The Sun. — London, England, 1848-08-28 00:00:00

TI-ImATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. lla for the Management of Mr. B. Webster, sole LeSSI 30. THIS EVENING, _ Will be performed THE HARVEST HOME. Alter which the Burlesque of NORMA. Noma, Mr. P. Bedford; Alelgisa, Mr. Wright ; Pollio, Miss Woolgar. To conclude with the Drama of THE CABIN BOY. Mons. Vin e:ma. air. 0. Smith; Largarcette, Mr. P. Bedford; Julien, Madame Celeste. 4.0 AL SURREY THEATRE. Under the direction of Mr. Kersebner. Re-engagement of Mr. G. Bennett. Enormous %mess of the Tower of Nesle. THIS EVENING Will be performed THE TOWER OF NESLE. Buridan, Mr. G. Bennett. After which, DID YOU EVER? NO! I NEVER SAW SUCH A BABY To conclude with a New Melodrama, entitled THE PLANK ACROSS THE STREET. Manager and Treasurer, Mr. B. S. Falrbrother. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE. Proprietor, Mr. W. Batty. - Revival of the Popular Equestrian Spectacle of Mazeppa. Unparalleled Equestrian Feats. THIS EVENING, Will be . performed Lord Byron's Hippodramatle Spectacle of AZEPPA; or, The Wild Horse. to be followed by the inimitable EQUESTRIAN and GYMNAS. TIC EXERCISES in the ARENA. To conclude with a Grand Pageant, entitled LADY GODIVA AND PEEPING TONI OF COVENTRY; or, Clearing the Toll. Box-office open from Eleven till Five. stage Manager, Mr. W. West. ROYAL SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS. Attraction unprecedented. " New Series of GRAND PROMENADE CONCERTS. Continuation of MISS SARA FLOWER. The DAYLIGHT VIEW of ROME, by Daimon. Superb and Unique MENAGERIE. °nand Display of FIREWORKS, by the Messrs. Southby. No Extra Charge. MONDAY, TUESDAY, WEDNESDAY, THURSDAY, and FRIDAY. View of Rome,—Promenade Concerts, Vocal and Instrumental, Conducted by Mr. GODFREY, the splendid Band of Solo Performers includes Messrs. Cioffi, Collins, sen., George and Viotti Collins, Eger ton, Griesbach, Stevenson, Hardy, &c.—Several favourite Songs by Miss Sara Flower—Also to be seen, during the day, the beautiful Menagerie—Shakspere's House—The Magie Bridge—and other no velties will be exhibited, the whole concluding with a most mag nificent and not to be rivalled display of Fireworks, by the Messrs. Southby Gates open at Ten A.M., Feeding Time Five—Concert at Six —Fireworks at Nine. On Wednesday next M. JULLIEN'S Benefit, on which occasion Miss Miran, Mr. Sims Reeves, and other Artists have kindly pro (erred their services. Admission, as usual, One Shilling. THE WEATHER.—SIIN OFFICE, AUGUST 28. THERMOMETER, Lowest, 62; Highest, 67; Noon, 70, BAROMETEII, 29.97. WIND S.S.E.. ; morning, slight showers ; afternoon, fine. lIIGII WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE THIS DAY. Morning .. 35 min. after 1 Evening .. 58 min. after 1 s,,fp ', ~:), - m ~ 't, , 1, 7 „„,-,--„,, i , , .•,;:i , _ 3914 ~,,./.wil, f -410,44,,i,, );:t . ;?:-;0), • 1' — ' ) "+;; , P . ......-1 t• :),F 1 ;p,.` , ',;;;,,:=:," - -c-v":' c --, Willff ::.111L LONDON, MONDAY, AUGUST 28, 1848. The Chancellor of the Exchequer, on Friday • evening, attempted to justify the new loan for 2,000,000/. sterling, , ahich he asked the House to sanction, principally upon the ground that he had in the early part of the session proposed a temporary : increase of the income-tax from three to five per cent. fur a limited period of two years, which, if con ceded, would have realised 3,500,000/. or thereabouts per annum, but that the proposal had not been re ceived with any favour by the House, and was consequently abandoned. The result of this refusal has been, that he is now obliged to create a perma nent addition to our national debt, to grant a new mortgage upon the labour and the industry of our children. We shall readily concede to Sir CHARLET. WOOD, that the only species of taxation which could have been resorted to without occasioning a degree of public excitement, that would have been highly pre judicial to the best interests of the country, was a direct impost, and that it was not advisable to have recourse to a permanent tax for the purpose of defraying a temporary excess of expenditure. We must, however, most emphatically deny the assertion of the Right Hon. Bart., "that the House and the country were nut prepared to submit to increased taxation for a short period." There was undoubtedly the strongest objection, both in and out of the Legislature, to provide fur estimates which it was believed were framed upon extravagant calculations, and which might have been very materially reduced without in any degree diminishing the efficiency of our establishments, or decreasing the national strength below that which the ominous and lowering aspects of the political horizon, both at home and abroad rendered essential to the honour and safety of the empire. That such an optnion was well founded has been established on the clearest and most unanswerable evidence, namely, that no less than p')d,0001. has been struck of the various estimates in consequence of the economy thus rendered neces• nary. It was not, however, a desire to enforce a strict attention to that salutary economy which was so urgently required by the country, that constituted the sole or even the principal objection to the con templated increase of the income-tax. The country would, we believe, have been prepared to make any reasonable sacrifice that could have been demanded, and to have. raised the national income, at least, to an equality with the national expenditure ; so that if the enormous weight of our debt was not mitigated, it should not have been increased without the most ur gent necessity. But the Minister of Finance refused to make any concession to the universal feeling of the community ; he peremptorily declined to listen to any modification of the unjust and iniquitous prin ciple of the Act. He insisted that the tax should be equally levied upon every de scription of income, however obtained; that the professional man, the merchant or the trader, should contribute es largely upon the amount of his precarious and hardly-earned profits as the lordly in heritor of wide-spread domains, or the wealthy fund holder—that income which was not worth four years' purchase, end out of which a considerable portion should be set aside to make provisions for a future day, when shattered health or failing energies might no longer permit unremitting toi', or when death might snatch away the solo provider from his helpless and almost destitute family, should contri bute as largely as realised property. This perti nacious and obstinate adherence to an impost so unequal in operation, and so unjust in principle, excited the strongest indignation. It the tax hau been granted it was too ridiculous to suppose that it would have been remitted at the end of two • years aye, or of ten years. It was of too convenient a character to be easily given up when once it had been in operation, and there were too many indirect taxes unduly pressing upon the energies and paralyzing the industry of the nation, which should be got rid of the moment there was any appearance of a surplus. If there was to be any attempt to obtain a more equitable adjustment of the tax it should have taken place at the moment. The people felt this, and they spoke out boldly and manfully. They did not, we again assert, object to have an amount levied sufficient to defray all the necessary expenditure of the country, but they most properly refused to perpetuate a system founded on the grossest injustice, the most unequal and partial assessment. Sir CHARLES WOOD =lSt not suppose that he can dictate to the House and country, or that he can, in a fit of ille humour, because the Legislature refuses to sanction the particular mode in which he desires that the tax should be levied, abdicate the duties of his office, and refuse to provide a substitute for the rejeetedimpost. So long as he continues in office he is the public servant, and he must obey the wishes of those by w h om he is retained. We trust that he will feel it to be his duty to bow to the general wishes of the community, and that if his present demand be to eomplied with h e may, at the very least, pledge himself bring forward at the very commencement of next session a proposition for a more equitable apportion ment of the i ncome - tax with reference to the actual value of the property in respect of which it is made. Since the general election of 1847 there have been severalin of th e a succession of suppleme n t a l contests boroughs and counties of the United Kingdom. And these contests have, without one ex ce ption,been in variably preceded by prolonged and laborious tigations before Committees of the Ho use of I Con es. mons. Indeed we cannot but regard the legi s latial,e. emptiness of the present session of Parliament as very easily explicable—first, on