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THE GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE. 
[JuLy 29, 
Minister of Public Works, postponed to next session the 
inisterial bill for the ion of a railroad between 
Tours and Orleans. Immediately after, the bill for 
enabling the Government to pay the interest due on the 
part of the Greek loan guaranteed by France came under 
discussion, and passed by a majority of 96 to4. On 
Saturday the Chamber voted the budget of receipts by a 
majority of 98 to 4. The two Chambers were formally 
closed on Monday by Royal ord e d 
in both houses was exceedingly small, and the whole cere- 
mony, which terminated with shouts of Vive le Roi, did 
not last five minutes.—As had for some time been ex- 
pected, the Monitewr publishes a Royal ordonnance ap- 
pointing Vice-Admiral Baron de Mackaw Minister of 
the Navy and Colonies, in lieu of Admiral Baron Roussin, 
who has resigned.—The domestic intelligence in the 
papers presents but few points of interest. A telegraphic 
despatch from Brest announced, on Sunday, the arrival 
of the Prince de Joinville and his young bride from the 
Brazils. They are expected immediately in Paris. The 
appeal of the celebrated Vidocq against the sentence of 
the Tribunal of Correctional Police, which condemned 
him to five years’ imprisonment and five years’ surveil- 
lance, came on before the Cour Royal on Saturday. After 
the speech of the Advocate-General, the Court, without 
even hearing Vidocq’s counsel, reversed the sentence. 
Vidocg was immediately set at liberty, and was warmly 
congratulated by his friends. General Alava, Aide-de- 
Camp of the Duke of Wellington in the Peninsular war, 
and afterwards Spanish Ambassador of Queen Christina 
at Paris, has just died at Bareges, aged sixty-four.— 
The Palais Royal, so famous some years back, is now 
every day losing favour with the public, and the numerous 
passages in the neighbourhood threaten it with complete 
lecay ; 18 or 20 arcades are now to let; 22 others are 
occupied by the vendors of ready-made clothes ; and some 
of the principal cafés and restaurants, the goodwill of 
which used to be worth 300,000f., have been closed 
because they did not clear their expenses.—At the first 
Chamber of the Civil Tribunal of the Seine on Wednesday 
week, the cause of ‘‘the Marquis of Hertford against 
Nicholas Suisse,’’ valet de chambre of the late Marquis, 
having been called on, M. Philip Dupin stated the case 
for the Marquis, who sought to recover the value of 
30,000f. French rentes, which had been placed in the 
hands of MM. Cailliez and Debague, bankers in Paris, by 
Nicholas Suisse. M. Dupin, in a long pleading, recapi- 
tulated all the facts as given in evidence on the trial of 
Suisse at the Old Bailey, and dwelt with much severity on 
the refusal of M. Cailliez to appear as a witness on that 
occasion, in consequence of which refusal he contended 
Suisse was acquitted. After an authenticated report of 
the trial of Nicholas Suisse before Mr. Justice Williams 
at the Old Bailey, had been read to the Court, the cause 
was adjourned for eight days to hear the counsel for the 
defence—A Toulon paper publishes the following letter 
from Mascara, July 5 :—‘‘Abd-el-Kader has again escaped 
the pursuit of our soldiers by an almost miraculous flight, 
thanks to the simplicity of his costume. The Spahis, who 
thought only of plunder, abandoned the principal per- 
sonage to strip the Emir’s physician, a Frenchman, who 
was richly dressed, and rode a horse splendidly capar- 
isoned, and yet this person puinted with his finger to the 
Emir, who was only ten paces off, tightening the girths 
of his horse. The day before yesterday the Emir in per- 
son was attacking tribes under the cannon of Mascara.” 
The Journal du Havre states that Messrs. Dean and 
Edwards, who have been employed to explore the 
eargo of the Télémaque, at Quillebeuf, are proceeding 
actively, but hitherto without much success. They have 
brought up thirty-one pieces of timber and some frag- 
ments of the hull, and have made attempts to raise some 
of the barrels, which were found partly imbedded in the 
sand, but they came to pieces on applying the tackle to 
them. Their contents were merely whale or palm-oil. A 
considerable nuraber of casks still remain to be examined, 
and it is believed that there are in the vessel several large 
cases bound with iron. 
