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inclination to turn back: this shows that the under petals are 
rather too long for a finely-proportioned flower. : 
As usual, a host of letters have arrived too late for answers this week. 
ie ST aiael a a, 
NEWS OF THE WEEK. 
Tur accounts from Spain announce the surrender of 
Madrid to the insurgents, after a brief engagement, in 
which the troops of the Regent under Generals Seoane 
and Zurbano went over to the insurgent army. Gen. 
Narvaez is therefore master of the capital, after a succes- 
sion of marches and counter-marches, manoeuvres and 
tactics, which have, perhaps, n0 parallel in military his- 
tory. The triumph of the insurrection and the defection 
of the troops have been so sudden and complete, that the 
most important events have been accomplished by other 
means than an appeal to force, and Spain has thereby 
been spared from the renewed calamities of civil war. 
The movements of the Regent are still involved in uncer- 
tainty, and are explained only by the supposition that he 
had no confidence in his troops. According to the last 
accounts, he was in the neighbourhood of Cordova, appa- 
rently retiring within the frontier of Portugal. The future 
policy of the iusurgents is of course the object of great 
anxiety, more especially in reference to the proceedings of 
the Christino party in Paris. Their avowed exultation at 
the present crisis of affairs leaves little doubt that the 
recent movement originated in the French capital, where 
the plan of future operations is already talked of without 
reserve. According to these rumours, the restoration of 
the Lopez ministry, the declaration of the Queen’s majo- 
rity, and the choice of the Duc d’Aumale as the husband 
for her Majesty, are likely to be the first measures of the 
party now in power.—From France, we learn that the 
Repeal agitation, set on foot by the Republicans of the 
capital, has made but little progress, and is indeed dis- 
countenanced by the leading papers. Mr. O’Connell’s 
speech, repudiating the necessity of interference, has had 
considerable influence in producing this result; and 
there is some doubt whether M. Ledru-Rollin, the Repeal 
delegate, will now visit Dublin. The Chamber of Peers 
on Saturday voted the Ministerial Budget by a large 
majority, but postponed the Government bill for the 
Tours aud Orleans railroad to next session. The two 
Chambers were formally prorogued on Monday by Royal 
ordonnance.—From Italy, we learn that the long-pending 
treaty of commerce between Great Britain and Naples. 
has been signed and forwarded to London for ratification ; 
and from Turkey we have the confirmation of the 
statement that Prince Alexander Georgewitch has 
been unanimously elected Sovereign of Servia.—From the 
United States we regret to learn that the Columbia 
steamer, which we announced last week as having run on 
shore at Seal Island, has been totally lost. The crew and 
passengers were all saved, and have arrived at Liverpool 5 
and a great deal of the property on board has also been 
secured. For the details of the accident, which appears 
to have been altogether unavoidable, we refer our readers 
to our Foreign news. 
At home, however, another steam-boat accident, more 
v in its Y is reported under our 
Provincial intelligence. The Pegasus steamer, from Hull 
to Leith, has been lost on the Fern Islands, near the 
scene of the well-known wreck of the Forfarshire steamer, 
and all her crew and passengers, with the exception of six 
persons, have perished. The particulars are fully given 
in another part of our Paper, and will be read with melan- 
choly interest. In Parliament, during the week, the 
proceedings have been mostly of that routine character 
which always indicates the approach of the close of the 
Session. The Irish Arms Bill and Lord Lyndhurst’s Bill 
for legalising Irish Marriages have been passed in the 
Commons, and several other measures mentioned in our 
Report have been advanced in their respective stages. It 
is generally expected that Parliament will be prorogued 
early in August. 
Wome News. 
