

Nov. 9,] 



THE NEWSPAPER. 



their usual promenade in the grounds of the Castle. 

 Prince Albert shot in the royal preserves at Bagshot on 

 Monday, and in those of Windsor on Wednesday, and 

 •n Thursday hunted with his harriers. The Prince of 

 Wales and the Princesses are quite well, and have taken 

 their usual exercise on ponies during the week. Her 

 Majesty and Prince Albert, according to the arrange- 

 ments at present determined upon, will lea re Windsor 

 Castle on Tuesday next, the 12 th inst, at an early 

 kour, for Slough, proceeding thence, in the state 

 carriage of the Great Western Railway to Padding- 

 tao. From that terminus the Queen and Prince, 

 attended by a military escort, will proceed to the Euston- 

 tquare station, and thence, by a special train, to the 

 Itoade station, 60 miles from the metropolis, and about 

 40 miles from Burghley House, the seat of the Marquis 

 al Exeter. At this station the royal carriages will be in 

 attendance to convey Her Majesty, Prince Albert, and 

 •uite, to Burghley. Detachments of cavalry, relaj 

 being stationed at different points of the road throughout 

 the whole line of route from the railway station to Stam- 

 ford, will form Her Majesty's escort. Her Majesty is 

 expected to arrive at Burghley between 4 and 5 o'clock 

 jd the afternoon. During the short absence of the 

 Court from Windsor, which will not extend beyond four 

 e*ays, the infant royal family will remain at the Castle. 

 The visitors to the Queen this week have beeu Prince 

 Erne at of Hesse Philippsthal, the Duke and Duchess of 

 Bedford, the Earl of Lincoln, the Earl and Countess of 

 Clarendon, the Earls of Liverpool and Dclawarr, Lord 

 Portman, and Lord and Lady Ashley. The Earl of 

 Morton has succeeded Lord Byron as Lord in waiting ; 

 Capt. Meynell has succeeded the Hon. Capt. Duncombe 

 as Groom in waiting ; and Col. Arbuthnot has succeeded 

 Major-Gen. Wemy&s as Equerry in waiting to the 

 Queen ; and Lieut.-Col. Wylde has sue ided Col. 

 Bouverie as Equerry in wailing to Prince Albert. The 

 Archbishop of York, Lord High Almoner to Her 

 Majesty, has appointed Archdeacon Wilberforce to the 

 office of Sub-Almoner, in the room of the late Dean of 

 Carlisle. 



Ministerial Changes. — A rumour is current that three 

 es in the Cabinet, all held at present by Peers, 

 ely, those of the First Lord of the Admiralty, Presi- 

 dent of the Board of Control, and Postmaster-General, 

 will all be vacated before the meeting of Parliament. 

 Locd Haddington is expected to retire from the Admi- 

 ralty on account of ill health, and Lord Ellenborough is 

 Mentioned as likely to be his successor. The Earl of Ripon 

 it is said will also retire on account of ill-health from the 

 Board of Control, and it is rumoured that Lord Stanley 

 will succeed him as President of that Board, leaving 

 the Colonies to Mr. Gladstone, in that case Mr. Glad' 

 atone will probably be succeeded at the Board of Trade 

 fcy Lord Dalhousie, who will be succeeded, it is said, in 

 the uce-pre.<idency of that department by Mr. Card well, 

 M. P., for Clitheroe. It is not known who is likely to 

 succeed Lord Lowther as Postmaster-general. 



Judicial Appointments.— Mr. Justice Erskine has 

 retired from the bench in consequence of ill-health, and 

 Mr. Erie, Q.C., has been appointed his successor. 



Winter Assizes. — It having been finally decided to 

 iold an additional gaol delivery at the following places, 

 the Judges met on Tuesday, and made the following 

 arrangement. The days for holding the Assizes have 

 aotbeen appointed :— Mr. Baron Alderson will preside 

 at Winchester, Exeter, and Wells ; Mr. Justice Patteson, 

 at Nottingham, Derby, Leicester, and Warwick ; Mr. 

 Baron Gurney, at Liverpool and Chester ; Mr. Justice 

 Williams, at Norwich, Bury, Chelmsford, and Maidstone ; 

 Mr. Justice Coleridge, at York and Durham ; .Mr. Jus- 

 tice ColtmaD, at Stafford, Shrewsbury, Worcester, and 

 Gloucester. 



