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[May 6, 
committee of the Senate in reply to the Regent's speech 
at the opening of the Cortes has been the subject of 
animated discussion. The Senate, in calm but dignified 
language, assert the right of Spain to an independent 
judgment on her own affairs, and censure the assertion of 
M. Guizot in the French Chambers that the Queen 
should only marry a Bourbon, as an attempt to assume a 
tone of superiority to which they cannot submit.—From 
Portugal, we learn that the news of the interruption of the 
tariff negotiations has produced agreat sensationin the wine 
districts, and that the authorities at Lisbon are at length 
beginning to manifest a disposition to bring the question to 
a satisfactory settlement.—From Italy, we have accounts 
of an attempt to assassinate the Viceroy of the Lombardo- 
Venetian Kingdom, which fortunately failed and proved 
to be the act of a lunatic who had imprudently been 
allowed to be at large,—From Turkey, we learn that the 
Servian question has been settled by an unconditional 
compliance on the part of the Turkish Government with 
the demands of Russia. The new Sovereign of Servia is to 
be deposed, his Ministers are to quit the Servian 
territory, and a new election is to take place which will 
doubtless restore the Sovereignty to Prince Milosch. 
At home, the funeral of the Duke of Sussex in the 
cemetery at Kensal-Green—the details of which are given 
in another column—is the chief topic of public interest. 
In the House of Lords on Tuesday during a conversation 
on the Scotch Church, Lord Aberdeen said that Govern- 
ment had offered all that could be conceded, and that there 
was no intention of introducing any measure on the 
subject. In the Commons, on Monday, Sir James 
Graham explained the nature of the alterations proposed 
by Government in the Factories Bill, with the view of 
meeting the most prominent objections urged against it. 
On Tuesday, Mr. Hume’s motion for a vote of thanks to 
Lord Ashburton for the treaty of Washington was carried, 
after an animated debate, by a majority of 238 against 96 ; 
and on Wednesday, Mr. Elphinstone’s bill for the better 
regulation of Marriages and Divorce was negatived by 4 
majority of 64. Last night the Government resolution for 
the endowment of additional ministers in populous 
places, was agreed to in committee without a division. 
Wome Welws. 
Courr.—Our readers will be gratified to learn that 
the following most satisfactory bulletin was issued on 
Thursday morning:—‘‘ Buckingham Palace, May 4 
1843, 9 o’clock, a.m.—The Queen is convalescent. The 
infant Princess is perfectly well. Her Majesty’s recovery 
is so far advanced, that no more bulletins will be issued.’”’ 
—The daily papers state that her Majesty and Prince 
Albert, accompanied by the Prince of Wales, the Princess 
Royal, and the newly-born Princess, will probably leave 
Buckingham Palace for Claremont about the 20th inst., 
and that their stay at Claremont will be prolonged 
until within a few days of the period of the Ascot races, 
which will commence on Tuesday, the 13th June. Her 
Majesty is expected to proceed to Windsor about the 10th 
of June. No period has yet been fixed for her Majesty’s 
visit to Dublin; but it is not expected that the Queen 
will leave England until the latter end of July, or the 
commencement of August.—His Royal Highness Prince 
Albert has graciously signified his intention of laying the 
foundation-stone of the Royal Naval School, at Counter- 
hill, near Deptford, on the Ist June, the anniversary of 
Lord Howe’s victory. 
The late Duke of Susser.The Lying in State.— 
On Wednesday the public were admitted into Kensington 
Palace, to see the body of his late Royal Highness lie in 
state. At 10 0’clock the doors of the Palace were opened. 
