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lame ti'me 'declares that if your Excellency should, at any other trme, in your official communication on point , iof nserttaVional rights, go beyond the bt,unds of you mission, and interfere in the particular and privat affairs of the Spanish Government, i shall consider my self under the paintul necessity of returning your dispatcb.es without further remark. (Signed) " DUKE OF SOTOMAYOR." CAPTAIN MARRYAT'S NOVELS IN THE STANDARD NOVELS and RO -MANCES. Each complete in One Vol., with Illustrations, neatly loOlinsl PETER 1. PETER SIMPLE. 2. JACOB FAITHFUL. 3. JAPHET in SEARCH of a FATHER. 4. RING'S OWN. 2. Mr. MIDSHIPMAN EASY. R. NEWTON FORSTER. 7. The PACHA of MANY TALES. a. The POACHER. 9. The PHANTOM SHIP. 10. The DOG FIEND. Richard Bentley, New Burlington -street. To be had of all Booksellers. FENI3fORE COOPER'S NOVELS IN THE STANDARD NOVELS and RO MANCES. Each complete In One Volume, with Illustrations, AgatlY board. Price 5c 1. The PILOT. 2. The SPY. 3. LAST of the MOHICANS. 4. The PIONEERS 1. The PRAIRIE 6. LIONEL LINCOLN. 7. The BORDERERS. 11. The WATER WITCH. 9. The BRAVO. 10. RED ROVER. 111. The HEADSMAN. 12. HEIDENMAUER. 13. PRECAUTION. 14. lIOMF:WARD BO ND. 13. PATHFINDER. 16. DRERSLAYER. 17. Tie TWO ADMIRALS. I*. JA.OK. O'LANTERN. Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street. To be had of all Booksellers. HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. First appearance of Wile. Cerite. The Nobility Gentry, Subscribers to the Opera, and the pub lic are respectfully Infonntd that a Grand EXTRA EIGHT will lake place TO-MORROW EVENING, April 27, will be performed, Denizittti'sOpera, entitled LUCRIZIA BORGITA. Lacriezia, Mdlle. Soda Mdlle. Schwartz ; Gen tian', 'Signor Gardoni ; Gabetta, Signor Soitche; and Alfonso, Signor Lablar..22e. After which the admired Ballet Divertissement, entitled IJ VIVA—NDIERE. To be followed by Selections from Verdi's Opera of NMO. Abigail. Male. Abbadia ; Fenena, 'Mlle. Vera ; Ninus, Signor Coletti ; Idaspe.. Signor Cuzzani ; and Oratesphe, Signor Beletti. To conclude ith the highly successful New and Original GRAND BALLET, In F our Tableaux, by M. Paul Taglionl, entitled FIORITA, et la Refine des Elfrides, Principal parts by Mdße. Caroline Rosati, !tellies. Esther Ansundon, Tileveitot, Julienne, Lamoureux, Jenny, M. Louis Dor, M. Di Mattia, MM. Venafra, Gourlet, and Mdlle. Marie Taglioni. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Under the Management of Mr. B. Webster. sole Lessee. THIS EVENING Will be presented a new comic Drama, called OLD HONESTY. Michael Bradshaw, Mr. Webster; Joseph Bradshaw, Mr. H. Van denhorr ; Sir Perkins Besborougb, Mr. Howe ; Mr. Septimus Hook, Mr * Tilbury ; Toby Perch, Mr. Keeley ; Dame Bradshaw, Mrs. Glover; Mary, Miss Reynolds. Alter which, LOLA MONTES. To conclude with a Grand Romantic Extravaganza, founded on Morass Walpole's mysterious production. and called THE CASTLE OF O'FRANTO. Manfred, Mr. Keeley ; the Marquis Vincensa, Mr. J. Bland ; Theodore, Miss P. Horton ; Odonto, Mr. Caulfield ; Hip. petit*. Sirs, W. cufford ; Isabella, Miss Reynolds ; Matilda, Mrs. Caulfield. Stain Manager, Mr. Farren; ♦cting Manager, Mr. F. Web:ter. J. T. Archer, Rox-book keeper. Boxes. se . ; Ptt , 3a. ; Gallery, 2s. ; Upper Gallery, Is. D•oory open at Walt-past Six, Performance to commence at Seven. I HEATHE ROYAL, ADELPHI. Under the direction o: Madame celeste THIS EVENING Will be performed a new and original Drawls, called HARVEST NOME. Principal eharactors by Messrs. H. Hughes, Lambert, 'right, P. Bedford, 0. Smith, Madame Celeste, Miss Woolgar, Mrs. Frank Matthews, Miss Turner, &c. Atter which, a new Piece, entitled THE FOUNTAIN OF ZEA or, the Child of Air. To conclude with THE COMRADES ; an Anecdote of the Span ish War. - Principal characters by Messrs. 4;ullenford, Boyce, Mull yard. Patti Legrand, C. J. Smith, Bytom, Miss E. Harding, &c. itoxies, 45.; Yit, 2s. , It. siren at Hatt-past Six, Pertimnance t.) commence at Seven BOY AL LYCEUM THEATRE. Under the Management of Madame Vestris. sole Lessee, Mr. Charles Mathews. THIS EVEN[NfI, Will be performed a Comic Drama, called A ROUGH DIAMOND. Characters by Messrs. Selby, Diddear, Bellingham, 13Ra:stone; Mrs. Leigh Marray, and Mrs. Fitzwilliam. After which, an entire ly new and original Classical Extravaganza, Astitlod THESEUS and ARIADNb: • or, the Starr age of Bachus. Principal characters by Messrs. C. Mathews, El. Hall, S. Smith, F Cook*, 31154 Eitzwilliam, Miss Jane Coleman, Miss Marshall, and Madams Vestris. To conclude with a new comic Drama, entitled NOT A BAD JUDGE. Characters by Messrs R. Rnxby, Diddear, Parselle, Har ley, Meadows, Belllngham, Charles Mathews ; Miss Jane Coleman, And Miss Lee. . s, ss. ; Upper Boxes, 45.; Pit, 2s. ; Gallery, Is. No calf-price: to any part or the house. The New Box-office, No. 2, Wellington-street, Is open to the Public every day, trom Ten till Six. "FRENCH PLAYS.—ST. JAMES'S THEATRE. Lessee, Mr. John Mitchell, 33. OA Bond-street. Last Appearance hut Two of M. Lafont. Mons. Lafont begs resp ec tf u lly to announce t h a t his benefit and las tnight but two of his engagement will take place at the re-open ing of the Theatre THIS EVENING, April 26, on which occa. gen will be revived (for that night only) the celebrated play of LE CHEVALIER DE ST. GEORGES. Le ~ .:hevalier, M. Lafont ; Le Barnes, M. Montaland; Mdlle. De Presle, Mdlle. Paul Ernest.—ln addition tO which will be produced also (tor that night only) the po pular vaudeville of JEAN ; ou. Le Manvais '6ujet. Jean, M. Lafont. With other Entertainments. itoges, As. ; 3s. 6d.; Amphitheatre, 3s. ; Gallery. 2s Boxesand Stalls may be obtain , d at Mr. Mitchell's Royal Library, 33. Old Bond-street. ST. JAMES'S TUE.& RE. ROBEt:T 1101 DIN. Mr. MITCHELL begs to annoance that the celebrated ROBERT HOUDI' (ot the Pa!ais Rove], Paris,) is engtv:ed to present a li mited number of his extraordinary SOIREES FANTASTIQUES at the At. James's Theatre, which will he commenced on TUESDAY EVENING, May 2, and continued every Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday Evenings. Full particulars will be thily announced. BOXJBM and stalls, may be had at Mr. MITC ELL'S Royal Li brary. 33, Old Bond-street. PRINCESS'S THEATRE. Mr. J. M. Maddox, sole Lessee and Manager, Duchess-street, Portland-place. TIIIS EVENING. Will be presented Le Brun's comic Opera, entitled THE NIGHT INGALE. To be folio red by the new Interlude called MAMMON and GAMMON. After which, a new Comic Piece, entitled THE SULTANA. Selyrnan, Mr. Ryder ; Osmyn, Mr. Compton ; Yuseph, Mr. Henry ; litozalana, Madame Anna Thillon; Elmira, Miss Villars ; Isrselia, Miss Hodson. To conclude with a Grand Ballet, entitled ESMERALDA ; or, the Hunchback of Notre Dame. Esmeralda. Ntdlle: Atli , 1. Dress Circle. 55.: Boxes, 4s. ; Pit, 2s. ; Gallery, Is. LOYAL SURREY THEATRE. Under the direction of Mr. Kerschner. 'Matchless Performances - Unrivalled Company—and the only Pantomime in London. THIS EVENING. Will be performed a Drama, entitled THE BOHEMIANS. Cha racters by Messrs. N. T. Hicks, E. F. Saville, R. Homier, Dale, J. Herbert. H. Lewis, E. Jones, Mrs. R. Homier, and Miss E. Terry. After which, by permission, " LADIRS, BEWARE." To conclude with a Grand Fairy Comic Pantomime, entitled CIN DERELLA. AND THE FAIRY QUEEN ; or. /far equip ant the Little Glass Slipper. Coln:: bine, Mdlle. Theodore ; Harlequin, Mr. Haskell ; Pantaloon, Mr. Morelli ; and Clown. Mr. T Barry. Manager and Treasurer, Mr. B. S. Fairhrother. ASTLEY' , ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE. Proprietor, tier. W. It4tty. Extraordinary attrx•tion for the Easter llolfdays. First appearance these Five Years of the celobratkil Mr. Van Am burgh and his unequalled codectlon of trained animals, amongst which w4l be found the greatest novelty ever seen, a Black Tiger, the first ever known to mingle with other animals, and has hitherto b..