Aug. S,] 



THE NEWSPAPER. 



[1844. 



*&\)t ^tfajspaper. 



SATUR DA F, A UG UST 3 , 1844. 



VICTORIA LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY.— 

 Trustees. 

 Sir Jas. Duke, Aid., M.P., Chairman. 

 p Benjamin Hawes, Esq., Deputy Chairman. 



Benjamin Barnard, Esq. | Charles Baldwin, Esq. 



Peculiar advantages are offered by this Company. Thus— 

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 secure, notwithstanding the life assured may go out of the 

 limits of Europe, without the necessary permission of the 

 Directors having been previously obtained. 



Credit of half the premiums for the first five years allowed on 

 policies effected for the whole term of life. 



On policies of five years' standing, half the amount paid, after 

 the first year's premium, may be borrowed thereon by the 

 Assured. 



Advances made to assurers on real or undoubted personal 

 security, for terms of years, re-payable by instalments. 



Attention is particularly requested to the detailed prospectuses 

 of the Company, which may be obtained at the Ofiice, 18, King 

 William. street, City, or by letter, addressed to the Secretary. 



Willi am Ratbay, Actuary and Secretary. 



■17XTIRPATI0N of all kinds of VERMIN.-Office, 



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 MEIER, practical chymist, patronised by Her Majesty the 

 Uueen, H.R.H. the Duchess of Kent, the Royal Agricultural 

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 and by special appointments to the principal Courts of Europe! 

 negs to inform the nobility, gentry, merchants, agriculturists, 

 ^powners, and the public generally, that he continues to 

 114&ANSE, by contract, from one to five years, every descrip- 

 tion of PROPERTY, of rats, mice, moles, weasels, moths, fleas, 

 ougs, &c, and as a guarantee of the efficacy of his preparation, 

 respectfully refers to the certificates of his great success at 

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 ralace, Frcgmore Lodge. Carlton Club House, Mansion House, 

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 granaries, breweries, farms, wharfs, &c, in proportion. Cau- 

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Kf tos of tljg E2a«ft. 



p. The arrival of the Vindictive frigate from South 

 America and the Pacific has put us in possession of 

 recent information from Tahiti, which is likely to have 

 an important influence on the question of the French 

 protectorate. It appears that from the time when the 

 French authorities at Tahiti dethroned the Queen and 

 assumed the absolute sovereignty of the island, down to 

 the period when the French Government disavowed the 

 acts of those officers," several months intervened, during 

 which the grossest indignities were offered, not only to 

 Queen Pomare* and her chiefs, but also to our Consul, 

 Mr. Pritchard, and other British subjects. So flagrant, 

 indeed, were these outrages, that Lord Aberdeen on 

 Thursday, in the House of Lords, stated that if he had 

 not received an authentic account of the transactions, 

 they would have appeared to him almost incredible. 