Passing through the front hall to the inner hall, which 
was lined by his Royal Highness’s footmen in state 
liveries, with crape hatbands, the company ascended the 
grand staircase, which was hung with black cloth, reaching 
to the ceiling from the landing. On this landing stood 
his Royal Highness’s piper, in his state uniform, and 
wearing a crape scarf. From the landing, entrance was 
given to an ante-room, the same in which the Queen held 
her first council on her accession to the throne. On the 
present occasion the ceiling, sides, and floor of the apart- 
ment were completely covered with black cloth. The 
adjoining apartment, the saloon, contained the body, 
covered, except at the end, with a black velvet pall, 
adorned with escutcheons of his late Royal Highness’s 
arms. Upon the coffin, ona velvet cushion, rested the coro- 
net of his late Royal Highness, as one of the Princes of the 
Blood. On either side of the coffin were three gold can- 
dlesticks, with large wax lights. At the head of the corpse 
sat, as chief mourner, Capt. Sir W. H. Dillon, R.N., one of 
his Royal Highness’s equerries. At the feet of the corpse 
stood the Richmond and Windsor Heralds, wearing their 
tabards and collars. Behind the heralds stood, on either 
side, the Hon. F. Byng and Capt. Courtenay Boyle, R.N., 
gentleman ushers. At eleven o’clock the Chester and 
Lancaster heralds relieved the other heralds ; and Sir T. 
ee and Mr. Bainbridge relieved the gentlemen 
ate wate 12 o’clock Colonel Wildman, K.H., one of 
Ditton nt Highness’s equerries, succeeded Sir W. 
ef rm The Richmond and Windsor 
ions, as did also the Hon. F. 
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ushers were changed at the same time. Until the close 
of the ceremony the gentlemen in attend relieved 
‘Chamberlain, the coffin being preceded ‘by the ‘personal 
ees ducati 
each other every hour, Colonel Wildman and Sir Archi- 
bald Macdonald officiating as chief mourners during the 
remainder of the day. Four o’clock having arrived, and 
the barriers extending to the gates of the palace being 
then filled with company, who had not obtained admission, 
the lord chamberlain allowed the ceremony to be pro- 
longed; and so numerous was the assemblage, that 
although the outer barriers were closed, two hours were 
occupied in passing the visitors already within the barriers, 
it being six o’clock before the doors of the palace were 
closed. The greatest order and regularity were preserved 
within the approaches to the palace during the eight hours 
that the ceremony lasted. 
Funeral of the Duke of Sussew.—The funeral of his 
Royal Highness took place on Thursday. As early as 
six o’clock the different roads leading to Kensington were 
thronged with persons anxious to obtain a sight of the 
solemn ceremony. All the shops were closed, and from 
many of the houses mourning flags and banners were 
displayed. from the Palace-gate to the extremity of the 
town a line of seats was erected, and the windows and 
house-tops were filled with spectators, the greater portion 
of whom were of the more respectable class, and attired in 
deep mourning, Shortly after seven o’clock, the carriages 
of the nobility and friends of the late Duke began to 
arrive at the Palace. Ata few minutes before eight, the 
procession began to move from the Palace, headed by a 
detachment of the Horse Guards, and a military band 
playing the Dead March in Saul. Immediately afterwards 
followed 13 mourning-coaches, containing the personal 
attendants of his Royal Highness, the state-carrlage con- 
taining the Coronet of his Royal Highness, and the hearse 
drawn by eight horses. After the hearse followed a 
mourning-carriage, in which was Sir Augustus d’Este ; 
and then followed the private carriages of the nobility. 
After these came a mourning-coach, with six horses, in 
which was the Duke of Cambridge, as the chief mourner, 
attended by his two supporters, the Marquesses of Lans- 
downe and Breadalbane, followed by the carriages of the 
Queen, the Queen Dowager, the Duke of Cambridge, the 
Duchess of Gloucester, the Princess Sophia, the Duchess 
of Kent, the Princess Sophia Matilda of Gloucester, a 
mourning-coach, drawn by six horses, in which were the 
executors named in the will of his late Royal Highness, 
and private carriages, in which were the immediate per- 
sonal friends of his Royal Highness, invited to attend 
the solemnity. The procession extended for nearly a 
mile in length, and the last of the carriages had left 
the Palace a few minutes after nine o’clock. The 
corlége having proceeded through the High-street, Ken- 
sington, to the old church, turned up Church-street and 
passed along Church-lane ; each side of the road, all 
the way, being lined with a dense crowd of spectators. 
All, however, was most quiet and orderly, owing to the 
excellent arrangements of the police, who, being stationed 
all along the route, about three or four yards apart, main- 
tained the most perfect discipline and order among the 
people. When the procession had reached the Swan, it 
turned into the Uxbridge-road. It then proceeded along 
the Queen’s-road for some distance, and passed over the 
Great Western Railway, by the Bridge at Westbourne 
Green, near the mansion occupied by the late Lord Hill. 
