The Sun. — London, England, 1848-05-03 00:00:00

Immygoi••••.•••■• •., hi. DIY Is published, in 1 vols. dewy goo., with Portraits of the Countess of Own,. and Lady Holland, price 30g. CHARACTERISTIC SKETCIiES OF TENGLISH SOCIETY, POLITICS, and LITERATURE ; Comprised In a Series of Letters to H E COUNTESS of OSSOR Y. 1. sy HORACE wALPOLE, EARL of ORFORD. Now first Published from the Original MSS. Edited by the Right Lion. R. VERNON SMITH. Id P. Ri c h a rd Bentley, New Earlington-street, (Publisher is Ordinary to her Jriejeety). -------- TREAT RL ROYAL, DRURY LANE. LAST Wig BCT ONE. CIRQUE NATIONaL DE PARIS. GRAND MORNING PERFORSfANCIS. The Managers of the Cirqne National de Paris are Induced. by the "brilliant saocese of their Morning representations, to announce that new selection of those unique And splendid Entertainments will be riven on Friday next (the sth of May). Doors open at Half-past One, perManance to commence at Two o'clock. First Price as usual. No Second Price. Private Boxes to be had at the Theatre, and at Julllen and Co.'s, 214, Regent-street. HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. First Appearance of Mille. JENNY LIND. 'The 501 %4 Gentry, Subscribers to the Opera. and the pub lic am respectfully inform d that TO-MORROW EVENING (being a Stilmc riptioa Night) will ise perormed, Bellini's Opera. entitled Anitna, Media. Jenny Lind ; Lisa, Mdlle. Vera ; Count Rodoipho, Sig. F. LablAche ; Elvin°, Sig. Garden'. To eonchude with the admired Ballet Divertissement, entitled LA VIVAN MERE. Applications for Boxes, Stalls, and tickets, to be made at the Box-officiz of the Theatre. THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. CIRQUE NATIONAL DE PARIS. Last Week but One, the whole of the troupe of the Cirque I..Za iletsal. being obliged to return to Paris on the 16th of May. 11116 KV The complete art of riding exemplified by 31dlls. Caroline and Ma thlide.—Daring Feats of Equitation, by Mdlls. l'almyre, Anato, Co take, Ducos, Lambert, Le Petite Anato, &c.—The Manage, exhibit ing the perfection or training, and wondertul docility of the Horse, :Illustrated by M. Adolphe Franconl.—Varied and original Eques .lrian and Gymnastic Exercises, by the entire troupe. Doors open at hall-past Seven, performance to commence at Eight. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Under the Management of Mr. B. Webster, sole Lessee. THIS EVENING WITh be presented a new conic Drama, called OLD HONESTY. Michael Bradshaw, Mr. Webster ; Joseph Bradshaw, Mr. H. Van danhoff ; Sir Perkins Besborough, Mr. riovre ; Mr. Septimns Hook, Mr. Tilbury ; Toby Perch, Mr. Keeley ; Dame Bradshaw, Mrs. (clover; Mary, Miss Reynolds. After which, a new Comedietta, called A CONFIDENCE. Mr. Gresham, Mr. Webster; Mr. Arthur Williams, Mr. H. Vanden hoe; Mrs. Gresham, Miss Reynolds. To conclude •rith a Grand Romantic Extravaganza. founded on Maraca Walpole% mysterious production, and called THE CASTLE OF OTRANTO. Manfred, Mr. Keeley ; the Marquis Viecensa, Mr. J. Bland ; naeodore, Miss P. Horton ; Odonto, Mr. Caulfield ; Hip polite, Mrs. W. Clifford ; Isabella, Miss Reynolds ; Matilda, Mrs. Caulfield. Stage Manager, Mr. Farren; Acting Manager, Mr. F. WebAsr. J. T. Archer, I4ox-book keeper. Boxes, Ss. ; Pit, 3s. ; Gallery, is. ; Upper Gallery, Is. Doors open at Waif-past Six, Performance to commence at Seven. THEATRE ItOY.AL, ruder the direction c 4 Madame Celeste. THIS EVENING Will be performed a new and original Drama, called HAR Lambert,VEST HOME. Principal eharactors by Messrs. li. Hughes, Mrs. Wright,?. Bedford, 0. Smith, Madame Celeste , Miss Lam, )'rank Matthews, Miss Turner, &c. Alter which, a new Piece, entitled THE FOUNTAIN OF ZEA ; er, the Child of Air. To conclude with THE COMRADES ; an Anecdote of the Span ish War. Principal characters by Messrs. Cullentbrd, Boyce, Thin yard, Peal Legrand, C. J. Smith, leyan, Miss E. Harding, &c. Boxes, es.; 25.„ kiailery, H. 1.1 , 1- o v en at Halt-past Six. Performance to commence at Seven. ILOYA.I. LYCEUM THEATRE. Under the Management of Madame Vestris, Sole Lessee• Mr. Charles Mathews. THIS EVEN ING, Will be performed THE SCARECROW. After which, an entirely. new and original Classical Extravaganza, titled THESEUS and ARIADNE ; or, the Marriage of Bachus. principal characters by Messrs. C. Mathews, H. Hall, S. Smith, F. Cooke ; Miss FitZWillialrt, Miss Jane Coleman, Miss Marshall, and 3.18.4.0na Vestris. conclude with a Romance of Real Life, called BOX and COX. Principal characters by Mr. Harley, Mr. Buckstune, and Mrs. Mac- Ran tara., I,eBs Poxes, 58.; Upper Boxes, 4s. ; Pit, 23. ; Gallery, Is. No hat price to any part of the house. 'Cite ..Cew Bux-office, No. 2, Wellington-street, Is open to the rabile every day, :row '[en till Six. ktlf.Nt;ll JAMLS'S 'I4IEATKE. Lessee, Mr. John Mrtchell, 33, u d iloud-street. Last Appearance of M. Lalont. 11In EVENING, The Entertainments will commence at halt-past Seven o'clock with 'NE .11111t1IDIC.N.JE. Duoar, 31. Montaland ; Armand. 31 St.• Marie; ne.manae, Mdlle. Baptime ; 31adamo Verdier, Mdmo. St. Ange. Alter which, the new Petite Comedy of EXTREMES SE TOCICHEN'C. Le Chevalier JuLben, Monsieur Latent; La Cointesse Amine, Madame Paul Ernest. To be !Wowed by an entirely new comedie-vaudeville, en titled LA DERN [ERE CONQUr. rTE. Le Karon do M. La.ont ; Atadarne Pau. Ern , st. 'Co conclude with (lry siridre) the S. cowl Act of CATIIERINE ; eu„ La Croix d'Or. usterlitz, Latent ; Catherine Mdme. l'aul lamest ; Louise, Mdlle. rote'. ST. JAMES'S THE A I RE. ROBERT HOUDIN (o. the Pa'als Royal, Paris).—The stir- Imsing and intere,ting performances of ROBERT HOUDIN, which :Zast night excited the highest and moat enthus ast c aim ration. will be repeated TO-SORROW EVENING, and continued every Tues• day, T:.ursday. and Saturday Evenings, during tne present month Doors open at Eight, the Exhibition to commence at kalf-past Right, and term nate uetore Eleven. Boxes and stalls. may be had at Mr. NtITCH ELL'S Royal Li brary, 33, Old Bond•street. TtiLAIRE. Mr. J. M. Maddox, sole Lessee and Manager, Duchess-Street Till; THIRD EDITIONS "Tll E SUN CONTAIN, AS USUAL, AND OF POST. 112, Strand. t'ortland• place. TIIIS EVENING, Will be presented Le Brun's comic Opera, entitled THE NIGHT. ZNGALE. To be followed by the new and original Operetta, entitled "RUE 'YOUNG , GUARD. lon Guzman, Mr. 11 , ,dda; Don Alvarez. Mr. Barker; Donna Olmpla, Mizs Sara newer ; Estella, lirdame Anna Thillon. After which a new Commediett, entitled DOMESTIC BLISS. Mr. Goodleman, Mr. Cooper; Adela, Mrs. Stirling; Rhoda, Miss Villars. To conclude with a Grand Ballet, entitled ES3IEICALDA; or, the Hunchback of Notru Dame. Esmeralda, Mdlle Acrid. Dress Circle, Ss.: Boxes, 4i.; Pit, za. ; Gallery, Is. ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. Under the direction of Mr. Kerschner. Last Six Nights of Cinderella. Matchless Performances- Unrivalled Company—and the only Pantomime in London. Children under T, elve admitted for half-price. The Pantomime at an earlier hour to accommodate the juvenile branches of Families. THIS EVENING. Will be performed a Drama, entitled THE BOHEMIANS. Cha racters by Messrs. N. T. Hicks, E. F. Saville, It. Honner, Dale, J. Herbert, H. Lewis, E. Jones, Mrs. R. Homier, and Miss E. Terry. After which, a Grand Fairy Comic Pantomime, entitled CIN DERELLA AND THE FAIRY QUEEN ; or, Ilanequin and the Little Glass Slipper. Colun bine, Mdlle. Theodore ; Harlequin, Mr. Maskell ; Pantaloon, Mr. Morelli ; and Clown. Mr. T. Barry. To conclude with JACK JUNK and the OLD COMMODORE; or, a Seaman's Fireside. Jack Junk, Mr. E. F. F.aTille. Manager and Treasurer, Mr. B. S. Fairbrother. