The Sun. — London, England, 1848-05-20 00:00:00

Oa the 17th instant will be published. in 3 vols. post Svo., MR. CURLLNG'S NEVy ROMANCE. H A S P E ARE, Talc POET, THE LOVER, THE ACTOR, AND THE MAN. A ROMANCE. By HENRY CURLING. Author of " John of len4land," tee. Richar d Bentley, New Burhngton-street. EBe AJESTY'S THEATRE. JENNY LIND. The Nobility, Subooribers to the Opera, and the Pablie are respect fully tingamed that • Grand ISTRA. NlfiliT wlll take place ou TIII.7II.SDAT next, Msty 25, on which omasion Mdlle. JE2DIT LIND will appear as LTICIS., in Donisetti's Opera of LUCIA DI LAM 2dERMOOR. To be f o ll o wed by Tagous entertainments in the Ballet Depart ment, combining the talents of Mdlies. C. Grist, C. Rosati, M. Tag lioni, Cerito, And MM. Perrot and St. Leon. The s'ree List is suspended, the publie Press excepted. Pit Tickets may be obtained as usual at the Box-office of the Theatre, price 10s. 6d. each. Applioatioas for Boxes, Pit Stalls, and Tickets to be made at the lilost-orice of the Theatre. lIER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. First Appearance of Madame TADOLINI. First Appearance of Mr. REEVES. The Nobility, Gentry, Subscribers to the Opera, and the Public are respectfully informed that Madame TADOLINI will make her first appearance in this country THIS EVENING, May 20, when will be performed Dotneetti's Opera of LINDA DI CHAIIOUNI. Linda, Madame Tadolini ; Pierotto, Schwartz; Antonio, Signor Coletti ; Carlo, Signor Reeves ; 11 Marchese di Boisfleury, Signor F. Lablache: Prefetto, del Villaglo, Signor Lablache. To conclude with the admired Ballet Divertissement, entitled LA VIVANDIERE. La Vivandlere, Mdlle. Cerito ; Le Postilion, M. St. Leon. Intro ducing Pas de la Vivandiere, by Mdlle. Cerito. Pas de Quatre, from Le las dee Fees, by Mdlies. Cerito, Julien, LAMOretlX, and M. , St. Leon. Ballabile, and La Redowa Polka, the original dance of Bobs nala, by Millie. Cerito and M. St. Leon. Applications for Boxes, Stalls, and Tickets, to be made at the Box-office of the Theatre. The Frio List is suspeuled, the public Press excepted. Doors open at half-pa st Se .and at Eight o'clock. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Malec the Management of THIS EVEN Mr. B. Webster, sole L essee. EVENING Will be presented Coleman's Comedy of JOHN BULL. After which, Jkil..INY LIND AT LIST ; or , The Swidish Nigkt- To conclude with a gran d Romantic Extravaganza, f ou nded on Horace Walpole's mysterious production, and called THE CASTLE 01? OTR ANTO. Manfred, Mr. Keeley ; the Marquis Viocensa, Mr. ; Hip- J. Bland ; Theodor e, Miss P. Horton ; Odonto, Mr. Caulfield poißto. Mrs. W. Clifford; Isabella. Miss Reynolds; Matilda, Mrs. Caulfield. Stage Manager, Mr. Ferree: Acting Mana g er, Mr. F. Webder. J. T. Archer, Rox-book keeper. Bozo., is. ; Pit. 3s. ; Gallery, 2s. ; Upper Gallery, Is. Door. open at Ralf-past Six, Performance to commence at Seven. THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI. Under the direction of Madame Celeste. THIS EVENING Will be performed a aew and original Drama, called HARVEST HOME. Principal characters by Messrs. 11. Hughes, Lambert, Wright, P. Bedford, 0. Smith, Madame Celeste, Miss Woolgar, Mrs. Frr.fik Matthews, Miss Turner, &c. gro be followed byla new Farce entitled THE TIPPERARY LE GACY. T u rnem Green. Mr. Wright ; Bob Gills, Mr. Munyard ; ',way scrimmage, Mr. Paul Bedford ; Chubblock, Mr. Culleuford ; Policeman. Mr. Sanders ; Lizzy Chubblock, Miss Woolgar. ,Torconcd with THE DOCBLE-BEDDED ROOM. Mr. Dul ial Pipes, Mr. Lambert ; Mrs. Deputy Lomax. Mrs. Law s. Boxes, 45.; Pit, 25. Gallery, Is. n.sra oren at Half-past Six. Performance to o- ..,mence at Sevon. !LOYAL LYCEUM THEATR stris. U n der the Manageme nt of Madame Ve S o lo Lessee. Mr. Charles Matnews. THIS EVENING, ‘ VIII be performed THE SCARE OW a rIes ; Mrs. C. Jones, Miss . Principal ch aracters by CR M, sirs . Buckstone, Selby , Granby, and Ch Zee, and Mrs. Fitzwiliam. .kftcr which, a new Interlude, entitled THE FAST MAN. To oonclude with anterlude, new and original Classical Extravaganza, entitled THFR,EUS ands ARIA ; or, the Marriage of Radius. Principal characters by essrs. C. Mathews, H. Hall, S. Smith, F. Cooke ; Miss FitZWilliAll3, MISS Jane Coleman, Miss Marshall, and Yadarrie Vestris. Dre.,..s Boxes, 55.; Upper Boxes, 4s. ; Pit, 2s. ; Gallery, Is. No half-pric,e to any pa rt of t h e house. The i<ew Box-office. No. 2, W e llington-street, is open to the r uh !i, every day,•er2 Tel till SI-"._ FRENCH PLAYS. —ST. JAMES'S THEATRE. Lessee. Mr. John Mitchell, 33, 0:d Bond-street. L as t eight but Fo ur of the Engagements, and Eighth Appearance since ;845 of M. Achard, also Eighth Appearances in this Country Mdlle. Desiree and M. Julien Deschamps (of the Theatre d u Gyennase, Paris). On MONDAY EVENING, The Entertainments will commence at half-past Seven o'clock when Will be performed a netv Vaudeville, in One Act, entitled LE FE TIT-Fes. Benjamin, M. Jalien Deschamps; Theodore, M. Josset ; Fougeres, M. Tourillon ; Madame Darnaantieres, Madame Valmy ; Henriette, Mdlle. Marot. After which a new Vaudeville, entitled MADEMOISELLE AGATHE. Jean-Felicien Bergeret, M. Achard ; Annette, Mdlle. Desiree. To be followed by BABIOLE ETJOBELOT. Jobliot, M. Achard ; Babiole, Mdlle. Desiree. To conclude with LA VIE EN PARTIE DOUBLE. TheoPhille Trinqult, M. Achard; . 3 4 - nanda, Mdlle. Desiree. 4.05. 6s. ; Pit, 35. Gd.; Amphitheatre, 3s. ; Gallery, 2e Boxes end Stalls may be obtain , d at Mr. Niitchell's Royal Library, 33, Old Bond-street. ,---- ST. JAMES'S THEATRE. ROBERT HOUDIN (ot the Palate Koval, Paris).--The sur prising and interesting performances of ROBERT HOUDIN, having been received with the most enthusiastic sulmiration, heat will con and - tinue his extraordinary SOIREES FANTA,TI ay QUES ,Thursday, and the St. James's Th eatre, This Evening, every Tuesd Saturday Evening, comprising Automates, Prestidigitation, Magic, and original experimeists, invented by Robert Houdin. Also, Second Yue Eacsunotage de Roberts Houdin, file. and Suspension Doors open at Eight, the Exhibition to commence at half-past Eight, and terminate before Eleven ;. itoxes, 4e. rtt, 21. Boxes and stalls. may be had at Mr. MITCHELL'S Royal Li brary, 33, Old Bond-street , and at the Box-office of the Theatre, which is open daily from Eleven to Five. In compliance with numerous applications, • DA.T PERFORM ANCE will be given on WEDNESDAY MOICSIIG next, May at, Doors open at Two o'clock. Ina EI WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE THIS Y. laming 15 min. after 3 Eve nin g 32 .. min. after ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. 'Under the direction of Mr. Kerschner. THIS EVENING. WM be performed Shakspere's Tragedy of OTHELLO. Othello, )fr. H. Betty ; lago, Mr. Hicks ; Desdeniona, Mrs. Bonner ; Emilia, Miss Richardson. To conclude with BLACK-EYED SUSAN. William, Mr. Hicks ; Black-eyed Susan, Mrs. R. Honner. Manager arl a F s ll~ rother. . . ASTLEY':s ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE. Proprietor, Mr. W. Batty. Last Night of Mr. Van Amburgh's Engagement. Immense hit of the Easter Spectacle. Overflowing houses to wit nes the celebrated Mr. Van Ambrgh and his unequald collection of s trained a nimals, amongst wh ic h will be found th e greatest no velty ever seen, a Black Tiger, the first ever known to mingle with other animals, and has hitherto been considered untameable. THIS EVENISG, Will be presented a gr and romantic Spectacle, written by Boyle Barnard, Esq., expressly to introduce Mr. Van Arneurgh in Sue hiss astoun di n g performance, founded u p on a passage oin Eugene ' . l e b ra ted novel of "':he Wandering Jew," and will be produced un dor the title of MOROK, THY. BEAST TAMER. Armand Dugard, M.. Tan Amburgh. The Spectacle will be succeeded by an Incomparable routine of Mr. f.satty's Scenes of the Arena, and an entirely novel entree, entitled THE GRAND CAROUSAL. To conclsrde with a Legendary petite Spectacle entitled, THE GOLDEN-FOOTED STEED ; or the Charmed Horse of the Valley. Dazing the recess the Theatre has been entirely re-decorated. Box-office open from Eleven till Four. Stage Manager, Mr. W. West. TO CORRESPONDENTS . iv o commtmication can be attended to unless authenti cated by tne name and address c. the writer. Rejceted communications cannot be returned. TIIE WEATHER. —Sus OFYICZ, MAT 20. THER3IOMITSCR. Lowest, 