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ee.—edee-----• WITH PORTRAITS OF PRINCE METTERN , IC II AN . D OF L. E. L. From the Original Fa intin g , by , ickersgill. N_ UMBER, price Halfet-Ceown, of TIIE MAY MISCELLANY BENTLEY' 6 WILL CONTAIN : PRINCE METTERNICH. With a Portrait. Career of M. Catizot. By James mer ; or, Dublin in 1803. By Ward. W. H. Maxwell, author of " St o - Literary Statistics of France, dur- ries of Waterloo." in Fifteen Years. The Three Nuns. By Alfred 42111 a pter 0 in the Life of an Old Po- Crowquill. liticiaa. Are there those who read the The Six Decisive Rattles of the Future? By the Author of the World. No. V.—Battle of Tours. " Gaol Chaplin." By Professor Creasy. Para ; or Scenes and Adventures Isles of the Blest. I on the Bank' of the Amazon. The Republican Clabs of Paris. By By J. E. Warren. the Elaneur in Paris. Charles Edward Stuart ; or, Life Legend of Fair Agnes. and Adventures of a Royal Ex- Biographical Sketehes of L. E. L. ile. By the author of " The Ca- With a Portrait. Frois the Ori- reer of the Celebrated Earl of ginal Painting. By Pickersgill.. Peterborough. Weloome, Sweet May ! 'The Hospital of San Spirito. By Robert Emmet and Arthur Ayl-, E. V. Rippingille. Richard Bent!ey, New Burlington-street. NEW EDITION OF PEPYS' DIARY. Preparing for immediate publication, A NEW AND REVISED EDITION, with numerous passages now restored from the origi nal Manuscript, and many additional Notes, to be completed in 6 vols. Bvo., with Portraits, &c., price 10s. 6d. each, the first of which is just ready, lARY AND CORRESPONDENCE OF SAIWEL PEPYS, F.R.S. Secretary to the Admiralty in the Reigns of Charles 11. an..l James 11. EDITED BY LORD BRAYBROOKE. The authority of PEPYS as an historian and illustrator of a con siderable portion of the seventeenth century, has been so fully ac knowledged by every scholar and critic, that it is now scarcely ne cessary to remind the reader of the advantages he possessed for producing the most complete and trustworthy record of events, and the most agreeable picture of society and manners to be found in the literature of any nation. A new Edition of this work, com prising the restored passages so much desired, with such additional annotations as have been called for by the vast advances in anti quarian and historical knowledge dur'ng the last twenty years, will doubtless be regarded one of the most important, as well as most agreeable, additions that could be made to the library of the general reader. Henry Colbwrn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE, FIRST APPEBRANCE of Mdlie. JENNY LIND. The Nobility, Gentry, Subscribers to tne Opera, and the Public are respectfully informed that Madlle. JENNY LIND will make her First Appearance this Season, on THURSDAY next, the 4th of 3lay, as A.IIINA, in Belllni's Opera of LA SONNAMBULA. This Night will he included in the Subscription. ADLER'S WELLS THEATRE. THIS EVENING the celebrated FEMALE. AMERICAN SERENADERS will go through their unrivalled Performances. Admission, Boas; 25., Pit Is., Gallery 6cl HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. The Nobility Gentry, Subscribers to the Opera, and the pub lic are respectfully informed that TO-MORROW EVENING, April 29, will be performed, Rossini's Opera, entitled IL BARB lERE DI SIVIGL lA. Rossini, Mdlie. Sofia Cruvelli ; Ii Conte d'Almiviva, Signor Gar doni ; Basilic., Signor Bouehe ; Bartolo, Signor F. Lablache ; and Figaro, Signor Belletti. Atter which a Divertissement, in which 3ldlle. Rosati and Mdlle. Marie l'aglioni will appear. To conclude with the admired Ballet Divertissement, entitled LA VIVANDIERE THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. 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 EVENING The Pyramid of Decanters —The Dance of the Four Globes —The Festival of Flowers—Le Pas des Flowers—Le Pas des Grosses tetes —Le Pas des Etrangeres, &e., &c., by Mdlls. Caroline, Mathilde, Flo rentine, Ducos. &c., Ste. ; MM. Franconi, Loisset, Newsome, Le elalr, Auriol, &c., &c. Doors open at half-past Seven, performance to commence at Eight. TISEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Un.wr the Nanwurent f Mr. BEVENN. Webster, sole Lesse e . THIS win be presented a new comic Drains, called OLD HONESTY. Michael Bradshaw, Mr. Webster; Joseph Bradshaw, Mr. H. Van denhoff ; Sir Perkins Besboromfh, Mr. Howe ; Mr. Septimus Hook, Mr. Tilbury; Toby Perch, Mr. Keeley; Dame Bradshaw, Mrs. Glover ; Mary, Miss Reynolds. After which, LOLA MONTES. To conclude with a Grand Romantic Extravaganza, founded on Horace Walpoles mysterious production, and called 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 ; Isabella, Miss Reynolds ; Matilda, Mrs. Caulfield. etage Manager, Mr. Fan en ; Acting Manager, Mr. F. Webster. J. T. Archer, 1 1 -lox-400lf. keeper. Boxes, ss. ; Pit, 3s. ; Gallery, 2s. ; 'Upper Gallery, is. Doors open at Half-past Six, Performance to commence at Seven. THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPUI. Under the direction of "%radaine Celeste. THIS EVENING Will be performed a neNVand original Drama, called HARVEST HOME. Principal eharactors by Messrs. 11. Hughes, Lambert, Wright, P. Bedford, 0. Smith, Madame Celeste, Mise Woolgar, Mrs. Frank Matthews, Miss Turner, Sec. After which, a new Piece, entitled THE FOUNTAIN OF ZEA ; or, the Child of Air. To conclude with THE COMRADES ; an Anecdote of the Span ish War. Principal characters by Messrs. Cullenford, Boyce, Mun yard, Paul Legrand, C. J. Smith, Ilyan, Miss E. Harding, &c. Boxes, 45.; Pit, 2s. , Gallery, Is. oren at Half-past Six. Performance to commence at Seven. ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE. Under the Management of Madame Vestria. Sole Lessee, Mr. Charles Mathews. THIS EVENING, Will be performed a Grille Drama, called A ROUGH DIAMOND. Characters by Messrs. Selby, Diddear, Bellingham, Backstone ; Mrs. Le h Murray, and Mrs. litzwilliam. After which, an entirely new and original Classical Extravaganza. entitled THESEUS and ARIADNE ; or, the Marriage of Bachus. Principal characters by Messrs. C. Mathews, H. Hall, S. Smith, F. Cooke ; Miss Eitzwilliarn, Miss Jane Coleman, 3iisd Marshall, and Madame Vestris. To conclude with a new comic Drama, entitled NOT A BAD JUDGE. Characters by Messrs. R. Roxby, Dlddear, Parselle, Har ley, Meadows, Bellingham, Charles Mathews ; Miss Jane Coleman, and Miss Lee. Dress Boxev, ss. ; Upper Boxes, 4s. ; Pit, 2s. ; Gallery, is. No bait-price to any part of the house. The .New Box-ofilce, No. 2, Wellington-street, is open to the Pubic every day, from Ten till Six. FRUNCH PLAYS.—ST. JAMES'S THEATRE. Lessee, Mr. John Mitchell. 33, o , d Bond-street. Last Appearance but One of M. Lafont. THIS EVE N 'NG, Will be performed an entirely new comedie-vandeville, en titled LA DERNIERE CONQUETTE. Le Baron de Virefeuille, M. Lafont; Helene, Madame Pant Ernest. After which, the new Petite Comedy of EXTREMES SE TOtCHENT. Le Chevalier Jullien, Monsieur Lafont ;La Comtesse Belittle, Madame Paul Ernest. To conclude with LE 3I -QOM CRIVACIION. Le Major Crava chon, M. Henri Adis; Dervieres, M. Chatelain ; Olympe, Mille. 31a rot ; Antelie, 3fdlle. Duvenay. PRINCESS'S THEATRE. Mr. J. M. Maddox, soleLesseeand Manager, Portland• place. THIS EVENING, Will be presented Le Brun's comic Opera, entitled THE NIGHT- I.NGALE. To be followed by A EIGHT OF SUSPENSE, by Mrs. Stirling. After which, a new Comic Piece. entitled TILE SULTANA. Solyman, Mr. Ryder ; Osityn, Mr. Compton ; Yuseph. Mr. Henry ; Itoxalana, Madame Anna Thillon; Elmira, Miss Villars ; Ismena, 2diss Hodson. To conclude with a Grand Ballet, entitled ESMERALDA ; or, Use Hunchback at Notre Dame. Esmeralda, Mdlle. Dress Circle, Se.: Boxes, ts.; Pit, 2s. ; Gallery, Is. ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. Under the direction of Mr. Kerschner. Matchless Performances- Unrivalled Company—and the only Pantomime in London. THIS EVENING. Will be performed a Drama, entitled THE BOHEMIANS. Cha racters by Messrs. N. T. Hicks, E. F. Saville, It. Honner, Dale, J. Herbert, H. Lewis, E. Jones, Mrs. R. Howler, and Miss E. Terry. After which, by permission, "LADIBS, BEWARE." To conclude with a Grand Fairy Comic Pantomime, entitled CI N DF.RELLA AND THE FAIRY QUEEN; or, Harlequin anl the Little Glass slipper. Columbine, Mdlle. Theodore ; Harlequin, Mr. Maskell ; Pantaloon, Mr. Morelli ; and Clown. Mr. T. Barry. Manager and Treasurer, Mr. B. S. Fairbrother. ASTLEY'A ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE. Proprietor, Mr. W. Batty. Extraordinary attraction for the Easter Holidays. First appearance these Fiva Years of the celebrated Mr. Van Am burgh and his unequalled collection of trained animals, amongst which will be found tke greatest novelty ever seen, a Mack Tiger, the Rrst ever known to mingle with other animals, and has hitherto been considered untameable. THIS EVENIG, Will be presented a grand romantic Spectacle, written by Boyle Barnard, Esq., expressly to introduce Mr. Van Aniburgh in his , a stounding performance, founded upon a passage in Eug e n e S ue ' s ce lebrated novel of " The Wandering Jew,' and will be produced un der the title ofAmburg MOROK, THE BEAST TAMER. Armand Dugan!, Mr. Van . The Spectacle will be succeeded ily an incomparable routine of Mr. Betty's Scenes of the Arena, in which Signor Chiarini and Mdlle. Marietta Orstnago, from Italy, will have the honour of appearing. The entertainments will couriude with a favourite Farce. During the recess the Theatre has been entirely re-decorated. Box-office open from Eleven till Four. Stage Manager, Mr. W. West. TO CORRESPONDENTS. No communication can be attended to unless authenti cated by tne name and address of the writer. Rejected communications cannot be returned. THE WEATHER.—SuN OFFICE, APRIL 28. THERMOMETER., Lowest, 38 ; Highest, 53; Noon, 43. BAROMETER, 29.95.-WIND N.N.W.; rainy. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE THIS DAY. Morning .. 59 min. lifter 8 i Evening 37 min. after 9 61.,A 49- ;to b 4 444 , 67, t •,‘ ; Ai, .6'r • -Nig gAr heating Pitlt LONDON, FRIDAY, APRIL 23, 1848. Afflicting intelligence is now continually arriving from the seat o f war between dip Denmark and th e Ger manic Confede ra ti on. One t atch co n t a i ns a ru mour of the sudd en d eath of F:Ealcru mouran attack of bron c hiti s. Anothern VII., from recounts a pro longed and sanguinary struggle before chief city of the Scandinavi an Duchy of struggle which is presumed t o have terminated in the capture of that city by the P russ i ans. the vicissitudQs of the conflict can no t b e expecteod to ugh bring the question at issue one jot n earer i ts settle ment, it is impossible not to regard with redoubled interest a kingdom, the integrity of which has been so shamelessly imperilled, and the nationality of which has been so unjustifiably threatened with destruction. Every additional disaster to the Danish armament merely tends to add poignancy to our indignation. That Prus-sia, has drawn the sword of spoliation on the aortheAm banks of the Eider—that Hanover has advanced i n the van of this lawless expedition—that Alecklenbutrgh has abetted the cause of dismember ment—that adventurers and propagandists, as desti tute in principle as in pence, have swelled the ranks of the invedin3 army—are only so many supple mentary argutne,its against the justice of this fede rative conspiracy. It has by no means advanced the THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, APRIL 28, 1848, • r character of the Berlin Government, or elevated the I reputation of the Ches.-lier BUNSEN himself, to find I that represe n tati v e of the Prussian SOVEREIGN undertaking an elaborate defence of a policy I the first feeble development of which excited the universal execration of Europe. The mere . circum stance of an ambassador, situated as the Chevalier BUNSEN is in the capital of Great Britain, publishing an enormous pamphlet to exonerate his Royal master before the population of England, was of itself calcu lated to excite an extraordinary amount of suspicion. Nor would this suspicion be at all dispelled when the pamphlet is found to be a jumble of incongruous facts linked together by sophistries—the fragments of the skeletons of History, hung upon the wires of Misrepresentation. When, moreover, the tone of the pamphleteer proves to be that of a special pleader rather than of a dispassionate antiquary, it becomes insanity to repose an unconditional credence either in the legality of his cause or in the rectitude of his political principles. Already a vast deal has been said as to the respective rights of the competitors, as to the claims of Jutland or Holstein, of Denmark or of the Germanic Confede ration. Chevalier BUNSEN has written ; Mr. Dis- RAELI has spoken; we ourselves have repeatedly commented upon the contrary pleas entered by the different disputants. By this time the problem has become transparent—the subject has been worn abso lutely threadbare under, the friction of debate. To a clear perception and an unbiassed intellect there can no longer remain any doubt whatever as to the crimi nality of the course adopted by the German Princes. If the popular judgment could not be obscured by sophisms or distorted by the guile of a false diplomacy, then the sanctity of the cause of Denmark in claiming Schleswig as an integral portion of her dominions would at this in stant be as indisputable as the librations of the moon or the elliptic orbit of the globe. Such, however, is not the character of the mind of the multitude. Public opinion is unhappily anything but case hardened against deception. And thus it is, that, n otwithstanding all that has been uttered respecting the line of demarcation running. between Schleswig and Holstein, the popular mind is still in a great measure undecided as to the merits of this territorial question. Thi s s t a t e o f i ndec i s i on i s unhealthy, i s unjust, is inexcusable. The facts of the case of themselves, that is to say when they are viewed apart from the declamations of partizanship, are as simple as the merest sum of addition scrawled upon the slate of a schoolboy. Therefore it is that we are distressed at the continuance of this indecision. One argument alone we cannot but regard as conclusive in reference to the indivisibility of Northern Jutland and of Schleswig. It is an argument which has never yet been adduced throughout the whole of this pro longed and elaborate discussion, and it is one which to our thinking is amply sufficient to show the, rea sonableness of the claims of FREDERICK VII. On turning to the general treaty signed in 1815 between the various nations and principalities of Christendom we find (Article LVI.) in the enumera tion of the votes receivable in the Federative Diet this significant item—" Dannemarc pour Hobtein, une voix—Denmark for Holstein, one vote." Not, be it observed, " for Holstein and Schleswig," but " for Holstein" simply. Again (Article LVIII.) in the catalogue of the constituent portions of the General Assembly, there is a still more significant item— " Holstein, trois voix—three votes." Not a word about SchlesWig ! Now we ask any rational man whether the Germanic Confederation would have main tained such a profound silence in 1315 upon this particular, supposing it had entered for a moment into the imagination of any one of its Princes that Germany was being despoiled by this deliberate re servation of the name of one of the principal appa nages of the Crown of Denmark. We defy any ra tional man to answer us in the affirmative. By the reference we have here made, however, to the stipulations of the Treaty of Vienna, we would on no account have it imagined that we regard the claims of Denmark as principally defensible through that international compact. We merely adduce the fact blazoned upon that treaty as an illustration of the belief entertained for centuries before as to the extent and boundaries of the Danish kingdom. So far from the „„ ~,,,,,ryic•nt to the oppo nents of the Germanic expedition, it is merely the confirmation of the truth proclaimed by History, by Time, and by Language. Yes, we maintain it— even by Language. For, although the entire popula tion of Denmark may be correctly described as of Teutonic origin, they are nevertheless in dialect, in manners, and in customs, of four distinct