The Express. — London, England, 1848-05-08 00:00:00

NIIVOIIT (lOLE Of Witter), May 8.-We Dad • dull trade to-day fur Wheat; prices are fully le. per qe. lower than lest week. Bewley in short su ply, and ramie ls. per gr. more money Other grain no eet ,. Noewicit, May 13.-Out market today wee well supplied with Wheat by the growers an es the Barley awing ts finished in many districts, is wry gestsesl. end we art anticipating very 1 es ; prime moseried 2a. per qa Flour was in slow , at fkl. pee saok loda tion. Barley was in fair demead at late prima. Bala Peas, and 0 its, remain the um*. The prices eaten% are: Wheat, white, per qe , 60s. to 65e.; red, 46a. to 48'. Barley, twitting, 30a. to 32x.; grinding, Wi. to 30s. Beans, 22.. to Ws. 345. to 30s. Peas, :b. to 3 8 s. Oats,Flour, 325. 4d. to 335. per seek of 2801 a, Ira on board at Yar mouth, purehae re finding sacks an d claiming one month'a discount; retail, Is. 10d. per stone. NurttsoltAll, May 6.-Tlie condition of Wheat and other rein is much improved of late. Our supply at mark , t m ail his been less than last week ; and whybuers of which insist upon a decline of 2s. per quarter, ls but partially submitted to by holders. Barley is also skirt, but this grain f e t c hed fully as much money. Oats and Beans are more in depend, at la • rates. Prigannoitouog, May 6.-We haver a good supply of What to-day, sod its C ODditiOnis much improved ; but there B • very short supply of spring grain offering. Wheat is 2s. to 3s: lower than last week, Barley Is. dearer. Oats fully mairitsin their price. Beau., Is. to 2e. dearer. C errancy to OM growers : Wheat, now, 40s. to 42e. ; fine, ifis. to 505.; old, 48.. to new ; fine, 525. Barley, to to 30e. ; fine, 3.41. Oat'. new, 17s. to 18s. ; fine, Ws. to 22... • •old, 21te. to 305.. Beans, old, 454. to 505.; new, 365. to '33s. Prrwoitru, May 6.-An extremely dull trade for Wheat new , at about former rates. The supply of malting Barley is nearly over. The demand for seed has rendered grindlag 1 and secondary qualities scarce. In other grain little doing. Br SDISIO, May 6. -We had • good supply of Wheat to. day, and in good re ductiono but trade was remained dull et 2a. to 3s. p r or. re in price, and much unsold. All y escriptions of goring corn were in short supply, and g, ls. per qr. dearer thin last week. SAfFRON WALDEN, May 6.-Barley as before. Wheat, from ls. to 2s. per qr. cheaper. Oats oat the advaace. Beans and Pests as on last market -day. S ONDFD LAND, May 8 - The w ea ther has become bright and dry. but the wind hangs in the east, which causes it to be somewhat cold, and not so genial as is usual at this ad. vanced period of the year. Field work is in very brisk °paean, and the 'semen, bring fully employed in finishing spring cropping, b r ing s small supplies of grain to market. We are also without any arrivals coastwhe or foreign, except e q ua l s of Four. The demand for Wheat to-day was fully eu to the supply, and a clearance was won made at last week's rates. nil best samples are worth 60a. to 62.4.; good average pintas, 475. to 49e ; and inferior qualities. 445. to 46e. :flu re is a moderste demand for south country Wheats at thew rates. Malting Barley is alma neglected, and pr nominally 30s. to 31s. Beans at 38s. to 38s. and eas at 84.. to 36e. are dull sale. Oats are free sale, at r eel 225. Four is steady in supply and price. South eminery is charged 371. to 335. ; and home-lade, 3,is. to 36e. per seek; Ameri..an, 233. to 305.; and Indian Meal. 16s. to 17s. per barrel. WAHNINOTER, May 6.. - A small supply of Wheat; the best qualities declined fully 4s. per qr. ; common, 3s. Top price, for best white Wheats, was 50s. per qr. • good red. 48s. ; moderate, 44 5. to 46 1. ; p oor samples, 40 . 5. Though thereswas not much Barley in market, former prises were obtaicied wick di ffi culty. Oats stationary. Beans, best tick, 46a. per qr.. being 2. la. ; common feed, 40s. to 425. Peas and Rye without alteration. Wipengsraa, May 6.-In Wheat a decline of Is. to 21. per quarter was submitted to. Best, heavy, 5.5 e. to 575. ; moderate, from 51s. to 53e. per qr. The best malting Bar ley, Is. per qr. less money. Oats remained firm, at the seuce of l ast market ; white, 28s. per qr. ; Scotch. 265. ; gmall &d ood sweet, teed, 225. Beans and Peas were ful l y 2s. per qr. below late rates. Whiacen, Mai 6.-We are not overdone with supply of grain tit any kind to-day. With weather as fine as be wished for, the Wheat trade rules very dull, at 2a. per qr. less money. Oats and Beans each in demand at better prices. Prices, to the growers: Wheat, floe white 611bs. to 621b5., 46s to 495. per qr ; red, 455. to 47.. ; goiid runs, 60110. to lillin., white, 40e. to 461. ; red, 435. to 45+.: common, 67115 i. to . 59ffis., white. 41s. to 435. ; red, 40s. to 4'3. feed, Oats, fine nes ir soling, per stone, 10 1 d. to Ild. ; good, new, 10d. to 101 d. Beans, new, 35e. to 375. per qr. Woaceeren, May 8.-Wheat, 16e. 3d. per beg of 9 wore 101bs. ; white Wheat, 18e. 6d. to 191. 6d., being a reduction of 2s. per quarter front last week's rates ; little doiag last in other d e scriptions of grain, and prices nominally u week. Yona, May 6.-The weather is now fine and warm, hadd mor e favourable for the growing crops. We have a small show of Wheat at market to -day, which met • slow sale at a decline of Is. to 2s . p er qr. The demand for Malt ing Barley being nearly over, prices are; unaltered. Beans and 04s are in limited supply, and sell in retail at our quotations: Wheat, white, 50s. to 545. per imp. qr. • red, 475. to_,sos. rley, malting, 32..8 e au, 31,, t ,„ 365. Rye, 34.. to 375. Malt, 60s. to 625. Oats, 104. to 11d... per stone of 1411 m. Hour, 365. to 40e. per sack of the interregnum interregnum which it had to pate over In order to arrive with order and without anarchy at Its unanimous and definitive reign. Our first thought has been to shorten that interregnum by immediately c o nvoking. the national repreeent•tion, in which alone rests right and power. More, citizens, without any call than that of public+ danger, without any f ur other than that of Our devetl.oll, trembling to accept, but ged to re-establish the depository i f the destinies of the eountm we have had but onu ambition—that of abdicating the dictatorship in favour ot the sovereignty of tee people. The throne oast down, the dynasty flying into voluntse/ exile, we did proclaim dos republic, and it proclaimed I by the mouth of an entire people. (Luud and reiterated op- p l c se .) We only wrote down the cry of the nation. (Re newed applause.) The Pak/01)14NT: Citizens, despite the justest motives you m ay hove for applauding such noble thoughts, it is my duty to remind the neernasly and the public that all signs of an probation or disapprobation are prohibited. M. LAIIAZILLIS continued: Our first thought, as well as the first want of the country, after the prociemmons of th üblic, w e repas tre.establide. ment of order in Paris; a work which w ou ld have been more difficult and more meritorious in other times, and in which we were Mist, dby the dozen.. Whilst still holding in one hand the gun by which royalty had been overturned, this maguanimous people supported with the other the conquered and the wounded of tie opposite party, protecteu the life and property of the inhabitants, and pre served the public monumenis. History t o registered the mamma as acts of heroism, probiiy, and disinterestedotse which darecteneed these first days of the republic. Up to that time the people had sometimes been flattered by being told of is virtues: posterity, which fitters not, will find ex pressw• ns wanting to depict the dignity of the people of Paris. It was that people which inspired us with the first decree destined to give its real signification to its victory, the dare, for the abolition of death for political offences. It umpired that decree, adopted it, and signed it by an &edam tilli of two hundred thousand voices on the square and quays of the Hotel de Ville. France end Europe felt that • tevoletiou inaugurated by greatness of miud would be pure as an idea, 'magnanimous as a sentiment, end holy as a virtue. (Great applauw.) The red flag tor • moment preeented, nut as • symbol of threat and disorder, but as a temporary flag of victory, was put aside by the people themselves, in order that the republic 'eight be covered by that tricolor flag which had shaded the milk, and borne the glory of our armies upon ever, oonti sat and on every sea. After having established the authority of government in Paris it was necessary W have it recognised in the