The Sun. — London, England, 1848-04-27 00:00:00

METTERNICH AND L. E. L. W ITII PORTRAITS °F • F r om the O ri gial n Fainting. b y THE y NUMBER, price Half-a-Crown, of BENTLEY'S MISCELLANY writ CONTAIN: PRINCE MET T ERNIC With a Portrait. Career of M. Gnizot. By James Future? By the Anther of the Ward. " Gaol Chaplin." waver y Statistics of France, dur- Para; or Scenes and Adventures ing rinses Team Edited by on the Banks of the Amazon Jiro. Percy Sinuett. By J. E. Warren. Chapters of the Life of an Old Po- The Republican Clubs of Paris. By litktial. the Flaneur In Paris. The Six Decisive Battles of the The Hospital of San Spirit*. By World. Ne. V.—Battle of Tours. E. V. Rippingille. By Professor Creasy. Biographical Sketches of.L. E. L. Tales of the Blest. With a Portrait. From the Ori- Hobert Emmet and Arthur Ayl- ginal Painting. By Pic kersgill. Mier ; or, Dublin in Iso3. By Charles Edward Stuart ; or, Life 71.11. Maxwell, anther of " Sto- and Adventures eta Royal Ea rful of Waterloo." lie. By the author of " The Ca- The Three Nuns. By Alfred reer of the Celebrated Earl of Crevrquill. Peterborough. Welcome, Sweet Hay ! The Legend of Fair Agnes. Are there those who read the Richard Bentley. Ni Burlington-street. To-morrow, in 2 vols. svo., with Portraits, price 30s. CHARACTERISTIC SKETCHES OF ENGLISH SOCIETY, POLITICS, and LI TERATURE; comprised in a Series of Letters to the Conn ie* of Ossory. By HORACE WALPOLE, EARL of ORFORD. Now first Published from the Original MS4. Edited by the Right Hon. It. VERNON SMITH, M.P. Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street, (Publisher in Ordinary to her Majesty). THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY LANE. LAST WEER BUT TWO. CIRQUE NATIONAL DE PARIS. GRAND MORNING PERFORMANCE. The public is respectfully intarmed that a Grand Morning Per itbrmance will be given en Friday (the 2sth inst.) Doors open at Half-past Out, pestirmance to commence at Two o'clock. first Price as usual. No Second ;Price. Private Boxes to be had M Jullieu and Co.'s, 214, Regent-street. HEZ MAJESTY'S THEATRE. First appearance of Mdlle. Cerita. The NO(My Gentry, Subscribers to the Opera. and the pub lic are respectfully Informed that a Grand EXTRA NIGHT will lake place THIS EVENING, April 27, will be performed, Dent zettl'eOpers, entitled LIICREZIA. BORGIA. Dieresis, Mdlle. Sella Cruvelli , Omni, Mal*. Sehwarui Gon zalo. Signor Garton' ; Gabetts, Giver Douche; and Alfonso, Signor After which the admired Ballet Divertissement, entitled LA VIVANDIERE. To be followed by Selections from Verdi's Opera of xi` o. Abigail. Mdli.. Abbadia; Fenena, Mills. Vera ; Sinus, Signor COlettt ; Idaspe, Signor Cuzzani; and Oratesphe, Signor Boleti!. To !owlets ith the highly successful New and Original GRAND BALLET, Is Four Tableaux, by M. Paul Taglioni, entitled FIORITA, et la Rene des Elfrides, Priomipal parts by Mdlle. Caroline Rosati, Mdlles. Esther Ausundon, Thevniot, Julienne, Lamoureux, Jenny, M. Louis Dor, It. Di Mattis, Venafra, amulet, and Mdlle. Marie Taglioni. THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LA:4E. ciRQUE NATIONAL DE: PARIS. Last Week but Two, the whole of the troupe of the Cirque Na tional being obliged to return to Paris on the 16th of May. THIS EVILNING The Pyramid of Decanters — Th e Dance of the Four Globes—T tetehe lreitival of Flowers— Le Pas des Flowers —Le Pas des Grosses s —Le tax des Etrangerea, &c., &c., by Wills. Caroline, Mathilde, Flo rentine, Ducos, &c.; MM. Franconi, Loisset, Newsome, Le- afar. Sic., &C. Doors open at half-Past Seven. performance to commence at Eight. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. u s a er taa management THIS EVENING Webster. sole Lessee . Will be presented a new conic Drama, called OLD HONESTY, Iflehael Bradshaw, air. Webster ; Joseph Bradshaw, Mr. H. Pan- Ti ; Sir PerkinS Resborough, Mr. Howe ; Mr. deptimus Hook, Mr. lbury ; Toby Perch, Mr. Keeley ; Dame BradShavr, Mrs. Glover; Mary, MISS Reynolds. After which, LOLA lIONTES. To conclude with a Grand Romantic Extravaganza, founded on Nora** Walpole% mysterious production. and cal ed THE CASTLE OF OTRANTO. Manfred, Mr. Keeley ; the Marquis Vincenza. Mr. J. Bland; Theodore, Miss P. Horton ; Odonto, Mr. Caulfield ; Hip polite, Mrs. W. Clifford ; faubelia, Miss Reynolds ; Matilda, Mrs. Caulfield. Btage Manager, Mr. Farren; Acting Manager, Mr. F. Webster. J. T. Archer, Itox-book keeper. Boxes, Ss. • Pit, Ss. ; Gallery. 2s. ; Upper Gallery, Is. Doors open at Ss. Six, Performance to commence at S4rven, THEATRE ROYAL, ADELI'HI. Under the direction of Madame Celeste. THIS EVENING Will be performed a new and original Drum, called HARVEST HOME. Principal ammeters by Messrs. H. Hughes, Lambert. Wright. P. Bedfbrd, 0. Smith, Madame Celeste, Miss Woolgar, Mrs. bank Matthews, Miss Turner, &c. After which, a new Piece, entitled THE FOUNTAIN OF ZEA er, the Child of Air. To conclude with THE COMRADES ; an Anecdote of the Span ish War. Principal characters by Messrs. Cullenford. Boyce, Mun- Zard, Paul Legrand, C. J. Smith, Ryan, Miss E. Harding. &c. Boxes, 45.; Pit, is. Gallery. Is. " ,, r4 oven at Halt-past Six, Performance to commence at Seven. ZOTAL LTCEUM THEATRE. under the Management of Madame Vestris. Sole Lessee. Mr. Charles Mathews. THIS EVENING. WM be performed a Comic Drama, called A ROUGH DIAMOND. 'Characters by Messrs. Selby, Diddear, Bellingham, Backstone; Mrs. Leigh Murray, and Mrs. Fitswilliam. After which, an entirely new and original Classical Extravaganza, entitled THESEUS and ARIADNIC ; or, the Marr,age of Bachus. 'Principal characters by Messrs. C. Mathews, H. Hall, S. Smith, F Cooke; Miss Eitzwilliam, Miss Jane Coleman, Miss Marshall, and Misdates Vestris, To conclude with a new comic Drama, entitled NOT A BAD JD 14;E. Characters by Messrs. It. Roxby, Diddear, Parselle, Har lel. Meadows, Bellingham, Charles Mathews ; Miss Jane Coleman, And Miss Lee. Dress hews, 55.; Upper Boxes, 4s. ; Pit, 25. ; Gallery, Is. No oalf• price to any part of the house. The New Box-office, No. 2, Wellington-street, is open to the Public every day, from Ten till Six. FRENCH PLAYS.—sT. JAmEs's THEATRE. Lessee, Mr. John Mitchell. 3.3, 4)1.1 it.,..1-street. Last Appearance hut One of M. Lafoat. TO-MOKKOW EVENING, Will be performed an entirely new comedie-vaudeville, en titled LA DEHNIERE CONQII El'T S. LC B.ron de Virefeuille, M. Lafont; Helene, Madame Patti Ernest. After which, the new Petite Comedy of EXTREMES SE TOUCHENT. Le Chevalier Jullien, Monsieur LONA ;La Cointesst Rosin, Madame Paul Ernest. To conclude with LE 31.1401 t CRAVACHON. Le Major Crays- M Henri Alix; Dervieres, M. Chatelaiu ; Olytupe, tot; Amelie, Mdlle. Duveuay. ST. JAMES'S THEATRE. ROBE 1:T HO t DIN. Mr. MITCHELL begs to announce that the celebrated ROBERT HOUDIN (o , the Palais Royal, Paris,) is enga• ed to present a li mited number of his extraordinary SOIREES FANTASTIQUES the St. James's Theatre, which will be commenced ou TuESDAI EVENING, May 2, and continued every Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday Evenings. Full particulars will be duly announced. Boxes and stalls, may be had at Mr. MITCHELL'S Royal Li. brary, 33, Old Bold-street. PRINCESS'S THEATRE. Mr. J. M. Maddox, sole Lessee and Manager. Duchosa-strett, Portland- place. THIS EVENING. Will be performed LOVE'S TELEGKAPII. After which, a new comic Drama, called MY SISTER'A SECRET . Lovectisce, Mr. Junes Vining . Torpid, Mr. Compton ; Margaret, Miss E. Montague; Alice, Miss Villars. To conclude with a Grand Ballet, entitled ESMERALDA; or, th. Hunchback of Notre Dame. Esmeralda, Mdlle. Admit Ores, Circle, 5r.: Boxes, 4e.; Pit, 2‘..4 Gallery, Is. „•;')YAL SURREY THEATRE. Under the direction of Mr. Kerschner. Matchless Performances - Unrivalled Company—and the only Pantomime in London. TEN EVENING. Will be performed a Drama, entitled THE BOHEMIANS. Cha• ratters by Messrs. N. T. Hicks, E. F. Savil e, R. Homier, Dale, J Herbert, H. Lewis, E. Jones, Mrs. R. Horner, and Jli.e E. Terry After which, by permission, ” LADIRS, BEWARE." To conclude with a Grand Fairy Comic Pantomime, entitled CIN