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fEIiTHiS BY THE AUTHOR OF "THE NEIGHBOURS," " THE 11031 E," /cc. Now ready, at all the Libraries, in 3 vols., F REDRIKA BREMER'S NEW NOVEL, " BROTHERS AND SIiTERS." 4 Tale of Domestic Life. Traplated from the Original Unpublished Manuscript. By MARY HO ITT. Haw Colbtirn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. CO NTRACT for BRITISH OP TIMBER, TELICKSTUFF, PLANK, and TREENAILiL Depareseent of the Storekeeper General of the Navy. Somerset -place, 22d May, 13411. The Commissioners for executing the earne of Lord High Admiral Of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, do hereby give notice that on TitunsnAr, the 29th June next, at one o'clock, they Will be ready to treat with such persons as may be willing to Con tract for supplying, 20,009 d Loads of BhIITISII OAK TIMBER (rough contents, but to hedelivered hi a rough or sided state as the said Commis - lioness shall direct). 4,1'00 Loads of BRITISH OAK, THICKSTUFF, and PLANK and 840,000 BRITISh OAK TREENAILS. To be delivered at Her Majesty's several Dockyards by the 31st December, 1850, rices including all carriage and other expenses. A Tender may Mrmade for the whole Contract, or for the quanti ties required for any one or more of the yards, but not for less than the full quantities of Timber, Thickstutf, Plank, and Treenails re quired for any one yard. A Form of the Tender showing the distribution, sidings, and idniensions of the Timber, Thickstuff, Plank, d ee an Trnails, and all other necessary particuiars, may be had on application to this Office, by letter or otherwise. No Tender will be received after One o'clock on the day of treaty, nor any noticed, unless the party attends, or an agent for him eluly authorised In writing. Every Tender must be addressed to the Secretary of the Admiralty, and bear in the left hand corner the words " Tender for British Oak," and must also be delivered at Somerset -place, accompanied by a letter, signed by two responsible persons, engaging to become bound with the person tendering, in the sum o f 20,9001., for the due 'performance of the whole Contract, or in a due proportion for a part only. ORLEANS and BORDEAUX RAILWAY COMPANY. EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL MEETING. Notice is hereby given, that an Extraordinary General Meeting of all the Shareholders in this Company will be held at Hertz's Rooms, Rue de la Victoire, Paris, on WEDNESDAY, the 31st May instant, at 'Three o'clock in the Afternoon, to consider the project of the French Government for the expropriation of the Railway Companies, and the conditions offered to the Shareholders, in the event of the ex propriation being voted by the Legislature. On this occasion every Shareholder will be admitted without re ference to the number of his Shares. Shares may be deposited at the Offices of the Company, No. 5, Rue de Trois Freres, Paris, and cards of admission obtained up to Twelve o'clock a t Noon on the day of the Meeting. Shareholders who cannot attend in person are earnestly requested to send their proxies to the Company's Offices, 2, Capel-court, Lon don, on or before MONDAY, the 29th of May, or direct to the Office in Paris, so as to arrive on the morning of the day of the Meeting. Forms of Proxy may be obtained on application at the Offices of the Company in Paris and London ; and of Messrs. Barned and Co., bankers, Liverpool. By order of the Directors, CHARLES PONS, Secretary. 2, Capel-court, London, May 22, IS4B. HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. bidlle. JENNY LIND. The Mobility, Subscribers to the Opera, and the Publis are respect billy informed that a Grand EXTRA NIGHT will take place on THURSDAY next, May 25, on which occasion Mdlle. JENNY LIND will appear as LUCIA, in Donizetti's Opera of LUCIA DI LAM XERMDOR. To be followed by various entertainments in the Ballet Depart ment, combining the talents of Mdlles. C. Grisi, C. Rosati, M. Tag- Loin, Cerito, and MM. Perrot and St. Leon. The free List is suspended, the publ i c Press exce officeed. Pit Tickets may be obtained as usual at the Box- Theatre, price 10s. 6d. each. of the Applications for Boxes, Pit Stalls, and Tickets to b e made at the rtox-office of the Theatre. HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. Second Appearance of Madame TADOLECT. Second Appearance of Mr. REEVES. The Nobility, Gentry, Subscribers to the Opera, and the Public are respectfully informed that Madame TADOLEOir will make May her se and appearance appearance is this country TO-MORROW VENING, 23, will be performed Donizetti's Opera of LINDA. DI CIIANIOUNI. Linda, Madame Tadolini ; Pierotto, 3ldlle. Schwartz; Antonio, Signor Coletti ; Carlo, Signor Reeves ; Ii Marchese di fioisfleurY, Signor F. Lablache ; Ii Prefetto, del Villagio, Signor Lablache. To conclude with the admired Balle N t Divertissement, entitled LES ELENIES. Applications for Boxes, Stalls, and Tickets, to be made at the Box-office of the Theatre. The F`rie List is suspended, the public Press excepted. Doors open at half - past Se ven, and com mence at Eight THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Under the Management of EVENING Mr. B. Wbster, sole Lessee. THIS Will be performed WIVES AS THEY WERE, AND MAIDS AS TREY ARE. Lord Priory, Mr. Farren; Sir William Dorrillon, Mr. Cresvrick ; Sir George Evelyn, Mc. 'l owa ; L ady Mary Radio, Mrs. Glover; Miss Dorrillon, Mrs..Nisbett. After which a new piece called the PAS DE FASCINATIGN. To conclude with a Grand Romantic Extravaganza, founded on Horace Walpole's mysterious production, and called THE CASTLE OF OTRANTO. Manfred, Mr. Keeley ; the Marquis Vincenzo., Mr. J. Bland; Theodore, Miss P. Horton ; Odonto, Mr. Caulfield ; Hip polito, Mrs. W. Clifford; Isabella, Miss Reynolds; Matilda, Mrs. Caulfield. Stage Manager, Mr. Farren; Acting Manager, Mr. F. Webster. J. T. Archer, vex-book keeper. Boxes, ss. ; Pit, 35.; Gallery, 2s. ; Upper Gallery, Is. Doors open at Ralf-past Six, Performance to continence at Seven. TEIEATRE ROYAL, :DELPHI. Under the direction o: Madame Celeste. THIS EVENING Will be performed a new and original Drama, called HARVEST HOME. Principal charactors by Messrs. 11. Hughes, Lambert, Wright, P. Bedford, 0. Smith, Madame Celeste, Miss Woolgar, Mrs. Frank Matthews, Miss Turner, &c. After which a new Farce, called GOING TO THE DERBY THE DERBY DAY. T. conclude with the Farce of SHOCKING EVENTS. In which Mr. Lambert, Mr. Worrell, Mr. Munyard, Miss Harding, and Miss Chapinwill perform. Boxes, 45.; Pit, 2s. ; Gallery, Is. I.lors open at Half-past Six, Performance to commence at Seven. ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE. Under the Management of Madame Vestris. Sole Lessee. Mr. Charles Matkews. THIS EVENING, Will be performed THE SCARECROW. Principal characters by Messrs. Buckstone, Selby, Granby, and Charles ; Mrs. C. Jones, Miss Lee, and Mrs. Fitzwilliam. After which, a new Interlude, entitled THE FAST MAN. To conclude with a new and original Classical Extravaganza, entitled THESEUS and ARIA_DNE ; or, the Marriage of Bathes. Principal characters by Messrs. C. Mathews, 11. Hall, S. Smith, F. Cooke ; Miss Fitzwilliam, Miss Jane Coleman, Miss Marshall, and Madame Vestris. Dress Duxes, 55.; tipper Boxes, 4s. ; Pit, 2s. ; Gallery, is. No hall-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. 33, Old Bond-street. Last Night but Four of the Engagements, and Eighth Appearance since 1845 of M. Achar6l, also Eighth Appearances in this Country of Kele. Desiree and M. Julien Deschamps (of the Theatre du Gymnase, Paris). THIS EVEVING, The Entertainments will commence at halt-past Seven o'clock when Will be performed a new Vaudeville, in One Act, entitled LE PETIT-ILLS. Benjamin, M. Julien Deschamps; Theodore, M. Josset ; Fougeres, M. Tourillou ; Madame Darmantieres, Madame ValnaY ; Henriette, atdlle. Marot. Aftoer which a new Vaudeville, entitled MADEMOISELLE AGATIIE. Jean-Felicien Bergeret, M. Achard ; Annette, Mdlle. Desiree. To be followed by BABIOLE ET JOBELOT. Jobelot, M. Achard ; Babiole, Mdlle. Desiree. To conclude with LA VIE EX PA.RTIE DOUBLE. Theophille Trinquit, M. Achard; Amanda, ildlle. Desiree. Itozes, he. ; Pit, 3e. Gd. ; Amphitheatre, 3s. ; Gallery, 23. Bones and Stalls may be obtain , :d at Mr. Mitchell's Royal Library, ST. JAMES'S THEATRE. ROBERT TIOUDINT (ot the Palais Royal, Paris).