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

T a proscription, • peu,, drop cri blood sok. rnment in Pa-it. We map orship and mingle with the a citizen's salting*, °Whig ? " &fore calling the lag_ e ve completely ensured im arming and orienta t i ng eh. n a guard the whole of ae work is done, and your em. en if • plan of goveromost. would hate been on our psi ran encroachment upon yeee IL+ soon as you rise le the handle of the Ives one piece of y in the name of au )ers of the Provisional *entente*, is felt as well ry of circumstance ; lose as of human things, 4.f. r u do not allow • new inn* 'the country to be weakened', nernment spring from you to float for ore 0100111A4 on • country will* ty ; let a committee of coney. ,utfrages bring to your dela*. irief, and democratic am*. organic and wonder, We i mate. In the meanwhile we ✓ power. We place psi e before sour Jud i = take you to e into experienced. Our can, nothing intentionally wrong. :Aorta —passed amnesty on one only ambition—all we ask is ft Dud citizens. Then ouly the r will inscribe with indulges* ri at things dune by Fran*, mee months pauod in g monarchy and a republic. NI, amongst the olecure and kw rho hate devoted ig erese l,,,. s b only in its pare ; that el od, who hit blessed all in the uartine was received with l ause . On his return to his !ived felicitation and fresh I'Eure) embracing him with a and said: I am sorry not to he emotion which you feel ; bat to the report ot what has bees► t in order to hear the reports stars we ought to follow the ma. port just read to us by China Then the first minister to be inister of the Interior. I invite Mere the assembly will be ham risional minister o!theitterice: -- • ailed to the Provisional Govern. , ople, I have to alfll you MI le i of the departins nt of the jow led to me. (Signs of curiosity.) r details from me. R ei d, aions, I shall confine myself to our acts and the motives whir! to - , power by the triumph of Os hich I have striven rll ay 1111 sone into public life gg changed), I have ne The profound faith with it when it was persecuted s glorious vieory at Paris, alga nighout France. CorwinA s e: :onsiat .-d in the complete iences of the revolution, I haw led its preservation. I have der e country it should be respected !necessary by prompt and derisive I overthrow of order, and to rejoia oration so violent) , broken. id to sending into the departwaide • with unlimited powers. (Swat& %limited powers ! That neememy order to direct against me the wet judge of it me must go s since, and then it will be ill be seen that the morrow et did by the conquerors from the without treason, confide to other pository and the defence of liberty. Full of teal, deco. ion, and civil a the country with that idea whirl a h. st them were not adminKreton. That is not the question. We mast e and to propagate a victory, and sting and pseinc. That errors have ossible. Nt hen this knowledge Ws n ot hesitated to pronounce the it can you cite to me amidst id movement one single grave of citizens committed by those men who have been fearlessly Le citizens have answered this quer oajority of them with their suffrages, g you. For the rest, the instructor e been the pretext for so many de peorable. Had I not written thew, up from the force of circumstances. ,olutionary principle could not trans r and limited. Placed in the front have been culpable to weaken my -(ht. the Minister laid rest emphans the safety of the couutry had els , I know and I have said tnat with responsibility which accompanies tine of a great power, in foreseeing it is necessary to give in advance the . obstacles in order that obstacles any (Hear, hear.) na, the energies of which bad always traction for ever of all culpable hopes, explained by my correspondence. I the assembly all the volumbious aces or, and I do not fear that it despatch which is not impressed at desire to make tr e revolution Sri• thought of conciliation, order, aid It is to accomplish this double par crated all my efforts. I would have dents of my existence—l would hays a wl,ich I have conatantl), t r oL istila wawl—• e same time the man of th e ansform society and the eolatrie remment who accomplished prowess as, and who proscribed all appeal Ss r. It was for this reason that an a few .onal guard of P•inill to be armed and our, d (hut succ,eded leas than I could hose of the departments, persuaded that instrument of ore.er, b, cause it is the pity of the citizen. (Hear, heir.) me organisation, clothinc, and minute -1 melile, for the creatiod of a sl ed to maintain the peace of tips the formation of an inadulase that of guardians of Paris, binding . 11 the municipal and the judiciary po lies, is security under the sneiter of a ess- rouble and inquietude I watch • ies absolute :devotion to :my dut infamous calumnies of which I haenbille• never seen in this profligacy walla but a stronger reason to &AA which the fury of souse "WPM remised in my person. I Iwo am& use of the nation in the jades of IN a thought that, soldier of the »TOW.* all fur her, and not to loins lo rebut those odious falseholds, your service now claimed altos/AIM all my actions are public, th, it boar you, and now that your sovereigullrb M be burden of affairs, ali private tame a confound it. ugh the most difficult circuttistanallOMO of my budget. In three weeks bo o iced the application of universal en •Oille! • that it any accuse me of error in 0 0 _, • not taken sufficient accotint . ca tvering labour by meats of whack • over the en-ire republic to perfect 8 bids, three months since, was declared us hall be proud of having been the instrg tof manhood of a people recovering tfa t these general principle., I could Ws e into the mechanism of the a dministratio n ) render it more simple and more dente. that reforms could be neither isolated sot le y would be more wisely acoomp d lishedni a definitive ewer from your •overeignyf t r ouble into the administrative se na then it was 1110 n essential to preesrve Moreover, way s hould I It anxious to e tve the revolution as Ft' e wished to pr , serve to the popular vsnwr purity, its sexist billuence. I have inn ending it agailiSt the snares and ate protect it from violent ambitions or dal' owering to an imprudent step, thePleet' eleti l , ris came without arms to pre the it by it. pacific numbers, I joined wittiest .emu demonsira , ion ; but o n the day Al. .ndcavortred to I ervert t h e rose and rola' t a tign I did 0.4 hesitate to combat *Me If nom being an effort en my put, ha a art pence of principles which here u opposition. Nithing can ready be bet ripe to ideas. Real superiority cafe ose which can reasonably be earned_ oft people has torn the veil asunder. von ist. Imprudent would be he who strove. course of the republic for the 504 eat forme, which ari. wily a n instr oace ur a orm e i ads of the nation, called from MAW. minister of justice, was called to the triberf, ecount of the principles which dictisted e_t; lie spoke of the trills against the Pr; poem, and the peraecatious it 4017 0 s feeeitt Cf whorl intsnovabilk me ted —a favour of which he bad deprived them. I have revoked the parquets (said the =Mister), but not a slues west:me, asses : I have only suspended some vibes it seemed indispeenble se to do. Tbejegiee de gear have %m -assive, WOG ohmage', sad a entsdiake preided over by M. m ain (of Strasbourg) was busy in preparing the judi cial orwsitatlon. • Uliti4 BLANC gave an account of his efforts for or issuing labour and Greeting a minnow/ of work and pro ins", whic NOh would render revolution impossible. IL CANT then gave an &MUM of his ministry. The PRFAIIMINT then invited the Minister of Foreign /Ado, it be was ready, to speak. U. !AAA-LOT/NS OtOSOISiI, on account of the lateness of the hour. • OARNISI panes, the Minister of Finance, then pro- see ded with his report, which was left to be printed in the Monsieur, without being "oily heard. So was the re port of Mr. Betu.ntunt, Minister of Commerce, and the sifting sus adjourned to Monday. Amounts from Berne have reached us to the 3rd inst. The Swiss directory having, u we have an winced, co:rived through the medium of the Sar dinian charge d'affaires at the confederation prvotale for en offoneive and defensive alliance between Swit serland and Sardinia, has returned for answer that they must remain strictly nentraL ITALY. LOMBARDY. —The Italian mails have the correspondence and journals of Milan of the 30t Venice 27th, Florence 291 ult., and Turin the 21 inst. It was expected hourly that Pesch era would surrender. It was closely invested both by land and water. end altogether deprived of supplies and sub sistenoe. The passage of the Adige had been forced at Pastrengo, alter au obstinate resistance. The King and the Duke of Savoy commanded .in person. In this conflict the loss on the Italian side is said to have been inconsidetable. The