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- SURREY RLECT lON. MR. BRISCOE'S COMMITTEE sit daily at the HALF-MOON, High-street, Borough, where all Communi sations are requested to be made, addressed to R. W. HALL, Esq. Chairman. ADDRESS to the PEOPLE of GREAT BRITAIN and IRELAND. unanimously adopted at a General Meeting of the LONDON ANTI-SLAVERY SOCIETY, held at Exeter Hall. April 23, 1831 The Right Hon. Lord SUFFIELD in the Chair. The Society for the Abolition of Slavery throughout the British Dominions earnestly request your attention to the present state of the question. The dissolution will probably soon tete place, when the great body of Electors will be strongly agitated with discussing the measure of Reform, which has divided the existing Parliament. At this crisis we entreat you, in the midst of conflict and excite ment. to remember the sacred cause to which, in conjunction with ourselves, you are solemnly pledged. Upon the exertions now made. as far as human wisdom may foresee mainly depends the con tinutnee or extinction of that system which has so long prevailed In violation of all the principles of the British Constitution, and in subversion of all justice, outraging every feeling of humanity, and utterly repugnant to the precepts of the religion we profess to ac knowledge. We pray you to rouse yourselves to strenuous, per. severing, and well-organized exertions : and we suggest, for your consideration, the following measures:—To call meetings of your committees, and to invite to join you all who prefer humanity to oppression, truth to falsehood, freedom to slavery : —to appoint frequent Ferias for assembling :—to form a list of all the electors who can be properly influenced in the approaching contest, each in dividual answering for himself, and as many more as he can bring to aid :—to make strict inquiries of every candidate, not only whether he is decidedly favourable to the extinction of slavery, but whether or not he will attend to the debates in Parliament when that ques tion shall be discussed; herein taking special care not to be deceived by general professions of disapprobation of slavery, but ascertain ing that the candidate has adopted the determination to assist in car rying through measures for its speedy annihilation. None look with greater honor on the shedding of blood, or the remotest chance of oc casioning such a calamity, than ourselves ; but we are in our consci ences convinced, and that after investigation the most careful and scrupulous, that from the emancipation we recommend, no risk to the safety of the white inhabitants could arise; on the contrary, we ve rily believe that the continuance of slavery renders desolation and bloodshed much more probable; and that if the country does not repent of the sin of slavery and cast it from her, it may, by the just retribution of Providence, terminate in a convulsion destructive alike of life and property. On behalf of candidates who are known to hold these prindples, and on behalf of such candidates only, we ask your assistance; and this:assistance may be most powerfully rendered, not merely by votes, but by open and public adoption of the candidate on these avowed grounds.—by the exertion of lawful influence, by saving him time in his canvas, and by relieving him from expense in going to the poll. • e assure you, that on our part we will not be backward in our efforts for the attainment of the same ends ; and we will, from time to time, afford you all the information we may deem requisite. In the truth and justice of our cause we are all confident: but nun must work by human means. Without strenuous efforts, the gold and combination of out interested opponents may leave the cause without that support In Parliament which is essential to success, and so con. Orme, for an indefinite period, sufferings indescribable and iniquity incalculable. We solemnly conjure you to show yourselves, by your courage, energy, and perseverance, faithful in the cause of truth and merry; and then, with His aid to whom all good is to be ascribed, we trust this accumulation of guilt and misery may be speedily annihilated. Signed in behalf of the Loudon Committee. T. F. BUXTON, Z. MACAULAY, S. GURNEY, D. WILSON, W. WILBERFORCE, R. WATSON. W. SMITH. S. LUSHINGTON. Resolutions unanimously adopted at the same General Meeting : I. That the object of this meeting is the entire extinction of Negro Slavery. 2. That the time has now arrived, in which the people of Great Bri tain and Ireland may give, by their votes, as they have already given by their petitions, efficacious assistance towards delivering the Negroes from the evils of slavery, and the nation from the guilt of tolerating it and that the address now read be adopted by this meeting, and cir culated throughout the country. 