The Express. — London, England, 1848-06-27 00:00:00

gfw erprelos. MAILS. Th e mails for New Sonth Wales, Van Dieman'a Land, and New Sialsad will be made up on the evening of the 30th June. a Thos • mails for the West Cos o f Africa and Madeira will be mad* the ev ening of the 20th Jue. The mails for British North America, and the United States, will be mime up en the evening of the 311th June. The West India Mails, excluding Bermuda, Noma, Hawanna, Ngsr onents, Vera Crus, Tampico, and l'orto Rico, and noodun., thaw for Madeira, J&Cattel, Garth:arena, Santa Martha, cure , ' , A aron, West Coast of South America, and St. Juandle rneAragua, sal be mach up on the evening of the ten July. The mails for the Brazils, We River !'tale, Monte Video, Pernsms taco. Baba, Madeira, and Burma Ayres, will be metek up on the evening of the 4th July. The mails for Vigo, Oporto, Lisbon, Madeira, Cadiz, and Gibraltar Will be made upon the morning of the %th July. The overland cloned mule, eta Marseilles, to the Mediterranean, Ecru, Aden, Ceylon, India, Hong-how, Ac., will be made up on the . ne mng of the :DI July. The overland mails lee Gibraltar, Malta, Greece, the lonian Islands, Ems, Alen, Ceylon, India, Hoag-Kong, and China, viu South...lr v:4 Will be made upon the morning of the 20th July, NOTICE TO ADVERTISERS. The number of STAMPS issued by the authorities of the Stamp-office, during 1847, to the DAILY NEWS was 3.447.009 This, we believe, is within eight per cent. of the number Limed to the .31,,rning Ilera'cl, Morning CAronick, and Morning Post, ALL PUT TOCIET In ad, itim to the above, imued to the DAILY NEWS, Morning rdper, there were issued fur the Setups 7 Edition, TILE EXPRESS 778.714 Which was more, we believe, than wets issued either to Sys Gluts or Ntaful.nrd, Evening Papers. HIGH WATER AT LONDON NNIUON. Sul Pre—Moms, In Ana peat In. Afternoon. 11 els. put 10. So• Lamm. W mks. pant II Alterman, LONDON. TUESDAY, JUNE 27. Loan GEORGE BENTISCK, and his bottle-holder, Mr. Du:Rm.:Li, are principally to blame for that tone of personal asperity—for those groundless and irrele vant imputations, rashly thrown out, spitefully re asserted, and then ehuttlingly withdrawn, which have retarded the progress of the debate on the measure for West India relief, and diverted attention from the important subject before the house. But the squabble is more or less discreditable to the House of Commons as a body. Lord GEORGE and the hon. member for Bucks, the Sir Andrew Anitecheek and the Sir.n4 Bdele of this discreditable broil, have placed themselves in this position :—On Friday, the 16th instant, Lord GEORGE said, with reference to the alleged wilful suppression of Sir C. GREY'S des patch—" It was to be sure nothing more than a renewal, by the Under Colonial Secretary, of the same trick that had been played off by his chief (Earl GREY) in another place, when a despatch was with held for four hours after the debate Lad concluded." Mr. Disn.ent backed Lord GEORGE, and charged Mr. DAWES with having, in his evidence before the sugar and coffee-planting committee, evaded a ques tion by affecting to misunderstand it. On the Mon day following, Mr. Hawes explained satisfactorily the circumstances out of which Lord GEORGE and Mr. DIsRAELI had contrived to trump up an imputa tion of fraud against him. On Friday, the 23rd inst., nevertheless, Lord GEORGE returned to the charge. Referring to Earl GREY, he said—" Ile had only to recommend to the noble lord at the head of the colonial department, to attend to the opinions of a whig statesman, who said that a refined policy had ever been the parent of confusion, and ever would be—that plain honest intentions which could as easily be discovered as fraud would be detected at last, were the best that could he pursued." And again, Mr. Disßaut backed his noble friend by declaring that his charges had not been satisfactorily answered. Af er Mr. DisRAELI had spoken, Lord GEORGE reite rated his charges in more offensive and irritating lan guage, comparing Mr. IlawEs to MAJOCCIII of green tag notoriety. Last night Mr. Hawes repeated the explanation he had before offered, and called upon Lord GEORGE to retract or substantiate his charge. In what manner was this challenge answered by the protectionist chief and his devoted henchman ? Lord GEORGE was at great pains to remind (or in form) the house that he had "made two distinct charges." The first was a general charge against the Colonial-office of having withheld information from the committee : the second the special charge against Mr. HAWES. Lord GEORGE expressed in the outset a conviction that Mr. H.twEs's account of the circum stances cut of which the charge had arisen was per fectly accurate. Yet Lord GEORGE carefully avoided an explicit retractation of the charge, and sought to divert the attention of the house from this important omission by dilating at great length, and in minute detail, upon the general charge against the Colonial office. He could not support the charge, and he had not the manliness to withdraw it. With regard to Earl GREY, Lord GEORGE protested that he had charged no fraud on the noble earl," he had merely accused him of "a political holding back of certain despatches in order to obtain a political end." Lord GEORGE'S accusation was made "in a l'ickwickian sense." Sir Andrew Agnerheek, finding his antagonist bold in his defence, backs scurvily out of the quarrel. And his faithful Sir Thliy Belch steps in to cover his dis graceful retreat. Mr. DISRAELI did for Lord GEORGE what Lord GEORGE had not the sense to do tor him self, he explicitly withdrew and disclaimed the accu sation against Mr. li.nWEs. " His opinion was that his hon. friend had never intended to make the charge which had been so elaborated for the Hon. Under Secretary." " The charge had been most amply withdrawn." The quotations which we have given from the previous speeches both of Mr. Disitant and his principal, show how cent' lordly the latter must have relied on the short memories of his hearers in hazarding these averments. Having thus, however, set himself, and as far as he could Lord GEORGE, right with the house by this concession, Mr. DisßAEht, with more tact than honesty, pro ceeded to dilate upon the general charge against the Colonial-office, and having gained the ear of the house for what he had to Bay on this more tenable ground, began to try them with his jokes, and con cluded by forcing them all to laugh either with or at him, thus effecting his retreat with drums beating and colours flying, and the discharge of a few Par- thian shots. This may answer to a certain extent in the House of Commons, but "elsewhere,"—to adopt a reference upon which Mr. DISRAELI played with lugubrious pertinacity—it is seen through. Lord GEORGE, the stolid A.i.ix of his faction, stands before the world mulishly . refusing to undo or apologise for a gross act of injustice to one political adversary, and shuffling out of an equally discreditable misrepresentation of another. And Mr. DISRAELI, who cannot plead in excuse either the bull-beaded ferocity, or the utter want of delicacy, or the bias of self-affection, which palliate the conduct of his leader, appears shabbily lending himself to extenuate and divert attention from conduct at which every real gentle man would blush. He