Dec. 7,] 



THE NEWSPAPER. 



[1844. 



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SATURDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1844. 



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Nefog of tlje S gaegft. 



By the Overland Mail from India we have advices 

 from Bombay to 1st Nov. The news is not remarkable, 

 except in reference to the recent troubles in the 

 Southern Mahratta country, where the youthful Rajah 

 had been compelled to demand the assistance of the Bri- 

 tish troops to suppress a rebellion brought about by the 

 despotism of the various agents who have administered 

 the government during his minority. The insurgents 

 had routed the Rajah's forces previous to the arrival of 

 our troops, and had then retired to the mountain for- 

 tresses. One of these, Samunghur, was taken by storm 

 by the British auxiliaries on the 13th Oct. The enemy 

 fled at their approach, leaving nearly 600 dead upon the 

 field, while about as many were taken prisoners. Our 

 own casualties were very few, being confined to the loss 

 of 3 officers, and from 20 to 30 men killed or wounded. 

 Col. Outram has since been appointed political agent, 

 and is making a tour through the country, accompanied 

 by the Rajah, for the purpose of inquiring into and re- 

 dressing the grievances which caused the insurrection. 

 The news from other parts presents few topics which call 

 for notice. Sir H. Hardinge is proceeding quietly at 



Calcutta studying the politics of India, and has 

 hitherto confined his public acts to the extension 

 of education among the natives. — In France the 

 papers are chiefly occupied with the affairs of Ire- 

 land, and many angry comments are made on Mr. 

 O'Connell's late attacks on the French press. The 

 Ministerial and Republican organs concur in de- 

 nouncing Mr. O'Connell's political inconsistencies, and 

 censure him with much bitterness for deluding the 

 people with perpetual promises of what he knows to be 

 impossible. The election of the new President of the 

 United States is another prominent topic in the Paris 

 papers : those of the Opposition rejoice at the success 

 of Mr. Polk as a new triumph of liberal principles, while 

 the Ministerial journals regret it as transferring the 

 supreme power to a party incapable of consolidating a 

 society which they describe as shaken to its foundations. 

 — From Spain we have melancholy accounts of the issue 

 of Zurbano's insurrection. The chief himself is sup- 

 posed to have escaped either into Portugal or France ; 

 but his second son and brother-in-law have been captured 

 and shot without a trial. Great efforts were made by all 

 classes to save their lives, but the Government were in- 

 exorable, and another sanguinary chapter has thus been 

 added to the history of that unhappy country. General 

 Araoz also has been sentenced to death at Cadiz without 

 a trial; General Prim has been banished to Cuba ; and 

 eight other general officers have been ordered to quit 

 Madrid on the mere suspicion of their guilt. In addi- 

 tion to these rigours it is said that orders have been 

 issued for the execution of several additional partizans of 

 Zurbano, including his eldest son, who have fallen into 

 the hands of the Government forces since the dispersal 

 of the insurgents. These acts of despotism have pro- 

 duced a deep sensation not only in Madrid but through- 

 out all Europe : — the Paris papers, however much they 

 differ on Spanish politics in general, are unanimous in 

 stigmatising the cruelty of General Narvaez as unsur- 





lt is said that Mr. Bulwer and M. Bresson, the British 

 and French Envoys to the Court of- Madrid, have most 

 earnestly entreated the Spanish Government to stop the 

 further effusion of blood. — From Italy we have accounts 

 of the marriage of the Due d'Aumale with his cousin, 

 the Princess Maria Carolina of Salerno, which was cele- 

 brated on the 25th ult. at Naples with great pomp. This 

 alliance is regarded in France as one of the most import- 

 ant which has yet been made by the family of Louis- 

 Philippe, as it unites the constitutional tarone with the 

 elder branch of the House of Bourbon. 



f&ome Nctos. 



Court.— The Queen and Prince Albert with their 

 royal visitors are still at Windsor Castle, but have re- 

 mained in comparative seclusion during the week, in con- 

 sequence of the death of the Princess Sophia. Her 

 Majesty, however, has taken her usual walks within the 

 grounds of the Castle. The Chapter of the*Order of the 

 Garter, fixed for the 12th Inst, at Windsor Castle, will 

 be held on that day, but the intended banquet in St. 

 George's Hail in the evening will not be given, inconse- 

 quence of the decease of the Princess Sophia. Her 

 Majesty and Prince Albert, accompanied b.y their Royal 

 Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Saxe Coburg 

 Gotha, and the Duke Ernest of Wurtemberg, will take 

 their departure from the Castle on Saturday for Clareraont, 

 where the Court will remain until after the funeral of 

 the Princess Sophia on Tuesday next. The Court is 

 expected to return to Windsor on Wednesday. It is 

 stated that Her Majesty has signified her intention of 

 honouring the Duke of Buckingham by an early visit. 

