Star. — London, England, 1831-05-25 00:00:00

S ;,:! At .10 being preferred against him, and all this was done with out any warrant, or any legal process whatsoever.— The only cause assigned for this extreme exertion of au thority was, that a few copies of my paper had been cir culated at a late hour, but before the corrected copy had been returned by the Governor ; and in these the before mentioned dialogue between the major and the private in Ilia corps of militia happened to be inserted—which, how ver. was erased from all the papers subsequently de livered. My paper was, in consequence, suppressed for the space of nine months, for which severe loss I have as yct obtained no indemnity whatever. I was myself obliged to go to England to seek for redress. I there obtained an ;'ssurance that, on returning hither, I should find that in :4tructions had been forwarded to the Governor to restore toy license to print my paper, on terms which I could not possibly have any objections to. On my return I received the intimation, which I printed with my notice, the 16th inst. and have since continued editing my paper, not however with out occasional menaces, until the present occurrence, when I am most probably driven to apply a second time for redress from the same quarter,which I confidently presume that I shall with at least equal facility, obtain from the .present Ad ministration. Just as I had finished this Letter, I received the Interdict, hich I submit to your perusal without comment. A. STEVENSON. PRIM , ' OF STOCKS 3 c - C , )ns. En I I .1.•. for Ace. 83.; b 3 per Cent. Red. 82 3; pet Ct. IBM 90b I 3 3 / 4 per Ct. Red. 90iiii pe: Cent. New. 92i T TWO O'CLOCK.I 4 per CL 1526, 98; 91 Long Ann. Jan. 1860,16 15-16171 Old Annuities —. New, £lOOO Each. Bills 7 5 7 X5OO Ditto 7 6 8 £lOO and €2OO Do. 7 5 9 FOREIGN STOCKS. Brazilian, for Account, 6111. Mexican, 29i ; ditto 1825, 59i ; for Acct, 391. Prussian 1822, 98} 8. Russian, 95; for Arm 94g. Spanish, 161. Spanish 1843, —. French 5 per Cent, 91f 25c. Three per Ct, 6.5 r 50c. Exchange. 25f 30e. French Scrip, 7 prom. /MPANIES. Trish Grand Canal, 74 Forth and Clyde, £625 . Liv. & Man.Railway i geS to") Cromford, £45 Guardian. Albion Fire, £75 Alliance, XS Si, County, £4O &Janos Mines, £lBO Steam Navigation, dis. £ 15i PUBLIC Ci ink Stock, kills Stock. 204. Bds, 2 dis par LoPdon Docks, £59 los St. Catherine's. £7B 101 City Gas, £l9O Bank of Scotland, £167 British Linen, £250 Grand Junction, .£‘243 Leeds, £395 Regent's, £lB 10s 14'1"?NING STAtt = LONDON. WEDNESDAY, MAY 25. EartaTA THTERDAY.—In our Leading Article, reed—?t had the ricer, not the views ; and, lower down, for the result, read—the results will be, &c. By the Dutch Mail, intelligence, at last, has been com municated, which exhibits the affairs of Belgium, and the intentions of the Allied Powers regarding it, in a very de finite and decisive form. The Articles of a New Protocol confirm the purport of the former ones; and it is jointly declared by the five allied powers, that unless the terms of the Protocols be acceded to, the ultima ratio will be had recourse to. The relinquishment of the Duchy of Luxemberg appears to be, therefore, the only terms on which the Belgians can insure their independence ; for the alternative of a war, with all the surrounding powers, appears too desperate in its contingencies, to admit of its being rationally entertained.—The only question which is probable to embarrass the execu tion of the plans of the Sovereign modelftre of States, is what appears never to be considered, legitimately, to bear upon their volitions—that is, how the people who happen to live on the geographical divisions, which they are with •3 much coolness joining and disjoining, may incline to con sider their views desirable, or the contrary. The people of the Huchy, there can be doubt, have some little interest in the question; and were the present acts of the combined Powers, either in principle, just or wise, their decision should not be formed without previously ascertaining, by some mode, what is the animus of the Duchy itself. The proceedure of the former Holy Alliance—neglectful of this point, and the absolute failure of their plans—the separa tions of which Belgium is an instance—of all hetero geneous clay and brass unions—the compulsory marriages which they formed—one would think, might sufficiently expose such species of impolicy, and prevent the recurrence of similar transactions in future. Our Paper yesterday contained one of the most extra ordinary articles which has appeared in the European Jour nals, since the famous challenge of the Emperor PAUL to the Sovereigns of Europe drawn by KOTZEBUE under his own dictation, and then inserted by Russian agents in the Continental Journals. We allude to tho article dated Pe tersburgh, April 24th, and inserted in the Frankfort Papers of May 18th. It bears internal evidence of its source; and in Russia such an article could have but one source ; for no Frankfort editor would be likely to volunteer such an, article. We regard it as the Manifesto of the Russian Court —as something more than vulgarly official, and in due time we shall obtain its secret history. It begins with accusations against the Journalists of