volunteers participation in Lord GEORGE'S offence, and of right entails upon himself a share in the loss of character incurred by it. Lord GEORGE and Mr. DISRAELI have pub licly avowed in parliament that they believe men in office may " politically hold back certain despatches in order to obtain a political end," and yet not be guilty of " fraud." The country at large, and even their own party, would be chary of trusting men who avow such a lax moral creed, and will acknowledge the justice of Sir GEORGE GREY'S keen and elegant sarcasm—which evidently penetrated even Lord GEORGE'S buffalo hide—that ministers did not com plain that there was an opposition, but that the oppo sition bad not a gentleman, to lead it of tact, temper, and experience in the ways of the house. We have said that though to Lord GEORGE and Mr. DISRAELI the largest share of disgrace on account of these proceedings appertains, yet that the house in general does not come out of the affray very re spectably. Next in degree of culpability, we are sorry: to say, is Lord J. RUSSELL, who, on Friday last, appeared to be animated by a desire of surpass ing Lord G. BENTINCK in hie own peculiar line of offensiveness. The all but unanimous shout of repro bation by which his lordship's haughty and illiberal declamation was drowned, renders it unneces sary to say anything more on this topic. Next in fault are Mr. GOULBURN, Sir JOlll4 PA ETNGTON, and others, who have on different occa sions stooped to whitewash Lord GEORGE, not merely by palliating his groundless and unjust imputat ions, but by insidiously implying that after all there ap peared to be something in them. And, lastly, the whole house are to blame for allowing so much of its time to be wasted by one of those idle and malignant brawls which it is notoriously the delight of Lord G. BENTINCK to stir up. Every assembly of gentlemen have the power, if they have the will, quietly, but effectively, to put to silence any vulgar bully who may get amongst them. But, by not exerting this power, the House of Commons have allowed nearly one half of the time they have ostensibly devoted to a question vitally important to colonies containing a million of British subjects—and bearing closely upon the commercial prosperity and financial stability of the whole empire—to be lost in railing accusations and covert imputations still more mean and equally malignant. We are often told that by suf frage extension, the power of returning members of parliament would be vested in a class incapable of appreciating the qualities requirci in legislators. We defy any class of men to elect a House of Commons that would show more obtuseness to what duty and self-respect require from them than the present house have shown on this and too many other occasions. A word or two in conclusion on the general charge agcinet the Colonial-office advanced by Lord GEORGE and his friends. It does not appear to us that they have succeeded in convicting that bureau on the pre sent occasion of withholding information from a wish to deceive. But the circumstances under w hich the despatch which Earl GREY and Mr. HAWES believed to have been transmitted to the committee was kept back, are alone sufficient to prove that there is in the Colonial-office an utter want of the requisite precision and regularity in transacting business that the country is entitled to expect. The additional cases of de spatches not presented to the committee as early us they ought to have been, enumerated by Lord GEORGE and Mr. DISRtELI, prove that this slovenly and negligent mode of business is habitual there. And the manner in which Mr. Hawes a few nights ago met Mr. ANSTEY'S inquiries' about the Van Diemen's Land despatches relating to the late extraordinary treatment of the judgrs in that colony, shows that he is but too ready to throw the mantle of hie official protection over the Gichesse of the office. Without implying that any department in Downing-street is characterised by a very high degree of accuracy and efficiency in the despatch of business, there can be no doubt that the Colonial-office is the worst organized amongst them, and calls most urgently for an entire reconstruction. WE are threatened, it seems, with a ministeria. crisis. Whilst popular insurrections shake the thrones and upset the governments of Europe, the ferment of the sugar hogshead agitates parliament, has driven parties and their chiefs into violent personal collision, and very gross personal abuse; and ministers are menaced by a coalition of planters, distillers, protec tionists, and even of some Peelite& before which they have given symptoms of entertaining a disposition to withdraw. Hereat the Times professes considerable alarm, and expostulates with the tones in a manner highly amus ing to all reformers, however little flattering to ministers : Why upset the whigs at such a moment (exclaims the Times)? When they arc in office what difference is there be• tween them and the tories ? Surely the domestic policy of this country has undergone no perceptible aturetion since 1842. "The whige, being in power at this juncture, renders them hostages and securities for the peace of the country. Had they been out of office last February and since—had they then been engaged in their usual. course of collecting materials, far and wide, for an active and progressive opposi tion, and then suddenly found themselves backed by a dozen revolutions abroad, and a sympathetic movement at home, we can hardly answer for the extremities to which they would not have pushed the nation. The "six points" and " repeal" might only have been the parts of a more comprehensive po licy, which would not, indeed, have been successful, but would, nevertheless, have affected the stability of the na tional mind and institutions by the simple fact of its having once been proposed by a respectable boy of statesmen." Such is the cpinion entertained of the whigs by their chief supporter in the press, such is the opinion entertained by that organ of the reform movement. It is depicted as a measure which the whigs would in fallibly have adopted, did they happen to be out of I office. So obviously necessary and popular is the reform, so monstrously unjust the inequalities, so flagrant the abuses it would remedy, that the whigs would infallibly take up the cry, as they did that of reform in 1830, were they but out of office. The whigs count in their party the flower, and the wealth, and the best intellects of the aristocracy ; but still the motion of Mr. Hustle not menacing the just right and natural ascendancy of that aristocracy, it might fairly count on their support, it the sweets of office did not act as a retaining fee given by the anti-popular side. We must confess, that we are in a great measure of the same opinion as the Times, however we might have shrunk from expressing it so im pertinently and so crudely. The country owes an immense debt of gratitude to the whigs In opposition, and to the carrying of those measures en ministers, which they embraced in opposition. But for any measures, which the whige have conceived and brought forward as ministers, for those we have very little of either respect or gratitude. Each year of office, indeed, seems to diminish their strength and talent as it widens the interval between them and