June 15, J 



IT nnmerous w^rks of art which had been collected 

 ? C ? rlnversazione on Friday and Saturday evenings, 

 f0r hU wn bv Mr. Walker and the secretary, Mr. 

 J?*!/ tohis Majesty, who made a considerable stay, 

 M r^eared tenter with much interest into all he saw. 

 fthe P evening his Majesty, attended by his Excellency 

 J? thC r p«do?ff a^ his suite, dined with the Duke and 

 &^ of Cambridge, at Cambridge House. On Mon 

 I tu M«estT and his suite commenced a series of 

 l&s to a number of the institutions and public buildings 

 r I Iptronolis His Majesty first inspected Bethle- 

 t 'Vol iul tne Tothill Fields Prisonfthe Milbank 

 fenitentTarv the Thames Tunnel, the Surrey Zoological 

 Gardens and the Brewery of Messrs. Barclay and Per- 

 kin. and paid a visit to the Archbishop of Canterbury, 

 It Lambeth Palace, where he partook of a dejeuner pre- 

 pared for him. In the evening, his Majesty accompanied 

 the Queen and Prince Albertto the Hanover-square Rooms 

 to attend the performance of the Philharmonic Concert. 

 On Tuesdav, the King visited the Bazaar in Portman-st., 

 the Zoological Gardens in the Regent's Park, the British 

 Museum, the United Service Club, and the Chapel Royal, 

 Whitehall. His Majesty also honoured Mr. Hope with a 

 visit, at his mansion in Duchess-street, to inspect his 

 gallery of pictures, and afterwards visited the Earl and 

 Countess Delawarr, and the Countess Amherst. In the 

 evening his Majesty accompanied the Queen to the 

 Italian Opera. On Wednesday his Majesty visited the 

 Tower of London, where he was received with military 

 honours. After inspecting the Horse Armoury, the 

 Record Tower, the Cavalry Armoury, and the Regalia, 

 the King visited St. Katherine's Docks, the Royal 

 Mint, and the Bank of England. In the evening the 

 King dined with the Earl and Countess of Wilton. 

 On Thursday his Majesty visited Richmond Park. 

 His Majesty, on arriving, walked in the Park, and also 

 promenaded on the terrace with his suite. The King 

 then drove to Kew, where his Majesty was received by 

 the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, who conducted 

 him to the Royal Botanical Gardens, where the King 

 remained a considerable time. On the return of the 

 Royal party to the residence of the Duke of Cambridge, 

 a dejeuner was served. In the afternoon the Royal 

 party left Kew, passing through the gardens, for Sion 

 House, to honour the Duke and Duchess of Northumber- 

 land with a visit ; the King of Saxony and the Duchess of 

 Cambridge were in an open carriage, the Duke of Cam- 

 bridge driving. The Duke and Duchess of Northumberland 

 received their Royal guests, and conducted them through 

 the conservatory and pleasure-grounds. After inspect- 

 ing Sion House the Royal party drove to Ealing Park, 

 where they were received by Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence, 

 who attended their illustrious visitors through their 

 beautiful flower-gardens and pleasure-grounds. His 

 Majesty, attended by his suite, left Ealing Park for 

 town, and the Duchess of Cambridge returned to Kew. 

 His Majesty in the evening dined with the Earl of Aber- 

 deen His Majesty will this day honour the Horticul- 

 tural Society with his presence at Chiswick, and after- 

 wards dine with Sir Robert Peel. On Monday it is 

 expected that his Majesty will leave town on a tour in 

 Gotland. After visiting Edinburgh, Perth, Glasgow, 

 fining, &c, his Majesty intends to make a tour of 

 v>aies, and thence come direct to the metropolis, whence 

 we King will shortly afterwards depart for Germany. 



wppiTk- t £ 0WN Prince of Denmark.— On Monday 

 W j ms Ro y a l Highness honoured Provost Reoch with 

 v .UpTtu n V a Ho P e *street, Edinburgh, and afterwards 

 €onrln f A- Iarshal1 ' the Danish Consul General, who 

 M**. i-n ° ver the Preserved meat establishment of 

 Penir\ 1 on and Co * The Prince then proceeded to 

 and r °, ln8 P ect the paper-works of Messrs. Cowan 

 dinner a honoured Mr. Co wan with his company at 

 the Pr! after . which he visited Roslin. In the evening 

 Xr W ?S e dlDed with the Lord Justice General, and 

 RovJlH • u Upped With Lord Murray. On Tuesday his 

 andaftfr u 8et out for Perth, by way of Kinross, 



where Z } Stay in that cit y proceeded to Dunkeld, 

 i e passed the ni^ht-. On w^nP««Jav th* Prints 



THE NEWSPAPER. 