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE. Proprietor, Mr. W. Batty. Immense hit of the Easter Spectacle. Overflowing houses to wit ness the celebrated Mr. Van Amburgh and his unequalled eollectlon of trained animals, amongst which will be fauna tke greatest no velty ever seen, a Black Tiger, the first ever known to mingle with other animals, and has hitherto been con-idered untameable. THIS EVENIfia, Will be presented a grand romantic Spectacle, written by Boyle Barnard, Esq., expressly to introduce Mr. Van Amburgh in his astounding performance, founded upon a passage in Eugene Sue's celebrated novel of " The Wandering Jew," and will be produced un der the title of MOROK, THE BEAST TAMER. Armand Dugard, Mr. Van Amburgh. The Spectacle will be succeeded toy an incomparable routine of Mr. Betty's Scenes of the Arena, in which Signor Chiarini and Nldlle. Marietta Orsinago, from Italy, will have the honour of appearing. Diaing the recess the Theatre has been entirely re-decorated. Box-office o, en from Eleven till Four. Stage Manager, Mr. W. West. THE LATEST PARLIAMENTARY INTELLIGENCE, ALL OTHER NEWS UP TO THE HOUR Orders received by all Newsmen, and at the Sun-office, TH SUN, LONDON, 'WEDNESDAY EVENING, MAT at, I 848• of events. TO CORRESPONDENTS. lo communication can be attended to unless authenti cated by tne name and address of the writer. Rejectvd communications cAnnot be rt•turned. THE WEA ft-alt. —Sur; OFFICE, MIT 3. THERMOMETER. Lowest, 41 . Highest, 55. Noon, 60. BAROMETER. 30.12 --Wrin E.; fine. HIGH WATER AT LONDON' BRIDGE THIS DAY. Morning .. 36 rain. after 1 after 1 torch of civil war were lighted in their unhappy land. Not all the prestige attachable to parties under prosecution by an ex- officio information, sufficed to render the woulci- be martyrs po pular, or to obtain for them the slightest appearance of sympathy or condolence. The people might, however, have been satisfied with testifying their disapprobation by groans and hisses, and other expressions of contempt and disgust, but their passions were excited to the utmost by the pre sence of the calumniator of the deceased Liberator— the man who furnished the most modern illustration of the fable of the living ass and the dead lion—the war editor of the United Irishman. The disturbance commenced immediately on the arrival of Messrs. MITCHELL and MEAGHER in Limerick. It was with great difficulty that they succeeded in getting to the hotel at which they intended to re side during their sojourn in the town ; pistols and daggers were produced before they could make their way through the assembled multitudes, who received them with hootings and execrations. It was then seriously debated by the Confederates whether the then intended banquet should take place. The more discreet recommended an adjournment sine die, believing that in the face of so unequivocal a demonstration great disturbance would be the necessary result of an unwise perseverance; pru dence, however, is not the characteristic of the Young Irelanders, and it was accordingly resolved (by a very small majority) that the soirée should take place despite of every opposition. They were, however, speedily convinced of the folly and recklessness of their conduct. The proceedings had scarcely com menced when the anticipated riot broke out. The mob paraded through the town, carrying with them a burning tar barrel on which was placed an effigy of Mr. MITCHELL. This was brought so near the premises where the Confederates were banquetting, that they speedily became ignited and the greatest consternation prevailed. This, how ever, was not all—the windows and doors were demolished, and stones and missiles hurled in through the dilapidated sashes. In the meantime the Con federates were not disposed to yield an easy victory— seats and forms were turn up, and converted into weapons of offence and defence. The " Queen of Weapons" was put in requisition on behalf of its laureate, guns and other firearms were resorted to, and several shots fired on either side. At length the police and military came to the rescue, but not until much damage had been inflicted on the belligerents —cut heads, black eyes, and bruises and contusions were displayed on every side. The illustrious ' " Martyr of the Cellar" was one of the chief suf ferers ; he is said to have had one of his ribs broken, his head severely hurt, while his frontispiece was dis figured by a most undeniable black eye, which was painfully conspicuous on his appearance in the Court of Queen's Bench on Monday. It was not until the police were strengthened by detachments of horse, foot, and artillery, that the rioters were dispersed, and the flatees extinguished. Even then the reckless and infatuated party were not contented—they would have continued their meeting, breathing their seditious defiances of, and fulminating their puny threats against, the authorities, and dis claiming the British connexion while under the protection of British guns and British bayonets; but they were speedily called to a sense of their position. The High Sheriff was resolved that he would not be made the sport of the sedition mongers. He announced that if the assemblage did not immediately disperse, the military and police would be withdrawn, and they would be left to the tender mercies of the infuriated multitude. Then, indeed, consternation reigned supreme. Satire qua peut became the order of the day, and the three valorous advocates of physical force, the clamourers for an armed multitude, betook themselves to flight with all convenient dispatch. Mr. AITCHELL himself was forced to admit that " discretion is the better part of valour," and he gave his unconditional adhe sion to the truth of the couplet— " The man who fights and runs away, W ill lire to fight another day; But he who as in battle slain Will never live to fight again." He, therefore, sought the friendly shelter of his hotel ; and having, with difficulty, succeeded in attaining its hospitable walls, along with his confrere, the redoubted MEAGHER, with no worse consequences than a few kicks and cuffs, and an inordinate quan • tity of groaning, they succeeded in inducing the landlord, who, unfortunately, was much injur , d by a blow of a stone on the head (in tended for Mr. MITCHELL), to make provision for their flight. Tile mail coach for Cork was (contrary to the usual custom) packed, and the horses attached in the hotel yard, the gate of which, being kept barred and closed prevented the approach of the people, was suddenly thrown open when all was ready, and the discomfited heroes, having ensconced themselves in the interior of the vehicle, they were whirled off as rapidly as four horses could bear them to another locality. In the meantime, the store in which the banquet was to have taken place was com pletely dismantled, and the appendages of the feast smashed and broken by the indignant crowd. We trust that this rough lesson will not be lost upon the parties, but that they may at length be awakened to a sense of the folly and the wickedness of their conduct. Mr. SMITH O'BRIEN has stated his intention of resigning the representation of the county, and has left an address to his constituents, announcing his reasons for such a step. If this is preparatory to his aban doning the course he has recently pursued, and re• tiring into private life, we shall gladly hail those indications of returning sense, and give him the full benefit of his tardy repentance. We shall anxiously lock for this address, and also for the next publics tion of the United Irishman, that may be printed without being exposed to the censorship of a lawyer. Until their appearance the real feelings of the parties cannot be known. Mr. MITCHELL has again resorted to a dilatory plea to the information exhibited against him ; this would seem to indicate that he is not now quite so anxious to precipitate the crisis as he pro fessed himself to be a short time since. Time, how ever, will tell, and we must patiently bide the course M. LEDRU ROLLIN is by no means disappointed o the results of the recent French elections. M. LEDRU ROLLIN is in no degree jealous of the honour which all France has combined to shower upon the head of M. LAMARTINB, and the acclamations with which all Europe has resounded in honour of that illustrious man. Neither is M. Lignitll ROLLIN in anywise in dignant at the universal opprobrium which has been heaped upon himself, nor is he grieved by finding the name of the Minister of the Interior so very low in the list of the representative s of Paris. So far from being humbled or disappointed by the signal failure of his plans, M. LZDRII Roudis has found in that very failure a source o f censolation which does credit to his ingenuity. Ile has discovered that the indifference of his countrymen and the detestation of foreigners, that all the indignant up b raidings and determined opposition which have greeted him since he avowed himself an advocate of physical force, are in fact only so many attes'ations o f hi s genius— are in fact only so many marks his h fa of on