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(From the London Blail, Nov. 7.) NAVAL AND MILITARY: NAVAL.
THE FRIEND OF CHINA AND HONULONG GAZETIE.
MADAGASCAR."
"It may appear incredible, but it is positively
SOCIAL ZOOLOGY.
archdeacons, and clergy, or connected with foreign embas. (ing from town to town with the velocity of swal- sies and missions, disunguishing the amount received by lows in a summer evening. The boldness and ex-asserted that the existence of the interior fort, the each denomination. It appears that from 1830 to 1844, lo- clusive (a period of fifteen years), the Church of England tent of these aggregate undertakings convey a keep, was not known even to the traders and peo- had grants of public money amounting to £4,441 3:24; magnificent idea of the resources and enterprise of ple of Tamatave,”—Britania. The King Fisher, 12, Com. Brown, has sailed the Church of Scotland, £319,908: 10 94; the Church of Britain; but their very magnitude lies like a load Rome in Ireland, £136,152, Protestant Dissenters, Eng on the imagination, while the incessant restlessness for Sierra Leone.The Endymion, 44, has been land, £27,614: 12: 3d; and the Protestant Dissenters, Ire commissioned by Capt, T. Henderson.The Amland, £421251-191.' In the same period the expenses of and swift movements they presuppose in such a the clergy connected with foreign embassies and missions numerous class of the community make the head phitrite and Trincomalee, old 43's cutting down to corvettes, are fitting for pivot guns forward.-The amounted to £58,742; 17: 54d, and the expenses of hishops giddy only to think of.
and clergy on journeys of visitation and passages out and La Hogue, 74 guns, to be fitted by the contractors, home, £7,199:1:101. The expenses of building and re Messrs. Wigram, with a screw propeller, for a pairing churches, and chapels, including the drawback of
Purther details have been received relative to the steam guard-ship for the river Medway-The duty on materials used, were in England, £236,652; 11s;
The amount received by the Church Building Commis-lish and French, according to the arrangemen has arrived from the coast of Africa. Her com- sioners for interest on Exchequer bills, loans, &c., was mander (Sir William Daniell), died at Sierra Leone £59,665:8:9d. The amount of the arrears of tithe and made by the French governor of the Isle of Bour. on the 15th ult., and First Lieutenant Need, of the the expenses, &c. under the Tithe Million and other Acts bon, on one side, and the English governor of the for the relief of the clergy in Ireland, was £957,496:10:7d. Mauritius on the other. The attack was success, Acteon 26. Captain Mansel, was appointed to bring The expenses of the Commissions for building New Chur- home the Ringdove by Captain Mansel.-The Ratches in that period amounted to £56,349; 16: 100, and the ful, though the loss on the side of the assailants A letter from an English gentleman tler Com. Smith, has arrived at Devonport, with expenses of the Commissions for the commutation of Ti- official dispatches from Commodore Fairfax Mores thes in England and Wales were £317,800: 10:3d, and at the Mauritius says.
those under the head of "Ecclesiastical purposes, £23,300. by, C. B., under whose, command the Rodney, 92 The result shows that in the year mentioned £,715,853: 8: Capt. Collier, C.; Albion, 90, Capt. N. Lockyer id was expended for the purposes set forth. The second OB, Superb, 80, Capt. Corry; and Canopus, 84, branch of the return shows the grants of publie money for are trying their comparative sailing and other qua. the "building and repair of churches and chapels" of all Radama, her predecessor, the country was advance paid to him, and if this is not the case, he will
denomination from 1500 30 1829. In England the total was, for churches £1,588,401:19:78; in Scotland, £68,564: 15:6d; and in Ireland, £633,745: 14-24; of which £2,113, 3-ld was granted for building and repairing Boman Ca- tholle chapels. The grand total applied under the second head of the return was £2,290,310;9:8d: The details of the two retums are given in papers annexed to them (The Glasgow Herald.}
Kingdore, 16, Commanding (acting) Walter Need. in Scotland, £65,791;5:9d; and in Ireland, £277; 7494. attack on Pamatare by the joint forces of the Eng be very docile, and he has even been known to
lities. The squadron have had light winds only, in which they were enabled to carry royals: and the sailing stands thus-Superb, first, Canopus. se cond, Rodney, third, and Albion last:-The Van guard, 80, Capt. Willes, has sailed to join the ex- perimental squadron." She is 300 tons lighter than in her old trim.--A case of great suffering is pro sented in the prize crew of Her Majesty's Ship Albatross. The prize-officer (Lieut. Elliot) having taken a full slaver to Sierra Leone, there purchas ed a small schooner to enable himself and prize crew speedily to rejoin their ship. Having reached the island of Anabona safely, they took in refresh ments and left for St. Helena, but four days after- wards malignant fever broke out, attacking every white man on board, Lieut.; Elliot and four of the arew died; the medical officer, Dr. Cullen, was himself prostrated by a severe attack of the fever; and the vessel, after lossing about nearly two months in the vain attempt to fetch St. Helena, bore up for the coast, which she made near the river Congo Dr. Cullen and the other survivors being in a state of extreme exbaustion from the recent effects of the fever, and the numerous privations to which they had been exposed.
