MAR. 30, J 



THE in .a YV S f AP Jfi K. 



[1844. 



the capital and their entry was welcomed by the accla- 

 mations of the people. The sanguinary measures adopted 

 by the Government troops for the suppression of the late 

 rebellion are still pursued without mercy, and fresh exe- 

 cutions are reported from Alicante and Barcelona. — From 

 Germany we have the important news that the King of 

 Prussia, after so long resisting the attempts of Russia to 

 obtain a renewal of the treaty for the mutual surrender of 

 deserters, has now given his full adhesion to that measure 

 by the renewal of the Convention.— The accounts from 

 Italy are again assuming an alarming aspect. Disturb- 

 ances have broken out in the kingdom of Naples, and the 

 Papal States are almost in open insurrection. It is gene- 

 rally believed that a simultaneous rising is now secretly 

 organising, and that an outbreak may shortly be expected. 



f^ome T£m%. 



' Court. — The Queen held a drawing-room, the first 

 this season, on Monday, at St. James's Palace, which was 

 very numerously attended. On Tuesday, the Queen of 

 the Belgians arrived at Woolwich from Ostend, and im- 

 mediately proceeded to Buckingham Palace on a visit to 

 her Majesty. On the same day, the Queen Dowager, ac- 

 companied by Prince Edward of Saxe Weimar, arrived 

 at Marlborough-house from Witley Court. On Thursday 

 Prince Albert, attended by Colonel Bouverie and Mr. G. 

 E. Anson, left town for Germany, on a visit to his rela- 

 tives at Gotha. His Royal Highness proceeded direct to 

 Dover, where he embarked for Ostend, after a delay of 

 two hours, occasioned by the state of the tide. The 

 Prince was met at Ostend by the King of the Belgians. 

 His Royal Highness passed the night at Ostend, and pro- 

 ceeded yesterday by railroad to Cologne, where he was to 

 remain for the night, and then travel without intermis- 

 sion to Gotha, which he expects to reach to-morrow 

 morning. Arrangements are making at Windsor for the 

 arrival of her Majesty and the Royal Family on Tuesday 

 next. Her Majesty will be accompanied by the Queen 

 of the Belgians, and remain at the Castle until the return 

 of Prince Albert from the Continent. His Royal 

 Highness's absence will be as brief as the length of the 

 journey will admit ; as, in the event of no unforeseen ob- 

 stacles arising, his Royal Highness fully intends to be in 

 England by the 10th or 11th of next month. — It is the in- 

 tention of the Duchess of Kent shortly to proceed to 

 Paris, where she will remain a few days, en route for 

 Switzerland, on a visit to her sister, who will pass some 

 months there. The departure of her Royal Highness is 

 postponed until the return of Prince Albert. — The Count- 

 ess of Dunmore has succeeded Viscountess Jocelyn as the 

 lady in waiting ; Lord Rivers has succeeded the Marquess 

 of Ormonde as the lord in waiting ; and Colonel Drum- 

 mond has succeeded Sir F. Stovin as the groom in waiting 

 on her Majesty. 



Parliamentary Movements. —The nomination of candi- 

 dates for the representation of Hastings took place on 

 Thursday. Mr. Musgrave Brisco was nominated as the 

 Conservative candidate, in opposition to Mr. R. R. R. 

 Moore, of the Anti-Corn-law League. Dr. Sleigh was also 

 proposed, but declined going to the poll. The show of 

 hands was declared to be in favour of Mr. Brisco ; a poll 

 was then demanded by Mr. Moore. — The election for 

 Christchurch has terminated in the return of Captain 

 Harris, the Conservative candidate. The numbers were— 

 for Captain Harris, 180; for Mr. W. Tice, 84. Mr. 

 Harvey, the League Candidate, resigned before the nomi- 

 nation in favour of Mr. Tice It is expected ihat Mr. Scott 



Murray, who has embraced the Roman Catholic faith, 

 will resign his seat for Bucks, for which county he was 

 returned at the election in 1841. It is not sunposed that 

 Mr. Murray will vacate his seat until the Marquess of 

 Chandos is of age, which will be in September next, when 

 the son of the Duke of Buckingham will offer himself to 

 the electors as a candidate, in the room of Mr. Murray. 



