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THE GARDENERS CHRONICLE. 
[Nov. 4, 
in " of the 
Prince Albert rode into the Park for the purpose of enjoy- 
ing a few hours’ shooting, but after a few shots he found 
the covers too wet to continue the sport, and returned to the 
Castle. In the evening the Grand Duke Michel of Russia 
arrived ona visit to her Majesty. On Tuesday Prince 
Albert accompanied his Imperial Highness to Eton College, 
where they inspected the library, schools, chapel, &c., and 
in the afternoon the Grand Duke took leave of the Queen 
and returned to town. On Wednesday morning her Majesty 
and Prince Albert walked for a short time on the terrace, 
and the Prince afterwards went out shooting in the Royal 
Preserves in the Great Park. In the afternoon Prince 
Alexander of the Netherlands, who returned to town on 
Saturday from Drayton Manor, the seat of Sir R. Peel, 
arrived at the Castle on a visit to her Majesty. His 
Royal Highness hunted with the Prince’s harriers on 
Thursday, and afterwards returned to town. His Royal 
Highness will take his departure for the Hague in a few 
days, after a sojourn of nearly three months in this 
country. The visitors to her Majesty this week, in addi- 
tion to the Princes mentioned above, have been the Saxon, 
Russian, and Netherlands Ministers, Baroness Gersdorff, 
Sir J. Graham, the Earl of Jersey, Sir H. Wheatley, and 
Mr. E. Stanley. Colonel Buckley has succeeded the 
Hon. Col. Grey as Equerry in Waiting on her Majesty. 
Colonel Wylde has succeeded Colonel Bouverie as Equerry 
in Waiting on Prince Albert. Sir F. Stovin has succeeded 
Mr. Ormsby Gore as Groom in Waiting on her Majesty, 
and the Hon. Misses Murray and Lister have succeeded 
the Hon. Misses Hamilton and Stanley as Maids of 
Honour in Waiting on her Majesty. The Duchess of 
Kent, accompanied by the Prince and Princess of Hohen- 
lohe Langenbourg, arrived at Frogmore last evening from 
Witley Court, where they have been on a visit to the 
Queen Dowager. 
The Grand Duke Michael. — After his return from 
the North, his Imperial Highness visited several of the 
exhibitions and public establishments in the metropolis ; 
among others may be mentioned St. Paul’s, the Colosseum, 
the Diorama, the United Service Club, the Glaciarium, the 
Chinese Collection, the establishment of Messrs. Mortimer 
and Hunt the silversmiths, the Model Prison, the cavalry 
barracks in Albany-street, and the office for regulating 
the clothing of the Army. His Imperial Highness also 
visited the stables of the principal dealers, and made 
selections from their different studs. On Thursday morn- 
ing his Imperial Highness embarked in the Black Eagle 
at Woolwich, under the usual salutes from the batteries, 
and proceeded to Rotterdam, on his return to Russia. 
The Duke de Bordeaux visited the Duke of Hamilton 
last week at Hamilton Palace. On Friday, H.R.H. visited 
Glasgow, accompanied by the Duke of Hamilton and Sir 
Archibald Campbell, of Succoth. After visiting various 
laces of interest in the city, H.R.H. returned to Hamilton 
‘alace. The Prince is expected to arrive in London about 
the 15th inst., prior to which he will honour the Earl of 
Shrewsbury with a visit at Alton Towers, where M. 
Berryer, the celebrated orator and member of the Cham- 
ber of Deputies, and other distinguished royalists, have 
arrived to meet his Royal Highness. 
The Colonies.—Intelligence has been received at the 
Colonial Office of the death of the Governor and Com- 
mander-in-Chief of the Gambia, Commander H. Frowd 
Seagrum, R.N., on the 26th August, in the prime of life. 
The deceased officer was the fourth son of the Rev. Mr. 
Seagrum, rector of Allbourne, Wilts, and had just 
assumed the government of that settlement. 
The Church.—An impression prevails that Archdeacon 
Lonsdale, Principal of King’s College, London, is to suc- 
ceed to the see of Lichfield. Some confirmation is given 
to this belief by the fact that a messenger from Sir R, 
Peel, with a pressing communication to the Archdeacon, 
arrived at the Savoy Chapel on Sunday afternoon, while 
the Rev. Gentleman was in the pulpit.—Anj/Order in 
Council, recently issued, directs that the six minor canons 
of Westminster Abbey shall each in future receive an 
annual stipend of 150/.—The Queen has presented the 
following clergymen to, benefices in the Church of 
Scotland, void by the late secession:—Rev. Alexander 
MacGregor to the church of Iona or Icolmkill, Argyll, in 
the room of the Rev. Donald M‘Vean; Rev. Alex. 
