1830.] Proceedings in Parliament.-Foreign News. of Commons, attended by many members of the Lower House, made his appearance at the Bar, and addressed his Majesty in a neat speech, which adverted to the principal acts enacted during the past Session. After this his Majesty delivered the following Speech from the throne. "My Lords and Gentlemen, "On this first occasion of meeting you, I am desirous of repeating to you in person my cordial thanks for those assurances of sincere sympathy and affectionate attachment which you conveyed to me on the demise of my lamented Brother, and on my accession to the throne of my ancestors. I ascend that throne with a deep sense of the sacred duties which devolve upon me; with a firm reliance on the affection of my faithful subjects, and on the support and co-operation of Parliament; -and with an humble and earnest prayer to Almighty God, that he will prosper my anxious endeavours to promote the happiness of a free and loyal people. It is with the utmost satisfaction that I find myself enabled to congratulate you upon the general tranquillity of Europe. This tranquillity it will be the object of my constant endeavours to preserve: and the assurances which I receive from my allies, and from all foreign powers, are dictated in a similar spirit, I trust that the good understanding which prevails upon subjects of common interest, and the deep concern which every state must have in maintaining the peace of the world, will insure the satisfactory settlement of those matters which still remain to be finally arranged. "Gentlemen of the House of Commons, "I thank you for the supplies which you have granted, and for the provision which you have made for several branches of the public service, during that part of the present year which must elapse before a new Parliament can be assembled. I cordially congratulate you on the diminution which has taken place in the expenditure of the country: on the reduction of the charge of the public debt; and on the re 69 lief which you have afforded to my people by the repeal of some of those taxes which have heretofore pressed heavily upon them. You may rely upon my prudent and economical administration of the supplies which you have placed at my disposal, and upon my readiness to concur in every diminution of the public charges which can be effected, consistently with the dignity of the crown, the maintenance of national faith, and the permanent interests of the country. "My Lords and Gentlemen, "I cannot put an end to this session, and take my leave of the present Parliament, without expressing my cordial thanks for the zeal which you have manifested on so many occasions for the welfare of my people. You have wisely availed yourselves of the happy opportunity of general peace and internal repose calmly to review many of the laws and judicial establishments of the country, and you have applied such cautious and well-considered reforms as are consistent with the spirit of our venerable institutions, and are calculated to facilitate and expedite the administration of justice. You have removed the civil disqualifications which affected numerous and important classes of my people. While I declare on this solemn occasion my fixed intention to maintain to the utmost of my power the Protestant Reformed Religion established by law, let me at the same time express my earnest hope that the animosities which have prevailed on account of religious distinctions may be forgotten, and that the decision of Parliament with respect to those distinctions having been irrevocably pronounced, my faithful subjects will unite with me in advancing the great object contemplated by the Legislature, and in promoting that spirit of domestic concord and peace which constitutes the surest basis of our national strength and happiness." His Majesty returned to St. James's a few minutes before three o'clock, amidst the deafening acclamations of thousands of all ranks and sexes who lined the way. FOREIGN FRANCE. The French elections have been carried on with much spirit, but with great disadvantage to the ministerial candidates. The tide of popular feeling has been against them in nearly all the provincial departments; and the ministerial defeat in the departmental college of the Seine (otherwise that of Paris) was the most signal; not so much because the opposition candidates were all returned, but because the majority which On the following day the Parliament was dissolved by royal proclamation. NEW S. secured their success was the most overwhelming. Out of 2,158 voters, M. de la Borde obtained the suffrages of 1,720, and his antagonist, M. Hennequin, of only 424. Not more than a fifth part of the higher constituency of Paris could be prevailed upon, by official circulars and Royal