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London, England, 1845-04-07 00:00:00

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Civil wat has commenced in Switzerland, by an attack CJ
Lucerne, in which, it is said, from 800 to 1,000 were killed-
The particulars are given elsewhere.
Toe French Government have presented to the Chamber of
Deputies a Bill, demanding a credit of 28,700,000 f., for the
L.,provement at the ports of Dunkirk, Calais, Boulogne, I'E'
camp, Granville, and others.
In the Chamber of Peers the discussion en the Colonial
Administration 13111 had commenced. The Minister of the
Marine detailed at some length the object of the Government,
which was to introduce into the colonies elements to promote
the welfare of the slaves, to give them moral instruction, an
encouragement to legitimate mairiages, and an efficacious
repression of abuses. Ou all these points the Government
and the Committee were perfectly agreed in their opinions-
There was, however, he said, one important point on which they
differed. The Committee wished the reforms to be all effected
immediately, whereas the Government were of opinion that it
should be done by degrees. The Bill excites great interist•
Miss Louisa Bingham, eldest daughter of W. Bingham'
Esq., of Philadelphia, niece of Lady Ashburton, and grand-
daughter of the late Hon. Allin (.31aartier de Lothiniere, was
married at Paris, on Wednesday, to Count Olivier de Bois-
guilbert.
The France Meridionale of the 29th ult. gives some addi'
tional details of the insubordination of the law pupils 14
Toulouse. " The lectures," says this journal, " which were
interrupted by the Easter holidays, were to continue on tes
Friday after. The students arrived in great numbers to
hear the lecture of M. Massal, but when they beheld that
the measure which they complained of was maintained, they
withdrew, notwithstanding the friendly representations es
the rector, who was pleased to be present at the first sittieg•
The students continued to assemble, and used riotous len;
guage, until the arrival of the troops. They then disperse'
in great agitation."
Accounts from Rome state that further political arrests
have been effected at Ravenna, by order of the militari,
commission. The number of persons now in the prisons is
that city for political offences amounts to upwards of o°l
about twenty of whom belong to the first families in the pro-
vince. Among them are Counts Cappi, Gamba, Vicsrj'
MM. Dellavalle, Camerano, &c.

POLICXII..
Richard Dunn, the quondam suiter of Miss Burdett Couttss
applied to the Court of Bankruptcy to be released from tbs
Queen's Bench Prison as a preliminary step to obtaining bis
interim order. He had teen incarcerated four years upon
judgment debt for costs of 801. Mr. Commissioner HoiroP
refused the application.
At Warwick James Crowley was indicted for the wilful
murder of William Tilsly, in 1842. The circumstances
the case will be fresh in the recollection of our readers. Thea
father a the prisoner being apprehensive of danger from hi,
violence, had employed. Tilsly to watch him. On Clirl_s"-
mas-day. 1842. the prisoner asked admittance to his father,
and on being refused by Tilsly, shot him dead, and then mill
his escape to America, from whence he returned in 1844, 01,.
was captured. He was found guilty and sentenced to death,
without hope of mercy.
Mr. Philip Henry Cooper, the steward of Sir W. MassA
Stanley, was found guilty at Liverpool, of publishing a li
on the Rev. Joshua King. The libel arose out of a disp°t
on the subject of preserving foxes.
At the Guildhall. Mr. Allum ii,formed the sitting skier;
man that he had received a letter from the notorious JoseP"

Ady, couched in the usual terms.
Thomas Henry Robinson, a young man of gentlemenlill
appearance, who recently held the appointment of cashier:,
the Reading station of the Great Western Railway, Ir.
charged at Worship-street with having feloniously approprici
ated a 50/. note, the property of Mr. thanchett, a liceele
victualler, in Totte;111 Bout-court-road. It appeared that ills
alleged offence had been committed at Reacting, and he
accordingly sent to that place for examination.
At the Thames Police Court, Edward Faiwey, the nall'3ter
,„
of a school fur the education of poor Irish children, in Priec'i
square, Ratcliff Highway, and which is under the control of
the Roman Catholic priests in the district, appeared belt,
Mr. Ballantine, on a summons to answer a charge of assetl4l
ing John i..:uckly, a buy only seven years of age. The bra 0
schoolmaster, who had flogged the boy moat inhumanly/ W
fink d 20s.

