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THE NEWSPAPER. 



18H 



w ich hat * utedthe French newt of government, and 

 carried them to execs- The constitution of an Upper 

 House or Senate it still the subject of discussion, and the 

 question whether the senators shall be appointed by the 

 King or chosen by t he p?optc, is the chief topic of the day 



Home Xttts. 



Court.— Her Majesty, Prince Albert, the Prince of 

 Wales, and the i'rmcesaet, continue at Windsor, and are 

 in excellent health. The Queen has taken her usual exer- 

 cise in the grounds of the Castle during the week, and the 

 i ace has shot oser the Royal preserves, and hunted 

 with his harriert. According to pretest arrangements, 

 her Majesty, who will open Parliament in person on 

 Thursday next, will take her departure from Windaor for 

 Buckingham Palace on Wednesday morning. It is 

 expected that the stay of her Majesty in town will not 

 extend beyond a week or ten days, when the < ourt will 

 return to Windsor, and remain at the Castle till a some- 

 what advanced period of the spring, most probably until 

 the middle of April. Lady < >ck; and the Hon. 



Miss F. Devereux have succeeded the Hon .liases Lid- 

 dell and Hamilton at Maids of Honour in \\ siting on her 

 Majesty. The following have been staying at the Castle 

 this week on a visit to the Queen :-the Hake and 

 Duchess of Cambridge, the Princess Mary, and the Larl or 

 Aberdeen. The Duke of <ambiid<e left the Cattle on 

 Monday mot rig fur An lei Castle, on a visit to the 

 Duke and Duchess of Norfolk. 



Sj n„ Assizes, in II.— The Judges of the different 

 Courts mat on Thursday in the Exchequer Chamber, and 

 chose their respective circuits on the ensuing ring 

 Attizes. owing is the arranjawent :— //"'»* 



C i<— < I Ji ce Denman and Baron Al derton . 

 M ullcmd— Chief Justice Tmdal and \\ Gun jr. 



Norfolk— i ef Huron A gST and Juatiee Pi 



/__B n i> M ,k« and Justice Col l*r. Northern 

 —Justice Colt mm and liarwn Uolfe. Western— S 



Wightman and Cresswell. uth Welt i J u s ti ce Wil- 

 liams, th W aUas— J ustice Mamie. Justice Erakine 

 remain-* In town, and will attend business at chamber?. 



Death of Sir Francis I r/.—On Monday lass Sir 

 F. Burdett, M.P. for ^ rill Wilts, and formerly so pro- 

 minently before the j lie as representative of West- 

 minster, expired at his residence in St. James's-place. The 

 death of Lady Burdett wl i took place only ten days 

 since bad a powerful t Beet upon the deceased Baronet, 

 whose impaired constitution was not able to bear up 

 against hi* bereavement. Sir Francis Burdett was for a 

 long course of years one of the most prominent politic »1 

 characters of the age. At an early p< d of his career 

 he was the most uncompromising advocate of Parlia- 

 mentary Refo , and under hiss *Wsbri<i"et of w Old 

 Glory " was pa the most popular man of his day. 



He was born in 1770, and waa educated at Westminster 

 School. Whilst in his 23d yr*r he mnrried the youngest 



daughter of Thomas Coutt?, 1>«|., the celebrated banker, 

 and shortly at entered Parliament as member for 

 Boroughbn.lge. In 1807 he appeared for the rat time 

 on the huntings at a candidate for Westminster, and was 

 returned by a triumphant majority. In 1812 he was com- 

 mitted to the Tower for the intemperate language he had 

 used in a printed letter, addressed by him to his con- 

 stituents on the commitm t of Mr. Gale Jones for a 

 breach of Parliamentary privilege. In 1819 Sir Francis 

 again addressed a printed letter to his constitu rate, in 

 ■which he descanted in unmeasured terms upon the pro- 

 ceedings at Peterloo. For this offence he was tried in the 

 Court of King's Bench, and was condemned to three 

 months' imprisonment and a heavy fine. IK- continued to 

 represent Westminster until 7. when he was returned 



for the Northern Division of Wilts on the Const rvative 

 interest j a vacancy is therefore occasioned in the repre- 

 sentation of this county by his demise. 



