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THE NEWSPAPER. 



-^^^^Gh^din^ broughtfbrward his motion 

 , *JZ to the appointment and promotion of public 

 IT^S nnaries The object of the motion was to subject 

 IuT«blic functionaries to a regular course of promotion. 

 Thimotion was assented to by M. Guizot, on the part of 

 ^Ministry • and the question will be taken into con- 

 Sfcration on a future day.— The editors of the Gazette 

 ^France and of the Nation newspapers were on Satur- 

 <Uv condemned to one year's imprisonment and a fine of 

 12 000 francs each, for a libel on the Government. The 

 Juj wU contained in a violent letter, written by M. de 

 Boohrfoucauld, duke de Doudauville, which was published 

 in the Gazette and copied by the Nation. The offence 

 «f which they were found guilty was an attack upon the 

 rights derived by the King from the will of the nation ; 

 2besion to another form of government, in alleging the 

 exjitence of rights to the Throne in a person who is 

 banished from France for ever ; bringing the Government 

 into hatred and contempt; and an attack upon the 

 itnctity of the oath, and on the respect due to the law. 

 TV Duke de Doudauville, though the writer of the letter, 

 oil lot been prosecuted. — Disturbances which had at one 

 moment a character of some gravity, have taken place at 

 Rive de Gier, in the neighbourhood of Lyons, in conse- 

 quence of a combination among the working miners. 

 Several persons have been arrested. On the 15th the 

 escort which was conducting seventeen of the rioters who 

 had been made prisoners to St. Etienne, was assailed at 

 the moment when it was passing through the village of 

 Grand Croix, by a body of rioters, who endeavoured to 

 rescue the prisoners. A shower of stones wounded a 

 considerable number of the soldiers and all the officers, 

 and shots were even fired. Thus assailed, the escort found 

 itaelf compelled to use its arms. Six labourers were 

 wounded, of whom three are in a dangerous state. The 

 rioters were immediately dispersed, and St. Etienne, 

 Lyons, and St. Chamond, are now perfectly tranquil. — 

 The number of English visitors at Paris is at the present 

 moment greater than it has been ever since the peace: not 

 leas than 500 passports are daily presented at the English 

 Embassy for visa. 



Spain.— Letters from Madrid of the 1st inst. state 

 that, the disturbances having been put down, the members 

 of the Cabinet have now turned their attention to the 

 rewards which ought to follow their exertions in the past 

 crisis. Accordingly, M. Gonzales Bravo and the Mar- 

 quess de Penaflorida have been nominated by her Majesty 

 Kn.ghts Grand Crosses of the Order of Charles III. 

 General Mazzaredo has been appointed a Lieutenant- 

 general, and M. Carrasco, the Minister of Finance, 



whose activity and zeal have already produced such 



?«; ^ a Jc r ? Ul A 9 /' haS been elevated t0 th * dignity of 

 Count of Santa Olatla. M. Donozo Cortes, who was the 



£™ n ,f eDt u t0 Paris toinvite Q ueen Christina to return to 

 oflSi? ^ 6n n ma u de , a Kni S ht Grand Cross of the Order 

 2c«S^ n Cath ? llC ' and has been ^Pointed private 

 W^pl? 1 ! 6611 l 8abella > " ith a sa lary of 50.000 reals. 

 S tn T rT haVC P resen ^ addresses of congratu- 

 wSThria? r!! , " StiDa ° n her return ' and Preparations 

 ^ S It ra?rand mil j tar r concert, wLh was 

 event ZZ gamson of Madrid to celebrate that 

 yet, taken Vn P* rt . 18M -s it was affirmed that she had, as 



^tenting hersdf wiV^ mana S ement of P*™' affairs, 

 Bravo CaLeTL re P°smg great confidence in the 

 to Political oL? ? x P ressin g th « ™*h that an amnesty 

 tha? thi acl : 5 n " ** S00n P r °claimed. It was rumoured 

 of April, he r bir?h7 W ° Ul f be P romul g ated on the 27th 

 Promotion. ?' '?» and thft t at the same time various 

 Minister of \V*r k *? made and titles conferred.-The 



^cali, announcing reCeiVed * de8 P atch from General 

 «*!* from th.» °? I entrance into Carthagena and the 



^onlya? e l CIt K y °l. the chiefs of the 'ate insurrection, 

 ** h »d desurn Jf *i. rdl , nates who wereunworthy thedeath 

 ** "mTZJ * t leaders of th * revolt. It appears 

 il capitulated her* ? t0 ° k place in Carthagena before 

 *** Populace n? revolted Gerona regiment and 



[1844. 



