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CHRONICLE. 
[May 13, 
THE GARDENERS’ 
and Hamilton have succeeded the Hon. Misses Paget and 
Liddell as the maids of honour in waiting. Lord Rivers, 
and. Admiral Sir Robert Otway have succeeded the Earl 
of Morton and Colonel Drummond as the lord and groom 
in waiting on her Majesty. 
Death of Lord Fitzgerald.—We regret to record the 
death of Lord Fitzgerald, the President of the Board of 
Control, after an “illness of a few days. The daily 
papers of Thursday announced that no hopes whatever 
remained of his ultimate recovery, and the fears then 
expressed that his Lordship would not survive the night 
were unfortunately realised by the result. The noble lord 
expired about two o’clock on Thursday morning, retaining 
his consciousness until a few minutes before his disso- 
lution. It was evident to those who surrounded his bed, 
that he was approaching his death, from the exhaustion he 
experienced and the. acute pain he suffered from the 
nature of his disorder. About five minutes before his 
death he fell into a morbid drowsiness, and shortly after- 
wards expired in the presence of Mr. Mahon, his Lord- 
ship’s nephew, who attended him to the last. His 
Lordship is succeeded by his only brother, the Hon. and 
Very Rev. Dr. Henry Vesey Fitzgerald, Dean of Kilmore. 
New Commission.--The Queen has been pleased to 
appoint the Duke of Buccleuch ; the Earl of Lincoln ; 
R. A. Slaney, Esq.; G. Graham, Esq. ; Sir H. T. De la 
Beche, Knt.; Dr. Lyon Playfair; Dr. D. B. Reid ; Pro- 
fessor Owen; Capt. W. T. Denison; J. R. Martin, Esq. 
James Smith, of Deanston, Esq.;. R. Stephenson, jun., 
Esq.; and William Cubitt, Esq.; to be Her Majesty’s 
Commissioners for inquiring into the present state of large 
towns and populous districts in England and Wales, with 
reference to the causes of disease among the inhabitants. 
The Queen has also been pleased to appoint Henry Hob- 
house, Esq., to be Secretary to this Commission. 
Official, Appointments.—It is d that Mr. 
Wilder, the chief-clerk in the Colonial-office, has retired 
after a service in that department for about 40 years. Mr. 
Smith has succeeded Mr. Wilder as chief-clerk in the 
Colonial-office ; and Mr. Barrow, son of Sir John Barrow, 
secretary of the Admiralty, has succeeded Mr. Smith. The 
commissioners for the navigation of the Mersey have 
appointed Capt. George Evans, R.N., Acting Conservator 
of the Mersey, in the room of Capt. Fitzroy, appointed 
Governor of New Zealand. 
The Levee.—The. Lord Chamberlain has given notice 
that the Levee intended to be held by Prince Albert, at 
St. James’s Palace, on Wednesday, the 26th April, will 
take place on Wednesday next, the 17thfinst., at 2 o’clock. 
Income Tax.—A notice has issued from the office of 
Stamps and Taxes, that those holders of stock who have 
proved their exemption from Property-tax for the past 
year, on account of their income not amounting to 150/. 
er annum, will be allowed to receive their dividends for 
the present year free of any deduction, provided the stock 
belonging to them remain in every respect the same as 
when the deduction of the tax was made for the last year. 
Where any alteration has been made in the amount since 
the former deduction, the parties entitled thereto will be 
paid their dividends in full (provided their income has not 
increased to 150/, per annum), if on or before the 27th 
May they send to the office of Stamps and Taxes a state- 
ment of the amount and description of the stocks formerly 
and now held by them,. in a form which may be obtained 
from the surveyor of the district in which they reside, 
The Mint.—The following is the total amount of gold 
bullion and gold coin received at the Mint from the Bank 
of England and from private individuals, to be coined, 
from the 24th of June, 1842, to the 31st March, 1843 :— 
Total weight, 204,592 lbs. 9 oz. 4 dwts. 14 grs. Total 
value, 9,559,597/. 2s. 83d. The total value returned to 
the Bank of England up to March 31, 1843, was 8,437,765. 
3s. 34d.; thus leaving in the Mint 886,295/. 17s, 84d. 
