Apr. 27,] 



THE NEWSPAPER. 



interfere with the constitution of the municipal bodies, and | as in some of the previous parliamentary struggles be- 



that the councillors of Madrid have been entirely changed at 

 the dictation of the Ministry. Several Carlist movements 

 are mentioned, and mnch activity has been cbserved of late 

 among the refugees on the French frontier. The quarrel 

 between Spain and Morocco is not adjusted, and the Em- 

 peror, having been informed of the hostile intentions of 

 the Spanish Government, is said to have proclaimed the 

 " holy war" against the infidels.— From Portugal we 

 have further accounts of the insurrection at Almeida, by 

 which it appears that no impression has been made on 

 the citadel by the bombardment, and that orders have 

 been given to storm the place. It is, however, very 

 doubtful whether the Queen's forces are strong enough 

 to carry even so feeble a fortress. — The accounts from 

 Italy mention another insurrectionary outbreak in 

 Calabria ; but the precautions taken by Austria, in con- 

 junction with the local governments, are expected to 

 check any general rising for the present. — The news from 

 Turkey is at once startling and characteristic. The Go- 

 vernment had issued a summons to its Mussulman sub- 

 jects, commanding their attendance in their mosques on 

 a stated day, to hear an imperial decree which materially 

 affected their interests. All the troops in the garrison 

 were got underarms, and with their assistance the mosques 

 were surrounded, and some 15,000 men, including the 

 survivors of the famous Janissary corps, were seized under 

 pretence of military service, and transported in steamers 

 and ships of war to the islands in the sea of Marmora. 

 They were then rigidly examined : many of those who were 

 known to be living in service were sent back to their 

 masters, while the rest were ordered to be enlisted in the 

 naval or military services. This extraordinary measure is 

 attributed not to any actual necessity for fresh conscripts, 

 but to a prevailing rumour that a conspiracy was in pro- 

 gress for the purpose of making a general attack upon the 

 Franks, as a retaliation for the late concessions to France 

 and England in regard to renegades. 



At home, the business of Parliament has been in a 

 great measure suspended in consequence of a personal 

 quarrel between Mr. Ferrand, Sir J. Graham, and 

 Mr. Hogg,— Mr. Ferrand having brought certain charges 

 •gainst the latter gentlemen which induced them to appeal 

 to the House for its protection. For the details of this affair 

 we must refer our readers to our Report The Irish State- 

 trials have now reached another stage ; the motion on be- 

 half of the traversers for a new trial, was commenced on 

 Thursday, by Mr. Whiteside, who occupied the entire day 

 with the legal arguments in favour of the motion, and was 

 obliged to defer the conclusion of his address to yesterday. 

 This motion may possibly be terminated about the begin- 

 ning of next week ; but it is generally supposed that the 

 motion in arrest of judgment, which will follow, will 

 occupy much longer time. 



P^omt Nrtos. 



CouRT.—Her Majesty and Prince Albert, the Prince of 

 waies, and the Princesses, continue at Buckingham 

 1-aJace, and are in excellent health. The King and Queen 

 of the Belgians are still at the Palace, on a visit to her 

 Majesty Thursday being the Queen's birthday, her 

 Majesty held a drawing-room, which was very numerously 

 attended. The day was observed with the usual honours 

 i t V publlc estab l«shments, and in the evening the 

 club-houses and principal shops were illuminated. On 

 Saturday, Prince Albert presided at a meeting of the 

 *me Arts Commission, and afterwards inspected the New 

 Houses of Parliament. The Duchess of Kent left town on 

 luesday tor the Continent, accompanied by the Prince of 



l^einingen.HerRoyalHighnessproceedsinthefirstinstance 

 to Pans, on a visit to the King and Queen of the French, 

 and intends to return to England about the end of August. 

 —J he Marchioness of Douro has succeeded the Countess 

 of Chariemont as the Lady-in- Waiting, the Earl of.Hard- 

 wicke has succeeded the Earl of Morton as the Lordin- 

 Wait.ng, and Captain Meynell has succeeded the Hon. 

 ^apt. Duncombe as the Groom-in- Waiting on her Ma- 

 jesty. It is rumoured that Mr. G. E. Anson, Treasurer 

 to Fnnce Albert, will shortly be appointed Private Secre- 

 tary to the Queen. 



