NEWS OF THE WEEK.

THE steam-packet which, as we stated in our last paper, was seen entering the harbour at Plymouth on Thursday evening, proved to he the veritable Belfast steamer, which carried out, and has now brought back, several generals and persons of rank at- tached to the Constitutional party : the Marquis Palmella and his son were on hoard, with his brother, Don Philip, Generals Stubbs and Saldanha, Count Villa Flor, and others, members of the Constitutional Government and chiefs of the army, to the number of sixty-three. Two copious accounts have been published of the proceedings of the Constitutional army, and of the situation in which the individuals who went out in the Belfast found themselves on their arrival, after a protracted passage, at Oporto. They both appear to emanate from parties concerned, who at least are best acquainted with the facts. It appears that Count Palmella, and the other generals who left England to head the Constitutional army, found it in retreat within a few leagues of Lisbon, having sustained some sharp actions with firmness and resolution, but being at length obliged to yield to an apprehended superiority in the number-of the forces of King Miguel. It became a question whether a stand should be made at Oporto ; an idea which was abandoned partly because it was likely to prove ineffectual, and partly because the four Miguelite ships of war blockading the har- bour made men fear they were entering a kind of " trap,- from which there would be no means of escape. It was resolved that the members of the Junta, Count Palmella and others, should embark on board the steam-packet, and that General Saldanha should command the troops ; who, it was arranged, should con - tinue their retrograde movement upon Gallicia. General Sal- danha, on arriving at the army, assembled the officers and chiefs, communicated his plan, and gave the orders for this movement. The forces proved, however, very willing to fight, but not to re- treat; and the officers made so forcible a representation to Sal- danha on this subject, that he left them to shift for themselves, and betook himself, in great dejection, to the steam-packet ; which, after a most unprosperous voyage, and in true Constitutional trim (as one of our contemporaries observes)—with her boiler burst and a hole in the bottom—has brought him to England.

Later accounts make known, that Miguel, King or Don, has, on the one hand, granted an amnesty, so liberal in its excep- tions, that none but common felons will have the benefit of it ; while, cn the other, he is filling the prisons of Lisbon with per- sons suspected of being inimical to his cause, and, in the selection of culprits, prefers the richest. The Lisbon Gazette, the organ of the Government, represents his Majesty as reckoning upon the recog- nition of his authority by the other powers of Europe ; and pre- tends that the ambassadors have only left Portugal because, being accredited to the Regent, they could not remain without fresh credentials.

Intelligence has arrived to-day, that three English vessels at Oporto have been seized by the Portuguese authorities, under the plea of their being about to convey to England property belonging to the leaders of the rebellion. It appears from the following pa- ragraphs, that they know how to value Miguel's authority at Madeira, and on the seas.

The private letters from Madeira give a singular report respecting the late attempt to change the government of the island. The Governor summoned all the respectable inhabitants, and put the question—Would they choose to be under the government of Don Pedro or of Don Miguel? The former was unanimously preferred. The second question was— Would they have the old or new governor ? The old governor, as well as the old sovereign, being chosen, it was politely intimated to the new one that he might withdraw.

Extract of a letter from the agent to Lloyd's at Lisbon, dated 15th July—" The Devino Imperador sailed hence yesterday, and was boarded by a vessel which did not show her colours. The captain asked for her

papers, and ending them in the name of Don Miguel I., King of Portugal,

said that he did not know such a person, and seized the vessel. The crew were put into a fishing-boat, and returned here to-day. It is reported that there are several other vessels of the same description cruising off the Tagus."

The troubles of Spain are not ended. Insurrection has broken out again in Catalonia ; and at Logrono, near Burgos, the guerilla troops had given battle to the royal army, and, after an obstinate engagement, had defeated them. When the last accounts left Madrid, the rebels were continually increasing in numbers ; and Ferdinand, as his custom is, was alarmed. The cause of the rising is not clearly predicated ; but it is understood to be a preference for Don . Carlos, the King's brother ; the success of Miguel, in the other division of the Peninsula, having brought illegi- timate claims into fashion, or revived them, among the Spaniards.

It is hinted in the French papers, that these indications may postpone or modify the arrangements for the evacuation of Cadiz.

A most important proceeding has taken place in the French Chamber of Deputies. A Commission appointed to report on a motion for impeaching the late Ministry, has, after twenty-three long sittings, reported the result of its investigation—namely, that there is, upon the whole, ground for impeaching the late Ministry of peculation and treason. The following are the most important of the propositions voted by a majority of the Commission. Through some technicalities, the decision of the Chamber upon the report will remain in suspense till next session.

