The Sun. — London, England, 1848-09-14 00:00:00

• R::.i. , DEFENCE OF LAMARTIN F. [We gladly resume our tr,:nslations from the elegy rent and unanswerable pamphlet of M. de Lanitir !me. We are at last enab'el to fulfil our promise ,, in this respect by the receipt this forenoon of a cop) of the new work of this illustrious publicist—a beau tiful historical volume,entitled Trois ...T[ois Au Pouvoir ---to which the Letter to the Ten Departments is pre fixed. Having alreadi , published in our columns the first accusation and its rebuttal, we recommence wit' the second and its refutation. We commend ow successive extracts from the pamphlet to the perusal 0 1 all honest Englishmen.—ED. Sun.] SECOND ACCUSATION. I have conspired with Communism ; I have in toxicated the people with illusions by promising them the organization of labour. The very day after the Red Banner was rejected, the Socialist workmen presented themselves in a body at the Hotel de Ville, accusing the Government of having falsely guaranteed a complete social revo lution, and calling upon us in an imperative manner to sign a proclamation, assuring the people of the ultimate organization of labour. They required us to pronounce this " phrase," and their demand was enforced by the terror of their armed hands. They had doffed neither the crimson caps nor the blood coloured coats with which they evidenced their devotion to the red banner. Their requisition W as peremptorily refused by the members of the Government. The insurgents insisted upon our compliance ; they even went so far as to utter menaces. Then it was that I advanced in my turn and commenced my reply to this summons in these Words—. Behold, they are in the Moniteur :—" Citi zens! if you were to place me at the mouth of twenty Piece s of cannon, you could never induce me to sub scribe to those two expressions when united together, Organization of Labour ! and I am going to tell you wherefore. Firstly, it is because I believe myself to be neither gifted with more nor less intelligence than other men of my time and country, because I have Passed fifteen years of my life in studying this ques tion of the organization of labour, as you call it, and because I have found it utterly impos sible to reduce it to my comprehension. I will never subscribe my name to that which I do not understand. Secondly, it is because lam an limiest man, and do not wish to make any engage ments to the people which I shall never be able to fulfil. As to the inherent right of labour to fraternal assistance, on such conditions as can in no measure i nterfere with the freedom of industry, the only sYstem of labour which can effectually lead to the n ourishment of many millions of men ; as to those s eries of fraternal institutions which the Republic Ought to organize in succession for the purpose of elevating the condition of the artizans both in their relation to prosperity, to property, and to instruction - -I will subscribe my name to those assurances with Profound pleasure, because they are among the ?remises which I myself spontaneously enunciated befor e there was any attempt at a revolution." Was that, I ask you, the language of a political dreamer, of a dreamer who yielded to circumstances i adjourning, and consequently by increasing, the difficulty ? On the sixth day (after the explosion of February) a thought struck me, and the same inspiration de aeended at the same time from Heaven into the souls ° f my colleagues. "Let us give a brilliant denial to those who always wish to soil with blood the prin ciples of Republicanism ; let us confound the fury ( )f some, the panic of others ; let us break in twain the weapons of reaction ; let us abolish the scaffold ; let us suppress for ever the punishment of Death !" Never shall I forget the moment in which this Proposition emanated from the hearts of all, and ' Was voted by the enthusiasm of all, when we fell Into the arms of one another, and gave each other the kiss of life I We had in that moment a sublime Presentiment of the blood which we saved to huma nity, and of the crimes which we spared to the Re- Public. lat once wrote out this proclamation and l ead it to the people. And that people made the edict their own by adopting it with their acclamations and signing it with their tears. Was this, again I ask you, a concession to the executioner, or a concession to God ? On the following day another presentiment C aused me to propose to the Council the organi zation of twenty-four battalions of that Garde arobile composed of the youth of Paris, snatched fro m insurrection, and given to the law, to disci- Aline, and to the country. On the '23d of June t his Garde Mobile saved Paris—it was the salvation France. And was this, I ask of you, an evidence o f k want of prudence and foresight ? hose beautiful and terrible days being passed, the same subterranean faction which had raised aloft the red flag renewed, under other pretexts, its attempts at the usurpation and degredation of the Republic. On the 15th of March, the old National Guard had made I very inopportune demonstration for the purpose of Protesting against the suppression of certain insignia in its uniform. On the same day the Provisional Government had adopted a proclamation addressed by thyself to the French people. This proclamation had for its object to specify the true principles of the Re- Public, and to re-assure those who might have been alarm e d by that ill-considered language, the direct meaning of which was disavowed by the hearts of us a ll- I said in this proclamation—" that it did not require either an eve or a morrow to indicate the d ate of unanimous Republicanism; that the ol d parties passed through the experiences of century in the lapse of three days; that there was no necessity for the electors to have blade a deliberate acceptance of party, but rather to have so acted towards light and patriotism; that, in fine, it by no means constituted a crime not to have b een . a Republican before the establishment of the Republic." The entire Government associated itself iu Putting its signature to these principles. On the V ary day after this occurrence, about a hundred thousand men, evidently obeying the word of com mand uttered by the representatives of the ex triime factions, and acting in subservience to an Occult organization, of the origin of which th ey themselves had no certain knowledge, came a nd surrounded the Hotel de Ville. Calm at first, this manifestation soon began to reveal its hostility. The most daring of the chiefs of the differ ent clubs penetrated into the halls in which we were d eliberating. They summoned us in the name of the People, of whom they called themselves the org ans, out b y whom they were in reality disavowed, t ° adjourn the period fixod for the elections, t 0 prolong the dictatorship, to postpone the epoch of the inauguration of the National Assembly, t ° decree, without any reservation, a series of measures, such as would assure them of the Continued domination of Paris. My colleagues and myself, without one exception, replied to their demand by a formal refusal to deliberate tinder mer ac,s. Thereupon the clubs, disconcerted by this resistance, an 1 by the cries of the people in favour of the Provisional Government, retired. Read the language spoken by us all, for all of us spoke With iuti epidity, and say if there are there any evi dences in that language of shameful concessions to numbers, and to the intimidation of the multitude ? It w as in the same week that the first temptation Was held out by the Polish democrats. Abusing the 'Onerous devotion of France for a cause which Pran ce has always cherished in her heart, some a mongst these enthusiasts had determined to force upon th e Provisional Government the hour destined f or the liberation of Poland instead of the hour destined for the liberation of France, and to transform the favour of the public into a sort of right to sedition. They came at night to the Minister of Foreign Affairs. "If to-morrow morning," one of these orators said to me, " if to morrow morning the Government has not proclaimed War for the re-establishment of Poland, to-morrow at two o'clock we will overthrow the Government by attacking it at the head of sixteen thousand work men, whom we have assembled for the purpose, and whom w e will direct upon the Hotel de Ville." " H France," said I to them in reply, " if France were to allow her Government to be subverted by an insur rection of foreigners to whom she has given hospitality but not empire, it were necessary that France should descend in degradation below even those nations who are without a country I" The sensible and moderate men of that noble country, reanimated by these words, disavowed the person who had spoken. They came on the morrow without any seditious procession. I ad dressed them then in the same terms in which I had ad- `.