ln eleur! There fore, instead of lamenting reverie," to avoid hearin g over h opes,or " s t a lking apart in joylessof his successful collea gue , the g French Minister the consta?t praises of the Interior has just published a bulletin, whether o fficial or not we are not informed, which com mences w ith the following sentence from J EAN p A rL—a sentence which singularly evinces the modesty and m agnanimity of t he disa pp ointed patriot who considers it applicableie to h y i o m u s , e2f sa : y ' s 'lLh A e N n the tongue of the Repu blic stings ~b PAUL RICHTER, SO I. is that . begins—" console yoursel f by this 14 D u reflection, R " th i a N t wasps do not choose the worst fru i ts ." ch day how true is " Theexperience of life," he proceeds, " proves . e a ch ithis idea, expressed in so original a m_an s ner . b i y , one the of the greatest writers of Germany. Xit best fruit that insects seek without ceasin g e and with avidity. Yes, it is the citizens who have best served the holy cause of liberty and democracy, who are exposed to the most cruel and bitter attacks:' We are much indebted to M. LEDRU RoLLIN for this application of the saying of the German philo sopher—!"l application which, without his disinter ested assistance, neither we, nor most probably the majority of the French people, would ever have Inamed of. Now, however, our eyes are °Poled. For the future we laall - ;.<3 oniblecl to reocip l iaa in every attack upon the character of M. LEDRU ROLLIN, and in every animadversion upon the conduct of the Minister of the Interior, only another attestation of his extraordinary merits — only the sting of the wasp, evidencing the goodness of the fruit. On such occasions, namely, when LEDRU ROLLIN becomes the subject of fresh censure, " the people," so he concludes his bulletin, " will smile with contempt and pity, for they know the real value of the fruit and the wasps who attack it." Sueh is the modest assurance which now gives con solation to the disaffected ambition of LEDRU ROLLIN. It would be hardly fair, perhaps, to turn his own weapons against himself—" I thank thee, Jew, for teaching me that word "—and to apply his allegorical illustration in a different way. It would, per , haps, be hardly fair to compare LEDRU•ROLLIN himself to the wasp he speaks of, and the " good fruit" he preys upon to the well-earned laurels of his more popular colleague. Whether unfair or not, such a comparison is unnecessary. Let the Minister of the Interior have the full benefit of his iniquity, let him employ his leisure in composing bulletins, and let him find consolation by crediting the suggestions of vanity. Happily for France, he has only that source of consolation left him. Happily for France, no ma j or ity in the Assembly, or in the country, will bear witness to his merits—their only attestation must be the disapprobation which they encounter . Lucus a non lucendo must henceforth be the motto of M. LEDRU ROLLIN. SPAIN. Our accounts from Madrid are of the 27th ult. General RAFAEL LION had accompanied the Duke and Duchess DE MONTPENSIER in their journey through Andalusia from Aranjuez to Cordova and Seville. 1 hostile meeting was considered likely to take place between M. BORRIGO, former editor of the Espanol, and one of the directors of La Espana. The Moderado journal, El Faro, was to cease to appear on the Ist of May. The number of the Eco del Comercio of the 26th was seized by order of the po litical chief. The Three per Cents. were done at 311 for paper ; the Five per Cents. at 131 ; the Debt without In terest at 5 ; and the Coupons at 9. THE FRENCH REPUBLIC. PROCEEDINGS AT PARIS. We have received the Paris papers of yesterday. As Thursday (to-morrow) is the day definitively fixed for the first meeting of the National Assembly, the duty has devolved upon the Provisional Govern ment of providing for the regularity of the inaugu rative ceremonies. The subjoined decree has conse quently been published regulating the manner in which the preliminary proceedings will be conducted for the purpose of consolidating the institution of the Republic, of pronouncing the legality of the new re presentation, and of proclaiming the formal constitu tion of the Assembly. The decree is partitioned into twenty-five articles, as follows : " FRENCH REPUBLIC. " LIBERTY-EQUALITT-YRATEANITY. " In the name of the French people, the PrQvisiona' Government decrees:— . . "Art. 1. On May 4, at twelve o'clock, the represents tivea of the people will assemble in the Hall of Sittings, at the Palace of the National Assembly. " Art. 2. At one o'cbck precisely the members of the Provisional Government and the Ministers will enter the Hall. "Art. 3. The President of the Provisional Govern ment will deliver an address to the representatives of the people. He will afterwards call to the Provisional Bureau—first, the senior member in age, as president; secondly, the six youngest members to act as secretaries. " Art. 4. The Assembly being thus provisionally constituted, shall be required by the President to retire in committees for the verification of the returns. " Art. 5. The Assembly will be divided into 18 com mittees, each committee being composed of 50 members. taken from the general list successively in alphabetical order of the departments by which they were elected. " Art. 6. Each committee will be charged with veri fying 50 returns, so that the 18 committees shall examine the 900 returns. " Art 7. The returns submitted to each committee will be divided by departments, in alphabetical order, so that no committee shall have to decide upon any elec, tions within the departments in which its members have been nominated. " Art. 8. It, by double or manifold elections, some representatives form part of a committee called upon to decide upon their returns, the committee shall decide without their participations in the vote. "Art. 9. If the distribution of the returns by depart ments shall reduce to less than fifty, or carry to more than flay, the elections to be verified in the committees. these committees shall verify the number of returns that shall be referred to them. " Art. 10. Each proces-verbal of an election will b« examined by a committee of three members, chosen b) each bureau by ballot. " Art. 11. At three o'clock the sitting will be resumed. The uncontested elections will be immediately submitted 0 the Assembly by a reporter, to be named by eaci. committee The elections which shall give rise to dis cussion shall he reported after the defin i tive constitution of the Assembly. " Art. 12. The Assembly will decide upon the validity of the elections, and the President proclaim to be repro sentatives of the people those whose returns shall be declared valid. " Art. 13. When the representatives of the peopl' proclaimed by the President shall amount to 600 at least, if there shall remain no more reports of returns to be immediately made as uncontested, the Assembly, composed of representatives whose returns have been verified, will proceed to the election of a President. " Art. 14. In this purpose the President will draw by lot nine sections of scrutineers, each composed of thre« members. Each representative will write his vote on bulletin, and one of the secretaries will call on the names. The representative called will receive from one of the members of the bureau a ball of control ; he will place his bulletin in the urn on the tribune, and the ball in another urn on the bureau of the secretaries. " Art. 15. The 'ecretaries will ascertain the number of bulletins, and check this number by the balls. The) will then divide the bulletins in nine baskets, and each sect.D.ii of scrutineers will receive one. The scrutineers will examine the votes on each section, and transmit the result to the first section, which will take the general account of the votes. " Art. 16. All the operations will take place in public sitting ; the result will be transmitted to the President, who will proclaim it. " Art. 17. If any representative of the people does not obtain 450 votes, a second ballot must be bad re course to. " Art. 18. The representative who shall have ob tained the greatest number of votes shall be proclaimed President. " Art. 19. The Assembly shall then appoint by bal lot six Vice• Presidents, six Secretaries, and three Questors. " Art. 20. In case of an equality of votes, the prefer