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CHARGE OF TREASON AGAINST THE PRIME MINISTER OF SPAIN—STRANGE .
BUT IMPORTANT PROCEEDINGS . ijiiT-. a-ae is tbe order of the day . Olozaga of ** £ O ! den-fleece" notoriety , has been hurled from power by the intrigues of Narvaez and Co . and is even in jome personal danger of being . accused of B iresscs" C ) by his . late friends and present enemies the Moderados . It appears that on the 28 ; h , M . Olozaga went at an appointed hour in the evening to the Palace , and fcmug obtained -a secret audience of her Majesty , after harms closed the door and bolted it , he proposed to the Queen to sign the decree dissolving the Cortes . The Queen objected , and wished to retire . M . Olozaga stopped the passage of her Majesty , and drew the bolts ef the second" door to preyent her Majesty from retiring ; and the Qoeen ha-riBi : ? at down it table , M- Okzasa : in a toicb
partly familiar , partly serions , said , * ' Vamosjirma vueilra Jfcjesla . " The Queen signed , and said Bothing as io what happened ; but on the following day Uhe 29 ta ) , when xMng , the Marchioness of Santa Cruz taring asied "what ha 3 passed at the iDterricra- with M . Olongs , Fhe told her the above facts , srd asked what she ought to do . The Marchioness recommended to her to conailt General Uarraez , which she did , when the general came to thePalsce to demand the pass-word . The Queen ioHHir . srtai had . happened , and- Nsrvaa imnieffistsly dciarmined Jo call M . Pi&al , General Serxano , S 3 . Tria ? , M . Mazaxedo , the military eovernor and polirk-al chk-fof Madrid ; M . Gocnles Bravo , and > Di . Alccn and Q-unta , the Vice-presidents of the CcE ^ rr-as ^ 3 ! ae . result was the decree dismissing Olo&sa , "winch appeared in the Gazette .
Tcis is one Tersion , but we have auoiher . qaite as likely to be true : — Ob tlis evening of the 28 th , Olcziga retired to the palace , and presented the decree of dissolution io the Qaeen , who signed it , without the least demur , jaanatifcr of course . To show that she was then on the xsost cordial terms with Olozaga , she inquired , as was nsual with her , after his young daughter , and sent her by him a case of sweetmeats . This trivial incident showa at least that the trumped up story of violence being used , and the Queen leaving an tears , was all a mere fabrication . Had the Q-aeen resisted signing the decree , sned tears , coT-ired fcer face with her hands , as the H&raldo cas it to-day , and been actually forced by Olozkja to sign it , is it credible that at her age she "would have let xhe Tfhsl «> eTening paasby , and have taken no notice of it to ihe people who are always about her till the next dav ?
The rest cf the Ministers have resigned ; and Gonsa 3 e 3 BraTo , a renegade Liberal is announced as £ he person charged wkh forming the new governmen :. On the 1 st the Chambers met . The great point in ihe Depmies wa =, whether Oiczaga should have an opportunity allowed for stating what had occurred at the pa ! aee and rebntting the charges circulated against him , The Moderados tried to prevent it , on the ground that dj-becoming minister he had ceased 10 be a . deputy , and having ieen dismissed from the ministry , he had no . right to sit in the Ghamber in either capacity . Oiozaga , however , entered the house with the other members , and took bis seat , and then arose a tremendous uproar , the people in the galleries , which were thronged io overflowing , arcing up and giving eheeK npori . cheers as he entere-2 tae house . There were , of course , a few
demonsinuons of an oppoatecharacler . The tumult "was so great thai the President left the chair , and suspended the sitting for half an hour . Business "was resumed at the end of that time , when the secretary , having read the ruks of the honse bearing upon tie cafe , Olczaga got up and claimed his right to give the explanations he had to make to the Chamber and the country upon the important evenis ihat had transpired throngh the pre 3 s j he claimed the n ^ ht , because , although subject to re-election by ihexotsQiation on becoming a minister , yet , by the EteDdi ± > £ rales of the Chamber , it was necessary , before a members seat was vacated , that notice shonld be given by the secretary of the same , and a fresh election be moved for : this rnle had not been complied with since ha took tffice , and he claimed the benefit of the omission , particularly as , under the circumstances , lie bad a " Hrm npon the generosity of the Cuambei .