 Queen Pomare was compelled to take refuge in a small 

 vessel of war : the English officers were obliged to be on 

 board at 8 p.m. ; the island was declared in a state of 

 siege ; our Consul was seized by the French soldiers in 

 open day, dragged like a convict through the streets, and 

 thrown into prison. Notices were published announcing 

 that the Consul's property was answerable for all damage 

 done to the French establishments, and that *' if French 

 blood were spilt, every drop should recoil upon his 

 head.* After several days imprisonment, Mr. Pritchard 

 was surrendered to the captain of one of H.M.'s steamers, 

 on condition that he was not aga : n to land in the Society 

 Islands : this steamer conveyed him to Valparaiso, 

 where he embarked in the Vindictive frigate, and he is 

 now in England. Sir R. Peel in the House of Commons 

 on Wednesday, and Lord Aberdeen in the Lords on 

 Thursday, announced in very decided terms, that the 

 Home Government, on hearing of these proceedings, lost 

 not a moment in making such representations to France, 

 as will ensure a full and satisfactory atonemen^or the 

 outrage. Lord Aberdeen said he had r.o douWthat it 

 would be welcomed as a godsend by the enemies of 

 peace, but he had reason to believe that by the exercise 

 of a spirit of justice and moderation, it would lead to no 

 serious consequences. — The accounts from Algeria are 

 still indefinite, but a few days must decide whether the 

 mediation of this country will be accepted. — From 

 Germany we learn that the greatest excitement has been 

 produced at Berlin, by a desperate attempt to assassinate 

 the King of Prussia, but providentially without effect. At 



the moment that his Majesty, on his journey to Krd- 

 mansdorff, in Silesia, entered his carriage, in which 

 the Queen was already seated, for the purpose of 

 driving to the railway terminus, a madman fired 

 both barrels of a double-barrelled pistol at him. 

 One of the balls missed altogether, and the other, with- 

 out wounding, only left a slight trace on the breast of 

 his Majesty. The Queen escaped the imminent danger 

 by having, at the moment, accidentally leaned forward ; 

 and in this way the ball, which otherwise would have 

 inevitably hit the Queen, passed behind her. Their 

 Majesties, notwithstanding this event, proceeded on their 

 journey to Erdmansdorff, where they arrived in safety. 

 The assassin was instantly arrested, and with a great 

 deal of exertion was saved from the rage of the populace, 

 and committed to the watch-house. He has been iden- 

 tified as a former Burgomaster of Storkon, and he states, 

 as the motive of his crime, that several petitions for 

 another appointment had been without effect. He has 

 been committed for trial, and so strong was the feeling 

 of indignation excited by the event, that the magistrates 

 of Berlin resolved to have a public thanksgiving for the 

 preservation of the King's life, in all the churches of the 

 capital, on the following Sunday. This melancholy at- 

 tempt will probably occasion the postponement, for a few 

 weeks, of the intended visit to this country of his Royal 

 Highness Prince William Louis of Prussia. — From 

 Greece also we have accounts of a supposed attempt to 

 assassinate King Otho. A maniac was seized in the at- 

 tempt to force an entry into the Palace with a drawn 

 sword in his hand, and was stabbed by the sentinel after 

 a vain attempt to arrest his course. The precise object 

 of the intruder is not, however, known, but there is no 

 doubt of his insanity. — The overland mail from India 

 has arrived with accounts from Bombay to the 19th 

 June. The affairs of the Punjaub have undergone 

 little change since the defeat and death of Ittur 

 Singh, and the report of a projected gathering of 

 a large army on the Sutlej had been contradicted. 

 The abrupt recall of Lord Ellenborough had pro- 

 duced a great sensation at Bombay, 'from which place 

 alone intelligence has reached us. It was not known 

 there what course Lord Ellenborough intended to 

 adopt. The news of his recall is supposed to have 

 reached him on the 14th or 15th, and it was expected 

 that he would at once embark in the Bentinck, then on 

 the point of starting for Suez. It was supposed by 

 others that his Lordship would await the arrival of Sir 

 Henry Hardinge. The meeting of the Beloochee Chiefs 

 at Hyderabad passed over quietly. The accounts from 

 China come down to May 1, but the news is chiefly of a 

 commercial character. 



At home, the proceedings of Parliament have 

 been mostly of a routine character, if we except 

 the debate on Captain Warner's invention, and on 

 the French aggressions in Tahiti, for the details of 

 which we must refer to our Report. In regard to 

 the Irish trials, it is announced that the Judges 

 will not all be in town until Friday, the 23d inst.; 

 their lordships shortly afterwards will have a meeting to 

 consider the questions propounded to them by the House 

 of Lords, and it is generally expected that judgment in 

 the case of Mr. O'Connell and the other traversers will 

 be given either on the 29th or the 30th inst. As before 

 stated, when the public business of Parliament is brought 

 to a close, both Houses will adjourn from time to time, 

 until the judgment on the writ of error is pronounced, 

 and until then there will be no formal prorogation. 



