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the colonists, and 2,000,000f. for the construction of 
steam-boats. The troops to be employed in those esta- 
blishments are to consist of 1,185, of which 957 are to be 
composed of infantry and 228 of marine artillery. The 
bill was approved almost tMmanimously, for of nine com- 
missioners, only one was Opposed to it. At the same 
sitting, a bill was presented by the Minister of Finance, 
for enabling the French Government to pay the half-year’s 
interest due on the portion of the Greek loan which it 
has guaranteed, in the event of the Greek Government 
not paying it. The sum required is 527,241 francs. The 
whole Chamber being aware of the condition of King 
Otho’s treasury, the application was received with violent 
demonstrations of displeasure. One member wished to 
know whether the English Government were prepared to 
fulfil its share of the engagement ?—but the Minister 
evaded the question. The Moniteur of Monday publishes 
the Postage Convention between France and England, 
signed April 3, 1843. The first chapter establishes towns 
of the two countries, from which letters for one another 
are to be despatched. The French towns are—Paris, 
‘Calais, Boulogne, Dieppe, Havre, Cherbourg, Granville, 
t. Malo, in the Channel. 
don, Dover, Brighton, Southampton, Jersey, and Guernsey. 
For the Mediterranean, 
Weather permitting. By the eighth article, the post-boats 
will continue their services without interruption, even in 
time of war, until one of the Governments shall have sig- 
nified its wish that the service should cease. 
may be franked or not ; and lettres chargés, or particularly 
recommended, may be sent in both countries. The 
English Post-oftice is to pay to the French two frances for 
every thirty grammes of letters not franked ; and in the 
Same case the French Post-office will pay the English a 
Letters from France to England, 
rance by the amount levied on 
French letters by the law of 1827. The letters from Paris, 
Owever, will pay but the tariff of Boulogne. Letters 
frankea from England to France will pay fivepence per 
Single letter, weighing half-an-ounce. (This, in addition 
to the tariff of Boulogne mentioned above, will make ten- 
Pence postage between England and Paris.) ‘There are 
Special charges for letters exchanged with St. Malo, Cher- 
bourg, and Granville. Journals of either country are to 
he delivered at the port of the country to which they are 
addressed exempt from duty. Pamphlets may be sent by 
Post from one country to another, paying in France ag 
Usual; in England, one penny for two ounces, and so on 
Up to 16 ounces, which is the maximum allowed by the 
English Post-office.—The King’s  féte was celebrated 
with the usual rejoicings on Monday last, and the cus- 
tomary congratulatory addresses were delivered at the 
Tuileries, by the corps diplomatique, the Archbishop of 
aris, the Presidents of the Chambers of Peers and 
eputies, &c. Not the slightest disturbance took place. 
Spain.—The accounts from Madrid are to the 30th 
ult. They state that no modification of the Ministry 
Would take place until the Cortes was definitively consti- 
tuted. My, Cortina was chosen President of the Chamber 
of Deputies on the 30th ult., bya majority of 836. It was 
Teported at Madrid, that the Spanish Consuls at Bayonne 
an Perpignan had forwarded information to the Govern- 
Ment that the Carlists were about to attempt another insur- 
ection, This report, however, had not created any Sensa- 
tion, © papers publish the draught of the address 
Repared by the committee of the Senate, in reply to the 
“gent. It contains the following passage relative to the 
Ricign relations of the country, to the late events at 
thaeclona, and to M. Guizot’s somewhat hasty assertion 
he the Queen should only marry a Bourbon :—* It js 
Ppy Cireumstance that our intercourse with foreign 
any Tents has not undergone, in the period just elapsed, 
the Notable change. The motives of disagreement which 
y frienqttences at Barcelona have given rise to, as respects 
Your an, Cabinet, must, no doubt, have vanished ; and 
expr tighness must be assured that the Incautious 
bi Pressions which a statesman has used in a public assem- 
an on matters Concerning us exclusively, will be attended 
inde no Consequence. The Senate hopes that dignity and 
tha pendence, those precious requisites of every nation 
relate ree™S itself, will ever be respected in our external 
ous: The Spaniards who have fought for them thirty 
More ¢ years, would, ifneed were, fight as many years 
ig ee Secure them. It is for this purpose that your 
invest an 1s placed at the head of a magnanimous nation, 
Reason wit! all its authority, and armed with all its force. 