The Navy — It is stated by an evening paper that Sir 

 Joseph Douglas, whose name has been frequently before 

 the public as the captain of a merchantman, knighted by 

 Her Majesty, at the recommendation of the late Govern- 

 ment, for placing his ship at the service of Government 

 at the commence tnent of the war with China, is about to 

 nave the rank of Commander of the Royal Navy con- 

 ferred upon him, and to be appointed to the situation of 

 Master Attendant at Deptford Dockyard. 



Royal Muiines — It is said that an extensive retire- 

 ment among the Commandants, field Officers, and Cap- 

 tains of the Royal Marines has been determined upon, 

 which will give about 30 steps to the junior branches of 

 that distinguished service. 



Post Office— It i 3 said that the Postmaster-General, 

 now Earl of Low Je, intends to relinquish his office so 

 soon as arrangements can be made for the appointment 

 of his successor. 



The Colonies.— Lord Stanley has cancelled the appoint- 

 ment of Commander Norcott, as Governor of the Gambia, 

 and the Admiralty have despatched a vessel to recall him. 



jfOttfgfl. 



France.— The late decision of the House of Commons 

 on Lord Ashley's motion has excited great interest in 

 Paris. The Ministerial Debuts discusses it as follows :— 

 " This, If we are not mistaken, is the first time since its 

 accession to power that the Ministry of Sir Robert Peel 

 has found itself in a minority. It is certainly not the first 

 time that it has met with serious opposition, for last vear 

 it was obliged to yield to public opinion, and withdraw 

 one of its most important measures — that cone the 



education of children in manufactories ; but this is the 



first serious check it has received in Parliament, and 

 which all the influence of its chief was inadequate to pre- 

 vent. In this vote there was a perfect change in the 

 usual position of parties. The agriculturists took pride 

 in voting for a measure which would make great modifica- 

 tions in manufacturing labour ; it was also a triumph for 

 the philanthropic party, so strong in England from the 

 influence it has out of Parliament. This party, as we 

 have more than once observed, has often proved itself 

 mere powerful than the Government, and has dictated 

 laws to the Legislative body. It was this party that car- 

 ried the emancipation of the negroes, and caused the 

 conclusion of the treaties on the right of search, which it 

 still upholds. The vote we are now speaking of is a new 

 example of its great influence." The Constitutionnel says, 

 « It is the first defeat that the Cabinet has experienced, 

 and this defeat was natural because the Ministry were 

 wrong. Looking at the question on the score of humanity, 

 undoubtedly Sir R. Peel was wrong. But such a reduction 

 in the hours of labour will have a serious influence 

 on the manufacturing produce of England, without its 

 being certain that the position of the factory workmen 

 will be improved. A reduction in the hours of labour 

 will produce a reduction in wages, and will consequently 

 but increase the difficulties of the working classes. What 

 is remarkable in this vote is that politics were removed 

 to the second line, and that the defenders of the interests 

 at stake laid aside all other objects of consideration." 

 The opposition papers generally applaud the result of 

 the division, not so much from considerations of humanity 

 as from the assumption that the vote will inflict serious 

 injury on the manufacturing interests of this country. 

 —The proceedings in the Chamber of Deputies this 

 week, present few topics of interest to the general reader. 

 On Saturday discussions took place in the committees of 

 the Chamber upon three propositions, the objects of which 

 are to check bribery and fraud at elections, to abolish the 

 stamp duty on newspapers and periodical publications, 

 and to alter the rules of the Chamber in such way that 

 the presence of a hundred Members may suffice to vote 

 the articles of a Bill, instead of the number of two 

 hundred and thirty now required. Upon the first pro- 

 position a commission was appointed in the selection of 

 which the Ministry prevailed by a large majority. Much 

 discussion took place on the subject, Marshal Sebastiani, 

 the late Ambassador in London, asserting that elections 

 were nowhere so pure as in France, whilst in England 

 bribery and fraud were openly practised, despite of laws far 

 severer than the one which was contemplated. As regards 

 the two other propositions, the reading of them in a pub- 

 lic sitting was authorised. The Deputies also met to dis- 

 pose of various petitions, when one was rejected, praying 

 that the law banishing the Buonaparte family be revoked, 

 and that Prince Louis be suffered to reside on his parole 

 in the town of Ham or the environs. On Monday, M. 

 Berryer took the oath on his re-election to the Chamber. 

