THE NEWSPAPER. 



[1844. 



,_ST B getting pecunury 8 u PP - England to 



fr^nt'of l2 '°ll L Su , abian Mercury mentions a report 



G " MA -',wTa Congress of SoTereigns will be held in 

 Vienna that a <-°"6™» d t , t the Em _ 



^ , uffiffi er «'^ *«£«£ „?LgUnd will be present. 

 p^r of R »'^* nd S tut S a"dt announce that the King of 

 ^Accounts f^^&osed, but was better on the 



l""Kpo rted " Munich, according to a letter of 

 9th.--lt is repo published in the Universal 



V U TcazeZ, ha in cise King Otho should happen 

 f n ^withont ""'heir, the young Duke of Wurtemberg, 

 ,0 ! „ nfl ouis-Phihppe, will be made successor to the 

 gSone^Our countrywoman Miss Birch has been 



filftoeral DUt of Hungary have adopted, without dis- 



,«inn and by a majority of 41 Totes against 8, a motion 

 cuinon, anaoyamj jr 



E3 



^nr~s7~Berlin, with the greatest success, under the 

 "T„Le of the Earl and Countess of Westmoreland 



otic 

 ^emancipation of the Jews.-We learn also from 

 Vfcnns that the Emperor, by letters patent of the 15th inst., 

 countersigned by all the Ministers and sealed with the 

 nd seal has granted to Baron Salomon Rothschild, the 

 d of the firm of Rothschild, in that capital, and to his 

 JaTle heirs, the right of purchasing and holding real pro- 

 perty of every description in the provinces of Moravia and 

 Silesia. He thus acquires a right which is denied to all 

 the Israelites throughout the Austrian monarchy. The 

 title of honorary burgess of Vienna, conferred upon him 

 list year by the municipality, secures to him a similar 

 privilege in that capital.— The Augsburg Gazette gives 

 the following from Posen, under date the 25th ult — t( The 

 fate of the Russo-Polish refugees is decided. This morn- 

 ing about two- thirds of them were sent under escort to 

 Magdeburg. The remainder will follow in a few days, 

 with the exception of a few, who have received permission 

 to stay until the end of March. Amongst the persons 

 affected by the measure are the Count de Plater, who has 

 always resided here in a very retired manner, and who 

 recently purchased an estate in the Grand Duchy ; the 

 rich Count de Potocki, son-in-law of Count Edward de 

 Razzinghi, Count Eugene Breza, and M. de Luszewski, 

 who is the owner of two houses in Posen." — It is ru- 

 moured that accounts have been received from Goritz 

 announcing the death of the Due d'Angouleme, but at 

 present we have no confirmation of the report. 



Swedi^t. — Letters from Stockholm of the 23d state 

 that the King ia much better. The papers mention an 

 interesting letter, which the King dictated himself from 

 his bed to the Duke of Wellington, in answer to one his 

 Grace had addressed to his Majesty. The King in this 

 letter expresses his profound esteem for the Duke, and 

 his gratitude for the sympathy and solicitude his Uraco 

 has constantly evinced during his severe malady. 



Malta.— Letters from Malta state that Capt. Glasscock, 

 of the Tyne frigate, has met with a serious accident, while 

 riding out near Beyrout, by a fall from his horse, by 

 which he broke his shoulder and fractured his ribs. He 

 was carried on board his frigate, and at the date of the last 

 letters, was doing well. 



Russia.— It is rumoured in political circles that the 

 Emperor of Russia may be expected in England in the 

 month of May, on a visit to the Queen.— Letters from 

 M. Fetersburgh, of the 20th ult., speak of the excessive 

 rigour of the winter. On the night of the 19th the cold 

 1S n jV ave been at 30° Reaumur below zero, which 

 equalled the intensity of the winter of 1813, when Napoleon 

 made his entry into Moscow. Although the people in 

 nussia are better clothed and prepared than then to face 



tnV*k emencies ° f the seaS0D > yet 14 persons were frozen 

 w aeatb on the nights of the 19th and 20th on one of the 

 roaas leading out of St. Petersburgh, and four more in 



ItU * u Snow was fal1 four feet dee P in the streets. 



