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Now ready, at all the Libraries, in 3 vols. post Bvo., 3ih. CURLING'S NEN% ROMANCE. SH AK S P E A R E, I THE POET, THE ACTOR, THE LOVER, AND THE MAN. A RO ',!ANCE. By HENRY CURLING. . Author of " Jol.n of England," &c. "Not only is the general arrangement of his romance well con trived, harmonizing fact and flAlon wit t a felicity rarely atta . ned, but the drawing and odouring of his scenes are correct, proving the sathor to I e well acquainted not only with thy history, but the cha racter of the period in question."—John Bull. " Talent of no mean order is displayed In this work ; the language and' descriptions are consistent throughout, and completely Eliza bethan ; perfectly redolent of the manners of the time."—Weekly Chronicle. Richard Bentley. New Burlington-street. MR. BENTLEY HAS JUST PUBLISHED Sir EDWARD BULWER LYTTON'S NEW HISTORIOAL ROMANCE, ....a.,- A R 0 L D; THE LAST OF THE SAXON KINGS. Which may now be obtained at all Booksellers, and at all the Li braries. New Burlington-street, Jane, 1818. Now ready, in one vol., comprising as much matter as twenty ordi nary volumes, with 1,500 Engravings of Arms, 38s. b oun d, B URKE'S PEERAGE and BARONETAGE, FOR 1848, NEW EDITION, Revised and corrected throughout from the Personal Communications of the Nobility, &c. ",The most complete publication of its class we possess."—Atlas. "No other Peerage can be compared with that of the Messrs. "Mite for correctness awl completeness."—Weekly Chronicle. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. HER MAJESTY'S THLATRM. FIRST NIGHT OF ROBERTO IL DIAVOLO. The Nobility, Patrons to the Opera, and the Public are respectfully Informed that a GRAND EXTRA NIGHT will take place THIS EVENING, when will be performed 31eyerbeer's Opera, eutitled ROBgRTO IL DIAVOLO. Arranged in Three Acts. The Scenery by Mr. Charles Marshal Alice, Mdlle. Jenny Lind ; Bertram tor Belletti ; Rambaldo, Signor Labocetti ; Sacerdote, Signor Bouche ; Roberto, Sig. Garioni. In the Second Act an incidental Divertissement, in which Mdlle. Carolina Rosati will appear. To conclude with the highly successfal New and Original Ballet Divertissement, by M. Perrot, the Music by Sig. Pugni, entitled, LES QUATRE SAISONS. Bummer, Mdlle. Carlotta Grist ; Autumn, Mdlle. Carolina Rosati ; Winter, Mdlle. Marie Taglioni ; Spring, Mdlle. Cerito. PAS.—Regno du Printemps, du Printemps, Begne de l'Ete, de l'Ete, Regne de l'Automme, de l'Automme, Regne de l'Biver, de Plliver, du l'Union des Saisons. Applications for Boxes, Stalls, and Tickets, to be made at the Xox-oflice of the Theatre. Doors open at half-past Seven. and commence at Eight o'clock THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. trader the Management of Mr. B. Webster, sole Lessee. THIS EVENING Will be performed the Comedy of THE CONFEDERACY; or, the City Wives. Gripe, Mr. Tilbury ; Moneytrap, Mr. Farren ; Brass, Mr. Webster; Clarissa, Mrs. Nisbett ; Corinna, Miss Julia Sennett; Flippanta, Mrs. Keeley, Mrs. Amlet, Mrs. Glover After which a new piece called the PAS DE FASCINATION ; or, Catching a Governor. Michael Browsky, Mr. Keeley; Katherine Loper, Mrs. Keeley. To conclude with the Farce of SPRING GARDENS. Lord Court ington, Mr. A. Wigan; Scoreup, Mr. Keeley; Laiy Clarissa, Mrs. Seymour; Mrs. Scoreup, Miss Julia Bennett. ;Stage Manager, Air. Farren; Acting Manager, Mr. F. Web-fter. J. T. Archer, fox-book keeper. Boxes, 53. ; Pit, 33. ; Gallery, 2s. ; Upper Gallery, Is. Doors open at Half-past Six, Performance to commence at Seven THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI. Under the direction of Madame Celeste. THIS EVENING Will be performed a new and original Drama, called HARVEST HOME. Principal characters by Messrs. H. Hughes, Lambert, Wright, P. Bedford, 0. Smith, Madame Celeste, Frank Matthews, Miss Turner, &c. MLss Woolgar, M r s . Atter which a new Farce, called GOING TO THE DERBY THE DERBY DAY. Mr. Jerem ah Twiddle, 141 r. Wright; Mr. John James Chucks, Mr. Paul Bedford ; Captain Nobble, Mr. Worrell ; Mrs. Chucks. Mrs. Matthews ; Mrs. Twiddle, Miss Woolgar. To conclude with THE MARRIED BACHELOR. Boxes, 45.; Pit, Is. Gallery, Is. ' • , -en at Half-past Six. Performance co commence at Seven. ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE. Under the Management of Madame Vestris. Sole Lessee. Mr. Charles Mathews. TIIIS EVENING, Will be performed a now comic Drama, entitled ANYTHING FOR A CHANGE. Characters by Messrs Harley, C. Mathews, llonner; Mrs. L. Murray, Miss K. Fitzwilliam, and Miss Marshall. Polly, iss Aft e r which, which, THE BEGGAR'S OPERA. Captain 3fackeath, leer. W. arrison ; Peachum, Mr. F. Matthews ; lean Fl H tzwilliam ; Lucy, Madame Vestris , Jenny Diver, Bliss Jane Coleman. To conclude with a Comic Drama, called A ROUGH DIAMOND. Characters by Messrs. Selby, Diddear, Bellingham, Backsione • M rs. Leiv'h Murray, and Mrs. Fitzwilliam. Lt os s Dozes, bs. ; Upper Boxes, 45.; Pit, 2s. ; Gallery, i s , N o haii..pcice to any part of the house. The ..,.•;ew 11cx-office, No. 2, Welling ton-street, 1$ op en t o th e rnbile every day, from Ten till Six. PRINCESS'S THEATRE. Mr. J. M. Maddox, sole Lessee and Manager, Duehess-street, Portland-place. THIS EVENING, Will be perairmed tke comic Drama, entitled A FAIRY TALI. Principal characters by Messrs. J. Vining, C. Fisher, Conway, Nor ton. Mrs. Stirling, and Miss Emma Stanley. TO be followed by a new and original Drama, called THE SPIRIT OF GOLD. To conclude with the Ballet, entitled MENORF,LLA. Charac ters by Mr. Flexmore, N. Le Clereq, M. Deulin, Madame Le Clercq, Mdlle. Le Clercq, Mdlle. Louise, Mdlle. Adele, bidlle. kathilde, Miss Ralson, and Mdlle. Auriul. Dress Circle, As. : Boxes, 4s. ; Pit, 2s. ; Gallery, Is. FRENCH PLAYS.—ST. JAMES'S THEATRE. Lessee. Mr. John Mitchell. 33, Old Bond-street. TO-MORROW EVENING, The Entertainments will commence at half-past Seven o'clock when Will be performed LE CODE DES FEMMES. Paul Fauval, M. Derval ; Mignonet, M. Lemenil ; Romain, M. Lheritier ; Emma, Mdlle. Figeac. After which, the vaudeville of LE BON.THOMME RICHARD. To conclude with POT AUX ROSES. Boxes, 6s. ; Pit, 3s. tkl. ; Amphitheatre, 35.; Gallery, 28 Boxes and Stalls may be obtain , :d at Mr. Mitchell's Royal Library, 33. Old Bond-street. ST. JAMES'S THEATRE. ROBERT HOUDIN . continues to attract crowded and fashionable audiences at the St. James's Theatre, to witness his extraordinary and original SOIREES FANTASTIQIT Es, which he will repeat THIS EVENING, and every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday Evenings, commencin.; at Half-past Eight. No performance on Saturday, June 24. in consequence of the great demand for places, he will repeat his MATINEES FANTASTIQUES on WEDNESDAY MORNING, June 28. Doors open at Two o'clock. I.:OXeS and Stalls may be secured at Mr. Mitchell's Royal Library, 33, Old Bond -greet. ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. Engagement o[ Mr. T. P. COOKE. THIS EVENING, Will be performed FITT URE EVENTS. After which, MY POLL AND MY PARTNER JOE. Harry Hallyard, Mr. T. P. Cooke. To be followed by the LANTLM SERENADERS' CONCERT. To conclude with KENNYNGTON CROSSE. Manager and Treasurer, Mr. B. S. Fairbrother. ASTLEY'S . ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE. Proprietor, Mr. W. Batty. • Altzball's new gorgeous Chivalrous Spectacle pre-eminently success. ful.—Sacond week of the grand Whitsuntide Novelties.—Unparal leled Equestrian Feats. TUTS EVENING, Will be performed, the new brilliant Spectacle, founded on Sir Walter Scott's celebrated poetical Romance, and entitled MAR MION ; or, The Ba.tle of nodelen Field. To be followed by the inimitable EXERCISES OF THE EQUES TRIAN TROUPE. • To conclude with the favourite drama of CLAM. Box-ofidee o,eu from Eleven till Five. Stage Manager, Mr. W. West. ROYAL SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS. At traction u ure ceden tett. JULLTEN and his UNRIVALLED BAND. New Quadrille, composed expressly for the Gardens. Engagement of Miss lIUDD \ RT. Continuation of the Engagement of Mdlle. LOVARNY. The DAYLIGHT VIEW of ROME, by Dauson. Superb and Unique MENAGERIE. Grand Display of FIREWORKS, by the Messrs. Southby. No Extra I barge. MONDAY, TUESDAY, WEDNESDAY, THURSDAY, and FEUD kY. View of Rome.—Promenade Concerts, Vocal and Instrumental, konducted by Mons. JULLIEN, whose splendid Band of Solo Per formers includes Messrs. Baker, Barrett, Bauman, George and Viotti Collins, Cloth, Collinet, Koenig, Lazaru-, Richard.on, S-imenberg, Ste.—Two Solos• each Evening. —Mdlle. Lovarny will sing two ft- Yourite Songs, Miss Iluddart will sing a favout ite Song, and with Lovarny will execute an admire i Duet.—Also to be seen, during the day, the beautiful Menagerie—Shakspere's House—The Magic Bridge—said other novelties will be exhibited, the whole concluding with a most magnificent and not to be rivalled display of Fireworks, by the Messrs. Southby, representing the Girandola during the Holy Week at Rome. Gates open at Nine a.m., Feeding Time Five—Jullien's Concert at a Quarter past Six — Fireworks at Half-past .Nine. Admission, as usual, One Shilling. TO CORRESP No communication can be attended to unless authent: cated by the name and address of the writer. Rejected communication g cannot be returned. THE WEATHER. —Sox OFFICE S JUNE 2 THERMOMETER, Lowest, Highest, 69 ; Noon, 73, BAROMETER, 30.06--WIND N.W.; fine. - - _ HI( Ii WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE THIS DAY. Morning .. 