proclamations, to give their suffrages for a candidate in any way attached to the party of the Government, or disposed to support its system. Out of 394 returns, the Opposition mustered 255, and the Administration could only reckon on 130. The majority against the politics of the Court was therefore 123, 11 votes being undecided. On the 25th of July, in consequence of the result of the elections, Charles X. issued two arbitrary and despotic ordinances, which were countersigned by all his Ministers, the one abolishing the freedom of the press, and the other, changing the mode of election - the Chamber of Deputies to consist only of Deputies of Departments. Moreover, the new Chamber of Deputies, before its assembling, is dissolved. ALGIERS. The City of Algiers has at length fallen, and this den of pirates is, we trust, for ever annihilated. The official dispatch, announcing this important event, was communicated by General Bourmont, on the 5th of July, the date of its surrender. "The opening of the fire (says the dispatch) before the fort of the Emperor, was deferred till the 4th of July, in order that all the batteries might fire at once. At four o'clock the following morning a rocket gave the signal, and the firing commenced: that of the enemy replied for three hours with much briskness. The Turkish gunners, though the wideness of the embrasures left them almost wholly exposed, remained bravely at their posts. At eight o'clock the firing of the fort was silenced; that of our batteries continued to ruin the works. The order to make a breach had been given, and was beginning to be executed, when, at ten o'clock, a dreadful explosion caused part of the fort to disappear. Torrents of flame, clouds of dust and smoke, rose to a prodigious height; stones were thrown in all directions, but did not cause any serious accident. Gen. Hurel, who commanded the trenches, did not lose a moment to pass over the space between our troops and the fort, and to place them in the midst of the ruins of it. At two o'clock a flag of truce was brought to me on the ruins of the fort Emperor. It was the Secretary to the Dey. He offered to indemnify France for the expenses of the war. I replied that, first of all, the Casauba, the forts, and the port, must be delivered up to the French troops."-The Dey consented, and retired into a house in the city, which he inhabited before he took up his abode in the Casauba. The French troops got possession of a great number of brass cannon, and of all the stores of every description which were in Algiers. Twelve ships of war also fell into their hands; but that which gave the most lively joy to the French was, to find that they had recovered their [July, shipwrecked fellow countrymen, who were confined in that city. The lives of all the unfortunate men, with the exception of those who fell by the fury of the Arabs in the mountains, had been respected. It is stated by the French General that the number of soldiers put hors de combat since the day of landing was 2300, of which number 400 were killed, and 1900 sent to the hospitals. The substance of the Convention between the General-in-Chief of the French army and the Dey of Algiers, is, that the fort of the Casauba, all the other forts depending on Algiers, and the port of that city, were to be delivered up to the French troops. The Dey of Algiers to have his liberty, and the possession of every thing that belongs to him personally, and to retire with his family to the place which he shall fix upon; all the soldiers to have the same advantages and protection. The exercise of the Mahometan religion to remain free. The liberty of the inhabitants of all classes, their religion, their commerce, their industry, to be inviolate; their women to be respected. It appears that the most perfect submission has been the consequence of the surrender of Algiers. The Bey of Titery sent in his submission by his son, sixteen years old, and the following day presented himself before the victorious General. The latter consented to let him remain in his government, upon paying the same tribute as the Dey. Admiral Duperre's despatch, dated before Algiers, July 3, stated that the whole fleet was that day engaged for two hours under the continued fire of the enemy's artillery. The Dey and all unmarried Turks resident in Algiers, have been obliged to leave the territory; and the Dey, with about 100 of his friends and attendants, has embarked for Naples. ITALY. The famous Grotto of Neptune, one of the wonders of the cascade of Tivoli, is now dry. The course of the river Anio, which formerly precipitated itself into this grotto with a deafening noise, has been turned into another direction; so that, by means of stairs cut in the rock, and of wooden bridges placed at certain points, persons can now descend to the bottom. The cascade, augmented by the waters of the Grotto of Neptune, is much improved, and can be seen by means of the change from various points, and at different heights, thereby rendering the effect more picturesque. 