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the leaf, You had better wait until the plant flowers, when we 
shall be better able to determine. 
which resembles a 
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Hovénia acerba, and is not quite hardy.t—M. G.—We cannot 
name the Auricula sent; the paste, or circle of white surround- 
ing the eye is pure and good, but the circle of colour encroaches 
h upon the green edge, and breaks through to the 
margin, whichis a great defect; it is a pretty flower, but not a 
0 ne,*—-P. R.—Your seedling Cineraria is beautiful in 
colour, but the petals are too narrow.*——.unius.—Kither 0} 
your samples of sand may be applied with good effect upon 
stiff garden land, or in potting plants of vigorous habit ; but 
they are not at all adapted for Heaths and plants with delicate 
fibrous roots. not undertake to name crowds 
of bad specimens of plants.j——J. R. L.—Your Rhododendron 
is not the true R. arbéreum, but one of the numerous hybrids 
. D.—The tree is the Lucombe Oak.t 
.t——H. S.—We can’ 
them delivered in any part of London, by remitting a Post 
office order to this Office, at the rate of 5s. for every 25 copies, 
NEWS OF THE WEEK. 
Tue debate in the House of Commons on Tuesday 
night, on Lord Ashley’s motion for an address to the 
Queen praying her Majesty’s immediate consideration of 
the best means for diffusing a moral and religious edu- 
cation among the working classes, will be read with the 
deepest interest. The importance of the measure is 
attested by the fact that all party and political considera- 
tions were laid aside by every Member of the House, and 
that the motion was received and carried with that 
general unanimity which nothing could have produced 
but an overpowering sense of its necessity. Lord Ashley 
drew a melancholy picture of the continued increase of 
crime. He said that the country is weary of mere pal- 
liatives ; the evil is wider and deeper than can be reached 
by the schemes of prison discipline and mere: corrective 
processes ; and if it be not grappled with at once, we 
may anticipate, in twenty years, a general conyulsion of 
the whole system of society. The time is come, he said, 
when the upper classes must bear in mind that they owe 
to the humbler ranks the long withheld debt of kinder 
language and more intimate intercourse; and that the 
imprudence and immorality of their poorer countrymen 
are the result, in a great measure, of their own neglect, 
and, in no slight degree, of their own example. Sir James 
Graham concurred cordially in these sentiments; the 
question, in his opinion, is utterly different from those of 
mere party struggles—it is an immense and awful duty 
which the House owed to the mass of the people ; late 
events were pregnant with solemn warning; the time is 
come when the religious and moral instructor must go 
forth, and the destinies of the country are involved in the 
proper education of the rising generation. He then 
detailed the measures now contemplated by Government : 
in the first place, district-shools will be provided for the 
education of pauper children in the Metropolis and large 
towns, under the superintendence of the Clergy of the 
Established Church, with provision for the instruction of 
children of Dissenters by ministers of their own persua- 
sion; the experiment will first. be made in the manufac- 
turing districts, and other measures will necessarily follow. 
Lord John Russeli gave his warm support to the motion, 
and Sir Robert Peel in expressing his gratitude to Lord 
Ashley for his exertions, said that the interference of 
Parliament will have little effect, unless the educated 
and wealthy classes can be convinced that they are 
all to blame,—unless those possessed of wealth and 
the responsibility for its use can be made to feel 
that they have all been individually neglectful of the 
education of the poor. He apprehended that the 
unanimity of the House will have the best effect upon 
the country, and that the moral influence of such a 
demonstration, in which party-feelings were forgotten ina 
, Sense of public duty, will do more good, by encouraging 
individual exertion, than the interference of the Legis- 
Jature.—In comparison with this debate, the Parliamentary 
proceedings of the week are interesting only as party 
questions—if we except Lord Aberdeen’s announcement 
in the Lords respecting the satisfactory progress made in 
the'suppressi the Slave-t: Lord John Russell, on 
Monday, called the attention of the House of Commons 
to the circumstance of the Duke of Wellington, as Com- 
mander-in-Chief, holding a seat in the Cabinet ; but Sir 
R. Peel claimed for himself and his colleagues the entire 
Ponsibility of the Pr and appealed to the 
whole conduct and character of the Duke as sufficient 
pledges that he would never allow his political opinions to 
interfere with the public service. On Wednesday Mr. 