and dis tinguishable stocks. First, the pure Danes in Jut land, Schleswig., and the archipelago of Denmark Proper (including the islands of Zealand, Funen, Laaland, Falster, Moen, Langeland, Bornholm, &c.), where the inhabitants speak a modern ized form of the old Norse language. Se condly, the Angles, who are found principally on the Baltic coast of Schleswig. Thirdly, the Frisians, in the islands of Schleswig, such as Heligoland. And, fourthly, the Germans, who inhabit the federa tive duchy of Holstein. Such are the arguments of dialect, manners, and customs. Yet it is in defiance of them all that the Germanic claim is now instituted for the absorption of Schleswig in the Confederation ! The reason of this anxiety for its absorption is suffi ciently clear, when we remember that out of the Danish population of 2,008,305 souls, the inhabitants of Schleswig, amounting to just 340,121 in dividuals, possess the most fruitful land in the whole of the kingdom of Denmark. For the gratification of this lawless lust of incorporation, the confederate princes of Germany are violating all the laws of nations, of nature, and of GOD. The thun derbolt of retribution must ultimately fall upon their heads, for crime meets always with its expiation, no matter whether the victim of Divine Justice be a Homicide in a Diadem or a Robber in Purple. So long as the proceedings in the very extraordi nary case of GEILS v. GEILS were sub judice, we cautiously abstained from noticing in any manner the allegations brought forward on either side, or the scenes which took place in court during the pro tracted arguments of the learned civilians who con ducted the case for the several parties. Judgment has, however, at length been pronounced, and every circumstance connected with the transaction is fairly before the public. There is now no danger that the course of justice may be impeded, or the mind of the presiding judge influenced by any allusion to the case. His decision has been given, it cannot be re called or varied in the slightest particular, and the grounds thereo', the reasons by which he was influenced in comin g to such conclusions, the state of the law applicable to the subject, the mode of its administration, and the peculiar practice of the court, are all legitimate subjects for comment, and (where they are found erroneous or defective) for reproof and reprehension. We do not now desire to increase the annoyance of the parties who have been so long and so painfully and we should avoid th e s li g h test allusionbefore t the public,the cnse but that it appears to us to fur nish the strongest illustration of the abuses and out We should, therefore, the defects of the present system changes that are so ur g ent however irksome and oint if we shrunk from be wanting the in our tas y l d:t ; l e ty mana a dn s d p teo u d b .p lic journalist s the necessity of a revision o tribunals by which it is unpleasant it might pr t oprove,o f r n t h e e g l e e c c c t l e e d s , i a t s o t i i e n a s i i upons c t od ea new constitution of the that and administered,compreh thecomprehensive ms measures s e u d r ); sf of reform for purpose. October, 1838. Th e y con tinued to re g The parties in the present case were married a t r o rie e d the in r until Sept em b er , 1845 , d ur i t ,g which period four s s ociety an d childre n (d aughters) were bort . I n t h e l a tter month GEILS withdrew h e r se lf from her husband's to his r equest to return forthwitl to his establishment, protecti on , an d h av i ng re fused to accede a suit was instituted as speedily as possible by Mr. GEILS for a restitutionbstc of conjugal rights, and shortly separate afterwards and one di by Itrsg. grounds— forvi z a ., dfiovrorccreuoeltynt, forhree adultery, and for another and b - far more atrocious provocation, which, if well found ed, must have con verted every feeling of love and a .ffection that might previously have existed into the d eepest disgust and abhorrence. The p art i es were possessed of ample funds on both sid es; there was, Us, lrefore, full scope for their respective profassion4t advisers, and , we accordingly find the files of the court I laden with allegations and cross-allegations. many of them wholly irrelevant to the subject, and placing on record the most trifling circumstances, without any beneficial result being obtained, save the vast increase of the proctor's costs," which would almost appear to be the pri mary object of every proceeding in the spiritual courts. Hence we find that no less than two years and a half had elapsed before a decision was pro nounced—and that by no means a final one—for ap peals may possibly be made by which the proceed ings may be protracted for an indefinite period. The delays and expenses, therefore, form just grounds of objection to the practice of the Ecclesiastical Court—the first harassing and wearing out the un fortunate suitors, however ample their resources might be, and the second rendering justice wholly unattainable by persons of moderate means. The manner in which the examination of the witnesses is conducted is also in the highest degree objectionable. Every person who has had the slightest acquaintance with legal proceedings must be well aware of the advantages of a viva voce examination, how truth is thereby elicited from an unwilling witness, how the prevarication and deceit of a false one is exposed. The tone, the manner of a party whose testimony is impeached, must he fully taken into considera tion by th cse who are to dec id e on i ts value ; every gesture is of importance. One witness may attempt to bluster, while another will hesitate ; nothing will be lost on a keen and observant advocate, who will found new ques tions on points arising at the moment, and which he could not have foreseen in the solitude of his cham ber when drafting the interrogatories which were subsequently to be engrossed, and exhibited to the witness by an examiner appointed by the court. It is well known that in the latter case any cross-exami nation is positively ineffective. The witness has full time to consider his answer, and to frame it in such a manner as to escape detection. In Chan cery, where the evidence is taken down in writing, if the facts are disputed, and there is contradictory tes timony on any point, it is usual to send an issue to a jury, for their verdict, before judgment is delivered; but in the Ecclesiastical Court it is otherwise. There the judge decides not only on the law, but on the facts. He is called upon to weigh the value of the conflicting evidence without being allowed the op portunity of doing so in the o nl y manner b y which a satisfactory result could be arrived at. It is, there fore, by no means surprising if his judgments, how. ever much of learning and acuteness may be displayed therein, are by no means satisfactory to the suitors or to the public in general. In this respect also great alterations should be effected to render the ecclesias tical tribunals suited to the spirit of the age and dis tributors of substantial justice. 