July 13,] 



THE NEWSPAPER. 



dates for the representation of Birmingham, vacant by 

 the death of Mr. Scholeneld : — the son of the deceased 

 gentleman and Mr. Joseph Sturge having come forward 

 on the Liberal interest, and Mr. Spooner on the Conser- 

 vative interest. — Mr. Kelly, a pledged Repealer, has been 

 elected member for the city of Limerick, vacant by the 

 resignation of Sir D. Roche. 



Legal Appointments. — The Queen has been pleased 

 to appoint the following gentlemen to be of Her Majesty's 

 counsel learned in the law — viz. Mr. J. Hodgson, Mr. 

 C. S. Whitehurst, Mr. W. J. Aleiander, Mr. II. C. 

 Hildyard, and Mr. J. Parker. The following gentlemen 

 have been appointed Serjeants-at-law :— Mr. E. Balfour, 

 Mr. J. A. Kinslake, of the Western circuit, and Mr. C. 

 Chadwick Jones, of the Home circuit. 





jForngn. 



France. — The differences between France and Mo- 

 rocco are daily assuming more importance, and from the 

 immense preparations making in the French ports, it is 

 impossible to predict the result. Large bodies of troops 

 are pouring into Algeria, and the whole Opposition 

 press are urging upon the Ministry that France ought to 

 push her conquests into Morocco, and thereby lay a foun- 

 dation for the destruction of British influence in the 

 Mediterranean. The latest accounts from Algiers state 

 that since the action of the 15th no encounter has taken 

 place between the French troops and those of Morocco, 

 and Abd-el-Kader and the Moorish Chiefs have retired 

 with their troops several days' march beyond Ouchda. 

 The Paris papers continue to publish every scrap of news 

 from Africa likely to raise a feeling against England. 

 The Patrie gives an undated letter from Tlemcen, in 

 which it is stated, that at the moment when the French 

 army was advancing from Mascara to Morocco, Abd-el- 

 Kader received fiom Sidi Mahomed, the son of the Em- 

 peror of Morocco, a supply of 601 English muskets, 

 with instructions in Arabic and English how to use them. 

 The letter adds that it is through the Emperor's son that 

 intercourse between Abd-el-Kader and the English 

 is carried on. Considering the well-known com- 

 mercial intercourse between England and Morocco, 

 in which the supply of fire-arms is freely acknowledged 

 to be an important article, it is not difficult to account 

 for the supply of English muskets, with instructions in 

 English for their use. But it is evident that the Paris 

 papers would leave it to be implied that the mus-kets 

 were supplied to Abd-el-Kader by the English Govern- 

 ment, which secretly encouraged the enmity of that 

 celebrated Chief to France. On Friday and on Monday, 

 in the Chamber of Deputies, explanations were de- 

 manded from the Government. On the subject of the 

 war, M. Guizot expressed his anxiety to give every ex- 

 planation. He declared that no cause of war rested 

 between France and Morocco, but that Abd-el-Kader 

 bad taken refuge in the Moorish territory, where he 

 recruited adherents against the wish of the Emperor, who 

 was unable to give France the satisfaction lequired — 

 namely, the expulsion of Abd el-Kader. He further 

 Stated that France had no design on Morocco. It had 

 no intention of extending irs possessions in Africa. 

 He considered that it would be madness to think 

 of further conquest while Algeria was in a state 

 of disorganisation. All that the Government de- 

 manded of Morocco was the disbanding of the 

 corps formed on the frontiers, and the recal and punish- 

 ment of the persons engaged in the attack upon the 

 French. They asked, besides, that Abd-el-Kader 

 ihould be either expelled from Morocco, or sent to the 

 shores of the Atlantic. Their policy had no mystery ; 

