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THE GARDENERS 
CHRONICLE. 
[May 27, 
ment for equalising the duty on colonial and beet-root 
sugar in five years, has passed the Chambers by a large 
majority.—From Spain we have the important intelligence 
of the resignation of the new Ministry. They asked not 
only for the dismissal of all the military friends of the 
Regent, but the immediate removal of the garrison of 
Madrid, to be replaced by such troops as Sefior Lopez 
should select. The Regent refused to sign the dismissal 
of the Generals, and an immediate dissolution of the 
Cabinet was the result. Sefior Becerra, President of the 
Senate, has been commissioned to form a new Ministry} 
and it is openly asserted that the demands of Sefior Lopez \ 
were the precursors of a new Christino movement, which 
must have led to the overthrow of the Regent.—From 
the Levant we learn that the Servian Government has at 
length made its unconditional submission to the Porte. 
This unexpected change has been produced by the cer- 
tainty that they would receive no support from France, 
England, or Austria ; the Prince has therefore consented 
to resign, and a new election will take place without delay. 
Wome Nels, 
Courr.—Her Majesty and Prince Albert, accompanied 
by the Princess Royal, left town on Saturday afternoon, 
for Claremont ; where they still remain. The Prince of 
Wales and the Infant Princess, accompanied by the 
Dowager Lady Lyttelton, followed in another carriage. 
Wednesday being the Queen’s birthday, was observed in 
London and at Claremont with the usual honours. Prince 
Albert came to town yesterday, to attend a meeting of the 
Fine Arts Commission, and returned to Claremont in the 
evening. The Royal suite at Claremont consists of ‘the 
Countess of Dunmore, Lady in Waiting; Sir F. Storrie, 
Groom in Waiting ; the Hon. Misses Stanley and Hamil- 
ton, Maids of Honour ; the Dowager Lady Lyttelton ; Cols, 
Grey and Wylde, Equerries in Waiting; and the Hon.C.A. 
Murray, Master of the Household.—It is understood that 
the King of Hanover has resolved not to undertake this 
year his journey to England.—Notice has been issued from 
the Lord Chamberlain’s Office, that His Royal Highness 
Prince Albert will, by the desire of Her Majesty, nold a 
Levee at St. James’s Palace, on behalf of Her Majesty, 
on Wednesday, the 21st of June next, at two o’clock ; 
and that Her Majesty will hold Drawing Rooms at St. 
James’s Palace on Thursday, the 29th June, and on Thurs- 
day, the 6th July, to celebrate Her Majesty’s birthday. 
Official Appointments.—The Earl of Dalhousie has been 
appointed Vice-President of the Board of Trade. The Queen 
has been pleased to direct letters patent to be passed under 
the Great Seal, granting unto his Royal Highness Prince 
Albert the offices of Governor and Constable of Windsor 
Castle, in the room of the late Duke of Sussex. The Queen 
has been pleased to appoint Lieutenant-General the Hon. 
Patrick Stuart to be Governor of Malta and its depend- 
encies ; Francis Burgess, Esq., to be Chief Police Magis- 
trate in the Island of Van Diemen’s Land 5 the Rey. 
George Giles to be chaplain of the Female Penitentiary 
in the Island of Van Diemen’s Land; and W. Walter 
Raleigh Kerr, Esq., to be Assistant Auditor-General to 
the Government of the Island of Mauritius. 
Establishment of the Prince of Wales.—The Queen 
has been pleased to direct letters patent to be passed under 
the Privy Seal of his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, 
conferring the following appointments :—Thomas Pem- 
berton Leigh, Esq., to be Chancellor and Keeper of the 
Great Seal to his Royal Highness ; the Hon. John Chet- 
wynd Talbot to be Attorney-General to his Royal High- 
ness ; George Edward Anson, Esgq., to be Treasurer of the 
Household and Cofferer to his Royal Highness; James 
Robert Gardiner, Esq., to be Secretary and Clerk of the 
Council to his Royal Highness, Keeper of the Records of 
the Duchy of Cornwall, Secretary, Receiver-General, and 
Keeper of the Signet, for the Stewartry and Principality 
of Scotland ; and Edward White, Esq., to be Auditor of 
the Duchy of Cornwall. 