made 



night. On Wednesday the Prince 



Loch cJr t0Ur in the Highlands by Blair Atholl, 



«ow on Frid n a e ; t 1 ? Lomond ' and arrived at Glas " 

 ^ company w iik f u \ , « was en S a g ed on Saturday, 

 tfemen in • • Lord Provost and other official gen- 



tations in ri eWlllg th6 P rioci P al manufactories and insti- 

 Cll edonian r S °i W ' and from thence hs proceeded by the 

 °een orderp^ \° Inver ness. The two frigates have 

 n »s means ?«! Un k \° ? romart y> ^here his Royal High- 



PrTxcp h 6mbark for the Faroe Islands. 

 Henry f H fi NE 7 ° F HoiLA ^D.-On Tuesday, Prince 

 a schooner u'* Wlth a 8c l uadron of three frigates and 

 •* mt es from th in P1 y mouth Sound, under royal 



•"spected & \» . *»««mai aim Lommanacr-iu-vyiuci, 



* a *n up for tfc Ines aud o^r troops who had been 

 toraedftnk^.T. P_ nr Pose. Th e Prince afterwards re- 



vu med on bo->rd l • r • e * nnce afterwaras re- 



*° **it the Do i 1,S gate > and on Thursday was expected 



°ckyard and other public establishments. 



I 8 , 1 L *morrci Pr ; e8patches have "ached Paris from Gene- 

 f orocco f'*: COm ™nding the French troops on the 



SJ StiIiti es W* announcin g the commencement of 



? he French do nnl a " ^ f ° rCeS ° f the Em P eror - 



harn fv PP T to have been th e aggressors ; 

 * 2 >k.r«nn,h at Ouchda, on the 30th, they 



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ca ltured three IJ^ b ° d , y ? ( Woorlah c ^ 1 ^ an « 



teniIT « Pre r a ra t on? ^ l ? is manifest - from ^ ex- 



^ atl0Ds maklD S ^ Paris and elsewhere, that 



France views this affair in a serious light, and the King, 

 on the proposition of the Minister of Marine, has just 

 decided that the Prince de Joinville is to hoist his flag 

 in one of the ships of the line of the squadron of evo- 

 lutions, and to proceed in her, accompanied by a steam- 

 frigate, two smaller steamers, and several light vessels, 

 to cruise off the eastern coast of Morocco. His Royal 

 Highness was to leave Paris for Toulon on Sunday, to 

 assume the command of the squadron. Previous to the 

 arrival of the above despatches, accounts had been re- 

 ceived of an additional cause of excitement. It appears 

 that the Due d'Aumale had left at Biscara a very small 

 garrison, composed only of 3 officers, with about 40 men, 

 from the battalion of the Constantina Fusiliers. This small 

 corps was intended to form the nucleus of a new battalion, 

 to be raised from among the tribes in the environs of Bis- 

 cara. The new recruits opened the gates of the Casbah 

 during the night to Mahommed Seghir, the Kalifat of Abd- 

 el-Kader, and his followers, who surprised the men in their 

 sleep, and killed all but one. Plunder became general, 

 and 7000f., left with the Commandant to pay his men, 

 and all the cannon, muskets, ammunition, and other 

 stores, were carried off. This unfortunate affair is said to 

 have encouraged the surrounding tribes to take up arms. 

