THE NEWSPAPER. 



[1844. 



T^Tn\»ce in the mountain of Marcelim, | 



"J* 10 "- T »ri ri£ from the same source, but 



r "the Son of the river Bastanza. It 



off ? i,oum four cows, and some sheep and 



irirf a-.T » f*™. h n ° U h ^ feea opened at Vizeu for the 



A •»""" ^ b f fom this catastrophe. A similar 



JJUi fZ here lastjear and the year before, 



18 •oaths since in « _ e jJ£ nidl ann0U nce the death, 



the 18* 



G«»** sY "" I ffM r8 Jean Baptiste Stiglmayer, director 



i^^ndery o Munich, in the 52d year of his 

 ,| A, Rojri FMndery inter> and scu i ptor , 



-- ^ t^f Sag mf tals to the highest point it 

 •** * ^ in Germany. The monuments of co- 

 ^ erer «•«" wbich the Germans are indebted to 

 ^jA number to 193, amongst which fignr. » 



stnan st 



tors, his 



isk erect 

 - of 30,000 Bavarian 



him, a***"* 

 Banna, tad 



^"uestrian statues of Maximilian I of 

 £ «d Ithe Electors, his predecessors, which have 

 Sri? the obelisk erected at Munich m comme- 

 * of' 30 000 Bavarians killed in Russia; the 

 nf Schiller, Jean Richter, Mozart Beethoven, 

 r^-r /for Bolivia), and last, the statue of Goethe, who 

 X n mate frieud of Stiglmayer, and at the execu- 

 Srf which the latter, although ill, worked with so much 

 Su«r that two hours after the cast was terminated, and 

 ^fore the mould was broken, he expired in the arms 

 a^"un£.-A letter from Posen, March 18, m the 

 jE**, Gazette, says :-« The Government has given 

 £Jpoli.h emigrants permission to prolong their stay in 

 £ protincc until they have terminated their affairs- 

 •Koi it least relating to their property. As the Govern- 

 has not named the period at which the emigrants 

 be ready to quit the province, hopes are entertained 

 that they will be allowed to remain indefinitely, provided 

 they be quiet and avoid all political matters.— The Frank- 

 frrt Journal states that the plan of the railroad line all 

 the way from Berlin to Cologne is decided, which will 

 urftcthe Prussian capital to Ostend in 1847. The dis- 

 tance between Berlin and Cologne is 97 German miles, 

 which will require 26 hours to perform. 



Den-mark.— Letters from Copenhagen of the 25th, 

 announce the death of Albert Thorwaldsen, one of the 

 ■ott amiable men and the greatest sculptor of the present 

 day. It appears that on the previous evening he went, as 

 was his custom, to the theatre. Before the commence- 

 ment of the performance he suddenly fell back in his seat, 

 aad was carried out, and soon after breathed his last. He 

 wo born on the 19th November, 1770, and was conse- 

 quently in his 74th year. To the last day of his life he 

 preserved his activity and cheerfulness of spirits, and he 

 was engaged on some important works, among which 

 may be mentioned the colossal statue of Hercules, for the 

 I'alace of Christianburgh. On Saturday, the 30th of 

 March, the mortal remains of the great master were in- 

 terred in the Holm Church. All he died possessed of he 

 has bequeathed to the Thorwaldsen Museum ; but, with 

 the exception of his works of art, his property is not so 

 ^reat as was imagined, for his generosity in assisting poor 

 and deserving artists was unbounded. He had been work- 

 ing on a bust of Luther on the day of his death. His loss 

 will be deeply felt among the artists of Rome, whom he 

 had endeared to him by his many virtues. Perhaps no 

 man of equal eminence in art ever enjoyed the esteem of 

 to many friends in every country of Europe. 



lTALT.-.The recent outbreak at Cosenza, in the king- 

 dom of Naples, and the unusual excitement among the 

 lUuan refugees in the great European capitals, are the 

 duet topici of the political circles, and are considered to 

 prove that the disturbances, so far from having been put 



»k!T' VV 11 - 1 * ln their commencement. Throughout the 

 wnoieof the Italian states, both in the south and the north, 

 we i people have been for a considerable time in a state of the 

 fat* I ? Cnt and exciter »ent, and the present outbreak 



fa£L r 0n ! of Na P les is but the first ebullition of that 

 ng iQ tlie Papal States it is well known that the 



the imwI C * r ,\ 8t n c aImost of anar chy ; and so slight is 



MMnutk Govern ment, that it is utterly unable to 



«OBBSio„\ m0 *£ ° pen outra S e s. At Bologna, a military 



demnJ In? i v sittin S for months, which has con- 



©fpuaiah™ *<■ hundr ed individuals to different degrees 



but f twT* i 0m t 8im P le imprisonment to death itself ; 



theneorX . } S haye not had the expected effect, and 



Jo the Sard- • nOWmore darin g a nd determined than ever. 