A Parliamentary return published this week, containing 
the expenses of the Mint for the year ending March 
31, 1843, states the salaried officers to have received 
10,4207. 17s.; the wages and allowances paid weekly, 
3,095/. 17s. 6d. ; contingent charges and expenses, (such 
as materials for work, coals, charcoal, and rates and 
taxes,) 6,529. 12s. 7d.; solicitor of the Mint for prose- 
cutions, 14,529/. 12s. 7d.; gratuities to the officers for 
services on the China silver in 1842, 266/.; paid for 
assays of ingots for coinage, 1,014/. 2s. ; and charges for 
melting, 12,312/. 18s. 11d. 
Constabulary (Ireland),—The following is a statement 
of the amount and‘ expenses of the Constabulary force 
employed in Ireland on the Ist January last :—1 inspector- 
general, 2 deputy inspectors-general, 2 provincial inspec- 
tors, 1 receiver, 1 surgeon, | veterinary-surgeon, 18 pay- 
216 sub-inspectors, 261 
mai 
a ptere, 35 county P 
‘ bles, 7,086 sub bl 
304 horses, and 58 magistrates. The total expense of the 
establishment for the year 1842 was 441,605/. 5s. 113d. ; 
of which amount 263,473/. 5s. 2d. was borne by the Con- 
solidated Fund, and 178,132/. 0s. 94d. by the counties, 
cities, and towns of Ireland. 
sForeiqn. 
France.—There is no news of any moment in the 
Paris papers. All of them notice the opinion expressed 
in the House of Commons by Sir Robert Peel respecting 
the marriage of the Queen of Spain, as well as Lord Aber- 
deen’s justification of the course the British Government 
has pursued regarding the late differences between Russia 
and Turkey. The journals of Sunday are almost wholly 
taken up with reports of and comments upon a debate in 
the Chamber of Deputies on the elections of Carpentras, 
Langres,and Embrun,which had already taken up two whole 
sittings, and had led to the annulment of the two former, 
There is nothing else worth noticing in the journals, save 
that the committee on the budget have come to the 
resolution of recommending a reduction of 11,000 men in 
the effective force demanded by the Minister of War. A 
saving of 14,000f. would thereby be accomplished. The 
opening of the Paris and Rouen railway took place on the 
lst inst., with great pomp and success. Commenced on 
the Ist May, 1841, and entirely finished on the Ist, of 
May, 1843, the rapidity with which its works have been 
executed, and the punctuality with which the company 
have fulfilled their engagements, are topics of general sur- 
prise and praise with our Parisian contemporaries, who 
also advert to the powerful co-operation which British 
science, capital, and industry, have yielded on this occa- 
sion. A Toulon letter of the 6th inst. mentions the 
departure, on the 4th, of the Uranie, sixty gun frigate, 
Captain Bruat, for the Marquesas Islands, with one hun- 
dred and forty passengers, including a bishop, and several 
other ecclesiastics, as missionaries, a non-commissioned 
officer of the Municipal Guard of Paris, appointed to esta- 
blish a company of these guards in the islands, and also a 
great many artizans, with alarge quantity of stores. The 
crew amounts to 557 men. Two days previously to the 
sailing of the Uranie, an impressive ceremony took place 
on board. Analtar was erected on the quarter-deck, upon 
which the Bishop of Amatha, assisted by a numerous body 
of clergy, performed an appropriate church service, admi- 
nistered the it, and p gag dicti 
upon the ship and all on board. 
Spain.—Advices from Madrid, to the Ist instant, 
announce that in the sitting of that day, the Minister of 
the Navy had informed the Senate that, in consequence of 
the majority which had declared against them in the 
Chamber of Deputies, the Regent had accepted the resig- 
nations which the Ministers had already tendered him on 
the 16th March. M. Cortina, who had been requested by 
the Regent to form a new Cabinet, had begged to be 
allowed twenty-four hours to reflect before he consented 
to undertake the task. If the French papers may be 
relied on, he found the obstacles too serious to be sur- 
mounted, and consequently relinquished the mission 
offered him. M. Olozaga, it is said, was then charged 
with the formation of a Cabinet.—In the sitting of the 
Senate of the Ist, the paragraph of the address respecting 
the foreign relations of Spain was again discussed, but with 
increasing gentleness. Count Almodovar urged that M. 
