The Express. — London, England, 1848-04-04 00:00:00

GERMANY. THE ASSEMBLY AT FRANKFORT. AN AUSTRIAN M ARMY ASSEMBLED TO ENTER LOBARDY. _ _ . ---- FRANKFORT.—The assembly of deputies ap pointed to make arrangements for convoking a Ger man parliament was constituted on the 31st of March. The Senate had taken measures for the preservation of the peace and the protection of the deputies. Proclamations, calling upon the citizens to co-operate in maintaining order and pacifying the peasantry within the territory of the city by promises of constitutional reform, were issued. The troops of the line and the town guard were kept in readiness. Guards were stationed on the various lines of rail way at Mayence, Mannheim, Darmstadt, &c., to prevent armed parties or individuals from approach ing Frankfort. As early as the 29th preparations for the reception of tke deputies began to be made; the houses were adorned with flags, draperies, &c. By mid-day of the 30th about 300 deputies had arrived, 700 being the number expected. Tickets for the public, to the num ber of 2,000, were issued and disposed of in the course of a few hours. Dr. Eisen burg, M. Gagern, and M. Struve, were enthusiasti cally welcomed: a torch procession was got up in honour of the last-mentioned statesman. A prelimi nary meeting was held in the Weidenbiuich on the evening of the 29th, at which the advocates of a republic and those of a constitutional monarchy are said to have maintained their respective tenets with considerable heat. At the Pint public meeting of the deputies on the 31st of March N. Mittermaier was chosen president ; Messrs. Dahlman,ltzstein, Jordan, and Robert Blum, vice-presidents. The secretaries are, Messrs. B aue r (Bamberg), Schwarzenberg (CamelW ), gong Muller Muller (Dusseldorf), Georges Varrentrapp (Frankfort -on-the-Main), Kierulf (Rostock), Blank enhorn (MuUheim), Briegleb (Cobourg), and Simon (Breslau). The meeting declared itself competent to make arrangements for convening a constituent as sembly, resolved to recognise the duchies of Sleswig THE EXPRESS, TUESDAY EVENING, APRIL 4, 1848. WI; ? If the insurrection was to be repressed, it was ghee. But M. Guixor was not prepared forrepression. Ile had neither the plan, nor the general, nor the mi►itary stores at hand. We will do M. GIIIZOT and LoUIS 'PHILIPPE the justice to say that they did not c ontemplate a great effusion of blood and a vigorous repression. Had they contemplated it they would have been prepared for it ; and they were nowise r epared. Those who defend M. Geizter, however, by repre senting how merciless and how successful he would have been if left in office—although he had ample titer for both had he desired it—go sn to fling the blame of not having re ressed the insurrection on the successor of ,f. Getzor ; and a long rigmarole story is told, in which there is not a word of truth, of Marshal BUGEAUn being ready to put down the of made it M. TIMES had but let him, and had not made him recall the troops. Throughout this revolu tion, it seems, there was alwaysaome one ready and able to put down insurrection, if some one else had not been there to prevent him. Now the fact is this, and we have it from the best authority, that when Marshal BUGEAUD did examine the number of troops at hie command, the quantity of ammunition at their disposal, and the relative position of the parties in all respects—Marshal BUGEAUD declared that there was not a military force at hand capable of defending the government, or of putting down the insurrection. And it was in con sequence of this solemn and well-weighed opinion that the troops were recalled. The Quarterly Review is therefore utterly mis taken, and in its defence of the fallen minister and dynasty it confers upon theta merciless and provident qualities widch they did not possess. M. GUIZOT and Louis Plituere were neither of them military men, though the latter had been in action : neither had felt the pulse of the military, nor knew how to use them. Nor could they even trust a general who would use them. 'Their calling ButieAcii only at the eleventh hour shows their mistrust of him. Nor could they tolerate any officer in the post of Minister at War who was not contemptible in the eyes of the army. Sovereign and minister distrusted and alienated the national guard, the army, and public opir.ion. Of what use seeking further for the causes of its fall' From such a mass of wrong views and mistaken arguments a conclusion of the same nature is to be expected. Mid, accordingly, the Quarterly Reviereer's panacea for France is ]fenny V. and legitimacy! The writer imagines that a proud nation of thirty-five millions will swallow the restoration of a power and a principle both of which thirty-four millions and nine-tenths utterly despise. The Quarterly Reriew might just us safely recommend a Provisional Govern ment of Communists to replace the Czar of all the Rus.g.ts. A :eew theory of debt is a work much wanted. It must be commenced by a governor of a house of cor rection, and finished bf a commissioner of bankrupts or of insolvents. A couple of circumstances whick have recently happened show that ourordinarynotions on the subject stand in need of correction by the above authori ties ; else their present mode of administering the law is puzzlifig as the plea of Peelle° E himself. Accord ing to them, to owe forty shillings is felony ; but to be a debtor of some forty-thousand-pounds-power, or to dissipate such a sum of your own, and some more of your creditors besides, is virtue. A Mr. Pottyr, clerk to the Brighton Railway Com pany, was, about a fortnight ago, committed from the White:lapel County Court, not to a debtors' prison, but to the House of Correction for not having paid two pounds. When taken to gaol, he was put into the felon class, by being searched, stripped, and bathed, having his beard and whiskers cut off, and the prison dress forced on. Numerals were, moreover, sewn on his sleeve, and thus was his very individuality filched from him by being changed from Mr. Potter to " number seven hundred" and odd. Having been dressed for the part of a felon he was set to do felon's work, and introduced to the rest of the company to pick oakum with all the vigour he could muster upon a diet of gruel. As, however, he was but a novice in gruel and oakum, he of course turned ill, and was released at the end of five days. The case is repotted in the Daily News of March 17, where it was seen by the HomeSecretary,who,it seems, has made some inquiry into it. In bringing the matter before the House of Commons last week, Mr. B. Coetomee justly said, in his oriental way, that " it was more Hie a scene under the Sultan than under a free government." It appears that poor Mr. PotLer not only lost his whiskers but his situation; and has yet, so far as we have learned, had no redress. All this comes of owing two pounds. Let us now see the reward for spending some twenty thousand times that sum, and being insolvent besides. On Friday last a certain GEORGE MEAGHER appeared before Mr. Commissioner HARRIS at the Insolvent Court, to be discharged from his debts; some of which he bad contracted upon a misrepre sentation of the amount of hie income. Three vic tims of this misrepresentation opposed his release; but be was no common debtor—he had dissipated a property valued at from thirty to forty thousand pounds en sixteen years. This at once excited the respect and touched the feelings of the commissioner. A report of the case will be found in this paper of Saturday, but to be quite impartial we quote the sequel from a contemporary. It turned but in court that the insolvent was not married to the female who rased as his wife. She had 601. a year uin officer's widow. He had resided near Tuntham-green, where he took a house and cootracted du bts.—The learned counsel for the creciitors asked the court whether such a perm was not a fit subject for the discretionary clause ? What right had a person with WI. a year from the kindne , a of a friend, and another 501. from the person with whom he wss living, to contract debts with tradesmen as a man of 1001. a year and his " wife " with 601. ?—Mr. Commissioner Harris said he could not dissever the debts.—Mr. Sargood thought it was a case for the discretionary clause.—Mr. Com missioner Harris: I should be sorry to apply the discretion ary clause to a pest 't man who had rws through, I know sot whether by imprudence or ditsfOrtune, between 30,0001. ant 40,0001.