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Francb. — The debate on the Irett wat resumed on 

 Thursday, when a long and d dtory discuss-- i ensued 

 on the commercial condil n of the country, which ended 

 in the rej » of ail the amendments and then ption of 



the first paragraph of the Address. On Friday the dis- 

 cussion was continued, and the second and third para- 

 graphs were adopted, ihe first of these states that the 

 equilibrium between the receipts and the expenditure has 

 been re-established, and the other proclaims sympathy for 

 Polish nationality. The debate then commenced upon the 

 fourth paragraph, or in other words on the affairs of 

 Greece and Spain, and on the amicable relations between 

 France and Great Britain. The general debate upon these 

 subjects wss entirely confined to three members of the 

 Opposition, MM. de Lasteyrie, Gamier Pages, and Ducos, 

 and to little impression did their remarks make, that 

 none of the members on the Ministerial benches thought 

 it worth while to answer them. The object of their 

 speeches was to show that in Spain as well as in Greece 

 the objects of Francs and England must always be dif- 

 ferent ; that England was not f re in its apparent 

 friendly relations ; and that its object always was by 



a more reserved and less confidential cons' ruction. M. | 

 Billault entered at great length into the foreign policy of 

 England, and the Journal de* Dtbats observes that u he 

 explored the whole world, visiting Greece, Spain, Algeria, 

 Servia, Jerusalem, New Zealand, and Madagascar, in 

 order to prove that France and England are now what 

 they were at Poictiers and Agincourt, and that a tradi- 

 tional and permanent enmity has survived the march of 

 intellect and civilisation." On Saturday the Chamber was 

 crowded with company, in the expectation that the 

 Minister of Foreign Affairs would reply to the attacks 

 made upon the Cabinet the day before. The debate was 

 preceded by a report of a conn tee upon the election of 

 M. Charles Lafitte, at Louviert. The committee pro- 

 posed his admission. It was opposed by M. <ir mdin,who 

 declared that what had passed at Louviers in connexion 

 with the opening of a branch railway between Louviers 

 aud the Paris and Rouen railroad, exceeded all that had 

 been beard of in the way of electoral corruption, stating 

 that M. Lafitte had promised to construct a railway for 

 his constituents as a bribe for his election. M. Lafitte 

 repelled the imputation, and M. Dufaure demanded an 

 inquiry into the alleged circumstances. ML Lafitte him- 

 self demanded an inquiry amidst much noise, but the elec- 

 tion was annulled by a large majority. The sensation 

 caused by this incident was such that the sitting was inter- ] 

 rupted for 20 minutes. Silence however was restored on M. 

 Guises amending the tribune, and the debate on the address 

 wat returned. After showing that France and England were 

 i accord in respect to Greece, but claiming for France 

 the honour of having takeu the initiative in that respect, 

 M. Guizot proceeded to exonerate this country trom 

 blame for having omitted to ask of the French (lovern- 

 ment the exr</uatur for thi British Consul in Algeria. The 

 Porte had not yet recognised the sovereignty of France in 

 that colony. Great Britain felt therefore unable, however 

 willing, to ask for an authority for one of her agents which 

 would be a virtual aeknowledgm-ut of the title of France 

 to A ia. He also stated that France and England were 

 agreed respecting the independence of the Sandwich 

 Islands, the independence of which they had both acknow- 

 ledged. '• We wished," said M. Guizot in conclusion, 

 "a real and sincere peace. We conceived, and it was 

 likewise conceived in London, that there was room in the 

 world for our two independent and national policies, pro- 

 vided they should be kept within the bounds of justice and 

 good s» e. Both Cabinets, to their honour as well as to 

 the advantage of their respective countries, have com- 

 menced and inaugurated that policy of real and sincere 

 peace — a policy both novel and difficult, but nevertheless 

 the only good and honourable policy— which although 

 prudent and moderate, is not divested of grandeur, and 

 which for g honest is not the less useful. This is 



what we call the ' cordial understanding* between the two 

 (iovernments. I will not dwell on facts purely personal, 

 which irew alluded to yesterday with so much disdain ; — 

 I will not speak of that mark of friendship given by a 

 young and charming Queen to our King, our Government, 

 and our revolution;—! will not speak of the fact which 

 followed that visit— the treatment experienced by the 

 Due de Bordeaux — who was not received in London by 

 the Sovereign who had come to France to meet our King. 