-_.. dressed them already--proclaiming 0 ,7 sympathy to their cause, without (in obedience to tlitf' rash any insensate wishes) lighting that torch which Youh have inevitably resulted in the incendiarism of Europe. Was that, I ask you, a concession to the aspirants fol universal war ? Besides these, there were some men from Ireland. They came, in the name of the principles of demo cracy, to ask of me encouragement and arms for the carrying out of civil war. I said to them that tht brand of civil war, thrown from amongst us, among ow neighbours, should never be a weapon employed b . % the administrators of the Republic. I recalled t' their recollection those supplies of arms and of money by which the Britannic Government had promoted the heroic but disastrous war in La Vendee, a specie, of intervention which France would never imitate. Was that, I ask you again, a concession to civil war? It is said, however :—The concession was evidenced in those attempts at armed propagandism, which you consolidated, which you authorised, and which pos sibly you yourself directed against Belgium, against Germany, and against Savoy, at the very time in which you addressed the language of peace to their respective Governments. Citizens I reply to that accusation so characte rised by the distinctive marks of duplicity, through the correspondence which was kept up with such activity with the Commissaries of the Government upon the frontiers ; I reply to it through the decrees and the proclamations issued by the Provisional Go. vernment ; through the fact of the dispersion of those assemblies wherever we happened to have sufficient force to enable us to achieve their dissolution ; through the cordial tokens of good fellowship afforded to Germany, to Piedmont, and to Belgium ; through the offer made directly to the Sardinian Ambassador to dispatch ourselves a corps of soldiers to Chambery, in order ourselves to prevent there, by an armed hand, an invasion pro moted by the refugees and by the agitators of Lyons. I reply, moreover, through a medium still more powerful, and one whose veracity you can under no circumstances call in question—l reply through the testimony of interested nations. Yes ! I appeal to all those Republics, to all those courts, to all those ministers, to all those ambassadors, to all those dif ferent nations whom I am accused of having pretended to re-assure, while I only secretly deceived. If one amongst them can charge the Minister of Fo reign Affairs with complicity, or even with negli gence in the repression of these endeavours ; if there is one amongst them who does not attest the frankness and the vigour of the foreign policy of the Provi sional Government, I declare myself to be convicted of felony. The tribunes of Berlin, of Frankfort, of London, and of America have already responded. Hear how they speak of the diplomatic atti tude which we have maintained since February ! Would you wish to render a Minister of Foreign Affairs and an entire Government—a Minister and a Government who are alike actuated by sincerity and patriotism would you wish to render this Minister and this Government responsible for the conspiracies of those Belgian Clubs and of those Clubs of French auxiliaries, which they have never, in any one instance, ceased from combatting and repressing? This policy, loyal and firm, Republican and pacific, I, as Minister of Foreign Affairs, was especially charged with, for the purpose of causing its accept ance at once by France and by Europe. I had to consult, if it was possible, the safety of France, the dignity of her acts and the preservation of that peace which was particularly requisite for a Republic almost wholly disarmed, but which was above all necessary for a Republic economical of human blood. (To be continued.) LITERATURE. BORN'S STANDARD LIBRARY: Ranke's His tory of the Popes. Vols. IL and lIL Milton's Prose 11 orks. Vol. I. BOHN'S ANTIQUARIAN LIBRARY : Chronicles of the Crusades. Early English Metrical Romances. We have so frequently spoken in commendation of Mr. liAn's Libraries, and their merits are now so generally appreciated, that it is almost superfluous to do more than enumerate the new additions to the different series. " Ranke's History of the Popes" is now completed in three volumes, and a first volume of Milton's prose works has just been issued, which con tains Milton's " Defence' and his " Second Defence" of the People of England, and also his " Eikonoklastes." This volume is adorned with a very finely engraved portrait of the Roundhead Poet. The two new volumes of the " Antiquarian Library" are the " Chronicles of the Crusades" and the " Metrical Romances," the former of which contains the " Chronicle of Richard of De vises, concerning the deeds of King Richard the First, King of England ;" also " Geoffrey de Yin sauf's Chronicle of Richard's Crusade," and " Lord de Joinville's Memoirs of Louis IX., King of France." It is unnecessary to say that this volume will he most attractive to all who love the quaint simplicity of the old chroniclers. " Ellis's Early Eng lish Metrical Romances" contain some most interest ing and attractive specimens of old legends, such as " Morte Arthur," " Guy of Warwick," " Roland and Ferragos," and many others whose names are familiar and dear to us all, " Beloved as fable, and believed as truth." All the volumes of the Antiquarian Library are em bellished with an illustrated frontespiece, and the frontispiece of this volume—a splendid frontispiece— the back ground of which is, apparently, of solid gold, represents neither more nor less than the Court of King Arthur ! It is taken, we are told, from a manuscript in the British Museum. The foremost figure represents Arthur in a robe of cerulean blue ; his Majesty's attitude is sufficiently dignified, but is hardly possessed of that air of royalty recently eulogised by the poet—that air by which " In the man, the King of men is seen." On Arthur's right hand stands Queen Ginevra, and by her side a lady-in-waiting, in a crimson robe. On Arthur's left is Merlin. In the foreground are the grand carver, the cup-bearer, and the minstrel, bear ing their insignia of office, namely, a large knife, a goblet, and a violin. The scene, of course, is by the side of the round table, which is spread out with golden utensils. ALARMING FIRE IN WAPPING WALL.—About one o'clock this morning a fire broke out on the premises of Mr. Fryer, a carpenter, No. 12, Wapping-wall (late Mr. Dowding's cooperage). It was discovered by a per son passing through the street, no person residing on the premises. The engines of the Fire Brigade, under the superintendence 01 Mr. Fogo, were on the spot shortly after the fire was discovered, and by great exer tions prevented the flames from communicating to the adjoining premises. Considerable damage was done to finished work, materials, and workmen's tools. The fire is supposed to have been occasioned by a spark from the boiler of a glue -pot, and which had fallen upon some shavings. It has not yet been ascertained whether the premises are insured or not. ACCIDENT ON THE CAMBRIDGE AND ST. IVES RAILWAY.-On Thursday evening last, as the down trai❑ neared the o.kington station, the guard perceived is man standing on the line; he immediately blew the whistle, and the steam was turned off, but without effect: the train struck him, and one leg was completely severed from the body above the knee-joint, and he was other wise so mutilated that death was instantaneous.. On being picked up he was recognised as George Howorth, a dealer of Rampton; it was supposed that he was; intoxi c.ated at the time. An inquest was held on the body on Friday last, when a verdict of "Accidental death" was returned. —Cambridge Advertiser. NARROW ESCAPE ON THE CALEDONIAN RAILWAY. —On Thursday afternoon last a ballast engine with several waggons, in which were a number of railway labourers, was proceeding from Lockerby t o E cc l e f echan, on the Caledonian line. When passing through a cut ting on the farm of Lawn, palish of Middlebie, the en gine-driver observed at some distance that one of the rails had been removed; he immediately turn off the steam, put on the brake, and jumped to the ground; the labourers followed his example, and no one was injured, as luckily the train was proceeding at a very slow pace when it reached the vacancy and was thrown off the line, otherwise the accident would have been very serious, as there were upwards of thirty labourers on the train. A party of plate-layers had been repairing the line and removed the rail, neglecting to exhibit a signal of warn ing. The officers of the company will, no doubt, insti tute an investigation into the case.