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CHRONICLE. 
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ture, for the pale of which 80,000 francs had recently 
been voted, suddenly sunk down about two hours after the 
Countesses Mina and Altamira, went in a carriage drawn 
by eight horses, 
ing period when the Queen will assume the reins of go- 
vernment. As regards the state of the finances, ‘it re- 
quires,’’ the speech states, ‘ the most particular attention 
of the Cortes. Important reforms have been made in 
the administration—in the accounts of the public revenue 
~—as well as in the system established for the sale of the 
national property; but, without the necessary means of 
eovering, not only the ordinary and current expenses of 
the public service, but also the obligations successively 
contracted, through the constant effects of a want of 
equilibrium between the receipts and expenses of the 
treasury, every day the difficulty of obtaining a complete 
and satisfactory organization of that vital part of the 
administration of the State must become greater.” On 
the affair of Barcelona the speech observes that Various 
advantageous modifications as respects economy would 
have been introduced into the army, and several had 
already been submitted to the Cortes, but an unexpected 
insurrection suddenly broke out and paralysed those 
prudent economies, and it became necessary to check so 
great an evil by the co-operation of all the public forces. 
On that occasion, as on all ethers, the army proved 
& pattern of subordination, discipline, loyalty, and valour. 
Thanks to its virtues, and to the noble and frank 
co-operation of the National Guard, the commotion which 
would have proved so fatal, had it been. suffered to gain 
ground, was stifled at its , and tranquilli 
was completely restored. Owing to this tranquillity, and 
to the effects of the reforms which have been accomplished, 
the material interests of the country are daily increasing ; 
our i are developing th 1 } agricul. 
ture and industry impart more activity to our commerce, 
and. public instruction is iderably improving.” I 
regard to the Queen’s majority, it says—‘‘ The happy 
moment has come when the Cortes are about to have the 
Opportunity (and their patriotism will not suffer it to 
puties, what the country demands, and what the dignity 
and welfare of our native land and of Queen Isabella II. 
require. May her Majesty, on assuming the reins of 
G at pp hing happy period, encounter 
no obstacle in doing the good which her generous heart 
May her Majesty find, in 
the blessings and applause she will reap, the precious 
result of our labours and sacrifices.’’ After the deliver 
of this speech, the Queen, Regent, and: their suite, left 
The speech 
Porruca.—We have accounts from Lisbon to the 3d 
inst. It was reported that a partial change in the Minis- 
try was not unlikely to happen before long, the probable 
retirement of the Ministers of Foreign Affairs and of, 
Justice being spoken of; in which case it was thought 
that Senhors Silva Carvalho and Magalhaes would come 
in. The Chamber of Peers had been occupied with the 
Douro Wine Company Bill, and had adopted the basis of 
the measure sent up from the Chamber of Deputies. The 
inhabitants of Oporto were about to send a deputation to 
‘isbon in favour of the tariff convention. The British 
merchants had petitioned Lord Aberdeen, through the 
consul, to put an end to the uncertainty which has so 
long prevailed, and bring the matter to a final settlement 
Some kind. The Portuguese Government had at length 
yielded to Lord Howard’s remonstrances respecting the 
duties on cheese, and agreed to place British cheese on the 
letter and spitit of the treaty. ‘The duty will be 18d. wer 
lb. HM. anguard had arrived at Lisbon, fod d 
inst. being the birth-day of the Prince Royal, the mask 
and ball, representing a Court féte at Ferrara in the six- 
teenth century, which afforded so much satisfaction on 
the 28th of last month, was repeated at the Royal Palace 
on that night. 
cept the appointment as Prussian Consul at Canton. 
Trary.—A letter from Naples states that the Queen 
was safely delivered of a daughter on§March 24th, at Ca- 
serta. The young Princess was baptised on the same 
day, in the presence of the Ministers and high dignitaries 
of the Kingdom. 
Russta~-M. Allier, lecturer in the University of St. 
Petersburg, has discovered: in ‘the Imperial Library 341 
letters of Henry IV. of France, which have not appeared 
in other collections. M. Allier has received from the 
French Minister of Public Instruction a very complimen- 
tary letter for communicating a copy of these letters to 
the commission employed at Paris in making a complete 
collection of documents relative to Henry 1V.—M. Vosk- 
ressensky, a member of the Imperial University, having 
analysed the different sorts of coal found in the 
south of Russia, has drawn up a comparative table 
of their qualities. The result shows that the best Russian 
coal, which is to be found in the territory of the Cossacks 
of the Don, contains 94-234 per cent. of carbon, and the 
most inferior, that of Teflis, contains 63°649 per cent. of 
carbon. A comparative table of analyses of the coals of 
England and France is added, according to which the best 
of all, the Newcastle coal, contains only 84°846 per cent. 
of carbon, and the best of the French coals only 9:198 
per cent. Thus the coal of Grouschevskaia Surpasses in 
quality the best English and French coals. 
