24 APRIL 1841, Page 9

_Miscellaneous.

On Wednesday, Prince Albert inspected the Sixtieth Regiment of Rifles, in the Home Park at Windsor. Before quitting the ground, he expressed his satisfaction at the discipline of the men, and the perfect manner in which their evolutions were performed.

Sir Hussey Vivian, Master-General of the Ordnance, inspected the Tenth Hussars on Monday, in Leamington. The regiment went over from its quarters in Coventry for the purpose. So novel a sight in Leamington attracted a large assemblage to witness it.

Lord Melbourne arrived in town on Wednesday, from a visit to the Queen at Windsor. On Monday, Viscount Ehrington arrived in town from Windsor ; and he departed on Wednesday, for Dublin. The Chancellor of the Exchequer and Lady Arabella Baring arrived in town on Monday, from their residence at Lee, in Bent On Monday, Viscount Palmerston went down to Panshanger, in Hertfordshire.

Viscount Melbourne gave a dinner to the Cabinet Ministers on Wed- nesday, at his house in South Street.

Sir Robert Peel, with Lady Peel and their family, arrived in Whitehall Gardens on Tuesday, from Drayton Manor.

The Bishop of Worcester is so ill that he is not expected to recover.

Lord Rosse was engaged lately in the construction of some ma- chinery, when by an accident he seriously injured his thumb, completely severing it at the first joint.

Under the head of Portsmouth, the Brighton Gazette of Thursday says—" There is a report that the Warspite, 50, is to be forthwith commissioned here, for the broad pendant of Commodore Sir Charles Napier, who is to have the command in the Pacific."

Commodore Napier dined with the Navy Club, at the Thatched House Tavern, on Thursday. Admiral Thompson was in the chair.

Some benevolent person has within the last few days sent anony- mously the munificent sum of 500/. towards building a new church at Lenton.—Derby Mercury.

Lord Cardigan's conduct in causing a soldier to be flogged on Easter Sunday, has drawn forth the following general order from the Com- mander-in-Chief— Horse Guards. Md April 1841. "The attention of the General Commanding-in-Chief has been called to the punishment of a soldier of the Eleventh Hussars, in the Riding-house at ounslow, on Sunday the 11th April. "It is well known that it is not the practice of this country to carry the penal sentences of the law into execution on the Lord's Day ; neither is it the practice of the Army, whether employed abroad or at home. "The General Commanding-in-Chief is therefore surprised that an officer in the situation of Lieutenant-Colonel commanding a regiment should have carried such a sentence into execution on Sunday. "The General Commanding-in-Chief desires that it may be clearly under- stood, that the sentences of Military Courts are not to be carried into execu- tion on the Lord's Day, excepting in eases of evident necessity, the nature of -which it cannot be requisite for him to define.

4' By command of the Right Honourable the General Commanding-in-Chief,

(Signed) "JOHN Macnoriamn, Adjutant-General."

1; The Times of Wednesday took the public by surprise with a sudden .onslaught, of the most unqualified kind, upon the Tory party in con- junction with the Whigs- " A few days since, a gentleman of notorious and uncompromising principle, resident in one of the great Metropolitan districts, was applied to, in due course, for his subscription to the Conservative Association, of which he was a member. His answer was a firm and prompt denial—, I shall subscribe no longer.' The agent of the Association respectfully requested to be permitted to report his reasons for withdrawal. My reasons are, that you have done and are doing no good.' An explanation was offered. The clearest proofs were tendered of the efficiency of the Association. A continual progress had been made in di- minishing the Radical strength and in augmenting the Conservative forces ; and it was clear, to all human modes of calculation, that the very next election must entirely establish the Conservative ascendancy in that locality. I grant all this,' was the reply. I admit that you have worked perseveringly and veil; and that you have purged the register ; and that it is very probable that the next opportunity will entirely change the representation of this district. But, when all this Is done, I still ask what good you will have done ? You gain a Conservative majority in Parliament—you turn out the Ministry. That is, you get rid of one set of scoundrels and have another set in their room.' We aver that this conversation took place very recently ; and that the malecontent was a highly-respectable, worthy, and well-principled man, resident in this me- tropolis."

A Committee of the Chamber of Deputies have unanimously re- solved to stop all supplies to Spanish refugees after the 1st June next.

Workmen have daily crowded into Paris from all parts of France to be employed in the construction of the fortifications. This great con- course of workmen, and the concentration of troops around Paris, has already produced a considerable rise in the price of butcher's-meat, which was now nearly placed beyond the reach of the labouring classes.

The final retirement of Mademoiselle Mars took place at the Francais, on Thursday night ; on which interesting occasion, their Majesties and their Royal Highnesses the Dutchess of Nemours and the, Princess Cle- mentine honoured the theatre with their presence, thus joining in the parting homage paid by the public to this great ornament of the French stage. The performances chosen for the night for her benefit were Le Misanthrope and Les Fausses Confidences ; in both of which Mademoi- selle Mars, notwithstanding the emotion naturally arising from her situation, played with nearly as much taste and animation as she dis- played a quarter of a century ago in the same characters. The enthu- siasm of the audience for the retiring favourite was, as might be ex- pected, most vehement ; and the bouquets, garlands, and crowns, show- ered down upon her, were beyond example numerous.—Galignards Messenger.

