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THE GARDENERS 
CHRONICLE. 
[Aprin 29, 
accounts of an insurrection at Dantzic, which for some 
time assumed a formidable aspect ; the troops, however, 
ded in supp ing the » and tranquilli 
is again restored.—The Servian question is still the ab- 
sorbing topic in the Levant, and there is no longer any 
doubt that the Emperor of Russia will insist on a new 
election. The deposition of the present Sovereign is 
generally anticipated, and the restoration of Prince 
Milosch is mentioned as by no means an improbable event. 
Wome Netvs. 
AccoucHEMENT oF HER Masusty.—On Tuesday 
morning at four o’clock, the Queen was safely delivered 
of a Princess. In the room with her Majesty were his 
Royal Highness Prince Albert, Dr. Locock, and Mrs, 
Lilly, the monthly nurse; and in the rooms adjoining 
were the other medical attendants, Sir James Clark and 
Dr. Ferguson ; and the Earl of Liverpool, lord steward 
of her Majesty’s household. The news was immediately 
made known to the town by the firing of the Park and 
Tower guns; and the Privy Council being assembled as 
soon as possible, it was ordered that a form of thanks- 
giving for the Queen’s safe delivery of a Princess be pre- 
pared by the Archbishop of Canterbury, to be used in all 
churches and chapels throughout England and Wales, on 
Sunday, the 30th inst., or the Sunday after the respective 
ministers shall receive the same. It appears that on 
Sunday morning, her Majesty and Prince Albert attended 
divine service in the chapel of Buckingham Palace, and 
after luncheon walked in the garden for more than an 
hour, without any appearance of fatigue. There were no 
guests at the Royal table that day, and the Queen retired 
at the customary hour. In the course of the forenoon on 
Monday, her Majesty gave audience to Sir R. Peel on 
Official affairs, and in the afternoon visits of condolence 
on the death of the Duke of Sussex were paid by the 
Duchess of Kent, and other members of the Royal family. 
About nine o’clock her Majesty rose from table, and on 
leaving the saloon, the attendance of Sir James Clark was 
recommended. Sir James decided that Dr. Locock 
should be sent for; that gentleman arrived at the Palace 
soon after ten o’clock, and her Majesty retired to bed, 
enjoying some refreshing sleep until within a few minutes 
of three o’clock, when the symptoms of uneasiness having 
returned, Mrs. Lilly summoned Dr. Locock, and after 
the lapse of an hour, her Majesty was safely delivered of 
a daughter. Prince Albert, Dr. Locock, and Mrs. 
Lilly, were the only persons admitted, all the principal 
personages of the household being in the ante-chamber. 
The young Princess is reported to be a fine healthy 
child, the features somewhat larger, and the frame more 
fully developed than were those of the Princess Royal, 
her Majesty’s first child. The news of her Majesty’s 
safe delivery was communicated immediately to the Lord 
Chamberlain, and special messengers were despatched to 
the residences of the various members of the Royal 
Family, the Cabinet’ Ministers, the Lord Chancellor, the 
Archbishop of Canterbury, &c. charged with the bul- 
letin announcing theevent. Between seven and eight 
o’clock Sir R. Peel arrived at the palace, and was quickly 
followed by the Earl of Aberdeen, the} Earl of Ripon, 
Lord Stanley, Sir J. Graham, the Chancellor af the Ex- 
chequer, the Duke of Buccleuch, and the Lord Chancel- 
lor, to offer congratulation on the joyful occasion. The 
intelligence had spread all over the metropolis before 
nine o’clock, at which time the Park and Tower guns 
fired royal salutes of 21 guns. The bells of the several 
ehurches rung a merry peal, and the shipping of all na- 
tions lying in the river displayed their respective ensigns, 
The immediate vicinity of the palace was thronged 
throughout the day by persons anxious to learn the state 
of her Majesty’s health. From twelve till five o’clock the 
nobility and gentry were continually arriving to make in- 
quiries, and leave their names at the Lodge. Queen’s 
essengers were despatched from the Foreign Office with 
despatches, announcing the event to the Kings of Han- 
over and Belgium. The bulletins since issued announce 
that her Majesty and the infant Princess are going on 
perfectly well. It is understood that the customary 
rejoicings incident to the accouchement of a Queen will, 
in this instance, be postponed until after the funeral of 
his Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex. 