" 1. That members of religious societies not authorized by the Laws had been called into France by the last Ministry. 2. That the toleration and protection granted to them by the last Ministry was contrary to Law. 3. That the establishment of the censorship in )824 and 1827 had not been warranted by grave circumstances exacted by Law. 4. That there was no disfavour on the part of the last Ministry with regard to Protes- tants. 5. That there were arbitrary and blamable dismissals on the part of the last Ministry. 6. That there was a dissipation of the public fortune, with regard to the war with Spain. 7. That this dissipation was foreign to the Ministers; but that, as to the question whether the political system followed with regard to Spain was contrary to the interests of France, the Commission were in want of sufficient information. 8. That the advice given to create seventy-seven new Peers, in 1827, was contrary to the in- terests of the Crown, and of the country. 9. That the conduct of the Ad- ministration, relative to the disturbances which took place in Paris on the 19th and 20th November, 1827, were blamable. 10. That inhabitants of Martinique had been detained arbitrarily, and illegally transported to Senegal."

The new American tariff has produced grievous discontent in the Southern States of the Union, and newspaper editors talk loftily of resisting the measure. This is a licence of speech which in America does not mean much ; but, unquestionably, the tariff will produce few beneficial and many mischievous effects.

The National Intelligencer contains a table of the commerce and navi- gation of the United States for the year 1827. The total value of imports was 79,48-1,068 dollars, of which 74,965,496 were in American vessels, and 4,518,572 in foreign. The total value of domestic exports was 58,921,691 dollars ; of which 50,105,379 were in American vessels, and 8,816,312 in foreign. The total value of foreign exports was 23,403,136 dollars ; of which 21,987,165 was in American vessels, and 1,415,971 in foreign ; making a total value of foreign and domestic exports of 82,384,827 doilars. The imports from England amounted to 28,652,883 dollars, and exports 24,419,017. The imports from France were 8,527,232, and exports 12,524,303. The imports from Cuba were 7,241,849, and the exports 6,816,088. The imports from Mexico were 5,231,867, and the exports 4,173,257. The imports from Colombia 1,550,248, and the exports 943,534. The im- ports from Brazil were 2,060,972, and the exports 1,863,806. The imports from Hayti were 1,459,318, and the exports 1,331,909. During the same period the American tonnage entering the ports of the United States amounted to 918,369, and the departures to 930,542. The foreign tonnage that entered was 13,758, and the departures 131,250.

The accounts from the theatre of war in the East agree in reporting the gradual progress of the Russian army. - The oppo- sition that has been already made is trifling ; the forts that held out for a time have been regularly taken. The two places which will next employ the Russian arms are Silistria on the Danube, and Bazargik, a strong town not very far from the coast of the Black Sea : before Varna, the key of the coast, is reached, it will be necessary to secure the fall of Bazargik. The new direction given to the invasion renders, in a measure, unavailable the Turkish forces assembled at Shumla, and demands the concen- tration of another army between the Black Sea and Adrianople, in addition to the one which is already assembled at the latter city, The Sultan is engaged in draugliting- soldiers from Con- stantinople, who, immediately after inspection, are forwarded towards Adrianople. Some activity has, moreover, been ex- hibited in the navy, which is preparing for operations on the Black Sea. These appear to be the only outward signs of war in the capital itself; and altogether the indifference and inactivity of the Turkish rulers have caused a good deal of speculation and surprise. It would appear that they propose to effect more by argument than arms ; and that they are more willing to negotiate than to fight. We insert, at length, the curious official document by which the Ambassadors of England and France are invited to return to Constantinople :-

