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• - TLts Day 1g publishekl, in 2 vols. demy Svo., with Portraits of the Countess of Oseory and Lady Holland, price 30s. CHARACTERISTIC SKETCHES OF ENGLISH SOCIETY, POLITICS, and LITERATURE ; Comprised. in Series of Letters to THE COUNTESS of OSSORY. By HORACE WALPOLE, EARL of ORFORD. Now first Published from the Original .MISS. Edited by the Right Hon. It. VEIS3.ION SMITH M.P. Richar d Bentley, New Burlington-street, (Publisher in Ordinary to her Jiajesty). ROYAL, DRURY LANE. LAST WEEK 137 T ONE. CIRQUE NATIONAL DE PARIS. GRAN I) 31ORN ING PERFORMANCES. VEAT RE The Manager; of the Cirque National de Paris are induced, by no brilliant success of their Morning repressatations, to announce that a new selection. of those unique ani splendid Entertainments will be given on Friday next (the sth of May). Doors open at lila-past One, pet fo - mance to commence at Two o'clock. First Price as usual. No Second Price. Private Boxes to be had at the Theatre, and at Julilen and Co.'s, 214, Regent-street. HER MATH STY'S THEATRE. First Appearance of 3ldlle. JENNY LIND. The Nobility c -iel [ tr3", Subscriber; to - the Opera, and the pub lic are respectfully inform:Al that TO-MORROW EVENING (being a Subscription Night) will be pertormed, Bellini's Opera, entitled Aralna, Mdlle. Jenny Lind ; Lisa, Mdlle. Vera ; Count Rudolph°, Sig. F. Lablache ; &vino, Sig. Gardoni. To ecnclude with the admired Ballet Divertissement, entitled LA VII , AN DIr.ItE. Applications for Boxes, Stalls, and Tickets, to be made at the Box-office of the Theatre. THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. CIRQUE NATIONAL DE PARizi. Last Week but One, the whole of the troupe of the Cirque Na- Waal being obliged to return to Paris on the ltith of May. EVk.NINU The complete art of riding exemplified by Mdlls. Caroline and Ma thildc.—Daring Feats of Equitation, by Mdlls. Pahnyre, Anato, Co ralie, Ducoe, Lambert, Le Petite Anato, &c.—The Manege, exhibit ing the perfection of training, and wonderful docility of the Horse, Illustrated by M. Adolphe Franconi.—Varied and original Eques trian and Gymnastic Exercises, by the entire troupe. Doors open at half-past Seven, performance to commence at Eight. I.I.I.E.ATICE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Un.lar the Management et Mr. B. Webster, sole Lessee. TIIIS EVENING Will be presented a new comic Drama, called OLD HONESTY. Michael Bradshaw, Mr. Webster; Joseph Bradshaw, Mr. H. Van denhoff ; Sir Perkins Besborough, Mr. Howe; Mr. Septimus Hook, Mr. Tilbury ; Toby Perch, Mr. Keeley ; Dame Bradshaw, Mrs. Glover; Mary, Miss Reynolds. After which,' a new Comedietta, called A CONFIDENCE. Mr. Gresham, .dr. Webster; _dr. Arthur Williams, Mr. H. Vanden hoff ; Mrs. Gresham. Miss Ite3,nolds. To conclu-'e with a Grand Romantic Extravaganza, founded on Horace Walpole's mysterious production. and called THE CASTLE OF OTEAN TO. 3Jantred, Mr. Keeley ; the Marquis Vincenzo., Mr. J. Bland ; Theodore, Miss P. Horton ; -Odonto, Mr. Caulfield ; Ilip polito, Mrs. W. Clifford; Isabella, Miss Reynolds; Matilda, Mrs. Caulfield. _ . . 6tale Manager, 4r. Farren; Acting Manager, Mr. F. Web .ter. J. T. Archer, 11os-book keeper. !loxes, 59. ; Plt, 3s. ; Gallery, 25. ; Upper Gallery, Is. Doors opc.ii nt lialf-iast Nix, Pertoimance to commence at Seven. THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPIII. Under the direction o: Madame Celeste. VMS EVENING Will be performed a new and original Draw, called HARVEST HOME. Principal characters by Messrs. H. Hughes, Lamber , Wright, P. Bedford, 0. Smith, 3ladame Celeste, Miss Woolos, Ms. Frank Matthows, Miss Turner, &c. Alter which, a new Piece, entitled THE FOUNTAIN OF ZEA ; or, the Child 01 Air. To conclude with THE COMRADES ; an Ane cdote f than e Span ish War. Principal characters by Messrs. Cuilenforct, Boyce, yard, Paul Legrand, C. J. Smith, Ryan, Miss E. Harding, &c. aloxvs, 45.; Pit, 23. , Gallery, IS. tsg.re open at Tiali-past Six, Performance to commence at Seven. - , - • ---- • ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE. Under the Management of Madame Vestris. sole Lessee, itr. Charles Mathews. •ctliS EVENING, Will be performed THE SCARECROW. Atter which, an entirely new and original Classical Extravaganza, Smith, enti t led TliEsE EUs and AItIADN ; or, the Marrage of ach P r i nc ip a l characters 133, M e ssrs. C. 3lathews, H. Hall, S. Cooke ; Mts-i t'itzwilliaro, Miss Jane Coleman, Miss Marshall, arid Madame Vestris. t,iiclizie with a Romance of Real Life, called BOX and COX. Principal cintrac.ters by air. ilar:ey, Hr. liuck.,toue, and Mrs. Mae namara. 1 , 1 ,„. B o x e s, 55.; Upper Boxes, 45.; Pit, 2s. ; Gallery, Is. No nalt• price to any part of the house. ,eNV BUX-Ortee, 2, Wellington-street, is open to the Puh.ic evt.ry dny, troni Ten till Six. FRENCH PLAYS.—ST. JAMES'S THEATRE. Leasee. Mr. John Mitchell. 33. 0 d Bond-street. La.t Appearance of M. Latont. THIS EVE G, The Entertainments will commence at half-past Seven o'clock with UNE IMPRUDENCE. Lunar, M. Montaland ; Armand, M, St. :Marie; Ile:manot, Mdile. Baptiste ; Madame Vernier, Mdme. St. Ange. Atter which, the new Petite Comedy of EXTREMES SE TO ITCHENT. Le Chevalier Julken, Monsieur Latent; La Comtesse Rosine, Madame Paul Ernest. To be followed tiy an entirely new comedle-vaudeville, en titled LA DE 'ERE CONQUETTE,. Le Enron de Viretetulle, M. Latent; Hele:ie, Madame Pam Ernest. To -onclude ,vith (lay desire) the Second Act of CATHERINE ; WI, La Croix d'Or. M. La.tont Catherine Mdme. Paul Ernest ; Louise, Mdlle. Patel. • ST. JAMES'S THEATRE. ROBERT HOUDIN" (ot the Pa+ais Royal, Paris).—The sur prising and interesting performances of ROBERT HOUDIN, which last night excited the highest and most enthus,astic adm.ration. will be repeated TO-NIORROW EVENING, and continued every Tues day. Tt.ursday, and Saturday Evenings, during the present month Doors open at Eight, the Exhibition to commence at half-past Eight, and terminate betore Eleven. Loxes a..-1,1 stalls, may be had at Mr. MITCHELL'S Royal Li brary, 33, Old Bond-street. PILII , :k;ESS'S THEATRE. :Ir. J. M. Maddox, sole Lessee and 31unager, Duchess-street, Portland. place. THIS EVENING, Will be presented Le Brun's comic Opera, entitled THE NIGHT INOALE. To be folld,erlby the new and original Operetta, entitled 'IRE 'YOUNG GUARD. -Don Garman, Mr. Itiodda; Don Alvarez, Mr. Barker; Donna.Glinpia, Miss Sara Flower ; Estella, Mrdame Anna Thtllrn. .Alter which a newCoiamediett,estitled DOMESTIC BLISS. Mr. Go,dleman, Mr. cooper; Adela, Mrs. Stirling; Rhoda, Miss Villars. Tu conclude wrth`a'(:rand Ballet, entitled ESMERALDA; or, the liniment:tick of Notrq D tube. Esmeralda, Mdlle ks.: B,Dxes, 45.; ?it, Is. ; Is. .I.:.OY ; AL SURREY THEATRE. Under the direction of 31r. Kerschner. Last Six Nights of Cinderella. Ifitteltless Performrtnces- Unrivalled Company—and the only Pantomime in London. Children ui.der Ty, elve admitted for half-price. Tire PiWWII - Aline at aii earlier hour to accommodate the juvenile branches of Families. T MIS EVENING. Will be performed a Drama, entitled THE BOHE3fIANS. Cha racters uy Messrs. N. 'F. Dicks, E. F. Saville, It. Ilonner, Dale, J. Harbert, H. Lewis, E. Jones, Mrs. R. Homier, and Miss E. Terry.' Atter which, a Grand Fairy Comic Pantomime, entitled CIN DERELLA AND THE FAIRY QUEEN; or. Hariequin and the Little Giass Slipper. Colon. bine, Mdlle. Theodore ; Harlequin, Mr. askell ; Palau:obn, Mr. Morelli ; and Clown. Mr. T. Barry. To tonelutto with JACK JUNK and the OLD COMMODORE ; or, a Ao , ,Plau's Fireside. Jack Junk, Mr. E. F. Saville. Manager ant Treasurer, Mr. B. S. Fairbrother. ASTLEY's ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE. Proprietor, Mr. W. Batty. Immense hit of the Easter Spectacle. Overflowing houses to wit twist the celebrated Mr. Van Amhurgh and his unequalled collection of trained animals. amongst which will be found Hie greatest no velty ever seen, a Black Tiger, the first ever known to mingle with other animals, and has hitherto been considered untameable. THIS EVENISUr, Will he presented a grand romantic Spectacle, written by Boyle Barnard, Esq., expressly to introduce Mr. Van Amburgh in his astounding performance, founded upon a passage in Eugene Sue's celebrated:novel of "The Wandering Jew," and will be produced tin der the title of MOROK, THE BEAST TAMER. Armand Dugard, Mr. Van Arnburg,h. The Spectacle will be succeeded V an incomparable routine of Mr. Batty's Scenes of the Ai ela, In which Signor Marini and Mdlle. Alarletta Orsinago;froin Italy, will have the honour of appearing. During the recess the Theatre has been entirely re-decorated. Box-utlice , open from Eleven till Four. Stage Manager, Mr. W. Wiest. THE THIRD EDITIONS "THE SUN" CONTAIN, AS USUAL, `II E LATEST PARLIAMENTAnY INTELLIGENCE, AND ALL OTHER NEWS UP TO THE HOUR OF POST. Orders received by all Newsmen, and at the Sun-office, 112, Strand. TO CORRESPONDENTS. commurrication can be attended to unless authenti cated by tue name and address of the writer. Rejected communications cannot be returned. THE WEATHER. --Sus OFFICE, MAY 3. TJE:IimomETv. a. Lowest, 41 ; Highest, 55; Noon, GO, BAROMETER, 30.12. —WIND E.; one. WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE THIS D al AY. Moraing .. 