Apr. 6,] 



THE NEWSPAPER. 



domestic character, the proceedings of the Chamber 

 having lost, for the remainder of the Session, that tone 

 of excited feeling in regard to the foreign policy of the 

 government, which made its debates so important to the 

 rest of Europe.— The arrival of Queen Christina at Ma- 

 drid, the capitulation of Carthagena, and the death of 

 Senor Arguelles, the distinguished statesman and ex-guar- 

 dian of Queen Isabella, which took place while the Queen 

 Mother was entering the capital, are the chief topics of 

 our news from Spain. The surrender of Carthagena gives 

 the Government possession of the whole country, and 

 for the present the disturbances may be considered at an 

 end. A general amnesty is mentioned as a measure likely 

 to be adopted in commemoration of this event, but the 

 leading exiles of Spain are to be excluded from its bene- 

 fits.— The state of Italy is becoming every day more seri- 

 ous, and the feeble governments of the Italian peninsula 

 are at length awakened to the fact that a general conspi- 

 racy has been formed to revolutionise the entire country 

 during the present spring. The disturbances in the cen- 

 tral provinces of the Kingdom of Naples have spread to 

 the inaccessible coasts of Calabria, and the fresh arrests 

 which are daily taking place at Naples prove the exist- 

 ence of the conspiracy in the heart of the capital itself. 

 The Papal States are on the verge of insurrection, and 

 public prayers and religious ceremonies have been ordered 

 by the Pope as a means of averting the coming storm. 

 The intervention of Austria is considered inevitable in 

 some quarters, but it is believed that such a step would 

 inevitably be followed by a counter occupation of one or 

 more of the Roman garrisons by France. 



At home, Parliament adjourned on Tuesday for the 

 faster recess, after the introduction of various measures 

 preparatory to their discussion after the holidays. Among 

 these is the amended Poor Law of Government, retaining 

 he disputed 12-hours clause, upon which it is understood 

 that Ministers will stake their continuance in office. The 

 revenue returns have been published this week, and ex- 

 hibit a gratifymg proof that the productive energies of 

 the people have improved, and that trade and consump- 

 tion are stead.ly increasing. The returns for the year 

 show a considerable increase in all the branches of the 

 ordinary revenue except in the Stamps and Taxes ; while, 



derrt e K r8 ,r tUrnSjthe onl T branch which shows a 



the 1 " / Mi5Cellaneous Stem, which scarcely affects 

 peol ° f meDUe deriVGd fr ° m the P-sperity of the 



CouRT.^-IIer Majesty, the Prince of Wales, and the 

 Princesses left town on Wednesday for Windsor Castle 



King^opold h aving arrived at Buckingham Palace on 

 Tuesday even,,,. from Ostend. Prince Albert arrived at 

 tn CntL° n ?* tur( J a y evening, and immediately proceeded 



morning v'? ^ e T° ted t0 reach earI y on Sanday 

 morning. Is tice has been issued from the Lord Cham- 



5SL n i £*?' *? *f Majesty will hold Drawing 



Excise, 11,889,123/.; Stamps, 6,472,040/.; Taxes, 

 4, 192,473/. ; Property-tax, 5,356,887/.; Post-office, 

 622, 000/. ; Crown Lands, 147, 500/. ; Miscellaneous, 

 1,134,477/.; Imprest and other moneys, 205,865/.; Re- 

 payments of Advances, 972,483/. ; making the total sum 

 of 50,396,977/. ; and being an increase over the last cor- 

 responding year of 4,318,167/. There is an increase in 

 the Customs of 658,335/. ; Excise, 474,607/. ; Property- 

 tax, 2,900,599/.; Post-office, 15,000/.; Crown Lands, 

 30,000/. ; Miscellaneous, 336,703/. ; which, with Repay- 

 ment of Advances, 215,425/., give a total of 4,700,669/. 

 From this must be deducted a decrease in Stamps, 

 12,699/. ; Taxes, 73.0G4/. ; Imprest and other moneys, 

 •296,739/.; making the sum of 382,502/., which 

 being deducted from the increase, as above, of 

 4,700,669/., gives a total increase on the year of 

 4,318,1G7/. The returns for the quarter show an in- 

 crease of 325,034/. The increase in the Customs is 

 384,910/. ; Excise, 85,316/. : Stamps, 45,885/. ; Taxes, 

 1987/. ; Property Tax, 107,627/. ; Post Office, 30,000/. ; 

 Crown Lands, 30,000/, ; Imprest and other moneys, 

 37,337/. ; Repayments of Advances, 102,236/. ; making 

 a total of 825,298/. From this the only item to be de- 

 ducted is a decrease in Miscellaneous of 500,264/., leaving 

 a total increase on the quarter of 325,034/. 



