The Express. — London, England, 1848-03-06 00:00:00

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This work comprises the entire intern of practical gardening, and contains, in plain and familiar Ltnguige, fon imitructiona for the cultivation of every kind of flower, trait, and ve;etable; the maim:m utat of groen-bouvoyaorett, frames. pin le.; a Wean: of gar...etna onstions for on ; month ht 7111 t • ilegfing•f• a Inn*" flower la cultiva • mord canny limagemeseat to the science and lca of tardardisa to the present At!' nonce p; of mere cult*, of fe rw le;eu tor utility connectel with lautieulture and natural history totether with complete, perfactly original, and getecate thmtictu on the miltivation of all the import-tot [IMAM* flowers. Published by Clarke C 01.12. Wag Witharostruet, Strand. AMERICA AND MEXICO. The Cambridge, Captain Peabody, arrived ai Liver pool, yesterday, bringing dates from New York to the 16th ult She has also brought specie to the amount of 30,000/. The news seems unimportant, with the exception of the fact that Trist had not con concluded a treaty of peace, a sufficient quorum of the members of the Mexican congress not having been firmed at Queretaro. The other items from Mexico state that Pena y Pena had been elected president in the room of Eyna; and that Santa Anna hed gathered around him a body of 20,000 men, with which he had determined to retrieve the honour of his country by an attack on General Wool's division. Meanwhile the proceedings at Washington were dull. The Ten Regiments' Bill had not passed the senate, and the New Loan Bill was to have been finally determined on the 22nd ult. There had been a large meeting at New York on the lath to promote the election of Gen. Taylor as president, but a great uproar took place in conse quence of several persons giving the preference to Henry Clay, Polk, and Webster. To such a height did the riot extend that the meeting had to be ad journed. Commercial affairs have undergone no material alteration since our last advice. WEST INDIA MAIL. The Royal Mail Steam Packet Company's ship Clyde, W. Symonds commander, Lieut Percival, U.N., Ad miralty Agent, arrived at Southampton. Her dates are—Nicaragua, Jan. 27 ; Chagres, 28 ; Carthagena, 31 ; Santa Martha, 19 ; St. Jago, Feb. 4 ; Jamaica, 7; Jacmel, 9 • Puerto Rico, 11 ; Demerara, 5; Tobago, 7 ; Trinidad, 7; Barbadoes, 10 ; Grenada, 7; St. Vincent, 10 ; St. Lucia,lo; Martinique, 11 ; Dominica, 11 ; Guadaloupe, 11 ; Antigua, 12 ; Monseriat. 12 ; Nevis, 12 ; St. Kitt's, 12 ; Tortola, 13 ; St. Thomas, 14; Fayal, 27. She brings 03 tierces of coffee, 34 casks and 52 bags ditto; 8,000 pearls, 3 bales of tobacco, 45 scrons of indivo, 2 cases of vanilla. 157 bales of sarsaparilla, 249 bales of pimento; 544,500 dollars from the Pa cific and Spanish Main, on merchants' account. The West Indian Islands were generally healthy, and the weather seasonable. Commercial advices are important. The trade of the British West Indian colonies is represented to be in a most depressed state. Curdora's Intelligence states that shippers to the Jamaica market should for some time to come exercise the utmost prudence in sending supplies. Cargoes intended for the market should be small. The accounts from the agricultural districts are bad. Every day estates are being thrown up. Exchange on London : Colonial and Jamaica Bank bills, per cent. premium ; Planters Bank, 90 days, par. The Commissary-General drew on the Commis sioners of the Treasury, 11 per cent. premium and upwards, at 30 days' sight. A revolution had taken place on the 24th of January at Caseate, the capital of Venezuela, where the Con gress was in session. A violent debate occurred, and a tumult arose in the Chamber of Deputies, in which five members were killed. Some fighting afterwards took place in the city, which ended about 9 in the evening; but fresh outbreaks were expected. LARGE IMPORTATION OF FOREIGN GRAIN, TO lAYR Darr.—From Hull we learn that the importation of foreign grain from Hamburg and Rotterdam during Satur day, the 26th, and Monday, the 28th of February, was very considerable ; upwards of 14,500 bags of wheat alone were imported, chiefly from Hamburg, besides sundry parcels of peas, beans, and barley. The amount of duty saved by the Importers, in consequence of those cargoes beingentered pre vious to the let of March, would exceed 2,2501. The duty, which was levied on Wednesday, the Ist of March, was, for wheat, 6e., and barley, eats, rye, beans, and peas, 2s. 6d. per quarter. et--ee- , . NEWS FROM PARIS. 4 / "••• 414 44111--a., hour of this maturity, as they dishonour themselves when they allow its escape. Monarchy and the republic are not in the eyes of true statesmen absolute principles engaged in a death struggle—they are things which stand in con trast and which can live face to face on a mutual under standing and with mutual respect. War is not then the principle of the French republic, as by a fatal and glorious necessity it had become in 1792. Between 1792 and 1818 there is half a century. To return after half a century to the principle of 1792, or to the principle of conquest of the empire, would be not to advance but to retrograde with time. The revolution of yesterday is a step In advance, not in arrear. The world and ourselves alike wish to march to fraternity and to peace. If the situation of the French rerublic in 1792 explained the war, the differences which exist between that period in our history and the preseht will explain peace. Endeavour to understand these differences, sod to make them under stood by those around you. - - . - In 1792 the nation was not united. Two people existed on the same soil—a terrible struggle was continued between the class deprived of their privileges and the class who had conquered equality and liberty. The privileged classes united with dispossessed royalty, and with foreign powers I jealous of France, and wishing to reimpose on her a monarchy, an aristocracy, and a theocracy, by force, To-day there are no longer distinct classes. Liberty has freed all— equality before the law has levelled all. Fraternity of which we proclaim the application, and of which the national assembly will organise the benefits, will unite all. There is not a single citizen in France, be his opinion what it may, who does not join himself to the principle of his country before everything, and who by this adhesion renders her unassailable by the temptations and anxieties of invasion. In 1792 it was not the entire people who took the reins of government, it was the middle class who could exercise and enjoy liberty. The triumph of the middle class was than selfish as is the triumph of every olligneohy ; it 'Walled to aggrandize to itself the rights . acquired by all. The moans was to operate a strong diversion to the advent of the people, by precipitating them on the field of battle, to pre. vent them from taking part in their own government. This diversion was war—war was the dream of the " blonarchians" and the " Girondins " it was not the wish of the more able democrats, who wished, like us, the govern ment complete and regular of the people itself, is compre hending in this name all the classes composing the ration without exclusion and without preference. In 1792 the people were but: the instrument of the revo lution ; they were not the object. To-day the revolution is made by the people, and for the people. The people are identical with the revolution. In adopting it, they bring with them new wants of labour, industry, instruction, agricul ture, commerce, morality, well-being, property, cheap sub sistence, navigation, in a word civilisation, which are all neceeities of peace. The people is identical with peace ; it is the same expression. In 1792 the ideas of France and Europe were not prepared to understand and accept the great harmony of nations together, for the welfare of the human race. The idea of the age which was then finishing existed but in the mind of some philosophers. To-day philosophy is common. Fifty years of liberty of thought, speech, and written intercourse have produced their results. The books, the journals, the tribunes have wrought the change in European intelligence. Reason resplendent has shone on the nation' of the earth, and has created that great national intellect which will be the com pletion of the French revolution and the aealing of fraternity. In short, in 1792, liberty was a novelty, equality a scandal, a republic a problem. The title of the people, hardly dis covered by Fenelon, Montesquieu, Rousseau, was so forgot ten and profaned by the old feudal, dynastic, sacerdotal traditions, that the most legitimate interference of the people in their own affairs appeared monstrous to statesmen of the old school. Democracy caused thrones and society to trem ble. To-day thrones and society are accustomed to the term, the form, the regular agitations of liberty exercised in different degrees in almost all even monarchical states. They are accustomed to the republic, which is its complete form among more advanced nations. They acknowleage that it possesses a conservative liberty ; that in a republic not only may order exist, but order of a higher grade. But beyond these disinterest,d considerations the soy interest of the duration and consolidation of the republic must inspire the statesmen of France with desire of pea e. It is not the country which incnrs risk in war, it is liberty ; war is almost always a dictatorship. Soldiers forget the institutions for the men. Thrones tempt the ambitious. Glory eazzles patriotism. The halo of a victorious name veils the attempt against the national sovereignty. She is doubtless desirous of glory, but she desires it for herself, not for a Cassia or a Napoleon. Deceive not yourself, however. Thew ideas, which the provisional government charges you to present to the foreign powers as a pledge of European security, have not for their end to induce them to pardon the republic the audacity of its birth, still less to demand cringingly the place of a great right and a great people in Europe; they have a nobler aim, to lead the sovereigns and the people to reflect, and not permit them heedlessly to deceive themselves on the character of our revolution ; to give a right aspect and true colour to the event t to give pledges to humanity, in short, in preference even to our rights or our honour, if they should be miscon strued or threatened. The French republic will not therefore of itself undertake a war. She:need not say she will accept it if it be forced on her. The sentiments of the men who now govern France are these : Happy France, if they declare against her and compel her into war thus to increase her power and her glory in spite of her moderation. Awful responsibility for France if the republic itself declare war with out being driven into it. In the tint case her martial genius, her impatience of action, her power, accumulated by so many years of peace, will render her in vincible at home and perchance redoubtable beyond her frontiers. In the second case she will turn agsinst her the remembrances of her conquests, and will compromise her first and highest alliance—the mind of the people and the genius of civilisation. On these principles, monsieur, which are the principles of France, in her calm principles, which she can avow without fear and without distrust to her enemies and friends, you will observe The treaties of 1815 exist no longer as a right in the Oyes of the French republic; however, their territorial limits are a fact which it ad mite as bases and starting points in her relations with other nations. But if the treaties of 1815 only exist as facts to be modified by common consent, and if the republic declares aloud that she has for right and for minion to arrive regularly and pacifically at these modifications, the good genes, the moderation, the conscience, the prudence of the republic exist, and are for Europe a better and more honourable guarantee than the letters of these trea ties, so often violated or modified. Endeavour, mon sieur, to cause to be comprehended and admitted candidly this emancipation of the republic from the trea ties of 1815, and to show that this frankness is by no means irreconcileable with the repose of Europe. Thus we say it openly, if the hour for the reconstruction of some oppressed nationalities in Europe, or else where, appear to us to be announced in the de crees of Providence—if Switzerland, our faithful ally, was constrained or menaced in the movement of growth that she is effecting within herself, to lend an additional farce to the mei:restate of democratic governments—if the independent states of Italy were invsded—it limits or obstacles were imposed upon their internal transformstions —if, by force of arms, their right should be disputed of forming alliance among themselves for the consolidation of an Italian country, the French republic would believe herself authorised to arm for the protection of these legiti • mate movements of the growth and nationality of those people. The republic, you see, has at her first step bounde over the era of proscriptions and dictatorships. She is de cided never to veil liberty at house ; she is equally decided never to v, it her democratic principles abroad ;—she will never permit the hand of any one between the pacific of her liberty and the eyes of other nations;—she pro claims herself the intellectual and cordial ally of all rights, of all progress, of