36 min. after 1 Evening, 59 .. min. ter 1 _,----- Ii 4-76', 1 7 i' f:P'av , • it !It : 4 ; . , L. . ' . . 1 4 41 A. 13 f ':, ''" 7 4411 5 4 ."4 t (77. 7° k , . ~..,.,4 n ',Z . ,•,- .. . 1' 4A...... r . ~, o, s . OROi~ ro-vrinry 41111 t , _ . LONDON, WEDNESDAY, MAY 3, 1848• Although anythin-, in the shape of a collision and conflict bet ween different classes or parties must ever be deplored, the g r o e o c d ea r t es o u ie t urr r e r nce at Limerick will at least have one byh advocates of physi cal force will have been taught,the most . convincing evidence, how repug,nant ar t e b t e hesaiguinary doctrines feelings of the great they have promulgated to body of the people, and how utterly hopeless any attempt on their rat of armed resistance to the authorities, must prove, while they are a not e merely unsupported, but actually opposed by the -Treat majo rity of the Repeaters themst - Avca. Any doubts which m ight formerly have been entertained on this point must now be wholly removed. It is an indisputable fact that the Confederates, with the chosen triumvirate' at their head, have been assailed in the district which had been supposed to be the head-quarters of " Young Irelandism," that their principles were repudiated, their inflammatory harangues despised, and that they actually owed their personal safety to the pro tection of the military and police, the very bodies against whom they had so often hurled defiance. The people are well aware of the miseries and wretchedness that would be the inevitable conse quence of listening to the insidious advice of the agitators. They know the awful sufferings to which Chair families and friends would be exposed if the torch of civil war were lighted in their unhappy land. Not all the prestige attachable to parties under prosecution by an ex-officio information, sufficed to render the would-be martyrs po pular, or to obtain for them the slightest appearance of sympathy or condolence. The people might, however, have been satisfied with testifying their disapprobation by groans and hisses, and other expressions of contempt and disgust, but their passions were excited to the utmost by the pre sence of the calumniator of the deceased Liberator— the man who furnished the most modern illustration of the fable of the living ass and the dead lion—the war editor of the United Irishman. The disturbance commenced immediately on the arrival of Messrs. MITCHELL and MEAGHER. in Limerick. It was with great difficulty that they succeeded in getting to the hotel at which they intended to re side during their sojourn in the town ; pistols and daggers were produced before they could make their way through the assembled multitudes, who received them with hootings and execrations. It was then seriously debated by the Confederates whether the then intended banquet should take place. The more discreet recommended an adjournment sine die, believing that in the face of so unequivocal a demonstration great disturbance would be the necessary result of an unwise perseverance; pru dence, however, is not the characteristic of the Young Inlanders, and it was accordingly resolved (by a very small majority) that the soiree should take place despite of every opposition. They were, however, speedily convinced of the folly and recklessness of their conduct. The proceedings had scarcely com menced when the anticipated riot broke out. The mob paraded through the town, carrying with them a burning tar barrel on which was placed an effigy of Mr. MITCHELL. This was brought so near the premises where the Confederates were banquetting, that th e y speedily became ignited and the greatest consternation prevailed. This, how ever, was not all—the windows and doors were demolished, and stones and missiles hurled in through the dilapidated sashes. In the meantime the Con federates were not disposed to yield an easy victory— seats and forms were torn up, and converted into weapons of offence and defence. The " Queen of Weapons' was put in requisition on behalf of its laureate, guns and other firearms were resorted to, and several shots fired on either side. At length the police and military came to the rescue, but not until much damage had been inflicted on the belligerents —cut heads, black eyes, and bruises and contusions were displayed on every side. The illustrious " Martyr of the Cellar" was one of the chief suf ferers ; he is said to have had one of his ribs broken, his head severely hurt, while his frontispiece was dis figured by a most undeniable black eye, which was painfully conspicuous on his appearance in the Court of Queen's Bench on Monday. It was not until the Police were strengthened by detachments of horse, foot, and artillery, that the rioters were dispersed, and the flames extinguished. Even then the reckless and infatuated party were not contented—they would have continued their meeting, breathing their seditious defiances of, and fulminating their puny threats against, the authorities, and dis claiming the British connexion while under the protection of British guns and British bayonets; but they were speedily called to a sense of their position. The High Sheriff was resolved that he would not be made the sport of the sedition mongers. He announced that if the assemblage did not immediately disperse, the military and police would be withdrawn, and they would be left to the tender mercies of the infuriated multitude. Then, indeed, consternation reigned supreme. Saute qui peut became the order of the day, and the three valorous advocates of physical force, the clamourers for an armed multitude, betook themselves to flight with all convenient dispatch. Mr. ..vlrrcuELL himself was forced to admit that "discretion is the better part of valour," and he gave his unconditional adhe sion to the truth of the couplet— " The man who fights and rune away, 'Will live to fight another day k But he who is in battle slain tfr Will never live to fight again!' lie, therefore, sought the friendly shelter of his hotel ; and having, with difficulty, succeeded in attaining its hospitable walls, along with his confrere, the redoubted MEAGHER, with no worse consequences than a few kicks and cuffs, and an inordinate quan • tity of groaning, they succeeded in inducing the landlord, who, unfortunately, was much injur,d by a blow of a stone on the head (in tended for Mr. MrrcuELL), to make provision for their flight. The mail coach for Cork was (contrary to the usual custom) packed, and the horses attached in the hotel yard, the gate of which, being kept barred and closed prevented the approach of the people, was suddenly thrown open when all was ready, and the discomfited heroes, having ensconced themselves in the interior of the vehicle, they were whirled off as rapidly as four horses could bear them to another locality. In the meantime, the store in which the banquet was to have taken place was com pletely dismantled, and the appendages of the feast smashed and broken by the indignant crowd. We trust that this rough lesson will not he lost upon the parties, but that they may at length be awakened to a sense of the folly and the wickedness of their conduct. Mr. SMITH O'BRIEN has stated his intention of resigning the representation of the county, and has left an address to his constituents, announcing his reasons for such a step. If this is preparatory to his aban doning the course he has recently pursued, and re• tiring into