May 4,] 



THE NEWSPAPER. 



[1844. 





attack of erysipelas over the left arm, the consequence of 

 an injury to the wrist joint. The inflammation however has 

 now subsided, and her Majesty is daily getting better. 

 —The Duchess of Gloucester is also suffering from pain 

 in one of her arms, the effect of a fall. 



Parliamentary Movement*. — The election of a member 

 for Horsham, in the room of the Hon. Mr. Scarlett, now 

 Lord Abinger, took place on Wednesday, when Mr. Hurst, 

 of Horsham Park, who has represented the borough on 

 three occasions, was elected without opposition. 



Official Movements. — There is a rumour in political 

 circles that Lord Wharncliffe will probably be appointed 

 Governor-General of India in the room of Lord Ellen- 

 borough. It is said that Mr. Sergeant Goulburn, brother 

 of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, is to succeed the late 

 Mr. Merivale as one of the Commissioners of the Court of 

 Bankruptcy. 



The Church. — The Rev. Edward Field, D.D., was con- 

 secrated Bishop of Newfoundland, in the chapel of Lam- 

 beth Palace, on Sunday last. He was presented to the 

 Archbishop of Canterbury by the Bishops of Bangor and 

 Worcester, the Bishop of London being the other conse- 

 crating Bishop. Several clergymen were present, and 

 among them the Rev. D. Jarvis, of the diocese of Connec- 

 ticut, United States. 



^foreign. 



France. — The questions of Prison Discipline and of 

 Secondary Instruction, are the leading topics of the Paris 

 papers. On Friday, the Chamber of Peers was still 

 occupied in the discussion of the Education Bill. M. de 

 Montalivet made another violent speech against the Uni- 

 versity, in the course of which he declared that the 

 majority of those educated at the University were sceptics 

 ana unbelievers, and that among a hundred young men 

 who terminated their studies in that institution, scarcely 

 ten Christians could be found. He was followed by the 

 Count Portalis and the Minister of Public Instruction, 

 after which the debate was adjourned. In the Chamber 

 of Deputies, after a speech from M. de Tocqueville, the 

 principle of the Prisons Bill was adopted, and the dis- 

 cussion of the separate articles commenced, and was 

 likely to last for some days. We have already noticed 

 the two elections, at Louviers, of M. C. Lafitte, the 

 banker, which have been annuUed by the Chamber, 

 owing to his having engaged to procure his constituents a 

 railroad communication between Louviers and the Paris 

 and Rouen Railroad. M. Lafitte has been a third 

 time returned at Louviers, by a very considerable 

 majority. The question of admitting him to take his 

 seat again came under discussion on Monday. On 

 the division, the question was decided against M. 

 Lafitte, on a very small majority, lf>7 voting in his favour, 

 and 185 against him. The debate was a very animated 

 and personal one, and the question itself has created an 

 immense sensation throughout France. — The Academical 

 Council of Paris has passed judgment on some of the stu- 

 dents who went some time ago to compliment M. Lafitte 

 and M. Beranger, as noticed in this Paper at the time. 

 M. J. Gouache, a student of law, is expelled from the 

 Faculty of Laws for two years. The examinations of 

 M. Quercy are postponed for six months, and two 



others have minor punishments inflicted upon them. 