* conoldered untamable. s EVE:;, Will he present e d a gra Tut nd romantic :s C pectacle, writtat by Boyle - B ar nard , Esq., express:y to introduce Mr. Van Amburgh in his astounding performanc e , founded upon a passage in Eugene ,ue , s celebrated novel of " "rhe Wandering Jew," and will be produc n un der the title of 110 ROK,TB,E, BEANT TAMER. Armand llugard, Mr. Van Amburgh. The Spectacle will be succeeded isy an incomparable routine of Mr. BattYN Scenes of the Arena, in which Signor Chiarini oral Mdlle. Marietta Orsinago, from Italy, will have the honour or appearing. The entertainments will , concaude with a favourite Farce. During the recess the rheatre has been entirely re -decorated. Box-office open from Eleven till Four. Stage Manager, Mr. W. West. TO CORRESPONDENTS. No communication can be attended to unless authenti. cated by the name and address of the writer. Rejected communications cannot be returned, THE WEATHER. —Sun OFFICE. APRIL 26. THISRMOMETER. Lowest, 34; HighPst, 44 Noon, 47 BAROMETER, 29.93.--WIND N .N.W.; fine. HIGH WATER AT LONDON MUDGE THIS DAY. 7 Mewing .. 43 min. after 6 ! Evening - 8 min. atter __.___-..—...................m.k• • 4 ;-: , :_te . : 1. fr n i r . --ANN - , i . R.Roi • r b r ienn I LONDON, WEDNk;SDAY, APRIL 26. 1848. Our representative s , both accredited and unaccre dited, are severally placed in rather embarrassing predicaments n r elati on to some of the principal Governments of the European Continent. There is Lord Noammisr, for example, ever on th e a l er t, i n the French capital, fo r some unexpected ofan cstastrophe anarchical th among the explosive mat er i a l s de mocracy—looking perpetually t left, north, east, west, and south, with that right, to th e lightni ng of ra pidity which is dictated by the uncertaintyi events—always vigilant, always curious alway s ag itated by a thousand conjectures, if onlyn obedi ence to the principle of self - preservation, Ther e 's Lord Aftwro retreatin g fro m the penin sular enthusiasm of the Italians, making his inofficial cone at Rome, and returning to his par tially vacated office as Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal. There is Lord HOWARD DE, WALDEN and SIAIORD tarrying- as Envoy Plenipotentiary to th, EWSPAPElicourt of LEOPOLD, on the frontiers of a land still ----# - 'hot from the eruptive flames of Revolution. There : kr - - - -.- - i, is the Earl of WEST3i OBEL AND at Berlin, v. spectator :(i_zi..... :-,;‘,.... of the massacres of the Burghers, and of the march ' . 1 .: , ,-..,., . . ' .."': 112 g of auxiliary corps to the lawless invasion of sct.leswig. Sir EDWARD LTONs watches th denouement of tte stock-jobbing' conspiracy 1 s Tilt SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDA Y which recently polluted the city of the acropolis with its plots, under the auspices of the lect•ased COLETTI. At Copenhagen the Right Hon. H. W. W. WYNN observes, with an interest that can scarcely be appreciated in the soporific and lulling regions of Belgravia, the fortunes attendant upon the Danish standard on the banks of the Eider, and under the wails of Friederichstadt. From the revo lutionary movement of Lombardy, the irritable de mands of Bohemia, the imperative petitions from Gallicia, and the annihilation of the power exercised for half a century over the Austrian councils by the Lord of Johannisburg, the Em peror FERDINAND has been compelled to adopt a policy such as three months ago could never have suggested itself to the sanguine imagination of Viscount PONSONBY. Even among the pageantries of Saint P,tersburgh Lord BLOOMFIELD must recog nise the precarious posture of affairs along the con tines of Lithuania and in the interior of Russian Poland. At Lisbon Sir HAMILTON SEYMOUR is com pelled to witness the insane and retrogressive system eat orced by the Ministerial advisers of the SOVEREIGN. And at Madrid the Right Honourable HENRY BuLWER has received a polite intimation that his recal by Lord PALMERSTON will be regarded as a pleasant frag ment of intelligence by the members of the Narvaes Administration. Everywhere is doubt, trepidation, or annoyance to our Ambassadors and Plenipoten tiaries. Everywhere are the representatives of her Britannic MAJESTY tormented, worried, importuned, threatened, badgered, or regarded with suspicions. And through the whole of this Lord PALMERSTON is expected to preserve an equable temperament. Teazed - o distraction himself in the House of Commons, one while by the petulant personalities of Mr. URQUHART, it another by the monstrous impeachments of Mr Cnisnout ANSTEY, the Chief Secretary for Foreign Affairs is expected to preserve the equanimity of his disposition, despite all the annoyances pouring into nis official portfolio through the medium of his con- tinental dispatches. Of all the shades and diversities of insolence evinced by certain of the Cabinets of Europe towards the re sid.-nt Ambassadors from Great Britain, the conduct NARVAEZ to her Britannic MAJESTY'S representa• tive at Madrid is the most insolent and the most un- justifiable. It is a becoming sequel to that ill tempered act of the Duke of VALENCIA—the banish ment of MONTPENSIER to Seville, possibly with a view to the assuagement of his thirst for intrigue by po tations of inimitable orangeade. If a rumour -mianating from the most authentic sources can be , :redited, Mr. BULWEIL has acquired the antipathy of the present Ministry of Queen IsAnaLLA, and a direct demand for his recal is said to have been for warded by that Ministry to the Foreign-office in Downing-street. The reason for this sudden dislike to a man who has hitherto been regarded with deferential respect, if not with positive cordiality will not be for one instant incomprehensible to hose who have perused the communication addressed to Mr. BULWE& on the 10th inst. by the Duke OK SorostAvos. That communication is a very restive, and, in truth, an absolutely impertinent re joinder to one penned on the 7th instant by the Right Hon. HENRY LITTON BULWER, inclosing an official ;etter received by that Ambassador from Viscount PALMERSTON. Lord PALMERSTON'S letter, it must not be forgotten, was dated March 16th, and conveyed a salutary recommendation to the Spanish Govern ment in reierence to the adoption of .‘ a more legal ind constitutional system" than the one hitherto ..dopted by NAsivA az and his colleagues. The communication in which this letter was trans tnitted to the Duke DE SOTOMAYOR by his Excellency the British Ambassador was couched in language befitting the representatives of that Sove reignty which had been principally instrumental in raising ISABELLA 11. to the throne; and Mr. BULWER specified as much when he reminded the Spanish Minister for Foreign Affairs, that " what especially distinguished the cause of Queen ISABELLA from that of her Royal competitor was the promise of constitu tional liberty inscribed upon the banners of her Ca. tholic MASESTY." In reply the Duke DE SOTO MAroa perversely and indeed insolently inquired what would be the response of Lord PALMERSTON supposing the Spanish Government interfered in reference to the administration of the British Cabinet, to the fri4htful condition of Ireland, or to the unfortunate people of Asia ? " What," continued the irritated diplomatist, " what, in fine, would he do if we were to remind him that the late events on the Continent vave a salutary lesson to all Governments without excepting Great Britain, and that consequently the administration of the State should be given up to the illustrious PEEL, to the skilful man, who, after having coneiliated the general opinion of his country, has known how to merit the sympathies and the esteem of all the Governments of Europe ?" As if the Constitution of England had been established through the assistance of Spanish valour and Spanish negotia tion, as if in any respect whatever Spain was authorised to catechise the Statesmen of Great Britain ! In presuming to discern an analogy between his imaginary proposition and the recommendation of Lord PALZERSTON, the Duke DE SOTOMATCE. misrepresents entirely the character of that communication. Instead of being a dictatorial interposition in the internal government of Spain, it was a friendly whisper of advice uttered in a period of terrible and mom .ntous catastrophes. Let NARVAEZ beware ! or, so soon as Mr. BULWER shall have dt-parted homewards, the Voice of CASSANDRA !nay Lecome audible in the streets of Madrid. The peaceable and loyal inhabitants of Dublin, and indeed, of by far the greatest portion of Ireland, have 'ieen kept in constant anxiety and alarm in conse quence of the feverish and excited state of the public mind, and the possibility of some speedy collision be tween the authorities and those who openly profess -heir di-affection. and avow their readiness to have recourse to armed resistance upon any the slightest provocation, or rather what they