1830.] Foreign News.-Domestic Occurrences. The principal chiefs of Bosnia Herzzovina, a part of Macedonia and Albania, have organized themselves into a confederation for resisting the encroachments of Russia. They will acknowledge the sovereignty of the Grand Seignor, if he consents to give up the new political and military systems and institutions he has introduced into the empire; renounces the military costume and discipline of the Franks, resumes the turban, throws aside the cap worn by the christian slaves, and restores the ever victorious Janissaries. The insurgents declare they will never recede from these bases, and the same principles appear to prevail in all the chief towns of Turkey. To this end committees have been formed at Seraglio, in Bosnia; at Pristina, in the Arnaouthlik at Fotchia, Gasco Scodia, Elbossan, Berat, Janina, Larissa, Jacova, Kuptuli-Vardar, and Sarnocovo. The Servians, although partly emancipated by the treaty of Adrianople, have concurred in the plan. :: SOUTH AMERICA. 71 Affairs have at length taken a decided turn in Columbia. General Bolivar, seeing himself to be an object of unextinguishable jealousy to his fellow-countrymen, and unable otherwise to prove the disinterestedness of his motives, has formally announced his resolution to hold himself free of any share in the Government. On the 27th of April he addressed to the congress, sitting at Bogota, a modest and unpretending message, in which he says the good of the country alone exacts from him the sacrifice of withdrawing himself for ever from the land which gave him birth, that his presence may not become an impediment to the happiness of his fellow-citizens. To this message the Congress replied on the 30th of April, that it saw in this proceeding on the part of Gen. Bolivar, a new proof of his disinterested devotion to his country, and an additional claim to the glory with which his name would be handed down to posterity. DOMESTIC OCCURRENCES. INTELLIGENCE FROM VARIOUS PARTS OF THE COUNTRY. Want and misery appear to be on the increase in many parts of Ireland.In several districts of the Queen's County the lower orders are actually perishing from famine. They have been tempted into the commission of outrages by their distress, and their proceedings are now assuming a most dangerous character from a secret system of organization which seems to regulate them. The distress in the northern suburbs of Dublin equals in intensity that which has been felt in most parts of Ireland. In Howth, Baldoyle, and Clontarf, the population have been in the most dreadful state of destitution. Above 4,000 wretched creatures, young and old, of both sexes, have been employed by the relief committee of Limerick breaking stones on various roads and bye streets of the city. For three weeks past many families in the county of Leitrim contrived to subsist upon herbs and nettles. July 2.-The noble spire of the church at Rotherham (represented in our Magazine for last September) was struck by lightning. Having been upwards of 63 yards high, it has long been the pride of the town and the admiration of strangers; but it is much feared that the injury received has so materially displaced eight or ten yards of the upper part, from its centre, that it will be necessary to take it down. The history of the spurs worn by the "Herald" at the proclamation of his Majesty at Exeter, is somewhat curious. Mr. Baker, an ironmonger in the Highstreet of that city, had purchased them in a lot of old iron by weight at one farthing per pound. On their being polished for the ceremony, they proved to be silver, decorated with a fleur-de-lis, and worth, as old silver, upwards of 31. The property of the late Sir C. Hawkins, bart., in St. Ives, and which secures the purchaser a seat in Parliament for the borough, was lately sold by auction in London for the sum of 57,200%. It is reported that the purchaser is the Marquess of Cleveland. July 19.-Some months ago the threefold crime of rape, robbery, and murder, attended by circumstances most disgustingly horrible, was committed by two carters named Thomson and Dobie, near the village of Gilmerton, in the neighbourhood of Edinburgh. The unfortunate victim of their unnatural brutality was a woman named Paterson, whom the monsters had induced to ride in their cart; and after the perpetration of this foul crime, they threw her into the road, where she was afterwards found 72 Domestic Occurrences.