50 ; Highest, 57; Noon, 57 BAB.oxzlitx, 30 W.N.W.; heavy showers. • g e * 4 9 ' s f ~.1 dle 3 0 . r , • '1 A 411 k ` 4 i „...;" Wit: • " ll lo* 10 e's - CP 31t 1 • a". LONDON, SATURDAY, MAY 20, 1848. Say whatever they may, the Conservative quid nunc: will find it somewhat difficult to prove that the simultaneous; movements for political innovation and "facial improvement are incompatible. As an in sinuation calculated to bring the cause of the Radical Reformers into disrepute, this assertion is as insidi ous as it is disgraceful. It is nothing more than the institution of a com parison between a patriot under the name of a demagogue, and a Christian under the name of a philanthropist —the result of the com parison being distorted by means of the most specious sophisms into the reprehension of the former sad the panegyric of the latter. Against any such comparison we protest ab initio as unfair in principle, and as false in rhetoric. It is as unjustifiable to contrast a political reformer and a so cial reformer, as it would be for a modern Plutarch to contrast a Marlborough with a man of Ross, a Whitbread with a Howard, or a Boadicea with a Mrs. Fry. No analogy exists between the two — sympathy there unquestionably is in the abstract, but not one particle of analogy; and between things altogether unanalogous no just comparison can by ossibility be drawn. No. It were as idle to 'naintain the incompatibility of social improvement -nd of political innovation, as to deny that 3ENJAMIN CONSTANT and the Abbe DS L'EPPI -vere fellow-countrymen ; it were as frivolous 33 to maintain that sanitary measures and qlucational measures were, either the one or the other of them, beyond the adjudication of Parliament. What we would assert in the teeth of all opposition is this=that the excellence of the pro ject advocated on Thursday forenoon in the Free masons Tavern, Great Queen-street, does not demon strate the injurious character of the meeting con vened on the preceding Wednesday, at the Riding Academy, Albany -str ee t. Because it is laudable to a meliorate the condition of the labouring classes by driblets, it is not reprehensible to aspire to assuage their sufferings, or to promote their interests whole sale. Because the Ill as t r i ous Consort of Queen , I CTORIA could advocate with the empressement of genuine feeling the claims of the artizan, and of those dependent upon his exertions, we cannot see why it should fol low as a necessary inference, that the Honourable :Representativ e of Montrose should be deemed inca pt.,ble of feeling for t he privations of the multitude, or that his aspirations for securing to that multitude some direct participation in the legislation of the land should be only regarded as a yearning for anarchy and spoliation. Derided, despised, traduced, cov ered with obloquy, THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, MAY 20 , 1848. scouted as treasonable, bated for its democratic ten dency, the Anti-Corn-law League rose, expanded, and ultimately became triumphant. So must it ultimately be with the League which is ust consolidating itself for the furtherance of the Reform movement. Mr. COBDEN will have to pass through another ordeal before he can achieve a new victory as stupendous as the one obtained by him against the legions of monopoly. There are many amongst the little decimated squad of Protectionists who flatter themselves with the idea that RICHARD COBDEN has been lucky rather than great, that his orations were meretricious claptrap rather than un adorned and irresistible eloquence, and that now that the question of free trade is settled, and that the agitation of the League has subsided, he, the Oracle of Free Trade, and the Leader of the League, is no longer formidable. They flatter themselves, these men, that COBDEN is only a second ICARUS, that he has been carried by favourable circumstances to an unsuitable altitude, that his wax en wings have melted, and that he is now falling into the abyss of a congenial obscurity. Those who remember the career of RICHARD COBDEN during the years 1641, 1842, 1843, 1844, and 1845, those who preserve a recollection of his masterly speeches in the provinces and in the metropolis, in the hall at Manchester and in Covent- garden Theatre, on the platform and on the stage, from the hustings a nd from the floor of the House of Commons, will know how such mis representations should be received, and how the character of this distinguished Reformer should be vindicated from slander and estimated by his compatriots. Here, however, is an op portunity afforded to the Honourable Member for the West Riding of Yorkshire for testifying hi mse lf the falsity of these aspersions and inuendoes. JOSEPH Hu has already appeared upon the platform before the unrepresented and the represented citizens, and has boldly staked his reputation in advocating the cause of the million. Under the guidance of such men, and aided by the fact of a rational amalgamation between Chartists and Radical Reformers, the move -1 m ct o e on n nc t u c security o a if n o nn of o. fu r b Ho u beuot nationalrwien b s ssrteoi essential ut g ita ht in hi loanp th is s t na h enc e s end dos: cltuih t ss o ei o a %n. s pi u si sei c rb c ptl e oee s t s ut f ha u e n the circumstance that out of the 658 represen tatives who constitute the House of Commons, a majority of 330 is returned by boroughs with a population of 3,127,000, while the minority of 328 represents the remaining population of 23,870,000 — giving in one instance a Member for every 9,400, and in another for every 73,000 persons. Surely those statistics alone should be sufficient to rouse the indignation of the country, and to afford the requi site impulse to the grand movement of reform now on the eve of its commencement. While the whole European Continent is convulsed with the progress of democracy, assuredly England should not alone remain impassive to the demands of the age, isolated in the fraternization of nations, or stubborn in the maintenance of abuse. We have repeatedly directed the public attention to the evils resulting from the manner in which prose cutions are carried on in this country, and recom mended that the practice should be assimilated to that which has been carried on with so much benefit to all parties in Scotland. The necessity of a public prosecutor has long been fully recognised. In many instances there has been a complete failure of justice, and criminals have escaped in consequence of the in dividuals who have been aggrieved by their conduct being unable or unwilling to advance the funds ne• cessary for carrying on the case effectively agains. them. There is at least the possibility of such a resul in every case entrusted to the care and attention of private parties. A session scarcely passes at the Central Criminal Court, or an assizes in any county town, in which the presiding Judges have not to deplore delays and difficulties interposed in conse quence of some of the cases not being ready for in vestigation when brought before the Court, and in others, that they themselves are compelled to depart from their legitimate functions to ascertain the facts from the several depositions that have been returned, and not only to judge with impar tiality between the Crown and the prisoner, but to examine the several witnesses on behalf of the prosecution, and to extract from their lips the _ . evidence necessary to sustain the charge. The greatest inconvenience is sustained by the Court, the juries, the parties who are called on to act as prosecutors, and even by the very pri soners themselves, in consequence of the sys tern ; for although in some cases guilty men may escape the punishment due to their crimes, in others innocent men may be, and too often are con victed, because the arbitrators of their guilt or inno cence—the juries, on whose decision their future fate depends—are disposed to make allowances for defi ciencies of evidence, which might otherwise lead to acquittal, because there was no properly instructed counsel to bring the case before them in a complete and perfect manner. But there is another paint of view in which the system must be regarded, in which its consequences are still more injurious. We repeatedly find cases in which the power thus allowed to private parties, of preparing any prosecutions they may think proper without any test