The Sun. — London, England, 1848-05-27 00:00:00

Their Lordships met at Five o'clock NEW HISTORICAL ROMANCE, by the Author of RIENZI," " EUGENE ARAM," &c. Just reaC3,', in 3 vols., post Svo., A 0 L TIIE LAST OF THE SAXON KINGS. An Historical Romance. By Sir EDWARD BUI.WEIC LYTTON, Bart., Author of " Eugene Aram," " Rienzi," " The Last Days of Pompeii," Scc. Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street. IV Orders should be immediately forwarded to the Booksellers to secure the panctual delivery of this work on the day of publication. On Monday, in post Sive.,•with Wood Errravings by George Measorn, onday, N A S,-,,t 0 G y BEING HINTS TOWARDS A CLASSIFICATION OF - , - NOSES. By SLAWKENBERGIITS, Junior. Richard Beatley, New Burlington-street. HER MAJESTY'S. THEATRE. ' , Mao. JENNY LIND. The Nobility, Patrons to the Opera, and the Public are respectfully informed, that a Grand EXTRA NIGH:: will take place on THURS DAY next, June 1, on which occasion Mollie. JENNY LIND will appear in one of her favoitrite characters. To be followed by various entertainments in the Ballet Depart ment, combining the talents of Mdlles. C. Grist, C. Rosati, M. Tag- Cerito, and MM. Perrot and St. Leon. The eree List is suspended, the public Press excepted. Pit Tickets may be obtannicV as usual at the Box-office of the Theatre, price Os. Gd. each. Applications for Boxes, Pit Stalls, and Tickets to be made at the Box-office of tile Theatre. lIER MAJESTY.-3 THEATRE. In consequence of the indisposition of Mdlle. JENNY LIND, the Opera of LI.7CIA DI LAMMERMOOR is unavoidably postponed to Tue , •day next, and THIS EVENING will be represented Donizettes Opera of LINDA DI CIIAMOUNI. Linda, Madame Tadolini ; Picrotto, Mdlle. Schwartz; Antoalo, Signor Coletti ; Carlo, "Signor Gardoni ; 11 Marchese dl Itoisdeury, Signor F. Lablache ; IfThtetto, del Villagio, Signor Lablache. To conclude with the admired Ballet Divertissement, by M. Per rot, the music composed and arranged by M. liadaad, entitled LES ELEMENS, By Mdlle. Carlotta Gil's!, Mdlle. C. Rosati, and Millie. Cara° ; Aussundon, Julien, Payne, Lamoreux, &c. Applications for ltaxes, Stalls, and Tickets, to be made at the Box-ottce of the Theatre. The Fne List is suspended, the public Press excepted. Doors open at halt-past Seven, and commence at Eight o'clock. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Under the Manstement of VENIMr. B. Webster, sole Lessee. THIS ENG Will be performed the Comedy of LONDON ASSURANCE. Sir Harcourt Courtly, Mr. Farren ; Charles Courtly, Mr. Howe ; Mark Meddle, Mr. Rogers ; Max Harkaway. Mr. Tilbury ; Cool, Mr. Brindal ; Mr. Spanker, Mr. Keeley ; Dazzle, Mr. Henry Farren ; Lady Gay Spanker, Mrs. I.Cisbat ; Grace Earkaway, Miss Julia Bennett ; Pert, Mrs. HumbY. Betwocn the pieces Mr. Gerhard Taylor, the eminent Harpist, will perform a grand Fantasia. After which a new piece called the PAS DE FASCINATION ; or, Catching a Governor. Michael Browsky, Mr. Keeley ; Katherine Kloper, Mrs. Keeley. To conclude with a Grand Romantic Extravaganza, founded on Horace Walpole's mysterious production, and called THE CASTLE 01 OTRANTO. Manfred, Mr. Keeley ; the Marquis Vincenza, Mr. J. Bland ; Theodore, Miss P. Horton ; Odonto, Mr. Caulfield ; Hip polito, Mrs. W. Clifford ; Isabella, 31iss Reynolds ; Matilda, Mrs. Caulfield. stale Manager, Mr. Fatten; Acting Manager, Mr. F. Webster. J. T. Archer, Box-book keeper. _ Boxes, s s. ; Pit , 3 s. ; G aller y , 2s. ; U p p e r Gallery, Is. Doors open at Half-past Six. Pertorm anee to commence at Seven: THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPUI. Under the direction o: Madame Celeste. THIS EVENING Will be performed a new and original Drasaa, called EL/UV/EST ROME. Principal charactors by Messrs. 11. Hughes, Lambert, Wright, P. ltedtord, 0. Smith, Madame Celeste, Miss Woolgar, Mrs. Frank Matthews, Miss Turner, &c. Atter which a new Farce, called GOING TO TFIE DERBY THE DERBY DAY. Mr. Jeremlah Twiddle, Mr. Wright. Mr. John James Chucks, Mr. Paul Bedford ; Mrs. Twiddle, Miss Woolgar. conclude with th- Farce of SIioCI:INCr EVENTS. issHardin and M In which Mr. Lambert, Mr. Worrell , M r. Munyard, M g, iss Chzt pli a will perform. Boxes, 45.; Pit, 2s. ; Gallery, Is. n ' en at Ilan-past Six. Performance to commence at Seven. .ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE. Under the hlanagemeut of Madame Vestrig. Sole Lessee, Mr. Charles hlatliews. THIS EV'EN I SG, • • " I ••• . Will be performed THE , SCARECROW. Principal characters by Messrs. Buckstone, Selby, Granby, and Charles ; Mrs. C. Jones, 311ss Lee, and Mrs. iitzwilliam. After which, a new Interlude, enttled TIIE FAST MAN. The characters by Mr. Charles Mathews and Mr. Buckstone. To conclude with a new and original Classical Extravaganza, entitled TIIESEUS and ARIADNE ; or, the Marriage of Built's. Principal characters by Messrs. C. Mathews, H. Hall, S. Smith, F. Cooke ; Miss litzwilliam, Miss Jane Coleman, Miss Marshall; and Madame Vestris. Dress Boxes, 55.; Upper Boxes, 45.; Pit, 2s. ; Gallery, Is. No halt-price to any part of the house. The Sew 1:.ox-office, No. 2, Wellington-street, is open to the Pubile every day, from Tell till nix. FRENCH PLAYS.—ST. JAMES'S THEATRE. Lessee. Mr. John Mitchell. 33, Oid Bond-street. Last Night but One of the Engagements, and Eleventh Appearance since 1845 of M. Achard, also Eleventh Appearances in this Country at Mdlle. Desiree and M. Julien Deschamps (of the Theatre du Gymnase, Paris). On MONDAY EVENING, The Performances will commence at Eight o'clock. when Will be performed the new Vaudeville of LE TUTEUIt DE VINGT ASS. Felix, M. Deschamps ; Valentine, Mdlle. Desiree. After which, LE BRASSEUR DES CHAMPS ELYSEES. M. Achard sent. To be followed by VEUVE PINCHON Catherine. Mdlle. Desiree. To conclude with BABIOLE ET JOBELOT. Jobelot, 31. Aehard Babiole, Mdlle. Desiree. loxes, 6s. ; l'it, 3s. Gd.; Amphitheatre, 3a. ; Gallery. 2s Boxes and Stalls may be obtain , d at Mr. Mitchell's Itoyal Library 33, Old Bond-street. Philippe, 31. Achard ST. JAMES'S THEATRE. ROBERT HOUDIN (ot the Peals Royal, Paris).—The sur prising and interesting performances of ROBERT lIOUDIN, having been received with the most enthusiastic adm ration, he will con tinue his extraordinary SOIREES FANTA,TIQUES at the St. James's Theatre, This Evening, and every Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday Evening, comprising Automates, Prestidigitation, Magic, and original experiments, invented by Robert Houdin. Also, Second Vue Escamotag,e de Roberts Houdin, His, and Suspension Ethereene. Doors open at Eight, the Exhibition to commence at kaif-past Eight, and terminate before Eleven. Boxes, 4s. ; Pit, 29. Boxes and stalls, may be had at Air. MITCH ELL'S Royal Li brary, 33, Old Bond-street and at the Box-office of the Theatre, rhich is open daily from Eleven to Five. fu compl'ance with numerous spplientions, a DAY PERFORM ANCE will be gives on WEDNESDAY MORNING next, May 31. Doors °poll at Two o'cloAt. .•-•• ;I - At, : ,, UltitEY THEATRE. Under the. direction of Mr. Kerschner. Unequalled Attraction, for this Week only. Engagement of Mdlle. Aurio, principal dancer from the Grand Opera at t', vie; Mr. Flextime, the celebrated butl3 dancer; Lcu!se and Adele, and a numerous Ballet Company, trotn tier Ma jesty's Theatre, will appear. Tlll5 EVENING. Will be performed Steridan's Pla. of rIZARRO. Pizarro, Mr. Dale ; Alonzo, Mr. 11. Butler ; Rollo, Mr. N. T. Hicks ; Cora, Mrs. R. Homier ; Elvira, Miss Richardson. Atter which a urand Lail. t, entitled THE CONTRABANDISTS, in which Mdlle. Auriol, Mr Flexmore, M. Duelin, Mdlle. Louise and Adele, &c., will appear. To coue.ude with Boz's original OLIVER TWIST, splendidly cast. Manager and Treasurer, Mr. B. S. Fairbrother. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE. Proprietor, NI r. W. Batty. Entire Change—Bri,liant Spectacle—Grand Equestrian Fete. THIS EVENIS:I, Will be revived, with great splemlou - , M. G. Lewis's Grand Ro mantic Equvie.rian Drama of TIMOUR TIIE TARTAR, in which Mr. Batty's unrival ed stud of highly-tratled hones wil appear. To be followed by THE SCENES OF THE ARENA, infroducing the British Arti.tes in their unrivalled performances. First app,ar *nee of Mr. B itty's highly-trained Hanoverian l'alfreys. To conclude, with the favourite Fara'. of THE SECRET. Box-otlice of en from Eleven till Five. S! age Reneger. Mr. W. West. TO CORRESPONDENTS. No communication can be attended to unless authenti cated by tne name and address c. the writer. Rejected cownunications ctnnot be returned. TIIE WEATIIER.