DERELLA AND THE FAIRY QUEEN; or, Harequiu tin Little Glass Slipper. C01u.,• bine, Mdlle. Theodore; Harlequin, Mr ; Pantaloon, Mr. Morelli ; and Clown. Mr. T. Barry. Manager and Treasurer, Mr. B. S. Fairbrother. ASTLET'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE. Proprietor, Air. W. Batty. Extraordinary attraction for the Easter Holidays. First appearance these Five Years of the colebrattd Mr. Van Am. burgh and his unequalled collection of trained animals, amongst which will be found the greatest novelty ever seen, a Black Tiger, the first ever known to mingle with other animals, and has hitherto DOOR eoubklered untamable. THIS EVENIgG, Rill be presented a grand romantic spectacle, written by Boyle 'arnArd, Bdq., expressly to introduce Mr. Van Amburgh in hi, stounding performance, founded upon a passage in Eugene bue'e celebrated novel of " The Wandering Jew," and will be producen un eler the title of MOZOK, THE BEAST TAMER. Armand Dugard, XT. Van Amburgh. The Spectacle will be succeeded by an Incomparable routine of Mr. Batty'd Scenes of the Arena, in which signer ettiarini and \Wile. Marietta Drainage, from Italy, will have the honour of appearing. The entertainments will conclude with a tavourite Farce. During'the recess the Theatre has been entirely re-decorated. Bez-office open from Eleven till Four. Stage Manager, Mr. W. West. TO CORRESPONDENTS. IsTo communication can be attended to unless authenti cated by the name and address of the writer. Rejected communications cannot be rt•turned. THE WEATHER. —Sus OFFICE. APRIL 27. T wzn momtTEa. Lowest , 34 ; Higest, 50 , 51 BAROMETER, 29.95.—Wiism S.; fine. WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TIIIS DAY. Murmurs .. 41 inin. after 7 CEvening 18 min. after S _,____—. _ —_-- ~, . 0. • - t ‘ "°. ":i • , •,' s ` ' at ,. ) :: ' '.. , - , ',:zyz . ' - / t . , - VII u . • ....-, • I ::: : ''''' ... ...., , .... - briening. ,Allt LONDON, THURSDAY, APRIL 27, 1848• Everywhere throughout the European continent have b een made to Democracy, excepting only in the Spanish and Portugue se penin,ula. Sar Sovereign dinia has found in h er little el se th a n a crowned propagandist. Tuscany, r c l Parma, and Princes Modena have either awed th e i r n into ob obe dience, or those Princes have volunte'rilsya ameliorated their political institutions. Even F Naples has been tortured into a policy of illibe"rati"p of a nd his grasp has been relaxed in Paler mo by' the daring indep endence of the Sici lians. Rome has re cognised th e A p ostle of Freedom and t he Vindic a t or of Italian nationality in the person of the Suprem e PONTIM and the Venetians and the Lombards have emulated each other in their struggle against despotism. Of France it is unnecessary to say more than that a third and consummating revolution has permanently rooted Republicanism in the capital city of the Carlo apoleonian empires. S w it zer l an d vingian and the N has cemented her Federal Constitution by the blood spilt in internecine strife, and has planted far ever the symbols of her unity upon the ruins of the Son dittrad- lz , w3g tit* barge: us of BruselA tks cot. TIIE viction of Belgian liberty has acquired a lasting guarantee from the generous sentiments recently ex pressed before his senators by tke truthful lips of LEOPOLD. Denmark from FIUME/LICK, Sweden from OSCAR, Austria from FERDINAND, and Hanover from ERNEST, have severally obtained the sureties of a gradual and comprehensive emancipation. Bohe mia is rising again in the beautiful loveliness of her nationality. Hungary the same : Gallicia the same : Posen the same : and even upon the outskirts of the barbarian dominions of the AUTOCRAT the flag of hope has been unfurled. Elsewhere among the minor princedoms and subordinate sovereignties of Giarnany, the triple dogma of democracy — liberty, equality, and fraternity—has acquired an extraordinary number of votaries ; and at last a royal knight has risen for the people in the ambitious monarch of Prussia. Everywhere through out continental Europe the spirit of liberality has diffused itself, everywhere—excepting only in the Spanish and Portuguese peninsula! It would be impossible to expect that the English Government should regard with indifference the apathy evinced by the population of Spain and Por tugal in the sublime movement which has convulsed the realms of Christendom, which has shaken crowns into the dust like acorns, and which, above all, has revealed in the human race the shadow► of a new resemblance to the Divinity in the attributes of its political Omnipotence. The Government of the United Kingdom could not, even if it were so dis posed, remain a passive spectator of the retrogressive policy adopted in the Cabinets of Lisbon and Madrid. Remonstrance in that event bad long since become an historical necessity. It had become a necessity on this account; because the reigning Princess of the Spaniards, and the reigning Princess also of the Portuguese had been conditionally elevated to their thrones by the arms, the diplomacy, the friendship, and the heart's blood of England. Yes, it is because the virgin brows of 111•11Eiall and of MAIL DA GLORIA were girdled with the diadems of the Bra ganeas and of the Spanish Bourbons by England ; it was because England had crowned those claimants of Spanish and Portuguese royalty, on the simple condition that their sway should be identical with the national happiness and the constitutional freedom of their people ; it was because that condition has been flagrantly violated ever since the intriguing DIETZ planted foot upon the quays of Lisbon, and ever since the un- principled and profligate CHRISTINA returned to the orange avenues of Madrid—that remonstrance be came a solemn duty with the English Government, and that the preservation of silence by our Minister for Foreign Aflairs would have rankled like a per petual remorse in the conscience of Great Britain. Ia defiance, therefore, of the vulgar insolence of the language recently addressed to Mr. BULWER by the Duke of SOTOMAYOR, despite the petulance of par tizanship and the vociferous vituperations of our contemporaries, we maintain (what we have already distinctly maintained) that England had a right to suggest the adoption of " a legal and constitutional policy" to one of those sovereigns she had been principally instrumental in raising to the throne—in raising to the throne (let this word be well weighed in the judgments of the dispassionate multitude) conditionally 1 With the most profound deliberation we say conditionally, for ISARSLLA alone gained the ascendancy over her opponents through the generous co-operation of England—a co-operation given to her champions by England, on the understanding that the success of ISABELLA should be the security of the constitutional rights of the Spaniards. Is there a doubt that such was the stipulation of the British Government ? No; for an influential writer has recently remarked, in allu sion to the blood and treasures lavished in the cause of Queen ISABELLA by England—" it was for that (namely, for the fulfilment of that sacred and consti tutional condition), that the heights which crown San Sebastian and the valley of Hernani have been bleached with the bones of her children !" It was not only, we maintain, the right of England to interfere by her advice with the mad proceedings of the Narvaea Administration, it was a duty which pressed heavily and imperatively upon the soul of the British Government. Lord PALMERSTON has vindicated that right and satisfied that duty. Boldly, bravely, :imply, honourably, he has cast aside all considera tions of mere expediency. He has proved himself :rue to the memory of those valiant men who shed their blood in the rivers of Andalusia, and on the mountains of N avarre, and who perished in strug gling against the brigands of Zumalacaregui and the other leaders of the Carlist buccaneers. Happy were it for the fame of England, if the pre lecessor of this illustrious statesman had evinced a -imilar devotion to the cause of patriotism, of amenity, of nationality, and of