popular sympathies. Like the giant, they require to touch mother earth,as mere members of parliamenton opposition benches, in order to recruit their strength and muster their original energies It is not possible to have witnessed the reform debate without exclaiming " Oh ! for one hour of Lord JOHN in opposition." We should, therefore, welcome the retirement of the present ministry, as a great gain to the popular side. But that gain would be tenfold, when we consider the chances of Lord STANLEY'S being offered the post of Prime Minister. The result of such an administration upon the liberals of Ireland and the reformers of England we can scarcely contemplate. But this we well know, that such a proof of the uncontrolled domination of the Houseof Lords and its most bigoted section, shown indeed sufficiently by the mere fact of Lord STANLEY being at present heir-presumptive to office, would of itself give such an impulse to reform, that not even the accession of the whigs to its tenets, so dreaded by the Times, could do more. We cannot, however, but deem the alarm un founded. Sir ROBERT PEEL, who carries in his pocket the keys of that cabinet which he can himself with such difficulty enter, will never play the awkward part of unlocking that door for Lord STANLEY. Ile too well knows that this would be the commencement of the end, and that power falling into the hands of one extreme, would soon precipitate itself into the hands of the other. Sir J. GRAHAM'S combination, therefore, of the two centres of whig and tory is much more likely to be the scheme con templated for the reinforcement of government. Whatever befals the cabinet, however, it is for re formers not to relax in their exertions. The ad mission that the whigs will be theirs the instant they are out of power shows, that liberals have but to lay a broad and firm basis for their building, end there will be plenty of hands and materials to raise the superstructure. The great difficulty is to prevent any relaxa'ion of effort, or any cooling of ardour in the first instance. Every form of ridicule, every bug bear of terror wilt be employed to produce this effect. In one sentence the movement will be stigmatized as insignificant and ridiculous, in the next as menacing and dangerous to society ; and the convulsed state of European countries and capitals will unceasingly be adduced, as if the whole of these revolutions had not proceeded from a monomania of Louts l'iouvrE in not allowing Frenchmen to dine together and talk of electoral reform. The dining and the talking might, to be sure, have led to reform. But the KING aid M. GUIZOT preferred revolution. Verily, their wish has been amply satisfied. INQUEST, YE,•TERDAY.--ALLEGED 341:11DER.—By Mr. Bedford, resumed at St. George's Hospital, respecting the death of George Jemmitt, aged 40, a mendicaw.. On Monday week he went into a tripe shop in Westminster read, to solicit alms, when the shopman ordered him to leave. The deceased not going out as fast as requested, the shopman pushed him off the step of the door, and he fell violently with his head upon the pavement. He was picked up and carried into the surgery of Mr. Berrall, Mount.street, where the wound was strapped up by the surgeon's assistant. The deceased then walked on to Hyde Park in the company of his son, w here he was seized with a fit. He was removed on fo a stretcher to the above hospital, where he expired the l lowing morning.—Mr. Cowell, the house-surgeon, whp had made a post modem examination, proved that the de ceased's skull was fractured, which had caused an effusion of blood on the brain, and which had caused death. The fracture might have been produced by a fall. There being some doubt in the minds of the jury as to whether the in juries were caused by the deceased being pushed down, or by his striking his head when he fell down in a fit, they re turned a verdict—" That death was caused by a fracture of the skull, but by what means produced there was no evidence to rove."—The coroner stated that as the verdict was left open p , he would recom mend the police to make further inquiries into the case. The judicial committee of her Majesty's Privy Council had a weeting yesterday. The lords present were Lord Brougham, the Muster of the Rails. the Chancellor of the Duchy of Cornwall, and the Judge of the Admiralty Court. THE EXPRESS, TUESDAY EVENING, JUNE 27, 1848. FRANCE. ARREST OF M. EMILE DE GIRARDIN. I'ARIS, MONDAY MORNING. It is impossible adequately to describe the situation in which we are placed or the difficulties we have to encounter in obtaining and explaining reliable intelli gence. Sentinels are posted at about fioo yards asunder along the chief thoroughfares, who stop all passengers and demand passes. We can scarcely leave our houses. In passing through the streets we are liable to be shot at by insurgents from the win dows and roofs. Servants and clerks in general de cline giving assistance from personal fear. The post-office is inaccessible even with a pass, ex cept at the risk of being shot from the windows. During the night the inhabitants of some parts of the capital were compelled by the authorities to keep their windows illuminated. In other parts, as on the Boulevards, for example, they were compelled to put out all lights and close their shutters during the night. the sentinels during the night called oat every ten minutes, " Sentinel, prenes garde a cons !" each so as to be heard by the next. These words, as heard from a lino of sentinels, sounded like the successive repetitions of an echo. This morning there is an awful stillness. Few individuals are seen, and no carriages, except ammu nition waggons and those which bring supplies for the soldiers. The " generale" was beaten at five o'clock this morning in all quarters. The sound of distant drums is now and then heard, but the theatre of the conflict is now too distant from the place I inhabit to allow me to hear the firing. Situated as I am it is quite impossible to give a connected narrative of events. I can only give you a collection of scattered rumours,and without much pre- tension as to the order of time, for I cannot always ascertain the hours at which the events reported have taken place. The Assembly is in constant session, or rather the members are constantly in the Palace, and meet at intervals to hear the reports of the President received from General Cavaignac. The plan of the insurgents may now be understood. The insurrection extended on the right bank from the Faubourg Poissoniere to the Seine, embracing thus the Faubourg St. Antoine ; on the left bank it occupied the Faubourg St. Marcel, St. Victor, and the lower part of the quarter St. Jacques; these two positions were connected by the occupation of many points, such as the church of St. Gervais, a part of the quarter du Temple, the approaches of Notre Dame, and the Pont St. Michel. The church of St. Severin served as head-quarters, and the Faubourg St. Antoine as a magazine ; this plan was ingeniously conceived, for the insurgents were thus masters of an immense semicircle which formed nearly one half of Paris; in case of check the nature of the hruses and the narrow streets created difficulties almost insurmountable to the troops, and afforded certain chances to the insurgents of retreat ; in case of success