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CHRONICLE: 
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their strength into the field. The division on the Bill is 
looked for with great interest, the result being regarded 
as a vote of confidence in the Cabinet.—The Madrid 
papers contain a long and able manifesto addressed by the 
Regent to the Spanish nation on the occasion of the ap- 
proaching elections. After denouncing the intrigues 
which had succeeded in two instances, at Madrid and Bar- 
celona, in disturbing the peace of the kingdom, he recom- 
mends the electors to bestow their confidence on none but 
men of acknowledged probity, and declares that his sole 
ambition is to preserve and consolidate the liberties 
of Spain, to protect the throne of Queen Isabella 
against all attempts, and to resign into her hands 
the authority which he exercises in her name on the 
day fixed by the fundamental law. The accounts 
from Barcelona state that the citizens have received 
the concessions of the Regent with little apparent 
gratitude, and continue to display determined hostility to 
the garrison.—The Portuguese insurrection has been 
effectually suppressed, and a special commission has been 
issued for the trial of the rioters. The tranquillity of 
Oporto has not been disturbed since our last accounts, 
and the population of Lisbon have shown no desire to 
participate in the movement.—An insurrection broke out 
at Genoa on the 13th inst., in opposition to a Jaw autho- 
rizing domiciliary visits. Several persons were killed or 
wounded, but the affair ended by the proclamation of an 
amnesty to the insurgents.—Accounts from the Levant 
inform us that the differences between Austria and the 
Porte are in progress of adjustment, by the mediation of 
the British ambassador, and that the diplomatic relations 
between the two Powers have been renewed. 
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Wome News. 
Counr.—Her Majesty, Prince Albert, the Prince of 
Wales, and Princess Royal, are quite well. Her Majesty 
has taken walking exercise during the week in the gar- 
dens of Buckingham Palace. The Queen held a Courton 
Monday, at which His Serene Highness the Prince of 
Tour and Taxis was presented to her Majesty by the 
Bavarian Minister. Her Majesty the Queen Dowager 
will leave Canford on the 3d March, and proceed from 
Southampton by a special train for the Metropolis. Her 
Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent has arrived for the 
season at Cl. h , from 3 lodge. 
Parliamentary Movements.—Dr. Boyd has been elected 
Member for the borough of Coleraine by a majority of 22 
over Sir Hervey Bruce. Mr. Leslie, of Glasslough, has 
been elected, without opposition, Member for county 
Monaghan, vacant by the accession of Lord Rossmore to 
the peerage. The Hon. Capt. Maxwell has been elected 
Member for county Cavan without opposition, in the room 
of the late Col. Clements. 
Official Appointments.—William Marshall, of Tre- 
worgey, Esq., has been appointed Sheriff of the county of 
Cornwall for the present year. It is said that Sir Francis 
Bond Head is to be appointed Governor of the Cape 
of Good Hope. A rumour prevails in military circles 
that Sir Robert Sale will be appointed to the vacant 
colonelcy of the 44th Regiment. 
FForeiqn. 
Francr.—The leading topic in the Paris papers is the 
selection of the commission which is to examine and re- 
port upon the Bill just presented by Ministers for granting 
an additional sum of 1,000,000 francs for the Secret Police 
service. As this annual demand has, of late years, been 
viewed as a yote of confidence in the Cabinet, and party 
animosity has seldom been more violent than it is at the 
present moment, the prey i for the impending 
struggle excite great interest. In presenting the Bill, the 
Home Minister adverted thus to the state of France :— 
«We ask for a million of francs, as in preceding years. In 
the one just elapsed, a deep calm has prevailed in the 
country. No disturbance or agitation has checked the 
rapid progress of public prosperity ; yet all evil passions 
are not extinguished, and all criminal designs are not re- 
linguished. An active vigilance can alone maintain the 
repose of society, and preserve it from fatal hazards ; 
since the frightful calamity which has befallen France, 
that vigilance has become more necessary than ever. We 
should be guilty if we demanded not the means of exer- 
cising it to its whole extent. We have the firm confidence 
that they will not be denied us.’’? The selection of the 
commission took place on Saturday, when 413 Deputies 
were present, 410 of whom voted. Of the nine selected 
for the examination of the Bill, four belong to the Oppo- 
sition, and five to the Ministerial party. Among the 
ormer are M. Odillon Barrot, and M. de Lamartine, 
who has now deserted the Conservative ranks. In this 
preliminary trial of strength, Ministers obtained 217 and 
their opponents 193 votes, although the Opposition 
brought all their force into the field. Whole columns of 
the journals are filled with the discussions which took 
place in the several committees previous to the selection 
of the commission. Ministers were harassed with ques- 
tions of various kinds—the yj 
the prominent topic. 