or check being applied, is grievously abused, and made subservient to the gratification of their vindictive or malevolent passions. Few persons have been so fortunate as to pass through life with out being placed at some period in a position in which an enemy could make a charge. If a person appears as witness in any court of ju,tice, or is required to make an affidavit, a charge of perjury may be preferred, in fact, the instances are innumerable in which prosecutions may be instituted without the slightest possibility of a conviction, and however triumphant may be the vindication of the accused, he will still be subjected to a certain stigma and reproach for having been placed as a criminal in the dock ; he will in addition thereto have to submit to the expense and annoyance of preparing his defence, bringing up his witnesses, feeing counsel and attorney, &c., &c., all of which he must defray out of his own pocket, for whatever may be the result, as it is beneath the dignity of the Crown to pay costs, and the proceedings, although really the work of some malicious scoundrel, are carried on in the name of the Crown, he is left wholly without remedy, unless the very problematical advantage of being permitted to bring a civil action for damages for the malicious prosecution may be considered as such. A case which occurred at the Old Bailey on Wed nesday last, and which was reported in The Sun of the same day, affords a strong illustration of this de scription of grievance. Three gentlemen of respecta bility were placed in the dock, charged with feloni• ously forging and uttering a will. When the case was called on, the Learned Counsel who appeared for the prosecution, stated that although he had caused inquiries to be made for the prosecutrix, and her witnesses, he was informed that none of them were present. Under these circumstances the case was allowed to stand over for half an hour, during which time these gentlemen were detained in the dock, exposed amongst the felons and criminals by whom they were surrounded, to every person who chanced to visit the court. At the expiration of that period they were again brought forward, and there being no appearance against them,',.they were ac quitted. Then, indeed, their talented counsel made a startling statement, clearly showing the real causes to which their appearance as criminals might be as cribed, and pointing out a strange instance of neglect on the part of the grand jury, who found a true bill. Of the three gentlemen at the bar, two were sons of the testator, whose will it was alleged they had forged, and the third was a highly respectable solicitor, who had ma rried the sister of the other defendants. The chief originator of the charge was a person who had married a niece who formerly lived in the service of the testator, and, it was stated, "that the result of that marriage had been the constant ill-usage of the unfortunate woman by her husband. The parties who had preferred the charge had never gone before the grand jury. The will had never been produced or brought from Doctors' Commons—the witnesses of it were not summoned, and yet the grand jury hadfound a true bill,—showing that they conceived there was a prima _facie case, which, if not rebutted, would be sufficient to convict the parties charged. Well, indeed, might the Learned Judge who presided at the trial express his astonishment at so strange a proceeding, and well, indeed, might that grand jury make a presentment of the utter uselessness of inquiries before grand juries, and state their opinions that such bodies ought to be abolished. If all others were to act in a similar manner to themselves, the sooner the system is abrogated the better. Grand juries were intended to protect innocent persons from being exposed to ex pense and inconvenience, and from having their fair fame and reputation injured by appearing publicly in court on criminal charges. Had the jury in question intended to provide an unequivocal testimony of the inutility of the institution, they could not have afforded a stronger one. Every grand jury, how ever, will not neglect their duty in so glaring a manner, and so long as public prosecutions may be instituted by private individuals, their existence is absolutely necessary, as some protection, although, as it appears, an inadequate one, against such frivolous and unfounded charges. When, indeed, a public prose cutor is established, by whom (or by his deputies), every charge must be investigated before it is brought into Court, and who will be responsible that there is at least a prima facie case against the party ac cused, then the necessity for a grand jury will become very questionable, and it may very possibly be safely dispensed with. SPAIN. Madrid journals of the 14th have arrived. The Gageta contains a decree, dated the previous day, which enacts that Don HENRY DB BOURBON shall be deprived of the honours and distinctions of an Infante of Spain, as also of all ranks, honours, or decorations. The documents which have led to this measure are, says the decree, to be communicated to the Supreme Tribunal of Justice, that proceedings may be taken in accordance with the laws. The motives of the decree are, it is further enacted, to be explained to the Cortes in their next sitting, that they may do what is necessary with respect to the succes sion to the Crown. The cause of this severe decree is stated to be that the Prince addressed a proclama tion to the Catalonians, in which he attacked the Government, the QUEEN, and the KING. The Gaceta also publishes a royal decree on the subject of arranging the public debt. The preliminary exposition abounds in remarks upon the sacred nature of the public debt, the determination of the Government to grapple with the subject, &c. But the main facts it contains are these--Senor Bertran de Lie states " that a project of law for the arrangement of the debt had already been examined and sanctioned at a Council of Ministers, and was about to be presented to the Cortes, when just and grave considerations, which caused the cessation of the Legislature, frustrated the design, and obliged the Government to postpone it." Another fact is the announcent that " the Govern ment is resolved that the Four and Five per Cent. Stock shall cease to bear interest. from the Ist January, 1849, and is equally decided to offer to the national and foreign creditors the satisfaction of their just credits in the manner which our economical state permits," &c. The Royal decree is as follows : "In conformity with what the Minister of Finance has proposed to me in accord with the Council of Mi nisters, I have decreed the following : "1. A commission is established, which without any delay shall occupy itself in forming a project of law for the arrangement of the consolidated and non-consoli dated debt, both internal and external " Art. 2. In order for the fulfilment of this charge, and to avoid delays and obstructions, the commission shall confer directly with the Finance Minister on the bases on which the arrangement may have to rest, and shall also have the power to ask for itself at the respec• tive offices all the data and documents which it may think necessary. " Art. 3. The members of the commission shall be Don Ramon Santillan, ex-Minister of Finance, and Senator of the kingdom, who shall fill the charge of Pre sident; Don Antonio Ilompanera de Cos, ex-Minister of the Home Department ; Don Manuel Sanchez Silva, Deputy to the Cortes ; the Director-General of the Pub. lic Debt, anel Don Jose Borrajo, employed in the Fi nance Depai:tment, who shall discharge the functions of Secretary. " Given at the Palace the 11th of May, 1848. Signed by the &lel hand t The Minister of Finance , " MANUAL BERTRAN DELIS." THE FRENCH REPUBLIC. THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY. We have received the Paris papers of yesterday. The remaining twelve members of the Committee appointed to draw up the constitution were nominated by ballot at the close of the sitting of Thursday ; th?y are—Martin (de Strasburg), Woirhage, Co querel, Corbon, Thouret (de l'Allier), Gustave de Beaumont, Dupin, Vaulabille, Odilon Barrot, Pages (de I'Arriege), Dornes, Considerant. The composition of this Committee is more than moderate—it is Orleanist ; and we could have wished not to have found in the list such names as those of DurtN, the personal