it was easy for the in surgents by advancing a little to occupy the important lines of the quays and Boulevards, and they could sur round by degrees the I lotel de Ville, which would have been thus in their power, and once masters of that and the prefecture, they could have established their government. This plan enables one to perceive why it was necessary to make so severe a fight at the Pont St. Michel, at the Pont de l'l[otel-l)ieu, and the Pont which leads from the Rue Planche-Mibray to the " Quai aux Firers ;" it was because the taking these places divided the insurgent forces; one can also under stand the bloody determiration with which the insur gents defended the position of St. Severin, which served them for head-quarters, and that of St. Ger vais, which directly menaced the Hotel de Ville. The measures taken by the authorities have cost France a great number of lives. This sorrowful re sult was inevitable, as cannot be doubted when the savage energy with which the insurgents defended themselves is known ; but they have foiled the vast project which the insurgents had conceived. The combat continued yesterday on many points, but be came isolated on all points for want of communication. The insurgents still held out in the Faubourgs St. Antoine and du Temple, on the heights of Montmartre, and the Barriere St. Denis. At the Faubourg St. Antoine barricades had been made, and were still occupied by the insurgents, but no attempt was made to take them ; they surrounded them to oblige the insurgents to lay down their arms. At the Faubourg du Temple, the Rue du Faubourg was occupied by the line, by the Pompiers, and the Garde National or Garde Mobile, but they were still fighting on the banks of the canal. The boulevard was also occupied by the troops to the top of the Rue Filles du Calvaire ; there the houses which are build ing are in the hands of the insurgents, but they were expected soon to be dislodged. Two pieces of cannon were pointed at them, and played from minute to minute. Precautions were taken that the moment they escaped they should be taken prisoners. Tne barricade of the Barriilre ltucheouart was taken. At Montmartre they were still fighting, but the firing was stayed until the Clos St. Lazare was carried by tumult ; the greater nomber of insurgents found there were taken prisoners. About 6,000 muskets and ammunition were taken. The eat , is completely swept. The Hotel-de-Ville is free. It had never been seriously attacked, and is now beyond the reach of alt assault. The left bank of the Seine is free to the Gobelins. The Isle St. Louis had been taken. The in-urgenta have gone to the quarter of the Bastiile, where they were expected soon to be taken. The armed force in Paris is now very formidable. I Every hour (new arrivals of regiments of the line, cavalry, artillery, and engineers, take place. The ar -1 rival of those of Havre and Yvetot called forth a sort of ovation. At 6 o'clock p.m., after the taking of the Barriere Rochcouart, the body of the chief of the insurgents, who defended it, was brought into the Maine of the I 2nd ar:ondistement. It was a man named Larroque, editor of the Pere Duchesne, president of the Club of the Mountain. He was killed by a ball in the heart. Yesterday, at 2 o'clock, a shot was fired in the Pas ewe Delorme on an officer in the national guard. Two persons were arrested. General ltenault is said to be severely wounded. About 8 o'clock yesterday evening, M. Charbonnel, a representative, was carried along the boulevard, ac companied by two repres2ntatives and several friends. By his paleness it appeared that be had been mortally wounded. On examination the surgeons declared it to be serious, but still there were hopes of his recovery. Fortunately the ball, which had i ntered at the right shoulder, had traversed the chest and lodged in the left arm, from which it was extracted with a slight in-ision. M. Charbonnel was wounded by the side of General Negrier. Of all the battalions the 13th battalion of the Garde Mobile has shown the most devoted courage against the enemies of the republic. Young Martin Hyacinthe, only 18 years of age, a simple Garde Mobile, valiantly rushed on a formida ble barrier of the Faubourg du Temple, in the face of a shower of balls. lie took the flag which surmounted ft, and would not part with it even in fighting. When the battalion returned to head quarters of General Cavaignac the young soldier was presented to him, to whom lie delivered the flag. General I Cavaignac, taking off his cross, immediately placed it on the breast of the gallantyouth, amidst the applause of the persons assembled. Several onvriers who were not on the lists of the national guard presented themselves, and were enrolled yesterday at the 2nd arrondissement They were immediately armed and distributed into the companies. Some shots were fired from the windows on the poor wounded persons who were being carried to the hos pitals. In all the houses persons are employed in pre paring bandages, which are sent to the merles, and from thence to the hospitals. It is difficult to find places for the temporary attention to the wounded. At St. Severin the Garde Mobile, to avenge the cowardly assassination of some of their prisoners, went into the house from which the shots were fired and threw the persona they found there out of the windows, saying " Les malheureux! its ne valent pas tin coup de fusil !" (The wretches are not worthy of a musket shot!) A woman had sent one of her sons (a young national guard of 20 years of age) to the barracks of the Faubourg Poissoniere, for news of his brother , who was then with his battalion. Ile met him ; but scarcely had be spoken to him before the battalion was ordered to march. The national guard could not leave his brother, he took his place beside him and at the first discharge fell dead. A cab filled with money was seized about one at the courts of the Rue des Capucines. The person who was in it, es well as the coachman, were arrested. It was impossible to obtain from them the kast informa tion as to the destination of this money. The women play a great part in the insurrection, many have been arrested on whom have been found cartouches, which they carried to the insurgents; one had hid them in her basket covered with meat, which she carried on her head, another in her milk cans, and another had sewn them inside her clothes. All the carriages have been pat in requisition, for the service of the engineers and pompiers. They are filled with pickaxes, shovels, and iron crow-bars, which are carried to the place of combat, and they are also used to carry ammunition. The principal manufacturing towns remain quiet, and everywhere wishes are expressed that the Re public, which is threatened by anarchy, 'supported by foreign gold, may be victorious. In the departments the enthusiasm produced by the good conduct of the national guard and the army is at its height. Enrol ments are being made in all the principal towns to succour the capital and the country. Telegraphic despatches of Lae same purport are continually arriving. M. hmile de Girardin, proprietor and editor of the Presse, has been arrested and taken to the Pre fecture of Police. Seals have been put on the offices, and the presses, &c. seized. About half-past seven in the evening