pinion “ Justice are on our side, as well as public 
us, Tain Ounded upon the common right of nations 3 for 
thieg oye are the Sympathies of nation to nation, sympa- 
two ie °ppose the disturbance of harmony between 
tog ee which no interest really national can incite 
Regs og te It is, in short, not possible that your High- 
uld ever consent to any arrogating a right of 
to thei rs, whether important or not, accord~ 
titance Bees any considering Spain as a fief and 
Tate elonging to hows to any, es sous 
Q an question, venturing to hold a 
Sage of proud Superiority, and much ees assume a 
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After alluding to the upright conduct 
of the magistracy, and insisting on the necessity of a 
reformation of the law, the address expresses a hope that 
financial documents may be prepared, and presented in 
time to admit of the budget being discussed this session. 
applauds the Regent for his active and 
effectual repression of the Barcelona insurrection, which 
“it was necessary to repress at all price,’ and concludes 
with a very forcible denunciation of the mode in which 
oRTUGAL.—We have Lisbon news to the 24th ult. 
There were strong indications of a disposition on all sides 
i) bring the interrupted tariff negotiation to a satisfactory 
close. 
ground that this long-disputed question would be brought 
to a speedy settlement. 
tunicated to the Government the Papal confirmation of 
the Royal nomination of the Patriarch of Lisbon, Arch- 
bishop of Braga and Bishop of Leiria, together with the 
Concession of the pallium to the two prelates first named. 
This decision had been formed in secret consistory at 
‘ome, ondd April. The processes of the remaining pre- 
lates had not then reached Rome. The reconciliation 
between the two churches was now complete, and there 
would be no difficulty in arranging the remaining terms 
of the Concordat. “The complete endowment for the 
Payment of the dividends on the foreign debt had been 
carried in the Deputies. A magnificent edifice, the ancient 
College of Nobles, now the Polytechnic School of Lisbon, 
had been burnt to the ground. The conflagration was 
Most extensive, but all the adjoining houses had fortu- 
nately been saved. Three lives were reported to have been 
lost, and seven persons wounded. The news of the 
interruption of the tariff negotiations had produced regret 
and dismay at Oporto, and disturbances were apprehended. 
Irary.—The Milan papers of the 27th ult, announce 
that on the preceding afternoon, as the Archduke Viceroy 
of Italy was returning on foot after taking his usual pro- 
menade, accompanied by a single Chamberlain, he was 
accosted by an individual, who presented a petition to his 
Highness with one hand, whilst with the other he struck 
the Viceroy in the right side with an iron instrument, 
which, being blunt, produced merely a bruise. The maniac, 
as he afterwards proved to be, was instantly arrested and 
conveyed to the police-office amidst the hooting of an 
immense crowd, who loudly expressed their indignation 
at the attempt. On examination, the prisoner proved to 
be a porter, named Giovanni Sinelli, who had several times 
attempted to murder a person of rank whom he imagined 
to be his debtor for a large sum, and had been confined at 
various periods in the Lunatic Asylum.—From Rome w. 
learn that the sale of Cardinal Fesch’s celebrated gallery 
of pictures commenced on the 17th ult. The pictures put 
up for sale were of inferior value ; they belonged to the 
French, Italian, and Flemish schools, and were most of 
them copies. Six hundred were sold. The best pictures 
will follow. 
TurKkey.—We have accounts from Constantinople to 
the 12th ult. The Servian question was on that day 
decided in a Council of Ministers held in the presence of 
the Russian Ambassador. The following are the resolu- 
tions adopted: “Ist, Georgewitsch shall voluntarily 
abdicate; in the event of his refusing to do so, he shail 
be declared to have forfeited the Governorship of Servia. 
2ndly, A new election of a Sovereign shall be proceeded 
with. 8rdly, Kiamil Pacha, Wutsitch, and Petroniewich, 
shall quit the Servian territory.” These three resolu. 
tions are almost a verbatim repetition of the terms of the 
ultimatum of the Russia Cabinet, which, seconded in 
its views by that of Vienna, has thus obtained a conspi- 
cuous victory over the obstinacy of the Turks, and over 
all such as had striven to frustrate its designs. Under 
these circumstances, it is scarcely doubted that the new 
Sovereign about to be elected will be Prince Milosch, 
the father of Prince Michael, who is patronised by the 
Emperor Nicholas. {Nadir Achmet Bey, who pretends 
to be ason of Mustapha IV... who was strangled in the 
seraglio in 1808, has been seized at Adana by the com- 
mand of Izzet Pacha, and conducted to Koniah, whence 
he will arrive at Constantinople in a few days. This pre- 
tender to the Ottoman throne secretly left Constanti- 
nople in 1839, and proceeded to Malta, whence he 
denevied to visit Europe. He had but recently returned. 
Nedir Bey had entered the service of the Pasha of Egypt, 
and is so thoroughly acquainted with the languages and 
customs of modern Europe, that it is generally supposed 
he is a Polish renegade. Private letters add that, with 
all his pretence, he is so insignificant that the Ottoman 
Porte cannot intend disposing of him by violent means. 
