The Sun. — London, England, 1848-09-26 00:00:00

THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Under the direction of Madame Celeste. Positively the Last Night. TIIIS EVENING Will lie performed Tim MYSTERIOUS STRANGER. The Mys terious Stranger, Madame Celeste ; Croquet, Mr. Wright ; Cheeere, Mr. 0. Smith; Mdlle. de Nantelle, Miss E. Harding ; Madeline, Miss Chaplin. After which the Burlesque of NORMA. Norma, Mr. P. Bedford ; Adelgisa, Mr. Wright; Polio, Miss Woolgar. To conduct() with DID YOU EVER SEND YOUR WIFE TO C AMBERW ELL. THE MIMI UNION AND REBELLION, NOTICE! THE CASTLEkkAGII PAPERS. Mr. COLBURN wiz publish on the 30th of September, " The MEMOIRS and CORRESPONDENCE of VISCOUNT CAS TLEREAGH, Second Mlrquess of Londonderry," Edited by his Bro ther, 2 vols. Bvo., printed uniformly with the Wellington and Nelson Dispatches, and those who may desire copies on the day of publica tion are requested to give their orders immediately to their book sellers. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street 13, Great Marlborough-street. N OTIC E.—VOL. 111. of PEPS' S' DIARY AND CORRESPONDENCE. ILLUSTRATIVE of the REIGN of CHARLES the SECOND. NEW EDITION, with the Omitted Passages Restored. Edited by LORD BRAYBUOOKE. IS NOW READY f)r DELIVERY. Orders received by all Booksellers. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough• street. NEW WORK BY THE HON. ADELA SIDNEY. In 3 vols. post Sm. 11. I ls. 6d., SADNESS AND GLADNESS. By the Hon. ADELA SIDNEY. Author of " Home and its lafluence." " The interest is fully excited and well sustained throughout. It required an artist of genius to construct such a work."—Morning Herald. " The production cf a cultivated, tasteful, and well-disciplined mind."—Morning Chronicle. "Rich in interesting situations."—John Bull. " This work will be most admired for the rich ore of genuine, truth ful, and natural feeling which is running through all its parts."— Sunday Times. Rieliard Bentley, New Eurlington-strsct. TUE A PRE ROXAL, ADEL PII I. During the Recess this Theatre has been entirely re-decorated, the original designs by Dlzby Watts, Ern , executed by Mr. Sang. A new Stage, Curtain, Act Drop, and Chandelier. An approved sys tem of Ventilation, &c., &c. The Private Boxes enlarged, Backs added to the Seats, and Stalls rendered more comfortable. Will open for the Season TO-3IORBOW EVENING, When be performed the original Drama, called LIM:VEST ROME. Principal characters by Messrs. H. Hughes, Lambert, Wright, P. Bedford, 0. Smith, Madame Celeste, Miss Woolgar, Mrs. Frank Matthews, Miss Turner, &e. To conclude with a Farce, called GOING TO TIIE DERBY TIIE DERBY DAY. Mr. Jerem all Twiddle, Mr. Wright Mr. John James Chucks, Mr. Paul Bedford ; Captain Nobble, Mr. Worrell ; Mrs. Chucks, Mrs. Matthews ; Mrs. Twiddle, Miss Woolgar. ASTLEY'S LOYAL AMPIUTIIEATRID. Prot , rictor, 11r. W. Batty. Last Week but Cne of the Sea , !ori, arrangements having boon made for the Jr:ye:tram. c o.' the .l , itic,3:rian portion of the EstaUshment at Edinburgh. Triumiliant ,ticeess of the Popular Equestrian Spectacle of 3fazeppa, ha, be-n nig%tly received with enthusiasm. Brilliant'career of Lady Godiva. Unparalleled Eque•3triau Feats. THIS EVENINt}, Will he perfcrinial Lord By - rot's Ilippolramatle Spectacle of MAZEPTA ; or, Tit Wild Horse. Tu he folio ;veil by the inimitable EQUESTRIAN and GYMNAS. TIC ENCITT:i, in Beh To conclude with a Brand Paireant, entitle 1 LADY GODIVA AND BEEPING T•O11 OF COVENTRY; or, Clearin;• the Toll. 8, , x-ofilre open from Eleven till FiCe. Stage Manager, Mr. W. West. ROY Ai. S Urn EY ZOOLOGICAL DENS. LAST FOUR NIGHTS OF THE SEAS,ON. Attraction unprece&ntot. Continuation of MISS SARI FLOWER and MISS TOWNSEND 11 , .-en,;ag,ment of MIL HENRY PHILLEI'S. First Appnaranee of Mr. A. sEDGWICK. The DAYLIGHT VIEW of ROME, by Damon. Superb and Unique MENAGEr.IE. Grand Display of FIREWORKS, by the Messrs. Southby. No Extra l barge. MONDAY, TUESDAY, WEDNESDAY, THURSDAY, stui FEED IY. 'rew Of P.orno ---rromemt.le Concerts, Vozal and Instrumental, conducted by Mr. GODFREY. The splendid hand of SoloWerformehi intlaqes Messrs. H. Cellins, Cie], George and Viotti Collins, Richard son, &c.—Two Solo; will be performed each Evening by Artists of Eminence.—Several favourite Songs and a h aet by Miss Sara Flower and Miss Towwicnd —Two favourite Songs by Mr Henry Phillips, for this week only —The Programme will contain a choice selection of popular Quadrilles and Walizes.—Also to be seen, during the day, tke beautiful Menagerie—Shakspere's House—The Ma is Bridge— and other novelties will be exhibited, the whole concluding with a most magnificent and not to be rivalled display of Fireworks, which elicited such rapturous approbation on the occasion of Al. Julliefes Benefit, by the Meows. Souiliby Gates open at Ten A.M., Feeding Time Half-past Four—Concert a 1 Half-past Five—Firmi - orics at Half-past Eight. Admission, as usual, One Shilling. TO CORRESPONDENTS. No communication can be attended to unless autheEt cated by the nanL, and address of the writer. Rejected communications cannot bo returned. THE WEATHER.—SUN OFFICE, SEPTEMBER 26. THERMOMETER, Lowest, 55; Highest, 63; Noon, 6 BAROMETER, 29.65. WIND E.N.E , much► rain. LEIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE THIS DAY. Morning .. 7 min. after 1 I Evening 28 rain. after 1 ;111ilit ‘ 7 2; Ant LONDON, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 2G, 1848. The proceedings at the Central Criminal Court, during the last few days, are suggestive of the most serious considerations. We do not allude to the case of the unfortunate individual who has already becn convi4ted on the second count of the indictment, and who will have to expiate the offence, of which a jury of his countrymen have declared him to be guilty. Still less do we allude to that of the other prisoners who are now actually on their trials, or who are awaiting the investigations that must decide the question of their guilt or innocence, of their freedom or captivity. Whatever may be our private opinions re specting the acts charged against these parties, we shall abstain from any expression thereof until the last solemn inquiry has terminated, and the fate of the last prisoner has been decided, and no longer hangs trembling in the balance. What we would now in vite the public attention to is the necessity of a speedy revision of certain defects still existing in the administration of the law, with a view to their re meval and the adoption of a more just and equitable system. The first point to which we would advert is, that under the present system a person charged with a grave and heavy offence, which may in volve even his life itself, or his perpetual banishment from his native land, and the forfeiture of his liberty during his future existence, is kept com paratively ignorant of the exact nature of the charge preferred against him, and is called upon to plead without a moment's time being allowed to his legal advisers to consider the nature of the defence that may be offered on his behalf, or to examine whether the indictment is framed in strict accordance with law. We repeatedly witness the most unseemly altercations between the law officers of the Crown and counsel engaged in behalf of prisoners, more especially when the offences charged are of a political character, arising from the refusal to grant applications which should be conceded "Ex dekto justitics." Copies of the indictments are perpetually asked for, and almost invariably refused, where the request is merely a matter of favour that can be legally denied. Copies of the jury panel, too, are sometimes desired, but these are never granted in any case, and we consequently find the time of the Court repeatedly taken up, to the great obstruction of the public business, by repeated arguments, as to the right of the prisoner, whether he is entitled to have the indictment read over three times, verbatim, in a slow and audible tone of voice, or whether he must be contented with one such reading, or whether he is authorised, before each juror is empannelled to try the case, to examine the party on what is termed in law the " voir dire," in order to ascertain by his own evidence whether he entertains any bias or prejudice that would render him ineligible to decide indifferently between our Sovereign Lady the QUEEN and the prisoner or prisoners at the bar. All these discussions, highly prejudicial to the course of justice, and too often calculated to bring the admi nistration a nistration of the criminal law i n t o co nt em pt disrepute, would be altogether avoided by en titling every prisoner to have a copy of the indict ment which it is intended to prefer against him delivered to him, at least one clear day before he can be called upon to plead thereto; and also (if he chooses to demand it) to have a copy of the jurors' li s t, f rom t which those w h o are to y _lm s will be empann e ll e d, at the same tim e , or at a moderate ti me for investigatio n leat so as to allow before he shall decide whether he will lght of setting exercise the aside peremptorily a man, or challenging for express Caus p e art s icu h lar jury conceived opinions, partiality, or th e li ke. uc U. as pre- Under the present practice a powerful illustration is afforded of the far greater respect for, and:Protection to property evinced by the British law, than it ex hibits for life or liberty. If a pecuniary claim is made upon any person, he can obtain a copy of the declaration from the proper officer (upon paying a moderate fee for scriveney), and the particulars of the plaintiff's demand must be served on him four clear days at least, before he is called upon to plead to the action. In cases of misdemeanour be may also obtain a copy of the bill of indictment, 44 7:1 1. ' Z* • 40.