—Dumfries Courier. SAILING UP RIVERS AGAINST THE CURRENT.--A very sllght declivity suffices to give the running motion to water. Three itches per mile, in a smooth straight channel, gives a velocity of about three miles an hour. The Ganges, which gathers the waters of the Himalaya mountains, the loftiest in the world, is, at 1,800 miles from its mouth only 800 feet above the level of the sea, that is, about twice the height of St. Paul's Church in London (or the height of Arthur's Seat, near Edin burgh), and to fall these 800 feet, in its long course, the water rt quires more than a month. The great river Magdalena, in South America, running for 1,000 miles between two ridges of the Andes, falls only 500 feet in all that distance. Above the commencement of the thousand miles it is seen descending in rapids and cata racts from the mountain% The gigantic Rio de la Plata has so gentle a descent to the ocean, that in Paraguay, 1, 500 miles from its mouth, large ships are seen, which have sailed against the current all the way by the force of the wind clone; that is to say, on the beautilly in clined plane of the stream have been gradually lifted by the soft wind, and even against the current, to an eleva tion greater than that of our loftiest spires. In the next issue of camp equipage to the army the tents vs ill be made waterproof, as the present canvas is no protection against a heavy fall of rain. E SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY . IRELAND. ESCAPE OF MR. RICHARD O'GORMAN. DUBLIN, WEDNESDAY.—We have learned from Nell-informed source, that Mr. Richard O'Gorman, 'or whose apprehension, on a charge of high treason, t reward of 3001. had been offrred by the Govern has at length effected his escape from this country. On Thursday last Mr. O'Gorman, with wo other fugitives, Messrs. J. O'Donnell, solicitor, And Doyle, of Limerick, got on board a fishing smack at a place called Carrig-a-gunnial, on the Lower Shannon, and were safely conveyed to a vessel :which had been waiting at sea, out of reach of the Government cruisers. The vessel at once got under weigh, and the owner of the smack returned to the Shannon. It is stated that he received 2001. for his xertions, after producing a certificate from Mr. O'Gorman of the faithful discharge of the perilous duty he had undertaken. FRESH INSURRECTIONARY MOVE MENTS. Accounts arrive in such various shapes, of renewed appearances of disturbances in the district between Carrick-on-Suir and Slievenamon, that it is difficult to withhold some degree of credence, although no thing short of absolute madness in the population could account for such proceedings on the eve almost of the Special Commission in the same county. The Limerick Reporter, a " Young Ireland " journal, contains the following announcement :—" Just at going to press we have heard that a large body of armed peasantry (consisting of several thousands) are congregated in the vicinity of Slievenamon. Mr. Doheny and several other leaders are said to be with them. We have no means of verifying the rumour." RE-COMMENCEMENT OF THE REBELLION. The Clonmel Chronicle contains the following astounding intelligence : "RUMOURED OUTBREAK AT CARRICK-ON SUIR, PORT-LAW, AND CURRAGIIMORE. "The most exciting reports reached Clonmel this morning of an outbreak at Carrick-on-Suir. A man from that place came into Clonmel this morning in great haste, bringing with him all the money he could collect, to get gold for it. He describes Car rick as being in an awful state. The hills all round covered with armed men, who have forced all the farmers to give barrels of bread, meat, and other supplies, as well as arms and ammunition. Many of them have been also forced to join the movement, and he stated that Carrick was to be taken forthwith. Not a labourer was to be seen between Carrick and Clonmel, until he reached this town ; all have joined the rebels on the hills, who are represented to number several thousands. "We have made every effort to get the facts in detail ; but, in order to give all particulars to the public, we dispatched two gentlemen this morning, at half-past eleven o'clock, for the scene, and now anxiously await their arrival." " Two o'clock, Tuesday, " Chronicle-offices, Clonmel. " The most distressing anxiety still prevails re garding the state of Carrick-on-Suir. One of our reporters has just returned by the Carrick car, and gives the following particulars from his own obser vation, and from what he has been enabled to ascer tain : "The road and country along presents the most deserted appearance, but few persons are to be seen, the labourers have left their occupation, and every thing seems at a stand, At Cottage, as I passed along, I saw a man having all the appearance of a detective, lurking in a recess which commanded a most extensive view ; he eyed our car with a suspi cious and scrutinizing gaze. At Kilsheelan a few clusters of persons, chiefly women, were to be seen talking together mysteriously, each having his own say about the war now upon them. A little further on I was informed by a gentleman that Mr. O'Mas bony had a review of a large body of armed men, estimated at nearly 1,000 last night, on a road leading from Slievenamon to Carrick, which they lined at either side for a considerable distance, and who are supposed to have gone on towards Curragh more. "At Newtown-hill the insurgents, it is believed, have formed an encampment, and I am assured by a person who travelled close by it, that it is covered with people. The military have formed a camp close by. Last night Curraghmore was attacked by a body of insurgents, for the purpose of taking the swivel-guns and cannon, with which the Marquis of Waterford recently fortified it. The Marquis sent for the troops, but I did not hear of the result. A large body of Marines left Waterford this morning for the scene, having been first served out with bis cuit and meat for some days; they were marched off by Major-General Macdonald, who is busily engaged at that place in the disposition of the troops at his command. Everything leads me to believe that we are on the eve of another insurrection. When passing by Coolnamuck wood I easily perceived that several of the trees had been recently cut down : they consist chiefly of fine young ash, exactly suitable for the purposes for which they are supposed to have been taken—for making pike handles. "At Carrick the greatest excitement prevails, in consequence of the belief there that the bridge of Garney had been broken down to prevent the troops crossing. The arches are still standing, but the battlements are all demolished, and the roadway picked up. The 3d Buffs and 83d Regiments, which were to pass through here to-day, have been stopped at Carrick, and dispatched to the scenes of disturb ance. A gentleman informed me that at Pilltown two pieces of artillery had arrived and a large number of troops. The military, which had been sent for to Carrick, were returning towards Curraghmore ; horse, foot, and artillery are now on the move in all directions." " LATEST FROM CARRICK- ON- SUIR. " We stop the press to promulgate the following most important communication received from our special reporter, from Carrick-on-Suir : " Carrick-on-Suir, Four o'clock, Tuesday evening. "As your reporter who accompanied me as far as the suburbs of this town, and returned by Bianconi's car which we met there, has doubtless given you a full account of whatever we learned as we journeyed along the road, I content myself with relating the in formation I have obtained since my arrival here, pre mising in the first place that I only vouch for it as being current here, and looked upon as correct. " Doheny and O'Mahony have