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. _ HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. The Last Sight but One before Easter. The Nobi'tty, Gentry, Subscribers to the Opera. and the pub 11C are n An eethaly announcmi that an EXTRA NIGHT wil t.tke place en THURSDAY next, April 13, when w 11 be performed, Dont zetti's Opera, entitled LITCREZIA BORGIA. Lucrezia, lune. Sofia eruvelli Orsini, 3ldlle. Schwar z; Gen -taro, Signor Garlick! ; (labetta, Signor Boucle ; and Alfonso, Signor Lehi ache. After which a Divertissement, in which Mdlle. Rosati and Mdlle. Marie faglioni will appear. To be followed by Selections from Verdi's Opera of NINO. Abigail, Mdlle. Abbadla ; Fenena, Mdlle. Vera ; Signor Colatti ; Idaspe, Signor Cuzzani; and Oratesphe, Signor Beletti. To conclude with the highly successfhl New and Original GRAND BALLET, In Four Tableaux, by M. Paul Taglioni, entitled FIORITA, et la Refine des Elfridea, Principal parts by Mdlle. Caroline Rosati, Sidlles. Esther A usundon, Thevertot, Julienne, Lamoureux, Jenny, M. Louis Dor, M. Di Matta, MM. Venafra, Gourlet, and Mdlle. Marie Taglioni. TTER MAJESTY'S THEATRE . M TRALBERG. GRAND SACRED, CLASSICAL, and MISCELLANEOUS CONCERT, on MONDAY EVENING, April 17. It is respectfully announced that on MONDAY EVENING, April 17, will be given a GRAND CONCER r, with great Orchestra, Chorus, Sze., on which occasion M. flialberg will execute the following pieces :- 1. Grand Concerto In C minor • • .. Beethoven. 2. Fantasia on Subjects from Mozart's Don Giovanni Thalberg. 3. Fantasia on Subjects from Auber's Masaniello .. Thalberg. 4. " Liede.r Ohne Worte" .. • • .. Mendelssohn. The Vocal portion will include Madame Tadolini, Mdlle. Schwartz, And 3ldlle Sofia Cruvell!. Signor Belletti, Signor F. Lablache, Signor Bouche, Signor Cuzzani, And Signor Labia che, And compr:se selections from the works of Mozart, Beethoven, Gluck, Mendelssohn, Weber, Spontini, &c., and include a Grand Trio for Three Basses,by Meyerbeer —Signori Lablache, Belletti, and Coletti. Signor Gardoni, Signor Colett'. Conductor, M. Balfe. Prises of Admission. Mddlle Vera, BoZeit— •• •• ••• - 2 and 3 guineas Pit Stalls ....................... .. 10s. 6d. each. Pit Tickets.... Gallery Stalls • • • ...............• ss. Od. each. Gallery Tickets .................... 2a. 6d. each. Doors open at Half-past Seven, and the Concert to commence at Eight o'clock. N. B. A second Grand Concert will be presented on Wednesday morning, April 19. THEA kRE ROYAL, DRURY LANE. CIRQUE NATIONAL DE PARIS. UNDER DISTD.ZGUISIIED PATRONAGE. The pubic is respectfully informed that a gratuitous performance will be given in a few days, by M. 'union (the lessee) and M. Dejean, the manager of the Equestrian Troupe (from the Cirque National De Paris) for the benefit of the Distressed Operatives and the British Artisans who have been recently compelled to leave France. Full particulars will be duly annocnced. Private Boxes may be had at Julllen and Co.'s, 214, Regent-street. HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. The Last Night but Two before Easter. THIS EVENING will be performed Verdi's Opera, entitled I DUE FOSCARI. Lucrezia, 1/dile. Sofia CluVelli Jacopa Foscari, Signor Cuzzani ; Loredsmo, Signor Bouche • Bartrarego. Signor Guidi ; aid 11 Doge, Signor ('uletti. To con:ludo with the highly successful Ballet, in Four Tableaux, Out' tled FIORITA, et la Refine des Elfrides, The music by Sig. Pugni ; the scenery by Mr. C. Marshall; the appointments by Mr. Bradwell ; the costumes by Miss Bradley and Air. Whales, tinder the superintendence of Madame Copere. Princ Applications tor Boxes, Stalls, and 'tickets to be made at .he Box office of th, Theatre. Prices of Admission :- Boxes—Pit Tier, Five Guineas ; Grand Tier, Six Guineas ; One-pair, Five Guineas ; Two-pair, Four Guineas ; Pit Stalls, 21s. ; Gallery Stalls. ss. Pit tickets. of which a limited number only will be issued, can be had at the Box-office as usual, 10s. 6d. each. THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. CIRQUE NAT,ONAL DE PARIS. LAST WEEK, PREVIOUS TO 'I HE EASTER HOLIDAYS. THIS EVENING, A Change of Entertainments. —The Manse on trained Horses by Caroline and Mathilde. New and Original Acts of Equita tion by Malls. Palmyre, Anato, F. Stanley, E. Lambert, Coralie, Ducos, Le petit Anato, &e. &e.— Extraordinary Equestriaa Per: formances— Novel and grotesque Pantomimic representations by MM. Adolphe FrallCOrii, Loisset, Newsome, Wehle, Auriol, Leclair, Auriol, Ms, le petite Leisset, Scc. Performance to commence at Eight. Second price, Half-past Nine KOTA.L, Untie , the lianurement at Mr. It. Webster, sole Lessee. TO-MORROW EVENING, Will be performed the Comedy of THE HYPOCRITE. Sir John Lambert, Mr. Tilbury; Dr. Cantwell, Mr. Farren ; Colonel Lam bert, Mr. 11. Farren ; Mawworm, Mr. Keeley ; Old Mrs. Lambert, Mrs. Glover; Charlotte, Mrs. N sbett. After which, a new comic Drama, entitled LAVATER THE PIIYIOGNOMIST ; and Govd Judge 00. Lavater, Mr. Webster ; Agnes, Miss Fortescue. To conclude with THE CABIN BOY. lita;e Manager, Mr. Fatten; Acting Manager, Mr. F. Webster. J. T. Archer, Box-hook keeper. Boxes, se. ; Pit, 3s. ; Gallery, 2s. ; Upper Gallery, Is. Doors open at Malt-past Six, Performance to commence at Seven. 111EATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI. Under the direction o: Madame Celeste THIS EVENING IVIII be performed a new and original Drama, called HARVEST HOME. Principal characters by Messrs. H. Hughes, Lambert, Wright, P. Redford, 0. Smith, Madame Celeste, Miss Woolgar, Mrs. Erank Matthews, Miss Turner, Sec. After whieh DID YOU EVER SEND YOUR WIFE TO CAM BERWELL. To conclude with THE COMRADES • an Anecdote of the Span ish War. Principal characters by Messrs. Cullenford, Boyce, Mun varcl, Paul Legrand, C. J. Smith, Ryan, Miss E. Harding, Ecc. Boxes, 45.; tit, Ys. , Gallery, Is. oren at Ilall-past Six, Performance to commence at Seven. FRENCH PLAYS.—ST. JAMES'S THEATRE. Lessee-, Mr. John Mitchell. 33, ad Bond-street. TO-MORROW EVENTING, Will be performed the amusing Vaudeville of LA CHERCHET:SE D'ESPRIT. Principal characters by 11M. Henri Alix, Josset, Ton ? Dion, Madame St. Ange, Mdlle. Marot, and Mdlle. Celestine. After which, an entirely new comedic-vaudeville, entitled LA DERNIE RE CONQUETTE. Le Baron de Virefeuille, M. Lafont ; Helene, Madame Paul Ernrst. To conclude with Li. CHEVALIER DU (WET. Le Chevalier du Guet, M. Lafont ; Le Barom de Tarlis 31. Cartigny ; Le Vicomte Amedee de Lune, M. 31ontaland ; Isabelle, Mdlle. Baptiste. t.oxes, hs. ; I'it, 3s. 6d. ; Amphitheatre. 3s. ; Gallery. 2s Hoses and Stalls may be obtain' d at Mr. Mitchell's Royal Library, 13. Old Bond-street. PRINCESS'S TiIEATHE. .3.1 r. J. M. Maddox, sole Lessee and Manager, Duchess-street, l'ortland• place. THIS I:VENING, Will be performed Shakspeare's Corn dy of MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING. Don Pedro, Mr. J Vining; Don John, Mr. Norton ; Leonato, Mr. Gilbert ; Claudio, Mr. Conway: Benedick, Mr. Cooper; Antonio, Mr. Neville; Berachio, Mr. C. Fisher; Dogberry, Mr. Compton ; Verges, Mr. 8. Cowell ; Beatrice, Mrs. Barrett ; Hero, Miss Villarers. To he followed by the Musical Piece of "NO." Sir George Doubt ful, Mr. tiodda ; Commodore Hurricane, Mr. Neville; Maria, Miss Staidey. To conclude with the Farce of HIGH LIFE BELOW STAIRS. Characters by Messrs. Compton, Courtney, J. Vining, S. COVA 11, C. Fisher, Wynn, Palmer, Stacey : Miss Emma Stanley, Miss Pillars, Mrs Fushrolte, Miss Somers, and 3liss Taylor. ores- 4 %roe, : Itrxe.4, 45.: Pit: Yr. ; Gallery, la, THE THIRD EDITIONS "THE SUN" CONTAIN, AS USUAL, THE LATEST PARLIAMENTARY INTELLIGENCE, AND ALL OTHER NEWS UP TO THE HOUR OF POST. Orders received by all Newsmen, and at the Sun-office, 112, Strand. -11 E WEATHER.--817N OFFICE. APRIL 11 ratitnt.)-rtrrmit, Lowest, 35 ; Highest, 48 , Noon, 45. ItAitomErmt, W.N.W.; fine. - - A.TER AT LONDON -MU DGE TUU DAY. Mrrnlng 35 minutes ►lter 7. I Even:nx .. 10 rrmantes t S ;....t.1.- , ,•, A. . yeAl 6. . 4 ), . . . .., ...:: . •-• ,-- A r .-4 s ' •,.