all the legitimate developments of the institutions of nations, who desire to live on the same principles u her own:—she will make so secret or incendiary propagandism among her neighbours. She knows that there are no durable liberties but those that spring from themselves upon their proper soil. But she will exercise by the light of her ideas, by the spectacle of order and of peace that she hopes to give to the world, the sober and honest proselytism the pro- selytism of esteem and of sympathy. It is uut war, it is nature. It is not the agitation of Europe, it is the life. It is not to inflame the world ; it is to shine from her place upon the horizon of nations—to advance and to guide them at once. We desire for humanity'a sake that peace may be preserved. We even hope it. A sole question of war had been laid down a year ago between France and England. This question of war was not proposed by republican France, but by the dynasty. The dynasty bears away it this danger of war that she had raised for Europe, by an ambition altogether personal of family alliances in Spain. Thus this domestic policy of the fallen dynasty which weighed for seveuteen years upon our national dignity, weighed at the same time, by its pretensions to another crown at Madrid, upon our liberal alliances and upon peace. The republic has no ambition. The re public has no nepotism. It does not inherit family preten sions. Let Spain rule herself; let Spain be independent and free. France counts more for the solidityof this natural alliance, upon conformity of principles, than upon succes sion of the house of Bourbon. Such, air, is the spirit of the councils of the republic. Such will invariably be the character of the frank, strong, and liberal policy that you will have to represent. The republic, at the moment of its birth, and in the midst of the heat of a contest not provoked by the people, have pronounced three words which have revealed its soul, and which will tali down upon its cradle the benediction of God and of men—liberty, equality, fraternity. She imme diately gave, by the abolition of the penalty of death for po litical offences, the true commentary of these three words at home ; give to them also their true commentary abroad. The sense of these three words, applied to our fort ign rela tions is this liberation of France from the chains which have weighed upon her principles and her dignity ; restoration of the rank which she ought to occupy on a level with the great European powers ; in fine, declaration of alliance and friendship with all people. If France rightly understands her shire in the liberal and civilising mission of the age, not one of these words signifies IMPORTANT FROM GERMANY AND ITALY. PARIS, SUNDAY NOON. In its sitting of Saturday the Provisional Govern ment of the Republic fixed the convocation of the electoral assemblies for the 9th of April next, and the meeting of the National Constituent Assembly for the 20th. _ _ _ At the same meeting it decided on the following general principles of the decree, which will be published : "1. That the National Assembly shall decree the onstitution. " 2. That the election shall be based on the number of the population. " 3. That the representatives of the people shall be 900 in number. " 4. That the suffrage shall be direct and universal in every sense. "5. That all Frenchmen 21 years of age shall be electors, and all above 25 years of age may be elected. " 6. The ballot shall be secret." The provisional government has been compelled to yield to the despotism of the press in the matter of the newspaper stamp. Not questioning the wisdom of the ultimate suppression of that impost, the mem bers of the government desired to show their respect for the rights of a regularly constituted legislature by abstaining from effecting any change in the existing financial laws until they should surren der the reins of power into the hands of a govern ment appointed by the nation. The press, how ever, was impatient; its menaces formidable, and its voice irresistible, and after an ineffectual struggle the government has yeilded. The newspaper stamp is abolished. _ _ ...... The first effect of this has been, of course, a reduc tion of price, and La Freese has led the way. Its pesos to the annual subscriber in Paris, is reduced from 40f. to 24t. the postage being added for the sub scribersin the provinces and foreign places. This makes the price of the paper daily 6 6-10th centimes, or sit-tenths of a penny for one of the most ably-con ducted journals of the French capital. Before the recent revolution, the circulation of La Prose was 36,000 ; its present circulation is reported to be nearly 80,000 ! The adhesions from superior officers of the army and from the magistracy continue to be received by the pro visional government. To-day another list of ge neral officers appears. Yesterday the court of Camden presented an address to the go vernment, which was read by the first president Portalis, and answered on the part of the govern ment by M. Marie. A similar reception was given to the members of the faculty of Medicine, at which an address was read by M. Bouilland, dean of the faculty, and was replied to by M. Arago on the part of the provisional government. Various other deputations have been also received, detailed reports of which would offer but little interest. All the intelligence of France acquiesces, with extra ordinary unanimity in the state of things brought about so curiously and unexpectedly by the events of the 22nd and 23rd ult. An ilteresting reception was given yesterday by the Minister of War to the officers of the Etat-Major, at which one of the officers delivered an address, and was replied to by the minister. Lord Normanby has communicated to M. de Lamartine despatches which he received yesterday from Lord Palmerston, in which the British govern ment continues to express its desire for the mainte nance of friendly relations with France, and its soli citude that such measures may be taken by the two governments as shall contribute to the peace of Europe. lieu-Maza has been captured at Brest. Accounts arrive from every quarter of the effect of social and political movement by which all Europe is affected, and of which the events of last week here are only an individual example. In some of the German states of the Rhine public opinion has been yielded to without even at attempt at resistance. We have &deices from Baden to-day. M. Beck, the Mi nister of the Interior of the Grand Duchy of Baden has published the following proclamation:- 1. The censorship of the press is abolished. 