—The sur prising and interesting perfzipances of ROBERT HOUDIN, having been received with the mat enthusiastic admiration, he will con- Untie his extraordinary SOIREES FANTA , TIQUES at the St. James's Theatre, TO-MORROW, and every Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday Evening, comprising Antomates, Prestidigitation, Magic, and original experiments, invented by Robert Iloudin. Also, Second Yne Escamotage de Roberts Hondin, ills, and Suspension Ethereene. Doors open at Eight, the Exhibition to commence at half-past Eight, and terminate before Eleven. Boxes, 4s. ; Pit, is. Boxes and stalls, may be had at Mr. NIITC LI ELL'S Royal Li brary, 33, Old Bond street , and at the Box-office of the Theatre, which is open daily from Eleven to Five. In compliance with numerous appiinations, a DAY PERFORM .ANCE will be given on WEDNESDAY 3IORNING next, May 24. Doors open at Two o'clock. c;uI(AL SURREY THEATRE. Under the direction of Mr. Kerschner. Unequalled Attraction, for this Week only. Engagement of Mdlle. Annie!, principal dancer from the Grand Opera at Paris; Mr. Flexmore, the celebrated buffo dancer; Malls, Louise and Adele, and a numerous Ballet Company, from her Ma jeety's Theatre, will appear. THIS EVENING. Will be performed Sbakspere's Original Tragedy THE LIFE AND DEATH OF KING RICHARD THE THIRD, with a powerful and effective cast. After which a Grand Ballet, entitled THE CONTRABANDISTS, In which Mdlle. Auriol, Mr. Flexmore, M. Duelin, Mdlls. Louise and Adele, &c., will appear. To conclude with Hoes original OLIVER TWIST, splendidly cast. Manager and Treasurer, Mr. B. S. Fairbrother. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE. Proprietor, Mr. W. Batty. Daum Change—Brilliant Spectacle—Grand Equestrian Fete. THIS EVENING, Will be revived, with great splendour, M. G. Lewis's Grand Ro mantic Equestrian Drama of TIMOUR THE TARTAR, in which Xr. Batty's unrival ed stud of highly.trained horses will appear. To be followed by THE SCENES OF TILE ARENA, introducing the British Artistes in their unrivalled performances. First appear ance of Mr. Batty's highly-trained Hanoverian Paltl•eys. TO conclude,with the favourite Farce of THE SECRET, 110 S-office open from Eleven till Five. Stage Manager, Mr. W. West. ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA, COVENT- GARDEN. — The performance at the Royal Italian Opera on Saturday evening was honoured by the Duke and Duchess of Beaufort and the Ladies Somerset, the Duke and Duehess of Montrose and Lord and Lady Ernest Bruce, Viscount Dupplin and Mr. and Lady Rose Lovell, the Duke of Leeds, the Duke and Duchess of Roxburgh, the Mar quis of Titchfield, the Earl of Lincoln, Earl cf Cawdor, Earl Besborough, Earl of Eglinton, the Countess Paulet, Viscount and Viscountess Dungarvon, Viscount Mande ville, Ebrington, Lady Laura Fitzroy, Viscount and Viscoptess Guernsey, Viscount Lascelles, Lord and Lady Carrington, Lord William Thynne, Lord Stuart de Decies, Lord Pomfret, Lord Bateman, Lord George Manners, Lord Elphinstone, Lady Cottenham and the Hon. Miss Pepys, Lady Morgan, Lady Lawley, Lady Whitehead, Lady Domvile, Lady Scott, Lady Paulet, lAdy Ingelby, Lady Smyth and Hon. Mrs. Smyth, Lady Joddrell, Dowager Lady Suffield, Lady Webster, Earl Strafford, Lord Templemore, Hon. Jerrold Dillon, Hon. Mrs. Vaughan, Hon. Mrs. Craven Berkeley, Hon. Bowes Lyon, Hon. F. Scarlet, Hon. E. Mildmay, Hon. G. Mulles, Hon. J. Fortescue, Hon. Mrs. Upton, Hon. Spen cer Couper, Hon. Gerald and Mrs. Dillon and Hon. Miss Dillon, Hon. F. Chichester, Sir H. Webb, Sir G. Army. tage, Sir William and Lady Medlicott, Sir George Clerk, Sir F. Booth, Baron de Steinberg, Sir William and Lady de Bathe, Miss de Bathe, Sir Compton Domvile, Sir Charles Marshall, Mrs. Charles Mills and the Misses Mills, Miss Burdett Coutts and party, Miss Byrne, Mrs. Sebastian Smith, Mrs. Mountjoy liartyn, Major-Gene ral Campbell, R.A., Colonel Blane, Colonel B. Knox, ALP., Colonel Wingfield, Major Jones, Captain Seymour, Captain Tottenham, Captain de Bathe, Mr. D. C.'Webb, 34r. W. G. Duncan, Mr. J. Loyd Clayton, Mr. Samuel pagers, Mr. Henry Greville, Mr. H. T. Hope, M.P., M r . Burroughea, M.P., &c. CONIFIPIATION OF MILITARY BEFORE HER MA -1;i A ND PRINCE ALBERT. —Yesterday morning an impressive ceremony took place at the Waterloo Chapel, James's. park, i n t h e presence of her Birdcage - w alk ' Majesty, his Royal Highnesso _ Prince Alb ert, hi s R oya l Hi g h nes s the Prince R o y al Prussia, his R o y a l High ness the Duke of Cambridge, and other members of the Royal Family, the Duke of Welliegton,and;several ge neral officers, who were present to witness the rite of confirmation conferred on about 197 non-commissioned officers and privates of the Horse Guards, the Greaadier, Coldstream, and:Scots Fusilier Guards. The cereraotp, was performed by the Right Rev. the Bishop o f Lon- On. The public were not admitted. TO CORRESPONDENTS. No communication can be attended to unless antheati- cated by tne name and address o 4 the writer. Rejected communications cannot be returned. " Citizen Richard Paternoster"—Our correspondent is too much of a plagiarist and has too little apprecia tion of the new Act for the Security of the Crown and Government, to allow of the publication of his letter. Almost every one of the articles already for warded has emanated from the suggestions of the late Provisional Administration of the French Republic, and consequently the attempt to depreciate the sagacity of those statesmen by the writer of the communication is as unfounded as it is gratuitous. THE WEATHER—SUN OFFICZ, MAT 21. TEERMOMETER, Lowest, 42 ; Highest, 60; Noon, 61. BAROMETER, 30.30. WIND.S.W.; occasional light showers. MAY 22. rIIERMOMETER, Lowest, 55; Highest, 65; Noon, 65. BAROMETER, 30.36.—W1ND N.N.W. ; fine. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE THIS DAY. Morning .. 16 min. after Evening 32 .. min. after 3 - 1,7 Wiling atm LONDON, MONDAY, MAY 22, 1848. Germany is yearning for the consolidation of its disjointed kingdoms and principalities into one solid and durable nationality. Italy is agitated with a similar ambition. Both will require an extraordi nar y amount of patience , self-sacrifice, and resolution be fore their aspirations can be realised. Both will have to surmount a multitude of unforeseen difficulties before their several confederations can be established with any degree of permanence. Before we can thoroughly demonstrate the existence of these obsta cles, and the certainty oftlieseperils to the comment ermans and Italians , it will be necessary to sepa rately and deliberately upon the circumstances which h ave recently transpired in th ese two important divi sions of the European continent. On. Thursday, the 18th o f M ay, 1848, t h e N at i ona l Parliament of Germ any assem bl e d i n a temporary structure raised within St. Paul's Church at Frankfort. Regarded as an isolated fact, the convocation and first assemblage of the Imperial Senate of Allemania is an occurrence calculated to inspire the imagination with a thousand sanguine and seductive visions of futurity. The shouts which greeted the solemn inauguration of the Legislature, the pomp of the ceremonial, the pa triotic energy of the deputies, the first sound of the voice of the Provisional President announcing the formal constitution of the new Parliament, even the blazonry of the national banners—black, red, and gold—suspended above the chair of the Doyen d'age and tapestrying the walls of the edifice with their symbols of fraternization—constituted in themselves a spectacle before which the most phlegmatic must experience emotions of enthusiasm. Looking, however, beyond these mere preliminaries, and not allowing our judgment to be dazzled by gorgeousness of circumstances or grandeur of design, we detect under the mask of this new Parliament ample cause for alarm and hesitation. It must not be forgotten amidst what peculiar events the German Senate has been convoked, that its convocation has been preceded by the over throw of the ancient fabric of the country by the convulsions of an übiquitous revolution, that the Prussian sovereignty has been degraded in Ber lin, and the Austrian sovereignty paralysed at Vienna, that an internecine war has ravaged the face of tbe minor principalities, that agra rian outrages have embittered the relations be tween the peasantry and the princes, that anarchy has prepared the way for a general estrangement, and that the prestige which had hitherto encompassed the cause of German nationality has been destroyed by the brutal and unjustifiable invasion of the territories of Denmark. Grievous as all those occurrences are, they fall into absolute in significance as preventives to the consolidation of the Germanic Empire when contrasted with the one paramount obstruction—the selfish and unprincipled ambition of the Mcnarch of the PRUSSIANS. It is the evil ambition of King FREDERICK WILHELM IV. which must prove the arch-difficulty of the Ger manic Parliament. It is that ambition which has alone, of all the olden attributes of the house of BRAN.. DEN BURGH, survived the abasement of the memorable 19th of March. It is that ambition which neutra lised the sympathies of Austria and Bavaria in re gard to the unanimity of the Confederates ; and it is that malign and execrable ambition which has already plunged the cause of Germany into an abyss of dangers by inciting her to the passage of the Eider and the occupation of Schleswig. Were the ambitious intentions of Prussia doubtful in regard to the pro vocation of this war of dismemberment, they would be