Roebuck moved a Committee of inquiry into the cireum- 
stances that led to the war in Affghanistan, and com- 
mented with extraordinary severity on the late Adminis- 
tration. The motion gave rise to an animated debate, but 
was negatived by a majority of 114, The House has also 
been occupied with the consideration of a question 
affecting its privileges, arising out of the arrest of Mr. 
Howard, the attorney, in a cage which has often been 
before the public. The main object of the House was to 
avoid a compromise of its independence by recognising 
the jurisdiction of a court of law. For the details of the 
proceedings we must refer to our Parliamentary Report. 
From France our news is confined to the particulars of 
the great struggle in the Chamber of Deputies, the result 
of which will decide the existence of the Ministry. The 
debate commenced on Wednesday, and is not likely to be 
concluded for some days.—In Spain, the elections, which 
commenced on the 27th, are the chief topic of the day ; 
great uncertainty prevails respecting their result, and it 
is expected that most of the large cities will return Oppo- 
sition Members.—The negotiations between Great Britain 
and Portugal for the tariff convention have at length been 
broken oft, the British Cabinet having decided on the 
rejection of the last Portuguese proposals, and on losing 
no further time in the attempt to negotiate.—From the 
Levant we have accounts of hostilities on the Persian 
frontier, which will no doubt increase the difficulties of 
the Commissioners in arranging the dispute between the 
Schah and the Turkish Government. The accounts from 
Syria mention that the works of the Protestant church at 
Jerusalem have been suspended by order of the Pacha, and 
that the affair has been referred by the Bishop and the 
P. 
Consuls to the Ambassadors at Const: 
Wome News. 
Courr.—Her Majesty and Prince Albert, accompanied 
by the Prince of Wales and the Princess Royal, left 
Buckingham Palace on Thursday afternoon for Clare- 
mont. During the week, the Queen and Prince Albert ho- 
noured Covent Garden theatre and the performance of the 
French plays with their presence.—The Prince presided on 
Monday at a meeting of the C issi for p ting 
the Fine Arts in the rebuilding of the Houses of Parlia. 
ment.—The Queen Dowager and her Court returned 
from Canford House, yesterday,’ to the metropolis. 
—The Duchess of Norfolk has succeeded Viscountess 
Canning as the Lady in Waiting on the Queen 3 the Earl 
of Warwick and Capt. Hood have succeeded Viscount 
Hawarden and Admiral Sir R. Otway, as the Lord and 
Groom in Waiting ; and Colonel Buckley has succeeded 
Colonel Arbuthnot as Equerry in Waiting, Major-General 
Sir E. Bowater has succeeded Colonel Wylde as the 
Equerry in Waiting on Prince Albert, 
Parti ‘y Me — The rep ion of 
North Warwickshire is vacant by the appointment of Sir 
Eardley Wilmot to the Governorship of Van Diemen’s 
Land, and Mr. Newdigate, of Atherstone, has announced 
himself a candidate in the Conservative interest. 
Oficial Appointments.—The \Duke of Montrose has 
been appointed Lieutenant and Sheriff Principal of the 
shire of Stirling, in the room of the late Lord Aber- 
cromby.—General Sir Hugh Gough has been appointed 
Commander-in-Chief of the Company’s Forces in India, 
and an Extraordinary Member of the Council of India. 
It is understood that Mr. Thomas Pottinger, brother of 
Sir H. Pottinger, has been selected by Government as 
Resident Officer at Hong Kong.—Mr. Turnbull has been 
appointed to the office of Commissioner of the Mixed 
Cc blished in Jamaica for the sup- 
oul 
pression of the slave trade. 
