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THE NEWSPAPER. 





place in Fans— some ot tbeoa even in the mos 



public streets and boulevards have drawn public at- 

 tention at length to the inefficient state of the poHee 

 of thit capital. A trial which has recently taken 

 place has brought to light the existence of a gang of 

 regularly o raised assassins and robbers, who have 

 existed "for eight years and who have been carrying on 

 their nefarious trade without being discovered by the 

 police. Fifteen have now been convicted and sentenced 

 to different degree! of punishment, which will relieve 

 society of their presence for a good many year3 ; but this 

 result has been obtained, not by the exertions and intel- 

 ligence of the police, but by a quarrel among there selves, 

 which induced one of them to give a clue to the autho- 

 rities of the practices and haunts of his companions. 

 This is the fourth gang of the same kind that has been 

 discovered within the last few months, and, curiously 

 enough, the police had not the merit of bringing one of 

 them to j« a. In every case one of the rogues (gene- 

 rally the greatest) turned King's evidence, and betrayed 

 his comoanio Such a state of affairs is by no 



means creditable to the Government, and as regards 

 the public it has created the greatest alarm. — The 

 Semq >re de Marseille, of the 6th instant, an- 

 nounces the arrival in that city, on the preceding 

 evening, of the Pi bee de Joinville and the Duke and 

 Duchess d'Aumale. The Princes were received on land- 

 ing by the <yor and municipal body, and conducted to 

 he triumphal arch, v. here all the civil and military au- 

 thorities bad .-trembled, and were admitted to present 

 their homage to the august party. The whole city was 

 illuminated. A deputation of the foung ladies ot Mar- 

 seilles Waited I the Duchess immediately "after her 

 arrival at the Hotel d'Orient, to welcome her to France; 

 and at 10 o'clock at night the Princes repaired to the 

 theatre /here they were enthusiastically received. The 

 King and royal family left St. Cloud on Monday, and 

 took up their residence for the winter at the Tuileries. 

 The official prints mention that the French Court have 

 gone into mourning for six days, for the Princess Sophia 

 Matilda. — The weather continued to increase in severity 

 in Paris. It was believed that, should the temperature 

 continue to fall for three days more, the Seine would be 

 frozen over. It at present is floating down a l^rge 

 quantity of ice, and towards the Pont Royal a compact 

 body is* beginning to form. Skating has been going on 

 for several" days on the basins in the Tuileries, but in 

 consequence of the facility afforded by the railroads, it 

 is considered fashionable to proceed to Versailles to 

 enjoy that exercise. The continuance of the frost has 

 permitted several sledges to make their appearance in 

 the Champs Elysees and on ihe Boulevards. They are 

 handsomely fitted up, and the horses covered with leo- 

 pard's skins, and their heads richly adorned with plumes 

 present a curi <» appearance. The intensity of the 

 cold !y complained of in the northern provinces. 



The frost arrived so su -nly, that a quantity of bee 

 root which hid not been housed is completely destroyed, 

 and is only fit to be thrown amongst the farmers' ma- 

 nure. > Ion is completely suspended, and a num- 

 ber of families, which were employed on the canals and 

 rivers, are deprived of the means of support. The Cour- 

 rier Francnis publishes the following extract from a let- 

 ter, dated Macon, b"th inst. : — "The winter has com- 

 menced with intense severity, and at an unusually early 

 period. During three days the frost has been so severe 

 that the Saone is frozen over and the steam-boats have 

 been compelled to suspend their courses." The Havre 

 journals state, that in consequence of the severe cold, 

 the length of time for sentinels to remain under arms 

 has been reduced to one hour. On the nights of Satur- 

 day and Sunday last the thermometer maiked 10^ de- 

 grees centigrade at Havre. 



