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1843.] 
THE GARDENERS 
CHRONICLE. 
the upper valleys marching upon Balaguer. The Madrid 
journals contain no news from the South, but state that 
the capital continues tranquil. The officers of the National 
Guard had assembled, and made an offer of their services 
to the Government to defend Madrid, without the aid of 
the troops of the line, until order should be completely 
restored. Private letters announce that the leaders of the 
insurrection, despairing of subduing Espartero in the field, 
had hired a notorious spy, formerly employed by Ferdi- 
nand VIL., to assassinate the Regent, and he is positively 
asserted to have left Madrid for that purpose. 
PorruGat.—We have Lisbon news to the 26th ult, 
The news of the Spanish insurrection had produced 
considerable sensation in that city. The revolutionary 
press of Lisbon published the accounts with avidity, in 
the hopes of getting up a movement in Portugal, which, 
from various circumstances, it appeared somewhat diffi- 
cult to effect. The Chambers, about to close their long 
session, were occupied with the ways and means of the 
‘Finance Minister. The budget had been voted by the 
Chamber of Deputies, and also the authority to collect 
the taxes for the ensuing economical year. A mixed 
commission of both Chambers was about to decide on the 
fate of the Road Bill. 
Grrmany.—Accounts from the Rhenish provinces of 
Prussia state that the rejection of the Prussian penal code, 
by the Legislative Assembly of the provinces on the 22d, 
had been the occasion of joyous demonstrations at Cologne, 
Dusseldorf, and other towns. The houses of Cologne 
were illuminated at night, bonfires were lighted on the 
Surrounding heights, bands of musicians traversed the 
streets, and the National Hymn was sung in all the public 
Squares. In the evening the deputation of the Diet 
embarked on board two steamers, which were dressed with 
flags and illuminated with lamps of different colours to 
their masts’ ends. Everywhere along the road and at 
Dusseldorf, where the intelligence had reached by express, 
the deputies were saluted with lively acclamations. At 
Dusseldorf they were received with the greatest solemnity, 
the principal inhabitants came to meet them, and con- 
ducted them in procession to the Palace of the Marshal of 
the Diet, to whom they i the i 
resolution of the Assembly. The Marshal replied 
that the Government, whose good faith could not be 
questioned, had conceived it advantageous for the 
country generally to establish an uniform legislation 
throughout all the Prussian dominions, but the Diet hav- 
Ing ‘determined to maintain in its integrity the judiciary 
Constitution of the Rhenish provinces, he had no objection 
to oppose to that resolution. The Deputies then retired, 
and after partaking of a banquet to which they were 
invited by the citizens, they again returned to Cologne. 
The same accounts state with much satisfaction that, by 
a Ministerial rescript of the 14th May, the 50,000 rix- 
dollars granted by his Majesty towards the completion of 
Cologne Cathedral for the year 1843, are placed at the 
disposal of the committee. Letters from Berlin state that 
the Rev. Mr. Gerlach, who has been in England for some 
time for the purpose of making himself acquainted with 
the Liturgy of the English Episcopal Church, has now 
introduced in the Elizabeth Church in that city a new 
Liturgy, for which, however, he has not taken that of the 
English Church as a pattern. His principal object appears 
to be to forward good sacred music in the Prussian 
churches, and by these means to impress religion more 
Upon the mind of the congregation. 
ALTA.—The new cathedral will, it is expected, be 
consecrated by the end of the year; its internal fittings 
are already commenced, and benches are to be supplied 
to all instead of pews. It is confidently anticipated that 
her Majesty the Queen Dowager will be here to honour 
ith her presence the consecration of the building which 
she has so generously endowed. A singular phenomenon 
had appeared in the harbour of Valletta, the water suddenly 
‘ising to the height of three feet, overflowing the works of 
€ new dry dock ; it almost immediately fell five feet and 
a half: during this period a very strong current was run- 
ning out of the harbour, which the boatmen could scarcely 
Stem. It is supposed this circumstance must have 
Occurred through some earthquake at a remote distance, 
8nd it was reported that at Tripoly in Barbary several 
Severe shocks had been felt. 
Trary.—Letters from Rome state that the Pope is 
anxious to revive the ancient ceremony (so graphically 
described by Madame de Stael in her Corinne) of 
Solemnly crowning the greatest poet at the Capitol, and 
that he has offered this distinguished honour to Chateau- 
‘briand. The venerable author, however, has declined 
the intended honour, declaring that he did not belieye he 
ad done sufficient to deserve it. 
Turxry.—Accounts from Constantinople state that the 
Servian people met on the 17th on the plain of Topsidere. 
