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THE NEWSPAPER. 



[1844. 



m .^r^Th^hrovin them. Sir J. Graham 

 W Sfc R- Peel opposed the amendment as an unjast 

 interference with a particular branch of manufactures, 

 SST atbtri were left without any kind of restric- 

 ^ They argued that a redaction of labour 

 \M i lead to a reduetion of wages, and that a 

 in of the employment of wemen and children was 

 a limitation of the&bour of adult males. Sir. R. 

 3Pcon«itere.d thaUj>e adoption of the amendment would 

 lead to fur^er'-k^ation in regard to agricultural and 

 other occupations involving continuous labour in exposed 

 or unhealthy atmospheres j and declared that he could 

 not attempt a task so extensive in its nature and applica- 

 tion. Lord J. Russell supported Lord Ashley, in the 

 hope that a limitation of the hours of labour would com- 

 pel us to resort to additional supplies of foreign corn, in 

 order to counteract the fall in wages. After an interesting 

 discussion, the House divided, leaving Ministers m a mi- 

 nority of 9. 



In France, M. Guizot's Cabinet have been more suc- 

 cessful III the great debate on the Secret Service Money 

 Bill, which, by consent of all parties, was considered a 

 vote of confidence in the Ministry. The debate com- 

 menced on Monday, and after two days' discussion, di- 

 rected chiefly to the quarrel between the Church and the 

 University on the subject of education, the Chambers di- 

 vided, giving Ministers a majority of 56 ; a much larger 

 one than they had themselves anticipated. This result 

 decides the stability of the Cabinet, which is now secure 

 in the possession of office for the remainder of the session. 

 In Spain the Alicante insurrection has added another san- 

 guinary scene to the revolutionary drama of the country. 

 Gen. Roncali has captured and shot M. Bonet the leader of 

 the insurgents and 23 of his followers, including many offi- 

 cers of high military rank. Gen. Puig-Samper has also exe- 

 cuted the insurgent leaders at Lugo, and an account of a 

 fresh outbreak at Valencia will probably add to this cata- 

 logue of atrocities.— The accounts from Portugal state that 

 the military rebellion is not yet subdued, and that it has 

 gained fresh importance by the accession of large parties 

 of banditti. The students at Coimbra have pronounced 

 in favour of the movement, and the Queen's troops are 

 still inactive before Almeida, being completely powerless 

 for want of artillery.— From Stockholm we have the long 

 expected announcement of the death of the King of 

 Sweden, one of the last great survivors of the French Re- 

 volution, and one of the most prudent and successful of 

 Napoleon's generals. 



Court. — Her Majesty and Prince Albert, accompanied 

 by the Prince of Wales and the Princesses, left town on 

 Saturday for Claremont. On Monday, Prince Albert 

 visited the Isle of Wight for the purpose of inspecting 

 Osborne House, near Cowes, the proposed marine resi- 

 dence of her Majesty. His Royal Highness travelled by 

 a special train on the South Western Railway, and em- 

 barked at Portsmouth, where he was received with the 

 usual honours. It is said that the result of the Prince's 

 visit will be the selection of the mansion for one year's 

 trial at a rental of 1000/. On Tuesday, the Queen and 

 Prince, accompanied by the Princess Royal, came to town 

 from Claremont, and on Wednesday her Majesty held her 

 second levee for the season. On Thursday, her Majesty 

 held a court at Buckingham Palace, and afterwards took 

 an airing in art open carriage. The first drawing-room 

 will be held on Monday next the 25th inst. — Orders have 

 been issued for the Court to go into mourning on Tuesday 

 next for the King of Sweden, and to go out of mourning 

 on the lGth April. 



Parliamentary Movements. — Thomas Batcson, Esq., 

 brother of the late member for Londcnderry, has been 

 elected for that town without opposition. — A vacancy has 

 occurred in the representation o( Hastings by the retire- 

 ment of Mr. Planta ; and Mr. R. R. R. Moore, of the 

 Anfi-Corn-Law Ltague, has come forward as a candidate. 

 — A vacancy has also occurred in the borough of Christ- 

 church by the resignation of Sir G. Rose. 