- •\. • s t ,-.. et, 4 - I L • t . ' . - -' '- " -„, 7 •r• ~ ' RoT • . . , \q - ' Olt LONDON, TUESDAY, APRIL 11, 1848. Yesterday was a day worthy of perpetual remem brance—not as the epoch of a Revolution, but as the occasion of a demonstration, a spontaneous and popular d emons tration, of allegiance to the Govern ment, and of devotion to the Constitution of Great Britain. It becomes our bounden duty to express our acknowledgments to the Hon. Gentleman the representative of Nottingham for having, however unintentionally, provoked this ebullition of loyal and patriotic enthusiasm. If the Chartist agitation has been productive of no other advantage, it has certainly elicited from the inhabitants of our metropolis tokens of affection for the political institutions of Great Britain such as must afford an universal and permanent satisfaction. Whila we were writing yesterday an extraordinary movement was going rd throughout London. Preparations were making in all of o r d er and sh e A defensi ve t directions f or th e maintenance pr, s erv ' st i on o , tranqu illi t y syte both by the civil and military deliberatel y or g anized i e t s ary au th or i ties. Most o f the princip a l public offices .nto arwtieje garrisoned. bags were heaped up ; Sand roof of the Bank to enable the eial ramparts upon the and ],recision Imidier3 to fire with Troops were ac comparative safety bers in the neigh cumulated in rather formidable nnurn. bourhood of the p Ar oc i e e e w de e d ve t o ni o n T. Royal umbers before, the Court had judicious] evenings borne House, so that treason coo' not even have the satisfaction of peeping at royalty over shn the chevartx de were Palace. frieze of Buckingham P-wind"is barricaded by their customaryshutters,b and ci vilians paraded the different streets the staves and wearing the armlets a the special constabulary. Occasionally an adventurous omnibus or a speculative cab straggled along the p p rinci al thoroughfares—but otherwise the carriage ways Were unobstructed, and gave ample space to the more in quisitive pedestrians. Citywards, and in the direc tion of Westminster, the capital presented the ap pearance of a place stricken either by plague, panic, or bombardment. And all this commotion arose from the proposition of a Monater Procession in favour of Chartism—a procession which was to be the bearer of a petition, signed by 5,706,000 persons, from liennington•common to the very doors of Parliament. In ordinary times we doubt nit but that the delegates of the National Con vention would have been permitted to carry their whim into execution, inconvenient as such a demonstration must inevitably have been to the more peaceable shopkeepers of the metropolis. At such an extraordinary juncture as the present it is not surprising, however, that the Government should have at once resolved to prevent a proceeding so imminently perilous, and that the loyal civilians of Middlesex should simultaneously have determined to co-operate themselves with the laudable exertions of the Executive. As was explicitly shown in the first prehibitive proclamation issued by the Police Commissioners of Scotland-yard, the proposed move ment on the part of the associates of Mr. FEARGES O'CONNOR was in direct contravention of the statute 13th CHARLES IL, sec. 1, cap. 5. It was, therefore, in obedience to the law, and not in violation of the rights of the multitude, that the Government arrived at the determination to prevent the tumultuous assembling of petitioners at Westminster. With this patriotic resolution, the various regiments and troops of artillery were concentrated in London, and the ripened energies of the veteran Commander-in-Chief directed to the suppression of an embryo rebellion. It is almost a matter of humiliation to us, how ever, to remember the enormous force which reared itself between the Convention and the Constitution. The contrast was absolutely pitiable—the vast strength opposed to the miniature weakness, and a weakness, too, that actually melted away at the mere mention of opposition. Those who observed the braggart-banners of Kennington common, rolled up and tucked under the arms of the standard bearers of Chartism—those who recognised those standard-bearers skulking over the pavements of London-bridge—those who saw the petition igno miniously conveyed to the House of Commons in a cabriolet—must have almost lamented that efforts of such extraordinary magnitude should have been made for the purpose of quelling an insurrection, which in character might literally be described as vaporiform. Not that we would in any particular cast derision upon the cause of Chartism, in conse quence of the pacific termination of the pro • ceedings of yesterday, but that we would hold up to continual obloquy and abhor rence those most crhninal and most contemptible demagogues who would excite the people to sedition for the sake of rendering themselves conspicuous, and who would purchase notoriety even though it was at the expense of bloodshed. It is because the agitation in favour of Chartism has been disgraced by the ravings of a few political iccendiaries that a certain degree of odium has been reflected upon the Chartists generally, and that the conduct of the Honourable Gentleman the Member for Nottingham has been regarded with an unnecessary degree of suspicion. The course adopted yesterday by that honourable representative is of itself sufficient to show that the ambition of anarchy—that insanity of legislation !—has neither obscured his patriotism, nor dissipated his humanity, like that of his more ignoble and less influential colleagues. The discussion upon the second reading of the Crown and Government Security Bill—a discussion which happily followed immediately upon the pre sentation of the Chartist petition in the House of Commons—formed an appropriate and patriotic, be cause loyal and constitutional, close to the occur rences of yesterday evening. The unutterable scorn and indignation with which Parliament listened to the seditious language of Mr. WILLIAM SMITH O'BRIEN, language which that gentleman had the temerity, not to say the indecency, to utter in the very presence of the SPEAKER—the acclamations which greeted Sir GEORGE GREY when he eulogised the majestic policy of LAMARTINE, and invoked the loyalty of the population of these islands towards the person of her Britannic Maanyri—the contempt with which Mr. HUME repudiated the notion of an insurrectionary outbreak against the SOVEREIGN, and the felicitous derision cast upon the morbid aspirants for distinction by the voice of the SOLICITOR GENERAL—formed together a fitting ter mination to the sedate enthusiasm of yesterday. Altogether the 10th of April, 1848, will be worthily remembered as a warning to anarchists and as a triumph to patriotism. The revolutionary movement throughout Europe is assuming a more pacific character. Hostilities are ahnost invariably deprecated, and in a few instances the people have preferred to reinstate their old Governments in a modified form, rather than to retain the authority in their own hands. We are far, how ever, from inferring from these facts that an anti revolutionary spirit is prevailing, or that a general reaction is taking place. On the contrary, we are disposed to consider these events as having a more important and more satisfactory significance. They bear witness that in their simultaneous insurrections the various insurgent nations were not incited by a paltry ambition for notoriety, nor by a puerile desire of possessing themselves of the insignia of authority. Their ambition was to assert and establish their un doub!ed rights, and to obtain the enjoyment of liberal institutions ; but, at the same time, their desire was to establish those claims, if possible, without any tumult or bloodshed whatsoever, and to maintain public order and tranquillity. Happily this laudable ambition has been in a great measure realised ; these desirable results have been very generally obtained. Recent accounts from France are most encouraging. More especially are we rejoiced to find that the Provisional Government have ventured to redress a most intolerable grievance, and to perform an act of common justice towards ourselves. Foreign workmen have been declared to be henceforth under the protection of the Government and of the honour of the French people. We are peculiarly rejoiced at this declaration, because their conduct towards the English operatives has been constituted one of the chief blots on the almost immaculate character of the new Government of France. It was an act of hostility which our earnest sympathies and anxieties for the welfare of France had not merited at their hands—the whole tenor of the conduct of the new French Government producing an earnest desire for peace, and especially peace with England. To this desire the English people have heartily responded ; nevertheless the ex pulsion of their