THE GARDENERS 
CHRONICLE. 
(Dec. 16, 
ness inspected the progress of the paintings in the new 
summer temple at Buckingham Palace, and returned to 
the Castle tc luncheon. On Sunday morning, her Majesty, 
Prince Albert, and the whole Court attended divine service 
within the Castle. Her Majesty and his Royal Highness 
took their accustomed walking exercise in the afternoon, 
but the Prince of Wales and the Princesses did not leave 
the Castle in the ble state of the 
weather. On Monday morning the Queen and Prince 
Albert took their usual walk in the neighbourhood of the 
Castle. The Prince of Wales and the Princess Alice 
were taken a carriage airing attended by the Dowager Lady 
Lyttelton, and the Princess Royal was taken her customary 
morning walk on the Castle terrace and in the grounds 
about the Castle. Prince Albert in the course of the 
morning shot over the Royal preserves, and in the after- 
noon her Majesty and his Royal Highness promenaded in 
the grounds. Capt. Hall, who commanded the Nemesis 
iron steamer during the late war in China, attended at the 
Castle to present a collection of Chinese guns and swords 
to her Majesty. On Tuesday morning the Queen and 
Prince took their usual early wali in the precincts of the 
Castle, and in the forenoon went to the Riding-school and 
took equestrian exercise. On Wednesday morning the 
Queen and Prince Albert took their usual walk in the 
pleasure-grounds of the Castle. The Royal family were 
taken for their usual airings during the favourable parts of 
the day. Prince Albert hunted with his harriers,which threw 
off at Ankerwycke and had tolerable sport, In the after- 
noon the Queen held a Court and Privy Council at 
Windsor Castle. At the Court M. Ribeiro, on a special 
mission from the Emperor of the Brazils, was presented 
to the Queen by the Harl of Aberdeen. The Rev. Dr. 
Lonsdale was presented to her Majesty and did homage 
upon being appointed Bishop of Lichfield. Mr. Bankhead 
and Mr. Pakenham were also presented on their return 
from their diplomatic offices. General Sir Peregrine 
Maitland, who has been appointed Governor and Com- 
mander-in-Chief of the Cape of Good Hope, took the usual 
oath appointed to be taken by the Governors of her 
Majesty’s plantations, and Mr. Pakenham was sworn in 
as.a Privy Councillor, Some decisions of the judicial 
committee were approved and confirmed. On Thursday 
Prince Albert shot over his estate at Rapley accompanied 
by Sir Robert Peel. The Queen and his Royal Highness 
afterwards took walking exercise in the pleasure-grounds 
of the Castle. The visitors to her Majesty this week have been 
the Earl of Aberdeen, Sir R. Peel, Prince Edward of Saxe 
Weimar, M. Ribeiro, the Bishop of Lichfield, the Hon. 
and Rev. E. Keppel, Mr. Pakenham, Mr. Bankhead, Sir H. 
Wheatley, and Lords Melbourne, Beauvale, and ,Lincoln. 
Queen Dowager has returned to Witley Court 
from Gopsall Hall, where her Majesty made a brief 
sojourn on her return from Belvoir Castle. Itis rumoured 
that her Majesty will take up her residence in the neigh- 
pourhood of Bristol during the ensuing’ summer, and that 
gotiati for the p ion of Ashton Court haye been 
already entered into. 
The Duchess of Gloucester has made such favourable 
ogress during the week that the last reports announce 
her Royal Highness as ‘ nearly well.’” 
The Duc de Bordeaux left town in the beginning of 
the week for Badminton on a visit to the Duke of Beau- 
fort. His Royal Highness returned to Belgrave-square 
on Wednesday, and held his 13th levee in the evening of 
that day, which was attended by all the French Royalists 
now in London. On Thursday H.R.H. visited the 
Zoological Gardens. The Prince leaves town on Monday 
for Wales, and will'return to Belgrave-square on the 23d, 
and remain a fortnight longer in England prior to his de- 
arture for the Continent. It is now arranged that his 
Rasal Highness will return on the 23d, in order to spend 
Christmas-day in London, when his tour will be resumed 
to view Birmingham and our principal seaports. 