justice I Happy for the credit of the Earl of ABERDEEN, if but one -,ingle communication, such as the one addressed, on the 16th of March, to her Britannic MAJESTY'S re presentative at the Court of Madrid, could be chronicled among his Ministerial effusions! In the event of Senor 'slim= requiring the recal of qr. BULWER, that able and distinguished am bassador will return homewards in all the prestige of an act creditable to him, alike as a diplomatist and as representative of British Sovereignty. However much his official character may have been depreciated by the deception practised upon him so successfully in reference to the Montpeusier marriage, the dignity and decision of his conduct towards the Duke DE SOTOMATOE oust elevate the reputation of his Excellency beyond .ven that which he has hitherto deserved and enjoyed. Of Lord PALMERSTON, from whose genius as a statesman the whole transaction has emanated, we need only observe that the position he has assumed in relation to the dictators of Spain is eminently worthy of his brilliant and prolonged career ; it is worthy of one whose name has been identified during the last thirty years with the glory and the greatness of England ! _ There is every reason to hope that the judicious slid temperate course adopted by Lord Ceaneepoi :rid his colleagues in the Irish Government will -ventually succeed in calming the excitement that now unhappily prevails in Ireland, in restoring tranquillity to that ill-fated country, and preserving its inhabitants from the horrors and bloodshed that must inevitably attend outbreak, however speedily And completely it might be suppressed. It is impos sible to calculate the amount of danger that would be effected to all the best interests of the nation during the raging of an internecine war, brief as might be its duration. Of course the insurgents themselves and the participators in their atrocious designs, would be the chief sufferers. They would perish by thousands and tens of thousands, far those who escaped death by the sword, or on the scaffold, would be expised to the most fearful privations from the famine that .could inevitably be the consequence of hostile pro -1 ceedings, leading to a total neglect of the agricultural •perations necessary for the production of food for the many, and also to the probable destruction of the ;rowing crops in the districts where the conflict or conflicts might take place. But the loyal and peace able inhabitants would also suffer in no small degree. Many would have to lament not merely the loss of of fields laid bare, and desolated homesteads, from comparative comfort and andpropeart and destitution ; but they would. affluence to poverty . f . property, deaths could not be recom pensed to mourn for cherished members o their by any . t be encountered are of so f3milies' whose e amount of pecuniary compensation, owing a character, how ear heartrending and har h r the counsels of those evil - [f the scenes that mus nestly ought all to esc e l w d recklessly involve their minded men who woo country therein, and wher . e , l a temporary su ccess ; and nothing more, could pos-ioy be attained; w ould, if possible, be more fatal to the parties themselve s than If order is th e most speedy and sanguinary defeat. restored, and the people return t o their ordinary habits of peaceful industry, everything that can re asonably be demanded will be conceded — me asures the sulsat ant i al evils of Inland, full secur i ty w ill be given t o t h e through the Legislature to r emed y occupiers of land that they themselves, or their families, shall enjoy the improvements effected by their own industry ; or that if by any means removed from the possession of their holdings, they shall receive full and adequate compensation therefor, and thus the best descripti ou ,f , sucoursgeta,ut will be THE FRE given to a better system of agriculture, to bring the lands into the highest degree of fertility. Capi tal, the chief want of the nation, will rapidly flow in, when its possessors are assured that they will reap the fruits of their investments, and not be deprived thereof by agrarian outrages, and the turbulence of discontented men. The waste lands will be reclaimed, affording in the process full ,employment for the myriads of labourers now remaining idle, and unpro ductively consuming the national resources, in place of adding materially to the national wealth ; and when brought into cultivation a vast addition will be made to the quantity of food applicable to the wants of the people; and many of those who bad been engaged in the work of reclamation will be rewarded by having houses and farms as signed to them on the lands "thus made valu able, and be enabled to spend the remainder of their days in their native land, among their friends and kindred, in place of having to seek their fortunes in another hemisphere, and to submit to the toils and privations which invariably accompany the enterprise of the emigrant. But before these desiderata can be attained perfect tranquillity must be restored. All the energies of the Government must be exerted for that purpose. The time of the Legislature, the consideration of the Cabinet, is necessarily devoted to the means required to preserve public order. A Coercion Act, or a mea sure for the security of the Crown, will consume at least as much time in passing through Parliament as a Rill for the improvement of the relations between landlord and tenant, for the sale of encumbered estates, or for the reclamation of waste lands. While the law officers of the Crown are wholly occupied in prosecuting for sedition, for felony, or for treason, they cannot mature provisions tor simplifying titles or legalizing tenant-right. A certain quantity of business only can be disposed of during the session; and the Irish cannot complain if the Acts intended for their relief, to promote ,the prosperity of their country, and to develop all its magnificent resources, are postponed for still more essential eaactments for the suppression of tumult and disturbance. Those who have disregarded the benefits of savings' banks, and endeavoured to convert the advantages conferred upon the industrious classes by turning these institutions into a means of embarrassing the Government, and creating an additional loss to the national Exchequer, must not be surprised if they find a Bill introduced to deprive them of the bless ing they have misapplied, and to recruit the public purse either by the imposition of a direct tax upon the country, or at least the withholding of the money that would otherwise be made applicable to Irish purposes. In every instance they would only have themselves to thank for the prolongation of the grievances by which they are afflicted, and the evils under which they are suffering. But if they thus deprive themselves of Government assistance, by their delusion in listening to the trucu lent harangues, and following the insane counsels of the sedition-mongers, bow much more so do they prevent the required capital from flowing into Ireland, and being expended in permanent and valuable improvements, or in sustaining the lan guishing and almost extinct manufactures of their country. Capitalists are a sensitive and prudent race. They will not make investments where they have to encounter not only the ordinary risks inci dental to every speculation, but also the danger of a total loss of their property from the establishment of anarchy and confusion. Manufactures will not flourish in a neighbourhood where the " Queen of Weapons" is in the hand of every idle vagabond who, too idle to work himself, would gladly destroy the productions of the better disposed and more indus trious. Railways will not be created where the people are openly exhorted to take up the rails, and to convert them into weapons of offence. Better to keep the money lying up, hoarded and unproductive, than risk its total loss. Before, then, capital can be hoped for perfect quietude must be obtained ; then, indeed, those who have the means will gladly employ them in a country possessing so many