Nov. 30, 1 



THE NEWSPAPER. 



party took^their usual walks, and the Prince shot over the 

 royal presem On Thursday the Queen held a Court and 

 Privy Council, which was attended by all the Ministers ; 

 at the Council Sir II. Pottinger, Bart., was sworn in as 

 a Privy Councillor and took his seat at the Board. The 

 visitors to the Queen this week have been the Earl of 

 Aberdeen, the Marquis and Marchioness of Normanby, 

 the Marquis of Granny, the Duke of Wellington, Earl 

 and Countess Cowper, Earl Delawarr, Lord and Lady 

 Wiiloughby d'Ereaby, Sir Robert and Lady Peel, Sir H. 

 "Wheatley, and the Knights of the Bath present at the 

 Chapter. 



Parliamentary Movements. — At the Council on 

 Thursday, Parliament was ordered to be further pro- 

 rogued from the 12th December, until Tuesday the 4th 

 February, and a proclamation was ordered to be issued 

 summoning the Parliament to meet on that day for the 

 despatch of business. 



Cabinet Council. — A Coun .il was held on Friday at 

 the Foreign Office, which sat upwards of three hours, 

 and was attended by all the Cabinet. 



Order <>/ the Bath.— The Queen held a Chapter of 

 the Order on Tuesday, at which the Earl of Ellen- 

 borough and Sir Arthur Aston, the late Minister in 

 Spain, were invested with the insignia of Knights Grand 

 Crosses. The Knights present were — Prince Albert, 

 the Duke of Cambridge, the Duke of Wellington, Vis- 

 count Strangford, Sir E. Paget, Sir G. Murray, Sir G. 

 Cockburn, Sir E. Codrington, and the Earl ot Clarendon. 



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France. — The affairs of Tahiti are once more a pro- 

 minent topic in the Paris papers. A letter from that 

 island of the 26th of May, published by a London paper, 

 and reflecting upon the morals of the French officers, 

 soldiers, and seamen, is indignantly resented by several 

 of the Opposition prints, some of which pronounce it a 

 worthy pendant to the Warspite epistles. The recent 

 news, however, quoted in our last, giving accounts of 

 another attack made by the French upon the natives on 

 the 30th June, and the removal of Queen Pomaro from 

 the island by an English man-of-war, has re-opened the 

 whole question, and affords some of the Opposition pa- 

 pers an opportunity of attacking the continual meddling 

 of England. The more moderate papers, however, take 

 a more rational view of the subject than formerly, and 

 speak of it more to blame their own Government for 

 concealing what is doing than to throw blame on England. 

 Rear-Admiral Dupetit-Thouars, to whose suggestions 

 and agency the injudicious occupation of the Mar- 

 quesas, and unfortunate occurrences at the Society 

 Islands h:ve been originally due, appears to have been 

 advised not to return to Europe for some time to come. 

