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1 - 7 ivy HISTORICAL ROMANCE, by the Author of " Rl.lrai LI," " BUGE.NE ARAM," &c. Jot ready, in 3 volo., post By°, ITAB. 0 L THE LAST OF TIIE SAXON KINGS. D, An Historical Romance. By Sir EDWARD BELWER LYTTON, Bart., Author of " Rienzi," " Eugene Aram," " The Last Days Of' Pompeii, " Rsc. Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street. 0 . 4 Orders should be immediately forwarded to the Booksellers: to *scare the punctual delivery of this work on the day of pablic.atim. WITH PORTRAITS OF DONIZRTTI AND 111IRABEAU. THE JUNE NUMBER, price Half-a-Crown, of B ENTLEY'S MISCELLAN Y WILL CONTAIN: GAETANO DONIZETTI, With a Portrait. Republican Manners. By the mer ; or, Dublin in 1803. By " Flanenr in Paris." W. H. Maxwell, author of " ;Sto- The Decisive Battles of the World. ries of Waterloo." No. Vl.—Battle of Valmy By Battery Brown ; or, Thee Pri- Professor Creasy. vateer's Carousal. By Rahert The Fairy Cup. By Alfred Crow- Posterns. quill. Gossip from Paris. By Mrs. Percy The Danish Seaman's Song. Sinnett. Robert Emmet and Arthur Ayi- The German's Fatherland. FRANCE AND Hu: NATIONAL ASSEMBLIES. By JAMES WARD. With a Portrait of Mirabeau. A Journey from Shiraz to the Per-' Notes of a Trip from Lisbon to elan Gulf. With an account of Andalusia, and to the Co Ist Gazelle-hunting on the Plain of Morocco. By Prince Love en of Bushing. By the Hon. C. S. stein. Saville. Memoirs and Anecdotes of the She's gone to Bath. By Green- Eighteenth Century. The Praises of Colons. By 0 ath sleeves. Career of Louis Thilippe as a So- bert Bede. vereign. Richard Bentley, Ni ;w Burlington-street. IMPORTANT NEW HISTORICAL WORK. Now ready, in 2 vols. Svo.. 28s, bound, THE COURT AND TIMES OF ir AMES TH E FIRS T; t ILLUSTRATED BY AUTHENTIC AND CONFIDENTIAL LETTERS, From various Public and Private Manuscript CollectionS. Edited, with an Introduction and numerous Notes, by the An thor of "Memoirs of Sophil. Dorothea, Consort of George I." Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street, EGYPT AND THE HOLY LAND. Now ready, in 3 vols.. post Svo., price 31s. 6d. cloth, MISS MARTINEAU'S EASTERN LI FE, PRESENT AND PAST. " A marvellously original work."—Atlas. " One of the most substantia l and interesting productions .of re cent seasons."—Atlien fellM. Edward Moron, Dover-street. HER MAJESTY'S TETEAT:RE. JLAL 3ldlle. JENNY LIND. The Nobility, Patrons to the Opera, and the Public are respe'...tfully Informed, that a Grand EXTRA NIGHT will take place on TI3 URS DAY next, June 1, on which occasion Mdlle. JENNY LIN] ) will appear in one of her favourite characters. To be followed by various entertainments in the Ballet D apart ment, combining the talents of Mdlles. C. Grisi, C. Rosati, Y. Tag 'jou', Cerito, and MM. Perrot and St. Leon. The r'ree List is su.4pended, the public Press excepted- Pit Tickets may be obtained as usual at the Box.otilce of the Theatre, price .Os. 6d. each. Applications for Boxes, Pit Stalls, and Tickets to be made, at the Box-office of the Theatre. HER MAJESTY'S THEATIM. Mdlle. JENNY LIND. THIS EVENING will be repr esented Donizetti's Opera- opf LUCIA DI LAMMERMOOR. Lucia, Mdlle. Jenny Li nd ; Egarde, Signor Gar doni ; Biclebent, Signor Bouche • and Enrico, Signor Coletti. To conclude ;Tith the admired Ballet Diverissement, by 31. Per rot, the music composed and arranged by d, entiaml LES ELEMENS, By Mdlle. Carlotta Grist, Mdlle. C. Rosati, and 31dlie• Canto' Wales. Anasundon, Julien, Payne, Larnoreux, Sec. App lications for Boxes, Stalls, and Tickets, to be made at the Box-office of the Theatre. The Frle List is suspended, the public Press excepted. Doors open at hall-pest Seven, and commence at Eight o'clock. YV THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Unde7 the Management N t Mr. B. Webster, sole Lessee. THIS EVEING Will be performed WIVES AS THEY WERE, AND MAIDS AS THEY ARE. Lord Priory, Mr. Farren; Sir William Dorrillon, Mr. Cressvick ; Sir George Evelyn, Mr. Howe ; Lady Mary .Raffle, Mrs. Glover ; M:iss Dori - Ilion, Mrs. Nisbett. After which a new piece called the PAS DE FASCINATION ; or, Catching a Governor. Michael Browsky, 31r. Keeley; Katherine Eloper, Mrs. Keeley. To concluole with a Grand Romantic Extravaganza, founded on Horace Walg ole's mysterious production, and calved THE CASTLE OF O'FRAIVIO. Manfred, Mr. Keeley; the Marquis Vincen: a, Mr. d. Bland ; rneodore, Miss P. Horton ; Odonto, 31r. Caulfield ; Hip polito, Mrs. W. Clifford ; Isabella, Miss Reynolds ; Matilda , Mrs. Canilleld. MR. A 3713 MRS. CHARLES KERN will perform To-Merrow, in THE WIFE'S SECRET. Sta3e ILzunkf,er, Mr. Farren; Acting Manager, Mr. F. Webster. J. T. Archer, Box-book keeper. Boxes, 59. ; Pit, Is. ; Gallery, 2s. ; tipper Gallery, is. Doors c pen at Lialt-pest Six, Performance to commence at Seven. THEATRE ROYAL„ ‘DELPHI. Under the direction o: Madame Celeste. THIS EVENING Will be performed a new and original Drama, called HARVEST HOME. Principal characters by Messrs. 11. Hughes, Lambert, Wright, P. Bedford, 0. Smith, Madame C eleste, Miss Woolgar, Mrs. Frank Matthews, Miss Turner, Sec. After which a new Farce, called GOING TO THE DERBY THE DERBY DAY. Mr. Jerem ah Twiddle, Mr. Wright: Mr. John James C bucks, Mr. Paul Bedford ; Mrs. Twiddle, Miss Woolgar. To cot iclude with th, Farce of SHOCKING EVENTS. In which Mr. La mbert, Mr. Worrell, Mr. Munyard, Miss Harding, and Miss Clispiln will perform. Boxes, 45.; Pit, 25.; Gallery, 15. 1 sn ,- YrR ocen at Halt-past Six, Performance to commence at Seven. PRINCESS'S THEATRE. Mr. J. M. Maddox, sole Lessee and Manager, Duchess-street, Portland-place. THIS EVENING, Will be performed THE CROWN DIAMONDS. To be 53Ilowed by A NIGHT OF SUS PENSE, by M r s. Stirling. To conclude with a new Ballet, entitled 3IENORELLA. .iress Circle, :is.: Boxes, 45.; Pit, 25. ; Gallery, Is. ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE. Under the Management of Madame Vestris. Sole Lessee. Mr. Charles Mathews. TMS EVENING, Will be performed a new comic Drama, entitled NOT A BAD JUDGE. Characters by Messrs. R. Rexby, Diddear, Parselle, Har ley, Meade ,ws, Bellingham, Charles Mathews ; Miss Jane Coleman, and Miss '_Lee. After w hich, a new and original grand Classical Extravaganza, entitled MIESEUS and ARIADNE ; or, the Marriage of Bachus. Principal characters by Messrs. C. Mathews, 11. Hall, S. Smith, F. Cooke ; 31 - iss Fltzwilliarn, Miss Jane Coleman, Miss Marshall, and Madam a 'e'estrls. To conclude with a Coasic Drama, called A ROUGH DIAMOND. Claaraci.ers by Messrs. Selby, Diddear, Bellingham, Blackstone; Mrs. Leigh i du rray, and Mrs. Fitzwilllam. Dress: :tsoxes, is. ; tipper Boxes , 4s. ; Pit, 2s. ; Gallery, IS. No ce to any part of the house. The New Box-office, No. 2, Welllngion-street, is open to the Public r•A ry day, from Ten till SiX. • FRENCH PLAYS.—ST. JAMES'S THEATRE. Lessee. Mr. John Mitchell. 33, Old Bond-street. M. ACHARD'S BENEFIT. Last Night of the Engagements, and Twelfth Appearance since 1845 of M. Achard, also Twelfth Appearances in this Country of Mdlle. Desiree and M. Julien Deschamps (of the Theatre da Gymnase, Paris). TO-MORROW EVENING, The Entertainments will commence at half-past Seven o'clock when Will be performed the new Vaudeville of LE TUTEUR DE VINGT ANS. Felix, M. Deschamps ; Valentine, Mdlle. Desiree. After which, LE BRASSEUIt DES CRAMPS ELYSEES. M. Achard seul. After which a new Vaudeville, entitled MADEMOISELLE AGATECE. Jean-Felicien Bergeret, M. Achard ; Annette, Mdlle. Desiree. To be followed by BABIOLE ET JOBELOT. Jobelot, M. ♦chard ; Babiele. Mdlle. Desiree. To conclude with LA VIE EN PARTIE DOUBLE. Theophille Trinquit, If. Achard ; Amanda, Mdlle. Desiree. (-Saxes, 6s. ; Pit, 3s. 641.; Amphitheatre. 3s. ; Gallery. 2s Boxes and Stalls may be obtained at Mr. 511tchell's Royal Library, 33. Old Bond-street. ST. JAMES'S THEATRE. ROBERT HOUDIN (ot the Palate Ro y al, Parls).—The sur prising and interesting performances of ROBERT HOUDIN, having been received with the most enthusiastic admiration, he 1%111 con tinue his extraordinary SOIREES FANTASTIQIIES at the and St. James's Theatre, This Evening , and every Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday Evening, comprising Automates, Prestidigitation, Maecgic, and original experiments, invented by Robert H ou din. Also, Sond Vue Escamotage de Roberts Houdin, fils, and Suspension Ethereene. Doors open at Eight, the Exhibition to commence at kalf-past Eight, and terminate betore Eleven. Boxes, 4s. ;pit, 23. Boxes and stalls, may be had at Mr. NITTCHELL'S Royal Li brary, 33, Old Bond-street and at the Box-office of the Theatre, tiicki is open daily from Eleven to Five. In compliance with numerous applications, a DAT PERFORM ANCE will be given TO-MORROW MORNING, May 31. Doors open at Two o'clock. