May 18,] 



THE NEWSPAPER. 



Castle will be immediately fitted up for the reception of 

 the royal family. — Lady Caroline Cocks and the Hon. 

 Miss Devereux have succeeded the Hon. Miss Stanley 

 and the Hon. Miss Hamilton as the Maids of Honour in 

 Waiting, and Colonel Arbuthnot has succeeded Colonel 

 Buckley as Equerry in waiting to her Majesty. — The 

 Queen Dowager will leave England for Germany on the 

 2d of June, on a visit to her relatives. 



Parliamentary Movements. — Mr. Thesiger, the Soli- 

 citor-General, has been elected member for Abingdon, 

 without opposition. — The representation of South Lan- 

 cashire will be contested by Mr. Entwisle, on the Con- 

 servative interest, and by Mr. William Brown, a Liver- 

 pool merchant, as the League candidate. — Admiral Bowles 

 has announced himself a candidate for Launceston, in 

 the room of Sir. H. Hardinge, the new Governor-General 

 of India. — A vacancy has occurred in the Kilmarnock 

 district of Burghs, by the death of Mr. Johnston — It is 

 rumoured that Sir H. Fleetwood intends shortly to re- 

 sign his seat for Preston. 



Official Appointments. Sir Thomas Fremantle, Bart, 

 has been appointed Secretary at War in the room of Sir 

 II. Hardinge. — The v.icancy at the Board of Admi- 

 ralty, occasioned by the appointment of Rear-Admi- 

 ral Sir Geo. Seymour to the command in the Pacific 

 has been filled by Rear-Admiral Bowles, late command- 

 ing on the coast of Ireland. — Rear Admiral Sir Hugh 

 Pigott, I js been appointed Admiral Bowles's suc- 

 cessor in the command of the Irish squalron, and 

 will hoist his flag in the Volage. — Captain II. B. Wood, 

 of the 10th Hussars, now Private Secretary to Sir H. 

 Hardinge, accompanies His Excellency in the same 

 capacity to India. Cape. A. W. F. Somerset of the 

 Grenadier Guards (son of Lieut. -Gen. Lord F. Somerset), 

 Military Secretary to Lord Ellenborough, is to occupy 

 the same post on the personal Staff of the new Governor- 

 General — The Queen has been pleased to direct letters 

 latent to be passed under the Great Seal, appointing 

 Capt. Robert Maunsell, C.B.. one of the Commissioners 

 of Greenwich Hospital, in the room of E. II. Locker, 

 Esq., resigned.— J. C. Whiteman, Esq., has been electe! 

 an East India Director, in the room of the late Hon. 

 Hugh Lindsay. 



France. — The discussion of the Secondary Instruc- 

 tion Bill still occupies the ( nib, r of Pee and is 

 likely not to be closed be r ore the end of this week, if 

 even then. On Thursday the C nber of Peers rejected 

 the amendment of the Doc de Harconrt, the object of 

 which was to exclude a clause from the bill which requires 

 the heads of educational establishments and professors 

 to declare that they do not beta to any unauthorised 

 religious community. The mo 's object doubted 

 was to enable the Jesuits to get a footing in the seminaries 

 of education, — an object in which be was defeated. 