cotnmnaicatious with Bohan° are interrupted. The garrison of Mantua sent out a foraging party o. 800 meu on the 28th, but were repulsed withioss by Major Landucci , commanding a b od y of Toscana. A courier from the camp of Charles Albert arrived at Milan ou the 29th, announcing that on that day a general attack was to take place on the whole line. On the 29th Gioberti arrived at Turin, where he was received by the people with great acclamations. The Vienna Gazette, of the 2nd twit., contains re poets from the army of Marshal Nugent. The first, dated Udine, the 27th ult., is aa follows: The bait weather and rain render difficult the establish ment of a bridge on the Taglismento. I hope, however, that the vanguard at least will succeed inpasaing to-morrow whilst I march with the mein body from Codriopo. Some small detachments have already pawed the Tagliamento in boats, and have been well received by the inhabitants on the other side. To lay the communications with the Tellathels was opened, end a detachment wee sent to Tolls:teas°. The in surgents around Ponteba, to the amount of about 1,600, have partly dieper.ed, whilst the rest have tied into the mountains between the Tagliamento and the Ks. reathian amid Tyrolean frontier, and probably with the intention of joining the bands around Cadore. In order not to leave any ot them behind to interrupt my much, I allow the troops under General Baron Oorilutti to remain at Venzone and Clemons. Latisana was occupied this morning, and posts placed on the right bank of the Tagliamento, which are placed in communication with the flotilla of boats which I had hued out at Trieste, and which arrived tosday at the mouth of the Tagliamento at Porto Bum and Legnano. Our entire ice columns were therefore placed along the Taglismento to the sea, and Osoppo and Palma Nova in the rear closely blocked d. General Kudrafsky is cruising with the frigate Bellona, the brig Montecuculi, and the steamer Volcano, and other small craft, before Venice, no that that port is effectually Jloek dby sea. The advance upon the Plane and 'fr, visa will speedily take place by the completion of the bridges near C. driopo. The second despatch of Marshal Nugent is dated Codriopo, the 28th, and states that he had arrived there with the greatest portion of his corps, and bad been obliged by the rain to put them in cantonments. On the 29th he expected the rest ot the corps. The vanguard brigade (Schulzig) had passed the bridge on the Tagliamento, and probably occupied Por denone, from whence intelligence of their arrival had not yet been received ; the field-marshal had also advanced his left wing, which was still in communi cation with the flotilla of boats to Portogruaro. The population was well iacoured towards the Austrians. Deputations had already been received from several places, and amongst others from Sacile to head quarters, bringing in their submission. Accordir:g to intelligence received, the bridges over the Piane have been destroyed. GERMANY. INSURRECTION AT TREVES. PRUSSIA.—We have received our usual tiles of newspapers. Our correspondent writing trom Co logne on the 4th says : An estafette arrived this afternoon in - Cologne, bringing the intelligence that the city of Trine was barricaded yes terday, and that the greatest excitement prevailed. It ap• peers that • number of nos-commissioned officers had_ grossly ill.treaud, on the 2nd instant, one of the p-polar candidates at the late elevion, which in 11 out of 12 districts is that town terminated in favour of the popular party. Late en Tuesday evening the townspeople and the military same into e ,Vision. The latter made use of their fire-arms, and several of the former were shot. Our correspondent, writing further on the sth, says t The accounts from Tut, ves continue to be alarming ; up to the 3rd inst. not less than 50 barricades were erected in the town, which General Von Schreckenstein threatened to bombard unless the insurgents capitulated. The ordinary mail e, mmunication bet epee Trves and this city is interrupted, and the letter-bag is now brought by estafette. The Triers Gazette is not come to hand. It has transpired that several soldiers belonging to the obnoxious 26th infantry regiment had indulged iii threats against the inhabitants of the above town, and in denunciations of the new order of things. Some amongst them hid even gone so far u to tear off the German cockade from the hats of peaceful citizens. This imprudent conduct, added to that of several rub-off cen on the previous day, ex cited the greatest indignation amongst the people and the civic guard. The latter mustered about half-past 10, P.M. on the night of the 2nd inst., and took possession of the cisy gates, in order to prevent the return of t he 26th regiment, sad of the thlane, who had gong to St. Paulin. At 11, the alarm-bell commenced ringing fur the first time this year. An immense crowd proceeded to the lock-up house ant de manded the release of five soldiers who had been arrested on the charge of committing a breach of discipline, by taking the part of a popular candidate at the election and assisting to bring him back in triumph to the place whence he was •spelled by • number of non-commissioned officers. Some of the troops stationed near the lock-up house fired on the creed, and two persons were dangerously wounded, and others slightly. The people immediately commenced raising barricades, and continued at that work during the entire tight. The Cologne mail carriage served to barricade the Mite breadth of the Ileisch-strwe. The result of the primary elections in the greater pert of the Rhine province and in Westphalia, has been a very satis factory one for the catholic party. Clergymen and persons belonging to Roman catholic associations have been retueltd le numerous places. In one pariah near Milliliter the head priest, his two assistants, and the sexton were returned, and five clergymen in Warendorf. In many other places persons in the most dependent situations of life have been elected. It is scarcely necessary to state here that the elections alluded to are in the primary degree, and that the persons returned will base to elect the members of the next diet at Berlin. The peasantry of Westphalia—a class which has numerous grievances to complain of—express great disappointment at the paucity of their representatives amongst the Iltahl manner. The Cologne Gazette of this night contains a lead ing article, in which the result of the elections in Rhineland and Westphalia is referred to in no very satisfactory tone. In Hanna the elution. have fallen upon moderate men, able opposed to the radical and the retrograde parties. The moderate and constitutional party at Berlin has gained the victory over the radicals and republicans at t,e elections just concluded. On the other hand, it is admitted by the Cologne Gazette, that the working classes have suc ceeded in electing a great number of their fellow-operatives as the electors in the second degree of the members of the constituent assembly in Berlin, for such, the next Diet in that capital may be called. In a former communication from Berlin, I described the surprise of the good people of that capital, when they learned that instead of the national treasury possessing • re serve fund of some 30 millions of thalers, as frequently stated, at indirectly, by former ministers in Prussia, it otey sontained about 8 millions, one half of which, moreover, was disposed of betorehand. Rumour, and even scandal, were, of coune, busy wilt so promising a topic ; and . report after report was indestriously propagated respecting it. It has now transpired mat the national treasury never possessed anything like the sum in question, and that the former governments of this kingdom kept up the delu sion merely for the sake of maintaining public credit. As they were reduced to such shifts, it is not surprising that ministers felt compelled, as a last resource, to convoke the first united diet, in order to obtain money, which, how ever, it did nut think proper to vote. The next diet will, probabli be more liberal ; for the present ministers on their side will ' be more candid, and, in fact, more honest, than their predecessor,. Some lawyers—mere wags, no doubt — are amusing themselves and the public, by attempting to Drove that the former cabinets must either make good the i sk ive millions, or show how that " min " has been die d. The Bishop of Luxembourg has been deposed by the Pope, at least for the present. 114 Holiness is much die. Pleased with the active interference of that prelate in poll lielsEslts. The intelligence from 1 . 