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been laying down the law much too decidedly.—. 
your Camellias, 1, is the Double Red; 2, is C. myrtif ; 
anemonzeflora, of which 4 appears to be a smaller variety.t—— 
.—We cannot undertake to name plants not in flower. 
Those which we can distinguish are, 2, Lissanthe sapida; 3, A. 
Leucopogon; 4, one of the hybrid Correas; 8, appears to be 
Trymalium odoratissimum. |——M. A. G. P, B.—Your fruit is 
Vanilla, and the seed will not grow.t 
As usual, a host of letters has arrived too late for answers this week. 
NEWS OF THE WEEK. 
Tue occupation of the island of Tahiti by the French 
Government has been considered of sufficient importance 
to be the subject of discussion in both Houses of Parlia- 
ment. In the Lords, on Monday, the Marquess of Lans- 
downe cailed the attention of Ministers to the position of 
the English missionaries, to whom the natives of that 
and other islands in the Pacific are indebted for consider- 
able advancement in the arts of civilisation, He did not 
regard this acquisition on the part of France with unne- 
cessary jealousy, but he thought that the interests of the 
British residents should be protected. Lord Aberdeen 
concurred in the opinion that the establishment of the 
French in these islands is not likely to produce any in- 
jury to the commercial or political interests of Great 
Britain ; and stated that the French Government had 
given our Ambassador in Paris the most satisfactory 
assurances of ion and fg to the mis- 
sionaries. Sir R. Peel made a similar statement in the 
House of Commons, adding, that stipulations had been 
expressly made in the ion for the protection of all 
religious worship. Lord Campbell last night brought 
forward his motion, bodying a series of i 
on the subject of the Scotch Church. The dbject of 
these resolutions was to express the desire of the House 
to protect and confirm the Church in the possession of 
her legitimate privileges, but at the same time to uphold 
the system of patronage, and affirm the impolicy of con- 
ceding the claim of the Church to a jurisdiction in civil 
matters superior to the common law of the land. The 
motion was opposed by Lord Aberdeen, and withdrawn 
without a division. In the Commons, on Monday, a long 
and desultory debate took place in a Committee of Supply 
On a variety of miscellaneous votes, the discussion of 
which involved many questions of general interest. 
Several divisions took place on particular items, but the 
votes were ultimately carried by large majorities. On 
Tuesday, Mr. T. Duncombe brought forward his motion 
for a select committee to inquire into the alleged mis- 
conduct of the magistracy during the disturbances of last 
autumn. The motion was opposed by the Attorney- 
General, who contended that the conduct of the rioters was 
little short of high treason, and that if any charge should be 
brought against the Government, it ought to be that of hay- 
ing exhibited too much leniency in the prosecution of such 
offences. After an animated debate, the motion was ne- 
gatived by a majority of 164. On Thursday, Mr. Ferrand 
obtained leave to bring in a bill to compel the allotment 
of waste land in England, for the particulars of which 
we must refer to our Report. 
Our Foreign news is not of great importance. In 
France, the Ministry have again been successful in a divi- 
sion in the Chamber of Deputies on a motion for pre- 
venting deputies from accepting office or receiving promo- 
tion during the session; the motion was opposed by 
Government, and rejected by a majority of 26.—From 
Spain we learn that considerable uncertainty prevails in 
Tegard both to the actual results of the late elections and 
to the prospects of the Cabinet. A change of Ministry is 
confidently talked of at Madrid, and it is supposed that 
the Regent will find it necessary to modify the Cabinet 
before the assembling of the Cortes. — The ac- 
Counts from Lisbon are still unsatisfactory; the 
tariff question continues in an unsettled state, and 
business is in a great measure suspended by the 
consult some chemical friend, you will soon see that you aye 
M. C.—Oi 
_ Wncertainty in which it is involved.—The German news 
announces the determination of Austria to accede to the 
Customs Union, the Cabinet of Vienna having been con- 
Vinced of the political influence obtained by Prussia in 
Placing herself at the head of the Confederation. The 
Tesult of this measure, which is characterised in diplomatic 
Circles as a skilful manoeuvre, will be to transfer all ques- 
tions relating to the tariff to the Diet at Frankfort, the 
Tesidency of which belongs to Austria.—The Levant mail 
rings further accounts of the disputes between Turkey 
nd Russia on the affairs of Servia, but they add little to 
the information received by previous advices, 
Wome News. 
