Apriz 10-] 
THE GARDENERS’ sista 
EERE ED EOI ee ney 
235 
forty days, making the number amount o fewer than 
259; and during the remainder of 1 1840, ‘vibrations of the 
earth, more or ici esheets nearly geek day. All the 
violent shocks were attended with dull r nds 
of lightning. That of 1837 lasted with great i 
sity for twenty seconds ; and that of 1840 was the most 
disastrous of all. In fine, the unfortunate island su 
fered during the sixteenth century two earthquakes; during 
the seventeenth, three; during the eighteenth, ten; and 
d Aad first portion of the nineteenth century, six.’’ 
T.—The Levant mail has brought letters from 
Alexandria, dated March 
,| overpowered, and the fort captured. The first lieutenant 
The 
he New York paper 
paragraphs relative to Mr. M‘Leo 
‘ie ct, 
his approaching 
trial. The onl however, which the journals state 
pe a ting hi: is that Mr. Crittenden, the Attorney- 
efieral for the t Un ited cong accompani y Mr. Ro- 
binson, the new Brien eo States Marshal for the Western 
district of New ork, and pro 
ce any, on their way to Lockport, to 
y to the Niagara frontier, for 
said, of "takin ng all proper measures to | 
migh' 
repress or repel any morgen outbr wow that t per. 
chance arise in the cours and by re god bev M‘Leod’s 
kt al. The tria - expected to 
steam- 
voneels: then attacked "3 
ba the fieet of junks lying in 
y of the water, only the 
| Henesis ould approach them, towing 12 armel ca 
from Her Majesty" ships. Her first rocket set fire to the 
; 18 sw 
Nex! ing s ship Blenheim 
throw shells int the batteries at Weuto ong, ak 
paring t 
Chinese ‘Con 
Cap’ 
dres re he 
r Majesty’s “subjects in 
pe 
tili 20th Jan. a Bose gh was add 
the bates Plenipotentiary to Her 
ae Tepe rial Commissioner and himself had been made 
- | to the following effect, which we give at length, as being 
ihe ceéssio 
| of the island and harbour of Hong- -Kong to 2 nth 
ome on in the ‘course hb the 
dond of last month. It was, wer, rumoured that 
would be postponed to an indents Rand next summer. 
<a aued pate and ranean to 
tied on the 
co car re to 
| were paar at Whampoa: an inde to the B: 
i had returned from Cairo, onthe 15th, leaving Ibrahi A Lockpo rt paper countenances this ement, and says, | Government of 6,000,000 dollars, 1,000,600 alkig at 
Pacha there invested with full administrative ee rs over place, probaly, at the a re e, and the remainder in e: qual a nnual | instalments, end- 
e interior, li as over the affairs of the Military and | circuit : a commission to examine Captain Dre in 1846: direct official i 
Marine o} gypt.—Councils had been held in Cane Peet, will be perc - r, it is be a om iad cristae. re upon an equal footing: ind lastly, the trade of a 
serious ipenet made into the recent mismanagement i sage* adds, th: Arcot tri ried = like ely to be re- | port of Canton & be o opened within 10 day: a 
Syria. It was declared oy 60,000 men were ie techn rom Erie ioe r. M* Leod’s Chinese New Yea at Wha tl 
for the effective government of Egypt, re’ = Boi. had | counsel having made no seittaltien for a change. g 
been t up the Nile Pe concert measures | ‘on- | greai atest secrecy ] had rhea a with regard to the de- | Detail i tion. Ho; oe hone was to 
scription, as the Pac’ f tk t rank Hoya Trish, end the harbour 
resent. It was believed that he would experience teat ti Id be obt: aoe The Pl ag ogee | 
ifficulty in raising that nu mee while the attempt wa’ likel come to by those in delibe- had published “ofiilly his intention to urge the op 
regarded as calculated Aa r to embarrass the question m. The pers onal Ae-t ~ he roweres between Mr. F oi 
which then occup pied t pera tion of the Divan. The Fo: ny a British Minister, and Mr. Webst f the Governor-General ot India. 
ity ig ti of “oe a ns ’ = nature, and both had di previ 
50, 000 men are the hostility tives of Abyssinia, Sadler tha’ not the slightest probabil y of Parliament, 
Pacha’s | anything weet dictark the amicable tions ex- HOUSE OF LORDS. 
son, Tussoon, and the aresneaiig attinde of the western isting between England and the United Pet —The i a Cities a ~-es -gr gma e by the soni in the 
edouins, who, it is said 
Pacha. The eastern Bedouins had also recommenced 
their attacks on = Rtgs pe convoys in the Sue: 
Desert. The wpe d paid off the lon 
S eeoninn those due to his m 
a his 
rine 
dinary session of the two Houses of Congress for the 31st 
of May, to —s into rer msideration s sundry important and 
bey: ts matte reason assigned in the proclamation 
mbarassed sate ofthe public finances. It is entirely 
of Mr. M ‘Leo d, and from this it is 
e agreed to on the motion of 
the Marquis of Normanby. 