01011 which reaches to the morn ing of the 2nd inst. is of the most melancholy and alarming stare. Mieroelawaki has called upon the Polish inhabit ants of the entire province to join the insurrection. All the Zak drolnh la in arms, and men and women are proceeding towards the head quarters of the Piles at Milmlaes, Wteischeu, and Pleschen. Stefansiti was nominated dictator THE EXPRESS, MONDAY EVENING, MAY 8, 1848. u r i e wl gu t t circular has just been put forth, the mode and management of the-hustings, the most remarkable pasuage in the document being the " strict injunction on the rural districts as well as towns, that though any other building may be used for the purpose, on no account is any electoral assem bly, or preparatory gathering, or any political meet ing whatever, to be held in churches or edifices de voted to the worship of Ged." Now such a notion would never have entered into the brain of the native population, and for them its perfect inutility strikes every one here. The only way in which the clause is Intelligible is on the ground of the presence in Rome just now of M'Hale and O'Higgins fresh front their native bogs, and to them the government is supposed to have meant this as a gentle hint that their li ish practices are under stood here, and that no such doings of the unholy and pro!ane character of those in which they are the high priests, changing the house of God into a den of denunciation or a wit• lollop of sedition, would be for an instant tolerated in the capital of C hristianity. The ashes of the two n ble patriot brothers, sons of Admiral Bandicra, who fell under a platoon fire of King Ferdinand's soldiers, in the premature attempt to bring about the redemption of their native land, have been dug up by pious hands from the Calabrian moorland on which they had been shot, and inhumed with honour in one of the venerated churches near Otranto. "Oh blest are the patriots and lovers who live The days of thy glory to eta: But the mar nd best bleaang that heaves as eve. Is the pride of tem drim for Mee! . Great excitement and thunders of applause sur rounded a number of our young men and civic guard one day this week. You are long aware that the Jews can now hold domicile where they like: but folks bad forgotten that the old ghetto was still die tinguishable by its ponderous and half-rotten portals I of wood, which, though no longer closed at sunset, ' and now mouldering away on their rusty hinges, reminded some of the disgraceful theory and practice of former times. "Down well the gates!" cried a few ardent quits: and in • twinkhog the sturdy arms of the Roman youths hurled the old lumber from its supporters, and crash went the worm-eaten memo rials of bygone bigotry. Oa the 28th, Mousignor Morichini, Archbishop of 1 Nisida (in partibirs), who had long been financial manager here, and was clever in his department, was' removed, in deference to the supposed incompatibility of such functions with even the ghost of a mitre, and the office was conferred on Prince Antonio Sim , netti. A new club has been started, to be composed of medical doctors, surgeons, and apothecaries exclu sively, not that the healing art is not held in due reverence and regard by the native Romans, for doctors are admissible to all Roman clubs, but these educated gentlemen wish for associates with whom they may discuss scientific subjects with mutual ad vantage, and hence they seek each other's society. The Palinde who attempts a joke when she can, puts in a claim for the veterinary class of practitioners : " for surelvthey too do good to their neighbour (al tor rossioin)." If you can't see the point of this, there is no use in referring you back to your as in prasenh. There is a rumour here which may not have reached your colonial office, viz., that the lonian Islands are seriously meditating a rejunction with their old ally, and Suzerain, the republic of Venice. Panissaries of republican propagandism are undoubtedly at work, employed, probably, by Russia. The whole catholic population of Corfu, Cephalonia, &c., is of Venetian descent or connexion, and the winged lion of St. Mark is held in high veneration by them, as well as by the staple population of the Russo-Greek ritual. Look sharp. Roman archeologists (who are very diligent) have just disinterred and given circulation to a curious proclamation of Count Nugent, who now marches to trample down the Lombards, but who, in 1814, put forth on the walls of Parma and Modena, a most spirit-stirring manifesto to the inhabitants of Upper Italy, in which ho calls on them to "reject with hor ror the yoke of foreign domination (viz. the French), to rally for freedom, and to recover, by their united efforts, independent nationality and native govern ment." Cosstaulrie nattone 'Wert ed ludenendents Such was the language of this Hibernian Dalgetty when he wanted to cajole the natives in helping to pull down Napoleon, but with characteristic disregard of good faith and consistency he now comes down as a hired bludgeonman to crush the nationality he had then proclaimed. To him, as a comlattiere, are the lines of Dante applii d : E vendutu ad us duet renduto, Con lot owns, e non chlede pen he. The gratuitous profanation of the churches of Mantua, held in most sacred veneration, has roused, in Rome and Italy, a spirit of intense resentment. " What! shall the altar round which men of God ministered the awful rites, and hymns and incense rem to the throne of the Deity, be desecrated by the brutality of smoking drunkards and the foul blasphe mies of infidel Croats, and the beastly fumes of their barbarian cookery ?" Cardinal Oppizzoni, archbishop of Bologna, has ordered the prayer for the Emperor to be removed from the ritual throughout the districts on both sides of the I'o. " lie might save himself the trouble," is the popular remark, " for the Almighty has long turned a deaf ear to prnyera of that description." dard-bearer of the Hon. Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms. Both officers were preNnted to her Msjesty by their captain, Lord Foley. A cabinet council was held on Saturday, at the Foreign-office. The miaisters present were Lord John Rowell, the ?ductile of Lansdowne, Sir 0. Orey, Vieoount Palmerston, Bari Grey, the Chancellor of the Bschequer, the Earl of Auckland, Sir J. Rebhan*, the Right Hon. H. L.ibotichere, Lord Campbell, the Marquis of Clastricarde, and Viscount Morpetb. The cnowil at three hours. ARRIVAL OP PRINCE FREDERIC WILLIAM OP HERE!, —Prince Frederic William of Belie, eldest ion of the Land. grave William of Reese and the Princess Charlotte of Den • mark, sister of the ln.e King of Denmark, arrived in London on S sturday Germany, and is staying with the Duke and Duchess of Cmnlwidge, at Cambridgehome, the prince being nephew to ha royal highness. The visit of the prince may be considered of some import at the present mment from lain royal highness bring heir in perspective of thecrown of Denmark, his lamer being the heir presumptive to that throne. of the grand duehliqi te 6111 a fket ' lc wis itipeeted est the morning of the 2nd hr{,llo st= i t iama letafie would be made %%last Posen. Th e MY of Posen have th .°l r j o iread i Prea dueby te ti tgatait th the Oinalia• Un 181114."11111a lleafaanablat ee as fai 7 i r es = 4 d refused to take any part in the eletdielle TM the diet at Berlin. A furious conflict task_ _plea at Mons on the 29th ult. between the Prussian and Nish troop. Aooordleg to the Posen Gamete, the latter, who fought tome Esse I perately, suit red immense lo • Cho 1 Pisweiemy sessedies to the same journal, had 40 killed cud 66 wermilefle Owe hundred and twenty Poles were brought 1141011691 Schrimaa, and about 700 have been taken primitive. Oa Me i previnua nay the Pruraow had taken Gratz, after a lieVers contest, in whieh 20 Poles were killed. On the other band, it appears by the Zestungslialts, that the Poles, after a drapprate aociliet. Raised possession of the town of Milosiaw, whence the Prussians fled in great disorder. P.S. According to • despatch received from Gen. yaw Scnreckenatain, in Tan., tranquillity has been restored that town, and on his doming the bat ricades have bele removed. It appears by a correspondence from Berlin of the 3rd inst. that the Prussian cabinet is about to re ni-o the Queen of Spain. Dun Antonio Za rcoM Valle had a private audience of the King of Prussia on the 3rd, in which he presented his credeatlals ambassador extraordinary to the court of Berge from that of Spain. The official journal announces that a Prussian representative will shortly be net to Madrid. BAVARIA.—During many years past the let et May has been signalised in Munich by grom ex cesses, for at thatdate the price of beer is periodically raised, and is fixed for the entire summer season. As a matter of course, therefore, the Ist inst. pawed off in the usual way in that capit al—that is to say, there were numerous tumultuous assemblages, attacks on breweries and public-houses, smashing of windows, occasional Wallets with the military, and no few wounds given or received. According to the Augsburg Abend Zeitung of the 2nd inst., the rioters kept to their work until an advanced period of the night, and then the matter, as usual, ended. BADEN.