iforeign anti Colonial.

aux.—Our last Postcript contained some account of the proceedings at Lucca, which had resulted in the issue of a proclamation by the Duke, promising a number of reforms and the establishment of a civic guard. This was on the 1st instant: it appears that immediately afterwards, the Duke left the city and retired to Massa in the Modenese territory; where he declared that the promises contained in his proclamation had been ex- torted from him by force, and that he would not fulfil them.

This announcement caused the greatest excitement. The inhabitants.of Lucca rose en masse, constituting themselves a civic guard. A numerous deputation, healed by the Marquis Mazzarosa, who recently resigned his post as President of the Council of State, proceeded to Massa to request' the Duke to return to his dominions. The Duke replied by a decree esta- blishing a Regency, with M. Mazzarosa as President; but the Council of Ministers refused to publish it, and entreated the Duke to return. The agitation meanwhile increased; and to compel him to return, it was already' proposed to seize his revenue, and place his palace under sequestration. Streams of people kept pouring into Lucca from all quarters, and each train from Pisa and Leghorn brought hundreds more. A band of 'women paraded the streets, carrying the Pontifical colours to encourage the men. A. body of volunteers were enrolled to march to the deliverance of Ferrara. Such was the condition of Lucca on the afternoon of the 2d and the morn- ing of the 3d; when, suddenly and unexpectedly, at one o'clock in the afternoon, the Duke, and the Hereditary Prince returned from Massa, and presented themselves at the gates of Lucca unescorted, in the midst of the populace; by whom they were received with gladness.

The official journal of the Government (the only newspaper permitted at Lucca) reports, that on the return of the Duke, the entire population, including even women, children, and priests, bearing the national flag, pre- sented itself in the Piazza Grande to salute the Sovereign; and while pass- ing in front of the hotel of the commander of the troops, where the Italian flag was unfurled, the place resounded with enthusiastic exclamations. In the announcement of these facts by the official journal, the epithet " Ita- lian," as applied to the flag, is given in large capitals. This Italian flag is, in fact, the revolutionary tricolor; green, however, being substituted for blue. In this official announcement no allusion is made to the retreat of the Mike to Massa, nor of the events which took place during his stay there. The report concluded with a prayer that no recollection may he preserved of those days in which the mutual attachment of the Prince and people seemed to be diminished.

The correspondent of the Journal des Dibats says that the animosity of the populace was directed more especially against the Hereditary Prince; whom the Princess his wife, sister of the Duke of Bordeaux, had rebuked for his conduct, reminding him of the events which proved fatal to her oink family seventeen years ago.

These exciting occurrences in Lucca were not without effect in Tus- cany. Numbers of the Livornese had been present at Lucca; and on the evening of their return to Leghorn, a demonstration was made in the thea- tre in favour of a national guard, still warmer than that which had pre: ceded it. The Grand Duke, it will be remembered, had referred the sub- ject to the Consults, which he had constituted on the 1st of September. Under pretext that the deliberations of this body were too slow, the imme- diate organization of the militia was demanded. A deputation of the Mu- nicipality started immediately for Florence to demand that organization; and the Government replied at once, by a decree ordering the instant or ganization of the National Guard, and a declaration that the Constdta would only have to consider the question of its constitution. This new concession was attended, as in former similar cases, with demonstrations of the most lively joy. Above ten thousand men assembled with the na- tional flag, preceded by the busts of Pius the Ninth and Leopold the Se- cond. A procession took place through the city by torch-light; the win- dows of all the houses were illuminated and decorated with Bags. These rejoicings continued for seven hours; notwithstanding which no disorder took place, and the whole population, even to the lowest classes, seemed filled with the liveliest gratitude. " This revolution," says a correspondent of a Marseilles paper, writing from the spot, "is incontestably one of the most extraordinary pages of our history—a revolution unstained by a single drop of blood." A solemn popular celebration of the great reform was appointed to take place on the 8th instant, in which all the ladies of the town were to assist, clothed in white and wearing the national colours.

