The Sun. — London, England, 1848-04-22 00:00:00

NOTICE! SEVENTH EDITIO N SE VENTH THE CRESCENT AND TUE CROSS. Ey ELIOT WARBURTON, Esq. IS NOW READY. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. • ready, in 3 vols. Sve., Nowwith immerous Illustrations, THEPARSON, PEN, and PEN CIL. By the REV. G. M. MUSGRAVE. •• The author is a humorist. If he were not as well known for a 'Veritable personage as the late Canon of St. Paul's, it might be ima gined that the name on the title-page was a hoax, to show how well wit would look in a clerical garb."—Britannia. Richard Bentley, Sew Burlington-street, (Publisher in ordinary to her Majesty). THE SC EILESWIG•HOLSTEIN QUESTION. This Day is published'. n Bve., with Map, price 2s. 6d. stitned, AMEMOIR en the SCHLESWIG-HOL STEIN QUESTION, presented to Lord Palmerston by the CHEVALIER BUNSEN: with all other important Documents published by 0. VON WENOMiTERN. London : Longman, 8.'31711, Green and Longmans. FIER. MAJESTY'S THEATRE. The Nobility, Gentry, Subscribers to tne Opera, and the Pub lic are respectfully informed that a GRAND EXTRA NIGHT will take place on THURSDAY next, April 27, the particulars of which will be duly annsuncecl. THEAIRE ROYAL, DRURY LANE. CIRQUE NATIONAL DE PARIS. RE. OPENED ON EASTER MONDAY. Last Week but Two. On Monday next, an entirely new selection of Performances of the most brilliant and magnificont character. Doors open at half-past Seven, performance to commence at Eight. THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. CIRQUE NATIONAL DE PARIS. Last Week but Two, the whole troupe being obliged to return to Paris on the 15th of May. The public is respectfully informed that during the Easter Week Three Grand Morning Performances, of the most brilliant and mag nificent character will be given (for this week only) on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. Performance to commence at Two o'clock. First Price as usual. No Second :Price. Private Boxes to be had at Juliien and Co.'s, 214, Regent-street. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Under the Management of Mr. B. Webster, sole Lessee. Os EASTER MONDAY, Will be presented a new comic Drama, called OLD HONESTY. Michael Bradshaw, Mr. Webster ; Joseph Bradshaw, Mr. H. Van denhoff ; Sir Perkins Besborough, Mr. Howe ; Mr. Septimus Hook, Mr. Tilbury ; Toby Perch, Mr. Keeley ; Dame Bradshaw, Mrs. Glover ; Mary, Miss Reynolds. After which, a new comic Drama, entitled LAVATER THE PHYSIOGNOMIST ; and Good Judge 100. Lavater, Mr. Webster ; Agnes, Miss Fertescue. To conclude with a Grand Romantic Extravaganza, founded on Horace Walpole's mysterious production, and called THE CASTLE OF OTRANTO. Manfred, Mr. Keeley ; the Marquis Vincenzo., Mr. J. Bland ; Theodore, Miss P. Horton ; Odonto, Mr. Caulfield ; Hip polite, Mrs. W. Clifford ; Isabella, Miss Reynolds ; Matilda, Mrs. Caulfield. Stale Manager, Mr. Farren; Acting Manager, Mr. F. Webster. J. T. Archer, Box-book keeper. Boxes, ss. ; Pit, Is. ; Gallery, 2s. ; Upper Gallery, Is. Doors open at Half-past Six, Performance to commence at Seven. THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHL Under the direction o; Madame Celeste. On EASTER MONDAY, Will be performed a new and original Drama, called HARVEST HOME. Principal charactors by Messrs. H. Hughes, Lambert, Wright, P. Bedford, 0. Smith, Madame Celeste, Miss Woolgar, Mrs. Frank Matthews, Miss Turner, &c. Alter 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 Me ssrs. Cullenford, Boyce, pan yard, Paul Legrand, C. J. Sm ith, R y an, Miss E. lia.rding, &c. Boxes, 45.; Pit, 2s. Gallery, Is. 1 Mara oven at Halt-past Six, Performance to commence at Seven, . ) YAL LYCEUM TILEATRE. "Under the Management of Madame Vestris. sole Lessee. Mr. Charles Mathews, This Theatre will IZE-OPEN on EASTER MONDAY, April 24 when o W ill be performed a Comic Drama, called A ROUGH DIAMOND. Characters by Messrs. Selby. Diddear, Bellingham, Buckstone; Mrs. Leigh Murray, and Mrs. Fitzwilliam. After which, an entirely new and original Classical Extravaganza, entitled THESEUS and , ARIADNE the Marriage of Backus. H. Hall, S. Smith, F. Principal characters by essrs. C. Mathews, Cooke ; Miss Eitzwilliam, Miss Jane Coleman, Miss Marshall, and Madame Vestris. To conclude with a new comic Drama, entitled NOT A BAD jui JOT,. Characters by Messrs. R. Roxby, Diddear, Parselle, Har ley, Meadows, Bellingham, Charles Mathews ; Miss Jane Coleman, and Miss Lee. Dress Boxes, 55.; Upper Boxes, 4s. ; Pit, 2s. ; Gallery, ls. No half-price to any part of the house. The New Box-office, No. 2, Wellington-street, is open to the Public every day, from Ten till Six. FRENCH PLAYS.—SI. JAMTI:S'S 'IIILATBE. Lessee, Mr. John Mitchell. 33, OA Bond-street. Last Appearance but Two of M. Lafont. Mons. Lafont begs respectfully to announce that his benefit and last night but two of his engagement will take place at the re-open ing of the Theatre on WEDNESDAY next, April 26, on which occa sion will be revived (for that night onl y ) the celebrated play of LE CHEVALIER DE ST. GEORGES. Le Chevalier, M. Lafont ; Le Baron, M. Montaland ; .Mdlle. De Presle, Mdlle. l'aul Ernest. —ln addition to which will be produced also (tor that night only) the po pular vaudeville of JEAN; ou, Le Mauvais Sujet. Jean, M. Lafont. With other Entertainments. Boxes, 6s. ; l'it, 35. 6d.; Amphitheatre. 3s. ; Gallery, 2s Boxes and Stalls may be obtainNl at Mr. Mitchell's Royal Library, 33, Old Bond-street. TO CORRESPONDENTS. No communication can be attended to unless authentl cated by the name and address of the writer. Rejected communication's cannot be returned. THE WEATHER.—SIIN OFFICE, APRIL 22. THERMOMETER, Lowest, 45 ; Highest, 51; Noon, 47 BAROMETER, 29.5.—W1ND N.N.W.; cloudy. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE THIS DAT. Morning .. 11 min. after 4 I Evening .. 28 min. after 4 .--,------ .10, de t " 4 ,7 e _., sO , . , ' 4 •44, - . V • . ,- • i r... - -.- 1 10 - - - 4' - !- ---- , - * -- • \ ..ci- - ' * ..,..., \ • ~ 4: 4 2" • AO ' , • ' ZifinT • . ,s, A etiVnAlTa LONDON, SATURDAY, APRIL 22, 1548. Three extraordinary facts are visible in Europe in reference to the resurrection or consolidation of three important nationalities. France has so far established a republic within her boundaries that her capital witnessed on Thursday one of those grand jubilees which illustrate her history with the pageantries of the Parisians. Armed citizens to the number of 300,000 or 400,000 defiled before the Provisional Government, with trumpets blowing, drums rolling, and colours flying. It was a spectacle of national exultation, such as might vie with the inauguration of the imperial dynasty on the heights of Boulogne, or with the constitutional pomps of the memorable Champ de Mai. Italy presents the second remark able appearance in this hemisphere. Disquietude in her southern extremities, confidence in her central principalities, and war along her northern frontiers—such is the aspect of that penin sula. Auxiliaries are arriving daily by the dif ferent roads which concentrate about the principal cities of Lombardy. The most energetic. of her lay sovereigns has himself assumed the leadership d ' the ay Italy. Victory hes al armies of Ital shed its glo"y upon the Italian tri-colour on the banks l of the Minclo, and more recently at Maracaria. i sleanwhile, under the cover of the defenders of projected ecnfederation, negotiations have been se i t t : t e on foot for under the the purpose of constituting a national D presidency of the Sovereign PONTIFF. T here is con sequently every probability of a speedy settlement the affairs o f this g lorious, but hitherto disjointed of cou ntry, and tl.e more so from the circumstan ce o f - the energies of its p rinci p al anta g onist (Austria ) be ing required elsewhere for the prevention of an im minent and decisive dismemberment. Germany in another directit:n is agitated by the throes which pre lude, not its emancipation, for it is already emanci pated, but its combination into one compact and gi gantic power. Towards