Aug. 3,] 



THE NEWSPAPER. 



[1844. 



derstanding had taken place between the crew of one of 

 those vessels and that of a French frigate, and that this 

 was the motive of the Prince de Joinville's sndden move- 

 ment ; but this report naturally requires confirmation.— 

 The debate in the House of Commons on the motion of 

 Mr. Sheil could not fail to be noticed with great eager- 

 ness by our Paris contemporaries. The Journal des 

 DibaU of Friday says: — "This debate, after all, was 

 little more than a family squabble. Whigs and Tories 

 mutually reproached each other with not having pro- 

 tested against the retention of Algeria by France. The 

 "Whigs say to the Tories, ■ It is you who have spoiled the 

 business. You acknowledged the Government of 1830 

 without demanding the evacuation of Algeria, and re- 

 mained four months in power without making the least 

 remonstrance.' The Tories retort upon the Whigs : ' It 

 well becomes you to accuse us of negligence ! Did not you 

 remain 11 years at the head of affairs, from 1830 to 1841, 

 without making any protest ? Did you not give your 

 tacit assent to the conquest of France during the whole 

 duration of your Ministry ? How can we, after your 

 long silence for 11 years, ask the Government of Louis- 

 Philippe to perform the promise of Prince Polignac ? ' 

 From these recriminations, it is evident to us that 

 neither Whigs nor Tories wish to take the lead in this, 

 but leave to each other the ungrateful task of making 

 protests which they know must be perfectly ineffective*" 

 The debate in the House of Lords, on the 25th ult., on 

 the Slave-trade, has also excited much attention. Most 

 of the papers advert to the statement which the Earl of 

 Aberdeen made, in laying before the House the instruc- 

 tions drawn up for the guidance of the naval officers 

 employed in the suppression of the Slave-trade. His 

 Lordship's observations respecting the co-operation of 

 France are viewed with displeasure by the Opposition 

 prints, several of which infer that M. Guizot has done 

 little towards realising the wish expressed by the 

 Chamber of Deputies as to the revocations of 1831 

 and 1833, and that the right of search stands just as it 

 did before the ratification of the treaty of 1842 was pre- 

 vented. — M. Castellan, who had arrived in Paris some 

 days since, bearing a modest proposition from the 

 State of Nicaragua, that France should interfere in the 

 dispute between it and Great Britain, and take Nicaragua 

 under her protection, had not up to Wednesday evening 

 received from M. Guizot a reply to the extraordinary 

 demand he had been commissioned to make of the French 

 Government, but it was rumoured that he would apply 

 to Belgium in the event of his receiving a refusal from 

 France. — On Saturday the Chamber of Peers passed the 

 Paris and Strasburg Railway Bill. In the course of the 

 discussion several amendments were proposed, but they 

 were all rejected, and the whole Bill as introduced by 

 the Government was ultimately adopted, by a majority 

 of 73 to 31. In consequence of the quantity of business 

 still remaining for consideration before the Chamber of 

 Peers, the Parliamentary session cannot, it is said, be 

 officially closed before the 5th of August. — The King 

 and Queen of the Belgians and the two Princes, their 

 sons, left Paris for Compiegne on Saturday, and were 

 expected at Brussels on the 29th. It is understood that 

 the arrangements for King Louis-Philippe's visit to 

 Queen Victoria are almost entirely settled. The King 

 and Royal Family will leave Neuilly, for the Chateau of 

 Bizy, immediately after the close of the session. They 

 will go from thence to the Chateau d'Eu, where they 

 will arrive about the middle of August. His Majesty 

 will remain at the Chateau d'Eu till the 12th or 15th of 

 September, when he will embark from Treport for Eng- 

 land. Although the day is not exactly fixed for the 

 King's embarkation, the hour of his embarkation is. In 

 order that his Majesty may arrive at Portsmouth before 

 mid-day, it is arranged that he should leave Treport at 11 

 at night. The King will take his passage in a steamer 

 of war, and will be attended by three other steamers and 

 three ships of the line. At Portsmouth, King Louis- 

 Philippe will be received by the whole of the navy sta- 

 tioned there, with all the honours due to his rank as 

 King of the French. With the least possible delay his 

 Majesty will take his departure by the South Western 

 Railway for Windsor Cistle. At the station nearest 

 Windsor her Majesty's carnages will be in attendance to 

 convey his Majesty and his suite to their destination. It 

 is understood that the King will not visit London. He 

 is to remain at Windsor five days, and will return to hi3 

 own dominions by the same route of Portsmouth and 

 Treport, so that the whole extent of his absence from his 

 own dominions will be eight days. A letter from St. 