ence shall be given to to the eldest. " Art. 21. The President, Vice-Presidents, and Secre taries are named for one month, and the Questors fur the whole duration of the session. " Art. 22. The Provisional President will proclaim successively the names of the persons elected. When this is dune he will call to the chair the Definitive President, who, in his turn, will call to their places the members of the definitive bureau. " Art. 23. The President will rise and pronounce the following words :—"Representatives of the people, in the name of the Republic, one and indivisible, the National Assembly is definitively constituted. Vive la Repub lique." " Art. 24. The President of the Provisional Govern ment will then ask to be beard. He will, in a speech give an account of the situation of the state on the 24th of February, and of its present situation. In the name of the Government, he will resign into the hands of the representatives of the people the powers which the ac clamations of the people had conferred on it. " A rt. 25. Each minister will give an account of the e le it o called equality acts of his ministry up to the d a y o f t he meetin g of the Assembly." Another decree in reference to the formalities of the new Republican Legislature appeared in the Afoniteur of Monday, a n d excited considerable ridicule among those who a r e particularly disposed to be captious. It is reg u l a ti ve o f th e cos tume of the r e presentatives. We n citizens giv e i " The Provisional Government, considering that the titoythime p ea li m es e u f n u i n f c o t r i m on it s y , o d f ec c r o p s e t s u : te T f h or e principle representatives of the people shall wear a black coat, a white waistcoat with lappets, and a tricoloured sash with gold fringe. They shall also wear in the button-hole on the left side a red ribbon, in which shall be worked the fasces of the Republic." Some of the journals attempt to be especially face tious upon this very innocent proclamation. The Presse, of course, is among the jokers. It i nqu i res , i n a tone of mock commiseration, what on earth is to be done by the Bishop of QUIMrER, the newly elected Deputy for Finisterre ? It asks if the un fortunate prelate is to throw aside his cassock and appear in the garb of Rosurizaait—forgetting for the moment possibly that the coat of Rol:lim p/Ems was alternately sky-blue and blood-colour blazing with steel buttons. " Alas !" exclaims the Journal des Debats, in a similar vein of iro n y, « we d re sses or in uniform. There days by the fouler g iven, that persons going to court rt well remember t he exclamations provoked in former should appear in c oin , r is, We ourselves, the anrrection cf raxii/hoolins• W as no end in those day s to the sarcasms at the re- sycophants of the powers than in existence, were the first to laugh at it. We are not quite sure that we can do so as freely at the present day. The Court of to-day does not like laughing. Nevertheless, we shall be curious to see certain representatives—Father LACORDAIRE, for instance, with his shaven head and Dominican crown, replacing his white robes for a black coat, a white waistcoat with lappels, and a tri coloured sash, ornamented with a golden fringe en grainer d epinards. What would the citizen MURAT say, if he returned to life, and found himself deprived of his immortal cap? But let us be serious. It is not a change in pantaloons, or in the name of streets, that changes society. The people have more sense than you seem to think. The proverb says that from the sublime to t he ridiculous t h ere is but o ne ste p . " w re ar e are arevery w illing to believe th a t you are su blime, but truly sorry to say that you have taken the other step." In another paragraph the Debats declares that the Provisional Government might with equal propriety have ordained that the members of the National Assembly should appear in a state of nudity because man was so made by the Divinity, or in the picturesque blouse of the handicraftsman because the Deputies are the chosen of the ouvriers. To award due importance to these absurd and petulant ob jections to the decent uniformity of the representa tive costume, we must pronounce them at once— contemptible. If the Provisional Government has given no more serious cause for dissatisfaction, it has merited the reverence and admiration of the citizens. A decree of rather more significance appeared in the Moniteur of yesterday, a decree which shows that the Provisional Ministers are eminently entitled to this reverenc e and admiration— not alone f r om the population of France, but of entire Christendom. It pronounces in the most absolute language the total and permanent abolition of slavery in all parts of the Republic. This noble and admirable document is subjoined : " In the name of the French People : " The Provisional Government, considering that sla very is an attack upon the di g nit y of man ; that in de stroying the tree choice of man it su pp resses the nature ' principle of right and duty; th at it is a flagrant violation of the Rep u blican doctrine—" Liberty, Equality, Fra ternity." Considering that if effective measures should not speedily follow the proclamation already made of the principle of abolition, deplorable disorders in the colonies might he the result, decrees— " Art. l. slavery will be entirely abolished in all the colonies and possessions of France, two months after the promulgation of the present decree in each of them. From the date of the promulgation of the present decree in the colonies, all corporal punishment, and all sales of persons not free, shall be absolutely interdicted. " Art. 2. The system of engagement, for a time esta blished in Senegal, is suppressed. " Art. 3. The Governors and Commissaries -General of the Republic are charged to apply the whole of the measures required to ensure liberty at Martinique. Guadeloupe, and its dependencies. The island of the Reunion (Bourbon), Guiana, Senegal, and other French establishments on the west coast of Africa, the island of Mayotte and its dependencies, and Algeria. " Art. 4. All old slaves condemned to affliction and correctional punishments for crimes which, in free men, would not have been punished, are amnestied. "Art. 5. The National Assembly will regulate the amount of indemnity to be given to the colonists. " Art. 6. The colonies purified from slavery and the Indian possessions shall be represented in the National Assembly. " Art. 7. The principle that the soil of France frees the slave who touches it is applied to the colonies and possessions of the Republic. "Art. 8. For the future, even in foreign countries, every Frenchman is forbidden to possess, to purchase, or to sell slaves, or to participate, either directly or indi rectly, in any traffic or business of the kind. Every infraction of these rules will lead to the loss of the quality of the French citizen. Nevertheless, French men who are affected by these prohibition at the moment of the promulgation of the present decree, will have a delay of three years to conform to them.. Those who may become possessors of slaves in foreign countries by inheritance, gift, or marriage, must, under the same penalty, set them free, or alienate them within the same period, from the day that their possession may commence. " Art. 9. The Ministers of Marine, Colonies, and War are charged with the execution of the present decree. " Done at Paris, in Council of Government, the 27th April, 1848. " Signed by the Members of the Provisional Govern ment." The Ultras are, as a matter of course, half delirious at the victorious majority of the moderate Repub licans in the general elections of the capital and the departments. 