^^XtffiM^lei dated the 18th inst 



lTAL itive that an insurrectionary movement had 



•ft* » P" T4 Uy, and that disorders had occurred at 



*** P ^rlbria which are attributed entirely to the 



■^•S tae ^p ople, who are in a wretched state for 

 ^t^s of the^op ^ of Naples was safely delivered 



wlB tof corn. * p ince Schwartzenburg, the 



of , ?rm^°*™£™ at N lcs on the 5th, and was 

 Alit rUn ^'^f ^Tinstructions to the Neapolitan 

 ^ to ^ Inlv w th re pect to the affairs of Italy, but 

 ^C oftf -Th'e eldest daughter of the Grand 

 £°u T Tuscany was married to Prince Leopold of 

 D • « the loth. Count Fossombroni, for many 

 ^^MinLer of State in Tuscany, and a man of great 

 7^-nrdd at Florence on the 13th, at the age of 8y 

 learning a account8 from Rome announce that the 



SUrMeBiber of the Holy Conclave, Cardinal Pacca , had 

 !USLi the last sacraments, and was not expected to 

 ■"" ?li davs The Cardinal was born on the 25th 

 ST7^ and consecrated in 1801 by Pius VII. The 

 imitation from the south towards England has com- 

 n^atd the incredible number of 4000 English passports 

 htfin, been signed at Rome in three days subsequent to 

 the termination of the holy week. 



Turkey.— On the 28th ult., the Porte put in execution 

 one of those sudden and arbitrary measures not unfre- 

 quent in the East, but which in European countries would 

 probably endanger the very existence of the Government. 

 When the post left on the afternoon of the 27th, nothing 

 was known of the steps which were to be taken on the 

 following day. Towards the evening public criers went 

 through the streets of Constantinople and its suburbs, 

 ordering all Mussulmans to repair early next morning to 

 the mosques, where an imperial hatti sheriff was to be 

 lead, the purport of which affected materially the inha- 

 bitants of the capital, and at the same time advising the 

 Christians to keep within their doors till the afternoon. 

 These forewarnings caused a general alarm, both amongst 

 the Rayahs and the Frank population. They were sup- 

 posed to be connected with the important question which 

 had lately agitated the Porte, and the solution of which 

 had created general ill-feeling against Christians. A pro- 

 found secresy was maintained as to the intentions of the 

 Government. On the morning of the 28th the Mussul- 

 mans collected each in the mosque of his quarter. Ca- 

 vusei and soldiers paraded the streets, and compelled 

 all those who lingered in them to accompany the crowd 

 into the places of worship. When they had all been 

 collected the doors of the mosques were closed. At 

 the same time extraordinary measures were taken to pre- 

 vent any resistance or disturbance. All the troops 

 m the capital were under arms, and several vessels 

 of war ready for service were stationed in the Golden 

 Horn. An extraordinary number of cavasses and 

 guards now entered the mosques and seized upon all the 

 young, well-made, and unmarried men who are only 

 resident in Constantinople. They bound them two and 

 two, and conducted them on board steamers ready to 



TT 6 B em ' in which the y were conve yed to Halki, one 

 1 rf J T Ince ! Islands » which is uninhabited, and there 

 r nm j this manner > according to the lowest account, 

 ",uw, and according to general report, 30,000, were 



vS?!? L • , the followin S d ay a number of officers 

 5000 ! h V sland for the Purpose of examining the men. 

 ^vo wno had particular claims to respectability were sent 

 « , l0 Constantinople, whilst others, who, from physical 



to !: f ° r 4 0tll , er causes > *ere unfit for service, were ordered 

 w w turn to their native places in the provinces, and the 

 rana inder were enrolled in the army. When the women 

 beint « • } h * their husbands and sons were thus 

 and I «""!? °?' the y left the ha rems, tore off their veils, 

 assembled round the mosques, uttering cries, and 



thT^r!^ 561 : 68 , * ith 8tones and ^ick S . Riza Pacha 

 left b u. u' / SOme difficult y »n escaping, and even 

 Poiati th? ♦ 0ne of lhe 8kirt * of his coat. On some 



PriMnersL? 8 Were obli S ed t0 S ive wav ' and the 

 Si? 1 A11 the Albanians who were at Con- 



of •eapinr f lDg g0t wind of the ma tter, hit on a mode 



divided themsri™ 1 * They g0t 8everal coffins made ' 