This was violently opposed by the Moderados "Ultimately the proposition to exclude Olozaga and ii 3 eolieaants was referred to the bnreais to appoint a Comnusr . ion to examine it , by a majority of 79 to 75 Totes , the former being the Progressists party , and the liner the Moderados . Thus far Olozaga trnunphs . In tie Senaie tie Q-ieen ' s declaration was read cy Gonzales Bravo , in his capacity of chief notary , confirming tbe story circulated of Olozaga respecting she
manner in which she hsd been indnced to sign toe decree dissolving the Cort € 3 . It is slated io be town np to-day in * he presence of Gonzales Bravo , *?! * ^ ; Vice-President ? , and Secretaries of Sl ! wo C ^ a ^ bers ; the Dukes of Frias and Castro iSt f ^ n ^™ 0 and Karrara , Lleopsrt , Pr eside n t of the Marnal of Justice ; the Duke of lukf' of" 4 ^ ° Mal x J ' 5 ^ of St . Adrian , i SrJ f ^ cssa , Marquis of PalMi © B , Mar-SS ™ S ^ ^^ « . * * W « di of the Indies , follows ^ - I ™ " **** ™ tet and declares as
« In fee evening or the 25 ihaay of tbe last month dcm ^ nM ^ ea-luawilf-beran me > and proposed to a » toBgn a decree far the aissolufion of theCortei replied thatl would not Bign it fer *» £ 2 ? J ££ i ottffiiB , —that these Cortes had declared me of HgZ Oloxiga insisted i I lefos&d to mgu the decree . X rose md proceeded towards the door -which ia at toe left baai aide of ny . stady . _ OloEga anticipated me and jolted thudoor . I tbem proceeded to the doot oppo se , when Oio « jaafaini preceded me asd bolted tint 4 mt . Hethenadoed »• ky ¦ T zobtaad obliged me to be seated . He then to « k my ha » d aad ompeQed motot&gn . Olostga then wittarew , and I retired to » y chamber . "
Tt »* communication was recdred with loud applanse , and cries of " the Queen for ever ! " by the jfoderadoe . M . Olozaganext roBe , and gave notice ef Mb intention to move "that the Government should inform tbe Chamber of the means employed io bring about tbe downfall of the last Cabinet , and explain how an act unauthorised by any Ministry eould baye been promnlgated . " M . Gonzales Bravo replied that he would give the desired explanatioES , Ifid the house » cioomedi
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The press of Madrid , with the sole exception of the Heraldo , was unanimous in defending M . Olozaga . . - . ¦ The fall ' ' of Olozago has cansed a great sensation in Paris . It is said that King Lonis Philippe is sorely disappointed at the result ; and Queen ChriB * tina , who sees in it not only the death of all her hopes of returning to Spain , but the sudden stoppage of the million of pounds sterling whioh Olozaga had promised to her as the arrears of her salary as Regent , must be not a little mortified . It is not likely that Bhe will find another Minister so complaisant as to purchase her favour and support at the expense of a million . The Times Correspondent gives the following " plain , unvarnished tale" of the aboTe extraordinary intrigues , making the whole matter as plain as a pikestaff : —
Mxdbid , Dec . 3 . —Affaire of Sl&te are taking sach an extraordinary turn here that even we natives , who are case-nardened in intrigne , are gmte at a loss to predict what 'Will be the end of all this ; and you in England most be completely mystified . The facts , however , will speak for themselves , and very serious disclosures they have made already ; these , however , neither senators , deputies , nor the press have yet dared to translate in every-day language , nor indeed would it be very safe to do bo in Madrid j so I Bball beg your leave to do it via London .
imprimis , Donna Isabel Segunda is the nominal Qaeen of Spain , but La MaTqueBa de Santa Cruz , Chief Lady of the Bedchamber , is the real acting irresponsible one , subject only to the inspirations of Narvaet , who payB a formal visit to the Palace every day , ostensibly to take orders ftom the Queen for the customary dispositions in the garrison , according to Spanish etiquette , but really to receive his report from the said Camarera Mayor , and give her instructions for the ensuing day . This , and much more , was perfectly -well known to Sen or 01 oz 3 £ 3 previous to his taking office a few days ago ; he knew that the entire Royal Camarilla was hostile to him , and had Towed his destruction ; and he knew , too , that in forming a Ministry he had to
expect , not only the enmity of the Palace , the opposition of the Afranoesado leaders of the army , and the jealous , though covert , counteraction of the Moderado senators and deputies , but the eager , daring , wilful proceedings of Ms Progresista rivals , who insisted on re-organizing the National Guard in Madrid tout a coup , and inviting a conflict with the military . All these he endesTonred to meet on tbe exigency of the moment . He suspended the act reuniting the civio force . He disarmed the enmity of the ProgresiBtas by his unexpected decree , which restored their rights and honours , and recognized the legitimacy of the Governmentof Espartero ; and provided against the hostile votes of the insulted Moderadoes in Senate , and in Congress , by drawing up a decree for their dissolution the instant that a
measure involving censure should be introduced against him in eithtr Chamber with any probability of success . However , with all cleverness , he could not take measures sufficiently rapid to counteract the hostile movement of the Royal Camarilla . Although he had on the first day of his Ministry prepared his decree , dated in blank , for the dissolution of the Cortes , at Ms pleasure , and presented it to the Queen in his first private audienca on the 28 vh inst ., yet the Captain-General and the Camarera Mayor had forestalled Mm . They had counselled the Qaeen " not to sign ? ' and when the Prime Minister laid his decree for signature before her , he found her primed with objections ; and then , instead of retiring and laying
the result before the Cones , as a prudent man would have done , lie explained and argued the point with the little girl , and still more imprudently bolted « ut the Camarilla at both sides of the cabinet , as Mendizabal had frequently to do in his interviews with her mother . This , it appears , is tb . 6 real state of the case , and constitutes the gravamen of ofience committed by Olozaga . It was an insult to the listening ladies of the Bedchamber ,. which they have endeavoured to levenge by stating it as offence to the Queen , and & violence committed against hey dignity ; and I mn&t Bay that Olozaga deserves all the annoyance he is enduring , for his folly in attemping to hold the Queen "by the car 3 , " while he knew that her mind was taken captive by his enemies . They also have played their parts verv badly in the affair . They allowed twenty
hours to pass , without making the Queen move in the matter ; -whereas , if tbe child bad been insulted , as it is aUedged , nothing woald have bees more natural than for her to have complained of it on the instant that Senor Olozago had released her . The truth appears to be , that General Narvaez did not arrive at the Palace till the afternoon of next day as nsual , and the Marquesa would not venture on the explosion of such & train withont feis directions Having delayed so long , they executed the accusation in a hurry , and followed it up with sad breaches of etiquette . They neither sent for Senor Olozaga , nor the three Ministers who had taken office with him , bat , on the contrary , called in their personal enemies to listen to the accusations put into the mouth of the Queen , and to record judgment of high treason passed on them by the Camarilla .