Spearn.—A telegraphic despatch from Madrid, dated 
July 23d, announces that the troops of Gens. Narvaez and 
Seoane encountered euch other on the previous day, at 
Torrejon, and after an engagement of about a quarter of 
an hour, the soldiers of both armies fraternised. Gen. 
Seoane and the son of Zurbano were taken prisoners. 
Zurbano made his escape, and concealed himself in 
Madrid. The municipality was going out at the moment 
when the telegraph was despatched, to surrender Madrid 
unconditionally to the insurgent army. The Militia of 
Madrid were returning to their homes, and the troops of 
Brigadier Enna, which pronounced themselves, are in 
possession of the posts. It was expected that Gen. 
Narvaez or Gen. Aspiroz would enter Madrid at 5 o’clock 
with his division. This despatch may be regarded as the 
close of the first act of the eventful drama, whose result 
must now be regarded with the greatest anxiety. The 
triumph of military anarchy has been so sudden and com- 
plete, that it has effected at least one important object, 
in sparing Spain from the renewed calamities of a long 
civil war. In the singular contest we have had occasion 
to record during the last three weeks, in which, until now, 
no battle has been fought, in which an army has been 
driven out of Catalonia, and a place like Lerida captured 
without a shot being fired, in which everything has been 
done by marches an t rches, an 
tactics, the observer has been astonished at finding im- 
portant results accomplished daily by other means than 
those of force. What has lately been passing around 
Madrid and on the Saragossa road was truly curious. 
Several columns of both parties seemed to be closely 
following each other, and apparently mingled in 
an inextricable, manner, The marching of these 
columns, dovetailed, as it were, one with the other, pre- 
sented for some days one of the rarest and most interest- 
ing phenomena in the history of modern warfare. 
The protracted absence of the Regent from the scene 
where his political existence was at stake, is still altoge- 
ther unaccountable ; and it is now announced that he is 
retiring into Portugal. The army under Zurbano and 
eoane, which appears to have ‘‘ fraternised’’ with the 
corps under the insurgent generals who are now the mas- 
ters of Madrid after a single exchange of shots, are said 
to have doubted of the cause in which they were engaged, 
when they learnt that the Regent himself was retiring in 
the gorges of the Sierra Morena, at a moment when the 
capital, the Queen, his friends, his fame, and the safety 
of his supporters, all depended on his presence. His 
cause is now irretrievable, and the more because the change 
which has been effected in the destinies of the Peninsula 
is emphatically a military revolution; for it has been 
accomplished by unbounded corruption in the army, and 
by the energy of military adventurers. If there were ever 
any doubt that the movement originated in Paris, it would 
now be removed, by an announcement in the French 
papers of Tuesday, the significancy ef which is increased 
by the fact that the Duc d’Aumale has long been men 
tioned as a candidate for the hand of Queen Isabella. 
“ Queen Christina,’’ they state, ‘‘held a grandad levee in 
the Hotel de Courcelles on Monday, on the occasion of 
her birthday. The King, Queen, the Duc d’Aumale, 
the Duke and Duchess of Nemours, and Madame Ade- 
laide, successively visited the ex-Regent, and M. Guizot 
and Marshal Soult presented their homage to Her Ma- 
jesty.” ‘The Duc d’Aumale,’’ observes the Commerce, 
“was most gracious to all the Spaniards present in the 
salon of the mother of Isabel II., and even spoke to 
them in their native language.”—The daily papers give 
the following account of the manner in which the above 
intelligence from Madrid was received in Paris. As soon 
as the despatch reached the Government, M. Guizot went 
immediately to the Hotel de Courcelles, that he himself 
might have the pleasure of announcing the news to Queen 
Christina. Immediately afterwards an express was sent 
off with the news to King Louis Philippe, who was at the 
Chateau de Bizy. In the evening the ex-Regent threw 
open her saloons, and all the courtiers of her party, both 
French and Spanish, pressed forward to offer their con- 
gratulations. Next morning a council was held at her 
hotel, at which MM. Torenso, Zea, Castillio, Grimaldi, 
and several others, assisted. Itis said that it was deter- 
mined by the council that they should despatch a courier 
to Madrid with instructions for General Narvaez and for 
M. Martinez de la Rosa, who left Paris a few days ago, 
for Spain. Queen Christina and her councillors will 
wait the course of events before they leave Paris. It 
appears to be their intention to proclaim the Lopez 
ministry, with all its members, as a Provisional Govern- 
ment, charged to convoke the Cortes, and to cause the 
majority of Queen Isabella II. to be proclaimed, although 
her Majesty is only 12 years and 9 months old. 