departments, the colonies, In Algeria, and in the army. Telegraphic despatches and waters were sufficient for this. France, the oelonies, end and the army recognised their own thought in the republic. There was no raistance either of • hand, of a voice, or of a free heart a France on the installation of the government. Our second thought was for the foreigner. Europe, undo. tided, was awaiting the first word from France. This flat word was the abolition by deed as by right of the reactional treaties of 1815, liberty returned to our external policy, the dale:alien of peace to territories, sympathy with notione e l justice. loyalty, and moderation to governments. Franco, in this manifesto, disarmed her ambition. but did not disarm her ideas. Her principles shone forth aid that was all its war. The repot of the minister of foreign affairs will tell you what of legitimate for the influences of France this system of open policy has produced, and is to produce. This policy commended to the Minister of war measures in harmony with this system of armed negotiations. It re-established with energy the discipline which had scarce been shaken, and it called back into Paris the army for a short time re moved from from within its wall in order to allow the people to arm itself. The people, henceforth invincible, ceased nut to demand with loud cries their brothers of the army, not as a surety, but as • decoration of the capital. The army was no more in Paris but an honorary garrison destined to prove to our brave soldiers that the capital of the country, belonged to all its children. We decreed, moreover, the immediate formation of a council of defence, and the formation of four armies of ob servetion—the army of the Alps, the array of the Rhine, the army of the not th, the army of the Pyrenees. Our marine, confided to the hand• of the same minister, as the second arm of France, was embed under its chiefs, in • discipline, commanded by the sentiment of its watchfulness. TM fleet of Toulon goes to show its colours to the triends of Frame on the shores of the Meuiterranean. The army of Algiers had neither an hour nor a thought of hesitation. The republic and the country mingled them selves in its eyes in the same sentiments of duty. A chief whose republican sentiments, and whose talents were his gages of faith for the army, and the revolution, General Cavaignac, has received the charge of Commander in-Chief in Algeria. The corruption which had penetrated into institutions the most holy obliged the Minister of Justice to operations de manded by the cry of the public. He proceeded at once to separate justice from politics. The minister caused with pain, but with inflexibility, this necessary separation. In proclaiming the republic, the voice of France hes not proclaimed simply • new form of government. She has pro claimed a principle. This principle was a practical democracy, equality of rights, fraternity by institutions. The revolution accom plished by the people ought to organise itself in our judgment for the profit of t he p eo p le, by a continued series of insittu.iors, fraternal and tutelary, proper to confer regularly to all conditions of individual dignity, instruction, information, reward, morality, the element" of labour, support, succour, and that security of property, which will suppress the sante name of rroletaire, and which will elevate the workman to the height , of his rights, his duty, and the benefit of the first-born of property. To elevate and enrich the one, without abasing and degrading the others, to preserve proprrty, and to Ten , der it more fruitful and more sacred by *multiplying mat the hoahbAl ireei manner d t n to o o b f t e_a_r maketl i t e t h g greatest createet e mh a e t , i r t: nt.bdneyupi weight the ibew t t e . c rfa t 'al i n n tr.d g upd a upoi nd tcier' s ilb u tlhiu cc noeeteg ou thi triwenh°gtaxu:arethetioen i n to state labour, which has accidentally failed by the fact of an intimidated capital, lentil Gore shall not be a single work man its France who shall stand in need of bread—in fine, coal stu dy with the workmen themselves the practical phenomena and truths of association, and the theories still problematical of systems to s earch out conscientiously their application', to collect th eir ' truths, to prove their errors— such was the idea of the Provisional Government in all these I decrees of which it confided the execution, or the examina tion, to the Minister of Finance, to the Minister of Public Punishment—in fine, the Commiesion of Luxembourg, labo eatery of idea, congress, preparatory and statistical ot labour and of industry, enlightened by delegate", studious and intelligent, of all laborious professions, and pre sided over by t w o members of the government it self. The sudden fall of the monarchy, the disorder of the finances, the temporary idleness of an immense moss of ope rative, the rude shocks which these. masses of unoccupied hands were likely to have given to society—if their reason, their patience, and their patriotic rieignation had not been exercised to a miracle and excited the admiration of the world ; the exigible debt of nearly a hun dred millions which the frustrated government had accumulated in the first two months in the repub lic; the universal commercial and indu-trial embarrassments on the Continent and in England, coincident with the poli tical crisis in Paris ; the enormous accumulation of railway charm and other values left is the hands of holders and of bankers, through the monetary alarm; in fine, the imaginary fears of the country, which invariably go far beyond the uuth in periods of political agitation and of social disorder, had drained the working capital, suspended free and volnn tary labour—labour alone equal to 3t millions of souls. It was necessary provisionally to compensate this temporary deficiency, or belie all the principles, all the pru dencies, all the succourable neceattits of the reputoow ic Th e Minister of Finance will acquaint you h these defections of labour and of credit were provided for, ence an ticipating the moment—at length arrived—when confid being restored, ropiest will return into the hands of =Laura turt rs, and wages into those of the labourer ; and when, your wisdom and your national power will overcome every difficulty. The union of the ministry of public instruction and of worship into the game hand was, for the government and for the country, • foreshadowing of the nove l situation which the republic would and ought to take in the double necessitof public teaching and oiginating in face of the law a fr e er and more conscientious r ezeiciae of free and equal i ° b °ll on our p e T. - i a na Wl Wn th ithe o: °ead theini and se nwaddiPossibility egi Paris,ibg.P r i Se n es1 go vernme nt i°d gon. i ot ; Luiruete,ren o na r fohoerl a ar r ivoi .h c i a . a : d rik, r t i oli c o m pl ete ly z i ipß( one guardndi ept!on e n c r oachmen t oadlonr pl an sieetPp proscrip tion ,eh, piece ioa m ing le n ,, cf b e l dt oig . d whole .. y. tyg.o. ww . a .p..th , ,, :: : : r-'l9U 6 ; iiit.. ta4ald ha ti ::: : :e . iy a ssase ba o l u t:: : m d a o rdb n ly tb security and ind ependence by arming and organism* th. -- armed people. or of a project of constituti on, would have been on= m a Ny es i C aS e ieeStil :l wi ro u Tite lo h nl e g rele a l pre. : 2l sh o n i ti f o lpo tesiow' sovereignty. We dime; pear as soon es you rim - ai, receive the republic from the hands of the pawl One desire, and that only in the name se a „.