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position. An attack on the city by the Government 
troops was hourly expected, and a fresh bombardment 
will no doubt take place before this second contest 
is decided. In. other respects, the state of Spain con- 
tinues to give rise to serious apprehensions. Saragossa 
has declared against the Government and in favour of a 
Central Junta, while a conspiracy for the same objects 
has been detected among the non-commissioned officers of | 
the garrison at Vittoria. The Elections, also, in the great 
cities have terminated in favour of the Opposition, and 
unless the provincial elections present a very different 
result, the Government will hardly be able to meet the 
Cortes. 
At home, the Repeal agitation has begun to assume 
another, and not less important character. In addition to 
the attempt made last week to identify the movement with 
the non-payment of rent and taxes, Mr. O’Connell in his 
speeches at Lismore has declared his conviction that the 
people and the clergy are going beyond him. He still 
promises that his Council of 300 will be in full operation 
before New Year’s day, but says that instead of agitating 
as heretofore he must now moderate, and that it has 
become his duty to regulate the vigour and temper the 
energy of the people. In Wales, the hostility to turnpike 
gates appears, for the moment, to have given way to 
attacks on private property, and the disturbed state of the 
country has suggested the idea of proclaiming martial law 
in the Principality. Several meetings of farmers have 
been held, at which they have condemned the recent out- 
rages, and adopted petitions to the Queen praying that 
the New Poor-law and the Tithe Commutation Act may 
be repealed, that free-trade may be adopted, and that the 
present Parliament may be dissolved,and another convened 
more likely to attend to the wants of the petitioners. 
Wome News. 
Courr.—Her Majesty and Prince Albert remain at 
Windsor Castle with the Princesses, the Prince of Wales 
being still at Brighton. Her Majesty and the Prince have 
taken daily drives during the week with the Prince and 
Princess of Hohenlohe Langenburgh, and on Monday and 
Wednesday Prince Albert and the Prince of Hohenlohe 
shot over the Royal preserves in the Great Park.—It is 
expected that the Court will leave the Castle in the course 
of next week for Claremont, to remain for about a week or 
ten days, in order that Prince Albert may shoot over the 
preserves of the King of the Belgians.—The Duke of 
Cambridge is, we understand, expected at Cambridge 
House from Germany the week after next. The Duchess 
will remain some weeks longer abroad.—Lord Hawarden 
has succeeded the Earl of Hardwicke as the Lord in 
Waiting, and the Countess of Charlemont has succeeded 
Viscountess Canning as the Lady in Waiting onher Majesty. 
Her Majesty's Belgian Exeursion.—A paragraph ap- 
peared last week in the Lxvaminer, stating, on the au- 
thority of accounts from Brussels, in a Belgian paper, 
that “the Queen of England and another personage had 
visited Waterloo incognito on the morning of the 19th.’ 
It has since been announced, on authority, that neither 
Her Majesty nor Prince Albert visited the field of 
Waterloo during their brief visit to Belgium. The mistake 
must have arisen either from the Brussels or the English 
paper misquoting the article they copied. This article 
originally appeared, we believe, in Brussels, and distinctly 
stated that ‘‘a person in the suite of the Queen of 
England,”’ &c.,—meaning the Earl of Aberdeen, who 
went there to visit the grave of his brother, Sir Alexander 
Gordon, who fell in the battle. 
Illness of Earl Grey.—We regret to state, that Earl 
Grey’s indisposition has increased since his arrival at 
Howick Hall, and that Sir Stephen Hammick is in at- 
tendance upon him. His lordship, among other unfa- 
vourable symptoms, has lost the use of his limbs; but no 
apprehensions of immediate danger are entertained, 
foreign. 