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE. Proprietor, Mr. W. Batty. Zntire Change—Brilliant Spectacle—Grand Equestrian Fete. VHS EVENING, Will be revived, with great splendour, M. G. Lewis's Grand Ro mantic Equestrian Drama of TIMOUR THE TARTAR, in which Mr. Batty's unrivaLed stud of highly-trained horses will appear. To be followed by THE SCENES OF THE ARENA, introducing the British Artistes in their unrivalled performances. First appear ance of Mr. Batty's highly-trained Hanoverian Palfreys. To conclude with the favourite Farce of MISCHIEF MAKING. Box-office open from Eleven till Five. Stage Manager, Mr. W. West. ROYAL SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS. Last Week of the European Melodists. Mdlle. LOUVARNY rapturously applauded and n ightly encored. Every MONDAY, TUESDAY, WEDNESDAY, and THURSDAY. Danson's splendid Pictorial MODEL of ROME, with the Proces sion of Pope Pius IX. ever the Bridge of St. Angelo.—Promenade Concerts, Vocal and Instrumental. conducted by Mr. Godfrey and Mr. Emanuel. Last Week of the EUROPEAN MELODISTS, who sing in Twenty different Languages.—Splendid Menagerie—Shakspere's Hone---Itemtngton' Magic Ariel Bridge—Chinese Peg oda—Astenish. in g feat of the Flight of Perseus from a Tosser 100 Sect high, on the winged steed Pegasus, to the Rescue of ificent display of F Andireworksromeda. represe , The wholenting con the eluding with a magnificent Girandola during the Holy Week at Rome, executed by the Mears. Southby, in a style never before witness Concert at Six—Flight of ed. Gates open at 'fen , Feeding Time Five — Perseus, Dusk. Fireworks immediately afterwards. Admission, as usual, One Shilling. On MONDAY, June 5, Mons. JULLIEN, with his Unrivalled Band, including Messrs. Koenig, Prospers, Baumann, Lamm., Barrett, Ri chardson, and Collinet, will commence a series of Grand Yocal and Instrumental Concerts at these Gardens. TO CORRESPONDENTS. No communication can be attended to unless autheiati cated by tne name and address C. the writer. Rejected communications cannot be returned. THE WEATHER.—Sux OFFICE, MAY 30. THERMOMETER, Lowest, 55 ; Highest, 72; Noon, 65. BAROMETER, 30.16.—W1ND W.N.W.; fine. HIGEI WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE THIS DIY. Morning .. 51 min t . after 11 Evening 0 .. min. after 0 e'.> la ... S—V, /a , .... . A . H• ye , ' !dr 4 , :,,, .O,T o,t• A , ,s, . *..! t.., 0. t ''''. ';' 11144 ... 1' 0 . 's a ~,,,,,v... v -3,-. ~.,..., .4 *, .., • • t,. ~•,., , 4 , ~...” , z• • . or , : ". ' ' • ' ' •'.` ''. • ~-,... L. 0 . ..U..„ ..., N .,. . ..,:. ,00,.... 0 . ZS P, 0I ~., 4 - .=-, tnina AUL LONDON, TUESDAY, MAY 30, 1848. From one extremity to another, Italy is distracted by revolutionary commotions. Intrigue in one city, conspiracy in another, rioting in another, butchery in another—tumultuous meetings in Rome, stormy de bates in Turin, dismay at Venice, astonishment at Florence, anxiety in Bologna, and massacres at Na ples—war in Lombardy, reaction in the Papal States, and bloodshed in the Neapolitan capital ;—everything conspires to enhance the awe and inflame the enthu siam of the Italians. That the Roman peninsula should experience this prolonged agony i s not sur. representatives of the people to decide whether the free trade doctrines are to be fully carried out—whether our intercourse with other nations is to be without prising, when we remember that it is struggling for the achievement of its liberation, and that the throes by which its very womb is tortured are the throes of the birth of a new Italian nationality. Wben upwards of twenty millions are battling for their freedom, it cannot be any matter of amazement that the result should be at first disastrous as far at least as the bloodshed, the disorganization, and the temporary desolation of the eountry are con cerned. If you would exorcise the Demon of Tyranny by the magic of Revolution—such is the language of an eloquent essayist—you must expect that the nation will be wracked and torn almost limb from limb in the exorcism of that great Devil. Italy is now writhing in the pangs of that exorcism ; and until the evil spirit of despotism has been driven be yond its frontiers it can never hope to enjoy the bles sings of tranquillity or the glory of a Constitutional Government. What is perhaps the most remarkable, and certainly the most unfortunate circumstance in the whole of this revolutionary movement on the part of the Italians, is the fact that of the four principal Sovereigns of the peninsula three are regarded with suspicion and one with abhorrence. CARLO ALBERTO is watched with a vigilant and doubtful eye by the whole of Christendom, for it is conjectured that under the mask of patriotism he is concealing the culpability of an unprincipled ambi tion. Like the goblin Lover of LE ONORA, he s the skeleton in the armour of the knight-errant. Instead I of being looked upon with that unconditional confi dence and that unrestricte d admiration with which he was at first regarded by the Lombardo-Venetians and their compatriots, the King of SARDINIA is viewed by thousands as a royal adventurer, fighting for the extension of his territories under the plea of becoming the liberator of an entire people. We have already explained our sentiments as to the projected union of Lombardy, Venice, Parma, Piacenza , and Modena, und e r th e same sceptre which rules the population of Piedmont, Savoy, Genoa, and the island of Sardinia. We have maintained that such a combination of northern Italy into one superb kingdom would be the safest a nd readiest means of securing the indepen dence of the whole peninsula. We have insisted that it would not only, for this reason, be the most judicious course which the people of that peninsula could pursue, but that the recom pense would not be too splendid for a Monarch who has acted with so much valour, devotion, and enter prise from the first opening of the campaign of eman cipation. By this arrangement the dogmatic sentence of Prince METTERNICH would be controverted—ltaly would no longer be "a mere geographical expression'' —and that dynastic adage would be ;realised which designates the Royal House of Lorraine as the guar dian of the Keys of Italy. Notwithstanding all these considerations, notwithstanding the brilliant success of Goito, and the precipitate and unlucky daring dis played under the walls of Verona, King CARLO ALBERTO is scrutinised with an eye of jealousy. LEOPOLDO SEM:MO is watched, in like manner, with the keen and critical gaze of suspicion. Al though he has dwindled into comparative insignifi cance during the late continental changes, and although the fair fame acquired by him as Grand Duke of TUSCANY, in improvising a constitution for his subjects, and in volunteering the beneficent sys tem of free trade, has been in no manner marred by proceedings indicative of a tendency to retrogression —even he himself, even the Reforming Prince of Florence is considered in a very doubt ful light —it is imagined that LEOPOLDO dreams of resigning the coronet of an Arch- Duke, and of assuming instead the imperial diadem of CHARLEMAGNE. That the empire of Germany should excite his cupidity is comprehensible, but it is decidedly incomprehensible that he should be so blind to the obstacles which must for ever prevent the consolidation of a nationality formed out of such incongruous materials, as to aspire to be accepted as the ruler of the Germanic Confederation. So long as Northern Germany remains Protestant, and so long as Southern Germany remains Catholic, the vision of the ballad writer must remain unrealised and the famous couplet— " 0 nay, 0 nay, 0 nay, Our fatherland must greater be," without any rational motive, but I obeyed because I desire above all to be a good citizen, and never to be come a brand of discord. (Signed) " E. THOMAS.'" As this correspondence appears merely in the Presse, we do not place any very implicit reliance on its authenticity. M. EMILE DE GIRARDIN, the pro prietor and editor of that journal, has always been celebrated as a romancist, and the Presse is now the organ of the Orleanist party—a party which never hesitated to back up falsehood by forgery, and which, during the seventeen years of the reign of its head, had attached to each department of the Govern ment a bureau of forgery, the employes of which were bound to produce documentary evidence of every sort from a dispatch, by an Ambassador, to a bill of exchange, that their patrons might require. We do not, therefore, place implicit reliance on the authenticity of this alleged letter from M. EMILE Tnomes. _ any impediment whatsoever, or whether the members of one interest are still to be protected at the expense of all the rest of the community, and suffered to tax their fellow citizens for their own private emolument. The old and haeknied arguments that have been so frequently put forward on behalf of " class-legisla• tion," and which have been as constantly refuted, were all pressed into the service. It was attempted to be shown that the British shipping could not exist without protection, that the British shipowner and the British sailor must inevitably be thrown out of employment if exposed to foreign competition, and th a t. co nsequently as the interests of commerce and the interests of navigation were in that respect wholly opposed to each other, those of commerce should give way. These are all revivals of the exploded