-Promotions. nearly dead. They were this day tried at Edinburgh in the High Court of Justiciary, with closed doors. The jury returned a verdict of guilty against both the parties. After the verdict had been received, Lord Moncrieff observed, that the case was one which it "beggared all power of language to describe, and all terms of condemnation to characterize," and Lord Justice Clerk Boyle declared, in passing sentence, that "no words he could use were capable of worthily describing the unparalleled brutality and wickedness of so foul a crime." When his Lordship was proceeding to direct the bodies of the criminals to be given for dissection, Dobie exclaimed-"My Lord, it is a grand thing that you canna dissect the soul!" LONDON AND ITS VICINITY. His Majesty William the Fourth. His Majesty, since his accession to the Throne, has been rendering himself extremely popular by his frequently ap pearing in public, and conducting him self with great condescension and affability towards all around him. On the 19th his Majesty inspected the Coldstream Guards on the parade in St. James's Park, accompanied by the royal Dukes and an immense concourse of people. He afterwards held an investure of the most ancient and noble order of the Thistle, when the Duke of Sussex was invested with the insignia of that Order. At one o'clock the King held a court at St. James's, for the pur pose of receiving addresses from the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge. On the 20th his Majesty inspected the 1st and 2d battalions of the 3d Guards on the parade in St. James's Park. After the troops went through their various manœuvres, the officers were separately presented to his Majesty, and kissed hands. Among those present were the Dukes of Cumberland, Gloucester, and Wellington; Princes George of Cumberland, Leopold, Frederick of Prussia, and a great number of field officers. After the review his Majesty proceeded to visit the exhibition of the Royal Academy at Somerset-house. On the 21st his Majesty, accompanied by the Queen, and attended by a numerous suite, inspected the two regiments of Life Guards in the Regent's Park. Their Majesties afterwards break [July, fasted with the Duke of Wellington, at Apsley House. About two o'clock his Majesty returned to St. James's Palace, and held his first levee since his acces sion to the throne. The 22d of July the King inspected the 1st and 2d Battalions of the Grenadier Guards, on the Parade in front of the Horse Guards; and afterwards the 9th (or Queen's Royal) Lancers, commanded by the Earl of Rosslyn. On the morning of the 26th inst. his Majesty had a grand review in Hyde Park of the Household and other troops, consisting of two troops of Horse Ar tillery; two batteries Foot Artillery; 1st and 2d Life Guards; Royal Horse Guards; 1st, 2d, and 3d battalion of Grenadiers; 2d battalion Coldstream Guards; 1st and 2d battalion of Third Guards; the entire of the Troops under the command of Gen. Lord Visc. Combermere. The whole presented a very brilliant sight. On the 27th the King attended a review of the Artillery and Engineers at Woolwich; after which his Majesty and attendants partook of a most elegant dejeuné à la fourchette with the Artillery officers. In the course of the entertainments his Majesty, after toasting the Royal Artillery, gave "the Duke of Wellington and the Army and Navy combined." On the 28th his Majesty held a levee at St. James's Palace, when great numbers of the nobility and persons of distinction had the honour of being presented. The A new street from Waterloo-bridge to Charlotte-street, Bedford-square, is to be carried into immediate effect. Government give the Marquis of Exeter 25.000l. for his share of the ground which it will occupy, and the Duke of Bedford generously contributes 4,000. towards the plan. The Waterloo-bridge Company will subscribe as their proportion 5,000l. The Mercers' Company have at their own cost agreed to carry the new street entirely through to Charlotte-street, where, in a direct line through Bedford-square, Gower-street, by the London University, it will fall into the Great North Road. Mr. Arnold, the proprietor of the English Operahouse, will immediately commence the re-erection of his theatre on a partially new site. PROMOTIONS AND PREFERMENTS. GAZETTE PROMOTIONS. July 5. John Forbes, M.D. F.R.S. of Chichester, to be a Physician to the household of the Duke of Cambridge. July 6. 3d Foot Guards; Capt. H. Colville to be Capt. and Lieut.-Col.-87th Foot. Major James Rowan, to be Major-Unattached; Capt. Lord G. A. Hill, to be Major 1830.] Promotions and Preferments. of Inf.-Garrisons; Capt. J. C. Griffiths, to be Fort-Major at St. John's, Newfoundland. Unattached; Brevet Lieut.-Colonels W. Cochrane and D. M'Dougall, of Nova Scotia, and J. F. Love, of New Brunswick, to be Majors of Inf. Sir Justinian Isham, Bart. to be Colonel in the Northamptonshire Regular Militia, and Langham Rokeby, esq. to be Lieut.