Woon. —Her Majesty, Prince Albert, the Prince of 
P ales, and the Princess Royal, continue at Buckingham 
enc and are in excellent health. On Tuesday her 
they and Prince Albert honoured the performance of 
bie ech plays with their presence.—Sunday was the 
Teed of his Royal Highness Prince George of Cam- 
tie Se. The Prince and the Duchess of Cambridge visited 
Pri, Majesty at Buckingham Palace. His Royal Highness 
ace Albert, and other members of the Royal family, 
ited Prince George at his residence in St. James's 
Palace-—The Viscountess Jocelyn has succeeded the 
Countess of Charlemont as the Lady in Waiting on the 
Queen; and Lord Byron and Captain Meynell have suc- 
ceeded Viscount Sydney and Captain Duncombe, as the 
Lord and Groom in Waiting on her Majesty.—His Royal 
Highness the Crown Prince of Wurtemberg and suite ar- 
rived in town on Thursday morning by the Netherlands 
steam-boat Batavier, from Rotterdam. The Prince has 
taken up his residence at Mivart’s Hotel, where he has 
beeh visited by different members of the Royal family. 
Official Appoiniments.—The office of Inspector of | 
Prisons, vacant by the death of Dr. Shortt, has been con- 
ferred by the Secretary of State upon Mr. J. G. Perry, 
surgeon to the Foundling Hospital, and late secretary to 
the Royal Medical and Chirurgical Society of London. 
Mr. Clark, son of Sir James Clark, physician to ber 
Majesty, and Mr. Cole, son of Sir Lowry Cole, have been 
appointed by Sir R. Peel to the two vacant situations of 
junior clerks in the Treasury.— It is announced on 
authority that there is no foundation for the paragraph 
copied a short time since from the Greenock Advertiser, 
stating that Mr. Thomas Pottinger was appointed Re- 
sident at Hong Kong.—The Marquess of Anglesea has 
received from her Majesty the gold stick of office as 
Colonel of the Royal Horse-Guards, vacant by the death 
of Lord Hill. 
Vi 
Parl ary —The rep ion of 
Nottingham, vacant by the decision of the committee 
which unseated Mr. Walter, is likely to be warmly con- 
tested. At a meeting of the electors on Saturday, Sir 
George Larpent and Mr. Gisborne were proposed, and 
after a show of hands the numbers were declared to be 
five to one in favour of Sir G. Larpent. Mr. Gisborne 
has since issued an address, announcing that he will stand 
if a majority of the electors desire it. ‘The Chartists have 
decided on bringing forward Mr.Feargus O'Connor, and the 
complete suffrage party intend, it is said, to propose Mr. 
Sturge.—Capt. Beresford has announced himself as the 
Conservative candidate for Athlone, in the place of Mr. 
Farrell, who was unseated last week by the Parliamentary 
committee, and Mr. Collett has come forward on the 
Liberal interest. The election was appointed to take place 
yesterday. 
Education, Science, and Art.—By a statement just laid 
upon the table of the House of Commons of the estimates 
for 1843-4, for the purposes of education, science, and 
art, it appears that there will be required for public edu- 
cation in Great Britain, 50,0007.; ditto in Ireland, 
50,0002. ; schools of design, 4,411/. ; Professors at Ox- 
ford and Cambridge, 2,006/.; University of London, 
5,1487. ; Universities, &c., in Scotland, 7,380. ; Roman 
Catholic College in Scotland, 8,9287.; Royal Irish Aca- 
demy, 300/.; Royal Hibernian Academy, 300/.; Royal 
Dublin Society, 5,600/.; Belfast Academical Society, 
1,9502. ; British Museum Establishment, &c., 32,5762. ; 
ditto buildings, 37,485/.; ditto purchases, 5,275. ; Na- 
tional Gallery—purchase of pictures and expense of the 
Gallery, 1,6002.; Museum of Economic Geology, 2,008/. ; 
and Scientific Works and Experiments, 4,0002. ;—the 
total for the year 1843-4 is 210,967. The total for 
1841-2 was 212,524/.; and for 1842-3, 210,8897. In the 
expense, therefore, of 1843, as compared with 1841, there 
will be an increase of 6,443/, ; andas compared with 1842, 
of 8,0782. 