'We shall shortly return to this subject, and point out other defects in the present system which urgently demand alteration and revision. After having been for a while almo3t forgotten in the superior interest excited by less important matters, the subject of the sanitary condition of the people, generally known as the " Health of Towns Bill," is beginning again to occupy public attention. And it is well that it should do so, for however un attractive such a topic may appear by the side of the many startling events which now daily fill our columns, it is one, literally speaking, of the most vita importance to the great body of the people. It is impossible, however, but that even with the best in. tentions false views may not be adopted by the advocates of this, as of all other measures. An in stance of this is afforded by the remarks of a Con temporary, who very justly insisting upon the neces sity that exists for some immediate attention to this matter, goes so far as to exclaim, " We heartily wish there were no manufacturing towns in Great Bri tain ! " This most astonishing wish is, however, qualified by the following observations : " Manufacturing towns are good for business, but ex ceedingly bad for the health and morals of the popula tion. Philanthropists should make up their minds either to sigh and soy nothing about health, or to abandon the honour and glory of being patrons a Coutrance of the interests of manufacturing capitalists. As for us, we wish well to manufactures, but as we also wish well, and in a greater degree, to the health and morals of the people, we are prepared to sacrifice a pvatioa of manufacturing profit for the sake of getting ail c th. glek r —,,wriin g of those tm.m. We heartily wish there were no manufacturing towns in Great Britain. We by no means wish that Great Britain were without manufactures, but we should wish the factories to be scattered over the country, as they were when water-power was chiefly used in spinning -mills, and power-looms were as yet uninvented. We are aware that such separation of the factories would make manufacturing more expensive, but that we should con sider a far less evil than the filthy towns and the habits which enfeeble and debase our population." These remarks are sufficiently plausible, nay, more, they contain a good deal of truth. The population of the manufacturing towns are certainly exposed to all the evils therein described; but is the fault then to be attributed to the fact of those towns being manufacturing towns ? Are the inhabitants of the agricultural districts better off? So far from that being the case, we are inclined to think their con dition, if possible, even worse. As to their being crowded, which seems to be the chief cause of grievance imputed to the manu facturing towns, the rural districts, strange to. say, are in a similar condition. If they contain fewer persons in a given spot, they likewise contain less accommodation for them. That is, if those disgusting' but heart-rendingdetails reported by the commissioners of inquiry be correct—these reports which tell of whole families crowded into one small room, some times even all sleeping in one bed. It is true that these facts do not in any way exempt the manufacturing districts from complaint. They also, we admit, imperatively demand improve ment. They also, we agree with our Contemporary, are most pernicious to the welfare of the com munity. What, however, we take occasion to object to in his remarks is, the attributing these grievances to the fact of certain towns being manufacturing ones. What we deprecate is the wish expressed that there were "no manu facturing towns in England." A similar course of reasoning it was that took objection to all railway travelling, because it had been in some cases attended with serious accidents, or that deprecated the the of machinery as being prejudicial to the poor, because, in consequence of its use many hand-loom weaveis were thrown out of employment. The error in these cases was in confounding causes and effects, or rather in confusing entirely separate things, and attributing to the one the ill effects occasioned by the other. For example, the censure excited by the railway accidents was due not to that particular spawn of travelling, but to the ignorance or neglect of the parties concerned in it. In the same way machinery, so far from being inimical to manual labour, has im measurably increased it : the temporary suffering its first introduction occasioned to one unfortunate class arose from their incapacity to adapt themselves at once to the new invention. And, in like manner, it is that the miserable condition of the in habitants of manufacturing towns is to be attributed not to the nature of the business there carried on, but to the absence of proper sanitary regulations, by which the health and comfort of the people might be preserved. Such sanitary regulations we earnestly desire to see speedily carried into effect. Such regu lations it is that will prove immeasurably more bene• ficial to the people, whether individually or collec tively, than would the destruction of our manufac turing towns. Madrid papers of the 22d have arrived. The city was tranquil. The editors of the Sig/0 were arrested on the 21st. The Heraldo announces that the King of NAPLES had nominated the Duke DE SERRA CAPRIOLA as for. merly President of the Council of Ministers, Atabas sadur in Spain. MADRID BoLsa, APRIL 22.—The Three: per Cents. were done at 21f for cash ; the Fir per Cents., at 14 for paper; and the Debt without In terest, at 9. ar the A DEBUT OF SIGNOR LALIOUTTA AT JESTY'S THEATRE T ONORROW.—WO have left rehearsal at her Majesty's Theatre, and have heard Signor Laboutta who to-morrow makes his dailt in the character of Count Almaviva in II Barbiere. Ile pos sesses one of the most deliciously sweet high teJlor voices it has ever been our lot to hear. Its flexibility is perfectly astonishing, and it is completely, under com mand. Since the time of Rubini we have not heard such a voice. It is capable of every variety of expression, and in pathetic part s mo r e es pecially We anticipate for Signor Laboutta the greatest triumPhs. THE FRENCH REPUBLIC. --:;~.., PROCEEDINGS AT PARIS. We have received the Paris papers of yesterday. The result of the elections for the Department of the Seine will not be officially proclaimed until Friday (this day), but there can be no doubt but that Lamar tine, Dupont (de l'Eure,) Arago, Marrast, Beranger, and the true (because just and moderate) Republicans will be returned by immense majorities. In every arron. dissement (save one) in which the lists have as yet been examined, they head the poll. In the Bth arron dissement, Albert, Ledru Rollin, and Louis Blanc, head the poll, but the latter has only a majority of 1 over Lamartine ; and Albert, who is at the head of the, poll, has only 11 above Lamartine ; whilst in the Ist arrondissement Lamartine heads the poll with 505, Marrast comes second, with 493, and Dupont (de l'Eure) third, with 472, while Ledru Rollin polls but 114, and stands forty-third upon the list (the ninth lowest of the rejected candidates), Albert but 103, Louis Blanc, 92, and Flocon, 90. It is, however, expected that Louis Blanc, Ledru Rollin, Albert, and Flocon will be returned, but they will owe their return solely to the forbearance and more than good faith of their moderate colleagues in the Provisional Government, who made it a point of honour to include their names in the voting lists of the moderate party, although Ledru Rollin and his clique excluded the names of Lamartine, Mar rest, and Garnier Pages from their lists, and left no means untried to prevent their election. These elections will do more to strengthen the foundations of the Republic in France, and to forward the cause of liberty, of progress, and of self-govern ment throughout the world, than any event which has occurred during the last fifty years — more even than the glorious deeds of the glorious of February. In February France onlyl r on the right of self-government ; conquered days uer ed she now has shown that she can exercise the right she has conquered by governing herself and repress ing those anarchists who would deprive her of all government. The results of the elections in the provinces, so far as the same have become known, are equally satisfac tory. In almost every instance the friends of true liberty have been returned, and the anarchists have been relegated to the bottom of the poll. The accounts received from the Departments state that the elections are everywhere favourable to the moderate party. The name of LANIARTINE is put forward in a vast number of p laces, and it invariably of the poll. The candidates -RonnlN, and among others the , fi t g a u r t r e e d s b a y t heade M. LE pau commissaries, have been beaten wherever they have shown themselves. At Rouen, though the definitive state of the poll is not yet known sufficient has trans pired to show that M. LAMARTINE, M. SEUARD, and the other moderate republicans will have three times the number of voters in their favour than M. DESCHAMPS, the Commissary-General, and M. Du RAND, the head of the ateliers nationaux, will be able to secure. By the last accounts it appears that 12,000 and upwards had