The Express. — London, England, 1847-06-23 00:00:00

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF LORDS.—TunatT, 'yrs 21. Ur Low; Cawmuzios teak kin sod as 6 eclat M 10 UG 1111CMIL 1 0 11121101:1611, lis et Biesirm. km lasi sal abar plum ad Ili lbsfillbsp st ban Nasal mil 'NNW airs st issberMssksislisk. at the Mak st Twos BM Lard Sum" Om the draiikusrsoss if Itimesaw. So val i t dis eargards sesmsi d Oa Sm. ItssisbeAss ; Ost-Piisskasn KW tzsd Greenwich ; Maass at Dallas (Part Natal); Dessitois ItSta l lt.—J ltsd 1= amiss; ally Oomsilsdos; Thrisplks ikellssoss /Pk • MID ILEADMUL--[*r4 litwq 111.11611•1 t (Leakand); r. =of Alma; Ilewhasdiri Owasemeat; Loma Bonstles; rns loornal (trolisti); !midmost st Vagrants, (Ireland); RAILWAY BUBINIBB. Lord BROUGHAM, in postponing to railway resolutions until Monday next, took occasion to swan his disappoint ment at the sudden withdrawal et the Railway Bill in the other house of parliament. Anything more lamentable, he might add more ridiculous, he never remembered. PORTUGUESE AMNESTY. The Earl of ELLEN BOROUGH begged to all the atten tion of the government to the wording of the amnesty re cently issued by the Queen of PortugaL Hu reading of that document led him to fear that it was only of a retro spective and not of a prospective character; thus excluding such members of the junta as might have submitted subse quent to its date. The Marquis of LANSDOWNE believed the amnesty to be full and complete ; but would have nu objection to lay it on the table. BISHOPRIC OF MANCHESTER BILL. On the order of the day for the committee on this bill, The 'Nakao of EXETER said that he should be most anxious to support this bill, but that there seemed to him to be special objections to it on constitutional grounds. The bill claimed for the sovereign the right of appointing bishops without at the same time giving to them their writ of sum mons to the House of Peen. Now, according both to Lord Coke and Sir Matthew Hale, this was a contravention of the constitution. Having made tkis objection, he should not take any further step, except to say, " Not content " for going into committee. Lord BROUGHAM was understoodto concur in the view taken by the right rev. prelate. The LORD CHANCELLOR said that the bill claimed no unconstitationel power for the crown. Nobody ques- Mooed the right of every bishop existing to his writ of sum mons; but tins was a scheme for creating four new bishops without that right, except as vasubsisi &sold occur, and the scheme was expressly submitted M perdistrest for its appro bation. The crown would do nothing is the matter without the consent of parliament. After a few words from the Bishop of Emma the house weTtLit , ;eemtufttee. The first clause was agreed to. Lord REDESDALE moved the omission of the second clause, and to substitute the following And whereas doubts may arise whether bishops of the new sees to be establiahed under the powers of this act may net demand as of right writs of summons to parliament, be it there fore enacted, pursuant to the declaration of her Majesty herein before recited, that until her Majesty she be graciously pleased to summon to parliament any bishop !miffing one of the said Nees, no bishop holding that see shall be entitled to demand, as of right, a writ of summons to parliament." The noble lord urged, in support of his amendment, that the bill offered the first instance on record of the interference by law with the rights of the peerage, and that it was the only case in which the holders of peer ages by right had been excluded from their privileges by set of parliament. The no le lord complained further, that the bill limited the rights of the crown in respect to issuing writs of summons. For all these reasons, he moved that the clause be struck out of the bill. The Marquis of LANSDOWNE said that the mere object of the bill, as stated in the preamble, was to enable the crown to create four new bishopric'. The amendment pro posed by the noble lord would totally alter the character of the measure. The bill did not deprive the crown of any privilege or prerogative, inasmuch as the power of issuing a writ of summons to any one of the new bishops was com pletely reserved. All that the legislature proposed to effect was, to enable the Queen to create bishops, leaving her Majesty still the liberty to make peers of them, if so advised. 'The crown would still continue to call to parliament two archbishops and twenty-four bishops, in all twanty.six spiritual peers, and the clause in question merely prolonged the power already enjoyed on that score by the tjueen. The spiritual peers at in that house by a different tenure from that of any other peer ; their presence was con stitutionally requisite . But for the eery reason that their peerages were not transmitted from father to son, it was within the competence of parliament to limit and to pre scribe the mode now proposed for their admission into their lordships' house. The honor would not fail to observe that the four principal bishoprics., York, Casterbury, London, and Durham, would still continue to send their diocesans to parliament, notwithstanding that they might be the junior bishops. The government had been called upon to give par liament security that the creation of four new bishops should not, ipso facto, create four new peerages, and upon that en gagement the claim under consideration had been framed. Lord STANLEY maid the noble and learned lord on the woolsack, in mower to some objections made to the preamble of the bill by hie noble and learned friend (Lord Brougham) had just now stated, that it ha 4 no relation whatever to the enactments or clauses of the b.'', whereas the noble marquis had more recently asserted that the mere object of the bill was to carry into effect the preamble. Which of these two statements was the house to rely upon ? The noble marquis bad insisted very much on the pledge given by the govern meat, that the legislature would not be called upon to Mate spiritual peen, but he for one had never either called for or desired each a pledge. The clause in question was the most obj-ctionable anode of realising that pledge that oould have been invented, for not only did it restrict the preroga tive of the crown, but it likewise invaded their lordehips' pri vileges. If it was intended hereafter to increase largely the numbers of the bishops, the clause was objectionable, but if the four new bishops were to be the utmost number created, it was still more indefensible. The occupant of any one of the new sees would be as much entitled to his writ of sum mons as any temporal peer, and, for the reasons he had stated, he should cordially support the amendment of his noble friend. The LORD CHANCELLOR supported the clause. It in no degree lessened the prerogative of the crown, which would remain precisely the same after the passing of the measure as before. As to the proposition that the clause in terfered with the privileges of the lay lords of parliament, he did not at all understand this argument. There was no ex clusion whatever from the privileges of parliament of any peer, either for himself or his successors. The noble lard opposite repudiated the precedent of the Irish bishops as applying to the present case, on the principle that this pre cedent went upon a compact. Why, the present case was a compact. (Haar, hear.) The Marquis of BUTE objected to the clause altogether. It would create great dissatisfaction throughout England for any of her bishops to be excluded from parliament. The Bishop of EXETER contended that the crown, when