G \I S 



Sept. 21,] 



T^^hiircaTculated to calm the agitation of Repeal. 

 rV return to power, therefore, of Lords J. Russell, 

 Palmerston, and Normanby, would not settle the 

 VU„ uUv . such an event would, on the contrary, 

 increase the difficulty, the Whigs not being in a 

 nos ; tion to carry such extensive reforms as the Tories. 

 The latter granted Catholic Emancipation, which 

 their adversaries certainly could not have carried 

 through Parliament. To speak candidly, we know 

 not whether it be possible to reconcile the two nations ; 

 but if reconciliation be possible, it is only on the follow- 

 ine conditions -.—The appropriation of the Protestant 

 Church lands to general purposes after the demise of the 

 ' ent i nC umbents ; the establishment of the fixity of 

 tenure so as to render the farmer independent of his pro- 

 niietor ; a revision of the law of election, with a view to 

 the extension of democratic principles, and a propor- 

 tional increase of the Irish Members of Parliament. 

 Will Sir Robert Peel subscribe to such conditions ? And 

 if he be willing, has he the power ? This appears doubt- 

 ful according to the tone of the Tory journals. O'Connell 

 himself is, perhaps, not yet decided what course he will 

 pursue, but assuredly he will not commit the fault of 

 braving the law ; and we may on the contrary depend on 

 his skill to leave England no resource but to attempt a 

 coup d'etat (a measure beyond the law), which, in our 

 days, destroys those who make use of them to save them- 

 selves. England, whose sophisms are now well under- 

 stood, is before Ireland in the same position as she is 

 before all people who reason— she has nothing to gain 

 by discussion. O'Connell will continue to discuss 

 without changing anything but the place and form of 

 the popular meetings. If the plains and mountains of 

 Ireland are closed against him, he has open to him all 

 the Catholic churches, and on the same day, and at the 

 same hour, 20,000 priests will preach to millions of 

 Irishmen on their knees before the image of Him who 

 died for the liberty of the world. " — The Revue de 

 Paris states that the King's departure for Eng- 

 land has been definitively fixed for the 7th of next month. 

 His Majesty is to be accompanied by his two younger 

 sons, and the Ministers for Foreign Affairs and Marine. 

 The Gomer, in which His Majesty is to proceed to 

 England, is the largest war steamer of the French Navy. 

 She is of 450 horse-power, and carries 20 guns. The 

 Gomer is one of the vessels constructed at Rochefort for 

 the Transatlantic service, and has performed a voyage of 

 nearly two years in the principal seas of the globe, 

 during which she has been sufficiently proved. Her 

 capabilities have been skilfully made available for the ac- 

 commodation of passengers. The King will have for 

 his use and that of the persons of his suite a complete 

 apartment. The names of the vessels which are to form 

 part of the royal escort, under the command of Vice- 

 Admiral La Susse, are not yet known, but it is believed 

 that the flotilla will only consist of steamers. His 

 Majesty's stay in England will be very short, as he will 

 not be absent from his own kingdom for more than seven 

 days, and it is not his intention to visit London. It is 

 understood, likewise, that it is His Majesty's wish that 

 the visit should be a strictly private one, and it is pro- 

 bable that few or none will be invited to Windsor Castle 

 during his stay but the members of the court. The 

 King will hold no court during his stay in England. — It 

 is believed that the long-talked of marriage between the 

 Due D'Aumale and the Princess of Salerno, niece of the 

 King of Naples, will take place soon after His Majesty's 

 return from this country. — The Council-General of the 

 Department of Bridges and Roads has decided that the 

 Tours and Nantes railroad shall pass through Angers. — 

 The Constitu'ionnel announces that a royal ordinance, 

 appointing 32 new peers, would be published in a few 

 days. It also states that the coat-of-arms of M. Guizot, 

 painted on the panels of his elegant equipage, has re- 

 cently undergone a modification. The broad tri-coloured 

 riband, to which was suspended the cross of Grand 

 Officer of the Legion of Honour, has been replaced by 

 the magnificent collar of the Golden Fleece, of which 

 M. Guizot is a member. The famous motto, recta bre- 

 vissuna omnium, has been preserved. 



fePAix.— Accounts from Madrid of the 12th inst. state 

 that the convention concluded between Spain and Mo- 

 rocco had been sent to Tangier, to be ratified by the 

 Emperor. The elections still continued in Madrid and 

 in the provinces to be favourable to the Ministry. The 

 report of a ministerial modification was beginning to 

 assume some appearance of probability, and M. Martinez 

 de la Rosas was expected to accept the office of Foreign 

 Mmister.—According to advices from Bayonne of the 

 blu i»st., the Carlists were actively intriguing in the 

 northern provinces of Spain. The Progresistas, on the 

 other hand, were not idle. Considerable sensation had 

 oeen created along the frontier by the sudden disappear- 

 ance of Gen. Zurbano from his estate in the neighbour- 

 hood of Logrono. The Duke de Rianzares (the celebrated 



25°*) had passed through Bayonne, on his way to Pari*. 