Parliamentary Movements.— The election at Hastings 

 has terminated in the return of Mr. Brisco, the Conserva- 

 tive candidate. The numbers were, for Mr. Brisco, 513 ; 

 for Mr. R. R. Moore, 174. Majority 339. 



Diplomatic Appointments. — It is announced that Lord 

 Stuart de Rothesay, her Majesty's Ambassador at St. Pe- 

 tersburgh, has resigned his mission, and that the Hon. 

 Mr. Bloomfieldhas been nominated Minister Plenipoten- 

 tiary in Russia. It is not intended to replace Lord 

 Stuart by any diplomatist of the rank of ambassador, as 

 the representative of Russia at this Court, Baron Brun- 

 now, holds only the same diplomatic rank as the Hon. 

 Mr. Bloomfield is now invested with. 



The Army.— The Rev. G. R. Gleig, Chaplain of the 

 Royal Hospital, Chelsea, has been appointed Principal 

 Chaplain to the Forces, vice the Rev. W. W. Dakins, 

 D.D., who retires ; the Rev. R. W. Browne, M.A., to be 

 Chaplain to Troops stationed in London. 



the 'same portions as above to be emend^T^ "" 



„,,.,» i . ---'-..'" »»"iu«jr. ii. is rumoured that tie 

 contemplated v.s.t of King Louis-Philippe to this country 

 will take place early in June, and that His Majesty will 

 he accompanied by the Queen and the Prince and Princess 

 r„1„ l"7h u Ma ; or - Gene "»l Wemyss has succeeded 

 Mafesr! \ H ° n - C , Gre y.?» Equerry in Waiting on Her 



Hni iT'u Se ! e v raI ch » DgM baTe taken P lace j n the Royal 

 Household with.n the last fortnight, by which the ex- 

 pense, of the establishment have been reduced by some 

 hundreds of pounds annually. Thursday being Maunday 



charmes took place in Whitehall Chapel. The Royal 



1 1 a \ ^T d,s *" boted on Monday and Tuesday/to 

 upwards of 800 poor and aged persons. 



Illness of Lord Abinger.-Oo. Monday evening Lord 

 Abinger was suddenly attacked by paralysis at Bury 

 St. Edmunds whilst entertaining the magistracy of the 

 count, after the business of the Assizes in the Crown 

 \2lL i *?*?*? that whilst the Judges were entertain- 



conetdeH ? t' 8 W" thdr '° d?in « 8 ' J ust as din ™ •» 

 and W^ r ., Ab ' nSer Sudden 'y became indisposed. 



watk down . t • tU t T er ,° f S P eech - He ™» able «o 

 wfatad ta WTV° h ». -leeplnjr apartment, and was 



S whh hrir 1 Tk"* 8 ° f Dr - Pr0bert - wb ° wa, 

 ImZl I IL t ^ d , sh 'P 9 " » Magistrate, and Mr. 

 S; f b , em i "nmediaW, rendered. The most powerful 



down Ms Tordli 8 - rted , t0 ' bUt tb « P ara, « is «*»<« 

 nlhf in . .,. ) P , S S ' de ' and be "mained dnrin- the 



entire prostration. LuAbln^^'^o f'L 3 °W 

 ah.p .sons were sent for, and Mr. Bransby Coonerleft 

 town for Bury as soon as the intplli„.n„ ^ 00 pcr ett 

 The last accounts represent hsLofd^Wn re3 " d *""■ 

 alarming state. He appears a time, t if IS I """l 



v . • • , * r *iiuc» as it conscious nf 



what ,s passing in the room but has not spoken since he 

 was attacked. Mr I ransby Cooper remains at Burv 

 and it is understood that he docs not eive rh* »i;„kf I 

 hopes of the learned Judge's ultimate recovery ghtC8t 

 The Revenue.— -The returns of the Revenue for the 

 year and quarter ended the 5th April, have just been pub 



l£ h , e «; n^ e r ~?\ nS f ° r the year 8how a total Income of 

 5«V96,9/ //. Of this sum the Customs make 19,458 120/ • 



JForetgn. 