2. The national guard will be immediately or w ised. 3. The government will submit to the chamber a law establishing trial by jury. By this proclamation the ministry has granted all that the people demanded. Indeemdently of these conoessiona, the Grand Duke has called to his councils M. Welker, the leader of the constitutional opposition, who has demanded the creation of a German parliament, instead of the Diet. The Prussian government, in its official journal, has declared that it will not interfere with the affairs of France, but that it will hold itself in readiness to act on any emergency ; and it calls upon all the German governments to put their military contingents on a war footing. A telegraphic dispatch from Metz has been re ceived, which says that the Duke of Hesse-Cassel has been banished and his palace burned ; that the Duke of Nassau bad fled from his states. A movement took place at Nlayence ; protestations were sent to the Grand Duke of Hesse Darmstadt. The population had assumed a hostile attitude towards the Austro- Prussian garrison of the place ; at Sarrebruck, a lively sympathy with the French revolution had been mani fested ; at Sarvalouis, the garrison was blockaded in the fort; rigorous watch had been kept during the night, and the trees on the glaces had been cut down. Advices from Switzerland inform us that the retro rade or Prussian party in the canton of Neufchatel have fallen before a popular manifestation. The government resigned on the morning of the Ist inst. Surprised by the catastrophe of Paris, it desired to negotiate with the Montagnards, but it soon found it necessary to surrender the reins of the government to the hands of the opposition. The Chancellor Favarger had passed the Soleurc, as was supposed en route to Berlin. The seat of the new government was transferred from Neufchatel to Chaux-de-Fonds. A provisional government was named. The Prussian sovereignty WAS overturned. Advices from Italy report that an immense excite ment was produced by the news from Paris, although the actual result wusstillbutimperfectly known,and it was supposedthat a regency was still possible. At Turin the infantrywere called to the citadel, to aid in making cartridges. Two new contingents were called under arms. The national guard was called oot. The Sardinian Government was preparing to de mand of Austria the removal of her troops front Parma, while Austria, on the other hand, was remon strating against the liberal mcasure3 of Sardinia. At Pavia the students of the university attempted a movement, in which it was said that the Hungarian troops in the service of Austria joined. 'The Madrid mails of the 2Sth have arrived. The letter of our own correspondent, dated that day, at a quarter past 4 p.m., says that Narvaez had just laid upon the table of congress a project of law author ising the government, 1. To suspend the constitutional guarantees. 2. To raise a loan of twe millions Sterling. 3. To go on collecting the revenue till the meeting of the next legislature. Our correspondent adds that Queen Christina had, on the same day, an audience with Mr. Bdwer. The excitement was extreme. No business was done in congress. The Threes were at 251 at 50 days. LATEST FROM PARIS. PARIS, SUNDAY, 5, P.M. The clubs have already commenced their operations, and their very name spreads alarm among all classes I of persons who respect order and desire tranquillity. Foreigners will be especially scared by them. As yet the obnoxious name" Club " has been avoided. We had, however, a meeting , last night, of the Central Repuldican Society, at which an address to the govern ment was voted. A debate took place on the question of direct voting, or voting by two degrees. The discussion was adjourned to this day (Sunday), at 2 p.m., in a building attached to the church of the Assumption in the Rue St. Honore. The debate is being held while I write these lines. The Courrier Francais is the organ of this scciety. The charge d' affairs of Russia had an interview yesterday with M. de Lamartine, relative to the for malities to be observed respecting the passports of Russian subjects. t 474.] LONDON, MONDAY, MARCH 6, 1848. [THRBEPENCE. Among all the reforms which have bees mentioned, nothing has been said respecting the detestable pass port system. Count Rambuteau, late prefect of the Seine, has enrolled himself in the national guard of the let arrondissement of Paris. A miniature revolution has taken place this morn ing, in the regime of the Paris omnibuses. The con ductors have assembled, and ordered all these ve hicles, without exception, to stop running ; have sent them off their stands, forcibly stopped them in tho streets, and compelled the pas sengers to evacuate them, and carried away the wooden houses (bureaux de controle), erected on the Buulevaids. The objet of this move ment is to enforce an increase of wages from three to four francs per day. There is no public force to re press disorders of this sort. On the arrival of the news at Berlin, of the move ment in Paris, the King of Prussia recalled Baron d'Arnim, who is provisionally replaced by Count Hatzfeldt as charge d'affaires. It will be remembered that the Infante Don Hen , rique, exiled from Spain for political causes, has been for some time domiciled at Toulouse, with the duchess and his wife. The Infante has addressed the following letter to the provisional government: Tot:Loves, FEB. 29.—Gentlemen,—A great and glorious event has occurred in France. The nation has again asserted its forgottea rights, and consecrated them by a new revolu tion, which renders her worthy of the great name she has always borne in the history and in the sympathy of the Latium To a majority, libiweldde, and eareopt, which, judging the French people by it itself, endeavoured to deprave the honest and democra•ic manners of the country, France has responded by the imprescriptible use of her suvereignity. Glory to her ! I should be wanting in the principles I have always professed, and my most inmost convictions, if, on so solemn en occasion, I, the constant victim of a faction which still oppresses my country, but of which the last hour will soon arrive, were not among the first to salute the notional government that France has founded, and applaud loudly the cra of happiness which is about to open on all the nation., c shl particularly no Spain. My most ardent d..ire is to see France and Spain closely allied, and that the tic; that nature has formed shall here after he indissoluble. Such is my most heartfelt wish, and that I am sure of that democratic p..rty in Spain to which I am proud to belong, and whose ranks I have never deserted. Thus I am resolved to accept no post in my country until my hopes shall be realised. And it I could save myself from the anathema that the people have fulminated with just reason against the greater number of kings, I could