Death of the Earl of Lonsdale. — His Lordship died at 

 his residence, at Twickenham, on Monday last, in his 87th 

 year. He had been some time indisposed, and was seized 

 on Saturday with the prevailing influenza. His Lordship 

 is succeeded by his son, Lord Lowther, the present Post- 

 master-General. 



Royal College of Physicians. — On Wednesday the Fel- 

 lows of this College met for the purpose of choosing a 

 President in the rcom of the late Sir Henry Halford, when 

 Dr. Paris was elected, by ballot, to fill that office. 



Knighthood. — The Queen has been pleased to confer 

 the honour of knighthood on Capt. James Clark Ross, 

 R.N. ; on Dr. Charles F. Foibes, Inspector-General of 

 Hospitals ; on Geo. Philip Lee, Esq., Lieutenant of 

 the Yeomen of the Guard ; on Col. Robert Nickle, K.H. ; 

 and on William Bain, Esq., Master, 11. N. 



The Church. — The Queen has been pleased to direct 

 letters patent to pass the Great Seal of the United King- 

 dom, nominating the Rev. Edward Feild, M.A., to the 

 bishopric of Newfoundland. The Queen has also been 

 pleased to grant the archdeaconry of the Isle of Man, and 

 the rectory of Andreas in that island, to the Rev. J. C. 

 Moore, M.A., the same being void by the death of the 

 Rev. J. C. Hail. 





France.— The official documents which Sir R. Peel 

 laid before Parliament last week relative to the trench 

 protectorate of Otaheite, have supplied the Paris papers 

 with ample materials for comment. L The Ministerial 

 journals receive them with satisfaction, and regret that 

 they were not given to the public before the discussion in 

 the Chamber of Deputies, believing that they would alone 

 have been sufficient to have destroyed all the accusations 

 directed on that occasion against the Government. They 

 approve of them as showing that the English Government, 

 from the beginning of the establishment of a protectorate 

 by France over the Society Islands, had given the British 

 naval commanders orders to make no difficulty of saluting 

 the French flag, and also directed the English consul^ to 

 recommend to Queen Pomare to observe the convention 

 which she had signed. On the other hand the Opposition 

 papers consider that the Papers justify Admiral Dupetit 

 Thouars, and supply additional proof that it was fear of 

 England which induced the Government to recall him. The 

 journals also refer to the conversion of the Three-and-a- 

 Half per Cents, in this country , which the greater number of 

 them contend ought to be immediately imitated in France by 



the reduction of the interest on the French Five per Cents. 

 The demonstration of sympathy for Ireland at Covent- 

 garden Theatre is the subject of comment in most of the 

 papers. AU of them praise the moderation and justness 

 of the views announced by Mr. O'Connell, and prophecy 

 that in his peaceful agitation in England, he will prove a 

 more dangerous enemy to the Ministry, than in his vio- 

 lent system of agitation in Ireland. — The feud between 

 the Clergy and University is daily assuming additional 

 violence. The Bishops of France are gradually joining in 

 the remonstrances which the Archbishop of Paris and 

 other Prelates have made against the irreligious tendency 

 of the system of public instruction pursued by the Uni- 

 versity ; and, in upholding the latter institution, the Go- 

 vernment have failed to conciliate the influential body 

 whose support it is interested in securing. We mentioned 

 last week the condemnation at the Paris assizes, of the 

 Abbe Combalot, for a publication against the University. 

 A letter has since been addressed to the Abbe by the 

 Bishop of Chalons, expressing the approbation and sym- 

 pathy of the clergy of his diocese ; and another letter has 

 been published by Cardinal Bonald. the Bishop of Lyons, 

 in which his eminence attacks the University and the Go- 

 vernment most violently. — In the Chamber of Deputies 

 on Monday a discussion took place, upon a motion brought 

 forward by M. de Beaumont, M. Lacrosse, and M. Ley- 

 rand, for the prevention of bribery at elections. The 

 motion was agreed to without a division. M. Ducha- 

 tel, the Minister of the Interior, protested against 

 the allegation made by the Opposition respecting the 

 intervention of the Government agents in elections, 

 and declared that the Government was most anxious 

 to secure the purity and liberty of election. The 

 Chamber then commenced the debate upon the Se- 

 cret Service Money Bill. M. F. Barrot (the brother 

 of M. Odillon Barrot, the leader of the Opposition) 

 made a long speech against the bill, and declared 

 that he could not give the Ministry his confidence. 

