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Orders received by all Newsmen, and at the Sun.dfice, 112, Strand. THE WEATIII:I 2 ,—SuN OFFICE, FES/. 1 -'3 TII'k,R2IONETEIt, Lowest, 39 ; Highest, 41 ; Noon, 41. BA.II.ODIETEIt i 29 IS.—WIND W.S.W.; :fine. it I GI: WATER AT LONDON-BRIDGE THIS DAY. 37 minutes after 4. f Evening .. 52 aninutes after 4 ..... ~, v b , 1 tiling -lull, •NDON, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1848 be storm which has now been long brewing, cLnfidently anticipated, has at length burst over and the destinies of Louis PHILIPPA are upon the vicissitudes of an insurrection. )ur readers will find in the Parisian intelligence xhich is subjoined a copious narrative of the extriordi uary events which have just transpired in the French capital. They will find that yesterday, instead of tyliog the occasion of a demonstration in favour of titAtional reforms, was the commencement of a • )le and organized revolt against the Government. , :•y will find, that in consequence of a conversation - een MM. D CMIATEL and ()DILLON BARROT in the nber of Deputies; on Monday evening—a con- Ation in which th© Leader of the Oppo• n elicited from the Minister of the rior an official declaration that the Ca- t were prepared and resolved to prevent the intdnded banquet of the 12th arrondissement by military violence, if they could not accomplish that of 't-q otherwise—our readers will find, we say, thatp ....msequence of this memorable conversation, the I)?puties of the Opposition considered it to be most consonant with their legislative characters, and most in accordance with the sublime dictates of a great moral agency, such as that of a nation struggling to achieve its liberties without any overt violation of the law—to issue a proclamation announcing their intention not to attend the banquet already prepared in the Champs ElysC2es. Beyond this it will be seen that a multitude of ominous circum stances circumstances foreboding some sudden and *Listoric catastrophe--occurred throughout Paris <luring the night of Monday. Men remembered that, acceding to the 291st article of the penal code, established er.derfhe reign of the Emperor NAroLEoN, confirmed by Louis XVIII., enforced by C uARLEs X., and reiterated with increased penalties as recently as 1834, the congregation of 20 persons for purposes of uolitical discussion is prohibited, and hence some imagined that these monster banquets in furtherance of constitutional reform, might be in their character eFscntially illegal. The Parisian Liberals bethought themselves of this towards the nightfall which was to Dr - , ode the proposed demonstration in the metro they were compelled to acknowledge to 'Selves that tha FREEDOM or SPEECH had to be conquered in the land where uch blood had been shed, and so many re •,ins had ben organized, and so many political :Is had been adopted, and so many demagogues and - reigns had b een - o b eye d w i th the intention of ti, , T by securing to the people a perfect and perma at-w. emancipation. On Monday evening, in short, the Parisians seemed to recognise for the first time That the individual rights and aggregate liberties )f the French citizens had as yet been only partially ,eoured ; that the existing charter was merely a one fitted apd insufficient palladium ; that the struggle of 1S:30 had mainly tended to the aggrandizement of a - lynasty, and the evasion of the popular will; that the coices of free (!) citizens were stifled under the penal ;i'eci inflicted by the correctional police ; that :he press itself was hampered by the judicial courts subservient to the prevailing influence of the Tuileries—that King Louis PHILIPPE had proved himself, by a reign of seventeen years and a half's duration, to be in no one particular worthy of the title of " a Crowned WASHINGTON !" While the more intelligent of the population of Paris were agitated on Monday evening with these considerations, their imaginations were distracted by a variety of coincident occurrences. The proclama tion of the Government, recommending quietude for the morrow, and threatening the employment of armed force, in the event of any disturbances, only enhanced this excitement, by displaying the intolerable conservatism, and the repressive determination which animated the Cabinet and constituted its most conspicuous characteristics. In like manner, the Proclamation addressed to the inhabitants of the capital by DELESSERT, the Prefect of Police, developed still more these latent sentiments of wrath which were beginning to infuriate the hearts of the Parisians, for while this second proclamation hinted at the over whelming power concentrated in the hands of the Government for the suppression of any possible act of insubordination on the part of the populace, it haughtily referred the question at issue (the legality of the Reform banquets) to the decision of the Su • preme Court of Cassation. Such were the feel ings of animosity generating between the people and the Cabinet during the evening and the night of Monday—feelings which were in no degree allayed by the different ordonnances and counter manifestoes placarded from hour to hour upon the city walls; by the perusal of the evening journals in the Boulevards by torchlight; and by the continual passage of military waggons and artillery caissons, escorted by cavalry, along the roads leading from Vincennes to the Palais Bourbon and the Chateau of the Tuilleries. Before Tuesday dawned over Paris it was not difficult to conjecture the result of all these inau spicieus preparations. An insurrection was inevi table. The Government and the people con fronted each other face to face—the sword drawn—the match lighted—anti the bayonet fixed. To the memory of a thousand wrongs was added the gall of their recent recrimination. Revolt boiled up amidst the population of Paris like a necessity, for there were at once the opportunity, the means, and the incitements. Accordingly, be fore yesterday was far advanced the capital of France was in a state of violent insurrection. The old practices, which proved so successful in 1830, were again resorted to ; omnibuses were overturned ; public and private conveyances were stopped; barri cades were erected in all directions ; the ware houses of the gunsmiths and armourers were pil laged. Assaults were made upon the Chambers by a mob of thirty thousand Parisians, and repulsed by successive charges of cavalry and by the resolute demeanour of the military forces concentrated there for the protection of the Government. Unsuccessful in this quarter, the insurgents had attacked, but with similar ill-success, the residence of the Minister of Foreign Affairs; and above the din of these extraor dinary movements the cry of the multitude is said to have resounded like an omen of death—" A Las GuzzoT! La tete de GT:viol'!" Simultaneously with these proceedings ODILLON I3AanoT, in fulfil ment of his promise, laid before the Chamber of Deputies an impeachment of the Cabinet, signed by himself and a considerable number of his col leagues. From what we have already observed, and from the particulars detailed in our foreign correspondence, it; will be seen that the distutbances which have just commeNced in the metropolis of France are of no trivial or ephemeral character. The insurrection of 1848 promises to be, indeed, more formidable than any one of its predecessors ; for it is not, as hereto fore, confined principally to the working population and middle classes, but numbers among its principal sympathisers, an influential portion of the Legisla