The Paris and Provincial subscriptions hitherto raised 

 for the "sword of honour" to be presented to Ad- 

 miral Dupetit Thouars, are reckoned by the National at 

 about 23,000 francs. — The Duchess of Kent arrived at the 

 Tuileries on Thursday afternoon. The King's carriages 

 were wailing at St. Denis for the Duchess and her 

 suite. Her Royal Highness was accompanied on her 

 entering Paris, by the Count de Strada, the King's 

 equerry. She occupies during her stay the apart- 

 ments usually occupied by the King and Queen of the 

 Belgians. On Friday her Royal Highness received the 

 diplomatic corps in the Salle du Trone, and was accom- 

 panied during the ceremony by the Queen, the Duke de 

 IN'emours, and Madame Adelaide. On Saturday, her 

 Royal Highness, accompanied by the Royal family, 

 visited the galleries of the Louvre, and on the same day 

 received the ladies and gentlemen of the household of 

 their Majesties and the other branches of the Royal 

 family. After the reception, her Royal Highness, at- 

 tended by her suite, accompanied their Majesties to 

 St. Cloud. After inspecting the palace, gardens, and 

 park, the Royal party visited the porcelain manufactory 

 at Sevres, and returned to dinner at the Tuileries. On 

 Sunday morning her Royal Highness attended divine 

 service at the English Episcopal Chapel, and on Tuesday 

 was present at a part of the debate on the Secondary 

 Instruction Bill in the Chamber of Peers, and afterwards 

 inspected the Luxembourg Palace. In the evening the 

 " receptions " customary on the eve of the King's fete 

 took place, and on Wednesday the Foreign Ministers, all 

 the great Officers of State, and other public functionaries 

 attended at the Tuileries to pay their respects to the King, 

 the Duchess of Kent being present at all these ceremonies. 

 Her Royal Highness will visit Versailles, Fontainebleau, 

 and the other Royal Palaces before she quits France, which 

 will not be, it is said, for some weeks.— The King'visited 

 Dreux a few days since to preside at the removal of the 

 deceased members of the Royal Family to the tombs pre- 

 pared for them in the newly-cot^tructed chapel. On 

 Tuesday after high mass, celebrated by the Bishop of 

 Morocco, the mortal remains of the Duke of Orleans and 

 of Princess Marie were deposited in the vaults of the 

 chapel in presence of his Majesty, who bore that painful 

 trial with the utmost fortitude. — It is stated that an offer 

 has been made to the Government, by an Anglo-French 

 company, for the execution of the line of railway from 



Lyons to Avignon. There is no doubt that a proposition ] 

 the result of which if accepted would be the completion 

 of the entire line from the North Sea to the Mediterra- 

 nean, will be received by the Government, the Chambers, 

 and the public, particularly if, as it is stated, this com- 

 pany offers to execute the line without calling for assist- 

 ance from the State. 



Spain. — Accounts from Madrid of the 23d ult. state 

 that reports of an impending change in the Ministry were 

 still circulated, with some appearance of foundation. 

 General Narvaez figured on the new list as President of 

 the Council and Minister of War; M. Gonzales Bravo 

 was to resign the Foreign Department to M. Miraflores ; 

 M. Carasco, the Finances, to M. Mon ; and M. Portillo, the 

 Marine, to M. Pidal. Messrs. Mayans and Penaflorida 

 were the only two members of the present Cabinet who 

 retained their offices. It appears that the royal visit to 

 the baths of Catalonia has been postponed till the middle 

 of May, and that it is now probable their Majesties will 

 abandon the plan of visiting the north, and will probably 

 go to the baths of Echavalite, Guipuscoa. There are 

 several reasons alleged for this change. It is thought 

 by some to be owing to the Ministerial embarrass- 

 ments, which are becoming every day more com- 

 plicated; by others that the Carlists have made so 

 serious a demonstration among the mountains of 

 the north, that it is not safe for their Majesties to 

 visit that part of the kingdom. Both these stories 

 are currently believed : but no one credits the only reason 

 alleged by the Ministry for the change of plan, namely — 

 that the young Queen's physicians disapprove of the Ca- 

 talonian baths in her case.— Queen Christina and Queen 

 Isabella are doing all they can to make themselves popular 

 with the Army. They not only review the troops, but 

 they visit them in their barracks, taste their food, and 

 make other demonstrations of the interest which they feel 

 in them. — A violent shock of an earthquake was felt at 

 Lugo, in Galicia, on the 19th ult., at 45 minutes past 

 three o'clock p.m. It proceeded from north to south, and 

 the oscillation was so strong that the houses were shaken 

 throughout the town as if by a loud discharge of artillery. 

 The waters of the Minho, near the thermal springs, seemed 

 to be in a state of ebullition. Early in the morning the 

 atmosphere was loaded on the side of the north, and a 

 very strong wind blowing in that direction raised a cloud 

 of dust, which drove the inhabitants from the streets. The 

 barometer marked fine weather, and the thermometer 

 (Reaumur) stood at 13 degrees, about 60 of Fahrenheit. 

 Such phenomena being very unfrequent in that country, 

 the inhabitants were greatly frightened by it. 



Portugal. — The intelligence from Lisbon represents 

 matters in that country as going from bad to worse. 

