Dec. 7,] 



THE NEWSPAPER. 



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has not the courage to incur the other." The 1'resse, 

 the organ of Count Mole, disdains to speak at any length 

 upoi a discourse which containi, it says, its own refu- 

 tation, and wishes, moreover, to avoid wounding the 

 feelings of those who regard, or affect to regard, Mr. 

 O'Connell as their leader. — Next to the affairs of 

 Ireland, the election of the new President of the 

 United States is a leading topic in the Paris pipers. 

 The Ministerial D4bats is by no means satisfied with the 

 turn the election has taken. " If the definitive result," 

 it says, " should confirm our present impression, and it 

 is not easy to doubt it, the election of Mr. Polk is cer- 

 tain, and we thus see the direction of public affairs, at a 

 moment w hen it requires the most consummate expe- 

 rience, pass from the most capablehands into those of an 

 improvise candidate, of whom the best that can be said 

 if, that he is * a remarkable mediocrity.' The result 

 will be to give the ascendant to the radical party ; that 

 is to say, to a party which its very essence renders unfit 

 for the re-establishment of order, and the consolidation 

 of a society which is, at the present moment, shaken to 

 its very foundations." The Opposition papers, on the 

 contrary, rejoice at the success of Mr. Polk. — 

 M. de L<»jr*n, the French Consul-General for 

 France, at Tunis, has arrived in Paris ; and it is 

 said that he is to be sent out to China as Consnl-General. 

 — The Mon'Heur publishes an ordonnance elevating 

 Count Jauber^, who was Minister of Public Works in 

 M. Thiers' cabinet, to the peerage. Of the large batch 

 of new peers almost officially announced a short time 

 ago, he is to be the only one now made. — It is under- 

 stood that the two candidates for the chair of President 

 of the Chamber of Deputies will probably be the sarre as 

 last session ; M. San/ t on the part of the Ministry, 

 M. Dupin on that of the Opposition. At present it is 

 thought tint M. S *et will be, as last year, the success- 

 ful candidate. — A royal ordinance has been published, 

 whereby, M in coo sequence of various mournfully cele- 

 brated trials which hire taken place for some yenrs past," 

 a commission is appo-nfed to examine into the question 

 whether the selling of arsenic mty not be entirely pro- 

 hibited without detriment to medicine and trade. The 

 commission is to consist of MM. Gay Lussac (President), 

 Hoard, Dumas, Payen, Orflla, Yvart, Bussy, de Ruolz, 

 Lemire, M eil heart t, and Sense. The preamble to 

 the ordinance adds, that the Academy of Medicine, 

 the College of Pharmocy, the Council of Public 

 Health, and the Commission of Arts and Manufactures 

 have already been consulted at to the means of altering 

 the colour and external character of arsenic in such a 

 way as to render the use of it difficult for criminal pur- 

 poses without immediate detection on the part of those 

 to w m it is to he ad ministered. —The trial of M. Sal- 

 lior, Comm'ssaire of Police, at Calais, for the murder of 

 Mr. Thorn, an Knglishman, took place on the 28th ult., 

 at S'. Omer. The fact of homicide was clearly proved, 

 but M. Sallior was found " Not Guilty," the Jurv having 

 answered \n the negative the two questions submitted to 

 rheir decision by the President of the Court. These 

 were— 1st, Whether the accused had or had not commit- 

 ted the crime of wilful homicide under extenuating cir- 

 cumstances? 2d, Whether the accused had or had not 

 committed the crime of wilful homicide ?— The second 

 performance of the English company in Paris was to 

 have taken place, bv command of His Mnjesty Louis- 

 Philippe, at the Palace of St. Cloud, on Thursday, the 

 5th, but an accident which happened to Mr. Macready 

 last week has unavoidably incurred the lap<e,for the pre- 

 sent, of that distinguished honour, as well as the post- 

 ponement of the opening of these representations till 

 Monday, the Oth inst.— A heavy fall of snow took place 

 in Pans and its vicinity on Sunday morning, and conti- 

 nued at intervals throughout the day. 



