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      lieutenant , Winchester ; H . A . Hinde , mate , Winchester , severely ( right hand and left arm ); 0 . F . Wilson , mate , Winchester , very severely ( through the neck ); Lieut . Glover , of the Sphinx , severely under the eye . Seamen and marines killed—five ( two left dead on the field ); seamen and mariners wounded , almost all severely , many in three or four places—48 . Total offieerB and men killed ... 8 Ditto wounded 51 Total of naval and brigade ... 59 The report which went home by lasb mail , that General Steel met with a reverse , turns out to be untrue . That officer is employed in carrying out his

      orders , and is now making a sweep round Pegu . At Ava peace counsels are in the ascendant ; the brother of the King is still the ruler , and the King himself is a prisoner in that brother ' s hands . Commissioners are on their way from the capital to the British camp , to listen to the terms of peace which we are to dictate . The whole country of Pegu is peaceful , with the exception of the robber bands , which infest the whole province . It was one of these bands against which poor Loch and his party were sent . Another party , under Commander itennie , of the Indian navy , was Bent " up the Bassein river , and has done right good service . The last-named officer landed his men and

      three guns , and pushed across the country in pursuit of the enemy . The latter was at last brought to bay , when Rennie ' s party opened upon them , and , at the distance of fifty yards , killed some fifty with grape and canister ; the remainder ilew in every direction . With reference to Captain Loch we borrow the following account of him from the Times . " Captain Granville Loch had found opportunities to distinguish himself even during a period of general peace . In 1841 he was posted , and in the following year he went out in the Dido to servo as a volunteer on the staff of Lord ( rough in the war in China ; he was also present with Sir Henry Pottinger at all the conferences which terminated that war ; and in 1846 he obtained the command of the Alarm ( 26 ) , then on the West India station .

      In this capacity Captain Loch conducted a very spirited expedition in boats up the river San Juan de Nicaragua ( the scene of one of Nelson ' s early exploits ) , which enabled him to adjust the differences then existing between the British Government and tie Nicaraguan Republic , and to dictate a treaty with that State . For this service he received from her Majesty the Order of the Bath , upon the recommendation of Lord Palmerston . In 1852 , Captain Loch was appointed by the Duke of Northumberland to the command of the Winchester , 50 , which was ordered to relieve the Hastings as flagship in the East Indies . So that , by a singular coincidence , his short but brilliant career was chiefly remarkable for his services in river warfare on the Yung-iee-Kiang , tfae San Juan de Nicaragua , and the Irrawaddy . Shortly after his arrival at Rangoon , Admiral Austin died of cholera . The Commodore

      remained with the squadron off the coast , and the command of the river devolved principally on Captain Loch . In qpite of an oppressive climate and a harassing enemy ho kept the communications open , and succeeded , against enormous odds , in compelling the Burmese to retire , in great measure , from the stockades and positions they held on the banks . In one of these desperate but obscure encounters against a band of barbarous enemies , ho is now reported to have fallen at the head of a frightful

      number of his comrades and men , on whoso courage and steadiness ho p laced unbounded reliance , for they , too , knew their leader ; and , though no death can bo more glorious than that of a British officer who falls in the command of seamen and troops , and in the discharge of his duty to England , wo aro painfully reminded by such an occurrence at how great a price the warfares between civilization and barbarism is carried on , for Captain Loch ¦ wanted nothing to completo his famo but a nobler enemy and a more conspicuous fluid of action . "

      There lias been a fearful conflagration at Rangoon . A correspondent writing to the Hurlcaru says that " Rangoon is a plaeo of desolation and death just now . The dockyard buildings , and others to a very considerable extent , have been completely destroyed by fire ; while the small-pox is causing havoc -as great among living beings . The appearance- of prosperity and improvement which ho lately marked thin place ; in now succeeded by barrenness and misery . Captain Sparks is doing all to restore tho inhabitant *; to something like the comforts which they have lost , but one man can do little under such circumstances . One of the consequences of the fire is , tlmt somehow or another it boa thrown the whole of tho official arrangements into a state of confusion . "

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      TRANQUIL "A 1 TUARANCKS" AT THE CAPK " Peaob mid amity are restored between her Majesty and the said chief , Kreli , " a fact announced by ( lenenil Cuthcart , and doubtless an important as it is agreeable . Up to a recent period , Kreli ' s country bad l > een disturbed , cattle extensively lifted , ininHionury Hcttleinonts annoyed and saved—in one instance "by tho address and courage of a missionary ^ wife" ( an unnamed heroine ) . Kreli , fearful that these popular offences among bis tribes would provoke another " foray" from General Catheart , asked for peace , wilding " assagais " uh u symbol , and one hundred cattle uh a solid proof , of his submission , which wna accepted . Sundilli and