 The precise day is not yet fixed, but it is believed that 

 the Court will leave Windsor for Stowe either during the 

 week before or the week after Christmas. It is also said 

 that Her Majesty will previously pay a visit to the Duke 

 of Wellington, at Strathfieldsaye. — Lord C. Wellesley 

 (Clerk Marshal) has succeeded Colonel Arbuthnot as 

 Equerry in Waiting on the Queen, and Major-General 

 Sir E. Bowater has succeeded Lieutenant-Colonel Wylde 

 as Equerry in Waiting on Prince Albert. The Earl of 

 Hardwirke has succeeded Lord Rivers as Lord in Waiting 

 on the Queen, and Colonel Drummond has relieved Mr. 

 Ormsby Gore as Groom in Waiting on Her Majesty. — 

 It is stated that the Hereditary Grand Duke and Duchess 

 of Mecklenburgh Strelitz will prolong their visit to the 

 Duke and Duchess of Cambridge until the beginning of 

 May, and that the Grand Duchess's accouchement, which 

 may be expected early in January, will take place at 

 Gloucester House. 



Death of the Princess Sophia-Matilda. — The Prin- 

 cess Sophia of Gloucester expired on Friday, about 10 

 o'clock, at her residence on Blackheath, after a short ill- 

 ness. Her Royal Highness had been unwell at intervals 

 for some time past, aud was in the 72d year of her age, 

 having been born on the 23d May, 1773, and was sister 

 to the late Duke of Gloucester. Her Royal Highness 

 had resided many years in the parish of Greenwich, and 

 was the Ranger of Greenwich Park. The remains of Her 

 Royal Highness will be interred in the family vault in 

 St. George's Chapel, Windsor, on the evening of Tues- 

 day the 10fh inst., and in compliance with the wishes of 

 Her Royal Highness, the funeral will be conducted with 

 as much privacy as is consistent with the rank of Her 

 late Royal Highness. In consequence of the death of 

 the Princess, orders have been issued from the Lord 

 Chamberlain's Office, directing that the Court go into 

 mourning from the 5th to the 15th inst. The Earl 

 Marshal has also issued the usual notice, stating that it 

 is expected that the public put themselves into mourning 

 for one week, commencing from the 5th inst. 



Indian Postage.— The Gazette of Tuesday contains a 

 Treasury Warrant, fixing generally at 4d. the rate on all 

 East India and Colonial letters of not more than half-an- 

 ounce weight. 



The Church.— The Rev. Dr. Cramer, Principal of 

 New Inn Hall, and Professor of Modern History in the 

 University of Oxford, is appointed by Her Majesty to be 

 Dean of Carlisle. The Rev. Prebendary Medley, Vicar 

 of St. Thomas's, Exeter, has received the appointment 

 to the Bishopric about to be constituted in the province 

 of New Brunswick. 



Consular Appointment.— "Sir. G. W. Featherston- 

 haugh, of Scarborough, author of u An Excursion through 

 the Slave States of America," has received the appoint- 

 ment of British Consul at Havre-de-Grace. 



Pensions. — The poet Campbell's pension of 184/. 

 a-year, payable out of the Scotch Excise, has been be- 

 stowed upon Mr. Patrick Fraser Tytler, the historian of 

 Scotland. 



The Sugar Duties.— The Gazette of Tuesday contains 

 an Order in Council regarding the admission of sugar 

 from Venezuela into ttiis country. The order recites that 

 portion of the last Sugar Duty Bill which alluded to the 

 admission of this produce from China,. Java, Manilla, 

 &c, at a duty of 34s. per cwt., and 5 percent., a certifi- 

 cate being given that this sugar is not the produce of 

 slave labour, and not refined. The present order ex- 

 tends the benefit of this Act to Venezuela, the order hav- 

 ing force from the 28th ult. 



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foreign. 



France.— The Paris papers arc filled with angry 

 strictures on the attack made on the French press by 

 Mr. O'Connell at the last week's meeting of the Repeal 

 Association. The papers of all parties take notice of 



stigmatising the cruelty of General Narvaez as unsur- Association. The paperB or an pan.es ut»c ««»« »* v ~-.~- v« m .n «n»>«t rn arwnt the one when he 



passed ia the very worst periods of modern history, and his speech, and ar/very bitter in their replies. The and a danger. No man ought to accept the 



Ministerial Dibatt says :— ,l Behold again O'Connell 

 who re-appears on the horizon decked in a cap of blue 

 velvet, embroidered in gold, with gai lands of shamrock. 

