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CHRONICLE. 
[APRIL 8, 
sive and systematic colonisation. He did not propose 
any specific plan, or an alteration of the existing system, 
but urged the Government to extend its principle and 
investigate every point of the subject, in order that the 
best course might be adopted. Lord Stanley opposed the 
motion as unnecessary, because an enlarged system of 
emigration was already in operation under the superin- 
tendance of Government. After a long and interesting 
debate, Mr. C. Buller expressed his satisfaction that the 
motion had excited so much attention, and consented to 
leave the question in the hands of the Executive.—The 
revenue returns for the past quarter have been published 
this week ; they confirm the anticipations of the product- 
iveness of the Income Tax, and show a steady increase in 
the Post-office ; but on all the other branches of revenue 
there is still a falling off. Theresults, however, are more 
satisfactory than those exhibited by the quarter ending in 
January last, and they may be considered to indicate that 
the country has surmounted the worst of its embarassments. 
Courr.—Her Majesty and Prince Albert continue at 
Buckingham Palace. Her Majesty during the week has 
taken her usual daily walk in the gardens of the Palace, 
and is in excellent health. All the arrangements have 
been made at the Palace in anticipation of her Majesty’s 
accouchement, which is expected to take place almost 
daily—Lord Charles Wellesley, clerk marshal, has suc- 
ceeded Colonel Buckley in the duties of equerry in wait- 
ing on the Queen, and Colonel Bouverie has succeeded 
Maj.-Gen. Sir Edward Bowater as equerry in waiting on 
Prince Albert.—The King of Hanover is expectcd to 
arrive in London on a visit to this country, in the course 
of the present month. 
Official Appointments.—Capt. Fitzroy, late member for 
Durham, has been appointed Governor of New Zealand. 
It is rumoured that Mr. Pemberton is to have the seals of 
the Duchy of Lancaster, as Chancellor, and that the Hon. 
J. Talbot, son of Earl Talbot, is to succeed Mr. Pemberton 
as Attorney-General to the Duke of Cornwall. Mr. 
Wordsworth has been appointed Poet Laureate, in the 
room of the late Dr. Southey. 
Parliamentary Movements.—The contest for the repre- 
sentation of Durham, vacant by the appointment of Capt. 
Fitzroy to the Governorship of New Zealand, terminated 
on Tuesday in the return of Lord Dungannon; the 
numbers were—for Lord Dungannon, 507 ; for Mr. Bright, 
406. The Nottingham election closed on Thursday, when 
Mr. Gisborne, the Liberal candidate, was returned (by a 
majority of 117; the numbers were: for Mr. Gisborne, 
1848; for Mr. J. Walter, jun., 1731.—The Athlone 
election has terminated in the return of Mr. Collett, the 
Liberal candidate. The numbers were: for Mr. Collett, 
114; for Capt. Beresford 108. A petition has been pre- 
sented by the liberal electors of Cambridge against the 
return of Mr. Fitzroy Kelly. A vacancy has occurred in 
the representation of East Suffolk by the death of Sir 
B. Vere. 
The Revenue.—The official returns of the revenue for 
the year and quarter which ended on the 5th inst. have 
just been published. They more than confirm the antici- 
pations of the productiveness of the Income-tax, which 
causes an increase in the total amount of the returns ; 
but, with the exception of the Post-Office, they still show 
a falling-off on all the other branches of revenue. The 
total ordinary income for the year ended April 5, 1842, 
was 45,363,827/.; that for the year just ended was 
46,078,810/.— showing an increase on the year of 714,983/. 
The total ordinary income for the quarter ended April 5, 
1842, was 8,720,5327.; that of the quarter just ended 
was 10,469,477/.—showing an increase on the quarter of 
1,748,945, The following are the details :—The returns 
for the Year exhibit an increase in the Income-tax of 
2,456,2887.; Post- Office, 103,0002.; Miscellaneous, 
425,9697.; to which must be added, Imprest and other 
moneys, 154,913/.; Repayments of Advances, 65,614/.— 
making the total increase 3,205,784. There is a decrease 
in the Customs of 1,076,336/.; Excise, 1,059,0932. ; 
Stamps, 146,790/.; Taxes, 146,082/.; Crown-Lands, 
62,5007—making a total decrease of 2,490,801/., which, 
deducted from the above increase of 3,205,784/., gives, as 
stated above, a total increase on the year’s accounts of 
714,9837. The returns for the Quarter show an increase 
in the Income-tax of 1,885,232/.; Post-Office, 2,000/. ; 
Miscellaneous, 218,363/—making a total of 2,105,595/. 
