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CHARGE OF TREASON AGAINST THE I » IOJViE 2 dIIUSTER OF SPAIN—STRANGE , B"UT IMPORTANT PROCEEDINGS . Intrigue is the order' of the day . Olozaga Of , " golden-fl ? eee" notoriety , has been hurled from power by the infcrignes ^> f Narraez and Co . and is eTen in some personal danger of being accused of treason" ( I ) by bis late friends and present enemies the Moderados . It appears that on the 28 ih , M . Olozaga went at zn appointed honr in the evening to the Palace , and having obtained a secret audience-of her Majesty ., » fter taring closed the door and bolt-edit , he proposed to the Queen to sign the decree dissolving the Cortes . The Queen objected , and wished to retire , v M . Olozaga slopped the passage of her Majesty , and drew the bolts ef the second door to prevent her Majesty from retiring ; and the Queen
having sat down it table , M . Olezaga . in & -voice panJy familiar , partly serious , said , ** Vamos firma vxicstra Majeiia . * ' The ^ ueen signed , and said nothing as to what happened ; but on the following day (; he 29 ; h" ) , when rising , the Marchioness of Santa Cruz having asked what ha £ passed at the interview with AL Olozaga , she told her the abore facts , and asked -what she ought to do . The Waxchioces 3 recommended to her to consult General Harrsez , which she did , when the general came to the P lace to demand the pass-word . The Queen told bun what had happened , and Narrae 2 immediately determined to call 5 A . Pidal , General Ser-XS&O , M . Tria ? , M . Mazaxedo , the military governor ana political chief of Madrid ; M . Gonzaie 3 BraTo , and M > L Alconand Qainta , the vice-presidents of the Congress . The result was the decree dismissing Okziga , which appeared in the Gazelle .
This is one Teraon , bni we have another quite as likely to be true : — On the evening of the 28 ih , Olezaga repaired to ihe palace , and presented the decree of dissolution to the Qaeen , who signed it ,-wiih out the least demur , 8 £ a matter of course . To show that she was then en the most cordial terms with Olozaga , -she inquired , as was usual with her , after Ms young daughter , and cent her by him a case of sweetmeats . This trivial incident shows at least that the trumped tip story of violence being used , and the Queen leaving in tears , was all a mere fabrication . Sad the 0 ,-aeen resisted signins the decrae , shed tears , covered her face with her hand 3 , as the Heraldo has it to-day , and been actually forced by Olozaga to sign it , is it crucible that at her age she irould have lei the whole evening pass by , and have taken no notice of it to the people who are always about her till ifae next da-v T
The res . of the Ministers have resigned ; and Gonxales Bravo , a renegade Liberal is announced as She person charged wiih forming the new government . On the 1 st the Chambers met . The great point in She i ) epaties was , -whether Olcxaga should have an © pportnaity allowed for stating what had occurred fct the palace , and rtbniting the charges circulated against him . The Moderados tried to prevent it , on the ground that by becoming minister Lehad eeased to be a deputy , and having been dismissed from the minittiy , he bad no right to sit in the Chamber in either capacity . Olozaga , however , entered the house with the other members , and took Lib BfciV , and then arose a tremendous uproar , the people in the jiaileries , which were thronged to
over-Burning , getting up and giving eheers upon cheers as lie entered xxx house , There were , of course , a few demonstrations of an opposite character . The tumnlt ¦ was eo great that 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 , hating read the rules of the house bearing upon the case , Olozaga got cp and claimed bis right to give the explanations he had to make to the Chamber and tee country upon the important events that had transpired throuKh the press ; he claimed ihe right , because , although subject to re-election by ihe constitution on becoming a minister , yet , by the Btandiug raies of the Chamber , it was necessary , before a member's seat was racated , that notice should be KiTen by the secretary of the ' same , and a fresh election be moved for z this rule had not been
complied "with since he took fcfBce } and he claimed ihe benefit of the omission , particularly as , under the eircamsiances , he had a claim upon ihe generosity of Hie Chamber . Tbia was violently opposed by the Moderados . TJltucaidj the proposiiioa to exclude Olozaga and his colleagues was referred to the bureaux to appoint a Commission to examine it , by a majority of 73 to 75 voies , the former being the Progressists party , and fee Jzx- ^ x the Moderados , Thus far Olozaga triumphs .