The rest of the letter is similar to the statements given above , with the exception of the following additional particular : — Senor Olozaga has been these two days endeavouring to obtain a patient bearing from the Congress respecting his " attack on the Queen . " His friends say that he has important revelations to make respecting the the influence of Narvatz in the palace , the intrigues now on foot in the Camarilla for the marriage of the Queen whh the son of Don Francisco , and also respecting a pension of l . GOOf , a month enjoyed from Paris , for the last three years , by an influential lady in the Palace . To day it was decided that he must resign bis seat in virtue of his previous acceptance of cfiice , but that he should be heard in explanation . He declares his innocence in the most solemn manner , but said that
he would offer no commentary on the document which had been submitted to them from tbe Palace unless called on by the Chamber to do so , when he would be ready to afford every satisfaction ; but the Chamber acj ourned before these proceedings could be entered into . His friends txpect , now that he has been deprived of the protection of the Chamber by the loss of his position as Deputy , that he will be arrested and placed in close confinement on the charge of Mgh treason , to check , if possible , any further disagreeable disclosures ; but this recent persecution of a whole Cabinet by the Camarilla has raised him up friends amongst boih Progresisias , Moderados , and Exaltados when he least expected it . Even Isturiz and Salamanca declare that they will not join in such an attempt" to ruin a Prime Minister by an irrespon-; sible Camarilla , " justly foreseeing perhaps that it may i be their own fate next week .
Letters from Madrid of the 3 d Btate that considerable excitement prevailed at that date in the Spanish capital . The pnblio rejoicings on the occasion of the Queen ' s majority had filled the streets with an immense concourse of people . The crowd was so great on the Bquare , where fountains flowing with milk and wine had been erected , that the soldiers on dnty occasionally were obliged t © deal severe blows to the people . In the evening , a large assemblage collected before the town-house , uttering vivas in favour of " the Constitution , " " Espartero , " and ^ the Kational Guard . " A detachment of soldiers stationed at the Puerta del Sol was immediately marched to the square , and dispersed tbe rioters . At the sitting of the Cortes on the 3 rd , Olczaga entered upon his defenee : —
M . Olozaga said be did not rise for the purpose of offering any opposition to a motion for an address to her Majesty , but he neither could nor ought to be silent when what he had to say might throw a light on the question . M . Olozaga then entered into a detail ol all the circumstances which preceded his appointment as the Queen ' s tntor , and having arrived at that point , declared that had never ceased during the wholn of tile time he had held that post to impress upon the mind of the Queen that , in order to govern upon constitutional principles , sovereigns should never lend an ear on political matters to any other persons than the responsible advisers of the Crown . This doctrine had , he said , created for him amongst the persons at the palace an antipathy
which had augmented daily , and when ho had been called to take npon himself the direction of public affairs , the antipathy increased to positive hostility , and it was the resistance , occult or open , that he met with from the persons in attendance on the Qaeen that prevented his composing a homogenous cabinet . To such a height , indeed , had things reaebed , that he baa been under the necessity of declaring that he would drive from the palace all who shonld interfere with political affairs , and most assuredly he would have carried his menaces into execution . The conviction that he would do so had brought upon him hatred and resentment . On the very day after his nomination to the office of President of the Council , he was astonished at being
told by the Queen that he must immediately form his cabinet , tor if he did not another person wonld compose a ministry . The person in question was not named by the Qaeen . It was , however , General Narvaez , who would not even wait for the formation of the cabinet to manifest his opposition , SO great was the prejudice of the palace against any cabinet that he ( M Olozaga ) might organize . In this state of things all personal considerations counselled retirement into private life ; bat he saw that the Moderados were about to rufib into ft most furious opposition , aid he aofade a sacrifice of personal ease d
» security to the interests of his country . He j £ f en «» welfare of the country to his personal teaDquillitj . It would be easy , added M . Oloxaga , ^^^ . e a thousand instances of the ill-will Pardo informed us that she relied on SeUng ™ at her table at tne Palace . We were exact at the appointed hour . What was our surprise at learning
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from the persons whose dnties placed them near to the person of Her Majesty , that her orders had not been understood . Her Majesty herself , evidently deceived by the persona who Bnrroundedi he * , told us herself that the dinner would not take place . By chance , however , it was discovered that there was an error in the counter order of the dinner and it was forthwith served . It was exquisite , and was certainly not got up hastily , in consequence of our arrival . These are petty details , but they show the spirit that even in the most minute particulars existed towards the Cabinet in the Queen ' s household . I now come to more important matter . I will state to you freely and without reserve , that I regarded the appointment of the president who now fills the