a new bishop was created, was at once empowered and bound to summon him to parliament. Lord Coke dr cared distinctly that every bishop was entitled, ex debito Matinee, to a writ of summons to the louse of Lords. From time immemorial all English bishdps, as bishops, had had • fall and undoubted right to a seat in the great council of the nation. As to the Irish bishops, however just and proper their admission to the imperial parliament, it was to be observed that at the time of the union Lot one of them had en inchoate right to a seat in that parliament. The Bishop of LONDON weighed the relative conve niences and inconveniences of the hill itself and the amend mast of the noble lord, To give the sovereign power to summon one or all, would be exceedingly inconvenient and •bjectiooable. What political influence would thereby be given to the minister of the day ; and how much would not the character of the prelate suffer who was so summoned to vote in favour of the government on any question of dubious pbllcy ! If there were to be any bishops out of parliament, it was surely desirable that-these who were last appointed should be out of parliament, in order that they might have the earliest opportunity of residing in and becoming ac quainted with the clergy in their dioceses. Conceding that any bishops were to be out of the House of Lords, he thought this bill made choice of the best means available of meeting the difficulty. He thought it right to add, that he was not one of those who thought a very large increase of bishops necessary. With a proper number of archdeacons, he be lieved a bishop might fulfil the duties of • very extensive diocese, especially ir he were relieved from many of the eeculirduties which were now thrown upon his hands. Lord REDIBUALI having replied, their lordships divided, For the clause—Content 44 Against it—Non-Content l4-30 On clause 3, The Bishop of SALISBURY observed that this clause left it a matter of doubt if the crown could endow any deanery with mare than 1,0001. a year. He proposed wor ds in amendment is satisfy this doubt, The Yammil saf LANSDOWNE opposed the amendment as being lacanitsat with the object contemplated by the ecclesiastical aomaimioners. The amendment was then withdrawn, and the clause agreed to ; alter wild& the bill pored through commit WeLthe Mbar et DANOOa having postponed the motion of wlialt Ye bad IOW& entice, defining the sees of St. Asaph mad Bangor until the bringing up of the report. Their lordships adjourned at a quarter-past eight. HOUSE OF OOMMONB.—TOseDAT, Jutra 22. The Bruits took the chair at 4 o'clock. PIMPS mrsomos. aaporri commomum.—amamma Asa rX sat ) ; etyk 4 6 =1.8., • loom= art Itedga- Yeti barons lioalsW sad So; Lehi essl Th ink Be& erg gookesille red klillhi .1WI; Lob sod Mink = Brawls tom Ifeboestay as atia., ha); Lob rot ma Pcikkaßaldeas It g i L I AR laa• ealloomot ß lTerwhi tillir = Tormasie ,• SI. toes Weltedeld Ow • , Toth aal Gel MONA fkrle Postoss); NIL I.ll.llBll4os.—lfelkei Imposeemt; Odollesks__Pa#SM rbsoillathat )odd lesuhse 41 to the BEolmolt r z e Tm a r a ich; ) dloalsolla GrodNarthsea ahrdatkass betwcao Ormillokt - AIM Port ; Test mil Mama Wawa, ladka end Ilinehis); Irno IMIIMOOIL-41olle.leoloV A trahrest i. Lear i e a. Moss l" =: . LsashotA Irt livsor • tome ; mt. bra Iheal ma ma. maw vast talatsa, la Ma +q.—ltr. Pam,. tma Ilmseijoissootel taut Boum ; ..d 18r.imattatm.ptat Mies ants auty 4111 wpm . lIIPROVICKINT BILL. 16. Matra !Mg mimed the thhd reading of this bill, . Mr. ROW ogisormil it au behalf of tie great majoirit7 of a; r ;SPA the inhabitants ef Wilk" ea amennt de loft's& par. timmelp ami samples of the town estmsW who wool& L ^ tba power st a V eg ibe bill We opestian, and whom be sWmged vidi large hods rabid by that belly ads" a Lew MIL MINEed OM the bill be road a mewl thus that day two nesnoba. Mr. M. J. O'CONNELL sommisi the astsmimant. Lord A. CHICHBOTIR sweporlsi the bUL Mr. DTVITT amid the aims LA hem pointed oat te the easmodieso, mai se mmeneens law amps ; bat the committee Pee PAL to adds wbsikair tlawy lININOtEUI 'plan of jobbing without, or boa pow abase wI 10. the town masa itself. Belot the emsmiliee dna owe 1111 pees se the bill, and merely /41•MEll that port of it width wrest directly to Ppm tho %wad Whet, he Loggia ft eupperlost might to be mertionetllly the Mese. Mr. 8. CIIAWFOILD tbe amendment. ilis heal know eof IMAM twilit Din to say that the bill was not dub i Vi e t town. Mr. Flamm mad Mr. M. J. O'CON NELL The Z a il—Per a rt:d reading B2 For the ammdmest l2-50 The bill was then road a ddrd time and pined SALT MONOPOLY. - Mr. SWART postponed the motion on this subject, of which he had given notice, so the necessary papers were not read . _ y NAVIGATION OF THE ST. LAWRENCE. Sir H. DOUGLAS begged to put a question to the right hoe. gentleman the Under-Secretary for the Colo nies. It appeared by the papers that the Governor-General of Canada had issued a proclamation, permitting the vessels of the United States to peas up to Montreal, giving them the free navigation of the St. Lawrence. He begged to know if it was the case, and, if to, whether the measure was adopted with a view to such an alteration in the navigation laws as would prevent the import of the produce of the United States in the ships of that country . in common with British ships, a privilege which, by the navigation laws, had hitherto been reserved to the latter? Mr. HAWES said that no account of the proclamation had been received ; but what had been done related only to the smaller American yawls, and was only intended to con tinue during the suspension of the navigation law in the present emergency, nor had it any reference to the general question. NEW ZEALAND. Mr. V. SMITH begged to ark the right hon. gentleman the Under-Secretary for the Colonies, whether any new ar rangement had been come to between the New Zealand Com pany and the Colonial-office, and if there had been, whether he could e xplain what it war; and also whether there were not recent despatches from Governor Grey, which it would be expedient to lay on the table before the arrangement was concluded? Mr. HAWES said them had been an arrangement with the New Zealand Company, and in a few days he should be prepared to lay it before the house. There had also been important and satisfactory despatches from Governor Grey, which he would also soon produce to the house. ECCLESIASTICAL COURTS. Mr. HENLEY begged to ask the right hon. gentleman the Home Secretary, whether the bill for the continuance of theEeelesiastical Courts Bill would be soon brought in. or what course the government intended to take ? Sir G. GREY said the measure referred to would be brought on in the other house in a few days. HIGHWAYS ACT. Mr. T. EGERTON begged to ask the right hon. gentle man (Mr. V. Smith) what had been done with the High ways Aet ? Mr. V. SMITH said that it had been referred to a select committee. He wished it to stand for to-morrow. Sir G. GREY was understood to fix it for to-morrow (this day) fortnight. ANDOVER COMMITTEE.