„, citizenship, not in that of member. of the Provisional -- mcnt. This wish, citizen reprmentatives, is felt sane& b y k ut i ara ran rin ce g tb:a v t b e y ie p i ri u p s n . c ty ip i a:L is th el i e t n m h :e y n c o t rY . o d f o o f h e n u i o m re t a u n:trin a c gi e s . ; eir im mi kt : regniun to cause the springs of the country to be weakens& ' Let • commencement of government spring front y et i ' booms ; do not allow power to float for ore as om .a. ' precis : ions and temporary on a country wants both power and seeurity ; let a committee of coati. tutions emanating from your suffrages bring rations and votes the simple, brief, and democratic r i me,„ nisei of the constitution, on the organic and secondary ins of which you will then deliberate. In the meanwhile .. - place in your hands our power. We place - acts also with confidence before your judgmea. and we only beg of you to take into ' the difficulties we have experienced. Om a 0,,, science reproaches us with nothing intentionally won g, Providence has favoured our efforts-pawed amnesty on em involuntary dictature. Our only ambition-all we Ilk isle ire-enter the ranks of the good citizens. Then ouly Mg history of our beloved country will inscribe with indulges. below, and far from the grist things done by Ftmpg e the recital of those torte months pastd in j vacuum between a fallen monarchy and a repsblie. to be eat &Wished, and may it be, amongst the obecure and fen gotten 111011.11 of those men who have devoted ih emae l m ti , ' the public safety inscribed only in its pages ; th a t a e the people, and that of God, who has %plumed all is the I foundation of the republic. Thin speech of M. Lamartine was received with great and prolonged applause. On his return to his neat, M. Lamartine received felicitation and Emit applause, M. Dupont (de l'Eure) embracing him with fervour. The PASO:DEIST then rose and said: I am sorry mate allow a few moments for the emotion which you lest; hit we are obliged to enter into the report of what has ham done. I think, citizens, that in order to bear the more et the Citizen Provisional Ministers we ought to follow theme. anion iedicated in the port just read to us by Citizen Laulartine. Yes , yes." re ) Then the fi rst minister toes called upon is the Citizen !COWES' of the leterior. I lathe him to mount the tribune where the assembly will be hem to hear him. M. Lznau-Rottis, provisional minister of the intake: Citizen representatives,-Called to the Provisional Germs Inept by the voice of tee people, I have to give you an as count of the administration Cl the departm e nt of the iatsa rior, which has been confided to me. (Signs of cariosity,) You do not expect loug details from me. H ea d, b an swer all your interrogations , I shall confine myself m rapidly placing belore you our acts and the motives wise inspired them. Brought to power by the triumph of ete republican principle, for which I have cuiven all my Ids (lor from my first entrance into public life up te this day I have never changed), I have resolutde defended its maintenance. The profound faith with weed I have devoted myself to it when it was persecuted meld only be strengthened by its glorious vicory at Paris, saint unanimous reception throughout France. ConvinAt e l .4 we lfare of the country consist al in the complete meat of all the consequences of the revolution, I bare with a jealous care watched its preservation. I have de aired that throughout the country it should be respected and understood. At the same time it was necessary by prompt and chain measures to prevent any overthrow of order, and to rejon the threads of the administration so violenty broken. This twofold thought led to sending into the departments commissioners en trusted with unlimited powers. (Sothis of disapprobation.) Unlimited powers ! That neeeiny word has been abused in order to direct against me the avert tack to two months since, and then it will In ' understood ; then it will be seen that the morrow d the revolution, surrounded by the conquerors from* barricades, I could not, without treason, confide to what hands than theirs the depository and the defence of liberty. (Marks of apprubmion.) Full of zeal, devceion, and cid faith. they were to inspire the country with that idea rebid they bad made to triumph. Doubtless some among them were not administrant, Who will dispute this ? That is not the question. We ant have soldiers to continue and to propagate a victory, tad especially to render it lasting and pecific. That errors has. :i been I committed, is possible. When this knowledge ha reached me I have not hesitated to pronouns@ as words of recall. But can you cite to me mit this great and rapid movement one single pp blow to the rights of citizens committed by firm and courageous men who have been termed proconsuls. The citizens have answered this quis Lion by investing the majority of them with their= and they now Sit among you. For the re st, the sent by, me, which have been the pretext for eo meamda carnations, were indispensable. Hal I not writtaliffisita therupoeynntawthobueyldwr,diaresvd:_aswpwl:hellichg above-(M. ..ithrifembletythineisofftotreethovott cigr;trutyrelmaMebiamplie: vre:gtetirmddamnaetot.iontmohfeortheomevorenderv.ollresukntipoin:ary6bailinpdrintylci.hplaheviecchosil.dtentoothampuistainet iia mit an authority re g u l ar and limited. Placed in the fi at ea a sudden, I would have been culpable to weakens, the :momentary exercise of a great power, in fawns* and correcting abuts, it is necessary to give in silvans* means to vanquish all obstacles in order that obstacles MI not present themselves. (Hear, hear.) My public instructions, the energies of which had always for their object the destruction for ever of all culpable lupe, have been every day e x p lained b y my correspondence. I am ready to submit to the assembly all the volumbious Ma. menus of this labour , an d I do not fear that it will find a single despatch which is not enema& at once with an ardent desire to make tie revolutiselY umph, and a constant thought of coneilietioo, o oublerder, sail peace. (Applause.) It is to accomplieh this d per ' pose that I have consecrated all my efforts. I would has failed in &lithe antecedents of my existence-I would laws lied to all the doctrines which I have constantly profened if I ot been at the same time the man of the Reeolatim who s wish d to transform society anti the county, and the man of government who accomplished prossw ' by the power of ideas, and who proscribed all aerate 1 violence and disorder. It was for this reason that in ais days I caused the national guard of Paris to be maid a a equipped, and endeavour. d (but succeeded leas than I eta have wished) to arm those of the departments, persuadeidai I disciplined force is au instrument of order, b• cause nista ) symbol of the dignity of the citizen. (Bear, Ma Ivihatvaenp:Lidpeadmfeolrythoehaotrgoanisaf rwiratioin:micleofthisin:is,anbdinsaiat' vaingsw I ounce of the guild motile, for the creatiod of asa tiouary corps destined to maintain the peace of this I great cite, for the formation of an innitutia an indissoluble knot the municipal and the judiciary paw, sad placing the public security under the shelter of a can scant sutvrill. In there danc e ais of trouble and inquietude I watch witbeat teasing. It us by an absolute :devotion to :my duties LW i I beat respond to the infamous calumnies of which I hareems the object. I have never seen in this profligacy withal example anything but a stronger reason to deka intrepidly a cause which the tury of some Meow would have compremised in my person. Iha of de ve code &ace in the good sense of t he nation in the justice assembly, and I have thought that, soldier of the revolutle , I ought to suffer all for her, and not to lose, !" endeavouring to rebut those odious falsetiolds, t precious time which your service now claime togetkY d al For the remainder, all my actions are public, thi ir free t''' cuss ion belongs to you, and no w that y our sovereigetY be' deranged me from the burden of affairs, eh private causal will thud me ready to confound it. I have passed through the most difficult circumstances,. ing within the limits of my budget. In three weeks I tis , . prepared and organised the a pp lication of universal sulfere and, allow me to say, that it any accuse me of error in W. details, they have not taken sufficient account * the infinite persevering labour by means of went I have been aerie over the en:ire republic to peeing I mode of election which, three months since, was deelassille possible. Foe me I shall be proud of having been the bile ment of this fi rst act of mauhood of a people receive:deer rights. P r oceeding from these general principles, I could WO wished to itiroduce into the mechanism of the adminiamil i changes destined to render it more simple and mom WI medic. I thought that reforms could be neither iselellif partial, and that they would be more wisely a ......Eir that which will bold a definitive power from your 1 feared to b r ing trouble into the administra"Ne-7111 at the moment when it was most essential to pe c 4 7 0 its regularity. Moreover, why should I __,, it ? lam above all anxious to SAV O the revolution Ws I serve order. I have wished to preserve to the popular OS its grandeur, lie purity. its social influence. and di I hem wished, while defending it against the mares of a re-actiun, to protect it from violent ambitions M goons impotence. Th u s, when, answering to an imprudent step, thee population of Parse came without arms to press the eional Government by it e paci fi c number., I jot • ned ift metes in this solemn demonstration; but on the dal' so me mad men endeavoured to i ervert the sense lad! of such a manifeetation I did net hesitate to cambial This resolution, far iron being illt effort hi en my part, been the consequence of principles he which have hi guided me ev-n in opposition . N othin g can really but that which is ripe in ideas. Real supe r i o rity me_' lMs distinguishing those w hich can reasona bly be mniT T cui he n h o ah lo d n of r ittrx,pea.opllemhpasrudteonrut wthoeuidve il arres lhhuirel t ro if t, t he an e p .tsi o hli n tet i utv a m r po d tzcowtermourt;weohfLetblitioenarer: pLotlicedortx:e;h:texitniwhil:axisodim N. Cuznieusoniu , . c .. d i o to and he gave an account of the principles whi o cdannietration. lie spoke of the tank agiunr elf 1 " - ‘ ,.. inifiodmermagthe 6 o traw ld eee in te . mais,:anludrei7thwe,wepaiyediuswit°:;:. Zhe elprtoo. 