 * rms in the n «* mto so manv sec tions, placed their 

 Etonians were *' and ever y da y fun erals of some 

 *** I four carripT, n u t0 defile throu g h the streets of the 



followed. Th e C ° ffin ° n tbeir shoulders » the rest 



t^ waH s of r WCre allowed to Pass, and, once outside 



and took to nVh? Stantinople ' the y resumed their arms, 

 dtT ~- A bov wh an not a sin 8 le one remained in the 



^m of a Bev ^n time ago had been takea into the 

 Horace the M \ ln Constanti nople, and compelled to 



THE NEWSPAPER. 



Stratford Canni an talth ' has been 8ent t0 Sir 



Turka at Brouia h ''a*** ° De ° f the Greek S irls whom the 

 S^a np to thp ? • tried forci ^ly to convert, has been 



, tbc fint fruits nf J arch ' We ma y look u P° n these as 

 UteI T made to f! i , con cession which the Porte has 

 U *ited St nd and Fra «<*.* 



10 the 3rd iast TES ^. e have acc oants from New York 

 S rdin 8 the fate > J ournaIs are full of surmises re- 

 ? rc «°a Territory a ° up the P e " din S negotiations on the 



11 » stated that \1 p L° n and the annexation of Texas. 

 Z? 1 °f the Unit i e ham has assured the Govern- 

 ^aUnces, WO u ' ~ ' that En gland, under no cir- 

 fe^ker ow„ t T'lr TeXaS as a province or depen- 

 K * ' lt «« from ' ^ * ew York **£<dd 9 h 

 ^ ^JTJ?° A auth °nty that General 



owever, says 

 ral Henderson 



of May for England. 



fc on the l 8 t of M n i h , e . A S, adi ?' which was to leave 



En «^d i7*hr fai ; e a t ington - That he wodd go to 



led here we stated before. This merely 



** "'-ion ' V" 8Ue ln the Men ' of the faUu 



bhfl i* . ** a Sninp-ton TU_». i k« 



This indicates 



re of 



confirms that'statement." The proceedings of Congress 

 present nothing of interest to the English reader, except 

 that numerous petitions had been presented against any 

 further alteration in the tariff laws. The new Secretary 

 of State, Mr. Calhoun, in a letter declining to accept a 

 public compliment which some citizens of Charleston 

 were desirous of offering to him, makes the following 

 remarks : — " It is well known that I am the advo- 

 cate of peace — peace with all, and especially with 

 that great country from which we draw our origin, and of 

 whose renown we well may be proud. There are no other 

 two countries which can do more harm to each other, or 

 confer greater benefits the one on the other. But as 

 highly as I value peace, I hold it subordinate to the 

 honour and just rights of the country ; whilst, on the 

 other hand, no consideration shall induce me to sacrifice the 

 peace of the country by claiming more in the discharge of 

 my duties than I shall honestly believe that the honour 

 and rights of the country demand. Her true honour and 

 interest consists, according to my conception, in claiming 

 nothing but what is just and right, and in accepting 

 nothing that is not." — The accounts from Cape Haytien 

 bring intelligence that the Spanish part of the island had 

 revolted against the present Government. The whole of 

 the regular army, and all the national guard or militia, 

 were nearly ready, and under marching orders against 

 the revolters. 1500 soldiers left Cape Haytien on the 

 13th, and about 3000 arrived on the 14th March, on 

 their way to the Spanish part. It appeared that the Pre- 

 sident was collecting all the effective force of that part of 

 the island. One of King Christophe's Officers, a black 

 man, General Perrot, commanded that division, and 

 arrived at Cape Haytien on the morning of the 14th. ^ It 

 was thought that at least 30,000 men would march against 

 the Spaniards ; and if the latter were well prepared there 

 would probably be some fighting. What the result will be 

 it is difficult to predict, but these movements have the 

 effect to depress trade, and make the produce of the 

 island extremely scarce and high. The well-informed at 

 Cape Haytien think the revolution will be put down with 

 very little trouble. — Advices from Matanzas to the 28th 

 March state that the disaffection among the slaves is more 

 general than it was at first supposed. It is said that there 

 are about 3000 slaves in irons on the different forts in the 

 vicinity of Matanzas. Numbers are daily tried and imme- 

 diately shot. A regiment of troops had just arrived from 

 Havanna for the purpose of scouring the country. Busi- 

 ness on some of the plantations is at a complete stand, j 



'^Parliament 



HOUSE OF LORDS. 