COURT-PASHIONAELE.
on
Among the lair debutantes in Nom'high life, say- the Nom'
who are to be presented at her Majesty's Draw ing-r00t0,4
Thursday next, will be Lady Adele Villiers. the yeuvr-,,
lin
daughter of the Earl and Countess of Jersey ; Miss
daughter cf Mr. Hogg, M.P. ; the Hon. M 1.3 F. Searipr,
second daughter of Lord and Lady Abinger ; Miss Lis`teo
niece of Lord John Russell. We hear that Lady Blau,' a
Somerset, eldest daughter of the Duchess of Beaufort, 31
Lady Caroline Leveson Gower, third daughter of the Dul
10,
,i
and Duchess of Sutherland, are to make their debt in sociehve
this season ; but it is understood will not be presented at
first Drawing-room.
The Duchess of Grafton and Lady Louisa Fitzroy
arrived at Grafton House, Piccadilly, from Wakefield Loli
Northamptonshire, for the season. The Duchess is
presented to the Queen on Thursday next, by the Coup
of Jersey, on her coming to the title.
Countess Flahault and the Hon. Misses Elnhinst°lle
Flahault have arrived in Chesham-street, from Hastor
His Excellency Count Flahault is still fulfilling his dipth°,
matic functions as French Minister Plenipotentiary a,t de.
Court of Austria, and the precise period of his expected
parture from Vienna for this country is not yet definitiv"
settled. ftots
The Earl and Countess of Wilton have returned to Egez.,,i,
Lodge, Melton Mowbray, from visiting the Duke of Rutllll.
at Belvoir Castle. The Noble Earl and Countess are
pected to arrive in town for the season at the latter end ofi.'
ensuing week.
The Earl of Harrowby (whose state of health for 93 ne
time past has not been satisfactory) 13 at present yell lir
ously indisposed at his mansion in Grosvenor-square-
count Sandon remains in attendance on his noble parent'
The Duke of Devonshire has been suffering for some dir
past fro m an affection of the eyes. A ths
The Marquis and Marchioness of Clanricarde and
De Burgh, after passing some weeks in Naples,
that capital three weeks since, on their return to this comet'.
MISCELLANEOUS.
of
The meteorological observations made at the garue""

...cLeorologicai oust, va..„— _-
the Horticultural Society, at Chiswick, show the fate wit"'
to have been the most protracted and severe for many ye
past. From the Ist of December the mean temperature :be
34 degrees, being lower than that of any similar period in
en
present century, with the exception of that of 1813-14, W'Ll
it was one and a half degrees lower. March exhibited a le""of
mean than any similar month since 1797 ; and the Inelll.„.f,
February was lower than that of any in the present cent'!;;yt
being 33 deg. 12 min., or 8 deg. below the average. The nTeg,
temperature of December was 33 deg. 4 min., or nearly 7 u
below the average. teli'
On Thursday night, between the hours of nine an- ref
some persons passing along the Hackney-road discoV!4t
that a fire was raging in one of the rooms on the first n'es,
front of the Refuge for the Female Destitute. The necthe
sary alarm having been given, the matron hastened Wpral
room, when she found the bed and furniture in a gel 3: to
blaze. Without loss of time the whole of the inmates' cl re
the number of nearly eighty, were aroused, it being fee
at one period that the fire would extend throughout 3 of
spacious range of premises • but, owing to the exerti°r3thst
the residents, they succeeded' in confining 0 o the flames a
portion of the establishment wherein they originated; .LOl
the services of the engines were not required. The da1024
is exclusively confined to the destruction of the bed '-
furniture. bore
A few days ago an English vessel from China went As. 11
near Etaptes (Pas de Calais). 1 iL, r , consisting 'balls
persons, were saved, and hopes w(-:-.• entertained that
dre
would be the case also wit li cargo, which tot
estimated at nearly 100,0001.; but it appears, by an Ace°
of s me of the journals, that they have been wholly It/01,
A great number of vessels cleared from the port of of
castle, on Tuesday las, fur Quebec, it being the first dal, 0
the season on which vessels of the United Kingdom esro,
accorda,ce. with their insurance policies. sail tOr Alne
0,. the following lay a still greater number took their
parture, the wind blowing briskly from the west. abbe
Very extensive and log-required improvements are
being made at the Guildhall police-court, during vrhich,
the
the examination of prisoners will be heard in one 0,
chambers in the hall

