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THE GARDENERS 
CHRONICLE. 
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St. Petersburgh, Moscow, Poltawa, Kiew, &c., that is from 
the Euxine to the Baltic. 
Grezcr.—Accounts from Athens of the 10th ult. state 
that their Majesties have just removed to the new palace, 
the furnishing of which is now almost entirely completed. 
This structure is of immense magnitude, built of marble 
from Pentelicus, after designs by a Bavarian architect, 
but in the estimation of most people, it is devoid of ex- 
ternal grandeur and internal comfort, although the total 
cost amounts to such an immense sum, that the King has 
contrived to prevent any exact estimate thereof being made 
public. The Government had suspended twenty-five Pro- 
fessors of the University, in compliance, it is said, with 
the desire of the protecting Powers, who insisted on the 
strictest system of economy being introduced into the 
finances. ‘The crops had suffered severely in most of the 
provinces, and the greatest misery pervaded the whole 
country. 
Turxry.—The Vienna papers announce officially the 
result of the assembly of the notables and people of Servia 
at Kraguzevatz, which is, that the two leaders, Wutsitsch 
and Petronowitsch had consented to submit to the demands 
of the Emperor of Russia for their withdrawal, and that the 
assembly had not made the slightest demonstration against 
this measure. Later accounts state that they had arrived 
at Belgrade on the 14th, and were to embark on the 
day following for Widdin. Accounts from Constanti- 
nople of the 7th ult. state that the Turkish fleet still con- 
tinued to hover about the Dardanelles, followed by a 
French man-of-war steamer. Large bodies of Turkish 
troops were concentrated at Adrianople, which, at a 
period when the Divan professed thewselves anxious for 
retrenchment, caused some surprise. Nothing satisfactory 
had been concluded by the commissioners appointed to 
arrange the difficulties between Persia and the Porte. : 
Unirep Starns.—The Royal mail steam-ship Acadia 
arrived at Liverpool from Boston and Halifax on Tuesday. 
She left Boston on the 16th, and Halifax on the 18th, 
and has consequently made the passage in twelve days, 
The dates from the United States are from the 8th to the 
16th ult., inclusive. The authorities at Washington have 
decided to deliver Mrs. Christina Gilmour to the officer 
who went in pursuit of her from this country, and a 
warrant to that effect has accordingly been issued. The 
counsel of the prisoner had made another attempt to save 
her, by an application to Judge Betts for a writ of habeas 
corpus, but without success, The Judge, in reply, gave 
the following as his opinion on the law of the case :— 
“In the matter of Christina Cochrane, otherwise Gilmour, 
on application for the allowance of a writ of habeas 
corpus :—I am of opinion that the 10th article of the 
Treaty of Washington, concluded August 9th, 1842, is, 
under the 2d subdivision of the 6th article of the Con. 
stitution of the United States, in force asa subsisting 
law of the land, and is accordingly to be observed and 
executed by the judicial authorities of the country. Tam 
of opinion that a commissioner appointed by a Circuit 
Court of the United States, pursuant to the acts of 
Congress in that behalf, is, by force of the act of Congress 
of August 23, 1842, empowered to perform the functions 
pointed out by the 10th article of the said treaty. Iam 
of opinion that itis not competent for a Judge of the 
United States, in vacation, to revise, on hubeas corpus, 
the adjudi of suc’ issi as to the efficiency 
of the proof of criminality of a party charged before him, 
I am of opinion that a writ of habeas corpus cannot be 
rightfully allowed for the purpose of inquiring into the 
legality of a warrant emanating from the executive branch 
of the Government, intended to surrender a person duly 
committed to a marshal of the United States, to the autho- 
tities of Great Britain, under the provisions of the 10th 
article of the said treaty, before the party shall be thereby 
actually transferred to and detained in such British cus- 
tody within the United States. I accordingly refuse to 
allow the habeas corpus prayed for in this case.’” This de. 