been hovering about this neighbourhood for the past week, the former is positively stated to have been here a few nights ago; one person who does not deny sympathy , with his cause, told me that he saw him on Wednes day night, about half-past nine o'clock ;he was disguised very little, and had as an object for his visit to discover the movements of the soldiery, as well as communicate with Clubbists, who are more numerous than in any other place in Ireland, taking into account its size. "On last Friday evening the excitement com menced here when the 85th were passing through ; one of the men having become inebriated and quar relsome, got into a broil with some of the towns people, bad blood arose, so that the town was threat ened with a serious disturbance. Things went on more quietly, however, than could have been expected, and the place itself since then has been peaceable. Meanwhile the most alarming rumours began to prevail ; seven Confederate leaders were said to have imitated the tactics of the military, by getting up " a flying column," whose quick and sudden movements are the subjects of general surprise : one time, at the hill of Carrickbeg, another at Low ry's-bridge ; in the evening encamped at Curragh more-wood, and away at Kilmacthoisaas in the morn ing. Informers themselves are puzzled in giving secret information to the authorities as to the where abouts of the rebels, their movements are so daring and uncertain. "Last night there were bonfires on the mountains. At two o'clock a constable went to Mr. Coulson, R.M. and roused him from sleep to inform him of a rising that had taken place near Kilmacthomas ; he imme diately dressed and dispatched an express for a com pany of the 3d Buffs, to assist the Carrick troops in an expedition against the insurgents ; they arrived here at four o'clock, a.m. Meantime, picquets pa trolled the streets and vicinity of the town in the ex pectation of an attack. In half an-hour after the EVENING, SEPTEMBER 14, 1848. arrival &' the 33 Buffs they started, accompanied by another c(mpany. of the Buffs, from Carrick, and one company of the 833, together with a troop of the 4th Light Dragoons and a party of artillery with two pieces of cannon. They proceeded to Kilwacthomas, where the rebels were said to be encamped. ARRANGEMENT OF THE REBEL FORCES. "It is reported that Doheny headed the armed insurgents who made the attack on Curraghmore for arms last night. He has taken the command of the Waterford rebel division, whose present rendezvous is to be l'ortlaw ; and the Tipperary rebel division, under the command of O'Mahony, is to rendezvous at Slievenamon. Their commissariat is said to be most abundantly supplied at the expense of the neighbouring farm-houses; and it is a condition on all recruits joining, that they are to bring arms, ammunition, and a supply of bread, meat, &c., for a certain number of days. This has all the appear ance of a determined and sanguinary rebellion. It is also reported that General Dlactlonald has de manded an immediate reinforcement of artillery and cavalry." The following has been received by electric tele graph : DUBLIN, WEDNESDAY MORNING. As the Cork mail was on its way to Dublin, it was met last evening, between Clonmel and Glenbower, about six miles from the former, by a party of the people, who told the coachman and guard to return, as there was a collision between the police and the people at the Glenbower police-station. On arrival there, a man was found lying dead in the road; the police were still safe, but expected a renewed attack. The coachman hurried on to Callan, where he deli vered a note from the police, asking for assistance. The mail-coach did not meet with any obstacle on the part of the peasantry, wh o are i n a high state of excitement, in consequenc e o f e j ectments i n th e neigh bourhood, and seizures of c orn f or rent. The Waterford mail, which left Dublin yesterday (Tuesday) morning, was stopped near Granny-bridge by a large party of men, who in the first instance would not allow the coach to pass, as they were about to pull down the bridge. After some remonstrance, they permitted it to be drawn across. On arrival at Waterford, the guar3 reported the circumstance to the Postmaster and to Sir C. O'Donnell, the General of the district. According to the Nenagh Guardian Messrs. S. Egan, Nicholas Nagle, Michael Doherty, and James Russell, all of Roscrea, will be tried at the approach ing Special Commission at Clonmel, on a charge of high treason. All the parties hitherto held a respect able position in society. Among the anecdotes connected with the late rebellion, and which are daily coming to light, the following, furnished by a correspondent of the Cork Reporter, is substantially correct. The hero of the tale is Mr. Eugene O'Reilly, the son of Mr. Matthew O'Reilly, a respectable solicitor in this city, and law agent to the Chief Secretary for Ireland. " Very soon after it was known that Smith O'Brien and his companions had assembled in the neighbourhood of Ballingarry, five or six young men, holding a respect able position in society, some having attained collegiate honours, went down from Dublin to join him. They reached the locality of the rencontre the evening after the affair at Widow Cormack's house, and on learning the result, and finding that the `leaders' were divided and dispersed, they made their way back to the county ?death, where they purposed to lie perdue for some time. There, however, they found that the pulice wero on their track, and they determined on re turning to Dublin and taking their chance. Accord ingly they did so, and reached the city about eleven o'clock at night. Here, after consulting for awhile, they resolved on calling upon a young friend and asking quarters for the night until they could decide on their future location. Proceeding to the house of their friend's father, a respectable professional gentleman, whose po litical sentiments were greatly at variance with those of his son, they knocked at the hall door and inquired for the person with whom they desired to communicate, who presently came down to them. While conferring in the hall as to how ho could best provide for them, his father overheard the conversation, and coming out he locked the hall door, putting the key in his pocket, and, having called for assistance, he sent a servant through the back door for the police. The son intrusted, prayed, and pleaded the sacredness of a stranger seeking shelter and hospitality ; but in vain. His parent was immov able, and, seeing the urgency of the case, he said to his friends, Come, boys, this shall never be.' In an instant the father was seized hold of and overpowered ; he was brought into a back parlour and tied hand and foot in an arm-chair ; the hall door was opened, and the son having seen his friends safe out of danger, returned to the house. Next day he was made a prisoner, as ' sus pected of treasonable practices, ' and sent to Newga.e. His father went to visit him, and he refused him an in terview. He is now in the prison of Belfast, and his mother, who knew that no act or deed of her son had compromised him in any illegal proceeding, was, I am told, refused an interview with him there within tho last fortnight." DISMISSAL OF POLICEMEN. The Cork Reporter of Tuesday contains the fol lowing:— " In consequence of. an order received from Colonel Macgregor, inspector-general of constabulary, the two policemen, Tone and %Vhealan, who permitted Mr. T. B. M'Manus to escape from them in Monkstown, were dismissed from the force on yesterday." THE STATE PRISONERS. The following explanatory statement appears in the Freeman's Journal regarding, th e ru mours cir culated in respect to th e secretary of the Confede rates : " Mr. Halpin is at present confined in the gaol of Naas, to which prison he was brought on Friday last from the Belfast Bridew e ll. S evera l rumou rs respecting M. r. Halpin have been in cir cu l a ti on f or t he last few days , in consequence of a paragraph which appeared in one of the Belfast papers respecting him. These rumours are not only exaggerated, but for the most part without any . foundation. It is true that officials have visited some of Mr. Halpin's relations, in order to ascertain from them if he could give any information respecting the State prisoners; but the parties referred the officials to Mr. Halpin himself, and we are in a position to state that Mr. Halpin informed the authorities that he had no evidence whatever to give —that the acts of the body to which he belonged were open to every one—and that he knew nothing more. It is right to state this much, as prejudicial reports have been circulated regarding Mr. Halpin's character." The following accounts are from local correspon dents : WATERFORD, SEPT. 12.