A letter written at Leghorn on the 9th instant represents the agitation of the people, though still peaceable, as " continually increasing "—

"After the 4th, all affairs were suspended; the people were continually in the streets, executing military promenadee to the beat of the drum. The troops quitted their flags, took the cockade of the three Italian colours, and fraternized with the people. The inhabitants of Pisa proceeded en masse to Leghorn, and the two populations united. Te Deum was chanted; and the clergy blessed the national flag from the Cathedral, before an immense crowd of people, kneeling down. On this occasion, Professor Montanelli of Pisa, delivered an energetic speech, which had great effect on the auditory. He said that they must prepare themselves for resistance, for attack, and for the conquest of Italian independence by arms. The committee, which was charged to the people to prepare the grand fete of the 8th, had drawn up a programme, which was scrupulously executed. All the parishes of the city and the adjacent country assembled, and marched hi procession, with the clergy at their head. A Te Deum was again chanted, in honour of the Pope and the Grand Duke. A statue of the latter was uncovered, amidst the acclamations of the crowd; and very animated speeches were delivered. An order of the day prescribed to all the people to take the tricolor cockade, to which were joined the colours of the Pope, and the Italian flag was displayed. Greater enthusiasm was never seen. No one, however, can say what may be the consequences of that political demonstration. The leaders of this movement be- gan to be uneasy with respect to the moment at which it would be necessary to

disperse these masses of people who had quitted their work. In the mean time, a rendezvous was given to the people for the 12th of September, under the windows of the Palace Pitt,. [in Florence]. The railways will serve for the conveyance of an innumerable crowd. The programme of this new demonstration had not been drawn up; but there was a talk of demanding the unlimited liberty of the press, and of proclaiming a constitution."

Letters from Parma represent the excitement in that dutohy to be ex- treme; and say that the Count de Bombelles, at one of the last meetings of the Council of State, declared that a general amnesty and the liberation of the state prisoners were the only means of putting a term to the fermenta- tion which followed the celebration of the election of Pins the Ninth. The majority of the Council was of a contrary opinion, and the Count quitted the meeting in anger.

Genoa has bad its manifestations of sympathy: we quote a letter of the 9th instant- " Last evening at seven o'clock, about three hundred persons belonging to the higher classes assembled in front of the Carlo Felice Theatre, and, falling into rank four deep, proceeded to the well-known Mortajo di Portoria, a monument raised in memory of the expulsion of the Austrians. There, uncovering their heads, and kneeling down, they saluted the monument of the glory of Genoa. Then, resuming their procession, they paraded through the principal streets, ut- tering cries of 'Long live Pius the Ninth and Charles Albert!' Italian Inde- pendence for ever!' `Long live the Tuscans and the Lucchese!' The people joined this body as it proceeded; and when it reached the square of the Aoqua Verde, it had increased to not less than ten or twelve thousand persons. The Sardinian and Pontifical colours were carried in front by two nAle Genoese, and excited the utmost enthusiasm. The evening was spent in great rejoicings, but without the slightest disturbance."

There is no longer any doubt, in spite of strenuous efforts by the Nea- politan. Government to hush up the affair, that a formidable insurrection has broken out in Sicily. The outbreak occurred simultaneously in Mes- sina and Reggio, on the 2d instant. The officers of the citadel were giving a dinner to their commander, General Busacco, who had recently been promoted; and the endeavour of the conspirators was to seize all the of- ficers. The attempt failed; but the General was seriously hurt with a shot, and his servant was killed. The guns of the fort were turned upon the assailants; who retreated to the hills. The loss in the affair is variously estimated, but probably it was about 30 killed and 100 wounded: it was pretty equally shared between the soldiery and the people,—a fact which shows that the insurgents were well armed and disciplined. There were similar outbreaks also at Catania and Syracuse; and movements of a threatening kind are reported at Palermo and Trapani. On the 5th in- stant, five steam-boats were despatched from Naples with troops.