sufficiently manifest in the fact, that besides the increase of the votes of Prussia in the national senate by the union of Prussia Proper to the Con federation, its influence over the decisions of the Federal Parliament will be very materially aug mented by the arrival of somewhere about sixteen representatives from different localities in the duchies of Holstein and Schleswig. Throughout every stage of the federative movement of Germany the after thought of _FREDERICK Wu..lizesc has been percep tible—that afterthought being the investiture of his own brows with an imperial diadem as EMPEROR OF GERMANY. Every successive Occur rence has proved this from the first massacre of the burghers of Berlin, on the 18th of March, by the soldiers stationed in the court-yards of the palace. Nor should we be disposed to decry the notion of selecting FREDERICK WILHELM as the federal chief tain, but that the religious opposition of northern and southern Germany, the disinclination of the Catholics to be subservient to a Protestant Government, and, vice versa of the Protestants to obey the mandates of a Catholic ruler, would render any such selection as that of the descendant of the Great FREDERICK a sig nal for civil war, and a plea for the sudden and per manent separation of the country. Hence it is that we cannot but view with indignation and distrust the ruinous pretensions of the Sovereign of Prussia, because in those pretensions we can only recognise the doom of the great cause of Germany. On Saturday, the 13th of May, there appeared in the Milan Gazette a proclamation of the Prorisiona Government of that city, addressed to the population of Lombardy. That proclamation was a demand for the immediate incorporation of the States of Lom bardy with the kingdom of Sardinia. Here, again, to our thinking, is a grand and possibly an insur mountable ob s t ac l e to t h e f oun d a ti on o f a na ti ona lity —arising sol e l y f rom the self i sh am bi t i on o f one en terprising and audacious KING. While Verona is the residence of no le ss t h an s i x Austr i an Arc h du k es, while Vienna is threatened with bombardment, while NUGENT has not been driven beyond the Tagliamento, while the German troops retain possession of Palma nora, and continue to nanceuvre without impediment upon the banks of the Isonzo, while the Tyrol re mains open for the arrival of auxiliaries and the army of reserve receives almost every day a considerable augmentation—it does appear to us, to say the least of it, to be most impolitic to damage the cause of the war of independence by a precipitate advocacy of the ambitious claims of CARLO ALBERTO. The fervour of the Piedmontese soldiery m ay be very materially confirmed, and in a great measure increased, by the junction of Lombardy to the dominions of this war like and enterprising Monarch, but with the soldiers of Tuscany, of Naples, and of the Papal States, it may be altogether different. They may naturally feel a considerable abatement of ardour on finding that they are fighting scarcely so much for the vindi cation of Italian nationality as for the augmentation of the dominions of the King of PIEDMONT. In what we have here remarked in reference to the position of affairs in Italy and Germany, we have been by no means actuated by a wish to depreciate either the conduct of CARLO ALBERTO or the charac ter of FREDERICK WILIIBLM. We estimate both the one and the other to the fullest extent, and we have repeatedly taken occasion to commend, in the warmest terms of eulogium, the spontaneous efforts at political amelioration which have illustrated the eaxeer of the reigning Ki ng o f r it u BslA . The tary achievements of CAaLO ALBERTO, and his cordial co-operation with Pro NONO in the reform of the institutions of Italy, form of themselves his noblest and least perishable panegyric. Yet in despite of the ability and patriotism of these distinguished Monarchs, we are satisfied that the ambition of the King of SARDINIA is most inimical to the cause of Italian independence, and the ambition of the King of PRUSSIo most destructive to the hopes of German nationality. The hand of destiny may be guided, however, in the one instance by the Provisional Government of Milan, and in the other by the Federal Parliament at Frankfort. Public attention in the Irish metropolis appears at present to be concentrated on the approaching trial of Mr. MITCHEL, which will take place at Green-street some day this week, most probably on Thursday next. The bill of indictment was sent before the grand jury on Saturday, and is to be taken into con sideration this day. As there can be but little doubt that a " true bill" will be found in the first instance, the great struggle :will take place before the petty jury, and the efficiency of the new Act will then be tested ; and it will also be seen how far an " Irish jury" can be trusted to return a conscientious verdict in accordance with the evidence presented before them, and uninfluenced by any other consideration in a political case. It would seem to be the general impression that the result will entirely depend upon the composition of the jury. Should any true confederate be sworn in, it may forbetakensuch u granted unqualified u a led a ifith atrptrhoebatieoxn of their conductarnplesetby a the dissenti en t s a t th e l a t e t r i a l s o f M ess r s . Sa t n O ' BRIEN an d M EAGHER w ill b e c l ose ly followed ; and, inde e d, it wou ld b e a l mos t a g ratuitous waste of the public ti me t o b r i ng on the trial under such cir cumstances. In order to give the " prosecuted patriot," h oweve r, the best possible chance his quon dam associates are using overt' exertion to deter the Crown counsel from exercising their undoubted privilege of setting aside any persons whose avowed opinions might lead to a reasonable expectation that they would come into the jury-box with prejudiced minds and biassed feelings, so as to be unfitted to pronounce fair and impartial judgment on th e questions that might be submitted to the ir decision. The old and hacknied cry of pac ked juries has therefore, been resort ed to. The Council of the Irish Confederation has issued a notice, calling on the association to hol d a s p ecial meeting yesterday (Sunday), at three o ' clock, for the purpose of expressing the opinion of that body on the unconstitutional and despotic pract i c e o f p ackin g juries, while a requisition to the Lor d Ma y or has been got up, calling upon his Lordsh i p to convene a general meeting of the citizens of Du blin for Tues day next, " that they may have an opp ortunit y of expressing their strong condemation of the practice of packing juries for the trial of political offences." In both of these cases, it will be seen that it is spoken of as an existing " practice," whereas it is perfectly notorious that for many years back even the privilege of setting aside jurors has been but sparingly resorted to, and there has not been the slightest interference with the jury panels, which are wholly prepared by the High Sheriff or his subordinates. However deeply to be censured any improper tampering with the lists would be on the part of the Government officials, we cannot see that the setting aside of men whose sentiments were known to be such that a verdict could scarcely be hoped for would subject them to any well-grounded reproach ; indeed, if they omitted to take such a precaution they would manifestly be unworthy of the position in which they are placed, and would suffer the administration of the law to become paralysed in their hands. Would it be said in England that a Crown prosecutor had packed a jury because he had objected to the names of any number of persons who, however estimable in other respects, openly professed such opinions respecting capital punishments — that however strong the evidence and overwhelming the case, they could not return a verdict that might have the effect of consigning a fellow creature to an igno minious death upon a scaffold, believing that even perjury itself would be better than any participation in what they might conceive to be a legalized murder?' The case in Ireland is perfectly analogous. The praises that have been lavished on the dissenting jurors sufficiently testify that those who have ex pressed I would themselves be prepared to act in a similar manner if the opportunity occurred. There should be no violent partizans either for or agains the prisoner. He has the power of pe remptorily challenging twenty jurors, and as many more as he can assign any valid or substan tial ground of objection to. This will guard against the possibility of any party who entertains a personal hostility, or who has proved himself a warm political opponent, from being placed on the jury. The right will doubtless be exercised to the fullest extent, and no person could reasonably object to the person on trial for so doing. Neither should the Crown prosecutors be blamed for refusing to leave the matter in the hands of any who would not come into court without any predetermination as to the decision they would finally arrive at. We are con vinced that the Attorney-General and his coadjutors will act in this case, as in all others in which they have been concerned, with strict justice and impar tiality, and that they will adopt no unfair or under hand means to obtain a conviction, but we also believe that they will act with vigour and efficiency. and, so far as they are con cerned will prevent the administration of jus tice from being brought into disrepute, and the majesty of the law from being slighted and despised by reason of their neglecting to avail themselves of the constitutional privileges with which they are en trusted, and which were con f erre d upon t h e i r prede cessorsin office, in order to obviate such results as might have been expected if they suffered themselves to be intimidated from the proper discharge of their duties, or influenced by the clamour and outcry of the members of " The Irish Confederation." • -..0...,) "", "" ',, . N. 0^ 9 • *l i e . L. ',,,-, - „u ...