—Sox OFFICE, MAY 27. TSIZEMOMETER, Lowest, 52 ; Highest, 73 Noon, 59, BA.E.omETEn, 30.12.—W1ND N.; fine. HIGII WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE THIS DAY. Morning .. 28 min. after 8 I Evening 9.. min. after 9 44,.w,A 4 0r, ,goa 7.l't Rol ta*-- 011 ( 11111114 (fi ./. , Alit LONDON, SATURDAY, MAY 27, 1848. The injury inflicted on the commerce and man n . factures of the country by the present system of dis proportionate indirect taxation, and the in justice thereby inflicted on the working classes, was last night brought under the consideration of the House of Commons by Mr. EWART, who has certainly laboured with the utmost zeal and assiduity in furtherance of this, possibly the most important measure of practical reform, in which the great body of the people are more deeply interested than any other that could be mooted. We regret to say, how ever, that the time was not devoted to the subject it so fully merited. The Chancellor of the Exchequer replied briefly to the observations of the lion. Gentleman, and contented himself with the hacknied excuse " that the present state of the revenue would not permit any immediate reduction of any species of taxation." The Right Hon. Baronet, however, adopted one argument, against the validity of which we feel it our duty to protest. He stated " that in the course of the present session he himself had at tempted to increase the direct taxation, but he cer tainly could not boast of having received much en couragement from the House or the country." Does Sir C HARLES WOOD mean to assert that the universal feeling of indignation exhibited by all ranks and classes against the proposition which the Government so discreetly and so speedily abandoned, was excited because the principle of direct taxation was involved therein ? The words we have above quoted wou ld semen to imply so much, indeed th e y can hanily bear ally other interpretation ; yet it is difficult to imagine how he could fall into so palpable a mistake, so grievous an error. 'We should have supposed that Sir CHAULES WOOD must have been well aware that the demonstrations to which he alluded were only directed against the iniquitous system of taxing incomes derived from transitory and precarious sourct s to an equal amount with those arising from realised property— o f compelling the hard-working and laborio us man, who had not only to, , !minion himself and family out of his professional earnings, but also to invest a considerable portion thereof as a provision for that family, when he, their father and pro issetor, should be removed bydeath, or when he eouldno ralli — thit - matter, as 1 an univer—iitir4 THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY longer realise an income, in consequence of ill-health, want of employment, or any of the numerous casual ties to which every person embarked in any de scription of trade or employment is constantly ex posed—to contribute as largely to the national expenditure as the inheritor of landed estates or funded thousands. The Chancellor of the Exchequer was resolved that the objectionable and inequitable principle should be perpetuated, and that direct taxation should not be levied in any other manner. This was the real question at issue, and it is not fair, or in ac cordance with the real facts, to place the temperate but firm and determined opposition of the people, and their energetic protest against the unjust and un• equal charge, upon any other basis. The entire income and expenditure of the country should be immediately inquired into in every point. Although the present state of the national finances may be such that no tax can be relaxed until a sub stitute is provided, that only affords a stronger reason for a strict and searching investigation. If a private individual found his affairs getting seriously embar rassed, and himself involved in difficultiss, should he persevere in the system, which had led to such a result, or should he not, on the contrary, maturely consider the nature of his transactions, in order to ascertain which were profitable and which the reverse, with a view to an immediate abandonment of the latter, and an extension of the former ? A nation should pursue a similar course. The obsolete doctrines of pro tection and monopoly have been formally and for ever abandoned by the Legislature. We cannot retrograde : it is impossible to remain stationary ; we must, therefore, progress. Our trade and commerce must be made really free and unrestricted ; it cannot be so, while such enormous and dispropor tionate duties are levied on the products of other lands, and even of our own, which we are thus unable to bring into the market at such a price as to obtain purchasers. Our productive powers are thus paralyzed, and employment is kept from the people. All the burdens which press on in dustry, or which impede commerce, should at once and unconditionally be repealed, and this can only be done by the imposition of a tax on every descrip tion of realised property, sufficient to defray the neces sary e xpenditure of the country. We doubt not that this expenditure would speedily be placed on a re duced scale when it fell exclusively on the owners of property, and, therefore, on the classes from whom the representatives of the people must, by reason of the property qualification, be selected. What was essential would be provided, but extravagance would be carefully eschewed. We trust that the asso ciations which have been formed for the pur pose of promoting this valuable reform, will pur sue their object steadily and energetically : they must, in order to obtain success, agitate without ceasing, and keep the injustice and the impolicy of the present system constantly before the public. A great lesson has been afforded. " The Anti-Corn law League" have pointed out the course by which great constitutional reforms may be peacefully achieved. Why should not that League again start into existence ? Its members effected much for the country, but why should they relax their exertions until their doctrines were fully carried out They obtained one great instalment of justice—why should they not persevere until every restriction was removed —and England made, indeed, the emporium of the world—the land where commerce and every descrip• tion of manufacture could be carried on without any impediment whatever? This would, indeed, be worthy of a struggle, and the sooner the contest is commenced the more speedy will be its complete and triumphant termination. Our unfortunate colonies in the West Indian ar chipelago have at last obtained the assistance of Go vernment. Assistance is the right word—not sym pathy. There has been too much impoverishment, and, latterly, too near an approximation to insolvency among the proprietors of the sugar and coffee planta tions, to admit of any very sympathetic feelings in the heart of a Legislature. Especially was this inevitable with a Legislature like that of Great Britain—a Le gislature whose remorse is extravagance, and whose aspiration is retrenchment. To appeal to the sensi bilities of a mere machine of Administration, indeed, would have been as idle as to intercede with that im placable mechanism of destruction which one reads of in oriental romance as closing, inch by inch, upon its victims, and ultimately crushing them to " a jelly of death" by an exquisitely graduated assassination. Had Parliament been susceptible of emotion in the instance of our West Indian proprietary-, we doubt not that, like a CORIOLANUS of Cockaigne, Mr. SPEAKER would have been confronted by the orators of Berbice and the quadroons of Tortola, pleading to him is behalf of those regions of panic and desolation. As it was notorious, however, that the senate-houses of Westminster are little less impassible than oracles, they have been assailed alone by the homely weapons of the petition-monger, the deputationist, the pamphleteer, badgering, reiteration, and pertinacity. After a more protracted hesitation than any, perhaps, that can be adduced even from the records of the British Parliament, Government has at length com menced an effort in behalf of our colonial planters, but its concessions are now too tardy to