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at a late hour this morning, when the House divided, 
negativing the motion bya majority of 115. 
The leading feature in our foreign news is the announce- 
ment that the long-pending differences between France 
and Spain have been satisfactorily adjusted, the Spanish 
Government having formally disavowed the imputations 
made against the French Consul by the political chief of 
Barcelona. The Regent has also excused Barcelona from 
the payment of the remaining sum due on the war con- 
tribution, and has ordered the state of siege to be raised. 
It is expected that this act of clemency will restore tran- 
quillity to the city, and that the municipal elections will 
now take place without interruption.—We have accounts 
of another insurrection in Portugal, the inhabitants of 
Oporto having resolved not to pay the new taxes, which 
had been somewhat rigorously levied. A collision has 
taken place between the people and the military, in which 
the former were completely successful ; and apprehensions 
are entertained that the movement will spread to Lisbon, 
where the taxes are equally unpopular.—From the Levant 
we learn that a misunderstanding has occurred between 
the Turkish Cabinet and the Austrian Minister, who has 
refused to hold any communication with the Porte until 
he has received instructions from his Government. The 
British Ambassador, however, has offered his services as 
mediator, which both parties have accepted, and there is 
little doubt that the affair will be satisfactorily settled by 
diplomacy. 
Wome News. 
_ Courr.—Her Majesty, Prince Albert, the Prince of 
Wales, and the Princess Royal, left Windsor Castle yester- 
day afternoon for Buckingham Palace, for the season, and 
arrived in town soon after three o’clock, by a special train 
on the Great Western Railway. Viscount Hawarden has 
Succeeded the Earl of Hardwicke as the Lord in Waiting ; 
Admiral Sir Robert Otway has succeeded Sir Frederick 
Stovin as the Groom in Waiting; and Viscountess Can- 
ning has succeeded the Countess of Charlemont as. the 
Lady in Waiting on her Majesty. 
Parliamentary Movements.—Mr. G. A. Hamilton has 
been elected Member for the University of Dublin, in the 
place of Mr. Justice Jackson; and Sir Samuel T. Spry, 
Knt., of Tregolls, Cornwall, has been elected Member for 
Bodmin, by a majority of 4 over Mr. Sawle, the Liberal 
candidate. It is rumoured that the Marquis of Donegal 
is about to present a petition against the return of Mr. 
Emerson Tennent for Belfast. 
Oficial Appointments. — Lieutenant - General Lord 
Seaton has been appointed Lord High Commissioner of 
the Ionian Islands. — Captain’ Sir Thomas Fellowes, 
-B., has been appointed Captain: Superintendent of the 
Victualling-yard and Naval Hospital, Plymouth, in the 
place of Capt. Coode, whose time of service has expired, 
—The Queen has been pleased to appoint William Garnett, 
of Lark-hill and Bleasdale-forest, Esq., to be Sheriff of 
the County Palatine of Lancaster for the year ensuing. 
Herbert Jenner Fust, Dean of the Arches and Judge 
Of the Prerogative Court, has been elected Master of 
Trinity-hall, Cambridge, vacant by the death of Dr. Le 
Blanc.—Mr. N. Clarke, of the Midland Circuit, and Mr. 
Byles, of the Norfolk Circuit, have been promoted to the 
dignity of Serjeants-at-Law. 
oreiqn. 
