Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1853-03-12
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

items Of foreign intelligence brought by the mail
steamer Baltic, from Liverpool the 23d ultimo
The Earl of CLARENDON has assumed the Seals Of the
t Foreign Office, in place of Lord JOHN RUSSELL.
Q In the House of Lords, the 2lst, the Earl of
Aberdeen said it was the intention of the Government
with respect the six Mile Bridge affair." prosecute
the soldiers against whom the Coroners Jury had return
ed verdict Of "wful murder, and also to prosecute
certain Roman Catholic priests for their conduct that
occasion.
In the House of Commons the Elections Committee
ported that Mr. Armstrong, NJ p for Lancaster; Samuel
Carter for Taystock Mr.. Gipps and Mr.. Butler john
stone, for Canterbury, were unseated for bribery.
Capt. PENNY, the eminent Arctic navigator, has at
length succeeded says the Literary Gazette in forming
company for prosecuting the whale fishery and founding
apermanent settlement in the Arctic regions He designs
TO employ propeers in whale fishing in the bays and
nets in Daviss Straits colony is to be founded in the
inlet known as Northumberland Inlet or Hogarth Sound
in about the same latitude Archange In this locality
there not only excellent fishing grounds but great
store of mineral wealth, especially of plumbago The
company will send out two steamers of 500 tons
EACH in the spring months to the between Green
land and Nova Zembla and later in the year the steamers
would start for Hogarth Sound to arrive there be-
fore August They would remain there until the ice forms
in November when they would return to England with
the produce leaving the settlers prosecute the nshore
fishery and store up the proceeds until the return Of the
Dr. VoGEL and his companions of the Central African
Expedition, have left London via Malta Trpe and
Murzuk Having reached the latter place. the state of
the country will determine their route to the interior
They will press without delay to Lake Tsad where
they intend to make number of scientific observations
j Sir HENRY LYTToN BuLwER had narrow escape with
his life few days SINCE while descending the Rhone from
Ayignon Lyons, in of the ordinary passage steam
The boiler bursted and the sank the river
Sir Henry with other passengers for their lives,
and the former much exhausted reaching the
shore Sir Henry is in very delicate state of health
andit is hat he etard
his recovery
The Earl Of BELFAST died at Naples few days since,
aged %. The Bishop of LINCOLN (Rev. DR.. Kaye) died
the 18th umo, and Lady CHARLOTTE PENRHYN sister
of the Earl of Derby, expired on the 10Th ultimo.
Two hundred and five vessels the berth at
British home ports for the Australian colonies and
prise 600 TONS with scarcity of either passengers
cargoes.
COL FREMoNTs solicitors communicated to the Times
of the 21st umo the recognition of his claims to the
estate of Alariposas, in California.
An interesting proceeding took place in the Preroga-
tive Court London, before Sir j. DoDsoN, the 17th
consisting of application for the surrender to the
French Government of the original will and codics of
Napoleon Bonaparte to the French Government The
is thus stated in the report of the proceedings of
the Court
The Queens Advocate made application to the
Court for the delivery Of the registry of the will and
codic ofhe late Napoleon Bonaparte, who, he said, died
at the island of ST. Helena the 9Th of May, 1921 He
left property within the jurisdiction of the Court
ceedng 9600. The viii with codcis) duly
proved in this court in the month of August 1924 by
Of the executors Charles Tristan, Count de Montholon
power being reserved for the two other prove
it afterwards The will and codcis had remained in the
registry up to the present time proxy of consent had
been executed by the two surviving executorsCount de
Monholon who proved the will and codics and Louis
Count Marchand He prayed the court to be pleased
decree the papers to be delivered up to her Maesty
Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs for the
purpose their being delivered over the French Gov
ernmen upon notaral copy being left In the registry
There affidavit from Lord John Russell, stating
that application had been made by the French Govern
ment to tie Government of her Majesty for the original
will Of the late Napoleon Bonaparte deposited in the
registry of this court to be delivered to the French
Government He further made oath that her Majestys
Government considered it advisable grounds of public
policy that such application should be complied with
and that the will should be delivered Of the registry
her Majestys Principal Secretary of State for Foreign
Affairs in order that the might be by him forthwith
delivered over to the French Government accordingly
The learned Judge after hearing these and other ale
cations and proofs in support Of the application proceed
ed to give judgment in the case the Of which
explained at large as il it point of law resting
private application. He concluded by deciding that the
papers should be delivered to the Secretary Of State
for the purpose Of being delivered by him the legal
thorities in France.
The particulars of the loss of the Dublin steamer Queen
Victoria prove painful had been anticipated. The
disaster happened in storm in the middle of the
night and the number Of yeslost upward Of seventy
to believe however that the whole Of the loss
might have been avoided In the first place. the old mis-
take committed of backing the vessel off the rocks
into deep where she sunk almost edatey. Eight
persons who scrambled the bows of the vessel upon
the rocks before she backed off, saved In the
next place, there apparently lfepreseryers
board. Had there been supply, the water calm
and the only three hundred yards from the shore
every might have been picked up could have
trived to reach the land Finally, the boats in the
usual inefficient state, and the first that lowered
Immediately swamped, with all who had jumped into her.
owing Of the old accidents arising from the method
Of lowering, and which might have been wholly averted
by adopting plan invented by a Mr. Stirling Lacon
about year two since This plan has been pronounc
ed perfect by all naval people who have its trials
but viii nevertheless probably continue to be neglected
until the loss Of hundreds of additional lives has forced it
into use.
Rumors have been in circulation in Paris for days
past Of the probability Of alliance by treaty between
France, England, and two three minor States, with
view counerbaance the power Of the north Of Europe
That many people very DESTROYS Of friendly under
standing between the Governments there is diff
Guilty in believing, but between regular treaty and
friendly relations based reciprocal interest there is
great difference
Fortythree new Senator's nominated in Spain with
view to strengthening the Government.
From Milan, under date 18th, learn that Marshal
Radetsky had published second proclamation in which
he orders the judicial authorities sequesrate the pro-
perty Of those persons who shall render themselves d
recy indirectly accompces in reasonable practices
Two persons had been hanged for having taken up
against the troops at Josa Gate the other for having
had two muskets in his store and having been with
the insurgents in the Of Bottonato Distributors Of
seditious publications are threatened with death.