voted for the former, while only 3,500 had voted for the latter. In the department of the Eure, M. DUPONT (de l'Eure) has been almost unanimously elected. Those who came nearest to him on the list are MM. GARNIER PAGES, LEGENDRE, DUMONT, LAGRAND, &c. Some serious riots took place at Louviers. At Lille the parties were pretty equally divided, but accounts have been received to-day that the Moderes have the victory. In the department of the Aube, M. LIGNIER, who was deprived by M. LEDRU ROLLIN of the Commissary-Generalship of the de partment, because he was too moderate in his conduct, has been elected by an immense majority over M. CREVAT, the Commissary sent to replace him. In the department of the Gironde, it is stated in letters from Bordeaux that the candi dates who are likely to carry the day are MM. DE LAMARTINE, BILAUDEL, and THEODORE DUCOSI (the former deputies) LUBBERT, SERVIERES, HENRY Ducos, A. LARRIEN, CLEMENT THOMES, COMPENS, Advocate- General, SIMIOT and DENJOI, the ex-sous prefect, who was turned out by M. LEDRU-ROLLIN. Similar results have been received from Marseilles, Metz, Nancy, Strasburg, Caen, Rennes, Tours, Nantes, Orleans, Bourges, Angouleme, Poictiers, Mont. ? pelier, nnu 2f13.,e3 tuia will send Liberal members. ,The number of mem4 bers of the old Chamber (`4 . Deputies who will be returned, will, it is supposed, be much larger than was expected. It is said that the ultra-Republicans will triumph at Lyons, Toulouse, Limoges, Arras, and some other towns of minor importance, but there is now no doubt that at least six hundred out of the nine hundred members of which the assembly will consist, will belong to the Moderate Republican party. The partizans of MAI. LEDEU-ROLLIN and Louis BLANC have been beaten almost everywhere. There cannot now be a doubt but that the National Assembly will be composed of men fully equal to the task which will be imposed upon them of regene rating their country. There is very little news in these papers. The Minister of the United States in Paris, Mr. RICHARD RUSH, waited on Wednesday on M. LAMARTINE, at the Hotel de Ville, and formally re cognised the French Republic in the name of the American Union. The Refor rile states, that in consequence of the arrival of several regiments of the line in Paris, five battalions of the National Guard (mobile) are about to occupy the following posts :—the Bth, the forts of Bicetre and Ivry; the 9th, Combevoie ; the 10th, the forts of Noisy and of Romainville ; the 11th, the fort of Aubervilliers; the 19th, the forts of Issy and of Vannes. The Assemblee Nationale states, that MM. EMILE TAIGNY and EUGENE PIERAON, members of the " Republican Club of Dramatic Artists," waited on the Archbishop of PARIS on Monday last, to request that he would remove the sentence of excommunica tion inflicted by the Council of Arles on the corps of comedians. The Archbishop politely assured those citizens that no sentence of excommunication against comedians existed in the diocese of Paris. The Messager states, that the Central Democratic Club, composed of more than 4,000 members, has presented a petition to the Provisional Government, praying that an inquiry be instituted relative to a Committee of Public Safety stated to be sitting in the Rue Rivoli, under the presidency of the Citizen SOBAIEII. The Toulonnais of the 23d instant announces, that ABD•EL-KADEE was to embark, on that day, in a steamer for Catte, whence he was to proceed by land to Pau. _ . would oui The Constitutionnel states that the Marengo , ship of the li ne , w hich had been laid up in ordinary at rl on ,bNevuemvipuloeyed i rea Ln beprepuroci fur aorviep, and the defence of the port of Algiers. The Minister of Marine has received dispatches from the Commander of the French corvette-of-war Boussolle, dated Curacoa, the 4th of March, announc ing the loss of that ship, on the preceding day, amongst the shoals which line the neighbouring coast. The moment the loss of the Boussolle became known at Caraccas, Captain RicuAnn L. IVAratEN, Commander of the Naval Division of Barbadoes, has tened to apprise the Charge d'Affaires of France, through the medium of the Charge d'Affaires of her Britannic MAJESTY, of his intention to repair with his frigate and the steamer Vesuvius to the relief of the shipwrecked corvette. The Dutch brig-of-war Pyl also arrived to afford assistance. A curious fact connected with the election is stated. All the coalporters, boatmen, and others residing at the Villette outside the Barriere St. Martin, in which is situate the canal Harbour, voted for one candidate only, Prince Lours NAPOLEON, and, in anticipation of his triumph, are enjoying themselves in the surrounding cabanas and cafés. The Moniteur publishes the returns of the exports and imports for the first quarter of 1848. The im ports exceed by rather more than four millions of metrical quintals those of the corresponding period of 1847. There is, however, a falling off in the ex ports, and con=eq•aently in the movement of naviga tion. The number of French vessels employed was 1,000 less than in the first three months of 1847. The Conslitutiorazel gives the following, under the head of Nouvelles de la Cour :—" On Tuesday there was a thjeuner at the Petit Trianon. Ladies wer e invited. M. LEDRU ROLLIN did the honours. There was also a stag-hunt at Chantilly, and &allies in the park of Apremoal';." BOURSE—PARIS, THURSDAY, APRIL 9 7. T HREE ~'CLoCK•—Tht- buoyancy in the rywrket, which was so percei.tib:k: yo,terday, in const-quenee of the of the Paris elections, continued to-day i n a very remark able manner. The Five per Cents. have again risen not less than 4f., closing at 69f.; and the Three per Cents. 2f. 50c., at 47f. It will be perceived that the advance is considerably greater in the Fives than in the Three per Cents., the former being considered in comparison lower than in the latter. A large amount of business was transacted in both, but particularly in the Five per cont 4., : , lien ekr,ed ; Threes, however, were at one moment quoted a franc higher than their closing price. Bank of France Shares underwent great variations during the day ; they opened at 1,575 E, went up to 1,580 f. ; then, givi ng way, fell to 1,480 E, rose again to 1,5001., finally closing at 1,490 E, or 10f, lower than the day before. Roths child's Neapolitan remain as they were, at 53f. 50c. ; Belgian Fives were in demand, and closed at 663 f., or 3f. higher ; and Roman, If., at 551. ; I3ons du Treior were not negotiated all day. Railway Shares were not so firm as the day before, wsny speculators being anxious to realise the large profits aching from the late advance. Some of the working lines, however, are its general some what higher. The Orleans closed at 590 E, or 20f. better; Bordeaux at 3931. 75c., or 3f. 75c. ; Havre at 205 f., or 2f. 59c. ; Strasburg at 356 f. 25c., or If. 25c. ; Rouen are 15f. lower, at 410 E; Vierzon, 10f. lower, at 250 f.; Lyons, 7f. 50e. lower, at 303 f. 75c.; Northern and Nantes, 2f. 50c. lower, at 360 f. and 343 f. 50c. French gold remains at 30f., and the change for a I,ooof. note costs 4f. BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, APII2I, 27. Boulogne and Amiens, OA—ltalian and Austrian, Northern of France, 4 1 A—Paris and Lyons, 2—Rouen and Ham, B—Sambre and Meuse, 4. GERMANY AND THE NORTHERN STATES. AUSTRIA AND HUNGARY. The Bank of Vienna decided, on the 21st, to send off one million of florins (100,0001.) to Linz, another to Brunn, a third to Open, and a fourth to Prague, for the assistance of commerce, and especially the manufacturing districts, the stoppage of the manu factories having deprived thousands of workmen of means of subsistence. The Wiener Zeitung of the 18th of April publishes a decree relative to Styria, which ordains that from the Ist of January, 1849, all quit rents attached to the soil, to demesne lands and right to titles, as also rents in kind, and all services, are to be changed into a money payment based upon an equitable computation. The states of Styria will, in conjunction with the landowners (not members of the Assembly of the States) and the representatives of the class of peasants, immediately consider