friend and legal adviser of the ex-KiNci, and therefore the person of all others most likely to maintain relations with him still, and of DUFAURE, a former colleague of GUIZOT, Of TESTS, and of MOLE. It is well that all parties should be represented on such a Committee, but the Monarchists hare in this instance obtained more than their fair share, and Durix and DUFAURE, moreover, are to be con idered rather as the representatives of persons than of parties. The Constitutional Committee as finally arranged is thus composed :—MM. Cormenin, Armand Mar rast, Lamennais, Vivien, Tocqueville, Dufaure, Martin (of Strasburg), Woirhage, Coquerel (Pro testant Minister), Corbon, Thourat (de l'Allier), Gustave de Beaumont, Dupin, Vaulabille, Odilon Barrot, Pages (de l'Arriege), Dornes, and Con- siderant. M. CORMENIN is the political writer who, under the signature ;of " Tirnon," has become so famous for his sketches of the Members of the Chamber of Deputies. ARMAND MARRAST, the Mayor of Paris and a member of the late Provisional Govern• meat, was, until the revolution of February, the editor of the National. lie was the friend of AR MAND CARREL, and is distinguished by the same manliness of character, honesty of purpose, and un swerving devotion to republican principles. La.- MENNAIS, the celebrated author of the "Paroles d'un Croyant," has been a priest, and under CHARLES X. was one of the most intolerant and bigoted, but at the same time the most talented and energetic of the supporters of the parti-pretre. After the revolution of 1830 he became an ultra-Republican, and is now a Socialist. lie has, in fact, been everything except an Orleanist. VIVIEN 13 an old Deputy of the Centre-Gauche. TOCQUEVILLE is the celebrated author of the " History of Democracy in America." Of Dereues and of Dune we have already spoken. MARTIN was a Member of the Centre-Gauche in the old Chamber of Deputies. Co- QUEREL is the celebrated Protestant minister of Paris, and has since his election to the Assembly appeared to attach himself to M. ODILON BARROT, who, he it remembered, proposed the regency of the Duchess of ORLEANS. M. Coanox is the editor of the Atelier, and one of the Vice-Presidents of the Assembly. He was most firm and courageous in his opposition to the irruption of the Communists mob into the Cham ber on Monday. M. TUoURET is a lawyer. M. GUSTAVE DE BEAUMONT was an influential member of the Centre-Gauche in the last Chamber, and is the personal friend of M. TRIERS. M. VAULABILLE is a man of Liberal principles, who has acquired some celebrity by his " History of Two Restorations." M. DORsES is one of the most accomplished of the writers for the National, and may be considered as a disciple of M. ARMAND AIARRAST ; and M. VICTOR CONSIDEBANT, the editor of the Democratic Pacifique, is the leader of the Fourierists, a man of considerable talent, polished manners, and who may be considered as the head of the Peace Sccieties of France. The Abbe LACORDAIRE, in his picturesque white costume, no longer graces the Assembly by his pre sence. Finding his duties as a legislator incom patible with the proper performance of his clerical , functions, he resigned his seat in the Assembly on , Thursday. Considerable blame has been thrown upon M. BUCHEZ, the President of the Chamber, for his apparently vacillating conduct in the presence of the mob on Monday. In consequence of these imputetions, M. DEGOUSEE, one of the Questors of the Chamber, has felt it his duty to address the following letter to the editor of the Aational Mr. Editor,—Several journals, ignorant no doubt of the deplorable facts which occurred on the 15th, incri minate the conduct and the acts of the worthy President of the National Assembly. The truth ought to be known, and my duty is to explain it to you. " As soon as the Chamber was entered by the rioters, the President, finding that his orders had not been at- tended to, gave me power to adopt measures to rescue the Assembly. " An hour afterwards I gave the President an account of what I had done. I told him that our colleague M. Perree, major of the esi arronlissement, was assembling that legion and marching to the deliverance ot the Assembly. I added, that I had given orders in all the may pries to have the rappel beaten, and that the As sembly would soon be surrounded by sixty thousand men. An hour passed over. I told the President that he had only one thing to do—remain in his seat, tempo rise, and gain time. I told him that the heads of the columns of National Guards were now in sight. The tumult and disorder in the Chamber were now at its height. A horrible attack might be committed. I re peated to the Citizen Bucher, that halt an hour more was all that was wanted; that he might even give a counter order, in order to satisfy the rioters, for that the counter order would come too late to prevent the arrangement which had been already taken. ' Are you certain,' said the President, that all that you have ordered has been executed ?' My reply was, • I am certain of it,' "You know, sir, how, in a few moments afterwards, the President was violently thrust from his seat; how the sitting was momentarily suspended. The President, and the Vice-Presidents, and several Deputies, went to the hotel of the President, in order to call for all the national forces. "M. Bucher and one of my colleagues went a few minutes after to the Executive Committee to concert with it relative to a meeting that night in some other place if the crowd could not be expelled from the Chamber. The President on leaving had delegated full powers to us, and we had used them with activity and energy. e o n my soul and my conscience, and as actor in and witness of the facts which I point out to you, I declare that the President did all that it was in human power to do; I think that the Republic owes to his coolness and his intelligence the termination of an attempt which, had it succeeded, would have led to incalculable mis fortunes. " The calm and dignified attitude of all the Repre sentatives powerfully seconded the will of the President. (Signed) "DEGOUSEE, Questor." The following is the official report of AI. ARMAND INIARItAST, the Mayor of Paris, on the subject of the attack on the Hotel de Ville on Monday. It is ad dressed to the Executive Committee : " Citizens, —I now, in writing, agreeably to your de sire, give you the facts which I have communicated to you verbally, of what took place at the Hotel de Ville ou the 15th. I shall thus rectify many errors which have been publicly reported. " At the moment when the tribune of the Assembly was invaded by the authors of a criminal attack against the sovereignty of the people, I was informed that they intended to proceed to the Hotel de Ville to pro claim a Provisional Government. My duty called me to aly post, and I proceeded there. 1 arrived two hours before the insurgents, and immediately ordered every measure to be taken to prevent their entering. The first legion of the National Guard was ordered to place itself in column at the entrance of the place from the quay, and the Colonel commanding at the hotel took the necessary measures for its defence. " The column of the people, preceded by their standard, soon came in front of the ninth legion. They announced that the Chamber had been disaolved, that the Executive Government no longer existed, and that the National Guard, the Garde Mobile, and the army, had proclaimed a new Provisional Government. After some parleyings, a shot was tired at the officer second in command at the Hotel de Ville, who was at the head of his legion, and who energetically refused a passage to the rioters. The resistance of Commandant Beaumont was not, unfortunately, seconded with sufficient unani mity. A.;chef de &Walton of the National Guard ordered his men to unfit bayonets; the Colonel of the 9th hesitated, and unfortunately this momentous hesita tion was taken advantage of by the insurgents to gain the place. My deputy, M. Adam, had gone round to inspect the ditlisrem, entrances. lie returned to me, and said that Culunel Rey, who was in command, would have to answer for what he did, or fur what he neglected to do. I must add that Col. Rey harangued tne crowd for some time, addressing himself ni par ticular to Barbes, and refused to open the gates. A few minutes after, however, they withdrew, the gates were opened, and the crowd rushed'in. The leaders at once cried out Where is Marrast? we must first get rid of him.' I was at that moment in my cabinet, which I had not quitted, accompanied by some members of the Assembly, and protected by fifty men, resolved, like myself, to resist by force, whatever might be the issue of the struggle. The courts were filled by two or three thousand people; they directed their steps towards the room in which the deliberations were carried ou on the 24th February, and they opened, in the midst of the most indescribable tumult, a discussion on proper names. " During this time I had given orders, by the ushers , of the hotel, to the 6 th and 7 th legions to come, at' double quick time, to the Hotel de Ville. I had signed a proclamation which informed the National Guards of the true state of affairs; I had written to you, citisens, to demand fresh reinforcements, and to order those ar rangements which were necessary to turn out the mob, which had not yet got into the hall, and to take into custody others at a convenient time. The legions arrived opportunely. Barbes and his accomplices went into another room, which they bad guarded by armed men. They showed themselves at the windows to the crowd on the place, and we heard cries of 'Vive Barbes,' Vive Louis Blanc,' Vive Albert.' General Foucher soon after came into my room, followed by his staff. I ordered him immediately to bring in his battalions of the National Guard and the Garde Mobile, and to begin by clearing the courts and the staircases of the crowd, at the same time that he surrounded the room in which the leaders of the move ment were assembled. My deputy, M. Adam, went him self into that room, and made the first arrest. Orders were immediately given not to allow any one to leave the hotel, and to guard all the outlets by which Barbes, Albert, and the others might attempt to escape. e Citizens Lamartiue and Ledru Rollin arrived at this moment at the Hotel de Ville, and were soon after fol lowed by General Clement Thomas. Officers of the National Guard declared to us that they would take on themselves to arrest every one who had invaded the hotel ; but as there were several of them Members of the Assembly, a written order would be necessary. That order was signed by me, and by the two above named members of the Executive Committee. The commandant of the Bth bsttaliou had already arrested Barbes. The superior officers of the artillery and of the National Guard secured Albert, and every one used the most energetic efforts that those Deputies should But experience any rouge treatment from those whose indignation had been justly roused by their conduct. At the same time search was made in the Hotel, and 150 other individuals arrested. This number was increased in the evening to wore than 200. " You see, citizens, that if by an act of Ns eakness, or of complicity—by a fault or by a crime—the insurgents were able to instal themselves in one of the rooms of the Hotel de Ville, they were not for an instant masters of the place. I never ceased to command there, and to give orders; and the doubts which had for a moment beea thrown on the minds of a -small body of the National Guards having been removed, my deputy and myself had thus nothing to call our att e ntion from securing the ar rest of the guilty, " I think it right a to nd ad spa the 9th Regi m ent , of whom I have spoken a bove, has dt r h in at g t t h h e e e o A ff effusion e o b g b a l l i t f sent me his resignation. I have also received those of Colonel Yautiez, and of au ensign named Suery. As to Colonel Rey and his agent, they have been placed under arrest. " AIeMAND MARRASI'. .. May 18." The last garrison of the Caussidiere Guards has surrendered, and the Temple is at the present mo ment occupied by the National Guards. a mo ng the papers seized at Sonatas's are some drafts of decrees, purporting to issue from the Com mittee of Public Safety :___. " FIRST DECREE• "In the name of the regenerate people of Paris, foander o f the ,Re p ublic in February and May, 1848, the Committee of Public Safety declares— .. T ex t the National Assembly, composed in great part of reactionaries, hes violated its trust. .. That it has squandered precious time, while the misery of the people required prompt measures. e Th a t it r efused to create a Ministry of Labour. "That it a massed arms in the house fur its defence when it should, have depended oa mural influence de rivedin Paris, and accorded eleu t the power of convok in g t h e m and the y 'That it sceoanita continued the devotedness.troops to the Pres National Guard. the people as Pr A: eation. violated the liberty strhiey barricades, h t a n d e e , soverei gnty interdict ing id th© people to be fired upon who " That it o rdete to present a petition in favour of the e I n consequence, hdd 1 h d came rules their a'hat : t ight " The peer e of execution of the commission given to with watching the te a vance sen tne , arge representative s, de rived of power, and has constituted mandate they aro declares that having violated their a Committee fPa blank was left) —which committee is die Safety, composed of the following nine m P e e rb e e ft r nb : ll : Y: d power for constructing and ( n t ''inite - invested with thering re-action y dare to show itself. organizing a deruithabltehodetamoocitreauteicrgreepauhbuilieca, haanidf it torahsomhold teMßEßS OF THE COMMITTEE "THE 11-- OF PUBLIC SAFETY." A second decree referred tothceouladdmnoint i b s e tra fo tie n v nd. I third decree and judicial power s, and gives the po lice into the hands of the working clas ses, as well as magisterial functions. The bourgeoise are forbidden to appear in uniform or in arms. abolishes who themselveseiuse are to to 3 600 francs, francs for 1,000 2 50 must be francs, and so on when the contribution progressive scale. A similar decree A fourth decreterkuoicrdserisnccoampeitaulipsts to deposit '4OO according to a Pr out lays, their property of labour is decreed in the same The organization Strikes at landholderse,-Oialfin document. s a c a thosete d and w h i m , dated Pa ris, May 17, in upwards of 140 prisonerst Some of these • l isbret; liberty y. journals however, The arrests stillcontitiuien; v t i h nc e e re nn a e r s e . at ß L p A r N e Q s present which he says that he has again found refuge in that asylum which for seventeen years she itered him from publish a letter from Royalist persecutions. It is reported that he has been seen in Brussels. General CouRTAIS has been removed to the Petit Luxembourg. LOUIS BLANC has, by permission of the Govern ment, had several interviews with ALBERT at Vin- cennes. The preparations for the file in the Champ de lars were resumed on Wednesday. It is said to be the positive intention of the Executive Government that the file shall take place on Sunday next. The Censtitutionnel says— " M. Trous , 4 Chauvel, who has just been appointed by the Government to the post of Prefect of Police, was mayor of Le Mans at the time the Duke de Nemours passed through that town, and was immediately removed from his situation in consequence of the bold but very candid speech which be made on the occasion; and to which the Duke answered by saying, that he would receive compliments but not lessons from a mayor. To this dry observation M. Trou%l Chauvel replied, It is the duty of a prince to listen to the truth.' M. Trouv‘: Chauvel, who is an old Republican, has lately filled the office of Commissary-General in the departments )f the Sarthe, the Maine-et. Loire, and the Mayenue; he has been able, by the vigour of his character anti the probity of his co nduct, to maintain peace, good order, and confidence in those departments. He was unanimously elected to the National Assembly by the department of the Sarthe. The choice of the Executive Committee cannot fail to be generally commended. M. Trouve Chauvel is already installed at the Prefecture, and M. Cuussidiare imme diately offered to put him au courant with all the affairs of the office." The .Reforme states that the strangest reports have Ran current in Paris within the last few days. Amongst others, it is said that the Duke de Boa- DEAUX has been seen in the faubourg St. Germain. It it added that Prince Louis NAPOLEON has again quitted England to return to Paris. It was like wise asserted that General COURTAIS is a Legitimist in disguise. The Committee of Labour met yesterday