"* Populace n \T re ™ited lierona regiment and 

 oelonging to the r mornin S of the surrender an officer 

 Jonian volunteer 1™?* re S lment > and one of the Cata- 

 b 7 firin g upward. *i ™ attem Pt ^ blow up Carthagena 

 Principal m P r a2 L° f J 50 .°001bs. of gunpowder in the 



V W J some told? ' re they were on S uard - Fortu - 

 ™ e, n «nto the bui \T 8U8 P? ctin S their intentions foUowed 

 of 8 °ch an act of J i g * an P revent «d the consummation 

 +*****, "ho a .W?? ate w j ckedaess b y seizing the con- 

 ^e Heraldo inT ^ afterwards committed suicide. 

 2?> iitt by MorooJ gnantIy records another in sult offered 

 *■? fired at on ann^ 8 T e fisher, »en of Algesiras having 

 PoR TUG ; L ^ a PProachin g the Barbary coast. S 



?l fr o^ Oporto of th7!i^ C0UIltS fr0m LisboQ of the 3d > 

 S?* at Coimbra 'k ? lQ8t - The latter meution a 



Viaco 



7 owul ' «««-" "c i8, is not punishable, seeing that there 

 does not exist a law to punish in the person of the accused 

 the act charged. I, therefore, declare the accusation given 

 against the said Dr. Kalley irrelevant, and order him to 

 be held clear of guilt." Baffled on the religious question, 

 Dr. Kalley s prosecutors, it is understood, are going to 

 institute proceedings against him as a disturber of the 

 public peace. On the other hand, Dr. Kalley, at the 

 suggestion of Lord Aberdeen, is about to petition the 

 Government at Lisbon for compensation for the loss of 

 his professional income during his illegal imprisonment. 



Germany.— The papers state that the object of Prince 

 Albert's visit to Gotha is supposed to be the regulation of 

 family matters, especially the division of the private pro- 

 perty left by his father, the late Duke. It is well known 

 that the deceased was very economical ; and since, as it is 

 now affirmed, the sums paid by Prussia for the lordship 

 of St. Wendel, on the left bank of the Rhine, which was 

 ceded to it, went into the private coffers of the Duke, the 

 amount of his property is stated at several millions.— The 

 Duke of Nassau received last week, by an express, the 

 intelligence that his brother, Prince Adolphus, would not 

 be able to be at Wiesbaden to be present at the fetes ; 

 because, in a lit of anger, he had shot a nobleman in Hun 1 

 gary, who during a hunting party on the prince's preserves 

 wantonly shot two of the prince's servants. — The King of 

 Wurtemberg has signified his especial satisfaction with 

 the services rendered by our countryman, Professor Vig- 

 noles, respecting the Wurtemberg railroads, by the pre- 

 sentation to him, over and above his ordinary remunera- 

 tion, of a magnificent gold snuff-box, having a miniature 

 of His Majesty set in diamonds, valued at 300 guineas. — 

 The active Berlin Police Director, Dunker, has just disco- 

 vered at Berlin a nest of swindlers, who were to have 

 established themselves in that city ; and amongst other 

 proceedings they had in view, was the issuing and nego- 

 tiating of forged bills of exchange on various principal 

 continental cities.— A letter from Carlsruhe states that 

 the fortifications of Rastadt are proceeding actively. In 

 three years the town will be transformed into a fortified 

 place, where 3300 troops are to be kept in time of peace. 

 Italy. — There is no news of any importance from Italy 

 this week, the leaders of the intended insurrection having 

 been so surprised by the publication of their projects in 

 the London papers, that it is not unlikely that their 

 intended movements will be abandoned for the present, 

 their most secret plans being evidently no longer in their 

 keeping. The apprehension of an Austrian intervention 

 also checked the designs of the disaffected, and Bologna, 

 where, a month ago, it was not safe to walk the streets 

 after nightfall, is now so pre-occupied with that fear, that 

 perfect tranquillity prevails in the city and throughout the 

 province. In the legation of Forli, however, the public mind 

 was uneasy and expecting some extraordinary event. The 

 population everywhere congregated in crowds on the pas- 

 sage of the mail coaches. At Rimini, a company of pon- 

 tifical volunteers having been sent to disperse one of those 

 assemblages of people, a collision ensued, in which several 

 lives were lost on both sides. The Jubilee at Rome was 

 observed on the 22d, 23d, and 24th, and produced a con- 

 trary effect to that which the Pontifical Government ex- 

 pected from it, for the inhabitants, alarmed at it, hastened 

 to withdraw their money from the savings banks and 

 banks, which has greatly embarrassed the authorities. 

 The movements of the Austrian troops are continued in 

 Lombardy. — It is stated in a letter from Milan, March 

 25, that the Archduchess Maria-Louisa of Parma has, by 

 a decree of the 20th, re-established the order of the Je- 

 suits in her states, and authorised the opening of a Jesuit 

 convent at Parma. It has also been decided that the 

 Jesuits are to be charged with the duty of secondary in- 

 struction — The Pontifical Academy of Fine Arts, of St. 