Spain. — We have accounts from Madrid to the 6th 

 inst. In the Chamber of Deputies the debate on the 

 reform of the Constitution was brought to a close on the 

 4th. The c 'se as to the Queen's marriage, while it 

 appears to yield to the general feeling in Spain that none 

 of the members of the family of Don Carlos should be- 

 come the husbmd of the Queen, is so drawn up as to 

 bold out hopes to both parties. The Queen is for- 

 bidden to marry any person who is excluded from the 

 succession to the throne, but by the new Reform 

 Bill the family of Don Carlos is not in that posi- 

 tion, for the 54th article states that — " The per- 

 sons who shall be incompetent to govern, or who 

 shall have incurred the loss of their right to the 

 throne, shall be excluded from it by a law ; so that, in 

 fact, it will require a further act of the Legislature to ex- 

 clude Don Carlos and his family. In the debate of the 

 1st, an amendment was carried for the suppression of the 

 clause of the Constitution which prevents the Queen 

 from quitting the kingdom without the consent of the 

 Cortes ; and on the 2d, the paragraph respecting the Re- 

 gency, whereby the Sovereign's nearest relation is to be 

 Regent dun his minority, was carried by a large majo- 

 rity. The Bill was introduced in the Senate on the 5th 

 inst. — The mother of General Prim had arrived at 

 Madrid, and solicited an audience from Her Ma- 

 jesty, which she had not, however, yet obtained. Her 

 object was to demand that her son, whose health was 

 seriously inr 'ed, should be transported to Havan- 

 nah, or Porto Rico, instead of the Marianne Islands. 

 The Castellano mentions that the General was taken 

 so ill at La Carolina, where he arrived on the 28th 

 ult., that he was unable to proceed on his journey. 

 General Pedro Ramirez passed through Cordova on the 

 26th, on his way to Cadiz, whence he was to be trans- 

 ported to the Canary Islands. — Another son of General 

 Zurbano has been executed at Logrono, with his com- 



panions 



This event is announced in the official G >zette, 

 n'ich "publishes a despatch from the Captain-General of 

 Burgot, notifying the executions of Feliciano, second 

 ion of General Zurbano, Jose Baltanos, his secretary, 

 and Francisco Hervias, an inhabitant of Escaray. The 

 despatch affirms that they had not voluntarily surren- 

 dered, but that they had been captured by the Queen's 

 troops. Ten more of Zurbano's followers, who had 

 surrendered, have been condemned to between six and 

 ten years of the PresiJios. It is to the disclosures made 

 by Zurbano's sons that the Castellano ascribes the 

 apprehension of M. Gamboa, General Iturbe, the 

 • dvocate Oyneley, and of a number of other persons, 

 who have been conducted to Logrono. The Oppo- 



sition print, El Eco, quotes a letter from that town, 

 according to which Zurbano's country house has 

 been levelled to the ground, the furniture burnt, and the 

 cattle killed. 200 persons were seized at Saragossa on 

 the 2Gth ult., 80 of whom have been thrown into prison. 

 A council of war has been instituted for the prompt trial 

 of the insurgent5 of Hecho and Anso. Cclonel Ostega, 

 General Prim's Aide-de-Camp, left Madrid on the 3d, 

 under an escort for Cadiz, whence he is to be transported 

 for two years to the Havannah. The journals also men- 

 tion the arrest of M. Gamboa at St. Sebastian, and that 

 General Castanada was about to be seized at Terre-la- 

 Vega, when he was apprised of the approach of the 

 Queen's troops, and succeeded in escaping. Colonel 

 Rengifo and other officers had just been brought before 

 the Madrid Council of War for a conspiracy, and Colonel 

 Infant had him arrested at Algesiras on the charge of 

 having plotted in favour of Esparte.ro. Navarro, a re- 

 nowned leader of a band of smugglers, was executed on 

 the 28th at Lucerna. The Marquis de Casa-Irnjo, the 

 new Ambassador at our Couit, left for Paris on the 2d, 



on his way to London. 



Germany. — Letters from "Berlin state that to the four 

 or five plans of colonisation hitherto proposed — Texas, 

 the Mississippi, St. Thomas, Brazil, and the Mosquito 

 shore— another is now added, situated on the west coast 

 of Africa, which causes much attention, because the 

 Elector of Brandenburg has acquired possession of a 

 spot on that coast. This is Cape Mount, half way be- 

 tween Sierra Leone and the North American negro 

 colony, Liberia, bounded on the south and east by Little 

 Cape Mount, and on the north-west by the river Sugari. 