advantages from its natural resources, and the great cheapness and abundance of food and labour. The great enemies of Ireland are those who, by their denunciations and outrages, keep English capital and capitalists from their island. Let the people free their 3011 !rum these vermin, more pernicious than the shakes and vipers, which their Patron Saint is re ported to have banished. Let them become peace able and orderly, applying themselves earnestly to the duties of Oar several stations, respecting the rights and properties of others, and zealously labour ing to improve their own position in society. Let them but pursue such a course for a brief period, so as to give an assurance that they are really deter mined to persevere in such conduct, and they will, ,ndeed make Ireland what she ought to be — "Great, glorious, and free, First flower of the earth, and tirst gem of the sea." aonfatcy ien isnot the writings and the genius of SHAKSPEER con tributed in no inconsiderable degree to augment the consideration and influence of England ? I myself feel that I could bear witness to this when travelling a mong our transatlantic brethren of the great Ameri can Republic, for I found that, however willing any o ne might be to raise a disput e a b ou t th e Maine boun dary or to pick a quarrel about the Oregon, or to boast how they had licked the Britishers at New Orleans, yet I never found a single American who was not eager to claim brotherhood with the countrymen of Suansentz." After alluding to the expression of similar sentiments by the French and Germans, he proc eeded to ask, " Do we not now feel every day that the most startling events of contemporary in terest connect themselves with the associations of seassrzaz ? While the tide of war seems now let loose upon th e p lains of Lombardy, and is perhaps at thisluernent br eaki ng upon the ramparts of Verona, least we may hope that the violence of opposing factions a m ay spare the tomb of Juliet. And Venice __perhapsphpo in this country w e d o not care ver y m uch whether it is a re p ubl ic or an imperial fief — but we should ca re ver y much if we thought that a man __perhaps could no longer swim in a gon d o l a and walk Danes, al th ough we ourselves have not been —' a ye, many a time and oft on the Rialto.' Then as qu ite regular with th a t na ti on , ye t th e th o ught L ET, the image of the ' buried majesty of Den faomolfr as a w r atyls k h , e ' deepens and enlists our sympathies with that g people, and we should look upon it almost as a naaltlitnal i n sult, if armed invaders w e r e to bombard the palace o f Elsinore. Am I not right , then , in say ing that her of the mind or play of circumstances hardlya ni* of passing events which s has not anticipated and hate not chroni cled ?" Th e heart y cheers of the au d ience answered the Noble issLord'sis inquiry with an unhesitating affirma tive.:lai:nar Eits do honour to the memory, of six and to suit his observations to t h e c h a racter of the times , Lord MORPETU nittnlr s, to could hardly have seized upon a happier idea than that of exhibiting the departed poet as an instrument in promoting that spirit of peace and amity among nations which is the glory of these times. Having, by the charm of his writings, associated the histories ' of foreign countries with the most familiar and pleasing associations of the English people, and having, at the same time, by the g enius and truthfulness of these same writings, inspired other nations with a warm • and lively interest in England and the English lan guage, &unseen'', as Lord MORPETH justly re marked, has done much to facilitate the kindly inter change of nationa l s y m p athies ; and hence it is ' peculiarly fitting t hat, at the present time, the me mory of SuansrElti should be especially comme morated. PUBLIC. ' PROCEEDINGS AT PARIS. We have received the Paris papers of yesterday. M. LEDRU ROLLIN and his Commissioners have in every district in the provinces exercised the most odious tyranny to procure if possible the return of those who will be willing to aid him, either as dupes or accom plices, in his schemes for betraying the Republic. At Rouen the communal schoolmasters, who are all in the pay of the Minister of Public Instruction, were convened and commanded to sign collectively an engagement to vote for the Government can didates or resign their places. At a little town called Neufchatel a body of two hundred con scripts were stopped by the mayor, put into the Hotel de Ville, and there kept under lock and key until they had voted. Instances are given of electors being stopped on their way, their lists taken from them, and they obliged to return home, by hired ruffians. The Memorial de Rouen says it is useless making complaints to the Government Commis sioner, " who is so good a man that he refuses to believe any evil of others." The Journal de Rouen contains accounts of men being beaten, and the lists taken from them, because they were not democratic. The Gazette de Lyons contains accounts of similar proceedings in its neighbourhood. It says that in the Place des Terreaux they were burning heaps of lists of names which had been violently taken from elec tors. There was a grand demonstration of the clubs of Lyons, of the workmen employed in the Government ateliers, and of the voraces, in favour of the democratic candidates. The Journal de Toulouse contains also some curious proceedings of the Government Com missioner. Having menaced the inhabitants of a par ticular town to have its privilege of chef lieu con veyed to another place, unless the votes were for the Government candidates, be next proceeded by way of corruption, having changed the guardians of the bureau de bienfuisance, and then told them to vote money for the poor, who would not otherwise go to the polling place. The same Government Commis sioner threatened that he would smash like glass any officials whom he suspected of not going with the Government, and that he would make a patriotic offering to the Republic of the money due to them. Another Government Commissioner writes to the curate of Limoux, that he had received a dispatch from the Commissaire-General of the department, prescribing the most energetic measures against the members of the clergy who use the influence given them by their character to lead public opinion astray by recommending candidates hostile to the revolution, and threatening the clergyman to whom the letter is addressed with his displeasure. So much for the system of terror and corruption practised in the pro vinces. The following extract from a long letter in the Constitutionnel contains some indirect revelations of the terror practised in the capital : " There are men who dssire to make a sort of repub lican restoration, with similar persecutions, and who dream about a certain revolutionary history which is gone by for ever. These men affect to date the Republic at its 56th year. imitating the ludicrous example set ti . % Louis XVIII. Instead of the flag of glory and liberty, they demand the ctrapeau of blood. They revive the costumes and head-dress of what they call la bonne epoque. They give to journals the titles of the oin dewagogie; they admit no title but that of citizen; they call on the people every day to plant trees of liberty ; they demand that public tables be set in the streets for repasts in common—doing the Spartan republic and the fraternity Lamourette; these are peurilities resembling those practised by the Restoration. But there are other doings much more alarming—they are not satisfies , with calling themselves Jacobins and Montagnard.; they also take their doctrines, and seem to renew theii acts. They can only comprehend a republic under th, form of a revolution en permanence. They demand the right of deliberating in arms iu their clubs; they deman, that the Assembly shall be opened on the 31st of May in order to place this inauguration under the auspices 01 a sanguinary reminiscence. They evoke all the horror: of the past. They belong to the historic school loundec on what we shall not call the worst times, but