Louis Blanc was passing al mg the Boulevards on foot between two representatives. At the corner of the Rue Richelieu he was recognised by the piquets of National Guards who occupied that post. Hostile cries were soon uttered against him, fir nothing but curses are now heard against him, as oeing—although, perhaps, involuntarily—the author of the unhappy occurrences which are now de vastating the capital. But for the interventiou of some national guards, who made their comrades un derstand that the members of the assembly were in. violable, NI. Louis Blanc would have been submitted to punishment on the spot. A carriage was ob tained, and after he had mounted, the horse was Hogged into a gallop to carry M. Louis Blanc from the imprecations and vengeance of the bystanders. The national guard of Orleans had arrested at the Poet of the Carrousel, at the end of the Rue de Rivoli, a milkman, whose cans were filled with powder. I am told that many arrests of persons with large sums of money in their possession in bauk notes and gold were made yesterday. M. Clavel d'Oisy, a banker of the Rue Hauteville, accused of distributing money to the insurgents, was arrested yesterday and taken to prison. Between the streets Transouain and Aumaire four redoubtable barricades were erected, at which they had worked all night. They were carried at seven yesterday evening by some more of the Ist Infantry and a company of the National Guard under Captain Aviat. Until now the taking of the barricades has been murderous. A battalion of the Garde Mobile after the taking of that of the Maisie of the Bth arron diasment was reduced from 750 to 120, but Commandant I)umcsnil, of the 2nd battalion of the lst infantry has imagined a good means of rendering it less so by breaking some holes in the houses which communicate with the barricades. By these the troops can arrive behind the barricades, and thus take the insurgents without being exposed to certain death. The Commandant Dumesnil thus took the barricade Beaubourg without losing a single man. This officer has rendered an immense service by this plan, which has since been employed with complete success. Several battalions of national guards were marched during yesterday to the various barriers. An attack was reared from the insurgents at Montmartre by which they might turn the troops at the Clog St. Lazare. Among the insurgents killed are several liberated convicts—all well supplied with ammuni tion. The communication with Vincennes was free all yesterday. The commandant of that fortress was thus enabled to send both cannon and ammunition. They were, however, obliged to make a long detour to avoid the insurgents. Fifty guns also arrived in the course of the day from Bourges by the railway. Almost all the wounds received by the troops and National Guards in the Clos St. Lazare were in the legs. This fact is explained by the position of the insurgents behind their entrenchments formed of cut stone prepared for building in that neighbourhood. They fired low, with being able to take aim, and the balls struck in general atter Tiredly!. One of the prisoners taken from the insurgents, W hig asked what their object was in taking up arms against their countrymen and brothers, exclaimed, " What would you have It is the war of those who have not, against those who have !" Others have ac knowledged that drink was supplied to them, and that they were deluded by perfidious persuasions. Their pockets filled with gold proved that they were hired by others, but they were ashamed to acknowledge this. The National Guards of Amiens and Rouen fought valiantly at the Clue St. Lazare yesterday. A consi derable number of these corps are killed and wounded. At the corner of the Rue Chaussee d'Antin a carriage was stopped, in which a corpulent lady was found. On searching, her person was found to be swelled out with cartridges. Gen. Duvivier, in clearing the Hotel de Ville and its environs of the insurgents, was severely wounded. In the Clot; St. Lazare Gen. Lamoriciere had his horse killed under him, and the colonel of the 48th line was mortally wounded. At three o'clock yesterday 5,000 muskets were seized. Gen. I)amesme, commandant of the Garde Mobile, is desperately wounded. On the side of the insurgents, in the departments, the defence is still resolute, but less so than hitherto. Precautions have been taken to prevent all their cons- munications with the town. These precautions have led to the discovery of certain singular facts. Thus, in the Rue du Helder and the Quartier St. Lorette, women were arrested carrying bread-baskets contain ing cartouches, and a false wounded man lying on a mattress, having ammunition concealed ; many hearses al-o have been seized containing powder and ball. On Saturday, at about eight o'clock in the morn ing, five companies of the 18th Light Infantry, com manded by M. Tombear, were stationed on the Place des Vosges, formerly the Place Royale; their ammu nition was nearly exhausted, and a very cousiderable band of the insurgents, pushing before them the mayor of the Bth arrondissement, advanced towards the soldiers, crying "Do not fire, do not fire." The detachment requested to be allowed to with draw with their arms. the insurgents con sented ; but at the same moment another band of from 5 to GOO men corning ur, refused to allow them to depart ; but shortly after decided that the soldiers should be set at liberty, but that the officers should be all shot on the spot. Twice, despite the resistance of the chief of the insurgents, who had given his word, the officers were compelled to kneel down, and finally were indebted for their lives to the intervention of some municipal guards who were among the rioters. " We have also served," cried these men, "and will not allow soldiers to be shot after we have promised to set them at liberty." As these words failed in persuading the most violent of the former, municipal guards placed themselves be fore the officer from whom we had these particulars, succeeded in enabling him to effect his escape, and then conducted him to a house, where clothes were given to him in exchange for his uniform. The un fortunate officer left Paris, crossed La Chapelle and La Villette, where he was able to judge the resources and extent of the insurrection, and returned yesterday morning to Paris, where he was arrested by a COIIIIIII.9BSiIO de police, who, doubting the veracity of his story, detained him for several hours, and allowed him to depart only after having convinced himself that the officer communicated to him details of the most exact nature. Stich is the recital given before us by this officer to M. Heifer, a representative. He added, that he had been unable to obtain any intelligence of his regiment; that be was entirely ignorant of the fate of his fellow soldiers ; and had hitherto been unable to find any trace of them. He was then repairing to the ministry of war. The following decree has been published by the "Chef du Ponvoir Executif ": " Every person working at the barricades shall be considered as taken with arms in his hands."