Parliamentary Movements.—Mr. Bagshaw, the late 
member for Sudbury, is once more a candidate for the 
representation of that borough, and has issued a prelimi- 
nary address to the electors. 
Order of St. Andrew.—The Marquis of Bute and Earl 
Mansfield have received the Green Ribands vacant by the 
deaths of the Duke of Sussex and the Earlof Abergavenny. 
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Soreign. 
France.—The principal news in the Paris papers is 
that the law adopting M. Passy’s amendment, equalising 
the sugar duties in five years, passed by 286 votes against 
97, This amendment which altered completely the 
Ministerial bill by recognising the existence of a domestic 
Sugar manufacture, and by subjecting colonial and home- 
grown sugar to the same duty, is considered by the papers 
as a victory over Ministers ; but the fact that the question 
involved no political principle is successfully opposed by 
the partisans of the Cabinet to this assumption. We be- 
fore alluded to the order of the Minister of Public Worship 
depriving the Protestants of the use of certain churches 
of Alsace, in which Catholic worship is also performed. 
These orders gave rise to some scandalous scenes, in one 
of which the curate of Bitschuelin committed some violent 
acts. Since then however the Minister has recalled the 
obnoxious part of bis order, whilst the Archbishop of 
Strasburg, in a circular to his clergy, has enjoined them 
to pursue the ways of conciliation and peace. Much 
notice is taken by all the papers of the Repeal agitation 
in Ireland, and ‘most of them view with satisfaction the 
prospect of the peace of the United Kingdom being dis. 
turbed. The Gasette de France, the organ of that por- 
tion of the Legitimists and of the clergy who have placed 
their hopes on a popular or republican movement, is loud 
in its praises of the Irish Bishop of Ardagh, and is equally 
indignant with the pastoral letter of the Bishop of Stras- 
burg. The Globe announces, on the authority of accounts 
from Goree, the arrest by a French cruizer belonging to 
the station on the western coast of Africa of an English 
vessel carrying slaves to the West Indies. This capture 
was made by the Vigie brigof war. The letters state that 
the vessel was English but was running for the Havannah 
with her slaves. For several days the Artesian well of 
Grenelle has thrown up small black fishes which have no 
apparent eyes, This phenomenon was observed last year, 
at the same period. The Academy of Sciences had 
‘ordered a report to be made on this extraordinary fact, 
“SPAIN.—A telegraphic despatch from Madrid reached 
Paris on Monday, communicating the important intel- 
ligence that the Regent having refused to sign the dis- 
missal of Generals Linage and Zurbano, the Lopez 
Ministry tendered their resignation, which was accepted. 
Sefior Gomez Becerra, President of the Senate, imme. 
diately charged himself with the formation of a new 
Cabinet, in which the Ministry of Finance would be con- 
fided to M. Mendizabal. The Congress voted on the 19th 
an address to the Regent to recommend to him the 
Amnesty as well as thanks to the retiring Ministry. The 
Congress declared on the same day unanimously, with the 
exception of three voices, that the Ministers who had 
resigned had up to the last moment merited its con- 
fidence. Previous to this event, the Cabinet had taken 
various measures showing its hostility to the policy of the 
previous Ministry. At Barcelona, party feeling had run 
so high that the municipality on the 15th inst. published 
an address to the inhabitants, in which, after congratu- 
lating them on the part they had in the overthrow of. the 
Rodil Administration and on the accession of their inde- 
pendent representative, Don Joaquin Maria Lopez, to the 
Presidency of the Council, they invited them to attend at 
a grand 7'e Deum which was to be chanted the next day 
in the Cathedral in commemoration of the event. This 
service was accordingly performed on the 16th. The 
garrison were under arms during the whole day, but no 
outbreak ensued.—The barque Majestic, arrived at Liver- 
pool from Africa, reports that on the 21st March the 
“Russta.—The news of the Sultan having acceded to the 
Emperor’s demands reached St. Petersburgh on the 5th, 
and gave much satisfaction. M. de Boutenieff has been 
intrusted by the Emperor with an extraordinary mission ~~ 
to Rome, for the purpose of settling the long-pending and 
intricate question respecting the appointment of Roman 
Catholic Bishops in the Russian empire.. A new mail 
route to go twice weekly between St. Petersburgh and 
Kjachta, the principal town on the Chinese frontiers, is to 
be putinto operation immediately. 