Death of Lord Western.— We regret to announce the 



death of Lord Western, which took place at Felix Hall, 



about 9 o'clock on Sunday morning. His Lordship, who 



was the son of Charles Western, Esq., of Riven-hall, by 



the daughter and heiress of William B ind, Esq., of 



Ixmdon, w*s born in 1707 ; and after be ; educated at 



Eton and Cambridge, entered Parliament for Maldon, in 



1790. He attached himself to the old Wl party, and 



continued to sit for Maldon till 1812, when he obtaine 



a aeat /or the county, and remained in the House of 



Commons till 1832. During this long period of 4 



years he took an active part in the business of the house, 



particularly on the corn-laws and the currency. If not 



the author, he was one of the leading promoters of the 



Cora Bill of 1815 ; and he ever remained a staunch 



advocate for protection, opposing as strenuously the 



proposed fi Ie d duty of the Whigs as he did the doctrines 



•fine League-, and last year, on the formation of the 



Protection Society, he liberally contributed to its funds. 



With respect to the currency, he was opposed to the 



Fincip es which have of la^e years been adopted. He 



attnbu ed much of the embarrassment and distress which 



kare i prevailed at different periods to this cause, and en- 



*«Toured by his speeches and pamphlets to enforce his 



Tiews on this subject H « Lor.Vuip steely supported 



the liberal party ,n their long struggle for reform ; and 



contributed to its ultimate success in 1031 ; but the 



£»>>5 of the Reform Bill cost him hi, seat for Essex. 



On the division of the county under the provisions of 



that measure, he became a candidate for the northern 



«msK>n, but was defeated by Sir John Tyrell and Mr 



Baring— acfrcumstancfi which luced Lord Melbourn 



•a a reward for his long and consistent services, to call 



Aim to the upper house, by the title of Baron Western, 



2Jt"f D H l ; hU P° Iitical Wends in the county also 

 »»tined their esteem for him by presenting him with a 

 •pientlid piece of plate, at a public dinner at the Shire- 



ri8-u. 



Hall, attended by 400 gentlemen. 



Lordship lived in comparative retirement, seldom taking 

 part in the debates of the House of Lords. A great 

 portion of his time was devoted to practical improve- 

 ments in farming ; and in this department his name will 

 long rank with those of the greatest benefactors of agri- 

 culture. His farm was a leading object with the agri- 

 cultural tourist in the eastern part of the kingdom, as 

 Felix Hall, filled vrith antiquities and works of art, 

 principally collected in Italy, was attractive to the anti- 

 quary and the man of taste ; and a welcome and ready 

 h ality was always extended to those who called to 

 inspect either the farm or the mansion. Lord Western 

 was never married, and the title is extinct. 



Since that period his | Baron de Meer, have been attemSedTto be mi^ 



~ »-*-«- ' '-— drid and in Barcelona. ZV^^' 



bassy on the 27th, was to have been 





JFowfon. 