- 1 „: c 7.. 7 „ 4'T " - 4, 1 nOll THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EV 14:N IN G, SE PTEMBF R 26, 1849. but if the charge be of a felonious character that pri vilege is denied, and although all his goods and chat tels may be forfeited to the Crown upon his convic tion, and his future prospects in life for ever blighted, he is not permitted to obtain that which is essential to a fair and impartial trial. The humane theory of the British law is, that it is better that ninety-nine guilty persons should escape the punishment due to their crimes, than that one innocent man should suffer. In practice, however, innocent men are re fused what may be essential to make their innocence apparent, lest a guilty person might possibly escape, by the opportunity afforded to his advocate of dis covering a flaw in the indictment, if any blot should actually exist therein. Why should persons be de barred from the strictest inquiry into the validity and legality of the charge, because the results are of an infinitely more momentous character than any that could follow an adverse decision in a civil case or in one of misdemeanour. Again, the trial by jury is regarded as the great palladium of an Englishman's liberty. It is his proudest boast that he cannot be adjudged guilty of any offence, save on the unanimous verdict of twelve of his peers, indifferently and impartially selected. This is a beautiful theory, but how is it carried out in practice? The sheriff, an officer nominated, with some rare exceptions, entirely by the Crown, in whose elec tion the people have no share, nominates the jurymen as he thinks proper. We doubt not that this extraordi nary power is in every instance most impartially and fairly exercised ; but it may be abused, and in cases of great political importance the imputation will fre quently be made, although perhaps most undeservedly. Why should not every ground of suspicion be re moved by the publication of the jury panel a few days before the sittings commence, and the delivery of a copy to every prisoner who chooses to demand it `r By this means the current of justice will flow pure and unsullied, and be (as it ought) above the breath of slander or reproach. • A banquet—brilliant, political, philosophic, enthu aiastic—has at last taken place in the Champs Elysees. Not the banquet of a few pottering re formers, Sprinkled with the demireps of aristocracy, and variegated by the colours of those statesmen who degenerate from mob-orators to place-hunters, from place- hunters to courtiers, and from courtiers down wards to the lowest grade of al, the sycophants of kingcraft. Nothing of all this cast a gloom O‘f.r the convivialities of the Republicans who, on Friday afternoon, dined umaer the green trees in the garden of the Chalet. M. ODILLON BARROT, in the me; morable spring of the current year, made an appoint ment with three millions of men on the Boule vards, and failed to keep it. The Parisians could not easily forget that dereliction of politica! consistency. No more patchwork improvements fol 1 them l no more cobbling of the old decaying consti tution ! nu more extraction of the rotten planks, and substitution of the sound ones as a compensation for their eTr aneseence ! The doom of the whole blundering edifice was pronounced by the heroes of February. The Past was swallowed in the Revolution. The Present was a chaos, obscured by confusion, and dark ened by doubts, but lit up, nevertheless, with the gleams of hope, and the meteors cf popularity, and the flashes of heroism, and the conflagrations of oratory. As for the Future—it was a region of dim anticipations, of doubts, and anxieties, of the joy of confidence and of the dejection of dread, a vista as fluctuating and as feebly defined as might have been expected from the perspective ambition of a volatile and ima ginative people. Talk as we may of the extravagance of some of the leading statesmen of February—of the despotism of the commissaries sent into the depart ments by the Provisional Minister of the Interior, of the economic hallucinations of LOUIS BLANC, of the rhetorical rant of Elocoat in the liVorme, and the subversive Socialism of ALBERT in the Atelier—it must be confessed that there was at least in these men a manliness of daring which compensated in some measure for the total avant on their part of the dig nity of virtue or of the grandeur of patriotism. For these reasons we have watched the character and the proceedings of the democratic banquet of Friday, without that inexorable predisposition to suspect and to abhor which obscures the judgment of those who are filled with an antipathy for Communism. After the speech delivcred by the President, Al. A UDRY DE PLITRA VEAU, in the course of which he took an oath of fidelity to the Democratic Republic, an oration was uttered by M. LEDRU ROLLIN, the dis tinguished but unpopular member of the Provisional Government and the Executive Commission. To deny the eloquence of this oration would be as ridicu lous as to deny that its tendency, though obscure and inferential, was in a very peculiar degree pernicious. The orator repudiated Socialism, but in the same breath he adopted its synonym, called Social Repub licanism. He reverenced not FOURRIER, but the ghost of FOURRIER, not Saint Smola, but his sha dow, not the Organization of Labour, but the aboli tion of competition. He grew impassioned as he tracked the recollections evoked over the sequence of fifty-six years when he raised his wine-cup to his lips and drank To the Anniversary of the 22d September, 1792 ! The Right to Labour ! he exclaimed : Was that Socialism ? No : it was not Socialism—it was Republicanism ! The infinitesimal division and dis tribution of property ! Was that Socialism ? No : it was not Socialism—it was Republicanism ? The equalization of public imposts ! Was that Socialism ? No : it was not Socialism—it was Republicanism ! The abolition of monastic vows ! Was that Social ism ? No : it was not Socialism—it was Republicanism ! " Yes ! it is Republicanism !" he exclaimed, "it is Republicanism! and the adver saries of the true Republic are aware that that Re public, if once rooted in the morals of the country, cannot be overthrown." A sophism, that—and a sophism to our thinking as tawdry and hollow as any one of those shallow dogmas which have been horn from the soul of an unprincipled ambition. For a man who insinuates the spoliations of the rich, to talk of the morals of the country ! For a man who hints at the despotism of the rabble over the conscience, to talk, forsooth, of the morality of his proposed institutions ! But enough of this brawling affectation of justice—this flimsy pretence of humanity--this tinselled mask of pa.. triotism. The violence of the sentiments enunciated on Friday evening, in the gardens of the Chalet and in the Champs Ely-sees, by M. LEDRU ROLLIN, has done more to damage his reputation as a Republican statesman than the insolence of his circulars or the tyrannical behaviour of his commissaries. Hence forth his name will never be whispered among those of the practicable politicians capable of securing the :salvation of the Republic. He can never regain power except by building up for himself a new popularity; and to acquire a new po pularity, it is necessary for him to repudiate almost every act of his past career. History will pre serve his name among those men who, by a glo rious display of courage, or rather by a magnificent ebullition of audacity, saved France on the 24th of February. The glory of that event will pre serve his name to posterity, but the frivo lity of his ideas, and the rashness of his philosophy, will cover the subsequent incidents of his biography with the pall of oblivion, that pall which conceals nothing but baseness and corruption. M. LEDRU ROLLIN has had opportunity enough to be a great man, and has been, without courage enough to render himself a bad man—he was shot up into cele • brity, almost by accident, and in obedience to all the laws of moral and intellectual gravitation, is now falling into the depths of insignificance. SPAIN. Madrid journals of the 20th have arrived. General CORDOVA and his staff arrived at Barce lona on the 17th. The General immediately assumed the command of the province of Catalonia. It was arnouneed in Madrid that AMETTLER, at the head of 400 men, had entered Catalonia. MADRID BOLsA, LPT. 19.