,A correspondent of the Paris Conetitutionnel reports a movement in Milan-

" After thirty-three years of peace and tranquillity, Milan has at length had its agitation. The following are some details of a disturbance which took place here last night [the 8th instant]. The popular fetes and illuminations for the re- ception of the new Archbishop, Monseigneur Romilli, could not take place on the 5th, on account of the badness of the weather, and were put off till yesterday. The people assembled in the Piazza Fontana, crying Long live Romilli!' Long live Pius the brmth when suddenly between five and six hundred persons came from the Porta Tessin in martial order, shouting ' Italy for ever!' and singing in loud chorus Rossini's Hymn to Pius the Ninth. The police immediately sent a com- pany of mounted gendarmes to disperse the thousands of people gathered in the square; and no one can depict the scene of confusion that ensued. The five or six hundred of the populace kept their ground, and resisted the armed force; shout- ing, 'Down with the police! Down with the Austrians!' The riot soon became so perions, that the new Archbishop went down into the square, accompanied by M. Greppi, the Municipal Counsellor, and harangued the people; M. Greppi also addressing them as friends and comrades. The rioters removed from the square, but reassembled in another place. All the patrols of the police and the troops were assailed, disarmed, and insulted, by having their faces spit upon, amidst cries of 'Down with the Germans!' There was also another movement in the Campo Santo; and in the twinkling of an eye, the policemen, gendarmes, and troops, were compelled to give way to the superior force of the populace. At a later hour, fur- ther reinforcements came up; and by four in the morning order was nearly re- stored. But we apprehend there will be renewed disturbances this evening."

The disturbances were renewed on the 8th instant. The people endea- voured to get up an illumination, and began to sing in honour of the Pope; the Police tried to silence the music, striking the singers with the flat of their swords; the mob resisted, and a general tumult ensued. The guard retreated to the court of the Archbishop's Palace; and the exhortations of the Prelate induced the rioters to disperse. There was some expectation that these scenes would be renewed on the 9th, and as a precaution, Milan was placed under military occupation. Several persons were arrested; and it is said that the troops behaved with harshness to the inhabitants; whose suppressed indignation was extreme.

-At Rome, all continued tranquil. The accounts are to the 5th instant. They mention the arrival of an envoy from the United States of America, Mr. Coxwell, for the purpose of concluding a treaty of amity and commerce with the Pontifical Government. It was believed that the latter would shortly accredit a Nuncio to Washington. Cardinal Lambruschini had ar- rived in the city, and in a rather suffering state. The Cardinal Secretary of State rode before him, to protect him from any popular demonstration, and no disturbance took place. Cardinal Ferretti has established a corps of Rolicemen in uniform; a measure which has much pleased the populace, as it deprives the local police of its secret and inquisitoral character.

The Roman Advertiser of the 4th instant reports the receipt of a con- ciliatory letter from Austria— It is said that the answer recently arrived from the Court of Vienna to the Hffiy See expresses, in the name of the Emperor, regret for the impression made on the Holy Father by the late events in Ferrara, which his Majesty does not re- gard as the invasion of another's, but the exercise of his own right, as resulting tram article 103 of the treaty of Vienna; that if any impropriety has been com- mitted, this is to be attributed to the executioners of the act, who have proceeded extrary to the instructions received; that his Majesty has never had the inten- tion of occupying the Pontifical States, into which nothing should induce him to send troops unless invited by the Sovereign Pontiff; that the whole controversy, reducing itself to the explanation of the above-named article, of the word place, and the rights thence deducible, his Majesty is content that the question should be decided in Rome, in whatever manner both parties may agree to. The cities of Ancona, Perugia, Oscine, and Bologna, have contributed funds to purchase muskets for the National Guard. The money supplied from Ancona consisted of funds intended for the construction of a theatre.