fellow -countrymen by the French induced the English to doubt the sincerity of the protestati ons of the French Government—that e t ix,pe to all u n was, in fa" pacific den;aonnotaaltiasatraons of M. DE id ',MARTINE. B ut that emphatic nega the action is no w a t an end. The insulotuosfferceodutroseEngo-f c onfiilea The by land is rep a i re d b y its voluntary are cessation. English workm en now i n France the Government to the honour of the French ple ; the Governm en t consider themselves resp Pen. ble for their protection. All further rev olutionary "sl tendencies are at an end i n P ar i s, the authority of the is stabilit a t e d, an d the Provisional the Ministers are proceeding to exert th e i r due influence in promoting the welfare, and, as i n this instance, elevating the character of the people. In Prussia the revolution is, apparently, over,. d I but its effects are becoming more dev e l o p e d e xt e nded. The conduct of the regenerated & n o . vernment is said to diffu3e the most general satis faction. The movements of the various kingdoms of Italy are of a very uncertain character. Liberal institutions are daily gaining ground through out all Italy, but the form of government which each individual state may ultimately adopt is as yet undecided. The Italians seem divided be tween an anxiety to assert their national liberties and a desire of avoiding anarchy and dis turbance. For example, a letter from Chambery gives the following extraordinary account of pro ceedings a t S avoy :—" E ven t s s ucceed each other here with astounding rapidity. We were yesterday wu republicans h and to-day we hare again become what . e been so l ung. T he repu bli c h as no t lived more tllan twenty-four hours in Savoy." In like nannerX en i ee, after establishing a republic, annulled that decision, ; res h olved to wa it an d w atch the T progress of events. ese ho u r zce th rt e a y in in p d r i o c c s e t e e di t n h g e sare so far satisfactory in s real people to be wishes of th e liberty. Their conservators o otio e t h e indecision oth er. a Lombardy, however, t is n oc f cas p i e o a n c e e d by their ib one by too strenuously promoting endan ger i ng the here is no such indecision. Liberty at any cost is the demand of the Milanese, and peace is, for a time, banished from northern Italy. In the southern portion of the Peninsula the POPE still pursues his liberal and beneficient career. It is rumoured that he has consented to the expulsion of the Jesuits from Rome, if not to their entire dis persion. If this rumour be correct, while it may afford matter of rejoicing for political reasons, yet certain reminiscences connected with the Society of Jasus must render its dismemberment a matter of regret. Those, for example, who are familiar with the history of its founder, a history enthralling even to those who differ from its creed, because it portrays genius and enthusiasm sublimated by sanctity, it constitutes a chapter of the chivalry of Christianity. Those who are familiar with the history of its founder, and the high inspirations under which it was first established, cannot fail, on this 2c count, to regret the dispersion of the Society of the Jesuits, even though for other reasons such an event may be much to be desired. But, whether this particular report be correct or not, it is certain that Puts is persevering in his laudable endeavours, and animated by his example and his influence there is little occasion to fear for the ultimate emancipation of all Italy. The epitome of foreign intelligence is not now so crowded with startling events as it was a few weeks back, but it is equally or perhaps even more satisfactory. For it is not of revolutions and insurrections that we desire to hear, but of the steady progress of liberty and unity among nations, which, as LAMARTINE has truthfully declared, is far more powerfully advanced by peaceful means and moral influence, than by pitched battles. Madrid journals of the 4th have arrived. Many of the persons arrested since the emeute of the 6th March have been set at liberty. A strange rumour has been in circulation in Madrid, that CHRISTINA, alarmed at the progress of republicanism, has entered into negotiations with the Carlists, and had proposed that Queen ISABELLA should be di vorced from her husband, and should be married to the Count DE MONTEMOLIN, who, in that case, was to be avlthowledged as King of SPAIN in his own right. The Duke and Duchess of MONTPENSIBE were very coldly received at Vittoria. The Ministers have, it is said, discovered a plot, set on foot by French agents, to produce a movement in the Basque Provinces, with a view to their incorpo ration with France. MADRID 80x.5.&, Aram 4.—The Three per Cents., 22 ; Five per Cents., 13k. Exchange on London, 43. THE FRENCH REPUBLIC. PROCEEDINGS AT PARIS. We have received the French papers of yesterday. It is expected that the Maniteur will shortly con tain decrees by which the Provisional Government will take into its own hands the management of the railways and of the Bank of France. Reinforcements are being daily marched off to the army of the Alps. The National publishes a list of candidates for the National Assembly, proposed to the army and navy by the Central Committee of Paris. Everything was quiet at Lyons according to the last accounts. The Siècle has an article urging the French Go vernment to seize the maritime provinces of Austria in Italy. The Moniteur publishes a decree appointing entre pots at Bordeaux, Rochelle, Rochefort, Colmar, Nlulhausen, and Rethel for the reception of bonded merchandise under the new plan adopted by the Government, for the purpose of giving facilities to merchants wishing to deposit goods in these depots to transfer the goods on simple endorsement of the receipts. The Moniteur also publishes additional instructions to the commissaries in the departments, relative to the general election, but they contain nothing poli tical, and have mere reference to the way in which the ballot is to be taken. It also contains a decree issued by the Minister of the Interior regulating the uniform of the National Guards both of Paris and the municipalities. M. LEDRU RoLLIN has appointed four inspectors attached to the direction of the National Museums, for the purpose of restoring to those establishments all objects of art " widely disseminated in the resi• dences ci-devant Royal, and in any other edifice," and also for the purpo s e of uniting the museums ex isting in the departments with the central museum. The following is from the Democratic Pacifique " In some quarters of Paris a great number of tri coloured flags have been hung out of the windows Why so ? Because the tenants, refusing to pay the quarter falling due in April, have forced their landlords to give them a receipt without being paid. Many land lords were disposed to remit a• part or even the totality of the quarter's rent to their tenants, who found them selves in difficulties. But moat generally it is those tenants who are least in want who have excited their neigiabours, and dragged them into this turbulent coa. litiott. '• We confine ourselves to demanding from the tenants who du not pay to use some other flag, if they wish to celebrate their exploits. That flag is not intended to shelter sets of violence behind its glorious folds." The Legitimatists are, it is said, creating disorders in the French provinces for the purpose of endea vouring to bring about the restoration of the Due DE BORDEAUX. In the neighbourhood of Paris " bands of vaga bonds" were attacking all the corn-mills, and com pelling the owners to discontinue their works—a proceeding which was charged to the account of the Legitimatists. In the southern departments further demonstrations of that party have taken place. At Besancon also disorders have occurred. In the city just named the Commissioners of the Government were compelled to withdraw by the populace, aided by a portion of the municipal authorities and a por tion of the National Guard. The situation of Bordeaux would appear to be par ticularly serious. M. CLEMENT THOMAS, the newly-elected Colonel of the Ist Legion of the Pari sian National Guard, has been appointed Co►nrniaeaire Extraordinaire of Government to the city of Bor deaux (of which he is a native), in the hope that hi. would be able to calm the effervescence that prevails there. Some slight disturbances took place yesterday at Versailles. A parcel of poachers from Paris made their way into the park in the day, and coolly pre- pared to drag the ponds for fish, with which they are plentifully stocked. The keepers immediately mus tered to prevent this robbery, but the fellows resisted, and the National Guard had to be called out. At length they were driven out of the park, the gates 01 which were closed. They, however, threatened to return with the Paris mob at their heels to burn the palace, a threat the accomplishment of which was thought so probable that the National Guard remained on duty all night in the palace. By the last accounts, however, they had not yet made their appearance, and the excitement created by the affair was subsiding. M. DE RUMIGNY, one of the two of Louis PHILIPPE'S Aides-de-Camp, who followed him into exile, returned to Paris two days ago. Three of the Bonaparte family are now candi dates in Corsica, for seats in the National Assembly Tio T v at i 8 B _P l a h n e ts, fir S al lO n N e D ss AY id , A th P e nL ie l n o i . e ccnti. I ()No° Au : 21 . 