—Mr. Sargood: I apprehend there is the less excuse. My sympathy certainly is for the creditors, and not for such a pers-,n.—Mr. Coni..d”.iooer Ihrtis dec ided that the insolvent we: entitled to the benefit of the act ; he came SI a prisoner, and nut under the protection act. Ile thought the opposition was somewhat harsh against agent/ea/an who had moved in his position. —Discharged accordingly. " Cruel creditors!" says the law from the mouth of Mr. Commissioner HARRIS. " Here is a man who actually expended from thirty to forty thousand pounds in the short space of 1G years—l will not say that any of it has been diverted into illegitimate, though certainly it has been turned into unproduc tive, channels—and who has merely contracted a few debts he knew he had little chance of paying : wouldyou punish him for this? Vindictive vender of furniture! barbarous butcher! cruel cheesemonger ! you shall not tear this gentleman from •Furnham-green, and the arms of his officer's widow ! lat least will not par ticipate in so dire a rendettu. Lose your money gracefully, and let the man of ' position' go free !" " But you, 40a. offender," continues the law, per the House of Correction governor, turning to Mr. Pot: LET—. a mere clerk with a minimum income, how dare you exceed it ? You, sir, a man of ao ' position,' who in all prolsability never had a box at the opera, or kept race horses, or gave dinners, or paid for a single glass of champagne in your life—never perhaps even owed for one,—you, a mere strug gler in the world, with no higher preten sion than that of keeping a roof over your head, and your life and soul together by , the plainest fare, what leniency can you expect? You shall have none. Begone to your cell. A debtors' prison is too good for you : the luxuries of Whitteross-street you are unworthy to taste. Hence, therefore, to the House of Correction. Learn in future not to con tract paltry debts under fifty pounds—but, sir, first of all, learn to pick oakum." hie because all this appears to common-place per ceptions of what is just, perfectly unintelligible, that we call for a new theory of debt from the pens of the before -named accomplished authorities. They ought teeny to be called upon to explain the principles upon which they act. Tut ancient city of Frankfort is gay and bustling at present, as in the time of its fair. New life is r 4, 4ant in the di m an d s omewhat dusty features of its ant,clulty. For the deputies from the various states uertaany, the precursors and organisers of the future German parliament, are there in conclave making urongements for the convocation of a constituent seemly ; and the citizens are curious, animated, !ad self-important, as in days long past, when Imperial elections and coronations used to take Place within their walls. In spite, therefore, of the anxiety inspired by revolutionary movements r "zulg in the large, and crackling in the email, of the thirty-five independent states of Germany, like the breaking of the ice on the Rhine when spring returns—in spite of the wrecks of commercial fortunes which strew the exchange of a town where the spirit of trade reigns paramount—Frankfort is all alive. The assembling of the deputies will indeed be de cisive for the future of Germany, though as yet they have no regular legal mission from the people. So sudden has been the dissolution of constituted authorities on all hands, it is fortunate for Germany that the brave men who composed the assembly at Heidelberg reso lutely took upon themselves the responsibility of in viting deputies from all parts of Germany to meet and concert a plan for the reorganisation of the empire. For the old Diet is dead. Its authority is extinguished. Neither peoples nor governments defer any longer to that retrograde and anti-national policy by which during the last thirty years it has been earning the hatred of all Germany. Notwith standing three or four new and good appointments, —the new commissioners of Baden (VireLexeit), Wur itemberg (UHLAND), and Bavaria (WlLLieli)—this creation of Prince METTERNICH will crumble away without noise, and end by resignedly registering the resolutions of the men who have appointed themselves its successors. Still, the aspect of the future is stormy. The im provised constituent assembly will require the utmost wisdom in its members, and the moral support of all Germany, to carry it through the colossal enterprise of re-organising a nation of the first rank in the centre of Europe. The Heidelberg programme has indeed met with general acceptance in Germany. A German parlia ment, with a House of Commons elected by the na tion at large, a house composed of the sovereign princes, and a president chosen from among these princes for a term of years this constitution has been received favourably. The little Duchy of Baden indeed is in advance of it : even staunch liberals like WELCKER and InsTeiN, found it diffipult by expatiating on the backward tendencies of Prussia and Austria, to dissuade the great meeting at Offenburg from declaring at once for a republic. Wirtemberg—where, thanks to the prudente of the king in calling liberals to his councils before ho was compelled by the pressure from without, there has been no revolutionary movement, the insurrection of the peasants having been caused by purely local grievances, and appeased for the present by passing a law for the redemption of feudal burdens— Wirtemberg acquiesces in the Heidelberg pro gramme. Hesse Cassel, where the sovereign is allowed to retain his crown simply be cause no eligible successor offered himself, and Darmstadt, where the new Grand Duke is a man of spirit and intelligence, Nassau, and Saxony, will all adopt the resolutions of the constituent assembly in Frankfort. Even the stubborn potentate of Hanover, after the revolutionary movements in Gottingen, Hanover, and Celle, is prepared to submit with gi im resignation. Prussia is revolutionised, and Austria has its hands full at home. And yet, with all this unanimity, there are clouds on the horiz n. The main difficulty lies in the choice of a prince I to be placed at the head of the confederation. Before the unfortunate 18th and 19th of March there was but one opinion and one wish on this head. Local posi tion, national wealth, and intelligence, a num:rous, gallant, and well-disciplined army—everything pointed to Prussia and its King as the natural head of the new confederation or empire. But since the days of the Berlin barricades, an insuperable repugnance to I the King of Peessla appears to have taken possession of the univers .1 public of southern Germany. From the liberals of Carlsruhe. Munich, Stuttgart, Heidel berg, there is but one voice. They protest against a prince, who they say, after having caused his " dear burghers of Berlin" to be fusilladed for fifteen hours "by mistake," after having been compelled to stand bareheaded in the presence of the victims of his " mistake," took upon him, decorated with the colours of the burscheasehtifl, to make a triumphal progress through his capital in the character of a revolutionary hero, to announce to the people that lie would condescend to accept the imperial crown of Germany, which nobody offered him, and to profess that he had no wish to dethrone the other princes of Germany, whose hold upon their people was as strong or stronger than his own. This " buffoon masque rade," as the uneourtly south Germans term it, has been received by them with one shout of indignation. The proclamation of the KING of Paessis has been publicly burnt in many places, and in some the effigy of the royal proclaimer has been burnt along with it. Our German correspondents concur in declaring that the last link between FREDERIC WILLIAM and the German movement has been broken. If this be true it is to be lamented. Prussia apart, there is no German prince possessed of sufficient power to prevent his fellow sovereigns feeling they give way to an equal, or to compel that reluctant sub mission which fellow sovereigns are sure to pay. There was in Prussia a nucleus of organised power which could certainly have kept the heterogeneous elements of Germany together; Austria, with its assortment of foreign provinces now flying off in revolt is out of the question ; and all the other princes of the confederation are too weak. The aliena tion of the German liberals from the KING of