Feb. 17,] 



THE NEWSPAPER. 



[1844. 



exactly four wt I, be ring on Monday, the lfltb of 

 January, returned a verdict of guilty •gainst all the tra- 

 versers generally, but excep ; the Rev. Mr. Tierney on 

 certain counts of the indictment, and modifying particular 

 portions of their finding as applied to some of the tra- 

 Vtnen. On the delivery of the verdict the Court ad- 

 journed to the first day of I ter Term, Monday, the 15th 

 April, when it will be in the power of the Crown to call 

 for judgment. Before that time, however, it is said that 

 the traversers will sue for a writ of error ; or if this mea- 

 sure be abandoned, they will next term bring forward a 

 motion for arrest of judgment on account of some alleged 

 defects in the indictment. The conclusion of the trials hav- 

 ing removed the objections to a public discussion of the 

 Ministerial policy, the attention of both Houses of Parlia- 

 ment has been this week occupied by debates on the state 

 of Ireland, and on the necessity of appointing a committee 

 of the whole House to inquire iuto the causes of her 

 grievances. The resolutions in the Lords were moved by 

 tl. Marquis of Noriuanby, aud discussed at great length 

 during two sittings; but on Thursday night they were 

 negatived by a majority of <J7. In the Commons the reso- 

 lutions were brought forward by Lord John Russell 

 on Tuesday, and have formed the chief topic of discussion 

 during the entire week. On Thursday night, during the 

 »pee< >f Mr. Ross in favour of the motion, Mr. O'Connell 

 made his appearance in the House, having arrived from 

 Dubim on purpose to be present at the debate. The 

 other business in Parliament which calls for notice has 

 been Sir J. Graham's exposition of his new Bill for the 

 amendment of the Poor Law, and the vote of thanks passed 

 by both Houses to Sir C. Napier and the officers and men 

 engaged in the late operations in Scinde. 



From Portugal we have the particulars of another of 

 those revolutions wl i appear to take place periodically, 

 as the precursors of a change of Ministry. The present 

 movement, however, difi« r> from some of its predecessors 

 in being a military demon uion, the people at present 

 having taken little part in it and shown little sympathy 

 with its professed objects. The Government, nevertheless, 

 appear to attach great importance to the insurrection ; 

 all the con>titutional guarantees, answeiing to our Habeas 

 Corpus, trial by jury and other rights of the subject, have 

 been suspended, and the whole kingdom has been declared 

 in a state of siege. Several leading members of the Opposi- 

 tion have been arrested, and an extensive defection of the 

 troops is apprehended unless the vigorous i asuresof the 

 Cabinet are successful in suppressing the efforts to corrupt 

 them. — In Spain the insun still continues, with all 



the terrible accompaniments of a war of reprisals. The 

 Government have not only suspend all law in the 

 disturbed districts, but have issued orders to their com- 

 manders directing them to shoot all insurgents taken 

 prisoners. This announcement has led to a system of re- 

 taliation in which still greater atrocities have been perpe- 

 trated. The insurgent leader, however, has received a 

 check in the neighbourhood of Alicante, and the Govern- 

 ment have succeeded in repressing the movement in some 

 of the minor towns. Queen Christina left Paris on 

 Thursday for Madrid, and is expected to reach that capi- 

 tal in the course of next week. 



Court. — Her W jesty and Prince Albert have con- 

 tinued during the week in strict privacy at Windsor 

 Castle, and will not see company it is said for the next 

 three months. The whole of the Royal suite have been 

 dispensed with excepting Mr. G. E. Anson, the Hon. C. 

 A. Murray, and the two Equerries in Waiting on Her 

 Majesty and the Prince, Lord C. Weilesley, and Colonel 

 Wylde. It is expected that Her Majesty and the Prince 

 will go to Claremont on the 27ih or 28th of the month 

 and remain there for three weeks, after which period the 

 Court will leave for Buckingham Palace. 



Parliamentary Movements. — Mr. Sutheron has been 

 elected member lor North Wilts in the room of the late 

 Sir F. Burdett, and Mr. Nicholas Mauer has b- en elected 

 member for Tipperary, both without opposition. 

 h Death of Lord Sidmoulh. — On the 15th lost., Viscount 

 Sidinouth, who was successively First Lord of the Trea- 

 sury and Chancellor of the Exchequer, as Mr. Addington, 

 and afterwards President of the Council, Lord Privy-Sea!, 

 and Secretary for the Home Department, died at his seat, 

 White Lodge, Richmond Park, in the 87th year of his age. 