ture. Whatever may be the immediate consequence of the recent events among the Parisians, the doom of GuizoT is sealed and the throne of Louis PulLarri3 shaken, if not entirely subverted. Recently there was a somewhat idle, because an over-fastidious discussion in the House of Peers, upon the relative merits of the different titles of honour applied to PIUS IX. in his political and sacerdotal capacity. " Sovereign of the Roman States" gained the preference over " Sovereign Pontiff," although the Scotch historians rejected the former, and al though the latter .was repudiated alone by some of the more punctilious members of the English epis copacy. A similar difference of opinion, a difference of opinion equally idle, because equally fastidious, was manifested last evening in the House of Commons. The word which constituted the bone of contention between the Ministry and the Parliament was an adjective. The honourable representatives of the people could not, for the life of them, swallow the expression— " Secret Committee," an expression which, it will be remembered, was employed by Lord Joßia RUSSELL, when explaining his budget, and applied especially to the examination of the army, navy, and ordnance estimates. "Select Committee" is substituted for the obnoxious epithet, and the Members of the Legisla ture are at once contented—although, be it observed, the powers which were proposed to be entrusted to this Secret Committee are fully reserved to the Select Committee—those powers being the publica tion or reservation of its evidence, at discretion. So that the squabble has literally been a squabble about words, and not a debate upon principles. The rights of the dictionary have been maintained, rather than the rights of the constitution. While we cannot but regard with indifference the zeal of those whose feelings as patriots appear to have been most outraged by the employment of this very unfortunate adjective, we are satisfied that the Chancellor of the Exchequer has acted with due dis cretion by conceding to the very English tastes of Parliament, and erasing a dissyllable which savours more of the eleventh than of the nineteenth century, and seems more adapted to the lips of a Vene tian than to those of an Englishman. There is, unquestionably, something excessively revolting to the imagination of a citizen of the United Kingdom in the bare proposal of any such an apparently underhand and suspicious junta as a " Secret Committee." Were such language tole.. rated, and such propositions winked at, we doubt not but that my Lord of WINCHILSEA. would sigh " 0 for the days of Friar BUNGAT!" and that THOMAS SLINGSBY DUNCOMBH might pine for " One Hour of the Star Chamber !" Hap pily, however, for the tranquillity of the minds of England, the very idea of such a tribunal is scouted. We are not to have " Secret Committees" empowered to reserve or publish their evidence, as seems to them advisable ; but we are to have " Select Committees," who are empowered to do exactly the same ! Where is the difference ? In the adjective ; exclusively and solely in the adjective as an adjective. So that we have another proof of the fallacy of one at least out of the many thousand ideas originated by SIIAKSPERE. A name is something, and a rose would decidedly not smell as sweet by any other— Parliament has just proclaimed as much. Distasteful as any suppression of legislative in quiries,like those connected with our military:and mari time estimates, may at first sight appear, we are con vinced that some such discretionary power as is here ensured to the Committee is absolutely essential for the furtherance of the national interests. What should we say, for example, of the sagacity of that Generalissim o who should allow a perfect know ledge of the organization of his troops to reach his adversary, and should himself proclaim to the world the plans he may have adopted for the campaign ? The case is strictly analogous ; for, although the Government does not conceive itself to be justified in extending the national expenditure by an augmentation of the national defences, it is rational to suppose that such in ves ti gat i ons must take place before the Select Committee upon the mi litary and naval estimates as may be the prelude to extensive improvements in that direction. The Mi nistry has this project unquestionably in contemplation from the very circumstance of their choosing the un lucky epithet which has excited so much opposition. What possible object could the Cabinet have in pro posing this " Secret Committee," except the further ance of such inquiries as it would be most judicious to coneeal from our neighbours ? It is, therefore, matter of congratulation to us that in the horror ex cited by a single epithet, because its sound is strictly speaking un-English, the ulterior views of the Govern !mint in reference to the condition of our forces, both on land and sea, have not been thwarted. The principal problem which will have to be solved by this Select Committee is one, at the extremities of which are the Duke of WELLINGTON and Mr. COBDEN. Let the Committee occupy the juste milieu, and there will be no longer any cause for panic at the mere mention of an invasion. The Swiss Diet has adjourned. It will meet again when the Committee for tho Revision of the Pact shall have terminated its labours. The Committee has already commenced its sittings. The Austrian Government having learnt that enrolments of great numbers of men have been made in Switzerland for the troops of several of the Italian States, has addressed, says the Union 3lonarchique, a strong note to the Diet, declaring that a continuation of these enrolments will become a casus belli. The following proclamation was issued, on the 12th, by the Count SPAUR, the Governor of Milan : His Majesty the Emperor having deigned to declare expressly that he is resolved not to tolerate any popular demonstration, even for a non-political object ; having besides, by his sovereign rescript, under date the 9th of' January last, imposed on all the authorities the duty of proceeding officially, according to the powers of them, to prevent any perturbation of the public tranquillity ; his Majesty desiring, finally, that no extraordinary re joicing be permitted, and that all unusual popular rejoicings be rigorously forbidden, principally during the night, the Government believes it right to bring these sovereign declarations to the knowledge of the public, in the firm confidence that all the inhabitants of Lombardy will fully conform thereto ; for in the contrary case those who, ill-advised, shall dare to disobey these sovereign orders, shall be punished ac• cording to the laws in vigour. "COUNT DE SPAUH, Governor. " Milan, Feb. 12." The Gazette of Milan, of the 14th, published the following proclamation in re ference to the disturb ances in Pavia : " In consequence of the disturbances which took placs at Pavia on the 9th and 10th of this month, when student, two peasants, and an officer were wounded, the latter having been attacked on the evening of the 10th, when returning home, the Archduke Viceroy, having left to the prudent discernment of the provincial dele gate to anticipate, in concert with the authorities of the University of that town, the vacation generally so, corded to tho students for the carnival, the delegate has judged fit to suspend at present the lectures at the Uni versity, and to send home to their families the young students, in adopting, in concert with the military au thorities, measures necessary to prevent public tran quillity