Mas. 23,] 



THE NEWSPAPER. 



[1844; 



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*» -luVh rarrv everything before them, 



»T- fe.Mh. D thfwo^Tthe r/iLa/of Le Verdre 



-t kc «* «*' ln *\ » Accounts from other places give 

 mr be damaged. a« ■ of the Be , ians 



**"£%% "le^Te Brusself nest week, on a visit to the 



^T 1 ^y- it has been currently rumoured in Berlin 



6E n In Victoria would visit that capital in May next ; 



??■££ be seen by our Parliamentary news that there 



? n i^!iL a tion for'the report.-A letter from Hanover, 



H^^h at aDnounce7that the Assembly of the States 

 <* the Uth, annouu c thafc KJn wiu 



£Bfl ^ a^e-e afr 1o Lo'ndon. The States* will 

 SS be buied with financial measures, and amongst the 

 J with the question of a loan of nine or ten millions of 

 ™Z, for' the construction of railroads — The journals 

 CT ° nre that M Haber, whose duel made so much 

 "lid been lately tried for the act, and sentenced to 

 «« months' imprisonment in a fortress, the minimum 

 Af the penalty. The seconds were acquitted.— Accounts 

 from Vienna announce the safe accouchement of the 

 Princess Nicholas Esterhazy, the daughter of the Earl of 

 jersey of a son, and when the courier left the Austrian 

 capital the Princess and infant were progressing favourably. 



j T VL v — A letter from Naples in the Augsburg Gazette 

 of the Uth inst., states that negotiations have com- 

 menced with the view of effecting a marriage between his 

 Royal Highness the Due de Bordeaux and his Sicilian 

 Majesty's third sister.— The Cologne Gazette announces 

 that the railroad from Leghorn to Pisa was opened on the 

 27th ult., and that the distance is performed in 15 minutes. 



A letter from Rome states that amongst the manuscripts 



in Prince Doria's library in that city there have been 

 found forty-seven autograph letters of King Henry IV. to 

 Clement VJII. (Hyppolite Aldobrandini). They are 

 to be speedily published. — The Duchess of Savoy was 

 safely delivered of a Prince on the 1 4th. The event was an- 

 nounced to the population of Turin by a salute of 1 00 guns. 



Greece. — Letters from Athens of the 29th ult. state, 

 that the National Assembly had decided, by a majority of 

 111 against 92, that senators should be named for life. 

 The Russian party, defeated on that question, could no 

 longer conceal their dissatisfaction, and its two represen- 

 tatives in the Cabinet, Messrs. Metaxa and Schinas, re- 

 signed their offices. Messrs. Mavrocordato and Coletti 

 having refused to accept the vacant departments, they 

 devolved, pro tempore, upon Canaris, who thus became 

 President of the Council, and upon Messrs. Mausolas and 

 Melas, who assumed, the one the direction of Foreign 

 Affairs, and the other that of Public Instruction. The 

 minimum of the number of senators was fixed at 27, but 

 the King may, in case of need, raise their number to one- 

 half that of the representatives, with the consent of the 

 latter. Princes of the blood were declared by right mem- 

 bers of the Senate, and entitled to a deliberating vote, at 

 the age of 25. The President of the Senate is to be eli- 

 gible for three years, and the members of the Assembly 

 are to receive 500 drachmas per month during the session. 

 Reports of disturbances in Maina were current at the 

 departure of the mail. 



Sweden— The mail from Hamburgh brings intelligence 



lu o e v eaSC of the Kin S of Sweden. His Majesty died 

 on the 8th inst. at Stockholm, at 4 r.M., when the reins of 



government were immediately assumed by his son and suc- 



rlT T l u r r Ce * n °* Kin S 0scar IX - The late kin S was t0 ° 

 remarkable an actor in the great drama of the French re- 



Sptri»° n f k- his defl ta to be recorded without a brief 



thrill * i - S e ? traor dinary career. He succeeded to the 

 Feb l«iV « d0pted father > Charles XIIL, on the 15th 

 th#9fi»k t Was born at Pau > in the Pyrenees, on 



o uLp T 17, 1764 > and wa * christened by the name 

 law™ • . a P C , Julius Bernadotte. His father was a 

 hit own T - gaVC , his son a g° od education. In 1 780, from 

 serleanV; f-'on 6 enlisted in th * «"*! and was orderly 



find him ? V-n ' Wb6n thC reT0luti0n broke 0ut - We 



the f»mn. I a8tt general of division, and in 1795 

 effected \Za ^ acrOSS the Rhine was principally 

 were mnvu a* su P erin tendence. His military talents 

 great ?n / d,B ? ove red by Napoleon, who reposed 

 K-T at K° CC . ? him ' The P««ge of the French 



^ercelebrated^'r/^r 8 ^ 6 ° f Mentx » and m » n ? 