fallacies of by-gone days. If the term "shipping" were charged into "agricultural" we might almost fancy that we were again having a discussion on the " corn-laws," and on the advantages of the sliding- The Journal des Debate gives the following ac count of the progress made in their labours by the Committee on the Constitution : " Several journals have given very incorrect accounts of the proceeding of the Committee on the constitution. According to rumours in the Salle des Conferences, the Committee from the first day of its organization charged its President, M. de Cormenin, to draw out a plan of proceedings to be followed by the Committee. Con formably to this exposé, the Committee were of opinion that the new constitution should rather consist of an enumeration of great principles than in a long and tech nical development of laws and theories. M. de Lamme nais, who was then a member, appeared to share in the opinion of his colleagues as to these preliminaries. It appeared also certain that these two celebrated writers would be agreed on the principal points which should serve as the basis of the future constitution of France. M. de Lammenais, in withdrawing himself from the Committee, gave as his reason the state of his health and the multiplicity of his occupations; but the real cause is said to be that he feared it would be impossible to succeed in forming a constitution perfectly homoge neous in a Committee of eighteen members, which it was threatened to increase by the addition of an equal number from the bureaux of the Assembly for the dis cussion on the amendments. We are decidedly agreed with M. de Lammenais in this opinion, and it is to be hoped that the Assembly, when the project of the con stitution shall be submitted to it, will devise a means of preventing such a decision, which will throw confusion into a work of this nature, and which should perfectly agree in all its parts. " The most excellent feeling is said to animate all the members of the Committee, and the most honourable sentiments of union and conciliation to pervade them—a very rare thing to be found among men whose political opinions are so much at variance as those of MM. Mar rest, Dupin, Considerant, de Tocqueville, Coquerel, Vivien, and Martin (de Strasbourg.) " The Committee, it is said, at its last sitting, came to a provisional resolution on the two important points which must dominate all the project of the constitution. It admitted, on the proposition of the president, that there should be one chamber and one president, who should be named directly by the whole people. The Committee was divided in opinion on the period of dura tion of the elections of the president and the chamber. Some members wished it to be fixed for three years, others demanded that the elections should take place every four years. " The Committee has not yet deliberated on the prin ciple of the formation of a council of state, or on the judicial power. It is, however, thought that the Com mittee will have decided on all the other points of the constitution in about a fortnight or three weeks. It will afterwards occupy itself with the definite arrangement of all the articles. The Assembly, therefore, may have the constitution laid before it at the latest by the end of June. This may be said to be doing business in a very prompt manner, when it is remembered that the drawing up the constitution in 1791 occupied eighteen months." We read in the Democratic Pacifique :—" Several journals give very incorrect accounts of the proceed ings of the Committee on the Constitution, The Committee assembles every day. After a general discussion, it passes to the consideration of the dif ferent chapters. The discussions are long and se rious, but almost all the decisions are come to unani mously, or with a very large majority. The Committee has declared that the political constitution of France is a democratic Republic, one and in divisible. We believe we are correct in say ing that the project of constitution is preceded by a declaration which recognizes, in addi tion to former rights, that of gratuitous education, employment, and assistance. The Committee after wards occupied itself with the Legislative Govern ment. The legislative body will be composed of 750 Members. In case of revision of the Constitution, the Constituent Assembly will be composed of 900 Members. The election will take place by department and by ballot from a list. As to the Executive Go vernment the Committee have admitted a President named directly by universal suffrage, for four years, without possible re- election. Two millions of votes will be required for the nomination. The Commission is now engaged on the attributions of the President and of the Ministers." When the club of BARnES was closed by order of the authorities, the following curious document was found among its archives:— " EXAMINATION PRACTISED WITH REGARD TO AFFILIATION. "QUALIFICATIONS TO BE REQUIRED OF CANDIDATES. " No one shall be enrolled in the Society des Droits de l'Homme who does not present the following gua rantees:— " 1. He must evince the most perfect self-denial, and in the most absolute manner, for the service of the society. The society in return engages to put him in a position to defend himself, or, if not, to revenge him. This is the way in which mutual responsibility is understood. " The organization of the society being perfectly mili tary, he will hold himself at the disposal of the society whenever the central committee shall decide on being en permanence, either armed or unarmed. If he should absent himself when called on he cannot bring forward in excuse either family ties or personal affairs. In any case in which his duties as a citizen and as a member of the society may clash, he must produce a discharge from the commissary from the arrondissement. " 3. lie will adhere to the regulations of the society and to the declarations of the rights of man and of a citizen without any restriction. section b cb el un 05t . ot. ort l erivae e nnhocty w eera • ndrisol order :rhah a oeet et other candidate netop t! dce)duii propagate rtae h yopct e poet hai m hneigsi e t asem e tdc t eup i o n hsono g tilsusi s itptddi erceobieartcysiehtedreenhidr present himself us o yehc f s iacam t ithf h i ssio e heeencefi C ft.iiio e ttos. nt r al examine him, and will present him at t i h d e a T t as fit him.cand s his family and surnames, his profession, his residence, codhri irtTeel fiche directed dfefollowingsection inscription nearestto ssa re c tll re a s r a k t s N on ap t l h e e s, ‘ a ' pp tissueears in n f th li e e scaonnd. and the means of arming himself in his possession." calumnies" put forth by the traitor Bourbon King, who , stitutionnel:— " The proclamation which the King of Naples had placarded on the 16th, on the walls of his faitl!ful capital, is nothing but a tissue of lies and calumnies. There is not a word said of the pillage and the murder ordered by the King himself, and which took place un der the protection of his troops after the fighting Was over. It is false that the Chamber ever constituted it self into a Provisional Government, and that a Com ynastshha had de e N s been Com mittee of Public Safety was named. The deputies, to the number of 95, had assembled in the Palace Monte Oleveto to hold a preparatory sitting. While the massa creing was at its height, and cannon were pointed on the palace, they sent a deputation of six members to entreat the King to stop the firing. This is what is styled a The ee willx chief h meetingi s e p f fo e ns issatthchrif such Committee of Public Safety. "It is not difficult to explain the vagueness and con fusion which pervades all the accounts received from Italy. All the correspondence has been seized at the tbPost-officethe t i m b o Neapolitan i t a w n h police.en the p r o Fora jee t o f f o a r t c n o i gu coun ter-revolution t decided on at the palace, the sanctity of the Post-office was violated; journals and letters only reached their destination mutilated, and in a most irregular manner. After the coup d'etat of the 15th, the mails did not leave Naples—the journals of the Opposition did n ot a pp ear —alt the writers of any talent were either mas sacred or arrested. The Italian press is, therefore, red uced to the conjectures, and often contradictory versions , o f some traveller who escaped the carnage. " A loud cry of ind i g nation was raised from one end of the Peninsula to th e other, as soon as the events at Naples became know n. The journals which we have just received are filled with imprecations against the traitor King,' the ' ty rant,' and the ' parricide.' His escutcheon has been dragg ed in the mud, and burnt amidst the hooting of the indignant crowd. The news that the Calabrians have risen, and are marching towards the capital, is at least premature. On the evening of the 18th, Jean Andre Romeo was still on board the Fried land, amongst the numerous refugees who had escaped the massacre on shore. It is, therefore, physically im possible that in so short a time ho could have reached Calabria and even Salerno, as