Church Preferment.—The Rev. T. B. Murray, rector 
of St. Dunstan’s in the East, has been appointed by the 
Bishop of London to a prebendal stall in St. Paul’s, 
———— 
SForeiqn. 
France.—The Paris papers continue to discuss the 
chances of the Ministry in the great struggle on the Secret 
Service Money Bill, which commenced on Wednesday. 
The contest has assumed greater interest, because the 
majority, which has hitherto Supported the Cabinet, is 
split into so many small fractions, that it is impossible 
to calculate to a certainty the result of the debate ; but it 
is admitted by all parties that it will decide the existence 
of the Ministry, M. Viger presented to the Chamber on 
Saturday the report of the committee to which the bill 
had been referred for examination. He said that Ministers 
had justified the use to which they intended to apply the 
additional million claimed for that service, and that the 
majority of the committee had been of opinion that the 
Cabinet was entitled to their confidence, inasmuch as it 
had preserved abroad an | peace, and d 
the development of public property by maintaining order 
at home. It had accordingly rejected the reduction in 
the amount of the supplies moved by the minority, and 
recommended to the Chamber to grant the whole credit. 
The debate commenced on Wednesday and attracted an im. 
mense audience to the Hall of the Chamber of Deputies, 
every part of which was thronged. The diplomatic 
gallery was also filled. After some preliminary business 
the debate was opened by M. Ledru-Rollin, who com- 
menced by observing that’ if the Cabinet were subverted 
it would be the twenty-third since 1830, and then inveighed 
successively against the Principles, system, and persons of 
the Cabinet. M. Guizot was the particular object of his 
attacks, but he declared also against his predecessors, 
Count Molé and M, Thiers, and insisted that a mere 
change of persons would not satisfy the Opposition, who 
require a complete change of policy. M. de Gasparin 
followed in favour of the Bill, He addressed the House 
in such a way as to denote that the Cabinet are deter- 
mined on having a decided opinion pronounced upon their 
policy, and to prevent such harassing attacks being re- 
newed whenever any of the Bills they have introduced 
shall come under discussion, The debate, after a speech 
from M. Guizot, which produced great effect on the 
Chamber, was adjourned to Thursday. 
Algeria. —The official papers are completely filled 
with despatches from the Generals employed in Africa, 
including the Duke d’Aumale. These reports detail their 
operations in pursuit of Abd-el-Kader, who has once more 
escaped their grasp, and plundered such Arab tribes as had 
submitted to the French, while the French have plundered 
those which have yielded to the Emir. General Bugeaud 
admits that Abd-el-Kader is at the head of 2,000 horse, 
600 foot, and 3,000 Kabyles; and it was from this force 
that the French were recently obliged to seek momentary 
refuge in Cherchell. It appears from the late debate in 
the Chamber of Deputies on the additional demand of 
20,000,000 francs for the African possessions, that the 
present occupation of the country requires annually 
an expenditure of near 100,000,000 franes, the main- 
tenance of an army of near 100,000 men, 10,000 of whom 
perish every year, and that no less than 88,000 entered 
the hospitals in 1841. Several Deputies adverted to the 
fact, that all the attempts at colonizing the country have 
hitherto failed—that the army derives all its supplies from 
Europe—and that ‘ Algiers is to France but an abyss 
which swallows up her money and men, yields her no 
commercial advantages, weakens her in a political point of 
view, and is the worst school for her army.” 