differences with the Spanish Government suffered to 
drop into oblivion, Though unwilling to revive the re- 
collection of the disagreement, M. Guizot was obliged to 
declare that he had never asked for the mediation of 
any foreign Government, and that far, from engaging 
to recal M. de Lesseps from Barcelona, he had eyen 
declined listening to any demand to that effect— 
The Court of Cassation on Friday last rejected the appeal 
of Jacques Besson, who, as our readers will recollect, was 
tried and convicted at the late assizes of Lyons for the 
murder of his master (M. de Marcellange), and con- 
demned to death. This is the third time that the case 
had been brought before the Court of Cassation. The 
prisoner was first tried at the assizes of Puy, when he was 
convicted, but the Court of Cassation ordered a new trial 
at Riom, with a similar result. Some informality having 
i ings before that Court, the 
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conviction was again quashed, and a third trial was 
ordered to be held at Lyons, where Besson was again con- 
victed.—It is announced that the King will proceed to the 
Invalides on the 5th May, the anniversary of the death of 
the Emperor Napoleon, to lay the first stone of the tomb 
destined to receive his remains. 
Algeria.—The column which had marched from Cher- 
chel, under the Governor-General of Algiers, against the 
tribes of the west, had returned to that place on the 7th 
inst. General Bugeaud had begun to lay the country 
waste with fire and sword; but in consequence of dreadful 
weather and storms of snow and hail, during which it was 
impossible to erect a tent or make a fire, he was obliged 
to make alhasty retreat into Cherchel. Steamers had 
gone from Algiers to supply his troops with provisions.— 
The deputies of the commission of the budget, express 
great discontent at the expenses of Algeria. In addition 
to the three millions sterling ordinary, there are two mil: 
lions sterling extraordinary expenses. 
Sparn.—The Madrid papers received this week contain 
a manifesto addressed by the Regent, and signed by all the 
Ministers, to the Spaniards, on the occasion of the ap- 
proaching elections. After denouncing to them the 
intrigues and artifices of the enemies of the country, who 
had succeeded, in two instances, at Madrid and Barcelona, 
in disturbing the peace of the Monarchy, and reminding 
them of the clemency he had shown in repressing those 
two rebellions, the Regent proceeds to vindicate his motive 
for having dissolved the Cortes and convoked a new Legis- 
lature. He then recommends his countrymen, before 
they give their votes, to consider maturely if the citizen 
whom they are about to invest with their confidence be 
competent and worthy to discharge the great and glorious 
mission which would be reserved to the new Cortes. They 
should be, he says, men of reason and sound advice, con- 
versant with the wants and resources of the country; it 
mattered little to what party they belonged, if they were 
attached to the constitution, and men of acknowledged 
probity, averse to intrigue, and inaccessible to corruption. 
The Regent then explains how he understands the duties 
imposed upon himself by the confidence of his fellow- 
citizens and the constitution. ‘‘I said, and I have sworn 
a hundred times,” he says, ‘that my sole ambition 
was to preserve and consolidate the political and civil 
liberty of our country, to protect the throne of Isabella 
against all‘attempts, and to deposit at her feet the autho- 
rity which I exercise in her name on the day fixed by the 
fundamental law. My desires are clear, precise, deter- 
mined, and require neither explanation nor interpretation. 
