THE NEWSPAPER. 





A letter from Rome 



from the 



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Li 



T ; SX.* atoTto canonize the late Prin- 

 ** th Fh? daughter of the Earl of Shrewsbury, 

 fcrgnese, the <°* a S she cannot> however, be 



_ died four years g ^ gi { 



^^^fo'erdeaT-The King and Queen of Naples 

 M ton >e of her om their voyage to Lampe- 



« liTed "1 ^ere reeeived with the usual honours by the 

 *"! ' "i ^UUry authorities. The Grand Duke o 

 * n \™t "h Schwerin and the Hereditary Prince ot 

 ^eklenburgh hco« is]andj and e t0 gicly. 



ilppe had previous l£ » CoQstantinop i e of the 17th 



TcBKE LTthe Sultan returned to that capital m the 

 ijjjt. state that the sun. The ^^ from Albania contlnU ed 



yoomingoftbeiuiu. d . acouraged by their late 



|4,» be fa'ourable. in . incipal ch iefs and pro- 



defeats, an th •»£«£ had dispersed in every direc- 



'&rsof«be>o»«^ n '^ tl SXoo«plrtn»--" 



«Hjton, and the Ottoman ar , & had arrived at C 



, ^the »™t* *££ Reamer from Salonica, and were 



.i^Ununop e »»*«££ " , tbe seraskier, untU the Supreme 



?n fined » the P™» pronounced on their fate 



Conned o J »>»« »\__ An intermediate mail has arrived 

 jj" India anb China. and frQm Ca , 



"Vi.h account s om Bo *W £> ^ ^ 1(Rhf and 



-ottato the lltH Jway, sru- T?„»i a «.i 



ssession 

 on- 



n» •— - . .. ^ ^ f rom England 



« 'IT S V^^ reached Bombay on 12th May. The 



K° ft 'tna in^e P l igence relates to the state of the Punjaub 

 principal < ntei,1 6™ c o distracted than ever. A 



feff-tXe taken place on the 7th 

 k * uZ between Heera Singh, the present Prime Minister 

 an/he party of the sons of Runjeet Singh, who are 

 - ana " ' J . by Ittur Singh, a chief of con- 



In September last, when Ajeet 



* opposed to him, led on by Ittur Singh, a chief of con 



lerable influence. — — r , - , 



dered the then King, Shere Singh, and 



bfcl 



its 



Mnghhad murdered the men xyug, ^ ^.. 6 ~, -»- 



the Prime Minister Dhyan Singh, he was himself slain 



in a fight with Heera Singh, who avenged the death of his 



father Dhyan, by ordering all the family of Ajeet to be 



V- butchered. One boy of nine years was allowed to- live, 



- and an uncle, named Ittur or Utter Singh, escaped into 



kli the Sikh states, protected by the British. After seven 



*» months' residence, he went back on the 30th April, and 



to* joined the party under Cashmeera Singh and Peshora 



V Singh, both sons of old Runjeet Singh. They proceeded 

 tah to attack Heera Singh, and a bloody conflict took place, 

 H.* in which Heera was said to ir.tve been wounded. 

 ? & Ittur Singh was considered by some of the partisans 

 ISwcb of Heera as being supported by the British, and 

 fa - they therefore have threatened to invade the terri- 

 1 pup tories of the latter, to revenge themselves on those 

 iba who had countenanced the proceedings of Ittur Singh. 



The threatened movement of Ackbar Khan on Peshawur 

 *• hi had not taken place. The position of his father, Dhost 

 M»* Mahomed, was by no means satisfactory ; his age, infir- 

 * inities, and the complicated state of the affairs of Cabul 

 «p would, it was thought, induce him to resign his sove- 

 reignty into the hands of Ackbar. The news from 

 Scinde extends to the 16th May. Sir C. Napier was 

 busy in making preparations for the meeting of the 

 Beloochee chiefs, which was to take place on the 24th 

 May, when it is said that upwards of 17,000 of them 

 would attend, each having an unarmed attendant. 