these three divisions of the continent the public attention is severally and collec tively attracted. Those three great and revolutionized divisions of Europe form in their position a splendid illustration of the character and tendencies of the age ; they are to the cause of popular advancement what the three degrees of comparison are to an ad iective. France has riven her bonds for ever, and is even no w exulting in the sense of her eternal and in destructibleof liberty. Italy has emerged from the tomb her recent and prolonged already has a foretaste of the joys and securities of independence,although the scheme of her con federative Diet yet only been projected. Germany, with a no d w iff stru r s ent and more procrastinated destiny, is only to release itself from the restrictions of many obsoletestruggling to and feudal authorities. Germany gg Hence the fate of the future of either Franceor"l more dubious than rily more dubious from the great Italy. It is necessa interests, and from the jealousies fomented of its numerous and petty Governments. mßented among its e b for e and such incongruous materials can so many woven it one c oncrete nationality, anxieties, su s p i cnto tous, strifes, sorrows, and disastrous evidences of ambition are in evitable. Every additional fragment of intelligence cor roborates our opinion as to the ordeal whichey is reserved for the Germans befor e they can hope to consolidate the stru ggles, the wisdom, and the commercial and p olitical inte rests of Fatherland. A Zollverein is certainl y not in this respect like the pamphlet of the ex-repre sentative of Ma(;on—" A Vision of the Future." This is demonstrated by the distracted state of the Germanic confederation. In the Polish frontiers, for example, we find the division of MIEROSLAWSKI moving towards the woods of Crotoschin, as if in preparation for a campaign at Aix-la-Chapelle. Wax-lights are burnt in homage around the corpses of the dead insurgents. Off Stettin the armed vessels of the Danes are capturing the merchantmen (iSchles- wig. In Hungary there are monster meetings in favour of a physical demonstration. In Bohemia the recent turmoil gives scarcely any token of its speedily sub siding. In Gallicia serious collisions between the armed masses are reported to have occurred. At Posen di3order continues to prevail, and bands of the excited population parade the duchy with menacing cries and ominous combinations. At Vienna an Imperial decree of the Emperor of AUSTRIA an nounces that on and after the Ist of January, 1849, "all feudal and personal servitude will cease, and that i❑ lieu thereof a crown rent be substituted." At Berlin, on the contrary, much indigna tion is excited by the arrival of certain military decorations, transmitted in terms of com pliment from the Emperor of RUSSIA to eight officers who made themselves particularly conspicuous in the slaughter of the inhabitants of that metropolis. Such are the passions which clash against each other in the oscillations of German opinion and in the ebullitions of German nationality. After a certain probationary interval has elapsed there can be no question but that the independence of Germany, of Italy, and of Poland, will be secured beyond the hope of their after subjugation. They are rising majestically and heroically—fint Italy, then Germany, then Poland—and the arbiter of the whole movement is France. It was yesterday our painful duty to direct the public attention to the atrocious sentiments that had been put forward by a Roman Catholic clergyman, who, forgetting the benign precepts of his religion, directly stimulated the people committed to his charge to acts of violence and bloodshed, and pandered to the worst passions of the excitable population. A more pleasing duty, however, devolves upon us this day. In place of polluting our columns with the truculent and sanguinary harangues of the BERMING HAMS or the KENYONS, we may adorn them with the wise, the beneficent, the salutary counsels of a truly Christian minister—the Very Rev. Dr. APENERY, the R. C. Vicar-General of Kerry. The address of that amiable and pious pastor contains the best antidote to the poison dis seminated by his unworthy brethren, and must prove the most salutary remedy for the insur• rectionary epidemic that is now raging in so many districts. The sound sense, the unanswerable argu ments put forward by this respected gentleman, must convince any unprejudiced mind of the absolute futility of any armed resistance to the British power, supported and strengthened as it is by the well affected and loyal inhabitants of the country—cf the fearful ruin and desolation that would be the inevi table consequences of such a resistance—of the op portunities for amelioration and prosperity that would thereby be absolutely cast away—the feasible reforms that would be lost—the myriads of human beings that would perish by the sword, or under the more lingering torments of pestilence and famine, w ith all their accumulated and aggravated horrors. The motives of some of the leading agitators, who incite the masses to acts of violence and insubordina- tion, wholly regardless of the consequences the may result to their wretched dupes, are also laid bare and exposed in the most masterly and effective manner. We must, however, suffer Dr..AITNERT to speak for himself:— " Cold, hunger, and utter destitution would be the portion of the misguided people engaged in a rebel lion—extensive slaughter in the open country—agri culture would be neglected—the crops burned in the field, or trampled under the hoof of the war horse— myriads of orphans and widows would roam through the desolate land, seeking that food which did not exist—the sacred edifice consecrated to the service of the Most High would become a smouldering ruin the unobtrusive retreat of piety, purity, and education would become the barracks of a licentious soldiery-- property would be squandered by the most reckless miscreants in thoughtless riut—the banks would be come insolvent—the helpless inmates of poorhouses would crawl out from their asylums, seeking that sustenance which could not be afforded to them, and dying by thousands on the roadsides—the ear of man would be closed against the cries of his suffering fellow-man—morality would perish, and selfishness, cruelty, and violence would reign universally—and the overwhelming power of union, wealth, and dis ciplined strength would extinguish the flames of abor tive rebellion in the blood of the misguided people. The picture is not overcharged. It would become an awful reality. Then would not the attempt, by the instrumentality of a rebellion, be foolish in the ex treme ?" The Reverend Gentleman, although so graphically depicting the heart-rending consequences of such an outbreak, is by no means insensible to the wrongs and sufferings of his unhappy country. He points out clearly and plainly the causes that have led thereto. They have not been the results of recent measures, of the sins of any reign, or the acts of any Ministers ; they are the growth of centuries, during which neglect and oppression have been manifested on the one side, and distrust and estrangement on the other, until, as the Rev. Doctor truly states, Turbulence, sloth, ignorance, and idleness were forced upon the most improvable and moral people under the canopy of heaven," While " the people foolishly and universally attempted to redress their wrongs by insane rebellions, in which the means were clearly inadequate to procure the proposed end, all the countless miseries inseparable from an unsuccessful civil war fell upon the country, and caused it to retrograde for many dark and tedious years. An imaginative and ardent people thus neglected, and destitute of ,elf-reliance, listened to every political empiric, and overlooked the means by which their condition might be gradually but infallibly improved." It is owing to such causes as that the MITCHELLS, the MEAGIIERS, and the SMITH OTRIENS 7 cum multis (this, are enabled to mislead the too confiding people, to