Mackeller to the churches of Bailechulish and Corran of 
Ardgour, Argyll, in the room of the Rev. J. M‘Millan ; 
Rey. Angus Martin to the church and parish of Snizort, 
in the Isle of Skye, in the room of the Rev. Roderick 
M‘Leod. Her Majesty has also appointed the Rev. J. 
Campbell to the church at Strontian, Argyll, vacant by 
the translation of the Rev. A. Mackenzie to the church 
of South Knapdale. 
Pensions.—We copy from the Atheneum the follow- 
ing letter from Sir R. Peel to Lady Bell, widow of Sir 
Charles Bell, the eminent surgeon :—‘‘ Madam,—I have 
had great pleasure in recommending to her Majesty that, 
in ideration of the high i of your lamented 
husband and the services rendered by him to the cause 
of science, a pension of one hundred pounds per annum 
for your life shall be granted to you, from that very limited 
fund which Parliament bas placed at the disposal of the 
Crown for the reward and encouragement of scientific 
labours. This pension, small in amount as it necessarily 
is, will perhaps be acceptable to you as a public acknow- 
ledgment, on the part of the Crown, of the distinguished 
merit of Sir Charles Bell.—I have the honour to be, 
Madam, your faithful and obedient servant, Robert Pret, 
—Whitehall, Sept. 2.’” 
Foreign. 
France.—The Paris papers, with few exceptions, 
comment upon the resistance which the clergy are oppos- 
is deriving some importance from the great displeasure 
expressed by the Government organs, the violent language 
of the Liberal prints, and the understanding which seems 
to exist between most of the prelates of France. The 
Bishop of Langres has just joined the Archbishop of 
Lyons and the Bishops of Belley, Chartres, and Chalons 
in disputing the exclusive rights of the University, and 
asserting those of the clergy to a participation in public 
instruction. This rising opposition on the part of the 
French Church is the more remarkable, as 12 of the 15 
Archbishops, and 47 of the 65 Bishops of France have 
been raised to their sees by the Government of the present 
king.—On Sunday, the Cabinet of which Marshal Soult 
and M. Guizot are the heads completed the third year of 
its existence—a very protracted one when compared with 
the duration of the Administrations that preceded it. 
The king marked his sense of its services by promoting 
most of the ministers to the highest rank in the Legion 
of Honour. It is said that Tuesday, the 26th December, 
is the day fixed for the meeting of the Chambers, and 
that the ordnance of convocation will be published on the 
15th inst. A rumour had been current that Admiral 
Baron Roussin, who held the navy department in the 
Cabinet, and resigned it some months ago, in conse- 
quence of ill health, died last week at Montpellier, but 
the report appears to be altogether without founda- 
tion. Baron Capelle, however, formerly Minister of 
Charles X., and one of the signers of the ordinances 
of July, 1830, died in that city on the 25th ult.—The 
Government have concluded a treaty of navigation and 
with the of the Wallis Islands ; 
asettlement in Madagascar is said to be determined 
on, and there is some talk of an intention to seize 
one of the ports of St. Domingo.—The Commerce 
announces that the superior committee of the for- 
tifications of Paris, in concert with the War-office, is at 
this moment preparing a statement which is not with- 
out importance ; it relates to the effective of the troops 
which are to compose the garrison, and likewise of the 
armament necessary for the detached forts of the capital. 
If this statement be true, it appears that the Parisian 
citadels will occupy in time of peace an army of 24,800 
men, which, united with the garrison of the military 
establishments of the continuous wall, as well as those of 
the interior of Paris, will form an effective of more than 
60,000 men to guard the city of Paris, and will be armed 
with 1,262 cannon, composed in part of 80-pounders and 
mortars, capable of throwing their projectiles into the 
centre of Paris. In consequence of the increase of troops 
demanded by the fortifications of Paris, it is also said to 
be in contemplation to augment the artillery and engineer 
force, as well as the Municipal Guard.—The journals 
mention the return to Paris of the young Duke de Mont- 
pensier, whom indisposition has prevented from attending 
the artillery exercises, for which he had repaired to Metz. 