morning It decided that the members of the bureau should not perform their functions longer than to June 1. M. CoRDoN was named President ; M. TOURUET, Vice- President ; M. DEMESMAT, Secretary ; and M. As- TOUIN, Vice Secretary. The Committee also decided that it would meet every day at ten o'clock, and that the Minister of Public Works and the Director of the National Workshops should be summoned before it this day. It also adapted the following resolu tions :-1. That one or several sub-committees should be formed to examine and report on all the communications sent in. 2. That it should call suc cessively before it all persons likely from their posi tion to throw light on the question of the organiza tion of labour. The Moniteur contains a very long report from the Minister of Finance on the project for the re purchase of all the railroads. We have only room to give the the important point. The price of purchase is proposed to be the average quotation during the six months preceding the Revolution of February (24th August, 1847, to 24th February, 1848), and the holders will receive in payment Fire per Cent. Stock, also at the average price during the same period. The report concludes by proposing the fol lowing project of law : " Art. 1. The resumption by the state of the posses sion of railways conceded to financial companies, ante riorly to the 24th February, 1848, is declared of public u .qty. " Art. 2. The Minister of Finances is authorised to execute this measure, reserving the indemnity stipulated in Art. 3. " Art. 3. The resumption of possession of the different railways will take piece in the following conditiuns, viz. " FIRST CATEGORY. " Railway of Paris to Saint Germain. Paris to Versailles (Right Bank). Paris to Versailles (Left Bank). Strasburg to Bale. Paris to Orleans and Corbeil. Paris to Rouen. Rouen to Havre. Montereau to Troyes. Avignon to Marseilles. Amiens to Boulogne. Paris to the frontier of Belgium, with the branches to Saiat Quentin, Calais, and Dunkirk. Orleans to Vierson. Orleans to Bordeaux. Paris to Strasburg. Paris to Lyons. Tours to Nantes. " The value of these different railways will be esta blished according to the average quotation of their shares on the Paris Bourse, during the six months pre ceding the revolution of the 24th of February (from the 24th August, 1847, to 24th February, 1848). In ex change for their shares, the shareholders will receive Coupons de Rentes Five per Cents., quotation for quo tation, according to the average quotation on the Bourse of Paris during the same six months above spe cified. "SECOND CATEGORY. " Railway of Andreceux to Roanne. Lyons to St. Etienne. The Grand Cotnbe to Alais and Beaucaire. Abscun and d'Ausin to Denain and Son:min. Montpellier to Cette. Mulhouse to Thaw). Bordeaux to La Teste. Dieppe to Rouen. " For this category the Minister of Finance is autho rised to treat with each company separately. The treaties must be submitted to the sanction of the Na- tional Assembly. Art. 4. The companies with whom the Minister of Finances shall think fit to negotiate, can in a general meeting of shareholders, convoked for that purpose, accept by a majority of votes the proposed conditions of the Ministers, and thus bind the whole of the share- holders. " Art. 5. A sum of renter equal to the ♦aluation of the yailways bought shall be inscribed in the Great Book of the Public Debt. " Art. 6. The State, taking the place of the companies, will reimburse their bunds and loans according to the conditions agreed on with the lenders. " Art. 7. The necessary expenses for the carrying on the railway works by the State, which, according to previous laws, ought to have been executed by the com panies, are placed provisionally to the charge o f the floating debt: _ " Art. 8. The Ministers of Finance and Public Works are respectively charged with the execution of the pro- sent decree. - " Done in Council. " The Members of the Executive Commission— " AItAGO, GARNIER PIOES, MARIE, LAMARTINE, LEDRU-ROLLIN. " Minister of Finance, E. DUCLERC." We cannot believe that the National Assembly will countenance such an act of spoliation in regard to the lines not yet in operation, which over-speculation had brought down to ruinous prices for the holders, and when, to render their position still worse, they would have to receive stock which they could now purchase for rather more than half the price at which it would be given to them by the Government ; whereas, on the other hand, share holders had every reason to hope that on the opening of the lines prices would recover to, if not go higher than, par, and meanwhile were receiving 4 per cent. interest. The following further details respecting the events of Monday have been obtained. When the head of the insurgent column reached the Hotel de Ville, the Republican guard prepared to resist, but, after some conversation with Colonel REY and the garrison, the gates were opened, and the hotel was invaded. A person who was half. spectator, half actor, gives the following particulars : " The invaders immediately set to work to draw up lists of the new Government without thinking of anything else. Two young men were so engaged, when an empluyi entered and asked them with a great as sumption of dignity what right they had to be there? They answered that they were there on the part of the people, that the National Assembly was dissolved, and that hey were concocting a Provisional Govern ment. At the same moment a number of the insurgents rushed into the room, whereupon the poor employe turned very pale and stammered—' Ah! gentlemen, you are exercising your right, you may continue but no notice was taken of him. Barbes was worn out by the fatigue and emotions of the day. He asked for some thing, and a person connected with the Hotel brought him a bottle of Bordeaux and a glass. He took a glass, and went into an adjoining room with several other per sons to draw up a proclamation. Lists of the new Go. vernment were thrown out of the windows, and the people shouted—' Vire Bartits !' but so little was public opinion with us that many made sarcasms on the names. When an officer of the staff arrived announcing that the National Assembly was re-established, the crowd which had just cried—' Vive Barbis !' shouted—' Viva l'As sembli:,* Nationale " Many persons escaped from the Hotel—M. Millar' . himself enabled two students to do so. When the National Guard entered the Hotel de Ville, some of the insurgents protested in the name of the people, but they were soon put down by threats, and cries of —" Vive l'Assemblee Nationale !" One of the National Guards, not knowing exactly in what posi tion things were, said that the reason why the new Provisional Government was not approved by public opinion was that the name of M. LAMARTINE did not appear in the lists. "Oh ! there is no objection to that!" said one, "we will add it !" and taking a pen he wrote the name. The list then stood thus— Lamartine, Louis Blanc, Ledru-Rollin, Raspail, Barbel, Blangui, Cauesidilre, EtienneArago, Albert, Hubert, Sobrier, Lagrange. The following document was found : " The Provisional Government, taking into conside ration the wish of the people, declares that it will imme diately notify to the Russian and German Governments the order to reconstitute Poland, and if they do not do it, the Government of the French Republic will imme diately declare war against them. " The Members of the Provisional Government. " Paris, 15th May, 1848." This document bears the stamp of the Mairie of Paris, but is not signed. When the President of the Assembly was driven from the chair, about 50 Deputies met in the salon of the President to organize resistance. Several representatives proposed that the Assembly should retire to the provinces, but M. LE FALLOUX declared with energy that such an insult ought net to be made to the Parisian population before appealing to it, and that the Garde Mobile, who were before the windows, should be called on. Not being able to persuade his colleagues to adopt this opinion, M. DE FALLoux leaped from the window, followed by M. DAMPIERRE and M. KERDREL, and, addressing the comman dant of the Garde Mobile, Called on him to protect the Assembly. The mobile answered with acclamations. M. DE FALLOUX then hastened to the side of the quay, where he met M. WOLOWSIEL They both then informed the National Gnards that the