 nothing that could not be avowed and proclaimed before 

 their allies and friends, as before the Chambers them- 

 selves. EugUnd no doubt was attentive to passing 

 events in Morocco ; *he had important interests at stake , 

 in that country. The Government had acted towa- ds her I 

 on this occasion as every loyal, enlightened, and serious 

 Government always acJs. They made known to her in a 

 general and perfectly correct manner their views and in- 

 tentions ; they made them known to her, as they 

 communicated them now, with less details than he had 

 given to the Chamber, but they laid before her the 

 whole truth, and assured her that their sole object was to 

 obtain a just reparation and the security of their African 

 possessions. It was their right, and they would enforce 

 it. In the course of the debate, and in answer to 

 a question addressed to him by M. Mauguin, Marshal 

 Soult declared that France had not applied for the me- 

 diation of England to adjust I er difference with Mo- 

 rocco, because she did not stand in need of that medi- 

 ation ; and M. Guizot said, that whenever England 

 should have occasion to appoint another Consul to 

 Algiers she must ask an exequatur from France. The 

 Journals are, of course, fully occupied with the Morocco 

 «*' fnr v ° n l \ C Wini "«n"I side anticipate full suc- 

 t^seonwtrrL he i 0bjeCU ,uted ^ M. O.I«H to be 



dnuhta IZt T t£ haS in View * T ^e Opposition papers 

 douota favourable term naMon r.t !»**«■ ; j »* 



fim»nfr «f „,,»•>„ t ' ,' ot "-he affair, and accuse M. 

 Ouizot of unwarranted boastimr Tr \„ u„ *u 



opinion of moderate t^mS^^i^SZ 



«UI come out of he . ffair tnompWt^T^CoE 

 ,ng latufaction for the attack made a r o n th French 

 troop, on the ronner , 2.11,, b, the saeWof A b d e 1 



.% */£-£& ^ '""-?. " itb . *™ -iroitne.. ob- 



wegian, and Danish vessels, consisting of the Danish 

 frigates Gerien and Thetis, with the steamer Heel a 

 the Swedish frigate Josephine, and the Norwegian 



frigate Freya, is about to sail for Morocco. The 

 Prince Royal Frederic of Denmark embarks on board 

 the Hecla. The English Government are also concen- 

 trating a fleet of line-of-battle ships at Gibraltar, under 

 Adm. Sir E.Owen. — The controversy which the memorable 

 article of the Moniteur, relative to the " dotations," has 

 kindled, is kept up with great spirit by the Opposition 

 prints. It is likely to survive the present session, if, as 

 the JSidcle affirms, the author of the u unfortunate 

 article, whoever he may be, has in 6tore a number of 

 complimentary articles which he intends to publish, not- 

 withstanding the reception universally given to the first 

 part of his demonstration.'' By the National, the 

 electors of France are vehemently exhorted not to let the 

 Deputies return to the capital without instructions to vote 

 against any Bill that may be connected with a Royal 

 dotation. — The Chamber of Deputies last week passed 

 the Paris and Strasburg Railway Bill by a majority of 

 191 to 52, and the Chamber of Peers passed the Orleans 

 and Bordeaux Railway Bill, having previously rejected 

 the article added by the Deputies to the Bill, whereby 

 no Members of either Chamber were to contract for or 

 be directors of any railroad company receiving conces- 

 sions from the state. The Ministry had demanded the 

 rejection of this clause far more vigorously than they had 

 opposed it in the Deputies. The Chambt r adopted on 

 the same day the Bill for changing the locks of the 

 muskets of the infantry into percussion locks. — M. Chas. 

 Lafitte, despite his repeated repulses from the Chamber 

 of Deputies, has again been returned at Louviers by an 

 immense majority, having had 331 votes while his 

 opponent had only six. Since the last election M. Lafitte 

 has withdrawn his offer for the branch railway to Lou- 

 viers ; but it is supposed that some opposition will be 

 made to his taking his seat in the Chamber. — The 

 Chamber of Deputies was proceeding rapidly with the 

 discussion of the budget, of which it has agreed to the 

 principal chapters almost without debate. 



Spain. — Accounts from Barcelona, of the 30th, state 

 that General Narvaez is to take the department of Fo- 

 reign Affairs, which is vacated by the retirement of the 

 Marquis of Viluma. General Mazzaredo has been ap- 

 pointed successor to General Narvaez, as Minister of 

 War. The Government papers continue to fill their 

 columns with rumours of conspiracies, of which they say 

 the Cabinet has information, in different parts of the 

 country. The Heraldo describes these conspiracies as 

 most extensive in Gallicia. The Ghhe says that the 

 principal seats of the conspiracy are the cities of Barce- 

 lona, Saragcssa, and Madrid. Private advices also 

 dwell on this extensive plot, and on the critical situation 

 of Galicia, where terror is said to prevail, and the prisons 

 of Corunna, Santiago, Vigo, and Orenza, are crowded 

 with political prisoners. Several of the journals pub- 

 lish articles or let'ers relative to the difference with Mo- 

 rocco, and represent the quarrel as becoming more and 

 more serious, the Emperor exhibiting greater 'arrogance 

 because he believes that Spain has solicited the media- 

 tion of England. The Cabinet are stated to have or- 

 dered 6000 men to proceed to Ceuta, under the com- 

 mand of General Villalonga, who has just distinguished 

 himself in the Maeztrasgo by shooting a large number of 

 prisoners. It would also seem, by an article of the 

 Ministerial print, that the Government are thinking of 

 seizing upon no less a place than Tangiers. 