also render myself worthy of their attachment and confidence, so that without being alarmed at my origin, they may ever consider me as one of their most devo ed children, one of their moat zealous defenders. I am only ambitious of the glorious title of citizen. (Signed) Examen MARIA. The provisional government yesterday received the Court of Cessation. The members of the Court of Cessation were fol lowed by the Professors of the Faculty of Medicine of Paris; M. Carnot, Provincial Minister of Public Instruction, was among the members of the pro visional government who received the deputation. A decree appoints a commission for national recom penses, of which the citizen Albert (an operative), member of the Provisional Government, is president. This committee will hold its sittings at the mairie of Paris. Another decree deo'ares that, inasmuch as no French soil can be admitted to be trodden by a slave, a committee is appointed to prepare, with as much expedition as possible, an act for the emancipation of all slaves in the French colonies. The following are the members of this committee:— Victor Schoelcher, president, Mestro, director of the colonies, Perrinon, chef de battalion of mirine artillery, Gatine, avocat aux conseils, Gaumont, ouvrier horloger, Secretaries, C. C. Wallon and Percin. These decrees will appear in the Moniteur to morrow. _ _ _ _ _ We have just been assured that M. Emile de Ge rardin, proprietor and editor in chief of La Presse, is appointed director-general des poster (post•master general. The Duke d' Harcourt will be named ambassador at London. The Archbishop of Cambrai has addressed acircular to his clergy, directing them to acknowledge the republic. The Bishop of Rennes has published a pastoral letter, calling on the curia to advise order and the immediate payment of the taxes. The drawing of the conscripts has proceeded quietly, and even in Brittany, where it is often a cause of collision, it has passed off quietly. A Breton peasant in the dress of the country, and in the name of his compatriots, has waited on the Minister of the Interior to declare the adhesion of the peasants of Bourbon- Vendi.e Bou-Maza, who, as we have already stated, is cap tured, had, after his evasion, gone to Nantes, and from thence, on let March, to Brest, under the name of Adolphe, and describing himself as one of the Tunisian pupils who are now at Paris. Two officers, and two subalterns, recognised him, having seen him at Vincennes. He at first denied his iden tity, but on a physician being gent for to examine his wounds, he avowed himself, declaring that it was not his intention to have quitted France. He was arrested in an auberge. M. Bugeaud has arrived at Exadeuil, having been furnished with a sate-conduct by the Minister of War. Public credit is rapidly being re-established. The Bank of Orleans has resumed its business, and has announced that, from the 4th March, it will continue to discount as heretofore. The Bank of Bordeaux has announced that it has received considerable sums of money, which will enable it immediately to resume its discounting operations. The republic was . proclaimed at Marseilles on the Ist. In the morning all the troops and 10.000 national guards were under arms. At 10 o'clock, the mayor, surrounded by the municipal council. rind the I civil and military authorities, went to La Canabiere between two files, formed by the civic companies. In presence of officers the order of the preceding evening was read, which announced a general review of the troops, and the proclamation of the new go vernment. The mayor also read a proclamation, published by him, inviting all the citizens to rally round the re public and support it with all their energy, and thank ing them for the order they had preserved. The archbishop of Lyons has addressed a circular to his clergy, exhorting them to show and recommend obedience to the existing government and fidelity to the republic, and tells them that the flag of the republic will always be for religion a flag of pro tection. -* • Yesterday, at :3 o'clock, General Subervie, Minister of War, thanked the officers of the staff who, since the 25th of February, had been on duty in his cabinet, for their devotion and zeal. One of the officers replied, , and stated that they only wished to give an additional proof of their entire devotion to the govern ment. " I know it," answered the general ; " and I can only say that I will endeavour to deal out the most impartial justice from the simple soldier to the general of division." Circular of the Minister des Affaires Etrangen to the Diplomatic Agents of the French Republic. Sir,—You have learned the events of Paris the victory of the people, its heroism, its moderation, its Calm order re stored by the concurrence of all its citizens, as if in this in terregnum of visible authority reason alone was the govern ing power in France. The French revolution is thus about to enter on its last stage. France is a republic. The French republic needs no recognition to exist. It is thus by natural and by national right. It exists by the will of a great people who only relies on itself for its title. The French republic, however, de siring to enter into the family of regular governments as a legitimate power, and not as a phenomenon, the disturber of European order, it is advisable that you communicate to the government to which you are accredited. the principles and tendencies which will hereafter direct the foreign policy of France. The proclamation of the French republic is not an act of aggression against any form of government in the world. orif government have with all people their diversities as legitimate as diversities of character, of geographical situa tion, and of intellectual development, moral and mate rial. Nations have, like individuals, different ages. The principles which rule have different phases. Monarchial, aristocratical, constitutional, republican governments are the expression of those different degrees of the maturity of the genius of nations. They demand more liberty as fast as they feel themselves' capable of supperting more i they de mand more equality and democracy in proportion as they are inspired by more justice and love for the people. It is a question of time. A people lose themselves in anticipating the war. If Europe be mudent and jolt, there is not one of these words which does not signify peace. Receive, sir, the assurance of my very high esteem. LAKARTINB, Member of the Provisional Government, and Paris, March 2, 1848. Minister of War. The Augsburgh Gazette, under date of 'Vienna, Feb. 25, says: "Letters from Italy give accounts of 'revolutionary scenes on all sides. Blood has flowed at Bergamo, and disturbances have taken place at Cremona. At the theatres the Austrian officers were thrown from the boxes into the pit. At Placentia several arrests took place at the theatre, all those ar rested loaded pistols in their pockets." We have received other letters and journals from Madrid of the 28th, besides those which we have already given. The article of the constitution which Narvaez proposes to suspend is the 7th, which is to the following effect : No Spaniard shall be arrested, nor made prisoner, net Immediately after this project of law was read, the taken from his house. No man's house shall be visited unless in sane case , and in the forms prescribed by law. Immediately after this project of law was read the Cbameer met in the bureaux to name a commissioner to report thereon. It is supposed it will be discussed or even approved to-day, on account of the ureency of the measure. ryz/ TAXATION. Were there no other symptom, the number of letters which crowd our table, e ac h o f th em b ear i ng - upon . 