France. — The state of Spain is the principal topic re- 

 ferred to in the Paris journals, which concur in considering 

 the position of the actual Government of that country as, 

 for the moment, strong enough to resist all the attacks 

 directed against it. The Ministerial papers express the 

 utmost horror at the conspiracies to assassinate General 

 Narvaez and the other Spanish authorities, although the 

 National t the Siccle, the Commerce, and most of the Op- 

 position papers, admit that, from the accounts in their 

 possession, the whole appears to be a plot got up by the 

 police at the suggestion of the Government itself. An 

 animated controversy on this subject has been kept up 

 between the National and the Journal des Dcbats, the 

 republican print violently attacking the Moderados and 

 Queen Christina, whilst the Government organ cautiously 

 defends the Narvaez Cabinet, but lavishes bitter in- 

 vectives on Espartero, whom it accuses of having 

 been sanguinary when prosperous, and of having 

 fled like a coward from his enemies when they rose 

 against him. This article of the Debats, in which the 

 fallen Regent is abused, with little taste, for having been 

 opposed to France, concludes by saying: — "Whether 

 Spain change her constitution or not, Heaven preserve 

 that noble land from falling again under the rule of Es- 

 partero. The best constitution is that which is now being 

 carried into execution. Espartero would have promul- 

 gated a hundred constitutions without executing any of 

 them." The Patiie of Thursday mentions that the 

 Spanish Government has proposed to the Government of 

 France the marriage of the Duke of Montpensier with the 

 young Queen Isabella. With this proposition a memorial 

 is said to have been sent, in which it is stated that it is 

 impossible to arrange a marriage with the son of Don 

 Carlos, on account of the opposition it would meet with in 

 Spun ; but that there wou'd be no objection by any party 

 to the marriage with the Due de Montpensier. The 

 Patrie adds that no answer has yet been sent to the 

 proposition. The French Government has given the 

 strictest orders to remove all Spanish emigrants from 

 the south of France to the department of the Cote d'Or, 

 where alone they are to be allowed to take up their resi- 

 dence. To such an extent is this carried, that some 

 Spanish merchants, established in the south of France, 

 have been obliged to break up their establishments, to 

 their utter ruin.— It is stated that the loan of 300 mil- 

 lions will almost immediately be offered for competition 

 (in the Three per Cents.), and that the minimum will be 

 fixed at 80f. 10c. It is expected that the houses of 

 Rothschild and Baring will be among the bidders. It is 

 said that the adjudication will take place on the 25th 

 inst.— — It would appear from the Toulon papers that a 

 certain telat is to be given to the voyage of the future 

 Duchess d'Aumale, from Naples to Toulon. Indepen- 

 dent of a flotilla of steamers, the Prince de Joinville is 

 to unite under his command the naval division now sta- 

 tioned before Tunis. Immediately after their marriage, 

 the Duke and Duchess d'Aumale will take up their 

 residence for a few months in the neighbourhood of 

 Toulon. The Prince and Princess de Joinville are then 

 to go to the Brazils, the health of the Princess requir- 

 ing her removal to a milder climate.— The Commiitee 

 charged with the reorganisation of the Polytechnic School 

 have proposed the exclusion of 17 pupils from the insti- 

 tution, and the Ministry has sanctioned the measure. 

 All the others are to be invited to re-enter the school and 

 undergo the examination, agreeably to the ordinance of r 

 organisation.— The King left for Fontainbleau on Frida,, 

 accompanied by Count de Monialivet, and was to return 

 to Paris on Sunday evening. His Majesty, it is said, 

 intends to give fetes in that splendid residence on the 

 occasion of the niarr i of the Due d'Aumale.— At a 

 general meeting of the proprietors of the Paris and Rouen 

 llailrtfad, held in Paris last week, it was resolved that 

 the proposed branches to Elbeuf and Louviers be carried 

 lntoeffect; that a new issue, to consist of 18,000 shares, 

 2 authorised; and that the dividend for the half-year 

 just expired be 24f. 50c. per share.— The last accounts 

 from Morocco state that Abd-el-Kader has refused the 

 Emperor of Morocco to repair to Fez, and that he had 

 taken refuge in the desert, with all the followers who had 

 remained faithful to him.— It is announced that ten com- 

 munes in the department of the Vau, amongst which are 

 Cannes, Cayrus, La Gaude, and St. Laurent, have sepa- 



i from the Church of Rome, and addressed a peti- 

 tion to the Chamber of Deputies in favour of religious 

 liberty.— A subscription has been opened at Falaise for 

 the erection of a statue of William the Conqueror, who 

 was born in that town. — Amongst the prisoners for tri 

 before the Court of Assizes, ui November, is a man nauu 

 Bar: r, on a charge of breach of trust and theft. This, 

 says the Monitenr, is the man who, under the name or 

 Denis, gave strong evidence against Madame Laffarge. 



: ( a!N — Accounts from Madrid announce that the 



re- 



sassinated. But the plot having been discovered, Nari 

 vaez instantly pointed out the party whom he suspected 

 by arresting the celebrated Colonel Prim. On the mS 

 day the Baron de Meer was attacked in the streets of 

 Barcelona by assassins, who were arrested by the troon* 

 but they were instantly rescued by a mob number^ 

 oOO men. A fresh reinforcement, however, soon arrived 

 and 40 persons were arrested, six of whom, on the fol' 



lr i oiu° rn[ ? g ? WCre coademned to death, and shot on 

 the 2 Jth, and nine sentenced to transportation. General 

 Prim, on his arrest, was placed in solitary confinement 

 on a charge of high treason, and papers, it is said, were 

 found on him giving a clue to a vast conspiracy, which 

 had its ramifications in Barcelona, Saragossa, and other 

 large towns. The object of the conspiracy, it is ,ai? 