 We are really grieved that the air of his mountains has 

 not better soothed his bile ; and if we were not awsre 

 that great men had their weaknesses, and that even the 

 most accomplished comedians cannot bear criticism pa- 

 tieutly, we should be astonished at the transports of rage 

 into which this irascible personage is thrown by the most 

 moderate observations. Mr. O'Connell on that day was* 

 in full vein for applying epithets. He wished to give 

 us our share, and we do hi n the justice to acknowledge 

 that he placed us in good company. For this reason, 

 we do not bear him any malice ; and to prove it to him, 

 were- publish most accurately the abuae with which he 

 honoured u«. Mr. O'Connell, when he abuses, ii sure to 

 have the upper hand, llehissuch richness and fecundity of 

 picturesque expressions, that unless we had at our ser- 

 vice the catechism which is sold in the streets daring 

 the Carnival, and in which we are taught the manner of 

 replying to personalities without falling into a passion, 

 we could not reasonably endeavour to contend wi:h him. 

 For this reason God forbid that we should attempt it. 

 We might well permit him, moreover, to call us incre- 

 dulous,' for it is certain that we do not believe one word 

 he says, and that it is that makes him so furious. Every 

 one may have seen in the public squares a mountebank 

 who begins by twisting the neck of a bird, and then 

 places it on a table, saying, 4 1 will restore him to life 

 immediately.' He then begins to tell anecdotes, whilst 

 he is making his collection in the meantime. Those 

 amongst the spectators who become weary d« rt, quite 

 persuaded that the bird will recover; but there are 

 others who have the indiscretion to await the miracle. 

 Those persons are the most troublesome, and it is those 

 that the operators love the least. It is thus that Mr. 

 O'Connell proceeds. He commences by promising re- 

 peal. It will be had in six months ; in three months. 

 He then passes to another subject. He speaks of the 

 four quarters of the world ; of tbe emancipation of the 

 negroes; of the French journals ; of the impious univer- 

 sity; &c, whilst his audience listen to him with their 

 mouths open. But if some bungling spectator should de- 

 mand news of repeal, he would do well to quit the ring as 

 quickly as possible. This is nearly what has happened 

 to us. We are unbelievers because we do not believe in 

 O'Connell's word. We are atheists because we have no 

 faith in his miracles. But if Mr. O'Connell cares so 

 little about us as he asserts, why is he a^angry ? 4 Why 

 does there enter so much gall into the soul of a devotee r 

 In truth, when we see the sad position in which Mr. 

 O'Connell is placed, and tbe extravagant tricks he is 

 obliged to play before the public, we feel but commisera- 

 tion for him. We must take into consideration his em- 

 barrassments. He can only speak. He has already 

 consumed the Tories and the Whigs, who are not the 

 worse. At present It is the turn of the King of the 

 French, and of the University, and of that immoral 

 French press, when has had the cruelty to refuse to 

 believe him to be serious. The extravagance of the 

 illustrious personage has arrived at that point that it cm 

 inspire no serious uneasiness to any but himself. ' The 

 National, having been charged by Mr. O'Connell with 

 advocating "the anti-monarchical and anti-Christian 

 principles of M. Odillon Barrot," replies by stating, 

 first, that M. Barrot has no connection with that journal, 

 his organ being LeSiccle, and then proceeds to explain 

 as follows the part it has taken in advocating Repeal : — 

 " We should be happy to give assistance to the people of 

 Ireland, as we should to every people sighing for inde- 

 pendence. Stripped of its soil, reduced to a condition 

 of frightful misery, deprived of its most precious rights, 

 ever treated as a conquered race, the peop'e of Ireland 

 exhibits to us the most painful and palpable instance of 

 the violence and cupidity of British aristocracy. And, 

 when that people is struggling under the weight of so 

 many chains, when it has neither bread nor an asylum 

 left, it appears to us that O'Connell, armed with a power 

 so great, could do better than eternally speak of himself. 

 It appears to us that a man gifted with so much talent, 

 if he had a particle of feeling, would not confine himself 

 to act the part of a citizen advocate. We stigmatise as a 

 cruel mockery the conduct of a mountebank who delights 

 in throwing an entire famishing population into a state 

 of sterile agitation. A good Christian should not assume 

 an attitude so contemptible, nor everlastingly deceive by 

 his falsehoods a people ground down by th At mis- 

 fortunes. It appears to us that a man, placed at 

 the head of 7,000,000 of an ardent and almost 

 desperate population, and receiving from them a 

 liberal civil list, exposes himself to the contemptuous 

 disdain of honest men by holding out to that people, 

 from year to year, from month to month, the pros- 

 pect of Repeal, which he knows to be impossible. 

 Such are our sentiments. If O'Connell does not under- 

 stand them, we are certain that they will be understood 

 by the sincere men who surround him, and who address 

 him in secret reproaches similar to those with which we 

 publicly assail him. They have not the advantage of 

 being crafty jurists, eloquent orators, and narrators of 

 puerile trifling stories; but they ardently love their 

 country, they share all the sufferings of the people, and 

 they spurn the idea of making Ireland bleeding from all 

 her pores, a pedestal for their own renown. If amongst 

 them there are citizens who have not the courage to 

 sacrifice their lives for the liberation of their country, 

 they will no doubt leave to others the honour of placing 

 themselves at the head of those who shall take the field 

 Command in a country like Ireland is both an honour 