 These are striking facts which have produced in Europe a 

 deep impression on kings and nations — facts which have 

 everywhere been justly appreciated, and which have occu- 

 pied the imaginations and conversations of all Europe. I 

 leave them aside however serious they ere in reality." 

 When M. Guizot had concluded, M. Billault rose and 

 asked him if it was true that a commercial treaty was on 

 the tapis between England and France ? M. Guizot re- 

 plied, that commercial negotiations had been for some 

 time pending between the two countries ; but that none 

 of the great manufacturing interests of France — the iron, 

 thread, linen, cotton goods, &c. — would have been im- 

 portantly affected by those negotiations, which were how- 

 ever now altogether suspended. M. Billault attempted a 

 reply, but only repeated arguments he brought forward on 

 Friday. On Monday the debate was opened by M.Thiers. 

 He said that from 1830 to 1830 the alliance with England 

 had been intimate, that between 183(5 and 1839 it was 

 slackened, and that in 1840 it was severed. It was this 

 alliance which it was now sought to revive and to repre- 

 sent as existing in 1 1. England bad given proof of 

 interest to France in IS30, and when the separation of 

 Belgium and Holland took place, an event which was the 

 origin of the alliance; but in all other circumstances 

 England had proved contrary to the interests of France, 

 nnd from 183 hat boasted alliance had been but a fic- 

 tion which yielded but checks to France. That alliance 

 formerly so momentous to ihe peace of Europe had no 

 longer the same importance and was no longer a guaran- 

 ee of peace. M. Thiers then reviewed the events which 



solidating the power of France in that oontL, 

 1837 he complained that the war was not pro»Jl 

 carried on ; since then he had been in office, aajjj 

 war was conducted in the same slovenly insane* 



muwu i«v *,««».... j »~ -«- *r v. *•«. vuitui then » 



ferred to the situation in which he found the foretn n. I 

 lations of France and that in which they were now ^ 

 contended that peace would not have been as stable'*! 

 is in 1844 if he had not followed a truly national pgfc. 

 There was no alliance, properly speaking, between2 

 land and France ; but there was a "cordial undersuj 

 ing" and a perfect accord between them, and neither as! 

 alienated any portion of its liberty or indepemfc^ 

 Their relations were benevolent and loyal not oak t 

 words but also in deeds. France had made no coDceaa* 

 to England. H. Guizot then proceeded to vindicate b 

 policy in Spain, in the East, and in Servia, in nearly ^ 

 same terms as in the speech which he delivered on Safe, 

 day. After a few words from M.M. Salvandy, Ginr*^ 

 and Dupin, the latter of whom supported the Ministers! 

 views if confined solely to the accord between Fruaj 

 and England in regard to Greece and Spain, the seam 



ns of commercial treaties or otherwise to gsin some 

 advantage over Fran* In the latter part of the 



sitting the discussion became more animated, when 

 M. Billault rose to move an ame ment of which 

 he had given previous notice, and which it is understood 

 that the different sections of the Opposition have agreed 

 to support. The object of this amendment instead of 

 the " cordial understanding/' which the Speech says is 

 the state of the relations between the Governments of 

 France and England, to substitute words in the address of 



was brought to a conclusion, when the Ministry esse if 

 victorious, and a majority of about 40 declared in fit* \ 

 of the general foreign policy of M. Guizot and of tit 

 cordial relations of England with France. On Toesar 

 the discussion opened on the fourth paragraph of the at I 

 dress relative to Spain, Greece, and the understtaaS) 

 with England, another amendment more favourable t; 

 Greece having been moved by M. David. After Km | 

 words from M. Guizot it was withdrawn, and the pangrsjl 

 was then suffered to pass as worded by the commit* I 

 The 5th paragraph, relative to the •« Right of Visit," ssj I 

 then taken into consideration, and M. Billault propose I 

 amendment, " that tfie good understanding with EagUai I 

 would no doubt promote the success of negotiation! akid 

 by guaranteeing the repression of an infamous traee 

 would again place the commerce of France under the a- 

 elusive protection of her flag." The debate was teat 

 nated by M. Guizot rising and saying 4£ that he accefSt 

 the paragraph of the address not with any reserve bats f 

 its full expression, his serious aim being to replace Freed j 

 commerce under the protection of its national flag." 1 

 Billault then withdrew his amendment for the sike,k 



said, of unanimity. 



