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he embraced them with a degree of feeling which excited | 
through the ranks an enthusiasm impossible to describe. 
The troops preceded him on the 20th to the number of 
6,000 infantry, two regiments of cavalry, and 15 pieces of 
artillery. It was believed that the Regent, after reducing 
Valencia, would establish his head-quarters in the village 
of Roda, on the road to that city. This position would 
enable him to communicate with the right wing of his 
army operating in Andalusia, under the orders of Generals 
Van Halen and Infante, and with the left wing com- 
manded by Generals Seoane and Zurbano, the former of 
whom had left Saragossa and reached Lerida. The Regent 
could not have left Madrid at a more favourable moment. 
The attachment and enthusiasm of the National Guards 
could not be greater, and is marked by an admirable 
address to their brother National Guards of the kingdom, 
advocating the Constitution of 1837, Isabella II., the 
Regency of Espartero during the Queen’s minority, and 
public order. All the officers met on the 18th, and 
took upon them to watch over the tranquillity of 
the capital and the safety of the Queen. ‘The Alcal- 
es, or municipal chiefs, were to exercise in turn the 
duties of political chief, whilst Evariste San Miguel, as 
captain-general, and Colonel Lemeri, as governor, were 
to exercise the military command. It was reported that 
the Regent had conferred the title of Count of Montjuich 
and the rank of Major-General on Colonel Echalecu, to 
recompense him for his loyalty to the Government. This 
gallant officer has resisted all attempts to seduce him from 
his allegiance, and has made the Barcelona fortress a 
second time the key of the destinies of Spain. The in- 
surgent leader offered him 100,000 dueros if he would 
surrender. In reply to this, he threatened to bombard 
the town, if troops marched from it to attack those of the 
Regent. Colonel Prim is said to have 50,000 men, of all 
kinds, under his command, which he has mustered at 
Molina del Rey, six miles from Barcelona, where there is 
a bridge over the Llobregat. The two roads, that from 
Madrid and Valencia, unite as they cross this bridge, which 
is thus an important position. It is said by the last 
accounts that he has succeeded in giving a check to 
General Zurbano, in this position, and has captured 60 
prisoners in a charge. Zurbano is also reported to have 
ordered the Governor of Montjuich to bombard Barce- 
lona the moment hostilities commence in the city ; but, if 
the recent advices be true, Zurbano has placed himself in 
great peril by an injudicious advance upon Barcelona 
Without the support of General Seoane, and has even 
offered to capitulate. His troops are said to have refused 
to fire on the insurgents, and it is supposed that he must 
surrender at discretion. We learn also that General Van 
Halen arrived before Granada, and began the bombard- 
ment on the 16th; but the result is not yet known. 
The Espectador of the 21st states, that on the 14th ult. 
General Alvarez had entered Malaga, and that the insur- 
Tectionary Junta had fled, carrying with them 80,000 
Pplastres, extorted from the citizens. Corunna and Burgos 
are said to have declared for the insurrection. 
PorruGat.—We have Lisbon news to the 19th ult. 
The committee of the Chamber of Deputies appointed to 
examine the Budget, had declared the ways and means 
recommended by the Finance Minister to be insufficient 
to meet the charges on the Treasury ; and having come to 
the lusion that it was impossible to carry retrench- 
ment to much further length, without detriment to the 
Public service, it had adopted the only other alternative, 
that of additional taxation ; and had, in consequence, 
recommended new taxes on salt, butchers’ meat, and new 
Wine for consumption in the country, independently of 
the new taxes proposed by Ministers, all of which the 
Committee adopts. By these additional taxes, and by 
Cutting down pensions and half-pay to 60 per cent. of 
their present amount, the committee calculates that the 
Ordinary deficit of the Treasury will have been provided for. 
Grrmany.--We learn from Berlin that several rehearsals 
have been held under the direction of the poet Tieck, for 
the performance of the Medea of Euripides, in the original. 