XAMBURGH AND DUTCH MAIL.
BERLIN, MARCH 27.—Yesterday letters arrive d from
St. Petersburgh: they confirm the accounts of the pre-
paration whir h the Emperor is making fbr a tour to in-
spect the army, and for a visit to Warsaw. Accounts
from that t i y mention several regiments which at pre-
sent form pait of the Polish corps of the army, but
which are to be stn' to reinforce the army employed
against the mountaineers aiid are to be previously re-
viewed by the Emperor. With respect to the journey
of the Empress to the hot springs at Kreuth, in Ba•
;aria, nothing certain is known at St. Petersburgh it•
self. It will all depend on the slate of her Majesty's
health, and her being sufficiently strong to bear so long
a jaunt- V.
BERLIN, MARCH 29.—Th• King gave an audea: e on
Sba 27th to the Baron Ref:duff., tie, Portuguese Ain
has,asier, and received from him the ies gnia (sent by
her Majesty the Queen of Pertugal) ef the three united
reyal aii!ae; tirdtrs e:hri,t. St. J.tgo de
Espaiai, la,
COPENHAGEN. MARCH 28 —The communi, catien with
Sweden across the tee continues to-saly, but Nome per-
sons have lost their lives At Elsit, re t' e Seated sod•
onlly op, d, and two ships have arrived there, though
, y
ten minutes bef ‘re two persons crossed the ice from
owdesa.
BERLIN, MARCH 25.—The Russian Government have
lately ordered Kalisch to be more strongly fortified,
and a new levy of 100,000 men to be made. As the
fortifying of Kalisch is of particular importance to
Prussia, on account of its vicinity to our frontiers, it is
said that our Minister for Foreign Affairs has directed
• von Lebermann, in St. Petersburgh, to ask for some
explanation en the subject.
BREMEN, MARCH 31.—1 am sorry to hav,c a most dis-
tressing piece of news to send to you. The river after
Laving attained the height of 18i feet, made a breach in
a. dike in spite of every effort, and pours with dreadful
-violence over the adjacentcountry and suburbs. The sight
is awful; near the breach the ht.uses and trees are swept
t Yefo rwa by the furioas torrnt hich carries everything
ue it. Unfortunately,e it sweems that several lives are lost, the torrent being so furious that the boats sent out
so afford assistance could not reach them. Between
thirty and forty houses are said to have been overthrown
!Ind carried otr. The water is now falling ; but the
lon
streets in the city are still inundated. The Bremen
rt:a aUe of the 31st gives a longer account, but says that
1, not possible to enter into more details.
*8- A.t half-past three in the afternoon, the ac-
to.unts are rather more favourable, no more persons arc
the roofs and those who had taken refuge on trees and
roofs of houses, are all saved. The water continues
to fall.
etrXnAvEN, MARCH 30.—A number of ships have
arrived from sea, and those that have arrived up to this
(lay at noon, as well as those that lay on the beach, are
in e
the quarantine harbour ; some have already gone up
th Elhe.
BAMHLTRGH, APRIL I.—A very advantageous change
111 the state of the ice has taken place during the night.
Several ships have come up the Elbe from Cuxhaven, and
some small vessels have passed Blankeneuse.
at tha TWELVE AT NoON.—Eight of the steamers are lying
Luhe, and the Helen Macgregor is at anchor near
wit tingburg.
T.PIE HAGUE, APRIL 2.—Frcm the accounts received
to•day of the state of the rivers, it appears that the waters
everywhere continued to rise, and that the dikes had
suffered during the late storms. The state of the Rhine
(like at Liendea caused some apprehensions, and great
exertions were making to strengthen them.
From Bois le Due we learn that some dikes had given
waY, atd that on the evening of the 31st of March six
breaches were made in the Etnpels dike, one of which is
frora 120 to 150 feet in width.
The Rhine at Cologne at half-past six in the evening:
of the 30th of March, was at 31 feet 7 inches; in the
following three hours it rose only half an inch.
tihßhine
A letter from Cologne of the 30th March says—" The•
ine gives us a melancholy spectacle. The
rapid thaw after the long winter brings down an im-
lease mass of water, for which the bed of the river is
too narrow, and which consequently overflows the hanks
to a great distance. All the streets near the Rhine are
inundated, from the Custom-house to the bride, only
the upper half of the houses is visible. Boats are plying
backwards and forwards to maintain the communication
between the overflawed streets and the ether parts of the
• welthY.' Oftpoeite to us on the right bank, Deutz is almost
wolly inundared, and forms an island; in the gardens
(41;,,
tor
itt n ti. treestreesare 1)!Agoons
g:irrison there Her,- ',bilged to their baix:ti7ki
s'ase days ago, the water having penetrated to their
stables. The whole surrounding country suffers greatly
by the inundation, and thouoi sev, rul breaches in the
dikes of the neighbourhood have taken place by which
new outlets are opened to the water, it still continues
to rite, and threatens us with turther ravages."
It is probably owing to the inundations that the South
German papers have net arrived to-day.
We have received the Java papers from the 7th to the
14th of December ; those of the 11th have the following
account :