Expenses of Public Departments.—The sums required 
for these services, for the year ending March 31, 1844 
will be—Two Houses of Parliament, 67,350/. ; Treasury, 
53,800 ; Home Department, 26,000.; Foreign ditto, 
66,2732; Colonial ditto, 25,5577. ; Privy Council-office 
and Office for Trade, 33,0002. ; Lord Privy Seal, 2,0007.; 
Payn General, 35,893/.; Comptroller of the Exche- 
quer, Paymaster of Exchequer-bills, and Paymaster of 
Civil Services, 18,413/.; State Paper-office, 2,5502. ; 
English Ecclesiastical C: issi 3,0002 ; Poor- 
Law Commissioners, 51,608/.; Mint, including coinage, 
50,9584. ; salaries and expenses of public records, 11,7751. ; 
inspectors and superintendents of factories, 8,880/.; 
offices in Scotland, 1,815/.; household of the Lord Lieu- 
tenant of Ireland, 6,464/.; Chief and Under Secretary’s- 
office, and Privy Council-office, Ireland, 22,2607. ; Pay- 
master of Civil Services, Ireland, 4,937/. ; Commissioners 
of Public Works, Ireland, 2,400/. ; Secret Service, 39,2002. ; 
printing and stationery, 232,533/. ; printing proclamations, 
&c., in Ireland, 4,950/. ‘The total expense for the year 
1843 will be 771,736/.; for 1841 it was 738,472/.; for 
1842 it was 760,167/. In 1843 there will, theretore, be 
an increase of 33,264/. as compared with 1841, and 11,5697, 
as compared with 1842. 
Royal Commission of the Fine Arts.—Several meet- 
ings of the Commissioners appointed to consider the de- 
corations to be adopted for the interior of the new Houses 
of Parliament have taken place during the Jast month, at 
all of which Prince Albert has presided. The following 
notice was issued on Saturday :—1. That the cartoons or 
drawings intended for competition, according to the no- 
tices published in April and July, 1842, will be exhibited 
in Westminster Hall, whither they are to be sent between 
the hours of ten and five on any day, Sunday excepted, 
during the first week in June next, when agents will be 
in attendance to receive them; but no drawing will be 
received after Wednesday, the 7th of June. 2, Each 
candidate is required to put a motto or mark on the 
back of his drawing, and to send, together with his 
drawing, a sealed letter, containing his name and address, 
and having on the outside of its cover a motto or mark 
similar to that on the back of the drawing. The letters 
belonging to the drawings to which no premium shall 
have been awarded, will be returned unopened. 3, The 
title of the subject of each drawing, together with the 
quotation, if any, to illustrate it, must be aflixed either to 
the back or front of the drawing. 4. Boh drawing is to 
be sent upon, or panied by, a stretch: 3 bu 
no ornamental frames, in addition to the stretthing-frame, 
will be admissible. 5. The artists, or their aguts, may 
attend to examine the works sent by them, ana to re- 
stretch such drawings as shall have been detached from 
their stretching-frames, and rolled for the convenience of 
carriage. 6. No drawing will be allowed to be retouched 
after having been received, except to repair an injury oc- 
casioned by accident, and then only by the artist himself. 
7. Every possible care will be taken of the works sents 
but in case of injury or loss, the commissioners will not 
be responsible. 8. All the drawings will be exhibited, and 
catalogues will be published. 9. The names of the judges 
appointed to award the premiums will be made known. 
Foreign. 