Parliamentary Movements.— Sir W. Follett has been 

 returned for Exeter by a majority of 764. The numbers 

 were for Sir W. Follett, 1293 ; for Gen. Briggs, 529.- 

 2oi anng ha ? ? een retu ">ed ^r Huntingdon without 

 E f "' vv d ^ 6 Man l»ei. of Blandford has been re- 

 forwd m. W ° , ds ; ock V Mr ' Hu "frey, ^o had come 

 to 7hJ ™n T d - date f0r the latter P lace > declined going 

 res en hh ,Tr J "a" d ?* Capt ' Hamilton is A to 



esiger. 



foreign. 



FRANCE.-The debate upon the af^rs of Tahiti, which 

 bas occupied the attention of the French public for some 

 days, almost to the exclusion of every other topic came 

 on ,n the Chamber of Deputies on Friday, and 'met wh 

 a rather ridiculous conclusion. The attack of the Oppo- 

 sition upon the Ministry, notwithstanding its formidable 

 appearance, the care taken in its preparation, the power- 

 ful combination of whichjit was formed, and the experience 

 of its leaders, has been completely defeated by the supe- 

 rior parliamentary tact and skill of M. Guizot. In this 



tween the Government and the Opposition, M. Guizot 

 preferred defeating the attacks of his adversaries by skil- 

 fully parrying their blows, to meeting them with a direct 

 resistance. On Friday, he allowed the Opposition, by 

 their champion, M. Billault, to open their system of 

 attack, and when he had ascertained the whole of the 

 case to be made out against him, he completely turned the 

 tables by presenting to the House a bundle of 30 additional 

 documents on the affairs of Tahiti, all of them, according 

 to him, of the utmost importance to the proper elucidation 

 of the subject. These he strongly recommended to the 

 careful consideration of the Opposition members, and as 

 it was quite impossible that the debate could be brought 

 to a conclusion until the contents of these papers were 

 known, and as it was also evident, from their number, 

 that it was impossible they could be studied at once, he 

 suggested that the debate should be adjourned, so that 

 members might have an opportunity of consulting and 

 considering these interesting documents at their leisure. 

 The Opposition were completely taken by surprise. They 

 seem never to have contemplated the possibility of the 

 Ministry consenting to produce any further information 

 on the subject. They were, therefore, not prepared with 

 any other plan ; and as it was self-evident that it was ne- 

 cessary to ascertain of what the documents consisted (a 

 piece of information which they did not receive from M. 

 Guizot), they had nothing to do but to agree to the sug- 

 gestion thrown out by the Minister, and consent to the 

 adjournment of the debate. In the course of his speech, 

 M. Guizot stated that Admiral Dupetit Thouars had not 

 been formally recalled, that Admiral Hamelin, who had 

 been appointed to replace him at Otaheite, had not sailed 

 in the vessel in which he was to have proceeded to 

 the South Seas, and that this ship, the Ariane, had 

 subsequently been ordered to another destination. The 

 Journal des D'tbats states, that the documents laid 

 before the Chamber, by the Minister, consist of thirty 

 letters exchanged between Queen Pomare and the French 

 and English authorities at Tahiti, from the 16th Decem- 

 ber, 1842, to the 8th November, 1843, together with six 

 diplomatic papers and two appendices. As a sequel to 

 the above, it is generally considered in Paris that the 

 Tahiti affair is extinct, and that it is very doubtful if it 

 will be resuscitated. The friends of the Ministry are 

 confident that the Opposition will not attempt again to 

 fight on ground that has been so unpropitious to them as 

 that of Tahiti. Some Opposition members however are 

 anxious to renew the affair next week, and it is said that 

 they have some notion of moving for further papers. — On 

 Thursday the Chamber by a great majority approved and 

 adopted the amendment introduced by the Chamber of 

 Peers into the Bill for amending the Game Laws, which 

 empowers persons authorised by the Crown to hunt, 

 shoot, carry, and sell game, at all seasons of the year. 

 On Saturday a long discussion took place on several peti- 

 tions presented from the different consistories of the 

 French Protestant Church, praying for the free exer- 

 cise of their religion. The number of members of 

 the Reformed Church r in France is very great ; but 

 in some districts, where the congregations are small, they 

 are unable to build churches. In such cases the members 

 of the Reformed Church are deprived of the exercise of 

 public worship altogether ; for though the 5th article of 

 the Charter allows liberty of conscience to all classes of 

 Christians, they cannot hold meetings in private houses, 

 because they would then make themselves amenable to 

 the 291st article of the penal code, the object of which is 

 to prevent the meetings of private and unauthorised 

 assemblages of people. The petitioners, therefore, prayed 

 that religious meetings should not be held as falling with- 

 in the meaning of the 291st article of the penal code. 