of a law by which this change can be affected, which law is to be submitted to by sanction. The States of "Moravia and Silesia have unani mously rejected the project of union with Bohemia, which the inhabitants of Prague, by petition, had expressed a wish should take place. In consequence of the discordant views entertained by different parties respecting the position to be held by Austria in the new Germanic Confederation, the Ministry have officially proclaimed, through the medium of the Wiener Zeitung, that although Aus tria is desirous of cementing a complete union with Germany, and will embrace every opportunity of evincing its attachment to the cause of the fatherland, it is not intended either to sacrifice the local interests of the Imperial provinces, or to renounce the inde pendence of the internal government of Austria. The Government, therefore, reserves to itself full power to adopt or reject the decisions of the Confe deration, as it may think proper. The article con cludes with these remarkable words :—" Provided that the last stipulation is not admitted as reconcile able with the character of a Confederation of States (Staaten-bund), Austria will not be in a position to join it." By an ordonnance, fixing in Austria the mode of election to the German Parliament, there will be a deputy for every 70,000 souls; thus 190 members will represent Austria at this assembly. The Municipal Committee of Vienna are about to organize a guard for the security of persons and property, called Sicherheitawache, as a substitute for the old police—the latter force having become too unpopular to be retained in the service. On the 11th, in the morning, cavalry and artillery were dispatched from Presburg to Brilnn, at which disturbances had broken nut. T. the former town ;there are only a piquet of cuirassiers and about 200 foot, for repressing, in conjunction with the National Guard, the excesses continually taking place against the Jews. Colonel Mussnios, Minister of War in Hungary, has been promoted to the rank of general. this morning early for Geneva. It is supposed that it is Cue e;i-kiiiig going, Lt i Jviil LoLA 111oNTEs." DENMARK AND SCHLESWIG HOLSTEIN. REPORTED BATTLE IN SCHLESWIG. We have received the following account of an enga!zemPnt hPtween the German 4 and the DanPs, near Sehlesw4. The intelligence iA very con , 'Aised " RENDSBURG, APRIL 23, 46 ONE O'CLOCK AT NIGHT. " The Prussian troops marched out of this place yesterday afternoon, at three o'clock. They were followed by an almost interminable succession of the other Federal troops, and of our dragoons, who had been quartered in the neighbourhood of Remmels, to recover after their five day a' harassing fatigue at Flensburg. It was not till six o'clock today that the last party quitted Rendsburg, and at half-past seven several waggons arrived, bringing the wounded and a number of Danish troops prisoners They brought the intelligence that on the approach of the Prussians the Danes retired from Kropp to Schleswig, and that between two and three o'clock a fierce combat ensued to the west of Bustorf and close to Schleswig. " At the first point the Prussians, who had vowed to conquer or die, without waiting the arrival of the artillery, stormed the newly-fortified Dannewirke and the embankments thrown up at Bustorf. This combat cost many lives, but terminated in the taking of Friedricksberg and the so•called Erdbeerenberg, while the dykes at Gottorf are still in the hands of the Dimes. The mines placed in the dams by the Danes will scarcely accomplish their object, as the prevailing north•east wind has forced the water of the Schlei into the ditches, and rendered them useless. Simultaneously with the Prussians the Zastrow Corps advanced to Missunde, towards the' left wing ; by the first fire dismounted one of the two batteries of the enemy, then the other, and was in the very act of taking the Ponton. Further down the Schlei, by the estate of Stubbe, the Was mer Free Corps crossed at eleven o'clock, the boat men having made arrangements to transport 1,000 men across at a time. Thus all possibility of retreat was cut off by the Danes. It is true that they have prepared a broad causeway through the Kappellen Angeln, but even if they succeed in reaching their place of embarkation, the east wind will probably pre vent their ships from sailing wherever they are not taken in tow by the steamers. "11 o'clock.—There are continued arrivals of wounded. The number of prisoners brought in is about 30. Schleswig is said to have been taken." The Hamburgh Borsenhalle of the 24th, dated one o'clock P.M., says—" A letter from Rendsburg of this morning (the 24th) says, Schleswig was taken by the Prussians yesterday. The fortress of Gottor was still in the hands of the Danes during the night 1 Two divisions of the Danes, together with several dragoons, are said to have gone over to the Prus sians.' " By another letter from Rendsburg, dated the evening of the 23d, the taking of Schleswig is said to be certain. The Danes, pursued to the eastward, saved themselves at Alissunde by crossing the Schlei, and endeavoured to prevent our troops from pur suing them by maintaining a constant fire of small arms. The guns which they had planted there were dismounted. Of the Prussian troops the 20th and 31st Regiments are said to have suffered the most. "By the train last night we received the intelli gence that Eckenforde had been evacuated by the Danes, who retreated to the head-quarters at Danne wirke. There is to be a general attack to-day. The Schleswig Holsteiners form the right wing, the troops of the 10th Army Corps the left wing, and the Prussians in the centre." COPENHAGEN, Armr. 19. We learn from a letter written by one of the stu dents detained on board the Dronning Maria the following facts respecting the manner in which the prisoners were treated : " We can assure our Hamburgh friends that the re ports in circulation there, that we are compelled to suffer hunger, that we have been forced to the public works, arid other similar statements, are utterly without foun dation. On the contrary, ovvr ait•iinti , vo Dinue we have neen on board the Dronning Maria is perfectly tolerable, though by no means enviable." TAUNG OF SCHLESWIG•HOLSTEIN BY THE CONFEDERATE ARMY. (LATER PARTICULARS.) Since the above was in type we have received the following official dispatch, which was forwarded by General Wrangel, respecting the taking of Schles wig : " Head-quarters, Schleswig, April 23, 1848, Eleven o'Clock at Night. "To the whole Provisional Government of the Duchy of Schleswig-Holstein. " I have the honour to transmit to the Provisional Government the joyful intelligence that after an obstinate engagement of several hours the Danes have been defeated, and the city of Schleswig, so far as the Gottorp Schleszdanwn, fell into our hands about two o'clock this afternoon. " The attack was afterwards renewed by the left wing, whereby the city of Schleswig was surrounded, and our troops penetrated as far as the Chaussee at Flensburg. At half-past seven the battle was over, in consequence of the encompass ing of the city. The castle of Gottorp was evacuated by the Danes. (Signed) " VON WRANGEL, " Royal Prussian General of Cavalry." A LTONA, Aran. 24.—1 f we may believe verbal reports, the battle of Schleswig was very bloody. The Prussians, without waiting for their artillery, stormed the place at the point of the bayonet, and the Danes most obstinately defended their position. As these positions were for the most part very strong, the taking of them cost much blood on our side. The noble Alexander Regiment is said to have suf fered exceedingly, and many waggons laden with the wounded continue to arrive at Rendshurg. Some accounts state that 2,000 men were killed and wounded. An unconfirmed report says that two battalions which were recruited in the duchies, and the dragoons, many of whom were natives of Schles wig, deserted to the Germans in large bodies. HAMUURGII, APRIL 24, NINE O'CLOCK AT NIGHT.