—The Journal de Franrfiirl, May bth, says : "At Fribourg all is at present tranqu.l. During the night hours the outposts are occasionally tired upon with fulminated cotton, to prevent the re ports being heard. Yesterday 264 fresh prisoners were taken from this place, Ltirrach. The appoint ment of M. Math,' to the post of member of the council of state appears to have produced a favour ' able impress ion." From Carlsruhe of the 2nd we learn that Field Marshal Prince Charles of Badgria, accompanied by Prince Frederick of Baden , set out at 7 o'clock this morning to make a tour of inspection in the circle of I the Upper Rhine and along the lake of Constance. FRANKFORT.—The Duchess of Orleans, accom. l = e l , / the Count de Paris and the D uke de passed through Frankfort on the 2nd, on their way to Fulde. AUSTRIA. Intelligence has been received at Lloyd's, relative to an act of aggression committed on one of he Austrian Lloyd's steamers, accompanied by lamentable loss of life :—On the 2nd of April the Mahmoudie left Trieste for Pola. She had on board 300 soldiers, and on entering the port was taken for a Sardinian war vessel, and before the fort could be un deceived was fired at, and the unfortunate captain and mate, besides several officers and troops, fell vic tims. A number immediately jumped overboard, but were unable to reach the land, and were drowned. Before the batteries of the town had discovered their error the vessel was on fire. Our private correspondence from Cracow explains something that was an evident omission in the official report of the late unhappy events in that city. The cause of the tumult and subsequent attack on the Austrian commissary Krieg, was not stated in that report. We are informed that M. Krieg, who has long been known as the most active and most un popular Austrian official at Lemberg, the capital of Galicia, but who for some months past has managed the police at Cracow, refused to allow a number of emigrants who were on their return from exile to leave the railroad station and enter the city. The citizens have since the revolution not been accustomed to have the Austrian police regulations enforced, and took part with the emigrants who demanded a free en trance. This having been refused by Krieg. the national guard shut him up in his bureau, and on his re quiring military protection, he was beaten, and com pelled to sign an order for the admission of the emi grants. In the meantime, Gen. Castiglione com menced a skirmish in the streets, in which he was dangerously wounded, and bad just time to order the city to be bombarded before he was carried off to bed. Great loss of life has been the result of the fire of the artillery, whose balls penetrated into the houses and killed peaceable citizens, and even their wives. The exasperation of the people may lead to Iserious reprisals when the news of the success of the Italians reveals the weakness of the Austrians to the Poles. DENMARK AND THE DUCHIES. HAMBURG, LUBECK, AND BREMEN BLOCKADED. The B;;rsenhale, of May 4, contains the follow ing proclamation of the King of Denmark : We, Frederik VII., by the grace of God, proclaim that in consequence of the hostile acts committed against us by t a Kings of Prussia and Hanover, the Grand Dukn of Oldenburg and Mecklenburg, as also by the free and Hansa t iwns of Lubeck, Hamburg, and Bremen, we find ourselves compelled to di dare the harbours, coasts, and rivers belong ing to them (as al-o such of our own ports as are in their possession) in a state of blockade. We have directed our ships of war to carry these measures into effect, and to pre vent their ships from entering into the said blockaded ports and harbours. Published at our royal city of Copenhagen, under our hand and seal—(Signed) Futenzaicn Rex. A letter from Swinemunde. dated May 2, says: Yesterday the Danish frigate liartruen, of 42 guns, came to anchor and blockaded the port ; and in the afternoon the following ships were refused permission to enter: viz., the En;lishbarque Margaret Shelly, Topping, from Bahia, with sugar for Stettin; and the English brig Exquisite, Captain Naylor, from Sunderland, with coals. Early this morning 13 other English vessels arrived and anchored under tne guns of the frigate. The captains of the former have been allowed to land, and were told they were at liberty to proceed where they pleased with their ships and cargoes, excepting to a Prussia port. Other frigates have left Copenhagen to blockade Dan zig. The letters trona Memel, Stettin, Kiel, Itendsbarg, Elsinore, Hamburg, and Carolinensiel, all allude to various movements of the Danish fleet on the vessels and their cargoes belonging to German ports, with reprisals in return. The authorities at Stettin had decreed that, in con sequence of the steps taken by the Danes, all Danish vessels in that harbour and all Danish property should be laid under embargo. The vessels and pro perty of Schleswig-Holstein, of course, were exempt from the m as•tre. A Danish frigate had left Elsinore to cruise off the Elbe. Two armed merchant schooners left Hamburg to take their stations off Skagen. Several other Prussian weeds had been laid under embargo, and taken into Copenhagen. Their names were—the Fairy, from Torre Vecchia •, Osiris, do. ; Eolus, do. ; and Hiram, from London, all for Emden ,• Alhy, from Alaz tta for Stettin, and a barque and a schooner, name unknown. Letters from Port-au-Prince bring us further de tails of the law extraordinary movement at Aux Cayes, and represent the impression as still prevail ing that the President, if not privy to the affair, was at least resolved to connive at it. Respecting Gen. Dulguse Zamor, late in comraana of the department of the South, whose displacement was the object aimed ' at by the insurgents, our correspondent writes : PORT-AU PRINCB, Aram 6. General Zamor is a black man, and though without edn °Wien, possesses strung natural g ood sense. He has rid him self of a feeling of c.t•te with which he was formerly imbued, and is disposed to treat men as he finds them without regard to colour. lie has thus become popular with the respectable part of the community. But this very cir cumstance, c &lined with his resolute determination to maintain the law and put dawn brigandage, has rendered him equity mop viler with the rude and dissolute of his own colour. it believed that the president regards his growing popularity with a jealous eye. General respect sZmor still rand:is here, toe Prvsident's pleasure with to him not being yet known. Some arrests have lately been made, it is said for political offences, but nothing certain is known. The general character of the prisoners is good ' • possibly their offence may be a tint lighter than that of the President —an unpardonable fault in his eye. At present we are tranquil, and hope rather than expect a continuance of this state. • ROME, APRIL 28. We are all deep in the election of deputies to the Chamber. The old obscurantist party being compact and organised, and holding garrison in most of the underling Mikes, are straining every nerve to secure' a respectable obsti active minority in the lower house. ' The go-a-head party is far from being drilled to the same extent of euhesion, but there is no doubt of an overwhelming return of liberal and " progressive members. The affair comes off on the ldth of May, ESTITURE OF THE NEW CIVIL --•---------- _ Kimura COMMANDERS OF THE BATH. The Queen held on Saturday afternoon, at Buck ingham Palace, an investiture of the most Honourable Military Order of the Ba'h—the first that has been held Rime the extension of the order by the addition of Civil Knights Commanders. Her Majesty wore the mantle of crimson satin and the surcoat, and also the collier of the order. Prince Albert, Great Master of the Order, wore the mantle and collar. Her Majesty and his Royal Highness having passed to the throne room the Knights Grand Crosses were called over by Bath King of Arms, when the following answered to their names, vie.:—Fie ld-Marshal she Duke of Wellingbin Viscount Strangford, General Viscount Beresford, General Viscount Combermere, Field - the Marquis of Anglesey, Lord Heytesbury, Ad ir E. Codrington, General the Earl of Strafford, the Hon: Sir W. Lumley, General Sir J. W. Bart., General Sir G. Almon, General Lord Aylmer, Sir T. Br %chord, Lieut.-General Sir J. L. Lush ington, Sir R. Jenkins, Sir J. M'Neill, General the Right Hon. Sir F. Adam, Lieutenant General Sir H. Douglas, Bart., Major. General Sir O. Pollock, Sir A. Aston, end Lieut.