PRUSSIA would, in any circumstances, be matter of regret; and it is the more to be deplored that a hostile collision between Germ my and the autocrat of Russia as the fields of Poland seems inevitable and close at hand. The error of the King of Peussta, and the spirit it has awakened, are to be deplored ; but the alienation is not the less a fact on that account. The deputies who have met at Frankfort, irre gularly appointed, or rather self-elected, can have uo strength except in so far as they carry national feeling unanimously with them. They cannot afford to burden themselves with an uepopular prince. Whatever the Times may fancy, or may have in sieuated into its head from interested sources, the Germanic movement is national and rationalist. There is nothing of the romantic middle age folly about it, which haunts the imagination of some Berlin writers. Berlin is not the Paris of Germany. No personal predilections—no grave apprehensions for the future—can alter the fact ; and, in despite of the monarchical tendencies of the German mind, in con sequence of the presumptuous precipitation of FREDE RIC WILLIAM a German federal republic is at this moment less improbable than a united German empire. The only chance of the King of Peessia is in the conviction the Germans may entertain of the necessity of a generalissimo in a war with Russia, or perhaps in their confidence in a Camphausen ministry, now that his Majesty has consented to " reign and • not govern." few and Holstein as integral members of the Germanic nation, as also the provinces of East and West Prussia ; and to declare frankly and energetically for the re-establishment of Poland. It was decided that in the constituent assembly there should be one deputy for every 50,000 inhabitants. PRUSSIA.—The Ailgemeine Preusaisehe Zeitung, of the Ist of April, contains in its official columns two documents unsurpassed in importance by any which have appeared since the commencement of the revo lution. The first is an intimation from the King tan tamount to an acquiescence in the constitutional posi tion of a king, " qui rgne et ne gouverne pas ;" the second is the representation from the new ministry which induced his majesty to issue the former. The royal rescript is as follows : Coneurrion in the views and proposals of the ministerial report, which has this day been submitted to me, 1 from this data refer all petitions relating to constitutional affairs to my cabinet ministers, and authorise them to reply to the petitioners.—(Signed) FREI/ERICK W I LLIA M.—Potcdam, March 30, 1848. The ministerial report referred to in this annoance- ment is as follows : Your Majesty has informed the nation in your proclama tion of the 21st March, that you have determined to grant a real constitution, with responsible ministers; and in a free and elevated spirit have declared that, whereas from the commencement of your reign you have conscientiously sought to promote the welfare of your people by gradually preparing them for free institutions, you are now convinced that the time has at length arrived for relinquishing that pointy, and beginning with courage and power en entire re med. lling of the constituXon. Your Majesty, firmly re solved with that sincerity and perseverance which the whole nation knew to be in your character to act up to your new convictions, has charged us to take the necessary preliminary step•, and wo believe that we only anticipate your Majesty's wishes when we declare ourselves responsible to the future representations of 1 the people for the meiunires we may adopt to that end. We regard it as our first duty to take upon our heads alone the consequences of the advice we may give, in order that your Majesty, raised above the importunate pressure of the mo ment, may mature your resolves in undisturbed repose. We will have the honour to submit to your Majesty, without loss of time, the necessary prof seals fur the national consti tution, and in case, as has sometimes happened, written pe titions or prayers for a personal audience on matters relating to the constitution should again be presented, we respect fully request your Majesty to authorise us to reply to them, in order that any displeasure excited by the rejection or only partial concession of these requests may be directed against us.—(Sign I) CAMPIIAUSEN, COUNT VON SCELWE MIN, VON AUEENWAI.I), BOENEMANN, VON 111/141E, BANIMMANN, VON Revue it—To his Majesty the King. His Majesty, in his of vial reply, accedes to the demands of his ministers, as set forth in the latter part of the last paragraph. The following is toe letter of our correspondent, dated Berlin, March 31 : to consequence of an accident having occurred on the line of rail between Magdeburg and Oscnersleben, 1 was de tained a considerable time on the Primo-Brunswick fron tiers, and arrived here last night too late for the post. I found the city or a state or more than ordinary anima tion and excitement, and I learned that it was caused by the return of the military lay order of the King, and at tee re • quest of numerous inhabitants, particularly of the civic guard, who are terrioly harassed with their new and fa tiguing duties. Indeed, some wags among them assert that they were worked almost to death in order to induce them to reseal the military, whose presence appeared desirable in high and iotluential quarters. Be that as it may, the military were mod cordially received by the civic guard and by the better class of citizens. The lower orders still look upou the soldiery with suspicion, although the formal did not oppose their return. There are not wanting parties, how ever, who, like the editor of the Berliner Zeitungs )talk, look upon the reed of the troops as the beginning of a reaction, and who talk of a counter reaction, the fret demonstration of which, it is urged, should be the an-:savour to free Berlin once more Tbut by peaceful me .no) teem the presence of the soldie r y. 'he suave journal, however, which had formally protested against their recap, now protests against their expulsion, and urges all citizens to forget and forgive. Several wore trot pa will arrive to-day arid to-morrow. Altogether, there have been recalled one regiment of infantry, two battalions of ditto, one regiment of Ulan' and the so-called light squadron. During the niabt, the civic guard on duty at the palace and the public offices entered freely into conversa tion, of the most cordial kind, witk soldiers who came near them. In the proclamation, recalling the military, it is stated in large capitals, that they will only be employed in case of great necessity, and then only by desire of the civic authorities. It is quite clear that the government are exceedingly desirous of removing from the public mind any impression that the recall of troops to the capital (none of which troops, by-the-bye, took part in the late events) is the beginning of a reaction. Tne civic authori ties, on their side, aro doing all they can to pacify and satisfy the people. Amongst other steps it has been resolved to give immediate relief, on a toler ably liberal scale, to all necessitous persons who took an active part in the defence of the barricades during the late insurrection. The albscription in favour of the fa milies of the persons who fell during the strugale wa l realise a very large sum, and will enable the committee, it is sup posed, to provide permanently for the parties in question. In the neighbourhuod of and in Magdeburg itself numerous copies of a circular were distributed, us which it is stated that " Berlin is not Prussia;" and that it is not desirable that that city, with its Frenchmen, its Poles, and its Jews, should govern the provinces. The following ex tract from the circular (the introduction to which is signed C, out Schulenburg-Ottlebrn) will show its spirit and ten- dewy ; " We are not willing that Beelin should receive and foolishly expend (veryender) our taxes, for they belong to the King and to fatherland. We are not willing that our brave soldier*, who have shed their blood fora good cause, should be covered with insults. We require that our King be free, that the united Diet be tree, and that it he not governed by the ex citable people of the capital. We solemnly protest hereby against every resolution which may be taken by the King and the united Diet under the tyranny of the street riot of Berlin (serasseliaa)raer)." This circular, which was