In the Senate tie Queen's declaration was read bj Groazales Bravo , in his capacity of chief notary , ttmnnning the story circulated of Olozaga respecting the manner in "which Ebe had been induced to sign ae decree dissolving the Corte 3 . It 1 b stated to be "f * ™ ? to-day in the pTtBence of Gonzales Bravo , tte Resident , Yjce-Presidente , and Secretaries cf ae two Chambers ; the Dukes of Frias and Castro Terreno ^ Genoius SBirano and Narvaes , Lleopart , $£ & £ JSb& * 12 g : } ' , &gg * gf ^ of ^ rb ^ si ^ SfOT ^ f Personages of note , and declares 2
^ « Ina » evening of the 26 th fiay o ! the last month DkBB ^ y resented Imuaelf before » e , and proposed to mBU > agn * fecn * ftr the dissolution of theCortai . I replied that I would sot sign it for onareawm saaoMst Hksb , —that tbase Cortes had declared me of am . longi ins&ed : I refuied to sign the decree . I rose ¦ ad proceeded toward * the door which is at the left fcKBd nde of ay kt&dj . t > kl&g » anticipated me and Jolted tfci * door . I ifcen proceeded to the door oppotfftt , -when OlonpiBgaiarpreeeded »« and bolted that 4 mc Hetties aoKd ma by my robt and obliged ae i » ke seated . ~ He then to * k my basd and ompelled BM to sign . Olcnga then irilhdreir , and I retired to MI damoer . '
Biifl coHUnunJcatioB was received wiBj lond ap-TlaDBe , and cries of "the Queen for ever ! " by the Moderados . M . Olozaga next rose , and save notice Of his mtenHon to move M lhat the Gavernment sboold inform the Chamber of the means employed to bring about the downfall of the last Cabinet , and frr p tftin howao aet nnauthorised by any Ministry eould have been promulgated . ** M . GorJales Bravo icplied thai he would pive tho desired explanations , BM &e boQBe adjoarned .
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The press of Madrid , with the sole exception ot the Heraldo , was unanimous in defending M . Olozaga . The fall of Olozago has caused a-great sensation in Paris . It is said that King Louis Philippe is sorely disappointed at the result ; and Queen Christina , who seea in it not only the death of all her hopes of returning to Spain , but the sudden Btop-Ease of the million of pounds sterling which Olozaga ad promised to her as the arrears of her salary as Regent , must be not a little mortified . It is not likely that she will find another Minister bo complaisant as to purchase her favour and anj port at the expense of a million . The Times Correspondent gives the following " plain , unvarnished tale" of the above extraordinary intrigues , making the whole matter as plain as a pikestaff : —
Mjlbbid , Dec . 3 . —Affairs of State are taking such an extraordinary turn here that even we natives , who are case-hardened in intrigue , are quite at a Iobs to predict what will he the end of all this ; and you in England rnnst be completely mystified . The facts , however , will speak for themselves , and very Berious 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 eo in Madrid ; so I sh&U beg your leave to do it via London .
Imprimis , Donna Isabel Segunda Ib the nominal Queen of Spain , but La Marquesa de Santa Cruz , Chief Lady of the Bedchamber , is the real acting irresponsible one , subject only to the inspirations of Karvaei , who pays 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 bis report from the said Camarera Mayor , and give her instructions for the eDsuing day . This , and much more , was perfectly well known to Sen or Olozaga previous to his taking office a few days ago ; he knew that the entire Royal Camarilla was hostile to him , and had vowed 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 Afrancesado leaders of the army , and
the jealous , though covert , counteraction of the Moderado senators and deputies , but the eager , dariDg , wilful proceedings of his Progresista rivals , who insisted on re-organizing the National Guard in Madrid tout a coup , and inviting a oonfliot wiih the military . All these he endeavoured to meet on the exigency of the moment . He suspended the act reuniting the civio force , fie disarmed the enmity of the Progresistas by his unexpected decree , which restored their rights and honours , and recognized the legitimacy of the Government of 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 Mm in either Chamber with any probability of success .
