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London, England, 1847-07-05 00:00:00

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LONDON, MONDAY, JULY 5, 1847.

DEPA-RTURE OF THE COURT
FOR CAMBRIDGE.
- Her MAJESTY and Prince ALBERT, and the Ladies
vt id Gentlemen of the royal suite, left Buckingham
slate at half• past ten o'clock this morning, in three
or ,en barouches and four, with an escort of Lancers,
fa; r the Tottenham station of the Northern and
Et astern Counties Railway, to proceed to Cambridge
a special

His Royal Highness Prince WA/AMUR of Prussia
Ft Mivart's Hotel this morning, attended by Barons
(Ati.XER, ORIOLA, and GROEBEN, for the Tottenham
igtion, and accompanied her MAJESTY and the
mince Consort to Cambridge.

,Lord Josx RtifSELL left town this morning for

Cambridge, where his Lordship will remain during
the installation of his Royal Highness Prince ALBERT.

A Court pageantry was wont to fascinate the
rabble by its magnificence. The lieges stood a-gape
with admiration at the trumpeters in cloth-of-gold,
the beef-eaters in rose-garlands, and the yeomen
clad in steel and leather by the ingenuity of the
armourer. Little of the homage formerly paid to the
gauds of royalty survives. The prestige of heraldic
emblazonry is almost forgotten. Even Mr. D Y MOCK.
himself, the hereditary Champion of England, would
excite little more reverence in the multitude than the
brass knight in the Lord Mayor's procession, though
he were mounted on the back of Bucephalus and
cased in the mail of SALADIN. Homelier sentiments
have become diffused among the populace than those
which animated the lieges of a feudatorial
sovereignty. So earnest indeed has been the re-
action, that a species of opprobrium has been attached
to that external grandeur which was rendered un-
palatable from its association with the cruelties and
oppressions of an exploded system. The crimes of our
former rulers have imparted almost as much odium to
the gorgeous ceremonials by which those rulers were
ever accompanied as did the dilemmas of the
melancholy gentleman of La Mancha to the forms
and proprieties of knight-errantry. It would be well,
however, for the multitude to reflect upon all such
occasions as elicit anything like a revival of the pomps
of regality, not so much upon the utility or decorum
of those pomps, as upon the circumstances of which
they are merely the celebration, and of the purposes
which they are intended to commemorate.
Whatever may be said in depreciation of the ap-
proaching ceremonies at Cambridge, it is certain that
the event of which they will only be the accompani-
ment is one of no trivial importance, not merely to
the several divisions of that University, but to the
interests of the general community, and to the pro-
gress of our insular civilisation. Whether much
advantage can possibly result to any one man in the
empire by the pindaric throes and inane strophes of
Mr. WILLIAM WORDSWORTH —written, be it ob-

served, as a sort of compensation for the legendary
butt of malmsey, and as a vindication of his titular
dignity as Poet Laureate—whether, we repeat, much
advantage can possibly result from the feeble song of
jubilation chanted from Rydal Mount, it would
require probably the discernment of a DA..
CIER to determine. But the superficial ob-
server will recognise in the installation of his
Royal Highness the Prince ALBERT, as Chancellor of
the University of Cambridge, a token of that bro-
therhood in knowledge which promises in effect to
regenerate the whole family of man. A spectacle
more suggestive of the meaning and tendencies of
this generation could hardly be conceived than the
one which will have adorned the sedgy banks of the
Cam during the Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday
of the present week. We cannot regard the nomi-
nation of the Prince Consort—a Prince respected for
his versatile accomplishments and loved for his distin-
guished amenity—as a merely hollow compliment to
his Royal Highness as the husband of VICTORIA. By
that selection more—immeasurably more—has been
effected than the presentation of a formal token of
loyalty ; a new bond has bound together the sympa-
thies of the QUEEN and the People. As searchers
among the divine mysteries of knowledge, royalty
and democracy henceforth go hand in hand ; as fel-
low-scholars in philosophy they muse together under
the porch; as brother labourers in the mines of eru-
dition they are intimately associated. A latent good
is indicated in the pageantry of this interesting in-
stallation, not so much by the ardour with which it is
prepared—significant as that is—as by its manifest
influence upon the minds of the apparently un-
interested. While the public attention is so
much engrossed by an accumulation of unusual
embarrassments, and the advent of a dissolu-
tion of Parliament, the installation of the
Chancellor attracts an extraordinary amount of
observation throughout the United Kingdom. This,
moreover, because the ceremony is not only one of
local, hut one also of national interest.