the worst of deeds of our history. All that is old. Who that France will have nothing to do." It is generally believed, however, that all the at tempts of the Ledru-Rollin faction to carry the. elections of Paris have proved abortive. M. DL LAMARTINE is, it is said, at the head of the poll, and General CAverorisc, the Governor-General of Al giers, second. The returu of General CATAIGNAc for Paris will be one of the most severe rebuffs that LEDRU ROLLIN has yet received, inasmuch as Ge neral Cs.vAiomec threatened to transport from Ai geria the commissary, sent thither by M. LBDRI ROLLIN, if that personage attempted at all to interfere with the Government or the inhabitants of that co lony; and General CAVAIGNAC is just the man te. have kept his word, even had the meddler bet' LEDRU ROLLIN himself instead of his man fhe commissary M. Courier was, it seem , sent to Algiers, by : LEDRU ROLLIN, without knowledge of his colleagues, - and the Provisioew (lob ernment has annulled the appointment. An attempt was made on the 16th and 17th to get up a Ledru-Rollin demonstration in Algiers, but it signally failed. The great body of the people nos : against the anarchists, and acsistfd by the Civic Guard tore down the bonnet rouge, and dispersed tie mob. The llioniteur contains a decree opening a credit o; two million francs to the Minister of Public Works for continuing the railway works between Hommar ting and Strasbourg. It is said that M. ODILON BARROT has beet , elected by an immense majority for the department of L'Aisne. On Monday night there was "a scene "in the Cabinet of the Provisional Government between M. LAMARTINE and M. LEDRU ROLLIN. The latter desired the further postponement of the meeting (0 the Assembly, the former peremptorily opposed it. the latter threatened a popular demonstration, the• former treated the menace with contempt. N. LEDRU ROLLIN then declared that he would have Paris covered with barricades. M. LAMARTINE rose and declared that he set his colleague at defiance that the majority of the Government were quite pre. pared for any measure of that description promotes by the Minister of the Interior, and that they would resort to effectual measures of defence. After this, report says, M. LEDRU ROLLIN lowered his tone. In every section of Paris in which the result of the polling has become known it has been favourable. to the moderate members of the Provisional Go vernment, while MM. LEDRU ROLLIN, ALBERT. Louis Bnastc, and FLOCON hold places which shoot that their popularity, even among the great body of the working classes, was over-estimated. It appears, however, that all the members of the Provisions, Government will be returned for Paris. The follow ing is the order in which they at present stand :—M Dupont (de rEure), the venerable President of the Provisional Government, is at the head of the poll ; then follow M.M. de Lamartine, Cre mieux, Garnier Pages, Cormenin, Beranger, Marie, Carnot, Bethmont, Guudchaux, and Wollowski, all of whom have very large majorities. After them come MM. Vellu, Peupin,. Lamennais, Co querel, Marrast, General Duvivier, Victor Hugo, and Ledru Rollin. Louis Blanc, Albert, and Flocon have fewer votes than any of the above. It is right to state that the returns from the districts in which the ouvriers are most numerous are not yet known, with the exception of the seventh, in which M. LEDRU ROLLIN and his friends appear in a minority. On the Bourse the funds rose considerably in consequ ence of the turn taken by the elections. The Presse gives the result of the scrutiny of the 7th section of the third arrondissement, in as far as regards the first nineteen names at the head of the poll :-- Lamartine Dupont(de l'Eure) 648, Arago 64o' Marrast Gamier Pug& 635, Marie Bethmont... Duvivier Beranger 564 Berger " The beings of the mind are not of clay," said BraoN, And consequently he argued they are im mortal. If, then, they, the creations of the poet's imagination, endure, how unfitting were it that the memory of him who created them should pass away. How sorrowful would be the lot of genius it for gotten after death. Happily, such injustice is of very rare occurrence. The poet mey be too often neglected or contemned during life, but with his existence his unjust treatment ends ; friends are loud in lamentation, and even fees join in celebrating his praises— When his bark is buried deep, Will envy be the first to weep ?" The love which all mankind bear to the name, and the honour which they delight in paying to the memory, of the dead poet, is invariably excessive, and might be deemed extravagant were it not most na tural that they should seek to lavish their tears and praises —all they have to give—upon the grave of him, their great benefactor, appreciated it may be too late. But not his contemporaries alone, every succeeding generation which benefits by the lessons of the bard, joins its voice to that grateful chorus which perpetuates the praises of those benefactors of mankind—" Poets whose thoughts enrich the blood of the world." An instance of this noblest form of hero-worship has just been afforded by the meeting at Stratfurd•upon- Avon, which we reported yesterday, held in honour of the anniversary of SHAISPERE'S birth. SHAN.. SPERE certainly does not come within the cate gory of those unfortunate poets to whom we have just alluded—that, indeed, would have been impos sible. What age could have been insensible to his merits? Nevertheless, he furnishes an example of the enthusiastic veneration with which a great name —a great literary name—is invariably regarded. At the present time, when extraordinary political changes in foreign countries are engrossing public attention, and when disturbances nearer home have hardly ceased to occasion alarm, a body . of men, some among them of the noblest : and most powerful in the land, meet together fur the purpose of celebrating the birthday of a man who has been in his grave two centuries ! Far, however, front wishing to cavil at such a proceeding, we are rejoiced at it. We are inexpressibly rejoiced by so unmistakeable an evidence of the strength and tenderness of the popular attachment to poets and poetry even in this practical age. And were another evidence of these sentiments required, we should find it in the cordial and eloquent remarks uttered by Lord Moat-writ at the Shak spere Festivity—himself a poet, and distinguished by many peculiar traits of character, which render him a fitting participator in such a scene. The dis course of the Right Honourable Member for the West Riding was on this occasion most graceful and appropriate. One of his introductory observations deservedly elicited loud cheers from all his auditors—" I have no sympathy," he said, " with those who see harm in everything—in fic tion, in poetry, in plays." I have no sympathy with such as these, said Lord MORPETH, and so say we. " A thing of beauty is a joy for ever; " and they who, by cultivating and idealising the beautiful, rejoice the hearts and elevate the minds of their fellow-men, are the true benefactors of their kind. And as such Szaitsrzaz is deserving of as much commendation as is the most zealous patriot or philanthropist t hat ever existed. His celebrit y , acc ording to Lord klosmra has also another wil t . tar' n base. After expressing an intention to eschew politics in his d iscourse, the Noble Lord, however, added that he thoug ht that i n a wide and compre hensive bearing **ln ta :to" lire sot," he saked, 47 . he might OVNI there allude to politics, Crernieux 52C • Wollowski Cormenin Cavaignac Vavin Bucher Ledru Mullin Albert Louis Blanc .... 