They show a decrease in Customs of 275,516/.; Excise, 
1,788, ; Stamps, 6,361/.; Taxes, 8,055/.; Crown-Lands, 
15,5002. ; Imprest and other moneys, 8,807/. ; Repay- 
ments of Advances, 40,623/.—making a total of 356,6502., 
which, deducted from the above increase of 2,105,595/., 
increase in the quarter’s accounts of 
Colonial and Consular Services.—The estimates for 
the year ending March 31st, 1844, are : — Bahamas, 
3410/.; Bermudas, 4049/.; Prince Edward’s Island, 
30707. ; Sable Island, Nova Scotia, 400/.; Sierra Leone, 
Gambia, and Gold Coast, 13,680/.; St. Helena, including 
allowances to late servants of East India Company, 
11,500/.; Western Australia, 7785/.; Port Essington, 
1468/.; Falkland Islands, 43507.; New Zealand, 61,0932.; 
Heligoland, 1023/.; G and others, West Indies, 
18,667/.; Clergy, North America and New Zealand, 
12,1902, ; Indian Department, Canada, 18,895/.; Emi- 
gration, 11,286/.; Justices in the West Indies, Mauritius, 
&e., 49,7007.; Negro Education, 18,0007. ; Captured 
bi Support, &c., 35,000/.; Commissioners, for 
appression of Slave Trade, 23,0007. ; Consuls Abroad, 
104,700/.—Total, 403,336/. The total for the year 1841, 
was 381,212/.; and for 1842, 392,154/.; thus showing an 
increase, as compared with 1841, of 22,124/.; and of 
11,182/., as compared with 1842.—The charge for the 
establishment in China, which has usually formed part of 
this estimate, will be submitted in a separate estimate, as 
soon as the arrangements are completed. 
Houses of Parliament.—A return made to the House 
of Commons, published this week, states that the total 
amount already expended for building the new Houses of 
Parliament is 380,483/. 10s.; the amount voted has been 
438,5002. ; and consequently, 58,016/. 10s. is in hand 
unexpended, which will be required for works now in pro- 
gress of completion. It is estimated that a further sum 
of 578,424/. 12s. 9d. will be required to complete the 
buildings. The total amount of Mr. Barry’s estimate will 
therefore be 1,016,924/7. 12s. 9d., besides what will be re- 
quired for completing the landing-places, making good 
the pavings, furniture, and fittings, and for decorations 
by works of art. 
Yeomanry.—A parliamentary return of the number and 
expenses of the effective yeomanry of Great Britain, in the 
ear 1842, states the number of troops to have been 247, 
containing 831 officers and 13,358 men; the total expense 
connected with whose maintenance was 101,831/. 8s. 11d. 
The amount voted by Parliament was 82,458/., thus show- 
ing the excess of expenditure beyond the vote of Parlia- 
went to have been 19,373/. 8s. 1ld. The reason of the 
excess arose from unforeseen charges on account of corps 
called out in aid of the civil power. Six yeomanry corps, 
containing six troops and 472 men, now serving gratui- 
tously, are to be placed upon the permanent establishment 
from the Ist of this month ; and seven additional corps, 
to consist of 16 troops and 935 men, are expected to be 
raised for the present year. 
Stamp Duties on Legacies, §c.—A Parliamentary 
paper, just published, shows that in the year ending the 
5th Jan., 1843, the total amount of duty paid for legacies, 
probates, and administrations, was—in England and 
Wales, 2,001,960/. 7s. 8d.; in Scotland, 150,213/. 11s. 
2d.; in Ireland, 114,9237. 15s. 63d. 5 total 2,267,105/. 
4s. 44d. Duties received since 1797—in England, 
59,643,426/. 6s. 11d. 3 in Scotland, 3,287,910/. 10s. 8d; 
in Ireland, 1,664,853/. 8s.04d. Total duties received 
since the 1797 amount to 64,596,190/. 6s. 43d. 
Jforeian. 