30 min. after 5 I Evening •. 50 min. after i to the commandments is incompatible with the mas tication of a red.herring, that public decency is vio lated, and eternal salvation endangered by the un timely purchase of a rasher of ham, or the vending of a surreptitious lobster. To explain ourselves. There is now before the House of Commons a Bill, prepared and introduced by the Honourable Members for Salford and Ashton under-Lyne, providing that— "No person shall, on Sunday, keep or hold, or assist in keeping, any market, or sell, or cry, or offer or expose for sale, or cause to be sold or cried for sale, any goods, chattels, effects, matters, or things whatever. The goods of hawkers so defying the law are to be confis cated for the benefit of the poor of the parish. The sale of milk, fruit, pastry, and beverages before nine o'clock A.M., and after one o'clock P.m., of cooked meat, tie, coffee, &c., within coffee-shops, cook-shops, or eating houses, before ten o'clock A.M. and after one o'clock P.m., the sale of meat or flesh before nine o'clock A.m. (from the 31st of May to the Ist of October in each year), and the vending of drugs and medicines, will not be in terfered with by this Act. The Act is not to extend to steam-boats or licensed houses. The penalties for in fringement of the above provisions are fines varying from to 40s. Persons resisting the fficers employed in enforcing the Act will be liable to a line of 101. The operation of the Act is limited to the boundaries of the metropolitan police district, and the city and liberties of London. The Ist of October is fixed for the commence ment." Considering that our old favourite, Sir ANDREW AGNEW, is no longer a Member of the Imperial Parlia ment, we had hoped that such monstrous, indecent, and most un-Christian propositions as this would never again have been laid before the supreme Legislature. Talk of liberty of conscience after this ! Talk of civil freedoul, forsooth, or religious toleration, or of the annihilation of the old incubi of ignorance, feu dality, and despotism ! Sorry, indeed, must be the liberality of the English constitution if such abortions of legalized morality and Parliamentary religion can be allowed to interrupt the business of a rational Senate. Often and often have we written down the humbug of those pretenders to orthodoxy who have from time to time attempted to interfere with Sunday travelling both on the highways and upon railroads. A number of pigheaded dogmatists endeavoured to throw a moral barricade across the line of the Glasgow Railway; but these gentlemen failed, and so, with the help of common sense, will the two gentlemen we have already men tioned futureas adorning the sha l Chamberententer o at'Westminster.into the On a more fully y cruelty and folly and utter indecency of this egre gious measure. Meanwhile we leave the Bill to uni versal derision. The Committee appointed to inquire into . the causes of the recent commercial distress, and how far it has been affected by the laws for regulating the issue of notes payable on demand, have made their first report. They have concluded their inves tigation so far as relates to England, and have given the result of their opinions on that branch of the subject, to the country. The document is (if pos sible) more meagre and unsatisfactory than was an ticipated even by those who discerned the nature of the ingenious device for shelving the question until a period when the public mind might be less excited on the subject, when Ministers might announce with safety their determination to abide by the stringent provisions of the Bank Charter Act, and to refuse the slightest modification thereof, notwithstanding the numerous deputations and remonstrances that had been forwarded from eyery part of the country. No doubt could hare been entertained by any person at all cognizant with the avowed opinions of the majority of those selected to form the Committee, that they would arrive at the conclusion that no alteration should take place in our monetary code; but it was expected that some plausible reasons would have been put forward in its defence, and that those who had laboured for months, and who had examined divers nitnesses, would at least have stated the grounds on which they might have formed their judgment. Nothing, however, of the kind has taken place. The report simply states that " the Com mittee, after a careful review of all the evidence, are of opinion that it is not expedient to make any alteration in the Bank Charter Act of 1844." Such is the magnificent result for which Parliament was summoned at an unusual period, to the great incon venience of its Members, who were drawn from their usual avocations, at a period when their pre sence at home was of unusual importance to them selvs and their tenantries. It is, however, satisfactory to state that the Com mittee were by no means unanimous in their conclu sions; that the report was only carried by a majority of four, while a resolution moved by the Honourable Member for Montrose, to the effect " that the laws for regulating the issue of bank-notes payable on demand had aggravated the commercial distress of England in the year 1847," was only defeated by the insignificant majority of two, the numbers being eleven in support of the re solution, and thirteen against it, including the mem bers of the late and of the present Administrations who were placed on the COmmittee. Such a defeat is almost tantamount to a victory, and it will, we trust, not be lost sight of by the community in general, when the demand is made for a revision of the pro visions of our monetary code, and the adoption of a currency not subject to those ruinous fluctuations which have so injuriously affected all the industrial pursuits of the country, involving those who gave employment to the labouring classes in the deepest distress, and compelling those wbo under more propitious circumstances could obtain a comfortable livelihood for their families, by their own honest exertions, to take refuge in the union work houses. The Committee state " that there has been a general concurrence of opinion among the witnesses examined ; that the primary cause of the distress was the deficient harvest, especially of the potato crop, in the year 1846, and the necessity of providing the means of payment in the year 1847, for the unprece dented importations of various descriptions of food which took place in that year." They also state that, " among other causes, the deficient supply of cotton ; the diversion of capital from its ordinary employment in commercial transactions to the con struction of railroads; the undue extension of credit, especially with our transactions with the East, and exaggerated expectations of enlarged trade, have been stated by some of the witnesses, as having contributed to the same result ;" and add, " they see no reason to doubt that these causes have, in different d egrees , i n different parts of the country, produced the eff ec t thus ascribed to them." Thi s is simply a repetition of the speech of the Chancellor of the Exchequer on the 30th November last, wh en moving the appointment of the Committee. In fact, the precious bantling bears u n d ou bt e d evi dence of it s paternity, and it is scarcely necessa r y speech in question that the prepared by the eulogi z e r of h The censure that was east n the subsequentdocument was on the Bank directors to inform any person h has attentively perused the has beente Bank Charter Act. o 3 repeate o d th i N h November so so no im me di modi fied form. They h av e, however, promised to b e sbuerteteer areto behaved be er taken,tfuture,hethe Committee at cle:lm'ea " that it is unnec essar y to im pose such adruntlg y by law, as there can be but litt le doubt th at the permanent interests of the Bank are id enti. fled with those of the public at large." They also state " that they feel confident that the change which has taken place (in the mode of appointment of the Governor and Deputy-Governor), and the greater experience which has been acquired during the events of the last two years, will ensure to the public in the future management of the Bank of England greater benefit from this national establishment than it has hitherto been the means of conferring upon the country." The above, with an allusion to the serious consequences of the panic and the want of confidence that existed, which, however, " was immediately re moved by the letter of the 25th October," and a statement that the evidence as to the eflects of the Act of 1844 was contradictory, appear to be the only grounds put forward for the positive decision they have come to. We shall on early