Hem* Nefos. 



Court. — Her Majesty, Prince Albert, the Prince of 

 Wales, and the Princesses, are quite well, and continue 

 at Windsor Castle. Her Majesty and Prince Albert 

 have taken their accustomed airings during the week, 

 both on foot and in an open carriage. The Prince on 

 Monday inspected the battalion of his regiment, the 

 Scots Fusilier Guards, stationed at Windsor. On Wed- 

 nesday, the Queen Dowager, who left town for Bushy 

 Park on Monday, paid a visit to the Queen and Prince 

 Albert, accompanied by Prince Edward of Saxe Weimar, 

 and, after partaking of a dejeuner, returned to Bushy in 

 the afternoon. The Queen Dowager visited the Exhi- 

 bition of Frescos and Sculptures in Westminster Hall on 

 Saturday, and the Exhibition of the Royal Academy on 

 Monday. The visitors to her Majesty this week have 

 been the Earl of Aberdeen, the Duke of Wellington, Sir 

 R. Peel, the Earl of Jersey, and the Countess Wratislaw. 

 —The Countess of Dunmore has succeeded the Countess 

 of Mount Edgcumbe as lady in waiting ; the Marquis of 

 Ormonde has succeeded Lord Rivers as lord in waiting ; 

 Mr. Ormsby Gore has succeeded the Hon. Capt. Dun- 

 combe as groom in waiting ; the Hon. Col. Grey has 

 succeeded Col. Buckley as equerry in waiting ; and the 

 Hon. Misses Hamilton and Stanley have succeeded the 

 Hon Misses Paget and Liddell as Maids of Honour in 

 waiting on Her Majesty. Maj.-Gen. Wemyss has suc- 

 ceeded Col. Bouverie as equerry in waitiDg on Prince 



Albert. 



The King of Saxony.— On the evening of Tuesday, 



the 23rd, His Majesty arrived at the Argyll Hotel, In- 



verary, where he dined. Next morning, after breakfast, 



His Majesty was waited upon by Mr. Robertson, 

 Chamberlain to the Duke of Argyll, who accompanied 

 His Majesty and suite through the picturesque pleasure 

 grounds of his Grace. After the party had visited In- 

 verary Castle, they proceeded to the top of the neigh- 

 bouring hill of Dunquaich, where there is a beautiful 

 view of the surrounding scenery, with whic'i His Majesty 

 expressed himself highly gratified. Having returned to 

 the hotel, His Majesty and suite soon after entered their 

 carriages, and proceeded by Dalmally to Oban, where a 

 steamer was in waiting to take the Royal party to the 

 islands of Staffa and Iona. After remaining on the 

 islands some time, His Majesty proceeded to Fort Wil- 

 liam, where he passed the night. 



Death of the Earl of Mountnorris. — We regret to 

 announce the death of George, Earl of Mountnorris, at 

 his seat, Arley Castle, on the 23rd ult. His lordship 

 was born in 17C9, and was the sole surviving son of 

 Arthur, first Earl of Mountnorris, and eighth Viscount 

 Valentia. The Earl married, in 1790, the Hon. Ann 

 Courtenay, daughter of the second Viscount Courtenay, 

 by whom he had issue, George Arthur, the late Viscount 

 Valentia, who died without issue, in 1841. The earl- 

 dom becomes extinct ; but the viscounty and other 

 honours devolve on Arthur Annesley, Esq., of Bletch- 

 ington-park, Oxon, and the estates in England and 

 Ireland descend to the Earl's nephew, Arthur Lyttelton 

 M'Leod, Esq., of Broad was- court, Worcestershire. As 

 Lord Valentia, the late Earl of Mountnorris became well 

 known in the literary world some years ago by his 

 u Travels in the East," and other works. 