Francx.—The recent debates in the French Chambers 
have been mostly of domestic interest, and M. Barrot’s 
notice of a motion, for limiting the jurisdiction of the 
Court of Peers, and liberating journalists from that of the 
Correctional Police, occupies the chief attention of the 
Paris journals of Monday. In the Chamber of Deputies, 
on Friday, M. Desjaubert expressed an apprehension that 
the Government was about to commit a great imprudence 
in reviving the old claims of France to the Island of 
Madagascar. M. Guizot, in reply, entered upon a full 
exposé of the system pursued and contemplated by the 
French Government in the Pacific, and now in the Indian 
Sea; and which, he explains, is ‘‘ not to compromise or 
commit France by endeavouring to form extensive colonial 
establishments at a long distance from home, and to incur 
by such proceeding the danger of involving her in serious 
contests with the natives of those countries, or with 
foreign powers generally. That which is advantageous to 
France and indispensable for her, is to possess points on 
the globe destined to become great centres of trade and 
navigation, and which will prove secure and strong mari- 
time stations, which would at once serve in aid of our 
commerce by affording harbours and shelter for our 
shipping, with means of refit, without our being compelled 
to resort for those objects to foreign ports.” The bill 
relative to the organization of the Privy Council, and the 
bills for confirming the provisional arrangements entered 
into by the Minister of Public Works with the companies 
contracting for the railroads from Paris to Calais and 
Lille, and from Avignon to Marseilles, were presented to 
the Chamber on Monday.—The nuptials of the Princess 
Clementine of Orleans are fixed for the 20th inst., an 
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Algiers state that General Bugeaud js making immense 
prep ions for another paign, which is to commence 
about the 18th Apri], and is announced as likely to con- 
solidate the domination of France before the end of the 
present year. In the meanwhile, the French troops are 
fighting in almost all directions. General Lamoriciere 1s 
engaged on the Upper Oued-Riou, near the margin of the 
desert ; General Gentil is struggling with the enemy at 
Mazonna; Generals de Bar and Changarnier are actively 
fighting in the Dahra and the Beni-Menacer Mountains 5 
the Medeah column has perpetual conflicts with the Kabyls 
of the east ; General d’Hilliers and two Colonels are com- 
bating the Kabyls of the mountains between Bona and 
Constantina ; and, lastly, the column which recently 
yielded the Duke d’Aumale a splendid tribute in the 
‘Moniteur, has returned from the expedition in such a 
state of exhaustion, that a large proportion of the men are 
now in the hospitals. 
Spain.—We have advices from Madrid to the 29th 
ult, The new chamber is said to be composed as follows : 
—Anti-coalitionists, 103; Coalitionists, 61 5 Doubtful, 
18. It is expected that the 103 will support the Regent, 
and all the measures of the present ministry. As to the 
exact men they may desire, some doubt still exists ; 
it is, however, reported as certain that the Govern- 
ment had despatched a courier to General Sancho, the 
minister in London, calling upon him to repair immedi- 
ately to Madrid, the Regent being desirous to consult him 
on the organization of a new Ministry.—The contract for 
the quicksilver mines of Almaden was on the 28th ult. 
adjudged to Messrs. Rothschild. The price (814 dollars 
per metrical quintal) is 21 dollars higher than that fixed 
by the contract which is to expire in November next. The 
new contract is to endure for four years. 
PorruGar.—Accounts from Lisbon to the 27th ult., 
mention that the ultimatum of Lord Aberdeen on the 
tariff question has been rejected by the Portuguese Go- 
yernment, which will not consent to any reduction on 
English woollens beyond their former propositions. It 
is therefore expected that the English Cabinet will at once 
break off the negotiations, and that the convention is vir- 
tually at an end.—The comet had caused a great sensation 
at Lisbon, many of the inhabitants believing that the end 
of the world was come. ll the confessionals of the city 
were crowded with penitents for many days, and several 
people were so much affected that they have been sent to 
the public madhouse. 
SwirzeRLanp.—On the morning of the 25th ult., at 
seven o’clock, a severe shock of earthquake was felt at 
Basle and its neighbourhood. The barometer fell at the 
time only about one line, but a sudden change of weather 
followed immediately, it having been unusually mild for 
the season previously to the shock, and severely cold 
afterwards. 