from being trobled." The Patria of Florence, of the 13th, states the the Reformed Franciscan brothers of Placentia had celebrated a solemn mass and chanted a Te Deum, to celebrate the fortunate events which had taken pltce at Naples. The church was crowded. After the mass the organist played for a long time, and when he had finished, the people, dividing themselves into two choruses, repeated the Te Dem. At the passage, "Te ergo quresumus tuis famulis subveni quos pretioso sanguine redemisti," every one fell on their knees ; at the ►° Salvum fac populum tuum, Domine, et benedic htereditati tutu," the voices were astounding. The Courrier of Leghorn states that some of the individuals arrested on the nights of the 30th and 31st of January have been set at liberty, and that M. GEo. Thom° RAP?, who had been imprisoned at Porto Ferrajo, has also been released. Field-Marshal General RADETSKT has been re placed, as Commander-in-Chief in Lombardy, by General Scuaanousici. The Austrian Ob.yerrer, which is the semi-official organ of the Austrian Government, publishes a long article on the affairs of Italy, in which it declares that the wishes of Lombardy for administrative re forms will be discussed, and perhaps be granted ; but that as to the idea of separating that kingdom from the empire, or of causing a change of dynasty, the Austrian Government will be inexorable in prevent ing it. " Let the Italians," it adds, " not forget the example of the more warlike Poles in the struggle against the Russian empire, and let them tremble !" Madrid papers of the 16th have arrived. A royal decree in the Gazette sanctions the Bill for authorising the Government to levy and employ the taxes to the end of June, 18-18. The Herald() contains the following :—" Several journals have announced that her Royal Highness the Infanta Duchess DE MONTPEXiIER is enceinte. From our own private letters, it appears that this fact is indubitable. Her Royal Highness has been enceinte for four months." One of the journals says that the fact of the Duchess being enceinte is to be officially communicated to the QUEEN by the new French Ambassador, in his first audience. On the 15th Mr. BULWER gave a grand dinner, which was attended by all the Ministers. MADRID BOURSE, FEB. 16.—Threes, 291; Fives, 17 9-16; Exchange on London, 47 90. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. CONFLICT BETWEEN the PEOPLE AND THE TROOPS. IMPEACHMENT of the MINISTERS The intelligence contained in the Paris papers of yesterday is of the gravest importance. At the eleventh hour the Ministry determined to prevent the Reform banquet being held. They announced their intention on Monday afternoon in the Chamber. Thereupon the Committee of Opposition Deputies held a meeting, at which it was resolved that the banquet should not be held, and that an address should be pub lished requesting the people to submit to the orders of the Ministry, and to avoid all collision with the officers of the police. Yesterday morning Paris was placarded with proclamations, prohibiting all meet ings of the people, and 80,000 troops under arms took possession of the various military points of the capital. otwithstanding the proclamations of the Ministry, and the addresses of the Opposition, the people began to assemble on the Place Madeleine shortly after 11 o'clock, and in the course of two hours their numbers had increased to 30,000. They pro ceeded to the Chamber of Deputies, and attempted to escalade the rails and walls. They were, however, repulsed by the troops. The shops of several gun smiths had been pillaged, barricades formed in the streets by paving stones and carriages, and all public conveyances had been stopped. At five o'clock an attack was made en the hotel of the Minister for Foreign Affairs amidst loud shouts of " A bas GUIZOT ! La tete de GUIZOT I" The hotel was filled with troops, The rising is general, and various con flicts have taken place with the troops, in which the latter have lost several in killed and wounded. Such is a general resume of the important intelli gence, which we now proceed to give rather more in detail. It had been generally understood until Monday that the Ministry would make no further opposition to the holding of the banquet, than merely stationing a single commissary of police at the door, who should prohibit the entrance of the guests for the purpose of enabling all parties, on that prohibition being disre• garded, to go before a court of law, and have the question as to the legality or illegality of those ques tions at once set at rest. In the early part of the sitting of the Chamber of Deputies on Monday, it was rumoured that the Ministers had determined to prohibit the ban quet altogether. Hereupon M. ODILLON BARROT and several of the Opposition Deputies retired for a short time to one of the committee-rooms, and after a short consultation re-entered the Chamber, when M. ODILLos BARIIOT rose, and after alluding to the denial by the Government, in the course of the debate on the Address, of the right of citizens to as semble, N,itLout tuinu ; or without arms, to discuss their political rights, he said that the intention of the Opposition Deputies i❑ attending the banquet was to assert the existence of the right, and allow the Go vernment an opportunity of settling the question before the tribunals. He added that he was con vinced that if the Government had allowed the mani festation to proceed the public peace would not have been disturbed, and the public mind would have bees more tranquil. _ _ M. DucuATEL replied at considerable length. He said the intention of the Government till that morn ing was to have allowed the banquet to proceed, and merely to have protested against it, in order to let the question be tried before the ordinary tribunals; but the manifesto issued that morning by the Banquet _ • ..,, , •, --a, - firw , ii)e *Vit If 114 6 , 1 iii' ittli ii tel A irt Committee had changed everything. It was an appeal to classes opposed to the Government, and was dangerous to the peace of the capital. The Govern ment was inclined to allow the question to be settled judicially, but could not allow an imperiuin in imperie They therefore resolved to suppress the meeting. The Chamber immediately after wards rose in great agitation. In the course of the evening the following procla mation was posted at the corners of all the streets of Paris : " Inhabitants of Paris !—A disquietude injurious to labour and business has reigned for some time in the public mind. This arises from manifestations in preps ration. The Government, from motives of public order but too well justified, and exercising the right invested by the laws, and which has been constantly brought into use without dispute, has interdicted the banquet of the 12th arrondissement. Never►heless, as it has declared in the Chamber of Deputies, as this question was of a nature to admit of a judicial solution, instead of oppos ing by force the projected meeting, it came to a re solution to suffer the contravention to be estab lished by permitting the guests to enter the banquet-room, hoping that they would have the pru dence to retire at the first summons in order not to convert a simple contravention into an act of rebellion. This was the only means of bringing the question before the supreme Court of Cessation. The Government per sists in this determination, but the manifesto published this morning by the journals of the Opposition an flounces another object and other intentions; it sets up a Government against the true Government of the country, that