chair in this Chamber as a fact of a most significant character . It wa 3 impossible for a cabinet composed of men belonging to the Progresista party to go on with a Chamber whose hostility was shown in the appointment of the president . Nobody , I think , under these circumstances , will venture to deny the right of the ministry to apply to the Queen for a deoree for the immediate dissolution of the Cortes , it being certain that the cabinet could no longer act in accord with the Chamber . It was on this account he had agreed with his colleagues as to the necessity of dissolving the Chamber , and for that purpose it w&b necessary to be prepared beforehand , which was also agreed to by his colleagues ; because if he waited till the crisis
arrived , with the secret influences whioh surrounded the Queen , he might be defeated . He then came to the way in whioh that decree had been received , and he said he would make no comment on the account read by the minister on the subject . His respect for the constitutional tferone , and his value for the prestige which it was more than ever neoesgary to throw around royalty , forbade him to do so . However , he could not altogether forbear from alluding to tbe charge brought against him , and he solemnly protested , on the word of a man who had no patrimony but his character , and who valued his honour more than Mb life , that he was innocent of the charge , and he placed himself entirely in their hauds . ( M . Olozaga was at this time greatly overpowered by his feelings , and was quite unable to proceed for several minutes , during which time he was loudiy applauded from the galleries ) . He then
proceeded to state that on the night of the 28 th he had a great deal of business to transact at the palace , and many documents requiring the Queen's signature which had to be read before signing them . Under such circumstances a little impatience might be manifested , and , supposing a minister in his situation had submitted any measure which did not at once meet the royal approbation , it was his duty in his situation to employ such means of persuasion as he might possess , to overcome that repugnanoe . His voice here betrayed the deepest emotion . He was compelled to stop several times , his utterance was choked by his Bobs . He took Heaven to witness bis innocence ,. protesting his unfailing repect for royalty , and repelling with indignant fervour the calumnies which has been heaped upon him by his enemies , and a malignant Camarilla , whose intrigues were fatal to interests of the country .
While M . Olozaga was protesting with great energy against the calumny raised against Lhlm , the President adjourned the silting , declaring that the time allowed by the Btanding rules of the Chamber had elapsed . At the sitting on the 4 th M . Olozaga resumed and concluded the vindication of his conduct . He stated that in the evening of the 23 th he repaired from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to the Palace , bringing a number of decrees , which he submitted to the approbation of the Queen , and which her Majesty actually approved and signed . The Queen bad
treated him with all the marks of kindness that a candid and' grateful heart could express ; and when he took leaie of her , she followed him , and , in presence of bystanders , saluted him most graciously . M . Olozaga then returned to the Ministry . Had he been guilty of the attempt imputed to him , his guilt would have been betrayed by his emotion , and he would noi have left the Palace without having been arrested . Many hours of the night passed oyGT and the Minister remained quietly in his hotel , in conference with several foreign agents . In the morning of tbe 29 ih , however , persons attached to the Royal Household announced that tho decree of
dissolution of the Cortes had been signed , and that violence had been offered to the Qaeen to obtain her signature to tho decree . The President of the Chamber * it appears , was the first apprised of the circumstance , and those who should have been informed of it first were the last to know it . M . Olozaga then examined theetylcof the declaration pat into the Queen's mouth , and contended that it little resembled thelanguage used by her Majesty , and that it was not accordingly her own . The means , besides , employed to draw up the Royal act were illegal . He next directed the attention of the Assembly to a conspiracy , existing both in Spain and throughout
Europe , against the Constitutional Government . He had proofs of its existence , and knew for certain that there were agents in Spain labouring to bring about the marriage of the son of Don Carlos with the Queen . This statement was received with cries of " No , -noJ" and excited u . tumult which tho President appeased with much difficulty . M . Olozaga , however , persieted in bis declaration , and , after attacking the actors in the scene at the Palace who refused to allow him to be present and justify himself , and branding in energetic terms tie imprudent courtiers who compromised the throne , he concluded by recommending the adoption of the address to tbe Queen , and his own impeachment for the offence with which he was charged .
M . Pidal , the President , vacated the chair , and ascended . the tribune . He said , that the disclosures and arguments of Olozaga merely tended to convince him of the truth of the words of the Queen , which he had never doubted , and which no Spaniard should doubt . The remainder of Mb Bpeech consisted of recriminations against M . Olozaga , for bis desertion of the banner of conciliation , and his choosing hiB colleagues in the Ministry from among the Progesista party alone . As respected his interference in the affair then before the Chamber , M . Pidal stated , that the first time he waB Bent for by
the Queen , and heard from her lips the account of the violence she had suffered , he could not . refrain from shedding tears , on witnessing the simpliciiy , innocence , and accent of trnth with which Her Majesty narrated the fact . The dismissal of M . Olozaga had bef n constitutional , for it was recommended not only by him ( M . Pidal ) , but likewise by a ) l the persons present , and the Ministers Serrano and Fr iaB . The coalition had been dissolved , but it was by those who sat on the left benches of the House . M . Pidal having concluded , tbe Assembly , owing to the lateness of the hour , adjourned .