PorruGaL.—By the Royal Tar steamer we have news 
from Lisbon to the 17th inst., where all was tranquil. 
Dissensions still prevail in the Cabinet respecting the 
measures to be employed for the prevention of any popu- 
lar outbreak, on which subject M. Costa Cabral and the 
Duke de Palmella are at issue. The Excise revenues are 
to be farmed out by public auction for three years, at the 
end of the present month. 
Grrmany.—We learn from Berlin that Prince Au- 
gustus of Prussia, uncle of the King, died rather sud- 
denly at Brandenburg, on the 19th inst. The Prussian 
Government, induced by feelings of interest for the com- 
merce and industry within the boundaries of the Customs 
Union, intends to send a commissioner to China, for the 
purpose of obtaining authentic information upon com- 
mercial matters, and also to establish a Prussian Consulate 
at Canton for the whole Chinese empire. M. Grube, of 
Dusseldorf, who is to be the Consul, was formerly em- 
ployed in the office of the Minister of State, the President 
of the Government at Dusseldorf. He is to have a salary 
of 8,000 dollars per annum, but he must remain three 
years at his post. After that, on his leaving, he or bis 
family are to have a pension of 1,600 rix-dollars.— 
Madame Caroline Pichler, one of the most popular novel 
writers of the age, died at Vienna last week, at the ad- 
vanced age of 74. Several of her works have successfully 
been introduced into our literature.—A letter from Pres- 
burg, of July 7, states that the Emperor of Austria, in his 
quality of King of Hungary, has just decided the long- 
disputed question of the religion of children sprung from 
mixed marriages. In answer to a petition from the last 
Diet, praying that parents of different religions might be 
freed from the obligation of bringing wp their children 
exclusively in the Catholic religion, his Majesty has 
ordered that children may be brought up as Protestants or 
Catholics, as may seem fit to the parents; and, in case 
they cannot agree, the children are to follow the religion 
of the father. This resolution, the letter states, caused 
great satisfaction in the city, and in the evening of the 
intelligence the houses were illuminated.—The Grand 
Duke Michael of Russia passed through Bamberg on 
the 21st inst., on his way to the waters of Kissengen. 
He would thence proceed to England. 
Jrary.—Recent letters from Naples announce that the 
Treaty of Commerce between Great Britain and Naples 
was signed on the 26th ult., and forwarded to London for 
ratification. 
Turxny.—Accounts from Constantinople of the 7th 
inst. state that a squadron of nine sail-of-the-line were on 
the point of putting to sea under the command of the 
Capitan Pasha, for the purpose, t was supposed, of 
making a demonstration on the coast of Greece and the 
European provinces of Turkey. Rifaat Pasha, the new 
Minister for Foreign Affairs, and M. de Titoff, the 
Minister of Russia, arrived on the Ist, by the Russian 
steamer Meteor. Namik Pasha, who had just returned 
from Bagdad, had been appointed President of the Council 
of War at Adrianople. Redschid Pasha was rapidly 
recovering from his recent attack of apoplexy. Accord- 
ing to advices from Teheran of the 7th June, the 
troops of the Khan of Bokhara had routed those of the 
Khan of Khiva, and taken possession of the town. 
Through the same channel we have reports similar to 
those received from India with respect to the fate of 
Colonel Stoddart and Captain Conolly, who, it is con- 
fidently asserted, are both alive to this day. The Con- 
stantinople news announces the termination of the Servian 
question, of which we had previous accounts through 
Germany. They confirm the statement that Prince 
Alexander Cara Georgewitch has been re-elected unani- 
mously, and that his Ministers, Petroniewitch and 
Wutschitch, whose banist was so phatically de- 
manded by Russia, have been permitted to remain in Servia. 