chiefly forwarded to the clergy, with the view of inducing them to draw up an address to the King in a spirit of reaction, and to get signatures to it in the rural district', has given rise to very angry comments in the political clubs of this city. Such steps can only tend to in jure thu cause which certain parties affect to serve. The plain truth is—and it may a' well be told—any reaction on a large or decisive scale would be the signal of an outbreak, both vast and sanguinary. The Kieg, however, has better councillors thar. this ultra-royal count, and he will still remain where he has placed hioself—at the head of the movement. The last intelligence from Prussian" Poland is to the effect that fin Silesia the peasantry are in a state of the greatest excitement—in a social, however, rather than in a political, point of view. Numbers of them refuse to pay any imposts or feudal dues. Some accounts state that great excesses have been committed, whilst several journals deny that each has been the case. Letters from Posen up to the 29th state that the promise made by the King respecting a rational reorgae isstion of the Grand Duchy of Posen, had not given complete satisfaction, chiefly on the *core that delay is unnecessary and dangerous. Since writing the foregoing I have received the Oder Zeitung of Breslau, published yesterday. It is officiaily stated in it that the inhabitants of several districts have compelled their landlords to abolish certain dues and rights. The authorities have issued a notification to the effect that much (treed concessions are not binding, and that persons demanding them will be rigorously punished. On the other hand, numerous landowners in district , adjacent to Prieg nitz, have petitioned the King for the abolition of all privi leges, for equality for all classes, and fur a uniform system of representation and taxation. Tney stand up, however, for the proviso that no one shall possess the franchise unless he pays direct taxation. It appears by the above journal that a revolutionary spirit has appeared in s me districts of Po. merania and the Altmerk. The Oder &dung contains, also, some news from Posen up to the evening of the 27th. The German and Palish committees act in co-opera tion for the maintenance of tranquillity. It ap pears that the Polish committee and the Polish deputation to the King require that the army be withdrawn from Posen and stationed in the fortress of Aliniari, and in the barracks; the appointment of a Pole as head president of the grand duchy, and the dismissal of the present commissaries of districts. It is added that the foregoing measures, and some others which arc pointed cut, can alone prevent the shedding of blood. From the Rhenish provinces we learn that the general in command issued a proclamation, stating that information had been received by the military authorities that an irruption into the Rhenish pro vinces is projected by a number of armed workmen, from the French frontier; and in order to oppose them it will be necessary to despatch troops from Trevee, Krenznach, and Coblentz.—(Signed) VON TAlLS. —March 26. A letter from Cologne, of March 28, says that burgher guards are everywhere being formed ; that upon a given signal hundreds of resolute men, armed with fire-arms and swords, will instantly assemble at any place which may be threatened, without with drawing the necessary protection from other parts. AUSTRIA.—The important fact of Austria having determined to resume forcible possession of Lom bardy is officially made known in the if Zeitung of the 29th ult. : The extraordinary events which have lately taken place in the kingdom of Lombardy and Venice render it indis pensable, for the interest of the whole monarchy, that the attempt which has already been commenced to dissever those kingdoms from the imperial states shall be opposed speedily and energetically. Rio Majesty has accordingly commanded the immediate formation ott an army corps at the disposal of Field-Marshal Count Nugent, and has bean pleased to issue the necessary commanda to the various mi. maters to provide that all measures which may be requisite thereto may be adopted with the least possible delay. To this end the removal of the troops has already commenced, and, it is confidently hoped, that they will speedily sum ed in re-utablishing the uninterrupted union with the two Italian corps. The Military Secretary to the Commander•in-Chief had an interview with Lord J. Russell yesterday, at his official residence in Downing-street. ITALY. A letter from Milan of March the 26th says: At this moment 5,000 Piedmont's/ are entering Milan, who, after a few hours' rest, will go with our volunteers, amounting to 6,000 more, ti Cream, where Radetaky with the remainder of his army, consisting of 15,000 men, together with a park of artillery, are concentrated. The Piedmontese bring some artillery with them. Our killed and wounded are very few, if we take in , o consideration that we had an army of 16,000 highly disciplined troops to contend with, besides a fortress mounting to 10 pieces of cannon of heavy calibre, which kept up for five entire days an incessant fire on our city. This is the place that the tines designated as a mere barrack. Among the hostages taken by Radetzki are the following gentlemen :--The delegate Belatti, Count Joseph Belgic's°, Signor Monzoli, of the municipa lity; De Berra, son of the councillor, Agostino Brambilla, Manzoni, the son of the great poet; the brothers Porro, Gilbert, and Giulio Count Ercole ' Durini and Carlo Porro , son of the President of the Central Congregation. PAPAL STATES.—By a decree of the pontifical government of the 21st March a corps of observation is to be formed on the frontier of the Roman states on the side of Tuscany , Parma, and Modena. Volun teers for this corps had been enrolled and received on March 22. - - - - • . Lettere from Rome of the 24th say that the news from Milan had produced an immense sensation there. The young men enrolled themselves to march to the frontiers as volunteers. The government had ordered all the troops to march for Bologna. Three battalions of the line and dragoons, as well as a great number of volunteers, had marched. The last batta lion of fusiliers march to-day ;it will be followed to morrow and the following day by other troops and a battery of field artillery. Orders are given to eon een'tate the troops about l'esaro and Bologna. Our government will not at once enter into Lombardy, bat if our brothers of Italy need succour, the banner of Pius IX. will soon float in the fields of Lombardy by the side of those of Piedmont and Tuscany. Tne Jesuits are leaving every day ; they will soon all have quitted. It is said the Austrian garrison has evacuated the citadel of Ferrara. The most complete tranquillity reigns at Rome and in the provinces. REFUSAL OF THE TURKISH GOVERNMENT TO ACKNOWLEDGE THE FRENCH REPUBLIC. CONSTANTINOPLE, MULCII 18. The first account of the French revolution arrived here by the Odessa steamer. M. de Titoff, the Russian minister, was the first of the representatives of the foreign powers who had received official information from his go vernment of the abdication of Louis Philippe and the esta blishment of a republic in France. It is only within the last few hours that an extraordinary steam-packet has arrived here from M irseilles, with despatches fur M. dc Baurquency, and the courier from London is not expected until the 24th inst. It is unnecessary to lay that the French ambassador remained till this morning in a state of the most anxious expectation ; Lord Cowley, on the eve of depar ture, and ignorant what line of conduct the Bri tish government intended to adopt with regard to France, without feeling the same anxiety as M. de liourqueney shared his inaction. The ground was, there fore, left free to the Russian envoy, who did not fail to take advantage of the eircomatance, Since the 12th instant, the day on which M. de Titoffia courier arrived from Odessa, the Russian minister has had repeated interviews not only with the Grand Vizier and Ali l'acha, but with most of the turk'sla ministers. Within the last hour I have learned, on the bast authority, that the Turkish government has deter mined not to acknowledge the French republic. From this circumstance was may guess at the object of M. de Titoffis repeated visits to the Porte within the last wank. It is as well understood in