Mat 11,] 



THE NEWSPAPER. 



Mount Edgcumbc has iucceeded the Marchioness of perience of Great Britain. The French Government 



Douro as the Lady in Waiting ; Viscount Hawarden has 

 Succeeded the Earl of Hard wicke as the Lord in Waiting ; 

 and Sir F. Stovin has succeeded Capt. Meynell as the 

 Groom in Waiting on her Majesty. 



The Queen Dowager. — The bulletins of the state of 

 her Majesty have been discontinued, owing to the im- 

 provement that has taken place in her Majesty's health. 



The Duchess of Gloucester continues slowly but gra- 

 dually to recover from the effects of her recent accident. 



Parliamentary Movements. — A vacancy has occurred in 

 the representation of Abingdon, by Mr. Duffield's accept- 

 ance nf the Chiltern Hundreds, and Mr. Tbesiger, the 

 Solicitor-general, is the only candidate. A vacancy has 

 occurred in North Lancashire by the death of the Hon. 

 Mr. Wilbraham, and Mr. William Entwisle is announced 

 as the Conservative candidate. 



Governor-General of India. — Sir Henry Hardinge, 

 late Secretary-at-War, has been unanimously chosen by 

 the Government and East India Directors as Lord Ellen- 

 borough's successor. The following changes consequent 

 upon Sir H. Hardinge's removal to India are mentioned 

 as probable: — Hon. Sydney Herbert to be Secretary-at- 

 War, but without a seat in the Cabinet. Hon. Mr. 

 Corry to be Secretary to the Admiralty, in the room of 

 Mr. Herbert. Mr. Cardweil, M.P. for Clitheroe, will 

 probably have Mr. Corry's seat at the Admiralty board. 



Church of Scotia m /.— The Queen has been pleased to 

 appoint the Marquess of Bute to be her Majesty's High 

 Commissioner to the General Assembly. 



Fine Arts Commission. — The Queen has been pleased 

 to appoint Lord Mahon and the Right Hon. T. B. Mac- 

 aulay, to be additional Commissioners for the decoration 



of the new Houses of Parliament. 



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foreign. 



France. — The Paris papers contain long accounts of 

 the addresses presented to Louis-Philippe on the occa- 

 sion of his ann\in\fete on the 1st of May, among which 

 figure those from the foreign Ministers, the Chambers of 

 Peers and Deputies, and the clergy. The most remark- 

 able, indeed the only important one, is the address of the 

 clergy, which was presented by the Archbishop of Paris, 

 at the head of a deputation. The following is an extract 

 from this address : — " The clergy take pleasure in declar- 

 ing to you, Sire, that France is too dear to them for them 

 to cede to any person the glory of being more submissive 

 to her laws or more devoted to her honour. God grant 

 that these benefits may not be insensible to men who are 

 accustomed to see in an act of justice a motive fur gra- 

 titude, and in the freedom of their ministry a new means 

 of making the Government still more respected. This 

 devotedness will be understood and preferred by the high 

 ■wisdom of the King. He will deem it to be worthy of 

 our pacific mission, of the loyalty of our character, and 

 equally beneficial to religion and the country." The 

 King replied : — " I thank you, My lord Archbishop, for 

 the good wishes that you offer to me personally, and in 

 the name of the clergy of Paris. I thought I had given 

 pledges enough of my desire to maintain the liberty of 

 religion and to surround the clergy with all the respect, 

 all the veneration that are due to it, for it to become 

 useless to remind me of them in the way I have just 

 heard. "What I can say to you is what you know 

 already, that the clergy may rely upon all my good 

 will, all my interest, and also on the constancy of my 

 efforts to assure to France the benefits of religion, in 

 order that it may continue to be at once the best gua- 

 rantee against the vices which produce disorder in 

 society, and the source of all the virtues which insure 

 the happiness of men." This answer, on the part of his 

 Majesty, has made a great sensation in Paris, and all the 

 journals, excepting two, consider his Majesty's rebuke of 

 the clergy as highly praiseworthy. The King, it is said, 

 showed great symptoms of impatience during the time the 

 Archbishop was reading his address, and his answer was 

 delivered with great vivacity and warmth, which showed 

 how displeased he was with the tenor of the address. So 

 great was his excitement, that he was not even able to 

 deliver the whole of the answer. He stopped in the middle 

 of it, and merely added, " I have lost my voice, and 

 cannot continue my answer;" and he at once turned 

 away sharply from the Archbishop and his colleagues. 

