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THE NEWSPAPER. 



[1844. 



wrong. 



^TTjustice has decided that the Civil Court of 



T r,b r n w /^U^co-Petent to try the Carlist officers at 

 Arragonw. ^ mi utarv were consequently in the 



*"£' The Barcelona papers mentioned, a few days 

 L arrival at Barcelona of a personage of the most 

 **°'n \ r»nk " whom the courtiers had waited on, and 

 S^cS&nJJ. was "very agreeable " This illus- 

 * Tisitor who was suspected to be the Count de 

 l n °ni or soml other royal pretender to the Queen's 

 IT was S :more than M. Munoz, husband of 

 ££n Christina, the lately-created Duke de Rianzares. 

 S?f " lebrated Father Gonzales, confessor to the Queen 

 v Mher whose dismissal from his post had been announced, 

 •rrtadalso at Barcelona, at about the same time as the 

 nnke and the circumstance had excited some sensation 

 ^ Madrid The programme of the Queen's voyage on 

 £r return, has been published in the journals. The 

 court is to leave for Valencia, by steamer on the 12th, 

 remaining there some days, and returning to Madrid by 

 the 22d General Narvaez and M. de Bresson come 

 with the Court. Mr. Bulwer returns via Cadiz. The 

 health of the young Queen is by no means re-established, 

 and it is said that her appearance is that of a person in 

 a confirmed dropsy.— The general junta of the Basque 

 Provinces, in its sitting of the 2d, unanimously claimed 

 the full and entire re-establishment of the Fueros. It 

 decided that a committee composed of seven members 

 out of every district, making forty-two in all, shall be 

 charged to examine the question and give its advice to 

 the junta. In general, these committees only consist of 

 from six to twelve members ; but the gravity of this 

 question appears to have rendered a larger committee 

 necessary.— The Madrid journals, in confirmation of 

 the last advices received from Tangiers by the French 

 telegraph, mention several alarming rumours relative 

 to the quarrel with Morocco, and the Castellano 

 quotes a letter from Puerto Santa Maria, according to 

 which the " French were bombarding Tangiers, the can- 

 nonading was to be heard from Cadiz, the fire to be seen 

 from the watch-tower, and a steamer had left Cadiz with 

 passengers anxious to behold so fine a sight." 



Portugal. — We have accounts from Lisbon to the 

 5th inst They represent the commerce and agriculture 

 of the country as in a state of great depression, the 

 foreign trade gradually falling off, and its internal re- 

 sources labouring under difficulties of a recent origin. 

 The agent of Don Miguel in Lisbon has been sending mis- 

 eives and royal mandates throughout Portugal, which have 

 one good tendency, to expose Don Miguel's pretensions to 

 general contempt. The present Nuncio in Portugal is 

 •bout to be removed, and to be replaced by the late 

 Nuncio at the Court of Naples. — From Madeira we learn 

 that Mr. Jay, the agent of the Court of Bankruptcy in 

 London, had arrived in that island with a warrant from 

 Mr. Commissioner Goulburn for the apprehension of 

 Robert Banister, a bankrupt, who had absconded from 

 &is creditors with a large amount of property in his 

 possession. Mr. Jay, in addition to this legal authority, 

 was armed with such official means as the authorities 

 and Foreign Secretary of this country could supply. He 

 arrived in Madeira on the 24th July, and after expe- 

 riencing much difficulty and opposition from the local 

 authorities, has succeeded in bringing the bankrupt back 

 to London. The property in specie and Bank notes 

 recovered by this procedure, and which is now in the 

 hands of the official assignee, amounts to nearly 3000/. 