Europe, for speaking slightingly of the Russian armies, and of the Power of Russia; and insinuates, that after the Poles are vanquished, they will change their tone, as they did in the case of the Turkish war. Alas ! how fatal are the mistakes of self-adulating Princes ! These Journals despised the Turks rather more than the Russians, and, therefore, sympathized in the Russian victories ; but be tween the Turks and Poles there is no comparison, which will admit of any favourable feeling in regard to the Rus sians, even if the numbers of their hordes prevailed over that heroic nation. Any victory will be ascribed to mere numbers, and to no military qualities of the wretched Russians. We were once in Russia; and on land ing at Rigs, could not bat regard the Boors, who c•destitute the soldiery, as loco-motive posts; and we actually gave one of them a box on the ear, partly to discover if he were animated, but without arriving at any determina tion. We made a pilgrimage in Russia; and on re-crossing its frontiers into Prussia, fell fiat on the earth to ejaculate thanks to Heaven for our emancipation. We also know something of the low opinion entertained by British officers of Russian discipline, when a Russian corps was united to the British army in Holland. How, then, can we laud Russians, or Russia, or the Russian armies, except it be in comparison with the more stupid and seperstitiousTarks? la the writer of the article in question, incapable of distinguishing the moral feelings which determine praise or censure ? There is a CAUSE in Poland, which an Imperial Court may not ap preciate, but which Journalists discriminate with intensity, when treating of the Russians and Turks, and of the Rus sians and Poles ! There is another point too, on which Courts appear to need instruction. They identify victory and glory ;—now, we, Journalists, ally glory only to justice ; and the various victories recorded in history, we call glorious, only in the degree in which the Cause was just in which they were gained. Victory, in an unjust war, is but the glory which banditti gain over way-laid travellers. We should, there fore, call the victories of the Poles, in asserting their national independence, GLORIOUS; and associate very con trary sentiments to any victories, if any be ever gained, of the invading and aggressive Russians. This singular document then proceeds to tell us, that the Russian Government is now beginning to be serious in putting an end to what it calls the Polish insurrection. Serious ! Why—was it not serious, when, in the depth of winter, it sent two hundred thousand men—the whole elite of its army--the whole of its disciplined forces—its crack regiments—and even the Royal Guards—to take Warsaw by storm—to re-enact the tragedy of 1793 ? Was this a piece of sport—a farce—and is the real tragedy yet to come ? But if the said two hundred thousand unfortunates be de stroyed, and others which have followed, we are told that other manses are on march, to display the power and greatness of Russia! And what are these masses ? they cannot be disciplined soldiers ; but masses perhaps of such objects as we experimented on at Riga—masses whom the Poles would have to undergo the mere manual fatigue of destroy ing. In truth, Russia is the most extensive, but the weakest of all existing powers, which affect high rank. It is a mere bloated carcase full of wind—a dominion of waters i and forests—with scarcely a man per square mile. It may draw two or three hundred thousand disciplined men to a point, and keep them hovering on the European frontiers ; but these destroyed—and the Poles have destroyed them—it would occupy many months to draw together other such masses—and twice the time to make soldiers of them. We regard all this vaunting, therefore, about the military resources of the empire, as mere empty gasconade—as the ebullition of rage! NAPOLEON went into Russia—and where did he find the resources of the empire, after he bad gained his victory on the Moskwa. A frost saved Russia, and the CHOLERA MORBUS may now save the Poles, and scare even all Europe. We, Journalists, are charged with describing the Poke as invincible; and it would really seem as though the war was now to be carried on, to try this foolish point. But we are not understood—we have always considered that the morale of the Polish Army, rendered two or three Poles an over match for five or six military machines of Russians ; but we only compare their Cause with that of the Russians, when we consider them unconquerable. It would be very juvenile to encourage war, to prove that either party was invincible ; and yet this puny feeling seems to have had full possession of the author of this Manifesto. But the Poles are rebels, and therefore not to be treated with I Alas, Pride i How it cheats itself by words ! How often has the relative sense of the term Rebel been exposed ; and what a stone-wall Russia opposes to its own peace, in considering those who have conquered, and deserved their independence, as Rebels ? Was the Constitution respected ? Were the Poles exposed to no outrages ? Did not these circumstances confer power on those who are called Politi cal Visionaries ? War, too, is threatened to be made on all democratic