Unirep Srares.—The new packet-ship Montezuma, 
Captain Lowber, which sailed from New York on the 
evening of the 20th ult., arrived at Liverpool on Tuesday, 
after a quick passage of 17 days. She has brought papers 
four days later than those received by the Great Western, 
but their contents are unimportant, There had been a se- 
vere storm at New York on the 17th,!which caused some 
damage to the shipping. The Consul-General of France 
at New York had announced officially, that in conse- 
quence of the distress attendant upon the earthquake of 
the 8th February, the ports of Guadaloupe are declared 
open for the admission of provisions of all kinds, and of 
wood suitable for building purposes. Accounts of the 
3rd ult. had been received from Hayti. The revolution- 
ists had increased, and were 12,000. strong. Several regi- 
ments of President Boyer’s troops had joined the revolu- 
tionists, and all communication with Port-au-Prince had 
been cut off, 
Turkey.—The Augsburg Gazette of the 5th inst. 
publishes the following precise details of the Russian witi- 
matum relating to Servia:—1, Russia demands that the 
authors and abettors of the revolution of September be 
brought to trial. 2. The Emperor demands that Prince 
Alexander Kara Georgewitsch should be deprived of his 
command. 3. That a new Sovereign should be immediately 
elected according to the existing laws. But the Sultan may 
annul the firman of his father, the Sultan Mahmoud, which 
rendered the throne of Servia hereditary in the family of 
Obrenowitch, and if the complaints made against Prince 
Michael be well founded, the Sultan will be permitted to 
exclude Prince Michael from the number of candidates. 
M. de Boutenieff received, at the same time with this ui- 
timatum, instructions to give the Ottoman Porte but 24 
hours to return an answer, and in case of a refusal, to 
break off all diplomatic relations with the Divan, and 
withdraw provisionally to Bujukdere, where a Russian 
ship of war is stationed. 
Ausrrarra.—The advices from the Australian colonies 
come down to the 19th] November from Sydney, and to 
the end of October from, Hobart-town, Launceston, and 
Port Philip. At Sydney, the Custom-house returns of 
imports and exports had been published, and the value of 
these respectively amounted to 1,283,538/. and 862,0272., 
showing an excess of imports at the rate of 484 per cent. 
The returns of the previous year showed an excess at the 
rate of 1714 per cent., and hence it appears the trade of 
the colony is returning to a satisfactory position. The 
imports for 1842 are stated to be considerably less than 
in any former year since 1836, and the exports less than 
in any year since 1838. The Port Philip advices are un- 
satisfactory. Heavy rains had flooded the country, and 
it was expected that considerable damage would be oc- 
casioned by the Yarra Yarra having overflowed its banks. 
The farmers would suffer much from the disadvantageous 
circumstances under which they would have to clip their 
flocks. The crops had already heen deteriorated by the 
state of the weather.} 
Caprx or Goop Horr.—The Cape of Good Hope 
papers are of the 10th February, received by Her Ma- 
jesty’s ship Druid, which touched at that port on her 
passage homeward with treasure from China. They state 
the satisfactory settlement of the disturbances in the ter- 
ritory beyond the north-eastern boundary. Colonel Hare, 
it appears, has had an interview with the leading farmers, 
who have consented to recognise British supremacy, and 
the Col. is shortly to return to Graham’s-town with his 
troopa, leaving at: Phillipolis about 200 men, as a pre: 
ventive corps, ae any further feeling of insubordina- 
nifest 
tion be manifested. 
Grrmany.—Letters from Berlin mention that the 23d 
AParliament. sn 
Monday.—Lord Broucuam begged to ask the President of the 
Council whether there was an objection ito lay before the House 
more in opposition to goo 
taste than this tower he had never seen, and he trusted that the 
altered in respect to its erection. — Viscount 
olution, however grateful and gratifying to himself personally, 
s 
was rendered in his mind infinitely more valuable by the opinion 
ntain. 
valuable effect in producing that consummation which was in it- 
The overwhelming im- 
portance in his mind of the settlement of those unfortunate dif- 
¢ had now to add, 
by the almost unprecedented honour of the approbation of their 
ness to live under and in America, it was natural that a ques- 
tion of this importance should be discussed with great freedom, 
and that had been the case in relation to the treaty which it had 
een his business to negotiate. Although he trusted that the 
conditions were such as were likely to be conducive to the future 
maintenance of peace between the two countries, and that they 
in what he conceived to be a good cause.—The WEL- 
LINGTON.—My Lords, having had the satisfaction of hearing my 
noble friend, I have great pleasure in moving that the words 
addressed to the House by the noble Lord on this occasion be 
entered on the Journals.— Agreed to, 
‘d Brovguam then introduced his bill for ithe better pre- 
His first object was to decide by a 
declaratory act, that a British Subject residing abroad, but not 
within the bounds of a British settlement, buying slaves and 
the subject ; but thought that it was on’ 
of the navai powers that the abolition of the slave-trade could be 
effected. The bill was then read a first time; and on the motion of 
the Duke of Weiuineron their Lordships adjourned until ‘Tues- 
day, the 25th inst, 
eR eine ete 
HOUSE OF COMMONS, 
Monday.—Lord Joun Russeut. laid on the table the following 
resolutions relating to education, of which he had given notice, 
and which h, 7 
at, in order to prevent the O1 
masters on religious grounds, the books of religious instruction, 
other than the Holy Bible, introduced into the schools, should be 
taught by the clergyman of the parish, 01 
by him, to the children of parents w 
¢ urch, or wi 
instructed. 7, That all children taug! 
and Foreign School Society, o1 
School, or any Roman Catholic School, which shall be found upon 
in the opinion of this House, the 
Committee of Privy Council for education ought to be furnished 