private life, we shall gladly hail those indications of returning sense, and give him the full benefit of his tardy repentance. We shall anxiously look for this address, and also for the next publica tion of the United Irishman, that may be printed without being exposed to the censorship of a lawyer. Until their appearance the real feelings of the parties cannot be known. Mr. MITCHELL has again resorte3 to a dilatory plea to the information exhibited against him ; this would seem to indicate that he is not now quite so anxious to precipitate the crisis as he pro fessed himself to be a short time since. Time, how ever, will tell, and we must patiently bide the course of events. M. LEDRU ROLLIN is by means disappointed of the results of the recent french elections. Al. LEDRU ROLLIN is in no degree jealous of the honour which all France has combined to shower upon the head of M. LLMARTINE, and the acclamations with which all Europe has resounded in honour of that illustrious man. Neither is M. LEDRU ROLLIN in anywise in dignant at the universal opprobrium which has been heaped upon himself, nor is he grieved by finding the name of the Minister of the Interior so very low in the list of the representatives of Paris. So far from being humbled or disappointed by the signal failure of his plans, M. LEDRU ROLLIN has found in that very failure a source of consolation which does credit to his ingenuity. lle has discovered that the indifference of his countrymen and the detestation of foreigners, that all the indignant upbraidings and determined opposition which have greeted him since he avowed himself an advocate of physical force, are in fact only so many attest k atio o n f s ho o n f ohnirsl genius— are in fact only so l ma n n ti y n marks his fallen hopes, or - " stalking apartjoylessg reverie," to avoid hearing fore, instead of the constant praises the Interior has just published a ina ' m es e of his successful colleague, the bulletin, vvhether o with the following sentence from which commences French Minister fficial or not we are not informed, magnanimity of the disappointed the modesty and applicable to himself: " When JEAN PAUL—a sentence which singularly evinces patriot who considers it .stiii\gls. this LEDRU ROLLIN PAUL RICHTER, SO it ig that the tongue of the Repubnc you," says JEAN begins—"console yourself by wasps do not choose the worstfru i ts." of life," he proceeds, "proves each day how true is reflection, that manner by one this idea, expressed in so original a . . 3 "The experience of the greatest writers of Germany. Yes, it I th e best f ru i t that insects seek without ceasing and with avidity. Yes, it is the citizens who have best served the holy cause of liberty and democracy, who are exposed to the most cruel and bitter attacks." We are much indebted to 111. LEDRU ROLLIN for this application of the saying of the German philo sopher—an application :which, without his disinter ested assistance, neither we, nor most probably the majority of the French people, would ever have dreamed of. Now, however, our eyes are opened For the future we shall be enabled to recognise in every attack. upon the character of M. LEDRU ROLLIN, and in every animadversion upon the conduct of the Minister of the Interior, only another attestation of his extraordinary merits — only the sting of the wasp, evidencing the goodness of the fruit. On such occasions, namely, when LEDRU ROLLIN becomes the subject of fresh censure, " the people," so he concludes his bulletin, " will smile with contempt and pity, for they know the real value of the fruit and the wasps who attack it." Such is the modest assurance which now gives con solation to the disaffected ambition of LEDRU ROLLIN. It would be hardly fair, perhaps, to turn his own weapons against himself—" I thank thee, Jew, for teaching me that word "—and to apply his allegorical illustration in a different way. It would, per haps, be hardly fair to compare LEDRU-ROLLIN himself to the wasp he speaks of, and the " good fruit" he preys upon to the well-earned laurels of his more popular colleague. Whether unfair or not, such a comparison is unnecessary. Let the Minister of the Interior have the full benefit of his iniquity, let him employ his leisure in composing bulletins, and let him find consolation by crediting the suggestions of vanity. Happily for France, he has only that source of consolation left him. Happily for France, no majority in the Assembly, or in the country, will bear witness to his merits—their only attestation must be the disapprobation which they encounter. Locus a non lucendo must henceforth be the motto of M. LEDRU ROLLIN. SPAIN. Our accounts from Madrid are of the 27th ult. General RAFAEL LION had accompanied the Duke and Duchess DE MoxTpENHER. in their journey through Andalusia from Aranjuez to Cordova and Seville. A hostile meeting was considered likely to take place between M. BORREGO, former editor of the Espanol, and one of the directors of La Espana. The Moderado journal, El Faro, was to cease to appear on the Ist of May. The number of the Eco del Comercio of the 26th was seized by order of the po litical chief. The Three per Cents. were done at 311 for paper ; the Five per Cents. at 13 ,- 4 ' ; the Debt without In terest at 5 ; and the Coupons at 9. THE FRENCH REPUBLIC. PROCEEDINGS AT PARIS. We have received the Paris papers of yesterday. As Thursday (to-morrow) is the day definitively fixed for the first meeting of the National Assembly, the duty has devolved upon the Provisional Govern ment of providing for the regularity of the inaugu rative ceremonies. The subjoined decree has conse quently been published regulating the manner in which the preliminary proceedings will be conducted for the purpose of consolidating the institution of the Republic, of pronouncing the legality of the new re presentation, and of proclaiming the formal constitu tion of the Assembly. The decree is partition©d into twenty-five articles, as fellows : " FRENCH REPUBLIC. " LIBERTY-EQUALITY-FRATERNITY. In the name of the French people, the Provisional Government decrees:— "Art. 1. O❑ May 4, at twelve o'clock, the representa tives of the people will assemble in the Hall of Sittings, at the Palace of the National Assembly. " Art. 2. At one o'clock precisely the members of the Provisional Government and the Ministers will enter the Hall. "Art. 3. The President of the Provisional Govern ment will deliver an address to the representatives of she people. He will afterwards call to the Provisional Bureau—first, the senior member in age, as president; secondly, the six youngest members to act as secretaries. " Art. 4. The Assembly being thus provisionally constituted, shall be required by the President to retire in committees for the verification of the returns. " Art. 5. The Assembly will be divided into 18 com mittees, each committee being composed of 50 members, taken from the general list successively in alphabetical order of the departments by which they were elected. " Art. 6. Each committee will be charged with veri fying 50 returns, so that the 18 committees shall examine the 900 returns. Art 7. The returns submitted to each committee will be divided by departments, in alphabetical order, so that no committee shall have to decide upon any elec tions within the departments in which its members have been nominated. " Art. 8. If, by double or manifold elections, some representatives form part of a committee called upon to decide upon their returns, the committee shall decide without their participations in the vote. "Art. 9. If the distribution of the returns by depart. meets shall reduce to less than fifty, or carry to more than fifty, the elections to be verified in the committees, these committees shall verify the number of returns that shall be referred to them. " Art. 10. Each proces-verbal of an election will be examined by a committee of three members, chosen by each bureau by ballot. " Art. 11. At three o'clock the sitting will be resumed. The uncontested elections will be immediately submitted to the Assembly by a reporter, to be named by each committee. The elections which shall give rise to dis, cussion shall be reported after the definitive constitution of the Assembly. " Art. 12. The Assembly will decide upon the validity of the elections, and the President proclaim to be repre sentatives