Nov. 23,1 



THE NEWSPAPER. 





merchants and capitalists in Lisbon, died on the 9th inst. 

 in his 87th year. He was one of the three original 

 founders of the Bank of Lisbon, and amongst the first 

 deputies sent to the Cortes. It was his boast, that he 

 came to Lisbon from the provinces with only a crusado 

 42s. 3d.) in his pocket. 



Holland and Belgium. — The Dutch Chambers 

 have at last come to a vote on the address in answer to 

 the King's speech, the delay having arisen from the re- 

 fusal of the First Chamber to agree to the address. The 

 affair was compromised by the adoption of two para- 

 graphs, stating that " the Second Chamber expressed a 

 wish that during this period the revisaland improvement 

 of our constitutional institutions may be taken up at a 

 seasonable opportunity. The First Chamber, on the 

 contrary, without entering on the examination of the 

 question whether it is desirable to proceed to such 

 revisal and improvement, found in the fundamental law 

 an obstacle which hinders it from agreeing to the expres- 

 sion of the wish of the Second Chamber." — In the night 

 of the 1 1th there was a dreadful hurricane, with torrents 

 of rain, on the coasts of Flanders. The west and north 

 winds caused high tides, with a very hollow sea. The 

 rain and wind hindered for three days the departure and 

 the arrival of the English mail packets, and occasioned 

 some damage in the environs of the capital. The quan- 

 tity of rain, which has fallen uninterruptedly, gives 

 reason to fear that the rivers will again overflow their 

 banks. The Senne is a'ready very high, and several 

 meadows are inundated. — The Belgians, in their impa- 

 tience for the acquisition of a territorial footing in the 

 New World, seem to have made a signal mistake in the 

 selection of St. Thomas, in Central America, and the 

 papers describe the last accounts from the colony as 

 most disastrous. 



Germany — Letters from Berlin state that the late 

 exhibition of the production of German Art and Manu- 

 factures has given occasion to the formation of a Society 

 the object of which is to ameliorate the condition of the 

 mechanic and workman in the manufactories, not only 

 by relieving their distress, but by establishing savings 

 banks and schools, and distributing useful writings. The 

 King has written a letter to the Minister of Finance, 

 expressing his satisfaction at the institution of this 

 Society, and has given a sum of 15,000 dollars to promote 

 its object. His Majesty promises further assistance in 

 proportion to the increased exertions of the Society. — A 

 letter from Bromberg, in Prussia, states that a congrega- 

 tion of Catholics in that place has separated from the 

 mother church. It refuses to acknowledge the authority 

 of the Pope as head of the church, or to continue auri- 

 cular confession, but it preserves the celebration of the 

 Mass.— The Papers state that 48 lines of railroad have 

 been proposed in Prussia, extending over a space of 641 

 German miles, since the 1st of this month. The capital 

 expended on the lines already opened is 35,551143 crowns. 

 The roads in construction require a capital of 56,619,500 

 crowns. The roads projected will require a capital of 

 •68,000,000 crowns. — Intelligence reached Berlin on the 

 5th inst. that the Empress of Russia was seriously 

 indisposed, from an attack of spitting of blood. The 

 King of Prussia was about to repair to St. Petersburg to 

 visit his sister.— It is Btated, that of 80,000 children who 



[1844. 



time to take the horses out of the stables, and severa id < ;ntermandeu order, and i romisedTToTffeTTn 



were drowned. Those persons who were in the strc. 

 rushed into the houses ; and m my who were in the 

 churches wtre obliged to stay tuere till the followi: 