Courr.—Her Majesty and Prince Albert, the Duke 
Ferdinand, Prince Augustus and Princess Clementine, and 
Prince Leopold of Saxe Coburg Gotha, honoured the 
Italian Opera-house with their presence on Saturday 
evening. The Queen and Prince Albert, and the Duke 
Ferdinand of Saxe Coburg Gotha, attended divine service 
on Sunday morning in the Chapel Royal, Buckingham 
Palace. On Monday the Prince Augustus and the Princess 
Clementine, the Duke Ferdinand and Prince Leopold, 
Inspected the suite of state rooms in St. James’s Palace ; 
after which they went to St. Paul’s, the Tower, and the 
British Museum, and spent a considerable time in that 
institution. Their Royal and Serene Highnesses and 
suite also went to the Reform Club, and were conducted 
through the establishment. In the evening of the same 
day the Queen gave a state ball at Buckingham Palace, 
which was attended by the King of Hanover, the other 
members of the Royal family, and most of the nobility 
and gentry now in town. The Queen opened the ball in a 
quadrille with Prince George of Cambridge, having as a 
vis-d~vis the Princess Clementine and Prince Albert. On 
Tuesday her Majesty and the Princess Clementine vi 
the Zoological Gardens in the Regent’s-park. Prince 
Ss 
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Albert, the Duke Ferdinand, and the Princes Augustus 
and Leopold, accompanied the Queen and Princess on 
horseback. 
Ferdinand, and Prince Leopold, honoured the Italian 
Opera with their presence in the evening. On Wednesday, 
Prince Augustus and Princess Clementine, the Duke Fer- 
dinand and Prince Leopold, visited the British Institution, 
the Exhibition of the Society of British Artists in Suffolk- 
street, the National Gallery, and W nitehall Chapel ; they 
afterwards accompanied her 
the Thames Tunnel. On Thursday, her Majesty and her 
Royal guests visited Claremont and Bushy-house ; return- 
ing to Buckingham Palace in the evening.—The King of 
Hanover honoured the members of the Carlton Club with 
his company at dinner on Si urday evening, and after- 
wards Ipft town for Kew. His Maj isited the Queen 
Dowager at Bushy-park on Sunday afternoon, and gave 
a dinner-party in the evening. His Majesty came to town 
on Monday, and honoured the Marquess and Marchioness 
of Bly with his company at dinner, and afterwards went 
to the Qneen’s state ball. On Wednesday, his Maj 
honoured his Excellency Count Kielmansegge, his 
ter at this Court, with his company at dinner, and re- 
mained for the evening party. The Duke of Cambridge 
also honoured his Excellency with his company at dinner. 
On Thursday, the Ki ned with the Duchess of 
Gloucester, and in the evening honoured the Countess of 
Haddington with hi ompany.—The Prince and Princ 
cn 
of Oldenberg and family, and a numerous suite, quitted | 
Brighton on Monday for Worthing. His Serene Highness 
left Worthing for Goodwood on Tuesday morning, but 
returned in the evening. His Highness has visited the 
races each day. 7 
Representative Peer.—The election of a Scottish 
Representative Peer, in the room of the late General 
Lord Forbes, took place on Tuesday week in the Palace of 
Holyrood, when Lord Polwarth was unanimously elected. 
Parliamentary Movements.—Mr. Bright, the member 
of the Anti-Corn Law League, has been returned for 
Durham by a majority of 73. The numbers at the clo 
of the poll were as follows :—Mr. Bright, 488; Mr. 
Purvis, 410: majority for Mr. Bright, 78. 
Duchy of Cornwall.—The gross revenues of the Du 
for the year ending December 31, 1842, were < 
13s, 43d. 3 salaries and expenses 12,8331. J3s. 44d., 
leaving 20,1007. for the Prince of Wales. 
The Royal Navy.—The navy at the present moment 
consists of 230 vessels of all descriptions, mounting 3,471 
guns, viz.: 3 yachts, 14 sea-going line-of-battle ships, 31 
| frigates, 35 sloops of war, 34 smaller vessels, 68 steam~- 
vessels, 25 surveying-vessels (including 9 steamers), 9 
troop ships, 1 hospital ship, dnd 10 stationary guard ships. 
Our force at home consists of 780 guns; Mediterranean, 
53; Brazils, 451; Hast Indies, 566; Cape and Coast of 
Africa, 293; North America and West Indies, 315 ; Par- 
ticular service, 232; Surveying, 120 ; Troop-ships, 58 ; 
Lakes, 3; Total, 3,471 guns. This is an augmentation of 
8 vessels, but a reduction of 384 guns, since the com- 
mencement of the year. 
