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THE NEWSPAPER. 



[1844. 







party to any reitraint being laid on military men in pri- 

 vate life, to which other gentlemen were not subjected. 

 The debate on th^sday, though less lengthy, was more 

 general in its ©bjSts. The resolution proposed by Mr. 

 Turner, pledging!: the House to a declaration against 

 duelling, was ultimately withdrawn, but it had 

 the effect of ejjciting from many leading Members 

 of both sides ttf the House a decided expression of 

 their feel ingfc'jnSir Hubert Peel doubted whether any 

 legislation 'womfc' be effectual, and stated that though 

 the Gov'etifiment had been influenced by this consi- 

 deration in not bringing forward any law on the sub- 

 ject, they were nevertheless willing to allow a fair and 

 dispassionate discussion of any measure which might be 

 introduced.— On Tuesday Mr. Cobden brought forward 

 his motion for a select committee to inquire into the effects 

 of protective duties on imports on the interests of the 

 tenant-farmers and farm- labourers of this country. A 

 long debate ensued, for which we must refer to our r& L t, 

 and at its close the motion was negatived by a majority of 

 91. On Wednesday a discussion took >ce on the second 

 reading of Lord Worsley's Inclosure Bill, and Mr. S. 

 Crawford moved as an amendment that it be read that day 

 six months ; on a division, however, the second reading 

 was carried by a majority of 47. 



J From France, we learn that the question so long at issue 

 between the Church and the University on the subject of 

 education, is daily assuming fresh importance, and that 

 the approaching debate on the Secret Service Money Bill 

 is, by the consent of all parties, to be considered a vote of 

 confidence in the Ministry. — From Spain we have no 

 news of any consequence respecting the disturbed districts, 

 and from Portugal there is merely the announcement that 

 the military insurgents are making a hopeless stand in the 

 indefensible fortress of Almeida. — The accounts from the 

 United States contain the details of a melancholy accident 

 on board a new war steamer, by which two Secretaries of 

 State and other official persons were killed. President 

 Tyler and two hundred ladies of the first families of New 

 York were on board, but fortunately escaped uninjured. 



the late Sir John Vaughan, Justice of the Common Pleas. 

 The present baronet was elected representative of South 

 Leicestershire in 1832, and has since continued Member 

 for that district. 



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Court. — The Queen held her first levee for the season 

 on Wednesday, which was very numerously attended. 

 The second levee takes place on Wednesday next. Her 

 Majesty and Prince Albert have taken their usual walk 

 in the Palace Gardens, during the week, whenever the 

 weather has permitted. Prince Albert presided at a meet- 

 ing of the Fine Arts Commissioners on Friday, and at a 

 meeting of the Office of the Duchy of Cornwall on Thurs- 

 day. Her Majesty received a small circle at dinner on 

 Wednesday evening, being the first dinner party at the 

 Palace since the death of the Duke of Saxe-Coburg. The 

 Court mourning will expire in about a fortnight; after 

 which it is expected that Her Majesty will give a series 

 of banquets and evening parties. The Black Eagle 

 steam-vessel left Woolwich on Tuesday for Portsmouth, 

 to be in readiness at the latter port to receive 

 Prince Albert, and convey his Royal Highness to the 

 Isle of Wight, for the purpose of personally examining 

 Osborne House, the marine residence which it is expected 

 Her Majesty will occupy in that island during the ap- 

 proaching season. His Royal Highness will leave town 

 on Monday for this purpose. It is rumoured that the 

 King of the French will visit Her Majesty at her marine 

 residence in the autumn, and that the Emperor of Russia 

 will previously pay a visit to the Queen at Windsor. It 

 is understood that the royal apartments in K.ew Palace 

 are to be forthwith prepared for the temporary sojourn of 

 the Prince of Wales and the Princesses, during the stay 

 of the Court in town. A rumour has been current that 

 Prince Albert will go, during the Easter recess, on a 

 short excursion to the continent, to visit his relations at 

 Coburg ; but the report appears to be entirely without 

 foundation. Viscountess Joceljn has succeeded Lady 

 Portman as the lady in waiting. The Marquis of 

 Ormonde hns succeeded Lord Byron as the lord in wait- 

 ing ; and Sir Frederick Stovin has succeeded Admiral 

 Sir R. Otway as the groom in w ing on Her Majesty. 