1 lA. s: cEIE; NAPO LEON a n d PIERRE, NAPOLEON , son o LsounclLJE sh ath 4 ac l re t e . :: s t O br c ee . isnug : fluid to-day, both the Five per Cents. and Threes harvin tinailsatlrisemaieoddther hand, Bank of France S:e ares advanced 4f., the former closing at 581., and the hitter g di a ff ve falleu 30t., closing at 960 f. The cause of these t o at bo t „ he tha i t nte th n e tid h d ol a d t u t r r s ib o d f u. B d a nt k o the Provisional Government of absorbing the ]sank of France (such is the term in use), and couveirting it Into a `•Banque Nati,litile," h ave b een se fling their shares and investing the proceeds in Fr inch Bente ; hence the fall in the one and the advance in the other. Something of this kind had undoubt edly taken place, but the decline in the Bank Shares is far smaller, in comparison, than the rise in the Fives and Threes; also railways have advanced, and nu one supposes that the st.ll..rs of Bank Shares have been making purchases in them; hence the inference is, than firmness in the R. rite cannot be altogether attributed to the cause thus assigned; it is probably, in part, one of those changes which 50metitnes take place at the Bourse, no one can say why. Buns du Ti6sor were nominally at 43 per ct nt. loss, but nothing was done in them; Bel gian Fives (1840) closed at 56f. or 2if. higher; Obliga.• tions do la Villa are lot. lower, at 865 t. In Railway Shares the advance has been general. Rouen 15f. at 3001: Havre 15f. at 160 f., Marseilles 12f. 50c. at 180 f., Orleans 10f. at 4 20 r., Bordeaux 70 f. 50 c. at 3901 ., Northern 6f. 25c. at 316 t. 25 c., Lyons s f. at 30 5 f., Strasburg It: 25c. at 33it: 75c. French gold is at not more than 60f.; change for the I,OOOE about 151.; the sovertign at 26r.; the English Bank-note at 25'. 50c. BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE. APRIL 10. Boulogne and Amiens, s—Sambre and Meuse, 4%. GREECE. We have received Athens papers of the 29th ult. The Courrier d'Athens, of that day, gives a list of the new Ministry just appointed. It is as follows : President of the Council and Minister of Marine, M . G. CONDOURIOTTI ; Finances, M. CHEISTACOPOULOS ; Foreign Affairs, M. DROSSOS MANSOLAS; War, Goners' RHODIES ; Justice, M. DIOMEDES KYRIACOS ; Public Instruction and Worship, General ANASTATIUS MAVROMICHALIS. EGYPT. Accounts have been received from Alexandria to .he 29th ult. At Cairo a meeting of the leading natives was held, and a deputation sent to ABBAS PACBA, to interest him in the redress of their grievances. They were attended by such a demonstration, that fair promises were made ; but four of the principal speakers having been subsequently sent for, they were charged with treason, and hanged next morning out side the walls. Since then there had been great excitement and dissatisfaction. Commercial matters were quite as bad as on the departure of the last mail. Bills of any description were not negotiable. TURKEY. By accounts from Constantinople of the 27th ult. we learn that the differences between the Porte and Persia have been settled by mutual concessions of territory. The SULTAN has sent orders to the Am bassador at Paris to remain at his post. Lord Cow- LET was returning to England. There was great activity in the military and marine departments. GERMANY AND THE NORTHERN STATES. AUST RiA. A proclamation was published at Vienna, on the 4th, prohibiting the exportation of gold and silver coin from Austria until the end of the month of June. The Wiener Zeitung of the Bth contains the fol lowing official announcement : "In conformity with the duties which attach to the responsible Ministerial Council of his MAJESTY, they have prayed of the EMPEROR that his Imperial Highness the Illustrious Archduke Loufs may be altogether withdrawn from employment in State affairs. " His MAJESTY, with the expression of his deep. felt thanks for that distinguished devotion which has marked the conduct of his Illustrious Highness in the dispatch of affairs of State, has been pleased to give his assent to the request thus made to him." The Archduke Louis was the chief of the retro• grade party. The Wiener Zeitung, of the 4th April, announces that the EsirEttou has just suppressed the Council of State, and given to the parties composing it another position, which will not interfere with the constitu tional intentions of the Council of Ministers. The following letter appears in the Angemeine Zeitung:— " War has this day been declared against Sardinia. Prince Schwarzenburgh has offered to take the com mand of the Free Corps, which will go to Italy. This is the first day of the last ten, of the arrival of the mallerste, direct from Milan. The proclamation of the Kind of Sardinia has caused immense excitement here. In the Cabinet Council, which was held yester day, orders were given for Marshal Radetski to march against Piedmont, and it was determined to countenance the order for the recapture of Milan by force. Marshal Radetski was to concentrate his forces on the Muni°, and to endeavour to effect an arrangement with the Provisional Government of Milan. If the Lombards agree to take upon themselves a part of the debt of the state, to preserve without obstacles thElr commercial relations with Austria, and to furnish a contingent of troops in case of a foreign war, they are to be left to do as they like. A meeting of opulent bankers, headed by Messieurs de Rothschild, Sins, Stametz, Meyer, has counselled the Government to effect an arrangement with the Lombards. The different manufacturers of Austria and Bohemia have done the same." The masons of Vienna struck for wages on the 6th, and attempted to make an emeiae, but they were soon put down by the National Guards. BOHEMIA. At an assembly of the people held at Prague, a determination was come to address a petition to the E3SP11:11011, which vas to contain the following points : "1. The indissoluble union of all the countries of the Crown of Bohemia as regards their internal legislation, and a guarantee for the close union with the whole Austrian monarchy. Perfect equality of rights be• tween the German and Bohemian population in all matters of instruction and administration of the country. 2. A national representation based upon the must ex tended scale of franchise, such representation to have commanded over the interests of the country, to pass all laws and imposts. A special Ministry for all the in ternal affairs of the country. Prague to be the centre point for the Ministry. 3. The prompt organization of the National Guard, and its complete armament. "4. The reform of the University. Reform in the nitely and not merely provisionally. mode " 5 .o All I instruction ; this reform to be granted authorities,defi nitely both civil and military, to take the oath to the Constitution." There appears to be no doubt but that the Govern ment will at once accord all these points. Four thousand muskets have been distributed amongst the Civic Guard, who do duty in common with the soldiers. FRANKFORT. FRANKFORT, APRIL 6.