stimulate and excite them to anarchy and rebellion, in place of seeking for those constitutional reforms—those useful and legitimate measures which are so urgently required. Although we have already extracted so largely from this admirable address, we cannot refrain from making one more quotation in reference to the w ould be leaders : " I may be told that the Liberal journals, the watchful sentinels of the Irish nation—that the glo rious and eloquent orators, who stand forward to denounce the cruel Saxon, and to shed their Irish blood for fatherland—speak with hope, encourage ment,c and con fid ence o f th e i ssue o f the ontest. My tear friends, attach no credit to their assertions— confide no t i n their promises—be not so helplessly credulous an insane and as to ' The journalisturug h e eq o u n a y l o s u tru to gg e l m e, b w ar i k sh o e n s ruinouswhotlomoguianin,eid that to continue alnoodk, forincrease the circulation of his praise and profit— and these journal—he you areh inis the fatherland. pa th who would encourage with a craving appe tite, for applause. Let this, seeks, however evanescent, be of ruin Thel) conferred on him—he seldomAncares what evils may outbreak would ine vitablypweoruiolda the enactment befal his deluded hearers. prevent for a very long of those salutary measures. probably, hundreds of thousands of different cons ign' very perpetuate ages to a prem ature grave. It would kindl e anew the unhal lowed fires of religious rancour—it would di s trust, estrangement, and mutual aversion b b o th countries, and it would leave Ireland in t s v ehere n misery and degradation. Will any man, the we ak as to doubt that a rebellion would be ' beso 1 ruinous to the country ?" We trust that t he Irish p eo p le will duly appreciate this valuable advice, coming as it does from a quarter in which they may place such implicit confidence, a n d of which they have so much reason to be proud. Dr. M'ENEILY may feel the proud satisfaction of having rendered the most essential services to the cause and tranquillity, and advanced the best interests of his beloved country. He has also vindicated his Church and her pastors from the reproaches that might have been provoked by the conduct of a few turbulent and mischievous individuals--reproaches which, however undeserved by the great body of the clergy, might have been cast upon them by persons who were not aware how f u lly an d en ti re ly they repudiated the insane and reckless conduct of the BERMINGHAUS and the KENYONS. H .owever solicitous the great body of the people of this country may be for various necessary reforms, and for the adoption of such legislative measures as are, to their thinking, likely to tend to the ameliora tion of their condition ; and, moreover, however great may be the approbation of some among that body for individual points of the Charter, the recent attempted demonstration s of the Chartists have elicited from them neither sympathy nor support. On the contrary, those demonstrations, and the disturbances which they were calculated to produce, have evoked from the English people spontaneous and simultaneous mani. festations of their allegiance to the Constitution and respect for the laws. So great and unequivocal was this manifestation of the popular feeling that when Mr. FEARGUS O'CONNOR, in his remarks in the House of Commons in reference to the petition, seemed to insinuate that the fictitious names signed thereto had been introduced by Government spies, Lord J. RUSSELL good- humouredly and most signifi ficantly inquired of him, if he did not think that some of the most violent proceedings of the Chartist Convention had been also instigated by Government spies attending there, for the purpose of provoking an exhibition of the loyal and orderly sentiments of the people. Nevertheless, in spite of this observation of the Prime Minister, the Duke of WELLINGTON, in giving his approval of the Government Security Bill, expressed his opinion that a great contempt of the law was prevalent in this country—a contempt of the law which of late years had been gradually increas ing. As an illustration of his argument, the Noble Duke observed, that some years back (about 1831) insurrections had broken out simultaneously at Lyons and Bristol, the population in both towns being about the same. Nevertheless, one squadron of dragoons did that at Bristol which required 60,000 men to perform at Lyons, namely, to put down the insurrec tions, and preserve the cities from destruction. " My Lords," concluded the Noble Duke, " I attri bute the different success of those two efforts to the respect which prevailed at that time in Eng land for the law—to the feeling which every man had that he was disobeying the law by joining in that insurrection ; and respect for the law it was which then saved Bristol. We are certainly not now in that happy position. It is true, that without the exercise of force, we saw large bodies of persons who had collected in the vicinity of this town quietly disperse, but that was not out of submission to the law. Was not the whole population of the town, civil as well as military, under arms ? Were there not several hundred thousand persons employed as constables ? And, consequently," asks the Noble Duke, after this enumeration, " Can it be said that respect for the law prevented any outrage being committed ?" Most certainly it can. The questions of the Noble Duke contain their own most satisfactory answer. It was not respect for the law that preserved peace on the 10th of April, says the Duke of WELLINGTON, for he asks, " TVere not the whole population, civil as well as military, under arms? Were there not several hundred thousand persons employed as special constables ?" After replying in the affirmative to this demand, may we, in our turn, be permitted to inquire if it was not respect fur the laws which thus awed the whole civil population, and called for the willing exertions of so many persons as special constables ? The Duke of WELLINGTON'S question is his own best answer. Respect for the laws did preserve peace on the 10th of April. So universally is this desirable fact admitted, that on the Duke of WELLINGTON resuming his seat, Lord DENMAN emphatically declared that recent proceed ings only tensed to manifest the loyal and orderly sentiments of the people. " I think," he said, " that when a disturbance of the public peace was threatened the exhibition of order which then took place peaceable men leaving their ordinary occupations of life to expose themselves to probable danger, and to certain inconvenience, at a great sacrifice -I think it was one of the finest spectacles ever ex hibited on the part of a people attached to the law, because convinced by long experience of the benefits of the protection to be derived from it." " I am sure," added Lord DENMAN, " I can never speak without feelings of the utmost admiration of the Duke of WELLINGTON, but I feel I should be want ing in some degree in what was due to the real cha • racter of the English people, if I allowed the ex pression about the growing contempt of the law,' to pass without comment." On this the Commander in -Chief, to a certain extent, qualified his former as sertion, which assertion, however, has been so far satisfactory by eliciting from the House of Lords an almost unanimous expression of their admiration for the recent conduct of the people. It is said that, in order to perpetuate the memory of these loyal de monstrations on the part of the lower orders, a sub scription is about to be raised for the pur pose of erecting some public building that may serve as a fitting popular memorial. To our thinking, however, such a proceeding would be derogatory to the honourable character of the people. England, we know, expects every man to do his duty, and in the recent pacific demonstration every man has done his duty, and consequently is deserving of all appro bation. Nevertheless, to raise a subscription and found a monument in celebration of the recent effort to preserve the