 reputation oo lIltar y feat3 > afterwards established his 



snortlv Ift.l 5 a p ommand er of the first rank. He was 

 the s4e nP r .• 1 ! e( l uested by Napoleon to undertake 



£fcjed milLv ?S' a ' Sf*.*? ■ccompli.bed, and dis- 



At the 18th 



r. 



Kor xl'? Wlt ' 0f the hi ^ orde' 



had been 'T on selec 'ed him to bear the colours which 



<**ion of „ t.. V he battle of Rivoli - At the con- 

 tt « south of V Y peace at Le " ben > the disturbances in 

 Gantry th/n- nCe contmued to convulse the surrounding 

 d °tte Comm»nA lr TVI ° f that r eriod appointed Berna- 

 * ■PMintm r t0f ? Iarseilles 5 but he refused to accept 

 loitalled a ,r D k ai \ d in a few months afterwards was 

 C °*rt of V\t mbassad or from the French Republic to the 



able riot atr ' "^understanding caused a consider- 

 ^oured fiZ nJu™' T htTe Be ™adotte hoisted the tri- 

 to 8° toRa .VJt i? palace ' and he left the Austrian capital 

 *«* in «;.*, : m that tlme he was employed by Napo- 

 l7 ^WMannn; , ? ,p , 0rt ; nt milita ry missions, and finally in 

 ** Depa P m ?n Gd "t Mcmber of the Priv 7 Council for the 



*•«* of th^f *'" he refused t0 take the com " 



Afte r the 1,1?? ex P ed »tion against St. Domingo. 



A ^^or^t^A% (mi ^ he wa3 a PPomted 



the United Statpa «,k: A i. i r ' j t- 



}**i he 



ited States, which he refused. In 



hn **»ity and Un/ Comraand *» Hanover, where by his 



Polarity L t l n T t0 , the inha bitants,he obtained great 



Uncreated arV^i ? e ° f Auste r)'tz, Bernadotte'sdivi- 



the n created hfm p V ° C m the Rus s>an army, and Napoleon 



° f ** ^Rion o^H " nCe of , Ponte Corvo and Grand Officer 



S on of Honour. In 1806, on the 14th Oct., when 



marching from Dornburg, after having beaten Blucher, 

 and pursuing him to Lubeck, he was the only General 

 either of the French or the German allies who used their 

 best endeavours to preserve that city from ruin. He dis- 

 tinguished himself afterwards at the battle of Wagram, 

 and was next appointed Commander of the coast of Hol- 

 land and Belgium, which trust he also fulfilled to the sa- 

 tisfaction of Napoleon. Bernadotte then retired to compa- 

 rative privacy in the neighbourhood of Paris, when on the 

 21st Aug., 1810, he was unanimously elected by the states 

 of the kingdom of Sweden as successor to the throne of 

 Charles XIII., provided he would adopt the doctrines of 

 the Lutheran faith. Napoleon had no influence whatever 

 upon this election ; on the contrary, it is well known 

 from the best authenticated memoirs that his wishes [were 

 in favour of the King of Denmark, who was likewise a 

 candidate for the Swedish throne. After having elected 

 the new successor to the throne a Knight of the Order of 

 the Seraphim, Charles XIII. confirmed the election at 

 Osebroe and adopted Bernadotte as his son. Napoleon, 

 upon being applied to for a confirmation, declared that he 

 never could nor would interfere with the election of a 

 free nation. Bernadotte accepted the choice of the Swe- 

 dish nation, and after his landing on the Swedish shores 

 on the 20th Oct. 1820, he had the first interview with his 

 adopted father, Charles XIII., which at that time caused 

 a great sensation throughout Europe. As' Crown Prince 

 of Sweden Bernadotte distinguished himself as an able 

 commander during the campaigns of 1813 and 1814. 