Portugal.— We have accounts from Lisbon this 

 week, but politically speaking, they are unimportant. 

 The Duke de Terceira, in addition to his duties as 

 Minister at War, had been charged with the temporary 

 performance of those appertaining to Senhor Costa 

 Cabral, the Premier, and to S. Azevedo, the Minister of 

 Justice : the one being incapacitated by ill health, and 

 the other having resigned his office. The financial con- 

 dition of Portugal was still lamentably bad. Even the 

 allowance to the Queen for the Royal household had 

 only been paid m part for the month of May : and the 

 whole of June was unprovided for up to the 2d of July. 



J A u Y '"7 Th ^ Xi Al '9sburgh Gazette of the 3d instant 

 publishes the following extract of a letter, dated from the 

 frontiers of Italy :_«' The intention of the Italian 

 refugees was well known at Corfu. Every transaction 

 was public, and the different Governments received 

 notice of everything that was passing. The Austrian, 

 Neapolitan, and Roman Consul?, made the most pressing 

 representations on the subject to the British Government 

 „Ll° I" 5 ?°? ld P ersuaJe ifc tbat the refugees had any 



Governor ^f' "S ^ **" the ? ^"^ "»*« thi 



J, V ? d l ° C ° m ^ ** n * he request of the 



Thi fw, n8 : ,S t0 8 , eDd a 8 ' ea ^oat in chase of them. 



Jf «hat h«H ^ 5 ° rmed thdr »*•■*■ Governments 

 of what had occurred, and that so quickly, that the Govern- 

 ments were prepared to receive the Italian refugees on 



anture'd T " V AU ?" iniw *enU have now been 

 c ptured inc^dmg the two sons of Admiral Ban- 



Sms us afp^ Je^B °' ^ i*** '& 

 far .„ , of , f rr * f,nce Jero.xe Bonaparte has precip - 



fineif ll L« f /,' after ,on * "eupying one of the 

 finest palaces of Florence, where he formerly held a 



sort of court The ex- King of Westphalia tool up his 

 residence in the country after the death of his wife the 

 Princess of \\ urtemburg It was at that period that he 



n H ff II X ' tft PrinCe8S M «»iild. f to M. 

 Dem.doff. He then sold his country house, and again 



lived retired at Florence, in the house of the Marchioness 

 Bartolini, to whom, as is generally believed, he is secretly 

 married The Prince s sudden departure is ascribed to 

 financial embarrassment which it is impossible for him 

 to overcome at this moment. The Marchioness has not 

 accompanied him. 



j Greece.— Letters from Athens confirm the report 



OQft. 



that the Emperor of Russia h^vWTe^o^iseTtir 

 stitutional government of Greece, diplomatic rH a .°° 

 are to be renewed with that state. M. Persian! ? 

 part of Russia, has communicated the fact to th ° 

 diplomatique. It is reported that M. Daschkow!? 1 

 consul-general in Moldavia, will g0 to Athens as R„« • 

 Ambassador, and that M. Persiani is recalled ^* lan 

 Turkey and Syria.— Letters from Constanti- i 

 of the 19th ult., state that the departure of her Mai ?' 

 steam frigate Devastation, having on board Mr AT 

 first attache' of the British Embassy, for the" coi!f°°f 

 Syria, has led to the general belief that the long 8e itL°i 

 Syrian question, supposed to have been settled i abo^ 

 18 months ago, is about to be revived, and that anotibr 

 attempt will be made to arrange the differences of th* 

 Maronites and Druses — A short time since a stone fcf 

 from the temple at Jerusalem. Each of the Christ i 

 sects inhabiting the Holy City was anxious to have the 

 honour of restoring it to its place. As they could not 

 agree amongst themselves which should repair the breach 

 Essed Pacha was appealed to, but he referred the d - 

 putants to Nabi Effendi, the superintendent of the Horr 

 Sepulchre. Nabi, anxious, it is said, to please Russia 

 decided in favour of the Greeks, which so displeased the 

 Catholics that they forwarded a complaint to the French 

 ambassador at Constan',inople,who immediately addressed 

 a note to the Porte condemning the conduct of Nabi 

 Effendi, and asserting that France alone had a right to 

 watch over the preservation of the Holy City.— The 

 Turkish government has given an order to forbid the 

 building of the Protestant church at Jerusalem. The 

 Porte had merely tolerated the construction of that 

 edifice, but it had never gi anted a firman authorising the 

 establishment of a Protestant church in the Holy City. 