thJ i k i ed that on tbe thaw takin S P lace > and 

 <«r.i f i akln £ U P» destructive floods would follow the 



AHmf i S un 0f the Neva - These letters state that 

 rer^nti t ii ' the favouri te Admiral of the Emperor, 

 i«nf rn £ uddenl y d °wn in a fit, and expired, at the 

 servi/p a Was formerI y a Lieutenant in the British 

 Rul«if« Was afterw ards made an Admiral in the 



««ian navy. The Emperor, in honour of a faithful 



front °r' W ;V° i aUend his faneral.— A letter from the 

 ttvs-f«\°n tu J * Feb ' 21 » in the Augsburgh Gazette, 

 the nnw e\ COa£t of the BIack Sea, and particularly 

 movernp f ^ebastopol and Odessa, are in the greatest 

 CaucaT T f. a8ses of ^oops are directed there for the 

 direct ii ' 1S . 8u PPOsed that the Emperor will himself 

 quarter. T ra *! on9 > and that he will admit to his head- 

 warfarp a milltar y men as are experienced in mountain 

 The onlr rr mon S*t others, General Yermoloff is named, 

 of thP p are not t0 be commenced until the arrival 



contrLi m l er0r 0Q tbe Kuban, which would seem to 

 from Tf * r - 6p ° rt 0f his i° urQe y to Germany. A letter 

 mrchwin ntmopIe states tbat Circassian agents are 

 cf last Z S "P ammunition there at any price."— The 1st 

 tttion of v b £ m S the 100th anniversary of the incorpo- 

 rated with Ssia with the Russian empire, was Cele- 

 bes th*. fnii 80B?e P ° mp at ° de3 sa- The Odessa Journal 

 countrv l no l0wln S comparative account of the state of the 



••Ts Li - yearS , back and at P rescnt : ~" New Russia," 

 100 ooo l^°K-f al ' " 10 ° years ago scarcely contained 

 bodieali • a i! ' and the se were a collection of various 

 now cnnV.!!?- ^? bber y a ?. d violence. The same country 



Germans, Bulga- 



souU Tk ' ains and villa g es > and 



throws PV JZ e commerce with foreign countiies 



«mbl e it ™ y ear ' 25 »000,000 silver roubles (the silver 

 c °mmerci a 7m Bb ° Ut 4f * 50c ') into circulation. The 

 *** roibl« t r eDt ° f ° deSSa ' in 1843 > was 17,141.023 

 stained in T.n eX ?2 rt o bein - WWW. Moscow 



m January, 1843, 357,185 inhabitants, and the 



dow mnV ■ " y rt r0DDer y and violence. ' 

 C s r ? 6 ° to !"»> 2 00 colonies of 



^oo,oo5 l :::ir%iT:i m *«•»- 



value of the buildings is not less than 70,000,000 silver 

 roubles, the insurances on which amount to 23,500,000 

 silver roubles." 



Turkey. — Letters from Constantinople of the 21st 

 ult. state that the Porte appeared little inclined to give 

 the written pledge required by the English and French 

 Ambassadors, " that the punishment of death should not 

 again be inflicted upon Rayahs who having embraced Ma- 

 hometanism, might subsequently recant its tenets." The 

 Turkish Ministers regarded the demand as an interference 

 with their national independence and their religious laws, 

 and were determined not to yield the point, and^abide the 

 consequences of their refusal. The last accounts from 

 Albania intimated that a general insurrection would 

 shortly take place in that province. 



United States. — The mail steamer Hibernia arrived 

 at Liverpool on Wednesday. She left Boston on the 1st, 

 and Halifax on the 3d inst., and has made an extraordi- 

 nary short passage. A terrible calamity had happened on 

 board the United States war steamer Princetown, by the 

 explosion of her great gun. It appears that she was on a 

 party of pleasure, and had several hundred guests on 

 board, including the President, the Secretaries of State, 

 and other distinguished persons. The ship had proceeded 

 down the river below Mount Vernon, and on her return, 

 when within 24 minutes' run of Alexandria, the* large gun 

 on the bow was fired, it being the second or third time it 

 had been discharged with ball and the usual service charge, 

 when it exploded at the breech and spread death and de- 

 struction on the deck. The breech of the gun was severed, 

 and carried away the bulwark of the ship opposite to it. 

