May 25,] 



fHE NEWSPAPER. 



that hostility to England which has prevailed at interval 

 for so many years, and their desire to aggravate the spirit 

 of national rancour which the conduct of M. Thiers in 

 1839 and 1810 may be said to have recalled into life. 

 The Prince does not, however, escape censure from the 

 identical portion of the press that it was said he had de- 

 sired to propitiate. The republican prints are f«"ous at 

 the frankness with which he defends the conduct of M. 

 Thiers in preventing navm hostilities with England m 

 1840, and at the candour of his admission that the sea- 

 ports of France might be visited and devastated by a 

 British naval force, in the event of a war. The opinion* 

 Of the Prince were expected to have great influence m the 

 debate on the supplementary credits, which commenced 

 on Tuesday.— As the French railways have become ob- 

 jects of general attention to English capitalists some ac- 

 count of their present position may be acceptable. I he 

 Bills now before the French Chambers, and which are 

 expected to be passed thi» session, are these :-l. Ihe 

 linefrom Paris to the Belgian frontier at Lisle, with 

 branches to Dunkirk, Calais, and Boulogne. 2. From 

 Orleans to Vie-zon. 3. From Paris to Dijon and 

 Chalons, commonly called the Paris and Lyons line. 

 4 From Orleans, through Tours, to Bordeaux. 

 5.. From Montpelier to NUmei. AH these have 

 been considered in committee, and leases will be granted 

 this session for all of them. Last week the Minister 

 of Public Works presented the four following addi- 

 tional bills, comprising about 500 leagues of railway : — 

 6. An extension of the Orleans and Vierzon line to 

 Chateauroux and Limoges to the south-west, and to 

 Bonrges and Clermont on the south-east, the utmost 

 to which the lines through the centre of France are 



proposed to be carried, because of the physical difficulties 

 of the districts. 7. The extension of the west line from 

 Tours to Nantes. 8. An extension of the Paris and Ver- 

 sailles line (left bank) to Chartres, with a view to the 

 ultimate extension to Lemans, Laval, Rennes, and pro- 

 bably to Brest, thus completing a great north-western 

 line, which was not included in the general law of June, 

 1842. 9. The line from Paris to the German frontier 

 at Homaarting, commonly called the Paris and Strasburg 

 line. In the four last-mentioned lines the Minister 

 merely asks a vote for the construction of the works, 

 deferring the authority to grant leases to any company 

 to another year. It was expected that the line from 

 Bordeaux to Toulouse and Marseilles (to unite the 

 Atlantic with the Mediterranean), and the line from 

 Lyons, southward to Avignon, would have been included 

 in the presentations this session, but they are definitively 

 postponed till next year, although a company was ac- 

 tually formed, and the capital subscribed, for the latter, 

 who asked the land for the railway as the only assistance 

 required from the State.— The King and Royal Family 

 have removed to Neuilly, where they will remain until 

 the close of the Session.l-The death of Admiral Lalande 

 ■was announced in the Chamber of Deputies on Tuesday. 

 His death is a great loss to the French Navy, of which 

 he was one of the most distinguished officers. He com- 

 manded the Mediterranean fleet in 1840. — Accounts 

 from Algeria state that on the 24th ult. an engage- 

 ment took place between the Kabyles and the column 

 commanded by the Duke d'Aumale in person. A 

 dense fog which prevailed at the time caused a panic 

 among the soldiers of the Goum, who marched on the 

 flank of the main body, and their precipitate retreat oc- 

 casioned some confusion in the ranks. The Arabs were 

 repulsed, but, it would appear, not without a serious loss 

 on the side of the French. One account estimates at 21 

 the number of their killed, whilst others state that they 

 had 13 officers and upwards of 100 men put hors de com- 

 bat. Two pieces of aitillery captured by the Arabs were 

 recovered. During the contest the Duke d'Aumale, closely 

 pressed by the assailants, had been saved by a field-officer. 

 His horse had been pierced by three bullets, and that of 

 an officer riding close to him by five. 



Spain. — Accounts from Madrid state that the Queen, 

 the young Infanta Donna Louisa, and the Queen Dowager 

 Christina were to leave Madrid on the 20th, accompanied 

 by General Narvaez, the Foreign, Home, and Marine 

 Ministers, and a brilliant suite. The Royal party were 

 expected at Valencia on the 27th, from whence they will 

 embark for Barcelona, on board a Government steamer. 

