 970,000 "The Navy department had drawn requisitions on the Treasury at that time, to meet debts actually due ; among which are bills under protest for 1,414,000 dollars, thus leaving an actual deficit of 444,000 dollars.

'There was on hand about 100,000 dollars of unissued Treasury-notes, assisted by the accruing revenue, amounting to about 150,000 dollars per week, exclusive of receipts on unpaid bonds, to meet requisitions for the Army and the demands of the Civil List."

He adds-

" Let it also be remarked, that 5,000,000 dollars of the public debt becomes redeemable in about two years and a half; which, at any sacrifice, must be met, while the Treasury is always liable to demands for the payment of outstanding Treasury-notes. Such is the gloomy picture which our financial department now presents, and which calls for the exercise of a rigid economy in the public expenditures, and the rendering available of all the means within the control of the Government. I most respectfully submit, whether this is a time to give away the proceeds of the land-sales, when the public lands constitute a fund which of all others may be made most useful in sustaining the public credit."

The following letter from a respectable mercantile correspondent at New York expounds the views of one party at least on the act—

TO IRE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR.

New York, 11th August 1842.

"Sir—Another veto has rewarded the impartial and cool deliberations of

ongress; and Captain Tyler, that traitor to the Whigs, has refused to sane- ion the worst Tariff-bill, the crudest and most ill-digested piece of legislation, ever consented to by the madness of party. It was got up in haste ; passed through all its stages with the ears of the concentrated wisdom of the na- Con ' closed and shut against reason ; and sent to the President clogged with the land-distribution clause, solely to procure his veto and bring about a crisis. I am no great admirer of Mr. Tyler; 1 think it very likely he is that so- lemn dunce' his opponents describe him ; but upon this land-distribution question he is right unquestionably : and while the States, one after the other, repudiate or refuse—or neglect if you will—to provide for the interest upon their debts, 1 sincerely trust and devoutly pray Mr. Tyler may be able, whatever his motives may be, to prevent their fingering one cent's worth of the public lands. If the income arising from the public lands continues available to the national treasury, there will be less occasion for high duties on foreign goods. Distribute the public lands among the States, and high duties must be laid on to provide for the expenses of the Government. You will perceive at once, therefore, if the latter does take place, that the States will, in fact, be taxing foreign production to enable them to pay their foreign creditors, (if even they choose to pay them.) Would it not be far more wise and creditable, that the public properly should go to meet, as far as may be, the public wants ; and that trade and commerce should be festered and encouraged by moderate duties on imports ? that, in fact, the States should pay their own debts, and not en- deavour to make the foreigner do it.

"It appears to me inevitable now, that Mr. Tyler should go over to the Lo- cofoco party : but they will only take him as a tool to be used and thrown aside. In the present Congress they cannot get a majority, and whether the next election will alter their position is very doubtful. But the Whigs have certainly been • found wanting,' and I doubt if the 'treachery' of the President is alone to blame. The real truth is, that the appetites of party are constantly whetted by the annual struggle; and the sole end and aim of every public man is to keep his party in or to turn his opponents out, in order that he may keep or obtain a share of the loaves and fishes : the standard of public principle is trampled under foot, and the national interests are utterly sacrificed.

"Trade is petal) zed by the state of uncertainty in which every thing con- tinues : all duties continue to be paid under protest,' (and therefore ought to be kept in deposit and not be used by Government,) and we are really in 'blessed confusion.' The enormity of the evil, however, I trust will bring about a re- medy; and I still hope that Congress will not separate without agreeing to a Revenue Bill which will provide for the exigencies of the state, give a reason- able and required protection to domestic interests, and inflict no injustice upon

The Great Western steam-ship arrived at Liverpool on Wednesday, with papers from New York to the 11th instant.

A messenger from Lord .Ashburton bears the intelligence, that a treaty on the North-eastern Boundary question had been signed ; and mention is made of " more treaties" as having also received the signa- ture of the high contracting parties.

