1843.) 
THE GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE. 
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Tagus ; the Relampag: he Gloria, and the Cabo Verde, 
all of which were seized by General Marinho during his 
government of Mozambique, for their notorious design to 
take in cargoes of slaves ; the general has published a 
letter, written by Senhor Vincente to M. Batalle, the 
French slaving agent at Mozambique, which leaves no 
doubt whatever of the illegal intention. The Gloria, 
although professing to be bound on a peaceful voyage to 
the coast of Africa for ivory and palm oil, was found at 
Mozambique to have a crew of 70 men armed to the’teeth, 
carrying 6 pieces of artillery, besides a long 24-pound 
swivel gun, and having on board all the apparatus of 
fetters, cauldrons, and other accompaniments of a slaver. 
—The economies now completed by the Government in 
the various departments of the public service amount to 
the large sum of 65,0007. per annum. In addition to 
those which have been already announced, the Duke of 
‘Ferceira has accomplished one of great importance, which 
no one, less popular, could have attempted. t is.a 
fi i i pendi d with the 
supplying of uniforms to the Army of Portugal, to the very 
large extent of 994 contos per annum (22,400/.). The 
military force is to be henceforth maintained on the 
footing of 21,000 infantry and 3,000 cavalry; of whom 
6,000 are with registered license—leaving an actual sub- 
sisting force, drawing pay and receiving food and clothing, 
of 18,000 men. There is at once a diminution of number, 
and an increase in the duties and efficiency of the force. 
There seems to be no doubt that these retrenchments have 
done more than any other acts to strengthen and consoli- 
date the power of the present Administration. 
Brierum.—Letters from Brussels of the 26th ult., 
state that General Joly, president of the Belgian commis- 
sion for running the boundary line between Belgium and 
Holland, has arrived at Maestricht, where the Dutch com- 
mission has likewise assembled. It may, therefore, be 
supposed that the treaty on the subject of the boundary 
line will be shortly carried into effect. Itis stated that 
the general receipt on all the railroads in the kingdom will 
amount this year to about 7,500,000f. 
Hotianp.—On the 29th ult., a general meeting of the 
shareholders of the Dutch Railway Company was held at 
Amsterdam. M. Conrad, the engineer, gave an account 
of the state of the work, and, among other things, an- 
nounced that it was expected that the road from Leyden 
to the Hague would be completed in the spring. He de- 
clared that there was no truth in the reports that the 
roads had sunk down in some places between Amsterdam 
and Haarlem. Dr. Siebold, the well-known author of 
works relative toJapan, has communicated to the Journal 
de la Haye, “A notice of aninedited narrative of a voyage 
of Duco, made in 1639 in the Great Ocean to the east of 
Japan, undertaken by order of the East India Company, 
by Commodore Mathew Quast and Abel Jansan Tasman, 
and of authentic documents, which prove the Bonin Isles, 
of which the English took possession in 1827, and in 
which they have probably since planted a colony, were 
discovered and described by those two illustrious Dutch 
navigators.” It seems that Dr. Sicbold, being led to en- 
tertain some idea that the Bonin Islands had been dis- 
covered in the beginning of the 17th century by some 
Dutch navigator, he, therefore, made search in the archives 
of the Dutch East India Company, when he was so for- 
tunate as to find last month several documents signed by 
Quast and Tasman, and a journal of the voyage, with a 
, indisputably ing his exp ii and giving 
additional honour to the navigators who were the first to 
explore those dangerous and then unknown seas. 
Grermany.—The Augsburg Gazette states that the 
Prussian Amb: dor at St. P burgh has received 
orders to state to the Russian Cabinet, with respect to 
the facilities granted to the Prussian commerce by a late 
ukase, that the Prussian Government is anxious that all 
the States of the German Customs Union should be ad- 
mitted to enjoy the same advantages, inasmuch as its 
intention is not to act for itself, but for the general interest 
of the Union. <A Berlin letter of the 25th ult., states that 
the Hereditary Prince of Prussia, being out a few days 
before at a boar hunt, wounded one of these animals of 
unusually large size. The beast, which was not dis- 
abled, turned upon the Prince, threw him down, 
and in all probability would have killed him, had 
not one of his suite fortunately come to his rescue, 
and shot the. boar, which fell instantly lifeless. ,His 
Royal Highness did not receive the slightest injury. 