Lord Grey.—The local papers state that the indisposi- 
tion of Earl Grey has increased so much during the last 
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present the Rev. J. Flowerdew to the parish of Fordoun, 
Kincardine, vacant by the resignation of Dr. Leslie; the 
Rev. A. Rutherford to the church at Rothiemurchus, 
Inverness, vacant by the transportation of the Rev. C, 
Grant to the parish of Kingussie ; the Rev. J. Whyte to 
the united parishes of Lethnot and Navar, Forfar, vacant 
by the admission of the Rev. A. Gardner to the second 
charge in the parish of Brechin ; and the Rev. J. Park to 
the united parishes of St. Martins and Cambus Michael, 
Perth, vacant by the admission of the Rev. W. Ritchie 
to the parish of Longforgan. 
The Colonies.—The Queen has been pleased to appoint 
Sir Peregrine Maitland, Knight Commander of the Bath, 
to be Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Cape of 
Good Hope. The Hon. Colonel Bagot, Grenadier Guards, 
will be Military Secretary to the new Governor, and 
Viscount Mandeville and Lieut. Maitland, Grenadier 
Guards, are appointed to his Staff. The Queen has been 
pleased to appoint Thomas Frederick Elliott, John George 
Shaw Lefevre, and Charles Alexander Wood, Esqrs., to be 
Commissioners for superintending the sale and settlement 
of the Waste Lands of the Crown in the British Colonies 
and the conveyance of emigrants thither. 
Post Office.—The Gazette contains a Treasury warrant, 
dated 2d inst., authorising an alteration in the rates of 
postage, to commence on the Ist of January next, {be- 
tween this country and Holland. From and after that 
date the postage for every letter not exceeding half an 
oz. fromfand to Holland, will be 8d., to be paid by the 
sender or receiver, at the!option of the party sending. 
Newspapers will be charged ld. each. Printed periodical 
publicati and Parli papers of either country 
will be charged 1d. for not exceeding two 02. ; 6d. for not 
exceeding three oz.; 8d. for not exceeding four 02.5 and 
2d. for every additional oz. ; publications exceeding 16 oz. 
will not be forwarded by post. The Belgian Government 
and the Prussian Government at Cologne are acting in con- 
cert to obtain for the British General Post-office the estab- 
lishment of a regular communication between England, 
Belgium, Prussia, and the German states on the Rhine, by 
means of daily packets from Dover to Ostend, which 
should convey the mails, passengers, and merchandise, 
The Belgian Government offers on its part an annual con- 
tribution of 3,000/. sterling, in order to facilitate the 
arrangement between the post-offi 
fyoretqn. 
Francr.—The topics which engage the attention of the 
Paris papers are more varied than they have been of late. 
Among them are the movements of the Duc de Bordeaux 
jn London; the affairs of Spain; the elections of the 
twelve Mayors of Paris and their Deputies, which have 
terminated more favourably than usual for the Opposition ; 
the fortifications of Paris, and a second letter which 
M. Arago has addressed to the Opposition papers on that 
subject. In the first he had shown that the detached 
forts would avail little against the enemy, but might 
sooner or later place the liberties and institutions of the 
country, and the lives of the citizens of Paris, at the 
mercy of afew “pretorians.” In his second letter he 
demonstrates the necessity of fortifying Paris, but con- 
tends that a continuous wall of masonry, with bastions, 
ought to suffice for the defence of that capital. Vauban 
and Napoleon (he observes) supply him with the strongest 
arguments in support of his system, which had, besides 
its efficacy, the no less valuable advantage of being in no 
wise dangerous for the liberties of France.—The Monileur 
contains the report addressed by the French engineer 
M. Mallet to the Minister of Public Works, respecting 
the result of his visit to the atmospheric railroad between 
Kingstown and Dalkey near Dublin. The document 
speaks in the highest terms of the system invented by 
Messrs. Jacob Samuda and Clegg, expresses a conviction 
of its perfect practicability on longer lines, and recom- 
mends that a trial of it be made in France.—In regard to 
the Duc de Bordeaux it is not doubted that the London 
few days as to excite the most serious app oO! 
the family, nearly all the members of which are assembled 
at Howick. ‘The venerable Earl is confined to his room, 
and is said to be gradually sinking from exhaustion, arising 
from decay of nature. 
