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S- = -7- ^7 N^leToftbe 17th inst. announce 



if»ir.-I^" r, /X«d Fan ID. Angnstinis, twodja- 

 , Bitft of Me»»ra. Bozein an 6 rles poeri 



£25 r'feXtd depend orator of the Neapo- 

 STSoff" c , e ' e f b 8 8 .o and of two nephews of General 

 *• ^nh first lilies in the kingdom The charge 

 I*. »« "l^rson s that of having promulgated liberal 

 ^„t the«e persons i , wishn , ent of a constitution. 



^' M f;lttter from Leghorn of the 16th inst. it 

 According to it i« f N ]eg intend ed to give a 



"^'-Xs Object" 6 « Bui" says the writer, << it 



THE NEWSPAPER. 



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X believed that this is a ruse of the Neapolitan 

 ii generally M» e ive the Liberals, and put a stop to 

 Government to ehended are about to take place, 



evenu »a>c» ,l « ij T , . becoming every day more 



ne ^°rdsecr?t agitation prevailing in the Legations 

 entical; and secre g ^ fe of Bo]ogna) 



w „daced ^ rd,nal . p f ' Naples and Sardinia are 



^ r in c°reS their £i«. unoer .he pretence of the 

 f^ e 'tinlwith Tunis."_The precarious state of 

 l^TitiU farther confirmed by subsequent accounts, 

 Ti ...\. that a revolt had occurred at Cosenza, m 

 r^n. between tbe people and the troops. The for- 

 Sd 'atUcLd the re P side P nce of the prefect and the bar 



r«k. and several lives had been lost on both sides. The 



Dchpn the T«'* oc,ortrYO, " r 



left Cosenza. The King 



au- 



2ict was not oyer when the messenger, bearer of the 

 ST left Cosenza. The King had ordered the imme- 

 dUte'departure of reinforcements for Sicily, and the 

 thoritiei of the island had been instructed to keep up a 

 d0M surveillance along the coast, particularly along the 

 StniU of Messina. In addition to these occurrences, 

 letteri from Paris refer to the receipt of accounts from 

 Smyrna of the 9th inst., which mention a strange occur- 

 rence there that was held to have some connection with 

 the plots said to be in existence for revolutionising Italy. 

 Tho§e accounts state, that on the 29th ult. the son of the 

 Austrian Admiral Bandiera, commanding the naval sta- 

 tion of the Levant, and who was aide-de-camp of his 

 father, suddenly disappeared from Smyrna, and that down 

 to the date of those accounts he had not been heard of. 

 He was known to have left in an open boat, accompanied 

 by one servant, and was reported to have fled because of his 

 being implicated in the society or conspiracy called La 



Jeune Italic. 

 Greece.— The Greek Observer of the 10th inst. states, 



that the moment the last article of the constitution was 

 voted by the assembly, vivas in favour of the constitution 

 tad the King resounded through the hall and in the 

 galleries reserved to the public, and all the assistants waved 

 their fez and hats in the air in token of joy. Soon after, the 

 crowd, preceded by the bands of the garrison, repaired to 

 the palace, and the King and Queen having appeared at the 

 balcony, were saluted with enthusiastic acclamations. His 

 Majesty thanked the people, and said, " I rejoice with you 

 ■t the completion of the constitution." The citizens 

 afterwards proceed in succession to the houses of Colonel 

 Kaiergi, and of the principal leaders of the revolution of 

 the 3d of September, and loudly cheered them. In the 

 evening all the coffee-houses were illuminated, and public 

 order was not an instant disturbed. The next day the 

 charter was read again in the assembly, and some altera- 

 tions in the diction were made. A deputation of 24 

 members was then chosen to carry it immediately to the 

 £»ng. M. Mavrocordato, its President, presented it to 

 faji Majesty, who replied :-" Gentlemen, I receive with 

 Pleasure the draught of the constitution, and feel bound 

 to express to you my satisfaction for the wisdom you have 

 eimbited, and your devotedness to me and my Royal 

 h°nsort. . B ™g anxious to do everything in my power 

 w promo e the prosperity of the nation, I will attentively 

 «tmine that draught, and lose no time in communicating 



Rrt Antm i 1 ' the re8ul t of my observations." 