 In the Chamber of Deputies last week this revolt and 

 massacre was discussed. Marshal Soult read two 

 despatches from the Due d'Aumale, describing the affair, 

 and throwing the blame of it on the two officers who had 

 been its victims, and whose neglect or want of caution 

 would certainly appear to justify the accusation. The 

 National, however, regards the charge as ungracious, 

 disingenuous, and unfair on the part of the youthful 

 General, and, coupling it with the late narrow escape of 

 his Royal Highness from being made prisoner, argues 

 against intrusting a command so important to a young 

 man of his inexperience. Marshal Soult in the debate 

 officially confirmed the fact of the Emperor of Morocco 

 having declared a " holy war" against France. He said, 

 in substance, that, driven from Algeria, Abd-el-Kader 

 had sought a refuge in a part of the desert called the 

 neutral territory — that he had since entered the territory 

 of Morocco, stirred up the tribes of that empire, and 

 inflamed their religious fanaticism to such a degree that 

 the Emperor, unable to resist the impulse he had given 

 his subjects, had proclaimed the " holy war." The 

 immediate result was, that the Moors had gathered, 

 to the number of twelve or fifteen thousand, in 

 front of the French posts at Outjda, and that a part of the 

 French Army had immediately been marched to that 

 quarter. — The Paris papers still abound in speculations on 

 the visit of the Emperor of Russia to this country, of 

 which they still speak with singular bad temper, and 

 seize with avidity every paragraph to be found in the 

 London Journals conveying an idea unfavourable to the 

 popularity of that monarch in England, or tending to 

 encourage the belief that his reception had been cold and 

 discourteous. They very complacently assume that the 

 Emperor came to London to put the finishing hand to 

 his favourite plan for delivering from Mussulman domi- 

 nion the entire of the Christian states still subject to the 

 Sultan. That Queen Victoria should have had the inde- 

 licacy to entertain the Emperor and her Majesty's other 

 illustrious guests, in the hall of Windsor Castle, bearing 

 the name of Waterloo, is dwelt upon with peculiar force 

 by the liberal portion of the Paris Press !— On Saturday 

 King Louis-Philippe gave a fete at Versailles to 1500 of 

 the expositors of national industry, which went off satis- 

 factorily. The guests assembled at half-past five in 

 the picture-gallery of the Museum, and were allowed an 

 hour and a half to view its treasures. At seven the doors 

 of the theatre were thrown open, and all were admitted, 

 without distinction of places, the simple mechanic 

 in many places occupying the boxes, while the peer of 

 Francewas glad to take refuge in the pit. The King, 

 Queen, the royal family, all the Ministers, with the 

 exception of Marshal Soult, a great number of the mem- 

 bers of both Chambers, with other functionaries, were 

 present. Immediately after the entrance of the royal 

 family the performance, which consisted of (Edipe a 

 Colone, the Favorite, and a part of the Muetde Portici, 

 commenced. Between the acts refreshments were 

 handed round to the guests, and at the termination of the 

 spectacle, after loud cries of " Vive le Roi," "Vive la 

 Rcine," the party broke up.— M. Charles Lafiitte, who 

 had bee;: a fourth time elected for Louviers, has again 

 been unseated, the Chamber having once more decided 

 that he was unduly returned. — Sir H. Hardinge, the 

 new Governor of lnd'a, had arrived in Paris, accom- 

 panied by his son and aide-de-camp. He landed at 

 Dieppe on Sunday, and immediately started for Rouen 

 and Paris, from which place he was to go direct to 



Marseilles The King of the French has presented our 



countryman, Mr. Balfe. with a gold medal, value 4000 

 francs, in acknowledgment of his consideration of the 

 composer's talents, but particularly for the merits of 

 the Puits a" Amour produced last season at the Opera 

 Comique. His Majesty has a ! so presented a gold med 

 to Mr. Moore, for the sculptures sent by him to the 

 Exhibition in the Louvre for the present year. 



Spain.— We have accounts from Madrid to the l(Hh 

 inst. The decree annulling the tobacco contract has 

 been sent to Barcelona for the royal approbation, and 

 there appears to be no doubt that her Majesty will sign 

 it, as the contractors themselves do not appear unwilling 

 to give up a contract which, if en r orced literally, would 

 probably turn out a doubtful speculation. The effVct of 

 the measure will, however, according to * he S c ^ ri f 

 opinion, be the retirement of M. Mon and M. lida, 

 should some means not be found to soothe the capital- j 

 ists, who have taken alarm at the new measures of the 



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Finance minister. Letters from Barcelona of the 2nd 

 inst. contain a full account of the reception of the Royal 

 Family in that city. Their Majesties landed at 10 p-m, 

 at Barcelonetta, where they were met by Baron de Meer, 

 the Captain-General, General Pavia, the Governor, who 

 presented to the young Queen the keys of the city, and 

 by the authorities of the principality. They then entered 

 an open carriage, drawn by six horses, and proceeded to 

 the cathedral, where a solemn Te Deum was sung. It 

 was midnight before the Royal party reached the palace. 

 At the first announcement of her Majesty's approach, 

 300 young men of the town proceeded with torches in 

 their hands to the quay, where they embarked in boats, 

 and awaited in two rows the approach of the Queen. 

 The effect of these two long lines of light on the water 

 when night fell was beautiful in the distance. Montjuich 

 was also illuminated, and the appearance of the flames 

 on the waters below is described as grand in the extreme. 

 — An agent of the Neapolitan Government, charged with 

 the mission of demanding the hand of the young Queen 

 for the Prince of Trapani, was expected to arrive in the 

 next packet from Marseilles. It was even reported that 

 the Prince himself would visit Barcelona during the stay 

 of the Court. On the other hand, an agent of the Prince 

 of the Asturias, the son of Don Carlos, had reached that 

 city some days before. 