Another letter from Berlin states, that the King of 
Prussia has ordered an architect of that city to construct 
at Sans-Souci “a Greek theatre, where the masterpieces 
tion. were acknow 
edged by the authorities. The streets 
are to be wider and straighter than those of the old town, 
and in addition to these improvements, the Government 
has decided on constructing a lock and other works for 
opening a navigable canal between the rivers Blbe and 
Alster. A complete system of sewers also, upon the large 
scale of those in London, will be established ; and one of 
the main lines is already in progress of execution. A 
Hamburgh paper of the 30th ult. states that the prepa- 
rations for the marriage of the Crown Prince of Hanover 
are in greatforwardness ; nothing is known respecting the 
time when it will take place, but from the active manner 
in which the preparations are executing, it seems proba- 
ble that it will be in a short period, perhaps before the end 
of January. 
Swxpen.—Letters from Stockholm of the 23d ult. 
mention that the King had been so much indisposed, that 
it was necessary to put off the Council for two days, but 
at the date of the last accounts his Majesty had somewhat 
recovered, and no serious apprehensions were entertained. 
These accounts notice the failure of the house of Gest- 
thof and Co., of Stockholm. The liabilities of the insol- 
vents are estimated at 400,000 thalers banco, or from 
50,0002. to 60,0002. sterling. A considerable quantity of 
old Roman silver coins of several Emperors have been 
dug up in the Island of Gothland. 
Matra.—<Accounts from Malta mention the narrow 
escape of H.M. steam-ship Geyser from shipwreck on the 
banks off Cephalonia, on the 3d ult. She struck on the 
Guardiana bank while on her passage from Malta to 
carriages lately sent out by the Oriental Company was 
brought over here from Cairo with some difficulty, four 
horses being found scarcely sufficient to draw it on the 
heavier or sandy part of the road. It was here determined 
to try two dromedaries in it, and although the experiment 
was made under considerable disadvantage for want of 
proper harness, breastplates, &c., it proved completely 
successful, showing that the dromedary is much more 
valuable for draught than the horse in this country. Drawn 
by dromedaries properly harnessed, these new carriages 
will form a vast improvement, being far more commodious 
and easy than the clumsy vans hitherto used.” e may 
also mention here that a small steam-vessel has been con- 
structed for the Peninsular and Oriental Company with 
engines and patent propellers, intended to ply on the 
Mahmoudieh canal from Alexandria to Atfeh. The pro- 
pellers consist of two small instruments in the form of the 
sails of a windmill, working in the run under each quarter 
of the vessel, and by means of multiplying-wheels are 
turned with great velocity ; their action on the water pro- 
pelling the vessel either forwards or backwards, according 
to the direction in which they are turned. The boat has 
been tried on the river, and went at a speed of eleven 
miles an hour without causing any perceptible agitation of 
the water. She has been since shipped at Southampton, 
on board the Oriental, for Alexandria. 
Curtwa.—The Great Seal of England was on Saturday, 
affixed to the treaty recently ratified between this country 
and China, at the residence of the Lord Chancellor, in 
George-street, Hanover-sq' after which it was 
d to the War-office, for the purpose of being 
Corfu with the Ionian. mails, but was ly got off, 
after throwing her heavy guns overboard, and succeeded 
in reaching the port of Argostoli before night. Her 
escape is the more remarkable, as a gale of wind came on 
during the night, and nothing could have saved the ves- 
sel had the machinery sustained injury. 
Russra.—The féte-day of the Emperor, on the 19th 
ult., was celebrated with the usual demonstrations at St. 