 After remaining at Barcelona two or three days, her 

 Majesty will proceed to the baths of Caldas, where she 

 •will remain six weeks or two months, and return to 

 Madrid through Aragon, Navarre, and the Basque pro- 

 vinces. Mr. Bulwer, our Ambassador at Madrid, has 

 had an interview with the Queen, for the purpose of inti- 

 mating to her Majesty that his Government wish to 

 place the British squadron, now on the south coast of 

 Spain, at her disposal. The English steam-frigate 

 Vesuvius arrived at Barcelona on the 12th, and left for 

 Valencia on the 18th, to take on board Mr. Bulwer and 

 his suite. The Belvidera, 46, is daily expected at Bar- 



Reina Gobernadora, of which she is Colonel, and con- 

 ferred with her own hands several decorations on officers 

 and soldiers of that corps. The Portuguese refugees had 

 been well received by the Spanish authorities. On their 

 arrival at Ciudad Rodrigo they were awarded a month's 

 nay, and at Salamanca Count de Bomfim and several of 

 his companions had dined with the Captain-General. 

 Borgo de Osma had been assigned to them as a 



residence. 



Portugal. — We have accounts from Lisbon to trie 

 l.Ttli. A liiltin the political world appears to have suc- 

 ceeded the late disturbances. The Cortes it was sup- 

 posed would open on the 23d. The Government, since 

 the suppression of the revolt, had acted with mildness, 

 and used their victory with moderation. The acknow- 

 ledged embarrassment of the finances seems to be the 

 great matter of consideration with the Government. 

 Mr. Tozer, an English gentleman, has bem imprisoned 

 for some imprudent word at Coimbra and Lisbon, with- 

 out any particular charge against him, and, consequently, 



no hope of eiiher justice or trial. 



Belgium.— A fatal accident occurred on the railroad 

 from Brussels to Antwerp, on Friday, at a station four 

 miles from the latter town. The fast train, which was 

 passing the station about rive o'clock was, while in full 

 progress, thrown of! the line, and brought in contact 

 with a luggage-train. Tue concussion was fearlul ; three 

 persons were killed, fifteen severely wounded, and about 

 forty received contusions, more or less serious. Ihe 

 ! accident is said to have been occasioned by the careless, 

 ness of the railway servants in attending to the points, 

 so that at the junction with the Ostend line the carriages 

 were thrown otf the line, and came into collision with the 

 baggage-train. Strange to say, the engine, the tender, 

 and one carriage continued upon the proper line, but 

 were violently separated by the concussion from the re- 

 maining carriages. Another account states that the rail 

 was under repair, and that one rail, which had been re- 

 placed, was imperfectly bolted and fastened at the extre- 

 mity towards Brussels. As the train passed over it the 

 fastening was loosened, and after the passage of the first 

 carriage the end tilted up, caught the wheel of the next 

 carriage, which was thrown off the line, and thus occa- 

 sioned the accident. 



Germany.— The resolution of the Dukes of Saxony 

 to assume the title of Royal Highness is the topic of the 

 day in the higher circles of Berlin and Vienna. This 

 measure, it would seem, has seriously displeased the 

 King of Prussia; and Baron Billow, the Minister of 

 Foreign Affairs, is said to have replied to the Saxon Mi- 

 nister's notification on this subject that no answer would 

 be the best mode of treating it. A lively correspondence, 

 however, is observed to take place on this subject be- 

 tween Count Trautmansdorrf, the Austrian Ambassador 

 at Berlin, and Prince Metternich, and until the result 

 thereof is known, all Prussian Government officers have 

 received orders in their official communications to con- 

 tinue the style of Serene Highness. It is asserted that 

 Queen Victoria, in an autograph letter to the Em- 

 peror, has requested his Imperial Majesty's inter- 

 vention with the German Diet to procure that body's 

 consent to the title of Highness, but that the Em- 

 peror, from the very beginning, referred the matter 

 to the King of Saxony, as head of the family. The 

 general opinion at Berlin is, that Austria and Prussia 

 will not recognise the title of Royal Highness. — The 

 celebrated singer, Mdlle. Jenny Lutzer, lately under an 

 engagement at one of the Imperial Theatres of Vienna, 

 is just married to M. Charles Dingelstadt, a poet, and 

 member of a family of distinction in the law. On the 

 day of marriage, the Emperor conferred the title of 

 Aulic Counsellor on the bridegroom, which gives the 

 entree at Court. The bride retires from the stage. — 

 His Royal Highness the Grand Duke of Hesse has 

 remitted the sentence of six months' imprisonment 

 passed upon the Baron de Haber, as the principal in the 

 late fatal duel, and he is now at liberty, after six weeks' 

 imprisonment in the fortress of Babenhausen. 