appear bene ficent—it is visible to the most mediocre intelligence that the mother country has been importuned into generosity, and impelled to her present determination less by sentiments of honour than by the embarrassing deductions of a Committee. We are driven to these considerations by a circumstance which transpired the other evening in the House of Commons, when, on the propositio❑ of Mr. IlawEs, the third resolu• tion of the Committee on Tobago relief and immi gration into British Guiana and Trinidad was " further considered and agreed to, and a Bill, founded thereon, ordered to be introduced." Subordinate as this incident may appear in the midst of the more striking vicissitudes of legislation, it brings to our recollection a fact which has frequently recurred to us of late, a fact pregnant w'..th the events of futurity, and one which is more worthy of reflection than the fluctuations in the consumption of muscovado or the indiscriminate employment of sugar in distillation. We allude to the comparative oblivion into which our colonial interests (in their entirety) have fallen, in consequence of the superior attraction of the in ternal administration of England, of the nascent re bellion in Ireland, and of those extraordinary occur rences which, since the January of 1848, have convulsed the European Continent ani transfigured the whole face of Christendom. Occasionally, it is true, during the last quarter, there have been references to the position of our colonial possessions both in the columns of The Sun and in those of our contemporaries; but the para mount importance of those possessions, as a whole, ins topicsseemst of o have been subordi na t e d t o th e more engross the journalist. We would terminate this temporary forgetfulness; we would recal to the remembrance of our Legislators the necessity of scrutinizing more systematically than they have done recently the requirements of our colonists; we would enforce, if possible, the consciousness of those enor mous responsibilities which affect the con science of a State as powerfully as the sense of certain moral obligations affects the conscience of an individual. Of all the responsibi lities of Government, those which are asso ciated with the colonies of an empire are unquestion ably the most imperative, and, in the event of their being overlooked, are the most certain to be followed by a disastrous retribution. It ,was this which was illustrated so forcibly in the dismemberment of our North American dominions. It is this which we would see avoided by a more sedulous attention to the interests of our colonists. And it is precisely be cause we have recognised the growth of this peri lons indifference fur a very considerable time past, that we are solicitous to revive en masse the exigen cies of our situation. If any country upon the sur face of the globe is peculiarly answerable for the manner in which its energies have been distributed over its remote and scattered territories, that country is assuredly England ; for no other has ever con centrated under a single sceptre such vast and diver sified dominions. It has not remained for us to remark that the colonial possessions of Great Britain are Asiatic, European, African, and American, that they extend over gigantic tracks in both hemispheres, that they include entire archipelagoes, and peninsulas, and, as in the instance Of Australia, a whole conti nent. But it has remained for us to declare that the incongruities of the scheme of legislation applied to these stupendous conquests—the conquests less of war than of commerce and navigation—are cal culated, unless modified effectually and betimes, to redound to our ignominy as a nation, and to lead in the end to the disruption of our empire. Before we particularise a few of the most prominent of these incongruities, it is by no means unadvisable to reflect for an instant upon In each of the colonyire tthe e characteristicsestimation a f a which statesman. may distinguish a these characteristics we shall find that the colonial territories of the United Kingdom are fruitful even to a wonderful degree. Foremost among the various classes of colonies are those which must be considered simply as territorial acquisitions, and of this descrip tion of colony England furnishes a magnificent ex ample in New South Wales, in Van Diemen's Land, and in those generous but thinly-populated islands which were first explored by the adventurous CooK. Of agricultural colonies again she possesses an almost embarrassing abundance from her dominions in the northern continent of America to the comparatively insignificant estates cf Dominica and Montserrat. Of colonies exuberant in their exportations of timber she has sufficient to render her independent of the forests contiguous to the Baltic; and of those which are chiefly remarkable as fisheries she has an extraordi nary number, besides the spacious shores of New foundland. In every particular England is richer in colonial treasures than any other maritime power whose history has been recorded either in modern times or in the enterprising ages of antiquity. The glory of Tyre and Sidon pale before that which sheds its lustre over the vista of her illustrious annals. The prowess of the Phoenicians and the audacity of the Carthaginians were alike unable to render them her competitors in greatness. The boastful ejaculation of PHILIP the SECOND has been realised by her children, and the daring of Portugal has been, by her, successively emulated and surpassed. Nothing of all this is dictated by an idle spirit of braggadocio, but solely by that wholesome dread of the calamities which must infallibly result from the protracted apathy of our administrators, unless that apathy be spontaneously and resolutely abandoned. Vast and prolific our colonies may be, vast and prolific they unquestionably are, but for that very reason our re sponsibilities in regard to the conservation of their interests and the development of their rights are in disputably still more vast and innumerable. In one of those beautiful but Utopian visi▪ ons which the lyre of LAMARTINE has thrilled into the very soul of the nations, the hypothesis of an ori▪ en tal colonization has been expounded. Islotwithstand ing the obstacles of prejudice, in defiance of those instincts of antipathy which are inherent in the mind of the Asiatic, the project has seemed feasible to the author of La chute dun ange, and his imagi nation has already revelled in the anticipation of " prosperous peoples, and millions of men marching under the dEgis of Europe to a nlw Whatever M. DE CORMENIN may think to the con trary, we are satisfied that with a judicious impetus the dream of LAMARTINE might he realized not in the colonization of the Rest, but in the diffusion of religion, and know ledge, and enterprise, and good government, throughout the scattered colonies of Britain. By this means the slope of civilization would not be directed exclusively towards Palestine, or to the banks of the Bosphorus—it would be diffused over the globe with a catholic impartiality. Before, however, any scheme so gigantic could be adventured upon, in relation to the colonial possessi ins of England, what mighty innovations would be requisite as rational prepara tives l Mighty as they are, nevertheless, these inno vations are still practicable, and upon their accom plishment depends the duration of our nationality. Numerous as such necessary innovations are, they may be defined in the enunciation of a single neces sity—the necessity of assimilating together in one congruous system the anomalies of our colonial legislation. When that has been effected, we shall have obtained the standing-ground for which ARCM.. MEDES sighed, we shall have acquired the vet) crvw from which we may move the world. How remote this achievement is, however, can be conjectured from details as conclusive as the calculations of M'Cur.