 More than 12 years before his death, Lord Sidmouth re- 

 signed to the public a pension of 3000/. per annum. His 

 Lordship is succeeded by his only son, William Leonard, 

 the issue of his first marriage. 



Death of Vice-Admiral Dickson. — We have to record 

 the decease of another veteran flag-officer of the navy, 

 Vice-Admiral of the White, Edward Stirling Dickson, 

 which took placi on the 28th of January. 



The Colonies. — The Queen has been pleased to make 

 the following appointments in the new colony of Hong 

 Kong:— John Francis Davis, Esq., to be Governor and 

 Commander in Chief; and John Walter Hulme, Esq., 

 to be Chief Justice; the Hon. Frederick Wm. A. Bruce 



to be Secretary to the government ; Brevet-Major Wm, 



Cain to be Police Magistrate. Sheriff, and Provost Mar- j 

 •hal ; R. Duudas Cay, Esq., Writer to the Signet, to be | 

 Registrar of the Supreme Court ; Alexander Gordon, 



Esq., to be Surveyor-General ; Lieut. William Tedder, 

 R.N.. to be Harbour Master; and Robert Montgomery 

 lartin, Esq., to be Treasurer. 

 The Army.— It is officially announced in the Gazette 

 that Lieut. Munro, who has been so long absent without 

 leave in consequence of his late duel with Col. Fawcett, 

 has been superseded in the Adjutancy of the Royal Horde 

 Guards by the appointment of Lieut. Thos. Brunt. 



New Sheriff's.— -The Queen has been pleased to appoint 

 J. Fowden Hindle, of Woodfold-park, Esq., to be Sheriff 

 of the county palatine of Lancaster for the year ensuing. 

 Royal Academy. — On Saturday, the 10th inst., a 

 general meeting of Academicians was held at the Royal 

 Academy in Trafalgar-square, when John Prescott Knight, 

 Esq., was elected an Academician, in the room of Henry 

 Thomson, Laq., d eceased. 



Jforngn. . 



France. — The news from Paris is less exciting this 

 week than it has been since the opening of the Session, 

 and the interest of the proceedings in the Chambers is 

 chiefly of a domestic character. Rumours of a change of 

 Ministry are current, and it is even stated that M. Guizot 

 is likely to return to London as Ambassador; but little 

 confidence can be placed in these conjectures at present. 

 Much importance is always bestowed on the selection of 

 the committee who annually examine and report upon the 

 Budget. AH the bureaux, save one, have just made their se- 

 lections, and out of the sixteen members thus appointed, the 

 Ministry have secured thirteen, whilst the Opposition have 

 only three. Both the Chambers sat on Saturday, but in nei- 

 ther were the proceedings of interest to the English reader. 

 In the Deputies, the discussion was resumed on a new 

 Game Bill, which is encountering great resistance from 

 the Opposition, and is the theme of many an angry article 

 in the journals. On Monday the bureaux of the Deputies 

 examined a proposition revived by the Opposition on the 

 occasion of M. de Salvandy's resignation, for declaring 

 certain offices and promotions incompatible with a seat in 

 the Chamber. As the consent of, at least, three bureaux 

 must be obtained before a proposition can be read in a 

 public sitting, the mem ben of all the parties hostile to the 

 j Cabinet were strenuously exhorted to attend that preli- 

 minary operation, and after a long debate the proposition 

 was decided in favour of Ministers by a majority oi about 

 20. On the same day the bureaux also discussed the 

 authorized proposition made by M. de Bricqueville for 

 conveying the mortal remains of General Bertrand to the 

 Invalides. It was reported on the Bourse that Govern- 

 ment had resolved to finish the Northern and the Stras- 

 burg Railroads, and perhaps that to Bordeaux from Tours ; 

 the others to be left to public competition. 



Spain. — Accounts from Madrid of the (5th inst. an- 

 nounce that Carthagena had pronounced in favour of 

 the insurgents of Alicante. The garrison, consisting of a 

 battalion of the regiment of Giioua and between 1000 and 

 1*200 Catalonian prisoners, who had been transported 

 thither for safe keeping by General Prim, had joined in 

 the movement. At Valencia an attempt at insurrection 

 was made after the departure of General Roncali, who was 

 obliged to retrace his steps, and succeeded in checking it. 