account of these t e di ous electioneering inquiries—secondly, in consequence of tke loquacity of the representatives and the heavy discussions into which they have been seduced, by a Billy Ambition to have their eloquence paraded in the colgrar4 co! the newspapers—thirdly, by reason of the distracting and reiterated interruptions of such men as Mr. ANSTEY and Mr. URQUHART--4011Ythly, from the extraordinary occurrences which have agitated the nations of the continent, and which have induced our senators to pause and observe their progress in astonishment-s-and fifthly, from the embarrassing position of affairs in the monetary world in general, and in the political atmosphere in Ireland in particular, a position so remarkable and unprecedented as to account in some measure for the delay of the Executive, and for the bewilder ment of the Legislature. That, we take it, is the only rational explanation of the causes which have rendered the Parliamentary session of 1848 so barren in bene ficial enactments. Were we to speak otherwise we should be doing an injustice to the Lower House and to the members of the Administration. In review ing the recent history of the Russell Government, the journalist is compelled, in all fairness of con science, to take into accqunt the wonderful nature of the events in the midst of which that Government has latterly been acting. If the political councils of Eng land have been comparatively fruitless in measures of an ameliorative character, they have been most fruit ful in precautionary and conservative proceedings— proceedings precautionary against danger, and conser vative of the constitution. If the ruling Cabinet has done little towards the diminution of the evils which still remain in existence, it has accomplished much towards the preservation of the many blessings which appertain to the citizens of the British empire—it has vindicated the majesty of the law and the glory of order, it has proclaimed the in violability of the constitution, it has tended materially towards the permanent consolidation of our na tionality. Let not all this be forgotton ; and let it not be forgotten that the Russell Administration has earned for itself the right to this eulogium when other Governments have been hurled into ruin, when monarchies have reeled to their foundations, when some of the most profound and wily statesmen of the age have been driven into exile after having goaded their respective countries into the majestic agonies of revolution, when the streets of Paris, of Berlin, of Vienna, of Milan, and of Naples have been soddened with the blood of their inhabitants, and when panic, destitution, and carnage have ravaged, from one ex tremity to the other, the fairest kingdoms of conti nental Europe. If the merit of having maintained law, and]order, and constitutional liberty inviolate, within the boundaries of these islands be considered insufficient by posterity, even when it is remem bered that all this has been done simultaneously with the• convulsion of a whole continent the historian may shed an additional lustre upon the memory of our present administrators by recording that those administrators have secured the peace of the world, notwithstanding the violent passions excited among the insurgent races of the Europeans. We are aware that it has of late become the fashion to rail against the Russell Cabinet as a do-nothing Administration, and we are perfectly con scious that in pronouncing this deserved eulogium on its career, we may be assailed ourselves as grievously out of the mode, if we be not actually vituperated against as sycophantic. Nothing whatever of this nature—neither the dread of derision, nor the fears of slander—can affect in any manner the angle in which the index-finger of our opinion is pointed. There fore it is that we speak thus deliberately of the merits and the demerits of the ruling Government. Had its members been statesmen of surpassing genius, they might have accompanied this conservation of order, peace, and liberty, with acts such as would have enrolled their names among those of the most illustrious reformers of their country. As they were, however, altogether devoid of those almost miraculous powers of administration, as they possessed merely intelligence, courage, patriotism, and a conscientious integrity, they have only prevented evils which would have been fraught with disasters, without daring to adventure upon measures which, while they would have covered them with the national gratitude, were in reality altogether beyond the limits of their capabilities. We have been induced to take this retrospective glance at the career of Lord Jour; RUSSELL'S Admi nistration, because we observe that the conduct of that Administration (and inferentially the entire cause of Liberalism) has been traduced in the course of those supplemental elections to which we have already alluded. To mention an instance in point, there is the pending election at Derby, throughout the arrangements for which we perceive the most insidious allusions to the cause of Liberalism, and the most unjust and unjustifiable misrepresentations of the conduct of the present Government. By these means it is hoped that the Con servative candidate, Mr. JAMES LORD, the barrister, and Mr. FRESUFIELD, the chairman of the 4 .3urrey Quarter Sessions, may be forced into the representation, while the Liberal candidates, Mr. MICHAEL THOMAS BASS and Mr. LAWRENCE HEYWOUTII are signally rejected. We cannot for a moment imagine that the electors of Derby will . permit such a decision, a decision which would be derogatory to their character whether in regard to its consistency, its energy, or its judgment. It is surely not in the autumn of 1848 that Derby is to witness the local triumph of Toryism-- that Derby which in 1833 returned STRUTT and CA-% VENDIEH ; in 1835, STRUTT and PONSONBY; in 1841, STRUTT and PONSONBY again; and in 1847, STRUTT and GOWER. Until a final majority on the close of the poll has pronounced in favour of Messrs. LORD and FRESUFIELD we will not entertain any doubt as to the consistency, the energy, or the judgment of the Derby constituency. THE FRENCH REPUBLIC, We have received the Paris papers of Saturday arid yesterday. The debate in the National Assembly on the re port of the Commission of Inquiry into the affairs of May and June, the commencement of which we published in The Sun of Saturday, lasted until six o'clock on Saturday morning. The Assembly, on the motion of General CAVAIGNAC, passed to the order of the day immediately after the parties incul pated by the report of the Committee had been heard in their defence. The political part of the discussion having been thus disposed of; the law officers of the Republic made format application to the Chamber for permission to prosecute CAUSSIDIERE and Lours BLANC as accompl;xes in the affair of the 15th of May. This permissirni was granted by an immense ma jority, and an order issued for their arrest. A de mand for permission to prosecute CAUSSIDIERE for his connexion with the insurrection of June, which would have the effect of delivering him over to the Council of War, was refused by a majority of 88. ' The following is the report of the conclusion of the debate, continued from The Sun of Saturday : M. Louis Blanc—Placed for some time under the falsest and most outrageous accusations, it is with diffi culty that I can maintain the calm which self-respect im poses. There is one circumstance which particularly strikes me in this debate, and that is, that the men who accuse us were avowed partisans of the monarchy, and always combated the Republic ; whilst we, who are accused, are, on the contrary, Republicans, are the men who have shed our blood, who have suffered for the Re public, who have fifty times risked our lives for it. The Republicans were made over by the last Governments to public execration—they were branded as men of blood and the scaffold. But when they obtained power they proclaimed the abolition of the penalty of death for political offences—they did not pronounce a single word of hatred, of vengeance, or of ill-will —they did not suspend a single journal, and they loudly proclaimed in the Government respect for the sacred principles which they had previously defended. "Of 'what, continued M. Louis Blanc, "am I accused ? Of the speeches I delivered I Then, it is, in fact, a veritable proces de tendance, which is brought forw ar d against me !" M. Louis Blanc then proceeded to exa mine the charges made against him, and especially the idea of the creation of a Ministry of Labour and Pro gress. On the latter point he stated that it was with repugnance he had consented, on the representations of M. Arago , to accept the mission of the Luxembourg, and he detailed under what circumstances the decree reducing the number of working hours was issued. He declared that his acts might be attacked, but that he would always defend the doctrines on which they were based. He next energetically denounced the principle of free competition, and presented an apology of so cialism, explaining its objects and tendencies. (The murmurs of the Assembly interrupted this part of M. 