Dec. 21,] 



THE NEWSPAPER. 



the Cabinet be brought under discussion. It is believeu, 

 however, in well-informed circles, that M. Guizot is 

 sufficiently strong to withstand the struggle on whatever 

 question it may take place, and that his Cabinet is ac- 

 tually more powerful at this moment than it has been at the 

 commencement of any previous Session. — From Spain 

 we learn that Col. Rengifo and his companions, whose 

 arrest on a charge of conspiracy was noticed in our last, 

 had been condemned to death by Court-Mai tial ; but the 

 Queen in Council, touched by the strong appeals made 

 to her for mercy, has spared their lives by commuting the 

 sentence to one of banishment. In Old Castile and the 

 Basque provincee, however, fresh executions are of daily 

 occurrence, and another band of the insurgents was shot 

 last week without trial. — In Germany,according to theParis 

 Papers, a rumour is current that the King of Prussia has 

 determined to give a constitution to his kingdom. The 

 bases of the new Constitution are said to be settled, but 

 as the German Papers make no mention of this important 

 measure, the report must be received with caution, until 

 it be confirmed from a more authentic source. — The in- 

 surrection in Switzerland is completely put down, so far 

 as relates to the outward manifestations of popular feel- 

 ing by means of an appeal to force. The country, how- 

 ever, is in a state of great excitement, and the two religious 

 parties which divide the Cantons are so exasperated by 

 recent events, that the pacification of the country is 

 daily becoming more difficult. Each party is powerfully 

 supported, and it is believed that nothing short of an 

 extraordinary convocation of the Cantons can produce 

 an effectual reconciliation.-— From Turkey we have 

 accounts of the departure of our Ambassador from 

 Constantinople, to give time, it is said, to the 

 Ottoman Ministers for the consideration of various 

 questions at issue between the two Governments, and 

 upon which Sir S. Canning had submitted his ulti- 

 matum. The departure of the Ambassador in cases of 

 this kind hcirg always regarded as an extreme measure, 

 it had produced a sensation in the Turkish capital ; and, 

 although it is now said that the step wss taken as much 

 for purposes of relaxation as for political reasons, it is 

 expected to facilitate the speedy settlement of the exist- 

 ing differences—From the United States we have the 

 confirmation of Mr. Polk's election to the Presidency of 

 the Lnited States, by a majority of 65 over Mr. Clay. 

 I he new Session of Congress was to commence on the 

 Al inst and the message of President Tjler, which is 

 looked for with much interest, will probably be received 

 by the next packet. 



At home, the affairs of Ireland are again a prominent 

 topic. The opposition to the Charitable Bequests Bill 

 is becoming dailv mora ^nproi on ,i m. n>r> ., 



mg daily more general, and Mr. O'Connell 

 supports a large section of the Roman Catholic clergy in 

 the.r host lity to the measure. The Government, how- 

 ever have succeeded in appointing the Commissioners- 

 including two archbishops, and one of the bishops of the 

 Roman Catholic Church, who have accepted the office, 

 notw.thstanding the avowed disapprobation of their 

 brethren. It is a remarkable feature in the official an- 

 nouncement of these appointments that the Roman 

 Cathohc prelates are mentioned, with their titles and 

 precedence-the first time that this has occurred, since 

 the passmg of the Penal Laws, in any official document 

 emanating from the Queen in Council. 



Order of St. Patrick. — There is to be an investiture 

 of the Knights of St. Patrick on the 4th January. It is 

 said that the Marquis of Waterford and the Earl of Rosse 

 are to be the new Knights, in place of the late Marquis 

 of Donegal, and Earl Talbot, who has just received the 

 Order of the Garter. 



Diplomatic Appointments. — The Queen has been 

 pleased to appoint W. Gore Ouseley, Esq., now Secretary 

 of Legation at Rio Janeiro, to be Minister Plenipoten- 

 tiary to the Argentine Confederation ; J. F. Crampton, 

 Esq , now first paid Attache to the Embassy at Vienna, 

 to be Secretary of Legation to the Confederated States 

 of the Swiss Cantons ; and Francis Farrant, Esq., to be 

 Secretary of Legation at the Court of Persia. 