Parliamentary Movements.—At the Council on Wed- 
nesday Parliament was ordered to be further prorogued 
from Tuesday the 19th inst.j until Thursday the Ist of 
February, and a proclamation; was ordered to be issued 
summoning Parliament to meet for the despatch of busi- 
nese on the Ist of February. : 
Diplomatic Appointments —James Hudson, Esq., Sec- 
retary of Legation at Washington, has been appointed 
Secretary of Legation at the Hague; John Kennedy, 
Esq., Secretary of Legation at Naples, has been appointed 
Secretary of Legation at Washington; George John 
bert Gordon, Esq., First Attaché to her Majesty’s 
Legation at Rio de Janeiro, has been appointed Secretary 
of Legation at Stockholm ; and Augustus Craven, Esq., 
now First Attaché at Bruésels, has been appointed Secre- 
tary of Legation at Stutgardt. 
The Church.—The Queen has been pleased to direct 
letters patent to be passed under the Great Seal of the 
United Kingdom, appointing the Bishop of Salisbury to 
exercise all the functions and powers as well with regard 
to the temporalities as the spiritualities of the Bishop of 
Bath and Wells. It is stated that the Rev. R. W. Jelf, 
D.D., Canon of Christchurch, and Bampton Lecturer for 
1844, has been appointed to the headship of King’s Col- 
lege, London, vacant by the elevation of the Rey. Dr. 
Lonsdale to the Bishopric of Lichfield, The Rev. R. 
Cox Clifton has been elected Canon of Manchester in the 
room of the Rev. J. Gatliff, 
Church of Scotland.—The Queen has been pleased to 
ion will be made the subject of a motion in the 
Chamber, as it is considered impossible for the Govern- 
ment to pass over in silence such an insult to the reigning 
dynasty as that of addressing the young prince as ‘* King 
of France.’’—Considerable surprise was excited in Paris 
last week by the announcement that M. Janin the 
manager of the Italian Opera and his wife had committed 
suicide. It appears that a young man in the theatre had 
been apprehended on the charge of fraudulently issuing 
tickets, and that he had confessed to some of the parties 
who suffered by the fraud, that M. Janin had instigated 
him to make false returns, and that although from various 
considerations an attempt was made by the injured parties 
to prevent exposure, the effect of the discovery upon the 
mind of M. Janin, who was much respected and held a 
situation of 12,000f. a year in the theatre, was so great 
as to deprive him of fortitude to bear up against the dis- 
grace that had fallen upon him. It is said that he com- 
mitted the act with so much deliberation, that in order to 
prevent the possibility of setting the room on fire he had 
removed a marble slab from its place, and put it on the 
floor to bear the brazier. 
Spatn.—A telegraphic despatch from Bayonne an- 
nounces that the new Administration was constituted on 
the 5th inst. M. Gonzales Bravo, First Secretary of 
State, has been appointed President of the Council; Ge- 
neral ‘Mazaredo Minister of War; the Marquess Pena 
Florida Minister of the Interior; M. Mayans Minister 
of Justice ; M. Portello Minister of the Marine. The 
Minister of Finances had not then been appointed. The 
promotion of M.M. Bravo and Mazaredo created vacan- 
cies in the Vice-Presidency of both Chambers, which have 
been filled up by the election of M. Madoz and M. Gar- 
nica, both of whom belong to the party of the late Govern- 
ment. The recent affair between M. Oloz2ga and Queen 
Tsabella continued to excite the deepest interest. On the 
lst the new Minister Gonzales Bravo presented to the 
Cortes the following solemn declaration of the Queen 
“On the evening of the 28th of last month Olozaga 
presented himself to me, and proposed my signing the 
decree for the dissolution of the Cortes. I answered that 
J would not sign it; amongst other reasons because those 
Cortes had declared me of age. Olozaga insisted. 
again refused to sign the said decree. I rose and move! 
towards the door which is at the left of my study ; Olozag 
advanced before me and closed the bolt (at this passage 
the public who thronged the galleries of the Chambers 
seemed indignant). I then moved to that in front, but 
Olozaga again preceded me and closed the bolt of that 
door. He seized me by my dress, and compelled me to 
sit down. He took my hand and compelled me to sig? 