—Three, 19 15-16 i ; Fives, 104 d ; Exchange on London, 47 80 cash. ROYAL SAPPERS AND DIINERS.—The 12th com pany of thi s b ranch of the Ordnance corps were medi cally inspected at the Ordnance Hospital on Friday last, fLocl their baggage put on board the Princess Royal, hired transport ship at Woolwich, on Saturday, and the company under the command of Captain Baillie, R.E., will embark to-day, Monday, September 25, for Gib raltar, to relieve th e 11t h company under the command of Captain Ilutehinson, stationed at Gibraltar since June, 1842. , THE FRENCH REPUBLIC. We have received the Paris papers of yesterday. Prince LOUIS NAPOLEON arrived on Sunday even ing.. No attempt was made to disturb the public tranquillity, as the preparations of General CAVAIG NAC were so complete as to render all such attempts hopeless. The speech of M. LEDRU ROLLIN at the Chalet is regarded by almost all the moderate papers as a declaration of war against society. The Journal des Debats says:— " The speech of M. Ledru Rollin is not precisely a chef d'ceuvre, but as it has been put forth as a pro gramme of the future, it is well to know to what we are proceeding. " To what, therefore, are we to come, or rather what would be our fate if . Ledru Rollin had the guidance of affairs ? To a general war and assignats. That is not only the result, hut it is the avowed object of the programme of M. Ledru Rollin. The old mem ber of the Provisional Government remarks with great severity on the foreign policy pursued by the present Government ; he announces that he will speak more fully elsewhere ; but he has already said enough to convince us that he has nothing in his head but revolutionary propagandism. With regard to the domestic policy pursued, M. Ledru Rollin ex presses his views on financial affairs, and chooses as his model the great citizen," Camber. That name is too closely connected with the system of assignats to be rea dily forgotten, and a reference to the Illoniteur will in form us of all his propositions on the subject of assignats, forced loans, suspension of the payment of pensions, &c. There is nothing in all this to quiet uneasiness; and when speaking of the subject, M. Ledru Rollin exclaims with enthusiasm, 'May we not find another Cambon?' " But M. Ledru Rollin asks other very indiscreet questions. For instance, he demands what has been done for the people since February? It is not for us to reply; but had we to do so, we should say like every ono else,' Aloney has been wanting.' But to this M. Ledru Rollin observes, that he could never comprehend that objection. lie is very fortunate. Let him then address himself to M. Goudchaux, or even to M. Gamier Peps and M. Duclerc, to all finance Ministers; past, present, and to come, always excepting a Cambon, and ask them if they understand it. But that is of no cense • quence. Our fathers,' he said, ' lived by expedients, and it is thus that all revolutions aro supported.' Such, therefore, is the programme of the future. A great country must live like a spendthrift, from day to day ; making bills, and doubling the expense in proportion as he devours his capital. What a future. But it is said, at such or such a period, in times of great embarrass ment, millions and even milliards have been found. That is true. There is a great eichymist—credit ; there is a philosopher's stone— ivbieli is confidence. But cor thieuce cannot be command 'd. You may apply to It what has been said of a woman, She is like your shadow; fly from her, and she follows you ; follow her, and she flies from you.' You complain that money has been concealed—that there must, after thirty years of peace, be plenty of it, and that it must be found. Seek it then, ye searchers after measures. It will hide itself in the bowels of the earth from whence it first came, and yeti will be reduced like the great citizen Cambon to make laws against it—and that is what is called a pro :,raaitue for the future—and you do not observe that it is only the deplorable and vulger prospectus of the past! We know of no greater reaetionist than M. Learn Rollin ; when he speaks we think we are listening to e voltigeur of '93. What Frederick William wished, to do for the middle aces, M. Ledru Reign wished to effect for the Convention, and it is well known how the thing succeeded beyond the Rhine. " The great object or 111. Ledru Rollin is to make reputlcanism enter into our habits, but we humbly opine that different manners may be adopted for effecting, it. When he was Minister of the Interior he endea voured by his circulars and his commissaries to instil bis own ropublican ideas into the habits of the people. We doubt whether he has had reason to congratulate himself on his efforts, and we think he must have learnt that it is not for the country to make :itself the image of the Republic, but for the Republic to become the image of the country." It would appear from the Constitutionnel that the spoken speech was even more violent than the pub lished one. That journal says : " The speech delivered by M. Ledru Rollin at the banquet at the Chalet, on the anniversary of the French Republic, was, it is said,:before publication very much corrected and softened down. This is scarcely to be credited, for even in his well-known circulars has he ever given way to more violence of expression. What is here called right of labour, forced loan paper money, &c., is nothing more nor less than universal war with all its consequences, and that is the happiness which M. Ledru Rollin promises to France in the name of the true Republic." It is abundantly evident that LEDMI ROLLIN is now willing to go to the extremest lengths of Com munism in order to gratify his hatred of the moderate Republicans. In the Reforme of yesterday we find the following attempt to excite the Communists and Red Repub licans to another rising. In large characters there appears :—" Eighth Bulletin of the Republic of IS4B. Departure of the transported (insurgents)." Here follows a dismal account of the departure of 550 in surgents for Havre, in the midst of rain and storm. Then comes the following bulletin, equally in large print :—" Other Bulletin of the Republic of 1848. Fete at the President's of the National Assembly. The musical part of the fete given this evening by the President of the National Assembly will be com posed of a fragment of Eden, of Christopher Co lumbus, by DAVID, and of an air of the Favorite, sung by Mdlle. LAMORCIERE. ‘Vive la Repub lique.' " We find the following resume of the present state of parties in France in the SRcle : " We are far from considering as well founded the alarms which at present are felt in the public mind; we must not, however, deceive ourselves by illusions; the violent party does not consider itself as vanquished; far from being broken by the late events, they are still closely united; they have the cohesion and the discipline of an army, and they march forward with boldness to the accomplishment of their designs. Let it not, therefore, be forgotten that there are sixty thousand men, all ene mies of social order, animated by mad passions against the National Assembly, and keeping up amongst them selves the most intimate relations, and that they may be on foot either to vote or to combat on the first signal from their invisible chiefs, and ready, for the purpose of securitg the triumph of their Utopian schemes, to range themselves under any standard of insurrection that may be unfurled. "There arc many honest citizens who are discontented with the Republic, which has not, we confess, been as yet calculated to inspire them with much enthusiasm,:and very well disposed, as they say, to