Death of Sir Henry Hal ford. — Our obituary this 

 week records the death of this eminent physician, who 

 expired at his residence in Curzon-street on Saturday 

 evening after a protracted and painful illness. The de- 

 ceased was second son of Dr. Vaughan, of Leicester, by 

 Miss Smdley, maternal granddaughter of Sir R. Halford, 

 Bart., and cousin of the last baronet of that family. He 

 was born 17CC, and married March 31, 1795, the second 

 daughter of Lord St. John, *ho died in 1833. On the 

 death of Sir Charles Halford, Bart., his cousin, he inhe- 

 rited the estates of that baronet, and assumed the name 

 of Halford. Sir Henry for a lengthened t : me was physi- 

 cian to George III. and George IV., and attended the 

 Duke of York and Duke of Gloucester during their last 

 illnesses. Although retired from his profV nal duties, 

 he still retained his appointment as Physician to the 

 Duchess of Gloucester and Princess Sophia, and was one 

 of the physicians in ordinary to the Queen. He was 

 President of the Royal College of Physicians, ;.ud was 

 distinguished for his cl is^ic 1 and literary acquirements. 

 His Latin Essays and Orations are models of elegant La- 

 tinity, and he was considered the most accomplished 

 scholar in the profession. He 13 succeeded in his bard- 

 net cy and estates by Mr. Henry Halford, M.P., born in 

 1798, and married to the second daughter of his uncle, 



France. — The Paris Journals are principally taken up 

 with the renewed debate in the Chamber of Deputies, on 

 the Fortifications question, and with the subject of the 

 Secret Service Money. Ministers obtained a majority on 

 the Fortifications, as the most enthusiastic of the Repub- 

 lican party were in favour of those works, " convinced that 

 no French soldiers would ever concur in rendering them 

 ayrilable for starving, much less for cannonading the capi- 

 tal" and the Deputies generally approved of their construc- 

 tion ; but it was distinctly understood that the arming of 

 the detached forts " in time of peace" would not be sanc- 

 tioned by the Chamber.— The Deputies met on Thursday 

 in their standing committees to examine the Secret Service 

 Money Bill. The friends of the Ministry succeeded in 

 returning eight commissioners out of nine. The com- 

 mission met on Monday, when Marshal Soult, M. Guizot, 

 and their colleagues of the Home Department were pre- 

 sent, and replied to various questions of internal and 

 external policy. On being asked whether the English 

 Government had been requested to recall Mr. Pritchard 

 their Consul at Otaheite, and in such case what 

 answer had been received, M. Guizot said that he 

 did not deem it proper to reply to the first part of 

 the question ; but with regard to the second, he 

 declared that he had full confidence in the good 

 faith of the English Cabinet and believed that Con- 

 sul Pritchard would be disavowed and recalled. In reply 

 to other questions, the three Ministers assured the Com- 

 mittee that tbey had no objection whatever to the Secret 

 Service Money Bill being viewed, as in former years, as a 

 vote of confidence in the Administration, but that on 

 the contrary, they would be glad to see the Opposition 

 submit their policy, on that occasion, to the judgment of 

 the Chamber. The debate will probably commence on 

 Monday next. — At one of the previous sittings, the Cham- 

 ber a second time annulled the election of M. Charles 

 Laffitte for Louviers ; the first having been declared void 

 on the ground that he had made use of some railway 

 scheme as the means of securing his return. — The dispute 

 between the Church and the University is assuming an 

 exceedingly serious character. The Moniteur of Sunday 

 contains a letter from the Minister of Justice to the Arch- 

 bishop of Paris, condemning him in the strongest terms 

 for having, in concert with four of his suffragans (the 

 Bishops of Blois, Meaux, Versailles, and Orleans), drawn 

 up and signed a memorial on the subject of public In- 

 struction, which u casts blame on the state establishments 

 for education, as well as on the corps of teachers, and 

 which makes insinuations against a Minister of the King." 

 The Minister reminds the Archbishop that there is a law 

 of association against bishops deliberating together without 

 permission — a law which must not be eluded by " making 

 correspondence supply the place of deliberation." And, 

 finally, the Minister reminds the Prelate of the ne- 

 cessity of observing the articles of the- Concordat. 