 In the Chamber of Peers the Secondary Instruction Bill 

 is still under debate, but both the House and the public 

 are getting tired of it. It was reported on Sunday that 

 M. Villemain was so surprised with the turn the debate 

 was taking in favour of the Church, and against the Bill, 

 of which he had taken the responsibility, that he had 

 tendered his resignation. Even if the rumour were true, 

 it is not likely that under the circumstances his resigna- 

 tion would be accepted. There is no doubt, however, 

 that theChurch has gained in the course of the debate, and 

 that its partisans are rising, both in their pretensions and 

 confidence. The Prison Discipline Bill was still before the 

 Chamber of Deputies. The sense of the House was declared 

 on Friday to be adverse to extending to two hours tiie time 

 (one hour per day) which the Bill proposes to allow to p. i- 

 soners for air and exercise. The Chamber subsequently 

 adopted the first 12 articles of the Bill. The prisoners (ac- 

 cused as well as convicted) are hereafter to be separated 

 during the day and night. Each prisoner will have a spa- 

 Clous, salubrious, and well-aired cell. -In the Chamber on 



have determined to break up the Transatlantic steam 

 packets, which were established at Havre, and to adapt 

 the steamers for the service of the navy. — On Thursday 

 the Duchess of Kent took an airing, accompanied by 

 some members of the Royal family, and visited different 

 parts of the capital. On Friday the Duchesses of Kent, 

 Orleans, and Nemours, proceeded to the Holy Chapel 

 and to Notre Dame, where they were met by M. Fon- 

 taine, the architect of the King, who waited upon the 

 Princesses in their visit to those buildings. In the even- 

 ing, the Duchess of Kent and the Royal family repaired 

 to Meudon, where a splendid fete was offered to her 

 Royal Highness. On Saturday the King and the Royal 

 Family, accompanied by the Duchess of Kent, visited 

 the Exposition of French Industry. The Duchess of 

 Kent and Prince of Leiningen, accompanied by the Queen 

 of the French and several princes and princesses of the 

 Royal family, visited on Sunday the palaces of Versailles 

 and Trianon. They walked through the park of Versailles 

 whilst the waterworks were playing, and were every- 

 where greeted with lively acclamations. On Tuesday the 

 Duchess of Kent, the King and Queen of the French, 

 and the rest of the Royal family, left the Tuileries for 

 Footainbleau, where they were to remain until Thursday. 



Spain. — Accounts from Madrid of the 29th ult., state 

 that the discord which had prevailed for some days 

 among the members of the Spanish Cabinet had caused 

 an extraordinary confusion in that capital, and the 

 determination of Ministers to resign in a body, which 

 was carried into effect on that day, had tended to increase 

 it. Added to this, a report got abroad that the Govern- 

 ment was treating with the Pope respecting a reconcilia- 

 tion, and that orders had been privately issued to suspend 

 the sale of the property of the secular clergy. It appears 

 that on the Ministry tendering their resignations 

 the Queen accepted them, and charged Gen. Narvaez 

 with the formation of a new Cabinet. The following 

 were at once nominated as its members : — Gen. Narvaez, 

 President of the Council and Minister of War ; the 

 Marquis de Villuma, Minister for Foreign Affairs ; M. 

 Mon, Minister of Finance ; M. Pidal, Minister of the 

 Interior; M. Mayans, Minister of Justice; and Gen. 

 Armero, Minister of Marine. The result of these 

 changes was a considerable fall in the funds, from which 

 they have not since rallied. 



Portugal. — We have advices from Lisbon to the 7th 

 ult., announcing that the fortress of Almeida has sur- 

 rendered to the Queen's troops. The telegraph states 

 as follows : — "Viscount Fonte Nova communicates, that 

 on the 28th April the rebellious troops which were in 

 Almeida had given up at 4 p.m. of that day. The 

 soldiers left their arms in the fortress, and marched 

 before the besieging troops to the place to which they 

 were ordered ; but the officers escaped into Spain." 



Germany. — The marriage of the Archduke Albert of 

 Austria with the Princess Hildegarde of Bavaria was ce- 

 lebrated at Munich on thelstinst. — A Frankfort journal 

 states that the King of Prussia has ordered his Ministers 

 again to present a bill to the States for the modification 

 of the penal code, and that it is intended to abolish cor- 

 poral punishment. — A letter from Dresden, of the 20th 

 ult., says that a duel was lately fought at Tharandt, be- 

 tween the Count de Seckendorf and the Baron de Wen- 

 der, both pupils of the Royal Forest School of that town, 

 and neither scarcely 17 years of age. The weapons were 

 pistols. Baron de Wender had the first fire. The ball 

 entered the temple of his adversary, who instantly fell 

 dead at his place. The young Baron fled, but has since 

 been arrested at Freyberg, and will be brought to trial. 