 armr fatiTn German Papers state that the Russian 

 Ten*. • Uucasus has recently experienced manv re- 

 dnlin, ! n81ng P" nci P alI y from the improved state of dis- 

 cipune amongst the hardy mountaineers, who are defend- 



•everil J?'. , 8gainst the Evaders. It appears that 

 ioimJ th r- m,litar y experience, have succeeded in 

 taetir. a Llrcassian8 > and giving to them the aid of their 

 fitinJ tU A p C0Unts from Wilna state that in order to avoid 

 meiaSf. Government any pretexts for adopting rigorous 



^rnm P n? a K nSt the Jews > the Rabbi *s of the frontier 

 Sew en?* P I*- have P ut U P a notice, declaring that every 

 ^ Jewil Uln * mu £e lin g should be read out of synagogue, 

 •ons &.£!?* of * uch acts ar e to inform against the per- 

 ^•^efenan/^'.^Pain of being subjected to 

 with ben P fif It J 1118 thrcat lt is said will be attended 

 l^tthmenV'n! 8 th \ Polish or Russian Jews fear spiritual 



Swedf °/ e than the knout - 

 ^onthe'^ • er8 o fr ° m Stockh olm of the 12th, state 

 ••idit th P *n*k ° US . Saturda y King Oscar was proclaimed 



*• lirriaon 1 ,a9 uV C J cheer8 of the P e °P le - After th5s 

 **w ith H^n^H* 11 front of the P^ace, and the 

 " «ni to«v ^ Uke ° f U P land ' a PP«red on horseback. 

 \aL1a * rom ! ach "giment the oath of fidelity. 



strict letter of the constitution, and to do his utmost to 

 promote the good of the kingdom, and of each of its in- 

 habitants. His Majesty afterwards made the same declara- 

 tion in the Norwegian Council of State. It is said that his 

 late Majesty has not left any will. Count Brahe, the Lord 

 Chamberlain, did not undress during the whole time of 

 the King's sickness, and had no other rest than what an 

 arm-chair at the King's bedside afforded him ; notwith- 

 standing this extraordinary fatigue, he was, on the morning 

 after his Majesty's decease, seen at the head of his regi- 

 ment taking the oath of allegiance. 



United States. — There have been several arrivals 

 this week, by which we have accounts from New York to 

 the 6th inst. Congress and the people can scarcely be 

 said to have yet recovered from the shock experienced by 

 the fatal calamity on board the Princeton. The funeral 

 of all the deceased — a public one — took place at Wash- 

 ington, every place in the city being closed on the occasion. 

 It is remarkable that the life of President Tyler was placed 

 in imminent danger on returning from the ceremony, in 

 consequence of the horses attached to his carriage taking 

 fright and running away. A similar accident occurred to 

 the carriage of the French minister, but happily no per- 

 sonal injury was received. The horses were probably 

 terrified by the firing of cannon. Several of the news- 

 papers have stated that the gun which burst was manu- 

 factured in England, but the rumour has been contradicted. 

 The English-made gun was on board ; but the fatal 

 monster cannon, which produced such destruction, was 

 made at a foundry near New York. It was 15 ft. long, had 

 a bore of 12 inches diameter, weighed 10 tons, carried a ball 

 of 230 lbs., and required 45 lbs. of powder for a full charge. 

 — The President has appointed, pro. tem., the Hon. J. 

 Nelson, Attorney-general of the United States, to the 

 office of Secretary of State, and Commodore Warrington, 

 Chief of the Bureau of Yards and Docks, to that of Se- 

 cretary of the Navy, vacant by the melancholy accident 

 on board the Princeton. In communicating the event 

 officially to the House of Representatives, the President 

 expresses his deep grief and regret, and entirely acquits 

 the officers and crew of the ship from any blame, lt is 

 hinted that Mr. Upshur's office will probably be offered to 

 Mr. Calhoun.— Letters from Havanna state that there 

 have been negro insurrections on six estates at Cardenas, 

 Cuba. Many lives were lost, but the Government sup- 

 presses all the particulars. * The insurrection," says a 

 private letter, •• is a concerted movement. Planters and 

 overseers are flying into the cities. Many whites have 

 been killed ; some of the overseers have been boiled to 

 death in sugar-coppers. Houses have been burnt, and the 



revolt is spreading." 



West Indies.— The Severn West India packet has 

 arrived with papers from Jamaica to the 24th February, 

 and from the other islands to a corresponding date. Their 

 contents, however, prove of an uninteresting character, 

 being chiefly filled with extracts from English journals. 