- LAcu. When it is remembered that among the nineteen divisions of our West Indian pos sessions, one (Honduras) is governed by a superin tendent and magistrates, four (St. Lucia, Trinidad, Bdrhice and Demerara, with Essequibo,) by a Go vernor, a Council, and the orders of the QUEEN in Council, while the remaining Eurteen (Tobago, Tortola, Anguilla, Bahama, Bermudas, Antigua, Barbadoes, Dominica, Granada, Jamaica, Mont serrat, Nevis, St. Kitts, and St. Vincent,) are governed by a Governor, a Council, and an Assembly —it will be acknowledged that the splendour of our colonial greatness is likely to be as fleeting as the oriental vision of LAMARTINE. Give but symmetry to this empire, by giving unity to its government, and its splendour will ba perpetuated, and the poetio vision may be realized. According to the latest accounts, Madrid was per• fwctly tranquil. THE FRENCH REPUBLIC. THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY. We have received the Paris papers of yesterday. The elections to fill up th • vacancies in the repre- sentation of Paris in the National Asaembly take place to-morrow, and in addition to the lists of can didates put forward by the National and the Reforms, which we published yesterday, the following have started. VICTuR HUGO, M. TRIERS, General CHAN GARNIER, HORACE SAT, and Dr. THIERRIN The Journal des Debats published an address to the electors by VICTOR HUGO, in which the ex-Vis comte declares himself the partisan of the republic of civilization as distinguished from the republic of terror, and declares his willingness to sacrifice his life to promote the establishment of the first, and to prevent the establishment of the last. Thu Dernocratie Pacifique says, that it is currently reported that the representatives of the Northern Courts have protested apinat the resolution of the National Assembly on the subject of Poland. The Constitutionnel says that M. LOUIS BLANC and his Committee of labourers have left a score of 350,000 francs to be settled by the Republic for the expenses of their table alone. This is a tolerable tavern bill to be run up in two months. A projet de loi for the reorganization of the jury system has been presented to the National Assembly. By this measure all electors, that is to say every male person who has completed the age of 21 years, may be called upon to fulfil the duties of juryman, with the exception of soldiers in active service, per sons who cannot read nor write, domestic servants, persons who have been condemned to infamous punishments by the laws of their country, and uncer tificated bankrupts. The Presse announces the death at Rennes of Madame DE CIIATEAUBRIAND, sister of M. DE CHA TEAUBEIAND, in her 87th year. The shareholders of the Orleans and Central Rail ways have just held meetings to consider what was to be done relative to the Government Rail way Bill. The strongest opposition was mani fested against the measure, which was declared to be most unjust, as violating openly the contracts on which property reposes. Delegates were no minated to protest before the National Assembly against the Bill, and defend the interests of the share holders, in conjunction with the members of the board of directors. The following petition has been presented to the National Assembly by the committee of Spanish bondholders in Paris, praying its iuterference with the Spanish Government to procure a settlement of their claims : "Citizen Representatives,—The committee of the Spanish bondholders in Paris has the honour to address Itself to the National Assembly, to supplicate its inter ' ference in behalf of thousands of French families, whose condition is most deplorable, in consequence of the un justifiable state of abandonment in which the Spanish 4.4overnment persists in leaving them since the Ist Nov., 1836, the period w hen it again eased to pay the interest 9ri its debt. " In order to enable the National , Assembly to judge of the importance of the sums which pain has succeeded in drawing from France, under favour of the different loans contracted by her in the Paris market, and by the of the support which she found from preceding Governments, we consider it necessary to enter inky some details on the origin as well as on the suceesithe emissions of these same loans, which have had the effect, in addition to the ruin of several thousand fatnilles;' of iitninishing in a sensible manner the monetary capital of France. " The first Spanish loan negotiated at the Aris Douse , was contracted in 1820 by Messrs. J. Lafate and Co., and Ardoin and Co., hankers; other loans followed in 1821 and 1822. In 1823 the French army overthrew the Consmutional Government; -t-stabli6hed the absolute power of Ferdinand VII., who, repudiating the debts contracted by the Constitutional Government, ceased to pay the interest. 11 , did more; he charged two bankers, not French, but residing in Paris, Mesiiri. Guebhard and Aguado, to sell by commission the reimbursable obliga tions of the perpetual Three and Five per Cent. Rentes; these emissions had been made from 1823 to 1831 for a sum of about 400,000,000 f. " The Government of the restoration, instead of pre tecting the compromised interests of the French holders of bonds issued under the constitutional regime, inflicted the greatest injury on those very interests, by such.- rising the emission and the quotation at the Paris Bourse, of fresh loans, the proceeds of which procured for the (Government of Ferdinand the resources which he could not have found, but by recognising the legality of the loans contracted under the constitutional Go vernment. " After the death of King Ferdinand the constitu- tional Government was re establisliqt; a fresh loan was contracted in 1834, by Ardoin and C.., binkers, at Paris, and M. A. Ricardo, in Laidon; to this was j )fined the conversion c t a!1 the !eats contracted from 1820 to 1831; a conversion w hich cn,isted in reducing the capitol by one-third, and .to avoid the appearance o f a bankruptcy bonds wer e d elivered for the said third , calledsn 1823, the holders 1) 3ssiveßen'is;as to th e i n t erest d ue an d no t p a id ce received fresh bonds called De ferred Debt,' payable in Active Debt, in twelve yearly periods, commencing from 1838. " In consequence of this operation there were created fresh bonds, viz.:— " IN ♦CIIVE DEBT. " For the sum of about 846,0u0,060f. of capital, or a Five per Cent. Rente, of 42,300,0001. " IN DEFERRED DEBT. "For the sum of about 332 ,000,000 f. in capital, or in Five per Cent. lientea Total Five per Cent. Rentes... 59,000,000 r. " IN PASSIVE DEBT. " For the sum of about 32 3,000,000 c. bearing no inte rest. " There remain still in circulation the following bonds : " 1. Deferred Debt of 1831 for about 128,000,000 f. which, by a forgetfulness, the motives of which cannot be explained, was neglected at the time of the conversion of 1834. "2. A portion of the preceding loans of about 64,000,00 01 . which bad not been presented for conversion within the delay prescribed. " Moreover, the Government caused to be presented for conversion in 1834 some bonds of 1323, which then remained unemployed, in order to affect the sale of them secretly and without the authorisation of the Cortes; and in order to complete the measure, M. Mendizahal, in his report, which was read on the 27th October. 1836, boasted of having made a good bargain for the Treasury in causing the sale in London by M. Ricardo of the Active Debt of 50 at 421-, and the Passive Debt of 16+ at 14i. " Four days after the reading of that report the Spanish Government ceased to pay the interest on its debt; now the Active Debt, comprising the interest due since 1840, is only worth 13k, and the Passive Debt 3; per cent. " In 1841, under the regency , of the Government of Espartero, the shareholders obtained, in default of pay ment in cash, the capitalization of four years' interest overdue, which was delivered to them in Three per Cent. Rentes; but since the Ist May, 1841, the creditors have received neither cash nor Three per Cents ; it is, therefore, necessary t o add to the sums pointed out above that of 350,000,000 f., for fifteen half-years' arrears unpaid on the Spanish debt. " Admitting that there now only remains in circula tion in France but a third part of the loans contracted by Spain from 1820 to 1834 there would be still due to the French creditors a sum of In capital ••• ••• Arrears of interest ... In annual interest ... ••• The reductions already made in 1834. " The privati, n of this amount of capital is an im. mense loss for France, and is a cause of ruin to a grea number of families; the c.rnirnittee, full of confidence in your solicitude for the national interests, ventures to hope that in acting in a cause which so closely affects the honour of the country and the interests of its citizens, the