The Juno, 26, Capt. P. Blake, remains at Spi- thead, but will sail in a week to place herself under the orders of Rear Admiral Sir George Seymour, Commander-in-Chief in the Pacific..
PROMOTIONS.
Commodore.-F. Moresby, C.B., and to command the Experimental Squadron.
Commanders.-L. Browell; R. S. Hewlett; B.
Whitwell and C. Tulloch.
Licuts.-A. C. Hobart, E, H. H. D'Aeth; Hon. J. R Byng; J. S. Mann.
Master.-J. Matthews. Deputy-Inspector of Hospitals.-J. G. Stewart Surgeons.---W, Rogers; N, J, Dolling. Paymaster and Pursors.---C. P. Turner; J. L. Southey
MILITARY. Major-General Duffy (late 8th or King's) will succeed Major General Sir E. Gibbs as Governor of Jersey-
MAGNITUDE OF RAILWAY SPECULATIONS. (From the Spectator.)
was severe.
Port Louis Mauritius, June 28. The Queen of Madagascar, as you are proba- bly aware, is a monster of cruelty. In the time of ing rapidly in civilisation. Many missionaries were there. My friend Baker had established a printing press there, and the Bible had been print ed in Malagasy, and an immense number of con verts of Christianity had been made, when Radama died, and the present Queen ascended the throne.
"Soon afterwards she dismissed, all the mission aries, and has lately been amusing herself by bura- ing or cutting off the heads of the native Christians she has been able to lay hands on-many thousands On a moderate estimate, the railways already in Well, a fow weeks, ago, the Queen issued an order, existence and to be executed may be taken to that all the foreign traders residing in het domi
£150,000,00+ cost.
nons (mostly from the Mauritius and Bourbon) should become naturalized Malagash, and thereby 12,000,000 subject to a law which amongst other things m
kes them slaves, under certain contingencies, and in respect of certain non-compliances; and she gave them a very short time to dispose of their property and leave the island, if they did not choose to be so naturalized,
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The gross profit on that capital at
8 per cent. would be From which a deduction of 35 per
cent for expenses (the lowest ex- penditure of any large company) would amount to
Leaving the next profit of
+
or not quite 5 per cent upon the Capital.
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4,200.000 £7,800,000
In other words, to afford the shareholders in all our completed and projected railways a return of rather less than 54 per cent upon outlay, the public must annually expend £ 12,000,000 in railway tras velling alone,
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The word "million" comes glibly from the ton. gue, but conveys no tangible image to the mind. An effort is required to realize to the imagination the magnitude of the sum which must be annually spent on railway travelling to yield our speculators a moderate profit on their capital. Let any one at tempt distinctly and articulately to count aloud from one to a million; he will find it hard work to enun- riate on the average one thousand numbers in the bour, and would consequently require a hundred lays for ten hours a day to count the million. The mechanical operation of telling over a million of sovereigns piece by piece would occupy a full month, at the rate of £ 3,600 an hour for ten hours a day. The joint earnings of 1,830 agricultural labourers with their 7s a week for thirty years each, not a working-day left out would be less than a mil- on of pounds sterling. The joint earnings of 640 mechanics 20s a week, toiling each as unintermit
"When this news reached us here, Sir William Gomm, the governor, immediately sent off Captain Kelly, in the Conway corvette, who no arriving in Tamatave roads niet there the Bercean and the Zelee, French men-of-war, from Bourbon, who had been sent thither by Admiral Bazoche, the
vernor of that island.
go.