some of the Italian iota.. nals state. "At Rome a collision appears to be imminent. The retrograde party and a certain number of Cardinals, encouraged by the example of the King of Naples, will endeavour to incite the Tranateverins and the populace, and to sow discord in the ranks of the National Guard. God grant that blood has not already been shed. For a long time some persons have entertained the project of carrying off the Pope to Subiaco, in order to after wards publish to Europe that the Roman people, for getful and ungrateful, had wished to do violence to the Sovereign Pontiff. Let us hope that the lofty mind of Pius IX., who unites the purest feelings of religion to the most ardent patriotism, will defeat the scheme of an incorrigible coterie, whose egotism and cupidity w ill hesitate at no means to prevent or retard the opening of the Legislative Chambers." Up to a late hour last evening Paris was perfectly quiet, the display of military force made by the authorities haying been sufficient to keep in order the scale, without which our farmers would be made bankrupts, our arable land thrown out of cultivation, and our smiling homesteads converted into barren and unproductive wastes. We do not, however, think so lightly of our shipowners or of our hardy tars. We believe that all they require is a clear stage and no favour; and if those are accorded, and their energies applied in a spirit of honourable emulation, we doubt not they will be as well able to bear competition as any other branch of our national industry. Why should our dockyards be dismantled, and the ship building trade be transferred to other lands, if the measure were carried ? If our artizans are as skilful as those of any other Ration, they require no protection, they are as willing to work, and to apply their ener gies to the allotted task, as any similar body in the world. If, however, there are any radical defects (and we believe the contrary to be the fact), it is not by keeping up a system, the result of which would be to render them careless of improvements, that remedies are to be discovered for their defi ciencies. If such were really the case it would be essential to the honour and safety of the nation that such a stimulant should be applied as would arouse them from their lethargy, and awaken them to the activity that would command success. The only ra tional cure would be throwing open the trade and making them rely on their own unaided energies, so that they would stand on their own merits in place of being contented with a protected mediocrity. If this be true with respect to the ship-builders, it is also applicable to shipowners, and still more so to the crews by which our commercial navy is manned. In every port and nation the British sailor has main tained, and still maintains, his pre-eminence. He is eagerly sought for to navigate the vessels of other countries—his indomitable energy, courage, and activity enable him to command a rate of wages higher than his rivals can hope for. True economy does not consist in having a number of inefficient men at low stipends. No, the person seeking a cheap and useful crew well knows that it is a saving to employ none but really competent men, even at double the wages for which less skilful per sons might be procured. The able seaman does not consume a larger quantity of provisions than the land-lubber, they are therefore on a perfect equality so far as this heavy item in the expenditure is concerned, and as a much smaller number of per sons will suffice, a skilful crew may be obtained at a less cost than an indifferent one, to say nothing of the greater safety and increased speed in making passages (a matter of no trifling importance) that may be expected. The interests of our commerce and navigation are, therefore, not opposed to each other, but, on the contrary, most intimately con nected, and the increased prosperity of the one must materially promote the other. SPAIN. Madrid journals of the 24th have arrived. The Government have, it is said, made arrange ments with the houses of BARING and ROTHSCHILD which will enable them to meet the forthcoming half year's liabilities. SALAMANCA has escaped from Spain, and is now at Bayonne. will continue the burthen of a song of Elope. De spite those obstructions, however, the Grand Duke of TCSCANY is conceived to regard his coronation as Emperor of GERMANY as by no means an impos sibility, and hence it is that, amidst the convulsions of the political affairs of the Roman peninsula, he is viewed with a very great degree of distrust and hesitation. Pro Noso, again, the originator of the grand struggle for an Italian nationality, the first, the bravest, and the holiest of the reformers of this hemi sphere—Pro Noso, whose name has become the ad miration of civilised Europe, and whose reign has already become one of the most illustrious in the extraordinary annals of the Pontificate, not withstanding that the time of his elevation to the Papal Chair has not yet reached its second anni versary, Pio Noso—is regarded with suspicion. True he has within a reign of scarcely two years accom plished immeasurably more towards the political emancipation and social advancement of the people of Rome than had been acquired during the eighteen preceding centuries. True that Pro Noso has already given the Romans a national guard, a representative chamber, a liberal constitution, a free press, and a variety of minor advantages such as they had never before enjoyed under his predecessors. True that his proceedings at the commencement of his Pontificate were so glo rious that it was said of him, reverently said of him by DON JEREMY SAVONAROLA. - Fuit homo missus a Deo cui, nomen erat Johannes. True that his cha racter is such as to have induced a pamphleteer to write of his election by the conclave to the dignity of the tiara thus : " The object of the choice of the Sacred College was a man of great piety and virtue, and one who had seen vicis situdes of human life; first a soldier—then a missionary in barbarous countries—then the model of a Bishop; and, lastly, raised to the purple amidst the hearty accla mations and blessings of the entire population of his diocese. Such was the great and holy man who WAS elevated to the most extraordinary trust in Chris tendom." True all this indisputably is ; but the populace even of Rome is fickle, and State movements are some times dubious in integrity to the uninitiated, and the reactionary party is strong in the neighbourhood of the Quirinal, and the duties of Pro Noso, as Pope and as Prince, as Prelate and as Politician, as Priest and as Patriot, are altogether incompatible, and Pro Noso is therefore looked upon with suspicion ! FERDINAND of Naples is no longer viewed with jealousy—his name has become a byeword among the nations ; he is abhorred as never before was tyrant abhorred, and his crimes have degraded the Bourbon dynasty beyond the possibility of redemption. Those are the relations in which the four Sove reigns of the Roman peninsula stand towards the Italian multitude struggling for their independence. GOD grant that the misapprehension of the sincerity of the King of SARDINIA, of the Grand Duke of TuscANT, and of the Sovereign PONTIFF, may not lead to more terrible disasters than those which have ensued from the tyrannous cruelty of the King of NAPLES ! Let the Italians look with confidence to their Reforming Princes, and let the war-cry of the army of liberation be still Viva Italia ! MADRID BOLSA, MAY 24.—Three per Cents., 21i ; Five per Cents., 134. Exchange on London, 41 90. THE FRENCH REPUBLIC. THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY, 'We have received the Paris papers of yesterday. The Executive Committee of Government was sitting en permanence at the Luxembourg, and there were 20,000 National Guards under arms for the preservation of order, which it was feared might be interrupted by the attempts of the workmen of the ateliers nationaux to coerce the Government into re- calling M. EMILE THOMAS from Bordeaux. Up to ten o'clock at night all continued quiet, thanks to the precautions taken by the authorities and the over whelming display of force made by the troops and the National Guards of Paris and the Departments. The fate of M. Estrus THOMAS, meanwhile, seems in volved in mystery. The following official account of the proceedings of that gentleman, interlarded with sundry unmistakeable hints to the ouvriers, appears in the lifoniteur : " Citizen Emile Thomas, director of the ateliers nationaux, has received a mission from the Government to go to Bordeaux. This news caused some agitation among the workmen of the central bureau which is esta blished in the Park of donceaux. The Minister of Public Works went there and remained several hours endeavouring to restore order. In the evening the effervescence subsided, and the new director, Citizen Leon Lalande, engineer of the Ponta et Chaussees, was installed without any resistance. We hope that this agitation will be but momentary, for we cannot comprehend upon what grounds it can be kept up. The Government is animated