—EXPLANATION. Mr. VILLIERS said that in nence of what paned yesterday during his absence he most the house for a moment's indulgence. If he had had the most distant notion that it had been arranged that an order of the day was to have been moved to enable members to discuss the Andover Committee he would have been in his place ; but he hod no notice of it, and he was not able to make the remarks which he was now *limit to do. He would not have referred to the matter if it concerned only himself, but another person was in question, and, therefore, he asked to be allowed to refer to it. The SPEAKER reminded the hon. gentleman that there was no question before the house. Mr. VILLIERS threw himself on the indulgence of the home. He was assuming that, in a question relating to the personal character of a member, and when a mistake had beta made in a statement during his absence, the house would allow him an opportunity of explanation. He was saying that another person was in question, and that was Sir F. Lewis. He (Mr. Villiers) had brought forward this matter Deems, be had received a letter from that gentleman, in which he communicated to him a statement which was at variance with what had been said in the house on a previous eyeing. He said that he heard with astonishment that it had been denied that • question had been put to him as • witness which he had answered, and in doing had gone into long details, and that denial was made by the person himself who put the question. It was still the un person of Sir F. Lewis that that question had been put, icr he had answered it, and entered into long and what was thought satisfactory details. The hon. member for Weymouth denied upon his honour that he had put the question. It was centrary to the forms of the house to dis pute that assertion. It was, however, pertinent to refer to the journals of the Louie, and, with o ut doubting the hoe. member's honour, he might refer to question 22,622 in the report of the Andover Committee. It was this: " When you ceased to be a poor-law commissioner was any arrange. relent made with your ton who succeeded you ?" The hon. member for Weymouth said that be explained that his object was to ascertain if Sir F. Lewis had cautioned his son against Mr. Chadwick. It was clear the two questions were distant from each other, and they IMO so viewed by the I committee and Sir F. Lewis, and he proceeded to explain that be was no party to any arrangement. Upon this the report went on to say that " Mr. Christie said he did not refer to any arrangemet which might not have been made with perfect propriety . " He (Mr. Villiers) said that he had no right to put any question with regard to an arrangement between the father and sou, and that it was not pertinent to any Tuition about a caution against Mr. Chadwick. That was his original statement. There was ao question as to whether the arrangement was proper or not, but whether any question at all should have been put about an arrange ment—and the honourable member for Finsbury thought it should have been answered. Three questions after that, this one occurred, " When your son succeeded you, did you caution him against Mr. Chadwick ;" and there was no connexion between the two. He (Mr. Villiers) had been misled by the evidence as offizially re ported, and to which the hon. member for Weymouth was a party. With romped to his not having given notice that he was about to read the evidence, he could only say that it was not his intention to do so; but on conferring with the hon. member for Finsbury (Mr. Duncombe), • member of the committee, and telling him that he had a letter from Sir F. Lewis, he said that the homes would not receive that as a contradiction of a statement, but that he must search the journals to find if it was correct. He then read the evidence. He was justified in making the statement he did, as the private character of Sir F. Lewis was involved, and the matter was officially reported. The statement of the hon. member for Weymouth last night was about clearing the room, which he (Mr. Vil liers) did not dispute. It was part of the arrangement last night that some of his friends should come down to support him. Visct. INGESTRE rose to order—The hon. member was going at greater length into the matter than was necessary. He was making a debate of it, and rather attacking other members than explaining. The SPEAKER said the hon. member ought to confine himself strictly to the justification of his own conduct. Mr. VILLIERS did not refer to any member but the hon. member for Weymouth. The conduct of that hon. member was complained of by several witnesses, who spoke of his tone end the character of his questions. He (Mr. Villiers) was reedy to give up the names of those witnesses. ft.r F . Lewis complained now, and he bad complained t 3 the chair. man of the committee, of the manner in which be had been trotted. Sir F. Lewis, as a former member of that house, as a pubic officer, and considering his station in life, was en titled to respec t. Mr. Westlake, a more humble individual, was also entitled—(order, order) — Mr. CHRISTIE said if ha might interpose, he would ex press a hope that the house would allow the hon. member to om• Mr. VILLIERS said he could only repent, that if the matter affected only himself, he would not have brought it forward. Mr. CHRISTIE said he was satisfied from the mode in which the hoes. yesterday revived the denial he gave to the statement of the hon. member for Wolverhampton, and from the testimony which was borne to his conduct by those hon. members who saw and heard him daily, what the feeling of the house was, and he should think it be neath him again to deny what he had yesterday denied on his honour as a gentleman. (Hear.) LEGACY DUTY. - - - • Dr. BO WRING said, as he saw no chance of carrying hie motion for a select committee to inquire into illegal deten tion of certain sums by the Treasury, for lawny duty on property of persons not domiciled in this country, he should withdraw it. COPPER DUTIES. Mr. MUNTZ, after entering into some details connected with the importation of copper ores and the smelting-trade of this country, moved, pursuant to his notice, " That the house resolve itself into a committee of customs to consider the duties on the importation of copper, under the act 5 & 6 Vie , chap. 47, with a view to their reduction or abolition." Mr. EWART seconded the motion, on the ground that the duties were an import on a raw material of manufacture which ought to be free. Sir C. LEMON said he interposed before his right hon. friend the Chancellor of the Exchequer addressed the house, for the purpose of asking his right hon. friend, before he elarated to any obeage,fif be would afford an opportunity of !slidestooell the alas seartected with the oorgar duties, by a West amielase eyeelein? The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER observed Eat be bed sealed et the emessiostuent of the mica, and be sew spread s *at lye flamer of the waft were not is ask • eeedillea es le per hi= to reeks • aseilloe of ray ROW retresae. Oa *ea Wads, it wee 'dime for • wilbes• piste Ivorlee lie 'maim et pereent, to stall Rat ha taws swept tlr metes Oder boa, amber for kftsr - e. fee words bola Lord W. Point - rt., in opposition to the notion, Ye. CAREW letool to the hey s U warmed by the hon. bianneS WINWW (Me C. lgowla). UllaMP watjeet would be refired to the eterileratiom of a ellen committee. Mr. BROWN said he had no desire to embarrass the Chaneellor of the lizehequer, but he was anxious for the Irtudd•Ogalbe " 1117.; the eau parliament. tint Mr. &ASHLEIGH opined the melba lotelleasetal to the best interests of the Mena - - - - - • Mr. SPOONER said the brew in the reel** en Oh 'Aide eienli Patina& The Chili copper mad llirmarated, tllel=Sgilitabr.____... " nib:tales" r a ffinlird lv l P a t t the duty was my tie copper-madam st haste; but its removal won he a wet advantage to the neastafeetur twisters.