occasion return to the consideration of this most important subject. In the beginning of June, 1793, the National Convention of France promulgated the Constitution of the new Republic—a Constitution which had been drawn up i n e i g ht days, and whi c h R OBESPIERRE de scribed as " the most democratic institution that ever existed." " We can now," he said, " offer to the universe a constitutional code, infinitely superior to any that has ever existed, which exhibits the sublime and majestic image of French regeneration. We may now despise the efforts of calumny." Still however excellent in some particulars the Constitution of 1793 may have been, there was a capital error in its mode of inauguration—an error which led to its speedy an nihilation. It was traced in letters of blood. In the beginning of June, 1848, another body of revolu tionists have framed another Constitution for Repub lican France—a constitution which resembles its pre decessor in some particulars, while in principle it is directly opposed to it. In comparing the drafts of these two constitutions we recognise the rapid de velopment of civilization and Christianity during the last half century. The framers of the first Repub lican Constitution aspired after liberty, it is true, but it was a liberty of that spurious kind where men " call it freedom when themselves are free:' One of their first liberal acts IN as to declare liable to arrest all persons who "by their conduct, their relations, their conversation, or their writing, showed themselves partisans of tyranny or federation, or who had not incessantly manifested their devotion to the Revolution,"—that is to say, all persons who might happen to differ, in opinion from themselves. The new French Constitution declares, on the contrary, in one of its first articles, that Liberty" consists among other things "in the right of associating; of petitioning; of exercising one's religion ; of manifesting his thoughts and opinions by means of the press or otherwise." The exercise of these rights has no other limits than " the rights and liberties of other nations, and the public security." A not h er and a most striking difference between these Constitutions Is, that whereas in the former, according to the ironical but truthful remark of CHABOT, the guarantee of liberty was the guillotine, the first article of the latter declares the fundamental prin ciple of social duty to consist in the practice of that sublime maxim so beautifully termed the golden rule of Christianity—"Do unto others as ye would be done by." The recently formed Constitution is almost as democratic in form as that which ROBES PIERRE styled the most democratic that ever existed, and we are inclined to consider it infinitely more liberal in effect. The only respect in which it may appear less democratic than its predecessor, is in its proposing triennial iu place of annual Parlia ments. In its other articles it realises the Utopian dreams of Chartism. Every citizen aged 21 years is to be an elector, and every citizen aged 25 is to be eligible as a representative. A direct tax can be fixed for one year only. Trial by jury is to be very gene rally apPlied, and in the jury of the High Court of Justice, before which crimes and offences against the State are to be tried, the verdict of guilty is to be decided by a majority of two-thirds. These are some of the most important innovations suggested in the draft of the Constitution. The whole document, which is very lengthy, is well drawn up, but for the most part it only contains an enumeration of those great maxims which are the groundwork of social community and of those liberal institutions, with the value of which we ourselves are practically acquainted. A Constitution may look well on paper, it may even elicit applause when delivered from the tribune by the earnest voice of ARMAND MARRAST, but for all that it may be found worthless in practice. Such, however, will not, we are inclined to think, be the fate of this Constitution, because, although aiming after the perfect in theory, it c on d escen d s to the possible in practice. It is certainly far inferior as a composition to that sub lime declaration of rights of ROBESPIERRE—a do cument containing an eloquent demonstration of human perfectability—a document which might be treasured up by the Christian and the philanthropist, were it not sullied by the blood-stained hand which traced it. We shall more particularly analyse this new Constitution when it shall have been adopted by the National Assembly. In the meantime we are satisfied with the practical liberty which it promises —a liberty not likely to degenerate into tyranny in the persons of the powerful few, nor into anarchy in the hands of the mighty many. Nevertheless, while we rejoice in finding how greatly the spirit of moderation has become developed during the last fifty years, let us not forget that, without the violent Republicanism of 1793, we should not, perhaps, have witnessed the moderate Liberalism of la4B. In the first revolution the people were like slaves newly emancipated from their fetters. They felt their powers, and they disco• vered their rights, but they neither knew how to use the one nor how to obtain the other. An impos sible ideal enthralled the imaginations of the nobler spirits of that epoch, but, practically, the liberal dogmas of the multitude were but the bab blings of children unlearned in their mother-tongue. Fifty years of apprenticeship (we may suppose) taught them their lesson. We shall now (let us hope) witness the realisation of those sublime visions which agitated the enthusi4 stic heart of ROLAND, which inspired the earnest eloquence of VERGNIAUD, which gleamed through the dismal philanthropy of ROBESPIERRE, and which have recently found such an able interpreter in the ardent and high-soused LAMARTINE. • 4. 1 ',. )4 , 4, „If' 1. f ,s .-... 5 .,, , Z . _Y—P - r•s-1, r . 0 %, tu I , A , /) ,1. ',4f-`7, 4 / it ~ . „* 4 -1941 .. g0, 1,,, , ... , .04 - , ~.. ~,,„,,- ••. , .., , E • - ~..d r, DitinT ' '..--' U. ' ':11% • 4Y. '`. '...r .1: . "'" - .. ..I °. 's 4: • ' '`, . 4 7 13-Jening .glk u LONDON, THURSDAY, JUNE 22, 1848. " Religion," said the Count DE MIRABEATJ, " is a divine institution—not a legislative enactment." Mr. thaw:BY -thinks otherwise, and so does Mr. Bao , THEILTON. According to the lion. Representatives of Salford and Ashton-under-Lyne, morality is a thing- dependent upon the divisions counted out into the lobbies of Parliament. For our own part, we have been foolish enough to have hitherto regarded the origin and destiuies of Christianity as of a much more holy and sublime character. We had certainly form e d a very different estimate of the result of that tremendous catastrophe - which shook the globe to its centre, which darkened the face of day, which rent the veil of the Temple in twain, and summoned the grim spectres of the dead into the streets of„ Jerusalem. W e had thought that a creed scfounded would have lived in perpetual strength and beauty without the aid of any human interposition . That a Church whose dogmas had emanated from the lips of an Incarnate tiOD, and whose sanctuary had been rendered for ever holy, and for ever indestruct ible by the awful sacrifice of the Crucifixion —that such a Church, could require the help of man's fr a il and fallible judgment had never once entered into our imagination, or if it had, it mud assuredly have been regarded by us as impossible aid preposterous. But in so thinking we have bean mistaken—if w e 1.3 ‘V . -`ll 3 yktrAtiliab Messrs. CIdABLES HINDLEY an d , SPitiIifIOTILIERTON. Pinning down o ur itr.r - peculiar, and we will even II it eccentric, doctrines of those gen • t henceforth look upon virtue as de ' eat measure upon , the purchase of a • berries, we must believe that obedience , NI s t SPAIN. Madrid journals of the 16th have arrived. The Gageta contains an official announcement of the appointment of Senor ORLANDO to the Ministry of the Finances, vice Senor BELTRAN DE Lis, whose resignation has been accepted. MADRID BOLSA, JUNE 16.