with. Dr. Beaumont, whose imprisonment in St. Pelagie has made him somewhat notorious, is among the number of the emancipated; he has made an early use of his liberation to return to England. The Chamber of Deputies have voted the sum of 1,000,000 francs, as the dower of the Queen of the Belgians, by a majority of 239 against 140. The distress of the manufacturing and commercial interests continues unabated. At Lyons and Mulhauzen, in particular, trade was in a deplorable condition. queen. SPAIN. Hostilities between the belligerents in the northern provinces, appear to have commenced in earnest. Several affairs, of a partial nature, have already taken place, so far favourable to the arms of the After an obstinate defence by the Carlist troops, General Evans has succeeded in carrying Irun, where a dreadful scene of pillage and massacre ensued, notwithstanding the exertions of General Evans to prevent it. Fontarabia soon afterwards capitulated. Espartero has collected 32,000 men, Spaniards and British, in St. Sebastian. Despatches, dated the 16th of May, state that Espartero entered Hernani on the 13th of May, after having beaten the Carlists, taken 600 of them prisoners, and five pieces of cannon. He continued on the 14th following the Carlists, who were retiring on Tolosa. It was also stated that Espartero was master of Astigarraga, Urieta, and Andoain, and that the Christino corps at Vittoria had forced the passage of Arlaban. Sebastian, in the mean time, had retreated, with a larger force, his ulterior intentions being utterly unknown. Don According to accounts from the eastern parts of Spain, the chief of the insurrection at Barcelona had been shot in that city on the 10th of May. Valencia was at that date threatened by the Carlists, and the republican insurrectionary spirit had extended to Malaga, but the attempt it prompted had failed. In the sitting of the Cortes of the 23d of April, they passed a vote on the article of the Constitution which provides that the colonies shall not depute representatives to that assembly, as they are hereafter to be governed by special laws, suitable to their respective positions, and adapted to their several wants. PORTUGAL. Accounts from Lisbon state that the Cortes had, after a prolonged and occasionally animated discussion upon the project of a new Constitution, at last adopted, by a majority of 65, the plan proposed by the Government, which com prises two Chambers, and recognizes in the Monarch the ordinary constitutional prerogatives; amongst others, those of dissolving the Chambers upon urgent occasions, and of exercising a veto upon all legislative acts. The Government of Portugal appears to be in a very unsettled state, and so great are its pecuniary embarrassments, that on a late occasion her Majesty was obliged to send a message to the congress threatening to pawn her jewels, if they did not send her an immediate supply. The answer, however, was “No funds." Moreover, the northern provinces are in a state bordering upon anarchy, robberies and murders being daily committed with impunity, so as to render travelling precarious. The tariff adopted almost amounts to a prohibition of British goods, and the English people there are frequently subjected to insult and contumely. To add to these difficulties, the ninisters, Senior Passos, Marq. de Sa Bandiera, and others, have sent in their resignations to the Queen, owing to their having sustained a defeat in the Cortes. PRUSSIA. On the 28th April, at ten in the evening, an extraordinary phenomenon took place on the shores of the Baltic, in the province of Koeslin, in Prussia. A hill of more than 100 feet in height, and covered with furze, suddenly sunk with a noise resembling thunder. The abyss which has been thus opened must be at least 200 paces in length. This circumstance produced a movement of the ground in the neighbourhood, by which the adjoining hills were raised from 20 to 30 feet. The cause of this phenomenon has not yet been discovered. AMERICA. The