* end la et ea the n. mmileralor BM not to trammel Ilbeeteltee by ho goveruntent -emeidera link but to illettetereets of their conelltuents. The gellW ddo Morn, Otte Exchequer was Use se far tells ef Illevevessee were eanserned ; for the re amed el Aklatf wadi serbinly integre the revenue from edam Ineleges. He sepgerget this modem es a protection to endve "Minify. It wee gee of the emespeences of free telee which would yet befit in a variety of otherdirections. Lard 0. BENTINCE Wife could not consent to Lave the protection removed hem the native industry of Corn wall in favour of the manufacturers of Birmingham. At this moment, just on the eve of an election, it would be most opportune for those two parties to be informed of the inten tions of government on this subject in another parliament. (Hear.) The hon. proposer of this motion had given the best argument against it—that the copper of China and Chili, equal in quality to English, might be procured at a considerably leas coed. Mr. B. TURNER advocated the adjournment of the in quiry till another session. The question was little under stood, either in this house or in the county of Cornwell; and on that account inquiry was desirable. He hoped the motion would not now be premed. Captain VIVIAN was understood to oppose the motion. Sir C. LEMON said a few words in explanation. Mr. MUNTZ replied, urging that a year's delay might ruin the trade. He taunted the government with stultifying their own free trade principles by opposing this motion, and expressed his determination to press rt to a division. Mr. NEWDBOATE said he should oppose the motion, as its effect would be to ruin one large body of labourers in order to benefit smother. Sir G. CLERK would oppose the motion on the ground stated by the Chancellor of the Exchequer—the want of revenue. The subject was important; and be hoped the government would give attention to the facts stated by the hon. member for Birmingham as to the decrease of the smelting trade. If it were found that copper could be pro duced cheaper abroad, the miners of Cornwall would pro bably loge the home as well as the foreign market. After a few words from Mr. 0. PALMER., The house divided For the motion l9 Against it WASTE LANDS IN IRELAND. Mr. P. SCROPE rose to move—" That the waste lands of Ireland offer an available resource for the immediate employment tad future maintenance of a part of her popu lation, now apparently redundant ; and that it is expedient to apply them to this great national object, making equitable compensation to their present proprietors." Twelve years ego he brought before the house a similar proposition, and he thought it one of the most important measures for the relief of Ireland. Half a million of men were starving for want of employment. An MOM. MEMBER here moved that the house be scanted, and there being only thirty members present, the house Wood adjourned at half-past 7 o'clock, until to-mor row (this day). NatirIaSPENING; JUNE . 28, -1847. Vie enirtos. 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Dpi - ob. pa* I= l . l s l. _olL WL 1 0 . TaY - mi. pea s LOLL.% 7 WY. 11. LONDON, WEDNESDAY , JUNE 23. Is the House of Lords yesterday the Bishopric of Manchester Bill passed through committee, an amendment proposed by Lord RaDESDALL being negatived by a majority of 30. In the House of Commons, the third reading of the Belfast Improvement Bill was carried by a majority of 50, and Mr. MUNTZ's motion for a committee on the copper duties negatived by one of 40.—0 n Mr. P. ScRoPE'S motion on the subject of waste lauds in Ireland, the house was counted out. Ws must indulge this morning in a piece ofromanc. a brief narrative of the imaginative kind; for readers will surely admit that it passes ail the bounds of reality. Besides, were the story told as simple fact, it would be too outrageous to decency, to morals, and to modesty, and would be set down as a tale, beyond the license of even an English novelist; and as one of those, in which the disordered imagination of French romancers do revel and indulge to the outraging of good feeling and good taste. There was once upon a time a young princess who mounted early upon the throne of her fathers, and who was particularly patronised and protected by a neighbouring monarch, a relative, and one who styled himself the head of the family. This monarch had always in view the procuring for one of his own sons so rich an heritage ; but as the world, both of people and of potentates, exclaimed against the unfairness and danger of such an absorption of two kingdoms into one, the old monarch dared not attempt the thing directly. The queen, however, had one younger sister, and to this princess the old monarch affianced his eon, being allowed to affiance him on the understand ing, that the marriage should not take place till the queen herseltwas first married and had children. There were many suitors of course for the hand of so rich and so powerful a queen. But the crafty old monarch found objections to every one, affronted and set aside suitor after suitor, until there remained merely an idiot youth, devoid of mind and of man hood, such a husband as no poor girl in all the queen's wide dominions would have accepted. But the poor queen was told that she must have this husband, or none at all. Her mother aided in menacing and reducing the poor young queen to this, for her mother was the gossip and accomplice of the amity old king. And at last, at dead of night, amid aura and anguish, the marriages of the younger princess the son of the crafty old monarch, and of the cloven to the idiot youth, were solemnised. The result was what every one foresaw, and every one expected. The young queen, deceived, took an insuperable disgust to the husband that had beeu imposed upon her, and he, poor fool, hid him self from public eye, half-perverse, hallpenitent. The young queen, outraged, declared that she would have a divorce, and in this determination she was spirited and advised by a young general, whom she treated as a Mend, and who evidently bad the greatest influence over her. I At the first mention of a divorce, the crafty old king fell into the moat dreadful rage, for he saw in the queen's separation from her idiot husband, and in her espousal of another prince, the prospect of his son and daughter-in-law being cut off from the rich succession. One should think that the old king, on being made aware of the horrible fate to which he had consigned the young queen, would I have relented, and for the sake of the family, of royal example, and of morals in general, would have sanc tioned a divorce. But no, he determined, on the contrary, that the young queen should remain linked to her odious hue band ; and he sent the queen's mother herself as an emissary to the high priest, who alone can dissolve marriages, by no means to dissolve this one, because, said the emissary, this would hand over a catholic country to a protestant prince. For fear, however, lest this should prove ineffec tual, and lest the young queen, disowning the power obi of the high priest to condemn her to misery, appeal to the nation, and have a divores by oat d parliament, BS HENRY VIII. had, the crafty old monarch sent an emissary to the queen's comet to endeavour to make an arrangement in his interests. This emissary was to represent to the young queen, that if she defied this crafty old monarch, and allied with his enemies, that he in turn would excite her domestic enemies, and that he was powerful enough to overthrow her, even by means of her own ' army. The young queen was very much terrified by these threats ; and the young general, her counsellor, was also very much terrified, because he had good it tort , Apsow the truth and