—Three per Cents., 22 22i cash ; after Bulsa, 21k 22 cash ; 22i paper; Five per Cents., 13k paper; after Bulsa, 13 cash ; Passives, 4i- paper; after Bolsa, 41 cash ; Coupons, 8i cash; Bank of St. Ferdinand, 70 paper. Ex. change on London, at 32 days, 41 cash. THE FRENCH REPUBLIC. THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY. We have received the Paris papers of yesterday. In the debate on the subject of Ateliers Nationaux M. VICTOR HUGO made a speech which attracted considerable attention, in consequence of the inuendos contained in it that the Government were keeping up these Ateliers Nationaux for purposes of their own. M. VICTOR HUGO said— " I do not rise to add to the bitterness of the division amongst us ; we are now submitting to a solemn and decisive proof, and I would not in any wise embarrass the Government, or create the least obstacle to the birth of a Republic that we all wish to be great and pure hereafter, but I must state that which is apparent in the Ateliers Notionaux, that an immense power is exci►ted at an entire loss, when the country has most need of la bour and capital. The result has never been absolutely , unproductive, but it has been unfortunate : for the idle ness of opulence, which existed under the ancient mo narchy, the idleness of misery has been substituted, for the idlers of the dynasties the idlers of the republic. —(Bravos.) I would not impute to the Government an idea that they have not had ; they could nut transform into janissaries of disorder for the benefit of a dicta torship the honest and intelligent ouvriers of Paris. Woe to them who could have such an idea, ior on the day when the people should discover it they would not only be severe, but they would be terrible. To put an end :o these suspicions, and banish these disasters, the Ateliers IVationaux must be immediately transformed into a use ful institution." The Communists still continue to use the name of LOUIS NAPOLEON as a rallying cry for the dis orderly. The Moniteur du Soir gives the following account of a collision between the police and the mob which took place on Monday : " On Monday evening numerous crowds were formed ee the Pl ace d e !Tote' de Ville, who by degrees began to assume an After r ressive character. They were com posed chiefly of those men who app ear . to be engaged eopuriess Napoleon!' preventingl y a p f o o i rt i h i e d n a a n ry cing around c om mer c e and several labour a timesbo ur from uttering cries o i i ts , o v r t ri v i e • magnole,' and cryill u nt intervals t ' Vive Louis e P theth formedeytree o f liberty,in bands, signing and Napoleonot c omme n ced B ' e C n e a e r d i e n r B s .' on, who I e N ry o . us o P n a , ur p o repliedqwueer e' waxvery people pasting, by compelling them began to stop the t 0 t o their join demandsit it h roughly y e handled shouting y‘ them,V ive laandßationobtiai d t t n a r v n uil attack e d re °d elet e r :( e ) cone)e,claiheirme,ianntdheetnr raised of ' A !'eau le reactionnaire? At this moment some u ard d iens de Paris ill-treat. d that one of them was carried into t e th a e me cr u o p wd a , nd bu r t es t de Vide in a state of insensibility, and serious fears a were entertained for his life. Strong patrols of the force came to the aid of the police, and by repeated marches and countermarches dispersed the crowd and restored order, alter making several arrests. Among the individuals taken into custody, seven or eight of t h em were men who had already been in the hands of justice for various offences, and they were all found to have arms concealed on their persons. They have all been committed to prison to take their trials." The Messager has the following :—" A new Pre tender is spoken of in the person of the Prince of I LEUCLITENBUItG, the son of Prince EUGENE, and a 1 relation of the Emperor, of Rolm.". t The Committee of Secret Service Money yester day called before it the Members of the Executive Government, to demand explanations of the manner in which 1,200,000 f. had been disposed of in the in , terval between the 24th of February and the Ist of June. M. LEDRU Ror.LIN, through whose hands, as Minister of the Interior, this amount of 50,0001. sterling passed, was the chief object of their inter pellations ; every effort was made to resist inquiry, and the traditions of the monarchy were appealed to as to the privilege of the Executive to dispose of such funds without rendering an account. The Committee, however, declared that under a republic such secresy and irresponsibility are inadmissible, and M. LEDnu ROLLIN M. RECUR; were ordered to supply to a subcommittee tee the vouchers neces s a r y to showthe the large s um w hi c h h as and application his s successor, b.comm oi f t been disposed of. The report of the Finance Committee has been pre sented to the Assembly. It is against the proposi tions of the Minister of Finance, whom it accuses of blunders and of miscalculations. The report calcu lates the deficiency of revenue for the year at one hundred and fifty million francs. The receipt of the direct taxes, which for the month of March was 57,580,100 f., and for the month of April 42,007,000 f., fell during the month of May to 22, 99 2,400 f. The extraordinary i m p os t o f 45 c., though liable to be immediately exacted, has not been better paid than the ordinary tax. Of the 191,270,000 f., to which it amounts, only 6 1,585,600 f. were recovered on the Ist June. A letter from Napoleon Vendee (formerly Bourbon Vendee) says— "One of the officers of the 46th regiment of the line, with his company, being detached on the coast, surprised an English vessel at the moment when its crew was oc cupied in disembarking muskets destined to arm the Cnvuans of the country. About 3,000 stand et' arms were seized and transported to Napoleon Vendee." We can scarcely credit this statement. If it be true, we trust that the English Government will at once, and unasked, put the Alien Act in force against those foreign intriguers (for the arms must have been purchased by foreign intriguers located in England) who abuse: our hospitality by plotting against the peace of a friendly Power. The Finance Committee, at its meeting yesterday, fixed the salary of Ministers at 36,000 f. per annum. Under Louis PHILIPPE the salary of a Minister was 80,000 f., with the exception of the Minister for Foreign Affairs, who had 100,000 f. M. TIHERS de fended high salaries on the ground that low salaries were aristocratic, as none but rich men could accept high places under Government. The Sardinian Minister has demanded of the French Minister of Foreign Affairs an explanation of the hostile expressions in the exposé des motifs, rela tive to the Garde Mobile. M. BASTIDE declared the only object of the measure was to defend the integrity of France. There has been an enzotte at Nice, in which the people attacked the office of the Echo, a French journal, and did considerable damage to the property. This may perhaps increase the unpleasant feeling existing between the French Executive and the King Of SARDINIA. There was a duel yesterday between M. NA POLEON BERTRAND and M. Gown Aux, the son of the hanker, in which the latter was wounded. The difference was a political one, BERTRAND being a Bonapartist and GODCHAUX a Republican. BOURSE.—PARIS, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 21. THREE o'CLocu.—This has been another day of stagnation at the Bourse. Every one is waiting to see what the Assembly will do with the railways, and until that question be settled, matters will continue here in a state of doubt and depression. The Rentes and Three per Cents. were both weak, and gave way slightly. Vieille Montagne Shares have fallen 75f. to 2.075. For the Account, the French Three per Cants. have fallen 50c.; Five per Cents. have fallen 25c. For Money, the Three per Cents, and Five per Cents. have fallen 25c. each; Bons du Trtior are at 23 to 24 discount; Bank of France Shares have fallen sf. Belgian Bank Shares not quoted; Belgian Two-and-a l-11dt' per Cents. not quoted; Spanish Actives, nothing dune; Roman are the same as yesterday; Rothschild's Receipts, at 71f. 50c. Railway Shares for the Account, Settling of 30th June :—Northerns have fallen 27f. 50c.; nothing else done. For Money, Orleans, Rouens, Mar seilles, Bales, Bordeaux, Northerns, Nantes, and Lyons, have all fallen lf. 25c. The rest are the same as yes terday, with the exception of the Montereau and Troyes, which have risen sf. BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE LONDON STOCK-EXCHANGE. Jua 21. Dutch Rhenish, '/ 2 —Luxembourg, I—Namur and Liege, GERMANY AND THE NORTHERN STATES. AUSTRIA AND BOHEMIA. ----- The Vienna Gazette of the 16th publishes a tele grapic dispatch, received the day before from the Burgomaster of Prague, which states that the bom bardment of the city recommenced that morning, and was continuing when the dispatch left. The following letter in the Leipzig Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung, of the 18th, gives fuller particu lars of the progress of affairs between the contend ing parties ; it brings intelligence up to the morning of the 16th : "On the 13th at mid-day the military had sompletely the upper hand, and Prince Windischgriitz determined to restore the communications between the old and new town. For this purpose he caused the chain bridges over the Moldau, which had been broken, to be repaired, and the barricades on the lesser side to be taken by storm. In this affair several of the troops were killed, being shot from the neighbouring windows. The fight ing here lasted till six o'clock in the afternoon, when the Cz• ch party demanded a parley, and hopes were held out that the students and the people would lay down their arms. The Czech party, however, required that Prince Windischgriitz and the military should leave the ciconsequently every id ea o f accommo d at i on was abandoned. The rumour was spread on the night of the 13th that there would be a general attack on all the Ger man inhabitants of the town. Great fright was caused by this, and whole families might be seen