.France.—The Paris papers are principally occupied 
with the fortifications of Paris, which the joint protest 
of the Republi and Legitimatists against their arma- 
ment had again brought before the public. As yet, however, 
the people seem to view this outcry with apathy, as the 
real object of the fortifications must have long been gene- 
rally known.—A person named Becker was arrested on 
Friday, at his residence, in virtue of a warrant from the 
Prefect of Police, charging him with being one of the most 
activeand influential leaders of the communist plotdetected 
some days ago. A clandestine press was seized at his 
lodgings, which, according to all appearances, served to 
print the procl i of the pi . In 1833, 
the prisoner was sentenced to a year’s imprisonment for 
an offence against the person of the King.—The Minis- 
terial Journal des Debais has an article ona recent speech 
of Mr. Tyler, son of the President of the United States, 
in favour of Repeal, and observes, that “to do the 
als justice, their language is the most in- 
New Yor nee compared to that of the Radicals of 
garded as serious, we sh i inte- 
oat oF eet should deplore it even for the inte 
such language must at the same time totally ruin the cause 
of the Irish, by depriving it of its national character, in 
order to give it the uti ogee 
pp ofa Tm 
ment.’”’ In regard to Mr. O’Connell’s proceedings, the 
same journal has a remarkable article, from which the 
following are extracts :—‘‘ Every one must have remarked, 
that since the Queen of England, in proroguing Parlia- 
ment, expressed in the most explicit terms her indignation 
against the attempts made to produce a dismemberment 
of the United Kingdom, there have been Jess meetings in 
Ireland, many less monster speeches from Mr. O’Connell, 
and many less hurrahs for Repeal. The Queen’s speech 
has deprived him of his last chance of any longer abusing 
the simplicity of his auditory. Here commences the em- 
barrassment of the agitator ; he is in a dilemma where he 
cannot remain without danger, or leave without committing 
an act of madness. He sees himself at the head of an army 
whose number astounds him, and whose force threatens to 
turn against himself. Formerly he called meetings to 
pass reviews, and, as he said, to count heads ; at present 
he confesses that he only holds them to suffer the boiling 
courage of the Irish people to evaporate, who are asking 
him every day when he will lead them against the Saxons. 
Thus Mr. O'Connell, in place of agitating, seeks but to 
calm: he only wishes to find an issue to give a passage to 
the waves he has confined, and by which he fears to be 
carried off. No one better than himself comprehends 
this critical position: he knows better than any other 
that the first step made towards violence would be his 
destruction, and at the same time a sanguinary repression. 
He knows well that the repeal of the union is an insane 
dream—he knows that England, which is the stronger, 
will not grant it, because it would make her descend to 
the rank of countries of the third order—he knows that 
not only it would be the ruin of England, but that it 
would also be the ruin of Ireland, because the Irish 
people, in their present condition, are incapable of 
living and walking alone ; but it is because he knows all 
this, and knew it beforehand, that a heavy responsibility 
weighs upon his head. There are, we know, evils to be 
remedied, but the Irish themselves appear to oppose an 
obstacle to all reasonable reform. Mr. O’Connell has 
ventured his stake upon a dangerous card ; he has placed 
Ireland between Repeal and revolution. Repeal he cannot 
have ; and as to a revolution, if it were attempted, which 
God forbid | the attempt would infallibly conclude in an 
unfortunate and impotent revolt.’’—Some of the journals 
dwell at great length on the Duke and Duchess de 
Nemours’ progress through Burgundy on their way to 
Lyons, where they arrived on the 20th ; according to the 
Opposition prints their Royal Highnesses met with a 
very cold reception. At Macon, M. Lamartine, the poet, as 
chief of the Academy, prepared an address for the future 
Regent, which has been severely censured even by the 
Liberal papers. The following are extracts:—‘‘ Prince, 
you do us the honour of visiting us, and we receive you 
with cordiality. Welcome. You will meet with neither 
adulation nor insolence in our language. We will show 
merely dignity. We welcome yonr young Princess with 
somewhat more sentiment. The official harangues which 
greet you everywhere, tell you that France is fanatically 
attached to personal monarchy, to the royal power 
emancipated, to a throne predominating over other 
institutions; that France sees all the future in a 
dynasty, and places its trust in, the fortifications which 
guard it; and, in fine, that France thirsts after princes, 
and is weary of freedom. We are too full of respect 
to contradict this; but history will do it for usif you 
open its page. Our real sentiments are other. We 
recognise the services rendered by the King your father. 