France. — The proceedings in the French Chambers 

 have been entirely of domestic interest. The Govern- 

 ment was defeated last week on one of the principal 

 clauses of the Recruiting of the Army Bill, the details of 

 which have been for some days the subject of warm dis- 

 cussion in the Chamber of Deputies. The Government 

 had proposed that eight years be fixed as the time of 

 service in the army ; the Chamber decided by a majority 

 of 170 to 163, that seven years should be the period. To 

 this vote no importance is attached as regards the existence 

 of the Cabinet, as M. Thiers and other opposition mem- 

 bers voted on the occasion with Ministers.— The proposi- 

 tion of M. Gamier Pages, relative to the conversion of 

 the Five per Cent. Stock into Four and a Half, was 

 examined in the bureaux of the Chamber on Friday. The 

 Minister of Finance said that he did not oppose its being 

 publicly read, but that he would resist its being taken into 

 consideration. The other Ministers made a similar decla- 

 ration. Seven bureaux out of nine decided that the propo- 

 sition should be read at one of their next sittings, and it 

 was accordingly brought forward on Tuesday. ~ After a 

 debate of two days the motion was negatived by 207 to 163. 

 M. de Lamartine presented a petition to the Chamber of 

 Deputies on Wednesday, praying that Don Carlos and his 

 Royal family, now detained at Bourges, might be set at 

 liberty. This petition had, amongst the names of several 

 distinguished persons attached to it, that of M. de Chau- 

 teaubriand. The petition is the composition of M. Mad- 

 rolle, who published .'some time since a pamphlet termed 

 " A Manifesto for Princes," in which the principal points 

 are developed, and it is said that the petition will be 

 warmly supported by the different sections of the Oppo- 

 sition — The excitement got up by the clergy on the sub- 

 ject of education is becoming every day more alarming, 

 and gives great uneasiness to the Government. On 

 Saturday the Minister of the Interior received despatches 

 from the Prefects of Morbihan and Finisterre, which give 

 a most unsatisfactory account of the state of these pro- 

 vinces. The smaller clergy are doing all they can to 

 excite the people, and a great number of instances are 

 given in which the priests interrupted divine service to 

 harangue the people on the attempts made to destroy 

 religion, and oblige their parishioners to sign protests 

 against the Education Bill which is now before the Cham- 

 ber of Peers. The Government is placed in a complete 

 dilemma by these demonstrations, and it is difficult to say 

 how the conduct of the clergy will be met.— On Saturday 

 the Government presented two grand Railway Bills to the 

 Chamber of Deputies. One is to run from Paris to Dijon 

 and to connect itself with the railway constructing between 

 the latter city and Chalons; the other is to run from 

 Tours to Bordeaux, and thus complete the line intended 

 to connect Bordeaux and Paris. " The former," savs the 

 Journal des Dcbats "is called the railwav from Puns to 

 the Mediterranean, and the latter the railway from Paris 

 to the frontier of Spain. The Dijon railway is to be con- 

 ducted through the valleys of the Seine, Yonne and Ar- 

 mancon. The whole sum allotted to it is 50 000 OOOf 

 40,000,000 of which to be expended in 1844 and 

 10,000,000 in 1845. The company that may "gage to 



r J "" ,6,lw « navet 



and Bordeaux. The distance" from OrteS ■ t'o T^uSlX 

 conceded to it as a premium, in the way of a comnlS* 

 for the part of the railway between Tours anT?** 

 ltme, which is generally expected to yield ven mST" 

 Ihe concession is to last forty-seven years It i mEf* 

 stood that if no suitable company should* present^*, 

 within two months to subscribe the stipulations th*<uT 

 itself will lay down the rails from OrleaL toS » #! 

 Siecle states that a Bill is also shortly to be intr. 2 

 for a railway from Paris to Strasburg, on terms simiS 

 those proposed for the Bordeaux line.— The pane/ 

 announce the accouchement on Thursday of the Princ 

 of Saxe Coburg Gotha (Princess Clementine of OrleaaT? 

 who on that day gave birth to a son. The infant wh 

 christened in the evening, by the Archbishop of Paris hi 

 the names of Philip Ferdinand Marie Augiste Raphael 

 The sponsors were the King and Queen of the French ~ 

 The Revue des Deux Mondes doubts if Kin«» Louii 

 Philippe will visit England during the summer, ai re" 

 ported. "Some foreign newspapers," says the' /few," 

 '•have adopted, a great deal too lightly, the report of the' 

 King s journey into England in the course of the approach 

 ing summer. The age of the Monarch excused him from 

 a visit to which he was strongly urged by his sons. The 

 journey now spoken of, not being required by any ex- 

 pedience, will be altogether of a political character- and, 

 whatever the sentiments of the ministry may be on the 

 English alliance, we believe it to be too enlightened to 

 expose the head of our new dynasty to an ovation more 

 annoying to him than the clamours of his most im- 

 placable enemies."— The weather in Paris has undergone 

 a sudden change during the past week, and is described as 

 unusually warm and brilliant for the season.— The sub- 

 scription for the sword of Admiral Dupetit Thouars, 

 amounts to nearly 360/. 