3. That the buying. or selling, or holding our fellow-men as slaves, is contrary to the Christian religion, and to the principles of the British constitution. 4. That, under the strongest rational conviction, fortified, by the experience of all ages, that the holders of slaves are, by the very cir cumstances of their situation, rendered as unfit as they have always proved themselves unwilling, to frame laws for the benefit of their bond men, this assembly cannot refrain from avowing their utter despair of receiving any effectual aid from the colonists in the prosecution of their great object. 5. That this assembly consider it Incumbent on them to renew the declaration of their decided conviction, that slavery is not merely an abuse to be mitigated, but an enorm ity to be suppressed; that it in vokes the exercise of severities on the part of the master, and the en durance of sufferings on the part of the slave, which no laws can ef fectually prevent; and that to impose on the British people the involun tary support of a system so essentially iniquitous, is an injustice no longer to be endured. C. That the experience of the last eight years has not only fur. nished additional evidence of the criminality and incurable inhumanity of slavery, but has also demonstrated incontrovertibly, that it is only by the direct Intervention of Parliament that any effectual remedy can be applied to this enormous evil ; and that it is the unalterable deter mination of this meeting to leave no lawful means unattempted for ob taining, by Parliamentary enactment, the total abolition of slavery throughout the British dominions. 7. That this meeting desire the expression of their sincere regret for the unavoidable absence of his Royal Highness the Duke of Gloucester, to be respeetfally conveyed to him, together with their cordial acknow ledgment. for the undeviating support he has uniformly given to the principles on which this society is founded. THO. PRINGLE, Secretary. Office of the Anti-Slavery Society, 18, Aldermanbury, April 25. PRICE OF STOCKS 3 per Ct. 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Irish Grind Canal, 73 Forth rad Clyde, teas Lit. & hlanliailway,lSS tomb() Cromford, £45 Guardian, Albion Fire, ,875 Alliance, £8 5s County, £4O Solana, Mines, £lBO Steam Navigation, dis. £6 1.51 Orta o'CLocz.—Barometer, 49-54 ; Weather, cloudy, and showers. r, 60. Wind & THE EVENING STAR. LONDON. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 27. It is observable in the history of nations, that the abuses of bad government, or legislation perverted for the purely selfish object of those in authority, often produce results of a very contrary effect, and destructive of the authority they had been directed to maintain. Never was there a more perfect illustration of this remark, than what has occurred in this country. A terror at legislative reform, which appeared likely to gain ascendancy from the first French Revolution, drove the boroughmongering oligarchy, who had obtained ascendancy in this nation, to support an ambitious and boldly enteiprising, but not sound-principled minister, in making a war with France: which, while it called forth certain spe cies of the energies of the people, lavished its capital with an unexampled prodigality, and gave increase to what is called a public debt—if that can be correctly designated a debt, the principal of which its very fabricators have lived to declare, is never intended to be paid, and the in terest of which the utmost economy is essentially requi- . - ~. -~ .-~~ ~•- site to assure. When all the ingenuity of extortion could extract no more to lavish, Peace ensued ; and with ' it, a farther increase of all the sufferings of poverty, than bad ever been experienced during the war; for war had brought with it a degree of compensating activity, in certain lines of human industry, which failed entirely on its cessation, and left the nation, like a drunkard, after the extra excitement of a debauch. Foreign commerce failed from foreign competition ; and pro- fitable manufactures failed, partly from the same cause. The produce of land fell in its nominal value—and the revenues required could not be diminished. Certain productive ener gies of the eountry had been artificially forced forward, so as to occupy large masses of the population—but human ingenuity, intensely concentrated to economise human labour, at last succeeded in throwing out of employment the very sentient beings, which the