„; - - 4., :i. . die ::, , e , Fillit ‘ 4, , t 1 14-4, • 1, -- 10' -- -..1., . ••• ,) fj:\ '6 s i 4470 e 1 1 A ' ~ , . r.ato-4 ~-4 a.. D lE;'.',. 0 .0 , ~—...... <,-•:- ••.•,, -_,. .., . THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, MAY 22, 1848. SPAIN. Madrid journals of the 16th hare arrived. Their contents are devoid of interest. The discount on bank notes was 10 per cent. The Bordeaux mail, which arrived in Paris on Sunday, did not bring the Madrid mail. MADRID BOLSA, MAT 16.—The Three per Cents. closed at 22 cash, and were 21k to 22 buyers after the close; Five per Cents., 13i buyers, 14 sellers ; Passive Debt, 5 4 1 buyers, 6 sellers; Coupons, 9 sel lers. It will be perceived from these quotations that the Government decree, appointing a new Commis sion to report on the best way of arranging the pub lic debt, has had little or no effect on this Stock market. IRE LAN D. (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) DUBLIN, SUNDAY, SIX P.M. The Confederation meeting passed off quietly ; Smith O'Brien, from illness, did not attend. An immense force of police on duty. Confederate pro clamation warns the people to bide their time, and avoid any collision with the police. Further arrests are expected this evening, under the new Act. DEPARTURE OF HER MAJESTY AND THE ROYAL FAMILY FOR OSBORNE HOUSE (THIS DAY).—Her Majesty and the Prince Consort, accompanied by the Royal Children, and attended by a limited suite, left Buckingham Palace this morning at a quarter past ten„for the terminus at Nine Elms, where a special train was in readiness to convey the illus trious party to Gosport, whence they would embark on board the Fairy royal yacht for Osborne. Her Majesty and the Prince are expected to visit Ports mouth on Thursday, when the Queen will lay the last stone of the new basin for war steamers, on which occasion the basin will be opened, and the Lords of the Admiralty are expected to assist at the ceremony. Her ;Majesty will leave Osborne on Friday for town, to hold a drawing room on Satur day in celebration of her birthday, when the auspicious event will be celebrated with the usual rejoicings. YORK ELECTION.—Mr- George Leeman has with drawn his name from the list of candidates for the representation of the city of York. At a meeting recently held in York he intimated that on a future occasion he might not unlikely solicit the suffrages of the electors. Mr. Milner will, therefore, mos t likely head the poll. THE FRENCH REPUBLIC. THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY. We have received the Paris papers of Saturday and yesterday. At the conclusion of the sitting of the National Assembly on Friday, MM. ARMAND MARRAST and BETLIMONT were elected Vice-Presidents of the Chamber. On Saturday the Assembly met at twelve o'clock ; M. SENARD, one of the Vice-Presidents, in the chair. M. Degoussie stated that the Assembly had invited the questors to choose a distinctive mark, to be worn by the representatives at their sittings, and in great solem nities, when the representatives were obliged to appear in a body before the people. The questors had agreed to adopt a special tricoloured riband, with the fasces of the Republic, surmounted by a hand of jus tice, which they proposed to the Assembly to wear at their usual sittings in order to prevent strangers from entering the hall. They, moreover, recommend the adoption, for great ceremonies, of a tricoloured scarf, similar to that worn by the represen tatives of the people during the first Revolution. M. Degou4e observed, that it was very light and could easily fit in the pocket. The scand a l o f th e 15 t h o f M a y (added h m e ) a y m s a t b r ea raise itspe a h t e e d ; sedition, c um although sta n ces N p 'a r n e: Ciseunisthtehdemselves in which the representatives of the peo ple may . have occasion to place themselves at the head of the National Guard to protect the Republic, and it was indispensable consequently that they should be distin guished by some badge. The Chamber adopted the insignia recommended by he r questors. President read of the PasadtotheA de Calaisssembl Assembly letter te d st i e rl n:grd:h''its hl)eP i ni "Denissel, resignation as me m b er o f t h e Assembly. n. M. Denissel having risen, declared that the letter was a forgery, and on his demand it was sent to the Minister of Justice, to institute proceedings against the forger. After several notices had been given by different Members, M. Dabeaux demanded that the decrees of the Pro visional Government—of which he did not question the legality—should. be submitted to revision by the Com mittees of the National Assembly, which would give them the legal sanction. Several courts of justice, fcr instance, refused, he said, to recognise the abolition of arrest for debt, and continued to apply that penalty, M. Cranieux, Minister of Justice, was of opinion, that the House could not deliberate on such a proposition. The Hon. Mover, he said, appeared to have forgotten that the Provisional Government had been invested with its powers by the entire people, and that all its measures had been inspired by public reason and the wants of the country. Those decrees were laws executed by the courts of justice, and he did not know of a single instance in which they had been disobeyed. The revision of those decrees was impossible. There were two decrees certainly of which the Assembly could not pronounce the revision—the one proclaiming the Republic, and the other instituting universal suffrage, in virtue of which it existed. The Assembly had the power to reverse and modify all the laws and decrees of the Provisional Government, but their revision, he repeated, was im possible. The proposition of M. Dabeaux was rejected. M. Ducoux rose and said, that on the 15th, when the factious forcibly entered the Legislative Hall, the As sembly expected to learn from the Government what attitude the young Republic had assumed towards foreign Powers. He did not wish to compromise it by any in opportune discussion; but as the foreign question greatly contributed to maintain uncertainty in the public mind, he thought such a discussion would tend to remove it. The press, for instance, mentioned the conclusion of an offensive and defensive alliance between four great Powers; he had reason to believe the report unfounded, but its contradiction would have greater weight in the mouth of one of the members of the Government. lie accordingly proposed that the interrupted discussion on the affairs of Poland and Italy be continued on Tuesday. M. Lamartine replied that the Provisional Govern ment had not hesitated an instant with regard to the attitude the Republic should assume towards foreign Powers. He was happy to state that none of the sinister provisions entertained at the time had been realised, and when the fatal invasion of the Legislative Hall took place on Monday he was ready to give the Assembly all the explanations it desired, being fully conscious that the measures the Provisional Government had resorted to would meet the approbation and calm the apprehen sions of the country. The Assembly afterwards decided that the interpel lations relative to Poland and Italy should be resumed on Tuesday. The President next invited the representatives of the people to meet at seven o'clock the next morning in their hall, to proceed thence to the Champ de Mars; and the Assembly adjourned. The Minister of Commerce and Agriculture has addressed the following circular to the Prefect of Paris : " Citizen Prefect,—My first and most unceasing pre occupation in the Ministerial department confided to me shall be to insure the supply, at the cheapest possible rate, of the provisions most necessary to life. The present situation of industry, of which the Republican Government will contrive to neutralize the perils and repair the disasters, renders that necessity still more pressing. The state