(Here the public expressed their indignation with @s- 
treme warmth.) Olozaga then went away, and I retired 
to my room. Having read over the above declaration, 
her Majesty added— Before he left, Olozaga asked wher 
ther Igave him my word that I would utter nothing 2 
what had passed to anybody, when I replied that I did not 
promise it.” Her Majesty, (said M. Gonzales Bravo,) then 
requested all present to enter the closet and examine the 
lace where the aforesaid scene had passed ; they did 80) 
allentering the closet. I then put the declaration into the 
hands of the Queen, her Majesty affirming that the. de- 
claration was a true and voluntary one. Wer Majesty 
signed it in presence of the above-named witnesses, after 
had asked the persons present whether they had well une 
derstood its contents, and after their affirmative reply: 
After this act was terminated, her Majesty ordered the 
persons present to retire, and the Royal declaration to y 
deposited in the archives of the Foreign Office.” “ Gen 
tlemen,’”’ added the new Minister, ‘after reading this 
solemn declaration made by. the Queen before the 
aforesaid persons, my mission is at an end ; its eae 
tial object was to convey, as was befitting, the Roya 
word, which no man of honour can have do 
On. the 8d the public galleries were crowded, 
Deputies were present, and large numbers of pers f 
gathered around the Oriente Theatre, where the Congres 
meets. After a discussion of no moment, which em ed 
its being decided that MM. Olozaga, Cantero and ee 
riaga should undergo a re-election, the President informe, 
the Chamber that the debate was opened upon the ale 
process, recording the Royal declaration communicalt 
by the Minister of Foreign affairs. The utmost, curios! y 
and interest were excited by this notification. After som 
opposition M. Olozaga succeeded in obtaining a hearing: 
on the motion that an address be presented to the Queen 
congratulating her on her safety; the motion for exclu! 
ing him from the Cortes having been postponed. a : 
Olozaga declared that he did not rise to oppose an accee 
to the Queen, but that he must and could not avoid spe? al 
ing when he could do so usefully, and in a way caloulat 
to.throw light on the question before the Chambe 
His intention was to say as little as possible om 
e liberty 
of dwelling at greater length on all.that had preceded 
Chamber in detail of the various circumstances which Ee 
ceded his elevation to the station of guardian to the Queen 
he declared that during the whole time he was W 
Majesty he had never ceased to tell her that, to Sistem 
crow” 
dividuals on duty at the Palace, and that antipathy ie 
increased. Their aversion and pretensions became Bei 
less when her Majesty’s guardian was summoned tet 
direction of public affairs. Thence had arisen the hie 3 
and open resistance he had experienced in all his eff 0 
to establish a homogeneous Cabinet. Matters pad oO 
to such a point that the Prime Minister had found pe 
under the necessity of declaring that he would expel aif 
the Palace all persons whatsoever who meddled va 
political affairs, and this threat which had yielded We 
so much hatred and resentment, he would certainly we 
followed up. Thus, at the Palace, it was nol he 
Queen but the persons about her that manifested ele’ 
most hostile dispositions. The very day after his seed 
vation to the Presidency of the Council, he was suo 
to hear the Queen tell him that he must immediately f jn 
his Cabinet, otherwise somebody else would ¢° Bt 
his stead. That person whom the Queen name 
was General Narvaez, who, in order to raise at © i 
tion, awaited not even the composition of the Cabin’ 
strong were the prejudices entertained at the M.- 
against the Administration he was organising. 
Olozaga detailed what passed between him an' th nity 
on the 28th November and approached the dénguen 6 
his voice betrayed the utmost emotion and his spe@?” on 
repeatedly interrupted by his sobs. He called ag 
Heaven to bear testimony to his innocence, prolee ea 
that he was devoted to Royalty, and repelling the la, 
nies heaped upon his head by his enemies and a cane 
whose malignity he denounced and whose designs he ‘At 
detected and wished to baffle for the welfare of Spam 
the moment he protested with the greatest energy oe ae 
those calumnies the President adjourned the Cham ie 
declaring that the hour fixed for putting an ene las 
debate had struck. M. Olozaga’s speech is stated to ba 
made a deep impression, and the Chambers listened ¢ 
with more composure than had been anticipated, s¢ 
that on entering the hall the ex-Minister had been recet” 
with mingled applause, bisses, and cries of “Tura ‘ 
out!’’ At the sitting on the 4th M. Olozaga resum' 
and concluded the vindication of his conduct. He st 