to fly through the gates out of the town, leavin g th e i r a ll b e hi n d. Aft er where they concentrated th emse l ves , a nd w h ere t t h h e e I b y r a e g a e k r i s n g off the followed them, t Parley t h e peop l e ret i re d to Pod skal, attack them. and hussars There a terrible slaughter ensu e d on b o th s id es; twenty sixo hussars were thrown into the Moldau by the people. and the battle lasted until the 14th of June, at half-past nine. On that day General Count Mensdorff arrived from Vienna, in order to assume the command in chief, in the hope that as the Bohemians seemed to have taken a vehement dislike to Prince Windischgratz, the as sumption of command by Mensdorff might restore peace. This was, however, a vain hope; the tumult in ereased every moment, the fight was renewed, and the Czech party obtained possession of the town. Prince Wipdischgratz then abandoned the town with the mili tary and retired to the mountains round the city, from thence to bombard the town. The Lorenzoberg, the Maricnschanze, and the Ziscaberg were occupied with cannon; and the Clementinuw, Carolinum, and There sianum strongly cannonaded. Such was the state of affairs on the morning of the 16th, to which date our accounts reach. Count Leo Thun had been obliged to fly in the disguise of a servant." A letter from Inspruck, dated the 15th, says that the EMPEROR had been suffering for some days. His reports m ne e r n vtesinhawve from which henh Italy, e is incessantly kept by the various greatly tried by the extreme exc i te - Vienna, Hungary, and Croatia, and the innumerable deputations and audiences which he has been compelled to receive and give. It is expected that the Imperial Family will quit Ins pruck in the course of the week, but the route is not definitely fixed. It is, however, probable that the Court and diplomatic corps, with WESSENRERG and Douulorr, will first proceed to Salzburg, while the Archduchess SOPHIA and her suite will repair to Ischel. HUN GARY. A letter from Pesth of June 12 says:— " Last night a report was suddenly spread through the city that an engagement had taken place between the armed Italian troops and the unarmed free corp s i n the barracks of the Javlitz. At nine o'clock the gene rale was beat, and the tocsin sounded from all the steeples. The National Guards repaired to the barracks from every quarter, and an immense number of people were assembled armed with swords, guns, clubs, iron b ars , and stones. Shots were fired from the windows upon the crowd, but happily they did not do much mischi e f. At twelve o'clock the regular military surrounded th e barracks and guarded Di the doors. Cannon were drawn up facing the building. The Minister of War went into the barracks and in vain endeavoured to induce the Italians t o l a y d o wn their arms. It was not until one o'clock on t h e f o llowing day that they were dis armed and ca rr i e d o ff to Komorn. The Minister now repaired to th e P a l ac e to pacify the free corps, and K ossuth made a powerful address to the m, p ointi ng out their dut y, to remain quiet, to harbo ur no thou g h t of revenge, t o avoid everything which might tend to re new this . lamentable conflict, and to reserve all th eir energy and streng th to meet the enemy w ho is men acing 1 their country." The following pRUSSIA. Ministerial list is circulating in political circles i n B e rlin :—President of the Council, Herr Camphausen; Public Worship and Education, Auerswald ; Finance, Milde ; Interior, Pinder, or Eichmann ; Public Works, Hausemann ; Foreign, Usedorn, or Lychnowski ; War, Schreckenstein. The Prussian Government has recalled General VON CoLomu from Posen, where he distinguished himself by his severities against the Polish inha • bitants. He is replaced by General VON BRUNNECK. POSEN. The Oberlandesgericht-Assess or (Assessor of the Supreme Court) Fischer in Posen, has made the fol lowing protest against the choice of electors and the election of a Deputy from the district of Posen to the aing ccordance r y d a a n ce Cabine t th o order German Nationa e l s A ty s t s h e e m ß b W declared, of April his rill 2 i h 4j opinion of the Ministry, that the organization promised to the Polish inhabitants of the Grand Duchy of Posen .should not extend to those portions of it where the German nationality predominated, but that on the contrary the annexation of them to the German Confederation should be demanded without delay from the German Federal Assembly, the latter, on the application of Prussia, in its 39th session, April, 22:1, resolved— " That several districts of the Grand Duchy of Posen, adjoining the German federal territory, in which the majority of population, amounting to 593,000 souls, should, according to the wish of the inhabitants, be re ceived into the Germanic Confederation." By a supreme Cabinet order of April 26th, again, several portions of the Grand Duchy of Posen were ex cluded from the Polish organization, and on May 2d, in the 45th sitting of the Federal Assembly, upon the ap plication of Prussia, the city and fortress of Posen, with the districts connecting them with the above-mentioned territory and a population of 273,500 souls, were also received into the Germanic Confederation. The first application, according to the tenor of which the annexation to the Germanic Confederation was to be effected agreeably to the wish of the inhabitants, contained an untruth, because the will of the people had pronounced itself against it in a legal manner, through its usual organ the assembled Diet ; because another organ for ascertaining the will of the people was yet wanting, and not heard ; because only individuals and individual communities had pronounced themselves for the annexation to Germany, whereas the opposed will of the Polish people had manifested itselt unmistakably, especially: by the general wearing of their national colours ; and, finally, because the Po lish population, trusting to the public promises of the Government, the fulfilment of which it expected, had no cause for general and open protests and declarations. The second declaration violated the promises made to the Poles ; it put in place of justice, which Germany and her organs asked for, selfishness—and instead of separating the German from the Polish nationality, and putting an end to the oppression of the Poles, a fortress which, with its surrounding forts, is as much built for oppressing the Poles as for repelling a foreign foe; a few Germans, who for the moat part had left their German fatherland, already under ancient Polish rule, were taken as a pretext for annexing to Germany hundreds of thousands of Poles living on the land inherited from their forefathers, against their wish, and even without being listened to ; they were made the pretence for severing the greater half of the Polish population of the Grand Dachy from that portion which was to be re• organized. General Von Pfuel considerably increased the por tion annexed to Germany by his declaration of May 12, by which pure Polish portions of the districts of Shroda, Adelnau, Shrimm, Posen, Kosten, Kriiben, Krotoshin, Mogilno, and Wongrowiec, are excluded from the orga. nization, and united with ;the Germanic Cenfederation. General Von Pfuel was not authorised by his instruc tion or powers to make this declaration or increase.. Now, in this part of the ancient Polish kingdom, almost entirely inhabited by Poles, in which only the city of Posen contains a considerable German population—out of 40,000, about 9,000 souls exclusive of the families of civil and military officers, and most of those descendants of Germans, who by virtue of especial privileges had settled in the old Polish kingdoms ; now, from this part of the country a deputy is to be chosen for the German National Assembly, and I, as a German employe, not having been able to leave this territory, notwithstand ing reiterated requests, have been summoned to take part in this election. I protest against this election, because the ancient Polish territories can only then be received in the Ger manic Confederation, when after the re establishment of peace and order in the land, after the cessation.of the pre sent rule of force, the will of the people, can unreservedly and distinctly pronounce itself ; and when upon the de mand of the inhabitants of each and every district, that desires a separation from the Grand Duchy, the Ger manic Constituent National Assembly on the one hand, and the legal organs that are to be constituted by the same Assembly on the other hand, have concluded the act of annexation to Germany, and because only after this an nexation the respective members of the Union are en titled to send representatives to the German National Assembly. _ _ protest against the election, which is to be proceeded with, on the ground of acts for which neither his Ma jesty the King, nor the Ministers of the State, nor the Germanic Confederate Aisembly, were competent, at a time when the people and their rights are no longer ob jects of the absolute will of Governments—when the only existing legal organ of the land has pronounced it self against the annexation:to Germany—has never been heard on the subject of the projected parti tion—and when more than half a million of Poles protest against this act. The law of the 22d May, 1815, had, in section 4, pronounced, that the attributes of the representatives of the land are to ex tend over all subjects of legislation concerning the per sonal rights of every member of the state; the Legisla ture of the states had confirmed these rights;—and should we now dispose of man's most important right— his fatherland and nationality—without listening to the people or its representatives, amidst the thunder of can non mowing down those that oppose such a proceeding? I protest aaaimst the election, because all bonds of order and law in the Grand Duchy of Posen are riven asunder, and because the law is violated not only by the Poles, Germans, and Jews, but also by the authorities, supported by 30,000 to 40,000 bayonets. General V. Pfuel and the highest civil and military authorities of this province have violated every legiti mate authority by proclaiming martial law, whic is abolished by a supreme Cabinet order, and which re moves the inhabitants of the Grand Duchy in certain cases from their personal judge to the discretion of mili tary authorities; they have done so without the pro mulgation of a law for the purpose passed in a legiti mate manner; they have done it of their own accord, without full powers, or even the assent of his Majesty the King or his Ministers, although, by virtue of the most recent changes in the constitution, even his Ma jesty has the power of reintroducing it (martial law) only with the consent of the representatives of the nation, since this law com e s w ithi n the category of ex. ceptional laws mentioned in section 2 of the decree pro mulgated April 6, concerning several fundamental points of the future Prussian Constitution. This is not the place for deciding who is the cause of the present condition of this country, in how far it is to be attributed to the patriotism of the Poles, to their long oppression, to the measures of the authorities, to the prevailing want of confidence in them, aggravated by the treatment of the Poles and broken promises; to excesses and abuses on the part of the Poles; to an un restrained agitation of such Germans as have left their German fatherland, and are afraid to lose the open arena of their egotisticiactivity ;—it is not for us to decide in how far the measures for the protection of Germans—to which they are entitled even in a foreign country—are necessary, and will be so for a longer period; but, in the present state of this country, to pro ceed with elections which are to decide ou the most im portant rights of a people, is a measure on the part of the authorities which puts their relatio❑ to the move ment in this country in its proper light—a movement which has been distorted in the eyes of Germany, dis torted even by official accounts, if I may believe the words of German eye-witnesses, officers and actors in those event•. We still have in this province the same authorities (I do nut speak of highly honourable individual excep. lions) whose doings the Supreme President Flottwell has so well described in his well-known report, pub lished March 15, 1841 ; we have still the same military rule and German bureaucracy, which shows itself now in its most unrestrained a;:d moat barbarous form— which laid hold of excesses committed by individual Poles in order to render itself, as a- consequence of its own measures necessary, and now, fur its own protec tion, proceeds to elections, by the results of which it hopes to justify the previous accounts of its steps. They proceed with the elections at a time when everywhere the most respectable Poles— who have not yet fled their country—if they allow themselves to be seized, without any legal ground from pretended precaution, upon a mere suspicion, upon the denunciation of a Jew, are arrested by the military, dragged to the fortress, often liberated after a longer or shorter imprisonment, and often detained; at a time when Poles, arrested upon a mere suspicion, are mal treated and shot by ,the troops during the transport— when Polish prisoners, escorted by soldiers, are in the streets of Posen publicly beaten with clubs by Germans and Jews, excited by members of the so-called German Committee—at a time when hundreds of arrested and dis armed Poles are butchered by the soldiery with bay onets or the butt-ends of their muskets—when mansions and villages are plundered and reduced to ashes —when the plundering Prussian soldier, after murdering and chasing away the inhabitants, burns the sick and wounded Poles in the dwellings which he has plun dered—when I hear German officers and officials ask each other, with a feeling of horror, whether this bar barity of the infuriated, uncivilized Germans—whetber this bestial desire for murder, which delights in tor menting and exterminati ng even t h e conquered enemy, isinherent in the nature of the German—they proceed with the elections at a moment when no Pule can show himself in the streets of Posen without being ill-used by Jews and Germans; when Poles are disarmed, and Germans and Jews provided with arms; when Poles dare no longer to meet in consultation on their affairs, for fear of being attacked, maltreated, and arrested for some pretended plot, by Jews, Germans, and soldiers; at a time when, in a word, the Pole appears to be an outlaw IN EIS OWN NATIVE LAND. 'these facts are here well known and publicly related; . I do not d ou bt th e i r trut h, b ecause I k now t h e s pi ri t of the civil and military authorities in this province, and I am ready to adduce more circumstantial facts, and bring forward witnesses, Germans as well as Poles. I do not believe that these facts, omitted by our au thorities in their official reports, were unknown to them, because I have heard persons, who surround them con verse about them. As a test of the view which the authorities take of this state, it may suffice to mention, that on inquiring wheth.-r the prisoners were marked, as I was told by some Poles, I was informed that. they had one hand and one ear blackened with some permanent chemical pre paration, but by an order cf General V. nut 1, they had now only one hand dyed. I think that amidst such unfortunate circumstances, every upright German ought to abstain from the elec tion. tie will, on German soil, among our honest Ger man people, insist on his full political rights; but the rights which he claims for himself, he claims also for other men and nations. He desires a separation of the German and Polish nationalities,—unconditional pro tection of the Germans settled here; but he does not desire, in favour of those Germans who have left their German fatherland, to rob, by immoral means, the Poles of those rights which are due to them, as the ancient in habitants of this soil. (Signed) CHRISTIAN FISCHER. Oberlandesgericht-Assessor in Posen. Posen, May 19th, 1848. The ab.:ye protest was sent to the municipality of Posen with the following note : Worshipful Magistrate,—At the pi imary assembly of electors for the, 2,1 .•I:ctoral district of Posen, which met to-day for the el. coon of an elector, who might take putt in the choice of a Deputy to the Geralau National Assembly, I Wa3 going to make a protest against this election, but it was rejected by the presid ing Oeknoude Rath Wendtland, because, by virtue of an instruction given him by a worshipful magistrate, the election was to proceed without any discus.ion. I know but two organs tor exercising political rights, the Primary General Assembly and the Assembly of the Representatives of the nation. In Cie fir-t, where alone every individual has a right to present himself, I think I ought not to have been re • fused to make my pretest against a violation of rights. I therefore pray a worshipful magistrate to insert my protest, which I have been obliged to make in writing, among the minutes of the election proceeding of the 2d electoral district, and to communicate the same to the German National Assembly at Frankfort. (Signet') CHRISTIAN FISCHER, Posen, May 19th, 1848. 