280th", Dentro, May 5.-Our supplier of grain this week have been MAIL and on Tuesday Wheat realized an advance of 64. tole, per barrel ; whilst Indian Corn receded 6d. to Is. per quarter. This day we have no further change to notice in the value of any article. The following was the general currency .-Wheat, white, 28e. to 31s. 64. ; red, 264. to 295. 6d. :40111s. Ohs, 10s. to Ils. 6ti. per 196 lbs. Barley, 14 .. to 16.. 6d. per 2241 b. Oatmeal, Ils. to 12s. per cwt. Flour, second , . 15s. to 16s. per cwt. Indian Corn, 28s. to 335. per 4801ba. BET.FART, May 4.-We have got into fine seasonable and even forcing weaths r, ant, from the smallness of the supplies forward at market we conclude that every hand is enraged in the fields cempletiog the spring sowing. Wheat bass ad vanced 64 rinee this day week, and is in demand; parcels of both foreign and home-grown are inquir:d for. Flour un charged in e.ilue m a i ns saleable at late prices. Barley scarce, and priori well ined Oats sell at the advance noted on Friday, lo tug fully 2d on the week. Oatmeal sells slowly at former rates. Indian Corn sells elowly at th advanced rates of last week. ray, 71. 6e. to 71. 7v. Od. per ton. e Coat, May 5 -Trade continues far less brisk than is desirable, and there is still an absence of that animation sad actitity whit h should characterise commercial operations The run on our local savings bank has nearly ceased, confi dence in the admirable system on which it is conducted, and the regular manner in which the details of the business are cirri d nut, having relieved the minds of the depositor , fr ma all spirt h ashen and doubt as to its security. We have had one or two arrivals of foreign grain (chiefly Indian Corn) during the week, The supply of home grim is trilling. The supply being mall. the value of all descriptions of grain is pretty well supported. Wheat realizes the prices of last week, while the rates for prepaid Wheats also are much the same as at our last, namely 275. to 28s. per barrel. In Bar ley these is little alteration, except in the matter of prime samples, which, for seed purposes, brought more money. The mime reinsrks apply to Oats, of which the receipts this week have been the lightest since the season opened. For prepared Oats we do not alter our quotations of last week. ,The trade in Indian Corn is quiet. We have less doing, god prices rule in favour of the purchaser. Of Indian Meal the same may be said. The inquiry for prime Flour is languid The lower kinds of coarse Flour, however, con tinue in fair demand. LIMERICK, May 6.-The lateness of the seams, end fine favourable weather for tillage, caused the supply of grain this week to b , merely nominal. A large arrival of Indian Corn ; site demand continues good; yet holders are anxious to sell, and price ha receded 2s. 6d. to 6s. et ton. Very little doing is free-on-board Pales of any gra. Some Oa's were wild st lle. 3d. to lle. 6d. per barrel, 4241b5. In other breadstaffs a liberal demand, without change in price. Wheat, red, 154. to 154.1.; white, 16d. to 184 d. Oats, Old. to 104. Barley. 1044. to 12d. per at. Indian Corn, 0a1u5,.71. 12. 6d. ; Ibreil. 71. 10s. Other ports, 71. ss. to 71. 10s. Indian Meal, 71. 15s. to 81. 25.04. per ton Flour, 324. pee b g. Wsvggeonn, May 6.-Areturn of fine weather during the week has ena"led our farmers to resume their field opera tions ; in consequence of which, the supplies of all kinds of grain to our market have been limited in the extreme. The few samples of Wheat on offer have with difficulty been quitted,,st a decline of ffil. to Is. per barrel; but Barley and Oats have been in wool demand at the full currency of Satur day last. Indian Corn has been quite neglected, and, except at a re4pc , ion of 6d. per barrel, sales to any extent could not have ben eff , cted. The best descriptions of Flour command a read Pale at the prices of this day se'nnighe ; but in )eyior sorts mutt b' noted rather lower. Present prices of Grain, Flour, Ac.: Undried Wheat, mile 1 lers', per 20 stone, 275. to 28s. ; shipping, 2.55. 6d. MI 265. Barley, malting, per 16 stone, 14s. 9d. to 15s. ; grind ing,2t 13 .to 14s, Oats, white, per 14 at., 10 s. to Its . ; black, Os. to 10s. 9d. Prepared : Wheat, millers', per 20 st., 0. to 305.; shipping, 275. 6d. to 28s. Barley, malt ing, per 16 at., 15s. 64. to 16.. ; grinding, 15s. to 15e. 6d. Oats, w hite, per 14 at., ails. 3d. to Its. 6d.; black, ails. to Ils. 3d. Flour, superfi ne, p er each, 36e. to 375. 64.; se conds. 345. 6d to 35e. ; thirds, 30s. to 25.; fourths, 235. to 2.5 e. Intlian Corn, Danube, per 20 st. 3 , 18s. 64. to 19s. 3d. Americipa, yellow and red, 18s. to 18e. 64. ; Spanish and Portueue.e, 15s. to 161. 6d.; white, 15s. to 16e. Gd. ; damaged, for cattle, 12e. to 14s. Indian Corn Meal, per cwt.., 7s. - 6d. to Bs. Oatmeal, pet cwt., 10s. to tie. Brian, per 6 stone, 3s. to 3s. 2d. KIRKCALDY, May 6 -We have this week a most COM plete change in the weather; from being bleak, wet, and cloedy,it has become mild, dry, and even brilliant, auchlss we do not &ten experience in May. Already its effect is app.:rent in the improved appearance of the fields. At our country markets this week the; little graha offering was readily token off. Wheat at last week's rates. Barley, Beane, and Pt as at le. per qr., and Oats at 6d. per qr. ad viltee. Dere to-day the supplies of all kinds of ;train were very small. Wheat met a Ter/ slow sale, at about 21. per qr. decline from lost week's prices. Barley and Oats sold quietly :'the former at Is. per qr. &demise, and for fine qualities of the latter, 6d. per qr. over last week's rates was paid. Wheat, 43e. to Ms. per qr. Bosley, 28e. 6d. to 31s. Oats. 20s to 245. Oatmeal, per bag of 2 801 be., 335. MaaelettLats, May 2.-Lfttle or no improvement has yet taken place in our market ; everything, however, remains quiet, ata, now that the elections are finished, and that the majority ' belongs to the moderate republican party, we inset he* that confidence will shortly return and some amendment:take place in commerce. Inuit follows the guns inactive course m other merchandise : fine, 62 to Yellow Polish Oder' could be purchased at 395. free on board. For Salvrderes ifarksto acs We Pelt. MAILS. The embed steal wale, Ots Menelliss, So the Manweraeme, Imo. A•wa Oryeni. lade. lieneaCees, be., will be ode u p la *b. eerier inn edi War. The mile ilse VINO, OfliAlbaU. 1111theint, C e dli, sad Oftweller wlll be ewes op ca tb• et Ms Stis May. The mills fer WWII Asides, sal the UMW Mtge, will be sone we Wee "Min et-11kk 1147. The West Idle Wellss"W Samate, Mx" 11010bono.= ObinWitte One. TWO% sad POO L IT = Insbettes Iht Seta hinethas ,sseves„ Noma Warn Osset j er m Ak°l=sad IL keessols. Nhe will he mode 1M Was asetsiatel Ws 17th May. The M ad e% Iss Mrsitest MO% Weems, the Innen Islam* w• t Ads% 010" bilk lisetaleapt sad hios, Me South/say. toe. mu ha mule up ea Ile wiestai albs SW May. ths wets kr Sew les& Wel" Tea Dismenn land, ead New tweet g o tss arts up ea she ereslag of Me IRA M y. Tie min tar the West Oct of Africa mg Measire will be New ap ea theeveabsefthe 314Mey„ Tie MIN lir MO Wen* the Lvov Flats MOM Video, Perusa ble.% labia Iladdrs, and Burnam Ayres, will se made op on the emetei et die dead Jen a. NOTICE TO ADVERTISERS. The number of STAMPS issued by the authorities of the S t arapvtbos, during 1847, to the DAILY NEWS wa5.......... 