—1 t is with much regret I have to acquaint you that for the past week armed parties have been going about at midnight through some parishes in the neighbouring coun t y of Kil kenny, warning the farmers and labourers to be pre pared to attend when called upon. These proceedings are said to have taken place owing to the newly cut crops being in possession of bailiffs placed over them by the landlords, who appear determined t o have their rents at all hazards. This morning some uneasiness was felt here as to the Dublin coach, due at five o'clock, which did not arrive at the appointed time, but at ten minutes before six o'clock it reached the post-office, when James Doolan, the guards reported that he was stopped at Granagh-bridge, within one mile and a half of this city, by 500 armed men, who declared their intention of detaining the mail until the bridge was blown up, which it i s said they en deavoured to do, but failed in their purpose. The bridge has been visited by several persons to-day, the battlements are much broken, and the centre torn up to - a considerable extent. The postmaster, Thomas Parson s , E sq ., on receiving the guard's report, pr ocee d e d to the residence of Sir Ch arles O'Donnell, corn rnandent of this grrrison, wh o at onc e took measures for th e d e f ence of the city. A guard of M ar i nes was placed on the magnificent bridge which here crosses the Suir, the portcullis was drawn UP, an d a ll per sonsurr forbidden to pass. At a later hour, how ever , here some relaxation was permitted , and persons were permitted to pass as usual. A Government s t eamer which fortunately arrived was moored within yards of the bridge. In the meantime a poli ce cava lier arrived from Portlaw for assistance, and 500 of the 85th Regiment who had only arrived from the Camp of Turtulla on Saturday, and who expecting to enjoy a little rest afte r the fatigue they had undergone, were ordered off to cg h more, the rumour being that that village was at tacked last night ; that the p olice fired from their barrack window ; that t wo or three of the rebels were killed ; that the pol ice barracks wer e entered, and were their tmako reen, arms vhoimetha thel p te l a n e;Maiant Marquis lils that boef sevenrleNre.ttotlelerefd at Curragh swivel-gunsotred his Lordship promised he could defend against the assaults of 10,000 pikemen. WATERFORD SEPT. 12. This county is once more in a state of open disaffec tion ; Carrick is in arms, some tho usan d s b e i ng thoroughly armed with pikes, &c.Portlaw i s a l so stirring, and report has it that Curra g h more, the seat of the - Marquis of Waterford, had b een attacked, several pieces of cannon, and a number of small arms, powder, ball, &c., have been carried off . The Noble Marquis had not returne d from the last C urrag h meeting. The mail coac h, while on its way th roug h this city, by , a and largepassing mob, t raonudghl\l detainedul lin f a o v ra ta i , was sur rounded consider able time. When the mob first interrupt e d the coach, the guard, James Doolan, ordered the driver forward; the coach succeeded in getting clear of the crowd running after, and shouting that they would soon stop them. Accordingly, when the coach arrived at Granny Bridge, about two and a half miles from Waterford, the bridge was in possession of the insurgents, who were endeavouring b y every means to pull it down. The coach was then forcibly stopped, the horses taken from it, an elderly gentleman, an inside passenger, taken out, questioned, and searched, and, after a d( lay cf nearly half an hour the horses were permitted, after much entreaty on the part of Donlan, to be again put to and the coach al lowed to proceed. The mob was under the imme diate control of an apparent gentleman, mounted on a large bay horse, well accoutred, and nothing done except by the directions and command of the captain, this person was called. It is Intended to send an escort of military with the mail to-night. EJECTMENTS IN BELFAST. Monday forenoon, North Anne-street, Earl- street, and part of Corporation-street, presented a scene which, from its very novelty in this quarter of the country, and the peculiar circumstances connected with it, may, with all truth, be said to "baffle description." Upwards of forty individuals, the inhabitants of about twenty houses, were forcibly dispossessed from their homes, their furniture cast out, and themselves obliged to seek shelter where they could best find it. The circumstances under which the strong arm of the law has in this case been brought into operation are somewhat curious. The title to the houses, which are three stories, capacious, and well finished, has been several years, and is still pending, in the Court of Chancery, in the case of Wise v. Medill. No receiver, we understand, was appointed over the property. No individual was re cognised as haring the slightest claim to it, and the consequence has been that those who were in posses sion at the commencement of the suit have remained so ever since, without paying a fraction of rent, and houses which were then unoccupied became crowded by some unknown means, with a class of tenants who, we may presume, never harboured the ambitious idea of being the immediate proprietors of such valuable and splendid mansions. Tinkers, " gather-ups, " carters, navvies, and a heterogeneous mass of the refuse of society had not only managed to get and keep possession of several of the dwellings, but had actually secured, in a few instances, numerous lodgers, who were paying them a tolerably round sum for the use of apartments for which they themselves had never paid, or intended to pay, a single shilling. With such tenantry it might be expected that the houses would suffer; and so they did, most shockingly. For some time past repeated notices to quit were served upon the parties ; but the servers were treated with ridicule and contempt. The inhabitants seemed to be fully persuaded that no power could reach them until the Court of Chancery had given judgment in the case of the claimants ; and even yesterday, when the warrant for the forcible ejectment had been received, and a number of police men had beset the houses, to see it carried into exe cution, the doors were found to be well barricaded, and a number of the " unwashed" peering from the upper windows, put their finger . to their nose, and jocularly exclaimed, " It's all right, Mr. Peelers— don't you wish you may get in ?" It was not with out considerable difficulty that an entry was effected, but when effected, the bailiffs made a clean sweep, the result being as we have stated.—Banner of Ulster. to ashes. It is rumoured that the surrounding con stabulary stations were attacked and in some places the police were disarmed, but in others the men had fortunately quitted the barracks, and retired upo❑ Clonmel and Carrick. The driver and guard of the Cork Mail, which ar rived here about ten o'clock last night, report that the police had quitted the Gienbower Station, and retired to that of Nine-mile House. Shortly before the arrival of the coach at the latter place a party of rebels had surrounded the station, and demanded that the men (about 10 in number) should surrender their arms. The police refused, and upon their proceeding to at tack the house the little garrison fired upon the insurgents, and soon put them to flight. The fate of the gallant little party is, however, still doubtful. Rumours, which are not authenticated, assert that a skirmish took place yesterday at Portlaw between the police and the rebels, in which some were killed on both sides. Another report asserts that, yesterday morning, 800 armed men, with pikes, marched through Coolnamuek, and from the county of Waterford, to join the insur gents at Aubrey Hill. THE ARMY. Cornet Frederick Arden, 12th Royal Lancers, has been detached from Cork garrison to Ballincollig. Captain C. J. Longmore, Lieut. Hon. S.F. Carew, and troop of the Bth Royal Irish Hussars, arrived on Friday at head-quarters, Newbridge, from Thurles. This troop was a portion of the flying column under General M'Donald. Captain Walter's troop, under command of Lieutenants Thomkinson and G. Lock wood, arrived also at head-quarters on Saturday from Kilkenny. Captain J. Thompson's troop still remains at Kilkenny. The following troops are now stationed in New bridge barracks :-Bth Royal Irish Hussars, three troops and head•quarters ; 4th Queen's own Light Dragoons, two troops and headquarters; 6th Ennis killen Dragoons, recruits and young horses ; twelve rank and file of the 7th Dragoons; and a company of the. 71st Highland Light Infantry. A brigade of the Royal Artillery, consisting of two guns, with ammunition waggons, arrived in New bridge on Friday from Thurles. A large body of invalids, consisting of cavalry and infantry, doing duty at Beggar's Bush Barracks, with the local force, for the past three months, have been inspected by Prince George of Cambridge; with few exceptions they have been returned to their various corps, his Royal Highness being of opinion they were still fit for further service. The Bth Royal Irish Hussars expect to move shortly for England. The company of Royal Artillery, to replace Lieu tenant-Colonel Chesney's at Ballincollig, may be ex pected by the 21st inst.