0. L G. Assessor. —From, the Berliner Ze;tungs Belle, May 24. ITALY. LOMBARDY AND VENICE. Padua has capitulated to the Austrians, and Ge neral PEPE, who was in command there has fallen back upon Ferrara. The probability is that ere long the Austrians will have re-conquered the whole of the Venetian territory. On this subject the French Prase says— " The capture of Vicenza renders the state of the Ve netian provinces very precarious and alarming. These provinces had no regular army to protect them except that under General Durando, which has just been obliged to retire for three mouths from the field. Treviso is only defended by a force of 2,500 volunteers and a small number of. Pontifical grenadiers. At Piave de Cadore the brave mountaineers, after a heroic de fence, which lasted more than a month, have been com pelled by hunger and the want of ammunition to abandon that important position. The number of the enemy is increasing on the Isonzo, the Tagliamento, Livenza, and the Piave, and the Austrians have advanced posts as far as the Sile. Their forces are distributed in the following manner:— At Belluna and Piave de Cadore At Montt, belluno, Povegliano, Pordenone, Cor droipo, and Udine 4,000 From the Livenza to the Isonzo 5,000 At Osopo Near Palmanova 19,000 " The latter place is closely invested by the Austrians, and is defended by the brave General Zucchi. " On the confines of Italy and of Istria , from Cuer dale to Gradisca, the frontier is guarded by 15,000 men, which have between them 18 pieces of cannon. It is impossible that, deprived as she is of sufficient force, Venice can withstand the Austrian forces whenever they direct themselves en masse against any point as they have done at Vicenza. "It has been stated that Charles Albert was to have attacked Verona on the morning of the 14th. The Italia del Popolo of the 15th announces, in a second edi tion, that the Piedmontese having learnt that Radetzky had re-entered the place at the heed of 14,000 men, had given up the idea of the attack, and had resumed their former quarters at Valeggio. The heights of Rivoli are still occupied by a Piedmontese regiment. " M. Vice nzo Ricci announced in the Chamber of De puties of Piedmont, in the sitting of the 15th, the offi cial union of Lombardy to Piedmont, and at the same time communicated the convention which was entered into on the 13th, between the Sardinian Government and the Provisional Government of Lombardy. " The principal bases of this convention are the fol lowing:—ln one month after the union an electoral law shall be published, according to which the deputies to compose the Constituent Assembly shall be elected, and which will assemble at the latest on the Ist November next. The electoral law has for its bases universal suf frage and vote by ballot. There is to be one deputy for every 25,000 inhabitants. Every citizen of 21 years of age is to be an elector. Until the meeting of the Con stituent Assembly the people of Lombardy are to pre serve the political guarantees which they now enjoy— liberty of the press, right of association, and the Nation! Guard. " From the present time:t he executive power is in the hands of the King, who cannot, however, enter ints any political or commercial treaty without previously refer ring it to a special committee, composed of the members of the Provisional Government of Lombardy." By the Turin journals we learn that in the Chamber of Deputies of Turin, on the 15th, a Bill was presented for authorising an extraordinary levy of 6,000 men, to replace the 12,000 who have en gaged not to combat for three months in consequence of the treaty of Vicenza. The bulletin of the 15th, published by the Provisional Government of Lom bardy, says— The Italian army cannot yet be in a position to attack Verona. and the Piedmontese divisions main tained the line of their positions from Goito to Pas trengo. The heights of Rivoli, the Mont, della Co rona, and the passage from the Adige to Dula are occupied by the Italians. It is said that the Austrian troops which have entered Verona with Marshal Radetzkv amount to 14,000 men. It is announced from Rocca d'Anfo, where the Lombard troops were, that in the night of the 12th the enemy abandoned the posi tions which he occupied to beyond the bridge of Caffaro. A revolution, it was said, broke out at Trent at the mo ment at which the Austrians fell back on it. The tocsin was heard at Condino, Darso, and in the neighbouring villages of the Italian Tyrol." By the latest accounts received from the seat of war, it appears that the head-quarters of the Pied montese army was on the 16th at Alpo, on the Mincio, to which it had been obliged to retreat on learning that Vicenza had fallen into the hands of the Aus trians. COMMEMORATION OF PURCELL IN WESTMINSTER ABBEY.—(THIS DAY.) This morning, at ten o'clock, a grand sacred musical performance took place in the new choir of Westminster Abbey, in commemoration of that great musical com poser, Purcell, when some of his best and most effective sacred compositions were executed in a style worthy their great master, by a choir most effective in every part, and one seldom brought together, even within the walls of Westminster Abbey. The exertions of the present Dean to repair the errors, or the omissions of his predecessors, are already well known to our readers. He has completely remodelled the whole of the choir of this splendid building, and made it in perfect keeling with the rest of the Abbey ; but not satisfied with this, he has shown his determination that the choir shall be devoted to the production of some of our most able sacred composers, and an earnest of that determi nation may be found in the selections or this day. The Te Deum and the Jubilee were given with great pathos and depth of feeling ; and the anthems, " Out of the Deep," " 0 Lord God of Hosts ; " and " 0 give thanks," were performed in a manner worthy their great beauty and the excellency of their musical compositio❑ by Purcell. In addition to the usual choir, several most eminent choristers %% ere in attendance, and added greatly, by their excellent ex ecution of some of the most difficult solos, to the beauty and effectiveness of the performance. The Queen's chorister boys were aiso in attendauce, attired in their rich scarlet dresses. The Abbey was crowded in every part, and amongst the most prominent personages pre sent we noticed his Royal Highness the Duke of Cam bridge, the Bishop of Gloucester, Sir George Clarke, the Dean of Hereford (Dr. Mereweather). Sir C. Thorn ton, and Canons the Rev. J. Jarning and Dr. Words worth. THE ASSAULT ox BOARD THE ERA.—J. Green and J. Robinson, two of the crew of the Era steam boat, were indicted at the Middlesex Sessions for assaulting Mr. Waugh, solicitor, of Great James street, Bediord-row, on board that vessel. The facts of this case were reported in the police intelligence on Tuesday. The defendants pleaded guilty, and through their coun sel, Mr. Payne, expressed great contrition for their mis conduct. Mr. Waugh said he considered this case one of importance to the public, and he had brought it for. ward on public grounds. He did not press for any pu nishment but such as the court might think proper for the protection of the public traveling by steam-boats. Mr. Sergeant Adams sentenced each of the prisoners to 14 days' imprisonment. DEATH OF LADY ELIZABETH MONCRIRFFE.— This lady died on Saturday last at her residence in Chapel-street, from the effects of the injuries she sus tained by having accidentally caught fire. The deceased was born the 6th of September, 1769, and was second daughter of George, eighth Earl of Dalhousie, therefore aunt of the Governor-General of . India. She married 13th of April, 1786, Sir Thomas Moticrieff:, Bart., and was mother of the late, and grandmother of the present Baronet.—Last night an inquest was held by Mr. Bed ford on the body of Lady Elizabeth Moncreiffe, aged 79, who lost her life by her clothes accidentally taking fire. The jury returned a verdict of " Accidental Death." A Mon ORATOR.—Mr. John Abraham Bell, a popular mob orator at Manchester, who has repeatedly d declared his willingness to die for his country and th© charter, has absconded, leaving his wit° and children chargeable to the parish.—. Leeds Mercury. MARKET NEWS.—(THIS DAY') ZiTZNITGATE AisiD r Our mark e t was fairly zupplied with each kind 0+ meat to-clay, while the general demand was tolerably steady, at our quotations.—Beef, from '2s 10d to 3s 6d; Mutton, 3s 6d to 4s 8d; Lamb, 4s 10d to 5i 10d; Ire3l ' 3s 4rl to 48 4d; and Pork, 33 Sd to 4s 6d per 81bs, by the carcase. MEAT MARKETS. FIAILSHAN, JUNE 21.—Our market was heavy for each . kind of tat stock, and prices were not suPlv rte Beef, from 3s to 4s; Mutton. 4s to 4s 8d; Lamb, 51 ,, ta 5s 8c1; Veal, 4s t o 4 5 4d ; an d P or k , 4 s to 4s 6d per B r, ARUNDEL, JUNE 20.—Beef, from 3s 4d to 3s 1 71 Mutton, 4s 2d to s s; Lamb, 5s to 5s 8d; Veal, 4 ,° to 4s 6d per Blbs. Supply mo d erate, an d tra d e CHICHESTER, JUNE 21.—We had rather a it, supply of stock to-day, and which sold as follows' b, Beef, from 3s 4d to 4s; Mutton, 3s 8d to 4s 8d; 1 4 11 ? 5s 4d to 6s; and Veal, 4s to 4s 4d per Sibs; Suckh o g Calves, 12s to 20s; and Store Pigs, 14s to 18s each.. s SOUTHALL, JUNE 21.—Beasts mov e d off slowli drooping prices. Otherwise the d eman d wa s tolerski s steady, at late rates. Beet, from 3s to 4s; Mutton, :d Btl to 4s 10 , 1; Lamb, 5s to 58 8d ; Ve a l, 4 s to 4s 4d; I Pork, 4s to 4s 8:1 per Bib, to sink the offal. ROMFORD, JUNE 21.—Our market was steady to-chil! and prices were %sell supported. B ee t; f ro m 3s to 4tsi; Mutton, 3a 8d to ss; Lamb, 5s to 5s 10d ; Veal, t s rg 4s Ed ; and Pork, 4s to 4s 6d p er Sib s . Sti ct " l--n ; Calves, 18s to 24s ; Quarter old store Pigs, I ° 4 lB / 20s; and Mitch Cows, with their small Calf, 151 lOs each. NAY MASEETo3. ri vet SMITHFIELD.—Meadow Hay, 31 to 31 lOs ; , ditto 4/ to 4/ 103 ; and Straw, 1/ 4s to 11 93 per lo aa• Trade dull, at the above quotations. CUMBERLAND.