monetary affairs of the United dreadful state of embarrassment. States have been lately involved in a Commercial houses of the highest standing have been compelled to stop payment. To give an idea of New York, it is only necessary to mention that between the 29th of March and the 8th of April no less than eighty-eight firms suspended payment; the total amount being estimated at sixty millions of dollars. The United States' and the other Banks, however, have come promptly forward to the assistance of the merchants indebted to England. The former has issued bonds bearing interest at six per cent, and payable in London at twelve months' date, of which about 500,0007. had been sold and despatched for England. The Bank of England has also resolved to afford every assistance to the embarrassed houses in America, and prevent the return of the bills drawn on them. This has already produced a favourable effect, and been warmly approved of in America. While it will do much to lesson the intensity of the pressure on the merchants of New York and other great commercial towns, it will, it is thought, make a powerful impression in favour of England generally. The American papers state that a dreadful accident had occurred in the Illinois river by the concussion of the two steam-boats Tiskilwa and Wiscousin. The former went down, and all the passengers were drowned. The number was uncertain; but twelve ladies of respectability were known to have perished. MEXICO. The intelligence from Mexico is of an important character; as she is likely to be involved in serious disputes with the three powers of France, England, and America, owing to her reckless policy, and her disregard of the law of nations. A communication dated March 8th, states that "the French minister received instructions from his government to demand immediate restitution from Mexico of the amount taken from the French citizens under the plea of the forced loan,' and an adjustment of all other matters in controversy between the two nations. The English minister had received similar instructions. It is added that the message of the President of the United States had been received. It produced a greater sensation than any circumstance that had happened for a long time. A letter of the 18th gives an account of a revolutionary movement on the morning of the 9th, owing to the government publishing a bando relative to the copper coin, reducing its nominal value to 50 per cent. discount. DOMESTIC OCCURRENCES. April 24. A most destructive fire broke out in Dublin, which has wholly consumed the Royal Arcade, the Royal Hotel, many houses in Suffolk-street, Boyle and Co.'s Banking House, (property here all saved) and the buildings forming the Old General Post Office. New Churches. The new church of St. John's at Reading was consecrated on the 28th of April by the Bishop of the Diocese. The expense of the edifice, amounting to about 3000. was defrayed by the Rev. Francis Trench, late Curate of St. Giles's, and now incumbent of St. John's. It is endowed by Wm. Stephens, esq. of Prospect Hill, with the sum of 501. yearly, payable out of his estates in the parish of St. Giles, for ever. The sum of 5 per cent. on the amount of cost of building, and another 5 per cent. on the income arising from pew-rents, are also to be invested to form a repairing fund. On the same day, the first stone of a new church at Wragby, co. Lincoln, was laid, to which 30007. has been subscribed by voluntary contributions.-On the 1st of May the ceremony of laying the first stone of a new church in the parish of Trowbridge was performed by Lady Elizabeth Drummond, eldest dau. of his Grace the Duke of Rutland, the patron of the living. The Rev. F. Fulford delivered an address, in the course of which he stated that he had calculated, if he could raise 15007. by private subscriptions, he must rest satisfied, but for the very first morning he began collecting, he had raised that sum by the contributions of not more than fifteen or sixteen individuals !