with the most sincere and in contestable sympathy for the workmen, and of this they cannot entertain a doubt. If it thinks of suppressing the ateliers nationaux, which cannot, in fact, continue to subsist, it knows what consideration, what solicitude is due to the sufferings of men who, after having been a long time deprived of work, have found wages scarcely sufficient in the ateliers which the state has kept open for them. A special commission appointed by the Govern ment is endeavouring, in concert with the Executive Power, to find fresh resources, and the Government does not intend to take any measures with regard to the ateliers natiouaux before other means of employment, both numerous and certain, can be offered to the honest and laborious workmen. But if disorder should unfor tunately increase, and culpable intrigues should prevail with and mislead the workmen, the Government will be constrained by its imperious duty to make use of the power confided to it, and by energetic measures ensure ' the complete execution of the orders it may think fit to issue." The mission which citizen EmILB THOMAS re ceived from the Government must have been of a very extraordinary character, if we are to attach any credit to the following correspondence which appears in the Presse : " Citizen Editor,—l have read in your number of yesterday that M. Emile Thomas has never been ar rested, and had accepted a mission to Bordeaux. A letter from Emile Thomas, written in pencil, and which appears to have been thrown on the pavement, arrived yesterday, and is in the hands of his mother. It states that he has been forced to give in his resignation, and is on his way to Bordeaux, attended by two agents, having orders not to leave him until his arrival there. As to M. Treat, he was not kept as a hostage, as had been stated; and everything said to this effect, let it come from whom it may, is false, and can have no Object but to justify a taking up of arms, which is as incon ceivable as the disappearance of M. Thomas. " CHAPPON, Civil Engineer of the Central School. " P.S. I send you at the same time a copy of the last letter of M. Thomas. This letter is dated Chartres, May 27, and says:— " My dear Mother,—l write to you, as I promised, from Chartres. The following is an account of the whole matter. On arriving last night at the Minister's he required me to give him my immediate resignation, announcing that I was about to take my departure on a mission to Bordeaux and Bayonne. He gave me no ex planations, and interdicted me from taking leave of any one, or even from leaving his residence, and all this with infinite politeness and apparent friendship. I wrote my resignation and copied it, addressing the copy to Pierre, and also wrote a letter to you and another to Fontaine. M. Boulange was to bring these letters to you last eveniog—at least he gave me his word of honour that he would do so. A passport was given to me, and at half-past ten o'clock I got into the carriage with two officers of the peace, who have paid me great respect, 4 and who have no other commission than to certify to the Government my arrival at Bordeaux. There I have letters for the prefects of the Gironde and of the Landes, and a very honourable mission no doubt, but which is evidently no more than a pretext. The real secret of the enigma is, I believe, this. I have, as you know, de clared that if measures were taken which I deemed to be imprudent, and contrary to the tranquillity of the public, I would retire, in order not to bear the responsi bility, but that I would at least appeal to the National Assembly. I know that they have violat e d my liberty The House of Commons last night resumed the consideration of the Ministerial propositions with respect to the contemplated changes in the navigation.. laws. The interval of a fortnight, which had so fairly been permitted to elapse between the first enunciation of these efficient and comprehensive reforms and the discussion thereon, afforded ample time to all parties to consider maturely the nature and extent thereof, and to decide on their respective courses of action in reference thereto. We are now made acquainted with the result of these deliberations, so far as the Protec tionist party, the chief opponents of the measure, are concerned. They have resolved to contest to the utmost the removal of the restrictions that have been found to operate so injuriously to our trade and com merce—to maintain, by every practicable means, the principle of monopoly, although, happily, it has been reduced to a mere skeleton, hoping that while even a portion of the spirit survives, so long as the objectionable principle retains a shred of vitality, efforts may be made to restore it to all its quondam dimensions. The Right Hon. Gentleman the Mem ber for Stamford has fairly raised the question—the issue is now before the country, and it is for the THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, MAY 30, 1848. pauper aristocrats who, under the name of carriers, are maintained at their ease in the Ateliers Nationaux out of the proceeds of the earnings of their more in dustrious fellow-citizens. It appears that M. EMILE THOMAS (no relation, by the bye, to General CLEMENT THOMAS, the Commander of the National Guards) has been peculating to the amount of about 25,000 f. per day. He paid the workmen wages without exacting the due quota of work, and they permitted him to draw wages for a greater num ber of men than were employed. This is what must always happen when the State is so far forgetful of the rules of political economy, which are the rules of common sense, as to undertake to provide work for all It is said that the Sub-Committee of Public Works, to which the railroad question has been re ferred, is disposed to recognize the right of the State to purchase the railways. The Commerce says : " According to information which we have received and have reason to believe to be correct, M. Duclerc, the Minister of Finances, has declared that he will re tire, if the law for the purchase of the railroads be re iacted, or even only modified, by the National Assembly. If this eventuality be realised, it will not be impossible for M. Goudchaux to be again appointed Minister of Finances." The National Assembly met yesterday at two o'clock. M. de Falloux presented the report on the Bill pre sented d'urgence fur .the reorganiza.ion of the national workshops. It declared that grave abuses had crept into the establishments, and that a change was called for, alike in the interest of the men there employed, and of the State. The men, by being kept nearly idle were gradually losing their sense of dignity as persons gain ing an honest livelihood by their labour, whilst the State spent exceedingly large sums of money without obtain ing any return. It was therefore essential to remove to their own departments the workmen not belonging to Paris, and then to give them employment on railways, canals, reclaiming laud, and other useful works. The Committee, in consequence proposed, first, that without delay means should be taken to give employment to the men at the national workshops by the day, and without the intermediation of third persons; that credits should be opened for the purpose; and that all workmen who could not prove that they had been three months at Paris, should be sent to their departments, a certain allowance per league being given them. M. J. Bastide, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, an nounced that the Government had received the formal recognization of the French Republic from the Court of Spain. M. Taschereau wished to receive some information relative to the disappearance of M. Emile Thomas. It the Assembly would permit him, he would interrogate the Government at once.—(Loud cries of " Yes, yes.") On the evening of the 26th (Friday) he had been ordered at nine o'clock to repair to the hotel of the Minister of Public Works, and at eleven o'clock he had left Paris. M. Emile Thomas had written letters to his friends the same evening, declaring that he was in no danger, but that ho was removed from Paris under the guard of two Police agents, who treated him with every respect, but who did knot permit him to leave' their presence. One of the letter, declared that he had been sent on a mission to Bordeaux and other places, to or• ganize national workshops similar to those established in Paris. His resignation had been demanded, he said, from him, and he had given it. The honourable mem ber here read the letter of the Minister of Public Works to the delegates or the workmen, declaring that the, e was nothing to be alleged against M. Emile Thomas, and called on him to explain why, if that were the case, that gentleman had been removed. M. Ttelat, Minister of Public Works, declared that having frequently demanded from M. Emile Thomas an exact account of the number of workmen employed at the workshops, he could never obtain it, some excuse being always given for the delay. Some times he was told 900,000, sometimes 115,000, sometimes 110,000, and sometimes 120,000. Whilst the Govern ment experienced this great difficulty, it was constantly applied to from every side to re organize the workshops, and place them on a new foot ing. M. Emile Thomas was always speaking to the Minister of the danger he incurred among the workmen; and complaining also of the greatly increasing number of persons whom it was found necessary to employ for the direction of the workmen. It was in consequence of these two acts that the Government had recommended M. Emile Thomas to leave Peris for the present. An important mission would be given to him in the Gironde, to organize workships there similar to those of Paris. M. Emile Thomas had accepted this mission freely; had given in his resignation as director of national workshops in Paris—had given it freely; though afterwards, when the instructions of his new office had been given him, he appeared dissatisfied, brought forward a thousand ob jections, and, in the end, was heard to say that he should allow it to be believed that he had been in a certain measure forced from Paris. The honourable minister concluded by declaring that the removal of M. E. Tho mas had been decided on for State reasons, and in order to preserve order in Paris.