 M. Ledru Rollin followed, and excited great clamour by 

 alleging various questions of foreign policy, wherein 

 Louis-Philippe had acted without consulting his Prime 

 Ministers ; and M. de Lamartine delivered a speech, 

 chiefly directed against M. Guizot and his Eastern 

 policy, but which met with the approbation of no party, 

 because he found fault with all of them. The debate 

 was then adjourned to Tuesday, when M. Isambert 

 delivered a speech against the church ; declared that the 

 clergy had never assumed so warlike an attitude, and 

 read a number of documents, with the view of proving 

 that the Keeper of the Seals and Minister of Justice and 

 Public Worship had not enforced the existing laws against 

 them. The Minister followed, and entered into a vindi- 

 cation of the conduct he had adopted towards the Bishop 

 of Chalons and the other prelates who have censured the 

 irreligious tendency of the instruction pursued by the 

 University. M. Dupin, the former President of the 

 Chamber, alluded to the quarrel between the clergy and 

 the University, and exhorted the Ministry not to yield to 

 the demands of the clergy, which would only lead to 

 further pretensions on their part. M. J. Lasteyrie 

 then brought forward an amendment, to the effect that 

 the secret service money should be reduced by 80,O00f. ; 

 but it was rejected by a majority of more than 50. A 

 scrutiny was then called for on the whole question, and 

 Ministers obtained a majority of 56, a much larger one 

 than M. Guizot expected, so that it leaves them in quiet 

 and safe possession of their places till another session. 

 A motion of M. de St. Priest for reducing the postage 

 on letters has been admitted in the bureaux. — The 

 quarrel between the English and French sailors at Mar- 

 seilles has been made the subject of an action in the law 

 courts ; the two mates of the English vessel Romulus have 

 been sentenced to a fine of 1G f. each, and one month's 

 imprisonment ; and 2 men of the same ship to 10 davs' im- 

 prisonment, besides 500 f. fine for the benefit of the French 

 captain, the costs of the prosecution to be paid by the 

 Romulus. — The Moniteur announces that the Duchess of 

 Nemours has entered the sixth month]of her pregnancy. 

 The Duke of Nemours is so far recovered from his late 

 illness, that he is able to take carriage exercise. — Letters 

 from Rouen state that in consequence of the difficulty 

 of procuring land, the works of the railway cannot be pro- 

 ceeded with for some weeks to come, and that conse- 

 quently more than 100 English workmen who have gone 

 over to seek employment, are wandering about Rouen 

 without food or other means of support. 



