SIR H. SMITH & HIS NEW GOVERNORSHIP IN AFRICA. From the Times.

New Zealander, Volume 3, Issue 189, 22 March 1848, Page 2

SIR H. SMITH & HIS NEW GOVERNORSHIP IN AFRICA. From the Times.

Before the close of the week, a successful soldier, who through six short months of re>st has been receiving the merited compliments of his countrymen,, departs again for new fields of labour and new emergence s of war. k The great work on which Sir Henry .Smith is no* despatched is one of less fatigue and gi eater promise ; bat it he succeeds in restoring peace and security to thousands of his harrasspd rouna trymen, he will earn as noble, if not as bnlliani a name as that which he brought from the held of Aliwal. We will not pay the ill compliment to 80 app oved * commander of diecuisiug the probabilities of his fortune on the frontier. We will rather take it for granted that as the Government is clearly impressed with a sense of the real requirements of the occasion, there will be a speedy end to the scene 10 discreditable to the'i' reputation, where a British frontier has for mure t'^an a year been without; any law but that of ihe stronger ; wh-re British subjects are in hourly peril of their lives, and wheie a gieat nation is set at nought by a heathen tribe, alledging for its outrages full instigation and a good cause. But alter order shall have been' re-establish d, and after there bhall not hare temaitied a noun on either tide of the Keiskamma with power or daring to dispute the authouty of the British Crown, there will ttill be the arduous work of providing against any possible recurrence of mch disgraceful anarchy, ot mediating between the just claims of the colonists and the (air rights of a barbarous, but defenceless, neighbour, and of taking such order for the future as shall never shame a powerful nation by the oppression of a handful ot savages, nor expose a colony to ruin by any preposteious sympathy with the propensities of uncivilized nature. Our r.adf rs will be awaie, that besides the irrepressible inftmct which leads the unrelaimed Caffre to dep.edation and plunder, there has always been a source of incessant dispute between the borderers in the debdtertble lands. Thifa question was very summanly despatched in times pist by Sir Benjumin DUrban, who. after driving back theirjfuriated mvadeis of 1834-5, pursued them to their farthest haunts, and confiscated the country up to the Kei as a new province. Lord Glenelg decided against the conqueror and the colony. He alledged thatinvabion was nothingbut a retribution, which has been fully provoked, and he ordered tbe cession of the conquered districts, and the withdrawal of the British frontier to the Gieat Fish River, so llut the CalTres regained their country in full rights as far as the Keiskamraa, and were still further gratified by the lestoration of the space between this river and the Great Fish River to that acceptable character of neutral ground which it had latterly tended to lose by successive tettlements of tbe colonisti. Now these have already urged it as a principalgnevance that this Great Fish River is a boundary as illadapted to nature to its special purposes as could pos* sibly be coneened ; for that whereas it offers no tenable line of defence against invasion, the abundant and exlen ive bush upon its banks supplies impenetrable cover to prowling marauders. Whether this is indeed a valid allegation or whether it merely implies a desire for the extension of colonial territoiy will be readily answered by so acute and experienced a judge as the new Governor ; but it is obviously a question of the gre Uest importance. A defensive frontier there must be. If it be pleaded (am we should not deny the plausibility of the plea) that it would ill become the British nation to proceed to tiic rights ot conquest, aud wrest by violence from a baibarous tribe its hereditiry or acknowledged possessions, let an adequate compensation be made for such teritorial acquisit ous at may be deemed necessary to future peace. The most resolute philanthropist would hardly say that.