109 As far as the accounts from the departments go, the elections appear to have proceeded as calmly as in the metropolis. At Rouen the balloting Was over, and the election day had passed more quietly than Easter Sunday and Easter Monday usually do. At Havre and Lille the same tranquillity existed. At Brest the military part of the elec tion was over. The Journal de la Marine says the different corps of the Marine at Brest were called on yesterday to vote for their representa tives in the National Assembly, to wit, the officers and military functionaries at the prefecture of the Marina ) the seilore hot extbarksistthe head-paters SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, APRIL 27,' 1848. of the crews of the line, and the staffs and crews of over the Sley, and the villages of Fluckebye, Hunt armed ships on their respective ships. It then gives melfeld, and Cosel are now their fore posts. the result. The only member of the Government in The embargo enforced at Copenhagen ou Prussia.n the list is M. DR LAMARTINE, and he is at the head ships has been extended to all German vessels. It is of every list. The other favourites are-MM. La. reported that a number of Prussian ships have already CROSS DECOUVRANT, ROSSEL, Le BRETTON, Son- been taken, and it is now (eared that the Elbe and vESTRE,E, G R AYERAU, BRUNEL, LB GRANDAIS, &c. Weser will be blockaded by the Danes. With the exception of M. DE LAMARTINE and M. LACROSSE, who was a member of the Chamber • RUMOURED DDELANTmEIAORFK.THE KING OF of Deputies, the whole of the Brest candidates are A letter from Altona, dated the 23d, one O'CIOCkt new men. P.M., says- A decree has appeared in the Manitear putting an " A report, the truth of which, however, is " I T end to the organization of armed bands of foreigners doubtful, prevailed in Rend bur this morning, that in France. the King of DENMARK was dead. Though this may • illne ss It is said that M. LAMARTINE has concluded a treaty not be true, there seems to be no doubt that hts offensive and defensive between the French Republic, 'bronchitis) is of a serious nature. " Switzerland, the Italian States, and that portion of Germany represented in the Diet at Frankfort. A large quantity of troops entered Paris yester day. The infantry of the line are now doing duty regularly at the prisons at,d some of the public build . ings, in the pluee of the National Guards. BOURSE-PARIS, WEDNESDAY. APRIL 26. THREE O'CLOOK.-A very considerable amount of business was transacted to-day, and the Bourse, ilt some measure, exhibited the activity which it was ac customid to manifest before the revolution. The re sult of the Paris elections being now pretty well known to be decidedly in favour of the more moderate party, speculators augur well from the tact, and con sider the moment favourable for purchasing stock. In consequence, demands flowed in throughout the whole day's business, and almo s t in ever y case the last prices are the highest. Lists of the returns made up in the different sections were all day being handed about at the Bourse, and from them it would appear that, even in the arrondissements most remark able for their democratic tendencies, the ultra party have not the advantage. The Three per Cents. opened at 411. 75c., and closed at 44f. 50c., being an advance of 3t. 25c.; the Five per Cents. opened at 631. 50c., and closed at 65f., or 31. higher than the day before. Bank of France shares were again exceedingly demanded, and show an advance of not less than 1701. ; Roman ha, risen 2-If., closing at 54ff.; Belgian Fives (1840), lit., at 631.; ditto (1842), 2t, at 63iE; Rothschild's Neap°. litan, If:, at 53if.; Obligations de la Ville, SE. at 1,030 t, ; and Piedmont, (Of., at 8601.; Bons du `ft Cor were done at first at 39 per cent. less, and towards the clo s e of the day at 37f.; but it has been remarked, that few persons at present consent to make this heavy sacrifice. Railway Shares were also exceedingly buoyant, and some of the lines exhibit a remarkable improvement :- Orleans have advanced 55f., closing at 570 f.; Rouen 501., at 425 f.; Vierzon 25E, at 260 f.; Marseilles 20L. at 2251.; Northern 121. 50c., at 362 f. 50c.; Havre 7f. 50c., at 20 7 f. 50c.; Bale 5f., at 87f. 50c.; ersailles (Right Bank) 21. 50c.. at 1171: 50c.; Nantes lf. 25c., at 345 f.; Lyons are 31. 75c. lower, closing at 311 f. 25c. ; Versailles (Left Bank) 51. lower, at 102 f. 50c.; Strasburg 2f. 50c. lower, at 335 f.; Bordeaux are unvaried, at 395 f. French gold remains at about 301. the thousand. and the charge for obtaining silver for a I,ooof. note is about sf. BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE. APRIL 26. Boulogne and Amiens,VA-Namur . and Liege, 3-Orleans and Bordeaux, 1 3 4- Paris and Lvons, 2 1 4-Paris and Or leans, 24 with div.-Paris and - Rouen, 14-Rouen and films, 814. 7AND• SWITZERL A letter from Berne, of the 21st inst., sitY 3 9 — " The Directory last night received accounts which rendered it necessary to hold a meeting this molting. Ihe following particulars have transpired: —It appears that a serious collision has taken place in the Grad Duchy of Baden between t he workmen who w ished to establish a republic in Germany, and the troops of the Grand Duke, in which the Republican party were routed, god sought refuge on the Swiss frowner. The cantons Sehaffhausen, Bale, and Argau, immediately oiled ,ut some battalions, in order to secure the frontier. of „ •' The Genovese section of the gen eral association the Swiss people has unan imousl y decided on pror resing to the Upper Diet, and to the states through the lfin tory, the convocation of constituent assembly 1:104... by the ,le." peup ITALY. ROME. His HOLINESS hRS deigned to grant a prio te l t;audience to his Serene Highnes s the Prince AL ANDER DI GONZAGA MANTUA, accompanied bye Frincess his consort. Their Serene Nig bn afterwards proceeded to pay th eir respects to his Eminence the Most Reverend Cardinal Artloslalf Secretary of State.—Gazetta di Roma, April 15. The Earl of MINTo left Rome on the 19th• t It was rumoured in Rome that the bornbardlnen of Messina had been recommenced with great foll' LOMBARDY. The Piedmontese Gazette of the 21st has a bulletio.o from the King's head-quarters at Gessoldo of tP 19th. At that date a strong division of Inane:oo.er tried to surprise the advanced posts of the fortres.b.°' Mantua, but the garrison remained shut up ja bo t fortress behind the lagunes. A few een"11.11-de, were exchanged, without much effect on either 11 ,, The heavy artillery that was expected beat he rie; inontese had arrived, and a vigorous ek up on Peschiera was hourly expected. While the il i e g. or truce was hoisted during the late armistice, °al i o , TROTTI, of the Piedmontese army, wss suddetl l L t e co , prised and made prisoner by a body of ittl e ' e - dii to The Provisional Government of Milan have ° li r i c e arms the classes of 1826 and 1827. The ir ,, e t e h -I tbe will last three years. By a decree of the 13 100 -, Tuscan Government has adopted the Italian t riee leaving the escutcheon of Tuscany. A order Th e Admiralty-o ffi ce at Genoa has issueu r the to fit out two frigates and two brig s of iss ue of protection and convoy of the merchant ve7 or . Sardinia to and fro from the Dardanelles ; ee' e d to thermore, that two brigs of war should be are r the ; cruise in the Adriatic Sea and Archipelege, 1`) protection of the merchant vessels of this stat e ... no es A letter from Spezia, dated 17th instert; ti r of the arrival in that gulf of a French s teettr i " h e r c h bas 16 guns, from Toulon, the captain of v ; - v reported that the French fleet, consisting 0 ' P T A go o of-battle ships and several steam-vessels, 0 11 i" D o, arrive in the said gulf. Letters from the es ine P t gulf the 18th instant, mention the arrival in ti , / % o ol' of the French line-of-battle ship Friedlanut sc a inanded by Admiral BAUDIN, two me n of war ' one large steam-frigate. 