receive pretender, provide d he presents himself under favourable circumstances, and surrounded with a respectable cot (eye. This class ofcitiaens await Louis Napohon, doing him the injustice to sup pose that he will prefer the character of as adventurer to that of a devoted citizen. Others would prefer the Prince de Joinville, whose foresight, if he had been free or more influential, would have saved the late govern ment from its faults, and from their attendant ruin. Others, again, feel convinced that the restoration of Henry V. is inevitable; others, again, in their impatience and discouragement, would be it sliced to accept the first comer. But let all who entertain those ideas reflect that at the back of any movement that might be made by any party there would bo found the army of So cialists, ready to turn: their demonstrations and their efforts to their own advantage, and to trample every standard in the dust and in blood, in order to raise their own red flag on the ruins of our city. Let all who feel impatient and discontented bear these reflections well in mind. To them we would say, 'France, if united, will triumph over every peril which may threaten her.' The Moderate party in the country is endowed with strength and intelligence; let it continue to be just, firm, and vigilant, and it sill have nothing to fear from fac tions. The Republic is France—it is us. France will have the government which she thinks best suited to her interests, and of which she will be worthy." The National announces that 4,000 French troops have landed at Venice from four steam-frigates. In the same journal we find an article warning the Vienna Ministry and their Archduke JOHN that their reactionary intrigues are discovered. "Does Austria, for instance," asks the National," be lieve that we are ignorant of what is passing at Vienna ? Do we not know that the mediation, at first refused, was only accepted at the instances cf the Ministers of Holland and Belgium, and with a view to gain time ? Do we not know that the project of the Cumarilla was to begin by crushing Hungary, and then to return with all its forces, not against Italy, but against Vienna, where the democracy has broken down all impediments?" "Does the Assembly at Frankfort, discredited amongst the Germans themselves, hope to deceive us ? Let it try, then, to push liberal Germany against us. As for Prussia, we know that her King feels too uneasy about his own throne to be thinking of us. Russia remains— this flaming sword of absolutism, supreme hope of the phantom of an Emperor that the Archduchess Sophia rules from Schoenbrunn. Russia? She has a numerous army but little money ; and even if she possessed ex haustless treasures, they would be neutralized by the fear of putting her troops in contact with the west. Tho Czar dreads ideas more than artillery. Let war break out and Gallicia, which out of horror of Austria (another insult to Austria) spreads her arms to him, would, as well as Posen, be occupied by Russian troops, but they would advance no farther. And what do Hun gary and Bohemia, crushed but not enslaved, wait in order to proclaim their entire independence ? The signal of war." " A high Prussian functionary said to the one of our selves a few days ago, and he ;is a an not disposed to accept the republic, ' Before a year is about, no matter what happens, the different German states will be formed into a republic, not into a single republic, but into a se ries of Republics united ay a federal link. And that which will provoke this general revolution will be the ntry of a French army into Italy.' "If these words, emanating from a man so well placed for appreciating circumstances be true, the miserable same played by Austria may retard her fall, but will not save her. A law superior to all poli'ical cembinations rules European affsirs. The old monarchical mould is broken, and everything tends in the wor ld towar d s t h e constitution of the uniTersal democracy." Paris was perfectly tranquil up to the hour of the departure of th 3 post last evening. The vlonitear du Sair of Saturday says :—" Our relations with the states of Central Ameriva have just been interrupted. Our Consul has quitted Guate mala, leaving our countrymen under the pr Itection of the representative of Great Britain. We are as sured that this measure was taken in consequence of grave insults to the new Government of France, in which insults the President CARREVA is said to have been associated." In the sitting of the National Assembly yesterday, the discussion on Article 16 of the Constitution was resumed, and an amendment accepted by the Govern ment and the Committee, and adopting the principle of proportionate taxation, was adopted by a majority of 644 to 96. Article 17 was adopted without debate, and the discussion was going on on Article 18 (which relates to the public authorities) at the time the post left. Great excitement was created among the ultra democratic party at Lyons by the return of the moderate candidate. On Thursday a mob of six or seven hundred individuals in blouses went to the Prefecture, and summoned the Prefect to appear. The Prefect having come forward, they demanded with loud and confused cries the annultnent of the election of M. RIVET. The Prefect explained that he had not the power to do what they required— that the Assembly alone had ; and that they should petition if they had any proofs of illegality to bring forward. "Proofs!" cried they, "we don't want proofs, we are convinced ourselves, and that's enough ! We have been robbed and tricked, end will have the election recommenced !" After a good deal of parleying, haranguing, and vociferation, the Prefect, fearing that the mob would invade the Pre fecture, called out the troops of the post and made them station before the railing. Subsequently the mob assembled on the Place des Terreaux, and re mained to an advanced hour, bawling the chorus of the Marseillaise, " Aux armes, citoyens !" &c. A band paraded the quays, roaring the same words, but no other disturbance took place. These demonstra tions, however, caused great alarm to the peaceable population. The following letter, says the; Mouiteur cicc Soir, has been addressed to the British Consul at Boulogne by the National Guards who visited E:lgland : • " onsiur le Consul,—Being unacquained with the administrative formalities of your country, we take the liberty of requesting your kind intervention to thank your fellow - countryint.n ia the name of all our comrades a,isembled at Boulogne, for the kind care, the gracious and friendly reception, and the respect and attention of every kind, of which we were the object during our too short stay in England. In the impos sibilily, Sir, of transmitting to you the names of all those to whom our sincere thanks arc due, we restrict oursolves to naming the directors of the, Continental strainers, and particularly Mr. Herbert, their t;ecretary generzA ; the directors of the South Eastern Railroad, and Mr. Cockerton, their representative et the London station ; to Sup er i nten d ents S wan an d Easel, and Cap tains Paul an d sion, to be th e i nterpreter o f our sent i ments of grat i tude Monger. Be pleased, Sir, on this occa towards the honourable functionaries by whose delicacy so many of our fellow-countrymen have profited. It such conduct, opportunity of prov i ng, i n our turn, to your fellow-coun- Sir, leaves anything to be desired, it is the try men, the value that we attach to this into h of sympa thy to the French name." The Minister of the Finances has issued a notice contradicting a report that the dividends on the Five per Cents. for the present term were not to be paid. The Minister says that the payment com menced on the 221, and that arrangements have been made giving additional facilities to the public in order that the operation may be finished with promp - titude. BOURSE. —PARIS, MONDAY, SEPT. 25. THREE o'CLocx.