same object had converted into physical automata. ' Then came the times to which we are now brought. Even the most artificially de graded human automaton will not starve, while he has a bludgeon in every hedge, and the food is to be had. Before the bludgeon is called into use, a wise Government, by ono of the most signal dispensations 'of a Superintending Providence, that perhaps ever became a cause of human gratitude, received the au thority from a chosen King, to retort's at the source, the cause of all the evil. This is an abstract of our history. But it is weil known, that no good ever is accomplished for man, without his own exertion. He must always be the operative means of his own emancipation ; and English men, although placed now on the " vantage ground," have still a battle to fight. Let them not then slumber on the field. Montreal papers to the 24th of March, and Quebec pa pers to the 23d of the same month, are received this day. The former give the speech of Sir Join/ COLBORN E, on proroguing the legislative senate of Upper Canada—the only important feature of which is the announcement of the bills which have received his Excellency's sanction, namely—one, which grants a limited Civil List, dur ing the life time of the KING ; and another for ap propriating fifty thousand pounds for the Welland Canal. It appears that the Kingston Bank Bill did not pass the Legislative Assembly. The Quebec Papers have an extract from the York Ad vocate, of the 10th March, to the following effect :—" After a debate of nine hours, the executive party in the Assembly have carried all before them; and after refusing to make any inquiry of the Lieutenant-Governor concerning the use here after of the twenty-six thousand pounds' annual revenue derived from the Canada Company, passed two resolutions by triumphant majorities, making the Governor of the coun try more independent of all future Assemblies." We have the Austrian Observer of the 15th, and the Allgenieine Zeitung of the 20th instant, this day. The lit- ter contains a very interesting communication from Constan tinople; by which we learn the gratifying fact, that the OTTOMAN PORTE is prosecuting some admirable plans of moral improvement, in which we most sincerely wish it every success : VtuttwA, Aran 14.—AeecIrding to accounts from the Polish boa tiers of the 11th inst. a spirit of discontent is spreading more sod more, especially among the peasantry in those parts of the Kingdom of Po land which lie on the left bank of the Vistula. A sensible scarcity of provision is felt in the country; the little that is in hand is sent to the army, and the operations of agriculture are nearly suspended, for want of seed corn. The Globe of Paris contains a letter from Florence of the 24th of March, which has the following sentences : " One thousand six hun dred Austrians have just marched through our city on their way to Rome. Tuscany begins to move—the arrival of these troops has ex cited an extraordinary fermentation among the people." This is another specimen of the kind of news which the Journals of the faction are not ashamed to lay before their readers.—Justrion Observer, April 16. CONSTAITTINOPLII, MARCH 11.—(Faost • Leeesa.)—The Porte manifests, by almost daily ordinances, its zeal in prosecuting the plans of civilization which it has commenced. It seems that we are to have a University at least, It is known that the Sultan has asked the French Ambassador, Count Guilleminot for a plan. According to this plan, instead of the Latin lang uage , employed in the French academies in the elementary classes. the indent Greek would be introduced, and then the learning of the French language be attended to. The salaries of the Professors, and all other expences to be defrayed by the State; and all Turkish subjects, without distinction of religion, to be admissible. The patriarchs are in future to have the regulation of the payment of the poll-tax." The Courtier de Sterne gives the chief articles of a Hatti Selma; which the Sultan has issued, in favour of the Rajas, and for the intro duction of a better administration in general. Every Raja, or subject of the Porte, protected by the other powers, who has obtained the Ottoman flag for the purpose of navigation, shall enjoy e the fol. lowing privileges. The Captain wears the uniform of naval troops; the sailors have not to pay either the poll-tax, Karatsch, or any other personal tax. Goods shipped under this flag are to be allowed a reduction of 10 per cent. on the dudes fixed by the Tariff, for the most favoured European flag. Vessels under the Turkish flag shall be absolutely exempt from search. The