—The meeting preparatory to the establishment of a Constituent Assembly has separated. The committee of fifty will hold its sit tinge ; it will decide in all cases of urgency, and is empowered to convoke the dissolved assembly should the case require it. The Republicans have placed a committee of fifteen to watch over the proceed ings of the committee of fifty. The committee f fifteen is placed in relation with the Diet by the medium of seven members delegated by the Diet for that purpose. The first measure which has been unanimously agreed upon is the calling into service of the 9th and 10th corps of the army. The 9th in cludes the contingents of the Grand Duchy of Luxem bourg, of the province of Saxony, and of the Electo rate of Hesse ; these troops will reinforce the garri sons of the fortresses of Luxembourg and Mayence, and in case of need will defend the Duchies of Schles wig and Holstein against the Danes. PRUSSIA. Accounts from Berlin of the 6th state that alarm was felt for the tranquillity of the city, in copse• quence of the fAilure of employment, and the increase in the price of provisions. The majority of the population are also much dis satisfied with the law promulgated by the Govern ment for the regulation of elections. We find the following in the Prussian States Gazette of the Bth of April : "An address from the provinces has been forwarded to the KING, saying that in consequence of the decla ration of his MAJEsrI - that he would gladly see the German Confederation strengthened by the incor ',oration of those provinces which do not yet belong ro it, but were anxious to be received, the legal dele gates of the province of Prussia entreated his MA JESTY to facilitate the incorporation of that province, in its present boundaries, and without any diminu tion, to the Germanic Confederation. "To this his MAJESTY replied, that in pursuance with the wishes of the province he had commanded the Minister of State immediately to take the neces -ary measures." Disturbances took place at Berlin on the evening of the 6th. They arose from a dispute between the workme❑ in some of the printing-cotton manu factories, but assumed so serious an aspect that it was necessary to call cut the military. Six lives were lost. HUN GARY• Letters from Pesth, of the Ist April, confirm the news that Hungary has declaresl itself independent. It is feared that this important eve will be the signal for a civil war. In fact, out of a population of nearly twelve millions, the race of the Magyars, which is at the present moment the dominant power, which Aus xia has always treated with peculiar favour, and which is in possession of tho intelligence, the riches, ►nd the most valuable portion of the landed property of the country, does not amount to more th:m four millions of people, The Sclavonic population num bers about six millions, and in some comitants it amounts to nine-tenths of the whole population. The Sclavonians detest the Magyar authority, and refuse to admit it. The provinces of Dalmatia and Croatia have already openly separated from Hungary, and are endeavouring to form themselves into an inde pendent state. BELGIUM. The diplomatic difficulty between this cour.try and the Holy See, caused by the refusal of the latter to receive M. LECLERQ, as Belgian Envoy, has termi nated in a manner highly satisfactory to the. latter, and to those who appointed him. The Nuncio Mon seigneur SAN MARSAN, has communicated a dispatch from Rome to the Minister of Foreign Affairs, wherein the Holy See rt-cals its veto, expresses a flattering desire to receive M. LECLERQ, and apolo gises for delaying the announcement. M. LECLERQ, who is universally esteemed by his countrymen of all shades and parties, will therefore depart forthwith on his useful mission. SILESIA. The peasants have risen and are murdering the nobles and burning the castles. POSEN. A gentleman who has just arrived from Posen gives the following account of the state of affairs in that Duchy : " I left Posen on Monday (the 3d instant), and the territory of the duchy on the following day. Every thing was proc,'eding then with order, and, under the existing circumstances, surprising tranquillity and ab sence of all violence prevailed in every part of the coun try. The Poles were continuing to form themselves into regiments, and preparing for war. War against Russia, fraternity and inu,ual assistance with Prussia, was the j motto of the whole native poi, ulation. There are about j 30,000 Polish peasants armed with scythes, pikes, &e. Gentlemen carry muskets, pistols, sabres. Every dis trict has its cavalry. On the other hand, the Prussian Government has dawn together about 30,000 men, of whom 12,000 (all regular army) are at Posen. The military are behaving with the utmost forbearance, and do not in the least disturb the Poles in their proceedings. The latter are being drilled under the very eyes of Prussian authorities. In the town of Posen, under the very cannons of the citadel, about a thousand men muster every day to make evolutions under the immediate command of the Refugee Micro slawski. It is true that in certain parts of the Duchy, the German population, pretending to be in tear of the Poles, have also armed, and in two places have expelled commi'saries of the Polish committee. It is also true that a' great animosity prevails where the German population finds itself in a majority. At Posen the numbers are almost equal, and it is the fear of collision between those distinct bodies and the frequent cases of desertion from the ranks of the Prussian army, that have obliged the authorities, acting with out any positive orders from Berlin, to pro claim the town in a state of siege. But the Ministry in Berlin have blamed it, and no doubt by this time the state of siege must have been raised. All the time, however, the National Committee con tinue sitting at the Hotel de Ville, issue orders and proclamations, send emissaries, publish every day u Moniteur, as an official organ, collect money, in one word exercise every influence and enjoy every attri bute of legitimate authority. It has its delegate com missaries in every district, and chiefs to organize the army. General Willisen has been at Posen, and was expected at Berlin on the 7th inst. to make his report and to agree with the Government as to the ultimate re-orgaeization of the Duchy. The three following points have, according to a report from a very good source, been already determined upon:-1. A separate and ex clusively Polish Administration. 2. Every facility ano encouragement given to the development of Polish nationality, national schools, university, &c. 3. An army of the Duchy of Posen, composed mainly from 'he existing landwehr of Posen. The chief is to be a Prussian General, but all other officers are to be exclu sively Poles. All who served during the war of inde pendence in 1831 are to be admitted to the ranks then obtained, from whatever part of Poland they come. Among the Poles 1 met everywhere the highest degree of enthusiasm. Union, oblivion of all former diver gences of opinion, national independence, adjourning to a better season all questions about the future form of go vernment, the social and territorial re-construction o 4 Poland, is the universal watchword among them. The peasant and the noble, the poor and the rich, are frater nizing, and have banished all distrust from among them. There has not been a single case of violence among the Poles themselves. The rumours of the pea sants burning the castles of the nobility, &c., are put in circulation by the German functionaries, and all those who have been fattening on the duchy of Posen, and been employed by Government as instruments for dena tionalising it, and who now see that with the new order of things they will be obliged either to remove, or to discontinue their nefarious proceedings." DENMARK AND THE DUCHIES. The German troops are concentrating on the fron tiers of the Duchies, but have not yet violated the Danish territory, in consequence, it is said, of the interposition of England. it USSIA. The news from 'Warsaw confirms the reports o' the different movements in the kingdom of Poland, but the facts which appear most probable are those mentioned in the Prussian Gazette, of the arrival in Poland of five regiments, 20,000 strong, two of which will occupy the fortress of Novo Georgiewsk, Modline, and three will be stationed in the Govern ment of Lublin. Letters from "Warsaw of the Ist of April state that no outbreak had taken place in that city, but that the inhabitants were in a state of great fear. The Breslau Gazelle, of the sth April, announces that a moveable column of three battalions of infantry, three squadrons of cavalry, and four field batteries, under the command of General DE TRUTSCHLER, has been encamped between Thorn and Graudenz, to watch over and protect the frontiers of Posen. 