" News having been received that an English ship was
stranded and set on fire on the Karang Oedjong, between
Woelangan and Berouw, on the East
coast of Borneo,
and that the crew, consisting of six Englishmen and
some Bengalese, had been taken up by the peonpl.eon the
s
March.)
coast, and were at Geonong-Tabor and Ta diing (as
mentioned in the Staats Courant of the 20th
o
scho ner, the Egmond, commanded by Lieut. Van
eapellen,was sent by Mr. A. L. Widdik, the Commis-
a4Y for Borneo, &e., to endeavour to bring away the
BhiPwrecked crew and take them to Bani-massing.
" The ship arrived on the 20th of October at the
mop The
of the river of Berouw, and after some corre-
VQI :140"once with the Sultans of Tandjong and Goenong-
with
uEuid a personal interview of ;Lieutenant Capellan
sit ratio two Sultans, he succeeded in obtainingatnhde
trhee-
se°l—"succeededn of some of the goods that were saved ,
haa3e of the crew. The native crew of the Premier
111 F found means to go to Sub &h.
.1' 6%
The shipwrecked men, W. Brownrig, J. Watson,
"- alatthews H. Matthews, S. Macdonell, W. Pinkerton,
healthtt"P. Patina, went on board the Egmond in goodh
on the 26th f Oct ber and were landed on t
lat of ,
be 6 venaber at(lßanjeormas'sing, whence they were to
ent to Batavia in the brig Mansoerie.
their" Though these eo le have suffered much during
a stay with the uncivilisedpp princes of Tandjong and
thellllg Tabor, yet it appears to the Commissary that
f repress or,
of bad treatment by the Sultan of
d °eni
ng-Tabor were rather exaggerated, and that the
and of that prince to have them back must be
EtsFribed to the wish to injure the Sultan of Taudjong,
With whom they were in the last instance, than to a
esire to put them to death, or to sell them for slaves."
TRE HAUE, APRIL 3.—The account of the rivers, re-
ceived to-day, states that the water continued to rise
Yesterday. Alany dikes are broken through.
The accounts from Cologne, of the 31st March, are
very distressing. All the dikes are broken through in
the low districts in the vicinity. The inhabitants of the
villages of Niehl, Merkenich, &e., are among
who have with the greatest difficulty- saved their those
c
and effects ; but many have saved only their lives, wic attleh
the consolation that, as far as is yet known, none have
perished. Their misery is beyond description, as they
were unable to save the small stock of provisions that
remain after the long winter. Many houses, stabl-
and barns are swept away, by the torrent. All the stos,
ck
of corn, hay, &c., that remain, is spoiled, and
the sur-
rounding places which received the cattle of the unfor-
tunate peoVe cannot maintain them, b..ivg themselves
with
in want of fodder. Ths winner corn is destroyed, and
respect to the summer corn there is no prospect of
sowing it at present, the land, it is thought, being covered
With sand.
No South German papers received to-day.
, TUE 114IGUE, APRIL 4.—Though the Rhine at Co-
logne was tailen a little, th,- rivers in the s
eontinte d to rise, yesterday, and the dikesNe
inther several
Places were much injured.