3,447,00 9 This, we believe, is within ei9h4 per eenf of the number wonted to the Mor ning fieral4 Morning CArinsicis, and Morning Pose, ALL roc TOGITHILA. In addition to the above, boned to the DAILY NEWS, eloreasq Paper, there were lamed for the Evening Mdifices, TI M EXPRESS 778,714 Which wee sore, we believe, then were issued either to the Globe or Slandsrii. Evening Papers. -------- TO COILEMPONDSN TR. mut 41*M0...t0 Istrodod kw "TM lispett .... Losr. at Übe ea." 10. laramsommt bf ••• MOH WATIIt IT LONDO/ 1 Ts.s Dar—bleraln, t 4 ols.ort 61 SPers66.. &I al. pug I. T*l6essow-166raisg, IS 6.16. peg 6 AMMO% 46 mi. pia 6. LONDON. MONDAY. MAY 8. LEARNED professors may encourage. their young disciples to make a revolution but to give that revo lution and the interests which spring from it stabili , y, to or the new state of things and attain unity and order—thew are tasks somewhat beyond proke serial habits. DAHLMAN/4, the learned antiquarian, .uceeeded in raising the students of Kiel against his Majesty of Denm ark. The poor boy s have been slaughtered, and Prussian soldiers obliged to be called in to devastate the disputed portion of Schleswig by war. The same Professor DAHLNIANN has now con , cocted a constitution toe Germany highly Clattering 0 Frankfort, which is to be the seat of the new I empire, but with as little chance of being carried into effect as the empire of Samtasitts has to be resus citated. The only persons who have set seriously a have bout tbeen he work of erecting German unity and empire M. sere. HECKER, STRUVE, and HERWECII. They air d, „ Down with princes, royal and ducal!" But except amont the erman operatives from Paris, inoculated w it h ParipiaGn theorice, and certain of the ignorant peasantry of the Black Forest, these demo crats could mute no followers. Th ' Germa ns re pudiated HECKER and his republi and d ha ve both n out at the point of the bayonet. Princes and principalities, therefore, survive and flourish by the will of their people, the people I taking pleasure in exercisin p r their local influence and power in the na me of theirince, which a German emperor in a central republic would curtail. With all the cry of the Germans for unity it does not therefore appear that they are likely to arrive at anything more than the old federal bond. They can never, indeed, attain so much. To elevate any federal head, or Frankfort Emperor, as Lord Paramount. over the King of PRUSSIA or the Emperor at AUSTRIA would be impossible. These pot's tates have far outgrown the dimensions of the old princes of the empire. Each of these potentates Cr ther too great, and their people too proud, to obey to. o in in forming a Both together with G erman y may j common army, a common tribunal of appeal, in re moving commercial barriers, and establishing many institutions in common ; but that they should abdicate in favour of a German emperor may make a pretty fairy legend for Messrs. GRIMM, , Dst.limsNN, t d' ()Lams us. But any attempt to realise such a scheme a ould prove either a ridiculous abortion or cause a sanguinary civil war. ces of the There are, indeed , as yet, no appearan present German revolution becoming a social one. There has been no outcry against the nobles, u in Galicia, some very partial menaces or outrafes against the rich. And so far from insurrection taking a republican tone, princes have everywhere, even these most obnoxious, been able to stand their ground, by merely bending before the storm, and ac ceding to popular demande. 1 In the minor constitutional states of Germany the old liberal opposition has shown itself decidedly anti republican, and this liberal opposition has not, like' MM. PARROT and THIEL% in France, lost popularity' or itfluence. In Berlin, administrative power has been wrested from the Lands of the courtiers, the military chiefs, and the old functionary class, but it has not descended to the people. The Berlin cabinet iscomporied chiefly of bankers and large m anufacturers, of provincial celebrities and notabilities. Just as CASIMIR PERRIER and LAFFITTE were the great men of the French revolution of 1830, the BECKERATHS, the CAMPHAUSESS, and the Aueaswriteis are the inheri tors of the Prussian revolution of 1848. Although uni versal suffrage has been granted in Prussia, elections in two degrees neutralise its democratic conse quences. The bourgeoisie of Berlin are as alarmed and hostile towards the mob as that of Paris in 1831. Everything, therefore , in North Germany portends a Juste milieu reign, and a Berlin LOUIS PHILIPPE in FREDERIC WILLIAM. In Austria the 'evolutionary movement has not pro- I lgressed even so fur. The aristocracy here, therefore, 'continue to hold power. FIQULLNIONT, the favourite lecholar of METTERNICH, iS still retained, and although ha may be treated as TALLETRAND by republican France—his experLnce made use of, whilst hie councils are rejected and his tendencies checked — still Austria has Up new school of statesmen, as Prussia has, to replace her old once. The Viennese bankers have, however, been celled in to share power and responsibility, with the old noblesse. They command the national guard, and hence the support of their fellow-citizene. This is fortunate for Austria, for it has enabled her to keep up her army, and to equip and send a large por tion of it for the defence of Italy, at least to the Adige. From all this it would appear that the German 'movement has been checked—that in Austria it will be carried no further,not even in its assembl y ; and that even in Prussia there will be a majority for a juste-milieu s y s tem. The hopes and efforts of the enthusiasts will thus be confined to central and Southern Germany, hrough out which the future progress of events is more uncertain ; but in which, whatever elements there may be for a confederation of the Rhine, there are few for the reconstruction of a German empire. Very fortunately , indeed, there is no German empire for the present. The simultaneous attitude assumed by Austria and by France towards North Italy, leads to very anxious fears of a war. And this war, should it take place, it ie most desirable to confine to Austria and to Lombardy. The government of Vienna has been able to aespatch a large army to the Adige. France, on the other hand, has with publicity, rather than reality, devoted some three millions sterling to an " army of the Alps." France cannot allow the Lombards to be crushed, nor can Austria abandon her Italian domain, if the Italians be not able to resist her. Lord MINT() has been to CHARLES ALBERT':3 head quarters with the proposal that Austria should be left quietly in possession of the Venetian territory, on condition of her not molesting the Lombards west ward of the MinciO. CHARLES ALBERT, we learn, has rejected the proposal, nor could he have done otherwise. We do not think that such an accord would be pos sible or lasting. Italians must look to have all Italy free and independent. It would be base, cowardly, and inconsequent to abandon one of the nobleet portions of the country, the brightest jewel of the Italian tiam. If Italy cannot conquer the freedom of Venice, Italy retains the independence of the rest of the peninsula but by sufferance: her territorial deliverance is incomplete, and her liberal regeneration an insecure compromise. Net if an Italian army cannot reduce the fortresses of the Adige, France must do it for them, and France, in I , doing so, ahquires the virtual suzerainty of Italy, i , which A ustria has lost; and Italy sinks thereby into the wre shed dependent condition of Spain, ruled by ministers who dare not trust the national strength, and who instead of ruling their own country inde pendently, are busily cringing to the foreign I powers : their cares and anxieties being directed to THE EXPRESS, MONDAY EVENING, MAY 8, 1848. was 151,0721. That the elk* of the maim damp ti ii a is to create a peaeimissope.ly hl favour of anti -priced sewsprove--we aught safely say duds h paVioseserspaper--is obvious from the aP and bitterness with which the depreeates any change. That the high advertise meat duty precludes many from using newspapers as their wlvertisin channel, is notorious. g l' he 11. IL. 61 of advertisement duty charted upon -and-eight-penny advertisement in upon one six this paper is conclusive on that point. There tan be no doubt that an equitably proportioned stamp duty and a reduced advertisement di.ty would 0001140 D an increase of newspaper circulation and advertising business that would at the least make up any deficit occasioned by lower rates. We feel convinced that it would do much more. It is not any apprehension arising out of financial calculations --it is the dread of free newspaper stric tures that prevents ministers and parliament from substituting an equitable proportionate fur the present uniform stamp duty, and from reducing the duty on ad vertisements. AU charge is refused in these imposts in order that the free expression of public opinion may be indirectly checked. Ministers are afraid to do jus tice lest their tool, !he Tinges, should turn upon them. FRANC H. PARIS, SATURDAY, 6 P.M. In my despatches of last evening I sent you a re port of the prooeedings of the Chamber up to the mo ment of eke election of too president, M. Beebe', which took place so late as six o'clock. The house afterward' elected vice-presidents, secretaries, and quest:ors, and did not adjourn until half-past twelve. the following are the results of the elections: Foe Tea rasinestee—Numbar of voters, 727. M. lluehea, 390 ; M. Treat, 234 ; M. Kurt. 9l ; N. Voir hsio, 11 ; M. Cormen in, 3. t 4. Duch( c, having obtained the required ms,ority , was declared duly elected. FOR THIS VICS-PaliaIDENTS.