 Count Bomfim is still in possession of Almeida, with no 

 prospect of his capture or surrender. One of his most 

 active officers, the Deputy Jose Estevao, had left Almeida, 

 with some officers, to take the command of Guerilla 

 parties, which appear to be springing up in several direc- 

 tions. The constitutional guarantees were again suspended, 

 and also the liberty of the press, till the end of May ; 

 martial law was proclaimed, and the wholesale transporta- 

 tion of state prisoners, without being brought before 

 judge or jury, or even informed of the offence laid to their 

 charge, has been twice put in practice. This transporta- 

 tion of prisoners to the coast of Africa at this time of year, 

 and their confinement at the commencement of the sickly 

 season in the dungeons of the fortresses in the sands and 

 swamps of Africa, is just "consigning two-thirds of them 

 to death within a term of six or eight months. Among 

 the number of those now transported are ten officers, an 

 editor of one of the Lisbon papers, a member of the 

 Chamber of Deputies and President of the Tribunal of 

 Commerce, and an eminent lawyer who had distinguished 

 himself as advocate of the press in former prosecutions. 

 These acts have roused the people in all quarters, and a 

 proclamation has been secretly circulated in the name of 

 the young Infante Don Pedro, as King. A crisis appears 

 to be at hand, but what the catastrophe will be no one 

 can venture to anticipate. 



Italy. — The German papers in their correspondence 

 from Italy, state that the Cabinet of London is desirous 

 of obtaining from the Pope an apostolic letter of exhorta- 

 tion to the Irish Catholics. Lord Ashburton has, it is 

 said, stirred himself on this important subject ; but as 

 Great Britain has not a diplomatic representative at 

 Rome, it is added that Prince Metternich has been re- 

 quested to use his influence. —The papers mention that 

 an attempt to assassinate the King of Naples has been 

 the subject of conversation in that city. A soldier who 

 had been admitted to an audience of His Majesty re- 

 quested the officer on guard to allow him to return, as he 

 wished to reveal to the King a conspiracy that existed to 

 assassinate him. The officer thought he perceived the 

 handle of a pistol, which was partly hid by a handkerchief, 

 in the man's hat, and on seizing it he tried to escape, but 

 was pursued and taken. The pistol was loaded, primed, and 

 even cocked ; and a second was found in his pocket, with a 

 phial containing poison. On undergoing an examination, he 

 made a long story about the King receiving a petition from 

 him four years ago to promote him to the grade of officer, to 

 enable him to marry a girl whose parents would not con- 

 sent to the union unless he were an officer, and that if the 

 King refused him now, he intended to shoot himself in the 

 King's presence ! His Majesty appears, under all circum- 

 stances, to have had a narrow escape, but unwilling to 

 suppose himself an object of assassination, his Majesty has 

 judiciously ordered the Serjeant to be tried for desertion, 

 | and bearing prohibited fire-arms. — A letter from Leghorn, 

 j dated the 22d ult., mentions that the Austrian garrisons 

 of Ferrara and of Comachio had been reinforced, and that 

 , the Imperial troops already occupied the legation of 



Ferrara ; so that in less than 24 hours they coumMn?ad> 

 the provinces of Bologna and Ravenna. It is reported 

 that the son of General (Prince) Nugent, Governor of 

 Trieste, had been arrested. Considerable activity was 

 observable in the military department of Naples. The 

 garrisons of the principal towns had been renewed by the 

 King's orders, and several companies of Swiss soldiers 

 stationed in the forts. — Cardinal Pacca, the senior mem- 

 ber of the Sacred College, died at Rome on the 19th ult 

 in the 88th year of his age. *' 



Malta.— A Malta letter of the 15th states that Baron 

 Emile Bandiera, the son of the Austrian Admiral who 

 had identified himself with the Italian insurgents, had 

 been compelled to quit the island, and had returned to 

 Corfu, where an asylum was also refused him. He in_ 

 tended, says the letter, to proceed to London, where hii 

 brother Attilius, who is at Syra, will join him. — The trial 

 of Mr. Penrose, clerk in charge of the Polyphemus for 

 forgery and embezzlement, has terminated in his condem- 

 nation to hard labour at the public works for ten years 

 with a chain. 



Turkey. — Accounts from Constantinople have been 

 received to the 10th inst. A serious altercation, followed 

 by a challenge, had taken place between the French and 

 Belgian Ministers at the Ottoman Court. There has 

 however, been no bloodshed, for Sir S. Canning, having 

 invited both the belligerents to dinner, after mutual ex- 

 planations, they were prevailed upon to shake hands. 