Assembly did not consider itself dissolved, and appealed to them for protection, which the National Guards immediately promised On Monday a number of little scraps of paper with the inscriptions, " Let us commit incendiarism ' Let us burn until we shall have obtained the division of lands 1" were found on the Boulevard Montmartre. Other scraps were found in different parts of Paris, and even in the interior of the Assembly, with the inscription, " Money is no longer current in France. Every private property is declared national property. Family is abolished. A tax of 500,000,0001. is im posed on the infamous town of Paris." The Northern Railway continues to be protected by 6,000 troops of the line and 2,000 Gardes Mobiles. A company of the National Guard of the Banlieu, which also did service there, has been dismissed. On Wednesday Lyons was thrown into alarm by the intelligence that the Faubourg 'of Bresse was barricaded, and that the workmen of the national workshops, all armed and provided with ball cartridges, were in insurrection against the authorities of the Republic. It appears that several workmen had been arrested for seizing and burning some articles belonging to a manufac turer. The next morning a body of workmen waited on M. MARTIN BERNARD, the Government commis sary, to demand their release. This was refused. Some commissaries of police and gendarmes having gone to make new arrests, the workmen seized them, and declared that they would detain them until their own comrades should be released. They then con structed two barricades, leaving, however, a sufficient space for vehicles to pass, and the barricades were guarded by armed men. Subsequently, however, they were removed ; but when the last accounts came away two numerous corps de garde were established one near the entrance of the Faubourg, the other lower down. The Presse says : "On Monday a party of National Guards of the 12th Legion presented themselves at the Mairie of the 12th Arrondissement, and demanded cartridges; but, as the rn, n who made this demand were persons wishing for order, M. Boquet, the deputy-mayor, and the great friend of Bart 4 , refused to give them. At ten o'clock the same night, M. Boquet was seen in the Rue Saint Jacques escorted by ten men, each carrying a basket of cartridges. During the day, M. Boquet tore up the order which he had received to have the rappel beaten. It was Captain Mery who caused that to be done, in spite of the authorities at the Mairie. It was also Captain Mery who was ordered to arrest Boquet, who has, it is said, been lodged in the Luxembourg.' We read in the Droll: — It appears that the late manifestation, which has Inded so disastrously for the conspirators, was origi zany fixed for the 12th or 13th, it being wished that it should correspond witk the anniversary of the insurrection of the 12th of May, 1839, at the head of which were 13artire and Blanqui. But the pre parations were not complete, as the expected reinforce ments from the provinces had not arrived. Consequently the manifestation was postponed till the 15th. The plan for the insurrection of Monday last was perfectly combined. At the moment of the departure of the so-called Polish manifestation, and during its passage from the Bastille to the Madeleine, a certain number of persons more intimately initiated in the plot took a more direct route, and, to avoid the Pont de la Rivolution, proceeded in small groups of two or three each along the quays on the left bank of the river. Arriving in the place de la rue de Bourgogne h,ng before the column coming by the Boulevarts, they took possession of the court-yard of the Assembly, and sent pretended delegates into the hall of sitting. Others in much greater numbers, remarked for the ardour of their communist opinions, remained in the purlieus of the Hotel de Ville, waiting for the procla mation and arrival of the new Provisional Government." The funeral of the National Guards killed in the Passage Moliere, on Monday, took place on Thursday, and was attended by a deputation from the National Assembly. M. CORMENIN pronounced a panegyric over their grave. The Assembly met yesterday at half-past one, and the early part of the morning was consumed in listening to the personal explanations of M. Bucuzz, M. ETIENNE Aascio, and other officers of the Assembly and the Government in relation to the events of Monday. The discussion, which was assuming a very acrimonious character, was brought to a conclusion by General Clement Thomas, who expressed his annoy ance at finding honourable citizens who had shown marks of courage and devotedness in the trying circum stances of May 1.5 exposed to calumnies. He should not pursue the subject, but would conclude by moving an address from the Colonels of the eighteen Legions of Paris, and the banlieur, in reply to the vote of thanks passed to them by the National Assembly. The Gallant Member then read the address which is of a most loyal character, and expressing a firm determination to put down all perfidious attempts at re-action.—(Loud cheers followed the reading of the address.) The Chamber then passed with acclamation the order of the day, and the matter ended. After some discussion the draft of a proclamation to the French people from the National Assembly was voted. The Minister of Finance presented two Bills, to close the accounts of the budgets of 1846 and 1847. M. Vivien stated that the Committee on the standing orders were of opinion that, in the case of Bills presented by the Government, it was nut necessary to in s ist o n th e 24 hours' notice, which was imperatively demanded for propositions or Bills from other Members. The Minister of the Interior presented two Bills—one demanding 500,000 f. for hospitals and other charitable institutions; and the second a Bill authorising certain works to be commenced, and departments to meet the wants of the labouring classes. He took that occasion to declare that the capital was perfectly tranquil, and that the population was actuated by the best possible spirit towards the National Assembly.—(Hear, hear.) In answer to a question from an Hon. Member, the same Minister declared that the state of Limoges was now improved, as the population was employed and order re-established. The Assembly then proceeded to ballot for two Members to fill the vacant places of Vice-President. BOURSE—PARIS, FRIDAY, MAY 19. THREE o'CLocx.—The Railway Bill presented by the Government is considered rather better than was to be expected, and has had a rather favourable effect on the price of shares. The Rentes are steady, but ♦ery little business has been done. BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE. MAT 19. Boulogne and Amiens, 6%—Dutch Rhenish, %—Namur and Liege, 3%—Northern of Fraace, 4. IRELAAD. [BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.] DUBLIN, FRIDAY EVENING The Dublin Police Commissioners have issued a cautionary proclamation against the assemblage of processions in the streets. It is stated that the confederate clubs are to defy the authorities, and march to-night. The Government have made arrangements to en force the proclamation, and a collision is apprehended. HATMARICET TLIEATRE.—Those popular and ac complished artists, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Kean, return to the Haymarket boards for a brief period. They re appear on Monday in Mr. Lovell's effective play, The Wife's Secret, which made .so decided a hit as to be played every night of the Keans' last engagement. Sir Bulwer Lytton's comedy, Money, is, we believe, in prepa ration fur them. Mr. Kean will be the Evelyn, and Mrs. Kean the Clara Douglas—much of the old cast being also re-arranged for the play. ACCIDENT AT A PIANOFORTR MAXElell.—Yester day Mr. W . Payne held an inquest at St. Bartholomew's Hospital, on the body of Thomas Loncall, aged 19. The deceased was an apprentice to Mr. Cadby, the pinano forte maker, of Liquorpond-street, and whilst standing at work in the factory on Wednesday last one of the racks filled with timber gave way and buried him under it. He expired on Thursday last from the effects of the injury received. The jury, therefore, returned a ver dict of accidental death, with a recommendation that the frames or racks should be made stronger in future. The foreman of the factory undertook to have the recom mendation of the jury attended to. R. THE NORTHERN STATES. AUSTRIA. VIENNA, MAY 14.