‘he music to the choruses are composed by Tauber, and are 
Said to be conceived in his happiest style. Baron de Bour- 
Soing,the French minister at Munich, has transmitted to his 
Overnment a statistical account of the progress made in 
the formation of railroads in Germany during the last year, 
being the complement of a work on the same subject 
published by him last year. Of this the following is a 
8eneral table of the results given in kilométres, each kilo- 
etre being equal to a quarter of a French post league :— 
Lines completed within the year: From Heidelberg to 
Karlsruhe, 62 kilométres ; Wolfenbuttel to Hurzburgh, 
3 Berlin to Frankfort-sur-’Oder, 54; Breslau to 
Oppein, 88; Prérau to Leipnick, 16; Vienna to Raab, 
80; Presbourg to Tirnau, 48; Leipsic to Altenburg, 40 ; 
Vienna to Stockerau, 26; Berlin to Stettin, 80; Berge- 
dort to Hamburgh, i6 ; Prague to Pilsen, 100. Total, 634. 
56; Ai -la-Chapelle to Liege, 80 ; Hanover to Brunswick, 
8; Vienna to Raab, 
Syoltenbuttel to Magdeburg, 104 Frankfort to Breslau, 
Venice, 400. Total 1,980.—Lines positively determined 
ane From Ulm to Friedichshafen, 120; Fribourg to 
asle, 80; Bessbach to Rhemchauze, 723 Frankfort to 
to Harburg, 160; Hanover to Bremen, 170; Ham- 
burg to Berlin, 250; Posen to Frankfort, 240 ; Vienna to 
Linz, 144; Budweis to Pilsen, 160; Budweis to Prague, 
144; Graetz to Trieste, 300; Stuttgard to Ulm, 100; 
Stuttgard to Heilbronn, 180; Stuttgard to Pforzheim, 40 : 
Total, 2,713. 
Russra.—It is now announced that the Emperor’s visit 
to Warsaw will take place late in July, or early in August, 
and that his Majesty intends to stay several weeks in that 
city, for the purpose of making himself thoroughly ac- 
quainted with the state of the administration.—The medical 
commission sent by the Russian Government to Egypt 
has just announced that the experiments made to purify 
by heat objects impregnated with the contagion of the 
plague have perfectly succeeded. They promise to show, 
by further trials, the eflicacy of caloric as a specific means 
of destroying the pestilential miasma.—Letters from 
Bessarabia state that for several months past nothing of 
importance had occurred in the line of the Caucasus. 
The Circassians had made several attacks on the Russians, 
but had not obtained any decisive success. Sometimes 
one party, sometimes the other had the advantage, but it 
may be assumed that on the whole, the loss of the Rus- 
sians is the greatest. They have very severe duty, as 
they are not secure by day or by night from the attacks of 
the mountaineers. Those corps suffer the most which are 
sent out to reconnoitre. Scarcely a day passes without 
one or more men being shot by the enemy, who lie in 
ambush. Meantime the Russians have erected several 
forts, and it is believed that as soon as they have com- 
pleted a line of fortresses and entrenchments, as a basis 
for their operations, they will proceed to act on the 
offensive.—The Emperor has appointed M. Boutenieff 
special Ambassador to Rome, to settle the long-pending 
disputes with the Holy See.—The Augsburg Gazette of 
the 23d announces the arrest of Prince Dolgorouki, and 
the seizure of all his papers, immediately on his arrival at 
Cronstadt, where he landed on his passage to St. Peters- 
burgh from Paris, where he had published a book which 
had given offence to the Emperor, and to many powerful 
families in Russia. 
GruEcr.—Accounts from Athens of the 10th ult. state 
that great excitement prevails among all classes, as it is 
well known that a protocol on Greek affairs has been 
issued by a confe of the plenip iaries of the three 
Powers now sitting in London. ‘The object of this 
protocol is to demand payment of the interest due on the 
Greek loan, but it is evident that King Otho is resolved 
to obey no wishes but his own, as he has just named Col. 
Hesse Grand Master of the Ceremonies, the most impor- 
tant place at Court, in the room of Col. Soutzo, a Greek, 
and has also appointed another Bavarian officer to be one 
of his aides-de-camp. An additional cause of discontent 
is mentioned in the fact that the Greek corvette Amelia 
is arrived from Marseilles, with a cargo of lamps and 
chandeliers only, for the new palace, and that 14 new state 
horses have also arrived in another Greek man-of-war, 
rom Trieste. 