—Paris, June 25. The President has proposed to the assembly a pro ject of law pronouncing transportation on all persons taken with arms in their hands, which has been adopted. Yesterday evening the insurgents only occupied some points on the left bank. Paris is completely free. On the left bank the insurgents have been die lodged from their positions in the Rue St. Antoine and the streets which are between the Hotel de Ville and the basin of the canal. The National Guard and the troops are in possession of all the line of the canal from the Bastille to La Chapelle St. Denis, of which they were expected to obtain possession yesterday evening After the Place du Pantheon was taken, the bar ricades of the Rue Vielle Estrapade, and the Rue Neuve St. Genevieve were still to be forced. For five hours the cannon roared incessantly. The most dreadful carnage ensued ; and it was not before four o'clock (the attack having commenced at one) that these streets were freed, and that a representative of the Ardennes, M. Payer, whose house had been in vaded by the insurgents, could get out of his house and come to the assembly. Among other horrible scenes M. Payer witnessed during the twelve hours he was de:ained at home, he related facts which prove that a great number of the insurgents were unfortunate men who had been led astray, and several had money in their pockets, and excited the others to fight by all kinds of evil re ports. Many of them were poor workmen, driven to despair by that misery which they had endured for four months, and who replied to those who asked them, what they were fighting for, " It is better to' be killed with a bullet than to starve to death !' None of them, when drink was presented to them, would accept wine without water, and one of them, having killed a Mobile who had wounded his hand, be gan to cry like I child. Some of the leaders were constantly endeavouring to excite them by distributing to them strong liquors, and repeating the most odious stories. At one time they said the 11th Legion had just massacred a great number of them ; at another, that 600 workmen had been sent from the ateliers nationaux to go and work at Foutainbleau, and that they had been received on their arrival by the moire, who told them they would not employ such refloat,. M. Payer remarked that the leaders never exposed themselves, and disappeared at the least ganger. Not a single pane of glass remains in any house in the quarter where the Pantheon is situated. It was with great difficulty that prisoners could be protected from the effects of the violent exasperation of both thu combatants and citizens before whom they passed at various points, when they were conducted to the depot of the Faubourg I'oissoniere. The barricade of the llarriere I'oissoniere was taken from behind by the outer boulevard. In the Rue des Mothering St. Jacques the insur gents on the 24th, erected a barricade, which, constructed in the shape of the litter T, obstructed at once the Rue des Mathurius and closed that of Des Macon Sorbonne. As early as three o'clock, a.m., they had taken possession of the Hotel de Midi, into which the insurgents, about thirty in number, forced their way, took possession of all the arms they found, and brought a quantity of paving stones to the entre-std, in order to throw them upon the defenders of order. Scarcely were these preparations ter minated, when two companies of the Mobile Garde presented themselves before the barricade. They were assailed by a fusillade, which proved fatal to many of them. But their attack was so sudden and so irre sistible that the aggressors had not time to re-load their arms. They escaladed the heap of stones, with bayonets fixed, with the intrepidity of an old troop and the ag.lity of a young militia. lhe rioters sought refuge in haste in the Hotel du Midi. There is little new intelligence from the interior of the Faubourg St. Antoine. An immense barri cade wail erected at the entrance of the faubourg ; four others were erected behind it, from dis tance to distance, to the Grande Rue do Iteuilly, where a barricade was erected at the very spot where, on the 24th of February, one had been erected to facilitate the taking of the barracks. These barracks were occupied by only eighty men, under the command of two captains. On Saturday morning the insurgents did not seem to have thought of taking it. They had conducted the greater part of their forces to the first barricade, near the Bastile. A few shots were heard during the night. It was only at three o'clock a.m. that the fusillade really began, and the cannon soon began to roar, but the day terminated with out that position having been seriously attacked. About 4 o'clock everybody was on foot in the quarter, the insurgents had entered the houses of the citizens, and had forced them to get up and give up their arms and ammunition. We are told that the house at the corner of the Rue de Greve, on which was written in large letters, " Remplacement militaire," has been destroyed by cannon, as well as another in the Rue des Grows. The insurgents who were barricaded there, and who had directed a most murderous tire upon the troops, were all taken prisoners. The Madrid mails of the 20th have arrived. Our correspondent states that there exists no longer the least doubt on the subject of the Queen's pregnancy. The government arc going to publish a manifesto, appealing from Lord Palmerston to the whole civilised world about the expulsion of Sir H. Bulwer, and full details arc to be forthwith given to the public of the last negotiations between our foreign minister and Senor Istaritz. mAntuu, JUNI 20.—Three per Cents., 211 13.10. }lrene? Cents., 13 paper. I.:wives, 41 paper. Coupons, 5 rash. Bank of St. Fer dinand, 70 cab, f 1 paper. Exchange on London, 41. Our correspondence from Naples to the 18th states that matters were much in the same sta.e as when the last accounts left. GERMANY. PRUSSIA.—We have received the Berlin journals of the 24th, and those from Cologne of the 25th. Up to the latest moment no new ministry had been formed. The rumours of Russian troops crossing the Prussian frontiers are declared by the Spenerjand Co- logne Gazettes to be unfounded. AUSTRIA.—The only intelligence from Vienna, under date of the 21st, is, that the Emperor has in au energetic proclamation removed the Ban of Croatia, Jellachich, from his post, and named Baron lirabowsky as commissioner for Croatia and Sclavonia. The fol lowing is an extract of a letter from Prague : " PRAGUE, JUNE 17.