 Six members of the Conservative party, St. Marc Girar- 

 din, St. Aulaire, son of the French envoy in London, 

 D'Haussonville, and others, have presented a law, forbid- 

 ding any one to be appointed to a Government employ, 

 ment without previous examination, and regulating pro- 

 motion afterwards. — We noticed in our last the reply of 

 the Minister of Public Worship to a memorial submitted 

 to the King by the Archbishop of Paris and his suffragans, 

 reflecting upon the immoral and irreligious tendency of 

 the system of University instruction. . The Archbishop 

 of Paris has published a rejoinder to the Minister, in 

 which he demands that the 4th article of the concordat of 

 the year X. (of the French Republic), which forbids that 

 any synod, or meeting of diocesans or clergy, for the 

 purposes of deliberation take place without permission 

 from Government, be abrogated. After copying this 

 letter, the Journal des Dtbats shows — from legal authori- 

 ties and from the assent of the Court of Rome — that this 

 demand is unreasonable, and that compliance with it is 

 inexpedient, for that, if acquiesced in, its consequences 

 would be to establish a State within a State, and to grant 

 to the church a special code and privileges independent of 

 the Government. — The lists of subscribers to the " sword 

 of honour" to be presented to Admiral Dupetit Thouars 

 continue to be published from day to day, and from the 

 National of Saturday it appears that the amount sub- 

 scribed at its office up to that date was 6432f. 15c. Fifty- 

 one Parisian and provincial journals have opened lists for 

 subscriptions ; so that the total amount must be a tolera- 

 bly large one. At Nancy and several other places the 

 National Guards have subscribed. It is said that the 

 Opposition at Cherbourg intend to support the Admiral 

 as candidate for the seat left vacant in the Chamber of 

 Deputies by the death of Colonel Bricqueville.— The 

 Monileur announces that Rear-Admiral Laplace has been 

 appointed to the command of the station of the Antilles, in 

 place of Rear-Admiral Moges ; Rear-Admiral Hamelin has 

 been appointed to the command of the station of Oceania, 

 and the western coasfs of America, in place of Rear-Admiral 

 Dupetit Thouars, and Rear-Admiral Turpin is appointed 

 Major-General of Marine at Toulon, in place of Rear- 

 Admiral Hamelin.— The same paper contains a Royal 

 ordinance, raising M. Gabriel Delessert, Prefect of Police 

 of Paris, to the dignity of Peer of France, " in considera- 

 tion of the services he had rendered to the State." — The 

 Courrier Francois announces that Lieutenant-General 

 Piro, who was lately superseded in the command of the 

 9th military division for having published the correspond- 

 ence that had parsed between him and the Minister of 

 War, has been ordered to repair to Lille, and constitute 

 himself a prisoner for two months in the military prison 

 of th.it city. — The Steele contends that the military con- 

 spiracy lately discovered must have been much more for- 

 midable and extensive than the Government wished the 



F uw»v w «v.,.wv , nuu. tuau near ouu non-commie T 



officers and privates of the 70th Regiment of th T 

 have been sent to Algeria, in consequence of that 6 * 



public to believe ; and that near 300 



rious affair. 



In the Journal des 'Debuts' "oT &2£ 

 there is an article from which it annears tha* *.- « *J 



mere is an article rrom wnicn it appears that the F 

 Government had determined to take immediate and ^^ 

 steps towards the completion of no less than five T * 

 lines of railroad— from Paris to Lyons, from Par'^™ 1 

 Bourdeaux through Tours, from Paris to Strasbare f ^ 

 Paris to Nantes, and from Paris to the frontiers of R 7 

 gium, to a branch to Boulogne, and another to CalJ 

 These great undertakings will amount, together, to ne \' 

 1500 English miles. — Lieutenant-General Count Pa' l 

 Peer of France, died on Wednesday week. He was''' 

 years of age, and had been in the army 53 years. H~ 

 owed his elevated rank solely to his courage and m'ilita 

 talents. He was aide-de-camp to Kleber at the battle of 

 Altenkirchen, who conferred on him the rank of field 

 officer on the field of battle. He was promoted to the 

 grade of colonel by Massena, at the battle of Zurich 

 His commission of general was dated from Austerlitz, and 

 that of general of division from Moscow. — By the death 

 of the King of Sweden, Marshal Soult has become the 

 sole survivor of all the 18 Marshals of the Empire created 

 by Napoleon in 180-1, at the camp of Boulogne.— The 

 Prince of Canino (Charles Bonaparte) and Sir Benjamin 

 Brodie were elected on Tuesday week corresponding 

 members of the Royal Academy of Sciences at Paris 

 Prince Canino for the zoological, and Sir Benjamin Brodie' 

 for the surgical section.] 