the laws of nature or nations were harshly strained, if a civilised people demanded imperatively, an effective barrier against an uncivilised and irresponsible neighbour—at some cost to the latter it may be, but with the best compensation that could be derised for his surrender. The Charitable Protestant Association.— Last week, the 179 th anniversary of this charity was celebrated at the Protest Dissenting Church, cur-tain-road, Fho.elitch. This association was originally founded in the re.gn of Ch.rlei II for the relief ol the. Puritans and Primitive Methodists, who at that period were subject to persreutors. It was stated, that in one year alone. 1068, 500 preachers were imprison™, and, 2 000 000/. o» property confiscated. The funds of the d'ur.ty are now used for the relief of the poor and ii\Cirm.— Literary Gazette Armt Canteens —We hive seen with great satisfaction an announcement of the iatention of Governwent to prohibit for the future the sale of intoxicating liquors in the cant-en. If this regulation should be carried on*, it will be found one of the best that evewas adopted for preserving the character end contnbutina to the happiness of the British soldier. Hitherto the canteen has offered him ready opportunities for contracting habits of dissipation and idleness, which, indeed, he must have found it very difficult to avoid ; for being isolated from worthier means of occupying his leisure, drinking becomes almost of necesbitv his only resource. It argues a long and culpable indigence to the respectability of the lower ranks of the army that they should have been until now abandoned to such a debasing employment of their time, when off duty, as a taproom could afford, No care w*s taken to supply them with any better indulgence than that of ministering to a ruinous propensity, which proverbially brings every description of vice, as well as the utmost misery, in its train. By the regulations heretofore existing, the privilege of tempting the soldier to turn drunkard is a matter of contract between the Government and the keeper of the cante n, who, having purchased his right, felt himself at full liberty to make the most l.c could of if. Tne sale of mtoxeating liquors was of course the most profitable pan or the trade, for a habit of drinking is rapidly a-quired, and when once it seizes its victim, it speedily adorns all his means. Thus the soldier was encouraged ma vice which wai sure to transfer every farthing he possessed to the pockets of those by whom the materials for gratifying his degrading; propensity were supplied "We think the Government will have acted most jnoperly in prohibiting the sale of intoxicating liquors ; for any regulations that might be prescribed in order to allow it under certain conditions would almost certainly be abused.— rimes Db Quincey on the Heroic Spirit m Woman —Woman, sister— there are some things winch you do not execute as well as your brother, man; no, nor never will. Pardon me if I doubt whether you will ever produce a great poet from your choirs, or a Mozart, or a Phidias, or a Michael Angelo, or a philosopher, or a great scholar. By which last is meant— not one who depends simply on an infinite and electral po«er of combination ; bringing together from the four winds, like the an*« 1 of the resurrection, what else \»ere dust from men's bones, into the unity ot breathing life. If you can create yourself inti any of these great creator/, why have you not ? Do you ask me to «ay otherwise ; b°rause if you do, you will lead me into temptation. Fur 1 swore early m life never to ut'er a falsehood, and, above all, a sycophantic falsehood 1 and, in the taU homage of the modem press towaids woman, there is horrible sycophancy. It is as hollow, most of it, and it is as fleeting as is the love that lurks .n uxononsness. Yet, if a woman a*ki me to tell a filsehood, I have long made up ray miucl— thai on moral consideration* I will, and ought to do so, whether it be for any purpose of glory to her, or to screen hsr foibles (for she djes commit a ew), or of humbly, as a vassal, paying a pepper-corn rent tohei august privilege of caprice. Barring these cases, I must adhere to my resolution of telling no hos, Yet, sister woman— though I cannot consent to find a Mozart or Michael Angelo in your sex, until the day when you claim my promise as to falsehood—cheerfully, and will) the'love that burns in depths of .idmiration, I acknowledge that you can do one thing as well as the bebt ot us men— a greater thing than even Mozart is known to have done, or Michael Angelo — you can die grandly, and as goddesses would die wjre goddesses mortal. If any distant worlds (which may be the case) are so far ahead ot ua Tellurians m optical resource* as to see distinctly through their telescopes all that we do on earth, what is the grandest sight to which we ever neat them ? St. Peter's at Rome, do you fancy, on Easter Sunday, or Luxor, or