—The train this evening from Rendsburg says the Federal troops have advanced two leagues beyond Schleswig ; that the advanced posts have entered Flensburg itself, amid the loud acclamations of the inhabitants, and that the Danes had retired in the greatest confusion to Angeln. The loss on both sides have been very considerable. The Prussian regiment alone had 100 men killed.—Hamburgh Cor respondent, April 25. RENDSBURG, APRIL 24.—1 t is impossible to give an exact estimate of the dead and wounded. Ihe battle was very sanguinary, but the proportion of the wounded far exceeds that of the dead. Up to Mon day morning, at nine o'clock, 116 wounded Prussians were brought into Rendsburg hospital, and, of course, those who were most severely wounded still lie at Schleswig. The 20th Regiment nlonp has lost ICO men. The loss of the Danes must have been still greater. Every place is covered with their slain. The number of prisoners this evening (24th) is 200 brought in here, and others are still on the road. In Schleswig it is asserted that the whole of the 13th battalion, which consists of Schleswigers, were taken prisoners. They had received a promise from the King that they should not act against their country men, and should only be employed in the garrisoning of the castle. After the departure of the King this promise was observed, and they therefore suffered themselves to be taken prisoners. We will not vouch for the authenticity of this report. General Von Wrangel has issued the following order of the day : "Chief-command of the Duchies of Schleswig-Holstein. " ORDER OF TUE DAY. "By a resolution of the Germanic Confe deration the chief command of the German troops now assembled in the Duchy of Holstein has been committed to me ; and I have this day undertaken the command. Tl.e Chief of the Staff is the Prussian Major-General Von Stock hausen, until whose expected arrival that service will he performed by Major Von Kirchentield. Th e commanding officer of Artillery, who is expected this evening, is the Prussian Colonel Von Fidler. As officer of of the Ordnance the command is to be undertaken by , a Hungarian an d S c hl esw i g-Holstein officer. The Staft guard i s comm i tted to the Prus sian troops.' At the commencement of hostilities the following proclamation was issued : " Soldiers,—The rights of Germany have been violated by the Danes, and it is your resolve to main tain them. Having been appointed your general in com mand by the Germanic Confederation, I consider it a peculiar honour to be permitted to lead on to this combat. The tried valour of yourselves and of your leaders are a pledge of the result. Onward for Ger many ! This be henceforth our motto, and with God for our guide the v i c t ory i s ours. All had one corn- anon fatherland, all had Germany ! And now on , "VON WRANGEL, " The Royal Prussian General of Cavalry. " Rentisburg, April 22, 1848." RENDsnueo, APRIL 21—Danish prisoners con tinue to arrive here from time to time. They are, may well be supposed, treated with that considera but tion and respect which is due to misguided valiant warriors both by the authorities and by the public. Severn) of the pri!i(aleis their officers toll tla to that ev6y Pri 3nn " . would be immediately beheaded here, and they are therefore the more surprised at the reception which they meet with. D ISHONOURAB LE TREATMENT OF THE DEAD AN f thD WOUNDED.—The Schleswig - Holst ein Gazette oe 24th says :—" With the deepest re g ret and feeling of shame at the conduct of our own countrymen, we publish the following letter from a German officer "`Schleswig.—Early on Monday morning, scarcely was the battle at Schleswig ended, when we every' where saw Schleswigers on the field plundering the dead. The Danes at Flensburg had invariably thrown a handkerchief over the face of the dead, and had mounted sentinels, who, however, `.ere not in every case able to prevent tn. occasional pillage of a watch or money. The Ger.- mans had neglected to use the precaution, a nd their negligence was .fearfully avenged. The Gerinaa rabble plundered the dead, nay, is it not probable that many who were severely wounde d were treated 1 0 1 0 1 like manner by this impious hord e, and strippe. t. their very shirts ? I never witne ssed a more fear scene than this array of corpses in a barn. M but a n Y b ( , them were naked ; one officer had nothing l shirt and coat, but everything else was that trousers, shoes, stockings, nay, everything at w available was gone. These ma rauders are a d i r grace to the war. The sig ht was terr tile. I shall never forget it. In the pan' ru" of humanity, I entreat that measur es be taken,to p vent the recurrence of such atrocious scenes. vivid The letter is written from the camp , on the first impression of the revolting scenes. Our reporter a man of the most tried integrity, and if he shoo zit have taken too gloomy a view, we shall rejoice but the doubt. We became acquainted with tn` i Danish rabble at Flensburg ; but we have learn ed that the Germans are by no means superior. . lIAMBURGH, APRIL 25.—A private C O malun l i c , d '.ion considerably reduces the number of the killed and wounded at the battle of Schleswig. I n t o o 20th and 31st Regiments there are from 150 to ° rendered unfit for service, including 50 killed. Ja the Emperor Alexander's there are 9 killed fitolo wounded. 120 Danish prisoners are shut uP fortress at Gottorp. The Duke of Brunswick 1..1. turned to the scene of action by this nwrnings When the luggage train lc ft Rendsburg at half-past eleven o'clock, there was no further 11' telligence from the seat of war. • Mo' COPENHAGEN, APRIL 22.—The health of jesty was so far improved that he intends leaving this tor ni q: Fredericia for Odensee in the course of a fevi Orders have been received at that place for bis • jesty's arrival.—Harnburgh Borsenhalle , April ,„ lIAMBURGH BORSENIIALLE, AP le IL 25. e"ef. Austrian 5 per Cents •• Bank Shares ••.•••••.••••••• Loan ..• ••••••• • •• •• , :s Russian 5 per Cunt., Ilamb. Certificate. •--- --- Ditto Ist seriesinscription.• ••••• • .• • • -- Ditto,Plope andCo.,Sit and 4th series•• --- ••••• Ditto, in Certificate ••••••••• • • • • • • • • • ..... New 4 per Cent., Hope and Co. ••• • •• 05 Ditto Stieglitz ...• ••••••••• • • • • • • • • --,, Oe Spanish New 5 per Cent • • - . . --• Ditto 3 per Cent .. • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Anglo-Portuguese Loan, 294 per Cent • • Dutch Actual Debt, 294 per Cent. • • • • • Ditto 3 per Ce;it.:•:• • • • • • • • • • • • • Polish New 4 per Cent. I .oan, 1844 • • • • Anglo-Danish Loan, 3 per Cent ••• • • • National Bank Shares.. • • • • • • • • • • • • • POAD. , The following proclamation has been issued bythe Central National Committee of Poland :--- t „ m ost " When, in the year 1846, in contravention o f ° te. roe s solemn treaties, and as if to fill ep the measure fcc,.,,covitt perpetrated on the Polish nation, the Republic of ; ,b o• the last remnant of our independent countrY, w h a na tioa fished and incorporated into Austria, the li s ' oci declared this act to be the final partition of 11011 %t;r 0 1 4 summoned its perpetrators before the tribunal ° I and posterity— " Punishment soon followed the criate, ea. o f 00 te 3 oce " t the preset momnt, in receive in offic h ia l nennpla• meat of a new partition of Poland being in Nate not u* Lion. Indeed, we could not believe it, had i t the communicated to us by authority. " Under the very dubious pretence that in sane " districts of the Grand Duchy of Posen, the Ger/1411c' are more numerous than the Poles, reactionary to tionaries, oblivious of the most sacred rights, une h ' e e • understand the spirit of our time and its e g e (!t '. anxious only to retain their places, have, by . au l t i, spurious agitation in favour of German tilastionskoil,„ compelled the higher authorities to give Guise that such districts will be separated e l l ' a pr from , Duchy of Posen, and incorporated ith the Gera"' Confederation. a We declare most solemnly, that, true to the wh ° „ 4 l. tenour or our history, the Polish nation will, as 500 0 , 4 it becomes free and independent, leave the free of government nationality to those portions of tb ° ,, -- country which, from their contiguity with other n": Lions, seem now of a doubtful and mixed ehariecnter; but as long as this restoration of the whole of i 0 l e ns dent Poland shall not have been accomplished, s°r°ol)r we shall consider the separation of any - portion , 1 - ' i t ' tt country as a new partition of Poland; and we e l l u e ro l p r : enter our solemn protest before the nivions °' against so lawless an act, anti arraign the 01. ig iu ,it t e u ef and the perpetrators of this scheme bfore the the present generation and posterity. (Signed) JAROCHOWSKI, M. ATIELZYNSIII, CAS' PRUSINOWSKI, LIBELT, POTWOROV/ssl' SIDS, MORACZEWSKI, STO3ICZNROO KI ' " Posen, April 17, 1848." the i n' The Courrier de Cracovie announces that at -" fou r stigation of the Prince-Governor a deputation e c i l by of the principal magnates of Poland, h eade t Sr. KRASINSKI, will present itself to the Eursn cs hi ., a Petersburgh, with the object of entreating for 1 ; .. - 0 . 