 Thirty thousand men assembled to deliberate would pre- 

 sent an odd appearance. The disturbed state of the 

 Punjaub is calculated to hasten the movements of the 

 British Indian armies in that direction. The attempts 

 lately made to corrupt the fidelity of the British sepoys, 

 and the large sums sent to Ferozepore and its vicinity 

 (170,000/.), have excited a strong wish for punishing the 

 unprincipled chiefs of Lahore. The large force of 

 80,000 men was therefore ordered, and it was thought 

 Lord Ellenborough and Sir C. Napier would undertake 

 the conquest of the Punjaub, the former as a diplomatist 

 and a politician, and the latter as a general.— The direct 

 news from China comes down to the 26th March, but 

 adds nothing to the facts already known. Further intel- 

 ligence had been received at Bombay from China, just 

 before the departure of the mail, by way of Calcutta. It 

 is to the 10th April, but is still destitute of political news. 

 Cape of Good Hope — Accounts from the Cape re- 

 ceived this week allude to the new trade in guano which 

 » now occupying the attention of the colony. It would 

 appear by a letter dated April 9, from Ichaboe, one of the 

 guano islands near Angra Pequena, that the trade in that 

 commodity was brisk and extensive, no fewer than 37 

 ▼easels being at the time loading at one of the islets. A 

 number of natives from the main land had just come on 

 waru tor the first time, being about 20 in number, and 

 nappearance very wretched. There was a talk of gold 



ishmA ° r °/ e containi ng gold, being found on these 

 d*S L*T *' ? considerable quantities of such property were 



V ve«PU SL been sbi PP e <* by some of the masters of 

 tiH Drinrin.ii i i gU , ano was ' however, the merchandise 

 5* St^ 1 7 )ked t0 « 0ne of the Cape publications 

 > traffic NnT S y ° n th « subject of the newly introduced 



to be cll\* q , Ua [ ter - The g™™ business is thought 

 ^ ahf £5 K°- f u d ° in ' ^ch for the mitigation of the 

 Vsrt'^ ,UU exists on the south-west coast. 

 , _. Web STATEs.-The Caledonia steam-ship has ar- 



Pre- 



.9? i «* exneot»A S F ro P osal f or the annexation of Texas was, 



^ the vote? fn;^l^l n the Senate ' tbe na y s bein * ^ 

 T/ A inform til u, but 16 ' To explain their decision, and 



i^ by the Prl ? . 0f their motives, the papers furnished 

 *.# 2. , Resident were m- " 





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 sa»r 



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of troops and dispatch of fleets. A message 

 President on the subject had been sent to Congress, 

 stating the part he had taken, commenting on 

 the observations of Lords Aberdeen and Brougham 

 in the*4House of Lords on the subject, and call- 

 ing on the House to adopt steps to procure 

 annexation.. The message was moved to lie on 

 the table, but the motion was rejected by 118 to bb.— 

 The President in his message alluding to Lord Aber- 

 deen's speech, says, " That a kingdom which is made 

 what it now is by repeated acts of annexation, beginning 

 from the time of the Heptarchy, and concluding with the 

 annexation of the kingdoms of Ireland and Scotland, 

 should perceive any principle either novel or serious in 

 the late proceedings of the American Executive in regard 

 to Texas is well calculated to excite surprise. If it be 

 pretended that because of commercial or political rela- 

 tions which may exist between two countries, neither has 

 a right to part with its sovereignty, and that no third 

 power can change those relations by a voluntary treaty of 

 union or annexation, then it would seem to follow that 

 an annexation to be achieved by force of arms, in the 

 prosecution of a just and necessary war, could in no way 

 be justified; and yet it is presumed that Great Britain 

 would be the last nation in the world to maintain any 

 such doctrine. The commercial and political relations 

 of many of the countries of Europe have undergone 

 repeated changes by voluntary treaties, by conquest, and 

 by partitions of their territories, without any question as 

 to the right under the public law. The question, in this 

 view of it, can be considered as neither serious nor 

 novel." Several resolutions had been proposed to Con- 

 gress by Mr. Adams and others, but nothing final had 

 been decided.— An arrival from Hayti announces that 

 President Herard had been deposed, and that Guerner 

 Due de Christophe was set up, and had a strong party. 