 Luke's, at Rome, has recently elected our distinguished 

 countryman, Mr. C. R. Cockerell, Professor of Architec- 

 ture at the Royal Academy, a M member of merit " of 

 their body, in the place of the Cavalier Ferdinando Bon- 

 signore, chief architect of the King of Sardinia, lately 

 deceased. The Pontifical Academy associate honorary 



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■"count Fonte \. ~ imem 



r ,,0ns f or Almeid^l** 8eeking to cut off a convoy of pro- 

 **»* BomfiS? f£ Z er Z^ t0 th o rout by the troops of 



Nevertheless, the 



8 ""'° 8tate » tha t Z arn, ° H ? SS - Nevertheless," the 

 J* «l*m the fort,* 6 "t^ had »™d and opened 

 rpto suspend the ^ n ..-. • Ternment fi nds it neces- 



-J7 «> suspend the en„«,;, .• Ternment finds *' n ec<=s- 



Ph,. 23 " of April -{ h ' nd ' T ' dUa it*"* are suspended till 

 *I.'d C,an ' wh » *«. lL Z\ ° f Dr - Kal,e y- the Sooufc 

 «fe" ° D acl >arge of " "w ""J. "'^""j ^prisoned at 



«fe ng K a , P0,taa y and here : S 'M em5 ; ^ here ^" aod 



° *"ichal. On the 'litlJ'u " as been tried at Lisbon 



flatter pl ace ™^ **., the Judge-Coneervador 



•PPO^ 0rder of JwT'w ., v ley> t0 haTe disturbed 

 2E2L to iU ,e %» is I d b l caching doctrines 

 «»to eri* thia Preach^ "u ^ ,he ""nesses ; and 

 "*• "*• I ntnZte Z II™ 8 H bu A e Bhich grates 



"' the 8a 'd Dr. Kalle,, as a Pro- 



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members ad libitum ; but the " members of merit " are 

 limited to 20. 



Turkey. — Accounts from Constantinople of the 20th 

 ult. announce that the Porte has at length assented to the 

 demands of England and France on the subject of execu- 

 tions for causes connected with religion. It appears that 

 on the 18th a conference took place between Sir Stratford 

 Canning, the Baron de Bourqueney, and Riza Pasha, the 

 result of which was not satisfactory. Riza Pasha told the 

 Ambassadors that the point at issue was a mere religious 

 question, which regarded the priests, and not the Govern- 

 ment, and that they were not disposed to make the least 

 concession. He added that the Sultan, however anxious 

 to gratify the Ambassadors, could not abrogate a religious 

 law, but would pledge himself that it should not hereafter 

 be enforced. The Ambassadors were not satisfied with 

 this answer, and Sir Stratford Canning had demanded an 

 audience of the Sultan. On the following evening, the fol- 

 lowing official note was transmitted by the Porte to the En- 

 glish Ambassador and the Ministers of France and Prussia. 

 ** His Highness the Sultan is irrevocably resolved to main- 

 tain the friendly relations, and strengthen the bonds of 

 perfect sympathy which unite him with the great Powers. 

 The Sublime Porte engages for the future to prevent, by 

 effective means, any Christian abjuring Islamism from 

 being put to death." Another cause of disagreement 

 between Turkey and France has occurred at Latakia, where 

 an attack had been made upon a Catholic church and con- 

 gregation and the French flag insulted ; but the Ministers 

 on receiving an account of the transaction, at once offered 

 the fullest reparation to the French Ambassador, and the 

 affair will therefore lead to no serious results. A con- 



spiracy agamsc me Government, in which upwards of 300 

 individuals were concerned, was last month detected at 

 Damascus. One of the conspirators, a Savd, or descend- 

 ant of the Prophet, informed against the rest, and was 

 afterwards shot dead in the streets by another Effendi, 

 whom he met m his way from the house of the Pasha. A 

 disturbance then took place, but it was summarily sup- 

 pressed by the military. The conferences at Erzeroum 

 were last month interrupted in consequence of the haughty 

 demeanour and unreasonable exactions of Envary Effendi, 

 the Turkish Plenipotentiary. A complaint on the subject 

 has been addressed by Sir S. Canning to the Porte, which 

 has promised an immediate remedy. Albania continues 

 to be a prey to the greatest disorders ; according to the 

 last accounts the people had risen and pillaged the town 

 of Coma-nova. A report prevails that the Sultan is about 

 to take an excursion by sea to Broussa, Smyrna, the 

 Dardanelles, &c. 



Greece. — Accounts from Athens of the 20th ult. state 

 that the Constitutional Charter has been definitively voted 

 by the National Assembly, and adopted by his Majesty. 