NITED StaTES.—The steam-ship Acadia arrived at 
Liverpool on Wednesday evening from Boston and Hali- 
fax, having sailed from the first-named place on the 16th 
and from the latter on the 18th ult., thus performing the 
trip in ten and twelve days respectively from the points 
of her departure. The papers by this arrival are filled 
with an account of the President’s visit to the cities of 
Baltimore, Philadelphia, New York, and other places, on 
his way to Boston, for the purpose of attending the 
Bunker Hill celebration on the 17th. Hisreception appears 
to have been cordial, but by no means enthusiastic, at least 
in New York. A great Repeal meeting of the Irish inha- 
bitants had been held in the Park, New York, to declare 
their sympathy with their countrymen in Ireland, and their 
determination to assist them in obtaining that measure. 
There were about 5,000 persons present, and some of the 
speakers threatened to invade Canada, and produce a 
revolution in that colony, in the event of Ireland being 
coerced. nother meeting, called for the same purpose, 
had been held at Buffalo ;. but it appears to have been a 
failure compared with the New York display. The seizure 
of the Sandwich Islands by Lord Paulet is severely com- 
mented on in connexion with this sympathy for 
Repeal, the parties knowing nothing at the time of the 
explanation which has since been given in the House of 
Commons by Sir R. Peel.—Important advices have been 
received from Cuba, announcing that a dreadful negro 
insurrection has broken out near St. Jago de Cuba, in 
mission to Abyssinia to open negotiations with the princes 
of that country, had returned to Cairo without having 
succeeded in their object. 
Cave or Goon Horx.—Letters from the Cape of the 
18th April mention the capture of three slavers. The 
first of these, the brigantine Esperanza, under Portuguese 
colours, was chased ashore and destroyed off Quillimaine 
on the 4th March; the Portuguese barque Desengano 
was captured on the 14th; and the Brazilian barque 
Confidencia, on the 17th of the same month, off Quilli 
maine, and sent into Simon’s Bay by H.M. ship Lily. 
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CampxELr, on the contrary, was surprised that the 
Lord Chancellor did not at once admit the Bill to be entirely 
additional duty on Irish spirits. —Lord Corrennam, in replying, 
expressed himself satisfied that the evils of which he complained 
would not long be permitted to exist.—The motion was then 
negatived without a division. 
On the motion of the E 
as an amendment, the omission of the wo! d and,”— 
The Earl of Anerpszen denied that the bill revived the veto, as a 
proof of which he expr 2 
land who would not be satisfied 
uke of WELLINGTON supported the bill, as being consonant 
with the legal decisions in the Auchterarder case, and as not 
recognising the principles of the veto.—Lor 
the Church which it did not previously possess.—The Lorp 
CHANCELLOR said that the question was one of 
relating to the Scotch Church, on which the opinion of 
Scotch lawyers was entitled to great weight. The bill had 
been submitted to the Lord Justice Clerk, who stated his 
own decided opinion, as well as that of the Judge Advocate 
speak authoritatively.—Lord DENMAN also admitted his incom- 
petence to speak authoritatively on a question of Scotch law. 
But he had been impresse: . the reasons which had been 
assigned for the appellate decision of the House of Lords 
in the Auchterarder case ; and when he found the noble and 
CAMPBELL re- 
affirmed his opinion, that the powers declared by the bill to 
which a great number of whites have been rs 3 
and many plantations ravaged, and buildings burned. The 
region of the island which is now supposed to be the prey 
of civil war, is exactly opposite St. Domingo, and many 
suppose that the movement is connected in some way 
with the negro republic of Hayti. Troops have been sent 
from Havannah, and although the particulars of the revolt 
have not fully transpired, it is believed to be very formid- 
able. It is now ascertained that the missing Texan 
schooner-of-war, San Antonio, has become a pirate, and 
is cruising in the West India seas. She has been recog- 
nised by two sailors off the coast of Florida. It is 
known that, on sailing a year ago, she shipped some very 
suspicious characters at New Orleans, and it is believed 
that a majority of the crew rose and murdered the officers, 
and then turned sea-rovers. 
Eeyrr.—Accounts from Alexandria of the 6th ult. 
still continued to extend at Alexandria. i 
had been declared on the 6th ult. A letter from Cairo, 
in the Augsburg Gawette, May 22d, states that the British 
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which it was read a second time. : 
Lord Brove#am, in very angry terms, complained of the Barl 
of Aberdeen for hurrying on the Scotch Chureh Bill when he was 