New Zealand.— We have received accounts from 

 this colony to the beginning of February. The New 

 Zealand Gazette of Feb. 3d alludes to the proceedings 

 of the new Governor, and states that his Excellency con- 

 tinues to give the utmost satisfaction. It says that 

 " despair and indignation have been converted into hope 

 and confidence, and we now rest assured we may now 

 safely predict our new Governor's career will be alike ad- 

 vantageous to the colony of New Zealand, and credit- 

 able and satisfactory to himself. We have been in- 

 formed that his Excellency proceeds this day in 11. M. s 

 ship North Star to Nelson, and that after a short stay 

 there he will return to this place, from which he will not 

 again depart until the land question in this settlement is 

 rendered satisfactory. From all we hear, all the sub- 

 jects connected with the vital question, the land matter, 

 are likely to be arranged immediately, and in a manner 

 equally advantageous to the settlers in New Zealand, 

 and their friends in England. We really believe the co- 

 lonists may now look forward with confidence to that 

 success, the anticipation of which induced them to aban- 

 don England, and make New Zealand their home. 



repealed, this BUI should go down to the House of Commons. I 



conclusion, his Grace said he had not authority to pve her Ma- 

 iestv's consent, and on that ground alone he intreated the Right 

 Reverend Prelates to withdraw their support and let the Bill 



drop. He did not mean again to take the sense of the House upon 

 it If their lordships and the Right Reverend Bench thought 

 nrrmer to nass it, on them he threw the entire responsibility.-- 

 EoTmon?"ao« moved that the Bill be read a third time th^t 

 div six months —The Lord Chancellor doubted whether he 

 could put the questfon of the third reading of the Bill, because it 

 affected not only the prerogatives but the pecuniary interests of 

 the Crown. He had no doubt that the previous consent of her 

 Majesty^ requisite, and suggested the appointment of a com- 

 mittee to search for precedents, and in the meantime the adjourn- 

 mentof tbe"ebate.-The Duke of RicHMOxn .though .no , doubt 

 existed that the Bill could be read a third as well as a second time 

 though on the question that it do pass difficulty might anee. He 

 was readv to vote for the third reading, and if, after due searcn, 

 rhey found a precedent for passing such a BUI without £eon-«t 

 of the Crown, he was not prepared to give «P the Dm -^ « JJJ 

 House.-The Duke of Newcastle accused the Lord ^nwllor 

 of having been guilty of an unworthy manoeuvre in the course he 

 had taken—The Lord Chancellor insisted that the > doubt or 

 his propriety In putting the question had arisen with ^MB £ 

 mind, and not in concert with others » The expre^iflf whi 

 has fallen from the noble duke," replied his »ortship, i al 

 gether unworthy of him, and altogether unwortl > « "*™ 

 myself."-The Puke of Newcastle repeated that he had cer- 



tainlv used the W ord - mar.anr andd n '] ] T* Z'r 



imputing anything personally dishonourable to L..rd L vw > u ™- 



After a discussion in which reat many I J« «^P" -J \™ 



adjournment of the debate was agreed to, and a committee to 



search for precedents was appointed. A K ^ T ,h 



Tuesday .-The adjourned debate on the Bangor and St. .Awpn 



Bishoprics Bill was postponed to Monday next- new i « 



Radnor presented a petition from Lyiuham, A\ > praj mg for 



a repeal of the Corn L .d originated a discission, in which 



LordMKTHUEN, the Duke of Richmond, the Duke ofCiitj 



land, the Bad Of Stradbroee, the Duke of BkaukoRT Lord 



Ashburton, and Lord Beaumont took part. Tto .in I in 



ment was whether or not the rate of ™S es ™^ a '\* f f "' **% 

 nrice of food.-The Earl of Dalhocsie moved the third readlr 



wn 



hich 

 alto- 



pnee 



he Sugar Dutiefl Bill.-Lor.l Monteaole made various- 

 to the measure, but would offer no impediment to it s pre Mk- 

 I.ord Brougham spoke at some length, and ^^^J^ 

 currence to the Bill.-Tlie Earl St. - knt a nd L -r, A v bi r 



ton, said a few words in favour of the \. est Indjes.-The Earl of 

 Radnor and the Marquess of Lansdownk supported the B»lUa. 

 one which went in the direction of free trade.-Ihe Bill was 



then read a third time and passed. , , ^ mlMlm « n the 



TAursday.-Tln Koyal ent was given by commission, to tnc 



Sugar Dutfes Bill, Vinegar Duties Bill, Slave Trade > Treaties , 



Gold and Silver Wares Bill, For. ding A*. Ab litiyn I H, 



parliament. 