—The pupils of the military academy of ViAina have subscribed the large sum of 700 guilders, which they have pla ced in the hands of the local committee, for the benefit of the troops of the army in Italy who have been deprived of their pro perty and effects there. This ac t on the part of the military students was quite spontaneous, and he' called forth a letter of high approbation from the Minister of War for their very patriotic sentiments. PRUSSIA AND POSEN. BERLIN, MAT 16.—The Prussian General Volt b een lotion published an explanation r elative to the caapiteen u lation of Posen, in reply to objections which have started that MIEROSLAWSICI is t re ated too leniently. o fthe The General states that the c ircumstances capitulation were as follows :—M. TAczoowaltl arrived at the camp on the even in g of the Bth, with the intelligence that MIEROSLA WSKI was ready to capitulate, and begged permissi on to bring li t° General VON WEDELL had already received the con; ditions of the capitulation, and , a s the journet ° M IEROSLA WSEI would have occasioned utirle cessary delay, General PFUEL gav . Tin, f or f ZANOWSKI a safe conduct in writing hilrlsee, and MIENOSIANTSILI, that they might r e p air to Gent. ral VON \‘' EDELL. MIEROSLAWSICI had alreadY'i TACZANOWSICI expected, laid clown his ono t retired from the camp, being in great fear of 7, people, among whom he found it impossible a",:, longer to maintain discipline. Meanwhile Tacz.vg NOWSKI changed his resolution, and instead of t ire d MaatosLAwsxi to General Vox \Vivra reP5l.:O thither with VON BRIZAZUSKI, who had unde rt Th the command on the resignation of MiatoatAwsL; Colonel B. concluded the capitulation, declaring t`l; he, in fact, did not hold the command slit', longer, and was fearful of returning be d the camp, and that Colonel ono t he as o taken the supreme command. W illi ! fool capitulation was being signed, a note arrisou t he Colonel ORORSKI, declaring that only troops accepted the conditions, and that tile d the had deposed MIEROSLAWSKI, and had oPe rie , -- e j negotiations for the capitulation. He had reeelvd bf safe conduct for himself and T.LczAnowsal, °foot the laws of war he could not be treated °t he ' to than according to the capitulation, accoraingd a portion of which be will be taken to a Prussian fortress, $(11,9,. the decision of Government will be taken e it her of the war depot, between the Elbe and the W ei" obtain a passport for France. n General VON PFUEL remarks, in connllls'%l.eet the capitulation is in force only for the ea corps, which on the 9th of May was o pposea "- IV.euELL, on the Schroda. l e tte r POSEN, MAT 13.—Misaowvsics, in l.' s I : e d General WzDam,, states that he has eli te ' 0' category of emigrants who, according to th e , c , ° ,,ir o tion of the th of April, are to unite thenise'r tO to tye distinct divisions, and submit unreservedilde fate that awaits them. That in order to 01 , - nr e, l/1 Prussian Government of his views for the requests to have a passport for France n , ac e°r i , 1 S f° the proposals of the capitulation of el Prunr..—Cologne Gazette, May 18. re J .• MATENCE, MAY 15.—Great compla in ' s 0 0 ' tbe pr ., made here against the gross neglect of ties. Yesterday about fifty or sixty 1 011 : ?al ) t lied ,1311: vented the Top steamer from proceeding Rhine. They cut the ropes, and oc'n' i r, r ete' l vessel to return down the Rhine, being I.ll '' ) ' t b that the work of towing the boats shall o°;tiosh complished by steamer, but by manual ° fil e t o et p le f hitherto. The Burgher Guard of 1, 0 , — ,01 4 ,;r0 was drawn up on the bridge, did not 21 '` - CP interference, nor yet did the magistrateV- Gazette, May 18. SW 6' 1 DENMARK AND SC BO HOLSTEIN. ( t he ANOTHER BATTL• to () The Hamburgh correspondent, un der °Tlitit 15th May, from Kiel, states that on % night or Friday morning, the Danes dice but fi b e Fredericca to the number of 1,00 0 in eri l ' fi r O i th t le surprised,. t between the fire of the arti he t iva" - :se ntry, could not regain their veseel's it, if who were not killed were made prionett:cled stated that fourteen waggon loads of .**l-11 %tacit carried off. A Hamburgh letter of the 16th, daunt: p.m., contains the following announcelnocl "I have just been int herorm a d r o i p o Sio P c s' oCc ° lo'; that Colonel Hod e :;hard d'A ffai re s ft e s re has reef T e ti ; 0 9 ro nicatton from the Governor :ash ° i t tl i 0% effect, ' that a Danish officer had 0 11 1,54 / 3 5 1 ;0 0° ,6 1 him and to communicate to him tt" tP .:put W of war would not interfere with snin,ol‘, i ear that he had sent about 30 English Yess e ' l A re Ce ;l: 0 cll' sorry he had done so, for he had sin c "„i to official commuuication from his Goveraie trary.'" order Froin had Wt to the w e ff : v o e t : General, pass POLAND . Poland, , the 9tb'oPti published by the 101Per° e ft ° 04 —halv.eTdhaattessabefore,iiititoofreeoviei Director 2. f Police, longer had expired, and who desired orrlif,he e rs so situate rin the provinces, to the ci ocerbil rities, residing in of tim e Warsaw, to the chief., t he C o l police. ' if in were required °,lO ord tensionrThe civil governors, as We ll P- ,,st t° Doi foreign not havioa be yond the paerremipessriomoitttoedre toosillAreif tteefit: ve ; period of one year, po_,,vi--forbe' 0, warrant vv s i u ll eh permission. 2 cie r 01 cir c ' s be granted to stances. ~ ic(elr ß Nitg ßussim a re ss s u G r n. e . a d t , in n n ot is o i f n ---------- BEL GIUYI . J ,„10.01 tO'' of Public 3' MA T 18.—M. FOTO 000 i' Works, has tendered his re si g, i§, 1 The motive of his retiretoeu; hi re it to nex e et Chamber o a ft hepohl Representativeiatnida 5 1 nnfat tutisree:)':i tllOO if ,A a l in that it is definite. The I‘linisterrisoloP FRERE OEBAr4 persists in , o ,j lii ° : ;o j , retiring,Th M. D'ELHOUNGAR Iliald SUcC-occtlr r day me with a project of law for Penilif. ifiterV The credits for the department of t:O3 te p s r e o s j s e in c n t . 0 ..... f c l aowurornietrh l e 3 epiogset,a departmen t 6 . Y —..----.....---- 0 81'01 RTJSSIA. bee' co e pP A The Gazeta Palska, in its last nuto re" V'', ,P jest of Poland says :--In liialisch t fi° ol ia k i o cavalry, with eight pieces of artillerif t fil io loo l, o ,l division of cavalry, are stationed, an d s b ee 1 41 field pieces. The required stores O le o be / ot, o , Lowicz, where all the magazines o'er. „ 0 011 0c 1,4 by the Bth. All the civil and militelioto r Y i have receivad orders to give a veil grAc'yoVioilego' to every Prussian soldier ofwheserts to it ',id officers who may desert are reccie.e,:o gE'd and the privates are to receive ten 1-0/0/ 0,19 daily in addition to their usual p 57 .- 0 11 0 ie , ' 0 1 It is said that the Russian GOYersilleis 1/$0 a new tariff, the publication of whi nil oe, 4,11 by the present circumstances of 1.1r013%,, 010, the points of this new system of ctot,_, p afi, ,a 1 , 41 extremely favourable, and many Ortiel'ooticei 7 prohibited will be allowed to be intr oittirl Payment of high duties, whilst tbe duties will be reduced. 00, liei ce , 0 ______ --The 0 1.0 MISS Meinivis Nr‘v 1C0Y0•;, Dp e• ff,, Swedish novelist, Fredrika Bremer, tlisbOvii;;# ,1 England the compliment of firer Po 0o; WI . i. beet, 6 Or ° V,f. couutry her new work, whicn bay . plod . , f • „ laud by Mary Howitt, and is 00 r iej"• V I OA oi 0 Sisters." It - is one of those A 0 gr e , ),, 0 stories, in which the actual scenes apiijpii re; day life occurring in a respectable b ; drottAr4, excite a deeper interest than 0 0 o f li . . a t i e i' l , romantic fiction —a picture vsacledlith sevos 4 thief and family affections, mingle. the Ili el 1 those passions often found disturbtng thi , ti lt f` communities. We hare no doubv _streeiet4o Brothers and Sisters" will and even increase Mos Bremer's gr e o of bpd pr . ‘ , o' ' APOTUECARISS' 110...L.---Niluiefrlice '' i l 'oe " P e , passed their examination in the "to Pri)eatir f , 0 0,, , medicine, and received certi fi cate° errpooVi, day, May 18:—John l'eubertiloris, 1-10/00,', Cornwall ; Henry Rowland 11,1 ries P r o ; OPC Dunn, Southmolton, Devon ; '-'10"0 Ilii ; . 1 ;01 1 4; Scholes Butler Birch, Learaing.coreli 0 ° or becoro u st too t,,,, 4ie William Pearce Jar, 13odmin, 411,001:oire' ward Neil& Oulton, near seedy' 'will' stake, link Langley, Derbysbiredolos, house, Devon ; James ug* GE