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THE NEWSPAPER. 



considerable time alter his departure. His Majesty wa- 

 attended by his suite, Mr. M' Donald, of the hotel, acting 

 as the cicerone of the party. Mr. Brown, chamberlain 

 to the Duke of Hamilton, accompanied his Majesty from 

 Hamilton. Before 8 o'clock, his Majesty whs on his way 

 to Balloch, where he was to spend theni^ht. On Tues- 

 day morning the King proceeded up Lochlomond, and 

 thence, it is understood, to the Nortn of Scotland. 



Prince Frederic of Prussia. — It is understood 

 that Il.lt 11. Prince Frederic William Louis of Prussia, 

 brother of the King, and heir-apparent to the Prussian 

 throne, is expected on a visit to Iter Majesty in the early 

 part of next week. On account 'of Her Majesty's ex- 

 pected accouchement His R >yal Highness will take up 

 his residence at the mansion of Chevalier Bunsen, the 

 Prussian Minister, who returned on Monday last from 

 Berlin, for the especial purpose of receiving the Prince 

 in Carlton-terrace. His Royal Highness will probably 

 be present at the Goodwood races. 



The King of the French. — It is well known 

 that King Louis-Philippe has promised to pay Her 

 Majesty a visit this autumn. The Ministerial papers 

 now stHte that His Majesty will embark at Treport, in 

 September, for tins country. His Majesty will be ac- 

 companied by two ships of 74 guns, and four or five 

 steamers, and will land at Portsmouth, whence he will 

 proceed by railway to the station nearest to Windsor. 

 His Majesty will remain eight days at Windsor, and will 

 not visit London. 



Pensions on the Civil List. — The following pensions 

 have been granted during the year ending June 20th 

 last : — Lady Bell, 100/. a year, in consideration of the 

 services rendered to science by her late husband, Sir 

 Charles Bell ; Miss Ann Drummond, in consideration 

 of the public services of her brother, the lamented Ed- 

 ward Diummond, Esq., assassinated by Macnaghten, 

 200/. ay^ar; Robert Brown. Esq., the botanist, 200/. 

 a year ; Lady Sale, wife of the hero of Jellalabad, 500/. 

 a year ; and Sir W. Rowan Hamilton, the Astronomer 



Royal for Ireland, 200/. a year— making, altogether, 

 1200/. per annum. 



JForn'gn. 