 morning. In Santa Croce there were 2 feet of water, ai 

 the Piazza was inundated to the depth of 10 feet. All 

 this happened between 7 and 8 o'clock. Many persons 

 who slept on the ground floors were awoke by the water 

 forcing open the windows or doors. All this while the 

 Arno kept risiu- ; windows, chairs, tables, pictures, in 

 short, every article of furniture came whirling past in 

 the torrent. At 10 o'clock a tremendous crash was 

 heard ; the upper wire bridge had given wav, and the 

 whole wood- work of it came dashing past the Ponte 

 Vecchio, where the jewellers have their shops ; it was 

 expected every moment to be carried away, but 

 luckily it resisted the shock. The consternation 

 was at its height, for here was a mother inquiring 

 for her child, or a father asking for his son. The 

 rain still falling in torrents— no boats to be had — a'l car- 

 ried away. At last two were procured, and rafts were 

 made to succour those parts of the town that were inun- 

 dated. Seven persons were drowned in the streets. At 

 2 p.m. the Arno began to subside, still no one could get 

 to the inundated quarter ; more than two-thirds of the 

 town were without bread, and no help reached them till 

 evening. It was dreadful to hear the cries of ' Bread, 

 bread,' from the streets that were inundated. At last 

 the rafts were able to take bread, and in many streets 

 remote from the centre they were from Saturday evening 

 till Sunday night without food. All the cellars are full 

 of water ; all the merchandise in the custom-house 

 ruined ; shops have been completely cleared ; a picture- 

 dealer found frit a miss of sand in his shop, all else 

 swept away. At the Cascine, the hares, &c. have been 

 drowned, and the walks ruined. In the country it is 



-whole towns are under water, and 

 It rains incessantly, and another flood 

 is expected every day. No English have perished. 

 The streets are still full of water. The damage at the 

 Custom-house alone is estimated at 2,600,000 lire" 

 (above 100,000/.) Various other paits of Italy would 

 appear to have suffered from the swelling of her 

 streams. A letter of the 4th, from Rome, states that 

 the continual rains have caused the Tiber to overflow 

 and submerge the lower quaiters of the city and the 

 plains. In some of the streets boats were pljing, and 

 for several days no mails had arrived from the north, bo 

 that it was feared that the Po had also overflowed its 

 banks. The provinces of Casentino and Arezzo have 

 gieatly suffered. The roads to Fodi and to Faenza are 

 under water, and the little town called Borgo San 

 Lorenzo is also submerged. — The King of Sardinia has 

 issued an ordonnance, in virtue of which the property 

 belonging formerly to the Knights of Malta is to be in- 

 corporated with that of the State, the Government paying 

 to the community an annual rent-charge of 42,000f., 

 which is to serve for the establishment of five new com- 

 manderies, two of which will have an income of cOOOr"., 

 and three of 2000f. a-year each. The Augsburg 

 Gazette of the 13th inst. states, tbat the King of Sar- 

 dii.ia, having read the pamphlet published by Prince de 



much worse 

 without food. 



, , Joiuville on the advantage of a stfam navy, has deter- 



lnhabit the city of Berlin, 40,000 only attend the schools, mined to construct a steam flotilla as a trial. His 



the remaining 40,000 are employed in manufactures. It 

 is also said that a hairdresser at Ulm ha3 invented a 

 machine with which he pretends to be able to fly from 

 Ulm to Paris in three days.— A letter from Frankfort 

 mentions that business has been extremely dull ever 

 since the illness of Madame Meyer Amschel Rothschild, 

 who is now 99 years of age. The eldest of her sons had 

 made a vow to give the poor a sum of 40,000 florins if 

 his mother accomplished her 100th year.— The Prussian 

 Slate Gazette contains the following, under date Vienna, 

 Jd inst. : — «• The changes introduced into the tariff last 

 July have exercised such a beneficial influence over the 

 receipts of our Customs and our manufacturing interests, 

 that the Government is thinking of applying the same 

 system of reduction to several articles of manufacture, 





Majesty left Turin for Genoa on the 9th inst., accom- 

 } anied by the Duke of Genoa and Prince Eugene of 

 Savoy, for the purpose of carrying his design into exe- 

 cution. — The same journal staes, that the commercial 

 negotiations commenced between the King of the Two 

 Sicilies and the Governments of France and England make 

 no progress, and that His Majesty is more favourable 

 to an arrangement with the Zollverein. A Vienna letter 

 of the 9th says, that the Princess of Salerno, who is 

 about to marry the Due d'Aumaie, will receive a con- 

 siderable fortune from her aunt, the Queen Dowager of 

 Sardinia, who is stated to have declared her her heiress. 