-Gen. Viscount Hardinge. The o ffi cers of the o rder present were : the Genealogist, W. A. Blount, Esq. ; Bath King of Arms, A. Greville, Esq. ; and Gentle man Liebe , . A. W. Wo de, Esq. (Lancaster fiend I). The knights and officers having entered the throne-room, ranged themselves on either side the Queen according to their seniority, Prince Albert being on her Majesty's right, and the Duke of Wellington on the opposite aide. The Mistress of the Roles, the Lady in Waiting, the Lord Steward, the Lord Chamberlain, the Master of the Horse, and the other members of the royal household, took their usual stations near the sovereign. The ceremony oommeeced - toy the introduction of Lieut.- Gen. Lord F. Somerset, supported by Sir A. Aston and Vis count Harding., the two iunior Knights Grand Cranes present, preceded by Bath King of Arms bearing the ensigns of a Knight Grand Crow on a crimson velvet cushion, and by the GenUeman Usher bearing his gold rod of office. Her Mejeaty was graciously pleased to invest his lordship with the ensigns of a Military Knight Grand Cross of the Bath. Lient..General Sir J. Macdonald (Adjutant-General of the Forces), and General Sir C. Halter, were introduced with the Like ceremonies, and were each invested by the Queen with the Ensigns of a Military Knight Grand Cross. The investiture of the Knights Grand Crosses tieing ended, that of the Knights Commanders of the Order commenced. Rear• Admiral Sir T. J. Cochrane was invested by the Sovereign with the Ensigns of a Military Knight Com mander of the Bath. Major-General J. Rolt had the honour of knighthood conferred upon him by the Queen, and was invested w ith the Ensigns of a Military Knight Commander. The Right Hon. H. Ellis, sometime em ployed on an extraordinary and special mission to the court of his Majesty the Emperor of Brazil, received the honour of knighthood from her Majesty, and was invested as a Civil Knight Commander of the Bath. Tke Right Hon. R. Patenham, her Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary and Mi nister Plenipotentiary to the United States, was knighted, and invested as a Civil Knight Commander. C. E. Trevelyan, Esq , Assistant Secretary to the Treasury, had the honour of knighthood conferred upon him, and was invested as a Civil Knight Commander. Sir R. I. Routh, Commissary-General on a par ticular service in Ir; land, was invested as a Civil Knight Commander. Rear-Admiral F. Beaufort, Hydrographer to the Admiralty, was knightal and invested as • Civil Knight Consmsoder. The Right Hon. James Stephen, one of the Under Secretaries of State for the War and Colonial De partment, received the honour of knighthood, and was in vested as a Civil Knight Commander. Major-General W. Morison, of the Madras Artillery, was knighted, and invested as a Civil Knight Commander. Colonel H. M. Lawrence, of the Bengal Artillery, received the honour of knighthood, and was inves ed as a Civil Knight Com mander. Major-general W F. P. Napier wee knighted and invested as a Military Knight Commander of the order. Bath King-of-Arms and tit, Gentleman Usher of the order introduced all the Knights Commanders, the former pre senting the ensigns to his Royal Highness Prince Albert, by whom they were delivered to the Queen. His Royal Highness, as Great Master of the order of the Bath, atter ' wards assisting her Majesty in investing the new-made i Knights. At the conclusion of the ceremony, the Knights Grand Crosses, attended by the officers of the order, retired from the presence of the sovereign with the wined reverence. miral 8i General PUBLIC ORDER MEHORIAL.—A private meeting of the commutes appointed to act in this matter was held on Saturday at the British Hotel, Coclupur-street ; but reporters were excluded. Atter the meeting was over, however, it became known that the committee, with the Marquis of Lansdowne in the *hair, paned the following resolution : That after mature consideration of the circumstances which have occurred Mom the °Firms of the committee were first promulgated, it is expedient that no further efforts be mode in further .Doe of the objects proposed, and that the contributions already received, of which her Majesty and the members of the royal family have subscribed 1,0001., be retained to the subscribers, the expenses incurred having been &selvaged by the committee. ARTINTS' GENERAL BENEVOLENT INSTITUTION.— IRELAND. The annual festival of this charity was held on Saturday Duman, MAY 6. evening, at the Freemasons' Tavern, when about 120 gen. EX OFFICIO PROCEEDINGS. tlemen sat down to dinner. The chair was occupied by the Shortly before the rising of the court to-day the Marquis of Northampton, supported by Mr. C. Barry, Mr. Stanfield, Mr. W. Wyon, Mr. W. P. Frith , Hr. W. E Attorney-General entered, and said that the four - day Frost, Sir W. C. Rose, Mr. T. Uwins Mr. D. Retorts, and rule for joinder on demurrer w ould have expired to- Mr. T. Creewick. Toe preliminary icesta having been die- day, and accordingly he required Mr. Mitchel l to posed of, the chairman proposed ' The Army and Navy," join before the rising of the court. Mr. Mitchell, alluding at the same time to a gentleman present as having w ho appeared at the aidebar, immediately complied, formerly formerly belonged to the latter profession, and beesting ri r couple the toast with the health of Admiral Stanfield'. t , and handed in the parchment to the clerk of the toast of the evening, " Prosperity to the Institution," was crown. Monday 11 fixed to argue the demurrer. drunk in due coupe, and gave rise to some appro. Notice of trial has been served in the cases of priate observations on the part of the chairman Messrs. O'Brien and Meagher. The latter will be i on reference to the important objects of the _society, which it loo ki ng out f ora " h a pp y deliveranoe" on this day sots seated in the report h ad granted relief to 5.5 applicants week, since he is first on the list. Mr. O'Brien's is daring last year, at a cost of 8441. 135., th e entire number of deem relieved by the society having been 1,050, in sums fixed for the same day, bat will not take place, most resonating to 11,4051. The balance-sheet for the year probably, before the following Monday. showed a total of 1,5691., of which 293/. 191. remained is the There was some difficulty about the publication of hands of the bankers. The amount of stock held by the the United Irishman to-day—MlC 111 h' society was 13,3921- which included 2871 . 175. 9d. Three-pet. 0 power sots so Cent. Consols, purchased last year, at • cost of 2551. 10s. wanted to animate the dead metal. Mr. Pard o n Several gentlemen, in proposing the usual variety of touts, would not imperil his liberty, and the other owners eel took occasion to make nigent appeals on behalf of the cha- presses fear the anger of the Attorney-General. It rite. The result was • subscription amounting to 4561. has, however, appeared, but stripped of ita fair proper " NATIONAL " CHARTIST ASSOCIATION.—At the v i o „, Only halt; and that quite sufficient, has been meeting of this body on Saturday • discussion took pla-o as published. Eight pages are all that the loyal to the propriety of admitting the publ i c to be present at the s machinists of Dublin could consider within the limits proceedings, in consequence of a rifle ball having been thrown on the table the previous evening, which re.ulted in of safety. its beina resolved to admit them as usual, it being considered Mr. Mitchell and his colleague, Mr. Devin Reilly, that the bell could only have 'been thrown on the table to have sent in their resignations to the Confederation. mark the " enthusiasm" of die people. It was reported Mr. Reilly, in reference to his retirement, says : from the committee on the liberty fund of 10,0001. It is sufficient for the Confederation to know that Mr. that it should be raised by voluntary contributions O'Brien has intimated to me that either he or I and those in the various localities , and that subscription banks who agree in the opinions I hold, must cease to be members should et once be opened for th a t p ur p ose. —Dr. of the sone b o dy, M'Douall moved, and Mr. He nr y seconded the resolution— that the assembly take into consideration the questions of Mr. Mitchell enters into the subject at great household suffrage and triennial parliaments, with the view length. In his letter to the committee of the Confe to express a decisive opinion as to the policy to be pursued deration, announcing his resignation, he says : by the chartist body in regard to the parties who are now ' ]stn the reasons which have induced me to take this agitating thee; queetiene ; and that it be recommended that step I will not enter further than to say that the differences all public meetings held for the purpose of effecting changes on some important questions of national policy which, you short of the people's charter, be attended by the chartist are aware, have long existed between Mr. Smith O'Brien body, not for the purpose of obstruction, or of moving fac- and myself, have at length come to that point which tious amendments, but to demonstrate calmly, rationally, makes it necessary, in Mr. O'Brien's opinion, that one or and fairly, the superiority of the, people's charter ever all the other of us should leave the confederation. It is need other proposed reforms, and in case of attack to defend their . tem to say that all the active measures projected by the principle Icy reason and argument, which, any considerable unit eil of which I approve shall have my wannest support, discussion and suggested amendments, but which were not ' more enrcially the calling together of a national convention, enforced, was agreed to ; one di legate stating that the effect and the enrolment of a national guard. Of course the late of household suffrage alone would be to enfranchise some of audacious proclamation of the British viceroy makes it the the greatest scamps of London in the neighbourhood of George-street and other parts of St. Giles's, while many of mere urgently necessary to hasten the election of the one, the industrious and honest classes would be excluded. d arming of the other • and I and the organisation an do not look upon my present resignation as precluding INQUEST, SATURDAY.