perhaps the HmaUyas ? Pooh ! pooh !my friend : bUggest some thing better ; these ore baubles to them, they see in othei worlds, in I heir own, far better toys of the tame kind. These, take my word for it are nothing. JJo you give it up? The finest thing, then, we have to show them is a scaffold on the Booming of execution I assure you ihere is a strong muster in those far telescopic worlds, on any such morning, of tho-e who hHppen to find th mselves occupying the right hemisphere for a peep at us. Telescopes look up in the maiket on that morning, and bear a monstrous premium ; fi-r th y client, probably, in those scientific words as well as we dc. How, then, it it be announced in some such telescopic w*>rd by those who make a livelihood of catching glimpses at our newfcpaneis, whose language they hnve long since deciphered, that the poor victim in themornirgssacnfi c li a woman ? II -w if it be published on that distant world that ihe sufl>rer wears upon her head, in the eyes of many, the g/rlands of martyrdom ? How, if it should be some Marie Antoinette, the widowed quetn, coming forward on the scaffold, and presenting to the mowing air her head, turned grey prematurely by sorrow, daughter of C'seiaf's kneeling down humbly to ]f us the guil otine, as one that wonhips death ! How, if it were the " martyred wife of Roland, ' uttering imprtssionuble truth— truth odious to the ruleis of her country— with her expiring breath ? How, it it were the noble Charlotte Corday, that in the bloom of youth, that with the loveliest ot persons, that with homage waiting upon her smiles wherever she turned 4* ), e r face to scatter them— bomttpe that followed those smiles as surely as the carols of birds, after showers in spring, follow the re-appeaiing nun and the racing ot tiuibearjos over the hills— yet thought all these things cheaper than the dust upon her sandal* in comparison of deliverance from hell lor her dear buffering France ? Ah ! these were spectacles indeed for those sympathising ptople in distant worlds; and some, perhaps, would buffer a sort of martyrdom themselves, because they could not te-tily their wrath, could not bear witness to the strength of love, and to the fury of hatred, that burned within them at such scenes ; could noi cather into golden urns some of that glonous dust ' which rested in the catacombs of earth.— Taifs Ma gazine. A fossil cherry tree vras discovered in a bed o sandstone, in the Isle of Wight, 200 feet below thi surface of the earth.

A Scottish Military Bishop.— lt appears from Scottish history, (hat, prior to the _ Reformation, churchmen were often as much distinguished for their gallantry as soldiers, as for their piety as divinei. Of these clerical warriors no one appears to have been so celebrated as William Sinclair, a bishop of Dunkeld, at the beginning of the fouitfenth century. Thin prela'e was known by the appellation of the Military Bishop and the Champion of the Kingdom. Living in the time of the unhappy tronbles caused by the attempts of Edward to subdue Scotland, he was frequently called upon to exert his abilities in securing the independence of his country. Once while residing in his palace of Auchtertool, in Fife, the sheriff of that country went with a body of five hundred men to make head against the English, who had landed in the neighbourhood ; but observing thai the country was laid was c, and that the enemy kept a good countenance, the sheriff fell back as fast as he could. On heaiing this, the bishop armed himself, took horse with about sixty of hn people who were well discliplined, and soon met the sheriff, crying aloud, J 1 What madness is it in you to run away at this rate !'' The sheriff rephe 1, " Because the English are more numerous a»id better soldiers than we are." " If you co. your due," siys the bishop, " the king would cause chop off your golden spurs. But follow me, and \> ith the assistance of St Columbus, whose lands they lay waste, we shall have our revenge." With the»e words he threw away the bishop's staff, grasped his sword, and turned himself to the sheriff with this expression, "Do follow me." They did follow him, came up with the enemy, and happily ebtained a compete victory. There fell that day more than fire hundred English, besides" a number who, by crowding into their boat, overset it, and were all drowned. Sinclair was a great favourite of the king (David the Second), who always in conversation called him " my own Bishop ; and the letter* he wrote to him were addressed "To our Bishop." He died 27tb June, 1337, having filled the eep of DimkeU twenty five years, and was buried in the choir of Dunkeld cathedral, which he built from the foundation ; and in memorial of this work, he caused lo be erected on the top oi the e*st gable of the choir of the present church of Dunkeld, a fluted cross, as part of the armorial bearings of his family, which is still standing.