Spain.— We have advices from Madrid to the 164 

 instant. The returns of the electoral colleges of th 

 rural districts of the Province of Madrid had not f 

 been sent in, but the immense majority obtained by & 

 Progresista candidates in the City left no doubt astotk 

 success. M. Olozaga, although the last on the I* 

 would nevertheless be among the chosen to sit int* 

 Chamber, it being agreed that one of the five succeed j 

 candidates would resign in his favour. It was snppoa 

 in some quarters that the Ministry would not subed • 

 that humiliation, but would dissolve the Cortes. Ttnm 

 acquainted with the designs of the Cabinet were, nevarfS* 

 less, of opinion that the dissolution would not be imss 

 diate. The execution of the new municipality m 

 ~~ — ~;„„ na A i;t+io ^r nn ^hstnrlp throughout the kingejs 



en at 



.Ministry snoniu naveoeen assuicu m U n,v«»».-; "" T«J|tI 

 ing the elections through the agency of alcaldes devotea^ 

 their interests, they would not hesitate to announce tne» 

 solution. The Queen had refused to accept General >«*■» 

 resignation of the rank of Captain-General, to *^ lc °J* 

 Majesty had promoted him on the 6th mst. Har ?J 

 was restored between the family of the Infante U° D rr 7 

 Cisco and the Government, who had just contents 

 command of the brig Manzanares on the young lt^j 

 Don Enrique. After finally annulling the contract • 

 M. Salamanca, the Minister of Finance had adar T^ 

 communication to the superior Council for the sen"* 

 national property to the effect that the sales bc V toi T^. 

 with according to the laws and regulations IB forc * .j- 

 the 31st of August, 1843. By another comm 

 the Director-General of the public Treasury is orow 

 recover immediately the sums still due for the n _ 

 property that has been sold. A decree was eipjj 

 shortly to be issued for the better maintenance oi rj 

 worship and the clei y.— The Barcelona journal! j 

 Uth inst. publish addresses of the provincial def ' , 

 and Ayuntamiento of that city to Queen Chnsti 

 treating Her Majesty to visit Barcelona on her w j 



to Madrid. . „„.i-rf* 



Germany.— We learn from the Berlin ]0W9O^ 

 18th that the Queen of Prussia ia suffering iron* p 

 The following bulletin was published on the 1 * t n- ^ ^ 

 Queen has passed an agitated night. Her coug tim 



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tee of peace. M. Thiers then reviewed the events which Queen has passed an agitated night, tier co & ^^ 

 had occurred and the policy pursued in Spain, Greece, qaent, but the progress of the malady is regu '^jej 

 and on the part of ilussia, &c. He urged that the Cabi- spires no anxiety."— The AugsLmgh Gazette ° ^ 



net followed in the wake of England and that its anxiety 

 to restore the alliance opposed the object it had in view. 

 He waa violently interrupted when* he declared that the 

 Cabinet had trodden upon the resentment of the country. 



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tails wr»v vuuimn j *w£w%uwi uguiu, uuu u^ouuilllK vilv 1U1.1U- 



tive of that resolution after the resentment excited in 

 18 10, it had completely disregarded the feelings of France. 

 M. Guizot immediately answered this speech and com- 

 menced by examining the system pursued by M. Thiers 

 while he held the reins of government, and described him 

 es endeavouring to steer a middle course for fear of 

 upairing his popularity, and seldom taking a decision. 

 In Algeria for instance, M. Thiers had formerly enter- 

 tained excellent views respecting thej mode of con- 



states, from Goritz, that the physieians of the ^ ^ 

 gouleme have declared their patient to be suoen a ^ 

 ,. , .»._ :_....: uh ca ncer, but tw*^ 



. . rnay hope for » PfJJTl 



recovery from sea bathing.— A letter fr0D ? \ bee „ *** 

 the 10th inst. states that a wanton attack b * fl f e> 

 on the palace of the hereditary Grand Ducn« ' ^ 

 near that city, which was entered by means ot 

 and the furniture destroyed, the paintings cut ^ 

 the statues and valuable porcelain broken, ^ 

 stolen. The police were endeavouring to 

 authors of this outrage. 

 Greece. 



to r*J 



Accounts from Athens of the 31i ^^ 



ismissal from the Ministry, by lI T di ^ef 

 ins colleagues, of M. Rhigas Pahiroedes. iV uc i ^ 

 of opinion still continued to exist relative to 