of the people those whose returns shall be declared valid. " Art. 13. When the representatives of the people proclaimed by the President shall amount to 600 at least, if there shall remain no more reports of returns to be immediately made as uncontested, the Assembly, composed of representatives whose returns have been verified, will proceed to the election of a President. " Art. 14. In this purpose the President will draw by lot nine sections of scrutineers, each composed of three members. Each representative will write his vote on a bulletin, and one of the secretaries will call on the names. The representative called will receive from one of the members of the bureau a ball of control ; he will place his bulletin in the urn on the tribune, sad the ball in another urn on the bureau of the secretaries. " Art. 15. The secretaries will ascertain the number of bulletins, and check this number by the balls. They will then divide the bulletins in nine baskets, and each section of scrutineers will receive one. The scrutineers will examine the votes on each section, and transmit the result to the first section, which will take the general account of the votes. " Art. 16. All the operations will take place in public sitting ; the result will be transmitted to the President, who will proclaim it. " Art. 17. If any representative of the people does not obtain 450 votes, a second ballot must be bad re course to. " Art. 18. The representative who shall have ob tained the greatest number of votes shall be proclaimed President. " Art. 19. The Assembly shall then appoint by bal lot six Vice-Presidents, six Secretaries, and three Questors. " Art. 20. In case of an equality of votes, the prefer ence shall be given to to the eldest. " Art. 21. The President, Vice-Presidents, and Secre taries are named for one month, and the Questors for the whole duration of the session. "Art. 22. The Provisional President will proclaim successively the names of the persons elected. When this is done he will call to the chair the Definitive President, who, in his turn, will call to their places the members of the definitive bureau. " Arc. 23. The President will rise and pronounce the following words:—"Representatives of the people, in the name of the Republic, one and indivisible, the National Assembly is definitively constituted. Vive la Repub lique." " Art. 24. The President of the Provisional Govern ment will then ask to be heard. lie will, in a speech. give an account of the situation of the state on the 24th of liebruary, and of its present situation. In the name of the Government, he will resign into the hands of the representatives of the people the powers which the ac. clarnations of the people had conferred on it. "Art. 25. Each minister will give an account of the acts of his ministry up to the day of the meeting of the Assembly." Another decree in reference to the formalities of the new Republican Legislature appeared in the Moniteur of Monday, and excited considerable ridicule among those who are particularly disposed to be captious. It is regulative of the costume of the representatives. We give it eTiphieePorf equalityovisional implies Gover uniformitynment,con of costumeideringhat forthe representatives irt e ee i s t e i w z oa e t n iast s tei v c oe a aa l called to the it t th o hsehi a:pel ipo s apt a ll m sse; e sawhn functions,aedlal wear n th e d b e u c t r t e o e n s . :h—o hle o gold fringe. They wtreiacroloaurbeldacskascrwtitha n the left side a red ribbon, in which shall be worked the fasces of the Republic." Some of the journals attempt to be especially face tious upon this very innocent proclamation. The Presse, of course, is among the jokers. It inquires, in 3 tone of mock commiseration, what on earth is to be done by the Bishop of QUIMPER, the newly elected Deputy for . Finisterre ? It asks if the un fortunate prelate is to throw aside his cassock and appear in the garb of ROBESPlERRE — forgetting for the moment possibly that the coat of ROBES PIERRE was alternately sky-blue and blood-colour in bl a similar vein of irony, " we with steel buttons.. " Alas I" exclaims the d i f the exclamations prov n ormer Journal well remember • , that persons going to court days by the order given sor in uniform. There t dresses should appear in court ng des Debats, • We ourselves, the surrection of genii/horn/Aerie. was no end in those days to the sarcasms at the re- THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, MA y 3, 1848. sycophants of the powers then in existence, were the first to laugh at it. We are not quite sure that we can do so as freely at the present day. The Court of to-day doei not like laughing. Nevertheless, we shall be curious to see certain representatives—Father LACONDAIRE, for instance, with his shaven head and Dominican crown, replacing his white robes for a black coat, a white waistcoat with lappels, and a tri- coloured sash, ornamented with a holden fringe en • grainer d epznards. What would the citizen MURAT say, if he returned to life, and found himself deprived of his immortal cap? But let us be serious. It is not a change in pantaloons, or in the name of streets, that changes society. The people have more sense than you seem to think. The proverb says that from the sublime to the ridiculous there is but one step. We are very willing to beliere that you are sublime, but we are truly sorry to say that y ou h are t a k en the other step." In another paragraph the _Debuts declares that the Provisional Government might with equal propriety have ordained that the members of the National Assembly should appear in a state of nudity because man was so m ade by the Divinity, or in the picturesque blouse of the handicraftsman because the Deputies are the chosen of the ouvriers. To award due importance to these absurd and petulant ob jections to the decent uniformity of the representa- tive costume, we must pron ounce t h em at once — contemptible. - If the Provisional Government has given no more serious cause for dissatisfaction, it has merited the reverence and admiration of the citizens. A decree of rather more significance appeared in the Moniteur of yesterday, a decree which shows that the Provisional Ministers are eminently entitled to this reverence and admiration—not alone from the population of France, but of entire Christendom. It nronounces in the - most absolute language the total and permanent abolition of slavery in all parts of the Republic. This noble and admirable document is subjoined : In the name of the French People : " The Provisional Government, considering that sla very is an attack upon the dignity of man; that in de stroying the free choice of man it suppresses the natural principle of right and duty; that it h a flagrant violation of the Ropublican doctrine—" Liberty, Equality, Fra ternity." Considering that if effective measures should not speedily follow the proclamation already made of the principle of abolition, deplorable disorders in the colonies might be the result, decrees— " Art. 1. Slavery will be entirely abolished in all the colonies and possessions of France, two months after the promulgation of the present decree in each of them. From the date of the promulgation of the present decree in the colonies, all corporal punishment, and all sales of persons not free, shall be absolutely interdicted. " Art. 2. The system of engagement, for a time esta blished in Senegal, is suppressed. "Art. 3. The Governors and Commissaries -General of the Republic are charged to apply the whole of the measures required to ensure liberty at Martinique, Guadaloupe, and its dependencies. The island of the Reunion (Bourbon), Guiana, Senegal, and other French establishments on the west coast of Africa, the island of Mayotte and its dependencies, and Algeria. " Art. 4. All old slaves condemned to affliction and correctional punishments for crimes which, in free men, would not have been punished, are amnestied. "Art. 5. The National Assembly will regulate the amount of indemnity to be given to the colonists. "Art. 6. The colonies purified from shivery and the Indian possessions shall be represented in the National Assembly. "Art. 7. The principle that the soil of France frees the slave who touches it is applied to the colonies and possessiors of the Republic. "Art. 8. For the future, even in foreign countries, every