Cision will form a precedent for the guidance of both 
Countries in all similar cases, and is therefore of consider- 
able importance.—Mr. Wickliffe, the Postmaster-General 
of the United States, had been stabbed, but not mortally, 
on board a steamer between Portsmouth and Baltimore, by 
&@ Mr. Gardiner, who it is stated took this mode of re- 
Venging himself on Mr. Wickliffe, because that gentleman 
Tefused to interfere to secure him an office. The Philadel- 
Phia papers contain accounts of a fearful hurricane which 
Passed over that city and the surrounding country on the 
12th ule. Many parts of the city, and some of the adja- 
Cent lands were deluged, Several bridges, houses, trees, 
fences, and hay-stacks were swept away, and 27 lives were 
lost, “4 Boston paper states that an American sloop of 
War brings intelligence respecting the discovery of a beau- 
tifal island in the Pacific, extending 40 miles, not laid 
wn in the charts ; it is situated in south latitude, 11.05, 
West latitude, 165.05. It was called Badie’s Island, after 
the man who first discovered it. r, Cushing, the 
American Ambassador to China, had sailed in a war. 
Steamer for Alexandria, thence to proceed to India by the 
Prerland route. On the 19th, off the coast of Newfound- 
and, the Acadia steamer ran down the barque Merchant, 
Me ewport, and sustained by the collision the loss of her 
head and cutwater. The vessel was lost, but the crew 
Were all saved, and brought by the steamer to England, 
nue u issi upon the di tion of the boundary 
ine are progressing rapidly in their business, and are 
making up for their delay in the spring. The survey of 
he River St, John is nearly completed from the Grand 
alls to the mouth of the St. Francis, A party of suryey- 
Ors is at work near Lake Pohenagunook, and_ another 
Party has ascended’ to the head waters of the St. John. 
Six parties are at work upon the line between the monu- 
Ment and the St. John, amounting in all to about 100 
men. Two parties are at the north end of the line, two 
parties are at the south end, and the other two near Fort 
Fairfield. The distanve is about 78 miles, and all the 
parties together advance about one mile each day. They 
clear out a passage 15 feet upon each side of the line, cut- 
ting down the trees smooth with the ground. The line- 
trees are cut upon the spot, and the stumps left standing. 
It is said that this line is a very crooked one. In one 
place there is a square offset of about 40 rods. The whole 
line appears to be a succession of curves, with a general 
inclination to the westward. 
Tanirt.—A copy of the following curious letter, in 
which Queen Pomare, of Tahiti, solicits the protection of 
the English Government against France, has been re- 
ceived in the City:—‘‘ Tahiti, Jan. 23, 1843.—My dear 
Friend and Sistef Queen Victoria, Queen of Great Britain, 
—Health and Peace to you, and saved may you be by 
Jehovah, the foundation of our power as Queens of our 
respective countries. We dwell in peace from the arrange- 
ments made by our predecessors. ‘This is my speech to 
you, my sister friend. Commiserate me in my affliction, 
in my helplessness, and in the difficulties in which my 
nation is involved with France. The existing Protec- 
torate Government of France in my dominions I do not 
acknowledge. I knew nothing of what my Chiefs and 
the French Consul had done, before I wrote to you by 
Captain Jones, I being absent at Raiate. On the arrival 
of the French Admiral, A Du Petit Thouars, the same 
chiefs who formerly signed the document requesting 
French protection assembled, viz., the three governors 
and Paraita, the person who was left in charge at Papecte 
(Paraita is the root of this great evil), the French Admi- 
ral and the French Consul, after having completed their 
design in signing the document, sent it over to me at 
| and Prince Albert by the Earl of Aberdeen. The inter- 
| view of his Highness with the Queen lasted about half-an- 
hour. On leaving Windsor the Regent came direct to 
town. The Duchess of Victory and Donna Bladia went 
out in an open carriage in the afternoon of the same day, 
and took airings in the Parks. The Duchess and her niece 
walked in Kensington-gardens about an hour. On Mon- 
day the Earl of Minto, Lord Monteagle, and numerous 
other visitors, called upon the Regent. Viscount Pal- 
merston also waited upon his Highness, and was engaged 
some time in conversation with him. The Regent visited 