Petersburgh. In the morning a grand mass was per- 
formed in the chapel of the Winter Palace, at which the 
Emperor and Empress, with the Imperial Family and the 
Court, attended. After the mass the Emperor received 
the diplomatic corps in the throne-room, and the ladies 
were admitted into the apartments of the Emperor to per- 
form the ceremony of kissing hands. In the evening the 
whole city was brilliantly illuminated ; and on the evening 
of the 20th there was a grand ball at Court.—The Report 
for 1841 of the Foundling Hospitals of St. Petersburg and 
Moscow, which has just been published, furnishes a serious 
picture of the mortality to which the inmates of those 
magnificent establishments are subject. At the end of 
1840, the children under the care of the two great houses 
were in number 47,811. In the year 1841, the children 
deposited in the institution amounted to 46,572 ; and the 
number of deaths was no less than 10,155. During the 
same year, 6,749 of the children were either returned to 
their parents, or dismissed from the institution. Among 
the latter were 75 who were sent to study at one or other 
of the universities ; 14 were placed in the schools of medi- 
cine, 88 in the schools for land-surveying, nearly 500 were 
sent to the several imperial manufactories, and 1068 were 
apprenticed to different trades.—Private letters from St. 
Petersburgh of the 17th ult. state that the Minister of the 
Interior has communicated to all the governors of the 
provinces the following imperial order :—‘*‘ Upon m 
report of the arrest of an incendiary, his Imperial Majesty 
has been pleased to order, if this criminal is convicted, he 
is immediately to be punished by running the gauntlet six 
times before 1,000 soldiers, at noon, and on the very spot 
where he committed the crime, and with all possible 
publicity and ceremony; if he survives the punishment, he 
is to be conveyed to the Siberian mines, to suffer 21 years 
hard labour. It is his Majesty’s wish that this punish- 
ment shall be applied in such cases when incendiaries are 
taken and convicted of such crimes. In cases of incen- 
diaries who are not of age, a report shall be made to his 
Majesty before they are punished.’” : 
Turkry.—Letters from Constantinople of the 18th ult. 
confirm the news already announced in regard to Syria, 
and the Minister for Foreign Affairs had announced 
officially to the representatives of the five great Powers, 
that the Sultan, in order to conform to the wishes of those 
Powers, had determined to intrust the administration of the 
Lebanon to two governors, one a Maronite and another a 
Druse. These two governorsare to be appointed by the Pacha 
of Saida, to whom they will be subordinate. The Sultan has 
also determined to withdraw the Turkish garrisons. In 
regard to Servia, the Augsburg Gavette says that the French 
i dor M. de B » has declared that Louis 
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of the ancient Greek tragedians are to be rep 1 in 
the open air in the fine season.—It is said to be the 
intention of the Austrian Government to abolish the 
transit duty, in order to facilitate commercial communica- 
tion between the German Customs Union and the pro- 
vinces of the Danube. The construction of railways in 
Austria is proceeding rapidly 5 a convention has just 
been concluded with the government of Saxony for the 
construction of a railway from Prague to Dresden ; and 
letters from Vienna of the 24th ult. announce. a sudden 
rise in the price of the Vienna and Milan Railroad shares, 
which had reached 92, with every prospect of a further 
inp t, in aI f an Imperial deeree or- 
daining that this railroad should be completed as quickly 
as possible, and that the Government would undertake 
any part of the line which the company was unable or un- 
willing to execute. Thus the Adriatic will soon be con- 
nected with the German Ocean by means of a railroad 
passing through the Austrian provinces.»—The restoration 
of Hamburgh is making rapid progress on the plans 
chiefly of Mr. William Lindley, an English engineer, 
Whose services in checking the progress of the conflagra- 
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Philippe is not opposed to the protectorate of Russia over 
the Danubian provinces, and consequently not opposed to 
the restoration of the Milosch family. The Carisruhe 
Gazette of the3Istult. also states, that it is the determination 
of the great Powers to insist upon the restoration of Prince 
Michael to the throne of Servia, having resolved to defend 
legitimate right against the spirit of revolt. Letters from 
Parisfannounce the sudden recall of Redschid Pacha, the 
Turkish ambassador; at the Court of France. The imme- 
diate object of the measure was not known; but it was 
supposed that he would immediately succeed to some high 
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B. 