which is instituted by the charter, and which rests upon the majority of the Chambers; it calls for a public manifestation which is dangerous to the peace of the city; it convokes, in violation of the law of 1831, the National Guards, whom it arranges before hand in regular line by number of legion, with the officers at their head. Here no doubt is longer possible. The clearest and best established laws are violated. The Government will cause them to be respected; they are the foun•tation and the guarantee of public order. I invite all good citizens to conform to these laws, and not join in any assemblage, for fear it may give rise to disturbances that may be regretted. I make this appeal to their patriotism and their right reason, in the name of our institutions, of public peace, and the dearest interests of the city. " G. DELESSERT, Peer of France, Prefect of Pollee. "Paris, Feb. 21." At the same time were issued two ordonnances of police, one prohibiting the banquet, and another pro hibiting all assemblages of the people. General JACQUEMINOT also issued a general order to the Na tional Guard, prohibiting their attendance at the banquet. The Opposition Deputies, on leaving the Chamber, proceeded to the house of M. ODILLON BARROT. The Patric thus announces the result of their delibera tions : " We stop the press to announce that the Opposition have met at the house of M. Odillon Barrot, and that, being unwilling to make themselves responsible, directly or indirectly, for the consequences which may result from the new measures adopted today by the Govern ment, they have decided that they will not go to the banquet. They abjure all good citizens to abstain from any meeting or manifestation which could serve as a pretext for acts of violence. At the same time the en tire Opposition feels that the new resolutions of the Ministry impose upon them new and grave duties, which they will fulfil." The Opposition papers of yesterday morning publish the following address, agreed to at the meeting at M. ODILLON BARILOT'S : " TO ♦LL CITIZENS. " A great solemn manifestation was to have taken place tc-day in favour of the right of meeting, which is contested by the Government. All tha measures had been taken to insure order and to prevent every kind of disturbance. Thu Government was informed fur several days of these measures, and knew what would be the form of that protest. It was not ignorant that the Deputies would go in a body to the place where the banquet was to he held, accompanied by a great number of citizens, and of National Guards without arms. " It had announced the intention of not throwing any obstacle in the way of this demonstration, as long as order should not be disturbed, and to limit itself to proving, by a proves verbal, what it regarded as a con travention, and what the Opposition regards as the exercise of a just right. All of a sudden, taking as a pretext a publication of which the sole object was to prevent disorder, which might have arisen from a great gathering of citizens, the Government has made known its resolution to prevent by force all assemblages in the public streets, and to interdict both to the population, and to all participation in the projected manifestation. " This tardive resolution of Government would not allow the Oppositition at 60 late an hour to change the character of the demonstration. It finds itself, there fore, placed in the alternative either of encouraging a collision between the citizens and the public force, or of renouncing the legal and pacific protests upon which it had resolved. In this position the members of the Op position, personally protected by their quality of deputy, could not willingly expose the citizens to the conse quences of a struggle so injurious to order and liberty. The Opposition has therefore thought that it ought to abstain, and to leave to the Government all the respon sibility of its meat urea. It requests all good citizens to follow its example. " In thus adjourning the exercise of a right, the Op position engages itself to the country to establish this right by all constitutional means. It will not be want ing in this duty, and it will pursue with perseverance, aid with more energy than even the struggle which it has undertaken against a corrupt, ♦iolent, and anti-na tional policy. " In not going to the banquet the Opposition accom plishes a great act of moderation and humanity. It knows that there still remains for it to accomplish a great act of firmness and justice." At this meeting it was resolved to impeach the Ministry, and on Tuesday, at four o'clock, M. ODILLON BARROT, in the Chamber of Deputies, moved their impeachment, in compliance with this resolution. The motion will be supported by MM. Duvergier d'Hauranne, De Malleville, d'Aragon, Abatucci, Beaumont (Somme), Georges de Lafayette, Boissel, Garnier-Pages, Carnot, Chambolle, Dromyn del Hwys, Ferdinand de Lasteyrie, Havin, de Cour tais, Vavin, Gannon, Marquis, Jouvencel, Taillandier, Bureau de Puzy, Luveau, St. Albin, Carabaceres, Moreau (Seine), Berger, Marie, Bethmont, de Thiars, Dupont (de l'Eure), &c. Should it be rejected, the Opposition Deputies will at once resign their seats. Several of the Deputies and Peers wished the ban quet to be held in spite of the prohibition of the Ministers ; among these the most conspicuous was Count ALTON SIIEE. They went to the offices of the Beforme and of the National, declaring that they would attend the banquet at all risks, and advising others to follow their example. They at length, however, yielded to the representa tions of their colleagues, and, ere midnight, an official communication was made to M. DUCUATEL, announcing that the intention of holding the banquet had been definitively abandoned. Orders were issued to the troops not to take possession of the various military positions in the city at day-break, as had been previously ordered, but the soldiers were to remain under arms in their barracks. The people, however, showed no disposition to obey the proclama tion of the Minister, or to attend to the advice of the Deputies. Thousands continued pouring into the Place Madeleine and the Champs Elysies during the whole morning, and the troops were soon ordered from their barracks, to take military possession of various parts of the city. The Marseillai.ce was sung by the people as they paraded the streets, and rushed to the attack on the Chamber and on the hotel of the Minster fur Foreign Affairs. It is said that the Faubourgs also have risen in rebellion, and when the intelligence of this outbreak shall have reached the provinces, it is probable that a similar insurrection will take place in many of the provincial towns, in which it has been determined to hold banquets. Addresses to the Deputies of the Opposition are daily arriving from all parts of France. Notwithstanding the gravity of the situation, the Funds still kept up. The Three per Cents, opened at 73f. 90c. and closed at 74f. Gali,gnanis Messenger, which was published yes terday at two o'clock, gives the following account of the proceedings up to that hour : " Very great excitement has been created in Paris by the proclamations prohibiting the holding of the Reform banquet, but we are happy to state that up to the hour of our going to press no disturbance had occurred. _ " On the Boulevards, opposite the hotel of the Minister of Foreign Affairs, a dense mass a ,people assembled, and it was necessary to call for th 4 assist ance of the municipal guards and troops of the line to keep the mob in movement. This was, however, effected without