—1 n the night between thel6th and 17th June rockets were thrown into the old city from the heights which the military command. The flames are still raging from houses, mills, and from the waterworks. The scene is one of the utmost horror,no one striving . to extinguish the fire. Amongst the reports that are circulated, it is said that a corre spondence with Russia has been betrayed to the go , vernment by the Russians themselves, and that the chief of it, Baron Vilani, has been arrested and his papers seized. According to these a plot for murder ing many government officials was concocted. Since the parties arrested on suspicion are all of the class of the nobles (Barons Bacquery, Newberg, and others), this irzwri of a conspiracy looks as if got up to excuse the destruction of the magnificent Bohemian capital by Prince Windischgratz. Since the 17th the telegraph has not worked. A des ' patch, dated 10th June, states that the whole of the city wee occupied by the military, after having stood a bombardment of three days. The burgher, Weiss, who was pathetically lamented as crucified in due form by the Czechs, was (unfortunately for the veracity of the German papers) discovered to be safe and sound at the close of the conflict." Another letter from Prague, dated June 26, says: " The Princess Windischgratz was shot by Muhr, a mechanic, and her son, the young prince, also received two shots, in the University buildings, whither he had been sent by his father, and is said to have expired from his wounds. Field-Marshal Von Kock was shot by a woman. Lieut:Col. Van Ilohenegg, his aide-de-camps and several other officers, were also killed. The loss of the civilans cannot be estimated, for the dead were , caned off instantly. The city has suffered very mach. From the papers which have been discovered it ap pears that the insurrection which had been lonz to preparation, was not to have taken place till the 15th. Everything is quiet in the country, although, the enemy is trying its utmost to raise the storm." Accounts from Trieste in the Allyemeine Zeitung say that the Sardinian-Venetian fleet, consisting of 3 frigates, 3 corvettes, 4 brigs, 1 goelette, and 4 steamers, anchored in battle array 10 sea leagues off the city, after the declaration of the blockade, and suffer no Austrian vessel to pass. It is stated that the Austrian squadron lying in the harbour of Trieste, which has been reinforced by merchantmen, intend to attack the fleet ; they now number 142 guns, in dependently of which the batteries of the city are armed with 174 guns. The Italians, therefore, can- not venture upon an attack. The Sardinian vice consul, Agabio, had been obliged to take his de parture from Trieste. In several of the Bohemian villages people are casting bullets. Orders have been given to all the military commanders, that, in case of farther dis turbance, they are instantly to proclaim martial law. DENMARK AND THE DUCHIES. A letter from Christiania of the 13th of June says : A courier, who has just arrived from Schonen, has brought orders to the Swedish troops to march im mediately, and they will embark to-morrow. A letter from Malmo of the 13th of June says: However warlike things may look here, it is very evident, from the numerous diplomatic conferences, that the negotiations also am carried on with activity. The King of Denmark was accompanied by his Mi nister of Foreign Affairs, Count Knuth. On Friday, as the two kings were on the point of visiting Lands cron, intelligence arrived that the English ambas sador at Copenhagen, Sir H. Wynn, woald arrive here in the forenoon, in consequence of important de spatches which he had just received from his government. It is not known whether this was the reason that the projected journey of their majesties was postponed, but it is generally supposed that this was the case. Sir H. Wynn was received on his arrival by our Minister of Foreign Affairs, and was presented by him to the King of Sweden. He had a conference with his Majesty, e hich lasted allsit two hours, at the close of which his Majesty paid a long visit to the King of Denmark. On the following day the English ambassador returned to Copenha gen, accompanied by Count Knuth and Ge neral Von Oxholm, who had remained here after the departure of the two monarchs for Lands cron. The result of the conferences has not been made public, but it was doubtless of great importance, because immediately upon his return to Copenhagen the English ambassador de spatched a courier by the steamer to London. Gen. Von Oxholm left by steamer for St. Petersburg ; and Capt. Thulstrup, aide - de - camp of t he Kin g of Sweden, set off for Berlin. What will be the result of all these consultations and sending off of couriers time will show. So much, nevertheless, is certain, that very great activity has prevailed, and it is stated in general, that the object of all is the amicable adjust ment of the complicated Schleswig-Holstein affair. From Flensburg, under nate June 17, accounts state that the Dams are entrenching themselves be tween Haderslaben and Chriatiansfeld. Their out posts are stationed about a league to the south of Ha derslaben, and after reconnoitering they fell back upon Haderslaben. 'the Prussian and Schleswig-Holatem troops are stationed in the line from Apenrude, the former forming the left wing. The Tann free corps are stationed on the extreme right wing. COLONIAL., NEW ZEALAND The New Zealand Spectator of the Ist of March contains the following coup &aril of the state of the colony at that time : 'the departure of a Teem' direct for England freighted with producer of thin settlement renders it merman - for tut to my a few word. on some of the topics affecting our loyal interests, on w: ich those in the mother country interested in our welfare desire imormation. On most of there subjects we have, us opportunity onered for their de emotion, entered tally; but on anus. ion like tee pieoent it sell le necessary again to refer to them fn a summary manner. Alter a wetry interval of eight years crown grants have at length been trotted to the New Zealand Company for the dint:Mtn in the nciali bourbood of Port Nieholeon; and the atatement of this fact proclaims the final adjuatment of all disputes with the natives relating to iambi in the districts for which thew grants bans been made. The rondo undertaken by the government are carried on with increased vigour, opening the mt.ntry districts for the oecupa tion of additional settlers, and affording when they are completed the means of it ereasing our trade with the natives by the Improved facilities of communication. The avoid) obtained by the natives kw their labour net the roads is for the most part npent either in the pur chase of clothe., and other nocerattries the produce of English manu factures, or invest,' in stock (tithe. hums or cows), thereby adding to the permanent wealth of the colony. The work of clearing at cultivatt s is prooreding this summer with renewed vigour, root the cargoes of stock imported from tae neighbouring colonies that ready purchasers in the country settlers; PO that the diderent country districta present indiontima of hopeful progress. There sae eccouraging nign• of returning prosperity, but we want the assurance of their permanence. There are the bright won% the lights of the picture, on which the eye, attracted by their prominence, rests. But if we turn is the other side, if we name the the great watts of the settlement , they are precisely those evacntial elements of colonis ation which it was to be the peculiar bunnies. of the New Zealand Company to keep in their due relation to each other, so Of. tO ensure the greatest prosperity. We want land, labour, and eapitaL The rondo now in pogrom oren up fresh districts to the setUers, tut the absentees in too malty instances interfere to prevent their profitible occupation. There is an nt.olute scarcity of labour of all kinds, and but little prospect of a remedy fur this want. The wages of labouring men are from 3s. (al. to 4s. bd. • day, while female tervaLtS are hardly to be procured on any terms. An influx of fresh capital, would materially assist in developing the tc.ources of the colony, sines the recovery of the old settler. from the IrA-es indicted on them by the previous minmanneement of the government and the