 Charles XIII. died on the 5th Feb. 1818, and his adopted 

 son Bernadotte succeeded him on the throne without the 

 slightest opposition. His wise and temperate government 

 whilst he reigned over the Scandinavian peninsula will be 

 recorded in history ; and perhaps no monarch ever went 

 to his grave so sincerely regretted by his subjects. 



Turkey and Syria. — Letters from Constantinople 

 of the 27th ult. state, that on the 23d, immediately after 

 the arrival of the steamer with despatches from the 

 English Government, a conference was held between Sir 

 S. Canning and Baron de Bourqueney, the Minister of 

 France ; subsequently to which, the first interpreters of 

 the ^British and French Legations proceeded to the 

 Minister for Foreign Affairs, with a new communication 

 relative to the recent execution of renegades. On the 

 following day the principal Ulemas met in Council, under 

 the Presidency of the Sheik-el-Islam, the head of the 

 Religious Department, to consider the contents of the 

 communication. Two other Councils were held at the 

 Porte for the same purpose on the 25th and 26th ; but 

 down to the departure of the mail no reply appears to 

 have been received. — "We learn from the Xanthus that no 

 new discoveries of any importance have been made, and 

 indeed the excavations had been at a stand-still more than 

 a month, in consequence of the river having overflown its 

 banks from heavy rains, and flooded the whole country, 

 washing away roads, bridges, and everything else that the 

 expedition had constructed. It is reported that Mr. Fel- 

 lows has at length discovered that the horse tomb cannot 

 be removed, or rather hoisted, into a lesser sized ship than 

 a liner, and that he has applied to the Admiral to send him 

 the Indus for this purpose. 



parliament. 



HOUSE OF LORDS. 

 Monday.— Lord Denman adverted to the case of the individual 

 condemned to death in Louisiana for aiding: a slave to make his 

 escape. He hoped that the expression of the feeling which pre- 

 vailed in England, and over Europe, would reach the United 

 States in time to prevent the infliction of a punishment so utterly 

 disproportmned to the alleged offence.— The Bill for the reduc- 

 tion of the Three-and-a-Half per Cent?, was read a second time, 

 after some discussion.— Earl Fitzwilliam presented a petition 

 from Glasgow, on the subject of the state of Ireland. These 

 petitioners stated that one principal grievance of which Ireland 

 complained was the Established Church, which was not only in- 

 tolerant and exclusive in spirit and character, but opposed to 

 the conviction of a great body of the people ; that it was used as 

 a tool of political faction, and was subversive of general tran- 

 quillity j that it was an establishment which " did not admit of 

 being amended, and must, to obtain the pacification of Ireland, 

 be wholly abolished. " The noble Earl said he did not coincide 

 to the extent of spoliation with the petitioners ; he only went 

 half that distance. He warned their Lordships against any 

 attempt to make the Irish Catholic priesthood stipendiary 

 pensioners of the Government. There wererumours abroad, hesaid, 

 that the Government were not asleep on that question, and that 

 they had some plans floating in their minds in relation to the 

 Catholic priesthood of Ireland. But what he protested against 

 was, that the Government should make them pensioners and 

 stipendiaries.— The Duke of Wellington said he gathered from 

 the statements of the noble Earl, that the primary ptinciple of 

 his plan was to repeal the laws on which the Reformation in this 

 country is founded. "My Lords,'* said his Grace, "I take this 

 opportunity of warning you against listening to any such doc- 

 trines, come from whom they may ; and I call on you to be 

 cautious how you permit tliem to be introduced to your notice; 

 for you may rely on it that there is not a single Protestant in this 

 conntry whose position in society, and whose religion, are not 

 vitally interested In the maintenance of the Reformation. Our 

 whole system of religicn, and not that alone, but our whole 

 system of polity as connected with religious toleration, depends 

 altogether upon the law in which the Reformation in that country 

 was founded. At the period of the union between the two 

 countries, the Irish Parliament, which had the power either to 

 consent to or refuse that uiion, stipulated that the Protestant 

 Church as established in Ireland should be maintained on the 

 same footing and on the same integrity as the Protestant Church 

 of England in this country. I therefore entreat your Lord- 

 ships not to lose sight of the fact ; and, above all, not to 

 allow yourselves to be prevailed on to sancticn the smallest 

 alteration in it, or to recede from it in the slightest degree, 

 if you wish to maintain 1 he Union between England and Ireland." 