Madrid papers have been received to the 11th instant. The Senate had adopted the report of a Committee which declared the decree of the Regency for suspending the municipal law, during the last revolution perfectly legal. It is now supposed that a very large majority of the Senators are in favour of a single Regency, in the person of Espartero. The Mode- rados had coalesced with the "Unitarians," against the Republican "Trinitarians," The Chamber of Deputies resolved, on the 13th instant, by a majo- rity of 80 against 44, that the Government should be invited to submit the Regency question forthwith to the Cortes.

On the 12th, the Senate adopted, by a majority of 52 to 12, the re- port of the Committee of the House which pronounced Queen Chris- tina's abdication of the Regency to be legal. In the course of the dis- cussion, General Seoane, to show that the act was voluntary, declared that he had himself vainly entreated the Queen to withhold her abdica- tion until the meeting of the Cortes.

The official Vienna paper, the Austrian Observer of April 10th, an- nounced a change of Ministry at Constantinople- " Advicea from Constantinople of the 29th ultimo, received by express, state that Reschid Pasha has been dismissed from his post as Minister of Foreign Affairs, and replaced by Rifest Bey, formerly Ambassador from the Porte at the Court of Vienna; also has been also made a Pasha. The Minister of Com- merce, Fethi Achmet Pasha, has been replaced by the Capitan Pasha, Said Pasha, who is brother-in-law to the Sultan ; and Talk Pasha Las been ap- pointed Capitan Pasha in his stead."

Tahir Pasha and Said Pasha were both removed by the late Sultan for incompetence. They belonged to an old, retrograde policy ; but they are opposed to the present obstructive policy of further attempt- ing to coerce Mehemet Ali. Their appointment, therefore, is thought to facilitate the settlement of the Egyptian question.

A letter in the Allgemeine Zeitung declares that the fickleness of Reschid Pasha's character had produced all the late difficulties. The charges brought against him, however, that he had aped European manners, had threatened the Mussulman institution of marriage, had given places in the army and navy to foreigners, and had concocted the famous hatti-scheriff of Gulhane, prove the animus against him by the Conservatives of the East. Adviees direct of the 31st confirm the ac- counts of mixed good and bad in this change of Ministry.

Lord Ponsonby was expected to quit Constantinople, on "leave of absence." The First Secretary of Legation was to be charged, after his Lordship's departure, with the affairs of the Embassy.

The following correspondence, which has recently taken place be- tween Mehemet Ali and the mercantile community of Liverpool, has been published within the week— "TO HIS HIGHNESS THE PASHA OF EGYPT.

"We, the undersigned merchants, bankers, and other inhabitants of the town of Liverpool, beg to convey to your Highness our admiration and grateful thanks for the uniform protection and kindness manifested by your Highness towards our countrymen for many years past, when travelling through or sojourning in the extensive countries under your rule, and which protection has not been less efficacious than universal.

"These sentiments have been still further enhanced by your Highness's. conduct on a recent occasion, when, with that consideration for the welfare of the mercantile interest and the benefit of travellers, and with a magnanimity worthy of the most enlightened policy, your Highness was pleased to allow the free transit of mails and passengers through your country under circumstances which generally dissever the ties binding mankind together in friendly inter- course, affording thereby a rare exception in such cases to the general rule, a brilliant example to other potentates, and justly deserving, in our estimation, the thanks of the whole civilized world.

"That yon may long continue to govern the fertile dominion committed to your charge in prosperity and peace' devoting to its improvement all the energies of your enlightened mind, aud that you may enjoy advanced age in health, honour, and happiness, is our sincere wish.

"Liverpool, 26th February 1841."

THE PASHA'S ANSWER.

"Gentlemen—His Highness the Viceroy has ordered the undersigned to communicate to the Mayor, bankers, merchants, and other inhabitants of the town of Liverpool, that their address has reached him. "The sentiments expressed in that address are highly gratifying to his Highness ; who accepts the good wishes thus conveyed to him, and will always exert himself for their realization.

" Mercantile interests and travellers in the countries under the rule of his Highness will always enjoy that effectual protection which is the type of civilization in all nations; and in strictly adhering to his system of civiliza- tion, even in periods of the greatest difficulty, when his intentions were un- known, his Highness has been faithful to his principles, and has given to his officers and to the people under his government a lesson that will bind them always in more friendly ties to the enlightened people of other nations, for their mutual welfsts. " Amidst the regrets which his Highness sometimes experiences at being unable to realize all the good he meditates, Providence grants him occa- salusally some consolation, which comes as a soothing balm ; and of this nature Is the address of the Mayor, bankers, merchants, and other inhabitants of the town of Liverpool. The undersigned is charged to express the great satisfaction that it has given to his Highness, and to convey to them his thanks.

" The undersigned has the honour to subscribe himself, gentlemen, your most obedient and most humble servant,