' The Prince ALBERT is now connected officially
with one of the most venerable of our Universities.
At a period when the cause of Education is engaging
so much of the curiosity of the multitude, of the
hi-mutiny of Parliament, Lula of ale prwildenue of the
Government, his Royal Highness is brought into im-
mediate communication with one of the most plente-
ous and one of the least exhaustible of the fountains of
knowledge. Everything, either directly or inferen-
tially, tends to fix upon the popular mind the supreme
importance of a more facile diffusion of the blessings
of secular education. Everything combines to hold
this up to the popular observation, at the ensuing
elections, as a paramount theme for discussion in the
selection of the candidates. Unless precautions there-
fore be taken for the due estimation of this matter by
the possessors of the franchise, they will have to
bewail, perhaps, during seven years the foolishness
which had induced them to be lukewarm
in the promotion of a cause in which
the ignorance, and consequently the happiness
and sobriety, of the indigent millions are so inextri-
cably concerned. If another spur be administered to
the memory of the electors by the pomps of this
inauguration at Cambridge, the election of his Royal
Highness Prince ALBERT will redound doubly to the
honour of the University authorities, and will fur-
nish the people with an additional reason for regard-
ing the husband of their QUEEN with affection.

The explanation which was given by the Attorney-
General in the House of Commons on Friday night
with respect to the proceedings which took place at
Hertford on the 17th ultimo, in relation to the pro-
perty of the late JOHN TAWELL, will be received
with peculiar gratification throughout the country.
The public feeling had been painfully excited
in consequence of the apparent barbarity and
cruelty of the act--the deepest sympathy was
accorded to the unfortunate widow. It was con-
ceived that the wound which had in some respects
closed, by the healing influences of time, had been
most heartlessly torn open ; that she had been prac-
tically punished for a crime of which she was wholly
innocent, by being deprived of the property to which
she would otherwise have been entitled, and her own
production as a witness, in order that the link in the
chain of evidence, to deprive her of her property,
might be supplied by her own testimony, increased
the general indignation. The statement of the At-
torney-General has fully and completely exonerated
the Government from every imputation of harshness
or oppression in the case in question. It has proved
that they acted with the humanity and equity which
England would expect from the Ministers of her
choice, but it has placed in the strongest light the
absurdity and injustice of the code which is still per-
mitted to remain a stain and a disgrace to our
statutes. The most eloquent denunciation that
could be hurled against the system by its most
strenuous opponent could not exhibit its impropriety
in a stronger light than the uniform practice of the
Crown in relinquishing the rights to which it be-
comes entitled, in waiving the forfeitures that may
from time to time accrue. If its claims were of such
a nature that their enforcement could be justified,
then there would be a culpable abandonment by the
advisers of the Crown of the rights and privileges
theyis no
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were bound to maintain and preserve; but such
would occasion
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rence to such obsolete
andenactments
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be more than usually oppressive.

The Attorney-General tells us, " that on convic-
tion of any person for felony, the property of the
convict belongs to the Crown ; that the practice,
however, had uniformly been to grant, on petition
from the relatives of the convict, an inquiry, and to
give the property to those relatives ; that in this par-
ticular case a memorial was presented by Mrs.
TAWELL to the Treasury, praying the Crown to
make inquiry, and to order that the property of her
late husband should be bestowed upon her; that the
inquest had taken place, in accordance with that me-
morial, and that the property, instead of being re-1
tained by the Crown, would be sold for her benegt,"l