—The cumber of members voting was 727. and the von were thee distributed: M. Recur:, 633; M. Cavaigaso. 676 ; M. Corbon. 397; M. Guinard, 378 ; M. Cormenin, 3111; M. &mud, 319. Foe Telt SECSITASI es.—Nuroner of votes, 633. Peopin 365 ; Robert (des Ardennes), 333; Drfteorges, 326 ; Felix Pyat, 322; Lacrosse, 287; Emits Pima , 252 . } . Oll. Tits QuillToll.—N umber of voter+, 699. Degouske, 4891juriBungnathusedetvl'enusinys, 3 6e 38 v ; eral C1 altelreaNiiiiiorineer,fotk. place between the members, marked with much vivacity. In these MM. Barbes and Etienne Arsgo were ob seem' to take prominent parts. Occasionally the disputes assumed even a violent character ; the epi thets "aristocrats, terrorists," dic.,being loudly uttered on either aide. In one or two cases cards were inter changed been M. Barbee and other members. The result of the elections is considered to be hhly favourable to the moderate party, which forms h ig hly large majority in the Chamber. It is not understood that either section of the Pro visional Government is prepared to bring forward a protect of a constitution. 'this will most probably emanate from the party in the assembly of which the left centre of the ex-chamber will form the nucleus. P. is understood that the assembly, which will con tinue its session to a late hoer this evening, will, be -1 fore it adjourns, nominate an executive committee in lieu of the Provisional Government which has re signed, for the purpose of carrying on the govern ment from the present time until the constitution shall be definitively declared and established by the assembly. It is not known whether this executive committee or the assembly itself will nominate the in terim ministry. It appeared, however, to be generally agreed that it is essential that the government should be homogeneous, and that it should not, like the pre sent Provisional Government, be distracted by con flicting opinions. Among the rumours which have been in circulation, one is, that a programme of the constitution will be put forth in which the executive will be assigned to three consuls, the names for the first turn being MM. 1)e Lamartine, Thiers, and Merrast. The rumour which I mentioned in my despatch of last evening of a triple combination, conaisting of Dupont (de I'Enre), lle Lamartine, and Ledrultollia, is also circulated ; and it is added that M. Ledru-Rollin is already preparing to quit the hotel of the Ministry of the Interior. A report prevailed to-day in the chamber that " at troupements " of operatives were about to arrive there. This was partly confirmed later ; 150 women from the national workshops presented themselves and de manded to speak to M. Ledrceltollin on the subject of their labour. M. Ledruitollin, declining to answer this demand, M. Pagnerre, secretary to the govern ment, received them, but his answer not satisfying them they gave utterance to much abusive and offensive language against the government, where upon M. Pagnerre withdrew and the crowd was dis persed. In the course of the day complaints were loudly expressed among the representatives against the Pro visional Government, for having encroached upon the right of the country by appointing a governor of the palace of the chamber. It was observed, however, by some that the remedy for this abuse of power was in the hands of the assembly, who might dismiss the officer so appointed. "lhe Montteur says :—" We believe we may affirm that the Fete of Fraternity, which had been first fixed for 4th May, then postponed to the 10th, will take place on the 14th. A report was prevalent at the chamber of the National Assembly, at four o'clock, that Peachiera had been taken by the Sardinian army. It had come from the Bonrse,and very little credit was given to it. NATIONAL ASSEMBLY.—SArt.RDAT. The legislative palace within and without pre seuted nearly the same aspect as yesterday. AU ap peared tranquil. A battalion of the national guard, as before, performed the service. 'f hose who arrived were first struck with a certain agitation which ap peared to prevail among the deputies, who crowded to the tribune of the journalists to demand if a re port was true that popular " attroupementa " were about to come to the Chamber and demand permis sion to defile through it. The alarm thus created subsided by degrees, when it appeared that the report had no serious foundation, and the different combina tions proposed for the creation of a new executive power became the general subject of conversation. At one o'clock M. Buchea tmk the chair, about 500 members being present. M. De Lamartine was ab sent. It was remarked that M. Ledru Rollin moved much about the chamber, taking a place successively beside different members, with whom he discoursed. After the " proces verbal " the president announced that M. Felix Pyat declined the office of secretary, to which he was elmted. At half-past one the verifica tion of powers was resumed, and proceeded without any incident worthy of attention. until the question of the election of M. Schmidt, our of the representa tives of Paris, was brought forward, which was ob jected to on the ground of the representative being wrongly described as an operative, when in fact he was a " maitre des requetes." This election, on the re port of the bureau, was annulled. Upon this a deli cate question arose —namely, whether M.Moreau, who mood next on the list, should not be immediately de clared the sitting member. M.Moreau being known to belong to the moderate party the proposition raised a viol. nt opposition from the ultras. The motion was strongly supported by M. Berryer, when the qeestion being fi n ally put to the vote there appeared to be a majority against the proposition, and, consequently, a new election for a member for the department of the '-'e will take place. worship. The Ministry of Agriculture and Commerce—from its nature quite foreign to political affairs—could only prepare with zeal and attempt with sagacity the new institutions requisite for the fecundating of the first of the useful arts •,_ it spread the band of the state over the fainting interests of commerce, which you alone can satisfactorily revivify by your authoritative acts. Such have been our differing and incessant solicitudes. Thanks to Providence, which has never more strikingly exemplified its intervention in the came of the people and of the human mind ; thanks to the people themselves, who have never better demonstrated the treasures of reaaon, of cieism, of generosity, of patience, of morality, ot true civilisation which fifty years of imperfect liberty , have elaborated in their souls ; we have been enabled to accomplish—imper reedy. of course, hot not without some success—a portion of that immense and perilous task with which, by events, we had been entrusted. We have laid the foundat ions of a Republic—a form of CONCLUSION OF SATURDAY'S SITTING. pnivenrcenmr; means h s ( Intl , hdetii:ierednetclianrestdruraimluractaanb thou le in M. DuroNT (Da L'Emtz), president of the council, proffered b foreign or CiTil wary, anarchy, captivity, sad said, the weakness of my voice not permitting mo to the scaffold ; we have demonstrated that • republic is com patible with external and internal peace, with perfect order, read with sufficient power the account rendered by with in dividual liberty, with amenity of manners an 4 the Provisional Government, I ask the permission of urity of morals in a people fur whom hatred is torture, and the Apembly to allow it to be read by . the Citizen purity of morals in a people fur whom hatred is torture, and r whom concord is a national instinct. Minister of Foreign Affairs, whose voice may be we have promulgated the great principles of equality, of heard in all parts of the hall. (Yes, yes.) fraternity, and of unity, which must, by developing