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NOTICE, .17:0L. XII. of the- _LAVES of the QUEENS OF-ENGLAND, By AGNES STRICKLNAD, COAIPLETENG THE Will be published with the agazinea on the Ist of March, eMbel- N , ltd with a Portrait of the Authoress, and other Illustrations. Ihose who desire to obtain copies on the day of publication, are ~,Jested to give their orders immediately to their respective Book sellers. Henry Colburn;l'ablisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. NOTICE.—THE. NEW VOLUME OF THE STANDARD NOVELS AND ROMANCES, ROMANCE AND REALITY, By L. E. L. Will be Published on the 29th instant. An Original Memoir will be prefixed, interspersed with Unpub lished Poetry of that popular writer. Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. lin :ex t he Maineement of Mr. B. Webster, sole Lessee. MR. AND MRS. CHIRLESKEAN. THIS EVENING Will be performed a new and original Play, entitled THE WIFE'S SECRET. 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THE THIRD EDITIONS ~ TII E SUN" CONTAIN, AS USUAL, TIIE LATEST PARLIAMENTARY IN TEL LIGENCE, AND ALL OTHER NEWS UP TO THE HOUR OF POST. Orders received Gy all Newsmen, and at the Sun-office, 112, Strand. THE WILATIMII.—StiN OFFICE, FEB. 23 Tin BB' »4}-.T.4n, Lowest, 39 ; Highest, 41 ; Noon, 41, BAROMETER, 29.18.—W1ND W.S.W.; moll WATER AT LONDON-BRIDGE THIS DAY. Nforbing.. 37 minutea after 4. J Evening .. 52 ail/lutes after 4, t r 44 , c l 1 COM L LONDON, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1848 The storm which has now been long brewing, and confidently anticipated, has at length burst over Paris, and the destinies of Louis PHILIPPE are dependent upon the vicissitudes of an insurrection. Our readers will find in the Parisian intelligence which is subjoined a copious narrative of the extraordi nary events which have just transpired in the French capital. They will find that yesterday, instead of being the occasion of a demonstration in favour of constitutional reforms, was the commencement of a berrible and organized revolt against the Government. They will find, that in consequence of a conversation between MM. DUCITATEL and ODILLON BARROT in the Chamber of Deputies on Monday evening—a con versation in which the Leader of the Oppo• sition elicited from the Minister of the Interior an official declaration that the Ca binet were prepared and resolved to prevent the intended banquet of the 12th arrondissement by military violence, if they could not accomplish that object otherwise—our readers will find, we say, that, in consequence of this memorable conversation, the Deputies of the Opposition considered it to be most consonant with their legislative characters, and most in accordance with the sublime dictates of a great moral agency, such as that of a nation struggling to achieve its liberties without any overt violation of the law—to issue a proclamation announcing their intention not to att en d the banquet already prepared in the Champs Elysees. Beyond this it will be seen that a multitud e of ominous circum stances circumstances foreboding some sudden and historic catastrophe —occurred throughout Paris during the nig ht of Monda y. M e the er penalem remembered that, according to t he 291st article of b established under the reign of the Emperor NAFOLEON, confirmed by Louis XVIII., enforced by CIIAALES X., and reiterated with increased penalties as recently as 1834, the congregation of 20 persons for purposes of political discussion is prohibited, and hence some imagined that these monster banquets in furtherance of constitutional reform, might be in their character essentially illegal. The Parisian Liberals bethought themselves of this towards the nightfall which was to precede the proposed demonstration in the metro polls they were compelled to acknowledge to themselves that th 3 FREEDOM OF SPEECH had yet to be conquered in the land where so much blood had been shed, and so many re volutions had been organized, and so many political systems badbeen adopted, and so many demagogues and Sovereig ns h ad been obeyed with the intention of thereby securing to the people a perfect and perma nent emancipati on . On Monday evening, in short, the Parisians se eme d to recognise for the first time that the individual ri , rht s .aggregate liberties of the French citizens h a d as yet been only partially o secured ; that the existin g charter wasen only partially secured; that the existing charter was mere one sided and insufficient palladium ; th a t t h e st rna 1830 had mainly tended to the aggr a ndizeineTt le of of dynasty, and the evasion of the popular ; that the a voices of free (!) citizens were stifled under the penal ties inflicted by the correctional police ; that the press itself was hampered by the judicial courts subservient to the prevailing influence of the Tuileries—that King Louis riiimi-pu had proved himself, by a reign of seventeen years and a half's duration, to be in no one particular w•orth_y of the title of " a Crowned WAsuitioroN !" While the more intelligent of the population of Paris were agitated on Monday evening with these considerations, their imaginations were distracted by a variety of coincident occurrences. The proclama tion of the Government, recommending quietude for the morrow, and threatening the employment of armed force, in the event of any disturbances, only enhanced this excitement, by displaying the intolerable conservatism, and the repressive determination which animated the Cabinet and constituted its most conspicuous characteristics. In like manner, the proclamation addressed to the inhabitants of the capital by DELESSERT, the Prefect of Police, developed still more these latent sentiments of wrath which were beginning to infuriate the hearts of the Parisians, for while _this second proclamation hinted at the over whelming power concentrated in the hands of the Government fur the suppression of any possible act of insubordination on the part of the populace, it haughtily referred the question at issue (the legality of the ReforM banquets) to the decision of the Su preme Court of Cassation. Such were the feel ings of animosity generating between the people and the Cabinet during the evening and the night of Monday—feelings which were in no degree allayed by the different ordonnances and counter manifestoes placarded from hour to hour upon the city walls; by the perusal of the evening journals in the Boulevards by torchlight ; and by the continual passage of military waggons and artillery caissons, escorted by cavalry, along the roads leading from Vincennes to the Palais Bourbon and the Chateau of the Tuilleries. Before Tuesday dawned over Paris it was not difficult to conjecture the result of all these inau spicims preparations. An insurrection was inevi table. The Government and the people con fronted each other face to face—the sword drawn—the match lighted—and the bayonet fixed. To the memory of a thousand wrongs was added the gall of their recent recrimination. Revolt boiled up amidst the population of Paris like a necessity, for there were at once the opportunity, the means, and the incitements. Accordingly, be fore yesterday was far advanced the capital of France was in a state of violent insurrection. The old practices, which proved so successful in 1830, were again resorted to ; omnibuses were overturned ; public and private conveyances were stopped; barri cades were erected in all directions ; the ware houses of the gunsmiths and armourers were pil laged. Assaults were made upon the Chambers by a mob of thirty thousand Parisians, and repulsed by successive charges of cavalry and by the resolute demeanour of the military forces concentrated there for the protection of the Government. Unsuccessful in this quarter, the insurgents had attacked, but with similar ill-success, the residence of the Minister of Foreign Affairs; and above the din of these extraor dinary movements the cry of the multitude is said to have resounded like an omen of death—" A bas GuizoT! La tilte de Guam'!" Simultaneously with these proceedings ()DILLON BARROT, in fulfil ment of his promise, laid before the Chamber of Deputies an impeachment of the Cabinet, signed by himself and a considerable number of his col leagues. From what we have already observed, and from the particulars detailed in our foreign correspondence, it: will be seen that the disturbances which have just commenced in the metropolis of France are of no trivial or ephemeral character. The insurrection of 1843 promises to be, indeed, more formidable than any one of its predecessors ; for it is not, as hereto fore, confined principally to the working population and middle classes, but numbers among its principal sympathisers, an influential portion of the Legisla ture. 