motion was brought forward, as the treaty and order in council had long existed, and, of course could long ago have been resisted, if wrong in principle. To agree to that motion, would be in effect to declare that the treaty might be torn; that

FRANCE.

engagements might be violated, and that they ought to insult the allies of the country. On a division, there appeared, for Sir H. Hardinge's motion, 242; against it, 278.

After much difficulty, Louis Philippe has been enabled to form a new ministry. The announcement took place in the Moniteur of the 16th of April: Count Mole is president of the Council, and Minister of Foreign affairs; M. Montalivet, Minister of the Interior; M. Barthe, Minister of Justice; M.Salvandy, Minister of Public Instruction; M. Laplague, Minister of Finance; Gen. Bernard, Minister of War; Admiral Rosamel remains Minister of the Marine; and M. Martin (du Nord) Minister of Commerce and Public Works.

A prize was recently given by the Society of Moral Sciences in Paris, for the best essay on the "Present moral condition of the domestics of France, and the best means of introducing into that numerous class the principles and habits of morality." There were nine candidates for the prize, and the successful one was M. Mittre, an advocate, at present in practice in Paris,

SPAIN.

Intelligence from Madrid states, that the recent defeat of General Evans before St. Sebastian, and the simultaneous retreats of the Queen's generals, Sarsfield and Espartero, on the opposite sides of the scene of military operation, had produced the greatest consternation among the Court and Government, and filled the citizens attached to the Christino cause

with alarm. Numbers of them consider the cause to be lost, and have made up their minds to the necessary consequence, namely, Don Carlos's triumphant entry into the capital. One of the results of these reverses of the Queen's Generals was, a secret sitting of the Cortes on the 30th March, when a lamentable picture was drawn of the state of the nation by the acting war minister, Brigadier Infantes, who described Spain to be "without credit at home or abroad-with a depreciated and ill-concocted revenue—with an army in the worst state as to subordi. nation or military discipline-whilst the Chiefs were at variance with each other." The sitting broke up amidst the greatest confusion; and at a subsequent meeting a paper signed by 58 deputies was pre

sented, being an accusation against the Ministers, charging them with having unloans, and with having violated the perlawfully collected taxes, and contracted sonal freedom of certain deputies by removing them from their offices on account lutions against the Ministers were moved; of their speeches in the Chamber. Resobut, after a tumultuous discussion, in which Mendizabal defended himself, they were lost by a small majority.

SWITZERLAND.

Accounts from Switzerland state that great rejoicings had taken place in the Canton of Soleure, the Grand Council of which had voted the total abolition of tithes. According to the law, the tithes are to be redeemed in twenty-five years. It is left optional with the people either to pay their quota at once, or by annual instalments.

AMERICA.

The installation of Mr. Van Buren took place at Washington on the 4th of March, and at the same time Mr. Johnson was invested with the title of VicePresident. The occasion appears to have been observed with considerable form and

solemnity. The oaths of office were taken in the Chamber of the Senate, and were confined to simply swearing to “support the Constitution of the United States." The whole party afterwards proceeded to one of the porticos of the capitol, where the new President spoke publicly his inaugural address. It pledges him in all respects to the policy of his predecessor; and on the subject of Slavery he declared himself "the inflexible and uncompromising opponent of every attempt, on the part of Congress, to abolish slavery in the district of Columbia, against the wishes of the slave-holding states; and also equally determined to resist the slightest interference with it in the states where it exists."

TURKEY.

Constantinople, March 8.-Grand efforts are making here for the execution of a new commercial project, which if it is carried into effect, as it is probable, will be equally important and advantageous to the commercial intercourse between Persia and England, and by the

interest of Russia may be equally promoted to the disadvantage of Turkey. The plan is to open an entirely new channel for the transmission of the productions of Persia to Europe, which have hitherto come by way of Constantinople. These productions, which are of great importance, are to be conveyed on payment of a transit duty over the territory of that kingdom to Poti, on the Black Sea. This place is to be declared a free port, from which the English merchants may export those goods which they have hitherto obtained at Constantinople for consignment to Great Britain. According to the statements that are made, arrangements will be effected that those goods, instead of being sent through the Bosphorus to be sold in England, may be sent up the Danube. English goods will be sent by the same channel to Poti, and the commercial transactions between the two nations will in future take place at that depot only.