Place and hH 8t ? teS similar demonstrations have taken 



•Pmd term e United ia the mountains which 



wat the S /m rywhere - For s °me time it was held out 



we \*oZ I a ° Ces had their origin in the distress of 



**lth of m n °V n P olitical causes i b ^ ^e rank and 



■Prificanf .k TJ °J * he Pities compromised, and the 



^uTof T*?. (0 \ liberty aild a constitution, with the 



WertodnnL/u ° r ! d fla S> make it impossible any 



^oieme* A POliticaI feelin S is at the bottom of 

 intentions of a ♦ 7 anety of rumours are abroad as to the 



*"wnment h! 8tna ^.^terfere in favour of the Italian 

 * «eir iui.fi.n b 1 " 6 an arm y t0 R ome and Naples 

 of %let and th! p By l S0DQe {t * said that both the King 

 Cwinet of Vi«,„ u- f Jt demande d assistance from the 

 *» that Aoatri- i! J 1 he8itat es what to do. Others 

 !?*pted by the P n w er S d assista °ce, which has been 



J* French pape^ho^. d , ined by the Kin * ° f Na P lei " 

 toat any interring „ C I er leave no doubt of the fact 



** ■ French oTcu', ° n ? e » patt ° f Austria wouId be met 

 •^ Civita VecchL 4 Q ,°! Ancon »» a ^d another probably 



««*■ that that citv if in I fr ° m Rome of the 16th ult ' 

 ^^ong the f rem f E / tate of g reat excitement, and 



*^^^dXT ?****** Statea small forts 

 •PPear to have been tl mte "* ] *' This measure would 

 tftj of i ulu ' alcen m . consequence of advice that 

 ^^ Wl aepoi Q t or?' fended to make a descent 



mt 0F other of the Peninsula, and had at 



tually embarked on board three ships from Malta. For 

 some time past, in fact, the French and other European 

 Cabinets have warned all the Italian Governments to 

 beware, and that the refugees had formed the plan of a 

 monster conspiracy for the purpose of revolutionising the 

 whole country in the spring. Another pontifical mea- 

 sure, it states, has caused universal alarm ; the Govern- 

 ment having printed, distributed in profusion, and posted 

 up in all the streets, an edict, which announces in the most 

 despondingtermsthatnewandthe greatest dangers threaten 

 the Church. This edict orders public prayers ; invites the 

 people to repair to the temples to implore the Holy Virgin, 

 who is the special protectrix of Rome ; in short, enjoins a 

 Triduo in her honour, to supplicate her to conjure the storm. 

 The outbreak at Cosenza appears to have been effectually 

 suppressed, but not without the loss of four soldiers and 

 the Commanding officer, who was the son of the celebrated 

 metaphysician, Baron Galuppi. The movement however 

 has extended to Paola, a town of 5000 inhabitants on the 

 coast of the Mediterranean. Several soldiers have been 

 killed, and among them one of the colonels in command. 

 The King has sent a numerous force into Calabria ; the 

 towns in that district are consequently kept quiet, but the 

 mountainous districts were occupied by bands of insur- 

 gents. Additional arrests have taken place at Naples. 

 According to the Leipsic Gazette, a great ferment still 

 prevailed at Ravenna and Bo'ogna, and violent up- 

 roars had taken place at Faenza and Rimini. At 

 the former place the populace had killed the 

 Pope's carabineers, and mangled their corpses. The 

 Augsburg Gazette, of the 24th, states that a few days 

 previously another attempt at insurrection was made at 

 Imola. It was put down, and several of the rioters were 

 arrest ed. Some were wounded, and others saved them- 

 selves by flight. 



Turkey.— Accounts from Constantinople of the 13th. 