'Whatever may be the immediate consequence of the recent events among the Parisians, the doom of Guizov is sealed and the throne of LOUIS PHILIPPB shaken, if not entirely subverted. Recently there was a somewhat idle,' because an over-fastidious discussion in the House of Peers, upon the relative merits of the different titles of honour applied to Pius IX. in his political and sacerdotal capacity. " Sovereign of the Roman States" gained the preference over " Sovereign Pontiff," although the Scotch historians rejected the former, and al though the latter was repudiated alone by some of the more punctilious members of the English epis copacy-. A similar difference of opinion, a difference of opinion equally idle, because equally fastidious, was manifested last evening in the House of Commons. The word which constituted the bone of contention between the Ministry and the Parliament was an adjective. The honourable representatives of the people could not, for the life of them, swallow the expression— " Secret Committee," an expression which, it will be remembered, was employed by Lord JOHN RUSSELL, when explaining his budget, and applied especially to the examination of the army, navy, and ordnance estimates. "Select Committee" is substituted for the obnoxious epithet, and the Members of the Legisla ture are at once contented—although, he it observed, the powers which were proposed to be entrusted to this Secret Committee are fully reserved to the Select Committee—those powers being the publica tion or reservation of its evidence, at discretion. So that the squabble has literally been a squabble about words, and not a debate upon principles. The rights of the dictionary have been maintained, rather than the rights of the constitution. While we cannot but regard with indifference the zeal of those whose feelings as patriots appear to have been most outraged by the employment of this very unfortunate adjective, we are satisfied that the Chancellor of the Exchequer has acted with due dis cretion by conceding to the very English tastes of Parliament, and erasing a dissyllable which savours more of the eleventh than of the nineteenth century, and seems more adapted to the lips of a Vene tian than to those of an Englishman. There is, unquestionably, something excessively revolting to the imagination of a citizen of the United Kingdom in the bare proposal of any such an apparently underhand and suspicious junta as a " Secret Committee." Were such language tole.. rated, and such propositions winked at, we doubt not but that my Lord of WINCHILSEA. would sigh " 0 for the days of Friar BUNGAY!" and that THOMAS SLINGSBY DUNCOMBE might pine for " One Hour of the Star Chamber !" Hap pily, however, for the tranquillity of the minds of England, the very idea of such a tribunal is scouted. We are not to have " Secret Committees" empowered to reserve or publish their evidence, as seems to them advisable ; but we are to have " Select Committees," who are empowered to do exactly the same ! Where is the difference ? In the adjective ; exclusively and solely in the adjective as an adjective. So that we have another proof of the fallacy of one at least out of the many thousand ideas originated by SHAKSPERE. A name is something, and a rose would decidedly not smell as sweet by any other— Parliament has just proclaimed as much. Distasteful as any suppression of legislative in quiries,like those connected with our military:and mari time estimates, may at first sight appear, we are con vinced that some such discretionary power as is here ensured to the Committee is absolutely essential for the furtherance of the national interests. What should we say, for example, of the sagacity of that Generalissimo who should allow a perfect know ledge of the organization of his troops to reach his adversary, and should himself proclaim to the world the plans he may have adopted for the campaign ? The case is strictly analogous; for, although the Government does not conceive itself to be justified in extending the national expenditure by an augmentation of the national defences, it is rational to suppose that such investigations must take place before the Select Committee upon the mi litary and naval estimates as may be the prelude to extensive improvements in that direction. The Mi nistry has this project unquestionably in contemplation from the very circumstance of their choosing the un lucky epithet which has excited so much opposition. ,What possible object could the Cabinet have in pro 'posing this " Secret Com'mittee," except the further ance of such inquiries as it would be most judicious to conceal from our neighbours ? It is, therefore, matter of congratulation to us that in the horror ex cited by a single epithet because its sound is strictly speaking un-Engliih, the ulterior views of the Govern rn:,:rlt in reference to the condilion of cur forces, both en land and sea, hive not been ths.varted. The principal problem which will have to be solved by this Select Committee is one, at !: - c extremities of which are the Duke of WELLINGTON and Mr. COI:DEN. Let the Committee occupy the ju.stc indieu, and there will be no longer any cause for panic at the mere mention of an invasion. The Swiss Diet has adjourned. It will meet again when the Committee for the Revision of the Pact shall have terminated its labours. The Committee has already commenced its sittings. The Austrian Government having learnt that enrolments of great numbers of men have been made in Switzerland for the troops of several of the Italian States, has addressed, says the Union 31Onarchique, a strong note to the Diet, declaring that a continuation of these enrolments will become a casus belli. The following proclamation was issued, on the 12'h, by the Count SPAUR, the Governor of Milan : His Majesty the Emperor having deigned to declare expressly that he is resolved not to tolerate any popular demonstration, even for a non-political object ; having besides, by his sovereign rescript, under date the 9th of January last, imposed on all the authorities the duty of proceeding officially, according to the powers of them, to prevent any perturbation of the public tranquillity ; his Majesty desiring, finally, that no extraordinary re joicing, be permitted, and that all unusual popular rejoicings be rigorously forbidden, principally during the night, the Gover:iment believes it right to bring these sovereign declarations to the knowledge of the public, in the firm confidence that all the inhabitants of Lombardy will fully conform thereto ; for in the contrary case those who, ill-advised, shall dare to disobey these sovereign orders, shall be punished ac• cording to the laws in vigour. "COUNT DE SPAUE, Governor. " Milan, Feb. 12." The Gazette of Milan, of the 14th, published the following proclamation in rderence to the disturb ances in Pavia : "In consequence of the disturbances which took plats at Pavia en the 9th andlOth of this month, when a student, two peasants, and an officer were wounded, the latter having been attacked on the evening of the 10th, when returning