GREECE.

The Propylaa at Athens.-The Greek Courier of 7th February gives some interesting information respecting the excava tion of the Propylæa at Athens. M. Pittakis, who succeeded Dr. Ross as Superintendent of Antiquities, began the work on the 22nd of October, 1836, and accomplished it at the expense of about 5000 drachms. The Pinacotheca, which forms the north wing of the Propylæa, the Stoæ before it, and the Propylæa, have been cleared. In the Pinacotheca two windows have been entirely cleared, one on each side of the door: they still retain

the ancient paintings. The architect of the Acropolis has received instructions to make accurate copies of the paintings; and the chemist Landeret has undertaken to analyze, by means of some process, the colours of the paintings which have crumbled off; and he conjectures that the composition is different from that of the colours now in use.

CHINA.

A decree, dated 23d Nov. 1836, for the expulsion of the British and other barbarian merchants, has been published at Canton. They were all ordered to be off in half a moon. 66 They are not to be permitted," says the edict," to loiter and linger. If they have any business that cannot be completed within the half moon, they at the expiration of that period must go to Macao for a little time, and their accounts be left in your hands; and as soon as all their affairs are settled, they must return to their country. They must not be permitted to stay at Macao as long as they please in opposition to the existing laws. If they presume so be insolent and act haughtily, and will not listen to our kind words, and obstinately refuse to go the path we mark out, the celestial dynasty will not heed the consequences. The laws shall be maintained; and there is reason to fear the said barbarians will find it hard to get back to their country. The houses in the Greek factory and in several other Hongs will be taken and sealed up.-There must be no failure." The pretence for this order is the practice of smuggling.

INTELLIGENCE FROM VARIOUS PARTS

OF THE COUNTRY.

The first report of the commissioners on the subject of Religious Instruction in Scotland contains a large quantity of valuable information, which applies exclusively to Edinburgh. It proves the average attendance at the established church to be 29,370, while that at the dissenting chapels is 33,542. The seats let in the establishment are 26,220, while those in the dissenting chapels are 30,275.

The distress in the Highlands of Scotland has lately been of a most lamentable character. Subscriptions have been liberally raised both in Scotland and England to relieve the numerous claimants. In the Shetland Islands the cattle and inhabitants have been dying for want. A letter dated from Shetland observes that great as the suffering is in consequence

of the failure of last year's crop, the pros. pect before Shetland, as regards the next crop, is still more appalling. Farming operations are not yet begun, nor is there, at this moment, any indication of spring more than there was in the month of December. The ground is at present, and has been for more than a month, covered with snow, and the frost is far more intense than we usually have it in the middle of winter. The cattle are dying for want of fodder; and in their struggles to save those that are yet alive, the poor people are giving them what little corn they had reserved for seed."

The tide of emigration from this country to the United States of America has commenced to flow this season with perhaps greater impetuosity than at any former period. Already at a great number of the out-ports in England, and in Scotland

and Ireland, several vessels have sailed for New York and the Canadas, crowded with emigrants, comprising farmers and mechanics possessed of small capital, and agricultural labourers with their families, who have proceeded in expectation of bettering their condition in the western world.

In speaking of charters of incorporation, and the continual turmoil and expense occasioned by the frequent elections and revisions, the Leeds Intelligencer communicates the following facts:-In the year 1835, even since the new valuation for the county-rate more than doubled the proportion formerly paid by the borough of Leeds, the maintenance at Wakefield of prisoners committed from Leeds did not cost the borough 6007. but the current year is expected to cost at least 16001? Before the Municipal Act passed the day police of Leeds cost 5381. a-year, but now, though it is not a whit more efficient than formerly, it is estimated to cost 15137. but in reality it will cost considerably more. Under the old system the salaries of the recorder, deputy recorder, and town clerk, did not amount to 50l. a-year, but now two of these functionaries receive nearly 5001. a-year between them. In short the increased cost to the borough is enormous.

