Aftistellantous.
The reports of the Queen's visit to Scotland begin to assume con- sistency. Lord Glenlyon has placed Blair Castle, a fine sporting re- sidence of the Atholl family, at the disposal of the Queen ; and it is expected that while the Royal convalescent derives vigour from the 'mountain-breezes, Prince Albert will find excellent shooting in the neighbourhood. The visit will not be in state, but strictly private. The Victoria and Albert yacht will convey the Royal party, which will :include the Princess Royal ; the other children are expected to be sent to Osborne House in the Isle of Wight. The Princess Alice, Dwarf, and Black Eagle steamers, with the Eclair steam-frigate, will form the attendant squadron. Where the travellers will embark and debark is uncertain ; most probably they will embark at Woolwich, and debark at Dundee. The squadron will sail up the Tay thus far ; and according to some accounts, the Princess Alice and Dwarf, which are very light in draught of water, may convey the party on to Perth, within a short distance of the Braes of Atholl. The voyage up the Tay, amid the beautiful scenery of its banks, would prove a great pleasure to the tourists, and the spectacle of a Royal squadron in their noblest of rivers would delight the loyal Scots. As to the time of departure, both Monday and Tuesday next are named; but Monday appears the most likely. The preliminary departures have already begun. On Tuesday, several of the Queen's ponies and Prince Albert's saddle- -horses were taken from Windsor to be put on board a Government -steamer at Woolwich. More horses and carriages were shipped for Dundee on Wednesday last, at Hore's Wharf, Wapping ; padded stalls baring been prepared for the horses in the London steam-ship, be- longing to the Dundee, Leith, and London Shipping Company. Se- veral domestics set out from Windsor Castle on Thursday.
Prince William of Prussia travelled on the Great Western Railway, on Saturday, with extraordinary speed. He proceeded from Bristol to Slough, one hundred miles, in two hours and seven minutes! Along a portion of the line the speed was sixty-five miles an hour.
The Standard thus explains Lord Stanley's retirement from the House of Commons-
" Lord Stanley accepts the Chiltern Hundreds, and withdraws from the Lower House of Parliament. In making this announcement, we are satisfied that no personal pique or political disagreement has in any way influenced the noble Lord—there is no split in the Cabinet : on the contrary, we believe there never was a time when greater unanimity prevailed, although Lord Stanley's retirement from the House of Commons must be a matter of deep regret to his colleagues and to the Conservative party. But the public do not lose the benefit of his Lordship's services. His withdrawal from the scene of his tri- 'midis, and from the walls which have long echoed with his brilliant eloquence, and the enthusiastic cheers of his admiring and astonished hearers, is only preparatory to his removal to the House of Peers. Lord Stanley retains the seals of the Colonial office, and his seat in the Cabinet ; and, however severely his loss may be felt in the House of Commons, his entrance into the House of Peers must be hailed with universal satisfaction. Indeed, the want of speakers on the Government-benches in the Upper House has been strongly mani- fested since the death of the lamented Lord Fitzgerald, the absence of Lord Ellenborough, and the frequent indisposition of the Earl of Ripon."
Lord Stanley has issued an address to his late constituents of North Lancashire ; the most remarkable point in which is his expression of a hope, that in the selection of a successor, they will mark their approval of the Government to which he belongs.
