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the King and Monsieur, is noticed in the Minis-
terial Papers is evidently intended to remove
from the public mind all idea of his having
lost any portion of credit or authority. The Con-
stitutionnel gives the detail of the disturbance said
to have taken place at Madrid on the 23d and
24th ult.; but the Journal des Daats asserts
that they occurred as far back as the 2cl of May,
and that they had been entirely suppressed and
abundance restored long before the date of the
last accounts, which was the 26th ult. The same
Journal contains a copy of the Memorandum sent
by the Grand Vizier on the 9th of April to Lord
Strangford, complaining of English subjects
having sent assistance to the Greeks or joined
them. The Porte will not believe that the laws
of England do not allow " those acts of crying in-
justice to be punished !" It charges our Govern-
ment with having prevented English vessels from
carrying provisions to the Turkish garrisons that
were besieged, and says that as the power existed
on that occasion it must equally exist on the other.
This Memorandum concludes in the following
manner It is clear that the British Govern-
ment may prevent all this, if it wishes it, and it
is time to wish it." Could we consider this Note
as authentic, we should not hesitate to pronounce
it a most contemptible piece of impudence ; but
the probability is, that it is merely another of
those impudent fabrications in which the foreign
journals are wont to indulge.

[NEW TIMES.]
The Alexandria has arrived at Guernsey from
Rio Janeiro, whence she sailed on the 18th.—
The letters will not be delivered until this day,
but it was rumoured that the difference between
the Emperor and Lord Cochrane had been ad-
justed, and his Lordship had resumed the com-
mand of the Brazilian navy. The Emperor, it
was added, had most formally declared his reso-
lution to abide by the Constitution as at present
established. An extract was posted at Lloyd's
yesterday, from the Cornwall Gazette,, giving a
list of the French vessels of war said to be re-
maining at Rio on the 17th March, to the number
of fifteen. We need not add that these vessels
have long since sailed on their different destina-
tions, and the letters by the Alexandria of a
month later date will remove all doubt upon the
subject.
We have received Sierra Leone Gazettes to
the 13th of March inclusive, but the inhabitants
of that settlement were then totally ignorant of
the disaster which had befallen their revered
Governor. In fact the latest accounts they had
then received of the affairs on the Gold Coast
were derived from the English Newspapers of the
3d of January! There is a melancholy pleasure
in perusing the continued testimonies which these

Papers afford to the paternal care of Sir. Charles
INl'Carthy for the Colony under his command.—
In the Paper of the 28th of February we find the
following passage :

" It is now four months since our esteemed Governor left the
Colony for the Gold Coast, and from his Excellency's inten-
tions at that time there is every reason to expect. the pleasure of
his return before our next publication. Should this happily be
the case, we venture to hope that the improvements which have
taken place in his absence will prove as gratifying to him, as
his presence will most assuredly be to every individual under his
Gov ernm enc."

A Correspondent in the same. Paper expresses
dmsett thus :

" Those influential Members of the Government: who have
had the happiness of witnessing the warm interest the Governor
takes in the welfare of the inhabitants of this Colony, endea-
vour to make his Excellency's absence less felt, by their exer-
tions in carrying on the great and noble work of raising its
peculiar population fro►x ►gnorance and misery to civilization
and happiness. The encouragement of agriculture, commerce,
and intercourse with the interior of this vast Continent was
never more attended to than at present; while the patronage
afforded to all these institutions, which tend to assist these ob-
jects, is as liberally given."

One circumstance of a satisfactory nature is,
that the Borodino transport, With 120 mon of the
Royal African Colonial Corps on board, under
the command of Lieut. M'Combie, arrived at
Sierra Leone on the 21st of February from the
Cape of Good Hope, and sailed on the 24th for
Cape Coast, where we trust they arrived in time
to render effectual service.—(Mid.)