 Greece. — Letters from Athens of the 31st ult. state 

 that people were beginning to be discontented with the 

 Chambers, which were still engaged in verifying the 



adequate reparation to the British subjects who had 

 suffered from the ignorance of the officers charged with 

 the police. The attempt at insurrection made at Schc- 

 batz, in Servia, had been \ romptly repressed. Wucsitch 

 had been appointed vaivode, or "generalissimo of the 

 Servian troops, and Petronievitch Minister for Foreign 

 Affairs. Prince Milosch has le't Servia for Italy, where 

 he will make a long stay, his journey being induced by 

 political motives. The Cabinet of Vienua is said to 

 have called upon the Prince to clear himself from suspi- 

 cion of having been engaged in the late agitation of 

 Servia, and, it is added, the Prince has returned an 

 assurance that he has been a total stranger to tl e at- 

 tempts at insurrection. Letters from Albanii state that 

 the greatest disorder continues to afflict that unhappy 

 province. A new insurrection had broken out in the 

 district of Debreh, and the lives and properties of the un- 

 fortunate Christians fell a daily sacrifice to the cruelty 

 and rapacity of the insurgents. The indemnity which 

 the Porte had solemnly promised to make to the sufferers 

 in the rcbcllijii of Inst year has proved to be a mere 

 delusion, and not even the 10 per cent, on the losses sus- 

 tained, to which it was subsequently reduced, has in any 

 instance been liquidated. — From Alexandria we le*rn 

 hat Mehemet Ali was determined t> monopolise the 

 transit between that city and Suez, and with that view 

 he had refused to allow the steamer Delta, which had 

 just arrived from England, to navigate the Nile, and had 

 given notice to the Peninsular and Oriental Company 

 that the two tteamers now plying on the river iLu-t be 

 forthwith withdrawn. 



Swkdex.- Letters from Stockholm state that in a full 

 assembly of the Noble State, on the 2 ith October, the 

 fifth chapter of the budget relating to the navy came 

 under discussion. Count Bjcernstjerna, the Swedish 

 Minister to the Court of London, stated that the English 

 Admiralty had declared itself perfectly satisfied with the 

 Swedish naval officer?, who, to the number of about 30, 

 had taken service on board En$li-h ships of war. The 

 Count added, that the English Government had recently 

 determined that no foreigners, Swedes excepted, should 

 be permitted to serve as officers in the English navy. 



Malta.— The new church of St. Paul, founded by the 

 Queen Dowager, was consecrated on the 1st inst. by the 

 Bishop of Gibi altar in the presence of the naval and 

 military authorities. The prayers were read by Arch- 

 deacon Le Mesurier, and the communion service by the 

 Bishop. The Te Deum, the chants, psalms, and anthem, 

 were given with great effect by the ladies, who voluntarily 

 assisted in the services, the choir being led by Mrs. W. 

 Frere. The sermon was preached by the Bishop from 

 Ephes. ii. — " Now thereto: e ye are no more strangers and 

 foreigners," &c. His Lordship, after having entered into 

 the discussion of the subjects of the text, proceeded to 

 show their bearing upon the circumstances of the day. 

 He alluded to the benefits conferred on Malta by this 

 pious act of the Queen Dowager, and observed that he 

 l.ad not thought it necessary to notice the unjust attacks 

 which had been made by persons of extreme views during 

 the progress of the works, hoping that they were now at 

 an end. At the close of the service, the sum of 1 15/. was 

 collected. After the service, a royal salute was fired 



single law. Acarnania and Etulia were overrun with 

 banditti, and some nights before a party of Palichars had 

 attacked the village of Amourisi, near Athens, killed se- 

 veral persons, and plundered a number of houses. — The 

 election of General Grivas has been confirmed. — The King 

 and Queen, who had returned to Athens after a trip 

 through a considerable portion of the kingdom, were 

 about to take another trip to the Morea. — A new postal 

 arrangement has been entered into between France and 

 Greece, by which the postage in both countries is greatly 

 reduced. — General Kaiergi had returned to Athens with 

 his family. The Greek Obs er says that the number 

 of distinguished visitors of all classes who hastened to 

 congratulate the General on his return, was a splendid 

 testimony of the gratitude of the people for the services 

 which he has rendered to the country. — The daughter of 

 the renowned Marco Bozzaris, Maid of Honour to the 

 Queen of Greece, was married on the 25th ult., at 

 Athens, to M. Karadscha, Chief of the Military School 

 in that city. The King and Queen granted one of the 

 loons of the Royal Palace for the celebration of the 

 ceremony, and invited a large circle to be present at the 

 festivities. 



Turkey and Syria. — We learn by the Levant mail 

 that the state of Syria was hourly beconvng more deplor- 

 able. A proclamation had been issued at Constantinople, 



lower 



from the batteries and from the flag-ship, in honour of 

 the Queen Dowager and of the day. On the Sunday 

 following, the Bishop preached in the morning, and the 

 holy communion was administered to about 120. In the 

 afternoon he administered the sacrament of bap- 

 tism, the infant daughter of the architect being 

 the fi:st person baptised. The child was named 

 Adela'de, alter the royal foundress of the church, 

 and was baptised in water brought from the Jordan. 