 This spot was formally ceded, on the 23d February, 1841, 

 to the present proprietors, Geo. Clavering Redman and 

 Theodore Canot, under the protection and assistance of 

 the British naval force, in order to abolish the slave 

 trade, by means of a lawful commerce. The owners 

 have already erected dwelling-houses and other build- 

 ings, and built two ships. Mr. Redman is now in 

 Berlin, and is endeavouring to gain friends for the 

 establishment of a colony. He particularly invites 

 attention to the ample revenue of the rich soil, and 

 of commerce, and likewise to the gold mines, which 

 might be worked to advantage, no mining operations ever 

 having been carried on in that country. — A remonstrance 

 and petition of the membersof the sixth Genera) Synod, 

 held at Anspach, for the purpose of demanding the re- 

 dress of several wrongs complained of by Protestants, 

 have been presented to the Kin? of Bavaria. The peti- 

 tioners complain that the Royal Commissioners appointed 

 to preside over the General Synod, following the instruc- 

 tions that had been given them, and which prescribed 

 that no petition should be deliberated upon that they had 

 not themselves first approved, had retained 63 petitions, 

 in which their griefs were particularised. After arguing 

 the grounds of their right to deliberate and petition, 

 they proceed to say, " If, then, they have the right of 

 deliberating upon the internal affairs of their Church, and 

 of submitting, through the intermediation of a superior 

 consistory, the result of their deliberations to His Ma- 

 jesty, for the purpose of receiving His Majesty 's decision, 

 it is impossible that the two Royal Commissioners can 

 have the right of retaining petitions addressed to the 

 General Synod concerning the internal affairs of the 

 Church, for it would amount to an authority to annul and 

 annihilate the constitutional right belonging to the 

 General Synod."— In spite of every measure of precaution 

 taken by the government, the epidemic amongst animals 

 which is raging in many parts of Germany, has broken 

 out in a village on the Bavarian frontier, called Viech- 

 tach. and a sanatory cordon has been established round 

 it. — The Gazette of Konigsberg publishes a proclamation, 

 addressed to the students of the university of that city, 

 urging them to abolish the practice of duelling, as had 

 done the students of Heidelberg, and to establish courts 

 of honour for the settlement of their quarrels. Similar 

 steps towards this object had previously been taken on 

 the occasion of the commemoration of the foundation 

 of the university, but without success. Konigsberg is 

 one of the cities of Germany where duels are frequent. 

 Italy. — Letters from Rome of the 2-1 th ult., state 

 that Government have now under their serious con- 

 sideration the introduction of railroads in the Roman 

 States. A project has a'so been laid before them by a 

 company of French capitalists to light the streets of 

 Rome with gas. Some sensation has been caused by the 

 intelligence received from Ancona, regarding a murderous 

 attack, made in the open streets of that city, on Mr. 

 Roux, Intendant-General of the Duke of Leuchtenberg's 

 estates in the Roman territory. M. Roux has received 

 five severe wounds, and lies dangerously ill, although 

 hopes are entertained of his recovery. The season at 

 Rome bids fair to be very gay, from the influx of visitors 

 already arrived, consisting of many families of distinc 

 tion, from England, Russia, and Germany. The hunt- 

 ing stud of th^; Earl of Chesterfield has aho arrived, but 



an unfortunate accident which had caused the death of Mr. 

 Bertie, while on a hunting excursion in the Campagns, 

 has thrown a gloom over the sports of the field. 



Switzerland. — Letters from Berne of the 6th inst. 

 state, that the Council of State had received intelligence 

 of a revolt at Willisa, and had instantly given orders to 

 three battalions of infantry, three companies of carabi- 

 neers, two of artillery, and a squadron of cavalry, to 

 march to the frontier of the canton of Lucerne. It wis 

 inferred, from the adoption of this measure, that the 

 Government of Berne intended to support the opposi- 

 tion to the Jesuitical party at Lucerne, and avenge 

 itself for the moral defeat which it had experienced in 

 May last, during the anti-Radical reaction in the Valais. 

 On the 6th the troops had already commenced their 

 march. An insurrection, however, took place in the 

 Canton of Lucerne, on the 4th inst., but the insurgents 

 were defeated in their attempt to obtain possession of 

 four pieces of cannon, guarded by the troops of the 

 Canton. Private letters express fears that a general 

 rising of all the Protestant Cantons against the Jesuits 

 was imminent. 



Russia. — An imperial ukase decrees a loan of 12 

 millions of silver roubles to be applied to the construction 



of the railway between Moscow and St. Petersburg. 

 The Bank of St. Petersburg is charged to realise this loan. 