Iron trade has greatly increased in Britain since 1740. Then 59 furnaces produced 17,000 tons of pig iron. In 1836 the increased production of furnaces was 828,331 tons. In Scotland the increase has been very great. In 1828, Scotland produced only 37,700 tons; in 1836, 89,000-chiefly owing to the introduction and improvement of hot blasts.

The black-lead mine in Borrowdale (the only one known in the world), from which all Europe is supplied with that commodity for the manufacture of pencils, has been recently closed, owing to the death of Mr. Dixon, the late steward. Twelve men have been employed in the mine for the last 15 months, without fall. ing in with one single sop of this valuable mineral.

March 30. The New Mechanics' Institute, in Mount Street, Liverpool, was this morning entirely destroyed by fire. The foundation stone was laid by Lord Brougham in the summer of 1835, and the building was to have been opened in a few days for general purposes. It was built by subscription, and the cost of its erection was somewhere about 12,000l. The corporation of Liverpool generously made the committee a present of the ground. In the vestibule of the building were four statues, the property of J. B. Yates, esq. who had lent them to the

institution, and the value of which exceeded 1,000 guineas. The damage is estimated at 3,0007.; but the building is fortunately insured in the Liverpool Fire Office to the amount of 6,0007. The committee are determined to lose no time in repairing the damage which has been done. In this building it was proposed to receive the British Association for the promotion of Science during the present year.

April 3. At Basford, near Nottingham, Thomas Greensmith, a labourer, employed in a bleach-yard there, strangled his four children as they were sleeping in their beds; one aged ten, one eight, another five, and the last two years old. It is said he was remarkably fond of his children, but having been fearful of going into the workhouse, he determined on this horrible infanticide.

LONDON AND ITS VICINITY.

Fires in London.-Of 564 fires which occurred in and around London during the last year, the following are the causes as far as could be ascertained. Accidents of various kinds, scarcely avoidable, 11; apparel taking fire on the person, 2; bed curtains set on fire by accident, 71; accidents with candles, 57; cases of palpable carelessness, 18; charcoal fires, portable, 2; children playing with fire, 6; fires kindled on hearths, 5; defective or foul flues and chimnies, 72; fumigation, 9; sundry gas accidents, for the most part occurring from gas-fitters, during the progress of repairs, 38; gunpowder, 1; heating of hay, lime, &c. 7; sparks from lamps, 2; linen incautiously hung before fires, 31; ovens overheated, 6; loose shavings ignited, 13; sparks from fire, 7; defective setting of stoves, &c. 28; application of fire heat to various purposes of trades and manufactures, 34; tobacco-smoking, 1; unknown, 96; wilful, 8; window.curtains catching fire, 35.

April 10. The trial of James Greenacre, a cabinet-maker, and of Sarah Gale, his paramour, took place at the Old Bailey, for the murder and mutilation of Hannah Brown. The affair, for the last few months, had excited an extraordinary degree of interest, owing to the mutilated trunk of the hapless victim having been found, soon after the murder, in the Edgeware-road, and the head and limbs subsequently discovered in different places -the former in the Regent's Canal, Stepney, and the latter in some osier beds at Camberwell. From the evidence adduced on the trial, it appeared that the murdered woman lived by mangling and washing; that she resided at No. 45, Union-street, Middlesex Hospital; that

Rev. P. C. Tucker, Down St. Mary R. Devon.
Rev. E. Turner, Maresfield R. Sussex.
Rev. F. Vane, Blechingdon R. Oxford.
Rev. E. H. Wainwright, Acton Burnell R.
Shropshire.

Rev. J. C. Williams, Farthingstone R. Northampton.

Rev. G. Williams, Barrington V. Cambridgesh. Rev. D. Wilson, Mungrisdale P.C. Cumberland. Rev. H. A. Woodgate, Belbroughton R. co. Worcester.