17th The Tuscan army passed the Po on the - take up position at Viadona. Av bah The Provisional Government of Loin the e in consideration of the circumstances of of done away with the duty on the importS ti°l3 gore ca ps. a difference has arisen between CHARiaeALO P the Provisional Government at Milan o f so g nature that it is likely to have a very sinister effec" on the events of the war, in as far as the intere l l ti of Lombardy are concerned. Letters racer( From the head-quarters of General GAZZALDO, which are stated by the Contemporaneo to be 00 04 state the quarrel bas, within the last tew days , ar -umed a cl-.aractur equally grave and unex pected• h° According to these letters, CHARLES ALBEs2;;, written to the Provisional Government a t P . intimating—first, that he considers the Nti e i ele the extreme boundary between Loral:Ar a l in s Venice ; in the second place, that the Y e t . it having constituted themselves into a Reptit:4l is not hi% intention to set foot within their terr`; and thirdly, that the Austrians, having fih e r: of the Lombard territory, with the excePtr bas Mantua and Peschiera, he considers th at Re c oil. accomplished his mission. Besides this' b e tide upon the Provisional Government to lose 1 13 00 in making up their minds, and guarding th e 111 ;n oclt e with their own troops, as he is quite deterel—otea retire as soon as the Lombard troops shall be et 0 0 4 possession of the positions which he at Pree e ti ll . oo , Igo pies. After mentioning this grave d e terelin, e 7jed t e as if to leave no doubt as to the motives which"o it, the same letter adds I su ppose 0 11 : t 09 : must throw these gentlemen (the Proy' s ".. - Lote.: vernment) into a sufficiently great etobt f , r "; ev e At present they imagine that they have cw" h l o tbef thing themselves, and without our a id ' 11 4, --1 1 11646 forget that if the Germans have retreated, the y done so under the moral influence of Ps DUTCH MAIL. 7 CO? HAGUE, Anti'. 25. The Nether-ands frog' CO? THE of the 2R i -t.l says—'' We have received op 60 papers to the 26th of February. Ibe Ge 2 fill ' 11 ,11 ' n h eral of Batavia, by a proclamaton of the --lts aL - I :1 ii fixed the regulations for securing the legalnaa dto nistration of justice in the possessions b, e 1, 1 ; sho i a l r d. Madeira. The sentence of death, I "'''l. the ,-; tutors by ye thesu bamuittbteodrittioest,hesbcaolnlsibdriatcinerlor?bie:o e 9 „At, their opinion, and in case an act of Abe 00'1' deemed advisable, the reasons for it shal t ,' l o ps 1/11 , 1 • 1 the authorities and by the tribunals. • v , efl h f? tary and naval arrangements are also in P lc ' rr at very extensive expedition is in prePorstilosealo' difftrent points of Java, under the roof r ec° CV t G o enei.al Van Derwyck, for the purpo se ° Oo lls o ° encing an enterprise against Balie, en,. A ls° of ho 'til tmnsoon shall permit. It is come to rt ti- , 1 4 1 ' battalions of 2,400, and will probablY s is 6 f l it/ the end of May. The ~Ryn siearner, n' rt - 01'0', and indeed all the steamers and scheme; Ad: , India, a V rin nldneiesnngtßso.onsecTh toh, eip or p i loyed in the transport of troops. It e r foray e cSo°mn governor rma abra: g d a e r, will oi o l of is ul t ep h se e vrei for SP r ise o 0 1 0 1 1 5 teTl a t r o be at YrA tt iti ' arch. A slight misunderstanding hag tteeef,4 tween the Indian goveriment and the r °l. ;l;iti le ;e o ; rimorlaut. A deputation had been sen t " o gev.„l' the urpose of effecting an amicable arl;tipol ji u)i, an expedition against Brune to aveng e Iwo . ships of war have left the islandniacievt9 that place. give chase to the pirates, who intend 0;00° theP P p l r ane ivale letter from Podang bring lettp-it26:o!cilltll' itioirysuacociaoturnat,s perfect ttinog order state of tn ci e tii e fit i ,if P t ? i'' there, and great attentio n n e i r s paid an ro a t i n i e c o pvic ti , 04 0 'O O J coffee and pepper. There is a genera l c 00° ication communication the necessity of be testablishing anda regal tea, f.ifoot:i , . le ow The S ingapore Free P Press contain:, g o ut J.O fl which the folli • ming is an extract :---,_ „licil ,1 frequently Netherlands. makes critics on the Dutch - P ie d i i t, o , Your attacks . B Y Yrlllt are chie ll , system which you callexclusive,as if the r ii 1 0 s tem co Government pursued a more liberal to t he li ictl colonies, it is, nevertheless, easy to Pr °l4 : ot" 4 1 0, 1 , Crary. It will suffice to mention the fis c l, eV many of your readers were perhaps ign°1111) d tope Dutch ships from Batavia are nut perraitteo,4o4o at Sydney, while English vesselspoining fr°,firtlic:s4, Port.:l'hi lip, Adelaide, and LaunceAon,lAc,,to 6fifie enter the Road of Batavia. It is diffien",. the Y., r l just reason to . ju-tify this exclusion 0 ' s i t it l ;oo l , i vessels. The same exclusion appears t ° n e u tcli A Ord to the island of Mauritius. A " - w itb 11 " IP ! which arrived there about six months se , , - oa ciil t i, of rice, was compelled to return without ill'orere , ce , ' this too at a time when four dollar 1 n i t t ° o lll : paid in the island of Mauritius for a 1 3 ,h alto ,: price which is paid only in time of de 3l. " - ' ae ' r an 0 d the merchants of thisisland had sen- - , 0 01,10 ) , the British Parliament, praying it to tek e n 'ittio_ A '4" cious measures for the regular supP l l ; ,, - F oe', with provisions. The entrance &I V A t - 0 0 ,4 ,;" rice at Java, and which may be " 1 ".:0 n° l3l i l4l ) sr. *stately supprossd st p sis SPAIN. Madrid Journals of the 20th have been received. The Heraldo announces, by authority, that in the event of any fresh disturbances, a quarter of an hour's grace would be granted in order to prevent bloodshed, but that after that brief period had elapsed, no quarter would be given. The proclamation is headed, "Notice to the inhabitants of Madrid." Notwithstanding this declaration, which will be carried out to the very letter by NA&VAEZ and his sanguinary partisans, preparations are making by the Spanish people for a desperate struggle against their oppressors. An immense quantity of muskets are concealed in Madrid, the armoury having been entered by a sub terraneous passage, and a number of the guns in it carried off. Orders have been given to take the locks off the remainder, in ease the same thing should again occur. The Government is trying to keep this misfortune from the knowledge of the pub lic, and its organs have orders to deny that it has oc curred. A printed paper, of which the following is a trans lation, has been extensively circulated in Madrid : People of Madrid I—You are about to become the victims of the most cruel tyranny. An infamous Go vernment, which no longer possesses means of support beyond robbery and corruption, has just committed the last of iniquities. " Maria Christina and her creatures are preparing to escape with the plunder snatched from the bosom of this unfortunate country. The bank, the funds of which they possessed themselves in order to deprive you of your liberty, at the very time you were tighting for it, is now in 'a state of bankruptcy. This is manifest by the son-payment of its notes. It is in vain they attempt to deceive you. PORTUGAL. Intelligence has been received from Lisbon to the 20th by the Peninsular and Oriental Company's steam-ship Tiger, Captain JOY, which arrived at Southampton yesterday. Her dates of sailing were, Gibraltar, April 15 ; Cadiz, 16, Lisbon, 20 ; Oporto, ; vigo, 22. The Ministry hare introduced into the Chamber a law of electoral reform, enacting that henceforth the elections shall be direct instead of indirect. This measure was opposed by SILVA CABRAL, who con tended that indirect election was a fundamental article of the Charter. On this a division took place, ,ind the Chamber decided by 63 to 36 that indirect election was not a fundamental article of the Charter. COSTA CABRAL supports the . SALDANHA Ministry, the opposition to which is led by his brother SILVA. Sir HAMILTON SETMOuR has, by direction of Lord PALMERsToN, presented a very energetic protest against the proposition for the capitalization of the ov, rdue dividends upon the foreign debt, a measure of direct robbery upon the English creditors. Should the scheme be persisted in, it is to be hoped that Lord PALMERsToR will not confine himself to protests. The Minister of Foreign Affairs has communicated to the Chamber of Deputies the explanation with which M. DE LAMARTINR favoured the Portuguese Envoy at Paris, respecting the term, "a perjured QUEEN," applied to her Most Faithful MAJESTY by M. CREMIEDX. in his reply to the address of the Por tuguese sympathisers. It was, that M. CREMIEUI spoke his own sentiments on the occasion, and not those of the Government collectively. There have been various false alarms of emeutes, but everything continued tranquil. Three French subjects have petitioned the French Republic for re dress. They had been cruelly maltreated by some of the armed bands in the pay of the Government. The Duke of PALMELLA has landed at Lisbon from Madeira. The following statement of the Portuguese naval force may be found not devoid of interest : Line of battle ships—Vasco da Game, 80, Lisbon ; Cabo Sao Vincente, hulk ; Dom Joao, 78, dismantled and rotten. Frigates—Fernando, 58, new, dismantled ; Pedro, 48, dismantled; Donna Maria, 42, dismantled ; Diana, 54, dismantled ; Don Braganca, 50, rotten from neglect, dismantled; Rsinha, 46, register ship at Belem. Eight cur vettes of 20, of which three are ready for sea, :our dismantled, and one in the Douro not yet rigged. a t Angola, one at Mozambique, one at Madeira, one now One corvette o f 12 at Angola. Eleven brig., one being equipping, and six dismantled. Eight small schooners. Four calques, two cutters, and four L steamers, these last being the Minden() and Toja .6, at is n, e erceira, Tar), also repairing. 