Order and peace are the fruits of the first painful years of 
his reign. e are grateful. But in return he owes his 
throne to France. And France has immense wants. Be- 
hind the legal, the electoral France of only 200,000 citi- 
zens, there stands an entire people, which demands its 
place. If you wish this people to be monarchic, form a 
monarchy in its image,’ &c. The Ministerial journal 
combats, and even blishes these if which it 
does not seriously fear, because such vague demands of 
universal suffrage and uncourteous remonstrances flung in 
the face of Princes disgust the more moderate and large 
majority of French Liberals, The venerable M. Lacre- 
telle addressed to the Prince, in the name of the Literary 
Society, a very different speech, from which we make the 
following extract in reference to the Queen’s visit :— 
‘* Whilst your Highness was fulfilling your duties, the 
Chateau d’Eu, for ever consecrated in history, offered a 
great spectacle, a great promise to the world. In remote 
times, whose darkness the sacred volume alone has pene- 
trated, a King, the most renowned for wisdom, received 
the visit of a Queen who offers herself to our veneration 
by this homage alone, for it is all we know respecting her. 
Here it is a young, amiable, and highly-honoured Queen, 
who came to visit a Monarch whose wisdom, profound 
di t, an ble courage have triumphed 
over such painful trials and such formidable attempts on 
his life. The two greatest nations on the earth were repre- 
sented on this occasion. Their calm, and at the same 
time unlimited liberty, increases the majesty of the Sove- 
reigns. She does not on this occasion display her pomp, 
but her elegance and grace. The heavens, ocean, and the 
two shores are brilliant with the festivities. The senti- 
ment of the two Sovereigns is comprehended, and dilates 
all hearts. The object was to render more intimate and 
friendly the long peace which Europe has enjoyed. This 
is the representative Government in all its glory, since this 
peace is its work. To strengthen esteem by affection and 
by a free interchange of amiable and generous qualities,— 
this is what an august example ought to inspire the two 
people in whom the world will see every day more and more 
their arbiters and models.’’ The Prince replied,—‘‘ I 
thank you for having spoken in such noble terms of a 
recent Visit, because I see in that event an honour for my 
country and a favourable omen for all. I see in it an 
honour, because France, however great and glorious she 
tay be, and worthy of such homage, cannot remain indif- 
ferent to the visit of a young Queen, who has appeared on 
our shores as it were to demonstrate the providential link 
that connects two great nations. I regard it as a favour- 
able omen, because the union of two such powerful 
countries must accelerate the progress of humanity towards 
those happy destinies which peace makes it every day love 
more and more and better appreciate. I thank you for 
having afforded me an opportunity of giving utterance to 
a thought which was already in my heart, and I congra- 
tulate myself on concurring in the opinion of the illustrious 
writer to whom history has so often confided her most 
intimate secrets and her surest appreciations.’’—General 
Boyer, ex-President of the Republic of Hayti, landed at 
Havre on the 21st, on his way to Paris. M. Olozaga, the 
special ambassador from Spain, has arrived in Paris to 
demand, it is said, an armed intervention.—An authentic 
return has been made of the receipts produced by the per- 
formances of Mademoiselle Rachel at the Comédie Fran- 
caise since her début in 1838. The sum amounts to 
1,503,000f. This is at the rate of 4900f. for each repre- 
sentation.— Marseilles was visited on the night of the 15th 
with a most violent storm. The visitors to the theatre 
could not reach their homes until three o’clock in the 
morning. A house in the market-place was washed down, 
but no lives were lost.—The sale of the furniture, &c. of 
the too celebrated chéteau of Glandier, the late residence 
of Madame Laffarge, has just taken place, and it has re- 
vived the infatuation which all the newspapers in Europe 
have recorded. The most trifling articles have fetched 
the highest prices. The wedding dress of Mdile. Marie 
Capelle sold for 800f., and still excited envy; the Prayer- 
book she used at her wedding yielded 50f.; a mere sketch 
of her face fetched 25f.; some little albums, a few soiled 
pages of verses addressed to her, and other trifles, have 
attracted a crowd to Glandier for a whole fortnight. 