Frenchman is forbidden to possess, to purchase, or to sell slaves, or to psrticipat, either directly or indi rectly, in any traffic or business of the kind. Every infraction of these rules will lead to the loss of the quality of the French citizen. Nevertheless, French men who are affected by these prohibition at the moment of the promulgation of the present decree, will have a delay of three years to conform to them. Those who may become possessors of slaves in foreign countries by inheritance, gift, or marriage, must, under the same penalty, set them free, or alienate them within the same period, from the day that their possession may commence. " Art. 9. The Ministers of Marine, Colonies, and War are charged with the execution of the present decree. "Done at Paris, in Council of Government, the 27th April, 1548. " Signed by the Members of the Provisional Govern ment." The Ultras are, as a matter of course, half delirious at the victorious majority of the moderate Repub licans in the general elections of the capital and the departments. LEDRU ROLLIN does not disguise his chagrin in the Refortne. " A little patience,".says that journal; " our eternal enemies will not havo patience if we have. Look at them coming with their propositions for two Chambers —the suffrage a deux dep ; financial laws favourable to large property and stock-jobbing. Look at them crying out communism, when the proportionable pro perty-tax is mentioned. " All partial insurrection is at this moment a crime and a fault ; a crime, for it causes the purest blood to flow uselessly ; a fault, for it retards the definitive esta blishment of the Republic egulitaire et fraternelle." Through that sombre passage it is impossible not to detect the after-thought of civil war. The ominous manifesto of the Societe des Droits de rHomme et du Citoyen—placarded so recently upon all the walls of Paris—has been everywhere torn down. With the indignant voice of the Reforme are heard also those of the Commune de Paris, the Courrier Francais, the Vraie Liberte, and the Ana du Peuple. Even the National is beginning to grumble at what it calls the reactionary movement. Speaking of the rejection of M. Tuiaas, the Constitutionnel ob serves:— " The universal order was issued—any candidate whatever rather than M. Thiers I Dismissals, calumnies, manoeuvres of all sorts, violence, nothing was left un done; not only were lists with M. Thiers's name torn from the country people, but the octroi men searched for them as if for contraband goods; and the town of Aix was threatened with the loss of its court of appeal, and all this was done by orders from Paris. The rector of the Academy of Aix, M. Dufougires, was dismissed by M. Carnot because be supported M. Thiers." It would appear that besides the Catholic prelates already mentioned as among the representatives re turned by the departments, the name of the Bishop of LANGRES must also be enumerated. The Republican deputy for Aveyrou turns out to be the brother of the Archbishop of rams, and not the metropolitan him self. d i o n c i a t l i e a s e c o o f u t ri h t e s d h e a p v a e r t been t s r , e c a e c i c v o e u d n ts from wh i t c h h e , dis A tu d r d b i e t while they confirm the reports of the restoration of I corroborate the rumours of t ran quillity to Rouen emeutes at Limoges, at Lyons, and at Nantes. On Friday and Saturday all the bridges on the Rouen Railway were occupied by the Garde Nationale Mobile. Private letters from Limoges, of the 27th, tell of serious collisions in that direction. Of these proceedings the Presse says :-- " The disturbances at Limoges have been very serious. The names of the deputies could not be proclaimed. The candidates of the moderate party, MM. Maurat-Ballange and C. Teste, were obliged to leave the town. The National Guards of St. Jullien, Bellac, and other neigh bouring cantons, were on their march for Limoges. Orders were given for two squadrons of cavalry to repair thither also. It i 3 stated that M. Pierre Leroux is inatdled at the prefecture, with some hundreds of workmen." According to the Pattie the Provisional Govern ment had dispatched a special commissary to Limoge s , for the purpose of effecting its pacification. At Nantes there were very serious disturbances on the 27th ultimo. The enteute, which commenced with the marching of a column of 1,200 men through the principal streets, singing the songs of the Revo lution, excited but little trepidation. After sacking the house of the Cure of Saint Nicholas with cries of— " A bas FouraxlEEL—ti bas la Care!"—the mob were dispersed through the intervention of a commissary of police, and several of the rioters were arrested. The fusion of the departmental banks with the Bank of France is com plete, and the latter has accord ingly issued a notice that it will discount bills in Lille, Rouen, Havre, Toulouse, Marseilles, Lyons, and Orleans, and receive the notes of the backs of these loans. BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE LONDON STOCK EX CHANGE, MAY 2. Boulogne and Amiens, 6% —Northern of France, 31 ,.; Orlean s and Bordeaux, 04 —Paris and Orleans, 23—Rouen and Hayt), 15—Sambre and Meuse, 4%. SOUTHAMPTON, MONDAY, A SAY I.—The Prussian schoon er Sp ee d, from Lisbon , b ound to Memel, and the liainburgh bark Louisa , with sugar, from Havannah, bound to H a mburgll, have arrived at the Motherbank. These vessel s h a ve put in 00 account of having received news in the mouth of the Channel of the existing hosti lities between the Germanic Confederation and Den mark; they are recommended by their respectiv e consulates to remain off the Isle of 'Wight until all fear of molestation by the Danes ceases. Merchants con nected with Germany are using all available means to warn vessels under the German or Prussian flag bound to German ports and the north and east seas ag a i nst proceeding, and cutters are no w cruising in the Channel to notify to the commanders of such vessels the dangers to which they are exposed. SOUTHWARK-BRIDGE COMPANY. The annual meeting of this company was held yesterday at the offices, near S out h war k-b r id ge , when the usual accounts were laid before the shareholders, the result of which was that small dividend only was declared. G E R_7M'A I\l Y AND THE NORTHERN STATES. AUSTRIA. The accounts received in Vienna of the blockade of Venice both by sea and land, and of the surrender of Treviso, had created extraordinary excitement. A telegraphic dispatch, which reached Vienna on the 26th, from Count ITARTIG, confirmed the intelligence of the capture of Undine on the 23d, and mentioned that the troops were proceeding onwards to occupy Godroipo. . . Throughout the 25th the Austrian capital had been engaged with its Easter festivities. In the evening a grand procession took place by torchlight. There were not less than 1,000 bearers of torches exclusive of the members of the Vocal Society, the Artists' Association, and the National Guards. The procession wound its way through the tortuous streets of Vienna, "like a long fiery serpent." The houses were generally illuminated. The favourable accounts from Italy, combined with the pacific aspect of affairs in Vienna, has already given a stimulus to business in the Bourse of that city. Bank Shares rose on the 26th to 1,120, 1,130; Metallic Five per Cents. to 70, 71 ; Northern Rail road Shares to 85, 86. The exchange on London has fallen to 11. PRUSSIA. A sort of rapture has seized upon the usually staid population of Berlin, in consequence of the intelli gence received of a great victory won by the Prussian over the Danish troops. At the theatre the news was received with loud acclamations, the actors and audience both joining in the song "Vas ist des Deutschen Vaterland." There has also been, in honour of the event, a grand review of all the troops stationed in the neighbourhood of Berlin.. Placards were posted over the walls of the Prussian capital, appealing to public opinion on behalf of the Poles. In these placards it is declared that the calum nious reports are circulated against the Poles ; and the Polish committee at the same time threatens to bring to justice the most active of their maligners. Some Poles even affirm that the Poles hare been quiescent, and that all deeds of cruelty committed in Posen have been perpetrated by Germans ! A Berlin