HOUSE OF LORDS. 



rrhlm, —The discussion on the Post-office, of which we gave a 

 poft on fn our last was terminated by the Duke of Wellington, 

 who ad^ed that a Lord Radnor intended to bnngthe question for- 

 ward in a subs?antive motion, that the debate should be ^oned 



that time.-The Earl of Radnor then gav e notice fo fnurs 



day of a motion for . -~^&S^^^ 



Z JS'the', S SSon o°n Sorn-liws, suggested the c^hh^t 

 of national Granaries throughout the country.-Lord Monteaole 

 Sered tie suggestion, Ld the speech by whicli i was accom- 

 panied, to be the strongest arguments he had ever neara a aim* 

 Se sliding scale.-The Duke of Richmond said, in hi. n on 

 such a speech as had been recently made by Sii : R. Peel, *** 

 worth ill the cranaries they could establish. The only tmng trie 

 ^S^SSXSSSl as an entire confidence in the Permanency 

 ofSJelSw: Ifthey wanted to V^^jc^y,^^^ 



ion in 

 back 



frnm"theCommoni.-fhe Charitable Bequests (Ireland) Bill passed 

 SS ^commHtee.--The Parishes Scotland) Bill, and the County 



Bates Bill were read a second time. , 



Vond u -The Sugar Duties Bill was read a second time and 



1 ord L Brou'"ham f s ttivy Council Bill passed through committee, 

 fhat portion" oHt whicl related to tin .law of " drrorce and to ^ he 

 appointment of a Vice-President, and to J^" ne J WJ ££» 

 omitted.-Lord Brougham assured the ■ r lordships ; tnat he ne^er 



South Devon RaUway Bill, and several estate and «^f»«° 

 bills -Lord Whaknclikfb having brought up the report ot ttie 

 committee appointed to search for precedents on the «%.gor and 

 St Asanh's Bishoprics Continuance Bill, which reported that they 

 couM discover no precedents, moved the foUow.ng question as 

 StastaStato the'eommittee :-;' Whether jthe BU ft. the pre- 

 vention of the union of the sees of Bangor and St. Asaph belongs 

 to Uiat class of Bills for which it has been the ^usage to ; the 

 consent of the Crown before Parliament ca n J^ '? The in 

 struction, after some discussion, was agreed to.-l he tarlol Rad 

 nor bro ght forward the question of the opening of tetters at he 

 Post-ollice, and moved for a secret committee to inquire into the 

 pr" tic" of'd^laining and opening letteri rt the 1™*g** 

 the 1st Victoria, c. 36: and more particularly into tne circura- 

 slices VnTer which the letters of Mr. Mazzini, ahgraryj aer 

 residing in England, had been opened. The ^ b,e ^ sai ^| 

 had sometimes heard of the " conscience of the State, and ne 

 thought the expression great nonsense when .applied to par- 

 ticular sects and opinions. The conscience of the te, as i ne 

 understood it, was that the Government should take care that they 

 dwSotWng to set an example of immorality. But by this practice 

 Govermnent were setting in example of t hooj reaehery and 

 * .. u rt u~a thn Athpr rtav. received a letter inciosmpr m.ca 



St'U lUlCLCl^ » #sTi >T* A 



™;-S^ n VSrX f o;NKt'Sn- m -c„V officers. HesWd 



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nion of the sees of Bangor and St. Asaph.-Lord\ iviav opposed 

 h BiU hlcaie he believed that neither the people nor the 

 clerev of S cared whether the two bishoprics remained sepa- 

 rate or were united, their only desire being that their revenues 

 should not be diverted from Wales to the much richer district of 

 Shester!-The Bishop of Bangor, on the contrary, main- 

 S i S3 the people and clergv were unanimous in desiring the 

 na sing of th s Bm he therefore gave it his cordial snpport.-The 

 Duke ol Wellington- stated the course the Government had 

 ived to take with respect to this. Bill. He said it affected he 





P. 



