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( Tir^deUbiT^ein^ manned at the same moment by 

 1£ oTxt pupils. His Royal Highness subsequently 

 w^d the pupUs' exercise in the gymnasium, and paid 

 f^rtli Visit to the Princess Sophia, and then pro- 

 VXa to the Crown and Sceptre Tavern, where a white 

 ^entertainment was given to His Royal Highness by 

 rw,.lier Hebeler, the Prussian consul-general, previous 

 f rt the embarkation of the Prince for Ostend, The 

 Senile band from Greenwich Hospital, by direction of 

 Sir R Stopford, was stationed in a vessel on the water, 

 and performed various national airs during dinner. The 

 ^barkation, witnessed by an immense concourse of 

 e ~ectators, wag accomplished in the barge of the William 

 d Mary yacht. The effect upon the water was parti- 

 cularly interesting, every object being clearly seen by the 

 aid of blue lights from the tavern. Immediately upon 

 His Roval Highness stepping on board, the Lightning 

 otund-r way amidst the cheers of the spectators, and 

 reached Ostend by 9 o'clock on the following morning, 

 whence His Royal Highness proceeded direct to Berlin. 

 Visit or the King of the French. — It is under- 

 stood that the visit of the King of the French to Her 

 Majesty is now definitively fixed for the early part of next 

 month. His Majesty will embark at Treport on the 3d 

 of October, and proceed at once from Portsmouth to 

 Windsor. The Queen of the French will not accompany 

 His Majesty ; but it is expected that King Louis-Philippe 

 will be attended by two of his Ministers, and by his 

 youngest son the Duke de Montpensier. 



Parliamentary Movements. — Mr. Talbot Clifton is the 

 Conservative candidate for North Lancashire, vacant by 

 the retirement of Lord Stanley ; and it is supposed that 

 he will be returned withont opposition. 



Acts of the Session. — In the House of Lords, previous 

 to the prorogation, the Lord Chancellor laid on the 

 table a return of the number of the Royal Commissions 

 assenting to public Bills during the present session ; also 

 noticing the dates at which such Bills severally were read 

 the first time in the House of Lords. There were eleven 

 commissions, the last being the 9th August. To that 

 period, inclusive, 105 Bills received the Royal assent, 

 and became Acts of Parliament. Of that number, forty- 

 four, or nearly half, were read for the first time in the 

 House of Lords in the course of July. Eleven were 

 read for the first time in August. 



Illness of Miss Peel.— The family of Sir Robert Peel 

 have been in a state of great anxiety during the past 

 week, in consequence of the serious illness of Miss Peel. 

 Sir Charles Clarke, and Dr. Hodgson, of Birmingham, 

 have been in constant attendance upon her at Drayton 

 Manor, and we are happy to learn that a slow improve- 

 ment is at length perceptible, and sanguine hopes are 

 now entertained that the younglady will eventually recover. 

 Yesterday morning Miss Peel was considered better, after 

 having passed a favourable night ; and although all 

 danger could not be said to have subsided, yet her 

 medical attendants were agreed that their patient was 



progressing towards recovery as favourably as could be 

 expected. 



The Army.— Captain Murray, 20th Regiment, tried 

 by court-martial at Bermuda last spring, for intoxication 

 at mess and at a ball, and for disrespect to Lieut.-Colonel 

 Hutchinson, when called on for explanation of his con- 

 duct, and for subsequent disobedience of his command- 

 ing officer's orders, was found guilty, and sentenced to 

 lose six steps of his rank, and to be publicly and 

 merely reprimanded. The Duke of Wellington has 

 communicated Her Majesty's disapprobation of the 

 finding as to intoxication at mess and ball, not considering 

 the charges proved; the Queen also disapproves the 

 nndmg on the charge of disrespect to Lieut-Colonel 

 Hutchinson, as Captain Murray was not bound to an- 

 swer, in explanation of his conduct, a question likely to 



ST n £ te himself 5 but the Queen confirms the finding 

 ot disobedience of orders in not attending his command- 

 ing officer W hen called upon by the Adjutant of his regi- 

 • / ^ n( *er all the circumstances, however, consider- 

 ing Captain Murray has been an invalid, that officer is 

 permitted to return to his duty, with only an admonition 

 ° be more c "eful and more respectful. 



THE NEWSPAPER 



[1844. 