England as at Constantinople—the im portance of en alliance with Turkey in case of war. Turkey has n welt disciplined and well-conditioned army of 150,000 men, under the command of experienced officers, and a fleet of fifteen Rail of the line, with a considerable number of smaller vessels of war, all well equipped and fit for service. The excitement produced by the news received from France ball caused the suspension of almost all busi ness, diplomatic and commercial. Since the 12th instant, a notice bad hi en posted at the exchange, signed by MM. Alleont and Baltartai, the bankers of the government, stating that in the present disturbed state of Europe they would not operate any transactions but for ready money. The news, however, brought by to-day's steamer, that the French republic had been acknowledged by England, has, in a great ' measure, restored the confidence of the commercial body. M. Rizzo* Neroulas has been appointed by the Greek ' government minister plenipotentiary at Constantinople, and I M. Arg)ropoulos, the former charge d'affaires, is to return hero as secretary of emhaasy. MALTA, MAacl.2s. The Oberon has brought a report current at Patna when she left that Athena was in insurrection, andtwo of the Ministers killed. As the Athens mail had not arrived at the time of the Oberon's departure, it was supposed that there was same foundation for the report. Most of the Jesuits who came here in the Neapolitan steamer have taken up their residence at the convent of St. Calcedoure, at Florian. The government supplied them with new bedding end bedclothes from the store of the Civil I hospital. More are expectrd from Genoa. Those at Noto, in Sicily, are on the qua vire to come here, on the first mani festation against them. The civil government here have received notice that they must give up Fort Manoel, now used as a lazaretto, as at will shortly be required for a miltary purpose. We expect another r giment here, the 44th, and two companies of artil lery, to strengthen the garrison. They are much needed ; fur what with extra sentries and captain's guards, the sol diers are worked to death. In cemequence of the attack made by the Maltese on the band and the main g lard last month, stones, with holes in them for the reception of posts, have been laid in a circle in the centre of the parade, to pre vent the people again approaching and jostling the band. The Prince of Capua, who has hitherto showed no de monstratio• s of party in the affairs of the 'rwo Sicilies, has to-day hoisted the Sicilian tricolor on his terrace. BELGIUM.—ANTWERP, APRIL 2.—The Precur seur says :—" By a telegraphic despatch, received at 10 o'clock last night, we learn that an imeute had broken out at Ghent, at 6 o'clock in the evening. The military force was called out, and two men were killed."—The Nouvel lisle de Gand says, that while the journal was being pub lished, two persons were mortally wounded, while endea vouring to rescue a maa who had been arrested. A telegraphic despatch, which we have received at noon, states th.t all is tranquil at Ghent.—At a meeting held at Antwerp, last night, M. Retie' (who has been officially requested to ascertain the state of mind in Flanders by the Provisional Government of Paris), loudly protested that the Provisionel Government was quite igno. rant of the distribution of arms among the Belgian legion, and tut it would certai .ly proceed against t .c authors of this unjustifiable measure. Ile further stated tint he should go to Lille to ascertain what had passed on the subject of Ouse culptble armaments of these insurgents. M. Iletzel left Brussels this morning for Lille. Great numbers of workmen still continue to arrive from France. The greater number of the muskets which the insurgeote had thrown away in their Right bear the mark of Liege. It is asserted that all came from the arsenal a Lille. RUSSIA.—A letter from IltrlM of date the 30th of March, which appears in the Kiduisclre Zedwig states " All is tranquil in Russia. But a strong Muscovite feeling in favour of the Emperor, and against foreigners, manifests itself. It is propoad to expel all Frenchmen and Germans." On the 12th of March an ukase was transmitted by the Em- peror at St. Petersburg to the chief of the naval staff. It gives directions for etc .11ing to their posts the private sailors of the imperial navy who had received indefinite furloughs, with the excepion of those belonging to the governments of Pura, Simbirsk, Wiatka, Minsk, Grodno, Wilna, Kauen, and Kurland, who reside is seaports; and those belonging to Nikolajew and Sebastopol who reside in Astrakhan or the harbours of the Danube. The assembling of the seamen must be completed beture the 13th of April. There appears to be some movement in the German provinces in the Baltic subject to Russia, fur some citizens of Rigs and some of the Courland noblesse arrived at Berlin towards the end of Marsh, with a view to ascertain what reception an official deputation from those provinces to ask fur Prussian assist &ace was likely to reserve." REPEAL OF THE UNION.—We (Liropool Albion) learn that, on Friday, two trading vessels, outward bound, when in the channel, a few miles from this port, hoisted the Irish national flag at their mastheads. The commander of her Majesty's government tender, observing the movement, gave chase, when the flags were instantly lowered, and the vessels were allowed to proceed. HARD WORK.—The following short statement is Quoted from the bottom of a bill announcing a meeting in favour of abolishing the night-work of operative bakers:— •' The committee of the Operative Bakers' Society believe the public are not aware that the London journeymen bakers commence working at eleven o'clock at night, and continue the same until five or six o'clock the following evening, whereby they have but five or six hours disengaged from busines., thus leaving them little time for rest, mental or moral improvement, and none for domestic enjoyment or healthy recreation." SINGULAR SEIZURE OP ILLICIT SPIRITB.-011 Sa turday evening Messrs. Hayford and Levine, excise officers, being on duty in High-street, Southwark, and observing a man of suspicions appearance loitering backwards and for wards, near to one of the coach and van offices, it occurred to them that he had recently delivered or was waiting for a load of goods, and from suspicion of his being engaged contraband trade they entered the coach-office, where several packages were lying about. Having examined the whole of them minutely, one large box excited their attention, more particularly from the address attached, They accordingly ordered that the box should be opened, when it was &see vered that it was but a covering to a large tin case filled with illicit spirits 30 per cent. aterproof. Atter this revelation of the contents of course no claimant appeared. The officers then seized the spirits, and conveyed them to the Excise office warehouse in Broad-street. AMERICA. By the ship John It. Skiddy, arrived at Liver pool yesterday, we have dates from New York to the 15th alt. The Senate had appointed Mr. Sevier, Envoy Ex traordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, to proceed to Mexico without delay to negotiate and finally close the treaty of peace. He was entrusted with full power, and was to leave Washington on the 15th, ac companied by Mr. Walsh, son of the United States consul at Paris, who had been appointed secretary of legation. Advices from Vera Cruz to the 3rd inst., give accounts of more contests and bloodshed between the American troops and the guerillas, and, as usual, in telligence of the defeat of the latter ; but not without loin on the side of the Americans. A train that left Vera Cruz for Orizaba, commanded by Col. Briscoe hats been attacked by a guerilla force 400 strong. An express rider was immediately sent to inform Geo. Twiggs of the fact, and that officer despatched three companies of cavalry to the aid of Cot Briscoe. This reinforcement went as far as San Diego, but seeing nothing of the Americans they returned. A letter re ceived by the last arrival states that a desperate fight took place between Col. Briscoe's com mand and the guerillas at Matagorda, which resulted in the dispersal of the latter. Lieut. Hen derson and boar of the Georgia volunteers were killed in the fight. A strong force of cavalry and infantry left Vera Cruz on the 21st Feb., to clear the road of the