14 EDRU Roa.LIN does not disguise his chagrin in the Reforme. " A little patience," says that journal; " our eternal enemies will not have patience if we have. Look at them coming with their pry positions for two Chambers —the suffrage a deux degres ; financial laws favourable to last e property and stock jobbing. Look at them crying out communism, when the proportionable pro perty-tax is mentimed. " All partial insurrection is at this moment a crime and a fault ; a crime, for it causes the purest blood to flow uselessly ; a fault, for it retards the definitive esta• blishment of the Republic egalitaire et fraternede." Through that sombre passage it is impossible not to detect the after-thought of civil war. The ominous manifesto of the Societe des Droits de &mute et du Citoyen--placarded so recently upon all the walls of Paris—has been every where torn down. With the indignant voice of the Reforme are heard also those of the Commune de Paris, the Courrier Francais, the Vraie Liberty, and the Ami du Peuple. Even the National is beginning to grumble at what it calls the reactionary movement. Speaking of the rejection of M. TRIERS, the Constitutionnel ob- serves The universal order was issued—any candidate whatever rather than M. Thiers! Dismissals, calutnnies ' manoeuvr es of all sorts, v i o l enc e, nothing was left un done; not only were lists with M. Thier.'s name torn from the country people, but the octroi men searched for them as if for contraband goods; and the town of Aix was threatened with the loss of its court of appeal, and all t his was done by orders from Paris. The rector of the M. Dufolipires, was dismissed by M. supported M. Thiers." that besides the Catholic prelates c A ac It tn d o e wt m ob y ue ci o da f u A e i x b , appear e already mentioned as among the representatives re turned by the departments, the name of the Bishop of LANGRES must also be enumerated. The Republican deputy for Aveyron turns out to be the brother of the Archbishop of PARIS, and not the metropolitan him self. Additional accounts have been received from the disturbed cities of the departments, accounts which, while they confirm the reports of the restoration of tranquillity to Rouen, corroborate the rumours of emeutes at Limoges, at Lyons, and at Nantes. On Friday and Saturday all the bridges on the Rouen Railway were occupied by the (garde Nationale Mobile. Private letters from Limoges, of the 27th, tell of serious collisions in that direction. Of these proceedings the Presse says : The disturbances at Limoges have beea very serious. The names of the deputies could not be proclaimed. The candidates of the moderate party, MM. Maurat-Ballange and C. Teste, were obliged to leave the town. The National Guards of St. Jullien, Bellac, and other neigh bouring canton s, were on their march for Limoges. Orders were given for two squadrons of cavalry to repa i r thither also. It is stated that M. Pierre Leroux is inst.lled at the prefecture, with some hundreds of workmen." A c cording mea t had t o the Paine the Provisional Govern dispatched a sp ecial commissar y to ous inces on Limoges, for th e p ur p ose of effecting its pacification. At Nantes there wereevery seri emeute, whic dhstur combamenced the 27th ultimo. Th with the marching of a column of 1,200 men through the principal stre ets, singing the songs of the Revo lution, excited but little trepidation. After sacking the house of the Curb of Saint r atNicho with cries of— " A bas FoustruEß—a bas la Cure —the mob were dispersed through the intervention of a commissary of police, and several of the rioters were arrested. The fusion of the depatmental banks with the Bank of Franc e i s complete r , and the latter has accord ingly issued a notice that it will discount bills in Lille, Rouen,• Havre, Toulouse, Marseilles, Lyons, and Orleans, and receive the notes of the banks of these loans. BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE 6N —N . Nort hern of France, 3 arts and Orleans, 23—Rotten LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, MAY 2. a Boulogne Orleansna arzd a sß n_ o d rsd ea A r na r a n re,en and d Meuse, 4%. SOUTHAMPTON, MONDAY, Mir I.—The Prussian ,eh o c ner Speed, from Lisbon, bound to Memel, and the Hamburgh bark Louisa, with sugar, from Havannab, bound to Hamburgh, have arrived at the Motherbank. These vessels have put in on account of having rece i ve d news in the mouth of the Channel of the existing hosti atthteh C a h o D e lities between the Germanic Confederation and Den mark;thedangers they are recommended by their respective consulates to remain of the Isle of Wight until all fear of molestation by the Danes ceases. Merchants con nected with Germany are using all available means to warn vessels under the German or Prussian flag bound p to ro n ce o e ti d fy ing t; to German ports and the north and east seas against a th n e d to which they are exposed. SOUTHWARK-BILIDGE COMPANY. --- The annual commanderscutters s e s now h o oe w fl cruisin g dsuycehs yester day er meeting of this company 1 near Southwark -bridge, when the usual accounts were laid before the shareholders, the result of which was that a =el dividend only eras declared. however, managed to escape the vigilance of the rroops, reached the city, and caused here a great ex • •iternent. Immediately a deputation, composed three members of the Polish committee established here, went to M. KRIEG to demand the recal of his order. At the same time nearly the whole of the emigrants, followed by a mass of the population, proceeded to the hotel of the Commissary ZuN GRENAL. The two sentinels posted at the door, and the soldiers at the neighbouring post, retreated to the castle, and the crowd penetrated into the salon of M. KRIEG, and forced him to go to the hotel where the Polish committee sits. lie was joined by General CASTIGLIONE, commandant of the troops. Both of them gave a written order to allow the emigrants to pass, and abolished all measures taken to prevent the sending of arms to furnish the National Guard, assuring them that they had none themselves at the castle to furnish to the committee. The Austrian troops are augmenting in number more and more in the vicinity of Cracow. A corps of 80,000 men is concentrating itself in Gallicia under the command of General VINDISCHGRALTZ ; but there are many who remain still uncertain if this army is intended to commence hostilities against the toles or against the Russians. =-------------- —.1.1"—; 4,qe I . Z 4, pti i • NA, i...n 'ff. " 4 ~,,..4 ~.. ~* , 4 'i . '°- + 4&'-. 9 ~,. 11.. • . O, ..„4 k..--,,i,.- '..4.v ,-, 1 -•, - ...„....,,... 6 . ) i a . ~.• . . 1444 ,ft - .. 1 ' -:. 71i I . \ ' •: - • - Alli• - rl" ''''.l(, Inning *Mt LONDON, WEDNESDAY, MAY 3, 1848. Although anything in the shape of a collision and conflict between different classes or parties must ever be deplored, the recent occurrence at Limerick will at least have one good result. The advocates of physi cal force will have been taught, by the most convincing evidence, how repugnant are the sanguinary doctrines they have promulgated to the feelings of the great body of the people, and how utterly hopeless any a tt e mpt on their part o f arme d resistance to the au thorities, must prove, while they are not merely unsupported, but actually opposed by the great majo rity- of the Repealers themselves. Any doubts which might formerly have been entertained on this point must now be wholly removed. It is an indisputable fact that the Confederates, with the chosen triumvirate at their head, have been assailed in the district which had been supposed to be the head-q uarters o f " Y oung ireitui di, m ," that their principles were repudiated, their iniammatory harangues despised, and that they actually owed their personal safety to the pro tection of the military and police, the very bodies against whom they had so often hurled d e fi ance . The people are well aware of the miseries and wretchedness that would be the inevitable conse guence of listening to the insidious advice of the A gitators. They know the awful sufferings to which their itunilios and friend,' would as ezpoied . if tka GERMANY AND THE NORTHERN STATES. AUSTRIA. The accounts received in Vienna of the blockade of Venice both by sea and land, and of the surrender of Treviso, had created extraordinary excitement. A telegraphic dispatch, which reached Vienna on the 26th, from Count HARTIG, confirmed the intelligence of the capture of Undine on the 23d, and mentioned that the troops were proceeding onwards to occupy Godroipo. Throughout the 25th the Austrian capital had been engaged with its Easter festivities. In the evening a grand procession took place by torchlight. There were not less than 1,000 bearers of torches exclusive of the members of the Vocal Society, the Artists' Association, and the National Guards. The procession wound its way through the tortuous streets of Vienna, "like a long fiery serpent." The houses were generally illuminated. The favourable accounts from