Grrmany.—The Diet of the States of Prussia was 
opened on the 16th ult., at Kinigsberg, by a speech from 
the Royal Commissary, remarkable for its liberal ex- 
pressions. ‘A powerful spirit,” he said, “of a beneficent 
nature, as well as of a mischievous character, is abroad 
in the present age ; and, therefore, is it the more neces- 
sary for all who have the true welfare of their country at 
heart to keep aclear, unclouded view before them ; not to 
permit theories—specious perhaps, but nevertheless su- 
perficial in themselves, to misguide them ; not to let the 
blessed light, which is so happily kindling, grow into an 
all-consuming flame; finally, not to exchange the solid 
good we enjoy for doubtful or deceiving hopes in prospect.’’ 
According to a circular from the firm of Brockhaus, of 
Leipsic, as proprietors, the German Allgemeine Zeitung 
reappeared on the Ist inst., Professor Biilau having con- 
sented to become the editor; and with this change the 
journal will again be licensed in the Prussian dominions. 
The Carlsruhe Gazette states that a shock of an earth- 
quake was felt in the district of Loerrach, in the Grand 
Duchy of Baden, on the morning of the 25th ult. The 
doors and windows of the houses were forced open, and 
furniture was thrown down, but no house fell, and no 
erson was injured.—A suspension-bridge, surpassing all 
that has been seen, is to be constructed at Vienna, across 
the Danube. It will be 1,470 English feet in length, with 
only one pier in the river. ‘The Postal convention is 
spreading in Germany, from north to south. Austria and 
Saxony have concluded an agreement by which 6 kreuzers 
shall be charged for every distance short of ten German 
miles, and 12 kreuzers for every greater distance. There 
are cases, however, in which slight augmentations take 
place.—The first vessel which reached the free port of 
Treves, from Holland, was the occasion of a great féte on 
the 17th. 
Iraty.—Advices from Rome mention that the Pontifical 
Government had abolished, to a certain extent, the exor- 
bitant privilege which hitherto insured impunity to male- 
factors who sought an asylum in the churches and con- 
vents of the Pope’s dominions. A recent legislative 
enactment provides, that hereafter the secular authorities 
may cause to be followed and arrested, wherever they may 
take refuge, all individuals guilty—Ist, of the destruction 
of relics, or images of the saints; 2d, of profanation of 
the churches ; 3d, of insults by words or violence against 
clergymen dressed in their costumes ; 4th, of high treason 5 
5th, of murder; 6th, of highway robbery, either singly 
or with the aid of accomplices; and 7th, of coining.— 
A letter, dated Milan the 24th ult., states that four earth- 
quakes had been felt in Calabria since the 27th December. 
The last occurred on the 13th February, but fortunately 
no injury was sustained.—Letters from Naples state that 
the nucleus of the comet had been distinctly seen there. 
Turkey AND Prrs1aA.—We have intelligence from 
Constantinople of the 17th, and from Smyrna of the 19th 
ult. The arrangement of the difference between Turkey 
and Persia is said to have made no progress since our last 
accounts from the Turkish capital. The Trebizond packet 
had brought despatches from Persia, from which it appears 
that Meerza Jaffer, the Persian Plenipotentiary to the 
Conference at Erzeroum, had died suddenly at TabreeZ, 
a few days after the death of Nourri Effendi, the Turkish 
Plenipotentiary, at Erzeroum. A most extraordinary 
fatality has displayed itself on this occasion, and 1? 
Eastern story-teller, who delights in marvellous coincl 
dences, could have imagined a series of disasters more 
astonishing than those which have distinguished these 
ill-fated conferences. Before starting from Constant! 
nople, Captain Williams, the English commissioner, Wa5 
diately after his inati ken d ly ill, 
so as to necessitate the appointment of a coadjutor, oy 
Honourable Mr. Curzon. Shortly after the arrival 
these gentlemen, panied by Mr. Redhouse, thei 
interpreter, at their post, the whole party narrow)y 
escaped suffocation, having fallen asleep in a room heate! 
by charcoal. It is also stated that the Tatar despatche, 
from Erzeroum to Tabreez to announce the death ° 
Nourri Effendi, and the Tatar sent from Tabreez wil 
the news of Meerza Jaffer’s death, had both died om the 
way.—The news from Syria is not important. The 
comet had been seen at Smyrna during several suc 
sive evenings, ih 
Inpra.—The Oriental steamer arrived at Malta ite 
Alexandria on the 30th ult., bringing the Overland fe 
Mail, despatched from Bombay by the Victoria steamt’ 
on the Ist ult. The dates are therefore to the Ist 
from Bombay, and to the 22d January from China- 
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