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SATURDAY.
The Royal Family left Windsor today, for Osborne, till the 24th of December, when they return to keep the Christmas holydays at Windsor Castle.
The Aberdeen Journal believes that the Crown has come to a final agreement with the trustees of the Earl of Fife, by which Queen Victoria has acquired the fee-simple of her "Highland home" at Balmoral.
The deplorable war now going on at the Cape of Good Hope is attract- ing increased attention in the Metropolis. A public meeting, called by the Peace Society and the Aborigines Society, last week assembled at the London Tavern, under Mr. Samuel Gurney as chairman. After hearing speeches by Mr. Gurney, Mr. J. Hodgkin, the Reverend H. Richard, Mr. J. W. Alexander, the Reverend John Burnett, and Mr. Chamerovzow, the meeting passed two resolutions : the first stigmatized the war, as disho- nourable to us as Christians, and derogatory to our Christian character, for our utter disregard of the natural rights of the native tribes, aggravated by an unceasing endeavour to undermine and destroy the influence of their chiefs ; the second expressed the belief of the meeting, that at the present critical juncture, an intimation of a desire for peace, conjointly with the establishment of an open inquiry on the spot under the presidency of im- partial and independent civil Commissioners, specially appointed, would al- lay animosity, and would afford us the opportunity of recurring, in our fu- ture relations with the Caffres, to the "conciliatory and humane principles sanctioned in 1835 by the most competent authorities, and subsequently vin- dicated in the application by several years of encouraging experience." Another public meeting, called by the Aborigines Society, was held yes- terday, in the Friends' Meeting-house, St. Martin's Lane ; Mr. Charles Lushington, M.P. for Westminster, in the chair. Mr. Chamerovzow, Mr. R. Moor, Mr. J. Bell, and Dr. Hodgkin, were speakers ; and it was re- solved "to promote a more extensive knowledge of the events" which are "going forward in our Colonies," more especially those of South Africa.
The Earl of Shaftesbury has gone down to Manchester to fulfil an en- gagement made in the spring of the year, to attend a series of meetings of the factory operatives, who are desirous to present him some acknow- ledgment of his past services, and renew their alliance with him as a member of the Upper House of the Legislature. He was the guest of Mr. W. Fairbairn, the eminent engineer, on 'Wednesday; is now the visitor of the Earl of Harrowby, at Sandon Hall ; and next week goes on to Bolton and some other great towns of Lancashire and Yorkshire. On Wednesday, he met the first of the gatherings, at the Cotton-tree Inn, in Ancoats Lane : it consisted of representatives deputed from each fac- tory, and was headed by Mr. P. Hargreaves, chairman of the Short-time Committee, and Mr. W. Stanley, operative. Lord Shaftesbury acknow- ledged the fairness with which, now the conflict is over, the masters have generally worked the new law of short-time labour. In his thanks to the operatives, he responded most warmly to the heartiness with which they had called him "brother "—" God knows that in sentiment I eta their brother, and I hope to be able to my dying day to show it." His Lordship is accompanied by Mr. Edwin Chadwick ; who was formally introduced by him to the operatives, "to snake his acquaintance with them, and acquire a better knowledge of the means to serve their cause."
The farmers of South Bucks seem anxious not to be totally identified with Mr. Disraeli's policy. At the annual general meeting of the sub- scribers to the Royal South Bucks Agricultural Association, held at Eton yesterday, Mr. Disraeli's infringement of the mile of political neutrality by his speech on the 7th October was severely condemned. With a view to prevent similar licence in future, it was more stringently enjoined on the President, that he resist the introduction of political topics ; and it was made the duty of the Secretary that he call the attention of the Pre- sident to the rule, at every meeting.
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