Colonial Appointments. — The Queen has been pleased 

 to appoint D. B. Viger, Esq., to be President of the 

 Committee of Executive Council of Canada ; H. Sher- 

 wood, Esq., to be Solicitor-General for that part of the 

 province formerly called Upper Canada ; R. Y. Cum- 

 mins, Esq., to be Accountant to the Surveyor-General's 

 department for the Mauritius ; and W. Dudley Ryder, 

 Esq., to be Assistant-Secretary for the Island of Ceylon. 

 Law Appointments — The Queen has been pleased to 

 appoint W. F. Boteler, Esq., Q.C.,to be Commissioner 

 of the Court of Bankruptcy, in the place of Mr. Serjeant 

 Goulburn, resigned. — The death of Mr. John Moore has 

 caused a vacancy in two appointments held by him in 

 Doctors' Commons : one, the London Seat in the Pre- 

 rogative Registration, worth about 700/. a year, in the 

 gift of the Rev. G. and R. Moore, sons of Archbishop 

 Moore, the registrars of that court ; the other, the regis- 

 trar of the Vicar-General, in the gift of the Archbishop 

 of Canterbury, of the value of 500/. a year. Rumour has 

 already pointed to two relatives of Sir H. Jenner Fust, 



the Judge of the Prerogative Court, as the individuals to 

 be appointed to these offices. 



The Church.— The Rev. Dr. M'Caul, rector of St. 

 Ethelburga, Bisbopsgate, and Professor of Hebrew in 

 King's College, has been appointed by the Bishop of 

 London a Prebendary of St. Paul's. — The Rev. C T. 

 Vaughan, rector of St. Martin's, Leicester, and a distin- 

 guished and favourite scholar of the late Dr. Arnold, was 

 elected on Wednesday to the office of Head Master of 

 Harrow School. 



The Navy. — It is rumoured in naval circles that 

 Admiral Sir Charles Ogle, Bart., is likely to succeed 

 Admiral Sir David Milne, G.C.B., as Commander-in- 

 Chief at Plymouth ; and that Vice-Admiral Sir William 

 Parker, Bart., will succeed Vice-Admiral Sir C. Owen, 

 K.C.B., as Commander-in-Chief in the Mediterranean. 



The Customs. — A vacancy occurs in the Customs 

 Board by the death of the Hon. Heneage Legge, one of 

 the Commissioners, who died at his residence, near Rich- 

 mond, on the 12th inst. The Hon. E. Stewart, Deputy 

 Chairman of the same board, is also in a delicate state of 

 health, and has obtained leave of absence for a lengthened 

 period, for the benefit of a more southern climate. 





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our last. » There is one circumstance stated 

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Her Majesty, Prince Albert, and her 



royal 



visitors, came to town on Saturdav B „i ■ -. , , 

 Cattle Show, at the B,zaar in tt *** ™ lt < d the 





g street, Portman- 



■quare, returning to Windsor in th* H ' jrorunan - 



bourbood of rfimi . i. i t 5 P"« e "es in the neigh- 



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Admiral Sir R n? H-rd-icke as Lord in Waiting 



hold Her <i . U , rray ' • I ^l" of the Queen's House- 

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France.— The Paris papers announce that the Duke 

 and Duchess d'Aumnle arrived at the Tuileries on Friday 

 afternoon. The Prefect of the Seine, the principal 

 authorities of the department, accompanied by the 

 Neapolitan Ambassador, went to meet their Royal High- 

 nesses. The young Duchess, on her alighting from her 

 carriage, was received with the warmest affection by the 

 Royal Family, who were all assembled at the foot of tne 

 grand staircase of the Tuileries. The King and Queen 

 of the Belgians, the Minister for Foreign Affairs, and 

 several of his colleagues, were present at this ceremony. 