National Assembly will not refuse its intervention with the Government of the French Republic, in order that due justice should be done to such h gitimate de scends, and which, instead of finding an efficacious sup port on the part of the late Government, seas only on its part the object of fallacious promises, because a dynastic interest prevented it from supporting and ob taining justice for the rights of the French creditors at Madrid. s h e" canitn And let a it y when h n e o be be e t shech li o e o v s ed es t ; ha h t Spain is in erresourcesihsaoylveent— been improving for several years, and the revenue of the first three months of 1848 shows an increase of 20,000,000 f. over that of the corresponding quarter of 1847. Spain, moreover, is the most fertile and the most lightly taxed country in Europe ' • she has only to increase her taxes to be able to meet all her engagements. " The French' creditors of Spain are now convinced that if the National Assembly takes their interest a' bears, the Government of the Republic will be able to obtain justice for them at Madrid. " We remain with respect, Citizen Representatives, " Your humble and obedient servants, " Members of th e French " GUYNET, BOULET, }: l SCEoNroLtooi Committee of , DUBOURG, SARItANS, " May 20, 1848. Spanish Bondholders." The celebrated GEORGES SAND (Madame DUDE PANT) has been obliged to withdraw from Paris, it having been discovered that she was deeply impli cated in the attack on the National Assembly on the 15th inst. It appears that a decree was published in the Moniteur three days since, appointing seventeen officers to the Garde Mobile a Cheval. In the sitting of the National Assembly on Thursday, M. ADELS WAND drew attention to this fact. He asked by what law were these officers appointed ? By the decree instituting the Garde Mobile the officers were to be elected by the men. By whom were they elected ? How did it happen that among these officers there were subalterns taken from the army ? Besides this, General BAaAGUAY D'HILLIERS inquired how the expenses of this new force were provided for without the concurrence or even the knowledge of the army. To these questions the reply of M. RECUET, the Minister of the Interior, was that the decree in ques tion was a surprise (un surpris). Though his own name was attached to it, he knew nothing of it, nor was he aware of it till some days after it appeared in the Moniteur— and he added, that the decree was to be annulled, and that the officers of the Garde Mobile Cheval would be elected like the officers of the Garde Mobile I Pied. It does not appear by whom these extraordinary appcintments were made, but it was generally supposed that M. LEDRU ROLLIN is not altogether ignorant of the matter. Ultimately the subject was referred to the Committee on the affairs of the Interior. The Committee sat yesterday, and were to sit again to day, to hear the explanations of M. LEDRU ROLLIN. M. BACLE, the Colonel of the Garde Mobile, appeared before the Committee yesterday, but they refused to examine him until they had heard M.. LEDRU ROLLIN. It appears when M. La mm Rows was Minister of the Interior M. BACLE was the commandant of M. LEDRU ROLLIN'S special guard of Montagnards, which was established in the residence of the Minister. At the time of the orga nization of the Executive Government M. LEHRU ROLLIN wished to have M. Baena appointed go vernor of the Palace of the Luxembourg, which is the seat of Government; but the other members of the Government did not choose to have the guard of devotion n h to M. LEDRU Rows, an d he was who a devo man was merely known for his unscrupulous then appointed to their residences placed in the handsof the command of the Garde Mobile. M. CARTARET, the Under-Secretary of State at the department of of M. the Interior, who is also a devote d adherent hed the LEDRU ROLLIN, is th e p ers on article in the Moniteur. appointing War-officers of the Garde Mobile without the knowledge of the Minister. It is said he is to be dismissed. passed the Assembly majority. The following yesterday by a very larg e The decree interdicting the French territory to the members of the Orleans family is a report of the proceedings:-- The Assembly m et at twelve 'cl t o li c e discussion of the k. The order of the day. was f or following decree respecting t he expu l s io n of the Orleans family from the French territory:— t _ t .t of " The National Assembly decrees that he ern ory o France and h er colonies being interdicted in perpetuity to the eld er b ranc h o f the Bourbon s, b y the law of April 10, 1832, it is equally interdicte d to Louis Philippe and his family." On the mo ti on b e ing read by the President, _ M. Basin rose and said that he could not_ see any reason for th e a d o ption of such a measure. The neces sity of it h a d no t been felt for the last t h ree months; an d he would ask, what new danger hadarisen to make so extrem e a m e as ure necessary ? lie thought that the question should be adjourned until the necessity of its adoption had - been proved by a judicial inquiry, formally instituted. M. Laurent would vote for the expulsion of the O rleans bran c h f or the present, becaus , ! he thought it called for by reasons of state; but be thought it right that the expulsion should not be perpetual. lie therefore would .move an amendment to t he effect that the exclusion should not be perpetual, but as long as the state of the nation rendered the measu re necessary. After few - words from M. SaFritt, who declared that the perpetual expulsion of all pretenders was necessary, Vignsrt must insist on the banishment b e i ng voted a perpctuiti. The Orleans family had done too ... 563,000,000 f. ... 116,666,000 f. 20,000,000 f. D; f Reall3r it was time this extravapanep Ahntilti has ,Tht ......3-..t.,- Ai_ ontaa nn annnumt 64. dr;••nem* I.' EVENING, MAY 27, 1818. much injury to France ever to be admitted there again. —(Agitation.) As to the Bonaparte family, they were admitted in the Republic provisionally.—(A loud burst of dissent from every part of the House.) The Bona partes were not dangerous, and were, therefore, amongst the other citizens. Were they to become dangerous, then — The Hon. Representative here stopped, and rendered his example of aposiopesis as marked as possible by sign of head and movement of hand. A loud burst of agitation succeeded, which lasted for some time. Prince Pierre Napoleon Bonaparte must protest with all his energy . against the words just uttered. He saw no reason why he should stand before his fellow-citizens as under the weight of a provisional admission into France only. He saw no reason why any reflection should be cast on him or his family without cause, as without opportuneness, when he was performing his duty as a loyal subject. He could not admit the posi tion which was thus attempted to be imposed en him, and he thus fornally protested against it.—(Applause.) M. Vignart—l must maintain that if there should appear any reason to suppose the Bonaparte family in clined to excite dissen,ieit, the Assembly would have a pf-efeet right at once- to act against it.— (Agit,,tim . .) Prince Pierre Napoleon Bonaparte must toz , Lin protest against such language being apphed t., him. It was alike unhandsome and unjus!. If," c.aitieued the hen. representative, a culpable attempt is made b) any man, let him be punished for it, us the law directs, but let not suspicion be flung on him beforehand." All he should say was, let whoever is guilty be punished let none that merit punishment escape. not. you (ad dres,ing M Vignart) any more than I!"