 It was the iron fragments, it is supposed, which struck 

 down so many on board, who could not have been be- 

 hind the gun. The accident took place about sunset. 

 A steam-boat from Alexandria, which was passing, was 

 sent back to town, and returned with several surgeons. 

 President Tyler escaped unhurt, but the following were 

 killed on the spot :-»The Secretary of State, Mr. Upshur ; 

 the Secretary of the Navy, Governor Gilmer; Commo- 

 dore Kennon, Chief of the Bureau of Construction of the 

 Navy ; Virgil Maxey, Esq., and David Gardiner, of Gar- 

 diner's Island, New York ; and six sailors are reported 

 badly wounded. One of the President's servants, a 

 coloured man, has since died. Colonel Benton and Cap- 

 tain Stockton, Commander of the ship, were slightly in- 

 jured. Colonel Benton's injury arose not from any 

 fragment of the gun, but merely from the concussion. 

 He was at the butt of the gun, taking its range when it 

 fired. He was not sensible of its stunning effect until he 

 had called for aid to the bleeding sailors. He was stunned 

 for a time, but was enabled to walk afterreaching the shore, 

 and has given a distinct account of the dreadful scene. Capt. 

 Stockton was burnt by the powder, but not much injured. 

 The daughter of Mr. Upshur, several of the family of 

 Commodore Kennon, and the daughters of Mr. Gardiner 

 were on board the steamer, but none of them except Mrs. 

 Gilmer were apprised of the death of those most dear to 

 them until after their return to the city. Almost all the 

 ladies were below at dinner when the catastrophe occurred. 

 Mrs. Gilmer was brought to the city almost in a state of 

 distraction. There were 200 ladies on board, and during 

 the two discharges of the gun were on the deck, and many 

 of them approached very near to observe the course of the 

 ball after it struck the water. If they had not been at 

 dinner at the time the consequences would have been 

 still more alarming ; but fortunately no lady was injured. 

 — The Legislature of Pennsylvania have at last made a 

 move in relation to their State debt, and passed a bill pro- 

 viding for the February interest. This bill contemplates 

 the payment of cash when the amount of interest does 

 not exceed 20 dollars, and the issue of 6 per cent, certifi- 

 cates for all larger sums payable in August 1846.— A 

 letter has been addressed by some persons in New Hamp- 

 shire to Mr. Daniel Webster, requesting permission to 

 nominate him as a candidate for the office of President at 

 the next election. To this application Mr. Webster replied, 

 "I "think it my duty, under existing circumstances, to 

 request those who may feel a preference for me not to 

 indulge in that preference." 



West Indies.— By the Forth Royal Mail steamer we 

 have accounts to the following dates: — Jamaica 9th, 

 Barbadoes 1 4th, Demerara 3d, and Trinidad 1st Feb. 

 Private investigation connected with the late robbery at the 

 Jamaica Bank is alluded to as tending to a discovery of the 

 culprit. Her Majesty's schooner Pickle had arrived from 

 Port Royal, with specie for the troops, and was about to 

 proceed to the Coast of Cuba. According to theJDenierara 

 papers the weather, notwithstanding its variable character, 

 was on the whole favourable for Agricultural operations. 

 At the meeting of the British Guiana Bank a dividend of 

 2 per cent, for the half-year had been declared. A slight 

 shock of an earthquake was felt in Demerara on the 19th 

 of January. The Barbadoes accounts give very little in- 

 teresting news. The weather continued changeable and few 

 of the overdue vessels from England had arrived. At the 

 latest dates appearances indicated either heavy rains or a 

 thunder-storm. From Trinidad, Dominica, and Antigua 

 scarcely a fact comes worthy of record. Sir H. M'LeoU, 

 the Governor of Trinidad, had been assaulted while riding 

 out in his carriage by a drunken black, who however, 

 apparently, was unacquainted with the party he had 

 abused, and hence the attendance of his Excellency to ask 

 the redress of his grievance at the hands of the local 

 magistrates had created much surprise among the negro 

 population, when they found that punishment could not be 

 inflicted by the Governor, even where his own person was 

 concerned, without an appeal first made to a court of jus- 

 tice. At Martinique a severe shock of an earthquake had 

 been experienced, but, fortunately, no damage followed. 

