on behalf of the queen's regiments, that he
would recommend to her majesty that the same distinction should be
granted to them. Besides this complimentary notice, Lord Auckland
ordered that a donation of six months' full or field batta should
be given to officers and men of every rank attached to the army who
advanced beyond the Bolau Pass.

THE MARRIAGE OF THE QUEEN.

Her most gracious majesty Queen Victoria was married to Prince Albert
of Saxe-Cobourg-Gotha on the 10th of February. This event gave great
satisfaction to the people generally, both in the dominions of her
majesty and in the duchy of Saxe-Cobourg-Gotha.

STATE OF THE CONTINENT.

During this year the Carlists in Spain were compelled to give up the
contest which they had so long carried on against the queen regent. All
the principal places held by the chiefs of that party still remaining in
the country, fell into the hands of the Christino generals; and Cabrera
and Balemaseda took refuge in France, while Borso, another Carlist
leader, was captured and shot. In the spring of this year a question
arose with the Neapolitan government and the British cabinet, which led
to hostilities on the part of England, and at one time threatened to
involve other powers in Europe in a general quarrel. This question
related to the "sulphur monopoly." A treaty existed which gave certain
commercial advantages to England in respect of sulphur, and the treaty
set forth that the Neapolitan government was not to grant any
state mercantile privileges hostile to the British interests. But
notwithstanding this distinct stipulation, the King of Naples granted
some natives of France, in 1838, as well as others of different
countries, a monopoly of all the sulphur produced and worked in Sicily.
Great Britain naturally considered this grant to be a direct infraction
of the stipulation of the existing treaty; and Lord Palmerston called on
the Neapolitan government for the immediate termination of the monopoly,
and full indemnity for all losses sustained by British subjects arising
therefrom. The king professed to comply: Prince Cassaro, the minister
for foreign affairs, wrote a note to Mr. Kennedy, stating that the
monopoly should be abolished, and that the King of Naples acted thus
in deference to England. Shortly afterwards, however, his Neapolitan
majesty signified to the British minister that he had determined not to
consent to the demands of Great Britain, he not con