» Francu.—The Paris papers are chiefly occupied with 
domestic matters, and with speculations on the stability 
of the Ministry. The election of a deputy for the third 
district of Paris has concluded since our last report, and 
the result has been favourable to the Opposition, whose 
candidate, M. Taillandier, a Councillor in the Cour 
Royale of Paris, has been returned by a small majority— 
his votes amounting to 826, and those of M. Legentil, 
the ministerial candidate, to 805. This defeat was not an 
unexpected one, though it might perhaps have been 
avoided by the Conservative party concentrating their 
whole strength, on the first day, on one instead of two 
candidates. The journals announce increased activity in 
the ranks of the Opposition, who profess to hope that, on 
& question to be raised respecting the appointment of 
Admiral Roussin to the Ministry of Marine, they will be 
able to overthrow the Ministry. This expectation does 
not appear to have prevailed in political circles, more 
particularly as the Cabinet on Friday obtained some com- 
pensation for the defeat they sustained, the day before, in 
the third electoral college of the capital. The Chamber 
of Deputies proceeded to the monthly renewal of their 
bureaux, or standing committees—to the result of which 
much interest is attached at all times, but more especially 
When there is no question of any magnitude under dis- 
cussion. Out of the eighteen selections made on that day 
Ministers secured sixteen, and the Opposition ,only two, 
The more importance is attached to this advantage, as the 
committees thus organised will have to appoint the com- 
missions hat are to report upon the budget and secret 
police dan |. It would appear that, notwithstanding the 
recent long debate, ‘the Right of Search question 
will not be allowed to rest, but that explanations 
will be demanded from the Ministry, as to whether 
at the Ministry of Marine as colonists for the Marquesas 
On Thursday they sent a deputation with an 
offer of their services to the Minister of Marine, who 
replied that no plan had yet been adopted for the coloniza- 
tion of those islands.—The Journal des Débats states, 
that by a note attached to the budget of the Minister of 
Marine, it appears that Government demands an increase 
of 4,000,000f., to be applied exclusively to the military 
marine, which will increase the navy budget for the year 
1844 to 111,000,000f. The effective of the seamen will 
then amount to 30,872 officers and privates, and the effec- 
tive of the troops employed in the seaports and colonies to 
20,378 officers and privates. The fleet will be composed 
of 160 sail, divided into three classes. The first will com- 
prise 140 ships, of which 8 are ships of the line, 12 frigates, 
8 corvettes, 21 brigs, and 26 gunboats, mounting 2,000 
guns, and 39 tenders, measuring 20,000 tons. These 140 
ships are intended to be kept constantly at sea, and will 
protect French commerce,on the 11 following stations :— 
the coasts of the Peninsula, the Brazils, and ba Plata, the 
Pacific Ocean, the Antilles, Cayenne, Mexico, the coast of 
Africa, the Levant, Bourbon, Newfoundland, and Algiers, 
The second class comprises 16 ships laid up in ordinary— 
12 ships of the line and 4 frigates. A French periodical 
states that a Prefect of Corsica, M. Guibega, having lately 
examined the registers of the town of Calvi, has disco- 
vered in them the act of birth of Christopher Columbus, 
making him consequently a countryman of Napoleon, 
Hitherto Genoa, Savona, Cogoleto, Nervi, and Zuccarello, 
have all laid claim to the honour of being the birthplace 
of the great navigator.—A correspondence has been pub- 
lished between M. de Tocqueville and Lord B in 
reference to a passage in his Lordship’s speech in Parlia- 
ment, in which he attributed to the former gentleman 
“marvellous ignorance” on the subject of the Right of 
Search Treaties. M. de Tocqueville states that his speech 
was misreported, and that he was not ignorant of the 
facts adverted to. Lord Brougham, in reply, contends 
that, if this be the case, it was his duty to have given the 
information. to the French Chambers during the recent 
angry debate on the Address, and not to; have allowed 
erroneous notions to be disseminated. 
Algeria.—Accounts from Algiers of the 5th inst. state 
that the intelligence received from the interior of the 
Regency was of a satisfactory nature. General Changar- 
nier, who was to have returned to Milianah on the 3d, 
had chastised the tribes residing to the west of that town 
for their participation in the last insurrectionary move- 
ment, which was then completely appeased in the province 
of Tittery. The Governor-General, favoured by the 
weather, appears to have experienced no obstacle to his 
march. He was, by the last accounts, on the limits of the 
territory where the insurrection had originated. Abdel 
Kader had retired before him into the mountains bordering 
on the Desert. 