Italy, combined with the pacific aspect of affairs in Vienna, has already given a stimulus to business in the Bourse of that city. Bank Shares rose on the 26th to 1,120, 1,130 ; Metallic Five per Cents. to 70, 71 ; Northern Rail road Shares to 85, 86. The exchange on London has fallen to 11. PRUSSIA. A sort of rapture has seized upon the usually staid population of Berlin, in consequence of the intelli gence received of a great victory won by the Prussian over the Danish troops. At the theatre the news was received with loud acclamations, the actors awl audience both joining in the song "Was ist deg Deutschen Vaterland." There has also been, in honour of the event, a grand review of all the troops stationed in the neighbourhood of Berlin. Placards were posted over the walls of the Prussian capital, appealing to public opinion on behalf of the Poles. In these placards it is declared that the calum nious reports are circulated against the Poles ; and the Polish committee at the same time threatens to bring to justice the most active of their maligners. Some Poles even affirm that the Poles have been quiescent, and that all deeds of cruelty committed in Posen have been perpetrated by Germans ! A Berlin paper states, on the faith of persons ar riving from Hanover, that the Prussian troops of the guard have taken by assault, and after a strong cannonade, two Danish men of war. Nothing, till the present moment, has confirmed this marvellous feat. The same paper affirms that the Bremish Senate required from the united states the necessary ships of war for the protection of the German navy against the Danish ships. The order for rendering moveable the federal troops in the kingdom has been published. Those troops are to be stationed in Bavaria, the troops of the latter state having been sent partly to Tyrol, partly to the Rhine. THE INSURRECTION IN BADEN. It appears that the Republicans in the Grand Duchy of Baden had thought of attempting a revenge for the defeat they sustained on the 30th of April at Kaudern. A letter from Basle of the 24th reported that HECKER had crossed the Rhine, and re-entered Baden at the head of a thousand French and German workmen, with whom he hoped to join the numerous operatives come from Paris, and who, wearing red caps, were hidden in the forests on the frontier. On the 28th the Wurtemberg troops met with a de tachment of the insurgents, from whom they took two cannons, an omnibus full of provisions, and a great many arms. Another encounter took place at Schrof heim. Most of the insurgents have returned to Switzerland, or to Alsace, by way of Huningen, where they have been disarmed by the Swiss and French authorities, according to the recent decree of the French Provisional Government. The chiefs of the insurgents, HECKER, DOLL, HEINZEN, and lIERWEGH, are at Huningen. POLAND. By the information dispatched from Cracow on the 26th ultimo it would seem, as we briefly intimated yesterday, that a skirmish has taken place between the populace and the troops, in cons quence of the refusal of Government to allow Polish emigrants, not natives of Cracow, to remain in the town. Barri cades were erected, and several rockets are said to have been thrown from the Castle. Peace was even tually restored by the emigrants voluntarily re moving. Gen. CASTIGLIONE is said to be wounded. We transcribe the following letter, addressed to the Baron VON ARNIM by Prince CZARTORTSLI : " Berlin, April 26. " M,nsieur le Baron,—l arrived at Berlin full of hope. Prussia, the organ of the generous sentiments of all Germany, seemed to desire that she might be the ' first to undertake the reparation of a great injustice. She appeared nut merely to propose the raithfu► exe cution of the promises she had made in 1815, but by new acts ot beneficence to that part of Poland which she holds under dominion, to efface the vestiges of an cient injuries, to put an end to recriminations, and to strengthen Germany by the gratitude ot the Poles. " I quit Berlin with a heart heavy from the disappoint. ment ut these bright anticipations. " Whatever may be the cause ; it is the fact, that up to this day not one of the promises made to the inhabitant, of the Grand Duchy of Posen by the Prussian Govern ment has been realised; and during this time the pro longed uncertainty which has existed concerning the future destiny of the country, and the satisfaction that would be granted to its wishes, has produced, instead of the union so necessary to the common welfare ot the two nations, a feeling of excessive irritation and the most deplorable disorders. " Calumnies wholly destitute of foundation, assertions the most contrary to truth, have been employed for the purpose of blackening the character of the Poles, rob bing them of the sympathy of the German nation, and destroying in their minds the confidence which they ought to place in its justice. " The German inhabitants who, in pursuance of a policy hostile to Poland, had been induced to settle in the Duchy of Posen, have been excited to reject, with hostile demonstrations, under the pretext of their pecu liar interests, measures which the common interest of two people made to live on good terms with each other was about to realise. " The still more narrow interests of the Prussian offi cials, who find their position menaced by a change in the Government of the province, have had, there is no doubt, the greatest share in this fatal reaction. "It is this state of things that the Prussian Govern ment, even before deciding on the reorganization pro mised to the Duchy of Posen, announces the determina tion to reduce it by nearly one half of its territory, and to attach immediately to the German Confederation that part of the duchy inhabited chiefly by Germans. "This operation, which legitimate interests, constitu ting new rights, may render necessary, could not poi sibly be executed with equity in a moment of confusion and irritation. It should be accomplished in conformity with the wishes of the inhabitants. But the mode in which those wishes should be ascertained ought to be guaranteed against practices tending to falsify the result. " To reduce at this moment the territory of the Grand Duchy in a precipitate manner, and on statistical data which are notoriously inaccurate (for they go so far as to make a German town of the capital of the duchy itself), would be to accomplish a new partition of Poland —a measure to which the noble sentiments of the King are undoubtedly opposed, and against which all Poles will protest. It is their duty to do so. I also must fulfil this duty on quitting Berlin, and I perform it, Monsieur le Baron, by this letter, which I have the honour of addressing to you. " The marks of goodwill which I have received during my stay in this capital form a new reason why I should leave no room for doubt as to my sentiments on the subject. " I entertain besides a profound conviction that the true policy of the Prussian Government requires that those unhappy complications should be remedied as speedily as possible, and that union and confidence should be re-established between the interests of Ger many and regenerated Poland. Poland should not be compelled to seek that union and confidence elsewhere. It must not be forgotten that Germany, on the da) when she pronounced her resolution to be free, and again to become a powerful nation, felt the instant necessity of repudiating the crime formerly committed by her two principal representatives, and of constructing on her eastern frontiers a barrier necessary for her own security. " I flatter myself with the hope that the Prussian Government will perceive that it ought, without further delay, to acl,)pt these views and reduce them to practice. Its interests and a due regard for good must equally require that it should do so. " Accept Monsieur le Baron, the assurance of the high consideration, Sce., " ADAM CZARTORYSKI." The Polish emigrants already assembled at Cracow number more than 1,200 most of them in a deplorable state of embarrassment. On the 25th ultimo, these unfortunate men made a very signi ficative demonstration, and at which the whole Commissarypopulation o,fmt.hxisintEoznhavaisnsgistgediv.en orders e er A s u to strian per mit no more Poles coming from France to enter the territory of our republic, a column of 730 of them was 'stopped on tho trilAtier. Some of them haviAg , . • .y0x.46.:. 