The Archbish op of CaNTERBU Ry brought in a bill to 
Ecclesiastical Revenues Act, which was read a first time. 
The Earlof Rirow moved for returns tending 
| plication of the money derived 
th es 
army, and w 
and i —_ chiren. 
pa in Alex andri 
were a h 
He _was building barracks 
of b 
cae uous, the 
tween a son of Ibrahim Pacha and a aah of Setsh 
interruption of the “Tey relations between the two 
his defensive position.—Storms and rains had set im at 
ASCs 
Inpra.—No intelligence a great importance has been 
received by this mail from India. hood Scinde and Aff- 
Nus an is still Lat 
+ ¢} qf 
had risen to 15 per day. The returns from 23 
ie. eee for 3 days, ending 10th Weick. were #1001 
b of which get had bee! en fatal, and the remaining ned 
thats Dost Mohamed had, on the 10th Fe b., proceeded 
from "Ferosepore to Loodeanah. He was 
st e 
extrao’ ane im ae sere letters fiers 
peo ra to the 25th ult... No official communication 
had pee wpe nag tage Sec from Constantinople. The 
Pacha ting ¢ i decision of the Divan, but had 
e 
Id ar re 
aub. In consequence of Shere 
one the Ranee (or wi , ot 
up in 
erself w 
— of B E£ presented 112 petitions from 
me for the sietanans of er hegre a and others 
of the ciple of no’ 
of OE te patronage... 
Marquis of BREADALBANE believed that t 
be carried without leading to on 
of MountTcasHEL moved for 
orkhouses contracted for by the 
f 
‘or! r law commissioners of 
Treland, the unions in whi 
poo 
ich they were to be erected, the 
quantity of land attached to each, uml of paupers 
which each would accommodate 
arl of Farm H gave 
a fort: with bh Marquis of SpowNe laid on the table returns 
rocsotion of the British poe agent.—A ee in “ond ‘0 the oar ee ame ns — 
pa : = yearly tribute, and to allow no inter- | sanie (Madras te’ had been pu —Fro loyeprrid eset byana a aa 
ference in the details of his government, Scinde news had foals reepted <p or < weather, - a * seeder. voice to’ consider the state of the a Foe 
Turkey.—By the Levant mail we have also receive believed be asa Gen interest on promissory notes and bills of .——— 
intelligence from Constantinople of the 17th ult. The | obliged to make his escape from preg 0 pads is _ of wag tem pursuant to notice, Ee 
arrival of ms Note which ha dr returned on the 16th, — of a mutiny among his troops. —The Go- eh vena’ to the jury-panel jentoy had, he tek witha a 
resumed its ti th G lof B ; P las en been a quick succession of frightful outrages in the 
Kin, + The umerat and 
a pact shored. attention in the Turi and i disgracing the natives of the 2d pre Mie lente ry, whic 93 ne —_ nis ter: =n is only wna OF CicdeGaaek, he said, ha 
. G it eed necessary informat 
rd 4-4 for the purpose of examining against Dost Mahomed’s cavalry. Ma njor-Ge ‘Sir R. prttesiretoatd ter hdig’ ‘aaraae ehevextoas er on that 
house of Lo: of e 
she reply of the Porte | to the last demands of Mehemet 
porting the es of the Pacha, ; and notified to the Divan 
part of the four 
oped, accede to the 
ough frequent yarn 
not expect any further intarforenes on the part of th 
Powers. The Porte would, it 
wishes of the Ambassadors ; but tho 
en had arrived at praeat aman Ben 
the comm 
and of the 
E any of the ble Earl went on to detail the circum- 
Cars -—A_tele graphic “despatch Scag ris from stances con! id with the attempt t urder Mr. Biddulph, and 
s on Tuesday, by which we sa pom the over- | with the trial that ensued ; and, after contending that justice could 
rary att from India has reached that port, br oe oe not — - ed — the peri jarymen 
been suce bare se thin dispute wi pas rae sone ee conc! produc- 
ears, by advices Sen 
ar- 
aw th 
The Marquis of Noarmaney believ ed the noble Earl, if 
ostilities, @ closely inquired into the matter, would 
hed | been held, nothing definitive had been dec ided 0} at, after Saar ve GM ar pre! mre Tan ” | roretled, Sar Wink oees a von the Ful otf 
silage of the existence o the plague at Jaffa, St. cd between Capt. Elliot and the Chinese pines tiaries ; ——. oe Sah temnnae pee 
vane Tyr, Said, and aie had soe S see » oa and that commercial rela tions were re-established. By conducted, jury could not have 
gs a Syria should the island iain Bs er EE ae as 
Raum barhdriens from oe: — ale ‘at the in- | of Hong-Kon: to Great Britain, grants an indemnity of reed aoe me nem mont pe cn en eri 
i ion much in at the a 6,000,000 dol ~ payable in six years, and establishes ctiedelnes thie park he didnot mbna _— a oneetion, 
fnial it, of course, be entertained. 