 —The Bishop of Exeter sincerely thanked Lord Fitzwilliam for 

 having elicited from the Duke of Wellington declarations than 

 which nothing could more largely contribute to the stability of 

 the Church of Ireland, to the confidence of the Protestants of 

 the country, and to the joy and gratification of the Protestant 

 community all through Christendom. He said the Church of 

 Ireland held its property of all kinds by the same tenure as noWe 

 Lords held their properties ; it was derived under the same laws, 

 in many instances, as their Lordships derived their possessions ; 

 and it would be quite as just to make such noble Lords "dis- 

 gorge" for the use of the poor on their estates, the property 



derived from confiscation of church lands at former periods, _ 

 to compel the church to divide its incomes with the clergy of 

 another religion. He would venture to prophesy, that if there 

 were any revolution in Ireland which went to disturb the pro- 

 perty of the church, the interval between that and the spoliation 

 of lay property would be a very short one. 



Tuesday.— The Three-and-a-Half per Cent. Annuities Bills 

 were read a third time and passed, and the Standing Orders 

 Committee was re-appointed. 



Thursday.— Ixn A Campbbll alluded to the short notice al- 

 lowed to those who objected to the reduction of the Three-and- 

 a-Half per Cents.— The Loan Chancellor said there had been 

 already only three notices of dissent, and he did not think there 

 would be any mere. His Lordship then moved the second read- 

 ing of the Ecclesiastical Courts Bill, on which considerable dis- 

 cussion arose \ he gave a sketch of the history of all the attempts 

 to legislate on the subject of the Ecclesiastical Courts, from the 

 issuing of the Ecclesiastical Commission, in 1829, down to the 

 abandonment by the Government of their bill of last year. The 

 chief objects of the present bill are the union of the Court of 

 Arches and the Prerogative Court, the abolition of the various 

 Courts of Peculiars, the amalgamation of the provincial courts 

 of Canterbury and York, &c. Bat though the abolition of the 

 Diocesan Courts was one of the recommendations of the Eccle- 

 siastical Commission, it has not been adopted in the present 

 bill, which constitutes its prime distinction from the bill of last 

 year.— Lord Cottknh am objected to the retention of the Dio- 

 cesan Courts as contrary to the recommendation of the com- 

 missioners and of the committees of both Houses of Parliament, 

 and as contradictory to the opinions of the present Government 

 as expressed in the bill introduced by them last year. He con- 

 tended that these courts did not adequately perform their duties* 

 and that the same reasons which justified the abolition of the 

 Courts of Peculiars justified their abolition likewise. He ob- 

 jected to many of the details of the bill, and moved as an amend- 

 ment that it be read a second time that day six months.— The 

 Bishop of London supported the bill, because from all the informa- 

 tion he had been able to acquire, and from the fullest consideration 

 of the subject, he thought it the best bill which the L> Mature was 

 in a condition to pass, without giving so much dissatisfaction to a 

 great body of the public, as greatly to counterbalance the ad- 

 vantages that might otherwise be derived from a measure of 

 this kind. The bill contained so much good, that he would not 

 be justified in refusing it, although it did not contain all the 

 good that could be desired.— Lord Brougham was sorry the 

 difficulties that surrounded the subject did not enable the Govern- 

 ment to bring forward a more complete measure •, but, on the 

 whole, he was willing to concur in reading this bill a second 

 time, reserving to himself the right of urging such objections in 

 the committee as might hereafter seem to him advisable.— Lord 

 Campbell desired to know the real motives which induced the 

 Government to abandon their bill of last year, and to introduce 

 the present modified one. It could not be a want of parlia- 

 mentary power to pass it, for of that they had sufficient to carry 

 any bill they pleased.— The Lord Cham kllor replied, that the 

 history of the bill of last year was a sufficient explanation of its 

 abandonment. That bill had been read a first and second time, 

 and after a warm discussion the second reading was carried ; 

 but when the bill got into committee, it was so altered as to 

 assume a new form, and in this shape, and without the regula- 

 tions which the Government considered important, they did not 

 deem it expedient to proceed with the measure. That was the 

 history of last year's bill ; and what reason had they to suppose 

 that, if they brought in a similar measure, the same course would 

 not be pursued ?— After a few words from Lord Kenvon, the 

 amendment was negatived without a division, and the bill read 



a second time. 