More Blood . —The Times correspondent writing from Madrid on the 4 th , says : —Last night , as the clock of the Puerta del Sol was striking ten , and the post-office window was bolted against foreign correspondents , a volley was heard in the adjoining street ( La Calle Mayor ) , and soon after another , and another , and another ! The troops and the people were firing on each other in front of La Villa ( the Town-house of Madrid ); and thus terminated the third and most If stive of the three days appointed to celebrate the Queen's accession to power , upon which fountains of milk and wine were set running in the Plaza Mayor , in honour of the happy event , music was heard in the principal squares , the public buildings illuminated , and the crowd in front of the
brilliant villa were dancing to their national airs . The origin of this sudden change from festivity to warfare was related to mo by an eye-witness . Four well-dreEsed men were walking along the Calle Mayor amusing themselves , compelling those whom they met to cry Viva la Reina and Muera Bspartero t with various success—the majority avoiding ; or tolerating them as a drunken partyan exhibition exceedingly rare in Madrid , where the street population is exemplary on the score of sobriety , ; and the observance of that cardinal point of politeness , non-interfereBce with each other . They at last met with one poor fellew who was quite as sturdy as polite , and took their request very seriously . He insisted ou crying Viva Reina
Constitutional , and not crying Muera Espartero ! whereupon they fell upon him and thrashed him . He resisted and returned the blows , when cane-swords were drawn on him by the party , and he prudently ran away towards La Villa , calling for assistance . The four aggressors pursued him , and one discharged a pistol , whereupon the dance broke up , and plenty of paisahos came to the rescue . The offenders were pronounced to be officers in disguise , intent on getting up an alboroto ( something more than a riot ) , as an excuse for calling out the troops , and perhaps declaring a state of siege in the city . Peaceful people , women , and children instantly ran home by back streets ; the hardier stayed and awaited the conflict . The result
I only know by general report ; that troops hurried to the spot from the Pest-office and charged on the people ; that fire-arms were discharged on both sides ; and that individuals were killod and wounded in the crowd ; how many it is at present impossible to learn , for the friends of the sufferers in such cases are not very willing to complain of personal sufferings which might lead to greater ia the shape of prosecutions , imprisonment , and the infliction of capital punishment at the bands of the offended military authorities , eager to make " examples . " Two deaths amongst the citizens are already confessed , but individuals who ought to know say that they amount to five , and that the wounded are nineteen . Amongst them is a lady , one of a private party , who
was seated in a coffee-house la the Calle Mayor , into which ft ball from a soldier ' s musket entered aad wounded her in the hip . This moraine the angry feelings of the populace bad sot subsided at the hour when the Congress assembled , and the result of theii expression was that the troops were ordered to clear the Plaza del Qriente with fixed bayonets . Another correspondent of the Times states that the foiled Moderados , finding Olozaga proof to the terrors of 'imprisonment , ( with the extra anticipation of being found dead therein some fine morning , and a bottle of poison placed at his right hand , so that it nv ' ght be taken for granted he had committed suicide in ¦ : despair , ) thoy have opened negotiations with him to stop his moath , promising , as the eoa-
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sideratton , to secure his embassy to France once more , and even to allow him to abuse the Camarilla to his heart ' s content , but to leave Luis Gonz&Ies Bravo and Narvaez in command here . The Duke de Glucksburg is the mediator , and tbe negociations for " peace at any price" ' were going on at the French Embassy till four o ' clock this morning . Olozaga was willing to accede to the ' com promise , bat Cortina , who now is at the head of a powerful opposition in the
Congress , and on whom Olozaga relies for fair-play , would not listen to the " tmnsaccion . " He insists on the resignation of the Camarilla , that is , in fact , on Narvsfz retiring from his post of Captain-General and La Marquesa of Santa Cruz from that of Camerara Mayor . As to Gonzales Bravo , he says , " He will fall of himself . " Thus party war still is the order of the day . I understand that orders to that effect have also been sent to the provinces . A new score of insurrections are expected next month .
i Babcelona . —The Phare of Bayonne states , from its correspondent on the Catalouian frontier , who writes under the date of the 2 nd instant , that General Sanz , the Captain-General of the Province , had arrived at Figueras on the 1 st with a battalion of infantry and two squadrons of eavalry . Previously to his leaving Barcelona , he had published a proclamation , expelling from that city every person who had taken any part in the late insurrection . "M aprid , Dec . 5 . —The Ministry has been this day constituted . M . Gouzales Bravo , President of the Council ; General Maserado , Minister of War ; Marquis of Penafiorida , Minister of the Interior ; M . Mayans , of Justice : M . Portillo , of the Navy . The Minister of Finance is not yet appointed . The debate on the projected address is not yet concluded . Madrid is tranquil .