Some of the papers discuss the probable marriage of the 
Duke d’Aumale to a Princess of Naples, for which pur- 
ose his Royal Highness is said to be now journeying 
through Italy. The Duke and Duchess de Nemours intend 
to leave Paris this week for England, on a visit to the 
Queen.—Le Journal des Chemins de Her announces that 
the directors of the Rouen and Havre Railroad Company 
have concluded with Messrs. Mackenzie and Brassey the 
most important contract ever made in France :—‘‘ The 
principal works on the Havre Railroad are the bridge of 
Rouen, seven tunnels of an extent of 6,500 yards, and a 
viaduct of 27 arches in the valley of Barentin, being 33 
yards in height from the arch to the centre, These works 
will cost from 13,000,000f. to 14,000,000f. They are to 
be entirely completed in May, 1846, The embankment 
and the tunnels are contracted for at a discount of 20 per 
cent. on the prices paid the same contractors for the Paris 
and Rouen Railroad. The cubic yard of embankment to 
be paid If. 25c. (1s. British), the superficial yard of tun- 
nelling 889f. (nearly 367. British).”—M. Horace Vernet, 
who had been commissioned by the King to execute a 
picture representing the capture of the Smala of Abd-el- 
Kader by the Duke d’Aumale, returned to Marseilles on 
the 23d, from Algeria, having visited and sketched the site 
on which that exploit was achieved. 
Sparn.—We have accounts from Madrid to the 26th 
ult. The Senate sat on the 20th, when the public and 
diplomatic galleries were crowded, in the expectation that 
M. Campuzano would put questions to the Cabinet re- 
specting the insurrections of Barcelona and Saragossa, and 
the circumstances that have led to them. The discussion 
took place, and M. Lopez, President of the Council, 
entered into a long vindication of the Government’s con- 
duct towards the two rebellious cities. He stated, in 
substance, that out of the 49 provinces of Spain only nine 
—Burgos, Salamanca, Toledo, Palencia, Girona, Lerida, 
Castellon, Barcelona, and Saragossa, had demanded a 
Central Junta, and that four of these provinces had de 
manded it previous, and five subsequently to the promul- 
gation of the decree for the convocation of the Cortes. 
M. Lopez then urged that the will of nineprovinces could 
not be suffered to prevail over that of the 40 others, and 
he expatiated on the disastrous consequences which the 
convocation of a Central Junta would have entailed. The 
passage wherein he referred to the dismissal of his Cabinet 
and to the insurrection which followed is worth quoting, 
because it alludes to the original cause of the fall and ex- 
pulsion of the ex-Regent. ‘I avail myself of this oppor- 
tunity (said M. Lopez) to confute another imposture which 
was at the time propagated in the Saragossa journals. It 
was alleged that Espartero had dismissed the Administra- 
tion of the month of May solely because it had proposed 
measures which he considered contrary to the welfare of 
the country. This is false—quite false. There was but 
one question, that of the dismissal of that favourite so 
ble state of the weather. | ing to the privileges of the University; and the contention 
much flattered ; andthe Administration dissolved on that 
question, because the nation must have been sacrificed to 
the power of one man.”—The Chamber of Deputies was 
constituted on the 26th, on which day the Government 
presented to the two Chambers an act demanding 
that the Queen should be declared of age. It was re- 
mitted at once to the committee for nominating commis- 
sioners. On the next day the Senate and the Chamber 
named the commissioners for examining the declaration of 
the Queen’s majority, all of whom were adherents of the 
present Government.—From the provinces we learn that 
the troops continued to fire upon Girona on the 28th; 
the town of St. John had been destroyed, and the battery 
buried under its ruins. At Barcelona the batteries of the 
city having thrown into Gracia a number of projectiles, 
by which several persons were killed, the Captain-General 
caused 1000 cannon-balls and grenades to be fired, on the 
25th, against the points occupied by the insurgents. The 
greatest disorder prevailed at Barcelona ; the Junta con- 
tinued to force open and plunder the stores of the cloth- 
i provisi ders, and coppersmiths.—A letter 
from Bayonne states that Gen. Concha cannonaded Sara- 
gossa on the 22d and 24th; that on the 24th the munici- 
pality came out and proceeded to Concha’s head-quarters, 
to arrange, if possible, the conditions of surrender. The 
terms which the Saragossans demand are, that there be 
no dissolution of the provincial deputation, the munici- 
pality, or the National Guard; and that the officers and 
soldiers who joined the movement be in no way punished. 