Form of Prayer.—The following is the form of prayer 
and thanksgiving to Almighty God for the safe delivery 
ofthe Queen, and the happy birth of a Princess: ‘*O 
Merciful Lord and Heavenly Father, by whose gracious 
gift mankind is increased, we most humbly offer unto 
Thee our hearty thanks for Thy great goodness vouch- 
safed to thy people, in delivering Thy servant our Sove- 
reign Lady the Queen from the perils of childbirth, and 
giving her the blessing of a daughter. Continue, we be- 
seech Thee, Thy fatherly care over her ; support and 
comfort her in the hours of weakness, and day by day 
renewher strength. Preserve the infant Princess from 
whatever is hurtful either to body or soul, and adorn her 
as she advances in years with every Christian virtue. 
Regard with Thine especial favour our Queen and her 
Royal consort, that they may long live together in the 
enjoyment of all earthly happiness, and may finally be 
made partakers of everlasting glory. Implant in tle 
hearts of Thy people a deep sense of Thy manifold mer- 
Cies, and give us grace to show forth our thankfulness by 
iful affection to our Sovereign, by brotherly love one 
towards another, and by constant obedience to thy com- 
Mandments; so that passing through this life in Thy 
faith ‘and fear, we may in the life to come be received 
into Thy heavenly kingdom, through the merits and medi- 
ation of Thy blessea Son, Jesus Christ, our Lord, Amen.’’ 
The Duke of Sussex.—The necessary arrangements 
for the funeral of his Royal Highness have been completed 
by the Lord Chamberlain. The express desire on the 
part of his Royal Highness that his remains should be 
deposited in the cemetery at Kensal-green, appears to 
have created some difficulty up to the present time; but, 
through the gracious permission of her Majesty, the only 
obstacle which might previously have existed to the entire 
fulfilment of the Duke’s wish has been completely re- 
moved, and the ceremony is appointed to take place on 
Thursday, the 4th May, in the cemetery at Kensal-green. 
It has been arranged that the coffin should be deposited 
in the principal catacombs, under the western chapel, until 
a mausoleum can be erected for its reception. Her Majesty 
has further expressed her particular desire that no curtail- 
ment of the ceremony usually attendant upon royal funerals 
should take place in the interment of his Royal Highness, 
and the whole of the ar ts will, in be 
conducted on the usual scale of magnificence. Unlike 
royal funerals of late years, the present ceremony is ap- 
pointed to take place at an early hour in the day. This 
arrangement will give the public an opportunity seldom 
met with, of witnessing the procession throughout the 
whole line of road, from Kensington to Kensal-green. 
The procession, after entering, will not leave the chapel, 
the entrance to the bs being i diately beneath 
the altar. The following fact, in connexion with his 
Royal Highness, may serve to explain his predilection for 
this cemetery. It appears that his Royal Highness has 
been in the frequent habit of visiting the grounds since 
their formation in 1832, and more particularly during the 
last three or four years. He generally came attended by 
few of his suite, and spent a considerable time in examin- 
ing the various improvements and works in progress, in 
which he appeared to take great interest, and on more 
than one occasion he has remarked to the attendants that 
when it pleased Providence to call him he would certainly 
be buried there. Some time since, a German friend of 
the Duke’s, named Count Von Schulenburg, died shortly 
after his arrival in the country on a visit to his Royal 
Highness. The Duke was much affected by his death, 
and himself selected his grave in the ‘Kensal-green ceme- 
tery, where a neat monument, inclosed in an iron railing, 
has been erected. The ceremony of lying-in-state is at 
present fixed for Wednesday next, at Kensington-palace. 