Quar^I NCE i,"-"T The new8 of the settlement of the Tahiti 



speech n W *i Was fim made known ty the Q ueen ' s 

 sensation ' R roro S 8tioQ of Parliament, has caused great 

 vivacitv t 1D " s " ^11 the papers advert with great 

 Ministeri 1 8ettl ement of the differences, and the 



the cond na «-° r ^ anS &re a ' mo8t as vehement in vindicating 

 k attack "a ' the ' r P atrons as tne Opposition prints are 

 flight It^'x. The D tbats and the Globe express their 

 broueht k able mam »er in which M. Guizot had 



oatfte'7 the arran S em ent of the Tahiti affair with- 

 land." t? mmut e concession to the demands of Eng- 

 French \ - a P pear8 » in fac *, that the statements of the 

 Tfa e British r< tenal 0i "S ans had been perfectly correct. 



the French r made no s P ecific demand » and 



especial c ° vernnieat: made only one offer, and took 

 ficienr *^ e ', knowi ng probably that it was deemed suf- 

 ther i' ? declar c that they would not go oi 



go one inch far- 



ther 1q fkc, ~ — "*" " U ^J »»uu:u not go uuc uiuu iai- 



°ne 8 i D ai P Way of c °ncession. It is said, however, that 

 be en made b C ° n , version t0 good feeling in Paris has not 

 consists in \\ ■ arran S em cnt. Its principal advantage 



dan ger 8 to wh' I ^ * m all ° W f0F reflecti<m on the 

 some parti™ OVer -anxious or over-zealous or trouble- 



in advance f T* eXp08e their chiefs ' and for P re P arin S 

 tile y shall °* treatment of similar questions when 



arisen, t\ x ^ n%tm UnIe ss, however, such have already 



lei »on is said ar t not llkely t0 occur in baste - ^r the 



t0 nave been a serious one. The DibaU says, 



" The Opposition Journal* asserted that M. Guizot had 

 offered to disavow and to recall Capt. d'Aubigny. They added 

 that England, not satisfied with the sacrifice of M. d'Aubigny, 

 required moreover the disavowal and the recall of the Gover- 

 nor, Capt. Bruat. The entire truth is now known. Has M. 

 Guizot offered to disavow and to recall M . d'Aubigny ? No, for 

 M. d'Aubigny is neither disavowed nor recalled. Did the British 

 Cabinet require the disavowal and tie recall not only of 

 ML d'Aubigny, bnt of M. Uruat ? Through whatever phases the 

 negotiations passed, there is one thing certain, which is, that 

 the arrangement is concluded, and that Capt. Bruat is no more 

 disavowed and recalled than M. d'Aubigny. We must there- 

 fore praise M. Guizot for his firmness if behave refused the 

 double sacrifice demanded of him ; and we must praise the 

 English Cabinet for its candour and moderation, if after a more 

 mature examination it admitted that there was on our part a 

 mere error of proceeding in the practice of a right, and conse- 

 quently relaxed its pretensions. What then happens ? This in- 

 tractable England, which will have war at any price, is satisfied 

 with a regret and a blame expressed by our Government. This 

 Minister of Foreign Affairs of France, who wants peace at any 

 price, has not even offered what the Opposition supposed he 

 would offer. He has not yielded. Reckoning on the wisdom of 

 the Government of England, he adhered to his first pro- 

 positions, and at last brought Lord Aberdeen and Sir 

 Robert Peel over to them. No disavowal, no recall! The 

 expression of a simple regret, and the offer of an indem- 

 nity to Mr. Pritchard! Here was an occasion even for 

 the Opposition journals to congratulate themselves upon a 

 result which they must have so little expected. The National 

 is of opinion that the hour of our downfall has arrived, and be- 

 wails our ruined greatness, and all that apparently because 

 M. Guizot did not offer the disavowal and recall of M. d'Au- 

 bigny, and because England did not demand the disavowal and 

 recall of M. Bruat. Bnt we shall not have war ; we shall not 

 even have a Ministerial crisis. No, we shall not have war ; 

 two great nations will not tear each other to pieces for a futile 

 subject of dispute ; two great Governments have had the good 

 sense to come to an understanding in place of obstinately dif- 

 fering about a false point of honour; two Cabinets which pride 

 themselves on having for four years maintained a good intelli- 

 gence between the countries which they govern, have declined 

 offering to the world the odious and ridiculous spectacle of a 

 policy of peace ending in a war of the most foolish character ! 

 Let those bewail whose plans and hopes are deranged by peace ! 

 That war which they thought they almost held within their 

 grasp escapes them, and they must now seek another quarrel I 

 For our parts, we hope that the wisdom of the two nations, 

 and the two Governments, will continue to confound their 

 sinister designs! We shall not even have a Ministerial crisis, 

 and that is what afflicts the Opposition, which is only warlike 

 because the Ministry is pacific. The Opposition did not expect 

 bo happy and so honourable an arrangement ; all that it said 

 for the last fortnight proves it, and the anger it feels at being 

 mistaken proves it still more." 