It then entered the Harrow road, about a mile from its 
commencement at Paddington. At the turning into this 
road great crowds were assembled, and some difficulty was 
experienced in passing, by those who did not form an 
actual portion of the procession itself. At Kensal Green, 
as early as six o’clock, carriages began to arrive in rapid 
succession, and as soon as the gates leading to the ceme- 
tery were open, there was a rush made by those who had 
obtained tickets of admission from the directors of the 
company. From six o’clock to nine, at which time the 
gates were closed, there was a continual arrival of carriages. 
Shortly after nine o’clock a detachment of the First Regi- 
ment of Grenadier Guards, under the command of Colonel 
Stanhope, arrived, and acted as a guard of honour. The 
Lord Chamberlain ; the Lord Steward ; the Master of the 
Horse; the Bishop of Norwich ; Garter King-at-Arms, 
and several officers of the Herald’s College were in attend- 
ance, and gave the necessary directions as to the arrange- 
ments. The Cabinet Ministers arrived before 10 o’clock. 
The Duke of Wellington was the only member of 
the Cabinet who joined in the procession. The other 
Ministers met it at the chapel. All the Ministers and great 
Officers of State were attired in the Windsor uniform, with @ 
black silk scarf, except Sir H. Hardinge, who wore amilitary 
dress. Amongst the first of the nobility who arrived were 
the Dukes of Bedford, Devonshire, and Sutherland, and 
the Earl of Arran, who supported the pall, The steps 
leading to the chapel were covered with black cloth. At 
half-past nine the chapel-bell began to toil, announcing 
that the procession had left the palace. His Royal High- 
ness Prince Albert, accompanied by Prince George 
of Cambridge, the Marquis of Exeter, and other 
members of his Royal Highness’s suite, arrived shortly 
before 10 o’clock. ‘They were received at the entrance to 
the chapel by the officers of State and the guard of 
honour. The directors of the Cemetery Company con- 
ducted their Royal Highnesses into a waiting-room, which 
had been temporarily erected on the right wing of the 
chapel for the accommodation of the Royal family and 
their attendants. On the left wing was another temporary 
room, erected for the Cabinet Ministers and all those 
taking part in the ceremony. [Exactly at half-past 10 
the funeral procession entered the gates of the cemetery. 
Upon arrival at the chapel, the cavalry formed on either 
side of the portico, At the entrance to the chapel, the 
procession moyed in the order arranged by the Lord 
of his Royal Highness, the Heralds, the Bishop 
of Norwich, &c., and followed by Garter King-at-Arms, 
H.R.H. the Duke of Cambridge, as chief mourner, 
H.R.H. Prince Albert, H.R.H. Prince George o: 
Cambridge, and the Hereditary Grand Duke of Mecklen- 
burg Strelitz, ail dressed in long black cloaks, with the 
Star of the Garter embroidered thereon. Their Royal 
Highnesses were followed by the Executors named in the 
will of the late Duke, the personal friends of his late Royal 
Highness, and the staff of the Artillery Company. On 
entering the chapel the body was placed on a platform, 
and the coronet and cushion laid upon the coffin. The 
Duke of Cambridge, as chief mourner, sat at the head of 
the corpse, the supporters standing on each side. Prince 
Albert and Prince George of Cambridge, with the Here- 
ditary Grand Duke of Mecklenburg Strelitz, sat near the 
chief moumer. The Lord Chamberlain took his place at 
the feet of the corpse. The Dukes of Bedford, Suther- 
land, and Devonshire, and the Earl of Arran, as supporters 
of the pall, stood on each side of the body. The train- 
bearers stood behind the Princes of the Royal Family, and 
also the Executors of his Royal Highness. The Cabinet 
Ministers and other persons composing the procession 
were arranged on either side of the chapel, the Pages 
having filed off at the entrance. ‘The part of the service 
before the interment being read, the corpse was deposited 
in the vault, and the Bishop of Norwich having concluded 
the burial. service, Garter King-at-Arms pronounced 
the style of his late Royal Highness. The Bishop 
of Norwich read the funeral service in a most im- 
pressive and solemn manner ; the responses were said by 
the Reverend Mr. Twigger, Chaplain of the cemetery. 