 was not only the destruction of Narvaez and Baron de 

 Meer, but the overthrow of the present system A 

 former Aide-de-Camp of Espartero, M. Mendicati " and 

 several other persons of the Progresista party were taken 

 into custody at the game time. In the Chamber of De 

 puties on the 28th, the debate upon the address 

 in answer to the speech from the throne was opened 

 but it led to no incident of peculiar interest, beyond' 

 a question asked in reference to the attempt on 

 the iife of General Narvaez. M. Quinta having 

 put some questions respecting the rumoured arrests* 

 Gen. Narvaez said that the enemies of the Queen and the 

 institutions, the partisans of Don Carlos as well as those 

 of the revolution, had entered together into a conspiracy 

 against public order, and were to begin in Madrid by a 

 crime unworthy of the noble Spanish character. "The 

 Government," he added, " is in possession of all their 

 plans, and the delinquents now in the hands of justice 

 will be speedily visited with the rigour of the law. The 

 cause of order is in no danger, for the Government has 

 both the wish and the power of maintaining it. As for 

 me, nothing can induce me to swerve from the path of 

 duty, and from the defence of the Queen and the liberty 

 of my country. Providence has hitherto protected me, 

 because it knows the rectitude of ray intentions ; but if I 

 am doomed to fall by the hands of my enemies, I shall 

 die contented, for my conscience will tell me that I have 

 done everything in my power to uphold the throne and the 

 institutions of the country. The banner of the Govern- 

 ment is ' the law and the constitution.' Those who are 

 anxious for their preservation must rally round it." 

 This, spp.pch was repeatedly interrupted by applause from 

 the assembly and the public galleries, and Gen. Conch3, 

 who had been hitherto opposed to him, M. Posada, and 

 others, respectively expressed their firm determination 

 to support the Government. Notwithstanding this, a 

 strong feeling prevails in Madrid that the con- 

 spiracy was organised by the Government for the 

 purpose of creating a panic and effecting the arrest 

 and imprisonment of suspected parties. This belief 

 is strengthened by the fact that the attack upon the 

 Baron de Meer, at Barcelona, is mentioned in the 

 Madrid letters, although that attack could not have 

 been known at Madrid at the time when it is said to 

 have taken place. On the 29th the Chamber of Depu- 

 ties voted the first three paragraphs of the address in 

 answer to the speech from the throne, after a confused and 

 uninteresting discussion. The only subject of interest 

 alluded to was the affair of the Spanish galliot, the Kayo, 

 which was sun i few weeks ago by the guns of Gibraltar. 

 On this subject General Lara made some remarks, and 

 called upon the Cabinet to exact complete satisfaction 

 from the British Government for the insult offered to 

 the Spanish flag. General Narvaez replied that a note 

 upon the subject was to be sent by the Spanish Ambas- 

 sador in London to the British Cabinet, and that [r. 

 Bulwer, the British Minister at Madrid, had assured 

 the Spanish Government that full satisfaction would 

 be given. Questions were put to the Government 

 by xM. Pacheco respecting some Spaniards who 

 had been recently killed in Mexico, and also with regard 

 to a declaration made by an English Minister in ; Parlia- 

 ment that the Spanish Government had published a 

 decree against those carrying on the slave-trade m tne 

 West Indies. General Narvaez said that, while the 

 Marquis de Vduma was in London, the British Cab.net 

 had made some complaints on the extent to which the 

 slave-trade was carried on ; but the Marquis de \ iluma 

 added, that, as Minister representing Spam in London, 

 he had declared to the British Government that measures 

 would be taken to put an end to the slave-trade in tne 

 West Indies. The Chamber then proceeded to discuss 

 the fourth paragraph, relative to the Government prujew 

 of constitutional reform, together with the amendment 

 of M. Isturitz, who moved that the consideration ot that 

 question should be adjourned to another session. J». 

 Bravo Mnrillo defended the Government for bringing 

 forward the project of reform at once. He reminueo 

 the flgflemhkr that no Minister who had held oihee during 



before setting tne macnine oi uyvcmmcn- »«« - 



was necessary to reconstruct it on a solid plan. in 

 discussion was then adjourned to the 31st, when tne 

 Cortes adopted an amendment excluding Don Carlo 

 and his children from any chance of an alliance with tne 

 Queen, and rejected the amendment of M. Ibturitz tor 

 postponement of the reform, by a majority of no ies 



than 124 to 26. > the 



Portugal.— We have accounts from Lisbon to w 



__ ™^-- « ..„« xuauuu auuuuucc toss me 28th ulr. The debates in the Chambers continue \ 



lives of General Narvaez, and of his chief lieutenant, the absorb the chief attention. The discussions rti*"vo 