 At Jamaica the crops had suffered materially from the 

 want of rain, and at Trinidad the same complaints are 

 made. Barbadoes appears to have been visited with 

 rather plentiful showers, but the season having far ad- 

 vanced, it was feared that the benefit to the plantations 

 would be limited. The accounts on the subject of trade 

 vary, but hopes are expressed in favour of improvement. 





TheKi 



Hc a ddr J essp7.;r ,U ??. cn re S 4m ent the oath of fidelity. 

 ^fever hi i M • SoIdlers ' * ho loudly cheered him ; 

 *°P l e with th* 7 ap P eared ' he was received by the 

 «Uchment n° St une( T^vocal marks of affection and 



jH'tnce *Th ma . rine has also taken the oath of 

 *.,«.. . xne opposition papers attest that the public 



pirlta 



a 



T * the 



Pfcct calm u m COn .5 dcilce ,n the new King, and that a 

 *** Served ^i?T - St , amon S all classes. It has also 

 Cj^Wiong are ll Sat,8faction that no such extraordinary 



^Uhn2 n k ; n aS a l the death of Kto * CharleJ 

 ^^'faouse shut L We . Fe dF ~ aWn bef0 



re the 



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palace, 



*!?** ^ and frn tfc P ' f ' . ° n the contrary, the people 

 V?** miZeJ™^ U : e Palace oourt./ard till night, 

 lotion * 8 t ar e e £«UJ dosed. The King has mad°e a 



* len,Dl y prom ies ?„ Cdlsh C ° UncU of State ^in which he 



CS t0 govern the kingdom according to the 



amenta 



HOUSE OF LORDS. 



Monday.— Lord Brougham took the opportunity of presentin 

 a petition from certain females employed in the coal and iron- 

 stone mines in Lanarkshire, to condemn what he called the 

 " cheap humanity," the "vicarious generosity," and the " short- 

 sighted, one sided humanity," which at present appear to have 

 taken possession of one branch of the Legislature. His Lordship 

 strongly declared his opinion against any limitation of the hours 

 of labour in factories. It was flying in the face of Providence; 

 and it would be grossly inconsistent, unless they went on to 

 prohibit employment in all deleterious occupations. They might 

 as well legislate that only a certain amount of wages should be 

 paid. He hoped that Parliament would well consider before they 

 listened to the humanity doctrines of the day on matters so 

 vitally important to the country.— The Bishop of Exeter moved 

 for papers relating to the case of Mary Miller, an unfortunate 

 woman, who had committed suicide in the Penzance union 

 workhouse about three years ago, for the purpose of showing the 

 violence and want of care which had been shown towards her 

 by the master and board of guardians, and which had driven her 

 to self-destruction.— Lord Wharxcliffb had no objection to 

 produce the papers, but thought, as the board of guardians had 

 since been changed, it would now be useless to do so. He did 

 not deny the facts as stated by the Right Rev. Prelate.-The 

 Marquess of Laxsdowne moved for a copy of a communication 

 made by the Penzance board of guardians to the Poor-Law 

 Commissioners, relating to the appointment of a chaplain to the 

 workhouse.— The previous motion having been withdrawn, this 



was agreed to. , . _.„ , 



Tuesday.— The International Copyright Amendment Bill and 

 the Annual Indemnity Bill were read a first time. The House 

 went into Committee on the Ecclesiastical Courts Bill. On the 

 8th clause, which continues the Diocesan Courts, Lord Cottex- 

 ham moved that it be struck out, as these courts had been con- 

 demned by all the Committees of Inquiry, and were quite Ineffi- 

 cient for the due administration of justice.— Lord Campbell 

 supported the amendment.— The Lord Chancellor denied that 

 the Diocesan Courts were inefficient j and Lord Brougham 

 admitted them to be bad, but thought they might be improved 

 by this bill.— Their Lordships divided— Contents, 4" j Non-Con- 

 tents, 20; Majority, 2/.— The clause was ordered to stand part 

 of the Bill. The remaining clauses, with the exception of the 

 67th and 70th, and from 82 to QO, were agreed to with amendments. 



Thursday.— A. desultory conversation arose respecting the Irish 

 state trials, with reference to the extent and character of the dis- 

 cussion which is to ensue on the presentation, by the Marquess 

 of Cianricarde, of the petition from Ireland, praying for inquiry. 