There was no election, because it was feared that the 
Presence of Wucsitsch and Petroniewitsch would invali- 
date it in the eyes of Russia. But every voice was for 
Prince Alexander Georgewitsch. It was arranged that 
the election should take place on the 3d inst. ; the Prince 
Alexander should go to the convent of Ragowitz, and his 
Ministers to Kragugewatch, there to await the now certain 
Tesult. ‘Redschid Pacha had recovered in some measure 
from his recent illness, and had been ordered to hold him- 
Self in readiness to proceed to his pachalic at Adrianople, 
& Journey which, in the precarious state of his health, it 
48 considered probable would be his last. 
f Ecypr.—The intelligence from Alexandria is of consi- 
erable interest. The Pacha had publicly declared that 
from a vancing years and infirmities he found himself 
Unequal to all the cares and necessary application incident 
to his Government, and that his successor Ibrahim bein, 
an invalid, it is his intention to associate with himself his 
grandson as wakeel, or assistant, with full powers to act 
on his behalf. This arrangement, though not looked 
upon as immediately mischievous, is pregnant with danger 
in the event of the Pacha’s death, because there has ex- 
isted between Ibrahim and Abbas a long-cherished and 
deadly hatred, and both parties have numerous and 
powerful partizans. The plague of locusts still continues ; 
in abatement of the evil the Pacha pays liberally for their 
collection, giving for them, to the Zellahs who collect, 
two piastres, or about 5d., for every two pound and three 
quarters, English weight, which they bring in. Depots 
for the issue of this reward are established all over the 
dountry ; in one depot alone there have been seen in one 
day 120 lbs. English weight of these destructive insects 
brought in and paid for. 
Inpra.—The Overland Mail arrived on Monday with 
accounts from Bombay to the 20th May. It started ten 
days before the usual time, in consequence of the approach 
of the monsoon rendering the navigation difficult from 
Bombay to Aden. The chief points of interest are con- 
nected with the proceedings of Sir C. Napier, in Scinde. 
It appears that Shere Mahommed, who was defeated at 
the battle of Fallalie, on the 24th March, had got over 
the river and incited some of the mountaineers of the 
Beloochee tribes to join his standard, and approach the 
banks of the Indus to within five or six miles of Hydera- 
bad, with an army amounting, it is said, to between 30,000 
and 40,000 men, with about 20 pieces of cannon. The 
motive which has induced him to adopt this rash step 
seems to be that of desperation, since he is said to have 
written Sir C. Napier to the effect, ‘that having fought 
two battles for his country, he must have one more for his 
religion !”” Another chief, Ali Mourad, who had joined 
the British, was no longer to be depended on. Sir C. 
Napier had given notice to the former to give up his 
useless resistance, or he would proceed to rout him. The 
15th of May was publicly mentioned as the date of the 
expected battle. Her Majesty’s 28th Regiment had left 
Kurrachee early in May, and were expected to reach 
Hyderabad before the 15th. The great portion of the 
Other troops were concentrated around Hyderabad, with 
the exception of one native regiment, which was stationed 
on the right bank. The season of the periodical rise in 
the Indus had begun, and it was much doubted if any 
continued operations could be carried on for some time, 
as the country is intersected with overflowing canals. The 
Bombay Government was most active in sending rein- 
forcements to strengthen Sir C. Napier’s position. The 
22d Regiment having been much weakened by the two 
victories of the 17th February and 24th March, had come 
to Bombay, from which station one wing of the 78th 
Hi ders had been dispatched to take their station at 
Kurrachee. The greatest efforts were made to open a 
communication from Bhooj to Oomercote, whence there 
is one maintained to Hyderabad. ‘The rush of water at 
the mouths of the Indus, and the blowing weather, will 
prevent all communications LNs that means for two or 
three months. “A considerable British force was collected 
at Sukkur, from which place some troops were proceeding 
to Sehwan. The ex-Ameers of Scinde, who had arrived 
at Bombay in April, have been located in different places. 
Shahdad, who is accused of being implicated in the 
murder of Capt. Ennis, has been sent to Surat, in order 
to be safely guarded in the castle. The other ex-Ameers 
have been sent to Sassoor, a fort formerly belonging to 
the Peishwar. The state of the Punjab was beginning to 
attract attention. Shere Singh, the third in succession 
to Runjeet Singh, who died about three years ago, had 
had a stroke of the palsy, and the sovereignty of his 
family was looked upon as likely to terminate with his 
life, as the British would have to interfere to keep down 
the rebellious portions of his kingdom. In Candahar 
there was, according to report, a new ruler in a Persian 
Chief : the Kuzzilbashes were also said to be all powerful 
in Cabul. Akhbar Khan was at Jellalabad, endeavouring 
to make arrangements with the Khyberrees for the passage 
of his father through their defiles from Peshawur. The 
Khytul disturbance was completely settled. The disturb- 
ances in Bundelkund have been nearly put down, notwith- 
standing the difficulties that attend mountain warfare. 
Lord Ellenborough, who is at Agra, expected to be enabled 
by other arrangements to bring about its complete pacifi- 
cation. The Somnauth gates have turned out to be made 
of pine, and not of sandal-wood. 
Curna.—The accounts from China come down to the 
28th March, but they contain little news of importance. 