may be pleased to consider as such. The Government have adopted every possible precaution, and have made the most judicious arrangements for the maintenance of public order and tranquillity. There is no undue inter• ference with the people by which an outbreak might possibly be occasioned. They manifest a perfect consciousness of their strength, and suffer events to pass apparently without notice that, under other circumstances, would immediately arouse them into ti l l e ,ol, : w) i n v w i sy t eo y al l - taibcaelw T y, ,a h fir e ael : ~,,p,itfrh,u,tefdhteethnh,reitonati slightestin, throne d eorf s t s oh l m iol r s a e oe n l f a p n e w u d tn h t c: ) 11r a u g s i a c r e e ci r; ) , u u t. : l a a trsr l s t u t y o a pf t i t e n ti popular meetings for which a le itimate pretext can b to e put forward, adopt suc h g a course strictly withi n th e li m i ts of constitutional. law, he renders the m ore respected from his own He w keep rigid h i which s adherence thereto. There are some pr " however, so manifestly ill ega l , so resortedclearlydg inai to with the intention of organising the p t 4 p l e for civil war, and so much calculated to b r i ng the idle masses l I into hostile collision with the military or police, and to create terror in the minds of the well•dis posed, that they could not possibly be suffered to prevail without the Executive being thereby subjected to the charge of gross and culpable negligence ; we allude more particularly to the recent practice of numerous bodies of people assem bling together for the purpose of being trained and drilled to the use of arms, and of practising military movements and evolutions. Such conduct is in ex press opposition to the provisions of an Act passed near ly thirty years sin ce, and which, although seldom of the moral force enforced, owing to the adoption the entire of his triumpha nt career , still remains on principle by the late L eader of the Irish nation during Hence forward these enactments will be strictl y enforced, the statute-book in full force and efficiency. and all persons violating the law, by drilling or in structing others in military tactics without the sanc tion of the magistrates, will be subjected to trans portation for a term of seven years; while those who receive their instructions Ai I be liable to be fined andilnpris ont d therefor. me oppor tunely ;vhich p t a r r : ot t ui n . i s l h g t a t t c i :. o t l i i g h o t t - , the o f e th n e ac s t e n v ie e i r i e ts p t e h n u s s iti e s t 0 soldiers, have m ex o p s o t s b e e d ne fl cia t i hu eff s e p ct la s y . playing 7 : had nlay the i) of the seditious triumvir, h ts skid that the trade in wh at tne most truculent been pleased to term : b t a h t e ed Qt: l p ' c ' n iso o n f s ‘ w W i t i l a l:;: e s' d l .l a . already materially ! 1 e4k3eudiug ater‘ but metwp i y in oitscover the folly of I taWsitiov! of those useless articles, when they can no longer with impunity take pert in grand spectacles, and attract the attention and excite the envy of their gaping as sociates by their proficiency in military tactics and evolutions. The consignment of the officers and ring. leaders to the several gaols and houses of correction throughout the country will moderate the ardour cf the enthusiastic recruits, and induce them to have recourse to other pastimes, leading to less unpleasant results. Meanwhile the leader par excellence, Mr. JOHN MITCHELL, appears resolved that the gagging Act shall have no effect upon his conduct, and if the tur bulent passions of the people should be appeased, it will not be owing to any failure on his part of the usual amount of stimulating writing and of "open and advised speaking." On Monday, when, as the editor of a public journal, he must have been well aware that the Bill for the secu rity of the Crown and Government had received the Royal assent on the preceding Saturday, and was, consequently, at that time part and parcel of the law of the land, Mr. Alitcusu, presided at a meeting held at the Princess's Theatre, Abbey-street, when he an nounced that the English Chartists and the Irish people " had one common enemy to destroy—the Legislature of England." And he further proposed that the former " should undertake to make Eng land ungovernable by any English Government, Whig or Tory, which withheld from them their full rights, while the Irishmen would engage to make Ireland ungovernable by any Mini stry, good, bad, or indifferent." This is certainly tolerably plain and unequivocal. To do justice, however, to the " War Editor," he is by no means mealy-mouthed on such occasions; and if sufficient grounds for a prosecution, under the new statute, were required by the law officers of the Crown, they would nut long be withheld. No religious enthusiast, in fact, ever longed for a martyr's crown more fer vently than Mr. MITCHELL pines for a prosecution for something more than a misdemeanour, and it would be hard to disappoint so earnest a demand. If, however, the political horizon is cloudy with so many portentous and threatening indications, the prospect is not altogether dark ; there are some blue spots in the heavens that warrant favourable expecta tions that the tempest and storm may pass away without expending their fury on Irish ground. Ad dresses of confidence in the Government, and expres • sive of the determination of the parties from whom they have emanated to support the con stituted authorities in their efforts to protect the lives, the liberties, and the fortunes of all classes, are flowing in from every quarter of the country. A knowledge of the well-disposed and loyal inhabitants is thus obtained, and if the Go vernment should see a necessity for calling on Irish men to come forward and enrol themselves for the maintenance of the peace of the country, we are sa tisfied that they would manifest similar alacrity to that which recently reflected so much credit on all classes of society in the British metropolis. The French elections are passing over with un expected tranquillity. Universal as is the interest concentrated upon them, and momentous as will be the result to which they must inevitably lead, their progress is only marked by an unusual quietude and a profound calm. And it is but right it should be so. It is but right that the interest elicited by these elections should be of too grave and anxious a character to be manifested by any outward demonstration, even among a people so demonstrative as the French; and it is more especially well that an affair of such vital importance to the whole nation should not be marred by any, even temporary or trivial, impede. The first general election of Republican France is for many reasons a subject of deep interest interesting from the present circumstances which occasion it, and in teresting from the future consequences which may fellow it ; interesting to those who are actors in the scene, and interesting to the spec tators observing it. A general election is at all times worthy of attention and productive of serious thought, that is to those who have time to consider its abstract importance. Generally speaking, when an election takes place in this country, for example, public atten tion is too much occupied with speculating as to who will get in and who will be rejected to look upon the affair in any more extended light. But removed from the immediate scene of action, as we are now in contemplating the French, the grandeur of the spec tacle as a whole, its sublimity as an idea, becomes apparent to us. We recognise the full merits of that triumph of civilization—a representative con stitution. We witness the marvellous combination of popular liberty and public order. We see all the advan tages of the veriest democracy enjoyed without their degenerating into the evil consequences of anarchy. We find a people, at the same time, exer cising authority and yielding obedience—exercising their rightful prerogatives as individual men, or se lecting their law-makers, and yielding ready obe dience, as loyal citizens, to the Legislature thus chosen by themselves and their countrymen. By this proceeding—and by this alone—the power of the people is at once proclaimed and preserved. By those unpretending and, apparently, unimportant en tries at the polling-booths, a minority of the people are invested by the rest with that power which is the birthright of all the members of a free