Spaix.— There is no longer any doubt of the issue of 

 the Zurbano insurrection. Zurbano himself has escaped, 

 it is supposed, either into Portugal or France, and his 

 second son and brother-in-Uw, Juan Martinez, whose 

 capture and imprisonment at Logronowere reported last 

 week, have been shot without a trial or even proof of 

 identity. Jt appears by accounts from Bayonne that 

 they were in an olive-grove, where they were found con- 

 cealed, but without arms. The son, a young man, aged 

 ^.esteemed in the army, in which he held the rank of 

 major, excited a lively interest in the inhabitants of 

 Logrono, and even theModerados expressed a wish that 

 the Government would spare him. General Oribe, who 

 holds the command at Burgos, listened to these appeals, 

 and considering that the real if not the only cul- 

 prit was Martin Zurbano, and that the circumstances 

 attending the capture did not imperative^ prove 

 the complicity of Benito Zurbano and his uncle, not- 

 withstanding the general order issued by Narvaez for 

 shooting Zurbano and his confederates, deferred the 

 execution, and applied to the Government for express 

 orders. The inhabitants of Logrono, profiting by the 

 respite, sent to Madrid a numerous deputation, among 

 whom were the most important men of all opinions, to 

 lay a petition for mercy at the foot of the throne. The 

 mother and mother-in-law of Benito Zurbano also went 

 to Madrid, and drew tears from the eyes of the Queen- 

 Mother, by throwing themselves in the attitude of sup- 

 plication in the road by which Her Majesty was passing 

 in her carriage. Their prayers, however, were of no 

 avail, for the Government remained implacable. An or- 

 der was immediately despatched to General Oribe to 

 consummate the execution, and on the 25th ult. Benito 

 Zurbano and his uncle, with their two servants, were 

 shot at Logrono. This was not all the rigour of the Go- 

 vernment ; General Oribe was dismissed from his com- 

 mand for not having followed his first instructions, and 





it is even said that he is to be bro ;ht before a Court- 

 Martial. This sanguinary act has caused a deep impres- 

 sion at Madrid, which is increased by the daily adoption 

 of fresh rigours. Among other measures, eight more 

 general officers, including Generals Ferraz, Van Halen, 

 Camba, Lerron, Grasser, and Brigadier Montero, had been 

 banished from Madrid, and it was said that an order had 

 been issued for the execution of Gen. Araoz, at Cadiz, 

 one of the ablest, and at the same time most peaceable 

 men in Spain, who has been denounced by two soldiers, 

 in the hope that their services may be as well rewarded 

 as those of the denouncer of General Prim. The Supreme 

 Tribunal of War and Marine had confirmed the sentence 

 pronounced by the Court-Martial against General Prim, 

 who left Madrid on the 23d for Cadiz, under a strong 

 military escort. He was to be transported thence either 

 to Cuba or to the Marianne Islands. The appeal of his 

 co-accused, who were all civilians, having been admitted, 

 they were to be tried over again by the ordinary courts. 

 The Court-Martial, assembled on the 22d to try several 

 officers of the army, charged with participation in a plot 

 discovered at Valladolid, had sentenced Captain Jose 

 Hartoli and Commander Pedro Contreras to be confined 

 during ten years in a presidio, and Lieutenant Antonio 

 Callpja to six years of the same penalty. General Nar- 

 vaez has been made a Grandee of Spain of the first class, 

 with the title of Duke of Ardoz. The discussion of the 

 various articles of the Reform Bill is still in progress in 

 the Chamber of Deputies, but the details are very tedious 

 and have little interest for the English reader. 



Portugal. — We have accounts from Lisbon to the 

 27th November. The Chamber of Peers, by a majority 

 of eight, have passed the bill declaring all the edicts of 

 the Government, twenty-nine in number, promulgated 

 during the prorogation of the Cortes, and consequently 

 without the sanction of the Legislature — laws in force 

 from the date of their promulgation. It is remarked as 

 a curious circumstance that all the old supporters of the 

 Queen's right to the throne are now in opposition, and 

 the principal supporters of the Ministry are those who 

 took a leading part in favour of Don Miguel. Amongst 

 them is the Bishop of Braganza, who, in his pastoral ad- 

 dresses to the clergy, in the time of Don Miguel, 

 designated Don Pedro as "a foreigner — an immoral 

 man, who had sold his inheritance for a mess of pot- 

 tage;" and yet, in his recent discourse, has spoken of 

 him as "the immortal Pedro, of glorious memory." As 

 the Bishop accused the Opposition of uttering nothing 

 but falsities, the Count de Taipa wished to know where 

 he was to look for the real sentiments of the prelate, 

 whether in his pastoral or in his speech. — A dreadful 

 fire, attended with the loss of twelve or fourteen lives, 

 took plice in Lisbon on the 21st inst. — The municipal 

 elections throughout the country, with few exceptions, 

 were carried in favour of Ministers. 