— C/*aw»6ers' Journal. A Highland Settler. — The best method of illustrating the prosperity of settlers (says M'Gregor, in his excellent work on British Ameiica), it by stating instances of individual success. Among the settlers of New Burnswick, 1 had some conveisatiou with an old Highlander, from Sutherlandshire, one of the soldiers of the 42d regiment, who was disbanded iv America after the revolutionary war. This, man had settled on the baukt of the Na>lnvaack, and had scarcely ever lince been absent from his farm, except occasionally with his overplus coin or potatoes t> Fiedenckton. He retained his naive language with as much purity as if he had never removed from the Tale in which he was b irn, by which I immediately discovered where he came from ; the tone and the accent of his Gaelic varying as much in one shire, or in one of the isles in Scotland, from the others, as the pronunciation of the inhabitants of the several counties in England does. When i addressed ihis good old man in his native language, his very soul seemed to feel all the rapture of early enthusiasm ; and I can ne>er forget the bright warmtu of Ins countenance, and the ardour of hw languau 'f > , when inquiring about the state of tbe Highlaud«, and the condition of his countrymen. He said he übud for tie first few years to receive now and then letters fiom his friends, but that bis relatives gradually dropped off, some by death, others by removal to distant countries; and that for the last twenty years he had no direct intelligence from Sutherland. Never could lus country, however, cease to be dear to him. " Never " said he, " will we forget the tales, the songs, and tbe music he heard in the Highlands ; we recite or sing them during the winter evenings, and our childien will ever remember them, and, I hope, transmit Ihera to their offspii.ig." II« saiJ, that although government did much tor them (his neighbours and himself), they nevertheless suffered very great bardships for the first few years after settling where they now live. •• There were some idlers and faint-hearted people," he said, "among us who left the settlement, but all those who have remained have prospered. I am myself as comfortable as> I can be. All my family are married , some of them live with, me ; others htjve farms of their own. I have very little to do but enjoy myself among my cinldien and my grandchildren; ami although the best years of my n anhood wert speiif fighting for my king, and the greatest part of my life since that period has been spent toiling for the support of my family, and tor whatever I now possess ; yet I have great reason," he continued, " to be thankful and grateful to God, in whom I trust, for a peaceful and calm retreat, through my declining \cu>, to another world." This is nearly a translation otwhat he said, bur des'itule of ihe%ce oi expression so peculiar to the language iv which he spoke— that of nature. Peasant Gratitude —Many Hands make Light Work. — On Wednesday last, upwards of 300 men assembled at Cloona, the residence of William Gardiner, JE&q., and proceeded at once to an extensive corn-field belonging to that gentleman. They immediately set to woik, and in a short time several acres of oats yielded to thei' sickles, which they brought on their own carts lo Mi. Gardiner's haggard, and they slacked and secured it. This was usp mtaneous act on the part of the country people, and was performed to mai k their estimation of Mr. Gardiner's character, and their admiration of the mild, conciliating and humane disposition for which he is di&tiiigu.sued.— Tyrawly Herald. M\rhiage of a Priest.— The neighbourhood ol Fermoy has been favored with an extraordinary marrige between a reverend Homan Catholic Clergyman and the accomplished daughter of au M.D. The determination of the reveiend gentleman seems praiseworthy, and all impartial, unprejudiced persons wish him and his fair bride • God speed !' 'Marriage is honoiable to all men,' and as the late Mr. Daniel O'Connell broke through an Act of Parliament in becoming M.P. for Clare County, nnd carried Emancipation, the Rev. Mr. Aherne has broken the ice, and henceforth celibacy will no longer be the scandal and th< snare of tbe Romish Priesthood. Mr. Aherne is there, foie to be much applauded. The fact of the marriage is notorious. — Kilkenny Moderator. Education of the Poor. — Munificent Bequest— The late Jumes Alexander, Esq., of Hermitage, Mer chant in Glasgow, has bequeathed the residue of hii large fortune, amounting to from ;4'5U,0Q0 to £60,000 to endow an hospital for the education, the clothing and if necessary, the support of poor children of botl sexes in this City.— Glasgow Chronicle. A meeting ha* been held at Calcutta, in honour o the metnoiy of the late Dwarkaoauth Tajore, and i has be^n resolved to raise a fund to be called— -th " Dwarkanauth Endowment Fund," for enabling Hm doo youth to complete their education at Unmr&it College, London.— Examiner.

