the enemy. The district of Somerset was in such imminent
danger that a most urgent message had again been
sent to entreat for aid from Graaf-Reinet. The disaffection
among the coloured classes was apparently extending.
Some of the frontier farmers were again retiring
westward with the remnants of their flocks and herds.
Many heavy losses had been suffered from the depredations
of the enemy. In the mean time there appear to
be no indication of any change of system in the management
of the war. A force of a thousand men had
marched from King William's Town to Fort Hare, and
back again to head-quarters, without seeing a single
Kaffir. In the north, the aspect of affairs is described
as being, if possible, still more gloomy. In the Albert
division two farmers had been surprised and killed by
the enemy. Three hundred Kaffirs had entered that
district, and swept off a large number of cattle and
horses. The colony of Natal, too, is represented to be
in a very unsettled state. The secretary to government,
Mr. Moodie, who has been for some time at variance
with the lieutenant-governor, had resigned his office.
The diplomatic agent, Mr. Shepstone, is said to have
lost his influence over the natives, who were getting
more and more independent and unmanageable.

PROGRESS OF EMIGRATION AND COLONISATION.

The current of Emigration from Ireland goes on
increasing. On the 4th inst., a steamer left Waterford
for Liverpool, with 400 emigrants on board, whose
ultimate destination is the United States. It is stated that
the average number which have sailed from the port
of Waterford alone, during the season, has been 590
weekly; that no less than forty tenants of one noble
proprietor have emigrated within these few weeks,
carrying away the money realised by the sale of their crops,
and that one agent, in the City of Cork, has received
as much as £1000, in one day, from emigrant passengers
in chartered vessels. The Report of the Comissioners of
Emigration shows a decrease of Emigrants to Canada
in 1850 from the previous year. In the year ending
December, 1850, the number of emigrants from the
United Kingdom to Canada were 22,635; and of those,
only 18,380 remained in the province; 15,723 went to
the United States. In the previous year, the number
of emigrants to Canada was 38,495. It is only about
thirteen years since that the tide of emigration from the
United Kingdom ceased to flow in greatest force against
the shores of these British provinces, and took the
direction of the United States.

NARRATIVE OF FOREIGN EVENTS.

FRANCE is undergoing another crisis, which is less likely to end pleasantly for the parties engaged in it
than the many similar conjunctures over which M. Bonaparte and his friends have been carried during
the last three years. The quarrel between the president and the governing party in the assembly has reached
its final and irreconcileable stage. To quote a proverb peculiarly applicable, the rogues have at last so
thoroughly fallen out that honest men are likely to get their own. Deceived and betrayed, as his partisans
allege, by the statesmen who induced him to consent to the law which disfranchised some three millions of the
French people, deserting him as soon as it was passed, M. Bonaparte now discovers that his only
chance of re-election lies in the votes of the very millions whom he disfranchised, all the various parliamentary
parties having flatly turned against him. So he will open the popular floodgates once again, and take the
chance of being able still to stand by himself and see his old allies of the assembly utterly swept away. It
is a stake which could not have been played but by one whose chances have become desperate; and it
is with a feeling of hopelessness and despair on all sides that the issue seems to be waited for in France. In
other continental countries less anxiety is felt than when danger less gravely impended, such being generally
the effect of living amid unceasing alarms; and for matter of interest we have to cross to other quarters of the
globe. In California there have occurred some cases of Lynch law, of which the peculiar atrocity has been
that they do not appear to have been excused by any failure of justice, or the power of enforcing it, in
the regular government; but to have been impelled simply by the savage lust of a mob to execute what it
supposed to be justice, irrespective of the decisions of the regular courts. It is at least fair warning to
all who enter that country in future, that its legal institutions are practically powerless, though sitting
under the protecting ægis of the great republic. In Egypt a question has arisen more nearly touching us
and our commercial interests, in the form of a dispute between the Sultan and the Viceroy which at one
time threatened to prevent altogether the proposed railway through Egypt. There is reason to believe,
however, that the misunderstanding is already under process of accommodation; and that the question will
be settled satisfactorily, without arms or bloodshed, by the ever ready and admirable aid of Sir Stratford
Canning.

The intelligence from France relates chiefly to what
is called a "Ministerial crisis." It appears that the
President is resolved to obtain, if possible, the abrogation
of the law of the 31st of May, which disfranchised
three millions of voters, and that his ministers are not
disposed to concur with him in this respect. The
consequence has been that the whole cabinet have resigned,
and their resignations have been accepted. They hold
their offices ad interim, till their successors have been
appointed. A new ministry has not yet been formed.
The inspectors of the gendarmerie in the departments,
it appears, have issued instructions to the brigadiers of
these corps to draw up a list of the most energetic
republicans, and to make notes upon the opinions and
characters of the mayors.—The molestations to which
private society is subjected in the departments, by the
impertinence of the police, are all but incredible. M.
Bagard, a councillor-general and wealthy proprietor of
the Yonne, writes to the Siecle that as he was dining
with a few friends at Jouy, on the 25th of September,
after a shooting party, and not so much as dreaming of
politics, a couple of gendarmes walked in, and, declaring
that all parties (réunions) were prohibited, called on
them in the name of the law, which they were accused
of violating, to give up their names, addresses, and so
forth, and to disperse. Proceedings of this sort are said
to be of daily occurrence.—The officious interference of
the police with the Representative M. Sartin, at a
private banquet in Sancerre, Department of the Cher,
a week or two back, led to a tumultuous rising of the
inhabitants of Sancerre, and another small village.
The inhabitants resisted the ordinary authorities, and
even placed themselves armed before a military force;
in the course of a brief collision several were wounded,
and some accounts say one or two were killed; but
other journals deny these details, and accuse the
Government organs of exaggerating the whole affair for
its own purposes. The Government alleges that the
particular outbreak is a consequence of a general state
of disaffection and club organisation; and the Moniteur
of the 22d inst. contained a decree placing the Departments
of the Cher and the Nevre under martial law.—
The Bishop of Lucan has interdicted all newspapers
being read in his diocese with the exception of the
'Univers.' Certain books are also prohibited, among
which are De Sacy's 'Translation of the New Testament',