Sept. 7 J 



THE NEWSPAPER. 



Wednesday, after the House of Lords had pronounced 

 judgment on the Writ of Error in the case of the O'Con- 

 nell trials, another Cabinet Council was held and attended 

 by all the Ministers. The Council sat 2£ hours. 



Parliamentary Movements A vacancy has occurred 



in the representation of North Lancashire by the retire- 

 ment of Lord Stanley, who is about to be called to the 

 House of Peers by writ of summons. 



JForrign. 



France. — The relations between Great Britain and 

 France have materially improved during the last few 

 days, and the rumours of war which were current a week 

 ago have now become less general on both sides of 

 the Channel. Sir R. Peel, on Thursday, in Parliament, 

 set at rest all speculation on the subject, by stating that 

 the Tahiti affair has been satisfactorily arranged, and 

 that friendly relations have been re-established between 

 the two countries. The terms of the arrangement are 

 not known, but by the last accounts from Paris the 

 French Cabinet is understood to have sent to that 

 of Great Britain its ultimatum, in declaring that it 

 deemed the satisfaction given by the removal of M. 

 d'Aubigny from Tahiti by his superior, Captain Bruat, 

 and the expression of regret at, and disapproval of his 

 conduct by the Government, to be sufficient, as between 

 the two Governments, for the outrage committed upon 

 Mr. Pritchard, but that some compensation should also 

 be made to that gentleman for the private wrongs he hod 

 suffered. No divergence of opinion existed on the sub- 

 ject in the Cabinet. M. Guizot and Marshal Soult were 

 in perfect accord on the matter. The other Ministers 

 would concur in or follow their ulterior movements. It is 

 said to be a mistake that the British Government has 

 formally demanded any satisfaction from that of France. 

 Up to the present moment Lord Aberdeen has, it is 

 stated, confined himself to placing before the French 

 Government the facts of the occurrences at Tahiti as stated 

 to him by Mr. Pritchard,and as narrated in the despatches 

 from other parties bearing on the subject. The reply of 

 the French Government to this representation is not, 

 however, the less specific. It charges Mr. Pritchard 

 with acts and proceedings which, they contend, would 

 have justified his removal even from France, and a for- 

 tiori consequently from Tahiti, which M. d'Aubigny 

 believed, at the moment, constituted a portion of the 

 French territory ; and then they offered the removal of 

 M. d Aubigny in atonement for—not the removal of Mr. 

 Pritchard, but of the violence practised upon him by 

 M. d'Aubigny. The terms in which Sir Robert Peel 

 characterised the conduct of the French authorities at 

 Tahiti suggested fears that the atonement so offered 

 would not be deemed sufficient, and hence considerable 

 alarm still exists in Paris on the subject.— Since our la-t, 

 the trench Government have published the official 

 despatches of the Prince de Joinville respecting the 

 bombardment of Tangiers and Mogadore, and those of 

 Marshal Bugeaud respecting the battle of My. The 

 prince s account of the affair of Tangi-rs adds nothing 

 to what is already known to our readers, but that from 

 xVlogadore, dated Aug. 17, is of greater interest, and we 

 therefore make the following extracts recording the main 

 features of the bombardment:— 4 * I arrived before Mogi- 

 aore on the 11th inst. ; the weather was extremely bad, 

 and during several days we remained at anchor before 

 tne town without having been able to communicate even 

 amongst ourselves. Notwithstanding we had let out 200 

 iatnoms of chain cable, cur anchors broke like glass. In 

 tine, on the 15th, the weather having become moderate, 

 i took advantage of the change to attack the town. The 

 snips of the line Gemappes and Triton proceeded to 

 take up a position opposite the western batteries, with 

 orders to batter them, and to open a fire against the rear 

 ?! T™ Tm * batteries. The Suffren and the Belle Poule 

 took their station m the northern channel. It was 

 i o clock p. M . when our movement commenced. The 

 moment the Arabs saw the ships approaching the town, 

 all the batteries commenced firing. We waited to return 

 the fire until each vessel was at its post. At half-past 4 

 tne firing began to slacken ; the brigs Cassard, Volage, 

 and Argus then entered the harbour and placed them- 

 selves close to the batteries of the island, with which 

 they exchanged a pretty bri.sk fire. At last, about half- 

 past 5, the steamers, carrying 500 soldiers, entered the 

 Channel, placed themselves in the intervals that sepa- 

 rated the brigs, and a landing was immediately effected, 

 l he island was defended with the courage of despair by 



^p^ l and KabyIes ' who c <>™P<>sed the garrison. A 

 great number were killed, and 140 who had retired into 



T»T e ^""tely surrendered. Our losses on that 



The occupation of the island, without the blockade of | 

 the harbour, would be an incomplete measure. I ac- ' 