However , with all cleverness , he oonld 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 bis decree , dated in blank , for the dissolution of the Cortes , at his pleasure , and presented it to the Queen in his first private audience on the 28 ih inst ., yet the Captain-General and the Cam&xera Mayor had forestalled him . They had counselled the Queen " 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 Cortes , as a prudent man would have done , he explained and argued the point with the little girl , and still more imprudently bolted out
the Camarilla at both sides of the cabinet , as Mendizabal had frequently to do in his interviews with her mother . Thi , it appears , ia the real state of the case , and constitutes the gravamen of offence committed by Olozaga . It was an insult to the listening ladies of the Bedchamber , which they have endeavoured to revenge by stating it as offence to the Queen , and a violence committed against her dignity ; and I must say that Olozaga deserves all the annoyance he is enduring , for his folly in attemping to hold the Queen " by the ears , " while he knew that her mind was taken captive by his enemies . They also have played their parts very badly in the affair . They allowed twenty hoars to pass , without making the Queen move in
the matter ; whereas , if the child had been insulted , as it is alledged , nothing would have been 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 Narraez did not arrive at the Palace till the afternoon of next day as usual , and the Marquesa would not venture on the explosion of such a train without his directions . Having delayed so long , they executed the accusation in a hurry , and followed it up with sad breaches of etiqnette . They Deither sent for Senor Olozaga , nor the three Ministers who had taken office with him , but , 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 particulars : — Senor Olozsga has been these two days endeavouring to obtain a patient hearing from the Congress respecting Mb " attack on the Queen . " His friends say that he has important revelations to make respecting the ihe influence of Narvata in the palace , the intrigues now on foot in the Camarilla for the marriage of the Queen with the son of Don Francisco , and al » respecting a pension of l . OOOf . a month enjoyed from Paris , for the last three years , by an . influential lady is the Palace . To-day it was decided that he must resign his Beat in virtue of his previous acceptance of office , but that he should be heard in explanation . He declares his innocence in the most solemn manner , but said that
he woold offer no commentary on the document which hsd been submitted to them from the Palace unless called on by the Chamber to do so , when he would be ready to afford every satisfaction v but the Chamber adjourned before these proceedings could be entered into . His friends « Jtpect , 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 high treason , to check , if possible , any further disagreeable disclosures ; but this recent persecution of a whole Cabinet bv the Camarilla has raised him up friends amongst both ProgresiBtas , Moderados , and Exaltados when he least expected it . Even Isturia and Salamanca declare that they will not join in such an attempt K to ruin a Prime Minister by an irresponsible Camarilla , " justly foreseeingperhaps that it may be their own fate next wtek .
Letters from Madrid of the Sd state that considerable excitement prevailed at that date in the Spanish capital . The public 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 square , where fountains flowing with milk and wine had been erected , that ihe soldiers on duty occasionally were obliged to 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 National Gnard . " A detachment of soldiers stationed at the Puerta del Sol was im « mediately marched to the square , and dispersed the rioters . At the sitting of the Cortes on the 3 rd , Oloziga entered upon his defence : —
M . Olczagx Baid he 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 of all the circumstances which preceded his appointment as the Queen ' s tutor . and having arrived at that point , declared 4 hat riad nerer eeased during tie wholnof the 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 h » had been called to take upon 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 Queen that prevented his composing a homogenous cabinet . To Buch a height , indeed , had things reached , that * he had been under the necessity of declaring that he would drive from the palace all who should 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 Ms cabinet , for if he did not another person would compose a ministry . The person is question was not named by the Queen . It was , however . General
Narvaea , who would not even wait for the formation of the cabinet to manifest his opposition , so Rre&t was the prejudice of the palace against any cabinet that he ( M Olosaga ) might organise . In this Btate of things all personal eonjdaeration * counselled retirement into private life ; but he saw that the Moderados were about to rush into a most furious PPoeition , and he made a aacrifice of personal ease and Beeuritj to the interests or bis country . He preferred the welfare , of the country to his personal tanqmlhty . It would be easy , added M . 01 o » ga , to enumerate a thousand instances of the ill-will ** *?* wlu ^ \ h" ? had to struggle : one shall suffice . Jpn'he day when there wasiome disturbance mMadnd , I and my colleagues proceeded to th « royal residence of t £ e Pardo . tfeyHofesty had done us tte honour to invite us to dine with her . The Queen having countermanded her visit to the Pardo , informed us that Bhe relied on reoeivinB ub at her table at the Palace . We were exact at the appointed hoar . What was our surprise at learning