 Monday.— Lord Campbell, at the request of Lord Brougham, 

 postponed the second reading of his Debtors and Creditors Bill, 

 to Monday week.— The Marquess of Clanricaede gave notice to 

 question the Duke of Wellington on Tuesday, as to the intention 

 of Government relative to the Poor Laws in Ireland.— The Mar- 

 quess of Norm anby stated that he had been satisfied by the Pre- 

 sident of the Board of Control upon the subject of the Gwalior 

 papers— an additional one of which was laid on the table by the 



Duke of Bucci.eugh. 



Tuesday.— The Earl of Radnor questioned the Duke of Rich- 

 mond as to his concurrence in the arguments put forth in 

 the pamphlet lately published by Mr. Cayley.— The Duke of 

 Richmond declined replying to such a question, though he had 

 no objection to state that in his opinion the pamphlet was a very 

 good one. His Grace complimented Lord Radnor upon having, 

 since he took the chair in Covent-garden, become a very great 

 actor ; and added that he would never leave the Agricultural 

 Protection Society until they had accomplished the object for 

 which they had associated.— The Lord Chancellor gave notice 

 that he should move the second reading of the Dissenters' 

 Chapels Bill on Friday, and take the discussion upon it on going 

 into committee on Friday week.— The Earl of Powis presented a 

 great number of petitions agaiust the union of the Sees of 

 Bangor and St. Asaph.— The Marquess of Normaxby '.raised 

 some discussion on the subject of the exclusion of Catholics from 

 a jury in Ireland, in which Lord Wharncliffe, the Marquess of 

 Clanricarde, and Lord Campbell took part.— Lord Wharn- 

 cliffe said that they were not excluded because they were 

 Catholics, and Lord Normanby expressed himself satisfied with 

 the explanation. 



HOUSE OF COMMONS. 



Friday.— After Sir C. Napier's discussion on the management 

 of dockyards, a question was raised upon the selection of two 

 stipendiary magistrates in Ireland.— Mr. Bellew enlarged upon 

 the general utility of such functionaries, but found fault with 

 the appointment of these two gentlemen, Mr. Brereton and Mr. 

 O'Brien.— Lord Eliot justified the two appointments.— Captain 

 Bernal condemned the nomination of Mr. O'Brien, whosechief 

 claim he suspected was this— that having formerly been violent 

 in favour of repeal, he had now become as violent against it. 

 Nothing would so much endanger Sir R. Peel's Government in 

 Ireland as the employment of this description of subordinates. — 

 After a few words from Mr. French, the subject was dropped.— 

 Mr. Hums objected to the magnitude of the estimates for colonial 

 services. All payments by the nation for which equivalent ser- 

 vices were not rendered, had not only the effect of increasing the 

 taxes, but of annoying the honest and industrious part of the 

 community, who could not brook to see idlers living on the public 

 money. He expressed his disapprobation of colonial companies 

 like that of New Zealand. He enforced the expediency of 

 reduction in expenditure, referring to the injury now sustained 

 by commerce from the excise, some classes of which he deemed 

 it incalculably important to abolish.— Lord Stanley said that 

 some of the heaviest expenses in the colonial estimates had been 

 forced upon the Government by the circumstances in which 

 several colonies had been left by companies of undertakers 

 failing to fulfil the expectations held out by them to emigrants.— 

 Mr. Aglionby courted a searching Parliamentary inquiry into 

 the circumstances of New Zealand and the proceedings of its 

 company, of which he was himself a member, and of whose 

 moral responsibility he was fully conscious.— Sir R. Peel ob- 

 served that the Ministers of the Crown were quite as economi- 

 cally disposed as the House of Commons, by whom grants were 

 often proposed which the Executive Government had to resist.— 

 Mr. Williams objected, by anticipation, to several of the items 

 which were to come on for discussion in the Committee— Indian 

 pensions, grants for negro education, and allowances to Canadian 

 clergy.— The Speaker then left the chair, and the Committee 

 proceeded with the Estimates, item by item. 