—(hear.) The matter then dropped. The President announced that he had received a letter, addressed to the National Assembly, from Prince Louis Napoleon, now residing at London. (This letter has appeared in the public jonrnals. He should proceed to read it to the Chamber.—(Cries of No, no.") The Marquis de Lerochejaquelin, thought the Assem bly could not refuse to hear this letter read, when it had a few days back listened without objection to the letters from the Orleans family.—(Confusion; cries of " Read, read," "No, no.") An Hon. Member observed that he could not see what the Assembly had to do with these letters. Why give them importance by reading them in the Chamber? Eventually, the Assembly being consulted, decided that the letter should not be read. The order of the day was the discussion of the Bill relating to relations that are to exist between the National Assembly and the Committee of Executive Power. M. Hovogne considered that the modifications effected by the Committee would be of an injurious character, from trammelling the action of the Government. It would, intact, be anagreement only in name. He thought the members of the Executive Power ought to be per fectly free to remain away from the Assembly if they pleased. The original Bill permitted them that liberty, whereas the amended one rendered it imperative on them to appear when summoned to do so by 40 mem bers. This middle course appeared to him to place a power over and above the Executive power, which was contrary, he thought, to all sane ideas of Government. He should, iu consequence, vote in favour of the Bill as originally presented. M. Chanapvant defended the amended Bill, arguing that the National Assembly was omnipotent, and ought always to have a certain hold on every branch of Go vernment. Were the Executive Committee to be allowed to remain away altogether from the public sittings of the representatives, they would be independent of the Chamber, which was contrary to the idea of the sovereignty of the people being vested in the National Assembly. The Committee, it appeared to him, had acted wisely in not allowing full and entire liberty to the executive power, whilst, at the same time, the slight check which it held over them, by admitting the right of 40 members to call them to give explanations, was not such as to throw any real impediment to their liberty of action. Referring, then, to the latter part of the decree, giving to the President full power to have the rappel beaten for the defence of the Assembly, was a matter of prudence which could not be justly opposed. M. Frousseau supported the Bill, dwelling particu larly on the part which gave the President the right of .taking measures for the protection of the Assembly In order to avoid any conflict that might by possibility arise between the President and the Executive Com mittee, he should propose that " the Pesident ht, if thought fit, delegate his power to the r Executi m ve ig Come mittee." Mr. Bac maintained that the whole question was one of more or less confidence in the Executive Committee. If the Assembly wished to preserve that body in the state in which it had originally appointed it, that is, with most extensive powers, superior to all others in the State, it would avoid doing anything to lessen their authority. Yet this was what would decidedly be done, if either another power—that of the President—was set up in opposition to it—or if the President was virtually set above it, by being allowed to delegate his power as proposed. Conjunctions might arise when the President and the Executive Committee should be at variance about the necessity of beating the rappel, and taking the other measures necessary for the safety of the Assembly. Was the President, in such a case, to lay down the law to the Executive Com mittee ? Surely the Assembly could not mean that. For his part he should vote for the Bill as originally proposed. M. Pena insisted on leaving full power to the President. (Left speaking.) BOURSE.—PARIS, MONDAY, MAY 29, THREE o'CLocx.—Very little business was done at the Bourse to-day, and the Routes have fallen, but the Railways have remained very firm all day at nearly the prices of Saturday. The Bons du Tresor, which were at 32i discount at the commencement of business, suddenly improved to 29, shortly be fore the close. The reason given for this is, that the explanations given by the Governor of the Bank of France to the Finance Committee in its sitting of to-day were favourable. Vieille Moa tagnes have fallen to 2,000 francs. For the Account, the French Three per Cents. have fallen 25e. ; Five per Cents. have fallen If. . For Money, the Three per Cents. have fallen 50c.; Five per Cents. have fallen lf, Buns du Tresor closed at 29 dis.; Bank of France Shares have fallen 15f.; Belgian Bank Shares not quoted; ditto Five per Cents. hare risen 1 per cent., in consequence of large purchases for Belgian account; the Spanish Funds not quoted; Roman have risen per cent.; Rothschild's R , ...eipts have risen 2i per cent. Railway Shares for the Account, Settling of May 31—Nothing done. For cash Versailles, Bordeaux, Northerus, Strasbourgs, Lyons, and Dieppe* are the same as on Saturday; Or leans have risen 5f.; Rouens, 2f. 50c.; Marseilles, 5f.; Vierzons, 5f.; Nantes, lf. 25c.; Havres have fallen 10f.; and Bale, If. 25c. GERMANY AND THE NORTHERN STATES. AUSTRIA , The Allgemeine Zeitung of the 25th of May pub lishes the following letter from Insprnck : " INSPRIJCK, MAY 21. " The deputation of the Vienna National Guard ar. rived here this morning, and was admitted before none to an audience with his Majesty. Count noyosl ViTilezek, who had quitted Inspruck last night, returned with the deputation. Several other high personages also belonging to the suite of their Majesties, and other members of the Imperial Family, have, meanwhile, ar rived here. The Carlinal Archbishop of Saltzhurg arrived here at the head of a deputation from Saltzburg and Linz to the Tyrol, the object of which is the as sembly of the proposed preliminary Parliament of all the German-Austrian provinces in Linz. Deputations from Linz have already been sent for the same object to Gratz, Klagenfurt, and Brunt). Last night a preparatory consultation for this purpose took place, between the Saltzhurg deputation, a standing committee, and the burghers of Inspruck. The following has been issued by the Emperor : " MANIFESTO TO MY PEOPLE. "The events which took place in Vienna on the 15th of May force upon me the painful conviction that anar chical faction, supported by an academic legion and single division of the Burgher and National Guards, drawn away chiefly by foreigners from their wonted allegiance, wished to deprive me of liberty, for the pur pose of enthralling my provinces, which cannot but be universally exasperated at the arrogance of these indi viduals, as well as the right-minded inhabitants of my residentiary city. I had no alternative but that of having rt course to violent measures, through the medium of my faithful garrison, or quietly withdraw ing for the moment to some one of my provinces, which, thanks be to God, have all remaiued true to their Monarch. There could be no question as to the:choice to be adopted. I decided for the peaceful, bloodless alternative, and turned to the mountain country, which had at all times been found faithful, and where, at the same time, I might more quickly receive intelligence from the army which is fighting so valiantly for their country. It is my firm resolve not to retract or lessen the gifts which I made to my people in March ; on the contrary, I shall ever be inclined to listen to the reasonable wishes of my people in a legal way, - and to attend to thenational and provin cial interests. They must, however, be such as have the general approbation ; be presented in a legal manner ; be discussed by the Diet, and submitted to me for my sanction ; they are not