A message had been sent to Congress on the 10th, intimating that the President had vetoed the Revenue or Tariff Bill. The President pleads the state of the public funds. He says- " On the 5th August (Friday last) there was in Treasury, Dollars. in roun I numbers 2,150,000 Necessary to be retained to meet trust funds Dollars 360,000 Interest on public debt due in October 80,000 To redeem Treasury-notes and pay interest 100,000 Land-distribution, under the act of the 4th September 1841 1,180,000 640,000 foreign production, in the welfare of which their own nation's interests are ig fact bound up.

K i:ram" " Your obedient servant, A New YOR Ma Exchange on London, 6i to 7 per cent premium; France, 5 37i, New York State Stock, 5 per cent, redeemable 1845, 90 to 91.

6 per cent, redeemable 1860, 891 to 90. Ohio, 6 per cent, redeemable 1850, 70 to 80.

Indiana Sterling, 20 to 21. '5 Of course you will have heard that Pennsylvania has ' neglected' to pro- vide for the dividends due on the 1st instant. This is the first of the old

States which has become a defaulter—will it spread? "

There had been considerable "despondency " in the money-market. and the discord between the Executive and the Legislature did not tend to remove it. The crops, however, which had been secured, are de- scribed as never having been finer or more abundant. Flour for Eng- land was selling at 5i dollars. The prospect of the cotton crop was " most flattering."

The New York Journal of Commerce gives a full account of the Boundary Treaty ; in which it repeats points already known, but the very repetition gives an appearance of authenticity to the state- ment, which is the completest that has yet appeared-

" The compromise is honourable to both parties; and its terms are as favour- able to the United States as could be reasonably expected. What these terms are is now ascertained with tolerable exactness. The St. John is to be the northern boundary of Maine, from the point where it enters the acknowledged territory of New Brunswick, as far westward as the mouth of the St. Francis,

or N.W. branch of the St. John' thence it follows the said branch to the month

of the wicond considerable lake called Pohenagamook ; and thence in a straight line to the source of the N.W. branch of Connecticut River. This line runs in a nearly S.W. direction, and gives us a considerable slice of territory on the N.W. frontier of the Maine, which we never claimed, and also the disputed territory at the northern extremity of New Hampshire. Then we get, ac- cording to the Portland .Argus, a strip of land about three quarters of a mile wide along the whole northern frontier of Vermont ; together with Rouse's Point on the river Sorel, in the State of New York,—an important position in a military point of view, and where formerly we erected a great stone castle designed to command the entrance to Lake Champlain. Subsequently it was ascertained that this point was within the territory of Great Britain. " On the other hand, we relinquish, according to the Augusta Age, a narrow strip of territory on the Eastern frontier of Maine ; the line from the monument

at the head of St. Croix river being made to run to Mars Hill, (a mile or two west of the old line,) instead of due north. From Mars Hill a new departure is taken due north to the St. John. The object of this variation is probably twofold,—viz. first, to prevent a certain number of Tories, who supposed they were settled in the British dominions, from reverting to the United States; and secondly, (which is the main point,) to promote the security of the British military road along that frontier. This small strip is all the undisputed terri- tory which we relinquish ; while Great Britain' on her part, relinquishes a con- siderable tract on the north-west frontier of Maine, which we never claimed, including Lake Megantic and the head waters of the river Chaudiere, which empties into the St. Lawrence, the strip above-mentioned, along the northern frontier of Vermont, and Rouse's Point in New York. Also it is stated, that Lord Ashburton has made other concessions (not, however, of great import- ance) along the said frontier as far west as the Lake of the Woods.

"Of the disputed territory, including that in New Hampshire, we get about two-thirds in quantity, and much the best part in point of quality. The dis- puted land which we relinquish is almost all of it above the latitude of forty- seven degrees, (which is higher than the latitude of Quebec,) and of course is too far north to be worth much for cultivation. It is, besides, very much cut up by mountains and lakes. England would care little for it, except on account at its geographical position.-lying as it does between Canada and New Bruns- wick, and thus, it belonging to another power, greatly embarrassing the com- munication between them. To us it has no such value.