France. — The Chamber of Deputies terminated on 

 Thursday the discussion on the budget of expenditure, 

 which was voted by 201 against 5i). They afterwards 

 adopted, without any opposition, the Bill authorising 

 M. Aruoux to execute at his own expense the Paris and 

 Sceaux lailroad ; and another granting a sum of 

 1,800, OOOf. for an experiment of the atmospheric system 

 on the portion of the Chartres line which is to cross the 

 plain of S«iorz. The Chamber had previously adopted 

 the amendment of M. Salvandy and others, who had pro- 

 posed tt at the University tax, which produces annually 

 about l,600,000f., should cease to be levied after the 1st 

 of January, 184 .*>. Another amendment, equally import- 

 ant, mo ved by M. Gamier Pages, was also carried, 

 allowing the Minister of Finance to negotiate the loan 

 for 300,000,000 of francs by way of subscription, as in 

 Belgium. The Chamber of Peers adopted on Saturday 

 without ameudment, the Bill for authorising the con- 

 struction of a railroad from Paris to the Belgian 

 frontier, and to the British Channel ; and the Railroad 

 Bill from Paris to Rennes. The Session is now fast 

 drawing to a close, and so far as the Deputies are con- 

 cerned it may be considered as already at an end. By 

 the time the Peers have disposed of the Bills before 

 them, the Session will probably have lasted seven 

 months. The Dtbats pronounces it a most laborious 

 one, and perhaps, the most fruitful Session since 1830, 

 owing to the number and importance of the Bills that 

 have been passed. The same Ministerial print reckons 

 at 30 the smallest majority the Cabinet have had on any 

 great political question. — A telegraphic despatch from 

 iiayonne of the IStb, states that H.R.H. the Prince de 

 Joinvilie arrived in the roads of Gibraltar on the 

 evening of the 8th in the Pluton steamer. His Roval 

 Highness proceeded to Tangiers on the 9th, and in 

 the evening, on Ins return, paid a visit to the Governor- 

 General. He was received with the utmost distinction 

 by the authorities of Gibraltar, and by the inhabitants, who 

 crowded around him. A telegraphic despatch of the 

 10th from Tangiers announces that " A letter from the 

 Pacha of Larache declares, in the name of the Emperor, 

 that the Prince disavows formally the aggression of the 

 15th June, and that he has ordered his son to expel the 

 guilty from the ranks of the army, by dismissing the 

 principal chiefs." Accounts of a different nature, how- 

 ever, have been received from Algiers to the lCth by the 

 Ville d* Bordeaux steamer, which arrived at Marseilles 

 on the 18th. At the time when she left Algiers it was 

 Bot known that the Prince de Joinvil!e, with his fleet, 



i u . o for Tan S iei-s - ^ was said in Algiers that 

 Marshal Bugeaud intended to follow up his attacks upon 

 the Moors by more decisive measures; and a subse- 

 quent despatch from the Marshal's camp states, that, 

 having been provoked by fresh aggressions, he had 

 already routed and pursued the Moors for some distance 

 beyond Ouchda. It was also reported in Algiers, in 

 opposition to the general opinion as to the Emperor 

 of Morocco's pacific dispositions towards France, that 

 after the affair of the 15th the Moors were supplied 

 with reinforcements from Fez, and it was expected 



that an appeal to arms would soon take place. The 



Revue de Paris confirms the statement of our own 

 ministerial pa; ers, that the visit of Louis-Phi- 

 lippe to England is definitively fixed for the end of 

 September. Jt adds that Queen Victoria will not 

 eceive his Majesty in the Isle of Wight, 



was originally intended, but at Windsor Castle. — 

 Some of the Paris papers state that the Ministry 

 are preparing to make a new batch of peers. None of 

 the members of the present Chamber of Deputies will be 

 among the number, but the names of several who were 

 formerly deputies, and some general officers, are men- 

 tioned as likely to be promoted. Among the names men- 

 toned is that of M. Victor Hugo, but his advancement 

 to the peerage seems doubtful. — The old Irish in France 

 are gradually dying off: a letter from Paris announces 

 the death on Wednesday last, of Colonel Charles O'Neill, 

 of ihe late 27th Regiment of the Line, and which had, 

 before the Revolution of 1789, been known as Walshe's 

 Regiment, or the Irish Brigade. The same letter refers 

 to the demise of Colonel Terence O'Reilly, at Evreux, 

 Normandy, and contains interesting memoirs of both 

 officers. — The Post-office of France received in 1843, 

 114,200.000 letters, 3 200,000 of which could not be de- 

 livered, or were refused. The 111.000,000 remaining 

 produced 41,509,200f. The post-office, moreover, dis- 

 tributed 60,000,000 printed sheets, which produced 

 2, 400. 000f.— in all, 43,969, 200f. 



Spain. — Accounts from Madrid, of the 18th, state 

 that a most painful feeling has been created throughout 

 the empire by the recent barbarous executions at Sara- 

 gossa. The Government seems determined to create 

 excitement as an excuse for its acts of aggression. It 

 appears that, without a shadow of reason, the Cnptain- 

 General of Aragon had proclaimed that province in a 

 state of siege, and commenced operations by dragging 

 Don F. Lagunas, the former commander of the National 

 Guards of Saragossa, and two other citizens, before a 

 military tribunal, under pretence of their having been 

 parties to the death of General Esteller more than six 

 years ago. These unfortunate men were condemned, 

 and immediately shot. Other executions no less atro- 

 cious hid taken place at Caspe. In June three Carlists 

 and two smugglers were arrested in that town, on their 

 return from France, and their trial before the territorial 

 tribunal was fixed for the 12th inst. On the 30th ult. they 

 were informed that the Minister of War hadordeied them 

 to be shot, and they hastened to address a p- tition to the 

 tribunal, in which they claimed the protection of the 

 judges, and placed themselves under the safeguard of the 

 laws. A letter from Caspe, of the 9th, thus describes 

 their fate : — M Yesterday morning," it says, " a detach- 

 ment of 20 infantry and 9 cavalry arrived here from Al- 

 caniz. The three unhappy Carlists were removed from 

 their dungeons and enjoined to confess, and at 12 o'clock 

 they were shot. The judge opposed, by every lej^al 

 means, so flagrant an injustice, but what can the tribu- 

 nals do in presence of bayonets? One of the three suf- 

 ferers, Pajares, died without confession, and Christian 

 burial was denied to bis remains." The Heraldo, of the 

 13th, stntes that the province of Almeria is declared in a 

 state of siege, and the only reason given is, that a few of 

 the lower classes had been heard to utter seditious cries. 