 The most frightful disorders still continue in Albania. 

 By the last accounts a Turkish force amounting to 11 000 

 men, was shut up in Uscup by an Albanian army of 

 60,000. Seventy Albanians have been brought in chains 

 from Adrianople for punishment. The accounts from 

 Syria announce that 200 inhabitants of Hasbeya, a village 

 situate at the foot of Mount Lebanon, had abjured the 

 Greek orthodox religion to embrace Protestantism. The 

 Greek Patriarch and the Bishop of Damascus called on 

 the Pasha to check the proselytising spirit of the mission- 

 aries ; but he replied that he had no right to interfere, so 

 long as the Syrians paid him the harachie. or capitation 

 tax. The British consul, Mr. "Wood, was also applied 

 to, but he declared that he had received from his Govern- 

 ment no instructions for such a contingency. 



Barbary. — The Paris papers contain lengthened state- 

 ments touching the conduct of Sir Thomas Reade, the 

 British Consul-General at Tunis, who is charged with not 

 merely surrendering a British subject for trial before a 

 Mussulman tribunal, but with absolutely demanding of 

 the Bey that such course be pursued, instead of having 

 the alleged offender, a Maltese, tried by a competent and 

 regular British tribunal, as provided for by existing 

 treaties between the Christian Powers and the Barbary 

 States. The crime of the accused Maltese was murder, 

 committed on two persons, one of whom was a Mussul- 

 man. There is no doubt of the fact that our Consul 

 handed over the accused to the native tribunals, and that 

 they condemned him to death. The French Consul, 

 however, claimed and rescued him from the hands of the 

 Tunisine authorities, under the plea that as the King of 

 the French was the protector of Christianity as well in 

 Barbary as in the East, it behoved him so to do, especially 

 as the man had been abandoned by his own Consul, and 

 had put himself under the protection of the Consul of 

 France. A French steamer of war was immediately dis- 

 patched to Toulon, to report the Consul's proceedings, 

 which are likely to create some stir. 



Lndia and China.— Accounts from India reached 

 town on Thursday with news from Calcutta of the 14 tn 

 and from Bombay to the 13th of March, brought by the 

 Bentinck steamer, which reached Suez on the 12th ot 

 April ; they were brought to Marseilles from Alexandria 

 direct by the French steamer. The most important mili- 

 tary news relates to the refusal of one Madras and two 

 Bengal regiments to proceed to Scinde on finding tbat 

 they were not to be allowed full batta. There is nothing 

 of importance from Lahore and AfTghanistan, but it u 

 supposed that these two states will shortly "come to open 

 hostilities. The Sesostris arrived at Bombay on the iwu 

 March from China, which country she left on 15th *eD., 

 having on board, amongst other passengers, Maj.-w- 

 Schoedde. The town of Victoria was quite healthy, ana 

 was hoped that the ensuing summer would not be so la 

 as the last. Several daring attempts at robbery 

 been made at Hong-Kong. Sir H. Pottinger hadevin^ 

 an earnest desire to act up to the treaty with China. ^ 

 Majesty's 55th Regiment was under orders for 

 diate embarkation for England. H.M. s ship 

 Capt. Keppel, left for Calcutta on the 2d of reo j 

 having on board Lord Saltoun, late Commander _o 

 Forces, who arrived at Suez in the Bentinck, ** a JW Q[ng 

 ceed to England by the Great Liverpool. ^ lttle w * Tne 

 in teas, on account of the high prices demanded. 

 Governor-General arrived at Calcutta on the i»tn ^ 

 and on the 29th published a mott libera grant ot Da 

 all the troops that were engaged in Gwahor and in *. 

 India in general is tranquil. A Calcutta letter of » 

 15, quoted by the Fortafoglio Maltese of the 23d Ap ' 

 saysV" The province of Scinde is finally ^f^"^ 

 British possessions, after many years of nominal in y 

 ence." The same letter rates at twelve the no»b 

 Native regiments that had mutinied ; but add, ,n . 

 had been restored among them on their receiving a gr 



parliament. 



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 to recall the Governor-General of India at thu To aQ - 



and that Lord Elknborough had been by them 