" In the next place, we get by virtue of the treaty the free navigation of the St. John to its mouth, with the further privilege of carrying lumber and other produce from said river to the United Kingdom or the British dependen- cies, on the same terms which they would be entitled to if the produce of the Colonies. This is an important matter ; and will give a great advantage to the lumber of the St. John and its southern tributaries (of which the Aroostook is the largest) over that of other portions of the United States. If exported in American vessels, this lumber will stand on the same footing as if shipped at any other point of the United States. Of course it can be brought to New York or other American ports in American vessels, without restraint. But it will hardly come here while enjoying such privileges in the British pos- sessions.

"The only other point is the pecuniary indemnity to Maine and Massa- chusetts' which possessed a joint proprietorship of the soil of the disputed ter- ritory if ours, and the former of which possessed also the right of sovereignty. The indemnity for the right of soil is 150,000 dollars to each of the two States, and for the right of sovereignty, what it cost Maine to defend it—in other words, the expenses of the Aroostook war, amounting to about 350,000 dollars; making a total of about 500,000 dollars to Maine, and 150,000 dollars to Mas- sachusetts. This money is to be paid by the United States. England could not pay it with any tolerable grace, and she has therefore chosen to provide indemnity in other forms.

There had been a serious affray at Philadelphia, between some socie- ties of Coloured people, reinforced by White Abolitionists, andtheir opponents ; the Abolitionists celebrating the Negro Emancipation of the British West Indies on the 1st of August, and the other party taking offence at the demonstration. The affair is narrated by the Philadelphia Gazette of the 2d-

" It appears that the societies paraded with various banners and other em- blems, and that the pictures and mottoes were such as to excite much indigna- tion; but it is said they were misunderstood, and that in reality there was no- thing on them that could reasonably have been construed into intention of in- sult. The banner which gave most offence, and which has been described as having on it the words ' Liberty or Death,' with the representation of a per- son wielding a club or other weapon and a fire in the background, we are as' sured by a person who saw it before it left the painter's room, had on it the figure of a man trampling on his chains, from which he has just been released, and pointing to a temple on a bill, over which was inscribed the word 'Liberty.' The fire in the distance represented a slave-ship burning. It is also averred that the other obnoxious emblems were of the same kind and tenour.

" About four o'clock, (we quote the Pennsylvanian) two White lads, while passing in Bradford's Alley, received the contents of two guns in the lower parts of their persons, and were taken to the hospital. They were not seri- ously injured. This circumstance bad the effect to increase the outbreak ; and the houses supposed to be the residence of those who fired upon those persons were beset, and three or four Black men dragged out. Two of them were in a most shocking manner beaten down by the mob; and one of them, who fled to a house in Lombard Street, near Eighth, was left for dead in the gutter, and subsequently dragged to the Mayor's office. At the last accounts he was gal Hiring. Near evening, the Sheriff and Mayor were on the ground with - large bodies of Police; and up to nine o'clock nothing serious took place : at - which time, however, it was discovered that the large hall (nearly finished) in Lombard Street, below Seventh, designed for the holding of meetings by Co- loured people, was on fire. In a moment the whole building was in flames, and in a short time one entire heap of ruins. During the burning of the hall, the Coloured Presbyterian Church, in St. Mary's Street, near Seventh, was also set on fire, and entirely consumed. The firemen were early on the ground, and prevented any serious damage to the adjoining buildings. The Lombard Street Ball was fired in nearly every part of the building at the same time, so that its destruction was very speedy. The Police were present ; but all their efforts to prevent the daring deed were unavailing, being overpowered by numbers, and many of them severely injured.