It is only fair to observe, that the Opposition prints 



of Paris express precisely a contrary feeling, contending 

 that France has been humbled by the terms proposed by 

 M. Guizot, and accepted by the British Government. 

 The Courrier Francais reckons about 25,000f. the com- 

 pensation that will be offered to Mr. Pritchard, and one 

 or two other prints of the same party solace themselves 

 with the hope that, whatever its amount, it will be in- 

 dignantly denied by the Chamber of Deputies. Captain 

 Bruat, it appears, has just been promoted to the rank of 

 a Capitaine de Vaisseau of the first class. According 

 to the Reoue de Paris, Commodore Toup Nicolas and 

 the Commander of the French forces in the Pacific are 

 to act as arbitrators in fixing the amount of the compen- 

 sation to be awarded to Mr. Pritchard. The English 

 Ministry particularly insists on this point, and appears 

 to rely on it, to justify before Parliament the assurance 

 given by Sir Robert'Peel, that the honour of England 

 was safe. It sees with reason, in the indemnity, an ad- 

 mission of the injustice of the measures taken against 

 Mr. Pritchard.— The Moniteur contains a long report 

 from the Prince de Joinville of what his Royal Highness 

 designates " the purely military part of his operations on 

 the coast of Morocco." He gives full details of the 

 position of all the ships at Tangier, the number of guns 

 fired, and of the killed and wounded, and goes over the 

 same ground as regards the bombardment of Mogador. 

 In a postcript of the report, dated the 25th ult., his 

 Royal Highness gives an account of the renewed attack 

 upon Mogador on the previous day, some account of 

 which had already appeared in the Toulon papers. The 



following is the postscript : — 



"P.S. On the 23d our establishment on the island was com- 

 pleted, and I sent away to Cadiz a part of the squadron. In the 

 course of the day a gun was fired from one of the towers of the 

 town commanding the country, and the ball having fallen in 

 the midst of us in the port, we destroyed with shells the houses 

 near this tower. I then sent Lieutenant Touchard, the chief of 

 my staff, with ]6omen, to fix scaling-ladders against the tower. 

 The detachment scaled the wall without opposition, and Bplked 

 the last guns that could play upon us. From the height of the 

 tower the town could be seen; it appeared deserted, and 

 horribly devastated. This operation, which was not absolutely 

 necessary, has had the ad vantage, of showing the garrison < 

 the island, that, with its own forces and the resources of the 

 local station, it keep> the town completely at it* mercy." 



Two days after this operation, the Groenland, one of 

 the largest of the French war steamers, was totally lost 

 on the west coast of Morocco, on some rocks about 

 three leagues from Larache. The Moors immediately 

 commenced an attack upon the vessel, which had lasted 

 full four hours, when, fortunately, the steamer Vidette 

 arrived to her assistance, succeeded in dispersing the 

 Moorish soldiers, and received on board the crew and 

 such things as could be saved from the wreck. In the 

 afternoon the Prince de Joinville, in the Pluton, also 

 arrived on that part of the coast, and finding it impossible 

 to float the Groenland, caused her to be destroyed by fire. 

 It is supposed that His Royal Highness was steering for 

 Cadiz, to meet the Due de Glucksberg, who is on some 

 special mission from the French Government, the nature 

 of which has not transpired. 



The acquittal of Mr. O'Connell by the House of Lords 

 is the subject of comment in several oi the papers, lhc 



Dibats says : — , - . ... 



"After having read the debates in the House °* ^Jf B » " 

 must be acknowledged that the manner In wnich the J"^™" 1 

 has been given does great honour to .the political gJ^Sff^ 

 tional .tern in England. The question has b £^ S ™*!f r8 o f 

 settled by five persons only ; that is to say, by the la w °* 



the House ; and although all the other ^^J^SSi 

 including such of the Ministry as are members of the Lpper 



House, had a right to take a part in the vote, yet, from respect 

 for constitutional customs, they unanimously abstained." 



The DCbats proceeds then to give a sketch of the pro- 

 ceedings which took place in the House of Lords on that 

 memorable day, and which it does with the ability which 

 is always remarkable in its articles upon England, and it 

 concludes with these words : — 



"We repeat, that the manner in which the judgment has 

 been given is calculated to give a high idea of English forms 

 and English justice. It is beyond a doubt that the reception of 

 Mr. O'ConnelTs appeal must be a source of great embarrass- 

 ment to the Ministry, and yet the Ministry has scrupulously 

 abstained from interfering in the decision of the House, although 

 it could have legally done s i. All Peers had a right to vote, 

 and if all had made use of their right, the result could not be 

 doubtful, considering the immense majority that supports the 

 Government in the Upper House." 