 The original cause of the meeting was a dispute at bil- 

 liards. — The Treves Gazette publishes a letter from 

 Frankfort of the '24th April, which says that " The Ger- 

 man Diet is considering of measures to put an end to 

 g^rnes of chance now authorised in the different water- 

 ing-places ; preliminary negotiations have already been 

 opened for this purpose between Austria, Prussia, and 

 other German Cabinets." 



Denmark. — Letters from Copenhagen state that the 

 Danish people are beginning to occupy themselves se- 

 riously with the creation of railways. Companies have 

 been formed in the capital, with the approbation of the 

 King, the object of which is to establish the following 

 lines :— 1. Id the Isle of Secland— 1st, A road from Co- 

 penhagen to Elsineur, which will be about 13 French 

 leagues in length ; 2d, Another which will traverse the 

 Ule of Seeland in its greatest extent, and, going from 

 Copenhagen by Rothschild, Ringsted, and Slaglese, to 

 Coursour, situated upon the Great Belt, the length of 

 which will be about 31 French leagues. It is by this route 

 that the correspondence between the capital and the rest 

 of Denmark is always expedited, as well as that passing 

 between Copenhagen and the continent of Europe, during 

 the season of the year when steam navigation is necessarily 

 suspended on the Baltic. 2. In the Duchy of Holstein-— 

 Six lines, which will be connected with the great railroad 



now in the course of construction between Kiel and AI- 

 tona, and with which they will complete an arrangement 

 that will effect a junction between the principal towns of 

 Holstein and those of the North Sea with the Baltic— 

 The Conservators of the royal library at Copenhagen 

 have just completed the catalogue of its contents, a work 

 upon which they have been engaged for 11 years. It 



— [1844. 



Italy — A letter from]Rome~of thTlnT'T^^ 

 that the College of Cardinals will be convoked x?**" 

 a Consistory, at the Vatican, when various nr ' H 

 will be made, and religious affairs in Russia »° Te *°* i 

 taken into consideration. General BustamentP k ^ 

 been twice President of the Mexican Renublir u ,*** 

 at Rome. Cardinal Spinola is replaced It 1 * fesu,i »g 

 Bologna by Cardinal Vannicelli, who is tJZEJZ at 

 Forli by Cardinal Gizi. Letters from Bolog n ?2 1* 

 the sentences passed upon the last batch of th 

 prisoners tried before the Military Commission t "^ 

 part they took in the attempted rising at Bolora. l 

 year, have been confirmed by the Roman GoTerV 

 Among these prisoners are 14 against whom senten^r 

 death has been passed, for having taken part in 

 gagement between the people and the soldiery at S™ **" 



where a captain of carabineers, four soldiers anA^' 

 volunteers were killed.— The dispute between Sard*-* 

 and Tunis on the subject of the exportation of corn hH! 



Kaon onf5ofnnfAi»i]TT ni^wJn J..J T*L * -. 



Saturday a petition presented by the operate* of Paris for forms 1 74 folio volumes, and comprises 46^2 vXmes 

 the Abolition or Negro Slavery in the French colonies without the pamphlets and sing, sheets It ha been 

 was referred to the Minister of Marine after an animated 

 debate, in the course of which M. Guizot declared that 

 it was the determination of the Government to abolish 



negro slavery in the French colonies, and that in their 

 coarse they would be guided by the example and the ex- 



presented in manuscript to the King of Denmark, and 

 will be printed and published it the expense of the 

 Government. The manuscripts in this library amount 

 to about 22,000, of which only between 4000 and 5000 

 are yet catalogued. 



been satisfactorily concluded.— The fact of the P?i 

 de Canino, Charles Napoleon Bonaparte, having obtain^ 

 leave to visit Naples for five days gave birth to a crowd of 

 conjectures. His only object, however, was to arrange 

 about the scientific Congress, which is to meet neir 

 summer at Naples. The King received the Prince at a 

 private audience, was delighted with the plan and 

 promised to have the philosophers taken in the 'court 

 carriages to the foot of Vesuvius. 