—The uneasy feeling which pervaded the Bourse for the last week still continues. To-day there was hardly any business done, and it was with difficulty that the Rentes and Shares were sustained. There were various rumours afloat of Bonapartist conspiracies, but they were not generally credited. The landing of the Enrich troops at Venice is also looked npnn as likely to lead to fresh complications. For the Account, the French Three per Cents. and Five per Cents. remain at the prices of Saturday, but quotations are nearly nominal; the Loan has fallen 25c. For Money, the Three per Cents. have risen 25e.; .Five per Cents. remain as on Saturday; while the Loan is sc. lower; Bons du Tresor arc not quoted; Bank of France Shares have fallen 151.; Belgian Bank Shares are quoted for the first time for some weeks at 645; ditto Two-and-a-Half per Cents. are at 39; Spanish Active not quoted; ditto Three per Cents. not quoted; ditto Passive are at 2/ ; Roman have risen 1 per cent. on the news of the formation of a new Govern ment; Rothschild's Receipts are as on Saturday. Ex change on London (30 days), 25f. 30c.; ditto . (90 days), 25f. I 7ic. Railway Shares aro without any material change, with the exception of Iltsvres, which rose sf. BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THU LONDON STOCK-EXCHANGE, SErr. '25. Boulogne and Amiens, s%—Orleans and Bordeaux, A.l GERMANY AND THE NORTHERN STATES. J3ADEN. SUCCESSFUL INSURRECTION —PROCLAMA- TioN OF A GERMAN REPUBLIC. The Republicans under STRUVE have made a suc cessful outbreak in Baden, and have proclaimed a German Republic. According to the Gazette Na finale Suisse, STRUVE had returned to the Grand Duchy to attend his trial for certain articles which he had published in his paper, the Spectateur Allemand. He was received by the people with enthusiasm, who accompanied him to Lorrach and conducted him to the Hotel de Ville. There he harangued the people, who arrested the magistrates and the other employes of the Government, and imprisoned them. The tocsin sounded, the whole of the neighbouring communes rose, the refugees returned to their homes, the Landstrum was called out, the republic pro claimed, and the republican army, divided into three columns, was marching upon Carlsruhe, Imving pre viously broken up the railway to prevent the ad vance of the troops. When the last accounts left the Republicans were completely masters of Lorrach. The revenue collectors had taken the oaths to the Republic, martial-law had been proclaimed against traitors and reactionaries. Orders had been given to the authorities to keep the tocsin ringing all day in the different communes, and signal fires burning on the mountains all night, t o arres t a ll M onarc hi sts and sequestrate their property, and to call out all the young men capable of bearing arms and direct them to present themselves at the chef lieu of the district. All these orders were issued in the name of the Republican Government, and signed, " STRUVE." The following proclamation has been addressed to the German people by the chief of the Baden insur rection : " The struggle between the people and their op pressors has commenced. The people have been fired upon even in the streets of Franckfort-on-the- Maine, the seat of the impotent Central Power and of the verbos e C onstituent Assem bl y. T he sword alone can save th e German peop l e . If t h e reaction triumphs at Frankfort, Germany will be plundered and oppr esse d by legal means i n a manner more ter rible th an s h e could have been by the most bloody wars. T o arms, Germans I The Republic alone c an conduct us t o t h e " Long li ve the German Republic ! name "In the goal at which we aim. of the Provisional Government. (Signed) " G. STRUVE. " German Republic—Prosperity, Education, Li. berty fur all. " Head -quarters, Lorrach, Sept. 21." It is said that the Baden insurgents have taken in. the Bl ac k F ores t, an d th e F renc h P a t t ie of Sunday pu b lishes a letter from Mulbausen, an - Friborg nouncing that they had taken Carlsruhe, deposed the Grand Duke, and marched upon Frankfort. PRUSSIA. The following programme was Lddressed by the new Minist er , VON PFUEL, to the D i et i n t h e i r s itti ng of the 22d " We approach the august Assembly under the assur ance that, road. We King, and while obeying the command of his Majesty the accepting the posts assigned to us, we gre attempt with firmly resolved to continue in the trodden constitutional to the. Prussian people, and repel every reactionary will energetically defend the liberties guaran teedtake especial care that these principles aro rigidly obeyed in . all the h all the authority of our office. We will —ranches of the public service, whether civil or 1 r: 1 , 1 i tary. " The administration which this august Assembly is on the point (4 uniting with the Crown will, we trust, have the guarantee in itself that the Prussian nation, hid. matt 1y united with the whole German nation, will be unanimous and strong." In the course of the sitting General VON PFUIiL addressed the Assembly as follows : • " We appear before ,this Assembly, having entered upon the new office to which his Majesty has appointed us, and we wish to express our firm resolution ,to con tinue in the constitutional course which has been adopted. We will protect the liberties which have been guaranteed, and oppose reactionary movements in every branch of the public service, among the civil classes as well as among the military. The constitution which is now being settled with the consent of the Crown will, I trust, contribute to promote the great object which the union of the Prussian and the German people Is destined to accomplish. We are devoted to the promotion of the interests of the Prussian people, but we shall not forget that it is the duty of every Government to op- pose anarchy, and that it is the desire of the whole country that this duty should be fulfilled. We are aware that liberty must be united with order, and that it is only thus that trade and agriculture can flourish. We would hasten the work of the constitution as much as lies in our power; and, besides the laws for the Burgher Guard, we will soon propose others with respect to the new orders for the communes, districts, and provinces. We will maintain the rights and liberties of the people, as well as the rights and the authority of the Crown. We will communicate to you what you desire to know with respect to the Administration, and notice your wishes. At the same time we consider it our duty to protect the rights of the Crown, which holds the executive power. We enter upon our duty with a full consciousness of the difficulties connected with it, but likewise with the hope and confidence that a common feeling of patriotism will promote unity amongst us." The discussion which ensued was very animated, and several questions were put by Herr KIRCHMANN as to the appointment of General VON WRANGEL to the command of the troops, and as to the concentration of the troops round Berlin. VoN PFUEL replied that General VoN WRANGEL had been appointed Com mander-in-Chief of the troops, but that the concen tration of military forces in this city bad no other object than: to offer protection to the National As sembly, and to maintain public order, in case it were not i❑ the power of the Burgher Guard to do so. A placard, evidently emanating from the National Assembly, has been posted on the walls of the ca pital : "Citizens and Inhabitants of Berlin,—A dark cloud has arisen, which will probably menace and put in ques tion the existence of the National Assembly, which re presents all the people—the cause of liberty—the cause of the people. Fellow-citizms, in face of these dan gers, it is the sacred duty of every era cheerfully to devote himself - to the cause of the people and of liberty. "Let the people of Berlin calmly and silently, and with the rigorous observance of legal ord r, watch the progress of things, in order that they may in the sequel act worthy of themselves. This, however, we declare — that the National Assembly will know how to execute its mission with immovable confidence, aryl will know how to tepid,' under every circumstance, every attempt at violence, it matters not when or from whence it comes." The Cologize Gazette has the following from Berlin, tWth inst. :—" General DE WRANGEL ha's to day reviewed the troops of the garrison. Ho was received with loud acclamations by the National Guard under the command of M. llyfurnEß. After the review ho harangued the officers, and told them that, in case of any outbreak, the troops would not interfere until it was found that the civic guard were unable to quell the disturbance. He said The troops are good, their swords arc well shar pened, and they have balls in their muskets. But they are not armed against the people of Berlin : it is to pro tect them. We will act together ; no reaction, but respect for order, the laws, and liberty. What a pain it is to me to see grass grow in the streets, houses deserted, the shops full of goods, but without purchasers, and workmen without employment. All this must he changed; I cm about to bring wel fare with order. Anarchy must be overcome, that I promise you, and a Wrungel Lever broke his word. I see with pleasure the troops in such good condition; you will maintain it