Spain. — We have accounts from Madiid to the 14th 

 inst. A dispatch from General Roncali, dated Alicante 

 the 8th inst., announces the capture and execution of 

 Bonet and 23 of his followers ; they were shot in the back 

 on being identified, without even the semblance of a trial 

 According to the Castellano, on his being led to the place 

 of execution he made important disclosures, endangering 

 several persons residing at Madrid, as having been the 

 chief promoters of the Alicante insurrection and other 

 movements. The Castellano adds that Bonet promised 

 to make other disclosures if his life were spared, but that 

 General Roncali rejected the proposal, and would not even 

 consent to see him. All the accounts agree in stating 

 that he was seized by the inhabitants of Sella, who deli- 

 vered him up to the troopers sent in pursuit of him j 

 17,000 reals were found on his person, which General 

 Roncali handed to the captors. Amongst the persons 

 shot with Bonet were two Colonels, eight other officers of 

 the regular army, a Colonel, and six other officers of the 

 National Guards, and the Alcada-Regidor. On the same 

 day that this horrible execution took place, another of 

 her Majesty's Generals was shedding blood at the other 

 end of the Peninsula. On the 8th, the Cabecilla Castro- 

 vilar, M. Fernandez a clergyman, and two of his com- 

 panions, were put to death at Lugo by General Puig- 

 Samper. We shall probably hear also of some slaughter 

 at Valencia, where according to a letter of the 9th, another 

 extensive conspiracy has been detected, in which a 

 number of officers and soldiers of various corps of the 

 garrison were implicated. The objects of the conspirators 

 were, it is stated, to compel Gen. Roncali to raise the 

 siege of Alicante, to seize upon the person of Maria- 

 Christina, and to place themselves at the head of the 

 cavalry. It is added that they were in possession of con- 

 siderable sums, and that most of them have been appre- 

 hended. Advices from Murcia state that as soon as they 

 heard of the fall of Alicante, the French and English 

 Consuls at Carthagena left that place and proceeded to 

 Escombrera. An English and a French ship also quitted 

 the port. It was expected at Madrid that Carthagena 

 would soon be in possession of the Queen's troops, 

 although the leaders in the Murcia and Orihuela move- 

 ments had retired thither. Queen Christina arrived at 

 Barcelona on the 4th. A great part of the population 

 received her at some distance from the town. After hear- 

 ing a Te Deum at the cathedral, she walked about, attended 

 by all the civil and military authorities. All the balconies, 

 particularly those of the Rambla, were adorned with dra- 

 peries, and filled with spectators, who cheered as she passed. 

 On passing the French Consulate, her Majesty particularly 

 saluted M. de Lesseps and the officers of the French 

 squadron. During the evening a portion of Baicclona 

 was illuminated. The most brilliant display was at the 

 French Consulate, the arms of France and Spain in gis, 

 &c, with the tricolor and Spanish flags. Her Majesty was 

 expected to reach Valencia on the 12th.— A fire brokeout 

 at Madrid on the 12th, which destroyed the hotel of the 



Administration of the Mines. The wife and family of 

 M. Olozaga occupied apartments on the second floor of 

 the building. No lives were lost.— The Marquess de 

 Veluraa has accepted the post of Plenipotentiary and 

 Envoy Extraordinary from the Court of Spain to Queen 

 Victoria, and will shortly arrive inLondon, accompanied(as 

 attache) by M. Perez de Castro, who was Queen Christina t 

 Prime Minister during the events at Valencia, which led to 

 her retirement from Spain.— A letter from Havannan, 

 which arrived at Corunna on the 1st by the French steam- 

 frigate Gomer, states that a complete paoic pervades the 

 slave-traders and speculators of Cuba, in consequence oi 

 Government sending a steam squadron to the coast, o 

 Africa. Numbers of Spaniards and Frenchmen in Madrid, 

 Corunna, Bordeaux, and Bayonne, have been neany 

 ruined by the activity of our cruisers on the African coast. 



Portugal.— Accounts from Lisbon to the 12ihin«., 

 confirm the grave nature of the disturbances whicn n a e 

 sprung out of the military revolt at Torres INov . 

 commotion of a formidable character, connected wiiu tu 

 objects of the Almeida leaders, broke out in the ^ Duer , Ja 

 of Coimbra on the 8th inst. The students in revolt n 

 possession of the town for two hours, attacked Uetro^ 

 and made a prisoner of the civil governor. Ihey 

 finally routed by the military. The governor wm 

 released, and some of the former were da "| ero f ? 

 wounded; some, it would appear, mortally. 1 - t h * 

 tives were supposed to have effected a junction vvic 

 Guerilla party, at three or four leagues <| istatice 

 Coimbra. In the meantime, the telegraph his Deen 

 dered unserviceable. The couriers with the boven i 

 correspondence have been robbed by the ban it'. ^ 

 have sprung into existence in the province ot i>ci ^ 

 upper part of Estremadura ; and the Governnu b ^ 

 dantly feels the importance of this new * eat " r * e loaB| 

 disturbance of the peace of the country. effgct 



nominally of 1000 contos, has been corned mi 

 —200 contos of it to consist of depreciated t>o 

 ment securities. At Almeida, the force under ■ » ^ 

 remained in undisturbed possession of the l » gtill 

 commanders of the Queen's troops m front o 

 waiting for the arrival of the artillery. gavs^ 



Belgium.— A letter from Antwerp of the l-i » j tfae 



"We have had, for these forty-eight 1,ours '^ have wit- 

 most awful storms that we remember ever to def| 

 nessed— sudden squalls, torrents of rain, bai , ^ 

 and lightning. Nothing was wanting, and we ter! . 

 son to fear that we shall have to record many ^ 

 None of the vessels in our port have ■»*■»■" - t ra iai 

 mage."-The Liege Gazette says-- The "<**».„ ve ry 

 of the last two days have caused the Meuse n tQ 

 considerably. The Ourthe and the Verdre na*p ^ 

 a greater height than on the previous occasic . 



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