serioninees of Neese therefore, in' his teeter, advised the i!Jaen to listen to the terms of the crafty old maisrah, and see if they could not be a Now the terms were their —thll ee r . young queen should give up all ideas of divorce, but remain, In the eye of mu, united in marriage to the idiot youth. Moreover, that he, wearing the title of king, should continue to inhabit a suite of apartments in the royal palace, and that wealth and honours should be allotted sufficient to content him. At the same time, it was hinted, that nothing need prevent her) majesty from leading a domestic life such as many kings and queens, especially in the olden time, were wont to lead, and such as her majesty's mother had not shrunk from. In plain English, the queen might have lovers, nay, might take her pru dent counsellor for a paramour if she pleased—the crafty and moral old king would wink at the irregu larity. And in this manner every person and every interest would be satisfied. Her majesty might lead as joyous a life as CATEIERINE 11. The army should re main faithful to her, and her ladies of honour should no longer plot. The family ambassador would act major domo of the court, and share its influence with the favourite. A disputed succession was impossible. No legitimate heir to the throne could exist, save the son and daughter-in-law of the crafty old king. And it was proposed instantly to promulgate a solemn decree to this effect. We hope one day to publish a supplementary chap ter of this romance, relating how the offer was indignantly rejected, how a divorce took place, how mortified was the crafty old king, and how the young queen was happy. But for the present we must leave the dinsuement uncertain. WE bear from many quarters a complaint of want of candidates for the approaching election; and we have reason to believe that this want has been felt by those in London who have been accustomed, on behalf of their respective political parties, to provide can didates for places unable or unwilling to assist them selves. It doubtless arises from the unexciting con dition into which mere party politics have fallen, and from the dissensions which have But-divided the Parties themselves, and inflamed the dissidents against each other almost as much as against their former opponents. A spirit of peace and acconunodation is moreover understood to exist amongst the leaders of at least two of the existing political combinations; and it is believed by many sagacious speculators on future contingen cies, that those leaders will not be very greatly dis appointed with the result of the general election, if it should compel them to coalesce for the protection of the country from the weakness and mischief of an ultra-administration. At all events, there never was so little of the bustle, the interest, or the excitement of a general election as at present. Here we arc gene rally supposed to be within six weeks of its occur rence, andthe City of London, which always first elects its representatives, is without preparation, and no one knows whether its representation is to be quietly divided between two conservatives and two liberals, or whether the premier will consent—for thus much has oozed out, that upon Lord JOHN RUSSELL the responsibility of the decision rests—to allow four liberal candidates to be launched; that is, if they can (after all the shilly-shallying that has taken place) be found. Indeed, were it not for Bucks and Mr. DisinsEnt (who is there doing his work like a man really in earnest, and after a fashion worthy of imitation in other quarters), we should be unable to call from the local papers anything more serious than mere electioneering gossip. This comparative apathy is very unfortunate for the liberal party, for they have the strongest possible motive for exertion; they have a ministry of their way of thinking without a majority of their way of thinking, and it is their duty, as it ought to be their pleasure, to lose no opportunity of converting their minority into a majority. There are, it is true, differences of opinion amongst them ; bit there are far more serious differences of opinion amongst their opponents. The PEEL and the BENTINCH divisions of the conservative party are far wider apart than the ministerial educationists and the ministerial anti educationists. Yet in many places we may see the latter losing the opportunity afforded them by the split among the former. In the borough of Cam bridge, for instance, what decent, creditable reason ran be given for the disunion that prevails amongst the friends of Mr. ADAIR and Mr. CAMPBELL? We cannot imagine the smallest apology for the schism, which thus threatens to return Mr. ADAIR with a conservative. At Newcastle-upon-Tyne, also, the pure whig party (the friends of Mr. ORD) hesitate to join their more liberal friends in proposing two liberals, and are allowing Mr. HODGSON HINDE in the interval they are taking to make up their minds, to strengthen his position, an advantage that very crafty gentleman will not, they may be sure, allow to escape him. Surely the liberals of Newcastle , might by this time have taken a lesson from what has passed in North Northumberland, where, by the exertions of the liberal party, Sir GEORGE GREY is now considered secure, notwithstanding influences far more powerful than any Mr. HINDE can bring to bear on their town. A better choice than the gentleman (Mr. W. H. WATSON, the present member for Kinsale) who has been so repeatedly spoken of as the second liberal candidate, the Newcastle liberals could not make; but then union, and concord, and activity, and earnestness, amongst all classes of liberals, are indispensable to induce Mr. WATSON, who at Kinsale has a certain seat, to plunge into a con test at Newcastle, nearly connected with that town though he be. So, too, at Leeds, the con test has not, it seems, to be between the liberals and the conservatives, but between the liberals! And Mr. ALDAM has to be cashiered, because, we suppose, every vote he has given in par liament has accorded with his speeches on the hust ings! This is really a melancholy instance of political ingratitude; the only thing satisfactory in it is the manner in which Mr. ALDAM has acted throughout the discussions, which have ended in his retirement. There is, of course, time yet to restore concord, and to revive zeal amongst the liberal party at these and other places; but if we have to witness success consequent on the restoration and revival, further time must not be lost. Timm is every reason to believe that the ministers of the King of PRUSSIA will be defeated in their at tempt to make constitutional forms a stalking horse for despotic power. The proceedings of the Legisla tive Assembly in Berlin sufficiently disprove the notion prevalent in France and England that the Germans are deficient in political education. Some of the leaders have displayed not only oratorical power, but parliamentary tact of the first order. The most characteristic feature of the assembly, how ever, is peculiarly national, and consequently new to the other countries of Europe before whom it is now for the first time displayed. A grave irony, often bordering on the humorous, is the favourite weapon of the opposition speakers. The spirit of the jesting stoic JEAN PAUL, only sufficiently subdued to be in keeping with the practical business objects of the assembly, appears to possess them. This weapon was wielded with triumphant success against M. VON SAVIONY, the distinguished historian of Roman law in the middle ages. This minister's laboured attempt