      Mucomo have also crossed over the Kei , as required by the Governor , and have sent messengers to treat for peace . General Catheart has re-established his head quarters at King William ' s Town . He proposes to retain military possession of the Auiatolas , and to establish townships , villages , and military settlements , in the country , granting land , under very liberal conditions , and with good guarantees , to English settlers . The local papers say , that " to all appearances the war is at an end , all ideas of fi ghting having been evidently abandoned by the hostile tribes . " But , notwithstanding this

      apparently promising condition of affairs over the border , the frontier districts have not been wholly free from depredation . Several serious losses of cattle and horses have taken place , and Kafir scouts and small parties of rebel Hottentots are continually met with , far within the more settled parts of the colony . These circumstances naturally tend to keep up a feeling of insecurity in the country , and many of the eastern colonists are , it is said , determined , if peace be not speedily and satisfactorily restored * to seek for happier homes in the land of the golden east .

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      AMERICAN" NOTES . A meagee telegraphic message to New York has conveyed a bit of news relative to Truxillo , a port claimed both by the Republic of Honduras and by the King of Mosquito . The English war steamer Devastation , supporting the claim of the king , threatened the town with bombardment unless the Hondurans , then in possession , would surrender ; under protest , therefore , the place was given up to Mosquito . Unbiassed calculators , in estimating the relative powers of American parties in Congress , state that in the House the Democrats outnumber the Whigs nearly two to one , and that in the Senate they are more than two to one . During the debate on the Clayton and Bulwer Treaty in the United States * Senate , the following passage occurred . The speaker is Mr . Butler , a democratic Southern . When we despise England , we must despise the tree on the fruit of whici we have fed—we must despise Hampden , Sidney , Chatham , Shakspeare , and Burke . There was no country on God Almighty ' s earth he loved so much as his own , but he loved England because she was his mother , and was proud of the tributary streams which she had poured out on America . The very common law itself made us . We have English law and literature—and was he to be told he must despise England ? Ho did not wish to court any occasion to become hostile to her . This debate was calculated to sow tho seeds of bitternoss .

      Mr . Douglas further explained his views . The " senator says wo ought to lovo England , because she is our mother . Now , it is hard to tell who our mother was . We have a great many mothers — wo have here English , Irish , Scotch , French , Norman , Spanish , every kind of descent . All we have found valuable in England we have adopted , and that which was injurious we have rejected . I do not speak in terms of unkindness to England , but in speaking of monuments , the point I mado was this , —that wo should not shut our eyes to the fact that the policy which England is pursuing has its origin in hostility towards us , and is not to enhance our interests .

      Whilo the senator spoke of England pouring in her streams of refreshing intelligence , I thought that tho streams of abolition , treason , and insurrection which she had poured into South Carolina and other slave-holding statos of this Union , would at least excuse him from endorsing these streams of literature under tho name of Undo Tom ' s Cabin , and other works- — - ( tremendous applause in the gallery , and cries oii " Good , good" )—works libelling us and our institutions , and holding us up to tho hate and prejudice of the world . While ongaged in this , ho was tho last to compliment her for her refreshing streams of'literaturo . ( Renewed applause . ) ' The Chair suppressed the disorder , and ordered the galleries to bo cleared . Mr . Adams—J hope they . will be cleared . Mr . Douglas—1 hope they will . Mr . Itutier—When I spoke of gratitude , T upoko of those things in which wo havo n common interest . I do not . thank tho senator for going out of hid way and indicating impure ; streams . I spoke of the streams which authors and orators * have poured out upon us , which 1 hope have been refrosliing to him and tho intelligence of the age . I did not expect a miserable allusion to Uncle , 'rani ' s Cabin—it . was ad etiptandnm , and not , manly made . Mr . Douglas— -1 spoke in terms of reverence and respect of the monuments of statesmen in England , of patriotism , legal learning , science , and literature—of all that was great , noble , and admirable . I did not expect statesmen l <> go back two or three centuries to justify the nggressions of the present age . And when I heard the plaudits relative to the pant ., 1 thought I had a right , toalludo to tho present enormities of Kngland . Mr . But . ler I should like to know how England is responsible lor l / uclv Totu '/ t dabin ? . If tho senator takes I he sickly sonl . imeiitality of the tiny aw an exponent , of tho Knglish heart , and lit . cnif . urr > , very ' well . I alluded to our commercial relations with Knglund , and our connexion as a civilized nation , and would tho senator postpone her P Mr . Douglas—I would not poutpone her , or givo her a greater preference than other nations , but trout her as duly requires . Mr . liulhr . Wo can find sickly sentimentality everywhere , such am tho Maine Liquor Law , ami all that . ( Laughter . )