The state apartments are now fitting up with the usual 
appurtenances, and it is expected that they will be com- 
pleted this week. The public will enter through the 
court-yard of that portion of the building lately occupied 
by the Duchess of Kent, and proceeding through the hall, 
mount the grand staircase, which opens directly upon the 
state apartments. This room will be hung with black 
velvet and lighted with wax tapers. The next, and prin- 
cipal apartment, will contain the coffin, bearing the ducal 
coronet, and covered with a pall ornamented with the 
escutcheons of his Royal Highness. This room will also 
be hung with festoons of black velvet, and lead into a 
third apartment similarly decorated, from which visitors 
will pass through another suite of rooms into Kensington- 
gardens. By this arrangement every facility will be 
afforded to the public, who will be enabled to witness the 
ceremony without inconvenience, 
General Mourning.—Orders have been issued by the 
Lord Chamberlain for the Court to go into mourning from 
Sunday last, the 23d inst., for his Jate Royal Highness 
the Duke of Sussex ; to change the mourning on Sunday, 
May 7th, and to go out of mourning on Sunday May 14th. 
The Duke of. Norfolk, as Earl Marshal, has issued an 
order for a general mourning, stating that it is expected 
that all persons do put themselves into decent mourning, 
for ten days, to commence from Sunday the 23d inst.—The 
Adjt.-Gen., and the Secretary of the Admiralty have given 
notice that Her Majesty does not require the Officers of 
the public services to wear any other mourning than a 
black crape round the left arm, with their uniforms. 
The Levée.—The Gazette of Tuesday announces that 
the Levée intended to have been held by his Royal High- 
ness Prince Albert, at St. James’s Palace, on Wednesday 
last, has been postponed to Wednesday, the 17th of May, 
at 2 o’clock. 
Parliamentary Movements.—The election for East 
Suffolk has terminated in the return of Lord Rendlesham ; 
the numbers were for his Lordship 2,952; for Mr. Adair, 
1,818 ; majority, 1,134.—A vacancy has occurred in the 
representation of Salisbury, by Mr. Brodie’s acceptance of 
the Children Hundreds, and Mr. E. P. Bouverie has come 
forward as a candidate on the Liberal interest, 
Chinese Missions—The Bishop of London intends 
issuing a pastoral letter to the clergy of his diocese, di- 
recting that collections shall be made in every church and 
chapel on the Sunday after Ascension-day, in aid of the 
fund for providing religious instruction in conformity with 
the principles of the Church of England, in China. A 
similar course is likely to be adopted by the other bishops. 
AForeiqn. 
France.—The Paris papers bring no news of import- 
ance, and are occupied to a certain extent by the state of 
the vinegrowers of France, brought under the notice o' 
the Chamber on Saturday by M. Mauguin. The principal 
item of the contents of these journals is the rejection of 
the appeal to the Court of Cassation of a Protestant 
clergyman, the Rev. M. Roussel, against a decision of the 
Court of Versailles, which had declared him disqualified 
to exercise his functions as pastor at Senneville, because 
of his having four years previously voluntarily ceased to 
perform his clerical duties. ‘The Paris press is nearly 
unanimous in condemning this decree of the Court of 
Cassation. The Minister of Marine hag asked for 
240,000/.—five millions of francs—for the expense of 
establishments at the Marquesas and Tahiti. He estimated 
the annual expense at 100,000/. a year. The force to be 
sent was 1,200 men. The Minister referred to the mis- 
sionaries as follows :—“ For a long time English mission- 
aries have been established in the Society Islands, and to 
their efforts, which preceded those of our own missionaries, 
is owing the more advanced state of civilization in Tahiti. 
The good which they have done, and may yet do, gives 
them a right to the protection of the French Government. 