No o 
vate “eters, howerer, announce that the Christin p »p 
peeps Fase i Bes lity us Ses ee 
their independence, and that th raged in this | It appears that in consequence of jecting to a juryman on the ; 
idea by the Pacha of a of Egypt, rho ba supplied them with | diness displayed by the Imperial Sections prepara- ferences. He hoped the noble Earl would not press his motion, 
th for attacki which must be incouvenient at «time when the fal of these in 
arms, hoping by to op phi re in- | tions were made on the morning of the 9th 1 HE | dividuals had not yet been brought to a close.—After some re- 
habi retain cient epee ndia. the Saatone sph er ey forts. — from Lord Glengall, and after some conversation between 
Greeks, Fiat g refused to ceuiaatt the Poche against rad janded near the fort of Chum- | the Marquis of Normanby and the Earl of Charleville, the noble 
their countrymen, which o ‘him to submit uncon- i toe pone coe n M.'s ships Calliope, Larne, | Earl consented to ee ad gona ipiceibiides hates: Ser the 
ditionally to the Sultan. The Pacha now de s the tnd Hyacinth opened a cannonade on the lower bai attery, = rete 0 Duties Bil, the Turnpike Acts Continuance Bill, the eles 
arms which istributed to the Greek population ; bu hells i h | pike Acts Continuance (Ireland) Bill, the Population Act Amend- 
their leaders refuse to surrender them, declaring that they | commanded it. The latter was ae tak " per ~ ies ment Bill, the Houghing of Cattle (Ireland) Bill, and several pri- 
were indi le to them to defend themselves agai by the troops, who poured down a os re of mus cao ed tiie tniedetiancons petitions, thé Pad 
the Turks, and that they ho to great their a on the baci : — —s ~ — e the Chin se from of Loxpow moved for a copy ‘ota fa despatch seat ou : March 
pendence, with ser gran of the their guns. In rt was in poo last reiati connexion of the British Government in India 
Further accounts s e that the Candiote rel refugees ir in | the English, with a loss of of val 3 ‘killed and 3 sone > with seers as ceremonies of the inhabitants of the presidency 
Greece, having a i Dake oO ELLINGTON presented a petition from mayor, 
his ships and crews escaped unhurt, slthouges pd eae pi nen, and corporation of Dover im favour of the Jews’ Be- 
Seized upon several vessels in the Modahe waters, re = guns. Atthe same tim ey the fort ge ener Seema teins the ws jovemeds however, he entirely" 
t ttacked nother teres - r 
SEs ae “a - schooner to the bakery some pre sai Capt. Her ica ce pt ay pan fee object; pert re srnoaren 
ad b tak fF Sapi 3 a boatfulof armed Can- ie 2 supported by the Druid, Modeste, and | mat no feeling in favour of Ri sareaga existed among the 
diotes, and taken to Candia, The British Cond at Na- aumbine. A heavy fire on the fort, ar — = _— a = Tp foo eens vane ho 
Yarino had warned all. vessels to a9 ip Sepleane iales © Lis id returmed ; but the Chinese guns were speedily | returns, however, now moved for, ie would be shows. chatin 
ie er the le of Sena is the place where the She Conand Gee GgeeOe vababée, bet ‘were:dous| Se ant oes ee — 
F : resistance, an to- one as 