'The same journal announces that the fortress of Pillau, situate in the neighbourhood of Konigsberg, has been placed in a state of siege, and that all the women and children have been obliged to leave, and that the Russians have formed three new bridges on the Memel, for the purpose of facilitating the passage of the troops. Russian Poland is in a state of great alarm, in con sequence of the measures taken by the EMPEROR to prevent the propagation of liberalism in his dominions. The Russian Government has given orders that no communication shall be allowed between Russian and Prussian Poland, and the strictest watch is.kept on the frontiers of the two countries. Many pro prietors on the boundary are placed in a state of great embarrassment. In many cases they have got property on both sides, but if they cross the boundary, even to visit their properties, they are not allowed to return. The frontier is guarded exclusively by Cos sacks, in consequence of the prevalence of desertion in the Russian army, and even among those employed in the civil departments. ITALY. LOMBARDY AND PIEDMONT. Accounts from Brescia, of the 3d inst., states that a collision between the Austrians and Piedmontese troops was hourly expected. A letter from Razzato, of the 3d inst., says— " I am with a company, commanded by a Swiss officer, at six miles from Brescia, and about two miles from the river Chilie, on the opposite bank of which are the Austrians. We are every moment expecting an order to commence an attack. Two thousand volunteers are stationed on the heights near us, and in the plain on the right is the advanced guard of the Piedmontese army, with the artillery, while the main body are advancing on Montechiari. " It is said that General Zucchi is advancing with a considerable body of sailors from Venice. The deser tions of the It ,lians who are enrolled in the Austrian army are less frequent, because the men are now distri buted amongst the different regiments, and narrowly wa t c hed by the Germans. In t he confusion of combat, however, they will probably turn against their enemies, and spread death and consternation in their ranks. Brescia is well prepared for an assault, and it will re quire a force of not less than 20,000 men to attack it. At every angle of the fortifications is erected a large crucifix, surmounted by a t . ri-colour flag. E very b and of patriots appointed to defend a bastion has an armed priest in its ranks. In an alarm which was given two days since I saw more than ten priests, well armed, march out to me et the enemy. " The minks themselves take tart in the patrols, and at the first rising at Brescia one of th,m dir(cted the inaiitp-rrit nt of tw,, pl , -cp.s of cannon with much skill and effect. Persons the most dittinguished by th , ir birth, their weight, aLd their social condition, take part in the struggle. In our company we reckon two priests, a monk, two members of a princely family, two count,, &c., &c." A letter from Mantua of the 2d inst. says— " The Governor demanded of the authorities of the commune that some of the churches and the seminary should be phicel at his disposal, for the accommodation of 8,000 troops which he expected. The Bishop offered him his own palace, but would not allow the churches to be desecrated." The Gazetta di Milano of the 4th gives the follow ing official news of the same day :—" The six vessels laden with corn which had been seized on the Po had arrived at Milan. At Verona are stationed about 8,000 men, comprising 1,000 cavalry and 7,000 Croations, under the command of General D'ASPER. The Milanese hostages arrived at Verona on the 28th and 29th ult., and were lodged in the two forts. The advocate GIANNI, of Mantua, is among them. The Venetian corps, 6,000 men strong, with friars, priest, and professors at their head, is between Vicema and Montebello, under the command of SANFERMO. Before they arrive at Verona the number will be doubled. They have taken the title of " Crusaders." Gen. Zuccur is expected soon to join them with other bodies from Palmanova. The first columns of Pontifical and Tuscan volunteers have arrived at Rovigo under General DuaANDo. A body of 12,000 Neapolitan infantry arid 3,000 cavalry are on their march. The Austrian outposts are between Goito and Peschiera. An official report of General ALEMANDI informs the Minister of War that the volunteers under MANARA have occupied the whole borders of the Lake of Garda (Peschiera excepted), and have taken possession of the steamer. The Pro• visional Government of the province of Friuli has published a decree, prescribing the severest mea sures in case Austrian troops were to appear on the territory. The commissaries of di-tricts and the priests, in such cases, shall immediately call the people to arms, and inform the Provisional Govern ment of it. The Viceroy is at Bolzano. The fortress of Legnano is in the hands cf the people. At Trieste the French Consul, having been insulted, imme diately left the city, and took his departure for France, after leaving his family at Venice. A rumour was current at Milan that an insurrection had broken out at Gratz. A decree of the Provisional Govern ment of Venice prohibits the steamers of the Austrian Lloyd's from entering the ports of the Republic till further orders. The steamer Archduchess Sophia, however, is allowed to depart, having entered Venice under the faith of the Republic. The Sardinian Government has published the fol lowing manifesto : " Turin, March 31st, 1848. " Considering the hostile position in which Sardinia is placed in regard to Austria, it is necessary that the public, and especially the commercial public, should know the intentions of the Sardinian Government rela• Live to the laws of navigation. " His Alajesty the King of Sardinia does not purpose to avail himself in this war of the rights ordinarily claimed by belligerent powers at sea. " The Sardinian Government knows that the greater part of the officers and crews of the Austrian men-of-war consist of Italians, and that in a war essentially Italian, end the only end of which is to drive away foreigners who oppose the country, it is not consequently necessary to fight against fellow -countrymen. " With this view, then, the Government has requested the Admiralty to order the commanders of men-of-war to limit themselves simply to defend their ships in any ease in which they may be attacked by Austrian men of-war, but in no case to provoke a combat. " As to merchant ships sailing under Austrian colours, the Government desires that they be respected in their voyages, and in no manner molested." NAPLES. An insurrection of a serious character broke out in Naples on the 31st ult., in consequence of the people being disgusted with the bad faith of the KING. A letter from that city of the above date gives the following account of the state of affairs there : " Naples, March 31. " The new Ministry has not been able to torm itself, and we are threatened ‘‘ith a crisis of the moat violent na ure. " On the evening of the 29th the Virgile steamer left for Genoa, having on board a great number of Lombards, and about 200 Neapolitans, who are gone to assist them. \t eight o'clock large masses of the people surrounded the Minister of War, and accompanied him to the Pa lace, demanding that the King should give orders for the marching of troops for Lombardy. Atter a long hesitation, the only answer the King could give to the impatient people was that the finances of the country would not allow him to grant their request. The loudest imprecations then burst forth from th e crowd. " Yesterday the city looked likt a place besieged. At wo o'clock the Swiss artillery, with matches lighted, went through the streets without any one being able to cornpre. hend the meaning of such a movement. The people were then cairn. In the evening an intimation was given to the National Guard to discontinue their patrols and large bodies of cavalry and infantry assumed that duty. Serra Capriola and Bozelli appeared determined with the King to follow at Naples the sad example of Louis Philippe, Guizot, and Neuchatel, at Paris. Every enlightened man foresees the most disastrous conse quences. 