so. The soldiers and the citizens must Le on a good understanding together. The citizens are their parents, and have the same object in view, that of maintaining the honour and the glory of Prussia, and to found German unity with you. They are your brethren, and they will not forget that in the ranks of the army are to bo found their brothers and their fathers. I regret not to have seen the troops defile to-day before his Majesty. The King is aware of the fatigues of the service, and it is for that reason that he has granted them an extra allowance. lam happy to be able to in form you of it." The officers raised their caps, and gave three cheers of " Long live the KING." A Berlin letter states that General WILLISEN has left that city on a special mission to General OAVAIGNAC, with whom he is personally acquainted, having served in Algeria. FRANKFORT. The Journal de FranVort, of the 23d, an nounces that in the sitting of the German Parliament of the preceding day M. DUCKWJTZ, Provisional Minister of Commerce and Finance, submitted a pro ject of law for a contingent in cash of 12,000 florins to be shared among the different states for the urgent expenses of the treasury of the empire. He also submitted a project for the commercial union of Germany. '%TEaNnER read the draught of the proclamation to the German people, which he had been commissioned to prepare : it was as follows :-- "To the German people! " The German people, in the freest path of election, have chosen the men who are to establish the freedom of all, and the unity of our fatherland. Never bad an Assembly a greater—never a niore arduous task, than that imposed upon the German National Assembly. Amid the pressure of events, and beset with a variety of demands, yet, keeping the prescribed end in view, it has gone perseveringly forwards. Though every single resolution may not have been acceptable to all parties, and though many a decision may have been temporarily delayed, yet important things have happily been con summated. "The one united Government for the body politic ,f Germany has been organized; a firm foundation has been laid for the rights of the people; and vigorout.ly has the way been paved for the future constitution of a united fa therland. " But unheard of things have happened. Men have dared to stamp the resolutions of the National Assembly with the brand of high treason. Men have dared to make an attack on the Parliament. Riot has arisen openly around the House of Assembly, and in the streets of the city. Deputies wko conscientiously and cou rageously asserted their conviction have been horribly murdered. " The National Assembly, looking with sorrow and indignation on what has happened, feels itself compelled, in the face of such grave events, to address a word to the German people. " It trust; that the German people will show respect to its own liberty in supporting the liberty of its repre sentatives, and that it will never suffcr threats or vio lence to fetter the independence of the speaker or the voter. "It feels sure that the German people will never allow others, either individuals or societies, to substitute their will in the place of that which it, the commissioned organ of the nation decrees. It knows that the German people accords to none but the Assembly the right of establishing the constitution of Germany " German people I We will not cease to protect the liberties and to give them a safe stronghold in our fatherland. Nothing shall prevent us from completing the structure of German unity. Let enemies threaten us from whatever side they may, Ivo will stand at cur posts to a man, when the defence of our rights is con cerned, and never will we swerve from the places as signed us until Germany has united itself under a free constitution. (Signed) " The German National Assembly." The President then begged the secretary to read a motion of SCHAMATII and his colleagues, which had been handed in yesterday, but had been casually omitted. SCHAFFRATII Moved— "In consideration that the Provisional Central Power, according to the law of the 28th of June, 184 a, has only an executive power, and therefore not even the right to proclaim and introduce the state of siege and martial and summary law, especially without the acquiesceree of the National Assembly at present convened; ar.d in con sideration that the proclamation of a state of siege and martial law in the free city of Frankfort is altogether without a basis; in consideration, further, that the state of siege was proclaimed for the first time in the city of Frankfort on the 19th September, after an emire sup pression of the disturbances, and therefore could not be re-actionally applied to their originators or to the parti cipators therein , without the grossest violation o f every principle of right that is binding in every body-p;;- &c. ; moreover, in consideration that such excep tional measures, being those of a reign of terror, are to be adopted in respect of the most urgent danger-- danger, in tact, that is not otherwise to be averted, and when adopted, aro to be cancelled as speedily as pos sible, and co less in consideration that the disturbances in the city of Frankfort originated with a small num her (?) of ill-armed persons, and in the course of the following night were completely suppressed, and at all events are no logger to be apprehended; finally, in con sideration that the equivocal legality, or rather utter of the state of siege and martial law cramps and stifles not only the free deliberations of the National Assembly, but industry also, and labour, trade, and in tercourse, especially in the present fair-week, the Na tional Assembly resolves— " 1. The immediate annulment of the proclaimed state of siege and martial law in the city of Frankfurt. "2. That this resolution be immediately communi cated to the Imperial Ministry, for speedy execution. (Signed) " SCRAFFRATII. JOSEPH, BLUM, I; UN TILER, BRENTANO, TITUS, ZITZ (Laughter), ZIMMERMANN, MOHR, WIESNER, &e. (Members of the Left.)" The urgency of this motion ‘s s 'as disallowed. The House adjourned at half-past Two, F.M.• The following proclamation by the Ministry has been published : " SEVEN, P.M. (Address).—" To the German people! " Germans! the criminal events that have occurred in Frankfort, the intended attack on the National Assem bly, riot in the streets, which bad to be suppressed by force of arms, revolting assassination, and the tlarcats and maltreatment of individual deputies, these things have plainly betrayed the plans and means of a party that is bent on bringing on our fatherland the terrors of anarchy and civil war. "Germans! your liberty is sacred in my eyes. It must be permanently and firmly established by the fabric of the constitution, for the erection of which your repre sentatives are here assembled. But it would be torn from your grasp if lawlessness and its consequences were dif fused over Germany. "Germans! by the law of the 28th June, 1848, the Executive Power has been given me in matters which concern the general safety and propriety of Germany; I have to protect our fatherland, whether it be jeopar dised by foes from without, or by criminal outrages from within. I know my duty, and I will discharge it. I will discharge it resolutely and fully. And ye, Ger mans, ye who love your country and your liberties, ye, I feel assured, will stand energetically at my side. (Signed) " The Administrator of the Empire, "JOHN. (Countersigned) " The Imperial Ministers, "Frankfort, Sept. 20, 1848." ‘-• SCHMERLING, " PEUCKER, " DUCKWITZ, " AUSTRIA, HUNGARY, AND CROATIA. The Aix-la-Chapelle Gazette of the 24th, states that the Vienna Assembly did riot receive the depu tation of the Ilungary Diet in eorpu, but merely re ceived their address. His AIAZESTY has accepted the resignation of the Hungarian Ministry, because some of them had ministered their poilfeuilles illegally. He has again charged the former prime minister, Count BATTILY ANT, with the formation of a new Hungarian Cabinet• He at first declined this, but Kossuni and MAnA •ASS have promised to give him all the assistance in their power. KOSSUTH, in a speech which he made on the 17th, brought the Hungarian reprcmntatives not only to declare their determination of defending their coun try, but also to fortify Pesth and to erect barricades, in case JELLAcnxcu should enter the town. From Hungary we learn that the town of Comorn way burnt down on the 18th. On the 17th the head quarters of the Ban had advanced to Kiss Komarum, on the Plattensee. BELGIUM. CELEBRATION OF TIM NATIONAL IN, DEPENDENCE. BRUSSELS, SEPT. 24.