nation, and hence the acts of that chosen minority become the acts of the whole people, whose representa tives they are. No form of government could by possibility be devised more liberal to each, and more just to all, than is a representative constitution when equitably organized. Errors lino faults, inseparable from all human institutions, toe often detract from the perfect character of this forte of government, for the form of government itself is n perfect one. Errors and faults have crept into our own 'node of organizing a representative Legislature —errors and faults which we are solicitous of having avoided and amended for the future ; but notwith standing their existence the people of this country are fully impressed with the inestimable advantages of the Constitution which they enjoy, and consequently they experience no common interest in the now happily accelerated progress of other nations towards a parti cipation of those advantages. All the people of Europe will, ere long, be ruled by their own repre sentatives. France has for a considerable period possessed a representative legislature, but the im portance of such a Legislature will just now be manifested in an especial manner. Free from the Control of a Sovereign, and free from the corrupting influences of a regal Ministry, the French Parlia ment will be now invested with peculiar power, and through recent events become the observed of Europe and the warning lesson, or encouraging example, of surrounding nations. The representatives will be pos sessed ot no ordinary responsibility. Their position will be a most onerous and important one. No selfish de sires, no vain ambition, no miserable pride, should, more especially in the present instance, stimu late any citizen to solicit the suffrages of his countrymen. No interested motives, no personal friendship, no promised reward, should induce any elector to give a vote for his represents tive—a representative who will have to represent not his constituents alone, but France and Republicanism. Let ushope that a due sense of their awful responsibility now influences the people of France whether electors or elected. In a few days the result of their delibe rations will be made known by the publication of the names of the members of the new Parliament ; and, ere long, the consequences of the election must be manifested by the decisions and reeelutions of the Chamber If—though happily such a misfortune is hardly probable—if the present elections be influenced by such a spirit as LEDILU Rommes, the result will be speedy and inevitable— trouble for France and destruction to Republicanism. But such is not likely to be the issue of the trial. It is more than probable that the new Assembly will be comprised of men of politics and characters as various as their occupations, of which, judging from the lists of the candidates, they are likely to present an extra ordinary variety. No doubt the new Chamber will be occasioeally agitated by sonic Qtttbursts on the part of the violent and ultra-Republicens, and also at intervals led away by the specious reasoning of some secret partizan of the old regime. Perhaps there may be in the list of new representatives some men of genius and ability, hitherto unknown, who themselves conspicuous in make l e s e r t of n the e country. o unimportant unty . All ue th n i c s e , deflate, t e t h ' : Pa efnueddt perhaps h d however, is doubtful. But ono thing is, happily, inevitable. LAMARTINE cannot fail to exert over the members s , f the new Chamber the same no:s erful and salutary influence which he has already exorcised with such effect, not only over Paris and France, but over all Europe. We anticipate the fervour of his poetic imaginings and impressive oratory stirring up the patriotism, and calling forth the latent enthusiasm of his hearers to the fulfilment of some of those high aspirations which his genius has long since prefigured. we foresee how h app il y th at gent l e an d which inv es t s w i t h ao muc h sp l en d our c h Oo i r s n'fia b dg e i a an u ign ti s Z i l ri and attractive language, may serve to still the rising storms of ambition, and to create the institutions of Republicanism out of the chaos of Anarchy. Conspicuous in the future of the new French Parliament, LAIIMITINE stanas before us somewhat like CANNING as he appeared on that memorable occasion when he electrified the House of Commons by this audacious and magnifi cent declaration—" I calla new world into existence to redress the balance of the old !" Even so may LAMARTINS silence the murmurs of the envious and refractory. He, too, has called a new world into ex istence—the world of peace, and charity, and con cord—where confidence is the link which unites peoples and governments—where sympathies are the treaties which unite once hostile nations; he, too, has called a new world into existence to redress the balance of the old world, in which very different feelings predominated. He, or rather let us say, the better feelings of this age, of which his high intellect and Christian heart are but the type and the fitting re presentative, has summoned into existence this new be realised—t o t h at f uture we l oo k xious ni b a u y t hopeful anti c i pa ti on . world. The fu ture alon e can show how much of its fair with promiseanxious n Madrid t is said pa pers of the 20th h ave arr i ve d. I that a junction had taken place in Cata lonia between the Carlists and the Republicans. The discount on Bank Notes has risen 12 per cent. The 20th being Holy Thursday, the Balsa was closed. THE FRENCH REPUBLIC. PROCEEDINGS AT PARIS. We have received the Paris papers of yesterday. Great complaints are made of the fraudulentcon duct of LEDRU ROLLIN, LOUIS BLANC, and ALBERT, in attempting to falsify the elections by issuing duplicate voting tickets, by prolonging the time fur registration, and by various other methods. The proclamation of LEDRU ROLLIN for keeping open the registration lists until Monday night, was issued without the knowledge of his colleagues, and has not been published in the Illoniteur. With respect to the doings of the LOUIS BLANC party, we find the following in the Commerce : " Very grave facts, said to have occurred on Saturday, nave been communicated to us. Emissaries of the Luxembourg, to the number of more than three hun dred, have, it is said, been sent to the banlieue, with the mission of widely distributing the list of the Commission des Travailleurs. It is added, that the horses of the Garde Republicaine were placed at the disposal of these emissaries We are also assured that electors' cards nave been delivered to a great number of tureige work men resident at Paris, and that these workmen have been strongly solicited to vote for the candidates of the Luxembourg. We hope that an investigation will be made into these facts. Fraud must not be allowed to .lip into our republican electiotts, and falsify the ex pression of the will of the country. We find the following on the same subject in the Putrie r— " It is known that a proclamation of the delegates of the Luxembourg, stuck up on the walls of Paris, invited workmen to go to-day at six in the morning to the Champs de Mars in order to agree on the unity of their votes. In aunouncing this fact, we did not hesitate to condemn the proceeding as having all the character of in abuse of influence, and we added that the working ,copulation would refuse to obey this electoral mot d'ordre We were right in reckoning on its good sense -aid intelligence. We are as,ured that a very small dumber of workmen responded this morning to the appeal from the Luxembourg. They dispersed without coming to any decision, on the wise observations of some citizens, who made them comprehend the imprudence of their conduct." M. CAUSIDIERE, the Prefect of Police, has issued a notice declaring that it having been represented to him that very grave abuses had taken place in some of the Mairies, in the mode of distributing the voting cards to the electors, several electors obtaining two or more authorisations ; and, moreover, it having been asserted that certain persons were busied in buying up votes, he thinks it necessary to publish the enactment of Art. 113 of the Penal Code relating to this subject. It is there clearly affirmed, that "who everotfo their givecu es of towards entering shall sell or purchase a vote shall be interdicted from exercising all civic rights