—MeaduW Hay, 31 to 31 12s; -- meet ditto, 4/ to 4/10s; and Straw, 11 5s to 1/ 103 p e r 100 A fair average supply, and a sluggish demand. vet WHITECHAPEL.—Meadow Hay, 31 to 31 10s; o , o— d . ditto, 41 to 41 143 ; and Straw, 11 6s to a lOs per log Supply good, and trade dull. COAL MARK E' Bate's West Hartley 14s r d Huddle's W. Hartley 14s 9d Chester Main 23s 6d Davison's West Hartley 14s 9d Dean's Primrose East Adairs Main l2s Oo Hedley's Hartley Hasting's Hartley l4s 6(1 Holywell Main l4s 3t New Tanfield l3s 6d North Percy Hartley l4s 6o Ord's Redheugh South Peareth Tautield Moor Butes l2s 6d Walker's Primrose Wylam Wall's End, &c Bewicke and Co. Framwell Gate ... 14s Od Gosforth . Harton Killingworth l3s 9d Eden Main Lambton Primrose 'T.—YESTEZDAY. I Belmont 155 ( 1 Braddyll's Hetton 156 u, ‘ ", dell lO na Haswell 165 Hettonl6s v"„A Keepier I Lambton I Russell's Hetton Shotte n I Stewart's Hartlepool Hudson's Hartlepo o l 149 0d 27 thorn ley Seymour Tees south Durham 1 49 Od Fees ...... .......... West Cornforth . ..... West Hetton lO 6 6 d d Derwentwater Hartley 14s 6il a ........ ..... "„ s , o Powell's Duffryn Stm. I' s I Snapethorpe v-- Ships at market 225. CORN AVERAGES. GENERAL AVERAGE PRICES OF BRITISH CORN 418 For the Week endeclUune 22,1848, made up from the Returns f i l o jei Inspectors in the different Cities and T owns i n E ng l a nd and per Imperial Quarter. ? JO WHEAT. I BAILEY.' OATS. I AIM suits. I PRICE .. 46s 10d 30s 10d 20s 8d 31. 7d 1374 8d 4" DUTIES ON FOREIGN CORN. WRZAT. I BARLEY. OATS. I RYE. BEANS. ,r l l 9s Od 23 Od 23 6d 23, Od I , 23 Od I 's QUEEN'S BENCH.-(THIS DA 11 :2 • (Sittings atNisi Prius, befor e th e L ORD C HIEF Jrl3l'" and a Common Jury.) BRADSHAW V. MIINNING. plaint' This was an a c ti on o f d e b t b roug h t b y th e the well-known printer and publisher of Fleet-stre et, recover from the defendant, an attorney-at-law, th e of 1041., for printi ng th e S eh ai ne l newspaper . The `"i o r :inel was started in 1846 by Mr. Jonathan Duncan , or the purpose of advocating a change in the mar e/ f l o e laws ; and after it had been in existence three or. weeks, the plaintiff was a pp o i n t e d printer. Fitifil however, that Mr. Duncan was exceedingly irreguierA to the payment of his accoun t s , th e p l a i nt iff threatenne abandon the printing of th e p a p er , un l ess h e had toy guarantee that his bills wou ld b e more panel gi p , settled. Shortly after this intimation had been ; 0 , veyed to Mr. D uncan , th e d e fe n d ant ca ll e d at his ° gr. and stated that a negotiation was pending between of Duncan and Mr. Luke James Hansard for the ge n e r a , part of the paper. In the meantime the defenfien`r o gi mised to become responsible for the future a moune , cor upon the strength of that un d er t a ki ng t h e plaintif f o r tinued to print and publish the paper until its is nuance, when the plaintiff, finding himself minusl r W i , the printing account, commence d t h e presen t ectL°nlef compel the defend a nt t o p a y th e amount i n fulfill:O -hio guarantee. fug amount jury found a verdict f or th e pl a i nt iff for the amount claimed. SHERIFFS' COURT.—(THIS (Before Mr. Under-Sheriff ButicHELL.) FIELD AND ANOTHER V. FILLING. 4. This was an action to recover • the sum of 71. 4 31. for goods sold. be The plaintiff's solicitor w as a b ou t t o s t a te the c when an obje c ti on was ta k en, t h at, as he was .10vbe witness, he could n o t b e a ll owe d to address the.l,ll , ioei" The SOLI C I TOR sa id h e was i n a very difficcAVesee tion, as his counsel had not arrived, and 1 11 had been the first, though it stood third on the " s • pa lled• The UNDER-S HERIFF sa id t h e cases ba d beeni—beea and, as the parti es were not present, they ha —p, Ait struck out, accordi ng t o t h e ru l es o f t h e cou rt. `, ' ; o elf ness could not be allow e d t o a dd ress t h e j ur y- -41 ' way would be to withdraw the record. ~„ tbe The plaintiff's couns e l a rr i v i ng at the In°lll--t' case was proceeded with. The defendant pleaded payment. The plaintiffs were varnish-makers, defendant is a shopkeeper, in Monmouthsbir ° • by the To make out the defence, a receipt s'ig u- a 4 was plaintiff Field was put in, but on the other bon " to pt merely contended that Field bad given the reeci • Led betweeo defeat the present action, as a dispute exis Field and his partner Hardwick, who - bad given instre Lions for the action which Field refused to sanction. to The UNDER-SHERIFF, in summing' up, said tha: letter from defendant had been put in dated the 14th of September, 1847, admitting a debt to be due,. o 31. 19s. 10d., whereas the receipt purported to bear cl'„„ 3d of September, although therefore the receipt at Stratford, and peered to be for the full amount, it could not hi t applied to the latter suta.. The jury gave a verdtt for 3/. 19s. 10d. The case was not overvtill nearly two o'clock. MIDDLESEX SESSIONS. (THIS DAY.) . . • (Before the ASSISTANT-JUDGE.) The Court this morning took the bail causes , , - 4 1 disposed of some indictments f or assault of a W." character. THE LAYSTALL NUISANCE.—Mr. John G Hatfield-street, St. L u k e ' s, who was convicted ° i rt Y:e* to it bruary last of a misdemeanour in maintaining a lai s i ve d and dust-heap , sessionu t h"' e e s sn s d sio h n as to sin a c x e or h d ad tinaefor judgment the rreeino: sP IOO I from to of the soil and as h es accnmulated on his premises, " this morning again brought up, when rdali The ASSIS TANT -J UDGE said that be ha d yeste, ob. visited th e s i te o f t h e condemned nuisance, 611,0 served that the re mova l was not go i ng on as rsPH4's it might, and th ere f ore h e assured the d e f en d a nt t' be es the whole o f t h e accumu l at i on shou ld not haro cleared away by thi s d ay f ortn i g h t, to w hich daY ly be (defendant's) b a il was en l arge d, h e wou ld c ertaln sent to prison. BOW-STREET.—(THIS A Mulatto, upon two wooden legs, who rePretii to himself to have served i n t h e Mexican smoll have lost his limbs in that service, applied to Pa r ' o ,3o for assistance. He said th at t h e Mexican governhog had r&fused to provide for him, on the ground that Alb' a native of Kingston, in Jam a i ca , h e wa s a Eritis'ots' ject. They had referred him to the British O tp ply' went, and had paid his passage t o En g land. 0 '4 1 ;00 3 ing to the British Government, he found that I ‘ 3 — ooe o claim upon them, and must return, and thw' i l i o d Do on the Mexican government again. Now he • n g the means of providing for himself here, nor of eit/ 1 c ot country, nor could he work his passage backon _,.„ of his crippled condition. ld b e Mr. HALL thought the best thing for hir Iron e o * to return, if pos s ible, t o Kingston. He vitild if the constable with him to the workhouse, al se e parish authorities could do anything in thesse• _ . MARYLEBONE•—(THIS )tl') i h wasAarg ed wl ia breaking Thomas t w S o m o it f h ~ h a e 1 a p b a o n u e r s i n gm o f glassan, ia a gal' Portman-square. f igb th e It appeared that the priso n er threw ;stone tire -7 t he two sides of one of the lamps in Porttan-sci tare, 'ID ¢BS er °e° early part of the e ve ni ng , and , laughig at hi, e ev dos fa in taking so correct an aim , turned say , aid sat n o, at a short distance. A bystander riled a Pol lee " - ge t and gave him in charge. He then :id he did it , t° . e 'd ' into prison; he knew he could get 'ork if h 3 pl ea -- but T hehe p dridisonnoetrchnooow said choose. he had aver, and vas unable . to work. k Mrr. LONG observed, th a t th e :ironer did not ic s:) . ~ He (Mr. Long) wou ld sentence ti to one month's 0-. like a sick man. H e h a d a go ruddy ccropiet: prisonment with hard labour. DREADFUL ACCIDENT ON were engaged at the W ate ?" HE SOUTH.IVE SOIII.4 RAILWAY.—Thi s mo rn i ng (Ti -ml iy) as the vorke3en Granby -street end, and from road termints of t h ! South -Western ith-Western Railway, somi'ere on the ladcers 00s ' about forty feet. He w as en up of them fell off on to the ruoh beneath , $ height Of me unknown cause, on quite insensible, and convey to the Westminster Ho' petal. His back was broke and it is feared that be cannot live through the de trom the grou rid was to Mr. Disraeli that THE LATE DEBATE. Mr. W. J. Fox alluded to. T " uesdky evening in the d im cassion on Mr. Huwe's rlon, wien be spoke of h ir who had also gained la' , though in a different Bel. of exertion, and of who It wool( ever be a subjec t ot grateful recollection tl with be fine p erce p tion of taste and with the ger' s "Y .it were e en vealed he saw an in the 'Pur a lius d re" cognised the powers s ~ aigh wrtten by a self taught gator) , of Suicides cobbler, and the public, which ' we have th sttior fadities for coming before accomplishment" otherwie have been difficult of which was receive? ,ibute to le author of " Tancred° tion. Our rep h expresions of marked approbs or:‘l understod the reference, but the fact deserves to tilictlY sited. THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, J UNE 22, 1848.