to explain away the constitutional pledges of the late King almost justified Bentham's sneer, when he said, that M. VON.SAVIONY would attempt to palm off a history of law upon a nation as a sufficient substitute for laws. His assumptions and sophisms were an swered by a running commentary of the most sarcastic humour, couched in language of grave respect, to which he did not venture a rejoinder. And the vote of the chamber, in spite of his efforts, was to petition the King to acknowledge himself bound to convoke a legislative assembly, and submit the state expendi , tare to its control, not as a matter of favour but of I right. Another marked feature of these maiden debates is the absence of any truckling to expediency. That favourite virtue of the legislative assemblies of countries where the power of the people's representatives has been unequivocally recognised would be out of place in Prussia as at present cir cumstanced. It is utterly hopeless to gain the royal assent to the greater part of the assembly's votes. Many propositions rejected by large majorities in the assembly will, nevertheless, be carried into execu tion by irresponsible ministers. This being the case, any concessions on the part of government, in the details of a particular measure that might be gained by avoiding assertions of principles and opinions unpalatable at court, would be dearly purchased OA contributing to establish precedents in favour of despotic claims. The elective members of the Diet, by the frank straf f ibtforwardness of their proceedings, have baffled official sophistry and airs of authority. Instead of following up flaming speeches by tame votes, the opposition deputies have coolly and quietly parried the onslaughts of ministers, and reserved their strength for the decisive moment of the division. To this tactic M. DUMBER°, the Mi nister of Finance, succumbed, when, after ex patiating triumphantly on the advantages of land credits, banks, railways, and the substitution of notes for exchequer bills, he was insidiously led into a his- tory of existing financial complications, and foul* when it was too late, that, from the impossibility ef deciding on the spur of the moment what might and what might riot be safely told, it was better to break off in the middle of his speech, leaving everything wrapt in suspicions; half-explanation, than to pro the discussion he had provoked. The confession ef the Finance Minister, that the notes of the revival Prussian bank are devoid of all guarantee, notwith standing the intimation printed on them that they an to be taken by all government receivers, has made a deep impression, scarcely second to that made by the protestant Jesuitism of Count ARNIM, the Prussian GLADSTONE, in the debates on religious liberty. To appreciate adequately the moral courage of the Prussian opposition, it must be kept in view that every man of them has staked his fortune and free dom on every attack upon the minister to which he has given his support. They are only backed by the approval of their unorganised fellow-countrymen. Yet, that is much; for though Prussia be a great mili tary power, the soldiers by profession and for life form numerically a comparatively small proportion of its army. The admissions extorted from ministers respecting the state of the national finances, and their own views of the people's constitutional rights, and of religious toleration, are so damaging, that even the royal mind must feel them. By their blundering so phistry and over-refinements, they have brought the crown into immediate collision with the representa tives of the nation, leaving the king no apparent alternative but to choose between his ministers and his diet. The approaching recess will afford his Majesty leisure to solve this knotty problem. These practical illustrations of the advantages of a centralised national legislation, have rivetted the eyes of all Germany on Berlin. And as if to heighten the at tractiveness of the picture by force of contrast,the little powers among which the country has been parcelled out, are busy breaking it up into minute subdivisions, such as have not been known since the dissolution of the Holy Roman Empire. The sale of provisions, the most important branch of internal trade, is inter dicted in so singular a manner, that the result, should the at present promising harvest fail to any extent, can with difficulty be imagined. The decrees against exporting grain from the States of the Zollverein have been widely circulated ; but our readers may have yet to learn that equally stringent prohibitions are enforced by one state of the union against another; and that even towns have established a similar non - intercourse system against neigh bouring towns or the adjacent country. The old ci-derant cities of the empire have taken the lead, and it appears that the bye-laws of these corporations can set the regulations of the Zollverein respecting the internal traffic of the associated states at defiance. Mayence has just supplied a curious illustration of this. When the decrees of the minor German states, prohibiting the exportation of grain (by which ie meant its circulation between these little fragments of Germany), appeared in the gazettes of their mul titudinous capitals, it was generally understood that cargoes of grain, on board vessels, should be allowed to proceed to their original places of destination. Large quantities of corn, purchased by the govern ments of the tipper Rhine, or by merchants in various cities, were on their way from Holland. A vessel, laden in part with grain, was ordered to discharge at Mayence, the grain to be re-shipped for its ulti mate destination. The sacks were accordingly landed on one of the wooden projections along side of which steamers touching at Mayence are brought; but, when about to be re-shipped, they were seized by the police, and the par ties to whom they were consigned fined for a contravention of the law. As a necessary consequence of this violation of property, parties in Holland, having corn on the Rhine, have sent orders to the skippers to bring it back. Trade is in abeyance : the dealers who have hitherto medinted between the growers and consumers of grain and other farm produce. are proscribed, and forced to give up their business. Farmers are cultivating rape, hemp, or any seed, rather than corn, of which they are not masters after they have housed it. The unwise interference of local authorities in preparing a famine by artificial means ; and the Zollverein is virtually placed beyond the pale of nations, for what is the use of contracting treaties with a power which cannot fulfil its engagements P All this only tends to double the interest with whichthe educated and intelligent classes in Germany watch the progress of the experiment of establish ing a real national government at Berlin. A saga cious and resolute government in Prussia would find the petty states suing to be inco rp orated into the monarchy. The predominating wish of national politicians in Germany in to become one nation, under a strong government, with adequate guarantees for the rights of the subject. A Prussian sovereign broke up the German empire when it had become a mere name for Austrian despotism ; a Prussian people may yet reconstruct the German state on a more equitable and lasting basis. We have received our Paris and Brussels corre spondence of the 21st. The former contains no news of moment. Our Brussels correspondent informs us that it is now quite certain that M. Rogier has been officially . and formally entrusted by his Majesty