peace, and to attest the loyalty of the British people, is surely most uncalled for. What is so manifest requires no such deliberate attestation. It would be raising a monument to the pyramids, and a pillar to celebrate the erection of the column of TRAJAN. The love of the British people for order and peace is proclaimed in the fact of their national existence, in the circum stance of their commercial prosperity, and in the very form and character of their institutions. THE FRENCH REPUBLIC. PROCEEDINGS AT PARIS. We have received the Paris papers of yesterday. The fetes of Thursday passed off without the least disturbance, and in the evening Paris was brilliantly !laminated. The illumination was universal, ex :ending to all the bye streets and the suburbs. `The members of the Provisional Government took their seats on the platform at the Barriere de l'Etoile to distribute the colours at eight o'clock in the morn ing, and did not quit the platform until ten at night. The Moniteur says— " It is calculated that at least 400,000 armed men defiled before the Provisional Government. Never did so powerful an army display its ranks in so nar row a space in so short a time, and with so much calm. Never did the Cabinet of a great people make a manifestation so colossal or so reassuring." The following is the speech made by M. ARAGO, the Minister of War, to the colonels of the regiments assembled to receive the colours : " Colonels of the National Guard and the Army,— The Provisional Government is about to confide these colours to your honour, and to the honour of the citizens and soldiers whom you command. Let these Republican colours, of which history consecrates the glorious remembrance, recal at all times to your eyes the living image of free and regenerated France. Let our hearts be penetrated with the holy device of the Republic, henceforth become the immortal faith of the country. If that country have need of your arms, let this flag serve as a guide to your courage. Let it be, in the midst of peace, a symbol of disci pline and order, a signal of rallying for the defence of those great principles which the Revolution has proclaimed, and which the Republic will revive. Citizen soldiers, soldier citizens, all children of the people, equally dear to the people, carry with pride that emblem of the strength and of the grandeur of the armed people. It is for the Republic a pledge of union and of power—for all free people a guarantee of alliance and friendship—and for the people who are yet oppressed a hope of being liberated. Colonels, in the name of the Republic, we take God and man to witness that you swear fidelity to its flag." The colonels, lifting their swords, replied, "We swear it! Vive la Republique!" The first of the colours was th en di s t r ib u t e d b y M. D UPONT (de I , Lure), and the others by the other members of the Provisional Government, each making a short ad dress in delivering the colours. Immediately after wards, that is, at eleven o'clock, the defiling com menced. About fifty veterans of the army of the Empire, each wearing a uniform of that period, took part in the/de of Thursday. They were headed by an old man in the costume of the Imperial Guard, who, it was said, had attained the age of 102. Ho supported himself on a stick, and brandished his sword with his left hand when he heard the Marseillaise or the Chant du Depart. This small troop of grognards was loudly cheered by the people. The following manifesto from the chiefs of the secret societies was extensively placarded over Paris on Wednesday : " Republicans—The organization of our secret so cieties dates from 1815. Our object then was to overthrow an odious power ; we were untiring in the pursuit of that end. Persecutions exile, im prisonment, the scaffold, instead of discouraging us, only increased our energy. Berton, Bories, Valee, Caron, those glorious martyrs, sealed their devotion to the holy cause of liberty with their blood. Our indefatigable perseverance effected the triumph of 1830. But the people did not know how to turn the victory to account. Thelbourgeoisie re-established the THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, APRIL 22, 1848:1 throne. We were, therefore, compelled to resume our labours. This time we had a twofold mission to fulfil—the establiThment of a republican form of government, and the foundation of a new social order. On the 24th February we gained the republic ; the political question is solved. Wh a t we now seek is the solution of the social question—it is a speedy relief for th: , sufferings of the l a b our i ng c l asses —it is, in short, the application of the p r i nc i p l es contained in our declaration of the rights of man. " DECLARATION OF RIGHTS. " The object of our society is the maintenance of in other words, the the n r a e t a u l i r s a a l t limited i u o n n of t h e rightsrepublican o rn e men 0; Egalite, Fraterzz ite. rmula—Liberte, " The first right of man is the right of existence. This right implies another, namely, the perfect de velopment, and unshackled exercise of the physical, moral, and intellectual faculties of man : it is this right which constitutes liberty. " Liberty is equal to all men. " The natural consequence of this liberty is the right of association ; of manifesting our philosophical, political, and religious opinions. " Labour is one of the conditions of the life of man. Society is bound to provide work for each of its members, and the means of existence to those who are incapable of working. " No poor under the republic. " Agriculture and industry, those two great sources of the wealth of nations, are deserving of all the solicitude of the state. "Under property we understand the individual or collective right of making use of what we possess. " This right is subordinate to the interests of society, and must be regulated by law. " The revenue arising from property, as well as the produce of labour, are subject to taxation. "Taxation should be gradual; that is to say, in and intellectual e d uca ti on i s d ue and Should excess soafb competency,e. ebeyv,proportion,errhtoy sociality usicch t a o l tihtoihenaeoi indispensable. "No man may be de p rive d of the blessings of moral, members. public education. "Instruction should be open gratuitously to all. "Law is the expression of social relationship. "The will of the people can alone establish and maintain it. Justice is the guardian of the laws, rights, and duties. Justice should be open to all, and rendered by the elect of the people. "The only sovereign is the people. " Sovereignty is indivisible and unalienable. " The Government can only exist and exercise its power in virtue of the delegation of the people. " Every citizen is elector—every citizen eligible. " Every citizen is admittable to public offices. " The army is the people organized for the defence of their rights and their territory. " It consists of all citizens capable of bearing arms. "All men are brothers. "Fraternity is the moral link between nations; it establishes common interests b?tween them. "Every Government that violates the eternal grin• ciples of Egalite, Liberte, and Fraternite is the enemy of the people. To put it down is the most holy of duties: " To the work, then, brethren ! " The world beholds us. Ours be the task to assure the present, and lay a foundation for the future. Let us unite Let us close our ranks for the electoral struggle which is preparing. Let us not forget that those who are not for us are against us ; no transactions are possible between the supporters of privileges, disguised to-day as Re publicans, and the fervent apostles of democracy. Our task is immense. It is not France alone that looks to us for salvation ! Let our aspirations spread beyond the limits of our country. All natidns are brothers, and let each of them share our ideas of re- generation. " In the name of our brothers, we, members of the late Secret Societies. " Roussel (Prosper), Marchand, Dorgal, Boivin, Arago (Etienne), Ledoux (Joseph), Leroux. Juin, Desmoulin, Albert, Montmahon, Caus sidiere, Baland, Flocon (Ferdinand), Grand menu!, L'Heritier (de l'Ain), Foix, Dugros rez, Lechallier, Voirnier (Victor) , Galland, 1-'ornin, Vilin, Vanante, Cahaigne, Jourdan, 13eohet, Dieumegard, Bernard, Palanque, Gal lois, Rocher, Cosnier, Ducoudray, Pilhes, Fayolle, Somerat, Dessaigne, Desmaisons, Barbier, Detis, Bulot, Boileau, Zammaretti, Laugelot, Lamotte, Mandriere, &c." We find in these papers some curious details as to ,he events of Sunday—details well calculated to throw light on the motives of the ultra-Republicans, and which would go far to prove that they are in fact mere tools in the hands of those who seek to restore a monarchy. On Sunday, according to the Monde Republicain, M. BLANQUI went to M. LEDRU ROLLIN, and said to him, " Give me a categorical answer, are you for or against us ? say yes or no." M. LEDRU Rows, wish• ing to avoid a positive answer, began to say, " At this moment we ought to be united," and was proceed ing, when M. BLANQUI again demanded, "Yes, or ❑o ? You make no answer. Adieu! It is no M. LEDRU Rows, on being questioned upon this by M. LANARTINE, was blamed :by him, and told, " You are wanting in your duty —you ought to have arrested him." The same journal says :—" Yester day morning a person was arrested with the following circular in his hand The chiefs of sections are invited to go at six o'clock precisely to the Hotel de Ville, where there will be presented to the Provi sional Government a petition for the dismissal of a certain part of the members of the Provisional Go vernment. If this petition does not receive a satis factory answer, the people of Paris, who made the revolution of 1848, will do themselves justice.' " It is somewhat singular that on Monday morning, before the arrival of the post from Paris, a personage, formerly high in the confidence of Louis PHILIPPE, stated that there had been severe fighting in the streets of Paris on the preceding day, and expressed an expectation that ere long the Princes would be restored. This is the more singular when we recol lect the revelations of the Revue Retrospective as to the relations formerly subsisting between BLANQUI and the Government of LOUIS PHILIPPE. The fol lowing passage from the Messager seems to confirm the suspicion that there were personnages rather than persons connected with the attempted ernente of Sunday. It says :—" One of our subscribers asks who could have been the two horsemen, in blue half uniform coats, with embroidered collars, who on Sunday were near the esplanade of the Invalides at the moment when the last files of the workmen of the Champs de Mars crossed the bridge on their way to the Hotel de Ville. One was short in stature, with out beard, and Avith long hair. At the following words spoken by the workmen who surrounded him and his companion, Can we rely on your assistance ?' He replied, Yes, my friends, rely upon me,' and the workmen then said, You know that we have mus kets, only take care that we have balls, and that will suffice.' " The following from the Assemblee Nationale shows the sort of liberty patronized by the Clubbists : "Our readers will find it difficult to believe that a 'Comite de Salut Public' can possibly exist at Paris, and yet we can certify that the following facts are of the most rigorous exactitude. The journal La Com mune de Paris is installed at No. 16, Rue de Rivoli, in a vast edifice, which belonged to the civil list of the Duchess d'Orleans. On Sunday, whilst dis quietude reigned in Paris, and w hilst the National Guard paraded the city in every direction, some men of suspicious appearance addressed exciting observe. tions to the groups, and seeme d anxious to plunge into a quarrel. A respectable old man, who made some conciliating observations, was suddenly brutally seized by some strange-looking men in blue blouses, with a large floating sash of red cloth, and a cravat of the same colour, and dragged to No. 16, Rue de Ri voli. A curious spectator followed the cortege. He witnessed all that we are about to relate, and his cha racter and position, with the consideration he enjoys, do not permit U 3 to doubt his w ord. On arriving, he saw in the interior of the hotel a garrison, with the same aspect, the same costume. Armed men, the musket in the hand, were placed a s sentinels at the gate of the hotel, in the cour t-yards, on the stair cases, at the entry o f th e apartments. After passing entresolan . guarded by sentinels , our informant, following the old man and his cortege, passed through a vestibule, and through some small saloons crowded by armed men, and arrived in an immense saloon splendidly f urn i s h e d . He there saw a p er son of middle height, of about forty years of age, .with a beard, of a brief and haughty manner of speak ' ig, of a sombre and bilious physiognomy, who ,ontagiiar propagandist.' r unex pectedly surprised in the midst of o rders which h e was giving . to those around him, violently q ues t io ned the chief at the head of the cortege. This ma n r e plied , Citizen Sobri er , I b r i n g before you a suspect. I believed \ it ri g ht t o cause hi m to be arrested by your i because agantisti i . l , e , Give appeared explanations l m a r e i a t t o i b o e s a thisre actionary instant,' said Ci t i zen S o b r i er , i n a theatrical tone. A person who, lik e our cur i ous i n formant, had followed the cortege, stepped forward and explained the facts. p `B e brief;' agitatedcried Citizenhy the strangeSobri er energetically. spect a which s l u 'h r e witness,. rounded him, h es it a t e d an d stammered. ' Well, the made a begin !' cried th e j u d ge pass i ona t e ly. A public accuser accuses. few w he endeavoured to explain the motive of the arrest. The witness simple acc use d o , b s i e n r v his a t o n turn,s i calmlyfavou r of Protested, and declared that he had cnly em- ployol words of conciliation. He then asked be fore what authority he had the honour to appear. Before the citizen chief of Commune de Paris,' answered Sobrier. The old man and the wit- ness who deposed in his favour, were then called on to give their names and addresses, and, after some protests of the accused, Sobrier exclaimed, Aliens ! For this time be off with you, and do not !begin the same work again !' Whilst this was pass ing in the large saloon, the windows of which open on the balcony of the Rue de Rivoli, strange scenes were occurring in the other rooms. For example, a voice cried from an adjoining room to the armed men in the ante-chambers, Montagnard—one, two, three—let them pass ! Montagnard, an order to be executed, &c. As soon as the accused, having ob tained a permission to pass, was set at liberty, our informant, who was also obliged to demand a pass, heard the observation, We have frightened him terribly.' Now, we ask, what is the authority of the citizen Sobrier ? By whom is he delegated ? What is this garrison of three hundred men, in blue blouses and red sashes, whom he calls his Montagnards, who protect all the approaches to the journal La Conanune de Paris ? In what times do we live ?" We are happy to find that the best feeling exists between the National Guard and the army. The Messager says, that on Wednesday, the Pro visional Government received numerous deputations from the National Guard, demanding authorisation to go out in corps to the villages in the environs of Paris to meet the regiments of the line arriving for the review, and bring them triumphantly into the city. To this it was answered, that the army could not as a body enter Paris until after the elec tions, as it was necessary that there should be no ground for suspecting that this first great act of the sovereignty of the people could be in any manner influenced. The delegates of the National Guard re tired convinced of the reasonableness of this determination, and yesterday there were nume rous petitions signed for the recal of the troops after the elections. In several of these petitions the National Guards offered each of them to quarter one soldier