1.6 ITALY DENMARK AND THE DUCHIES DANISH ACCOUNT OF THE BATTLES. From a narrative penned on the 28th ult. we ex tract the following particulars :—The Danes who were taken prisoners on the 23d and 24th have been brought in to-day. One of the large churches has been arranged for their reception. About 400 have been consigned to it, and 82 to private houses. The number of officers is 13. At a meeting of the burghers, held at ;Rendsburg, Professor DAHLMANN, of Bonn, was proposed Re presentative of the German Parliament for the second district of Holstein, and was unanimously elected. COPENHAGEN, APRIL 27.—The reports from the army reach only to yesterday, the 26th, when General :EADEMANN had his head-quarters at Sonderburg. In nis report of the battle of Schleswig the General states that the retreat was not conunenced till the troops engaged in the encounter had been replaced three times, and the last reserves were led into the enemy's fire. the retreat to Flensburg is described as perfectly )egular. The skirmish at Ohersee is stated without •letails of the issue. It is conceded that a part of he enemy and many of the burghers, intimidated by the false alarms of some fugitive dragoons, have fled from Flensburg on the 24th. The army, which had bivouacked in the open air throughout the greater part of the night, was obliged to break up early on the morning of the 25th, fur Alsen, where the head quarters were established. At Sonderbnrg the troops suffered so severely from rain and cold, that a few days' rest is indispensable. Among the officers who were wounded in the encounter at Schleswig are three lieutenant-colonels, three majors, and several officers of the inferior rank. In a document from the Minister of War to General HEDEMANN, of the 25th inst, in which the procedure of the General is highly commended, the Minister declares, that the General will have to maintain the contest for some time, without any additional reinforcement. ORLA LEHMANN, the Minister of State, arrived here yester day, by the English steamer Camilla. The Berlinger Zeitung, without entering into any particulars, states that the intelligence which he has brought is satisfactory. The Fadrelandst gives extracts from letters ad dressed to the Duke of GLUCKSHURG, which were found at Flensburg. One of them is from his wife, a daughter of King FREDERICK VI., the other from his brother, Prince WILLIAM, who is in the Austrian service. Both of them express disapproval of his pro ceedings, and are in favour of the Schleswig-Holstein cause. The same journal contains a communication, in which it is stated, that as soon as it is known for certain that the Hans Towns have joined in the war against Denmark, the royal ships of the line will receive orders to take possession of all German vessels without distinction, and that they will nut escape with a mere embargo, but that they will be unconditionally condemned. The communication goes on to say, that a blockade of the Elbe, according to the definition established by the rights of nations, would offer so many difficulties, not only in a political, but also in a naval and military point of view, that without refraining from the occa • sional bringing up of individual ships, the Danes will, in the main, limit themselves to support the opera tions of the land army by the ships of the line. The meeting of the Diet was opened yesterday at Roeskilde, by the Royal Commissioner, Count SeoN NECK. The speech from the Throne treats the oppo sition of Schleswig- Holstein to the incorporation of Schleswig with Denmark as open rebellion. The 6incellor of State, M. SCROUEN, was nominated President of the Ass -mbly ; and Prof-ssor CLAN sENBEU, President. The President proposed an address to the KING, and another to the army, both of which w, re unanimously adopted. ALTONA, APRIL 28.—1 t has been confirmed that Count CHARLES MOTTKE has been summoned by the KING to Friderichia. BERLIN, APRIL 28.—N0 Berlin journals have yet appeared, as the question for a rise of wages is not yet settled. The demands of the workmen are in general very exorbitant, and the compositors are determined, if the masters cl.) not give in, to found a printing union of their own, by shares, with an equal division of the profits. There is very little indeed doing in literat ure ; consequently the printers have had very little employment, and this is doubtless one reason for the present strike. No work has been de livered from the Royal Library since the 18th of March. This stagnation extends, of course, also to the other branches of the trade. One of the most remarkable and unreasonable demands made by the compositors is, that besides the machine-press, a cer tain number of hand-presses shall be used, and be subject to an extra tax.—Hamburgh Borsenhalle, April 29. A telegraphic dispatch, which arrived at Altona on the 27th, gives information that the Danes are pushing on towards Tondern, in order to get into Ripen. They are cut off from communication with Alsen. Their batteries at Holnis have been taken. Count CHARLES MOLTKE has been summoned to the presence of the King of DENMARK at Frederica. Appenrade is also in possession of the Germans. From Flensburg a letter dated the 27th is written to the Borsenhalle, stating that a Danish officer with preliminaries for a truce arrived there on that day A traveller, who arrived at Hamburgh from Flens burg on the 28th, states also that the Hanoverians under the command of General HALKETT, intended on that day, to commence an attack on the island of Alsen. The Danish Chamberlain, DE ORKOLM, who had been sent to St. Petersburgh in order to ask for the assistance of Russia, has, according to a private letter received from St.Petersburgh, got a categorical answer that Russia will in no way interfere. On the 24th, at Schleswig, they buried the bodies of those who had fallen at the siege of the town, They amounted in number to 102. Mr. MUNTEN DAMON, captain of the Dutch vessel J%coba (in ballast from Hamburgh to Hobroe in Jutland), reports that on the 26th of April, when he was on the point of leaving the canal of Schleswig Holstein, a Danish man-of-war, which happened to be on the spot, fired on him and drove him back• Upon his appeal that he carried a neutral flag, and was steering to Hobroe, the man-of-war assured him that no vessel, no matter of what nation, could pass. The Jacobs put back to Holtenau. We read in the Echo des Alpes Maritimes, a journal 'published at Nic e :—" The recent conduct at Lord Brougham, in which the people of Cannes have fancied there Vk ere indications of hostile feelings to wards France, and to their neighbouring friend Charles Albert, have nearly cost him his country seat. At one of the late meetings of the clubs of the canton, after laearing read his speeches in the House of Lords, a mu ;ion was made that the members of the club.; should Immediately proceed--it bang then nine o'clock at night—to his Lordship's chateau with torches and com bustibles. But one of the speakers rose and No, citizens ! not now. If we go we shall be taken for robbers. If the house of this ungenerous citizen is to be burnt let us de it in open day.' Ilis suggestion pre vailed, and the chateau was saved. On the following day the idea of burning was abandoned, and instead, a resolution was come to that a charivari should be given to his Lordship if he ventured to set his foot in Cannes." A CURIOUS MOUSE'S NBST.—A few days since \it.. Thomas Wallis, plumber and glazier, Newport Pagnel, found a mouse's nest in bis warehouse, lined with gold. The mice had made u-e of the gold book which was used for lettering in making their nest. DISPOSITION OF THE CONTEND ING ARMIES IN ITALY. From the Epoca, published on the 21st ult. at Rome, it would seem that the arming of the popula tion and the fitting out of exped itions to the aid of the army of independence progresses admirably. A contingent of three thousand men, in addition to the troops already dispatched were to leave Naples on the 22d, on their road to Lombardy. Of en we s h a ll which are occurring throughou t Lombardy speak in detail. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) The main body of the Pie dmontese army extend§ along ag, Peschiera to Pozzolongo, Ponti and L una Mezembano, on the right sh ore of the Mincio, and on the left shore from Va le gg io to Borghetto, as far as the centre of the province of Verona. In the front of Pozzolo a bridge of boats has been constructed, which facilitates to the P iedmontese the crossing' of the Mincio. CHARLES ALBERT passed through V''' . leggio on the 22 d u l t ., in order to prepare for an a ttack against the height s that master Verona, tied d which, in conjunction w ith the movementdirecte against Peschiera, seemed to give credit torahe r eport of a projected simultaneou s o p eration agait YeNae' Peschiera, and Mantua. The Austrians, meanwhile, are distributed in the Those fortresses of Peschiera, Vero na, and Mantua. three lines lie, with respect to each o ther, 0 the points of a right - angled triangle, the extremities of the base indicated by Mantua and Verona (distanced from each other about twenty-two miles), the ape x marked by Yer t 0 f chiera, which lies about eleven miles due wes tos. Verona and about nineteen du e north of Men Peschiera is situated on the lake of Guards, just at the effluence of the Mincio, and this position give' it ,, i l s importance in the present campaign, a s it thus flank as it were, the left issue of the defile through whit lies the communication b etween Austria an d L°l3l- Three hardy—the right being covered by Verona• great roads lead from the Tyrol into the Ite li f plains. The first, turning to th e left at Roverell e merges into the Venetian territory at Vicensa, ea wo uld consequently conduct the Austrian reinforce; i nents directly into the heart o f a hostile populetieof already occupying the principal military Positi°end the country. The second road crosses the upPer re of the lake of Guards, and follows its wester ° i eht : he to Brescia, a town actually in the hand§rd Italians (occupied by the Roman troops). The t' l h threng it descends the left bank of the Adige, Trento and Roveredo, at which latter P hiee e d throws off a smaller branch, the main h ° go continuing its course direct to Verona, Wen, its offset crosses to the right bank of the st re eei „ and tracks its narrow path am id the P r .„, a , pices of the Montebaldo as far as Osteris del le oe gang, where, forced to the right by the nature °f of ground, it ascends the p l a t e au of Itivoli, end 6° tbe connects itself with a broader line, turning off in g , n ,b direction of Peschiera, which it reaches thr;se, Castelnuovo, lately reduced to ashes b.? the, road trians ! The principal points along this line enab l e s being still in the hands of the them to keep up their communications wltohristric; be resources ; and unless these coinniuni4tl rope i g n is partially, if not utterly, broken , t he cs likely to be a protracted one- A.ustris.ns• . e. 0 " 03 ` e It is difficult to arrive at inv. The tali ° the actual strength of RADOSICY 's a r ' roc s, the if this be co asts, too papers state it as 50,000 ; but have 150,0 boasted assertions of Austria to the c ell' be to 00 0 • the Lombardo-Venetian kingdom mencement of the struggle must be looked uP re , t bs any certain estiniate_of Metternichian fanfaronade. We shall e t ~,,, lit for r oo tit truth, perhaps, by making allowances deceptions—taking the original force 115 6 1 tori tr 80,000, setting down its subsequent - . - .. e et i n g e stie- iti o ration at 20,000, and consequently its actual strength in._ the north e l. tha t one at some 60,000. Of these it would apps e r t he in half is encamped in and about Verona, under ~tbi mediate orders of RADETSKT himself, while 01°1- re• occupy the redoubted fortress of Mantua; ' tre e s' I maining sixth is charged with the defence ° 1 ,., 0 chiera. Verona and Mantua are of course the ° 14 1: of the chief anxiety of the enemy ; they fortDr . in 43 — e s c th the bulwarks of Lombardy and Venice, and p c o w their walls the destinies of Italy will, in all pr bility, be decided. 1 o 0 Verona is very strongly and beaut ifull y situate' of the lower ridge of the hills which form the he 4 its the Adige, that river, in fact, flowing throug h , i.' massive ramparts and outworks present us "e't f of lustrations ot almost every epoch in the hlerifit fortification. The Emperor GrALLIENUS VW t:: ha/ to increase by art the strength with which be tw i i ere already endowed it, and portions of hi s p r esent pointed out to the curious stranger even st, tbe .e F e r ryier day. Two other lines of rampart, still -J e f ' . .. se - iy ° aibie preservation, are attributed resP e t o trie s HEODORIC and to CHARLEMAGNE', Sl id 14 . r o:ptf lt. which goes by the name of the former beb" - fes tif and parapets were constructed in the !Piddle, 7,0" the family of the Scagligeri, then Lords °` 0 ,0 09 In 1520 the Venetians added some strong °ll ;, e c ele:. b which were planned and euperintended .bY t .7, en ce ° ' rated SAN MICHELI, founder of the modernAetly Ce s : fortifications, since developed and per ecte rr - h . . 111/ , ° 1 . : HORN, Vox SCHEITER, and VAusio- '", e idelly",,' these works has been again cee'fii- militi a added to, and strengthened by the Austrie ll— isle", engineers. Notwithstanding all this, Ver°ll3ll.ooo no prominent part in the wars of the fir et „ s pa revolution. In 1796 the Venetian RePublic P OO ° permitted MASSENA to occupy it without a e l ti e befi de4 s resistance ; and the Treaty of Vienna in 181 ' , of the it over to Austria with the rest of the ter n ito9 insulted and plundered Queen ot the Adr ie od tle ; o f t 1 3 .9 The Nile of Mantua, in the same ep ee segso - was of far greater importance' f V I !: by both belligerent parties as the buleul‘ of efer' hardy, in the possession of which the ultire e tip o el l of the struggle must depend, immense f.!coptist,, made on either side for its defence as in' . ', 4/ ,,Sie ci Placed in the middle of a lake, formed by " of t, 14 ; and artificially deepened by embanklunte' f rb l i , can only he approached by five chaucsis, ° cootr ) at the period of its siege in 1796, the 01 01' 0 to couple only were fortified ; three lock§ g r il i be l '::1 garrison the command of the waters c'' . , o ll , tf i enabling them to increase their depth at pleT be 0 0 9 even to flood a considerable portion ° ( . O , of), approaches to their margin. The pet: 0°1 00 0 9 position, while it gives Mantua its immetlieroder:ol reacts against it, in some measure, bi b o f cl l necessary a vast extent of outworks, *hi e b y ce ll / demand a proportionately large garrison ; t ioi ,S buting greatly—and especially' in sugui le t t a il f ), o the unhealthiness of its situation ; and II : 0 00 ' 0 41 its blockade and throwing the beseiged - o b oe, .0 1 internal resources for subsistence. in c° , - ei t V i of these disadvantages, N.troesor4.9 e, ve „ - •ecit f hands full, was able to spare 5 5111";01 tab of men to surround Mantua, and I° 7e t ij ,o" ° a garrison which actually out-num ber ' s et siegers, while he himself devoted a ll b il e t he /D ti ti: crushing the Austrian armies sent to relic the fell The stubborn defence of this fortress c o 0 0 tr WURUSER is well known. Mantua w as °fii' o et i r r 4 to capitulate after a blockade of seven l3o°' would probably have held out much longe:rtcoetVi t r i been for the supernumerary garrison latil,;or which, adding nothing to its defensivetettool,6( insufficient to assume the offensiv e, onlY a ti , 00, to diminish the scanty provisions and erc'fiin tl' 'l r :ie Pita l4— always more or less burdened ore 1 , 1 1 healthy town. In vain did the tough ld . t 0 01 out the half rations of his troops bY I d i llit) ; ttif o O l d tc ing the horses of his magnificent efo l l, strii ( o ' l so anxiously looked fur, and so desperateoJoiftit, , was everywhere intercepted by th e 1 ii i. ° f elr; queror of Italy, and Wusicses, seeie,gsupplf'o4, otoof t provisions reduced to a three der the red tantly capitulated, leaving to Itiantull o l io ' 0 of being impregnable, save to fernine'ewbot dogiroi, tion, however, was destined to be 0 re ,,, 0 Ortfoep id by the comparative ease with which t° l , l je t i p o , afterwards recaptured by 5n o t t ia lo i i aware that the real strength of ''''" te a bin i f al position rather than its works, dire:jos o f fr 6 tention to overcoming the diff icll , l reac hie Vi these presented. The possession 0' the 14,10600.',wd Go'ito, had placed the whole line of , 0 A dr hands, and he availed himself of t. 13 : 6 00 1 ; 1 numerous gunboats, armed wit)/ .'~ 1 ~, ,