to be forcibly exacted by unau thorised persons with weapons in their hands. This it is which I wished to teach my anxiously excited people, for their general comfort, by my departure from Vienna, and at the same time to remind them that with paternal love I have ever been ready to receive my sons, even those who have been looked upon as lost. " Inspruck, May 20." In the same journal (the organ of the re-actionary party in Germany, and formerly under the direct control of METTERNICII,) we find the following letter from Vienna, dated May 22 : Since last night, three incendiary fires have taken place in different parts of the city. One was a military store, which has been nearly consumed. One man was arrested; he acknowledged that he had received money for what he had done from a well-dressed incividual. " The affairs of the Bank continue to be an anxious subject of discussion. In the suburbs only five florins are given in exchange, and at the Bank nothing less than 25 fl , rin pieces. " This causes the greatest distrust. Every one is bound to take bank-notes for payments at their nominal value, but if the payment is demanded in any particular coin, the debtor is bound to pay accurdiug to the current value of the notes." The Emperor of AUSTRIA has no immediate in tention of returning to Vienna. It is his intention to summon the diplomatic corps to remove to Ins pruck, and to form a new Ministry there. Count COLLOREDO is spoken of. Verily, the reactionary movement concocted in London goes bravely on. Again, we ask, is Bromp ton placed under as strict surveillance as Leicester square ? FRANKFORT -ON-THE-MAINE. The German Parliament met on Friday at eleven o'clock. Mr. Heckscher, of Hamburgh, moved that a Committee be immediately formed for the consideration of naval matters.—Agreed to. The report of the deputation to \layence was then read. It was therein stated that the deputation had had interviews with the civil and military authorities in the town, and had heard such a msss of evidence and asser tion, that it was very difficult to come to any conclusion as to the parties originally or chiefly concerned in the late collisions. It however appeared that the Vice-Governor, under the circumstances, and acting according to the rules laid down by the German Diet for the mainte nance of order in the confederation fortresses, could not justly be accused of cruelty or exceeding harshness of measures. The temper of the Prussian soldiers bad been strongly tried; their King was libelled; caricatures innu merable were bandied about; in the streets they were frequently insulted by the call of " Wait a bit, till the red trousers hound you out!" Several times the sentinels were fired at, said to be by the burgher guard. On the other hand the burghers said the Prussians had arranged a plan to incite the town to violence, and then disarm it. It was, however, a remarkable fact that on the first collision, on the 21st, twenty-five Prussian soldiers were wounded and six killed; most of them shot through the back. Of the citizens, two were killed and three wounded. It was after that occurrence, at ten P.M., that the pro clamation was issued by the Governor, declaring the town under military law, and ordering the surrender of the arms of the burghers, under a threat of bombarding the town. This threat the Governor thought himself justified in throwing out, rather than allow one of the keys of Germany to fall into the hands of a party; and, however dreadful such threat might sound, it was in reality as nothing compared to the horrors and loss of life attendant on a street contest. Without going into particulars of further insults and cruelties said to be committed by both parties, I shall merely state that the majority of the commission—vis , 9 to 6, were of opinion that the Diet should be requested partly to change the garrison, and that a re- organization of the burgher guard should take place. Mr. Sitz, Member for Mayence, ascended the tribune, and stated that his motion regarding events in Mayence was of such urgency as required immediate discussion. He asserted that it had been long known at a distance, that the Mayence burgher guard would be disarmed about the time that Parliament met. He said the Prus sian soldiery were in such a state of insubordination, that the Governor had little or no command over them. His motion was for a complete change of the garrison, a restoratio❑ of things to the same state as before the 22d, and that the soldiers should not be allowed to wear their side-arms off duty. Pr►nce Lichnowski defended the Prussian army. After some discussion the Parliament determined to pass to the order of the day, thus leaving the Mayence affair to be settled by the ordinary tribunals. BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE LONDON STOCK-EXCHANGE, MAY 29. Boulogne and Amiens, 6%—Northern of France, 4% Orleans and Bourdeaux, I%—Sambre and Meuse, 4%• During the last eight clays no less than 1,177 head of fat cattle have arrived in this town from the north, and notwithstanding the depressed state of com mercial affairs, the whole of them, or nearly bo, have been disposed of at prices ranging from 6s. to 6s, 9d per stone.—Newcastle Journal. PRUSSIA. The Prussian State Gazette has the following, dated Potsdam, May 25 : " Yesterday being the birthday of her Majesty the Queen of Great Britain, the King gave a grand dinner of about forty covers, at the palace of Sans Souci. Be sides all the royal Princes, there were present her Bri tannic Majesty's Minister at this Court, the Earl of Westmoreland and the Countess, and the gentlemen at tached to the embassy. The health of the Queen of England ' was proposed by the King, and drunk with marked demonstrations of honour." DENMARK AND THE DUCHIES Letters from Hamburgh of the 26th state that preliminaries for peace have actually commenced ; that the Prussians are immediately to evacuate Jut land, without raising the contribution of two millions of dollars demanded by General WRANGEL ; the head-quarters of this general to retire to Hadersleben, that of General HALKETT to Flensburg. Should this be confirmed from Copenhagen, all the German vessels laid under embargo will be instantly released and allowed to proceed on their voyage. The Schles wig question will then be settled amicably, and no doubt to the satisfaction of all parties. IRELAND. (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPII.) (FROM THE DUBLIN PILOT, MAY 29.) DUBLIN, MONDAY. The usual meeting of the Repeal Association was held this day in Conciliation Hall. Messrs. Burke, Galway, and J. O'Connell were present. The following resolutions were adopted : " That in the late case of The Queen v. John Mitchel,' the jury selected to try the accused was packed from his known political opponents. "That, therefore, the verdict of that jury is no evi dence of Mr. Mitchel's guilt. " That any punishment based upon the verdict is an act of arbitrary power, end a blow struck, through the medium of jury•packing, at the lives and liberties of Irishmen. " That under the circumstances it is the bounden duty of Ireland to adopt the family of Mr. Mitchel as its own, and to provide for their comfort and education at the public expense during that gentleman's absence from this country. "That a copy of the foregoing resolutions be pre sented to Mrs. Mitchel, accompanied by an expression of sincere condolence on the part of this association." Dublin remains perfectly quiet. FATAL THUNDERSTORM.—On Sunday afternoon the town and neighbourhood of Leeds were visited by a heavy storm of rain (almost the first that has fallen there for a month past), accompanied with loud thunder and lightning. Several buildings were slightly damaged by the lightning. but the inmate, generally escapedwithout injury. One man was killed by the electric fluid at Faraley, about five miles from the town. ITALY. NAPLES. We read in the Nouvelliste of Marseilles, of tie 25th:-- " The Castor packet brings us to-day news fr , nn Nl' pies of a later date than the recent events. The 0 coun ter-revolution completely triumphs at Naples ;., Tl / 4 /a d prisons are so crowded, that more than two 1 h ouse O prisoners havo been obliged to be transferred to Lis. ,firmed vessels —or, to speak more correctly, b.,.a The streets of Toledo, Saint-Ferdinand, aDd on - The which were formerly so beautiful al td ta' mated, are now deserted, and present the imag a of complete desolation. At every step the eye calls sadly on the traces of pillage, of destxuc: tion, and incendiarism, which the royal for ces ind o. 1 vile population have left. The inhabitants as e . fir n * the in crowds from this sojourn of horror, to reside la country. The ignoble laazaroni, encouraged by . 