Gen. Concha has sent these terms up to the Government 
for consideration.—A letter from Carthagena of the 21st, 
mentions that at 4 a.m. on that day, a tremendous storm 
of wind and rain came on, and a water-spout burst there, 
which had done great damage. Seven large vessels 
had been sunk, some of them with cargoes on board, 
besides several smaller ones; the bodies of four persons 
drowned had been taken out. The water-spout burst 
against the barracks where the galley-slaves were 
confined, near the sea, and though the edifice was an 
extremely solid one, great part of the roof was car- 
ried away, but the town did not suffer much. Some trees 
were torn up in the Alameda, and some doors and timbers 
gave way.—From Cadiz we learn that Messrs. Abbinett 
and Sons, the divers of Gosport, have been licensed by 
the Government to recover the treasures of certain plate- 
ships, amongst which were the galleons sunk by part of 
Admiral Blake’s squadron, on the 19th Sept., 1656, off 
that port. The impossibility of ascertaining the precise 
spot where the wrecks were lying, either from documents 
in the Admiralty of London, or from the archives of 
Seville, created the necessity of minutely examining the 
bay, to the extent of ten square leagues—a task requiring 
much time and labour, the traditional indications of very 
ignorant fishermen and pilots presenting a tissue of fic- 
tions after a lapse of near two centuries. However 
guided by such slender materials, Messrs. Abbinett found 
a galleon wreck, consisting of heavy brass ordnance, in 
ten to twelve fathoms of water, which they slung with 
rope, sent up, brought on shore, lodging them safely in 
the Custom-house, to the great surprise of the natives, 
who deemed this feat impossible; and the Government 
speedily received the per centage it had reserved to itself 
from the appraised value, probably equally surprised a8 
the Spanish public,—this being the first bonus the Crown 
of Spain ever touched from such a source of novel reve- 
nue. Messrs. Abbinett subsequently founda galleon fully 
laden, but owing to the lateness of the season, they have 
thought it best to defer further operations till the spring. 
PorruGaL.—We learn from Lisbon that the attemp(s 
of the Opposition to get up a revolution during the ab- 
sence of the Queen and her leading Ministers in Alem- 
tejo had entirely failed, although the Municipal Chamber 
of Eyora had unexpectedly addressed her Majesty, in the 
presence of Senhor Costa Cabral, praying her to dismiss 
him and the rest of her Ministers. From a letter re 
ceived from Dr. Kalley, dated 7th Oct., it appears he was 
still in gaol, after ten weeks’ imprisonment. He gives 
some account of the attempts made to prevent the circu- 
lation of the Scriptures. Bail, it would appear, was stl 
denied him. ‘Some of Dr. Kalley’s friends in Madeira 
deem it almost providential that he is in gaol, as other- 
wise attempts might have been made to assassinate him. 
MANY.—We learn by letters from Wiesbaden of 
the 16th ult., that the Duke of Nassau escaped, about & 
week before, from great danger. He was himself steering 
his boat from Rudesheim to Bingen, when the wind rosé 
and upset it. The Prince was in the water, when som 
boatmen succeeded in saving him. On the 20th ult. 
two steam-boats on the Rhine, the Konig, going to Thal 
and the Leopold, going to Berg, came into contact in the 
dark, and the Leopold instantly sunk. No lives were lost 
though there were between 70 and 80 passengers on poard 
the Leopold; but all the luggage and cargo, including * 
travelling carriage, were lost.—The Frankfort Journal 
states that the King of Bavaria had authorized subserip- 
tions to be made throughout his kingdom for the bene! 
of the Germans who had been expelled from Greece-—— 
From Berlin we learn that the Archduke Albrecht, of 
Austria, is at present in that city on a visit to the King of 
Prussia. His Imperial Highness and numerous mem 
bers of the high nobility had been invited to the palace 
at Potsdam, to witness the performance of Shakspeare ® 
Midsummer Night’s Dream, which was not alone eml 
nently successful, but created the utmost sensation. 
was d for three ding nights—an unexadi 
pled event, and for all the three every place was inn? 
diately taken, The GSdipus Coloneus was to be brough! 
forward, the arrangement of the music being entrusted 
Mendelssohn and Bartholdy. A 
SwirzmrtANp.—The Swiss Helvetie of the 27th "con" 
tains a protest, sent by the Executive Council of Berne f© 