`The strengthening of the bonds of good understanding and of friend- ship, which the Porte has so long maintained towards the court of France, being the object of the unceasing endeavours of the two Empires, the de- parture and absence of the French Legation from Constantinople was never desired nor agreeable ; and if the departure of your Excellency (agreeably to fate's decrees) has excited our lively regret, the continuation of your absence has scarcely caused us less pain ; however, the state of things evidently proves, that in the interchange of the good intentions and fa- vourable dispositions with which the Sublime Porte was always animated, the Court of France has, on its side, always sincerely desired the main- tenance of the most perfect harmony. The advice of the return of your Excellency to Corfu being a certain proof and further evidence of the sin- cerity and pure intention of France, gratifies us, and occasions us to take the first step to open the way to negotiations, conformably to a good un- derstanding, to renew our relations ; since your friendly declarations, made before and since, shew the desire of France—that its aim full of good faith, is the will to maintain the dignity and prosperity of its an- cient friend the Sublime Ottoman Porte, as well as the preservation of its sovereignty and absolute power ; so the system and conduct of the Sublime Porte have at all times been based by right and justice, and it is notorious that she has been constantly a faithful ally, conforming all her actions to the Holy Law, and never permitting the infraction of treaties, nor the violation of a sincere friendship. This separation, therefore, though, it cannot appear conformable to the friendly relations of the two Powers, yet cannot affect the ancient and loyal friendship which subsists between them—the pleasure, besides, that friends experience in meeting after a separation, contributes at all times to cement more closely their attachment and consolidate their ties. So the first and only desire and pure intention of the Sublime Porte is, to pursue the path of justice, and to obtain the general tranquillity of its subjects—expecting that the good and equitable views of the Court of France, the ancient and affectionate friend of the Ottoman Government, tend equally to the like object. In case your Excellency should return to Constantinople, so that the affairs which have been discussed between us, according to the pure intentions and friendly dispositions of the two Empires, may arrive at a happy ter- mination through these amicable conferences, depend that your Excel- lency will receive, on the part of the Sublime Porte, every honour and consideration. After this explanation, we wait with impatience the re- turn of your Excellency to Constantinople, and we address a similar note to the Ambassador of England. It is for your especial information, and to express the high consideration we entertain for your person, that we address you the present. Your friend, the undersigned, hopes that if it please God, when you receive it and know its contents, that your earnest zeal will be used to consolidate the basis of a good understanding, accord- ing to the contents of the above."

Lord Heytesbury visits the Russian head-quarters on the part of the English Government, which, as well as the Austrian, may be supposed to view with some anxiety the progress of the Imperial armies.

The British Consuls about to be sent to Greece, will, it is un- derstood, combine military with diplomatic talents, to enable them to report authoritatively to their Government on the real condition and capabilities of the protected people.

Two scenes have taken place in Ireland, which, while they have in some measure disturbed the public peace, appear to have given rise to very unnecessary alarms of insurrection and rebellion. We shall quote the report of the proceedings at Ballinamore from the Dublin Warder; a paper which we ought to inform our readers, at a time when party runs high, is considered as one of the organs of the Orangists. From the Cork Southern Reporter, a Catholic organ, we abridge an account of the affair at Fermoy. Other versions of the same stories have appeared in several Irish news- papers, some extenuated, others ludicrously exaggerated.

DEFEAT OF THE REBEL FORCES AT DALLINAMORE.—The following is an authentic detail of the occurrence at Ballinamore, county Leitrim, on Saturday. Information having been received that preparations were making by the satellites of the Association for an attack upon any Pro- testants presuming to celebrate the anniversary of the Boyne in that quarter, those of Ballinamore, with that feeling of loyalty which has ever marked their conduct, wisely resolved on abstaining from any display calculated to endanger the public peace—not that they entertained any dread of the enemy, but that they respected the law. At the same time the Sheriff of the county had called in the assistance of the military, con- sisting of a troop of the 17th Lancers, two companies of the 12th infantry, the staff of the Leitrim regiment, and a considerable number of the police, both mounted and dismounted. This force assembled in Ballinamore on the evening of the 11th, and were paraded on the morning of the 12th, when they piled their arms in the street. About eleven o'clock informa- tion was brought to the High Sheriff and magistrates by a person, who re ported his having passed a large body of armed men, a few miles from the village: a few dragoons and mounted police were forthwith ordered to reconnoitre in the direction specified, and soon returned confirming the intelligence ; on which the troops were instantly put in motion towards the spot. The'cavalry and mounted police being in advance, discovered a body of above five hundred pikemen, strongly posted on a hill called Aghoo, who formed line, cheered, and appeared to await their approach. On the cavalry coming within a few hundred yards of this body, a priest, accompanied by another person, came forward and expressed a wish that they might be allowed to disperse, which they thought they could induce

them to do peaceably. A very proper demand was made in reply, that they should give up their arms—this, however, there was no disposition to comply with. Up to this moment the pikemen had not been aware of the approach of any opponents, except the cavalry ; but these having now moved.to the right and left, and developed the advance of the infantry, who had come up during the parley, an immediate flight took place, which was favoured by an extensive bog in their rear, impracticable for cavalry. Here fifteen prisoners were taken, together with a number of pikes and other offensive weapons, such as pieces of scythes and reaping hooks, carefully sharpened and fixed upon long poles. A few shots were fired by the orders of one of the magistrates, three of which are supposed to have taken effect. The troops returned to Ballinamore about five in the after- noon. Two other bodies of pikemen were subsequently known to have been assembled in the vicinity of the village, where they remained some time, and dispersed after firing some shots, some of them being armed with muskets.—Dublin Warder.