goods be longing to the captain and crew, may be conveyed and sold wherever the owners think it advantageous, without the government being Md. tied to a new transit entry. The sailors shall be inscribed in the Cap tain Pasha's list. The Reyes, that is, the Greeks, Armenians, Catho. lie Armenians, and Jews, as well as the Turks, shall all be equal in the eye of the laws ; nor shall a Mussulman be entitled, as such, to any exclusive privilege. In all the parts of Runzzlia that have suffered by the war, the sultan has caused sums of money to be distributed; and will send cargoes of corn, cheese, butter, and of a provisions, to be dis tributed/rads amongst the poor Rajas. He has also given one thou sand purses to the Holy Sepulchre. In order to defray the expenses of the enormous load of debt, ft is resolved, that all the Greeks in the Turkish dominions, shall pay a piastre per head, foe the benefit of the holy places, to redeem the debt which has been swelled by the bed con. duct of the Pachas, and of the Greek Priests ; and to defray the expense of repairing the temple of the Christians. The Sultan has formed a plan to organise a police on the European system ; and, with this view, has asked the Foreign Ambassadors for a list of all the persons known to them ; for, on a gross calculation, it is found that two individuals out of three, are without any protection whatever; which gives occasion to a thousand abuses—equally unpleasant to the Porte I and to the Ambassadors themselves. The Ambassadors, however, have not yet complied with this request ; the Sultan, therefore, considers himself bound to make it for the third time; and if it is not regarded., he will send ambassadors to the foreign Courts, and apply to the dove reigns themselves. With respect to the islands and provinces, not included in the new Greek State, be grants them the following privileges :—The Turkish Governors shall be subject in all their proceedings to the decisions of the Municipal Council, composed of the primates. The inhabitants can be judged only according to their own laws, and never be withdrawn from their natural judges ; the Turkish Governor can punish nobody without sentence, and the approbation of their Pri. mate. The , inhabitants of Samos shall not have in their island, either a Cs& or a Turkish Governors they may, if they please, require a Greek, their countryman, foe their Governor. They shall be allowed to have a flag of their own, on which the sacred cross of the Christians shall be displayed s all the Rajas shall wear the uniform of the regular troops the troops shall immediately lay aside all the orders which they wear, and such insignia shall be granted only as rewards for valour. The Turkish soldier shall wear an epaulette, to distinguish him from the Eng.—Supplement to Allgentebte Zealot& April 20. Another Lisbon Mail has arrived this day, bringing Ga zettes to the 16th instant. Private advice& to a later date (the details of which we expect to be able to lay before our Reader& to-morrow) affirm, that the headstrong and ignorant MIGUEL had actually given notice to all the French residents to quit his capital by the 19th instant : Lissow.—The Lisbon Gazettes from the 11th to the 16th of April, both inclusive, contain no political news whatever relative to Portugal. Among the extracts from Foreign Joutnals, are very long articles from the Madrid and Cadiz,Gazettes, reiativeto the late attempts of the Coned. tationelists in the South of Spain. Among the names of potions stated to bane been shot, for having belonged to the band of Mazanates, is Diego Hillhouse, of Gibraltar, a tailor by profession, and a protestant, who, before his execution, embraced the Catholic Religion. At a late hour this afternoon, we received Dutch papers to the 26th instant. Their contents are not of prominent interest; we, however, subjoin a few extracts: Hateun, Aram 21.—The amount ascribed to the loan of 42 mil lions, was on the 2d, (as far as known) 14,385,300 florins. A very large sum yes subscribed here yesterday. On Thursday last Prince Frederick reviewed the second brigade of the fist division, consisting of 5,040 men, on the Heath of ( linneken. Friday be reviewed the first brigade, and yesterday several divisions of cavalry. His Royal Highness was satis fi ed with the good appearance, discipline, and precision of the troops. He was everywhere received with the loudest acclamations of the troops. Reports from Maestricht, of the 15th, say that every thing in the for. tress is in the best condition, and that the inhabitants are daily sup plied with provisions in abundance, from the neighbouring villages. The assurance company at Antwerp has addressed a remonstrance to the French and Belgic Governments, and to the Congress at London, against the new act for regulating the navigation of the Rhine, which is very unfavourable to the trade of Antwerp. We learn that the Lleutenant-Generals, commanding divisions, are now at :their posts, except the Duke of Saxe-Weimar, hose presence is still required in Luxemburg. His division is commanded ad interim by General des Tombe. The frontier villages of Belgium seem to be very full of troops,-- part of them are said to have gone towards Maestricht, in which dime. don troops seem to be proceeding from other parts of Belgium. Asx-La-Caarsr.s.n, April 20.