—ON MR. DAKIN.—By Mr. me from full co-operation in these measures. For the Payne, at the Parochi il School, Blackfriars, for inquiring National Council I mean speedily to offer myself as a can into the circumstances connected with the death of Mr. Wil- didate ; and on the roll of the national guard mine is the liven Dakin, teadealer, at No. 1, St, Paul's-churchyard, who third name. lost his lite by the explosion that occurred upon his premises I have for a long time past promulgated and enforced on Friday afternoon.—Mr. John Jeffrey Dixon said he was doctrines of the most democratic, or, •I am willing to say. present at the time of the explosion. Mr. Dakin was stand- revolutionary kind, as to the rights of tenant-farmers, mg about two or three feet from the front of the oven, when labourers, and artisans, and the methods by which those a mall, escape of steam was noticed, and all present simulta- rights ought to he enforced. I have especially insisted on neously exclaimed " Something is wrong e when an ex- r ig is right of tenant-farmers to hold their land for plosion took place, and the whole of the chamber was filled ever, subject to a valued rent, and, save on those condi with dust and amike, end it was two minutes before any of thins, to pay no rent at all ; and, inasmuch as there is no them could see one another. As soon as the steam government or legislature in this country to guarantee those had subsided, witness saw the deceased lying on right., but, on the contrive., a faction, calling hear a the floor. He felt his pulse and found that he government, and usurping the functions of a government, was quite dead. lie immediately went for a sue . whose main object is to destroy both the rights and the Cbt Court. Neon. Dining the evening he found on examining the place people who have the rights, I have advised that the people that the brickwork platform was thrown down, the root thus exposed to p.under and shaushti r should take the law The Queen and Prince Albert, accompanied by the carried away, and part of the cylindrical oven blown off. into their own hands, and &Led their lives and properties ley Prince of Wales and the Princess Alice, honoured the exhi- Two of the wrought-iron plugs were burst out, one was combiniug together for active and passive residence. I have hition of the Royal Academy with a visit on Saturday found and taken away, A man and a boy were n'ao hurt. further aught to give to the" Repeal" movement a demo morning. The august party arrived at 10 o'clock, attend ed The explosion took place where witness had noticed an issue cretin character and republican tendency ;so that the by the Duchess of Sutherlsud, the Marchioness of Douro, of steam the day Wore. One of the patentee's men was absence of the aristeratic element in our movement, or, Lady C. Cocks, Hon. Matilda Peget, the Lori Steward, the present when the expiation took place, and had the entire rather its utter hostii'y to it, might be compensated by Lord Chamberlain, he Master of the Horse, Lord Byron ; management of the oven. The steam-boiler that works the increased energy, pow , r, and arn'iition on the part of the Mr. li. Ormsby Mee, Capt. F. Seymour, Col. the Hon. machinery is independent of the furnace.—Mr. C. J. people ;is other word., that those who will have to make 0. Gre and Cept. the lion. A. Gordon. Roberts, surgeon, said that he had no doubt that death had our revolution with their own hands, should know and feel On Saturday, before the investiture, the Queen gave been caused by one of the bolts. lie had not been able that they are making it for themselves, and not for the pre modience to Viscount Hardinge in the royal closet, on his to detect any foreign Fulsome in th e brain. Death must vilege of mkintaing in idlenesa a class of persons who sic. lerdatilp's return from the government of India. have been instantaneous—before deceased could have fallen knowledge no country, and a foreign sovereign, whom we Mr. Matthew Wyatt had an audience of the to the ground.—The learned coroner said he thought it know only by royal arenas to coercion bills, and still more Oink in the royal claret, to kiss hands, and revolved from would be better to adjourn to Sere future day, as he &odd Insulting retie( messures. boo Majesty his silver stick of office as lieutenant of the not like to bring the use to a conclusion without first ob. These are, in a few words, the doctrines which Mr. Ron. Corps of Genticmen-at Arms, Mr. David James Mining the evidence of some scientific person , wko would O'Brien condemns ; and hesth. y are in substance precisely the Harlem had an audi• lice of the Queen to kigs hands, and be able to speak to the quality of the iroa.—The jury, after same as those wh i c h hought it necessary to repudiate monived from her Majesty s kis giver stick of office as east- consulting, decided upon adjourning until Monday Week. 'three months ago, save that on oat subject, the urgent no SOUTH AMERICA.—Came.—From Valpsraiso we have papers to the 30th of February, by way of Panama. The only political particularity was the arrival of General Ballivian in Cbile,in the character of ex-president of Bolivia, from whence driven apparently by some revolution, the de tails of which are yet wanting. On the 10th of February the government of Chile published a decree of an important character, and which cannot fail to prove greatly beneficial to foreign trade, that of Great Britain morn especially, as well as to internal industry. The preamble sets forth that mining industry was greatly prejudiced by the euhanced prices of the instruments and materials which were required for the mining labourers and the smelting works, because it was necessary to purchase them in the prfacipal ports, by which the expenses of carriage are much increased, and that therefore to facilitate the iotcroation of the articles consumed it was requisite that the number of vessels for carrying them should be increased, which would have the further advantage of promoting the exportation of national products. Inconse quence it was decreed that foreign and national vessels, which go to load metals to the smaller ports of the republic, shall be allowed to carry thero tools, machines, and materials, for smelting furnaces, with coal and iron for the used the mines. The same privilege is extended also to vessels which may, without intending to ship metals, choose to pass to the said smaller ports in charge of the materials mentioned. To ob tain the permission or privilege, however, a memorial of the consignee of the vessel must be presented to the customs administrator of Valparaiso, or other principal port, accom panied with a flatus actory bond for the value of the duties of internal transit. To the list of the articles which vessels &aimed for loading metals may carry to the smaller porta are added sperm and whale oil, guano, cocoa, and coffee, as already dispssed by law of 1847. In all cases where the ma chines and commodities before referred to should not form part of the cargo I the vessel they may be taken sod shipped from the stores or private merchants, or transhipped from other vessels, according to the mods prescribed by exist ing regulations. BRAZILS AND LA PLATA.