'Louis Blatic's discourse.) He afterwards proceeded to notice the facts set forth in the report of the Com mittee of Investigation ; and declared that all the speeches he had delivered at the Luxembourg had been publish e d on,riFiis,tpee rceszet ite tnn in the Meet . If the speech brought for ward by the Committ ee h a d not b een reported l ik e t h e wast the because it was d e li vere d on an occas i on o necte a d with the meetings of the Lu xem b ourg . o ,elheectsioainds: and ha it d demanded thathis advice w occasion he had d elivered the speech in question, into which, in the warmth of improvisation, some expressions, which perhaps were exaggerated, had sliped would certainly , and which he have struck out (as p was done every day _ . . in speeches delivered at the national tribune, and re ported in the Moniker), if he had intended to have had it published in the official journal of the Republic. M. Louis Blanc then defended or excused the terms of the speech ; and, after proceeding for some time, stated that he was extremely fatigued, and requested the Assembly to allow him a few moments' repose. The sitting was accordingly suspended., and after some minutes, the President announced that M. Louis Blanc, in consequence of his great fatigue, had requested that the sitting might not be resumed until half-past seven. This was agreed to, and the Assembly adjourned. The sitting was resumed at a quarter to eight o'clock. M. Louis Blanc again occupied the tribune. He pro ceeded to defend himself from the charges brought against him in the documents connected with the report. Referring to the affair of March 11", he stated that he had gone to his colleagues to inform them of the intention of the people to put back the elections. He went so far even as to offer his resignation, but it was not accepted. He then went to the workmen, and employed all his in. fluence to induce them to preserve order; the conse quence was, that 200,000 workmen paraded the streets without uttering a cry of hatred. In fact, the attitude of the people was so admirable, that the next day the Provisional Government published a proclamation thank ing them for their devotedness. As to April 16, far from its being a manifestation directed by :he work men against the Government, as had been stated. it was precisely the contrary. lie looked on M. de Lamartine's opinions as likely to win over to the Republic certain parties, as his (M. L. Blanc's) were calculated to keep the working classes in order.—(Rumours.) That opinion he had sometimes expressed thus, " You are the guarantee of progress, and lam of order."--(Loud denial.) He denied that he had in any way contributed to the t creation of the na tional workshops. They had been established, not by, but against him. He had never placed his foot within the doors of one of these establishments. He denied that he had influence over the workmen found in them, and quoted two documents emanating from the national workshops, declaring that neither he nor. the delegates of the Luxembourg were to be listened to in those es tablishments. Arriving at the affair of May 15, the Hon. Representative gave the same account of his share in the proceedings as he had previously laid before the Chamber. He again declared that he deeply regretted that manifestation. He stated that Barb& had the day before promised him to prevent his club from taking part in the affair; it was quite incomprehensible what could have induced him to change his mind. He denied having been at the Hotel de Ville on May 15, though he ac• knowledgeti that his heart was there, because he was anxious about his two friends whom he knew to be there. He then alluded to the deposition of M. Trelat, who had spoken of offers made to M. Emile Thomas by him (M. Louis), and said that M. Emile Thomas had said to hial=" The deposition of M. Trelat is a lie."—(Move merit.) . "I, on my side," said M. Louis Blanc, "deny that my visit to the workshop of Clichy was of a poli tical, neture, it merely referred to their association." He defied any one to connect him in any way. with the insurrection of June, as he had never quitted the As sembly. He declared that on June 23, so far was he from having any thought of organizing an insurrec tion, that he had brought with him notes in reply to a speech of M. de Montalemberes. Any person who could urge his fellow men to civil war, was, he said, an in famous wretch, and such a character could not be given to him. Ho concluded by declaring that his address was intended altogether for those who were not personally acquainted with him ; for those who knew him well it was not necessary.—(Approbation on the Left.) M. Trelat repelled with indignation the insinuation that his deposition contained a falsehood. He declared that this was the first time be had ever been accused of telling an untruth, and he cOuldaffirm solemnly that his deposition was correct. M. Louis Blanc said that the lie lay between M. Trelat and M. Emile Thomas ; it must be either one or the other.—(Disapprobation.) M. Caussidi4re then ascended the tribune with an im mense roll of papers, and read a written defence. He announced that he should divide his statement into three parts—consisting of general facts, the affair of May 15, and the insurrection of June. By the first point ho meant the acts of his administration, and he must ex press his astonishment that the great services which he had rendered to the country could be unadmitted by the Assembly. However, his return as represen tative by 154,000 votes of the burgesses of Paris was a proof of how the public, looked on them. —(Marks of denial.) He dwelt on the order which, he stated, he had preserved in Paris—a matter of such dif • ficulty in times of resolution. Referring to the address mentioned in the report us having been made by him to the Commissaries of Police, he maintained that his sole object was to set aside everything that could excite dis cord amongst the various classes of the population, and hence the strong expressions of that document. He quoted, as a proof of his anxiety to avoid everything that might offend, his own polite language in his reply to the drivers of hackney coaches.—(Loud laughter.) Speaking of the intention attributed to him of burning Paris, lie denied the truth of the assertion, and said that he had unceasingly demanded the creation of a now company of firemen. Coming to the affair of the 15th of May, the Honourable Representative repeated the same explanations that he had previously given to the Assembly, and handed in to the President several docu ments in proof of his assertions. Alluding to the insur rection of June, the Honourable Representative denied in the strongest manner that he had been in any way whatever mixed up in the matter. He adduced argu ments to prove that it was impossible that he could have been at the barricades at the time alleged, and endea voured to prove an alibi for himself in the case. Allud ing to Chenu's evidence, he affirmed that the bad cha racter of that person rendered his assertions quite un worthy of credit. The Hon. Representative then alluded to the manner in which his private character had been calumniated, and asked who could allege any dishonour , able act against him? Ile called in question the evi dence of M. Trouve-Chauvel relative to him, and in sisted on it that the Hon. Representative had been mis taken. M. Trouve Chauvel's opinion that he (Caussi diere) had been implicated in the affairs of May and June was of little value, being after all only an opinion. After alluding at great length to other testimonies against him, the Hon. Representative concluded by pro. testing his devotedness to the Republic. M. Trouve-Chauvel observed that nothing that had been said in the course of the discussion was of a nature to induce him to change his opinion. M. Flocon would call on M. Heckeren to relate to the Assemble the declaration which he had just now stated in the lobby. M. Heckeren (who is a tall stout man like M. Caussi diere)—What I said was, that some National Guards had taken me for M. Caussidiare. The President—l have now to communicate to the Assembly a requisitory from the Procureur-General of the Court of Appeal at Paris.