principles, on the anti-russian sovereignty of the people, and on every thing Revolutionary 1 Our errors are io be corrected by Calmucks and Cossacks, by Samoides and Kamskatdales ; and, in fine, the House of ORANGE is to be resented on the Throne of Belgium ! GOD save us ! —.ls CERVANTES, the Muscovite amanuensis ? As a climax we are gravely informed that the Emperor is going a journey. If for good—may it be pleasant ! We have hitherto had a favourable opinion of NICHOLAS, and we thought him a worthy successor of ALEXANDER, whose only foible was his vanity. We would rather praise 1 power than censure it ; but it must be for those virtues of royalty, which diffuse happiness. We praised NictioLas for his generosity to the Turks ; and will be no nig- garde in our flatteries, if he will be wise enough, to display his magnanimity, in acknowledging the inde pendence of Poland ; in confining his attentions to the improvement of Russia, which is already large enough ; and in leaving the European family, with which he has no common interest, to adjust its own concerns. We are more anxious to hail him as NICHOLAS the Great, improving Russia, than as NICHOLAS the Unfortunate, beaten every where, by the disciplined armies of enlightened Europe. THE BRITISH WEST INDIES. While we have been contending for redress of grievances at home, a similar spirit has extended to our West India Colonists. It seems that a species of West India Parliament has been assembled at Barbados, composed of representatives from all the islands ; and after prolonged deliberations, on the first of March, they agreed to the following Paper, which professes to contain a correct statement of the difficulties of the Islands. It is remarkable at once for its clearness and good temper, and cannot therefore fail to direct the future policy of the government. At a meeting of the following Gentlemen, appointed at public meet.. lags in the respective colonies, to which their names are annexed, vin —Barbados--The Honorable. John Rycroft Best and Jonph William Jordan. Antigua—Colonel F. F. Brown and Owen Pell, Esq. Demerara and Essequibo—Peter Rose and John G. Reed, Ewe. Dominica—The Honorable Dugald Lidless, (Esq. Grenacia--The Honorable John Hoye. and Robert Stronach, Req. Nevis—The Honorable Finlay Nicholson. St. Christopher—Walter Williamson, Esq. and Lieutenant C. Claxton, R.N. St. Vincent—The Honorable Sir William Sleuth, Bt. and Michael White, Esq. Tobego—Angus Campbell and Charles Gray, &qrs. The Virgin Isla nds.— Henry Iles Woodcock, Req. Which meeting was held at Bridge-Town, Barbados, on the lit day of March, 1831, and several subsequent days. The honourable John Rycroft Best, in the Chair. It was resolved.—Mkt these Colonies are now, and have been for some time past, labouring under multiplied difilculties and Notenew meats. That whilst every other !Monet of the empire has been relieved from the et the war duties, the West India Colonists, a ft er a period of yam of peace, still tabour under mambas imposed apes the staple articles of their produce imported into Groat Wtala, which ought, in justice, to have ceased with the necessity that gave the to them. That another prominent cause of dismiss is, the decisive advantage given to the foreign cultivators of sugar, by their continuation of the African Slave Trade, That the inhabitants of these colonies contemplate with the most serous apprehension the effect which the reiterated clamours of a power ful, designing, and interested party are calculated to produce on the deliberations of Parliament, and the measures of Government, with re. ference to the question of colonial slavery, and the avowed determina tion of this party to ere in the continuance o f th e i r hostile mea sures, until they sha ll involved in confusion, and ultimately in ruin, all classes of society in this part of the British empire. That they protest most solemnly against any spoliation of, or in terference with their property, which they hold by a right as sacred as the public creditor his claim on the national funds—the highest or lowest subject in the United Kingdom, his lands, his mansion, or his cottage—or any Corporate body their chartered rights. That this right of property has been sanctioned by various Acts of Parliament, encouraging their ancestors to embark their capital, their industry, and their fortunes, in the settlement of lands, on the express condition of cultivating them by the labour of slaves imported into these colonies by British subjects. That the consequences of this traffic are not now to be charged against the character of the West India colonists, whose principal share in the transaction has been that of civilizing, and bringing to order and comparative comfort, persons brought into the colonies in a state of barbarism. That out of the settlement and cultivation of the West India colonies has arisen a commercial intercourse, amply supplying the mother coun try with colonial produce, giving employment to upwards of jour hum. dred thousand tons of shipping, and more than beauty thousand seamen, diffusing immense wealth among her people, and contributing millions to the public revenue. That the existence of Slavery and of Property in, or connected with, and