—(L. .ad marks of appiobatior.) The various amendments brought forward were then severally put to the vote and rejected. On the question being put that the Bill do pass, a paper was handed to the President demanding a vote by divison. Upwards of thirty names (the number required) being attached to it, the Assembly preceed.d to vote as demanded, and for the first time the English mode of going into the lobby by different doors was acted on. A number of members did not take part in the vote. The result was as follows: — Number of voters Absolute majority 348 For the adoption 632 Against it 63 Majority. In consequence the Bill was adopted. The Minister of Justice who succeeded his colleague, deposited on the table another Bill, abrogating the law of the Bth of May, 1816, and re-establishing divorce. a National Guard put his head into the Imperial car riatr,e, and exclaimed it is high time you did leave.' Ems, 19th May, half-past ten A. 31. The Wiener Zeitung of the 21st announces that the Council of Ministers has not yet received any further intelligence from the EMPEROR, and adds that this circumstance may be satisfactorily accounted for by the continued increase of the distance of the august travellers from Vienna. There is beside no reason to apprehend any disaster or interruption on the journey. The Ministerial Council at the saute time declares that it has been charged by the High Chamberlain ,o take charge of all the Crown jewels and property belonging to the State. Finally, the Ministerial Council declares that the report which has been cir culated by some designing men of an impending State bankruptcy is unfounded. The departure of their MAJISTIES was so sudden that they were not even provided with travelling clothes, and had nu luggage whatever wi h them. Ott the 18th, the day of his flight, the Emi•Etwit transmi:te.i a message to Prague, to Count - . TIILIN, the Imperial Government Pre,ict nt of Bohemia, • who ifflinethately issued the following proclatnatiu. : "By the interven ion of contidimiial plsons, his :11. ,, j(4ziy the liwperor his transmitted to Me a verbal coin s.unication, to announce to ht 3 I ,ithful 13. heitomis, that, " Deeply moved at recent events in Vienna, his Mzi jesty dt.tilis it nr. , st :4iivlunble to withdraw from thence tor a short period. His NhjeSty found it difficult to dweide among which ot his faithful subjects; he should stjourn; but con,id , tatiois for his health ioduced to decide in tavour ot the salubrious air of the- Tyrol, to go thither accompanied by his Imperial Highness the Archduke Charles. "Isis Majesty firmly depends upon his faithful Bohe mians to uphold, in case of need, the Throne, the consti tution, and the power of the Austrian monarchy. "Firmly persuaeed that every Bohemian will be proud to justify the expectation of his Majesty under all cii cumstances, I also am resolved, in detente of these senti ments of the Bohemian nation, so to direct the Ex, cutive Government delegated to me by his Majesty for the up holding of the Throne and of the constitution as extra ordinary relations may demand. " Of this I have already duly informed his Majesty, and given a report to the Minister in Vienna. "LEO COUNT THUN, " Imperial Government-President. "Prague, May 19." In consequence of this a meeting was held, at which Count THUN presided, and a loyal address to the EMPEROR was agreed to. SAXONY. The Saxon Diet was opened at Dresden on the 21st inst. by the KING in person. FRANKFORT-ON-THE-MAINE. The German Parliament met on Tuesday at ten o'clock. A multitude of notices of motion was then made, by far the most important of which was that of Mr. ZITZ, member for Mayence, and head of the burgher guard there. This went at great length into the various collisions between the soldiery and the citi zens of Mayence; and the insolence and brutality of the Prussian quota of the garrison troops, was ex patiated on in the strongest terms. He went on to state, that on the last occasion, some Prussian soldiers in a beerhouse unnecessarily end wantonly used their weapons upon unarmed citizens. When the burgher guard interfered for the preservation of the peace, they were also fiercely attacked, and great loss of lite ensued. (in the 22d the Prussian General, HUSER, governor of the fortress, shut the gates, declared the town in a state of siege, and demanded the surrender of the arms of the burgher guard. 1\ as such treat ment to be borne ? He prayed that the Parliament should immediately institute an inquiry, and take into consideration the necessity of forbidding the sol diery to wear their side arms off duty, and remove the present garrison from Mayence, replacing them with other troops, &c. Just as the member was leaving the tribune (half past 12 o'clock) a slip of paper was put into his hands, upon which he returned, and stated that in telligence had just arrived—" Alayence was again placed in a state of siege." It was then whispered in the House that a heavy cannonading was heard in the direction of Mayence, and it was believed possible that the governor might be engaged at that moment in putting his threat of destruction to the town into execution. A strong feeling was now evident both in the body of the house and in the gallery. A stormy discussion ensued, several Prussian members taking part therein, when the question was put from the chair, " Whether the present motion was of so pressing a nature as to require the usual preparatory step of going into committee being dispensed with?" The majority voted for going into committee. It was then agreed that the divisions (Abtheilun gen) should immediately meet to form a committee of 15 members; and in order to hear both sides of the question, and sift the matter to the bottom, a deputation of their number should forthwith start for Mayence. The House adjourned at half-past one o'clock. The deputation set off at three o'clock. DENMARK AND THE DUCHIES. The report that General WRANGEL had levied a contribution upon the inhabitants of Jutland to the amount of 2.000,000 silver dollars, which must be pail by the 28th inst., is confirmed, but how the poor Jutlanders will find the money no one can tell. it is reported that Denmark will retaliate on Ger many for General WRANGEL'S proceedings in Jut land, by laying an attachment to the claims that German merchants may have against Danish subjects. The amount of these claims are stated to be fully thirty millions of marks banco ; thus one reprisal leads to another, and the countries become daily further embroiled in war. The Weser Zietung mentions that there is much probability that the conclusion of peace may not be so remote as is generally believed. RarsnsiauaG, MAY 21.—A deputation arrived here to-day from North Schleswig, con,isting of inhabi tants of the city and of the c.untry, charged with the mission to make a solemn protest to the Prod sional Government, against the partition of any part of the Duchy of Schleswig, cod its incorpratti , n to Denmark, in case that que,tiun should be raised in the present negotiation fur peace. The speaker of the deputation was Dr. AlicnELsEN, of Ilanpers leben. 22. The deputation had an audience this day of the Provisional Government. We have not yet learnt the result of the conference, but no doubt can be entertained that a favourable reply will be given. The intelligence of the breaking out of the typhus fever on board the Dronning Maria, among the Ger man prisoners of war, is unhappily confirmed. KIEL, Al it 22.—The Galathea weighed anchor yesterday, and proceeded northwards, and has now disappeared from our horizon. Whether she will re turn alone or in company will probably be decided in a few days. According to undoubted authority, Russia, which was requested to act the part of mediator in the diplomatic negotiations on the Schleswig question, has addressed a note to the Prussian Government, in which it expresses itself by no means in favour of the claims put forth by Prussia in the name of Germany, and holds out the prospect of a co operation with Sweden (probably by means of a fleet). According to a correspondent at Berlin, a reply to this Note was sent from Berlin to St. Peters burgh on the 20th, and was in a morefnodnedraerteottohnere than would probably have been th e case u circumstances. SWEDEN. SrocKnoma.—The armaments here continue with great activity. Orders have been received at Carls krona, to fit out several vessels, which are to be fur nished with provisions for three months. Everybody is busy in the dockyards. Many frsli hands have been taken on, and the work is continued without in ,ermission from four o'clock in the morning to eight At night, even on Sundays and holidays. Several of he people begin to feel the effects of being thus over. asked. Prince OSCAR arrived here some time ago, mid was received with the greatest enthusiasm. ritie Norwegian corps, which is expected at Schonen, Aready amounts to 5,000 men. Many men have b e en enlisted both for the army and navy. About 700 boatmen had been summoned to ma❑ the gun boats. Several steamers have left for Schonen and (.lothPnburg with ammunition. MARP.IAGE IN HIGH LIFE.