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from the persons whoBe duties placed them near to the person of Her MajeBty , that her orders had not been understood . Her Majesty herself , evidently deceived by the persons who surrounded her , 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 , bat they show the spirit that even in the most minute partioalar » existed towards the Cabinet in the Queen ' s household . I now come to more important matter . I will state to you freely and withont 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 was impossible for a oabinet composed of men belonging to the Progresist party to ? o 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 decree for the immediate dissolution of the Cortes , it being certain that the cabinet could no longer aet in accord with the Chamber . It was on this account he bad agreed with bis colleagues as to the necessity ot dissolving the Chamber , and for that purpose it was necessary to be prepared beforehand , which was also agreed to by his colleagnes ; because if he waited till the crisis arrivedwith the Becret influences
,. which surrounded the Queen , he might be defeated . He then came to the way in which -that decree bad 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 throne , and his value for the prestige which it was more than ever necessary to throw around royalty , forbade him to do so . However , he could not altogether forbear from alluding to the 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 his life , that he was innocent of the charge , and he placed himself entirely in tbeir bands . ( M . Olozaga wa 3 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 ihe palace , and many documents requiring the Queen ' s signature which bad to be read btfore signing them . Under suoh 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 repugnance . His voice here betrayed the deepest emotion . He was compelled to stop several times , his utterance was choked by his sobs . 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 . him , the President adjourned the sitting , declaring that the time allowed by the standing 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 28 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 moat 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 hia emotion , and he would noi hare left the Palace withont having been arrested . ^ Many hours of the night passed over , and the Minister remained quietly in his hotel , in conference with several foreign agents . In the morning of the 29 th , however , persons attaohed to the Royal Household announced that tho decree of dissolution of the Cortes had been signed , and that violence had been offered to the Queen to obtain her signature to the 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 . Oiozaga then examined the style of the declaration put into the Queen ' s mouth , and contended that it little resembled the language 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 , no ! " and excited a tumult which the President appeased with much difficulty . M . Olozaga , however , pereieted in hia 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 the imprudent courtiers who compromised the throne , he concluded by recommending tho adoption of the address to the Queen , and his own impeachment for the offonco 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 his speech consisted of recriminations against M . Olozaga , for biB desertion of the banner of conciliation , and his choosing his colleagues in the Ministry from among the Progesista party aioue . As respected bis interference in the affair then before the Chamber , M . Pidal stated , that the first time he was sent for by
the Queen , and heard from her lips the account p i the violence she had suffered , he could not refrain from shedding tears , on witnessing the eimplioiiy , innocence , and accent of truth with which Her Majesty narrated the fact . The dismissal of M . Olozaga had been constitutional , for it was recommended tiot only by him ( M . Pidal ) , but likewise by all the persons present , and the Ministers Serrano and Frias . The coalition had been dissolved , but it was by those who sat on the left benches of tbe House . M . Pidal having concluded , the Assembly , owiDg 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 an 4 the people were firing on each other in front of La YilJa ( the Town-house of Madrid ); and thus terminated the third and most festive 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 aira . The origin of this sudden change from festivity to warfare was related to me by an eye-witness . Four well-dressed men were walking along the Calle Mayor amusing themselves , compelling those whom they met to cry Viva laReina and Muera JEspartero , 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-interference 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 Tiva Reina
Constitutional , and not crying Muera Espartero I 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 Tflla , oalling for assistance The four aggressors pursued him , and one discharged apidtol , whereupon the dance broke up , and plenty of paisanot 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 exouse for calling out the troops , and perhaps declaring a state of siege in the city . Peaceful people , woman , 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-offioe and charged on the people ; that fire-arms were discharged on both Bides ;
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 oases are not very willing to complain of personal Bufferings which might lead to greater in the shape of prosecutions , imprisonment , and the infliction of capital punishment at the hands of the offended military authorities , eager to make " examples . " Two deaths amongst the citiaens are already confessed , but individuals who ought to know Bay 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-Bouse in the Calle Mayor , inta which a ball from a soldier ' s musket entertd and wounded her in the hip . This moraine the angry feelings of the populace had not subsided at the hour when the Congress assembled , and the result of their expression was that the troops were ordered to clear the Plaaa del Oriente with fixed bayonets .