home, the Archduke Viceroy, having left to the prudent discernment of the provincial dele gate to anticipate, in concert with the authorities of the University of that town, the vacation generally ac corded to the students for the carnival, the delegate has judged fit to suspend at present the lectures at the Uni versity, and to send home to their families the young students, in adopting, -in concert with the military au thorities, measures necessary to prevent public tran quillity from being trobled." The Patria of Florence, of the 13th, states the the Reformed Franciscan brothers of Placentia had celebrated a solemn mass and chanted a Te Deum, to celebrate the fortunate events which had taken place at Naples. The church was crowded. After the mass the organist played for a long time, and when he had finished, the people, dividing themselves into two choruses, repeated the Te Deum. At the passage, "Te ergo qumsumus tuis famulis subveni quos pretioso sanguine redemisti," every one fell on their knees ; at the " Salvum fac populum tuum, Domine, et benedie hmreditati tune," the voices were astounding. The Courrier of Leghorn states that some of the individuals arrested on the nights of the 30th and 31st of January have been set at liberty, and that M. GEo. TEOFILO Rips., who had been imprisoned at Porto Ferrajo, has also been released. Field-Marshal General RADETSKY has been re placed, as Commander-in-Chief in Lombardy, by General SCIIRABOUSKI. The Austrian Observer, which is the semi-official organ of the Austrian Government, publishes a long article on the affairs of Italy, in which it declares that the wishes of Lombardy for administrative re forms will be discussed, and perhaps be granted ; but that as to the idea of separating that kingdom from the empire, or of causing a change of dynasty, the Austrian Government will be inexorable in prevent ing it. " Let the Italians," it adds, " not forget the example of the , more warlike Pole 3 in the struggle against the Russian empire, and let them tremble !" Madrid papers of the 16th have arrived. A. royal decree in the Gazette sanctions the Bill for authorising the Government to levy and employ the taxes to the end of June, 1848. The Herald() contains the following :—" Several journals have announced that her Royal Highness the Infanta Duchess DE MONTPENFIER is enceinte. From cur own private letters, it appears that this fact 13 indubitable. Her Itoal Highness has been enceinte for four months." One of the journals says that the fact of tlic :)uelieFs being enceinte is to be officially communicated to the QUEEN by the new ,French Ambassador, in his first audience. On the 15th Mr. BUI.WER gave a grand dinner, which was attended by all the Ministers. MADRID BOURSE, FEB. 16.—Threes, 29k; Fives, 17 9-16; Exchange on London, 47 90. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. CONFLICT BETWEEN the PEOPLE AND THE TROOPS. IMPEACHMENT of the MINISTERS The intelligence contained in the Paris papers of yesterday is of the gravest importance. At the eleventh hour the Ministry determined to prevent the Reform banquet being held. They announced their intention on Monday afternoon in the Chamber. Thereupon the Committee of Opposition Deputies held a meeting, at which it was resolved that the banquet should not be held, and that an address should be pub lished requesting the people to submit to the orders of the Ministry, and to avoid all collision with the officers of the police. Yesterday morning Paris was placarded with proclamations, prohibiting all meet ings of the people, and 80,000 troops under arms took possession of the various military points of the capital. Notwithstanding the proclamations of the Ministry, and the addresses of the Opposition, the people began to assemble on the Place Madeleine shortly after 11 o'clock, and in the course of two hours their numbers had increased to 30,000. They pro ceeded to the Chamber of Deputies, and attempted to escalade the rails and walls., They were, however, repulsed by the troops. The shops of several gun smiths had been pillaged, barricades formed in the streets by paving stones and carriages, and all public conveyances had been stopped. At five o'clock an attack was made en the hotel of the Minister for Foreign Affairs amidst loud shouts of " A has GUIZOT ! La tete de GuizoT !" The hotel was filled with troops, The rising is general, and various con flicts have taken place with the troops, in which the latter have lost several in killed and wounded. Such is a general resume of the important intelli gence, which we now proceed to give rather more in detail. It had been generally understood until Monday that the Ministry would make no further opposition to the holding of the banquet, than merely stationing a single commissary of police at the door, who should prohibit the entrance of the guests for the purpose of enabling all parties, on that prohibition being disre garded, to go before a court of law, and have the question as to the legality or illegality of those ques tions at once set at rest. In the early part of the sitting of the Chamber of Deputies on Monday, it was rumoured that the Ministers had determined to prohibit the ban quet ahogether. Hereupon M. ODILLON BARROT and several of the Opposition Deputies retired for a short time to one of the committee•rooms, and after a short consultation re-entered the Chamber, when M. ODILLON BARROT rose, and after alluding to the denial by the Government, in the course of the debate on the Address, of the right of citizens to as semble, without tumult or without arms, to discuss their political rights, he said that the intention of the Opposition Deputies in attending the banquet was to assert the existence of the right, and allow the Go vernment an opportunity of settling the question before the tribunals. He added that he was con vinced that if the Government had allowed the mani festation to proceed the public peace would not have been disturbed, and the public mind would have been more tranquil. M. DUCIIATEL replied at considerable length. He said the intention of the Government till that morn ing was to have allowed the banquet to proceed, and merely to have protested against it, in order to let the question be tried before the ordinary tribunals ; but the manifesto issued that morning by the Banquet Og—tr. ' L."I s C) . 032 I .m 4 , kt s.. \ of v, 4 r• e - ROIT Trig guN LONDON, Committee had changed everything. It was an appeal to classes opposed to the Government, and was dangerous to the peace of the capital. The Govern ment was inclined to allow the question to be settled judicially, but could not allow an imperium in imperio They therefore resolved to suppress the meeting. The Chamber immediately afterwards rose in great agitation. In the course of the evening the following procla mation was posted at the corners of all the streets of Paris : " Inhabitants of Paris !