Switzerland. — A supplement of the NouvellisU 

 Vaudois of the 10th May, at noon, announces that civil 

 war has broken out in the canton of Valais. The inha- 

 bitants of the Upper Valais have seized on Sion ; those of 

 the Lower Valais have risen en masse. Each party have 

 some pieces of cannon, and a battle was imminent on the 

 18th. This contest has arisen out of the longstanding 

 disputes between the German and High Church Catholics 

 of the Upper Valais and their French and latitudinarian 

 compatriots of the lower portion of the canton. Two 

 years ago the Upper Valaisans were beaten, and the d<- 

 rnocrats gained the ascendancy. This year, the upper 

 party, having a Vorort, or executive canton (Lucerne) 

 favourable to ultra-Catholic ideas, are the most powerful, 

 and the result is an appeal to force. 



Italy. — A letter from Naples, quoted by the Augs- 

 burg Gazette, has the following: — "The Duke de Mon- 



Government has deemed it necessary to put Venice in a 

 state of quasi siege. Its garrison has been increased to 



11,000 men. One frigate is constantly and openly kept 



turned against the cir v . Defections'in the 





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ami the Vesuvius, will remain at Barcelona during tl e i Two Sicilies, and has lately taken repeated excursions 



with her guns turnea against tne ciry. Defections in the 

 Austrian army still continue, and 20 Italian and Hungarian* 

 officers are said to have disappeired from the corps in 

 which these two nations serve promiscuously. Tiie last 

 news from Milan states that a strong band had appeared 

 on the Lombaniian hills, to which are attached some 

 youth from the highest families of Lombard v. The 

 Court of Vienna has showed itself very much alarmed at 

 these preliminaries and tpad offered a free pardon to the 

 sons of Rear-Admiral Bandiera, in order that they may. 

 return to their posts; but they had declined it, and 

 retired to Corfu. — A letter from Bologna, of the 12th 

 SH y 8 : — " The Government has just published the sen- 

 tence pronounced by the military commission against the 

 second category, which comprises the persons imprisoned 

 at Saint Leo, and who are accused of having tiken part 

 in the expedition of Imola on the 8th of September last. 

 By this sentence three persons are condemned to per- 

 petual imprisonment with labour, five to 20 years, 29 to 

 15, and one to 10. Two have been condemned to three 

 years' simple imprisonment. Only one has been set at 

 liberty, and that only provisionally." 



Greece. — Letters from Athens of the 30th ult. state, 

 that the members of the Holy Synod having, at the in- 

 stigation of Russia, declined to take the oath to the 

 Constitution, M. Mavrocordato gave them 24 hours to 

 consider of it, threatening, in case of refusal, to dissolve 

 their body, and appoint others in their place. The 

 firmness displayed by the Minister had the effect of 

 removing the scruples of the Bishops, and after offering 

 some apology for their resistance, they complied with the 

 required formality. — The inhabitants of Syra have given 

 a splendid banquet to Sir Edmund Lyons and M. Pisca- 

 tory, the Ministers of England and France. 



Turkey and Egypt. — We have accounts from Con- 

 stantinople of the 27th ult. They announce that 

 Hussein, Pacha of Vrania, has sustained a serious defeat, 

 having; been compelled to evacuate that place on the 

 12th ult., and to fall back precipitately upon Monastir, 

 pursued by an army of 12,000 Albanians. Great ex- 

 cesses are "said to have been committed by the latter, 

 who plundered and set fire to the town of Egri Palanka. 

 The Porte is at length making the most strenuous efforts 

 to put down this rebellion as quickly as possible ; the 

 garrison of Constantinople has been reduced to less than 

 half the force to which it amounted a few months ago, 

 by the detachments which have been successively sent to 

 Adrianople and Salonica.— A Prussian family, composed 

 of a married couple, with their daughter, a pretty young 

 woman, had presented themselves at the Porte, and 

 formally embraced Mahoramedanism. The reasons for 

 their apostacy were as follow :— One of the young Officers 

 sent by the Turkish Government to complete his education- 

 al Berlin having become enamoured of the damsel, agreed 

 to marrv her, provided she would accompany him to Con- 

 stantinople and change her religion. To these condition* 

 she declared she had no objection ; but refused to be 

 separated from her parents. The latter, however, showed 

 themselves truly accommodating, and the dirnculty w 

 overcome by the whole family turning Turks.— l ne per- 

 sons implicated in the last conspiracy in Servia agamK 

 the Prince Alexander Georgiowitsch, have been par- 

 doned, and the two chiefs of the revolution which platen 

 him on the throne, Wucsicz and Petroniewitsch, and wno 

 had been exiled on the demand of Russia, have mot 

 authorised to return to Servia.-We have letters i iro» 