AFFRAY AT FERMOY BETWEEN THE POLICE AND THE POPULACE.—On Sunday evening last, some children wishing to celebrate Mr. O'Connell's return for Clare, assembled at Cork-hill, and from thence proceeded through this town. This formidable array attracted the attention of the police, who attempted to disperse them, but were opposed by the people in their unnecessary interference. They had immediate recourse to their arms, and without the presence or authority of a magistrate, fired four blank shots. This hasty and unwarrantable proceeding heightened still more the indignation of the people, and a general affray commenced. A magistrate (Mr. Heard) was then applied to by the police, and he, toge- ther with Messrs. Walker and Allen, the former a magistrate, also re- paired to the scene of action. In the indiscriminate attack, Mr. Heard was struck, and immediately, without the least reference to the Riot Act, the police were directed to fire upon the people. The town was instantly thrown into a state of the utmost alarm. The staff of the North Cork were called, "nothing loth," to the assisi,..nce of the police, and still more dread- ful results might have followed were it not for the prompt attendance of the military, whose conduct on this occasion was highly praiseworthy, and who showed themselves much better preservers of the peace than the paid constabulary. Four men were wounded ; one of them has since died in the Bridewell, and two others are in a state of the utmost danger ; a woman was struck with a ball in the head which glanced off, inflicting only a slight flesh wound. During Sunday night the military remained stationed on the square, whilst the police paraded the streets ; and we showed more like a place besieged than a town where, until this occasion, not the slightest tendency to disturbance exhibited itself. It seems as if the police were ashamed of receiving the public money for doing no- thing, and would make, as they could not find, employment. So far were the lads (whose procession was made available for this horrid act) from being riotous and disorderly, that they even abstained from passing Mr. Walker's door, as the straw laid in the streets showed there was sickness within.—Curh Sootkern Reporter, July 22.

Despatches received from the Irish Government were the sub- ject of long discussion in the Cabinet Council on Thursday. Even the moderate Ministerial journals speak of " measures of precau- tion " being necessary ; but they will not allow that the march of several regiments of infantry for Ireland is intended so much for reinforcement, as for the usual exchanges.

The Archbishop of Canterbury died on Monday last, at the Palace of Lambeth. Some particulars of his life, as well as some traits of his character, may be collected from the extracts we have selected respecting him. He was a man of excellent presence ; his manners were pleasing and courteous, while his temper was amiable and moderate: when these claims to preferment occur in the instance of a man of high birth, little more is wanted. That little the late Archbishop possessed—an ordinary stock of learning, sufficient to save him from the commission of errors or the expo- sure of ignorance. The Bishop of London, it is said, will be promoted to the See of Canterbury ; while ,Dr. Kaye, the Bishop of Lincoln, will succeed to London, and the Bishop of Chester supplies his place at Lincoln. " His Grace was son of Lord George Manners Sutton, third son of John third Duke of Rutland and uncle of the present Duke. He was born on the 15th of February, 1755, and was consequently in the 74th year of his age at his death. He studied at Emmanuel College, Cam- bridge, where he took his degree of B.A. in 1777. After holding several livings in succession, he was made Dean of Peterborough in 1791, and in the following year he was elevated to the see of Norwich by the death of Dr. Home, on which occasion he relinquished his other livings, and ac- cepted instead the Deanery of Windsor. His residence at Windsor intro- duced Dr. Sutton in a particular manner to the late King, whose sound discriminating sense speedily led him to appreciate justly the merits of his new Dean. Mrs. Sutton at the same time was honoured with the friendship of the late Queen Charlotte, whose notice bestowed dignity on the highest as much as the lowest, for it was never given but to the vir- tuous and the worthy. The consequence of the friendship of his Sove- reign was the translation of the Bishop of Norwich to the Archiepiscopal Throne of Canterbury, on the death of Dr. Moore, although it was gene- rally understood that powerful interest was made for Dr. Tomline by no less prevalent a person than the great Pitt. Dr. Sutton was a man of mild, but imposing presence, mingling. the humility of the religion, of