ult. announce, that on that day the Porte delivered a reply 

 to the note of the British and French Ambassadors respect- 

 ing the execution of relapsed renegades, which was 

 believed to be of an unsatisfactory nature. M. de 

 Coq, the Prussian Minister, has received instructions 

 from his Government to support the English and French 

 representatives in their demands. An attache* to the 

 Russian embassy had been suddenly sent with despatches 

 to St. Petersburgh. The object of his mission was not 

 known, but it was generally believed that it had reference 

 to the important question now agitating at the Porte.— 

 Letters have been received from Bucharest dated the 8th 

 ult., which state that a grave misunderstanding had arisen 

 between the Prince of Wallachia and the national assem- 

 bly. It appears that Prince Bibesko had entered into an 

 agreement with a pscdo company of Russians for the 

 working of mines in tjwaprincipality for the space of 12 

 years. A large body of Russian engineers in the service 

 of the Government immediately crossed the Wallachian 

 frontiers, and the power of entering upon and examining 

 all the lands, both of the Boyards and others, was con- 

 ferred upon them. It turned out that the Russian Govern- 

 ment was the pretended Company that took the lease of 

 the mines. The Wallachians made no objection to the 

 mines 'being let to a Russian Company, but when the 

 labourers arrived, their astonishment was so great to find 

 that the pretended workmen were a regiment of Russian 

 sappers and miners, that the Assembly of the States 

 annulled the contract on the ground that the Government 



had exceeded its powers. 



India and China. — The India mail of the 1st of 

 March arrived this week, with accounts of considerable 

 importance. The great result of the late victories near 

 Gwalior has been the tranquillisation of India. Gwalior 

 has been settled, a new treaty has been formed, the young 

 Sovereign has been placed on the throne, a contingent 

 has been raised and placed under the care of British offi- 

 cers, the old unruly troops of Scindiah have been dis- 

 banded, the Governor-General was proceeding to Calcutta, 

 and the Commander-in-Chief to Simla ; the supremacy of 

 the British Government being admitted by all the inhabi- 

 tants. Yet there were sources of dissatisfaction, but they 

 were principally confined to the conduct of some of the 

 Bengal and Madras Sepoys in the 64th and 34th Bengal 

 regiments, and in the 47th Madras Regiment of Native 

 Infantry, who had shown a rebellious disposition on being 

 ordered to serve in Scinde. Courts-martial were to be 

 held on the ringleaders, and the strongest determination 

 was exhibited to suppress this insubordination in the 

 troops of those two presidencies, which, however, appears 

 to be confined to the regiments ordered to Scinde. 

 The great point of interest in Indian politics was Lahore, 

 where every prospect exists of another revolution break- 

 ing out in the course of a few months. Heera Singh, the 

 Prime Minister, was busy in plundering the Royal 

 Treasury, and removing the spoil to the fastnesses of his 

 family in the mountains. The boy King, Dhuleep Singh, 

 was placed on the throne in January, in the midst of 

 great pomp, but the celebrated diamond, •* kooh-i-noor, 

 which Runjeet Singh had plundered from Schah Soojah, 

 was not produced on the occasion. It is said to have been 

 sent to the mountains. There was an expectation enter- 

 tained that Heera Sin^h would in a short time without 

 scruple have the boy King sacrificed and himself placed 

 on the musnud. The British were collecting a large force 

 on the banks of the Sutiej, in order to be prepared for 

 every emergency, and the Commander-in-Chief of India 

 was to be stationed in the neighbourhood at the mountain 

 residence of Simla. The news from the Affghan countries 

 was, that Yar Mahomed had expelled the Suddozies, or 

 sons of Schah Kamram, from Herat, and that he had 

 declared himself the ruler, and that under the protection 

 of Persia he was endeavouring to form an intimate junc- 

 tion between himself, the Sirdars of Candahar, and Dost 





Mahomed of Cabul, to whose notorious son Akhbar 

 he had offered his daughter m marriage : the offer was 

 accepted, and a sort of confederacy was formed. The 

 hatred between the Affghans! of Cabul and the "Sikhs is 

 likely to produce a quarrel ; forthe former desire ardently 

 to obtain Peshawur, and all the districts to the west of 

 the Indus. In Scinde there was no disturbance, for 

 Sir Charles Napier continues to keep up the Army 

 of Occupation to 15,000 men. The sickness is de- 

 scribed as diminishing, and the prejudice against the 

 occupation had abated, although the dissatisfaction 

 of the Bengal and Madras'soldiery on being ordered there 

 was still very great. Sir C. Napier continued in good 

 health. There was a grand ball given to him at Kurachee, 

 on the anniversary of the battle of Meeanee. He wat 

 making preparations for proceeding to the northward. 

 Sir Robert Sale, who went some months with Her Ma- 

 jesty's 13th Regiment to Sukkur, was expected in Bom- 

 bay in the month of March, accompanied by Lady Sale 

 and his daughter, Mrs. Sturt. This gallant officer hat 

 obtained leave to visit England. The settlement of the 

 Mahratta Government at Gwalior appears to be complete; 

 the soldiers who formerly served the Government, on 

 being disbanded, immediately joined the contingent. 

 Their Government has paid about a quarter of a million 

 for the expenses of the late war, and ceded certain pos- 

 sessions lying between their territories and Bundelkund, 

 which will have the effect of obliging the refractory chiefs 

 in those districts to submit to the terms proposed by the 

 Supreme Government. Arrangements were made to 

 compensate the Ryots for any injury done to their 

 crops and fields by the march of the British troops. 