paper states, on the faith of persons ar riving from Hanover, that the Prussian troops of the guard have taken by assault, and after a strong cannonade, two Danish men of war. Nothing, till the present moment, has confirmed this marvellous feat. The same paper affirms that the Bremish Senate required from the united states the necessary ships of war for the protection of the German navy against the Danish ships. The order for rendering moveable the federal troops in the kingdom has been published. Those troops are to be stationed in Bavaria, the troops of the latter state having been sent partly to Tyrol, partly to the Rhine. THE INSURRECTION IN BADEN. It appears that the Republicans in the Grand Duchy of Baden had thought of attempting a revenge for the defeat they sustained on the 30th of April at Kaudern. A letter from Basle of the 24th reported that lIECKER had crossed the Rhine, and re-entered Baden at the head of a thousand French and German workmen, with whom he hoped to join the numerous operatives come from Paris, and who, wearing red caps, were hidden in the forests on the frontier. On the 28th the Wurternberg troops met with a de tachment of the insurgents, from whom they took two cannons, an omnibus full of provisions, and a great many arms. Another encounter took place at Schrofheirn. Most of the insurgents have returned to Switzerland, or to Alsace, by way of Huningen, where they have been disarmed by the Swiss and French authorities, according to the recent decree of the French Provisional Government. The chiefs of the insurgents, HEcKEE, DOLL, HEINzEN, and HERWEGII, are at Huningen. POLAND. By the information dispatched from Cracow on the 26th ultimo it would seem, as we briefly intimated yesterday, that a skirmish has taken place between the populace and the troops, in consequence of the refusal of Government to allow Polish emigrants, not natives of Cracow, to remain in the town. Barri cades were erected, and several rockets are said to have been thrown from the Castle. Peace was even tually restored by the emigrants voluntarily re moving. Gen. CASTIGLIONE is said to be wounded. We transcribe the following letter, addressed to the Baron Vox Axonal by Prince CZAItToETSEI : " Berlin, April 26. " Monsieur le Baron,—l arrived at Berlin full of hope. Prussia, the organ of the generous sentiments of all Germany, seemed to desire that she might be the first to undertake the reparation of a great injustice. She appeared not merely to propose the faithful exe cution of the promises she had made in 1815, but by new acts of beneficence to that part of Poland which she holds under dominion, to efface the vestiges of an cient injuries, to put an end to recriminations, and to strengthen Germany by the gratitude of the Poles. " I quit Berlin with a heart heavy from the disappoint ment of these bright anticipations. " Whatever may be the cause, it is the fact, that up to this day not one of the promises made to the inhabitants of the Grand Duchy of Posen by the Prussian Govern ment bas been realised; and during this time the pro longed uncertainty which has existed concerning the future destiny of the country, and the satisfaction that would be granted to its wishes, has produced, instead of the union so necessary to the common welfare of the two nations, a feeling of excessive irritation and the most deplorable disorders. " Calumnies wholly destitute of foundation, assertions the most contrary to truth, have been employed for the purpose of blackening the character of the Poles, rob bing them of the sympathy of the German nation, and destroying in their minds the confidence which they ought to place in its justice. " The German inhabitants who, in pursuance of a policy hostile to Poland, had been induced to settle in the Duchy of Posen, have been excited to reject, with hostile demonstrations, under the pretext of their pecu liar interests, measures which the common interest of two people made to live on good terms with each other was about to realise. " The still more narrow interests of the Prussian offi cials, who find their position menaced by a change in the Government of the province, have had, there is no doubt, the greatest share in this fatal reaction. "It is this state of things that the Prussian Govern ment, even before deciding on the reorganization pro mised to the Duchy of Posen, announces the determina tion to reduce it by nearly one half' of its territory, and to attach immediately to the German Confederation that part of the duchy inhabited chiefly by Germans. "This operation, which legitimate interests, constitu ting new rights, may render necessary, could not pus sibly be executed with equity in a moment of confusion and irritation. It should be accomplished in conforinity with the wishes of the inhabitants. But the mode in which those wishes should be ascertained ought to be guaranteed against practices tending to falsify the result. v " To reduce at this moment the territory of the Grand Duchy in a precipitate manner, and on statistical data which are notoriously inaccurate (for they go so far as to make a German town of the capital of the duchy itself), would be to accomplish a new partition of Poland —a measure to which the noble sentiments of the Flag are undoubtedly opposed, and against which all Poles will protest. It is their duty to do so. I also must fulfil this duty on quitting Berlin, and I perform it, Monsieur le Baron, by this letter, which I have the honour of addressing to you. " The marks of goodwill which I have received during my stay in this capital form a new reason why I should leave no room for doubt as to my sentiments on the subject. " I entertain besides a profound conviction that the true policy of the Prussian Government requires that those unhappy complications should be remedied as speedily as possible, and that union and confidence should be re-established between the interests of Ger. many and regenerated Poland. Poland should not be compelled to seek that union and confidence elsewhere. It must not be forgotten that Germany, on the day when she pronounced her resolution to be free, and again to become a powerful nation, felt the instant necessity of repudiating the crime formerly committed by her two principal representatives, and of constructing on her eastern frontiers a barrier necessary for her own sacurity. " I flatter myself with the hope that the Prussian Government will perceive that it ought, without further delay, to adopt these views and reduce them to practice. Its interests and a due regard for good must equally require that it should do so. " Accept Monsieur le Baron, the assurance of the high consideration, &c , " ADAM CZARTORYSKI." The Polish emigrants already assembled at Cracow ❑umber more than 1,200 most of them in a deplorable state of embarrassment. On the 25th ultimo, these unfortunate men made a very signi ficative demonstration, and at which the whole population of this town assisted. The Austrian Commissary, M. KRIEG, having given orders to per mit no more Poles coming from France to enter the territory of our republic, a column of 730 of them was stopped on the frontier. Some of them having, however, managed to e ccape thr. 'vigilance of the troops, reached the cite, and caused bore a great ex - citement. Immediately a deputation, composed of three members of the Polish committee established here, went to M. KRIEG to demand the recal of his order. At the same time nearly the whole of the emigrants, followed by a mass of the population, proceeded to the hotel of the Commissary ZuN GRENAL. The two sentinels posted at the door, and the soldiers at the neighbouring post, retreated to the castle, and the crowd penetrated into the salon of and forced him to go to the hotel where the Polish committee sits. He was joined by General CASTIGLIONE, commandant of the troops. Both of them gave a written order to allow the emigrants to pass, and abolished all measures taken to prevent the sending of arms to furnish the National Guard, assuring them that they had none themselves at the castle to furnish to the committee. The Austrian troops are augmenting in number more and more in the vicinity of Cracow. A corps of 80,000 men is concentrating itself in Gallicia under .the command of General VINDISCUGRAETZ ; but there are many who remain still uncertain if this army is intended to commence hostilities against the Poles or against the Russians. DENMARK AND THE DUCHIES. DANISH ACCOUN T OF THE BATTLES. From a narrative penned on the 28th ult. we ex tract the follDwing particulars :—The Danes who were taken prisoners on the 23d and 24th have been brought in to-day. One of the large churches has been arranged for their reception. About 400 have been consigned to it, and 82 to private houses. The number of officers is 13. At a meeting of the burghers,' held at ;Rendsburg, Professor DAHLMANN, of Bonn, was proposed Re presentative of the German Parliament for the second district of Holstein, and was unanimously elected. COPENHAGEN, Aram 27.