—A new episcopal church is also about to be erected at Northampton. A benevolent lady, connected with the establishment, lately deceased, has, by her will, left 100,000l. as a national legacy, for the express purpose of building churches; and Northampton, it appears, is one of the favoured towns destined to share her munificence.-The Bishop of London, at a recent consecration in his diocese, stated that he had consecrated seventy new churches since his elevation to that see, forty of which were in London, and eleven in the county of Essex. A new society (says the Dorset Chronicle) has been formed, and subscriptions largely entered into, for the purpose of paying an annual stipend to the Clergy of the many new churches now erecting. This society is called "The Bath and Wells Diocesan Association, for providing a fund for the maintenance of additional curates in populous parishes." The inhabitants of Aberavon, Glamorganshire, having been desirous to divert the channel of the river Avon, from a circuitous to a direct course to the sea, adopted the following plan, under the inspection of Mr. Palmer, engineer. The soil of the proposed channel being principally sand, they threw a strong embankment across the river in the hot weather, when the stream was nearly dry, and dug a deep trench through the sand to the In the late floods, they found that sea. the force of the current carried off into the sea at least half a million tons of sand, and left in five weeks a straight navigable channel on the track of their trench. A new manufacture has been introduced into the West of Scotland,—the weaving of straw hats. The straw, instead of being plaited by the hand, is woven with the loom, the warp employed being a slender thread of silk, which unites the straw firmly together, and produces a very beautiful fabric. It is woven in pieces of 12 yards long and about an inch broad; the one edge exhibiting an ornamental pattern, susceptible of infinite variety, and, when sewed together and made up into bonnets, the appearance of the whole is extremely pretty, though the cost will not exceed one-half of that of Tuscany. It appears by the tables laid by Mr. Couling before the Emigration Committee, that the arable and pasture land of England and Wales amounts to 28,749,000 acres, of which sum he supposes the arable land and gardens to amount to 11,143,730 acres, leaving 17,605,630 as meadows, pastures, and marshes. In 1812, Mr. Stevenson estimated the arable land at 11,500,000 acres; and it is believed it may now be estimated at 12,000,000 acres. According to Mr. Middleton, supposing it to amount to 12,000,000 acres, the arable land of England and Wales would be appropriated as follows: Acres. 3,300,000 3,000,000 900,000 1,200,000 1,200,000 2,400,000 12,000,000 April 24. Shakspere's natal day was commemorated at Stratford-upon-Avon, by a public dinner, at which the Royal Shaksperian Club Committee, the Monumental Committee, and upwards of two hundred gentlemen sat down. Dr. Conolly, M.D. in the chair, supported by the Mayor and Corporation. The dinner went off with great éclat. Sheridan Knowles, who delivered an address at mid-day in the theatre, was greeted with much applause. LONDON AND ITS VICINITY. A Society has been formed in London for the protection of Uncivilised Aboriginal Tribes-an object that comes powerfully recommended to the sympathies of the humane. Mr. Fowell Buxton is President of the Association, which is entitled the "British and Foreign Aborigines Society." Among the members of the Committee are William Allen, Edward Baines, M.P. S. Gurney, Dr. Lushington, M. P. Charles Lushington, M.P. J. Pease, M.P. T. Sturge, the Rev. Dr. Philip, and others honourabiy distinguished by their philanthropic zeal. The Society contemplate the formation of Branch Associations at home and abroad. Privileges of Parliament.