Parliamentary Movements. — Viscount Villiers, son 

 of Earl Jersey and son-in-law of Sir R. Peel, has come 

 forward as a candidate for Cirencester on the Conserva- 

 tive interest, in the room of Mr. Master resigned, and 

 he will probably be returned without opposition. 



jForcip. 



France. — The celebration of the fetes of July com- 

 menced on Saturday by masses for the slain in all the 

 churches of Paris. Extraordinary precautions were 

 taken to preserve the tranquillity of the capital. The 

 troops were confined to their barracks ; the guards were 

 doubled, and the principal forts placed under the com- 

 mand of officers of the staff. In the quarter of the 

 Municipal Guards the men were ready to take arms or 

 mount their horses. The rounds of superior officers 

 were incessant ; the Prefecture of Police had received a 

 considerable reinforcement of Municipal Guards and 

 police agents, and the garrison of the Chateau of Neuilly 

 was trebled at nine o'clock in the morning. Notwith- 

 standing these precautions, the three days passed off 

 without any kind of disturbance ; but an accident of a 

 melancholy kind occurred on Monday, a number of per- 

 sons having been trodden under foot by the crowd, of 

 whom three lost their lives. — The principal article of 

 intelligence from Algiers is the telegraphic despatch from 

 Marshal Bugeaud, announcing a new attack from the 

 Moors, their defeat, and the pursuit of them to the dis- 

 tance of three days' march beyond Ouchda by the troops 

 under his command. Some discrepancies, however, have 

 been noticed between the Marshal's despatch and that 

 communicated by the French telegraph, and they cannot 

 be cleared up until the receipt of fresh intelligence. 

 Some of the opposition papers avow the object of France 

 in the Morocco war to be the overthrow of the Mussul- 

 man faith, and the establishment of Christianity in 

 Northern Africa. The Presse observes, that the fleets 

 of England, France, Spain, and Denmark, will soon be as- 

 sembled on the coast of Morocco. " Spain," it says, * de- 

 mands of the Emperor satisfaction for one of those inter- 

 national crimes, which all the nations of the earth regard 

 as the most odious violation of the law of nations — the 

 murder of an accredited agent. Denmark requires the 

 abolition of the tribute, which is still paid to Morocco 

 by several northern Powers, and to obtain protection for 

 the persons and property of their subjects against piracy. 

 France, in fine, demands reparation from the Emperor of 

 Morocco for the most flagrant violation of treaties, for 

 the most brutal and least justifiable aggression against 

 the peace and territory of her African possessions. But 

 what has England to do in this quarrel— what brings her 

 to Morocco ? Her object is very evident— she is going 

 there to protect Islamism and barbarism. She will take 

 care that Spain, in punishing the violation of the sacred 

 right of Ambassadors ; that Denmark, in abolishing by 

 force the insolent tribute imposed upon her subjects by 

 pirates ; that France, in avenging the violent; attempts 

 directed against the security and integrity of her terri- 

 tory, should not strike sufficiently strong to prevent the 

 renewal of such acts. She is, in a word, going to coun- 

 teract, as much as she can, the interests of civilisation 

 and the designs of Providence upon Africa ! " One or 

 two other papers observe that the excessive heat now 

 prevailing in Africa must render all land operations most 

 difficult, and that the heavy rains that will most probably 

 follow, will secure impunity to the Moors until next 

 year, unless a blow be struck on the coast of Morocco. 

 —The Prince de Joinville and his squadron had left 

 Gibraltar, where they had been received with royal ho- 

 nours, and arrived at Cadiz on the 15th. On the I / ib, 

 a French steamer had arrived in the bay from 1 an- 

 glers, with despatches for the Prince, and two nours 

 afterwards the fleet got under weigh, and P^eae 

 to the coast of Africa-it was supposed to ' J an «^ 

 The departure of the fleet was so P~»P' " d " „S 

 that several French Officers were left on *°^™J 

 had to follow the fleet in a H. earn tf£ «««* J* 



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