for a space of time not more than ten years, and not less than five ; and in addition, both the buyer and seller shall be con demned to pay a fine double the sum received or promised. It would appear from the following paragraph that it may be some time before the result of any of the elections can be known. The Comnzune de Paris says— . It is generally supposed that the definitive result of the ballot will be known in two or three days. This is an error. The army must vote, and in virtue of articles 37 and 38 of the instructions of the Bth of March, the result of the votes of the different corps will be comprised ;n the general list of votes of each department. It is Therefore necessary that the proces verbaux of each corps ~, known before the representatives can be known." Th e schism existing among the members of the 2rovisional Government is now openly avowed. LEDRU ROLLIN anal the Communists have omitted the names of their moderate colleagues fr om their elec toral lists. Those colleagues, however, have had the .4.00 d sense not to follow such a bad example. Tne National thus alludes to the split : ~ W e h a ve beloved it god and wise policy to maintain the principal or unity in the Government to the period .1 . the meeting of the constituent assembly. It seemed to us power. Faithful o }:a t i h th oe n f e u ,i l .hn t ,t o rsa; t s h ct i oe s mui s mi e ,f n ite t t i ,,x m ec, e lt n wl s t ii ot a hn .e .. necessary that the men who took pos,ession of cove reignty on the 24th of February should arrive altogether before the new chamber, to render an account of the all the Members of the Pro cklititrbienidnegpdeensdier;: exercise continue Pro visional Government. without exception, is complete ; `out our personal sympathies are not equal towards all — we declare that distinctly. Still, on behalf of the repub lican cause, we have imposed silence on our private sen timents, desirous as we are to secure, before everythinn by the union of all democratic forces, the consolidation of the Republic. A day will come on which, resuming our full liberty, we can discuss not persons, who interest us little, but acts. That day cannot be far distant ; but we are certain that public opinion will thank us tor ad journing to the meeting of the assembly a discussion which at present would only embarrass the march of the Government, and by consequence aid the enemies of the Republic, w ho are always alive, always ready to profit by ,ur faults. It is impossible for moderation and patience not to prevail in the ead." M. LEDRU RoLLIts is pursuing his career of cot . . ruptiun and despotism with a recklessness that puts to shame the comparatively puny attempts of M. DU CHATEL and the late Government. The Presse says —" A decree of the Provisional Government, dated April 12, inserted iii the Bulletin des Loin, as No. 229, opens to M. LEDRU ROLLIN, Minister of the Interior, an extraordinary credit of 500,000 f. for extraordinary expenses of pub lic safety. The decree is not preceded by an preamble w hatever. We s hall not attem p t to su pp l y that silence, and we shall confine ourselves to a single observation. The opening of this credit involves the supposition that the sum of 932,0001: set down for the same purpose during the present year, by the law of August 8, 1847, has been completely exhausted. How comes it to pass that this sum of 932,000 f. has been expended before a third of the year has elapsed ? Does the fault lie with M. DUCHATEL or M. LEDRU ROLLIN ? Will it be necessary, in order to ascertain that fact, to welt for the revelations of some Revue Retrospect ive ," Were we Rot right when we said a few days since that M. LEDRU Itomrs was no Republican ? The Gazett e de Tribunaux gives the following account of the Montagnards, some of whose recent proceedings have attracted a good deal of public attention : " The Montagnardv, whose :ef fective force, somewhat amounts to from variable,4oo to 500 men, were f formed at the Pretecture of Police, the first of them having been that small knot of Republican combatants, wile, headed by M. Cauasidiare and M. Sobrier, took posses sion of the hotel on the Quai des Orfevres, in the midst of the struggle of the 24th February. The organiz ni al of this corps has never been regular, neither have its uniform and equipments. The Montagnards, without Joining any other corps, and it must be said without con senting to submit to the severe rules of discipline, placed themselves at the moment of danger with praise. worthy devotedness at the disposal of the Prefect of Police. They have, however, acquitted themselves with zeal and intelligent energy of the difficult mission, 1 intrusted to them. As a proof of their want of disci- P hu ; it may be stated that a few days ago, in cense queue° of a misunderstanding with the stair, the mu- EVENIN G, APRIL 26, 1848. pany of the National Guard, which was to have taken the post of the Pre-f, cture of Police, was behind time and when they did arrive, the Montagnards who ha, pr viowdy done the service, in conjunction with Ili, National Guard, refused to allow them to enter the hotel. The captain, seeing that their f orce was consi derable. withdrew his men in order to prevent a colli sion. On the two following days other companies of the National Guard were also refused admittance to the hotel by the Montagnards, a refusal against which they energetically protested. On Tuesday, the day on which the rappel was beaten, several individual s were arreste d for distributing Communist pamphlets, or u tt er i ng C om . monist cries. These i nd ividuals, who were protected from the vengeance of the crowd by the National Guard, were sent by the commissaries of police before whom they were taken to the Prefecture of Police, some of the National Guard escorting them. On reaching, the hotel of the Prefecture the Montagnards, who oc cupied all the entrances, refused to allow the National Guards to enter; they.required that the warrants for detaining the accused should be given up to them, and they then selected certain of the prisoners, sayicg that they knew them, and would answer for them. In vain did the National Guards insist on being allowed to place the men in the custody of the regular authorities—they were resisted and threatened, asid when at length they retired, the prisonets were set at liberty without any other formality. On being informed of these circum stances, the Prefect, M. Caussidiere, assembled the Montagnards, and expressed his indignation at their conduct. He told them that no one should be allowed to set himself above the laws, and that they must submit to the usual rules of discipline. He added that they should leave the Hotel of the Prefecture forthwith, and be lodged in the building formerly occupied by the Institut des Jeunes Aveugles. At this some murmurs of discontent were heard, whereupon the Prefect de clared that they should not be allowed to oppose his orders, that discipline should be respected, and that they must obey willingly, or he should be obliged to employ measures to enforce obedience. On the same day, the Montagnards evacuated the Prefecture, and went to occupy the building prepared in the Rue St. Victor. It was, however, arranged that twenty of them should do the service of the hotel, in conjunction with the National Guard and the Garde Republicaine. On Thursday, the Prefecture was guarded by the Mon tagnards and the Garde Republicaine, the National Guard being at the review. On Friday, a company of the lst legion, under'the command of Captain Moise, went to the Prefecture to take possession of the post. On arriving they found the Montagnards in arms, ranged before the vestibule, and barring the passage ; and their chief declared that his men would not allow the National Guard to enter the interior. Captain Moise represented in vain to the Montaguards that, as an old soldier, he must, in obedience to the orders hr had received, occupy the post of the Prefecture in spin of all resistance. He then made an appeal to the volun teers of the Garde Ri t .ublicaine, who were present at, but took no part in, the conflict. 