 4 A Utter from that officer," savs La Presse, •« an- 

 nounces that the news of his disavowal has reached 

 him, and that being left at liberty to return to France 

 either directly or in about two years, after accomplishing 

 t voyage, he h»s determined on adopting the latter 

 course." The Opposition papers are extremely indig- 

 nant at Admiral Dupetit-Thouars for yielding to the 

 counsel of his Government rather than to the re- 

 commendations of the press. For the present they 

 only express regret at his not returning the moment 

 he learned that Government had disapproved of his con- 

 duct and proceedings. His resolution to make a voya-e 

 of two years, instead of coming back to France to re- 

 ceive the sabre of honour purchased for him by " the 

 eternal enemies of the English," is a serious offence, for 

 it deprives the Opposition of a most powerful weapon, on 

 the application of which, in the approaching session, 

 they had reckoned with certainty—The Momteur con- 

 tains a Royal ordinance issued at the recommendation 

 of the Minister of the Interior, whereby an extraordinarv 

 credit of 240,000f. is granted for trymg the elec rfc3 

 telegraph system on the Paris and Rouen Railway il 

 is I ated that the i Ministry have come to the resolution of 

 applying io the Chambers, at the commencement of the 

 impending session, for the large sum of 80,000 OOOf 

 for the purpose of providing the fortifications of' Paris 

 with ordnance; and that the question of obtaining a 

 dou ion for the Duke of Nemours has of late been 

 revved m the Cabinet, to the great anxirty of its mem- 



h/ 8 ' u>r i ng ' lt " 8aid ' insisted u P° n ** bei »S 



brought forward next session, but, after much discussion, 



lie has been persuaded that the measure will have a 

 better chance of success with a new Chamber than with 

 thepicsentone. » The consequence," adds the Com- 



ThTsV Y^* ' d ° tati0n Wiil nofc be presented 

 inl84? r, S K^ ™ u haU have ^neral elections 

 will l tl'rK i" D ° W the 8tate ° f the qw»ti°n. It 



sT do. hi *5J *tl nge , t(Mnorro *' *>r ™°7 persons 

 still „^»bt that the aforesaid determination is a final 

 one. —I he Municipal Council of Marseilles is stated to 



n^l Tth a SUM ° f ? °'°?° f " t0 be P !ace <*" tn?«£ 

 posal of the mayor, for the expose of the fetes which 



are to take place on the arrival in that citv o the Prince 

 de Joinville and the Duke and Duchess d^umale -The 

 papers contain a long essay, published by M. de Lamar- 

 tine in a newspaper of Macon, fa, which, after retain* 



t'encvTn trV° tbC P PP ° Siti0a ■P- ** »~» - 



tfon of W t ■ *,' "'f " UP ° n a f0rmal "Na- 



tion of M. Tmers, and^proceeds to vindicate himself and 







England, and of the speeches in which His Majesty 

 expressed his determination to maintain peace, declaring 

 that " a King acting such a part raises himself to the 

 level of a philosopher." According to a Corsican 

 print the King is about to create another Duke in 

 the person of Marshal Sebastiani, late Ambassador 

 at the English court, with the title of "Duke 

 d'Olmeta." — To the great disappointment of the 

 Parisians, the clouded state of the atmosphere on Sun- 

 day night rendered the eclipse of the moon invisible. 

 The weather was gradually becoming cold, but was still 

 dry — Marshal Bugeaud, Governor-General of Algeria, 

 and Baron de Bourqenay, Ambassador of France at 

 Constantinople, have arrived in Paris. The papers are 

 filled with accounts of the dinner given at Marseilles to 

 Marshal Bugeaud, on the occasion of his return. The 

 speeches on the occasion were of a very ordinary cha- 

 racter. Marshal Bugeaud, however, took occasion to 

 give a glowing description of the progress made by the 

 colony of Algeria within the last four years— The 

 election at Rhcims for a deputy took place on Sunday. 

 There were four candidates, but M. Chaix d'Est Ange, 

 the eminent advocate, who was the ministerial candidate, 

 was returned by a majority of 414 to 344. 



Spain.— We have accounts from Madrid to the 20th 

 ult. The Court-Martial by which General Prim and his 

 co-accused were tried sat in deliberation until 6 o'clock 

 in the morning of the 15th, when the judgment was de- 

 livered. Prim was sentenced to six years' imprisonment 

 in a fortress, but was to retain his rank and decorations. 

