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The Pamphlet on the French Navy, published last 

 week by the Prince de Joinville, has attracted, as we 

 anticipated, considerable Dotice on both aides of the 

 Channel. In Paris it is regarded as a demonstration in 

 favour of the war projects of M. Thiers, and the Prince 

 is censured by the Ministerial press for having supplied 

 the enemies of his father's government with such an 

 instrument 'of intrigue. The frankness, however, with 

 which his pamphlet exposes the inferior condition of the 

 French Navy has failed to conciliate the republican party, 

 and a still greater cause of disapprobation is the candour 

 with which the Prince admits that the ports of France 

 may be devastated by English steamers, within a few 

 hours of the first declaration of war. The opposition 

 papers generally applaud the project for creating a 

 steam navy, relying on the assumption that, unlike the 

 massive line-of-battle ships of the old system of naval 

 warfare, a fleet of steamers would enable France to 

 cripple our commerce and transport her armies to un- 

 protected parts of our coast, so that by means of a power 

 as yet unknown in European war, France may have the 

 means of disputing with this country the dominion of 

 the sea. These speculations are said to be uppermost in 

 the political coteries of Paris, and they are expected to 

 have great influence on the debate upon the supple- 

 mentary credits which is now pending in the Chambers. 

 Our own Journals, however, reply, that success in 

 steam machinery still belongs confessedly to England ; 

 that there is no reason to doubt that our navy will excel 

 as much in this new species of warfare as they did in 

 the sailing ships of former times, and that whatever 

 injury the creation of a steam fleet may enable France 

 to inflict on England, the Government of this country will 

 not be insensible to her movements, but will be prepared 

 to enter upon the contest with the same weapons. The 

 Prison Discipline Bill, which has been so long in pro- 

 gress, has passed the Deputies by a large majority, but 

 the Bill on Secondary Instruction is still t before the Peers, 

 with little chance of its being discussed in the Deputies 

 during the present session. — From Spain we haTe 

 accounts of the preparations for the departure of the 

 young Queen for the Baths of Catalonia, accompanied by 

 the Ministers of France and England. This excursion, 

 it appears, is likely to have an object beyond the resto- 

 ration of her Majesty's health — the Count de Trapani, so 

 long mentioned as the future husband of the Queen, 

 being expected to meet her Majesty at Barcelona. — In 

 Germany, the resolution of the Dukes of Saxony to assume 

 the designation of Royal Highness, a title much higher 

 than that assigned to them by the Congress of Vienna, is 

 the chief topic of attention. The measure is said to be 

 warmly supported by our own Queen, but opposed by 

 the King of Prussia and the Emperor of Austria. The 

 title, however, does not depend on the will of any single 

 Sovereign, and the question must be decided by the Ger- 

 manic Diet. — Civil war has again broken out in Switzer- 

 land, in consequence of the long-pending disputes on 

 religious questions between the French and German in- 

 habitants of the Yalais, and an appeal to arms was hourly 

 expected on the 18th. — The accounts from Turkey con- 

 tain renewed details of the disturbances in Albania, and 

 of the vigorous efforts making by the Porte for the purpose 

 of suppressing them. — From theWest Indies we learn that 

 Hayti and Cuba are still in a state of rebellion ; the mu- 

 tual jealousies of the blacks and the mulattoes are likely 

 to lead to a collision, and the end of the revolt, it is 

 feared, will show a great sacrifice of life and property. 



At home, with the exception of the reduction of duty 

 on foreign wool, the most important proceeding in Par- 





lament has been the adoption of Sir Robert Peel's reso- 

 lutions on Banking, and the introduction oft Bill founded 

 upon them. Mr. Ewsrt on Friday moved that the duty 

 on foreign coffee be reduced to the same ai on colonial, 

 for the avowed purpose of striking a blow at the system 

 of differential duties ; but the motion was opposed by 

 Government, and negatived on a divisi on by 39 to 28. 



jDomt Nrfos. 



Court. — The Queen and Prince Albert, accompanied 

 by the Prince of Wales and the Princesses, left Bucking- 

 ham Palace on Thursday for Claremont, where they will 

 remain until Wednesday or Thursday next. Previous 

 to her departure, her Majesty held a Court and Privy 

 Council. At the Court, her Majeity conferred the ho- 

 nour of Knighthood on Mr. Thesiger, the Solicitor- 

 General; and at the Council, Sir T. Fremantle, Bart., 

 Secretary-at-War, was sworn in as a Privy Councillor, 

 and took his seat at the board. The Prince will drive 

 from Claremont, on Tuesday next, to be present at the 

 Montem. His Royal Highness will lunch with the Pro- 

 vost and Dignitaries of the College, and return to Clare- 

 mont to dinner. On Saturday, his Royal Highness 

 transacted business at the office of the Duchy of Corn- 

 wall, and in the evening of the same day tiie Queen and 

 Prince honoured the Italian Opera with their presence. 