 M. Guizot strongly opposed the amendmen f , and declared 

 that the Jesuits had never changed either in their laws 

 or their objects, and that the task of the present Govern- 

 ment being to reconcile the principle of individual 

 liberty, proclaimed by the memorable Assembled Con- 

 stituante, with the supremacy of the State, so vigorously 

 established by Napoleon, there was, now-a-days, no 

 room in France for the admission of intermediate bodies, 

 such as l..y or religious corporations, between the said 

 liberties and supremacy. In Tuesday's sitting, the Mi- 

 nister of the Navy, agreeably to M. Guizot's late declara- 

 tions of the Government's intentions, introduced a Bill 

 for the improvement of the condition of the' slaves, pre- 

 paratory to the, gradual abolition ot slavery in the Frer.ch 

 colonies. "The object of the Bill," said Admiral de 

 Mackau, " was to regulate the principal conditions of the 

 intermediate state of things, which ought to precede a 

 full emancipation, and to prepare the negroes for taking 

 their place amongst the c mini popular ,. ]. The 

 conditions related to the food and comfo: hie by the 

 masters to the slaves. 2. To punishments. 3. Duration 

 of labour. 4. The marriage of slaves, and their religious 

 and elementary instruction. 5. The savings of the 

 slaves, and their right to purchase their freedom 

 JSew measures, the Bill stated, were to insure the 

 repression of the cruelties sometimes committed agaius*- 

 slaves, to modify the present legislation relative to 

 Courts of Assize, and to increase the number of ma- 

 gistrate* in the colonies. The Minister added that 

 the application of the Bill would necessitate a credit 

 of about 1 200.000.V In the Chamber of Deputies 

 the Prison Bill is still under discussion, and the principle 

 of cellular imprisonment is fully adopted. On Saturday 

 an amendment brought forward by M. Vatont, to post- 

 pone the application of the II to the central and depart- 

 mental prisons, was rejec ■ but on the previous day 



mint nl m H er *£?*** 8nnther cIause of «■ amend- 

 sTall under,n nS ft" C ° nviC ' S Sentenced to hard W">ur 

 The editor Tf £ ?P- confinen »»* ^ day and night.- 



that Wn.1 t Um —2 a0d t,ie re3 P<>™ble agent of 

 that Journal, who were charged with itftin* todisobe- 



t?*Z? thC A aW8 ' ia *+* V*M& conml ntidkt- 

 ters addressed by several bishops to Abbe Comb* ot on 



the occasion of his late coadem ion, were both d£w2 



f»,t«rri\ I fc «« u - ine Maritime Pre- 



fect of Cherbourg has sent an order to Havre for general 

 silk flag,, on *hich are to be emblazoned the aL, o 

 England and France. His Majesty, after his return f m 



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two or three days to the inspection of the port of Brest, 

 where orders for his due reception have already been 

 received." It is, however, believed that nothing is de- 

 cided as to his Majesty's visit ; and that if he comes at 

 all, it will be no further than the Isle of Wight. — The 

 Duchess of Kent left Fontainbleau on Thursday for Ge- 

 neva, from which place she will proceed to Germany. — 

 A circumstance has occurred in Paris, which is likely to 

 create sensation in France and England. A pamphlet is 

 to be published immediately, from the pen of the Prince de 

 Joinville, entitled, " Notes on the State of the French 

 Navy," in which his Royal Highness severely attacks the 

 French Ministry and England. The King is greatly an- 

 noyed at the circumstance, and it is said that a scene of 

 considerable violence occurred between the father and 

 son, when the prince refused to suppress his labours. An 

 extract from the publication appeared in the Revue de 

 Paris on Tuesday, in which the author merely states 

 that he has visited all the ports of France, and several of 

 those of England, and that the navy, especially the steam 

 navy of France, is greatly inferior to that of England, and 

 below what it ought to be, considering the power and 

 wealth of the country. The pamphlet was to appear on 

 Wednesday, and was looked forward to with great in- 

 terest. — The Lyons journals announce that the agents of 

 the Legitimatists were exceedingly active in that city. 

 Buttons bearing the effigy of M Henry V." (the Due de 

 Bordeaux) had been found on some of the late National 

 Guard, and pieces of five francs, with the head of that 

 prince and the words " Henry V., King of France," were 

 in circulation in Lyons and its vicinity. 



Spain — We have accounts from Madrid of the 9th 

 inst. The Gazette publishes the decree abolishing the 

 state of siege throughout the kingdom. Messrs. Lopez 

 and Madoz, against whom arrest warrants had been 

 issued for alleged participation in the conspiracy of 

 Alicant, and who had remained concealed ever since, had 

 presented themselves to the Political Chief, by whom 

 they were told that there existed no charge against them, 

 and that they might consider themselves at liberty. A 

 decree for the dissolution of the Cortes and the convoca- 

 tion of a new Assembly in November next, was expected 

 shortly to appear. The journey of the young Queen to 

 the baths of Caldas, in Catalonia, was again talked of. 

 Some dispute has arisen as to the immediate cause which 

 led to the downfall of the Bravo Administration. The 

 friends of the late Ministry declare that S. Gonzales 

 Bravo and his colleagues resigned because they would 

 not agree to carry out a measure upon which 

 the Queen-Mother had determined, namely, that 

 of stopping the sales of the national property, and 

 of restoring to the secular clergy all that portion 

 of the property of the Church which yet remains unsold. 