with the task of forming a new administration. The journals of his party add that he will have his list of the members of the new cabinet duly prepared before the return of the King from London, whither hie Majesty is going to-morrow, and whence he will return, according to present arrangements, on or before Monday next ; at all events, his stay will be a very short one. It is understood that his Majesty's visit to England is not totally unconnected with re cent events in Portugal. He is considerably better in health. AUX CAYES (HAITI), MAY 20. The motion that 45,000 dollars should be placed at the disposal of the Secretary of State to defray the funeral expenses of the late President Riche met with unexpected opposition in the Representative Chamber. It pawed, how ever, after a rather angry discussion. Ministers awls a cabinet question of the motion, and declared their resolution to stand or fall with it. M. Dupuy said: "We are met here in peace. Without Riche we would not be here. Yet ' you demur to paying this slight tribute to his memory." M. Ardouin said : " The vote asked is a vote of confidence in the ministry ; if you refuse it we will make way for other eitirans." _ _ The Secretary of the Rome Department end Agriculture is at present visiting the principal towns ef the republic in the Lord Elgin steamer.. It is supposed that his object is to see that the law of April I, respecting the triage of coffee, is canted into effect. An impression appears to hare pre. veiled that the law would not be rigorously enforced this season ' and government requires to be on the alert to counteract the negligence which is the consequence. The deliveries Sr. thus retarded, and prices are rising. -a tendency favoured by the circumstance that the lest crop is almost all sold. The present crop is said to be extremely promising. A bill submitted by ministers to the chambers to empower government to authorise the importation of food free of duty, and prohibit the exportation, was passed without dis cussion. An objection was offered in the Representative Chamber to the measure for paying a premium on capitals invested in the construction of central manufactories— that the country was too poor to pay them and the French indemnity at the same time. Id, drdouin replied that the outlay which called central manufactories into existence would enable the country to earn wherewithal to pay the indemnity. "It is," he said, "an axiom of political economy, that to earn money you must first spend it." It is rumoured that thia 111110 French indemnity has been placed on asing, satisfactory to both parties, but the details an new ! erst. Ministers contiwas indefatigable in the erection of schools and churches, Lila opening of roads, the institution of ai nsa efilsient hospitals in OS towns, and the compelling of magistrates to nilosinitor . They are daily establishing new claims le dr of the friends of liberty sad go gorreanotr os i e it 111111161116 in cars promise to work a in dot mid ocedition of doe orinitry. in stellexpun .. et Rail to that Dominican Rival& continuo R. • II& eaerabs pve rise to tbe Mary which her bee by so map et ow =Us Elila 1 0 MOM. la setaserposereie drat the Presided bad inerrsehm. FRANCE.PABIB. JUN 21.—FATAL ACCIDENT ON Till AMAMI AND ABB/MILLI RAILWAY.—La PIM.) of Monday gives the following short account of B serious accident on this railway :—" We have not yet received to ilet the English papers of yesterday evening. The train from Angela to Abbeville, which was to have brought them, met with an accident at about four kilometres from Amiens. It is stated that the boiler burst. It appears the engineer and the stoker both were victims to the ace.dept. Their bodies have not been found. No passenger was hurt" INGENIOUS SWINDLING. —We read in the Gazelle des Tribunnus: "It is the usage of Parisian tradesmen t e address to all persons whose banns of marriage are officially published prospectuses and circulars ' containing offers of merchandise o all descriptions from the humblest article of household furniture lip to carriages and diamonds. A b ran of clever swiadlars have just contrived to take advantage of this corm Mt make a great many victims. A abort time s i nce a ashes was published at one of the /dairies of the marriage alike Vicomte Adrien de J— with the Counter liersdasendis de IL—, and the same notice was repeat e d fa the nisi bi the care of the lady'. perish. Immediately elm Islam Isisama obtained the addresses of the bride- Cillpas batik and pressed on them their °Aerie( servi ce. vieireert lived In a splendid apartment in the Rue de Provers. and the fair countess occupied an apartment in • hotel of the Faubourg St. Germain, where she was under the tender care of an affectionate mother. Atter a great many entreaties the viscount graciously consented to pur chase a splendid set of diamonds and a silver table.service from tradesmen in the 'Valais Royal and the Place Veoilban; from other persons he accepted five horses, a coupe, one of the carriages called Amincaines, household and perm it .' linen, a complete wardrobe for himself and his domestic, and a splendid cor6eille for his bride. 'the lady, ou her part, also made several very extensive purchases. Neither, however, undeitook to pay before the conclusion of the marriage, te e viscount pleading that, having only a paltry income of 20,000 fr , he first required to finger the 1,000,000 fr. fortune of his future wife, and the 300,000 fr. which his parents were to advance him, towards the expense of setting up an esta blishment. Bills, however, were offered and accepted few days after the tradesmen were much surprised to de. cover that the viscount and the countess, and the mamma of the counter, had aU suddenly vanished. Inquiries hay. lug been set on foot, it was discovered that the viscount is a Greek, who had been expulsed from a watering-plan ft,, cheating at cards, and that the countess is a simple Etna, and was lately engaged at the Theetre des Varietes. The worthy couple are, it is believd, at Baden-Baden or Hom. burg." SW ITZERLAND. —BERNE.—The journal V Hsi yetis says The note written by M. Boisle-Comte was published at Berne, Sunday, June 9, by L'Heleelir; nice following morning Mr. Peel went in haste to the Prudent of the Directory's residence, to protest, in some sort, 'seem all responsibility the French ambassador might endeavour to establish relative to the Swiss question among the power, who bad signed the congress of Vienne, declaring Nett e d, to him that he had received no orders to speak in the sane of Great Britain, who was, on the contrary, disposed to pre vent all kinds of intervention in the affairs of Switzerisail From that day Mr. Peel has constantly used the sue language." GERMANY. —PRUSSIA,.