Spary.—The long-pending differences between France 
and Spain on the affairs of Barcelona have been adjusted, 
the Spanish Government having disayowed the imputation 
made by the ex-political chief of Barcelona, M. Gutierrez, 
against the French Consul, M. de Lesseps. The official 
Gazette of Madrid of the 10th inst. contains this disavowal, 
under the form of a letter addressed to the Minister of 
the Interior by the Minister of War, and of which the 
last paragraph is couched in the following terms :— 
‘* Consequently the Government. of her Majesty, which 
ever acts with justice and impartiality, deems it just to 
declare that the assertion of the Political Chief was not 
accurate, and had not, without doubt, any other founda- 
tion than the rumours circulated by persons flying from 
Barcelona—rumours which the inquiries of the Captain- 
General had dissipated.”” A telegraphic despatch, dated 
Perpignan, the 10th inst., had also been received, an- 
nouncing that the Regent has excused Barcelona from 
the payment of what remained due on the war contribu- 
tions. The journals of the 8th contain the letter of 
General Seoane to the Municipality and Chamber of 
Commerce, announcing the above intelligence. The 
editor of the Papagayo has been restored to liberty, 
and the state of siege was to beraised on the 12th. 
Prior to the arrival of this intelligence, the state of 
Barcelona had become more serious. The Muni- 
cipality had published a proclamation relative to the 
troubles of the 30th and 31st; but the Military Go- 
vernor had ordered it to be torn down, and he published 
another, much more peremptory. A conspiracy had been 
discovered in the fortress of Montjuich, and 12 sergeants 
were arrested. The inmates of the houses from which 
stones were flung on the soldiers, had all, to the number 
of 100, been arrested and sent to the citadel. General 
Seoane had addressed a despatch to the Government, dated 
the 30th ult., in which he describes the state of excitement 
prevailing in Barcelona, and which every moment threat- 
ened to lead to open revolt. He attributes that efferves- 
cence to the intrigues of “a class of individuals interested 
in fomenting fresh disorders ; ” ‘‘ for otherwise,” says the 
General, ‘‘ it is impossible to comprehend that a city dis- 
armed and garrisoned by 15 battalions, who could in an 
instant silence all clamour, should indulge in acts of that 
kind without any means of conquering, and with the 
certain prospective of being chastised in an exemplary 
manner. am q y pelled to take efficaci 
measures against those who, in the clubs, or by incendiary 
speeches or writings, appear to have undertaken the task 
of completing the ruin of this city.” The clemency of the 
Regent is expected to restore tranquillity ; and it is hoped 
that the municipal elections will take place without inter- 
ruption. Prince Jerome Napoleon, son of the ex-king of 
Westphalia, had arrived at Barcelona. A singular state 
of things exists at Madrid, where the citizens protest 
against the tendencies and falsehoods of the press, and 
make a-declaration in favour of the Regent ; whilst, on 
the other hand, the press menaces the Government, and 
utters the deepest imprecations upon General Seoane, 
cause, by jvirtue of martial law, proclaimed in conse- 
quence of the insurrection, he has suppressed the journals 
of Barcelona. 
PorruGaL.—We have accounts from Lisbon to the 
6th inst., with the particulars of some serious disturb- 
ances at Oporto, the people having resolved not to pa 
the assessed taxes, which had been somewhat rigorously 
levied. It appears that i iately after the publicati 
of the lists of the assessment of the Decima Industrial 
(Income-tax), a universal determination to disobey took 
possession of all parties, owing to the arbitrary manner in 
which this new impost had been levied. ‘The lists were 
torn down, and the inhabitants publicly expressed their 
intention of resisting claims made upon them which they 
were unable to bear. The authorities, actuated by fear, 
threw all the odium upon the Government, and a con- 
ference having been held betwixt the Civic Chambers 
and the Governor of the place, a proclamation was issued, 
announcing that the Home Government had been made 
quainted with the plaints of the people, and that the 
lists had been recalled for reconsideration. ‘This procla- 
mation was taken down and torn to pieces in the Praga of 
Don Pedro, amidst loud cries of ‘ Long live the Queen 
and Charter, and down with the Taxes.” At five in the 
evening a troop of cavalry arrived in the square, and 
formed in line, in readiness to charge upon the people. 