 They stated, in support of that prayer, that several of the 

 royal courts, and among others the courts of Rennes and 

 Orleans, had several times decided that religious assem- 

 blies did not fall within the meaning of the law. The 

 committee of the Chamber, to which these petitions were 

 referred, reported in favour of the prayer of the petition- 

 ers ; and their reporter, M. de Haussonvffle, after a 

 statement of the facts, moved, on the part of the com- 

 mittee, that the petitions be referred to the Minister of 

 Justice and of Public Worship, with a recommendation 

 that he should accede to the prayer of the petitioners, and 

 introduce a measure to declare that ihe 291st article of 

 the penal code did not apply to religious assemblages. 

 After a smart discussion, M. Dupin moved the order of 

 the day, and after two doubtful divisions, the order of the 

 day was carried (by ballot) by a majority of 107 to 91. 

 —In the Chamber of Peers, on Monday, a discussion com- 

 menced upon the Bill relative to secondary instruction in- 

 troduced by the Ministry, which has so greatly contri- 

 buted to the feud between the Clergy and University of 

 France. The main feature of the discussion was a speech 

 delivered in defence of the University by M. Cousin, a 

 member of that body and a writer of some note, and at 

 its conclusion the debate was adjourned. In the Deputies, 

 on the same day, a Bill came under consideration, the 

 main object of which is to subject incarcerated offenders 



♦°u e l eT J *,£ Cr !R ti0 ? t0 8 ° Iitary clement. Against 

 the Bill MM Cordier and De Sade spoke, and MM. 



Corne arid Ta.lland.er expressed themselves in favour of 

 it ; all these four Deputies voting on most political ques- 

 tions with the Opposition. The debate was distinguished 

 for much practical knowledge and an absence of party 

 feeling.—The committees on the different Railway Bills 

 meet daily. On Saturday the committee on the Mont- 

 peiher and Nismes Railway Bill made its report to the 



T* I M. USe, m, The committee re P° r 's strongly in favour of the 

 Bill. The committee has determined to leave this line 

 to private enterprise.— The rumoured disaffection in the 



army continues to give rise to greaTI^""^ 

 existence of secret societies i Q the |T y ' 

 made manifest by the arrest of numerou^' *» 

 and soldier, of at least three redmeuu ^ 

 these regiments was lately in girriaoll ^ ' p °* «f 

 other two, a regiment of artillery and a rJT '* *• 

 the line, were in the south of France The f **■* <* 

 giment in which disaffection wn « Ai.'» , '.**_% tat 



regiment in wtncn nisahection was discovered inD^** 1 

 just arrived from the place in which the other , H 

 also been quartered (Toulouse), suggests thet^ *** 

 the focus of the conspiracy, if the matter de^^* 

 name, is m that city. The first had arrived in lfc^r* 



Rpfinnnnn A<rtrv*iTirr f-^™ TV*.,! m. .. U * *Hl f fOf| 



Besancon, coming from Toulouse. The artier. . 



is in Rp afl n,»nn l, Q0 i n „ l„f „1 :_. , .. " UCI 7 *Sp«MSt 



fool 



the 19th inst. from Toulouse,"forPernL 1U ^ 



is in Besancon, having lately arrived there fromTooW 



The third, the infantry regiment, has been 

 since 



embarkation to Africa. The evil and its seat beine k 

 little danger of its spreading exists ; but still thAll 



in. fa 

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appearance or AO-ei-Kader and his adherents in din,, 

 parts of the French possessions. The resurrection of tk. 

 oft-destroyed Emir elicits from the Governor- GeaeraL 

 Marshal Bugeaud, a proclamation, in which he t2 

 various Arab tribes that he is about to take the field. 3 

 that if they do not previously tender their submission "h 

 will enter their mountains, burn their villages and crow, 

 and cut down their fruit-trees." ^' 