of the country is completely re assuring. The crops of 1847 were excellent; the prospects of 1848, and in particular the winter corn, are brilliant; the meadows are highly promising, and unless disasters occur which cannot be foreseen, agri culture will reap this year abundant fruits, and will provide for the wants of the people excellent and nume rous herds of cattle. Tranquillity and security every where prevail. Let us avail ourselves of it to guard against evil days. Let freedom of trade be organized, and ever be pure of the culpable excess of speculation. " Nevertheless, these hopes, however reassuring they may be, do not diminish in the least your duties and mine. You will accordingly insure everywhere the of grain an d catt l e, protect transac tions,enlighten citizens relativ e t o t h e i r rea l i n t eres t s , free passage and provide supplies of food at the cheapest possible rate. "In the fulfilment of that patriotic duty you may rely on the cu-operation of the Government; mine shall never be wanting to you in the application of the measures necessary to maintain, for the benefit of the people, abundance and security. " The third report on the crops of 1848 will, you know, reach me in the course of the monthof June, when the wheat is in flower. I wish you to add to the indica tions it usually contain s an approximate return of t h e number of hectares sown for the said crop, including " autumn and spring s ow i ng. Moreover, in future, all documents of that nature must be accompanied by part i al returns prepare d b y eac h of the mayors of your department, or any other docu ments having served as the basis of the reports you are to forward me. If, at the period appointed to send those reports to my Ministry, you should not have received all the information you demanded, you must not defer the transmission of the first, but forward all the documents that may have reached you at that date, and subsequently complete them by transmitting those that may after. wards come to hand. " Health and fraternity. " FERDINAND FLOCON, " The Minister of Agriculture and Commerce." The illoniteur announces that M. FLocoN, Minister of Agriculture and Commerce, is making arrange ments for the cultivation of the waste lands and the general amelioration of agriculture, and that the rights of all agricultural labourers and the workmen in manufactories, &c., will be "democratically appre ciated and satisfied." It is also stated that important modifications will be made in the law as to workmen's !tyres, the coalitions of workmen, and the labour in manufactories. M. FLocoi has addressed a circular food, power a to promote to report th e t free him cir culation oon the prefects of the depart men t s d es i r i n g them to ir f o d o e yery tohf articles g t e t s h o e the means of agricultural improvement. The Bureaux appointed to consider the projet de loi for extending tke interdiction of the soil of France at present existing as to the members of the Bourbon family of the elder branch to the family of Louis PHILIPPE, met again on Friday. Prince NAPOLEON BONAPARTN, son of the ex-King of Westphalia, op posed the measure, declaring that exile is a useless precaution, as it generates conspiracy, and almost excuses it. Nobody , he said, could attribute to him any sympathy in favour of a family which, in his view, had caused the misfortune of France since 'B9, but he thought it his duty to declare that, in his opinion, Louis PHIL IPPE and his family ought to be left in the oblivion in which the catastrophe of Feb ruary 24 had plunged them. M. DONATIEN MAR QUIS went further, a nd stigmatised the proposition as a mark of weakness. Exile was, he thought, a hurt ful measure, and contrary to the spirit of order and conciliation so necessary for the establishment of the Republic. The Republic ought to show its strength by admitting all pretenders from whatever quarter they might come. This may be all very humane, but it is scarcely logical or prudent. If the soil of France be not interdicted to Louis Primirri3 a nd his family, then, to be consis. tent, the Assembly mu st re p eal the law interdicting it to the family of CH ARLES X. M. EMILE DE GIRA EDEs has announced himself as a candidate for one of the vacancies in the represen tation of Paris to the N ational Assembly. He de clares him s elf " firmly , sincerely, logically republi can," sa y s th a t " he unde rstands the Republic like i e FRAN KLIN —he does n ot understand it without WASHINGTON," and ad ds that " if be be wrong in not understa n ding it like Cit izen ROBESPIERRE, and Citizen LEDRU ROLLIN , he requests that he may not be nominated. The C onsti tut i onne l bas the follo win g on the unac countable neglect, to u se no harsher term, of the Ex c u brava tiy National Committee G u Guards s h honour fellu r theon remmoanindsay last of os those defending the Ass embl y against the Anarchists : n " All the journals yesterday published p ie following statement;---' The funeral of the National Guards, who were killed by musket shots by the clubbists is the passage Moliere, took place this day. A deputation of twenty members of the National Assembly was present.' It was only on the proposition of the President, sup ported by the unanimous adhesion of the Assembly, that the National Representation figured by delegates in this sad ceremony. The Executive Government did not convoke any deputation of the legions of the baulieue, nor of the legions of Paris ; it has not even made known the names of these brave National Guards who died for the defence of order, the laws, and the Republic. Not a member of the Go vernment went to cause the voice of the afflicted, and grateful country to be heard over their tomb. The factious Barbes, Huber, and Blanqui, who believed that they had dissolved the Assembly of our Representatives, dismissed in their decrees the National Guard of Paris and the departments. They placed every National Guard clothed in his uniform out of the pale of the law. The Executive Government, which ought now to govern us, has not, thank God, gone so far as that; but by re fusing to the funeral of the National Guards all the honours it merited, it has given a new proof of its in gratitude for those who defend order and the laws at the price of their blood, and a new proof of weakness to wards the factious. Several journals have, like us. opened a suh!!eription for the families of the National Guards of the banlieue who were killed in the Rue Saint Martin, and for those who were only wounded. Let the National Guards respond to this appeal even by the smallest contributions. We beg M. C. Thomas, General of the National Guard of Paris, to nominate from the staff and the legions a commission to whom the funds raised may be remitted, and the em ployment of them be regulated." The following order of the day has been addressed to the National Guards of the Seine by General C. THOMAS, Commander-in-Chief:— "Comrades,--Called by the confidence of the National Assembly, and of the Commission of Executive Power, to the great honour of commanding you, I should per haps have refrained from accepting so grave a mission, if I had not been certain to find in the sentiments of patriotism and devotedness to the Republic which animates you a co-operation always as spontaneous as it is intelligent. I will remind you that it is in the midst of gravest events, and when the energetic intervention of the National Guard has saved the country from anarchy, that this command, the first of all in my estimation, has been confided to me. This souvenir, which will be al• ways present to me, will guide me in the accomplish ment of my duties, and the confidence in me which you have so spontaneously displayed will not be misplaced." M. ANTONY THOURET has addressed the following letter to the Debats:— " Monsieur,—l hare just read the report of M. Marrast, Mayor of Paris, to the Executive Committee. I was witness of all the facts which it discloses, and I am the first to render justice to the courage and sang-froid of the Mayor of Paris in so terrible a moment. I regret only that he has forgotten to mention in that document a name which had, at that moment, an official character. After having, with my parson, defended in the National Assembly the President Buchez, whom I forced to quit the hall at the moment when he was on the point of being basely assassinated, I was dispatched by him to go and defend the Hotel de Ville with the Mayor of Paris, who might not have been informed of what was passing. I arrived at the gate of the Hotel de Ville at the moment when the armourers' shops on the quays were being pillaged. I passed the gate freely, without mentioning my name, and I entered that municipal fortress more easily than a man can enter a private house. Let the armed force charged to defend the Hotel de Ville explain this appa rent treason! I had at my side M. Delespaul, represen tative of the people, and citizen Brun, both of whom can attest the verity