The Art of Dress.— We are inclined to think that the female part of the attire of the present day ii, upon the whole, ii as favourable a slate as the most Tenement advocates for what is called nature and simplicity could desire. It is a costume in which they can dress quickly, walk nimbly, eat plentifully, stoop easily, 101 l gracefully, and in whort, perform all the duties of life without let or hindrance. The head is left to it 3 natural size, the skin to its native purity, the waist at its proper region, the heels at their real level. The dress is one calculated to brine; out the natural beauties of the person, and each of them has, as far as we see, fair play. In former days, what wa< known of woman's hair, in the cap of Henry the VIIPs time.— or of her foiehead under the hair m George the Ill's time,— or of the slenderness of her throat in a gorget of Edward the Vt> tunp,— or of fhs fall of her shoulders in a welt or wiug of Queen Ea. xabeih'i time,— or oi the shape of her arm in a great bishop's sleevj , even in our own time ? Now-a-days, all these points receive full satisfaction for past neglect, and a *oman breaki upon us in such a plenitude of charms that we hardly know where to begin th-? caralogue. Hair light as silk in floating curls, or n-esMve as marble in shining coils. Forehead bright and smooth as mother-of-pearl, and arched in matchles •ymmetry by its own beautiful drapeiy. Ear, which for centuries had hin concealed, set onto the sid: of the head like a delicate shell. Throat, a lovely italk, leading the eye upward to a lovelier flower, jinJ downwards, along- a fair sloping ridge, undulating in the true line of beauty, to the polished precipice of the shoulder; whence, from the pendant calyx of the shortest poskible sleeve, hangs a lovely branch, smooth and glittering, like pale pink coral, slightly curved towards the figure, and terminating in five taper petals, pinker still, folding and unfolding at their own sweet will, and especially contrived by nature to pick your heart clean to the bone before you kuow what you are about. In this age, the male costume has been reduced to a mysterious combination of the inconvenient and the unpicturesque, which, except in the li»ht of a retribution, it is puzzling to accouni for. Hot in summer,— cold in winter,— useless in cither keeping off rain or tun,— stiff, but not plain, —bare, without being simple, not durable, not becoming', not cheap. Man is like a corrupt borough, the only way to stop the evil has been to deprive him of his franchise. lie,— we mean the man of civil life, —the military are not at present in question, —the pekin is no longer even allowed the option of making himself ridiculoui. Not a single article is left in his wardrobe with which he caa even maks what is called an impression, — a conquest is out of the question. Each taken separately is as absurd as the emptiest fop could have devised, and ai u 3 'ly as the stnunchest Puritan could have desired. Tne hat is a machine which an impartial stranger might impute a variety of useful culina-y purposes to, but would never dream of putting it on his head, his stork looks like a manacle with which he has escaped from prisou, or his cravat, like a lasso, with which he has been caught in the act. His shirt collars may be entitled to their name of water-modem (o/fatlier-murdereis), in G rmany, (from the legend of a student who jetumed from the university with such a stiff par, that on embracing his governor, they cut his throat;) but. certainly never did any other execution there or eUewhere. His coat is a contrivance which covers only half his person, and does not fit that: while his w aistcoat, if a straight oi.e, would be an excellent restraint for one who can contentedly wear the rest of the costume. Each article, in addition, being und<r such itrict laws, that whoever at'emots to alier or embellish, only gets credit for moie vanity than hia fellows, and not for more taste,— Quarterly Review. The Husbands and their Wives.— Three American!, Tom Watson, Joe Brown, aud Bill Walker, sat late at the village tavern, and in the merriment ot their hearts, made an arrangement that the "shot' should be paid by him who omitted to do the first thing his wife told him on returning home. They then ieparated for the night, engaging to meet again next morning, and make an honest leport. Next morning Wulker and Hrown were early at their posts, but it was some time before Wuson made hii appearance. Walker begin first. <( You see, when I entered my house, the candle was out, and as the fire gave but a glimmering light, I was near walking into a pot of batter that the pancakes were to be made of this morning. My wife, dreadfully ou«, of humor at sitting up so long, said to me saicasdcally— ' Do put your foot into the batter.' ' Just as you say, Maggy, said I, and without the least hesitation I let my toot in the pot of bitter and the.it went to bed.' Next Jos Biown told his story. •My wife had already retired to rest in our sleeping-room, which adjo ns the