 Omer announces that his Royal Highness the Duke de 

 Nemours left that place on the 24th for Metz, afcer 

 reviewing the troops of the garrison. 



opain— Advices from Madrid state that very great 

 S?Jv M • c ee L Q 6Xcited b y the Precipitate departure on 



WiLwH* I'*? 2 ,° th ° f the Ministers of ^ance and 



" b / d l , ake ? th « ro "» ^ Barcelona. The cir- 



cum-tance had made the deeper impression, as it was be- 



™7hVl?^ <*uit Barcelona 



%L !fJ V gU ' ?nd t0 retUrn 5n »™«Hatelj to the 



«T*'f t V m0U : C °T tUre8 and "Ports on the subject, 



some of them of an alarming nature, were afloat. Perl 



sons usually well informed, affirmed that serious discord 



had arisen in the Cabinet in consequence of the recent 



. executions at Saragos^a, and that the Members of the 



Administration stationed at Madrid had held a council 



in which the immediate departure of MM. Moa and 



Mayans had been decided upon, it being hoped thai their 



presence might restore harmony. It was still expected 



that their Majesties would quit Barcelona on the 8th or 



10th, and return to Madrid by Valencia, aud not bv Sa- 



— **gossa^ as } ad hpp p nt fW said. 



cautions were still daily adopted in the capital. Patroles 

 watched every quarter, and the Post-office was con- 

 stantly guarded. A bando had been issued by the Com- 

 mandant-General of Logrono on the 15th, whereby that 

 province is proclaimed in a (l state of siege." As usual 

 in such cases, a military commission is to condemn to 

 death all such as shall be in possession of fire or other 

 arms, conspire against the throne, &c. The Clamor 

 Publico observes, respecting this decree, that all Spain 

 will soon be once more proclaimed in a state of siege, as 

 Barcelona, Saragossa, Teruel, Almeria, and many other 

 places already are. On the 1 ltb, the Prince de Joinville 

 and Prince Henry of the Netherlands were at Gibraltar. 

 On the 15th, the French Prince entered the port of 

 Cadiz with three ships of the line, a frigate, and three 

 war-steamers. 



Portugal. — The financial difficulties of Portugal 

 amount to a state of national insolvency. The Govern- 

 ment, unable to meet its engagements, has convoked its 

 creditors and solicited a renewal of its bills. In the 

 meantime, some of those bills appear to have been pro- 

 tested, and paid immediately after. One instance is 

 mentioned of a Government bill of 225/., passed in part 

 payment of a loan, being tendered after it fell due and 

 dishonoured. It was presented in payment of duties 

 at the Custom-house, in accordance with the express 

 terms of the contract, specified on the face of the bill, 

 and was refused by the director of the Custom-house. — 

 The suppression of newspapers, and prosecution of 

 their editors, seem to occupy the chief attention of the 

 Government. The Tribuno, after five prosecutions in 

 a fortnight, was suppressed. The Revolucao has been 

 likewise suppressed, and the editor of the Palriota sent 

 to gaol. Mr. Tozer, the British subject, who has been 

 100 days imprisoned, was placed, on the 23d ult., under 

 the jurisdiction of the British Judge Conservator, and by 

 his order received on that day a notification of the 

 accusation against him. In thus keeping him incarce- 

 rated, deprived of the privileges to which he was 

 entitled as a British subject, and the protection which 

 the criminal laws of this country afford to its own sub- 

 jects, this gentleman has undergone a very severe 

 punishment before trial or conviction. Mr. Tozer still 

 remains imprisoned, not having been admitted to bail. 

 — The government journal has lately published an 

 abstract of the census of the population, &c. of the 

 kingdom, taken in 1841, which represents the latter to 

 be 3,396,972; number of habitations, 840,928; births, 

 105,306; deaths, 64,523; marriages, 23,390; parishes, 

 3746 ; dioceses, 13 ; patriarchate, 1 ; electoral.colleges, 

 8 ;~civil governments, 17. 