Guizot’s speech had been prompted by no hostility to the 
Spanish people, and M. Olavarrieta condemned the 
marked animosity against France which the proposed 
paragraph imprudently expressed. The debate was then 
again adjourned, In the Congress, on the same day, M. 
Giraldo prayed that the Cortes of 1843 might prove like 
the sun, and pour light and life into the provinces, in the 
shape of an amnesty to all Spaniards implicated in the 
Barcelona or other occurrences. 
Bunerum.—A dreadful accident happened on the 3d 
on the railway. When the train which left Liege at half- 
past seven in the morning was near to Landen, two guards 
who were in a waggon carrying light goods, the second in 
the train, saw the carriage full of smoke. They removed 
the parcels in order to discover the cause of the fire, 
when the flames butst forth, on which they gave the 
signal to stop, Most of the passengers, hearing the sound 
of the whistle, looked out of the windows, when a violent 
flame, driven by the wind, seemed to touch the carriages. 
Two passengers and two guards preserving their presence 
of mind, held the doors fast, to prevent any person from 
getting out. In a few seconds the train stopped, the 
waggon that was on fire was detached, and all the pas- 
sengers alighted. Fourteen passengers who had leaped 
out were more or less dangerously wounded. Four pas- 
sengers and a guard were killed. - Some linen was at 
hand, and the wounds were dressed as well as cireum- 
stances would allow.. The most severely wounded were 
sent back in the carriage to Liege. Some were able to 
proceed on their journey. The cause of the fire is at 
inconceivable rapidity with 
which the flame spread gives reason to suppose that. some 
bottle or jar of highly inflammable spirit was broken, and 
seats escaped without injury. 
GermAny.—His Royal Highness the Grand Duke has 
been pleased to decide that the Princess Maria Amelia 
Elizabeth Caroline of Baden, Marchioness of Douglas and 
Clydesdale, shall retain the title and rank of a Princess of 
Baden.—We hear from Vienna that the celebrated com- 
poser Lanner has just been carried to his last home, pre- 
ceded by Stratissand his band, playing one of the deceased’s 
best waltzes. We learn also that the Baron de Kubeck, 
President of the Supreme Chamber of Finance, to whom 
the King has entrusted the plans and other arrangements 
for the projected railway from Vienna to Trieste, has re- 
cently been over the line, for the purpose of ascertaining 
the best mode of constructing it, and the most economical 
way of working it when constructed. ‘The line, when 
completed, will be one of the most gigantic works in 
Europe, not only on account of its length, which is 74 
German (or about 350 English) miles, but also by the 
many obstacles of nature which are to be surmounted.— 
Count Valerian Krasinsky, author of the “ History of the 
Reformation in Poland,’ long resident in London, has 
been honoured with an autograph letter from his Majesty 
the King of Prussia, who has kindly noticed the Count’s 
literary occupation, and presented him with the golden 
medal of merit, which his Majesty has lately bestowed on 
a few men distinguished in literature, the arts and sciences. 
<Ivaty.—A curious autograph of Napoleon was disco- 
yered recently at Perugia. It is an order for the army, 
and a bill of exchange for 2,000,000f., addressed. to 
| General Massena. ‘This autograph has been detected in 
a five franc piece, which had been given in payment to an 
individual, who, thinking itacounterfeit piece, had itbroken. 
Russta.—Letters from St. Petersburgh, announce that 
Lieut. Ramstett, of the Imperial Navy, has made a most 
important invention, By means of an electro-galvanic 
apparatus, from which two platina  wire-conductors 
descend to the bottom, Mr. Ramstett draws metallic 
masses of any weight from the bottom of the sea; and, by 
means of the same conductors, the spot is at the same 
time indicated where metal has been sunk. He tried his 
apparatus recently on the Neva, in presence of the Admi- 
ralty, and brought up into his boat, in less than twenty 
minutes, an anchor and chain cable upwards of one and a 
half tons weight, in seven fathoms water. The Emperor 
has granted him a patent for ten years.—The property 
left by Baron Stieglitz, the banker, who lately died at St. 
Petersburgh, is estimated at the enormous amount of 
50,000,000 rubles, (between 5,000,000/. and 6,000,0002, 
sterling). He was a native of Hanover, where his elder 
brother, one of the most celebrated physicians in Ger- 
many, died a few years ago. 