them- Several Volers : We do not hear. accomplish the unity of a people selves day by day in our laws made by all and for all, The PRESIDENT : The venerable citizen Dupont through the unity of their (De l'F.ure), on account of the weakness of his voice, rectv"ll".. .. e have universalised the rights of the citizen by univer &eke that another should read the report. Citizen salising the right of the franchise t and universal suffrage Lqmartine has undertaken to do so. has been the result we have obtained. M. LAMAIITINE then aced as follows : We have incorporated the entire people into a national Citizens ? lam about to have the honour of reading to you guard—and the entire people have powerfully seconded us (for the citizen-Presidnt of the Provisional Government) by unanimously devoting the arms with which we furnish the preamble of the different reports prepared by each of tbe them to the defence of their country, of order, wish ed ministers of the Provisional Government, with a view of the laws. plaeica the aituation of Primes before the National Amemliy. We have passed five-and -forty days without any other exe- Citizen rep esentatives, — at the moment that you enter entire power than that derived from moral authority entirely upon the exercise of your sovereignty—at the moment that divested of physical attributes, and wbi : h the nation wit we place in your handatho powers which the revolution had tingly recognised in us ; and the people consented to be provisionally confided to us. We first of all owe to you as governed by persuasive speech, by our counsels, and by its account of the state in which we found, and of the state in own generous 12 *pirst . " 5. which you youretivea found, the country. We have passed morethan two months of a criais—of ow- A revolution broke out on the 24th of February. The pro- tion of work, of misery, of elements of political agitation and plc overthrew the throne; itsworeon the wreckof that throne ial anguish, accumulated d in innumerable masers in a henceforward to reign alone and solely by itaelf. It charged c h ipital of a million-and-a-halt of inhabitants, without having ”revisionally to provide for the danger and atonalities of property violated, and without a We threatened by Paris and to London, rather than centred in Madrid• One would almost as noon ass Italy under the Austrian yoke, as governed by molt creatures as 1 CHRISTINA and ICsavars. Sons malicious fairy must have sat cross-legged at Lord Mostraru's birth. The sight of • statesman of high intellect, the most imaginative of his party, perhaps, tied to an ungrateful law of 'dile ship, labouring and perspiring the live-long year in the vain effort to combat dirt and dispose, and gernieg peltedand defeated by these very antagontsts, is eainfid. But the scavenger eineute at the min ister's heels 4so xtravagant and so motle, that it is impossible not to enjoy the comicality of y their fury and absurdity, even though the laugh should in its objeet corairise poor Lord Moarzufs embarrassment. How characteristically did Colonel Surruciar open the debate by a denunciation of that modern i onnvthe Lion, the the patent water-closet, and a panegyric first he great conservative organ —we thought at was alluding to the Ames: but the object of the Colonel's adoration was merely what he called " The old garden reservoir "—robably something of the same kind. This admiration of the Colonel for the wisdom and habits of his ancestors puts us in mind of an anecdote of Louts XVIII., who, on returning to the Tuileries in 1814, was shocked to find it well the chord of his and fitted with these p a tent engines, of Colonel Suerdoar's dislike. His Majesty instantly ordered their removal, lest the court office of the Maitre de la Garde 214 e uld be abolishednment as a sinecure by some member o sho f a liberal gover like Lord Moeetern. Atter the uloacinous oration of the gallant member for the sweet city of Lincoln, the member fur Stafford rose, he said, to take a nosological survey of the ques tion. The singular result of this survey was to dis cover an exact similitud e between the sanitary policy of Lord MORPETU and that system of governmehas nt which has always prevailed in Fraser), ana which been the cause of all that country's disasters. Lord MORPETII, in Mr. URQUHA RT ' S eyes, was evidently a revolutionist as formidable as M. Lertairrths and Sir EDW.N I:HAI/V.1CM and Dr. SOUTHWOOD SMITH are the Bt./trout and CADET of theA e hon. member for Staff ord's fears. Mr. URQUH followed this up by some fragment of a " Philosophy of History ? " quite his own. 'Cleanliness is gall'- ', nem" said Mr. URQUHART, "and old things were Oben." So that dirt is a mere modern invention, 'winging altogether from the new-fangled centralise sien of modern times, and we have but to go back to the simplicity of our forefathers in order were to bo clean. In Mr. URQUHART'S view, the Romans the great models of cleanliness and municipal freedom — a the Romans who wore no shirts, nd the best of whom, in order to cleanse the crass filth from off their persons, were obliged to undergo the continued' process of steaming—these are Mr. URQUHART'S models. Look at the Cloaca Maxima and the l'uti seam—there &remodels of draining. Unfortunately for his theory, both were built by despots. by TARQUIN' and by 'll - rus, when centralisation prevailed to its fullest extent. As to the quarrel between centralisation and local administration, no rational person could desire' to abolish or weaken permaneutly the coul d But local administration, however it may be the right and the school of civic duties, is still conservative and sta tionary in its nature. It will preserve liberties and exercise them ; but it cannot improve or innovate or progress. When great chang es are required, eves for health or well-being, it is not the mayor or alder men who can efficiently undertake to levy a tax or arrange an outlay. Municipalities have no power to set in action force of self-improvement from within the government have. There must be a pressure and a guidance from without, and from around, and where there is not, no improvement can take place. What municipal body could combat even such a horrid and pestilential nuisance as an iutra mural cemetery' There are reforms in the Health of Towns Act, which it is quite clear will never be done unites some such act does them. We are for the remedying of these awful and shameful abuses by a dictatorial and national edileship if necessary. Our only proviso would be, let the dictatorship be respon sible, and temporary. Suspend local administration for a time, if faulty or unequal to tbesctual task. But abrogate none. Lord Moerarii, on Friday night, instanced 434 incorporated towns, or populous districts tantamount to towns, which had no powers of providing for health, sewerage, or any other common precaution, without this bill giving them the power. These he added 92 corporate towns, which had no adequate powers. The opposition in parliament is in fact got up by few, but influential and large conglo merations of citizens, who prefer the runic.- tenanos of their own jurisdiction untouched, though such immunity would be accompanied by the defeat of all efforts at sanitary improve ment, by a momentary submission to a central authority, exercised for the good of all, the unity of the system, and the sanitary amelioration of the kind ni. Nothwithstanding this, we do think that every thing ought to be done by the government, and every modification of the bill admitted , wh ich might appease the fears and soften the susceptibility of municipal in ' dependence. The power given to any fifty petitioners to supersede the local authorities by central super vision is perhaps too great a boon and an opening to municipal malcontentism. Such a call should be made by a more respectable minority, in order to war rant interference. And, above all, this power of in terference on the part of the government or the cen tral commissioners, ought to be more positively stated as temporary. if dictators are want ed, it is to drive a nail, and carry or especial reform; not to take the place of consuls, prtetors, ediles, and local administrators in general. We must own, that what we should regret most would be the de feat of every measure of sanitary re form, the triumph of such Botherbys as the BANKEs's and the URQUIIARTS, and that too manifest de monstration, that the grist cracy of this country were not the only class which opposed improvements and projects in order to protect their class interests and their uncontrolled influence. If it