depending upon Slaves in the West Indies, having been thus ere ated by Great Britain for her own objects and benefit, and having beds recognized and guaranteed by repeated Acts of Parliament and deci. *ions of the highest law authorities, any attempt to inj u r e or destroy property so sanctioned, i s a gross violation of every principle of law and justice, unless full and complete indemnification for all losses which may arise, and all injuries which may be sustained by any changes in such pro perty, shall have been previously provided at the expense of the nation in general. That the inhabitants of the West Indies have, by their efforts to im prove the condition of the Slave, already raised him far above his origi nal state of barbarism, have placed him in possession of comparative comfort, have invested him with privileges and immunities, and are gradually proceeding to quality him for a larger participation in the ad vantages of civilised life. That a petition be presented to his Majesty from the deputies as. sembled for themselves and on behalf of their constituents, the inhabi tants of these colonies, humbly praying that his M a j es ty wou ld be gra ciously plerved to exert his Royal Authority, in order to avert the destruction with which they were threatened. That petitions be prepared and presented to both Houses of Parlia ment, embracing the general objects of this Meeting. That Memorials setting forth the present distressed state-of the West India Interests and the causes thereof, and praying that such relief may be promptly afforded as the circumstances of the case require, be pre. sented to the Lords of the Treasury and the Board of Trade. During the stay of the Deputies in Barbados, tho inhabi tants gave them a splendid ball, on the 15th of March. The account in the Barbados paper shows that, whether east or west, warm climate confers equal warmth on style. On Tuesday evening, the Grand Ball given by the inhabitants of Barbados, in honour of the deputies from the sister colonies, took place at King's-house. In the course of our life it has often times fallen to our lot to witness many a fate, where the " fair women and brave men" of the mother country were gathered together in pride and beauty—but never did we see the splendid pageant of that night equalled, far less excelled, either as regards the importance of ths oc casion that gave rise to it—the extensive scale of the preparations—the finished style of the arrangements—the exquisite taste of the decora tions—or the bewitching loveliness of the sylph-like beings who had assembled, as well to chase the glowing hours with flying feet,' as to cheer with their approbation the labours of the talented and enlightened gentlemen, to whom has been entrusted their country's interests and their country's fame, and from whose exertions so much is so sangu inely and so justly expected. About eight o'clock the company began to assemble, who, on entering the hall, were all received by the stew. , anis and conducted to one of the ball-rooms, where every accommoda tion had been provided for them. The ball was opened by his Excellency the governor and Miss Beckles—Lady patroness, Mrs. Beckles. At ten o'clock 500 were present, when the spacious apartments presented a glorious coup At the end of the lower suite, a supper table was laid, fraught with the spoils of earth and air, and groaning beneath the weight of every delicacy that nature or art could produce or wealth supply. Over the table was placed an illuminated transparency, repre senting a snap of the West India Colonies supported on each side by the arms of England, with the motto—" Our God and our rights ; the whole surmounted and enclosed by the words—" A cordial waconte to the Deputies front our sister colonies." At the other extreme end was a portico that opened on a beautiful and successful imitation of Vauxhall gardens, conducting through an avenue where ten thousand variegated lamps shed "a dazzling mass of artificial light" above sod around, and terminated by a vast number of the same lamps forming the letters W. R. In our first page we have copied from the Barbados Globe, the substance of an article connected with Colonial practices, and the liberty of the press at Demerara, which we are persuaded will surprise and interest the Public.— We all remember the cases of Mr. BOCK iwGIIAM at Cal- i cutta, and of a Printer at the Cape, but they were regarded as exceptions ; and one was ascribed to the jealousy of the Company, and the other to the bad spirit of Lord CHARLES SOMERSET. The animadversions to which they gave rise would, we should have imagined, have prevented a repe tition of any act so offensive to public feeling. Under former administrations redress was difficult, but, under the present, we may calculate chat this overt act, added to the general grievances of these Colonies, will render an imme diate change of Governor at once prudent and necessary. We are also persuaded that the use of the press, under the usual responsibility of the laws, will now be protected and assured in every part of the KING'S dominions. CITY. ON. O'CLOCK. To-morrow being settling day in the Consol Market, the brokers are chiefly occupied this morning in making up their