 In the evening there was a grand dinner of 150 covers at 

 the Tuileries, which was resplendent with the number of 

 lights.— The Constitutional contains a long article on 

 the recent news from the Pacific, that France had just 

 "accepted the protectorate" of the Wallis and Fortuna 

 Islands—" news," it says, " which has greatly surprised 

 political men ofallshades of opinion." This event has been 

 passed over by the Dibats as one about which r* the less 

 said the soonest mended." The Constitutional, how- 

 ever, says that so impolitic does it consider such con- 

 quests, that notwithstanding the official source of the 

 announcement it has difficulty in believing it. As the 

 news, however, has not been contradicted, it is forced to 

 believe in its truth, and accounts for the affair by sup- 

 posing that this step was taken at the time when 

 M. Guizot was beating the charge in the Pacific to con- 

 ceal the feebleness of his policy in Europe. It says that 

 if M. Guizot seriously intends to assert the Protectorate 

 of the Wallis Islands, there will be a repetition of the 

 conflicts and disavowals of Tahiti ; as in proportion as 

 the French draw near New Holland and New Zealand, 

 the struggle with the Methodist missionaries will become 

 more violent, and the conflict with the British authorities 

 more imminent. It adds, that this possession will pro- 

 bably be found to be within the jurisdiction of the British 

 Consulate of the Navigator's Islands, and that the 

 French will again be brought in contact with that 

 conciliatory personage, Mr. Pritchard. Under these 

 circumstances, the Constitutional treats as absurd the 

 policy of the French Government, in seeking after the 

 protectorate of is'ands which can bring neither honour 

 nor profit to France, but expose the Government to acts 

 of humiliation towards England in the subsequent dis- 

 avowal of its proceedings, or to the chance of serious 



., . . g in strong terms 



the observations published in the Ocianie Francaise 



the paper published at Tahiti by Capt. Bruat, relative 

 to Capt. Hunt, of the Basilisk, and which we noticed in 



Which, if it were true, would have the double inconve- 

 nience of not bein* conformable to any precedent with which 

 we are acquainted, and, moreover, of exposing the Fr.n' ! 

 authorities at ; Tahiti to a 'species of ridiculeThTchVoald attaca 

 in a certain degree to the Government at home. The com 

 raander of the Basilisk is accused, not of a want of respect 

 the authorities of the island, hut to his own SovereijS, th? 

 Queen of Great Britain. The Oetanie announces jrravelV 't 

 ontheday of the anniversary of Queen Victoria the i-Wh 

 ships hoisted English colours, whilst their bands of mu4 npr 

 formed « God save the Queen/ the Captain of the BatUrfta 

 the mean time, walking about in undress, as if to protest iSn5 

 the solemnity of the day. Thisunusualdemonstratio^ 



fail to 

 ueen of 



port, no more than similar honours to the Kineof The f>*™k 

 in British ports. This sudden enthusiasm for the cordial under 

 ■tending coinciding with certain unmeasured denunciation 

 directed against the officers of the British navy, affords a r.T 

 culous contrast, and the English naturally consider it similar" 

 that foreigners should wish to show themselves more Ene-1 ah 

 than themselves, and force them to demonstrations of natrin»i«m 

 which do not suit their taste. It is well to be friendlv to th* 

 British alliance, but that does not dispense with being logical 

 and it is perfectly useless to play « God save the Queen ' at the 

 same time that you are doing all in your power to envenom the 

 passions of the two nations. It would have been far better to 

 have made fewer demonstrations in honour of Queen Victoria 

 and to have abstained from irritating attacks against British 

 officers. Such conduct would have been more dignified and 

 infinitely more rational." 



The Moniteur of Monday publishes the treaty con- 

 cluded on Sept. 10, 1844, between France and Morocco. 