Srain.—Our accounts from Madrid are of the 21st 
ult. The elections, which were to commence on the 27th, 
continue to be the all-absorbing topic of the day. The 
utmost uncertainty, however, prevailed respecting their 
result; and it was expected that those of Barcelona and 
Valencia would be carried by the Opposition. The 
Electoral Committee of Madrid had published an appeal 
to the citizens, in which it endeavoured to impress on 
them the necessity of proceeding in a spirit which might 
secure to the nation, in all its extension, the advantages of 
a truly representative Government. The Committee 
had drawn up a list of candidates for the province of 
Madrid, from which the names of Messrs. Gonzales, 
Mendizabal, and Arguelles, were excluded. This list, 
however, required the sanction of the districts previous to 
its adoption, and in two of them it had been burned by 
the citizens. Prince Jerome Napoleon, who intended at 
first to remain but a few days in Madrid, had made ar- 
rangements to stop three months in that capital. On the 
Sunday after his arrival he heard mass in the palace 
chapel, but the Queen was prevented from attending by 
indisposition. He was presented to the Regent on the 
19th, and had previously been visited by the French 
Minister and the Dutch Chargé d’Affaires. His residence 
in Madrid had given rise to many conjectures connected 
with the marriage of the Queen. These advices corrobo- 
rate the rumour that the Regent has insisted on the 
French Government recalling M. de Lesseps from Barce- 
lona, threatening to withdraw the ewequatur of the Consul 
unless the demand be complied with. The official Gazette 
publishes, by order of the Minister of Finance, the terms 
of the public auction of the quicksilver mines of Almaden 
and Almadenejos, which are to be adjudicated at Madrid 
on the 28th inst. These mines are to be farmed for four 
years, from the 20th Sept. next to the 19th Sept., 1847. 
The contractor will be held to advance to the Treasury, in 
ten ive monthly i i 50,000,000 reals in 
current gold and silver coin. The reimbursement of the 
50,000,000 reals will be effected in the four years, at the 
rate of 12,500,000 reals annually. There is little doubt 
that M. Rothschild, the present contractor, will endeavour 
to renew his lease; although another great capitalist, M. 
Fould, of Paris, has arrived at Madrid, with the view, it 
is supposed, of bidding at the auction.—The Barcelona 
ournals of the 19th ult. contain a proclamation of the 
iptain-G al Seoane, ing to the inhabi 
that tranquillity and order being then completely restored, 
he had thought proper to raise the state of siege imposed 
upon Barcelona and its suburbs on the 4th December last, 
to reinstate the civil authorities in the exercise of their 
respective functions, to dissolve the military commission, 
and to direct that the prosecutions pending before that 
tribunal should be tried by the ordinary courts of justice. 
Later accounts, by way of Perpignan, state that the city 
was again in a state of extreme agitation, in consequence 
of a resolution of the Provincial Deputation annulling the 
Municipal Elections, which had terminated favourably to 
the Opposition. 
Porruean.—We have Lisbon news to the 21st inst., 
informing us that Lord Howard de Walden has received 
instructions from England to break off the negotiations 
for the tariff convention; the British Government not 
being disposed to accept the last Portuguese proposals, 
or to lose further time in negotiations. The Portuguese 
appear to have anticipated this result; and, while keeping 
up high duties to protect their manufactures, the Fishery 
Company are striving to conciliate the Douro interests by 
grants of public money. The bill endowing a privileged 
company, with one-half the present export duties on Port 
wine, has passed the Chamber of Deputies almost unani- 
mously. ‘Chis company will have an income of 150 contos, 
or about 35,0007, a year, which it is to spend among the 
Douro wine-growers, taking 20,000 pipes of their inferior 
wines at higher prices than they now get, and disposing 
of them as it best can. ‘The proposal to give the com- 
pany the monopoly of brandy, at the cost of the exporters, 
and of the other provinces of Portugal, was rejected by a 
majority of 3, the Ministers voting for it, but not making 
it a ministerial question, A new tax will have to be im- 
G 
posed to supply the deficit caused by making over the 
150 contos of present revenue to the company. The 
French privilege question is expected to be amicably 
Settled. The affair of the Gloria slaver will be arranged 
by the Spanish Government buying in the vessel and pays 
ing the original fine. : 