—Notice has been given by the royal be 'council of the province, that on the 25th inst. tenders will received by the Governor General of Luxemburg, for the subsistence of the g o:Prussian troops which is to occupy Luxemburg and this, from Con , Coblents, and Mayence, to the frontiers of that province. CITY. ONE O'CLOCK. Owing to the preparations for the illuminations this night, all is bustle in the City, and little doing at present in the Funds, which opened at the same price they left off yester day-78ii for the Account, but have receded to 78fi. CITY. TWO O'CLOCK. The Dutch steamer has arrived, and we have papers of the 26th, from Amsterdam, but they do not contain any later accounts from Poland. Amongst the dollars which have arrived from Mexico, there are 26,000, to pay the bondholders. Some of the private letters from Lisbon state that the French merchants had embarked on board the French ships, on the 16th inst. Consols are rather heavy at present, and have been done at 781 for the account ; at present they are 78a buyers. According to all appearance, there will be an obstinate contest for the city election on the part of Mr. Ward. In the Foreign Funds little or nothing doing. It is with extreme regret that we feel it necessary to apologise to the numerous friends of General GASCOTNE, for having alarmed them by the insertion of a paragraph, announcing the sudden death of that gentleman in yesterday's STAR. The intelligence came to us from a channel in which we thought we could place the most implicit confidence, and we cannot even now account for the deception. It now, however, affords us pleasure to assure the friends of General GAISCOTNZ, that he left his house in South Audley-street, yesterday, at 10 o'clock, for Liverpool, in his usual excellent health. We have the following posted at the North and South American Coffee-house : FALMOUTH, APRIL 25.—The Tyrian packet is just arrived from Mexico, with a freight of ten tons of money, and no passengers. By this packet we have received Vera Crux papers to the 24th February, which confirm the cap ture and execution of General Guerrero. The Government has granted a pension of 3,000 dollars annually to the widow and children. All was tranquil there. The private letters from Lisbon, by the packet which sailed on the 17th, state, that no answer was, as yet, given to the French Consul, and he was to go on board the French ships on the 18th inst. HER MAJESTY'S BALL Her Majesty gave her first state ball since her accession to the throne, on Monday evening, in honour of the birth day of the Duchess of Gloucester, at the palace at St. James's. The preparations for the entertainment were of the most extensive nature. A temporary orchestra was fitted up on the south side of the ball-room for the quadrille band. At the east end, a platform covered with crimson cloth was raised the entire width, for the accommodation of their Majesties and the Members of the Royal Family. The company began to arrive at half-past nine o'clock, and continued setting down without intermission for an hour and a half. The dresses worn by the Ladies were most of them new for the occasion, and were in numerous instances remarkable for their richness and elegance. The head dresses were most elegant, there being a profuse display of costly ornaments. His Majesty entered the ball-room at a quarter past ten o'clock ; the two bands immediately struck up " God save the King." The Queen, the Duke, Du chess, and Prince George of Cumberland, the Duke of Sussex, the Landgravine of Hesse Homberg, the Princess Augusta, the Duchess of Kent, Prince Leopold, the Duke and Duchess of Gloucester, Prince George of Cambridge, followed soon afterwards. His Majesty was habited in a Field Marshal's uniform. At one o'clock supper was served in the Banquetting Room. This splendid apartment had a most magnificent appearance ; down both the sides and at the west end ex tended a range of tables, elegantly