TurKxny.—The German papers state, that the day for 
the election of a Prince of Servia had not yet been fixed 5 
and, as Russia had declared that there existed no objec- 
tion against the person of Prince Alexander, but that she 
merely insisted that the electoral formalities prescribed by 
the organic statutes of the year 1839 should be observed, 
the Porte was taking measures to procure the re-election 
of Prince Alexander. The Russian ambassador proposed 
that Hafiz Pasha, of Nezib, should be appointed Pasha of 
Belgrade. 
INDIA AND Cuina.—The Overland Mail has brought 
accounts from Bombay to the 1st April, and from China 
to the 23d Feb. As stated in our last on the authority of 
the telegraphic despatch, the conquered territories of 
Scinde, except that portion belonging to the Chief of 
Khyrpore, have been annexed to the British dominions, 
and General Sir C, Napier appointed Governor, The acts 
for the suppression of the slave-trade have been declared 
to be in force in our new possessions ; all kinds of transit 
duties are ordered to be abolished ; and the navigation of 
the Indus is rendered free to all nations. To commemorate - 
the bravery of the troops by whom the country has been 
won, and these satisfactory results ensured, the Governor- 
General has determined on having the unserviceable guns 
taken at Hyderabad cast. into a triumphal column, on 
which are to be inscribed in English, and two native 
languages, the names of General Napier, and the European 
and native officers and men belonging to his force, whose 
gallantry was most pi On publishing the 
despatch of Sir C. Napier, relative to the battle of 
Meeanee, and Major Outram’s narrative of his defence 
of the British residency, Lord Ellenborough published a 
ificati p of the ci which had 
led to the war, and declaring his intentions with regard 
to the territories victory had placed at his disposal. ‘The 
most important items of news from the scene of our recent 
conquest may be briefly summed up. Treasure to the 
amount of at least a million sterling was discovered shortly 
after the occupation of Hyderabad: it consisted chiefly 
of gold bars; and it is said Lord Ellenborough i8 
desirous that it should be made over to the troops a 
prize money, but that the decision of the matter has beet 
referred to the home authorities. General Napier has 
entrenched his troops at the Residency, which is three or 
four miles from the city, leaving the 12th Native Infantry 
to garrison the latter. On taking up his quarters in this 
new position, he sent to Sukkur for three additional reg! 
ments together with a troop of Horse Artillery. The first 
named regiment left on the Ist March, and reached on 
h 
of the rest. 
March, by the Semiramis steamer, 
attacked near Hyderabad on the 24th March by a body 
of Beloochees, but that Sir C. Napier had moved out t? 
their rescue, and repulsed their assailants. The authen- 
ticity of this report, however, is questionable, the news 
having been derived by the authorities at Kurrachee fro™ 
a native Cossid. Reinforcements have been sent to Ge 
Napier from Bombay. The officers and men serious! 
wounded in the engagement at Meeanee, arrived in ¢ i 
Sesostris on the 12th March, {and were all doing well 
Captain Ennis, of the 2st, on proceeding down the phy 
in company with a Parsee merchant, was murdered by 
Beloochees; and another officer, Captain Godfrey» ube 
attacked and robbed, and narrowly escaped with his dies 
There have been other reports of occurrences of the Wi i 
nature, but these are the only ones that have beer 
henticated. The Bel are rep ted to ine 
assembled to the extent of about 45,000 men, at a pe 
called Meerpore; and if the rumour just alluded Se 
an attack having been made on the force from Sukk ee 
be correct, the assailants must have come from this ere t 
tion. It was supposed they intended to make ap ts 
at recovering possession of Hyderabad, but their BORD 
by General Napier will no doubt have cooled their ardonit 
Among the official despatches conveyed by the P 
mail, is a narrative of a gallant and courageo 
made at Vikkur, on the Indus, by a small detachmen” oy 
sepoys, against large numbers of Beloochees; eo 
three days and three nights obstinately assailed awit 
The sepoys were under a native leader, and behavee *" 4¢ 
unparalleled intrepidity. The Governor-Genera ae the 
Agra, where he has taken up his residence in one ‘Order 
palaces, and in which he held an investiture of the aul 
of the Bath. He has ordered the celebrated Roa io 
gates to be locked up there, and the officers employ duty: 
escorting them have been sent back to regimen’ Judie 
The declaration: of Sir Charles Napier, that the ® 
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