of the regiments to come in to-day for the review, and consequently they would not be obliged to return to their cantonments before :o-morrow. The Garde Nationale Mobile have. through their officers, expressed their willingness, i❑ case of any new alerte, to be first called out without taking the citizen soldiers from their occupations. " We know full well," said the bearers of this offer, " that if we became engaged with superior numbers, the National Guard would hasten to support us." Yesterday morning, on this offer being make known, many officers of the National Guard went to the barracks of the Gardes Mobiles, and fraternised with their officers. In the Rue de Clichy were seen more than two hundred officers in the two uniforms walk- ing arm•in-arm up to the Batignolles. Within the last two days twenty-five waggon loads of muskets, escorted by detachments of National Guards, have been brought from Vincennes, and deposited at the different Msiries at Paris, to be delivered out to the National Guards. The National Guards of Havre are signing an ad (lress of thanks and congratulation to the National Guards of Paris, for their recent manifestation in defence of "order in liberty." The address con cludes as follows :—" National Guards, France con • .emplates you with gratitude ; she may now without fear confide to your patriotism the safeguard of her representatives. All your brothers in the provinces would be proud, like us, to march at your summons, if the inviolability of the National Assembly should ever be menaced." M. QUENAULT, Councillor at the Court of Cassa tion, has addressed the following letter, dated April 18, to the Minister of Justice : " Monsieur le Ministre—The decree of this day, in destroying the fixity of judicial situations, removes from society one of its last guarantees, and strips the various law functionaries of their dignity. It does not suit me to preserve the functions of a coun cillor at the good pleasure of a minister, or to permit the office to be slighted in my person by a measure which I deny your right to order. In consequence, 1 have the honour of sending you in my resignation of my functions as councillor at the Court of Cassa tion.-1 am with respect, Monsieur le Ministre, your very humble servant, " QUENAULT." M. DITARCOURT is, we understand, appointed Minister from France to Rome, and M. DE TALLINAY Minister to London. _ _ . A letter from St. Gaudens states that the forest of Eoux had been set on fire and was nearly consumed ; and, that another tract of plantation, separating Chaun from St. B6ut, had been in part burnt down some days before. At the time the letter was written, the latter wood was burning to an extent of 10 or 12 kilometres (6 or 7 miles). The forest of Marignac also has been set on fire, but a heavy rain has extin guished the flames. Bands of thieves are laying waste the country around St. Etienne. These malefactors have directed their designs of devastation particularly against reli gious houses, under the impression that they must contain money. They entered a convent at St. Jenest-Lerpt, and, finding nothing of value that they could take away, destroyed the furniture, and did as much damage as they could. They also visited con vents at Villard and St. Priest, and, after breaking the furniture to pieces, set fire to it. At Latour the nuns gave their unwelcome visitors drink, and thus gaining time, were saved by the population com ing to their aid. At Lyons the troubles still continue. Accounts from Algiers state that the Governor- General had declined starting as a candidate for the representation of the colony in the National Assembly. The M oniteur publishes the following return of the state of the Bank of France up to Thursday evening, the 20th of April : 51,265,750 58 37,473,385 00 22,890,104 09 AUSTRIA. VIENNA, APRIL 16.—The Wiener Gazette of this day contains the official notification that, in conse quence of the formation of a responsible Ministry for Hungary, who will be empowered to manage the ex chequer of that kingdom, the Cabinet of Vienna has deemed it necessary to refer a portion of the national debt to that kingdom. The EMPEROR has addressed a latter to the ARCIIDUILE PALATINE on the subject, in which he informs him of the fact, and announces that the quota which will be borne by the kingdom of Hungary will be about one-fourth of the public debt of the entire empire, and will amount to about ten million of guilders interest annually. The EMPEROR has assigned one thousand guilders towards defraying the expenses of the civic guard. The Council of Ministers, which generally assem bles every day, is deeply engaged in devising the most efficient measures for the speedy pacification of the Italian provinces, in providing the needful pecu niary supplies for carrying out the armaments, and for improving commerce, in removing the most ob noxious taxes imposed upon the landed proprietors in many of the provinces, and in making those changes in the affairs of the state which will be called for by the requirements of the new constitution. The most important task imposed on the Alinistry was, however, the consolidation of the constitution itself on such a basis, that the well-founded ex pectations of all might be met, the earnest desire of the EMPEROR for the maintenance of peace might be manifest, and the happy results of constitutional arrangements be called into action. It will shortly be officially promulgated, and its effects will be most beneficial, if it causes the re newal of confidence in the renovation of trade, corn merce, and every branch of manufactures, fur it is only by securing the means of employment to an industrious population, and thereby securing to them an honourable maintenance, that the permanent well being of all classes of the community can be secured. The Wiener Gazette says that, incredible as it may appear, the rumour obtains at Vienna, that Prince AIETTERNICII has been for some days resident in the vicinity of the Imperial Palace. It cites the Amster dam Handesblad, to show that the Prince was at the Hague on the 6th, and concludes by saying—The Prince is too well aware of the feelings which pre vail against him at Vienna, to appear here again, and thereby to expose himself to manifest personal danger.— Wiener Zeitung, April 16. VIENNA, APRIL 14.—The Breslau Gazette states that a deputation from Laibach had an audience yes terday, demanding the dismissal of the Governor Count HoKENWORTn. Another deputation of nobles came from Bohemia, bringing with them threatening notices from the peasants, according to which four thousand peasants are on the eve of rising against the nobles. In Prague, the Burggrave RUDOL PH STADION has been compelled to retire, in conse- quence of the opposition of the nobles, and from Leniburg we learn that Count STADION, the Go vernor, who has been universally recognised as the most liberal of Governors, has lost all his popularity by an inconsiderate expression to a deputation in which he made some allusive threat to the Russians. The inteligence from Pesth is equally unsatis- factory. The whole population opposed the departure of some troops for the provinces beyond Hungary, and from Dalmatia we have just received the news that Zara is in com plete revolt against the Austrian Govern ment. Under these circumstances, what counsel and assistance can be given by a Ministry ? The Cologne Gazette of the 20th contains an article on the declaration of the Council of Fifty at Frankfort, nominating the King of PRUSSIA umpire in the Schleswig-Holstein affair. This act it con siders to be no other than manifest " usurpation " on the part of Prussia, and utterly at variance with the declaration of the King of PRUSSIA, who utterly re nounced the idea of wishing to usurp any authority over other powers. FRANKFORT. At the sitting of the 17th of the German Diet, the Prussian Government was called upon to nominate immediately the commandant-in chief of the Prussian troops ready for service, and of those belonging to the 10th corps of the