—(The Hon. Gentleman read the document which demands authorization from the Assembly to allow judicial proceedings to be insti tuted against Louis Blanc and Marc Caussidiere, as par ticipators in the affairs of .May 15 and June 23, in con sequence of new charges brought forward in the judicial investigation and the parliamentary inquiry.) M. Laurent (de l'Ardeehe) should propose that the Assembly, before taking that demand into consideration, ought first to close the discussion on the report, which I was altogether political. M. Bac observed that the present demand for autho rization to prosecute was to be expected, as the journals had been speaking for some time back ageism the re publicans of the veille. He complained of the manner in which the demand had been made —so late at night, and in a Chamber worn out with fatigue. He then entered into an examination of the charges alleged against M. Louis Blanc and M. Caussidiere, and came to the conclu sion that there was no good reason to proceed against ee"aTt questionr o e :- m o r r o o w l ! a T p o - o m s t o p r o r n o e w m i e " n h t e was r e a r put them. He designated th e p resent course of the proceed ings aeu Loud eofut.p cries de T eo g h th. o fr n o l in ho the Chair, and rejected. M. Lagrange attacked the manner in which the Com mittee had performed its duty. In place of reaching the true culprits, it was striking the republicans.—(Cries of " Enough! Enough!" " Divide!") beforebene it be known why these documents were not publish e d . M. Ledru Rollin—Do you i n t en d b e f ore you close the discussion on the political inquiry to p ronounce at once on the judicial investigation? I declare th a t you cannot close the political discussion. The honour o f several discussion'n cl members of the Committee is at stake. — (Tumult.) printed. B esides, s impossible importantd c o l c o u se me t n h t e s have There was amongst the rest a Legitimist proclamation, M. De Larcy could affirm such a document had not come before the Committee. A Member—A colonel of gendarmerie arrested a man with a Legitimist proclamation, and it was sent to the proper authorities. That man declared that he had fought at the barricades for Henry V. The document ought to have been placed before the Committee; it was given to the Prefect of Police, and in the three volumes that had been printed it did not appear. The President of the Council—l demand permission of the Chamber to return to a previous incident. One of the Hon. Deputies spoke of a coup -de theatre which had been long prepared ; it is therefore essential that the true state of things should be pointed out. While the i n nri i n ry its w d a u s ti proceed ing at th e same t i me. The demand wh i c h we h ave j ust proceeding, e s ; the jud i t c h i a e l G i n o v v e e s r t iz a e t i n o t n w w a s a s not want made is not at all the result of the political inquiry but of the judicial one.--(Sensation.) The Government is desirous that the discnssion should be promptly brought to a conclusion. We have not wished, neither ought we to wish, that this demand for authorization should lead to a fresh discussion. The Government did not inter fere until after the political debate. If we had in a few days hence raised a fresh discussion we should have failed in our duties ; we desired that the Assembly should be prepared to decide in one single discussion. A Voice from the Left—ln that case why show such inveteracy against those men ? M. Louis Blanc.--I demand that the political and the judicial facts sheuld remain united in the same discus sion. Proceedings have been already demanded against me; the Chamber has rejected them, and it cannot go back on its decision. A Voice.—But if there aro fresh charges? • M. Louis Blanc.—There is not an h onest man in the country who dues not in his conscienc e p roc l a i m me innocent.—(" Oh, oh," and laughter.) Wh at i t i s wished to strike in me is not a guilty man, but a poli *cal opponent. M. Conic, the Procureur-General, said that three things had gone on concurrently to enlighten the law officers—the judicial instruction on affairs of May 14; the military instruction on the insurrection of June; and the judicial investigation on the same. Therefore the facts were well known. M. Louis Blanc ought to bear in mind that since the last demand for authoriza tion new facts bad come to light. M. Louis Blanc again protested against the course ad d. The President of the Council--We certainly wish to STJN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, AUGUST 28, 1848. have a prompt solution to this matter ; but the solution which we demand we by no means impose on the As sembly. We declare that we think this demand neces sary. We do not cay when we formed this opinion; but this we cats declare, that fur several days the docu ttentt on which it is founded have been in our hands. We do not wish to influence the Assembly in any way; We merely wish to state the case.—(llear, hear.) M. Flocon declared that the Committee had, in his opinion, failed altogether in ita mission, having sought for particular causes ittld btitertilly avoided the general and true otits. M. I)upin wished to place the question clearly before the Assembly. It was necessary altogether to separate the political from the judicial question in the matter. The Assembly had no power whatever to decide the judicial question ; all it could do was to decide whether two of its Members should be stripped of their parliamentary privilege, in order to be handed over to the law officers of the Government. The Assembly had nothing whatever further to do, so that all that was said about judging and condemning the Members al luded to, was nothing but mere words. The Assembly would, therefore, first have to place aside the political question altogether. Next, it could not separate the affair of May 15 from that of June, as they went to •gether.—(Cries of " No, no," and "Yes, yes.") Let them remember the Dijunction Act, and how un popular it bad been. He would now, therefore, for mally propose to set aside the political part of the question. The President—l now put to the vote the question to set aside the political part as proposed.—(Agitation.) M. Flocon—l propose the order of the day on the whole report—(Great confusion)—without distinction as to the parts composing it.—(Renewed confusion.) The Minister of Justice wished to observe that in the affair of May 15 the persons implicated would be brought before the ordinary courts of law, but that they who were accused of participating in the insurrection would be sent before the court-martial.—(Great agitation.) The President—l now propose the pure and simple order of the day on the report, which will close the dis cussion; it being understood that the report does not af fect the demand for the authorization.—(Great noise.) This was carried by an immense majority. The President—The subject now under discussion is the demand of authorization. The Minister of Justice—From the motives just ex pressed by the President, I have to call for a discussion on the subject forthwith d'urgence. M. Bac proposed that the demand should be sent in the usual way to the bureaux. The Assembly ought to have time to study the new documents. The matter had not been sufficiently studied.—(oh, oh.) . The. President. —A division has been called for en the question of urgency.—(Rumours.) Great agitation was manifested whilst the vote was going on, and whilst the secretaries were reckoning the bulletins, the Members collected in groups on the floor conversing and gesticulating with great energy. It was now broad daylight, and the appearance of the Chamber, with the decaying lights in the lustres, the worn look of the ladies in the galleries (which continued crowded to the close), and the feverish agitation of the House, pre sented a strange and unpleasant spectacle. The following was the result of the division:— For the demand of urgency Against it 292 Majority. • 201 The President—ln consequence, the discussion is to take place forthwith. The moment the urgency was declared M. Louis Blanc and M. Caussidiere left the Chamber. The President—A formal division has been applied for on the demand for authorisation of pursuits in the case of M. Louis Blanc for the affair of May lb only. The following was the result:— For granting the authorisation Against it Majority --252 The Presideni—lii . consequence. the Assembly ac cords the authorisation to take judicial proceedings against M. Louis Blanc for the affair of May 15. The discussion now opens on the case of M. Caussidiere for the same event. M. Flocon expressed his regret at seeing such a de• termination come to against a man who was a friend of his—who had fought in February to found the Republic, and who had shared in the responsibility of the Pro visional Government. Then, referring to the case of M. Caussidiere, he observed that he had been already pu nished for the affair of May 15, having been deprived of his situation as Prefect of Police.