 cordingly comply with your orders, by shutting up the 

 harbour of Mogadore. The town is, at the moment I write 

 on fire, plundered and ravaged by the Kabyles of the in- 

 terior, who, after driving out the imperial garrison, have 

 taken possession of it. We have just received on board 

 the British Consul, his family, and a few Europeans. I 

 will not close my despatch without mentioning the ser- 

 vices rendered by every person under my orders during 

 the pres nt campaign. Everybody served with a zeal 

 inspired by the ardent love of his country, its honour, 

 and interests, and with an absolute devotion to the ser- 

 vice of the King. Receive, M. le Ministre, the assurance 

 of my respect.— Francois D'Orleans. P.S. — Amidst 

 the occupations with which I am overwhelmed, I have 

 no time to send you a detailed report. Captain Bouet, 

 who will hand you this despatch, will give you all the 

 information you my desire. I send by him the colours 

 which waved on the city and on the batteries of the 

 island.'* Piivate letters add to this account that the 

 Prince was in the thickest of the fight upon the island, 

 and was frequently exposed to a shower of balls which 

 picked off several of his officers. The Moors ultimately 

 capitulated, and the tri-coloured flag was hoisted on 

 every point of the island, which is the real key of the 

 town and harbour of Mogador. The dead bodies of 182 

 Moors were thrown into the sea, 80 others wounded were 

 conveyed on board the fleet in order to receive surgical 

 assistance, and 130 prisoners were picked up on the island. 

 On the return of the troops and sailors, the Prince made 

 a signal to cease firing. This was on the evening of the 

 16th. During the night the English Consul, Mr. Will- 

 shirt*, with his wife and friends, whom the British frigate 

 Warspite, anchored near the island, had vainly claimed 

 during five days from the Moorish authorities, was re- 

 ceived with several other English in the boats of the 

 Cassard. Mr. Willshire had escaped by stealth, as the 

 Moors would not allow him to embark, because he was 

 indebted to the Government on account of mercantile 

 transactions. The Prince, after having paid them the 

 most polite attention, gave orders to the Rubis to carry 

 them on board the War«.pite, which greeted her with her 

 band playing the national airs of France. The captain 

 of the English frigate immediately afterwards returned 

 most grateful thanks to the Prince. On the 17th the 

 Kabyles came down from the mountains, and finding the 

 town occupied neither by the Moors nor the French 

 troops, enttred it, and delivered it up to plunder. Seve- 

 ral quarters were already on fire, and they kindled con- 

 flagrations in other parts. In short, the town, almost 

 entirely abandoned by its population, was soon a heap 

 of ruins. The 20,000 inhabitants who peopled it fled 

 into the interior. In the evening of the 17th the Prince 

 sent off the prisoners to Marshal Bugeaud, Governor 

 Bouet likewije took passage in the same steamer, to 

 notify the blockade of Mogadore at Cadiz and Gibraltar. 

 This officer, who furnished the documents and plans 

 relative to the attack on Mogadore. was charged by the 



I nnce to convey to France the Moorish flags taken in 

 t ie town and island of Mogadore ; and on his arrival in 

 lans on Monday these trophies were deposited with 

 great ceremony at the Hotel des Invalides.— Marshal 

 Bugeaud s despatch is also dated Aug. 17. It gives in 

 detail the particulars of the Battle of Isly, of which we 

 noticed the leading features in our last. The Mar.hal 

 states that the Moors fought with determined bravery, 

 disputing every inch of ground, and were only routed bv 

 superior military skill; 13 standards were taken, with 



II pieces of artillery, and the parasol of the Emperor's 

 ——the badge of his command. The great exploit of 



Several officers immediatelv exa^fT^P 

 found a letter addressed bVthc Emn *\ c f "«*«."5| 

 rahman to his son, in which he &?£ ^^ 

 smn of the English consul-general ? \i m of *« mi 

 which Mr. Hay gave him, and he condit^ 7 ' fe* 4 * 

 required of him. These condi ions we e T.^f W€re 

 demanded by the French Government ZT* 7 th °* 

 consul could not have held firmer^ L ° Ur °"* 



guage. Without doubt, EnglanTn^?. Pr !? er ^ 

 ner showed the interest 'she take in se ItlZ^ "+ 

 with the Emperor of Morocco w^ri^**?"" 