 On Sunday, her Majesty and the royal suite at- 

 tended divine worship in the Chapel of the Palace. 

 On Monday, the Queen and Prince walked in 

 the Royal Gardens, and the Prince afterwards rode 

 out on horseback. On Tuesday, the Queen took 

 her daily walk in the Palace-gardens, and the Queen 

 Dowager visited her Majesty in the course of the day. 

 On Wednesday the Queen took her daily walk, and 

 Prince Albert paid a visit to the Panorama, in Leicester- 

 square. The report that her Majesty has purchased 

 Norris Castle, in the Isle of Wight, has been contra- 

 dicted. It is said that the King of Saxony will leave 

 Dresden on the 25th for London, and then make a tour 

 through England, Scotland, and Ireland, under the iaV 

 cognito of the Count Von Holmstein. He will be accom- 

 panied only by his physician, an Aide-de-Camp, snd t 

 Chamberlain. It is also said that circumstances of a 

 domestic nature will prevent the Tit its of their Majesties 

 the Emperor of Russia and the King of Hanover, at a 

 period when it would be practicable for their Majesties 

 to leave their respective dominions, and that neither of 

 these Sovereigns will visit this country during the present 

 season. The Crown Prince of Denmark, however, is 

 expected to arrive in Scotland in the course of the week, 

 for the purpose of examining the geological formations 

 of the Highlands, but his Ro;a\ Highness will not ex- 

 tend his visit to London. Viscountess Canning has 

 succeeded the Countess of Mount Edgcumbe as Lady in 

 Waiting on the Queen ; and Lord Byron and Colonel 

 Drummond have succeeded Viscount Hawarden and Sir 

 F. Stovin as the Lord and Groom in Waiting. 



Ministerial Arrangements. — It is announced that 

 Lord Talbot is to have the Garter vacant by the death 

 of the late Earl of Lonsdale. Lord Granville Somerset 

 has a seat in the Cabinet, retaining his present appoint- 

 ment of Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster. Sir T. 

 Fremantle succeeds Sir H. Hardinge as Secretary-at- 

 War, without a seat in the Cabinet. John Young, Esq., 

 M.P. for the county of Cavan, and one of the Lords of 

 the Treasury, succeeds Sir T. Fremantle as Secretary to 

 the Treasury. The vacant Lordship of the Treasury 

 has been given by Sir R. Peel to Lord A. Lennox, 

 brother of the Duke of Richmond. Sir Hugh Pigot, 

 Rear-Admiral of the White, has been appointed to the 

 command of the Irish Squadron, in the room of Rear- 

 Admiral Bowles, appointed one of the Lords of the 

 Admiralty. 



Parliamentary Movements. — The report that Sir H. 

 Fleetwood intends to retire from the representation of 

 Preston has been contradicted. — The death of Mr. 

 Johnston having caused a vacancy in the Kilmarnock 

 burghs, the Hon. P. Bouverie, son of Lord Radnor, and 

 Mr. John Robertson, late editor of the " Westminster 

 Review," have come forward as candidates in the 

 Liberal interest ; and Mr. H. Vincent, on the part of 



the Chartists. 



Courts of Law. — The daily papers have announced 



that Sir Nicholas Tindal, Lord Chief Justice of the 

 Common Pleas, has expressed his resolution to retire 

 from the Bench at the expiration of Michaelmas Term ; 

 but the Standard contradicts this by stating that the 

 Lord Chief Justice at present does not entertain any in- 

 tention of retiring from public life. 



jforrign. 



France. — The Prison Discipline Bill, so long under 

 discussion in the Chamber of Deputies, was passed on 

 Saturday by a majority of 231 against 1*28. The measure 

 is loudly condemned by the majority of the papers as 

 hypocritical and cruel. In the Chamber of Peers the 

 Bill on Secondary Instruction remains under discussion; 

 the adoption of the 24 th article of the Bill on Saturday, 

 as amended by the Committee, and which deprives the 

 University of all right to interfere with private establish- 

 ments, promised to facilitate the work of the Chamber; 

 but it is impossible that the Bill can be discussed by the 

 Deputies in the present session. — The Paris papers are 

 chiefly occupied with references to the pamphlet of the 

 Prince de Joinville, the insurrection in St. Domingo, the 

 union of Texas with the United States, and other foreign 

 md domestic topics. 1 n dealing with these qnestions, those 

 journals, with few exceptions, contrive to make manifest 