      Mr , Clayton replied to Mr . Douglas , and repeated the arguments heret ofore advanced by him in justification of his course in negotiating the Bulwer and Clayton treaty . He contended he had proved from the testimony of w * e most distinguished statesmen who ever lived , that the exclusive privilege of making the shi p canal was not to ne desired , and that the true principle is to negotiate for all nations to pass that great highway on the ^ same terms . The senator boasts that we are a erreat , a giant republic ,

      and the senator himself is said to be a little giant —( laughter )—and everything which he talks about is gigantic . ( Renewed laughter . ) Mr . Clayton concurred up . the remarks of Secretary Everett relative to Cuba , and m the course of President Fillmore respecting that island * He knew how easy it was to excite prejudice against England , and as a reply to the senator ' s observations on that heaai caused to be read a portion of Washington ' s farewelj . a « l * dress , with a view of refreshing the Senate . n , This everlasting debate was again adjourned .

      The municipality of New York , which has long- been in a corrupt and contemptible state , has been " dealt with . " One of the aldermen has been fined 250 dollars , and sentenced to imprisonment for fifteen dayp , for contempt of court ; and twenty-six other aldermen have been all fined variously for the same offence , while two were recently indicted by the grand jury for bribery and corruption . A United States official document gives the following statistics of the British North American colonies . The British colonies have an area of 218 , 339 , 414 acres , and a population in round numbers of 2 , 500 , 000 . Their commerce , with all countries amounts to 70 , 200 , 000 dollars , of which about 19 , 000 , 000 dollars is with the United States , and 30 , 000 , 000 dollars with Great Britain . These colonies own and employ shipping

      measuring nearly 500 , 000 tons . Vice-President King is fast declining ; he is not expected to leave Cuba alive . The election of Santa Anna , as President of Mexico , is certain . A vile murder has been committed in New York . A Mrs . Lynch and her sister , Mrs . Shain , resided in one of the rooms of an Irish boarding-liouse ; the former had some ready money in her room . The house was

      kept by a man named Carroll , who , with his w e , went one evening tp a ball . At ten o ' clock on that evening screams were heard from the house . In the morning , on the house being opened , the two women were found dead , frightfully bruised and stabbed ; one body having forty-one wounds the other thirteen . There were marks also of an attempt at setting fire to the house . Tho lodging keeper ( Carroll ) and his wife are in custody on suspicion , also an Irishman , o bad habits , named Spring .

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      " THE CHASE" IN CALIFORNIA . TnE executive portion of Judge Lynch ' s administration have turned hunters , and their prey is man . A " warm and exciting chase " after a famous robber is the latest achievement of the citizen constables . The pursued was the celobrated bandit Joaquin , " the best of tho cut-throats" in California . He is a young man of about nineteen years of age , and is a nrat-rnte shot . He leads a band of sixty men , mostly Mexicans . His exploits are daring and terribly brutal . One day in February last he rode through tho village of St . Andres at n quick gallop , and shot three Americans as he passed through the streets . A few days after , tho citizens of Jacksonville brought in the dead body of Mr . Lake , a butcher of that place , mid tho body of a Chinaman , who was wounded by u pistol ball . It was not then known who had committed these outrages . On tho next day , Saturday , three Chinamen were killed between Suttcr and Jackson , a distance of some four miles . The driver of tho Stockton stage and two passengers were killed on tho same ( lay by Jouquin and two others , supposed to be Mexicans . The three men were shot and tho horses taken from the stage . On tho same day , tho same parties drove Home fifty Chinese from u camp in the neighbourhood , and carried away or destroyed their

      tents . Joaquin must be one of the best shots with a revolver in this or any other country , as nearly -all these men were shot through the neck . A letter from Jacksonville , dated 13 th Feb ., says : —" The town is under tho greatest excitement . A large meeting of the citizens was held this evening , ut which measures were taken that must hud to the eventual capture- of tho murderers . Nearly our whole population hits volunteered to turn out in pursuit to-morrow . Woe to tho Mexicans if they are caught . " Tho party of Americans who nt . urt . ed in pursuit , found at Cook ' s ( Julch , on Suttcr Creek , flic * dead body of a Chinaman . Thoy traced the robbers to . Jackson Creek , a few miles below this

      village , and there found more of their work—one Chinaman inortully wounded . Mr . Lake was living , but HpccchlcsH , and died in a few lniinitcH tiller tho arrival of the Americans . He hud been shot twice , and stabbed in the neck , and his mule taken . The Amerirican party followed on , and soon overtook the Mexicans who had committed all those inurderu . Now for u

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      320 THE LEADER . [ Saturba * ^

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    • Leader (1850-1860), April 2, 1853, page 320, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1980/page/8/