Germany. — The official paper of the Prussian 



Wernment contains the following letter from the King, 



dated Erdmansdorff, Aug. 5 :— « I cannot leave the soil 



kr* fatherland » if on ly for a short time, without 

 fk a* P r °nouncing in my own and the Queen's name 

 the deep-felt gratitude by which our hearts are moved, 

 it has been created by the innumerable proofs of affec- 

 ™' Terbal and in writing, which the attempt of the 

 <iotn July has called forth—affection which, even at the 



tS ry A B ?i° ment ° f the crime » haiIed us ' wheQ ,he hand of 

 wie All-powerful had thrown the fatal missile from my 



omit to the ground. Looking up to the Divine 



**I 10ur ' l g° *ith fresh courage to my daily work, to 



» P ete * nat has been commenced, to execute what 



as oeen prepared, to combat evil with new certitude of 



co 2 t0 be 8uch t0 m y people as my high destiny 



com man( j s m ^ find &g ^ affection of my people 



erves. —Accounts from Erdmansdorff say, that their 



on it "!f s , were Perfectly well, and intended to set out 



^nm !• ' for Ischl - The Qneen will remain there for 

 |j™ e . tline ' b "t the King, after stopping only one day, 



on H it° g0t0 Vienna > and to be back at Erdmansdorff 

 ^Qtnel/thof this month. With respect to the pro- 

 ceedings m the affair Qf Tgcheck> we learn that th e 



ine Sf 1 " hav ing freely confessed the fact, and it appear- 



closed' i. he had D0 accom P nce > the investigation is 

 it ma » Duttn at, according to the course of legal forms, 



tmbrh*? a consic,eraDle time before the sentence will be 

 V isned. The Minister of Justice has given directions 



j ... Pf° ,nt a trustworthy guardian for the prisoner's 

 ugftte r> who has been set at liberty.— Sir G. Hamilton, 



rnnrP . Affaires in the absence of the Earl of West- 



oreiand, is negotiating with Baron Bulow, for a treaty 



^prevent the printing of piratical editions of English 



treat. '? Prussia > and vice versd. It appears that if this 

 •£«J should be actually concluded, England will pro- 



SUt, u 8atne mea8Ure t0 tbe other States of the Cus " 



imnort °"' — Tlie Hanoverian papers state that the 

 ineanaT* ! ntei,i S ence is in circulation, that Brunswick 

 New Y W , ,tndraw from tbe Prussian Customs Union at 

 28th oh * day ' 184 5.~Letters from Prague of the 

 ine to Ik ment,oa that the so^lof disorder was extend- 

 tnaVhL worko »en of ft* manufactories in which no 



— The King of Saxony landed at Hamburgh on the 7th, 

 where His Majesty was received with due honour by tbe 

 authorities; and great preparations are making at 

 Leipzig and Dresden, to give him a cordial welcome on 

 his return to his own dominions. 



Italy. — All doubts are now removed as to the issue 

 of the late attempt to kindle an insurrection in the 

 Neapolitan dominions. Of the band of refugees who left 

 Corfu and landed on the coast of Calabria in June last, 

 19 have been captured, and 17 of them sentenced to 

 death. Nine were executed on the 25th ult. Among 

 these unfortunate men were the two sons of Admiral 

 Bandiera, who, in 1840, commanded the Austrian 

 squadron in the Levant. The official Journal of the 

 Two Sicilies has the following paragraph on the subject : 

 — " The second judgment of the Military Junta, sitting 

 at Cosenza, was delivered on the morning of the 24th 

 July. The sentence includes the individuals composing 

 the band of foreign refugees who landed in Calabria on 

 the 16th June last. Seventeen have been condemned to 

 death. The King has ordered the penalty to be executed 

 as regards the leaders and those who had most excited 

 the rebellion. Nine were in consequence executed on 

 the 25th. Their names are Don Attilio Bandiera, Don 

 Emilio Bandiera, Don Nicola Riciotti, Don Anacarsi 

 Nardi, Don Domenico Moro, Giovanni Veperucci, 

 Giacomo Rocca, Francesco Berti, and Domenico Lapu- 

 telli." The two Bandieras and Moro were all three 

 officers in the Austro-Italian navy, and of noble Venetian 

 families. Nardi was an Advocate of Modena, and the 

 nephew of the President of the Revolutionary Govern- 

 ment transiently established there in 1831. The other 

 five were natives of the Roman States. These execu- 

 tions are stated to have made so deep an impression at 

 Naples that the Government had deemed it necessary to 

 adopt extraordinary precautions. — The health of the 

 ex-King of Holland, now the eldest surviving branch of 

 the Bonaparte family, has, it is said, suffered severely 

 from the death of his brother Joseph. 



Malta. — Accounts from Malta state that great ex- 

 citement has been caused there between the Catholics 

 and Protestants in consequence of the Bishop of Gibraltar 

 having united in matrimony in his own church, the Rev. 

 Mr. Camilleri, a converted Roman Catholic priest, and a 

 Roman Catholic widow, who had two children by her 

 first husband, whose relations claimed and obtained, by 

 legal process, the right of educating the children. But 

 her newly-converted husband opposed himself with vio- 

 lence and arms to the surrender of the children, who 

 were required to be delivered over to their paternal 

 grandmother by a sentence of the Civil Court. For this 

 contempt of court he was sent to prison for 20 days. 

 The Bishop of Gibraltar, however, it is represented, in- 

 terceded with the Governor of Malta, and obtained the 

 immediate liberation of the offender, upon payment of a 

 small fine. The Catholic papers contend that Mr. 

