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New Zealand Colonist and Port Nicholson Advertiser, Volume I, Issue 43, 27 December 1842, Page 2

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(From the Colonial Obset'ver.J The remains of the late Duke of Orleans were interred at Dreux on the 3rd of August. The funeral ceremony was not imposing. The king’s sons wore long mourning cloaks, iinder which shone their uniforms and decorations. The officer/3 of the king’s household placed themselves behind the princes. The service lasted two hours and twenty minutes. Among the corps diplomatique was Lord Clanricarde, who had come from London expressly to assist at - the funeral ceremony. * We find the following in the Quotidienne : — “ There is much talk about an admirable letter sent from Kirchberg to Neuilly. We should not be surprised at this. We know how large a treasure of goodness as well as of grief, there is at Kirchberg, and we also know of whom the Prince was godson. Let us respect those things which there is a wish to conceal, but let us admire the condolence which is offered by exiles.” The Globe states explicitly that the letter above alluded to was written by the Duke de. Bordeaux, to whom his Majesty Louis Phillippe is godfather. The Regency Bill is— Article 1. —The King’s Minority ceases at eighteen years accomplished. Article 2. —At the moment of the King’s death, if his successor be a minor, the Prince nearest the Throne, in the established order of succession, according to the charter of 1830, if he be twenty-one years of age, becomes invested with the Regency throughout the minority. I Article 3.—The full and entire exercise of the Royal authority, in the name of the King, belongs to the Regent. Article 4. —The 12th Article of the Charter, and all the legislative dispositions protecting ithe person and constitutional rights of the King, are applicable to the Regent. Article s—The Regent makes oath, in presence of-the Chambers, to be faithful to the King of the French, to obey the Charter and the established laws of the kingdom, and to act ,in every other respect in the sole view of the

interest and happiness and of the glory of the French people. Should the Chambers not be sitting, then the Regent is bound to convene them within three months. Article 6.—The guardianship and tutorship of the young King belongs to the Queen, or to the JPrincess his mother whilst unmarried, and in tlie event of the demise of the Queen, or Prinfcess, or both, to the nearest female branch on the father’s side not married. Signed at the Palace of Neuilly, the 9th August, 1842. IMPORTANT FROM INDIA. (From the Sydney Herald of the 2th December.) Singapore papers to the 15 th September, containing news from Calcutta to the micfdle of August, arrived last night. After remaining quietly at Jellalabad for several months. General Pollock had at length been ordered to march on Cabul (positive instructions to that effect having been received by Lord Ellenborough in the mail which left England in July), where he was to be met on the Ist of September by a large body of troops under General Nott, who was marching to the same place from the Candahar side! Several offers had been made by Akbar Khan to release his prisoners, upon condition that his father, Dost Mahogoed, was given up, and the British Afghanistan, which, of course, could hot be listened to. Letters from Lady Sale and the other prisoners described them as being well treated, being allowed the use of a large garden attached to the fort in which they were detained. A war tax of five per cent, on all salaries above one hundred rupees per month, it was understood, would be levied. The next mail from India (and a vessel from Calcutta muy be expected to arrive very shortly) will, doubtless, bring information of the junction of the whole of the Affghanistan army at Cabul.