kitchen, and the door of which was a jar. Not being able to navigate perfectly well, I made a dreadful clattering amung ths household furniture, and iv no very pleasant tone she baw.ed out— 'Do break the porridge pot, Joe!' No sooner said than done— l seized hold of the pot, and itriking it against the chimney jamb, broke it in a hundred piecei : after this exploit 1 retired to rest, and got a curtain lecture for my pains." It was now Tom Watson's turn to give an account of himself, which he did, with a very long face, as follows—" My wife gave me the most unlucky command in thewoild, for, as I was blundeiingup stairs in thedaik, she cried out—' Do break your neck, do Tom I 1I 1 ' I'll be killed if I do, Kate, nail I, as I gathered myself up, 1 ll sooner piy the bill!' And so, landlord, here's the cabh for you. This is the last time I'll ever risk five dollars on the command of my wile. When men fall under despotism, they are bound to make efforts to shake it off ; nnd those efforts are, at that period, the only propeity the unfortunate people have left. The height of misery ii, not to be able to free ourselves from it, and to suffer without daring to complain. Where is the man barbarous and stupid enough to give the name of peace to the silence and forced tranquility of slavery ? It is indeed peace, but it is the peace of the tomb.— Helvelius. A Desirable Neighbour.—" Mother wants to know if you won't please to lend her your preserving kettle,' cauieas how she wants to pieserve ? "We would with pleasure, my boy ; but the truth is, the lait time we loaned it to your mother, she preserved it so effectually that we h rt ve never seen it since " Wei], you needn't be sca r cy aoout your old kettle. Guesi it was full of holes when we borrowed it, and mother wouldn't a' trouble you again, only we sea'd you bring home a new one."— Gait Reporter. The Rev. J. Parsons, stated lately at a public meeting in Leeds that a station keeper ou a Yoikslure railway left his situation, on un electric telegiaph being introduced, for he thought it a production of the Prince of Darkness.— This was giving the devil mort than his due, A gentleman, indisposed and confined to his beel lent his servant to see what hour it was hy a siuwha which was fastened in his garden. Tha smant wai an Irishman, and being at a loss to find th.Mime, carried ihesun-dial to his mastes, eayi m;, " lleie, S,r now look at it yourself, it is » perfect rayaiuy hi over. 1 ' . •*«

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Pov'ertv ov Gohgi.ous BA.NauKT.~The poet tells ns ol poor wretches who "in the teeming vineyard die foi thirst." A lot, little difficult as regards the moral of the tale, related by the Courier dcs Etats Unis gives an account of a very singular will left by a a althy notary in Paris, about 25 years since, which is yet in cuune of fulfilment. His greatest pleasure in lite had been to galher his numerous fiiencls around his tible and treat them splendidly, and he conceived the notion of perpetuating those social gatherings after his death. Accordingly, by his will he instituted an annual banquet for 20 of his chosen frien'ls, appropriating to the purpose the sum of 2,001) f. (BJ/) * The. details of the icist wera stuctly enjoined, directing the expense always to be l'Jof. a head. The meni"J'y ot the deceased was to bs toasted, and the bn'yect of convention to be as fiLsndilup or pohteucu3 might dictate. The least was to be inviolably the same, 21 plate 3 to he always set (one for him - self as perpetual hea 1 of the table), and 2,000f. to be expended. The first year the 2<i friend* were all there, but year after year were removed by death until in 20 yeais 'hpy weie l'bducd to eight. These partook ot the fe.'i't, and toa3ted the memories of their departed comp inio.is. Last year, howevei, there were but two, who solely shared the luvirious but melancholy banqust. The two knew each other but little, and met yea-ly at this table. Their positions weie very different. One w<is verynch, while misfoitune had icduced the other to destitution. TJie rich and poor mtm sat coolly opposite to each othei, uu'il, warmed by the wmJB, they had fo.gotton tb>'ir d.ft'jrent circumstance--. On lbb i'Mum, tins >ear, the feast again returned, hut the rich man wis dead, and the poor, the only survivor, seated himself at the table laden withsilver. with its 21 covois and its delicious viands There he sat the victim of poverty, subject to us privations, pervaded by a feeling of sadnesaand desolation at a magnificent banquet of 2,000f. Copper Boats. — After the engagement which took place against the Cochin-Chinese, (he sailors of the Victorieuse perceived (several smell boats floating about. They were picked up and found to be formed of thin sheets of copper, without any mixture of wood in their constiuction. They aie to be sent Home and placid in the Naval Museum.