Greece.— Letters from Athens of the 6th, state that 

 the Greek constitution having been officially published 

 the Ministers have tendered their resignation to Kg 

 Otho, declaring their task was accomplished. The new 

 Ministry is composed as follows :— Mavrocordato Pre- 

 sident and Minister of Finances; Tricoupi, Foreign 

 Affairs and Public Instruction, &c. ; General Rhodiui, 

 War ; Colonel Andreas Londos, Interior ; Andreas Ch! 

 Londos, Justice. The Ministry of the Marine is kept 

 open, Mavrocordato taking the direction of it for the 

 time. The two Londos are not of the same family, one 

 being a native of Patras and the other of Vostitxi. 

 Although Colletti takes no share in the Ministry, he his 

 written to say he will give it his cordial support. 



Barbary. — The Maltese Times of the 22d nit., 

 announces that the Maltese Huereb, who had been con- 

 demned to death for the murder of a servant of SirThos. 

 Reade, was beheaded at Tunis on the 12th ult. 



United States. — We have accounts from New York 

 to the 8th ult., but they do not possess any news of 

 political importance. It was expected that Mr. Calhoun 

 would introduce the Texian and Oregon questions 

 together in a short time, as the sympathy of the west 

 might thus be brought to the support of Texian move- 

 ment, and also to give time for negotiations with Mexico 

 to become a party to the step. At present he is frequently 

 engaged in conferences with our Minister Sir R. Paken- 

 ham. In the Bill before the House to prevent private 

 expresses, Mr. Hanegan proposed to add a clause 

 authorising the search of passengers' trunks and boxes, 

 when they were suspected to contain letters — an invasion 

 of the freedom of the subject that had caused some stir. — 

 Professor Sanderson, favourably known as the author of 

 " The American in Paris," died at Philadelphia on the 5th 

 of April. — An American brig, Francis Lord, of New 

 York, was reported to have been fired into by her 

 Majesty's ship Alert, on the 2d Jan., when off the west 

 coast of Africa. The vessel was afterwards visited by 

 the lieutenant, and an unsatisfactory apology made. ■ 



India and China.— The despatches from India, m 

 anticipation of the Overland Mail which left Bombay on 

 the 1st of April, have arrived this week. The most im- 

 portant item of news is the mutinous disposition which 

 has recently manifested itself among the troops of the 

 Bengal Presidency, formerly ordered for the relief or 

 those of Bombay serving in Scinde. This has arisen 

 from the refusal of Government to grant the usual allow- 

 ances provided to the troops on foreign service, and I whica 

 were paid to the troops in Scinde, considered a foreign 

 country until last year. The money rations, being -eqa- ■ 

 valent to about one-half of their pay, were withdrawn 

 during 1840 and 1841, while the troops were in canton 

 ments and freed from active service ; they were a 8 am 

 lowed them in January, 1842, when movements on an^ 

 tensive scale became necessary, and were again wi 

 in 1043, when the troops returned to cantonments. 

 64th Regiment of Bengal Native Infantry, having ^ 

 directed to proceed from Loodianah, refused ^ 

 so until the extra allowance for foreign service 

 granted them, and though the point was con ^ 

 by Government, the regiment were deB P El 5 n doD : 

 Benares instead of Scinde, as formerly determine ^ 

 ultimately, however, this regiment came in, and .s ^ 



en route to Sukkur. This mutinous s P ir1 / * h Ben gsi 

 seems to have pervaded almost the whole of the 

 troops. The 7th Cavalry, with the 6<Uh, 4th»r» ^ 

 regiments, and a company of artillery soon iol 10 ^a 

 same disgraceful step; and it was strongly - " J e 

 that these regiments (then at Ferozepore) had » gUy 



so far as to correspond with the Seikhs. It" g ocee d- 

 supposed, from the extensive character of this p ^ 

 ing, that Government will allow the matte r . cnts 

 though it is probable that the 7th and 6W ' * oa8 

 may be drummed out, from the somewhat o ^ 

 spirit they have displayed. Government, howe > ^ 

 iog granted far more than was asked, or even ^ ^ 

 by the malcontents, it is hoped that n)atter * he nat ive 

 assume a better appearance in future am ° n * \i e eanee 

 troops generally. Tlie troops that served a 5 * nt h's 

 and Dubba have received a donation of a tvrei ntbs » 

 batta,and those at M aharaj poor and Pun mar sis ^ ^ 

 batta ; and all the troops who have been in 