Royal Parks.—¥rom a return of the public money 
expended upon each of the Royal parks during the year 
1842, and just published by order of the House of Com- 
mons, it appears that, upon Hyde, St. James’s, and the 
Green Parks, there has been expended 16,6802. ; on Re- 
gent’s Park 5,1502. ; on Greenwich Park, 1,316; Rich- 
mond, 6,155/.; Hampton and Bushy, 4,059; Windsor 
Great Park, 16,3427.; Windsor Home Park, 8632. 3 
Royal Stand, stables, and kennel for stag-hounds, 2667; 
and on the Phoenix Park, Dublin, 8,647/.; making a gross 
total of 59,4782. 
Post-Office. — For some time past the Postmaster- 
General has been negotiating with the directors: of the 
different railways for extending the delivery of the Post- 
office twice a day by the morning and evening railway 
trains, to many parts where there is only one delivery 
daily, and. even every other day. With respect to the 
mails to Scotland, the north and west of England, and 
Treland, arrangements are nearly completed that will be 
highly beneficial to the public by an expeditious delivery 
of their letters and newspapers. The following towns 
have been added to the list of the morning mails within 
the last few days: Andover-road, Bishop’s Stortford, 
Cambridge, Folkstone, Gateshead, Newcastle, Northum- 
perland, North Shields, Ricksmansworth, Ryde, Saffron 
‘Walden, South Shields, Sunderland, and Ware. 
British Museum.—The returns just published by order 
of the House of Commons relative to the financial condi- 
tion and recent improvements in this ist t, show 
that the total receipts during the past year, including the 
Government grant of 30,0002, amounted to 37,2637., and 
that the total actual expenditure forthe same period stood 
at 34,032/., leaving a surplus sum in the treasurer’s hands 
of 3,230. The receipts on account of the Bridgewater 
and Farnborough funds amounted to 5171, and the esti- 
mated amount of Parliamentary grant required for the 
services of the current year w 32,5761., a considerable 
portion of which would be required for the new buildings 
and improvements. The number of persons admitted to 
view the general collections during the past year 
amounted to 547,718, being an increase over the previous 
year of « 8,344, and the number of visits. made to the 
readiig-rooms for the purpose of study or research, was 
71,706, being an increase over the corresponding year of 
2,403. ‘The number of visits by artists and students to 
the galleries of sculpture had been 5,627, and the number 
of visits to the print-room 8,781. The average number 
of readers is 245 a day, the number of deliveries of MS. 
to whom, exclusive of illuminated volumes, amounting 
during the last year to 19,727. The Parliamentary grant 
proposed to be voted for the present year is 32,5767, 
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Majesty and Prince Albert to | Couper ; the Rev. 
Church Preferment.—The Queen has been pleased to 
make the following appointments to benefices vacant by 
Her Majesty and Prince Albert, the Duke | the late Secession in the Scotch Church:—The Rev. 
Hogh M‘Diarmid, M.A., to the church and parish of Cal- 
lander, Perth, in the room of the Rev. P. Robertson ; the 
Rev. W. Mearns, to the united churches and parishes of 
Kineff and Caterline, Kincardine, in the room of the Rev. 
T. Brown; the Rev. R. W. Fraser, to the church and 
parish of Burntisland, Fife, in the room of the Rev. D. 
C. Smith Adie, to the church and 
parish of Edzel, Kincardine, in the room of the Rev. R. 
Inglis; the Rev. G. Ritchie, M.A., to the church and 
parish of Jedburgh, Roxburgh, in the room of the Rev, 
J. Purves ; the Rev. G. Blair, to the church and parish of 
Monzie, Perth, in the room of the Rey. J. R. Omond ; 
| the Rev. J. G. Wood, to the church and parish of Ren- 
| frew, in the room of the Rev. D. M‘Farlane ; the Rev. 
| A. R. Bonar, to the church and parish of Fogo, Berwick, 
| in the room of the Rev. J. Baillie; the Rev. D. Martin, 
to the church and parish of Dunnichen, Forfar, in the 
room of the Rev. D. Ferguson; the Rev. A. Cunningham, 
to the church and parish of Crailing, Roxburgh, in the 
room of the Rev. A. Milroy ; the Rev. R. W. Watson, to the 
church and parish of Logie, File, in the room of the Rev. 