—Her Majesty's packet Penguin, Li. ut. Leslie, arrived at Falmouth on Satur day from Rio Janeiro, which port it left on March 21. The branch packet Snider had joined her at Rio, with dates of March 4 from La PI ita. Tne Swift packet had arrived from hence. The Emperor had returned from his tour in the provinces, and had , tweed the following change in the ad ministration • —Viscount de Maeahe, to be President of the Council and Prime Minister ; A. P. 8. d'Abreu, Minister of Foreign Addis's ant ad interims of Finance; J. A. Pimento Burns, Minister of Juodice; M. F. de Souza Melho, Minister of Marine and ad iritermt of War. The British commis sinner appointed to the River Plate, Capt. Gore, had left Rio, southward, in the Inconstant ; and the French com missioner, Baron Le Oro . , in the steamer Magellan. THE Heammtx, American ocean steamer, Capt. Crabtree, lett Southampton for New York on Saturday, with United States mails and 110 passengers. THE CALEDONIA, Capt. Leitch, sailed from Liver pool en Saturday for H uz and Boston. TILE PETREL, Lieut. Creser, sailed on Saturday for Rio Janeiro with pa.senw is, from Falmouth. comity of all Irishmen being well sensed—there is now, Iry believe, no difference between us. The Limerick scuffle has warned the andscieitiegi to look to the public peace when the two forces dolt. in antagonise. The soirée at Waterford to•eneerovoi has occupied the attention of government. A conjoint address to the Irish repealer., 'irons.- members of the Old and Young Ireland parties, hair" been published, signed by Dr. Miley, Mr. Omit* O'Brien, Mr. John O'Connell, Mr. Meagher, ' amt. others. It is not, however, to be " interpreted," as• the document itself says, "as being an actualt. fusion of the two distinct organizations whieh are now at the head of the movement, nor as dessitedli to prepare the way for the suppression, or remodellieg s , or abandonment of either. But while we think ittiorer advisable to serve oar country for the present in di& ferent spheres, we desire to impress upon our brother* repealer@ that they ought to regard each other, not use antagonists, bat as Irishmen suffering from the same oppressive yoke, and animated by the same ennobling enthusiasm to restore their afflicted country to *- position of independence and prosperity." In this spirit the document counsels peace, and contintze , --• " We address you as individuals, some of whom have suffered not a little in the cause of repeal already, ar.& all of whom would be ready not only with resig-• nation, but with unmixed delight, to sacrifice our lives to purchase such a blessing for Ireland, but yet.. not one of whom would consent to purchase even re. peal by a crime or dishonour." SCOTLAND. EDINBUIOII, Mar 5. Yesterday a "Summons of Declarator " against "the high and mightie prince" George Augustus Frederick John Murray, Duke of Athol:, at the suit of Alexander Torrie, advocate in Aberdeen, R1A441, Cox. W.S. in Edinburgh, sad Charles Law, merchant in Perth, was duly " signetted.* It was forthwithr placed in the hands of a messenger, and this day, or to-morrow, will see it duly served upon his grace. The cause of action is the duke's recent attempts to close the old road through Glen Tilt. It is stated itt. the summons that the road has been a public road?' • from time immemorial ; that the part of it which passes through the duke's property, "is more fully set forth in the engraved map of Perthshire herewith produced, bearing to be corrected?' down to the year 1805, and to be surveyed and pub lished by James Stehle," who was factor to the Duk• of Athol for the time being ; "that the said road hen for at least forty years been used and travelled on ' by the public on foot and horseback, and has beet' frequented as a drove-road by drovers and their sheep or cattle ;" that the pursuers and others, their fel low-citizens, have been in use to proceed along it when travelling from Aberdeen or other places on the Dee to Blair-Athol; that the public, if de prived of the road, will have to make • circuit of many miles ; that the defender has for some years back used various means to obstruct and obliterate the road ; that he has em ployed " gamekeepers, forest-keepers, gillies, audl other persons, to interrupt and threaten traveller, lawfully passing along the said road ;" and so forth. The summons concludes by stating that the roar) ought to be declarer, a public road; that the defender ought to be compelled to remove all obstructions, or that they ought to be removed at his expense; that he ought to be ordered to desist from molesting;p• partners and others in the peaceable use of the road I and that he ought to be found liable in the expen-co &pewees. As the decision in this action will be the r.ding case in a great many others that are sure to be brought should a verdict be given for the pursuer* the proceedings are exciting much interest throughout Scotland. Overlooked in consequence of other excitable natters, Irish immigration into Scotland has bet or going oa at a rapid rate for some months past. At the last meeting of the Glasgow parochial board, it was stated that in the course of five months and ten days, 42,238 paupers had arrived in that city front Ireland. This period extended from June lb till"4sthl November; and from 25th November, 1841, tilt 4'l* February, 1848, the medical officer had examined? 13,000, independently of those who came by ranker. From the 17th September till 4th February, heliedi examined 25,699 persons, one-fifth of whom (Includ ing children) were totally unable to do anything for themselves. The Belfast steamers bring over adult paupers at le. a head, and children at 6d.; while the same vessels charge the parish in sending them back to Ireland 2s. 6d. for adults, and Is. 3d. for children. A memorial to Sir G. Grey, praying for some reme dial measure, was adopted by the board. THE GLASGOW RIOTERS.—On Friday the parties charged{ with rioting—viz , John Cronin, Hugh Barrow, Jame* - Kibitz, and Peter Keenan, were brought to the bar to re-, ceive sentence. Creasers and Keenan addressed the court, denying a portion of the evidence which was brought agaitat • them, but admitting considerably more than had hese proved. Lord Mackenzie proposed that the sentence, as re garded Crosses, should be transportation for 18 years; Hugh Berms and Peter Keenan, 10 years' transportation and, in the case of Killin, who had been found guilty ce mobbing and rioting only, two years' impriSODUleut. The sentences were accordingly passed by Lord Medwyn.—Five • others were tried and found Buis., of rioting ; sentence deferred. Five more pleaded guihy.—The diet against • man named Ross was deserteu pro koo et tbmpore, i• respect that the advocate depute had received some im portant information —Lord Mackenzie then bricfiy ad dressed the four other prisoners, and sentenced them tdl two years' imprisonment each.—On Saturday another bleb of five rioters were sentenced to two years' imprisonment each. THE REFORM MOVEMENT. MEETING AT ROCHDALE. Ou Thursday last a meeting, called by circulars to the electors of the borough, was held in the Public Hail, Rochdale, for the purpose of takiag into consideration the prooriety of forming an association fur effecting a thorough reform in the representative system, and a reduction of the national expenditure.—W. CHADWICK, Esq., having been appointed chairman, opened eh. business by reading the me cular coneesing the meeting; after which be said that after ' the 101. franchise had been tried about 15 years, and the stational expenditure was still increasing, he thought they we re justified in coming forward for an extension of the suffrage, In order that the people might be more fairly represented. H. KIMBALL, Esq., J.P., moved the first resolution, to the effect that as the public expenditure was gradually in creasing, it was highly requisite that a change should take place. There was no class of people who did not complain of the enormous taxes they had to pay, and no permanent g.od would be done until the people of this country were fairly represented in parliament. The expenses of the army and navy had increased several millions a year. The government had been petitioned on the subject, but so long as the people were unfairly represented, they would be unfairly taxed. There was no hope of a reform under pre sent circumstance' ; hut if the franchise was extended, and if the electoral districts were equal, many of the evils would be removed. 0. AsitWORSH, Esq., seconded the resolution, and the Rev. W. Bunenzu., baptist minister, supported it. In the course of his addrms, he said he thought that all men of sound mind, at the age of 21 years, if not stained with crime, ought to have a voice in the representation of the country.