" It is averred that the church was not fired by the incendiaries, but caught from the sparks which were carried from the hall by the wind. We have been unable to obtain the names of the persons injured, but learn that there were thirteen White and Black men received at the hospital—some dangerously wounded. So far as wa can learn, no deaths have yet occurred, though it was reported that such had been the case. This morning, many of the Coloured families in the neighbourhood of the outrages were removing from their places of residence, and seeking other quarters. Nine Coloured persons were committed this morning by Alderman Haffner, who were most of them violent participators in the riot. One deaf and dumb is represented as a desperate fellow, and was one of the ringleaders of the mob. "The rioters are numerous on the Schuylkill, and have beaten several Black men almost to death. The Sheriff and a large posse went out there, but were driven off the ground. "On the Western part of Moyamensing the manger; against the Blacks have been renewed, and several of them hurt.

"The volunteers of the first brigade, first division, have been ordered to as- semble at their respective armories this afternoon at three o'clock, fully uni- formed and equipped for service. The troops will form part of and be on the footing of the posse coniitatus."

The riots were renewed on the 2d; several houses were attacked, some property was destroyed, and about twenty more rioters were arrested. The New York Herald says, that "the energetic action of the Mayor and his posse" put a close to the tumult on the night of the 2d. The same paper speaks of the conduct of the Irish as "out- rageous."

Lieutenant John Pottinger, of the Bombay Artillery, has written a letter to the Times to contradict some misrepresentation of his brother Major Eldred Pottinger's conduct : a statement having originally ap- peared in the Bombay Times, that after he succeeded Sir William Mac- naghten as Envoy, he was the principal in framing and negotiating the convention for the retreat from Cabal; that from him emanated the orders directing Colonel Palmer to evacuate Ghuznee, and Sir Robert Sale to retire from Jellalabad ; and, in short, that he was responsible for the whole of the disasters that followed. Lieutenant Pottinger supposes that some example must be made "pour encourager les autres, and to satisfy the nation that a British army is not to be led into a trap and then left to be slaughtered, with impunity to its leaders : but he would prevent such a possibility as his brother's being made one of the scape- goat for others' errors- " After the murder of Sir A. Burnes and Sir W. Macnaghten, both of whom held their political authority direct from the Governor-General, there was no political in Afghanistan who could in the slightest degree direct or control the actions of the military authorities; all the junior politicals being merely " aasistants " to one or other of the murdered gentlemen, and acting by virtue of the authority contained in their orders. They being killed, this authority was at an end, and the independent power and responsibility of the political body in Afghanistan was virtually extinct, as none of the subordinates could have commanded the assistance of a single trooper to carry any of his plans into effect, without the previously-obtained sanction of the military authorities. The form, however, was still kept up, to prevent the Afghans from supposing that they had accomplished their object of paralyzing the British power in Cabal by cutting off its head. My brother assumed charge of the Envoyship, and under General Elphinstone's instructions attempted to conclude a treaty, for the due observance of which hostages should be mutually given by both parties. To this the Afghans would not agree, but answered by proposing terms which had previously been offered to Sir W. Macnaghten, and which Eldred Pottinger spurned with contempt. Then came the Council of War, in which it was proposed to purchase a sate retreat on almost any terms ; but this ray brother most strenuously opposed. He knew too well the treacherous nature of the people to whom we were opposed ; and his words were—' If we must retreat, let us place the women and children, sick and wounded, in the centre, and cut our way through, or die like men with our arms in our hands, and not move out to be shot down like dogs, with our hands tied up by a treaty which our enemies will disregard, or only make use of to our destruction and disgrace.' It may naturally be supposed that my brother would then have refused to affix his signature to the convention that was agreed upon : but this would have only thwarted the intention of the majority, without in any way forwarding his own views, for the Afghan leaders insisted on having the sigua- natures of all the British authorities, both civil and political. He therefore, finding himself outvoted in the Council of War, affixed his name, with a protest that they were signing the warrant for the destruction of the whole force."