4 some objectionable feature in our present system of taxation, and scarcely one taking up the same point as the rest, would go far to convince us that, in the present temper of the public, statesmen coming forward with a comprehensive and fair proposal for an entire revision of our finance would meet with such support as would ensure them a victory at no distant day. As it is impossible, _from the magnitude of th e corre spondence to which we advert, to print all our letters, or even to print many of them in exlenso, we are obliged to have recourse to the plan of publish ing extracts from time to time in a nonneeted form. A legal practitioner, who writes from Portaea, directs at tention to the stamp duties in general. Speaking of a very judicious pamphlet on the subject, which he encloses, he says: "It was published seven years ago. I had then just commenced the practice of the profession of attorney, and the prospect of a new and heavy direct tax, to be added to those I paid in common with all the world, and the several others appertaining exclusively to my own profession, did not render my prospects brighter." The most important part of his communisation is the following, which parties moving in the question of the legacy and probate duties will do well to attend to : The outcry which will be shortly raised again -t the stamp law,. is creeping ant in the following form—far an untrasition of probate and legacy duty on real property. Now, I warn the public, sad I warn the press, against putting theqUe.tiall in this shale true we want a fair probate and legacy duty imposed on real property, if more taxes are wanted, but it would be an act of suicide to contend for this alone, without at the vine time requiring a general revision of the stamp lawn and especially of the probe& duties, which now prim with such dreadful weight on small estates. A word more to show to the pubAc the impotence of the question of stamp dubs*, and I have done. The community think themselves much affected by the income tax, and so they are : it produces Are million sterling, bat rich and poor (oomparatively) pay the tel. in the pound. The stamp tax, however, produces seven millions sterling, and small properties pay it nearly all. It is not among lawyers alone that we find this subject ex citing earnest attention. The following extract from the letter of a City correspondent shows that our mercantile men also are working at the knotty problem, and endea vouring; to give their views the precision of definite arith metical statement : 25,000,0001. annually may be collected for the public exchequer by a simple modification and an equitable adjustment of our amp taxa Not wishing to occupy too great • spare in your column. I give the suggeetion as brietly u ponsible, i.e., to levy a uniform rate under the different hewn of taxation without reference to any amount. The reduced rates I moate are, for stamps on inland bills of exchange not esseeding lOW. ZO 1 6 Ditto*. foreign bills of ditto (drawnlla this teenary nee red/ in a est to be tamped), 1001. 0 1 II Ditto on ditto (drawn abroad), WO& 0 1 0 Ditto on policies of insurance, 100/. Ditto on receipt. exceeding 205., and not exceeding 101. 0 0 1 So on in proportion for every 100 Ditto on bonds and mortgages not exceeding 1001. Ditto on conveyance, estates, sales, &c, 1001 1 0 0 Ditto on apprentice indenture. for premium, 1002. Ditto on probate and administrations, including the transfer of real estates, 100/. And so on in proportion for every 100/. further advance. As • proof of the justness of this plan I refer the public to a minute comparison of these rates with the rates now payable. A Westminster c3rrespontient draws our attention to the land tax. Like our Portma correspondent he transmits pamphlet which he published some years ago on the subject. We notice this fact because it shows that private individuals, who have on former OCCASIODS itlikd to obtain a fair hearMi to their representations against certain taxes or mode. of taxa tion, are row taking heart of grace and resolving to try again. We arc glad of this : many a sensible word which formerly fell upon dull and inattentive ears, will stand a chance of being listened to now. And if among our members of par- Lament there are some (as we would fain hope there are) laige.minded enough to embrace the subject in its full extent, to them every one of these isolated sugges tions may impart instruction—at all events encouragement to persevere. The correspondent to whom we are at present adverting recommends an equalisation of the yet un redeemed land ton. We agree with him as to the desirable ness of such a step being taken ; but, with a view to an act making the redemption of this tax compulsory, as a pre liminaty te a fair assessment of the tax on incomes from realised property, the following quotation from our clirre spondent's pamphlet tells its own tale The county of Middlesex, the real property in which is stated at 5,595,5371. per ann., pays 236,2164 or about led. in the pound; while in Lancaster it is 3,067, 771(., and the land tax only 19,4091., or about Md. in the pound. The great county of York pays about Md.. while Bedford iv near Is. 81. in the pound. The little county of Rut land pays about 10d., Buckingham Is. Syd., while Cumberland is let off for lid. Staffbrd pays Md., and Hampshire, about the same value, is mulcted in Ild., or just double. The large county of North umberlandis let off for lid., andSumex is charged Is. Md.; Hertford Is. 6d., Westmoreland Md. The average for England I make about 9d. in the pound. The highest rounty i Bedford, Is. edl. , the lowest. Cumberland, lid. Da Wales similar discrepancies are observable, which • reference to the table plainly shows. But the inequalities among the counties bear no proportion to those among the towns. In counties they are set off in some degree against one another, but in the separate districts they stand out in all their enormity. Take, foe instance, the small yarish of St. Paul, Covent garden, paying 2s. al. in the pound, and Marslebone only • farthing. Wnitmimter, in the aggregate, at stout pod. The City of London near Is. 61.; the town of Liverpool does not pay ooe.tenth of a penny. Manchester contri butes not exceeding 21. City of Norwich the enormous rated 2s. Id. Brighton not more than 1/d. • Exeter city, Is. 51d. Leicester, 2 i td.; Cambridge, Is 91. Lancaste r , id; Oxford, 2s. 3d. Berwick, d.