set out with every delicacy and variety that could be procured, on gold and silver plate. The ornamental confectionary in the middle of the tables ex hibited great ingenuity, and was admirably executed. After supper the King retired ; the Queen returned to the ball room. accompanied by the Duchess of Kent and the Duchess of Gloucester. The Duke of Gloucester left at eleven o'clock, having but recently recovered from his indisposition. Her Majesty left the rooms at balf•past two o'clock; the company soon afterwards quitted the Palace. The company was very nu merous. The King, attended by Sir Benjamin Stephenson, left town at 20 minutes before 11 o'clock yesterday moan ing, for Kew. His Majesty returned to St. James's palace about six o'clock. The Queen, attended by Lady Brownlow, hououred the public breakfast given yesterday morning, by the Duke of Devonshire, at his residence at Chiswick, with her presence. The Landgravine of Hesse Homberg and the Duchess of Gloucester were also present. The KING and QUEEN took an airing on Sunday twice round the Regent's Park, and afterwards in Hyde Park, where they were received with enthusiastic acclamations.— Their Majesties were observed to be in remarkable health and spititi. The boronghmongers agents, with the view of ad ministering to the bad feeling of their patrons, cir culated a report on Monday that Earl Grey was very seri ously indisposed, and was confined to his Chamber though at the very time the falsehood was published his Lordship was riding in Hyde Park in excellent health, and conversing cheerfully with an acquaintance. FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. FRANCE. It can no longer be dissembled that the Peerage has in flicted on itself a fatal blow ; it has not feared to show• itself openly hostile to the revolution of 1830 ; it has destroyed itself in public opinion, and its fit of frankness, its mani festation of guilty hopes will, no doubt, be turned to ac. count by the Government. The re-constitution of the Peerage has become a necessity, and will be the work of the new Chamber of Deputies.—Constitutionnel. M. Casimir Perier, son of the President of the Council, left Paris yesterday for Lontn, with Government des_ patches. The Gazette de Fraxce states that the retirement of General Sebastiani and Count Montalivet from the Cabinet has become a topic of general conversation. The Tribune repeats, but without giving credit to it, a report that 20 new peers are to be created before the opening of the next Session of the Chamber. " We are assured," says the Journal du Havre, " that it was only an instant before the King set out for the Seance Royale, that the allusion to the discussion of the Chamber of Peers of the day before was tacked to the King's Speech." The disclosure, observes the Quotodienne, is of some importance at a moment that a dissension is said to exist in the Cabinet. PalNes TA LLEYRAND." The vans and conveyances on the road to Calais," says the Quotidienne, " have been for some days past exclusively engaged with the removal of the furniture of the Prince de Talleyrand to London. It is asserted that this personage has borrowed large sums upon his landed property in France ; so that it appears as if he never intended to return to his native land." The Tamps, Paris paper, is uniformly treated by the other Journals of that capital, who must be acknowledged the best judges of the polemique of each other, as an organ of the present government. It was originally founded by, and is to this day, in a great degree, the property of the Prime Minister, M. Casimir Perier, who, before his accession to his present high office, was a writer in it. It is, therefore, in the confidence of the ministry, and may, without very great impropriety, be called a semi-official paper. POLAND. The following is an authentic account of the number of prisoners, pieces of artillery, ammunition, money, &c. which have been captured by the Polish troops between the 31st of March and the sth of April, the whole of which have ar rived at Warsaw: `• 12,300 privates, 120 officers, 8 colonels, 3 generals, 1 general apothecary, 3 field apothecaries, 1 bishop, 2 priests, and a church establishment. " lilonEr.