Germany — Letters from Berlin of the 26th state 

 that it has been reported for some days that the King 

 has confirmed the sentence of death pronounced against 

 Tchesh, in the second instance, but by a special order of 

 the Sovereign, the execution is to be left to the reign of 

 his Majesty's successor. If this is true, the King, who 

 in this case has to decide in his own cause, has granted 

 the life of the criminal without opposing public opinion 

 and the course of justice, for the sword is still suspended 

 over the head of the criminal ; but bis blood is not shed 

 before the eyes of the King, whose life was so providen- 

 tially preserved. Accounts from the same city say that 

 the Emperor of Russia has refused to allow Prussian 

 officers to take part in the war in the Caucasus. We 

 likewise learn that Russia will not extend the advantages 

 granted to Prussia to the Zollverein, which it does not 

 recognise as a Power. A Berlin letter of the 21 st informs 

 us that all the presents made to Blucher, and the various 

 and valuable decorations bestowed upon him by different 

 sovereigns, which were kept in a chateau belonging to 

 his descendants, in the environs of Berlin, had been 

 carried off by thieves, but were subsequently recovered by 

 the police. — The 500th anniversary of the Prague Univer- 

 sity is shortly to be celebrated with unusual festivities in 

 that city. A subscription list has been opened for the 

 purpose, and nearly 7000/. has already been subscribed. 

 Among the names who headed the list with munificent 

 donations, are Prince Metternich, Princes Lobkowitz, 

 Anersperg, and Furstenberg.— We learn from Frankfort 

 that the mother of Messrs. de Rothschild, who is 99 

 years of age, has recovered from the late severe illness 

 which placed her life in imminent danger.— A German 

 journal states that the Cabinat of St. Petersburgh has re- 

 ceived favourably the proposition of conferring the title 

 of Royal Highness upon certain German princes who 

 have hitherto not enjoyed that title, and has at once con- 

 sented to give it in all public acts to the Dukes of 

 Nassau and Brunswick. 



Switzerland.— Letters from Berne mention the 

 death of the celebrated Fellenberg, at Hofwyl, on the 

 21st ult. Emmanuel von Fellenberg was born in 1771, 

 of a patrician family of Berne. He was educated at 

 Tubingen for the bar, but later took to the profession of 

 teaching. He was professor at Pfeffel, near Colmar, and 

 founded his agricultural school at Hofwyl in 1801. 



Italy.— Accounts from Naples state that at 8 p.m., 

 on the 19th ult., the Gomer steam-frigate, having on 

 board the Prince de Joinville and the Duke d'Aumale, 

 arrived in the Bay of Naples. The Princes shortly after- 

 wards landed, and, notwithstanding the lateness of the 

 hour, they repaired to the theatre, where the Court was 

 presiding at a performance given on the occasion of the 

 Queen Dowager's birthday. The next morning at sun- 

 rise a salute of 120 guns was fired in their honour, and 

 the three French ships-of-the-line stationed in the bay 



returned the salute. On the 21st a grand dinner, fol- 

 lowed by a brilliant reception, took place at Court; and 

 the King, accompanied by the two French Princes,' was 

 to hold a review of all the troops of the garrison on the 

 24th. The marriage of the Duke d'Aumale with the 

 Princess of Salerno was celebrated on the following day in 

 the Chapel of the Palace — Letters dated Turin, Nov. 14 

 meution a new conversion to Popery. It is said that on 

 the previous Sunday Miss Louisa Cambridge abjured 

 Protestantism in the convent of the Sisters of the 

 Good Shepherd at Genoa, and entered the cloisters as 

 a noviciate. 



Russia. — Accounts from St. Petersburgh speak of a 

 commercial treaty, for which negotiations are on foot 

 between Russia and England, and state that the conclu- 

 sion of the treaty may be shortly expected. There are 

 only some differences on a few points, which, it is thought, 

 will be soon adjusted. On the other hand, nothing is' 

 said of a marriage of the Princess Olga to Prince George of 

 Cambridge; but as the Court of St. Petersburgh is in 

 deep mourning, and the Empress has been seriously ill, 

 it is considered likely that the subject will be postponed 

 for the present. — The cause of temperance societies has 

 received a severe blow in the kingdom of Poland. They 

 had been particularly successful in those parts of the 

 kingdom which border on the republic of Cracow, and 

 in Upper Silesia, where the country people, following the 

 exhortation of the clergy, renounced in a body the use of 

 brandy. But the Government has lately interfered to 

 check the temperance societies, and has published a cir- 

 cular prohibiting them, and forbidding the clergy to 

 promote the object by addresses from the pulpit. It is 

 also said that the Government of Poland has issued an 

 order by which all males without distinction are hence- 

 forth prohibited from contracting marriages till they have 

 completed their 30th year. — A letter from Warsaw of 

 the lGth states that several young Poles who had been 

 banished to Siberia for conspiracy against their Govern- 

 ment, had just returned, having received a free pardon. 