Monday. — Mr. Briscoe took his seat for Hastings.— The North 

 British Railway Bill was read athirdtime and passed, after a divi- 

 sion, carried by 102 against 23. Other Railway Bills were ad- 

 vanced.— In reply to Mr. French, Lord Eliot stated that it was 

 not the intention of Government to introduce any measure this 

 session, to regulate medical charities in Ireland.— In reply to 



Mr. Borthwick, Sir R. Peel said that no t-pecial instructions 

 had been given to Captain Drummond, commanding the Scout, 

 off Alicant, with reference to the reception of fugitive Spaniards 

 dur ing the late insurrectionary movements in Spain ; but only 

 the general instructions given to all captains of British vessels 

 of war, to afford protection to British subjects, and to observe, 

 as far as possible, strict neutrality with the contending parties. 

 In the report already received from Captain Drummond, no 

 mention was made of any application for protection made by 

 Colonel Bonet; and the accounts in the newspapers respecting 

 the refusal of protection to that unfortunate person, were incon- 

 sistent with this report. The Right Hon. Baronet promised to 

 desire Captain Drummond to furnish a statement of the transac- 

 tion, and expressed his abhorrence and disgust at the sanguinary 

 acts which had lately been perpetrated on the part of the consti- 

 tuted authorities in Spain. — The first order of the day was the 

 second reading of the new Factories Bill, previous to which a 

 large number of petitions were presented in favour of the ten 

 hours.— Mr. T. Dcncombe gave notice of a motion to refer the 

 bill to a select committee, with an instruction that evidence 

 should be received as to the probable effect which the limitation 

 of the labour of women and young persons to ten hours would have 

 upon wages. — Mr. Roebuck also gave notice that, on going into 

 committee on the Bill, he will move a resolution that it is not 

 expedient for the Legislature to interfere with the labour of 

 adult persons. Some conversation arose as to the most con- 

 venient course to be adopted in taking the discussion on the 

 Bill, Sir J. Graham suggesting that the second reading should 

 pass unopposed, and the debate be reserved till going into com- 

 mittee.— Mr. T. Duncombe remarked that it was no use deceiv- 

 ing themselves— the working classes did not anticipate a reduc- 

 tion of wages from the limitation of their hours of labour; and, 

 therefore, it was highly expedient that the evidence should be 

 gone into before a select committee. He strongly censured Lord 

 Ashley, whose course in deferring discu--ion till the third reading 

 he considered tantamount to an abandonment of the question. 

 —Lord Ashley retorted that the operatives were as good judges 

 of the matter as Mr. T. Duncombe, and would exercise their 

 judgment with ten times more justice and candour. He read an 

 extract from a letter which had been addressed to him by the 

 Short-time Committee of Lancashire, in which they declared 

 that all of them approved of the course which he intended to 

 adopt with respect to the Bill.— After some discussion, the 

 Speaker intimated that on Friday when the Bill is to go into 

 committee, Mr. T. Duncombe's motion will be taken first, and 

 will be put in the form of a proposition, that the order for going 

 into committee of the whole House be discharged, in order that 

 the question be put of referring the Bill to a select committee, 

 with the view of receiving evidence as to what will be the effect 

 on wages of the limitation to ten hours. When that has been 

 disposed of it will be competent for Mr. Roebuck, or any other 

 member, to propose any motion relevant to the subject.— Mr. 

 Ferrand having affirmed that the working classes were uni- 

 versally in favour of the ten hours, Mr. Rokbuck rose, and 

 said he had an important question to put to Mr. Ferrand. He 

 was reported to have alleged that a Minister of the 

 Crown had used the influence of his office to induce 

 a servant of the Government, an assistant poor-law commis- 

 sioner, to make a false report to the House for the express pur- 

 pose of crushing a member of it. He asked on what authority 

 this grave charge was made ?— Mr. Ferrand complained of want 

 of courtesy in not "being informed that this question was to be 

 put. The charge which he had made was founded upon his old 

 grievance of Mr. Mott, the Keighley union, and the conduct of 

 Sir J. Graham, who had got a false report from Mr. Mott, and 

 drew it out of his box on the table for the purpose of crushing 

 him in the House.— Mr. Roebuck reminded Mr. Ferrand that he 

 had not explained the charge that a Minister of the Crown had 

 used the powers of his office to induce a false report to be made. 