—(Marks of de nial. A voice Ho was obliged to give it up for bad conduct!") He would demand, was it fair to now again visit him even more severely for the same matter? As to the affair of June 23, the Assembly must not forget that, if the authorisation to prosecute were granted tOr that event, it would be to send him before the Council of War. He felt convinced that, if such a result could have been foreseen before the present discussion had begun, the matter would never for a moment have been permitted to go so far. He then went thrOugh the circum stances connected with M.Caussidiere's conduct in June, and declared that it was impossible to find in them any thing to criminate him. The Hon. Representative then touched on the circumstances of M. Caussidiere's family; spoke of his brother, killed fir the Republic; and, allud ing to his aged father, remarked that the old man Would indeed have been happy, had he, after beholding the glorious revolution of February, at once yielded up his last breath. M. Mathieu (de la Diorne) also adverted to some cir cumstances of the same period, and expressed his belief that M. Caussidiire had not been implicated in the in surrection. He referred, amongst other things, to the fact that M. Caussiere.-cbad accompanied him and otlic4. Members to General Cavaignac with a view to enter into seine conditions with the insurgents. The President of the Council said that, in truth, he remembered that five or six representatives, amongst whom was M. Caussidiere, had called on him, and spoke about treating. He refused, the matter having become so grave that it was absolutely necessary t o m as t er i t completely. It was agreed, however, to issue a procla mation, which the Members could undertake to have distributed amongst the insurgents, M. James de Montray declared that he had accom panied M. Caussidiere and the other representatives to General Cavaigaac's house, and there the proclamation was agreed to, which not a little contributed to dis courage the insurgent party. M. Blaine spoke to the same effect. The President—The Assembly will now vote on the question of authorising a judicial pursuit against M. Caussidiere for the affair of May 15. The fo ll ow i n g was the result of the division:— For the authorisation 477 Against it .... Majority —209 The President—ln consequence, the authorisation is r t accorded. The Assembly will now vote o n the q uest i on of granting the authorisation to allow proceedings to b e instituted against C s i doioeoroei Council of b xN e r i a n v g .— im (G pl r ic o a a t t e o d o i t n . the insurrection of June, which will have the effect of ov e M. to Caussidiere s c d r e y li , v c e r r i i e n s g , o h f im ,, Nol no!" yes! yes!")The following was the result of th e di v i s i on: — . For the authorisation 370 Against it Majority against it —BB The President—ln consequence, the authorisation re lative to the insurrection of June is nut accorded against the citizen Caussidiere. The Assembly then rose at six o'clock in the morning, adjourned to Monday. Immediately after the Chamber had decided that if would at once take into consideration the demand o' the law officers to prosecute Louis BLANC and CAUS SIDIERE the two accused left the Assembly. There are various rumours current as to their adventures. According to one account they were arrested before leaving the Assembly, and shortly after six o'clock were taken to the Conciergerie, from whence, in the course of the day, they were transferred to Vincennek Another account states that they have not yet been arrested. The following extract from a letter written by Louis BLANC, which appears in some of the jour nals, seems to confirm the truth of the report that he, at least, is still at large " Struck not as guilty—that is impossible—but as an enemy, by men in whom political passions have silenced every sentiment of equity, I go out of the way (je necthig n e) in order to protest more effectually against the,eonsequences of the state of siege and government of f9rce. , I cannon believe that France will patiently suffer the, regular course of justice to remain suspended much, longer. When the day for discussion comes I shall be there. " LOUIS BLANC. " Aug. 26, 1848." The journals of Saturday, of every shade of opinion, compliment M. LEDRU ROLLIN on the elo quence of his speech of Friday. As a specimen, we select the following from the National, the organ of M. ARMAND MARRAST, who was from the first the most able, as he has been the most consistent, of the opponents of M. LEDRU ROLLIN in the Provisional Government : " The first part of the speech of M. Ledru Rollin was of incontestable eloquence. Never was he better inspired than when, invoking the souvenir of our revolutionary assemblies, he showed the peril of these investigations, which create hatred, light up vengeance, and sow division in the national representation. Proscriptions cause pro• seriptions; the conquered of the eve may be the con querors of the morrow, and it is always a serious injury to the country when deliberating assemblies are deci mated. M. Ledru Rollin, in noble language, made an appeal to concord, to the spirit of union and peace. Like him, we wish that all the fractions of the Assembly may rivaliso in zeal and passion in the interest of the country; like him, we hope that the sad spectacle of a committee groping into the private lire of the men who took part in the foundation of the Republic, to cause the condemnation of the Revolution of February, will not be again pre sented. In the criticisms addressed to the parties who, on the eve of February, opposed the accession of demo cracy, there was something bitter which was natural in the mouth of one of those who has been the most at tacked. M. Ledru Rollin, in defending his policy, be came an accuser. Who can feel surprised at it? W e do not speak of his socialist theories. M. Ledru Rollin, previously so firm and effective, appeared to us to lose a portion of his advantages in arriving on that ground. He found eloquent words, noble accents to defend the Red Republic from the reproach of attacking family and property; and, in our opinion, the purity of sentiment, the excellence of i n t en tion, compensate for what there is vague, incomplete, and perhaps hazardous in the prac tical measures r eco mmended by the speaker. In con clucon- cluding,M. Ledru Rollin made a new appeal to the ideas of fraternity, an d t h e a ssent of the Assembly proved to us that the sympathetic M. PROUDIION has presented to the National As sembly a p ropos i t i on, w hich has been referred to th e Committee of Agriculture and Commerce. This pro position, which ii. PROUDRON says is the only means of restoring confidence and credits, is to the following •. ' effect, to raise a national loan of two milliards of francs on the following terms : " The State shall issue credit-paper to the amount of two milliards. This paper shall represent an equal sum to be paid by the subscribers to the loan. The credit notes issued by the State shall bear the title of Loan Bonds.' They shall be of the amount of 20f., 501., 1001., 2001., 5001., and I,ooof. The issue shall take place monthly ; during three years from the promulgation of the decree, until the amount so issued comes up to the said sum of two milliards. This issue shall amount for each of the four first months of the se-ries to 100 millions, and for the other months to 50 millions. The interest to be paid by the State for the funds arising from the loan shall be reduced from 5 per cent, to 1 per cent., the rate of the Bank. A special bill shall regulate the mode of repayment." It was expected that there would have been some disturbances in Path on Friday night. If any such were intended the eineutiers were awed into good be haviour by the preparations made by the Government and the public tranquility remained undisturbed. Galignani' s Messenger publishes the following from Lille : - " The workmen of the atciers communaux of Lille, who, as we have stated, had returned to their labour, and appeared disposed to be orderly, suspended work again on Thursday, and passed the day in idleness. Five or six numerous assemblages were formed in the streets, but it was not considered necessary to take any measures, as there were no disturbances., At half-past six, however, as the mayor was going to the Municipal Council, he was followed by several hundred individuals who addressed him in gross language, and at length several of them seized him by the throat, and beat him. His life would probably have been in danger, if he had not been rescued by some citizens, and lodged in a house. Four of the fellows concerned in the out rage were arrested. Great excitement now prevailed in the city, and the groups of workmen became so nume rous, and