Germany. — A despatch reached Paris on Tuesday 

 stating that " On the 26th ult., at the moment when the 

 King of Prussia was about to set out on a journey, an 

 assassin, named Tscheck, burgomaster at a little village 

 some leagues from Berlin, fired a pistol. The ball 

 glanced off the King's breast, without doing him any 

 mischief. The King continued his journey, and the 

 assassin was arrested." At first this account was 

 scarcely credited, but we regret to say that it is too true, 

 and that his Majesty's escape was almost miraculous. 

 The following is the official account published by the 

 Privy Council at Berlin on the 26th :— « Their Majesties 

 the King and Queen intended this morning at 8 o'clock 

 to commence their journey, first to Erdmansdorf, in 

 Silesia, and afterwards to the watering-place Ischl. The 

 travelling carriage stopped in the porch of the palace, 

 and her Majesty the Queen, after first having received a 

 petition from a poor woman, who was waiting for that 

 purpose, took her seat first. His Majesty the King fol- 

 lowed ; and at the very moment that he took his seat, 

 and the footman was stooping down for the purpose of 

 turning up the steps, a man from among the surrounding 

 crowd stepped forward close to the carriage, and fired 

 two shots from a double-barrelled pistol in quick succes- 

 sion against the carriage, which at that very moment was 

 starting. His Majesty at once stopped the carriage, and 

 showed to the anxiously-surrounding crowd, by throwing 

 back his travelling-cloak, that he was not hurt, thanking 

 the people at the same time for the sympathy they 

 exhibited, and then ordered the carriage to drive on, 

 and continued his journey on the Frankfort railway. 

 On arriving at the terminus of the railway, it was 

 found, upon closer inspection of the carriage, that 

 both balls bad actually* penetrated the carriage, and 

 therefore it must be considered as a special grace of Pro- 

 vidence that the illustrious travellers remained unhurt. 

 The assassin was arrested on the spot, and was with 

 great difficulty saved from the rage of the populace before 

 being commuted to the criminal prison. There he stated 

 himself to be (and was identified as such) the late Burgo- 

 master Tscheck. He is 56 years of age, and was for- 

 merly a merchant, afterwards Burgomaster at Storkow, 

 in the Kurmark, which situation he resigned in 1841, 

 after having been censured several times on account of 

 his misconduct. Since then he generally redded at 

 Berlin, and petitioned the different departments for a 

 new appointment, which, however in the absence of any 

 just claims, could not be granted. A similar petition to 

 his Majesty was likewise refused last year. He has 

 always been known as a very violent and passionate man. 

 At his first examination before the Police Court he 

 unhesitatingly admitted his crime, and stated as a motive 

 the rejection of his petitions, declaring, at the same time, 

 that he had committed the act without communicating 

 his intention to any person whatever. His trial will 

 commence forthwith. We thus fulfil our sad duty in 

 brinainar before the public notice a crime fortunately 



with the deepest sorrow, but will at the 



., >lL t . , „ — 8ame time 



inspire them with thanks to Providence, which so 



mercifully interposed in protecting the beloved couple 

 from such imminent danger, and thus saving the country 

 from a loss which would have been irreparable. Privy 

 Council, Berlin, July 26,1844."— The King of Prussia has 

 addressed a circular to the principal authorities of his 

 kingdom, stimulating their zeal in favour of the poor 

 and suggesting numerous associations, which may have 

 for their object the mitigation of their sufferings and the 

 guarantee of their future welfare. A letter from Berlin 

 states that the Prussian Government has come to a reso- 

 lution to abolish imprisonment for debt in all cases.^ 

 The King of Prussia's visit to the Imperial Court of 

 Austria, which several Paris journals have asserted would 

 take place in the middle of this month, is by no means 

 certain yet. — A Frankfort paper announces that the 

 arrival of the Queen of Greece in her own native land 

 may be expected very shortly ; and adds as a certainty 

 that her Majesty never intends to return to her hus- 

 band's dominions ! This, to say the least of it, appears 

 very problematical. — The accounts from Bohemia de- 

 scribe that country as being still in a very disturbed 

 state. More than 20,000 troops are at present concen- 

 trated at Prague. At Brandeis, the garrison of which 

 has been removed to Prague, the people assembled and 

 broke the windows of the synagogue, but without doing 

 further mischief. — A letter from Dresden states that 

 some disturbance took place on the 20th ult., amongst 

 the workmen on the Saxo-Silesian railroad. They were 

 paid for their work as had been agreed on by contract, 

 but they found the sum too small, and about a hundred 

 entered the city, and collected in front of the house of 

 the contractor. The next day the same scene took place, 

 but with the addition of some disorders, a tavern having 



been pillaged and torn down The Weser Gazette states 



that the Austrian Government has opened negotiations 

 with the different German states, with a view to the 

 establishment of a perfect and uniform monetary system 

 throughout Germany. — The Globe mentions a report 

 that the British Cabinet has obtained an important con- 

 cession from the Austrian Government, viz., the reduc- 

 tion of a penny in the pound on the duty on cotton 

 threads. 