 reading these letters, we have to ackno* 1 V but ia 

 acted with frankness'. The co^^V^ * 

 Abderrahman with his son has also proved thJt I^fe 

 Bugeaud had good reason for callingTpw th Prin^ 

 Joinville to act with vigour on hi/ sid T ' * 

 serious alarm is manifest in everv paragraph f7h^ 

 penal letters, and internal embarrassmentsbetav ,h "' 



son 



<| M _ — «a^,j auuciiuerea. uur losses en th»f 



we resolved to di "T^ Th " »'»nd once taken 



the wS^hthtSVA' b f er : es of the town facii, « 



our artillery ft l\t ? n T a ' re ?? y « reat! y Jama § ed h ? 

 gether unavailaM T to tT™ Me V™*" the ' n ^ 

 i-gly. 500 men were landed un™ 7 ' . ,, Yesterda r> accord- 

 cross fire of three S ,!' ^f' '^: ° f the 

 nenced no resistance. We TA17 I gS , ' they CI P e - 



.": , p,ked and t! »renr several 



i i-.. i i ■ , •' it ' 1 the 



. -, , island, and ordered t!ie crews .„. 



MtablMhmg a garnson of 500 men in the Lnd 



the day appears to have been the charge of the Moorish 

 cavalry, which was sustained by the French infaniry 

 with extraordinary firmness. The Marshal says, " It 

 required all the solidity of his infantry, and not a 

 man betrayed any weakness." On the results of the 

 ba t e he «,., « The Moors left on the field of 

 battle at least 800 killed, almost all of them 

 «valry; of the infantry, which was not numerou" 

 the greater part escaped from us in consequence of 

 the ravines. This army has besides lost all its mate- 

 of,r W mUSt , have ' lad froD ° 1300 to 2000 wounded. 



hLSjrf ™f"l ""H"" ki " e£l > a,Kl 8G wou » d « d - The 

 c„?i. ,• y '/' m tbe °P inion of the -hole army, the 



Se? °™ « ' C ° n r St .° f A '* eria ' !t "fail! 

 dulrtV S •?v. tly , * cceier *«"g 'he conclusion of our 



ac oun" of The ' ■" ""P™ J* Morocco - Fr ° m a » 

 cam oof tL t PrlS0 :', erS and the Arabs - who saw the 



rt ess than \l Oo7* T^ ?"■" Cann0t be Calculated 

 but ihV™ f • F hey sho " ed 'hemselves very bold, 



was &e fornix if. . Allthe y wanted to do well, 



infLtry to sunno t C H mblnaU0Q and & -ell-constituted 

 infantry to support tneir movements. With a Govern- 

 ment hke theirs it would require several tes to give 



atTtteSkHL: ° ( r C T " ^"-Fo'r some tim 

 in teakin^ of ^^ ^ been m ° st violent ™* ***** 



SBf?S :^ ttweef Frar mm °? V 1 ^' ^ 

 Not only he but^r R. fe ^^"^,2^ 

 fomenting the quarrel, and preventing the Wro from 

 acceding to the French demands. TheVc^m^lVrln^ 

 set at rest by a letter published by the Co/«/S?S and 

 addressed to M. Blanqui, a member of the Institute. It 



Bugeaud is to be created a Peer with tL , • , "i 

 "Count d'Isly.-'-The Ministerial bul\« /l' °' 

 letter from Marshal Bugeaud, of the 18th « r * J 

 on Thursday, at the War-office, confirm ng t e Tnn f 

 current at Toulon and Marseilles of Abd.e?K.„t r E 

 been seized by command of the Emperor of Morocw 

 but the official journals are still silent on the 8 S 

 and the fact is questioned by all the other paper- \W 

 theless, the statement is reiterated in a letrer (11 

 Algiers of the 23d, which states that the E«,i o? 