the Duke of Wellington and the Earl of Aberdeen, and 
also called upon Sir R. Peel, but had not an interview, 
the right hon. Baronet not having then arrived in town 
from Windsor Castle. The Regent subsequently visited 
Lord Stanley and the Earl of Clarendon. In the latter 
part of the afternoon the Regent and Duchess, and Donna 
Eladia took airings in | Hyde-park and Kensington- 
gardens. On Tuesday the Regent went with the Duchess 
and Donna Eladia to visit some of the public buildings in 
the metropolis, and afterwards took a carriage-drive in 
Hyde-park. His Highness saw several friends at his 
apartments, and among the calls were the Duke and 
Duchess of Somerset, Lieut.-Gen. Sir John Macdonald, 
and several Members of Parliament. In the evening the 
Regent dined with Lord Palmerston, to meet the Earl of 
Clarendon, Lords Ponsonby, Monteagle, Glenelg, 
Seaford, &c. On Wednesday his Highness removed from 
Mivart’s to a villa in the Regent’s Park, which he has 
taken as his residence. Yesterday, according to previous 
notice, the Lord Mayor, Aldermen, and Common Council, 
assembled at Guildhall, for the purpose of considering 
the propriety of welcoming General Espartero’s arrival 
| in this country as an exile from Spain. The court was 
Moorea, through the medium of m re Tairapa 
and Mr. Simpson, for my signature. Tairapa said to me, 
‘ Pomare, write your name under this document. If you 
do not write your name, you must pay a fine of 10,000 
dollars ; 5000 to-morrow, and 5000 the following day ; 
and should the first payment be delayed beyond 2 o’clock 
the first day, hostilities will be commenced, and your 
land taken.’ On account of this threat, against my will I 
Signed my name. I was compelled to sign it, and be- 
cause I was afraid, for the British and American subjects 
residing on my land (in case of hostilities) would have 
been indiscriminately massacred ; no regard would have 
been paid to parties. This is the way my Government 
has been taken from me and constituted into a French 
Government. My Government is taken from me by my 
enemies, Paraita, Hitate, Tati, and others connected with 
them ; it was they who combined and entered into agreement 
with the French. They have banished me that I should 
not be Sovereign of Tahiti; that they should be Kings 
and also their children. And now, my friend, think of 
me, have compassion on me, and assist me; let it be pow- 
erful, let it be timely and saving, that I may be reinstated 
in my Government ; let it be prompted by the feeling 
which caused the Messiah to come into our world to save 
you and me. Have compassion on me in my present 
trouble, in my affliction, and great helplessness. Do not 
cast me away, assist me quickly, my friend. Irun to you 
for refuge, to be covered under your great shadow, the 
same as afforded to my fathers by your fathers, who are 
now dead, and whose kingdoms have descended to us, the 
weaker vessels. I renew that agreement ; let it be lasting 
and for ever. Let its continuance extend not only to 
ourselves and children, but to our children’s children, 
My friend, do not by any means separate our friendship, 
This is my true wish. I now deliver up to you, my 
friend, my last effort; my only hope of being restored is 
in you. Be quick to help me, for I am nearly dead ; I 
am like a captive pursued by a warrior and nearly taken, 
whose spear is close to me. The time is very nigh when 
I fear I shall lose my Government and my land. My 
friend, send quickly a large ship of war to assist me. A 
French ship of war is daiiy expected here—speedily send 
a ship of war to protect me, and I shall be saved. It is 
my wish that the Admiral may speedily come to Tahiti, 
If he cannot speedily come, I wish a large ship of war 
may come just at this present time. Continually send 
here your ships of war; let not one month pass away 
without one, until all my present difficulties are over. [ 
have also at this time written a letter to your Admiral on 
the Spanish coast to come to Tahiti and assist me. Health 
and peace to you, may you be blessed, my sister friend, 
Queen of Great Britain, &c.—PoMARE, Queen of Tahiti.” 
CITY. 
Money Market, Friday.—Consols closed at 95 for 
the Account ; Three-per-Cents, Reduced, 954 to 2; Three- 
and-a-Half per Cents., 1022 to 3; New Three-and-a- 
Half ‘per Cents. 102} to 2; Bank Stock, 1823; India 
Stock, 2654. 
HPletropolis anv its Pichi. 