Another correspondent of the Times states that the foiled Moderados , finding Oloaaga 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 might be taken for granted he had committed suicide in despair , ) they have opened negociations with him to stop his month , promising , as the con-
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sideration , 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 Gonzales Bravo and Narvaez in command here . The Puke de Gluokaburg ia the mediator , and the negociations for " peace at any price" were going on at the Frenoh Embassy till four o ' clook this morning . Olozaga was willing to accede to the compromise , but Cortina , who now is at the head of a powerful opposition in the
Congress , and on whom Qlozaga relies for fair-play , would not listen to the " transaction" He insists on the resignation of the Camarilla , that is , in fact , on Narva pz 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 neit month .
Barcelona . —The Phare of Bayonne states , from its correspondent on the Catalonian frontier , who writes under the date of the 2 nd instant , that General Sanz , the Captain-General of the Province , had arrived at Figaeras on the 1 st with a battalion of infantry and two squadrons of cavalry . Previously to his leaving Barcelona , he had published a proclamation , expelling from that city every person who bad taken any part in the late insurrection . ; u Madrid , Dec . 5 ;—The Ministry has been this day constituted . M . Gonzales Bravo , President of the Council ; General Maserado , Minister of War ; Marquis of Penaflorida , 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 Met calf has resigned the Governorship . Severe indisposition is assigned as the cause . Portugal . —The Goverment having undertaken no less than 130 prosecutions of the press since 1840 , in all of which they have failed , not obtaining a solitary conviction 11 have introduced the project of a law to prevent the" abuBes" of the press . The opposition journals , it is hardly necessary to add , treat of it in terms of unmeasured reprobation . The Tribuno of the 27 th instant concentrates the import of two columns of comment in the following suggestion t—** The people from this time ought to form associations in all the towns and villages . "
In the government papers , co-existent 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 miltary force to the complement of twenty-four thousand men—the standing army fixed by the Cortes for the 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 .
GREECE . —The new National Assembly of Greece waa opened at Athens , on the 20 th ult ., by the 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 the precursors of representative government in Greece . Our task now is to place the crowning stone oh the ediSce , by the introduction and establishment of a Constitution . " UNITED STATES . —Philadelphia , Nov . \ 9 , 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 , &o . In one passage in says : — " We want no treaty—we
might as well make a treaty with Great Britain about Philadelphia . " ? • "Let $ 0 , 000 Americans , each with a stout 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 the mouth of the Columbia . Every day developes more and more the danger of this question , which ought to be settled without further delay . I hare no hesitation in asserting that , in the treaty of Wash * ington , it might have been settled with greater facilities to both nations than now . What a shocking blunder—the omission ! The popular feeling in this country is adverse to allowing to England a single foot of ground , in the Oregon territory , either north or south of the Columbia .
: The new " Native Americans , " or American Republican" party , in New York , have held two or three meetings , at which the leading Whigs and leading democrats have been blamed as the mere headfl 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 !" 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 . ThiB 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 .
: The Madisonian is still urging the annexation ol Texas to the United States , and is followed and supported by the pre-s of the South . That of the North is averse to the admission of Texas , except as a free state . These are merely the preludes to stormy debates on that most exciteable of subjects in the coming Congress , for it is clear that the Texas annexation question will open the whole matter of slavery in its consideration at Washington . ' : WEST INDIES . —Lord Elgin opened the Session of the House of Assembly at Jamaica on the 24 th of October .
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last , an inquest was held at the Leeds Workhouse , before John Blaokburn , Esq ., on the body of a man sixty-eight years of age , named Benjamin Whitaker , who was an inmate of the workhouse , and expired suddenly in his chair immediately after he had partaken of his dinner on Tuesday . The deceased had had no previous illness , nor were there any reason to suppose that he had died from other than natural causes , and the jury returned a verdict to that effect .