Canada . —It is reported that Sir Charles Metcalf has resigned the Governorship . Severe indisposition is assigned as the cause . PORTUGAt .- ^ TheGovermenthaving undertaken no less than 130 prosecutions of the press since 1840 , in all of which they hiive failed , not obtaining a solitary conviction ! 1 have introduced the project of a law to prevent the " abuses" of the press . The opposition journals , it is hardly necessary to add , treat of it in terms of unmeasured reprobation . The Tribuno of the 2 ? th instant concentrates the import of two columns of comment in the following suggestion : — " The people from this time ought to form associations in all the towns and villages . "
In the government papers , coexistent with the publication of the project of law for suppressing " the abuses of the press , " an ordinance appears for a new recruitment , for the purpose of bringing the effective mil tar y force to the complement of twenty-four thousand men—the standing army fixed by tho Cortes for tha present year , which had undergone a considerable diminution from desertion and other causes . The nature of the remedy for the abuse of the liberty of the press is such as to render measures of precaution of this kind its necessary accompaniments .
CrREECE . —The new National Assembly of Greece was opened at Athens , on the 20 th ult ., by tho King in person , who made a speech from the throne , in which he said , " Free municipal laws , provincial councils , and trial by the jury , were tbe precursors of representative government in Greece , pur task now is to place the crowning stono on the ediSce , by the introduction and establishment of a Constitution . " UNITED STATES . —Philadelphia , Nov . 19 , 1843 . —Another movement has taken place in the Oregon question . The committee appointed at a public meeting in Philadelphia , have published an address to American citizens residing in Oregon , recommending that Congress should pass laws taking Oregon into possession , make military roads , Sea In one passage in Bays : — " We want no treaty—we
might as well make a treaty with Great Britain about Philadelphia . " .. * " Let 30 , 000 Americans , each with a stoat heart , and a stanuch rifle in his hand , emigrate to Oregon , and we shall have no war . " The document will be read with deep interest in , England . Remember , there are now seventeen English forts , stations , or villages in the Oregon territory , and quite a large settlement at tho mouth of the Columbia . Every day developes more and more the danger of this question , which ought to be settled without further delay . I have no hesitation in asserting that , in the treaty of Washington , it might have been settled with greater facilities to both nations than now . What a shocking blunder—tho omission ! The popular feeling in this country is adverse to allowing to England a single foot of ground , in tho Oregon territory , either north or south of the Columbia .
The new " Native Americans , " " American Republican" party , in New York , have heid two or three meetings , at whioh the leading Whigs add leading democrats have been blamed as the mere heads of factions . The speakers and resolutions say — ' We want a truly American and republican feeiing to prevail to sustain the honour and the credit of the country , both at home and abroad . They have been sacrificed to faction . We will restore them 1 " This party , depend upon it , will augment rapidly in power , influence , and numbers . But the most extraordinary feature in it at the present time is the hostility it exhibits against the Church of Rome . This feeling has been called out in consequence of his Holiness , the Pope ^ having recently appointed several new Bishops in the United States . The "American Republicans" are adverse to the Pope exerting any kind of power whatever in the United States .
i Tne Madisonian ia still urging the annexation of Texas to the United States , and is followed and supported by the press of tho South . That of the North is averse to the admission of Texas , except as a free Btate . These are merely the preludes to stormy debates on that most excitoable of subjects in the coming Congress , for it is clear that tbe Texas annexation question will open the whole matter of slavery in its consideration at Washington ., W £ ST INDIES . — -Lord Elgin opened the Session of the House of Assembly at Jamaica on the 24 th of October .
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Mr . Clark ' s Tour , —On Thursday evening , I attended a public meeting in the Chartist chapel , Bear-lane , Bristol . Tho purpose of the meeting was to protest against the Government prosecutions of Mr . O'Connell and other leading members of the Irish Repeal Association . Mr . Simeon , in an able speech , proposed the first resolution , which was unanimously adopted . Mr . Evans moved the second resolution . I spoke nearly an hour in support of it ; it was likewise enthusiastically carried . At the cloBe I had the gratification to learn that my addresses on tha Irish question , had removed much of that unfounded prejudice , which unfortunately has so long kept the English and the Irish working-men at daggers'drawn . On Friday morning week I left Bristol by the Brilliant , ( steam-packet ) , for
CornwaJJ . The weather was fine , the voyage a pleasant one for such aB could enjoy it ; I WaB not of that number . Five o ' clock on Saturday morning found me landed safe at Hale , having , in less than twentytwo hours , sailed , or rather steamed , a distance of 201 miles . A deputation from Cambome , a email town about seven , miles from the coast , waited upon me . I accompanied them to their town , where I last night addressed a meeting in the open air . The attendance was not bo large as was anticipated , owing to the unpropitioua state of the weather ; yet so eager were the '' workies" to hear the truths of Chartism , that out of about 250 persons present , not more than six or seven stirred nntil the business was concluded . On Saturday I shall again lecture in the same place , when I expect a large gathering In m y next 1 shall enter folly into the state of feeling in the west . B
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OLDHAM-On Sunday last Mr . Wiltiam 9 lectured in the Chartist Room , Greaves-street , to a numerous and attentive andience . The lecturer showed up the evils resulting from a bad government , and the good effects likelyito be produced from a good one Macclesfield—On Monday evening last Mr . M'Grath delivered a lecture on . our glorious constitution in Cbiircn and State , which gare unbounded satisfaction to an overflowing audience . Eleven new members were enrolled . The Chartists gf Clebkenwell gave a public
supper to that old veteran in the cause of freedom , Thos . Preston , on the 5 ; h inst ., at Mr . Curran ' e , the Two Brewers , Vine-street , Hatton Wall . The room was tastefully decorated , and the snpper gave much satisfaction . Amongst the toasts were the healths of Thomas IPreston , T . S . Duocombe , Esquire , M . P ., and F . O'Connor , Esq ; "theCharter , " " the Rights of Man , " Frost , Williams , Jones , and EHis , " A-o . &o . Excellent speeches were delivered by Messrs . Preston , Rainsley , Cowan , Gardner , Sharp , and others ; and the evening was most pleasantly and profitably passed .