 Hitherto the present Archbishop of Paris has been 

 most moderate, and acted as an intermediate between 

 the Minister and the more zealous clergy. His 

 going into opposition renders the affair more serious than 

 it has yet been. In addition to this the Abbe' Combalot, 

 a preacher of some note, was sentenced at the Paris As- 

 sizes, on Wednesday, to an imprisonment of a fortnight 

 and a fine of 4000f., for the publication of a look against 

 the irreligious tendency of the University system of in- 

 struction. — The leading Italian political refugees in Paris 

 were on Friday sent for by the Prefect of Police, and 

 cautioned against carrying on or entering into any con- 

 spiracy for revolutionising Italy. General Pepe expressed 

 his indignation at the proceeding, which he declared per- 

 fectly unjustified by facts. It was nevertheless the uni- 

 versal belief in Paris that the entire Italian peninsula is 

 ripe and ready for revolt, but that no dinger of a rising 

 on a large scale can exist during a time of peace, or so 

 long as the colossal force of Austria in Italy remains un- 

 diminished. — The Ministry was still engaged in its war 

 with the press. The appeal of the National against a 

 sentence of the Correctional Police was rejected by the 

 Court of Cassation on Friday. Twelve of the soldiers of 

 the 70th Regiment, arrested for the alleged military con- 

 spiracy, were sent in chains from Paris on the same day 

 for embarkation for Algiers. — The Toulonnais of the 5th 

 inst. announces, that Rear-Admiral Hamelin had been 

 summoned up to Paris by telegraph. It was believed in 

 Toulon that he would be sent to replace Admiral Dupetit 

 Thouars in the command of the South Sea station. A 

 subscription has been got up in Paris for the purpose of 



England, already decreed by previous law of June 1340 

 is to be directed upon Calais, Dunkirk, and Boulogne' 

 The lines upon Calais and Dunkirk will leave the lm* 

 upon the Belgian frontier and Ostricourt between Douav 

 and Lisle, and will be directed — that on Calais by Haze- 

 brouck and St. Omer — that on Dunkirk by Hazebrouck 

 and the west of Cassel. The Boulogne line will leave the 

 Belgian line at Amiens, and be directed by Abbeville and 

 Etables. A sum of fifteen millions of francs is to be 

 appropriated to the establishment of the lines on Dunkirk 

 and Calais. — In addition to the murder of Mr. Ward the 

 Paris papers mention several other instances of crime 

 recently perpetrated in the capital, and its vicinity. Among 

 them is that of a young man, a student of pharmacy, aged 

 21, who was convicted on Saturday of robbery, and sen- 

 tenced to death for murdering a poor lady of 75 years of 

 age, at her residence, in one of the most populous streets 

 of Paris, and in broad daylight. This announcement fol- 

 lows in the papers an account of the murder of a poor 

 woman, under nearly similar circumstances, in the Fau- 

 bourg St. Martin, Paris, on Thursday last ; while on Sun- 

 day afternoon, a vine-dresser from Vermecey, who had 

 passed the day at Orleans, was waylaid on his return and 

 shot dead ; and it is said that another murder has just 

 taken place at Montargis. — The papers mention a quarrel 

 between the crews of a French and English vessel at Mar- 

 seilles — an event which would pass unnoticed in London, 

 or Liverpool ; but such is the state of public feeling in 

 France, that the affair is gravely announced as another 

 insult to the French flag. — The floods were subsiding in 

 Paris ; but the accounts from the south state the occur- 

 rence of disasters throughout the country from the inun- 

 dations. 



Spain. — We have accounts from Madrid of the 8th 

 inst. Queen Isabella II. and her sister accompanied by 

 General Narvaez, two Ministers of State, and the principal 

 officers of her household, left Madrid for Aranjuez on the 

 morning of the 6th to meet the Queen-mother Maria 

 Christina, who was to sleep on the 10th at Albacete. Her 

 first interview with her daughters was to take place be- 

 tween Ocana and Aranjuez. — A telegraphic despath from 

 Perpignan states that the entry of Queen Christina into 

 Barcelona on the 4th was a triumph ; there was great en- 

 thusiasm, and the town was magnificently illumiaated. 

 Her Majesty was to leave on the 7th or 8th bj land for 

 Tarragona, there to embark for Valencia. The arrival of 

 Queen Christina in Madrid is looked «pon by all parties 

 as the prelude of a change of Ministry. If Her Majesty 

 should give her support to the present party it is said that 

 the Progressistas <™= determined upon a movement similar 

 to that of 184Q. It is also said that the marriage of Queen 

 Isabella to her cousin the Count Trapani is not only 

 pushed with vigour, but is nearly certain. ^ The Nea- 

 politan Ambassador has had several interviews on the 

 subject with Senor Gonzales Bravo, who had expressed 

 his approbation of the project ; and the Duke de Rivas, the 

 Spanish Minister now on his way to Naples, is said to 

 be a stanch partisan of a matrimonial union with Naples. 