-Col. July 16. 79th Foot. Brevet Lieut.-Col. Duncan M'Dougall to be Major.-87th Foot, Capt. Hon. N. H. C. Massey, to be Major.— Officers on the Staff promoted to unattached Commissions; to be Lieut.-Colonels of Infantry-brevet Col. Hon. J. Ramsay; brevet Lieut.-Colonels G. C. D'Aguilar, C. Turner, Sir Guy Campbell, bart., C. H. Churchill, H. G. Smith, K. Snodgrass, H. B. Harris, Lord J. T. K. Somerset, and T. Drake. To be Majors of Infantry; brevet Lieutenant-Colonels L. L. Foster, R. Eger ton, W. Stavely, G. Evatt, W, Beresford, J. Shaw, T. Noel Harris, brevet Major C. Wood. Officers lately removed from Staff situations in Ireland, promoted to unattached commissions.-To be Lieut.-Colonels of Infantry; brevet Col. E. J. O'Brien, and R. Owen.-To be Major of Infantry; brevet Major J. C. Smith.-Brevet; Major Alex. Campbell, to be Lieut. Col.-Staff; Major W. Marshall, to be Inspecting Field-Officer of Militia in Nova Scotia, with the rank of Lieut.-Colonel. July 19. Lieut.-Gen. Lord Aylmer, K.C.B. to be Governor of Lower and Upper Canada, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and the island of Prince Edward; and MajorGen. George Mackie to be Governor of St. Lucia, July 20. 68th Foot; Major J. Reed, to be Lieut.-Col.-82d Foot; brevet Major Brook Firman to be Major.-Unattached; to be Lieut.-Col. of Inf. brevet Lieut.-Col. R. Grant. To be Majors of Infantry, brevet Major Wm. Hanbury Davies, brevet Lieut.Col. John Gurwood, Capt. F. Du Vernet.Staff; brevet Col. W. Beresford to be Permanent Assistant Quartermaster-general; Major H. G. Broke, to be Deputy Quartermaster-general in Nova Scotia, with the rank of Lieut.-Col. July 21. Knighted, Martin Archer Shee, Esq. Pres. R. Acad., Jas. South, Esq. of the Observatory, Kensington, Wm. Henry Richardson, Esq. Sheriff of London, George Drinkwater, Esq. Mayor of Liverpool. July 22. To be Aide-de-Camps to his Majesty for the Militia force, Cols. Sir W. W. Wynn, bart., George Earl of Aboyne, Lord Dufferin and Claneboye, Thomas Wood. War Office, July 22. Sir Robert T. Wilson, restored to his rank of Major-Gen., and to be Lieut.-General. The following officers to take the rank of 73 Brevet as undermentioned :-To be Field Marshals in the Army; General Sir A. Clarke, Right Hon. Sir S. Hulse, To be Generals in the Army; Lieut.-Gens. Earl of Dalhousie, T. Baker, H. Williams, Marquis Conyngham, Hon. Sir A. Hope, Sir J. Fraser, P. Heron, J. Ramsay, Sir J. D. Broughton, bart., W. Dyott, Sir R. C. Ferguson, bart., Sir R. Macfarlane, J. G. Crosbie, E. Stack, Hon. J. Brodrick, Sir H. Warde, J. Durham, hon. D. Leslie, J. M. Kerr, T. Scott, Sir T. H. Turner, C. Chowne, Hon, W. Maitland, Lord Crewe, Hon. Sir G. L. Cole, Q. J. Freeman, Earl of Granard, F. Moore, Viscount Lorton, Sir W. H. Clinton. To be Lieut.-Generals in the Army; Major-Gens. Sir C. Imhoff, G. Gordon, A. Adams, Lord Macdonald, S Need, E. Webber, T. L'Estrange, C. Craven, J. Foveaux, G. K. Dana, J. Moore, Sir H. M. M. Vavasour, bart., H. R. Knight, S. v, Hinde, T. N. Wyndham, T. B. Glegg, Hon. J. Ramsay, L. Mosheim, Sir C. Grant, Sir J. Lyon, J. Orde, C, B. Egerton, Sir T. Beckwith, H. J. Cumming, Sir C. Phillips, H. Bruce, T. B. Reynardson, Earl of Carysfort, Sir P. Maitland, Hon. E. Capel, Sir W. Sheridan, bart., G. B. Mundy, Hon. Sir R. W. O'Callaghan, Sir J. Keane, Lord G. Beresford, R. Campbell, R. Balfour, Earl of Carnwath, J. Cuming, Sir C. Halkett, Sir H. Bunbury, bart. Sir H. Lowe, Sir Fred. Adams, Sir R. H. Vivian, bart. To be Major-Generals in the Army; Col. R. Ellice, Sir J. Buchan, N. M‘Leod, M. C. O'Connel, J. P. Murray, Sir H. Gough, J. Macdonnell, L. Moore, A. Pilkington, J. Gardiner, G. Middlemore, Sir W. Williams, J. Lomax, J. W. Sleigh, A. Nesbitt, W. G. Davy, C. W. Maxwell, C. Ashworth, A. Campbell, M. Napier, J. Wardlaw, J. Yates, J. Kearney, E. J. O'Brien, T. Foster, Hon. J. Ramsay, J. A. Farquharson, R. Owen, A. G. R. Norcott, C. Bruce, J. F. FitzGerald, A. B. Clifton, W. Stewart, W. C. Eustace, Lord Greenock, E. Lindsay, Sir A. Leith, J. Ross, Count F. Rivarola, Sir J. Browne, Hon. Sir R. L. Dundas, Lord R. Manners, Hon. H. Arbuthnott, Sir R. Arbuthnott, G. G. C. L'Estrange, T. Pearson, D. L. Gilmour, Sir G. H. B. Way, Sir J. Douglass, J. Waters, W. Macbean, Sir W. P. Carroll, the Right Hon. Sir H. Hardinge, Sir G. Elder, W. Cotton, J. Clitherow, J. Hanbury. To be Colonels in the Army.-Lieut.Colonels W. Smith, J. Watling, M. Marston, Sir F. H. Doyle, bart., H. Yonge, W. Gray, E. Darley, J. R. Ward, H. Williams, W. V. Hompesch, C. Hamilton, J. Daniell, W. W. Blake, Sir E.Miles, G. Teesdale, guards; W. H. K. Erskine; G. J. Reeves, M.Mahon, Hon. H. Murray, J. M. Everard, J. Grey, G. Wyndham, A. Cameron; Sir J. Wilson, T. K. Burke; T. Dalmer, Sir H. |