'The commandant of the citadel of Messina has demanded a fresh supply of powder and ball. " In spite of the ridiculous efforts of the Neapolitan Government, Sicily proceeds with its organization with calmness and energy. Ruggiero Settimo, who had been proclaimed Regent by the Chamb,T of Peers, and Presi dent by the Deputies, has been confirmed as President of Sicily by a mixed commission of the two Chambers. The Sicilian Ministry is thus composed :—Muriano •stabile, Foreign Affairs; Baron Riso, War and Marine; Li Lumia, Justice; Calvi, Interior; Marquis Cords, Finance; and Prince Scordia, Public Instruction." IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. (THIS DAY.) HOUSE OF COMMONS. The SPEAKER took the Chair at Twelve o'clock. Mr. S. O'BRIEN wished to know from the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether the Govern ment had given any directions that the letters of the Repealers pasbing through the Post office shonld be opened, as he had received a letter which had evidently been opened, and lie wished to know if such conduct had been authorised by the Government? The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said most certainly not. Sir G. GREY said that he could give his most un qualified contradiction to any such orders having been ts,ued. No order whatever had been given to that effect, nor was it in the contemplation of the Government to issue any such order. If the Hon. Member had received any letter which he thought had been opened, he would advise him to send it to the Postmaster-General, wh o would state the circumstances, and cause an inquiry to be made on the subject. PROTECTION OF THE CROWN AND GOVERN, MEN T BILL. On the order of the day being read for the House going into Committee upon this Mn. O'CONiIOR rose to oppose the motion. The present was a base, bloody, and brutal Bill; and he be.. lieved if time were allowed the table of the House wool, bo covered with petitions against the measure. He con sidered that the Bill was perfectly unnecessary; the people were perfectly loyal. lie had always avowed himself in favour of an hereiitary monarchy ; but if this Bill were passed he should immediately declare hiuiselt in favour of a republic. Such being his opinion of the Bill, he would give a most direct negative to going int.. Committee on the Bill. Mr. HORSMAN said that it appeared that there were several opinions with respect to the Bill, and he thought chat it would be advisable for the House to come to a decision at once with respect to the retention of the words principally objected to. If the House declared itself in favour of retaining the words, he should not offer any further factious opposition to the Bill. Mr. HUME wished to know whether Hon. Members would be liable to come under the operation of the Act in consequence of anything they might say in that House. He also wished to know whether it was true, as suited by a Noble Lord in another place, that the meeting at Kennington-comm,,n was dispersed by a single policeman. He considered that the Government were to blame in not preventing the meeting taking place, instead of allowing the people to meet and then dispersing them. (Jul. SIB I'HORP tendered his best thanks to her Msjesty's Government, and more especially to her Ma jesty's Secretary of State for the Hume Department, fur the firmness he had displayed in bringing in this Bill, and persevering in it, in spite of the factious opposition made to it. He hoped that the Government would not relax one word of it. He should have been happy to have seen the Bill even ten times more stringent than it was. With respect to the qeestiou asked by the Hon. Member for Montrose, whether the Bill would apply to Honourable Members, he wished to say that should that lion. Member a t any t i me b r i ng hi mse lf within in he, provisions of thi s Bill , h e s h ou ld r i se i n hi s pl a cethe House and move that the Hon. Member be committed to the Tower fur the remaiuder of of a this import- Mr. AGLIONBY deprecated the use of intemperate language in discussing aforthwith ance. He did not think that the opinions alllikely ik l to con the lion. and Gallant Member were expressed nY w aria by the any party Bill, and he should cer tainly last night in favouridering the Bill necessary for the f tainly do so again, in the Honustehe (Hear, hear.) He had for going into did nut see why, if the people of Ire Committee. proAtierc.tGiointAocrtTheApio°opnlsepnosef dthitshceoumnotrtiy. imposed p should be land were in Haestaten o n f n c t t h im e m pe o n ti p o l n e , n a f la E w ng o la i n t d h . is T so h r e t by pouring in troops into Ireland, were the e le that an insur rectionosed the Bill because he and because ' A li :impending. He opposed cr eating fears in the t minds ouid of prove peon htlieved that w the on law was sufficiently stringent t o meet the emergei.cy for which the Government had brought it forward. The Government were making war against opinion ; but such a mode of procedure had never suc ceeded. Fox said, in speaking of a similar Bill, b u t which had not the words so much objected to in the pre sent measure, that if it were passed resistance would bi offered by the people as a mutter of course. He warned the Government that a sea was rising against them in Ireland whose flood would extend to this country and destroy it. Nothing but a domestic Legis lature would promote the prosperity of Ireland. Mr. REYNOLDS opposed the Bill. After the divi sion of last night, which showed that 453 alenibers sup ported the Bill, he had little hope of obtaining a modi• thettion of any of its obj, (amicable provisions. lie had heard the speech of the Solicitor -General with great Fain. In the caseO'Cu uuell and his associates, an appeal to the house of Lords, on the ground that the, jury that trit-.1 them was packed, proved effectual, prot;eust successful ; but a conviction under this Bill would 'h 6 out such an appeal. After conviction there was no 51 :: pre], and the person convicted would have, perhar,.„ spend years in a penal colony. The support of th .50; by the Hen. and Learned Member for Youghal , he did not intend to lecture, reminded hire of au aee'_`, dote of a person who spelt spirits with t :; " r's," bec ause is was twenty-five above Fr ,00l a _ d (Laughter) Under the present law Of I vel all the offences sought to be put down by the Bill were punishable. Why, th e n, did they want to punish thou guilty of them more severely, by transportation for or not less than seven years? Why, even females Isi,ll_ u ., be transported under its pr e vi s i ons . He hoped tcv? would show their gallantry, by leaving out the ladies all events. W hat were the g r o und s on which th e ui was proposed? First, because Irel a nd was distush e c i aild, St cundly, because England wss disturbed. lie d". i d al that this sus so. With the exception of the U ni te . Irishman and the liation, nu violent lengusge was T e d d Nineteen-twentieths, or 99 out of 100, of the pe"P"! Dubiin condemned the wild and extravagant dcictrtn promulgated .hy the violent deruae,ogurs in De p _ rs Cork was quiet, and so also was Limerick, Belfast, NV" • f Thos iv o t r i ( o l'l s C a i t i d ke th n e n t C y l( w m a m s e d i 'iasitUdrtbleled othe rlibe larg e i it. w The " and Gallant Member for Lincoln wished to promot e; the cold water cure. Let him take care in promoting it be did not get into hot water and be punished the provisions of the Bill. Since the union Ireland had been retrograding hour by hour. During the 1 0310 1,900,000 died of hunger and cold. And Istterlf, man, who had been committed and sentenced for sheep stealing, was acquitted because his distress *2 ° 4 so great that his wile ate the limbs of dead child.—(llear, hear.) If they adopted . _ o ; conciliatory policy, they might withdraw l c e 30,000 troops, and trust the protection of ; e country to the people. He had hoped that the Government would have postponed the Bill till lil a Easter—(Laughter)—but as they did not he sh e i. P s move an amendment as to the third clause. He • supported the Government, and supported theca wbe no one else would have ventured to do se' c i (Laughter.) Well, his constituents, who numbe re d 10,000, had all a bad word for them—(Laughter) -- t e , he stood up, when no Member would dos so, and fended them. He would give them another tric i he (Roars of laughter)—and he thought the best wet e if could serve the country, was to absent hic l ' i- o from public meetings.—(Cries of " Hear, hear' He was glad that the demonstration of the Lion. (Mr. O'Connor) had passed off quietly, and that he ' 6 not been guilty of any violence.