"They arrived on the Thursday Ovening. On the Friday Captain Kelly funded, and had a con- ferrence with the Malagash, among whom the go- vernor of Tamatave was the principal. They be. have vary insolently, told him plainly that they had imperative orders from the queen to enforce the order against the traders, that in case of non- compliance they would drive them into the sea, and that they would not wait until a letter from Captain Kelly to the queen, requesting a sufficiant time, at least, for them to embark theirproperty, should be sent to her at the capit. They had also imposed an export duty of ten per cent. ad valorem on the embarkation of their effects.
They flatly refipsed to admit the French even to a confere.co.
"Captain Kelly returned on board. The next day was occupied in taking off the traders and their effects or as much as could be got off and I
enforced-of this I am not sure.
The Lion of an evening party belongs to a species of which there are several gencra, or dif. ferent kinds. The great or principal Lion may, however, be known by the length of his tail, for When in a every one will be running after him. tame state, and not annoyed, the grear Lion will stretch forth his paw with extreme gentleness- The great Lion is chiefly found in the west, but he may be sometimes brought eastward, if sufficient temptation is held out to him. He will often bu and if he is well fed upon what he likes, he will induced to go a considerable distance for a meal, mix condescendingly with the inferior animals about him, and make himself very agreeable. The
man, but he seems to expect that due homage will Lion of a party will not usually make an attack on
begin to growl, till he ultimately retires to his own jungle in an adjacent attic.
The Lion chiefly comes forth at night, but he may be seen sometimes in the afternoon, prowling about the wood (pavement,) or seeking for food among those who, he thinks, will take bim to their homes and give him the meat he is in search of
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In appearance the Lion of a party is chiefly re- markably for what Sir William Jardine calls "his ample frout, and overhanging brows, surrounded Though not usually with a long shaggy mane." ferocious, he is very apt to become so if there is this king of social animals will "bear no rival near more than one Lion present at the same party, for
On this account it is dangerous to his throne." introduce more than one Lion at a time; and a musical Lion is a very formidable beast, for when he once begins to roar there is no stopping him. The musical Lion is so fond of hearing his own voice that he will growl for an hour at a time, and there is no possibility of muzzing the brute of getting rid of him.
The Literary Lion is chiefly remarkable for the contrast between the ferocity of his aspect and the mildness of his demeanour, People are apt to be more afraid of him than any other of the Laon tribe, and many fancy that he contemplates tearing them to pieces, but he is generally a most inoffen- sive creaturo.
Those who have seen the Lion at hame in his
own lair describe him as a very different animal from that which, when abroad, he appears to be. His coat, which looks so sleek and glossy at night, is often quite another thing by daylight, and nar- row white stripes are sometimes visible.
This is chiefly to be observed in those Lions
some who do not obtain a new coat without very which very seldom shed their coats; and there are
and retiring by day, und at night they appear to great difficulty. Lions of this description are timid resume all their courage. They inhabit chiefly the most elevated spots, and will climb patiently lo a very considerable height to reach their resting
with his cubs, if he happens to have any. He is place. This sort of Lion seldom appeirs abroad not particularly fond of them, though, like the
with licking them.
General Sir George Murray, Master-General of ungly during the same period, would not amount believe the ten per cent. dusy was not rigorously Lion of the forest, he sometimes amuses himself
CAVALRY.
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to a million of pounds sterling. The pay of 90 Briz
The Literary Lioness is beenming a very com- mon animal, and, though exceedingly harmless, she is hardly ever subject to be pursued, for every one instinctively flies away from her,
from the
the Ordnance, is in a declining state of health.
" on Sunday morning (next day) the united ves In consequence of repeated applications of thetish general officers at 41 a day, would not in Horse Guards from Col Sir T. Willshire, for more thirty years amount to a million of pounds sterling.sels bombarded the fort. The reasons which in- troops at Chatham, for garrison duty, the Deputy-So much of toil, and danger, and exposure to the duced Captain Kelly to adopt this course were, I Adjutant General, Gore Brown, was sent down ex- elements so much of patient, persevering, and more believe, the harsh treatment of the traders, and the
Of all the animals comprised within the wide pressly from the Horse Guards, and made his in- or less skilful industry-so much of valour, and obligation to embark at such a notice, and under spection of the various guard house in company accomplishinent, and high spirit, as represented sach crcumstances as amounted, practically, to a with Lieutenant-Col. Kelley, of the Provisional by money-may be bought for a million of ponuds confiscation of their property; the insolent bearing range of Social Zoology, none is more objection- of the Malagash st, and subsequent to, the conferable than the Boar, or to use another mode of Battalion, and also the military outposts round the sterling, garrison, some of which the General pronounced as
And our railway projectors and speculators cal.rence, and the refusal to allow him to communicate orthography-the Bore He comes under the head of Pachydermata, or thick-skinned animals, and is useless, and ordered the sentryboxes to be removed culate upon drawing twelve of these millions an with the queen in a satisfactory manner.