 Camilleri ought to have been tried by the Criminal 

 Court, as his crime was one of resistance against public 

 authority, and that his liberation will have a bad effect 

 as a public example ; and that in fact the attribute of the 

 pardon of criminal offences has been abused in this 

 instance by the power that held it. Protestant papers 

 reply that Mr. Camilleri is persecuted in consequence of 

 his secession from the Church of Rome ; and maintain 

 that the Civil Courts of Malta had no right to annul 

 the marriage, and remove the children from the mother's 

 care : that in doing so the Court followed the practice of 

 the French Courts, where the dominant religion is Roman 

 Catholic ; and that such laws are not applicable to 

 British subjects, whose dominant religion is Protestant. 



Russia and Poland.— Advices from St. Peters- 

 burgh reached the Russian Embassy on Thursday, 

 announcing the death of the Grand Duchess Alexandra, 

 fourth daughter of the Emperor, and consort of Prince 

 Frederick of Hesse, eldest son of the Landgrave William 

 of Hesse. The imperial family were prepared for the 

 sad termination of the Grand Duchess's illness, which, 

 it is well known, was the principal cause of the Empe- 

 ror's hasty departure from this country. The young 

 princess, so prematurely cut off, was bcrn 24th June, 

 1825, and was married last September to the Prince 

 of Hesse. The courts of the Hague, Saxe Weimar, 

 Wurtemberg, and Hesse are placed in mourning by the 

 death of the Grand Duchess.— Accounts from Warsaw, of 

 July 31, state that a frightful inundation, such as had 

 not been experienced since 1830, has desolated that 

 capital. The Vistula was 18 feet above its level, and 

 the part of the city adjacent to the river was under 

 water, while the faubourg of Praga and an inhabited 

 island of the Vistula were so far covered that only the 

 roofs of the houses and the tops of the trees were | 

 visible, all the environs had equally suffered, so 

 that, as far as the eye could reach, nothing was to be 

 seen but an immense body of water. The inundation 

 extended upwards to Cracow, and downwards to Dantzic, 

 and was for the moment sufficient to cut off all the re- 

 sources of the country people. Houses, crops, cattle, 

 all were buried in the floods. Many of the houses were 

 undermined and destroyed, and the people were suffering 

 from want of food, as all the bakers' and other shops 

 were under water. The account from Kulm says that 

 the Vistula had risen to a greater height than it any 

 time during the last hundred years. It is impossible ro 

 say how many thousand villages may be mandated Dy 

 this mighty river in its long course from Cracow to 

 Dantzic. Above and below Kulm 100 towns an d : «»JS» 

 are as in a sea 

 take refuge on 



tnarK;„ "^" Wl « ~«s manuiaciories in wlicu no j A letter has been received -■-— - r as «; an hv the 



Machine, were used, ^d whose owners were Christians. 1 account of the taking of Derbend, on the Caspian, by the , 



, and the inhabitants have been forced to 

 , roofs, trees, or the neighbouring hills— 

 hPP.n received from Teflis, which gives an 



Circassians. The garrison, composed of 4000 Russians, 

 were put to the sword. M The Iron Gates" are also said 

 to be in the hands of the Circassians, who thus cut off 

 the communication between Russia and Georgia. The 

 advanced guard of a Russian army of 14,000 men, which 

 had marched from Stavropol, was cut to pieces. An en- 

 gagement is also said to have taken place in the neigh- 

 bourhood of Piaty-gorsk, in which the Russians lost a 

 large number of troops. M. de Titoff, the Russian 

 Minister, has addressed a strong note to the Porte, in 

 which he complains that the Turkish authorities upon 

 the frontier do not prevent the passage of munitions of 



war into Circassia. 