Spain. — We have accounts from Madrid to the 1 

 The municipality of the capital has been almost em 

 changed. Some months since eleven members of that 

 body tendered their resignation, which was not accepted 

 at the time ; but within the last few days eleven new 

 councillors have been appointed, all of them upon the 

 nomination of the Government. The alcalde has beta 

 suspended, on account, it is said, of an altercation witi 

 his colleagues, but more probably for some offence mes 

 to the Government. Accounts from the frontiers itttt 

 that the Carlist General, Forcardell, who during the ciril 

 war was one of Cabrera's principal officers, was arrested os 

 the 13th inst., at Amelie-les-Bains, where he had gooe 

 with the intention of making his way into the north of 

 Spain. The same letter states that a Carlist band ap- 

 peared on the 11th in the neighbourhood of Ripoli, upon 

 which the tocsin was sounded, and the national militia 

 called to arms. The result of a fight which ensued was tint 

 the chief of the band, called Francisco Oliveras, was arrested, 

 and carried toGirona. Another band, composed of brigaodi, 

 is congregated in the neighbourhood of Vich, where 

 they have succeeded in arresting several of the richest 

 persons in the country, and exacting large ransoms. The 

 papers also state that several Carlist refugees, who fur- 

 tively quitted the residences assigned to tbem in France, 

 have been arrested at Bayonne by the authorities, and 

 forced to return to the depots in the interior of the country. 

 The Queen, the Queen mother, and the Infanta, are to 

 go in the course of the summer to visit the provinces and 

 to take the mineral baths of Catalonia. M.Gonzales Bravo 

 and some of his colleagues are to accompany the royal 

 party. The journals dwell on the expedition projected 

 against Morocco, and represent the quarrel to be daily 

 assuming more gravity, owing to the unsatisfactory reply 

 returned by the Government of that country to the 

 remonstrance of the Consuls residing at Tanjiers, ana « 

 the Spanish and Sardinian Charges d'Affaires. According 

 to a letter from Gibraltar of the 10th inst., the t unpen* 

 of Morocco, on being informed of the hostile intentionsoi 

 Spain, had proclaimed the "holy war" against inndej 

 and called out 40,000 horsemen, to whom he W 

 assigned a rendezvous at a point within a short aistaa* 



of the coast. ^ 



Portugal.— Our accounts from Portugal are to w 

 17th inst. Almeida continues in the possession of Loan 

 Bomfim, and no serious impression evidently has oee» 

 made on it by bombardment, as orders appear to d 

 been issued to proceed immediately to the storming oi 

 place. The result of any attempt by assault i» * i 

 doubtful, as the Portuguese, like the Turks, th0 *r *. 

 deficient in bravery, are proverbially noted for tje 

 ciency behind stone walls. The forces under the « 

 Generals are not much more than three times the n 

 of those at Count Bomfim's disposal. A nuaober o^ 

 sons have been arrested in the vicinity of L,sD< *' SaD . 

 act of leaving the city with a view of P r ° ccedl "* distt rb- 

 tarem to get up a pronunciamento. At Lameg 

 ancea are said to have taken place, and a gue 



established there. , t ^e onlf 



Germany.— A letter from Leipsic states ; twj .^ 

 Protestant Minister in the Bavarian Cab inc * ioal 

 given in his resignation in consequence ot to ^ ^ 

 difference revived between Prussia and iiava rf 



subject of the Protestant union of Gustavus A i 

 which the King of Prussia has declared ^^d the 

 tector, an announcement which has Express 



numerous Catholic inhabitants of Prussia. J" gbe 



of Russia is expected at Berlin at the eD y[L t1saX di* 

 will remain some time at Sans Souci, sua s ^ Jtt 



the Chateau of Fischbach, in Silesia. **" JZ.U& 1 

 known of the period of the Emperor ■ J "^' iBg to» 

 from Tripoli in Galicia state that a child Dei ■* liefC d 

 Christian family having disappeared, the P e » gacr i6ce 

 that it had been stolen by the Jews, and n>.a ^ 



at their Feast of the Passover. Violent attach > $fi 



upon the Israelites, but it was shortly after *»»*'& had 

 the child, having received correction from ^u r ^j^ 

 run away and taken refuge in a ne ^^f tbe ll>* 

 where it was found alive and well.—In a wi borit y <* 



instant, from Trieste, it is stated, on \°* twe *t + 

 accounts from Goritz, that there is an i" } blT oU 



the health of the Duke d'Angouleme. i« c 



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