—A disquietude injurious •o labour and business bus reigned for some time in the public mind. This arises from manifestations in prepa. ration. The Government, from motives of public order but too well justified, and exercising the right invested by the laws, and which has been constantly brought into use without dispute, has interdicted the banquet of the 12th arrondissement. Nevertheless, as it has declared in the Chamber of Deputies, as this question was of a nature to admit of a judicial solution, instead of oppos ing by force the projected meeting, it came to a re solution to suffer the contravention to be estab lished by permitting the guests to enter the banquet-room, hoping that they would have the pru dence to retire at the first summons in order not to convert a simple contravention into an act of rebellion. This was the only means of bringing the question before the supreme Court of Cassation. The Government per sists in this determination, but the manifesto published this morning by the journals of the Opposition an nounces another object and other intentions"; it sets up a Government against the true Government of the country, that which is instituted by the charter, and which rests upon the majority of the Chambers; it calls for a public manifestation which is dangerous to the peace of the city; it convokes, in violation of the law of 1831, the National Guards, whom it arranges before hand in regular line by number of legion, with the cfficers at their head. Here no doubt is longer possible. The clearest and best established laws are violated. The Government will cause them to be respected; they are the foundation and the guarantee of public order. I invite all good citizens to conform to these laws, and not join in any assemblage, fur fear it may give rise to disturbances that may be regretted. I make this appeal to their patriotism and their right reason, in the name of our institutions, of public peace, and the dearest interests of the city. " G. DELESSERT, Peer of France, Prefect of Pollee. " Paris, Feb. 21." At the same time were issued two ordonnances of police, one prohibiting the banquet, and another pro hibiting all assemblages of the people. General JacsantlitsoT also issued a general order to the Na tional Guard, prohibiting their attendance at the banquet. The Opposition Deputies, on leaving the Chamber, proceeded to the house of M. ODILLON BARROT. The Patric thus announces the result of their delibera tions : " We stop the press to announce that the Opposition have met at the house of M. Odillon Barrot, and that, being unwilling► to make themselves responsible, directly or indirectly, for the consequences which may result from the new measures adopted today by the Govern ment, they have decided that they will not go to the banquet. They abjure all good citizens to abstain from any meeting or manifestation which could serve as a pretext for acts of violence. At the same time the en tire Opposition feels that the new resolutions of the Ministry impose upon them new and grave duties, which the`• will fulfil." The Opposition papers of yesterday morning publish the following address, agreed to at the meeting at M. ODILLON BARROT'S : " TO ALL CITIZENS. " A great solemn man& station was to have taken place to-day in favour of the right of meeting, which is contested by the Government. All the measures had been taken to insure order and to prevent every kind of disturbance. The Government was informed for several days of these measures, and knew what would be the form of that protest. It was not ignorant that the Deputies would go in a body to the place where the banquet was to he held, accompanied by a great number of citizens, and of National Guards without arms. " It had announced the intention of not throwing any obstacle in the way of this demonstration, as long as order should not be disturbed, and to limit itself to proving, by a proces verbal, what it regarded as a con travention, and what the Opposition regards as the exercise of a just right. All of a sudden, taking as pretext a publication of which the sole object was to prevent disorder, which might have arisen from a great gathering of citizens, the Government has made known its resolution to prevent by force all assemblages in the public streets, and to interdict both to the population, and to all participation in the projected manifestation. " This tardive resolution of Government would not allow the Oppositition at So late an hour to change the character of the demonstration. It finds itself, there fore, placed in the alternative either of encouraging a collision between the citizens and the public force, or of renouncing the legal and pacific protests upon which it had resolved. In this position the members of the Op position, personally protected by their quality of deputy, could not willingly expose th© citizens to the conse quences of a struggle so injurious to order and liberty. The Opposition has therefore thought that it ought to abstain, and to leave to the Government all the respon sibility of its measures. It requests all good citizens to follow its example. " In thus adjourning the exercise of a right, the Op pcsition engages itself to the country to establish this right by all constitutional means. It will nut be want ing in this duty, and it will pursue with perseverance, and with more energy than even the atrugg!c which it has tuldertaken against a corrupt, violent, and anti-na tional policy. " In not going to the banquet the Opposition accom plishes a great act of moderation and humanity. It knows that there still remains for it to accomplish a great act of firmness and justice." At this meeting it was resolved to impeach the Ministry, and on Tuesday, at four o'clock, M. °DILLON BARROT, in the Chamber of Deputies, moved their impeachment, in compliance with this resolution. The motion will be supported by MM. Duvergier d'Hauranne, De Malleville, d'Aragon, Abatucei, Beaumont (Somme), Georges de Lafayette, Boissel, Garnier-Pages, Carnot, Chambolle, Drotnyn del Hwys, Ferdinand de Larteyrie, Havin, de Cour tais, Vavin, Garnon, Marquis, Jouvencel, Taillandier, Bureau de Puzy, Luveau, St. Albin, Carnbaceres, Moreau (Seine), Berger, Marie, Bethmont, de Thiars, Dupont (de l'Eure), &c. Should it be rejected, the Opposition Deputies will at once resign their seats. Several of the Deputies and Peers wished the ban quet to be held in spite of the prohibition of the Ministers ; among these the most conspicuous was Count ALTON SIIEE. They went to the offices of the Reforrne and of the National, declaring that they would attend the banquet at all risks, and advising others to follow their example. They at length, however, yielded to the representa tions of their colleagues, and, ere midnight, an official communication was made to M. DUCHATEL, announcing that the intention of holding the banquet had been definitively abandoned. Orders were issued to the troops not to take possession of the various military positions in the city at day-break, as had been previously ordered, but the soldiers were to remain under arms in their barracks. The people, however, showed no disposition to obey the proclama tion of the Minister, or to attend to the advice of the Deputies. Thousands continued pouring into the Place Madeleine and the Champs Elysees during the whole morning, and the troops were soon ordered from their barracks, to take military possession of various parts of the city. The Marseillaise was sung by the people as they paraded the streets, and rushed to the attack on the Chamber and on the hotel of the Minster for Foreign Affairs. It is said that the Faubourgs also have risen in rebellion, and when the intelligence of this outbreak shall have reached the provinces, it is probable that a similar insurrection will take place in many of the provincial towns, in which it has been determined hold banquets. Addresses to the Deputies of the Opposition are daily arriving from all parts of France. Notwithstanding the gravity of the situation, the Funds still kept up. The Three per Cents. opened at 73f. Doc. and closed at 74f. Galignanis Messenger, which was published yes terday at two o'clock, gives the following account of the proceedings up to that hour : " Very great excitement has been created in Paris by the proclamations prohibiting the holding of the Reform banquet, but we are happy to state that up to the hour of our going to press no disturbancg had occurred. " On the Boulevards, opposite the hotel of the Minister of Foreign Affairs, a dense mass of people assembled, and it was necessary to call for the assist ance of the municipal guards and troops of the line to keep the mob in movement. This was, however, effected without any violence, by small patrols being kept in motion on the footway. The troops of the line appeared to have been prepared fur active opera tions, many of them being provided with pickaxes, as if to destroy