Ecypr.—Letters from Alexandria, of the 6th inst., state 
that the Pacha is still in that city, and apparently in 
better health, riding out every day in the environs, while 
Ibrahim Pacha remains apparently taking no interest 
whatever in what is going on, allowing Abbas Pacha, who 
for the last week has been there, to assume the pomp and 
cir of first aide-d » or wakeel, to his 
Highness. A new light has, however, been thrown upon 
this matter, perfectly consonant with the policy of these 
countries. Abbas Pacha has been for some time past 
intriguing and attaching to himself in Cairo, a large and 
influential body, the Oulemas, at once men of the law and 
ministers of religion, and consequently a powerful organ 
with a fanatic population; before these intrigues reached 
a point dangerous to the government and intended line of 
succession it was necessary to puta stop to them. It is 
said that Mehemet Ali and Ibrahim decided in concert 
that Abbas, under the immediate surveillance and sur- 
rounded by the spies of his grandfather, would be far less 
likely to do mischief than if left to himself in Cairo, and 
it is for that reason that he is brought to Alexandria. and 
will be kept there with the highest honorary title the Pacha 
has to bestow, with far less ability to do mischief than he 
had before, and with just as much real power as the Pacha 
may think it prudent to allow him. 
Unirep Srares.—We regret to learn by the arrival of 
the Margaret steamer; at Liverpool, on Sunday, under 
command of Captain Shannon, late of the Columbia, and 
bearing thé mails and passengers of that unfortunate 
vessel, that she has been totally lost ; fortunately every 
soul was saved, as well as much of the property on board 
the vessel. The following are the particulars :—The 
Columbia went ashore onthe 2d, about one o’clock, upon 
the Devil’s Limb (a solid rock), a mile and a quarter 
from land, and one-and-a-half from the lighthouse on Seal 
Island. From the thickness of the fog, nothing at a dis- 
tance was discernible, and quently it was impossibl 
to form any accurate judgment as to their particular situ- 
ation. For three hours, in this perilous predicament, 
their ultimate fate was a matter of most anxious solici- 
tude, and their impending danger continued to assume a 
more hopeless aspect. During all this time every exertion 
was making to lighten the vessel by throwing the coal, 
&c. into the sea: and with her engines, and every avail- 
able means, a continued perseverance was made to get her 
off, but without success. Alarm-guns were constantly 
fired, but unfortunately—from the ignorance of their posi- 
tion—at the side of the ship from the shore. About four 
o’clock, to their no little delight, a boat from the island 
made its appearance, and very quickly explained to them 
their position. The ladies were all immediately sent on 
shore; most of the other passengers remained until the 
next morning with the crew on board, for the purpose of 
rendering whatever assistance they could toward saving 
the ship from destruction. At every flood-tide the engine 
was put in operation with a view of backing her, but the 
impracticability of moving her may be perceived from the 
fact that she was so far up upon the rock as to 
draw at her bows five feet of water less than 
usual. 
and certain, 
the wind and waves, to become utterly destroyed. All 
the movables on board have been saved. The crew 
of the Columbia have been left at the wreck, and "hopes 
are entertained that. they will be able to remove a great 
part of the engines before she goes to pleces.—The Great 
Western and Hibernia have since arrived, the latter after a 
passage made within the almost incredible space of nine 
days. They bring accounts that the chief portion of Fall 
River was burned down on the Ist inst. It is computed 
that the loss of property amounts to 250,000 dollars, at 
least. Full River is well known by our coasters, for many 
vessels freighted with coal from Pictou and Cape Breton 
have disposed of their cargoes there. An angry feeling 
between the native and Irish citizens of the Unionis arising 
from the Repeal question. Mr, O’Connell’s denunciations 
of the slave-holders, and th d interference with 
them, when the opportunity arrives, have so excited the 
ire of the anti-abolitionists of Baltimore and Philadelphia, 
that they have resolved to suppress, if they can, the 
agitation of the complaints of Ireland in the States. At 
Charleston the Repeal Association have held a special 
meeting, at which several “indignation speeches’’ were 
pronounced against Mr. O’Connell, and then the Asso- 
ciation dissolved finally, distributing its funds to two 
Catholic charitable societies. The lovers of literature 
and admirers of one of its greatest living Zornaments, 