 on learning the defeat of his army and the brilJnt' 

 victory obtained over his son by General Bugeiad, imme- 

 diately sent 400 of his cavalry to seize Abd-eLKader • ther 

 fell in with the Emir, made him prisoner, and took him 

 to the Emperor, who instantly informed General Bu- 

 geaud of it — The victory obtained at Isly, aod the 

 bombardment of Mogadore, will most likely for some 

 time to come be the leading and almost exclusive topics 

 of the journals. The impression made in England by 

 those events is the theme of many a long article, all of 

 which concur in expressing the notion that it has been 

 most powerful, and that the blows dealt by France on 

 the frontier and coast of Morocco have sobered the 

 English press, and converted its language from violence 

 and bravado into moderation and tameness. The cautious 

 Journal des Debats itself can scarcely refrain from par- 

 ticipating in this exultation, although, in a more con- 

 spicuous article, it takes care to affirm, again, in reply 

 to the ambitious declarations of the National, that 

 France requires nothing more than a reparation and 

 guarantee for the security of Algeria, and that, notwith- 

 standing the achievements of Marshal Bugeaud and the 

 Prince de Joinville, she has not the slightest intention 

 of aggrandising her territory at the expense of the em- 

 pire of Abderrahman. It is indeed stated that the Govern- 

 ment has, with a view to put an end to the war with Mo- 

 rocco, directed that the original terms offered by them to 

 Muley-Abderrahman shall be repeated, notwithstanding 

 these victories, and have even omitted demanding anything 

 in the shape of indemnity for the expense they have been 

 put to by his resistance. It appears also from a letter 

 written by an Aide-de-Camp of the Prince de Joinville 

 to the Consul of France at Cadiz, that the occupation of 

 the island and the destruction of Mogadore will termi- 

 nate the campaign for this year, until the effect produced 

 by the event on the Emperor and on the fanaticism of 

 his subjects be ascertained. The letters published in the 

 Times, which have created so much excitement in Paris, 

 are still commented upon by the papers, and the SiecU 

 goes so far as to eay that the English Ministry has ex- 

 pressed the wish to discover and reprimand the officers 

 supposed to have written the letters.— In reference to 

 the spoils of the Moorish war, the Presse fctates that the 

 famous parasol, belonging to the son of the Emperor, 

 which was taken at the battle of Isly, had, through a 

 singular chance, been manufactured in Paris, by a mer- 

 cer of Rue St. Denis, for a house of Marseilles wbictt 

 has extensive commercial dealings with Morocco, iaree 

 years ago that house sent it as a present to the Ltnperor, 

 it being the custom to make such gifts to the A.ncaii 

 sovereigns to secure their good graces. It is entire y 

 lined with green velvet, embroidered with arabesque^ 

 and edged with a long gold fringe. This beautiful piece 

 of workmanship cost IBOOf.— The Monileur publics a 

 Royal ordinance, issued on the report ot MarshaUoiw, 

 instituting a committee to proceed forthwith witu 

 revision of the ordinances for the organisation ana ui 

 ternal regulation of the Polytechnic School. 



Spain.— We have accounts from Madrid to thc " a , 

 ult. The approaching elections are the only poww* 

 events spoken of, but as there is no doubt of the res , 

 they have lost much of their interest. Not one memo . 

 of the Liberal party has ventured to offer Lionel i» 

 candidate. One or two have, indeed, been brougM 1 1 

 ward by their friends, but these are persons wnc ►* i 

 already contrived to escape the vengeance ot ue ^ 

 Narvaez by taking refuge in a foreign country. » 



believed that M. Martinez de la Rosa had accep 



... ^ *j, e office y 



Queen Christina's invitation to accept the oSice 

 Minister of Foreign Affairs, in the place of the emM^ 



hMnn-l« T Vl V , " Uiti Whule ° f tliCi Ca:!, P 



»«rH !-" P T" T' I,,his tent a small case 



was found, containing the whole of his correspondence. 



Minister ot foreign Anairs, in iuc puu-o "* *— 

 at Paris, and the Paris papers announce that he letc 

 for Madrid on Monday. M. Mazarredo, the Lap 

 General of Madrid, had taken his departure tor ^ 

 waters of the Pyrenees, whence, it was ex j ,ec l, eo ' 

 would forward his resignation of that post to tbe^o 

 ment. The discontent lately manifested by the ir i 

 of the garrison of Madrid was attributed to tw^ 

 management and suspicious disposition ot tiut . ffl 

 who constantly kept them in alarm, without any 

 to justify his fears. These accounts state that o. J 

 the exertions of Mr. Buiwer, the English Am&« 9 