Suicide —On Wednesday morning last , an inquest was held at the Moulder ' s Arms Inn , Water-lane , Holbeck , on tho body of a man thirty-eight years of age , named Jacob Wood . The deceased was a baker , and kept a provision shop ia Savex-street , Holbeck . He has for somotime manifested a considerable depreBBioB -of spirits , and on Tuesday forenoon he suspended himself by the aeck to a holdfast in the wall at the back part ofjhis house . When discovered he was quite dead . V «* diot—>* Temporary insanity . " The Female PedjJebtrian . —Mrs . Harrison , the female pedestrian , who has undertaken to walk one tbousandioiilea in one thousand successive hourp , is still unwearied , i Q good health , and determined toi aooompUsh her task . On Monday morning , at tour ooiook , the wm ( have completed o ^ haff , or miles .
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LATEST NEWS—FOREIGN . FRANCE . —The Government is busy in prosecuting ( persecuting ) tbe Communists , SPAIN . —Olozaga is to be impeached—carried by a majority of fifteen votes—81 against 66 . Savera ! of the Progressists party voted in the majority , with the view , it is stated , to bring into further discredit , and hasten the downfall of the present Ministry ! There was a report in Madrid on tbe 7 th that Prim and Amettler bad joined their forces , and were getting np a new Fronunoiamento , and marching upon Arragon ! ITAX . T . —The trials of the persons imprisoned at Bologna have commenced .
NEW ZEAI-ftI » . —A fatal affray has taken place between some English settlers and a number of the natives . The * English ( a- ? usual ) were for robbing the natives of their lands . This was resisted . An armed force was sent to curb the natives , and arrest their chiefs ! The chiefs refused to submit ; the English proceed to fix bayonets and charge on the natives , an irregular firing on both sides ensued , the English fled in unaccountable disorder , and nineteen of them were slain ! Serve them right . May ; oppressors ever meet with the like welcome . t
IRELAND . —Another dreadful murder has been committed in North Tipperary . The murdered person was a car-boy engaged to conduct a person who had been arrested on a" civil bill decree . " He was struok about the head with stones , and died in consequence , j A verdict of wilful murder has been returned against the parties .
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Leeds Corn Market , Tdesdat , 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 . lewer , with a slow Bale at thiB decline . Common Barley is Is . per qr . cheaper , bat 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 Beans are Is . per qr . cheaper , while for old ones there is little inquiry just
now-Bradford Market , Thursday . Wooh—Notwithstanding the full supplyof all kinds of both Clothing and Combing Wools , the holders ding to it , stating that if they clear out theif stocks , they cannot be replaced at a price which will enable them to get a profit , consequently the demand may w expected to become slacker till tho Spinners e » n meet them . —Yarn . —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 withmore caution in making sales for distant delivery , wt " the present prices of Wool are maintaineaf Yarns
must advance to meet them . Piece—All conaeotea with this department of the business , but particularly those , whose manufacture is entirely all Wool , and requiring a greater weig « i such as Las tings . Damasks , Says , &c , are nw £ muring at the very disproportionate prioe or . w » raw material and their production , and they show not wh » t course to pursue ; for unless a gewn * advance is obtained on all kinds of goods , consi < w ^ ably less will be made , and as neither w » season of the shippers nor home houses is on , «" merchants avail themselves of picking up jop »¦» from the necessitous , which a continuance of the P " sent trade will make Very numerous .
WAKEFIELD CORN MARKET . Friday , December IS . —There is alarge tfrfril of Wheat and Barley to thia day ' s xaarketi >» 4 * full attendant of the trade ; but sales progress slowly , and we have to reduce our quotations op <* each article Is . to 2 s . per quarter . In Oats , Betf * and Shelling there is no material alterationmeiw * value or demand .
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O'CONNOR , Esq . of HanunersmitO , CWW Middlesex , by JOSHUA HOBSON , at bis P * ing Offices , No * , 1 ? and 13 , Market-street , Brl | g »*» and Published by the mid Joshua Hob * 0 * i ( for the said Feargds O'Conwob , ) at hit D * *' ling-house , No . 6 , Market-street , Bviggatej internal Communication existing between ^ "f . No . 5 , Market-street , and the said Nos . 12 ^ 13 , Market-street , Briggate , tfjna constituting $ * whole of the eaid PrinVV ^ and Publishing 0 * one Premiss * . All Communications must > j 6 adiresasd , Poafepai *'« ° Mr . Hobson , NorOv . rn Star Office . Leed * ( Saturday / Fjecambei 1 « , I ® 13-,
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PRASCS . —The PoBnKtCAHONS . —The National publishesa second letter of M . Arago on the fortificxxlonsof Paris . In tbe . first , he had shown that the detached forts wbold avail little against the enemy , but might , sooner or later , place the liberties and institutions of the country , and the lives of the citizens of Paris , at the mercy of a few ** pretorians , " In his second letter , be demonstrates the necessity of fortifying PariE , but contends than an enceinte cxmiinuce in masonry with bastions , ought to suffice for the defence of that capital . Yauban and Napoleon ( be observes ) supply him with the' strongest arguments in support of his syBtem , -which had , besides its effieary , the no less valuable advantage of being in no wise dangerous to the liberties of France .