of what I have just stated. However, when I informed the National Guards scattered over the place of the invasion of the National Assembly, they loaded their muskets, expecting a command, a direction, a word to tell them to co-operate aad lend assistance where it might be required! When I arrived at the coun cil chamber, I fulfilled my mission to the courageous Mayor of Paris. I drew up a proclamation which he signed ; I had it printed; and, in half an hour, at the moment when the conspirators were flinging out of one of the windows lists of a Provisional Government, I was throw ing from another those proclamations, which brought upwards of 50,000 men to the neighbourhood of the Hotel de Ville. The Mayor of Paris ought to remem ber that I gave him an energetic account of the situa tion of Paris, which I had just traversed. I said to him that our duty was to gain half an hour, or die to gether in defence of that Republic of which we had achieved the conquest on the barricades of February ! Half an hour after, we were all safe ; we encompassed the conspirators, and we lived I If I give these details, the reason is, that at the moment when some Republicans, an instant astray, attacked the National Assembly elected by universal suffrage, France ought to know that there are old Republicans, firm, prudent, generous, who have fought for twenty years for a republic of order, per suasion, love, and not for a republic of the sabre, of communism, and terror I Health and fraternity." BLAratur has addressed the following letter to the euitor of the Constitutionnel : " Monsieur le Ridacteur,—l am neither at Brussels nor at London, but in Paris, where I read your journal. I can very well understand, that after having aided the Government to ruin me, you should attempt to fling me between the legs of that same Government, to cause it to stumble in its turn. Indulge in your warlike tactics as much as you please. I say nothing against it; but give us no retrospective calumnies, or if you do, you must allow me to strike in aad contradict them. I was not arrested one single instant. Monsieur, you know that very well; and your doubts on the subject may be exceedingly diplomatic, but they are not very severe. I was neither arrested, nor consequently let go; if they had held me, they would have held me well; certainly it is long enough since they have been anxious to hold me ; I have for guarantee of that desire, the cordial hatred of all the members of the Government—a hatred of which M. Caus6idiere, that tap-room Suffetius, gave on Tuesday a very tolerable specimen in the tribune. That hatred does me honour, for it comes from persons who have all destroyed the revolution ; and in that re spect it is flattering for me to furnish them with the only subject of unanimity that they have been able to find. One observation more—you, like other journals, have copied from the Droit a pompous list of important article seized at my residence, quite in the style of April 1834, and may 1839 ; numerous letters ; scarfs with gold fringe ; lists or conspirators ; proclamations— nothing is wanting in the inventory of this precious booty. Letters ! I allowed myself to receive some —a great crime truly! Scarfs with gold fringe! In fact, we had red arm-bands with copper fringe, for the commissaries of the club; what an enormity! Lists of conspirators! capital! Why, these lists of conspirators are the regular registers of the Central Republican Society, containing the names of citizens of all opinions, from white to red, and passing through all the inter mediate shades. Proclamations! Still better: these proclamations are copies of the manifesto published by the club relative to the massacres at Rouen—a manifesto placarded on May 2d in Paris, pulled off to the number of 40,000, and copied into several journals. I am delighted to see the law authorities and the monarchical journals assume so decidedly the fashion of acting of the last reign. On with you, gentlemen! Continue! The regency cannot be far off!" On the subject of illegal discharge from arrest of several of the persons arrested on Monday last by the National Guard, we find the following in the Gazette des Tribunaux : " Mention has been made of illegal discharges from imprisonment on the night of the 15th. The following are facts, of which we can warrant the exactitude. I❑ the evening of the 15th, after the search made at the residence of M. Sobrier, 30 persons were arrested and taken to the Tuileries, where 50 others, arrested at other parts, were in custody. By order of Saint- Amand, Governor of the Tuileries, these 80 persons were conducted to the Prefecture of Police by 300 National Guards of the Bth Legion, whose com mander received the usual acknowledgment of their being deposited. A moment after an order came from the Executive Committee to keep the persons arrested at the Tuileries, and above all not to send them to the Prefecture. It was too late, and M. Saint Amand transmitted to the Execu tive Committee the receipt which had been given at the Prefecture. When, on the following day, on M. Du pare, a lieutenant of the second legion, who had been active in the arrests made in the Rue Rivoli, appeared at the Prefecture to inquire where the prisoners were con fined, the Commissary of Police declared that he had never seen the 80 prisoners brought in the preceding evening, that no one of them had been brought before him to be interrogated, and that probably they were no longer in the Prefecture. What had become of them ? _ . The following fact may lead to supposition. Among the citizens arrested, was one who seemed to apprehend that his wife would be distressed at his absence, and re. quested one of the National Guards who belonged to the escort to go and tell her what had happened. This Na tional Guard was kept out on duty till five in the morn ing, when he went to perform his promise; but, on an nouncing the cause of his visit, he was informed that the prisoner had arrived at home four hours before, and was then asleep. Wo have to add that, after the column had left the Prefecture, there were found in the place where the prisoners had been put, several poignards, stilettos, and other sharp instruments, which were kept to be pro duced in evidence." In the same journal we find the following on the subject of the permission given to M. Louis BLANC to communicate with the prisoners at Vincennes : " A journal has announced that on the morning of the 16th M. Louis Blanc applied for and obtained a permis sion to communicate with Barbels, Albert, and Sobrier. This is true, but the following are the circumstances:— A permission was given to M. Louis Blanc to communi cate with the prisoners after they had been interrogated; but the Proc ureur -G enera l and the Procureuro the Republic were unacquainted with it. M. Laudrin, on becoming informed of what had been done, declared that no such communication could possibly be allowed, and sent a counter order to Vincennes. M. Louis Blanc had already arrived there, but MM. Picot, Haton, and Ber trand, tb" examining magistrates, were there, and, de claring that they alone had the power of granting such permissions, peremptorily refused to admit M. Louis Blanc, who was obliged to retire. The Minister of Justice, therefore, could with truth declare, as he did yesterday from the tribune, that no person had had any communication with the prisoners." A warrant for the arrest of the ex-Abb6 CIIATI3L has, it is said, been issued, in consequence of his having delivered an ultra-revolutionary harangue in the Place de la Madeleine on the 15th. This person gained great notoriety some years ago by fo undin g what he called the " Eglise Franaise," of which he proclaimed himself Primate. He has, it is believed, the nations who, in the opinion of the Frenc fled into Belgium. publicans, have established their freedom. Every day fresh evidence comes to light to prove The Provisional Government and the Members the connexion of certain members of the Executive of the National Assembly took their seats about .._ns Government of the Republic with the anarchical half-past nine, after which the different dePu ta w tl° ee __ outbreak of Monday. It appears that SOBRIER had filed before them. Amon g the de p utations obtained his arms and ammunition from the Provi - several of forei g ners, p rinci p all y Poles, Gar° sional Government. The Liberte says— Italians, and Bel g ians. A small p arty of Irish, con " The question is asked, how it came to pass that arms sisting of not more than twelve per sons, and carrying and ammunition could be ordered for the citizens Caus- a little green flag, though not included in the pro sidiAre and Sobrier at the same time. What, then, was gramme, made their appearance, and, a fter sorn e this Sobrier that, by the same order, on the same paper, and signed by the same person, by order of and for the demur, were allowed to follow th e others. The Minister of War, the direction of artillery received an