Great Meeting at Chelsea . —On Tuesday evening last , a most numerous and enthusiastic meeting was holden ia a temporary but spacious Saloon , fitted up for the occasion by the spirited landlord of the Roebuck ( Tavern . It was attended by Mr . O'Connor , who addressed the assembly "in his wonted style with good effect , as evidenced by the enthusiastic applause they bestowed on his several expositions of the Chartist principles ; and his tearing exposures of the designs and views of the " monopolizing ' free traders .
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Leed 3 Corn Market , Tuesday , Dec . 12 . —We have good arrivals of Wheat , Barley , and in fact of all grain , for this day ' s market . The Wheat trade is a good deal depressed by the dull reports from Mark Lane , and we quote prices Is . to 2 s . per qr . leweiyvvith a slow sale at this decline . Common Barie # is' Is . per qr . cheaper , but in the value ef really fine qualities we make little variation . The demand for Oats and Shelling is very limited , and last week ' s prices are not maintained to-day . New £ eans are Is . per qr . cheaper , while for old ones there ia little inquiry just now-THE AVERAGE PRICES OF WHEAT , FOR THE WEEK ENDING DEC . 12 , 1843 , Wheat . Barley . Oats . Rye . Beans . Peas Qrs , Qxa . Qre . Qia . Qrg . Q , w . 3631 1849 492 0 525 0 £ s . d . £ s . d . £ b . d . £ s . d . £ s . d . £ 8 . d . 2 12 9 * 1 14 2 £ 0 19 0 000 1129 0 0 0
Leeds Woollen Markets . —There is very little variation in the markets from those of last week . On Saturday rather more business was done , perhaps , than on the Tuesday before ; but this ia almost invariably the case . The demand is nearly limited to Petershams , Beavers , and Tweeds ; these , with a few fancy cloaking 3 , constitute about the entire trade . Fine cloths are little enquired after . Bradford Mark et , Thursday . fToo / . -rNotwithstanding the full supply of all kinds of both Clothing aad Combing Wools , the holders . cling to it , stating that if they clear out their stocks , they cannot be replaced at a price which will enable them
to get a profit , consequently the demand may be expected to become slacker till the Spinners can meet them , —Faro . —This trade continues tolerably brisk , and a good many Spinners complain of being under contract at old prices , and the continued advance on Wools has taught them to act with more caution in making sales for distant delivery , for if the present prices of Wool are maintained , Yarns must advance to meet them . Piece—A . 11 connected with this department of the business , but particularly those , whose manufacture is "entirely all Wool , and requiring a greater weigat , such as LastingB , Damasks , Says , &o ., are murthe
muring at the very disproportionate price of raw material and their production , and they know not what course to pursue ; for unless a general advance is obtained on all kinds of goods , considerably less will be made , and as neither tne season of the shippers nor home houses is on » 'tm merchants avail themselves of picking up job lots from the necessitous , which a continuance of the prs sent trade will make very numerous . Richmond , Dec . 9— Wehadatolerable * upp ly . ° * Grain in oar market to-day , the prices being we same as last week : —Wheat sold from 6 i 4 d to 7 s 6 d ; Oats 2 s 3 d to 3 * 3 d : Barley 4 a to 4 a 34 J B ** 43 9 d to 5 s .
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O'CONNOR , Esq . of Hanuneramith , CoW 1 * Middlesex , by JOSHUA HOBSON , at hi * P ** ing Qfficei , Nob . 12 and 13 , Market-street , Brifg **' and Published by th » said Joshua , H 0 bsW » { tot the « ald Fbabgus O'dONHOBi ) afchii D «* - ling-house , No . 6 , Markefc-rtreit , Biiggatei ¦" internal Communication exlating between tbe n » No . 5 , MwkeiHBtreet , and the said No * W ¦« " 13 , Market-street , Briggate , thus constitutiitf 0 » whole of the said Printing and Publishing OB " one Premises . All Communications must be addressed , Post-pal ^ « ° Mr . Hobson , Northern Star Office , leeda , ( Saturday , December 16 , 1843 . )
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T * AKCB . —Thb Fobtipicatjons . —The National pubHsbes a . second letter of M . Arago « n the fortifications of Palis . In the first , he had shown that tie detached ^ forts would avail little against the enemy , but might , sooner or later , place the liberties and institutions of the country , and the lives of the citiz-n ? of Paris , at the mercy of a few ** pretorians . In his Eecond letter , he demonstrates" the necessity of fortifying Paris , hut contends than an enceinte continue ? in masonry with bastions , ought to snffice for tie defence of that capital . Yauban and Napoleon ( hs observes ) supply him with the strongest artrtiaents in support of his system , which had , besides its tfBcacy ,-the-no leB 3 valuable advantage of being in no" wise dangerous to the liberties of Piar . ce .