— The chairman put the resolution, which was carried unani =misty. Mr. J. Bimini', jun., moved the next resolution, which was in favour of houseold suffrage, vote by ballet, triennial parliaments, electoral districts, and no property qualifica tion for members el parliament. In the course of his sp. ch he said they had met for the purpose of passing a verdict upon the legislators of this country ; and if a tree must be judged by its fruits, they could easily come to a decision on the verdict. There was only one clam but would agree on the verdict. It was true that distress existed to a great ex- tent, both in Ireland and this country, and that was owing to the mismanagement of our legislators. There were 260 members of the House of Commons receiving the public money, either directly or indirectly, and there were not 200 that could be said to represent the people of this country. The sovereign must obey the majority of the House of Commons, and so long as that house conflated of a ma jority of men who did not represent the people, there would never be anything good done for the country. The expenditure was about 04 millions annually; the national debt about 28 millions. That debt had been accumulated by I the aristocracy of former days. The last 34 years the average expenditure of the army and navy was about 16 millions an nually ; but the last year it amounted to 22 millions. It was true there were many troops in Ireland, who bad misted the landlords to collect their rents ; but it Ireland had juice done they would not require soldier, to keep them quiet, It was calculated that out of every 20s. earned by . a working man he paid ss. for national purposes. The tortes of Koch dale had begun to comolain most bitterly of the heavy taxes they had to pay, and many of them had declared they would join in getting a reduction of the expenditure; but there was no doubt but the aristocracy would send paid agents amongst them, in order to divide the middle and working classes. The new move was for equal rights and equal taxes; and the working class would be justified iu opposing the: et. w re form party if 'hey did not advocate equality in everything. Mr. J. Movie, corn dealer and late chief-constable, seconded the resolution, and said every mar. who paid taxes ought to have a voice in the making of those laws by which he was governed ; and the household suffrage cause would he a great wedge, and he would assist in pushing it further, until all men were free and fairly represented. He would support the ballot, for there was no master but had influence ; he would also support the no-property qualification for members of parliament, short duration of parliaments, and tne formation of electoral districts. Mr. T. LIVLBRY was called upon to support the resolution. He sail he had long been an advocate for the people's charter; he was yet a chortle; but he would assist the gentlemen of Rochdale in the new movement. The whip of former days bad talked of equal taxation and equal representation ; it was high time the mid dle and working classes should unite in removing the burdens which so heavily prem. d upon the people ; and he hoped all chartists would assist in obtaining an extension of the fran chise, and then march forward for the whole of the princi p.es contained in the people's charter. The time was arrived when the aristocracy must either chow they had a claim upon the rights of the people, or they must be removed from office. Joseph Hume was the leader of this new move, but he hoped he would be more zealous than he bad been is many other things; and as the electors of Rochdale were progres,ing in reform, be hoped they would look strictly atter their leaders. The new ref em movement was progress ing rapidly in Lancashire, Yorkshire, Birmingham, and other places. Benin the resolution was put to the meeting, a man in the gallery, addressing the chairman wished to know if one of the non-electors would be allowed to ask Mr. .1. Bright, mover of the resolution, a question 2—The Chairman replied it was a meeting of electors, but as he had consulted some of his friends, they advised him to allow the question to be askcd.—The man said he wished to know if a person was returned to parliament who had no property, how he was to live, or where must his wages come from?—Mr. Bright re plied he had no doubt but the constituents who sent the man would pay him his wages.—Mr. E. Taylor, druggist, said there was a law that members of parliament should receive wages, and that law had never been repealed. Mr. S. 'Taylor, cotton-manufacturer, moved that a par liamentary reform association be formed in Rochdale.—'The motion was seconded by Mr 0. Orntrod, and carried unanimously.—Mr. J. Petrie, jun. , read a list of o ffi cers and committeemen to carry out the objects of the association, amongst whom were W. Chadwick, Esq., u president Fenton, Esq., and several other magistrates, as PROVINCIAL. DURHAV. THE FORBIDDEN TOPICS OF MECHANICS' INSTITU— TTONB.—The following remarks are extracted from the ad dress of the Dean of Durham to the members of the Gates heed Mechanics' Institute, delivered at the opening of their new building a few days ago : "As you may expect me to make, before we separate, some reference to your own par ticular institution, I will do BO at no great length. I shall confine my remarks to two of your regulations—those by which you exclude from your discussions, and most properly exclude, party politics and controversial divinity. Yet, is respect to the former of these subjects—politics—l confess it has often recurred to me, that the principles of general po litic, which term I use as oppaed to the term party politics, and by which I mean those acenowledged principles Um which are founded oar political rights and our political dutiert —our proper offices as citizens, as mealers of the same iocial community—l have cften thought, I say, that these prin ciples ought to fill a more conspicuous place than they do fill in the education of all claws of tne people. Indeed Ide not remember ever to have seen any elementary work so composed as to display a compendious view of those princt• plea ; to show, fur instance, how a graduated subordination is essential to the existence of every . form of society—and hong any theory of universal equality in wealth and condition io at variance, act only with reason and experience, but also with nature, which has distinctly laid down the opposite law, and made all men in almost all respects unequal ; to show that inalienable duties are imposed upon ail classes, high as well as low, by the same social organisation which* protects their property and their rights—to point out the mutual relations by which the several classes depend upon. each other for their mutual welfare—to make it clear, how any evil which may befal any ono of these wit: looser or later he largely shared by the others--and how national greatness and public and private happiness, depend upon the co - o p er ation and coaeord of all. Now, I think, that if these principles, which no rational man disputes, and which er: fact at the bottom of all that we call politics, were generally inculcated as a part of education. we should reap the fruital in some increase of that beneheent use and application property on the one aide, and of that orderly intelligence, that eni,ghtened and well-lbunded contentment on the other s which form together the swat guarantee for domestic peace. This sort of knowledge, if it shall confer power, will cooler. at the same time discretion in the use of power—it will shots the proper objects of power, the proper limits within whiellr power may be exercised. It will teach men their rights, social and political ; but it will teach them their duties also-- for every right involves a duty, or rather a number of duties —and men are generally much more wady to claim the one than they are to perform the other. Indeed, if I were to apply this remark to that description of polite:al right most familiar to yon—the right of the franchise—how many are those in this kingdom who exercise the right, and neglect the duty ; or, I should rather say, never so much as consider or feel that there is a duty--a serious and sacred duty— which, like all other duties, ought to he honestly, faithfully and fearlessly discharged. I think that if the above an& other similar priuciplea were generally taught and under stood, political discussions would rise above the character of party disputes, and might, with propriety and advantage, be permitted. A t present, you do well to prohibit them. Sr do you likewie In regard to the ober rubject referrea to—at least until that promised day shall arrive, of which the very dawn can sceres'y be said to have broken on this generation —the day where.o religion shall become a bond of union sal :, pledge of love, and all the families of the earth shall adore the same omnipotent aid merciful Lord and davieur, in his own spirit of charity and pace." WARWICKSHIRE. FOREIGN NEWS IN THE PROVINCE. P t go : dei Da t y a i t v liiiren ews e l as egbam i,: r d it i e n s t i;: to The 1. " noon. toutaining the intelligence of the fungal the Matienel Assembly, and the speech d . (de l'Eure), the Pre Went ot the Provisional other morning paper was received in birtnthiglAsi J .,' • news IMO Saturday." ve't NORFOLK. ATTEMPTED MURDER AND f) —The magietrases residing near the'"rte Dome been investigating • charge : , rr4 I