SIcbdebs asd SmepEs . —The Paris papers contain daily appalling lists of murders and suicideB , and cf attempts to commit thosa crimes . Tbe most recent murder announced in Earn is thai of the ¦ w idow of the former manager of the Ambign Comique , who was strangled in ler-residence in the Rue dn Temple , the most populous part of Paris , on Thursday last in open day . Pive dayapreviously , at St . Dennis , near Paris , a monster , of Herculean Btr ? r £ th , seized upon an unoffending young man , and ihrowing him down on the road , held him firmly until the wheels of an approaching , waggon had pa = ? ed over his head ! Destitution . —The jonrnals confinne to rejfetr proofs of the melancholy amount of distress prevalent in ihe French capital .
B On Saturday morning , " says La Presse , * the dead body of a chiffonnier was picked up in the Rne Dacphine . Having been removed to the Morgue , it was examined by a medical man , who declared ih £ t he had died of hunger . Nevertheless , he held in his hand a piece of bread , which he was eating when he died ; but it appears that this food , after ioo long an abstinence , proved fatal to him . " Mohk Miscbbams . —Notwithstanding the proclaimed resolve of Government to prosecute with the ntaost energy and severity persons guilty of
at-Sempl 3 to injure railroads , or canse accidents upon them , the Courrier de Lyon of the 7 th inst . announces a fatal accident on the St . Etienne and Lyons HaHroad , "by some miscreant who had placed a stone on the rails , by which the , tender was drown off the road , and tbe engineer Killed . The passeDsers in the train , which " consiBted of nine earriages , fortunately escaped with trifling injury , except those in ihe fifth carriage , which , having l * een thrown -riolently a ^ ainst ^ the fourth , received some contusions .
Thb LxGmHBT Kixg . "—M . de Chateaubriand has arrived in Paris . The Legitimist papers give the naoes of a great many nxcre of tbe . first nobility in Prance who are flocking to London to join in ibe demonstration in iaronr of the Dcke of Bordeaux . Among them 1 b one gentleman who carries an address from two thousand families in Paris , who express their feelings of devotion to the Royal I ) ake , and state that nothing but their poverty prevents them from joining their compatriots in paying their Xeepects tohim . -Theaim of the Legitimist papers evidently ia to shew that the feeling in favour of the exiled Bourbons is not confined to the upper classes , lint is universal . " iVis not doubted that the London demonstration will be made the snbject of a motion in the Chamber ; and indeed it is hardly possible for the Government to pass orer in silence such aflagram in-Bult to the rei £ rrin £ dynast ? as that of addressing the jonn ^ Dole aB •* Eing of France , "
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FOREIGN MISCELLANY . Disorders in Hungary . —The Journal de Frankfort has a letter from Presburg of the 26 th 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 the kingdom , has published a proclamation , " announcing that the Emperor has issued an ordonnance forbidding tbe collection of all bodies of the people in the streets , either by day or night , under any pratence whatever .
The Slave Trade . —Extract of a letter received at Lloyd's from their agent at St . Vincent ' s : ^— " 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 haulaway 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 posaed 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 Devirnette could interrupt one of these vessels with the greatest ease . If government Were to station a Binall fast sailing steamer there during the next hurricane months , if it should bo 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 'the St . Lucia Channel . Souffriere Bay , St . Lucia , but for the hurricanes , would be a good place for another steamer . "
Thb Aotocbat . —A St . Petersburgh letter of the 22 nd ult . says— " M . Kalergi , brother of tho famous Kalergi , who played so great a part in the late scenes in Greece , has just received an order from the Emperor Nicholas to leave Russia in twenty-four hours , although he has been for a great many years 1 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) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct832/page/8/
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