Spain. — Our accounts from Madrid are of the 21st 

 inst. The slaughter still continued in the province of 

 Alicant, where no less than 35 persons had already been 

 shot, without even the semblance of a trial, and 65 more 

 were to undergo the same fate. The secretary of the 

 political chief, who happened to be in Alicant at the 

 time when the insurrection broke out, and who was forced 

 to remain there, has also been shot by General Roncali'i 

 order, without the semblance of a trial. The unfortunate 

 man died, protesting that he had never, in any way, 

 joined in the operations of Bonet and his partisans. The 

 Government papers publish pretended revelations of 

 Bonet's, but they are of the vaguest character, and men- 

 tion no names, but hint that there are persons compro- 

 mised in the late revolt of standing and importance to the 

 country. — General Roncali writes from his head-quarters, 

 before Carthagena, on the 1 5th, that the rebels were making 

 strenuous endeavours to maintain themselves in the place, 

 and that he was awaiting the arrival of the siege artillery to 

 attack it. Some sharp fighting is stated to have subse- 

 quently taken place in the neighbourhood of the city. The 

 insurgents seemed determined to make a stout defence ; 

 they had unpaved the streets, and kept up a continual fire 

 from Atalaya Castle. A Carlist conspiracy is saidtohavc 

 been discovered by the authorities atTafalia,andtohavebeea 

 promptly suppressed, but no particulars are given. By 

 accounts from Barcelona of the 17th we learn that several 

 persons, including some females, were arrested in that 

 city on the 11th, 12th, and 13th, on a charge of conspi- 

 racy against the G overnment. Four of the male prisoners 

 were tried by a military commission, and shot on the 18th, 

 in the presence of an immense crowd.— Maria Christina 

 quitted Valencia on the 15th. A magnificent album had 

 just been presented to her, containing various tributes 

 paid to her by the southern poets. On her arrival « 

 Valencia a number of young men went out to meet her in 

 a boat, and then preceded her vessel, scattering flowers 

 over the sea, and over the landing-place. The same 

 homage was done her until she entered the palace pre- 

 pared for her reception. The first interview of the Uaeea 

 and her two daughters took place in a tent pitched on 

 the Ocana road, two miles beyond Aranjuez ; and ne 

 Majesty entered Madrid on the 23d, at 5 in the evening, 

 amidst the acclamations of the people. Her favour, e ana 

 chamberlain, M. Munoz, to whom it is said her lUBjes y 

 is secretly married, has been raised to the pe erage by we 

 title of Duke of Rianzores, with the rank of a granuec 



the first class. . . i oe „ a f-h 



Portugal.— The Madrid papers state that ^dwspwca 

 had been received from Almeida by the Captam-bene. 

 Galicia, announcing the surrender of that c icy. 

 Queen, according to the same despatch, had a m 

 the 600 men of the garrison, and ordered that pa. y 

 be delivered to the insurgents who called for them. 



Germany.— The Berlin papers annou nee tna ^ 

 Prussian Government has completed its lull a °"<; tioB| 

 the Russian, by the renewal of the Cartel con 

 which stipulates the restitution of all deserters to 

 —Some of the German papers announce that toe, i j^ 

 for a matrimonial alliance between the lus ^ 

 Austrian Imperial families has been abanaonea, 

 the Emperor of Austria refused to accede to tue * 

 non of the Emperor Nicholas, that the ch uldren * 

 born of the proposed marriage of the *rc >£ uk * %> 

 of Austria, with the Grand Duchess Olga of Kussi ^ 

 be christened and brought up in the religion or i ^ 

 Church. Other accounts state on the contrary The 

 difficulty was of a purely political characw . ^ ^ 

 Emperor Nicholas offered to raise the go * nt 



daughter to 4.000,000 silver rubles, "^ * J ArC bdoke 

 annuity of 100,000 ducats, provided the ^ 



Stephen should be created Hereditary PaI , a ! ,ne ^ Iet terDic 

 which was to become a separate state. I mice Uistr u, 

 and under his advice the Emperor and Empress ' r8Cf 

 acquiesced in this proposition, but the Austr inn * . e 



regarding the matter as a dismemberment oi "'off- 

 made such representations that the match was o ^ 

 It is said that let'ers have been received ivv ^ ^ 

 announcing a marked improvement in the n 

 " Due d'Antrouleme. 