A. Melville; the Rev. W. Carrick, to the church and 
f Kilbride, Lanark, in the room of the Rev. 
ff; the Rey. G. Murray, to the church and 
parish of Girthon, Kirkcudbright, in the room of the Rev. 
| parish of Borgue, Kirkcudbright, in the room of the 
| F 
.—The second report of the arch- 
bishops and bishops forming the committee appointed to 
act in concert with Government for the erection and en- 
dowment of additional bishoprics inthe colonies, gives 
the following statement of receipts and expenditure to the 
end of June, 1843 :—Special fund: donations and sub- 
| scriptions for New Branswick, Ceylon, Cape of Good 
| Hope, South Australia, China, New Zealand, Tasmania, 
and Gibraltar, 4 . 14s. 1d. General fund: 60,2497. 
13s. 4d. The expenditure, including 32,5002. invested in 
Exchequer Bills and other Government Securities, has 
902. 18 
ors respective spheres of labour. The 
Bishop of New Zealand (Dr. Selwyn) had completed the 
first visitation of his diocese, and reports favourably of 
the progress of religion in these settlements. The Bishop 
of Gibraltar, having resided some weeks at the metropolis 
of his see, and for a considerably longer period at Malta, 
and, having nominated an archdeacon for the general 
aperi of ecclesiastical affairs in each of those 
places, is now engaged in visiting the several cities in 
which the English congregations have been gathered 
together in the islands and on the coasts of the Mediter- 
ranean. Already he has exercised the functions of his 
office at Athens, Smyrna, and Constantinople, where, 
although there are. considerable congregations in com- 
munion with the Church, no Anglican bishop had ever 
before been seen. The, Bishop of Tasmania (Van 
Diemen’s Land), who sailed for his diocese at the end of 
February last, undertook to remain for a few days at the 
Cape of Good Hope, in order to administer the rite of 
0 ation. The committee have determined on appro- 
priating a large portion of the fund remaining at their 
disposal, namely, the sum of 20,000/., towards the endow- 
meat of a bishopric in New Branswick The contribu- 
tions from New Brunswick, in aid of this object, amounted, 
at the date of the last despatches, te 2,150. The Bishop 
of Australia, though lately relieved from the care of New 
Zealand and Van Diemen’s Land, is still charged with the 
administration of a diocese too large for his effectual 
| superintendence, and he has, in a recent communication, 
pleaded earnestly for the erection of a distinct bishopric 
in the thriving settlement of Port Philip. The Bishop of 
Calcutta has also recommended the subdivision of his own 
enormous diocese, by the erection of a bishopric for the 
nortbern provinces of India. The committee intend, in 
the. first place, to recommend to her Majesty’s Govern- 
ment, as soon as the adequate endowment shall have been 
secured, the erection of a separate bishopric for the pro- 
vince of New Brunswick ; afterwards for the other im- 
portant colonial settlements, in the order suggested by the 
joint considerations of their intrinsic claims, the offers of 
assistance, and the probability of success. 
The Chinese Expedition.—A parliamentary return just 
published shows that the sums paid or to be paid on 
account of the war with China, amount to 2,879,873/., of 
which sum 804,964/. are required to be voted in 1843-44, as 
balance due to the Hast India Company. Another return 
states that 1,281,211/. 13s. 5d. will be required to make 
good to certain holders of opium surrendered in China in 
March, 1839, the amount of compensation due to them 
under Art. 4 of the treaty of peace. The above amount 
however, includes a sum of 29,2897. 11s. 9d. as a claim by 
two Parsee firms, the settlement of which depends on 
further explanation. 
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France.—tThe great subject of remark in the French 
papers is Mr. O’Connell’s comments on the radical meeting 
at which M. Ledru-Rollin was deputed to visit Dublin. 
All of them concur in throwing additional ridicule on the 
proceedings in Paris (now so decidedly repudiated by the 
Repeal Association), ‘and recommend the matter to be al- 
lowed to die quietly away, 'The Wational publishes a third 
list of subscriptions in rancein favour of the repeal agitation 
in Ireland; this list amounts to 412f. 50c., making the 
total amount subseribed 1,137f. 50c.—The Chamber of 
Peers sat on Friday, and, despite the efforts of the 