The Augsburg Gazette repeats the statement that the French Govern- ment had placed 12,000 muskets at Marseilles at the disposition of the Pope, and that a still larger supply was expected from Belgium,. A num-

ber of French and Polish officers resident at Rome had tendered their ser- vices to the Pontifical Government. The forces to be encamped at Forli are now estimated at 54,000; of which 24,000 will be regular troops, and 30,000 the National Guard. The Augsburg Gazette adds, " Our Govern- ment have made very friendly offers to the Pontifical Government."

The Roman correspondent of the Daily News avers that Monsignor° Corboli Bussi has succeeded in obtaining from the Grand Duke Leopold the mutual and total abolition of duties on the frontier between Rome and Tuscany.

SwtrzsarAND.—The Diet adjourned on the 9th instant, to the 18th October. The early date for reassembling is considered to indicate a reso- lute determination to follow up active measures against the Separate League.

FRANCE.—Considerable sensation was caused in Paris, on Saturday last, by a report that the Duke de Nemours had been accidentally shot while sporting at Compiegne. Although the account appeared in most of the papers, it was pronounced by good authorities in Paris to be " a pure in- vention." To some extent, however, the rumour was subsequently con- firmed. The accident is explained in Golignanis Messenger-

" While the Dukes de Nemours and d'Anmale and the Prince de Joinville were out together on Wednesday, and whilst the latter was cocking his gun to take a shot, it went off inadvertently; and a small portion of the charge struck his elder brother in the head. Fortunately, however, the consequences were very slight. Most of the shot passed by his Royal Highness, some lodged in his hat, and one only entered the upper part of the cheek. Indeed, so slight was the effect on the Duke, that he would not undergo any examination at the time, but insisted upon continuing the sport. On returning to the Palace, the Duke would not allow the medical man to extract the shot from his face, because he thought it might alarm the Queen and the Dutchess. He, however, submitted to some outward applications, and remained quiet for the rest of the day; but on Thurs- day morning was up at an early hour, and, mounting his horse, went to direct some mancsuvres preparatory to a sham fight. In the evening he presided at a grand dinner." The proceedings at Compiegne have attracted a great number of mili- tary men of high rank from England and Germany, to witness the opera- tions at the camp. The number of troops assembled is 25,000, and there are to be reviews and sham fights every day until the 28th instant. la the evening there are balls and receptions at the Palace of Compiegne; where, besides the Duke and Dutchess of Nemours, several other members • of the Royal Family are assembled. On Sunday, a grand reception at the Palace was attended by upwards of two hundred persons, among whoza were some English officers.

The Dutchess d'Aumale was safely delivered of a son, at the Palace of St. Cloud, on Saturday. Private letters mention that the Dutchess had" not been indisposed more than half an hour. The name and title confer- red on the young Prince run thus—" Henri-Ldopold-Philippe-Marie d'Orldans, Duo de Guise."

M. Granier de Cassagnac, former editor of the Epoque, is said to hale departed for Italy on a mission from the French Government.

A grand banquet of persons friendly to the Liberal party has just taken. place at Bar-le-Due. About five hundred citizens assembled; and M. ' Paulin-Gillon, member of the Council-General and Mayor of the town, presided. After dinner, the President proposed the health of the King; which was drunk with all the honours. M. Etienne, Deputy for the Meuse, then proposed a toast—" To the Morality of the Political Powers.* This was followed by " Electoral Reform," and other similar toasts. The National announces the discovery of serious malversations in the Marine, connected with the coal-depots at Havre.

M. Durand, the responsible editor of the Casette de France, who was con- demned by default, last week, for articles published in the paper on the 20th and 21st August respecting the murder of the Dutchess of Praslin, appeared on Monday before the Court' of Assizes, and took his trial upon the merits. The formal accusation against the Gazette was that of inciting one class of society against another. After the pleadings of the counsel on both sides, the Jury pronounced a verdict of " guilty," and M. Durand was sentenced to three months imprisonment and a fine of 2,000 francs. All the remaining copies of the two numbers of the journal were ordered to be destroyed.