-88,000 rubles, 20,000 ducats. " CaNmox-21 pieces, with harness, &c. " Suumatza-100,000 shirts, 7 standards, 00 baggage waggons, 64 powder ditto, 11 officers' equipages." On the sth of April the Poles also succeeded in defeating the Russians ; on which occasion the numbers were as follow : 10,000 killed, 4,000 prisms', and 16 pieces of artillery." This last engagement was with Generals Geismar and Rosen's detachments, which are supposed to consist of about 80,000 men. General Rosen was amongst the prisoners. Several Estafettes arrived from Lemberg (capital of Gal lecia) from the Russian frontier, announce that a revolt has burst out in Volhynia, that a fire at Polanjew, upon the frontiers of Gallacia, had given the signal ; they heard the cannon upon the Austrian frontiers, and even the musketry. As this news did not arrive at Warsaw direct from Lemberg, but from Cracow, we wait the confirmation. On the other side, a letter from Brody, April 1, contains the following : It is certain that at the little town of Polanjew, 4 miles from Brody,the inhabitants have risen against the Russian Govern ment. The Basiliens, to the number of several hundreds, have excited the people. This order of ecclesiastics, occu pies a great fortified monastery (one of the largest and richest in Europe), sufficient to be converted into a fortress. Yester day evening we heard a heavy canonading : and it is pro bable they fought at Berestecyko, at two miles from here. We are also assured that a detachment of Po lish troops, of the corps of General Dwernicki, has arrived upon the Volhynian territory. The Austrian Consul announced at midnight to the autho rities of Brady, that the garrison of the frontiers would be reinforced by Austria. In consequence of that communica tion, an Estafette was despatched for Lemberg. P.S. At this moment we learn by Estafette that a strong division of Polish troops has arrived at Radziwillow. The Courier of Poland announces that some hundreds of cossacks, separated from the bulk of the army, are in the woods of Minsk, and that a corps of Polish troops has left Warsaw to take them. The inhabitants of Praga are returned to their habitations. We are assured that the Polish Hulans have taken a courier sent by Marshal Diebitsch to the Emperor Nicholas, bearing very important despatches. ITALY. _ _ MANTUA, APRIL I2.—A part of the Austrian troops, has received orders to quit the estates of the Pope, and to retire into the Duchies of Parma and Modena, and on the line of the Po. This movement cannot be regarded as an evacuation, because strong garrisons will remain in all the towns of Romagna. In this fine country the towns are only two or three leagues distance from each other. The Austrian domination will therefore extend like a net over the country which the troops will be supposed to have evacuated. At the first signal, the columns that will remain at Ferrara, and on the Modenese territory, may easily call together, in cue of need, all the detached garrisons, and in a few days the Austrian troops again form an army. It was reported at Milan, that a revolutionary movement was going to take place. The police took extraordinary precautions. An accident having deranged the peal of bells at mid night, so that the strokes of the bummers succeeded very rapidly, the police thought that the tocsin was sounded ; th e troops were immediately on foot, and traversed the cit y in all directions to seize the conspirators ; and it was some tune lbefore the causes of the noise were discovered. The ne xt day the garrison was laughed at by th e whole city ; since that time, however, two cannons have been placed in the Ex change, and two others before the Viceroy's Palace. Th ere . are also at Milan 96 cannon in the Circus. The garrison consists of 3,000 artillery and_lo,ooo troops of the line. _ SPAIN. BA RCELON A, APRIL 15.—An appalling exhibition has to-day been presented to the inhabitants of this city : uo lees than six executions have taken place—three military' men were shot, and as many citizens hanged. The number of executions must soon increase to a considerable derest se the prisons are filling with fresh victims every day. Os the evening of the 9th alone eight persons were arrested; they are men of property, and are charged with having formed a conspiracy to overthrow the government and re-establish the constitution. A report has been spread by the ultra-Royal' ism that all the papers and plans relating to this conaPhiq have been seized by the authorities, as also a model for the pillar of the conagtution, which was to be placed in the principal square of Barcelona, and ornamented with a tree of liberty, and the following inscription :—" The constitu tion or death." PORTUGAL The following is an extract of a letter from Lisbon, dated April 9:—The French Consul has received instructions from his court to demand most ample satisfaction of the tyran nical Government of Don Miguel for the acts of aggression " 7 ""'r" -47 WIFI^grwrlis7. - w:glm — " ,, A ~ z .. -.. r" T- i II - i f 9 1 :, J t~. %"1 ►, "~ --- 9 - ~