so threatening in their language, that the rappel was beaten. On the appearance of the National Guard, the perturbators fled, but bands of boys pa raded the streets, singing the " Marsellaise," the " Girondins," the " Chant du DASpart," &c. A force was sent to the mayor's house, but the rioters, though they broke some of the windows, made no attack on it. The National Guards remained under arms till mid night. Early yesterday morning the mayor issued an arrete, which was approved by the Prefect, dissolving the ateliers communaux, on account of the disturbances, and of the refusal of the men to do piecework, but pro mising relief to the workmen until associations of them should be formed to do the work by the piece. About six o'clock in the evening the workmen assembled in numerous groups, and displayed a threatening attitude. The rappel was beaten, and the National Guards turned out. There are no later accounts. The accounts from Paris of last evening state that neither CAUSSIDIERE nor Louis BLANC have been yet arrested ; indeed it is supposed generally that they have succeeded in escaping into Belgium. The club of the Salle Montesquieu and that of the National Guards having complied with the requisi tions of the new law, resumed their sitting on Friday. The second report of the Committee on the consti tution is to be presented to the Assembly by M. MARRAST in the course of the present week. The clauses with respect to " the declaration of duties and rights," and the chapter on the " sovereignty of the people," are suppressed ; and the clauses which gua rantee to all citizens the right to work and to re ceive instruction, are greatly modified. In the chapter relative to the election of a President of the Republic, it is declared that no one can he Presi dent who has lost his rights as a French citizen. The effect of this latter clause, if carried, will be to exclude Prince Louis NAPOLEON. Some transactions took place on Sunday in the Passage de !'Opera, at the price of 73f. 25c. for the Five per Cents., being 50c. lower than the closing price of the day before in the Parquet. It is, how ever, to be remarked, that for the two or three days before the Coulisse had soli at from 25c. to 50c. lower than the Parquet. BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE LONDON STOCK-EXCHANGE, AUG. 26. Boulogne and Amiens s—Great Indian Peninsula, l i i —Namur and Liege, 196—Paris and Lyons, s —Ditto, 4 Paris and Strasbourg, 1%. SPAIN. Madrid journals of the 22d have arrived. Several arrests have taken place in Madrid, by order of NARvAxZ, who has, it is alleged, discovered a Carlist conspiracy in the capital. The financial scheme of MON is as follows :—He purposes paying off sixty millions of the Government debt to the Bank in cash, thirty millions of which are expected from the provinces, and the other thirty to be advanced by the Madrid capitalists, a meeting of whom was called on the 21st, when a committee was appointed to carry out the required advance. MADRID BOLSA, AUG. 21.—The Three per Cents. were done at 19i cash, and 3-16 buyers, 5-16 sellers, after the close; Five per Cents. 10/ buyers, 11 sellers ; Coupons, 7 sellers ; Passive Debt, 31 buyers, 4 sellers ; Bank Shares not quoted ; Discount on Notes, 4i per cent.—Auo. 22.—Three per Cents., 19 cash; Five per Cents., loi buyers, 11 sellers; Coupons, 7 sellers ; Passive Debt, 41 buyers, 4 sellers ; Bank Shares not quoted ; Discount on Notes, 4 to 4i. GERMANY AND THE NORTHERN STATES. PRUSSIA. The official journal of the Government contains a long account of the disturbances which took place on the 22d, from which it appears that the houses of some ministers w ere assailed, and some constables who had gone to maintain order were grievously injured. It was said that shots had been fired. The official journal announces that a judicial investigation had , been set on foot, and it calls on those who can give evidence to do so. In the Assembly the Ministers gave explanations on the disturbances, from which it appears that the excesses at Charlottenbourg were de plorable, and that one of the democrats was so ill treated by the people as to be in danger of death ; that at Berlin the mob broke open, with iron bars, the doors of the hotel of the Minister of the Interior, and penetrated to the apartments ; that they uttered cries at the residence of the President of the Council, and threw stones through his win dows at a moment when all the foreign ambas sadors were assembled ; that they damaged the facade and smashed the windows of the hotel of the Minister of Justice, and told him in the street that he ought to resign as he had lost the confidence of the people. ' The mob also went to the Hotel-de-Ville and devas tated the corridor. The constables had the greatest trouble to prevent further mischief until the arrival of the Civic Guard. The Ministers announced that ex traordinary measures would be presented to the As sembly by the Government. The Minister of Justice was hurt in the leg by a stone thrown through the windows of the President of the Council. The dis turbances at Berlin were caused by what took place at Charlottenbourg, and were excited by a placard of the Democratic Club. A letter from Berlin, of the 23d, gives the following details : " The people, excited by speeches of two men named Dorvint and Bauer, sent a deputation to the Ministers to demand the abolition of c onstables, the release of poli tical prisoners, and, if possible, the retirement of the Ministers. The deputation was received by the Mi nister of Justice, at the hotel of the President of the Council. Dorvint and Bauer insisted on the demands of the people, and dwelt at some length on the neces sity of the retirement of incapable Ministers. The Mi nister of Justice heard them with great calm, and an swered with great moderation. As soon as the deputies had retired terrible cries were heard, among which the words " Vengeance I to arms !" were distinguished, and at the same moment the visitors at the hotel of the President of the Council were compelled to abandon the front apartments in consequence of a shower of stones from the streets. The cause of this act of violence is not exactly known : some say that whilst the deputation was with the Minister in the hotel, a troop of constables charged the people; others say that the people were alarmed at not seeing the de putation return. Presently, the mob armed themselves with iron bars, and tore up the pavements ; aft er w hi c h they sent another volley oF stones at the hotel, and broke every window. The constables were obliged to retire, though not until some of them had been wounded. Inns scene of devastation lasted an hour, during which the visitors of the President of the Council got away by the back doors. At length the Civic Guard, which had been detained at a fete, arrived, and drove the crowd at the point of the bayonet from Wilhelmatrasse. The mob went to the Lime Trees, and continued simil ar s cenes till midnight. A barricade was raised near Beh renstrasso and Friederichtstrasse, and the armed force had to carry it. Several shots were discharged. There is a talk of many wounded and even killed. About 40 persons were arrested with arms in their hands. The Lime Trees and Wilhelmstrasse present a desolating aspect, as after the days of March." On the evening of the 25th the Burgher Guard and the whole constabulary force were assembled, and on the blowing of a horn they cleared the Linden and closed all the avenues leading to it with double chains, and thus prevented the meeting of any riotous assemblage. The new law, about to be proposed to the Assem bly for the regulation of public meetings, enacts that no open-air meeting shall take place without twenty-four hours' notice being given to the police. It also fixes certain rates of punishment for those per sons attending meetings, making a distinction when they are armed or unarmed, and adds that in the event of an assemblage not separating at the third summons, the armed force will b,9 called upon to dis perse it. AUSTRIA. The EMPEROR has ordered all prosecutions against the press for breaches of the regulations ,Pf the 18th May, 1848, to be discontinued. Letters from Trieste state that an Austrian milted ron is fitting out at that port, for the blocks de of Venice. VIENNA, Aua. 19,—The German Wholicsi h4ve already become a very influential party here. All the corners of the streets are placarded with notices about the new religion, and their meetings are attended by immense crowds of people. The late violent conduct of the people of Rome has induced a great many Roman Catholics to desire to secede from the Church of Rome. At a meeting of the Roman Catholics held yester day, the number of persons present was immense. It was unhappily interrupted by a melancholy