[MORNING CHRONICLE.]
W. call the attention of our readers to a re.
port in another part of the paper, of a Meeting at
the Freemasons' favern yesterday, for the pur-
pose of promoting the establishment of Infant
Schools. IVe lately enjoyed the pleasure of see-
ing the Infant School, established by Mr. Wil-
son, in Quaker-street, Spitalfields, at which
nearly two hundred children were attended to,
all of them happy and contented. It was truly
observed by many of the speakers at the Meet-
ing, that in this great metropolis there is a large
class of the population unable to attend to their
children, so that the Infant Schools do net with-
draw children from the care of their parents,
but withdraw them from the streets of this
crowded metropolis, where they are exposed
to every vice, and where they become a
prey to veterans in iniquity. While we ear-
nestly recommend these Schools to public pa-
tronage, we cannot at the same time help lamenting
that the remuneration of so large a portion of the
people of this country should be so very inade-
quate, that the labour of the wife as well as the

husband is necessary for the subsistence of the
family. This naturally leads us to the expres-
sion of a wish, that the circumstances which de-
termine whether the labouring classes shall he
miserable or comfortable, should be generally
communicated to them. This most important
subject was yesterday discussed in an able man-
ner by Mr. M'Culloch in his Lecture on Na-
tional Education, some account of which we shall
give on a future day, and which, for the sake of
the labouring classes of this country, we could
wish were as extensively circulated among them
as Possible. A conviction seems to be fast gain-
ing ground in this country, that the well-
being of the labouring classes is essential
to the security of the rich.—We trust this
is a subject on which there will soon be
little diversity of opinion. —To .those who
think that the ignorance and wretchedness of the
poor desirable state of things we would say--
read is n
the accounts we this day give from Spain,
and look to Ireland. Read the evidence of Mr.
Macke, and the other Magistrates examined
by the Select Committee on the districts of Ire-
land under the Insurrection Act Some

Gentlemen's houses are dark all day almost; all
the houses were barricadoed in some part of the
house ; the barricadoes being necessarily of a
heavy description, it is inconvenient to move
them ; in some houses they had but one sitting
room in the house, where the light was admissi-
ble at all in the day-time, and not all the win-.
dows even of that room; the barricadoes, which
were bullet proof, were of course of a consider-
able thickness.' "—Such are the fruits of igno-
rance and oppression. It is wisely ordained
that we are all interested in the well-being of
each other.

[MORNING lIER.ALD.]
On Saturday there was a Meeting held at
Liverpool, for the purpose of considering the
propriety of petitioning his Majesty in Council
to acknowledge the
independence of Spain's
South American Colonies. Some speechifying
took
place, but it was of the same nature that
has already appeared in almost innumerable pub-
lications. There was not a new thought sported
on the occasion. It seems that our exports to
those States amounted last year to five millions ;
this we are not surprised at ; we should
have thought that the amount had been
greater. We should have imagined that the
loans advanced the last year to those States
would much more considerably have swelled the
amount of our exports, for the presumption is,
with regard to these loans, that the amount of
them is sent in British productions. The petition
talks of the various restrictions under which the
commerce between this country and those States
labour—and yet we exported last year five mil
liOns. Is not this a sort of contradiction to that
assertion ? The petition alludes to the mea-
sures taking by the United States' Government
to impede the progress of the consumption
of our manufactured goods, by taxing them more
and more every year, so that at length it will
amount to a prohibitory tax. Now, here is a se-
cret let out. The United States' Government
which we have been extolling to the skies—
this Government, which Mr. Canning, when he
was at Liverpool, said was to go hand in
hand with England, in order to stem the tor-
rent of Continental despotism, is fast becoming
one of the most inimical Governments towards
us, so far as encouraging the consumption
of our manufactured articles is concerned, by
levying excessive imposts on them. It is not much
more than a quarter of a century that -we have
traded with these sons of freedom, and yet they
are about to treat us as if that country were under
the dominion of an absolute King. But can we
wonder that the United States' people should lay
a heavy tax on our goods ? In doing so does she
not imitate us ? Has she not as much right to
say to us, we grow cotton, and in order to en-
courage the manufactory of it into cloth for our
own use, we will tax your cotton cloths 40 per
cent. ; as we have to say to them, we grow wool,
and in order to encourage our woollen cloths,
we will lay a tax on foreign woollens of
40 per cent. ? But hitherto, in such respects,
the United States' people are more liberal to-
wards us than we are towards them, for they per-
mit the exportation of their cotton, while we will
not permit the exportation of our wool. The
petition mentions that of late our exports to
South AmeriCa have equalled our exports to the
United States.