 It appears that the King returned the draft of the Charter, 

 which had been sent to him for ratification, with so many 

 alterations, that it became necessary for the Assembly to 

 deliberate upon them with closed doors. At the end of 

 three days it was announced that ten of the King's altera- 

 tions were accepted, and sixteen or seventeen rejected, 

 the Assembly being unanimous on all points. This deci- 

 sion would have again placed the King in a false position, 

 but his Majesty seems to have been suddenly convinced of 

 the error he had been led into, and, within an hour of 

 receiving the final decision of the Assembly, sent down a 

 message to say he adopted the Constitutional Charter as 

 it now stood. The message was received with great 

 acclamation by the Assembly, and the populace went 

 under the Palace windows and cheered, when his Majesty 

 appeared at the balcony and bowed in acknowledgment. 

 It is now expected that all will be ready for the King to 

 swear to the new constitution on Sunday, the 24th inst., 

 when the Assembly will be dissolved. The country is per- 

 fectly quiet, but very great and general misery prevails. 



Malta. — The Medea war steamer arrived in this har- 

 bour on the 28th ult., with Mr. Fellowes and the other 

 persons engaged in the Xanthian expedition. Previous 

 to their embarkation they underwent great hardships and 

 had almost insurmountable difficulties to contend with. 

 They have, however, succeeded in bringing home 20 cases 

 of marbles and casts, leaving on the beach seven cases, 

 containing the unwieldy portions of the horse and chimaera 

 tombs, which must remain until a larger vessel is sent to 

 hoist them in. It is rumoured that the Warspite, 50, has 

 proceeded from Athens for this purpose. — Mr. Penrose, 

 the clerk in charge of Her Majesty's steamer Polyphemus, 

 has been put under an arrest upou charges of forgery and 

 embezzlement of the public moneys. Admiral Sir L. 

 Curtis has held a court of inquiry, and the prisoner has 

 been handed over to the civil power, and lodged in the 

 common gaol, previous to committal for trial. 



Denmark.— Letters from Copenhagen of the 30th 

 ult. state that the funeral of the great sculptor Thorwald- 

 sen took place on that day. The almost royal honours 

 paid to his remains prove how sincere was the estimation 

 in which this excellent man was held by all who knew 

 him, and they are worthy of being recorded as an addi- 

 tional proof that one of the greatest spirits of our time has 

 passed away. The body lay in state in the museum which 

 he founded, and on the day of the funeral the procession 

 was headed by two of the most eminent members of the 

 Academy of Fine Arts, followed by about 800 students ; 

 after them came all Thorwaldsen's countrymen, all the Ice- 

 landers now residing at Copenhagen — and then almost 

 without exception all the artists in the city. The plain 

 open coffin came next, simply ornamented on one side with 

 a beautiful carving of the Fates, after a design from the 

 great master's own hand, and a design representing Vic- 

 tory on the other. On the coffin were placed interwoven 

 branches of palms and cypress, but none of the numerous 

 decorations belonging to the deceased sculptor. On the 

 canopy of the hearse was placed one of his last and most 

 beautiful works, — Hope leaning on an Anchor. Next 

 came, immediately after the corpse, as chief mourners, all 

 the members of the Academy of Fine Arts, headed by their 

 President, his Royal Highness the Crown Prince, followed 

 by all the other Royal Princes, and a great number of the 

 principal officers of state, officers of the army and navy, 

 and upwards of 8000 citizens of all classes. All the 

 streets through which the procession passed, from the 

 Museum to the Church of the Holy Ghost, were lined 

 with the different companies of trades, with their colours 

 and ensigns covered with crape, and they themselves in 

 deep mourning. The streets, from the Church of the 

 Holy Ghost to that of Notre Dame, where his last resting- 

 place was prepared, were lined by the different regiments 

 of the garrison, and the whole distance from the Museum 

 to the Notre Dame (about an English mile) was, according 

 to the ancient Scandinavian cu«tom, strewn with white 

 sand intermixed with juniper leaves. At the entry of the 

 church His Majesty the King, in deep mourning, received 

 the corpse, and after the coffin had been placed on a 

 catafalque which had been erected for that purpose, the 

 Requiem was performed, that which was written by one of 

 Thorwaldsen's most intimate friends, the celebrated Adam 

 Oehlenschlager, and composed by Glaser. The Bishop of 

 Zeeland then performed the funeral service, and delivered 

 a most eloquent oration ; after which the coffin was con- 

 signed to its last abode, during which time the students, 

 amounting to several thousands, who had not found 

 admittance into the interior of the church, and had place 

 themselves in the churchyard, sane: a hymn, also written 

 and composed for the occasion. Her Majesty and all the 