 —Mr. Ferrand would not be schooled by Mr. Roebuck. He had 

 behaved himself in a way unworthy of a Member of the House 

 and a gentleman .—Here there were loud calls of "order" and 

 "chair," and the House became rather excited.— The Speaker 

 called on Mr. Ferrand to retract this remark.— Mr. Ferrand 

 would do so. But he admitted that he had said and believed that 

 Sir J.Graham had abused the powers of his office in inducing a false 



report to be made to the house in relation to the Nottingham 

 election.— Sir J. Graham said that the proper course would have 

 been to move that the words be taken down. But Mr. Ferrand 

 must himself feel that the matter could not rest where it did, and 

 that he must take the proper steps to bring the matter to an 

 investigation. Mr. Ward, Mr. Hume, and others, pointed out 

 such an allegation against a Member of the House, acting as its 

 sworn servant in the capacity of the chairman of an election 

 committee, was one too serious to be passed over.— Mr. Hooo, 

 who acted as the chairman of the Nottingham election commit- 

 tee which unseated Mr. Walter, indignantly demanded a full 

 investigation of the charge, that he, a sworn servant of the House, 

 had suffered a Member of the Government to influence him in 

 discharging a sacred and solemn duty. When the accusation was 

 originally made in the Times, he had been advised by Members on 

 both sides of the House to take no notice of it. But now 

 it was imperative that the charge should be substantiated or 

 disproved, and either he or his calumniator covered with de- 

 served obloquy.— Mr. Ferrand complained of being taken by 

 surprise, without time to collect his proofs. They were M higgling 

 and haggling" over hi3 expressions; but. he admitted that he 

 believed all that the Times had advanced on the subject of the 

 Nottingham election. Attempts were made in the House to 

 crush him, by those who dared not meet him on the hustings. — 

 Sir J. Graham said there should be no "higgling and haggling" 

 in that House. Let Mr. Ferrand take till next day to collect his 

 proofs, and come down prepared to make his charge. He hoped 

 that the House would compel his accuser to do so.— Mr. Hooo 

 would also then meet any charge which might be made.— Lord 

 J. Russell said that the question was not one merely as to the 

 use or meaning of certain expressions. A charge had been made 

 affecting the characters of Sir J. Graham and Mr. Hogg, and 

 Mr. Ferrand must either prove something which could justify 

 his allegation, or submit to the imputation of being a calum- 

 niator —Sir R. Peel adverted to certain words which Mr. Oastler, 

 in a speech, had imputed to him. He was reported by that in- 

 dividual to have said, in conversation, that on the ten hours the 

 Christian feeling of the House had beaten the Government. He 

 could recollect nothing he had said which could possibly be con- 

 strued into an approach to this expression, unless, indeed, it 

 were, that if members took time to consider what they were 

 about, the Government would be in am tjority.— Here the matter 

 dropped, and the Factories Bill was read a second time —Dr. 

 Nicholl moved the second reading of the Ecclesiastical Courts 

 Bill.— Sir G. Grey objected to it, as leaving untouched the 

 great evils of the Diocesan Courts, and moved its second 

 reading that day six months.— Sir Robert Inglis hoped he 

 should be assured by his Right Hon. Friend the Secretary 

 of State for the Home Department, that this Bill was to 

 be considered not as an instalment, but a final measure 

 in reference to the whole system of ecclesiastical jurisprudence, 

 and then, and not until then, should he vote for the second read- 

 ing.— Sir J. Graham did not hesitate to state that he retained 

 all the opinions which he had expressed in reference to the policy 

 of the Bill of last year, and that he greatly preferred that Bill to 

 the present. If his hon. friend asked him whether there was to 

 be any further legislation upon this subject, he could only say, 

 and he should do so frankly, that according to the experience 

 which he had had of Ecclesiastical Court reforms, his b * ,ief JTJr 

 that, if this Bill passed, he was not likely again to meddle w«a 

 such a subject during his life. Although he said this , , ne w» 

 bound also to state that he meant to propose a clause uavu * 



its object the affording of facilities for " ltenor .. c rS=f!'„tered 

 clause to which he alluded would notify, that l» rt »« ^^S 

 the profession of proctors at Doctors' Commons hejeatjerwoum 

 have no claim for compensation, in the event oi 



s taking 