—B mum, Il:NE 17._ The adjourned debate on the Jews was resumed in the cued chamber to-day. The chamber voted by a majority of one the exclusion of the Jews from the provincial diet, and of course, from the general diet. Yesterday a majority weed not as ministers asked them, that Jews should be admitted to become professors of mathematics, natural hietory,snd medicine, but that they should be capable of holding all university professorships except those of theology. Amongst other votes taken this day was one in favour of a petition to the King to establish a Jewish chair of theology in one of the universities. Fancy Sir Robert Inglis in the act of hearing such a proposal made in the House of Commons with reference to Oxford or Cambridge! As a. set-off to this liberal vote there was one against admitting Jews as teachers in elementary shoes. [fdy first writing muter, rest his soul, was a Jew.' M. Von eekerath's amendment in favour of the complete man pation of the Jews comes on to morrow. The Prot Chamber is also busied with Jewish maters. According to an oel cial document lately laid before the diet, there u, in Prunia, 1 Jew to every 74 inhabitants ; in the Austrian states, Ito ; is Buena, 1 to 71 ; in the Netherlands, 1 to GI ; in Wurtemberg (where the Jews enjoy great liberty), 1 to 149; in France, 1 to 487 ; and in Great Britain, 1 to 2,076. If the town gossips may be believed, since the opening cir the diet all our aestelisehe Thee-cirkels have been infected with the political fever, and even the still higher circles d fashion. rise liberals are called the left side (the sows), their opponents the right (the sheep). Prince Lichnowshi, with Talleyrand's niece, the Duchess of Sagan, who sits in the upper house by proxy for his adjutant, leads the liberal; on the other aide, the most prominent Potencies are the Princes Beren of Courlani, one of the Princesses Ho henlohe, and the Princess of Neuwied. Pr:nce Frederic rd the Netherlands, with hie princes, and their two daughters, arrived from the Hague at Sans Souci today. He, too, r well so the Duchess of Sagan, is one of our House of Lords. HAMBURG, JUNE 17.—The disturbances which had commenced here on the 15th were renewed hut eight with increased vigour. The newly.restored windows, which were brokea on the day before yesterday by a riotous mitt were again smashed to pieces. The military were called no, about half-pest nine, and were assaulted with a shower of stones. They were compelled at last to make me of their weapons, and many pumps were wounded. OW soloist was killed, and another had his leg broken. The Senatelud an extraordinary meeting. This morning the polite forced the market-dealers to sell the potatoes at a reasonable pries. PORTUG AL. The Nautilus propeller arrived yesterday morning at Liverpool. She left bebop on the 156, and when in the mouth of the Tagus received a despatch foe government. She bring ,. news that Sada Bandies and the insurgents of Setubal have submitted and acknowledge the Queen's authority. It was announced on the 14th that they had surrendered their areas to Vinhaes and the allies con jointly. The Jackal war-steamer arrived same day free Oporto, with intelligence that the junta positively refused* submit, and had rejected the complete amnesty. The receipt of this account of the junta's contumacy would quicken Ad miral Parker's movemenei, and it was believed that there would be no real resistance, and that upon the first serious shot being fired against the town they will surrender. Admiral Parker, it appears, has strongly mom Laded Or government to urgo Saldanha to listen to no repreientatiore whatever proposing an armistice, but to use his utmost en deavour without delay to enter Oporto. That city is at this moment effectually surrounded. General Concha's array of 10,000 to 12,000 men was close to Oporto, while SelduU's and Cesare divisions, more than 8,000 strong, were akm miles distant to the south of the Douro. The second Spanish General, Mendes Vigo, was at Viana, 37 miles north of Oporto, having reinfo rced the other garrison of Valence which he has left behind him, and the bar of the Douro we blockaded by the combined squadron. The discount on 1, 8 800 Lisbon notes had fallen to 1,300, but risen sinter 1,800. The dearth at bread stuffs, and consequent disuse continue. Zbe etourt. H.R.H. Prince Albert, attended by Mr. G. E Anion, went yesterday morning to the office of the Duly of Cornwall, in Somerset House. In the afternoon ILLS. presided at a committee meeting of the Corneille' f Promotiog and Encouraging the Fine Arts in the retail* the Palace of Westminster. H.R.H. arrived at the NOV Palace at a quarter before three o'clock, attended by Coked Bouverie. The Commissioners present were: the Marne of Lansdowne, Viscount Mahon, Viseount Morpeth, Iran John Russell, and Mr. Wyse. The secretary, Mr. Eenkke, wan in attendance. The Queen and Prince Albert honoured the per fbrmance at her Majesty's Theatre with their presencere terday evening. The royal suite consisted of tie Aar' chioness of Douro, Lady Cuoliao Cocks, Hon. Mir Port Lord Byron, Lord Alfred Paget, and Colonel Bounie. Their itlt.Hll. the Duchess of Gloucester sad the Decline of Cambridge visited her Majesty the QOM Dowager at Marlborough House. A deputation, consisting of Messrs. Ldp lAA Rigge, and Clay, from the Birkenhead Dock Csu Mr. Bicknell, for Mr. nor ; Mr. Davis, for Me We' waring ; and Mr. Potts, f or Mr. Price, had a meet* silt the Commissioners of her Majesty's WoOds and Porsonyelem day, at their office in Whitehall-place. Oov. Mathew, sane paniei by Mr. H. Milne., M.P., had an inn:Ten:muddil y ' Orey yesterday at the Colonial-office. Le Comte is Jar% had an interview with the Earl of Clarendon Tensed* deputation, relative to the Clerkenwell improvemsees, ea' lough militia. aimingae :i f ia l f, " h r e s d Gariallionwte7;ieWwatietri Leap eet • flora a Saturday, at the office of the Woods and Forests. The Duke of Devonshire has lett Devonshire -bowie for Chatsworth, Derbyshire, where the noble duke will so wive a visit from his Imperial Highness the Grand Date Constantine of Russia in the course of the ensuing week. Hie Excellency Count and Countess de Jerre WS the French Embassy yesterday for Paris, and psrpel absence from London of about three weeks. The Right Hon. Richard Pakenhaco, her MOO Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary sr Wee ington, is about to return to this country from the Usitsi , States on leave of absence. The Lords of the Truro/ have i ' given directions for the respect usually shown to skier Mr. Pakenham's rank, to be observed in the ennuis** and delivery of his excellency's baggage and effects, (From last night's Gazelle,/ .—T, PALACK, JUNE 17his clay LI RH . the Hereditary Prince of Lucca, attended by Cout the Sardinian Charge d'Affaires, had an audience of ho Majesty to take leave ; to which H.R.H. the Budd Viscount Palmerston, and conducted by Col. the Rat air is Curt, K.C.H. The Qneen bah been pleased to grant unto Sint Napier, Knight Commander of the Must H o n. Ordeal* Bath, and Rear-Admiral of the Blue Sgusdron ofhi h : Majesty's Fleet, her royal licence and permission, r tM may accept and wear the insignia of the grand moos al r . Order of the Tower and Sword, which her Majesty Queen of Portugal was pleased to confer upee histZ testimony of her Majesty'a approbation of his conduct 1.; in her most faithfal Mejesty's ac tual service ; end s i tes he may accept end wear the cross of a Kn i g ht of the u 7, of Maria Theresa of Austria, the Mrd JeP of the thin the Order of St. George of Russia, sad the ismignie ef,r, second class of the Order of the Red Eagle of Prows their Majesties the Emperor a Austria, the Bespere2,* Ronda, and the King of Prussia have been ash y to confer upon that officer, in testimony of their Mel approbation of his distinguished services in the W e operations on the coast of Syria ; and that he may wg; the rights and privileges thereunto annexed.—ho i x ig command, that her Majesty's said concession and mark of her Royal favour be tegistered, together relative documents, in her hfinesty's College of Am l • The Queen has been pl:rsed to direct letter r7 i , to be passed under the Great Seal, granting the Knight of the United Kingdom of Great Britain al".1 land unto James Earl of Elgin and Kincardine $ 1114 " . 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