—The marriage of Con , lt l'ornpeo Troili, a Roman nobleman, and Guardia of his Holiness Pius IX., with Miss Maria Hoare, :aughter of Captain Richard Hoare, R.N., and niece to sir Hughes Richard Hoare, Bart., is tilted to take place on Thuridv aext, ti., lot of June. BOURSE—PARis, FRIDAY, MAY 26. THREE o'CLocx.—The Rentes for cash and the Ac count are very much asked for to-day, and the rise which commenced two days ago made further progress. The railways did not, however, participate in the improve ment. On the contrary, some of the most important among them suffered a further decline. For the Ac count, the French Three per Cents. and Five per Cents. rose 75 centimes. For Money the rise was the same amount. Bons du Tresor are quoted at 32 discount. Bank of France Shares are the same as yesterday. Bel gian Bank Shares not quoted. Two-and-a-Half per Cents. are at 33. Spanish Stock not quoted. Roman has de clined i per cent. Rothschild's Receipts, at 67. Rail way Shares for the Account, settling of 31st: Lyons was done at 35 lf. 25e. No others were done for the account. For cash the Orleans have fallen 2F. 50e ; Boner's, 2f. 50e.• ' Marseilles, 7f. 50c.; Vierzons, Bf. 75e.; Northerns, 5f.; Versailles, If. 25c. Dieppes have risen If. 25c. The others remain as yesterday. BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE LONDON STOCK-EXCHANGE, May 26. Boulogne and Amiens, 6 1 4—Northern of France, 4 1 4 — Orleans and vourdeaux, lAi—Paris and Orleans, 22 1 14—Paris and Rouen, 1514. GERMANY AND THE NORTHERN STATES. PRUSSIA. The following is the royal notification to the Pre sident which accompanied the draft of the consti tution : " We Frederick William, by God's grace, King of Prussia, &c., " llaving by our patent of the 18th of March promised a constitution for our lands appertaining to the German Cimtedstration, we herewith send a project of the same to the convoked Assembly of the representatives of our faithful people. " Given at Potsdam, May 20, 1848. " FREDERICK WILLIAM. " CAMPHAUSEN, Count VON SCUWERIN, VON AtJERS WALD, BORNI,MANN, VON ARNIM, HANSEMANN, Count VON KANITZ, Baron VON PATOW " TILE NEW PRUSSIAN CONSTITUTION. The project of the new constitution, as submitte; by the Ktrio to the Assembly, consists of sever chapters and eighty-four articles, of which the follow ing are the principal : " CHAP. I. " All the territories of the Prussian monarchy in th eir present extension, with the exception of a portion of the Grand Duchy of Posen, for which a special re organiz ition is under consideration, constitute the Prus sian domains belocging to the German Confederation. ' 6 The confines of this territory can only be changed by a law. "CHAP. H.-ON THE RIGHTS OF PRUSSIAN CITIZENS, " All citizens are equal in the eye of the law. Personal liberty of the citizen is guaranteed. No citizen can be arrested except in the ferns prescribed by law. " Cunfi.cation of property is abolished. Private property can only be appropriated by the State si'llen for the common weal, and at a just indemnification. Free dom of confession. Separation of civil rights from religious confessions. Liberty of the press. Censor ship is totally and eternally abolished. •' Assemblages of unarmed citizens for peaceful dis cussion are allowed. The right of petitioning is open to all. The secrecy of letters is inviolable. In extra ordinary cases, such as war, &c., special laws are es tablished. "CKAP. 111.-TIIE KING. " The person of the King is inviolable. His ministers are re,ponsible. All the acts of the King require to be countersipned by on 3 of the ministers to show their re sponsibility. The executive power appertains to the King alone. The King is commander-in-chief of the army, and makes all the appointments. The King has the right of appointing all the civil functionaries, of conferring titles of nobility and distinction. The King has the right of convoking and closing the Chambers. The Crown is herediture in the male branch according to the right of primogeniture and the agnatic succession. " The King is of age at eighteen. " CHAP. IV.-THE MINISTERS. " The ministers can be arraigned fur neglect of duty by the second Chamber. They have a vote in each Cham ber; they may command the attention of the Chamber. Each Chamber may demand the pres6-nce of the ministers. "CHAP. Y.-THE CHAMBERS. " The legislative power is executed in common by the Kin 4 - and two Chambers. The consent of the King and the Chambers is requisite to every law. " The first Chamber consists ut the princes of the royal house as soon its they have attained their eighteenth year, and of, at must, sixty members who must have r,achi . d their fortieth year, and have a yearly income of not under 8.00 dollars: their seat is hereditary. " The s , c Chamber is to consist of 180 member:. The members of the second Chamber are elected for tout years. They mug have, attained their thirtieth year. "Nu one can be a member of both Chambers. The sittings of both Chambers are public. "CRAP. VI.—THE COURTS OF JUDICATURE. " The judges are appointee: fur their ittetune by the King. " CHAP. VII.-FINANCE. "A bucket for the expenses and revenues of the State for each coming year must be presented beforehand." As soon as the constitution has been adopted, the ICING will take an oath before the Assembly to up. hold, maintain, and protect the constitution of the Prussian State. The heir to the throne has to do the same. The remaining clauses are relative to local taxa tion, &c. Accounts from Posen state that the Prince of PRusslA has been appointed by the electors of the Circle of Wersitz deputy to the Constituent As sembly. Letters from Mayence, of the 23d instant, state that the city is in the state of the greatest alarm. Fresh collisions have taken place between the soldiers and the citizens, with loss of life on both sides. In the fight on Sunday last, it is now ascertained that fifteen persons were killed, and fifty more or less seriously wounded. The Prussian Indicator of the 23d mentions a re port that the Prince of PRUSSIA had arrived at Potsdam. Some disturbances had broken out among the workmen on the canal, but they were quelled without the necessity of having recourse to arms, and tha ringleaders were arrested. On the 23d, the King of PRUSSIA reviewed the national guards of Berlin, by whom he was enthusiastically cheered. AUSTRIA. The latest advices from Vienna are to the evening of the 21st, at which time everything was quiet. The Wiener Zeitung of the 21st contains the fol lowing details of the journey of the fugitives, ad dressed to President MONTECUCOLI by one of tht gentleman sent to induce the EmrEttoa to return : " Excellency,—l take advantage of the few moinents . delay in changing horses, to send your Excellency a few details respecting our mission. All along the road v. , . were informed that the high'personages prosecuted their journey with the utmost speed possible, and preserved strict incognito, except at Streegberg, Whe,e they break fasted. We had hoped to have overtaken their Als jesties at Linz; we were informed at Strengberg tl.a they had taken the road by Ems, through Klein-Milli chen to Salzburg. The greatest sympathy was show' for their Maj:sties at Strengb , rg. They were very lightly dressed, and had uo luggage, with only one servant t., mach carriage, none of whom had a cloak. Wherevef they were recognised, great respect was shown to th,:w. At abort distance from Vienna a person in the drops of ITALY. LOMBARDY, VENICE, AND TUSCANY. The Piedmontese Gazette of the 20th of May pub' lishes the following news from the army : " SOMMA CAMPAGNA, MAT 1 .8. " Notwithstanding the rain which has continued in cessantly to fall, the batteries against Pe:chiera ha" been armed. Our troop s , i m patient of delay, ha ve finished every obstacle, " and the fire may he opened g 11- nay at one o'clock P M soon as the 'Clog and bi to' staff present themselves. The principal attack has been directed against the detached works of Fort Mandell& The batteries raised on the prolongation of the fron t have bt*un to weaken the defence from that by wthite instabilit) of the ground, thoroughly saturat ed rain. Nevertheless a siege battery placid on the ri g id,. of Fort Mandl 114, and another on the opposite bank 0 1 „, Mucci„ the Mii.) have disturbed the enemy in the interior 01 the place, aid itt the advanced works of the Deseralao gate t to " e siege i direettd b) the Duke di Genera, in all the p• ratit:h tedidatigable. l'he tillcry: loco. the s;iori ihe Dion , ur c. rt.. the iruopF! 