any violence, by small patrols being lt?pt in motion on the footway. The troops of the line appeared to have been prepared for aetive opera tions, many of them being provided with pickaxes, as if to destroy barricades. "On the Place de la Concorde an immense crowd had assembled. The bridge was closed at each end and guarded by a strong body of cuirassiers and municipal guards, and' none but Members of the Chamber were allowed to pass. When any of the Opposition Members passed they were loudly cheered. At intervals, when the crowd became too compact, the military faced and marched towards them, when they soon scampered off. The people appeared per- fectly good humoured, and were cracking jokes with the soldiers. Not a serpent de vile was anywhere to be seen, and in all the vast crowd not a National Guard was visible. An inunense number of troops appeared to be on the alert. One regiment of light dragoons came up towards the Chamber of Deputies, from the Ecole Militaire, with their band playing as on a fête day. " All the shops on the Boulevards, the Rue St. Ho nore, and all the streets adjacent, are closed. "Workmen were employed from an early hour this morning in clearing away all the preparations for the banquet At about half-past nine, a body of about GOO municipal guards, horse and foot, arrived, and took possession of a piece of ground adjoining the place of the intended assemblage, which was a large inclosed field, between the Rue de Chaillot and the Barrire de Longchamps, where a marquee had been erected. But few people had collected in that quar ter or in the Champs Elys6es." In the Chamber of Deputies the President raised the sitting without giving M. ODILLON 8./OLEO'r any opportunity of speaking on the proposition for the impeachment of the Ministers, but announced that it should be submitted to the Bureaux on Thursday. The lamps in the Champs Elysees are all broken, and barricades are formed in the Rue Richelieu, the Rue de la Pain, the Rue de la Chaussee d'Antin, and the Rue de Joinville. The gates of the Tuileries are closed, and the gardens and Palace occupied by troops. Marshal BUGEAUD has, it is said, accepted the military command of Paris. M. GUIZOT was present at the sitting of the Chamber of Deputies yesterday. Various collisions have taken place be tween the people and the municipal guard, and many have been killed and wounded. At five o'clock the rappel for calling out the Na tional Guard was beat throughout Paris. The drum mers were saluted with cries of " Five la Refornze," and with the Marseillaise and the Girondin chorus, " Mourir pour la patrie." Several sections of armed National Guards had assembled at the hour the post left. As yet the utmost good humour has been exhi bited both by the troops and the people, the latter of whom are in general unarmed; but fears are entertained that as night approaches, some collision of a serious nature may occur, more especially in the Faubourgs, where the the people are many of them armed, and where barricades have been formed. Ammunition waggons and artillery were continually arriving from Vincennes. Lours Authentique.-PARIS, FED. 22.-French Five per Cents., 116 t. 55c. 60c. 55c. 70e. 75c.; Ditto, Four per Cents., 99f. 25c.; Ditto, Three per Cents., 731. 85c. 90c. 80c. 95c., 741., 741. 10e.; Bank of France, 3,181.':, 50c., 3,1851., 3,1801.; Treasury Bonds, 4 4i; New Loan, -; Obligations of the City, -; Roman, 93if.; Belgian Five per Cents., 1840, 98i-f.; Ditto, Five per Cents., 1842, -; Ditto, Four-and-a• Half per Cents., 921.; Ditto, Three per Cents., 1848, -. Exchange on London, ono month, paper, 251. 37ic.; money, 25f, 35c.; three months, paper, 25f. 22ic.; money, 25E. 2ic. PARIS BOURSE, TUESDAY, FED. 22. The market at the opening was very agitated, and prices remained some time with rather a tendency down wards; towards the close of the day, however, a little re-action took place, and at bell ringing, quotations were maked higher than yesterday. Threes at 741.'; and Fives at 1161. 75c. The market closed as follows: -Three per Cents., for cash, 741. 10c., for account, 74f.; Five per Cents., for cash, 116 f. 75c., for account, 116 f. 75c.; New Loan, for account, 741. 85c.; Bask of France Shares, 3,1801.; Spanish Three per Cents., 321.; Fives, not quott d. RAILWAYS.-The Share Market has been heavy, but prices have not materially varied. For account, Paris and Orleans closed at I,lBBf. 75c.; Paris and Rouen, 865 f.; Rouen and Havre, 4251.: Avignon, 5401.; Stras burg and Bale, 1571. 50c.; Vierzon, 5051.; Bordeaux, 475 f.; Northern, 543 f. 75c.; Paris and Strasburg, 4031. 75c.; Paris and Lyons, 390 f.; Nantes, 3801. BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, FEB. 22. Northern of France, 11 1 4—Orleans and Bordeaux, 4 3 4 . IMPORTANT FROM ITALY. RUMOURED DEPOSITION OF THE POPE. Important intelligence has arrived from Italy. The French Government have, it is said, received a tele graphic dispatch from Rome announcing that the POPE has been deposed. At Bologna, the Papal colours have been discarded, and the tricolour of Italy adopted. TO THE SECRETARY OF THE BRADFORD REFORM ASSOCIATION. SIA,—On Monday the 21st, the supplies were voted in part, viz., to the amount of 20,800,0001. A loose practice, as may be exemplified by the ease of a man and his wife disputing on the question of eco nomy. If one says, " Give me 5001., and let the dis pute lie over," there is not much doubt which way the affair is tending. In the course of the debate Sir Robert Peel enu merated "the process in Mexico and the spirit which has arisen among the American people," as elements in the preparation of the estimates in Great Britain. Unless I make some mistake in the place, the reporters have omitted it. Sir Robert has plainly one eye open, and will speedily have two. On the same day the Public Health Bill and the Passengers (Emigrant) Bill were read a second time. We have heard of floating hotels ; but the want at present appears to be of model lodging-houses afloat. The question has been asked me from Bradford, whether labour is capital. It appears to me to be a little like the question, whether acorns are wood. In some senses they may be wood, and in some senses they are not wood. The best way, therefore, is to begin by knowing in what precise senses the question is intended to be asked. On Tuesday came on Mr. Hutt's motion for a " Select Committee to consider the best means which Great Britain can adopt for mitigating the horrors of the Slave Trade, and providing for its final extinc tion." As undisguisedly avowed by the mover, the substantial object of the Committee he desired, was to collect evidence to establish the desirableness of removing the checks to the Slave Trade arising out of the presence of British cruisers on the coast of Africa, or British treaties with foreign powers. Four special fallacies pervaded the arguments brought in support of the motion. One, that the way to put down an evil is to let it alone; being the argument used against the Slavery Abolitionists in the United States. Another, that a traffic not suppressed entirely, is not effectively repressed at all. A third, that the suppression of the Slave Trade ought to be left to be produced by the superior cheapness of importing free labourers ; the difficulties thrown in the way of importing the slave, being all the time the chief cause of the differ ence of cost. And the fourth, that the influence exercised with other powers through the medium of treaties, is identical with a violent interference unjus tifiable by p u bli c l aw . Th e oppos iti on t o th ese principles was nearly confined to Sir Robert Inglis and Lord Palmerston ; the last of whom replied with an energy which would have done honour to the days when the Slave Trade was put down in its strength. If the Anti-Slavery party mean, to hold their own, they must gather about the Government. But the spirit of opposition to slavery and slave trading appears to be nearly burnt out. The objects in view will solve themselves into two, both of which are Sugar; either in the form of cheap sugar from Brazil, or an importation of natives from Africa to produce it in the West Indies. I am, Sir, your obedient servant, T. PERRONEI"rIIOMPSON. Blackheath, London, 23d Feb., 1848. SECONDARIES'.