0 1 Government, arm( d with the spoils of the .Nacao ulu Guard, continue their exactions to such a n exte tit, one one cannot now venture in the streets o f Na l les :In : coat and hat. Even the beard is pros cribed as a sig A iof liberalism. It is indispensable to wear the. vest au" the cap to avoid the injuries and insults of this, pills ging d and fanatic canaille. The deputies have left, tire tly de cid!, to meet as a Constituent Assembly in some prey inciail. town. The disposition of the populations hill . adu 3 r rably serve them, an insurrection being rds_ .. doubtful. The number killed on the 16th is ill iles , 1,000,. among whom are nearly 600 Swiss. Ar rt , sasc, ° ',.. tinue. It was by mistake that it was said 0 a t. Deiu' o re . tto ,, was at Naples; it was the presence of Cat apoO s isn ' his ame damnee, which gave rise to the rumour. A tl' tr ea . intrigue is evident, and the retnrn of the lot in !r. cr.on lures of the Cabinet of Vienna is the certain in,ll.o°o. no Jongeof of the . implacable resolution of the King alel 11,,Tisgsvao guinary advisers. The calculated delay of f i bs -'-'. e 7 or i Titan expedition only adds greater force to thi:3 ')1 3111. which is now fully justified." LOMBARDY, AND YENICB' Accounts hwie been received from Peschievi to the 22d. At that time all the guns but two Ins ,d be en dismounted from Fort Mandello, and the to Nn on fire in three places. CARLO ALBERTO h i d 034 favourablea reply to the deputation from V4"-." °ice,: ea The Opinione of Tu r in, of the 23d, contail is the count of the proceedings w hich took Phi of . Chamber of Deputies o f th a t c ity, on the receiP the news from Naples. Advocate SINE° rose, 1413 proposed a public manifestation of the paint feelil3,s3d of that assmbly at the deplorable massaci taken place at Naples, recommending that the deE,P-' ties should wear mourning for a week. D eP that the 3 e DICE supported the motion, and demand ed er horror which the Chamber felt should be loudly pressed, in order that it might fall on .tb at Sri Bourbon, the incendiary of cities, the butcl-i eer iOl4 own people. The Minister PARBTO, Whil g r eP ee ck d in principle with the feelings expressed, red' ) 1013 , n t he that the motion should be first conside! ced i bureau, that it might not have the apps .rice precipitate act. safe r A letter from Parma of the 20th Pirsii,c, A " Last evening, about the hour for the Al , ° great number of people assembled near till 3 w " jo boQ of the Episcopal Palace, and intimated to , th e re ce an order to quit immediately. Hissi n g 11 3 ° tions, and loud vociferations were h Or d ' e a to Bishop, seeing himself without support, I)l.°M:bril. leave immediately. It was resolved to Kaye to rn liant illumination. The episcopal arms w i er br oV i fro m the cathocira" a bos . into pieces, and burnt. The National Glade" tened to the spot, to prevent any further wsj3- The crowd, however, did not disperse until t he do ctea had got into his carriage, and had beet ccin under an escort out of the city." Ay,) MARKET NEW B.—( THIS m— Mo tet BAT 111112tIEZTS. . 1 SMITHFIELD Meadow Hay, 31 to 31 1 1 1:) ,: ) . 3 ; 10 1.1° 7 ditto, 41 to 41 I . o — s; and Straw, 1/ 6s to 11 • A moderate supply, and a heavy demand. ~ los; Cl il . CHMHERLAND.—Meadow Hay, 31 to 3 ' i i .. .. per I ` ditto, 41. to 4110 s; and Straw, 1/65 to 11 :"' At Supply moderately good, and trade dull. clocl %V .firrEcHAPEL.—Meadow Ha) 31 to 31: O s p ; e r lo w " ditto, 4/ to 41 12s; and Straw, I ' i 6s to 1 1 j°s. Supply good, and trade very dul. O tieti COLONIAL. Sucin.—The market for British Plantal;i° of ° 0 11 buoyant ; and 460 hhds have been disposea,;clibaligi advance of is per cwt, since this day week s ; 300 ba l e sales have comprised 1,500 bags IgauritiurA:ol. 410 Mauritius3,ooo soldteatfiareathyeerlldeewarerßreaate,r—wi 38s 4gli for middling 1 brcoog, l3 tr et eti l, 44s for middling to fine white Beares, bol.l"toen prices, 3 and the Madras found buyers on re lilt rbe °i t ' ll & 3 wa s s to34s 6d being paid for mid yellow ; b° the 11 ",ot The withdrawn at 358 for brown, being ab 0.1.6 , f ie ',53 quantity of British Plantation p landed 4 I li ?: c o ve the East and West India tierces 159 barrels. There were ocks twitaksen for r il l . re. Th e SsUmPtiOn, 1,157 hhds 17 tierces 19 1 , ' ":4 e 9 l ''' took in the same places is 12,376 13 12ds ""-3 Po r • O r! 1,971 barrels. he wile Rum.—The quantity landed last week BC t- ,14. 0 , West India Docks was 601 puns 231 1111 . - 3 1 . P stil e and d re taken for home consumption 175 1:',?;,.; th 9 P.- exported 60 puns 63 hhds. The stocs• •"" S .II re places is 14,765 puns 2,961 hhds. i .t . 0 0 Ile itl P c SALTPETRE. -1,300 bags Bengal at all--1 ,45. . t .. withdrawn at ranging from 315 Drell' li to tour per cent. refraction, being tb o . ri th ° 0 t e rency. TALLOW.—P.Y.C. is 45s 6d to 453 9cl Pe r c.- 0 • Ol e spot, and Town 48s 6d. she del if ad to 04, Ow TEA.—The market has been steady. are 0 6 ____.---- .. r . 15 1 04 ;T.--Ye.sraitDA- .. .... jo , Eden Main ..... . • : . ..„ ~ 91 Belmont .•••••' .- ..... „ !;', ad Bell ......••••••' . .• 130 ; 1 1 1 .. .... Hettos ... ....... .1 3 3 „„ JOnaSSObn ••''' ...• s' , ..... I oo Morrison ....... ....„ _. 5 . Caradoc ••... •• •"..„„ 11 4 , 6 4 Hartlepool .... .. .. %solo. )00 Hudson's Hartley „ 1 6 .1 0 , Thornley ...... .„ 1 0 ea Howard's W• f . :„. i l l ; informed, Hartley. ..• ••"" - r ot... Ships at plit ...,,, P' House o .,A r" , i ,e BARON ROTHSCHILD.—Baron Rothsch t T le of ' P t, C T o e vvp a ; .. ......... ................ l i , 4 , a o 0 ,1 Commons mpornessetnhtis himself at the giutbrec,cloo:;;:: and express his desire to take oue and his seat. He will decline tcP . titif h Cb riS did ' oaths on " the true faith of a and ' a to the Speaker will order him t o withdravilopecteitili cussion of more than usual importance i 5 kind, . arise—of which, as in all m atters of the report will appear in our late Edition. COAL MARK E Middle's W. Hartley 13s 9d Chester Main l3s 3d Davison'sWest Hartley 14s Od Hasting's Hartley l4s Od New Tanfield l2s 6d Richardson's Hartley 12s 6d South Peareth Tanfield Moor Walker's Primrose Wylam West Wylam Wall's End, &c Brown's Gas Bensham Framwell Gate ..... 133 6d to St. Paul's f „R AP / -------- CLOSING OF Sr -- - ----- Sotilifice T. PAUL'S ..,ATEISDItAr,•"- epttvirill issued yesterday wtiohnteshfowrill Cathedral that the daily Dilin e !se oreer,o, proximo. The be filisco - payment of 2d. at the northern and southern o ice 4 . nt t i h nued, except on Sundays, during t'Dlildroa e ta a k n e niversary of the charity-scbft°b o f le stated yest_erdaypu p ti l l a i c c e :ill be admitted, ° °sll.l' °II i 11. , t o i 1 cire l f 'o ols Cecil Lawless, or CLONMEL Bottovew 6 .- i p th a e yß . lwesesll-sionnfoorfmLedorpdoclitliocnocurri, i! resigning the representation of this Irish borclerilort, His Highness Prince George of 2tle cl : t ea hf S yG s t t. re K li a tz t , h a a e r c in o emroncike Docks ybeysteßradraoyne fines beck, ,Tte'indeildw ba Sir John Hall. His Highness wliansciPlweil"esr:rt°ogeel himself highly gratified with the internal aril and the means of accommodation which fiPPedisr 1 441 afforded to the commerce and shipping 01 .. " -e London by the establishment. ..- .---------------=-----___ - fiC CQI BIRTH B. On the 23d inst., at Delvidere, Fraut, Suss ex , the J. Pryce, E,q., of a son. flili ty Wold , i' On the 25tri inst., at Glan-r-afon, noir the wife of H. Potts, Esq., of a daughte Bch, gt e ' On the 25th just., at Croom's-hill, Gre en ofr Comer, of a son. ls o l , On the 25th inst., at Hesslewood, Yorkshire, 1 " )3 ~ OP W. 0 0 n n the Pea s e,th 2 2 6 E 6 t s h t cl h in i o s n f t s . , t, .at,hsoaent.wcifieapohf. abralr...ris.tle: D. i s : ° ; . is' °I 0.4 0 1 , : d a u gnh the chester, of a son. 0 0° 26th t h ins in t. s , t a . t , BatertkheeleGyro-sque a t re, 0,0111,U3 ~i 00nady' ,--- for of a daughter. the Rev. J. Angus, M.A., of a daughCtet4rl33. ,berftechelli'set:tbe 04 On the 27th inst,, at Marlborough' 'Ve`e' of Mr. S. Shepherd, F.S.A., of a daugnter. k tli, i l fest , If itatacilD. Church, of At On the sth inst., at St. Anne's ,„ t e Ers o taV Rev. T. Drew, D.D., Norman Obeyers, ParA., 1; 0 4. ,•,,e 4 fourth daughter of the late J. G. Vi„crehevers,.tl e f tin 4 R.N., and grand-niece of the late F. 0, •„,0,,„ C$P focilj, On the 23d of February, at Graham a titer cortie coy, Hope, Joseph, second sou of the We ft " hte r of J• Bathurst, to Frances Jenalina, eldest d ug' Req., of Belmont. 10' 1 0 se con d ._,.e, D/SIP. . t Georgr4o, pm-- At Thurso. N. 8., on the 24th ills •,, t he as viving son of Alexander Gunn, Esq. , " Aid hiving '4113° his 21st year. Diary' Anne, riir, of a. On the 18th inst., at Brighton, late J. Rasbleigh, Esq.. aged 72. . i daughter On the 24th inst., Annette, thistl O. of " I ' Esq., of Marie hill, Cheltenham, axed; 3o , fir esn• oittolf 6 On the 25th inst., aged 75, 3Sl . r i - ~., r pt, t he 141 On the 25th inst., at Bath, Din'b3;ged 9 3 ' ~erloeg Hyde, Esq., of Ardwick, Lancashire, ~,,clit'sl. ‘4,00 On the 26th inst., at Avenue-ros&fca e , R,7000a.P., Mary Ann, youngest daughter of 18 "" g so •ed I- Isi. 'et On the 27th inst., at Camberwell, _i.,,,,, R.. ~,,.„;,;,f0,., youngest daughter of Lieutenant _t_7 '"__-_-0---D924; 11 - - -- b 11-1511190fige'40.9" London : Printed and Published ,I, ,ses ,be No. 112, ;trend, Prillt,Cr, ,At 1_..,„v, i$ • Strand, in the Precinct et the 1 7 4 7 3 :" Ilitidieets, Tneetiay, Ala 30, 1 A