barricades. " On the Place de la Concorde an immense crowd had assembled. The bridge was closed at each end and guarded by a strong body of cuirassiers and municipal guards, and none but Members of the Chamber were allowed to pass. When any of the Opposition Members passed they were loudly cheered. At intervals, when the crowd became too compact, the military faced and marched towards them, when they soon scampered off. The people appeared per- fectly good humoured, and were eraching jokes with the soldiers. Not a serpent de ville was anywhere to be seen, and in all the vast crowd not a National Guard was visible. An innnewie number of troops appeared to be on the alert. One regiment of light dragoons came up towards the Chamber of Deputies, from the Ecole Militaire, with their band playing as on a fete day. " All the shops on the Boulevards, the Rue St. Ho nore, and all the streets adjacent, are closed. "Workmen were employed from an early hour this morning in clearing away all the preparations for the banquet At about half-past Line, a body of about 600 municipal guards, horse and foot, arrived, and took possession of a piece of groural adjoining the place of the intended assemblage, which was a large inclosed field, between the Rue de Chaillot and the Barriere de Longchamps, where a marquee had been erected. But few people had collected in that quar ter or in the Champs Elysees." In the Chamber of Deputies the President raped the sitting without giving M. OniLLon BARROT any opportunity of speaking on the proposition for the impeachment of the Ministers, but announced that it should be submitted to the Bureaux on Thursday. The lamps in the Champs Elysees are all broken, and barricades are formed in the Rue Richelieu, the Rue de la Paix, the Rue de la Chaussee d'Antin, and the Rue de Joinville. The gates of the Tuileries are closed, and the gardens and Palace occupied by troops. Marshal BUGEAUD has, it is said, accepted the military command of Paris. M. GUIZOT was present at the sitting of the Chamber of Deputies yesterday. Various collisions have taken place be tween the people and the municipal guard, and many have been killed and wounded. At five o'clock the rappel for calling out the Na tional Guard was beat throughout Paris. The drum mers were saluted with cries of " Vive la Reforme," and with the .Marseillaise and the Girondin chorus, " Mourir pour la patrie." Several sections of armed National Guards had assembled at the hour the post left. As yet the utmost good humour has been exhi bited both by the troops and the people, the latter of whom are in general unarmed; but fears are entertained that as night approaches, some collision of a serious nature may occur, more especially in the Faubourgs, where the the people are many of them armed, and where barricades have been formed. Ammunition waggons and artillery were continually arriving from Vincennes. Count Authentique.—PAßlS, FEB. 22.—French Five per Cents., 116 t. 55c. 60c. 55c. 70c. 75c.; Ditto, Four per Cents., 99f. 25c.; Ditto, Three per Cents., 73f. 85c. 90c. 80c. 95c., 74f., 74f. 10c.; Bank of France, 3,187 E, 50c., 3,185 E, 3,180 f.; Treasury Bonds, 4 4i; New Loan, —; Obligations of the City, —; Roman, 931 f.; Belgian Five per Cents., 1840, 98if.; Ditto, Five per Cents., 1842, —; Ditto, Four-and-a• Half per Cents., 921.; Ditto, Three per Cents., 1845, —. Exchange on London, one month, paper, 25f. 371 c.; money, 25f. 35c.; three months, paper, 25f. 22ic.; money, 251. PARIS BOURSE, TUESDAY, FEB. 22. The market at the opening was very agitated, and prices remained some time with rather a tendency down wards; towards the close of the day, however, a little re-action took place, and at bell ringing, quotations were maked higher than yesterday. Threes at 74f. ; and Fives at 116 f. 75e. The market closed as follows: —Three per Cents., for cash, 74F. 10c., for account, 74f.; Five per Cents., for cash, 116 f. 75c., for account, 116 f. 75c.; New Loan, for account, 74f. 85c.; Baak of France Shares, 3,180 E; Spanish Three per Cents., 321.; Fives, not quot( d. RAILWAYS —The Share Market has been heavy, but prices have not materially varied. For account, Paris and Orleans closed at I,lBBf. 75e.; Paris and Rouen, 8651.; Rouen and Havre, 4251.: Avignon, 540 f.; Stras burg and Bale, 1571. 503 ; Vierzon, 5051.; Bordeaux, 4751.; Northern, 5431. 75e.; Paris and Strasburg, 4031. 75c.; Paris and Lyons, 390 f.; Nantes, 380 f. BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE LONDON STOCK EXCIIANGE. FEB. 22. Northern of France, 11 !.4 —Orleans and Bordeaux, 4%. IMPORTANT FROM ITALY. RUMOURED DEPOSITION OF THE POPE Important intelligence has arrived from Italy. The French Government have, it is said, received a tele graphic dispatch from Rome announcing that the POPE has been deposed.. At Bologna, the Papal colours have been discarded, and the tricolour of Italy adopted. TO THE SECRETARY OF THE BRADFORD REFORM ASSOCIATION. SIR,—On Monday the 21st, the supplies were voted in part, viz., to the amount of 20,800,0001. A loose practice, as may be exemplified by the case of a man and his wife disputing on the question of eco norny. If one says, " Give me 500/., and let the dis pute lie over," there is not much doubt which way the affair is tending. In the course of the debate Sir Robert Peel enu merated "the process in Mexico and the spirit which has arisen among the American people," as elements in the preparation of the estimates in Great Britain. Unless I make some mistake in the place, the reporters have omitted it. Sir Robert has plainly one eye open, and will speedily have: two. Ou the same day the Public Health Bill and the Passengers (Emigrant) Bill were read a second time. We have heard of floating hotels ; but the want at present appears to be of model lodging-houses afloat. The question has been asked me from Bradford, whether labour is capital. It appears to me to be a little like the question, whether acorns are. wood. In some senses they may be wood, and in some senses they are not wood. The best way, therefore, is to begin by knowing in what precise tenses the question is intended to be asked. On Tuesday came on Mr. Hutt's motion for a " Select Committee to consider the best means which Great Britain can adopt for mitigating the horrors of the Slave Trade, and providing for its final extinc tion." As undisguisedly avowed by the mover, the substantial object of the Committee he desired, was to collect evidence to establish the desirableness of removing the checks to the Slave Trade arising out of the presence of British cruisers on the coast of Africa, or British treaties with foreign powers. Four special fallacies pervaded the arguments brought in support of the motion. One, that the way to put down an evil is to let it alone; being the argument used against the Slavery Abolitionists in the United States. Another, that a traffic not suppressed entirely, is not effectively repressed at all. A third, that the suppression of the Slave Trade ought to be left to be produced by the superior cheapness of importing free labourers ; the difficulties thrown in the way of importing the slave, being all the time the chief cause of the differ ence of cost. And the fourth, that the influence exercised with other powers through the medium of treaties, is identical with a violent interference unjus tifiable by public law. The opposition to these principles was nearly confined to Sir Robert Inglis and Lord Palmerston ; the last of whom replied with an energy which wou'ti have done honour to the days when the Slave Trade was put down in its strength. If the Anti-Slavery party mean to hold their own, they must gather about the Government. But the spirit of opposition to slavery and slave trading appears to be nearly burnt out. The objects in view will solve themselves into two, both of which are Sugar; either in the form of cheap sugar from Brazil, or an importation of natives from Africa to produce it in the West Indies. I am, Sir, your obedient servant, T. PERRONET THOMPSON. Blackheath, London, 23d Feb., 1848. SECONDARIES'.