Ber.olum.—Advices from Brussels, of the 15th instant, announce the assembling of the Free-trade Congress. Eminent politicians were arriving from all quarters,—the Marquis Nicole Ridolfi, from the Economic and Agricultural Academy of Florence; Horace Say, Blanqui, and many more, from France, Italy, Spain, and Holland; from England, Dr. Bowring, Mr. William Brown, M.P., and Mr. M'Adam, Secretary of the Irish Fist Improvement Society. M. de Brouckere was named President of the sit- tings; the Vice-Presidents were, the Due d'Harcourt, the Conte Arrive- - bane, Colonel Thompson, and M. Kamphausen.

Srane.—The amnesty appears to have produced a lively sense of satis- faction throughout the country; though it has been found necessary to restrain the public demonstration of joy in the capital, in order to avoid • interruptions from the disaffected Moderados and the agents of the French party. A Cabinet Council was held on the 6th instant; at which it is said to have been decided that bills should be presented to the Cortes immediately on its meeting, to dissolve the Queen's marriage, and to change the succes- sion of the throne, by a return, after the demise of Queen Isabella, to the Salic law. It is also reported that the succession is in that case to devolve upon the descendants of Don Francisco de Paula. Immediately after the Council broke up, General Linages was despatched to London with a pressing invitation to General Espartero to hasten his return to Madrid; he being regarded by Ministers as the only man capable of carrying the desires of the Queen into effect. The Duke de Gluckaberg has protested, in the name of France, or rather in the name of the Duke de Montpensier's rights, against the am- nesty of the 2d September. He had not, however, complied with the wish of the Spanish Government to put his protest in the form of an official note. It has been explained that it was an error to suppose that, by the decree in which General Espartero is reinstated in his ranks and honours, he hag; been appointed to a high military command. He has only been restored to the rank of Captain-General, which he held before he left Spain: the rank is equivalent to that of Field-Marshal in England and Marechal in Fran" but not involving employment in active service.

GREECE.—The Athens Cuerier gives the following account of the sad. dent which put a stop to the late insurrection in Negropont-- " On the 18th ultimo, as Griziotti was inspecting the trenches, under a fire of artillery, a spent ball carried off the wrist of his left arm. Thus crippled, de- prived of all medical assistance, and feeling the impossibility of prolonging his re- sistance, be engaged his men to assist in covering his retreat and retire immedi- ately to their homes. He was carried on a litter to Koumi, after the stump of his arm had been plunged into boiling pitch to stop the hemorrhage. This painful operation was endured with singular sang froid by the veteran general, now nearly a septuagenarian. Arrived at Koumi on the 20th, he embarked in a schooner with sixty-seven men, among whom Colonel Scourtaniotti and Major Gervas were distinguished. They set sail for Scio; where, according to the report of a mer- chant-captain, Griziotti arrived before the steamer Otho and the schooner Nauti- lus, sent in pursuit of him, could reach him. In the mean time, General Gardi- kiotis, informed by a prisoner on the 19th of the accident which had happened to Griziotti, marched his troops into the intrenched camp of the insurgents; who, after a sharp fusillade, dispersed."

Accounts from Smyrna mention that the schooner arrived at that port on the 23d August. Having no bill of health, she was placed in quarantine; but Griziotti was allowed to land at once, in consideration of his desperate Wound.

Letters from Chalcis give horrible accounts of the excesses committed by the King's troops after the cessation of hostilities. They plundered and burnt a great number of houses, pillaged vineyards, killed and carried off cattle, outraged and murdered women, and even went so far as to torture a child of twelve years of age, who had seen Griziotti carried along on a litter, but could not precisely point out the road he had taken. The recital of these barbarities, committed by men sent to establish order and obedience, is harrowing in the extreme. Even the poor woman who dressed the ;wounds of Griziotti has been used most cruelly.