army, and to give the Diet notice of such nomination. On the proposition of the military committee, the Diet has refused the application made by the Sardinian Government to allow horses to leave the country for Turin, basing their refusal upon the resolution of the Bth March, which prohibits the exportation of horses. Prince CHARLES of Bavaria, appointed command• ant-in-chief of the 7th and Bth corps of the army, has been requested to make known where he has fixed his head-quarters, in order that the Diet may be provided with the means of making use of his ser vices the moment the present state of affairs, and particularly the position of matters in the Baden Oberland, and on the Upper Rhine, render them necessary. At the same time the Diet has placed under his orders, until further commands, the troops of the Electorate Hesse, which, upon the application of the Government of Baden, were sent off (after the resolution of the 15th) to join the Bth division of the army. Relative to the Poles lately arrived at Stras burg, the Government of the Grand Duchy of Baden has been called upon to put in execution the mea sures which, according to the orders given at the sitting of the 12th, were taken in regard to the Poles who had already passed the frontier. The Committee of Thirty has sent a deputation to Berlin to require the immediate and, if necessary, compulsory execution of paragraph 3 of the Decree of the German Diet of the 4th of this month, and to demand in addition, that they in no way alter the former state of affairs in the Duchy of Schleswig, or defer the complete evacuation of this duchy by the Danes, in conformity with article 43 of the conclu sive Act of the Congress of Vienna, and that the Germans kept prisoners by the Danes in the different localities of the Duchy of Schleswig be immediately set at liberty. POLAND. Many engagements have taken place with the Prussian troops in the neighbourhood of Oster wo. A movoable Prussian corps is organized near Graudentz to act as a corps of observation on the western frontiers of Prussia. Near Trzemeszno the Poles have massacred four Jews, and are said to have ransacked the properties of many others, merely because they gave refresh ments to the soldiers. The Westphalian Mercury announces that Genera de Pfael has left Berlin for St. Petersburgh, in , trusted with a mission in relation to the affairs Poland. The Silesian Gazette states that the Russian autho rities have given orders to all the landowners of Poland to deliver up all their grain for the supply of the Government store-houses—particularly barley, oats, peas, &c. They are to be paid one-half in ready money, that is, in bank-notes; for the re maining half they are to receive Treasury-bills,. which are to be taken as r ea dy mone y i n p a yment of Now he taxes. Any person who is cognizant of the rich. Ness of Poland in all sorts of grain can easily con ;ewe the immense magazines they will have to erect :or this purpose, and the immense force these maga* nines are intened for. POSEN, APRIL 15. Anarchy is still rife here ; •very where we hear of excesses, plunders, and nurder. The attempts of the Poles in Western Prussia to revolutionize have signally failed, and the German inhabitants are everywhere evincing the 4reatest indignation against them Ns well as a firm resolve to maintai n their own freedom. The Polish portion of the province, say they, may be re-organized ,n a Polish manner, but the German portions are prmly resolved to remain German, and to be on no account amalgamated with their Poli sh fellow-sub jects. Schroda has been evacuated by the insur 4ents, but unhappily not in a manner to lead us to lope for peace. Much blood has been shed. OsTaowo, APRIL 14. This city has been plunged into great alarm ,by the a rrival )f three couriers, calling off the military to Dobrzyce. Thus we are left without anY, fnilitary protection whatever, to the mercy n t h !' he scythemen, who have vowed to aveng e the deat if their brethren who fell yesterday and the day before. The Burgomaster has been compelle d t i c ; restore all the scythes which we took yesterday• the women and children, Christians as well as Jews' nave already fled from the city, taking with them whatever property they could manage t o carry on Ally the men have remained. Unless military ei ,istance be instantly sent, we must fall. We can report from a sure quarter that IPleschen is to be bombarded to-morrow, and that all the Rug': man troops who were stationed on the frontiers beyond -he city have been concentrated there. If Plescherli does not surrender, which is not expected , a fearfil e catastrophe will be developed. At the t aking Schroda yesterday MIERCSLAWSKI very narrowli escaped being killed. Slight skirmishes a lso have taken place, and many persons have been arrestedci General WILLISEN has, however, pledged hi s wor that there shall be a gen eral amnesty for all tha t has, passed. There is intelligence from other parts of Posen that the troops are much disp ers ed, becau se i it s absolutely necessary that every place s hould be garrisoned.—Cologne Gazette, April 20. DENMARK. AND THE DUCHIES' The King of DENMARK is still at Schleswig, anhl33t kng his troops for the approaching struggle with rrns. sia. The enthusiasm in Denmark is, if possible, on the increase, and such is the energy sho wn in the war department, that already, including the reserves; the Danish forces in Jutland and Schlesw i g' l e is to 40,000 men. The Minister of War expresses ;11- conviction that, if necessary, this force w ill be in, creased to 100,000. The efforts and energy °f the by t he Danish Government, seconded as they are patriotism of the whole nation, are truly fermi the naval forces of Denmark are organizi n g I v wonderful rapidity. Two large frigates are organizing ' t fitted out, and, exclusive of the Danish ships °f war already at sea (some of them hovering about tno, roads leading into the principal seaports at Prussia), every day is increasing the naval tawt, inent, and giving pretty clearly an indic a of what is to be expected should the Frn ssiflu f and other troops venture beyond the precincts of holstein. In the meanwhile troops belonging to ,he G. , rmanic Confederation are daily marching le holstein, and the total number of Prussiseci ilanoverians, Oldenburghers, Mecklenburghers, neo Brunswickers, must now amount to a forc e of 16,°, e to 18,000 men, exclusive of the forces under control of the Provisional Government. The betides quarters are at Rendsburg, but the troops thernselvdv are dispersed in the villages between Altona, 1 1°1 se burg, and Kiel, to the great annoyance a nd exPen„ f of the inhabitants upon whom they are (Ith—; tered. Prince RAnztvu. has arrived at Hanib u n ' r g to take the command of the Prussian troops. u'L / e neral HALKETT commands the 10 th corps d' or rile and the Duke of BRUNSWICK is also at head-quarter" A very current report at Hamburgh, and especiaili in Altona, is, that the Prince of Paussia is expect ed from London, to take the command of the Confede" rate troops. TESTIMONIAL TO TOM STEELE. We are happy to acknowledge the first contribu• tion to the Testimonial suggested by ourselves in favour of that high-minded and disinterested patriot Thomas Steele, the Head Pacificator of O'Connell. The rash attempt at self-destruction, so fortunately fruo trated on Wednesday evening, revealed the existence of those pecuniary embarrassments which his honour able and sensitive spirit concealed from those by whom the nobility of his character was fully aPPr e : ciated. Subjoined is the letter, just received, whic" as the first communication in reference to the "Steele Testimonial," we lay before our readers. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SIR,—A. few friends (at try house) reading t' , 9 report of the case of Torn Steele in your Tl3ursd6Yu edition, subscribed the enclosed amount ( 5 01 Whlc i ‘ I will thank you to:appropriate in the way you thin best for so worthy and excellent a patriot .