 Whatever be the cause of the rupture, the support, or at 

 all events the neutrality, of the ex -Ministers is secured 

 by appointing them to lucrative situations. S. Bravo is 

 gazetted as ambassador to Portugal, one of the best-paid 

 and most influential of the Spanish embassies; Gen. 

 Mazarredo is appointed Captain-General of Madrid, 

 which is vacated by General Narvaez, on his appoint- 

 ment as Prime Minister ; and M. Carrasco is to be 

 allowed to exercise his financial abilities in another 

 quarter, being appointed Royal Commissioner of the 

 new Bank of Isabella II., lately got up by himself in 

 opposition to and in defiance of the chartered rights and 

 privileges of the Bank of San Fernando. According to 

 letters from Algesiras of the 1st inst. no symptoms of 

 war were observable at Tangiers. The despatches 

 brought by the frigate Christina had been presented to 

 the Emperor of Morocco by the Spanish Envoys, who" 

 were received with marked attention by that Sovereign. 

 In the meantime preparations were still making at Puerto 

 de Santa Maria, but there is no doubt that the expedi- 

 tion will ultimately be given up. Accounts from the 

 provinces state that smuggling is carried on to a great 

 extent, and that a regular battle was fought on the 3d, 

 at Almeria, between the Queen's troops and the smug- 

 glers, in which the latter were defeated. 



Portugal.— Intelligence from Lisbon, to the 6th 

 inst., gives an account of the terms in the first instance 

 proposed by the Count Bomfim, on the mornin* of the 

 28th ult., and refused by the General Fonte Nova, with 

 the subsequent conditions accepted by the former, and 

 the surrender of the town on the evening of the 28th. 

 Ly those conditions, 41 militarv officers were permitted 

 to retire into Spain, and 724 soldiers of different regi- 

 ments laid down their arms, and were placed at the dis- 

 posal of Government, and were already on their march 

 o Oporto, guarded by one of the brigades of the Queen's 

 troops. The internum of the Government, it was said, 

 was to send them to Africa. 



Germany -Serious riots took place in Munich on 

 the 2d and 3d inst. in consequence of a rise in the price 

 of beer, and although the Court at the time was celebrat- 



A Dg uJ ,C i ™T a2e ? f . the Princess Hildegarde with the 

 Archduke Albert of Austria, the disturbances were not 

 put down until the troops had fired on the people. After 

 desroying several brewhouses, order was completely esta- 

 blished, but more than 200 persons have been arrested. 

 1 he Government states that the King, at the request of 

 the brewers, ordered the reduction of the price of the 

 beer, because the advance of price had created so serious 

 a riot ; but the real fact is, that the troops at first refused 

 to fire upon the people, and the result might have been 

 very serious, had the King not given way. Notwith- 

 standing these events his Majesty left Munich on the 8th 

 for Italy and Sicily — The Austrian Government has 

 nominated Baron de Hebert Governor of Mantua, in 

 the place of Marshal Maggrecchelli, who retires. In the 



ling to have a commander of Italian origin in sr, im ^ 



a command.-The ducal houses of Saxony an "?„??' 

 have, of their own accord, assumed the title i of Hi * 

 The example has been set by Saxe-Coburg in vl ^ 

 and Portugal. The Confederation will have to Sr,n 8 a ° d 

 on the subject.-A violent schism has arisen a « !?f e 

 Israelites at Frankfort. Two-thirds of the C ?Z ^ 

 have separated from the synagogue, and formed a sena!^ 

 sect, styling themselves Reformers. They neither^ 



and totally renounce the belief in a Messiah ^'-r^ ' 

 Anselm Rothschild, the head of the celebrated banki? 11 

 house at Frankfort, has declared a determined w 

 against the new sect, and refuses to discount any hilh 

 bearing the signature of any of the new community 

 The affair has been laid before the Germanic Diet Th 

 sectarians are accused of fomenting and concealing in 

 their religious formula political tendencies subversive and 

 pernicious for the state. Notwithstanding these accusa- 

 tions, the Senate of Frankfort has declared warmly hi 

 favour of the new Israelites. 



Italy. -— The ■ military commission which sat at 

 Bologna some time ago, on the 11th of March con- 

 demned twenty persons engaged in the political dis- 

 turbances to death, thirteen to the galleys for life, three 

 to the galleys for twenty years, and two for five'yeirs, 

 and the whole of them to confiscation of their proper; 

 Of those condemned to death, fourteen had their sen- 

 tences commuted to condemnation to the galleys for life. 