 The sermon in the afternoon was preached by the Arch- 

 deacon, and that in the evening by the Rev. Sir Cecil 

 Bushopp, Bart. — The Governor, Sir H. Bouverie, has 

 dismissed the Rector of the University from the 

 direction of the primary schools, on the ground that, 

 being ignorant of the language, he is unable to act effi- 

 ciently ; and has also dismissed the Professor of Political 

 Economy, because the appointment, with a salary of 

 100/. a-year, was a perfect sinecure. Another Professor 

 of Greek, Latin, and Italian, has been also obliged to 

 resign or have his conduct made the subject of inquiry 

 in connection with certain charges of plagiarism of the 

 n.ost dangerous class — publishing whole poems in Latin 

 as his own, the works of another, substituting only the 

 name of Bouverie for Leopold, and adopting names of 

 places in Malta for those used in the poem for Italy. 



West Indies and South America. — We have later 

 advices from these parts by the Clyde steamer, which left 

 Jamaica on the 25th ult. It appears that the season 

 throughout the West Indies has been unusually hot, 

 causing great sickness and mortality. Denurara was 

 particularly unhealthy, typhus and scarlet fever raging, 

 in addition to the indigenous fever of the colony. The 

 Jamaica House of Assembly was opened by the Eaul 

 of Elgin on the 15th October. The Hill Coolie propo- 

 sition was brought forward in a very full house ; and, 

 after a lengthened discussion, was carried: the number, 

 however, being limited to 2000, instead of 50C0, as pro- 

 posed by the Home Government. A dreadful fire 

 occurred on the Canal Coffee Plantations, near Deme- 

 rara, on the 14th ult., and was burning on the 20tb, 

 whereby nearly the whole of that valuable district would 

 be destroyed. The plantations were fired by the pea- 

 santry, in consequence of a tax on the sale of plantains 

 having been recently exacted by the collector of the dis- 

 trict. From Havannah, we have the gratifying intelH- 



ence that the Capt.-Gen. has issued a proclamation, noti- 



was the rush of water, that there Vas barelv however, on the remonstrance of Sir Stratford Canning, fyingthat, on and after 1st Jan. next, all vessels, under 



either by reducing the import duty or by converting the powi-rs of thtir members, and had not yet passed a 

 prohibition into a moderate protecting duty. The duties ~ 



■on fine and mixed cotton goods, printed and others, will be 

 modified, but those on woollen cloths will continue the 

 same."— A letter fromVienna, of the 4th inst., stales that 

 1 rince Altieri, the Pope's Nuncio, had protested against 

 the imperial resolution adopted relative to mixed mar- 

 ria ges, which relieves the non-Catholic husband or wife 

 . m aQ obligation to promise to educate their children 

 jn the Catholic religion. This protest has been rejected 

 7 the Emperor, inasmuch as His Imperial Maj y, ac- 

 cording to the terms of a bull of Pope Sylvester II., 

 granted to King Stephen, enjoys unlimited jurisdiction 

 ja religious matters. This resolution has produced a 

 favourable impression at Presburg.— The Cologne Gazette 

 states thaUhe late riots in Bohemia had not a political 

 ause, but that they originated in the excessive taxation 

 posed upon the people, as well as the seignoriai privi- 

 leges and other abuses. Prince Metternich is said to 

 ' , \° maintain the status quo, but the Baron de Kubeck 

 ™ the Grand Duke Stephen desire that all abuses should 

 w « removed as speedily as possible. 



TAIY «— -The following account of the flood at Flo- 



: ce » whose disastrous ravages we noticed in our last, is 



SL 1 y . aa e ye-witness :— " The rain began on the 3d, 



inc. C ° nt ; nued near, y the whole day ; during the night it 



SanJu!fz am ? feU . ia one cont inued torrent. Early on 



_«nday morning the alarm was given that the Arno was forbidding any person whatever to appear in the streets 

 ^ "° g the town J and in about half an hour all the of Pera and of the villages along the Bosphorus after 



so r ^ P » artS ° f FIorence we re 6 and 7 feet deep in water ; sunset, and had occasioned some disorders. The Porte 