PERSIL—Accounts received by way of Trebizonde mention a serious insurrection which had broken out among the troops encamped round Tehran, caused apparently by their pay being much in arrear. The au- thorities are described as having been obliged to yield everything demanded by the insurgents before tranquillity could be restored.

UNITED STATES AND MEXICO.—The accounts brought by the CAM- bria are important as respects the Mexican war. General Paredes had re- turned to Mexico from his exile. He landed privately, on the 14th August, at Vera Cruz, from the British steamer Teviot; having taken his passage under an assumed name. By the aid of a friend who furnished a disguise and the requisite means, he managed to leave Vera Cruz for the interior in half an hour after the arrival of the steamer. Two hours later, when the mail was landed, letters from the American Consul at Havannah, informing the United States Governor that Paredes was a passenger in the snail steamer, were received. Search was immediately made, but the bird bad flown.

The accounts from Puebla, dated the 6th August, state that on the next day General Scott's advance under General Twiggs was positively to take up its line of march for the capital. All the reinforcements under Cad- wallader, Pillow, and Pearce, had joined General Scott, and would swell his numbers to something like 14,000 or 15,000 men. One third must be deducted for necessary garrisons, and for sick and disabled; so that the marching column will not exceed 10,000 men.

Ex-President Houston has addressed a letter to the editor of the Texas Benner, defending himself against an imputation of chicanery in managing the annexation of Texas with the United States. The charge is contained in the following extract of a letter written by Mr. Tyler, late President of the United States, which appeared in the Weekly Union of the 12th June-

" Nor was it until I received authentic information that other nations were exerting all their efforts to induce a course of action on the part of Texas, at war, as I firmly believed, with the permanent interests of the United States, that I gave directions to my lamented friend Able P. Upshur, then Secretary of State, to break up and scatter to the winds the web of their intrigues, by a direct pro- position for annexation."

In other words, Mr. Tyler here insinuates that the authorities of Texas Were intriguing with England for their own advantage while affecting to be bent solely on annexation ; and that the junction which was ultimately effected was the result of Mr. Tyler's vigorous statesmanship in spite of impediments raised on the part of the leading Texans. Mr. Houston's reply gives a different colour to the affair. It shows that the real anxiety for annexation lay on the side of Texas; that her efforts to bring it about were treated with coldness and discouragement for many years; and that they were only successful at last by working on the jealousy of the United states. This was effected by the simple process of carefully abstaining from taking the least notice of the various charges of " treason," "selling to England," " subsidizing to France," &c., from time to time made by the editors of the United States journals. Mr. Houston confirms this general assertion by recapitulating the whole of the negotiations between the Texan stud United State authorities.

The commercial news of the United States is of some interest. The advices from England had cast a cloud over the bill-market; none but the most established names finding purchasers. The rate of exchange had ad- Wanced to 108.

"The remittance by the steamer," says the New York Express, " will be very Much increased, in consequence of the fact that numerous bills have been taken up in London for the honour of the endorsers, and will not be returned to this country. Provision has therefore to be made by the remittance of funds by this steamer, to protect drafts of this description."

Notwithstanding the unfavourable tenonr of the advices taken out by the Cambria and Guadalquiver, the flour-market had maintained itself.

CANADA.—The accounts brought from Quebec and Montreal of the Sanatory state of the emigrants continue to be very unsatisfactory. On the 10th August, the number of sick at Grosse Isle was 2,100.

Daring the week ending the 7th August," says the Quebec Mercury, " there Were 24 deaths among the healthy (1) passengers in the tents; and the bodies of 40 adults and 47 children were landed from ships and buried on the island. The number of persons buried that week thus amounted to 307. The passengers of the Free Trader, Larch, Saguenay, and Ganges, were waiting to be landed. There i being room but for 2,000 persons in the tents, and that number being already in occupation of them, they were unavoidably detained on board. The new sheds have gone down in frame. Mr. Casgrain, Commissioner of Public Works, went down with them, to select a site."