I We accord to this statement of the Honourable and
Learned Gentleman the fullest credence ; but why is
the law retained, if the uniform practice is not to en-
force it? We respect the law officers of the Crown
too much to suppose that they can in any manner be
influenced by The fees and perquisites to which, in
right of their office, they are entitled on every such
inquisition. Except in the case of wealthy cri-
minals, few can benefit by the favourable
consideration of their request by the Executive.
Every expense connected with the investigation, from
the fees to the law officers, for the report on the
original memorial in the first instance, to the bill of
costs of the Solicitor for the Treasury, and the pay-
ments to commissioners, jurors, and witnesses, roust
be defrayed out of the property in the first instance,
before any portion of the residue can be distributed
to the claimants. Here, then, is a heavy and a
perfectly needless outlay, which acts as a total pro-
hibition to any of the humbler and less wealthy
classes. It would not be worth the while of the widow
or orphans of a felon, whose property amounted to
the value of a few hundreds only, although
its possession might save them from want and misery;
the whole would be absorbed in the cost of the in-
quiry, and nothing would remain to save them from
poverty and destitution. There are amply sufficient
grounds for urging the repeal of the law under pre-
sent circumstances, but the possible use which may
be made of it vastly increases the necessity. While
the country is blessed with a constitutional Govern-
ment there would be little danger of any abuse of
the power, but there have been corrupt ministers in
bygone days, and possibly such may again arise
on some future occasion. Political disturbances
have occurred, and many who were comparatively
blameless were deprived of their properties, and
driven forth into exile and poverty, while the minions
of the prevailing faction rioted in the possession of
the estates wrested from the rightful owners for too
rigid an adherence to honour and principle. How
many families were reduced from wealth and affluence
to distress and penury for an unceasing devotion to
the rights of CHARLES 11. during the time of the
Commonwealth, who were unable to obtain restitution
after the Restoration ! Scenes similar to these which
have formerly taken place may possibly be re-enacted,
and the only safeguard that can be extended to the
people, the only shield that can guard against the
possibility of their recurrence, is the total abolition
of the law relating to escheats and forfeitures, and the
corruption of the blood of a malefactor.

Constantinople letters, of the 17th, state that a
treaty of peace between Persia and Turkey has been
definitively concluded. It was reported at Salencia,
on the 9th, that an Albanian had revolted against the
Turkish Government. His force consisted of 800
men. There is every prospect of a plentiful harvest
in Turkey;

Letters from Alessandria, of the 27th ult., announce
that the differences existing between the Austrian
Government and the King of SARDINIA had been
arranged by mutual concessions—the Austrian Go-
vernment having considerably reduced the duty levied
on the wines of Sardinia when entering the Austrian
dominions, and the King of SARDINIA having pro-
mised on his part to discountenance the march of
Liberal opinions in Piedmont. As a first step towards
this course of policy, the newspapers lately established
in Tuscany had been prohibited in Piedmont. The
consequence of this change of system on the part of
the King of SARDINIA was the resignation of his
chief Minister, Senor VILLA MARINA.

Madrid papers of the 27th and 28th ult. have
arrived.

It is said that a decree will shortly be issued sup-
pressing all custom-houses in the interior of the
kingdom.

A band of Carlists had been defeated by the QUEEN'S
troops at Guerault, in Catalonia, and two of the Carlist
chiefs killed. The province of Burgos, in conse-
quence of the appearance of the Carlist band of EL
ESTUDIENTE, is to be declared in .a state of siege.
Don FRANCISCO DE PAULA has, it is said, fallen
into disgrace with the QUEEN. During her late rides
her MAJESTY has not been accompanied as usual by
her uncle or her cousin.

MADRID BOLSA, JUNE 29.—The Three per Centc.
were done at 291. for cash; the Four per Cents. at
171; the Five per Cents. at 17k; the Debt without Inte-
rest at si; and the Coupons at 13.