Rest assured I will keep my word. It is that firm resolu- 
tion that has exposed me to the inveterate hostility with 
which I have been assailed—I, a man of the people, 
a soldier of fortune, favoured by chance, and less indebted 
for my military successes to my capacity than to 
the courage of our troops and the goodness of the 
cause which I defend—the pacificator of the country, 
the defender of the constitution of the throne and 
our political institutions, could not expect to escape 
the attacks of the deadly enemies of those objects 
of which I am the tutelar mgis. They have strained 
every nerve and had recourse to conspiracies, menaces, 
insults, and calumnies to separate me from you and 
from Europe, to deter me from my noble object, and, 
if it were possible, to intimidate me!’’ The Regent, in 
conclusion, observes, that he is, in some measure, the re- 
presentative of that national will which 30 years since ‘Op 
posed the direful aggression of Napoleon, and notwith- 
standing the desertion of their princes, successfully main- 
tained itself against that colossus. ‘I am the representa- 
tive of that will which required civil and political liberty, 
in order that Spain. should not be exposed a second time 
to such an ignominious outrage ; the same which pro- 
claimed Isabella IJ., and defended her heroically against 
the efforts of Don Carlos, and finally protected her in 
September, and preserved her from the dangers of the 
last insurrection. In this willis my force—in it I place 
3 and if the legis] which you are about 
to elect are penetrated with the same sentiments, the 
grand work shall be crowned with success.’’ Private let- 
ters state that the position of this d nt is attri- 
buted by some to S, Quintana, her Majesty’s preceptor, 
and by others to S. Antonio Gonzalez. The Opposition 
papers continue to animadvert on the satisfaction given to 
France by the Spanish Cabinet, which they stigmatise as 
a most shameful proceeding. The manifesto of the Regent 
is also a subject of angry comment. From Barcelona 
we have received journals and advices of the 13th. The 
population of that city is stated to have received with 
to be effectually suppressed. There had been no loss of 
life or limb, and but two wounded persons had been car- 
ried to the hospital. One of the Opposition journals had 
been suppressed. Four Septembrist leaders had been 
arrested, and awaited trial by a special commission ; while 
two others had been ordered to leave the Portuguese terri- 
tory without delay by the military “authorities. Lord 
Aberdeen’s reply to the so-called witimatum of Portugal 
had not been yet received, but in the highest political 
circles the belief prevailed that the tariff would be speedily 
reduced. Memorials had poured into the Chambers from 
Carcavellos, Ociras, Almada, &c., praying for the relief of 
the distressed wine interests of Estremadura. The 10th 
instant was celebrated at Lisbon as a grand gala-day, in 
ion of ion of the Charter. 
Beicium.—The Government papers last received 
contain the official promulgation of the treaties between 
Belgium and the Netherlands. The Belgian Coloniza- 
tion Company having announced that every society ought 
to have religion for its basis, has applied to the Provin- 
cial of the Jesuits in Belgium, who has appointed two 
members of that order as missionaries. The church of 
St. Thomas will be dedicated to St. Louis, as a testimony 
of gratitude to the Queen of the Belgians, who has been 
pleased to become the protectress of the first settlers. 
SwirzeRLtanp.—An insurrectionary movement mani- 
fested itself at Geneva on the evening of the 13th inst. 
The tocsin was immediately sounded, and the insurgents, 
who mostly belonged to the suburb of St. Gervais, the 
centre of the partisans of the movement, gained possession 
of two of the city gates. A collision took place between 
them and the troops, in which 30 persons were said to 
have been either killed or wounded. Among the dead 
were Messrs. Fournier, Major of the place, and M. Fech, 
a Councillor of State. The insurgents marched against 
the Hotel de Ville, the seat of the Government, but failed 
in their attempt to carry it. An attack was equally made 
against the powder-mill, which was vigorously defended, 
and remained in the hands of the Government. The move- 
ment was occasioned by a law voted on the 13th by the 
Council of State, authorizing the police to institute domi- 
ciliary visits in order to discover the hiding-place of a 
foreigner expelled from the Canton, The affair ended by 
the Grand Council issuing, on the proposal of the Council 
of State, an amnesty to the Radical insurgents. The 
papers of the 17th state that the tranquillity of the city 
has not been again disturbed since the termination of the 
collision and the publication of a general amnesty. ‘The 
affair is said to be distressing to the interests of the 
inhabitants, for several of the foreign families who, even 
at this season of the year, usually reside at Geneva, 
and contribute largely to its prosperity, have natur- 
ally taken alarm, and quitted it; but in other respects 
it appears to have been of little importance. As regards 
loss of life, very few persons on either side were killed, 
and the number of wounded, as stated above, does not 
exceed thirty.—The Zurich Gazetle of the 10th inst. 