troops then began to defile, and continued, injunction to deliver on the night of April 14-Ist, to M. intermission, till past three o'clock. Then came th e .e Sobrier, Rue de Rivoli, 16, 400 muskets and two parcels of 10,000 cartridges each, at eleven at night; 2dly, to grand chariot of commerce and agriculture, a nd tia Fran ce ' M. Caussidiiire, at midnight, 700 muskets and 30,000 deputations of the different trades peculiar to F a r: cartridges. The order from the War department is in and especially to Paris ; and they were still pThe the hands of M. Portalis, the Procureur- General." in front of the estrade at half-past four o'clock. Several of the clubs have sent declarations to the illuminations of the evening promise well. The! 1 " . ._ journals stating that none of their members took upon a most magnificent scale, and the weather is part in the deplorable attack on the National Assembly uncommonly favourable. on Monday last. W h il e the fete was going on the Goverttlnt44: A detachment of five hundred Poles, expelled from ceived accounts which induced them to belly:. the Prussian territory, arrived in Paris on Friday. that the Communists had an intention of taking The Provence of Aix states that the national vantage of the National Guards and troops he workshops of that town have been closed, having been engaged in the Champ de Mars, to make attack an enormous charge to the town, and bringing in upon Vincennes for the purpose of releasing Batts; nothing. An attempt was made by the discharged and the other prisoners. A regiment WM jail° a men to blow up the powder magazine, hut it fortu diately ordered off for that place, but it is to be boPe nately failed, by the activity and energy of the that the alarm is a false one. National Gtard. At Arles also, where 1,400 men had been discharged, with a recommendation to Accounts have reached Paris this evening thtbeart Lyons is in the hands of the Vorace s and ° seek work in the country parts, disturbances have emeutiers. Many outrages had been committed, suooe taken place, the crowd having broken the windows it is stated that they have even attempted. to hang ha of the Mairie, and endeavoured to set the build- of the mayors of the place. Details are wanting' ing on fire. Seven or eight men were arrested, and the next accounts were looked for with anxiety. 1 ,0 on the arrival of the Procureur of the Republic ten BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT more. LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, MAY 2.9' I n good The establishment of these national workshops has Lie ßo e u , l 3 rt osne ; i o d ri li i m er i n en o s t , 614—Luxembourg, s , i and g y i oo! ;7 2 3 4 proved, as every tyro in the science of political ez diy.— i L i Paris and Orleans, 22—Sambre and Istense,4* economy must have known they would prove, a gross and Most dangerous blunder, aggravating a thousand fold the evils which it was pretended they were to remedy, and rendering the payment of wages eventually impossible by destroying the wages fund. The Minister of Public Works was compelled in one of the Bureaux of the Assembly, on Friday, to ac knowledge this unpalatable fact. He said, " that the system of ateliers nationaux, instituted at the moment of the revolution, when it was necessary to do some thing for the numerous workmen out of employment, was no longer calculated to give satisfaction to any party ; he proposed that all the men so employed should be set down to useful works. .He would take the youngest, and propose that they should be en rolled in the army—others might be sent home to their departments, on being allowed a sum of money, —the greater number he would propose to employ in reclaiming waste lands and digging canals—the rest he would have employed on railways. The partizans of the Orleanist dynasty were very busy on Saturday in endeavouring to circulate a rumour to the effect that M. LAMARTIXR had re signed his office. The wish, we believe, was father to the thought, and we have little doubt but that the rumour itself originated in London. We may take this opportunity of expressing a hope that the pro visions of the new Alien Bill will be impartially ap plied by her Majesty's Ministers, and that Brompton square will be no more permitted to be an Alsatia for intriguers than Leicester-square. ; h B. The Grand National Fête came off yester day, and it passed off as well as the best friends of order and of the Republic could have wished. The weather was superb—bright and sunshining without being oppressively hot. At half•past four the rappel began to beat in the different quarters of Paris, and continued every quarter of an hour until six. It then ceased, the National Guards beginning to make their appear ance, and detached pickets of dragoons and cuiras siers having already taken up their stations at various points along the boulevards, the Place de la Made leine, the Place de la Concorde, and in front of the Palace of the National Assembly. In the Place de la Concorde, as early as six, a con siderable crowd had already assembled, and chiefly of well-dressed persons. Tables, chairs, stands, benches I —everything that could give a vantage ground to the spectator to view the ceremony better, were disposed about in great profusion. Although seven o'clock was appointed as the hour for the representatives of the people to leave the Chamber for the Champ de Mars, they did not start until half-past eight ; they did not all bear the same distinctive mark of Deputies ; some merely wore on the left breast the broad red ribbon and rosette which was adopted after the attack of the 15th, others a more ornate article of the same form, but embroidered in gold and terminating with gold fringe ; whilst others exhibited the tri-coloured scarf across the shoulder agreed to by the Assembly in the sitting of the day before. A few wore it under their coat, so that a small portion merely appeared across the breast. Some Deputies wore both ornaments. GERMANY AND THE NORTHERN STATES. FRANKFORT. OPENING OF THE GERMAN FA RI° MENT. 18 'il l The German Parliament opened on the not ,clelte CO 0 , There were about 320 Members present, half the number of which the Parliament is ola sist. The authorities of Frankfort have s `, l°r o f every necessary measure for the preservaltbs public order. On the I6th the Senate iss ile following proclamation : tßi ll "In a few days the first German Parats-gg co be assembled in our city. The future destinies °rear great country are about to be determined by its lutions. 0 141 " As the task which is imposed upon this toe- r sr- • o great, so also is the obligation great which Is„. D oll ° upon our city, to use all the means that are in 1." to maintain its tranquillity and to preserve orderi e cil " Every attempt made to disturb the peace o f apt tw must lead to the conclusion that there is a desirl. oo l conform to the resolution of the preliminary' Fg' r lbei° ° ; in accordance with which our city was c hosen 0 " ne rfec' of Parliament, because it was declared to be in tt r ir b peace and tranquillity. Every attempt to d h i s e F oe' peace must bring in question the strength and t " - of the Constituent Assembly itself. AV!, " Whoever prizes the hono u r of our c i ty " O fi- 11 expects to find, in the free and spontaneons re s c i ef eld, of the representatives of the people, the unit ed • to ' went of our common country—and whoever feed aecial for Germany, will, we are perfectly convi lice h b 0 11 ,0 with the inhabitants of the city and the nog c) t,o oS ,i e, 0 to save, during the great days that are ab oo i r ds`c, upon us, the honour of our city, to discharge thebyools( to the country, to which each person is bou nd : o .'o ° taming order and tranquillity, and by opPos's , h af energetically to every anti-Germanic ten cleset,' e " The demonstrations that have taken P,7" he ys ; r , the last few days do not destroy this hope. ee,e l- 1 not, we are confident, again h a pp e n. Shoew e ' eiP h ea d this expectation, which we share in coo2 o39 ders honest persons, prove abortive, then t he le" out rsr h o accomplices in tumults, the in s ti ga tors to su ch cos t as well as their dupes, shall learn to their oel n n ied,: o e our burgher guard, who have with an une%l3/nreet now well-tried devotion, not hesitated to ad go t criminal attempts with ge nerous l ang uage l' l3- c loo ° :00 able patience, shall n ow , if t h ey are forced "' h oe b t i, shrink from making use o f t h e arm s tha t ref' s ' entrusted to them for the protection of life an ( '°eetll3° Frankfort, May 16, 1848." , d 0 jt On the 17th there wa s • • arl rs a prelituln ,„ ne re• the members held in the Hall of the tit il f t tYth was attended by about 300 members, ancli; m eet determined that all the members sh° lll- ° P e° tlae next day at three o'clock in the Hall of the !I to t and from thence proceed in solemn Pr °eess :l/ 06) place of meeting —or the temporary tlf house—the Church of St. Paul, which iS e" - posite to