 Several of the leaders had been shot and the rest had fled 

 into the mountains, where they formed themselves into a 

 revolutionary junta. In the evening of the "29th an attempt 

 at insurrection was made at Alcoy, which was suppressed 

 by the firmness of the troops and National Guard. The 

 revolters having fired upon the latter, a collision ensued, 

 which was attended with some bloodshed and the capture 

 of thirty of the assailants. As soon as this event 

 was known at Madrid, a despatch was sent by the 

 Minister of War to General Roncali, directing him 

 in the name of the Queen to shoot the thirty insur- 

 gents taken prisoners at Alcoy. The Minister re- 

 quests him to forward to his department an account of 

 their execution for the information of her Majesty, and 

 enjoins him not "to allow himself to be stopped by the 

 fear of any acts of retaliation which the insurgents of 

 Alieant might threaten, for although her Majesty should 

 view with grief the victims that the fury of the rebels 

 might sacrifice, yet the absolute necessity that the law 

 and public vengeance should be a reality, weighed still 

 more in her Royal mind." As might have been expected 

 these violent measures have led to more appalling re- 

 prisals. A circular of the Minister of the Interior, ad- 

 dressed to the Political Chiefs of the 49 provinces into 

 which the Chamber is divided, suspends all law pending 

 the insurrection. At Alicante and at Murcia, Ruiz (chief 

 of the insurgent column from Carthagena) shot in reprisal 

 for the massacre of 20 prisoners by General Roncali 

 '• more than that number." Bonet, the chief of the in- 

 surrection at Alicante, shot the unfortunate bearer of the 

 summons to surrender, sent him by Roncali, and de- 

 clared " that for every man put to death by the officers of 

 Government he would shoot ten of their partisans." On 

 the 5th however a column of rebels from Alicante under 

 the command of the chief of the insurrection, Bonet. 

 was encountered near Eda by the Captain-General 

 of Murcia and put to flight. Two hundred prisoners 

 were taken, who abandoned their musketry and two 

 pieces of artillery. At Elcho, Cocentayno, Orihuela, 

 and Muro, similar movements had been repressed. The 

 troops despatched from Madrid under General Cordova 

 were reviewed and harangued by General Narvaez before 

 their departure, but it WSJ currently rumoured that they 

 had given strong manifestations of dissatisfaction after 

 they left Madrid. The soldiers who had served since 

 1839, and who had bt en previously promised their dis- 

 < barge, demanded that that promise should be fulfilled. 

 They were answered by a threat that any one showing 

 discontent should be immediately shot. The Colonel of 



one of the regiments was sent back to Madrid under ar- 

 rest, and escorted by a party of cavalry. General Cordova 

 arrived at Quinta-nr, in the evening of the 3d, and was to 

 continue his march upon Murcia on the following day. The 

 disarmament of the tional Guards was proceeding with- 

 out opposition throughout the country. This measure had 

 been carried into effect at Logrono, Santander, Grenada 

 Soria, Guadalajara, Getafe, Alcala, and other localities 

 adjoining Madrid. Some agitation prevailed at Seville, and 

 the Papers of the 3d state that the troops of the garrison 

 were consigned to their barracks, and that the military posts 

 had been doubled in the city. Madrid has been strongly 

 fortified, and has also been declared in a state of siege. 

 Advices from Barcelona of the 6th state that symptoms 

 of insubordination having manifested themselves in the 

 ranks of a battalion of the garrison, the Captain-General, 

 Baron de Meer, had adopted energetic measures to prevent 

 a revolt. A sergeant who had expressed his opinion rathi 

 too freely with regard to the Government of Narvaez, 

 had been arrested, tried, and shot. The city, however, 

 was tranquil on the 6th. 



Portugal. — By accounts from Lisbon of the 7;h, we 

 learn that a serious insurrection has broken out there. 

 The 4th regiment of Dragoons has revolted at Torret 

 Novas, about 50 miles from Lisbon, and the cry that it 

 has raised is, M The Queen and the Charter, but down 

 with the Ministry ! " All the leading Septembrists (with 

 the exception of Viscount Sa da Bandeira, Count daTaipa, 

 and one or two others) are compromised ; a conspiracy 

 to produce a general insurrection throughout the kingdom 

 has been discovered ; the Constitutional guarantees, an- 

 swering to our Habeas Corpus, trial by jury, and other 

 rights of the subject, have been suspended for 20 days; 

 four of the most active amongst the Lisbon Septembrists 

 have been arrested and imprisoned on board the Diana 

 frigate, lying in the Tagus; three of the principal officers 

 of the 3d Cacadores or Rifles have likewise been arrested 

 and thrown into the military prison in the Castle of St. 