— French Paper. The Navigation Laws. — To show the public feeling on the Navigation Laws, it may be worth while to give the result of an examination of the Petitions presented to Paihament during the pastsession. Among the list we find the number preiented against the repeal of the Navigation Laws was 79, with 23,284 signatures ; foi inquiry into the subject 8 petitions bearing 1G signatures, and for the repeal of the Navigation Laws one petition with one signature. PuEsrDLNT Polk, and his Wauls. — The following extract ftora a letter received in this City on Tuesday last, from America, contains an Englishman's undisguised sentiments relative to the Mexican war The writer, who is well known in Oxlord, t,ays — " This war, winch has been brought about by Mr. President Polk and his advibers, merely to plunder the people, und create a host of office-holdisrs, to be used as occasion may requite, for electioneering purposes, and for theii' own jggw ndizement, nas placed the administiatiou in ihe gmatest hobble— they do not know how to carry it on, or how to ge". clear of it — it is on«, of the gieatest blunder ever committed by men calling themcelves diplomatists, for m the first place it is an unjust war by a ttrong power against a weak one, — in die next place il is against the boasted constitution of the country, which the piebent adminis-riarion party profess to carry out to the veiy lettei— and in the next place n is veiy unpopular with the people, unless it 13 with a tew crying clinging sycophant-, who Burround the White-house at Washington, like so many hungry dogs round a slaughter house, looking out for any office that may chance to drop, aud theio are some three or four hundred-thousand of them in the gift of the President, to that ha wields an immense power with regard to the next election, and nearly one-half has been created during this war— but with all tins, Mr. Polk stands no chance for another term."— Oxford Chronicle. A would-be Sporisman. — He with the white cord trovvsers, and many pocketed cut-away coat, with the racing whip, aud admirably bespattered boots (only a little too regular for the leal flirt), he is a lawyer's clvjrk at 18j. per week. Can you believe it ? And he really does know a livery stable keeper ; and once sat alongside a spotting baronet on the box <>1 a Brighton coach, and talki of him as a familiar fcpivit •, ami keeps a betting book, but is miseiubiy haul "P> <»>d borrows ot Ins iellowcleiks, but toigets to pay. He \nll eventually be more than a "genf," he'll be a " leg" m a small way and fiequent low billuird-rooms, and get kicked and become a markei, and drink, dr.nk, drink, and eat, hut only a crust, .uid get lower aud l-twer. Hi* horse hoofed caiw, and ins fox-headed pin, and his racingwhip, and Ins Inend the livery-stable-keeper will all have deserted him; and at 30 he'll die in the paiish. workhouse, and all because he would make himself ridiculous by affecting the tastes of his superiors in his youngei clays. 'And this miserable animal is go-< ing to the Derby to-morrow ; and if you are 111 town yoTi'll see hundreds moie spending their substance, their 18s. per wetk, iv endedvouung to appear what they are not.) JWhy don't they try to be that which they appear? The J)«jrby was never intended for them. Racing is a treat to the Yorkshire tyke, to the happy rustic, the honest and indus nous tradesman; and the Derby-ilay should be a happy day to millions ; but phaetons, and cigar,, aud iced champagne, cutting whips and cutaway coats, and betting-books, are not the things for tailor's apprentices and lawyers' cleiks. My tlcai gents, it any ol >ou go the length, of leading this, believe me, you're only laughed at and despised by those you mutate. They know you, we know you, everybody knows you, as " gents," despicable enough ; as "spotting gents," immeasurably so. Strive to be tionest, mdustpous, respectable; support jour mothers, let ihem know you're not out. if you thi»)k now of going to the Derby next year, remember the miserable headache of the next (lay and the emptiness ot the pocket ot the ne\t quarter ; ami when jou imitate the aristocracy, don't let it be in mauiieis, or drtss, 01 lumi \v->, or follies, or vices, because you cannot do it; but let it be in loyalty, fidelity to your chinch <uid queen, a.id uprightness and honesty in that station ot life 111 which Prowdeuce has placed you.— 6>o) ting Reoieu, ;j ; j ... Tn ,..^ Tame Crocodiles. — A fnghtful event occurred last month at Damietta. Ant Effjndi, gjvernor of the town, hail two tame ciocodiles in his garden. Antgro having llltretued one of them, the n«tuial ferocny of thj animal returned, and he rushed on the governor's child, ti^ed about 12 years, who whs standing by the n gru'a a de, aud killed him.— -Galigna j '&• A Fe\rfhl Possibility/. — Bathing Machine Propiietor: Did you get that 'ere j;c it's sixpence btforehe wen" "^0 t' 1 " machine > A Mstant fJjy, (a novice :) 1^ 0, Siri—tuoug'u <is the cr)>co pud when they comeJ oiu. .. j|iitcioi : Pay whei they comes oui , Why h'pose iliat -ront jots out 01 ins depth ani e,ocs and droivuahmiseU, 1 m.y wf.tlefor my hixpeno. Atu't you ashamed of yo\\vaM\-~1-iveipojl Liq <.