— Cork Coneitution. THE r AILVRE OF THE MALLOW SAVINGS' BANE.— Some meetings of the depositors to the above bank have been held, and it appears that the liabilities of the esta• blishment amount to about 8601; that the property of Mr. Mahoney, the actuary, who has absconded, will realize over 5001., and that there is about 1301. with in terest in the Provincial Bank to the credit of the depo sitors. It seems that the amount of the depositors in this bank never exceeded 1,6001., and that, on the sav ings' bank panic having broken out, several of the de positors withdrew their money, which of course mate rially lessened the amount in the bank, and the serious loss will be confined to a very few depositors, the num ber of claimants not being more than twenty-four or twenty-five. It is now nearly six weeks since the ac tuary absconded, and it is understood that his property will be immediately made available towards the liquida tion of the debts due to the depositors by this establish ment.—Cork Reporter. (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH). DUBLIN, WEDNESDAY ETENING. The further accounts this day confirm the intelli gence of the insurrectionary movement. It extends to parts of the counties of Tipperary, Waterford, and Kilkenny. A rebel party was defeated by a small police force at Portlaw, and two of the insurgents killed. Several police stations have been attacked by the rebels. A large military and police force went down by railway this day, and General 11PDonald goes down this afternoon to resume the command. WATERFORD, SEPT. 12. Since I left my dispatch with the Commander of the Rose I have seen the guard of the mail which was stopped at Granagh-b r id ge . Il e states that on retiching there the coach was stopped and the horses taken from r under it, an d l e f t walk i ng a b out t h e road. The guard remonstrated, and the leaders of the people informed him th a t t h ey wou ld no t injure him or his charge, but that they would detain him whilst they made ['preparations for the destruction of the bridge by gunpowder. They then demolished a portion of the battlements bear the centre, and drilled some holes near the key stone of the arch. When these were charged, they assisted the guards to put the horses to, and allowed him to proce e d i n sa f ety. Th e exp l os i on at the bridge, which did but little damage, took place soon after ; it only failed for want of sufficient gun powder. The houses of several quarrymen were previously searched for that article, and but litile procured. I will send you correct particulars about the affair at Portlaw to-morrow. I am told it ori ginated in this way :—The Marquis of Waterford lately raised a corps of armed specials, whom, it is said, he paid. These were lately disbanded tempo rarily, and, it appears, circulated false reports as to the movements of the peasantry. These men the latter resolved to find out and punish, and on their way to Portlaw for that purpose this morning they fell in with the police patrol of that village. Firing took place, and one policeman was wounded in their retreat to the barracks, whence they fired on the people and wounded three persons ; it is also said that the " specials" fired upon them. The war is not now for a repeal or a red republic, but to protect them from the avaricious hand of the landlord. By the next post I will send you all particulars, as I will proceed to the seat of war, and do not expect to re turn to-night.— Chronicle. (From the Dublin Evening Mail.) Just before going to press we received a second edition of the Kilkenny Moderator, from which we extract the following interesting and succinct narra tive of the outbreak : The intelligence received since last night has been more alarming than we had anticipated. No doubt remains that an insurgent force has assembled and shown a spirit of the utmost determination. The main body of the insurgents, said to be 4,000 strong, has encamped on Aubrey-hill, in the county of Tipperary, but immediately adjoining the slate quarries in this county. The position is an ex tremely strong one, and every possible measure ap pears to have been taken to add to its security. There is no doubt that leaders of some military experience are amongst them, and the peasantry are being re gularly drilled. They are chiefly armed with pikes, but many have rifles. Richard O'G orman is said to be chief commander, and Doheny is also supposed to be amongst them. About four o'clock yesterday afternoon a detachment from the camp proceeded to the police barrack of the slate quarry, which the constabulary had quitted only twenty minutes pre viously to take refuge at Noeltown. The insurgents, at some distance from the house, fired through the windows, but finding there was not any person within it they soon took possession, and ultimately set fire to it, reducing the entire house and furniture trb 92bition DONCASTER RACES. (THIS DAY.) (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) THE GREAT YORKSHIRE HANDICAP. Miss Sarah ... ... ..• ~, GOO ... 1 Lady Wildair ... ... ... ... ... 2 Executor ... ... .•• 3 The Foal Stakes. The Queen of the May ... ... walked over The Scarborough Stakes. Assault ... ... ... .80 walked over FRAN CE. The Minister of Finance has contradicted a re port circulated to the effect that he had refused the offers of the holders of the Paris and Lyons Rail road shares to pay up the unpaid instalments of 250 francs. lie will, on the contrary, receive all offers made to that effect until six o'clock in the evening of the 15th inst. The Afoniteur contains the following : " The blockade of Buenos Ayres (the United Pro vinces of Rio de la Plata), which had been establihhed on the 24th September, 1845, by the combined naval forces of England and France, but in which the British forces ceased last year to concur, was raised in the month of June by the French forces. They, however, maintain the blockade of the portion of the coast of the Oriental territory occupied by the troops of General Oribe." M. Emile Thomas declared, in the Socialist Club of the Baxar Bonne Nouvelle on Tuesday afternoon, his intension to resign his pretensions to represent Paris in the National Assembly. The Central Democratic Committee has chosen MM. Edmond Adam, H. Say, and Gervais of Caen, for its candidates to represent Paris in the National Assembly. By the latest accounts from the French fleet under the command of Admiral Trehouart, it appears that the ships of the line, the Friedland, the Ocean, the Souverain, the Inflexible, and the Jemmappes, with the steam-frigate Descartes, were with the Admiral at Palermo, on the 4th instant. The ship of the line Jupiter, and the frigate Psyche had sailed to join the steam-frigate Asinodee in the Adriatic. The steam-frigate Pomone and the steam-corvette Solon were at Naples, and the steam-corvette Pluton remained at Ischia with Admiral Baudin. The hearing of the prosecution of M. Gouache, re sponsible editor of the Rifornie, which was called on yesterday before the Court of Assizes, was put off till the next session on account of the absence of his Counsel, M. T. Bac. The case of M. Veyron-La croix, responsible editor of the Potpie Constituant, was next called, and his