accounts ; consequently, little business is doing at present. Consols, which left off yesterday 83i a for the Account, opened at 83i—soon after receded to 83a : at present they may be quoted at 831. Consols have just improved to 83i i f. CITY. rwo O'CLOCK. We have seen the Dutch Papers of yesterday, which bring dates of the 17th from Berlin, and they do not com municate the least intelligence from Poland : they are filled with the correspondence of General Chass‘ and Genera Belliard in regard to the affairs of Antwerp. We do not hear of any further information from Paris; it is supposed that Monday was a holiday. Consols, which were in the early part of the morning at 83f for the Account, have since improved to 831 ; and at present may be quoted 83f—for next time, 831 # : both Stock and Monoy are scarce. In the Foreign Market scarce a bargain doing. Sydney papers, to the 15th December, received at the North & South American Coffee-house ; they are not of great interest. From the Sydney papers :—The heat on Satur day, Sunday, and yesterday, was more oppressive than has been experienced during the present summer.— The harvest : during these last few days, accounts have been poured upon us, from all quarters of the Co lony, of the most gratifying nature, respecting the crops. The late awful example made of the ten bush rangers at Bathurst, appears to have produced considerable effect upon the minds of the prison population in that district. Tasmanian states, that amongst the measures of economy in this colony adopted by Ministers, the office of Sheriff is to be abolished. We have to announce the death of bis Aboriginal Majesty, King Boongarie, Supreme Chief of the Sydney tribe, after an illness of several months. FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. nals, THE PARISIAN JOURNALS. Muwiay. Le Temps, le Courtier Framjais, and several other of the opposi tlo journals, animadvert sbongly on the creation of two new diplooiatic legations at Weimar and Parma, which, from the unimportanc e o f those Courts, they consider an unjustifiable sacrifice of the putt: money, made either with the simple view of creating sinecures for e,. newly-appointed functionaries, or else with the still more culpable ject of courting the favour of the Emperors of Russia and Austtia—tht Duke of Saxe Weimar being the brother-in-law of the former, and the Duchess of Parma the daughter of the latter. The appointm tts are represented as doubly objectionable, from the facts of M de `•au. dreull, who is appointed to Weimar. having been secretary to the cl. bassy at London in the time of Prince Polignac, and of Al. de :".'ra Priest, who is to be sent to Parma, being the nephew of the sador of Charles X. in Spain. We hope," adds the Courrier rove ear, " that the accounts we have heard of M. de St. PricAt being j „ wedded to the ideas of legitimacy than his uncle are true, as it t: ,c:, be at once a melancholy and curious spectacle to see a panic,n of V. representing Louis• Philip L utile Court of the mother o; the Duke of Reichstadt." These;aprointments have a peculiar character of in. consistency, as emanating from Sebastiani, who was the first to attar; the Manignac Administration for having created the legation to Lucc. for M. de Marcellus. Le Glebe refers to Unenthusiastic reception which the King and the P,ince de &Ansille have met with in their respective journeys, affording some ground for the accusation brought against the French nation of being " imperil* valet ; ready to throw themselves at tie feet of every chief, director, consul, emperor, king by the grace of GA or by any other grace, who may happen to attain the supreme power. and present himself to them with a smiling countenance. Hu', while it admits this fact, it argues that the cause of it has been mis. understood. It arises from the sentiment of association, which it exclusively developed in the French nation, and which is neces. barfly connected with a sentiment of hierarchy. The disturbances, the tumults, which at times agitate France, prove only the desire of the country to find chiefs capable of giving a proper direction to its enormous principles of activity. tic must be a euperflulai would draw from these tumults the conclusion, that the French are a people impossible to govern. The only true conclusion to be drawn is, that they wish to be well governed, and wish it ardently. It is from the strong desire which the French have of possessing chiefs, whom they may love and respect, that whenever a new power arises, they greet it with hope, and proffer it their affections. This is the reason that when the chief of the state smiles on them, they return the greeting with the most unreserved caresses. This is the reason that they are always ready to forget the faults of a Government which appears disposed to correct them ; and this accounts for the en. thusiasm (momentary, it is true,) with which, on the accession of Charles X. the abolition of the censorship, and the few benevolent words which dropped from the lips of that obstinate old man, were received by the people.