The scene which followed can scarcely be described— with 
the rapidity of lightning the whole mass fell upon the 
military, dismounted them, and scoutedjthem from the 
square, thousands of voices vociferating, ‘“ Long live our 
Queen,” ‘Down with the Ministry,” “ No Taxation,” 
“ Down with the thieves who are plundering us.” Shortly 
after a body of municipal infantry came into the square, the 
commander of which, upon seeing the attitude taken by the 
populace, prudently returned tothe barracks. At11 o’clock 
on the morning of the steamer’s departure, from the multi- 
tudes which were congregating from all quarters, a repe- 
tition of these scenes was expected. It is, moreover, to 
be feared, that Lisbon will also be the theatre of some 
similar commotion, as the new taxes are equally unpopular 
in that city. The distress of the Douro wine district is 
said to be extreme, and must finally compel the Govern- 
ment to cede to the views of England; and it is admitted 
by all, that their refusal regarding the tariff has brought 
upon them a universal feeling of distrust. 
GurMAny.—Accounts from Hanover received this 
week mention that great preparations are making for 
celebrating the marriage of Prince George of Cumberland. 
It was arranged that the festivities were to commence 
yesterday the 17th, with the entry of Princess Mary, and 
were to last, it is said, a whole week. Two operas were 
in course of rehearsal, and the manager is said to have 
composed a piece for the occasion. The magistrates were 
to have the honour of receiving the Princess at the tri- 
umphal arch erected at the gate. It is said that the King 
of Prussia and all the Princes. of the Royal. Family of 
Prussia have accepted his Majesty’s invitation to be pre- 
sent on the occasion. It is understood that the marriage 
of the Marquis of Douglas with the Princess Mary of 
Baden, will be solemnised this day the 18th inst. Letters 
from Berlin mention the death, in that city, at the age 
of sixty-six, of the Baron de Lamotte-Fouque, known 
through all the world of letters as the author of the beau- 
tiful legend of ‘‘ Undine.’? A letter from Vienna, in the 
Frankfort papers states, that Marshal Marmont was dan- 
gerously ill at Venice, from an attack of apoplexy. 
REECE.—Letters from Athens of the 21st ult. inform 
us that the long expected bankruptcy of the Greek 
Government has been officially announced, the Cabinet 
having notified to the representatives of the allies that it 
can no longer attempt to pay the interest of the guaranteed 
loan ; and this announcement, it appears, was accom- 
panied by a demand for further advances. It has also 
transpired that the Greek Government, in thus notifying 
its-inability to pay the allies, does not attempt to conceal 
the fact that it sees no prospect of being able to do so for 
years to come. _ Private letters state, in reference to this 
subject, that ‘It remains to be seen how people in Eng- 
land will like to be called upon, every six months, for 
twenty-five thousand pounds, to pay in reality for, King 
Otho’s new palace and its furniture, and to encourage 
him in pursuing that system of misgovernment by which 
he has not only driven to despair his own subjects but has 
disgusted Europe, which had reasonably expected very 
different results when Greece was erected into a kingdom.” 
Turkry.—The Levant mail has brought advices from 
Constantinople to the 29th ult. of considerable interest. 
A suspension of diplomatic communications between the 
Porte and the Austrian Court had just taken place, in 
consequence of some intrigues on the part of the Turkish 
Ministers, whereby the Austrian Steam Navigation Com- 
pany had for some time suffered, from the unfair compe- 
tition of the rival Armenian Company, who had prevailed 
on the Turkish Ministers to issue orders preventing the 
subjects of the Porte from embarking in the Austrian 
vessels on the Trebizond line, and raising other obstruc- 
tions, by which their navigation would have proved a loss. 
The Austrian Chargé d’Affaires had suspended hig rela- 
tions with the Porte, but Sir S. Canning had offered his 
Services as mediator, which had been accepted by both 
parties. The English and French Consuls at Belgrade 
have, in consequence of positive instructions from their 
respective Governments, formally recognised and opened 
relations with the newly-elected Prince of Servia.—We 
noticed last week the occurrence of two remarkable inno- 
vations in Turkish manners; we have this week the par- 
ticulars of another, which is thus given by the correspond- 
ent of the Morning Post :—* Last Saturday a juvenile 
Christmas party, or fancy ball, was given at the English 
palace, and invitations were issued not only to the Frank, 
Perote, and Armenian families, but, to the astonishment 
of every body, to those of respectable Turks. This experi. 