 Mr. Allison, it is said, has received instructions to 

 inquire into the state of the English see at Jerusalem. 

 — Petronowitch and Wutsitsch, who, since the last revo- 

 lution in Servia, had been in exile at Sistiow, were lately 

 to have received permission from the Porte to return to 

 their homes, but Russia has so effectually employed her 

 influence as to chunge the intention of the Turkish 

 government. 



West Indies.— The mail steamer Thames hasarrived, 

 with accounts from Jamaica to the 9th ult., and from the 

 other islands to corresponding dates. The Jamaica 

 journals of the 8th are extremely indignant at the minis- 

 terial plans for the reduction of the duties on foreign 

 sugar and coffee. The proposed reduction has created 

 considerable alarm in the colony, and various meetings 

 have been held and memorials prepared, deprecatory of 

 so ill-advised and ruinous a measure. — Serious disturb- 

 ances had taken place in Dominica, from the black popu- 

 lation opposing the census which was ordered to be taken 

 on the 3d June, and which they imagined to be a preli- 

 minary step to re-establishing slavery. The negroes in 

 considerable numbers assaulted the enumerators and 

 commissioners, and beat the magistrates who hastened to 

 their assistance. The riot wa* suppressed, and about 

 100 persons were in gaol, waiting their trial. The 

 Governor of the Leeward Islands, Sir C. Fiizroy, had 

 arrived in H.M.S. Inconstant. About eight of the insur. 

 gents were killed and wounded. 200 men of the Royals 

 were dispatched from Barbadoes, under the command of 

 Lt.-Col. Archer, on the inteliigence reaching that island. 

 —From Mexico we learn that the 5th June was fixed tor 

 the extraordinary meeting of Congress, and at that meet- 

 ing it was said that Santa Anna would demand additional 

 powers, to enable him to act towards the United btates on 

 the subject of the annexation of Texa?, which had creaea 

 great excitement in Mexico. Much excitement prewjita 

 among the English at Mexico, in consequence oi an 

 English gentleman, named Lloyd, having been snot 

 through the arm by one of the sentinels at the iaiace, 

 for walking on the pavement before the Palace, a wai* 

 not prohibited to the Mexicans. Our m mister, - • • 

 Bankhead, had immediately interfered, and the sowub . 



as well as the officer on guard, had been P laced . m *V'„d 

 —In Cuba, it is said, affairs are in a most n* ™** 

 state. The prisoners in the jails at Matanzas and [else- 

 where amount to many hundreds. Several mo 

 been shot, and certain English and Americans were o 

 dered by O'Donnel to be tried. The jealousy or 

 English, particularly those from Jamaica, is ° Q 



increase. , . r> rt „i,i»ater. 



United States.— By the packet-ship RocM- . 

 which left NewYork on the 23d ult., we have accountsir 

 New York to that date. Congress had adjourned on 

 appointed day, the 17th ult., without havmgtransac 



any business of importance. The Senate had conn m 

 the nomination of Mr. Cushing, as Minister to .to ; 

 and also that of Dr. Clemens, son-m-law ot a - 

 houn, as Charge* d'Affaires to Belgium. ^ , ^ 

 Thompson, the special messenger to % ex ' c0 ' Anna to 

 turned to Washington ; but the reply of banta . ^ 

 President Tyler, in respect of annexation, had n ^ 

 communicated to Congress, although lt / « rr1 ^, f a me s- 

 the adjournment. On the next day (the l ^ a J n , 

 senger arrived with despatches from Senor «oca ^ 

 the Foreign Minister of Mexico, to General a ^ 

 the Mexican Minister to the United btaK . ^ 

 Spanish journal published in New ^ ork S. M '" s the 

 of these despatches. Senor Bocanegra inw ^ 

 General, in the most emphatic terms, that ' ver0fflen t 

 never assent to the annexation; that the u f the 

 and the nation are immovably determined to ' tioB , 



project and reject all proposals for its com _ ion . 

 whether accompanied or not by offers of ^ s P t e racte d to 

 and General Almonte is authorised and J ns {oa r 

 contradict, in the most formal manner, any a"*^ U 



intimation of a different character. i*e u ~r 