which he was the eloquent teacher, with the dignity of high birth and lofty station. His voice was full and tunable, his elocution distinct and unaffected, his arguments well weighed, his words well chosen, his man- ner grave and simple, his learning accurate, his knowledge comprehen- sive, and his judgment sound. He spoke fluently and impressively on most subjects, even on those which might have appeared most averse from his general course of study. At one period of his life his Grace was con- sidered hostile to that party is the Church which is sometimes sneeringly called the " Evangelical ; ' latterly, however, his sentiments changed, and those who are attached to its peculiarities have the honourable boast that the late head of the Church was on their side. There was, however, neither in the mind nor temper of the late Primate the slightest tinge of the bigotry and fanaticism which are too frequently associated with the doctrines he espoused. Of the Roman Catholic claims the late Archbi- shop was a steady and consistent opponent. In the great debate of 1805, he made a most convincing and eloquent speech against a concession, which tended, as he argued, to give, " not equality of rights, but eventual superiority to the Roman Catholic religion." The claims of the Pro- testant Dissenters were treated by his Grace in a different spirit. He

gave his voice and his vote against Lord Sidmouth's Bill, in 1811; and on the late settlement of those claims, he gave them the latter by proxy, and, so far as in absence he could, the former, through the medium of his eloquent friend the Bishop of Chester. In his family it is understood that Dr. Sutton was happy beyond the lot of most men. He married early the woman of his choice—one who as a wife and as a mother has been an honour to her station and a pattern to all. His eldest son is the present highly respected Speaker of the House of Commons, an office which he has possessed with singular ability and unqualified approbation since the resignation of Lord Colchester. One of his Grace's daughters is, we be- lieve, married to Dr. Percy, Bishop of Carlisle, and another to Dr. Croft, Archdeacon of Canterbury. There remains only one thing more to say of the deceased Primate, and it assimilates well with his Christian pro- fession and apostolic character—he died poor ! "—New Tinwy. "If we were to say that his Grace had gone through life with the cha- racter of a most accomplished gentleman, we should wish it to be under- stood that he was a Christian gentleman. Such was Nelson, the excellent author of the Fasts awl I•iwtiods, in whom it was remarkable that the most unsullied purity of morals, and the most devout piety, from which his morals sprang, were adorned by the most eolished manners. The late Archbishop, however, had not the learning or talents of the eminent person whose name we have introduced ; but his Grace was deficient in neither ; and to his natural powers of mind and attainments by study, lie added dignity of manner and affability of address. The gracefulness of his person was a gift of nature. His Grace was of the Rutland family, and his Lady. we believe, of the same ; and it was owing to this double connexion—there being no impediment to be found in his personal cha- racter—that he was consecrated Bishop of Norwich, at an age which was then thought early : others, we believe, unpossessed of those claims, have been advanced to the bench at an equally early period of life. The canons, we believe, require that a Bishop shall have completed his 32nd year, when he must have been eight years a priest. In the expensive and but ill-paid See of Norwich, we believe that the liberality of the diocesan's disposition, the claims of a numerous family, and perhaps the habits of high life, involved him in some embarrassments : these must have been painful to one who knew that it was the duty of a Christian, and much more of a Christian Bishop, " to owe no man anything ;" and on his sub- sequent promotion to Canterbury, he, with a becoming energy of cha- racter, as we have heard, adopted a system which enabled him to discharge all his incumbrances. He succeeded Dr. Moore in the Archiepiscopal See of Canterbury, and for a considerable period of the time during which his Grace was at the head of the Church of England, his brother was Chancellor of Ireland, and his son speaker of the House of Commons of the United Kingdom. We can recollect no instance in which such high dignities have centered in so near relatives. Fortune, as well as merit, it is said, is necessary to make a great man. Birth was the fortune or casualty which brought about this coincidence : the merit was of no peculiar or remarkable character in any of the iniiv duals ; but there was no deficiency, and none of those eccentricities 9C irregularities by which great genius is often debased or deformed."—Tinies.

A magnificent funeral is preparing for the late Prelate—to take place on Tuesday. At seven o'clock in the morning the proces- sion will begin to move from Lambeth Palace, to the church of Addington, in Surrey, where the family vault has been prepared within the last six months. The Speaker, Lord Manners, the Bishop of Carlisle, and Archdeacon Croft, are the chief mourners : they will meet the procession at the church.