Francr.—The principal topics of interest in the 
Chamber of Deputies are the discussions on the motion 
of M. de Sade, for preventing deputies from accepting 
place, or receiving promotion, during the session; and on 
the propriety of a general reduction of postage on inland 
letters. The former question was disposed of on Thurs- 
day, when the motion was rejected, by 207 votes against 
181. In regard to the postage question, the Minister of 
Finance said that the negotiations for a reduction of the 
postage on letters between France and this country had 
made considerable progress, and were likely very shortly 
to yield a result which would facilitate the correspondence 
between the two countries, and promote the interests of 
both. With regard to the establishment of a moderate 
and uniform rate of postage in France, he admitted the 
simplicity and other advantages of a uniform postage, but 
contended that the increase of letters in England has not 
been, during the last two years, equal to the rise of the 
first year of the experiment ; and that the increased num- 
ber of letters has required a more considerable service, 
and that service is daily increasing—as it cost 750,0002. 
in 1839, and 938,000/. in 1842,—The papers give some 
further particulars of the manner in which the possession 
of Otaheite was accomplished. The English missionaries 
strongly opposed the native women going on board any 
vessels which arrived. The French admiral, says a letter 
from an officer of the frigate, most certainly would not 
have admitted the women on board, had not the English 
missionaries opposed it; but hearing that they did oppose 
it, the admiral had 100 women on board, dancing and 
feasting till a late hour—the result of which was, the 
acknowledgment of French supremacy.—It appears that 
so powerful an opposition to the Paris and Calais railroad 
treaty had been raised, that the affair was on Saturday 
nearly as far from being arranged as ever. The demand 
of the inhabitants of Boulogne, that the railroad should 
pass through their city, was resisted by the projected 
company, on the ground that the intercourse with Great 
Biitain alone would not indemnify the proprietors, whose 
interests required that the line should contemplate a union 
with that of Lille and Belgium.—The Quotidienne of 
Monday states that the Duke de Nemours narrowly 
escaped the same fate which befel the Duke of Orleans in 
July last :— Driving in a low carriage drawn by four 
horses, one of the leaders fell, which caused the carriage 
to be overturned ; but the Duke previously jumped out, 
and fortunately escaped unhurt.’’—The commission for 
erecting the tomb of the Emperor Napoleon has decided 
that the baldachin of the altar in the church of the 
Invalides, with its gilded columns, shall be suppressed ; 
that the equestrian statue of the Emperor shall be erected 
on the Esplanade, and not in the Cour Royale, as designed 
by the architect; and that the figure of the Emperor 
shall be in his historical dress, and not in the Roman 
costume.—On Monday morning several persons of the 
suite of Prince Augustus of Saxe Coburg arrived at the 
Tuileries. The Prince is to take up his residence at the 
Palais Royal. It is stated in some of the German papers 
that, by the contract of marriage between this Prince and 
her Royal Highness the Princess Clementine, the bride 
the Prince 100,000 francs per annum.—The Magdalen 
y Canova, in the Aguado Gallery was sold at Paris on 
Tuesday for the sum of 59,500f., to the Duke de Sar- 
raglia. It is said that this treasure of art is to be taken 
to Italy.—Some excitement has been caused in political 
circles by a recent publication of Prince Dolgarouki, con- 
taining biographical sketches of the principal families in 
Russia. The Prince has incurred the anger of the Em- 
peror by this work, and has been summoned to return 
immediately to St. Petersburg.—The Echo of Chateaulin,in 
the Finisterre, gives the following details of some curious 
discoveries lately made at Crozon, in that department. 
The immense quentities of sand drifted away by the vio- 
lent winds of January, and which blocked up several vil- 
lages, left bare a solid hillock, of about thirty feet in cir- 
cumference. Some bones, observed on the surface, 
created an idea that it was an ancient tumulus, and in- 
duced the curious to explore it. It was soon found to 
contain a great number of skeletons, both male and 
female, in perfect preservation; and the north-west side 
had been exclusively appropriated to children. Various 
conjectures have been formed as to the origin of the 
tumulus, but the indications subsequently found, though 
few, give preponderance to the conclusion that it was 
Roman. These are two medals, or coins, one of silver 
which is not described, being perhaps too much defaced, 
and the other of copper, of the size of an obolus, frequently 
put into the mouths of the dead, under the idea of 
enabling them to pay Charon for their passage over the 
Styx. It bears on one face the name and effigy of the 
god Mars, and on the obverse, Romulus and Remus 
is to have an income of 300,000 francs per annum, and ~ 