states, that at a ‘meeting of the great Council of Argau, 
held on the 8th inst., the important question of the con= 
vents was discussed, and that a commission appointed to 
examine the affair, had reported to the following effect : 
—-“ Argau does not acknowledge the right of the Vorort 
to criticise its interpretations ; it therefore rejects its in- 
tervention, and renders it responsible for whatever may 
happen.’’? The conclusions of the commission were 
adopted by the Council by a majority of 105 votes to 46. 
Gurmany.—According to the last accounts from Berlin, 
the Council of State had terminated the examination of 
the project of a new penal code for the entire kingdom, 
prepared by the committee charged since 1825 with the 
revision of the Prussian laws. Among the modifications 
introduced in the new code are the abolition of hard labour 
in chains, branding and mutilation, the suppression of all 
accessory penalties intended to aggravate the pain of death, 
except as regarded parricides and regicides, who are to be 
attached to a cow or ox-hide, and drawn by two horses 
through the principal streets of the town, from the prison 
to the scaffold, and the substitution of the axe for the 
sword and guillotine.—The Hanoverian papers are filled 
with accounts of the ceremonies at the marriage of the 
Crown Prince on the 18th ; and of the reception of the 
King of Prussia, who arrived from Berlin on the 17th inst. 
Gnexcy.—Letters from Athens of the 31st ult. an- 
nounce that the Greek Government had at last prepared 
a regular budget, which had been communicated to the 
Ministers of the three protecting Powers. The receipts 
of the kingdom were calculated for 1843, at 15,669,795 
drachmas, and the expenditure at 18,666,482, showing a 
deficit of 2,996,687 drachmas. A Royal decree had been 
issued, ordering the establishment of post-offices, 
‘URKEY.—Accounts from Constantinople to the 1st 
inst. state that the diplomatic relations between the 
orte and Austrian Legation have been renewed, and the 
differences that were likely to have caused much incon- 
venience to both parties will be finally settled in the course 
of a few days, assurances having been given that the 
Ottoman Government will take immediate steps to make 
little apparent gratitude the Regent's recent 
and to display the same determined hatred towards the 
garrison, which was again to consist of ten battalions, or 
9,000 men, The political chief, Sefior Gutierrez, had 
left Barcelona for Madrid and Corunna, to which latter 
place he has been transferred in the same capacity of po- 
litical chief. On the 12th the municipal elections com- 
menced, and were expected to prove favourable to the 
Moderados, or anti-G arty. The Spanish 
troops were being withdrawn from the neighbourhood of 
the French frontier, and marched to Barcelona, in conse- 
quence of the unsettled state of that city. 
Porruear.—We have Lisbon news to 13th inst. Oporto 
remained tranquil, and the spirit of insurrection appeared 
such ar relative to the steam navigation of the 
Black Sea by Austrian vessels, as will be satisfactory to 
the Court of Vienna and the parties interested.—It is now 
rumoured that Russia has shown a determination to 
resume the Servian affair with pertinacity, and that the 
language held by the Russian Ambassador is an echo of 
the Emperor’s letter. Hitherto this language has pro- 
duced no effect upon the Porte. Captain Williams, R.A., 
having recovered from his indisposition, was on the point of 
taking his departure upon his mission to Erzeroom, accom- 
panied by Mr. Curzon, private secretary to Sir S. Canning. 
Eeyrr.—Letters from Alexandria of the 27th ult. 
state that the mortality amongst oxen throughout Egypt 
still prevailed, and that the Pasha was about to despatch 