 It seemed to be the general feeling, that as the verdict vt tne 

 Irish Court of Queen's Bench is still open to question by wr.tot 

 error, nothing should be said respecting the subject ; ana xne 

 Marquess therefore said that hc will simply present the petition, 

 without offering an v observations on it, and will call the attention 

 of the House to it after Easter. On bringing up the report or trie 

 Ecclesiastical Courts Bill, the Marquess of Normanb* to » K J ue 

 opportunity of expressing Ins dissent to its principle; ana auer 

 some conservation the report was received. 



Fr.o«y.— The Lord Chancellor moved the re- appointment of 



i 



the Committee of Jast session in the Presbyterian Marriages (Ire- 

 land) Bill. He deemed this step to be necessary, iu consequence 

 of their Lordships having decided that morning against the 

 legality of such marriages, in the appeal the Queen r. Millis. 

 After a short conversation between Lord Campbell, Lord Cotten- 

 hara, Lord Chancellor, and Lord Brougham, the motion was 

 agreed to.— A desultory conversation then ensued respecting the 

 appointment of Mr. O'Brien to the stipendiary magistracy in 

 Ireland. 



HOUSE OF COMMONS. 

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

 the House resolved itself into Committee on the Factories Bill. 

 The clauses up to 8 were agreed to, with verbal amendments. 