 Every inscription will be for 500 silver roubles, and the 

 interest, which is to run from the 1st Aug. last, will be 

 paid every six months at St. Petersburg. The sinking 

 is to begin in 18-16, and a special fund of 125,000 

 silver roubles for the first year, and 300,000 for every 

 following year is to be applied to it. — Russian literature 

 has just lost one of its most distinguished members ; the 

 celebrated fabulist Kryloff died on the 20th ult., in his 



78th year. 



Sweden. — We learn from Copenhagen that the King, 



whilst waiting for the legislative modification of the 

 criminal code, has issued an ordonnance modifying the 

 application of corporal punishment as far as the army is 

 concerned. His Majesty abolishes altogether the punish- 

 ment of the stick, which was both cruel and brutalising, 

 and substitutes for it a few blows on the back with the 

 flat part of the sword, rather by way of degradation than 

 otherwise, or in certain cases a certain number of stripes 

 with a rod, never to exceed 25,— The frigate Gession 

 returned last week from the Mediterranean, bringing 

 from Rome the remains of the works of Thorwaldsen, 

 the late eminent Danish sculptor, and several other 

 artistical collections. Many masterpieces which belonged 

 to Thorwaldsen, and the existence of which was>nkno\vn, 

 have been found, it is said, in a vault beneath his house. 

 Turkey.— A Constantinople letter of the 20th, m the 

 Auqsburgh Gazette, informs us that a serious misunder- 

 standing had taken place between Abdullah Pacha, the 

 Governor of Trebisond, and the English Consul at that 

 place. The Governor, in consequence of some pique 

 against the Consul, had ordered 2000 blows to be in- 

 flicted, for some real or supposed offence, upon a young 

 Greek, who was under the Consul's protection ; and the 

 victim had already received 800, and was almost dead 

 when the Consul reached the spot, and insisted on the 

 remission of the remainder of the sentence. The let er 

 adds, that Sir Stratford Canning has ordered an iinqu ry 

 into the circumstances, and declared that if the Consuls 

 account be substantiated, he will demand no only the 

 dismissal of the Governor, but some signal chastisement. 

 West INDIES.-The Royal Mail steam-packet Avon 



arrived at Southampton on Thursday, brin f^"* r 

 from Tampico to October 26; Hannah, Member 

 10% Demerara, November 3. She has brought on 

 freight, it is believed, the largest amount ™*W* 

 from the eastern ports of Mexico in one^ ™" 

 2,074739ft filers, part on account of Mexican d iridends, 

 600 i oz. of gold, &c. ; 2697 oz. of silver in mas . , W£ 

 4 oz" of platina and plata brita ; 108 serous of /^^ 

 &c. She has also brought 17 passengers w th ^ «w 

 of the late steamer Actteon, belonging to th « Company, 

 which vessel was lost on the 20th October.abont n e mites 

 northward of Carthagena. The Actseon *^^i*n 

 Punta Canoa, at 8 in the morning, when she , .truck npo 

 a sunken rock, supposed to be .the Negr ^.^^ 

 according to the chart, should have been nearer the i 

 than the ship then was. Immediately she struck tn 



captain, with the view of W n f^^ 

 boilers to be blown off, but without effect till ebon 

 minutes afterwards. A swell of the sea then ^ ed * 

 off, when it soon became evident that, in spite ot ef ry 

 exertion, she could not be kept long an oat ' ; a ^ ater , 

 then made to force her on shore, °*""*£"rf&* 

 but she went down in 6i fathoms. The captam,^ tn 



and crew, behaved with the most P .^^ 'the 

 rage. Every one was calm and coated, and 



orders of the captain were obeyed 7 lt ^^ n ?"ftted 



punctuality. He was the last to Wiethe* 



vessel. All hands were safely got into the 



and steered for Carthagena from ^* e J™Ze hos- 



9 miles distant. They landed in » af ^"^ 8 e ^ n ger 



pitably received by the Authorities. As so on as us 



was apparent, the mails were tak ■« °^ a "" T P T hat 



in one of the boats, in charge of he mail officer 



gentleman, in his anxiety to do his duty lost the 



of his wardrobe, and other effects ™ ere J er It was 



passengers on board at the time of the disaster. 



very fortunate that at the moment of the J rec ioUgiT 



place, the weather was moderate, as an hour pr 



ft had been blowing a gale. The Actoon make. Jj f ^ 



vessel lostsince the establishment oftbe ^^^-ships 



Company, being a quarter o : the number of ste 



it has afloat. They are the Medina, the lsis, tn 



(in which so many lives were sacrificed;, ana 