'I am an old soldier,' he said, as Republican as those who prevent me from entering—a better Republican, perhaps, for I was the companion and friend of the four Sergens de la Rochelle, who proved the sincerity of their convictions by the loss of their heads on the scaffold. I appeal to you, young citizens—l have an order, and I must perish or execute it.' The Garde Ripublicaine cried as one man, Vive la Garde Nationale ; enter, brave Captain I' This put an end to the conflict, and since the Nutiona Guard has done the service at the Prefecture, in conjunction with the Garde R4publicaine and the Montagnards." The following are said to have been proposed by the directors of the railway companies to the Govern ment, as the conditions on which they would give up their lines to the nation : " 1. For the companies having lines completed and in operation, and, producing a net profit above four per cent., five per cent:' stock producing dividends equal to the net profit of the last year, increased by one-third. 2. For lines at work and producing a net profit of from three to tour per cent, the reimbursements of their capi tal in five per cents. at par.-3. For companies whose net profits are below three per cent., reimbursements of capital in four per cents. at par.-4. For companies whose net profit is nothing, or below three per cent., reimbursement of capital in three per cents. at par.- 5. For companies too recently in operation to calculate net revenue, reimbursement of capital in five per cents. at par, with a bonus of one-third to those who have not, borrowed, and without a bonus to those who have bur rowed. The State in each case taking the liability of the loans.-6. To companies whose lines are in con struction, and whose realised capital assures their en gagements, reimbursement of capital in fives at par, will, a bonus of one third.-7. For companies not able to fulfil their engagements to the State, reimbursement it. fives at par without a bonus." The elections concluded at twelve o'clock on Mon. day night, and the Moniteur of yesterday contains an order, signed by the Mayor of Paris, to the effect that "the general examination of the votes will take place on the 28th of April, at the Hotel de Ville of Paris." This order lays down the regulations to be followed upon that occasion. The senior Mayor 01 Paris is to preside over the operation. The mayor, of the .arrondissements of Paris, and of the rural communes, accompanied by delegates from the central bureau, and of the bureaux of the can tons and arrondissements, will assist, for th purpose of presenting their proces verbaux of the elections. The number of votes given in each section will then be examined and recorded. The examination being closed, the result is to be commu nicated to the Mayor of Paris and his adjoints. The candidates who shall have obtained more than 2,000 votes at least, according to the order of suffrege, which they shall have obtained, will then be pro claimed " representatives of the people," by the Mayor of Paris. In the event of two candidates having an equality of votes, the elder candidate is to be proclaimed. If the number of candidates who shall have obtained two thousand votes and more be inferior to the number of representatives of the department, a new election for the completion of the representation is to take place in eight days. The Moniteur publishes decrees suppressing the octroi duties on pork sausages, &c., and regulating the octroi duties to be levied on poultry, fish, truffles, oysters, butter, &c. Another decree is published, placing two million). of francs at the disposal of the Minister of Pubic Works, for the continuation 'of the works on the Paris and Strasburg Railway. A decree is also published uniting the Garth , Mobile of Lyons and Rouen to that of Paris, and ordering that no more names be enrolled in the Garth , Mobile. The utmost irregularity prevailed at the election-. and the ballot-boxes were tampered sith in all sorts of ways. The Assemblee Nationale puts the follow ing questions to M. LEDRU ROLLIN : "I; it true that one or more of the b illot boxes were kept during Sunday night at M. Ledru Rollin's, at the Ministry et the Interior ? " Is it true that that box or boxes arrived there in a carriage, and under escort, towards eleven o'clock in tn. evening ? Is it true that the escort caused the carriage to enter by the principal gateway of the hotel, entrusted, during the night, to the exclusive watch of the Garde lie piblicaine, while the National Guard occupied another post at the entry •f the Court of Offices. " The escort having shortly departed, to whom was their deposit remitted ?—under what guard was it left? "Has not the Government decreed, and did not M. Ledru Rollin himself order, in a detailed instruction, that the boxes, sealed each night, during the duration of the elections, should be carried to the Mairie, and placed under lock and key; and should in every case be en trusted to the surveillance of the National Guard, whose sentinels were to occupy all the issues of the place in whlcti they were di posited ?" On Monday night an attempt was made by a mob of persons to break into the mairie of the 2d arron dissement, and to carry away the electoral ballot. box of the arrondissement. Fortunately the affair was discovered in time to be prevented. The alarm was, however, so great that the National Guards were called out, and large parties of them occupied the Hotel de Ville and the twelve mairies of Paris during the night; the residences of all the members of the Pro visional Government were guarded by detachments of National Guards, and all the sentinels were doubled. The night, however, passed without any further disturbance. It would appear that it was not merely on the Bureau of the Rue Servandoni that the Ultras threatened to make a descent on Monday evening, in order to possess themselves of and destroy the votes given to the various candidates. The attack was (according to rumour) to be general. Information to that effect reached the Government, in come• quence of which a private order was given that fifty men of each company of the National Guard should hold themselves in readiness for immediate service. As the night advanced heavy patrols (of sixty men each) traversed the city in most directions. The elections of deputies to the National Assembly have already commenced on board the ships of war at Brest. M. LACRUSSI, torrner deputy of that city, had obtained the greatest number of votes (1,217), and after him M. LAMARTINE (980). No other member of the Provisional Government, not . even 31. ARAGO, M in i ster of Mar i ne, had rece i ve d a single suffrage. M. LEDRU ROLLIN resigned his office of Minister of the Interior on Monday, because of some proceed ing of M. RacuaT, adjoint Mayor, but was prevailed upon by M. LAMARTINE to recal his resignation. BOURSE—PARis, TUESDAY, APRIL 25. THREE o'cLocit —The tranquil manner in which the elections have in general passed over in Paris has had the effect of sending prices up to-day. The Five per Cents. have advanced 2f., closing at 62f.; and the Three per Cents. 50c., at 41f. 25c. This difference in the improve ment between the two is attributed to the circumstance that the Fives are eiir:s:.4l , red comparatively lower than 'he Threes; Bank t!' Fr-nee Sh+r,•. were• in .4r..!,1% tt`iii:i an , ; 1 o, 1301. I h., pct of the provincial banks having in general mate but little resistance to the plan of absorption into the Bank of France, has been the cause of this advance. Roman is lit'. better, closing at 52E, and Roths child's Neapolitan, 2f., at 52if. Belgian Fives of both 1840 and 1842 are at 62kf., the same as the day before. Obligations de la Ville closed 1,025 K, or sf. better; and Piedmont at 850 f.. or 251. better. Bons du Triior were not nego►iated. Railway Shares have not continued the ascensional movement of the preceding - day, realizations ,f profits having produced a slight reaction; Northerns are 10f. lower, closing at 350!.; Bordeaux, Marseilles, tint]. Versailles (Right Bank), sf. each, at 395 E, 2051. and 1151.; L)ons, 31. 75c., at 315 E; Bale and Versailles (Left Bank), 21. 50c. at 821. 50c. and 107 t. 50c.; Rouen Aid Bavre are both unchanged at 375 f. and 2.10 f. Or leans have risen 51., at 515 E, and Strasburg 2E 50c., at. 3571. 50c. French gold is at 30E, arid the charge for i•h-inging the 100 f. note fniim 31. to 51. BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT TIIF LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE. APRIL 26. Boulogne and Amiens, 6% Dutch Rhenish, %—Northern r)1 France, 3 3 4—Orleans and Bordeaux, 1 3 A Paris and Lyons, 2 1 ,E—Paris and Orleans. 