—(THIS DAY.) (Before Mr. Secondary POTTER ) A NOVEL POINT UNDER THE COUNTY COURTS ACT- VINES V. 'WEBB. This was an action brought by the plaintiff, who is a miller, against the defendant, a baker, to recover nominal damages under the following circumstances: — The facts were these, the defendant had been employed as a foreman and agent for a person residing in the country, and flour was ordered of the plaintiff. Mr. Ashley, the actual proprietor of the shop, paid the rent and taxes, was rated in the books, and had a vote at the election, but it was contended that this was not legal notoriety sufficient to bind the plaintiff, who alleged that he had dealt with defendant alone, and knew nothing of Ashley. The action was originally brought in the Court of Exchequer, but after h o eCounty Court tu County Court. Act p o a u s r s t e . d Defendant, proceedi tis a eleorge on a t ke n in the r s Brixton the the plaintiff could not proceed in both u d to attend at the County Court, and courts, impressionunnetgy neglected C eat o C te u was committed for contmpt, and only released on pay ment of the debt and costs. Defendaq then applied to the Court above, and obtained a lute, calling on plaintiff to go to trial, or to sibri:'t to judgment, as in case of nonsuit. The question was now to be tried on the merits to cover costs. The Learned Secondary left it to the jury to say to whom the credit was given. Thu Jury, attzr consulting for some time, gave a ver dict for the plaintiff—Damages, One shilling. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. BETTING AT MANCHESTER.-TUESDAY. LIVERPO)L STEF.PLE CHASE. 12 to 1 agst Sir Arthur (t), 100 to 6 agst Wolverhampton (t), 100 to 6 agst Cavendish (t), 100 to 6 agst St. Leger (t), 100 to 5 agst the Curate (t), 100 to 4 agst the Nigger (t), 100 to 4 agst Standard Gerard (t), 100 to 4 agst the Sailor (t). CHESTER CIIP.—Not a bet made. DERBY.-9 to 1 agst Surplice, 3,900 to 300 agst Glendower (t), 17 to 1 agst Springy Jack (t), 500 to 15 agst Assault (t), 500 to 12i agst Beverlac (t), 500 to 10 agst Flatcatcher (t) ? 1,000 to 20 aget Fern, 1,000 oven Assault aget Swiss Boy (t). LAW INTELLICiENCE, COURT OF Q UEEN'S BENCH, Feb 22. (Sitting.; Mule Mr. Jit6tice DALE. and a Special Jury.) 1;t NN v. LIND. In this case Mr. Ccekburn, Mr. Peacock, and Mr. Phipson were for the plaintiff; the Attorney-General, Sir F. The3iger, and M. lloggim! appeared for the de- er , .cl 'ant. The plaintiff in the action was formerly the lessee of Drury• lane Theatre, the th fondant being the celebrated vocalist, Millie. Jenny Lind. The action was brought to recover compensation in damages for an alleged breach of contract on the part of the defendant. Mr. COCKBURN, in opening the case to the jury, stated the facts of the case to be as follow:—The defendant having obtained great celebrity on the continent, the plaintiff was anxious to secure her services at Drury lane Theatre, and accordingly went over to Berlin, and entered into an engagement by which the defendant engaged to sing for twenty nights at Drury-lane Theatre in the character 01 Vielka in Meyerbeer's opera of the Camp of Silesia, and in the character of Amina, in the Sonnambula, the plaintiff engaging to pay her 50 Luuis-d'ors for each performance, and to find the neces sary dresses and decorations. Shortly before the time appointed fur Mae. Lind's appearance the plaintiff received a letter from the defendant, stating that in con sequence of the difficulty attendant upon obtaining a sufficient knowledge of the English language to enable her to appear before an English audience, and the delicate state of her health, she was advised by her guardians at Stockholm not to undertake the journey to England, begging to be released from the engage ment into which she had entered, and telling the defendant not to behave any report which might be in circulation with respect to her being about to make her appearance at the Italian Opera, as she had not the least intention of ever appearing either in London or in Paris. The plaintiff refused to allow her to withdraw from the agreement, and subsequently another letter was written by the defendant, stating that she could not fulfil the terms of the agreement, and that she would be willing to pay the compensation which the English law might award to him for her breach of the contract. _ _ The signatures to the contract and the letters having been proved to be in the handwriting of the defendants, the letters and contract were put in and read. Mr. Dunn, secretary to the Committee of Drury lane Theatre, and formerly treasurer to Mr. Bunn, stated in evidence that the expenses attending the bringing out of the Camp of Silesia with Mdlle. Lind would have been about 2001. less than if Madame Malibran were the pi ima donna. The net profits to the theatre by the engagements of Madlle. Malibran were for thirty nights between 4,0001. and 5.0061.; upon a subsequent engagement the profits were much higher. Mr. Fitzball stated that he had been employed by Mr. Bunn to translate and arrange the opera of the Camp of Silesia, and bad received for so doing the sum of 1801. Mr. Mitchell gave evidence as to the great success of Madlle. Lind at the Italian Opera, and the very crowded houses which she drew. Mr. J. Allan said that he had seen Mdlle. Lind at Berlin, in the year 1846, performing at the Theatre Royal, Berlin, in the operas of Norma, in the Son nambula, and in the Camp of Silesia. She then ap peared to be in perf.ct health, and her voice was in excellent order. In the course of a conversation which he had with her, she informed him that it was not her intention to sing either in France or in England. Mrs. Almond, better known by the name of Miss Romer, said, that but a few days would be required for a first-rate performer to obtain a knowledge of a different version of the words which might be adapted to music, a knowledge of which was before possessed. This close the case on the part of the plaintiff. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL then addressed his Lord ship, contending that there was nothing whatever that was binding in the contract between the partied, it being merely conditional and not absolute, and that the plaintiff ought to be nonsuited. Ilis LORDSIIIP overruled the objections. The ATTORNEY -GENERAL then proceeded to address the jury, contending that the plaintiff was not in a posi tion to keep the terms of his agreement,' as he had not the music of the opera; neither had he had it translated in sufficient time for the defendant had she come over to England to obtain a sufficient knowledge of her part. His LORDSHIP then summed up to the jury, leaving it for them to decide whether in their opinion the plaintiff would have been prepared with the necessary parts for the defendant had she intimated within the prescribed time her intention of keeping the terms of her engage ment. The jury, after having retired for some time, returned into court and gave a verdict for the plaintiff, with 2,500/. damages. ELECTION COMMITTEES. LYME REGIS. (Continued from our Afternoon Edition of yesterday.) Mr. Waring, the solicitor and agent of Mr. Abdy, the sitting Member, was then called on to prove that he did not authorise Cannon to make any overtures to Upjohn, nor did he promise Clyde a situation to induce him to vote for Mr. Abdy. The lot. Farand received he said was advanced to him as a loan, and not given to him as a gift. The Committee then adjourned till to morrow. KINSALE. (Continued from our Afternoon Edition of yesterday ) Mr. Michael Cadogan, a fisherman residing at Kin sale, and employing upwards of fifty people, stated that shortly after the last Election he was told by one of his workmen that the Roman Catholics who bad supported Mr. Guinness had been cursed and