Counsel, M. Duthell, moved the Court for a postponement of the trial until the jury should be formed on the new bases laid down by the decree of the National Assembly in the last month, but the Court refused to grant the applica tion. Upon this, M. Veyron and his Counsel retired. The Advocate General, M. de Royer, then read the articles incriminated, and insisted on judgment being pronounced by default. The Court, after delibera tion, declared M. Veyron-Lacroix to have been guilty of an attack upon the Government of the Re public, and of exciting civil war, and condemned him to six months' imprisonment and a fine of 2,000 francs, and further ordered that all the numbers of the journal which had been seized should be de stroyed. M. Aubry Foucault and M. Schneider, respon sible editor and printer of the Peuple Francais were yesterday again condemned by the Tribunal of Cor rectional Police to a month's imprisonment and 200 f. fine, for a second publication of that journal without complying with the laws of the press, relative to de clarations and caution money. The Peuple Francais, it will be remembered, was a defunct journal resusci tated to replace the Gazette de France when the latter was suspended. By a decree of the Executive Government, the great seal of the State will bear on the obverse the figure of Liberty with the legend—Au nom du peuple Francais, and on the reverse a crown formed of oak and olive branches, and a sheaf of corn ; within the crown will be inscribed Republique Francaise, democratique, tine et indivisible, and for legend—Liberty, Egalite, Fraternite. The seals and stamps for the courts, tribunals, magistrates, and notaries will bear the same figure of Liberty, as on the great seal, and the exergue of Republique Francaise ; and as a legend the names and offices of ,he functionaries by whom they are used. The Minister of Public Instruction has decided that from the 15th the Library of the Louvre shall be open to the public, from ten to four, except on Sun days and fetes. The Committee of Agriculture has just heard the explanations of M. Proudhon, relative to a national loan to the Bank of France with the State. M. Proudhon thinks that his proposition would put an end to the financial and commercial crisis, and intro duce a new principle of credit. His ways and means are the following features :-1. A forced loan of two milliards ; 2. to extend the tax of 45c. to 1852 ; 3. to place by purchase the shares of the Bank of France in the honds of the State. It results from the long explanations given by M. Proudhon, that the loan of two milliard* should be supported by productive property, mortgages, &c., bearing their share in the burden. The bons of the loan are to bear an interest of 2 per cent., and are not to have a forced currency. I M. Proudhon is of opinion that they would be much sought for by commercial men. He sees no incon venience in continuing the tax of 45c., as in his opinion this extraordinary charge would he com pensated for by an ulterior alteration of the indirect taxes, and in the cheapness of raw materials from the low price of interest. The Bank of France, when purchased by the State, would be independent of the executive power, and placed under the surveillance of the National Assembly and of the Chamber of Com merce of Paris. This plan, he thinks, would tend to lower the rate of interest, and, in consequence, would prevent the periodical commotions caused by the hire of capital. M. Cesbron Lavau, in remarking on this plan, declared that the project of M. Proudhon ap peared to him to resemble the remedies of quacks, which promised life and caused death. The Com mittee signified its intention of stating its opinion at its next sitting. It may be remembered that some time ago some sensation was created by a M. Vignie putting for ward the Prince de Joinville as a candidate at the elections. He has just published another placard again proposing the Prince to the electors as a can didate, and recommending him as President for life of the Republic ; or, if it be preferred , M. Vi g nie ' s placard recommends the appointment of the Duchess d'Orleans as Regent. The placard has been seised, and a prosecution has been commenced against 111. Vignie and his printer for ex citin g to disobedience to the laws, and to attempts to overthrow the Go•• vernment. The Reforme has the following article against Louis Napoleon :—• " No one has forgotten the famous letters which, a few years ago, let us into the secret of the royal tender ness of Louis Philippe for his amiable faubourgs. There has just now fallen into our hands a no less curious docu ment which, as appears to us, testifies the imperial dispositions of Prince Louis towards these same fau bourgs, and towards which all the dynasties seem to en tertain the same affection. They are extracts from the minutes of examinations on the last feat of arms by the Napoleonists, the immortal expedition to Boulogne, and also extracts from princely letters (these unlucky princes aro always writing), printed and published eight years ago, and which, up to this day, have not been disputed. Let us first quote from the interrogatory of M. Barginet in November, 1839, by M. Zangiacomi, the examining magistrate. you took have d ec l are d that ou A is nswer—Yes. l s c v i a. ewasr— journeyybeeisn. beiLo ndonng brought f Princeo to r o wt warntold ddin me the secret the that s P h t iternewcaas was that stirring rci h name t, dissatisfied with one of his prin c ip a l agents fort up une fanye revolutionnaire, which could only sully his name.' " Note given to the Duke de Padoue on his taking his departure for London, 20th June, 1840.—M. dft (the ~/~; t::21 ).T,:"-7,--:, :41,.; i 1 . ,- ., ___ -..4. - v 41 7 74_ c... i, MA A . Iklr Reforme, in a note sage , we have reasonlße teve tha this was the agent spoken of by M. Bargiriet) is entitled rei aration, and it Prince Louis NI) Aeon refuses to give it, he will obtain it from the publicity ol his acts, and from this publicity it wid result from a I , rcof written by the Prince's own hand, ;that he, the Prince, fully intended to play a democratic part, since in several of his letters he engages M. do-u joutr lu comedie avec les fautourgs, and to occupy himself only with the army. "- Interrogatory (f Louis Napoleon after the affair of Boulogne, 28th August, 1840.—M. Pa,quier-6 Did you no accept divers propositions made to you by secret societies?' Answer—' M. de wished me to come to an underaranding with the secret societies. I re fused, because it was contrary to ray opinion, that the people should be raised without knowing how we should afterwards be able to put them down again. I do not :know how they could connect my name with that of the faubourgs. I feel myself bound to give this explanation for my own honour.' Thus, it is seen, his Imperial Highness would then have thought himself dishonoured by mixing up his cause with that of the Faubourgs, which are now solicited in his favour with so much fervent activity ; he would have blushed had he connected his name , as he said, of so much ma jesty with th at fange revo ' lutionnaire ; he was desirous only to jouer la comedic, and his double equipees to Stras burg and Boulogne are proofs that it is not the vocation which would have failed him. But let us for the moment leaveaside the Faubourgs. Let us stop here, if you please, as to the question of the interior. Let us_take a view of his Imperial Highness in his foreign relations. In the little comunnatory note quoted above. M. de trie hard to establish, alw a y s l etters i n hand, let it be well un derstood, that the Prince wished to insure the armed con currence of Russia. Here, truly, we are obliged to arm our selves with courage, and look twice at the document. The phrase is printed. There is more than this. The Prince is made to say, still speaking of Russia. ' By adopting me, this Power will exalt me.' Oh, for shame! And it is in the family of Napoleon that such language could be held. Of Napoleon, whose national feelings were so pure, so animated. Of Napoleon, who preferred sacrificing his crown rather than wear it dishonoured, than owe it to concessions unworthy of him. Oh, no ! This document which so much confounds us will, we aro sure, be anni hilated. It is never too late to destroy calumny which has ventured to go so far. What most astonishes us is, that a writing by which so many political men are com