j?'' rivprl www r 1UC v^aieuonia steam-snip 



^^t^r±^^ w x° rk to the i5th . ^ it - 



Jr* eHm the trVT P . that tbe Texian statesmen refused to 

 Resident T i annexation tUl they had obtained from 



^e of an p V' 0t ° Mly a I ,romise to Wsmd Texas in 



u expedition from Mexico, but the antnal m«rr»h 



nreroSttive of the Crown in a most important point-one touching 

 the Sation and revenues of the Church-and therefore that it 

 specially required the consent of her Majesty to its discussion. 

 He called on the Right Rev. Bench, however favourable they 

 mfgh be to its passing, to reflect of how ™^f™^lZZ*Z 

 the nreservation of the strict rule requiring the consent of the 

 Crow "to s U ch measures would be to the interests of religion than 

 the carrying of this Bill. A precedent for dispensing with he 

 consent of the Crown in such a ease would much more than 

 eomite rbalance the advantage of maintaining : the ^arate seejrf 

 Rnncrnr and St Asanh. Having explained his formal oojtcuo 

 %& mrihei pVc^s. of this A >l Grace sai d there ,ere so, 

 important arrangements pending on the words «f the Act of W 

 liament which it was the object of the present BIB Jo iqgJU 

 First, there was the establishment of the diocese of f™"'^ 

 next-a very important measure-the aiymentatton of _thc 

 revenues of the sees of St. David and Llandaff; JJ^Sd^g. 

 blishment, under orders in Council, of arch eonries ; and l.k 

 wise of a provision for the parochial clergv in hose diocest 

 These things her Majesty had the power, under ^orde , m Coun^ I 

 to carry into execution. All these arrangements v e «-epcmi * 

 on the ver>- words in the Ad which the present ggJJJKJS 

 repeal, and in order to obtain machinery m substitution lor tnat 



wsgggmssm 



breach of the hospitalities of this coun D • ' _- ch ft ig 



inconsistent with the ^S^iS^SS^ ^ the duty of the 

 the duty of this Go^^^^fJ^e of if he have infofmation 

 Secretary of State to take cognisance ot it n Temarka ble 



that such acts are going on "e™™ g^ rs ^ sm ce 



events in recent times. It is DU ^ * " f( J the invasion 

 preparations were made in this co nntrj nt with 



Sf a neighbounng wnntxyjWas tW ^ ^ be ^ duty 

 the hospitality o the coun ry Qf guch an actj to 



of the Government on the nm ^ know whcther we have not 

 endeavour to present : t . our count , Have we nQt 



^SSSffSS^SS Have we not felt the injury done 



us 



enjoy 



empted 



emptec uou. « f humau con duct which must be mam- 



•xenmted from those » interests of the country, and 



In^tt Governmem are to look on, and do and say nothing, 

 ^n^ho^forVigners strike the blow ?*'-The Marquess of Noa- 

 U tl 1 cularly desired that the inquiry should extend to 

 Ireland P afrkUculous reports had been circulated about the use be 

 hi mad of the power with which he administered the affairs of 

 frelamfwhich an investigation would show had not the slightest 

 r, n n ion -The secret committee, as proposed by the Duke of 

 WeUinSoo, and so r.mended as to extend to Ireland, was agreed 

 to a id the Karls SoMKas, Burlington, and RosaBEn i. the 

 Bishop of London, Lords Cottenham, Cokhbth, ^ 

 Baot'GHAM were nominated.-ln the course o ^ deb ^e : ^ * 

 Abkrdkkn took the opportunity to declare solmnlj^t n 



i any correspondence opened under the auth ^^ 

 cretaryof State had been shown tc »an J g™ 1 g | J on8tr ,tioBS 

 evt . r .-_This declaration was received ^ tu toud dem » ^ 

 of satisfaction. The committee were ' app^ted t*m d 



day next.-The Privy Council Apellate ' ^" f^^yorces having 

 a third time and passed, the clauses relatin 

 been withdrawn by Lord Brolgham. 