 It is also stated that the rescript against the Jews is 

 virtually abandoned. The latest letters from St. Peters- 

 burgh state that the direct communication between that 

 city and Cronstadt is already obstructed. The steamers 

 which started at the commencement of the month from 

 Petersburgh for Cronstadt were obliged to return, the 

 ice on the bar being too thick to attempt a passage. 



Sweden. — The King has approved of all the modi- 

 fications by the States in the fundamental law. The 

 principal modifications are : — Convocation of the Diet 

 every three years. The right of the King to give or to 

 refuse his sanction to projects of law adopted by the 

 States during the sitting of the Diet. The suppression 

 of all distinctions of nobility amongst the members of 

 the supreme tribunal. The abolition of the right of sus- 

 pending the publica'ion of journals. 



India and China.— The Overland Mail has arrived 

 this week with accounts from Calcutta to Oct. 22, Bora- 

 bay, Nov. 1, and Hong-Kong, Sept. 1. The troubles in 

 the Southern Mahratta country have greaily abated in 

 the course of the month. The Fort of Samunghur was 

 taken bv storm by the force under General Delaraotte 

 on the 13th Oct. Our troops met with little opposition^ 

 the enemy having fled at their approach. Nearly 600 ot 

 the Mahrattas fell in the course of the operations against 

 them, and about as many more prisoners were taken by 

 us. Our own casualties were insignificant : two English 

 officers were killed, and one died of cholera during the 

 siege ; betwixt 20 and 30 men were killed or wounded. 

 The army since then has marched to Kolapore, the. 

 capital of the disturbed district. The Rajah and 

 his Minister have escaped from amongst the chief.-, 

 by whom all their movements were constrained, an I 

 are now on a tour through the country, accom- 

 panied by Colonel Outram, who has been appointed 

 Political Agent, and a light British force. The object 

 is to inquire in*o and redress the grievances which nave 

 occasioned the late insurrection. The British force ulti- 

 mately assembled in the Kolapore territories amountea 

 to about 8000 men. Everything continues quiet in 

 Scinde, and the prospects of the country are bec ° m J "« 

 more hopeful than they have hitherto been. At an i" 

 posts, save Shikarpore, the troops are in the en J J n ' e ° 

 of good health. At this last station, the brigade is com- 

 pletely prostrated by disease, so as to leave ^arceiy 

 many men fit for duty as to mount guard, and g"« * 

 requisite aid in the hospitals. The Pur.jaub still prese 

 the same picture of distracted councils. Heera i & g t 

 the Prime Minister of the young Lahore Rajah ijnuia p, 

 has not terminated his disputes with his uncle, w°°" 

 Singh. Troops were prepared on both sides, ^ 



Minister has sent some agents to try the ene 

 negotiations. Nothing positive was known or " 

 suits at the time of the departure of the steamer. 

 Heera Singh is wily and crafty, and may s«icc« 

 overcoming the strength of Ghoolab, although tne 

 latter is now animated by a wish to avenge the dea 

 his brother Suchet, who was slain through the macu 

 tions of the Minister.— From Afghanistan we J ear 

 Dost Mahommed had contrived to give a « mbl8 ?~ 

 stability to his power. Me and his notorious .on, AkhD r 

 were disposed to quarrel with the now enfeebled bove 

 ment of Lahore, and to demand the restitution to 

 Afghans of the provinces on the western ban* .v 

 Indus, including Peshawur, &c, and perhaps a!s 

 far-famed valley of Cashmere, of which the MS fee 

 were rulers s me years ago. These demands ^cann 

 acceded to by Heera Singh without exposing hina ^ tfld| 

 his Government to destruction, and if they are rej ^ 

 they may lead to a war between the Aug bans an 

 Sheiks, In which the British must interfere— In ""** 