• Gloucester, 18.7 d. Dover, 71.; Bury, 38. nid. larwich, 7d.; Li chance, Is. sd. Southampton, 311.' Kidderminster, le. Md. Tewks bury, 41. • Winchelara, 3s. Id. Bath, lid., Leeds, Md.; Southwark , 11d. There are doubtless great inequalities in the City of London, among the different pariehes, but I have not correct data to do mote than give the aggregate. Great ma these inequalities are, I have ma son to suppose they are greater than they appear, owing to the irre gular mode of assessing in the different perishes, in lane of which the property is valued up to the full annual value, and In other= at two-thirds, and some even at half ; therefore, the land tax tai y at Ss. 6d. in a parish where the ameestant is only half the en. owl value, will be virtually only half what another parka pays where the assessment is top to the full manual value. This will case a still further discrepancy. Several cases of this description have come within my own knialedni, and, ham inquiries I have made, I have reason to believe they are far from being uncommon. UNITED SERVICE INSTITUTION.—The seventeenth annual meeting of members was held on Saturday, at the house of the institution, Whitehall-place. The Earl of Hardwicke presided. The report of the council stated that the favourable anticipations which they tad expressed last year had been fully realised, and the various improvements admitted by increase of space and general accommodation, had been carried out or were in progress. The measures of finance adopted by the council to meet the pressure of limited funds, had succeeded to a satisfactory extent, and they would therefore be able to resume a more liberal ex penditure on the library—an object of the first importance— as well as on other branches of the institution. The sub scription for the lecture theatre remained still insufficient for the work, end the council took that opportunity of urging the members to lend their assistance towards its completion. They congratulated the members on the internal condition of the institution, and the improved position which it held in public estimation, u evinced by the large and increasing number of its visitors. The number of members on the let Jemmy, 1847, wee 4,031, and the number of new members during the year 74, making together 4,105. From that num ber were to be deducted 88, being 55 deaths and 33 with drawals, which left the number of members on the Ist Jan., 1848, 4,017. During the present year 15 new members had been added, which left the present number 4,032. The in come of the past year had been 1,5241., and the expenditure 1,43.51., leaving a balance of 891. to the credit of the institu tion. Of that sum 321. was in the banker's betide, and the remainder had been invested, together with the amount of life subscriptions received (1311./, in the public funds. The funded proper.) , of Use institution consisted at the present time of 1,700/. 31 per cents., in addition to 4521. 91. Ild. con sole, belonging to the lecture theatre building fund. To the latter fund 301. Os. had been subscribed during the year. The total Amount received on that account, since the fund was opened in March, 1845, was 425/. lfis. sd. The council acknowledged, among other gifts to the museum, the receipt of a valuable collection of marine patntings from Mrs. Watson, who had, in addition, fitted up an apartment in the building for their reception at her persona! expense. The counel had j.re3eLted the ipionia of an todoraiy member to Mrs. Watson as an acknowledgment. The report WAS adopted unani mously, and the meeting then proceeded to 611 up the vacan cies in the council caused by the retirement by rotation of eight memLars. Colonel P. I. Yorke, Captain Fraser, and Lieut. Raper were re-cleated, and Lieut: Col. C. J. Bund ling, 'Alex. Nisbett, M.D., Commander J. Gordon, R.N. Major J. Thornton, and Lieut.-Col. R. Parker were elected in the room of Lieut.-Col. Hanmer, Captain Sir J. C. Rosa, R.N., Major Agnew, Rear-Admiral the Hon. E. S. P. Knox, and Captain Bernard. The election of auditors followed, and a vote of thanks to the chairman concluded the proceedings. LASCasTER. ELECTIOS.—Mr. Gregaon having been unseated for Lancaster, on the ground of bribery, another elee•ion will of course take place. Two candidates are already in the field—Mr. R. B. Armstrong and Mr. Edward H. Stanley. THE ORDER OF THE THISTLE.—Her Majest y has nominated Lord Dalhouqe to be a knight of the Thistle, vacant by the death of Earl Moray. ~, THE MONSTER MEETING IN TRAFALGAR SQUARE. It having been annetine;dK;iiveral days past that a meeting would take place this day in Trafalgar-square, in order to adopt measures for the repeal of the income tax, at which Mr. Cbar'es Cochrane was to preside, from an early hour a number of persons congregated on the terrace of the square, as well as the open space beneath, It was rumoured, however, that the commissioners of police had three several times intimated to Mr. Cochrane that the meeting in such a place would be illegal, and they could not permit it to take place; hut no answer was said to have been returned, and accordingly it was stated that police men to the extent of 1,600 or 1,600 would be in the neigh bourhood, in case of need. . . . . . As the hour approached for the meeting (1 o'clock), the crowd bad very mats rially increased ; and u that was about the dinner hour of mechanic and others, the number could not be less than four or five thousand, diapered in the neigh bourhood of the square, and certainly including a parcel of coetermoagere and others, who did all they could to get up a disturbance. Soon after half-past 12, however, the anticipated result was announced by bills, to the following effect: — "The commissioners of police having declared that the meeting in Trafalgar-square will be illegal, Mr. Cochrane respectfully but earnestly requests the public will not con gregate or remain in Trafalgar-square, but quietly depart to their homes. Mr. Cochrane deeply regrets the disappoint ment ho has caused to the public." A-. score as the intimation had become known, the people gradually dispersed, with the exception of the noisy rabble ahose referred to. A vast number of the superintendents and inspectors of police were on the spot, in case of any up roar, but all passed off quietly. ELECTION COMMITTEE.