—(Oh, o h.) B. 11 10 ,) afraid he had offended the speci a l consta bl es —(L a ughte" —but he believed he was right in what he bad said. Mr. SADLEIR supported th e Bill, b ecause h e collie dered it necessary to suppress the seditious ' proceedi o of the " juvenile men who were no w di s t ur bi n g Irelec o At the same time he thought it right to state to the 11 0 1 0 P and Government, that since the ti me o f C romwe ll and t so " Poyning's Act," this count r y h a d o pp re ssed country. The greatest dissatisfaction and misery P I ; veiled, principally in consequence of absenteeism, f r the physical degradation of the people, and the obnoot ious provisions of the Irish poor law. It was a gr e ri a error to suppose that domains of 60 miles, and elect° divisions of 16, could prov e o th erw i se t h an a delusion ,„ the poor, and be lookediupon as anything else than a h ° i• low attempt to mock their distresses, and to conflsrt i• the labour and property of th e i n d ustr i ous. Was the Lord aware of the elective franchise in Ireland?—(Q ue . don, question.) He submitt e d h e was i n or d er iu 6 t' ss • ing this, whilst discussing the necessity for such measure as this. The Honourable Gentleman was P r ne , °. ceeding to deal with the constituency of 4 rary, which had been reduced, he sa id, to - 4 e hen he was stopped by repeated calls of Question, 013 resumed his seat. beti Lord J. RUSSELL said the Hon. Gentleman who just sat down had mistaken the nature of the motion be fe o r the House—(Hear, hear)—as he would have bid 0 opportunity of making the speech at a later period; c o3is in making this statement he would simply su b . o e to fits consideration, arid to the considere ll of the House, whether if the Government s " ti o f feel disposed to bring forward a number, no t measures with respect t o I re l an d, w h et h er i t would r be quite impossible to do so—whether any particulle day could be devoted to them, if the time of the was occupied in the way it had been to-day ?—(li ets j'e The Hun. Gentlemen had referred to a statement for to by him (Lord J. Russell) last night, which seemed have been very touch misapprehended, and as was not unlikely that that misapprehension 024 ,d s extend to Ireland, he wished to say a f e w w, ° ' lo in order to set the matter right. H e seelne". i t s think that he (Lord John Russell) stated I ° l ,, respect to the loss of ',life that had taken PM,- in Ireland, that it was no part of the duty of the ; o f vernment to interfere for the purpose of saving I ,„,,e i bs t life from the ravages of hunger and disease. Wh it he had stated was, that, generally speaking' se was not the business of the Government b• interfere, but from what had been done se cl thought he could hardly have been suPP ii e to state that such measures were unnecessary respect to the want of food in Ireland, beause last i e b , the Government recommended to Parliament, and,_ ( ;ie, tamed power to feed 3,000,000 of p e ople 0 ' so little was the Government di s posed t o b e indiffer i c . ,, with respect to the suffering people of Irelas i e (Hear, hear.) With regard t o t h e Pe°r-.,,15s had any been introduced during the Pr e — ; ol l year; the arrears of the sums required the coneidera ti •• of the Government, as no doubt cam; might in t in which it was quite impossible, from ° li d s size, to supply the starving people with W ile Hard therefore not long since he sent a notice from . 4 0% Treasury stating, that it' any persons were ster vi , s . inquiry was to be made whether the want of the ne c t - ei , nary funds was owing to the non-collection of the ra te and the reports received were in many cases to the tu b/ that persons fully able to pay h a il b een f a voured si e the collectors, and that therefore the peep,a for whose support they wer e i n t en d e d, h a d b een left, re consequence, to perish.—(Bear, hear.) Where tcL i s were no means of relieving the distress, he directed tr • application should be made to th e B r i t i s h Ms.:visit and to the Government, in order that the people Mika be spared from starvation. Ho thought he had °lest ° up this misapprehension.--(Hear, hear.) If such 81°6 ; ments were made in Ireland they would be both libelluc and calumnious.—(Hear, hear.) Sir 1)E LACY EVANS offered his hearty thstiltsl the Government for the admirable arrangements svh;,; they made yesterday. Re was happy that no distef'c i ' s ance had taken place, and his firm belief was th a t ,- was prevented by the course pursued by the GO O l , - ; meat. It was to the Government alone that • thanks of the people were due for rendering f " meeting of yesterday a contemptible meeting. Mr. MASTERNI AN expressed his sincere thsfe l ‘ lh l and that el the citiz ens of L on d on t o t h e GoTernlsel3,.s for the prompt arid effective course they p ursue d yein; day. It w as a lik e h onoura bl e to themselves and t`'- people. a Sir G. GREY, before the House divided, felt boll% to say a few words in answ er t o t h e quest i on P° to him by the Honourable Member for ItiOntr° h ; He had asked the Gov ernment, whether tis meeting on Kennington-com mon yesterday, had been forcibly dispersed by th e p o li ce. I n answer to question, be had to state that the met --ft had not been forcibly di sperse d b y the poll—,; The Police Commissioner under the direcu ° of the Government h a d s t ate d to t h e Honourable GI; tleusan opposite (M r . O'C onnor ), an d t h e l ea d ers o f 1 , meeting, that if any att em pt was ma d e to h ave a Pr;:, cession, and it was p ers i s t e d i n , f orce wou ld used to put it down.—(Hear, hear, and cheers With respect to the statem e nt of t h e H on ourl o .Member for Montrose that the prep ara ti on s to • ny the Government we r e use l ess an d i mprope r, l' t , • could not admit that they were useless, because ; believed that iu consequenc e o f th e p reparat i on s 6 .1 211 1; nad been mad e , th e k now l e d ge o f them had str'c error into the mind s o f p ersons w h o , b ut for the—nii: would have been disp ose d to h ave create d disturb:dirt - I , —(hear.) Nothin g h a d b een more mer i tor i ous t h a n • conduct of the well disposed part of the people of tail tuetropolis,and the spirit that animated theta was above la to aise.—(llear, hear.) He had no d ou b t that i t we ea have its effect throughout the country.—(Hear.) it had already had its effect according to by information he had received that morning _ s ", the electric telegraph. By that means of cosmos munication, he had received intelligence, fi l ir the occurrences in the metropolis yesterday, and tha t peaceable termination, had been received with great Pi in many of the large towns in the country,—(lleit. The Government had, he was happy to say, by i 1 1: blessing of Divine Providence, been enabl e d to dig' charge their duties fearlessly, assisted, as they had he e° ' by the cordial co-operation of the pep le. After some observationscua Ifv.rEomoiMwr. k ini um istad z and O'Cosisron, the latter gave up his motion for psessic% to withdraw, and the ID °. the House to iwßn a gelr.i d eA iv oN is r i d o e n r ; ed bu t divided, aoiSl T usr Ae e. gi i dS a i w l Strangersl ig v on h i uo Ad s e sit neni Majority then t . h e.r. intoe appeared— For. Committee l9 fworengtoiinntgo iatnonCommittee 3_213()20v , mittee on the Bill, 13E1RINeALpirneatmheb1Cehawira; postponed, and the first chi° • agreed to without any discussion. (LEFT BITTING.) EXPLOSION Or GA S IN A STAY.—The ;rill Agnetha, a Danish vessel, had her decks blown up sn , some beams broken on Friday, in consequence of an e b . " . • was lying at Tyne Main, Plosion of gas. One of the crew also was injured. S p a days. It seems the gas had accumulated in a part of 07 vessel which had been boarded off, and into which and had been ooal•ledan candle had been incautiously introduced.—Gatesh( o Observer. BIRTBS. On the let inst., at Wolverton House, Bucks, the h&c °I Richard Harrison, Esq.. of a son. On the Ist inst., at Reigate, Surrey, the wife of James C . Street, Esq., of a son. On the sth inst., the wife of the Rev. William Hasl o ' Incumbent of Whin], near Truro, of a daughter. DIES. On the sth iest., Isabella, Dowager Vi , •countess Powerr court, relict of Richard, fourth Viscount Powerscon , t. On the 3d inst., at Ludgate-street, WiLiam Boydell, 0 011 child 01 W. H. Carlin, &rt. On the 4th rs. Atkins, of Allsop-terrace, New-road' 0,1 the 4th inst., at Radcliffe-upon-Trent, Notts, J ulio.ll o* Wile of William Taylor, Esq. London: Printed and Publidied by MURDO YOUNG, S i No. 112 strand Printer, at The Sun Office, No. 11 ' Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in the condi laiddlesez, Toe§dey, April 11, 1848.