—This also explains the wonders of this Alsace journey, which seems a progress through a fairy garden... Above all, this proves what an invincible support a government, disposed to study the true interests of the nation, will always fird In the people of France. Le National, in an article on the King's journey, quotes the folios. ing passage from his Illsjesty's reply to the address of the national guards of Louviers :—" We recollect but too well the evils inflicted on France by the exaggeration of political theories. The hope of pre. serving France from excesses and disorders induced me to accept the throne. I had no other ambition." Upon this it remarks, that when the Duke of Orleans accepted the crown, Paris was not in a state of anarchy ; on the contrary, the most perfect order reigned throughout the capital, although all the public buildings, and the Palace of the Duke himself, were guarded only by men in rags. The Duke of Orleans, therefore, in accepting the Crown, acted as much for the interest of himself and family as of France. Had he refused it, the nation must have sought another King, or mother mode of government ; and in either case it would have been impossible for the new dynasty to allow the Orleans family to remain In France, and probably the immense fortune of the Duke would not have been to much respected as that of the exiles of Holyrood has been. In fact, the greater the probability of anarchy and confusion in France at the mo. went the crown was offered to the Duke of Orleans, the more certa!n would have been the ruin entailed on himself and property by a refusal. Let us congratulate ourselves that affairs took the turn they did. We agree to it, but let us not hear an act which saved the Duke of Orleans and his family, and which has been rewarded by a civil list of eighteen millions, qualified as a sacrifice, and an act of heroic devotion. The National, which is always well-informed respecting what comes to us from the Austrian capital, says to-day, that the last despatches of Marshal Maison leave no doubt of the speedy occupation of the Novarrais (part of Piedmont) by Austria. Is this perhaps the subject of the new com munications which have just arrived from Vienna, and does the Ministry believe that it must at length resolve to check the encroachments of Austria ? It is asserted that 283 members of the Chamber of Depu ties have solicited from the Government their elevation to the peerage ; 86, it is said, were nominated, when the re marks of the press on Art. 23 of the Charter stopped the promulgation of the names of the persons so distinguished. The misfortunes of Dwernicki leaving Diebitach without any uneasiness on the side of Volhynia, he will recall the whole of his left wing, and advance for the fourth time to wards Warsaw. If he does not do so, we believe that the Lithuanian insurrection will continue to menace the rear of his centre and right wing. The last report of the President of the Council announces that " the action of the laws and the public force will soon have repressed the troubles in the West." The ill-disposed had taken advventage of the moment when the arrival, the arming, and clothing of the new levies did not permit the re giments to send outdetachments, and to establish distant gar risons. They had succeeded in forming seine bands, which were increased by refractory conscripts. At present our re giments are completely organized, and raised to the full complement, as regulated by the late ordinances. Tao Ist, 6th, 12th, 14th, and 18th regiments of Light Infantry, the 32d, 41st, 43d, and 64th of the Line, the 4th of Artillery, the 4th of Hussars, the 11th of Chassears, and the sth of Lan• core, formed already a respectable force, they have just been joined by the 9th, 16th, 31st, and 46th of the line, and by the sth and 14th of mounted chasseurs. Such are the forces now collected in the 4th, 12th, and 13th military divisions. Two fifths of these troops will suffice for the ordinary garrisons. Of 45 battalions, seine will be cantoned in the countries where disorders have manifested thou:selves, and will place fixed garrisons in the central points ; the others will form move able columns, which will continually pursue the malefactors, and will oblige the deserters to abandon the bands. Such forces directed by the King's extraordinary commission. with the activity, talents, and the prudence which he be shown in our long wars, will soon restore peace and the au thority of the laws in the departments of the west. In the Canton of Lucerne, a society has been formed, the object of which is to maintain and propagate an equality of political rights, to contend against local and corporation in fluence, and prevent the re-establishment of exclusive pre vileges. The riots in Lyons lasted three days, like those of Paris• On the 4th, says the Precurseer de Lyon, there was still some fermentation in the evening, on the Place de lo 3h sencorde. The crowd was mostly formed of people eunoto to see what was going on. Some criep were uttered abod nine o'clock; but the National Guard succeeded in dispels- Totmoie, MAY 15.—Th e cannon , w hi c h bad dispers ing the multitude w ith ou t much trouble. b een sent from Toulouse, have been forwarded to Arles and I . :u n seen, which is no indication of an approaching war. The vessels , i ii'; f. . ~ , , f~t'l c'' ~~' 1.. , l l' 1~ ' ~Y I 4,s ~`