excommunioal , ,..d by the priest of the parish, Dr. Murphy. He, however, did not believe it till he was told on Sunday morning that a list of th• parties who had been cursed was posted upon the chapel of the parish. He immediately went to the chapel and found that the information was correct. There was a long list of names of parties residing in Kinsale, who were stigmatised as Pagans and traitors, and opposite to each name was placed a sum which the paper set forth had been received by the party named for voting or refraining from voting. Opposite to his own name was placed the sum of 1001., but although he was canvassed by both sides he did not vote either way. He went and complained to the priest about this paper, but his reverence received him very austerely, and talked vaguely of the eye of God being upon their works. Shortly afterwards the paper was removed, but it had been up quite long enough to make all the parties acquainted with its contents. He was one of the three parties, named by the woman Ryan; but so far as he was concerned her evidence was false. He never was in Sisk's public-house in his life. Mr. Timothy Flyin, a house-carpenter, carrying on business at Kinsale, stated that he was proposed as a candidate at the last election; but he retired from the field in favour of Mr. Guinness, because ho had no chance of success. He supported Mr. Guinness on the principle that an open enemy was better than a false friend. He saw the list alluded to by the last witness, and afterwards heard the priest, Murphy, denounce some of the voters from the altar. He told the people that the Bishop had refused to listen to the complaints of some of his parishioners, and was determined to support him in the course he was pursuing, adding, " I will pursue them through life to death. I will refuse them Christian burial when they die, and their ashes shall not rest in their graves." Aft ~ this severe'• poor creatures v, n.e dreadfully persecuted, and, although he had no vote, he could not pass through the streets without being insulted by some of the lower order of Father Murphy's flock. Mr. Gamble, a solicitor, of Cork, proved that he paid the rates alluded to in the petitioner's case, as the agent of the parties from whom they were due. Some other evidence of a similar nature was after wards put in, and the Committee then adjourned till eleven o'clock to. morrow. MORTALITY in the METROPOLIS NUMBER OF DEATHS FROM ALL CAUSES REGISTERED IN THE WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, FEB. 19, 11149. Epidemic, Endemic, and Contagious Diseases ... 302 Diseases of Uncertain Seat ... 47 Turbercular Diseases... ... 165 Diseases of the Brain, Nerves, and Senses... ... 120 Diseases of the Heart and Blood-vessels 28 Diseases of the Lungs, and other Organs of Respiration •... 213 Diseases of the • Stomach, Liver, and other Organs of ... ..• ••• 58 Diseases of the Kidney s, &c. Childbirth, Diseases of the Uterus, &c. 11 Diseases of the Joints, Bones, and Muscles ... 7 Diseases of the Skin, &c. ••• ••• ••• 3 Malformations... ... ••• ••• ••• ••• 6 Premature Birth ... ••• Atrophy Old Age Sudden ... ••• ••• ••• ••• ••• ... 6 Violence, Privation, Cold, or Intemperance Causes not specified ... „. 3322 DEATHS FROM ALL CAUSES ... ... 1,134 rolulation Average weekly Deaths Enumeraied, Deaths, 1843-7. in the 1841. Five Winters. Week. West Districts... 300,711 . . 161 ... 173 North Districts.. 375,971 ... 209 ... 229 Central Districts 373,653 , ... 203 ... 234 East Districts ... 392,444 "' ... 233 ... 288 South Districts .. 501,190 ... 299 ... 348 Totals... ..... 1,948,425 ... 1,107 ... 1,272 Maloa ... ... ... ... ... 590 Females BIRTHS IN THE WEEK. bfalos ••• 680 ••• _ Females ... ... ... ... Total ... . . ... ... ... 1,272 CONFLICT AT SNIG'S-END.—An unpleasant ren contre, which threatened the most serious consequences, occurred lately at the " People's Estate," at bmg's end, between Mr. Dewhurst and Mr. F. , Connor. Mr. Dewhurst, it seems, who was formerly a school mas t er at Leicester, had such confidence in Mr, O'Con nor ' s allotment system, that ho gave up his academy, and placed 4001. in his hand for the purchase of the old farm-house, which he (Mr. Dewhurst) now holds, to gether with a quantity of cider, &c. Thinking that Mr. O'Connor mJant to " do " him out of the purchase, Mr. Dewhurst one day entered the room where he was sitting, with a hatchet, and under violent excitement was about to commit a murderous assault, when Mr. O'Connor knocked him down, and the intruder was borne off amidst the reprobation of the other inmates, without baying inflicted any injury. —Hereford Journal. OR Ii WALES RAILWAY. An ordinary half yaarly general mee.ing, and also an extraordinary special rneetlng, of .the shareholders of this compon: - „wns holdyeserday morning at the Guildhall vet e hosts:,; Mr. Chadwick presided. . . T::e report stated th..t since the last meeting, in October, the funds in the hands of the directors had been invested at interest, and the Bill for the dissolution of the company, which had been sanctioned by the shareholders, had been introduced into Parliament. The balanee•sheet stated that the receipts amounted to 45,597/. Os. l ld., and the payments and liabilities to 22,193/ 183. 4d., leaving a balance of 23,404/. 2s. 7d. The CHAIRMAN stated that the solicitors' bill, which had been under taxation, was reduced 7571. 10s. 11d., leaving an amount now duo to them of 1,0861. Bs. 6d. There were only about four shareholders who re fused to sign in favour of a dissolution, and they only had about 90 shares. Several protests were then read from the dissentient shareholders, some of whom threatened to enter proceed ings in Chancery against the directors if they persisted in bringing a Bill before Parliament for a dissolution. _ Mr. BUTTS said he understood that the Vice-Presi dent of the Board of Trade had brought a Bill into Parliament for the purpose of simplifying the winding up of companies in which the majority of the share hol.lers were in favour of a dissolution, and he wished to know whether they could not take advantage of that Bill, instead of going to Parliament for a separate Act? The CHAIRMAN said he had good grounds fur be lieving that it was intended only to apply to joint-stock companies, not being railway companies, for when he bad an interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer, some time ago, he told him that the Government had no intention whatever to bring in a new Bill applicable to the dissolution of railway companies. Mr. BUTTS wished to know what expense would be incurred in proceeding to Parliament for a Bill ? _ The CHAIRMAN said he considered that it would amount to about 400/., but that was wholly independent of the expense they might be put to if they were opposed in Committee. The Chairman and directors were then unanimously re-elected. Mr. STEPHEN GEARY recommended the directors to instruct the solicitor to push the Bill in Parliament as fast as possible, in order to put a stop to any proceedings that might be instituted in chancery. After some discussion the proprietors formed them selves into a special meeting, and the draft of the Bill its Parliament having been read, it was unanimou.ly agreed to. A reFolutioa was then passed, appointing three shareholders to wait upon these who dissented from the Bill with the view of inducing them by conciliatory mea sures to withdraw their opposition. A vote of thanks was then passed to the Chairman and directors, and the meeting separated. LONDON AND BLACKWALL RAIL- WAY. The half-yearly meeting of the proprietors of this company was held yesterday at the London Tavern; J. N. Daniell, Esq., the chairman of the company, presiding. After the usual preliminaries, '1 he SECRETARY read the report, from which it appeared that the receipts from the ordinary traffic on the line, and from the wharfage amounted during the past half-year to 33,023/. 