—The 18th anniversary of the memorable days of September, 1830—the days which gave national independence to Belgium —commenced o❑ Saturday, the 23d. The morning was ushered in with great solemnities, his MAJESTY having resolved to celebrate it by one of the greatest military fetes ever seen in Brussels. After a grand requiem had been performed in the ;Collegiate Church of St. Michael and St. Gudule, the officers of the House hold, the Secretaries of Legation, M. QUINTET, the Minister of Finance, and all the superior function aries, the Communal Council, &c., repaired to the Palace, in front of which 'his MAJESTY was to present their colours to the deputations of the civic guards of the provinces. A splendid throne was erected in the square of the Palace, and after the regiments of the army and the civic guard had been ranged in military array, his MAJESTY, accompanied by the QUEEN, the Duke of BRABANT, the Count DE FLANDERS, and the Prince ss CHARLOTTE, and attended by a brilliant suite, took his seat on the throne. At this moment all the flags were lowered, the bands of the different regiments struck up the national anthem, the soldiers fired, the bells rang a. merry peal, and the air resounded with the acclama tions of the people. The Minister of the Interior then advanced and spoke as follows "Civic Guards of Belgium,—You are called to receive from the hands of the King the national colours—the emblem of liberty, order, and union. " Under these noble colours are sheltered our constitu tion and our independence. " The country confides it to your devotion, to your courage, and your honour." The legions destined to receive the colours were then called successively. The colonels or lieutenant colonels of the legions, accompanied by the standard bearers, mounted the platform, and as each passed before his MAJESTY, the Minister of the Interior placed the colours in the hand of his MAJESTY, who presented them to the chief of the legion, who then consigned them to the care of the standard bearer. At the giving of every flag by the KING the mi tary bands struck up, and the guns fired. After the distribution his MAJESTY descended from the platform, and, standing in the middle of the circle formed by the officers, addressed them as follows : " Gentlemen,—ln addressing a few words to you, .1 am fillfd with lively emotion, but at the same time with legitimate pride. _ '' This beautiful country, seat of the most civilised people, had long panted for an existence of its own— a national existence; but, alas, its wishes were often frus trated, and the welfare of the country was made subser vient to interests which were foreign to it. " At last, eighteen years ago, you succeeded in con quering this existence, so otters longed for by your selves. " Of this independent existence you have mado a noble and patriotic use. You have, up to this moment, passed gloriously through it, so gloriously indeed that several countries have adopted your political organisi tion as their model—that your name is everywhere ho noured and respected, and you have just reason to be proud of it. " Let us study to maintain this noble position. Let us continue as we have hitherto done. Thus shall we secure to ourselves renown in history, and a glorious future." His MAJESTY, attended by the Duke DE BRABANT and the Minister of War, and followed by a nu merous staff, then reviewed the troops and civic guards. After the review his MAJESTY and staff took their station in front of the palace, when the civic guards and troops defiled before him. His MAJESTY then joined the QUEEN in the balcony, and was again received, as he had been throughout the whole day, with the most enthusiastic acclamations. The ceremony was concluded at five o'clock.— Itioniteur Beige, Sept. 24. SWITZERLAND. In the sitting of the Federal Diet, at Berne, on the 21st, the dispatches of the Swiss consul at Milan, and of the Executive Government of Tessino, were read, announcing that on the 17th Marshal RA. DETZKY had expelled the Tessinese and their families from Milan and Lombardy. Some of them had already arrived on the frontier, and some thousands of others were expected. Whoever attempted to enter Lom bardy by Tessino was sent back. M. JELINDER made a report, in the name of the committee charged to exa mine what measures it would be advisable to take on the subject of the note addressed by Marshal RA DEIZKY to the Government of Tessino. The com mittee proposes -1. Te charge the Swiss consul at Vienna to lodge a complaint with the Austrian Government against the measures of Marshal RA DETZKY, and to demand their immediate withdrawal. 2. To give notice to this effect to the Austrian am bassador. 3. To send representatives into the canton of Tessino, to protect Swiss interests. 4. To place at the disposal of the representatives a brigade of two battalions. 6. In case of adjournment, t T o haeustehoeroinse. the Vorort to adopt ulterior measures. elusions were adopted, with the followin g ps. modifica tions :—(Article 4). The representative s demandsen authorised to dismiss or to increaso e the trooweretob; tothoe frontier of Tessino. (Articl e 5). f Geneva and Bale wished to se nd fo t t , 10e 0 the Voror is the Confederation are not atten ded 13. Diet, in the event t of immediately to convoke the its not being then .I'-^--'—r--"----.--_____ MARTLEBONS REGI ST RATION.—SatUr d d a ay n , wex Francis etbe c k Bayley, Esq., the bar rister a p pointed by the Lord Chief Justice to revise the list of voters fur the borough of Marylebone, made app lication to the vestry for the use remains tevo e r i s f of the Court-hous e, and issued his notices, signed by Mr. Peter Laurie , as returning offieer, stating th a t 1 - e will hold his court for the revision of the e list of at TthliesblLarAyTleßbLonoenCDoGur.t-BhEoulisri,No r cniic in:cT. Thursday from Lord G. Bentinck are not to be Monday in the cannibal s of bel ieved ourselves Congoon n or Mala• t o i t l o r w e n might till Wednesday. have t attrac nu m b er of spectators to the quay of b A a f r r . ic A a, t i r n ig th h e tf m ul id co st m o b t a . L el l ve ß s a fo rr r e m , n or e e ar th t a h n e t t l h ie e s m in c s rew of which, com posed r ioc of n n e v g e r s e s s e , l , fought theS e be t t l w an e d en ' half an hour, from what cause is not stated, like fero• c iou sw o i u l d b eahey sts Some. of them were ruled to the waist, and, t hg h they . employed neither sharp nor blunt in -o.ruments, bl oo d flowed from the blows which these furious men dealt out to each other with their fiats, and I the butting at each other with their heads.— Courrier du I Havre. ITALY. too , ' PIEDMON T. that A rumour was current in Paris yesterda3 CHARLES ALBERT had abdicated in favour of hi 5 60P ‘ It did nut obtain much credit. The National Savoisien has the following': fry Turin of the 19th inst.:— " The commandant of the Austrian troops at P 1 at tye has, for the last several days, levied contribution: t or !, i t town for the support of his troops ; the expense viii rr " he is said, amount to between 7,000 and 8,000 livre , town had furnished that sum for several days, ovi d ` l l for the organisation of the service of administraf ionf the supplies which it had promised to the Comm tom' but as that measure was delayed, and it was no OP til the town that it must continue to furnish that su on,L i a fresh order, a meeting of about 100 of the p , tin c men of the town took place to consult on what wr is tOn done. It was decided that the town was in no way - b 00 1 to provide for the support of the Austrian troops ; 5 1" 0 that the demands of the commandant were contrary t convention concluded with Bricherasio. In the or - 0 4! there was another meeting, at which it was rest)] I et reply to the commandant, who had signified his in G sot to employ force, if necessary, to obtain his den that the town had nothing to furnish to the Ala stri troops. After this notification, the commandant; LIP" contracts on his own account." V ENICL. The Concordia of Turin has the following - " Venice is now defended by a force of 20,00 C I 1131 : 1,000 pieces of cannon, and seven ships. The el (F e h r '', of this force exceeds 3,000,000 a month, and thi revenue of the city dues not exceed 200,000 livr 1:;• to this time the expense has been met by forcer 1 1 17,i but these resources will bo all exhausted by the ~en. : this month. A deputation has left Venice to to al„ sistance in Italy ; in return for money they pre pose h , give coupons of th , :, loan of 10,000,000 guaran tee d Lombardy and Venice." TUSCANY. Tranquillity prevails in Leghorn and Lucca, wh ich are still in the hands