 I Brazils.— -The Petrel Packet arrived at Falmouth on 



Wednesday from Rio, which she left on the 28th Jan. 

 The Pearl brought despatches from Monte Video to the 

 loth Jan., which were put on board the packet as she was 

 coming out. — An unpleasant affair occurred at Santos, 

 where Capt. Willis, the commander, and the master of 

 Her Majesty's brig Frolic, after dining with the English 

 Consul, were attacked by several persons. The com- 

 mander's skull was fractured, the master much bruised, 

 and the steward's arm broken ; but they were all reported 

 to be going on well. The commerce of Rio during the 

 past year continued in the same depressed state as in the 

 year preceding, and showed, as regards both imports and 

 exports, none of the symptoms of improvement observable 

 in the great markets of England and the United States. 



•fflar I iamciu 



HOUSE OF LORDS. 



Monday.— The Earl of Radnor presented the Somerset county 

 meeting petition in favour of free trade. Some discussion arose, 

 in the course of which Lord Portm an denied that the meeting 

 was a fair criterion of the feelings of the people of the county of 

 Somerset; and the Duke of Wkllixgto.v exprc d a decided 

 opinion that it would be very injudicious to interfere with the 

 present corn- law.— Lord Brougham, in moving the reference to 

 a select committee of his Privy Council Appellate Jurisdiction 

 Bill, made a pointed reference to the remarks which it has drawn 

 forth, especially characterising the charge, that lie was carving 

 out a place for himself, as a slander invented l>y Malice, and her 

 bastard sister Falsehood. He had already three times refused 

 such an appointment. The committee was tlu n nominated, and 

 an instruction was given to it to divide the Bill into two parts, 

 viz., that which establi^ies a Pr< lent and two Puisne Judges 

 to the Court, and that which extends the jurisdiction of the 

 Court to divorces u vinculo matrimonii. — Lord \Yharn< i.ikkk, la 

 reply to Lord Brougham, said that the new Houses of Parlia- 

 ment might be rendered capable of accommodating their lord- 

 ships by the next session of Parliament, if the House of Com- 

 mons would go to the expense of temporary fittings. It was im- 

 possible to have the house ready in a permanent state at so 

 early a period.— The Bishop of Petbrboroi gh, in reply to Lord 

 Lilford, said, that under the Church Discipline Act he had no 

 power of interfering In the case of the Rev. Herbert Marsh, as 

 the act restricted his jurisdiction to two years, and the immo- 

 rality complained of had occurred four years ago. The indi- 

 vidual, however, who had caused this scandal, had not officiated 

 for a long time his duties having been performed by a curate. 



Tuesdw.— On the motion of Lord Cottemiam, a committee was 

 appointed to consider a petition from the Dissenters of Dublin, pray- 

 ing that the Bill latelv laid on the table of the House, respecting the 

 property of Dissenters, which consisted of chapels and bunal- 

 crounds, might be extended to Ircland.-Lord Monteaclk moved 

 for returns relating to the Roman Catholic Colh-ge of Maynooth, 

 and entered into a statement of the past and sent condition of 

 that seminary, with the view of urging on the Government the ne- 

 cessity of enlarging the grant, and resorting to other means with the 

 intent of elevating the clergymen there educated.- rhe Duke of 

 Wellington made no objection to the production of the returns, 

 but expressed his regret that the statement had been made by Lord 

 Monteagle before the necessary papers were before their Lordships. 

 *' My Lord*," said his Grace, " I am not now in a position to state 

 —fearing I should only deceive your lordships -that it is the in- 

 tention of the Government to make any alteration in this grant, but, 

 undoubtedly, the Government must take the whole subject into their 

 consideration ; though I am not authorised to say that any alteration 

 will be made in the grant, and of course, if any such intention shall 

 be anuounced, it will be announced, in the first instance, in that 

 quarter where the grant must originate."-The Marquess of Lans- 

 downe thought that, for the purpose of giving an efficient and en- 

 larged education to the Roman Catholic clergy, it would be neces- 

 sary that this grant should be greatly increased. 