The National takes a very different view of the ques- 

 tion. It thinks the acquittal of O'Connell is the effect 

 of the fears of the aristocracy, who are apprehensive of 

 causing too much discontent in M that great nursery of 

 soldiers and sailors." The National also says that to 

 France O'Connell owes his release from prison, Ireland 

 owes Catholic emancipation, and the United Kingdom 

 the Reform Bill ; and for all these services it is confi- 

 dent that in case of need France will find powerful aux- 

 iliaries in Ireland against France's •' eternal enemy." The 



Siecle observes that — 



" Since the decree of the Court of Cassation, which, after 

 hearing the pleading of M. Odillon Barrot, declared the ordi- 

 nance which placed Paris in a state of siege illegal, no judicial 

 event has had the same importance as the admission of O'Coo- 

 ncll's appeal by the House of Lords. The British Cabinet is 

 much shaken, if not overthrown, by this unexpected blow. Ire- 

 land triumphs. Her hero, her father, her liberator is about to 

 be delivered from prison by the majesty of the law. O'Connell, 

 although condemned, -still passed for a great Jurist j but after 

 all, he was convicted in fact, and a fact is always much in the 

 eyes of men. At present the prestige which encom] sed 

 O'Connell as a statesman, as a liberator, as a jurist, is restored 

 in all its splendour. The influence of this man is become irre- 

 sistible. Ireland must be crushed by the sword, or a capitu- 

 lation must be made with her." 



A new addition to the happiness of the Royal Family 

 and another link added to its chain of connexion with 

 that of Naples is about to be made in the marriage of 

 the Duke d'Aumale with the Princess de Salerno, sister 

 of the King of the Two Sicilies. — The storm which 

 visited several of the English provinces last week was se- 

 verely felt on the French coast. At Havre the wind was 

 so high, that considerable damage was done to some of 

 the houses, and the rain subsequently fell in such abun- 

 dance, that carriages could not pass in some of the streets, 

 and the cellars of the houses were filled with water. 



Spain. — The accounts from Madrid are of the 3d 

 inst. The elections commenced on that day. The pre- 

 liminary operations proved the great majority of the 

 Moderados over their Carlist opponents, the Progresistas 

 having for the most part retired from the contest. The 



Iinisters were actively engaged in preparing the various 

 bills which are to be shortly submitted to the delibera- 

 tion of the Cortes, such as the projects of law on the 

 Council of State, the provincial deputations, the reform 

 of the municipal laws, public instruction, the monetary 

 system, the weights and measures, &c. The best pos- 

 sible understanding continued to exist between the 

 Minister of Finance and the Directors of the Bank of 

 San Fernando. The former President of the Council, 

 Senor Antonio Gonzales, had arrived at Madrid to 

 demand a passport to proceed to his estate in Estre- 

 madura. Mr. Bulwer had returned from Tangier to 

 Gibraltar ; and the Ministerial journals announce that all 

 the differences between Spain and Morocco have been 

 adjusted through his intervention. Senor Cayetano, the 

 Progresista ex-political chief, had been taken out of the 

 castle of Santa Catalina, transferred on board the mail- 

 packet Corso, on the 223 ult., and transported to the 

 Canary Islands, without even the form of a trial. 



Germany.— Letters from Berlin state that sentence 

 has been pronounced in the first instance against the 

 assassin Tschecb, who fired at the King of Prussia. 

 The sentence is said to be, that he be broken on the 

 wheel.— A letter from Vienna, in the Augsburg Gazette, 

 states that Prince Charles de Canino, son of Lucien 

 Bonaparte, had arrived there the day after the visit of the 

 King of Prussia, to confer with the celebrated John 

 Muller and M. Heckel, the naturalist, on matters relat- 

 ing to natural history. A letter from Italy, announcing 

 the death of his uncle Joseph, forced him to depart 



ItTly — The Dublin papers announce that the British 

 Government have selected the Hon. Mr. Petre, a 

 Roman Catholic, to watch over the diplomatic in- 

 terests of England at the court of the Sovereign 

 Pontiff. Although Great Britain since the Reformation 

 has never had an ambassador, nor a charge d'affaires, or 

 even an avowed accredited agent at the court of Rome, 

 her interests have always been guarded, and communica- 

 tions to St. James's made through the instrumentality of 

 Hanover, or the Grand Duke of Tuscany, that duty being 

 committed to an attache belonging to one or other of 

 those embassies, who was a member of the Protestant 

 Church.— A letter from Venice of the 24th August says 

 that Admiral Bandiera has been deprived of his command 

 in the Levant, but that, having been able to satisfy the 

 Austrian authorities of the injustice of the suspicions 

 against him, he is likely to be reinstated. It appears 

 that the admiral's misfortunes are daily accumulating 

 upon him. His wife has died of grief for the dreadful 



fate of his two sons. f p 



Sweden.— The question of changing the law ot 1 ar- 

 liamentary representation is decided in the negative, l ne 

 Diet of Nobles discussed on the 28th ult. this i«porfimt 

 matter from 9 in the morning till 7 p.m., and the result 



was 

 aga: 



tter from 9 in the m'orning till / p.m., ana ««'««* 

 , the rejection of the project by '"WW "* 

 inst 82. In the Diet of the Clergy the Debates con- 