0 0 establishment of the kingdom of Poland a s t ' v ect e previous to the revolution, and for taking all nyn sary steps that those parts not actually now t b j r-- r t he part of Poland may be also united together unued Russian the Crown. Of those parts, Gallic/a d a two' Grand Duchy of Posen ar e to be understooso 1.0 If the Prince Governor be really the pers°ll a vvih lllpor' advised this st e p, th e i n f ormat i on is of gr eat , tance. From Ko n i gs b erg , un d er date o t . " n - tos ise April, we hear tbat three regiments oftbei Guards some days since left St. Petersburg;Q.s• will take up their quarters for the present at •".: 1 7 awl The Germans . of the towns of 1(rotose111091 Zdmir have published an open letter to the r , ener sl Commissioner for the Grand Duchy of Posen , ' eden ce, %VILLISEN. It contains a vote of want of f the nnvoisl caused by the ultr a -P o li s h t en dencies r os ia eomulissioner, whom they re proach wi th hily bot ind i his he, concessions t o th e Poles overstepPe4 t of his office. They lay grea t s tress on the (le nerlics c oa permitting part o f th e P o l es t o co ntinue in 91313a01t his promise of an amnesty even to dezerters, that t he d ' e rea the rashness of his pledging his word would ratify these concessions, whi ch endalli l lbel it the safety of the German population of P °sen. s sad declare that they will not obey any of his Order b; lllte that, till the KING himself shall have decideci of the provin ce , th e y w ill ac k now ledge no rale w' of that of the former Government. a der Another manifesto addressed to the Colll°3 a v -t the Prussian forces in Posen, General Cn i f 'j dated the 15th i ns t., h as b een published 4 , 5 i0, . Germans of th e t own an d d is t r i c t of lirot nse- d i s tri c the name of the German population of the het and the province. It r e mi n d s General CoLo°ll,oo3 little sympathy the ultra-Polish mo vemen t tb olia among the peasantry o f P osen till the 0 1, 0° clergy took the agitation in hand, and, ac ting the prejudices and superstitions of the ing sse LbaV ticized the unci v ili ze d an d b en i g ht e d Polish "-0 trc tants of the count r y di s t r i cts. Th e y adve rt " ro teip greatness and immi nence o f th e danger, a nd ,,, P , e a tti t that the Archbi s h o p o f P osEN mus t be i n exert the ,yhole o f hi s i n fl uence w ith the ele r g f :og f ,' a atop to these cri m i na l an d d estruc tive Pr oto n and conclude by p e titi on i ng G enera l C o l,ogn t 1 their cause with the Archbishop RUSSIA. fe cee The A u 7, gsuurg Gazette states that, by tb e e' mendation ei of M ars h a l P ASKIE WITZ, GOVerrifrOo nra of Pol a nd, a deputation was to proceed r w arsaw to St. Petersburgh, to solicit the Ever t , at RUSSIA to re-establish Poland in the same Poli tic : o to existed b e f ore th e revo l u ti o n of 1830, a s weld pol'i demand 4 the union of all the parts of rolanui etor subject to other S o vereigns into one state. 4 ' ve / from Berlin states that General DE PrIJEL 113' at of sent to St. Petersburgh, it was suppose d to tre oe' the situation of Poland; and that an Austri3fiirgh neral was to proceed from Vienna to St. l'eteSsm- - at the same time, for the same purpose. AVALLACHIA• A letter from Buch a r es t, on the 6th of -4Pl„i' the Suabian Mercury, sa y s :—" The fears 011 the out ject a of a conspira c y w hi c h was expected to breftti‘ 03 8 not yet been r ea li se d. It appears th tjeo' have i reti Russian consul has exerc ised a sort of inter y say M. DE KoTzEnug h as receited 0003 The PRUSSIA. An Extraordinary Supplement to the Prussian Slates Gazette of the 23d, announces the following important intelligence :—" From official information which has but this moment arrived, the Danish Go vernment has given orders, under date of the 19th, to detain all German vessels which may be lying in the Danish seaports, and to seize all Prussian mer chantmen." A. letter from Konigsberg of the 20th, in the Cologne Gazette, states that the port and fortress of Pillau has been put into a satisfactory state of defence, so that any attack from the sea can be vigorously re pulsed. No shipping business whatever is going on in that port, partly on account of the danger threat ening from the attacks of the Danes, and partly because no corn whatever has been imported from Poland and Russia. The electoral committee of Catholics at Cologne have just voted (24th) an address to the ICING, in which they declare, that although opposed to the in direct elections, they ask for the sake of order, and out of respect to the existing laws, that the approach ing elections may take place in the mode marked out by the electoral law, as it at present is. FRANKFORT-ON-THE-MA INE. On the 23d of April the Committee of Fifty-six (the number has been increased by the admission of the Austrian deputies) had two very tempestuous sit tings. The following resplutions were adopted after a protracted and violent debate : The first of May is to be maintained as the day fixed by the Preparatory Assembly fur the meeting of the Constituent Assembly. The constitution of the Assembly will depend upon the number of deputies already arrived. This constitution must, at all events, be complete befere the 18th of May next. The Committee is to require the Germanic Diet to abstain from any further decision in this respect. The last resolution was adopted by 22 members against 21. 'the Committee resolved also unanimously that the President is to insist upon the completion of the Diet, as most of the former members of that Federal body have ceased to sit, and no new Deputies have been appointed in their place. The Germanic Diet had also a sitting yesterday. The Prussian Envoy proposed the admission into the Germanic Diet, conformably to the wish of the in habitants, of several districts of the Grand Duchy of Posen, bordering the federal territory, and in which the greatest portion of the population is German. The total population of these districts amounts to 5913,000 souls. The motion was adopted unanimously. SWITZERLAND. A letter from Basle of the 22d states that the rebel lIEcx.ER, who had taken refuge there after his defeat by the troops of Wurtemburg, had received orders to quit. It was rumoured at Basle that STRUVE and HERWEGH had also made their appearance there to raise recruits among the Germans. On the 21st a band of 2,500 Germans, commanded by SIEGER DE SCROFFEIN, assembled at Basle, rather better armed, it is said, than the band which HECKER had com manded, but on the news of the defeat of lI.EcKER, and the approach of the troops of Bavaria and Wur temburg, they made a hasty march towards Schonau. A letter from .Berne of the 22d says —" The Diet has adjourned its sittings to May 12. Before separating it adopted the report of the Committee charged with the distribution of the sums subscribed in favour of the victims of the war against the Sonderbund. It referred to a Committee the demand of the Cantons of Uri, Schwitz, Zug, and Underwalden, to have the sequestration taken off which had been placed on the ammunition and stores belonging to them, and seized on at Tessino. It also heard s everal communications relative to the events occurring in Germany. A personage, guarding the stric test incognito, arrived here last night, and put up at the Hotel du Faueon. lie left