promised has been suffered to remain in circulation for eight years without being refuted; that the Imperial agent who has published it has not been the object of any prosecution, has not even been contradicted." During the last two weeks, that is from August 28 to September 11, the eight military commissions have decided on the fate of 2.827 insurgents; of these 1,939 have been set at liberty, 858 condemned to transportation, and 30 sent before councils of war. From the time of their entering into functions, these commissions have pronounced 8,700 judgments in all, by which nearly 4,890 persons were set at liberty; somewhat less than 3,600 condemned to transporta tion, and 229 sent before councils of war. Another detachment of insurgents was sent off to Havre lost evening. Y ..r isr ''*: 7l "7 - 11r___--,,,,.. f • : ~ * A. A FRANKFORT. The New Rhenish Gazette publishes a letter from Frankfort of the 9th, stating, on what was considered good authority, that the new ministry of the Confede ration would be probably constituted as follows : Baron de Stockmar, President of the Council ; M. Stettman, Minister of the Interior; M. de Meyern, Minister of War ; M. d'Arnim, ex-ambasssador at Paris, Minister of Foreign Affairs ; D.I. Combes, Mi nister of Justice ; M. de Hermann, Minister of Com merce." BELGIUM. We read in the Independance of Brussels of yester day :—" Baron de Drachenfels, having been received by the King of the Belgians, and presented to his Ma jesty letters by which the Archduke John makes known his accession to the central power of Germany the Count de Briey has received letters from the Go vernment, accrediting him in the capacity of Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary from Belgium to his Imperial highness the Vicar-General of the Empire ; which letters were presented on the 9th. The Archduke gave our Envoy a most gracious reception. He spoke of Belgium with the deepest interest, and testified a lively sympathy with our li beral institutions, and the use we have made of them without abusing them." VENICE. The Venice Gazette of the 2d inst., contains the following official paragraph :—" NiccoLo TOMMASEO arrived at Paris on the 21st of August. He caused his dispatches to be delivered to the Minister BASTIDE, who was unwell ; he was able to see him on the 9 2d; he was received with great courtesy ; he received the assurance that the principal basis of the negotiations was the evacuation of all Italy by the Austrians. France desires peace, but an honourable peace —peace, sauf toujours ce grand adverbe honorablentent ; in case of extremities, she would not avoid war. M. BAS- T TIDE showed that he was well informed concerning our affairs, and conversed about them with interest with TOMMA SEO. A few French vessels of war will soon appear in our waters. Citizen .111Esicempo ar rived at Parris on the 23d of August, with the mes sage of the Assembly and Deputies of this city and province." TUSCANY. The Provisional Commission is composed of Theo philus Rupp, Odoardo Lloyd, Eugenio Pignatel, Dr. Poli, Dr. Lambardi, Leonidas Spagnolacchi, M a j or Ghilardi, Cesare Venzi, Giorgio Roberti, Antonio Petracchi, Angiolo Neri. On the 7th, the deputa tion sent to Florence to present the demands of the Livornese to Government, returned ; the Prince had consented to allow the representatives of the muni cipality to aame a provisional governing delegation. The members named in this capacity are Guerrazzi, Lardarchi, and Petracelli. BURT.—ARREST AND COMMITTAL Or A CUAR TIST LECTURER,—On Monday last, Joseph Bowker, of Woolfold, Tottington Lower End, a schoolmaster and Chartist lecturer, was apprehended by Superintendant Sellars, and taken before the Heywood magistrates, charged with having, on the 13th of August last, used seditious language at Heywood. He was committed for trial, but was afterwards admitted to bail, his sureties being Mr. David Thomas, cloth manufacturer, Agar street, and Mr. John Jones, lamplighter and news-agent, Princess-street.—Manchester Guardian. IRISH SPORTS.—We see Ministers and Members are going this year to Ireland instead of Scotland. Can it be on account of the superior shooting 7—Punch. OAKINGTON.—An eccentric old lady, named Rad .ord, has lately departed from the chequered scene of life in this village, who, though in her life time reputed among her neighbours to be possessed of considerable wealth, always endeavoured, both by her speech and mode of living, as well as the dilapidated style of her habiliments, to give a contradiction to such rumours. She died somewhat suddenly, in a bed minus sheets, and surrounded by indications of the most abject poverty. Atter her death her repositories were searched, and a large number of homespun sheets and a quantity of household linen of other descriptions found. Accumu lations of plate and other valuables were ransacked, and %% hat created something like a feeling of awe among the superstitious of the village, a golden image of curious manufacture (most probably a heathen idol) was dis covered. She has left two nephews in good circum stances, as the inheritors of her hoard:.— Cambridge A det rtiser. A young ourang-outang has lately been brought to the Garden of Pl ants , an d i s t h e object of almost uni versal curiosity. Th e an i ma l i s o nly s i x mont h s old, but has all the appearance of a child aged three years, of a grave and reflecting character. lie is at the same time affectionate, shaking hands kindly, but with a certain Arabian solemnity, NN ith the keepers. He feeds delicately, taking roast meat, wine, chocolate, and even liquors. Being very susceptible of the cold, he sleeps between a large cat and a rough-coated dog, and wraps them both as well as himself in a blanket. In the day time he is dressed in a red-coloured blouse and white pantaloons. —Paris paper. PITCH AND TAR UNINFLAMMABLE.—On Saturday afternoon some highly interesting experiments took place in Mr. Royden's yard, Baffin-street, with the view of testing the non -inflammability of pitch and tar, pre pared by Messrs. Begot, Boissage, and Tindel, mer chants, at Bordeaux. The tar prep s a a r i e ls d , rbiyggitnhg, and the new other pr general ocessisapl p ic u a r b po le s ' es7 and i belietve to is stated that if a ship's falls a ni b o ttom be coated with it, it will be as effectually pre served from worms, shells, and seaweed, as it it were a slope sheeted with copper or zinc. — Liverpool Standard. N IAGAR A OUTDONE.—Among the cliffs of t h e Eastern Ghauts, about midway between Bombay e of the tm , 'Phis a andbodyi black then precipitated to a depth abyss, noise. rainy Cape Comorin, rises the river Shirawati, which into the Arabian Sea. The bed of the rive r e i , s one at an fourth of a mile in direct breadth; but t h e ed fall is elliptical, with a sweep of halt a mile. angle g water of. rushes hdegrees, at first, in f a o rs sheet ft feet,sost. Ito more, over tt re e ,fol into seasons has, t t h h e e r e r f i o v r e e r , a t h p e . the dep•tisi, of with a thundering l,lBofre tll o pears to be about 30 feet in depth at the t a ll ; i n t h e d ry seasons it is lower, an d is divided into three cascades of varied beauty and astonishing grandeur. Juin our fall of Genesse to that w e of the St. Lawrence, and then treble the two united, n r a j a o t r i i ty cataract. t n bulk, p‘ hav e the distance of the Shiraa yet in respect ' ett ll otwo distance o i s t N a n ra c g o a o r f d a ae descent, t, s uipt is e -• but a mountain rill compared with its Indian rival.— irmerican paper. A diver of the name of Holt is at present engaged inspecting the moorings in the Tyne. He goes down daily and traverses the bottom of the river, examining, with all the minuteness of a person walking on shore, the positions of the chains and buoys. On Monday he came in contact with a log of mahogany, opposite White IEII point. Ou being brought up it bore the date of 1813, having been immersed 35 years.—Newcastle Journal. BLACKBURN.—On Tuesday, about twelve o'clock at noon, a store, containing about 700 calico pieces, bc-- longing to Messrs. F. Steiner and Co., of Church, near Accrington, was burnt down. So rapid was the fire, that in less than half an hour there was nothing left but the bare walls. Tbe loss is about 5004—Manchester Guardian. ..--' si4 io9! 7;4 94 --- 594 1dA 23,/ ...• r 74 25 1 / 4 14 1 4 1 7 1 / 4 4 1 4 55, 101 4 6% 534 454 l' of Ott )0" lIV ir I s; A 016 1