 The other prisoners were condemned to three and two 

 years of the same penalty respectively. The Supreme 

 Tribunal of War and Marine was to revise the judgment 

 and decide where the culprits were to undergo their pu- 

 nishment. The Chamber of Deputies on the 18th re- 

 sumed the debate on the Constitutional Reform Bill. The 

 whole sitting was devoted to the discussion of an amend- 

 ment moved by the Marquis de Montevirgen, for declar- 

 ing the station of Senator hereditary. At a late hour, 

 the amendment was rejected, with the approbation of 

 Ministers, by a majority of 88 to 60. The proceedings of 

 the Cortes attracted less attention than Zurbano's move- 

 ments, respecting which numberless reports were daily 

 propagated. The Gazette publishes a despatch from the 

 colonel commanding the column of operations in the pro- 

 vince of Logrono, announcing that on the 16th he came up 

 with Zurbano, in the mountains, near the village of Monte- 

 negro, that his infantry had thrown down their arms on 

 the approach of the Queen's troops, and fled in every 

 direction, and that Zurbano, his two sons, his brother- 

 in-law, and six other individuals, succeeded in effecting 

 their escape in the direction of Yanguas, with the evident 

 intention of crossing the Ebro, in the vicinity of his 

 country seat. Letters from the frontier add that his 

 troops had been beaten and dispersed, his son, brother- 

 in-law, and servant captured, and that Zurbano him- 

 self, with only a few followers, had taken refuge in 

 Navarre. This account, however, is contradicted by ad- 

 vices from Bayonne of the 21st, stating that the insur- 

 gents are making rapid progress in Upper and Lower 

 Arragon, and that on the 18th, Zurbano and his troops 

 entered the town of Soria, where he was well received by 

 the inhabitants. He, however, found that previous to 

 his arrival, the political chief of the place had issued 

 a bando, ordering that Zurbano should be shot, if 

 taken prisoner, upon his simple identity being 

 proved. Zurbano, upon this, ordered the political chief 

 himself to be shot, as an example to all persons in 

 authority not to publish such mandates. These orders 

 were at once carried into execution. A battalion of the 

 regiment ot Saragossa has pronounced, and gone over to 

 Zurbano, and it is expected that the example will be 

 followed by more of the troops. Information has also 

 been received that a rising has taken place in the pro- 

 vince of Guipuscoa in favour of the constitutional cause 

 lwo towns, Ascotia and Aspetia, have pronounced, and 

 General Iturbe has placed himself at the head of the 

 movement It is reported that a further rising has taken 



fnTJV^^ ^ 06 ^ Galici8 > Which is kno*n to be 

 in a state of disaffection. On the 16th Saragossa was 



placed by the authorities in a state of siege. The post, 

 were doubled and the troops, in whonf their offic 

 seem to have but little confidence, were confined to the 



The ra a C ntL a V * ^"f™ pl * Ced at the Principal po 

 The authorities issued an order for the delivery of all 

 the arms possessed by the inhabitants; but very few 

 were delivered, the inhabitants having been disarmed 



betted hi * P ?TT* ° f the G °*ernment are 

 bet ayed by various fresh rigours. Several trenerals 



including Espinosa, Ramirez" Graces Ic/ha^e be n 

 ordered to quit the capital. 'AH the officers in the 

 kingdom have been ordered to present themsel 

 week to the military commandants of the tow 



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from the Cortes, and a splendid entertain™ ~" 

 General Narvaez, at wh£h Her S.^ her ' b ' 



their mother were present. The ball p *^ 



quadrille in which the Queen daneed with Genera. V * 

 vaez, and the Queen Mother with the Freud ?>" 

 sador. In the second quadrille the Qn». n J Ambee. 

 the French Ambassador*, in the SUd"^ JX* 

 and m the fourth with General Concha, hader oM?' 

 Opposition. It was only in the fifth „,, j „ the 

 the Queen favoured th'e firet G«.d4 ^""s ^ 

 the descendant of royalty, the Duke nf \, P V a ' 

 Cell with an invitation, a neglect whith ? ed "" 

 much disappointment and alarf The who / sT't 

 aristocracy- According to the French p£, S .*?* 

 candidate hag been proposed for the ho.mur of D oT 

 sessing the hand of the Queen of Spain A L P , • 

 number of influential Spaniards and Portugese h.t 

 proposed to unite Queen Isabella to the FriZ Rnv t 

 of Portugal, Pedro d'Alcantara, the eldest so, of Q,?/ 

 Donna Maria. This Prince is a child of 7 years of, I 

 Queen Isabella is 14 The young cou,h TZ d^b 

 merely affianced, and they would then wait' the majority 

 of the young husband !-The papers contain long b o^ 

 graphical accounts of the ce ebrated Cure Merinn _k 

 death took place a fe. days since. Thl. w^dl nlll 

 man figures conspicuously in the history of Spain, from 

 the period of the French invasion in 1808, when he co? 

 lected an army of 2000 men, smugglers, muleteers, and 

 goatherds, to oppose the French. In 1833 he tnnt th. 

 fielc Ion behalf of Don Carlo., though 68 yea^SJand 

 rendered himself terrible to the Constitutionalists by his 

 rapidity of movement presence of mind, and determined 

 bravery. It is said that it would fill a volume to narrate 

 the unexpected attacks, extraordinary escapes, and ro- 

 mantic exploits, which made Merino during his lifetime 

 a real melodramatic hero. 

 Belgium. - 



his friends for not having cordially joined a party who 

 recognised "the President of the Council of 1840'' as 

 their leader. He censures the outcry raised by the 

 Opposu.on on the affairs of Tahiti, and say,, that tW 

 are noble fields for contest on the banks of the Rhine 



whtL p AJ ; dit fT l " eaD ' With0ut •^Se-Kng- ^r a rock of 



IL«- u Ud d< ** DOt evea dei « n t0 dis * ,ute the pos- 



session. He approves cordially of the King's visit to 



ves every 



they reside and not .^££1^ 7 Vem ZetTe 

 permitted to meet at the same time. This severe 

 measure has been resorted to from the apprehension of 



m0 oftbem j w-?h n % the "I 811 "" 110 "- Th P e r A h r^„° t f 

 thl rank, n? tT ^P'^^^t, who have served in 



the ranks of the regular army, most of whom, says a 

 private letter, -hare no means of existence, and'are 

 disposed to join any party, whether Carlist, Constitu^ 

 tional or Republican, provided they can proenre bread 

 It is thus that almost all the bands of brigands that 

 infest the roads and environs of Madnd § are com 

 manded by old officers. These bands, i c ^i 



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a srand lit • Ul f' o , Que ? n ' 8 /*"«* ™* celebrated by nauon oi me eiocuon rerun*, wu.cu WB ...--. 