Rev. F. Woodhouse, Moresby R. Cumberland.

CHAPLAINS.

Rev. J. S. M. Anderson, chap, to the King.
Rev. W. Blackley, to Sir Rowland Hill.
Rev. T. H. Hawes, to the Duke of Argyle.
Rev. R. Gream, to the Earl of Abergavenny.

CIVIL PREFERMENTS.

Rev. C. J. Belin, to be Head Master of Guildford Grammar School.

Rev. J. Hogg, Head Master of Limerick Diocesan School.

Rev. J. Carter, Head Master of Wakefield Free Grammar School.

BIRTHS.

March 9. At Florence, the Hon. Mrs. Irby, a son.-18. At Maidstone, the wife of Capt. Houston, 4th Light Dragoons, a dau.-21. In Curzon-street, Lady Emily Ponsonby, a son.-22. At Stockholm, the Hon. Mrs. Bligh, a dau.-27. At the Rectory, Warrington, the wife of the Hon. and Rev. Horace Powys, a son.-At Beckenham Place, Kent, the wife of W. Peters, esq. a dau.——28. In Hanover-sq. the wife of Dr. Locock, a son.

-29. In Upper Brook-st. Grosvenor-sq. the wife of Lieut.-Col. Sir John M. Burgoyne, Bart. Gren. Guards, a dau.-30. In Wiltoncrescent, the Lady Charlotte Egerton, a dau.

Lately. At Milsted Manor-house, the wife of Sir John Fylden, Knt. a dau.

April 5. The wife of John Tidd Pratt, esq. Barrister-at-Law, a dau. -The wife of Lieut.Col. Codrington, Coldstream Guards, a dau.

At Richmond, the Lady Muncaster, a dau. -In Chester-street, Grosvenor-place, the Lady Jane Swinburne, a son.6. The wife of W. T. Copeland, esq. M.P. a son.-7. At Clapham-common, the wife of John Humphery, esq. M.P. a son. At Camberwell, the wife of the Rev. T. Myers, Head Master of the Royal Naval School, a dau.-12. In Grosvenor-square, the Right Hon. Lady Poltimore, a son and heir.-13. At Orford House, near Stansted, the wife of Lieut.-Col. Chamberlayne, a dau.-14. The wife of Col. Miles, of Theobalds, Cheshunt, a son.-15. At the Duke of Bedford's, Belgrave-sq. Lady Charles Russell, a dau.-16. At her mother's, Lady Young, Woolwich Common, the wife of J. P. Collins, esq. Colonial Secretary, Prince Edward's Island, a son.

MARRIAGES.

March 7. At Leicester, the Rev. J. Moffat Harington, Rector of Chalbury, Dorset, to Mary Rebecca, eldest dau. of the late Rev. H. J. Maddock.16. At Sudely, Gloucestersh. the Rev. J. Walker Dolphin, to Jane eldest dau. of Mr. Wynne, of Sudely Castle.At Ramsgate, Capt. Caldwell, 92d Highlanders, nephew to Major-Gen. Sir Alex. Caldwell, to Eliz. eldest dau. of R. Townley, esq.- -22. The Rev. Cha. Cheyne, to Sarah Anne, dau. of the Rev. T. H. Horne, Rector of St. Edmund the King, Lombard-street. 27. At Cambridge, W. Bayne, esq. M.D. to Alicia Dela, the only dau.

of Geo. Pryme, esq. M.P.-28. At Trinity Church, Marylebone, John Colyer, esq. barrister-at-law, to Georgiana Frances Amy, eldest dau. of Sir W. Johnston, Bart. of Hiltown, Aberdeenshire.- -At St. James's,' Edward Strutt, esq. M.P. to Emily, youngest dau. of the Right Rev. Wm. Otter, D.D. Bishop of Chichester. At Creswell-hall, Staffordshire, J. A. Wise, esq. to Mary Lovatt, only day, and heiress of the late H. Booth, esq. of Claytonhall.-29. At St. Pancras Church, Francis, son of Sir F. M. Ommanney, to Julia Henrietta, dau. of T. Metcalfe, of Fitzroy-sq. esq.