 On the 8th clause, Lord Ash let proposed that the maximum, 

 instead of being 12 hours, as proposed in the Bill, should be 

 reduced to 10 hours. He contended that females were not 

 sufficiently free agents to be left without such a protection. He 

 argued, from the reports of the inspectors, that it would be 

 vastly better for the moral and social improvement of the people 

 to have more rest with less wages, than to maintain the present 

 system of excessive labour. He believed, however, that the fall 

 of wages would be no necessary consequence from a reduction 

 of the working hours. But even admitting that consequence, 

 he dwelt upon the economical advantages to a poor family, from 

 the cooking, washing, and other domestic work, which might be 

 done by the woman on the 10 hours plan ; and argued that these 

 savings would more than compensate any addition which the 

 12 hours of factory labour might produce. He stated that in 

 the agricultural counties, where the hours of labour were only 

 10, the amount of crime was smaller than in the manufacturing 

 counties, where the period was 12 hours. He entreated the 

 Government not to overrule the late majority by mere official 

 influence, and called on the House to avoid the discredit of 

 turning round upon its own decision.— Sir W. Clav opposed the 

 amendment.— Mr. M. Milnes supported it. Wishing in his 

 heart well to the present Government, he could not but regret 

 that they had put themselves in opposition to the good feeling 

 of the country. He trusted that Government would not 

 drive Lord Ashley to an appeal to the throne, in an address 

 from that House, in the belief that their only resource lay 

 in the benevolence and sense of mercy of Her Majesty to- 

 wards the suffering factory districts. — Mr. V. Smith also 

 supported the amendment. He did not doubt the courage 

 of Sir J. Graham in going to divisions, but he very much 

 doubted the policy and the prudence of attempting to drive the 

 House of Commons into an act of great inconsistency; he 

 trusted that they had not succeeded in doing so, and that the 

 House would not be induced to be guilty of such gross inconsis- 

 tency as to reject a motion which they had twice adopted, after 

 mature consideration and fair discussion.— Mr. Cardwkll sup- 

 ported the Government. He did not believe it possible to con- 

 sider the question as a purely humane one, and apart from com- 

 mercial considerations.— Mr. Brotherto.v advocated the ten 

 hours limitation on grounds of religion and humanity, recom- 

 mending the removal of all restrictions on the manufacturing 

 interest, to counteract any evil that might result from the 

 measure.— Lord John Manners, though unhesitatingly sup- 

 porting Lord Ashley's proposition, admitted, at the same time, 

 that there were great contrarieties in the manufacturing dis- 

 tricts. The sight of the happiness of Turton and the misery of 

 Bolton made him feel that in the same county there might be a 

 garden and a grave. Were they to proclaim to all Europe that 

 our manufacturing system rested on the over working of women 

 and children? He had a higher opinion of our great manufac- 

 turers than to suppose that they would visit the shortened hours oj 

 labour bv a reduction of wages. The members for Stockport and 

 Manchester had put forward a plea in bar— first, that the com- 

 merce and manufactures of this great empire would be destroyed 

 unless these mothers and children were allowed to work twelve 

 hours a day ; and, in the next place, that the wages of the work- 

 people would be reduced. But, with something like indignation, 

 and with something like contempt, he begged to ask, was this 

 possible? He never could believe that the commerce of this 

 great kingdom was dependent on longer toil by two hours than 

 it was fitting for a man to endure!— Mr. WARD strongly cen- 

 sured the course taken by his own friends, the Whigs, in sup- 

 porting the theories of the restrictive party. It had been said 

 that the reduction in wages would not be great; but the first 

 reduction was nothing; for this Bill was to be only the 

 first step in a great career of innovation. Under such legis- 

 lation no capital would be invested in new mills to supply 

 the decrease in the quantity of your produce from the old 

 ones; and then foreigners would step in and deprive you of 

 your markets.— Sir R. Inglis warmly supported the ten hours 

 proposition. He called the attention of Ministers to the odd 

 position in which their obstinacy had placed them, of being 

 opposed to nearly all their usual supporters, and supported by 

 nearly all their opponents. He charged them with unusual per- 

 tinacity in dividing the committee twice on the former evening 

 upon the insertion of the same word in the same clause, and with 

 unprecedented silence upon the present occasion. He told them 

 it was neither safe nor consistent, nor even decent 111 them, to 

 attempt to rescind the resolution which had been twice affirmed, 

 and assured them that whether Sir R. Peel, or Lord J. Russell, or 

 Lord Ashley were to be the leader of that House, this question 

 should be decided. Finally, he conjured the Government not to 

 dragtheir supporters through the dirt, as they seemed inclined 

 to do, for so sure as they did the dirt would stick to themselves, 

 and they would hereafter repent it bitterly.— Mr. C. Bcller 

 ridiculed Government for calling upon the House to make sheer 

 nonsense of their Bill, and for forcing the House to 'rescind on 

 Friday the vote they had agreed to on Monday and that w ithout 

 giving them a reason for it. The head of the Government had, 

 to be sure, endeavoured to scare them, by pointing out the diffi- 

 culties of restricting those employed in ether occupations ; bat 

 he was like the slothful man who cried out "There is a lion in he 

 street " whereas, in reality, there was not even a cat, or the 

 shadow cf a cat to fight them. The hon. Member then exposed 

 theoppos te arguments used by Sir R. Peel and Sir J Graham on 

 hfs question, the former maintaining that the rise ^o price in he 

 manufactured articles would be such as to exclude us from the 

 forei-n markets, an I the latter holding that no rise in .price would 

 takeplaceatall.butthatadim^ 



of the labourer to the extent of 25 per cent. Mr. Bote concluded 

 bv calling on the House to recollect that the public would know 

 what gentlemen on that night had changed the vote they had 

 previously given, what gentlemen had received the Ministerial 

 whin and what gentlemen had chanced to be then present who 

 were absent on Monday n'ght.— Lord F.Egkrton spoke shortly in 

 favour of the amendment, and Mr. Collett then moved an 

 adjournment. This was opposed by loud calls for a division ; 

 and Mr. T. Duncombe expressed a hope that the debate was not 

 to be concluded without an expression of opinion from some 

 member of the Government as to why they were now to 

 rescind the vote of the previous Monday. The working 

 classes were prepared for any injustice at the hands of the 



House; but they were not to be prevented from seeing that the 

 question was one between avarice and humanity.— Sir J. Graham 



said that notwithstanding Mr. Mihies's threat of an address to 

 the Crown, notwithstanding the haughty contempt of Lord J. 

 Manners, notwithstanding the not very friendly speech of Sir K. 

 Inglis, and notwithstanding the sneers of Mr. C. Buller, henau 

 never come to a less hesitating conclusion than he then uia, m 

 calling on the House to reverse the vote they had agreed to on 

 Mondav. He admitted that he had been taken by s«n»«>e en 

 that evening, for he had not expected to have £yg*gE£5£ 

 posed to Lord J. Russdl and his party. He stated be i.adh aa , 

 deputation that morning of the manufacturers of Lancas 1 . 



presenting 150 firms, and of these 120 were ^ " a, ' Bna i"S re- 

 twelve hours, 17 would consent to eleven ho Lrs, and 11 e re 

 maiuder only were favourable to ten hours, ftta was the oniy 



