The Sydney papers give an account of a meeting held
in that city on the 29th July, where those who attended
hound themselves to accept no settlement of the
transportation question other than the rescinding the Order
in Council by which any part of Australia is made a
place to which offenders may be transported. From
the further official correspondence just issued on the
subject of Convict Discipline and Transportation, it
appears that this desire of the people of Sydney had
been already complied with, at the time they were thus
expressing it. On the 4th July Lord Grey had
transmitted to Governor Fitzroy an Order in Council, dated
25th June, 1851, revoking, so far as concerns the colony
of New South Wales, the Order in Council of the 4th
September, 1848, appointing places to which felons and
other offenders might be conveyed.

The intelligence from the Cape of Good Hope is to
the 1st of October. Its general tenor varies scarcely
anything from that of the accounts received a long time
past. Four severe engagements with bodies under the
chiefs Macomo and Seyolo, amounting to upwards of
two thousand men each, and several skirmishes, had
been fought within a single fortnight; and yet there
were no marked results. In one of those encounters, a
party of our troops had, by a mishap, suffered an
unusual fatality. Captain Oldham, a man of equal bravery
and skill, with eight dragoons of the 2d Regiment, had
lost his way in the thick bush of a valley, whence a
party of our troops were driving the enemy, and they
had all been cut to pieces. Proof of their determined
resistance was found around them in numbers of Caffre
corpses pierced by their bullets, bayonets, and swords.
All these combats had taken place in two particular
districts—the Fish River Bush, and the Kaga Mountains;
elsewhere there was little fighting, and there seemed to
be fewer of the enemy. Some additional security had
been felt from the detachment of Major Wilmot to the
command of the district of Lower Albany, with a
considerable force of infantry and cavalry. There are no
further accounts from the Orange River Sovereignty.

PROGRESS OF EMIGRATION AND COLONISATION.

The government of Spain has made a grant of land in
that country, to be colonised by Irish Settlers. It
consists of 250 square miles, containing about 160,000 acres
on the banks of the Guadalquiver, in Andalusia and
Estremadura; a district depopulated by the expulsion of
the Moors, and never successfully occupied. A deputation
of London merchants interested in the trade with
Spain, and members of the projected Peninsular
Colonisation Company, waited on Mr. Labouchere on Friday,
for the purpose of submitting for his consideration the
grounds upon which they requested the grant of a
charter of incorporation to the company. The case
made by the deputation was, that the existing desire of
emigration in Ireland ought to be taken advantage of,
with a view to a more favourable location of the
emigrants than beyond the Atlantic. They said, that the
tract given by the Spanish government would afford the
most tempting inducements to colonisation, from its
agricultural capabilities, and the healthiness of the
climate. Mr. Labouchere, after having given the
statements made to him the most courteous attention, said,
a difficulty which appeared to him almost insuperable,
arose on a point of constitutional, or rather international
law as connected with the grant of a charter
incorporating a company having for its object the colonisation
of any portion of a foreign territory. But though on
this head he entertained a very strong opinion, he was
not adverse to giving a subject of such interest to
Ireland the best consideration in his power.

The current of Emigration from Ireland runs as
strongly as it did during the months of spring and summer.
The arrivals of emigrants in Dublin do not appear
to be quite so numerous, yet the leading shipbrokers
find it difficult enough to provide accommodation for the
applicants for passage who swarm the offices along the
quays and docks. On one day, above sixty cartloads of
peasants from the counties of Tipperary and Kilkenny
arrived in Waterford, to take shipping for Liverpool, to
go to America. In most instances they appeared of the
better class, and were well and comfortably clothed.
Among them were several old men and women, who
were going doubtless to join their relatives. From the
north riding of the same county, it appears by a local
paper, that the guardians of the Nenagh Union have
come to a unanimous determination to further thin the
population by promoting the emigration of paupers to
the Australian colonies. It is in contemplation to send
1000 at least of the able-bodied and youthful paupers,
the majority of whom are to be females. Accounts from
Canada and New Brunswick state that able-bodied
paupers recently sent out from Irish workhouses have
been at once absorbed in the labour-market, and that
work could have been readily found for many more.
News has come of the arrival of 200 Irish emigrants at
Peru; where they have made engagements to work for
seven years.

NARRATIVE OF FOREIGN EVENTS.

NEVER has war raged so fiercely as at present between the authorities to whose almost equally balanced
powers the unhappily devised Constitution of France has committed the working of the state. No
man can at present see more of the issue than that each day brings nearer and nearer the probability of
an ultimate appeal to force. In other directions, Continental politics present few topics for remark; but
the death of the King of Hanover, and the opinions it has elicited as to the character of the deceased prince,
may be pointed to as an emphatic proof of how low the prevailing estimate has become of the moral and
intellectual qualities of German sovereigns. Ernest Augustus is lamented as the only king in Germany who,
during the late eventful years, preserved the attributes of respect, or fulfilled his royal word.

The National Assembly of France commenced its
session on the 4th inst., when M. Thorigny, the Minister
of the Interior, read the President's Message, a
document of great length, containing a view of the internal
condition of France, her foreign relations, and the policy
of the government. In the exordium, the message
pictures the peaceful attitude of the country, but at the
same time warns the Assembly not to flatter itself with
illusions on the "appearance of tranquillity." "A vast
demagogical conspiracy is now organising in France
and Europe. Secret societies are endeavouring to
extend their ramifications even into the smallest
communes. All the madness and violence of party is
brought forth: while these men are not even agreed
on persons or things, they are agreed to meet in 1852,
not to construct, but to overthrow. Your patriotism
and your courage, with which I shall endeavour to
keep pace, will, I am sure, save France from the danger
wherewith she is threatened." In the section of the
Interior some details are given to fill up this general
picture. "At Lyons, a strong and unique system of
police has been organised, embracing twelve towns or
suburban communes." "The government has found
itself under the necessity of revoking in one year 501
elective functionaries, of whom 278 were mayors and
123 adjoints. The dissolutions of Municipal Councils
were 126, those of National Guards 139." The
commercial and agricultural state of the country is described
as improving, and its financial condition is said to be
"as favourable as can be expected, considering the
engagements of the past, and the uncertainties of the
future." The most important part of the document, is