Egypt. — A telegraphic despatch reached Paris on 

 Tuesday, conveying the startling intelligence of the ab- 

 dication of Mehemet Ali. The despatch is dated Alex- 

 andria, July 27. It states that His Highness the Viceroy 

 has just suddenly left Alexandria, declaring that he 

 renounces for ever Egypt and public affairs, and that he 

 retires to Mecca. Ibrahim is at Alexandria. The city is 

 quiet. The abdication or the death of Mehemet Ali is no 

 longer an event of great European importance. The 

 occurrences of 1840 and 1841 having secured the succes- 

 sion to the Egyptian pachalic in the family of Mehemet 

 Ali, we are saved from the difficulties which would have 

 arisen had the right to appoint remained with the Porte, 

 while the resources of the country were in the hands of 

 such a chief as Ibrahim. The abdication, however, is 

 not without interest for Europe. It is not simply the 

 withdrawal from active life of one of the most remarkable 

 men of the present age. The announcement that the 

 Pacha intended " to retire to Mecca" looks as if he had 

 thoughtsjof preparing for his final pilgrimage. But the 

 most recent accounts state that his health and intellect are 

 still unimpaired, and it is well known that although Me- 

 hemet Ali had a high respect for the Holy Cities, as a 

 source of tribute, and as affording by their possession 

 unbounded influence over the faithful, yet by his opinions, 

 conduct, and associations, the Pacha had often given 

 great offence to all true, believers. The Marseilles 

 papers, of the 8th, announce the arrival, on the preced- 

 ing day, of the steamer Redschid, having on board the 

 two Egyptian Princes, Hussein Bey, son of Mehemet 

 Ali, and Ahmet Bey, his grandson. Thirty-six young 

 men, belonging to the first families of Egypt, sent to 

 France at the expense of the Viceroy to receive a Euro- 

 pean education, accompanied the young Princes. Ste- 

 phen Effendi, who also came a passenger in the Redschid, 

 was intrusted with their charge. The Princes landed, in 

 the course of the day, at the Lazaretto, where apartments 

 had been fitted out for them, and where they were treated 

 with all the honours due to their rank. 



Uniteo States and West Indies.— The Hibernia 

 steam-ship arrived at Liverpool on Tuesday, after a pas- 

 sage of little more than 9£ days from Halifax, which she 

 left on the 3d inst. The excitement produced by the 

 Philadelphia riots had ceased, and, according to the 

 papers, there are gratifying indications that the lessons 

 so impressively enforced by these melancholy outbreaks 

 have not been disregarded. The legal investigations and 

 consequent arrest of the ringleaders of the mob, had pro- 

 duced a salutary effect, and there was a perceptible im- 

 provement in the tone and conduct of the organs of the 

 native American party. Nearly all the military had left 

 the city. Ths Boston Times publishes an official state- 

 ment from the President of the branch of the Mormon- 

 ites in that city, from which it appears that Samuel H. 

 Smith, the oldest member of the family now living, and 

 a brother of the murdered prophet, will take the office of 

 his brother Hiram, as patriarch in the church, " accord- 

 ing to the ancient custom of God's people." Governor 

 Ford, of Illinois, has made a requisition on the United 

 States Government for 500 troops, to be stationed in the 

 neighbourhood of Nauvoo, to prevent any bloodshed by 

 the Anti-Mormons or the Mormons. A great deal of 

 exasperated feeling existed in that neighbourhood.-The 

 piratical crew of the ship Saladin, recently arrested at 

 Halifax, were put on trial in that city on the 18th ult. 

 Four of them, Anderson, Travasgurs alias Johnson, 

 George Jones, and William Hazelton were first tried on 

 the charge of piracy. One of them pleaded guilty. 

 The Jury brought in, after 15 »»««« w ^'» 

 verdict of " Guilty." On the next day the prisoners all 

 pleaded « Guilty" to the charge of the murder of Capt. 

 M'Kenzie. Carr and Galloway were then tried for the 

 murder of Capt. Fielding. The Court charged the Jury 

 that the crimes of Fielding, who must have been the 

 inducer to the original piracy, were no palliation of 

 the guilt of his murderers. The Jury however, 

 brought in a verdict of not guilty. A similar verdict 

 was returned after the trial of the same men for the 

 murder of Fielding's son. Sentence of death was deli- 

 vered on the 20th ult., and the criminals were executed 

 on tbe 24th, Jones and Hazelton having previously made 

 a full confession of their guilt.— The inundations caused 

 by the overflow of the Mississippi and its tributaries, of 

 which vague accounts have previously been received, are 

 stated to have done great damage to property, and the 

 destruction of cotton cannot fail to have been large. 

 No correct estimate has, however, appeared. ** en *f' 

 six houses have been burnt down at Brooklyn, and con- 

 siderable property destroyed—News of the rejectio not 

 the Annexation Treaty was received at Vera t ruz ™ ™ 

 10th ult. It was immediately forwarded brexprcH 



Mexico. The news gave great &«£"%%£?£ 

 revival of American business was "peciea 

 The fact of the Mexican Congress h^""™^.^ 

 Anna 30,000 men and 4,000,000 dols. for he invasion 

 of Texas is confirmed.— Mr. Macready was playing on 

 the 22d ult! ™K*1. «e Governor-General ho- 