occur rence. Father HIRSCHBERGER mounted the rostrum and addressed the crowded assembly with deep emotion on the proposed religioue, reforms. He spoke of the introduction of the German language into the celebration of Divine worship, a synodal church, the dissolution of convents, and the abolition of the celibacy of the clergy. M. EKHART then called upon the meeting to sign an address to the National German Assembly. He asked whether it would sign in its own name, or in the name of German Catholicism. The latter opinion seemed to prevail, when on a sudden the cry was raised, "Down with the knave." Those who were near the individual who uttered these words wished to turn him out, hut the cry was now raised, " The workmen are coming 1" On the previous evening Father HIRSCHBERGER had been threatened that 20,000 workmen would come down and dissolve the meeting. The confusion was very great, cries of "To arms !" resounded, and every one sought to effect an exit by the doors. A terrible crush en sued, many persons, including a great number of women, were thrown down and trodden under foot. Windows were broken, and every obstacle that ob structed the passage was demolished. Some leaped from the first floor windows, and others from the bal cony into the street ; and it is feared that several of the number have been so seriously hurt that they will not survive. In the evening the tumult ceased, and the speaker continued his discourse amidst the accla mations of the people. VIENNA, AUG. 19.—The diplomatic corps were re ceived by their MAJESTIES the day before yesterday at the Palace at Schoenbrunn. The ceremony was con ducted in the usual style, with the exception, how. ever, that the Charge d'Affaires of the French Republic, M. DE LA COUR, and his secretary, M. DE GARBIAC, appeared in plain undress. The French Government has no accredited agents at his MAJESTY'S Court, nor has the French Republic yet been officially reeog nised by the Austrian Government. Nevertheless, M. DE LA COUR was invited to this reception, and the Ministers endeavoured to overcome the scruples which the French diplomatist entertained in regard to his reception. Although he heartily shared the sentiments of the diplomatic body, on the return of the Eiurisxou he was unwilling to appear officially at Court without the necessary forms, as it _might have the appearance of his seeking to btain the ac knowledgment of the Court of Austria surrep titiously, or as being contented with an acknow ledgment which had not been officially notified. He was informed that the formal recognition of the French Republic had been unanimously decided upon by the members of the Cabinet. Council, but that the absence of the Minister of Foreign Affairs retarded the execution of the necessary dispatches. This explanation removed all scruples on the part of the French Charge d'Affaires. The marked attention which the EMPEROR and EMPRESS manifested to the representatives of France not a little surprised some of the diplomatists present. After their MAJESTIES had conversed for some time with these two citizens of France, the EMPEROR said in French—" Vous savez que maintenant vous etes tout-a-fait reconnu ici." This circumstance is not without its import ance at the present time. It proves that the Austrian Government understands that France has adopted a pacific course, and it argues well for the negotiation relative to Italy. The Wiener Zeitung announces the arrival of the Minister Vox WESSENBERG at Vienna on the 21st. POLAND. The Augsburg Gazette, of the 15th, says,—" We have received news from Kalisch that 80 of the police of Warsaw arrived there suddenly some days since, that the troops had surrounded the city, and that about 200 persons, chiefly nobility, have been ar• rested at Kalisch and .in the vicinity, and sent at once to Warsaw. The report of a pretended conspi racy was circulated on the 13th, which has given rise to these proceedings. We do not, however, vouch for the veracity of this intelligence." The Allgemeine Zeitung publishes a letter from Warsaw, of the 20th inst., which says— " The cholera has broken out here, but as yet few persons have been seized with it. It is making consi derable progress in the kingdom of Poland. In Galicia it is spreading with great rapidity, In Silesia several cases have occurred here and there, but it makes but little impression here, because the people have become habituated to typhus fever." RUSSIA. At St. Petersburgh the cholera has greatly de• creased. On the 15th there were 747 cases under treatment-46 new cases in the course of the day— convalescent, 60—deaths, '25, of whom four died in their dwellings. On the 16th there were 708 cases under treatment. DENMARK. AND THE DUCHIES. The Hantburgh Borsenhalle of the 24th gives the following intelligence from the seat of war : KIEL, Atm. 24.—Eleven of the principal places in the Duchies are fully garrisoned by the Confederate troops, of which from 45,000 to 50,000 occupy Schleswig alone, while the Schleswig-Holstein troops, 10,000 to 12,000 strong, occupy the Duchy. About 60,000 men have been furnished up to this period, respectively, by Prussia, Hanover, Brunswick, Oldenburgh, the two Mecklenburghs, the four Hanse Towns, Weimar, Nassau, and Baden. ALTONA, Atm. 24.—1 t is expected that an armistice generally favourable to the German cause will be con cluded within a fortnight, or at least by the 15th of September. RENDSBURGH, AUG. 23.—M. Deetz arrived this morn ing from the National Assembly at Frankfort, and pro ceeded at once to the German headquarters. It is sup posed that ho is authorised to conclude the negotiation respecting the armistice. HAMBURGU, AUG. 24.—The prospect of peace has thrown more life into business; rates and exchanges are higher and more favourable. By way of Paris we have received intelligence that an armistice had been definitively concluded between Denmark and Germany, through the intervention of Lord Cowthr representing Great Britain, and of M. BELLACOURT representing the French Republic. MOLDAVIA AND WALLACHIA The accounts from the Principalities are v e ry contradictory. According to one account the Rus sian troops have withdrawn from Moldavi a , an d Turkey has recognised the Provisional Governme n t of Wallachia. According to other accounts Russian and Turkish troops are advancing into the Princi palities to restore the old regime, and the Walla. , chians are determined to resist force by force. A letter, dated Galatz, the sth, says that—" It is greatly to be feared we are on the eve of serious complica tions, as upwards of 90,000 Wallachians are in arms. SULEYMAN PACHA has arrived at Georgeovo, at the head of 15,000 men. It took the Ottoman troops four days to cross the Danube. A regiment of cavalry has arrived from Chumla. We have, further, 4,500 men, under the command of RIFAAT PACHA, quartered in this city." TURKEY. Letters from Constantinople of the 9th state that the cholera is making fearful ravages in the provinces of Rumelia and Anadolia. ITALY. PIEDMONT. A letter from Turin of the 21st, addressed to the 1f ational Savoisien, says :—" A proclamation of the Italian Association of Paris arrived this morning at Turin, appointing a certain CoLLI Dictator of Italy. I know from a good source that this asso ciation possesses few men of any importance, and that it is chiefly composed of fanatics or agitators, who, by their ultra-liberal movements, will only make the present situation of Italy worse." The Risorgimento of Turin, of the 22d, announces that General DABORMED♦ has been nominted Mi nister of War, in the room of General Fitorizim, resigned. LOMBARDY. A letter from Milan of the 15th inst. states that Field Marshal RADETZKY has intrusted to General Pricce FELIX SCHWARZENBERG the care of carrying on the negotiations for peace with the Plenipoten tiaries of England and France. Several Austrian officers and soldiers are assas sinated every night. It is said that RADETZSKY is plundering the museums and libraries of their con tents, and sending them to Vienna. VENICE. The Venice Gazette of the 15th announces that the Assembly had charged the new Government to send a message to France, to make known th a t it s repeated solicitation tor intervention were really made on behalf of the Venetian people. The Chevalier ANGELO MENGALDO, ex-commandant of the National Guard, had been sent to Paris on this mission. The Sardinian fleet in the Adriatic had been ordered to repair to the lonian Islands to await the issue of the armistice. ROYAL MILITARY ASYLUM.