 The Government papers are filled with accounts of pre- 

 tended conspiracies and depots of arms. — M. Viluma was 

 to resume the post of Ambassador in London, and Count 

 de Colombi had been appointed Charge d* Affaires in 

 Brussels. — A letter from Gibraltar of the 5th mentions 

 that the steamer Vesuvius, which sailed on the 26th ult. 

 from Mogadorwith Mr. Hay, Consul-General of England 

 at Tangiers, had returned to Gibraltar. The Consul was 

 to proceed from Mogador to the residence of the Em- 

 peror, and there was reason to hope that his mis-ion 

 would be successful, although the Spanish Government 

 had declared their intention to attack and occupy Tan- 

 giers with a force of 10,000 men. The Dutch squadron, 

 commanded by Prince Henry of Holland, reached 

 Gibraltar on the 6th, in fourteen days from Plymouth. 

 — Letters from Barcelona of the 14th inst. announce the- 

 arrival in that harbour on the 13th of H.M.S. ship For- 

 midable, 84, bearing the flag of Admiral Sir E. Owen, 

 and the brig Aigle, 24, from Malta. Both vessels on 

 arriving, fired the usual salute, which however was not 

 returned from the shore, and the Admiral having applied 

 to the Captain-General for an explanation of this slight, 

 was informed that, according to the naval ordenanzas of 

 Spain, where the Sovereign was residing no salute could 

 be returned to the representatives of any nation. The 

 Formidable again set sail on the 16th for Gibraltar. 



Portugal. — We have advices from Li»bon of the 

 17th. The Government had been compelled to enter 

 into arrangements with its creditors, being unable to 

 meet its engagements on the 15th inst., and those it had 

 to meet for the next three months. It had therefore 

 called together its creditors, and demanded a renewal of 

 the bills falling due at the periods referred to. Con- 

 siderable difficulties arose and were surmounted, and the 

 bills were finally renewed to the amount of 600 contos ! 

 Our countryman, Mr. Tozer, is still in strict imprison- 

 ment ; 95 days have elapsed since he was placed in cus- 

 tody at Coimbra; and though sent to Lisbon for trial, 

 he has not yet been placed under the jurisdiction of the 

 British Conservatorial Court. 



Germany.— Letters from Coblentz of the 12th state 

 that the King and Queen of Prussia are expected to visit 

 that city for some time during the autumn, and that they 

 will reside in the Castle of Stolzenfels. Preparations 

 are making for their reception in the palace and gardens. 

 The Queen will previously go to Ischl, for the benefit of 

 the waters, and then to Munich, where the King will 

 join her and accompany her to the Rhine. — A Frankfort 

 journal publishes an account of the population of Prui-s'a. 

 from which it appears that, in Prussia Proper, and all 

 the Stares under the Prussian Crown, the number of in- 

 habitants in 1840 was 14,934,340. This number, how- 

 as it ever, must have increased considerably since 1840, for, 



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after Enaland and Ireland, Prussia is, it is~sluT7r f 

 state of Europe in which the population increases a*t 

 rapidly.— A letter from Trieste says that the Emperor tf 

 Austria is expected in that city on ihe 2o»a rjf 

 August ; but that there is no truth in the report 

 that the Pope is to be there to meet him. Serious 

 riots had occurred in Prague in consequence of the 

 Jewish manufacturers reducing the wages of their 

 workmen 50 per cent, as a means of retaliating on the 

 n ~ -rnment for lowering the duties on foreign° cottons, 

 workmen on the railroad had also some cause for 

 dissatisfaction against the contractor ; and the two classes, 

 of labourers united, burnt the houses of the Jewish 

 masrers, and would have attacked the town, if the Gover- 

 nor had not called out the whole garrison. The mob be- 

 came furious at the sight of the troops, and destroyed 

 the chimney of the Guard-house, upon which the troops 

 fired upon them ; and out of nine persons wounded two 

 have died. A letter from Dresden states, that since the 

 recent troubles at Prague, letters arriving at Dresden 

 from Bohemia are almost all opened by the authorities, 

 and resealed with the imperial arms. — The Wurtzburgh 

 Gazette observes, that the late debates in the Britisi 

 Parliament relative to the violation of the secrecy of cor- 

 respondence fully account for the accurate information 

 obtained in England respecting the proceedings and re- 

 solutions of the Customs' Commissioners assembled at 

 Sf»rtgard in 1842, and for the Times publishing the 

 tariff of the Customs Union a month before it officially 

 appeared in Germany. 