Friday.— The Royal assent, by commission, was given to the 

 Consolidated Fund (8,000,000/.) Bill, the Three-and-a-Half per 

 Cent. Annuities Bill ; the Three-and-a-Half per Cent. Annuities 

 (1818) Bill; the Gaming Transactions Indemnity to Witnesses 

 Bill ; and the Teachers of Schools (Ireland) Bill. The Commis- 

 sioners were the Lord Chancellor, the Archbishop of Canterbury, 

 and the Duke of Buccleuch.— A long and desultory conversation 

 took place between the Earl of Radnor, the Duke of Rich- 

 mond, the Duke of Buccleuch, andLord Beaumont, touching 

 an alleged expression of the Earl of Harewood, to the effect 

 that the Anti Corn-Law League were in some way connected 

 with incendiarism. The Duke of Buccleuch intimated that the 

 Earl of Harewood never made use of the words attributed to 

 him. Several petitions were presented, and many bills were for- 

 warded in their respective stages. 



HOUSE OF COMMONS. 

 Friday.— After the preliminary business noticed in our last, the 

 House resolved itself into committee on the Factories Bill. On 

 the second clause. Lord Asni.KY moved an amendment, the ob- 

 ject of which was to limit the work of females to ten hours 

 instead of twelve, and of children to eight instead of ten hours. 

 The Noble Lord, in an elaborate speech, exposed the hardships, 

 physical abasement, and mental demoralisation of the over- 

 working factory system, and contended that a change in it, as 

 regards women and children, could not longer be resisted. It 

 affected the physical powers of the people of a vast province ; it 

 formed a perpetual grievance which always came uppermost in 

 any civil commotion in that province; it destroyed the social 

 obligaticn by reversing the position of the sexes; it disturbed 

 the rights of labour by rejecting men from the factories, and 

 filling the workshops with females, who wrought for half the 

 wages of males. It almost annihilated all provisions for 

 domestic economy. He deplored the fact that the milli- 

 ners of London were sacrificed at the shrine of fashion, 

 and the factory operatives at the desk of competition ; 

 and went largely into details, in order to show that all this 

 sacrifice of time, of health, of labour, and even of moral as well 

 as physical power, was eminently detrimental to the character 

 and position of the working classes, of whose condition he pro- 

 fessed himself a determined and strenuous advocate. On the 

 subject of the female character of the factory population, he 

 went largely into detail, eliciting considerable cheering. After 

 adducing statistics on the condition of the male population, he 

 went into that of the female; and appealed to the House whether 

 or not the condition of our factory female population, doomed as 

 they were to everlasting toil, was one in which we could wish 

 to see placed the mothers and the wives of our manufacturing 

 population, in whese hands was placed the character and the 

 conduct of future generations. Dirt, discomfort, ignorance, reck- 

 lessness, and vice, were the portion of the women and children 

 —the wives and families. They had no time to learn in youth, 

 and they had none to practise in riper age. Everything went 

 wrong in the domestic management, because the woman was 

 taken out of her proper sphere, and the man could not succeed 

 in discharging those household duties which Providence seemed 

 to have assigned exclusively to females. Then, again, if the 

 subject came to be considered under its physical aspect, what a 

 heavy responsibility attached to those who should reject his 

 proposition. He did not believe that there was anybody within 

 the walls of the House who would vote against the interests of 

 the working classes ; but he warned them against beingswayed by 

 predilections and feelings, and not to be ruled by mere party asso- 

 ciations. For himself, he was accused of being an enemy of the 

 aristocracy because he was a friend of the working c ]*j2 e *' 

 This he emphatically denied; and trusted that the Divine 

 Being in whose hands were the hearts cf all men, would 

 turn the House cf Commons to a quick sense of injustice 

 and oppression. His object, speaking generally, was to intro- 

 duce into the Factories Bill provisions which would make ic 

 a "Ten Hours Bill," or, in other words, to restrict the duration 

 of factorv labour, and to restrain the orcrbearmg spirit ««*£*- 

 tal from' encroaching on the time, the convenience and trie 

 comfort of labour.-Sir J. Giahas said he would boldly undes- 