-(THIS DAY.) (Before Mr. Secondary POTTER.) ♦ NOTEL POINT UDDER THE COUNTY COURTS ACT- VINES V. WEBB. This was an action brought by the plaintiff, who is a miller, against the defendant, a baker, to recover nominal damages under the following circumstances: — The facts were these, the defendant had been employed as a foreman and agent for a person residing in the country, and flour was ordered of the plaintiff. Mr. Ashley, the actual proprietor of the shop, paid the rent and taxes, was rated in the books, and had a vote at the election, but it was contended that this was not legal notoriety sufficient to bind the plaintiff, who alleged that ho had dealt with defendant alone, and knew nothing of Ashley. The action was originally brought in the Court of Exchequer, but after t, a etin were on taken the ithee the County BrixtonC o c u o r t u n A t) c , t c pd D p r e o i c e e n e c dings u impression that tke plaintiff could not proceed in both courts, neglected to attend at the County Court, and was committed for contempt, and only released on pay ment of the debt and costs. Defendant then applied to the Court above, and obtained a rule, calling on plaintiff to go to trial, or to submit to judgment, as in case of nonsuit. The qnestion was now to be tried on the merits to cover costs. The Learned Secondary left it to the jury to say to whom the credit was given. Ti, jury, after consulting for some time, gave a ver dict fur the plaintiff—Damages, One shilling. SPORTING IN TELLIGENCE. BETTING AT MANCHESTER -TUESDAY. LIYERPO)L STEEPLE CHASE. 12 to 1 agst Sir Arthur (t), 100 to 6 agst Wolverhampton (t), 100 to 6 agst Cavendish (t), 100 to 6 agst St. Leger (t), 100 to 5 agst the Curate (t), 100 to 4 agst the Nigger (t), 100 to 4 agst Standard Gerard (t), 100 to 4 agat the Sailor (t). CHESTER Cur.—Not a bet made. DEREY.-9 to 1 agat Surplice, 3,900 to 300 agst Glendower (t), 17 to 1 agst Springy Jack (t), 500 to 15 agst Assault (t), 500 to 121 agst 13eves lac (t), 500 to 10 agst Flatcatcher (t), 1,000 to 20 agst Fern, 1,000 even Assault agst Swias Boy (0. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. (THIS _DAY.) HOUSE OF COMMONS. The SPEAKER took the Chlir at Twelve o'clock. nuvATE BUSINESS. Sir WILLIAM HEATIICOTE moved that the order of the 17th day of December, 1847, for the sus pension of Standing Order No. 145 he discharged; that the said Standing Order be suspended, so far only as affects railway Bills ; that no railway Bill be read the first time unless it be presented not later than three clear days after the Committee on Railway Bills shall have reported thereon to the House. Motion agreed to. SECOND READINGS. The following Bills were read a second time, and ordered to be committed : Birkenhead Dock Commissioners (transfer of powers to new Commissioners, effecting arrangements with the Crown, and amendment of Acts) Bill. Birkenhead Dock Commissioners (levying additional rates, and alteration of Birkenhead Dock Rates and Liverpool Dock Rates, and amendment of Acts) Bill. Morley Gas Light Company Bill. STANDING ORDERS. Sir W. lIEATIICOTE brought up the report of the Committee on Standing Orders with respect to private Bills. RIVER DUN NAVIGATION BILL. On the motion of Mr. STRUTT, the second read ing of this Bill was postponed until this day fort night. ROMAN CATHOLIC CHARITABLE TRUSTS BILL. The Earl of ARUNDEL and SURREY pre sented 46 petitions against the further progress of this measure. Mr. W. PATTEN also presented a petition signed by 240 of the Roman Catholic clergy and laity to the same effect. Petitions: against the Bill were also presented by Mr. Greene from Lancaster; by Mr. Heywood from Manchester; by Mr. Villiers from Wolverhampton; by Mr. Sheil, by Mr. Scully, by Mr. Morgan, by Captain Pechell from Brighton and by Sir G-. Grey from Haggerstone, in Northumberland. JEWISH DISABILITIES. Petitions against the admission of Jews into Par liament were presented by Air. Bailey; by Sir J. Duckworth from Exeter ; by Mr. Christy from New castle-upon-Tyne, and by Mr. Adderley from a place in Staffordshire. CATHOLIC RELIEF BILL. The Earl of ARUNDEL and SURREY pre sented a petition in favour of this measure, nume rously signed by Roman Catholic clergy and laity. JEWISH DISABILITIES. Mr. COWAN presented a petition from Edin burgh in favour of the admission of Jews into Par liament. _ . REPEAL ASSOCIATION. Mr. lIAIIIiLTON presented a petition praying the House to adopt measures for putting down the Repeal Association, the petitioners being of opinion that the existing evils of Ireland were owing to the existence of a wide-spread conspiracy under the name of the Repeal Association. BANK ACT. Mr. lIASTIE presented a petition from Glasgow, praying the House to remove the restrictions imposed upon commerce by the Bank Act of 1845. SECRET SERVICE MONEY. Colonel SIBTHORP said that he would upon an early day call the attention of the House to the sub ject of the Secret Service Money—a vote of 39,0001. being taken for that purpose, nobody knowing what became of that large sum of money. ROMAN CATHOLIC CHARITABLE TRUSTS BILL. The second reading of this Bill was postponed til: this day week, on the motion of Mr. C. AN S'f.EY. SUPPLY. On the motion of Sir G. GREY, it was ordered that the House should go into a Committee of Supply on Friday next. WAYS AND MEANS. The Committee of Ways and Means was also postponed until Friday next. CONSOLIDATED FUND (8,000,0001) BILL. This Bill was read a second time. IMPEACHMENT OF LORD PALMERSTON. Mr. C. ANSTEY then rose to move for a return of papers and documents upon which it was his in tention to found his charges against the Noble Lord at the head of the Foreign Department. The ex istence of the present defenceless and exposed condi tion of this country and its apprehended consequences were entirely chargeable on the Noble Lord. In the year 1835 he allowed the Czar of Russia to maintain in the Baltic a fleet of twenty-eight ships of the line. The silence of the Noble Lord with respect to Russia was to him as significant as the plainness of his speech upon other occasions with respect to France. This motion had been called a " monster motion," but the great neglect which had made that motion necessary was in his opinion far more monstrous still. The Noble Lord had made it his business to deceive the House of Commons, to mislead the Crown and its advisers with false statements, by the suppression of papers, the mutilation of dispatches, the entire per version of truth, and the entire substitution of falsehood —(Hear, hear.) These were the ma terial charges which he brought against the Noble Lord, and which he called upon the House to cause an inquiry to be made into. The Honourable Member then proceeded to review the history of the Polish nation, and the guarantees which were given to it by the treaty of Vienna, that it should be pre served from Russian