Spain. — The accounts from Madrid are mostly taken 

 up with details of the festivities in honour of the return 

 of Queen Christina. As we stated briefly in our last, on 

 the authority of the telegraph, the Queen-Mother, accon- 

 panied by her two daughters, made her entry into that 

 capital in the afternoon of the 23d. Their Majesties 

 were received at the gate of Atocha by the municipality 

 and the civil and military authorities. Several dance* 

 were there performed in their presence by 18 young girls, 

 richly dressed, who formed the retinue of a woman seated 

 on a throne under a canopy representing a rainbow, the 

 symbol of peace and happiness. Their Majesties after- 

 wards offered a short prayer in the Church of Atocha, 

 and then entered the city, Generals Narvaez and Mai- 

 zaredo, the Minister of War, riding on each side oi the 

 open caleche in which they sat. Queen Christina ac- 

 knowledged the '* Vivas /" of the population, and her re- 

 ception on the whole was satisfactory. After their Ma- 

 jesties had reached the Palace, the troops denied under 

 the balcony, and in the evening the city was illuminated. 

 The Gazette announces that the Queen, in honour 

 of the event, had ordered that a month's pay be given 

 to the officers of the Government and the pen- 

 sioners of the State throughout the kingdom. On 

 Sunday the two Queens, accompanied by all the mem- 

 bers of the Royal Family now in Madrid, assisted at a 

 "Te Deum," which was performed in the church of St. 

 Isidoro ; and in the evening they attended the theatre of 

 Santa Cruz. Don Francisco de Paula and Queen Chris- 

 tina exchanged visits in the course of the day. On 

 Tuesday there was a grand reception, at which the 

 Ministers of State, the diplomatic body, and the other 

 great functionaries were presented. Senor ArgueUet 

 late guardian of Queen Isabella and one of the most dis- 

 tinguished statesmen of Spain, died at Madrid on the 23d; 

 his funeral took place on the 25th, and was attended by 

 the entire population of the capital.— Carthagena surren- 

 dered at discretion on the 25th, and a general amnesty J* 

 talked of at Madrid, excluding however Don Carlos, 

 Espartero, Cabrera, Olozaga, and the Bishop of Leon. 

 The Castellano, which mentions the rumour adds that, 

 considering the state of the countrv, it cannot believe it to 

 be founded. In the meantime the* Madrid AyuntamienW 

 are collecting into a volume which is to be superbly bound, 

 all the poetical pieces composed in honour of tbe ret 

 of Queen Christina. . . 



Portugal.— Accounts from Lisbon to the 26thinfoi» 

 us that the 400 insurgent soldiers are still in possession 

 of Almeida. The preparations for attacking them are nw 

 yet completed, and the artillery had not arrived at tn 

 place. A representation of the perils which theintere 

 of the crown and of the country were said to be me ° a J he 

 with in consequence of the continuance in power o 

 Cabral ministry, signed by three ex-ministers, intenaea 

 be presented to the Queen of Portugal, was dehverea 

 the King, her Majesty declining to grant an intervie w^ 

 the nobleman appointed to present it, the Count e 

 vradio. An explosion of subterraneous water took p 



,e district of Vizeu, by which the soil was w 

 , . „ . : #■ kaitrht into L 



torn 

 tbe 



tae 

 ated 



lately in the district of Vizeu, by which the ?°" 7°! j, 

 up, and earth and stones flung to a great height in 

 air, for the distance of more than a league, between 

 small river Oleiros and the Douro. All the cuui 

 land over which the explosion passed was destroyed, ^ 

 many places it created ravines 40 feet in depth, an 

 fathoms wide. It carried away and shattered to ,ra S u fewer 

 in its course, which was of extreme rapidity, n ^ 

 than 50 wind and water-milis, choked the Uo " r cludirl g 



lay down the rails and supply the matkriel will have a than 50 wind and water-milis, choKeu »» ^r^ m 



possession or Out 30 years at the utmost ; its lease will rubbish, and caused the death of nine persons. ^^"S 



include the entire line from Paris to Chalons. The sum one entire family. The loss to the farmers and labourer 



allotted to the Tours and Bordeaux -line is 54,000,000f., calculated at GO contos, or 14,000/. "- th " sam ~ ^ 



Ou the same 