-The Select Committee of the House of Commons on publication of printed papers have given in their report, which is now printed, with the minutes of evidence and an appendix. They find that the Printers, Messrs. Hansard, having acted in strict obedience to the orders of the House, ought to be reimbursed; but they acquit the Lord Chief Justice of an intentional violation of the privileges of the House. April 12. For some time past considerable excitement has prevailed throughout the parishes of Kensington, Chelsea, Hammersmith, and Paddington, in consequence of the encroachments made by the National Cemetery Company, at Kensal-green; the Hippodrome, or new racecourse, at Notting-hill; and by various private individuals, on the ancient footpaths or "church ways" which have from time immemorial existed in those portions of the extensive parish of Kensington, situated between Chelsea, Brompton, and Kensington, and Kensington and Kensalgreen, Hammersmith, and Paddington. On the 12th of April, the inhabitants assembled in vestry, pursuant to a notice from the churchwardens, when it was determined that the rights of the inhabitants and the public should be maintained, and that a perambulation of the parish should be made on Holy Thursday, for the purpose of removing the encroachments and obstructions. This determination was accordingly carried into effect, in regular form, by the parochial authorities on the day named; and in the evening they dined with several of the respectable Inhabitants at the Grapes and the Crown tavern, for the purpose of commemorating their triumph. Warrants were subsequently obtained against some of the parties for trespass and assault, and the matter is not as yet settled.—The Hippodrome, as above noticed, consists of a large tract of ground somewhat less than two hundred acres in extent, adjoining Notting-hill. The design of it is, as its name almost implies, to present the inhabitants of the metropolis with a facility of pursuing any sort of equestrian exercise. In the centre of the ground is a hill appropriated to pedestrians, on which about 30,000 persons may stand. April 29. At a general meeting of the Birmingham Railway Company, held at the City of London Tavern, an applica tion to Parliament to raise a further loan of a million sterling was adopted unani. mously.-G. Carr Glynn, Esq. (chair. man,) felt assured, that even with the additional capital required, it would yield 15 or 16 per cent.-The works are proceeding with great rapidity, and every expectation of the line being opened in two months. At the close of the present year, that part between Rugby and Birmingham, and London and Stony Stratford, will be complete. May 8. The annual meeting of the British and Foreign School Society was held in Exeter Hall. The meeting was one of the largest that ever assembled within these walls. Mr. Dunn read the report, which was very favourable. Dur. ing the past year, 1,199 children had been educated in their schools, and since the establishment of the society 47,042. May 10. The extensive distillery belonging to Mr. Booth of Brentford, was reduced to a heap of ruins, by a fire which broke out about two o'clock in the morning. THEATRICAL REGISTER. COVENT GARDEN. April 17. A very amusing farce was acted, called The Modern Orpheus, or Music the Food of Love, translated from the French by Mr. Webster the comedian. April 20. A play in three acts was produced, called Brian Boroihme, or The Maid of Erin, by J. S. Knowles. The plot belongs to the tines of the famous Brian Boru, or Boroihme, usurper to the throne of Munster, and deliverer of his country from a foreign yoke. May 1. Strafford, a tragedy, was acted by Mr. Macready on his benefit night. It is written by Mr. Browning, already known as author of a dramatic poem called Paracelsus. 、 May 16. A species of Melodrame, in three acts, called Walter Tyrrell, was produced, which was well received, and announced for repetition amidst general applause. PROMOTIONS, PREFERMENTS, &c. April 1. Thos. Verner, of Churchill, co. Armagh, esq. to be one of the Gentlemen of the Privy Chamber. April 7. Thos. Geo. Walsh, esq. to be one of his Majesty's Honourable Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms. April 17. Jas. Hamilton Anstruther, esq. Capt. in the army, in compliance with the will of Harriet Lloyd, of Hintlesham hall, Suffolk, to take the name of Lloyd before Anstruther, and quarter the arms. April 19. The Duke of Somerset to be K.G.