At St. Margaret's, Westminster, the Rev. R. I. Wilberforce, to Jane, eldest dau. of the late Digby Legard, esq.-30. At Kew, the Rev. Thos. Tunstall Haverfield, Rector of Goddington, Oxfordshire, to Caroline Sophia, relict of the late Edw. Bryant, of Lansdownhouse, Southampton, esq.- -Capt. W. G. White to Louisa Ann, eldest dau. of Michael Gray, esq. of Portland-place, Clapton.

Lately. At Kenilworth, John, second son of John Russell, esq. of the Woodlands, to Eliz. second dau. of W. Collins, esq. M.P.Rev. J. Meredith Williams, of Plas-Dolanog, Montgomeryshire, to Mary, second dau. of the Rev. J. Bright Bright, of Totterton-house, and Vicar of Lydbury North, Shropshire. The Ven. Geo. Glover, Archdeacon of Sudbury, to Susan, relict of R. Reeve, esq. M.D. of Brown. dale, Norfolk.

April 3. At Milan, Charlotte L., second dau. of the late Adm. Sir R. Strachan, Bart, to Count Emanuel de Zichy, brother-in-law of Prince Metternich.- -The Rev. S. R. Piggott, B.A. of Woodhouse, Leicestershire, to Cath. Eliz. only dau. of Mr. J. Debauter, of Peckham-rye, Surrey.At Stoke-by-Nayland, Suffolk, the Rev. R. Mosley, of Trinity Church, Ipswich, to Susanna Eden, eldest dau. of the late J. E. Leeds, esq. Chelsea College. 4. At St. George's, Hanover-sq. J. P. Barlow, esq. of Doctor's Commons, to Mary Anne, eldest dau. of J. Du Pre Alexander, esq. of Grosvenor-sq.

-At Kennington, Edward, son of Deputy Commissary General De St. Remy, to Caroline, dau. of Lieut.-Col. C. C. Dixon, Military Superintendent, Fort Pitt, Chatham. The Rev. John Baillie, Vicar of Lissington, Lincolnsh. to Cecllia Mary, dau. of the Rev. Chas. Haw kins, Canon Residentiary of York. The Rev. J. Conroy, of Urney, co. Derry, nephew to Sir John Conroy, to Miss Mary Anne Flood, niece of the late Rev. S. Hamilton, Rector of Strabane, Ireland.-5. At Bath, W. L. Colquhoun, esq. of Clathie, to Louisa, fourth dau. of the late Wadham Locke, esq. M.P. of Rowdeford House, Wilts.-6. At Grittleton, Wilts, the Rev. R. P. Jones, Rector of Charfield, Gloucestershire, to Eliz. Charlotte, widow of the late Capt. K. White, R.N.At Saint Mary's, Bryanstone-sq. the Rev. St. Vincent L. Hammick, Vicar of Melton Abbot, Devon, to Mary, dau. of R. Alexander, esq. of Gloucester-place.At Brighton, the Rev. T, W. Carr, Incumbent of Southborough, Kent, to Joanna Maria, dau. of the Hon. Mrs. Childers, of Brighton.-11. In the private chapel of Charlton House, Kent, the Rev. Spencer Dod Wilde, Vicar of Fletching, Sussex, to Julia Pellew Holford Wilson, dau. of the late Sir T. M. Wilson, Bart.-At Helston, the Rev. T. J. Trevenen, Rector of St. Ewe, Cornwall, to Susan Angwin, eldest dau. of the late J. Cosserat, esq. of Grove Cottage, Babbicombe.. 12. At St. Sidwell's, Exeter, the Rev. Richard Brickdale, Rector of Felthorpe, Norfolk, to Elvire Wilhelmine, eldest dau, of Chevalier Bancel, M.D. of Bethune late London, the Right Hon. Lord Arthur Marcus Hill, to the second dau, of Joseph Blake, esq. of Gloucester-pl. Portman-sq.

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