SPORTING INTELLIGI-.:1• CU,.
ABERGAVENNY RACES.—TnuRsDAY.
, 'Hurdle Match of 50 snvs. ; list 71b each. Three miles.
,r,-aptain Jon 'Novice (Morgan) beat Mr. Granfield's Bolus.
.he Atonoloesuthshire Stakes of 5 soya. each, with 40 added,
three 31. s old, 7st ; 1 81b • five yrs, 9st 41b ; six
four yrs,
rii and aged, lOst ; county-bred horses allowed 51b; entire
kr.orsbei,,s, alb extra'. Heats, one mile and a half. (5 Subs.)
(Dixon) 1 1
Mr. w-n,i's Dash, 4 yrs
3 2
Mr. il°o,-L's Miss Bodkin, 4
.yrs (half-bred)
2 3
-"Algiva British Grenadier, 3 yrs
The tirst heat woncanter, and the second by a neck.
The
nnouthah' Hunt Cup of 25/., added to a.
_S,we,e_ps-
MrStaDk" °f3sovs. eared). Heats, one mile and a half. (3 ouos.)
Atr......powland'a Tariff, 6 yrs (Owner) 1 0 1
3 0 2
k earce's Miriam, aged
2 0 3
I.' Go ,s
In
First heat woYnssheYB' 3 yrs
betw two lengths; second heat,. a dead heat
Ti, eel' Tariff and Miriam • third heat won in a canter.._
4e not Hurdle Handicap of 3 sous. each,
Mr- Bella ' •
added. Two miles. (12 subs.) with a Purse
(Owner) 1
Captain my s Mystic, aged, list
2
it.. Jones's Sloyice, aged, 12st 21b
3
-,,r Str g t ton's Freedom, aged, lOst 10Ib
ag Tariff, 6 yrs, 12st 71b—otboy, aged, llst—Here-we-are,
I„ed, Ist---Lilla, aged, list (fourth)—and Smallhopes, aged,
.‘pst 11b, also ran. Won cleverly by twd lengths.
Ile BETTING AT MANCHESTER—FRIDAY.
11 t4„;TEIt CuP.-9 to 1 agst Obscurity (take 10 to 1)--..
tr s.' 1. agst Semiseria-12 to 1 agst Cataract-13 to 1 agst
„rest-1 aa---20 to 1 agst Winesour-20 to 1 agst Strathspey-30 to
Zationi-33 to 1 agst Queen of Tyne-30 to 1 agat
Fltzepac-Knuck (0-40 to 1 agst Trueboy-45 to 1 agst
Tw_"!l-8 to 1 agst the Irish lot (t.)
2 an.5,,,,,,e110178.V.ND GULNEAS STAKES-5 to 2 Ides (t)-5 to
ljt`Rikedger-6 to 1 agst Cobweb c.
I agst V..--10 to 1 agat Alarm-13 to 1 agst Kedger-14 to
wet'', 'l,lB--18 to 1 agat Clear-the-Way-25 to 1 agst Cob-
-40 , (---26 to 1 agst Weatherbit (t)-30 to 1 apt Mentor—.
aLo 1 agat Old England-40 to 1 agst Fitz-Allen-12 to 1
go4tArtsorth's lot (t.)
of
,e
0,,
aas- o
2 1
ageagst
shireLancas Witch-12 to 1 agst Maid
4 --13 tt Rose Cashmere.
eAT,.. COURSING.
----c•bo'clANt C - P • M EYING The Rubens
tait.. - - OITTISING ICTL RE E . .
It"b.,,,sts,_ Were won by Mr. G. Pollok's Hawthorn; Mr. Camp-
ils
isr.t,owleawav ran up. The Doininichino Stakes were won
Itiinsay's Rector Mr. A. Graham's Curatore
RI !IP- Ihe Corregio Stakes were won by the Marquis of D0n-
‘,..48 a Drift ; Mr. Walker's Moorland- Meg ran up. The
kcit!dYke Stakes were won by Mr. Gibson's Violet ; Mr.
r4lten's Heron ran U. The Murillo Stakes were won by
Sty.deGt.' Hawthorn, beating Mr. Jobling's Miner. The
i-, 'S Stakes—Drift beat Rector. The Landseer Stakes—
met beat Hawthorn.
TI
It IR COUPAING PtcymtE.—Mr. Gibson's bc b Violet beat
4.41148 of Douglas's Drift, and won the picture.

, PAT AL
"to bov GorACCID----ENT::—On Tuesday morning
thirteeiis,, sons of Thomas Jones, Esq., of Rowley, one about
*ere on) ears,. the other not more than eight years of
hi.., t shooting in a field near the house. The eldest
the got the ram-rod fastened in the barrel of the gun,
, ' Youngest came to his assistance, and was pulling at the
. 44,,
1, rod, the eldest having hold of the stock
rwAen, onf.rttinat,l,-, the ~-,,T. went ,ff, literally se,iding the
Of the gun.
ft:',.l4fo. i',.,_ f : ~.,.„.. Th;. iint)rl,,il.,te
.041,er was not dead at the time we received this informa-
b,..,
....,,,, ,4 not the slightest hope is entertained of his recovery.
s ft rourne Afesseagon