The first shot was fired by the Conway."
so extremely callons, that liit at him as hard as you The General considers that there is now a sufficient nually from the public. In other words, they ex.
may, it is impossible to make any impression on After detailing the action, another account sta.
him. He does not belong to the Ruminantia, or number of troops for duty. They have three nightspect that twelve millions of people-half the popu-
lation of the Three Kingdoms, men, women, and tes in bed out of four.
|children--(at 111 per mile) will each_travel 160 "This is a most important athir, for good or for ruminating animals; but must be classed among miles by railway every year, and pay them 20. a evil I have the highest confidence in the good the Omnivom, for the Bore has a rapacious appetite, 10th Hussars-The sentence of the Court-martial Head, Or they expect that one million people will judgment of Sir William Gomm, and he has a most and frequently comes in to satisfy his cravings at about feeding-time, It is a remarkable fact that, pax Lieut. Hyder, acquitting him of the charge pre-travel 1920 miles each in the course of the year, able and experienced adviser in Colonel Stanley. ferred by Col. Vandoleur, has been confirmed by and pay then £12 a head. Or they expect that
"We get all our bailocks from Madagascar, as though belonging to the Pachydermata, or thick- the Queen: and the Royal confirmation was accom- panied by a reprimand expressing the Sovereign's due hundred and twenty thousand people will well for draught as for the butchers, but that, skinned order of brutes, he would scem,
cach travel 16,000 miks by rajlway every year, though of no small importance to a foreign fed softness of the head and brains, to belong to the displeasure with the presecutor, for conduct "the and pay them £100 per had. Be it remembered, colony of 150,000 mouths, is a very minor consi-group of Molluscous animus. He is also allied to This class by the possession of another quality, na- impropriety of which, on reflection, he must be aware 100, that railway travelling constitutes but a fraederation compared with the political results, as of Col. Vanheleur had been ordered by the Duketion of the whole annual travelling of the nation. the question of peace or war may be decided.
mely, that of remaining, like the Mollusca, long of Wellington to produce at the inquiry certain leulers
fixed in the same place, for when the social Bore. Our policy of late years has been non-inter. which had passed between himself and Mr Oliver Our railways, existent and in projection, embrace
has once taken up his quarters, it is very difitzult not one half of the surface and population of Great ferrence with the internal affairs of Madagascar ;
The Bore is of the Elog on the subject-matter of the charge In the face of Britain; and even in the railway districts there is the French have long been desirous of a footing indeed to get ral of him. this order, in the face of all propriety, he either caus-
active competition from steam-beats, omnibuses, there, and have made some attempts, even as a tribe, and is guided a good deal by the snout, for ed or allowed these documents to be destroyed, alter cabs, vans, spring-carts, &c. &c. The steam-bonts | Nossi Be, which however, has proved 100 unheal.he pokes his nose every where. In the case of the Court-martial had actually commenced its in- of the Thames and the Clydo carry more passen
thy to succeed: the French have no harbour at the common pig, it is customary to ring the nost quiry.
and the practice of ringing the nose of the social 15th Hussars-We,regret to state that a severe ac-ger than the Greenwich, Blackwall, and Glasgow Bourbon. I shall here lease you to draw your
Bore would be a very wholesome one. cident befel Captain Poore, at Maidstone. White and Greenock Railways. In the great towns, not own conclusions, after you have had a few lines on riding on the Loose road, the Capt.'s horse stumbled only the wealthier classes as a badge of station and the nature of the island.
for amenity, bui tradengen for professional pur- fell, and, rolling over him, caused a severe injury on the head, and a fracture of the leg in two places poses, keep vehicles which when travelling on business or for pleasure they from sheer coonamy genemlly employ in preference to other modes of conveyance. In the rural districts, landowners and farmers do the same. Again, the price of a railway ticket is only part of the outlay of the rail- way traveller on conveyances. In most cases it implies the additional expense of short stage, cat, or 'bus, to convey him to and from the railway, or from oue railway to another.