Colonel Malcolm had arrived with her Majesty’s ratifi- 
cation of the Treaty; but ratifications could not be 
exchanged until Elepoo’s successor reached Canton, 
which it was hardly expected he would do in less than 
two months. It was said Sir H. Pottinger was about to 
publish the result of his negotiations, The new Tariff 
had been inspected by the principal merchants, and 
approved of. : he Plenip iary bandoned thi 
idea of proceeding to the northward; and it was reported 
that he had again urgently requested permission to retire. 
Colonel Malcolm was about to start again for England, 
to arrange some details which required a reference to the 
home authorities. The feeling of enmity against the 
English, so long prevalent at Canton, appeared to be 
gradually subsiding. The opium trade continued to 
flourish, and some clippers had even proceeded with their 
cargoes to the northward of Chusan. Several daring acts 
of robbery, murder, and piracy had been committed near 
Singapore ; fourteen Cochin Chinese had been committed 
for trial, for kidnapping women in Cochin China, and 
bringing them to Singapore for sale. Commercial trans- 
actions were much in the same state, but little else can 
be expected until the conclusion of the negotiations. 
Cuitie-From the Valparaiso Gasetie of the 16th, 
® 
17th, and 18th of March, received this week,‘we learn that 
that city has been the scene of a calamity such as has never 
before been equalled in Chili. Ata quarter past 8 P.M., 
on the 15th March, flames were first seen breaking through 
the roof of one of the naval stores. An attempt to break 
down the connexion between the burning edifice and a 
newly-built house having failed, the fire spread with the 
utmost rapidity, embracing a wide range, threatening to 
extend over the whole circumference, which it brilliantly 
illuminated. Great efforts were made to save the Custom- 
house, one of the finest buildings in the New World, by 
pulling down houses in its vicinity, and, fortunately, with 
success. On the other side of the place, however, where 
the fire originated, its progress was not arrested till it had 
destroyed the whole range of houses reaching to the sea. 
An attempt was made to arrest the conflagration by blow- 
ing up a store with gunpowder, but, the quantity of 
powder being insufficient, no result was produced but a 
slight earthquake, which increased the terror of the enor- 
mous crowd of spectators who occupied the pier, every 
street, the neighbouring heights, &., the boats and ships 
in the bay, whose masts and rigging were crowded with 
human beings. The crews of the vessels, both French 
and British, gave the most valuable aid by their courage, 
promptitude, and discipline. Prompt measures had been 
taken to repair the consequences of this calamity ; to 
collect in one place all goods rescued from the flames, 
and to make arr for the ption of business, 
which had been wholly interrupted. The damage is esti- 
mated at 400,0002. 
$Parliament. 
HOUSE OF LORDS. 
Monday.—The House went into committee on the Scotch 
Church Bill, when Lord CampseLu moved an 
his reasons for opposing the bill, both in form and substance. 
i i f Cottenham, in the 
Auchterarder case, was impugned by this bill, and he felt that he 
would be unworthy of the position which he held if he did not 
defend the reasons on which that judgment was founded. Asa 
declaratory bill, its practical effect would be to make the judgment 
good, but the reasons on which it was founded worthless—a 
which set aside their law as bad. In fact a clause ought to 
be inserted in this bill permitting the Auchterarder case to be 
re-heard. There was little probability that the bill would pass 
the House of Commons; but he was anxious that the House of 
Lords should pursue the right course, and not leave it to the 
ower House to correct its errors, If the Church was to be 
endowed with a power so enormous as this bill proposed to con- 
fer, it ought to be given by enactment and not by a declaratory 
‘w.—The Lorp Cuan: e i 
the judgments of the House of Lords unimpeached. The bill, 
however, was not at variance with the decision in the Auchter- 
arder case—a judgment in the reasons of which he entirely con- 
curred. It was only declaratory on one int—the right to 
object, not the right to decide, a point which had not been at 
issue in the Auchterarder case. Besides, it was not declaratory, 
but enacting on the right of the presbytery to decide, and there- 
fore, altogether, the bill was not opposed to the 
judgment.—Lord Correnuam remarked 
and the Earl of Aberdeen materially differed in the arguments with 
which they supported the bill —th pressing hi 
in the judgment in the Auchterarder case, and the other abandon- 
ing it as badin law. After repeating at considerable length his 
former arguments against the bill, he pointed out the inconsistency 
of making ene portion of it declaratory, and the rest enacting.— 
The Earl of GALLoway, in supporting the bill, cited opinions 
without the decency or justice of hearing the patrons in their 
own defence at the bar of the House. id, thes! 
any further with these declaratory words retained in it, he would 
move that the opini 
took place, on an amendment proposed by Lord Broucnam, to 
convert the bill from a declaratory into an enacting measure, 
which was rejected by 38 to 10. After some remarks from 
the Earl of Minto, the chairman reported progress. 
Tuesday.—In reply to the Earl of Minto, the Earl of ABERDEEN 
was called free teinds to the endowments of new livings.—The 