 5 iu levee in tee I alace, the presentation of addresses . pied two months, and is still far from being comi 



j t, , • e . Post -° ffice treaty between England 



and Belgium was signed in London on the 19ch October 

 The ratifications were exchanged in London on the 19th 

 inst. By this treaty letters may be pre-paid or not, at 

 the rate of Is. for every single letter; newspapers to be 

 delivered free to the post-offices of the two countries, 

 and to be then charged with an inland postage of 5 cen- 

 times (Jtf). The departures from Ostend to Dover to 

 take place on Sundays, Mondays, Wednesdays, and 

 Thursdays ; the departures from Dover every Tuesday, 

 Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday.— The eclipse of the 

 moon was not seen in Brussels on account of the foggy 

 weather during the whole of Sunday night. 



Germany. — The German States display great activity 

 in the execution of treaties of commerce. After the 

 recent conventions between Prussia and Belgium, and 

 of Hanover with England, the King of Saxony has con- 

 cluded a treaty of commerce with Portugal. The Baron 

 de Renduffe, the Envoy of the Portuguese Government, 

 had received orders to negotiate treaties with the other 

 German States on the basis of that lately concluded 

 between Portugal and Prussia. The Zollverein, on the 

 other hand, proposes to commence negotiations with the 

 Brazils, and likewise with Mexico and the other South 

 American States, for the conclusion of a treaty of com- 

 merce. — The Prussian Minister of Finance has returned 

 to Berlin from Cologne, where he has been collecting 

 all the necessary information for the speedy determination 

 of the measures to -be adopted respecting the new rail- 

 way from Cologne to Minden, which is to be extended 

 from the latter town to Berlin, Posen, and, in the sequel, 

 to Warsaw and St. Petersburgh. A letter from Berlin 

 says that Tscheck has been condemned in the second in- 

 stance to be beheaded. The celebrated chemist Ber- 

 zelius has just been seized with a violent cong- ation of 

 blood, but the apprehensions felt for the result have 

 diminished, and there is a promise that his health will 

 be restored.— A letter from Dusseldorff states, that M. 

 Buddseus, bookseller, is printing a work, which gives a 

 most detailed account of the 18 coats of our Saviour, 

 which are preserved in different places in Christendom, 

 with engravings of the coats, and the several medals and 

 documents relating to them, and also reports of the 

 miracles which each of these coats, every one alleged to 

 be genuine, has performed in its own sphere. — Archduke 

 Charles of Austria closed on the 13th, the session of the 

 Hungarian Diet. After the ceremony, the laws which 

 passed in the session and received the sanction of govern- 

 ment were read. Amongst these the most remarkable 

 are that relative to the admission of plebeians to public 

 functions, the law on mixed marriages, and that allowing 

 plebeians to be possessed of lands proceeding from noble 

 families. Letters from Presburg state, that Austria has 

 resumed the plan of joining the Danube with the BlacK 

 Sea by a canal, but the two Chambers of Hungary differ. 

 The States propose a tax on the noblesse, to makeup tor 

 the first immunity, while the Magnats consent to * 

 general tax on all indiscriminately. ,,,, 



Italy.— A letter from Naples of Nov. 5, says, in« 

 famous volcano of the Valley of Solfatara, near Puzzuoli, 

 in the kingdom of Naples, of which the la*t eruption 

 took place in 1198, but which sent up in 1807 quantities 

 of boiling water, has been for some days exhibiting tn 

 same phenomenon. The water which it now emits' 

 strongly charged with sulphur. It issues from t" 

 eastern crater, in jets of about 15 to 20 feet high. ^ -- 

 The Jewish writer, Lombroso, who resides at Turin, n 

 just embraced the Christian religion. This is descrioea 

 as one of the most important conversions that baa 



curred for many years. qt ^ 



Grekce.— We have accounts from Athens to the •' 

 The Chambers are still engaged with the exann 



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nation o: the election returns, which has a,re -, te( j 