The Times, amid a good deal of gratulatory circumlocution, an- nounces the probable terms of the settlement of the Tahiti question between England and France : this is the pith of the statement-
" M. D'Aubigny has been moved from Tahiti ; his conduct has been made the subject of apology ; and satisfaction will, we are told, be made to Mr. Pritchard for the ill-treatment he has received. The former officer had been. previously censured by his superior, Captain Brost ; and this additional stamp upon him, accompanied with a due measure of satisfaction to the injured per- son, appears to be a sufficient recognition on the part of the French Govern- ment of our charge against D'Aubigny. He is not dismissed the service in- deed, and it is not necessary that he should be; so that his Government ac- knowledges that his acts were unjustifiable, all is done that is required. We do not want to revenge ourselves on an individual, but only to have him distin- guished from the nation. The previous conduct of Mr. Pritchard in his post also weighs with us in considering this notice of M. D'Aubigny's conduct amply sufficient. That Mr. Pritchard had certainly outstepped propriety in the part he took towards the French after their occupation of the island, and had acted more or less as the partisan and fomenter of hostility to them, seems but too probable. And though such a disposition on his part, if it abstained from expressing itself in positive overt acts of hostility, did not render hint liable to seizure and deprive him of the privilege of inviolability which sur- rounds the person of a British Consul, still it was a provocative to violence, and, therefore, must be considered a palliation of it."
One of our Paris letters contains the following instance of gallantry on the part of his Majesty the King of the French, for the truth of which the writer pledges himself. "On Thursday or Friday last, Lady Aldborough (who, if any lady ever was old, comes into that category) wrote to King Louis Philippe, begging his Majesty would have the kindness to inform her was war imminent ? The King delayed not a moment to reply to her Ladyship, through his First Aide-de-camp, that she might make her mind perfectly easy : no war between France and England was imminent, nor indeed likely."—Times.
A friend informs us, on authority on which he says he can rely, that a large steamer and a schooner, fully equipped and armed, and manned with as desperate a set of fellows as ever trod a deck, have just left a port on the Eastern coast of Yorkshire, to enter into the service of the Emperor of Morocco, under letters of marque against France. If this be true, it is a thousand pities that an embargo was not laid upon them. —Liverpool Mercury.
Much discussion having arisen, during the recent proceedings in the State trial, on the terms of the eleventh count of the indictment, we here reprint it, for the convenience of the reader- " And the jurors aforesaid, upon their oath and affirmation aforesaid, do further present and say, that the said Daniel O'Connell, John O'Connell, Thomas Steele, Thomas Matthew Ray, Charles Gavan Duffy, Thomas Tierney, John Gray, and Richard Barrett, unlawfully, maliciously, and seditiously contriving, intending, and devising, by means of intimidation and the demonstration of physical force, and by causing and procuring large numbers of persons to meet and assemble together in divers places and at divers times within Ireland, and by means of seditious and inflammatory- speeches and addresses to be made and delivered to the said persons to be assembled as last aforesaid ; and also by means of the publishing, and causing and procuring to be published, to and among the subjects of her said Majesty, divers unlawful, malicious, and seditious writings and compositions ; and fur- ther contriving and intending, by the several means aforesaid, to intimidate the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and the Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and thereby to effect and bring about changes in the laws and constitution of this realm, as by law established. heretofore—to wit, on the 13th day of February, in the year of our Lord 1843, to wit, at the parish of St. Mark aforesaid, in the county of the city of Dublin aforesaid—unlawfully, maliciously, and seditiously did combine, con- spire, confederate, and agree with each other, and with other persons whose names are to the jurors aforesaid unknown, to cause and procure large num- bers of persons to meet and assemble together in divers places and at divers times within Ireland, and by means of unlawful, seditious, and inflammatory speeches and addresses to be made and delivered at the said several places on the said several times respectively, and also by means of the publishing, and causing and procuring to be published, to and among the subjects V !IV' Majesty, divers unlawful, malicious, and seditious writings and compositions, to intimidate the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and the Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom of Gres,i. Mritain and Ireland, and thereby to effect and bring about changes and alterations in the laws and constitution of this realm as now by law established; in contempt of our said Lady the Queen, and of the laws of this realm, to the evil example of all others in the like case offending, and against the peace of our said Lady the Queen, her crown and dignity."
The excellent accounts of the harvest continue : even in Scotland it is well over.
The Manchester subscription for the Rowland Hill testimonial, not yet closed, already amounts to 1,1501.
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