Ecyrr.—By advices from Alexandria we find that the 
Pasha of Egypt has acknowledged the receipt of a gold 
dal voted to him in London for his keeping open the 
Tadianbebate during the perplexing year 1840, and for the 
protection which he has afforded to Englishmen. Boghos 
J sins, has left the pyramids of Gizeh and Sacchara, where 
they made a stay of nearly three months, and hag proceeded 
to Fayum, to commence its researches there. Ww, ay 
entertain a certain hope that this expedition will at Jast 
enlighten the world upon the Lake Moeris, and upon the 
labyrinth which has been so often sought for in vain, 
Iypra AND Cuina.—The following intelligence jn 
anticipation of the Indian Mail reached town on Thursday, 
‘Malta, April 29. The Liverpool has just arrived with 
the Indian Mail, which left Bombay on the Ist of April. 
On hearing of the last successes of the British army in 
Scinde, the Governor-General declared that State annexed 
to the territory of the English empire, and appointed 
General Sir Charles Napier Governor of that new 
province. Slavery is to be abolished in Scinde, and the 
navigation of the Indus is to be opened to all nations, 
Considerable treasures, estimated at above 1,600,0002. 
sterling, had been found at Hyderabad. Agitation con- 
tinued to prevail only in the Bundelkund and on the 
frontiers of Scinde. The news from China comes down to 
the 22d February. It is of a favourable nature, although 
containing no important fact.’’ 
$Parliament. 
OUSE OF LORDS. ‘ 
Monday.—Lord Wwarncuirre moved the second reading of 
the Registration of Voters Bill.—Lord Brovucuam admitted the 
improvements which would be effected by it; but contended that 
the princi i i i 
bill should be deferred until it was in committee.—The bill was 
then read a second time, 
were not passed to settle the question. 
Population would secede from the Church along with their 
ministers.—Lord Brovenam str 
could be conceded, and that there was no intention of intro- 
discussion on the peculiar nature of the case, and the remedy 
proposed. ‘ 
precedent, and without necessity, a legal remedy being open to 
the parties.—Lords BroveHam 
ported the bill, as a remed: 
f Devon and Wickrow 
opposed it, as being at once unprecedented and extreme.—The 
Lorp CHANCELLOR supported the second reading. The case 
ingular and extreme one, and if the facts were true, con- 
Stituted a scandalous wrong, not only against individuals, but 
the peerage, and the privileges of the House of Lords, for which 
equate remedy was afforded in the courts helow.—Lord 
Corrennam declined to press his Opposition ; the bill was read 
a second time; and counsel were called in, and an arrangement 
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day in hearing evidence in the Townshend peerage c: 
HAM presented a bill for the amendment of the Jaw relating: 
to the appellant jurisdiction of the judicial committee of the Privy 
Council.— Th i 
Friday.—The Registration of Voters Bill went through com- 
mittee, and the Exchequer Bills Bill was committed.—Lord 
Braumonr brought the subject of Servia before the House, 
entering at considerable length into the question, and strongly 
condemning the conduc’ i : of ABERDEEN 
©pposed the motion, and Lord Braumonr withdrew it. 
USE OF COMMONS, 
Monday.—Fully two hours were occupied in the presentation 
of petitions against the education clauses‘of the Factory Bill. 
© few were also presented in favour of the Bill.—Lor 
STanury announced that on Monday wi 5 
lution with the view of introducing the Canadian Corn Bill. 
i the House should go into 
He admitted the great degree of « 
the country on the subject, as evinced by the large number of 
detitions which had been presented against the bill; and pointed 
out what he considered to have 
u 2 Tange for 
the convenience of those who might desire to have their children 
being unrepresented, he wi 
rites the letter of ack ledg , Says — 
a ig hip niead al not fail to be extremely sensible of 
this expression of sentiments which show that, in the 
heart of the English nation, the constant aim of his 
efforts is not misunderstood, and that they appreciate the 
difficulties which he has surmounted to give a new deve- 
lopment to those commercial transactions of which Egypt 
is the object, to extend the channels of European trade, 
and to restore to it the important route of the Red Sea, 
which a long time of barbarism has closed.’’—The Prus- 
sian scientific expedition, under the direction of Dr. Lep- 
and he would suggest some enlargements in the 
Privy Council, 
to the conscientious feeling of the Dissenters, If this important 
measure, brought forward by a Government, and treated with 
singular forbearance by their Opponents, should, with all these 
advantages, fail to obtain the public approval, he feared that the 
chance of concord and conciliation Would be gone by, and that a 
spirit of would long prevail 
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