Eeyrr.—Advices from Alexandria of the 16th ult. 
state that the Pacha has left Mansourah for Cairo, and that 
after staying there a few days, he will go on to Suez, where 
Boghos Bey, his Prime Minister, expects that he will give 
orders to have the canal, so long talked of, between Suez 
and Cairo immediately begun. Private letters state he 
forwarded to the Celestial Empire, under the care of Major 
Malcolm. The seal is inclosed in a silver box, similar to. 
that used for the patent of his Royal Highness the Prince 
of Wales, and, together with the important document to 
which it is appended, is inclosed in a case covered with 
crimson velvet. Of the seal itself, it is expected that no 
trace of the impression of Mr. Wyon’s beautiful design 
will exist when the case reaches its destination, on account 
of the yielding nature of the materials of which it is com~ 
posed ; indeed, on former occasions, it has been disco- 
vered that during the comparatively short journey between 
Scotland and London, the design has been completely 
obliterated. Lieut.-Col. Malcolm left London with the 
Treaty on his return to China on Thursday last. 
West Inpres.—The West India steam-ship Thames 
arrived on Sunday with West Indian, Mexican, and other 
mails, having left Demerara on the 3d of December, Bar- 
badoes the 5th, St. Thomas’s the 10th, and Bermuda the: 
16th. The papers received by her come down to the be~ 
ginning of December, but they afford little information 
for the general reader. The dates from Jamaica are to. 
the 3d ult., and the accounts from that island state the 
legislative proceedings as working in the most harmonious 
manner. The Assembly had under consideration laws 
for the better administration of bankrupt and insolvent 
estates, which, it would appear, were strongly called for, 
from the flagrant cases of fraud which had occurred under 
the present system. The Customs revenue for the year 
1842 was 80,7487, which, as compared with former re- 
turns, proved a favourable increase in the commerce of 
the island. Fears prior to the late rains had been enter- 
tained for the support of the crops against the drought 
threatened by the continued heat; but there was every 
prospect of suitable weather following, and the hopes of 
the planters were therefore revived. The advices from 
Demerara, Trinidad, and Barbadoes also speak of the 
favourable state of the weather for the crops, and the im- 
provement trade was experiencing; but beyond these 
facts there is not a line worth extract in the papers, which 
are for the most part occupied with dissertations upon the 
evidence lately taken before the committee of the House 
of Commons, on the condition and prospects of the 
West Indies. According to the estimates made of the 
return of the crops, in all instances an increase is expected. 
CITY. ih 
Money Market, Friday.—The unfavourable oh a 
revenue has produced a decline in the price of Stock. 
i iv.; Three 
Consols closed at 943 to 3 for the Opening, ex div. 5 T 
ents. Redy 51;  Three-and-half pet Cents. 
per 
Red., 102; Exchequer Bills, 59s. to 61s. 
Stock, 172 to 3; India Stock, 2613 to 2. 
——— 
Vicinity. 
prem.; Bank 
Metropolis and ts ; 
The Weather.—A seasonable change ne place in the 
weather on New Year’s Day, and ahaner i two days, 
with every appearance of frost having at ci setin. The 
whole of Sunday was one of the finest New Years’ Days 
remembered for many yeatS; the sun shining brilliantly, 
On Monday and Tuesday the frost continued with un 
abated intensity. All the smaller ponds in the vicinity of 
the metropolis were completely frozen up, and in many 
of the more exposed situations the ice exceeded one inch 
and a half in thickness, affording abundant employment 
to the itinerant vendors, who at this season of the year 
supply the pastrycooks and fishmongers with that neces- 
sary article. The larger sheets of water in the parks were 
partially frozen over, but the gates were not thrown open, 
as the ice was not capable of bearing. The brightness of 
the weather caused a very numerous attendance in the 
parks, which were crowded until dusk, notwithstanding the 
intensity of the cold. The Humane Society also made their 
arrangements for the prevention of fatal accidents during the 
prevalence of the frost. On Wednesday morning, however, 
the weather again changed ; the wind suddenly shifted to, 
ied by rain, by which the ice in the Parks 
D eXp Pp in the imp o 
the transit of passengers has just been made to try the 
capability of dromedaries for draught. “ One of the new 
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was almost entirely broken up; another change occurred 
at night, and a north wind set in with a hard frost Qa 