 . -the Barcelona journals of the 9th inst. state that the en- 

 gineers who are to survey the line of railroad to be con- 

 structed between that city and Mataro, under the direc- 

 tion of Mr. Joseph Locke, were expected towards the 

 close of the month. The drawing of the conscription 

 naa been the occasion of some rioting at Barcelona, 

 ^ne young men liable to it had insulted the alcaldes 

 J\no presided at the operation, and the Captain-General 

 uiTi ' rne garrison had remained an entire night 



tr arms, and several of the rioters had been arrested, 

 thp l 8 f ° r A1 6 esiraa of the 1st inst. announce that 

 emK i D18h em 'g rant s residing at Gibraltar were all 

 thi » ' by an order of the Governor of the place, in 

 ae stea mer, for London, on the 31st ult. The only 



THE NEWSPAPER. 





1S44. 



f 



refugees remaining were General Nogueras and Messrs. 

 Valdezand Conti, who were shortly to leave for Fiance. 

 The Chronica of Gibraltar of the 2d announces that 

 in the afternoon of the preceding day the son of the 

 Emperor of Morocco repaired on board the Formidable, 

 British 74 gun ship, where he was received with all the 

 honours due to his rank. 



Germany.— The Konigslerg Gazette gives at great 

 length the account of the ceremonies on the celebration 

 of the 300th anniversary of the foundation of the Uni- 

 versity of that city, which commenced on the l6t inst. 

 His Majesty, who had been for 36 years Proctor of the 

 University, was pleased to issue a proclamation, approv- 

 ing the plan for a new building, of which His Majesty 

 laid the first stone at this ceremony. His Majesty ad- 

 dressed the numerous assembly present in a very im- 

 pressive speech, in which he expressed his confident 

 expectation that his wishes would be fulfilled with the 

 Divine blessing, with the aid of the faithful care of the 

 teachers, and the noble sentiments of the youth committed 

 to their care. He invited them, while he was striking 

 the foundation-stone with the hammer, " to salute with 

 their heartfelt and joyous huzzas this focus of light for 

 our north." The most profound silence prevailed during 

 His Majesty's address, which was perfectly well heard 

 by the greater part of the great multitude of spectators, 

 whose acclamations at the close were unbounded. — The 

 Frankfort papers give accounts from Coblentz of the 8th 

 inst., which state that the news of the acquittal of Mr. 

 O'Connell has produced an extraordinary sensation in 

 that city. Immediately after its arrival, his portrait was 

 exhibited, surrounded with garlands, and even an 

 illumination was talked of. An Englishman, who had 

 become notorious for his anti-Irish opinions, considered 

 it prudent to quit the city in consequence of these demon- 

 strations. — A letter from Hamburg of the 3d st ites that 

 the French Government has formally protested against 

 the payment of the Stade duties. The Carlsruhe papers 

 of the 6th contain the treaty concluded on June 27th be- 

 tween France and the Grand Duchy of Baden, for the 

 reciprocal extradition of criminals for murder, incen- 

 diarism, forgery, coining, fraudulent bankruptcy, and 

 perjury. Political offences form an express exception. — 

 The Nuremberg Correspondent gives the following from 

 Presburg, Sept. 5 : — " The late scenes in the Chamber of 

 the Magnates of Hungary are responded to in the coun- 

 try. The rupture between the two Chambers has never 

 been so marked— they almost came to blows in the place 

 of sitting. A Palatine, who has now presided over the 

 assembly for 49 years, has declared that he never wit- 

 nessed so violent a Parliamentary storm. The Second 

 Chamber does not allow itself to be intimidated by the 

 resistance of the majority of the magnates, but insists 

 on the proposed reforms. It has just decided that the 

 rights of landed property should be extended to the 

 classes which are not noble, but this resolution will cer- 

 tainly not be approved of by the magnates. In 

 several districts meetings have been held to peti- 

 tion the Government not to close the session at once. 