We have received the Paris papers of Friday and
Saturday.
The Constitutionnel of Friday contains the fellow-
ing on the intelligence recently received from Al-
geria :
" The Moniteur Algerien has published an important
and untoward piece of intelligence. An engagement
appears to have taken place between the Emir Abd-el-
Kader and the Emperor of Morocco. It is stated that
Abd. el-Kader has obtained a great advantage. The
following details—exaggerated, perhaps,—have been
sent us through Spain. Whilst Abd-el-Kader, whe had
taken refuge in Morocco, was endeavouring to obtain
peace from France, and had even implored the media-
tion of the Spanish Government, Abderrhaman received
information that the Emir intended turning his forces
against him, and endeavour to hurl him from the throne.
The Emperor then resolved to rid himself of so formid
able a guest. Ho took advantage of the circumstance of
the collection of the contributions of the Riff by a small
body of troops sent there for that purpose, to order the
Kaid El Amar, the chief of that expedition, to carry off
Abd-el-Kader. This latter chief was then at the head
of 500 horsemen and 200 foot soldiers. On June 14
the Moorish troops attempted to execute the order
of the Emperor, but they were vigorously forced
back by the Emir's troops, after having experienced a
loss of 70 horses. The next day El Amar returned to
the charge, but the Moroccomen were again worsted,
and on the following night .their camp was attacked,
taken, and pillaged by Abd-el-Kader, who cut off the
head of the kaid, taken prisoner in the combat. It is
notorious how much the intelligence of the Arabs is to
be distrusted, and the present news requires confirma-
tion. If they are exact, Abd-el-Kader is now in posses-
sion of the Riff, that is, the vast province of Morocco
which bounds our frontiers; he can receive freely by
sea the succours of various kinds, which will certainly
be sent him, and his reputation has increased in the em
pire of Morocco. It is seen what are the fruits of the treaty
of Tangiers, so ill-conceived, and so badly executed. It
appears that:l.bd-el-Kader announces thetirmest intention
to remain at peace with France, in order to destroy more
freely Abderrhaman, who inspires his subjects with nei-
ther respect, fear, nor confidence. As to our Govern-
ment, it appears to intend remaining on the defensive,
and to deliver up the Moorish Emperor to the chances
of the struggle in which he is engaged. The Moniteur
Algerien limits itself to saying that all is foreseen to
prevent the effect of the blow being felt in the province
of Oran.' "

The Presse states that the Ministry has caused to
be published in several provincial journals a letter,
signed "E. DE GIRAEDIN," to the effect that, as the
writer did not choose to remain under the stigma
which was cast upon him by the veto of the Chamber
of Deputies, of being a calumniator, he should appeal
to his constituents by resigning his seat. M. EMILE
DE GIRARDIN denounces this letter as a forgery, and
claims for himself the victory in his contest with the
Ministry.

Governmentthe
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s the Presse,
known "were open
to
makethe whole truth, and it had its choice of them. It might
the
truth, to
and
have ordered an inquiry, or have brought M. de
Girardin before a jury. To the members of the ma
jority, who wished that the truth should be exposed, M.
de Girardin proposed an inquiry; to the Ministers, who
denied what the Deputy for Bourganeuf persisted in
affirming, M. de Girardin offered that he should be
brought to trial before a jury. The majority did not
choose the inquiry; the Ministers would not have a jury.
M. de Girardin had nothing further to do, and the pre-
tended letter to the President is but a pendant to the
impudent account sent to the Ministerial journals, and
in which M. de Girardin was made to say precisely the
contrary to what he really said; but the Ministry de-
ceives itself strangely if it thinks that it will raise itself
in public opinion by such base manoeuvres as these."
The Presse recapitulates the charges brought by M.
DE GIRARDIN against the Government in the following '
terms :

,4 I, A hundred thousand francs, given by M. Adam
to M. Granier do Cassagnac and M. Solar, for the
privilege of a theatre. M. Adam has not contradicted
this fact.
" 2. The memoir or pamphlet of Baron Lambert pur-
chased for 30,000 f. Baron Lambert has not contradicted
this fact.
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fDacutc.los, Faucher, and Labbe, have not contradicted this'
"4. A cross of the Legion of Honour given to an uc-
certificated bankrupt. This has not been denied.
"5. A subvention of 5,000 francs a month to the
Globe newspaper. It being impossible to deny this fact,
which was judicially proved, an attempt was made to
e39lain it, by saying that a deceased Deputy, M. Mer•
milliocj, who for the nonce was transformed into a rich
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