-- -1 sll3 ' Sir, yours very respectfully, JAMES CROCIaII. George Hotel, Aldermanbury, April 20. SPORTING INTELLIGENC E ' BETTING AT MANCHESTER.—FRID AY ' st Two THOUSAND GUINEAS STARES.-25 to Blaze (taken twice)-5 to 2 asst Flatcatcher-- 60 , "' ar s; agst Fern (t)-6 t o 1 oil' agst Loadstona-1 0 t o Sunnyside. Gle n ' Drum . .-8 to 1 a gs t S urp li ce -10 to 1 agst ad, dower—to to agst Springy Jack-13 to 1 eg"ll['be stone-18 to 1 agst Eagle's Plume-25 to 1 ag s " b o ut Stinger (t to 1001). Offers to take 2,000 to 100 Rosslyn and Cervus jointly. CHESTER CUP.-140 to 10 agst War Elgt o (ti to 10 agst Glen &Adel (0-300 to 10 agst G ise This. —l,OOO to 25 agst Swis s B o y (t)-400 to 10 agstitu Nothing else mentioned. HUNTING APPOINTMENTS. Her Majesty's Stag Hds., Mon., Stoke C ovi Thurs., Fri., and Sat., in the New Forest—at 11. Sinnington, T., He. Lord R Lids, Lids., Mon., lmsley-9 Ranger 's Lodge; Thilll4 South Lawn. purliau ° Earl Fitzwilliam's lids., Mon., Bedford T hurs., Blatberwyeke Park-0 Sir H. Seale's lids., Wed., l Welster Cross, net" bur ton. Devon and Somerset Stag lids., Tues. and Fri. Clout' sham, near Porlock-101. v too Pytehley lids., Mon., Deene Park; Wed. , P r i ,se House; Fri., Brigstock Kenn e l s; S a t., Boughton JO" BOW-STREET.—(THIS DA Y ' ) al e The examination of Thomas Steele, Esq., 00 ii„"hd to of attempting to commit suicide, had been aPP ( .""iines/ take place this morning, but it was found that hi s continued so severe that he could not with safety b e l i e f!, moved from King's College Hospital, where he now ( l o p The examination, therefore, was postp one d till Ttle!„ be when it is expected he will be sufficiently recovered brought before the Court. #) CLERKENWELL.—( THIS DA A :V a d . 0 Joseph Partridge, John Si mmen d s , and John lie" h:;0 three youths, were char ge d w i t h creat i ng a disturw— in Maiden-lane. last evening. c bol°' It appeared from the evidence that a crowd o ,_'• 1 0 of whom the prisoners were the leaders, have D e ; ill the habit of assembling for some evenings O l t" the Maiden-lane, creating much disturbance, breakiet re h' garden fences, throwing stones, and occasionallY ing to and fro in procession, with Chartist buoiltiot &e., yelling and driving all passengers through thoroughfare before them. ioef Henry Harmer, a police-constable of the G. u" 1 ; the being applied to by some o f t h e i n h a bi tan ts, t o , l3 ; e d prisoners, as the leaders, into custody. He Nutt — l l -s 0 P s do great number of stak es , w hi c h t h e young di er t he carried as staves, and w hi c h were t h e s p o ils frau 01 destruction of the garden fences in the lane. tl? they did not make any resistance, but quietly g a ixre ° their weapons and dispersed, when he took th e , fi ari prisoners into custody. H e did not t hi n k it nee e— t bey to take any of the others. When he interfered 090 were marching in pr ocess i on , an d molesting oaf they met. in l a 'h s e ev m er a e gi l s e t e r t a n t r e e , ; b l n r. t; T a it s a t N ti v e n y i s T n , baindimttoenisdqbneidettiyhet 0 0 police, he discharged them. CHELSEA BENEVOLENT SOCIETY.—On l'Y eun' a society 'sable evening a meeting of the members of the above val was held at the Commercial Hall, B in g s , Chelsea. From the ninth annual report, which vie, s ; the before the meeting, it appears that the soci et y s'u' ch course of its benevolent operations has effected 13 JO' good among the destitute and helpless poor of t" the trict. The number of individuals experiencinE: „Ito benefits of the charity having numbered 87G, aud the cases the providential assistance of the society w as. the means of saving life. It was menti , ned that during ~00' present season of distress and almost universal Co,"" to Lien—it required the utmost exertions of the O ° Y the nnd meet the numerous claims upon its assistance, ed • to co•operation of the benevolent was much nee"hm. enable it to carry out and complete the work of 0-- it 1104 begun. ASSETS. Cash and ingots Cash at branch banks Overdue bills ... ••• ••• Bills falling due in Paris, of which 30.243,044 f. are from the branch banks 196,697,311 59 Bills in the branch banks ••• 47,369,291 79 Advances on coin and ingots ... 4,475,100 00 Ditto on public securities of France . . 11,466,882 90 Due from the branch banks on their notes in circulation ... ••• ... 15,222,500 00 Rentes of the reserve fund ... 10,000,000 00 Rentes of disposable funds 11,660,197 89 Hotel and furniture of the bank ... 4,000,000 00 Interest in branch bank at Algiers 1,000,000 00 Interest in National Discount Bank ... 200,000 00 Bills protest , d ••• ••• 9,162,600 23 Bills arising from the sale of Rentes to Russia yet to be received ... ..• Expenses of administration ... Sundries ... . • ... .•. •• • Advances to the State on Bons du Tr6sor of the Republic 360,067 19 419,467 40 181,090 64 ... 50,000,000 00 500,852,749 30 LIABILITIES. Capital ... ••• •.. 67,900,000 00 Reserve fund ... .•• 10,000,000 00 Reserve inamobiliare .., 4,000,000 00 Notes to bearer, in circulation ... 298,008,300 00 Ditto of the branch bank ~. ... 15,222.500 00 Ditto to order (Post. bills) 1,823,792 00 Account current with Treasury creditor 36,885,365 95 Various accounts current 59,442,981 87 Bills payable at sight . . 991,000 00 Re-discounts of the last half-year ... 728,692 37 Dividends unpaid ... 254,041 25 Dscounts, interest, and expenses ... 3,180,479 02 Branch Bank of Algiers , sum not yet employed in Treasury Bonds Branch Bank drafts to be paid . Sundries ... . . ... ... .. ... 1,091,298 69 1,119,223 88 205,074 27 500,852,749 30 It will be seen from this statement that there is hitherto not the slightest appearance of amelioration iu the Bank of France. The cash continues to di minish, the past due bills to increase, the amount at the credit of the Treasury to diminish, the accounts current with private individuals also to diminish, the accommodation given to the public, as shown by the amount of the bills falling due in Paris, falling off to a woeful extent. THE PRINCE OF PRUSSIA.--His Royal Highness the Prince of Prussia attended divine service yesterday morning at the chapel of the Prussian Legation in the Savoy. On Monday his Royal Highness leaves town for Stratbfieldsaye, on a visit to the Duke of Wel lington. DEATH OF TILE HON. LADY MURRAY.—Accounts have been received from Turin of the death of the Hon. Lady Murray, which took place on the 10th instant. The deceased lady was only daughter of John, second Lord M.ulgrave. Her Ladyship was born on the 19th of May, 1788, and married, on the 25th of August, 1807, Lieutenant-General Sir John Murray, Bart., who died in 1827. The Marquis and Marchioness of Nor manby, the Earl and Countess of Mulgrave, the Hon. Lieutenant-Colonel Phipps, the Hon. and Rev. A. and Lady Elizabeth Phipps, and several families of dis tinction aro placed in mourning by the decease of her Ladyship. A PROLIFIC EWE.— few "days ago, a small Scotch ewe belonging to Mr. Mark, grocer, of Thursby, yeaned four lambs, all of winch are likely to be reared. GERMANY AND THE NORTHERN STATES. HANOVER. Hanover, according to the latest accounts, was in a very unsettled condition. The people are by no means satisfied with the tardy concessions granted to them by the KING. There have, it is said, been serious disturbances at Hildesheirn. General lIALKETT, at the head of the Hanoverian contingent, was to cross the Eider and enter Schleswig-Holstein on the 18th. BAVARIA. King LUDWIG has at length been permitted to Leave Munich for Switzerland. PRUSSIA. Accounts from Berlin of the 17th state that tin Prussian tro , ps under Prince RADZIVIL have received orders to enter Schleswig and to attack the Danes. The Prussian Ministry has failed to negotiate a loan with ROTHSCHILD. A letter from Aix-la-Chapelle, of the 18th, an• flounces the renewal of disturbances there. On that day all the shops were closed, the Riot Act was read, and a conflict took place between the people and the troops, in which many lives were lost. Troops have since arrived from Cologne and Juliers.