/ TurKny.—Intelligence has been received from Belgrade 
‘that the Servian Government has at length submitted to 
the Porte. The Prince consents to resign, and another 
election will in all probability take place at Belgrade. 
The Ministers Petronowics and Woutschisek will repair 
immediately to Constantinople. This unexpected sub- 
mission has been caused by the certainty which the Ser- 
vian Government had obtained that they had no coun- 
tenance or support to look for from France or England. 
Meerza Taka the Persian plenipotentiary arrived at 
Erzeroum on the 18th April, escorted by upwards of 100 
armed Persians with a few field-pieces. Two Turkish 
regiments marched out of the town to meet the envoy. 
On the 2d of this month the Bishop of Gibraltar ad- 
ministered the rite of confirmation in the Turkish capital 
to 21 young persons of both sexes; and on the previous 
Sunday the Bishop preached in the chapel of the British 
Embassy. A Smyrna letter mentions the breaking out 
of a fire in the centre of the Bazaar at Magnesia on the 
20th ult., which could not be extinguished until 2,000 
shops had been destroyed. Fortunately the greatest part 
of the merchandize they contained was saved, but the loss 
is estimated at an enormous sum. 
West Invirs.—The Dee steamer has brought a full 
supply of the West India journals, but although contain- 
ing details of news from the several localities there is 
scarcely an item worth extract for English readers. The 
leading point in these papers is the statement of the ineffi- 
ciency of the Royal mail packet line, and the request is 
strongly made for placing the old packets on the station. 
Respecting the condition of the crops little is reported. 
In Barbadoes, Demerara, Trinidad, and Jamaica, the 
manufacture of sugar had commenced, and was progress- 
ing according to these accounts favourably. Agricul- 
Spanish brig-of-war Nerrion formally took } of 
Fernando Po in the name of the Queen of Spain, whose 
colours were hoisted and a salute fired. The British took 
no part in the proceedings, but some of the natives showed 
a disposition to look upon the affair in a hostile light, 
although no disturbance took place. 
Portucan.—We have Lisbon news to the 15th inst, 
The Deputies had passed the bill for establishing a system 
of general education throughout the kingdom. It was 
very doubtful whether the Road-bill would pass into a 
law this session ; and a strong opposition was expected to 
the reduction of the tariff as respects the island of Madeira. 
Prayers had been ordered to be offered up for the safe 
delivery of Queen Donna Maria, who has passed the sixth 
month of pregnancy. If the tariff negotiations were 
resumed by England, there was considerable probability 
of their being brought to a satisfactory close by a reason- 
able compromise of the disputed woollen duties. There 
was little likelihood of the Portuguese Government resum- 
ing these negotiations of their own motion. Great agita~ 
tion prevailed at Oporto and throughout the wine districts, 
with reference to this subject. 
Germany.—The Diet of the Prussian Rhenish pro- 
vinces was opened at Diisseldorf on the 14th inst. 
Letters from Hamburgh state that Hanover has deter- 
mined not to join the Zollverein. The Saxon manufacturers 
are described as being in a state far from prosperous and 
as petitioning the Government for more protection, while 
Prussia, perceiving that the union is for the sole advantage 
of Saxony, is beginning to grow weary of it. The Leipsic 
fair has been more favourable than for some years, and 
food is said to be as dear in Saxony as in England. The 
Frankfort papers state that the house of Rothschild has 
given 100,000f. for the foundation of a hospital at Jeru- 
salem, and is building, at ite own expense, a synagogue at 
Frankfort. They also announce a discovery made by an 
Englishman, named Yardley, residing at Manheim. It 
consists of a typo-electro-magnetic telegraph ; a machine 
by which news may be transmitted with the greatest 
rapidity from one place to another, and which at the 
same time fixes the impression on paper in the same 
manner as bya printing press and types. 