guerillas. We are apprised of an armistice having been agreed upon between Gen. Butler and the Mexican Commissioners, for two months. This will give time for the receipt of the ratified treaty and the arrival of the American com missioner at the capital of Mexico. No allusion to General Scott, or the court-martial ,is found among the news—but, judging from the statement that General Butler has agreed to an armistice with the Mexicans, it is to be presumed that General Scott has been superseded, temporarily, as commander.ia chief, agreeably to instructions from Washington. Permission has been given for the shipment of arms and ammunition from the ports of the United States for the protection of the white inhabitants of Yucatan against the exterminating designs of the Indians. Commodore Perry has received instructions to attend to the proper disposition of such arms and ammu nition. In the Senate, on the 14th, Mr. Cass availed him self of the first opportunity to propose the taking up of the ten regiment bill. In this, however, he was opposed by Mr. Webster, on the ground that other business pending in executive session, ohould be dis posed of before proceeding further with the bill for the increase of the army. Mr. Cass rejoined, and spoke earnestly in favour of the passage of the bill, but finally gave way to a motion to go into executive session. The House bill, to raise by loan sixteen millions of dollars, was presented with amendments. The mes sage of the l'resident, refusing to give information respecting the return of Santa Anna to Mexico, coming up for consideration, Mr. P. Tompkins, of Mississippi, seized the occasion to denounce certain measures of the administration. lie was replied to by Mr. Stanton, of Tennessee. The Americans were lamenting the loss of two other of their worthies—Chief Justice Spencer and the lion. H. G. Wheaton. The former was regarded as an able jurist, and the latter was an author, and had been engaged its diplomatic missions from the United States to Prussia and other European courts. The Cambria was hourly looked for ; she was in her eighteenth day, and overdue. Father Mathew was expected on a visit to the States, and pre paratious were being made to give the apostle of temperance a hearty welcome. The partisans engaged in the Presi dential election were ready to make the most of the reverend father's arrival. A New York paper says: Father Mathew will be received with tremendous ap Please, excitement, and cordiality, in this country, during the spring and summer. tie has mode a happy selection of the time; for if he had postponed his visit till after the Presi dentist election, he would have had by no means so hearty a welcome as he will now have. Why ? The whips are very anxious to get the Irish votes for their candidate at the ap proaching election, and the democrats are equally anxious. Since this pious cat olic temperance letturer will be ove r wheltned with messes and attentions from both parties, though he himself will be entirely ignorant of the reasons for all this zeal. We have no doubt, therefore, that from this consideration, the leader", both of the whips and loco focos, wia be seen running over each other's heads, and overwhelming the worthy man with all sorts of attentions op to next November. After November, he may pass through the country with comfort; but not before. COMMERCIAL INrELLIGENCE. MONEY. NEW Ysax, MarSCIL 13-20.000 dolt. Treasury notes rold at the board this morning at per cent. advance. They are now held at 103. V. 8. (Ps (1887), emu improved 1, and du. 5 far contr. (1 , 33 , j. Pennsylvania Ps are 1 higher. Nor. and Wor., IS; and Harlem, f. On the other hand—Canton declined II ; Reading bonds, I ; do. domes, I ; Long Island and Illinois fundable bonds, 1. The state of feeling in Wall-street is fern excited than it was. Go vernment securities are hardly as high ; still there is • growing im pression that thingsare on the mending order. AU stocks bet. ter than they did, and contideder is growing stronger hourly. Were it not for the sixteen million loan that in suspended over the public, government stale would go up very rapidly. The bill market in down a little; on London, 109 to 109,, and on Paris, 5.25. If there rates pr. veil there will be no further export of specie. The money market is getting easier. still the market is six ingest, and good paper ill selling at I toll per cent. • month. The Sub-Treasury is again very tow in specie. They have had a million drawn from them to the last ten days, all of which has gone intothe bent,. A law has just gamed both houses of the legislature of kilasis rappi in relation to the bonds of that state, sold onaccount of the Plant er.' hank It is not, ashes been represented, a law providingfor full pay ment of the bonds, but a conditional appropriation to that object, of the hall million sexes of land which the state received under the un- I repealed sections of the Distribution Act of 1911-2. The bill provides that three lands shall he expored for sale at auction an the lit I au.. 1019, at the minimum prier of 6 dole. per acre, and that these bonds and the coupons shall he received in payment. It is the Impressioa among manysperatoni that the Itothschilde will obip the proceeds of the treasury notes they will ternive from toe governmen. to London, in specie. The loan they have taken veil probably be mad by dram on Mexico, in return for which they .01 receive treasury notes; these will be sold in this market, and the amount received-sot out in specie, andbills drawn on it at lu per cent. premium. MARKETS. BREADSTUFFS.—FIour • The sale footed up about 2,500 to 3,000 We., in various lots, among which were too pure Genesee at G dolo. Yee. to 6 dole. 561 c. ; 500 do. oa the tame teams; 300 do. Black Kock at 6 dole. 621 e.; and 400 do. (Ely brand) Genesee st 6 dole. sblc. to 6 dole 750. Southern continued scarce, and in fear demand. baits of 2i io bbls. Peteraburg iountry were made at.. dots. 25c.. and 100 do. at 6 dole 37,0. 200 taal4. New Or,ke.ms sold a little better thin common, at 6 (Sole. 431 c.; 100 bide. of Ifirain Smith's (a fancy brand,, it woe said, 'd as high ise it ilaLs., Stns matter Mooted eci /fhb a good feeling, end prices were flrm. Wheat Sake of 2,500 bushels of Ohio were made et 14 ic.; 4,600 do. Genevee sold on private terms, supposed to be at about 141 c.; 3,000 do. goad white do. weresold at 150 r...; snot 4,000 do. Ohio mixed were sold at 140 c. Corn Sales of 1,500 sacks New Orleans damaged were made at 47c. to 40c. ,• and 3,600 do. do.; white. Sc., out of order, at 50c.; 56c. was bid for handsome New Jersey yellow, while 3sc. as asked. Meal—Sales 01'100 bbis. were made (New Jersey) at 2 dole 431 c. ityc—Sales of 1,100 bushels were made at mic.. 3,000 do. were in negotiating to arrive at something le.. but we did not earn of its coneummatMn. Oats—There was no ebunge. Northern were line at 49c., Sit which moderate sales acre reported. Beena—Sala of 350 bags. southern white were made at 75c. Co. rie—We have only to notice sales of 40 bogs South American at6lc. to 7c., cash. Corror —Tim operations to-::ay were moderate, ea, about 700 balm, but at prices mdiusting armer market. We quote ; LIVIAPOUL CLANVICATIte4. New Orleans, Uplands. Florida. Mob. es Tex. Inferior none. Ordinary Middling -- . to Good Middling Bto 81 bto 81 b i to 51 Middling Fair Fair Fully Fair Bl to 8 none. 9 to 91 Gooa Fair 9 to 9 none. nominal. PkoOl6lo,ol.—E•les of 100 Mg. new mew pork were made at to dole. SOc. • prime was held at 9 dole. 30c. Sales of 125 tierces Winchester shoulders were mails at C.C. Soles Of 400 'Ob.. sour prime pork were made on private tenon, supposed to be at about 6 dull. 30c.- -Beef Country mess was Wady at b dole. 25c., aad prime at 5 deli.. 230.—Lard: Sales of 300 packages wire made at 710. to Ste ; and 300 kegs were made, to arrive this monk, at 710.—Bute ter: Sales of 30 packages Baltimore at 161 c. This state, good dairies, continued Arm at Isc. to Ric. Fautoins.—Engagemente to hntieh poets were light, without va riation in quotation'. Corn has been taken at 4d., and heavy freights 15e. to 20e. Cotton and lard were taken at former rases for Liverpool. There were some engagements made for Baltic ports ; oil was taken for shipment at 3c., and woods at 30c. Cotton wen also, it wee said, engaged to St. Petersburg ; to Havre, it good at ae. Bt. Louis, MARCH 14.