-Henry Earl of Ilchester to be Lord Lieutenant of the county of Somerset. April 21. Unattached, Brevet Major J. Garvock, Assistant Adjutant-general, to be Major.-Staff, Brevet Lieut.-Col. J. Owen to be Aide-de-Camp to the King. April 26. Knighted, Col. E. Stannus, Lieut.Col. Chas. Hopkinson, and Chas. Gordon, of Drimum, esq. Secretary to the Highland Agricultural Society of Scotland. April 27. Knighted, Major-Gen. James Macdonell.-Major-General Sir W. Gomm to be one of the Equerries to the Duke of Cambridge. April 28. 78th Foot, Major H. N. Douglas to be Lieut.-Col.; Capt. Martin Geo. Thos. Lindsay to be Major.-Brevet, Capt. Beauchamp Colclough, 1st Life Guards, to be Major. May 3. Knighted, John Wentworth Loring, esq. Rear-Admiral of the White. May 5. Brevet, Lieut.-Col. Rich. Doherty, Governor of Sierra Leone, to have the local rank of Colonel on the western coast of Africa. May 10. Knighted, Gen. John Gustavus Crosbie. May 16. John Johnstone Douglas, of Lockerby, co. Dumfries, esq.; W. R. Keith Douglas, of Grange Muir, co. Fife, esq.; Mary, widow of the late Major-Gen. Sir T. Sydney Beckwith; and Christian and Catharine Heron Douglas, spinsters, the only surviving younger children of the late Sir William Douglas, of Kelhead, Bart. and younger brothers and sis GENT. MAG. VOL. VII. ters of Charles, now Marquis of Queensberry, to enjoy the same titles and precedence as if their late father had survived the late Duke of Queensberry. May 19. 3d Light Dragoons, Lieut.-Col. J. Thackwell to be Lieut.-Col. Brevet, Col. Arthur Lloyd to be Major-Gen. in the Army; Lieut.-Col. Joseph Thackwell to be Col.; Capt. Edw. Duncan to be Major. Naval Appointments.-Commanders T. Fra ser, to the Sappho; the Hon. P. P. Carey to the Comus; D. Paget to the Hercules; J. Corbyn to the Royal Sovereign yacht. Members returned to serve in Parliament. ECCLESIASTICAL PREFERMENTS. Rev. C. R. Adams, Nohoval P.C. co. Cork. Rev. W. Bannermann, West Hoathley V. Rev. H. Bolton, Chalford P.C. co. Gloucester. Rev. Mr. Elmes, St. John's V. Limerick. Rev. W. Gardiner, Rodiford R. Essex. Rev. W. Gresswell, Kilve-cum-Strington R. Rev. J. Howell, Holy Trinity V. Coventry. Rev. J. Mills, Orton Waterville R. Hunts. Rev. W. Stockdale, Wilby R. co. Northampton. CHAPLAINS. Rev. G. Ayscough, to the Earl of Plymouth. CIVIL PREFERMENTS. Rev. C. F. Childe, to be Head Master to the T. W. H. Gurney, to the second Mathematical Mr. Wm. Archer Butler to be (the first) Professor of Moral Philosophy in the University of Dublin. Wm. Wilkins, esq. to be Professor of Architecture in the Royal Academy. BIRTHS. March 25. At Selma Hall, Malta, Penelope Carolina Borbone, wife of his Royal Highness the Prince of Capua, a son.- -28. At Burton Crescent, London, the wife of A. Amos, esq. Recorder of Oxford, a dau. April 21. At the rectory, Londesborough, Yorkshire, the wife of the Rev. C. J. Hawkins, a son.-23. At the vicarage, Leland, Lancashire, the wife of the Rev. G. Baldwin, a son.- -At Otterington Hall, the wife of the Rev. John Hartley, a dau.-24. The Lady Emmeline Stuart Wortley, a dau.- -27. At St. Martin's rectory, Birmingham, Mrs. Moseley, a dau.-28. At Earl's Croome Court, Worcestershire, the Hon. Mrs. W. Coventry, a son.-29. The wife of the Rev. T. D. Atkinson, Vicar of Rugeley, Staffordshire, a son.-30. At Blyth Hall, co. Warwick, the wife of W. S. Dugdale, esq. M.P. a son. Lately. At Lewknor vicarage, Oxfordshire, the Lady Caroline Garnier, a dau.-At Warblington Lodge, Hants, the wife of Lieut.-Col. Edw. Byam, a dau. May 1. Át Louth, the wife of T. P. Waite, esq. a dau.-At her father's, T. F. Buxton, esq. M.P. 54, Devonshire-street, the wife of Andrew Johnston, esq. M.P. a dau.-2. At Holmwood, Berks, the Countess of Antrim, a dau.