Germany. — A letter from Trieste, of the 3d of June, 

 announces that the Duke of Angouleme died at Goritz 

 on that day. The Royal Duke has been for a long time 

 in a state which left no hope of his recovery. One of 

 the Paris papers says that the French Court will go into 

 mourning on the occasion. — A letter from Cologne of the 

 5th says that the Queen Dowager of England had 

 arrived in that city, and was to proceed the following 

 morning to Mayence in the Victoria steamer. — On the 

 25th May the little town of Medeback, in Westphalia, 

 was half destroyed by a terrible conflagration. All the 

 public buildings and above 200 houses are reduced to 

 ashes. — The King of Hanover has created a new dis- 

 tinction, in honour of 50 years' military service, and 

 given it the name of the Cross of Ernest Augustus. 

 The first officer who receives this cross is H.R.H. the 

 Duke of Cambridge. — A letter from Frankfort says — 

 11 Baron Anselm de Rothschild having withdrawn the 

 donation of 100,000 florins (260,000 f.) promised by him 

 two years ago for the erection of a new synagogue in 

 this town, because the Consistory of Frank tort thought 

 fit to introduce into the religious ceremonies certain 

 forms which the Baron could not approve of, several 

 organs of the German press have interpreted this act, 

 which was dictated only by a pure scruple of conscience, 

 as an act of intolerant fanaticism. This reproach, how- 

 ever, is shown to be unfounded, by the fact that at the 

 very moment of withdrawing his promised donation, he 

 invested double the sura, or 200,000 florins, in the public 

 funds, which, by a legal and public instrument, he 

 secured in perpetuity, so that the interest might be dis- 

 tributed annually among the indigent families of Frank- 

 fort, whatever form of worship they might follow." 



Italy. — A letter from Leghorn of the 4th inst. states, 

 that the political state of Italy is becoming daily more 

 disturbed, and especially that of the Roman States. 

 Several persons of rank, who were compromised in 

 the late events in that country, have been obliged 

 to emigrate. Prince Piombino, Prince Doria Pam- 

 phili, and several others, have been obliged to leave 

 Rome, aud have arrived at Leghorn.— The papers 

 state that the Papal Government has addressed a 

 note to the Cabinets of London, Vienna, and Paris, 

 on the subject of the late disturbances in its ter- 

 ritories. The note declares that there has been no 

 real cause for political discontent, and that the dissatis- 

 faction is chieflv to be ascribed to the machinations of 

 anarchists in France and England. The Journal of the 

 Two Sicilies announces that several steamers left Naples 

 on the 21st ult., with troops destined to relieve the 

 garrisons of Sicily. The railroad between Torre dell 

 Annunciata to Nocera, by Pompeii, Scafati, Angn, and 

 Pagani, has just been opened to the public. The King 

 was present at the inauguration. 



Russia.— Letters from St. Petersburgh (23d ult.) 

 state that the departure of the Emperor had taken every 

 body by surprise, and excepting to those few who were 

 aware of his Majesty's intention, the disappearance of 

 the Imperial flag from the winter palace was thought to 

 denote that the Emperor had left for a few days for 

 Moscow. The papers state that the Emperor has con- 

 ceived the project of connecting St. Petersburgh, by 

 means of a gigantic railway, with Odessa and the shores 

 of the Black Sea. The line, which would extend to the 

 length of 1000 miles, has to pass over Ostrow, Witepsk, 

 Nojatshef, Kiew,and Balta — an undertaking unparalleled 

 in history. It has often been argued that the extent of 

 the. Russian empire is too great, that its capital lies too 

 far north, and that even the northern and southern parts 

 of the empire are of too heterogenous a nature, prevent- 

 ing any real political or social amalgamation. These 

 assertions are supposed to have suggested to the Empe- 

 ror the idea to connect the opposite poles of his great 

 empire by this line of road. It is stated that the im- 

 mense sums required for such an undertaking are to be 

 raised by a foreign loan, the guaranteed interest of wtuco 

 however is to be less than five per cent.— A ^ etter nment 

 St. Petersburgh, of May 26, state* that the Governm ^ 

 has granted to M. Pasnilau, a merchant of low ^ 

 authorisation to establish steamboat* .w &i£" f • i 

 Lake of Baikal, and the rivers Ab, Tobol L sh Jemssel 

 and Lena on condition that £. boats ** commence 

 plying before the end of the year. .*.** j 

 steamers introduced into Siberia. 