Italy. — A supplement to the Journal of the Two 

 Sicilies of the 13th ult. contains the sentences passed by 

 a military commission upon 76 persons who took part in 

 the movement at Cosenza in March last. There are 

 among them 21 condemned to death, 10 to 30, and 12 to 

 25 years' hard labour. The same journal, of the 15th, 

 announces that six of the individuals condemned have 

 been executed, and that the King has commuted the 

 penalty of the others into perpetual hard labour. The 

 military commission is now engaged in trying the persons 

 implicated in the attempt recently made in Calabria by 

 the refugees from Corfu. It would appear, however, 

 that the leaders of the expedition, including the two sons 

 of Admiral Bandiera, have not yet been captured, as a 

 proclamation has been recently circulated in Calabria 

 offering a reward of 1000 ducats for the head of Ric- 

 ciotti, 800 for that of Bandiera, and smaller rewards for 

 the others engaged in the expedition. A letter from 

 Naples of the 16th July, states that the third son of the 

 King of Naples, the Count de Castro Giovanni, is dead. 



Greece. — Accounts from Athens of the 10th ult. 

 state that very few of the elections are yet terminated, 

 but those that are so, show a majority in favour of the 

 Government. The country continues perfectly quiet, 

 and, when the elections are terminated, it is believed that 

 all will go on peaceably. The immense harvest just 

 gathered in, and the high prices likely to be obtained 

 this year for most articles of produce, are all in favour ot 

 the Government. The weather has been and continues 

 intensely hot.— On the 7th ult., an onomatarch, or ser- 

 geant of gendarmerie, made a distuibance in King ucno jj 

 new palace, which created a belief that he intended to 

 assassinate his Majesty. The man very nearly lost ms 

 life by his conduct. He attempted to enter the palace 

 by a private door in the garden, and being rC8 Jf te< *?' 

 the sentinel, drew his sword, and forced his way thrown. 

 The sentinel followed, and stabbed him with his nay one* 

 in the corridor. One of the Queen's ladies of honour, 



Frrnmrd in. , UlltU now unknov ™ in the history oi Prussia, and which 



^Atraordinary P re "< will fill the hearts of all his Majesty's faithful subjects 



hearing a noise, opened her door, and the corporal M iim 

 her feet bathed in blood. He was taken to the hospital, 

 and is expected to recover. It appears that he ^ aa ""* 

 him a paper, supposed to be a petition to the Jung, 

 praying for a compensation for some losses he ****** 

 tained in an unfortunate speculation in land, ana tn« 

 was his intention to murder the King, if this extiaTagant 

 demand had not been complied with ; but on opening 

 the paper it was found to be a rhapsody about A exanae 

 I the Great. When he first presented himself at the door 

 by which he gained an entrance, he set up a shout o 

 "Long live Alexander !" The affair has attracted great 

 attention, and many at first supposed that it was a 

 attempt to assassinate the King, but there is now no 

 doubt that the man is a monomaniac. . te 



RussiA.-Letters from Elsinore o the 23J ult. state 

 that tfcussian new line-of-battle ship, ^ew Inge rman 

 lan.i.lfving on board the Grand Duke Constant me, 

 rived on the previous night in those roads irom Area 

 a „gel ; the fleet, which still remained windbound wa, 

 proceed to the North Sea with sealed orders, and rumw 

 Ls that it will enter the English Channel. The Buss an 

 war-steamer Kamtschatka also came to anchor at 

 game time ; she has a crew of 250 men, and carne- 

 howitzers, with 2 pieces throwing 961b. b?»ow »bot ^ 

 The Augsburg Gazette says that a courier . ar " 

 Kissingen on "the 22d from St. Petersburg with ^ le 

 for Count Nesselrode, which gave the most aiar 



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