25—Paris and Rouen, 15. GERMANY AND THE NORTHERN STATES. AUSTRIA. By a decree, dated April 20, his Majesty the Em rEaort has commanded that the sth Regiment of Hussars, " King Charles Albert of Sardinia," and the 4th Regiment of Dragoons, " Archduke Leopold of Tuscany," shall drop those titles and adopt those of the " Field-Marshal 'Count Radetsky," and the Dragoons that of the " Lieutenant Field Marshal Baron Boyneburg." His MAJESTY has accepted the resignation of Count TAFT'S, Minister of Finance, at his own request. The Minister of iVar has received the following intelligence from the head-quarters at Verona, dated the 15th : "The enemy is inactive at all quarters, and ap pears to have neither the power nor the courage to c t on the offensive. Although the direct com munication with Ferrara is interrupted, it is known hat the citadel there still holds out, and that the Commandant continues to hold the city in awe of a i)ombardment. The military position of Field-Marshal RADETSKY has not essentially changed; the enemy continued to press hard upon Peschiera, but hitherto without success. On the evening of the 14th a Pied tnontese Major, who probably came to reconnoitre the place, was taken prisoner by an outpost. According :0 his statement, the KING is before Peschiera in person. The commander of the fortress was offered An honourable retreat, which, however, in conformity with his duty, he declined. A few chastisements similar to those of Montebello and Castlenovo have spread terror and dismay among the so-called Crociliti (Crusaders). The Field-Marshal is preparing to recommence operations with energy, so soon as his Army shall have been reinforced with the corps tationed at Isonzo." This reinforcement will lame iiately take place, as the .Minister of War has already received information from the Master of the Ordnance, Count NUGENT, that that corps will break up on toe 16th."— Wisher Zeitung, April 20. The Wiener Zeitung, of the 221, says—" The EMPEROR has presented M. MAFFEI, Captain of the Austrian Lloyd's, with a large golden medal of honour, as a reward for his indefatigable exertions on 'cession of the dismemberment of the Lombardo- Venetian kingdom, by which he succeeded in pre serving a portion of the Austrian marine.' Twenty-four insurgents, arrested with arms, have een shot at Botzen, at Tyrol. The city of Trent has been declared in a state of siege. PRUSSIA. The grand procession of workmen which was to nave taken place at Cologne on Monday has been postponed. The reason given for the postponement is the unfavourable state of the weather. _ _ Several of the leaders in the unsuccessful attempt -o produce an imeute in Berlin on Sunday week have ,eeti arrested. On the 22d order was completely restored at :UK-la-Chapelle. Nearly one hundred people had been arrested. The proceedings against them were being pushed on with vigour. This will materially ~intribute to preserve, in the end, the peace of the (iwn, which in fact has not for one instant been dis curbed since the late events. The Prussian Gazette announces, under date from St. Petersburgh, April 15, that in exchange for the .our series of Treasury bonds which were to have been paid off this year, the EMPEROR has ordered the ,mission of three new series of Treasury bonds of hree millions of silver roubles each. The new series be the 12th, 13th, and 14th. A letter from Berlin, addressed to the Allgemeine Zeitung, assures us that at St. Petershurgh the ques :ion of the se-establishment of Poland is under consi Aeration, and that there is reason to believe that cinder certain conditions it can be admitted. It ap pears that an Austrian General has been dispatched from Vienna to St. Petershurgh on a mission having exclusive reference to the affairs of Poland. At Vienna many think that a peaceable abandonment of that country is not altogether impssible. BlifisLkU, APRIL 20.—The disturbances which had agitated this town are completely appeased. The National Guard, which had given way at first before ;he eineute, frightened by the outrages committed on neaceahle citizens, and not wishing to entrust the .maintenance of order to the troops of the line, decided -n throwing off their apathy. It dispersed with re -,elution all the assemblages of disturbers who endea .oured to form yesterday and the day before during tie night time, arresting many of them, and resuming ,ts old ascendancy in the town. BADEN. The Republicans under HECKER have been defeated Ind dispersed, but not until they had perpetrated one of the most cold-blooded and cowardly murders ever recorded in the atinal,. of treachery. General GAGERN, the victim of these cowardly ruffians, had been in the service of the Netherlands previous to taking the command of the Baden troops. The Frankfurter Journal, under date of the 22d, gives the following as coming from the best au thority : " Thursday morning, at five o'clock, General Gagern led his troops from Schlingen towards Kaudern, against Hecker ; at Kaudern both parties faced each other. A commissary of the Government again summoned the rebels to lay down their arms, but in vain. The troops then marched forward, and the rebels fell back beyond Kaudern, and took up a fdvourable position. Up to this time not a single shut had been fired; they made overtures to the general to have a parley. He, no doubt, thinking of he importance of the move merit, and the effect it might hive on the pale hand of raising the courage of his troops, and on the other hand of saving an effusion of blood, advanced alone, and endeavoured to save the rebels by an impressive address ; but the only answer he received was a direct appeal to treason, made, but in vain, to the troops. The general upon this turned round and mounted his horse, and the insurgents immediately opened a murderous fire, the general b e i ng the first who fell, struck by sever a l balls, Such was the first act of heroism on the part of Republican Liberty I The troops advanced at once against these traitors and asses sins, and in about halt an hour the band gave way. 100 bodies remained on the field, a fifth part being those of the troops. The insurgents were pursued and entirely routed. One part of them escaped to the mountains, aniither crossed the Rhine. One of their banners was taken. Colonel Hinkeldy, who had taken the command of the troops, was not satisfied with the first victory ; he immediately attacked the second main band of the insurgents, and pursued them till nightfall." A letter from the Duchy of Baden, under date of the 21st says,— " Heckel's band met the Baden troops near Kaudern, and a serious engagement took place, which ended in driving back the insurgents and putting them to the rout atter a sharp tusillade. A part of the men, armed with scythes, laid down their arms, asking for quarter, and saying that they had been compelled by force to join Hecker. Hecker, from reports, has escaped to the, other side of the Rhine. The Baden dragoons com menced the attack, and fought with most determined courage. Much carnage took place on both sides. Gagern, who commanded, was left on the field, which can be easily accounted for, as iii Heeker's band there are excellent marksmen." A letter from Friburg, dated the 20th, at night, in the Gazette du Haut Rhin, says,— " Ilecker's baud, having had an engagement with the troops between Lu 4 and Kaudern, has fallen back on the latter place with a loss of two cannons, where they have entrenched themselves and raised barricades, with an apparent determination to defend themselves to the last. We do nut, however, vouch for the correctness of this information." A letter from Frankfort of the 22d, says,— "The death of Lieutenant -General Gagern no longer doubtful. This officer undertook the command of the troops of Baden, and went to Schlingen on the 19th, when intelligence arrived that the insurgents had occu pied Ksudern. Re personally reconnoitred it during 1g the night, and on the 20th, at four o'clock in the morning, the remit was beat. The troops w. re all en route fo K.n..wern at fiv , o'clock, which was evacuated by the in r surgents, who had taken up their position near the citlliy. As s o on as the General's troops enter ed the city, inte gence was brought that the insurgents desired to capitu late. The Grand Ducal Commissary was about to repair to them, when they asserted that they would negotiate with none but the General in command." General GAGENN accordingly rode to the outposts. xherted accompanied only