 This was a most unusual proceeding in that country, and 

 had given great satisfaction; and the inhabitants, in 

 expectation of a better rule hereafter, were highly 

 pleased with the moderation of their British conquerors. — 

 The news from China comes down to the 12th January, 

 but it presents nothing of remarkable interest. The mer- 

 cantile arrangements were going forward to the satisfac- 

 tion of the British and Chinese authorities. It now 

 becomes a matter of great interest to the British com- 

 mercialists to endeavour to supply the Chinese markets 

 with good articles. The active and intelligent Chinese, 

 who are now learning the value of cotton, &c, whether 

 raw or manufactured, will not long submit to be imposed 

 on by second-rate articles of any kind. Sickness prevails 

 at Hong-Kong, and several Europeans were carried off. 

 Inquiries into the cause were making by Sir H. Pottinger, 

 through the aid of a medical committee appointed for the 

 purpose. The massacre of the Bishops Jinbert, Messrs. 

 Chastan and Manban, with 70 Christians, all Roman 

 Catholics, at Corea, is confirmed by the Friend of China. 

 The same paper adds, that in addition to the above, who 

 were all beheaded, 180 other Christians were put to death 

 by strangulation. Major-General d'Aguilar arrived in 

 H.M.S. Castor, on the 27th December, and was to take 

 the command as the Commander-in-Chief of the British 

 forces in China. H.M.S. Cornwallis, having Vice-Admi- 

 ral Parker on board, arrived at Singapore on the 1 1 th Jan. 

 United States.— We have accounts from New York 

 to the 11th ult. Mr. Calhoun has been appointed Secre- 

 tary of State by President Tyler, in the place of the unfor- 

 tunate gentleman who previously held the office, and who 

 was killed by the explosion of the Princeton's gun. In 

 the earlier stage of Mr. Tyler's Presidency the same office 

 was offered to Mr. Calhoun and declined, as he then had 

 hopes of succeeding to the presidency himself. The 

 recent turn which events have taken for that office, by- 

 placing Mr. Van Buren at the head of the democratic 

 party by a large majority over Colonel Johnson and 

 General Cass, has mainly, it is said, influenced Mr. Cal- 

 houn in the selection of an inferior but still important 

 office. The death of Mr. Biddle the well known financier 

 took place on the 27th Feb., at Andalusia— Arrivals at 

 New Orleans bring intelligence that the Mexican Govern- 

 ment has approved of the arrangement made by their 

 Minister in London, so that all difficulties with England 

 will be arranged. Mr. Bankhead, the new British 

 Minister, had not arrived. The February instalment of 

 the indemnity to the United States has been paid — The 

 Canada papers state that an amnesty has been received 

 from the Home Government, pardoning all Canadian 

 rebels, but not extending that pardon to strangers- 

 Montevideo advices inform us that the French Consul at 

 that port had demanded that all Frenchmen banded for 

 the defence of Montevideo should be disarmed. This the 

 Oriental Government refused, and the French Consul- 

 General thereupon struck his flag, and retired on board 

 the French frigate La Gloire. — A vessel had arrived from 

 the West Indies, which brings a report that a severe 

 earthquake shook the island of St. Vincent on the 27th 

 January, and did considerable damage. 



1 i . — ■ - - u 



49arltamtm. 



HOUSE OF LORDS. 

 Monday.— The Earl of Ripox stated, in reply to the Earl of 

 Malmesbnry, that troops had been sent from New South Wales 

 and Van Diemen'B Land to New Zealand to aid in its protection. 

 At the same time, the Government felt that great inconvenience 

 attended the moving of troops from ouflixolony to another, and 

 considered that New Zealand, as it had the power by law to levy 

 militia or constabulary, ought to provide for its own security.— 

 The Earl of Abkrdekx laid on the table the supplementary treaty 

 with China, containing the regulations for the conduct of our 

 trade, and, in doing so, remarked that the northern parts or 

 China were now open to British commerce, and, he was nappy 

 to say, with every appearance of the most extensive and * UC «J*: 

 fultrade-a trade that was carried on with the f «■*«?' ^J 

 feeling on the part of the people of the country, and wtntneoesc 

 feelings towards her Majesty's subjects. His Lordship atao paid 

 a high tribute to the various services P erfo ™f * 7 s fJ e ^ \£ r 

 tinger.-Lord Beaumont called »«ention to t he at * te of J» r 



, commercial relano^vith ^^^^iVcSKSi 

 6 showing that oui commerce, as reguimcu u^* 