Thursday.— Lord Prudhoe presented several petitions from 

 Northumberland, praying for protection to Agriculture-Peti- 

 tions deprecating the proceedings of the Anti-Corn Law League 

 were presented by Lords Sondes and Fkvkrsiiau.— On the 

 motion of Lord Cottenham the Committee on Chapels, &c, 

 (Dissenters), Bill was nominated. _^ # _^ 



Friday —After the presentation of petitions against the union 

 of the Sees of St. Asaph and Bangor, and the York and Scar- 

 borough Railway Bill, Lord Campbell called attention to the 

 case of the Rev. Mr. Marsh, and the Bishop of Peterborough 

 explained that he could not have proceeded against him at an 

 earlier period, because he was not aware of the facts. He was truly 



gratified to say that immorality in the Church was the exception, 

 and not the rule; and he was satisfied that the manner in 

 which the Government and their Lordships disposed of their 

 patronage would be of great benefit to the Church. After a few 

 words from Lord Lilford, the conversation terminated .-The 

 Thrce-and-a- Half percent. AnnuiticsB.il was brought up frorn 

 Commf.sioners, as was the Consolidated Fund (s.ooa.oooj.) Bill, 

 both of which were read a first time-Lord Cottkn ham laid oa 

 trie tabic the report of the Select Committee on Dissenters 

 Property Bill. It recommended that the provisions of the bill 

 on the subject should be extended to Irel and. 



HOUSE OF COMMONS. 

 Friday -After the adoption of the Chancellor of the Exche- 

 que '^proposal for the refaction of the 3* per Cen s to thj ,j«j- 



£» nS&^S * -* caned" ?E SSISS oft°he 

 House lt to C tl^ coTmerda «£ ionl of England with the River 

 Plate He enlarged "pon their importance ; he urged the neces- 

 sity of ome endeavour to terminate the quarrels of Buenos 

 A res and Montevideo, and he requested some >nfonnat>oa 

 ** ,~ n,« nmenprt of «uch an adjustment.— o'.r k. rhEi 

 a^d n & deVr e ec P a\rn??LlonLuance of J the hostilities between 

 the South American states and parties; the mediation of Eng- 

 land he wevcr had been tried, but without effect; and armed 

 n tervention was not a course which she ought to attempt. He 

 believed however that the reverses sustained by one of the par- 

 ties were now likely to lead to a ptc.ficat.on.-On the motion 

 that the Speaker should leave the chair, in order to go into 

 Committee of Supply, Mr. S. Crawford protested against pro- 

 ceeding to vote away the people's money while the people con- 

 tinued to be insufficiently represented in that House -The House 

 then resolved itself into Committee, and proceeded with the 

 estimatcs.-The report of the Commissioners of Inquiry into the 

 state of South Wales was laid on the table. 



Mondap.— Mr. O'Conn-ell gave notice for an early day after 

 Easter to bring in a bill to define the law of conspiracy, and the 

 taking of evidence relative thereto; also, for a bill to repeal a.I 

 the laws relating to landlord and tenant that had been passed .tor 

 Ireland since the Union, and to enact that no landlord in irelana 

 shall have power to levy a distre-s for sums under 201., ^xcepe 

 on a lease of lives, or a lease of not less than 2 1 r^f-rt-t 

 Chancellor of the Exchequer corrected a »' , ^r fblt oortion 

 been made respecting the power of Parliament over i that portKm 

 of the Thrcc-and-a-Half per Cents, which »kno«n«««»e ^tocK 

 of 1818. It had been supposed that ^tiSSX t^irVtS 

 amounts of 509,000/. at a time^ and ^wwuld, '^[^XhL stock 

 years for its entire discharge. The fact *"£?J*{™ e<i9 than 

 of 1818 could be paid off at six months' notice, but not less tnai 

 500,000/. was to be paid off at , any time under this powe 



0,000/. was to be paid ^ « -»' fc " Vies T Acts was then brought 



SM£i WC Stt fna U birfounded on the resolu- 