This they sball have in all its plenitude. On the other 
hand, we are happy to think that French influence will 
find in these foreign missionaries auxiliaries devoted to 
the cause of civilization, which it is the great object to 
defend.’’ The journals of Monday contain a letter 
addressed by Prince Louis Bonaparte to a provincial print, 
on the rumour reaching him that an amnesty to political 
offenders was contemplated on the occasion of the mar- 
viage of the Princess Clementine of Orleans, or of the 
King’s féte. The contents of the epistle are, we regret to 
say, anything but calculated to shorten the period of his 
captivity. It concludes with the following paragraph :— 
‘« Banished for twenty-five years past, twice betrayed by 
fortune, I am acquainted with all the vicissitudes and 
sorrows of this life, and, having no more the illusions of 
youth, I find in the native air I breathe, in study, and in 
the repose of my prison, a charm which I felt not when I 
shared the enjoyments of foreign nations, and vanquished, 
drank in the same cup as the conquerors of Waterloo. In 
short, if the opportunity offered, I should repeat what I 
said before the Court of Peers, ‘I will have no generosity, 
for I know what it costs the object of it.’ ’’—The marriage 
of her Royal Highness the Princess Clementine with his 
Serene Highness the Prince Augustus of Saxe Coburg 
Gotha took place on Thursday evening, at the Palace of 
St. Cloud. The royal family and the witnesses having 
taken their places round a circular table, Baron Pasquier, 
Chancellor of France, read the civil-marriage ceremony, 
and, after having received from Prince Augustus and the 
Princess Clementine the declaration required by the civil 
code, declared, in the name of the law, that the Prince and 
Princess were united in marriage. The signatures to the 
certificate of marriage were then affixed. The august pair, 
their Majesties, the Princes and Princesses, and the wit- 
nesses, having signed, the certificate was completed by the 
President of the Council of Ministers, the Keeper of the 
Seals, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, the Chancellor, 
and the Grand Referendary. Immediately after the sign- 
ing of the civil act, their Majesties, the Royal Family, 
and all the assembly, proceeded to the chapel, where the 
Bishop of Versailles performed the religious marriage 
ceremony. Prince Augustus is nephew of the reigning 
Duke of Saxe Coburg Gotha, of the King of the Belgians, 
of the Duchess of Kent, and of the Grand Duchess Anna 
Feodorouna, widow of the Grand Duke Constantine, 
brother of the Emperor of Russia. He is also brother of 
the King of Portugal, and the Duchess de Nemours, and 
cousin-german of Prince Albert. He is in his 24th year, 
having been born on the 13th June, 1818, and is about 
one year younger than his bride, who was born on the 3d 
June, 1817, The Monitewr announces that the Court 
will, on the 2d May, go into mourning for eleven days for 
his Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex. 
Spain.—The accounts from Madrid are of the 17th 
inst. They state that the Cortes were still occupied in 
the verification of election returns. 99 deputies had been 
declared duly elected within the preceding two days, 
amongst them the celebrated Sefior Prim, deputy for 
Tarragona, recently deprived of his commission of colonel, 
for his conduct during the late revolt at Barcelona. 
Nothing had been arranged relative to the formation of a 
new Ministry. A list, however, had heen circulated, con- 
taining the names of M. Campuzano, as President and 
Minister for Foreign Affairs; M. Alonso, Justice ; Gene- 
ral Iriarte, the Interior; General Chacon, War; M. 
Pita Pizarro, Finance; General Capaz, Marine; M. 
Joachim Lopez, President of the Congress. It was be- 
lieved that if Don Joachim Lopez should join the Regent’s 
friends, a Ministry might be constituted which could 
carry on the government without difficulty. In the mean 
time the existing Ministers were not idle; they were pre- 
paring to introduce two important bills to the Chamber 
of Deputies; one to define the law of libel, the other, 
for the establishment of banks throughout the country ; 
into which it was intended to introduce a provision to 
secure the capital subscribed by foreign capitalists, in the 
same manner as the property of foreigners vested in 
mining companies is protected. An immense harvest is 
expected throughout Spain, in consequence of the abund- 
ant rains during the spring months. — The Regent re- 
turned the visit of the Infante Don Francisco de Paula 
on the 9th. Their meeting appears to have been very 
cool. The Regent said to the Prince, ‘Our characters 
are reversed ; J, a man of the people, am obliged to de- 
fend the throne; and you, an Infante of Spain, now side 
with the Opposition, arrayed against the Government and 
the Queen.” 
PortuGaL.—We have accounts from Lisbon to the 
17th inst., by the Liverpool steamer, which has brought 
home some of the officers and engineers belonging to the 
Solway steamer, lost off Corunna on the night of the 7th, 
who were taken to Lisbon by the French government 
steamer Erébe and Eglantine gun-brig. It was known 
at Lisbon that the British Government had rejected the 
Portuguese proposals, at a Cabinet Council held on the 
8th; and, in fact, the Portuguese Foreign Secretary had 
authorized the official journal to announce the ‘ interrup- 
tion ’’ of the negotiations. The papers announced that @ 
treaty had been signed at London between Portugal and 
the Ottoman Porte. 