by a few horsemen. e the rebels to obey the voice of the law, an d to renounce this civil war, and not oppose the national development by these subversive tendencies, which the majority of the nation condemned. The chival rous warrior addressed a few words of peace and reconciliation to his misguided countrymen, but they refused to follow his prudent counsels, and the generous proposals which he made to them. He was therefore compelled to return. He remounted his horse, and at the same moment he was traitor ously struck and mortally wounded by three hells,d two of which entered his back, and the third passef through his head. Exasperated at seeing their chie assassinated in so cruel and perfidious a manner, the troops furiously engaged in combat with the rebels, who were forced to take Hight, leaving a great Horn' ber of dead upon the field. Th e troo p s pursued them, and encountered a second ba nd of insurgents commanded by STRuvr.. These they al so at and completely routed them, and h ad not night set in th e y would not have ceased to pursue them. The official report states that the troops had only 3 5 wounded, 20 of whom were soldie rs of Baden, and the rest of the Grand Duchy of Hesse. They had not a man killed. FRANKFORT-ON-THE - M AINE. THE DIET, AvalL 21.--At the sitting of the 190, the Committee of Fifty were occu pied . lowing proposition for a Committee : " Will the High German Diet place immediately Of exercise of the executive power which has devolved it by the Federal Constitutine into the hands of tbr i. . persons, who are to take upon themselves, u p to sr_ :eriod of the establishment of a definitive executl federal authority, the chief direction of the affair s Germany generally, particularly such as relate to to o f Germ sql army—not only for the safety and integrity with the fol as regards foreign powers, but also in case of need 0: 6 preventing anarchy at home, and for establishing st diplomatic relations with foreign states i n the lisWe. the German Confederation?" The Committee came to the conclusion that. A—th teilie " 1 could not adopt this proposition, but they peee°— following resolutions : . To invite the Diet to proceed immediat el y to trolls, election of a commandant or federal chief (a case Au lt vided for by the Constitution), and to entrust hiss ^" the chief management of all military affairs. i s " 2. To invite the Diet to communicate as q uicluf to possible to the Committee what had already been d°rto. prevent the dangers threatening from without, an sri wards the concentration and preparation of all ne se° means of delence. " 3. To nominate a commission to act jointly 1 1 Sh u fb c ! Diet, with the view of ascertaining how they con.„,'"o""irsl teed, as promptly as possible, in establishing s a nd point for diplomatic relations with foreign Pcw e ng of that th make a report to the Committee of the this t.e gotiation." On the 20th, at the meeting of the Diet, thel read the resolutions above communicated to the I kr sembly by a letter from the Committee of Fifti• The Prussian Envoy announced that, ° e b !f eie e gn c , t t u hc a oe l n ly spid t r o uersas e ib n al f ny orce the Danes to evacuate A r t• • troops n c rea :l e e ci a destined foprlacthede dunue.h.nei....;nce command-in -chief of Lieut.-General the 1.- kea Schlee• The deputy of Prussia, as also of Hanover' 1 :bly for the opening o f th e N a ti ona l General Asset, to be deferred from the let to the 18th of 141 , 61 1 . the account of the delay, rendered indispensable, f o r preliminary operations of the elections.. Many their Governments supported this proposition, basing the demand on the ground that it was necess al l es o f Assemblies should not be opened when deP titi were the more considerable states of the Confederati erz absent. zing The Diet reserved to itself the power of hor immediately the day when it would receive fur • information, which would arrive in a few days. . 0 sable, t On the proposition of the special cottage j e l° named at the last sitting, the Assembly delegate', r special envoy of the Confederation to England, the purpose of defending the interests of the C° 11 ; federation as regarded the dangers which threatene a German commerce and navigation, by reason of the attempts on the part of Denmark to incorporate.jtself by force with Schleswig, and for the purpose of ascertaining, on this occasion, whether purchases could not be made there of war steamers, and 00 what terms other states, which had hesitated to allow to the Diet an unlimited credit for the purpl e of war steamers, will now give way and consent, by reason of the decision come to by the Committee ( 1 . Fifty, which has removed all scruples on this he al Bavaria, the Grand Duchy of Baden, as also Brespel4 huve consented. BAVARIA. The Bavarian Government, on the 17th ItPr n ' proposed to the Chamber a project for a voluntsri. loan of seven millions of florins, the whole of wh iL l i c io is to be applied to the war department and to p O T OO works. For this purpose there will be an ella. °sl . te , of bonds of 20, 50, and 100 florins, bearing on i fou r rest of from 5 to 6 per cent , to be reimbursed in years. \ SWITZERLAND. e 10 11 In the secret sitting of +h ' the Swiss Diet o f w• -- de inst. the question was discussed whether th r o e mand of Sardinia, that S w it zer l an d should a ds- 00 0 30,000 men into Lombardy, and a reserve of tO the frontier, s h ou ld b e comp li e d with. A T t be, somewhat stormy discussion the Diet r eferre' its matter to a coi ntn itt ee , w hi c h was to Pr esent ell report on the 17th. A negative answer Willip°iet. prubabilLy be given, and be approved by the for t he No great symp a thy is f e lt i n S w itzerland King of S ARDINIA , an d th oug h it wa s essY t° „ r i be 100,C00 men against the Sonderbund, It w" difficult to raise 30,000 for a foreign War• f th e An extraordinary courier l e ft Coire (cant on () Diet Grisons) on the 6th, for Berne, to inform the°, the that a strong body of A us t r i ans p ur posed for cin° Engaddi pass above Chiavenna. eke d The Grand Council o f B erne has been eenv •ect s for the Bth of May. No less than sixty-three ro of law are on the order o f th e d a y for diseussi°ll* DENMARK AND SCHLESWIG' HOLSTEIN. REND SBURG, APRIL 21.—This forenoon an epu ment took place betw e en the advanced r sti froo Altenhof. A corps of 1,500 Danes marched -01 Eckenforde, and attacked the free corps e t6ti :sr there, under the command of Major Vox 1 51 , C- 60 0 BERG. The free corps were o nly from 40 0 0 1tb men strong, and were attacked by the pa nes s e t their mounted artillery, supported by their el t o the line. Victory declared itself on the part of Germans, the Danes were driven back to h ere fore by an attack of bayonets, but our troop' y of unable to pursue the m , as we h a d n either inilntri' be the line nor artillery on our side. If the reP°'t 90 accurately given 11 men have fallen, and a b°ll fl blia wounded. The loss of th e D anes must have "°- ours. o pt' Many of the corps w hi c h b e l ong ed to tbeserrlief ad posts had arrived only on th e prev i ou s evening' ' he received orders t o re ti re b e f ore su perior nurfo h f of The a ff air, therefore, m a y b e regar d e d as P r " the great bravery of these corps. The decided appr oac h o f t h e G er man trooPs Coiljne two Russian longer be d e l a y e d . Thi s mo rning (2!(12003 Th e regiment s , " Th e E m p e ror Fra nc : 2 s „ n cif' Emperor Al exan d er ," marc h e d out of ocie burg. It is belie ve d th a t th e a tt a ck will be °i f t he from Friedrichst a dt, f or th e prese nt position ° o ld Danes is so well covere d by t u rf-moors and the D the d annerosks that it will no t be possible to wake attack en face. ~4 the A letter from Kiel of the 21st of Apra S t/7 '. ' ° tel' Provisional Government has this day received I.tio ligence from London, according to whic h the . °rl D iet Cabinet does not consider the proceedings o f i the ol le as a declaration of war against Denmar k, an d The consequence maintain a preliminary neutr alitY• 0 to notices in the Danish journals of the 19 t h 6e° concur in this statement. -soruseiba ELsINoKE, Aram 19.—This evening the lie d ships lying at anchor in the roadstead have beell embargo upon by the Danish ships of war' . 4 AO Another letter from Messrs. A. VON Dtl'dsted Co. to the Hamburgh Assurance 0,0 1 Elsinore, April lg, ten o'clock st night, •Islr