3 IcBr > FBs akd Sciodes . —The Paris papers con tain daily appalling liBts of nmrders and suicides , * ud © f attempts to oommit those crimes . The most recent murder announced in Paris ia that of the ¦ wwow of the former manager of the Ambign Comiqne , who waBitrangled in her residence jn the Rue dn Temple ,. the most populous part of Paris , on Thursday last in open day . Five days previously , at St . DermiB , near Paris , a monster , of Herculean BtT-. ^ g-fi , seized npon an unoffending young man , WG throwing him down on the road , held him firmlj um 3 ihe wheels of an approaching waggon had pa ^? ed oTer Mb head ! DssTiTVTiox . —The journals continue to regis :- r proofs of the melanchol y amount of distress prevalent m the French capital .
* p * Saturday morning , " says La Presse , "the dean body of a ^ chiffonnier was picked up in the Rue 33 auphiae . Having been -removed to the Morgue , it wa = examined by a medical man , who declared that he had died of hunger . Nevertheless , he held in bis band a piece of oread , which he was eating when he died ; but it appears that this food , after too long an Abstinence , proved fatal to him . " Houk Miscbbajcts . —Notwithstanding the proclaimed resolve of Government to prosecnte with the utmost energy sud severity persons guilty of
atiempis to injure railroadvo * cause accidents upon them , the Courner de Lyon of the 7 th inst . announces a fatal aeciden ; on the St . Etienne and Lyons Railroad , by some miscreant who had placed a ftoce on the Tails , by which the tender was thrown off the road , and the engineer Killed . The jj&E .-eagers in the train , which consisted of nine Carr iage ? , fortunately escaped with trifling irjnry , except those in the fifth carriage , which , having keen ihrown -violently against ^ the fourth , received Borne contusions .
The Legitimist Kixg . "—M . de Chateaubriand ias arrived in Paris . The Legitimist papers give the causes of a great many more of the first nobility in J ' rance "who are flacking to London to join in ihe dejaGnstration in favour of the Dake of Bordeaux . Among them is one gentleman who carries an address from two thousand families in Paris , who express rheir feelings of devotion to the Royal Dake , and ? tata tna » nothing but their poverty prevents
them hvm joining their compatriots in paying their respects io him . The aim of the Legitimist papers evidently is to shew thai ihe feeling ia fevonr of the exD ? d Bourbons is not confined to the upper classes , iut-STiniTersal . It is not doubted that the'London demonstrationTviil be made the subject of a motion in ihe Chamber j and indeed it is hardly possible for the Governnv ; nt topasabver in silence snch a flagrant in-Bnlt to ihtrejgclng dynasty as that of addressing the young l > nke as ** King «> f France , "
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FOREIGN MISCELLANY . Disordebs in Hungary . —The Journal de Frankfort has a letter from Presburg of the 26 rh nit ., which says : — " A spirit of disorder has lately been bo violently displayed in this city , that the Grand Equerry of Hungary ; who is at the head of the police of tho kingdom , has published a proclamation , announcing that the Emperor has issued an ordonnance forbidding tbe collection of all bodies of the people ia the streets , either by day or night , under any pretence whatever .
The Slave . Trade . —Extraot of a letter received at Lloyd ' s from their agent at St . Viucent ' B : — " A slaver , for the negroes were seen on deck with the naked eye , and two other vessels bearing all the appearance of carrying on the same : dreadful traffic , have passed down the south-east channel of this island within the last four weeks . They run close over to the Bignia shore until they run about ten miles past the west end of that island , and then haul away to the northward . No doubt one of them is the same as seen out of the Commercial Room windows at Barbadoes . Captain Petty , of the brig Belfast , now here , says one possed close under his stern , and that he saw tho negroes on deck . The owners of these slavers are well aware that during the hurricane months nearly all
men-of-war are snugly ensconced in the Carenage , Grenada , and run down this clear passage in three or four hours , and then bear away for Porto Rico or Cuba perfectly safe . A small fast steamer , during the hurricane season , could lie in Calloaqua , a smooth , safe , and hurricane-bound harbour , and by having a look out from Fort Devirnetto could interrupt one of these vessels with the greatest ease . If government were to station a small fast sailing steamer there during the next hurricane months , if it should be as it has been this year , they would take from 1500 to 2000 negroes , without saying what may pass during the night ; but if the parties should get scent of it I suppose they will take : tho St . Lucia Channel . Souffriere Bay , St . Lucia , but for the hurricanes , would be a good place for another steamer . "
The Autocrat .- —A St . Petersburg !! letter of the 22 nd ultL says— " M . Kalergi , brother of the famous Kalergi , who played so great a part in the late scenes in Greece , has just received an OTder from the Emperor Nicholas to leave Russia in twenty-four hours , although he has been for a great many years a resident in the empire .
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Dec. 16, 1843, page 8, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct512/page/8/
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