Irary.—The German papers publish a letter from 
Rome of the 6th inst., mentioning that an insurrectionary 
movement had taken place at Benevento, and that the 
delegate and authorities had been obliged to seek refuge in 
the citadel. Nothing is known of the motives of the 
movement, or the measures adopted by the Papal Govern- 
ment to repress it. 
Grrxrce.—Letters from Athens state that King Otho 
has determined to apply the sliding-scale system, not only 
as regards a duty on corn grown out of Greece, but also 
to the reduction of public salaries. ‘The King has accord- 
ingly imposed a duty which, at present prices, would 
amount to nearly 50 per cent. on foreign wheat, on which 
the inhabitants of the Archipelago almost entirely depend 
for support. A commission is now engaged in drawing 
up a new tariff of duties. It is to be on the prohibitory 
system, especially as respects English articles. A letter 
written by a Jew of Tricala, the chief town of the Sandjac 
in Thessaly, gives an account of an inundation by which 
between 4,000 and 5,000 persons perished. According to 
this statement many of the largest trees were broken 
down by the weight of the people who climbed up to their 
tops to escape from the flood. This account however 
requires confirmation. 
tural op had not of late been successful from the 
general want of rain, but as within the three days prior to 
the departure of the mails the weather had altered to the 
wishes of the planters, they still expected to retrieve 
themselves. Fires had occurred at Demerara and Jamaica; 
the one in the former colony had been most destructive; 
but the amount of damage is not stated. Several of the 
islands were. still unhealthy, and continued shocks of 
earthquake had been felt at Antigua, Guadaloupe, &c. At 
the latter place it was calculated that about one-third of 
the crop would be destroyed. A letter from M. Celoron, 
an inhabitant of Guadaloupe, dated March 7, giving an 
account of a phenomenon which appears to have been 
connected with the catastrophe of Feb. 8, has been pub- 
lished. Tt relates that between the eastern point of 
Marie Galante and Guadaloupe, and in the mid-channel, 4 
column of water, black in colour and of large diameter; 
arose from the sea with great force. All around it to a 
considerable distance a quantity of vapour covered the 
sea, This appearance lasted about half an hour. M. 
Celoron adds that being well acquainted with water- 
Spouts, he was certain that this was not one, as the column 
was too vertical and did not touch the clouds. No doubt 
was entertained by him of its being the effect of a sub- 
marine volcano. 
Parliament. 
OUSE OF LORDS. 
After the presentation of several petitions, the BishoP 
nt one on the subject of reform in the Eccle- 
tical Courts; and proceeded to discuss the provisions of the bill 
now in progress through the Lower House. He was interrupted bY 
the Earl of Rapwnor, who rose to order, and remarked that it was 
contrary to rule to debate a bill not before their Lordships.—Th¢ 
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the other House ; and if it did correspond it was irregular 
discuss it.—On the ing that the jastical Coury 
Bill would not be pressed through their Lordships’ House, show 
it come up too late in the session for discussion, and that it wo 
not be debated during the necessary absence of the Prelates ig 
them diocesan duties, the Bishop of Exeter withdrew bt 
petition.—The Townshend Peerage Bill was read a third time ie 
passed, after a protest by the Earl of Dnvon against the exp 
The Marquess of CLanrtcarpE called the attention of ake 
House to the recent transactions in Scinde, and asked beetle 
questions as to the annexation of the territory, and the ph 
of the demands which had been made upon the Ameers.—7h@ 
Duke of Wattineron said that the only authority for the annex a 
tion of the territory was mere rumour. Negotiations had bee 
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