should be seen that towns were jog as little disinterested, and as much class-bound and prejudiced, reformers might hesitate as to the advantage of xansferring political influence from the notables of the House of Peers to those of the town corporation'. Ws: quoted last week from the Derby Mercury a notice of a report that government intend to reduce the newspaper stamp duty to ono farthing, and the advertisement duty to sixpence. "We do not be lieve the report," says the Mercury, bluntly. Neither do we; neither does anybody acquainted with the character of the exiting government and parliament. This country . used to pride itself on its (com paratively) free institutions and free press. At this moment the press labours under greater restrictions in Great Britain than in any other country of Europe —Russia and perhaps the Scandinavian kingdoms, excepted. The late movements on the continent have everywhere emanc ipated the newspaper press from censorship and from fiscal restrictions where such existed. In this country its development is stillehecked by stamp and advertisement duties, which, origin ally imposed for the avowed purpose of limiting its extension ; were from time to time heightened as its circulation was found to be still greater than consisted with the comfort of arbitrary or corrupt statesmen ; ' and have, in these latter dal s, been reluctantly abated as far only as statesmen of the old school thought it safe. The French government hasabolished the stamp duty on newspapers. The English government not only re-' fusee to abolish the stamp and advertisement duties, bat even to adopt the equitable principle of imposing the former in proportion to the price for which the news paper sells. The paper which sells for fivepence,end the paper which sellsfor threepence or twopence-halfpenny, are compelled to pay the same amount of stamp-duty. All that the Emc fish newspapers have of late been asking, is to be charged for stamps in proportion to the price the public pays for them, and for advertise ments at a rate which will not discourage advertisers. The CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUER cannot pre tend that in refusing this equitable request, ho is animated by a fear of diminishing the revenue. The total amount of income that he receives from these sources is not so great as to render very perilous the experiment whether in this case, as in so many others, reduced rates of impost money may not yield greater total returns. The net produce of toe newspaper stamp duty in Great Britain for the year which ended sth January, 1848, was 315,733/. ; the net produce of the advertisement duty graited—a favour of which he bail r ooked the parquets (said the v.' isalhafate, allie. 1 have only'l .. deemed indispensible so to do. dergene esme 'Meagre, and a one • ig . igutin of Strasbourg) was t, dal organisation. M. Loom Bts.se gave an ac• i pulsinE labour and creating a • grew which would render revole• • • li• Cefilcor then gave an 90009.1 The PILLSIDaNT then invited • . Affairs, it be was ready, to speak U. ',amiantus' °hooted, on .• the boar. U. Galealßlt PAOBS, the Miei .. : &moiled with his report, which w• •• Matsitestr, without being who& pert or Mr. BetLusn t, Minot. sitting was t o to Mood v _—_— Accounts from livrne have .- .. inst. The Swiss directory h, • nomad, received through the dinian eliar.i6 d'Affaires at th• for an offonsive and defensive zerland and Sardinia, has ref i they mud". remain strictly neut IT AL , LOMBARDY. —The Hal . • the correspondence and jour - • Venice 27th, Florence 29. h il inst. It was expected howl • amender. It weas closely ins: water, uud altogether depri , astenoe. The passage of the at Pastrengo, atter an obstin t: and the Duke of Savoy cow this conflict the boa on the have been inconsidetable. The commuaications wit). The garrison of Mantua lieut. 800 men on the 28th, but w' Major Landucci,commandir.4 courier from the camp of i h Milan Oh the 29th, annouhci general attack was to take pl On the 29th Giobetti sari was received by the people • • The Vienna Gazette, of t. rtis from the army of Ma dated Udine, the 27th ult., ,a The ban weather and rein re • meat of a bridge on the Taub... the vanguard at least will succeed 1 march with the main body f • detachments have already passe and have been well received by side. To day the communicad• opened, and a detachment was surg cnts around Ponteba, V • bare pertly dispersed, whilst t• mountains between the T renthian and Tyrolean fro the intention of joining the can not to leave any of them bell' allow the troops under General Venzone and Gemona. Lai i • and posts placed on the right which are placed in cornmeal which I had fitted out at Trice at the mouth of the Taglian en • Oar cellec ive columns v ere Tagliamsnto to the sea, and I wear closely bloc:tad d. Gene the frigate Bolton*, the brig • • Vali:ape, and other small c-a port is effectually oleek •, .1 by Plane and Tr , vivo will speed i ly of the bridges near C••drinio. The second despatch of Codriopo, the 28th, and s . the re with the greatest po. been obliged by the rain to 1 On the 29th hel :d, e d i I, vanguard In igade eet (Sch t on the Tagliamento, an• denone, from whence intell not yet been received ; advanced his left wing, w. cation with the flotilla of . population was well iavou Deputations had already places, and amongst eth • quarters, bringing in their According to intellig• n. the Plane have been des . GER INSURRECIIO PRUSSIA.—We have newspapers. Our cones. logne on the 4th says : An estafette arrived this a the intelligence that the city terday, and that the grew •st pears that a number of n. grossly ill-treated, on the bn• candidates at th•• late elec . ion • in that town terminated in Late en Tuesday evening the name into e .11'sion. The la ; and several of the forme, w I Our correspondent, wri The acconntsfrom Trf,v-s .• I I. 3rd inst. not less than .6 • I town, which General N on bombard unless the insorg - it mail cimmunication be to d interrupted, and the let i• estafette. The Trea t throb.ho,a reiine bo . ,akt:. td It has transpired that the obnoxious 26th in. us • ir. threats against the inLab et in denunciations of the new va 1.- them had even gone so f r from the hats of peaceful ci • as added to that of several • i. r 7, cited the greatest indigo •ti• us civic guard. The latter m •ts he on the night of the 2nd its tad gates, in order to prevent • alt and of the Üblans, who h hit alarm-bell commenced T• 11: the An immense crowd proc- • minded the release of Hee st) the charge of committing de Bk the part of a popular mad this to bring him back in trio - expelled by a number of itie of the troops stationed n I,b l crowd, and two persons km, - others slightly. The pen • car barricades, and continued thed night. The Cologne m ail tint entire breadth of the Fie' The result of the Fi- lets' the Rhine province and i • da l dal factory one for the cat no belonging to Roman ca: • • mod in numerous places. la net• of its priest, his two assistants, live clergymen in War , n• did, in the most dependent si at 4 , tut It is scarcely necessary to to are in the primary d will have to elect the .11 te de The peasantr y of We•tp stria , ' grievances to complain o • dice, the paucity of their re minuet *. The Cologn IN wit ing article, in which tl• e 1 1 MI F. and Westphalia is Tea 7r r tft - In Hamm the election lijnoidaid ati row tall ce Will pfejii 4 : : _ .: alikgitlat disposed osiehr e elections h h ed te e eein edect opposed ir moderate corike united lo o ut ei r, cr:ethewacointenGr the e the ai z u °a e d :: :: : :' ~,i , t i i . C '. i War seeded in electing a gi ••it ego constituent assembly i • A SO that capital may be col LSO In a former commu ii • s dick surprise of the goon • Whitt -• serve fund of some 30 m as at least indirectly, 1,: it 1 014 '• Contained about 8 ilio sal were, of course, busy w 0 4 1. after report was indu sr 11 4 It has now tzunspi hew never possessed any& , • at of 1 011 1 ." the former governme. kba ds: lainistke Penealt eveyr,wteite l Ts y real , fd be erieninftdd l biru o cetttm r d e Psi l to i c : a viol s ' millions, T u A ; B e "i : h g 6 more tt e n loomr.r and' e ei . 1 4, : n : , v. imr_, E that the former . swici r6lB:°"libatbibilibill" : ol , ;"".":" Ihmirsia: :Th :llP : f. 1 • Pope, at least for Hp, eel:" Pleased with • ..filn I *dada. the act . i ' le ni o t Vs , intelligence h.,- W re the 2nd inst. i- • . blierodawst.l I , vibe* SUS of the entire a r idalol l° Bak ankh is m irn , 3 d ta.....„ _.,.,r - towards the head welsw Vreschen, and Plot • • , had.