 George; all the troops in Lisbon garrison have been con- 

 stantly under arms for three days ; the streets of Lisbon 

 swarm with soldiery ; the entire kingdom is declared in 

 a state of siege ; and the Cortes has been announced as 

 sitting in permanence, the sitting of the 6th having com- 

 menced at noon, and not having terminated until near 

 midnight. The insurrection so far is of an entirely 

 military character; only a few civilians have taken 

 part in it, and no pn .of has yet been received of the 

 people having participated in it in any direction. The 

 Lisbon people take no part in it, and it is reprobated 

 generally by public opinion. The Chambers have con- 

 curred by large majorities in passing a law by which 

 the constitutional guarantees are suspended throughout 

 the kingdom, the most extensive discretionary powers 

 are confided to the Government, and they are likewise 

 empowered to raise by loan the sum of 2000 contos, 

 or 450,000/. The publication of all the Lisbon journals 

 is by order suspended, except the official Diario. The 

 following persons have been arrested and are now confined 

 on board the Diana frigate : — Lourenco d'Oliveira Grigo, 

 formerly Civil Governor of Lisbon, Lionel Cavares Cabral, 

 editor of the Patriota, Antonio da C. Souto Maior, late 

 editor of the Tribuno, and J. L. da Silva, proprietor of a 

 nail factory at Fundicao. Orders have likewise been 

 issued for the arrest of Count Bomfim, Baron de Fos- 

 coa, Mendes Leite, Antonio R. Sampayo, J. A. do N. 

 Moraes Mantas, and A. C. Xavier de Quadros. The three 

 officers of the 2d Rifles imprisoned in the Castle were 

 strong Septembrist partisans. The persons for whose ar- 

 rest orders have been issued have thus far contrived to 

 elude pursuit. Of all these, the most important and influ- 

 ential is Count Bomfim, who obtained permission s few 

 days ago in the Chamber of Peers to proceed to Ejvas, 

 where he usually resides, and where he possesses consider- 

 able power. No doubt is entertained that his object is to 

 make a revolt there ; and as Elvas is a large garrison 

 town, and Count Bomfim is rather celebrated as a military 

 commander, it is dreaded that he may influence the gar- 

 rison to pronounce against the Government, and ti 

 create a most formidable nucleus of revolt. Incendiary 

 proclamations have already been issued both by him 

 the two military Septembrist Deputies, Cesar de \ascoo- 

 cellos and Jose Estevao, who are at the head of the insur- 

 gents of Torres Novas, in which they call themselves 

 Peninsular Army," and appear anxious to secure assis - 



- - - reviving the old 



ance from the disaffected in Spnin by 

 project of the " Iberian Republic," I 



to comprise 



both 



Spain 8nd Portugal in one commonwealth. "Ihe* 

 of the capital is under arms, which precaution it apP e 

 has extended to the Ministers of the Crown, for on 

 6th the horse on which Senhor Costa Cabral was mouriie 

 taking fright, in the ttruggle to save himself a iar= 

 double-barrelled pistol dropped from his pocket wM ^ 

 was picked up and returned to him by a looker-on. l 

 consternation prevails in Lisbon, and the drums v» 

 beating to arms when the packet lelt the Tagus. 



Germany.— The funeral of the late Duke of Saxe 

 Coburg Gotha took place on the 3d inst. in the chmca 

 attached to the Palace of Gctha, amidst talvos ci artillery 

 and the toiling of bells. The body lay in state theW 

 before in one of the principal apaitments of the * a J ac , ' Q 

 and was visited by several thousands from all parts ot 

 dukedom, all testifying deep regret. The precession *a 

 composed of all the officers of State Bl d of the housei l»oi^ 

 of the deceased, a considerable number of officers li 

 the Prussian garrison of Erfurt and Langenzalza, and • 

 great bulk of the population. The troops of the due y 

 and civic guards lined the way at each side. Ai er 

 service was chanted over the coffin, which was carrie V 

 to the altar by twelve gentlemen of the Court, the ens-p- 

 lain delivered a discourse reminding his hearers o 