Bklgium. — A letter from Antwerp, dated the 16th 

 inst., informs us that the dike of Lille has again given* 

 way. An inhabitant of Lille has sent a short notice of 

 it to the Brussels papers ; he says: — "This morning at 

 10 o'clock, the part of the new dike made after the ac- 

 cident of the 3d of last month gave" way ; this breach is 

 exactly like the first, and at the same place. This event 

 is extremely unfortunate, and has caused general con- 

 sternation here. It is doubtful, after what has happened, 

 whether the works for restoring the dike can be con- 

 tinued this year. 



Switzerland. — The great federal shooting meeting 

 at Basle is concluded. It is calculated that the number 

 of carabine-shots fired was at the least 250,000 ; and, it 

 is said, on the Sunday, no fewer than 21,000 bottles of 

 wine were drank in a few hours. The list of all the 

 prizes would fill many columns. There were three grand 

 prizes of the respective value of 3780fr., 2400fr., and 

 2100fr. — the first being won by Col. Hunerwald, of 

 Lemburg, in Argau; the second by M. Benzinger, of 

 Appenzel ; and the third by Lord Vernon, who obtained 

 his naturalisation in Switzerland, in order to have the 

 right of competing. His Lordship is said ro have made 

 a vow that he will not leave Switzerland until he has won 

 the first prize. His skill has excited so much jealousy 

 in the country, that a citizen of Appenzel, named Kohler, 

 one of the most renowned marksmen in Switzerland^ 

 h*d recourse to a most unworthy trick to gain the supe- 

 riority over Lord Vernon. By giving a heavy bribe, he. 

 seduced a marker to put down to him mauy more hits 

 than he actually made. The fraud, however, was dis- 

 covered : M. Kohler was obliged to leave Basle imme- 

 diately, and, by a council of the Federal Carabineers, he 

 is disqualified from ever shooting again at any public 

 match. The marker, who broke the oath he took to 

 mark justly, has been arrested, aud will be tried. 



Russia Letters from Elsinore and Copenhagen, of 



the 15th, state that a Russian fleet of 13 ships, includ- 

 ing 8 line-of-battle ships, has suddenly made its appear- 

 ance in the Sound. It is under the command of Vice- 

 Admiral Count Platen. It is said that the fleet will 

 proceed to the north, to meet the new ship of the line, 

 the New Ingermanland, built at Archangel, instead of 

 the Ingermanland which was wrecked last year. It IS 

 said to have the Grand Duke Michael on board : other 

 accounts say the Grand Duke Constantme, who, as 

 High Admiral, will take the command of the squadron, 

 which will be joined by the Aurora frigate on her return 

 from London.— Letters from K.ssengen announce the 

 approaching arrival in this couniry of that celebrated 

 statesman and diplomatist, Count Nesselrode. His £X- 

 cellencv being recommended by his phjsician a course 

 of sea-bathing after the course of saline waters, has tixea 

 upon Dover or Brighton for the purpose; but it is con- 

 sidered probable that it will be the former place. 



lTALY.-The Augsburg Gazette of the 10th contains 

 a long communication, giving an account ot the plan* 

 formed by the Italian conspirators; one part ot wmen, 

 that relative to Naples, has so recently failed in i Cala- 

 bria. The main point explained is, that a grand con- 

 spiracy exists, which had its agents at Vienna, rani, 

 and London, principally in the last, for uniting all tne 

 different States of Italy into one great 8 ov / rninen * 

 whether Royal or Republican was left for future con 



sideration. The Pope and the ^^f.^Z^eld 

 mantled, the King of Naples sent adrift, the several 

 dukedoms to be dispensed with, the kingdom or lob 



bardy freed trom Austrian authority ; >V h ? * tk. first 

 Government of Italy was to be established. Ihe nr 

 attempts at revolution were to be made at Bologna ana 

 in Calabria J but both failed, because 1* r f v *™°J t0 

 undenaken to advance money m Lnglan", 

 fulfil rheir engagements. The paper goes on to say t 

 the conspiracy exists now only m name J nd «" 

 persons at the head of it are determined to wait tor » 

 more favourable occasion. The same paper *^ tes 

 Lieut. Moro, one of the conspirators in the , rtce 

 attempt was not killed as reported, bottom , pn-onw i 

 the two sons of Admiral Bandiera, and hat ^8^ 

 Naples has granted a pardon to several of tne 