—Sales of flour at 4 dole. •50c. to 4 dole. 56}0.; lard ia held at 54, without any sales being effected. CIE cultxdri, kianCif 14.—The flour market is steady, but not very active; 1,700 Me. mid at 4 dole. 370. Whisky commands 16e.. to 161 e. in lib= and Ms. New Orleans sugar hemp 44c. to 4(e. for fair quality, at which rate 100 Wide. were sold. The proviaion market exhitate no change. Mess port is quoted at 7 dole. 75c. • and the sales amount to 10,000 Ms. Baltimore cared bacon, ride; 340.- Lard may be quoted at 54 in We. and 6in kegs. Weed tallow at 7 1e. Butter 13c., and prime quality at lre. Closer seed 3 dole. 37 1 e. BALTIMORE, If alma 14. —FLourt.—The market remain ed about the same. Dealers were waiting for the Cambria's news. gales of 758 WM. Howatdestreet were made at .5 d 01... 611 cents. to 3 dole. 674 cent.. Whest.—Sales of 2,000 bushele, including reds and white, at Idol. 30 cents. to 1 dol. 33 cents. Corn was dull at St cents. for white mixed, and 57 cents. for yellow. Provisions were quiet. Whisky was dull. Bye was inactive at previous prices. Weather windy and cold. Bormorr, MARCH 14.—FLOtrk.—A good demand with sales of 1,200 bole., including brands Genre* and Mich= at 6 dole. 611 mats to 6 dodo. 75 to., which is =advance. The market was arm, and sake of 10,090 bushels were made, in cluding white, at 56 oentk, and yellow ilat ditto at 59 amts. Rye.— We note sales of 600 bustle"' at @Scents. Oats.-1,590 burhele northern changed bands at 49 oents. Naval cocci..—we notice on sale 156 =hi of spirits of turpentine at 40c. Pronaions about the same. Frggkta were inactive. IRON TRADl.—Owing to the dulness of the times, seven co. the ironstone pits of the Glengarnock Ironworks at Kil birnie hose in the meantime ceased working, which will, it is said, cast out of employment about 2(K.) men. BRAZILS. The Seagull packet, Lieut. Lewis, commanding, arrived at Falmouth on Sunday from Brazils. Her date of sailing from Rio J•niero has already been announced by a later arrival ; she proceeded thence on Feb. 10, and commu nicated off Pernambuco on the 25th. Her freight amounted to about 21,0001. Two passengers, Messrs. Butterworth and Edmith, died at sea. Lord Bowden had failed in all his endeavours to contract a treaty with the Basilian government, and it was appre hended that unless our government decided upon acting in what they consider in Rio a fair and truly reciprocal spirit with Brazil no commercial compact would be arranged, and that British interests would suffer materially in cnisequence. But affairs bore a still mere untoward aspect by the circum. tance of the resignat.en of the Minister of For. ign Affairs (Senor Saturnine), well known as an unflinching advocate of British interests, and the appointment to the vacant office of Senor Firemen,. Buono, a recognised tool and toady of Senor Alves Branco. The decree of the Ist October, to which we alluded in a former article, had given rise to great excite ment on the Rio Exchange, and could not be satisfactorily interpreted, diplomacy having signally succeeded is making this edict as vague as the most Jesuitical use of language is capable of. Her Majesty's consul had communicated to the merchants that British merchandise imported in British bottoms will not be ameeable to the differential duty, and gave as authority the verbal declaration of the late Minister. But adminisurctions are liable to constant change, and every needy employe , mey form his own version of the decree. It was understood, from 'very authentic source, that the execution of the decree would be postponed until the Ist of January, 1849, hut the letter from which we obtain the above information adds, that " everything in intrudes only, and we are all of us placed in an awkward predica ment," and suggests the expediency of some active measure' being adopted on this side. It was not known at Rio to whom the ministerial meats would be committed for the new governm i er r :; ' , n t Emperor being absent in the provinces. Nearly cinched; of the inhabitants of Rio were suffering from a complaint termed " the polka f, ver." The Hon. Captain (lore, the British minister appointed to the River Plate, would pro ceed thy. rtly after the Seagull &Laid. Matters in the river are reported to be unchanged. Front Bahia, of the 20th February, there are "deices of that market being in a state of extreme dulnets, few sales being recorded of British manufactures, while the absence of purchaser. bad depressed produce ; yet, notwithstanding the limited shipments to Europe, they were in excess of the available tonnage, and every vessel in port, both British and foreign, wee engaged. Freights consequently were looking up, 6as. to 70s. being the figures for the latest engagements. The stock of sugar in the trapixes was about 16,813 cases, 989 boxes, and 6dl barrels, and prices were 12s. ed. to 15v Id. for muscovadoes, and 161. Ild. to 20s. 7d. per cwt. for whites free on board. No purchases of cotton having transpired, the prices of that article were nominal ; the stock of which was iiiiignificant, only 1,712 bags being in the pren9as. The translations in exchange by the Antelope were upwards of 40,000/., at rates from 27td. to 28d. er milreie, according to the character of the paper. The Antelope LaL , brought about 10,0001. in specie. E'br Court. - -- - The Countess de Neuilly paid a private visit to her Ma i rsty yesterday at Buckinghun Palace. The Duchess of Kent visited her Nlajesty yesterday evoning at Buckingham Palace. The Countess de Neuilly visited the Duchess of Kent yesterday at her residence, Clarence House, Et. James's. The Prince of Prussia visited the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, end Prince Frederick of Hesse, on Sunday, at Cambridge House. • DEATH OF SIR SAMUEL 1111811 METRIak, K.H., L.L.D.—This gentleman, ao well known for his knowledge of ancient armour, in teAlmotty. to which ho was knighted. by William IV. in 1832, died on the 21c1 inst., at hie seat Goodrich Court, Herciordshire. He was born in 1783, b. ing the only son of the late Jelin Hayrick, E-q.,01 Great Clearge street, Westminster, and of Peterborough House, Middle sex, by the daughter and coheir of Samuel Hush, Esq., of Fore House, Herts. He married in 1903 the dausrbter and coheir of James Parry, Esq ,of Cambridg,shire. The deceased was an advocate in the Ecclesiastical and A4miralty Courta. He was a magistrate and deputylkutenar.t of Hemmed shire, of which county he served the office of high sheriff in 1834. Sir William rendered particular service to the Ordnance in the arrangement of the llorse Armoury in the Tower of London. A NEW DESCRIPTION OF LITERARY LARCEN Y.—THE Tot r.•,."—tinder the head of " Seamy " we published on Friday an account of Prince Mette•nich's escape from Vienna, and of the scene in the presence of the Archduke John which preceded it. It was translated and compiled in our office from the Leipzig Gazette and from the Courier of and for Germany. This article was printed word for word in the Timer of Saturday, and was falsely quoted from Galignasi's Messenge'. To the barefaced robberies which the high-priced and low-principled " combined" commit upon us is now added bad ingenuity of falsifying the marks of the plunder in a vain attempt to escape detection. PROPOSED ADDITION TO THE ROYAL ARTILLERY CORP6.-Bir,—As economy and efficiency are the order d the day, allow me to call the attention of the public to the proposed increase of tw. uty companies to the corps of artil lery. To every battalion of artillery of eight companies there are no less than five colonels and lieutenant colonels; to every company, two captains, two first-lieutenants, and in many instances one second-lieutenant. There is also one • adjutant and one quiver-master to each battalion. There is, on an average. an lees than five officers to emu company of artillerymen of eighty rank and file. The European companies of artillery in the service of the East India Com pany have but one captain and two fint.lieutenants per com pany, and one second-aentamant to every two companies. The number of field officers is ex .ctly half that of the royal army. A considerable number of Milan ore also absent from their corps. either holding staff situations, or on fur lough to Europe, so tliat the r.umber of officers actually pre sent with their corps is not more than three per company, field officers included. Now if three officers per company are sufficient for troop. on actual service, five must be too many tor companies on home service. It must also be recol lected that the Bengal artillery arc not to be surpassed by any artillery in the woed. I therefore propose that, in lieu of creating twenty additional companies (which would require 100 additional officers and 1,600 men), twenty men cm company be added to the eight existing companies. This would give the same number of gunners, the com panies quite as effective, and at a saving to the to gthy of no lens a sum than 25,000!. per annum. 