influence, and that a regular system of representative government should be esta blished, before which the " budget" should be annually brought under consideration, and other measures providing for the liberty of the Poles. All these promises had, however, been disregarded, and the Noble Lord (Lord Palmerston) was mainly charge able for the present disastrous state of the Polish nation. The Noble Lord, during the period:of the usurpation of Poland by Russia, refused to join in the proposal made by France to remonstrate with Russia on the subject, and in his communications to the Court of the Tuileries, stated that if France took any steps in the matter the good understanding be tween the two countries would be destroyed. Under invectives from the Noble Lord, Sweden discontinued the armament of her navy, which she intended to employ as a diversion in favour of Poland. Persia was also prepared to attack Russia, but was prevented from doing so by the threat of war made by the Noble Lord. Turkey was prepared to send 200,000 horse into Russia for the purpose of assisting Poland in the struggle, but through the representations of the Noble Lord, Turkey disbanded her troops. Such was the interference of the Noble Lord against Poland, and what did he do in answer to ap plications for assistance from the Poles ? He refused to do anything in the matter. There could be no doubt that deception had been practiced at the Foreign-office, and he hail a right to have the Committee he asked for. The fall of Poland was assisted by the English Foreign-office, while the freedom of Cracow was prominently violated without the Noble Lord at the head of that department doing anything more than protest against the proceeding. That was the course the Noble Lord took with regard to the aggressions of Russia, and he should be prepared to show that the Noble Lord entertained precisely the same views of his duty in 1831, when Austria was pur • suing an aggressive policy towards this country. Austria was, however, ready at a subsequent period to act with tho Noble Lord in re-establishing the freedom and independence of Poland ; but the Noble Lord again wilfully neglected his duty, heeding not the representations of Austria; and in process of time, Austria was compelled to abandon the cause of Poland, and became a party to the unholy league promoted by Prussia and Russia. Over and over again was the fate and condition of Poland brought under the consideration of the British Parliament by private Members, but the Noble Lord invariably succeeded in throwing such obstacles in the way of their movements as entirely to defeat their object. When the Noble Lord was in office before, Mr. Patrick Stewart moved that a British Consul should be sent to Cracow, but upon a promise that a Consul should be sent out the motion was withdrawn. That promise had never been fulfilled ; and he would ven ture to assert that the Noble Lord never in tended to fulfill it. On the 22d of March 1837, the Hon. Member for Marylebone reminded the Noble Lord of his promise, when the Noble Lord told the House that he had not sent a Consul, because his views and opinions had been changed upon the subject. Subsequently the Noble Lord, the present Member for MaryleboDe, after informing the Noble Lord at the head of the Foreign Department that he intended to make a motion affecting the Noble Lon'. character— Lord PALMERSTON—No such thing. Mr. AN STEY would wave that part of his state ment relating to the Noble Lord's character, and come at once to what the Noble Lord, the Member for Marylebone, did do on the occasion to which he was referring. The Noble Lord brought forward his motion, but the Noble Lord the Foreign Secre tary took care not to be present; and ulti mately, by aid of his friends, the Noble Lord at the head of the Foreign-office defeated the motion, by securing a "count out" of the House. In the same year the Noble Lord the Member for Mary lebone lost his seat in that House, and since then th e Noble Lord had not found an opportunity of bringing the matter again before the House. He (Mr. Anstey), however, had taken up the subj ec t a t t hi s point, and he now deliberately told the House that the Foreign-office was in possession o f d ocumen t s relating to Poland , which ought l ong ago t o have been laid before Parliame n t.—(H ear , h ear. ) Again, in 1830, upon the accession of the Noble • p 4 Lord to office by the recognition of a treaty which gave Circassia to Russia, the Noble Lord undid even , thing which his predecessors, Lord Aberdeen and the Duke of Wellington, had accomplished. Subse quently the Noble Lord raised Mehemet Ali to the position of an independent Sovereign ; and by after wards assisting that ambitious Pacha in his attack upon Constantinople, the Noble Lord committed a direct act of treachery towards Turkey. He came now to one of the Noble Lord's Illst acts of treachery which he wished to brkg under the judgment of the House. The act in question was the handing over of Turkey to Russia. And with resct to all the charges he had brought against the Noble Lord, he called upon him to defend himself from them ; and if he (Mr. Anstey) failed to prove them, he was ready to submit himself to his vengeance. (LEFT SPEAKING.) [lt is right to mention that the motion on which the lion. Member based his charges against the Secre tary of State for Foreign Affairs, which extended over several pages of the Votes a week or two ago, was nofpublished in the Votes of to-day. The motion on w Lich he framed his address appeared in the fol lowing terms :—" Address for papers, except such documents as have been already laid before th• House.'"--Vide notices of motions, p. 71.] ELECTION COMMITTEES. (TIIIS J)AY.) PEEBLESIIIRE. The Select Committee appointed to inquire into the allegations contained in the petition presented against the return of Mr. Forbes Mackenzie, met for the first time this morning; Lord Robert Grosvenor in the chair. Mr. Andrews, QC., with whom was Mr. Forsyth, ap peared for the petitioners, and Mr. Sergeant WrAnghata fur the sitting Member. Mr. ANDREWS opened the case for the petitioner, Mr. Carmichael. This ease was principally one of scrutiny, and the evidence which the petitioners was prepared to put in would prove that Mr. Mackenzie's majority of 77 was made up of faggot and fictitious votes. LYME REGIS. This Committee re-assembled at the usual hour this morning ; Lord Ashley in the chair. The CHAIRMAN informed the parties that the Com mittee thought the proceedings had been unnecessarily protracted ; and they, therefore, hoped counsel would bring the case to a conclusion as early as passible. Mr. Sergeant litiouLiam was engaged the whole of the morning in bumming up the case for the sitting 'Member. KINSALE. This Committee re-assembled at the thual hour this morning; Mr. Bouvorie in the chair. Dr. Edward Jago, the gentleman so often referred to by the witnesses for the petitioners, stated that he was native of Kinsale. The constituency of the borough consisted of 216, of whom 115 promised him to rote for Mr. Guinness. The 4,0001. lodged at the bank was rot used for the purposes of bribery, but it was deposited as a guarantee against the insinuations of the opposite party, who wanted to make out that Mr. Guinness was a needy ad venturer. To show that the 4,000/. was not intended to he applied to illegal purposes, he might mention that tho banker in whose hands it was placed was a warm sup porter of Mr. Watson. After the election he received two sums of 5001. and 2001. from Mr. Guinness, 3501. of which was paid away