 Alexandria of the 25th ult. The Pasha had caused the 

 Schah Soliman Beddreddin to be hanged at La.ro 

 concealing several fellahs, who had been ordered w ^ 

 turn to their native villages. Mehemet Ah wa> w 

 Minetilgamh, in Lower Egypt, engaged in ue 5 

 measures for the destruction of the wild boars wh en 

 fested the country. Three regiments had been dire *~ 

 to repair thither from Cairo for that purpose. -^ 

 Bey, who occupied some years ago a high post 

 court of the Pasha, had been sentenced to we s ^ 

 leys for the exactions of which he had been S u, ' c * ^ 

 had arrived, loaded with chains, in the arsenal o 



andria. . , ^.i, from 



Morocco.— The following telegraphic de W* z d m 

 the French Consul at Taugiers, h»s been r .. al f 

 Paris:— "There is reason to apprehend ^ gQlar bo dy 

 the Kabvles here from the interior. The i> agam »t 

 have written to the Pacha to protest berorei e[tfCm 



this infraction of the general orders ot tne ^ &fc 



The British agent has called for the nava ^ 



Malta. I (the French Consul) hare reCTlle " nisll ultf- 

 A reply in the negative is expected to the \ ^ 



malum. In that case the Consul- General ot *\ „ 



strike his flag and embark, it he can succeed in - ^ 

 West Indies, &c.-By the Clyde ma. ^^ to 

 have accounts from Jamaica to April £± , * Qtber 



April 21; Demerara, to April 20; and trom 



Qneen's sojourn at Caldas. It was stated that the Count 

 de'Trapani, brotherof the King of Naples, who lias been so 

 -ong' mentioned as the future husband of Her Majesty, will 

 have an interview with the young Queen at Barcelona, 

 attd that the authorities of that ciry had written to 

 Madrid for instructions respecting the reception they 

 should give to the Prince. It is considered probable 

 that the Cortes will not be convoked before the return of 

 Her Majesty from this excursion. M. Armero had ac- 

 cepted the Department of Marine in the new Cabinet; 

 and the Marquis de Villoma, late Ambassador in Lon- 



to Caserta. The object is believed to be a marriage 

 between the Duke d'Aumale and the Princess Maria 

 Carolina, sister of the King of Naples, whose hand has 

 been also demanded for the Duke de Bordeaux, a pro- 

 jected union which would be thus defeated, and for the 

 promotion of which, a letter from Friuli says, the elder 

 branch of the house of Bourbon has actually sent olf an 

 ambassador. Then comes the proposed alliance between 

 Queen Isabella of Spain and the Count de Trapani, 

 which is not yet renounced." — Accounts from Malta 

 state, in reference to the late events in the North of 



April 21; Demerara to April ™5 «»- — leng tby 



islands to corresponding dates. I hey g' is n uire ** 



account of the state of affairs in Hayti, " lll€n f ' jtive* 



deplorable as before, represented. Many or in ^ ^ 



had arrived at Kingston to seek a home. 



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doo> had accepted the post of Foreign Minister. The Italy, that the disaffection seems to have extended to the 

 Queen Mother reviewed on the 10th the regiment of the I Austrian, as well as the Roman States. The Austrian 



iau arrivcu at ivm^^.. ■.« -»-. - their warna* 



emblv had made a small grant to provide lor w ^ g 



English interests in Hayti and Cuba are stated i ro ^ . f 

 precarious position; and the end oj the r ^ r0 . 

 feared, will show a vast sacrifice of botn in f>J 



perty. One of the Jamaica papers, th* V^fc 

 Journal^! April 23, contains the lollo-in? p. * rf 

 on the state of Cuba :-" We have been inform^ ^ 

 very serious proceedings have lately taken \ j* ^^ 

 Island of Cuba. A gentleman lately from - ^ 



respectability, who arrived 



and a person of resp 