 In a meeting at Pesth very violent language was used, 

 and it was agreed to stnd in a protest against the 

 conduct of the Upper Chamber. This example, it is 

 thought, will find imitators."— Prince Augustus of Saxe 

 Coburg and his consort, Princess Clementine of Orleans, 

 have been visiting the estates of the Duke Ferdinand of 

 Saxe Coburg in Hungary.— A ktter from Breslau of the 

 1st, states that the weavers, who had lately caused the 

 disturbances at Teterswaldau, have been condemned to 

 the number of 80 by the criminal court. They were 

 divided into two categories, the one of rebels, the other 

 of rioters. The highest punishment awarded was nine 

 and eight years of imprisonment with hard labour, to 

 which two of the ringleaders were sentenced. Tranquil- 

 lity is now perfectly restored, and the usual activity pre- 

 vails.— Letters from Trieste of the 6th state that the 

 Emperor and Empress of Austria arrived in that town 

 on the evening of the 5th, and will remain there for ten 

 days, during which time fetes, reviews and regattas on a 

 splendid scale will do honour to the occasion. The 

 Archdukes John and Frederick, the Grand Duke of Tus- 

 cany, and the Duke of Modem, have arrived at Trieste 

 on a vUit to the Emperor, as also Prince Metternich, 

 Prince Kolowrath, the English An.bissador, &c. 



Italy.— A letter from Rome of the 3d inst. states that 

 the Pope has appointed Monseignior Magni Provincial 

 Auditor of the rota for Spain. It is thought that the 

 differences between His Holiness and Spain are on the 

 point of being arranged. The suspension of the sale of 

 the church property by the Spanish Government had had 

 a favourable effect in that quarter. — Vincent Cammuccini, 

 the most celebrated of the Italian painters of the present 

 day, died a few weeks ago at Rome, in the 70th year of 

 his age.- A melancholy event occurred at Rome on the 

 28th ult. : two ecclesiastics, students of the Irish Fran- 

 ciscan college in that cily, were unhappily drowned 

 whilst bathing in the Tiber. One of the deceased, the 

 Rev. E. F. Martin, was in priest's orders, and his com- 

 panion, the Rev. R. A. Kavanagh, was ordained sub- 

 deacon on the previous Sunday. -The Turin papers men- 

 tion an event which has cast a gloom over the whole 

 Protestant population of the valleys of Piedmont. The 

 long-tried and most influential political friend ot the 

 Vaudois, Count Waldburg Truchs^es, Mincer Plenipo- 

 tentiary of the King of Prussia at the Court of Turin, has 

 at leng'h sunk under a ruinful disorder, which has long 

 afflicted him. His lo-s will be severely felt in the \ au- 

 dois, for whom he had so often exerted his influence with 

 the Sardinian Government, that he was generally looked 

 upon as their political protector.— The Due de Bordeaux 

 is at Venice, where a legitimist congress is shortly, to 

 be held, 



/ 



Greece. — We regret to find that /fit untry is again 

 the scene of civil and political diispnsions. A letter 

 from Athens of the 31&t ult., in the IS/ »f Marseilles, 

 states that dissensions had already Vjopmenced in the 

 new Ministry, particularly between >Yr Met&xa and M 

 Cohtti, the former having manifested a ck_«rm4*w^k>n to 

 appoint only his own partisans to GcWAtnent offcfcy^M 

 In consequence of this misunderstanding, tKe elections 

 for the capital had been postponed. Another letter of 

 the 26th ult. states that the Coletti Ministry would find 

 it impossible to weather the impending storm, and that 

 the protecting Powers would again be obliged to inter- 

 fere, in order to save the country from anarchy. The 

 new Minister of War, Tza veil as, had sent a despatch to 

 General Grivas, who is at Alexandria, inviting him to re- 

 turn and take his seat in the Chamber of Deputies, pro- 

 mising him at the same time a brilliant reception. Sir 

 E. Lyons had sent to Malta for a ship of war. 

 The steam-frigate Devastation had already arrived at 

 Athens from Constantinople, and there were five vessels 

 of war of diiTerent sizes at the Piraeus. It will be re- 

 membered that General Kalergi took the Greek troops 

 under his command on the morning of the 3d (15th) 

 September, at Athens ; that while performing his duty 

 to his country, he put himself under the orders of the 

 Council of State, assembled an hour after the palace was 

 blockaded by troops and citizens; that neither then or 

 afterwards, while General Kalergi commanded the garri- 

 son of Athens, and guard of the National Assembly, was 

 his conduct in the smallest degree impugned ; and that 

 at the close of the National Assembly he received its 

 thanks, together with a sword from the citizens of Athens, 

 when, also, the rank of general and aid-de-camp was per 

 sonally conferred on him by King Otho. His command 

 is now so interfered with, that he finds himself bound 

 in honour to resign, and his resignation is accepted with- 

 out one word in reply. 