Spain.—Advices from Barcelona of the 22d state that 
an engagement took place on the 21st, between the insur- 
gent forces under Brigadier Ametler, and those of Bri- 
gadier Prim, Ametler had his head-quarters at Badalona, 
a town on the coast at two leagues from Barcelona, and on 
the Mataro road ; his vanguard occupied San Andres de 
Palamar. Prim attacked the latter, and completely 
routed the insurgents. The engagement lasted two days, 
and on the morning of the 22d Prim’s troops were masters 
of all the houses. He made 200 prisoners; the rest were 
killed, or fled. Col. Milans was wounded, Brigadier 
Ametler abandoned Badalona, and retired towards France. 
The suspension of hostilities in Barcelona mentioned in 
the last despatches, only lasted 24 hours. The citadel 
and Montjuich both fired on the 22d on the sea-gate and 
Atarazanas, but ceased firing after the retirement of 
Ametler. Brigadier Prim was hourly expected to attack 
the insurgents of Barcelona. The movement of Reus 
has failed, and the insurgents driven out by the in- 
habitants of the town have fled to the mountains. Vich 
and Puycerda have refused to submit to the Junta, 
and the National Guard have refused to march to 
the succour of those towns recognising the Junta. A 
great number of those who left Figueras have returned. 
The weather has been very severe in Catalonia, particu- 
larlyfon the eastern frontier, and in consequence of the 
floods all communications with France have been cut off, 
except by the Perthus road. Madrid was calm on the 
evening of the 20th, in spite of the impression produced 
by the rising of Saragossa, which has declared against the 
provisional Government,: and even against its Cortes, a 
movement having broken out there on the evening of the 
17th in favour of the Central Junta, The municipality 
and the national militia took part in it, and a Junta was 
formed without opposition. Letters from Vittoria, of the 
17th, mention that a pi had been di d in 
that city among the non-commissioned officers of the 
cavalry Regiment del Principe. Their object was to pro- 
claim a Central Junta. Seven serjeants had been arrested. 
At Madrid the elections are the great topic of the day ; 
the ‘* Progresista” party, or Anti-Ministerialists, are stea- 
dily gaining ground in the poll. Of the 7,000 or 8,000 
electors, not more than 2,000 had polled. The Govern- 
ment journals assert that the provincial elections will be 
more favourable to them. One of the powder magazines, 
at some distance from the capital, blew up on the 22d. 
Some workmen and guards were killed, but the city sus- 
tained no serious injury. The cause of this accident is 
not yet known. 
PortucGat.—Accounts from Lisbon of the 18th state 
that General Zurbano, who arrived on the 7th inst. at 
Oporto, was made a prisoner, and lodged in the castle of 
Foz. He was seized in the French hotel at Oporto, an 
had come in the packet from Vigo. An order, however, waS 
immediately forwarded from the Government for his 
release, and Zurbano is now in Lisbon, He is said to be 
greatly broken down by the distresses which he has e0- 
dured since he was driven from Madrid, and his spirits 
appear to be completely shattered.—Dr. Miller, of Kil- 
marnock, brother-in-law of Dr. Kalley, of Madeira, bas 
received a letter from the Foreign-office, in answer to the 
representation made by him to Lord Aberdeen, on heat 
ing of Dr. Kalley’s imprisonment at Funchal ; in whic 
it is stated that “her Majesty’s Minister at Lisbon has 
been directed to require that Dr, Kalley be liberated 0? 
bail, and his case brought before the Conservatori 
Court.”—An official notification has been received 0 
the formal installation of the Mixed British and Portu- 
guese Commission, under the treaty concluded last year 
for the suppression of the slave-trade, at Boa Vista, 0 
the Cape de Verd Islands. ‘This event took place on the 
7th June. The act of installation was signed by Mr. 
Rendall, Consul-General of England in those islands, by 