The Royal and distinguished personages present did 
not return to town in procession, but left the cemetery 
at different times, in their own carriages. The Duke of 
Cambridge left the cemetery in a private carriage imme- 
diately after the remains of his brother had been con- 
signed tothetomb. The Chapel was exceedingly crowded, 
and anumber of the directors were not able to obtain 
admission. The vault in which the remains of his late 
Royal Highness are deposited, untila suitable mausoleum 
can be erected, is situated about the middle of the cata- 
combs, on the right of the chapel. Itis a plain vault, 
containing two wooden tressels, on which the coffin of his 
Royal Highness has been deposited. Immediately on the 
conclusion of the ceremony, masons were employed to 
build a strong brick wall in front, closing in the remains 
of his late Royal Highness. 
Parliamentary Movements.—The Sheffield papers 
mention that both the Members for that town are about 
to resign their seats. The failure of the Sheffield Bank, 
some months ago, is the cause of Mr. Parker’s resigna- 
tion; and Mr. Ward, it is said, feels the necessity of 
following the example of his colleague from considerations 
of a pecuniary nature. Colonel Thompson, and Mr, 
Bright, a Member of the Society of Friends, are spoken 
of as the new Members.—The nomination of candidates 
for the representation of Salisbury took place on Tuesday, 
when Mr, Ambrose Hussey was proposed on the Con- 
servative interest, and the Hon. Bb. P. Bouverie on the 
Liberalinterest. The show of hands was nearly equal, and 
a poll was demanded, the result of which was as follows :— 
Mr. Hussey, 262; Mr. Bouverie, 176. Mr. Bouverie 
resigned before the time fixed for the closing of the poll. 
Official Appointments.—It is understood that Sir John 
Fitzgerald, at present residing at Toonah, in the county 
of Clare, has been appointed Governor of Bombay. At 
a special meeting of the Society for the Propagation of 
the Gospel on Friday, the 28th ult., the Rey.Ernest Hawkins 
was, on the recommendation of his Grace the Archbishop of 
Canterbury, elected secretary in the room of the Rev. 
A.M. Campbell, resigned. 
_ Post-Ofice.—The following order has recently been 
issued by the Post-Office:—‘ General Post-Office, April, 
1843.—Letters for China, the Australian settlements, 
New Zealand, the Mauritius, or other places beyond the 
territories of the Hast’ India Company, intended to be 
sent by the overland mails through India, must be ad- 
dressed to the care of correspondents in that country, a8 
it is understood that, under recent regulations, they will 
otherwise be detained at Bombay for payment of the 
transit and ship-letter postage due to the Indian Post- 
Office, for their conveyance to their destination. It is 
not necessary that letters for places within the territories 
of the Kast India Company, forwarded by the Indian 
mails, should be addressed to correspondents in India, 
provision being made for payment of the Indian postage 
above alluded to in those settlements.”’—A Parliamentary 
paper, published on Saturday morning, shows, that for 
the year ending January 5, 1843, the number of letters 
received inland was 209,611,508, and foreign and 
colonial 8,583,040. The gross amount of revenue of the 
United Kingdom, inland, during the same period, was 
1,027,0747. 10s, OLd.; and the expense of management, 
913,061/. 14s, ; showing anet revenue of 103,2687. Bs. 65% 
—after deducting 10,7457. 2s. 6d. for Parliamentary grants, 
&c., charged on the Post-Office revenue. The gross 
amount of revenue for foreign and colonial, and internal 
colonial, was 583,406/. Os. 43d.; the total expense of 
management, 696,445/. 19s. 44d, ; showing a deficiency 
1138,0397. 19s. 
Aporeign. 
Franor.—The bill for consolidating the new French 
colonies in Polynesia was discussed in the committees o 
the Chamber of Deputies .on Saturday. t 
posed measure it appeared, that of the 5,800,0008. @ 
which it estimates the outfit of the new settlement® 
4,000,000f. are for the buildings and stores requisite for 