—The reports from the army reach only to yesterday, the 26th, when General HADEMANN had his head-quarters at Sonderburg. In his report of the battle of Schleswig the General states that the retreat was not commenced till the troops engaged in the encounter had been replaced three times, and the last reserves were led into the enemy's fire. The retreat to Flensburg is described as perfectly regular. The skirmish at Ohersee is stated without details of the issue. It is conceded that a part of the enemy and many of the burghers, intimidated by the false alarms of some fugitive dragoons, have fled from Flensburg on the 24th. The army, which had bivouacked in the open air throughout the greater part of the night, was obliged to break up early on the morning of the 25th, for Alsen, where the head quarters were established. At Sonderbnrg the troops suffered so severely from rain and cold, that a few days' rest is indispensable. Among the officers who were wounded in the encounter at Schleswig are three lieutenant-colonels, three majors, and several officers of the inferior rank. In a document from the Minister of War to General HEDEMANN, of the 25th inst, in which the procedure of the General is highly commended, the Minister declares, that the General will have to maintain the contest for some time, without any additional reinforcement. ORLA LEHMANN, the Minister of State, arrived here yester day, by the English steamer Camilla. The Berlinger Zeitung, millout entering into any particulars, states that the intelligence which he has brought a satisfactory. The Fadrelandst gives extracts from letters ad- , dressed to the Duke of GLUCKSBURG, which were found at Flensburg. One of them is from his wife, a daughter of King FREDERICK VI., the other from his brother, Prince WILLIAM, who is in the Austrian service. Both of them express disapproval of his pro ceedings, and are in favour of the Schleswig-Holstein cause. The same journal contains a communication, in which it is stated, that as soon as it is known for certain that the Hans Towns have joined in the war against Denmark, the royal ships of the line will receive orders to take possession of all German vessels without distinction, and that they will not escape with a mere embargo, but that they will be unconditionally condemned. The communication goes on to say, that a blockade of the Elbe, according to the definition established by the rights of nations, would offer so many difficulties, not only in a political, but also in a naval and military point of view, that without refraining from the occa• sional bringing up of individual ships, the Danes 1% ill, in the main, limit themselves to support the opera tions of the land army by the ships of the line. The meeting of the Diet was opened yesterday at Roeskilde, by the Royal Commissioner, Count SPON NECK. The speech from the Throne treats the oppo sition of Schleswig-Holstein to the incorporation of Schleswig with Denmark as open rebellion. The Councellor of State, M. SCHOUEN, was nominated President of the Assembly; and Professor CLAN. SENDEU, President. The President proposed an address to the KING, and another to the army, both of which were unanimously adopted. ALTONA, APRIL 28.—1 t has been confirmed that Count CHARLES MOTTKE has been summoned by the KING to Friderichia. BERLIN, APRIL 28.—N0 Berlin journals have yet appeared, as the question for a rise of wages is not yet settled. The demands of the workmen are in general very exorbitant, and the compositors are determined, if the masters do not give in, to found a printing union of their own, by shares, with an equal division of the profits. There is very little indeed doing in literature ; consequently the printers have had very little employment, and this is doubtless one reason for the present strike. No work has been de livered from the Royal Library since the 18th of March. This stagnation extends, of course, also to the other branches of the trade. One of the most remarkable and unreasonable demands made by the compositors is, that besides the machine-press, a cer tain number of hand-presses shall be used, and be subject to an extra tax.—Hambursh Borsenhalle, April 29. A telegraphic dispatch, which arrived at Altona on the 27th, gives information that the Danes are pushing on towards Tondern, in order to get into Ripen. They are cut off from communication with Alsen. Their batteries at Holnis have been taken. Count CHARLES MOLTKE has been summoned to the presence of the King of DENMARK at Frederica. Appenrade is also in possession of the Germans. From Flensburg a letter dated the 27th is written to the Borsenhalle, stating that a Danish officer with preliminaries for a truce arrived thore on that day A traveller, who arrived at Hamburgh from Flens burg on the 28th, states also that the Hanoverians under the command of General HA.LKETT, intended, on that day, to comm-nce an attack on the island of Alsen. The Danish Chamberlain, DE ORKOLM, who had been sent to St. Petersburgh in order to ask for the assistance of Russia, has, according to a private letter received from St. Petersburgh, got a categorical answer that Russia will in no way iunterfere. On the 24th, at Schleswig, they buried the bodies of those who had fallen at the siege of the town, They amounted in number to 102. Mr. MUNTEN DAMON, captain of !the Dutch vessel Jacobs (in ballast from Hamburgh to Hobroe in Jutland), reports that on the 26th c f April, when he was on the point of leaving the ca nal of Schleswig Holstein, a Danish man-of-war, which happened to be on the spot, fired on him and drove him back. Upon his appeal that he carried a ineutral flag, and was steering to Hobroe, the man-of-war assured him that no vessel, no matter of what Ration, could pass, The Jacoba put back to Holtenau. We read in the Echo des Allies Maritimes, a The people ;recent c o e f n C c a conduct a have Lord ;Brougham, in whichpublished : the fancied there were indications of ht istile feelings to wards France, and to their neighbouri ug friend Charles Albert, have nearly cost him his coup try seat. At one of the late meetings of the clubs (4 the canton, after bearing read his speeches in the HouA . of Lords, a mo tion was made that the members of the clubs should immediately proceed---it being th en n i ne o ' c l ock at night—to his Lordship's chateau with, torches and com bustibles. But one of the speakers ruse and said—' No, citizens I not now. If we he we shall be taken for robbers. If the house of this unget lerous citizen is to be burnt let us do it in open day.' T his suggestion pre vailed, and the chateau was saved. On the following day the idea of burning was abandon ed, and instead, a resolution was come to that a chariva ri should be given to his Lordship if he ventured to set leis foot in Cannes." A Cuutous MousE's NEsT.—A few days since Mr. Thomas Wallis, plumber and glazier, Newport Pagnel, found a mouse's nest in his warehouse, lined [ with gold. The mice had made tke of the gold book which was used for lettering iu makirig their nest. ITALY. DISPOSITION OF THE CONTEND ING ARMIES IN ITALY. From the Epoca, published on the 21st ult. at Rome, it would seem that the arming of the popula tion and the fitting out of expeditions to the aid of the army of independence progresses admirably. A contingent of three thousand men, in addition to the troops already dispatched were to leave Naples on the 22d, on their road to Lombardy. Of the events which are occurring throughout Lombardy we 311511 speak in detail. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) The main body of the Piedmontese army extends along Laguna, Peschiera to Pozzolongo, Ponti and Mezembano, on the right shore of the Mincio, and on the left shore from Valeggio to Borghette, as far as the centre of the province of Verona. In the front of Puzzolo a bridge of boats has been constructed, which facilitates to the Piedmontese the crossing of the Mincio. CHARLES ALBERT passed through 11.8. leggio on the 22d ult., in order t o p re p are for toci attack against the heights that master Verona, a n d which, in conjunction with the mo vement directed against Peschiera, seemed to give credit to the repot' of a projected simultaneous operation against Yeroua, Peschiera, and Mantua. The Austrians, meanwhile, are distributed in th e fortresses of Peschiera, Verona, and Mantua. Thos three lines lie, with respect to each other, as the points of a right - angled triangle, the extremities of the base indicated by Ali gitti : and Verona (distanced from each other ab nii twenty-two miles), the apex marked hi Pia' twenty-two chiera, which lies about eleven miles due sves' - Verona and about nineteen due north of 3-la ntu , l ; Peschiera is situated on the lake of Guards, just at til • effluence of the Mincio, and this position give s it k i , importance in the present campaign, as it thus fil in ici ; as it were, the left issue of the defile thr ou g h vih Lem lies the communication between Austria and bard,,—the right being covered by Verona. -LP-- lian great roads lead from the Tyrol into the Its plains. The first, turning to the left at Roverel emerges into the Venetian territory would consequently conduct the Austrian reinfort:o meats directly into the heart of a hostile poPu la o f already occupying the principal military positionerld the country. The second road crosses the upp er . o re of the lake of Guards, and follows its western 5111,, to Brescia, a town actually in the hands ofthtiPta` Italians (occupied by the Roman troops). T he descends the left bank of the Adige, thr°l4it at Vicenza, 00_, Irento and Roveredo, at which latter p lace o o throws off a smaller branch, the ro il ' !bile continuing its course direct to Verona, 'lO, its offset crosses to the right bank of the str'eci. and tracks its narrow pat h amid the Pruo, pices of the Montebaldo as far as Osteria del la f he gana, where, forced to the right by th e nature final l y ground, it ascends the plateau of Rivoli, and . 0 the connects itself with a broader line, turning 05 1 ug h direction of Peschiera, which it reaches thrltatts, Castelnuovo, lately reduced to ashes b,Y th e . so d trians ! The principal points along this line ottisibies being still in the hands of the Auetrians• ; h oe them to keep up their communications wit h : can be resources ; and unless these commun thicaticn Sig ! ' is partially, if not utterly, broken, e camp ce likely to be a protracted one. .fain e stimat e Of It is difficult to arrive at any rn , The Its lia the actual strength of RADETSK,I'S ar- J nr ect, the papers state it as 50,000 ; but if t his be c- oo r me n is boasted assertions of Austria to ha ve 120,0 t m h e e h L ee o n in le b t a i r t d o r trheenesttriaunggkliengmduosmt hpereivoiookueds to:ph:netie:li Metternichian fanfaronade. We shall get near er iitica t truth, perhaps, by making allowan ces for PattboeG deceptions—taking the original force $ 5 l ter io• 80,000, setting down its subsequent t`terotig ration at 20,000, and consequently Oti its actual strength in the north ci f t o ne at some 60,000. Of these it would appear t 133 half is encamped in and about Verona, under 0 ;1 00 mediate orders of Rapexsxr himself, while tvi°4l-ree occupy the redoubted fortress of Mantua; ° le p e r maining sixth is charged with the defence o f chiera. Verona and Mantua are of course the objet, of the chief anxiety of the enemy; they form, f in f tv.- t el the bulwarks of Lombardy and Venice, o and bee s . their walls the destinies of Italy will, in ill pO bsie bility, be decided. Verona is very strongly and beautifully situstea c:f the lower ridge of the hills which form the ha rilt ita the Adige, that river, in fact, flowing through i t ' massive ramparts and outworks present us wit " h ~, lustrations of almost every epoch in the h l l t°r "fo4 fortification. The Emperor GALLIENVS was t b „ e to increase by art the strength with which natlioei 1,10 already endowed it, and portions of hishyloa- sent pointed out to the curious stranger even at te ; c evice,'' day. Two other lines of rampart, still in t i V ableto , O preservation, are att r ib u ted resP ec r HEODORIC and to CIIARLEMAGNB, and tiP t i c aeo l / 1 1 t y he of v t e h n e et S ia c n ag s laigdedreid, some which goes by the name of the former betti'-es e l fr o il and h parapets were constructed in them iddle, ages t out - o p , which ln h were planned and superintended by th i a ,,, l' ese t rated SAN MICHELI, founder of the modern s el ' cos" fortifications, since' developed and per fecte rr ci h bl iv h f a of these VON SCHEITER, and VAunAli• -` -e ., ie rsx"/ added works has been again ohmene strong 61°r14h n engineers. Notwithstanding all this, . to, and strengthened by the .Austria untold areratnals re aeh no prominent part in the wars of the fi rst if eak i f revolutio n . I n 1796 t h e V ene ti a n Republiciforto permitted MASSENA to occupy it without anY , o dd resistance ; and th e T rea t y o f Vienna in 1816 of t 193 it over to A us t r i a w ith th e res t of the territory insulted and plundered Queen of the Ad riati 4 ' af ths The role of M an t ua , i n the same e P is te A j e world-drama, was of far greater importance. ""t-i,o1" by both belligerent parties as the bulwark o' ~ge t bardy, in the possession of which th e &detest; 01 of the struggle must depend, immense eft br sa ttir e ' made on either side for its defence as for thes eiiirieich Placed in the middle of a lake, formed by ue and artificially deepened by embankments, can only be approached by five chaussies, ot. of: at the period of its siege in 1796, the eat ranc to 1 , 11 , couple only were fortified ; three locks gi r l ie ;le:: arrison the command of the waters of rei sljf enabling them to increase their depth at P less be even to flood a considerable portion of f it a f approaches to their margin. The pecullaritltreog,d position, while it gives Mantua its immen se s o le r: 0 0 reacts against it, in some measure, by re f co tit' necessary a vast extent of outworks , whie° a ol to demand a proportionately large garr ison ; bytire buting greatly—and especially in summe r the unhealthiness of its situation ; and uponc-by el 3 c a its blockade and throwing the beseiged ie4Sto internal resources for subsistence. I n °l ' 05111,039 of these disadvantages, NAPOLEON, eV el : oo ; to hands full, was able to spare a suffiewio of men to surround Mantua, and Ice e P:to,V a garrison which actually out-numbering 0i o' 4) siegers, while he himself devoted all hi s th eVoo crushing the Austrian armi e s sent to relleve:‘, aete The stubborn defence of this fortress by t.-„, 0 0 0 ,i WURMSER is well known. Mantua was only e n ° 6l.sf , to capitulate after a blockade of seven it would probably have held out much long er ' - 00 00. , 1 been for the supernumerary garrison i t c a tlif' which, adding nothing to its defensive strecileilltld,e insufficient to assume the offensive, only c°,-tee to diminish the scanty provisions and e rovve s t oe pitals—always more or less burdened O ter o! e i r , healthy town. In vain did the tough old Gonad an d 1 / 6 / 1 out the half rations of his troops by killingtbe r t o t, ing the horses of his magnificent cavalrY;,trisOsote so anxiously looked for, and so desperateli th f a l of was everywhere intercepted by the r tl is s toc io e' queror of Italy, and Wuriarsert, seeing h re4o provisions reduced to a three days' stillreptstrto' tantly capitulated, leaving to Mantua tls,e,bi,4l.eita) of being impregnable, save to famine. i i t tit da r0: ( 0 1 tion, however was destined to be sosnewsortreso.ol, by the comparative ease with which the b i st c i er it) afterwards recaptured by Kaar. ior 10 0 1' aware that the real strength of Mantu, s , is P t / position rathei- than its works, direct oppr tentien to overcoming the difficulties jets e ria t a of e s m e l„lo e these presented. The possession Go so, had placed the whole line of the octet (1 hands, and he availed himsel f of this t o ° oo of numerous gunboats, armed with eall J