4.500, but at a premium ; dollars, 920; Sovereigns are 4, under repair, and the D. Luiz (formerly the Royal 5 franc piece , 860. Lisbon bank notes some wh ere about 531 ; 90 days, 53. Her 'Majesty's ship at Gibraltar—Her Majesty's 70 per cent. discount. Exchange on London, 30 days, steamer Polyphemus, Commander Cleverty. From Tetuan.—Royal yacht squadron schooner, O n di ne . At Lisbon—The Havannah the , Stromboli, Comet. at April 22, at eight A.M., Tiger, found lying Vigo, the Oriental Company's steam-ship, Madrid, passed her Majesty's ship that'low e p , a clk2eot guns, having with the Scourge steamer in company, a t seven A.M. on the 21st instant, in lat. steering N.E., with the 45 12 QUEEN , 0 long. Aoz li so2n3bo"arr"d. The Howe sailed from Madeira on the 15th instant. Lying to off Oporto Bar—The British brig Ane moyne, of London, and the brig Dela, of Memel. Laying in Vigo Bay, preparing for Sea—The British barque Hope, bound for London from New Zealand. The Peninsula and Oriental Company's ship Madrid sailed from Vigo on the morning of the 22d, at eight A.M., for Oporto. April 20th, at five P.M., exchanged colours with the Peninsular and Oriental Company's steam-ship Pacba. ARRIVAL OF THE QUEEN DOWAGER. (Br ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH. ) The Queen Dowager arr ived at Ports mouth this morning from Madeira, in her Ma j est y' s s hip Rowe. Viscount Morpeth arrived in town last night from visiting the Duke and Duchess of butherluud at Trent hue, Staffordshire, and attending the Sbakiiperian t i v alE Strstford-ea-Avcs. GERMANY AND THE NORTHERN STATES. AUSTRIA. The Wiener Zeitung, of the 21st April, says, the battalion of the Trieste territorial militia, whose courageous conduct adorned many a page of the his tory of our campaign in the years 1805, 1809, and 1813, and whose active services during the late events contributed essentially, to the maintenance of legal order, has addressed a note to Count NUGENT, the general in command, volunteering to fight against -he enemy, by means of which his army will receive very considerable reinforcement. The Minister of War, while bringing this satis factory token of the patriotic sentiments of the Neste militia to the notice of his MAJESTY, con• -iders himself called upon to make the above intel gence generally known. His MAJESTY, after having accepted the resigna- tioc of the burgomaster of Vienna,M. VON CZAPKO, was pleased to declare, by an imperial resolution of the 29th of March, that the po,t of burgomaster of Vienna might be considered 'vacant. Previous to the ruling up of this post, it appeared necessary to call the attention of the burgher committee of Vienna to , he altered state of things, and to suggest that the office of burgomaster might probably call for some ,:codification. The burgher committee has, there ,ore, resolved to defer the election till the middle of The Allgemeine Zeigung of the 224 publishes a letter, dated Botzal, April lb, which says— .. We learn tram Vtruna that Field-Marshal Radetzky I,as undertaken a general reconneitre on the line tr , in Verona to Mantua, and the result was that prepoode t sting forces were seen everywhere. " Large stores of provisions Pete being brought to the head-quarters. The reinforcements from Austria hay:: left the Tzunso, and are in full march through the V4,- (,:rian territory to Verona. P.S.—We have just received a large consignment of guns from the army in Italy. They are the result of ..;!te disarming which Radetzky ordered at Verona." PRUSSIA. Letters from Posen of the 20th April represent the tate of affairs of that duchy as very usatisfactory. The largo encampment is broken up, but those who witnposed it are re-assembling in smaller groups in other quarters. MIEROSLARiILI has again addressed the KING, -tating that the people are by no means satisfied with the former concessions, because Count MILZTNSKI ,altered the positions on his own responsibility. The greatest apprehensions are entertained fcr the Easter festival. BADEN. The Republicans have everywhere been beaten. Fhe - bands have fled and separated. HECKER has made his escape to Bah, but STRUVE was taken on the 21st, at the village of Sackingen, as he was about to pass the Rhine into Switzerland. Hessian troops occupied on the 21st Leopoldshohe and the Schus terinsel, which had been full of German workmen. \.bout 240 men of the free corps which were at Gross nilngen on the 21st, left that place by rail to Eleatz. RUSSIA. A letter from Konigsburg of the 17th, in the Deutsch Zeitung, says— " Three Russian regiments of the guards left St. Petersburgh, a few days since, in ilia first instance to .arrison Riga. A command has likewise been issued to :he military authorities at Mitau immediately to pur base 6,000 horses for conveying the baggage and ar. !illery." The accounts from St. Petersburgh state that the xpected prohibition of the export of the precious metals had not been issued, and that the Ministry have declared that there will be no obstacle to the free export of them. DENMARK AND THE DUCHIES Skirmishes, leading to no results, are of daily oc currence between the Danish troops and the Holstein volunteers. It would appear that the volunteers, who have yet to learn that. discretion is the better part of valour, are much in the way of the regular troops of Prussia. The country is flat, and not at all adapted to guerilla fighting, and these volunteers are constantly getting into danger, from which the regular troops have to rescue them. The Commander in-Chief for Schleswig-Holstein has i.sued a pro. clamation to the effect that no further volunteers are wanted, and begging the different committees formed in Germany to desist from sending them, as they are not wanted. On the 12d the Prussians and Ilanoverians quitted Rendsburg, where they are to be replaced by the Oldenburghers, and moved to Witteensee and ,chested, the latter the site of the battle between the Swedes and Danes in 1613, towards Eckert forde, so that it would seem as if the attack on the Danish camp would be on the east side of the duchy. From eye- vs itnes►es it is learnt that their entrenchments commence at Schleswig, at which town they have much strengthened the means of defence, and extend along the old Danish wall by liollingstead towards Husun—thus it may be seen that their position is a strong one, as they are pro tected on their left by the bay of the Sky, and on their right, towards Husun, by turf, moors, acid morasses. The entrenchments protecting the Danes are sandwalls, eight or ten feet high, with dry ditches in front, and as the heavy shot will bury themselves in the sand without shattering the wall, it will be a tough business to force their position, and must cost the allies many men. As, therefore, regular pre parations must be made for the attack, it is probable some days may yet elapse before any decisive affair can coma eff. The Dann have advanced sole 000P0