 It is given at length in the papers, but it contains nothing 

 that has not already appeared in our columns. In addi- 

 tion to Marshal Bugeaud, the same Paper announces that 

 Louis-Philippe has conferred the title of Duke on Baron 

 Pasquier, President of the Chamber of Peers, and it is 

 said that a similar honour is about to be conferred on 

 Marshal Sebastiani and Marshal Gerard. In September 

 last, Prince de Montmorency-Robecq, being tried before 

 the Court of Assizes of the Seine for distributing seditious 

 emblems, tending to disseminate a spirit of insurrection, 

 was acquitted after a brilliant defence by M. Berryer. The 

 law officers of the Crown then expressed their determina- 

 tion to prosecute M. de Montmorency before the Correc- 

 tional Police, for having neglected to obtain the authorisa- 

 tion of the Minister of the Interior to sell the busts of 

 Henry V., which he allowed he had got made at his hotel. 

 The case came on on Wednesday before the Tribunal of 

 Correction of Paris, and the Prince de Montmorency, in 

 explanation of his conduct, declared that he had never 

 exposed the busts in question for sale in the ordinary 

 acceptation of the expression, but had privately ex- 

 changed them for alms, destined to alleviate the suffer- 

 ings cf distressed legitimists. The King's Advocate 

 maintained that this must be considered a real sale, in- 

 asmuch as when an object was given for money, no other 

 term could be applied to the transaction. M. Dufou- 

 gerais addressed the Court at some length for the pri- 

 soner, declaring that, as the object in view was charity, 

 the usual authorisation was not required. After half-an- 

 hour's deliberation, the Court condemned the Prince de 

 Robecq to a month's imprisonment, 'and 1000 francs 

 fine. It further ordered the objects seized to be confis- 

 cated. — M. Bernays, editor of the German journal Vor- 

 wiirts (" Go-ahead"), printed in Paris, was sentenced by 

 the Court of Correctional Police, on Friday, to two months' 

 imprisonment,and a fine of 300f.,for publishing his paper 

 without having previously deposited the usual security. It 

 was stated publicly, and believed, that the prosecution was 

 instituted at the request of the Prussian Minister in Paris, 

 in consequence of the appearance in the Vorw'drts of an 

 article justifying in some measure the attempt of Tschech 

 against the life of the King of Prussia.— The unprotected 

 state of the public against the hordes of criminals at 

 large in Paris, as stated in our last, has excited much 

 alarm there. The Reforme states that a number of 

 persons had written to the Prefect of Police in Paris, to 

 inform him that their affairs obliging them to remain out 

 to a late hour of the night, and not wishing to be mur- 

 dered in the streets, they should hereafter walk armed 

 with leaded canes, poniards, and pistols. — On Monday 

 a serious accident happened on the Versailles Railway. 

 The particulars were not well known, but it was reported 

 that the engine of one of the trains coming from Ver- 

 sailles got into some disorder, and a piece of iron be- 

 coming detached from the engine, got upon the rails 

 and caused a serious concussion, which ultimately upset 

 several of the carriages, and detached the engine from 

 the train. The engine then got off the rails, and the 

 engine-driver was seriously injured. No one appears to 

 have been killed. The passengers were a good deal 

 shaken, but none were seriously hurt, as they were ail 

 able to make their way to Sevres on foot.— A fire broke 

 out on the same day in the church of St. Eustache, and 

 completely destroyed the organ, one of the finest in Paris. 

 —On Monday last the English company of tragedians 

 opened their campaign at the Italian Opera, in Paris, and 

 the success of the first night's representation (Othello) 

 was everything that could be wished. 



Spain.— We have accounts from Madrid of the 9th inst. 

 The Senate had referred the Constitutional Reform Bill 

 to a Committee, which was to report on the subject, but 

 as it was known that the Senate would make no amend- 

 ment of any consequence in the bill, its proceedings were 

 regarded with little interest. From Old Castile and 

 the Basque provinces fresh executions are reported daily, 

 and General Breton has already shot twelve of the un- 

 happy insurgents in Hecho and Anzo without trial. la 

 Madrid, however, matters are not managed so precipi- 

 tately. Col. Rengifo, Capt. Garcia, and Dr. Arilla, 

 were condemned a few days ago to death by a court- 

 martial, for a conspiracy which is believed never to have 