Russia The Cologne Gazette states, from St. 



Petersburg, that the Emperor of Russia, upon the pro- 

 position of the Minister of Public Instruction, has given 

 orders to send a certain number of students to Germany, 

 Sicily, Italy, France, and England, to complete their 

 education, so as to be properly qualified to act as pro- 

 fessors of colleges in Russia. The Bremen Gazette of 

 the 3d inst. says :— *' The Count de Nesselrode is ex- 

 pected soon at St. Petersburg. We are assured that he 

 has communicated to the English Cabinet the views of 

 his Government relative to the wr.r in the Caucasus, and 

 has obtained a promise from the English Cabinet that in 

 future English agents shall neither send ammunition nor 

 provisions to the mountaineers by way of Constantinople." 



Turkey.— We have accounts from Constantinople to 

 the 29th August. Conferences have taken place between 

 the Reis Effendi and the Ambassadors of the Great 

 Powers respecting the indemnity to be given to the 

 Maronites, and to the administration of the Lebanon, 

 and also to determine if any modification should be made 

 in the resolution adopted in accordance with the Ambas- 

 sadors of the Five Powers on the 7th D< cember, 1842. 

 France demanded some modification, and especially the 

 reinstatement of the Shehab family. Austria wished 

 for a change, but did not insist on the reinstatement of 

 the Shehab family. England, Russia, and Prussia wished 

 matters to remain as they are. The Porte has supported 

 the views of England and Russia. The concessions 

 made to the English and French ambassadors by the 

 Porte, relative to Mussulmans becoming Christians, has 

 not been without i:s effect. A young Greek, who 

 embraced the Mahometan fai h, after some time thought 

 proper lately to alter his opinions, and became once 

 more a Christian. He was immediately thrown into 

 prison, but the Turkish Government immediately 

 ordered his re'.ease, and informed the Cadi that a rene- 

 gade might return to Christianity without incurring anj 



punishment. 



Egypt— Letters from Alexandria of the 30th ult. 



sta'e that Mehemet AH had entirely recovered from his 

 late indisposition, and resumed his usual serenity. The 

 Pasha was preparing a new expedition against Abyssinia, 

 and was anxious to avail himself of the rise of the Nile, 

 which had reached 20 cubits, to send troops in that 

 direction. Several detachments of regular and irregular 

 soldiers had already proceeded thither from Cairo. 

 Mehemet Ali had hitherto been deterred from under- 

 taking that expedition by the fear of England, and, on 

 his recent return to Alexandria, when he announced his 

 intention to the European representatives, he said, 1 

 have long contemplated to give a good lesson to the 

 Abyssinians, to punish them for their frequent inroads 

 on the territory of Ateche, but the Consuls of England 

 always thwarted my project." Mehemet Ali having 

 shown himself to all the European envoys, and con- 

 vinced them that he was both sound of body and mind, 

 left on the 30th for the garden of Moharera Bey, and 

 after spending a few days in thut residence, was to set 

 out for the provinces and Cairo. 



West Indies and Solth America.— By the Tay 

 and Tweed steamers we have advices from Jamaica to 

 the 28th August. The Tay, having met with an acci- 

 dent, being obliged to go into Fajal, ret - there ner 

 Majesty's surveying steamer Styx to which •*£«• 

 mails were transferred, and both ships "™*°™£ 

 company, and landed the mails at Plymouth on Fnday. 

 The'Ta; brought 12 passengers an d Mt -!£■«*» 

 at Fayal, who came home , ,n he ft**** 

 papers reiterate the complains oi *. rp . nprt to the 

 [be P Government for the*. • condoc . th «p«rfto the 

 sugar dotiea, and sta e tha ^ £e>,ng t 8 ^ 



jjg [njnSr Tnetln 1 Wa.* U reported 