 The six others were shot on the Cth. this execution 

 has made a great sensation at Bologna. On the 2d 

 several other persons were arrested in the same ciiv, 

 among whom were M. Galleti, L.L.D., one of the mi 

 distinguished lawyers of Italy, and his clerks, MM. 

 Orsina, father and son, who are furnishers of military 

 stores to the Government, a student cf medicine, and 

 two or three others. These arrests make the greater 

 impression, as it was expected that after the numerous 

 condemnations by the military commission, the Govern- 

 ment would have relaxed in its rigour. From Naples 

 we learn that insurgent armed bands, consisting of 2C00 

 men, traverse Calabria from one end to the other, that 

 they had already had several encounters with the troops, 

 and that the insurrection had extended to the province 

 of Apulia. New arrests of suspected persons had taken 

 place at Naples, and the Government was much alarmed 

 by not merely the political ferment which prevailed, but 

 by the depth of misery in which the population were 

 plunged. A letter from Reggio, dated April 29, states, 

 however, that the 7000 troops sent to Calabria at the 

 commencement of the troubles at Cozenza had been 

 recalled—- a circumstance which would indicate that no 

 alarm existed respecting the situation of that province. — 

 The disputes between Sardinia and Tunis are settled. 



Holland. — A sudden fire, the origin of which is not 

 yet known, broke out on the 8th inst., between five and 

 six o'clock, in the Royal dockyard at Amsterdam. It 

 was first discovered in the carpenters' shops; the whole 

 of the building containing them was entirely destroyed, 

 and also part of the forge. The fire spread so rapidly 

 that the whole of the buildings would have been destroyed, 

 but by great exertions the fire was got_ under without 

 extending beyond the buildings first mentioned. 



Sweden.— A letter from Stockholm states that a 

 report was current that, from motives of economy, the 

 King will not be crowned either in Sweden or Norway. 

 Three other Kings in Europe, those of France, Prussia, 

 and Belgium, not having undergone this ceremony, the 

 King of Sweden feels that he can dispense with it. 



Switzerland.— The last accounts from Switzerland 

 state that the Government of Valais, finding it impossioie 

 to terminate the dissensions which disturb that canton, 

 had applied to the Vorort for its intervention, iw 

 Duchess of Kent arrived at Geneva on Sunday, and too* 

 up her residence at the H6tel de l'Ecu de Geneve. 



United States.— We have arrivals from £ew ior 

 with accounts to the 30th ult. President Tyler an 

 Mr. Calhoun, the new Secretary of State, no doub : wu 

 views to the next presidential election, have laid oero 

 the Senate the extraordinary step of a treat 7. for /5 te3 

 nexation of the territory of Texas to the United aw ■ 

 The leading terms of the treaty are as foll °* ' of 

 United States are to discharge or assume 2, ie _. d ~j ^ 



Texas, to the amount of what the sale of lesion 

 will pay, and no farther ; the assumption only w *H 

 the sale of hinds. Texas to be admitted as a ie ^ 

 and to be allowed one Delegate in Congress, 

 is said about slavery. 



Npthing 



ished 

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has produced the utmost excitement amon 3 *« 

 and both Mr. Clay and Mr. Van Buren i have puD 

 their opinions on the subject. Mr. Clay sic. 

 forth how completely, by their own volune »j ^ , 

 the United States have given up all right anu 

 the territory of Texas. » It is, therefore, asr 

 Ions, he says, to talk of our resuming oui « United 

 as for Great Britain to resume hers to we n 



States. We have fairly alienated ™* iltle '°* rc d all 

 national compact. Mexico, he adds, Has p tion 



her rights. She still claims Texas, and our ass j ^ 

 of this territory would be a virtual °* c,a ""° e dient. 

 against Mexico-a war wholly unjust and in J ^ ^ 

 tint, even should Mexico assent, he argue* i ^ the 

 remove obstacles with other foreign P? w *; r!9 : e w ishes 

 measure ought never to be admitted agams^ ^ yaa 

 of a very considerable portion of the L nion. ^ eXftt j oPl 

 Buren may be considered as also opposed the decisis 

 though perfectly willing to abide andbanaj^ ^.^ Ue 

 of the people of the di " *" * "~ 