General Espartero.—The Earl of Aberdeen, as Secre- 
tary for Foreign Affairs, wrote to the Regent on Friday 
evening, to signify her Majesty’s pleasure that his High- 
ness should have an audience with the Queen on Saturday 
afternoon at Windsor Castle. In consequence of this 
command, the Regent proceeded by a special train to 
Windsor on Saturday, accompanied by Col. Gurrea, his 
private secretary. The Regent wore the full uniform ofa 
General in the Spanish Army, his left breast being orna- 
mented with various decorations of Knighthood, the Star 
of the Order of the Bath placed conspicuously in the 
centre. Colonel Wylde conducted his Highness to the 
Royal presence, when he was introduced to her Majesty 
gly crowded, not only with members, but with 
strangers. After a long and desultory discussion, reso- 
lutions were adopted expressing sympathy with his mis- 
fortunes and hopes for his speedy recal. The Lord 
Mayor then announced that he would invite his Highness 
to meet the Corporation at a banquet at the Mansion- 
House, where the resolutions should be presented. 
Temperance Meetings.—On Sunday Father Mathew 
administered the pledge in the village of Stratford, Essex. 
In commencing his address the rev. gentleman said he 
“had often spoken on the subject of holding a temperance 
meeting on the Sabbath-day. He believed that a meet- 
ing held under the canopy of heaven for the purpose of 
forwarding the reformation of mankind, was as pleasing 
to Almighty God as if they were assembled under the roof 
of a cathedral. If an ox or an ass fell into a pit on the 
Sabbath, they were commanded by Scripture to pull it 
out. Was it not, then, incumbent on them to attempt 
to rescue from the vortex of dissipation, on the same holy 
day, that being who had a soul to be saved ? Why pro- 
fessors and ministers of the church should oppose them 
he could not understand. If they could not concur in the 
views of the teetotallers, surely they might leave them 
alone. The fact of his being a Roman Catholic priest did 
not at all interfere with his agency in the movement—it 
could have no effect on the goodness of the cause. He 
adhered strictly to the tenets of the Roman Catholic 
Church, and would lay down his life for any one of them ; 
still he allowed the same liberty of opinion to others which 
he claimed for himself.” Several other persons addressed 
the meeting, and in the course of the day about 600 per- 
Sons took the pledge. On Monday Father Mathew 
administered the pledge at Hackney, and on Tuesday 
at Rag Fair, where about 8000 persons were assembled 
to welcome him. Father Mathew, on presenting him- 
self, was loudly cheered. He expressed regret at the 
calumnies which were sought to be heaped upon him, and 
denied the allegation that his mission to London was a 
total failure. Considering all the ci of opposi- 
tion, he contended that the total abstinence movement in 
London had made more progress than in any other part 
of the United Kingdom. He had given the pledge to 
upwards of 50,000 persons, and he believed that before 
e had done as many more would take it. In order to 
prove he was not mistaken, he called on the people to 
come forward and follow the example of the people of 
St. Giles’s. This invitation was fully responded to, and 
before the close of the proceedings, nearly 2,000 persons 
had taken the pledge. In one of his speeches, Father 
Mathew alluded to the encouragement given him by the 
ishop of Norwich in a recent letter, from which the fol. 
lowing is an extract :—“ I regret that I cannot attend at 
Cambridge on the occasion of the Rev. T. Mathew’s 
visit. If, however, he comes to Norwich, I shall think it 
my duty to sanction a meeting, and pay every respect to 
an individual to whose zealous exertions in recovering so 
large a portion of the community from the degrading and 
ruinous effects of intemperance, men of all religious 
persuasions and parties owe a debt of gratitude.” Father 
Mathew administered the pledge at Somers Town to 
about 1000 persons, on Wednesday, and to the same 
number on Thursday, in the Bunhill-fields burial-ground 
in the City. Yesterday he paid a visit to Chelsea, He 
said that upwards of 60,000 persons in London alone had 
already taken the pledge at his hands, When circum- 
stances should again permit him to come to England, he 
hoped he should pledge double the number. It bad been 
his intention to stop a fortnight longer, but having an 
engagement in Dublin on the 17th, he should be obliged 
to leave town in the early part of next week. He should, 
however, before he left England, have the honour of visit- 
ing the Bishop of Norwich, and thence he should go to 
Birmingham and Liverpool, and on to Dublin. 
Metropolitan Improvemenis,—Mr. Barry has completed 
the internal decorations of the Travellers’ Club, the ara- 
besques of which are executed by Herr Sang, a German, 