-THIS DAY. CARLISLE.--The committee hoe decided that the election, so far as regarded Mr. Hodgson, was void, but that Mr. Hodgson is not disqualified from {again becoming a candidate. THE OAK FARM IRON WORKS.—At the Bank ruptcy Court, at Birmingham, on Saturday, there was a meeting for the proof of debts and choice of assignees in the matter of this bankruptcy. Mr. Collis, of Stouthridge, and Mr. Mottram, of E.rmingham, appeared as solicitors to the fiat ; Mr. Fellowes, of Dudley, and Mr. T. S. James, for a number of the creditors.—A debt was proved on account of the Stourbridge Banking Company for 6,0001., and by the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone, M.P., for 3,000/., and other debts amounting to about 10,0001.—The liabilities of the bankrupts were said to amount to about 300,0001., and the cause of so small en amount of debt being proved on this oc casion arose out of the fact of Messrs. Boyden and Roper, the bankrupts, having so recently as the month of August last taken into partnership two gentlemen named Paterson and Walker; and the present fiat being against the four, the creditors of the two first-named were precluded from voting in the choice of assignees on this occasion, by far the largest amount of debt being due by those individuals, who for several years carried on a most extensive business under the firm of the Oak Farm Company.—Mr. James, who appeared on behalf of several creditors, whose debts were due from Boy dell and Roper, contended that his clients were entitled not only to prove their debts, but also to vote In the choice of assignees on the occasion. This was ?existed by Mr. Mottram, on the part of the joint creditors under the new on the ground that it was nothing more than en ordi nary case of an attempt on the pert of separate creditors to rand vote in the choice of assignees under a joint t 7. which could not be done.—Mr. Commissioner Daniell seemed to concur in this view, and Mr, Manley, the cashier to the Stourbridge and Kid. derminster Banking Company, was nominated sole trade assignee. Thereupon an animated discussion took place as to the propriety of this proceeding, at the conclusion of which the commissioner said that he thought in the matter of such an important estate it would be advisable to appoint another creditor in conjunction with Mr. Manley.—Mr, Collis declared his concurrence in this, and at once nomi nated Mr. Evers of Creaky (who was one of the inspectors originally appointed to examine into the state of the affairs of this concern); but that gentleman having declined to act on this occasion application was made to the court either not to confirm the choice of Mr. Manley, or to adjourn the meeting. The commissioner declined to do either the one or the other, although he said he should have been better pleased if another creditor had been associated with Mr. Manley; the result, however, was, that that gentleman was apinted sole assignee. THE MILITARY AFFRAY AT LEEDS.—On Saturday the Mayor of Leeds investigated a charge of riot and assault preferred by the Leeds police against a corporal and several privates of the 57th Regiment of Foot. No fewer than eighteen witnesses were examined in support of the charge, including one private of the regiment and several police officers, from whose conjoint testimony it appeared that on Thursday evening two of the defendants were drinking at the Parrot beer-house in Harper-street, Leeds. when they assaulted two civilians severely, and soon after left the house, saying to a soldier of their regiment whom they left behind, but who had not joined in their attack, that if he was there when they returned he must take his chance. In a very short time they returned with several other soldiers, and forced themselves into the house; but the civilians within were got out by another door. After sonic violent conduct in the house, they sallied out, some brandishing sticks and others their side-belts, which they had taken off their shoulders for the purpose. They commenced an attack upon the people whom they met 4.n the streets, and a regular mele ensued. A detachment of policemen, under the orders of Superinten lent James, were sent from the police-office to quell the disturbance, and several of them suffered severely in the riot which ensued, one of them having his police hat cut through, and hie forehead laid open upwards of two inches, by a blow from a side-belt, the brass breastplate, bearing the number of the regiment, having strack him edgewise. Immediately on the arrival of the police, the mi , perintendent tapped one of the soldiers on the shoulder, and asked his name, but he answered only by a blow. He was, of course, taken into custody, and by a very determined effort on the part of the soldiers, he was ultimately rescued. His name was stated to be John Johnson. One of the most prominent in the rescue was William Kil leen, who was captured, and after much violence conveyed ' to prison. Corporal John James was also stated to have • been extremely active in urging the rescue. It seemed pro bable that much snore violence would have resulted, but for the timely arrival of Lieut. Pollard, an officer of the regi ' ment, who ordered many of the men to leave for their bar ' racks immediately, and otherwise assisted the police. Mr. Naylor, solicitor, appeared for the defendants, and expressed an intention to call witnesses in support of an alibi as re. garded John Johnson and Thomas Maeguire, who bad been sworn to by three witnesses as having been present in the affray • but as the magistrates said they should hold all the defendants to bail for trial at the sessions, which commence this day, Mr. Naylor reserved his evidence, and in default of bail, the abovenatted Corporal James, John Johnson, %Ym. Killeen and Thomas Macguire, and also Michael M'Cann, Patrick Donelly, William Nowlin and Michael Nolan, were severally committed for trial for a riot and assault. RUSSIA. REPORTED DIeTURRANCEe IN ST. PETERSEIIt(s.—A Berlin correspondence, under date Feb 29, in the Magdeburg Gazette, states that disturbances lead broken out in the Russian capital, and that an attempt had been made on the Emperor's life. AVERAGES, FROM THE "LONDON GAZETTE" OF PRIDAY LAST. . MOAT. . itAILLEY. (mem. ATM 1 113.113111. , PLS. DUITSIO26 Ole ; AVOMS4, sour.. , avenge glum.. Avsslesi Qrs. Lessem '4l.srsers • Average Qr. Leon. colt. peke. wl4.ketee nl4. rice. rid. prim_ • sold. prke. 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