 The inscription and other emblems commemorative of the 

 revolution of the 1st Sept., 1840, had been removed from 

 the facade of the Town-house in compliment to Queen 

 Christina.— The last despatches from General Roncali, 

 dated Villa Franquesa, the 29th ult, state that early is 

 the morning of that day the insurgents of Alicant, to the 

 number of 300 infantry, with CO horse, and 2 pieces of 

 artillery, made a sortie in the direction of the Cruz de 

 Piedra, for the purpose of destroying the batteries in pro- 

 gress of construction on that side. They were, however, 

 charged by detachments of the regiments of Savoy ana 

 Lusitania, who occupied that point, and beaten back into 

 the place, with the loss of six killed, and a large numoer 

 wounded. The siege artillery had not then been landea, 

 owing to the boisterous state of the sea. A M er f?P & "' 

 dated Bayonne, March 11, states that Alicant and its ga 

 rison have risen against the chief, Boner, who uas 11c , 

 and that the town and fort are in the hands ottnc uuw 

 troops.— The contemplated expedition against Aiorottu 

 was a general subject of conversation. By^ome ^ 



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subscription is fixed at 10 sous each.— The Duke de 

 Nemours has been ill, but is now convalescent.— The 

 Journal dit Havre says: — "Persons who have a direct 

 intercourse with the Court of the Tuileries inform 

 us that it is arranged that, about September next, 

 Louis-Philippe shall proceed in person, with all his 

 Court, to England, in order to pay a visit to Queen Vic- 

 toria. The interview will not take place in London, but in 

 the Isle ot Wight. It seems to be believed at the Tuile- 

 ries, that after his visit to the Isle of Wight, Louis-Philippe 

 will p< rsuade Queen Victoria to make an excursion to 

 Paris."— M. Dumon, the Minister of Public Works, has 

 laid on the table of the Chamber of Deputies, a project of 

 law relating to the railroads to be constructed from Paris 

 to the Belgian frontier, from Paris upon England, and 

 from Orleans to Vierzon. The railway from Paris upon 



stated that its effective force would amount to 4J, 

 infantry and 2000 cavalry, and that the com . m * nd f ! ° h g .Id- 

 would be given to General Concha, and that ot in 

 vanced guard to General Prim. Others belie \f ;.7_ ere 

 troops now assembling at Puerto de Santa IN lar; * h 

 merely intended to reinforce the garrison of Ceu.a, 

 had been of late menaced by the Moors ; while m 

 believed that, in the present distracted state ot Dpaiu, 

 expedition against a foreign power will be attemr. * ' 



Portugal.— Accounts from Lisbon of the Ot 

 that the military insurrection is not yet altc 3 ti- 

 pressed. The insurgents have shut themselves ^ 

 Almeida, a place of considerable strength in toime ^ 

 The principal fort and works were greatly in] ur / 

 1 - ■ >d indefensible "J 



enting a sword of honour to Admiral Thouars, and a French, and were still further rendered 

 iderabie sum his been received, although the maximum troops. The civil Governor recently, 



on evacuating^ 

 consisting of J** 



troops. The civil Governor recently, v« --- ffoU r 

 town, was ordered to spike the guns, co ° sl ; ns f ruC tion3 

 pieces of different calibre, dismounted; tllC in j n the 



were no 

 hands 



ot complied with, and these .pieces ' ie "; dtr00 ps 

 of the insurgents. ^number of ^mnent » 

 in Almeida arc eaid by the friends of the uov ^ 



amount to 600 ; by the friends of the insurgents t 1 ^ 

 estimated at upwards of 1000. The Count ue jo ^ 

 has been indefatigable in his endeavours to P iace fJ , hc to *o 

 in a state capable of resisting his assailants. ^ 



is now regularly besieged by the troops unuer ^ 

 mand of the Baron de Leiria and the Counts ^ 



Nova and Vinhaes. They have four rieui-p ^ { 

 them, the besieged have as many dismountea ^ flf 



be made serviceable. It is stated they nav e ^ 



provisions, but the want of money is ac*no * ^ 

 heir partisans. The Government, on the contrary 