0 , 1 the IZoybi N vt B t anon, and Ito, brigades of I it moht &lAA Pignk role, wit,. participated in the Mt"tle ; vied with each oilier in acts (,1 a.- al and courage. °ti fire was vigorously resp, tided by the t,. a rtillery of .rtrk ss, but witt,mit hour), either to our troop s or 1" haw ries. " N., dernonstratii.n of the En,my hay yet disturbv d these ixtrtittry oi.erations of the sie kt e et Pe,chiers , wawa seems DI tib stitiod to Ira own foref-e. SALASCO, ne Chief of the General Sta ff." The Risorgimento of ,the 21st instant quotes, a letter from Sonittla Campagna of the 19th, a nnotate : ing that the firing on the previous day dism ounted several pieces of artillery on the ramparts of Pell : chiera, and that a shell had exploded in the h ouse el the Governor. The rain having fallen during' the whole night, the Piedmontese employed the next def the in consolidating their works and itnproving breaching battery. The Italian army ha d bee n li f reinforced by 1,000 Modenese and two pieces:n artillery, commanded by Count Mum. A divi e t of 12,000 Piedtnontese troops had marched into u' o i province of Venice, under the orders of the pu ke GENOA, to prevent the junction of General NO. 114 " and RADETSKY. The Piedmontese Gazette of the 22d states that tb. Council and Committee of Public Safety of Nts ° ti g/la had sent two deputies to offer to King 011 ' 1, 7. ALBERT the homage of the districts evacuated by t .OO enemy, and that his MAJESTY received the depatl ti most graciously, declaring that he would Ina lte ui s i the efforts which the necessity of the War N T° permit for the defence of the province. The Sardinian Minister (M. Penyero) pub - declared on the 19tb, in answer to an Hon. DePll,;,-.- that the report to the effect that the Sardinian utsio vernment had accepted overtures made by o r • Foreign Cabinets on the question of Italy ° As o calumny invented by the enemy, and that neither to KING nor the Cabinet would consent to enter.toj any negotiation so long as a single Austrian reM el . s o on the Italian soil. The retirement of the .A.M stzl he declared to be a sine qua non. The Chamber or peared much gratified by this spirited speech. The Provisional Government of Lombardy reduced the import duties on the following et tie . jo e, —manufactured woollen goods, of every descriPpet from 9 livres 82 and 4 livres 47 to 1 livre Sod pound weight ; raw cotton, from 8 95 to 2 ; ' n nankin, which paid 3.57, is in future to pay 5 ' „ en s.; import duty on dye stuffs is reduced 5 0 p et ' 6O O refined sugars from 96.45 to .50; coffee frog ° to 40. The export duty on silk is reduced fl ic to 100. The import duty on manufeeture d e reduced from 53 57 to 19.29. 7,7 c el ° The city of Treviso stiil held out against •- 6 01 when the last accounts were dispatched. I t is s olif that DURANDO has effected a junction with Fa a e . and has compelled NUGENT to retire on Cestig il b ° ol o l The massacre committed at Naples by 0° 4 14 BOURBON who reigns over the unhappy ee t r e • wrong Diabolical rather than by right 1) 11111 ..;bole excited the greatest indignation throughout th e ttls of the north of Italy. The Piedmontes e l 01 ece states, that when the account had bee n r I at Genoa of the horrible carnage C omm ° f oi' Naples, an immense mob assembled before the th. dence of the Neapolitan Consul, tore (I°l c ; 0 04 Royal arms affixed to the wall of his hot el i l tsot ° : them to the place of e x ecu ti on , an d burn ed 05 of At Leghorn the crowd tore down the li t t broeg b Naples from th e C onsu l a t e , d ragge d them 'a es l l, the mud, and bur ne d th em am id s t 110064 e' fl ij igeor,, crations. There has b een no further I nte los tP received from Naples; but it is expected t Calabrians and Salernitans will attack the ei h tY ; orgt h t) ; notorious DELCARETTo, the police agent , w• - of r e the massacres under the superinten deeC- KlNG, has been appointed a Cabinet Minister. IRELAND. .- , :37 AT --4 2 .--- E pßosEc THE ST ATE: UTl°l°. (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPIL) isli, DUBLIN, }FRIDAY E' vsri r es t ° The jury in Mitchel's case not likely to og io dl a verdict. They have been closeted an ho n,ll i s half. The deepest anxiety but prevailed, tranquil. f I C REPORTED VERDICT OF G civillo l4 h A (F t ß t ° he m ti T tn il e E AGAINST MR. MITCHEL' /.) , os streets, 0 tuuhrrett :I:alrt\i, ELECTRlC entrelele,secsiriootf"timaile stae cakmeTet.E leavingE i G l ß f A r r ni n s C : r :h ti e itt i li t t li j e Dublin ~,i br iAie' had not delivered their verdict, but Captain ' gr eot Courts, especially excitement c existed as to the verdict when he 'ed ape . di minutes en d tt ho ee x pastce immediate s . friP " By a pre-concerted signal from the steanytboliti of our we are enabled to state, upon the I lti r $ ve' diet agent at Dublin, the important vews 01 j o bli 1 five of " GUIL T ,- " • d oil inst i being returne ay Mitchel. -....._---------. , r i oA ij. ACROSTIC ON THE SWEDISH NIG'-5 o'vcicloinckit;of ap e BY AlliS. H. J. ST. LEGEIL J Midis on noun du quell mutt i lieu ens. E n chantant, tit deseendre tin tinge d e s ei l%. N ous vofons a present dans &mitre tetnP 9 i die a% N '‘st )1 pa , . qu'un'ange, par son chant 1 111 `.. 0 %. Y fait roonti.r chaque suir des mo rceli aux l° L ursque son chant si pur et t nchanteur I mite le ramage des mist aux des buis,h or N ous restons en axtase, pleins d'un t- Pbe D ont un moment seul strait l'en vie des Wil* Mai 27, 1848. --_ , ----. — "" ----r---------- - CIV. tit TO THE EDITOR OF THE t 1 , 0 10 0 Literary Association 01 the Frieudo %op% Sussex Chambers, Dukt—street, Sr. d of S tillsl Sin,—Ay , —(1 day againstver y tii e elaborate i,ti lt i i i s i a h r y t b i c 2 a l 7 l e; appea rsl848 fio° 1 po or] , , From authentic information, and in nay P h ° 66- 4•0 0 1, am convinced that the. statements given bY tP e 4 it 0. 1 ,',p, facts, were without foundation, but be given[[ f4- os tro ti r , the Polish ball is nut given as a political dern i c . ) oo ro or to promote insurrection, but to r e 1 p o e f , distress inlaitthiistocouthnetrye,hwarhgoe can have c ent r y isnonsthien crimesof their o ier men, and whose conduct has been mark ed 11 behaviour. I have the honour to be, Sir, Your most obedient servsn t ', i i j kla' L . DUDLEY COUII'S S-17' WO" Vice•P cs ------------ bolt hi d to a ll MADAME Doaus GRAS.—We were ~ga , itl' l iiii our favourite cantatrice, Madame Dello u r— c ' e rt. „gh surrounded go od voice y b e y st t e h i e da c y hi a ef t Atlarlesn.tAnnodewrson's 013 tb f.o o o . never heard her sing to more advantage, and. in )" jot d %\ o r i e l, hsch,peeditveidheadvetmheanliyoenouorsrtuoifittihesr cellYilbeivie:irtibaglii:tirche perfection in vocalisation. PP 0; + ,55 The Countess of Waldegrave, the oClin,r-c°01ro: Duvall, the Marquis Darseglio, and G . ' • Oil 111 al" Esq., MY., arrived at 131tickw all Pier earlY ~ seh' big by the General Steam Navigation Cumparll ry of l l 'lt 'r E u s iii c ,:i i 1 )(4 ship Triton, from Ostend. Paris, are about to be introduced to the .V"' D t 0 0 o• e I: En tI i E L A IL T ,o R , :C.4.lrLl3.—tThbee IC.ehlte,,,btrry.nt_llliiCi°l:l3ovr,,,,ltivitill at Drury lane Theatre; to be followed by ' 1,010 Falai* Ito) oh ~, ./. " t he last convicted at l'erth Circul!_', t hei.7,re' ni) li b. x .i. E ls c o u n T , to l N OF THE CONVICT noln slll. . S r °' utt ' fc ° .. 1 ,;1 01 inure', r of his il:egitiluate child. underwOrlni, in P t e ~, •dav iii° , 1 04 ' • f ed sentence of death, at Fortar, on r 11, 5 ,,, / , o ~,r ; ..., stinee ut about 5.000 spectators. About o'iliciels,o",cies magistrates, the town clerk, and o'l' er l d e igh t ', of t e P i i at the ptison, and, bi,tweell Seven na nd ro oko_ n do o; 4, Robertson was conducted into o ne t e )r_ L',,i6es, c,utip.gliv:e. gaol, where. he joined in fivvotional ! n i a in I vi iill,..l„ by the Rev. Mr. Stuart, of Oatliiuw, c"r A L IV, o 'o l '7 o i and the I.rv. Mr 6esenson, iii Forfa r. ~ „it.P.i,i,P v ier Po .00 r O, lion of the services, ut:ut a guar, , , i l l . , ' ~,,je a d the magistrates and the tier ottiCia' A f t er f a d,. :Vlr. Suoirt. appeared ou the .a11;40._ )co t he Mr. Stuart, Robertson t ook his taLie , 14 t oil' in a few minutes he was lsuuched 1 13 ; 41 e ` 4