in the legal expenses of the elec tion. The evidence of the woman Ryan relative to his having been at Sisk's public-house during the shaving scene was false. He was not in the house till very ISIS on the day of the election, and he denied having ever paid the shaving bill. The Committee adjourned at two o'clock, to nab!' Members to be present at the debate on Mr. C. Anstey's motion. LANCASTER. The Select Committee appointed to inquire into the allegations contained in the petition presented against the return of Mr. Gregson met for the first time this morning; Mr. Deedes in the chair. Mr. Sergeant Wrangham and Mr. Wordsworth . sp• peared for the petitioners, and Mr. Edwin James for the sitting Member. Mr. Sergeant WRANGUAM said that some unforeseen cirtumstances had arisen within the last fe v days to prevent his being prepared to go at once into the case of the petitioners. Letters were sent down last week to the local agent, requesting him to get the evidence in the case ready, but from some cause or other those letters never reached their destination, and as the witnesses for the petitioners had only arrived in town this morning, he had to ask the Committee to favour hito with an adjournment till to-morrow. Mr. EDWIN JAMES resisted the application, and, The COM3IITTXE decided that the case ought to be gone into at once. Mr. Sergeant WRANGIIAM then proceeded to open the case as one of bribery and corruption. Treating also formed part of the case that the petitioners would ended• your to make out against the sitting Member. THE LIVERPOOL WILL FORGING CASE.--MA' LANCHOLY SUICIDE OF LIEUTENANT PEREGRINE BOWEL R.N., IN THE COMPTER —A painful amount of sense- Lion was created at the Mansion-house this morning, by the announcement of the suicide of this unfortunate gentleman, charged with forging a will, who was to have undergone a second and final examination before the Lord Mayor this day. He held, up to the time of his apprehension, the command of one her Majesty's mail packets trading between Liverpool and Dublin. His bro ther, Lieut. William Bower, R.N., died in China, in March, 1846. Previous to his departure there he made a will, which was proved by the executor, but after this will had been admitted to proof, another will was produced by Peregrine Bower, by which all the property was left to him. Subsequently a person, attired as a sailor, pre sented himself at Doctors Commons as an attesting wit ness to the will, and gave as his name John Wood. It was Bower himself in disguise. He was immediately apprehended. The forgery of the second will was substantiated, but he persisted in declaring that he knew nothing of the fraudulent transaction. He was remanded till to-day, when he would have been fully committed to Newgate for trial. All the parties were in attendance at the Mansion-house at twelve o'clock, and shortly after the Lord Mayor had taken his seat, a message arrived from the Compter, communicating to his Lord ship the self destruction of the unfortunate man. It appeared that he rose this morning at the usual hour, and from the conversation he had with his fellow pri soners, it seemed that he had made up his mind for the worst. His conduct, apparently, was not different to that he had generally evinced, and about nine o'clock he was missing. One of the warders proceded in quell of him, and soon discovered his body suspended to the iron gratings of the window. He was immediately cut down, and the prison surgeon called in, but life was quite extinct. The deceased was between sixty and seventy years, and at Liverpool, where he resided, was much respected. THE LATE DESTRUCTIVE FIRE AT THE RED LION TAVERN.—The fire which broke out yesterday morning in the Red Lion Tavern, Red Lion-court, Fleet-street, was attended with a far greater destruction of property than was at first anticipated. Besides los ing the whole of his stock in trade, furniture, and wear ing apparel, Mr. Hoare has lost a considerable sum of money, which he had in his cash-box, consisting of 79 sovereigns and several 5/. Bank of England notes. Mr. Superintendent Braidwood made an inspection of the premises yesterday afternoon, but he was unable to trace out the origin of the fire. Mr. Hoare, it is re• ported, was only partially insured. He stated yesterday that when he went to bed, at half-past twelve o'clock on Monday night, there was not the least smell or appear. mace of anything burning. HOSPITAL FOR CONSUMPTION AND DISEASES Or THE CHEST, BROMPTON.—MUNIPICENT DONATION. — On Saturday evening, a special meeting was held of the governors and directors, in the board-room of the above institution, for the purpose of considering the regula. Lions which might be best calculated to advance the objects of the " Rose charity fund," a Samaritan ides, which has been formed to provide relief for patients who are discharged from the hospital, and who are not suffi ciently recovered to return immediately to active em ployment. A munificent donation e of 5001., received during the last few days, was the occasion for the pre• sent meeting. It was observed that the sometime long and lingering illness of consumptive patients, required the most careful regulations as to the time of their re maining in the hospital ; and both the medical and other officers had, in this respect, a most onerous duty to pee form. They had to extend the benefits_of a limited charity to an almost unlimited number of claimants ; hence the necessity of the convalaseent making way for the suffering patient, whose hours, unaided by immediate relief; might be almost said to be numbered. The humane idea, therefore, of a convalescent fund, from which the partially restored individual might gather hope and energy, appeared to be truly in accordance with the spirity of the charity. The sum of 5001. for this benevo lent purpose has been forwarded by Charles Dixon, Esq., of Stansted-Emsworth, Hants. SALMON FISIIINOS.—For the last ten days few or no salmon have been taken on the Ness, Boauly, or Conon. which the fishermen attribute to the very great spate is these streams, in consequence of the recent rapid thaw. We understand that a few have been taken at the stake nets at Cromarty and Newhall. —Ross -shire Advertiser. AIR TU. On the 11th inst., at Ciiirtreux, near Rouen, the wife el John Peter, jun., Esq., of a daughter. On the 12th inst., at St. Helier's, Jersey, the lady of CO' tain 'Williams, R.N., of a son. - on the 19th inst., at Eltham, Kent, the wife of J. Guillr mard, Esq., M.D., of a son. On the 19th inst., at Sussex-gardens, Hyde-park, the 11d1 of T. W. Kennard, Esq., of a son. On the 19th inst., at the Grove. Taunton, the lady of Crawford Kerr, EN., of a daughter. MARRIED. On the 17th inst., at Trinity Church, Walcot, Bath, NeW: ton Mant, EN., of Wirksworth, Derbyshire, to Mary, youngest daughter of the late William Butt, Esq., of Coraeyburp Herts. DIED. On the 6th inst., William Daw, Esq., M.D., of Chicklads House, Hindon, Wilts, aged 89. On the 18th inst., at Upper Tooting, John Cocker, Eft. On the 19th inst., at Hackney, Mr. John M u rray, aged .. • On the 20th inst., Mr. John Leatiserdale, of High-street) Shadwell, aged 59. On the 20th inst., at Moorgate-street, Emma, the wire Ot . H. G. Noyes, Esq., M.D., aged 28. On the 19th inst., in Charles-street, St. James's-64" r* Richard Jackson, Esq., aged 76. ___—_,—_. London: Printed and Published by MURDO TOUNti:::: No. 112, Strand, Printer, at The Sun Office, 1 11 _ .. .., 0 - ";I Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in th e 691112 "/ Middlesex, Wednesday, Februsay 23, 110'