10s. 4d., and the total expenditure to 25,527/. 3s. 6d. There was, consequently, a balance of 7,4961 6s. 10d. available for a dividend of 3s. per share, clear of income-tax, to the 48,000 original shares. The CHAIRMAN said he could have wished that the report had been more satisfactory with respect to dividend. The circumstances of the diminution of the receipts were explained in the report, and he thought that the diminution in the traffia at their station lines was accountable for by the sad state of the monetary concerns that prevailed all over Great Britain during the past year. The directors had not held out any hope of any great in crease in their traffic as long as they were dependent upon rope traction ; but as there was a Bill before Par liament to enable them to substitute locomotive power, they might reasonably look forward to an increase in the traffi. - ... In their connexion with the Eastern• Cou nties line they wero not to be at any expense.—(Hear, hear.) There had also been an agreement entered into with the directors of the West India Docks and Birmingham Junction Corr pany for bringing on their line from the district through• which this railway was to pass, and though the company in question had not adopted the junction which they (the directors of the London and Blackwell Company) had recommender', yet they were to make that junction entirely at their own expense, and " beggars could not be choosers."— (IL ar, hear.) The Hon. Chairman concluded by moving the adoption of the report and the audited accounts. Mr. iIAToR seconded the resolution. After somo discussion the resolution was unanimously adopted. _ _ The CHAIRMAN then proposed a dividend of 3s. per share, which was seconded by Mr. Haigh, and carried unanimously. Messrs. Oglevey and Tulson were re-elected audi tors, and the Chairman and Dr. Bowring directors. The meeting was then made special, for the purpose of having submitted to them the draft of a proposed Bill to enable the company to connect their railway with the East and West India Docks and Birmingham Junction Railway, with power to use the same as well as the Eastera Counties Railway. A motion, approving of the Bill, was then carried unanimously, and the meeting separated. THE LIVERPOOL WILL FORGING CASE.—MR. LANCHOLY SUICIDE OF LIEUTENANT PEREGRINE BOWER. It. N., IN THE COMPTER —A painful amount of sensa tion was created at the Mansion-house this morning, by the announcement of the suicide of this unfortunate gentleman, charged with forging a will, who was to have undergone a second and final examination before the Lord Mayor this day. He held, up to the time of his apprehension, the command of one her Majesty's mail packets trading between Liverpool and Dublin. His bro ther, Lieut. William Bower, R.N., died in China, in March, 1846. Previous to his departure there he made a will, which was proved by the executor, but after this will had been admitted to proof, another will was produced by Peregrine Bower, by which all the property was left to him. Subsequently a person, attired as a sailor, pre sented himself at Doctors' Commons as an attesting wit ness to the will, and gave as his natne John Wood. It was Bower himself in disguise. He was immediately apprehended. The forgery of the second will was substantiated, but he persisted in declaring that he knew nothing of the fraudulent transaction. He was remanded till to- day, when he would have been fully committed to Nowgate for trial. All the parties were in attendance at the Mansion-house at twelve o'clock, and shortly after the Lord Mayor had taken his seat, a message arrived from the Compter, communicating to his Lord ship the self-destruction of the unfortunate man. It appeared that he rose this morning at the usual hour. and from the conversation he had with his fellow pri soners, it seemed that he had made up his mind for the worst. His conduct, apparently, was not different to that he had generally evinced, and about nine o'cleek he was missing. One of the warders proceded in quest of him, and soon discovered his body suspended to the iron gratings of the window. He was immediately cut down, and the prison surgeon called in, but life was quite extinct. The deceased was between sixty and seventy years, and at Liverpool, where he resided, was much respected. THE LATE DESTRUCTIVE FIRE AT THE RED LION TAVERN.—The fire which broke out yesterday morning in the Red Lion Tavern, Red Lion-court, Fleet -street, was attended with a far greater destruction of property than was at first anticipated. Besides los ing the whole of his stock in trade, furniture, and wear ing apparel, Mr. Hoare he lost a considerable sum of money, which he had in his cash box, consisting of 72 sovereigns and several 51. Bank of England notes. Mr. Superintendent Braidwood made au inspection of the premises yesterday aCtnnoon, but he was unable to trace out the origin of the fire. Mr. Hoare, it is re ported, was only partially insured. He stated yesterday that when he went to bed, at half-past-twelve o'clock on Monday night, there was not the least smell or appear ance of anything burning. HOSPITAL FOR CONSUMPTION ♦ND DISEASES co, THE CHEST, BRoMPTON .—M UNIFICENT DONATION. On Saturday evening, a special meeting was held of the governors and directors, in the board-room of the above institution, for the purpose of considering the regula tions which might be hest calculated to advance the objects of the " Rose charity fund," a Samaritan ides, which has been formed to provide relief for patients who are discharged from the hospital. and who are not suffi ciently recovered to return immediately to active em ployment. A munificent donation of 5001., received during the last few days, was the occasion for the pre sent meeting. It was observed that the sometime long and lingering illness of consumptive patients, required the most careful regulations as to the time of their re maining in the hospital ; and both the medical and other officers had, in this respect, a most onerous duty to per form. They had to extend the benefits of a limited charity to an almost unlimited number of claimants ; hence the necessity of the convalescent making way for the suffering patient, whose hours, unaided by immediate relief, might be almost said to be numbered. The humane idea, therefore, of a convalescent fund, from which the partially restored individual might gather hope and energy, appeared to be truly in accordance with the spirity of the charity. The sum of 5001. for this benevo lent purpose has been forwarded by Charles Dixon, Esq., of Stansted-Emsworth, Hants. BIRTHS. On the 11th inst., at Chartrenx, near Rouen, the wife of John Peter, jun., Esq., of a daughter. On the 12th inst., at St. Helier's, Jersey, the lady of Cap• tain Williams, R.N., of a son. On the 19th inst., at Eltham, Kent, the wife of J. Guillo• mard, Esq., M.D., of a son. On the 19th inst., at Sussex-gardens, Hyde-park, the lady of T. W. Kennard, Esq., of a son. On the 19th inst., at the Groye, Taunton, the lady of Crawford Kerr, Esq., of a daughter. MARRIED. Oa the 17th inst., at Trinity Church, Walcot, Bath, New ton Mant, Dq., of Wirksworth, Derbyshire, to Mary, youngeot daughter of the late William Butt, Esq., of CorkleyhurP Herts. DIED. On the 6th inst. William Daw, Esq., M.D., of Chicklad e House, Hindon, Wilts, aged 89. On the 18th inst., at Upper Tooting, John Cocker, Esq.. 2. On the 19th inst., at Hackney, Mr. John Murray. agea ° On the 20th inst., Mr. John Leatherdale, of High-streets Shadwell, aged 59. On the 20th inst., at Moorgate-street, Emma, the wife or H. G. Noyes, Esq., M.D., aged 28. On the 19th inst., in Charles-street, St. James's-squar e ' Richard Jackson, Esq., aged 76. - --, --- London: Printed and Published by MURDO YOUNG. as lis, No. 112, Strand, Printer, at The Sun Office, et, Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in the cou sib l Middlesex, Wednesday, February 23, 1848.