of the people. The Tils etlii patriots have announced their determination Ito Pl . vent the re-occupation of Massa and Carrara ,by 14" Duke of MODENA. INSURRECTION IN cEyLari• We have received the Overland Colombo 0. bier''' . of August 18th. The cause of this insurrection, which is so mewl!! vaguely given in the Colombo Observer, seems- to h . ,; originated in a petition of the natives for a reidacu° of various taxes: " 'We have just learnt (says a letter dated iCorn e i galle, 31st July) that Kornegalle was surrouni led a n d attacked by 4,000 Kandians. The party mf Rid resisted bravely—one had fallen and several W er° wounded in defending the Cutchery. We hope to hear to-morrow that the reinforcement had r tacl 3 e d ' e and that the rebels are dispersed. A party o f (aj t subaltern, two sergeants, and 30 rank and file, hat I kil t (5 r .m.) marched for Ambepusse. Immediateb the engagement an express was sent to Kandy fi r em inforcement, whom we expect this afternoon ; t" whole country is in a revolution, still the people ° P . pear to be determined for an attack." On the same day the fallowing proclamations Were issued : (From the Government Gazette E x traordinsu B4 l) .. " His Excellency the Right ‘‘M o Honourable the 11 8e tin g i hc nor is pleased to direct that the f o ll o wing letter iiem,„„., Commandant at Kandy be published for general In— mation. " By his Excellency's command, "J. EMERSON TENNENT, Colonial Seger 80 74 " Colonial Secretary's Office, Colombo, July 31-9 .184 " . "Kandy, 10, Pail 30th July, 048. "My Lord,--I have the honour . t , o acquaint i cgi fi t . l o lll the detachment of the Ceylon Rifles which I sent qtly hence yesterday to protect Kornegalle, reached feewif f just as the insurgents had entered, and were le lo i r o' fired on by the mob. The detachment returned L l O O - 10 and killed eight or nine, and took several prison er' l ' t t bet wounded are reported to be numerous. It 1 47 3a1 ,. 1 , the much mischief had been committed in deatoush", l ,b„ r i. interior of some of the public buildings. The eiru (,)". soners confined in the gaol were released by the se° " Mr. Sims accompanied the detachment, and ret gd ereu much service. Lieutenant Annesley, who commOna" reports the conduct of the men in the highest term 5. " I have the honour, Bsc-, " (Signed) T. A. DROUGHT, Lieut-Col, comma:l:lda; or " His Excellency the Viscount Torrington , G olerll and Commander-in-Chief." " In the name of her Majesty Victoria, of the Veitea Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Queen De fen der of the Faith. " PROCLAMATION. "By his Excellency the Right Honourable ViticoUll, Torrington, Knight Grand Cross of the Order 01 Ernestine of Saxony, Governor and Command er-in- Chief in and over the British Settlements and. Ter' ritories in the Island of Ceylon, with the depends;ncie s thereof. TOILRINOTON. "Whereas information has been received that e, hod!, of disaffected Kandyans, armed with guns, speartl, sou other offensive weapons, have entered the town. of Rev; negalle, and have attacked her Majesty's troops, an" that they have proclaimed some person unknown t u n to be King of Kandy, calling upon the people to °be/ the orders of the said pretended king. And wheres, g , it is necessary that the said rebellion should be prostPt,u suppressed, and that the most energetic meatal should be resorted to for the protection of her Majes t y loyal subjects, and the restoration of the public Pe a ?, Now, therefore by virtue of the powers and a utho% in us vested, wo do hereby proclaim and declare l et district of Kornegalle to be in a disturbed state, and that from and after the publication therein of this our Pr?.; clamation, martial law shall be in force within t he s al district until further orders. And we do hereby ohT, upon all her Majesty's loyal subjects to remain pesea! u i f i in their respective homes, and on no account to i h ° 4 . themselves to the said rebels; but to aid and assis t " - ;,i Majesty's armed force in the suppression of the 5 .1 , 01 0 rebellion. And we do hereby further proclaim and 1 "` known to all the well-disposed inhabitants of this W mod, that we shall at all times be anxious to give the w l/ en -- c onsideration to any representations made by theta '" f us in an orderly and quiet manner, for the redress any real or supposed grievance, and to make known 4" her Majesty the wishes and feelings of h er l o y a l aubjec in respect thereof. " Given at the queen's House at Colombo, this thirt y' fi rst day of July, one th ousan d e i g h t hundre d and forty" eight. " By his Excellency's command, " J. EMERSON TENNENT, " Colonial SenzetarY , " God save th e Q ueen 1" We extract the f o ll ow i ng l e tt ers f ro m the Cey lon papers : _ " KANDY, JULY 29.—A reort reached Kandy day that Matelle had been ta ken barmed mo b , an y an soon all the respectable inhabitants bad fled. This was re confirmed by the arrival of Waring, who said theY we " sacking the town when'he left. About ten o'clock . 1. 0 5 night 100 of the 15th Regiment and 100 of the Rifle s marched out, and were to reach Motelle this morning daybreak, under the command of Lillie. A report brought in this morning that the rebels bad made nirc. °l and got between the troops and Kandy, and were COml.ng in sharp; all Kandy was of course in the greatestpossin.i: excitement. All who had horses were ordered off 1 , yester; different directions to gain intelligence, and another plug of about thirty have been armed and marched up to t Cutchery. Report has it that they have burnt do w n Leech's Store at Ballecadua, and that Waring s u, st and the Matelle Rest House have been gutted, also Oa': they have visited most of the estates in that neighbour- hoed. " T he Superintendent from Hunnasgiria (Duncan) has been in this morning. He says a large party went there last night, and after remaining some hours to cook, de parted without doing 2ny damage or offering violence to any one. " FIVE P. IL—Advice from Lillie is just received, dated Matelle, noon. They have dispersed the rebels, and taken forty prisoners, besides a great quantity of arms. Matelle appears to have been sacked. 'R e port says that some Woman named Baker has been carried off by the Kandians. S AL.-4 have just learnt that an " FOUR, e n from the seat of war. The Ida telle the latest intelligeneto have fled in all directions. The goes off hour, so I scribble you a line with express insur g ents apper 15th are returning, leaving the Rifles in possession of . the place. Th e y said the latter made sad hav oc am ongst the people, and went at them like tigers. Their new King h a d a narrow escape. He had made the old War" n•ape le Store his head quarters, and just got out of it as our troops entered. Ile has fled in the direction 0 ' Upper Dombera. Matters in Koznegalle were quiet last night, and the detachment of rifles would get out there early this more' ing. Papers are being distributed to-day, proclaiming the Kandian Province under martial law. " Another account states that the people about Kerne' galle have all risen and have taken possession of the town. About thirty Rifles under Lieutenant Henderson were sent down yesterday to try what they could do. All the planters were to be sworn in as special con' stables. It is said a Lumber of them, together with some European soldiers, are to be ordered to Korneylle. Just heard that some shots wore fired in the Dombere Valley. All on the Ifewahette side quiet as yet. , " Numbers of armed n a ti ves are sa id t o h ave co llects " about five miles from Kaigalle. " We understand that a meeting of the low country Cinealese was to have taken place in the neighbourhoo d of Wcllicato gaol this morning, for the purpose or under the pretence of presenting another petition to the Queer', The threatened demonstration, however, was not made. --Examiner Extra, July 31. The royal squadron, under the command of Capt: Lord Adolphus Fitzelarenee, G.C.H., will leave Aber deen on the 25th inst. (yesterday), on the return of her Majesty from Scotland, and the royal yacht is expected to arrive at Cowes, where the squadron will proceed di rect on Thursday, the 28th inst. DEATH FROM A FALL.—On Sunday evening, about eight ,o'clock, while a girl about seventeen years of age, named Margaret Sutherland, a servant at Causs wayside, was with some companions crossing Arthur Seat upon the northern slope, she incautiously ventured in the dark too near a precipice, and takipg a false step, fell over the rocks, 40 or 40 Peer, by which she was so severely injured that she died subsequently in the Royal Infirmary.--Edinburgh Post. - -r f