the celebrated H a ll o f the EruP er°l* ° be at the same time determi ne d that the oldest t should be chosen as the president of the dill. r IVO rA t On the 18th the opening' of the Germs- p s ns e. •+lo' took place. After having met at the - e the to the members proceeded between the line' o aced of ot tional Guards, who w e r e drawn up o n b the Church of St. Paul. The sitting COI2IIII ,• four o'clock. arer eis l . i o d ty e The hour fixed for the opening of th e - t per l he dii liament was four o'clock, but long before sh,. doors of St. Paul's Church (the German / " o f Pe r 0 10 were surrounded by an immense multitudeiorter,i'po; most of them respectably dressed; and tit,,cketsibat'ces t o three that portion of the public to whom nap' been distributed were permitted to take th eir the gallery which runs round the centre of 0 1 ;05 St. Paul's Church is an edifice which forr owe r Post terior a perfect circle, and the e ntire of the 004, be ; distributed into circles of seats, all turning n olP l 7 do ot , may be termed the centre, which was once ervres'ooo has now been converted into a throne and bleresl with a tribune in front for the orators, aril o f 0 ° 1 1 ; O s for the o ffi cial short hand writers. Out 6 ju e a d l a for t circle are pillars which support the gallerhree r seery spaces between the pillars seats have beer' . re port r foreign ambassadors, for the ladies, for th, wept 0 9 et the press, foreign as well as domestic, 1 111 ; e 0 0 0 ill tinguished strangers to whom the colllPlll,ce tb bail of giving them admission to some better P i . o f tli, ert asl to be found in the gallery. From the, rcN9 f ,, the , 11 ,0 0° in g a species of tapestry was forma' tricolour, and over the President's c,b,itel., Germany, with th ese mo ttoes on each s:dc't General CAVAIGNAC was amongst the earliest ar rivals. The Members shortly after eight o'clock arranged themselves on the peristyle of the Hall of the As sembly in readiness to start. At half-past eight, General CLEMENT THOMAS dashed up on his white charger, and, taking off his hat, announced that all was ready. The representatives then moved down the steps four deep, and not in any particular order, the Ministers and Executive Committee taking their places indiscriminately amongst the rest. M. DE LAMARTINE and M. FLocoN were amongst the last, though not together. They were cheered along their passage, the whole crowd taking off their hats as they approached. They went on first along the quay to the Champ de Mars, and were exactly one hour and a half in reaching the estrade prepared for them in front of the Ecole Militaire. Every. thing was in perfect order. Although the procession, headed by the Govern ment, began to move from the Hall of Assembly soon after eight o'clock, the great agricultural chariot did not start from the Madeleine till ten, The procession extended to the Place de la Bastile, and the end of it did not reach the Champ de Mars until late in the afternoon. The accounts from Paris are up to six o'clock this evening. They describe the file as having been up to that hour worthy of its name, Fete de la Concorde. There was not the least attempt at disturbance. A curious incident occurred during the progress of the procession from the National Assembly tothe Champ de Mars. Immediately after the Members of the Na tional Assembly came the Mayors of Paris and the surrounding communes, with their tri-coloured scarfs ; then were to come the delegates of the departments, but on arriving about half way down the quay, a company of about twenty old men bearing a banner inscribed " Vainqucurs de la Bastille, 1789," appeared and demanded as the oldest of the defenders of liberty to be admitted next the Mayor. Their spokesman said, "we ought to be the first of all I Without us, how would you have ever had liberty ? It was we who showed the way to achieve great things." The dele gates at once yielded the pass to these glorious old men, who formed perhaps by far the most interesting portion of the procession. The Simeons of Liberty who have lived to see the consummation of the glo rious work which 51) years ago they commenced. After the delegates came, the various trade-corpo rations, or, as they are called, compagnons, each with some production of their calling, as a specimen of their skill. The Provisional Government, the members of the National Assembly, the magistracy, departmental deputations, &c., took up their sea ts on an immense t e h st e ra s d a e m e e rec e t s e t d rad in e front there of we th re e Eacoglreel‘atlllintuaimreher e . On the same estrade there were a great number of General officers and other official personages, besides a large party of ladies. The estrade was calculated to hold upwards of 6 , 000 p ersons and it was exces sively crowded. No des cri p tion can give any idea of a scene the splendour of which consisted principally in the vastness of the multitude who took part in it, the thousands upon thousands of troops which were P assed in review, the beauty of the magnificent spot where the ceremony took place, and the excitement, the variety, and very confusion of the scene. The statue of Liberty, which, with its pedestal, i s eighty feet high, and stood in the centre of the Champs de Mars, had a good effect from its immense size and its posi tion. On each side of it were rows of handsome booths. At the entrance to the Champ de Mars were two immense obelisks, with the names of 411 " 0 walle hin du OpferbrAn Li er Hin fiber Land and Mcl UUm elle Volker her."rnschling ein unig Liebe "Des Vaterlandes Grosse Des Vaterlandes Gliick e g d e oguussafilegdidbiroonelnef of lthbawuanTdrodnilsgiaesochrrtropmwor most agreeable , 0 t•' 0 bringt sie den Volke turtles-A w ith ei v i presidential t fi i c a h l a c tr h t a s ir ie' w as also decorate'd to or o ett when u po i n t the whole, the appearance of " ib b e eir ii°lfrl e e ; regularity flowers,wiGbeirleetshrme uauln fromyp.ee ed ef whichthe sreeer b 1 • c 1,, , __ o fc.if a .b: r e ur o'clock was the hour fixed for the n.gtoert'eo parliament ment who had assembled in the ;firbetex Hall, for coming in procession to the ._L A t beiflt House, and to those who had previously. arrive'lla ocort, proach was made known by the clamorous setifrolg'oe by bells ringing out from every church steeple ro od t be the salvoes of artillery which roared e r , of il d Parliament House, and by the thrilliug ch L ee o ir, o' filling multitude, which came booming through t h e wo e ,I 1 the building, it might be said, with tbentope,tti citement from which they sprung' It did so c h v ey jolfi• disturb" the strangers in the gallery," " tha t t b of F l ,if in the loud huzzas of the multitude ---a breacc the d o i, lege which was immediately suppressed, 10 be r 1 . 1 .0 was sub in Schleswig-Holstein. the Syndre L of P e I Vice-presidentn i t i l o y is t t a e k li e i n . in solemn silence 1/ le 4, Langan of Verdren, in O W' sti Ve was Herr Ton Lindens°, 1 11 ,1 merited ell° The President, upon taking the c hair, r e or the' i is hisfirst duty was to thank them for the honoideo ()fur m th a a n t y.—( done him in choosing him to act as the fret ce t o o "' lo t! , to their u H n assembly such as had never before taken O r e.- to v , 5 % )1 e d a e r r . t ) a k Their duty ._ ( first a d r . u; y He a o 0 sa t o_ h.Picebetb ble edy he might in his goodness and niereY, 6 11 t 0 ...e° id ths , a p.d, addressed it became his duty to read a letter w vice was e re a ssed to the National Assembly by th e roc , bout to read the letter, w hen • top Herr Freedentheil—The first duty to do li 4 , 3. 0 IN tha T t h t e he Assembly is constituted.—(lloo.) A 0 0 3- President—l now declare that t his .0- constituted. Loud cheers followed this announcement' 1,4 let° . (ft' the Diet, President was then about to read the re ad el when it was suggested it should P% 0010' the t tribune by the Secretary. This desire IT,„ t hea , tional A- : ed by it' s P vf with, and the letter, which was addressee l'y r eol°' ssembly by the Diet, was sign ed ails 0 , Colorado. 'O% the 0 1. ' The letter was to the effect that this hei n ot 0 , 0 6 1 1 the meeting of the National Assembly, the " 00 it 9 1 1 ;pe‘' governments of Germany felicitated the l % be of ev ing, and wished that all their labours wig' elied, with the blessing of God. with . t . , t riblY , o ie e .( The letter was received by the As.- redo 0 0- j and hisses, in which the former, howevef,Eold t o o t The President said that he considered ly' o , o 0 P 0 duty to send an answer to this letter, so t d, t beg, propose that such a course should be sidePold 0 6 or) shoe tbeeftireae Herr Venedey considered that they the letter printed, and when it was heln r top ., 01P could debate what course was the omit 1 3r c i r o e pt ef o 'd Without discussion they ought not t°, ' (Cbee:h 01, steps as that which had been suggestea.-; w ith 'y r ier" Herr I,luhteld eroposed, in accordso4 dip geed= of Ilerr Venedey, that the letter 01