-5. At the Duke of Bedford's, Belgrave-sq. the Lady Wriothesley Russell, a dau. -9. In Manchester-sq. the wife of Winthrop M. Praed, esq. M.P. a dau.-The wife of W. Kennaway, esq. Mayor of Exeter, a dau.10. In Torrington-sq. the lady of Sir Harris Nicolas, a dau.-12. At Coombe Vicarage, near Woodstock, the wife of the Rev. Chas. Rose, a dau.-13. In Cavendish-sq. Lady Geo. Hill, a son.-14. At Hawkstone, the lady of Sir Rowland Hill, Bart. M.P. a son. -In York-place, Portman-sq. Lady Harriet Seale, a son. MARRIAGES. March 29. At Frodesley, Salop, the Rev. J. O. Seager, Master of the Stevenage Grammar School, Herts, to Eliz. Anne, eldest dau, of the Rev. T. R. Gleadow. April 11. At Bristol, E. B. Lamont, esq. eldest son of the late N. Lamont, esq. M.P. for Wells, to Maria Augusta, eldest dau. of R. Bardouloue, esq.- 18. At Gosforth, Northumberland, Capt. C. Bell, R.N. brother of M. Bell, esq. M.P. to Rachel, fourth dau. of R. W. Brandling, esq. of Low-Gosforth.-At Bath, G. P. Jervois, of Herriard-house, Hants, esq. to Anna Maria Selina, eldest dau. of the late W. Locke, esq. M.P. of Rowdeford-house. Wilts. 20. At Wroxhall, Chandos, second son of Sir H. Hoskyns, of Harewood, Herefordshire, Bart. to Theodosia Anne Martha, dau. of the late C. R. Wren, of Wroxhall-abbey, Warwick, esq.-23. At the Chateau of Biberich, in the duchy of Nassau, the Prince Peter of Oldenburgh to the Princess Theresa Wilhelmina of Nassau.- -24. At St. Martin's, E. Hayward, esq. Halesworth, Suffolk, to Mary, eldest dau. of the Ven. Dr. Philpot, Archd. of Sodor and Man.-25. At Kennington, the Rev. Wm. Deey, to Eliza, dau. of Cha. Francis, esq. of Belgrave-house, Vauxhall.-At Bath, Henry Lucas, esq. of Uplands Villa, Glamorganshire, to Caroline, second dau. of R. James, esq.- At St. Bride's Church, the Rev. H. Christmas, to Eliza Jane, second dau. of John Fox, esq. of Bridge-street, Blackfriars.-27. At Blagdon, the Rev. C. R. Hall, of Compton Martin, Somerset, to Harriet, second dau. of John Baker, esq. Woodlands, Somersetshire. 28. At Clapham, R. Nesbitt, M.D. of Honiton, to Arabella, second dau. of the late Dr. Robert Smith, of Maidstone, Kent. May 2. At Battersea, the Rev. John R. Oldham, to Esther, second dau. of Robert Saunders, esq. of Clapham Common.-2. At Woodbridge, James Cockburn, esq. second son of Col. Cockburn, Arch Cliff Fort, Dover, to Susanna Stewart, dau. of Geo. Doughty Lynn, M.D.-3. At Bristol, Wm. Mitchell, esq. Barrister-at-Law, to Eliz. dau. of the late Jos. Edwards, esq. of Truro.-4. At Buckfastleigh, the Rev. J. R. Johnson, Vicar of Rattery, Devon, to Sophia Harriette, dau. of the late C. E. Prescott, esq.-At Plymouth, Captain H. D. Parker, R. N. to Josephine Maria, eldest dau. of Capt. R. L. Hornbrook. -6. At St. George's, Hanover-sq. Baron S. C. de Pfeil, Secretary to the Wirtemberg Embassy, to Francisca Caroline Copson, dau. of the late Col. E. Copson, and niece to the Countess of Plymouth.-8. George Pounce, esq. of Portman-sq. London, to Cath. dau. of the Rev. John Eddy, Vicar of Toddington, co. Gloucester.-9. At St. George's, Bloomsbury, E. H. Moore Kelly, esq. Lieut. 29th regt. second son of Major Kelly, to Frances Georgiana, only child of the late Captain Hunt.10. The Rev. G. Lawson, Vicar of Kirkoswald, to Miss Carruthers, dau, of the late Mr. Carruthers, of Kirkoswald, surgeon.- -At Farnham, Surrey, Mr. Fred. Baines, of Leeds, youngest son of Edw. Baines, esq. M.P. to Eliza, dau. of William Pinkie Paine, esq. -11. At Doncaster, the Rev. P. Simpson, of Meltham-hall, to Eleanor, eldest dau. of David Cram, esq. of Westfield, near Doncaster.-11. At St. George's, Hanover-sq. the Earl Bruce, eldest son of the Marquis of Ailesbury, to Mary Caroline, dau. of the late Earl of Pembroke.-16. At St. George's, Hanover-sq. S. Pole Shawe, esq. of Hints Hall, Staffordshire, to Maria Mary, only dau. of Col. Sir E. Miles. -At St. Leonard's-on-Sea, John Christopher Rees Weguelin, esq. 16th Lancers, to Isabella Theophania, dau. of Robert Sympson, esq. |