—On Saturday was printed a Bill (in the House of Commons) to authorise the application of a sum of money out of the forfeited and unclaimed prize fund in purchasing the site of the Royal Military Asylum at Chelsea, and in improving such asylum. The unclaimed fund amounts to 100,0001., and it is proposed to apply 30,000/. for the asylum for the reception of the children of soldiers. MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS' CITY, QUARTER TO 7 lIREE. The Cotton Market at Liverpool, on Saturday, was steady. Sales 5,500 to 6,000 bales, at steady rates. American 3kd. to 54d. per lb. A better feeling prevailed iu the Railway Share Market, and a fair business was done, but at the close the quotations were flatter. In a communication from Great Yarmouth, dated Saturday, it is stated—" We have a miserably wet day here, although during the week there have been, maul intervals of sunshine, and these in conjunction.. with fine dry wind, have given the farmers oppOrtunities which they have not lost, as there is very,little wheat abroad in Norfolk now. The wheats which wao first stacked are certainly not in good "reeldition, and must stand till March next before they will to fit for threshing, but there is a fair quantity on the stack,' which will do for consumption in the intermediate time, whilst in the barns for imme diate use there is below an average quantity, but to set against this, the farmers are, where there capital have allowed them, larger holders of old wheat than has been known for years, and although a few months back our merchants were holders to a very limited extent Of wheat, yet just before harvest the deliveries were very great at a lower figure than the present by soma 6s. per quarter, and there is now an average quantity in the hands of the speculators. Therefore, as tar as Norfolk is concerned, I think we have every prospect of a fair supply. " The Barley is nearly all abroad. It is not a first rate crop, for although the quality of the early sown is certainly good, the colour is injured, while the later lOWA is coarse and grey. "The Potatoes are all going,and the Turnip crop is ver far from good. This will cause a large consumption 0 1 Oil-cake." It is stated in a report, by Messrs. Witherby and Hanson, upon the dried fruit market, that:— " In the Board of Trade returns for the first six months of 1847, Currants were the only article of grocery or provisions which had fallen off in consumption, as COw pared with the previous year. The consumption of the United Kingdom in 1847 was, it will be remembered' 1,500 tons less than that of 1846, say 16,500 tons,stgainst 18,000 tons. The official returns last issued show that the consumption has again considerably increased, that of the first six months of this year having been 2,0 0 , tons more than that of the corresponding months o f 1847. The increase has been principally in.the London deliveries, which, during that period have been 4,600 tone against 2,800 tons in 1847, and 3,100 tons in 1846, whilst at Liverpool they have been 2,000 tons in 1848. and 1,650 tons and 2,300 tons in 1847 and . 1846 re' spectively." The. Corn Market is higher again this morning for all articles of grain. The English Securities are depressed again, and there is scarcely any business doing. The weather has the effect still of depressing prices. Consols have been 85t to 868 for Transfer, and 858 to 86/ for Account. Blink Stock has been at 197 to 1981, and East India Stock 241. The New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cents. 84 to I, Be" the Three per Cents. 86 to 1. Exchequer-bills bee been 27s to 30s premium for those of March. The Foreign Securities have been very quiet, and are merely nominal. Mexican Bonds realise 168; Dutch Two-and-a-Half .per Cents. are 448; and the Pope Per Cents. 704. Portuguese Four per Cents. about. 20 to 21; and Spanish Three per Cents. 22.1 to 231. The Railway Share Market has been rather flat i ° the instance of some principal :lines. North-Westernt South-Western, Midland and South-Eastern, hale barely maintained previous rates. ONE GLOSIV O ruicES OF IMITISIL FUNDS. O'CLOCK. rigICSE• Bank Stock ... 198% 197 197 3 per Cent. Reduced Anna.. B6 86IA 86% 8 per Cent. Consols Annuities 85% 86 86 New 3 per Cent. Anns..... 86%% 16A India Stock 241 239 hank Stock for Account ..... 197% Consols for Acc0unt......... r-xchequer Bills. 2 1 4 d. & ad. 1,0001. March 3O 27 p 27 P 1,0001. June 22 p 22 P Small, June PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS. ONE CLOSDN O O'CLOCK. ?ENO' Brazilian Bonds Ditto, Small Mexican ' 5 per Cent. 1846 ..- Ditto, Account 16% 16S Portuguese 5 per Cents. — Ditto, 4 per Cent. — -- Ditto, Account — 20% Spanish 5 per Cent. 1840. Ditto. Account ... ...... ..... -. 10 Ditto 3 Der Cent -- Ditto, Account ••• -- ' 23% Dividends on the above payablein London. Dutch 2% per Cent., 12 Guild.... 44 % 44% Ditto, 4 Der Cent. Certificates 70 ! , 4 70% PRICES OF FAIR . AT DUNE CLOSIN CI RAILWAY SHARES. AT ONE O'CLOCK. PRICES• Aberdeen 5O •••••• .... ..... Amber. Nott., Boston, and Eastern Junction 3 3 / 4 ...... - Ayrshire and Galloway.. 2% — Belfast & County Down, 16 ...... ...... Birmingham and Ox ford Junction .... ... 20 Birmingham, Wolver hampton, and Dudley 10 .. ... ..... Birming.,Wolverh'pton, and Stour Valley 13/. 145... -- Birkenhead, Lancashire, • and Cheshire Jaw.-- 10 ...... -- ... „........ Boston, Stamfd & Birm. 5 . „ ...... Bristol and Exeter B5 Ditto, Thirds ......... 25 e;uckinghainshire... 141. 4s. Caledonian - 5 O 5O Ditto, Half Shares .. ei l% Do. New 10/. Pref..... 2%...... Ditto,ClyticsdaleJunc 50 Chester and Holyhead... 47%...... Ditto, Preference l5 ...... Clarence Do. Ist Class, 6 per Ct. 10 Do. 2,1 Class, 5 per Ct. 10 Do. Government Loan, 4 per Cent. ...... 10 Direct London & Ports mouth Dublin and Belfast June 3O ...... Dundalk & Enniskillen 20 ...... ...... Eau Anglia, 251., L. & E. and L. and D 25 ...... Do., 18/., E. & Do., 31:10s. Eastern Counties 2O ...... 14% Do. New Guaranteed 6 per Cent. .. 5 ........ Ditto,Extension,s per Cent., No. 1 -6/. 13s. 4d.... par Ditto ditto, No. 2...61. 13s. 4d... par % dis Do. North. & Eastern 50 Do., 5 per cent. Do. Quarters ..... 12% — ..... Do. New Eastern Union, Class A (late E. U. Shares) 25 Ditto, Class A, ditto... 1 Ditto, Class B (L & and B.) 2O Ditto, Class C, ditto... 171 — Do. Scrip (6 percent.) 10 • •••- Ditto, ditto Ditto (C. &R) guar. 5 per cent............ 2% ..... East Lancashire Ditto, New Ditto, New Quarters 614..... Do., 6 per Cent. Pre ference Quarters ... 2 1 ,4 — East Lincolnshire ...... 23 Edinburgh and Glasgow 50 ...... . Ditto, Half Shares ... 15 .. ••• Ditto, Quarter Shares Edinburgh and Northern 25 Ditto, New.. 6 14 ......... •••••• Ditto, Newport l3 Ditto, ditto, New 3 3 / 4.,.... Exeter,Yeovil, & Dorch 2 3,E Ditto, New ... ,- ,- ~ 14i pit I's dis -- Glasgow, Dumfries, and - ..... Carlisle Glasgow,liilmar , & Ayr 50 ..... .... .... Ditto, New ... ... 40 Do. Preference Consol. 15 Great Northern Do., London and York 2%...... ilreat South. and West. -. 9 3 (Ireland) Great North of England.loo ...... ...- Ditto, New, 401 Ditto, New, 301 3O - Ditto, New, 151 14 .. .. •••• So •••• ..... • ;, 83 Great Western 9O ... .. 84 83% .......• :. 1 48 Ditto, % Shares 5O - Ditto, 1 4 Shares - ..... Ditto, Fifths Ditto, New 171........ 13 ... -9 3 A ... Huddersfield and blanch. 28 ..... Ditto, Thirds Hull and Selby 5O ......101 .. ............. '•" Ditto, Half Shares ..... Ditto, 1 4 Shares ...... Lancaster and Carlisle Ditto, Thirds Lancashire & Yorkshire 93 Ditto, ditto Ditto, % Shares Do. Quarter Shares... 17% — ....- .....-•• 7 Do. Fifth5... ... 9 .... Do. Sixteenths 6 14 ............ .. . 0 . Do. Thirds (Reg.)..... 13 - , Do. New, Gua. 6 per cL 2% — .. ............ •••• Do. Liverp. and Bury 43 Ditto 1,4 (late Hud- .... derstield and Sheff.) 38 Do.(Wakefield,Ponte fract, and Goole) ... 50 — ............... Do.( W. Riding Union) 6 1 1, E.........—... Do.(Preston & Wyre) 25 Do. % Shares (A)... 9 1% — ..».......,... Leeds and Bradford Leeds, Dewsbury, &c.... 50 . Do., Half Shares 22 4 ...... ...........• Do., (blue) Scrip 2%..... ............... Leeds and Thirsk Ditto, New ...... ....... 30 Do., Prefer., 6 per Ct. 3%.--.- ......•"""" Liverpool, Crosby and Southport . ...... ..... .. 3% — ... ............ Liverp., Manchester, and Newcastle Junction... 2% — ............... London &Blackwall...l3/. 6s. Sd — ... ............ Do. Extension ..... ... 22% — .... ........... London, Brighton, and South C0a5t......... 50 Do. Guarant. 5 per ct—, 9 ••»•• ... ........... Do. Pref. Con. 5 per ct. 50 Ditto, ditto..... 1852 50 Ditto, New 5/., guar. 6 per cent. ... ...... 3 L on don and Greenwigh 12/15s 4d B% 8 ....... ..... Ditto, Preference... 18/ 175 2d — ..... 16 ...... ........ London and N. Western 100 ll5 114 1 Do. QUarteTS (L.& B.) 7 71%. 22 .....„ ..." .......... Ditto, New ...... ...... .............. Ditto, Fifths ..... .. 2 Do. 40/. Sh a res(L.M.) 25 . Do. 10/. (5 1 . & 8.)............. Do. 101. (A & B.) B. 9 Do. 101. (M. & B.) C. 1 ...,• 8 ............... L , r ~ ~ . '8