company must he the work of time. But our pronpects on those points are unsate factory. As bog as the New Zealand Company are allowed to mar I our prospects, as long an they continue their precarious and miss chievons existence, tire poscress of the settlement will he slaw and uncertain; the result of Monday's meeting will at hunt convince thirst of the estimaton in which they arc held by those who loroU rly moat trusted them. i They may linger on foe a time by the aid ot a friendly minister, but the settlera ear only body forward to the peri sl when the claims of th rapacious Must Le tinalty extingui•dmi, and the whole colony placed under the more vigorous management of the British governmen4 To this consummation we ore tending; it is a r1 uestion of time—but until the consummation arrive% tineoy inheritance—la wasted, and we shall still re main the victims of their broken pledges, of their repudiated obli. gallons. The Npeciator appears to participate in the opinions of the. purchasers. Its rival, the Independ al, apps an to attack with impartial seal both the purchasers and the company. This last named journal, in its publication of the 4th of March, announces that might ) t number of a Maori news paper (to appear once a f is about to be published at the same office. bt Court. The Queen and Prince Al rt, attended by the royal suite, honoured the performance of the concert of the Philharmonic Society with their presence yesterday er.ning. The royal party arrived at the Hanover-square oms, eight o'clock, an four carriages. In the first carnage were her Majesty and Prince Albert, the Viscountess Jocelyn, Laly in Waiting, and the Master of the Horse. In the sc. cod carriage were the Bon. Min Cavendish and the Hon. Flora Mac d onald, Maids of Honour in Waiting ; the Groom of the Stole to the Prince, and Lord Eiphinetone, Lord cn Waiting. In the third carriage wt re Lord G. Lennox, Lord in Waiting to the Prince ; Lieut.-Col. the lion. It. Boyle, Groom in Waiting ; and Col. Wylde, Groom in Waiting to the Prince. in the fourth carriage were Col. Buckley, Equerry in Waiting, and Col. Bouverie. Equerry iu Waiting to his royal highness. The Duchess of Kent, attended by Laly Augusta Bruce and Sir G Cowper, also honoured the pertormat.ce of the Philharmonic Concert with her presence. BANK OF AUSTRALASIA. An annual general meeting was held yesterday, at the offices in Austin-friars. Oliver Farrar, Ese., presided. The Secaerakv read the report of the directors, which stated that— 'the statements (made up to the 11th of October Lot) from the various branches in the colonies, exhibit, upon the while. a etAti.faa tory result, particularly at llobarttown, Slelbrairne, rand Adel title, and, viewed distinct from the old accounts, may be c nattered as rea lising the expectations extertaiir el by the director.. No miter:Ll has been incurred by bills remitted from the colonies on houses that have stopped ins meat, or on three held in the 1.11(1011 office us security for loans. the directors congratulated the nropriei ors upon the successful issue of the appeal in tua ea, against the flank of .tus. trulia. The Privy Council decided every point in favour of the flank of Australasia, directing the costs of the action at Sydney to be paid by the defendants, together with interest upon the original debt. The directors Lave transmitted the order in council to Syklikey, with instruction. to proceed at once to recover payment of the debt ; and they will, as soon as possible, place themselves in a position to folliw such a course as circumstances may render necessary with regard to the shareholders in this country. The labour question. on which the interests of the colonists end of the bank re materially depend, appears at last to have excited the active attention not only of the government but also of the public generally. Emigration from this country leis been resumed, and the directors have substantial groom:, for stating that a Pother extension is in progress. If labour be adequately supplied a gnat improvement in the value of all Australian proper)' must follow; but, up to the latest tideless, the want of hands was severely felt, tarticu. holy in the older settlements, and formed a topic at loud and Fr neral complaint. The continued depreciation in the price 01 wool at the same time operates powerfully to keep the colonies In the state of depression from which they have so tong suffered. And, under the joint influence or them unfavourable circumstances. 'the value of land and stock, and all depending into. mats, remains nearly in the same uncertain position BA heretofore. The effect of this state of things has been to came a serious falling off In the estimated value of the properties held in security for old debts, sad to lead to the apprehension of a considerable loss beyond that already calculated upon. The direeto wouhave been ad pleased had they been able to arrive at any .estimate to the e w xtent et •nch further 10F15 on the old accoun superintendent, b been found mpractio. able, in consequence of the Mr. hart, arid Mr. Atherton taking such wide ly different views on the subject. Mr. Mort is of opini .0 that by following a course of gradual hquidraion the properties may in most instances be made to realise the amount which they represent on the tank's books, without Leaving any 0i rioon deficiency. Mr. Atherton, on the other hand, apparently base.; his calculations on the present depreciated value of property, estimates that the loss on winding up these several concerns will be very consi derable. It must, however, be borne In mind, that since Mr. Ather ton's arrival in the colony, his opportunities of personally conferring with Mr. Hart had been few, owing to much of the abort time he had been there' having been occupied in visiting all the branches of the bank, including the remote branch of Adelaide, in South Australia. The director' are, however, induced to hope, that after be boa had an opportunity of duly weighing the reasons soaped for his calculations by Mr. Hart, who has had much local caperimsce, he may feel himself justified in forming a more favourable opinion of the value of those securities. Were sales of properties held by the bank to be forced there can be no doubt that a very serious sacrifice must be submitted to, in the present state of the colonies, a coarse which the directors are not prepared to unction, though they have given instructions that no favourable opportunity el effecting realisations *hall be neglected. The following abstract exhibits the operations of the year of account embraced in this report : Net profits in the colonies and in London fur the year ending October 11, 1041, alter deducting all =penult of ma t, 30,3'.81. Ifs, 10iL deduct detkieney on bad debt fund, at October 12, 1844, at shown In last report, 8,1241. 154.; law expehaes in the suit against the Bank of Australis. 1,2611, is. td. ; Irrecover able debts written off this year, In Lennon and the colotre; 1,068/.1114. 3d., making together 15,4141. Ps. &L Balreoce on bad debt tend not yet appropriated, 35,9151.15. 4d. The easels of the hank in October were. 1.813.2301. Is, 6d., Mg the liabilities 1,823,2201.40.84 • I ' 1 j i I 1 1 I l i 'l I ,l l' 11 •4,i 1.!! .•. 'l'll l l' i I 1 1 ,1 1 1 '' l' ''. 1 - 11 1 I, , ii , 1 ( 1 , 1. 1 ', 1