The report of the Montreal Board of Health, dated the 12th August, Contains severe comments on the condition in which the bulk of the emi- grants from Great Britain have been suffered to depart— They have been allowed to ship in numbers totally disproportioned to the tonnage of the vessels, that is to say, in numbers twice or three times greater than the same vessels would presume to embark for any port in the United States; and the natural, the certain consequence, has been a never-before-heard-of mortality

on the ocean, and misery among survivors who arrived, almost terrible to be in- quired into. Such appears the indifference of commerce to everything but gain,

that free human beings are the only cargo a shipmaster can embark without some responsibility for its safe delivery or guaranty for deficiency on arrival at his des- tined port."

" During the past month, in only ten of the vessels arrived, four from Cork and six from Liverpool, sailing with 4,427 passengers, there were 804 deaths on the passage, and 847 sick on arrival, as reported in the newspapers; but it may be

well supposed that few of the survivors could be otherwise, or even reach any other than an early, grave. Terrible as have been the tales of the slave-trade,

against which the British nation has so long protested, and to suppress which she maintains a fleet, they exceed not in horrors, nor perhaps equal, the dreadful realities to which these unfortunate wanderers have been subjected. The Larch,. reported this morning from Sligo, sailed with 440 passengers; of whom 108 died. on the passage, and 150 were sick. The Virginias sailed with 496 passengers; 158 died on the passage, and 186 were sick, and the remainder landed feeble and tottering—the captain, mates, and crew, were all sick. The Black Hole of Cal- cutta was a mercy compared to the holds of these vessels. Yet simultaneously, as if in reproof to those on whom the blame of all this wretchedness must fall, foreigners, Germans from Hamburg and Bremen, are daily arriving, all healthy, robust, and cheerful. " By the published official return of the 4th of this month, it appears 70,006 emigrants had then arrived this season, of whom many thousands are still below at Grosse Isle, or on board ship, and many thousands are yet to arrive; of whom 4,732 sailed between the 2d and 17th of July, when emigration had not ceased. Of this number, 1,641 are shipped in four vessels from Liverpool, and are un-

doubtedly wretched outcasts, such as have infested that city daring the past year till portions of it resemble a city of the plague, and of whom the authorities there have continued to relieve themselves by exporting multitudes to die on the pas sage or to die miserably here. The smallest calculation of what we must expect in Montreal this winter, if these people are allowed to congregate here, shows sufficiently the necessity of sending out of this city every boat-load on the day that it arrives.'

The Montreal Herald of the 28th August gives the following account of the weather in Canada- " The long drought has been terminated by a few showers within the last twenty-four hours. The distribution of sunshine and moisture this season has been exceedingly irregular. Westward of the district of Montreal, we hear of heavy local thunder-storms. In the district of Quebec, and to the North and East of that city, we hear of almost continuous rain. In this neighbourhood we have scarcely had more than one shower for the last two months; and we hear both from the Northern and Eastern townships that the favourable promise of July has been much abated by the extreme dryness. The wheat is good; but we are- told from many quarters, that oats, pease, and barley will be very light."

CAPE OF GOOD HOPE.—The advicea from the Cape are to the 20th. July. The unfortunate advantage gained over our troops by the Kafirs on- the 15th June seems to have had its moral effect in greatly increasing the confidence of the barbarians. According to the Zuid Afrikaan of the 15th July, Pato, who was actually on his way to surrender himself to the Eng- lish, when he heard of " Siuidilla's victory," halted on his journey, intend- ing to postpone his submission, and await the course of events. It was also- understood, that, finding the Kafirs had been so successful, Panda, the Zoo- loo chief; was preparing to invade the Natal settlement; and from what had transpired, organized hostilities in various other quarters were apprehended. In fact, the prospect of affairs was so discouraging, that the Ninetieth Regiment, which was preparing to depart for England, had been despatched to the frontier; and orders were issued to detain all troops on the voyage from India, who were to be held in readiness to proceed to Kafirland.