ALARMING SCARCITY AT MADRAS.

[FROIkI A MORNING PAPER.]

It is with infinite regret we announce the
following distressing intelligence from Calcutta
and Madras :
" CALCUTTA, JAN. B.—The accounts from Madras are of
a most distressing nature, and have come upon us with a sud-
denness which renders the horror the more striking. We were
prepared to expect a scarcity of grain on the coast, but had not
the most distant idea of the extent to which the failure of the
crops had reached. M tdras and the surrounding country is in
a state of famine. Independently of the accounts we publish
to-day from Madras Papers, private letters all agree too minutely
in the distressing details, for us to doubt a second that the
most dreadful effects are to
be apprehended. It is stated that
even dread of the arms of the military, who are necessarily
placed at the Godowns where the Rice is distributed, is scarcely
sufficient to prevent depredations. Parents are abandoning
their children, and several have already died from absolute
starvation. This is but the commencement Of the appalling
consequences of famine. Disease is sure to follow, and although
we are certain that every possible means within the power of
Government will be employed to lessen the effects of this dire
visitation, we trust also that the aid of the Bengal public will
not be withheld.

" Manners, DEC. 23.—1 t is with regret that we notice the
increasing distress prevalent among the natives from the scar-
city of rice ; in the bazaars it is not to be procured, anti only.
one bankshall is now open for its sale, censequently the rush of
the people to obtain a portion of this small supply is dreadful,
and the North Beach is covered with hundreds, waiting with
the faint hope of being at last fortunate enough to reach its
door. Many European gentlemen are seen mingled with the
crowd, endeavouring to procure grain for their servants, which,
after having succeeded, the difficulty of carrying it away
in safety is considerable, as the right of the strongest, the
only law of necessity, seems universally acknowledged. Some
few merchants are dealing out their stock of rice scantily
and secretly during the middle of the night, to avoid the scene
of confusion and violence attendant on a public sale of it._
Grain of the worst and oldest description is bought up with avi-
dity, and many are reduced to subsist on grain; this even is
not to be purchased except in small quantities, and at an enor-
mous price. Several deaths have occurred amongst the lowest
order of the natives, which have been occasioned by starvation,
and so miserable is their condition that many children have in
deSpair been abandoned by their parents.
" The inhabitants of Pondicherry, we regret to learn, are
also sufferers forAhe want of food. We can now no longer in-
dulge the expectation that a fall of rain may yet save the har-
vest of the coming year, as we understand from those acquaint-
ed with the subject, that the crops are already destroyed ; we
however sincerely hope that plentiful supplies from Bengal and
the Northward, will soon reach this port, to obviate the distress-
ing effects of a scarcity which presses so severely on all classes
of the native population.

" DECEMBER 25,—On Monday night a vast multitude as.
sembled in the Black Town, and proceeded to break open some
of the rice stores belonging to native merchants, which were
plundered, and much grain carried off: Guards of native
troops were sent to protect property of this description. The
mob, however, behaved in the most daring and outrageous
manner towards the sepoys, while the latter, we understand,
acted with the greatest forbearance,' under very trying circum-
stances: two of the mob, however, are reported to be wounded,
and one killed. it is ima,rined that not less than 100,000 per-
sons were collected."

The Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty
bare determined, that in future Ambassadors to
tlie different Courts shall be conveyed aboard in
a vessel fitted expressly for that purpose, instead
of employing frigates on that service, as has been
the practice of late years. The Herald, formerly
the Termagant, has accordingly been commis-
sioned at Portsmouth for this express purpose by
Capt. 11. J. LEEKE, and Mr. JOHN SUEA is ap-
pointed Purser,