'there is ne corps of artillery in the world so overloaded with officers in pro ponion to men, as to', Royal Artillery. Indeed, it is diffi cult to find command, tux toe field officers. Only co aide: the little miserable .sland of St. Helena, with 70 gunners, requiting four officers and a colonel commandant of artillery, in addition to the iafantry regiment in garrison. Several other stations are sitnuarly officered. Unfortunately tor the sountry, there is scarcely a liberal member in the house at all conversant with tie organisation of the army. Having a little knowledge of these matters, I can easily prove that hall a million might he saved in the estimates, the same number of troops mainedned, end more effective for home or foreign service.—R. J. L.—March 30, 1848. THE CHARTIsT MOYEMENT.—Yesterday, a public meeting was held at Ciencenweil•grern, fit the purpose of electing Ulnae dei.ra e. represent hie chartists to: the several metropoii'au i;:v.ri.ts, in the approaching national convention, intended to be opened to-morrow (this day). From an early hour gr.upe set idlers began to assemble in separate parties at the rendezvous, and the sesta of the executive committee were active in procuring signature, to be attached to the mc,uste: petition in favour of tee people's charter, which is to be presented to the House of Commons on Mo ndey next. Shoruy sit r twelve o'clock, the hour ap pointed fur the meeting. a large van, containing some dozen or eighteen of the leading memeert of the executive c ors mittee, eat red Clerkeeweli green from St. John-street, and was strewn to the centre set the open area in front of the Sessions-house. At this time some 600 or 700 persons had , assembled, but %Lough Moe comprised a sprinkling of the industrious working anises, the vast msjoi ity consisted set lads, idlers, and of theoutpourii.gsot the neighbouring localiti sot Saffron-hill and Fiebolaue. A Dir. Dixon took the chair, land stated the °eject for %elven the meeting had been con , vend, and called upon the meeting to put in nomination the candidates. The three first proposed, via • Mr. Cuday, Mr. Tapp, st.d Mr. Child* eo re recommended by the ewe cutive committee, amid we: severally put in n'.minatiun and seconded.—A young man, awned Salmon, who said he be. longed to the Southwark sumach of the chartist body, ob jected to the dictation of the xecutive committee, sad pro posed Mr. James Bronterre Olirien as a lit and proper per son to represent the neetropoilme chartists in the convention. —A Mr. Side sec mdeu the nomination.—Dr. li'Dousll was also duly put in nomination ahl seconded, though it was an nounced by Mr. Clarke, one of the committee, that Dr. M'Douall bad written to that body declining to serve. As the nomination, however, had been made, the chairman de clared his intention to submit the name of Dr. fd•Dotiall with thme of the other candidates to the meeting. On a show of hands being taken by the chairman, assisted by two tellers, the greatest display was ice favour of Messrs. Cuffs; and Childs, and the Lowest in that of Dr. M'Donall. The numbers for Mr Tapp and Mr. Bronterre O'Brien were ap parently so canal that the chairman put their names a second time, when toe majority was clearly in favour of the last named gentleman. On this the chairman announced that the election had filen on Mr. Cufiay, Mr. Childs, and Mr. Bronterre O'Brien. The meeting was Wren,' by Mr. Ernest Jones, Mr. Alexander Sharp, Mr. Fennel, Mr. Clarke, and several other members of the chartist body, and the proceedings were protracted until five o'clock, when the meeting separated in a quiet sod orderly manner. A CHILD SHOT.—On Saturday evening a young gentleman named Dennison, whose father resides at Shrews. bury-house, Shooter's-hill, which was at one time the resi dence of the late Princes. Charlotte, wan amusing himself firing bullets a: a target in company with a friend, and at some distance was the cottage of the gardener, who has a family of young children. Oct of these, a boy of four years of age, was in the act of taking a bag of flour from the baker, when he was observed to drop the bag and fall down. On being taken up it was found that one of the bullets bad entered his chest near the heart, and in a few moment' he had ceased to exist. DIQUEST,YESTERDAY.—SUICIDE FROM In wARTUr Love.—By Mr. J. Payne. at Guy's Hospital, on the body of Bridget Macdonald, aged 11. For some months= the deceased had " kept company " with a man Dodge, a smith, at liaudslay s, the engineer, and . expected that she would be marned to Lim. At the begin ning of ime week, she discovered he was already marrie d: and whm ale Admiralty volatile. sari of Ileleiord- . lee of high sheriff or service to the • se Armoury in the 1 . 1 1 .: LARCEN r.—TRE " we published on ,ich's escape from e of the Archduke , ed and compiled in . trim the Courier , I printed word for I falsely quoted from ed robberies which :orribinsd" commit i y of falsifying the o escape detection. OYAL ARTILLERY ocy are the order ed of the public to the : 1 o the corps of ardl- of eight companies lieutenant colonels; [-lieutenants, and in There is also one • h battalion. 'there re to *rely company • I'.l e. The European he East India Coin- lieutenants per coas- ter> , two companies. tall that of the royal c. rs are also absent I iituations, or on fur- officers actually pre- three per company, officers per company 1 ice, five must be too It most also he revol- t to be surpassed by ,•opoee that, in lieu of . which would require .), twenty men par existing nom panics. 4' gunmrs, the com- ing to the cos , al y of I there is ne corps 1 with officers in pro- Indeed, it is die- 1 leers. Only oo aide: •na, with 70 gunners, nnandatit of n artillery, i garriso . Several i ll n nfortunoarly tor the ember in the house at the army. Having a can easily prove that e estimates, rho- same o effective tor home i , 0, 1848. '' l o 'eeterday, a public n, f.r the purpose of tho chertists of the 4 .11 . I approaching nationa l l l ,-morrow morrow (this day). . began to mumble in td the agents of the rocuring signatures, to t . 4! favour of tie people's ie Bouts of Commons i o'clock, the hour ap- iontaining some cloaca I 1 11 1 d the executive con- 'rem St. John-street, i 0 en area in front of the 0 or 700 persons had Ad a sprinkling of the jot ity consisted sit lads, ghbouring localiti sot c Dixon took the chair, sitting had been con- to put in nomination esed, via • Mr. Cullay, Anmended by the our- I . put in nomination and • • mon, who said he be- the chartist body, oh- e committee, sad pro- is a lit and proper per. tista in the move num. n.—Dr. M'Douall etas ded, though it was an- . . committee, that Dr. . celining to serve. As side, the chairman de- tame of Dr. M•Dnuall ! I , .o the meeting. On a irman, assisted by two your of Mears. Caffay A Dr. M'Donall. The [erre O'Brien were ap- ut their names a second in favour of the last rman announced that I ufiay, Mr. Childs, and deg was addressed by • arp, Mr. Fennell, Mr. ' . 1 ' the chartist body, and l five o'clock, when the t . erly manner. iy evening a young . • ether resides at Shrews. s at one time the red- , was amusing himself 1! with a friend, and at • . e me gard , a e bo ne i r, o w f h k o ur h y as w a s bag of flour from do i • ' • > the hag and fall down. at one sit the bullets bad . lin a few moments be . • IDE FROM TLIWARTED I s Hospital, on the body For some months= 1 1 ' r" with • man engineer, and exist-dad At the begiuninionagg y married: and vela. ale • 1 1 . Ali 11! 1. • Lail ble tus Ind ee ; Cour. very the own. don. and tone least felt date rreet * over to POli er7S- n9er- oualy and occa tional t was d M. ig the end* ninis e con- ond is Indio- Kern- A the - rse — ly id his se un them Tea to and ithout oh de r Re ?reach .1012 of at not h the net, in o far; Dt 7 end et pro' galost strife 3, was him ve sec aimed, he not