ORDNANCE,
Bix corporals of the Gentlement Cadets of Wool wich have been reduced from their rank, and one hundred and thirty of the privates have been confined to their barracks for a stated period of time, for breaking out of barracks and rioting at Charkon Fair, recently held in the neighbourhood.
Prince Seyd Hill, the son of the Imanm of Mus- cat, lately inspected the Arsenal at Woolwich The Prince was next conducted by Col. Lacy to the Car- ringe Department, and subsequently shown one of the handsome 6-pounder brass guns cact expressly at the Royal Arsenal, for the purpose of being pre sented by Her Majesty to the Trauma of Mascat. In the same place as the gun, a bandsome gun-car riage and limber were showni The carriage is admirably suited for the short gun is will mount, and the wheeds do not stand higher than about three feet, the whole being adapted to suit the small horses of the country of the Imaum.
Madagascar is not only immensely extensive, and and in parts very thickly people i, but it is also a most fertile island, offering great variety of m. perature, with socze of the finest harbour and tim ber in the world, and the interior is remartably healthy.
The snout of the Bore is also useful to him in more ways than one, for his sent is truly wonder- full, enabling the brute to smell out a good dinner at three or four miles distance.
In a batural Biato
that is, when he is at home-the Pore is often found to feed upon the coarseat food, but whom he has succended in meeting with prey abroad, he he. "It is, however, chief by surrounded by a narrow comes very delicate, selecting only the choicest border of swamp, owing to the sea and the mouthamersels, and grunting savagely if he is not pleasuk of the rivers being frequently on the same level, with what is before him. The Bore is not gese- 29 is the case on the west coast of Africa. This tally a dangerous animal, though the well-known is most deadly, and at one season of the year expression, "bored to death.” would seem to buti
When the brute contemplates». Madagascar, in those parts, is almost certain death cate otherwise.
making an attack, he usually fastens himself on his to an European.
| viction by seizing the button, and has been known to retain his hold on his prey in this manner far bours together.
swamp
* I believe, however that in one part, at fest, if not in more, the swamp ceases to exist, or at all events is very natrow
Our sanguine projectors and speculatora pay lit the beed to these considerations; though the brokers who are agents in the transfer of shares often ask each other in wonderment, where all the travellers are to come from. Put the question to any dabbler
The female Bare in chiefly remarkable for her *The capial, Tansyarinn, ia on the high ground, in railway stock, and he replies with an "Oh, with the increase of kromotive facilities travelling will near the centre of the infod, very healthy, and only numerous progeny. She will appear surrounded increase indefinitely." It may be so; hitherto the approachable by a narrow palk-any, xx fret wide, by an extensie litter of butle ones, who will some. times be exceedingly forlicsomne. They will pompi theory bay held good, yet there must be soge ea. (cut zig-zag through the wood, to make the distance tural limit to the suvity of the principle. Mes appear greater than it is in l. A broad river into your lap. put that paws into your plate. do not travel for travelling's sake, but on bastars has lately been discoveral, going it is out, a long and play all sorts of nuties, if you giờm thera the or for plessure-in get money, or to spend any up the country towards the capital, and navihast encouragement. Literary Bores, who are far and bas possible facility will set men in sako gable. The principal people are the Worx, the the rast part females, are muslly called blue, and ta beloved that an intellegusal Ladies Society where these motives are wanting? The express people now in the aseen fant, and the Sacralunas," amout of money invested in always would seem who are frendly to the English, but have beened formerly to assemble at the libre Buss, Cik -
Hulhorn. – Gcorge Cruickshank's Tabl; Bok. to imply that some chines of Englishmen det er. lately crashed by the *4)7as'
EXPENDITERE FOR RELIGIOUS PRES-A Fail sary paper, obtsiped by Mr W. Williams, the Blemler for Coventry, has just been issued, containing farther rezzards of grants, for support of all religious denominations, and pected to fire sa railways, sa tome chases of Chi- * The queen ra contantly druck-s elever ma- for building and repairing churches, de The first part of Lese live ca their canals. To render these under { man abúst City. She is is partnereŝip in secrevi the document has reference to all greets of te wakings remqseritīte, a Bumēmas portion of society larger states in Madagascar with a Frensheath for the support of all the religions demonisations in weld seat, like the fabled birds of pandian, to from Bearbes (Delastic) e dal machinery. United Kingdom and clewhrze, except the ones is- cluding expenses of visitation and escassions of bbkopo, i keep clunga cu the wing - ta spend theś? Ever Cry | 6%, and the lead and chosen.
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